Brussels to Cologne on the ICE INTERNATIONAL
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Welcome to this new video where I will show you what's like to ride the German high speed train, the ICE 3 M in First class! Hopefully my train won't burn 🔥
Enjoy :)
- TRIP INFORMATION -
RECORDED IN OCTOBER 2021
Railroad company: DB/SNCB
Train type: BR406 (ICE 3M)
From: Brussels South to Cologne Central station
Time: 1h50
Price: 79€ - $87
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00:00 : Intro
01:26 : Brussels South
02:29 : The ICE 3 M and its problems
04:29 : Boarding
05:03 : Seat Check
06:46 : Departure from Brussels
07:25 : At-Seat service
07:42 : Mid roll ads
08:10 : HSL-2
08:38 : CURRYWURST
09:28 : Liège
10:00 : German border
10:30 : Aachen
10:41 : ICE driver POV
11:23 : Walkthrough
11:40 : Toilets Time
12:10 : Walkthrough 2
12:36 : Approaching Cologne
13:03 : Thoughts and conclusion
13:25 : Departure toward Francfort
14:18 : Outro
Sad that you didn't actually go all the way to Frankfurt, the high speed line between there and Cologne is a pure rollercoaster! I'll be traveling on that line in two weeks, although with a slower ICE 4.
11:09 I have read that the glass automatically blurs in the event of an emergency braking in order to prevent the view of certain scenarios (dead people or animals etc.) from the passengers
It blurs automaticly when there is no current going trough it or smth so maybe the E brake enables it
Nein der Tf kann die Scheibe manuelle entweder durchsichtig lassen oder eben diese verblenden
No, the Tf can either leave the pane transparent or blind it manually
@@davieee1168 hitting a human or a big animal standing on the track is totally different. No train driver in the world,would be able to perform an emergency break for a bird as it appears within a break of a second - so how should the glass in your event have become non-seethrough?
I took that exact train a couple of times and I love it, they are more spacious and well thought than others
Being able to see if or when someone will be seating next to you comes in handy
Great review !
To this day I'm amazed how well the exterior design of class 403/406 still looks today. The design process started in the early to mid 90s. Lots of stuff from that era has aged poorly in terms of styling and appearance. I still prefer this over 407/408 any day.
The sound of these trains revving up always reminds me of the opening of “Rhapsody in Blue”.
Neat video, just a small hint:
The ICE 3 never reaches 300 on the HSL 2, reason being that the ICE 3 (and i think newer gens too) are limited to 250km/h on lines that have conventional sleepers + ballast. German 300km/h lines all use solid concrete ballast, allowing these trains to go up to 300
The ICE3 (DB class 403)indeed had issues with ballast flying around on the LGV Est so was limited in speed for that route as well as HSL2. I also seem to remember an issue with the magnetic braking but I can't exactly find online anymore what that was about. The DB class 407 (Velaro) is allowed to run up to 320 km/h on the LGV Est but is not used in Belgium (the new class 408 is supposed to replace the 403's in services to Brussels and Amsterdam)
Meanwhile I remember Japan's _Tokaido Shinkanesn_ uses conventional concrete sleepers + ballast too though they allow speeds of up to 285km/h
I took the ICE 3 from Munich to Cologne back in '03, not long after the new Frankfurt - Cologne high speed segment had opened. Nice ride, loved passing the highway traffic at 186 mph!
I do like these trains. I've had the seats behind the driver a few times, and also at the back on the High Speed line to Paris. It felt like a rollercoaster!
Great video of the German ICE service from Brussels to Cologne. The stations very impressive.
Took this train as a Connection for the Eurostar. The train waited for all passengers from London and was perfectly on time until it crossed the German Border. 😂 Although i love this Service. It was actually cheaper than the flight from London. So Folks: Always compare prices! The Service from Brussels can be a lot cheaper when you book your ticket 6 months earlier ;)😊
The prices vary according to the hour of the service. Getting a train 1 hour earlier or later can save you quite some money. Or get you a 1st class ticket for almost the same price as a 2nd class ticket the hour before or after.
Since Eurostar is merging with Thalys, there may be a direct connection between Cologne and London soon.
@@LS-Moto "DIRECT" ?
That is a funny joke.
@@flitsertheo Lets hope it ages well
@@LS-MotoIt hasn’t happened sadly 😞
I sadly can't afford train rides like this so I get my fix in sims. Seems that the Current TSW3 can add on to its existing routes so I really hope runs like this one (or Amsterdam to Bern for example) will be added as for now those )German) routes don't cross borders/ (Or London to Amsterdam/Paris/Brussel would be nice)
Thankfully, in the mean time, there are videos like this...... Happy traveling man, be careful and have fun.
btw Amsterdam CS is a through station as well
I always find it a bit... simplistic, to say that it is build by Siemens. That is only true for the power cars. It was very much a partnership between AEG, AGG, Krups and Siemens (and I might have forgotten one or two).
Fun fact: When I first heard about the ICE (the 401) and heard it was by Siemens and AEG in particular, I only knew those brands from sewing machines and refrigerators. For a while I refused to travel in a sewing machine. Until one day I had no choice and found them to be actually pretty good (for those days)
I live in Aachen and for me travelling to Cologne or Brussels with the ICE feels like a complete lottery. It is never a relaxing trip because anything can happen at any moment. The Thalys is an alternative but it’s not very reliable as well due to the deficient and non-redundant German network, and for BahnCard holders it will always be a more expensive option.
Damn, I must try playing the lottery then because when I was travelling to Brussels twice a week for a year because of a project, boarding at Aachen, the train was NEVER cancelled even once.
@@marcd6897
Nah, you've clearly spent all your luck on the train, so there's nothing left for the lottery.
Travelling from Brussels to Köln the signalling for high speed trains had broken down somewhere in Wallonia. The result was a "high" speed train moving at about 40km/h until Aachen.
I went to Brussels and Cologne last week, amazing cities!
Great video, I took this route recently and it was pretty good.
Thanks for your friend´s demo about the glass. Nice ride, nice food ... special thanks to the train in relation on "burn". See you 🇺🇾
The ultimate dream of all Slamtrak riders
I have recently travelled one one of these trains the 0816 from Frankfurt Hbf to Bruxelles Midi for my Eurostar and the HSL between Frankfurt and Köln was closed due to a machine failure in an overnight engineers possession. We were 88 minutes late from Aachen and were terminated at Liege. I made my Eurostar ok as I had allowed a few hours in Bruxelles just in case! Be careful that the area around Bruxelles Midi station is not very nice at all and there is a great deal of pickpocketing in the area of the city, it is a real problem. One thing for the excellent customer service on these trains, DB do serve a superb cup of black coffee, something I find great difficulty in getting in so many countries in Europe.
Hi! Arriving into Cologne Central Station is one beautiful sight!! Especially crossing the bridge over the Rhine from Koeln-Deutz. New Vienna Central, Salzburg, Venice Santa Lucia and Zurich are just other wonderful stations.
Great ride. Good food. Comfy seat. High speed. Thank Thibault💋😀
Great video !!
Just last summer I took this service from Brussels to Frankfurt. My connecting Eurostar out of London had a late departure, and I was sweating bullets wondering if I would make my connection. Thankfully, they held the ICE at the platform, so I had to make a frantic dash to the train. Great service, but it can be rather crowded until it gets to Cologne (Köln).
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Great trains of Europe and from what
I've seen here it is like a mini hotel on
train tracks and Wow that's great.
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Lovely video man! Again! Last summer, me and my friend traveled from Utrecht Central to Basel SBB by ICE. It already went wrong after about 2 seconds... We drove I think roughly 4 meters, and the train stopped... After 10 minutes of standing there, we continued... But then, just when we were about 5 minutes away from Colone, our attendant told us that the train was too broken to continue... And we didn't have a clue what was wrong with it. They told us that they would try to make it to Colone Hbf, but we stopped at a small stations in the suburbs of Colone. They had to break the doors open, and they left us there on the station. There were no replacement trains. Lucky for us, about 15 minutes later, there was a regional train going to the main station. But yeah, we had a double train that was fully booked, and all those people had to get in to the regional train... In the end, we made it to our destionation with about an hour delay, but I still think it's weird... And don't get me wrong, I love travelling in Germany and by ICE, but they are so unreliable. Especially the one's going across the border. But now, we can look back at it with a good laugh 😁. Over the past two weeks, I took several ICE trains in Germany and it all went well... But sometimes I still get a little frightened when the train goes slower😅. That was my little story about traveling by ICE😁
coffee and a train ride, what more could you ask for!
Thankfully the ICE 3M will get replaced by the ICE 3Neo :)
You think the Neo is better?
@@Trainspotting_Trips It definitely is comfort-wise. It doesn't look as cool though.
So what was the point of the new ice 3 and ice 4
@@gerogyzurkov2259 the new ICE 3 is the ICE 3neo, and the point of the ICE 4 was to replace ICE 1, 2, T and IC trains
@@Trainspotting_Trips It's much better.
Yum that food looks amazing!
Beautiful train!
Last time I caught this train we were in 2nd class and going to Frankfurt/Main; I had a serious backache by the time we got off! I hope first class to Cologne in a month's time will be more comfortable!
Great trip report
These things get damm crowded in holidays tough
For the first time in your videos out side of Sweden I heard people around you speaking Swedish, just wanted to point that out. Great video btw
1:58 these Departures and Arrivals reminds me that the one that NJ Transit had at Hoboken Terminal (only departures)
Great trip. I like the ICE3 design. Ah yes the secret of blurred glass finally revealed.
Nice journey beautiful train beautiful video 👍💯🌹
Merci pour cette belle vidéo....
Two features are killing it in this iteration of the ICE3 (BR406).
- The mini lounge behind the driver cab, with dim lighting and the view. Dim lights make the ride so much relaxing, especially at night. And there is a switch over the door to turn them off... although a couple of those were hardwired to be always on during refurbishment.
- There are still compartments with doors, even if only in first class!
Sadly, the next iterations of this train have dropped those two features!
Not my experience of the opposite direction journey. Late running of our train from Zurich reduced the transfer time to make the Cologne Brussels leg to minutes (only possible because it too was running late). We were faced with a Cologne platform absolutely thronging with humanity. Given our age (82) and baggage there simply wasn't time or opportunity to identify the coach we'd booked so we jumped (figuratively) into the first available train entry. That coach was just like the platform - jam packed - with people standing in the aisle. Progress along the train was impractical, at least for my wife and I, so we sat ourselves in an available looking seat where we were quickly introduced to the couple who had reserved them. Fortunately they were prepared to do a swap (they were much younger and a lot more agile) so we gratefully kept their second class seats while they headed off along the train battling the horde to make it to ours (in 1st class) having photographed our reservations to prove their bona fides. I trust they managed to enjoy their upgrade. We were just grateful for a seat and having made a connection - necessary because it had to link us to the last Eurostar of the day. Despite the romantic impression of rail travel, when it comes down to practical experience it's not that different to Ryanair!
I’m travelling from London to Brussels on the Eurostar in august with my family. We are also travelling on the ICE from Brussels to Aachen.
Will be staying in Aachen and taking a trip to Cologne and also to Düsseldorf. Most probably on the slower trains. It’s cheaper that to be fair.
Travelled on the ICE between Brussels and Aachen last August too. Sadly the ICE we booked was cancelled! Had to get a later one but DB wanted us to pay for seat reservations ok it was 36€ but we were on a budget. Had to stand in the buffet car unfortunately . But the trip back to Brussels was fine and they are brilliant trains.
Eurostars and ICE are some of my favourite trains and I like the Southeastern High Speed and Pendolinos here in the uk.
Belgian trains are comfy and well priced too.
@simplyrailway You missed a Point the ICE3M is also capable to run under 25kv like in France an did this in Belgium on HSL2 and HSL3. Also it is Limited to 250 km/h in Belgium.
As allways I liked this video of yours, because of the information and your sharing of experience. Now a earnest question: I never ordered fries, since in nowadays trains there are only microwaves ovens. Are those fries any good?
Hi ! I’m new to brusells . I have a train booked in 2days from Brussels to koln. How do I know which stop should I get down since there is no display on train?!!
nice video!
The next generation of ICE is already in Belgium for the testing. It's the class 408 or ICE3 neo, similar to the ICE class 407 running to Paris. It will be operational in 2025, when I understood it correctly.
How do these trains struggle with changing voltages when the ACS-64 does it with minimal issues?
well lets hope its a good ride!
There is an artisanal local tea shop at the foot of the stairs, to the left, going up to platform 5.
Nice intro!
Why not jump in to one of those empty rows when you left Brussels? I always travel on a Eurail Pass first class and I love the ICE trains and normally seats arent full in first class. I never make a reservation.Great video as always
Lindo trem bala Ace
The first-class seat product looks very similar to the seats used on Viarail Corridor Business Class cars in Canada! Who is the manufacturer of these seats?
Went on this myself a few weeks ago as part of a London to Münster trip and it was a good experience (and also on time). I just really wish DB would tell you which is the direction of travel, so you could book a forward-facing seat
@@f_maur I actually did that on a later trip, and out of 6 bookings, 2 of them were wrong. Although I may just have been unlucky 🤷🏽♂️
It‘s total lottery with DB and can change at any time. Until a few years ago they often indicated the direction of travel in their online seat reservation system. Fairly often the info provided was incorrect. Currently it seems they no longer provide the direct of travel when reserving a seat.
@@wjekat exactly. And also in many stations like Frankfurt or Stuttgart, the trains change their direction of travel half way through the journey anyways.
@@DerKatzeSonne The worst offending station is Nuremberg. Depending on where you are coming from the train may or may not change direction there.
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I made this trip a few times. Your ticket seems to have a good price for 1st class. I never was so lucky, but unfortunately I can never book in advance. That's the problem.
Believe me, nobody is a fan of Bxl Midi station. It should be renovated or just replaced, but I doubt there's money for that. A few stations in Belgim (Liège, Mons, Antwerp...) have got a huge pile of money for renewal, and now there's not much left. Luckily they're opting for cheaper, more standardized removation or renewal now (for example Vilvoorde or Mechelen), but for the huge stations in Brussels that might not be enough.
Apparently they're renovating Brussels North?
@@cactuspower6298 Most of it has been done, I think. The corridors look a bit better, but most of the station is unchanged.
North station shouldn't be replaced, since it's architecturally beautiful. There's room for improvement though.
1:17 The Cathedral and the Hohenzollern Bruecke is just 🥰😍
1:56 But isn't that true for other capitals say-- Amsterdam Centraal, Berlin Hbf and Kobenhavn H st.
Yeah the ICE3M are terrible in reliability but their replacement is one of the most reliable highspeed trains out there , the siemens velaro(in this case in NEO form) are super
Yea the 406s have their fair share of issues, but all in all they are great trains and I'll be sad to see them go if things should really end up happening as they are planned now.
This is like from the game, Koln to Aachen
That’s because that is exactly the route
The ICE3 is like the ave velaro 103
J’aime bien voyager en Belgique. Mais je préfère les lignes locales (RE 9 Köln - Aix-la-Chapelle, RE 29 Aix-la-Chapelle - Welkenraedt, IC 01 Welkenraedt - Liège - Bruxelles). Ça dure plus longtemps (env. +1h), mais c’est beaucoup moins cher que l’ICE. J’ai payé 19 euros pour Köln - Liège et retour (EuRegioTicket).
The 406 sets are due to be replaced by the new Baureihe 408 (dubbed ICE 3neo) based on the Velaro family. The 408 entered service in 2022. For now only within Germany. the 408s are like the 406 capable to run into Belgium, France (though their older sister class 407, dubbed ICE3 Velaro D will remain on the Paris services most likely and will at some point get some of the features of the 408 in a retrofit) and Netherlands. But are not yet licensed for passenger operation into neither France, Belgium and Netherlands.
It will probably get better when the Velaros replace the 406 sets for operation into Belgium and Netherlands.
Maybe, it's not 100% secured
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L'ICE entre Bruxelles et Francfort relève de la roulette russe. La dernière fois que je l'ai pris, je faisais Bruxelles-Vienne, avec un changement à l'aéroport de Francfort. Sur le trajet belge, on nous annonce déjà que le train n'ira pas plus loin que Cologne (pour quelle raison?) et qu'à Cologne il faut se débrouiller pour monter à bord d'un autre train vers Francfort (la DB n'a donc mis en service aucun train spécial pour remplacer le nôtre). L'ICE que je réussis à trouver vers Francfort était déjà bien rempli et, évidemment, je n'ai pas pu bénéficier de la place fenêtre en compartiment silencieux (Ruheabteil) que j'avais réservée. Quand on fait des trajets de 10h, le confort, l'emplacement du siège et le silence sont importants pour ne pas arriver crevé. Merci à la DB pour son bordel: j'ai passé un voyage fatigant et bruyant! Ensuite, dans l'ICE Francfort-Vienne, la toilette de mon compartiment ne fonctionnait pas: il a fallu aller à la voiture voisine. Décidément, qu'est-ce qui marche à la DB?! Ist das die "deutsche Gründlichkeit"??!
Und hast du den Umstieg in Frankfurt noch geschafft? Das geht aus deinem Text nicht hervor. Ja, den gebuchten Platz zu bekommen wäre schön, aber falls du doch noch pünktlich angekommen wärst ist das auch nur halb so schlimm. Und eine kaputte Toillete in einem Waggon ist doch echt nicht die Katastrophe, dann geht man halt einen Waggon weiter, ist ja nicht so, als ob man die alle zehn Minuten aufsuchen würde.
@@Malte_OJ Ja, ich habe es in Frankfurt knapp geschafft (hatte aber ein paar Dingen in der Nähe des Bahnhofs zu erledigen, die ich letztendlich nicht tun konnte). Die kaputte Toilette war ja nicht das schlimste, einverstanden, ist aber eine Illustration dafür, daß bei der DB "nichts funktioniert". Das schlimste ist, daß ich im zweiten und dritten Zug den Platz nicht haben konnte, den ich im Ruheabteil reserviert hatte. Bei so einer langen Reise wie Brüssel-Wien macht das einen erheblichen Unterschied in Bezug auf Komfort und Ermüdung. Die DB hält ihre Zusagen nicht ein und das hat Konsequenzen für den Fahrgast... der doch ein Kunde ist und für einen solchen "Dienst" bezahlt! (Hoffentlich ist mein Deutsch nicht zu schlimm - habe eigentlich die Praxis verloren).
Super vidéo ! Elle doit dater probablement sûrement plus d’1 an vu que tout le monde portait des masques et que ici en Belgique on ne doit plus depuis Mars 2022 😅
Non, dans les trains DB ils ont prolongé le règle pour porter le masque.
@@lours6993 C'est les trains de la SNCB ici pas DB et en plus c'est en Allemagne que ça a été prolongé pas en Belgique
@@Mrthecrafter162 Et en plus, le vidéo est tourné dans un train de DB direction Allemagne, pas dans un train de SNCB, donc pas de raison pour penser qu’elle était tourné avant Mars 2022.
@@lours6993 ah oui pardon c’est un ICE mais je pensais que tant qu’on était en Belgique on ne devait pas mettre de masque
It really is sad that the original ICE 3 is the least reliable and so "fiery" because they definitely have the nicest acceleration sound and look the best out of all ICE ^^
Luckily, they wont be phased out until the early 30s when the ICE 5 arrives. Although with the 408s coming along, the ICE3M might be replaced on journeys to Belgium und the Netherlands :/
A lot of the reliability issues are due to the fact that this is the first high speed train with the engines are spread out trough the entire train, instead of being located at seperate wagons at the front and back, as is usual with the tgv. And the effects of having such powerfull engines under the passenger cars was not fully finetuned.
And the whole switching from 1,5kv to 3k to 15kv to 25kv thing also causes problems.
@@daanwolters3751 You mean the first high-speed train _in Europe_ since Japan used high-speed EMUs since the beginning (though the first real HST is the 300 series but it still predates the ICE 3) and while it does spread the power onto multiple wheels, I doubt it's the main reason for them catching fires. I can see the support for multiple voltages the reason why the problems, though, given that it complicates the circuitry and IIRC demands separate pantographs for different voltages.
@@MarioFanGamer659 my bad, the first in europe.
The fiery issues are a combination of both, since both the distribution of motors and the different voltages both complicate the circutry. The thalys just has one single, well insulated, cable from the pantograph, running to both power cars, where all the other circuitry is located. While the ice3m has to feed motors all troughout the train, from one pantograph.
And the ice3 has also a lot of mechanical failure issues, such as doors jamming. And those are mainly caused by the motor distribution.
I can here voices in swedish at 9,20 and 9.55 ! 🙂
Is this an reupload?
Idk
Were you on a older ICE train or a brand new ICE train. The ICE 3 trains are my favourite.
This is an older one. Without the renovated cabin and seats.
Thanks for reminding me 👍
One of these had a car completely burn out once, after it caught fire while travelling on a high speed line. Nobody got hurt, but half the train was written off. The cause: A worker had re-cut threads on a worn bolt for the transformer-case instead of taking a new bolt. Bolt gave up, oil sprayed out, caught fire. So it's not always the ICE's fault, sometimes its stupid humans.
Twenty years ago I used this service once a week. It was unreliable then and it's still unreliable, as you mention in this interesting video.
Friday an ICE train in Zaventem station ran over 2 young people, one died & theother lost a leg....
Well at least we know ICE do melts
Rhein-Ruhr, not Rhein - Rhur. There is an other river Rur, it’s a small one.
hey 👋 can you do more videos in the us?
Fun Fackt: i will ride this route in one hour
Is that expensive for that distance??? Seems so to me, but I'm not sure.
don't know about the comparison to car travel but it's a fairly normal price for first class ICE tickets 2 weeks in advance. If you book 1 month or more in advance the prices get better. For example I booked my ticket from Würzburg to München for my summer vacation 6 months in advance and payed 34€ in total for first class seats to and back from Munich. But I have a BahnCard 25 First Class so another 25% off prices.
For short termed travel decisions regarding high speed rail or long-distance travel the Deutsche Bahn isn't always that competitive. At least in my experience.
But if I know it's an ICE 3 or a deviation of that class I'm always comfortable with 2nd class. The seats are just as enjoyable - if you aren't taller than 1,85m
@@johannesschiele1513 Booking a train 1 hour earlier or later may also save you a lot of money. On 'peak hours' they are more expensive. That's how I managed to get a 1st class ticket at almost the same price as a 2nd class ticket at a different hour.
Antwerpen Central definitely beats Brussels south station, and it's so sketchy in some parts around the station and near the Midi tower. i was wondering why are masks everywhere and i see in the description this was recorded 1/5 year ago 😅
The Midi tower (dating from the 1960s) is one of the most important buildings in the country. This is where the administration that takes care of our pensions is housed.
Your reasoning is quite odd. Is it because the train can run on different systems that ICE is so unreliable? Or is this train just horribly designed? I mean why is Alstom able to build trains that work in different countries as Thalys and Eurostars have proven?
Yes it is. Lots of additional complexity, not yet fully mastered by the german industry at the time those trains were built. They have largely catched up since.
Because Alstom's TGVs have powercars for that, in one of these it's all under the floor
hmm didn't know that ,these trains have sometime a such Serious techincal issues like that, 24% of the services fully cancelled on a month ?? really, i travelled from Koln hbf to Liege 4 times i don't know if i was lucky or not but the trains that i took was always on time of course i'm not going to say that the DB ponctuality are good because everyone who travel everyday in trains in germany know that only 50% of the trains are on time, and about ICE neo i don't like the design look, if the neo will replace the old one on brussels and amsterdam route in 2024, what will happens to the old units then?
Still there are passengers who block the aisle then look at YOU as though you're the blockage....
One annoying thing on 1st class on this route is the absence of any reasonable storage space for heavy suitcases…
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Cheap??
I wanted to see the restaurant car.
I love these videos but I really wish you would stop buying first class. Its just not representitive of what 99% of the population travel by, as comfy as it is :P At the end of the day its your channel and I still love the content! Keep it up :)
I do travel first class. If you choose the right hour it doesn't cost much more than 2nd class. It has some advantages, such as avoiding families with children and little service perks. As I had to use it I know there is even a special counter for 1st class passengers in Köln.
Why did you've chose cologne instead of frankfurt.
Second
I could never travel backwards.
German trains , despite often being delayed, have the best classic and modern timeless design. If you compare it with TGV it’s so much better well-through-out.
All materials looking made by good and durable quality. Not cheap not ungrateful (like TGV).
Design is not comfort
German Trains and Deutsche Bahn: unironically absolutely amazing, as long as nothing goes wrong, haha.
Hazlo también en 🇪🇸 español.
These trains get replaced by new ICE 3neo from 2024 on because of their issues.
Maybe, not 100% secured
Was this during covid? (because of the masks)
I swear, uf he drives wirh rhw bordwestbahn from bremn to pldenburg I freakbout af
Please - I love going by trains ….
But I don’t care about the locomotive, the cars, their history, : ie I don’t care about all of this…
I just would like to know, if there is a buffet-car, or if I should buy it before entering the train…
Many thanks from DK…. and trust me, in DK there is limited service….
1:55 Hmm. But most capitals in Europe do have through stations. Yeah, the cities with dead-end stations have a lot of station, London, Paris, moscow. But the majority is with through stations.
(27) Countries with Through Train Stations in their capital: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine
(9) Countries without Through Train Stations in their capital: Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Romania, russia, UK
(9) Countries without Train Stations in their capital: Andorra, Albania, Bosnia, Cyprus, Iceland, Kosovo, Malta, San Marino, Vatican
2 quick items here: (1) one of the 2 main stations in Ireland' s capital (Dublin Connolly) has sime through platforms, the other (Dublin Heuston) is a terminal one; (2) Iceland has no railways at all!!
Bro can you just put the phone directly attach to the window
Wer faehrt von Bruessel nach Koeln? Wer faehrt zur Schicht von Bruessel nach Koeln?
Brüssel - Köln und dann weiter nach Berlin.
The word "sick" in English does not usually mean good or great. This is a slang word from the younger generation who are using it as an emphasis on the opposite meaning. It does not look good in your subtitles. Otherwise great video.
A typo. I think he meant slick.
I take it you don't mind riding backwards; that would bother me.
it's spellt Koeln not Cologne.
Its spelt "Köln", not Koeln. If you cant spell Köln because your language doesnt use "ö", you can just spell it in english (cologne) anyways?!
It's Cologne in English! 😉
I find it unacceptable that these trains do 200km in 2 hours and charge 'High speed' premium ticket prices !! 100km is/shouldbe standard for ordinary intercity trains, and High speed operators should travel in the range of 150-200+ km per hour !
You pay for the 'High speed' brand logo not for a swift journey ! And there are not direct rides with normal intercity trains anymore. So this is actually really bad ! Thalys even manages to do the trip in 2h42m !! Ridiculous ..
I don't know why the ticket was so expensive, looking it up right now and these prices are only achieved when booking like right before the train leaves. When I book in advance it's 30€. The travel time is still not acceptable though
@@jan-lukas it's a 1st class ticket.
Reservation long in advance can be real annoying as well , especially when you need a train journey before !
I travelled from eastNL to Lille , Fra. When I wanted to go with Thalys , I would have travel earlier , to have sleck in case of delays or so. This costs more time so for me it was just as practical to go with normal inytercities via Antwerp and Gent . The speed advantage of thalys got almost irrelevant, due having to leve earlier because of reservation seats..