West german couchettes from the 60's in slovakian sleeper-livery, coupled together with east german seating cars and CWIL sleepers from the 50's. You gotta love how much history there is behind the rolling stock on this train.
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
yes; but there is virtually no modern sleeping car/couchette car types available for rent; except if you want to source such cars from russia
@lvovodessa5 ай бұрын
@@doc7austinRussia is replacing its sleepers with modern stock so there must be enough available but these are maybe too wide?
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
russian sleeping cars ran to Nice and Paris until 2020; those trains were cancelled due to the pandemic; i assume that technically it is possible to rent them, but its probably a political no-go currently
@mikeblatzheim27975 ай бұрын
@@lvovodessa The Russian sleeping cars used formerly on the sleepers to Paris and Berlin are built to fit the European loading gauge. They had recently bought a brand-new fleet of cars from Siemens to replace the old East German rolling stock.
@natraj_j5 ай бұрын
The weather is so sunny ☀️ on this route. The visuals are quite amazing 👌
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
having blue and clear skies both over belgium, netherlands and germany was extremely lucky for me
@Hassell1635 ай бұрын
Very long train and in my opinion those carriages where you can lower the windows are the best to enjoy the landscape and the trip.
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
yes; you can mostly fully open the windows in all cars, except the sleeping car
@Eurobazz5 ай бұрын
You're a century out. The Amsterdam Haarlem line opened in 1839 and not 1939.
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
haahah; 18 instead of 19
@Janbaukeoelstra5 ай бұрын
Between Antwerp and Roosendaal the train uses the formel line of the old IC Amsterdam to Brussels ! Nice to see some historic trainline😊
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
yes; this was my first time on this cross-border line
@thijsvo68355 ай бұрын
Whow, I've seen so many of your spectacular videos from all over the world. It's so cool to see these magnificent views from my home town of Roosendaal and the West-Brabant area!
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
this was my first time in antwerp and roosendaal
@Trainviking5 ай бұрын
Another European sleeper video, great 😊
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
hahaha, yes; hopefully, the extension pf this route to prague will be successful
@frankrogerbuaroy17795 ай бұрын
Nice trip! Thanks for sharing.
@srikanthshastry45465 ай бұрын
Just Awesome !
@smakelijkeschildpad89195 ай бұрын
Thanks for the vid! Seems like unlike the rest of the journey, the ES train rides on the 'high-speed' line (lijn 25N, instead of lijn 25 or 27) between Brussel-Noord (actually Schaarbeek) and Mechelen. While after Mechelen, it seems to always travel on old lines though (including crossing the BE-NL border via Essen)...
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
but the vmax should still be 140 km/h, because the traxx cannot go beyond that speed ?
@smakelijkeschildpad89195 ай бұрын
@@doc7austinthat’s true though, at 7:57 it seems to be line 25N crossing the depot to the north of Schaarbeek, and 8:13 is Y Machelen-Noord, where line 36C (from Brussels Airport) joins line 25N. I guess this train is arranged on 25N instead of 25 to avoid the busy local traffic (S-trains and other IC trains calling at Vilvoorde). Normally all trains that does not call between Brus.-Noord and Mechelen are now all going via line 25N now. That’s probably why despite the speed of loco, it still goes on a high-speed line.
@javi26965 ай бұрын
Un viaje espectacular 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
yes; I hope I can travel on that train again
@gab_v2504 ай бұрын
3:42 on the bottom right seems like it's Thibault from Simply Railway.
@doc7austin4 ай бұрын
yes; you can see simply railway and the man in seat 61 in the same video frame
@aleksandersmirnow21575 ай бұрын
Doc, thank you so much for this great video.🍰
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
you are welcome !
@zerberus5004 ай бұрын
Definitiv eines Deiner besten Videos EVER!!! SUUUUUUUUPER!😎😍👍
@doc7austin4 ай бұрын
wirklich ? warum ?)))
@jabberwockytdi89015 ай бұрын
The UK HSA authorities would have an apoplexy at all those heads hanging out of windows
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
yea , of course
@pavolkrska73995 ай бұрын
Funny to see couchette car from Slovakia on such a train like this :)
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
i think european sleeper has leased out some couchette cars from slovakia (wagon slovakia?)
@pavolkrska73995 ай бұрын
@@doc7austin it can be, i used to travel with theese cars on night trains through my country from Bratislava 😉
@directorient5 ай бұрын
If I didn't check wrong in the ES website, I noticed that if a single traveller wants to book a complete compartment, this is possible only for couchette places (for a mega price!) and not for sleeping cars. Sleeping places can be booked only sharing the compartment with other travellers.
@petermaat41965 ай бұрын
Negative. I travelled Rotterdam/Berlin vv last week in a complete compartment in the P-type sleeping car. It can be done.
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
pricing could be weird on the european sleeper train.
@directorient5 ай бұрын
That's fine, a booking as it normally should be. I think it could be because there were no more single accomodations available on the day I chose and the booking page didn't show the option.
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
the sleeping car is often also cancelled at short notice
@VidiGoR15 ай бұрын
That “Communist High Speed Train” is actually quite famous TEE from 1950’s and not communist at all. Made immortal by the Kraftwerk tune “Trans Europa Express”…🙂
@Keikdv5 ай бұрын
I did the same train in july 2023 but we did Roosendaal-Tilburg-Utrecht-Amersfoort in the Netherlands and Bad Bentheim-Münster (reverse)-Hannover in Germany. Always a gamble wich route it will take... I slept in a compartment for 4 with 1 window for 139 Euros, one-way Bit too early for the text at 09:04 as the train was in Mechelen, it fits for 09:10 @ 10:53 The line was opened in 1855 until Moerdijk for a ferry to Dordrecht. When the bridge was opened at Lage Zwaluwe in 1876, the line was diverted. (( me, taking pictures at 13:33 🙂 )) Do not understand the text @ 13:53. You never passed Breda. This is still the Antwerp - Lage Zwaluwe line. After Lage Zwaluwe, you joined the Breda-Roosendaal line but that happend at 14:19 in your video. Sign at 21: 21 was wrong: it did stop in Amersfoort (because I was there and took pictures again) Leave out the 'Possibly" at 24:59: that was indeed the case. (I am not a bit jalous about the passing 181...) Hé at 30:07 A glimpse of the new HSL-trains for the Dutch Railways NS !!
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
ok; you guys stood there near hollands diep taking photos?
@chriswade74705 ай бұрын
Odd route via Bremen ( rather a long way round) Berlin Lichtenberg Station used to be used quite regularly by Night Trains 30 years ago.
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
the bremen detour is mostly due to some construction work on the osnabrück-minden-hannover line
@ICM42403 ай бұрын
0:13 ik vind die rijtuigen lelijk maar ook mooi het heeft iets anders ofzo
@doc7austin3 ай бұрын
ab; lots of graffiti on belgian trains
@kmeersma5 ай бұрын
Good video, but wasn't the 'Oude Lijn Haarlem-Amsterdam opened in 1839 instead of 1939 like you mentioned at 20:03 ?
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
yeah; I got the century wrong )
@machinistje5 ай бұрын
At Hollands diep you have a ICD. It’s not the intercity from Brussels. You can verify by looking at the coaches there is no B sign on them.
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
in which city did this train start in?
@directorient5 ай бұрын
I wonder if this train gained popularity after all these months and if travels more busy than it could be, of course, on the first days of operation. European Sleeper website is still working and offers now as final destination Prague, via Berlin-Dresden.
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
good question; as you saw, the train was not fully occupied on its inauguration journey
@RealConstructor5 ай бұрын
I think this train should have gone to Hamburg and Copenhagen from Bremen and not back to Hannover and Berlin. The day train from Amsterdam to Berlin should be a sleeper and extended at the start to The Hague, Rotterdam and Breda. And at the end from Berlin to Posen, Lodsch and Warschau.
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
this train will be extended from berlin to dresden and prague at the end of this month
@szymex225 ай бұрын
It would be really nice to have sleeper trains back in Poznań and Warsaw, the sleeper train to Amsterdam and köln was suspended some years ago
@classicalmidiorgans5 ай бұрын
Nice video! Could you muffle your microphone a bit so that the "wind " sounds are not so obvious? Just an idea ! From Ontario Canada....
@christopdeck34575 ай бұрын
Great video. Do you have a link where I could buy a night light similar to yours?
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
no; i cannot find this lamp product anymore online ))
@christopdeck34575 ай бұрын
@@doc7austinAah, no worries !
@santoshyellapragada60035 ай бұрын
Name of the background music
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
google qatar airways auckland
@Eurobazz5 ай бұрын
You forgot to mention that the train changed from driving on the left in Belgium to driving on the right at Roosendaal. RHD is standard in NL and DE.
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
ah; good observation; yes; after roosendaal we travelled on the right
@Eurobazz5 ай бұрын
@@doc7austin Trains drive on the left in BE and FR because the British helped repair the damaged railways in both countries after WWI; NL was neutral. An interesting continuation of this is that SNCF help ONCF develop the HSL in Morocco so guess what, the high speed trains drive on the left there.
@mikeblatzheim27975 ай бұрын
@@Eurobazz Pretty sure they had been driving "à l'Anglaise" since the very beginning of railways. Switzerland also drives on the left, whilst the Alsace and Lorraine regions of France drive on the right (due to having been part of Germany when the railway construction boom happened).
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
@mikeblatzheim2797 yes, we were driving on the left in belgium
@machinistje5 ай бұрын
@@Eurobazztrains have always driven on the left since 1835 in Belgium.. Nothing to do with WW1 😉
@nielstaildeman8 күн бұрын
I see they did their best for the inaugral journey. However the real deal is much worse. Dirty couchettes and unreliable bookings of sleeper cabins. ES still has a long way to go if they want to be successfull.
@doc7austin8 күн бұрын
esp. the magenta-coloured comfort couchette cars have no working AC
@shinomoritaka4 ай бұрын
ステンレスの寝台車ってあのワゴンリの遺産!?
@doc7austin4 ай бұрын
i dont know; that stainless steel car was built in the late 1950s
@s.indiavsbrazilrailway35495 ай бұрын
Please make the video of train in Iran please make
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
its not safe to travel to iran
@bumerangsydney5 ай бұрын
I am not sure about this, very expensive and old carriages.
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
yes; old and expensive; I agree with you.
@nacekozo5 ай бұрын
Old, but high quality - built in West/East Germany and Italy, and the sleeper compartments are more spacious than the new ones. The price starts at €79 in a couchette on this route - it depends on how far in advance you buy the ticket, and how popular the train on a particular day is.
@Janbaukeoelstra5 ай бұрын
No more high speed in the NL, because there is something wrong between the track......now the speed is not more then 160 km per hour........a lot of waste of money! Also the new ICNG will not ride a speed of 200 km anymore.........such a waste of money and time😮
@aleksandersmirnow21575 ай бұрын
The channel "Machinist Stefan" describes in detail the situation with high speed line . We must hope that one day Amstel will stop building underground subways in Addis Ababa and Madras, and will pay attention to its European “pride line”. Although it would be better for the Dutch to give this to Zelensky, as they gave him the Red Light District in Amsterdam. 😅)
@ralphzechendorf16445 ай бұрын
Glad I looked through the comments, I wasn't informed about this :s Looks like a complete mess... when you see in France double-deck trains zoom at 320km/h... It seems that germanic countries have a problem investing correctly in high speed trains (germany has a lot of issues too).
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
did we see the ICNG on the HSL Zuid bridge over Hollands Diep ?
@machinistje5 ай бұрын
You can travel at 300 km/h on the south section of the line (Antwerp to Rotterdam) on the northern part of the line you will only travel slower from the end of groenehart tunnel till Hoofddorp the rest is at normal speed. Also ICNG runs 200 km/h southern from this groenehart tunnel.
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
@machinistje how fast is eurostar running on this section ?
@mariogeis95585 ай бұрын
wie die brüsseler ihre s bahn zu hacken, oida.
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
was?
@mariogeis95585 ай бұрын
wuss@@doc7austin
@yubai65495 ай бұрын
Have to say that Europe train are too expensive.
@Neville600015 ай бұрын
No, they're not (at least, not the revived night sleeper service that goes from a town to Paris.)
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
well; many times, a flight is cheaper than a ride in a couchette sleeping car
@Neville600015 ай бұрын
@@doc7austin, it's not automatically better, though.
@n.bastians86335 ай бұрын
I agree.
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
but its still a much needed overnight connection between amsterdam and berlin
@carlosrosas7249Ай бұрын
Sorry, but that train isn't appellative in any form . It's a salad of outdated carriages and even the loco is ugly . That train gives a bad image to the European international trains . It's 2024 , not 1964 ! The European Sleeper must update itself, urgently. A new train Service in Europe has to be much better than that thing . From Portugal 🇵🇹
@doc7austinАй бұрын
no one is going to fund newly-built rolling stock for the european sleeper train.
@carlosrosas7249Ай бұрын
@@doc7austin Okey . Not good news . Anyway i keep my opinion about that sad train . Greetings!
@bernardbouzon54995 ай бұрын
Vectron loks are coming
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
so no more 186 traxx locos for that train ?
@bernardbouzon54995 ай бұрын
@@doc7austin according to wagonweb the switch will happen on march 25th. But the 186 can be back
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
@bernardbouzon5499 interesting; i guess the vectron will then run all the way to prague
@bernardbouzon54995 ай бұрын
@@doc7austin nope there'll be a lok change in Berlin
@doc7austin5 ай бұрын
@bernardbouzon5499 really from vectron to vectron ? where? Berlin-Ostbahnhof ?