Catching a train to the RUSSIAN BORDER in 2023... (Is it safe!?) 

Theres a place called Ars in France. Not sure if it had a station but worth a mention anyway. I can now say "France has a nice Ars". And it was as well 😂

I have never been to Japan, but I know the Shitte (尻手) station.

In Sweden, terminus is called "slutstation".

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is it possible in korea😶

as always? :D

that was cheeky

Hehe... You saw Pussi COME up on screen...

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Fun fact - there's an estonian city, not far from this route actually, called "Kunda", which in Czech means roughly the same as what "Püssi" means in English.

It’s a very popular build in the USSR steam locomotive. And what is more interesting - still freight is being exported from Russia… I was laughing when author called the situation as ‘Putin regime’, he should have read data about off-sore assets of even russian governors and their Miami and their etc holdings. No one normal wants that war and such decisions. We are people and feel sorrow, grief and pain for that happened , but money made such impossible things happen, too many greediness

@@olegdc40 all of us Russians want war to end as soon as possible, but majority still support continuation of it, if it's necessary for victory

​@@mrobocop1666 you can always go to the frontline and help your regime end this war faster, why don't you?

@@osasunaitor modern industrial war is very complex and requires much more people in economy and researches than it was in WWII or even earlier. We develop and produce all the stuff by our own, unlike Ukraine. It's Ukraine which supplied by everything and pays for it by a lot of blood and country's destruction, absence of future even if they aren't conquered (since most of economy will be destroyed, young working-age population fled or died/disabled in battles) so Zelenski can throw it's entire grown man population to death/handicapping, since 40 countries give them enormous credits (which never be paid back with destroyed economy and demography, heavy debt payments will also stop Ukraine's development for generations), NATO supply them rusty weapons which they gladly ready to dump to Ukraine and rearm their own armies to newer ones

@@mrobocop1666 blablabla [yawn] too many words to say that you are Putin bootlicker, come back when you have something interesting to say

And also that you can build diesel-electric on same production line or retrofit existing trains. Serbian Railway bought many Stadler Flirt for electrified lines, but they are electric only. And Russian Diesel Hydraulic for non electrified lines. Problem is, that there are many lines that are electrified partially, but given current situation, they have to run on diesel on whole journey. For example, line Belgrade - Pančevo - Vršac (- Timisoara, Romania) is electrified from Belgrade to Pančevo and section in Belgrade uses commuter rail tunnels, where 2 stations are under ground. And Belgrade Centar station is underground, so you have Diesel idle while passenger get on board.

Seems to be a Stadler feature like the UK Class 755/756 trains.

a Stadler specialty

Once i took a train from Moscow to Kaliningrad, it takes about 20 hours, and guess what? Three country borders, with passport checks on each! All checks are happening in the middle of the night, so don't expect sleeping well there :D

Stadler is a Swiss company and they also design the interiors on order.

They might look nice, but most people here don't actually like them as the protection from the elements is... A bit lacking 😅

@@greendude96 Oh, Yeah, I see. Maybee they should have gotten to a compromise. You can certainly design beautiful canopies that still protect you from the weather. Or a small glass cabin with doors at the platform, so you are protected from the elements.

He only passes Lilleküla on a bypass track and not on one of the commuter trains that stop.

@@timectrl The lines going to Tartu and Valga also stop there, so it's a bit weird that Narva trains don't

Thank you! They come directly from my written script, more accurate than automatic ones. :)

Thank you so much 😀

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks! 😁

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

find those old trains in Latvia. One of them even goes to the Estonian town of Valga so you can connect there.

Yes, I agree!

The EU membership has brought development to the Baltic states.

The network is gradually being upgraded to 160 km/h. The Tallinn-Tartu mainline will be fully electrified by 2026, Tallinn-Narva by 2028. 16 new Škoda EMUs will arrive in 2024-2025. There are also plans to use the under-construction Rail Baltic tracks also for local traffic, but that will mean new trains again, since it is European gauge.

Estonia is very modern and technologically advanced. These trains are not super special (they look like the ones we have in the Finnish capital region commuter lines, though those have a different interior and more…commuter-y seating) but otherwise Estonia is heads above many Western European countries when it comes to e-services. They’ve got e-citizenship, electric voting, Starship (the delivery robots) is Estonian as is (partially) Skype. You never need cash anywhere - you don’t in Finland either but I know in places like Germany or the US you still do.

They are now entering service in Wales as the class 231

GE C36-7i *

Flirt DMUs (British Class 231 stock) was specially developed by Stadler to meet the train order Estonia placed back in 2009.

Hahaha. Thank you.

Stadler is swiss tho

@@paul_ko It has factorys all over the world including poland, germany, usa etc. Its a swissed based company thats it, the product it self is international.

@@enterIT-xl8cc it's still a swiss company, like how siemens is german even though they manufacture in china

@@paul_ko Previously almost got Stadler confused with the pencil-making company

Too bad it doesn't open until 11! 😅

@@SuperalbsTravels true! When I got back that evening from Narva I had dinner there!

@@roaddogg800 Oh perfect, I should have done that myself! :)

Yeah, only a few international trains to Latvia now. :(

⁠@@SuperalbsTravels There are no international trains to Latvia. Estonian trains stop at Valga, Estonia, where you have change over to a Latvian train.

@@henrikmanitski1061 Valga, Estonia to Riga you say? ;)

Thank you! I had a quick look around, but had to go back to Helsinki the same evening.

The best bit is the low-floor! 😃

That's right!

There's a ticket office at the station, but I bought online. Website is www.elron.ee, and should have details on prices. Hope this helps!

Only on the electrified lines. Is Latvia going to electrify the whole network?

@@henrikmanitski1061 probably not

Dr Dewot Estonia should import brand new Indian diesel locos instead of second hand US engines , I think at a cheaper price also and causing less pollution.

@@sureshbhatia9408 Any NEW locos that Estonia will acquire in the future will be electric. Also, old American diesel locos are being modernised, with only the undercarriage remaining of the original.

@@sureshbhatia9408 Indian locos would be a bad choice, since Indian rolling stock companies have no presence in Europe, meaning that parts would have to be Imported, potentially meaning that the locomotive would be out of use for weeks or even months. Meanwhile General Electric is a very good choice, since a lot of their locomotives operate on the post-Soviet countries' broad gauge railways. You'll see them in Kazachstan, Ukraine, Moldova and other places. There's also licensed production of GE locomotices in Ukraine, so getting parts is a lot easier since a lot of the parts can be imported from a country that is a lot closer. Also, i doubt Indian companies would be interested in designing a brand new type of 1520 mm broad-gauge locomotive to comply with all the EU standards, since they wouldn't be able to sell too many of them anyway. Ukraine already has a big fleet of new GE Evolution TE33A engines and i think they'd probably just order more of those if they needed, since they can be assembled on the spot. Lithuania typically goes with European manufacturers and Moldova simply can't afford buying new locos right now since they already bought GE units recently, which only leaves potential small orders from Latvia and Estonia. Simply not worth it for the Indians, since it would be a waste of R&D money.

Fascinatingly, there are US built locomotives in Russia too! 😳

In Estonia, a number of viaducts and ecoducts are being or have been built. Some of the sections are in the tender phase, while others are being designed. Construction of one 10 km section of the line will start next year.

Elron is not similiar to Lastochka(Swallow)

@@SuperKillburn why u so angry? what I was doing to u and ur country?

Чувак, зникни кудись!

@@user-fq8sj8pl1l where did u see i'm angry lol?

@@jetblack044 did you say it to me?

Yeah, gives a bad rep to estonia

@@tomatimahl Bad rep starts actually from the beginning. Why the main station called “Balti jaam” like it is some kind of terminus in Russian empire? Wouldn’t be “Tallinna jaam” much better? Why they everywhere use Russian as second language on labels? Looks like Russian integration instead of European integration. (In Finland they used 110 years ago Russian, Finnish and Swedish labels because it was part of Russian empire, but today they use only Finnish and Swedish as they are no Russian empire anymore. Estonia is nether. So it’s pretty strange that Estonians in place which supposed to be called “Tallinna jaam” use billboards glorifying Russian empire and let _babushkas_ to sell stuff like that)

@@ragnarlaine4065 balti jaam, baltic station. How hard is it to understand, its named from the Baltic Sea. I have no clue where you got empire from.

@@ragnarlaine4065 also we dont have russian as secondary language, just some PRIVATE COMPANIES choose to also put russian in their ads and such. We only learn English and Estonian in school, russian is literally banned

@@ragnarlaine4065 and Babushkas selling stuff is normal, it happens in latvia, finland, lithuania, poland, croatia, bosnia, serbia, ukraine, romania and so on

If you imagine a black James Bond that could time-travel, „Tenet“ has pretty much got you covered.

Where does that go? I didn't think it was operating.

Yeah. The current one is pretty lifeless and dull.

Not by rail, there are some good long distance busses though

Sadly no despite infrastructure being there.

Connection? Yes. Good? No, unfortunately. You're looking at one possible journey per day with a 2 hour or so connection in Valga.

Not yet. Any train journey currently would be very long and involve a transfer on the border of the 2 countries. They're both trying to change that with the Rail Baltica high speed rail project, linking all 3 baltic states to mainland europe with fast 230km/h trains. But that is still many many years away from being possible to ride.

To be fair, we don't really need one. Northern Estonia with Tallinn and Southern Finland with Helsinki mirror each other being the densest parts of both countries. Good connections of these two regions are more important than with Riga. I'm sure some Southern Estonians will disagree, but South is much less densely populated.

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They are old water towers.

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Thanks for the information! :)

C30-7s have not been running for more than a decade. The are being modernised to C30M, basically into a whole new loco.

@henrikmanitski1061 thank you for telling me about that because they are still being used here where I am in the United States by Short line railways or Class 1 Railways inside a Marshalling yard.

Haha, they're certainly used for lots of purposes (in Norway, soon as sleeper trains).

North america has a great freight train system.

@@HeaGuerilla 😭

@@HeaGuerilla we need some normal civilian trains too 😩

⁠@@earthandwind820Priorities. In the US, it is freight, in Estonia it is passengers. Freight trains mainly run at night, when there is no passenger traffic.

@@henrikmanitski1061 I think a country that consistently claims itself to be #1 to the world & the “richest country on earth” can do both. But we’d rather spend that $$ on illegal invasions/wars… you know the stuff our current politicians/media claim they’re (hypocritically) supposedly against re: Russias war in Ukraine. The amount of homelessness, embarrassing civilian infrastructure away from tourists areas, Americans living paycheck to paycheck (also whitewashed to foreigners in other countries to not make the USA “look bad”) is unacceptable for such a “wealthy” country. They clearly don’t have the right “priorities” at all.

A borrowed word? 😂😂😂

@@SuperalbsTravels probably 😅

Oh yeah, I forgot that! 😅

The correct spelling is Tallinn not Tallin

Yes it is the same gauge. :)

Эстонии нужно переходить на евроколею, нужно избавляться от советского наследия

Yeah they're pretty good! :)

high platforms is a standard in Soviet / Russian Railways station. It surprises me that the rest of the world still uses low platforms.

Correct! :)

Yeah, you're right. It's worse. North Korea hasn't invaded anyone since the 1950s

@@nb2008nc using that logic the US, Australia, UK is worse than North Korea

@@HazptMedia What territory did any of those states annex?

@@nb2008nc Afghanistan Iraq Syria Lebanon Vietnam

@Hazpt Media Never annexed any territories in any of those places. Invaded Afghanistan to root out al Qaeda. Never took it over. Invaded Iraq as a knee jerk reaction due to bad Intel, but didn't annex territory. Invaded Syria to destroy isis, but didn't annex territory. UN invited US to come to Lebanon. Never annexed territory and we left with our tail between our legs. Vietnam, we were invited by the government of South Vietnam to protect it from your buddies in the North. Never tried to make it into Hawaii or anything. Were you the editor of Pravda at one point, tovarich?

Honestly these days I doubt it, but maybe something will change in the future?

Oh wow, sinep! 😂

Canadian owned. Statoil sold their retail business to them.

Hi! 👋