Overnight From Stockholm to Luleå in Swedish Lapland. Just How Good IS This Train Journey?
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- Опубликовано: 16 фев 2024
- This is one I've always wanted to do and in today's video it's happening at last! Join me in Stockholm as we jump onboard the overnight sleeper train to the far north Sweden, deep in Lapland. My expectations were high, so come along and see how it is in reality...
Filmed on Thursday 11th/Friday 12th January 2024
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Did the Swedish/Finnish border to Helsinki in 1983 , had to change guage in Happaranda/Tornio. Really smooth wider gauge Finnish trains.
Happy days !!!
Boden !!!! Stopped there and camped in a municipal park in June '83. Didn't get dark at night !!
Good for you😅
migrants migrants migrants everywhere thats sweden for you
Watching this on an unusually hot night in the hills above Medellin my Colombian wife fell in love with the snow scenes you filmed. So there goes the planned vacation to France and instead I am going to be freezing in Sweden. Thanks Steve. Thanks a bunch.
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Damn dude, I hope you didn't freeze your nuts off (assuming you have visited already).
Honestly our winter has been horrible. Been close to 0 or above it for a lot of time. we did have a few cold spells that were nice and enjoyable. But its mainly just sticking itself to 0. I want atleast -10.... anything else is just not really comfortable.
@@sebastian114 Still colder than Colombias average temperature of 27 degrees.
@@KamiKaZantA Not sure what the other dude was talking about, it was the coldest winter since 2013
Steve's head stone will read.
" I'm really knackered now"
Having a wee rest
I don't know if anyone already said it but the reason everything went a bit dark before departure was the locomotives being disconnected and shunted to the other end of the train and the wagons just running on battery power during that time. Excellent video, as swedes we love seeing our country from a tourists eye! :)
Your country is absolutely beautiful and full of wonderful traditions.
The only downsides are the harsher weather + too little sun. Otherwise Sweden seem like a nice and well managed country.
I really enjoyed the trip and agree the cabin seemed batter than the Paddington to Penzance night sleeper. A very exciting journey, I love the Nordic scenery. Look forward to the walk around later. Stay safe Rod
@@Mindphaser1 Summers in Sweden are glorious, though.
🚅 don't you all enjoy railroad
🚈 trams, trains etc are just so cool
🚞 take a ride in my ''transportation'' folder, (folder 2 in my playlists) :)
Christmas decorations come down on 13 Jan here in Sweden on Saint Knuts Day (Knutsdagen). On this day the Christmas tree plundering takes place (julgransplindring). People dance around the tree and remove the treats that hang on the tree before the tree comes down.
nice to know that it’s due to tradition and not laziness 😎
Maybe it has something to do with the darkness - the short days. You want to keep all the Christmas lights a little longer.
There is even a classic Christmas song with the phrase;
..och julen varar än till påska... (..and Christmas lasts until Easter..).
But there are probably not so many people who follow it...
@@RandomerFellow but then we say "men det var inte sant, men det var inte sant för innan det så kommer fastan" which means"but that wasn't true, but that wasn't true because before that comes the fast". So you forgot to include a key part. Can't understand how you could forget that
Swedish tradition is to keep Christmas decorations up until 20 days after Christmas; then the tree is 'plundered' - from the days when it would have been decorated with candy and apples.
And you were so lucky to get there at all, not to mention only a little delayed. This winter has been so bad the head of SJ issued a general apology to all travellers (I'd have preferred a refund, myself).
Thanks again Steve. Every time you looked out of the window at that lovely snowy landscape, I found myself thinking "Well, if that was Britain... the trains wouldn't be going anywhere" 🤣
There is something special about being on a train travelling through a harsh environment. Coccooned safe and warm looking out. Steve, in a boat, the net preventing a fall from the bed is called a Lee Cloth. Probably the same on a train.
So true mate!
I think a trip on a sleeper train has got to be my most favoured method of travel.
If you really wanted a train journey somewhere dark, cold and empty, you could have just gone to East Kilbride.
Beautiful 🤩
Beautiful 🤩
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Just like Glasgow always cold and dull 🤣🤣🤣
Even as a swede i completely forget how wide stretched Sweden is 🙂
The distance from the most northern part of Sweden to the most southern part is 1572 km.
As a comparison, it's 1496 km between Montrose and Bilbao in northern Spain.
That sign 20:50 got me thinking about this.
It's closer to Prague (1053 km) from Stockholm than to Boden from Stockholm (1094 km).
Thanks for this journey!
If you start from the southern tip of Sweden and travel south, you are almost in Africa if you travel as far as to Sweden's northern border.
Yeah, for me this was a wake up call when I studied abroad in Japan as a youngster and we talked about our countries compared to Japan. I was shocked to learn that Sweden is bigger than Japan! And that's how 19 year old me learned that population size has nothing to do with country size (yes, my geography teacher failed me).
@@yggdrasil4986 Most of the japanese are packed into a few plains as well, so much area covered by mountains that are not feasible to build anything on.
@@yggdrasil4986 Have you looked at a map before though? There's a clear size difference between Sweden and Japan
"Crunch crunch crunch," that was some cold dry snow. Our 3-rd grade geography books in the USA showed a map with igloos at the top of Norway & Sweden. Ha ha big buildings and modern trains up there.
To be fair there is the ice Hotel, and as a kid me and my dad did make little cabins of packed snow in the yard
OH snap, I live in Luleå. 😄
Welcome!
Steve is the train too narrow for a wheelchair ?
Awesome! Thank you!
my condolences
Me too
it would be tight, not sure if a wheelchair would fit. At least not in the sleeper cars
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The price you paid for the ride to lapland to include a bathroom in your room is a tiny bit cheaper than the club solo room on the Caledonian Sleeper and much cheaper than the double bed room you get on the Caledonian Sleeper. So i would say its worth that journey and you get to fold the top bunk up for more room, have more storage space and a hairdryer in the bathroom!
Spent a lovely time there in Sweden back in 1965, after saying goodbye to my Aunt in Moss Norway, taking 12hrs by train, to Kalmar to work, they were slower back then. It was summer and the flashing of the sun through the windows as it passed through many forests,had made my eyes bulge by the evening when I had arrived.
A decent breakfast AND running water?! Clearly not the Caledonian sleeper ;) Great video as always Steve!
Thankyou for the journey…from my bed here in the evening in Perth Western Australia…another stinker tomorrow..43 deg Celsius! Lovely seeing all the beautiful white on white scenery and stunning sky. Thanks again Steve😍😍🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘
And me....... Now on next years bucket list.
Would love to visit WA one day. 🙂
Stunning train station in Stockholm especially with the festive decorations
Its not that the conductor trust you, its that he have a list of who is going where, and dont need to check the ticket. The only check the ticket if someone sits wrong ot if there is a issue with the system.
Both the wagons and the loco where originalt desinged in the 60s with a slight update in the 80s. New sleaper wagons are on order, but they are not fully desinged yet. The new wagons are going to be much larger taking full andvantage of sweden larger loading gauge
"The ladder was banging all night"
Yea.. that is part of the experiance ;)
16:32 the left one is a wake up alarm and the right one is a call to the staff
I swear the locals that use this service must play "spot the RUclipsr" on every trip! 🤣🤣
Very true!
i made this trip in november 2012 , changed at Boden central and got a 3 hour bus to Jokkmokk to do some dog sledding , magical journey , although my cabin had 5 other blokes in it haha although on the way back i got talking to a a fella working on the train who when he found out i was a fellow railway worker gave me a cabin to myself back to stockholm
That looked like winter is supposed to look, Steve! You can tell how cold just by listening to the sound of your boots squeaking on the snow. Thanks for taking us with you. That was quite a journey, and Stockholm station looked magnificent!
That was another great train adventure. The cost of the cabin is a good investment, fourteen hours in a chair is torture and doesn't make for an interesting video. Thanks for sharing that winter landscape.
Gosh what a fab journey. The sky at the junction was utterly beautiful!
From here in our Australian summer 🥵 that snow looks very enticing and beautiful
The lady at 13:32 shooting Steve a look as he talks to the camera is wonderful!
"high rise buildings" - could have told you that; this town has a steel plant, coworkers of mine did automation there. As for original sounds: the creaking of snow under your shoes is telling me exactly how cold it is; exactly the kind of weather that makes my beard freeze with breath.
The trains during this time were very hot because it was extremely cold for a while. I took the same train on the second of January, and it got down to -40. The train had to stop to warm up its breaks (with the wind chill of a moving train, that's about -70), and for that ~1 hour stop the cabin heating was off. If I had the train the net day, it would have been cancelled because of the cold. As it was, my train arrived about 4 hours late.
Yeah we hit a seriously impractical -37 in luleå first week of january, I saw some gasoline cars that just up and died on the road. If the diesels got going theyd at least stay on. Max closed from their heating elements dying etc.
I don't remember it having been that cold since I was in kindergarten
FAB, another for my bucket list .. Swedish people are lovely, and kind xx
thank you,dear Steve,for taken us with you....................enjoy the journey............Blessings and Greetings from Daggy,Kiel,Germany☘☘☘whenever you come to Kiel again lts have a coffee together
Nice video from my home country.
Well done as usual!
Thank you Steve.
Steve, your phtography and filming captured an excellent slice. Well done that man.
That was great Steve realy enjoyed that.but yes it did look a bit chilly.you cabin was small but there was everything you needed.cant wait for Tuesday's video to see this something special.thank you.🚇🚉🚞
Rode it to Boden and then to Narvik last year. Great experience. I like the Coop in the station. You can grab 3 fresh pastries for 30kr. Honestly it's really cheap to travel to Sweden right now, especially if you are ok with eating from supermarkets
Can't wait to take my first "Steve Marsh" kind of train trip to Sweden or Finland. I've learned so much from watching you. For one, a sense of humor goes a long way.
Nice trip! I‘ve been up there several times, but either came by plane or drove my camper up. I hope you visited Gammelstad kyrkstad while you were there. 😉 I’ll have to wait for the video to come out. And for the Stockholm part: let me know, if you need an itinerary for your next visit. 😉😅🎉 There‘s a lot more to see than just the light in centralen. 😂
Oh cheers! I didn’t make it there this time, but it’s always good to have an excuse to return!
Well I waited a week for this after last week's tip off and I certainly wasn't disappointed!. What I love about your videos are their authenticity, so I certainly appreciate your comment on keeping the noises real. For those of us following in your footsteps it gives us a clear idea of what to expect, and the still warm chicken at departure was a masterstroke. It's a shame you couldn't continue on to Narvik as Narvik is a stunning, and very interesting town, but it gives you a good reason to revisit. Thanks for this latest episode and I'll be looking forward to the notification that the bonus episode is up!.
Steve, the sounds on your recording can be very evocative........the sound of the crispy, glass-like snow as you left the train said it all for me. Quite brilliant!
Taylors of Harrogate should sponsor you. Whenever I see you knackered, I have to get myself a tea. 🥴🤷♂🤗 Me, I had a 33 hours working days once. I was a basket case after 30. You held yourself bloody well, Mate!
And again: Great video! 🤩🤗
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I hear that you’ve found one of the secrets of being a successful traveller Steve. 😅How, at every opportunity expressing your thanks !😅
Can you imagine all that snow in the UK ?? the country would grind to a halt.!!!....No trains of course would run as it's (" the wrong type of snow")😅🌨⛄....
According to Swedish tradition, January 13 is the time to get rid of all the Christmas decorations. So I am happy to see that they were still up at the central station when you were there. Did you try the fish roe spread (Kalles kaviar) with your egg? It is delicious. Umami packed.
Up here in north(ish) Finland, the Christmas lights go up early and come down late. Like, months late. We need the cheer... especially in November. I prefer to think of them as winter lights.
Northern Sweden looks....COLD! Where are the Reindeer? I love how all the snowy surfaces have so sort of grit spread out. Maybe you just don't film it but Pro Travel Tip...I always lock my door whilst it is open and "test" the key to make sure it works before closing the door...being an old retired hotel guy, I don't want my stuff trapped inside a room/compartment I can't get in!
Great video, so much enjoyed it! can't wait to see the bonus video 🙂
thanks for a great video such a lovely place and got to love the snow
Great video Steve. Thank you. Looking forward to the delights in your next video ❤❤❤
Another superb video Steve. Looking forward to what comes next.
What a treat! Thank you, Steve👏I loved watching this. ❤
Loved this video Steve. Thank you.
We are enjoying your video as always Steve. Looking forward to the next leg of your adventure.
Excellent video as always Steve , I'm looking forward to seeing the next one 😀.
Once again thank you Steve looking forward to part two
GM Steve saw you counting sheep Going to your train Stockholm station looked kool train was cozy and efficient but expensive can’t wait for your tour of Lapland get gloves on 😘🌺🌸🐑☕️
Brilliant video Steve. Lovely scenery Xx ❤️
Great Video As Always Steve
Another great video, mate!
Love your videos as ever Steve
Thanks Steve, very nice trip, cheers
Wow...Brilliant video Steve !
Another awesome video Steve 👍👍👍
Another great video!
Great video as always 👍
Brilliantly done
Brilliant video!! Beautiful scenery!; a winter wonderland! Hope all is well, take care
A real Journey. Keep adding ideas to trips. As always thanks for the hard work and lack of sleep. Cheers
Wonderful video Steve, as usual..Thank you for taking me along with you 🤗
Enjoying this
Nice one Steve a great watch
Great vlog, very informative and interesting. We are new to your channel but thoroughly enjoying it so far. Thank you
Wow thanks Steve. I enjoyed travelling with you! Amazing scenery.
Good video as always, btw I live in Luleå 👌🏼🇸🇪
Cheers! What an incredible place!
Great film 🎥. Great train ride and wonderful scenery.
Fantastic video as always Steve, loved seeing the train journey and the Stockholm station looked really cool.
Another enjoyable & interesting video on the channel well done 👍👍👍
Brilliant, just had the notification, we'll be viewing your video tonight. Looking forward to this one.
The things you do just to keep me entertained🙂. Good luck & best wishes to both of you👍
really enjoyed, thanks so much or tack sa mycket.
Wowser, a beautiful country. Canee wait for the next episode Steve 🥰
Fun trip and beautiful train. Thank you Steve. Get some more sleep!
Amazing and interesting vid Steve Well done,
Loved it Steve👌
How lovely was that. Thank you Steve.
Good morning and that was a nice train ride. The view was so pretty. Excited for the next video. I have always wanted to see the beautiful lights in the sky. Thank you 🤗
Looks great.
Hi Steve, your train journey was great. You were still able to capture the beautiful landscape from the train windows. Great trip, thanks! 😁👍
You are knocking these videos out of the park, Steve! Looking forward for the next one in your Swedish adventure.
Wonderful, as always!!!!!
Thanks for keeping it real Steve, including the noises.
Thanks a lot for sharing, great video! Hello from Stockholm!
Thank you for taking us along with you, so very interesting.
Corridor looked claustrophobic though !! Safe travels.
Great video Steve really enjoyed it. Loved the new hat too. Hope you are both well
Another great viceo, Steve. You have the ability to really bring a journey to life.
Great video as always. Stunning location. Looks cold
Looks very festive Steve Love it brother
Great video.. enjoyed watching..
Lwooked a good journey!
Love it 😊
Another great interesting vlog thanks from Australia
Thank you ! I want to go on this journey now. I love the sound of snow crunching under foot. Have a wonderful day, and be safe.
Beautiful! Thank you, Steve