Yes, I fully agree :-)

Hello Pascal! Thanks so much for watching! Yes, night trains in Central Europe are much better than in France. Many countries have discontinued sleeper trains in the past, such as Germany or France, and now they have no suitable sleepers to renew night trains. Greetings from Prague :-)

Thanks so much for watching! These carriages have recently been upgraded, that's why they look so new :-) Greetings from Prague :-)

Those locomotives originally from SNCB are complete reconstructions made by CZ LOKO (class 365), where only the body, frame and bogies remained from the original locomotives. Otherwise, the set is a new locomotive, intended for freight transport on lines with a voltage of 25 kV and 3 kV. Yes, these refurbished sleeping cars are pretty good. It's good that ČD still maintain the network of night trains. Modernized couchette cars (former ÖBB) are now also returning to service.

Thanks so much! I hope that after a break of several years I will be able to travel outside of Europe again :-)

Well, when there is a dining car available, it is recommended that it's used and not go to waste, no matter the class we are booked in :)) I like spending time at the booth of a train restaurant more than anything

Thanks for watching :-)

Thanks so much :-)

Thanks so much! It's the same for me, I always wear earplugs :-D

I always sleep with earplugs as I'm generally sensitive to noise when I sleep. Nevertheless, you can still hear low-frequency noises, which is one of the reasons why it is always difficult for me to sleep in a night train. So it's good that the train stands still for 6 hours in between. I might use this connection in the opposite direction in the fall, but that's not certain yet.

Thank you so much! I think this stop wasn't so bad for passengers :-)

Thanks so much! :-)

Thank you :-)

Díky moc! Jo, to bys měl, ÖBB Nightjet jsou skvělé :-)

Díky moc! Po té rekonstrukci vypadají celkem dobře :-)

Thanks so much! :-)

Děkuji moc :-)

Thanks so much! Yes I know .. it was a true Metropol.. Now the Budapest - Berlin portion runs through Poland together with the Nightjet train.

​@@PeteBrandy probably from December the ÖBB part will be cancelled and the train is going to come back to the Decin - Praha section.

Díky moc! :-)

Ta modernizace je celkem dobře vypadající, ale bohužel to má i nedostatky, hlavně ta hlučnost a osvětlení.. ale ty vozy se ještě stále ladí po té rekonstrukci, protože některé kusy se úplně nepovedly. Konkrétně tento byl modernizován jako 4. v pořadí.

This train does not go through Vienna for several reasons, on the one hand there are higher fees for using the tracks through Austria, another reason is the serviceability of other stations in Slovakia and there are also many other direct trains between Budapest and Vienna.

Díky 😎

Yes, ČD now have very nice sleeper and couchette cars. Unfortunately, there was a mistake in the video Warsaw - Budapest and it will have to be completely remaked or filmed again.

Hello, thank you for the suggestion, it's an interesting idea, at least for more important stations :-)

I traveled this route again because now there are operated refurbished WLABmee823 sleeping cars that I wanted to try. Yes, I am planning one of the MÁV night trains that depart from Budapest Keleti station :-)

:-)

The dish next to chicken schnitzel on menu is a multi-layered cake called "Medovník" (honey cake).

@@PeteBrandy 😋yummy😋

Hi, thanks for watching! If you book your tickets via České dráhy, after you search the connection, for a compartment for 2 people, at first you need to choose 2 passengers (passengers - change - add another person). Then for "Ticket" you need to click on "change" and in the menu in the item "seat" change to sleeper and under "number" change to "double" (which means double bed configuration). Also, don't forget to check the "We want to travel in the same compartment". Subsequently, you will already see in the reservation 2x ticket (2nd class) + Reservation for sleeper for 2 person..

Yes, but only in single compartments, which are considered as 1st class.

Thanks so much! This mainly concerns the track in Slovakia and Hungary. In the Czech Republic, the Breclav - Brno section has been newly modernized and there is a maximum speed of 160 km/h (99 mph), but between Brno - Prague now trains running on a diversion route, as the main corridor is undergoing reconstruction. In July, trains on the route Prague - Brno will return to the main corridor, so travel will be better again.

@@PeteBrandy True, but don't forget that while the Prague-Brno train corridor is of utmost importance in Czechia, the same cannot be stated about the connected section in Slovakia and Hungary...in both countries, especially in Hungary (given the shortness of the track) the Budapest-Bratislava section is of secondary importance at most...

The track quality is not that bad in Czechia, however as Pete has mentioned, the diversion route via Highlands is in a worse state as it has been mostly used for freight in the past. The corridors are relatively new, not exactly high-speed but up to 160 km/h with modern rails and concrete sleepers. However, the state of railways around Bratislava and from Budapest to Bratislava are truly terrible. 😢

@@jmsmilfajt I rode a train from Budapest to Vienna in 2009. I don't remember a rough ride, but would that be the same route?

@@samtrak1204 thats a different route...

Thanks for watching! Yes, the modernization was quite successful, but I have the feeling that these cars are still being fine-tuned. As for the buttons, the light from their backlight (they have an LED ring around them) is quite visible at night, personally it doesn't bother me that much, but I have feedback from a few people that it bothered them because it is quite bright at night. Overall, compared to the WLABmz Siemens carriagess, these WLABmee carriages are more spacious (10 vs. 12 cabins), but the Siemens ones are better designed.

@@PeteBrandy Thanks a lot for the clarification. So I understood it other way and unfortunately they are very bright again. Oh well, nothing can be perfect. But even with those problems it seems like a good modernization, though I'll have to try it myself.

@@borispankovcin9359 how was it?

@@CalinFR Generally good, but with one big flaw, the main ceiling light is still shining just a bit when turned off. I don't know why, it might be a 'feature', so that there is some light for passengers going down in the night, but it also looks a lot like a 'bug' with some electricity leaking in the LEDs which makes them shine just a bit. I was on the upper bed and it was very disturbing for me. After I changed to lower bed it was better, but still, after this I'm actively trying to avoid this car type. That's really unfortunate, because otherwise the modernization is nice and cabins are also more spacious compared to WLABmz, because it's an older car. Soundproofing is also lacking, but for me it's not a problem until someone is snoring. I could slightly hear 1 guy from the other end of the car. Can't imagine being in the compartment next to him.

@@borispankovcin9359thanks for the report. I too, used these cars recently from Bratislava to Prague a month ago on the Metropol. I was really enthuziastic about it, but that kinda faded out. They are spacious indeed and I could tell everything is newly refurbished. The light at night was a nuisance like you said, but I always travel with blindfolds and got used to them while sleeping. When I saw Pete's video of the train staying in Breclav for hours, I thought to myself that there was an opportunity for me to get some sleep. That was not the case. Because of bad soundproofing and the car being moved around all night (sometimes decoupled completely from power - lights, charging ports, wifi, the water stopped working for a couple of hours) and then just standing still with no background track noise, I could hear absolutely everything that happened inside and outside the coach. As you said, I had the unfortunate luck of having someone snoring from the compartment next to mine. I do have earplugs on hand too, and had to use them (I avoid them as much as I can). When it finally started moving, the sleep got better, but then there were only 3 hours or less left to Prague. P.S. When the car is decoupled from all sources of electricity, along with the amenities enumerated above, a certain specific sleeper car background sound disappears. It makes everything dead quiet and every tiny bit of a sound would be now amplified :))

Díky moc! Jediný rozdíl mezi Deluxe a Standard amenity kitem je že v deluxe je navíc malé balení sprchového gelu.. :-D

Jo, to je ten první ranní Metropolitan co začíná v Brně, ne? Ten myslím jede z Prahy těsně po půlnoci jako IC 571 Jiří Bouda a pak přechází právě na EC 271 Brno - Budapest.

@@PeteBrandy Ano, přesně tak

Hi, if you have any questions, you can write me via instagram (petestrains).

I think between 60 - 80 km/h (37 - 50 mph).

Well, there is a reason for that...for ex. the degree of the curve (Bend of the Danube as its called...)....the track is literally curving for 10 kms or so...

you stay inside. at one point they move you around a bit, attaching and detaching cars

Hi, I bought my ticket from ČD (České dráhy)

The couchette cars usually only run during the season. These on Prague - Budapest route are former ÖBB Bcmz couchettes (I have a similar one in my RegioJet Košice - Prague video). These couchettes do not have a shower, but only small washrooms with a sink at one end of the carriage (couchette cars do not have sinks in the compartment).

@@PeteBrandy oh,. Are the compartments connected? Is it ok to use shower in next compartments?

The difference is due to the different length of the stopover at Břeclav station, which is different in each direction.

@@PeteBrandy makes sense. Thank you

In reality, these are only through cars (in the summer with couchette cars), which run in the section Budapest - Břeclav with the EuroNight train Budapest / Graz - Warsaw (+ also the Nightjet portion Graz - Břeclav - Berlin). At Břeclav, the Prague portion is waiting for the morning InterCity train to Prague, which is why these cars are there for 6 hours (but it is good for sleeping). But according to the draft of the new timetable, the Graz - Berlin portion should return to the historical route via Prague and Dresden, so I assume that the journey time of the Budapest - Prague portion will also be different.

Ahoj, aktuálně 13 pro, ale chystám se na upgrade na 15 pro. ComfortJet je v plánu, ale zatím asi ani lidi u ČD neví kdy vyjede .. už na něj čekám 2 týdny a nic :-D

@@PeteBrandy to bude lepší mít 15 pro než buide confortjet a můžeš klidně i do 4k60 videa aby bylo plynulejší video :-)

Ano, volí se přímo při nákupu vždy jestli muž nebo žena podle toho rezervační systém zvolí typ oddílu.

Pokud se hledá podle čísla vlaku, tak končí v Břeclavi protože tam se ten vlak dělí na další a každý má pak jiné číslo. Pokud se ale kupuje jízdenka, nebo se hledá podle trasy, tak jsou tam uvedeny všechny stanice až do Prahy. Je to uvedené i ve videu že vůz stojí 6 hodin v Břeclavi a pak pokračuje ráno s vlakem IC 584 Metropol. U vlaků EuroNight některá část vystřídá třeba i 3 čísla vlaku, jako například přímé vozy Budapest - Varszawa, které jedou jako EuroNight Metropol, z Břeclavi pak jako Nightjet a z Bohumína potom jako IC Chopin.

@@PeteBrandy 6 hodin stojí v Břeclavi? Hmm tak to vymyslel nějaký koumák, to rovnou mužů jet rannim spojem... Stačí když se jede z Humenného, že má čekačku 2 h v Košicích..

Myslím, že to je celkem dobrý kompromis aby se dalo zvládnout alespoň těch 6 až 7 hodin spánku. Většinou ještě nastupují cestující v Bratislavě, takže vůz utichne až v té Břeclavi. Kdyby jelo něco dřív, tak by to asi dopadlo jako Zemplín, kde ani nemá smysl jít spát :-D Ono také dost záleží jestli člověk jede domů nebo má v cílové stanici program, v tom 2. případě je ráno potřeba vstát dříve aby se dalo stihnout snídani a také ze sebe trochu udělat člověka :-D

@@PeteBrandy Souhlas.

Yes, I think that these originally Bmee carriages are not suitable for conversion to sleeper cars. There are also some of these types of cars in production in Germany, but I think they already have other types of bogies.

V tomto vlaku celkem dlouho, něco kolem 5 hodin :-D Byl to 3. noční vlak během 3 dnů a v předešlých 2 vlacích jsem naspal jen něco kolem 3 hodin :-D

Děkuji moc :-)

@@PeteBrandy nemáš zač 😁