Overnight From Stockholm to Luleå in Swedish Lapland. Just How Good IS This Train Journey?
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- Опубліковано 16 лют 2024
- This is one I've always wanted to do and in today's video it's happening at last! Join me in Stockholm as we jump onboard the overnight sleeper train to the far north Sweden, deep in Lapland. My expectations were high, so come along and see how it is in reality...
Filmed on Thursday 11th/Friday 12th January 2024
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Did the Swedish/Finnish border to Helsinki in 1983 , had to change guage in Happaranda/Tornio. Really smooth wider gauge Finnish trains.
Happy days !!!
Boden !!!! Stopped there and camped in a municipal park in June '83. Didn't get dark at night !!
Good for you😅
migrants migrants migrants everywhere thats sweden for you
Watching this on an unusually hot night in the hills above Medellin my Colombian wife fell in love with the snow scenes you filmed. So there goes the planned vacation to France and instead I am going to be freezing in Sweden. Thanks Steve. Thanks a bunch.
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Damn dude, I hope you didn't freeze your nuts off (assuming you have visited already).
Honestly our winter has been horrible. Been close to 0 or above it for a lot of time. we did have a few cold spells that were nice and enjoyable. But its mainly just sticking itself to 0. I want atleast -10.... anything else is just not really comfortable.
@@sebastian114 Still colder than Colombias average temperature of 27 degrees.
@@KamiKaZantA Not sure what the other dude was talking about, it was the coldest winter since 2013
I don't know if anyone already said it but the reason everything went a bit dark before departure was the locomotives being disconnected and shunted to the other end of the train and the wagons just running on battery power during that time. Excellent video, as swedes we love seeing our country from a tourists eye! :)
Your country is absolutely beautiful and full of wonderful traditions.
The only downsides are the harsher weather + too little sun. Otherwise Sweden seem like a nice and well managed country.
I really enjoyed the trip and agree the cabin seemed batter than the Paddington to Penzance night sleeper. A very exciting journey, I love the Nordic scenery. Look forward to the walk around later. Stay safe Rod
@@Mindphaser1 Summers in Sweden are glorious, though.
🚅 don't you all enjoy railroad
🚈 trams, trains etc are just so cool
🚞 take a ride in my ''transportation'' folder, (folder 2 in my playlists) :)
Christmas decorations come down on 13 Jan here in Sweden on Saint Knuts Day (Knutsdagen). On this day the Christmas tree plundering takes place (julgransplindring). People dance around the tree and remove the treats that hang on the tree before the tree comes down.
nice to know that it’s due to tradition and not laziness 😎
Maybe it has something to do with the darkness - the short days. You want to keep all the Christmas lights a little longer.
There is even a classic Christmas song with the phrase;
..och julen varar än till påska... (..and Christmas lasts until Easter..).
But there are probably not so many people who follow it...
@@RandomerFellow but then we say "men det var inte sant, men det var inte sant för innan det så kommer fastan" which means"but that wasn't true, but that wasn't true because before that comes the fast". So you forgot to include a key part. Can't understand how you could forget that
Thanks again Steve. Every time you looked out of the window at that lovely snowy landscape, I found myself thinking "Well, if that was Britain... the trains wouldn't be going anywhere" 🤣
Steve's head stone will read.
" I'm really knackered now"
Having a wee rest
Swedish tradition is to keep Christmas decorations up until 20 days after Christmas; then the tree is 'plundered' - from the days when it would have been decorated with candy and apples.
And you were so lucky to get there at all, not to mention only a little delayed. This winter has been so bad the head of SJ issued a general apology to all travellers (I'd have preferred a refund, myself).
There is something special about being on a train travelling through a harsh environment. Coccooned safe and warm looking out. Steve, in a boat, the net preventing a fall from the bed is called a Lee Cloth. Probably the same on a train.
So true mate!
If you really wanted a train journey somewhere dark, cold and empty, you could have just gone to East Kilbride.
Beautiful 🤩
Beautiful 🤩
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Just like Glasgow always cold and dull 🤣🤣🤣
I think a trip on a sleeper train has got to be my most favoured method of travel.
Even as a swede i completely forget how wide stretched Sweden is 🙂
The distance from the most northern part of Sweden to the most southern part is 1572 km.
As a comparison, it's 1496 km between Montrose and Bilbao in northern Spain.
That sign 20:50 got me thinking about this.
It's closer to Prague (1053 km) from Stockholm than to Boden from Stockholm (1094 km).
Thanks for this journey!
If you start from the southern tip of Sweden and travel south, you are almost in Africa if you travel as far as to Sweden's northern border.
Yeah, for me this was a wake up call when I studied abroad in Japan as a youngster and we talked about our countries compared to Japan. I was shocked to learn that Sweden is bigger than Japan! And that's how 19 year old me learned that population size has nothing to do with country size (yes, my geography teacher failed me).
@@yggdrasil4986 Most of the japanese are packed into a few plains as well, so much area covered by mountains that are not feasible to build anything on.
@@yggdrasil4986 Have you looked at a map before though? There's a clear size difference between Sweden and Japan
"Crunch crunch crunch," that was some cold dry snow. Our 3-rd grade geography books in the USA showed a map with igloos at the top of Norway & Sweden. Ha ha big buildings and modern trains up there.
To be fair there is the ice Hotel, and as a kid me and my dad did make little cabins of packed snow in the yard
The price you paid for the ride to lapland to include a bathroom in your room is a tiny bit cheaper than the club solo room on the Caledonian Sleeper and much cheaper than the double bed room you get on the Caledonian Sleeper. So i would say its worth that journey and you get to fold the top bunk up for more room, have more storage space and a hairdryer in the bathroom!
A decent breakfast AND running water?! Clearly not the Caledonian sleeper ;) Great video as always Steve!
Spent a lovely time there in Sweden back in 1965, after saying goodbye to my Aunt in Moss Norway, taking 12hrs by train, to Kalmar to work, they were slower back then. It was summer and the flashing of the sun through the windows as it passed through many forests,had made my eyes bulge by the evening when I had arrived.
i made this trip in november 2012 , changed at Boden central and got a 3 hour bus to Jokkmokk to do some dog sledding , magical journey , although my cabin had 5 other blokes in it haha although on the way back i got talking to a a fella working on the train who when he found out i was a fellow railway worker gave me a cabin to myself back to stockholm
Stunning train station in Stockholm especially with the festive decorations
OH snap, I live in Luleå. 😄
Welcome!
Steve is the train too narrow for a wheelchair ?
Awesome! Thank you!
my condolences
Me too
it would be tight, not sure if a wheelchair would fit. At least not in the sleeper cars
@@123bwlch
That was another great train adventure. The cost of the cabin is a good investment, fourteen hours in a chair is torture and doesn't make for an interesting video. Thanks for sharing that winter landscape.
That looked like winter is supposed to look, Steve! You can tell how cold just by listening to the sound of your boots squeaking on the snow. Thanks for taking us with you. That was quite a journey, and Stockholm station looked magnificent!
Steve, your phtography and filming captured an excellent slice. Well done that man.
FAB, another for my bucket list .. Swedish people are lovely, and kind xx
Its not that the conductor trust you, its that he have a list of who is going where, and dont need to check the ticket. The only check the ticket if someone sits wrong ot if there is a issue with the system.
Both the wagons and the loco where originalt desinged in the 60s with a slight update in the 80s. New sleaper wagons are on order, but they are not fully desinged yet. The new wagons are going to be much larger taking full andvantage of sweden larger loading gauge
"The ladder was banging all night"
Yea.. that is part of the experiance ;)
16:32 the left one is a wake up alarm and the right one is a call to the staff
From here in our Australian summer 🥵 that snow looks very enticing and beautiful
Gosh what a fab journey. The sky at the junction was utterly beautiful!
Thankyou for the journey…from my bed here in the evening in Perth Western Australia…another stinker tomorrow..43 deg Celsius! Lovely seeing all the beautiful white on white scenery and stunning sky. Thanks again Steve😍😍🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘
And me....... Now on next years bucket list.
Would love to visit WA one day. 🙂
"high rise buildings" - could have told you that; this town has a steel plant, coworkers of mine did automation there. As for original sounds: the creaking of snow under your shoes is telling me exactly how cold it is; exactly the kind of weather that makes my beard freeze with breath.
Nice video from my home country.
Well done as usual!
Thank you Steve.
Can't wait to take my first "Steve Marsh" kind of train trip to Sweden or Finland. I've learned so much from watching you. For one, a sense of humor goes a long way.
I love your videos Steve! The way you present to the camera with your smooth accent and the shots you take of sometimes more mundane things makes this feel like I get more of a realistic view of wherever you are. Keep up the good work! Cheers mate :)
Well I waited a week for this after last week's tip off and I certainly wasn't disappointed!. What I love about your videos are their authenticity, so I certainly appreciate your comment on keeping the noises real. For those of us following in your footsteps it gives us a clear idea of what to expect, and the still warm chicken at departure was a masterstroke. It's a shame you couldn't continue on to Narvik as Narvik is a stunning, and very interesting town, but it gives you a good reason to revisit. Thanks for this latest episode and I'll be looking forward to the notification that the bonus episode is up!.
Steve, the sounds on your recording can be very evocative........the sound of the crispy, glass-like snow as you left the train said it all for me. Quite brilliant!
thank you,dear Steve,for taken us with you....................enjoy the journey............Blessings and Greetings from Daggy,Kiel,Germany☘☘☘whenever you come to Kiel again lts have a coffee together
Rode it to Boden and then to Narvik last year. Great experience. I like the Coop in the station. You can grab 3 fresh pastries for 30kr. Honestly it's really cheap to travel to Sweden right now, especially if you are ok with eating from supermarkets
The lady at 13:32 shooting Steve a look as he talks to the camera is wonderful!
The trains during this time were very hot because it was extremely cold for a while. I took the same train on the second of January, and it got down to -40. The train had to stop to warm up its breaks (with the wind chill of a moving train, that's about -70), and for that ~1 hour stop the cabin heating was off. If I had the train the net day, it would have been cancelled because of the cold. As it was, my train arrived about 4 hours late.
Yeah we hit a seriously impractical -37 in luleå first week of january, I saw some gasoline cars that just up and died on the road. If the diesels got going theyd at least stay on. Max closed from their heating elements dying etc.
I don't remember it having been that cold since I was in kindergarten
Taylors of Harrogate should sponsor you. Whenever I see you knackered, I have to get myself a tea. 🥴🤷♂🤗 Me, I had a 33 hours working days once. I was a basket case after 30. You held yourself bloody well, Mate!
And again: Great video! 🤩🤗
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That was great Steve realy enjoyed that.but yes it did look a bit chilly.you cabin was small but there was everything you needed.cant wait for Tuesday's video to see this something special.thank you.🚇🚉🚞
Good video as always, btw I live in Luleå 👌🏼🇸🇪
Cheers! What an incredible place!
I swear the locals that use this service must play "spot the UA-camr" on every trip! 🤣🤣
Very true!
Nice trip! I‘ve been up there several times, but either came by plane or drove my camper up. I hope you visited Gammelstad kyrkstad while you were there. 😉 I’ll have to wait for the video to come out. And for the Stockholm part: let me know, if you need an itinerary for your next visit. 😉😅🎉 There‘s a lot more to see than just the light in centralen. 😂
Oh cheers! I didn’t make it there this time, but it’s always good to have an excuse to return!
Great video again Steve.
The train was spectacular, albeit the corridors were narrow. The snow was deep. Glad the train didn’t go without you when you got off at Boden station.
GM Steve saw you counting sheep Going to your train Stockholm station looked kool train was cozy and efficient but expensive can’t wait for your tour of Lapland get gloves on 😘🌺🌸🐑☕️
That's a proper train journey. Loved it! I was very glad you didn't sleepwalk off the train in the dead of night in the middle of a frigid forest with howling wolves like I remember you doing once in the way back when......your eyes looked like they were on fire. You must have slept like the dead that night. Can't wait for the next one as always.
Up here in north(ish) Finland, the Christmas lights go up early and come down late. Like, months late. We need the cheer... especially in November. I prefer to think of them as winter lights.
As the old saying goes Steve you learn something new every day
Haha! I was actually feeling cold watching this video but it was a good cold! Thank you. Its lovely! 🙋🇮🇪🏴😃
Can you imagine all that snow in the UK ?? the country would grind to a halt.!!!....No trains of course would run as it's (" the wrong type of snow")😅🌨⛄....
I live in Perth Western Australia, and the thing that grabs me the most, is just how accessible you are to so many different destinations. From where you live in Scotland, it is all very doable. Not discounting where I live, as there are wonderful things to see here as well, but obviously a very different climate.
I hear that you’ve found one of the secrets of being a successful traveller Steve. 😅How, at every opportunity expressing your thanks !😅
Thank you Steve, love a sleeper train video, if you weren’t so tired, imagine a four hour bonus Stockholm video, favourite part was the remoteness of the junction look, and the travel on. Good breakfast and helpful staff. Looking forward to midweek
I think I would have been tucked in bed a asleep before that train left the station! That was a lovely room, and a great breakfast. Thanks for taking us along! Cheers and ATB!
Thanks Erin! :)
I like your chicken Steve looks tasty 😋
Northern Sweden looks....COLD! Where are the Reindeer? I love how all the snowy surfaces have so sort of grit spread out. Maybe you just don't film it but Pro Travel Tip...I always lock my door whilst it is open and "test" the key to make sure it works before closing the door...being an old retired hotel guy, I don't want my stuff trapped inside a room/compartment I can't get in!
It's a shame you missed the best part of the train journey through the mountains to Narvik - although it is closed at present. This is the most scenic and wild part of the journey and the views are spectacular. Come back and do it again Steve!
According to Swedish tradition, January 13 is the time to get rid of all the Christmas decorations. So I am happy to see that they were still up at the central station when you were there. Did you try the fish roe spread (Kalles kaviar) with your egg? It is delicious. Umami packed.
Noticed the apologies for the noises but I actually like it! Adds a lot to the immersion and im grateful that this channel does not use the stereotypical obnoxious "UA-cam lift music" everywhere to be honest.
Thank you Steve, I have always loved rail travel and I look forward to doing more before I get much older. Must say you looked very refreshed when you arrived at your destination so must have been a comfortable bed, as always take care and stay safe, cheers.
Thanks Steve. You've taken us to another place we've never heard of before.
Awesome to see you in my home town,Luleå. Wish I'd been able to meet you 😁
Next time! I WILL be back! :)
The 'OK I've been a good lad' triggers my Google assistant 😂.
Enjoyed this trip, as always!
Looks anice cabin,clean bedding, what more could you want Breakfast ,lol 😊
You have a nice cabin and you can sleep and a rest the station is was very nice and with the snow and hope you have a nice time on the train ride and it is quite train thanks for showing round the train
Hi Steve Paul from kent great video looks so nice looking 👀 forward to the bonus video
Thanks Steve…I think some door handle systems have are like playing krypton factor!😅😊
Lovely video about your travel. Next time, come visit us in Östersund, and keep going to Trondheim. It's a great trip.
16:22 "Here we've got some artwork courtesy of JJ... good work JJ"" has me rolling 🤣
Luleå is a Universitytown so many students. It is also where SSAB are located, one of the big steelmanufactors.
How do you not have 1 million + subscribers. Excellent content 🎉
Great video Steve, Now that's a journey that I would like to do. These trains are amazing and work in all weathers. Magical snow!!!!!
Stockholm Station Looks Amazing Steve
This is not something I say too often but those locos look absolutely gorgeous! That retro-European look is on point. Cheers for another super-enjoyable video. 😎
Couldn't agree more!
That morning light where you hopped off the train mid route was beautiful!
As a Swede and native Stockholmer I'm surprised anyone wants to try our trains. Usually not the proudest part of our nation. And to top it off, anyone saying coop at the central station has bargains is to say the least a first. But thank you for the video! ❤
hi Steve from Spain. As always, I am jealous.
We did this journey five years ago - it was quite eventful! Ice and snow, departure from Stockholm around three hours late, arrival in Luleå six hours late. Return later in the week, train didn't move from Luleå, cancelled at 4am and had to book flights with Norwegian - definitely an experience 😂
Nice one Steve. Brings back happy memories of that exact journey last summer but there is a massive difference between January and June! I'd suggest sleeping on the top bunk and using the lower one for all your baggage. I had two showers as I was keen to maximise value from the ticket.
Wuu Huue Thanx for the train journey, which I also have dreamed of for years. But too expensive.. So Thank you very much for taking us along and the best thing about your videos is that you record the live/real noices of every little thing. Like being there.. Wishing you a great journey further on - C, Denmark
I did that journey in August 1996 - hardly any darkness! It was a brilliant trip :-)
Well, the Norwegian State Railways(Vy) got you up there, whilst the Swedish State Railways (SJ) got the Oslo to Bodø line in Norway, at least they kept their old name SJ is hort for Statens Järnvägar(sState Railways), buut the Norwegian changed from NSB ,Norges Statsbaner (Norway's State Raiil-lines) to Vy (which means View)...
Around where I live in Norway, the Brits got the most of railways, Go Ahead got Oslo to Stavanger, and sidelines to Arendal and Egersund (all the other sidelines have closed down...),Columbus Traffic have got some train operations around Stavanger, the cast from Stavanger to Bergen is without a railway (look on the map to get that, just mountains and fjords).
It is strange, when I was a teenager I particularly loved going on the private passenger railways in Norway, there weren't many left, but a few, by the 1980's the NSB had taken over all of them, except the OfotenLine, (Kiruna -Narvik) which was at least half private.(Just as the 1852 line from Oslo to Mjøsa was half British owned 150 yers ago). When it all was state owned, with the Narvik exception, they had to let private operatots in. Cargo trains always had it's share of railways, but in the 1990s the EU, of which Norway is not a member mandated that all passenger traffic as well should be opened up to private operations).
By the way, christmas in Sweden lasts until 13th day of January, (20th day of christmas) in Norway there is discussion, as the king declared christmas to be over by the end of the 13th day of christmas, 6th of January, but some claim that it should be a week later.
We still have chritmas tree parties for kids in january, not to be confused with the mainly Swedish custom to "throw the christmas out on 13th of January'. From Swedish wikipedia: A Christmas tree looting , Knutsfest , Knutsdans or Christmas tree shaking is a tradition in connection with the end of Christmas, which involves, among other things, stripping and throwing out the Christmas tree as well as putting away Advent and Christmas things , which in Sweden often happens on the twentieth of Knut , which falls on January 13 . However, many Christmas tree raids are held on a nearby day. In older Swedish tradition, and in many places in Europe, Christmas ends a week earlier, after the Epiphany . The change in Sweden took place during the 17th century on the occasion of a church holiday with an eight-day post-festival
The tradition, which comes from the Nordic countries , has changed very little since the 1870s . Christmas tree looting was most common in the post-war period .
During the 20th century, twenty days Knut began to be associated with children and sweets. The Christmas tree was "looted" with goodies, which the children ate, and other Christmas tree decorations.
Your channel is giving me my post retirement to-do list. I will travel in your footsteps 🙏 keep your videos coming. Wishing you good fortune and good health 🙏
Great video Steve. I was fortunate enough to take the same train in Feb 2020 with a change at Boden C to Narvik. The iron ore line it takes between Kiruna and Narvik has some very interesting places to explore along the way and is the terrain is quite mountainous. Looking forward to watching your video of Luleå as considering a trip there soon. Keep up the good work and thanks.
17:36 That was a shock! I'd just looked away for a second and thought that I'd time travelled back to 1984 Steve with a fantastic mullet! 😲😂
Haha I wish! :D
Wonderful video Steve, as usual..Thank you for taking me along with you 🤗
For a very good value trip in the same type of sleeping car, with an Interrail pass, such a "1st class" sleeping car between Stockholm and Malmö (in an SJ train) is just 750 SEK, 67 €. But it is a very short journey, just some 7 h. Still, if one is on an Interrail trip and it fits one's schedule, a quite good solution. In the Malmö-Stockholm direction you arrive with ample time to catch the day ship to Turku, Finland. In the opposite direction, the day ship arrives with ample time to get to the station and take the night train to Malmö (which is very close to Copenhagen, in case someone isn't aware).
Before the era of European deregulation of airline monopolies, that's how everyone (except CEOs) travelled between Finland and Germany/Denmark/Malmö/Lund.
Helsinki and Stockholm were situated at the end of the world, not to mention more northern cities.
Nice one, as always!
Good on ya, taking the train to Luleå in stead of Narvik. I took this train from Narvik down to Stockholm just a few days ago and my replacement bus got stuck on a mountain pass waiting for the barriers to open. The train was meant to be waiting for us on the other side, but of course it had left when we arrived at the station in Abisko. I managed to rebook on the next train, which was scheduled 4 hours later, but ended up leaving with a delay of 2 hours, so I ended up arriving in Stockholm with a delay of about six hours. Now Vy say it may take about 8 to 10 weeks to get compensation.
On the same trip I took the night train from Helsinki to Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland. For a start, the cabins are more modern and roomier. The shower pressure's a lot better than what you showed us in the video. It also costs way less, but breakfast isn't included in the price. Unfortunately this train also incured a delay of about two hours, but I was able to claim compensation right away. VR responded within in the hour and wired the compensatory 50% of the ticket price within days. So comparing the two Lapland Express night trains, I'd say the Finnish is the better of the two. If it's not on your bucket list yet, Steve, put it on there.
Oh the derailment still having an impact eh! I’ll head a wee bit further north next week but I don’t get very far!
@@steve-marshthe weather hasn't been kind to the workers repairing the tracks, unfortunately.
I’m very impressed by your Swedish pronunciation, that’s not always the case with English speakers 😂 and you’re in luck (your unlucky) this winter has been the coldest and snowiest for quite some time
You really did miss out, the train ride from Kiruna to Narvik is epic! Stockholm to Luleå is mostly flat. Kiruna to Narvik is absolutely stunning even to someone from northern Sweden. Admittedly from the general area around Luleå, which is beautiful and special in its own right with the archipelago and extremes of the seasons.
No need to apologize for the "noises." It keeps it so real. I especially loved the squeaky snow. Brrrrr !!!
Brilliant, just had the notification, we'll be viewing your video tonight. Looking forward to this one.
Thank you ! I want to go on this journey now. I love the sound of snow crunching under foot. Have a wonderful day, and be safe.
The trip from Stockholm to Narvik is on my bucket list.... one day!!!
I don't know why you say it is chilly, I'm nice and warm watching. 🤣
The harsch, sweety Scottish accent! Immediately a subscriber! And a good story-teller too, mind you.
Fab! 16:30 the buttons are for wake-up alert (on the left) and to call for the train staff (green)
Ah. I had worked out the call train crew but couldn't remember what väckning was ....
Your a man after my own heart being early. I always think I've planned well ontime and end up being mega early!
Thank you for an absolutely wonderful video, which reminded me of my visits to Northern Sweden in 2015 and 2016! However I visited in April! Lulea is a wonderful place! I think I know what is going to be 'pretty special' about your 'wander'.
Haha you know it 😉
Another superb video Steve. I would definitely investigate using an Interrail ticket for some of these European train journeys. It can provide particularly cost effective in countries where trains are expensive, such as those in Scandinavia, Germany (and the UK!). A first class 10 days use in 2 months Interrail ticket currently costs about 500 pounds. It looks like that night train to Lulea could be got for 75 euro in a single ensuite cabin, plus a day of an Interrail ticket, so an effective cost of about 115 pounds, which would be quite a saving on the standard fare.
This is a very important point which seems to be ignored by a lot of UA-cam 'Train enthusisast' Vloggers.
Another brilliant adventure thanks Steve. The more sleeper train videos I watch, the more certain I am that I’m way too old for that mode of travel! Sleeps are insanely expensive-it’s the same here in Oz.
Great Video As Always Steve
Loved it Steve👌