Deutsche Bahn IC! The classic way of travelling across Germany!
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- čas přidán 23. 09. 2021
- Up this week, we take a look at the classic way of travelling across Germany by train, in the form of one of Deutsche Bahn's locomotive hauled Intercity service in First Class!
Date of Travel: August 2020
Class of Travel: First Class
Rolling Stock: DB Class 101 & Intercity 1 coaches
Type of Service: Intercity
Train Number: IC 2213
Origin: Essen Hbf, Germany
Destination: Stuttgart Hbf, Germany
Cost of Ticket: €51.90 (£44.60, $61.50)
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The famous English landscape painter William Turner was so impressed at his journey by the romantic beauty of the middle Rhine Valley that he invented castles on his paintings. - Cheers, Heinz
p.s.: At least one of the fictional castles was later real built to look like Turner's painting.
Another excellent, clearly-voiced video, Dylan. As a deaf viewer, I am grateful that you continue to provide "proper", not auto generated, subtitles that help where I might miss an unfamiliar place name or a technical detail. Thank you!
I'm enjoying the voiceover trips. I'd choose the slower, more scenic train if there was no reason for speed. That was a nice transition from afternoon to night. I lived in Bonn at one time and agree that the Rhineland is one of the most scenic parts of Europe.
A still famous train was named after the Rhineland.
The Rheingold who ran from Hoek van Holland to Basel along the Rhine river.
Arriving in Essen? hoho.
When living in Frankfurt I took this trip loads up and down the Rhein. The trip to Trier from Koblenz up the Mosel to Trier (thence to LUX) is lovely too.
Well done. Nice voiceovers with the booboo at the end!
AC not working... classic Deutsche Bahn. Never gets old. It actually tells you something that DB even has a specific red streamer at the ready which specifically says "Klimaanlage defekt" which they use to seal off the seats... that's how often this happens. XD
Btw., at 13:05 you're crossing by the Loreley, which is a big slate rock and very well known in Germany due to the myth of a young maiden there luring shippers to their death with her beautiful songs.
As to your question at the end of the vid: I love the Rhine valley route, but I'm from Ingolstadt and utility and speed are bigger priorities for me - I've family in Cologne, and it's just much easier and faster to take the direct train from Ingolstadt to Cologne - barely 4.5 hours, and 3 of those are between Ingolstadt and Frankfurt. If I'd take the scenic route instead of the high speed line between Frankfurt-Flughafen and Bonn, I'd probably need 6+ hours...
Lucky to even have aircon in the first place
Soon you'll be getting that silver plaque from youtube for over 100,000 subscribers. Good work Dylan!
Thanks!
I was at University in Bonn in the 1980s and have friends in Stuttgart, so this journey was a regular of mine....
Great memories...Danke...
Hey, Dylan! How's it going?
Well, bloke, it's an amazing video, I appreciate the conventional way to travel in Germany!! It's a shame that Brazil called off practically all long distance train routes, today just having two in all whole country...
Next year, I'll travel around the Europe by train, and seeing your videos (not just your videos, but Superalbs, Non Stop, Thibault by Simply Railway, and so forth), I'm able to have a glimpse about how to proceed in certain situation and how my future trip could be.
I really enjoy the voiceover video, how you notice, I use it to practise the listening skills, and day by day, I see that I'm doing up on my fluency in English, I pretty get the entire narration.
One more time, Congratulations for the awesome video! Success for you, ever!!
Cheers from São Paulo, Brazil.
Thanks Wesley 😁
Love your narration Dylan. So informative 👏
As always, so good to hear your mellifluous tones.
This brings back many lovely memories for me. Thank you so much for presenting it.
I travelled across Germany dozens of times in the 90s,i always bought a 1st class rail rover, trains are so much more comfortable, than lner or gwr in the UK which I will never use again. Great video love the voice over.
12:58
Look up the "Rheingold". It doesn't exist anymore, sadly, apart from some historic trips, but it used to be a prestigious pre-IC train meant to show off the beauty of the Rhine Valley, they even had a "dome car" with elevated seating that had glass all around (except for the floor)
You are right Max…I travelled on that trans European Express from ‘62 until I bought my first car in ‘72. The Rheinpfeil/Rheingold from Hoek van Holland to Munich.
Rheingold says Thanks!
The so-called "AKE Rheingold" actually runs quite often, but sadly a lot of the time they don't use the dome car.
Another great video about DB railways. Reminds me of a journey I did from Leipzig to Munich: lo & behold, AC not working and whole 1st class coach closed, with a scramble to find a seat on a packed train. Sat in the buffet car all the way.. Not much vorsprung durch technik on show that day..
Can you do a journey from Oslo (Norway) to Bergen (Norway). The scenery is stunning 🤩
Hopefully at some point 😀
That's German design for you. No frills but very solid. Don't think they've finished the station ceilings!
Great narration again, Dylan. Made me laugh with the door.
Wish I could speak so clearly without a million retakes!
Thanks!
It's nice to hear your voice. Always great content. Thank you for sharing. Safe travels.
Bonn was also the capital of West Germany before the reunification
And Düsseldorf is Germany's answer to Dijon in the famous-mustard department.
Bonn was the sewt of the parliament only, not the capital.
And IIRC it still has some central government institutions
@@moestrei It was also the seat of the government (chancellery AND all the ministries AND for convenience, the headquarters of the state run postal service).
I don't like Bonn... but don't try to snatch its main claim to fame (except for being home to Beethoven...)
Lovely start to my day this morning thanks Dylan!
If you’re going to Luxemburg you must do the rail journey along the Mosel from Koblenz.
Great to have the commentary and sit back and enjoy the video. As you say, magnificent scenery.
An excellent video, thank you for allowing me to enjoy the exceptional Views even at night, i enjoyed this video very much
Awesome train, fantastic video, 100% enjoyable just listening to the description. Great job Man, congrats.
Thank you very much!
As always Dylan, a great video, and I am liking these now with your voiceover, it add texture to the video. A lovely line to travel on, and done this a few times, so it was nice to see it again. Well put together, Thanks Dylan
Both the series 101 and the IC1 single level coaches are in the process of retirement, and neither's retirement is popular with railfans (or even objectively smart).
So in a way your video is a document of a soon-lost time.
especially since they got modernized and feel completely new except the bistro without AC
Both coach and 1st class are very compfy. Recent history has shown that new DB trains seating is not that great.
But the AC is not powerful enough in times of climate change, which is the reason why the federal railway administration (EBA) deems the operation unsafe beyond 2025 in the current form. Due to this DB is forced to accelerate the retirement of these coaches.
@@tobiasbrohl5958 and they decided that immediately after they got modernised?
Thanks for another trip !!! ... good job
A scenic train with great food and comfortable seats. Kids in a different train carriage. That's my ideal for train travel.
ÖBB RailJet
Another lovely ride through Germany. Thanks.
the spoken commentary is just so much better - now I can enjoy the surroundings instead of having to read the subtitles
I like the voiceover as well! Nice train review and the scenery in Germany is always exceeding expectations so I’m sure it was a treat!
I’m glad DB closed off the train carriage with no AC. Had a similar experience myself from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart and helpful staff so it made my journey much easier and more pleasant. Uk trains could definitely learn a lot as you said!
Thanks for the review, looking forward to more!! 😊👍
why is his voice so calming
Really enjoyed this one. My brother used to live in Bonn and I have many a fond memory of catching early morning trains from Bonn to FRA airport via the Rhine River route. Such pretty sunrises..
Great video Dylan! Really enjoyed it :)
Love this.
Another great narrated video Dylan. Very well done. Please take good care and safe always!
Slower and scenic for sure. Lovely trip.
I have been loving your videos for months. After a bit of a break I am back and find we now hear your voice!
Dont worry there is nothing the matter with your voice, nut wierdly I liked the ambient sounds only! And the wave in the loo mirror! Perhaps I just dont like change, but Im sure you value all feedback. LOVE THE VIDEOS
very enjoyable. thank you
Going down the Rhine from Koblenz is sooooo awesome! Did it last year in an ICE3 and it was stunning!
Another wonderful journey from your summer 2020 travels. The layout of these classic carriages is really welcoming. The compartments are so well lit and cheery. Unlike the sombre atmosphere of the so called art-deco era. I'm glad you showed the journey along the banks of the Rhine, something I would love to experience, although time, other priorities and finance may well be against me. This is the wonderful thing about CZcams and presenters like you. You are able to share your joyful experiences with anyone who cares to select your channel. Thanks again for this journey experience and please stay safe and well. Cheers from Michael downunder in locked down Melbourne.
Like the voice-over. You have a really pleasant voice.
Lovely scenery for sure! Great video Dylan. 🍸
Good for travel is the slowly train. Perfect to see and enjoy. Love that voiceover in video.
I wish the tv programmes made by the chap with the pink trousers were more like this!
Thanks! Interesting tidbits!
Wow awesome 👍👍👍
The medieval villages set amongst the hillside vineyards along the Rhine makes for an extremely pleasant ride. Nice to be able to focus on the scenery that you provide, rather than try to read the comments before the scene disappears! Your proper English accent is a good replacement for such. Good job.
A++ video,thanks for sharing. Steve
Glad you enjoyed Steve 😁
Great journey. Depend on the condition, I like all of them.
A nice journey journey indeed I remember we took one of these trains from Nurnberg to Cologne in 2007 it was nice.
A whole compartment only for you? Lucky guy 😉.
A nice 5 hour ride with some beautiful german landscape.
Thanks for sharing ☺️
Just what I needed after work 😅
Glad you enjoyed 😁
That "water feature" at the beginning looks a lot like a plumbing fail.
Much like our fountain in Hiddersfield 😂
Wait a minute! This train is in Train Sim World 2!
Great video !!
Agreed, loco hauled plus compartment is brilliant. Use both IC and ICE trains when in Germany. Enjoyed this video very much.
So glad can visit Germany again. And trips planned from Nuremberg etc. Love that station.
Not yet I'm afraid.
I was impressed and astonished How does train had a good compartment and how it was very comfortable but I know a lot of comfortable trains in Europe
Another great video. As a tourist, I'd always take the slower train to see more of the country... and for the same reason never take sleeper trains, despite them being slower
Slow and scenic for me every time! 😊
USA ?
this trip reminds me of the IC train i took from wuntsdorf to koln a couple months ago!
Thanks mate, you da troof
LOL, unusual way of pronouncing Beethoven. Usually people pronounce it as `Bate - Hoven`. Guess im just being picky. Love your vids by the way Dylan.
Technically it's "shtut-gart" also but I only know due to German family.
German native speaker here and born in Bonn: He did his 'Beethoven' ok for a non-Germanic person. BTW his birth house is a nice little museum worth visiting 10 mins walk from the station.
Booked to travel on one of these from Munich to Salzburg in November. Chose the IC over the regional train as my partner has never travelled in a compartment (although we'll only be in a second class one in coach 8), and I always prefer them to open seating, especially coming from Scotland where we don't have compartment trains. Great video!
Amazing video Dylan a++ video
Thanks!
Interesting trivia on Duisberg. Thanks again for the narrated vid!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm old with poor eyesight wherefore a very slow reader. Thank you so much for the voiceover. I wait in high anticipation starting on Wednesday for Friday's trip.
Glad you enjoyed it 😁
8:29 is just a flooded, former sandpit. The river Rhine is 2 or 3 km to the West and the train won't see it until the southern outskirts of Bonn.
And the bistro car was a former InterRegio one without AC anyways.
The buffet cars do not have AC built in (so no AC failure in that case), hence there are sliding windows. But many train enthusiasts like those carriages, because of the good views and the experience of holding your head out into the breeze through an open window ;)
That is not correct. The bistro car is of the type ARkimmbz288 and they are all air-conditioned (if not out of order).
Well done! Please keep documenting loco hauld long distance trains
Excellent video. Very nice shots on the Rhine River, which I travelled by car in another lifetime. BTW, I much prefer your voice commentary than the written one. Carry on travellin'! ;-)
Hi Dylan. I love the narration on your vlogs. It's a nice change. Just wanted you to know.
Nice vedio . Thanks
Have ridden between Dusseldorf/Cologne & back again a few times before Covid, great simple trip between two great German cities. 👍
Attention: don't never say t about both cites Cologne and Düsseldorf they are great, because their enmity as to which city is the better. An absolute danger to life and limb is when you praise the beer of the Düsseldorfer (Alt) in Cologne and the beer of the Cologne (Kölsch) in Düsseldorf. As a Bavarian, I think both beers are borderline, which I don't say in public in either city. - Cheers, Heinz
100% nicer with the voiceover. Great video.
Thanks!
Nice train
5:46 this dial does not control the volume of the announcements. Thiess dials are only used when you are on a train which has on board music playing. Announcements will always play with a predefined volume.
Excellent video Dylan... I can't believe you didn't eat anything on your trip? I always like to see what the food service is like...???
Thank you for sharing this video...:):):)
next year I am planning to do London to Munich by train, a journey I have wanted to do for a long time
In my opinion I would choose high speed intercity express
I kinda want to see what Düsseldorf is like during Japan Day.
Also, another amazing video as usual.
Düsseldorf is home to the largest Japanese community wprldwide outside of Japan. In contrast to Turks and Arabs, this one is not unpleasant.
I have completed your journey in reverse. My uncle lives in Essen and I have been visiting Essen for many years. In the Hauptbahnhof concourse you should have popped into Nordsee and got yourself a salmon or fish fillet bread roll for your journey. I can endorse their products. Nice video too. Slower train along the Rhine so you don't miss any sights.
Hi Dylan, love your videos, always look forward to Friday, didn't we leave from Essen?
For the same price I'd definitely choose an ICE, I just want to get where I want
Unless I'm really in a hurry I would always prefer classic compartement travelling. Unfortunately, ICs in general and particulary with second class compartment coaches have become very rare in Germany. Some decades ago comfortable compartement trains with broad seats were standard in first and second class on long distance lines. In summer you could open the windows and having the air stream around your head. Days long gone...
At 8:30 this is not the Rhine river but a lake named “Kiesgrubensee Gremberghoven”. It’s a former gravel pit.
Wow, IC 2213 with such an empty 1st class ... Before Covid, all seats in 1st class would have been occupied until at least Cologne. How times have changed!
I would chose the slower train. Nice to hear your voice, Dylan. I would have bpught food from McDonald's at the train station. Something made me hungry when I saw it. 😁
I like how you started in Essen, since I know that city from its inclusion on the Hauptstrecke Rhein-Ruhr route in Train Sim World 2. You can also drive the DB BR101 on that route.
Unfortunately HRR is a very short route, as all you get is the Duisburg to Bochum section with the DB BR422 and BR425 units.
A very informative video, well made with an audio commentary which I prefer. I never fail to enjoy these videos just to "nit pick" I prefer the English spelling of travelling to traveling ( US).
It must be my English ancestry that causes me to always spell it “travelling” (even as I type it tries to remove the second “l”.) That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
On the BR 101 (we usually call her one hundred one):
DB has some 101s (4 locos), that were certified for 220km/h those are operating the 2 former Metropolitain Coaching Stock (now revamped and operating as ICE trains but still hauled/pushed by their 101s). The Coaching Stock of the Metropolitain sets (former Tz930 and Tz931) is the fastest conventional coaching stock on DB...
Metropolitain was supposed to be a executive style set operating in 2 sets from one from Hamburg Main Station to Cologne Main Station and the other doing the same journey in reverse at arround the same time... doing the trip in 3h 30mins todays operation for the same DB is 3h 40mins on Spinter trains (that are often hauling the MET trains) and 4h 50min for regular routes... As it was an executive product MET sets used to only carry first class coaches... With them being reintruduced as ICE their seating even in second class is above the usual ICE seating...
Metropolitain was discontinued arround 16 years ago...
That being said 160 is the speed limit for regular signal based train security systems (PZB).. for more than 160km/h every train must be booked into to either LZB or ETCS signaling. LZB/ETCS fails the speed will be reduced to 160km/h as [16] x10 is the highest signaled speed allowed in all signaling systems within DB.
The Highspeed certified 101 aré
101 130-3
101 131-3
101 124-6
101 126-6
with the latter 2 being replacements for the original ex. Metropolitain locos...
That compartment you was in is similar to the old British Rail compartment carriages
you should mention that the ICEs do not take the same beautiful route as the snail trains. BTW much better with the voiceover then with the subtitles 👍
you're getting really good with your voiceovers, I'm really enjoying them! 😄
Glad you like them!
Jeeze, real life essen looks good, i love that station on train sim world because it can be quite busy which it should be at that size, but tsw usually fail to capture the realism so it can be quite quiet but yh
I have always preferred the more scenic Intercity train along the banks of the Rhine river than the highspeed ICE using the direct route from Cologne to Frankfurt.
In regards to your question at the end of the video, it would depend on my needs.
If I was in a bit of a hurry to get places, ICE would be the best choice (one day I would love to ride the ICE1 set with the BR-401 power cars)
However if I was wanting to take my time, breath in scenery and not having any rush, loco hauled would be my choice. Escpecially when travelling with friends and family and whatnot in a closed compartment and just spending time with one another, taking in the spectacular scenery and more.
Great Video again and reminded me of my youth when I went on a cycling holiday along the Rhine taking in Bonn, Koblenz and Koln. Great scenery and I would much prefer the slower scenic route like you.
One question I have - do you always travel alone as, if so, do you not get lonely spending nights away on your own. I often wonder what you do when we see you getting off a train at your destination. Just being nosey....I myself am off to Glasgow next week and then up to Fort William to take in the scenery of the West Highland line.
Great trip review, do you know of any websites I can use to learn more about European rolling stock? (Especially the loco hauled passenger coaches, like the one you traveled in this video)
I'd say compared to the fare I booked Guildford-Dawlish was 75quid for a three-hour trip you did ok.