Overnight Train to Sweden’s Arctic! (DELUXE Suite Review)
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- Опубліковано 20 гру 2022
- Time to take the most beautiful winter train ride I've ever taken, all from the comfort of a DELUXE First Class suite on the Vy Norrland Night Train up to Luleå.
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Journey Details:
Origin: Stockholms Centralstation
Destination: Luleå Centralstation
Company: Vy Nattåg
Train: SJ Rc6 + WL4 Sleeper
Accommodation: First Class Sleeper Cabin (L2)
Distance: 1065 kilometres / 662 miles
Price: 2547 SEK (£204.90 / €234.00 / $233.10)
Time: 13h15m -7 minutes early
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What's the furthest NORTH you've been on a train? Tell me in the replies, and I'll try to visit your favourites! 👇💬
Rovaniemi, Finland.
Aberdeen, British Empire
Kiruna, Sweden
That must be the station near Holmenkollen skijump on the Oslo Metro.
Kiel, Germany
I appreciate your dedication to the pronunciation of place names everywhere you go. Mind you, I usually have no idea how accurate you are, but you certainly make an effort.
It is the most enjoyable bit of the videos
I as a Swedish person can say that to be an English-speaking person, he is close. Yeah, it sounds different of course, compared to a Swedish person saying them. But I also like his dedication to the pronunciation of different or other city names, I also like his effort, to be so great.
I can see that he is so great, so I wonder how he learns it. Via Google Translates speak button. (Copying the city name into Google Translate in Swedish then translating it to English, and then pressing the voice to speak button. So the AI reads what you have written.)
@@budapestkeleti6404 I agree!☺😉
But plsss never do it in French it’s a not worth it language
@@BsBsBock French is a good language. English largely derives from French, but that Office National de Chémin de Fer wasn't that great. It will be better next time
10:30 The pronunciation of the city of Skellefteå: you _nailed_ it. Well done. In fact, as a Sweden living up here in the north, I validate that the whole video is extremely accurate.
Kanske inte det bästa på alla andra dock 😅
@@lennard076 Kanske det men hans uttal är tio gånger bättre än vad jag förväntar mig från denna sorts video.
@@unclear6055 sant
shoundlnt that be "Skellefte"? :D
@@skemtarn So true ;-) Or "staaan".
As a Swede I really appreciate the accuracy of your Swedish pronunciations ☺️
Ah, Bastuträsk, that brings back memories. I used to take that train when I did my military service (Boden was heavily garrisoned back in the day) and due to our schedule we rarely went by the trains specifically chartered by the military. But if they had one thing in common, it was that they could get stuck along the route. And if that happened, it was almost always in Bastuträsk.
What i love about our main station in Stockholm is that the concourse part used to be the platform area, but as the city grew we just kinda moved the tracks elsewhere and kept the old part as an indoor area. (Also dug a subway and now a commuter train station underneath)
Not really true though. The concourse is located where the tracks used to be, but the station hall is a “new” build from 1927.
Made a video about it a few years ago, although from a bit of a geeky outlook. (And before the new underground Stockholm City commuter station was opened)
ua-cam.com/video/hqRPqhGTTXk/v-deo.html
Much Older than The Narrative.
Your pronunciation of the Swedish towns/villages is great :) just recently I took this train to Boden and then switched to the one going to Narvik (hopped off at Abisko). As someone living in the northern parts of Sweden it's fun to see someone traveling with the train going up north!
Det kan jag inte påstå. Krona låter som han säger Corona, Stockhulm(?)
@@F0nkyNinja pretty sure he is from Britain which are the worst in foreign languages in Europe so I still find it amazing
Even most Germans wouldn't manage to make it that good and they atlest have pretty much all letters and sounds required to speak Swedish
Excluding the R which is pronounced completely different
@@meki___6881 If you think he's from Britain then you are horribly mistaken as you can clearly hear his Dutch accent.
That being said, he might be living in the UK at the moment. Or he's been living there recently.
But it's evident that his native tongue is of Germanic origin.
What a beautiful station. As an immigrant born in Germany, now in Canada, Christmas always felt extra special in Europe.
If you were born in a particular country how can you be an immigrant. Unless you mean your parents moved from another country to Germany.
@@jimshelley8831 I think what he means is that he is an immigrant to Canada, as he was born in Germany but doesn't live there now anymore.
10:47 most abanadoned older stations usually have the upkeep of some association that has taken upon themselfs to care for the building because of the historical value
It's so nice to see someone take the time to learn how to pronounce our words! Sure, it wasn't 100%, but it was loads better than everything else I've seen! Thank you for caring enough to look into this sort of stuff!
As a student who’s taken this exact route, most recently a couple days ago, it’s nice seeing what it’s like riding first class and actually going to the restaurant car instead of bringing food along :P
I used to live in Boden,Kiruna, svappavaara and we went to Luleå at times... such great memories.
Will always remember the summer camp I went to as a kid with my siblings.
The north of Sweden is special...people are more relaxed and the seasons are true to their name.
Now I live in Örebro-kommun (central sweden) and I miss the north...perhaps its childhood nostalgia but hope to revisit it one day.
Thank you for re-awakening old memories...gosh I miss those times.
What a stunning scenery! I took the sleeper train to Narvik this October, going a bit off-season. After Boden, I had the entire 6-bunk shared compartment for myself! Riding through these vast landscapes on the cozy sofa with crackling heaters is a truly unforgettable experience.
That sounds amazing, I definitely want to do the Narvik route one day... :)
@@SuperalbsTravels Hello 🙂 Just wanna say that u did a great video & very good at pronounce swedish name of the places 👏 You also have a nice voice 🙂 🌺
It's totally not confusing how Vy, a Norwegian train operator, runs trains entirely in Sweden, and how SJ, a Swedish train operator, runs trains entirely in Sweden
Do you mean Norway for SJ? :P
Actually Vy runs almost all arctic trains in north of Sweden because they also, as a standard, go to some larger cities in Norway and vice versa. In addition, some railways in Norway’s travel network is not electrified yet. Since SJ have made a pledge that all our domestic travel will be by 100% reusable energy we can’t travel everywhere where diesel trains are needed. Therefore, SJ still have some travels to and from Norway while Norway have some travels to and from Sweden
It also has some to do with the incorporation of swedish railways. There’s a lot of it actually and my english vocabulary doesn’t extend that far
@@klimatsabeltand4780 That makes it ironic that when they won the bid for the "North" part of the Norwegian railroad network, they ended up with the only diesel-powered lines we have (Dombås-Åndalsnes, Trondheim-Bodø and Trondheim-Røros-Hamar).
@@TorIverWilhelmsen Haha yes actually did not know that, thank you!
having watched many of your videos, no matter what country you are in you seem to pronounce the various cities perfectly. Very impressive, from Turkey to Sweden and everywhere you go.
Wow, it's so amazing how your editing style and attention to detail are. It is a joy to watch your train travel reports. Amazing that you take the time to do animations to explain even the ownership history. You really deserve more subscribers. Cheers mate!
I'm not particularly interested in trains and travel vlogs, but this video got recommended to me and I watched the whole thing regardless. Your style of video is good balance of interesting, fun and relaxing and I must give props for the excellent pronounciation of swedish words and place names. I'm glad you enjoyed my motherland and our trains.
Your pronouciation of swedish names are probably the best i've heard on the Internet, well done and great vid.
As a Swede, I can confirm that it is a generally very expensive country, and train travel is generally extremely expensive a lot of the time unless you can find a really good deal on a ticket. I live outside of Gothenburg and used to travel to Stockholm on a regular basis and there were times where I saw tickets for upwards of 800kr for a one way ticket in second class, it’s a journey that by X2000 takes less than 3 hours! When I saw such prices I just shook my head and muttered that I just wanted to purchase a ticket, not the whole damn train!
20 years ago that singel ticket, Gothenburg - Stockholm, price first was 500, the doubled to 1000. Paying 800 today is a surprise.
@@Stefan_Boerjesson I used to avoid SJ when I went to Stockholm just because of how overpriced they were even on SJ Regional (that are awful to travel with and takes too long) so I’d go with MTR Express instead where I’d sometimes get at least one of my tickets for less than 300kr (usually the ticket to Stockholm) and the trip back home would often be about 500kr. SJ on the same days around the same time would be significantly more expensive even on Regional. I haven’t been to Stockholm for little over 3 years now though so wouldn’t be surprised if the prices have gone up since
@@Stefan_Boerjesson You can get a ticket on X2000 between Gothenburg - Stockholm for less than 300 SEK if you book a month in advance.
@@zerocool6452 Thanks for the tip!
This was so comforting and relaxing thank you :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Cozy train, cozy video! And thanks for putting an effort into pronouncing our cities. Love from Sweden!
Luleå is quite a bit south of the Arctic circle so it is technically not in the Arctic. The service was much better when SJ operated it. When VY took over prices almost doubled and extreme delays became the norm. The carriages ar also starting to be very worn. With the high prices and poor on time record you are much better off taking the plane and paying for an extra night in a hotel.
Luleå ligger bara 13 mil söder om polcirkeln.
Not exactly 1:st class feeling in this train....
You're welcome back anytime!
It’s awesome that you are making videos in Sweden, great video btw🇸🇪
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. More to come soon... :)
@@SuperalbsTravels alright I’m waiting
I’m glad you enjoyed our country! And your Swedish pronunciation was very well done!
You did very good at pronouncing the names of our various towns and stations :) I appreciate the effort!
pronunciation dude... WOW!!! So nice to hear! ALL the love!
I enjoy your videos as I'm a rail fan too but most important thing about your videos is that you always give very good description about the history and good information... Which makes it even more interesting ... Regards from Goa/ India
The sunrise and the dawn sky and snowy landscape was spectacular
I know right! A journey to remember... :)
Just a quick FYI, the only trains that stop at the underground station at Stockholm Central (known as Stockholm City) are the SL commuter trains (the blue and white X60s). All other trains, including the more long-distance commuter trains, stop at the overground station.
Awesome train! And awesome video!
I took a nighttrain last summer from Kiruna to Stockholm, it's like I am back for a short while 🤗 thanks for the nice video.
Very well presented to the delight of UA-camr viewers. I had worked with Ericsson Talipon Malaysia during the 70s for 10 years. The name Stockholm, Gothenburg were very familiar to me but I have never been to Sweden.....😥😥
Do visit some day! We would be glad to have you here 😊
Really enjoyed that, think that the price considering the distance, the room rates in Sweden, and the exclusive comfort is actually really good. This is on my list. Happy Christmas !!!
Thanks, and you! :)
In the summer this train can be worth to take even on the most cheapest seats, especially the later train going southbound. Because then you will have sunlight pretty much the whole way and you can witness the beautiful mountains and fjords from the train. Did that back in June 2019 and it was amazing. (Got no sleep though but with the view I saw, yep still worth it)
Sounds cool, I bet it's a different experience in summer, as there's no snow! :)
@@SuperalbsTravels It's also because in the middle of summer, the sun never goes down in northern Sweden. :) it just hangs on the horizon, still visible, until it goes back up again ^^
Great to watch! Cheers from Sweden!
Great trip, and great pronunciation for every location and companies.
Thank you! :)
Glad you think it's nice in Sweden, hope the trip was something you'll remember.
The train you traveled with is also called the norrlan train.
You are right about one thing, they built the train because it would last for many years, they live on overtime, but it still runs.
Hope you will visit us again.
How you name the different cities are great! :) You pronounce 'em just right!
Nice video.
I travelled that train 15 years ago to Bastutrask before getting a connecting bus to Skelleftea. Certainly seems to have been upgraded since then. I had a 3 birth sleeper compartment with toilets but the showers were at the end of the carriage.
I agree with other comments.Fantastic that you attempt to use local language in your travels.Very pleasing thing to see.
Thank you! 😃
I am very impressed by your knowledge of Sweden and its history :D thank you for the esthetic video
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for sharing this experience! I'll be taking this train in a few month, however, heading to Narvik! It'll be interesting to see the difference in temperature and weather as I'll be there in Spring :)
Hey, look at that....the old country (Glasgow since 2001)!
Excellent pronunciation on the names, well done! 👍🏻👌🏼👏🏻
The furthest north that I've been is Narvik in Norway.....
it really shows that you did your homework here, the pronounciations were essentially perfect!
Love your vids, like a holiday from the comfort of my lounge chair. Thanks and enjoying all the experiences. Come and see our dodgy trains in Australia!
So beautiful, thanks for sharing! 👍
Thanks for watching! :)
This is my new vacation trip.
Hope you enjoy yourself! ☺
Great video! I find it kind of funny that when you say "occasional frozen lakes too" you're actually passing over part of a river. The construction crane you can see centre-left in view is renovating a powerplant in the Skellefte river.
Ooh, thanks for the correction. :)
Such beautiful Christmas lights
They are! It's an amazing looking station.
I took the same train from Luleå to Stockholm last spring. Really nice with good food and beer! Quite expensive, but for me as Swede living in Värmland, it was great to see the rural North in daylight and having my own little "bedroom".
Brilliant video as usual 👍👍👍
Thanks again!
Loved the views, looking forward to my trip 🌔
Can't wait for your video too! ☺
Thankfully, passenger trains are soon to arrive in Skellefteå (along with some other coastal cities) when the new Norrbotnia corridor is built!
Will that one be double tracked?
@@macjonte no, in practice it will function as a double track to the current railway, with most passenger trains running along the coast with the old alignment being mostly used by goods trains. The predicted passenger numbers aren’t enough to justify building double track. Just like it’s southern cousin, the bothnia railway. It was built for basically the same reason about a decade ago running along the coast connecting Sundsvall, Örnsköldsvik and Umeå along others. It too was built single tracked and it seems to have worked out. The norrbotnia railway will have two tracks at all of its stations meaning that there probably won’t be any problems unless a train is severely delayed.
@@gustavsturksteinwall4027
Thanks for good reply.
Too bad I think, trains on single tracks are much more prone to delays if out if schedule.
Well soon is a bit optimistic. It's going to take many years, even without delays.
@@Kletterhaus yeah it’s a shame
vrolijk kerstfeest en een gelukkig nieuwjaar
Dankjewel, en jij! :)
I love this train Journey and have Done it several times. Hope it gets cheaper so i can visit my grandparents more
Loved the video. Will visit for sure.
Awesome, I hope you enjoy the ride... :)
Super video 👍
didnt think i would end up here. but this was a very good vid! now i need to check out more! and you pronounciantion of swedish words was top draw
This brings memories of my last trip to Abisko. The more you move further North the less people occupy the train. I find the Bistro super good.
nice train video
Thanks for very great and very interesting stories. Very nice details and information (for all) wat for a train (from ... to ...) comnpany history and the cost for journey and any further.
And happy Christmas to you
Love your video 👍👍
Thank you 😁
Amazing trip.
Amazing😀 Thanks for sharing I would really explore this region in Winter Maybe next January 2024 Will be great to enjoy Nature Beauty there. Best Wishes from STOCKHOLM - SWEDEN ⛄⛄⛄❄
Always love it seeing people be in the same area as me(I live between Härnösand, Kramfors and Örnsköldsvik)
Awesome, I must have gone through there in my sleep!
Welcome to Sweden bro
Thank you! :)
Beautiful country!❤
Agreed!! 😍
Im from Luleå, but i live in south near stockholm since 2004, Ive taken this ride more times than i can count although i did it in a seated chair,not sleep cabin. Your back was killing you but hey ,it was fun haha. very nice to see this train route from a different perspective.
I take this train every year when I go visit family in my hometown of Haparanda. You were lucky to not be delayed. One time we were delayed by over 10 hours because of a bunch of different issues.
1:18 The plaque says "The Swedish railway union´s gift during the SJ 100 year anniversary 1956."
I BOARDED THIS TRAIN TO KIRUNA WAS GREAT JOURNEY
I have taken this train from my hometown of Luleå to Stockholm and back many times since 2012 for conventions, visiting friends and festivals. I have tried the sitting cart (most of the times), laying cart? (Ligg vagn) (every now and then) and the first class suit by chance. They all are pretty okay and you meet very social and interesting people while traveling. The longest train ride I have been on so far in Sweden is Luleå to Malmö which takes about 19 hours including a layover in Stockholm to switch trains. I recommend to take the train during the summer (in June). You will see a lot more of the landscape because of the midnight sun.
Me and some friends recently took this train all the way to Kiruna, so even further North, and it was an amazing experience.
We only managed to get basic seats even when we booked over a month in advance because most spots were already full, but thankfully we did manage to get a spot with a table after asking a few passengers if they were willing to swap seats with us.
Sleeping was definitely a challenge in those seats (though a part of that will have been that we're not used to it at all), but apart from that the journey was great.
Sitting with the other passengers was great, while playing some very bureaucratic monopoly we met some Italian guys that were going all the way to the end of the line all the way in Norway, had a great chat with them.
The food was also very nice (except for maybe the chicken salad thing, it was more of a sad than a salad), some very unique things I hadn't seen before, if all a bit expensive (but then if you're going on a journey there a bit of money for some food isn't a huge deal).
The part I think I loved the most was going all the way to the very back of the train and watching out of the rear window as the train went through many tunnels and bends in Northern Sweden in a beautiful sunset, it'll be long before I forget that view (though it doesn't beat the views from the area we hiked in over there).
We were going to take the way back in a sleeping cabin, but sadly we had to take a plane as another train derailed because of the massive storm going on in middle Sweden at that time so our rescheduled ticket would've caused us to miss our connection back home.
I'd definitely recommend taking the journey there, the way there is a very unique experience, there's a beautiful hiking trail there, and there's also a surprising amount of stuff you can do in / around the city of Kiruna. Maybe at some point I'll do it again.
Lovely
Very cozy!
Sure is, definitely when you turn the heating on anyway! :)
Awesome video
Thank you!
I was close to taking this train back in Januari when I needed a passport and the passport line was 8 months long, except for up in the city of Haparanda on the Swedish-Finnish border.
great video
That seems like a nice ride. I will test that when i visit Luleå next time.
Awesome, hope you enjoy!
Impressed with your pronounciations
Thank you!
I would like to point out that the reason the 80's Rc6 is the one pulling you along this trip is that Sweden really doesn't have any decent alternative locomotives or trains capable of doing that harsh journey to the north. If the weather turns sour, any other train on offering would have to "pull over".
Yes, there are some locomotives that would still make the trip. But those are slower and/or not available to this operator.
Either way, those RcX locomotives might be old, but they have been continually upgraded through the years and they are super reliable, cheap and easy to maintain. So are their wagons.
They were built in Sweden for Sweden and have rarely let the Swedes down unlike all attempts at replacing them.
Greetings from Boden! (it's get even nicer when we get a little more snow!) :)
Often the old unused station are used as normal houses to live in.
Yo Happy you enjoyed ur stay or place in Sweden nice for you to try and pronounce most things yo went past my town
About Bastuträsk: In the Norther part of Sweden (as well as, for some odd reason, Gotland in the Baltics) träsk means lake.
Så it is really Sauna Lake. Still funny for us southerners however. 🙂
Great video
Thank you!
This summer I went on the same route you did here, but from Umeå to Uppsala, it was also train 92!
14:00 JV GRILLEN! Best burgers in Luleå!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
07:15 the plastic bag ''bins'' are also popular in Finnish trains :)
greetings from luleå! my brother works at the trains up here
It's weird seeing my hometown Luleå in a yt video
Great video! This is a train I have traveled with numerous times as a large part of my family live in Älvsbyn and anoraker part close to Bastuträsk! The furthest north I have been on a train is to Björkliden and Abisko on Malmbanan (Iron Ore Line)
Sounds like good fun then!
My first trip up to luleå was actually also in the first class cabin (since that was the only one available) and it feels weirdly bizarre to see the same thing I've been in irl on video. Also showering on a train was really cool lol.
You didn't have to nail the names of the localities but you certainly did a good job haha. It's rare that Norrland gets any attention from other countries when Sweden is brought up, so It was a very strange feeling seeing a place like Vindeln being in the video.
Maybe you should have gone Stockholm-Narvik. Especially the strech Abisko-Narvik is absolutely magical
Hopefully one day... :)
Umeå represent!
This is the train I use every time I want to go home to visit my parents!
Awesome, do you enjoy it?! :)
@@SuperalbsTravels Yes, it's comfortable and the schedule suits me.
1:40 Impressive!, correct pronunciation on the umlaut (the 'ö') for Malmö and Göteborg.