Venice to Vienna with NIGHTJET : Couchette class review 

Every time i go to the toilet on a train i can't stop to think "toilets time"

The Railjet and Nighjet liveries might be my all-time favorite of any train ever.

Venezia Santa Lucia (prononcer: Venetzia Sannta Lutcha) est une gare qui évoque tout le charme de Venise, cité romantique des amoureux et de l'art de vivre italien. Wien Hauptbahnhof (prononcer: Wiiinn Haoupt-baan-hoof) est une gare moderne, propre et spacieuse, une des meilleures gares européennes. Vienne, une ville de culture et de congrès. Merci pour cette belle vidéo.

@3:55, the high number 403 is because each coach number in international trains ins europe is unique. For example if have been traveling today in Coach 263 in EC9 from Cologne to switzerland today. No other train has numbers like this. Small numbers are reserved for domestic trains.

@3:46 The car numbering seems that strange because it has to take into account all the different branches and recombinations of the trains, where the car number should stay unique in the train over the whole journey. The "main part" of the train usually has the numbers in a x00-x10 range (e.g. 401-406 in this train). For the other cars (that get switched around between trains) they usually use blocks of 100 for the rough geographic direction on one end of the journey and blocks of 10 for the rough direction at the other end. There are sometimes still gaps, because the trains dont have the same number of cars year round. Also this scheme is only applied in one direction (i.e. the cars keep their numbers when they go back to their origin). E.g. here we have cars 276-278 going to Munich. In Villach coaches 271-274 from Zagreb to Munich are added to this train. Later in Salzburg the train is recombined again, adding coaches 260-264 from Budapest to Munich. So, roughly speaking, in this train 2xx is the block going towards the north, 27x the block coming from to the south and 26x the block coming from the east. The gaps will be smaller in summer, where most of those trains have additional cars. The scheme is similar for other connections, but sometimes the blocks of 10 are shifted around a bit as it is really just an "overall geographic direction" and you only can do so much with 10 number blocks of 10 each... E.g. the night train to Innsbruck has car numbers 27x (NJ40491 from Hamburg, the coaches 26x in this train go to Vienna) and 28x (NJ425 from Bruxelles, coaches 25x to Vienna). Those other cars 25x and 26x are recombined into NJ491 to Vienna. And then there's the occasional outlier like e.g. car 700 from Düsseldorf to Innsbruck which only runs on demand... and of course all that shuffling cars around, the varying seasonal demand and some destinations only being available on certain weekdays also messes up the train numbers overall (e.g. NJ425 is called NJ421 between Düsseldorf and Nürnberg, as the part to Bruxelles is only served twice a week). It's a logistical jigsaw puzzle :-)

Nice video! ÖBB does sell tickets for 6 bunk couchette btw. I travelled like that from Vienna to Rome with 4 mates. Excellent trip in 14 hours.

I love your videos, especially about OBB trains! The landscape in Venezia Santa Lucia is fantastic 😍!

"Silencious" is one of my new favourite words.

Merci beaucoup.Your lovely videos are gateways to International railway travel in UK/ Europe.

2:52 A beautiful shot, gorgeous sunset as it reflects off the train car :) Great video thanks for sharing

Lovely temperature control knobs, straight off a 1970s hi fi.

The attendants on NightJet are employed by Newrest Wagons-Lits, the successor company to CIWL, operators of the Orient Express and other famous trains of that type.

I always love these videos.

Wow, looks like a nice trip. Bien fait!

Really good video. Looks like a nice journey. I’ve only taken the Italian night sleeper train from Northern Italy to Rome before. I’m a new subscriber to your channel from the 🇬🇧. Merci beaucoup pour partager.

Awesome trip report. Huge like.

I love travelling with the train. Greetings from Satu Mare Romania...

Great video ! Thank you for sharing !!! :):):)

Great video!! Thanks

VERY NICE MY FRIEND LOVE TRAIN 😀😀🥰🥰🥰❤❤💥💥💥💥👍👍👍👍👍 THANK YOU BYE

One of my favorite cities!

Excellent video!!!

I would love to go on this train.

Cool le nouveau type de mignature

I wonder how much the continuation of Nightjet was contributed to by OBB's choice to go for push-pull for their Railjets? It gives the big advantage that the expensive locomotives can be used both on Railjet during the day, and Nightjet at night. Had they gone for units, they would still need a fleet of locos for Nightjet, which would push up the cost of running the services.

You make me want to go interrailing again like I did when I was young....

Just visited Vienna, nice 2 see this

Great! Looking forward to take the OBB Nightjet from the Netherlands to Munich or Vienna next year in a sleeper!

My souvenir from that trip would have been water bottle with that special label.. without the water, of course. :)

Have a try at the sleeping cars when you can. Not that much more expensive depending on availability. The experience is amazing. Nightjet is my #1 choice when I need to go between Switzerland and Germany. Especially on Zh-Berlin / Zh-Vienna routes where they use their double-decker sleeping carriages.

Good video. I prefer the old livrery OBB for the euronight, but i love Obb wagen and the Siemens Liegewagen Wlabmz. Taurus Is a great lok.

Looks like a solid product. 👍 I love Venice too! 😍

After European sleeper service numbers dropped to a sad level, I was glad to read there is increased demand, and new international routes will be opened up in 2020. A great video of a great train journey.

Fantastic

Sehr gut

The weird ÖBB coach-numbering helps with their through-coach system: it's easier on the guys who have to sort out coaches at night. NJ 236, for example, splits in Salzburg - if all trains splitting in Salzburg had the same coach numbers (i.e. 1÷8), mistakes could be made with the wrong cars getting to the wrong destination. If only train X has coaches 101÷108, train Y had 201÷208, and train Z had 301÷308, then it would be easier to split and rearrange the coaches as each and every one has a unique number!

Muy bien 👏

@0:59 oh boy a train to Monaco! I had a similar experience when I was travelling from Lille to Ypres. My plan was to leave Lille, then transfer at a station called Kortrijk, but the display screen didn't display Kortrijk. The staff at the station insisted it was the right train. Well I realized it was because the screen in Lille was French so it was written Courtrai. 🤣

5:28 no soap lol 😂

I love your reviews

I have travelled quite a few times to and from Vienna by sleeper trains, they are excellent ! A really good idea would be a secure baggage coach for large(r) suitcases, as there is not really a great deal available in couchettes...especially for 4 or 6 people.

Before we went into Lockdown,OBB started there brussles service,it normally operates on a wednesday at the moment,i was supposed to be going to Austria in august 2020 aswell with Karlsruhe with nightjet from cologne to vienna,as we were going on a saturday i think

Oh I so want to do overnight sleeper trains I just love rail travel and the sound just relaxes me, so if I'd a bed to lie on I'd be in heaven

Went to Venice myself some years back... it's a city that's very easy to get lost in...

Un petit dej, même en couchette ? C'est classe. Il est inclus dans le prix ou c'est un plus ? Hâte de voir une vidéo avec un wagon-lit OBB. Belle vidéo, merci de nous l'avoir montrée.

You could try italo since you were at Venice... very good video anyway

Thank you. Very helpful regards Ian Brunssum NLD.

It would have been a lot easier to read your message if the printing was put in say a black box at the bottom of the video screen, it was very difficult with white letters on a white or light background

Nice night jet sleeper trains 3 others to share with is not too bad compared to one I saw on a french sleeper car with 6 others 😓😓 Also these trains are better standard

Great video! I advise you, if you can, to travel on an Italian intercity night, from Milan to Syracuse (Sicily). The journey takes almost 22 hours and 1500 km. Furthermore, if you didn't know, the train is transported on the ship between Calabria and Sicily, very fascinating. I suppose it is the train with the longest journey in Europe (between regular trains, in fact, a pair of trains runs every day). This train was the first direct link between the north and south of Italy since the 1950s, facilitating mass emigration from the south to northern Italy in those years; he has also been the subject of many films, poems and songs. It was called by the state railways, "arrow of the South". I am Sicilian, my grandfather and after my mother often took this train and told me really many adventures of those long journeys. If 22 hours seem too many, there are also intercity and intercity night Rome-Syracuse, lasting about 10 hours, which also allow you to see the crossing over the Strait of Messina with the ship. Sorry for my English!

At some routes you can even take your car or motorcycle with you!

5:23 sensor is good 👍🏻

you must see the train of astra (transcarpatic) the best sleeper

Very nice! Some clean and comfy wagons and a nice trip! Congratulations from Romania!

😍👍

Used to be db coaches on this route

3:55 lol 😂

Per Monaco being Italian for Munich in Germany, you're correct, I looked it up, it's "Monaco di Baviera." There have been incidents of travellers getting tickets to Munich when they meant to travel to the principality of Monaco on the Mediterranean coast. Vienna Hauptbahnhof is new, apparently replacing Westbahnhof and Sudbahnhof.

yeah venice is very nice

From 2020 to Brussels, from 2021 to the Netherlands.

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Have you tried the double deck NightJet yet?

Monaco is Munich? I get confused enough between Vienna and Venice.

post covid19 pandemic... is it ok if i travel to italy june 2020 onwards?

Not to be nitpicking, but Amsterdam and Brussels aren't in northern Europe, but I'm glad they're expanding their services!

What a beautiful train, can't wait to see sleeping car

Hi thank you for sharing! I want to ask, is there any shower room ?

4:57 if you need to see a SWAT agent entering a train toilet...Feedback: You should make the writing smaller and the space between the lines tighter in my opinion, I feel like it's a bit invading to the overall shot of the trains and what not.

Where do you put your luggage in the couchette?

0:18 NightJet

Obb is the Best Train Company.I live in Vienna BTW.

3:49 this is Bcmz😉

It would be dope if OBB paints some Taurus units with the Nightjet livery

On wich website you book this train ticket?

5:46 bottled of water 💧

Slt es que tu pourrait faire une vidéo du tgv lyria paris Genève merci continue comme ça

Meanwhile here in the United States, you're paying more than this for a coach seat or over $500 for a roomette. I *really* wish Amtrak installed 100% lie-flat seating in their coach class long-distance trains. Would make the journey a lot more bearable and could tremendously boost ridership.

Comfortable at 4:43

6:39 actually Austrian High speed lines are not real highspeed lines, the maximum speed is 200km/h

PKP intercity nice

At what time its arrive in salzburg

I've watched several of your videos. My issue like in this especially you show a view shot then put copy on it and cut to quickly. '.m not done reading, keep in mind you're english is so so, Im trying to figure out what you mean, Slow down.. I feel like I'm dizzy on your bathroom tours. One wall 5-10 seconds, next wall 5-10 seconds and when you walk though the trains you go to fast, cutting from view shot to copy. Hope this is helpful.

you mentioned that your breakfast was free. it is not. it is included in the reservation, but you definitely paid for it

I so wish seeing a Nightjet from Vienna to Belgrade when the new Belgrade-Budapest line is complete. This car zou travelled with is no better than Serbian recentlz refurbished series of couchette coaches which are now used on Belgrade-Bar line except these still can not run faster than 160 kmh

Merci quel dommage que ton trip report fut si court

Great trip report, what is your favourite overnight train?

Another bottled of water 💧 at 7:10

Monaco is “Monaco” in Italy

First 5 comments and 20 views and 100 likes

C'est là qu'on voit que ce dinosaure de SNCF est complètement à la ramasse en allant à contre courant du souhait de beaucoup de voyageurs

5:28 what was that banging noise

5:18 how comes these toilets are clean or dirty

4:16 temperature control

Enfin en n’a vu ton visage

0:18 😂

Can I just point out there is no such word as 'silencious' 😎

Italy 🇮🇹 is good

4:58 it’s nightjet

Nice reviews. But you put too much text in a short period of time. It's hard to follow.

"Top speed of 230km/h" Me: NOPE! :D its top speed is actually 357km/h but 1116 (Taurus) cant drive normally that fast becouse many lines does not allow it and cars neither...