West german couchettes from the 60's in slovakian sleeper-livery, coupled together with east german seating cars and CWIL sleepers from the 50's. You gotta love how much history there is behind the rolling stock on this train.

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

yes; but there is virtually no modern sleeping car/couchette car types available for rent; except if you want to source such cars from russia

@lvovodessa

5 ай бұрын

@@doc7austinRussia is replacing its sleepers with modern stock so there must be enough available but these are maybe too wide?

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

russian sleeping cars ran to Nice and Paris until 2020; those trains were cancelled due to the pandemic; i assume that technically it is possible to rent them, but its probably a political no-go currently

@mikeblatzheim2797

5 ай бұрын

​@@lvovodessa The Russian sleeping cars used formerly on the sleepers to Paris and Berlin are built to fit the European loading gauge. They had recently bought a brand-new fleet of cars from Siemens to replace the old East German rolling stock.

The weather is so sunny ☀️ on this route. The visuals are quite amazing 👌

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

having blue and clear skies both over belgium, netherlands and germany was extremely lucky for me

You're a century out. The Amsterdam Haarlem line opened in 1839 and not 1939.

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

haahah; 18 instead of 19

Very long train and in my opinion those carriages where you can lower the windows are the best to enjoy the landscape and the trip.

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

yes; you can mostly fully open the windows in all cars, except the sleeping car

Whow, I've seen so many of your spectacular videos from all over the world. It's so cool to see these magnificent views from my home town of Roosendaal and the West-Brabant area!

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

this was my first time in antwerp and roosendaal

Nice trip! Thanks for sharing.

Between Antwerp and Roosendaal the train uses the formel line of the old IC Amsterdam to Brussels ! Nice to see some historic trainline😊

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

yes; this was my first time on this cross-border line

Just Awesome !

Another European sleeper video, great 😊

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

hahaha, yes; hopefully, the extension pf this route to prague will be successful

Un viaje espectacular 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

yes; I hope I can travel on that train again

Thanks for the vid! Seems like unlike the rest of the journey, the ES train rides on the 'high-speed' line (lijn 25N, instead of lijn 25 or 27) between Brussel-Noord (actually Schaarbeek) and Mechelen. While after Mechelen, it seems to always travel on old lines though (including crossing the BE-NL border via Essen)...

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

but the vmax should still be 140 km/h, because the traxx cannot go beyond that speed ?

@smakelijkeschildpad8919

5 ай бұрын

@@doc7austinthat’s true though, at 7:57 it seems to be line 25N crossing the depot to the north of Schaarbeek, and 8:13 is Y Machelen-Noord, where line 36C (from Brussels Airport) joins line 25N. I guess this train is arranged on 25N instead of 25 to avoid the busy local traffic (S-trains and other IC trains calling at Vilvoorde). Normally all trains that does not call between Brus.-Noord and Mechelen are now all going via line 25N now. That’s probably why despite the speed of loco, it still goes on a high-speed line.

Doc, thank you so much for this great video.🍰

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

you are welcome !

3:42 on the bottom right seems like it's Thibault from Simply Railway.

@doc7austin

4 ай бұрын

yes; you can see simply railway and the man in seat 61 in the same video frame

Funny to see couchette car from Slovakia on such a train like this :)

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

i think european sleeper has leased out some couchette cars from slovakia (wagon slovakia?)

@pavolkrska7399

5 ай бұрын

@@doc7austin it can be, i used to travel with theese cars on night trains through my country from Bratislava 😉

Definitiv eines Deiner besten Videos EVER!!! SUUUUUUUUPER!😎😍👍

@doc7austin

4 ай бұрын

wirklich ? warum ?)))

The UK HSA authorities would have an apoplexy at all those heads hanging out of windows

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

yea , of course

Good video, but wasn't the 'Oude Lijn Haarlem-Amsterdam opened in 1839 instead of 1939 like you mentioned at 20:03 ?

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

yeah; I got the century wrong )

Great video. Do you have a link where I could buy a night light similar to yours?

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

no; i cannot find this lamp product anymore online ))

@christopdeck3457

5 ай бұрын

@@doc7austinAah, no worries !

Name of the background music

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

google qatar airways auckland

I did the same train in july 2023 but we did Roosendaal-Tilburg-Utrecht-Amersfoort in the Netherlands and Bad Bentheim-Münster (reverse)-Hannover in Germany. Always a gamble wich route it will take... I slept in a compartment for 4 with 1 window for 139 Euros, one-way Bit too early for the text at 09:04 as the train was in Mechelen, it fits for 09:10 @ 10:53 The line was opened in 1855 until Moerdijk for a ferry to Dordrecht. When the bridge was opened at Lage Zwaluwe in 1876, the line was diverted. (( me, taking pictures at 13:33 🙂 )) Do not understand the text @ 13:53. You never passed Breda. This is still the Antwerp - Lage Zwaluwe line. After Lage Zwaluwe, you joined the Breda-Roosendaal line but that happend at 14:19 in your video. Sign at 21: 21 was wrong: it did stop in Amersfoort (because I was there and took pictures again) Leave out the 'Possibly" at 24:59: that was indeed the case. (I am not a bit jalous about the passing 181...) Hé at 30:07 A glimpse of the new HSL-trains for the Dutch Railways NS !!

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

ok; you guys stood there near hollands diep taking photos?

Odd route via Bremen ( rather a long way round) Berlin Lichtenberg Station used to be used quite regularly by Night Trains 30 years ago.

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

the bremen detour is mostly due to some construction work on the osnabrück-minden-hannover line

I think this train should have gone to Hamburg and Copenhagen from Bremen and not back to Hannover and Berlin. The day train from Amsterdam to Berlin should be a sleeper and extended at the start to The Hague, Rotterdam and Breda. And at the end from Berlin to Posen, Lodsch and Warschau.

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

this train will be extended from berlin to dresden and prague at the end of this month

@szymex22

4 ай бұрын

It would be really nice to have sleeper trains back in Poznań and Warsaw, the sleeper train to Amsterdam and köln was suspended some years ago

If I didn't check wrong in the ES website, I noticed that if a single traveller wants to book a complete compartment, this is possible only for couchette places (for a mega price!) and not for sleeping cars. Sleeping places can be booked only sharing the compartment with other travellers.

@petermaat4196

5 ай бұрын

Negative. I travelled Rotterdam/Berlin vv last week in a complete compartment in the P-type sleeping car. It can be done.

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

pricing could be weird on the european sleeper train.

@directorient

5 ай бұрын

That's fine, a booking as it normally should be. I think it could be because there were no more single accomodations available on the day I chose and the booking page didn't show the option.

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

the sleeping car is often also cancelled at short notice

I wonder if this train gained popularity after all these months and if travels more busy than it could be, of course, on the first days of operation. European Sleeper website is still working and offers now as final destination Prague, via Berlin-Dresden.

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

good question; as you saw, the train was not fully occupied on its inauguration journey

At Hollands diep you have a ICD. It’s not the intercity from Brussels. You can verify by looking at the coaches there is no B sign on them.

@doc7austin

4 ай бұрын

in which city did this train start in?

That “Communist High Speed Train” is actually quite famous TEE from 1950’s and not communist at all. Made immortal by the Kraftwerk tune “Trans Europa Express”…🙂

0:13 ik vind die rijtuigen lelijk maar ook mooi het heeft iets anders ofzo

@doc7austin

3 ай бұрын

ab; lots of graffiti on belgian trains

You forgot to mention that the train changed from driving on the left in Belgium to driving on the right at Roosendaal. RHD is standard in NL and DE.

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

ah; good observation; yes; after roosendaal we travelled on the right

@Eurobazz

5 ай бұрын

@@doc7austin Trains drive on the left in BE and FR because the British helped repair the damaged railways in both countries after WWI; NL was neutral. An interesting continuation of this is that SNCF help ONCF develop the HSL in Morocco so guess what, the high speed trains drive on the left there.

@mikeblatzheim2797

5 ай бұрын

​@@Eurobazz Pretty sure they had been driving "à l'Anglaise" since the very beginning of railways. Switzerland also drives on the left, whilst the Alsace and Lorraine regions of France drive on the right (due to having been part of Germany when the railway construction boom happened).

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

@mikeblatzheim2797 yes, we were driving on the left in belgium

@machinistje

4 ай бұрын

@@Eurobazztrains have always driven on the left since 1835 in Belgium.. Nothing to do with WW1 😉

Nice video! Could you muffle your microphone a bit so that the "wind " sounds are not so obvious? Just an idea ! From Ontario Canada....

ステンレスの寝台車ってあのワゴンリの遺産!?

@doc7austin

4 ай бұрын

i dont know; that stainless steel car was built in the late 1950s

Please make the video of train in Iran please make

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

its not safe to travel to iran

I am not sure about this, very expensive and old carriages.

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

yes; old and expensive; I agree with you.

@nacekozo

5 ай бұрын

Old, but high quality - built in West/East Germany and Italy, and the sleeper compartments are more spacious than the new ones. The price starts at €79 in a couchette on this route - it depends on how far in advance you buy the ticket, and how popular the train on a particular day is.

wie die brüsseler ihre s bahn zu hacken, oida.

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

was?

@mariogeis9558

5 ай бұрын

wuss@@doc7austin

No more high speed in the NL, because there is something wrong between the track......now the speed is not more then 160 km per hour........a lot of waste of money! Also the new ICNG will not ride a speed of 200 km anymore.........such a waste of money and time😮

@aleksandersmirnow2157

5 ай бұрын

The channel "Machinist Stefan" describes in detail the situation with high speed line . We must hope that one day Amstel will stop building underground subways in Addis Ababa and Madras, and will pay attention to its European “pride line”. Although it would be better for the Dutch to give this to Zelensky, as they gave him the Red Light District in Amsterdam. 😅)

@ralphzechendorf1644

5 ай бұрын

Glad I looked through the comments, I wasn't informed about this :s Looks like a complete mess... when you see in France double-deck trains zoom at 320km/h... It seems that germanic countries have a problem investing correctly in high speed trains (germany has a lot of issues too).

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

did we see the ICNG on the HSL Zuid bridge over Hollands Diep ?

@machinistje

4 ай бұрын

You can travel at 300 km/h on the south section of the line (Antwerp to Rotterdam) on the northern part of the line you will only travel slower from the end of groenehart tunnel till Hoofddorp the rest is at normal speed. Also ICNG runs 200 km/h southern from this groenehart tunnel.

@doc7austin

4 ай бұрын

@machinistje how fast is eurostar running on this section ?

Have to say that Europe train are too expensive.

@Neville60001

5 ай бұрын

No, they're not (at least, not the revived night sleeper service that goes from a town to Paris.)

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

well; many times, a flight is cheaper than a ride in a couchette sleeping car

@Neville60001

5 ай бұрын

@@doc7austin, it's not automatically better, though.

@n.bastians8633

4 ай бұрын

I agree.

@doc7austin

4 ай бұрын

but its still a much needed overnight connection between amsterdam and berlin

Sorry, but that train isn't appellative in any form . It's a salad of outdated carriages and even the loco is ugly . That train gives a bad image to the European international trains . It's 2024 , not 1964 ! The European Sleeper must update itself, urgently. A new train Service in Europe has to be much better than that thing . From Portugal 🇵🇹

@doc7austin

21 күн бұрын

no one is going to fund newly-built rolling stock for the european sleeper train.

@carlosrosas7249

21 күн бұрын

​@@doc7austin Okey . Not good news . Anyway i keep my opinion about that sad train . Greetings!

Vectron loks are coming

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

so no more 186 traxx locos for that train ?

@bernardbouzon5499

5 ай бұрын

@@doc7austin according to wagonweb the switch will happen on march 25th. But the 186 can be back

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

@bernardbouzon5499 interesting; i guess the vectron will then run all the way to prague

@bernardbouzon5499

5 ай бұрын

@@doc7austin nope there'll be a lok change in Berlin

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

@bernardbouzon5499 really from vectron to vectron ? where? Berlin-Ostbahnhof ?