Thanks for the information, that's perfect! I'd have prefered a S-121 haha

Tienes razon

I agree the post and add, that nowadays, may 2022, this train is provided with EMUs 120, similar as 121 so with Preferente and Turista classes and to Cadiz from Sevilla

@@NonstopEurotripyou wouldn’t, there’s no cafeteria!

​@@NonstopEurotripHi Nonstop how did an Alvia train get into the Estació del Nord? 4:58

Mantenerla, y el déficit que genera. Y ahora con la incorporación de más destinos (no será un recorrido tan directo como el actual) me gustaría ser optimista, pero me cuesta.

Thanks 😎

Thank you! I've actually filmed that route too with the gauge change happening 👌🏻🇪🇦☺️

Glad you liked it!

😂😂😂

which do you prefer? Valencia Nord or Valencia Joaquin Sorolla?

@@nando_3280 Valencia Nord, because it's more beautiful than Valencia-Joaquín Sorolla, a typical modern station built with concrete and steel. In fact, the 2 stations would be converted into an one central station with a tunnel passing under Valencia in order to convert the station from a terminal station to a passing-through station, but the 2008 crisis arrived and the conservative regional government, spending millions of euros on spectacular work projects and buildings, like "La Fe" Hospital in Southern Valencia, that's one of the biggest hospitals in the world, or being the centre of attention of Formula One, by building a circuit next to the sea in Valencia's port, and many other work projects and buildings, rejected to make a central station.

There is a free shuttle bus between the two stations. I once waited at the wrong station Valencia Nord and had to rush to get to Joaquin Sorolla.

Thanks, will do!

Glad to have inspired you 😃 I've got a Madrid-Valencia AVE video coming up soon ☺️

You're welcome Richard 🙂

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you very much!

Yes, exactly, loved it!

@@NonstopEurotrip that's amazing and I'm sure that you would want to eventually move to Spain

Completely agree! Almería must be the last link the AVE network 😀

Brilliant, that's just what I wanted to know! Thanks!

Probably the AVE set, but yeah when the catering is on, it's really good! 🍻

Yes ☺️

Yes, it is!

Yeah for sure 😊🇪🇸

I don't know why but I thought you lived near Madrid...!

So I came through your home town ahh!

@@NonstopEurotrip Andújar is at 320 kilometres from Madrid by the freeway (It's like a motorway but it isn't tolled) A-4 AKA "Autovía del Sur" ("Southern Freeway"). In bus, there's a 3 hours and 45 minutes' journey (Including a 15 minutes' stop at the town of Almuradiel (At 230 kilometres from Madrid, just at 90 kilometres or a journey of a hour from Andújar)) to have a coffee, a snack or simply walk around the bus.

Ah, thanks! 👌👌👌

@@NonstopEurotrip you're wellcome. 🤗🤗🤗

... which actually corresponds to its architectural style, art nouveau, which can't be from 1850s.

Interesting thanks, I prefer the 121 to the 130 👍🏻🇪🇦

@@NonstopEurotrip In my humble opinion, 130 are better trains. I am used to take them from Huelva to Madrid and they give lot of problems.

They always come with delay, and sometimes they break down. Still, thats the alvia s120, s121 is nice to me. The train used now is alvia 120

Interesting 🤓

Have fun 🚆😁

It is only 28€ from Barcelona to Jerr using a Tarjeta Dorada card and in Elige Tarjeta plus choosing a seat

We've worked together before, but not the same 😂

😂😂😂

Mostly in Spain though 😃

@@NonstopEurotrip yupppppp my first trip on Talgo was in year 1989 between Madrid and Barcelona..... Delay of 12 hours (night on train ) due heavy rainfalls in Tarragona... Was super funny !!

Talking about Talgo in other countries, there's a bunch of them in Bosnia too, but they are hauled by loco and I'm not sure whether they have tilting mechanism (though it would be very useful on the line between Sarajevo and Mostar where they operate).

😁😁😁

Have fun! 🇪🇦

Sorry 😞

Umm, just Spanish on these services. AVE trains do both.

There is WiFi, accessed through the playRenfe app

@@NonstopEurotrip - Thank you!

Por qué se retrasa?

@@NonstopEurotrip No se, pero desde que cambiaron el modelo (o eso creo) ha habido pequeños incidentes, y normalmente viene con un poco de retraso. Supongo que los 120 no fueron diseñados para esas rutas tan largas.

Yeah I don't think it's running right now

Actually Alvia No 622 or 626 is showing on google maps

The Alvia service is running everyday. However, it's a Vigo/A Coruña Barcelona long distance service via Ourense, Monforte de Lemos, Ponferrada, León, Palencia, Burgos, Vitoria, Pamplona, Zaragoza and Tarragona, among other smaller towns. The service towards Barcelona departs from Vigo on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and it departs from A Coruña the rest of the days of the week. The service towards Vigo/A Coruña arrives to Vigo on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, and it arrives to A Coruña the rest of the days of the week. If you plan to take the Alvia a day not departing from the desired city, you have to take a commuter train (Avant or Medium Distance) towards Ourense, that allows you to make the link to Alvia service (the same happens in the opposite way). In addition to that, this is the service that allows you to make trips like the one between Vigo/A Coruña and Bilbao/Hendaye (ex-Intercity Arco service), via link in Miranda de Ebro/Vitoria, once Renfe decided to remove the loco-hauled Intercity, supposedly because of the presence of asbest in coaches (then we learnt that it was a hidden strategy by Renfe to sell all its loco-hauled coaches to Portugal)

@@NonstopEurotrip Alvia service is running everyday. However, all night services disappeared when COVID-19 restrictions arose, supposedly "because it was hard to implement the required sanitary measures". Anyway, it wasn't anything new that running costs were higher than incomes from night train tickets for all remaining services (they never think about social utility), and COVID-19 became the perfect excuse to remove them

Then again the Vigo-Barcelona service takes 13 hr 53 min as shown on Google maps, and that's just for eastbound. So the torre del oro isn't really the longest day train in Spain. I don't know about the distance from Barcelona-Sevilla, so maybe the Torre del Oro is longer just based on distance.

They're pretty much the same actually!

@@NonstopEurotrip Ah. I see.

Thanks! Yeah the South of Spain can be very arid. It should be a legal requirement for all trains to have beer on tap haha 😃

The Spanish landscape reminds me a lot of Australia too

I think that was a stage in Mario Sunshine

I believe only the Euromed Alvias stop at JS?

No direct trains.

Barcelona-Coruña-Vigo,direct train.

Bueno, entonces supongo que eres bienvenido. ¿Tuviste un buen viaje?

Hopefully soon!

ThanQ for your sincere hearts!!!!

Yes I agree, I would much have preferred the loco hauled Talgo set 😃🇪🇦