De Kusttram | Travelling The Longest Tram Line In The World!

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ROUTE: KNOKKE - DE PANNE
OPERATOR: DE LIJN
TRAM: CAF URBOS 3
COST: €7.50 ADULT DAY PASS
De Kusttram (The Coast Tram) is a service connecting the cities and towns along the coast between Knokke, 8.5km from the Dutch border and De Panne, 1.5km from the French border. At 67 kilometres (42 mi) in length, it is currently the world's longest tram line in operation. The line is built at 1,000 mm gauge. The Urbos 3 trams have a top speed of 70 kmph/43mph.
De Kusttram started out as part of the Belgian Vicinal tramway, a network of interurban trams that once covered the entire nation. The first section of the line opened in 1885 running between Ostend and Nieuwpoort.
The tram service is operated by De Lijn, the Flemish government-owned company that provides public bus and tram transport in Flanders. De Lijn began operating in 1991.
The 67-km (42-mi) journey through coastal Flanders takes slightly under two and a half hours non-stop. There are 67 stops between De Panne and Knokke.
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@steve-marsh Год назад

Great video and some nuggets of comedy genius in there as always. Never even knew about this record-breaking route. Aye, great value for money for you Tim (well done Mrs TT for actually funding this RU-vid video) :)

@Timstravels01 Год назад

Cheers Steve. Aye, that was a cheap day out for me and a great part of the world to explore.

@billyshearer1 Год назад

Not just his theories line was fantastic! 😂

@Timstravels01 Год назад

Thank you! 😂

@TravelSignal Год назад

Nice one. Yet another item for the bucket list! And very well presented, especially the little jokes :)

@Timstravels01 Год назад

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

@JonathanPorterfield Год назад

Plopserland 😂 love it 😀

@Timstravels01 Год назад

It seems very popular.

@davidcartwright5591 Год назад

Great review Tim and Mrs TT . I love trams ,have done so since as a kid I was taken on the famous Blackpool trams . We have the slowest and most expensive trams in the World here in Sydney , something that places them on the other end of the tram spectrum to this one . This tram experience is definitely on my bucket list . Cheers and my best wishes to you both 👍

@Timstravels01 Год назад

Thanks David. It is well worth trying out.

@anianoenrique2115 Год назад

Do you still have that monorail in Sydney? I was on that in 1996,

@davidcartwright5591 Год назад

@@anianoenrique2115 . No , the monorail was taken out of service and the track and infrastructure dismantled some years ago . Typical Sydney dissatisfaction with what I thought was a good asset .

@anianoenrique2115 Год назад

@@davidcartwright5591 I never knew it no longer existed. Dumb move, imho.

@LetsMakeaTrip Год назад

Nice one Tim. Some lovely station buildings on this line, I must admit, I wasn’t expecting much scenery-wise but I was surprised. Very informative too 👍

@Timstravels01 Год назад

I was pleasantly surprised, the first stretch around Zeebrugge was grey but beyond that it was lovely. Ostend looked like somewhere worth visiting. Thanks so much for watching and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

@yagi3925 8 месяцев назад

@@Timstravels01 Ostend is the informal capital of the Belgian coast. Its glory is now something of the past but it used to be among the poshest seaside resorts in the whole of Europe until the 1950s, visited by celebrities and royals, earning it the nickname "the queen of beaches". It used to be such a prestigious place that it became a sister city of Monaco. It was also nicknamed "the most British of Belgian cities", due to its ferry line with Dover and a sizeable British population (visit the James Ensor museum). All of this is now past glory (the end of the ferry services to GB with the opening of the Chunnel accelerated the decline) but there are still a few interesting places and buildings to be seen in Ostend and it's still by far the largest and the busiest city on the Belgian coast (actually, the only city, the other places being mere towns).

@Timstravels01 8 месяцев назад

@yagi3925 I'd really like to see a bit more of Ostend and thank you for the background information. 👍

@yagi3925 8 месяцев назад

De Haan aan Zee ("The Hen/Rooster on Sea") is not only the prettiest tram station along the entire line, it's also by far the loveliest and best preserved seaside resort on the whole Belgian coast. In most other resort towns, traditional Flemish buildings have been bulldozed and replaced with charmless concrete blocks.

@Timstravels01 8 месяцев назад

It was a beautiful station. A highlight of the journey.

@anianoenrique2115 Год назад

Mr & Mrs Tim's Travels : you've made on old man very ugly. Not ugly, I meant happy. (Not that I'm not ugly, though!) I was a driver on De Kusttram for 3 years (1995 to 1997), and they were happy days. I even still had hair back then. I must say your pronunciation of the Flemish place names gets a 9 out of 10 from me. The way you pronounced 'De Haan Aan Zee' was pretty funny, but you got 'De Lijn' spot on ! Congratulations on picking out the most beautiful tram stop we've got there as well. Just one point of criticism : just as you are Scottish, we are Flemish, so you didn't travel the Belgian coast, you traveled the Flemish coast. And Gerardus Mercator was not Belgian, he was Flemish. He lived from 1512 to 1594 and the fiasco called Belgium only came into being in 1830,,,

@Timstravels01 Год назад

Thanks so much! I’m glad you enjoyed the video and put up with my pronunciations! Please forgive my lack of understanding regarding Flanders and Belgium, that was poor of me. We absolutely loved every minute we spent in Flanders. It was wonderful.

@anianoenrique2115 Год назад

@@Timstravels01 At 3:10 you can see the depot I was assigned to when I was a tram driver. Your video has really brought back happy memories.

@Timstravels01 Год назад

Thank you so much. I noticed that there were quite a few older trams in the depot. Are they occasionally used?

@anianoenrique2115 Год назад

@@Timstravels01 My answer to your question seems to have disappeared, so here's another try. Two brothers worked for years (weekends only) to restore two old trams in the depot at Knokke. It took them over a decade to get it all done. Those old trams are used during an event at De Haan Aan Zee called 'Trammelant', which is a celebration of the time the tramline (and that beautiful tramstop) was first built. That event will take place this year on August 5th. People dress up in period clothing, there's vintage cars and bicycles, etc.

@Timstravels01 Год назад

That sounds wonderful. August 5th you say…

@flyingmyles Год назад

magnificent! what a great video, being a tram nerd this is something I've wanted to do for a while. The scenery along the route does look impressive too. Stand out item for me, what a weird colour choice for those seats....!!

@flyingmyles Год назад

Oh how could I forget..... I dread to think what Plopsaland is about🤔

@Timstravels01 Год назад

Was Plopsaland an inspiration for the seat colour? Plopsaland...it's worth a Google.

@Timstravels01 Год назад

It's well worth trying out. A great way to explore that part of Belgium. Ostend looked like exploring. So much to see so little time to see it.

@flyingmyles Год назад

@@Timstravels01 safe search on or off 😄 🤣

@Timstravels01 Год назад

😂

@matthewodwyer3615 Год назад

Plopsaland....maybe you could head there for a toilet review? 😂😂

@Timstravels01 Год назад

Darn, missed a trick there. 🤣

@doubledutch13 Год назад

Nice video Tim, I’ve driven the route twice, I fancy the tram though, interestingly I’ve always pronounced it “Nock”?? Good to be corrected 👍

@Timstravels01 Год назад

There is every likelihood I'm pronouncing it wrong! The tram was great fun, well worth trying.

@anianoenrique2115 Год назад

@@Timstravels01 Your pronunciation was not bad at all. You do have to pronounce the K at the beginning as you did, but you also have to pronounce the E at the end (same sound as the E in 'the').

@Timstravels01 Год назад

I’m loving this education. Keep it coming!

@doubledutch13 Год назад

@@Timstravels01 and there’s me thinking Kinockie is near Peeterheed (Clola) 😂

@Timstravels01 Год назад

🤣👍🏻