Traveling on the Former Latvian Night Train in Far Eastern Kazakhstan

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8 ай бұрын

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Join me on this special trip on the Kazakh railways as I travel onboard this night train that carries carriages from the former Latvijas Expresis train that used to run between Riga, Moscow, and St. Petersburg. These carriages have now been sold to Kazakhstan and are used on trains across the country. Come along for the full experience of what it's like to be onboard one of Kazakhstan's many night trains!
Train type: TEP33A with various coaches (Kupe and Platz)
Route: Semey to Karaganda, train continues to Astana
Train: 121Ц
Distance: 1327km
Journey time: 25h 10m
Average speed: 53 km/h
Price: 16 euro 8141 tenge

Пікірлер: 26

@barefram 8 ай бұрын

The former latvian cars worked earlier on the lines Riga-Moscow and Riga-St.Petersburg. They started as the one train from Riga and at Novosokolniki station cars to St Petersburg hitched to the belarusian trains.

@szymex22 8 ай бұрын

I probably wouldn't travel on this, but it's an interesting journey! Maybe the loco broke down and they changed it?

@Simon-Andersen 8 ай бұрын

It very well could be, we tried to ask the staff but they dont speak much english and we dont speak much russian unfortunatly

@Ksiaz 8 ай бұрын

An old MEST-36 in original condition 😍 Interesting to see where the Latvijas Ekspresis wagons are now... Estonian Railways sold their Kupe and Platskartniy wagons to Kazakhstan a few years back, too....

@apt155 8 ай бұрын

Loving the new Bald and Bankrupt style videos!

@Simon-Andersen 8 ай бұрын

Glad to hear youre enjoying the central asia video :D

@mariadelmarjimenezarroyo2656 8 ай бұрын

Please do a review on Iryo

@Finnishtrains 8 ай бұрын

Nice video! Could you make A video of the Helsinki, Finland's new Light tram?

@Finnishtrains 8 ай бұрын

It opens in 21.9.

@Simon-Andersen 8 ай бұрын

Maybe in the future, but i have just been to Finland, so it might be a little while before i return again

@Finnishtrains 8 ай бұрын

@@Simon-Andersen Okay. I'm waiting

@kuanysh.tynybek 8 ай бұрын

Hi! I am from Kazakhstan. Thank you for your video! Why did you chose to take a trip from Semey to Karaganda?

@Simon-Andersen 8 ай бұрын

I was traveling with my friend superalbs who thought it be a cool train to take!

@samtrak1204 8 ай бұрын

Thank you

@rochesterjohnny7555 8 ай бұрын

Soviet train, very cool views

@timbacchus 8 ай бұрын

Would hate to be a track maintainer when the toilet flushes onto the ties.

@Simon-Andersen 8 ай бұрын

That is one unforseen consequence! I think more and more of their trains are being refurbished with vaccum toilets so it might become a thing of the past.

@paulthiel5145 8 ай бұрын

Until not too long ago, this was the system in use all over the world though 🤷‍♂️

@timbacchus 8 ай бұрын

I know I worked on SP/UP for 40 years@@paulthiel5145

@samtrak1204 8 ай бұрын

Is there a direct train between Semey and Kataganda without going out of the way via Aktogay?

@Simon-Andersen 8 ай бұрын

No, but its quicker to get the direct train to Almaty and change for a train to Karaganda there. We just went this way because we thought this train was more intresting.

@alexanderivkin7086 7 ай бұрын

No because there is no railroad south-west of Semipalatinsk and never will be. This place is more contaminated than Pripyat.

@sirindag2222 7 ай бұрын

Латвия закрыла маршрут Рига Москва.... и вагоны пошли в Казахстан

@johannessamuelsson6578 8 ай бұрын

How does Kazhakstan Railways even allow trains with a journey lime above three hours to run without dining? Are they short of dining cars, and if so, how and why? Also, you forgot to mention the historical significance of Semey.

@Simon-Andersen 8 ай бұрын

We did not even have a dining car on Mangistau to Semey! Thats 60+ hours. I think they must be short on them. Ah yeah i could have mentioed more about Semey, but this video was already quite long compared to my normal upload :-)