FIRST CLASS AT 300KMH FROM LILLE TO PARIS / TGV DUPLEX REVIEW / FRENCH TRAIN TRIP REPORT

[@hamlet7959]

I don't know if you were aware but the facade of Lille Flandres is in fact the original facade of the Gare du Nord in Paris, dating from the 1840s. It was dismantled and shipped to Lille in the 1860s when the Gare du Nord was being expanded (as it has been almost permanently ever since...I doubt it'll ever be big enough for what it's expected to handle!!).

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Wow that's amazing information ☺️

[@kanakasabhainatarajan4887]

It is really interesting news. Thanks.

[@louislegrand2865]

Yesiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! A TGV! THE TGV ! The best train in the world. It represents happiness for me. I love all TGVs. My favorite lines are those of happiness, Marseille / Disneyland TGV and Marseille / Paris. A happiness, an intense joy seizes me as soon as I take a TGV, any one. It's my favorite train in the world. I love all the TGVs: Ouigo, which we take very frequently on the lines of happiness, Inoui also on the lines of happiness and all the others. It's splendid. It is happiness for me. Your video represents happiness. Needless to say, this is my favorite video on your channel. Thanks to you, nonstop eurotrip, for making me cry. I'm very emotive. I am happy.

[@louislegrand2865]

Ah yes, I can take all the lines used by the TGV, any one, and I'm happy. From Aix-en-Provence TGV to Avignon TGV, it travels at 320km / h on a portion of the line. Absolute happiness.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

I thought you might like this Louis 😂😂😂 and Thibault's Ouigo España on the same day... TGV overload 🚅🇫🇷

[@desalpagesgator4988]

Alors ? On est chauvin ?

[@markellis6413]

No toilet review! How will we know now whether a random toilet on one TGV set was clean and well stocked? Lille station looks fab btw..

[@NonstopEurotrip]

I guess you'll just have to find out for yourself 😜😅

[@jacqueline23788]

all the toilet are mostly clean these are high standing french trains high speed train since 1981 .they have to defend their position

[@benjamintery7847]

I think the train you got (1st generation TGV Duplex) must be my favourite currently still in service! Also note that although the Paris Metro 4 and 5 trains stop at Gare du Nord, they don't count in the passenger figures, even more impressive since the 4 train is Paris's busiest! As always excellent video :)

[@NonstopEurotrip]

They're my favourite TGV seats too... And I found so many different passenger figures for Gare du Nord I just went with the most common one 🙂

[@rahill-95]

Enjoyed watching the trip report and I think € 15 is quite reasonable since no food service was included. But damn those train stations looked fantastic!

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Really glad you enjoyed it! 😁

[@anthonywarrener1881]

Thank you for a great review. I am a huge fan of all TGVs, and especially enjoy 1st Class in the Duplex variant. As you say "upstairs" is so much better, and seems more spacious.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Thank you ☺️ TGV Ouigo España coming up soon 😎👌🏻

[@ronalddejong3017]

Nice. It is giving me the itch to go traveling. Alas still to much restrictions. Lot has changed (for the better) since I last was at Gare du Nord.- Amsterdam. Then, the main colour was grey. It much brighter today, I see.. Enjoying your works.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Thank you! I'm glad to be travelling again now making new content for the channel! 👌🏻

[@ronalddejong3017]

@@NonstopEurotrip In the last yr u had a lot of clean toilets and everything in working order. Wonder how that will be when travel is back to full (nromal) capacity. Lille and Gare du Nord Paris stations have similar style station, as is Antwerp. Lot's of steel, glass and beautiful architecture. Most ppl don't even take the time for good look around. Nice that you do.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Haha I hope the toilets stay clean! Glad you enjoyed the video 👍🏻😁

[@MaxPulse1]

In 2012 we took the TGV to Calais for the ferry to the UK and returned on Eurostar. Both great trips, but the best thing was the old indicator board at Gare du Nord. When we came back to Europe in 2017, sadly it was gone, but we still managed some great trips on classic TGV's plus new Duplex. Can't wait to be able to travel again.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

I do like the different varieties of TGVs available and the route is pretty comprehensive now too 👍🏻👌🏻

[@scottyerkes1867]

Very impressive! Low cost! High speed!! Thank you Max for sharing💚😀

[@NonstopEurotrip]

This isn't even the low cost ones 😅

[@scottyerkes1867]

@@NonstopEurotrip 😀💚

[@PeteBrandy]

Great video! TGV Duplex is one of the trains I have on my bucket list, I hope to finally try TGV this year :-D Otherwise, I see that you still have a lot of videos taken in good times. I already used almost all my backlog videos. Btw. can I choose to have a solo seat on the upper deck on TGV Duplex when booking, or does the system assign seats automatically?

[@NonstopEurotrip]

I'm sure you'll get to go on a TGV this year Pete! Yeah I still have about 20 videos left, and now filming more too. You can request to be top or bottom deck but can't pick a specific seat with SNCF 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@CameronLandels]

Great video! I haven't been on a TGV yet. I remember travelling on the LGV Nord on Eurostar and I remember the speed! :-)

[@NonstopEurotrip]

It's a great ride isn't it 👌🏻😃

[@nicola7632]

I haven't been on a TGV yet, but I'm sure that someday I'll travel in one of this wonderful trains. PD: I've only traveled on a RER from Houdan to Paris. It was pretty nice!

[@NonstopEurotrip]

You can get cheap tickets, so you should try it soon 🙂

[@itsmetaran]

Another great video... thanks for posting

[@NonstopEurotrip]

You're welcome 😀

[@PeterPeadar]

The windows were clean! Nice job SNCF!

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Go SNCF 😂

[@Andrewjg_89]

And SNCB

[@PeterPeadar]

@@Andrewjg_89 Yes, indeed! SNCB, well done!

[@timdiggle5090]

Upper deck best? Hmmmm ... I usually go for lower deck as there are no people wandering through going to the café/bar or WC. (I used to wonder why the "corridor" was on the upper deck until one day it dawned on me, waiting for a late train to Montparnasse from St Jean de Luz looking at one on the other platform going to to Hendaye, that the wheels would be in the way on the .lower decks.)

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Must better view from the upper deck 😃

[@timdiggle5090]

@@NonstopEurotrip Not much to see between Sangatte and Bordeaux, and a lot of tunnels/sound barriers as well. I agree about routes along the Mediterranean coast and from Italy but for my regular journey to/from St Jean de Luz I prefer the tranquility to watching vast maize fields rotating slowly by ...

[@thechonkywanderer1087]

I love going on the TGV Duplex from Paris Gare Du Lyon to Avignon TGV. Watching the scenery slowly changing in terrain and colour the further south we go is beautiful. it will be the first trip I do when we're able to

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Excellent news 😁

[@stevecooksley]

Almost perfect review. If you would have managed to inflate that person's kayak as they were walking at the end it would have been the icing on the cake.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Lol thanks 😂😂😂

[@DanielsUKT]

Great review on the high speed TGV the seats look really comfortable and gare du nord looks like a great place to trainspot

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Glad you enjoyed this one Daniel! 😀

[@DanielsUKT]

@@NonstopEurotrip no problem

[@JKVisFX]

The price is extremely reasonable considering what we pay here in the States on AmTrak from, say, Los Angeles Union Station to San Diego Santa Fe Depot, we would pay ~$55 for the same trip in business class (there is no first-class) - and going no faster than 80mph/129kph.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Wow that's quite expensive 😳

[@COLINJELY]

I take it with all these high speed services there are no level crossings along the route?

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Exactly 👍🏻

[@jmcvisser]

Great video! Good work. I was lucky to have an upperdeck seat on the TGV Lille Flandres - Bordeaux Saint Jean as part of a roundtrip through France by TGV years ago. The best part on that trip though was having a TGV PSE-trainset on the leg Toulouse Matabiau - Lyon Part Dieu. Like you said, SNCF sometimes has crazy good offers and a first class seat was only € 10 more expensive compared to a second class seat.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Excellent, I hope you had a nice trip 😁👍🏻

[@jmcvisser]

@@NonstopEurotrip Absolutely, it was brilliant. Had some of the older generation TGV-series on the trip. Nowadays, most of the services are covered by the TGV Duplex.

[@ducminhtran8271]

Love your video. Travelling on a TGV is always an enjoyable experience.I'd never been to Lille but i'd love to go there one day. In the end of your video you mentionned that Châtelet is the 2nd busiest station in Europe. I think that place must go to Saint-Lazare station ;)

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Thank you, good information 😎👌🏻

[@TravelALBERT]

Really nice Trip report. I was taken a TGV Dublex (Stuttgart - Paris) a lot years ago... so I don't have any videos. I have subscribed your channel, and I wate for other amazing Trips

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Thanks! Lots more to come 😎😊

[@robyoungquist5803]

👍🏻 Dylan. I ❤️ the decor of the First Class carriage. The colors and spaciousness gives off a calming effect to me. Peeking into second class, my thought was meh 😕 ok for a one hour trip. But for me, I’d still purchase a First Class ticket.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Thanks Rob, but I'm still not Dylan 😂

[@robyoungquist5803]

@@NonstopEurotrip … I’m sorry Max 😞. I probably shouldn’t watch all train videos in one day. 🙄. A mind is a terrible mess past 40. 😂😂😂😂

[@flxdrv5020]

wow, 15€ for first class is a steal! It's even less expensive than going with a car if you take an avrage comsumption of 7L/100km and a price of 1.5€ for fuel adding up to around 22€

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Yeah it's great value 😊

[@annabelholland]

You forgot that France has many highways that are tolled so it's more than that

[@flxdrv5020]

@@annabelholland oh yeah you're right, so it's even more valuable lol

[@andrewganley9016]

Was on that service in May though the other way the front power car was the World Speed record one love all TGVs

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Wow!

[@paulheilbrunn8151]

Génial !!! Ma ligne préféré !!!😀😀

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Merci beaucoup 👍🏻

[@pin13689]

Nice video What's the app you are using for measuring the speed of the train?

[@NonstopEurotrip]

It's just called GPS Speedo on Android

[@pikachu8508]

There are some TGV services where hit speeds up to 320km/h like those services to Strasbourg and Bordeaux.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Yes...?

[@jorgesalini9399]

TGV Lirya from Zurich to Paris. Thanks from Buenos Aires 💥

[@NonstopEurotrip]

I am looking to make this trip, this year 🙂

[@AsiaCityTour]

Thanks friend for sharing your travel hope the world will come back soon love from Southeast Asia 💕

[@NonstopEurotrip]

I hope so too!!! Stay safe 😗

[@alexandershorey9014]

Hi , do you book your TGV through SNCF website or through a 3rd party? €15 is a fantastic deal!

[@NonstopEurotrip]

I booked this direct as it was on sale

[@westy6214]

Amazing video! The TGV is comfy but I think ICE and RENFE AVE/AVANT/ALVIA comfier. Great price too!

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Not been on an Alvia recently have you 😂

[@westy6214]

Hahaha true. Last it was one of those S130s with hospital like interiors but at least the seats where great.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

@@westy6214 and 🤮 green seats 😅

[@westy6214]

Yeah haha the overall interior is pretty grim looking. At first glance I thought I was in an A&E waiting room 😂 Thankfully it isn’t like that on the S102 and S112 which have amazing interior in the preferente. Same with S100 😍 and S103

[@NonstopEurotrip]

@@westy6214 I agree, all AVE seats are great 👍🏻

[@tjittekamminga5170]

great station, great train!

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Not bad is it 😁

[@Cordycep1]

from brussel it cost around $50 per person 1st class. Very much pricing differential from Lilies

[@leseize26]

When the train starts you can see my office building on the right, the half circle one. I come by train everyday to work and i have just one stair to get into it because my daily train track is just below my office window ....very convinient ! I could install a rope lader....

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Oh wow how cool is that 😍

[@leseize26]

@@NonstopEurotrip i think i should have written my office window below my daily train track - french man's mistake

[@NonstopEurotrip]

@@leseize26Ne t'inquiète pas, j'ai compris 😊

[@leseize26]

@@NonstopEurotrip Sorry i do not speak french....nan, je plaisante.....

[@manmeetsinghmahajan6183]

Nice one.Lille is an educational hub in North of France.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@Daventent]

this train is strange. what does the transition between cars look like?

[@NonstopEurotrip]

You can move between the coaches on the upper deck only 👍🏻

[@Daventent]

@@NonstopEurotrip okey

[@niconos35]

C’est une ancienne rame duplex...pelliculé inouï ! Les « vrais » tgv inouï sont les nouvelles rames Océane....celle ci sont top !

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Oui, c'était bien d'en avoir un non remis à neuf!

[@v2v652]

Btw. Châtelet is not a "gare". Its just a connection of alot of trains, RER, metro.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Whoops 😂

[@Lodai974]

Chatelet is considered as a railway station and not as a station ... In Paris the RER have railway stations and the metro have stations. Yes the French like to specialize ...^^ So in order in 2018 it is for the SNCF (so without the metro): Paris North Paris Lyon St Lazare Defense Chatelet les halles Paris Montparnasse

[@DoryRail]

Fantastic filming.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Thanks so much 😁

[@Slyze33]

The best one is for sure the duplex new generation (2N2) with the "oceane" livery, smooth and confortable

[@NonstopEurotrip]

The old interiors are very comfortable though 😎

[@Slyze33]

@@NonstopEurotrip Indeed

[@pikachu8508]

@@NonstopEurotrip The best one are those first class seats on TGV Reseau. The comfort level is incredible, great for long journeys, just like from Paris to Milan for 8 Hours

[@theobrattinga500]

Great video !!

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Thanks! 👍🏻

[@rejeylola]

1:18 and 12:32 the sncf jingle

[@pedrorubiotejero_aka_prt]

10:56 Video's final score: 9.2

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Thanks Pedro! 🤗

[@pedrorubiotejero_aka_prt]

@@NonstopEurotrip You're welcome. What are you going to do in Portugal? Have you visited Lisbon? It's such a beautiful city with Praça do Comercio and its most beautiful district, Baixa. I went to Portugal on a bus tour trip on December 2015, and I went to Fátima (Where the hotel was), Batalha, Nazaré (Where there are big waves) and Lisbon. Even on September 2016, when being on Galicia, there was a day-trip to Porto, but I decided not to go. I was exhausted after a day-trip to Vigo, A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela. P.S: My hotel on that tour trip was on Pontevedra, about 20 kilometres away from Vigo by a toll motorway

[@conormcshane1656]

Been on one of those duplex trains in 1st class but from Lille Europe to Lyon. Seats were so comfy I slept most of the time only woken by the train slowing down for stops at CDG Airport and Lyon. Hardly surprising though for a 6am departure. 😂 Also travelled the route in this video but in the opposite direction into Gare Europe and on one of the single deck TGV trains in cattle class. They are brilliant - hoping to be able to travel on one from Luxembourg to Paris in November, pandemic permitting...🙏

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Yeah you're right, they are comfy! And pretty smooth at very high speeds! 🤗😎

[@jeromebano1125]

Hi there very interesting video.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Thank you ☺️

[@jeettrivedii]

Notification squad here!

[@vachankehr5403]

Das Video gefällt mir sehr

[@ninnobroggi]

How do you get enough Money to afford all of these Trips?

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Work 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@ninnobroggi]

@@NonstopEurotrip Do You Work 24 Seven all Year even on Christmas, Birthdays, and New Years?

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Yes

[@ninnobroggi]

@@NonstopEurotrip do you get like $7000 per hour?

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Only $5k 😭

[@Yogabudhi]

Pengalaman perjalanan yang menyenangkan. Suatu hari nanti saya akan bepergian juga.

[@bilalplayz62]

hooray, 7:26: i recognize this place, its my city!

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Yay 😍😁

[@kanakasabhainatarajan4887]

I prefer longer TGV routes like Paris Metz as otherwise it is like going in a metro. I have never felt like travelling in Paris Lille route when crowded. By the time you settle down with your baggage, seat etc. the journey is almost over. The fun of train journey in a short walk, outside views, a drink and snack in the bar is all gone in these short journeys. OK for business.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Me too, and I have done them as well 😎😚

[@Andrewjg_89]

French railways are the best including their high speed railways that trains can reach up to 200mph (321km/h).

[@NonstopEurotrip]

One of the best 😇

[@Andrewjg_89]

@@NonstopEurotrip Ok :)

[@teviblekhman1628]

I’m glad no toilet review like.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

😅

[@faizalrahman8243]

🕋

[@Rj964]

Too many captions

[@NonstopEurotrip]

You don't have to read them all 😏

[@georgecini5041]

Too many adverts!

[@NonstopEurotrip]

That's what pays for the videos my friend! 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@TututCandrawati]

100$

[@NonstopEurotrip]

?

[@Bylkuuus]

These TGV’s From 90´s are outdated but so comfortable