As someone who lives just south of Perpignan I was intrigued by this video and am an occasional user of the Train Jaune so am looking forward to next week. Couple of points, the 1€ is a regional initiative rather than SNCF (it also applies to all buses run by the Region), introduced by the Languedoc-Roussillon Regional Government then taken on (reluctantly) by the successor Occitanie Regional Government. This particular TER line is not one I've ever had occasion to use as it's quicker for me to drive to Villefranche to take the "Canari" but, you might be interested to know that the reason for the "engineering works" that meant you having to take a bus from Ille-sur-Têt was due to the fact that the line had been closed since December 2017 and was only in the process of being re-opened in stages (it was re-opened fully to Prades and Villefranche in November 2020). This was due to the legal processes following a tragic accident involving a school bus on a road crossing near St Feliu d'Avall which resulted in the death of several children. The legal process was protracted due to conflicts between local residents who wanted the line closed completely (due to the number of road crossings on the route which they claimed were dangerous) and the regular users of the line needing to commute into Perpignan. Although the arguments continue to this day about blame for the accident it now seems almost certain that it was the driver of the bus who, under the influence of medication drove through the barriers when they were down. Just a quick final point, the Train Jaune itself is under constant threat of closure by the SNCF, or transfer to a private owner to operate as a line purely tourist-orientated (and priced!). This ignores the fact that it's also an essential means of transport for residents of the high cantons especially during winter. If it does suffer this change of ownership then it's expected that only the section between Villefranche and Font Romeu would remain open and the section between Font Romeu and Latour de Carol closed and lifted. There has been considerable local opposition to this proposal and financial support from the Region has been promised so for the time being the threat has receded a little and SNCF have even been doing some engineering improvements to the track (particularly following a recent derailment!!) but it's still very real. There is a protest group on Facebook "NON à la fermeture du TRAIN jAUNE" which is worth joining. Even if you don't read French it contains lots of video and photographic content on the line which you might find interesting.
Thank you, nonstop eurotrip! Of course I knew you like Perpignan station, since you put it in close up on your home page. Obviously, I knew it before. ouch, I never imagined that there were many such small stations served by the SNCF. You see that a bus is enough for these small villages, and which takes only 15 minutes more than a train. A bus offers you the advantages of seeing the villages up close. A bus gives you the benefits of getting a close look at buildings. My comment is of course only valid for small destinations, villages and hamlets, and small towns. Thanks to you ! (Google Translate)
Thanks Louis! I guess this train is very popular to take people to Le Petit Train Jaune and for commuters to Perpignan and of much rather take a train than a bus! 🚈🇫🇷👌🏻
But we have planned for this summer, in addition to Disneyland, I can't wait any longer, we have the annual passport, we will be the first to go there, to take, in addition to the trains already taken, lots of trains that we have never taken. I'll tell you what I think. May everything happen in good conditions. You are adorable, nonstop eurotrip! (google traduction)
Awesome video! Those Z2s are getting increasingly rare, they'll be gone in a few months, it's sad since they're still in quite a good state inside! Looking forward to next week!
@@NonstopEurotrip I think they'll sodier on a bit longer... but I doubt they go past 2020. :( (edit: AURA region have a couple. Maybe those have a higher survival chance than the Rémi or LiO ones)
The journey was very nice, I liked the bus too hehehe. Nice views and to wait for the ride with the yellow train, it looks very beautiful! Greetings from Chile!
As a child and adolescent, I spent my summers in Collioure (about 20 mins south of Perpignan). My family and I made the Collioure-Perpignan-Villefranche-Bourg Madame round-trip at least once every summer, to experience the magical Train Jaune, which was always the highlight of my vacation. Living in the USA now, It's incredibly nostalgic seeing those beautiful old graffiti-covered Z2's that I rode throughout my childhood 10+ years ago. I guess some things never change! I also remember going swimming with my family in the Lac de Vinca when I was 7 or 8 yrs old. Villefranche-de-Conflent is also an amazing little village. I hope you got the chance to walk around a bit! Anyway, great video. I will certainly be checking out the rest of your channel!
I remeber waiting for a train at Cebere some years ago, to take me through the tunnel to Portbou. I noticed on the platform I was on ,was for French trains and the other for Spanish as there was a change of gauge. The buffet was wonderfully quirky in that the decor and the menu were unmistakeably blue/grey on one side with croissants and the the other red/yellow with tapas!. I am sure the counter assistant was dressed half and half ( as Ronnie Barker used to do) amd spoke French or Spanish depending on which side was turned to you! Unforgettable !
Haha that's brilliant! Yeah the French and Spanish trains will alternate a service heading into the others country, which is great imo. That buffet sounds great, I wonder if it's still there? 😁 I've done a video in that route btw on a TER 👌🏻
I did this journey with my wife years ago, riding in one of the open carriages on the Petit Train Jaune, then from Latour-de-Carol to Carcassone, a wonderful trip. The only down side was the hotel in Perpignan, where the local youth spent half the night racing each other round the town square outside the hotel on their scooters.
Great video> We've travelled on le Petit Train Jaune but not from Perpignan to Villefranche (on the train anyway - know it from the car). Looking forward to next week!
Can you take the scenic "train des merveilles" in the north of Nice ? It's another beautiful line between the mountains, this line will reopen on May 3rd !
This video is great in order to skip the toilet part, but What can you wait of a €1 journey to the Pyrenees, on a train made in the 1980's? Almost the rest of the toilets I watched on the rest of the trip reports on this channel are great, clean and stocked-up
I did this route in the opposite direction, unfortunately this section was all by bus. I love the trains of the Pyrenees. Latour-de-Carol, Puigcerda, Toulouse, Nuria valley, La Pobla del Segur, Canfranc... There is a lot to see
7:00 actually every z2 toilet is in terrible state. Even here in Luxembourg, in every CFL z2 you get in, the toilet will always smell terrible because the flushing mechanism is bad on these trains and water pressure in general is a joke (sink).
Interesting that you use the Catalan rather than the Castilian, French or English spelling of what I, as an Englishman, would call Catalonia: if you speak that language, I take my hat off to you; a friend, whose degree was in Castilian, moved to Barcelona, but took six years to master Catalan!
@@NonstopEurotrip thanks: it has to be a matter of taste-to me, if a language has an accepted word for another country or place then one should use that, so I would use Catalonia when speaking English, and, romantic that I am, there is to me an allure about ña, which nya does not have, though they indicate the same sound. Keep up your excellent videos.
Just a suggestion you may totally avoid or “boycott 😂” the toilet footage if it is not clean ... I was in awe of the proceeds from the beginning appreciating the train the historic station green cargo notes until I saw the toilet after that everything that was nagging my mind was the condition of the toilet ... everything else including the scenery faded to background 😁... I didn’t read the full comments below ... kindly bear with me if it has been mentioned by other users already .....
@@NonstopEurotrip Blurring makes the curiosity more and runs the imagination intense in the opposite tracks😩 😝.... Just imagining how your friend will report this toilet he may start with phrase “I am happy to report that everything is working in order except the person who visited last 🤪”
Thanks for this great report but just one remark: it's "Catalonian" in English, not "Catalunyan". The spelling "Catalunya" is... Catalonian, not English.
Barcelona is not the Catalunyan Capital, it is the Capital of Catalonia 7:05 Someone had a diarrhoea and it shitted so much that the WC couldn't take it away. Thumbs down for SNCF👎👎 Video's final score: 9.4
@@NonstopEurotrip Do you refer to the toilet? That's great that the smells don't trepass a mobile phone's screen, but I think it's the worst toilet I've ever seen on my 20 years of life. P.S: I'm 20 years old since the 15th of April
As someone who lives just south of Perpignan I was intrigued by this video and am an occasional user of the Train Jaune so am looking forward to next week. Couple of points, the 1€ is a regional initiative rather than SNCF (it also applies to all buses run by the Region), introduced by the Languedoc-Roussillon Regional Government then taken on (reluctantly) by the successor Occitanie Regional Government. This particular TER line is not one I've ever had occasion to use as it's quicker for me to drive to Villefranche to take the "Canari" but, you might be interested to know that the reason for the "engineering works" that meant you having to take a bus from Ille-sur-Têt was due to the fact that the line had been closed since December 2017 and was only in the process of being re-opened in stages (it was re-opened fully to Prades and Villefranche in November 2020). This was due to the legal processes following a tragic accident involving a school bus on a road crossing near St Feliu d'Avall which resulted in the death of several children. The legal process was protracted due to conflicts between local residents who wanted the line closed completely (due to the number of road crossings on the route which they claimed were dangerous) and the regular users of the line needing to commute into Perpignan. Although the arguments continue to this day about blame for the accident it now seems almost certain that it was the driver of the bus who, under the influence of medication drove through the barriers when they were down. Just a quick final point, the Train Jaune itself is under constant threat of closure by the SNCF, or transfer to a private owner to operate as a line purely tourist-orientated (and priced!). This ignores the fact that it's also an essential means of transport for residents of the high cantons especially during winter. If it does suffer this change of ownership then it's expected that only the section between Villefranche and Font Romeu would remain open and the section between Font Romeu and Latour de Carol closed and lifted. There has been considerable local opposition to this proposal and financial support from the Region has been promised so for the time being the threat has receded a little and SNCF have even been doing some engineering improvements to the track (particularly following a recent derailment!!) but it's still very real. There is a protest group on Facebook "NON à la fermeture du TRAIN jAUNE" which is worth joining. Even if you don't read French it contains lots of video and photographic content on the line which you might find interesting.
Thanks for all the information! I hope all these lines survive as I love them! 😁
Thank you, nonstop eurotrip! Of course I knew you like Perpignan station, since you put it in close up on your home page. Obviously, I knew it before. ouch, I never imagined that there were many such small stations served by the SNCF. You see that a bus is enough for these small villages, and which takes only 15 minutes more than a train. A bus offers you the advantages of seeing the villages up close. A bus gives you the benefits of getting a close look at buildings. My comment is of course only valid for small destinations, villages and hamlets, and small towns. Thanks to you ! (Google Translate)
Thanks Louis! I guess this train is very popular to take people to Le Petit Train Jaune and for commuters to Perpignan and of much rather take a train than a bus! 🚈🇫🇷👌🏻
@@NonstopEurotrip I really think I suck.
But we have planned for this summer, in addition to Disneyland, I can't wait any longer, we have the annual passport, we will be the first to go there, to take, in addition to the trains already taken, lots of trains that we have never taken. I'll tell you what I think. May everything happen in good conditions. You are adorable, nonstop eurotrip! (google traduction)
Saw yellow train first, really hooked me on your videos, thanks.
I have 100 more for you to watch 😃
Awesome video! Those Z2s are getting increasingly rare, they'll be gone in a few months, it's sad since they're still in quite a good state inside!
Looking forward to next week!
Yeah I was happy to get a ride in one before they went 😁
@@NonstopEurotrip I think they'll sodier on a bit longer... but I doubt they go past 2020. :(
(edit: AURA region have a couple. Maybe those have a higher survival chance than the Rémi or LiO ones)
The journey was very nice, I liked the bus too hehehe. Nice views and to wait for the ride with the yellow train, it looks very beautiful! Greetings from Chile!
Thanks! Next week ☺️😎
As a child and adolescent, I spent my summers in Collioure (about 20 mins south of Perpignan). My family and I made the Collioure-Perpignan-Villefranche-Bourg Madame round-trip at least once every summer, to experience the magical Train Jaune, which was always the highlight of my vacation.
Living in the USA now, It's incredibly nostalgic seeing those beautiful old graffiti-covered Z2's that I rode throughout my childhood 10+ years ago. I guess some things never change! I also remember going swimming with my family in the Lac de Vinca when I was 7 or 8 yrs old. Villefranche-de-Conflent is also an amazing little village. I hope you got the chance to walk around a bit!
Anyway, great video. I will certainly be checking out the rest of your channel!
Thanks so much, it's sounds great! Have you seen my Train Jaune video? 😎🇫🇷💛
The look of the interior, i love it! Saw this train in Metz last August. Apparently some of them still drive the Metz - Thionville line.
I remeber waiting for a train at Cebere some years ago, to take me through the tunnel to Portbou. I noticed on the platform I was on ,was for French trains and the other for Spanish as there was a change of gauge. The buffet was wonderfully quirky in that the decor and the menu were unmistakeably blue/grey on one side with croissants and the the other red/yellow with tapas!. I am sure the counter assistant was dressed half and half ( as Ronnie Barker used to do) amd spoke French or Spanish depending on which side was turned to you! Unforgettable !
Haha that's brilliant! Yeah the French and Spanish trains will alternate a service heading into the others country, which is great imo. That buffet sounds great, I wonder if it's still there? 😁 I've done a video in that route btw on a TER 👌🏻
I wish we had a little yellow train in our mountains in Montana, being Montana it would have a bar car lol
I'd love to visit your mountains 🤩
I did this journey with my wife years ago, riding in one of the open carriages on the Petit Train Jaune, then from Latour-de-Carol to Carcassone, a wonderful trip. The only down side was the hotel in Perpignan, where the local youth spent half the night racing each other round the town square outside the hotel on their scooters.
It's a great trip isn't it 🤩
Love the beautiful French country-side. Thanks for a lovely ride.
You're welcome 🙂
Great video> We've travelled on le Petit Train Jaune but not from Perpignan to Villefranche (on the train anyway - know it from the car). Looking forward to next week!
It's amazing isn't it 🥰
Great video !!
Thanks!!
Good to see more bus content, even if it wasn't planned 😂
Usually my bus content means something has gone wrong 😂
@@NonstopEurotrip another bus content, please. Especially using long distance bus.
Great trip report
👌🏻☺️
Can you take the scenic "train des merveilles" in the north of Nice ? It's another beautiful line between the mountains, this line will reopen on May 3rd !
This looks great! I'll put it on my to-do list 😁😁😁
6:34 And that is why I always skip the toilet part! 🤮😂
This video is great in order to skip the toilet part, but What can you wait of a €1 journey to the Pyrenees, on a train made in the 1980's?
Almost the rest of the toilets I watched on the rest of the trip reports on this channel are great, clean and stocked-up
😂😂😂
Good trip report despite the train having graffiti and an unflushed 💩 in the toilet 😂 the bus ride was the best part with the scenery
Obviously you'd enjoy the bus part Daniel 😅
@@NonstopEurotrip of course 😉
Freight trains? If traveling with a motorcycle but wanting to transport it by train due to bad weather, how can this be done? By rail? By truck?
I'm not sure, sorry!
I did this route in the opposite direction, unfortunately this section was all by bus. I love the trains of the Pyrenees. Latour-de-Carol, Puigcerda, Toulouse, Nuria valley, La Pobla del Segur, Canfranc... There is a lot to see
Yes! I very much enjoyed it too 🙂
7:00 actually every z2 toilet is in terrible state. Even here in Luxembourg, in every CFL z2 you get in, the toilet will always smell terrible because the flushing mechanism is bad on these trains and water pressure in general is a joke (sink).
Interesting that you use the Catalan rather than the Castilian, French or English spelling of what I, as an Englishman, would call Catalonia: if you speak that language, I take my hat off to you; a friend, whose degree was in Castilian, moved to Barcelona, but took six years to master Catalan!
I always like to use the local language if possible. I only speak Castilian but I've always preferred Catalunya to Cataluña or Catalonia 🤷🏻♂️
@@NonstopEurotrip thanks: it has to be a matter of taste-to me, if a language has an accepted word for another country or place then one should use that, so I would use Catalonia when speaking English, and, romantic that I am, there is to me an allure about ña, which nya does not have, though they indicate the same sound. Keep up your excellent videos.
Well the bus was nice.
Better than the train? 😂
Thank you for a great review ! I always liked the Z2 EMUs, and its a shame they are now showing their age, and attention from the graffiti vandals !
It's just wearing the SNCF livery 😂
Just a suggestion you may totally avoid or “boycott 😂” the toilet footage if it is not clean ... I was in awe of the proceeds from the beginning appreciating the train the historic station green cargo notes until I saw the toilet after that everything that was nagging my mind was the condition of the toilet ... everything else including the scenery faded to background 😁... I didn’t read the full comments below ... kindly bear with me if it has been mentioned by other users already .....
At least I blurred it out 😏😏😏
@@NonstopEurotrip Blurring makes the curiosity more and runs the imagination intense in the opposite tracks😩 😝.... Just imagining how your friend will report this toilet he may start with phrase “I am happy to report that everything is working in order except the person who visited last 🤪”
@@onenanda he definitely would 😅😅😅
@@NonstopEurotrip 😁😁😁
Thanks for this great report but just one remark: it's "Catalonian" in English, not "Catalunyan". The spelling "Catalunya" is... Catalonian, not English.
I'm well aware of this.
Barcelona is not the Catalunyan Capital, it is the Capital of Catalonia
7:05 Someone had a diarrhoea and it shitted so much that the WC couldn't take it away. Thumbs down for SNCF👎👎
Video's final score: 9.4
I was going to say the same 😂
@@hypernewlapse So, I think Catalunyan and Catalunya are 2 brand-new words for the informal English language, Right?
@@NonstopEurotrip Do you refer to the toilet? That's great that the smells don't trepass a mobile phone's screen, but I think it's the worst toilet I've ever seen on my 20 years of life.
P.S: I'm 20 years old since the 15th of April
@@pedrorubiotejero_aka_prt saying the 'Catalunyan Capital' and the 'Capital of Catalonia' mean exactly the same thing
@@pedrorubiotejero_aka_prt did you see the toilet in my Hungarian Bzmot railcar video 😂
Maan I'm pressing the update button since 3 minutes😂😂
😁 did you like it?
@@NonstopEurotrip Yes I did😀
@@tyukorrow excellent 👍🏻
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