50 year old Couchette! Budapest to Bucharest Night Train Review.

Hi all.
Today we are taking the Night Train departing from Budapest Keleti all the way to the capital of Romania, Bucharest. We will roll along the Danube during the night for a memorable and very long journey, of 16 hours.
So strap on and enjoy this trip report and review of a very old but still very good CFR couchette car, built in Germany during the 70s and refurbished in the 2000s.
Hope you enjoy!
- TRIP INFORMATION -
Railway company: CFR
Train type: AcBcmee 40-31
From: Budapest to Bucharest
Duration: 16h01m
Price: Tickets start from 55 eur. in couchette.
Music:
Blue Danube (by Strauss)
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[@groundrush04]

Its a nice document, in July 2024 i will travel the same train

[@DarkNazgul]

Fantastic journey! I loved it and this trip is on my wishlist. Thank you for the video.

[@seekingtravel]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ArturKolejarz]

Yes, I like such long videos.

[@seekingtravel]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@terryross1754]

These train lines have a future. If they can be converted to electric/hydrogen high-speed lines (both rails and rolling stock require major upgrades) with less friction, vibration and noise, they would replace the polluting airliners that now dominate such short intra-European travel. And intercity centre-to-centre travel will also be faster in many cases than air travel. Oslo/Lisbon/London to Bucharest/Sofia/Athens/Ankara.

[@lif6634]

Woah! The sunset phase was inspired!🎉

[@slavakaza]

Nice video! I had to take this line and also this train so many times in the last 2 years. Seeing your video makes me nostalgic.
21:20 It's the Astra Trans Carpatic train to Arad btw, not Muntenia to Budapest. Muntenia comes a little later ;)

[@seekingtravel]

Could be. I remember waking up for about 5 min during that time and filmed it and quickly looked at the board and wrote it down. Didn’t bother to check again lol

[@trainsandmodelshungary]

Really enjoyed this video too!

[@gabrier165]

5:33 you state you filmed this in September then at 14:35 you mention the winter hour change... which occurred in October 🙂...I think you got your timelines mixed up... unless you actually spent a month on that train which is probable knowing the Romanian railway 😅

[@seekingtravel]

It's the time zone change. From Central European Time (+1 from UK) to Eastern European Time (+1). Eastern European Time is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.

[@alokbhattacharya6523]

Don't miss Dracula castle

[@seekingtravel]

Haha don't worry, I am originally from Romania :D Visited plenty of times. Thanks though.