Belgium's strange but decent intercity train! 

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Because he called our trains "strange" and we wanted to know why :p

Hhhh ik ook😂😂

me too

I guess I am kinda randomly asking but do anybody know of a good site to stream new movies online?

Oh, dat wist ik niet.

Thanks for the info! I hadn't really considered covid had anything to do with it bit that makes perfect sense 😁

It doesn't look like it has a front door, i am surprised you can walk through the front of those

@@wharris302 Yes, the driving cabine can be folded to the side so that it becomes a passage held together by the black seals at the front

Since you are a train driver for NMBS do you know wether NMBS/SNCB reaches out to destinations in neighboring countries?

It was designed by Henry Van De Velde, one of the pioneers in belgian Art Nouveau

Right, one of the oldest rail logos in use. Probably together with the Union Pacific shield in the USA.

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@@ramifaes6161 :) treinbegeleider , dat helpt ook voor die plaatsjes te kennen

Hey are you family of me? Im Kenji Kellens

@@kenjigamesnet i honestly don't know but i'm guessing we're not

@@kristofkellens3264 Power drops when the train is standing still though!

Yeah Belgium is a little too small for real high-speed trains. Here in Germany high so make more sense, but I wish we would have more routes for 250+km/h.

He should've added the Indiana Jones music ;-)

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The map was great! Just what we needed.

I agree. Love the inclusion of the map and route. 👍

Yeah, really cool feature! 😊

Glad you like it 😁

Is that a Calatrava design? Looks like the WTC Oculus we have here with the white paint, large open space, and lots of steel arches.

@@joermnyc yes it is a real Calatrava, including being over budget !

@@tonguepiercing yep, the Oculus had that problem too. He also designed the replacement for a little Greek orthodox church that was destroyed by the falling wtc... That also went way over budget! Whomever does the cost estimates for Calatrava designs must be living in an alternate reality.

Antwerp-Central looks cool too.

belgium is a weird country , but also a cool one.

Dude, do you even know belgium xD Its a joke!

@@Kristoffceyssens a joke?why the fuck then, im a belgian as well , just like you i think but a joke ,that hurts my eyes to read

Belgium ..... beautiful architecture, great food, beer, chocolate and friendly people. Only in Belgium have people asked if I needed any help when i had stopped to look at my tourist map. Also with no sexual hangups (I rememenbr the ladies in red lit windows when I looked down from the train approaching Brussels-Nord if i remember correctly roughly 10 years ago admittedly).

@@Martindyna that's true, I love this country even somebody speaks bad I always gonna love because I live there and this country help me a lot and I'm gonna help this country all my life ☕🍹🥂

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Nice! Tends to be the case with airport tickets. Our airports charge quite large amounts of money to tourists who are none the wiser for express services when they could get the regular train for a fraction of the price and only takes slightly longer.

Ah I didn't realise there was a youth ticket. Then again, I bought my ticket at the airport so I probably wouldn't have been offered it. Thanks for the info.

@@DylansTravelReports all ticket machines offer it

Desiros are good for commuting but man an intercity it's just not right! I went from brussels to dinant with a desiro train and on the way back I had to buy 1st class since the seats are way more comfortable. The AM96s are definitely the best together with the m6

The walkways were sealed off. I could see through and there was no gang way. Also an SNCB driver confirmed this was a temporary covid measure.

​@@DylansTravelReports Lot of years i can't switch from one EMU 96 to another EMU 96 and there wasn't coronavirus. I will look the next time i travel in a EMU 96.

@Sven Every 7-8 years the trains gone in revision in Malines/Mechelen and is clean when he exit of the workshop of Malines/Mechelen.

@@riccardoattilia8219 Classic EMU his more comfy that Desiro also on commuter services and L train who can take the travellers of one IC train who is delayed or cancelled. The EMU 86 also build for commuter services is more comfy that the Desiro.

Designed by Calatrava, who also designed the modern part of the city of Valencia in Spain.

@@1970jel Indeed, both are striking and well worth seeing. Coincidentally I visited both cities in 2017 and 2018 for drying conferences and saw the resemblance.

It would be even lovelier if they just used both languages, but then you'd still have to give one language preference depending on where you are. It's the one thing that struck me when I took a train from the Netherlands to Paris in 1989, that the order of Dutch and French swapped as soon as you arrived at Brussels Central. Language is a touchy subject in Belgium, and as per usual, it's all Napoleon's fault.

Love the UK trains

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No, between Charleroi railway station and the Charleroi Airport it's a specific ticket at 6 euros by traject, not a classic ticket at 2,50 hors 3, 50 €. www.letec.be/#/View/Relier_laeroport_de_Brussels_South_Charleroi/989

In the UK they would charge €20.30 just for the bus shuttle!

the way you would go cost 16eu.80 to so if 3.50eu is a rip off for you and its a direct way well, then i dont follow you :D

No, they don't. It's the same company, just the name is translated.

The national railways is one of the few things still done at a federal level. So there are no two parts. Fun fact: the Flemish nationalists have been arguing very hard to get the so-called "Iron Rhine" reactivated. This is a railway that links the harbour of Antwerp with the German Ruhrgebiet. It was part of the partition treaty between the Netherlands and Belgium, where Belgium would get a connection to this very important German industrial area. They chose a railway, which crosses from the Belgium province of Limburg into the Dutch province of Limburg. (The province was split with the 1839 treaty, even though most of it had de facto been part of Belgium since 1830.) During WW2, when both Belgium and the Netherlands were occupied, there were trains over that line that went as far as East Prussia. But after the war, during which the quadruple railway bridge in Weert (NL) was destroyed, and the line became single track (even though it had been built as double track right from the beginning), its use declined and eventually stopped almost entirely. Crucially, though, the line was never officially closed, even though it has been proposed at various times by both the Belgians and the Dutch. Nowadays, there is a more-or-less active line between Hamont (BE) and Weert (NL), there's the fairly busy bit between Weert and Roermond, and then there's a bit that goes through a fragile nature park into Germany. It's the latter part of the line that is no longer in use, and in fact no train can run there without some serious track work. Now, why is all of this relevant? And what do Flemish nationalists have to do with all this? As I mentioned, the railways are one of the few things done at a federal level. In order to achieve the goal of Flemish independence, the railways would have to be split between Flanders and Wallonia. But there is a big problem: while there exists a high-capacity railway line between Antwerp and Germany, this travels through Wallonia, the so-called Montzen Route. In fact, this line was built by the Germans during WW1, because the Iron Rhine between occupied Belgium and the neutral Netherlands could no longer be used. And there were some bad feelings from Belgium towards the Netherlands after WW1, so they were quite happy to use this alternative route, where they wouldn't have to deal with Dutch customs. This contributed to the decline of the Iron Rhine. Anyway, the Belgians wanted to reactivate the line, the Dutch resisted because of the hamsters in the nature reserve (and perhaps because it would mean increased competition for the harbour of Rotterdam, who knows), and the case went to arbitration. The court of arbitration ruled that the Belgians were right to want to reactivate the line, but there would have to be a tunnel under the nature reserve, the cost of which would be shared between the Netherlands and Belgium. Since then, it has become very quiet around this line. And truth be told, the idea was insane to begin with. The Belgians (or should I say, Flemish) wanted to run 90 freight trains a day on this line. Considering that the track between Weert and Roermond typically sees two passenger trains per hour in each direction, and perhaps a handful of freight trains a day, this would mean a massive impact on those living near the railway. But while the railway runs mostly on an embankment in Weert, and doesn't really go through built-up areas, it runs through several towns in Flanders. At street level. Can you imagine having 90 freight trains run through these Flemish towns, at street level, 24 hours a day? That's why the plan is insane. It's an example of cutting your nose to spite your face.

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If a person buys a ticket to Brussels from the airport, their ticket will automatically say "Zone Brussel/Bruxelles", so they can use that same ticket to do unlimited trips between the different train stations within brussels for that day. :)

@@kauemoura When I first arrived in Brussels by air and went down to the station at Zaventem I asked for a ticket to Brussels Keapellekerk but got one to Kapellen instead that´s why I say as I do.

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It's sad as newer trains tend to be a downgrade in terms of comfort these days.

true, especially since it is being used on longer routes, i mean , those desiro's are fine for the short routes. But Antwerp-Oostende in a desiro really isn't ideal. Plus there is no space to work at all, When i commuted between my 'kot' in louvain-la-neuve and my home in flanders I was always hoping for no desiros, would even take a different train to avoid them because they meant i could get nothing done in those 3 hours.

Indeed, Bombardier bought a licence for the danish patent on this solution. One of the nicknames of these EMU"s are "Danish noses". That being said, these sets are extremely reliable meanwhile they date back to the 90ies. Technical stuff, traction power, bogies, ... are top class. The design was kind of avant-garde, it still looks decently actual. Everything is pretty solid in these trains, no money has been spared on any detail.

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ey dude i as a belgian can say there are sometimes very high quality graffitti on the usual gray coloured trains more then often to so :D seriously

but i think your the kind of person that would remove those to so fuck you actually

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And there was a time where they would have trains with five units, each unit having a different destination. One splitting off in Fredericia or Vejle and heading to Thisted via Herning, the remaining four heading to Aarhus, where one would stop, one would go to Struer, and the remaining two would go to Aalborg, where another one would stop and one would continue to Frederikshavn. And then they did the same in reverse when going the other way, too. While they still run up to five units coupled together, for a total of 17 cars, they only have at most three destinations nowadays, as you said.

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Ah I've heard Antwerp Centraal is very nice! Thanks for the info regarding tickets as I didn't know that when I travelled.

@@DylansTravelReports The "go pass" (a card with 10 rides from and to everywhere in the country) or "go pass one (same but only one ride) are for the people under 26 years old and are quite cheap (between 5 and 7€ per ride). For the 26+, there is the "rail pass" (a card with 10 rides and the same conditions, between 8 to 9€ per ride).

The word "grotty" is a new one for me but 2 of you have used it here. I've never heard it in the USA, but we speak a different dialect!

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true

Even on Luxembourg to Brussels, there isn't any catering since more than 20 years and only on the EC trains to Italia or Switzerland.

@@marvsslu I dont think these long distance trains still exist.

The only catering on trains you will find in Belgium will be on the high speed trains like Eurostar to London, Thalys to Paris, Amsterdam or Cologne, and the ICE to Frankfurt. Also, contrary to for instance the Netherlands or Germany, there is almost nowhere catering on the platforms (except for a few vending machines in some places). So get your food before getting to the platform or on the train !

*Oostende to Eupen

@@tonguepiercing To Switzerland (Basel), the last one was in April 2016 (I was in it…). To Italy, the last trains were in 2003…

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@@DylansTravelReports No problem !

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That's nonsense, she was wrong and you were right. I work for them too so I know.

@@MrSvenovitch Thanks for clearing that up! I thought I was right and perfectly ok to do so. Perhaps I just caught them on a bad day.

@@CarlD08 Unfortunately, you could have been wrong and he was right. You could have taken the Brugge-Antwerpen train up until Ghent and could have changed over there. Tickets prices here in Belgium are based on distance, so you pay for the shortest distance. E.g. Brugge-Gent-Brussels via the direct line 50A. One-way: €14,30. The only correct way to travel to Brussels via Antwerpen would have been the purchase of two seperate tickets: Brugge-Antwerpen and Antwerpen-Brussels. This way you would have covered both distances being Brugge-Antwerpen: €15 + Antwerpen-Brussels: €7,50 = €22,50 instead of €14,30. Please do explain how it could have been faster via Antwerp? In theory it’s correct you can deviate from the shortest distance connection IF it has indeed a shorter arrival time AND you’ll take the first possible connection without a stopover. But Brugge-Brussels faster via Antwerpen? Was there some track maintenance of some sorts? Brugge-Brussels normally takes around 60 min direct. I understand why my colleague was interrogating you, he could have given you a fine for travelling outside your ticket distance boundary. You were lucky! Did you use our app to check train times? Kind regards!

@@trainspotterXL Well I'll let you argue that one with Sven who says he works for them and I was right.

@@trainspotterXL This all sounds like the way it used to be on British Rail where they charged you extra for taking a slightly longer route distance-wise even if it was quicker. That seems to have relaxed significantly since privatisation, especially if you have a full fare ticket.

Can I ask a question? How much does it cost a train ticket from Brussels to Bruges?

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Or go to the Sunday morning Market along the Meuse, lots of fruit, Italian food, my favorite place on a Sunday morning instead of a dull church when I was a child. Waffles and Vol au vent, my parents dancing at the muzette music, very nice memories.

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That's funny because I hate them. I mean this model is cool, but the ones they use around Halle? Terrible.

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@@DylansTravelReports U26 is of course a cheap option if you are under 26, but in this case, you actually paid a premium for the convenience of only 1 ticket. A normal ticket between Charleroi and Liege would cost you €14,30 while the bus fare would have been €3,50.

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IC3 and it’s electric variant IR4 is still in use as well in Denmark :)

@@privateerbouncher9622 and the Öresundståg/Øresundstog, also fitted with rubber lip cabs.

Well Charleroi airport has a big sign infront of the terminal which says "brussels south"

Yes the airport is called Brussels South Charleroi Airport but it's not really anywhere near Brussls and is more like calling Southend Airport a London Airport.

@@DylansTravelReports charleroi airport is literally a 40 mins drive from brussels tho

Glad you liked it as it will be in my future videos too 😁

yup, it is

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You're probably talking about M6 coaches when you speak about two decker ;)

@@joachimtaverne5035 I honestly have no clue as to the names of the models. Where can I find them?

@@isakaldazwulfazizsunus7564 Here you have a lot of pictures (it'es in french but with the picture you can undesrtand ) www.belrail.be/F/fiches/index.php Ther's also a wikipedia page but they don't list coaches there : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SNCB/NMBS_classes

I'm native in French so won't be an issue ;) thanks!

@@isakaldazwulfazizsunus7564 Dans ce cas, la page wikipedia en francais est plus complète ;) (et plus récente que lepremier site donné ;) ) : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat%C3%A9riel_roulant_de_la_SNCB

Yeah, the AM96 has some features based on the IC3s and X31s like the doors at either end of each unit.

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bombardier has a factory here in bruges to in belgium :D

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Antwerp-Central: Am I a joke to you?

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Unfortunately I was only in Liège for about an hour so no time for waffles 😭