The area around Cologne trainstation is since 2015/2016 an enjoyable area for woman of all ages during sylvester nights, where the modern world meets stoneage (sorry for that bad joke). Anyway, your video shows how traintravelling should be all over Germany and not only internationally, which is meanwhile unfortunately an enormous difference
@@doc7austin It's honestly fine, lots of people around even at midnight. Hobo's might approach you begging for change though. The reason that new year's even was so unsafe was that the entirety of Cologne's islamic suburban youth had come out. They stay in their neighborhoods on normal nights (i.e. Chorweiler).
Liège - comments on the design looking cheap Brussels-Midi - comments that it is considered one of the most beautiful stations in Europe Never change, brother! Love the sarcastic humor :D
"Brussels Midi is considered one of the most beautiful stations in Europe" Hahaha good one, I travel there daily and my office is right next to the station, the latter which is completely dark and ugly, old, falling apart, dirty, smelling like p*ss all day with broken glass everywhere, furthermore plenty of drug addicts and crime rate very high in the area. RUN! lol
Reminds me of my trip last year where my Brussels-Frankfurt train got cancelled and I almost didn't make it to Karlsruhe that evening. I wish they would have rerouted me through Paris but nope. I had to take a normal IC train to Verviers and then on to some very short and cramped suburban train that took you across the border into Aachen, and then some other RE train to somewhere outside of Cologne, where I had to connect to another train that took me to Messe-Deutz, where I remarkably made my original connection to Karlsruhe because it was delayed by a few hours. That was a very long day and very frustrating.
@@doc7austin in fact it seemed that multiple trips were canceled that day. It was just overall very frustrating, and I said to myself next time I am connecting in Paris instead of Brussels to avoid this problem, even if it means a station change.
When you showed the ICE from the outside, I was going to comment on the windows beig as narrow as on the Amtrak Amfleet II cars (which are not as pad as the Amfleet 1 for short distances). But from the inside, while the windows are not "big", they aren't small and the car is very bright. Voltage changes are not new. TGVs have had that from the start in 1981 (Paris Lyon was not fully 25kv and approach into cities at both ends were on conventional lines). Was the old ICE 3 ever reliable? If it became unreliable in recent years, it would point to reduced maintenance. How come you didn't go to restaurant car?
The old ICEs more and more often had problems with changing voltages and AC/DC switching. Between Aachen and Brussels that happens seven times per journey.
The new cell phone-permeable windows are simply an insult to passengers who just want to look out. That's why I'm ignoring the ride in the 408 series so far...
Liège-Guillemins and Mons are both designed by architect Calatrava. Both buildings are extremely expensive. You'll find loads of buildings (and stations) by his hand in the world.
On 14. July my train from Brussels to Frankfurt had to use the old ("classic"?) line from Brussels to Liège. There, it didn't exceed, when i was watching, 140 km/h.
Infrabel (Belgian network manager) seems to still not be friends with the eddy current brakes of the ICEs. Those Kan be pretty nasti to the rails... so they're limited to 250. Or it's the harmonic currents they cause that mess up with the signaling.
My condolences that you had tp see the current sad state of Cologne
What has happened? Influx of non-Germans?
well, i only stayed for 80 minutes there.
what is that?
whats wrong currently? out of the loop.
The area around Cologne trainstation is since 2015/2016 an enjoyable area for woman of all ages during sylvester nights, where the modern world meets stoneage (sorry for that bad joke). Anyway, your video shows how traintravelling should be all over Germany and not only internationally, which is meanwhile unfortunately an enormous difference
at night - i wouldnt feel very comfortable in that area either
@@doc7austin It's honestly fine, lots of people around even at midnight. Hobo's might approach you begging for change though. The reason that new year's even was so unsafe was that the entirety of Cologne's islamic suburban youth had come out. They stay in their neighborhoods on normal nights (i.e. Chorweiler).
Nicely filmed !!! LOL🥸
Nice video.
Liège - comments on the design looking cheap
Brussels-Midi - comments that it is considered one of the most beautiful stations in Europe
Never change, brother! Love the sarcastic humor :D
glad you got my irony
"Brussels Midi is considered one of the most beautiful stations in Europe"
Hahaha good one, I travel there daily and my office is right next to the station, the latter which is completely dark and ugly, old, falling apart, dirty, smelling like p*ss all day with broken glass everywhere, furthermore plenty of drug addicts and crime rate very high in the area. RUN! lol
some joking from my side
Reminds me of my trip last year where my Brussels-Frankfurt train got cancelled and I almost didn't make it to Karlsruhe that evening. I wish they would have rerouted me through Paris but nope.
I had to take a normal IC train to Verviers and then on to some very short and cramped suburban train that took you across the border into Aachen, and then some other RE train to somewhere outside of Cologne, where I had to connect to another train that took me to Messe-Deutz, where I remarkably made my original connection to Karlsruhe because it was delayed by a few hours.
That was a very long day and very frustrating.
i think that was the era of the old multi-system ICE 3 (class 406); they did often broke down
@@doc7austin yes it was my understanding that they were very unreliable.
@LiamWalsheliamskitchen hence, i avoided taking the class 406 on these international routed
@@doc7austin in fact it seemed that multiple trips were canceled that day.
It was just overall very frustrating, and I said to myself next time I am connecting in Paris instead of Brussels to avoid this problem, even if it means a station change.
When you showed the ICE from the outside, I was going to comment on the windows beig as narrow as on the Amtrak Amfleet II cars (which are not as pad as the Amfleet 1 for short distances). But from the inside, while the windows are not "big", they aren't small and the car is very bright.
Voltage changes are not new. TGVs have had that from the start in 1981 (Paris Lyon was not fully 25kv and approach into cities at both ends were on conventional lines).
Was the old ICE 3 ever reliable? If it became unreliable in recent years, it would point to reduced maintenance. How come you didn't go to restaurant car?
The old ICEs more and more often had problems with changing voltages and AC/DC switching. Between Aachen and Brussels that happens seven times per journey.
Another lovely video! Where are you you headed next?
Paris Gare du Nord
Nice video! This train is attractive, cool, delicious, hot and nice.
which train :-)
@@doc7austin All ICE-3 trains, also ICE-3-Neo trains.
The new cell phone-permeable windows are simply an insult to passengers who just want to look out. That's why I'm ignoring the ride in the 408 series so far...
looking out of the window - everything outside looks dull and gray
@@doc7austin Then get yourself some glasses
At around 13:15 we see the Tomorrowland-Express train in the Schaerbeek-Formation beam. I was lucky enough to spot it towards the end of July. 😃🔥
at the schaarbeek depot ?
@@doc7austin Yeah! 😃
@@doc7austin They sleep there. And the Tomorrowland cover for the cars were instaled also in Schaerbeek (Bat. Geb. 7)
where is the european sleeper train ?
@doc7austin The Eurosleeper is usually found at Denderleeuw station where he will spend the day before returning to Brussels-south the same evening
When are you uploading goa rajdhani ?
Liège-Guillemins and Mons are both designed by architect Calatrava. Both buildings are extremely expensive. You'll find loads of buildings (and stations) by his hand in the world.
i didnt know that infrabel is that rich
Infrabel isn't. These Stations are more prestige projects for both cities and when Liège got a fancy station, Mons wanted one too.@@doc7austin
@@doc7austin Infrabel is not responsible for stations. It is SNCB.
really - so the operations of trains and stations is not seperated in belgium ?
@@doc7austin rail infrastructure is seperate with Infrabel. As European law prescribes. But stations and operations are NMBS.
To be honnest, I cannot make difference inside- comfort between ICE 1 and the next generations...
it is a much quieter and smoother ride on the ICE 3neo instead of the ICE 1
ooh wow voltage changes are bad for trains?
no, but after 25 years and 50k voltage switches - the technology has reached the end of its lifecycle
@@doc7austin aah i get it lol
i think technology (multi-system trains) has evolved in the last 30 years in a major way; technology for that was not as robust as it is today
What's the max speed of this train on the classic Leige-Bruxelles line?
300 km/h, though, our ICE 3neo has only reached 250 km/h on my ride.
On 14. July my train from Brussels to Frankfurt had to use the old ("classic"?) line from Brussels to Liège. There, it didn't exceed, when i was watching, 140 km/h.
@lausimeyer6558 that diversion would cause only a delay of 10-15 minutes.
Infrabel (Belgian network manager) seems to still not be friends with the eddy current brakes of the ICEs. Those Kan be pretty nasti to the rails... so they're limited to 250. Or it's the harmonic currents they cause that mess up with the signaling.
It would be better if it could arrive faster or on time.
Flixtrain looks outdated and unappetizing.