Situation about Trenitalia and infrastructure upgrades
I booked my train from Rome to Florence for 30 July 2026 a couple of months ago. Yesterday I received an email from Trenitalia saying that RFI has scheduled infrastructure upgrades at the Florence Intermodal Hub and that my train (Frecciargento 8556) has been cancelled.
If I want to reschedule, I have to either go to a station or call them, which is pretty difficult when I’m not in Italy yet and don’t speak Italian. To avoid that, I was thinking of just requesting a refund and booking another train instead.
The strange thing is that the exact same train that was supposedly cancelled is still available to book on their website!
I haven’t been able to find any announcements or news about these infrastructure upgrades, so now I’m worried that if I book a different train, it could end up being cancelled too.
Does anyone have any more information about what’s going on? Would you still book another train, or would you avoid trains altogether and take a bus instead?
Thank you!