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When a train ride is way more than going from point A to point B.

This is like, I know yr in Austria but remember great Swiss railway journeys that used to be on tv. Amazing scenery, clean blue rivers no litter anywhere and perfectly timed trains. Beautiful place to live I'd imagine

I love this railway! Travelled it more times than I can remember as stay in Westendorf regularly. I'd say the only train that would trump your Railjet on this route is the EuroCity Transalpin, which has a SBB Panoramawagon!

Still catching up on some of your videos. You hit the nail on the head regarding the cross country trains, the experience my wife and I had while travelling from Sheffield to Birmingham was awful, we had to stand up all the way, they should have at least 8 coaches available,like the hst used to be, it was nearly the same coming back, but we got a seat from Derby. This was only 3 weeks ago, I thought there would be more carriages on. I hope they double the coaches asap, as if you are going to Devon or Cornwall book early and reserve your seat. Lovely video again.

I love Austria and must visit it again. What a lovely journey. Those views are so stunning they don’t look real. :)

Hats off to you. I wouldn't normally watch a bus ride video,but I wanted to see what you thought about it, it would be too long for me to sit on a bus seat, mind you the cross country train seats aren't comfortable, but as you said it's the price that matters to a lot of people.

Another lovely video, we have just got back from a day return from Barnsley to Morecambe. via Leeds. As you said it is a beautiful run with lovely views. We stayed on the train and came straight back. So we too didn't see Eric Morecambes statue. It was made by Graham Ibbeson who is a Barnsley lad. We also got a good return ticket with the kind help of the man in the ticket office, he went out of his way to get the cheapest ticket for us both. Glad they are keeping the ticket staff ln the stations.

I'll be darned again. Just the other week I took the ÖBB train from Kranj in Slovenia to Villach. That train was full of extremely rowdy Croatian football folks on their way to Hamburg so that was quite something... Anyway it's a small Europe and quite looking forward to your take on that ride !

I can't understand why they did not have this great seats in the new trains

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Another great video again. You really are one of the best TH-camrs around. You give your viewers not just superb scenery and views, but also so much local information which is really appreciated and also your own appreciation of wherever you are, which always comes across. When you mentioned Kitzbuhel, it brought back memories when I was fortunate enough to watch the Hahnenkamm Ski race in Kitzbuhel many years ago. Thank you Johnny for these journeys, as always😊

I quite recently found your videos and I really enjoy them. Very nice views, superbly edited and nicely commented. Austria and Switzerland have always been favorites of mine. And the best of all - as a Swede I love listening to your British English instead of American English which otherwise is so common, even among those whose native language is not English.

Yessss. That's what you were saying about those RJ 1st gen 1st class seats! And that's what I was saying! And what Nonstop Eurotrip was saying! 🤣🤣🤣 Anyway, what an absolute stunner of a journey. Magnificently captured and narrated. Cheers!

Brilliant video, great scenery!! Hope all is well, take care

What a terrible job you have. But someone has got to do it, poor you😆

Now I have had a good lunch, here is the clarification. As you hinted, the (hourly) Railjet trains from Innsbruck towards Salzburg and Vienna do NOT normally go via Schwarzach-St-Veit. The RJX 863, which you caught at 09 14 from Innsbruck, would normally take the direct route through Germany. There must have been track work on the German section of the route. People wanting to make the Innsbruck to Schwarzach trip will normally change at Worgl. The service from Worgl to Schwarzach is roughly hourly. I am going into this detail, as I am sure that many of your viewers will want to follow in your railsteps.

The scenery is amazing Johann. Austria is my favourite of the German-speaking countries. It's compact, has stunning scenery throughout and is in the Eurozone and Schengen area, all very important factors for this NL-based ferroequinologist. I think May is a good month to travel by train before the three following busy months. September would be the next comfortable travelling month. I look forward to seeing the continuation of your journey to Villach and onward to Slovenia.

As previously said "Wow". Such amazing scenery, so glad you split the trip up. Seeing so many ski resorts in their spring colours. Thanks Johnny for a very enjoyable vlog and I look forward to part 2 with a smile on my face 😊.

Wow, wow, wow! Thank you Johnny for yet another excellent video, travelling over lines with which I am very familiar. If you asked me to name my favourite Austrian MAIN lines, the line you have just shown us would be disputing second place with the line you are going to show us on Monday! (First place goes to the Semmering line from Vienna to Graz.) I have one small clarification to your excellent spoken commentary which I will put in a separate comment, after I have had some lunch.)

I watched you set off from Wattens in Austria whilst I was in Watten in Caithness. What outstanding scenery, your recent uploads move me to want to explore that part of Europe.

Great video, Love Swanage and the area been going there since I was a kid. My parents didn’t own a car so arrived by train, the tea chest with all our kit was collected from our house in a maroon and cream British Railways van. Remember seeing the wonderful “You’re entering the strong country “ advertisement by the line side

So there no electric trains in ireland?

Jolly decent of the train driver to stop the train,let you get off. Move it about a bit as you took some video then Let you back on again . A very impressive viaduct.

Most scenic and slowest. It also slows the whole dart line down its maddening

Absolutely brilliant airport always fly from there quite quiet airport

Is pocinhos the best destination to spend the night if we're looking for a non turistic spot there its possible to swim somewhere or which town you recommend? thank you for the video!

I have never heard the River Adige pronounced "adeege". th-cam.com/video/7LOhqiYucMs/w-d-xo.html

Is the a buffet or food service?

Fun fact. When the railway arrived at Morecambe the town didn't exist - there was just a pier for steamers to Ireland and three small villages nearby: Poulton, Torrisholme and Bare (Bare Lane was the lane that led to Bare) - so the station was named after Morecambe Bay. Tourism resulted in the three villages expanding and merging and the resulting town was named after the station.

I did this trip last week but in kinder weather. Scenery is awesome. Great train staff, really looked after you.

Just done that trip. Awesome, and the train staff are so friendly. The service is 4 hourly with few trains each day, so not very practical to keep jumping on and off. Excellent heritage museum in Wick to kill a couple of hours.

really good price for a 1st class saver ticket and the breakfast was very well priced

Please call South Tirol that, not Italian Tirol. Thanks. That 1st class "compartment" is actually the new business class, the worst part of the 2nd RJ generation.

Well this was wonderful to see. I, as an English teenager use to travel this line every day from Gort to Craughwell in the late 60’s. Bus to school, train back home. I loved everything about that railway, I was saddened to see last time I was in Craughwell that the railway looked sad and uncared for, now I’m thrilled to see its up and running again. I remember sugar beet being loaded in Gort I think for Tuam. My mate Bernard and I pushing an empty wagon over a roll of caps that we had placed on the line. There was a ticket collector called Jimmy on the train from Limerick who insisted on seeing everyones school travel passes, as if we would travel without one. Even girls who wouldn’t have said boo to a goose were rude to him. A few times the train would come to a halt and the driver and his mate could be seen shooing cattle of the line. I think I’m right in saying that the line was single track with a token system in use. Is this still the case ?

Surbiton was also used in Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince at the start of the film. When Harry is in the train station and he sees Dumbledore, I believe they then stand on platform 1 or 4. Prior to Covid, the 3 coaches would sometimes continue to Bristol Temple Meads via Westbury, it’s a shame they haven’t bought it back as I think it was very popular with students.

Excellent, Johnny!

I just watched your recommended video on this train service and blimey! The train is equally shiny!

Weirdly even though I lived in Huddersfield and I visited my parents regularly I have never been to Manchester Victoria. I was so pleased when they took down the plastic BR sign on the front of Huddersfield station. BTW in what would now be my "gap year" I worked at Standard Fireworks at Crossland Moor and took the bus from opposite the train station.

I went over this route, there and back in a day in January, and the winter certainly adds atmosphere. You know, i arrived and left Verona at the station, and I also did this trip but somehow, you got views of Verona station that I missed.... looking at my boots again!

Hi. I am from Sintra which is not far from where you were. I wish you would make a video there as it's so beautiful and picturesque. Along that journey, you passed Belém, which is where the famous and delicious "pastel de nata" was born! The pastry shop is over 150 years old and you can sit at a table and have them as they come out of the oven! Still, maybe next time. 😊

Merseyrail - more stops than a church organ !

Travelling for four years by train for work around Austria and the South Tyrol (plus Switzerland) I began by taking a book to read. I never bothered after that as you watched the lush and spectacular scenery. It made you ponder over the insignificance of humans.

I used to travel from Glasgow on Cross Country and they were okay; recently I tried to travel on the Cross Country Cardiff to Birmingham service. On two occasions the 11:14am was cancelled. On the second occasion I was very early at the station only to find that the 10:14 as well as the 11.14 was also cancelled! I am now using the chugalong West Midlands trains; no more Cross Country for me!

I’ll be travelling to/from Godalming in a couple of weeks time, leaving actually from Waterloo. It’ll be a Southern rail train hence this question. I was going to buy two advance tickets, but a friend mentioned ‘evening out’ tickets, which are a fair bit cheaper. He is not too sure how they worked though. Do you just buy these on the day of travel, say from a ticket machine or ticket office or do they have to be paid for in advance, like an advance ticket. My firend says they are valid on any train after 12:30 and for any return train .. is this correct ?

These new railjet cars are actually a downgrade from the previous ones and this is all the more of a surprise and disappointment as ÖBB is generally an excellent company.

What a beautiful part of the world. Thanks for taking us along Johnny.

There are some really nice railway journey's that can be made around bozen, like the Ritten narrow gauge line (overlooking the dolomites) and the Bozen-Merano-Mals line, with such a a beautiful scenery especially when you get closer to Mals (near the Swiss border).

Anazing route. I do like to keep an eye on my luggage in the racks. But I am not sure about locking the luggage in there. I could see myself failing to unlock the liggage in time. I think it would be better if you could scan your ticket and the locks would automatically unlock at your destination.