Talgo Strikes again 🙄. As usual, if you want any chance of completing this journey without buses or last-minute rolling stock changes, book one of the ComfortJet (RJ) departures or take Snälltåget 🙌

Nonstop Eurotrip 🇺🇦@nonstopeurotrip.com · 3d ago

Today I tried to film one of the new(ish) DSB @talgo.com sets from #Copenhagen 🇩🇰 to #Hamburg 🇩🇪 but ALL sets have failed, except the 8am, so I am onboard this IR4 to the border, then a 2.5h bus Absolutely atrocious reliability AGAIN from the Spanish builder 😭 #NonstopEurotrip

Spent a couple of days in the UK for our little YouTuber get-together and some cool trains! 🇬🇧🚆 And now that I apparently make bus videos too, I’ve decided to try RegioJet’s premium London–Prague service overnight bus. 18 hours in a solo panorama seat let’s go! 🚌🇨🇿

More nonsense. 3 days before departure, the train was moved 30 min later, instead of the nice booked Velaro, we’ve been "blessed" with a duck in possibly the worst-aligned seats imaginable. Such a shame. Spain has the most HSR track in Europe, yet it’s the network I enjoy using the least by miles.

Simon Andersen@intercitysimon.com · 4w ago

Spanish HSR might be the worst in the world 😅🇪🇸🚆 Avril is a horrible low-quality train, cheap nasty 2+2 seatsin first class 🤢, ride quality so rough there's now turbulence on trains😭 Infrastructure is broken, our train got cancelled in Ourense after a 2h delay. Now to fight my way back to Madrid 😬

Spanish HSR might be the worst in the world 😅🇪🇸🚆 Avril is a horrible low-quality train, cheap nasty 2+2 seatsin first class 🤢, ride quality so rough there's now turbulence on trains😭 Infrastructure is broken, our train got cancelled in Ourense after a 2h delay. Now to fight my way back to Madrid 😬

All aboard the retro sleeper to Bucharest! Yes that loco is really running with one window stitched together with some tape 🤣🇷🇴

🍽️ Romanian dining cars are so back! Even if the layout is still incredibly strange... 😅 IC 531 from Bucharest to Cluj and Arad is now meant to have one, and it's great to see proper restaurant cars returning to CFR's flagship trains. 🚆

Talgo time! Let’s just say I wasn’t exactly impressed… but worst of all, there’s no currywurst in the bistro 😱 🇩🇪

First KBH Hamburg train of the day: Talgo ❌ ⏩ Replaced by IC3 ✅ Second Talgo of the day: ❌Canceled outright. Luckily the morning ComfortJet I've booked is running! ✅ Off to Berlin on a complicated routing! (Spoiler, not taking the ComfortJet all the way) Not very busy this morning!

I’d stay away from them. No refund for a cancelled Hamburg train! They pretend the bus can keep the same schedule. It clearly can’t, and even the quickest FlixBus, with fewer stops, takes 30 minutes longer. Comparable transport conditions do exist on this route. Clear EU passenger rights violation.

The Man in Seat 61@seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Lo-cost open-access operator GoVolta is to end it's Amsterdam-Hamburg service after only 2 months, to increase its Amsterdam-Berlin service from 3 to 6 times a week: www.railwaygazette.com/passenger/20...

Incredible display from SBB today The first class carriages have swapped position, so of course they have flipped the seat reservations too 🙄 Panorama reservations are now in the non-panorama car and vice versa! Oh, and we left Zürich 5 minutes late because the train arrived late 🙃

I’ve had enough of France and nonsense open-access operators that keep cancelling and ruining the trains I’ve booked with them. So now I’m off to a country with functional trains 🇨🇭😅

It’s long been rumoured that DSB and Vy were looking into running DSB’s new Talgos direct from Copenhagen to Oslo. However, using DB Talgos, with a restaurant car, twice daily and all the way from Berlin to Oslo, was definitely not on my bingo card 🇩🇪 🇩🇰 🇸🇪 🇳🇴🚆 www.dsb.dk/om-dsb/press...

Where European Sleeper is unable to deliver, Ouigo can pick up the slack. To ES’ credit, we arrived in Mons on time, so there was just enough time to connect onto this Ouigo to Paris. It will even arrive before the sleeper was scheduled to, and probably before the replacement buses too 😅

Simon Andersen@intercitysimon.com · 3mo ago

I don’t even know where to start with European Sleeper tonight 🫠 We left late, the carriage numbers messed up, so it took 30 minutes before I was in the correct carriage. 1 hour before departure I got an email saying the train won’t even go to Paris Really living up to that €300+ price tag 🤡🚆

I don’t even know where to start with European Sleeper tonight 🫠 We left late, the carriage numbers messed up, so it took 30 minutes before I was in the correct carriage. 1 hour before departure I got an email saying the train won’t even go to Paris Really living up to that €300+ price tag 🤡🚆

13 hours in first class on the new ComfortJet connection from Copenhagen to Prague. Let’s do this 👀🚆

I hope DSB installs whatever TTS/AI voice system ČD has on their ComfortJets on their Talgos too. It sounds so much better! No more “Cul-ding” 😅

Simon Andersen@intercitysimon.com · 8mo ago

How did literally no one on this project ever stop and think: maybe we shouldn’t have horrifically loud and awful-sounding AI text-to-speech announcements on our trains. They’re beyond horrible - and sound just as bad in Danish. O-dense, Kol-DING really?? 🙉🤦‍♂️

Well, I won't be recommending GoVolta then. 2 days out, they cancelled the entire train, seemingly for their own operational convenience, and replaced it with a single bus. If I wanted to travel by bus to Hamburg, I would have booked FlixBus 🙄 Safe to say I'll be pushing for a refund.

Welcome onboard the first Snälltåget day train from Hamburg to Stockholm 🇩🇪🇸🇪 We’re an hour late, as German rail infrastructure seems determined to destroy every train launch in May. I’ve got one of the few solo seats for the 11.5-hour journey, plus a dinner reservation in the restaurant car 😋🍴

Good morning from Prague! Time for a joyride on the new ComfortJet service to Copenhagen 👀 Only heading as far as Hamburg today, but I’ll be back in a couple of days to ride the full route and really put it to the test, bringing you a detailed review of the entire journey and onboard experience 😉

This was not where I expected to be tonight, but it’s definitely an upgrade over doing 10 hours in a seat for no reason, so I can’t complain too much 🤣 €50 for a last-minute booking in a shared 3-person “sleeper” - not bad. Hopefully it stays empty to Prague 🤞

Simon Andersen@intercitysimon.com · 3mo ago

Well everything has gone horribly wrong 😅 Went to Prešov to catch the new LEO Express Talgo on their overnight service to Prague! But today they have sent a FLIRT instead of the Talgo 😭 Needless to say, as I only came here to try the Talgo. I've now bailed for a more comfy overnight train... 🇸🇰🇨🇿

Well everything has gone horribly wrong 😅 Went to Prešov to catch the new LEO Express Talgo on their overnight service to Prague! But today they have sent a FLIRT instead of the Talgo 😭 Needless to say, as I only came here to try the Talgo. I've now bailed for a more comfy overnight train... 🇸🇰🇨🇿

Off to Slovakia for real this time 🚄 A new Czech 'Thrashtron' pulls my EC to Žilina with a mixed rake of Slovak and Czech carriages 🇸🇰 🇨🇿

Do love when the office has a ever-changing view 🚂 🇨🇿

Looks like Talgo has won the tender to build new night trains for Stockholm–Luleå/Narvik Best of luck to Sweden 💀 The new DK + DE Talgos are working very reliably. KZ was so happy with their Talgos that they kicked them out and replaced the factory with Stadler www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/klar...

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So long Taiwan, it’s been a blast 🇹🇼 If not my favourite place in Asia, it’s definitely a strong contender. Now for a ride up the high speed line to Taipei before heading to the airport for my flight back to Europe Time to get back home and into editing mode, gotta get that FlixBus video moving 👀

Kaohsiung 🇹🇼 really said let’s run our brand new light rail straight through the old station. Which is now an open-air museum and one of the nicest places to just hang out in the city 😍🚋

Not many days left for these almost 50 year old American built E200 series locomotives Train 708 from Taitung to Kaohsiung / Xinzuoying is still a safe bet for now, but who knows when that too will quietly turn into a brand new Toshiba E500 👀

Have never seen this many bikes on a long-distance train before 😅🚲 Every possible space they could be stored in was full of them, must’ve been at least 30 on this EMU3000! Anyway, rough day on the Taiwan railway network, my Taipei–Taitung train went from first Unknown, to eventually 40 min late 😬

Update Hamburg seemed too boring, so went to Taiwan instead 🇹🇼

Simon Andersen@intercitysimon.com · 5mo ago

Talgo to Hamburg looking a bit different this morning 😬 The Talgo carriages are still an operational disaster almost six months after entering service and after being delivered two years late 🙄 The power of hindsight, we probably could have had a stable Comfort/RailJet variant running by now. 😕

Talgo to Hamburg looking a bit different this morning 😬 The Talgo carriages are still an operational disaster almost six months after entering service and after being delivered two years late 🙄 The power of hindsight, we probably could have had a stable Comfort/RailJet variant running by now. 😕