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When we travelled back from Nice to Turin on the train we ended up taking two Regionale trains from Ventimiglia to Turin (Nice to Ventimiglia was on a French train). The first was very much a British type affair with an allocated area near some doors. All well and good, no reservation available or asked for by the conductor. The second train was different. We arrived a bit before we set off and asked for a bike compartment. We spoke next to no Italian and the conductor offered no English. Much excited exclamation on his part along with wild waving of hands as he beckoned, cajoled and helped us wrangle two fully bikepacking laden 29ers into the stairwell of the end carriage. After we set of, he inspected our tickets which were clearly not up to muster. He showed us several pages of policy on his ipad as he expressed some form of schoolmasterly disappointment which we couldn't really interpret. Finally he issued what appeared to be a fine of 6 Euros. As we disembarked in Turin he loudly berated several passengers who weren't standing aside to let us disembark quickly and then bade us an amicable farewell. At least it seemed that way, we still didn't have a clue what he said.
tl,dr: our experience of bikes on trains in Italy was comparatively much better than in the UK.