If you ever find yourself in Madrid you should try the C-9 commuter line. It is a meter-gauge railway that goes up in the mountains of the Sierra de Guadarrama with trains from the 70s! It is a short ride, so it is perfect if you are in Madrid a short time!
C-9 is fun, but the Cercanías service was generally appalling for non-locals. Basically no signage in stations, nor on platform, timetable nowhere to be found. Even Google map is not reliable as there was "planned" construction works on many lines but the temporary timetable during construction was also 404 not found (or maybe Renfe didn't bother to make a temporary timetable at all), so the train you rode on would suddenly terminate at an intermediate station and you are thrown out the train. Then the next train arrived and it stopped at the station for God knows how long as there was no English announcement. Evertime I need to ride on Cercanías it was like a huge gamble. A total nightmare.
Wow! Very good video and it is very well made! You should really try to check out the renovated X2000 trains of sweden, from what i have heard it seems very good.
I miss taking a train like this from Denmark to Austria for winter skiing. I think it was Sne & Snö we travelled with. Usually in the evening we’d find like 10 people all squeezed into a single room with a lot of alcohol. Incredible memories.
You were more lucky than me. I booked that deluxe sleeper cabin twice last fall, for a journey from Hamburg to Stockholm and for the return. Both times we were told at the station that our sleeper car was not available and we had to switch to couchette.
Excellent video, clearly revealing all aspects of the Night Train journey. I wish I had been on the train trip with you, it looks like a great experience.
Very cool stuff, its great to see the train doing better. Though it makes me even more mad that the other service that this was tendered alongside, the Malmö to Brussels night train, didn't receive a single bid, not even from SJ. The reason given was the high track access charges in Germany, but given that SJ has now extended their night train to Berlin, it just seems a little hypocritical. The Danish and Swedish governments should really try and retender a Malmö to Brussels night train! Also as for the seated carriage situation, its messy, the danish authorities keep saying its the EU's job to grant permission for the rolling stock to be used, and not them, so there's a lot of pointing fingers and very little stuff actually being done.
I remember travelling in these sleeping cars when they still belonged to ÖBB. And almost getting knocked over by the bathroom door which wasn't fully closed when the train went around some curves. But I slept well! What I don't like: Small window for large compartment. That has to do with the origin of the car (T2S with 17 small 2-bed compartments).
I am very envious of your travels around Europe by the best way to go! They really know how to run railways for the benefit of the passengers, unlike here is Australia. Best wishes for your future adventures.
Love your train videos. Had a question about the sleeping compartment doors. When walking through the hallway have you ever been accidentally hit with the door when someone is coming out of their room?
Great video....good price too as I'll be traveling with a first class Eurail pass. I may do this trip. I wonder where the attendant gets the food, beer and booze from since there is no cafe car? He must have a small room somewhere on train.
Really nice Video, you need to try the Nightjet between Hamburg and Zürich in the Deluxe Sleeper Cabin, they are veryy Big and completly different to the other nighjet cabins.
If you come to Poland again, I think you should review the EN57/EN71 trains (maybe the ‘Classic’ EN57 on SKM). I think it would make a great video with these old ‘70s workhorses 😊
Nice review of the former Austrian T2S sleeper. We also had 5 T2S sleeping cars bought second hand from SBB since 2002-2003....and all 5 are currently rotting in various sidings in Romania, also being available for sale. Maybe SJ or EuroExpress might buy them for a complete overhaul....
RDC is a U. S. company based in Pennsylvania, chaired by Henry Posner, III. He also is involved with FlixTrain/Bus, Iowa Interstate Railroad in the U. S., and several operations in Central and South America. He brokered the import of the three Chinese QJ steam locomotives to the U. S in the 2000s. He is one of the principles involved in the purchase of the historic East Broad Top narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania, and in bringing it back to operation and expansion.
I wanted to book this train for me , my sister and my mother for June, with a sleeper car with 3 beds and own toilet the cost came in at 800 Euros.. i tried to book the same route but with snälltoget, and it came in at 200 Euros. This is the most expensive ride i have tried to book, even more expensive then nightjet's deluxe across the swiz and austrian alps.
Well, I'm glad you had a good experience. When we did the trip in the opposite direction, last summer, we should have arrived in Stockholm at about 09:00 - we arrived at about 16:30! It was a horrible experience, and of all the trains we took in Scandinavia that trip only one was even remotely on time or even running. Scandinavian trains seem to be even worse than German ones, and that's saying something! I'm a bit "off" night trains after this experience, too.
Hmm - the hand basin in your shower room looked grubby (or, certainly, fairly ancient). Such a pity, too, that there was no dining car…..Still, better than the European Sleeper from Berlin to Brussels!
They are actually gonna be adding dining cars that are under complete ownership of SJ soon (unlike all the other leased carriages) but the carriages they’ll be using are still being refurbished.
15:50 Can't believe all those guys standing in the aisleway looking out the side windows when they were just a few meters away from the best view on the train. Total noobs man, they must be kicking themselves, now, surely!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I wish to complain about your video: you pitch the train as Stockholm to Berlin, but you got off at Hamburg !!! 🙂 On some of the cars when you film train at very end, only some windows open, others can't. Any logic on which ones open and which ones can't on those cars? (on last cars, seemed like all windows opened). Since it is an SJ train, I would have expected they would use ther own rolling stock instead of older hand-me-down. It is a shame that they built the Öresund bridge with special requirements instead of allowing any RIC cars through. Was food/breakfast stored in just ne car and distributed from there to rest of train? or did each car has its own food for its passengers? Is there an airline-style compact galley with refrigerator, oven? (or just microwave) ? Are they allowed to sell beer, wine if consumed in your bedroom? Finally, did you get any feedback on whetrher the train is now reliable or is boking a train on a certain date still lottery on whether it will oerate or have lots of technical problems? Overnight trains may be fun, but if they are not reliable, or require booking 2 years ahead because of too much demand, they aren't reallly an option if you need to go from A to B on a certain date. (which is a shame).
The reason they need to lease old carriages is that all of their Swedish-made rolling stock is built with the Swedish track loading gauge in mind, and not the German one. This means that of their carriages are too tall/wide to fit on German tracks, with the exception of some East German tracks and the route from where the trains used to go by ferry to Berlin.
@@olasola1013 Thanks. I had not considered different loading gauges preventing Swedish rolling stock from going into Europe. Makes sense. Hopefully they do like RZD did for Moscow-Paris and order RIC standard cars for their international services.
Shame you miss the fun of the Sweden to Berlin sleeper train going on the train ferry these days. Mind you, the former East German couchettes weren't the most comfortable.
Back in the day to reach West Berlin from the Nordic countries it would have actually used the following routes Malmö Copenhagen and then Vogelfluglinie Bahnstrecke Hamburg Lübeck Puttgarden Rødby Copenhagen enter East Germany at Grenzübergang Büchen🇩🇪 Schwanheide German Democratic Republic in the French language République Démocratique Allemand and then West Berlin East Berlin border crossing. The locomotive you are on RC6/RC4 turns out to be the prototypes for AEM-7 ALP-44 which is why American railroad fans in Sweden called them toasters for that reason. Danish border to Hamburg Central Station DB Baureihe 101
The Swedish trains to Berlin used the Trelleborg-Saßnitz ferry to reach the GDR and then went south to first Berlin-Ostbahnhof and then to Berlin-Zoo via the Stadtbahn and Berlin-Friederichstraße.
Not bad at all place where you sleep comfy on this train... Huh?!!... What happens to missing the freight train at the back? See 16:03sec. Should keep on the two both of freight train together front and the back for safety. Maybe the door causes womble or itself open and looks like broken. Should be place the secure freight train on it at the back, when the train moving safely on the journey.
lovely Xmas ride I think with snow...think the amenities are a little poor in 1class sleeper. do they serve wine and spirits too? miss the diningcar a bit alas, but those were the days...
For the first surprise, they have bought 3 dining cars that are still undergoing refurbishment and should be in service soon. For the second surprise, no, he did not make his own bed.
It’s not even SJ’s fault. They lease carriages from RDC, but the carriages have had to get certification to run in Denmark, which is not done by SJ. Unfortunately, a lot of the couchette carriages, the sleeping carriages, and the seating carriages have had this job done very slowly, and, yet again, it’s not SJ’s fault. I’m just gonna add while at it that the trains will also get Wi-Fi and a semi-proper restaurant/bistro carriage with some first class seats which is in complete ownership of SJ unlike the other leased carriages, but these are still being refurbished somewhere in southern Germany. Final thing, the sleeper carriages have already been there for about a full year.
Arrête de faire ton intro vocale en anglais ... tu as trop de dialect type "frenchie" ... c'est difficile à suivre et à comprendre à la première vue. Désolé.
hahah, the shocked expression from the kid at 10:00
"CAN YOU RIDE A TRAIN TO GERMANY??!?"
"Kan man ta tåget till Tyskland ??!" ... Jup! 🙂
If you ever find yourself in Madrid you should try the C-9 commuter line. It is a meter-gauge railway that goes up in the mountains of the Sierra de Guadarrama with trains from the 70s! It is a short ride, so it is perfect if you are in Madrid a short time!
Until june this year, it will close for a year and open with new rolling stock
C-9 is fun, but the Cercanías service was generally appalling for non-locals. Basically no signage in stations, nor on platform, timetable nowhere to be found. Even Google map is not reliable as there was "planned" construction works on many lines but the temporary timetable during construction was also 404 not found (or maybe Renfe didn't bother to make a temporary timetable at all), so the train you rode on would suddenly terminate at an intermediate station and you are thrown out the train. Then the next train arrived and it stopped at the station for God knows how long as there was no English announcement. Evertime I need to ride on Cercanías it was like a huge gamble. A total nightmare.
Very nice capture by Casper!! Late sunset looked great. Always enjoy your vids. You do a great job!!
5:25-5:48 - That Spotting Scene Was Amazing!!!!
Wow! Very good video and it is very well made! You should really try to check out the renovated X2000 trains of sweden, from what i have heard it seems very good.
They are great!
When I feel stressed I watch simply railway
I miss taking a train like this from Denmark to Austria for winter skiing. I think it was Sne & Snö we travelled with. Usually in the evening we’d find like 10 people all squeezed into a single room with a lot of alcohol. Incredible memories.
Ha! So now I know the reason why I kept seeing SJ wagons parked at different spots at Warschauer Str. St. every day.
The best Video from you of All time👍
Tour of the latrines and dining car is paramount ❤
What more can I say? Thanks again for another train ride❣️👍
Fantastic! Stockholm to Berlin by night train sounds like a dream to me, or a good setting for a mystery. I hope I can take this route one day.
16:20 Hamburg Langenfelde, my workplace. 😎
Your maps, overhead (drone?) shots and cityscapes are awesome.
Nice travel hope you enjoy your journey 🎉❤
I love it when our video guy 'takes one for the team', such a real sacrifice. [lol] And we get the benefit.
Finally sleeping cars from Sweden to Europe!!
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Ps Great video indeed!!
Great ride!! Your deluxe accomodation looked fantastic!!! Thanks Thibault.💚💚👌👌
Great video !!
Bellevideohenri😊😊
Yea, I remember, I think you chilled out with Man in Seat 61 on that trip
Great trip. It's great in second time of trying SJ Euronight, you got proper sleeping car.
You were more lucky than me. I booked that deluxe sleeper cabin twice last fall, for a journey from Hamburg to Stockholm and for the return. Both times we were told at the station that our sleeper car was not available and we had to switch to couchette.
Excellent video, clearly revealing all aspects of the Night Train journey. I wish I had been on the train trip with you, it looks like a great experience.
Very cool stuff, its great to see the train doing better. Though it makes me even more mad that the other service that this was tendered alongside, the Malmö to Brussels night train, didn't receive a single bid, not even from SJ. The reason given was the high track access charges in Germany, but given that SJ has now extended their night train to Berlin, it just seems a little hypocritical. The Danish and Swedish governments should really try and retender a Malmö to Brussels night train!
Also as for the seated carriage situation, its messy, the danish authorities keep saying its the EU's job to grant permission for the rolling stock to be used, and not them, so there's a lot of pointing fingers and very little stuff actually being done.
I remember travelling in these sleeping cars when they still belonged to ÖBB. And almost getting knocked over by the bathroom door which wasn't fully closed when the train went around some curves. But I slept well!
What I don't like: Small window for large compartment. That has to do with the origin of the car (T2S with 17 small 2-bed compartments).
The weather definitely looks cold!
You should try and see if you can ride it all the way from Stockholm to Berlin.
I am very envious of your travels around Europe by the best way to go! They really know how to run railways for the benefit of the passengers, unlike here is Australia. Best wishes for your future adventures.
Love your train videos. Had a question about the sleeping compartment doors. When walking through the hallway have you ever been accidentally hit with the door when someone is coming out of their room?
I'm pretty sure the doors open towards the inside of the compartment, not the hallway of the railway car.
Good one! To be fair I’ve never been hit by a door but many close calls 😅
Great video....good price too as I'll be traveling with a first class Eurail pass. I may do this trip. I wonder where the attendant gets the food, beer and booze from since there is no cafe car? He must have a small room somewhere on train.
Yes, the attendant has a *very* small room with a microwave at the end of the sleeping car, opposite the toilet.
There is no café carriage on the train, but the trains will get one in the near future, they’re just undergoing refurbishment.
Very nice video, you have do same video as me but you ride only to Hamburg, for me it was Berlin
Thanks!
Nice Video👍
Really nice Video, you need to try the Nightjet between Hamburg and Zürich in the Deluxe Sleeper Cabin, they are veryy Big and completly different to the other nighjet cabins.
If you come to Poland again, I think you should review the EN57/EN71 trains (maybe the ‘Classic’ EN57 on SKM). I think it would make a great video with these old ‘70s workhorses 😊
Nice review of the former Austrian T2S sleeper.
We also had 5 T2S sleeping cars bought second hand from SBB since 2002-2003....and all 5 are currently rotting in various sidings in Romania, also being available for sale. Maybe SJ or EuroExpress might buy them for a complete overhaul....
Thanks for the info!
RDC is a U. S. company based in Pennsylvania, chaired by Henry Posner, III. He also is involved with FlixTrain/Bus, Iowa Interstate Railroad in the U. S., and several operations in Central and South America. He brokered the import of the three Chinese QJ steam locomotives to the U. S in the 2000s. He is one of the principles involved in the purchase of the historic East Broad Top narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania, and in bringing it back to operation and expansion.
Thanks for the great video. Can the door be locked when you leave the compartment?
Only by the attendant. You can only lock it yourself from the inside.
Boa viagem de trem lindo utimo vagão do trem 1:24 ótimo video 14:18
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I wanted to book this train for me , my sister and my mother for June, with a sleeper car with 3 beds and own toilet the cost came in at 800 Euros.. i tried to book the same route but with snälltoget, and it came in at 200 Euros. This is the most expensive ride i have tried to book, even more expensive then nightjet's deluxe across the swiz and austrian alps.
Well, I'm glad you had a good experience. When we did the trip in the opposite direction, last summer, we should have arrived in Stockholm at about 09:00 - we arrived at about 16:30! It was a horrible experience, and of all the trains we took in Scandinavia that trip only one was even remotely on time or even running. Scandinavian trains seem to be even worse than German ones, and that's saying something! I'm a bit "off" night trains after this experience, too.
Hej då! 🚂
Yes, Amtrak shakes, rattles and rolls.
Train rolls into Stockholm with dirty coaches and window but I would feel right at home because Amtrak trains are usually dirty as hell.
It must be nice to go on these trips. Sad I can not.
Hmm - the hand basin in your shower room looked grubby (or, certainly, fairly ancient). Such a pity, too, that there was no dining car…..Still, better than the European Sleeper from Berlin to Brussels!
They are actually gonna be adding dining cars that are under complete ownership of SJ soon (unlike all the other leased carriages) but the carriages they’ll be using are still being refurbished.
15:50 Can't believe all those guys standing in the aisleway looking out the side windows when they were just a few meters away from the best view on the train. Total noobs man, they must be kicking themselves, now, surely!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I wish to complain about your video: you pitch the train as Stockholm to Berlin, but you got off at Hamburg !!! 🙂
On some of the cars when you film train at very end, only some windows open, others can't. Any logic on which ones open and which ones can't on those cars? (on last cars, seemed like all windows opened).
Since it is an SJ train, I would have expected they would use ther own rolling stock instead of older hand-me-down. It is a shame that they built the Öresund bridge with special requirements instead of allowing any RIC cars through.
Was food/breakfast stored in just ne car and distributed from there to rest of train? or did each car has its own food for its passengers? Is there an airline-style compact galley with refrigerator, oven? (or just microwave) ? Are they allowed to sell beer, wine if consumed in your bedroom?
Finally, did you get any feedback on whetrher the train is now reliable or is boking a train on a certain date still lottery on whether it will oerate or have lots of technical problems?
Overnight trains may be fun, but if they are not reliable, or require booking 2 years ahead because of too much demand, they aren't reallly an option if you need to go from A to B on a certain date. (which is a shame).
The reason they need to lease old carriages is that all of their Swedish-made rolling stock is built with the Swedish track loading gauge in mind, and not the German one. This means that of their carriages are too tall/wide to fit on German tracks, with the exception of some East German tracks and the route from where the trains used to go by ferry to Berlin.
@@olasola1013 Thanks. I had not considered different loading gauges preventing Swedish rolling stock from going into Europe. Makes sense. Hopefully they do like RZD did for Moscow-Paris and order RIC standard cars for their international services.
I like these windows to roll down these are cool today shit tiny windows
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Are they sleeping in cars now ...?
Shame you miss the fun of the Sweden to Berlin sleeper train going on the train ferry these days.
Mind you, the former East German couchettes weren't the most comfortable.
08:40 Södertälje Syd
Back in the day to reach West Berlin from the Nordic countries it would have actually used the following routes Malmö Copenhagen and then Vogelfluglinie Bahnstrecke Hamburg Lübeck Puttgarden Rødby Copenhagen enter East Germany at Grenzübergang Büchen🇩🇪 Schwanheide German Democratic Republic in the French language République Démocratique Allemand and then West Berlin East Berlin border crossing. The locomotive you are on RC6/RC4 turns out to be the prototypes for AEM-7 ALP-44 which is why American railroad fans in Sweden called them toasters for that reason. Danish border to Hamburg Central Station DB Baureihe 101
The Swedish trains to Berlin used the Trelleborg-Saßnitz ferry to reach the GDR and then went south to first Berlin-Ostbahnhof and then to Berlin-Zoo via the Stadtbahn and Berlin-Friederichstraße.
Instead of the Toilets Time title, have you ever thought of introducing it with a little cartoon like the Noel Phillips Loo Review?
Not bad at all place where you sleep comfy on this train... Huh?!!... What happens to missing the freight train at the back? See 16:03sec. Should keep on the two both of freight train together front and the back for safety. Maybe the door causes womble or itself open and looks like broken. Should be place the secure freight train on it at the back, when the train moving safely on the journey.
Do they experience Reliability issues? A « dead » carriage and the electromechanical brake out of order. That’s a lot for a short train like that.😊
Yes they do ...
beau train de luxe
Too bad the oversea bridge/tunnel is in the middle of the night
Мне показалось, или вокзал реально в Швеции чище чем в Германии???
So SJ vs ÖBB 1 - 0 ❓️
Kinda ahah
lovely Xmas ride I think with snow...think the amenities are a little poor in 1class sleeper. do they serve wine and spirits too? miss the diningcar a bit alas, but those were the days...
SJ has bought 3 ex-DB dining cars which will be in use soon, but they are still undergoing refurbishment.
@@olasola1013 great!
Two surprises. No Dining car or Bar car. And you had to make your own Bed? Other than that, it looked like a great ride. 👍 🇦🇺
For the first surprise, they have bought 3 dining cars that are still undergoing refurbishment and should be in service soon.
For the second surprise, no, he did not make his own bed.
@olasola1013 Sorry, I thought he did. But yaay for the Dining cars.
evening departure means Guns 'n Roses stuck in my head.
In future videos, please mention the price you paid for your ticket.
It is right there in the beginning.
(Thibault always does that as far as I remember)
Compared to some of the Japanese luxury trains this don't stack up so well.
First
Но самые лучшие купейные поезда в ☮️ это российские. Больше нет не у кого таких купейных вагонов хороших как у нас.
О да! Русские поезда - романтика❤
a train took a year and a half to finally get a sleeper coach?
yikes
bad form, SJ
It’s not even SJ’s fault.
They lease carriages from RDC, but the carriages have had to get certification to run in Denmark, which is not done by SJ. Unfortunately, a lot of the couchette carriages, the sleeping carriages, and the seating carriages have had this job done very slowly, and, yet again, it’s not SJ’s fault.
I’m just gonna add while at it that the trains will also get Wi-Fi and a semi-proper restaurant/bistro carriage with some first class seats which is in complete ownership of SJ unlike the other leased carriages, but these are still being refurbished somewhere in southern Germany.
Final thing, the sleeper carriages have already been there for about a full year.
For the normal price you also can book an flieght with SAS
Dein Zug wurde ab Deutschland gezogen von einer BR101 RDC..
Most butifull trains is RUSSIANS !!! Please do this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ((((((((((((
As a non-native English listener, I struggle to grasp your words clearly. I wish you improved on clarifying your speaking
Regards
I'm sincerely sorry , but are you aware of your mumbling dialect?
Its hardly audible; speak at a far lower rate & improve fastly your intonation.
Chaotic garbage made by millennials. Lost generation.
Arrête de faire ton intro vocale en anglais ... tu as trop de dialect type "frenchie" ... c'est difficile à suivre et à comprendre à la première vue. Désolé.