That’s the IC? I’d be interested in seeing the EIC zakopane-krakow

In Bratislava, we got about 16 Bi-articulated trolleybuses from Solaris riding on line 71 and the info speaker in buses is now AI. EDIT: they are 24.7 meters long.

These kind of articulated busses are already in use for decades in the city Utrecht (the Netherlands).

the fact that people still pays to get on, when the whole system is open like that is beyond me

For the 700 series _Shinkansen_ (the original one, not the newer N700(A*/S) ones) only the 1st & last rows in each car have power outlets. & I think they are also the last _Shinkansen_ to have squat toilets but no bidets/toilet seat warmers. & I guess that the multi-purpose room is a euphemism for "nursing room/sick bay" *By the way I also remember that all N700 _Shinkansen_ have been upgraded to N700A spec, with more energy efficient propulsion equipment, while some brand-new rolling stock built to N700A standard were also built in 2013

Please do a video about the weird IC2-trains on Lollandsbanen!

🇵🇸 Palestine is so nice.

As a fellow MOTOLO student. This was great! As a former user of 5C. This was so true!

At least it's cleaner than the Swedish SJ and Togap sheep trains

Why avoid it? It seems that other expensive Swedish train companies are upset about the presence of a cheap German company in Sweden.

Hi train have wifi nor not????

Îmiplace

Платформы низкие.

HALLSBERG MENTION!!!!!!!🚄🚅🚆 ALL WE HAVE IS RAILWAYS🎉🎉🎉

I love these trains especially TLK Flisak, I had a ride on it last year it was a blast

What's crazy to me is that you didn't capture any shady deals on Plattan. Or perhaps I just didn't notice , but those deals happen there like 24-7.

The pre 1977 ones are already out of service

in my city (and many in america) this would be an urbanism miracle

The ring in the big area inside the train station is called "ringen" - "the ring " and there is a rumor gays is going there to hook up

We also has "Blå tågen"

Nice share my friend~!

That train does NOT look like it did in the past. They took old train wagons and COMPLETELY ruined them. It is really depressing, especially concerning the night wagons from the 80s. The sleeping wagons from the 80s in Sweden were some of the most cozy... but they have all been refurbished and remodeled and now look like crap.

I live in Tampere, Finland which is a really similar city when compared to Odense. We have 250 000 inhabitants and we also built a new tramline. It was opened in 2021 with 16km of track and similar passenger numbers. We got it for only 240 million euros and it has now been so popular that an additional 6,7km of track will open this summer. There are very likely plans of an additional 13,6km of track to nearby suburbs. We use a Skoda tram with similar specs, frequency of 7,5min, top speed of 70km/h, average speed of around 20km/h and lenght is 37m although the trams will most likely be lenghtened because of them being crowded in peak times. Really interesting to see two cities in two different countries build two almost identical tram systems only a year apart!

The government is bad at planning cancelling new train infrastructure, also happened in Silkeborg. Yet those incompetent bastards over-build expensive motorways like crazy. Now we have a giant, noisy, polluting, climate damaging, traffic causing, dangerous motorway running through our city, I can hardly even take a walk without having to put up with the noise from it and traffic has gotten a lot worse since in the city because of induced demand. They could have fixed the traffic with more public transit and train lines. They were going to build a line from Aarhus to Silkeborg that would take 20 minutes but it was cancelled and we're stuck with the old route that takes 50 minutes. They could not care less about the climate if they wanted to. If you do not own a car you're subsiding people who do. I wish I could choose where my taxes went, I do not want to subsidize car infrastructure that is actively hurting the climate and making my life and city worse. Public infrastructure everybody can use, road infrastructure only the privileged can use, so they spent billions building a highway through my city using my taxes and I can't even use it and just have to put up with the noise, pollution, and dangerous traffic? Thanks, thanks a lot Denmark.

These trains are not fun to ride in the middle of summer when it's 25+ C outside, they don't have AC.

2:30 or use the escalator on the other side

Note that the Sydney Metro isn't a competitor to Sydney Trains. They're both under Transport for NSW, a government agency.

Excellent Video! BIG LIKE!

13:44 Degelen is the station serving the city of Kurchatov, the centre of Semipalatinsk Polygon, the place where Soviet nuclear bombs were developed and tested. I took this train one year ago in the opposite direction from Degelen to Sputnik. Great time.

Glad the vlog was made by a non-Japanese. I would certainly be uncomfortable to watch if the vlog was made by a Japanese person. Lots of censorship to expect.

Hey Simon, thanks for another great video - they're always very informative and well put together. Your English is excellent, expressions like "the crack of dawn" are not something I'd expect a non-native speaker to use. Did you live in in an English speaking country for a while?

I used to travel a lot by Flixtrain on this route and the most annoying part was that, they often cancelled the ride a few days before and of course refounded it, but by that time, all other operators got more expensive and at the end I had to pay more compared to just buying the ticket at MTRX directly.

good and clear, thanks a lot!

At the moment there are only four services per day on the Sanyo Shinkansen that you can book the private compartments. The room costs four times that of a normal seat, but since it's intended to be used by four people it would pan out to be the same price. You can also use this room for cheap on the route from Hakata to Hakata Minami for just €1.9 (¥330)

This service will Help Serbia for 50 years and after 50 year Upgrades will be made.

The lights are too bright.

Thanks for the history lesson, very digestible - still a very usable train, despite its age - my one minus would be the toilet layout - not very sanitary to be exiting a toilet area and then entering a separate room to wash your hands, oh well . . . . \m/

Will you be doing a review on the 500 series Shinkansen?

Here is some bit more mention to explain about the 700 series Shinkansen you’re on. 10:02 these room are special to the 700 series RailStar sets (current Shinkansen in the video). As the 16 car versions doesn’t have these. These room and RailStar exist was JR West’s attempt to compete with air travel in Japan. These originally run the service “Hikari RailStar” it’s basically a special named hikari train. However it was because of the 8 Car N700 that goes to Kyushu have somewhat same stopping pattern as a Hikari service, meaning rendering hikari services on the Sanyo Shinkansen section completely redundant (expection to hikari trains that runs all the way to Tokyo). Which meant these 700 series were reallocated to Kodama services along with the 500 series. Some only very very occasionally at a specific time does Hikari Railstar services. 7:43 would’ve recommend you to put the 16 car versions instead as those are the first versions of the 700 series before the railstars came in. Also a little fact. All of JR west’s Shinkansen are future proof for a future 16 car to 8 car conversion. The other 8 (or so) 700 series from the B sets were modified and ran as 700 series E set aka the railstar sets.

me who calls it new osaka:

Day 1 of asking for a IC2 video

This was really nice to see! I should travel at least once soon to Karlstad. I realize that I totally need to go by Tågab. :)

1 minute isn't a delay in Sweden.. That's even a lot less then avarage.

the rollbar in the accessible toilet becomes extra useful in case of a derailment

That blue train is one of my favorite looking swedish trains

It's sad to see some of the only Vanhool new A-class busses in service. Knowing there will not be any more coming into service. - Solaris always makes very nice and stunning busses. I'm happy for Aalborg that they got these state-of-the-art buses.

I just can’t help but notice that we are just reinventing the tram Which doesn’t even require batteries which imo is a big plus

Where do the busses recharge? Any information about how long they can ride until they are out of power?

"You probabkly never heard of", got this randomly up, I worked as a welder for them in Kristinehamn(Their hub) :D

Fun, if a bit disturbing fact: that big, round hole between the upper and lower level at Stockholm Central Station is nicknamed Spottkoppen, "The Spitting Cup". When I was a kid, you would actually run the risk of getting a loogie on your head if you went through there. I avoided it like the plague.