I didn't know Kustpilen still exists! I rode this train across the Helsingør - Helsingborg ferry between Denmark and Sweden before the Öresund connection opened.
This brings back memories. These trains used to run in Skåne and Blekinge when I grew up and I took them quite often. I was quite surprised to stumble upon them when I went to Tel Aviv a few years ago.
I rode in an IC3 train from Hamburg to Lubeck, which was en route to Copenhagen. I wish that I could have taken a few of these sets home with me to the US!
I was traveling on this one last month from Linköping to Kalmar. Boy, did I enjoy this trip regardless of the tracks condition and the trains' overall age. Such a classic from Denmark 👌🇩🇰❤️
Late to the party, but the closing of the line to Oskarshamn is due to that part of the railway being a ”bottleneck” - Old and weak railway parts here combined with a lot of cargo trains passing (Oskarshamn serves as an important harbour with ferries to Gotland, Swedens biggest island) lead to difficulties having Krösatågen (who also deals with a lot of difficulties themselves) operate on this line. Hopefully the railway gets a well deserved makeover soon!
My maternal great grandfather was born in Kalmar. I notice that on double track sections, Swedish trains run on the left, same as in France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, and of course Britain. I assume this is a relic of the pre-1972 period when everything in Sweden drove on the left including road vehicles. The French assessed the cost of converting trains in Alsace-Lorraine to run on the left, instead of the right, to conform with the rest of France, but they found the cost would be ENORMOUS. (Trains in Alsace-Lorraine run on the right because that region was a long time governed by Germany). They left it as is.
It was the trains that brought left-hand traffic to Sweden in the late 19th century, when British engineers where involved in some of Swedens first railways. When the car arrived the left-hand traffic was adopted for the roads. There was little of no point in switching to righg hand train traffic when road traffic was switched since cars don't drive on the tracks and trains don't run on roads ;-) so wasted money. With the Øresund bridge trains started running across the border of Denmark and Sweden so trains must Switch sides somewhere since Denmark has right hand traffic on railroads. Nowadays this Switch is made at a permanent installation north-east of Malmö (in Arlöv, coordinates 55.6291712, 13.0604924) where north bound tracks go in a tunnel under the south bound trains. Switching sides there makes the area around Malmö use right hand traffic for trains, just as in Denmark. So maybe Scania is slowly becoming Danish again.. 😅
I rode that Kustpilen train through Blekinge and Skåne a lot during my childhood at the 1990s and remember it well, not least the musical singing diesel engines just like them in the Kustpilen train that ran in Kalmar and Östergötland countries. 🚞🔊🎼🎶🇸🇪🇩🇰❤😁
I took one between Hamburg and Copenhagen in 1998. The leg between Puttgarden (D) to Rödby (DK) was on board a Scandinavian Sealines ferry. After arriving in Rödbyhavn, the train left the ferry and continued onwards to Copenhagen. I remember it to be a very comfortable trip.
I had heard of these in Israel but was told that cars would be uncoupled at speed at various destinations - so single cars could continue on elsewhere…
Interesting, I rode this exact train yesterday. Seat reservations are available if you book your ticket trough the SJ website should you need one. I've found them not to be needed as the train doesn't always get super full.
I've been to Linköping several times. I remember waiting for the wrong train at Linköping C last Easter Monday. I noticed the conductor mentioned the five-digit train number, I wonder why this was.. Interesting that you mention the average speed, because the maximum line speed on that line is only 70 km/h because of wooden sleepers. I think the discontinuation of Kustpilen service to Oskarshamn was simply down to ridership. Oskarshamn used to see services from both Linklöping/Kalmar and Jönköping, I suppose the real ridership ended up making ammount of service unfeasible, so they cut it instead of making it a PSO.
I was planning to take the same train back in the spring interrailing (looks like we took the same route from Haparanda to Copenhagen but heading north for me!) Unfortunately it ended up being a rail replacement bus for me (still very comfy though), but a very scenic journey!
Yeah Ive heared that the line had a lot of Replacment busses recently, seems like I got lucky with my timing. I went Haparanda - Luelå - Stockholm - Linköping - Kalmar - Alvesta - Copenhagen with Norrtåg - Vy Nattåg - Snalltåget - Krösatåg - SJ and Øresundståg
Spanish trains in the snow? Recipe for more delays. Very sad Sweden government allowed the sell and close of Kalmar Verkstäder which made terrific trains that worked in the artic.
@@Simon-Andersen from the outside they look similiar but the main difference is the color(white with some boue and red stripes and a NMBS logo and 1 sliding door instead of the doors wich the ic3 sets have)
This is not the streamlined Kustpilen which is unfortunate as you could hear the gearbox working it's "magic" on the streamlined Kustpilen trains. I'm not sure what they were called because they haven't been running for a number of years.
Kommer DSB så til at købe de IC3 tog som Sverige har udfaset og laver dem om til danske IC3 tog, lige som man gjorde med MF 5096?🤔For det vil hjælpe lidt på DSB materialisation😇: ) Hilsen Søren Pedersen
Ther is a other ic3 in Sweden but they ar better and it is Called x31 or øresundståg de ar electric and it is Skåne trafiken that operates dem de ar very nice
"Some of the last IC3's" yeah, although, Skånetrafiken still runs øresundståg as IC3's between Denmark and Sweden and makes up a lot of the regional traffic there
While you may be pardoned for using your danish habits on swedish place names, there's one where you've gone too far. Which one is it? 11:05 Tip: The emphasis can't really be on the second syllable, given that -sta probably is a short form of stad. (In the Alvesta article in the english WP you can read and hear it.)
It's often the case that foreign names are difficult to pronounce, so I'd let that go. Just as "Jöster-göttland" (at 1:40). Pronouncing the c in "city" as sh, though? Making for the epic "shitty of Linköping" (0:25).
If using American English you would say Track 5, if using British English the correct way to describe where you are leaving from in this regard would be platform 5.
This is the first time I have watched your channel. I love Sweden and its good public transport, but this video was disappointing. I expected you to emphasize the fact that at both Linkoping and Kalmar the train station is alongside a large bus station, so making interconnection VERY easy, especially for anyone heading to Oland via Kalmar, I felt sure you would show us Kalmar castle - impressive, and important to Scandinavian history. Worse still these 'rubber nose' trains are not 'unique' to Krosatog. Danish railways still have a large number of diesel IC3s. More importantly the Oresund trains from Copenhagen to southern Sweden are worked entirely by electric X31 'rubber noses'. There are also a large number of electric 'rubber noses' in Belgium.
Think you'll be disappointed in my channel in general. I mostly stick to the actual train travel expirence. It's a conscious choise by me to stick with mostly to the actual train travel expirence and not bother with a citytour of Kalmar in my videos. You'll find other channels that do that way better. Never claimed these to be unique Krosatog, quite the opposite in the first 10 seconds of the video actually. It's a unquie design only used on a fairly small subset of trains build around the same time. It's hardly like the gangway design you see in the UK or Japan that's being produced to this day
Love that DSB announcement chime
Krösa is Smålandish för lingonberry, future trains will be lingon-red. Would love a review of those new trains when they arrive.
Ah that's quite clever naming and livery then! I hope to return once they enter service :D
So the train i was riding today was called the lingon-red train?! 💀💀💀💀💀💀
@@sandrad81 Stämmer.
@@sandrad81 More like lingonberry train.
I didn't know Kustpilen still exists! I rode this train across the Helsingør - Helsingborg ferry between Denmark and Sweden before the Öresund connection opened.
This brings back memories. These trains used to run in Skåne and Blekinge when I grew up and I took them quite often. I was quite surprised to stumble upon them when I went to Tel Aviv a few years ago.
He’s got a video on that if you didn’t know 😊
I rode in an IC3 train from Hamburg to Lubeck, which was en route to Copenhagen. I wish that I could have taken a few of these sets home with me to the US!
You almost could. The US and Canada had them on tests back in the 1990s th-cam.com/video/9qqAzayOVo4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=apkSqoOQbeKMwdbS
Nice to see you in Sweden again Simon. A very good film as usual 😎🚂
Thanks for taking us along. And I am interested to see video coverage of the new CAF trains
I was traveling on this one last month from Linköping to Kalmar. Boy, did I enjoy this trip regardless of the tracks condition and the trains' overall age. Such a classic from Denmark 👌🇩🇰❤️
It really is a fun charming little rail line!
Been wondering about these trains since I was a kid but never wondered enough to actually do some research. This cleared things up :)
Elsker dit content Bliv ved med det😍
Tak Marcus
Late to the party, but the closing of the line to Oskarshamn is due to that part of the railway being a ”bottleneck” - Old and weak railway parts here combined with a lot of cargo trains passing (Oskarshamn serves as an important harbour with ferries to Gotland, Swedens biggest island) lead to difficulties having Krösatågen (who also deals with a lot of difficulties themselves) operate on this line. Hopefully the railway gets a well deserved makeover soon!
My maternal great grandfather was born in Kalmar.
I notice that on double track sections, Swedish trains run on the left, same as in France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, and of course Britain. I assume this is a relic of the pre-1972 period when everything in Sweden drove on the left including road vehicles. The French assessed the cost of converting trains in Alsace-Lorraine to run on the left, instead of the right, to conform with the rest of France, but they found the cost would be ENORMOUS. (Trains in Alsace-Lorraine run on the right because that region was a long time governed by Germany). They left it as is.
Indeed! They run on the left and didn't switch when the roads did
1967 was the year Sweden switched from left to right hand driving.
It was the trains that brought left-hand traffic to Sweden in the late 19th century, when British engineers where involved in some of Swedens first railways. When the car arrived the left-hand traffic was adopted for the roads. There was little of no point in switching to righg hand train traffic when road traffic was switched since cars don't drive on the tracks and trains don't run on roads ;-) so wasted money. With the Øresund bridge trains started running across the border of Denmark and Sweden so trains must Switch sides somewhere since Denmark has right hand traffic on railroads. Nowadays this Switch is made at a permanent installation north-east of Malmö (in Arlöv, coordinates 55.6291712, 13.0604924) where north bound tracks go in a tunnel under the south bound trains. Switching sides there makes the area around Malmö use right hand traffic for trains, just as in Denmark.
So maybe Scania is slowly becoming Danish again.. 😅
Driving these trains daily, it was really nice to find your video 😊 Maybe I was the driver here 😃 Glad you liked the trip. Hope to see you again 👋🏻🇸🇪🚅
Thanks for watching! If you weren't driving maybe you were on one of the trains we passed :-)
I rode that Kustpilen train through Blekinge and Skåne a lot during my childhood at the 1990s and remember it well, not least the musical singing diesel engines just like them in the Kustpilen train that ran in Kalmar and Östergötland countries. 🚞🔊🎼🎶🇸🇪🇩🇰❤😁
I took one between Hamburg and Copenhagen in 1998. The leg between Puttgarden (D) to Rödby (DK) was on board a Scandinavian Sealines ferry. After arriving in Rödbyhavn, the train left the ferry and continued onwards to Copenhagen. I remember it to be a very comfortable trip.
Yes, the ferry continued in operation with the trains onboard til 2019! Now all the trains run via Jutland instead
Please do a review on Iryo.
It's coming in a few weeks :-)
Fantastic video. Tak
Man id love to see on the new trains cuz they look fast and epik
I had heard of these in Israel but was told that cars would be uncoupled at speed at various destinations - so single cars could continue on elsewhere…
Now you just need to cover the IC2 and then you will have covered the whole family!
Not far off, there is also some in Belgium and punctured ones in Spain :)
Rural country side of every country is beautiful.
dope little trip
We have EMUs with the same exact rubber front in Belgium, they are called AM96.
Interesting, I rode this exact train yesterday. Seat reservations are available if you book your ticket trough the SJ website should you need one. I've found them not to be needed as the train doesn't always get super full.
Yeah I can't imagine them being full very often.
I've been to Linköping several times. I remember waiting for the wrong train at Linköping C last Easter Monday.
I noticed the conductor mentioned the five-digit train number, I wonder why this was.. Interesting that you mention the average speed, because the maximum line speed on that line is only 70 km/h because of wooden sleepers. I think the discontinuation of Kustpilen service to Oskarshamn was simply down to ridership. Oskarshamn used to see services from both Linklöping/Kalmar and Jönköping, I suppose the real ridership ended up making ammount of service unfeasible, so they cut it instead of making it a PSO.
I was planning to take the same train back in the spring interrailing (looks like we took the same route from Haparanda to Copenhagen but heading north for me!) Unfortunately it ended up being a rail replacement bus for me (still very comfy though), but a very scenic journey!
Yeah Ive heared that the line had a lot of Replacment busses recently, seems like I got lucky with my timing. I went Haparanda - Luelå - Stockholm - Linköping - Kalmar - Alvesta - Copenhagen with Norrtåg - Vy Nattåg - Snalltåget - Krösatåg - SJ and Øresundståg
@@Simon-AndersenIt habe always been that way
Spanish trains in the snow? Recipe for more delays. Very sad Sweden government allowed the sell and close of Kalmar Verkstäder which made terrific trains that worked in the artic.
@Simon Andersen in Belgium you can see the MS96 trainsets wich are derived from the IC3 sets
Planning on making a video on them at some point :-)
@@Simon-Andersen from the outside they look similiar but the main difference is the color(white with some boue and red stripes and a NMBS logo and 1 sliding door instead of the doors wich the ic3 sets have)
i watched from the start to the end, amazing vid! try polish regional railways such as Koleje Wielkopolskie!
I love Poland! Definitely coming back and doing more videos at some point
@@Simon-Andersen K Thanks!!
This is not the streamlined Kustpilen which is unfortunate as you could hear the gearbox working it's "magic" on the streamlined Kustpilen trains. I'm not sure what they were called because they haven't been running for a number of years.
Fin Video med de Svenske IC3! :)
Mange tak
@@Simon-Andersen selv tak :)
The interior looks better than DSB ic3~~~
Its basically the same
Its a radio on wheels(drivers compartment).
Kommer DSB så til at købe de IC3 tog som Sverige har udfaset og laver dem om til danske IC3 tog, lige som man gjorde med MF 5096?🤔For det vil hjælpe lidt på DSB materialisation😇: ) Hilsen Søren Pedersen
Det tror jeg ikke der er nogen officiel beslutning om endnu, men det er ikke helt utænkeligt
Vi vil se en ny rejserapport med de nye togene fra CAF.
Så snart de begynder i drift :-)
These trains do look really strange. I wonder who made these trains with rubber insulation around the front and rear cab.
But.. it's mentioned in the video?!!
There are no seat reservations on kustpilen as far as I know
It seems like there is when you book with SJ
@@Simon-Andersen that was more than I knew, I know they changed their system a bit tho
Some of these units were sent to the US too
Yes indeed! And Canada
Spain has same but i think make service on Cantabria, asturias and galicia
Yup but unfortunately they have had their rubber covered up by a new front
@@Simon-Andersen Yes, you re'right
Ther is a other ic3 in Sweden but they ar better and it is Called x31 or øresundståg de ar electric and it is Skåne trafiken that operates dem de ar very nice
Elefantarslet 😂
Can you do Gävle train even tho i live in Stockholm
All of the sj ticket machine is not in service anymore or a small amount is in service as of november 2023
Ah yeah SJ is going full digital
When was this filmed?
April 2023
Looks like a tardigrade 😅
Are most Swedish trains electric now?
Mostly yes, but still a few secondary lines like this with diesel power left.
You are lucky that the service did not get replaced by bus idk howit is now but like minor rail and every train is cancelled that day
No issues on that line as far as I'm aware at the moment
@@Simon-Andersen ok but usally it is
0:11 There is also another version of this rubber train in Sweden. But it’s *sort of* in the family of the regina trains.
Yes Øresundståg, that's another one :-)
"Some of the last IC3's" yeah, although, Skånetrafiken still runs øresundståg as IC3's between Denmark and Sweden and makes up a lot of the regional traffic there
No they dont. Skånetrafikken has X31K which has a similar front design but otherwise is very much not an IC3.
@@Simon-Andersen You're right, they're running ET/X31K as you said, which look similar but aren't the same, especially since IC3 (Y2) isn't electric
Sweden sold some of their Y2 to Israel
I wanna touch the rubber and see if it's squishy...
While you may be pardoned for using your danish habits on swedish place names, there's one where you've gone too far. Which one is it? 11:05 Tip: The emphasis can't really be on the second syllable, given that -sta probably is a short form of stad. (In the Alvesta article in the english WP you can read and hear it.)
It's often the case that foreign names are difficult to pronounce, so I'd let that go. Just as "Jöster-göttland" (at 1:40).
Pronouncing the c in "city" as sh, though? Making for the epic "shitty of Linköping" (0:25).
Do the train drivers and conductors wear rubber gimp suits?
I think they should 😂
0:26 you should really practice the pronounciation of the word city. =D
😂
My man knew what he was doing
Hey, I'm suuure the -sh in Swedish just “accidentally” ran into the s sound in city. 😂
Gumminase
Indeed
Why do you say platform no. 5 when it's actually is track no. 5?
If using American English you would say Track 5, if using British English the correct way to describe where you are leaving from in this regard would be platform 5.
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This is the first time I have watched your channel. I love Sweden and its good public transport, but this video was disappointing. I expected you to emphasize the fact that at both Linkoping and Kalmar the train station is alongside a large bus station, so making interconnection VERY easy, especially for anyone heading to Oland via Kalmar, I felt sure you would show us Kalmar castle - impressive, and important to Scandinavian history. Worse still these 'rubber nose' trains are not 'unique' to Krosatog. Danish railways still have a large number of diesel IC3s. More importantly the Oresund trains from Copenhagen to southern Sweden are worked entirely by electric X31 'rubber noses'. There are also a large number of electric 'rubber noses' in Belgium.
Slappna av kompis, han är en dansk traintuber och behöver inte nämna varje detalj om jävla Kalmar. Ni aspisar behöver lugna ner er lite.
Think you'll be disappointed in my channel in general. I mostly stick to the actual train travel expirence. It's a conscious choise by me to stick with mostly to the actual train travel expirence and not bother with a citytour of Kalmar in my videos. You'll find other channels that do that way better.
Never claimed these to be unique Krosatog, quite the opposite in the first 10 seconds of the video actually. It's a unquie design only used on a fairly small subset of trains build around the same time. It's hardly like the gangway design you see in the UK or Japan that's being produced to this day
i love these train i travel on them 2 times a month to my girlfriend