Traveling on Sweden's CLASSIC long distance trains from the 1980s, are they still good?

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Simon Andersen

Күн бұрын

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@SuperalbsTravels 10 ай бұрын

A lovely journey, thanks for sharing it with us, Simon channel. 🙏

@petitraistaru5368 10 ай бұрын

Love u man

@Simon-Andersen 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Albie channel, I appreciate it ❤️

@musikogfis203 10 ай бұрын

manufactured by Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget (ASEA). The RC loco series are one of the first tyristor controlled electric locos. Still going strong. 💪🏻

@morganjohansson3341 10 ай бұрын

Vilken fin bana mellan Göteborg och Kalmar, trodde inte att den skulle plocka så många städer/stationer utan ett enda byte för att ta sig till Växjö och Kalmar. Väldigt robusta tåg dessa intercity tågen, känns väldigt tidslösa. Och fint när man enkelt kan växla tåget utan att ha en hytt i varje ände.

@andersnilsson8303 10 ай бұрын

The single seat in 1st class (both X2000 high speed train, and other SJ trains, as this one) is just wonderful.

@mdhazeldine 8 күн бұрын

Came here after seeing this train in one of your recent videos. I love that black livery and the old school look of the ribbed metal. Very classy. The seats also look like Ikea lounge chairs, which is so Swedish! haha

@samtrak1204 10 ай бұрын

Excellent presentation per usual.

@quark31 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this. I have had a wonderful opportunity to travel twice in 2004/2005 on this - one in spring and one in winter, all the way from Stockholm Central to Narvik, both during the day and during the night using Scanrail pass. Amazing experience! I would do it again when i get the opportunity!

@Simon-Andersen 10 ай бұрын

Sounds like a great trip! Fingers crossed you can get to take a similar trip again!

@markmbalagtas2230 10 ай бұрын

As usual very well done. Hopefully soon we will see more videos on classic trains still in use in Europe ❤ keep it up Simon

@alangordon3283 10 ай бұрын

Merry Xmas and a happy new years to you and yours.

@Simon-Andersen 10 ай бұрын

You too!

@johannessamuelsson6578 10 ай бұрын

Kalmar Central reminds me very much of Luleå Central, both similar interior and amenities, though Luleå has no luggage storage. I travelled through Luleå a couple of times. That train at 2:08 is an X11 EMU, which you can see from its two double-leaf doors, where the X12 has one single-leaf door and the X14 has two single-leaf doors per car. You mentioned the Contessa trains in Växjö (8:42), and SJ actually used to operate X32 class Contessa trains on this Göteborg - Kalmar route for a short while, but this was highly criticized and promptly restored to Rc6+1980s stock.

@roxxma 10 ай бұрын

The RC6 is similar to the RC4, which was the basis for Amtrak's AEM-7 locomotive that served the Boston-Washington DC corridor from the 1970s until a few years ago. They were a very reliable workhorse. Those Danish trains were demonstrated on Boston's commuter rail system in the 1990s. I never got a chance to ride one, but I did tour one when it was on display at one of Boston's main railroad stations.

@jobroooo 10 ай бұрын

Not Danish, Swedish.

@roxxma 10 ай бұрын

@@jobroooo Apologies, I wasn't clear. I was referring to the ABB built DSB rubber ended DMUs featured in the video. There was a demonstration in the early 1990s where one was run on Boston's commuter rail system for a month or so.

@wotajared 10 ай бұрын

I love the IC trains in Dalabanan (up to the mentioned Falun). Actually coaches vary and there are subtypes with different sorts of seats (the legacy Blue X coaches are IMO the best), BF7 is the "weird one" that carries the personnel but those seats are quasi 1st class. Once you get some SJ loyalty points and there is a bistro, complementary coffee! At the moment I would say these trains are the best bang for the buck, and the routes I take are not covered by the "snabbtåg" EMUs

@anderslarsen6009 10 ай бұрын

Just a note, the Øresundtog also travels to Kalmar, as shows on the departure bostd at Kalmar. So its not just to Växjö :-) Btw before the toilet review you told about a strange seating layout but I couldn't see it, so what was it?

@Simon-Andersen 10 ай бұрын

Only bays of 4 with the luggage racks rotated 90 degrees to follow the back of the seats, you don't see that very often anymore!

@elliottp3751 10 ай бұрын

Nice video! When I grew up in Borlänge (close to Falun) me and family usually took the SJ Inter City service down to Stockholm every now and then. I have such great memories of these trains, I remember when the locomotive and the carriages was painted in the SJ blue delivery.

@MrTryxxter 10 ай бұрын

That Rc6 loco in the black with silver livery is one of my all time favourites. I really really really like it 😀

@rannveigwie8632 10 ай бұрын

During the 90s the SJ trains were blue. I think that was more beautiful than the black. Before that thecolor was a redish brown.

@PendolinoMarco 10 ай бұрын

Hi Simon, That is an awesome and beasty classic InterCity from SJ! I also like the black colours on the Locomotive ans the Carriages, That gives the classic train a really tough and strong look 😃 Sweden is the country for train geeks like us 😃 Great trip through Southern Sweden and you are the best Simon, Keep on moving Bro! By the way: Did you also spot that beautiful Swedish Lady with glasses and dark hair on the right at 7:02? 😁

@Simon-Andersen 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Marco! No I didn't but she doesn't look very pleased 😂

@PendolinoMarco 10 ай бұрын

@@Simon-Andersen Hahahaha you are so funny Bro! But one thing I know is that Sweden (and also Denmark) has a lot of beautiful women, That is typical Scandinavian fact 😃

@KennysFilm 9 ай бұрын

Super gode videoer du har lavet på din kanal. Super lækker rejsevlogs med masser af reviews og historie. Følger godt med :) Jeg har et spørgsmål til dine thumbnails, hvordan får du togene til at være så meget i fokus? Bruger du et program til at lave thumbnails?

@Simon-Andersen 9 ай бұрын

Takker! Jeg bruger photoshop, for at fremhæve toget, klipper jeg det ud så det bliver sit eget lag og så sætter jeg en skygge effekt på det lag 😃

@KennysFilm 9 ай бұрын

@@Simon-AndersenAh ja. Smart :)

@the_vehicle_spotter 10 ай бұрын

You misspelled ASEA but nice video 👍

@Simon-Andersen 10 ай бұрын

Ah whoops, little too quick on thst one

@the_vehicle_spotter 10 ай бұрын

@@Simon-Andersenhappens 😄

@trainenthusiast7695 10 ай бұрын

Old tech is what seems to work the best here, the new trains just break down in winter. That's why I love seeing our old locomotives going strong still doing their job as usual.

@nivardofloresperez1169 10 ай бұрын

Cool " Old Train" 👍

@Kreicss 10 ай бұрын

Hello! I would love to see you ride the new Latvian škoda trains that entered service very recently!

@Simon-Andersen 10 ай бұрын

Some time in the future!

@railmaster.7752 10 ай бұрын

If it's cold outside they are warm and cosy inside, if it's warm outside they are even warmer inside! Built originally for 130 km/, later 160 km/h when the germans built for 200 km/h more than ten years earlier.

@jackforrest242 10 ай бұрын

Super cool!

@Hoolopy_01 5 ай бұрын

(Fun fact) 0:10, in 1993 One of the X2000 trains visited America for their north east corridor high-speed train development.

@Simon-Andersen 5 ай бұрын

Indeed! And there was also one sold to china! I covered it in my X2000 video :D

@ar_chbtw Ай бұрын

these trains are on the main route from my local station to stockholm so ive been on quite a few, theya re nice. EDIT: not same interior (i think)

@johanfagerstromjarlenfors 10 ай бұрын

You were not right about the inhabitants in Växjö. In the city there's about 70k and in the municipality it is 100k. Just like Kalmar is about 40k in the city but about 70k in the municipality.

@Simon-Andersen 10 ай бұрын

Okay close enough