I will be traveling quite a bit on Trenitalia over multiple weeks in October. I thought I was ahead of the game by pre-booking our longer distance fast trains and adding detailed notes to my spreadsheet for the shorter moves which have multiple regional trains per day. For those days I indicated the departure times, regional train numbers, and gave myself a few options for each day for flexibility but did not pre-book.
All good, except today I look at the Trenitalia site and notice the frequent Sat/Sun regionals between Florence and Siena have disappeared for the first two weekends in October. There are plenty in September, and seem to reappear on a slightly different schedule for the final weekends in October. These are not trains showing sold out, but rather, just disappeared from the schedule all together on those first two weekends.
Does anyone know if there might be something going on those weekends that I am not thinking of? Holidays, construction, etc? I tried chatting with TrenItalia and they assured me it was not strike or construction related but who knows? Perhaps they do a temp schedule shift in early October to re-align for Winter schedules?