How I Traveled to 20+ Countries in 2024 Including Ukraine... (2024 Q&A)

[@FinlandTP]

The finnish commuter train still exist, but on different line. It has been on Iisalmi-Ylivieska line since 15th of December

[@jakubsimek6246]

The ComfortJet is one of my favorite new trains, can't wait until it connects Czechia and Denmark. It's not flashy, but it's consistently very good and comfortable.

[@mcg5404]

Your video last week about travelling from the north to the south of Denmark was brilliant 👏

[@Simon-Andersen]

thank you!

[@MaximDL1410]

Respect Simon and I wish you all the best in 2025 ! 👏❤️✊

[@mariadelmarjimenezarroyo]

Excellent video. Merry Christmas and Happy New year to you and your family

[@Simon-Andersen]

Wishing you a great 2025 Maria

[@truckerallikatuk]

As a resident of the area covered by GWR, I completely agree about the seats on the class 800, and sadly they fitted similarly terrible seats when they "refurbished" their HSTs as shorter range sets.

[@Danse_Macabre_125]

They didn't. Castle HSTs still have the same swats fitted in the late 2000s in standard class; won't talk about 1st as it doesn't exist. Which are also the seats you see in the ÖBB Railjet economy class and almost all Class 158s including all GWR ones.

[@Tekhamar]

Happy new year Simon! I'm excited for whatever is going to come next year :)

[@Simon-Andersen]

Thank you very much! I hope you’re excited for some of the trains I teased in this video. 😄 Here’s to 2025! 🎉🚆

[@timbacchus]

Boy, you need to get out more.....Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful life of travel.

[@Simon-Andersen]

Thank you!

[@lyramsr]

happy new year simon!

[@danieldevine]

Great stuff! Looking forward to more videos next year. One bit of feedback if I may, I was hoping this video would contain more content around the booking process, rational, costing, why certain time of year etc. hoping for more of that in the future! Thanks!😊

[@Simon-Andersen]

Honestly, most of my rationale is: I can take some time off work here, I can skip these uni classes etc, so where can I go cheaply during that time? I usually just chase sub-30 euro flights or cheap deals on passes like Interrail, etc. 🙂

[@jasongarufi8187]

Hi Simon thanks for all the great videos in 2024, looking fords to your trips in 2025!

[@Simon-Andersen]

Thank you! To a great 2025 :D

[@rbrouns9569]

Thanks for all the interesting videos. Happy New Year!

[@Simon-Andersen]

Happy new year!

[@aviano72]

Happy new year Simon from a country north of you Looking forward to more delayed DB travels 😂and that TfW locomotive set video

[@Simon-Andersen]

Happy new year!

[@Michal_Niskiewicz]

Thanks for answering my and other viewers' questions and looking forward for the videos next year.

[@Simon-Andersen]

Thank you Michal!

[@BaboSorany]

Thank you for this video! What happend in Paris?

[@Simon-Andersen]

Nothing, I just find it incredibly dirty and unwelcoming. Combined with SNCF being one of the most hostile, anti-consumer railway companies, it leaves me with little desire to go there.

[@notactuallymyrealname]

Best wishes to you in 2025! Thanks so much for all your great videos.

[@Simon-Andersen]

Thank you, best wishes for 2025 to you!

[@nonstopnormal666]

hopefully the ComfortJet will increase the round trip from Berlin-Graz via Vienna up to 2 or 3 per day. I know there’s some ways but it’s an interesting dayroute

[@jgodfrey546]

Enjoy your videos, Simon. Happy New Year!

[@Simon-Andersen]

Happy new year!

[@DS.J]

It was a pleasure to watch your videos and you certainly gained one loyal subscriber to your channel. Also, thanks for visiting Lithuania and reviewing that refurbished coach. Needless to say, I hope you'll be visiting us again in 2025. Also, any plans to go to China? HSR system there is quite extensive to put it mildly, and it deserves your full report.

[@Simon-Andersen]

Thank you! I actually have a full-day layover in Beijing on an upcoming flight, and I’m hoping to at least try out a bit of the railway network. A full trip there, though, is still on the drawing board! 🚄😊

[@praisane]

Nice little gazette. BTW the "commuter train that doesn't exist any more" up in Finland has pulled a shapeshifting trick. Two of these carriages are now used for the Iisalmi - Ylivieska service as that particular railroad was recently electrified and the horrible Czech diesel railbuses were finally phased out there two weeks ago and replaced with a cool loco hauled train! Did a few rides on that just after Christmas... For anyone looking for some very different Finland from the mainstream imago, I definitely recommend trying that!

[@Simon-Andersen]

Oh yeah, I think I read about that! Next year is going to be exciting for Finnish railways-the Allegros back in domestic use, new sleeper carriages (if they don’t get delayed). I’ll probably find a way to detour up via Iisalmi-Ylivieska at some point too! 😄🚆

[@Robbyg112]

New subscriber here, so it was nice to see a Q&A video!

[@Simon-Andersen]

Welcome onboard!

[@ABTrainsYT]

Cheers very much for the answers. Though with the NZ one, Wellington and Auckland has some rail stuff there…they have Wellington to Masterton, the Capital Connection between Wellington and Palmerston North, and Te Huia between Hamilton and Auckland. Everything else is just commuter within the Auckland and Wellington regions and as you said the tourist trains (Northern Explorer between Auckland and Wellington, Coastal Pacific between Picton and Christchurch, and Tranzalpine between Christchurch and Greymouth).

[@Simon-Andersen]

Yup, there are definitely things to check out-I'm sure I'll get around to it at some point! 😄 Happy new year!

[@SomewhatSinny]

Thank you for all the videos this year! I especially enjoyed the Denmark Local Buses video and would love to see more like that :) Have a happy new year Simon!

[@Simon-Andersen]

Happy new year!

[@AbiRabb1t]

I have no idea why I am surprised to see my question in the video, excited to see more videos. Also, wanted to ask... if you could make DSB change one thing about the danish rail system, what would you change. I'd like to hear what you think since you've traveled on so many different countries lines, I personally think I'd get them to run more IC3 trains I think the hourly intercity lightning is annoying to time with, specially when having to travel by S train to catch it and then having a sometimes very short transfer window... I know there are a lot of factors. But well I want to hear how you'd improve it

[@Simon-Andersen]

I think DSB really needs to improve their website and add some sort of "cheap ticket calendar" or a tool to find cheap Orange tickets throughout the day. Right now, it’s really hard to find Orange tickets compared to buses because you have to manually search through three departures at a time vs having everyhing displayed. No wonder people only see full-fare tickets when they search for a departure at 8 a.m., for instance.

[@AbiRabb1t]

@@Simon-Andersen oh yeah that'd make a lot of peoples lives better. Mine included, the orange tickets are an amazing idea. but awful execution since yeah, pain in the ass to find... anygay, super excited to see your upcoming videos for 2025... also jealous that I can't go see some of these trains myself. but that day will hopefully come sometime soon, I really want to see a shinkansen irl as an example

[@DaveFigueroa-o3t]

Hi! Greatings from Chile! I like a loooot your videos. I use some of them for my trains travels last year when I was doing an exchange program in Poland. In that semester I visited most of the eastern south countries of Europe 🇵🇱🇸🇰🇸🇮🇷🇴🇨🇿🇩🇪🇧🇬🇧🇦🇭🇷 in trains and I enjoyed very much the experience. Now I need to visit the north and Western, including of course Denmark. I heard in your video that you want to visit Chile 🇨🇱. If you need guidance, write me and I will guide, no problem! Happy new railway year 2025! Saludos desde Valparaíso (Greetings from Valparaíso)!

[@Simon-Andersen]

Thank you! It's so cool to have fans all the way from Chile. I can't wait to travel there someday! Greetings back to you from Denmark!

[@patricktrakzel9657]

Best wishes and good health in 2025 Simon.

[@Simon-Andersen]

Thank you! Wishing you a great 2025

[@o_s-24]

3:36 I wouldn't recommend trying that train unless you like soviet trains that have seen 0 refurbishment. We don't really have a good railway in Armenia, but hopefully next time you'll have better luck. Also, Happy New Year!

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Soviet trains are great! I love Soviet trains. 🥰

[@Simon-Andersen]

Soviet trains are fun! and the sleeper looks quite modern still!

[@veikkohaapamaki]

I'm sure you have previously answered this one, but what do you like to do in the cities and/or countries you visit for the train videos, (and do you publish anything else from those travels?) I find it hard to imagine you would just travel to the places for the train rides and not check out the cities itself? I also would like hotel room reviews etc. of the accomodations you take, and even food reviews - but obviously I understand if that's not something that intrests you, filming everything could easily become very burdensome. Anyways, thanks for all of the videos this year, keep up the good work and have a great rest of the year : )

[@Simon-Andersen]

I only post the train/transport content. Usually, I just stay in hostels or a cheap hotel-it really depends on the trip and whether it’s a place I’ve been to before or not. I usually try to plan my trips around places where there’s actually something I’d like to see or do (i love hiking) 😊 For instance, Morocco was a 10-day trip, so I spent a lot of time just exploring!

[@Mapgamingdk]

Godt nytår Simon

[@Simon-Andersen]

I lige måde!

[@LGVRhin-Rhone]

Happy New Year!!

[@gardivor5245]

We still need a video on the IC2 running in Lolland. There's no good video on it on the internet from what i've seen

[@Simon-Andersen]

Maybe at some point in the future, its not a high priority

[@johnlang4198]

Australian here. I think you have nailed it re our trains. We are great at suburban and interurban commuter services, but our long distance services leave a lot to be desired. Tasmania lost its passenger rail service in 1978, SA lost all except Adelaide suburban passenger service in 1990, and the remaining services out of Adelaide are the two transcontinental land cruises for the wealthy retired and an overpriced and extremely underserviced Overland to Melbourne. WA has only the Australind to Bunbury and AvonLink commuter distance services outside of Perth, which both should have more services, and the daily Prospector to Kalgoorlie as the only long distance services in the state. Queensland does well south of Rockhampton, with the exception of the Westlander, and incredibly slow service with all amenities stripped and only one or two trips a week. Same goes for the Inlander up north between Townsville and Mount Isa. So basically, if you're away from the immediate eastern seaboard of Australia, you're pretty much stuffed. Speaking of which, NSW should expand the regional fleet to enable both the Broken Hill and Griffith services to operate daily in each direction. This would eliminate some ridiculously long road coach rides in the state.

[@Simon-Andersen]

Thank you!

[@Heavyweight37716]

Was on the TFW 67 MK4 set today and can defo say they are best trains we have in the UK by a mile, and for the GWR train, any the Hitachi IET's you went on with GWR have a awful reputation in the UK with any operator they are with.

[@gegamertv1239]

if you do a new q&a video so i have a question would you do another video about the middle east? they have some nice trains too

[@Simon-Andersen]

For sure, it's just not something I've been super interested in, so its not a top priority, but i'll be back!

[@gegamertv1239]

@Simon-Andersen well that's cool, you have Israel railway, Riyadh to jeddah line and much more

[@NorbertCzandler]

Hi what do you think about Czech railways? In czechia we are very negative to our Railway system and České dráhy, our national operator, so i was wondering what's your opinion about our railway system and České dráhy. Btw very nice video, keep going 👏

[@Simon-Andersen]

Every country seems to hate its own national railway operator. Czech Railways (ČD) isn't bad at all-coverage is good, and trains are generally pretty frequent. However, they’re not very fast, and there are huge variations in quality across the network. That said, it’s improving a lot with all the new rolling stock being introduced!

[@NorbertCzandler]

@Simon-Andersen thanks!

[@bastianlind2008]

Im also gonna try to safe money for the talgo coaches just maybe between Odense and Padborg but i will still try

[@Simon-Andersen]

Hope you manage

[@bastianlind2008]

@Simon-Andersen me too

[@ClassyWhale]

I'm sorry you had a bad experience in Morocco! I had a great experience there myself, so if you'd ever like to give it another chance, I can send some tips 🙂

[@Simon-Andersen]

I think I just look too much like a pale, white tourist, especially as a reserved Nordic one being constantly approached by various scammers, street vendors, and people (both good and bad), was very overwhelming for me. I did have a much more pleasant experience hiking in the mountains and visiting smaller coastal towns, though. I just hope Morocco can tackle the few bad apples that ruin the country’s potential to be a truly great vacation destination!

[@melcox8993]

Hopefully you couldn't back to Australia and go on the Ghan to Ularu or the Indian pacific which is Sydney to Perth. Highly recommend and gorgeous scenery

[@Simon-Andersen]

I'm sure I'll be back at some point, but I must admit I'm not too interested in these mostly tourist-oriented trains.

[@geesehoward700]

biggest problem with the trains in the UK are the ticket prices. I wouldnt be surprised if we have the worst value for money in the world.

[@JaNieWie]

Well, the European Federation for Transport and Environment not too long ago stated that ticket prices are the most important factors decided by people when choosing the means of travel, and that in UK are some of the highest in Europe. In their comparative study, in which they determined best railway operators in Europe overall, GWR scored the lowest in ticket prices category, having only 1 point out of 10.

[@A_Canadian_In_Poland]

Kraków to Budapest is a rail route I might dream of. Flixbus dominates this route at present with a departure every half hour, and is the fastest way between the two cities at present (6 hours versus 8.5+ by other modes).

[@heybenjii5544]

Airplane?

[@A_Canadian_In_Poland]

@@heybenjii5544 There is no direct flight, and a connecting flight with LOT via WAW airport, plus travel times to and from the airports indeed takes that long total time.

[@cteasdale1979]

Love. Your. Videos from uk

[@Simon-Andersen]

Thank you so much 😀

[@Barney_the_Pufferfish]

try GoCollective who drives between Struer and Aarhus i believe

[@Simon-Andersen]

I have a different route in mind for them ;)

[@irnakkgd6364]

Hvilken program bruger du til at redigere videoer med?

[@Simon-Andersen]

Adobe pakken

[@irnakkgd6364]

Fedt, jeg vil selv gerne begynde på mine egne rejse videoer ^^

[@TomášChytka-k6j]

Czechia for the win! (Im from there)

[@doc7austin]

Hi Simon, thanks for this Q and A video. I think it was the right decision not to film in Ukraine - at least not at the moment.

[@iquit552]

Hi there, i enjoy your videos but i apolagize on behalf of the good people of my country Morocco

[@Simon-Andersen]

No need to apologize-I'm sure most Moroccans are lovely. It's just the few bad ones that end up ruining the overall experience. :(

[@BsBsBock]

Yesss I love that you hate the worst city in the world like me, THXXX