14 hours on a Night Train between Czech Republic and Switzerland - Euronight Canopus
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The Euronight Canopus is one of the two options available for you if you want to travel between the Czech Republic and Zurich in Switzerland... I expected a full Ceske Drahy couchette on that one but no.... Nonetheless, it was outstanding!
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- TRIP INFORMATION -
Date: MARCH 2024
Railway company: @TVCeskeDrahy @DeutscheBahnKonzern @sbbcffffs (Couchette leased to @RDCDeutschlandGruppe )
Route : Praha hlavní nádraží to Zurich HB
Time : 14h11
Price : 39€
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00:00 : Intro
00:26 : Welcome to Prague
00:53 : The Euronight Canopus
03:18 : Departure / trip info
04:33 : Room Tour
06:35 : Trolley service
07:00 : Usti nad Labem
07:30 : Border crossing
08:00 : Dresden
08:41 : Getting ready for bed
09:47 : Leipzig and Nightjet
11:30 : Mid-roll ads
12:13 : Feedback of the night
12:30 : Breakfast
13:03 : Walkthrough
14:49 : Toilets Time
15:21 : Approaching Basel
16:19 : Conclusion
17:06 : Outro
It’s beautiful seeing the contrast from how chilly it is on the outside versus how cosy it looks on the inside
1:05 Currently the EN50466/50465 cannot run due to broken bridge in Austria, so the sleeping cars are hauled on EC Canopus.
It's expected to return right before Summer holidays, let's hope they will repair it on time.
The yellow train you observed looks like one of DB‘s track evaluation trains. Great video as always 👍🙂
A German Dr Yellow
those open window shots were great......you can almost feel the wind blowing in your face.........thanks
Wow the breakfast pack was half Austrian! Pfanner juice, Manner Schnitten, and Kaiser rolls. Nice! Czech food is great too.
Kaiser rolls are very very popular in CZ and SK 😁 maybe a heritage from the old monarchy?
@@druhyprogram Absolutely a heritage from the old monarchy. There's a lot of cross-over in food items and recipes between all countries of the old monarchy. I lived in Austria for 4 years. Topfengulatsch is one pastry I remember being very popular there, I think Gulatsch is their spelling of kulakz (?) from Czechia (Bohemia). Other examples which are common in Austria are Gulasch, Letzko(gemuse) and lots more.
I can get a fair few products I used to eat in Austria in a local Balkan (ex-Yugoslavian countries, not Bulgaria/Romania) which is nice. Also Polish shops stock a lot of products the same as or similar to Austrian and German equivalents. Between those and Lidl I can eat a lot of Austrian and German food (lived 7 years in Germany too).
A Portuguese colleague at work was surprised when I said I liked Austrian food, until I explained to him that it also encompassed food from a lot of other countries, or parts of them. Poland (Silesia); Hungary; Czechia; Slovakia; Ukraine; Slovenia; Croatia; Bosnia; Italy. 10 countries counting Austria! The same applies to Hungarian food for example, it's also eaten in Austria, Slovakia, Croatia, and probably more countries.
Brunch today consisted of sourdough rye from the Balkan shop, with ajvar (paprika spread common all over the Balkans); szynka or Schinken (fatty ham) from Tesco's Polish section, and Emmethaler from Lidl. With slices of tomato and raw green pepper, and paprika and aromat sprinkled on the cheese. With Austrian Rauch brand apricot juice and German Tschibo coffee, both from my local Kurdish supermarket!
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Before many years i traveled with xSNCF sleeping car (WLB) from Thessaloniki to Athens,when Greece had night trains.
Also,whole of my life i loved night trains with sleeping carriages, its so magical and like dream
The Yellow train is indeed for Maintenance and track control. On the side it says Netz Instandhaltung which means Track Repair
The RDC couchette is used here because ČD (ex-ÖBB) couchettes can only do 160 km/h, Germans require 200 km/h on this train. ČD would have enough of their own couchettes if they haven't rented two to ZSSK for the EuroNight Slovakia train.
Also, as someone who works on these, not many colleagues, me included, like them, as they suffer from technical issues a lot
160 km/h is fine for me, i was sad when i heard they want to cancel the Knödelexpress from Berlin to Prague because the rolling Stock is not fast enough ;-(
@@martinum4 there should be new trains, although they fucked it up a little. No restaurant car, only smaller bistro car. And the capacity didn't increase, which is bad on such a frequently overloaded connection
I believe Leipzig Hbf. is the largest station in Europe, and maybe the world!
I was there once in DDR times, and there were only two trains in the whole place: the one I rode in on, and one being washed by an elderly lady, with a mop!
Depends on how you define "largest". Floor area? Leipzig HBf. Number of tracks? New York Grand Central. Most passengers? Tokyo Shinjuku. Most frequent trains? London Clapham Junction.
Ahh, Canopus, took this one last year to Karlsruhe, where I switched to TGV going to Paris and then to Eurostar from Paris to London where I got early afternoon. All with pretty generous time buffers for train changes. Worst part of travelling by train from Prague to western europe is getting out of CZ to first decently connected German (or Austrian) city and this train is a great help in that. Though for London it's even better to use European Sleeper since this year.
Great post Thibault, I love your reports on sleeper trains and although the rain interferes with your filming I think it adds a lot of atmosphere, that seems quite inexpensive for the journey, yet another one to add to my bucket list, I’m going to need a bigger bucket guys 😊
Leipzig Hbf is the largest in Europe. It's so large because it was originally built as a partnership between the Prussian and Saxon State Railways. You can still see their respective coat of arms on the entrance.
Leipziig Hauptbanhof has 19 platforms and a two level shopping mall in the concourse!!
Great trip. It's great you have private couchette compartment. Yellow Train always associated with Maintenance Train.
Merci beacoup, Thibault. Il voit un bon journée et pas plus cher! Fantastique!!
Yellow trains are almost always for maintenance, wherever you come in the world. Including the Netherlands, although confusingly, most trains are mostly yellow there. The Japanese, for example, have a yellow Shinkansen called Doctor Yellow.
Rail maintenance vehicles aren't exclusively yellow; it doesn't necessarily work the other way around. But often, they are.
Amtrak maintenance equipment is either orange or a lemon-lime yellow-green
Good looking accomodation. And a private couchette. I would prefer sleeping alone.
Thanks Thibault💚👌
I love this train, the carriages are super comfy, possibly the best I've been on in Europe, plus the selection of food on board is excellent. It is unfortunate that the tickets are almost always sold out, because ČD have so few night carriages, and they are REALLY expensive even compared to other night trains.
Hmm, interesting that the train left on time, but the conductor said that the train will be 25 minutes delayed 🤪
I bought your Book a few days ago, and it’s really good. It helped me plan my journey to England. Thank you very much!
10:19 leipzig is also known for its "mueseumsgleis 24" where old DR locos stand and on tryck 23 is the RE6 by MRB and they use old DR units with loud brakes
RE 6 only until December 2024.
well, the old ones definitively have their charm. and they are built in a sturdy way.
that's the one thing I'm not so sure about the new nightjets. how well will they age?
Merci bien! I did the Zürich Prague and back via Austria. More or less the same. Old, but good enough. My only problem is that the part of the train that does this line is quite small, so often full. I understand that via Germany, it is also full. A good thing about night trains is that there is mostly no scenery visible. So I can go to sleep without feeling guilty. 😂.
That was a good bike storage👍🚴♀️🚂
Nice ride, thanks for sharing! [Greetings from Tucson!]
Just love your night train videos....They are some of the best ones on You Tube...:):):)
Thanks again!
Great video indeed, to travel by train is a most relaxing way of moving, especially long distances!🚋🚆🚅
7:45 Oh .. those blue lights are so calming / cozy. For real, when you see the train go slow and with those lights , you want to sleep ^_^ . I would love to try this line that you are on as well of course :) it isn´t that expensive and Switzerland is amazing
Another awesome train video. I had wanted to ask you have you ever had a chance to take a Night Train between Spain and Portugal
Great video
Basel Badischer Bahnhof is a DB station on a Swiss soil
Did Hamburg -Basel night train in 1978.
Nice job once again, love these videos!
Very nice video, I used to travel from Austria to Italy in the seating compartments where you could make a bed. With a blanket it was quite comfy and very cheap compared to couchettes or sleeping cars.
Boa viagem simplys de trem ai ótimo vídeo bom trem cama
Nice vidio,train👍🖐️
Great vlog.I love trains!
08:00 This are not the Twindexx Couches. This are normal Double deck Coaches from 2004
Been to Leipzig station once just after the fall of the GDR, travelled from Bamberg, at the old border the staff and engine switched to Reichsbahn ( Ludmilla) trip down the Saale valley to Leipzig is pretty spectacular but the station was very run down in those days
Stations r so hi fi that they remind me off the flick - Terminator.
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Hey,
normally the Eurocity Part that ends in Leipzig should have a czech restaurant car, but especially last winter (probably when this was filmed) it often was missing. So you could have good czech dinner or breakfast in the opposite direction ;)
Why didnt you show us the restored interior of the classic dome in the Prague Railway Station?
Because getting the front shot means standing in the middle of a 4-lane highway 😞While beautiful, the historic building is seldom used by locals, you need to go out of your way to reach it. Most of us arrive from the rear or from the underground...
@@jannovotny6244 I took tons of front and interior shots of Prague Station in 2009 but I want to see more interior shots of the restored dome and cafe below.
@@jannovotny6244 Not necessary. You just take the lift from the main hall and you are at the bus stop with the great view.
While true, you're still at the side of a highway, and that bus stop isn't served by any public transit except for the Airport Express (and Flixbus). It's just completely hostile for the locals...
And locals use metro or tram, no need to go to surface unless using taxi. (ale ano, sherwood je taky hroznej humus ;) )
Nice Video
Are the sleeping cars former DB stock? Before DB cancelled their service, I did Amsterdam to Munich in a private cabin with shower. Those were the days.
Yes the rdc carriages seem to be former DB!
Nope. They were built for CD by Siemens in the 2000s
This video brings back sweet and sour memories of a trip I have done on the other side of the Iron Curtain. At that time, the communist regimes were collapsing the ones after the others and I wanted to have a glimpse of something that was in its last moments.
The main issue was the barrage barrier. At that time, it was easier to use German or French in the Warsaw Treaty countries than English. And be my guest, I had a lot of issues at the Czechoslovakia -East Germany border when the border police decided that my visa was not valid. That night, I almost finished in jail in Dresden. The police gave me a Transit Visum and I had 24 hours to leave the DDR.
The next day, I took the train from Dresden to Frankfut (auf main) and then, an express train to Paris. When, near Forbach, a guy in uniform ask me "Vos papiers s'il vous plaît", I started crying. "Qu'est-ce qui se passe?" asked the officer, well "C'est la première fois qu'un officier s'adresse à moi dans ma langue sans me crier après parce que je ne comprends pas l'allemand". Three days later, I took my flight back to Montréal and believe it or not, 3 months later I was, once again, in the Eastern Block, in Romania this time.
In the mean time, I've got some German lessons from the Goete Institue and I was ready for more adventures.
I hate that most European trains keep harsh bright lights on in open seating cars all night.
If you're going to be spending the night in an open-plan seating car, the lights are the least of your problems IMHO :D
@@jannovotny6244 I only book a private cabin for myself if available but harsh bright lights should not punish passengers traveling on a budget.
@@jannovotny6244 I only book private cabins for myself when available, but harsh bright lights should not punish passengers traveling on a budget.
Yes, that's a real "turn off".
Amtrak at least turns them way down
That train is nice, you get a discount with a Eurail pass?
Yup
@@bernardbouzon5499 how much of a discount? And is this through OBB Nightjet? They owe me a voucher of 114.00
y avait il la voiture restaurant lors de votre voyage ?
The problem is that (I live in Prague), since each of those trains only one seating coach, one sleeper and one couchette coach doing the whole trip Czechia-Switzerland, in high season, they often are fully booked weeks in advance...
Soon Romania is gonna launch its brand new train, are you going to do a "review"? 😊
Which train?
@@DBBravo, as a Romanian, I have to say that the Ministry of Transport purchased some new EMU trains from Poland and will use them as high-speed trains on Romania's main routes. But for now only one EMU is on Romanian soil. 29 more will come until next year I know. There will be 30 EMU-s totally. However, I don't know how fast will they go, since Romania has a very poor infrastructure, and rails are old and not well-maintained.
And many other trains from Romania are ancient or with outdated interior, dirty and with faulty A/C.
Despite being a Romanian, I avoid travelling in a Romanian carriage as well, and choose Hungarian ones instead since I live in Transylvania.
My experience is that you can't by tickets for the south track. Online is not possible and at the train station also cannot sell tickets for this train. Can somebody tell me why this could be?
usually, there is a restaurant car up to Leipzig. Was there one this time?
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Another good video, however did have problems with English notes after the ads (1143) all blurred couldnt really read.
Sounds like your video quality degraded, no issue here.
If your train goes through germany you can always expect there to be some sort of delay. I’m surprised your train was on time
Did the cart service sell beer?
Probably yes, since it's a Czech train.
G stands for gari, car, train or some sort of ve-hi-c-le in Gujarati n watch/clock in hindi. Also gaay (cow) or guy.
Je crois qu'il faut une réservation même avec un pass interrail
Afternoon. It's good to hv u back but at times i can't understand yr talk. Gibbish.
This main station prague is as big as zürich altstäten😂
1:15 Oh, the sign is also in German?
2:32 Siemens vectron diesel or electric
Electric
With so few passengers, I suppose, how can this train be profitable 1?
I think it's a commercial product of ,,České dráhy’’, so I guess Its profitable :)
Amid of modern with historical stations in third world countries. How do you feel when you travel in these conditions.,
7:55 tahts def not a twindex these coaches are with lococs like br146 (like here) or a true east german loco the br 143
si je prends ce train au départ de Prague je profite de la voiture restaurant
Aš you were getring croasants i heard you speaking czech si Čech
'We are departing on time!'
Meanwhile the stewars making an announcement of being 25 minutes late on depart...and in Ústí there is '20 minutes late' on the board above the platform.
Sure, mate.
My bad! From my memories we were on time. Thanks for your comment 🙌
I agree with the Prague Station, creepy and has a sense of old Soviet era decor., But love old city Prague otherwise, food, beer, etc.
The thing is, it was leased to an Italian company Grandi Stazioni in 2002. The company was responsible for the renovation,but failed. Therefore, the contract was terminated in 2016. Now there is a proposal for renovation, but it will take many years before anything changes.
I atcually really like Prague main train station. The problem is critical lack of maintenance if it would be clean it would be much nicer. Also the car avenue in front of the old building does not really help either. Dont really understand where do you see soviet decor the building is mainly inspired by Brittish and French postmodern architecture.
Czechia! Not The Czech Republic!
Are most classic European stations stub end or through operations? What is the best way to reach you? TH-cam? Twitter? Instagram?
in capitals traditionally its all been stub end because the priority has been getting into the city rather than beyond it - this why london has like 11 termini, paris 7 and formerly 9 and madrid and berlin previously having 2 stub-end before getting converted to through-running. only real exception among major european cities to be through running from the start is if its on the way to somewhere more important, e.g. places in North Rhine Westphalia or Bristol Temple Meads. but on the whole they start as terminus stations on a line to/from the city then if deemed necessary due to train frequency it'll be converted into through running (like what's happening in stuttgart). so in answer to your first question they're stub-end until converted to throughrunning, and a significant amount are still stub-end, though notable projects like Berlin Hbf, Vienna Hbf and Madrid-Atocha's modernisation are making progress in changing this
@@tubegirl1013 Thank you.