Full Review of the NEW RAILJET on its Inaugural Ride across Austria
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- Hallo!
Folks, it's HERE! The new Railjet is finally here and it entered commercial service on the easter weekend between Feldkirch and Vienna before a full deployment between Munich and Bolzano in April...
You know how much I loved the first generation, is this one better than the first generation ? Let's find out!
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Date: MARCH 2024
Railway company: ÖBB
Route : Vienna Hbf to Salzburg
Time : 2h55
Price : 59€ for a first class ticket
Photo credit : Siemens
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00:00 : Intro
01:00 : The new Railjet
04:17 : Economy Class review
07:15 : First Class review
09:11 : Departure from Autoreisezug
10:26 : Trip information
11:08 : Departure from Vienna Hbf
11:38 : At-seat service and smart windows
12:03 : 200km/h on the Westbahn
12:38 : At-seat service
13:21 : Linz
13:38 : Mid roll ads
14:18 : Taurus strong
14:55 : Walkthrough
19:15 : Toilets Time
19:50 : Relaxing scenic ride through Austria
19:57 : No more bins
20:10 : Near Salzburg
21:12 : Thoughts about the new Railjet
22:22 : Outro
Oh yes compartments are back baby😍. This video made me even more excited for the new ComfortJets for České dráhy. Those won't have as many cool gadgets, business class and compartments as the new raljet, but they will have a higher ratio of second class and what seems to me like better seats and better seat pitch, which for me is more important than the gadgets on railjet. Great video as always Thibault, keep up the great work! ❤
In the old RJ the first and second class from ÖBB and CD use exactly the same seats and pitch. The difference is that one of the cars is equipped as first class in a ÖBB RJ and as second class in CD.
@@digitaleswerken Yes I know the old Railjets have the same interiors, but the new ComfortJets will have the same interior as the InterJets and I can say from experience that the InterJets have better legroom and better seats than the old RailJets (I'm almost 2m tall btw and I can still fully stretch my legs in 2nd class InterJets)
@@czechmatebroI heard that the old railjets will get the interieur of the interjet
@@austriankangaroo really? I'm looking forward to it, thanks for the info
@@czechmatebrodont quote me on that though, I have no idea how trustworthy that source is. The railjet upgrade should start next year
I have traveled numerous times on RailJet and it's hands down the BEST train in Europe. While the First Class seats seem to be wider and quite upgraded, it seems like they are boxing the business class seats into a cramped cabin. Currently their business class seats are the best seats in Europe, they are spaced out, wide and roomy and very comfortable. Some of the seats are perfect for solo travelers. But now they are sandwiched side by side. I'll make sure to check it out this summer.
Yes, the size of the business and family compartments is exactly the same. Business class has just two seats less and no usable table.
Giruno??
In european union probably, but not in europe.
@@DrScarface74 What comes to mind? Switzerland? Turkey? Norway? The UK?
@@DrScarface74Railjet is the best one in the world
Still amazes me how the Engine starts "Singing" when begins to move, so cool!! Over all a Fine First World Train, even the economy class looks pretty decent. 👍
They really knew the importance of train sounds 🎶
I'm kinda sad they ditched the tune on the Vectrons. I guess it'll just stay a Taurus gimmick.
It also sounds a bit like a violin
@@sgtvoro they unfortunely ditched it on Taurus too.. "singing" sound is only on Taurus with number 1116. Not on 1216 which has more national systems.
@@WIZARDA-yl7fx the sound of Taurus represents "Solfege scale" as Do re mi fa so la mi. It was an intention as to honor Solfege.
I can explain why this train only reached 200km/h, since I made the timetable of the train. Usually this train is a rapid train with conventional cars, and it was planned like that, but around three weeks in Advance I got told to change the train to Intercity but not to raise the maximum speed, since the train schedule already has been publically released and the times shouldn’t change anymore. But at least the train ride until Salzburg was nice and the train was until then on time.
Yeah sure, and what do you dream at night? 😂😂😂
@@Franjo5000Just google his name if you don't belive him. He really is a ÖBB dispatcher...
A minus is the fact that it does not have a larger restaurant car compared to RailJet1, it is actually smaller.
The space between the cars looks better at RailJet1.
For the rest, the train seems superb to me.
The sound of the engine revving up is great: an octave +1! I’m sure if it real picked up we’d be treated to the clarinet solo that opens “Rhapsody in Blue”.
Super nice Video Thibault ! I can't wait to travel on this wonderful train !
Great looking first class accommodation. Dining car service is good. Love the cocoon and wood touch of the seats. Thanks Thibault for a preview ride..💚👍🥰🍀
I love the ' Taurus ' locomotives. Looks wise, they look so much better than the Vectrons.
Viennese here! ÖBB Almost as good as the Swiss!
thank you very much for this great video 😃👍 today the ÖBB is starting operations with Railjet 2 units based on the Nightjet 2. They will be tested during the Easter holidays.
Friday, March 22nd: IC 19782 from Vienna Central Station to Feldkirch (departure 1:35 p.m. / arrival 8:37 p.m.)
Saturday, March 23rd: IC 19780 from Vienna Central Station to Feldkirch (departure 8:45 a.m. / arrival 4:34 p.m.)
Sunday, March 24th: IC 19781 from Feldkirch to Vienna Central Station (departure 12:55 p.m. / arrival 8:15 p.m.)
Thursday, March 28th: IC 19782 from Vienna Central Station to Feldkirch (departure 1:35 p.m. / arrival 8:37 p.m.)
Friday, March 29th: IC 19784 from Vienna Hbf to Feldkirch (departure 1:35 p.m. / arrival 8:37 p.m.)
Saturday, March 30th: IC 19780 from Vienna Hbf to Feldkirch (departure 8:45 a.m. / arrival 4:33 p.m.)
Monday, April 1st: IC 19781 from Feldkirch to Vienna Hbf (departure 12:55 p.m. / arrival 8:15 p.m.)
Frédéric de Lorient 🇨🇵
I had a look myself and the new RJ is really great in general.
The only weird thing is that the family compartments in second class are way more suited to get some work done then the business compartments with their ridiculous small tables.
The higher seats were an idea by the industrial design Bureau PriestmanGoode so you can stow larger luggage under your seat. But in the original concept there were not these columns in the middle of the seat where the energy sockets are. So it only makes half sense now.
I also took this train from Vienna to Feldkirch and my first impression in first class was similar to yours. Indescribably comfortable
I find it exciting how many CZcamsrs travelled by train and I didn't recognise anyone.
At 15:23 I'm sitting at the table by the window on the right, that's me in grey :)
I was travelling with some friends. It was really nice. So I'll be travelling on it again soon.
I'm not particularly enthusiastic about the rubbish sacks, and the business class also offers few advantages over the first class
And I have to say, Business in the first generation was much better
Greetings from Vienna 😊
P.S. Your book (my version is in German) is very recommendable 😀
Ich fahr ja nur mit meiner Oma haha.
Servus, @UnterwegsinOesterreichundEU! Gut, dass ich jemanden finde, der in einer Gruppe gereist ist. Ihr wart ja in der 1. Klasse, die immer noch toll ist. Aber die Sitze in der 2. Klasse sind um einiges schmaler. Denkst du, dass zwei Männer gemütlich nebeneinander sitzen können? Auf allen Videos, die mehr als einen Passagier auf der Bank zeigen, wirkt es sehr eng (dazu noch der engere Mittelgang).
Habt ihr einmal in die zweite Klasse geschaut?
@@inLmgb Also ich kann auch die 2.Klasse natürlich empfehlen.
Sie ist halt, wie jede 2.Klasse. Also Ansprüche würde ich jetzt in Grenzen halten.
Die zweite Klassesitze, sind schon gut.
Nur ich finde sie für 8 Stunden nicht bequem genug, nur das habe ich bei den aktuellen Sitzen im Railjet genauso.
Würde dir Anderenfalls empfehlen entweder in einem 6er Abteil, da können die Sitze zwar nicht verstellt werden, aber sie sind bequem und du Hast etwas mehr Platz zum Gegenüber.
Um es komplett klar zu sagen, die 2.Klasse ist so "hart" wie überall.
Falls du willst, schau dir mal den Vergleich zur ersten Klasse an, weil da sind die Aufpreis direkt beim Kauf nicht so hoch und die 1.Klasse Lohn sich hier, du wirst es nicht bereuen.
Vielleicht sollte ich mein Impressionen Video bald veröffentlichen 😀
Lg von mir
@@UnterwegsinOesterreichundEUWenn ich alleine oder wir zu zweit einmal im Monat Wien - Feldkirch fahren, buchen wir immer 1. Klasse. Mit den Sitzen der 2. Klasse habe ich Rückenschmerzen bevor wir in Salzburg sind, und der Trubel an Feiertagswochenenden.. 🙈🙉 das schaffe ich nicht mehr.
Aber wir wollten für eine kleine Gruppe eine Wochenend-Reise Innsbruck - Rom organisieren, die würde wohl mit dem neuen RJ stattfinden. Ich traue mich da fast nicht, die Verantwortung für die 2. Klasse zu übernehmen...
Bin gespannt auch weitere Vergleichsvideos! Frohes Reisen.
@@inLmgb Die 2. Klasse ist echt super, ich war am Montag kurz drinnen, da sich das gerade so ausgegangen ist, da mitzufahren. Die Sitze sind zwar etwas hart, aber meiner Meinung nach sehr ergonomisch. Ich fahre am Ostermontag dann eine längere Strecke, und da zeige ich die 2. sowie 1. Klasse dann auch in einem längerem Video her.
Great video!
Beautiful new train.
We wait for it in Italy.
Very good job, Siemens/ÖBB.
Starting 8 April 2024:
86 Verona Porta Nuova - München Hbf
87 München Hbf - Bologna Centrale
88 Bologna Centrale - München Hbf
89 München Hbf - Verona Porta Nuova
8:59 i knew Sebastian was in this train😀
Love your channel, glad you are getting the recognition you deserve. When I semi retire to Europe, I want to try all these trains!
This is the first video where I feel these seats have a chance… other videos and pictures online worried me quite a lot. Here….I’m back to giving them a chance 😁 wonderful video again, thanks for the upload!
Excellent video! Long live the Railjets. The trains that connect Europe(7 countries), they seriously deserve more recognition! Last year I travelled more than 10000 km easily, but I expected little more from the upgrade to Railjet 2.
From my point of view, the current ones are more than sufficient, and in some places (Biz class) even better than the 2. I was also hoping that they would lose the leather on the 1 class seats. Good for 2-3 hours, but when you are coming from Zurich to Vienna, your bottoms are going to be toasted after 5 hours. That's not exactly a first class experience. So I would recommend the second class to 95% of people. The upgrades on economy class are most substantial, good to see that the seats get more “protection” from passengers and also have a handle, and i also love the cabins.
Now the only thing is left is to upgrade the German part so we get better speeds in Salzburg-Innsbruck or build a new high speed line in the mountains.
The red fabric on the economy class seats reminds me of the fabric on post-WWII, pre-Amtrak cars. The wood surround on the first class seats is definitely Art Deco inspired.
I have the Dutch NS Vectron locomotive as modeltrain. The Nightjet coaches will be released end this year. So I hopd this Railjet version will also be released.
I traveled in that train with mi wife the last year, from Budapest to Vienna, and back to Budapest. Wonderful.
Thank you for an excellent video which adds a lot to what I learnt yesterday from Sebastian’s video. I am a great fan of the ‘old’ Railjet trains, often using them when travelling around Austria on a First Class Interrail The extra second class seats are desperately needed to cope with the passengers generated by the €1095 Euro a year all-Austria Klima Ticket. But I am already expecting to see adverse comments in Eisenbahn Õsterreich about the heavy forces exerted on the track by TWO Taurus Locos! (The rubbish bags is an idea which I suspect that ÕBB has taken from the Scandinavian railway systems.)
Greetings from Venezuela my friend, if you want come to my country, try the National railway system. Maybe are not good but you will enjoy it
Another out standing video Sir !!!👍👍👍
I like everything also. As you said about the table being able to slide out would have been nice .
I like the garbage bag idea. A lot easier for the cleaning staff to collect/clean up. Nothing sticky poured in the garbage can which is very hard to get cleaned out...
Awesome video as always 👍
Here in Italy OBB is testing both the new railjet and nightjet to do daily connections between Italy and Austria, gonna ride one of these in July with my brother from Verona to Trento as a test ride, I’m exited already 😍
Fascinating train journey on the new Railjet! I liked it. 😎😎😎
17:22 Nice to know that a red Brompton like mine fits the luggage rack with locks 😀 Nice trains and nice review!
Yes, the color makes the key difference.
Best part of travelling is all the things to wait for.. and the travel itself. Usually I fly to Zurich and from there take Railjet to Bludenz, St. Anton or Ötztal valley. Arriving into cellar of the airport to wait for first trip to Zurich HB is 😍, but when getting in Railet it turns 🥰 with 🤩 moments as scenery is the one to see.
On a one really HOT day at Innsbruck platform I was literally steaming off and compartment with air conditioning made a difference of life and death! 😁
The staff seem so helpful
That looks comfortable!
I traveled with one from Innsbruck to Zurich. Unbelievable beauty.
The railjet 2 doesn't drive to Switzerland!
@@Franjo5000 It was called railjet,I haven't seen whether it's 2 at all. It doesn't matter
@@momchilnikolov3808 Yes, that was the railjet 1. Looks completly different inside and outside.
OBB does a great job again
They already did better. For short-distance trains ÖBB did a lot of market research and let actual passengers try different seats.
Nice train! Look forward to riding in it. Love your reference to Seat 61😃🤣
Really looking forward to this one Thibault it seems that Austrian railways are leading the way in what we the public want for rail travel, great work again, ps I can see the compartments being very popular on long journeys being able to stretch out is bliss, just one slight complaint I don’t care what way I sit travelling but I noticed on your first class seat it was back to the engine, my wife get’s travel sickness in that seat configuration thank goodness I’m a cheapskate so looks like travelling with the masses for me😊
A crowded compartment where you sit that close to fellow passengers, is sold as Business Class?
Yup
Absolute number one perfect ÖBB RailJetExpress!👍💯
Say what you will about Austria, but they sure know what they're doing when it comes to train-services. Spectacular!👏👏👏👍
Very good efforts
Great trip. What a great upgrade for railjet. Can't wait for this train running with Vectron, but sadly that's mean Taurus is going disappeared from Railjet.
Amazing train!
Saw you on RTBF (Belgian state broadcaster) a couple of hours ago, together with The Man From Seat 6...1? Commenting on the new European Sleeper service!
Loved this train tour. Weird not having trash bins though.
How to make something new out of something old, on a platform that has proven itself since 2008, Viaggio comfort Siemens. The current concept of Railjet 2 or New Generation Rail, which has nothing new except the mobility of people with disabilities, requires!! is based on the same bodies as the Nightjet 2 only the interior modularity is changed, this is in fact the novelty the interchangeable modularity of this Siemens Viaggio platform.
Merci beaucoup pour ce superbe voyage.
can't wait to see you on the similar czech version of this trainset! they call it ComfortJet.
19:00 Some seats are higher than others so that you have more storage space under the seat for your heavy baggage. However those seats don't have overhead luggage racks (to avoid people bumping their heads).
Wow....Excellent..
What I like the most is that it can carry more passengers. About the trash bags: If (and only if) staff is collecting the bags regularly, I could see it as an actual improvement over tiny, gross, over filled stationary bins.
Bom vídeo excelente parabéns 🎉🎉🇵🇹👍🌞
I'd want to see a video sometime in the future during "normal days". Of course, it looks cramped (to those complaining) as a huge percentage of passengers are train enthusiasts whose aim is to hang out and take videos of it
I will buy your book as soon s an english translation is published. Thanks.
@14:22 ÖBB does not have any Vectrons for passenger service and has not ordererd any as of today. 1116 will haul RJ2 in Austria, 1216 when required like in Italy.
ÖBB does have Vectrons for the Nightjet already.
@@91JRHLeased from ELL for services to NL I think, because ÖBB Vectrons are freight only. There is also an ÖBB Vectron in Nightjet livery but this is also a freight loco.
Actually all ÖBB Vectrons can be used for Passenger Trains, however, they can only drive as fast as 160 km/h. @@eagle3003
Bro you're a legend 👏👏👏
This train is a beauty! I live not too far from Kufstein Austria and already took the Railjet a few times to Innsbruck, I definitely will try this new one! I recently took a train 1st class in Belgium from Arlon to Brussels and return, it was the most disgusting ride I've ever taken, c'est scandaleux! Even second class seats on the regional S-bahn in Austria are better!
Good video
Nice train 👍
This is amazing!!! I’m in Vienna right now! Do you know which routes these are operating on?
It will run on the 28th from vienna to feldkirch as Intercity 19782, departure 13.35. Same time one day later. On saturday, it starts at 8.45. Then the trains wont see vienna for an unknown time(but probably at least half a year)
Seems like a science fiction for us. Anyway I Hope in next 50 years we will have similar facility in our country. My grandchildren will enjoy the trip.❤
I'll be in Business for Trento-Innsbruck-Feldkirch later this year so it'll be interesting to experience the differences between the older stock and this new train. I like what I see on the new Railjet but those Business class seats on the older stock were top notch.
How many of these sets were ordered,and thanks for the great videos.Keep up the good work.
As always when I view your videos, I am envious of European trains, compared to the limited pitiful offerings in North America.
Americas in general is pitiful
You better dont watch trains from the developed world then, it will be a truly shock content
The Railjet is so good, even the US is trying to replicate it.
Not really. Brightline and Amtrak simply order Trains from Siemens. And the Venture platform is what they can offer.
Even lol. Never heard that Russia or China were interested. Only us and eu
@@DrScarface74 Why would they? Both have domestic manufacturers and Siemens could not compete. And especially China has no demand for trains that fill the gap between conventional trains (≤ 160 km/h) and true high speed (≥ 250 km/h)
The RAILJET in central Europe, the ITALO in Italy and IRYO in Spain are just the best there is!
NIGHTJET is a wonderful product. Deutsche Bahn DB, does it still exist????
France TGV has many hygiene issues, UK forget it even Virgin Trains, Trenitalia amazingly very much on time except for southern Italy but as in France not very clean. RENFE very good but sluggish in many routes but RENFE has one of the best station offices staff in Europe.
I think its quite interesting they only chose to put one door on each train carriage. But I guess with the lower floor the people get in/out a lot faster then when they have to climb stairs
yeah and the doors are a lot wider
Piacevolissimo video tutto ben curato essenziale efficiente😊Mike sarà felicissimo lui viaggerebbe anche in una tazza Sperimenta di tutto❤
My guess is the garbage bins were difficult to keep clean, so they opted for bags. Less labor.
By far, this beats anything that DB has to offer.
Hi Simply Railway, from 24/07/2024 to 11/08/2024 and from 28/08/2024 to 08/09/2024 there will be a special EuroCity train from Bruxelles-Midi(Brussels-Zuid) to Paris Gare du Nord. It takes 3 hours 😊
I do the Budapest - Salzburg run on a monthly basis. It will be interesting to see the difference in person. I'm not really conviced about the new seats but, I'll keep my judgement until I've experienced it.
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The new windows are absolute horror. Unfortunately, you can see the honeycomb pattern with the naked eye, which makes looking out really annoying.
Very interested in your book, “trains de nuit” (Night Trains) and wondering if an English version will eventuate?
Is there a way to know which daily services these new sets are operating on? I have an Interrail ticket soon and would quite like to try one out.
It will be interesting to see how Business Class fares on the new stock, from what I could quickly see the seats don’t look quite as comfortable, the old seats were veritable leather recliner armchairs with leg/foot rests. I liked the siting of the old business section with compartments and a couple of single seats in an open section shut off away from the busier and noisier first class section. In the new stock the business compartments just seem to be tacked on to the first class open saloon as an afterthought. I look forward to your review, but unless OBB have at least somehow maintained the standard of the Business Class product, I’m less inclined to pay the supplement to reserve a seat, admittedly only another €15.
Are the new consists going to Bolzano or Verona, like the present service?
Yes, in time they will replace all Brenner EuroCity trains.
A great train. And a great video. But there is certainly room for improvement. The bike space. You enter the train, and than you need to make sharp turn and a little stair at the same time. And the bikespace itself is quite narrow. For the bikes there is quite some to improve.
I think the business class is a shame. And the glass panles between compartments (both in 1st, and 2nd class) is a bad idea, this panel don't give the privacy for the travelers, and if the compartment next to you turn on the lights, but you want to rest, you won't be able to rest or chill, or use your colored light (wich is realy cool). I think the other problem is the trash management. In the 2nd class, the bags might be okay, but in the 1st and business class this is unacceptable. If the ÖBB will solve theese problems, the train will be the best!
I have ridden the Business class of the old railjet twice - once from Zürich HB to Wien HBF and once from Wien HBF to Heidelberg HBF (an astounding 10.5 Hours, although I actually only got to ride from Salzburg because of a train issue) and I can confidently say that it is the best experience I've ever had on a train, completely worth the €15 upgrade fee, and almost completely unnecessary for the train. Especially considering how much of an upgrade the 1st class got I totally understand why they cut it. If 1st class was any less perfect on these trains I could see some frustration, but there's really no need for the business class.
On he trash bags: In Canada, VIA rail has smaller bags. But after the trolley passes to sell snacks, the agent will pass by with a large plastic garbage bag to collect people's gargage from their tray tables. So no need to actually use that bag. (and sometimes 2 trips, one for recyclables and other for rest of garbage).
I’ve seen the same train set this morning in Verona while it was doing some testing between Bologna and Brenner. Can’t wait to see them in regular service in Italy 🇮🇹
I wish I had got to visit Südbahnhof before they closed it.
I lived in Austria '08-'09 but didn't visit Vienna at that point
I can assure you, you didn't miss much. Südbahnhof was bombed during WW2 and the replacement building looked pretty much like the one that's still standing at Westbahnhof.
@@digitaleswerken
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I've seen some videos of it on YT.
Just seems intriguing that 2 lines met at right angles.
The hallways & escalators looked quite vast too.
I''ve also seen photos of the old-old Sudbahnhof.
Also qould have been interesting to learn how the services were split between Westbahnhof (which I had a look around) and Südbahnhof as Süd Ost seemed to have services to Bratislava, Budapest and Bucharest but then there were services from Germany/the West onto Budapest etc that reveresed at Westbahnhod.
All seemed a bit confusing, so i can see why they went for 1 main through station.
I'm not sure about Hauptbahnhof, on the downside, most of it just looks like a shopping mall. On the plus side, you can get a vast array of destinations from there.
I saw a train roll in from Moscow when I was there back in about 2014 !
@@Russ--R There even was a night train between Moscow Belorusskaja and Nice Ville.
Now if Amtrak would take a page out of the Railjet running the the local trains. Between Boston, New York, Philly, Baltimore and Washington D.C. They would have more ridership than before.
Amtrak has new trains. The Airl trains are schduler to arrive to th NEC in 2026. This is the Amtrak version of the Siemens Venture cars, the current ones that started service in the Midwest are a bit different as they are funded by the states. In the last few weeks the San Joaquins new Venture cars started enterung service.
Even the delayed Avelia Liberty, that will replace the Acela sets) is ontrack now and hopefully will enter service this year or at the start of 2025.
To get an ÖBB style servive rgecUS will have to heavily invest in infrastructure. There are right now some major investments on the NEC but it's focust on soecific year old problems (like reolacing old bridges and tunnels and adding connecting tunnels fron NJ to Manhattan) and not corridor wide improvements.
@19:00 the idea of the raised seats is to create more space for luggage underneath.
My biggest complaint is the paper trash bags. I have a bad feeling that this will backfire; my prediction is that people will put them under the seats where they will easily tip over when the train runs over points or brakes, spilling the trash on the floor.
I understand that ÖBB wanted to get rid of the small trashcans under the seats in the old RailJets. Not only are these getting increasingly gross because they are hard to clean, they are also a lot of work for the cleaners: bend down in every single row to collect a tiny amount of trash.
But paper bags aren't the solution. There really should be a proper trash container every few rows, with a trash bag inside so it's easy and hygienic to empty out.
Another thing I don't quite understand is the distribution of the high- and low floor areas. Why is the area for bicycles _upstairs_? And why isn't it a proper compartment, so that the bikes are out of the way? Losing a couple of seats for a proper bike/luggage compartment wouldn't be that bad, as the trains now have 2 more cars anyways.
And why is the Bistro in a low-floor section? It's still inaccessible for wheelchair users, as the wheelchair spaces are in a different car, separated by a high-floor section - so I don't see the benefit. Why not have the Bistro in the middle of a high-floor cluster of cars, so that the staff doesn't have to climb stairs when they do the at-seat service in 1st class?
In my opinion the ideal distribution would have been:
1. low-floor 1st class + business compartments
2. high-floor 1st class
3. high-floor restaurant (+ 2nd class)
4. high-floor 2nd class
5. low-floor 2nd class with wheelchair spaces
6. low-floor 2nd class with bicycle compartment
7. low-floor 2nd class
8. low-floor 2nd class
9. high-floor 2nd class & cab car
That would minimize the amount of stairs for the bistro staff's at-seat service (serving 1st class & wheelchair users), and the wheelchair spaces and bicycle compartments would be near the center of the train (i.e. always at the same location at the platform, even if the wagon order gets reversed).
Also, from a manufacturing perspective, this would minimize the number of principal floor plans & door/window arrangements:
a. high-floor
b. high-floor bistro
c. low-floor
d. low-floor with compartment (bicycle/luggage or accessible toilet)
Personally I think the trash bag are okay. But did you manage to see any easily recognizable trash bins during the walkthrough?
@@digitaleswerken there are some in the entrance areas, but still quite small.
Another problem with the trash bags is logistics. Especially on longer trips that don't terminate domestically (the first trainsets are intended for the Munich-Bologna route) they will inevitably run out and/or require maintaining a stockpile at the terminus (or re-stocking along the way).
So unless ÖBB can also convince DB, FS, CD and MAV to use similar bags there will be additional logistics involved. Bins using standard trash bags wouldn't have that problem.
I just doesn't make sense to me to add complexity for an inferior solution to a fairly basic problem...
@@stephanweinberger There must be some bins somewhere. But after watching the video I realized that I was walking through the same train for more than 2h and can't remember having seen any of them.
The visuals are perfect in this video. I really missed an audioguide. It was very annoying reading those subtitles, they took the focus of the video.
Oh, these are 9 car sets? I wasn't aware of that. They should build some Viaggio coaches with matching exported Siemens Taurus locos converted to tri-mode.
what is tri-mode?
Je suis sceptique sur cette deuxième génération. J'espère que les rames Tchèque seront mieux 🤞
SO GOOD that they removed that stupid, stupid, stupid lettering from the business class windows that was obstructing the view! The interior looks great, I hope it does not get very dirty with the time. Great stuff!
How to find out if a railjet is operated with the old or new cars? is RJ2 only used on the railjetexpress RJX connections like Vienna - Zurich or also on the shorter ones - e.g. Salzburg - Wien Hbf ?
The new Railjets will only be used on the Munich-Innsbruck-Verona line for the forseeable future. The Zurich-Vienna RJX will continue to use first generation trains for now. ÖBB has ordered some double decker Railjets based on the Stadler KISS platform to be used on the shorter non express RJ lines which will be delivered in 2026
At 15:37, Is that a pullout lockable cable to wrap through your luggage/bag handle?
Yes.
One question I haven't seen answered anywhere: Are the Siemens Taurus and Siemens Vectron locomotives/driving cabs compatible with each other for multiple/mixed operation?
They are. But the new driving cabs still lack certification. And ÖBB currently does not even own Vectrons suitable for Passenger trains.
Also: Apart from the exterior the driving cabs are nothing alike the locomotives.
@@to_loww Thanks for the explanation. Once certified, the existing Taurus locomotives could haul the new Railjet and Nightjet coaches? I understand that at present, only the Czech railways has ordered 230 km/h Vectron locomotives that could also haul their first-generation Railjets, and plans to return the leased Taurus locomotives back to OeBB?
The distance of the first class tables is also something that bothered me in the old Railjets, as it makes efficient work with a notebook really hard. Weird that this was not fixed.
It reminds me on old soviet corridor trains
Hello, Simply Railway! I have a question. You really remind me of another CZcamsr, Simply Aviation. He reviews airlines, similar to how you review rail lines. Do you two know eachother? I am asking this because the layout of both your and Simply Aviation's channel have somewhat similar thumbnails, text, channel name, etc.... (btw, I am not implying that if you're copying him, or he's copying you. I just want to know if maybe you know him as a friend or something, or maybe you don't know him and this was one big coincidence.) and one more thing, I really like your content. Thanks for reviewimg these interesting trains!
It looks like a solid wood seat back for each pair of chairs. How does each seat recline?
The bottom of the seat slides forward and then allows the backrest to tilt a bit. So it's not the entire seat that reclines, only the cushions
Muchas Gracias@@andrelieli
Some of the carriages have the passenger area sunk between the bogies, but not all the carriages do this. On Stadler trains, this is to make the floor level with the platform. I don't know about this train. Perhaps it has pantograph equipment in the roof.
Nice video. What's the top speed?
Has the height of the overhead continuous luggage rack been changed, or made more visible? I hit my head on the ones in the Railjet 1!
Maybe compartments are back due to the use of cell phones? The noise level had increased, and compartments may help reduce it.