To Sopot aboard Eurocity Train EC 59 "Berlin-Gdynia-Express" in First Class (PKP Intercity)

Train: Eurocity EC 59
Brand Name: Berlin-Gdynia-Express
in Poland: IC 59/75000 "Gedania"
From: Berlin Ostbahnhof
To: Sopot, Poland
Full Route of Train: Berlin Hauptbahnhof - Gdynia Główna
Travelling via: Frankfurt/Oder, Rzepin, Poznań Główny, Gniezno,
Inowrocław, Bydgoszcz, Tczew, Gdańsk Główny
Travel Class: First Class
Car No: 272
Seat No: 82
Occupancy in First Class: around 15%
Restaurant Car operator: Wars
Train operator: DB Fernverkehr (Deutsche Bahn), PKP Intercity
Ticket: Bilet Weekendowy Max First Class
Price: EUR 39
Bought on: intercity.pl
Scheduled travel time: 6 hours and 6 minutes
Departure: 12h53 cet
Arrival: 18h59 cet
Travel season: Summer 2020
Electric Locomotive (Berlin - Gdynia): PKP Intercity 5 370 006
"Husarz" (Siemens EuroSprinter ES64U4)
Eurocity Zug Berlin - Danzig in der 1. Klasse
Międzynarodowy pociąg Eurocity nr EC 59 Berlin - Sopot - Gdynia w 1. klasa
Intro Music: Bluebird by The Lakes
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[@massivley]

Fascinating to watch never get bored with watching these

[@Cabbieguy78]

Agreed!!

[@terencemccarthy8615]

Not only a great train video but also a bit of a history lesson...danke and Dziękuję

[@osasunaitor]

Stunning trip! PKP is definitely one of my favourite European railway companies :D Poland should be really proud of their train network

[@kolejpolska]

It's quite surprising, because Poles are quite sceptical about our railways, especially the national ones ;)

[@anthonyphillips9787]

My last holiday was Gdańsk and Sopot. Beautiful part of Poland

[@zagstar]

I really love all the extra information and “narration” of what we’re seeing, very well done

[@netrhyda8761]

Very nice, that's what we need right now, a nice vacation!! Thx for taking us along!

[@ileanascarlat3687]

Thank You very much for your detailed documentaries. At this moment it is the only way we can see the world .

[@brendandevlin6328]

Hypnotic video as usual. Hopefully I'll eventually get to Poland in 2021 as plans went array for 2020.

[@rashish87]

Every time I feel I’m travelling with you in vlogs 🥳🥳 Great informative channel👏👏💡💡 Keep 🆙 the great 👍 work

[@marcinha1973]

Nice. I took the trip from Sopot to Berlin. Great trip, brilliant city. Can't wait to do it again. Btw, it's not Port of Gdańsk, it's the historical shipyard.

[@mikgeb1777]

20:43 it's not Jezioro Laskowickie (Laskowickie Lake), it's a bridge over the Wda River in Kozłowo (near Terespol Pomorski)

[@mikolaex7932]

9:40 the original name of the train is ,,EN-57". ,,Kibel" or ,,toilet" is just a nickname :)

[@tgg1765]

The name is more like the 'outhouse' than a toilet.

[@dominikr8428]

it is very much a toilet, what you suggest would be wychodek or something like that

[@mikolaex7932]

@@dominikr8428 That would be sooooooo gross

[@jaroslawpeter3586]

Kibel word is either slang synonym for toilet or bucket in a prison to defecate. You should not use words which you don't know. In this case it looks vulgar.

[@doc7austin]

but i have read terms like "Kibel Paradise" from Polish rail enthusiasts

[@mfxx888]

Poland is such a nice country

[@mikebaginy8731]

That was an interesting video of a wonderful journey, thanks for the film! I love the Tri-City area and have often driven there by car from the Cologne area. Now I'm wishing to travel by train.

[@belus-jp6pc]

I' m Polish. I live in Poznań. I ' love Sopot. Gdynia is also cool. It's worth the trip !

[@xisssd]

Greetings from Gdynia

[@marcinha1973]

greetings from Sopot.

[@elboberinho]

Greetings from Pruszcz Gdański

[@volkhen0]

19:30 PESA trains are manufactured in Bydgoszcz, you can see factory when leaving Bydgoszcz Główna on the right.

[@davidsweeney111]

Excellent and informative video, thanks!

[@Tomo-ow8zp]

9:40 Long live Kibel! :)

[@tgg1765]

Kibel will always be with us!

[@doc7austin]

and turbokibel

[@tgg1765]

​@@doc7austin That is why I say always with us -reincarnation;)

[@TravelALBERT]

@@doc7austin I have everytime to think about the toilett in Polish 😂👍.

[@doc7austin]

Kibel is derived from the German word: Kübel (manual toilet without flushing)

[@volkhen0]

19:13 in the interwar years Bydgoszcz was in Poland. City was called Bromberg before 1920 and between 1939-45. And before partitions it was of course Polish too with some German minority.

[@noeldunsky]

I took this great train ride in the opposite direction and was very impressed with the food and general service!! :)

[@jaroslawpeter3586]

Of course BYDGOSZCZ "before 1945 belonged to Germany" because they invaded Poland in 1939. Polish government after defeat did not sign capitulation so they occupied Bydgoszcz the same as other Polish cities, as the result of invasion. Before 1939 Bydgoszcz was a Polish city.

[@leonkluge458]

Again a great trip report!!! :)

[@marrakech20051]

Grüße aus Polen :)

[@jerzydygas2121]

Grüße aus Berlin 😁😂🤣

[@TheTertus]

Bydgoszcz after 1918 was in Poland.

[@user-mh2uj7ns6h]

He's lying like that in a lot of videos, despite people were correcting him for years. He's a German nationalist. I would be very aware of such dangerous people in Poland.

[@volkhen0]

1920*

[@adamzieba8364]

19:11 Small correction: German name for Bydgoszcz is Bromberg and it was part of Prussia between 1772 and 1920 (Partitions of Poland), but from 1920 it is part of independent Poland (with the exception of the period between September 1939 and January 1945 when it was under German Nazi military occupation).

[@cestmoi1262]

I like the name "Bromberg' much better. Beats bdgszczczszsczzzz

[@user-df3ty8ei2u]

@@cestmoi1262 bromberg is a shitty name tbh bydgoszcz is a complicated name but still better than bromberg.. it doesn't even look polish.. and what a surprise we are in poland, an independent state, not part of germany or USSR, so we can have our name thank you.

[@volkhen0]

@@cestmoi1262 Bydgošč, better?

[@theobrattinga500]

Great video !!

[@andrzejmaranda3699]

Fantastic!

[@rsconrado]

Thank you for the very nice journey👍

[@jaroslawpeter3586]

You mention just economically prosperous Poznań in your description but you could add GNIEZNO - the first capital of Polish Kingdom. Also WRZEŚNIA is historic town. In 19th century Polish school children there started patriotic strike against German occupying authorities. They had refused to use mandatory German language at school and started to speak Polish, which until then was forbidden and severely punished. This spontanous strike became a symbol for Poles on their way to regain independence.

[@minimoocher822]

Another really interesting journey - at least you had a little bit of air conditioning this time - unlike your overnight sleeper trip in Hungary!

[@doc7austin]

the aircon was not very strong unfortunately; these cars cannot operate with outside temperatures over 30C

[@ethankellogg8087]

When the pandemic is over, South Africa should be next on your list. It is something special to ride on a South African train.

[@stanley84pl]

Hi , second class after crossing Border from Germany to Poland AC is off , full load of people. PKP make trains great again

[@dziendobry6917]

Nice video :)

[@user-df3ty8ei2u]

22:44 i love how you call them kibel and not their real name, en-57 (kibel means toilet in polish so of course has the meaning of a bad train)

[@adamkawecki7406]

One day you should visit Toruń - one of few cities that survived the war without damage, a UNESCO heritage site.

[@euglev3548]

And that is where Nicolaus Copernicus was born , studied and proved that Earth goes around the Sun not Sun around Earth . Plus he proved Earth was not flat .

[@jeromebano1125]

Nice journey I rememeber Frankurt an der Oder travelling through there on the Jan Kiepura Night Train between Brussels & Warsawa Centralna , so then when we arrived at the border remember being woken by the German & Polish Border Guards we were en route to Krakow this was back in spring 2005 did a loco change at Rzepin as well.

[@michaszuty5035]

Gedania was for many years a night train that ran from Berlin Lichtenberg to Gdynia via Szczecin. It was cut in 2000 I believe. It was also called Smuggler Train (przemytnik).

[@euglev3548]

Correct , but I am not sure about year 2000 , I think it was much earlier , when it was withdrawn . There was, for some time, a daily train from Berlin to Gdynia ( Olsztyn , Elk ) called "Mare Balticum" . That was in middle of the 90’s

[@Nazir-WalkAroundTheCity]

Wow super widok super film 👌👍 Brawo ❤️ A u mnie spacer po mieście 😊 Pozdrawiam z Warszawa Polska 😊🇵🇱😘✋

[@ArturKolejarz]

Fajna podróż, bardzo ciekawie pokazana (Tyskie) i super zmontowana. Rozumie że jechaliście we dwoje.

[@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS]

nicely presented. thank you

[@grubertos]

22:24 This is the site of the former Gdańsk Shipyard. Now smaller shipbuilding companies are located there. The Port area is invisible from the train of this route.

[@henryks1199]

I recommend Sopot - beautiful beaches - very cheap, they cook tasty and people are very nice and especially kind. I recommend everyone to come to Sopot and visit Gdańsk, Gdynia, Malbork immediately.

[@Thomas1980]

Fantastic Video!👍 👍Thumbs Up & Like718

[@xisssd]

Greetings from Gdynia ; -)

[@PlaneandTrainWindowSeat]

19:13 Just to clarify. Until 1918 Bydgoszcz belonged to Kingdom of Prussia and after I World War it returned back to Poland. Any reason why the train went via Września? It is rather unusual for trains between Poznań and Gdynia to take this route.

[@zbigniewkisielinski9841]

false

[@PlaneandTrainWindowSeat]

@@zbigniewkisielinski9841 My bad. It was until 1920.

[@zbigniewkisielinski9841]

@@PlaneandTrainWindowSeat after partition Poland 1795 to 1918, Gdańsk = after partition Poland 1793 - 1918 (free town 1939)

[@PlaneandTrainWindowSeat]

@@zbigniewkisielinski9841 I meant Bydgoszcz returned back to Poland in 1920

[@dershyguy6172]

There were modernisation works on Polish railway line 353, so they had to go round Września.

[@TravelALBERT]

In 1 week I'll travel to Poland!!!

[@AlexONL]

Apparently the Bydgoszcz - Gdynia line had been modernized over the past few years. I remember back in 2008 when i took the train from Bydgoszcz to Gdansk the train couldn't go any faster than a whopping 70 km/h due to the poor condition of the tracks!

[@adamkawecki7406]

2008 is a bygone era, the line now is fully modernized

[@johnmehaffey9953]

That water looks Baltic, I’ll get my coat

[@daraka1754]

It's not first class if there's no compartments! That's the perfect train!

[@stagna1959]

In Europe they have weird perception what first class is in train. Little bigger, more comfortable seat than usual and they already label it first class. In former Soviet Union first class was only spacious 2 bed compartment with bedsheets, blankets, pillows,often complimentary slippers, newspapers, tea and biscuits. If in compartment was 4 berths, it was 2nd class, if compartments were "open", without doors, so called platzkart, it was 3rd class. Sitting car, so called общий вагон had no class at all. It was cheapest and the worst place in train. In jõurney more than couple of hours everyone tried to get at least 3rd class platzkart or 2nd class compartment ticket. 1st class was very expensive and only few passengers could afford it.

[@nouminboya]

Great !!! 😍🤩

[@volkhen0]

19:04 Bydgoszcz, my city :) I have to go to Berlin for some sightseeing.

[@faustynandrzejewski3346]

super tròjmiasto

[@mariusklos9987]

good staf like always

[@amtrakharry]

That was very interesting...:):):)

[@bartekkolej]

Pięknie :) Pozdrawiam

[@TravelALBERT]

Oh nice!!!! I have travel Vlogs about the journey too

[@Berti17Berti17]

Hey, do u remember me lol.

[@TravelALBERT]

@@Berti17Berti17 I think Pete Brandy?

[@Berti17Berti17]

@@TravelALBERT yes hahaha

[@TravelALBERT]

@@Berti17Berti17 oh nice!!! I think you are loving trains too. I doo trains Videos too.

[@Berti17Berti17]

@@TravelALBERT I like time yeah. :)

[@zerberus500]

thumbs UP!👍 I would like to make this trip in other direction in June, I think it's much cheaper to buy the ticket directly in Poland (railway station) and not in advance online - is that correct?

[@maciejcz4356]

No. It is cheaper to buy the tickets on-line if you buy 30 to 2 days before. Between 2 and 0 days the price is the same on-line and at the station.

[@tomodomo1000]

Travelling form Warsaw to Berlin was cheaper on DB site than on PKP. For the same train...

[@fritzmuller8761]

German built railroads. This are was German and its culture is still German. I love Danzig and Zoppot

[@Fcspfcspatl]

Does this train actually stop in Gdansk Glowny ? Or must you backtrack from Gdynia ?

[@jaroslawwojtowicz5480]

9.44. You are wrong. In the Kibel windows can be opened making wind draft, creating air flow.

[@doc7austin]

but open windows wont lower the temperature

[@jaroslawwojtowicz5480]

@@doc7austin It worked for me, I ve tried both IC and Kibel in the summer, Kibel was rather nicer to travel in , because of opened windows.

[@marianszarf6267]

Sopot is the capital, the rest of the area. I live here.

[@chris-channel]

Does this train also has first class open saloon coaches or only compartments?

[@vrancovan]

nice

[@giro1zm]

19:15 Before 1920 belonged to West Prussia. After 1920 to Poland.

[@pawelpap9]

Technically, Bydgoszcz was in German Reich before 1945, but only due to German aggression of 1939. In 1918-1939 Bydgoszcz was in Poland.

[@volkhen0]

1920* :)

[@Bubusiowy]

miniature: PIEROGI?!

[@schab00wy]

Podobało się? Do you like it train?

[@matasek9154]

Can I ask you what font you are using when you type something on the right?

[@Filip7370]

What was the one point that You didn't gave PKP IC? Is it lack of morning train?

[@doc7austin]

yes; a morning train from berlin to gdynia is missinf

[@defekt123osobowosci]

No information why this train went through Wrzesnia. Its strange.

[@doc7austin]

possibly because of a construction site

[@w.szczebrzeszynski105]

Wiena-Gdynia lub Praga-Gdynia

[@NaczelnikPolski]

[@RozowaPantera85]

Sorry Mr, Bydgoszcz returned to Poland after the First and not the Second World War.

[@TakJakbyLuksusowo]

:O On jeździ przez Wrześnię? Tyle lat wszystko szło przez Pobiedziska, co to się porobiło...

[@euglev3548]

Zapewne remonty

[@TakJakbyLuksusowo]

@@euglev3548 Tam jest wszystko już dawno wyremontowane, bo większość pociągów z Gniezna do Poznania jeździ prosto, przez Pobiedziska

[@euglev3548]

@@TakJakbyLuksusowo Zwracam honor. Nie bylem juz w kraju ladne kilka lat , a wiec nie jestem na bierzaca. Dziekuje za sprostowanie.

[@TakJakbyLuksusowo]

@@euglev3548 W sumie, to po remoncie linii Poznań - Warszawa, gdy cały ruch był puszczany przez Gniezno i Inowrocław Rąbinek to dużo pociągów pozmieniało trasy i nawet niektóre IC widziałem w rozkładzie ze jeżdżą przez Wrześnię. Tyle że dziwi mnie że spotkało to też ten ekspres z Berlina ;)

[@jacekmalinowski5925]

19:14 before 1945 Bromberg belonged to Germany like a Auschwitz und Birkenau - Herzlichen Glückwunsch dazu

[@marcelmuller8572]

56,415 Views and only 1,167 Thumbs up, that's pretty weak Folks

[@IANinALTONA]

Only compartments in first class? That sucks. I would prefer second class Pullman style seating over this...

[@yoenyoen3121]

what you like from sopot?

[@doc7austin]

nice nice town, when the weather is good

[@MieciuAutokarski]

PolRegio kibel train 😂😂😂

[@JanKowalski-gw4wp]

Cieszę się ,że w mediach zachodnich Polska jest uważam za kraj zaściankowy ksenofobiczny Przynajmniej jako Polak po zachodnich podróżach ,czuję się tutaj bardzo bezpiecznie ,bez MULTIKULTI !!! Turyści są u nas mile widziani !!!

[@rsconrado]

Dokładnie tak👍

[@paulpaul5741]

Dobry zart

[@tabasco07]

zaś te Kible :D

[@rayapupwing]

If you narrirated.... 10000000000000000000% better

[@doc7austin]

that is not my opinion; i want people to hear the sound of rails/trains, not my voice

[@mariusharian7219]

This connection is useless

[@superconder2024]

First Comment Adam Solej

[@lindenbeck]

I thought for timetable in future you use the present simple and not the will future. If I‘m right it‘s sad that a none english speaking mothertounge has to correct somebode whose mothertounge is English.

[@yakeosicki8965]

You wrote a lot of rubbish in the comments!!!!!! Example: Before World War II, Bydgoszcz didn't belong to Germany. During the partitions of Poland (1795-1918), Bydgoszcz was transferred to Prussia only in 1815. The city returns to Poland after regaining independence, it returned on January 20, 1920, taken over by the Greater Poland army under the Treaty of Versailles. After the beginning of the Second W.W. (September 1939). The first extermination action aimed at the liquidation of the Polish political and intellectual elite was carried out in Bydgoszcz, and the main executor was the paramilitary Selbstschutz. During the first four months of the occupation, the Germans murdered up to 5,000 residents of Bydgoszcz in secret or public executions etc.

[@doc7austin]

yes; i have admitted to this mistake in my previous comment

[@netrhyda8761]

second comment