PRESTIGE CLASS on Switzerland’s newest Luxury Train! - GoldenPass Express
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2023
- It's finally time to take a ride on-board Switzerland's newest luxury train: the GoldenPass Express! I'll be riding in Prestige Class, the highest level of comfort on this new train, which is just perfect for viewing the mountainous scenery.
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Journey Details:
Origin: Montreux
Destination: Interlaken Ost
Company: Montreux Oberland Bernois (MOB)
Train: MOB Ge4/4 + GoldenPass Express, and SBB 528 'Stadler FLIRT'
Accommodation: Prestige Class Recliner (S1+)
Distance: 116 kilometres / 72 miles
Price: 128.00 CHF (£113.10 / €128.30 / $139.30)
Time: 3 hours 15 minutes, arrived one minute early
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This made me cry.
I made this trip in 1999 with my late sister.
Next year I am making the trip again in her memory and obviously will do the trip again in the new train.
To see the train going through Gstaad which she loved and into Interlaken where we based ourselves for a week while travelling around Switzerland just made my day.
Thanks
Mob is a great name for a company you trust your life and safety to!
Switzerland also has SOB and FART as train companies as well :)
You would be surprised to find that many US dangers simply don’t exist in Switzerland.
@bahnfan09yes FART but its only around Locarno and Ascona at the Lago Maggiore and also it makes the beautiful trainride from Locarno to Domodossola
Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi SA, the Regional Bus and Rail Company of Ticino in Italian.
@vulc1
Does it have some very fine people... on both sides? 😁
Really excellent work overall. The beautiful journey, the careful diction, the quality of footage, and last but not least, the appropriate pronunciation and correct spelling in closed caption, all make me a subscriber! I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. Thanks!🎉🎉🎉
His pronunciation of Montreux was incorrect.
Switzerland has some wonderful scenery on it's railways. Well worth paying extra for the luxury on board.
The view of the Swiss Alps appears to be from a different world altogether --- mesmerizingly beautiful. Moreover, the train built by Stadler AG is indeed superb.
Like the eraser stadler??
As a swiss person I don't need the Prestige class. It looks nice, but I respect these for tourists, who visited Switzerland for the first time.
That’s very kind of you.
I took it one week ago.its good for us as a tourist.Second class fares also is amizing with a lot of amenities.especialy thwe restaurants
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As we know this proverb "Blue are the hills that are far away from us".
Very nice video.
Montreux is my home for almost 30 years but I've never taken the MOB. I always see it in the morning when I commute to work but I always go towards Lausanne via CFF.
One day I'll try it 😎
Switzerland was my first foreign holiday with my parents and brothers, and remains my favourite country. I didn't understand your spoiler (without alert!) that we wouldn't make it to Interlaken Ost, as we obviously did!
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You have to try out the Lucerne Interlaken Express. I found it one of the most underrated cogwheel railways.
I rode the Golden Pass recently - twice! - once to Zweisimmen and then a second time only to Montbovon where I changed to the train for Gruyeres, a much more scenic option than the 'normal' route via Palézieux and only 10 minutes longer.
I think you missed a trick however by not getting, or featuring, a train using the Belle Époque carriages. A step back in time to the, pardon the pun, Golden Age of train travel (if today isn't classified as a new golden age as well), the carriages are absolutely stunning and while not matching the new trainsets in comfort make up for it in spades with character. The Prestige class on the new trains is totally overpriced, especially considering you can't even [currently] ride them all the way to Interlaken.
The Belle Époque carriages also have the distinction that second class is utterly indistinguishable from first class. I had to check that I hadn't wandered into the wrong section by mistake because I could not tell the difference. Maybe there is a different meal service or something, I don't know, but the interior was exactly the same. Save loads by buying a second class on the Belle Époque and riding in the equivalent of first!
The trains are also back to running on a hourly schedule. Purchasing e a point-to-point ticket, such as one might if using the half-fare pass, allows the freedom to hop off the train at any station and then grab another one when it comes through.
I would contend that the Rochers-de-Naye railway, also leaving/arrving Montreux, is more spectacular than the Golden Pass. Being a cog railway it reaches high altitudes very quickly: 45 minutes after leaving Montreux you are at 2000 metres with stunning views over the Bernese Alps to the Eiger and Jungfrau. A must-do if in the area.
Well put, thank you.
I also chose the Belle Époque carriages which are very limited service daily, I believe there is one in the morning and one in the evening only. This was back in 2017.
I love Montreux and the MOB. Went on it so many times as a kid.
I can also recommend the RhB from Chur to Arosa. A amazing train with the train driving through Chur like a tram and the climbing all the way up to Arosa.
The seats are made by BorCAD in the Czech Republic and are the same ones as on the Rocky Mountaineer.
And very similar to those used in LeoExpress Flirt EMU's :)
I enjoyed your tour program very much. I love Europe, especially Switzerland. Your program reminded me of the cities that my family and I visited, such as Mont Buffon and Chateau des. Thank you for your enjoyable tourism program and your excellent presentation, and I will always be one of your followers. Goodbye. My name is Habib Ibrahim from the State of Kuwait.
I found the scenic views absolutely amazing maybe one day I will be able to take that train or would certainly make sure that I would take my cameras with me
Thank you for this great video. The Prestige Class seating is truly superb. What a shame that the BLS are finding fault with the MOB gauge changing bogies, and one can but hope the issues will quickly be resolved.
They actually reverted to regular service just days after this video was uploaded.
A review of the spectacular BLS line (Bern -) Neuchâtel - La Chaux-de-Fonds would be cool for several reasons: The great views, the MIKA trains also run on that line, the unique stop with direction change at Chambrelien, the line will get replaced with a more direct line mostly through tunnels (unsurprisingly called "Ligne direct"). Possibly the journey can be connected with the Le Locle-Les Brenets line that will be replaced by a guided bus or the CJ line to Glovelier (with the perfect timetable synchronisation at Le Noirmont thanks to a long stop of the branch to Glovelier at Saignelégier).
..- or with the french „american prairie“ line to Besançon.
Comparing it to the normal service trains, it has very little EXTRA for the money. Any train in Switzerland is clean, punctual and well run. The views from ANY train is spectacular - so why go for the snob value? It costs dear!!
Loved your trip thru Switzerland. Love riding the rails and see all the wonderful trains. Thanks.
😮OMG what a spectacularly beautiful country. Perfect for journey by train.
Thank you for this video... excellent presenting. 🇦🇺
beautiful journey! Seems the alps have a bit of a problem deciding if it was summer or winter, it looked so surreal at times!
it's just the altitude ^^
@@michellehawk282 lol I know, but it looked really splendid :)
that's called sping😆
That morocco train journey loos like a really nice package. Around 5k for 15 days of the most amazing Moroccan destinations mostly by train.
Looks you went to fairyland . Great rail journey in a wonderful train . Sorry to hear that you had to change trains due to the perceived damage to the tracks but I suppose it's better to take precautions in such a delicate environment. The interiors are spanking new and well appointed. Thanks for a lovely ride .
I currently live 1 hour 45 mins from Geneva so make frequent forays into Switzerland. I love Swiss trains and just find Switzerland fascinating with all its languages and, obviously, beautiful scenery. I've yet to travel on a metre-gauge train but I have 'spotted' them at Chur and Brig. Maybe next trip, you've whet my appetite!
Yes, you should cover the IC 2020
Beautiful scenery! Love the trains!
Very fine report!
(Note: the cars are from Stadler, but the bogies from Alstom).
I was fascinated to watch the bogies being slowly widened or narrowed in Zweisimmen - a matter of 2 minutes.
The whole technology is very new, and not all the trains have been delivered yet.
The BLS not only fears damage to its switches - such damage has already occurred. Hence the resort to changing trains at Zweisimmen.
In addition to the new "gpx", MOB runs most long-distance connections between Montreux and Zweisimmen with various special trains: Panoramic, Belle Epoque (in the Art Nouveau retro look) - and this without any surcharge! These trains are marked in the timetable.
You should have take the Belle Epoque carriage
As I hike in this region every now and then, I‘ve already taken all sorts of trains - including, as a child, the old 3000series from the 1940s which needed two locos for long through trains. (This train is still depicted at a wall at Montreux station.) Aditionally trains pulled by the brawny 1930s double locomotive and the powerful and racy double railcar from the 1960s (or 1970s?).
To say nothing of the steam loco journey from Zweisimmen to Chamby: They had to bring back the loco and wagons after steam days in the Simme valley - and I happened to be there exactly in the right moment 😁😁. My eyes are still half blind from the smoke in the tunnels…
You did a great job of showcasing Prestige Class. Excellent video.
A beautiful video. Thank you!
Excellent video. Better weather than I had in 2016. You were very lucky.
The lake at Geneva is called Lac Léman. Great video alltogether!
I have to say that these carriages do look so nice and the scenery is so spectacular. As Switzerland is a beautiful country in Europe 🤩😍
Simply......wow. On my Bucket List now. Thank you.
Nice viewing. I really love old good livery. And it's just like British that you chose tea without hesitation.
(Seeing relationship with 南海電車)なんだこれは・・・たまげたなあ。
Many years ago
My partner and I
did the Interlaken to Montreux line
and it was a great experience
especially coming down into Montreux.
We did a circuit
Interlaken to Montreux
Montreux to Fribourg
Fribourg to Bern
Bern to Interlaken
It was an enjoyable day out
and in Fribourg
I bought a copy of
Émile, ou De l’éducation
by the Swiss author Jean-Jacques Rousseau
as one of my students
was writing her dissertation
on this work
and Fribourg is a bilingual city.
Great vid! 2nd class doesn't seem too shabby, either.. Ever discover why your fancy EMU was loco hauled...?
It's actually not an EMU, in fact just a rake of carriages with a cab on each end. Once they can run on standard gauge again, a round trip would use both ends' cabs. The locos are always on the Zweisimmen end. :)
@@SuperalbsTravels Ah! Thx for the clarification!
@@SuperalbsTravels On the older 1993 stock, the loco used to be in the middle and there was a "bubble" above the driver at each end like in a double decker bus!
This is so amazing! Warm welcomes from Bern
What a train ride a wow on the train
Stunning!
Try polish regional trains, Polregio. Some of polregio units were buildet in 1970.
Superb!
Amazing trip.
Very nice ....thank you ❤
Absolutely gorgeous
Absolutely beautiful route and train - we want one of those trains from Manchester to Holyhead 😂❤️
It looks divine.
Great video!
Important to mention:
The Golden Pass Express nowadays runs with an MOB locomotive on the 1 meter rail network from Monteux to Zweisimmen. There, the bogies of the passenger coaches change to the normal gauge (1435mm). This procedure takes only a few seconds. After that, the journey continues with a standard gauge BLS locomotive.
Btw. there are videos on RUclips where you can see the bogies change their wide.
I'm glad they sorted the problems! :)
Great video Superalbs! I stayed in Geneva in March if I had more time I would have loved to explore more of CH
Your this video and this efforts are very informative program. Thank you for given this very beautiful and very interested presentation ❤️👍
Lovely. I would love to go on this trip. Greetings from Canada.
Nice train trip.
So from what I've read starting on June 11 it seemed BLS finally allowed the GPX train to use their route thus eliminating the need for the transfer
Great trip. Hope in the future this train can do full trip route.
Great train.
2nd, love your videos!
Absolutely second to none.
MOB stands for “Montreux Oberland Bahn”.
Continue to be impressed by your pronunciation. I really need to work on mine, probably best that I stick to the UK for now 🙈😂.
Very nice
Yes ❤
I can't believe how some passengers prefer to text on their phones rather than enjoying the views, for which they had paid to see!
Muito lindo trem boa viagem ai boa tarde ótimo video clássi
Amazing views and amazing prices 😂
It was beautiful! 😍
9:29 That's Europlug socket and Schuko socket, thank you very much!
You are going to a lot of troubles calling the Leman, lake Geneva
lol when you told the price of the breakfast i first wondered how cheap the ticket pricing is :D
Oh, you should try the coffee-voiture in the Mika trains. I use it daily for commuting and find it pretty relaxing.
i like it
Thank you. Fun, indeed, and Swiss state-of-the-art, as ever. But what about the dining? Thank you.
I'm surprised this train still hasn't gotten regulatory approval for dual-gauge through running. It was literally built to change gauge from 1,000mm to 1,435mm but as you said, BLS and other entities refuse to allow its service.
Was thinking about a summer trip, after ridicules high price for flight - just 1.5h prices starts from £150 one way in EasyJet O_o, to staying one night in Montreux £200, train from Geneva £58… and then I stop checking XD But lovely video 2 watch :]
You forgot to mention the third railway in the Montreux Station- to the Rocher de Naye on 80 cm gauge…it’s a cog railway.
Château d’Oex is the home of the Piccard -Family August- Jacques & Bertrand. A worldwide balloon meeting is held once a year.
Plans exist for the new trains to complete the journey In Luzern, when the technical issues are solved…
Just imagine getting PAID to drive those trains
I know right. Must be one of the best views out of a train cab in the world.
@@mdhazeldine Front seat view to climate change and global warming with the alpine passes seeing a lot of greenery lately.
cool
I suggest you try Doğu Ekspress, departures from Ankara riding all the way to the Kars, located in the northeast of Turkiye. It's a 1.310 km journey that takes about 25 hours. Btw, you can use a polarizing filter to manage reflections when shooting from windows. There are also clip-on options for smartphones.
You have to be careful with polarising filters. They only work at certain angles to the sun and glass, and certain types of window (with multiple layers) can cause a rainbow effect. They can be useful, but they can also completely ruin your shots if you're not aware of this.
The real reason for the delay in running through onto BLS was the problem with the sliding bogie technology (ala Spanish Talgo style). Also, I was disappointed to note that the Prestige seats do not exactly line up with the windows, so your seat only had about 2/3rd's of a window to see out of.
prestige class and they cannot get the seats to line up with the windows!! something else the japanese routinely get right even on regular trains.
The seats are lined up with the windows. The reason why the window starts "behind" the seat is because the seats can be rotated the other way around and then this way will still align with the window.
@@dziltener So in other words, it's pure luck whether you have a full window depending on whether the seat has been turned? The seats are not lined up with the windows (see 3min 54sec). The only winners are the first 2+1 forward facing seats which have a full window on either side. If the inward facing seats are "reversed" then they will still have the pillars to partially block their view. I suspect the real problem is the depth of the Prestige seat (from front to back) which is too great and a compromise has been reached.
@@harri2626 No, ffs... The seat is placed that way so that no matter which way it is turned, you get a full window width's worth of window. That window is also wider than a normal window for exactly this reason.
£113 actually feels cheap considering standard class to aberdeen single have been £219. I think ine day I would adore to take that train.
> Montreux
> Lake Geneva shoreline
me: SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKE ON THE WAAAATER
Gotta say the price was pretty decent. It’s about the price of a first class seat between Stockholm and Gothenburg (though a meal is included in that price).
12 CHF. for that breakfast is not expensive ….
The GPX was refused by the end of febuary by BLS beacause they noticed abnormal wear and tear on the tracks, mainly on the switches. Investigations are still in progress. During test runs no abnormal wheel spacing could be detected. On the MOB tracks the train is still running, but they noticed the problem too. I heard that the train is currently allowed to drive only 20 kph over switches.
Currently they're talking about a renewed introduction in October, but from my experience and reviewing the progress they've made... i guess next timetable change seems more realistic.
However, this is not the first time that BLS has been unsure about this train. Shortly after the train was introduced, it was only allowed to run at max. 80 kph because they had uncertainties with the brake type.
Very unusual indeed. Hope things work out else it will be a shame if the train has to run under restricted conditions or will have to be modified.
Montreau was a home to Freddy Mercury Queen’s singer. There is a statue in his honor there.
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You’ve now done 1 of the three big panoramic trains of Switzerland. Where are the Glacier Express and Bernini Express? Great job though, just missing the lead carriages they used to have where you sat in front of the driver for that service.
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update 1: As from June 10 (2023), the gpx runs again directly from Montreux to Interlaken.
update 2: from the same date, 3 additional gpx will run - but till July only Montreux-Zweisimmen, where one has to change trains.
BLS is not refusing to allow the GPEx to use their track "out of fear it causes damage to the track", BLS banned the use of the train after 2 months of use, during which time the train was causing damage to track. MOB spent CHF 63m on a gauge-changing train which it can now only use on its own track.
15:30 yes I would love to see the film from the ordinary train.
Hi great video btw. May I ask which side of the train should I sit for a better view, if I’m travelling from Montreux to Interlaken? TIA. 😊
I fell in love with Switzerland when I visited a few weeks ago but it drained my wallet. I would love to know how to live there and prosper financially. Beautiful country and beautiful trains.
The simple answer is that wages are correspondingly high. A grocery store worker earns something like 4000 Swiss francs per month, which is about 4500 USD. (Not that poverty does not exist in Switzerland - it does.)
Also, these luxury tourist resorts are also incredible expensive for Swiss people. Its not like every Swiss goes to work daily with the Golden Pass.
@@nilnurium231Woulnd say incredibly expensive, but its definitely up there.
Great video! What's that song around @7:40?
I see you are on the shores of lake geneva, but I dont see any smoke on the water🤔
Thank you for always delivering wonderful videos.
I'm really looking forward to seeing it.
I have one favour to ask.
It will be a reference when using the toilet, so please take a picture of the scene where the toilet water flows (the flushed water is sucked into the underfloor tank) when visiting the toilet.
Please.
Why on earth would you want to see that? 🥴
@@paulthiel5145
Thank you for your reply.
Simply, I'm interested in the toilet system of railroad cars, and it's also a reference when I use it myself, so I'd like to see it by all means.
I will tell you so that there is no misunderstanding, but what I want to see is the scene where clean water flows before using the toilet.
Yes please, give us a review on the Ic2000/2020!
Our guests from Luxury Travel Switzerland visit Montreux and Interlaken on their 10-day luxury tour through whole Switzerland. GoldenPass Express train is unique and luxury. The guests love it very much… ❤
Great Video 😎
Pretty sad, that they have the technology now, to switch the gages, make it a direkt line and all those new locomotives and carriages that would support that, but they can't use any of it because of BLS... 😕
(Would've been nice to include that in the video too 😉)
It is included isn’t it?
To be fair; it's not that BLS is like stubborn or something. They indeed had damaged switches, or the frog of it to be precise. And it is pure luck there was no derailment. The cause is still to be determined, but the issue seems to be, that we do not only have a different gauge, but two totally different specifications (in contrast to standard gauge vs. spanish gauge, which are way more common to each other). Especially the tolerances and sizes of the gap between the (regular gauge) stock rails and the guard rails and how they interfere with the wheels, which also need to fit the meter gauge specifications, are the main focus of ongoing investigations.
As a frequent resident on this train for hiking and snowboarding trips, I find it laughable to pay for that "presitge" 128 CHF, while a normal 2nd class ticket with halffare discount pass on the exactly same train costs 26.5 CHF; the difference in comfort is nowhere to justify it. I almsot always see prestige car empty, unless, of course, some ego-hurt people want to show off ;) It's definitely not worth it for a local and even for a normal tourist. You can even get yourself that croissant, juice and a coffee for some chf 8-10 and imagine that you've been "pampered", lol.
Albs, I've travelled on the Golden Pass a decade ago in literally golden color carriages from Lucerne to Montreux. Is the GP express different? I found the route not exactly the same. Also one annoying thing about the panoramic windows is that it gets very hot during summer. I had to wear a hat to prevent myself getting sun burnt!
We need scotrail HST first class review
God I wish Switzerland was as nice to live in as it is to visit ://
Oh, how come? :(