This is the best train driver video I've seen! The speedo, the explanations, pantograph up, pantograph down. Never seen anyone do it on youtube. Will be coming back for more. Subscribed.
Watched it on a 34" full screen with a headphone.. wow, it felt like I was in that train. What an awesome video; I never seen anythhing like it before. Thanks for sharing. It was very informative too, particularly I liked that 1.5kV to 25kV changeover between stations . Bless you Europe.
If we had the funding we would shoot some of the high-speed footage with a 27mm lens attached to our PSO-1960 Soviet-built Kinopanorama® widescreen movie camera. Just wishing! A pipe-dream really.
Super video!! Even if I get chance to travel by TGV, I won't be able to understand and see driver's view which you have shown beautifully. Thanks Steve and would be waiting for your similar videos at higher speeds. Thanks again.
SPETACULAR video !! Specially Holland side and the high speed part . So good , make me remember japaneses . I really love high speeds . Thank you so much.
Its beautifull when u traveling 174km between two city`s in 100 minutes and train card coast 25 Euros... Cheep and fast! Also i can see trainman clean his window on first station... Amazing video, thx for share with us! Grathings from Serbia! :)
magnifico recorrido, increible la velocidad con la que se conduce , hay que tener nervios de acero, felicidades al conductor y a quien grabo el trayecto, saludos desde mexico ,un placer ver su video.....
Enjoyed this very much. I travelled on this line a few years ago but was seated facing the back, so saw things after we had passed. Therefore found this cool! Also really enjoyed your explanations, although some of it was beyond the comprehension of a layman! Still a great video. Thanks so much for posting. From Australia.
Amazing video! thanks for sharing. I took this trip in the other way in 2015 and I loved the speed. The explanations are great although I don't understand that related with pantograph up and down :( I watched the video in one window and in the other with google maps to see where the train is. Best ever!
Pantograph up and down is changing to between different power supplies, this train starts on 1.5Kv DC but for the extra power needed for high speed has to change to 25kv AC. If train connected both power supplies together fuses would blow track side and in train, therefore lower pantograph, coast for a bit, whilst waiting for 1.5Kv DC overhead line to end, then 25kv AC to start, then raise pantograph and power away. Different countries historic domestic power systems are different, the new standard is 25kv but not everywhere yet so trains are built to cope with different systems. The same is true to the signalling system which switches between legacy colour lights to modern high-speed cab-based (ECTS) .
Since writing above the author has pointed out that different pantographs are used for the different currents on this train, no doubt making the train electrics more simple and safer.
Mooi om te zien, bedankt voor het uploaden. Al moet ik zeggen dat er wel behoorlijk wat tijd verspild wordt voordat er eindelijk snelheid gemaakt wordt en er al ver voor het binnenrijden van Rotterdam Centraal de snelheid er al volledig uit gaat. Daar is nog wel wat kostbare tijd te winnen.
Ik kan niet geloven dat ik dit helemaal heb bekeken. Zo fascinerend! En wat een zooi met al die systemen en snelheden! Moet nog veel efficienter en dus sneller kunnen denk ik dan. Ondanks zijn leeftijd blijft het een prachtige trein. Goed dat bij de nieuwe hst’s de zware loc’s verdwijnen, maar helaas ook het monobloc-principe, of hoe heet het ook alweer. Echt knap werk, bedankt!
For all those worried about the bird, it's in the body shop getting a respray, took some time to match the colours, and rail insurance company didn't want to pay for repairs to bird
(using translation) I am a Japanese railfan. Your video is very interesting and funny. The shinkansen train runs in Japan,TGV has a charm different from Shinkansen. On the Shinkansen, all the lines run on a dedicated line(Except Yamagata&Akita Shinkansen), but TGV also shares the traditional railway lines. I was very interesting because I can not see the change of the pantograph during driving and the train protection system by the Shinkansen in Japan. Because I am using translation, there may be places where I do not understand the meaning. It was a very good video! Thank you!!
every dayday Thank you for your message! I think the automatic translation worked quite well, now I hope it will translate good back to Japanese for you! I would love to visit Japan and ride the Shinkansen some day. The Shinkansen 500 was the first Japanese train I saw on the internet and it looked like a fighter jet the first time I saw it!
Our railway network ranks 3rd in the world at the moment I believe, Switzerland is doing a little better and nobody beats Japan! But still, top 3 isn't bad!
Wow!!!.When this TGV reached 300 Km/H,I was really scared!!!.Forgeting how top safe must this kind of rail-roads be!!,I Just imagine what could happen in the event,this train from the sudden,meets something blocking the way at such a crazy speed!!.O.M.G.!!I don`t want even imagine!!.I`m American-European Citizen,and we see how while in America,we still run on old fashioned trains,in Europe,they have the fastest & most sophisticated trains in the world already. It`s time we bring this amazing TGV to America-(North & South)-,to really up-grade our neglected & backwarded Rail-road transportation Sistem.Congratulations to France and to Europe in general,by developing & enjoying this so proud,so amazing,so efficient,so safe & and so marvellous TGV Sistem!!.Greetings from America!!!. :-) !!!.
I enjoy the drone of the TGVs as the accelerate. I'm assuming Steve that you drive both types of Thalys units. Do you have a preference on which ones to drive or are they basically the same?
Yes I'm driving both Thalys PBA and PBKA units, this was filmed in a PBKA which can also run to Germany. Technically they are almost identical, but the cab obviously is different. I like the PBKA because that was also the modeltrain I had when I was younger, but the PBA is the best when I have a new driver in training driving so I can sit next to him instead of behind him.
Actually Thalys PBA is slightly modified TGV Réseau (with 3 kV DC support) and Thalys PBKA is more like TGV Duplex 2N2 with added support of 15 kV 16,7 Hz, however due to insufficient mass of magnetic core of transformer for such low AC frequency power output is reduced to +- 4,5 MW instead of 8,8 MW under 25 kV 50 Hz in order to prevent transformer overheat. One question toward Steve about Thalys PBA. Is Thalys PBA still equiped with "steering wheel" for regulating power output and dynamic brake?
The fitst part is the empty train from the yard to Amsterdam Central station👍the high speed track starts about 6 km after the first Schiphol Airport stop.The second 7 km long tunnel is the Green Heart tunnel what is above. Nothing but pastures and cows!!!this in order to protect the landscape!!
HS1 has a crazy 'through, under and over' section (I think that's the sequence), close to one of the SouthEast Trains stations, where you dive into a tunnel at around 100, and as you come out, you go under a mainline railway, then over... it happens so quickly, and you feel the g-forces as you see those sections whizz by. It's like they had to thread HS1 through the eye of a needle to get the railway by this area..
Uma viagem grátis e muito agradável com uma visão incrível. Obrigado Steve/UA-cam/Thalys. Eu li todos os comentários e gostei muito das informações técnicas.
Fun fact: As a kid I heard that the concrete tunnel that starts at 1:07:30 was built so they didn't had to cut the trees next to the track! (if true, that was a very expensive way to spare trees...) Also notice how trains in the Netherlands drive on the right and in Belgium on the left.
It's not just trees near the tracks. The western area of the Netherlands is in fact one big densely populated city. Tunnelling is expensive, but keeps the space free for other uses where ground prices are at a premium.
Hopefully a Eurostar version, but in the summer the windscreens are covered by flies, I'll try to make one soon. If that fails I'll try again after this summer
There are tunnels under several rivers instead of bridges over. The tunnel @37:49 is there to shield the close-by Rotterdam airport from rail-based bother.
interesting - thanks. The different voltages and signalling make the engineering a challenge. Will look forward to the return trip. Pointing camera north (away from sun) would improve the vision.
Absolutely fascinating.. I never knew how complex the European rail grid was, how many voltage systems there are, and never considered the different signaling systems. And ETCS, does this allow for automatic train operation? If so, how responsive is it? Eurostar is or was probably just as complex (750Vdc third rail system for south London operation still in use?) and 4 aspect UK signalling too... With the new e320 trains taking the London-Amsterdam route, this adds more complexity. Thanks for sharing... I've used this route a couple of times now (Brussels to Amsterdam) always interesting.
As far as i can remember, European countries use 25kVAC, 15kVAC, 3kVDC and 1.5kVDC electrification systems, with most international trains capable of running at all those different voltage levels. ETCS, combined with ERTMS can run a train at 360km/h or even greater speeds with very little human interaction. The system calculates brake curves, accelerations, distances and so much more stuff and displays most of that data on screens so you don't need to worry about missing that yellow signal, the system will alert you anyways. Same goes for voltage changes or neutral sections as each alert can be heard on video. About the complexity of rail infrastructure, it's an old system, being maintained, improved and expanded to meet today's needs. And people working to improve and expand it even further.
Eurostar now only runs on dedicated 25kv AC overhead lines (OHL) and, since relocating to St. Pancras has stopped using the 750v DC third rail system, it also uses just ETCS signalling. The central section of ThamesLink in London uses ECTS and Automatic Train Control - the trains drive themselves to the signalling system, and if you go to Farringdon you can watch them swap over between third rail and OHL
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Thanks for the well explained video, two questions: Why lower the pantograph isn't running on a long neutral section enough to switch between voltages, and does the drive lower and raise the pantographs manually or does the train do this on it's own? Thanks
Ian Murray Lowering and raising the pantograph is needed because when I choose a different voltage in the cab, the pantograph that goes up is a different one than the one(s) I just lowered. The driver does this manually, however when a driver is too late, the train will do it when the train goes at least 30km/h, raising always happens manually
As an American who has been in American Locomotives; this cab is incredibly quite comparatively; It's almost like a classical versus a rock concert in terms of a sound
@@SteveMaxxxx that's great to know, I am rail enthusiast but I am discovering things only now. What are the best resources for learning this art. One final question , is Video 125 train series worth a buy? I have seen few previews they were awesome.
Ajay Vemuri I found most things just by googling some things I wanted to know, you’ll find some interesting wikipedia pages and websites of other railway enthousiasts. I have 2 DVDs of video 125, the Brussels-London route and Marseille-Paris. I liked them
All powercables move left and right, it's to minimize damage to the pantographs. Imagine a straight line, that line would eventually cut through the pantograph
When the voltage changes and you would keep the wrong pantograph up, would it just eventually shut down or what is the mechanism to prevent that from happening? What happens in between when one pantograph goes down and the other one goes up to prevent a power outage? And what is the neutral zone? Amazing video btw! Thanks for the explanations and the entire journey without any cuts!
Jeremy Greysmark The main circuit breaker won't close in that situation, so there's no harm to the train when that happens. Neutral sections are sections of 400m with no voltage on the overhead wires. The lines are powered from different locations, this is a way to prevent a high voltage connection on both sides
Dat is wel de bedoeling, ik wil een video maken van Brussel naar Amsterdam, maar dat moet ik waarschijnlijk tijdens een vroege dienst doen en die staat pas eind augustus in de planning. Bij een late dienst kan het wel als ik een dergelijke dienst binnenkort krijg zodat het niet donker is aan het eind van de rit. Nadeel in de zomer is wel de enorme hoeveelheid vliegjes die op de voorruit terecht komen
Very impresssive cab ride with good post-production for additional informations. One question: In the Schipol tunnel i've noticed three times a signal with alternate flashing. What does it means?
Schremserfrank That particular signal is called an "Waarschuwingsinstallatie bij Tunnels" (Warning Installation within Tunnels), or WIT as an abbreviation, and it's used as a personal safety instrument in the sense that the two lights start flashing repeatedly if a train is within 30 seconds driving time of that particular signal, so that workers/track personnel can get out of the track if a train is within a bend/an incline where the line of sight is less than 30 seconds.
You should see the old station hall that's on top of all that. It was an old end-station, and they definitely didn't want to raise the beautiful station building. There are three levels of tracks, one at 'ground level' and two below that. The historic station building above, including the old steel and glass canopy was maintained in all of it's glory, and the recent refurbishment only really opened up the ground so that people can see all three levels, and access them in a fluid fashion. If you like multi-level train station, I recommend looking into Berlin Hauptbahnhof, there you have multiple levels, with the trains on the top level (above your head when you walk in), running perpendicular to the trains below...
I've missed your cab rides so much, Steve, so many thanks for this one. Hope we can see some more. Are you trained on the new e320 Eurostars?? Best wishes to you 👍🏼
I'm also licensed on the Eurostar E320 on the same route, I hope I can film a new one on a Eurostar soon, but I don't have a lot of shifts on Eurostar unfortunately
Haha it cant the amtrak trains reverse aswell when they drive so and u dont have high speed rails so yeah i guess its not possible in the US to get high speed trains either like us and idk what Donald trump thinks about this 😂
Pity that the train has to temper it's potential so much in Belgium. Generally around the cities the train looses a lot of time, seems like a lot of potential to make it faster. Nice movie, thanks for sharing.
Absolutely insane front view, so rare to see this quality of footage in cab videos, thank you! Is it just me or does Amsterdam have a ridiculous amount of depots? Most were nearly empty! The architecture is beautiful though.
It's not unusual for the bigger cities to have 3 or more depots. I've been watching a lot of these videos, and pretty much all of the big cities have a few different stops. One for downtown, one for the Airport, one for the Southside etc.
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This is the best train driver video I've seen! The speedo, the explanations, pantograph up, pantograph down. Never seen anyone do it on youtube. Will be coming back for more. Subscribed.
Was about to say the same thing. The explanations are awesome!
Watched it on a 34" full screen with a headphone.. wow, it felt like I was in that train. What an awesome video; I never seen anythhing like it before. Thanks for sharing. It was very informative too, particularly I liked that 1.5kV to 25kV changeover between stations . Bless you Europe.
If we had the funding we would shoot some of the high-speed footage with a 27mm lens attached to our PSO-1960 Soviet-built Kinopanorama® widescreen movie camera. Just wishing! A pipe-dream really.
I love videos like this! No music, just natural sights and sounds! Keep it up!
I really like this video because you actually give descriptions of what's going on, especially the train speed and the sections of track being used.
This is not a normal Cab Ride because you showed also the speed and the name of the stations, very good. I love it!!!!
Yeah, I love the little touches that explain, it makes the whole video much more educational.
When I see this, I'm reminded of what crap we have in the USA. Thank you for posting!
Very good in-video description. Thank you!
Steve, EXCELLENT, informative (with your explanations) video!!!
Now I have to go to Amsterdam just to ride this train. Greetings from west-central Arkansas.
from Amsterdam you can either go to Brussels or to Paris
Thanks, Steve. Great video and informative on-screen annotations. Keep up the good work!
Thank for the upload, great video. I wish we had trains like this in Ireland
Thank you for posting this, I took this route last year in August and enjoyed it very much, nice to relive it here :)
Thanks for uploading. For a train buff, this is a thrilling documentary.
The subtitles describing the speed limits and what's happening make it much more interesting.
Super video!! Even if I get chance to travel by TGV, I won't be able to understand and see driver's view which you have shown beautifully. Thanks Steve and would be waiting for your similar videos at higher speeds. Thanks again.
SPETACULAR video !! Specially Holland side and the high speed part . So good , make me remember japaneses . I really love high speeds . Thank you so much.
Nicely done! I enjoyed the entire trip!
Enjoying slowtv - yea. Me too.
u just made my day i love ur videos so much :D
Railways are one of the greatest engineering marvels of mankind.
Thanks for this very nice video and for cleaning the windshield so well!!
RIP poor bird and insects.
Great video, Steve! Thank you so much for the annotations - they were very informative! Hope to ride with you soon!
The train only travels at 160 km /h?
No, also at 300 km/h, for example starting at 31:11 and many other places of the route.
07:56 Amsterdam Centraal
22:53 Schiphol (Airport AMS)
42:40 Rotterdam Centraal
01:17:21 Antwerp Centraal
01:51:07 Brussel Zuid
Thank you very much for those timestamps
Great video! I like the speedo info during the ride, nice camera position, wide angel increase sense of speed. Like!
Its beautifull when u traveling 174km between two city`s in 100 minutes and train card coast 25 Euros... Cheep and fast! Also i can see trainman clean his window on first station... Amazing video, thx for share with us! Grathings from Serbia! :)
magnifico recorrido, increible la velocidad con la que se conduce , hay que tener nervios de acero, felicidades al conductor y a quien grabo el trayecto, saludos desde mexico ,un placer ver su video.....
Enjoyed this very much. I travelled on this line a few years ago but was seated facing the back, so saw things after we had passed. Therefore found this cool! Also really enjoyed your explanations, although some of it was beyond the comprehension of a layman! Still a great video. Thanks so much for posting. From Australia.
Superb video. Another Aussie thanks you from Down Under.
Dank! Altijd weer een verademing een film van jou te mogen bekijken!
Excellent video ! Thanks for the informations during this journey !
Yay good to see you again!
It took a while! But finally a new one :D
Amazing video! thanks for sharing. I took this trip in the other way in 2015 and I loved the speed. The explanations are great although I don't understand that related with pantograph up and down :( I watched the video in one window and in the other with google maps to see where the train is. Best ever!
Pantograph up and down is changing to between different power supplies, this train starts on 1.5Kv DC but for the extra power needed for high speed has to change to 25kv AC. If train connected both power supplies together fuses would blow track side and in train, therefore lower pantograph, coast for a bit, whilst waiting for 1.5Kv DC overhead line to end, then 25kv AC to start, then raise pantograph and power away. Different countries historic domestic power systems are different, the new standard is 25kv but not everywhere yet so trains are built to cope with different systems. The same is true to the signalling system which switches between legacy colour lights to modern high-speed cab-based (ECTS) .
@@ianmurray250 thanks a lot. I got it!
Since writing above the author has pointed out that different pantographs are used for the different currents on this train, no doubt making the train electrics more simple and safer.
Great video! Like to see the train safetysystems in action. Like ATB, TBL en the ETCS. Would have liked to see the rest of the ride to Paris Nord!
Mooi om te zien, bedankt voor het uploaden. Al moet ik zeggen dat er wel behoorlijk wat tijd verspild wordt voordat er eindelijk snelheid gemaakt wordt en er al ver voor het binnenrijden van Rotterdam Centraal de snelheid er al volledig uit gaat. Daar is nog wel wat kostbare tijd te winnen.
Dat is zodat reizigers langer van het mooie Rotterdam kunnen genieten :-)
Ik kan niet geloven dat ik dit helemaal heb bekeken. Zo fascinerend! En wat een zooi met al die systemen en snelheden! Moet nog veel efficienter en dus sneller kunnen denk ik dan. Ondanks zijn leeftijd blijft het een prachtige trein. Goed dat bij de nieuwe hst’s de zware loc’s verdwijnen, maar helaas ook het monobloc-principe, of hoe heet het ook alweer. Echt knap werk, bedankt!
Thanks for sharing! Great video!
For all those worried about the bird, it's in the body shop getting a respray, took some time to match the colours, and rail insurance company didn't want to pay for repairs to bird
Incredible movie. Thanks steve nicely explained
Excellent video and information along the way!
Am-ma-ma-ma-zinggg bro! Loved it! Thanks a lot!!!
I've been the route from Cologne 2 Paris and back. Almost entirely High-Speed tracks :)
One of the very best ever trains videos. I spotted the Thalys at Schipol Airport in the late 1980s before returning home on KL to SYD.
jslasher1 Thalys started operating in 1996, so do you mean the late 90s? Similar TGV’s do operate since the 80s in France
You are correct, Steve. It must have been around 1997 according to my diary.
That sounds about right, but back in 1997 we didn’t have a high speed line here, it took 4h47m to go to Paris, now it takes 3h18m
Yeah! New video！
It is really fun！ Thank you！
Most entertaining! Captioning really added to the experience. Anatoly asked the question I asked myself and you supplied the answer!
excellent video buddy thanks for your work
(using translation)
I am a Japanese railfan.
Your video is very interesting and funny.
The shinkansen train runs in Japan,TGV has a charm different from Shinkansen.
On the Shinkansen, all the lines run on a dedicated line(Except Yamagata&Akita Shinkansen), but TGV also shares the traditional railway lines.
I was very interesting because I can not see the change of the pantograph during driving and the train protection system by the Shinkansen in Japan.
Because I am using translation, there may be places where I do not understand the meaning.
It was a very good video! Thank you!!
every dayday Thank you for your message! I think the automatic translation worked quite well, now I hope it will translate good back to Japanese for you!
I would love to visit Japan and ride the Shinkansen some day. The Shinkansen 500 was the first Japanese train I saw on the internet and it looked like a fighter jet the first time I saw it!
Top zeg, hier heb ik echt van genoten, geweldige treinrit
Awesome ride. The Dutch have one of the best railroad systems in the world.
Our railway network ranks 3rd in the world at the moment I believe, Switzerland is doing a little better and nobody beats Japan! But still, top 3 isn't bad!
meanwhile in the UK, we were here first - and we're the worst!
Thanks for vid. Enjoyed it a lot. Loved the high speed.
Ein sehr schönes Video. Mit Angaben (wichtig)! Dankeschön und Grüße aus Deutschland (Pfalz)
Wow!!!.When this TGV reached 300 Km/H,I was really scared!!!.Forgeting how top safe must this kind of rail-roads be!!,I Just imagine what could happen in the event,this train from the sudden,meets something blocking the way at such a crazy speed!!.O.M.G.!!I don`t want even imagine!!.I`m American-European Citizen,and we see how while in America,we still run on old fashioned trains,in Europe,they have the fastest & most sophisticated trains in the world already. It`s time we bring this amazing TGV to America-(North & South)-,to really up-grade our neglected & backwarded Rail-road transportation Sistem.Congratulations to France and to Europe in general,by developing & enjoying this so proud,so amazing,so efficient,so safe & and so marvellous TGV Sistem!!.Greetings from America!!!. :-) !!!.
Actually, the fastest and most sophisticated trains in the world are found in Japan and China.
I was just about to mention Japan too lol
French TGV scores better than Japanese Shinkansen and Chinese fast trains for now.
What exactly means "scores better" for you?
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The safety figures for the TGV system are exceptional; there have been no fatalities in high-speed operation since service started in 1981
I enjoy the drone of the TGVs as the accelerate. I'm assuming Steve that you drive both types of Thalys units. Do you have a preference on which ones to drive or are they basically the same?
Yes I'm driving both Thalys PBA and PBKA units, this was filmed in a PBKA which can also run to Germany. Technically they are almost identical, but the cab obviously is different. I like the PBKA because that was also the modeltrain I had when I was younger, but the PBA is the best when I have a new driver in training driving so I can sit next to him instead of behind him.
Actually Thalys PBA is slightly modified TGV Réseau (with 3 kV DC support) and Thalys PBKA is more like TGV Duplex 2N2 with added support of 15 kV 16,7 Hz, however due to insufficient mass of magnetic core of transformer for such low AC frequency power output is reduced to +- 4,5 MW instead of 8,8 MW under 25 kV 50 Hz in order to prevent transformer overheat.
One question toward Steve about Thalys PBA. Is Thalys PBA still equiped with "steering wheel" for regulating power output and dynamic brake?
Ah, understandable point. Well I endeavour to ride on Thalys someday soon. Keep up the good work with these videos and driving trains as a whole!
The fitst part is the empty train from the yard to Amsterdam Central station👍the high speed track starts about 6 km after the first Schiphol Airport stop.The second 7 km long tunnel is the Green Heart tunnel what is above.
Nothing but pastures and cows!!!this in order to protect the landscape!!
HS1 has a crazy 'through, under and over' section (I think that's the sequence), close to one of the SouthEast Trains stations, where you dive into a tunnel at around 100, and as you come out, you go under a mainline railway, then over... it happens so quickly, and you feel the g-forces as you see those sections whizz by.
It's like they had to thread HS1 through the eye of a needle to get the railway by this area..
Excellent video.
Wow this is incredible! Thanks!
The noise insulation is amazing.
Thank you for the captions....most informative.
Wow, great work!!! SPETACULAR video !! Gretting from France !!
Uma viagem grátis e muito agradável com uma visão incrível. Obrigado Steve/UA-cam/Thalys. Eu li todos os comentários e gostei muito das informações técnicas.
RAm TEE on the left at 4:45 is my favorite. GREAT video all around.
34:57 RIP
Woa... een nieuwe video!
Nice Video !! Sehr schöne Mitfahrt - Danke !!!
Awesome video, if you get the chance I would love to see a video in the Eurostar.
Great video! Thank you!!
Great video, excellent work. Thank you so much for sharing.
I love this !!
At 300 km/h the mortorway on the left from about 31:20 really does look like a car park.
I can imagine at 130km/h on Dutch roads.
Veľmi prekrasne natočené video 😉😉😉😉😉😉.
Perfektné super 😉😉😉😉😉.
I really appreciate the Drivers Eye View
Verry nice video. Signal explanation nice too!👍
Fun fact:
As a kid I heard that the concrete tunnel that starts at 1:07:30 was built so they didn't had to cut the trees next to the track! (if true, that was a very expensive way to spare trees...)
Also notice how trains in the Netherlands drive on the right and in Belgium on the left.
trees needs to grow up 50 years, that is expensive...
I think it's bs, high speed track needs to be as straight and as little elevation as possible. Must be some important trees to justify a tunnel.
It's not just trees near the tracks. The western area of the Netherlands is in fact one big densely populated city. Tunnelling is expensive, but keeps the space free for other uses where ground prices are at a premium.
55:00 I love how the cables go back and forth.
Merci Superbe vidéo !
Took this route before. Memorable!
Great! Will you be making more videos like this ? Regards, Dana.
Hopefully a Eurostar version, but in the summer the windscreens are covered by flies, I'll try to make one soon. If that fails I'll try again after this summer
Greetings from Houston, TX. Nice video Steve. why the tunnels? Seems like pretty flat terrain.
There are tunnels under several rivers instead of bridges over. The tunnel @37:49 is there to shield the close-by Rotterdam airport from rail-based bother.
The long tunnel between Schiphol and Rotterdam is to preserve the nature, further 2 rivers and 2 airports
Thanks, makes sense.
Michael Smith There's one tunnel under the Schiphol Airport.
Great video, I love it! Next time film full ride all the way to Paris, and also new locations, please!
Adamir Ado He doesn’t have the needed route certification to go to Paris.
Awesome video!
interesting - thanks. The different voltages and signalling make the engineering a challenge.
Will look forward to the return trip. Pointing camera north (away from sun) would improve the vision.
Absolutely fascinating.. I never knew how complex the European rail grid was, how many voltage systems there are, and never considered the different signaling systems. And ETCS, does this allow for automatic train operation? If so, how responsive is it?
Eurostar is or was probably just as complex (750Vdc third rail system for south London operation still in use?) and 4 aspect UK signalling too...
With the new e320 trains taking the London-Amsterdam route, this adds more complexity.
Thanks for sharing... I've used this route a couple of times now (Brussels to Amsterdam) always interesting.
As far as i can remember, European countries use 25kVAC, 15kVAC, 3kVDC and 1.5kVDC electrification systems, with most international trains capable of running at all those different voltage levels. ETCS, combined with ERTMS can run a train at 360km/h or even greater speeds with very little human interaction. The system calculates brake curves, accelerations, distances and so much more stuff and displays most of that data on screens so you don't need to worry about missing that yellow signal, the system will alert you anyways. Same goes for voltage changes or neutral sections as each alert can be heard on video.
About the complexity of rail infrastructure, it's an old system, being maintained, improved and expanded to meet today's needs. And people working to improve and expand it even further.
Eurostar now only runs on dedicated 25kv AC overhead lines (OHL) and, since relocating to St. Pancras has stopped using the 750v DC third rail system, it also uses just ETCS signalling.
The central section of ThamesLink in London uses ECTS and Automatic Train Control - the trains drive themselves to the signalling system, and if you go to Farringdon you can watch them swap over between third rail and OHL
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Thanks for the well explained video, two questions: Why lower the pantograph isn't running on a long neutral section enough to switch between voltages, and does the drive lower and raise the pantographs manually or does the train do this on it's own? Thanks
Ian Murray Lowering and raising the pantograph is needed because when I choose a different voltage in the cab, the pantograph that goes up is a different one than the one(s) I just lowered.
The driver does this manually, however when a driver is too late, the train will do it when the train goes at least 30km/h, raising always happens manually
Nice video, high quality... :)
love it! You can't continue to paris, can't you?
unfortunately not, hopefully someday in the future!
Very nice, Thank you for video!!!
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As an American who has been in American Locomotives; this cab is incredibly quite comparatively; It's almost like a classical versus a rock concert in terms of a sound
This is so fabulous; thank you for uploading. Did you take the video? Are you a Thalys train operator?
CoasterFreak18 thank you! And yes I made the video, I’m a train driver for Thalys and Eurostar between Amsterdam and Brussels
Welcome back!
Très belle vidéo, vous conduisez aussi dés Eurostar ? Car ça serait bien une vidéo à bord d’une cabine d’eurostar
How often are high speed rail sections are maintained?
Ajay Vemuri every night and a few times per year the entire line is closed for a weekend for large maintenence
@@SteveMaxxxx that's great to know, I am rail enthusiast but I am discovering things only now. What are the best resources for learning this art. One final question , is Video 125 train series worth a buy? I have seen few previews they were awesome.
Ajay Vemuri I found most things just by googling some things I wanted to know, you’ll find some interesting wikipedia pages and websites of other railway enthousiasts. I have 2 DVDs of video 125, the Brussels-London route and Marseille-Paris. I liked them
@@SteveMaxxxx thanks a lot, that should get me started, are you on social media, could I follow you there?
Ajay Vemuri no problem! I’m on instagram, my username is stevemaxxxx
Why do high-speed powercables move left and right?
All powercables move left and right, it's to minimize damage to the pantographs.
Imagine a straight line, that line would eventually cut through the pantograph
@@SteveMaxxxx oh! yes I see .. Thank you :)
When the voltage changes and you would keep the wrong pantograph up, would it just eventually shut down or what is the mechanism to prevent that from happening? What happens in between when one pantograph goes down and the other one goes up to prevent a power outage? And what is the neutral zone? Amazing video btw! Thanks for the explanations and the entire journey without any cuts!
Jeremy Greysmark The main circuit breaker won't close in that situation, so there's no harm to the train when that happens.
Neutral sections are sections of 400m with no voltage on the overhead wires. The lines are powered from different locations, this is a way to prevent a high voltage connection on both sides
I like the dash board view. Thanks!
Hi,
Can you please do a section between Brussels to Paris?
i believe that there is a driver change in brussels.
That is correct.
I was hoping if he could arrange to leave the camera on board the train if he has to driver change.
Komt er ook een e320 video?
Dat is wel de bedoeling, ik wil een video maken van Brussel naar Amsterdam, maar dat moet ik waarschijnlijk tijdens een vroege dienst doen en die staat pas eind augustus in de planning. Bij een late dienst kan het wel als ik een dergelijke dienst binnenkort krijg zodat het niet donker is aan het eind van de rit. Nadeel in de zomer is wel de enorme hoeveelheid vliegjes die op de voorruit terecht komen
Very impresssive cab ride with good post-production for additional informations. One question: In the Schipol tunnel i've noticed three times a signal with alternate flashing. What does it means?
Schremserfrank if you mean the white blinking light, it's that the track is being used by a train.
Thanks, DFFUSE, I am speaking of the two signals at ~ minute 21:35 and 21:50 before Schiphol
Schremserfrank That particular signal is called an "Waarschuwingsinstallatie bij Tunnels" (Warning Installation within Tunnels), or WIT as an abbreviation, and it's used as a personal safety instrument in the sense that the two lights start flashing repeatedly if a train is within 30 seconds driving time of that particular signal, so that workers/track personnel can get out of the track if a train is within a bend/an incline where the line of sight is less than 30 seconds.
Antwerp has a nice train station. Multi level trains, wow.
You should see the old station hall that's on top of all that. It was an old end-station, and they definitely didn't want to raise the beautiful station building. There are three levels of tracks, one at 'ground level' and two below that. The historic station building above, including the old steel and glass canopy was maintained in all of it's glory, and the recent refurbishment only really opened up the ground so that people can see all three levels, and access them in a fluid fashion. If you like multi-level train station, I recommend looking into Berlin Hauptbahnhof, there you have multiple levels, with the trains on the top level (above your head when you walk in), running perpendicular to the trains below...
I've missed your cab rides so much, Steve, so many thanks for this one. Hope we can see some more. Are you trained on the new e320 Eurostars?? Best wishes to you 👍🏼
I'm also licensed on the Eurostar E320 on the same route, I hope I can film a new one on a Eurostar soon, but I don't have a lot of shifts on Eurostar unfortunately
Thanks for the reply, Steve. Perhaps you can take us to London St Pancras some day!!
I sure hope so some day!
I really enjoyed this, its a shame here in America trains don't run like this.
Daniel Ramsey american top speed is 120km/h in europe is the top speed like 300km/h until 350/km/h
I would love to see high speed trains in America some day!
Haha it cant the amtrak trains reverse aswell when they drive so and u dont have high speed rails so yeah i guess its not possible in the US to get high speed trains either like us and idk what Donald trump thinks about this 😂
Brian Brants there is a high speed line under construction in California, but it will take at least till 2029 when the first train will reach 200mph
Haha but we got 4 different high speed trains in Brussels we got the Thalys, TGV, ICE & Eurostar aswell
Pity that the train has to temper it's potential so much in Belgium. Generally around the cities the train looses a lot of time, seems like a lot of potential to make it faster. Nice movie, thanks for sharing.
Ronnie you’re absolutely right, I guess it’s a lot of politics that is involved in making these choises
Belgium is more dense (more train stations), have more cities and more freight trains
Awesome video ! Thanks !
Absolutely insane front view, so rare to see this quality of footage in cab videos, thank you! Is it just me or does Amsterdam have a ridiculous amount of depots? Most were nearly empty! The architecture is beautiful though.
It's not unusual for the bigger cities to have 3 or more depots. I've been watching a lot of these videos, and pretty much all of the big cities have a few different stops. One for downtown, one for the Airport, one for the Southside etc.