SNÄLLTÅGET UNIQUE experience - Germany to Sweden by train
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ส.ค. 2024
- Hej folks,
One of my favorite sleeping train experience lately, the Snälltåget! Maybe not for the rolling stock but for sure for the views the train has to offers...
I hope you'll enjoy as much as I did!
Enjoy :)
- TRIP INFORMATION -
RECORDED IN OCTOBER 2021
Railroad company: Snälltåget
Train type : Traxx / Vectron + UIC-X DB and BC2 SJ
From : Hamburg Hbf to Stockholm Central Station
Time : Around 18 hours (It was not the normal schedule!!)
Price : 2999 SEK (For a private compartiment) 299€ - 348$
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00:00 : Introduction
01:20 : Hamburg Hbf
02:30 : Arrival of the train
03:25 : Boarding
03:33 : Snälltåget
04:35 : Departure from Hamburg : Shot by tgvpix
05:48 : Binnenalster
06:05 : Room tour
08:50 : Waking up in the Funen Island
10:06 : The Great Belt Bridge
11:07 : A chill Danish morning
12:05 : The Øresund bridge
12:52 : Walkthrough of the train
15:24 : Toilets time
16:12 : Arriving in Malmö
16:35 : Malmö
17:26 : A new train to Stockholm
19:49 : Boarding the new train
20:16 : Departure from Malmö
20:44 : Sweden Landscape
21:23 : Train spotter in Sweden
21:56 : Walkthrough
22:48 : Toilets Time 2
23:20 : Krogen (Dining car)
24:24 : Swedish landscape and napping
25:52 : Arriving in Stockholm
26:32 : Conclusion and outro
Merci Thibault! I was the train host between Berlin and Malmö on both your journeys, happy to see you enjoyed the trip :)
Hi, is Malmo station safe at nigth? i am planning to go on the night train toberlin
15 hours, 600 miles, wow, is this 100 years ago?
@@ncard00 you're jealous that russia hasn't got a high speed train in Trans-siberian. 💪 🇺🇦🇺🇳🇪🇺 💪
@@samn2430 Malmö isnt the safest ity so not sure about the station
Germany to Sweden on a sleeper train must be the most fantastic journey ever. And to see such wonderful scenery whilst on a sleeper train.
@Ralph Reilly the scenery between Germany and Sweden is breathtaking
15 hours, 600 miles, wow, is this 100 years ago?
Actually, the BC2 couchettes dates back to the 1940’s and 50’s, but they were heavily rebuilt and refurbished in the 70’s and 80’s. They really are a proof of how long rail equipment may last! Awesome video as always!
And the German Bvcmz 248 cars were rebuilt since 1999 from older couchette cars Bcm 243 that originally were built from 1962. For the time being much of Snälltåget's rolling stock is ancient.
@@uncinarynin Old rolling stock is the best!
In Canada we have old cars from the 40s that have been refurbished for our long distance trains as well as some normal intercity trains. They're going to outlast the trains from the 80s and 2000s and are still now being refurbished! They're great.
Not really. This guy is spewing bologna as if it's true
@@uncinarynin l Okig todag god bless you mama Mery bless all a p
The Word snälltåg is borrowed from the german word schnellzug which menas fast train.
FYI Snäll is also an old Swedish word for fast so “Snälltåget” doesn’t actually mean “Kind train” but rather “The fast train”. From the Wikipedia: “The name is cognate to German Schnellzug, meaning fast train, although using an archaic meaning of snäll (the word means kind/nice in modern Swedish)”
But in this case they refer to it being kind to the wallet so to speak
It’s not very fast tho, so it’s probably meant as a word play/joke.
@@dreammfyre I don't know what your conception of fast is, but 200 km/h is the maximum allowed speed in Sweden, unless the particular train consists of one or more of the old Swedish, Danish and Norwegian coaches, then it's just 160 km/h
Interesting, I always thought it meant fast train because I compared it to German Schnellzug.
Nah. In modern Swedish it means “the kind train”. We don’t say “snabbtåget” which is Swedish for “the fast train”.
We occasionally use “höghastighetståg” (high speed train) to be even more precise. But it’s not such a common word. X2000 is a höghastighetståg.
“Nett” in modern German is kind.
Back 200 years ago the words meant both fast (snabb) and kind. Today it means kind.
Nice trip report :) 20:32 they are expanding the line to four tracks. Instead of just building the second pair next to the first pair, they are completely relaying the tracks with new cuttings and stations. To keep traffic flowing, they have built a temporary double track next to the construction site, limited to 100 kph.
You were very lucky to wake up in sunny Denmark and being able to enjoy the view from the bridges! The train does actually stop in Copenhagen, although at a station called Høje Tåstrup. It is around 12 kilometres from the Central Station, but stopping there saves them the trouble of reversing out of the Central Station towards Sweden. There have been occasions where they did stop at the Central Station, but that was due to engineering works on the bypass line.
You also asked if the Swedish coaches could go through Denmark, the short answer is no, they can't. Danish loading gauge is bigger than the German, but smaller than the Swedish. The X2000, for example, would be too big to go to Germany.
To clarify, Høje Taastrup is not in Copenhagen, but it's close :)
@@MrAskeKaiser I mean yes, but no. It's not part of Copenhagen municipality, but it is part of the greater Copenhagen area
Those swedish passenger wagons was allowed on the old route Stockholm - Helsingborg - Helsingör - Copenhagen, have ride with them many times at that time.
The X2 trainsets are acually built to the smaller european loading gauge - with export orders in mind. One trainset was in fact used for test runs on the Mosell line in Germany - but no orders did matarielaize....
@@tompao7832 They were built for the larger US gauge as well. They tested for the Amtrak Acela service in the 1990’s, but lost the contract to Alstom.
20:43, they are building new tracks so that there are 4 tracks Malmö- Lund, the line is very crowded
I meant 20:23 😅
Indeed. The lines for Gothenburg and Stockholm divide at Lund so Malmö to there is very busy. The whole Stockholm to Gothenburg line (455km) is to be quadrupled as this is extremely busy particularly at the Gothenburg end.
@@christophernoble6810 Some sections of the West Coast Line aren't even double tracked...
@@christophernoble6810 Quadruple tracks for some sections were considered but I think that's been disregarded now in favour of Götalandsbanan
I'll never make fun of trainspotters again...I think this channel is slowly turning me into one!!
You, Thibault, are happy with the trip and we are happy with your great report. One of your best. Great train, great service and a great meal too. Perfect. Thanks Mr. Thibault~~
The food and beverage prices are very very reasonable budget friendly and great with the CO2 marked out. Free water. Clean sheets. The train looks clean to. I can definitely see why snälltåget is popular :) Arriving in Stockholm from the south through Södermalm and Gamla Stan is always stunning.
CO2 marked out for your food and beverages?
@@afcgeo882 Yes. It was on the menu and it’s also on the menu of the snälltågets website.
@@AnnaKaunitz 🤦♂️
@@afcgeo882 Why the 🤦♂️?
@@AnnaKaunitz Because it’s a ridiculous concept that has no purpose. It’s an over-obsession with minutiae, making people think they’re doing all the right things, whole nothing is done on the large scale. It breeds complacency. I work in environmental protection and this is sadly a stupid idea.
Oh my gosh, I love the shots you get from your spotters/fans! And this time we got to see from both your and his perspective. Honestly, I’m sure I had more fun watching than either of you, and not sure why! But thank you!
Great vid, per usual. This unique retro train looks like one to ride. Best wishes on its success.
And that loading gauge difference is amazing and enlightening!
I traveled with one of those from Hamburg to Stockholm via Rødby and Helsingør back in 1980. Awesome to see them still alive and used
yes, i also came this way from Stockholm back to Hamburg .. then took another nighttrain home to Munich
I remember this when I was younger. The train windows for Chicago's elevated system actually opened a small bit. They had metal bars across the bottom to prevent from sticking your hands outside of the railcar. This was back in the 1970's era. They were green in color. You can find pictures online if you're interested. Thanks again for a great video!
Thank you for a splendid video ! I thoroughly enjoyed the whole journey, and will plan to take that train next year.
That looks like so much fun. Also, your spoken comments at the start and finish are an excellent habit.
Hi! I just subscribed to your vlog after stumbling on it the other day. Watching your videos reminds me of all those train rides I used to take when I still travelled extensively in Europe as a choir member many decades ago. How the Hamburg Hauptbahnhof has changed, expanded and modernized. I wouldn't have recognize it at all! Coming from the other side of the world that is just coming into its own re: trains, I'm glad I get to watch your vlogs. Keep up the exciting work of travel and video taping it as well. Thank You for posting them!
What a great video! The train was charming (love the red colour), the scenery was wonderful (bridges!), but best of all is your enthusiasm on your journeys!
What a great journey. I feel your emotion, it's like being there with you! 👍😎
Went on the old route via ferry in the summer of 2017, to Berlin and back from Malmö. One of my best train experiences ever!
I remember travelling on such trains as a child in the 50's to mid 60's from Holland to Hamburg. Thank you for the wonderful memories.
15 hours, 600 miles, wow, is this 100 years ago?
Beautiful trip! Well done....between outside scenary and interior tour...great; well combined. I really love the interiour decor of the dining car, as if you are dining with friends. Awesome.
Thank you Thibault for an awesome report!! Beautiful scenery!!. Excellent sleeping accommodations. We have 'slippery rail' here in the US during autumn which causes delays.
Have a nice day😀😀😀♥️♥️
Always enjoy your reviews!!
Easily one of the best and gorgeous vlogs by you 👌🏼👍🏼👍🏼❤️🙏🏽
Excellent video, wonderful titles, and thank you for bravely hanging out the window! I love train travel and you have piqued my interest in the Scandinavian countries.
Great video - excellent resolutuon. Some ppl say 'retro' - others would say 'dated'. Brings back memories of Interailing around Europe in the 80's . I remember catching a night train from Hambug at 11pm just like you - but mine went south to Munich. Fun times.
A lovely video, and it's great to see you describe the trip at the end!
Awesome video. You do such a great job with everything. Safe travels!
Can also recommend night trains in Norway! From Oslo to Bergen or Trondheim, and especially from Trondheim to Bodø! Slow, but very comfortable. And great scenery.
I’m so envious, overnight rail travel takes me back to my teenage years but I never had the money for a cabin never mind a berth so it was an uncomfortable seat for me, I’ll hopefully be on one next year and this one ticks a lot of boxes, great post
i’ve travelled berlin-malmö twice, the second time was during a hot summer night, and our cart was the only one where you couldn’t open the windows. so it was like 40 degrees celsius inside our cart hahaha. terrible then but a fun memory now. and everything else on the train is great, would still go again.
Not cart, it's CAR or carriage
Really great report, it brings back memories. Jeg used to travel quite a lot between Paris and Copenhagen in my younger days (I had a French girlfriend) and I usually traveled with the old Danish sleeper train from Hamburg to Copenhagen Central station, and I can tell you they were quite outdated even back then! 😊
Merci Thibault, moi je l'ai pris avec l'ancienne ligne, juste fou de les voir manoeuvrer les wagons pour le mettre sur le ferry, expérience folle, juste desagreable en été, vraie fournaise ce train.
What absolutely beautiful scenery! Really enjoyed your video.
This was wonderful to watch. Thank you from central Sweden.
Simply Railway, Simply Good..... Rail travel is always exciting and much more better than other modes of travel.
Keep it up. 😊👍
Knowing how Germans are about aesthetics, I'm surprised they let a locomotive that ugly enter the city limits of Hamburg. I love the old coaches though, and that dining car is further proof that these should be brought back EVERYWHERE. I loved the entry into Stockholm...beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
I was searching for something else on TH-cam but this video came up. Was very interesting to see as this train passes through my area and I don't really hear much about it so it's great to see your experience.
Again, watch from the States I am so envious... thanks Thibault!
A great revue. Thank you!
What an enjoyable video!
I thought the train looked great. Scenery was beautiful.
I'm glad you enjoyed this train! And you're right, it does look awesome! I hope I get to ride on it one day.
I enjoy your videos and your English is very good! Cheers from Buenos Aires!
Thank you for a terrific journey. Very enjoyable.
You've got some awesome video's! I'm using them as an inspiration for my upcoming Interrail trip this summer 😄
Thnx for the clip. This is the trip I'd like to take as well. Last time I was in Hamburg a few years ago, the station was being renovated. Glad to see that it was completed.--Charlie from Thailand.
That was a great trip report! It's on the bucket list... :):):)
Wow its absolutely Awesome bro!
Loved the stockholm too.
💖💖💖💖 I love this old rolling stock when it is properly maintained and taken care of. It has so much more atmosphere than many modern cars. And the restaurant car was amazing. And I think the prices are absolutely ok. This is Sweden, and we know it is not cheap but compared to the mediocre food and drinks menu of many other companies this looked great to me. Thanks again for sharing your experience with us. Happy travels.
Despite the long journey the views are incredible ☺️
Nice video for your trip and also for your vlog. Great job👋👋👋
Love this video!! Hope you make more of them.
Between Malmø and Lund, extending from two tracks to four tracks
Thanks for the fun video!
This train looks incredible!
Your new book arrived in the mail from FNAC to USA in just 6 days... can't wait to read it this weekend!
I really like this type of video. I have been to this train from Gothenburg to Stockholm
Cette voiture-restaurant a un look rétro encore accentué par les luminaires. Bon, la couleur des sièges jure un peu, mais elle est quand même très jolie. Merci pour ce beau voyage.
I am sick at home with the flu watching from my couch I love your videos I'm on about my fifth or 6th video now. Wonderful
Great scenery on this trip. Thanks.
I love your videos! Thanks :)
Thank you very much for such a great video
Thanks so much for another wonderful trip.!!! I would love to tour Scandinavia!!1
Thank you for recommanding these trains I will try ! 👍
Sehr coole Übersicht! Danke!
That train is probably the only train you can enjoy open window over the Great Belt .
I love that they turned the old trashcan into USB-outlets.
Looks like a wonderful trip!!
Fascinating journey very enjoyable.🇬🇧🏴
Hey bro, your vids are awesome and am hooked...
one suggestion thou, you shoot with too much of closeup.. especially when u show train interiors or in the train room. Viewers cant exactly make out what we are seeing...as we dont get the exact perspective ..
Try doing some zoomed out or long shot versions
What an amazing trip. I love the bridge between Denmark and Sweden too. Traveled over it from Copenhagen to Malmo & then up to Stockholm. Agree on the amazing scenery! From your time in the US: open windows on a train is unheard of for us as you know. Also: the Siemens Vectron is what we know as Amtrak ACS 64s?
Gracias por compartir esta maravillosa aventura. Un abrazo desde Asturias, España 🇪🇸
15 hours, 600 miles, wow, is this 100 years ago?
Je le prends ce week-end ! Hâte !
Great video love your channel
Excellent video. There is also the high level bridge at Rendsburg but unfortunately this is traversed at night which is a shame as it is quite a feature.
20:33 Thats just north of my local station Hjärup. They are expanding the line from 2 to 4 tracks and putting it in a trench so currently the trains use 2 temporary tracks.
Danke für dieses Video! Ich fahre demnächst mit diesem Zug nach Köln
Great video. I love that you finally took a trip on “Snälltoget” as I have been waiting for a trip report of this very journey.
Just a little thing, as a danish person, I feel that I should inform you that the proper spelling of “Funen” island in danish is “Fyn” with pressure on the F and Y. Other than that extremely little thing.
Great video 😄👌
Oh yeah and I forgot sorry 😅, Zealand in danish is “Sjælland”
what a lovely trip!
About the platform number: The track to be the same all year around is only something for small stations. In bigger stations there is a new track table after 6 months, but for the biggest stations the tracks are changed all 3 months due to seasonal trains, different times etc. After all maintenance leads to many track changes, especially at night, so always check the app, announcements and displays at the station
I remember fondly the many trips I took as a mid and as a teen on similar night trains
It'll be cool to go over Öresundsbron, as we pronounce it in Swedish :) And it was so lovely to hear my own language when you went to Krogen- dining car :)
So many private companies now. As an ex BR/SWT/SWR employee I get a certain amount of free travel on the railways in Europe but not on the private ones. I used to travel overnight on the seats and shower at the stations in the morning. Lucky enough to used the train ferries from Puttgaden to Rødby & Helsingør to Helsingborg when they were in use.
That beautiful “old school” train would be perfect for me! I really wouldn’t care how long the journey took.
Nein
I took this train this spring and they changed it. Leave Sthlm at 16, wake up outside hotel in Berlin at 9 in the morning. In between we had really good food at the restaurant, hanged out at the bar, and had a preparty in our own cabin. no getoff in Malmö. Unfortunately asleep over the Stora Bält bridge.
Trains used to be famous for their dining cars. Now you feel lucky to get good food on a train!
Olá! Obrigada pelo vídeo! Gostei de ver todas as paisagens! Abraço.
Between Malmö and Lund they are building 4railways
Nice video. Thanks. And thanks for the advertisement: your hat. I live in Kodiak 😁
Great video !!
“Some dude hanging out the window.” Funny!😂
TQ for the video ! Keep it up!
Many thanks. I hope that the wonderful restaurant car is profitable. It doesn’t matter how old the train is as long as it is comfortable and clean. In Bristol we have some new trains on the line to London but they are not as comfortable as the old ones - which were nearly 40 years old.
My own experience on Snälltåget is a mixed one.
I love trains and I love the possibility to go to Berlin by train, since I also work remotely at a company in Berlin but live in Stockholm.
The prices however are a bit on the extreme side, especially compared to flights, and sure, that's not snälltågets fault I guess. I just wish they'd get subsidies from the government or something.
But snälltåget itself... well, on several of my trips, more than half the toilets were out of order.
On my last trip, maybe 6th overall, the conductor saw my folded bike and claimed that I wasn't allowed to bring even folding bikes, even though mine fit nicely in the luggage compartment inside the couchette (we were already moving so there was little he could do at that point).
In couchettes the conductor collected people's passports for the overnight border checks (which is ridiculous considering we're in the EU...), but the same service was NOT offered to people sitting in coach - yet another fail. I did coach once and never again - 19 hours in those seats was a nightmare, even worse than some 14 hour economy flights...
The fact that the dining car gets disconnected in Malmö is disappointing, as it stands you need to stress-eat your dinner before arriving in malmö and there are only some dry "sandwiches" on offer from the conductors stash in the morning when arriving in berlin.
Same goes from departing from berlin, no dinner options on board. I understand the reasoning - probably bringing an extra car costs money and most likely there is a technical issue with the size of the car, but it's annoying nonetheless.
Another big fail for me was the train change in Malmö. On multiple occasions I paid about 50 euros extra to avoid changing trains in Malmö, you heard that right, snälltåget offered 2 ticket types for the berlin-sthlm route, one with a change in Malmö, same exact schedule, but one ticket was 50 eur more, weird right? In the end they still forced everyone to change trains, and later refused to acknowledge that they offered essentially the same ticket for two different prices. So, the lack of competition I think is making them complacent, let's hope that once the Swedish government operated Stockholm-Hamburg line starts operation, Snälltåget might feel the need to up their game too.
Finally, for a "business" traveler or a person who's not just in it for the views, the train schedule is not optimal. Stockholm to Berlin is "OK", departing at around 4pm and arriving in Berlin around 8-9am is fine, you technically can spend some hours working in Stockholm and then enjoy a relaxing evening. While in Berlin you arrive just in time to start your day - whether it's work or leisure.
The return trip however is a pretty raw deal. Departing from Berlin is fine, the departure is pretty late in the day, but you arrive in Stockholm about 14:30 which means you've lost most of the day, for business travelers it's useless and even for tourists or leisure travel it puts a real damper on things as you lose a huge chunk of the day. It would have been better if departure from Berlin was similar to Stockholm so that arrival could be in the early morning.
I guess the length of the trip increased dramatically when the route shifted from the ferry to the Denmark line, which also forced a trip through Denmark, who are the only ones actually checking passports and at one point also covid related stuff. Neither German nor Swedish border police ever went on the train, only the Danes deemed this needed..ridiculous. One guy was thrown off the train in Denmark at 3am because he didn't have the right covid paperwork... not sure if he got to go do a test outside or had to stay behind. Poor bastard.
Anyway, mixed reviews from me, I wish I could say great things, but other than it being a train and thus an amazing way to travel, Snälltåget, while having overall decent couchettes and a nice dining car part of the way, really was a below average experience, especially given some other train experiences I had around europe.
That schnitzel with red wine sauce you had on the train looked quite tasty!
What a great trip. Passing two iconic bridge in Denmark is something unforgettable. That font looks iconic, and also the name of Locomotive called Loket is funny, FYI Loket in my country mean Booth /Ticket Booth.
Here it means "The Locomotive"
I took the night train from Berlin to Copenhagen 10 yrs ago on the old route. It was so noisy and hot on the fairy it was impossible to sleep. But it was still a pretty cool way to get from Germany to Malmo.
FYI... When taking a night train ALWAYS pay extra to get a private cabin. You wont regret it. Otherwise you'll inevitably end up sharing a cabin with someone who snores or has kids.
I solved that issue by making sure to bring earplugs whenever I go on night trains, its a real game changer.
Great video ! @ 11:54, we can see a very strange 3-colors signal hanging from a catenary post, which is very uncommon, as far as I see and know about railways. Usually, signals have their own mast, without any other purpose…
"Snälltåget" I think is a free Ubersetzung von deutsche Schnell-Zug...
I always see the Snälltåget every time I am waiting for my train home from school. I even take videos and pictures of it and wondering why are there lamps on the table?. Now I know it is a dining area part of the train. Im living in Sweden and have not experience Snälltåget: I always take the purple train which goes around the entire province. Just like you Im always in love with cinematic view of the trains in Sweden. Nice video!!!