A beautiful station, but Belgium's best has to be Antwerpen Centraal, I think? What always impresses me when travelling on SNCB trains is the silence and the ride (which is down to Infrabel). In fact it was the first thing I noticed on my first ever journey there. And it's a standard I now judge all others by.

One reason I like watching your videos is your syntax (assuming English isn’t your first language). It sheds light on word selection & sentence structure that doesn’t first come to mind as a native English speaker yet still makes sense.

The first class is not bad, the second class is just very good 🙂 And on the I11, only the doors should get another color, I love the warm orange color.

They might look like the M6 but they're completely different. Sets with the powered cars will be able to go +200 KM/H and you'll be able to seat yourself next to the engines, they really are exciting new trains.

The reason why you currently see mixed consists of M7/I11 is because there simply aren't enough M7 coaches available. Also, in the past few months the number of M7 per train had been limited to two, because of a problem of compatibility with the axle counters on HSL 2. As far as I know, the max. number of M7 per train has now been increased to 4 coaches.

if you want to review another belgian train, i strongly recommend the am66/73/74/78/79. These traintypes all look almost identical, and are from the 60's and 70's. They look old, feel old and are really old, they got refurbished back in the early 2000's. They run on mostly on local lines, youre most likely to find them in liege, some examples: Local train Liege-Namur, somethimes Local train Liege - Maastricht(nl), Local train Aachen(de) - Verviers - Spa and intercity Antwerp - Turnhout. They are a really fun nostalgic traintype and i'm curious how you like them.

I don't live in a country with trains however I just love trains. Great coverage!!!

I think the Liege station is stunning! Also couldn’t believe how quiet the coach was 👍🏻. On another note, the new Secretary of Transportation in the U.S., Pete Buttiedge, has said that he is much in favor of more rail transport for the U.S. and he’s in favor of high speed rail. Perhaps Thiabault could consult with him on the matter 👍🏻😉

I lived in Leuven around 2008. Lots of things have changed in the station since then. I wish you do a trip report there soon

The station is amazing, but it could do with some hidden sound dampening to cut the echoes and improve the announcements.

Great Vlog thank you for illustrating how efficient the rail net work is in Belgium. Belgium is a Country I love, but despite this I have only stayed in Bruges I usually visit Belgium on route to Germany. After the Pandemic is over I plan to visit Belgium more and explore more. many thanks. Steve

the first class is insane for belgium no train has such a good looking first class here and it does not need to bee just silence is good

I used to live in Liège during the early 1970’s. The former Guillemins Station at that time was a drab piece of Mid-century Modernism. I can’t wait to go back to Liège and see this recent architectural masterpiece.

Very nice coaches, wish we had trains like this in the U.S.!

The first train you encountered was a half-hour train (13:28 → arrival in Liège & Brussels at ≈XX:30), which goes to Kortrijk and thus uses M6 (or even older) rolling stock. M7 only run on the hourly trains (≈XX:00 in Brussels & Liège), as they go to Ostend, where the M7 are maintained. All hourly trains at least have one M7 carriage at the front of the train (direction Liège → Brussels). :-)

the classic line between leuven and brussels is actually a 200kmh line too. well the inside tracks are. the outside tracks are limited to 160

Stunning! In my opinion the station is just a masterpiece!

I love how this is like 2 trip reports in one video, because of the two different rolling stocks! xD

Autotrain with charging for Electro vehicles... That would be so awesome

Beau voyage jusque Liège Guillaume et Bruxelles midi j'ai adoré là vidéo beau modèle de train c'était passionnant

Incredibly beautiful station!

i dont think you should evaluate the price based on travel time, rather than distance 15€ is a fine price to cross half the country in a fairly quick and comfortable train

Beau train a double étage merci beaucoup pour cette belle vidéo beau modèle😍

I absolutely love this station - it is so atmospheric.

Btw: It was Santiago Calatrava who proposed a dome for the Berlin Reichstag. Norman Foster with his "gas station" (a huge roof on stilts) won first prize in the competition, but was commissioned to incorporate the dome shape. - Heinz

Thibault, your brother knows how to choose a good seat! I don't know why you always prefert to travel backwards, but your bro seems to be more sensible :D

Superbe ! Les voitures M7 sont vraiment le top du top, pour avoir voyagé avec 2x 🙂 ! Ils ont compris que c'est pas avec les Desiro complètement inconfortables qu'ils vont attirer les gens dans les trains 🙂

Liège ! Calatrava et ma querida València. La Belgique, la SNCB ... Que de bonnes choses dans cette vidéo ! Manque plus que les frangins nous montrent leurs beaux yeux dans les miroirs des toilettes et on atteint la perfection

Love the new station. Thank you for showing it!

Only second to Antwerp this is the most beautiful train station in Belgium.

Amazing Calatrava work. I've had the pleasure of using the station in New York! Another beautiful station!!!👍

WOW I have been WAITING I'm glad 😁

Attention, seul le Thalys peut aller à 300km/h sur la l2, l’ICE est limité à 250km/h 😉

The Luik/Liège station was impressive! But funny that you didn't mention the shape of the platform at Brussel where you arrived haha. That one seemed like it was in a whole different country.

Architecture was incredable. Now if they could incorporate a place for train-nerds to watch operations from the stations would be a massive upside. Great video.

I've travelled on this line and also to the slover line Brussels Liège by Louvain la Neuve, Namur (on this line your journey takes almost 2 hours). I've been to Liège twice.

It looks very good

The station is amazing

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Santiago Calatrava also designed the Lisbon-Oriente station, and it is quite similar Liège-Guillemins! I personally love the architecture 🤩

the liege guillemin train station is one of the most beautyful stations i ve ever seen. there is also one the best restaurants ever in this station and the belgian railway company offers a lot of connecting lines on this station!

great video filmed by your brother liege gulliermins new station is definitely a marvel of modern architecture the new m7 double deck coaches look very nice and spacious and i like there was also other coaches in the train composition aswell i also like that in belgium you can travel by rail in short distance to all the surrounding countries and obviously the waffles beer and chips ( fries)

Don't forget the yellow line that indicates a 1st class section, or coach.

M7 cars are curently only tested on this area on the Eupen-Ostende Line and the peek hour trains between brussels and Liège but those trains aren't using the TGV line. In a way, I'm sad that they are replacing the i11 on the TGV line, I love them :/

Thanks for the feature! This is a great video!

Wow, the interior of those M7 coaches is definitely one of the best I've ever seen!!! Congrats to SNCB, I'm jealous of them :) About Santiago Calatrava, well... his style is stunning but here in spain he has a reputation of a fraudster. His works ALWAYS cost many times the expected budget and he uses materials and structures that are nearly impossible to maintain. I'm still amazed that other countries keep hiring him after all the scandals his works have caused...

I appreciatie the usage of both French and Dutch names. Keep up the good work!

Wow .... the station has a futuristic design taken to the extreme .....

What a great architectural building

An excellent review ! These new M7 coaches look really good.

Looking good! Love your vids!

I used to visit Leuven a few times a year, and the scenery between Brussels midi and Leuven look so familiar(there is that big Stella Atois factory on the port side leaving Leuven station I thought you might have captured but I guess not). Took the Thalys train from Brussels to Koln one time but did not get off at Liege, would love to actually visit Liege and Aachen and see all those Charlemagne sites.

I have one of these back home. The Oriente Station (Gare do Oriente) in Lisbon, Portugal. Search for some photos on the net...

At first i didn't know the existence of these new carriages, there are nice, the only thumb down was really the seat pitches at the first class and the layout, i enjoyed the video, as i told you in one of your videos, i am very happy with the train services in Belgium where i live, i can't compare too much with another countries because i travel more by air in Europe, but i think it doesn't let me down, in general, the transport service in Belgium is excellent, i like it.

Amazing This Train 👌😍

Nice one.

Good trip report 👍🏻 The M7 looks good and confortable. Well, first class is not really IC dignified but allright for a 1 hour trip. But i can‘t understand why new low-floor coaches haven‘t a low-floor entrance and i don‘t like when some seats don‘t fit with the windows.

Santiago Calatrava also designed a train Station in Lisbon Portugal called Gare do Oriente and i can see the design similarities between all of them that he designed

I think they put the 2+2 seat configuration in first class because these coaches are meant to be used on the line to Oostend, and can become extremely crowded on warm summer days. Imagine the frustration of people paying a first class ticket and not finding a seat. So, there are more seats available, only less comfortable. (also, in general, most first class passengers are SNCB or Infrabel employees, plus other government employees who receive a first class pass as part of their salary. An old friend got one on her first year at her first job as a jurist for the Union of Walloon Cities and Municipalities.)

Thank you for the video. Is there still a train museum in Brussels Nord? I was there 65 or 66. They had a large train layout with TV cameras on the layout. Unfortunately it was not running at the time.

The coaches look nice, but I don't understand why they didn't install armrests inbetween the seats, not even in first class. That would be ok for suburban trains, but not on intercity services the M7s operate. Btw, great trip report, as always.

caltarva also designed the harp bridge in Jerusalam Israel

Love the architecture of the station!

The M7 bilevel cars are also the same manufacturer (Bombardier/Alstom) like the HHP-8 Locomotive and the Acela Express.

Amazing report MR. Benjamin

Pour utiliser les M7, inutile d'attendre les trains à destination de Courtrai, vous êtes obligé de prendre les trains à destination d'Ostende 😉

Incredible looking coaches!

Belgium has some great stations Antwerpen Centraal and Liege Guillemin Then there are the others Ghent St Pieters (Project that has taken years to complete and still has half the station to rebuild) Oostende (Massive refurbished station and half the platforms aren't neccesary) Brussles (Midi,Nord) (Really Dull and not much with them) and major junction stations like Brugge and Mechelen (Same as Brussles)

I think the architect who designed the station in Liege also did the commuter train station at Denver International Airport and Oriente station in Lisbon.

Hi i love your videos and i hope u will also review other passenger train services in italy, we also have 2 stunning stations, napoli afragola and reggio emilia av, both high speed train stations

I have this station on Transport Fever 1 and Transport Fever 2 videogames. 😂🙃🙂😉

Great stuff! One thing puzzles me. In The Netherlands all new trains have a boarding height which is almost the same height as the platform so that makes entering especially for disabled people a lot easier. Kinda strange that NMBS still uses these type´s of entrances.

The M7s are vastly superior to the M6s despite the similar appearance : 200 kph capable, improved displays, automatic announcements, much better materials used, power outlets, better "BDx" coach for bikes and disabled people, the first-class actually feels like an improvement whereas M6s 1st class is laughable (the color of the seat trim is basically the only thing different). On the technical side the M7 compositions with the new "M7 BMX" locomotives act like an oversize EMU that you can more easily couple/decouple on both ends (GF type automatic coupling at both ends) and way better onboard electronics, provisions for potential one-man operations, etc.

Great video !!

These new coaches look so much better.

@Simply Railway when u will visit Asia , would love to see ur review for different railway around world not only europe and america

I recognize them when you look at the doors they have a lamp inside them indicating that the door is closing and the m6 dont have that

Keep it up if you are World Trade Center is actually the PATH station. MTA New York State World Trade Center Subway Stations are still their 1910s-1930s construction. The SNCB M7 has a power car. SNCB HSL is 25kv 50hz along with some other lines like L25N L165 & L166 all other lines 3kv DC

that's one amazing station

Liege - WOW!

Calatrava has also designed a less known trainstation but also quite interesting in Zurich Stadelhofen.

First Class should have 2+1 seating and wider reclining chairs.

Hey good video ☺️I'm french

Santago Calatrava also designed Lisbon's Oriente station. Similarly naturalistic and flowing as his other work.

Liege Guillemins may be nice to look at but it's a terribly impractical design for a railway station. The architect should work a shift there over a winter on the platforms.

The M7 coaches door sound sounds like the one on the UK’s Classes 755, 720, 345, 331, 195 and 385.

the price is indeed a bit high i just checkt and (i am 15) for me this trip woud cost me 6,60 euro's

cool Fridays, oh sorry! fri-nights in IST

The station is awesome

Oh yea your Videos make my day ❤🙂

Liege is a real modern railway cathedral! do you noted Santiago Calatrava repeated the shapes in the basement? - Greetings, Heinz

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11:15 wrong, France also had this in pays de la Loire: the Z21900 is similar as a Z21500 but with TVM. If you want to find it, Z21900 has only pays de la Loire delivrery.

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I live in antwerpen y hope you can make a video there

Sint-Truiden my hometown :) (saw on the map)

Everyone saying the M7 is good and that stuff, its treu but they will replace the legendary M4 andpartly M5 which isn't a big deal because the M5 isn't the best train build

I would like to see a review on pere marquete

Nice vedio . Thanks

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