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sorry you had to experience the sorrow state of what our government calls "trains" and "train stations" or "train lines". Quality evidently got worse crossing into Portugal. All the money was spent making pristine underused highways going everywhere. Thankfully your experience here will get much better next year: the Madrid-Lisbon connection is almost operational, with new high-speed lines between Plasencia and Évora. Between Madrid-Plasencia, and Évora-Lisbon the already existing lines run at 200km/h. This means by 2025 we should have a Madrid-Lisbon service up and running with a duration of 5h duration (switching trains in Évora until the new Évora-Lisbon line is built because of signalling system discrepancies.
5:33 you state you filmed this in September then at 14:35 you mention the winter hour change... which occurred in October 🙂...I think you got your timelines mixed up... unless you actually spent a month on that train which is probable knowing the Romanian railway 😅
Out of all the videos i have seen about this topic, this one is the absolute best: Giving good reasons. realistic (noone is going to spend 150€+ for a single bed cabin) edit: i may take this train to Vienna in the summer
Thanks. Very enthralling journey. What can I say. I did the journey to Lisbon, as a non flyer, several times on the Sud Express fifty years ago. Great fun but much more hit and miss in those days. Long before the tunnel. Brighton to Newhaven. The Paris to Hendaye/Irun. Then the Sud Express to Lisbon. Quite an experience. To get to the Algarve one had to cross the river by boat. Well done.
Sad to see that the eurostar still makes these ridiculously long stops in brussels. Thanks to these long stops, it usually is faster to change trans in brussels when travelling from the netherlands to and from london. As it defeats the purpose of the eurostar continuing after brussels (and hundreds of millions being spend on terminals for passport controls).
Don't know what I would prefer. Honestly from my point of view it's better to not have to change trains. But UK sadly has always been a special case. It's crazy to think they require passport control for travelling by train within Europe but that's sadly the case.
@@seekingtravel you don't have to change trains when I have taken over a train from either brussels or london crews from platform 3 and leaves within 10 odd minutes.
@@hd-gaming7506 usually they stop for 30 to 40 minutes in brussels, which is also shown in their timetable. And thing is, it is not needed, and this is also about perception. No matter how fast a train goes, it feels a lot slower if it stands still for half an hour.
@@seekingtravel honestly, not changing trains. I only took that route because it was half an hour faster (due to having a better connection to a local dutch train), and it was 80 euros cheaper for some reason. But it is more that such a long stop is completely unnecessary and has quite a negative impact on customer experience and journey time. Unless you are changing locomotives, a stop should not take more than 10 minutes.
Hey mate, im planning on traveling from London to manchester in August. would you reccomend buying tickets now? or should i wait until i get to london in ausgust. ( im in australia)
Just found your channel and absolutely love it. Really simple approach and you show the view out the window which is great. Thanks for sharing and I wish you all the success with it. Good luck and I will keep following you from the armchair.
Nice video! I had to take this line and also this train so many times in the last 2 years. Seeing your video makes me nostalgic. 21:20 It's the Astra Trans Carpatic train to Arad btw, not Muntenia to Budapest. Muntenia comes a little later ;)
Could be. I remember waking up for about 5 min during that time and filmed it and quickly looked at the board and wrote it down. Didn’t bother to check again lol
Thanks for showing each stop, I just wanted to check that the blue line stops at market Street since google maps was trying to say I had to get the purple line then transfer to blue and I didn't trust it lol I'm glad you confirmed it's just the blue line I need to get
What a crap video. Full of inaccuracies. There are not 7 standard coaches and 4 first class on any Avanti service nowadays That was Standard Premier you walked through after 1st class, and who the hell calls a seat on a train a bloody chair 🤣 No restaurant in or near that shop or on the train at all Numerous others You are obviously not a railway man
hi mate nice early morning ride I've enjoyed every minute of it by the way the Station that you went through which you wasn't too sure was Wembley Central
Great! Very enjoyable. Love the "No commentary". Helps folk enjoy the journey! And not many toilet inspections either! Yes, clean toilets are important, but not the b all and end all to a great train journey! Yep? All the best
Thanks 👍 - I know haha, but with all these trends, I feel like I have to do a loo review lol. I mean for most people it should be just go in and try to get out asap :D
36:46 Why did you take metro line 9 to get to Sants from the north station? I am just curious, I am from Barcelona and I usually get the line 5 (also the line 3) to go to sants, even the commuter train in the nearest station of north statin "arc de triomf" takes you to Sants directly
I did. But either it wasn't running in Oct 2023 or it wasn't fitting the schedule well. I honestly don't remember. The trip was already planned well in advance, by June 2023 I think I already purchased all tickets.
I did a similar trip in 2015. Plymouth to Lisbon and then on to Porto.. 1. Sleeper from Plymouth. 2. Eurostar to Paris. 3. Paris to Irun then crossed the platform and took the Train hotel to Lisbon. Left Plymouth at midnight and arrived in Lisbon 31 hrs later at 07.00. An excellant trip.
Hi from Amsterdam 😊 You can reach Portugal by train from Spain also from Badajoz to Entroncamento ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-znWhReiXi4A.htmlsi=PWky04olRrLNWdRp
I grew up in Brighton and have used this line many, many times. The ckass of trains I used as a kid were the slam door type. I remember the indicator boards being all paper signs that rotated on a woiden board and a plank of wood with white lettering, showing the station stops as you entered into the platforms. Such great memories.
