Crossing Romania on an Amazing 50 YEAR OLD Sleeper Train

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[@JonathanButler-zd8qt]

I really like the fact that I'm able to listen to your voice and enjoy the video. Instead of having to read everything and watch at the same time.

[@rechinutul]

Solid trip with decent night sleep conditions! But i must say, the private operator Astra Tras Carpathic has the best night train conditions in all of Romania! As a recommendation, please try some of the day trips in Romania through the Carpathian Mountains as we have a lot of day trains (with windows that open) that go from Transilvania to Moldova and you will find some of the most breathtaking views anywhere!

[@absurdalny]

Do you reccomend any specific routes? Would love to visit Romania this or next year :)

[@TOWrou]

@@absurdalny u can try Brasov-Iasi, Deva-Craiova, Bucharest-Brasov, Deda-Brasov, Cluj-Suceava and many more, that's are the routes which are coming at this moment in my mind

[@stanislavkostarnov2157]

@@TOWrou did a trip from Cluj all the way to the coast once (I think we ended in Constantia, but not sure, since we immediately traveled on north towards Jurilovca)... that was one spectacular trip, both the mountain parts and later the plains with flowering fields.

[@petrskala5592]

I remember travelling in these couchettes with my family from Czechia to Italy and back in the early 2000s. The middle bunk was spectacular as your head was at the same level as fully opened window. Great A/C for hot summer evenings!

[@rezaalan3991]

Great trip. Perfect combination of Electric Locomotive from 60's and the coaches age around 50 years old. I think older rolling stock sometimes give you more comfort than current rolling stock.

[@staicurobert]

The first train is a Malaxa, built in Romania before the 2nd WW actually.

[@ovidiumoro5470]

Old but gold! I prefer couchette tavelling over night!

[@herrmeistermann2426]

2:40 "That erhm.. thing" I think is the Class 78 railcar build by Malaxa in the late 1930's and early 40's.

[@Balance-v8x]

Childhood memories! 😊

[@Michael64425]

Excellent looks like the train I used in 1992😳still good prices and clean always important.I would really like to return to Romania ❤

[@johnmehaffey9953]

I love the old style sleeper coaches, nice vid 😊

[@dansorescu5720]

Welcome to Timișoara, our beautiful City! The train station is a disgrace, but works are on the way.

[@Sevan59]

respect to Timisoara, home of Romanian revolution. chapeau off.

[@dansorescu5720]

@Sevan59 much obliged!

[@andr0lyn788]

I looks decent compared to the one in my home city Buzău. I mean it's nice, I like the old school design, but It could use a new coat of paint and maybe put a roof over the other lines and to repair the underground tunnel between the lines.

[@damcoentertainment3956]

It looks a lot better than Bucharest North. XD

[@dansorescu5720]

@damcoentertainment3956 it s much smaller. Bucharest also has it s beautiful buildings and great Parks, but i wouldn t trade it for my beloved hometown.

[@MartinBrez]

I've done a day trip train from Bucharest to Sinaia last year. I've also taken the train from Bucharest to Veliko Tarnovo in Bulgaria last year too which was in a Turkish couchette carriage IIRC b

[@kevinellis8869]

Good trip. Nice to see you back in Europe again. 'Talgoesque' can we get this added to the Oxford English Dictionary?

[@kskssxoxskskss2189]

Gorgeous! Poirot might be in the next room.

[@theobrattinga500]

Great video.

[@smallworld-4445]

Been on the Sleeper Bucharest-Brasov-Sibiu-Budapest twice in 2022 and 2023. But if you are in those parts, I especially remember the Moldovan Sleper from Chisinau towards Bucharest. That is a historic experience. Personally for landscpe, I truely enjoyed Sofia to Bucharest once you leave Sofia for the next 2-3 hours

[@lukestevens8735]

I took the same sort of sleeper from Bucharest to Budapest back in 01. Very much the same experience: comfortable, friendly staff. I didn't even know to look for the shower. It was a great journey, apart from the single flea bite...

[@AML-FRL]

Nice video & very informative !! 🚂🚃

[@mariadelmarjimenezarroyo]

Superb video

[@WingsWheelsMore]

The only Romanian train I’ve used, so far, was the airport special from Gare de Nord to OTP. What a nightmare! Sardines have roomier accommodation. Maybe I chose the wrong time to travel but a two coach train going to an international airport doesn’t seem adequate….Hasn’t put me off train travel though, I’m planning to do the one in this video but in reverse. (The landscape in your suitcase promo looks like the south Pennines, east or west?)

[@seekingtravel]

This is the same train as the one I reviewed. I am glad you agree as well that this is a great type of train car. I slept in a couchette though which is also very comfortable.

[@BengtHansves]

Almost EVERY station in eastern Europe behind the iron curtain and build in the 50's are almonst the same in architecture ! A big central hall with these huge front windows !

[@ChrisGBusby]

Those rooms haven't changed at all since the 1980s. Even the red mattresses look as if they haven't been changed :P

[@holidayaviation7078]

I can't believe such an old train is still running.

[@BengtHansves]

CFR 40 are an ASEA license !

[@srikanthshastry4546]

These classic loco hauled coaches are still one of the best in my opinion....with a modern loco like the Siemens Vectron (230kmph with ETCS) these trains (200-230 max kmph) would still be very much relevant as both day and night trains all over EU

[@mureseanu976]

Considering lots of rolling stock being already certified in almost all of European Union, with RIC certified coaches, they would be more reliable in the long term than electric multiple units that are meddlesome when pending authorisation. I believe the future can have a better alternative, than rolling plastics with hard seating...

[@stage01]

you should check the Romanian, open space, Train Museum from Reșița, Caraș-Severin 😜.

[@aLightingale]

Do check out the sleeper train from Bucharest to Chișinău. Very old cars as well, and the Chișinău station is cute. You could then connect it with the sleeper train from Chișinău to Kyiv, which wasn't as noteworthy to me, the cars were fairly new I think.

[@BengtHansves]

In the summer of 2021 I travelled with this train in a coach from Budapest. But my train wnt on a more southern route along the Donau My ultimate goal was the Black Sea

[@Imadeboi]

very nice :)

[@luciandiaconu4665]

Romania is a nice country.

[@TransportationFanHU]

Fourth! (From HU)

[@MrSzalonnaOriginal]

I'm from Hungary too. Romania doesn't exist.

[@seekingtravel]

You should take the train in Romania through the Moldova region. Now there's a truly unexplored land. I would have to warn you. It's quite a challenge :)

[@alt8620]

my train was delayed 90 mins (both when going to bucharest and when returning)

[@cinamar221]

next time in Romania if you want a regular modern cheap train use a private company like Astra

[@rub3.087]

Romania orderd 37 alstom coradia emus one is currently running on Bucharest to Brasov route,as a video suggestion

[@kskssxoxskskss2189]

Love the global languages info.

[@azuma892]

First! :)

[@BengtHansves]

coach made by Astra or VEB Waggonbau DDR ?

[@markoobid2005]

None of them, it's an ex-DB (Bundesbahn - West Germany) sleeping car, built by Hansa in Bremen from 1957. One of the best of its time, used to have a shower and air conditioning, though it's no more active on CFR...

[@ExiSTEIN]

Is OK,Ich Verstehe Deutsch.

[@8r1tK1Dtia]

Second!

[@uncipaws7643]

These German sleeping-cars should be air-conditioned but maybe the system was out of order. They were replaced by the ComfortLine car (that now operate for ÖBB nightjet) and some were sold to Romania.

[@noah.lifestyle]

Zugnummer bitte in Zukunft in die Beschreibung

[@kskssxoxskskss2189]

Food?

[@martinhallermann4855]

Warum kommt jede Minute eine Werbung?

[@kirito6021]

Second :)

[@wainber1]

Having a toilet that flashes right onto the tracks? No doubt behind the times and absolutely disgusting. Not having a working shower also isn't so good. Considering that CFR isn't the national railway of Japan (Japan Railway), on-time performance appear to be pretty good.

[@mafuyu1380]

you sound so cute

[@mafuyu1380]

Are you in Romania? Beware of vampires

[@RussellJamesStevens]

Lots of Romanians in western Europe begging and scamming.

[@NonstopEurotrip]

Your point?

[@CuApaBaiatu]

Stop giving beggers money, what about educating the population