12:40 Actually having a dining car is one of the things i appreciate most about traveling on ICEs. Even new trains like the incoming ECx are equipped with real "old school" dining cars :)
@@derriegel5705 hat die DB in einer Pressemitteilung aus Versehen verraten :D Aber intern gab es darüber wohl schon früher eine Mitteilung. L steht übrigens anscheinend für low floor. Und das Design des Zuges soll sich auch nochmal äußerlich erheblich geändert haben, an den Fronten jeweils (Lok und Steuerwagen)^^
@@raileon Dann bin ich mal gespannt, wie teuer die Tickets in dem Teil sein werden, wenn es offiziell ein ICE sein soll und ob es dann immer noch wie eine zu groß und schnell geratene U-Bahn aussieht :D Ansonsten fand ich die vom Innendesign mit dem ebenerdigen Einstieg usw. eigentlich auf den Renderbildern ganz schön :)
The window to the driver uses a special glass containing liquid crystals that can be made transparent by applying an electrical current. The driver has control over this feature. This solution was chosen because: -Some drivers wanted privacy (on older trains curtains were used for this purpose) -passengers were supposed to be protected from traumatizing views should the train hit an animal or even a person Because the glass uses liquid crystals that turn transparent only by applying an electrical current, they will become opaque once that current is interrupted. This happens when the train loses power, e.g. when traveling through a neutral section of the overhead power line. This is most likely what happened in this case. The AC will also shut down while in a neutral section, making this a dead giveaway.
Thanks a lot for the info about why it was happening in the video. And yeah, I've seen this hapenning with the spanish S-103 which is a Velaro E , spanish AVE version of the ICE-
@@victorMD11 Also ICE 3 Amsterdam to Basel has this feature indeed. Had the feeling the driver was randomly turning it on and off, but likely half of those were caused by power drops rather than the driver's privacy needs.
I’m studying at the University of Passau which is visible behind the trees around 8:28! Great to see it from a train. Our classes are almost 100% online right now, but I visited Passau twice near the end of July to take part in some workshops, so perhaps I was there while you were traveling through the city by train! ;)
3:17 The ICE TD Is used as testing trains on the ICE Network. They have a dark-ish blue and white livery. They also use the white main paint job but with a silver stripe nicknamed "advanced train lab".
4:45 yes, back in the days you were able to listen to various radios on the train (listed in the travel guide) and even watch some TV, because the seats had small screens
13:14 passing through the small village of Etterzausen in Regensburg County - seems like you missed the shot while going over the bridge crossing the Danube a couple of minutes earlier. Btw you're not passing through the Bavarian forest range; Between Passau and Regensburg, going parallel to the Danube you also go parallel to the Bavarian forest range; Getting beyond Regensburg you then go through the Upper Palatinate Jura, part of the Franconian Jura which is an upland area with lots of forests
The ICE T has the nicest Interior of All ICEs, love those long corridors between the cars, which makes it feel extremely roomy. And the 1st class with these privacy Walls is also very comfy
The Railpool Vectrons are used in Sandwich on DB Dostos on the "Franken Thüringen Express" between Nuremberg and Sonneberg as they run over the VDE 8 (HighSpeed Line Munich Berlin) wich requires ETCS wich the normal Dostos and their engines dont have. These Vectrons even have Destinations signs in their cab!
Nice Video! This march, I travelled from Frankfurt to Vienna with the ICE T, I really enjoyed the ride: the train runs quietly, smooth and due to the tilting, it is really comfortable 😊
The window becomes blurred when the central energy supply of the train is switched off (or when the train driver doesn't want to be seen). Temporarily, the important electrical devices like the lights, doors and toilets are powered by the battery. There are different reasons to switch off the central power supply e.g. crossing the border or passing an electrical separation point of the catenary. You can also hear it, when the A/C-fans are stopping.
1:45 And not the cold refreshing drink, either. 😂 By the way, love the video, man! Such a huge train buff and can hardly wait to see your next video and even someday take a ride aboard the ICE train myself.
@1:31 "Our train will travel almost the whole country of Austra" ... erm, no, not even half of it. We're a small country, but not _that_ small :-) Vienna-Passau is about 220km as the crow flies. Austria is about 570km wide between its easternmost and westernmost borders.
The seats are the same basic model as in the ICE 3 but the armrests are narrower because the body is narrower due to the tilting system. The phone booth seen at 12:30 shows the age of the train: These were taken into service when mobile phones weren't as common so the trains still offered pay or card phones. Which were however quite expensive to use and didn't work on all international relations.
That was the plan originally. But recently due to the massive shortage in rolling stock, DB has decided to keep the ICE 1 on track until 2030 at least.
@@derriegel5705 - Very reasonable! At 30 years of age, a train is not really old. Every now and then a freshening up of the furnishings and this tried and tested draft horse can continue rolling. In addition, where ICE 1 offers a more comfortable space. (The ICE 1 cars are the widest that the DB (new and old) has ever had and has.)
Yeah the good old ICE 1 will get again a refurbish to extend the service til 2030 and beyond. They will have 3 cars less (9 cars ) and will serve medium demand routes. High demand routes are taken over by the ICE 4 (12 and 13 cars)
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But they also want to use them for possible cross border routes.
This is by far my favourite and most often used line of service for far travels to Germany, as i'm living near Vienna. I love the ICE-T (Br 411) Its very comfy for long travels and my most used ICE to date.
I'm so sorry, but the price is way lower as what you mention here. Prices start at € 37,90 and are based on the demand of passengers. Maybe just mention prices from and up to. For the rest, as always, a great video on one of my favorite channels that made me start with trip reports.
Actually, they start at 12,90€ on long-distance trains if you are younger than 27, and 17,90€ if you‘re older than 27, at least on domestic Germany trips, I don't know about international one but I think the prices are more or less the same.
@@Trainviking Yes, it is! That means you can pretty much travel from Munich to Hamburg for 12,90€ in an ICE if you book a few months in advance (and if you're under 27). But you need to remember that you need to book them 180 days in advance. If book them a week in advance it will cost you something between 17€ and 30€ during less busy hours (for example at 1 or 2 in the morning). So you need to be flexible and you need to be early. I still think that is a great deal though!
I'm looking forward to your trip from Würzburg to Hamburg! I love the highspeed line between Würzburg and Hannover for its large valley overspanning bridges - makes you feel like flying over the landscape. Also ICE 1 with its large dining car is one of my favorites on that route! Good luck! The reliability issues of the ICE TD were solved, but these very short trains (only 4 coaches to fit onto the ferry to Denmark) proved economically unsuccessfull and were taken out of service therefore. What a pity! I would have loved to see them on the Franken-Sachsen-Magistrale, the Mitte-Deutschland-Line or the Eastern-Bavaria-Corridor.
Thank you for an excellent review. I am a huge fan of the ICE (T), and your service after leaving Wurzburg, runs to Frankfurt, then after reversal, takes the west bank of the Rhine through Mainz and Koblenz to Koln. Its tilting mechanism really comes into its own on that stretch !
Btw: There is a direct ICE connection Vienna to Hamburg Altona: 13:15 Wien Hbf // 21:54 Hamburg, formerly called ICE "Hans Albers" (a famous North German actor), now his name got a ÖBB night train couple with car waggons. - Cheers, Heinz
Totally agree about the dining car. That's one of the things I enjoy most about the long-distance trains here in Canada (in normal times, not right now). Wish I had known about the ICE dining car when I travelled on an ICE three years ago.
Great work, it's always a joy watching your videos :) Btw would it be possible to test the WiFi in the trains? I think that might be interesting for many people.
8:30 Nice to see my university on a video 😅 Also i see trains in both directions on that bridge very often. Also ÖBB operates trains (even regional ones) on the Westbahn (Wels-Linz-part) very smoothly. Some ÖBB thingies are better than you can imagine here in Germany. 😅😅
Schön, wieder gut besetzte Fernzüge zu sehen. Ist ungewöhnlich in Corona-Zeiten. Positiv ist auch die Pünktlichkeit des Zuges. Wien Hauptbahnhof ist der schönste und beeindruckendste Bahnhof im deutschen Sprachraum. Er zeigt, welch große Bedeutung Österreich der Eisenbahn beimisst. La gare viennoise Wien Hauptbahnhof est une gare magnifique, spacieuse et propre. Auf Rang 2 folgt für mich Zürich Hauptbahnhof. Au rang 2 je mets la gare centrale de Zurich (Zürich Hauptbahnhof). Danke für das interessante Video mit sehr guter Kameraführung.
Aufgrund von Corona haben sie diese Woche auch Leute ohne Platzreservierung aus den Zug geworfen. Bekannter von mir fuhr in dem Zug (hatte eine Reservierung) In Meidling mussten alle, die im Gang standen raus. Ich würde nie ohne Reservierung auf der Fernstrecke mit dem Zug fahren.
@@SandraWuerthner Gut so. Gut auch, dass Wien Meidling nicht weit vom Hauptbahnhof weg ist. Sonst müssten die Gang-Steher bis St. Pölten mitfahren......
Wien Hbf ist sicher gut gelungen und zeigt, wie man die Eisenbahninfrastruktur effektiv und ästhetisch verbessern kann aber verglichen mit den Hauptbahnhöfen von Dresden, Frankfurt, Berlin oder Hamburg finde ich Wien nicht sonderlich herausragend. Wie gesagt der Bahnhof, nicht die Stadt ;-) Bin mal gespannt, wie München Hbf wird.
We love taking trains when we are in Europe. Trains here in the US aren't really an option unless you have a LOT of time (days) to get from one place to another.
It is important to mention that the seat reservation screen always shows the part of the journey that is reservated. Like if you go Wien Würzburg Dortmund It would Show Wien - Dortmund, Wien - Würzburg, Würzburg - Dortmund, Maybe first Wien - Würzburg and then Würzburg - Dortmund etc etc. Sometimes However it's just saying "Possibility of being reserved". Still, a seat can be free in that case. Or it can be reserved for a part of the journey and on the free part you can sit there etc. To the blurred window: As far as I know, the driver can decide if he allows passengers to watch. So they can decide if they blur the glass or not. After all the years of service, this could simply be a malfunctioning system? I mean it's not even blurred all the way as it should do normally.
The window blur is also triggered by the loss of overhead power. The intention is to have it automatically blur when the driver pushes the emergency power-cutoff - because that potentially happens right before a traumatizing view... The side-effect is that it also blurs on sections where the main switch has to be turned off (e.g. joints between different feeder stations of the overhead power line; in this video it happened shortly before the German border; the separation between German and Austrian power feed is located there: goo.gl/maps/wgE2E8Ye5RHMcC646 - note the blue signs on the masts, they announce the 'power off' sign at the border).
Japan's JR East's E353 rolling stock meanwhile uses a traffic light system to indicate seat reservations (older trains don't have such a system to show reservations but instead dictate that some cars are completely free seating while others only have reserved seats). A blue light above the seat means it's reserved, a red light means it's free while a flashing yellow means the seat will be reserved from the next station onwards. The system is now redundent though I think as I recall that the services that this rolling stock main operate on ( _Kaiji_ & _Asuza_ ) have since made seat reservations compulsory
@@agermanengineer831 It’s so easy to reserve a seat on an ICE, it’s included in the booking process and doing it yourself allows you to actually choose where to sit. DB’s system is just fine and I find it more user friendly than what I experienced with other carriers who assigned me seats.
Agree. If you want to reserve a seat it's really easy and possible during the booking process, you can't overlook it and you can even choose a seat if you want to. A seat reservation just costs a small extra fee and I usually forgo doing it because oftentimes you will still find a seat if you're not picky and I usually don't travel very long (it's usually something between 45 min and 2 hours) you just have to be aware that you're only guaranteed a seat if you reserve one.
you can choose to pay for a reservation or not to ... on some routes it's smart to take the reservation as there's a high demand, however on that route you'll always find some free seats. I went a stretch of that route for my daily commute and I never booked a seat and always found a free place to sit
Have you ever filmed on a Stadler KISS? Would be interesting to see since I come from Serbia, a country which is completing the first section of high speed rail (200 km/h) between Belgrade and Novi Sad and has ordered 3 four-car Stadler KISS trains. Would also be nice if you can come next year (line opens in february) to Serbia to film the route. I would also suggest to go on a trip from Belgrade to Bar which is one of the most beautiful railways in the world (but be warned that on some sections the train goes slow due to unmaintained infrastructure), there is a day and night train available. That trip now takes 11 hours, but improvement projects are announced and it will take 7 hours once it is complete. Hopefully we will see you soon!
Austrian "Westbahn" (the private passenger rail company operating on the Westbahn line - it can be confusing *g*) uses Stadler KISS trains. In fact they were the first customer to receive the upgraded trainsets for 200km/h (with some issues in the beginning). There are plenty of videos here on UA-cam.
ICE TD would actually do well on the Brightline HSR Lines actually. They run diesel so it allows them to share with freight trains or use inactive rail, on top of that independent tracks are being built so that will let it reach its speed a lot better
@@rubenvo3627 Sure, but if you run a railway review channel and thus travel a lot, an Interrail pass seems like an obvious choice to me. I travelled for as little as €32 per travel day in first class this summer...
InterRail tickets are reserved for people residing in Europe. For Americans, Japanese, etc. the EurRail ticket is available. Attention: if the travel date is not indicated, you will pay a penalty of US $ 100.00 on any European railway network.
Traveled with them from Vienna to Frankfurt back in 2011 in 1st class. Nice experience. However for me, RailJet is still the most comfortable train service on long distance. Nice video as always.😎
Do the sound barriers do anything for nearby residents or are they useless like highway ones? I know they cost a lot of money and obstruct the scenery on a lot of French lines, right?
Ah, seat reservations! My experience with DB is that it can show the seat unreserved and then somebody pitches up showing they have reserved that seat! Very confusing! I once tried to book a seat on the ICE from Cologne to Brussels several days prior to date of travel only to be told no seat was available. However a few hours prior catching that train I was able to reserve a seat! What on earth was going on? It does seem there is a problem within their reservations system.
The ICE-TD was first in service between Munich and Zurich for having an ICE service on a non-electrificated line with shorter journey times. But they were a bit too luxury and hadn't enough seating places to be profitable...
I enjoy your videos. You always seem enthusiastic when presenting the material. You might like this bit of trivia. Hope it is new to you. Do you know of the song "The City Of New Orleans"? It is about one of America's 'city' trains from the past. It has been performed by several artists, including Arlo Guthrie (1972). The story behind the song is what I think might interest you. It came from an actual train ride. It was also part of an effort to try to stop the cancellation of that train. Wikipedia and other sites have more info. It was written and performed by Steve Goodman. Tragically, he died at age 36 from leukemia. He wrote the song after his diagnosis. A couple of lines I like: "Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor And the sons of pullman porters And the sons of engineers Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel"
For less than 10€ you can reserve seats. I recommend that on the weekends when trains are busy. It gave us peace of mind after we learned the hard way about seat reservations.
@@cogman62 its 4€ at DB. even if you change you get a seat on all long distance trains along your trip for that price. (also i paid 41,90€ for a trip from Vienna to Düsseldorf which is basically twice as long plus seat reservations so he seems to have booked very late)
I didn't realize that the diesel ICT was pulled from service. Man, that was a short service life. Still not as bad as the RTL-III incarnation of the Rohr Turboliner, but close!
Cool video....Greetings from Romania.....Why are trains so freakin expensive tho in Europe.....:(. It's sad. You can do this trip with a car or Flixbus at a fraction of this price.
Sry Guys, but my English is bad. So I answer in german. 😅 Maybe someone can translate it? Nein, die ICE-T's werden nicht durch den ICE 4 ersetzt. Ganz im Gegenteil, die BR 411/415 werden noch über 2030 hinaus im Einsatz bleiben. Ein Redisgn ähnlich dem ICE 3 ist seit geraumer Zeit angedacht, wurde aber bisher (außer bei einem Prototypen) nicht umgesetzt. Der ICE 4 (BR 412) ist als Ergänzung bzw "Ersatz" für die ICE 1(BR 401) und 2 (BR 402) angeschafft worden. Ersatz ist hierbei nicht so zu verstehen, das die alten Züge sofort verschrottet werden. Es geht eher darum die ICE 1 und 2 aus den stark nachgefragten Strecken abzuziehen und sie auf weniger stark frequentierten Strecken einzusetzen. Die BR 401 wird hierfür extra in einen weiteren Redisign (mit u.a. einer Anpassung der Zuglänge auf 9 Mittelwagen) umgebaut. Es ist aber noch nicht klar, ob alle 58 ICE 1 Züge das Redisgn erhalten. Es ist gut möglich, daß einige Züge als Ersatzteilspender ausrangiert werden. Beim ICE 2 hingegen sieht es ziemlich düster aus. Es gibt zwar noch kein endgültiges Datum. Aber es ist wahrscheinlich, das diese Züge noch vor 2030 außer Betrieb genommen werden. Da diese deutlich verschlissener sind, als die ICE 1.
L'ICE a un système qui permet de rendre la vitre opaque selon les souhaits du conducteur, cependant pour que la vitre soit transparente elle a besoin de courant électrique, donc sous les zones neutres ou de baissez-panto la vitre non alimentée devient opaque
You what I would love to see ? If you can spend some time on the meal services , how they are brought onboard, how they are made in first as well as coach, and a tour of the a galleys they use in both classes. I am a retired Flight Attendant and would love to see how they do this compared to how we would do it on outer planes …..I can not find anything on UA-cam on this subject… thanks in advance
It's also triggered by the loss of overhead power (to avoid traumatic views in case of an emergency), so it blurs whenever the main switch of the train is off (e.g. when passing a border between two feeder substations).
I have so.e Trip ideas, where you should go to: 1. Dortmund - Essen - Düsseldorf - Cologne 2. Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz 3. Koblenz - Traben-Trarbach - Trier - Luxemburg
You do any train trips in Asia? You should try some trips in Sri Lanka, India, Thailand et al. There are some gorgeous train routes in Asia and it’s really cheap to ride them. India has an extensive railway network and lots of scenic railway routes. And China too. I’d also recommend Australia and NZ. Try the Indian Pacific and Ghan in Australia and the Coastal Pacific and TranzAlpine in NZ.
Unfortunately you chose the wrong time to record the tilting action. The best time to do this is between Passau and Plattling and Regensburg and Nürnberg - these sections of route are where the higher speed is permitted due to the tilting and is where you see tilts of up to 8°. In Austria and other sections not fitted with this system, the train will only tilt to about 4°.
12:40 Actually having a dining car is one of the things i appreciate most about traveling on ICEs. Even new trains like the incoming ECx are equipped with real "old school" dining cars :)
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@@max1284 Oh, woher hast du die Info? :)
@@derriegel5705 hat die DB in einer Pressemitteilung aus Versehen verraten :D Aber intern gab es darüber wohl schon früher eine Mitteilung. L steht übrigens anscheinend für low floor. Und das Design des Zuges soll sich auch nochmal äußerlich erheblich geändert haben, an den Fronten jeweils (Lok und Steuerwagen)^^
@@raileon Dann bin ich mal gespannt, wie teuer die Tickets in dem Teil sein werden, wenn es offiziell ein ICE sein soll und ob es dann immer noch wie eine zu groß und schnell geratene U-Bahn aussieht :D
Ansonsten fand ich die vom Innendesign mit dem ebenerdigen Einstieg usw. eigentlich auf den Renderbildern ganz schön :)
Having a dining car is great. The food served in DB dining carts on the other hand...
The window to the driver uses a special glass containing liquid crystals that can be made transparent by applying an electrical current. The driver has control over this feature. This solution was chosen because:
-Some drivers wanted privacy (on older trains curtains were used for this purpose)
-passengers were supposed to be protected from traumatizing views should the train hit an animal or even a person
Because the glass uses liquid crystals that turn transparent only by applying an electrical current, they will become opaque once that current is interrupted. This happens when the train loses power, e.g. when traveling through a neutral section of the overhead power line. This is most likely what happened in this case. The AC will also shut down while in a neutral section, making this a dead giveaway.
Didn't know that re the current making it transparent, every day is a school day! 🚸
At that moment in the video, the train was passing the Austrian-German border. There is a little break in the catenary to seperate both power systems.
Thanks a lot for the info about why it was happening in the video. And yeah, I've seen this hapenning with the spanish S-103 which is a Velaro E , spanish AVE version of the ICE-
@@victorMD11 Also ICE 3 Amsterdam to Basel has this feature indeed. Had the feeling the driver was randomly turning it on and off, but likely half of those were caused by power drops rather than the driver's privacy needs.
In this occasion the engineer was not in the seat. so the glass has for some reason automatically blurred itself.
5:34 cool seeing the öbb cityjet. Keep it on my report about this train right below!
I’m studying at the University of Passau which is visible behind the trees around 8:28! Great to see it from a train. Our classes are almost 100% online right now, but I visited Passau twice near the end of July to take part in some workshops, so perhaps I was there while you were traveling through the city by train! ;)
3:17 The ICE TD Is used as testing trains on the ICE Network. They have a dark-ish blue and white livery. They also use the white main paint job but with a silver stripe nicknamed "advanced train lab".
Great review Thibault!! You are correct about having a meal in dining car!! I enjoyed meals on an overnight train many years ago!!👍👍👍😄😄😄💚💚
4:45 yes, back in the days you were able to listen to various radios on the train (listed in the travel guide) and even watch some TV, because the seats had small screens
Love it! Thanks as always for taking us on the trip with you, Thibault!
13:14 passing through the small village of Etterzausen in Regensburg County - seems like you missed the shot while going over the bridge crossing the Danube a couple of minutes earlier.
Btw you're not passing through the Bavarian forest range; Between Passau and Regensburg, going parallel to the Danube you also go parallel to the Bavarian forest range; Getting beyond Regensburg you then go through the Upper Palatinate Jura, part of the Franconian Jura which is an upland area with lots of forests
The ICE T has the nicest Interior of All ICEs, love those long corridors between the cars, which makes it feel extremely roomy. And the 1st class with these privacy Walls is also very comfy
12:37 In the early days of this train this really was a phone booth with a payphone!
I was looking for this comment :D
Dining with a moving view - getting rarer nowadays but is such a treat!
The Railpool Vectrons are used in Sandwich on DB Dostos on the "Franken Thüringen Express" between Nuremberg and Sonneberg as they run over the VDE 8 (HighSpeed Line Munich Berlin) wich requires ETCS wich the normal Dostos and their engines dont have. These Vectrons even have Destinations signs in their cab!
Dich hier zu sehen bereitet mir eine große Freude 🎉
Great review. Hope to try the German ICE when Covid is gone.
Nice Video!
This march, I travelled from Frankfurt to Vienna with the ICE T, I really enjoyed the ride: the train runs quietly, smooth and due to the tilting, it is really comfortable 😊
The window becomes blurred when the central energy supply of the train is switched off (or when the train driver doesn't want to be seen). Temporarily, the important electrical devices like the lights, doors and toilets are powered by the battery. There are different reasons to switch off the central power supply e.g. crossing the border or passing an electrical separation point of the catenary. You can also hear it, when the A/C-fans are stopping.
1:45 And not the cold refreshing drink, either. 😂 By the way, love the video, man! Such a huge train buff and can hardly wait to see your next video and even someday take a ride aboard the ICE train myself.
This october, i have traveled from Wien to Frankfurt with ICE train on first class, it was amazing. The restaurant car was also amazing
6:38 wow öbb pulls freight!
I remember the old dining cars until the 80s' with waiters in white jackets serving meals in the dining car.
Or the MAV ones with freshly cooked food. They where excellent.
@1:31 "Our train will travel almost the whole country of Austra" ... erm, no, not even half of it.
We're a small country, but not _that_ small :-)
Vienna-Passau is about 220km as the crow flies. Austria is about 570km wide between its easternmost and westernmost borders.
Moreover he missed some of the most scenic parts in the Alps!
@@outdoorolli5754 Well, to be precise: he misssed *all* of the Alps. He barely passed through the Alpine foothills ;-)
Wow, the view by the Engineer Back "Cockpit" is awesome... ! Very cool train, one of the Best.
6:28 wow cool seeing another ice!
The seats are the same basic model as in the ICE 3 but the armrests are narrower because the body is narrower due to the tilting system.
The phone booth seen at 12:30 shows the age of the train: These were taken into service when mobile phones weren't as common so the trains still offered pay or card phones. Which were however quite expensive to use and didn't work on all international relations.
(9:26) The ICE 4 should replace the old ICE 1. Today the ICE 4 are upgraded by new software from 250 km/h to 270 km/h. - Cheers, Heinz
That was the plan originally. But recently due to the massive shortage in rolling stock, DB has decided to keep the ICE 1 on track until 2030 at least.
@@derriegel5705 - Very reasonable! At 30 years of age, a train is not really old. Every now and then a freshening up of the furnishings and this tried and tested draft horse can continue rolling. In addition, where ICE 1 offers a more comfortable space. (The ICE 1 cars are the widest that the DB (new and old) has ever had and has.)
@@pega17plYES THE ICE 1 MY FAUVORITE HIGH SPEED TRAIN
Yeah the good old ICE 1 will get again a refurbish to extend the service til 2030 and beyond.
They will have 3 cars less (9 cars ) and will serve medium demand routes. High demand routes are taken over by the ICE 4 (12 and 13 cars)
But they also want to use them for possible cross border routes.
This is by far my favourite and most often used line of service for far travels to Germany, as i'm living near Vienna.
I love the ICE-T (Br 411) Its very comfy for long travels and my most used ICE to date.
I'm so sorry, but the price is way lower as what you mention here. Prices start at € 37,90 and are based on the demand of passengers. Maybe just mention prices from and up to. For the rest, as always, a great video on one of my favorite channels that made me start with trip reports.
Actually, they start at 12,90€ on long-distance trains if you are younger than 27, and 17,90€ if you‘re older than 27, at least on domestic Germany trips, I don't know about international one but I think the prices are more or less the same.
@@mstrmren really? That's freaking awesome.
@@Trainviking Yes, it is! That means you can pretty much travel from Munich to Hamburg for 12,90€ in an ICE if you book a few months in advance (and if you're under 27). But you need to remember that you need to book them 180 days in advance. If book them a week in advance it will cost you something between 17€ and 30€ during less busy hours (for example at 1 or 2 in the morning). So you need to be flexible and you need to be early. I still think that is a great deal though!
@@mstrmren you don't have to book months in advance, 2-3 weeks is perfectly fine usually
@@haisheauspforte1632 Yes, but on some routes Sparpreis usually is very popular and isn't available quickly
I'm looking forward to your trip from Würzburg to Hamburg! I love the highspeed line between Würzburg and Hannover for its large valley overspanning bridges - makes you feel like flying over the landscape. Also ICE 1 with its large dining car is one of my favorites on that route! Good luck!
The reliability issues of the ICE TD were solved, but these very short trains (only 4 coaches to fit onto the ferry to Denmark) proved economically unsuccessfull and were taken out of service therefore. What a pity! I would have loved to see them on the Franken-Sachsen-Magistrale, the Mitte-Deutschland-Line or the Eastern-Bavaria-Corridor.
They should've called the Diesel version ICE DCF (Ice Decaf).
Thank you for an excellent review. I am a huge fan of the ICE (T), and your service after leaving Wurzburg, runs to Frankfurt, then after reversal, takes the west bank of the Rhine through Mainz and Koblenz to Koln. Its tilting mechanism really comes into its own on that stretch !
Btw: There is a direct ICE connection Vienna to Hamburg Altona: 13:15 Wien Hbf // 21:54 Hamburg, formerly called ICE "Hans Albers" (a famous North German actor), now his name got a ÖBB night train couple with car waggons. - Cheers, Heinz
Totally agree about the dining car. That's one of the things I enjoy most about the long-distance trains here in Canada (in normal times, not right now). Wish I had known about the ICE dining car when I travelled on an ICE three years ago.
Thanks for the ride !!!
Great work, it's always a joy watching your videos :)
Btw would it be possible to test the WiFi in the trains? I think that might be interesting for many people.
8:30 Nice to see my university on a video 😅
Also i see trains in both directions on that bridge very often.
Also ÖBB operates trains (even regional ones) on the Westbahn (Wels-Linz-part) very smoothly. Some ÖBB thingies are better than you can imagine here in Germany.
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Schön, wieder gut besetzte Fernzüge zu sehen. Ist ungewöhnlich in Corona-Zeiten. Positiv ist auch die Pünktlichkeit des Zuges. Wien Hauptbahnhof ist der schönste und beeindruckendste Bahnhof im deutschen Sprachraum. Er zeigt, welch große Bedeutung Österreich der Eisenbahn beimisst. La gare viennoise Wien Hauptbahnhof est une gare magnifique, spacieuse et propre. Auf Rang 2 folgt für mich Zürich Hauptbahnhof. Au rang 2 je mets la gare centrale de Zurich (Zürich Hauptbahnhof). Danke für das interessante Video mit sehr guter Kameraführung.
Aufgrund von Corona haben sie diese Woche auch Leute ohne Platzreservierung aus den Zug geworfen. Bekannter von mir fuhr in dem Zug (hatte eine Reservierung) In Meidling mussten alle, die im Gang standen raus.
Ich würde nie ohne Reservierung auf der Fernstrecke mit dem Zug fahren.
@@SandraWuerthner Gut so. Gut auch, dass Wien Meidling nicht weit vom Hauptbahnhof weg ist. Sonst müssten die Gang-Steher bis St. Pölten mitfahren......
Wien Hbf ist sicher gut gelungen und zeigt, wie man die Eisenbahninfrastruktur effektiv und ästhetisch verbessern kann aber verglichen mit den Hauptbahnhöfen von Dresden, Frankfurt, Berlin oder Hamburg finde ich Wien nicht sonderlich herausragend. Wie gesagt der Bahnhof, nicht die Stadt ;-) Bin mal gespannt, wie München Hbf wird.
We love taking trains when we are in Europe. Trains here in the US aren't really an option unless you have a LOT of time (days) to get from one place to another.
It is important to mention that the seat reservation screen always shows the part of the journey that is reservated. Like if you go Wien Würzburg Dortmund It would Show Wien - Dortmund, Wien - Würzburg, Würzburg - Dortmund, Maybe first Wien - Würzburg and then Würzburg - Dortmund etc etc. Sometimes However it's just saying "Possibility of being reserved". Still, a seat can be free in that case. Or it can be reserved for a part of the journey and on the free part you can sit there etc.
To the blurred window: As far as I know, the driver can decide if he allows passengers to watch. So they can decide if they blur the glass or not. After all the years of service, this could simply be a malfunctioning system? I mean it's not even blurred all the way as it should do normally.
The window blur is also triggered by the loss of overhead power. The intention is to have it automatically blur when the driver pushes the emergency power-cutoff - because that potentially happens right before a traumatizing view...
The side-effect is that it also blurs on sections where the main switch has to be turned off (e.g. joints between different feeder stations of the overhead power line; in this video it happened shortly before the German border; the separation between German and Austrian power feed is located there: goo.gl/maps/wgE2E8Ye5RHMcC646 - note the blue signs on the masts, they announce the 'power off' sign at the border).
Japan's JR East's E353 rolling stock meanwhile uses a traffic light system to indicate seat reservations (older trains don't have such a system to show reservations but instead dictate that some cars are completely free seating while others only have reserved seats). A blue light above the seat means it's reserved, a red light means it's free while a flashing yellow means the seat will be reserved from the next station onwards. The system is now redundent though I think as I recall that the services that this rolling stock main operate on ( _Kaiji_ & _Asuza_ ) have since made seat reservations compulsory
Enjoying this thank you 👍😊
Bruh you didn’t pay for seat reservation and then complain that it was difficult to find a seat…
Most european train companies sell ticket and seat together - should be a standard
@@agermanengineer831 It’s so easy to reserve a seat on an ICE, it’s included in the booking process and doing it yourself allows you to actually choose where to sit. DB’s system is just fine and I find it more user friendly than what I experienced with other carriers who assigned me seats.
Agree. If you want to reserve a seat it's really easy and possible during the booking process, you can't overlook it and you can even choose a seat if you want to. A seat reservation just costs a small extra fee and I usually forgo doing it because oftentimes you will still find a seat if you're not picky and I usually don't travel very long (it's usually something between 45 min and 2 hours) you just have to be aware that you're only guaranteed a seat if you reserve one.
you can choose to pay for a reservation or not to ... on some routes it's smart to take the reservation as there's a high demand, however on that route you'll always find some free seats. I went a stretch of that route for my daily commute and I never booked a seat and always found a free place to sit
@@kaku_96 you even get a free seat when traveling first class, no extra charge, and even if, 4€ isnt much
Muy bueno el video, disfruto cada viaje que reportas, saludos desde Argentina!!!
Have you ever filmed on a Stadler KISS? Would be interesting to see since I come from Serbia, a country which is completing the first section of high speed rail (200 km/h) between Belgrade and Novi Sad and has ordered 3 four-car Stadler KISS trains. Would also be nice if you can come next year (line opens in february) to Serbia to film the route. I would also suggest to go on a trip from Belgrade to Bar which is one of the most beautiful railways in the world (but be warned that on some sections the train goes slow due to unmaintained infrastructure), there is a day and night train available. That trip now takes 11 hours, but improvement projects are announced and it will take 7 hours once it is complete. Hopefully we will see you soon!
Austrian "Westbahn" (the private passenger rail company operating on the Westbahn line - it can be confusing *g*) uses Stadler KISS trains. In fact they were the first customer to receive the upgraded trainsets for 200km/h (with some issues in the beginning). There are plenty of videos here on UA-cam.
I have been on this route twice and its pretty cool
Good review as always.
Great review of a very nice and comfortable train. Now it is time to get these in America!
ICE TD would actually do well on the Brightline HSR Lines actually. They run diesel so it allows them to share with freight trains or use inactive rail, on top of that independent tracks are being built so that will let it reach its speed a lot better
Great video !!
Longest river in Europe is not the Danube!! It’s the Volga
Didn't you just get an Interrail pass for journeys like this? Really no need to pay €112, I think.
book earlier and it will cost much less. I've never paid that much for this route
@@rubenvo3627 Sure, but if you run a railway review channel and thus travel a lot, an Interrail pass seems like an obvious choice to me. I travelled for as little as €32 per travel day in first class this summer...
InterRail tickets are reserved for people residing in Europe. For Americans, Japanese, etc. the EurRail ticket is available. Attention: if the travel date is not indicated, you will pay a penalty of US $ 100.00 on any European railway network.
@@rosanegriaspajorodriguez9006 Good thing he is from France.
Or "Sparpreis"/"Sparschiene" in Germany/Austria
Have you seen the special liveryb one of the ICE TD had in Denmark, it was blue and white, and had kinda the same livery as the danish IC4?
I tried normal DB intercity trains and the were very good!
ICE T has the biggest seat space in the current ICE Family with 97 cm in second class and i think 101 cm in first
Yes - in ICE 4 they went down to 86 cms seat pitch. I cancelled my Bahncar 100 subscription therefore.
Will we see the nice paris sleeper train soon?
If you buy a ticket with" sparschiene" you pay as low as 55 euro
Traveled with them from Vienna to Frankfurt back in 2011 in 1st class. Nice experience. However for me, RailJet is still the most comfortable train service on long distance. Nice video as always.😎
I was on a swiss train the journey was like 1h and 30 mins
Nice train video.
Is this train part of the NWA railroad?
ICE T? Sweet or unsweet? 😂
Just kidding, glad to see a new train review of a part of the world I look forward to traveling to again in the future!
did they serve iced tea on it?
Do the sound barriers do anything for nearby residents or are they useless like highway ones? I know they cost a lot of money and obstruct the scenery on a lot of French lines, right?
Thx 👍🏾😎
Vienna hbf monumental?? Its build in 2012
1:50 which flavour? Mango, citrus or peach? 😅
Ah, seat reservations! My experience with DB is that it can show the seat unreserved and then somebody pitches up showing they have reserved that seat! Very confusing! I once tried to book a seat on the ICE from Cologne to Brussels several days prior to date of travel only to be told no seat was available. However a few hours prior catching that train I was able to reserve a seat! What on earth was going on? It does seem there is a problem within their reservations system.
Ice tea!!
Nice trip. I'm curious about ICE-TD, where the engine located?
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I miss the ice tds ;)
We rode on the ICE-TD from Hamburg to Copenhagen in 2012, pity that line with ferry connection has been discontinued..
They discontinued, because they are building a tunnel for trains and cars there.
The ICE-TD was first in service between Munich and Zurich for having an ICE service on a non-electrificated line with shorter journey times. But they were a bit too luxury and hadn't enough seating places to be profitable...
There is another route where they are used it's Dresden to Nürnberg Hbf via Tharandter Rampe Dresden Chemnitz Gutenfürst Hof during 2001-2004.
I enjoy your videos. You always seem enthusiastic when presenting the material.
You might like this bit of trivia. Hope it is new to you. Do you know of the song "The City Of New Orleans"? It is about one of America's 'city' trains from the past. It has been performed by several artists, including Arlo Guthrie (1972). The story behind the song is what I think might interest you. It came from an actual train ride. It was also part of an effort to try to stop the cancellation of that train. Wikipedia and other sites have more info.
It was written and performed by Steve Goodman. Tragically, he died at age 36 from leukemia. He wrote the song after his diagnosis.
A couple of lines I like:
"Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor
And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel"
ua-cam.com/video/fF1lqEQFVUo/v-deo.html
Great, the german trains are excellents. Greetings from the south of the world
For that price you don't even get to select a seat?!
For less than 10€ you can reserve seats. I recommend that on the weekends when trains are busy. It gave us peace of mind after we learned the hard way about seat reservations.
@@cogman62 its 4€ at DB. even if you change you get a seat on all long distance trains along your trip for that price. (also i paid 41,90€ for a trip from Vienna to Düsseldorf which is basically twice as long plus seat reservations so he seems to have booked very late)
@@MerleTrains I didn’t know the current rate. It’s very cheap and worth it.
Nice ice train germany wow love from mumbai.
Dortmund again? what are you doing there?
What job do you do where you have to travel so much? Just youtube or what?
I didn't realize that the diesel ICT was pulled from service. Man, that was a short service life. Still not as bad as the RTL-III incarnation of the Rohr Turboliner, but close!
I think the new ICE L (which can go up to 230 km/h) is intended to replace the ICE T. 9:44
i guess it had a music radio play thing, never saw one in old ICEs...or it was planned but never came into live traffic
It was in the old ICEs, but with the first refurbishment they removed the screens and 3,5mm sockets.
Cool video....Greetings from Romania.....Why are trains so freakin expensive tho in Europe.....:(. It's sad. You can do this trip with a car or Flixbus at a fraction of this price.
If you buy Tickets in advance it can coast around 20-25€.
Can You Please Review Amtrak’s Lake Shore Limited From New York To Chicago? Thanks 😁
i will go from vienna to dortmund with this ice on december !!!
Sry Guys, but my English is bad. So I answer in german. 😅
Maybe someone can translate it?
Nein, die ICE-T's werden nicht durch den ICE 4 ersetzt. Ganz im Gegenteil, die BR 411/415 werden noch über 2030 hinaus im Einsatz bleiben.
Ein Redisgn ähnlich dem ICE 3 ist seit geraumer Zeit angedacht, wurde aber bisher (außer bei einem Prototypen) nicht umgesetzt.
Der ICE 4 (BR 412) ist als Ergänzung bzw "Ersatz" für die ICE 1(BR 401) und 2 (BR 402) angeschafft worden. Ersatz ist hierbei nicht so zu verstehen, das die alten Züge sofort verschrottet werden. Es geht eher darum die ICE 1 und 2 aus den stark nachgefragten Strecken abzuziehen und sie auf weniger stark frequentierten Strecken einzusetzen.
Die BR 401 wird hierfür extra in einen weiteren Redisign (mit u.a. einer Anpassung der Zuglänge auf 9 Mittelwagen) umgebaut.
Es ist aber noch nicht klar, ob alle 58 ICE 1 Züge das Redisgn erhalten. Es ist gut möglich, daß einige Züge als Ersatzteilspender ausrangiert werden.
Beim ICE 2 hingegen sieht es ziemlich düster aus. Es gibt zwar noch kein endgültiges Datum. Aber es ist wahrscheinlich, das diese Züge noch vor 2030 außer Betrieb genommen werden. Da diese deutlich verschlissener sind, als die ICE 1.
As ICE 3 and ICE 4 has been built. Do you think that ICE 5 trains could be built and to be tilted. Just like the Class 390 Pendolinos.
the uk buying fast trains that work and have food areas etc lolo they would far rather buy cheap nasty rubbish that falls apart in seconds!
Yey.... 🚂
The old ICE 3 seats are better - much better - than the new ones.
a tilting ICE, where the tilting was never in use 🤣🤣🤣
L'ICE a un système qui permet de rendre la vitre opaque selon les souhaits du conducteur, cependant pour que la vitre soit transparente elle a besoin de courant électrique, donc sous les zones neutres ou de baissez-panto la vitre non alimentée devient opaque
You what I would love to see ? If you can spend some time on the meal services , how they are brought onboard, how they are made in first as well as coach, and a tour of the a galleys they use in both classes. I am a retired Flight Attendant and would love to see how they do this compared to how we would do it on outer planes …..I can not find anything on UA-cam on this subject… thanks in advance
i think i was in austria at the time of this video being recorded
i also think i reviewed the ice t in first class once, but i thought it was a ice 3 for some reason... 🤷♂️
Lindo trem bala show boa tarde ai simply
The window can manually be blurred. But it's strange, that it does it randomly
It's also triggered by the loss of overhead power (to avoid traumatic views in case of an emergency), so it blurs whenever the main switch of the train is off (e.g. when passing a border between two feeder substations).
I have so.e Trip ideas, where you should go to:
1. Dortmund - Essen - Düsseldorf - Cologne
2. Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz
3. Koblenz - Traben-Trarbach - Trier - Luxemburg
You do any train trips in Asia? You should try some trips in Sri Lanka, India, Thailand et al. There are some gorgeous train routes in Asia and it’s really cheap to ride them. India has an extensive railway network and lots of scenic railway routes. And China too.
I’d also recommend Australia and NZ. Try the Indian Pacific and Ghan in Australia and the Coastal Pacific and TranzAlpine in NZ.
Unfortunately you chose the wrong time to record the tilting action. The best time to do this is between Passau and Plattling and Regensburg and Nürnberg - these sections of route are where the higher speed is permitted due to the tilting and is where you see tilts of up to 8°. In Austria and other sections not fitted with this system, the train will only tilt to about 4°.
I don't think the trains should be replaced they aren't that old
Do you want travel from Frankfurt Central Station?
Do the ÓBB cityjet
The St.Pancras ICE won't be reintroduced as well.
Imagine being overtaken by the s-bahn
The driver’s cabin looks like the front of a jet.