Some clarifications, as I usually take this train: The journey is 182km, and the best time is 53 min on the non-stop AVE services. Before the opening of the High-Speed Line, the only option was the classical line that is 250km and goes through a mountain pass, so the best time was around 2 hours and 30 min. The high-speed line avoids this problem by going through a 28km tunnel that is one of the longest in the world.

I love the S-114, it is definitely my favourite train in Spain. A single ticket is cheaper than an Ave or Alvia service and you get a more smooth and silent ride than taking the iconic "duck" trains (S-102, S-112, S-130, S-730) despite taking the very same time to cover the route. You don't get a cafetería service aboard, but it would feel pointless to have one for a just one hour trip. I only wish they had at least one level floor door per side to allow easier access to reduced movility people and some extra space for the overhead racks. But overall, the train serves it purpuse really well and the exterior aesthetic look great. Too bad that we don't hace more of those on the Spanish tracks. I have heard they were initially planning to purchase 30 sets, but they were reduced to 13 because of their high manufacturing price.

@NonstopEurotrip

10 ай бұрын

I agree! Also advanced or promo AVE tickets can be cheaper

“The rain in Spain falls mainly on the Pain.” My Fair Lady. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@luisalvarez6196

Жыл бұрын

"in the plain"...

@Backwardlooking

Жыл бұрын

@@luisalvarez6196 D’Accord!. Mia Culpa. My male fingers!. 👍🏻🇪🇸 What would Cervantes think!.

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

Madrid Chamartin is in a huge amount of enginering works for more capaciy, specially in constructing more standard gauge platforms. The new standard gauge north-south tunnel in Madrid has opened in late summer. This october starts the change of Madrid terminus stations for some services (form Puerta de Atocha to Chamartin) for the enginering works in Puerta de Atocha. Also Chamartin is in a huge amount of enginering works to increase capacity, specially on standard gauge side.

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I've seen all the work when I've been there before. Hopefully it'll much improve everything!

It's best livery of New Pendolino ever

@NonstopEurotrip

6 ай бұрын

PKP is my fav

@thevehicle_yt

6 ай бұрын

@@NonstopEurotrip i also like China's Pendolino livery It's laconic and well emphasizes the design of the cabin mask

Glad you loved my city! The vending machines are "out of service" on these and Media Distancia trains since the pandemic, I think, in a very typical Renfe fashion

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

😅😅😅

I love your comment about the "broken" vending machine. Someone should give it a good kick.

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Yes!!

Para la próxima que pases por España te recomiendo ir de Almería a Linares Baeza en el Intercity Almería Madrid

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

lo he hecho antes 🇪🇦

@elevatorsfromroblox8885

Жыл бұрын

Es verdad, pero creo que fue de Almería a Granada, yo fui ayer de Madrid a Almería en el Intercity

Well, the price certainly explains why the train was almost empty. One question: what happened to the previous generation of Spanish Pendolinos (roughly equivalent to ETR460/470) which were operating on iberico gauge on Valencia line (and probably elsewhere) before the HS line was built?

@miguelfranco9686

Жыл бұрын

S-490 units have been out of service for a really long time due to security issues with the bogies (more or less the same issues as in CP S-4000 "Alfa Pendular"). Fortunately, they are being repaired and will be used for Medium Distance services, initially in southern Spain, with a top speed of 160 km/h (instead of the 220 km/h top speed by design). It was mainly used in Madrid to Valencia "Alaris" services, in this 1668-mm-gauged line **BUT** it was a extremely short train for the passenger demand in these services. Then, it served some few other services, like "García Lorca".

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah the Alaris sets have gone, but the S114 standard gauge Avant services still run!

@miguelfranco9686

Жыл бұрын

@@NonstopEurotrip Not yet. These sets are being refurbished. Obviously, the "Alaris" service has gone, but not the trainsets. In these sets, the bogies are being replaced. I think these sets will not be pendular anymore. The old caféteria area in 2nd coach is being filled with seats. They are installing ERTMS, GSM-R and new version of digital ASFA signalling systems to these units. They are also installing driver rear-view cameras. In the end, these units will have 171 2nd class seats + 2 spaces for wheelchairs, and they will be again in service for much more than a dozen years.

@truedarklander

Жыл бұрын

@@miguelfranco9686 they do that while in Portugal there are talks about rising the top speed of the Alfas to 250 when the Porto/Lisboa HSL opens

Great video !!

Lovely video! I’ve travelled on this train before a couple of times with Avant and it was lovely. I’ve used the AVANT S-114 and S-121 EMUs for this journey and I much rather prefer the S-114 EMUs. Not really a fan of the S-121 EMUs as they make more noise and aren’t as comfortable and smooth. I do have to admit prices were a tad bit expensive when I took this service with the S-114 in 2021. Great video! ❤

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much 🥰

Have a lovely weekend!🌄

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

You too! 😃

Nice. Used those trains on the Warsaw - Gdynia route a couple of times, they're very good I think: decent level of comfort and good food option on that route.

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Much better in Poland 🥰

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Beautiful park at the begining of this journey. Good seating. Good scenery. Just over an hour trip time. Thanks Max😀💚

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Sorry for my late reply, thank you Scott ☺️

@scottyerkes1867

Жыл бұрын

@@NonstopEurotrip no problem.😀

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

@@scottyerkes1867 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Excellent video! Greetings!

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Thank you ☺️

(bounces, with a flamenco feel) The theme music sets a truly cheery mood for your videos. That garden is famous among rose growers, for keeping some of the oldest varieties going. Just one note about the English text - "Wheelchair facilities are in space". It might be clearer to say they are available. I think you were aiming at "in place" but availablity is what you were talking about. Lesson over! 🌹💐🌹 Blooming good video!

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Haha thank you! My proof reader must have been asleep 😉 I love that park in Valladolid 🥰

Great job 👌👍

Great video as always and that peacock looks so beautiful 😍 and talking about this new train set I am quite impressed by it and in terms of features this new train set tick all the boxes but yes, level boarding is going to be a minor drawback.

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate. I miss your early access comments 😉

@rahill-95

Жыл бұрын

@@NonstopEurotrip I will join it once I get settled in this new place. 😀

good video, well done, I also like those trains, i think they have a good and comfortable ride quality. Didn't know spain was running "New Pendolinos"

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

I don't think a lot of people do!

Muito lindo trem gostei show saiu da Espanha 🇪🇸 x Madri

Great video

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Renfe should fix the vending machine. Thanks for the ride. 🇺🇾

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

I know 🥰

I just took one of these yesterday from Santiago de Compostela to Madrid Chamartin. Quite alright, decent food options on board, clean toilet, but what I found weird was that there was no wifi on board. But one thing to note. At least, Santiago de Compostela to Madrid could be cheaper flying Ryanair, but all the tickets were sold out.

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. Unfortunately the north of Spain has not quite caught up to the south and east yet!

@miguelfranco9686

11 ай бұрын

From Santiago to Madrid are S-130 trainsets "Alvia", not "Avant" S-114 trainsets. S-130 are Talgo long-distance trains, featuring on-board cafeteria, and also a top speed of 250 km/h. S-114 are high-speed medium-distance trains. In medium-distance trains, there is not on-board cafeteria, but automatic vending machines.

Seems quite expensive, I know a lot of people don’t like the toilet tour but my wife uses the bathroom often and it’s important for her to know how clean they are and she loves Spain but more up around the basque region, probably cooler there

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Thank you John 🙏🏻

Great trip. Broken vending machine isn't good, for short hop that's important rather than operating cafe car.

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Apparently the maintenance/supply company went out of business. You wouldn't think it would be hard to get a new one tho!

@rezaalan3991

Жыл бұрын

@@NonstopEurotrip Ahh, that was bad news.

Nice video!

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏🏻

In poland we have the same train. We called it "pendolino" andit have ED250 number. We drive it 293 km/h!. Sorry for bad englisch

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Only 200kmh at the moment 😉

@hermenegildoc3933

Жыл бұрын

@@NonstopEurotrip 250

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

@@hermenegildoc3933 the polish one can only do 200kmh because of the tracks

Thanks for an interesting look at this high speed rail train… Laurie. NZ.

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Laurie 🙂

Castille and León, the *(by now)* only autonomy in Spain where the conservative and far-right people are happy just because they govern there, like in Italy after last Sunday's Legislative Election *(I'm writing this on Monday, because I'm a Channel Member & I can watch videos early than you)* P.S: The name "Madrid-Chamartín" no longer exists, from December 2020, the major station in Northern Madrid is called "Madrid-Chamartín-Clara Campoamor" But you surely are questioning who is Clara Campoamor. Well, she was a woman elected for the Spanish Parliament in the Spanish 2nd Republic (1931-1936) and she was the woman who made that in the 1931 Spanish Constitution, the right to the Spanish women to vote appeared for the first time in the history of Spain. Now, the Government would change the name of Puerta de Atocha Station to Puerta de Atocha-Constitución de 1978 (The constitution we have today), but the government encountered problems to rename that station, as the Government of the Region of Madrid wouldn't change it due to historical and/or agricultural reasons, due to a Virgin, the "Virgen de Atocha" and/or due to the Esparto grass' lands there were before the station was constructed in the 1850's

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the support Pedro 🙏🏻🇪🇦

@rsnankivell1962

Жыл бұрын

SOLO QUEDA VOX 🇪🇦💚💚🇪🇦

@jmcaro4360

Жыл бұрын

@Nonstop Eurotrip On the land in the area currently occupied by the Atocha station in Madrid and the Ministry of Agriculture building, etc... What existed in S. XIX was an olive grove, the so-called Olivar de Atocha. It is on these lands that the primitive Atocha pier was installed, a precarious wooden building where the first and privileged travelers of the so-called "Camino de Hierro de Maria Cristina=Maria Cristina Iron Road" (by the regent queen, Widow of Fernando VII) between Madrid and the royal site of Aranjuez, where the closest Summer Palace of the Spanish monarchy was located. There is another in La Granja de San Ildefonso province of Segovia. ​ And very close to this one of the avenues for walking, the so-called Alameda de las Delicias, which was laid out in the XVIII century in the time of King Carlos III, in what is the area of the old Madrid Delicias station, headquarters of the National Railway Museum. Said museum is in a more than lamentable state of conservation, the building needs an urgent restoration, which was the head of the line of the Madrid to Caceres and Portugal-MCP Railway. ​ The preserved pieces also need a lot of revision and cleaning.The locomotives, they are all dead and even the only one 2-4-2 "Confederation" of RENFE preserved from the series of 10 built, which was restored at considerable expense by the Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviario-ADIF, the disastrous bureaucracy and Spanish legislation is what prevents them from circulating on the general network of Iberian gauge no historical train with steam traction. What the Lord does not say that criticizes the rulers of the pseudo-right, is that those of their pseudo-ideology of the left and ultra-left, It is that theirs only know how to impose and govern by decree, they do not negotiate and agree on nothing in any government where they are, whether they are municipal, regional or national. Democracy is something else and they go against the current Spanish constitution. They have only known how to create division, poverty and tension in the Spanish population. In my opinion all the current Spanish political mafia parties are the same and the worst are the "Nazionalistos" = Nazi + Clever. Basques and Catalans (For corrupt, thieves and shameless). Finally, I do not know how the article "Pendolino" is titled when the Renfe Operadora 114 series (also the previous 104 series) do not have any assisted pendulation system of the kind developed in its day by FIAT Ferroviaria and after the sale of the division by the Italian multinational, currently in the hands of the French conglomerate, Alstom Transporte. ​ ​ ​ ​

Fantastic service go to valladolid at least once a month to see my girlfriend Laura

If only Alstom could of manufactured the new Pendolinos for the LNER (East Coast Main Line). Those New Pendolino trains are identical to the Avanti West Coast Class 390 Pendolino used on the West Coast Main Line.

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

I think they're getting FLIRTs no?

Rode round-trip from Madrid to Segovia twice and found the journey comfortable and quick. Super nice trains.

Great video as always. I had never actually heard of Valladolid. So, it was nice to see some of the city at the beginning of the video. I've noticed on the past few videos you telling where you can skip forward to to avoid the toilet review. Do you get a lot of complaints?

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

I get loads of comments about the toilets lol yeah. I'm trying to keep them short, or not at all! But thanks, now work out how to pronounce Valladolid 🤣

@legebe

Жыл бұрын

​@@NonstopEurotrip

That roundhouse is a bit of a sad sight.

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Yep 🥲

The caption aren't on the screen long enough

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

I leave them on screen long enough to read them twice myself. You can always pause ⏸️😊

Is it possible to take Cercancias trains with a Avant Ticket in Madrid ?

@NonstopEurotrip

4 ай бұрын

No, sorry

If I wanted to travel from Valladolid to Malaga, would I have to change stations and trains in Madrid?

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, at Atocha!

@miguelfranco9686

Жыл бұрын

Definitely. You should take "Avant" service from Valladolid to Madrid-Chamartin-C.Campoamor, suburban train from Madrid-Chamartin-C.Campoamor to Madrid-Atocha, and AVE from Madrid-Atocha to Malaga

The vending machine is not broken, but the company that serviced them went bankrupt at the beginning of covid and nothing has been done to resolve it since. All trains run with them (half) empty

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the information 🙂ℹ️

@hermenegildoc3933

Жыл бұрын

The food that there is expired lmao

🤲🍊🍋🤲🍊🍋🤲🍊🍋🤲

Why doesn't this service run flagship trains?

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

No point, too short tbh

@miguelfranco9686

Жыл бұрын

There are flagship trains (AVE, normally S-112 trainsets) running from Leon to Madrid-Chamartin-C.Campoamor, calling at Palencia and Valladolid (they do not call at Segovia-Guiomar). Between Valladolid and Madrid, there is "Avant" tarification available for these AVE services, but -- sometimes -- the AVE tarification with early booking is cheaper than "Avant" tarification, which is a real scam all over Spain. S-112 are faster than S-114 trainsets, as they run at a top speed of 300 km/h in this line; they take about 55 min to make the trip.

@rogeriomonteiro760

Жыл бұрын

After the opening of the Basque Y and the finishing of the complete renovation of the portuguese liation (the Beira Alta line) there wil be even much more trains in this line because the international conections to France and to Portugal will be restored. Nowadays in this line there is also a service to Salamanca that can be later extended to Portugal.

35eur for 250km 😳

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

🥲

Nobody wants to go to Valladolid. 🤣

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

I did 😀

Ready to iryo by ILSA?? 🚅

@NonstopEurotrip

Жыл бұрын

Maybe 🙂