Greetings,
I'm trying to plan for a train ride from Brindisi to Salermo in mid-July. As one can see on http://www.eurail.com/1_railway_italy , they are situated very close to one another and are connected by rail.
However, when checking the transit duration on http://orarioint.trenitalia.com/binXML/query.exe/en? for mid-July, I'm informed that it will take over 15 hours! I tried changing the date to late May to see if it was the same, and it says it will only take ~3-4 hours.
Can someone please explain this discrepancy, or inform me of a faster way to travel between the two locations? Many thanks!