The bee represented the efforts of the Austrian Federal Railways to increase their population by creating hives and habitats on their real estate and not using neonicotine-based weed killer.
You were literally 25km from my house in Poland. I have been on the service. There is one from Warsaw to Vienna which gets to within 5km from where I live. It travels on a different line from Katowice onwards. Hope you enjoyed the Polish carriages. Standards are much better nowadays.
2 loco changes? There should have been only 1 at Bohumin. CD hauls the train from Vienna to Bohumin and from there on the train changes direction and gets taken over by a polish loco at the same time. And one coach was full because of how the reservation system works. It first fills the first carriage before starting at another one. What you always can do is either check the availability map (if available) and otherwise ask for a relocation to a less busy coach at the information desk in the Czech Republic or Poland (they can also do it in Vienna, but they are often reluctant to do it there)
Having just done the trip, can I recommend the SNCF Intercite service Paris Austerlitz to Toulouse. The most comfortable rail journey I've ever taken. 30 euros saved over the TGV, and the 2 extra hours in a wonderfully comfortable seat was well worth it. While the wifi didn't accept my details, a quick tap of the "foreign ticket" button bypassed that and allowed me to watch youtube. The coach I was in dated to 1976, and the whole train seemed to be from that era. Oh, and I can also vouch for your comments regarding Paris Bercy bus station... that place makes Victoria Coach Station look (and smell) palatial by comparison.
Did Katowice to Brno back in 2011, older style trains with compartments back then! Interesting travel companions and the trolley Doris rang ahead to a stop and got the pivos on board after she had none on her first got round the train!
Currywurst in Vienna? Wow they've opened up to the world a lot, when I lived in Austria nobody knew about Currywurst, it's more a Berlin / North Germany thing. The Wuerstelstands (sausage kiosks) in Vienna are great though.. I used to order Kaesekrainer, it's a slightly spicey, smokey meaty sausage with cheese inside the sausage, which is melted and gooey. Also hot Leberkas (Leberkaese in proper German) is nice in a roll with ketchup and/or mustard.
PKP Intercity has an odd reservation system. It sell tickets to only one carriage one by one. But i'm sure that Polish trainlovers already explained this
They have ancient system (from the looks of it made in 90ties), it took lady at the ticket office 40 min to sell me return tickets to Vienna, lots of codes, unclear error messeges etc.
Many thanks for another great video Scott. I first was drawn to your channel when I was researching Vietnam as a destination - then came Covid so my wings were clipped. Any plans to do another really BIG trip (though these continental Europe ones are great too - as are the local ones). Thanks for always providing a good watch.
Scott, you would not have had a loco change at Breclav as the Czech (CD) 1216 would have worked from Wien Hbf to Bohumin at the Polish border as they are multi system locos. yes there would have been a chance at Bohumin to a PKP EP09 as shown in your video
A very pleasant journey, soon we will cover the same route. And we will visit your recommended Vurstel boutique to taste this dish. Bohumin is the last station in the Czech Republic, here is the change of the locomotive from Czech to Polish.
I'm thinking about taking the Polonia from Warsaw to Vienna and was very interested to find out what the catering facilities were like... Checking out the food is so important. "Use it or lose it" - as British rail users have found out; a stand-up buffet with Cuppa-Soup, a bag of crisps, a Mars Bar and a can of lager costing you over a tenner. Here you can eat off a plate with proper stainless steel cutlery a meal that's been specially prepared for you on the train using fresh ingredients - meat and two veg, plus craft ale for your tenner (UK).
Hello, If You like trains, You will go to Romania. 10 years ago I was with my friends at Carpathian mountains in Romania. Further: We go from small train station in mountains; Ucea to Bucarest ( capital) Train station in Bucarest was Gara du Nord ( Northern train station in Bucarest) From this place We came to city Constanca ( big port) at Black sea, from Constanca to Mangalia (nearest) city to Bulgarian border. Constanca and Mangalia are courorts at black sea. Of course only a train. Beautiful of vievs and super modern trains. Greetings from Poland!
Always enjoy the travel with Scott. If you watch the video, just give it the thumbs up. He really does go to great length and expense to keep all who view entertained. So whatever Train, planes Ships help him out by showing your appreciation. Great value. Sorry no popcorn.
I enjoy all of your videos. There's always something useful in each one. The colour coding trim of each class of carriage is simple but brilliant. Why not use it on our trains?
55 cm tall platforms are standard for that part of Europe, it's the same in France, Italy, and many/most parts of Germany. I assume Vienna HBf is built to these same standards. You would hope modern stations like this one would have higher platforms but that mustn't have been possible.
@@stomil From what I read, the EU has set two standards, 0.55 and 0.76. Both Poland and Germany apparently have a mix of both heights from a map shown on Wikipedia, whereas other countries are one or the other. Glad to hear Poland is choosing to build the higher height rather than the lower! Much better for accessibility. I come from Scotland, the UK platform height is just over 0.9 metres so I'm not used to taking more than one step onto a train. It's certainly something I forget to appreciate until I travel in other countries.
It makes always sense to compare prices at International journeys. Even though I have a so called "BahnCard" which gives me 50% discount of normal fares, the regular price at PKP is always much cheaper than the one at Deutsche Bahn. Would be interesting to know how much DB earns of the Berlin-Warszawa/Gdynia/Przemysl trains, as they are fully operated by PKP, except of the German staff until the border
I don't think he thought it was funny, I think he just meant that generally trains aren't usually given names unless they're considered special for one reason or another. But I suppose it is normal for international trains to be given names.
You should visit Ostrava sometimes, a really interesting town. Starting to really modernize since it's history of industrial city. Nowadays starting to get bigger in tech and has a big University. Lived there for about 3 years, was 3 great years of working and living!
I am from Ostrava. And hopefully it's still Czech Republic,not CZECHIA. We are not part of evil Russian empire. The disgraceful name CZECHIA created the pro-Putin president Zeman. We are CZECH REPUBLIC. (divided to three regions: Bohemia,Moravia,Silesia) Ostrava is located in Silesia.
