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Hey there! I am a train guard (Zugführer) stationed in Innsbruck HBF and the Route from Innsbruck to Scharnitz (and then Garmisch) is my favourite work route. However i would like to note four things: Firstly: Bikes do not need a reservation. However they need a Ticket. And are therefore not carried free of charge. The Ticket is € 1,80 (self bought) / € 2,10 (bought at the Station) for destinations below 100km, farther than that it is 10% of the Ticket price for the Passenger. Entering the train without a Bike ticket will end up in a regular fine of 105€ unless the Guard shows Goodwill. Unfortunally we have many issues with people thinking they can take the bike for free :( Secondly: The SBB Bag. We are allowed to use equipment of other Railway Companies to an extent. Many of us use an SBB bag, and many of the SBB Guards use our Bags. You also might notice, that many ÖBB Guards use Swiss Whistles for sending off trains (cause we deem them better than the ÖBB issued ones). Thirdly: The 4024 you traveled on, was one that has not been refurbished yet. Many of our 4024's have been refurbished by now and look extremely nice now. I can highly recommend checking them out again at some point. The refurbished trains have a different colour pattern on the outside: Horizontally divided red and white. And lastly, the Station you labeled as "Leithen" was actually Reith bei Seefeld :) Leithen is demand stop. (Bedarfshalt, as the Anouncement System said) So if no one pushes the button at the door, or no one is waiting on the platform, the train will just go through it. Which seems to have happened here. Other than that i can highly recommend taking that trip again in Winter AND in Autumn on a foggy day, because you will see nothing but fog below you and it really makes for an interesting feeling looking down into an ocean of fog. PS: Also the collegue of mine, you managed to capture in the video, is one of the nicest people i know :)

My wife & I have visted Austria 17 times from the UK and came to Seefeld in 2010. It's a wonderful country & I consider it my 2nd home. OBB trains are brilliant and so clean, comfortable and efficient. The Austrian people are so fantastic.

Short little day trips via train are often the most unforgettable. Definitely check out the regional trains in South Tyrol (Pustertalbahn, Vinchgerbahn, and the adorable Rittnerbahn) and in Trentino.

Seefeld is where my wife and I holiday almost every year (3 times in one year) since 1987. When we fly into Innsbruck airport, rather than getting a taxi to our hotel we prefer to go by bus to Innsbruck Hbf so that we can take this route by train. We just can’t get enough of Austria, Seefeld, OBB etc.

This brought back so many memories for me. My friend and I used to visit Seefeld every winter and summer back in the 70's. We had such a good time and made so many friends some of them sadly no longer with us. We then both got married and the visits stopped. This year, 2023 I am taking my daughter to see this beautiful place and we will be doing the train ride once more! and I'll be showing her my favourite places, although Seefeld has altered somewhat, it used to be much smaller. Thankyou so much!

Innsbruck has to be one of the most magical places on earth and this trip looks amazing! Merry Christmas 🎄🎅and I’m looking forward to watching more of your brilliant work in 2022 ❤️❤️❤️

If there is a paradise on this Earth,this place deserves it.Just breathtaking.

Yes, we ride a round trip from Vienna to Salzburg and back to Vienna. Beautiful OBB train , 200 hundred kilometers speed. Hug from Buenos Aires, Argentina.🤡👍♥️

I’m living in Taiwan, and I've visited Austria in 1995 Autumn, it's a beautiful experience. I stayed at Seefeld and took trains to Jenbach, transfer time in Innsbruck was too short for me to take a look on the beautiful city. Hope I can visit Austria again in 10 years.

Done this trip many times in summer and winter. We can also highly recommend the Zillertal bahn from Jenbach to Mayrhofen. A classic Austrian narrow gauge railway :-)

A few years ago I went to Innsbruck, and the best way for me was to fly into Munich. I was suposed to catch the express train, but It got canceled. One of the station staff at Munich told me to catch a train to another town and catch the train from there to get to Innsbruck, which was the the complete journey on the train you took. It has to be the most beautiful train journeys I have ever been on and I would recomend it to any one, the full trip from Germany.

New subscriber from Kentucky, U.S here! Just discovered your channel from my YT recommendations and like it a lot!. Haven't been to Austria but have been to Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands( lived in Rotterdam for 1 year in 1992 when I was in the U.S Army) and Swítzerland(Zürich) Last time I was in Europe was in 1992 and unfortunately, due to life's circumstances, was never and will never be able to go back again so I have to settle for fraveling vicariously through channels like yours. Keep up the good work!

Nice! 🙂 6:34 The trains are being upgraded to "Cityjet" like Desiro ML, so they are receiving more comfortable seats, Wifi and electric outlets. You can identify the upgraded Talent 1 by the "Cityjet" red-white livery. 10:24 no, you need a regio biking ticket on ÖBB regional trains, but it is very cheap.

A very beautiful train journey linking a stunning city and a heavenly town. The scenery is achingly beautiful. Luckily i've made this journey several times when on my holidays. I do hope I can do this journey again one day. Thank you for posting this video. Great to see this beautiful part of the world. 😊

I know this area quite well from years ago. Your video has brought back beautifull memories. Thank you!! 🤗🤗🤗

The thing I like most about your videos is that it's all about the journey, and not yourself. Have a safe and healthy New Year!

It's so incredibly neat and clean. What a wonderful environment.

Stunning scenery!! I could easily live in Innsbruck. Such a beautiful area!! And I could take this train for a day trip to the Tyrol. Thanks Max for sharing😀😀♥️♥️🎄🎄

The Außerfernbahn from Garmisch Partenkirchen to Kempten is my favorite Rail in the Area, very good views, but sometimes closed in the Winter.

Enjoyed the video very much. Brought back great memories of 2 holidays spent in Seefeld including a trip down to Innsbruck on that line. Also travelled to Munich the other direction which also was a very scenic trip

Great video! I know this route well having holidayed in the Innsbruck area for the last 20 years! For anyone staying longer than a few days, I would personally recommend purchasing a weekly Tirol ticket assuming you intend to use public transport a fair bit. This ticket is valid for every single train, tram and bus in the entire Austrian Tirol covering an area from Scharnitz in the north to the Italian border station of Brennero at the Brenner Pass in the south, as well as from Sankt Anton am Arlberg in the west to border town with Germany at Kufstein in the east. Absolutely unbelievable value at under £40 for 7 days of unlimited travel/ These tickets can be purchased from the VVT website and are a must have if you wish to explore the Austrian Tirol.

Been to Innsbruck several times, but never to Seefeld...now it's on my bucket list! Thanks!

The towns look like they are straight from a fairytale. They are gorgeous. You are lucky in Europe being able to easily access places like these. Though I do love my own Australia, it is hard for us to visit the locations you show us...especially if one doesn't have much money haha.

I can't stop wondering how many duffers like me have clanged their shots off passing trains. Great and very enjoyable video!

What I like about your videos is that you show a reasonable amount of views of your departure and destination points. Especially rewarding when they are picturesque as these.

Lovely done seefeld to Innsbruck a couple o times while on holiday in seefeld stunning scenery.

Visited Seefeld in Tirol from the other direction, departing from Garmisch-Partenkirchen... Both lovely towns! Another gorgeous spot along that route is Mittenwald, Germany..right at the border with Austria... In southern Austria, Zell am See is another must-visit locale...

That roundhouse at 6:15 as far as I know dates back to the 1930s, as well as the turntable, the latter one was renovated in the 1980s. The roundhouse, called 'Remise' is used as a storage facility for a handfull older lokomotives from various eras, and sometimes they are open to the public.

Innsbruck sounds Canadian to me. Plus those mountains high up is magnificent. Very beautiful city Innsbruck is. Very nice.

Did a partial Europe trip with my family in mid 2022 and by far we enjoyed Austria the most. Especially Vienna and Innsbruck. What a beautiful and picturesque country. Amazing amazing amazing!!! 😄

Wow, memories applenty there, I could literally smell Austria as the video progressed and how delightful that is. Were I ever to live somewhere else, my first choice would be Austria hands down. We have a really close family friend whom lives in Innsbruck. A word of note re Mac D's in Austria, they have a much better selection of food to eat, taste way better and you can have a beer, or a proper coffee. They actually have housing built into the city walls in Innsbruck btw. I so miss Austria so thanks for these vicarious visits via your channel.

What a wonderfully scenic regional train trip from Innsbruck - which is one of my favourite cities! I did this route on a really slow DB ICE service from Innsbruck to Munich, but hope one day to do a day trip up their just to enjoy the scenery.

I love this trip, I've been there myself. It's just wonderful

I know that valley’s, hills, rivers are a nightmare for railway construction but they certainly give us passengers wonderful scenery, again a great post, ps I always get the regional ticket when on holiday this normally covers trams and some buses as well as the railways, very good value and gives extensive travel around the area you stay in

Fabulous video mate!!!! and I too think, this city would be a perfect place to live and this place not only looks amazing but also tranquil and it is the perfect combination for me calmness merged with exquisite sceneries. 😁

What a fabulous place and a great way to get there. 👍👍🇦🇺

I love Innsbruck! We were last there in January 2020, for the World Wide Masters' Games; we went there and back by train, going in a sleeper from Cologne. I tried to book a return sleeper but couldn't - found out, too late, too late, that the day we wanted to travel was the inaugural Vienna/Innsbruck-Brussels sleeper. Oh well, we were able to break our journey in Cologne! But Innsbruck is a lovely city. Next time you are there, get the train to Jenbach, and the little mountain railway that runs, in the summer, up to Pertisau (there was talk of extending it to run all year round, but that was pre-pandemic).

You asked about the age of the roundhouse. As the rail infrastructure around Innsbruck as well as the Hauptbahnhof and the district around it were heavily damaged by allied bombing in WWII then it probably dates from the immediate post-war period. Way back in the 1970s I attended a ski course with the Alpine School of Innsbruck and went back again in the subsequent winter. In those days the city provided a free ski bus service to the local ski resorts and you were issued with a pass to use it when you registered at your hotel. I wonder if that still exists though!

love your content....two trips I have taken that i loved Winnipeg to Churchill Manitoba and cochrane to moosonee Ontario both on Hudson Bay and i have to add skagway Alaska up through White Pass to the Yukon....I wish we had mountain trains in my mountains ( i live in a high alpine valley in Montana) Happy Solstice!

Stunning views and seems like a lovely town to go visit. Also the train looks really clean and those windows are huge! Good call not wasting any time on a toilet review on such a short trip lol.

Did that trip with my parents in 1972 we stayed in Seefeld during the tragic events of the Munich Olympics, Seefeld station has been modernised since then, but remember the church. Nice video.

What a lovely video! Agreed not cheap but the scenery paid for it many times over. Love it and more of it please. Thanks.

A correction from a local, sorry ;-) Bikes are free to transport on trams, most busses, and IIRC the Zillertalbahn, but not on ÖBB trains. For a single journey a bike ticket costs 10% of an adult's 2nd class ticket. From Innsbruck to Seefeld the bike would pay 1,60 €. There are also all-Tirol bike travelcards: 2,60 € for a day (i.e. cheaper for a return situation), 5,20 € for a week, 18,00 € for a month, all valid on regional trains only (S-Bahn and REX, i.e. everthing with 'VVT' on it). For long-distance trains (RJ, EC, IC) the bike needs a ticket (10% of 2nd class adult ticket) and a reservation (for another 3 €). When crossing country borders it gets really complicated.

Spent a fortnight in Seefeld during winter Olympics and have visited many times since. Done the train trip to Insbruck also. Great video thank you.

Hallo! It's very beautiful und I like very much. Thank you very much. I apreciate much und I respect you for this special trip. Merry Christmas! A good und beautiful 2022 Year ro have. My respect for you. God bless you!🙂🙃🤗🥰

Wow 😳😳 so wonderful 🤩🤩

Wonderful trip experience, really enjoyable thanks for sharing beautiful video congratulations 🙏

Great video, I have spent time in Innsbruck. I stayed at the Alders hotel, right next to tracks. I had a view of the tracks from my room. Also there is a rooftop bar restaurant on the 13th floor which overlooks the station and tracks. I'm looking forward to your Brenner pass video. I've done Innsbruck to Venice and it's a stunning route. It's my favorite train route.

If anyone finds out why the guard had a Swiss railways bag, let us know.

What wonderful scenery ! A very short and sweet trip ! Many thanks 1

Around 15 Years ago bought a last minute trip for one week to me and my son and 12 hours later we were at Seefeld! My first trip to Austria and to Alps! And I was sold the moment when walked out from the plane at Innsbruck airport. Also lost "virginity" with ÖBB on this route Seefeld-Innsbruck-Seefeld. :))))

If you need a short trip idea… what about in France / Brittany : Auray to Quiberon line, regional train called “tire bouchon”, operating in summer only. Landscape is very nice. Or in Switzerland, between Filisur and Davos, also in summer. 2 of the hourly daily service is operated with nostalgic and openair coachs !

Lovely journey. Aiming to do this trip soon.

Hello I loved your video on Innsbruck Seefeld. Keep up the good work. I am a fan.

Thanks for the tip planned this trip and more in febr 2023

Love your videos~!! I find your video most informative and i really appreciate the no talking part LOL. Would you considering doing a Golden Line Pass train video from Luzern to Interlaken? Thank you :)

Nice vlog! Great presentation.

What a pretty town! Yes DO try go back in winter! (Isn’t it funny how we all suddenly get nervous these days when someone coughs!! 🤣🤣)

Bedankt voor de video. Des te meer reden om weer eens met t gezin die kant op te trekken😊

I´ve often been using those trains between Mittenwald (first stop in Germany wenn you´re using this line from Innsbruck) and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany! 11:25 Yea it´s pretty interesting why he has an SBB/CFF/FFS bag 😲

Lovely video which brought back many happy memories. Have you done one on the delightful narrow gauge line from Zell am Zee to Krimml, please?

I live there, born there and NEVER used the train from Innsbruck to Seefeld. :D I really should do that once

My favorite rail ride....been over it enough times to know the names of most of the bridges and tunnels. Also have hiked from Leithen to Hochzirl through the Schlossbachklamm. Very nice views up to the Schlossbach bridge and a bench directly over the portal of the third Vorberg tunnel, looking town on the Vorberg bridge - highly recommended. The only criticism I would have is that you chose a seat on the wrong side of the train - the views down into the valley and the Martinswand are spectacular.

My parents lived across the pass from Innbruck in nearby Bavaria. The train ride from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Munich is nice.

Fantastic landscapes, and the city seems to be inaugurated yesterday .... thanks for the ride.

Enjoyed the video I have stopped in innsbruck station when I took a night train from Rome to Munich it was a lovely ride

As i 15 yo who went ro school until i broke up trains were the Best transport but I live in rietz so i often had to switch trains to get to zillertal for students and adults there is something called the vvt ticket for adults its expensive but for me it was 110 euros i think the ticket basically gives you free rides for a year from the begin of the purchase its really cool

You should definitaly do the GKB S6 from Graz to Wies-Eibiswald and then the S7 from Graz to Köflach. Very interessting regional Trains in Styria/Austria. Both date back to late 19th/early20th century. Also, they do scenic rides with the oldest working steam lokomotive.

Thank you for your wonderful reports. About the steam loco round shed and turntable if I'm not wrong it was built in 1925-27 when new station then was built also.

What a great video. We are excited with our upcoming trip to Europe on September to watch the passion play. We are planning afterwards going to Salzburg by train then Vienna. Thanks for your videos and makes us even more excited taking those train commute. Is it better to buy ticket online or just buy at the station?

ilived my whole childhood in seefeld & scharnitz its realy very beautifull, but believe me when i say u dont even saw the best things

Schöne Video! I enjoyed the views, Austria is a very nice country, especially the Alpine regions! Also this Talent unit looks good for regional travels. Have a nice Christmas! :-)

Wishing you and yours a merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year!!!!

Lovely! 💖

I'm pretty sure that's Schnellbahn so it's not really meant to be a luxury train and it's more meant to go short distances to work for example.

Interessante Fahrt auf der Karwendel-Bahn. Der Zug fuhr offensichtlich weiter über Scharnitz, Mittenwald nach Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Die letzten beiden Ortschaften liegen schon in Bayern. Interessant ist der Aushang im Zug, dass Papa seinem Kind weh tut, wenn er einen schlechten Arbeitstag hatte. Macht mich etwas nachdenklich....🤔

Still the old interior the new one are red and more comfy

Clean train ✅ Huge windows ✅ Friendly guard ✅. Picturesque scenery ✅. Charming destination city ✅. I could probably live in Innsbruck too Max but I’d be better off in Wein … more of a 🏳️‍🌈 community I suspect. Happy Holidays to you! 🎄🎁🎅🏻

Julius from Nainital India your short tour video is very much surprising to me personally and I also need to give me more information about Austrian town and moreover country as how it is possible to move to Austria ,and work over and live in Austria.

Hi! Short trip, but fine! Those Talent 3's by DB run the Werdenfelsbahn Minga-Innschbrugg via Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Shortest path in terms of length in km, but longest in terms of hours, cheaper and more spectacular than the EuroCity via the Lower Inn Valley. In Garmisch-Partenkirchen you can change to the Zugspitzbahn that takes you to the top of Germany. I took it last weekend to hike round the Eibsee and I'm currently working on a short video of that trip. Just before I forget it: You've been featured in the last video of my channel. I'd be very glad if you check it out. Keep up the good job, you're my inspiration! Cheers

As a resident of the United States, I'm very envious of the European rail systems. You are very fortunate. The scenery ain't bad either.

Great video !!

I'm also going to reply of this wonderful train journey to make in a life time. I'm born to Italian and Austrian parents from Pattano Italy and Pauerbauch in Semmering. Including a very strong family connection in Schwaz Tirol Austria. They came to Australia after the war with 3 children and 6 later born in South Australia and I am one of them.This train journey was created by an Italian Venice born Albanian migrant. Karl Ritter Von Ghega. My mother told me of this story when I was a boy. Now I'm going to tell you so you can tell your next generation. He was the engineer to commission and over see the project. It would extend the line from Trieste Italy (a beautiful city) to the Semming Region for holiday makers and snow skiing activities. It was almost finished after 14 people had died during this construction and many more injured that he decided to recaculate his original calculations. The calculation on the second equation was incorrect and showed him his 1st calculations were wrong but the original calculations were correct. Tragically he could bare this misconduct of him self so he shot him self. Ironically the two ends joined to become one he was honoured on a 20 shilling note of himself on one side and on the othe side were the via duct joined the railway lines. There is an out look were you can veiw this area that is copied on the note by a fixed binoculars attached to the rickety structure in the Semmering area. My wife and I have visited this area many times as we have family still there. ❤ Sadly when we were in a Veinna Coffee shop I notice the picture on the wall all of the Semmering time it had been built with women, workers and ofcource Karl Von Ghega with a picture of the note back and front with him and the photo location of the join. When I went to pay I spoke of the picture I couldn't believe it the owner did not know of the story. She was ws will soon renovated but now I might keep the pictures Thankgod we chose that coffee shop and all the way from Australia to let them know of there wailray history. M and L

Austria delightful views

Nice bit of alpine scenery..

Hi, three trips for almost two-hours to three beautiful towns for only two euros round trip at weekends: Porto-Guimarães, Porto-Braga, Porto-Aveiro.

And not a kangaroo in sight!

I hope that the trains are more comfortable than the ones over here in England!!

Hi, nice video! Will you try the new Comfortjet in the Czech rep when it starts operating?

Nice video, as i said the scenery is very cool

Great trip report

❤ nice

I love the/this Karwendel/Mittenwald railway! And this "CityShuttle" livery and interior of ÖBB class 4024, so sad they all will be in CityJet livery in few years.

South from Innsbruck and across the Brenner Pass is the lovely town of Vipiteno, Italy...Bolzano is also nice...

What a great trip.

Next Friday: A very long (45 minutes long), but a great video to your eyes about the Bernina Express. So, be sure to be subscribed & watch it next Friday (Christmas' Eve) at One o'clock in the afternoon CEST /Noon UK 5:50 Someone forgot the against Covid-19 rule number 1: Use always a face mask on closed places & public transportation 12:03 Take it easy, I'll survive 3 more days in order to watch a train toilet, even if it's a simple or a modern train toilet 14:15 Video's score: 9

Sure is a wonderful area. Well produced vlog, Hope we can travel ther soon. PUSB.

13:20 There is one nice mountain railway diverting from the main railway line in my region of Czech Republic, it's a line to "Moldava v Krušných horách", you can either take a modern quick train from Děčín, Ústí nad Labem or Teplice or slower, older train from Most. Advantage is that these big stations have direct, rather modern train connection from Prague, but one small disadvantage is that these mountain trains run on weekends only. Another two rather interesting Czech mountain railways that come to my mind now is Liberec to Szklarska Poręba Górna or Karlovy Vary to Johanngeorgenstadt, these run the entire week

Excellent video