A trip on Sweden's WEIRD and UNIQUE rubber front trains from Linköping to Kalmar (Kustpilen)

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Join me for a journey through the picturesque Swedish countryside of the Småland region, as we delve into the history of a distinctive Danish-designed train that once traversed the route from Stockholm to Copenhagen via the Swedish coast during its prime. In this video, we will unravel the reasoning behind the selection of this one-of-a-kind design and uncover the remarkable extent of the train's past.
Train type: Y2R (IC3)
Route: Linköping C - Kalmar C
Train: Krösatåg 28809
Distance: 238 km
Journey time: 3h18m
Average speed: 72 km/h
Price: 260 SEK

Пікірлер: 110

  • @Fisksoppa
    @Fisksoppa11 ай бұрын

    Love that DSB announcement chime

  • @uncinarynin
    @uncinarynin11 ай бұрын

    I didn't know Kustpilen still exists! I rode this train across the Helsingør - Helsingborg ferry between Denmark and Sweden before the Öresund connection opened.

  • @davidwittberg683
    @davidwittberg68311 ай бұрын

    Krösa is Smålandish för lingonberry, future trains will be lingon-red. Would love a review of those new trains when they arrive.

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    11 ай бұрын

    Ah that's quite clever naming and livery then! I hope to return once they enter service :D

  • @sandrad81

    @sandrad81

    10 ай бұрын

    So the train i was riding today was called the lingon-red train?! 💀💀💀💀💀💀

  • @davidwittberg683

    @davidwittberg683

    10 ай бұрын

    @@sandrad81 Stämmer.

  • @Newbyte

    @Newbyte

    8 ай бұрын

    @@sandrad81 More like lingonberry train.

  • @per-olamjomark7452
    @per-olamjomark745211 ай бұрын

    This brings back memories. These trains used to run in Skåne and Blekinge when I grew up and I took them quite often. I was quite surprised to stumble upon them when I went to Tel Aviv a few years ago.

  • @CIeaner23

    @CIeaner23

    11 ай бұрын

    He’s got a video on that if you didn’t know 😊

  • @marka5478
    @marka547811 ай бұрын

    I rode in an IC3 train from Hamburg to Lubeck, which was en route to Copenhagen. I wish that I could have taken a few of these sets home with me to the US!

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    11 ай бұрын

    You almost could. The US and Canada had them on tests back in the 1990s kzread.info/dash/bejne/a6Wlo9yaqbK8n5c.htmlsi=apkSqoOQbeKMwdbS

  • @adamflenstrm5596
    @adamflenstrm559611 ай бұрын

    I sat in an Double decker while watching this so when i heard the dsb jingle i stopped the video and thought it was real Anyways great video like usual

  • @Finntrans
    @Finntrans11 ай бұрын

    I was traveling on this one last month from Linköping to Kalmar. Boy, did I enjoy this trip regardless of the tracks condition and the trains' overall age. Such a classic from Denmark 👌🇩🇰❤️

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    10 ай бұрын

    It really is a fun charming little rail line!

  • @reheller
    @reheller11 ай бұрын

    Thanks for taking us along. And I am interested to see video coverage of the new CAF trains

  • @user-lv6rn9cf8m
    @user-lv6rn9cf8m8 ай бұрын

    Been wondering about these trains since I was a kid but never wondered enough to actually do some research. This cleared things up :)

  • @Sebastian_George
    @Sebastian_George8 ай бұрын

    I rode that Kustpilen train through Blekinge and Skåne a lot during my childhood at the 1990s and remember it well, not least the musical singing diesel engines just like them in the Kustpilen train that ran in Kalmar and Östergötland countries. 🚞🔊🎼🎶🇸🇪🇩🇰❤😁

  • @feliciaglimmergard71
    @feliciaglimmergard713 ай бұрын

    Late to the party, but the closing of the line to Oskarshamn is due to that part of the railway being a ”bottleneck” - Old and weak railway parts here combined with a lot of cargo trains passing (Oskarshamn serves as an important harbour with ferries to Gotland, Swedens biggest island) lead to difficulties having Krösatågen (who also deals with a lot of difficulties themselves) operate on this line. Hopefully the railway gets a well deserved makeover soon!

  • @marcusgamening2865
    @marcusgamening286511 ай бұрын

    Elsker dit content Bliv ved med det😍

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    10 ай бұрын

    Tak Marcus

  • @ParFektion
    @ParFektion7 ай бұрын

    Driving these trains daily, it was really nice to find your video 😊 Maybe I was the driver here 😃 Glad you liked the trip. Hope to see you again 👋🏻🇸🇪🚅

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    7 ай бұрын

    Thanks for watching! If you weren't driving maybe you were on one of the trains we passed :-)

  • @jackmeadows7777
    @jackmeadows77776 ай бұрын

    Fantastic video. Tak

  • @ktipuss
    @ktipuss10 ай бұрын

    My maternal great grandfather was born in Kalmar. I notice that on double track sections, Swedish trains run on the left, same as in France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, and of course Britain. I assume this is a relic of the pre-1972 period when everything in Sweden drove on the left including road vehicles. The French assessed the cost of converting trains in Alsace-Lorraine to run on the left, instead of the right, to conform with the rest of France, but they found the cost would be ENORMOUS. (Trains in Alsace-Lorraine run on the right because that region was a long time governed by Germany). They left it as is.

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    10 ай бұрын

    Indeed! They run on the left and didn't switch when the roads did

  • @testcardsandmore1231

    @testcardsandmore1231

    8 ай бұрын

    1967 was the year Sweden switched from left to right hand driving.

  • @davebowman6497

    @davebowman6497

    7 ай бұрын

    It was the trains that brought left-hand traffic to Sweden in the late 19th century, when British engineers where involved in some of Swedens first railways. When the car arrived the left-hand traffic was adopted for the roads. There was little of no point in switching to righg hand train traffic when road traffic was switched since cars don't drive on the tracks and trains don't run on roads ;-) so wasted money. With the Øresund bridge trains started running across the border of Denmark and Sweden so trains must Switch sides somewhere since Denmark has right hand traffic on railroads. Nowadays this Switch is made at a permanent installation north-east of Malmö (in Arlöv, coordinates 55.6291712, 13.0604924) where north bound tracks go in a tunnel under the south bound trains. Switching sides there makes the area around Malmö use right hand traffic for trains, just as in Denmark. So maybe Scania is slowly becoming Danish again.. 😅

  • @serhanyigit1235
    @serhanyigit12359 ай бұрын

    I took one between Hamburg and Copenhagen in 1998. The leg between Puttgarden (D) to Rödby (DK) was on board a Scandinavian Sealines ferry. After arriving in Rödbyhavn, the train left the ferry and continued onwards to Copenhagen. I remember it to be a very comfortable trip.

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    9 ай бұрын

    Yes, the ferry continued in operation with the trains onboard til 2019! Now all the trains run via Jutland instead

  • @moggsly5669
    @moggsly566911 ай бұрын

    Man id love to see on the new trains cuz they look fast and epik

  • @Danish_Trainspotting
    @Danish_Trainspotting9 ай бұрын

    Fin Video med de Svenske IC3! :)

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    9 ай бұрын

    Mange tak

  • @Danish_Trainspotting

    @Danish_Trainspotting

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Simon-Andersen selv tak :)

  • @Kolejowy.Poznan
    @Kolejowy.Poznan11 ай бұрын

    i watched from the start to the end, amazing vid! try polish regional railways such as Koleje Wielkopolskie!

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    11 ай бұрын

    I love Poland! Definitely coming back and doing more videos at some point

  • @Kolejowy.Poznan

    @Kolejowy.Poznan

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Simon-Andersen K Thanks!!

  • @MrBaskins2010
    @MrBaskins20109 ай бұрын

    dope little trip

  • @michaelbruchas6663
    @michaelbruchas666313 күн бұрын

    I had heard of these in Israel but was told that cars would be uncoupled at speed at various destinations - so single cars could continue on elsewhere…

  • @judemayes77-travel80
    @judemayes77-travel8010 ай бұрын

    I was planning to take the same train back in the spring interrailing (looks like we took the same route from Haparanda to Copenhagen but heading north for me!) Unfortunately it ended up being a rail replacement bus for me (still very comfy though), but a very scenic journey!

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    10 ай бұрын

    Yeah Ive heared that the line had a lot of Replacment busses recently, seems like I got lucky with my timing. I went Haparanda - Luelå - Stockholm - Linköping - Kalmar - Alvesta - Copenhagen with Norrtåg - Vy Nattåg - Snalltåget - Krösatåg - SJ and Øresundståg

  • @Musta0011

    @Musta0011

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@Simon-AndersenIt habe always been that way

  • @Joris-Vanbillemont
    @Joris-Vanbillemont10 ай бұрын

    We have EMUs with the same exact rubber front in Belgium, they are called AM96.

  • @johannessamuelsson6578
    @johannessamuelsson65787 ай бұрын

    I've been to Linköping several times. I remember waiting for the wrong train at Linköping C last Easter Monday. I noticed the conductor mentioned the five-digit train number, I wonder why this was.. Interesting that you mention the average speed, because the maximum line speed on that line is only 70 km/h because of wooden sleepers. I think the discontinuation of Kustpilen service to Oskarshamn was simply down to ridership. Oskarshamn used to see services from both Linklöping/Kalmar and Jönköping, I suppose the real ridership ended up making ammount of service unfeasible, so they cut it instead of making it a PSO.

  • @gardivor5245
    @gardivor524511 ай бұрын

    Now you just need to cover the IC2 and then you will have covered the whole family!

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    10 ай бұрын

    Not far off, there is also some in Belgium and punctured ones in Spain :)

  • @percismehta8959
    @percismehta895910 ай бұрын

    Rural country side of every country is beautiful.

  • @trainenthusiast7695
    @trainenthusiast769511 ай бұрын

    Interesting, I rode this exact train yesterday. Seat reservations are available if you book your ticket trough the SJ website should you need one. I've found them not to be needed as the train doesn't always get super full.

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah I can't imagine them being full very often.

  • @mariadelmarjimenezarroyo2656
    @mariadelmarjimenezarroyo265611 ай бұрын

    Please do a review on Iryo.

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    11 ай бұрын

    It's coming in a few weeks :-)

  • @TheExileFox
    @TheExileFox2 ай бұрын

    This is not the streamlined Kustpilen which is unfortunate as you could hear the gearbox working it's "magic" on the streamlined Kustpilen trains. I'm not sure what they were called because they haven't been running for a number of years.

  • @marcogeurts9881
    @marcogeurts988111 ай бұрын

    @Simon Andersen in Belgium you can see the MS96 trainsets wich are derived from the IC3 sets

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    11 ай бұрын

    Planning on making a video on them at some point :-)

  • @marcogeurts9881

    @marcogeurts9881

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Simon-Andersen from the outside they look similiar but the main difference is the color(white with some boue and red stripes and a NMBS logo and 1 sliding door instead of the doors wich the ic3 sets have)

  • @percismehta8959
    @percismehta895910 ай бұрын

    Its a radio on wheels(drivers compartment).

  • @xXHeartXx2280
    @xXHeartXx228010 ай бұрын

    Can you do Gävle train even tho i live in Stockholm

  • @srenpedersen580
    @srenpedersen5805 ай бұрын

    Kommer DSB så til at købe de IC3 tog som Sverige har udfaset og laver dem om til danske IC3 tog, lige som man gjorde med MF 5096?🤔For det vil hjælpe lidt på DSB materialisation😇: ) Hilsen Søren Pedersen

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    5 ай бұрын

    Det tror jeg ikke der er nogen officiel beslutning om endnu, men det er ikke helt utænkeligt

  • @_Tripsandtips101
    @_Tripsandtips1012 ай бұрын

    Vi vil se en ny rejserapport med de nye togene fra CAF.

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    2 ай бұрын

    Så snart de begynder i drift :-)

  • @jim1997330
    @jim1997330Күн бұрын

    The interior looks better than DSB ic3~~~

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    Күн бұрын

    Its basically the same

  • @petter5721
    @petter572111 ай бұрын

    Elefantarslet 😂

  • @AndrewG1989
    @AndrewG198910 ай бұрын

    These trains do look really strange. I wonder who made these trains with rubber insulation around the front and rear cab.

  • @davebowman6497

    @davebowman6497

    7 ай бұрын

    But.. it's mentioned in the video?!!

  • @EliasLarsson-ck6qn
    @EliasLarsson-ck6qn11 ай бұрын

    Some of these units were sent to the US too

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    11 ай бұрын

    Yes indeed! And Canada

  • @carolinekindblom5535
    @carolinekindblom55352 ай бұрын

    Ther is a other ic3 in Sweden but they ar better and it is Called x31 or øresundståg de ar electric and it is Skåne trafiken that operates dem de ar very nice

  • @thegamerguyyt
    @thegamerguyyt8 ай бұрын

    All of the sj ticket machine is not in service anymore or a small amount is in service as of november 2023

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    8 ай бұрын

    Ah yeah SJ is going full digital

  • @rajeevgangal542
    @rajeevgangal54211 ай бұрын

    Looks like a tardigrade 😅

  • @jultomten3739
    @jultomten373911 ай бұрын

    There are no seat reservations on kustpilen as far as I know

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    10 ай бұрын

    It seems like there is when you book with SJ

  • @jultomten3739

    @jultomten3739

    10 ай бұрын

    @@Simon-Andersen that was more than I knew, I know they changed their system a bit tho

  • @Dylanmilitarxd
    @Dylanmilitarxd9 ай бұрын

    Spain has same but i think make service on Cantabria, asturias and galicia

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    9 ай бұрын

    Yup but unfortunately they have had their rubber covered up by a new front

  • @Dylanmilitarxd

    @Dylanmilitarxd

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Simon-Andersen Yes, you re'right

  • @theaveragegameyt
    @theaveragegameyt10 ай бұрын

    When was this filmed?

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    10 ай бұрын

    April 2023

  • @sandrad81
    @sandrad8111 ай бұрын

    0:11 There is also another version of this rubber train in Sweden. But it’s *sort of* in the family of the regina trains.

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    10 ай бұрын

    Yes Øresundståg, that's another one :-)

  • @Musta0011
    @Musta001110 ай бұрын

    You are lucky that the service did not get replaced by bus idk howit is now but like minor rail and every train is cancelled that day

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    10 ай бұрын

    No issues on that line as far as I'm aware at the moment

  • @Musta0011

    @Musta0011

    10 ай бұрын

    @@Simon-Andersen ok but usally it is

  • @jamesbraithwaite478
    @jamesbraithwaite4788 ай бұрын

    Are most Swedish trains electric now?

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    8 ай бұрын

    Mostly yes, but still a few secondary lines like this with diesel power left.

  • @mfbfreak
    @mfbfreak11 ай бұрын

    I wanna touch the rubber and see if it's squishy...

  • @garycard1456
    @garycard145610 ай бұрын

    Do the train drivers and conductors wear rubber gimp suits?

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    10 ай бұрын

    I think they should 😂

  • @michaellaudahn
    @michaellaudahn11 ай бұрын

    While you may be pardoned for using your danish habits on swedish place names, there's one where you've gone too far. Which one is it? 11:05 Tip: The emphasis can't really be on the second syllable, given that -sta probably is a short form of stad. (In the Alvesta article in the english WP you can read and hear it.)

  • @davebowman6497

    @davebowman6497

    7 ай бұрын

    It's often the case that foreign names are difficult to pronounce, so I'd let that go. Just as "Jöster-göttland" (at 1:40). Pronouncing the c in "city" as sh, though? Making for the epic "shitty of Linköping" (0:25).

  • @jultomten3739
    @jultomten373911 ай бұрын

    Sweden sold some of their Y2 to Israel

  • @lynixfox6009
    @lynixfox60093 ай бұрын

    "Some of the last IC3's" yeah, although, Skånetrafiken still runs øresundståg as IC3's between Denmark and Sweden and makes up a lot of the regional traffic there

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    3 ай бұрын

    No they dont. Skånetrafikken has X31K which has a similar front design but otherwise is very much not an IC3.

  • @lynixfox6009

    @lynixfox6009

    3 ай бұрын

    @@Simon-Andersen You're right, they're running ET/X31K as you said, which look similar but aren't the same, especially since IC3 (Y2) isn't electric

  • @apinanraivo100
    @apinanraivo1009 ай бұрын

    Gumminase

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    9 ай бұрын

    Indeed

  • @dreimalnein22
    @dreimalnein2211 ай бұрын

    0:26 you should really practice the pronounciation of the word city. =D

  • @markvogel5872

    @markvogel5872

    11 ай бұрын

    😂

  • @danielbum912

    @danielbum912

    11 ай бұрын

    My man knew what he was doing

  • @epender

    @epender

    11 ай бұрын

    Hey, I'm suuure the -sh in Swedish just “accidentally” ran into the s sound in city. 😂

  • @RiggieHeartland
    @RiggieHeartland11 ай бұрын

    Why do you say platform no. 5 when it's actually is track no. 5?

  • @jackmeadows7777

    @jackmeadows7777

    6 ай бұрын

    If using American English you would say Track 5, if using British English the correct way to describe where you are leaving from in this regard would be platform 5.

  • @swesebbe4987
    @swesebbe498710 ай бұрын

    Alla som bor i Linköping likea den här kommentaren

  • @Fan652w
    @Fan652w11 ай бұрын

    This is the first time I have watched your channel. I love Sweden and its good public transport, but this video was disappointing. I expected you to emphasize the fact that at both Linkoping and Kalmar the train station is alongside a large bus station, so making interconnection VERY easy, especially for anyone heading to Oland via Kalmar, I felt sure you would show us Kalmar castle - impressive, and important to Scandinavian history. Worse still these 'rubber nose' trains are not 'unique' to Krosatog. Danish railways still have a large number of diesel IC3s. More importantly the Oresund trains from Copenhagen to southern Sweden are worked entirely by electric X31 'rubber noses'. There are also a large number of electric 'rubber noses' in Belgium.

  • @davidwittberg683

    @davidwittberg683

    11 ай бұрын

    Slappna av kompis, han är en dansk traintuber och behöver inte nämna varje detalj om jävla Kalmar. Ni aspisar behöver lugna ner er lite.

  • @Simon-Andersen

    @Simon-Andersen

    11 ай бұрын

    Think you'll be disappointed in my channel in general. I mostly stick to the actual train travel expirence. It's a conscious choise by me to stick with mostly to the actual train travel expirence and not bother with a citytour of Kalmar in my videos. You'll find other channels that do that way better. Never claimed these to be unique Krosatog, quite the opposite in the first 10 seconds of the video actually. It's a unquie design only used on a fairly small subset of trains build around the same time. It's hardly like the gangway design you see in the UK or Japan that's being produced to this day

  • @MrSwede_Unboxing
    @MrSwede_Unboxing7 ай бұрын

    i love these train i travel on them 2 times a month to my girlfriend