Brussels - Amsterdam - Berlin aboard European Sleeper Train in Couchette Sleeping Car
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- Inaugural Journey of
European Sleeper Train No. ES 453
From: Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel Zuid
To: Berlin-Lichtenberg, Germany
Route via: Antwerpen Centraal, Rotterdam Centraal, Den Haag HS, Haarlem, Amsterdam Centraal, Amersfoort Centraal, Deventer, Hengelo, Osnabrück, Bremen Hauptbahnhof, Hannover Hbf, Braunschweig, Magdeburg, Potsdam, Berlin-Wannsee, Berlin-Gesundbrunnen
Border points: Essen / Roosendaal (Belgium/Netherland), Hengelo / Bad Bentheim (Netherlands/Germany)
Train operator: European Sleeper Exploitatie B.V.
Travel class: Couchette Sleeping Car (4 berth compartment)
Scheduled departure time from Brussels: 19h22 cet
Scheduled arrival time in Berlin-Lichtenberg: 08h13 cet
Scheduled travel time (Berlin - Brussels): 12 hours and 49 min
Railway distance (Berlin - Brussels): 1,031 km
Travel time: May 2023
Ticket bought on: www.europeansleeper.eu
Ticket fare: EUR 179 “Tarif Flex Night”
Electric locomotive registration: Railpool 186 455-2
Locomotive type: Bombardier TRAXX F140 MS
00:00 Preview Summary
01:56 Bruxelles-Midi
04:21 European Sleeper Train ES 453
07:20 CIWL Type P sleeping car
09:40 Antwerpen Centraal
11:57 Border Belgium/Netherlands
16:32 Rotterdam Centraal
18:09 Den Haag HS
20:46 Amsterdam Centraal
23:09 Couchette Sleeping Car
25:14 Direction change in Bremen Hbf
28:22 Hannover Hauptbahnhof
30:38 Sunrise over Lower Saxony
35:14 Berlin-Gesundbrunnen
37:45 Berlin-Lichtenberg
West german couchettes from the 60's in slovakian sleeper-livery, coupled together with east german seating cars and CWIL sleepers from the 50's. You gotta love how much history there is behind the rolling stock on this train.
yes; but there is virtually no modern sleeping car/couchette car types available for rent; except if you want to source such cars from russia
@@doc7austinRussia is replacing its sleepers with modern stock so there must be enough available but these are maybe too wide?
russian sleeping cars ran to Nice and Paris until 2020; those trains were cancelled due to the pandemic; i assume that technically it is possible to rent them, but its probably a political no-go currently
@@lvovodessa
The Russian sleeping cars used formerly on the sleepers to Paris and Berlin are built to fit the European loading gauge. They had recently bought a brand-new fleet of cars from Siemens to replace the old East German rolling stock.
The weather is so sunny ☀️ on this route. The visuals are quite amazing 👌
having blue and clear skies both over belgium, netherlands and germany was extremely lucky for me
You're a century out. The Amsterdam Haarlem line opened in 1839 and not 1939.
haahah; 18 instead of 19
Very long train and in my opinion those carriages where you can lower the windows are the best to enjoy the landscape and the trip.
yes; you can mostly fully open the windows in all cars, except the sleeping car
Whow, I've seen so many of your spectacular videos from all over the world. It's so cool to see these magnificent views from my home town of Roosendaal and the West-Brabant area!
this was my first time in antwerp and roosendaal
Between Antwerp and Roosendaal the train uses the formel line of the old IC Amsterdam to Brussels ! Nice to see some historic trainline😊
yes; this was my first time on this cross-border line
Another European sleeper video, great 😊
hahaha, yes; hopefully, the extension pf this route to prague will be successful
Nice trip! Thanks for sharing.
Just Awesome !
Un viaje espectacular 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
yes; I hope I can travel on that train again
3:42 on the bottom right seems like it's Thibault from Simply Railway.
yes; you can see simply railway and the man in seat 61 in the same video frame
Thanks for the vid! Seems like unlike the rest of the journey, the ES train rides on the 'high-speed' line (lijn 25N, instead of lijn 25 or 27) between Brussel-Noord (actually Schaarbeek) and Mechelen. While after Mechelen, it seems to always travel on old lines though (including crossing the BE-NL border via Essen)...
but the vmax should still be 140 km/h, because the traxx cannot go beyond that speed ?
@@doc7austinthat’s true though, at 7:57 it seems to be line 25N crossing the depot to the north of Schaarbeek, and 8:13 is Y Machelen-Noord, where line 36C (from Brussels Airport) joins line 25N. I guess this train is arranged on 25N instead of 25 to avoid the busy local traffic (S-trains and other IC trains calling at Vilvoorde). Normally all trains that does not call between Brus.-Noord and Mechelen are now all going via line 25N now. That’s probably why despite the speed of loco, it still goes on a high-speed line.
Doc, thank you so much for this great video.🍰
you are welcome !
Definitiv eines Deiner besten Videos EVER!!!
SUUUUUUUUPER!😎😍👍
wirklich ? warum ?)))
Funny to see couchette car from Slovakia on such a train like this :)
i think european sleeper has leased out some couchette cars from slovakia (wagon slovakia?)
@@doc7austin it can be, i used to travel with theese cars on night trains through my country from Bratislava 😉
The UK HSA authorities would have an apoplexy at all those heads hanging out of windows
yea , of course
Good video, but wasn't the 'Oude Lijn Haarlem-Amsterdam opened in 1839 instead of 1939 like you mentioned at 20:03 ?
yeah; I got the century wrong )
Great video. Do you have a link where I could buy a night light similar to yours?
no; i cannot find this lamp product anymore online ))
@@doc7austinAah, no worries !
I did the same train in july 2023 but we did Roosendaal-Tilburg-Utrecht-Amersfoort in the Netherlands and Bad Bentheim-Münster (reverse)-Hannover in Germany. Always a gamble wich route it will take... I slept in a compartment for 4 with 1 window for 139 Euros, one-way
Bit too early for the text at 09:04 as the train was in Mechelen, it fits for 09:10 @ 10:53 The line was opened in 1855 until Moerdijk for a ferry to Dordrecht. When the bridge was opened at Lage Zwaluwe in 1876, the line was diverted. (( me, taking pictures at 13:33 🙂 )) Do not understand the text @ 13:53. You never passed Breda. This is still the Antwerp - Lage Zwaluwe line. After Lage Zwaluwe, you joined the Breda-Roosendaal line but that happend at 14:19 in your video. Sign at 21: 21 was wrong: it did stop in Amersfoort (because I was there and took pictures again) Leave out the 'Possibly" at 24:59: that was indeed the case. (I am not a bit jalous about the passing 181...) Hé at 30:07 A glimpse of the new HSL-trains for the Dutch Railways NS !!
ok; you guys stood there near hollands diep taking photos?
Name of the background music
google qatar airways auckland
If I didn't check wrong in the ES website, I noticed that if a single traveller wants to book a complete compartment, this is possible only for couchette places (for a mega price!) and not for sleeping cars. Sleeping places can be booked only sharing the compartment with other travellers.
Negative. I travelled Rotterdam/Berlin vv last week in a complete compartment in the P-type sleeping car. It can be done.
pricing could be weird on the european sleeper train.
That's fine, a booking as it normally should be. I think it could be because there were no more single accomodations available on the day I chose and the booking page didn't show the option.
the sleeping car is often also cancelled at short notice
Odd route via Bremen ( rather a long way round) Berlin Lichtenberg Station used to be used quite regularly by Night Trains 30 years ago.
the bremen detour is mostly due to some construction work on the osnabrück-minden-hannover line
I wonder if this train gained popularity after all these months and if travels more busy than it could be, of course, on the first days of operation. European Sleeper website is still working and offers now as final destination Prague, via Berlin-Dresden.
good question; as you saw, the train was not fully occupied on its inauguration journey
Nice video! Could you muffle your microphone a bit so that the "wind " sounds are not so obvious? Just an idea ! From Ontario Canada....
At Hollands diep you have a ICD. It’s not the intercity from Brussels. You can verify by looking at the coaches there is no B sign on them.
in which city did this train start in?
You forgot to mention that the train changed from driving on the left in Belgium to driving on the right at Roosendaal. RHD is standard in NL and DE.
ah; good observation; yes; after roosendaal we travelled on the right
@@doc7austin Trains drive on the left in BE and FR because the British helped repair the damaged railways in both countries after WWI; NL was neutral. An interesting continuation of this is that SNCF help ONCF develop the HSL in Morocco so guess what, the high speed trains drive on the left there.
@@Eurobazz
Pretty sure they had been driving "à l'Anglaise" since the very beginning of railways. Switzerland also drives on the left, whilst the Alsace and Lorraine regions of France drive on the right (due to having been part of Germany when the railway construction boom happened).
@mikeblatzheim2797 yes, we were driving on the left in belgium
@@Eurobazztrains have always driven on the left since 1835 in Belgium.. Nothing to do with WW1 😉
I think this train should have gone to Hamburg and Copenhagen from Bremen and not back to Hannover and Berlin. The day train from Amsterdam to Berlin should be a sleeper and extended at the start to The Hague, Rotterdam and Breda. And at the end from Berlin to Posen, Lodsch and Warschau.
this train will be extended from berlin to dresden and prague at the end of this month
It would be really nice to have sleeper trains back in Poznań and Warsaw, the sleeper train to Amsterdam and köln was suspended some years ago
Vectron loks are coming
so no more 186 traxx locos for that train ?
@@doc7austin according to wagonweb the switch will happen on march 25th. But the 186 can be back
@bernardbouzon5499 interesting; i guess the vectron will then run all the way to prague
@@doc7austin nope there'll be a lok change in Berlin
@bernardbouzon5499 really from vectron to vectron ? where? Berlin-Ostbahnhof ?
0:13 ik vind die rijtuigen lelijk maar ook mooi het heeft iets anders ofzo
ab; lots of graffiti on belgian trains
That “Communist High Speed Train” is actually quite famous TEE from 1950’s and not communist at all. Made immortal by the Kraftwerk tune “Trans Europa Express”…🙂
ステンレスの寝台車ってあのワゴンリの遺産!?
i dont know; that stainless steel car was built in the late 1950s
Please make the video of train in Iran please make
its not safe to travel to iran
I am not sure about this, very expensive and old carriages.
yes; old and expensive; I agree with you.
Old, but high quality - built in West/East Germany and Italy, and the sleeper compartments are more spacious than the new ones. The price starts at €79 in a couchette on this route - it depends on how far in advance you buy the ticket, and how popular the train on a particular day is.
Have to say that Europe train are too expensive.
No, they're not (at least, not the revived night sleeper service that goes from a town to Paris.)
well; many times, a flight is cheaper than a ride in a couchette sleeping car
@@doc7austin, it's not automatically better, though.
I agree.
but its still a much needed overnight connection between amsterdam and berlin
wie die brüsseler ihre s bahn zu hacken, oida.
was?
wuss@@doc7austin
No more high speed in the NL, because there is something wrong between the track......now the speed is not more then 160 km per hour........a lot of waste of money! Also the new ICNG will not ride a speed of 200 km anymore.........such a waste of money and time😮
The channel "Machinist Stefan" describes in detail the situation with high speed line . We must hope that one day Amstel will stop building underground subways in Addis Ababa and Madras, and will pay attention to its European “pride line”. Although it would be better for the Dutch to give this to Zelensky, as they gave him the Red Light District in Amsterdam. 😅)
Glad I looked through the comments, I wasn't informed about this :s Looks like a complete mess... when you see in France double-deck trains zoom at 320km/h... It seems that germanic countries have a problem investing correctly in high speed trains (germany has a lot of issues too).
did we see the ICNG on the HSL Zuid bridge over Hollands Diep ?
You can travel at 300 km/h on the south section of the line (Antwerp to Rotterdam) on the northern part of the line you will only travel slower from the end of groenehart tunnel till Hoofddorp the rest is at normal speed. Also ICNG runs 200 km/h southern from this groenehart tunnel.
@machinistje how fast is eurostar running on this section ?