Riding Slovak Classic Train "Horehronec" Margecany - Banská Bystrica

Train: Regionálny rýchlik No. 822 "Horehronec"
From: Margecany
To: Zvolen os.st.
Via: Slovak Paradise, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Route: Gelnica, Mníšek nad Hnilcom, Mlynky, Národný park Slovenský raj, Dedinky, Stratená, Telgárt Loop, Telgárt penzión, Červená Skala, Brezno, Podbrezová, Banská Bystrica
Train Operator: Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko (ZSSK)
Travel Class: Second Class
Car No.: 1
Car Type: Bee (UIC - Y)
Car manufacturer: Waggonbau Bautzen, German Democratic Republic
Distance: 195 km
Scheduled travel time: 4 hours and 2 min
Departure from Margecany: 14:48
Arrival in Zvolen osobná stanica: 18:50
Travel season: July 2020
Diesel Locomotive Margecany - Zvolen: ZSSK 754-011-5 "Brejlovec"
Music used in intro: United In Purpose by Revo musicvine.com/track/revo/unit...

[@cijaksavola1096]

Original route of fast train (rýchlik) Horehronec was from our capital Bratislava to Košice 2nd largest city on east, via Zvolen and Červená Skala.This video remininds me my childhood.I always watched the changing the Locos in station Margecany,there waited for us electric Locomotive “Pershing”(Škoda class 163,3kV)and pulled us to Košice..Thank you 👍

[@CodeSquares]

12:38 you're so right. That double click/thud of the unwelded lines is what I grew up riding in Poland, so many times. Of course the wagons are very familiar as well, I feel like I know exactly the sound of the opening doors or the fold-down tables and chairs ... Great video, thanks!

[@tumaczfinskiegoblt4396]

Your videos are a true pleasure to watch. This one, with the Horehronec crossing througn Slovak hinterlands, is exactly the type of train travel I can rememeber in our charming central Europe in the 80's and 90's. Although Google does not feature "smell and vibration" (yet!) through the browser, I can almost FEEL the train. I also appreciate your knowledgeable notes throughout your productions. Best regards from Poland.

[@_mynewcareer]

Slovakia seems like a beautiful country

[@spdzodzo]

it's really nice although one of the poorest regions of slovakia with high level of unemployment, it's a great place to spend holiday but tough place to actually live day-by-day

[@rodicaherescu9249]

Like Romania, I have been in both!

[@moyaschloegl7932]

Stolen from Hungary in 1919, after WWI.

[@Majkl.]

@@moyaschloegl7932 🖕

[@Ignisan_66]

​@@moyaschloegl7932 Cope some more. Slovakia is an independent country.

[@monicamccarthy3932]

I never miss any of doc7austin's videos. Love the excellent information. I have no idea how he gathers all the info about the makes and models of the trains and the history of the towns along the route. I can't even pronounce any of the names of towns in this video, and I had to look on google maps to see where Slovakia is actually located, but this was a great virtual journey for me and an escape from my reality for about 27 mins. Great job.

[@DanielsUKT]

Great trip across slovakia the scenery was very beautiful so much forests mountains some fields and river aswell including small villages and towns along the way 😍

[@vasilicastoica416]

Felicitări prietene, Foarte frumos video 🤝🤝🤝🤝🎥🎥🎥🎥👍👍👍👍

[@milankanka5329]

Veľmi krásne video 😎😎😎😎. Perfektné , super 😎😎😎😎. Srdečne pozdravujem 😇😇😇😇.

[@spdzodzo]

thanks for this video, it really warmed me up in these winter months, great summer journey through some of the places i visited, slovak paradise is really nice piece of nature makes me want to plan visit in kosice and travel back via this route

[@erikandrasik8667]

Man what a wonderful video !! I live in Slovakia, love trains and this country through the middle of Slovakia has its own essence and real beauty but I never went there by the train and I planned it many times :D And i thought that horehronec train was cancelled and in the past it was more than just 3 carriages and went up to Bratislava... Time to go there finally after this video... Well done and make some more videos from Slovakia trains !! greet and thanks !!

[@CreatorPolar]

The horehronec wasn’t really canceled it was just shortened to Banska Bystrica and got demoted to REX status

[@vasilicastoica416]

Perfect concediul tău excelent 👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌🚆🚆🚆🚆🚆😃😃😃😃

[@peter_janicek]

Second green vagon was a special vagon renovated in Zvolen its only 1 in Slovakia

[@sylviodampflok0140]

VEB Waggonbau Bauten, Y/B70 Waggon Beautiful! Greetings from East Germany ;-)

[@maki19942207]

I would like to correct your statement at the very end of the video. Armored Train Hurban was indeed used during Slovak National Uprising, but that's not the correct one. The original one was scrapped, this is only a movie replica.

[@dennisschafer4883]

Interessantes Video . Danke

[@Deathcult82]

Perfect train for railfans.. :)

[@petko8191]

🇸🇰👍👍👍

[@Blablagerman]

Very interesting! I didn't know about that Slovak narodny national park, thanks for uploading

[@Jesse2ful]

Have to agree more beautiful than New Zealand

[@nairajan84]

Hi there, i have watched lots of your train ridding videos and still am watching, nice work, beautiful sceneries, what about covid? Have u had ? During pandemic you were traveling, can you share your experience if you had any covid variant? Since you were flying and ridding, which one is safer to travel with?

[@zavaraninoveuhorky]

25:50 I pass that train every month from Žilina to Banská Bystrica

[@rdrogel]

Where's the last part of your trip to Almaty?

[@PrincipeMaquiavelo]

€ 29 for all the trains you want for a week?

[@Jesse2ful]

Slovakia for me !!!

[@mrhudec-sq4eg]

Valaská tam bývam

[@janpf0624]

Re-upload?

[@doc7austin]

copyright strike; i had to reupload with different music

[@cestmoi1262]

So to go from km 175 to km 195 took 41 minutes. The average speed on the entire route was approx. 50km/h and the train arrives 17 minutes late. Is there a problem???

[@doc7austin]

no problem with me - i guess this is normal

[@cestmoi1262]

@@doc7austin There will be no improvement unless one realizes that there is a problem to begin with. BTW, I always enjoy your vlogs, interesting and informative.

[@nikodzepina2876]

@@cestmoi1262 what "problem" for a God sake? 🤔 It's a singe track, local railway with almost zero traffic (less than 20 passenger trains a day and no freight) built during a WWII mostly as a back-up east-west connection. It doesn't serve any city, not even any larger town. The other two major east-west lines lie within some 30kms from there. Jeez, do some research before you come up wit ideas, please...

[@cestmoi1262]

@@nikodzepina2876 No research necessary: a train that can't move faster than 30km/h on an absolutely straight, flat track has a problem. If you can't see that, it's ok with me. Possibly you are more used to accepting life the way it is rather than the way it should be. In the end I just gave my opinion. I can't change anything either.

[@nikodzepina2876]

@@cestmoi1262 you said 50, now it's 30... I see - it's not about a willingness, I'm afraid you are not capable to do that research after all...

[@user-yk5lp5gb1m]

places similar to the Russian hinterland

[@peterniepel6218]

Sadly, ZSSK has very much killed this train - nowadays, instead of old, but very cozy compartment coaches with half-slid windows, this line is operated by Class 861 DMUs, which are noisy, ugly, uncomfortable and don't even have proper openable windows. All in the name of ,,progress"...

[@user-wk1kv7pk5u]

Как хорошо что нет коммунистов.

[@heno_3098]

Если бы их небыло, то этая жел.дорога вообще бы не существовала...

[@user-wk1kv7pk5u]

Да наверное в условиях либеральной рыночной экономики тяжелее что-то постррить,всё упирается в деньги.А страна не сильно богатая.

[@druhyprogram]

@@heno_3098 Ta trat je z roku 1937, takze dost dlho pred komunistami...

[@heno_3098]

Takže by vydržala dodnes v tomto stave ak by ju ČSD za socializmu nerekonštruovali niekoľko krát? To mi chceš naznačiť. Ak by nebolo komunistov-bolševikov, tak hlavne treba predpokladať, že by nás hitler poslal na Madagaskar a do koncentrákov, takže by ti už asi bolo jedno či táto trať existuje a v akom je stave.