Italy's Scenic Trains Deserve the Slow Treatment

Italy already has train routes built for looking out the window: the Bernina Express climbing through the Alps into Switzerland, the coastal line hugging the cliffs above the Cinque Terre, regional lines through Tuscany that pass more vineyards than towns. Tourists already film these rides on their phones, in short clips, for a few seconds at a time.

Nobody has filmed one of them the way slow television asks for: the entire route, uncut, from the first station to the last, left running for however long the real journey takes. It would not need music or narration. The line already does the work.

We have not built this channel yet. If you represent an Italian region or rail operator and like the idea of a real, unhurried record of one of these routes, we would like to talk about it. Suggest the destination, and we can figure out together what filming it properly would take.