Thank you so much for taking us with you across the world by train. It is a journey I have wanted to do for decades, but now I feel I am partially satisfied from watching your amazing series which has been so professionally done. No nasty pop music and no commentary save for that which you trped in for us. Wonderful. Thank you.
USA here. What a wonderful trip! Just found your channel and watched the entire series. Russia is beautiful, fascinating and vast. Much love and respects from one railway fan to another. Would love to take this trip just as you laid it out...someday. Thank you, Doc!
if you are going to Russia, it is better not to use the services of American tour operators. American companies take a lot of money from their citizens, you will greatly overpay. an American company bought an old ship in Russia, a rusty trough, and charges American citizens $ 7,000 for a trip on this ship. in Russia, you can buy a ticket for a higher-class ship for $ 500 - $ 2000.
I enjoyed watching the 10 videos. They really capture the mood aboard the trains. I appreciated the lack of oral comments: I found the captions informative enough. A very enjoyable viewing. Thank you.
I have really enjoyed this series and always eagerly awaiting each episode....Sad that this is the last one, but what a journey from Vladivostok :) :) :)
Superb series. Gave the feeliong of travelling with you across the railway from Vladivostok to Helsingki. A different kind of travel video with elaborate details. Salute.
It has been a fantastic 10 episodes watched in the last one week. Travelling in the TSRWY has been one of my childhood dreams after reading about them in the erstwhile USSR publications in late 60 and 70s in my school / college days. Though I could not really able to travel in it so far, your fabulous videos has given me the feeling of having travelled in the TRSBRway . Hope I will be able to travel soon at least in some sections . Thanks again for your wonderful effort in making it so real. God bless!!
Epic journey! Love your videos so much! This is the most fascinating train travel series on TH-cam! Can’t wait to see the final part of the Karlsruhe-Almaty series:)
The entire series was lovely, enjoyable and exhilarating. Have eagerly waited for release of next episode, and at times have felt bad that the next episode would be coming after a month. But all in all it was wonderful. But I wouldn't hesitate to add that the initial episodes of the train passing through some spectacular snow clad plains and meadows were more enjoyable than the later episodes which lacked that charm. But yes, thanks Doc for bringing us an experience of a life time. Keep safe and keep entertaining others with your lovely videos. Thanks again.
Hello my dear friend ! I just wanna thank you for this amazing journey “ I did “ with your videos. Absolutlely beautifull and instructive. Wish you all the best Respectfully Nick
By far the best vlog of transcontinental train journey : informative without being intrusive, witty at times (Sarah Palin reference), great videography to make you want to visit Siberia or at least travel through there (Lake Baikal). Russian Tourism should thank you. 🙏🏼 from India.
I have watched all ten episodes in a day. What a monumental effort you have put in creating this wonderful series. I really hope I would travel the entire section of Trans Siberian, from Saint Petersburg to Vladivostok, some day.
Thank you for the series, it was most enjoyable and brought back many memories. There are a number of reasons why the Lev Tolstoy is relatively empty. The Allegro from St Petersburg to Helsinki is so convenient that few people would consider taking the Tolstoy, which leaves the Tolstoy only catering for those travelling from Moscow. The number of people crossing from Russia is dependent on the state of the Russian economy and the ruble-euro exchange rate, and this has not been favourable for Russians in recent years. Sanctions and counter-sanctions have added an extra complication. As an indication of the volume of cross-border flows, the closing of the Russia-Finland border because of the coronavirus pandemic is costing the Finnish border area of South Karelia approx. EUR 1 million per day, which is a lot for a place with so few people. (Most border crossings are by road not rail.) As regards the food in Finnish restaurant cars, there is a satirical song by Ismo Leikola poking fun at the Pendolino trains used on many Finnish routes that points out that in the Finnish restaurant cars everything is cooked in the microwave except the beer. If you want to eat in a Finnish restaurant car I recommend the meatballs. Thanks once again and happy travels.
I wanna thank you enormously for sharing this magnificent rail journey with us. What a journey! I've enjoyed it very much from episode 1 till 10 and your comments with subtitles were awesome. I've seen a lot of Russia through the windows of all the cars you've traveled in.
Excellent , i watched the entire journey during lockdown & now again after the lockdown, will watch it again, i feel it so realistic, even if its an e-journey.Thanx a lot for uploading & God bless :from Mumbai, India.
Traveling by railway is so charming. I've done it a lot, years back, from Denmark to Austria and Italy. Never had the pleasure of Russian railways, hopefully some day.
Thank you Doc. I enjoyed the series tracking the route on Google Maps. You have captured very well the beauty of the landscapes and the vastness of the Steppe. Interesting details of the amenities and food. Very useful for me when I do this trip.......sometime in the future. Appreciate your effort to put together this montage of the greatest train journey on planet Earth !
Amazing journey indeed. I was waiting for you to update and here it comes finally. Apart from your stable videos what I really loved is the level of details you have mentioned in the form of captions. Thanks for sharing your great journey all the way from Vladivostok to Helsinki. great work indeed !
Being a ex-Railway official I thoroughly enjoyed all 10 parts of your journey. Please accept high "Appreciation" on this tiresome and on putting lots of physical and mental efforts in filming these videos. Only very few can have this opportunity and you are one of that lucky person. Great job
A very good series of videos indeed. Doc7austin is very well informed about Finnish railways, including Finnish place names and names of tracks. I also liked the video of the Nightjet Wien - Paris.
Unfortunately this is the last episode....End of this beautifull journey....I watched it all from the begening.Top class!Thank you again!May be will there be another journey?The music,the explanations,the scenery every thing was just great.
maybe you can make the trip yourself. then you will not regret that this trip is the last, it is better to see everything with your own eyes than on a computer screen.
Good insight into what a trip by rail across Russia entails. I live in Texas. I have not traveled by train. The US has very poor passenger train service. I read a book, about 1960, about an escape, by a political prisoner from Siberia on the Trans Siberian railway. He strapped himself to the underside of a train car. This series gives a sense of the vastness of Russia. I can't imagine how much work it is to maintain the rail lines. Thanks.
Thank you for such an enthralling journey across Russia. The country is vast, wild, and in places, wickedly cold. I really enjoyed it. Can't wait to find out what new adventure you will be taking us on... once this virus is gone.
I absolutely enjoyed your series of videos. I hope that you have another project forthcoming in the near future. You did an amazing job putting this project together. I, also was sad to see the last episode. I do hope that there will be more projects ahead. Again, Great Job!!!
Que hermoso!!! Solo felicitaciones y agradecimiento por tan espectacular viaje en tren desde Vladivostok hasta Helsinki (aunque hasta Moscú es Mágico) la verdad no quería que terminará esta serie y el final es casi agridulce,,, siento hasta melancolía con el fin de este viaje tan bello y por país majestuoso hermoso como es Rusia ❤️🇷🇺. Debo decir que la intro del primer video no entusiasmo pero luego del 3 minuto no puede abandonar la serie viendo tanta maravilla de un país tan lejano al mío y de ver a través de las vías como Vladivostok se hacía más lejano... Que gran trabajo 👏🏻👏🏻 Saludos desde Chile 🇨🇱
I enjoy these wonderful train videos of Russia and other European countries you visit. However, I love the intro music to your videos. Greetings from New York City...
Thank you so much for your videos. Not being able to travel has been rough, and the train videos are great! So well done and have so much detail about the trip and the trains. Watching these has been keeping me sane!
I've enjoyed on this train ride with you, but wish we could see more of Finland. 😊👍🇫🇮 Anyhow great journey 🚂🚉 Hope to see more from you after Covid(let's hope it'll be an 'after Covid' 😔 Many regards from Croatia🇭🇷
At 2:51 he's about to cross the famous Anichkov "Horse-Tamers" bridge, mentioned in Ayn Rand's "We the Living" (1936). I never crossed it myself, but did go under it on a boat tour in 2012.
I really enjoy the shots from the rear of the train. I travelled on the Trans Mongolian last year, and I was chased by the provodnitsa on the last carriage every time I passed her cabin.
28:35 The reason of being so early is because some of the Tolstoy trains carry a car-carrier behind, and it would be detatched between Tikkurila and Pasila stations. This train didn't have that, so it arrived Pasila early.
I watched all the parts fully. Very well taken. It would have been better if narration in English voice was there. Expecting more like this. Love from 🇮🇳
What a great journey! How sad, that due to the current global Covid paranoia, train travel, much like air and sea is probably very much curtailed. So many affected people, so many jobs......I hope you will stay well and can get back to what you love just as soon as possible!! Cheers!
The pole in 15:30 is not "official border marker". It seems to be something the Russian border guards have erected in their office yard as a symbol of some sort. One can see from the style of building (loose a/c cables from the windows etc) the structures are all Russian-built and likely not "customs buildings" at all.. The real border markers are _always_ coming in pairs -- you can see them in another video, going the other way. th-cam.com/video/kV1ktNNm6ME/w-d-xo.html Border marks are official features and marked on the maps -- and the only one so designated is on the other side of the train, and would be visible for people on the other side of your train only!
Both points incorrect, I'm afraid: Vyborg's historical affiliations Sweden 1293-1710 Tsardom of Russia 1710-1721 Russian Empire 1721-1812 Grand Duchy of Finland 1812-1917 Finland 1917-1918 Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic 1918 (marginally true) Finland 1918-1940 Soviet Union 1940-1941 Finland 1941-1944 Soviet Union 1944-1991 Russia 1991-present
Very interesting journey. I followed you from vlodivostak. Your descriptions of places you passed through made your post entertaining.. But I missed your episode 6 and 7. Is there any way I can view it? Thank you very much. ❤
very well done, doc! so glad you didnt make a seven day selfie out of this. your comments in english are very helpful and clear, even though i suspect that english is not your mother tounge. pozdravly-yoo!
Thanks for the nice movies, I saw the complete Trans Siberian and the Heilbronn Kazakhstan journey. Wonderful trips! Also thus Ukrainian and Poland - Germany rides. Do you live in Germany?
What a ride. From time to time you rest in hotels along the voyage. It was better so intead of traveling seven days long in the train.
I see your all train journey to all 10 parts thanks 😍😍😍😍
Thank you so much for taking us with you across the world by train. It is a journey I have wanted to do for decades, but now I feel I am partially satisfied from watching your amazing series which has been so professionally done. No nasty pop music and no commentary save for that which you trped in for us. Wonderful. Thank you.
Absolutely fantastic video series ❤🚅👏
USA here. What a wonderful trip! Just found your channel and watched the entire series. Russia is beautiful, fascinating and vast. Much love and respects from one railway fan to another. Would love to take this trip just as you laid it out...someday. Thank you, Doc!
if you are going to Russia, it is better not to use the services of American tour operators. American companies take a lot of money from their citizens, you will greatly overpay. an American company bought an old ship in Russia, a rusty trough, and charges American citizens $ 7,000 for a trip on this ship. in Russia, you can buy a ticket for a higher-class ship for $ 500 - $ 2000.
The most well-informed documentary, carefully made. Most enjoyable train journey series.
Thank you. Fantastic series. Enjoyed it.
I enjoyed watching the 10 videos. They really capture the mood aboard the trains. I appreciated the lack of oral comments: I found the captions informative enough. A very enjoyable viewing. Thank you.
Great video! I liked all the information you provided along the way.
Thank you for this amazing journey 🙏
Thoroughly enjoyed this series! 2 more travel ideas have been inspired....
Super 👍 👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Супер и спасибо!
I have really enjoyed this series and always eagerly awaiting each episode....Sad that this is the last one, but what a journey from Vladivostok :) :) :)
Just loved this . I always planned to do this but never happened but this was a great experience especially in the winter
Mindblowing journey man 👌👌👌👌👌👌
Yep Bro ...........
What a Journey !
Done with Finnish Precision
&
Russian Charm
a VERY BIG
Kiitos paljon
and
seuraavaan kertaan
This is s great journey wonderfully captured & recorded. Kudos to the creator 👏
Great job.Thanks for sharing , enjoyed your travels on my comfy chair ;-)
Magnificent and satisfying piece of work. You have taken all of us on a journey we didn't realize we wanted to take!
Hello! Wonderful! I have enjoyed every train you took, thanks so much! My soul is so happy!!! Thanks!
A truly wonderful & memorable trip -- many thanks!
Superb series. Gave the feeliong of travelling with you across the railway from Vladivostok to Helsingki. A different kind of travel video with elaborate details. Salute.
I really like your travel vlogs, very well filmed and equipped with unobtrusive but accurate information. Keep on!
It has been a fantastic 10 episodes watched in the last one week. Travelling in the TSRWY has been one of my childhood dreams after reading about them in the erstwhile USSR publications in late 60 and 70s in my school / college days. Though I could not really able to travel in it so far, your fabulous videos has given me the feeling of having travelled in the TRSBRway . Hope I will be able to travel soon at least in some sections . Thanks again for your wonderful effort in making it so real. God bless!!
Thanks for taking us along for the ride!
Epic journey! Love your videos so much! This is the most fascinating train travel series on TH-cam! Can’t wait to see the final part of the Karlsruhe-Almaty series:)
The entire series was lovely, enjoyable and exhilarating. Have eagerly waited for release of next episode, and at times have felt bad that the next episode would be coming after a month. But all in all it was wonderful. But I wouldn't hesitate to add that the initial episodes of the train passing through some spectacular snow clad plains and meadows were more enjoyable than the later episodes which lacked that charm. But yes, thanks Doc for bringing us an experience of a life time. Keep safe and keep entertaining others with your lovely videos. Thanks again.
Hello my dear friend !
I just wanna thank you for this amazing journey “ I did “ with your videos. Absolutlely beautifull and instructive.
Wish you all the best
Respectfully
Nick
By far the best vlog of transcontinental train journey : informative without being intrusive, witty at times (Sarah Palin reference), great videography to make you want to visit Siberia or at least travel through there (Lake Baikal). Russian Tourism should thank you. 🙏🏼 from India.
I have watched all ten episodes in a day. What a monumental effort you have put in creating this wonderful series. I really hope I would travel the entire section of Trans Siberian, from Saint Petersburg to Vladivostok, some day.
Thank you for the series, it was most enjoyable and brought back many memories. There are a number of reasons why the Lev Tolstoy is relatively empty. The Allegro from St Petersburg to Helsinki is so convenient that few people would consider taking the Tolstoy, which leaves the Tolstoy only catering for those travelling from Moscow. The number of people crossing from Russia is dependent on the state of the Russian economy and the ruble-euro exchange rate, and this has not been favourable for Russians in recent years. Sanctions and counter-sanctions have added an extra complication. As an indication of the volume of cross-border flows, the closing of the Russia-Finland border because of the coronavirus pandemic is costing the Finnish border area of South Karelia approx. EUR 1 million per day, which is a lot for a place with so few people. (Most border crossings are by road not rail.)
As regards the food in Finnish restaurant cars, there is a satirical song by Ismo Leikola poking fun at the Pendolino trains used on many Finnish routes that points out that in the Finnish restaurant cars everything is cooked in the microwave except the beer. If you want to eat in a Finnish restaurant car I recommend the meatballs.
Thanks once again and happy travels.
I wanna thank you enormously for sharing this magnificent rail journey with us. What a journey! I've enjoyed it very much from episode 1 till 10 and your comments with subtitles were awesome. I've seen a lot of Russia through the windows of all the cars you've traveled in.
All 10 videos are an excellent work. Thank you so much!
Everything goes excellent: picture, sound, tempo, comments. Thanks to author!
An epic series with details rarely explained by others. The efforts are grand. Hopefully one day i get to experience the trip in person. Thanks
it is a long time ago - i made that trip in 2018
What a journey, half of the world by train!!
Thank you. I've seen the entire series. I enjoy it. This is the trip I will never make myself. It is quite educational and well recorded/edited.
Excellent , i watched the entire journey during lockdown & now again after the lockdown, will watch it again, i feel it so realistic, even if its an e-journey.Thanx a lot for uploading & God bless :from Mumbai, India.
What a great series. It has been a pleasure to be along for the ride. Congratulations.
Traveling by railway is so charming. I've done it a lot, years back, from Denmark to Austria and Italy. Never had the pleasure of Russian railways, hopefully some day.
...A Masterwork!... Thank you very much!... I watched all ten parts!... I will watch the other videos you have!...
Thank you Doc. I enjoyed the series tracking the route on Google Maps. You have captured very well the beauty of the landscapes and the vastness of the Steppe. Interesting details of the amenities and food. Very useful for me when I do this trip.......sometime in the future. Appreciate your effort to put together this montage of the greatest train journey on planet Earth !
Incredible journey. Well done. Thank you for bringing us along.
Great videos, I enjoyed a lot, thank you🎀🌸🎀
Amazing journey indeed. I was waiting for you to update and here it comes finally. Apart from your stable videos what I really loved is the level of details you have mentioned in the form of captions. Thanks for sharing your great journey all the way from Vladivostok to Helsinki. great work indeed !
Being a ex-Railway official I thoroughly enjoyed all 10 parts of your journey. Please accept high "Appreciation" on this tiresome and on putting lots of physical and mental efforts in filming these videos. Only very few can have this opportunity and you are one of that lucky person. Great job
What a journey. Fantastic.
A very good series of videos indeed. Doc7austin is very well informed about Finnish railways, including Finnish place names and names of tracks. I also liked the video of the Nightjet Wien - Paris.
Unfortunately this is the last episode....End of this beautifull journey....I watched it all from the begening.Top class!Thank you again!May be will there be another journey?The music,the explanations,the scenery every thing was just great.
maybe you can make the trip yourself. then you will not regret that this trip is the last, it is better to see everything with your own eyes than on a computer screen.
I was waiting for this last chapter for so long! :) Great series, really enjoyed it. I wish I can afford such travel one day.
Lovely! Thanks for the great journey! Interesting technical details - changing of the traction set is just amazing!
Nice journey! Thak you for sharing this interesting experiences with us!
An awesome adventure and an excellent journey. Thank-you for sharing it with us.
Good insight into what a trip by rail across Russia entails. I live in Texas. I have not traveled by train. The US has very poor passenger train service. I read a book, about 1960, about an escape, by a political prisoner from Siberia on the Trans Siberian railway. He strapped himself to the underside of a train car. This series gives a sense of the vastness of Russia. I can't imagine how much work it is to maintain the rail lines. Thanks.
What a treat! Thanks for sharing. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thank you for such an enthralling journey across Russia. The country is vast, wild, and in places, wickedly cold. I really enjoyed it. Can't wait to find out what new adventure you will be taking us on... once this virus is gone.
I absolutely enjoyed your series of videos. I hope that you have another project forthcoming in the near future. You did an amazing job putting this project together. I, also was sad to see the last episode. I do hope that there will be more projects ahead. Again, Great Job!!!
Got my Atlas out and enjoyed the trip. Particularly, through Siberia
Que hermoso!!! Solo felicitaciones y agradecimiento por tan espectacular viaje en tren desde Vladivostok hasta Helsinki (aunque hasta Moscú es Mágico) la verdad no quería que terminará esta serie y el final es casi agridulce,,, siento hasta melancolía con el fin de este viaje tan bello y por país majestuoso hermoso como es Rusia ❤️🇷🇺. Debo decir que la intro del primer video no entusiasmo pero luego del 3 minuto no puede abandonar la serie viendo tanta maravilla de un país tan lejano al mío y de ver a través de las vías como Vladivostok se hacía más lejano... Que gran trabajo 👏🏻👏🏻 Saludos desde Chile 🇨🇱
I enjoy these wonderful train videos of Russia and other European countries you visit. However, I love the intro music to your videos. Greetings from New York City...
Thanks Doc, now I'm satisfied, great overall rail journey, one thing which will always remind me of it ,is that haunting introduction music.
Thank you so much for your videos. Not being able to travel has been rough, and the train videos are great! So well done and have so much detail about the trip and the trains. Watching these has been keeping me sane!
Lovely! Thanks for all efforts to show all beautiful Russian Railway!
You make a great job! Best regards and wishes from Romania!
I have throughly enjoyed your journey! Thank you so much for sharing with us!
Amazing journey by train.
Fabulous, thank you.
I've enjoyed on this train ride with you, but wish we could see more of Finland. 😊👍🇫🇮
Anyhow great journey 🚂🚉
Hope to see more from you after Covid(let's hope it'll be an 'after Covid' 😔
Many regards from Croatia🇭🇷
Lovely. I enjoyed every moment.
¡Muchas gracias! Siga recorriendo el mundo y mostrándonos sus trenes como sólo Ud. lo hace! Felicitaciones.
Great ending! Thoroughly enjoyed this series. Great work!
At 2:51 he's about to cross the famous Anichkov "Horse-Tamers" bridge, mentioned in Ayn Rand's "We the Living" (1936). I never crossed it myself, but did go under it on a boat tour in 2012.
I'd been looking forward to this episode. Thank you for sharing this journey (the ride through Siberia was my favourite though).
Thanks very much - great videos. I very much enjoyed following your journey.
Fantastic job.
Хорошо снято! Спасибо за видео!👍👍👍
Thank you. I love your ten videos.
Thanks, beautiful trip, very inspiring
Was waiting for this one. Thank you 👍👍👍👍 for the journey.
You could still change trains at Helsinki and take the night train either to Kittilä or Kemijärvi for another 1,000 kms.
Love ❤😘 your Videos doc.
I really enjoy the shots from the rear of the train. I travelled on the Trans Mongolian last year, and I was chased by the provodnitsa on the last carriage every time I passed her cabin.
Fantastic, I m a big fan of u frm India
Best series
Thanks for sharing. This series was amazing. I don't know how you could top this adventure.
Absolutely beautiful country Russia 🇷🇺 I would love to move on for holiday frome kurdistan 🇳🇪 👍
WHAT A TRIP!! You're a lucky man to get all this time to spend traveling! Your vids juste may be considered of public interest!!
I'm in Kiev and train travel in eastern Europe is far and away better than what we have in Western Europe
28:35 The reason of being so early is because some of the Tolstoy trains carry a car-carrier behind, and it would be detatched between Tikkurila and Pasila stations. This train didn't have that, so it arrived Pasila early.
Excellent series👍🏻🙂
I watched all the parts fully. Very well taken. It would have been better if narration in English voice was there.
Expecting more like this.
Love from 🇮🇳
hi, appreciate your feedback; a voice narration woukd destroy the audio of the train ride
What a great journey! How sad, that due to the current global Covid paranoia, train travel, much like air and sea is probably very much curtailed. So many affected people, so many jobs......I hope you will stay well and can get back to what you love just as soon as possible!! Cheers!
It's a very quiet train !
The pole in 15:30 is not "official border marker". It seems to be something the Russian border guards have erected in their office yard as a symbol of some sort.
One can see from the style of building (loose a/c cables from the windows etc) the structures are all Russian-built and likely not "customs buildings" at all..
The real border markers are _always_ coming in pairs -- you can see them in another video, going the other way. th-cam.com/video/kV1ktNNm6ME/w-d-xo.html
Border marks are official features and marked on the maps -- and the only one so designated is on the other side of the train, and would be visible for people on the other side of your train only!
Thank you, this is a good series if you want information about the Trans Siberian and/or Trans Mongolia Journey.
Vyborg was not a dispute point 'for centures' as Finland was a part of Russia until 1917, and Sweden before 1808
Both points incorrect, I'm afraid:
Vyborg's historical affiliations
Sweden 1293-1710
Tsardom of Russia 1710-1721
Russian Empire 1721-1812
Grand Duchy of Finland 1812-1917
Finland 1917-1918
Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic 1918 (marginally true)
Finland 1918-1940
Soviet Union 1940-1941
Finland 1941-1944
Soviet Union 1944-1991
Russia 1991-present
Very interesting journey. I followed you from vlodivostak. Your descriptions of places you passed through made your post entertaining.. But I missed your episode 6 and 7. Is there any way I can view it?
Thank you very much. ❤
very well done, doc! so glad you didnt make a seven day selfie out of this. your comments in english
are very helpful and clear, even though i suspect that english is not your mother tounge. pozdravly-yoo!
Thanks for the nice movies, I saw the complete Trans Siberian and the Heilbronn Kazakhstan journey. Wonderful trips! Also thus Ukrainian and Poland - Germany rides. Do you live in Germany?
just note: Also has high speed train Helsinki - St. Petersburg 3.5 hours allegro but price is high oneway between 80..150.. euros
Thanks doc! It's really interesting. It really help me to learn about russian city, social, and the climate in there
Really nice video. I wish Finnish trains in general had that level of catering.