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What happened to the Trans Europe Express? - The TEE
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The Trans Europe Express or TEE was the first international network to link up western European cites from 1957 to 1990's. It was designed to be a first-class only solution for business people and wealthy regular travellers in the face of increasing competition from air travel but what happened to this iconic European trail service.
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@CuriousDroid 4 жыл бұрын
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@slam_down 4 жыл бұрын
@6:20 couldn't help notice you said TVG instead of TGV, but don't lose all your hair on that mate, just put it in the notes if it bugs you. Awesome quality content btw. Thanks for the massive work you put into each of these videos
@fernandoi3389 4 жыл бұрын
Great video as usual !!!
@CaptainDangeax 4 жыл бұрын
Hi Paul. French high speed rail is TGV for Train à Grande Vitesse, and not TVG as you said twice in your video
@harshithsadhana7475 4 жыл бұрын
many trains in this video, i was playing the game called trainstation all the trains are there except settebello train
@sebuworld 4 жыл бұрын
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@Balthorium 4 жыл бұрын
“In Vienna, we sit in a late-night cafe Straight connection, TEE Trans-Europe Express Trans-Europe Express” Kraftwerk TEE
@Marquis-Sade 4 жыл бұрын
Warte mal, ich bin auch aus Wien. Was meinst du genau?
@vochtigverleden3974 4 жыл бұрын
Did you ask for an autograph?
@panosvrionis8548 4 жыл бұрын
I am taking autobahn 🧐🧐😝 I was thinking the same song!! TTE🙂
@michaelturner4457 4 жыл бұрын
From station to station Back to Dusseldorf City Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie
@a51mj12 4 жыл бұрын
SATIS-FACTION.🎵
@CuriousDroid 4 жыл бұрын
Seeing as I cant use Kraftwerks TEE in the video unless I want the whole thing demonetised, the section about the VT11.5 designer, Klaus Flesche and M.A.N was a good way to include them in the video and was the first thing I thought about when I found out about it. I know it doesn't stack up if you look at it in German or the exact translation but Ralf and Florian (RIP) would certainly understand as they often used a play on English and German words and the sounds. "Fun, Fun. Fun on the AutoBahn" is a play on the Beachboys but in German it means Bored and "Radioactivity, its in the air for you and me" is the double meaning of nuclear radioactivity and activity in the airwaves, music, speech etc., so maybe its not inconceivable that they knew about that when it came to Man Machine but either way its an interesting aside :-)
@AntonFetzer 4 жыл бұрын
The abbreviation MAN stands for "Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg" , which means "machine factory Augsburg-Nuremberg", named after the two cities the company was based in. So the text you display in the video is wrong.
@fishie3799 4 жыл бұрын
@@AntonFetzer It could be a double-meaning, like the two other examples he provided in his comment. Sounds like the band was quite clever, so it's not impossible.
@Fiatmannen1 4 жыл бұрын
Great piece of quriosity. Love kraftwerk and trains so i thank you Paul
@NICEFINENEWROBOT 4 жыл бұрын
@@fishie3799 You never pronounce it MAN but only Emm-AAh-Enn or Emm-Uh-Enn. It's as complicated as pronouncing Japanese car names. BMW is Beh-Emm-Veh, with eh like in behemoth. AUDI like Owdie and VW like Fow-Veh. :) I never was interested in trains very much but this presentation was a gem.
@manpetepetrop8034 4 жыл бұрын
“From station to station, back to Düsseldorf City, Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie”* Here's an interesting article about that story: www.davidbowie.com/blog/2020/5/6/bowie-on-kraftwerk-and-his-florian-tribute
@technopc2953 4 жыл бұрын
TGV. Not TVG. TGV like Train à Grande Vitesse (High Speed Train)
@sheevone4359 4 жыл бұрын
Someone noticed it 👍
@MauriceEscargot 4 жыл бұрын
Came here to say this!
@denizerni151 4 жыл бұрын
In his earlier videos he did say tgv but now it caught me too
@BioFake1 4 жыл бұрын
scrolled too much to find you !
@rorypenstock1763 4 жыл бұрын
Yes
@thebaccathatchews 4 жыл бұрын
This would have been a great setting for a James Bond adventure.
@Vespuchian 4 жыл бұрын
Or an updated retelling of the 'Murder on the Orient Express".
@bastadimasta 4 жыл бұрын
From Russia with Love has a similar train scene in the Orient Express
@randywatson8347 4 жыл бұрын
That's what immediately came into my mind 😆
@julesb6816 4 жыл бұрын
@@Vespuchian We already had a rework of that movie in 2017 please don't.
@Vespuchian 4 жыл бұрын
@@julesb6816 Ah, well. I was thinking of something simply based on the story, not a film of the book itself. Fair point though.
@noeldown1952 4 жыл бұрын
Italian Railways: "Signor Minoletti, we need you to design a train." Minoletti: "Excellent! What are the specifications?" Italian Railways: "Well, it needs to be Italian..." Minoletti: "Say no more!"
@pasoundman 3 жыл бұрын
wins the style contest by a flying mile
@haweater1555 3 жыл бұрын
The Italian Settebello forward lounge looks like the most awesome railfan ride ever. I just hope no-one is in a rail crossing accident.
@Sturmisch Ай бұрын
Settebello was and remains the most beautiful train in the world
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman 4 жыл бұрын
That Italian design was beautiful.
@counterfit5 4 жыл бұрын
RocKITEman _ 2001 it looks like a mix between some of the Romancecar trains from Japan and so,etching from the Jetsons
@APW_Manbow 4 жыл бұрын
@@counterfit5 The first was not Romance car of Odakyu. It wasPanorama car of Meitetsu. They all retired 2005,
@Solid_Snake99 3 жыл бұрын
💚🤍💖💚🤍💖💚🤍💖
@ElectricUAM 3 жыл бұрын
@@APW_Manbow Sad to hear. I remember a few nice trains between Osaka and Kyoto.
@APW_Manbow 3 жыл бұрын
@@ElectricUAM It's Keihan or Kintetsu. Recently, Kintetsu has launched a wonderful limited express "Hinotori" (Phoenix) between Osaka and Nagoya.
@kineticdeath 4 жыл бұрын
that italian train is just beautiful. So glad that one got saved. Easily the most eyecatching of the lot. I can understand easily why that service died out, carrying less passengers than a 707 and taking much longer to cover the distances it was never going to prevail in the long term, even with the cool features of the dedicated secretaries on hand
@fermitupoupon1754 4 жыл бұрын
That's still the same today. I can fly to London for 39 euro or I can take the EuroStar for 88, it takes about 7 hours by train in total, house door to hotel. Which is roughly 2 hours more than it takes by plane. But it is so much more comfortable, and sitting in a train staring out the window at 300kph enjoying free drinks and pretty good food beats the hell out of mucking about in an airport terminal for over an hour.
@MrManBuzz 4 жыл бұрын
@@fermitupoupon1754 And the uncomfortable flight. But given the considerable cost difference it isn't surprising that is wasn't viable.
@tijmen131 11 ай бұрын
@@fermitupoupon1754 it is even better with nightjet (night train), book a compartment and drink a glass of prosecco, have a shower, sleep and wake up refreshed in your destination
@luksweam 4 жыл бұрын
The Class 602 in Nurnberg museum is simply ridiculously beautiful. It's hard to believe that someone actually built it.
@larispostae42 4 жыл бұрын
A bit of trivia: the name "Settebello" (The Beautiful Seven) is taken from the name of a Italian tarot card, the Seven of Coins, which earns a point in the old card game of Scopa/Scopone (two points in some local variants). It also was the nickname given to the national waterpolo team back in 1948 (in turn derived from that of a Neapolitan waterpolo team, Rari Nantes, whose members often passed their travel time playing Scopa). Of course, a waterpolo team has seven players.
@jeanbonnefoy1377 4 жыл бұрын
About the Mistral: it was driven by the CC6500 (on its 1500 V CC leg to Marseilles) or the CC21000 (on its 1500V CC + 25000V AC complete trip from Paris to Nice) or various other electric bi-current locomotives. The CC40100s were exclusively used on the Northern region tracks, mainly from Gare du Nord to Brussels and Amsterdam in conjunction with their Belgian SNCB sisters, Class 18, which were used to go to Germany too. And btw, one of my best railway memory was a TEE trip from Lausanne to Paris in 1975... dining car and sleeping car...👍👍👍
@seilah2k2 4 жыл бұрын
He's a time traveler from the 60s, that's why he uses those psychedelic shirts.
@JarrodBaniqued 4 жыл бұрын
I bet he’s the Fourteenth Doctor
@coreys2686 4 жыл бұрын
Paisley was a creation of Industrial Revolution era England. Victorian I think.
@julianshepherd2038 4 жыл бұрын
@@coreys2686 Paisley is in Scotland and the pattern came from India/Iran originally.
@rizalaffandi9463 4 жыл бұрын
Is that batik?
@Inesophet 4 жыл бұрын
looks more like 2260
@Chris-yy5pj 4 жыл бұрын
That settebello sure is gorgeous
@jonasthemovie 4 жыл бұрын
RIP Florian Schneider.
@TheExoplanetsChannel 4 жыл бұрын
Rip
@bruhlewis9508 4 жыл бұрын
RIF
@Peasmouldia 4 жыл бұрын
It would also explain the Dr. Magnus Pike hand gestures...
@jonasthemovie 4 жыл бұрын
@@Peasmouldia Is it Pike or Pyke? I think it´s Pyke. Science!
@PunksloveTrumpys 3 жыл бұрын
I was absolutely stoked to hear at the end of the video, they preserved some of the TEE trains after all. Too many historic vehicles and artifacts were scrapped/forgotten back when they were just considered old junk that nobody wanted.
@raytrevor1 4 жыл бұрын
Excellent. Brings back memories. I travelled Paris to Zurich on a TEE way back in 1973. Fantastic restaurant car (and food) and bar. A wonderful way to travel.
@spuddyl9938 4 жыл бұрын
You said TVG twice. That actually has to be TGV as in Train Grand Vitesse.
@CuriousDroid 4 жыл бұрын
My dyslexia kicking again, when i made the last TGV video i made the same mistake but i edited it out, this time its seems to have crept back in, for some reason my brain likes TVG more.
@stevenm8970 4 жыл бұрын
@@CuriousDroid TVG flows off the tongue better!
@stephenswift8001 4 жыл бұрын
Great video! Love the Kraftwerk references. I can empathise as far as the dyslexia is concerned, easily done!
@Pique147 4 жыл бұрын
Saying it 'en francais' like "tae, jae, vae" makes it easier.
@dlakodlak 4 жыл бұрын
@@stevenm8970 Not in French
@Dear_Mr._Isaiah_Deringer 4 жыл бұрын
*04:08* Something they all could agree on was a color scheme of red and creme… well i guess the Italian's couldn't let that stand without making it full flag colors 😁
@enqane 4 жыл бұрын
I laughed so hard
@thenasadude6878 4 жыл бұрын
True :) But in Italy red is reserved for Ferrari The Settebello is a stylish consist designed for luxury, not for performance. Italians would think that red does not fit it
@izziomelis 4 жыл бұрын
The settebello and arlecchino were introduced in service before the TEE tname could be applied to internal services. These were just not repainted. For how much i love the red and cream, the green and grey fits these much better.
@aciddream2866 4 жыл бұрын
well come on red and creme looks like shit on a train. give us some recognition for that hahaha
@nicopavvi8494 4 жыл бұрын
Only the Settebello has different colors, others trains such as the "Ligure" and the "Mediolanum" used the normal colors.
@Bill_Woo 4 жыл бұрын
Paul, your sense of quality, the hard work you do, and no doubt impelled by an enthusiasm for greatness as well as your own creations - it all shines through. Plus one thing of note on this episode - somehow it avoided having old grainy period quality footage. Somehow it's all crisp, beautiful images and images in motion. That had to take hard work. Some out here that still support and appreciate that. Keep that inspiring drive and passion.
@mds-lf3kl 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊 Born in 1977, I didn’t really see the TEE‘s myself. But as a child, I had a set of model trains... including a TEE branded one. This video brought back some long forgotten memory’s 😊
@TheCloakedTiger 3 жыл бұрын
Man. That Italian train is a rail fans dream. Front facing seats with a HUGE panoramic window. When COVID is over, I want to travel so I can take a ride on that awesome Italian designed train. Totally gonna sit up front and make a awesome video...
@chybagus 4 жыл бұрын
I've been on the TGV and the train in Alaska and I love trains, but I have never seen one with a place to sit and look FORWARD like that Italian one!
@williamoldaker5348 4 жыл бұрын
I am never this early. Your content is grand and chalk full of wondrous information.
@CMDR_Elizium51RA 4 жыл бұрын
I absolutely LOVE that you mentioned Kraftwerk in this video, because I was thinking it the whole time. Awesome!
@Chevytravelleruk 4 жыл бұрын
RIP Florian...
@antoniomaglione4101 4 жыл бұрын
Dear Mr. Shiilito, A special thanks for this video. I have a special passion for trains, from the Marklin models of my youth, to learning locomotives in Old age. I find myself to watch American train videos but those are train passages and locomotive starting, mostly very casual stuff. Your video has been a very welcome surprise. For a trains aficionado (not trainspotter) such explicative - both historical and technical - are very welcome. There is a great community of train lovers on YT, by the way. Thank you again...
@treinenliefde 4 жыл бұрын
Small error at 4:36. The DE4s were the Dutch units and the RAm's were the Swiss.
@Romin.777 4 жыл бұрын
Nope. The RAM were dutch. Designed by a dutch woman also.
@theJellyjoker 4 жыл бұрын
8:13 "flying hamburger"
@sadams12345678 4 жыл бұрын
In this case the word "hamburger" means somebody or something from the German city of Hamburg and not a type of sandwich that you might buy at a fast food restaurant.
@unnamedchannel2202 4 жыл бұрын
@@sadams12345678, plus it was a sneaky reference to the legendary ghost ship Flying Dutchman.
@Philc854 4 жыл бұрын
Note: The fliegende (flying) part of the pre-war DRG train title in "Der fliegende Hamburger" refers to the action of "rushing away from" rather than the oft-translated flying, much like our English verb "to flee". While "Hamburger" is simply the demonym for an inhabitant or citizen of the city of Hamburg. Nothing to do with aeronautical foodstuffs!
@mgabrysSF 4 жыл бұрын
@@sadams12345678 - yes but it's still funny. Similar to when JFK called everyone in Berlin a donut.
@jjohnston94 4 жыл бұрын
Why not? The Italians had an Oscar Meyer Weinermobile. 6:24
@mixererunio1757 4 жыл бұрын
Kraftwerk made it into music album.
@MrArrakis9 4 жыл бұрын
hey Paul, just wanted to let you know that i've been subbed for quite a while now and every time you upload a video im always glad to click. your voice is like butter to my ears and you always manage to teach me something new each time i watch. keep up the great work and never stop doing what you do, we love you!
@Dave_Sisson 4 жыл бұрын
So he is the butter to your potato? Yum.
@THETRIVIALTHINGS 4 жыл бұрын
I love train-based videos so much! Interesting to watch and quite honestly, brings a sort of peaceful feeling to me.
@handyandyaus 4 жыл бұрын
You just made this gunzel (trainspotter/foamer) wet himself with joy. More videos about trains please!
@JohnJohansen2 4 жыл бұрын
4:15 That Italian version looks pretty futuristic.
@gustavfenk4021 4 жыл бұрын
I often sing Kraftwerk's song but change the words to Trans Pennine Express and use a comedy northern accent when travelling by train between Manchester and Huddersfield.
@CuriousDroid 4 жыл бұрын
Don't think you going to get quite the same level of service on the TPE though, even if they turn up :-)
@TioDeive 4 жыл бұрын
Curious Droid is the kind of channel that anything he touches he creates great material from and teaches us something. Thank you again for one more great video.
@johnmehaffey9953 4 жыл бұрын
You’ve got to give it to the Italians they certainly know how to design stuff, Bella
@BitchinSpectre 4 жыл бұрын
5:51 looks like an old Winnebago chieftain, love it!
@anywhoyt 4 жыл бұрын
Inspired by Airstream. Designed by Winnebago.
@RCAvhstape 4 жыл бұрын
Aerodynamics is for the weak! We will power through and force the air out of our way. Diesel fuel is cheap.
@mattbland2380 4 жыл бұрын
It would have been wonderful to travel in such style across Europe in the 70’s and 80’s, but I missed out because I was a kid and I didn’t know about it until now. Everyone goes on about the Orient Express but the TEE looks so much more up my alley. I like the idea they will run tourist trips on the restored trains. Thanks for this superb video. Keep up the great work 👍
@julosx 4 жыл бұрын
I think the very last ones were those from Paris-Nord to Brussels and Amsterdam until 1996.
@raducristiandumitrescu1806 4 жыл бұрын
Very nice documented and sense of nostalgia make this short documentary one of my favorite.Bravo ! Cristian
@Bill_Woo 4 жыл бұрын
Several details were astounding, such as having customs agents on the train so you can breeze through the destination station. Genius idea.
@handyandyaus 4 жыл бұрын
In a way it is still like that today. The Eurostar has French Border Control at St. Pancras in London and the Brits are at Gare Du Nord in Paris. Also, most western European countries are now in the Schengen zone removing the need for passport schecks.
@jjohnston94 4 жыл бұрын
There was a gag based on this on the old "Get Smart" TV series. At one point, the customs agent (played by none other than the late, great Johnny Carson) came into the compartment, saying they were entering Lichtenstein, and stamped their passports. He was back again about 5 minutes later, saying they were leaving Lichtenstein.
@FelixIsMyName 4 жыл бұрын
I wonder if you would ever do a video on just how amazing the Williams FW14B and FW15 F1 cars of '92-'93 were with their advanced systems never to be seen again in F1?
@kyotokid4 4 жыл бұрын
..glad they preserved one of the German VT11.5 and Italian Settebello train sets. I rode one of the German VT11.5 TEEs back in the 1970s while on an exchange programme there. Would love to get aboard an excursion run of the Settebello the next tIme I can make it to Europe.
@emmedigi89 4 жыл бұрын
The Italian "Settebello" also had a 4-coach variant called "Arlecchino". This is the one that was restored by FS Heritage Foundation and that you showed at the end of the video, not the "Settebello". Currently, no "Settebello" have been fully restored. But, as far as I know, one should be completed soon.
@microcosmonauta 4 жыл бұрын
Always enjoy your videos, and I was very pleased to hear that Kraftwerk reference. RIP Florian Schneider (1947-2020).
@Keex11 4 жыл бұрын
Hehe funny, my father worked in that exact control building (Stellwerk) at 2:34. The world is small 😃
@Philc854 4 жыл бұрын
Stellwerk = Signal Box
@TheExoplanetsChannel 4 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@Yora21 4 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure at 2:50 is hamburg Main Station, Platform 6. Been getting off there from the train from Lübeck so many times.
@piratexxxking 4 жыл бұрын
The restored trains looked gorgeous in HD. Fun blast from the past
@tdirtyatl 2 жыл бұрын
You know the beat started playing in your mind when you opened this video. "Trans...Europe...Express...." "Trans...Europe...Express...." "Trans...Europe...Express...." "Trans...Europe...Express...."
@TieFighterPilot 4 жыл бұрын
I am a 50 years old french and I never heard of this before.
@ashberto6041 4 жыл бұрын
I am a 50 year old Australian and have ridden the Settebello in 84 quite an experience being in the front going through tunnels.
@msolom9521 4 жыл бұрын
Damn, I'm a bit younger, but I just learned "mistral" was something else than an inter city train ... Thx Paul
@MiguelMorales85 4 жыл бұрын
Ignorance has no age
@loddude5706 4 жыл бұрын
@@MiguelMorales85 Tact teaches little.
@msolom9521 4 жыл бұрын
That why I love this channel. :)
@laberlaber 4 жыл бұрын
10:39 I think this is the tee that was scrapped in Villingen in 2020. RIP. I live near Villingen
@jamesfair5950 4 жыл бұрын
In May 1974, aged 23 and on my way to my wedding, I took the TEE from Rotterdam to Paris. I remember being surrounded by elegant, obviously well-to-do passengers. The very good lunch took up most of the midday trip, which seemed like it was over way too soon. Definitely the most memorable of all my train rides!
@jesserolfes 4 жыл бұрын
I have been in the German TEE from 11:05. The train went from Amersfoort in the Netherlands to Budapest in Hungary for the Sziget festival. It was really fun, especially because the windows could be opened and there was a party car, with a bar and beer
@variator7466 4 жыл бұрын
Kraftwerk brought me here
@TheExoplanetsChannel 4 жыл бұрын
Hi !
@InterVivos1 4 жыл бұрын
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@gracewalker4902 3 жыл бұрын
I am never this early. Your content is grand and chalk full of wondrous information.
@KamleshMallick 4 жыл бұрын
Would love to ride the Italian “SetteBello”
@domestik834 4 жыл бұрын
the routes from Amsterdam and Cologne to Paris are still in service today by Thalys. Even in 2nd class these are much more comfortable than travelling by car. Love it.
@hesspet 4 жыл бұрын
The Italian train head: Pure "Atom Punk". Such a very clever and nice design..
@AluminumOxide 4 жыл бұрын
Love the use of 2001 a Space odyssey classical music earlier in the video
@CuriousDroid 4 жыл бұрын
The piece of music is Blue Danube by Strauss and i used because of the 2001 film and it seems to work quite well.
@saratov99 4 жыл бұрын
Sad state of education thinking that Strauss's Blue Danube is just some classical music from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
@neithere 4 жыл бұрын
@@saratov99 at least people know about Kubrick, not just generic Hollywood blockbusters.
@theoryofthemobius 4 жыл бұрын
All this does is makes me want to listen to Kraftwerk.
@erikburman530 4 жыл бұрын
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@terryboyer1342 4 жыл бұрын
Fun fun fun on the autubahn.
@neilfletcher3868 4 жыл бұрын
Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie....
@UnknowNManFromMoon-pg5sh 3 жыл бұрын
You should, Theyre Amazing!
@theoryofthemobius 3 жыл бұрын
@@UnknowNManFromMoon-pg5sh Indeed so. I've seen them in concert several times in my lucky life and am desperately sad that the world lost Florian this year.
@rbd5868 4 жыл бұрын
Just to let you know, the foundation of the italian railway group just repaired an old settebello (with just 4 coaches called arlecchino). Can't wait to ride one
@eindeend 4 жыл бұрын
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@Butlerbob 4 жыл бұрын
As a child I often stood in front of the toy store window-shopping to admire these train sets and as a child with my own railway at home in the attic I absolutely loved it! One day I would let this TEE train run on my own track in the attic, unfortunately due to some unpleasant circumstances at the time it never happened again, no I did not have any trauma but it was fun. After that I never had or built a railway again, even with friends who had a railway and yes, I did not go there anymore in an attic, in short I avoided the train for years as a scary disease. But yes, you cannot escape it in your later life when I once came to drive for an employer who frequently used the train tunnel between Calais and Folkestone, the ferry took too long and the train was faster, although I have many times there. questioned if the waiting times at the tunnel once again got drastically out of hand sometimes up to 4 hours, if I had driven via Dover and taken the Ferry there I would have been on the other side of the Channel for a long time . Well, I just wanted to say this and yes I like to watch videos or docs that are about train, it can sometimes turn out strange in your life!
@-DC- 4 жыл бұрын
Italian Design is Amazing, Forza Italia ♥️.
@d3Rm0Nk 4 жыл бұрын
And once again Italian design is just
@beachbum4691 3 жыл бұрын
An important historical Video, thank you for editing and posting., At 77 years I should know more, but I was with British-Airways until I moved to Australia in 1973. Such is life - Again, Thanks for posting :)
@andrewhutchins2750 2 жыл бұрын
Hello Paul, thanks for this great summary of a classic railway system. Nailed it with the Kraftwerk references too! Grandson of a 45-year Great Western Railway man here and ours want to be engineer & scientist respectively, bit like their great-grandfather. We (company) had an adventure with Eurostar in 2016-18 doing their IT & telecoms change programme, and this is a bit special to know the history of this stuff. 2 hours 15 mins from St Pancras to Gare Du Nord (non-stop) is now normal, and safe too. Same as the Amsterdam route (we helped on that too). Sounds madness, doing 100mph/160kph under the English Channel (La Manche) through a tunnel. The Brunels (Marc & Isambard) would probably like to have a go at that too. Keep on with the good stuff. Best from us.
@Yora21 4 жыл бұрын
2:50 Is that Hamburg Main Station? Still looks just like that to this day.
@10aDowningStreet 4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful train . Fascinating content as always, thank you very much, very entertaining and informative
@ShermanM4A1E8 4 жыл бұрын
As mentioned before, the Swiss/Dutch TEE trainsets were split into 2 units RAm for the SBB and 3 DE4 units for NS. The head ends of the units were designed by Elsebeth van Blerkom, working for Werkspoor (Railindustry for locomotives, rolling stock and other equipment) in the Netherlands, loosly based on trainsets with noses already in service with the NS (Mat'54 and the experimental Plan TT, which would become Mat'64 eventually). The trainsets were cooperatively build bij both the Werkspoor (powercar) and SIG (trailers). These trains usually operated with 2 drivers in the cab and a mechanic in the engine compartment. On the flat plains of the Netherlands, Belgium, northern France and western Germany the trains would usually run on one of the two 1000hp prime movers and still easily reach 140kp/h. Trains usually had a 5-day schedule with every 5th day beeing a maintance lay-over in Zürich. Fun sidenote: NS Plan U (DE3) DMU's used drivetrain technology pioneered during development of the DE4 and were only put out of service in 2003.
@moow950 4 жыл бұрын
I love those iconic German locomotives from the past! 0:28 the left locomotive, 5:16 & 10:24 . You can find them in a lot of model train sets.
@dirty9358 Жыл бұрын
The Deutsche Bahn is absolute shit tho. Had to use it a lot when i was in service. I had to sleep in a hotel in Hamburg every other weekend because the trains were delayed to the next day... Really shitty when you wanna go home 😂
@WetaMantis 4 жыл бұрын
Love the Settebello, though people must be fighting for the front seat.
@mojoblues66 4 жыл бұрын
11:16 that 602 looks amazing!
@SchereSteinSturmgewe 4 жыл бұрын
The BR 602 is a modified version of the iconic BR 601 from the Kraftwerk cover using gas turbines instead of diesel engines. I think they look way more futuristic - or retrofuturistic from a today's point of view - than the original BR 601.
@stephensmith799 4 жыл бұрын
I boarded by mistake once. The guard wore a very intimidating but he was very understanding about it
@brentboswell1294 4 жыл бұрын
The Ontario Northland railroad picked up two diesel trainsets from Nederland Spoorwagen (the Dutch national railway) for use on their Northlander train (they were TEE sets). The Dutch diesel locomotives on the trainsets didn't survive long in North American service, so they converted a pair of GM F-units to pull the train (they put European screw and buffer couplers on the back of the locomotive, and put a generator in the back of the locomotive to generate electricity at the appropriate frequency to power the trainset). The rear cab control unit (which also has passenger seating) was kept intact, even though it looks nothing like an F Unit, and allows the trainsets to still be used in push/pull operation.
@fxarts9755 4 жыл бұрын
Imagine a Shinkansen like train network in Europe going through all european countries today ... how cool would that be
@fryncyaryorvjink2140 4 жыл бұрын
I wish we could get one in the us but I bet ticket prices would be insane
@bocahdongo7769 4 жыл бұрын
Just imagining Eurostar with more ticket price
@kevinh96 4 жыл бұрын
It pretty much exists, although it's run by all the different countries and isn't run under a single authority or livery. High speed trains run between most of the major capital cities and most larger cities and you can even buy tickets valid across Europe from Interrail. It's not difficult to take a train from Berlin to Paris, Amsterdam to London, Brussels to Vienna, Paris to Milan and many other major cities across Europe. In 1996 the EU launched the Trans European High Speed Rail Network, a directive designed to promote high speed cross border services and provide clarity on standards and inter-operability between the different systems. Even Spain has got in on the act with a new HS route linking their system with France's and allowing direct cross border high speed services across the Pyrenees. So it may not be a train network under a single operator and single livery like the Shinkansen but it's not far off it.
@MysterDaftGame 4 жыл бұрын
Some TGV in France go to foreign major cites like Barcelona
@GrumpyL5 4 жыл бұрын
Euro City trains run through several countries such as Germany-Czech Republic-Hungary or Austria. They tend to be the older style trains with good dining cars so a comfortable journey.
@shadowraith1 4 жыл бұрын
The Settebello has my vote for having "the look". :)
@exlibrisas 4 жыл бұрын
So glad that train travel industry is increasing in my country. Recently I had to hop a few trains to come back from my hometown to a city I live and work. Trains were only transportation, still carrying passengers during quarantine. I got a nice, wide chair and a table, there were electric outlets. And it was just second class. You can also buy coffee and traveling is quick. I used to train travel back when I was a kid a lot, but they were big, loud, oil smelling soviet trains with dark cabins. Still loved them.
@daveshaw9344 4 жыл бұрын
This came up in the middle of my binge watching Fred Dibnah videos, the music and history seems so fitting with his videos Thanks for the upload
@nathantherealtorsonoma 4 жыл бұрын
Leave it to the Italians to build a train that cool looking.
@DeltaTheJay 4 жыл бұрын
Just wanted to go to bed. Has to wait now :D
@jacobodhiambo2411 4 жыл бұрын
Yap
@michaelmitchell5380 4 жыл бұрын
I took the TEE from Amsterdam to Munich and Milan to Amsterdam in the early 80's and loved it, although the amenities were expensive, even for an American. Kraftwerk's "TEE" always brings back great memories and is one of my favorite songs, as is ABBA's "Day Before You Came" which is in a similar style. Very nice posting.
@infinitecanadian Жыл бұрын
So nice that some of these historic trains are being preserved. They deserve it after their service.
@gigakoresh 4 жыл бұрын
I like trains. I wish international high-speed train services were more developed.
@bocahdongo7769 4 жыл бұрын
It already, if not even better with almost twice the speed
@12345....... 4 жыл бұрын
Great shirt.
@joergbaumgarten3498 4 жыл бұрын
In the mid60s, I was a 5or6 year old boy, I've seen one oft the german TEE's in the Innsbruck train station. Very impressive.
@rodrigue_charpentier 4 жыл бұрын
You made a little mistake on the Mistral train : this one was never powered by CC40100. It was powered mainly by CC6500s which are still one of the most powerful locomotives ever built with 5900kw and were made by Alstom as well and designed by the same designer as the CC40100s
@Robert-nz2qw 4 жыл бұрын
RIP Florian Schneider
@Bill_Woo 4 жыл бұрын
3:13 Who is she? Even if she's 100 years old now, that is a fine work of art.
@smithraymond09029 4 жыл бұрын
She's likley in her 80s by now.
@imanolurruchigavina5661 4 жыл бұрын
You forgot to talk about the Spanish TEE the Talgo III RD and his incredible system that made it able to change gauges
@bsul03420 4 жыл бұрын
Excellently produced video. Such a change to have background music really in the background, instead of drowning out the narrative, as is usual.
@macdaniel6029 4 жыл бұрын
The good old days when people behaved well end everything looked nice. After 1990 everything in the world fell apart :( Seeing graffity on these beautiful trains makes me angry.
@MrJimheeren 4 жыл бұрын
What are you talking about, these lines were for the richest of the rich, Europe was still recovering from the Second World War and dirt poor compare to today
@thewhovianhippo7103 3 жыл бұрын
Trans Europe express would have been useful if it extended into Britain
@travelsofmunch1476 3 жыл бұрын
Ok Boomer
@m_g_khatravinsky 4 жыл бұрын
Hope I wasn't the only one heard of the TEE from the Kraftwerk song
@CuriousDroid 4 жыл бұрын
Believe me, if i could have used it in the background i would have
@SchereSteinSturmgewe 4 жыл бұрын
There actually was a postal service on German TEE trains, too. Letters were accepted in those private writing rooms (their German name is "Zugsekretariat"). The secretary would then call the German Federal Post Office to arrange transfer on the next possible station to get the letter delivered. And yes, I said call. Cellular phones - then called "Zugpostfunk" - were installed in TEE trains in 1955.
@Oriol123456 4 жыл бұрын
There's a Talgo TEE trainset preserved in Barcelona and mostly used for leisure and touristic trips around Catalonia.
@zazzrazzamatazz9970 4 жыл бұрын
I want a Curious Droid episode that is just a tour of Paul's closet- which has to be filled to the brim with a thousand of his awesome shirts! I think he wears a different one for each episode.
@12345....... 4 жыл бұрын
Madcap england. And they ship to the US for $6 some crazy how.
@TheSheiban 4 жыл бұрын
Nice shirt!
@davidryle 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, thank you , thank you Paul for the Kraftwerk nod. There was no doubt in my mind you would be mentioning it, but (as you said) I too had no idea of the subtle background of the album titles. This is another reason I look forward to all your videos and have been an ardent subscriber from the beginning.
@netking66 4 жыл бұрын
Rode a TEE once by accident - Cannes to Saint Raphael. Got on by accident with a local second class ticket. Asked a waiter where second class and he looked at me. Asked if it stopped at Saint Raphael - yes - big sigh of relief. Sat out the 20 minutes or so hoping a conductor would not appear.
@Nacmacfee 4 жыл бұрын
I had Kraftwerk's Trans Europe Express song in my head watching the beginning of this episode. Turns out it wasn't a coincidence :D
@axelvetter 4 жыл бұрын
I ran the Kraftwerk music video in a second window to add the appropriate soundtrack.
@koerier718 4 жыл бұрын
Looks like something out of Thunderbirds.
@BronyumHexofloride 4 жыл бұрын
you can hear the extended launch theme in your mind
@bramosborne3078 4 жыл бұрын
The SNCF 4100 was also made to the smaller British Loading gauge for possible use to the U.K. in the abandoned 1970s channel tunnel project
@Mayo_Jaabo_Hosko 4 жыл бұрын
Kraftwerk bought me here. Can’t believe the TGV went over 575 kms an hour. I love British, French, German and Japanese trains but that Italian settebello might be the most beautiful individual EMU
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