It’s getting a little bit better now. Poeple arent talking about it as much, restrictions in Europe and The UK are lifting and in a year or two hopefully it’ll all just be a distant memory, we’ll forget that it ever happened, that our lives stopped for a few months because yes it might have been a few months but in 2022 that was years away, years of more exciting things... ups and downs have passed since then and we can live our lives happily again
Point de vue d'un conducteur de train : L'AM96 est simplement mon matériel préféré! L'ergonomie du poste de conduite est la meilleure de tout le matériel SNCB (même comparé aux engins plus récents!), le confort du conducteur ne pourrait être amélioré que par l'adjonction d'accoudoirs à son siège (comme dans les Désiros), l'automotrice est puissante en accélération et freine extrêmement bien par tous les temps, et c'est un matériel fiable dont le dépannage est très simple (la conception est très "terre à terre", sans raffinement superflu sujet aux pannes, très "école française", loin des délires technoïdes de Siemens ^^). Seuls reproche (à part le manque d'accoudoir du siège conducteur) : la suspension n'aime pas les mouvements latéraux, et ça tape dur dans les aiguillages limités à 40km/h, même à 30... PS : l'aménagement intérieur est identique à celui des voitures I11, qui sont de la même génération.
How nostalgic. I studied at Lille University from '69 to '72. I used to travel on Le Mongy to see my girl-friend. Happy days, long ago [Le Mongy est le nom du tramway qui relie Lille à Roubaix et Tourcoing].
Maybe 1 more thing that was worth to show, 1 of the greatest advantages of the AM96. When leaving the toilet, you pointed the camera to a green door. Depending in which trainset you are, you can just open it and pass to the next trainset. The font of the train is pushed aside, so there's the possibilty to pass. You should certainly come over to Belgium again to try the newest M7 carriages. Really comfy and they have power outlet at the seat, even in 2nd class!
An amazing trip report like alwsys🔥🔥 It's just amazing how open this side of the station is as if it's a bus station. Just enter and there are the tracks.
TIP: You forgot to mention that if 2x MS96 are coupled, you can usually walk between them through the cabins. It says NO ENTRANCE, but next time when you are on a coupled MS96 train, try it! You have 99% chance that the doors will be open, and you can walk through to the other train :)
@@Skate771parts yes! The Danish IC3 was the original ABB Scandia design that incorporated this rubbery front and the walk-through feature, and they reproduced the concept in the AM96 and many other units, like the RENFE 594 class which can be found in my country (altough they have been refurbished recently, and they no longer have the distinct rubbery front anymore). It's a fantastic unit.
Wow! The words train set bring back memories of my childhood. I associate the words train set with a model railway. train set noun 1. a set of railway wagons or carriages, often with a locomotive, coupled together for a particular service. 2. BRITISH a set of trains, tracks, and other items making up a child's model railway.
Did you know that the front facade of the Lille Flandres was originally the front of Paris Gare du Nord? They took it apart and moved it to Lille when Gare du Nord was expanded.
The seats remind me of the New Haven Railroad cars from 1934 built by Osgood Bradley. They are commonly referred to as "American Flyer" cars because the American toy maker A. C. Gilbert made models of these cars.
These have been my favourite model for a very long time now :) Usually these are the ones I have to take when I visit my parents and high school best friend. And they're also the ones that took me home most weekends when I studied in college. They're very comfortable indeed, and the atmosphere inside is very pleasant, I find most of the other models are a bit too grey. I hope they never get rid of the pink and blue in the interior!
Oh and in belgium only FEW trains have automatic announcement. But in Belgium they mostly use Conductor announcement. But the most common train with automatic announcement is our MS08 ( Desiro ). But SOME times they also do condctor announcement, but thats rare if it happens. And when ur on the Desiro, you always know at wich station you are. The automatic announcement says at wich station you are once the door are opened
thanks for the train report! I use these trains often. Like these trains than the double deckers when it comes to space for luggage etc. Many train toilets and trash cans are full and diry sometimes. Depends on the civic behaviour of the passengers as well.
@Mercedes Marlene Villena Cassal . I did not see any Dutch double deckers in the video. I saw a French double decker standing at Lille Flanders station while departing. Though the Netherlands have a lot of double deckers used within the country. The Belgian double deckers are nice as well ( I use a lot, travelling to Brussels, Ghent cities)
Don't try the AM08 Desiro if you don't want to be let down by SNCB seating... AM96 is great, but the single doors and overcapacity of first-class seats (1/3 of the train) makes it not very practical on busy routes with a lot of stops. Great for quiet rural routes though!
Suggestion: to aid readability of subtitles, ensure sufficient contrast between the color of the text and the background. Also, I'd recommend two rows not three, or have it shown for a greater duration. Thanks for making the video, I enjoyed riding along with you.
There ARE power outlets in these carriages: 4 per carriage, 2 at either end (above the seat next to the sliding doors). It's ery little and largely insufficient, granted, but at least you have a chance to use them if the train is not full, as was your case.
Hallo! Mijn naam is. That’s obvious. To refer to a French station as a “Gare” is quite appropriate when writing in English. Just like calling a German station a “Bahnhof”. One thing that makes English the world language is that it happily steals words from everywhere.
From 12th December 2022 the IC trains Mons (BE) - Aulnoye (FR) are canceled and probably the same for IC Namur-Charleroi-Maubeuge. Hurry if you want to travel on board or take a picture of AM 96 in Aulnoye station and in Maubeuge station.
These trains are also used on the line Lille (/Poperinge) - Ghent - Antwerp. I don't like the seats here. They are always full of stains! I prefer the grey seats that you show in other videos.
Wished I resided in Europe. Boy I am jealous. Love trains. We really don’t have them in USA. I mean we have Amtrak but that’s so so. And not like Europe.
Chose assez drôle à savoir la section Lille Tournais est bien opéré par la SNCF avec du matériel belge qui continue plus loin que tournai en changeant de code mission...
AM96s are dated when it comes to modern accessibility features (disabled people, bikes !!!, plugs,...) but other than that they remain the best rolling stock the SNCB has in my opinion. Great seating, very silent, good air conditioning, great performance from a driver point of view (albeit with some leaky/windy cockpits) and the convenient coupling that allows one large uninterrupted EMU even with 9 cars. SNCB should have ordered a massive amount of them back in the days, they would have been great to replace M4 cars on a lot of Peak and IC services. They could have replaced all the non-A/C AM75s and 80s. But hey... decades of underfunding :(
someone is impressed by belgian trains that will be the first. the next time you should take the train to courtrai. The announcement in courtrai will suddenly be in dutch because it is a flemmish city. the same happens when you travel from bruges to liege. dutch until brussels both languages in brussels dutch until louvin and then only french to liege.
Yes, we do the same with our highway signs. This is more of a political issue than an SNCB/NMBS issue. If you're in Flanders looking for directions to Mons, you need to be following 'Bergen', until the linguistic frontier, when all the signs start saying 'Mons'. Another confusing one is 'Lille', which is referred to as 'Rijsel' in Flanders.
Yeah, it can sometimes be kafkaïen. Once I went from Brussels (biliingual) to Liege (French speaking). Because of technical problems, we had to change trains in Leuven (Dutch speaking) At which point, instructions were given in Dutch to explain to the 90+% French speaking people in the train how to continue their journey. Not that it mattered, I do understand Dutch enough for that and even if I didn't, I just had to follow everyone like a good sheep but still it shows how we're walking on eggshells when it comes to territorial language in Belgium...
one of the nicknames for the AM96 is actually Danish Nose due to the rubber seal on the front of the train which is taken from the model you are referring to.
Le meilleur matériel SNCB , comparés aux désiros qui sont de vraies merdes pour les voyageurs et en fiabilité, a savoir que 1 prise dans chaque 2iéme classe, qui sert a brancher l'aspirateur pour nettoyer le train ^^
(Sorry late coment, and this is what i THINK) I think Belgium (SNCF , NMBS ) is only making their trains clean at night. Wich means, when passengers do some papers in the trash can, but the train goes another service it wil stay in it cuz Belgium only cleans their trains at night I THINK
@@dedewx9550 op Oostende - Eupen wel, in Oostende legen ze altijd de vuilbakjes dan gaat er iemand door heel de trein, allee heb ik toch altijd zien gebeuren.. 😀
Well this trip is entirely on French speaking land (in both France and the Walloon region in Belgium) and the UA-camr is French so it's 100% logical to use the French name, SNCB.
The good old days, when the world was still normal, just as was travelling by train and cross-border... 😥
It’s getting a little bit better now. Poeple arent talking about it as much, restrictions in Europe and The UK are lifting and in a year or two hopefully it’ll all just be a distant memory, we’ll forget that it ever happened, that our lives stopped for a few months because yes it might have been a few months but in 2022 that was years away, years of more exciting things... ups and downs have passed since then and we can live our lives happily again
Willem Bruins i get u
It's 2024 and the world is back to "normal" : a few wars here and there, Trump trying to become president again, the usual ...
Point de vue d'un conducteur de train : L'AM96 est simplement mon matériel préféré!
L'ergonomie du poste de conduite est la meilleure de tout le matériel SNCB (même comparé aux engins plus récents!), le confort du conducteur ne pourrait être amélioré que par l'adjonction d'accoudoirs à son siège (comme dans les Désiros), l'automotrice est puissante en accélération et freine extrêmement bien par tous les temps, et c'est un matériel fiable dont le dépannage est très simple (la conception est très "terre à terre", sans raffinement superflu sujet aux pannes, très "école française", loin des délires technoïdes de Siemens ^^).
Seuls reproche (à part le manque d'accoudoir du siège conducteur) : la suspension n'aime pas les mouvements latéraux, et ça tape dur dans les aiguillages limités à 40km/h, même à 30...
PS : l'aménagement intérieur est identique à celui des voitures I11, qui sont de la même génération.
moi aussi je les aime bien
Je faisait la navette anvers-bruxelles fin 90 débuts 2000
En tant que passager, C'était mon train favoris!
How nostalgic. I studied at Lille University from '69 to '72. I used to travel on Le Mongy to see my girl-friend. Happy days, long ago
[Le Mongy est le nom du tramway qui relie
Lille à Roubaix et Tourcoing].
Mongy est le nom de la personne qui a créé le boulevard entre Lille roubaix et Tourcoing
Et non pas le tramway
I love this train ive been in it my whole life since im belgian
Maybe 1 more thing that was worth to show, 1 of the greatest advantages of the AM96. When leaving the toilet, you pointed the camera to a green door. Depending in which trainset you are, you can just open it and pass to the next trainset. The font of the train is pushed aside, so there's the possibilty to pass.
You should certainly come over to Belgium again to try the newest M7 carriages. Really comfy and they have power outlet at the seat, even in 2nd class!
2:56 I usually sit in that little box if I take those trains
+ bonus: the best engine sound 😍 !
An amazing trip report like alwsys🔥🔥
It's just amazing how open this side of the station is as if it's a bus station. Just enter and there are the tracks.
It was all so lively. I hope people stop being afraid and bring back these days. They weren't perfect, but they were a lot better.
Pour les prises, c'est aux extrémités des voitures et en hauteur (prévues pour le nettoyage de base) ;) Petite astuce pour la prochaine fois.
The M96 is an awesome train(I travelled with it 2 days ago). My favourite thing is the beautifal accelaration noise.
Totally agree
TIP: You forgot to mention that if 2x MS96 are coupled, you can usually walk between them through the cabins. It says NO ENTRANCE, but next time when you are on a coupled MS96 train, try it! You have 99% chance that the doors will be open, and you can walk through to the other train :)
You can do that on the Danish IC3 and IR4's as well
@@Skate771parts The AM96 is a cousin of the IR4. They share a lot of parts.
@@Skate771parts yes! The Danish IC3 was the original ABB Scandia design that incorporated this rubbery front and the walk-through feature, and they reproduced the concept in the AM96 and many other units, like the RENFE 594 class which can be found in my country (altough they have been refurbished recently, and they no longer have the distinct rubbery front anymore). It's a fantastic unit.
Wow! The words train set bring back memories of my childhood. I associate the words train set with a model railway.
train set
noun
1.
a set of railway wagons or carriages, often with a locomotive, coupled together for a particular service.
2.
BRITISH
a set of trains, tracks, and other items making up a child's model railway.
I've been IN THE AM96 LIKE 50 TIMES IN MY LIFE NOW SINCE LIVE IN belgium I go in the train every single day
there are 2 power sockets per carriage in the AM96 both in a corner above the seat
at each end of the carriage
Les prises de courant se trouvent en hauteur à chaque extrémité de compartiment.
Did you know that the front facade of the Lille Flandres was originally the front of Paris Gare du Nord? They took it apart and moved it to Lille when Gare du Nord was expanded.
Yes I knew later. It's exciting right :)
The seats remind me of the New Haven Railroad cars from 1934 built by Osgood Bradley. They are commonly referred to as "American Flyer" cars because the American toy maker A. C. Gilbert made models of these cars.
Exactly my thoughts about this train as your thoughts!!! Great minds think alike !!!
Thank you for sharing!!! :):):)
These have been my favourite model for a very long time now :) Usually these are the ones I have to take when I visit my parents and high school best friend. And they're also the ones that took me home most weekends when I studied in college.
They're very comfortable indeed, and the atmosphere inside is very pleasant, I find most of the other models are a bit too grey. I hope they never get rid of the pink and blue in the interior!
these are my favorites 😍 they are just confortable and silent
In the UK we never have the personal bins, the bins are always in the door area or cafe area
Sorry for the late reaction, loved the vid! Btw, the AM96 does have power outlets. They're located close to the Doors in the seating area.
Oh and in belgium only FEW trains have automatic announcement.
But in Belgium they mostly use Conductor announcement. But the most common train with automatic announcement is our MS08 ( Desiro ).
But SOME times they also do condctor announcement, but thats rare if it happens. And when ur on the Desiro, you always know at wich station you are. The automatic announcement says at wich station you are once the door are opened
The equipment they've modernised in recent years also has the ability for automatic announcements. That is, if they got the equipment to work.
idk why but seeing someone review the train i take almost daily to go to school and such, it just feels weird haha
Those Miami Vice colors tho...🤯
thanks for the train report! I use these trains often. Like these trains than the double deckers when it comes to space for luggage etc. Many train toilets and trash cans are full and diry sometimes. Depends on the civic behaviour of the passengers as well.
@Mercedes Marlene Villena Cassal . I did not see any Dutch double deckers in the video. I saw a French double decker standing at Lille Flanders station while departing. Though the Netherlands have a lot of double deckers used within the country. The Belgian double deckers are nice as well ( I use a lot, travelling to Brussels, Ghent cities)
Very nice stabilisation
C'est vrai qu'elles sont bien les AM96 ;)
Don't try the AM08 Desiro if you don't want to be let down by SNCB seating... AM96 is great, but the single doors and overcapacity of first-class seats (1/3 of the train) makes it not very practical on busy routes with a lot of stops. Great for quiet rural routes though!
I agree
Suggestion: to aid readability of subtitles, ensure sufficient contrast between the color of the text and the background. Also, I'd recommend two rows not three, or have it shown for a greater duration. Thanks for making the video, I enjoyed riding along with you.
There ARE power outlets in these carriages: 4 per carriage, 2 at either end (above the seat next to the sliding doors). It's ery little and largely insufficient, granted, but at least you have a chance to use them if the train is not full, as was your case.
City in Belgium is beautiful town.
My fave French gare!
I think of trains in Belgium like 10 year old busses.
Efficient but often empty.
Excuse me - that is a hateful remark.
Michael Bruchas I agree. Lots of comments are by people who are not native English speakers. But everyone is communicating very well.👍🇳🇿
Hallo! Mijn naam is. That’s obvious.
To refer to a French station as a “Gare” is quite appropriate when writing in English. Just like calling a German station a “Bahnhof”.
One thing that makes English the world language is that it happily steals words from everywhere.
I love bombardier! Very nice company
Great video !!
SNCB looks great, they just need to sort their website out - at least it isn't as bad as SNCF's...
From 12th December 2022 the IC trains Mons (BE) - Aulnoye (FR) are canceled and probably the same for IC Namur-Charleroi-Maubeuge. Hurry if you want to travel on board or take a picture of AM 96 in Aulnoye station and in Maubeuge station.
These trains are also used on the line Lille (/Poperinge) - Ghent - Antwerp. I don't like the seats here. They are always full of stains! I prefer the grey seats that you show in other videos.
Wished I resided in Europe. Boy I am jealous. Love trains. We really don’t have them in USA. I mean we have Amtrak but that’s so so. And not like Europe.
Simply aviation
There ares plugs above the four seats place in the train ;)
Beautiful travel.
Chose assez drôle à savoir la section Lille Tournais est bien opéré par la SNCF avec du matériel belge qui continue plus loin que tournai en changeant de code mission...
Génial. Ça m'a plu. J'aimerais en voir plus!
AM96s are dated when it comes to modern accessibility features (disabled people, bikes !!!, plugs,...) but other than that they remain the best rolling stock the SNCB has in my opinion. Great seating, very silent, good air conditioning, great performance from a driver point of view (albeit with some leaky/windy cockpits) and the convenient coupling that allows one large uninterrupted EMU even with 9 cars.
SNCB should have ordered a massive amount of them back in the days, they would have been great to replace M4 cars on a lot of Peak and IC services. They could have replaced all the non-A/C AM75s and 80s. But hey... decades of underfunding :(
someone is impressed by belgian trains that will be the first. the next time you should take the train to courtrai. The announcement in courtrai will suddenly be in dutch because it is a flemmish city. the same happens when you travel from bruges to liege. dutch until brussels both languages in brussels dutch until louvin and then only french to liege.
Yes, we do the same with our highway signs. This is more of a political issue than an SNCB/NMBS issue. If you're in Flanders looking for directions to Mons, you need to be following 'Bergen', until the linguistic frontier, when all the signs start saying 'Mons'. Another confusing one is 'Lille', which is referred to as 'Rijsel' in Flanders.
Yeah, it can sometimes be kafkaïen.
Once I went from Brussels (biliingual) to Liege (French speaking).
Because of technical problems, we had to change trains in Leuven (Dutch speaking)
At which point, instructions were given in Dutch to explain to the 90+% French speaking people in the train how to continue their journey.
Not that it mattered, I do understand Dutch enough for that and even if I didn't, I just had to follow everyone like a good sheep but still it shows how we're walking on eggshells when it comes to territorial language in Belgium...
I am from belgium and the Dutch name of NSCB (so the actual name) is NMBS
Edit: also, I live really close to a Bombardier Fabric :D
Haha so funny, your first international trip will be on my channel soon as well (i filmed it in June of thus year)
AM96-look a like was also used in Denmark, they used different name (another signification for trains, Code: REG98)
one of the nicknames for the AM96 is actually Danish Nose due to the rubber seal on the front of the train which is taken from the model you are referring to.
Le meilleur matériel SNCB , comparés aux désiros qui sont de vraies merdes pour les voyageurs et en fiabilité, a savoir que 1 prise dans chaque 2iéme classe, qui sert a brancher l'aspirateur pour nettoyer le train ^^
Je suis bien d'accord avec toi..
@@SimplyRailway Pourquoi les Desiros seraient-ils de mauvais trains? J'en prends souvent et je ne vois pas le problème.
'Ok nobody clean the train I guess'
Do not understand, why those dustbins are kept at the side below windows ? Isn't it uncomfortable and unhygienic to person sitting besides it ?
easy and quick maintenance and clearing of them.
(Sorry late coment, and this is what i THINK)
I think Belgium (SNCF , NMBS ) is only making their trains clean at night. Wich means,
when passengers do some papers in the trash can, but the train goes another service it wil stay in it cuz Belgium only cleans their trains at night
I THINK
Soms doen ze dat maar op lange routed zoals oostende eupen niet
@@dedewx9550 op Oostende - Eupen wel, in Oostende legen ze altijd de vuilbakjes dan gaat er iemand door heel de trein, allee heb ik toch altijd zien gebeuren.. 😀
Those trains look good but the fact it was largely empty says something about passenger usage
Those trains are full from Tournai to Namur.
Vive la Belgique!
le meme confort que les HV I11.
Agree, sncf stickers are not classy.
Sympa !
In Belgium the Toilets are oftrn dirty in the trains
Because people doesn't respect anything
Why is the train so empty?
It was a ghost train: no employees or passengers.
As for power outlets, the seem unnecessary for a trips of such short duration.
3:24
I like it more if tou say nmbs
Well this trip is entirely on French speaking land (in both France and the Walloon region in Belgium) and the UA-camr is French so it's 100% logical to use the French name, SNCB.
Amogus
Il est pas forcément beau
SNCF used to have their national computer center in Lille. High security area...
I HATE YOUR TOILET TOURS!
3:13