I am Portuguese, but I live in Estonia. Both places struggle with the legacy of poor railways, broad gauge and years of neglect. The thing is, while Estonia is actively working on building high speed rail and reactivating old railways nowadays, Portugal is closing railways and sticking to the railway line planned in the 1860s. It's ridiculous to have our mainline, from the Galician border in the North to Lisbon so congested, just double tracked, and still as planned in the 1860s...

@realhawaii5o

10 ай бұрын

That's not to say that the rolling stock of the Alfa or Intercity trains is bad... It's just that it's the best they can do. The prices are ridiculous... 5x per km when compared with that of Spain and 1/2 the average speed.

@MrMatavelhas

10 ай бұрын

You really should come to Portugal one of these days. Not to say thst you aren t right on some things but you are also wrong i many

@realhawaii5o

10 ай бұрын

​@@MrMatavelhasI'm here right now. I am a student in Estonia so I'm in Portugal my entire holidays. 😅 I'm not sure which part of what I said is not true. The line is the same since the 1860s... The service isn't bad but it's expensive per km in comparison to our neighbour, Spain, and other countries in Europe from personal experience. It's also slow to the point where driving is basically worth it...

@onmyway5922

10 ай бұрын

@realhawaii5o the biggest problem is actually that Portugal is planning to build new highspeed railway in IBERIAN GAUGE... its just really stupid when every other country in EU will build in normal gauge (1435 mm)... just look at Spain that changes Iberian Gauge to Standard Gauge on a lot of railways every year!

@realhawaii5o

10 ай бұрын

@@onmyway5922 yeah it's stupid. Makes no sense to build new railways in Iberian gauge when the entire continent is standardising basically.

I have to say those trains are very nice, fast, slick and smooth. Very good trains.

About your suddent train change, that really happends a lot during the day and evening at a few routes, where the Intercity changes to an Alfa Pendular. But still, what a nice video.

@Simon-Andersen

10 ай бұрын

I thought it happened a lot less frequent, thanks for watching :-)

@novaialm2832

3 ай бұрын

​@@Simon-Andersen well at least u get a free upgrade with more confort since the alfa pendular sits are better

As a fact i am Portuguese, it is true that if you are disabled you need to book the service in advance

@Simon-Andersen

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for clarifying :D

Good review. Cheers! 🙌

@Simon-Andersen

10 ай бұрын

Thanks :-)

As usual a very great review. I have noticed though, your bathroom review was very short. Good thing I didn't blink or else I would've missed it again 😅

Great video.👍🏻 Thanks.

@Simon-Andersen

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Excellent!

1:28 Bro what, that would make me stress so much and run around

Looks brand new

@Simon-Andersen

10 ай бұрын

They keep them in good condition!

Always good and informative. Greetings from port saint lucie, florida. Have you checked out Roamin' around with Roman! His train videos from Wisconsin usa are very good. He also shows trains in michigan and Minnesota.

@Simon-Andersen

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching Jon, I'll have to check out roaming with roman :-)

Nice vídeo. Was that recorded on a weekend! I ask this because that train only operates from Porto on a single day of the week (on the other days ir cames from further North; Valença do Minho and operates as train 730). CP does this stock change much often on weekends to harmonise train rotations. This Pendolino later was certainly used to operate a train from Lisbon to Braga (the 14:00 departures from Santa Apolónia).

@Simon-Andersen

10 ай бұрын

Yes this was on a Sunday in February. Still wierd how the timetable was changed from the one on the ticket

@mariovieira838

10 ай бұрын

@@Simon-Andersenthat change was que to engineering works between Vila Nova de Gaia and Espinho, and it's usual. On weekends, the section that I mentioned is usually operated as a single track. Hence the rescheduling

In the description you put it wrong. This is not IC 522, this is the AP 522. IC is the intercity, and AP is the Alpha pendular!

@tpmiranda

6 ай бұрын

AP services are numbered between 100 and 200. 500s are InterCity, no mater what stock is used.

@Simon-Andersen

6 ай бұрын

No because this was planned to be an IC that was operated by an AP pendolino train the day I traveled!

Kunne du ikke angive de beløbet eller procentdelen på de rabatter du får? De priser du viser, hjælper mig ikke meget, da jeg ikke regner med at få ungdomsrabat som 61 årig 🙂

@Simon-Andersen

10 ай бұрын

Jo det vil jeg gøre fremadrettet :-)

@Gert-DK

10 ай бұрын

@@Simon-Andersen Tak. 🙂

Hi

@Simon-Andersen

10 ай бұрын

Hello!

@ClamENZPlayz

10 ай бұрын

@@Simon-Andersen Hi I love your content were you to Czech trains? I think you were.

Well,you passed through the ticket offices and you could have asked instead of going on a fishing expedition ;) Sometime, these swaps happen to ensure stock inbalance. Much more rarely but the opposite also happens with Alfas being swaped with IC.

@Simon-Andersen

10 ай бұрын

We Nordics like little social interaction 😅 and I was in good time anyway 😁 I'm sure some kind of timetable change was in place that day I wasn't aware of so likely the train diagrams were also changed

@MrMatavelhas

10 ай бұрын

@Simon-Andersen I like you. You like living dangerously! I suspect the regular timetable might have changed (otherwise, if it was merely a day change, the train number would also have changed, albeit still being familiars, to something like 20522) PS - You should try Faro station one of these days, lots of mayehm and no such indicators.

Windows too low for passengers standing at counter in cafe car.

@rogeriomonteiro760

10 ай бұрын

Yes, it is one of the few flaws of the Alfa-Pendular. This train is similar to the Acela Service in the US. The cafe car of the intercity trains uses normal wide windows. kzread.info/dash/bejne/f5941LObZLfRYrA.htmlsi=tCKzAanwYNZmUpPN

@samtrak1204

10 ай бұрын

@@rogeriomonteiro760 Old Acela cafe car has big windows for viewing while standing or sitting in stool. New Acelas-in-waiting have reverted to small windows.

Cool