Traveling on the Former Latvian Night Train in Far Eastern Kazakhstan

[@barefram]

The former latvian cars worked earlier on the lines Riga-Moscow and Riga-St.Petersburg. They started as the one train from Riga and at Novosokolniki station cars to St Petersburg hitched to the belarusian trains.

[@szymex22]

I probably wouldn't travel on this, but it's an interesting journey! Maybe the loco broke down and they changed it?

[@Simon-Andersen]

It very well could be, we tried to ask the staff but they dont speak much english and we dont speak much russian unfortunatly

[@Ksiaz]

An old MEST-36 in original condition 😍 Interesting to see where the Latvijas Ekspresis wagons are now... Estonian Railways sold their Kupe and Platskartniy wagons to Kazakhstan a few years back, too....

[@apt155]

Loving the new Bald and Bankrupt style videos!

[@Simon-Andersen]

Glad to hear youre enjoying the central asia video :D

[@kuanysh.tynybek]

Hi! I am from Kazakhstan. Thank you for your video! Why did you chose to take a trip from Semey to Karaganda?

[@Simon-Andersen]

I was traveling with my friend superalbs who thought it be a cool train to take!

[@Finnishtrains]

Nice video! Could you make A video of the Helsinki, Finland's new Light tram?

[@Finnishtrains]

It opens in 21.9.

[@Simon-Andersen]

Maybe in the future, but i have just been to Finland, so it might be a little while before i return again

[@Finnishtrains]

@@Simon-Andersen Okay. I'm waiting

[@mariadelmarjimenezarroyo]

Please do a review on Iryo

[@timbacchus]

Would hate to be a track maintainer when the toilet flushes onto the ties.

[@Simon-Andersen]

That is one unforseen consequence! I think more and more of their trains are being refurbished with vaccum toilets so it might become a thing of the past.

[@paulthiel5145]

Until not too long ago, this was the system in use all over the world though 🤷‍♂️

[@timbacchus]

I know I worked on SP/UP for 40 years@@paulthiel5145

[@rochesterjohnny7555]

Soviet train, very cool views

[@samtrak1204]

Thank you

[@samtrak1204]

Is there a direct train between Semey and Kataganda without going out of the way via Aktogay?

[@Simon-Andersen]

No, but its quicker to get the direct train to Almaty and change for a train to Karaganda there. We just went this way because we thought this train was more intresting.

[@alexanderivkin7086]

No because there is no railroad south-west of Semipalatinsk and never will be. This place is more contaminated than Pripyat.

[@johannessamuelsson6578]

How does Kazhakstan Railways even allow trains with a journey lime above three hours to run without dining? Are they short of dining cars, and if so, how and why? Also, you forgot to mention the historical significance of Semey.

[@Simon-Andersen]

We did not even have a dining car on Mangistau to Semey! Thats 60+ hours. I think they must be short on them. Ah yeah i could have mentioed more about Semey, but this video was already quite long compared to my normal upload :-)

[@sirindag2222]

Латвия закрыла маршрут Рига Москва.... и вагоны пошли в Казахстан

[@a4yster]

>>Aktogay Act-a-gay...