You do a terrific videos Mr. Anderson! The footage is intimate and your narration is informative and very easy to enjoy.
@pashazzubuntu7 ай бұрын
The best thing about this train is that it takes you from dry Caspian climate all the way to Siberia. Semey is a city heavily populated by Russians and they call it Semipalatinsk. It's in actual forest-ish Siberia, and you can take a night train from here to Novosibirsk which actually will bring you there in like 12 hours.
@interestingtv_7 ай бұрын
This is a Kazakh city not Russian
@pashazzubuntu7 ай бұрын
@@interestingtv_ of course it’s been populated by Russians primarily though and located near Russian border
@samalaimukhametova72903 ай бұрын
Странно это слышать, я думала на севере их много, а не в Семее.По крайней мере Семей у меня ассоциируется, как целом Восточный Казахстан нашими казахскими писателями(хоть есть и в другой части Казахстана писатели), и моими предками.
@gameguru14882 ай бұрын
@@pashazzubuntu nawadays Semey is not so heavily populated by russians. There are less russians in Semey than in Almaty.
@pjltopfca7 ай бұрын
This is a great video. The longer journey the better for me. I did 6 days on the Trans Siberian in 1986 from Moscow to Khabarovsk. That was in the days when it was the Soviet Union. Loved every minute of it.
@duffajfka3 ай бұрын
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.
@Simon-Andersen3 ай бұрын
Thank you! It's a interesting train though a lot of cool places!
@JuhaVnt7 ай бұрын
Great video again mate! Seems Latvians have sold their ex Riga - Moscow waggons to KZ. At least it looks like so 2:43 😎
@Simon-Andersen7 ай бұрын
That's because they are! I also made a video on those kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqjGpYSDnLxgbMk
@Rheilffordd7 ай бұрын
A lot of these carriages remind me of the Chinese Long Distance sleeper trains, very similar in bedding configuration between classes. I really enjoyed this, and all your other videos as well, taking train rides off the beaten mainstream European lines, nicely done! 😁
@Simon-Andersen7 ай бұрын
Yeah it's a similar setup to a lot of the classic Chinese trains
@sorencito39077 ай бұрын
Very interesting. I did not even know there were such trains in Kazakstan. I am going to do that one day. Thanks a lot.
@Kulla1berg7 ай бұрын
Nice video I have a dream travel from coast to coast in Canada I think that trip takes longer time but it is more like a train adventure
@ericdanielski48027 ай бұрын
Nice video.
@johnlang41987 ай бұрын
I have ridden the Indian Pacific in both directions. 68 hours each way, but the long servicing stops were broken up with off-train excursions at reasonable prices.
@vintagetriplex37287 ай бұрын
I would rather spend 13 hours on a train then on a bus.
@johannessamuelsson65787 ай бұрын
True. I wouldn't even ride a bus for four hours really.
@Simon-Andersen7 ай бұрын
Same!
@notactuallymyrealname7 ай бұрын
I loved this video, and at the same time I'm very sure I am not built for such a long train journey. 😂 I'd be curious to see how much of a difference a dining car would make, though. Thanks for taking us along on a beautiful trip!
@Simon-Andersen7 ай бұрын
I think the dining car would definitely help break up the journey! Might have to do a really long trip again to test out that theory
@saintyboy737 ай бұрын
I'd definitely do it , looks a great journey
@chrispwds5 ай бұрын
Useful one. I am Planning to travel in May from Astana to Aktau. Not much info about this route and trains. Thanks again for sharing. In India we used to travel in such long distance trains. It will be fun to travel in 3rd class and we can interact with local people ..
@Simon-Andersen4 ай бұрын
Have a great trip, it was a lot of fun even in second class we had plenty of interactions with the people in our neighbour cabins!
@natraj_j6 ай бұрын
Nice video. Watching your channel for the first time.
@robloxmumorialio858gamer46 ай бұрын
I got off the same train you were on 3 hours ago
@drdewott91547 ай бұрын
It looks neat but for a train trip that long you'd probably need more stuff onboard the train itself. Of course at least one dining car, maybe even multiple if for nothing else some variation and better capacity. Of course working internet access, and maybe some cars with other less conventional ammenities like an arcade or a small gym or just some commonspace. Amtrak kinda manages to make something of a commonspace with the lounge cars on their long distance services with a small cafe downstairs for light snacks.
@BengtHansves7 ай бұрын
Klasse "Kupej" ;-)
@johannessamuelsson65787 ай бұрын
Yeah, through-running a sleeper train over more than two days doesn't make much sense, that's why Amtrak break up many trans-continental services in Chicago. Kazhak Railways could probably do a similar thing with a hub in Astana. ÖBB could theoretically run a through train from Hamburg to Rome, but it makes more sense for them to run two separate routes out of Vienna.
@samtrak12047 ай бұрын
I rode Trans-Mongolian/Siberian trains from Beijing to Moscow/St. Petersburg with touring stops along the way. I would have gone crazy if I had ridden one slow train all the way.
@love_clap7 ай бұрын
проедь на поезде Москва - Владивосток. Он в пути 7 дней
@RussianSevereWeatherVideos7 ай бұрын
That looks like a lovely, long journey. If you wish to experience the longest of them all in top-line comfort I invite you to travel on an SV car on the Trans-Siberian railroad all the way from Moscow to Vladivostok. Would be a journey of a lifetime for sure!
@Ekatrans2 ай бұрын
Класс
@elya3163027 күн бұрын
During USSR time Moscow were planning to withdraw Northern Qazaqstan and join it to Russian Federation. That's why Northern part has modern infrastructure compared to other side of Qazaqstan.
@doc7austin7 ай бұрын
Did you have a chance to swim in the Caspian Sea ?
@Simon-Andersen7 ай бұрын
No unfortunately not
@jabberwockytdi89017 ай бұрын
How can you reduce a trip like that to 16 minutes??
@Simon-Andersen7 ай бұрын
By only leaving in the stuff I thought was interesting? I don't have the attention span to watch a 30 min video myself, so I don't create that kind of content.
@elya3163027 күн бұрын
This carriage is Ukrainian made, which is I love
@ringo75617 ай бұрын
Did you fly back out of there?
@Simon-Andersen7 ай бұрын
No I caught this train kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqjGpYSDnLxgbMk
@shk4397 ай бұрын
Are you spaghetti road? The voice is so similar
@Simon-Andersen7 ай бұрын
No but we are both Danish so the accent is similar :-)
@iankemp11317 ай бұрын
Average speed roughly 30 mph.
@EverydayInUa16 күн бұрын
Ukrainian transformer coaches
@samalaimukhametova72903 ай бұрын
You're probably used to European distances, or maybe you're not happy with the speed