Vilnius - Berlin by Train - part 1: LTG Link Train Vilnius - Mockava (Suwałki Gap / Rail Baltica)
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- Опубликовано: 31 дек 2022
- Full Route: Vilnius - Mockava - Warsaw - Berlin
First Train: LTG Link Train No. 23
From: Vilnius Railway Station, Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis, Lithuania
To: Mockava, Lithuania
Route via: Kaišiadorys, Kaunas, Rail Baltica, Kazlų Rūda, Marijampolė, Šeštokai
Travel Class: Second Class
Rail Distance (Vilnius - Mockava): 210 km
Departure from Vilnius: 12h10 Eastern European Time
Arrival in Mockava: 14h41 Eastern European Time
Diesel Multiple Unit registration: LTG Link 630M-004
Built by: PESA Bydgoszcz, Poland
Rail track: Russian broad-gauge (1,520 mm)
Second Train: PKP Intercity Train IC 143
From: Mockava, Lithuania
To: Warszawa Centralna, Poland
Route via: Suwałki Gap, Trakiszki (Gr)
Brand Name: "Hańcza"
Train operator: PKP Intercity
Travel Class: First Class
Rail Distance (Vilnius - Trakiszki (Gr)): 15 km
Departure from Mockava: 15h14 Eastern European Time
Arrival in Warszawa Centralna: 20h13 Central European Time
Diesel locomotive: PKP IC Pesa Gama SU160-010
Built by: PESA Bydgoszcz, Poland
Rail track: European standard-gauge (1,435 mm)
Ticket bought on: intercity.pl
Pociąg LTG Link Wilno - Mokawa, Litwa
z przesiadką PKP Intercity z Mockawy do Warszawy i Krakowa
LTG Link Traukinys iš Vilniaus į Mockavą
su jungiamuoju lenkišku traukiniu iš Mockavos į Varšuvą ir Krokuvą
Поезд LTG Link вильнюс - моцкава, литва
с стыковочным поездом PKP Intercity из Моцкавы в Варшаву и Краков
Маршрут через: Кайшядорис, Каунас, Rail Baltica, Казлу Руда, Мариямполе, Шештокай, Сува́лкский коридор
Song: Blue Sky Thinking by Revo
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Thank you for this video! Thumbs up! Brings back some great memories. Went through the Suwałki Gap for the first time in 2004 when we were heading back to Germany from a longer trip to Samara/Volga. Back then our train route used to be Samara-Moscow-St. Petersburg-Riga-Vilnius-Warszawa-Kraków-Wrocław-Ostrów Wielkopolski-Poznań-Szczecin-Berlin-Erfurt. This was a fantastic ride and experience.
This is the first time that I watch a railvideo on one of the Baltic states and I must say we should get more of these!As usual the video is great and explanations are excellent.Vilnius does look beautiful.Thank you and Happy new year to you!
Nice video. Can't wait for the second part.
Как всегда, отличное атмосферное видео для любителей ЖД путешествий) Отдельное спасибо за виды ЖД вокзала Вильнюса. В детстве ездили c отцом по этой ЖД ветке из Лиды в Вильнюс на дизель-поезде. Купить вкусной литовской еды в голодные советские времена. И посмотреть на "советскую Европу". Насколько помню, прямо на вокзале была кафешка где можно было поесть вкусных литовских сосисок) Thanks for another great rail movie Doc.
If i can put your commentary into google translator, so can you. 😎
As always it is amazing how much you know about these trains and tracks and their history. 👍
I enjoy your captions giving historical and technical information.
There are quite a few different train/travel videos here, but yours are simply the best of them all.
Thanks for sharing such pleasant moments. I have a great passion for trains, their whistles, even the diesel smell on the tracks. In shorter, the whole universe that surrounds them. Great video. I couldn't blink my eyes enchanted by the lovely snow white Lithuanian landscape. From Belo Horizonte, the Capital City of the State of Minas Gerais, Southeast of Brazil, my greetings. Seeking more videos. Hugs.
An absolutely super report -- many thanks!
The best video so far!
Excellent trip report with a lot of information. Thank you.
Watching your videos from Belarus. Thank you! It's always very interesting!
I was lucky to ride on the PKP sleeper to Vilnius a year before the service ended. It only had two couchettes and one sleeper, and it was almost empty. The track between Sestokai and Kaunas was so bad back then that the train could only run at 30 km/h at certain sections, and it was REALLY bumpy. I really loved the trip though.
I took this journey around Christmas time and the train was full in some sections. Otherwise mostly full. I would say 50-70%. At least the LTG Pesa.
Schönes Video. Danke! 😊
Amazing video! Great train ride! Big LIKE
Happy New Year
Andrew
Excellent video! I know this railway line very well. Since 1999 I'm heading from Germany to the Baltics several times a year. Then this line was operated 2 or 3 times a day, including a night-train, which was stopped in 2005. And from then the train "Hancza" was the only connection between Poland and Lithuania, with junction at Šeštokai. After the standard gauge was extended to Kaunas, the line was operated by 2 polish trains to Kaunas, only at weekends. Now "Hancza" is going again to Lithuania, station Mockava.
The line from Berlin to Kaunas could be very attractive for a new night-train connection between the 3 countries.
The route on the classic Warsaw - St.Petersburg line could be operated too, with junction at Sokolka. The time for the journey from Warsaw to Vilnius would be more than 2 hours less than via Suwałki. But due to political reasons it's actually not possible.
6:31 in Poland M62 locomotive is called "Gagarin"
Can't wait for 2nd part 😊 I didn't expect so many PL-produced trains in Lithaunia
Fascinating report! And I have not used the forward button. ... I think I will use this link as well (with some stops). Thank you.
Happy 2023 to all railfans!
Thanks for the wonderful train video for this area. Nice to have reviews on trains where I can only dream travelling to. Please keep vlogging.
Ignore the propagandists that come to a train video site to spew their hate onto others.
BTW beautiful music. Who made it? Suits the scenes.
I have been watching these videos for quiet some time. Good piece of work. Connecting train journey to the history and respective railway stations is also a novel idea. Actually what thrills is the connection of various countries with a train and looks so easy to travel across the countries and continents. I have few questions and would like someone to answer them
1. What is the travelling cost of such journey and the requirements for a non EU national.
2. Ticketing issues and language issues. Especially in baltic States.
3. Is train travel better than air travel in such areas.
4. Are these tracks or the routes same as were in WW one or two.
Part 1 & part 2 of this video are VERY INTERESTING. I am waiting for part 3 with GREAT INTEREST & IMPATIENCE.
Very interesting and very beautiful video
Very interesting ! 🥸🥸
>30 minutes in Mockava, ca. 25 minutes in Suwałki, another 30 minutes in Białystok... and then we're wondering why the train is empty. :) But to be fair, I'm glad there's at least _something_ driving to Lithuania right now. Now let's see when (if?) Vilnius - Daugavpils will return...
Anyway, next time you're passing Warsaw - give a sign somehow, I'd love to get you lunch :)
with all the hate comments I am receiving here, I wont be making any long stops in poland anytime soon
@@doc7austin
Have u really received any hate comments on your vlog? Why? Because of what? It's hard to believe...
Super trasa !
Love ther video top notch
You mentioned in part II about your videos being long... don't change a thing!! I love your history details and no narration-I feel like I really took the trip... yours are the best I've seen so far. Broke American, can't afford a trip to the next town. Makes me wish I'd been born into Europe. The auto industry destroyed the rsilroads here and the decline and living standards are going down like the Edmund Fitzgerald. Plus I love the details on locomotives and equipment that you have. European electrics are beautiful. 👍👍👍
Also interestingly there were some people, seemingly travelling from Ukraine who boarded the train in Warsaw and travelled to Vilnius without reserving tickets at all. They just bought it on the train from the conductor which didn't seem to be a problem at all.
Buying tickets on the train in Poland is not a problem. An additional fee is added. In the case of trains of the highest category (EIP) it is very high, but the conductor can still sell the ticket with this fee.
@@przewoz83 Thanks, good to know that.
Very informative video, thank you, best from Hungary...
Train doesn't stop in Šestokai because there is no such a possibility. For 1520 here is a platform to terminate or change direction from Marijampole to Alytus (or v.v.) but not if you run to Mockava. It is possible to stop in Šestokai running from Mockava to Marijampole at 1435 only.
This is obviously wrong design. Not the only one at present route of Rail Baltica at LT...
Hi! Thank you for your videos, so much information and real sound instead of music! What equipment do you use to record?
Wonderful journey, with lots of information. Waiting for the next episode. Few of your lines got mixed up with the white snow 😃 So please take care about this.
Hi mate, in your opinion how many people use this service as trains looks empty...?
Hi there, I have a question about the booking process. When booking it, can I select seats/choose if I want to travel in a compartment carriage?
You do not need to sit there, where the reservation places you; just look for any free seat after departure and sit there
The soviet-era roof antennas look adventurous. Not much similarity with GSM-R. Could you provide some info on that?
13:55 uhm, the sculpture of Tony Soprano?
I wish this was running daily last summer when friends and myself traveled from Boston UK to Rīga LV by rail. We had to leave the railway at Białystok and get a Flixbus service to Rīga, not the best experience due to the horrendous standard of driving from the 2 drivers we had to do the 12 hour run from Warszawa to Rīga.
sadly there are currently no trains between Lithuania and Latvia either :(
Thank you for taking us along with you on this nice winter trip! Which map do you use at 37:44 ?
umap openstreetmap
Hi. Will be that possible to make the same journey this year? Are those trains going every day?
There everyday
Wow a wonderful train vlog, receives posts from paranoid people. Just glad I can appreciate a train review.
Awesome winter scenery, nice to see parts of the world many of us wouldn't see. Let's keep politics out of train travel as far as we can. Looking forward to part 2.
Did I include politics in the video?
I don't quite understand what you mean when you say that political themes should be avoided in these kinds of films.
When someone travels during wartime, it is obvious that this war can have an impact on travel or any aspects related to it, especially when we are talking about such a strategically important mode of transport as rail transport.
For as long as I can remember, doc7austin has been making films that address aspects related to political topics, but only when they have an impact on the railway issues described in the film.
For example - if we are talking about the fragment where we cross the border between Lithuania and Poland, we can see something unusual, namely, Ukrainian wagons set on bogies with a gauge of 1435 mm. Why are they there? Because, as doc7austin mentioned, the E75 corridor, which is part of RailBaltica, is used today as a bypass for the transport of raw materials through Belarus. Why? Because this country participates to some extent in the war, in which Russia used the territory of Belarus to launch an attack on Ukraine.
You cannot cover your ears and eyes and pretend that there are no aspects that are important from the point of view of shaping the history, both the real one and the one contained in the film's "storyline".
Imagine how the author of the film would tell us about Przesmyk Suwalski (Suwałki Gap) if he could not refer to political topics.
I have the impression that people run away from naming something as it should be named, in the name of imaginary political correctness and coloring the world.
thank you for your extensive comment; what is happening is that a lot of pro-ukrainian channels are attacking me personally;
@@doc7austin I think that it could happen due to the fact that you have shown part of materials from Russia 1 channel.
I know that people looking for information in many sources but in during this war the russian TV stations (and just media) are often quite far from the truth, so even when you try to see what they show it might be taken really wrong by other people.
My advise in case if you want to mention the war in Ukraine:
If you talk about the war between Russia and Ukraine, in the case of our region, practically 99% of people will be on the side of Ukraine. So if you are among those 99% of people, it is worth marking in the subtitles when you present, for example, excerpts from Russian/Belarusian media, that you do not agree with them.
You mentioned in the comment that "pro-Ukrainian" people attack you personally. Showing materials from the past (even today`s materials) is not a bad thing, because after all these countries have their own history, monuments, etc.
However, it must be clearly stated that you dissociate yourself from what Russia is doing today because then, in fact, the film itself closes the mouths of people who attack you.
Looking at the part when you show news from Russia 1, you did not write in the subtitles that you are concerned about what Russia is doing, but you only asked a question (which could have been perceived perversely) whether you should not be worried about the degree of tension between Russia and NATO.
In the background, you can hear something like "...na*i Ukrainian..." and that might be the key of people who are attacking you because you have choosen from their and our perspective the worst sources of information. 😐
Regardless of that issue, the video is great and I`m waiting for Part 2 😀
@@doc7austin as one of your long time viewers, i find it hard to believe you are so naïve that you don't understand where the critique comes from in this case. You're picturing a very propagandized war report on russia 1 (no really, the stuff they say lmao, and that fighter jet scene? Come on)- sure, you can have deniability in simply wanting to capture the war atmosphere in a quirky yet depressing way, but no editing or supporting text suggests such intentions. Really, a simple "..." would have sufficed. In fact, in the same segment, you talk about whether you should be scared for a NATO induced escalation, frame the border between lithuania and poland as a 'narrow strip of NATO dividing russia and belarus' when realistically, we're not really talking about mother Russia are we, that's the kaliningrad (königsberg) exclave.. if anyone is dividing anyone with a narrow strip of land there, it's Russia. Again, you are technically correct and I believe you had no nefarious intentions with it, but it's impossible to "see" that. As a longtime viewer I know you are not a warmonger and you are probably not on the side of Russia, but the way you portrayed and framed the situation in that section of the video is, at best, extremely unfortunate.
Only 8 trains a day from airport?
Mu suggestion for this route on CURRENT infrastructure without upgrading anything:
1) get a few standard gauge DMUs which would have 1st class and be suitable for long journeys.
2) use new DMUs on Kaunas-Warsaw without need to change any locomotives. This would save long stops in Mockava, Suwalki and Bialystok.
3) New DMU should be able to go no less than 160km/h as this is the speed limit in some sections in Warsaw-Bialystok section (current electric loco can only go 125km/h).
4) Also avoid some stops in small stations including Mockava itself and a bunch of small stops in Poland.
This according to my estimates would be able to shave off ~2 hours from the journey time so Kaunas-Warsaw could be done in ~6 hours. Vilnius-Kaunas connecting train could be electric and also have 1st class seating and EJ575 are comfortable enough for this purpose.
This is the only way to actually make it work without rebuilding/upgrading the infrastructure but it would only need some new (can be second hand) standard gauge DMU trains. Sadly with current long journey time, 3 long stops 20-30 min. each along the way and bad LTG train it's difficult to see this route being very popular. Still it's great that it exists at all.
This route has no economic potential, in fact everything east of Warsaw is a billions-dollar investment that will never pay off unless the political situation in Russia changes.
@@times4937 Complete nonsense.
It is nonsense to invest in high-speed rail in the least populated region of Europe, a region with agricultural and service characteristics. Of course, you can build a sauna in the desert in the name of political ambitions, but such an investment will in no way improve the economic situation in the region. Because this is a case where we are dealing with duplication of functions. I wonder how seaports and airports from the Baltic states view this investment? After all, we are talking about a parallel route in relation to sea routes. In Rotterdam and Hamburg they can open bottles of champagne. All routes on the East-West axis are contrary to the interests of the countries of this part of Europe, the optimal connections for this region are the construction of trade routes, communication routes on the axis Baltic-Black Sea, Baltic-Mediterranean. Route Talin - Thessaloniki, Talin - Constanta.
@@times4937 That's a very poor assessment and indeed knowledge of the economies of the Baltic states.
I am talking about a certain area of the regional category because it is a regional investment. This is a real assessment of the economic and demographic potential of this region, compared to other European regions, I mean regions with high-speed rail connections. I don't know if you realize but the economy of Lithuania is the level of GDP of the city of Warsaw, do you know what it means? The three large European cities represent the economic and demographic potential of the three Baltic states. I am not depreciating the value of these countries, I am simply invoking objective arguments.
Train was sold out during christmas holiday days, but only 56 or so spots were reserved for international tickets. So it couod have been that some or many of remaining seats were available. In that case you have to buy separate tickets to mockava and ankther separate from movkava. Comes out higher than 25eur though.
Why achilis heel kalinjngrad russia line in case of war? Would not it be closed if the war break out? I mean you probably do not respect that treaty if there is war going on?
No stop in sestokai probably because of something like there is no propper peron or sonething like that, something along those lines.
Polish train does not go all the way to Kaunas, because there is no time in schedule to reach it and go back.
This was the reason why we had polish train Kaunas - Bialystok only and not reaching Warsaw.
Hmm, so an organisational problem? Could a shorter stop in Bialystok help to reach Kaunas? And perhaps a faster locomotive between Bialystok and Warsaw?
Mockava is, with all respect, nonsense as a changeover, luckily you can (have to?) stay on the train until the PKP-train arrived, but there's absolutely nothing there.
👍👍👍
When will be part 2
in 2 weeks
The Bum's adventures that indicate the mountains and tunnels of the Carpathians is the Hobo adventure that excites a Gypsy FTN interest.
done Vilnius - Berlin in 1989, if I am not mistaken but the cars was lifted and the weels base has been changed. Will do this once again soon
The emblem in the left upper corner of the initial video screen is not the emblem of the CSTO.
no one knows the csto emblem; thats why i used the soviet one
Hancza is the name of deepest lake in Poland, located in North East region of the country.
What is a porvoniza??
conductor/train attendent
@@user-zk7qg1wi9o attendant
It is provodnitsa, but the video is very good. Many people in Vilnius do not know about the train to airport. On one of my recent visits to Vilnius, I asked my local friends about the train to airport and they didn't have a clue.
well.. at least not walking across the border like some kilometers away to another country.... for the difficult times it is a good solution ! very good video!!!
из Вильнюса в Белосток напрямую не проедишь а надо пересадка и горько смотреть.
It's not an airport express train it's a train that goes to jasiunai and just happens to stop at the airport
If it is serving an airport you would have though it deserved a better service. Just how many flights land there.
thank you for the tip! Might actually try it... it is my feeling PESA has some designer who immerse himself with those "pissed off" look-like loco faces HAHA! Ceske drahy are running RegioShark from the brand so it definitely looks like "a shark" but I call the face "Neanderthal's Brow Ridge" And if you actually try to Google PESA products almost everything lately looks like that!
29:51 kaunas to balstoge train stoping in šeštokai
🤝🍋🍊🍋🍊🍋🍊
Уважаемый автор я обращаюсь с вопросом о том где сейчас смотрите информацию и в каком источнике ??
Zamiast skupić sie na temacie odcinka, prowokacyjne wstawki z Russia 1. Im wiecej polityki tym mniej merytoryki, Stracisz wielu subskrybentów....Do tej pory naprawde lubiłem ten vlog ogladać...
Nice video, but the train from Kiev to Riga is withdrawn now not only because of pandemic ;)
Do you seriously use Rossiya 1 as your source of information about the war in Ukraine?
yes
@@doc7austinCongratulations, Agent Austin!😂
@@doc7austin 😮😮😮
plz avoid watching this tv channel
While neither the Lithuanian or the Polish rolling stock are particularly interesting, the winter scenery through out this journey is spectacular. Thanks for sharing.
Austin Please come to India this Monsoon....
MUMBAI TO GOA or PUNE TO GOA
Or now in Winter you can enjoy NEELGIRIS for sure (Nilgiri toy train Is one of the steepest Railway route in the world)
not correct .. (2 dots) correct ... (3 dots)
I am a local in Vilnius, but can you tell me what is provdniza?
this is a train attendant
@@doc7austin Ok, so that's a conductor or ticket inspector
There are officially provodnik and provodniza working on some trains travelling through Lithuania
@@doc7austin You mean Russian trains passing From Kaliningrad to Moscow?
yes
What would be better for the route is actually a single carriage or locomotive that is variable gauge 1.435m to Russian Gauge 1.520m tracks safety Systems are SHP Poland & former Soviet Union ASLN/Klub-U if needed to run into Germany & Austria Punktförmige Zugsbeeinflussung then ETCS Level 2 full supervision. The rout features two versions of DR Baureihe 120 M62 Taigatrommel 1.520m gauge and 1.435m gauge. I wonder if it's actually feasible to restart Eisenbahnfahre Saßnitz Mukran Memel or not? If yes that can bypass Suwalki Gap which is actually the new Fulda Gap of NATO
The EU is committed to standard gauge throughout EU/Europe. I would agree, this is the best decision.
@@michaellaudahn Thanks and for the EU Standard Gauge tracks meeting EU member state broad gauge 1.520m-1.668m the solution is variable gauge bogies which is seen in Spain
Great comment EpicThe112, however I have certain problems to understand what it exactly is that you are trying to say - except that I mean to hear that you go in for variable-gauge bogies. In other words, your thesis is that those countries in Europe/EU that still use a different gauge from standard gauge 1.44 m should just keep using it? But as I said, several months ago, the EU recommended general use of standard gauge throughout Europe/EU, even if a conversion for the countries concerned will be a medium to long-term project. Spain has been on this course for many years now and making significant progress, with also Portugal following along. The baltic states are in the process of building their standard-gauge Rail Baltica, which will probably be extended to Helsinki via the FinEst tunnel. It remains to be seen how Finland will then deal with this new gauge situation. Finally, also the island nation of Ireland was expressly mentioned in the EU's enumeration. Makes good sense, because then train ferries can be used, not to mention that the conditions for a later tunnel link would be in place.
pesa built trains on platforms from alstorm,bombardier,siemens
12:34 Just to reiterate - this is Russian channel covering news from the rebels' and russian perspective. I have no clue how you actually got the broadcast in the first place.
The hotel is only 20km away from the border with Belarus
@@doc7austin 35 km, not 20 km
The miracles of modern television transmission methods!
17:27 I wonder if Poland is a shopping and budget-travel destination for Lithuanians as it is for Berliners
It is. As for the Russians from Kaliningrad and Czechs.
In summer time on Baltic coast a lot of Swedes is coming by ferrys. Generally to do any shopping. Plus mass of people from euro zone countries. Even being in EU, Poland has its own currency, wich makes it very competitive.
Much to my annoyance, it's been the policy of the Polish populist government to keep the złoty weak towards the euro, ever since they came to power in 2015.
@@tomaszarchutowski3290 Since there are both advantages and disadvantages to having a weak currency, why does the weakness of the zloty annoy you? (For about 20 years, I made my living as a currency trader.)
People from Lithuania travel to Poland's Suwałki to buy groceries and other products.
My assumption on why PKP IC train wasn't certified to go all way beyond Mockava to Kaunas is a fuel efficiency
I'm from Lithuania 🇱🇹
Lithuania 🇱🇹 will have rail baltica in 2025
I wish you. But you can't be 100% sure. If eventually USA decide to attack Russia, Baltic Countries will be wiped by NATO. The buffer zone. Low possibility but who knows what are globalists planning for future...
I can't wait for it, but I think 2025 is a bit too optimistic. They mention a planned completion in 2026 on their own website and, well, it's a government project, so I would add another year or two, just to be sure ;)
@@podr0znik1 they say 2027 or 2028 at least! Only part I saw construction at this moment is at Riga's Airport
@@JudeMoneymaker Spierdalaj
Yo! What's the story behind the statue of the dude in his underwear @13:50? 🤪
this is Zelensky
@@doc7austinNo it's not
Lithuanian language reminds me of Latin and Greek, with its "-us"s "-is"s and "ai"s
Po pekapowsku. Trzy godziny na manewry wagonikami 🙄
Too much politics. I, an Estonian, want to travel in peace to other European Union countries via Latvia and Lithuania. I want to live in peace like every other European, without thinking all the time under a great stress burden, whether the Suwalki gap will be cut or not. Nevertheless, we are very much aware of the situation. It was Estonian President Ilves who raised this problem (Suwalki gap topics) in 2015.
We, the Balts, know the Russians better than anyone else in the West, and that is why we joined NATO at our own request. Russia is and always has been an aggressor state and Russian society is thirsty for revanchist conquests, if only they have the power.
Nevertheless, I would like to feel like an ordinary human being and look at my home (I remind you, I am not from Lithuania) without constant reminders of how Soviet it all is. This sovietness is a shame. And that tendency to emphasize it all the time gives good fuel to all kinds of nimble conspiracy theorists and extremists on the right and the left, who are always talking about bad Jews and how "NATO is attacking". Otherwise your videos have been in high quality, but as said, you don't need to be banging your head on geopolitics all the time to ride the train.
Yes we all want to live together in peace and freedom but when you have a megalomaniac power mad despot as your neighbour it’s hard to ignore the threat that is always there, at least being part of nato gives a certain sense of security, stay safe and hi from Ireland
so you solution would be not to produce and publish videos about the railway on the suwalki gap?
so I should not publish any train reviews about russia?
@@johnmehaffey9953 It is by no means my intention to ignore what is happening in our immediate neighborhood. But there is too much of this topic around here. Traveling by train could give you the opportunity to forget the tension, because the nerves can't stand it otherwise. When I travel from Tallinn to Milan via Riga, Vilnius, Warsaw, Krakow, Brno, Vienna, Graz, Maribor, Ljubljana, Venice and Bergamo, I don't want to focus on Russia. Here in the Baltics we have the EU, Schengen area, Eurozone, OECD, NATO etc. Estonia is at the top of the world in basic education en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_Student_Assessment#PISA_2018_ranking_summary When it comes to the Eastern Bloc in Europe, Estonia is behind only Slovenia in terms of GDP per capita nominal, and Estonia is not far behind. I would like to be more in the thoughts of reconstruction, not to destroy my organism by thinking about the destructive ideas and actions of the Russians all the time.
@@doc7austin No, the very good thing about your videos is that you don't talk or show your face, but the talk comes as subtitles and instead of your face I see a train, landscape, etc. When I go to sleep at night, it is soothing to take a trip around Europe with you. But the focus on the Suwalki Gap is unsettling. Besides, there is no such area as the Suwalki Gap. Suwalki Gap is a geopolitical term, not a region. The region is named Dzūkija and Sudovia (Sūduva).
12:20 You use Russian propaganda, why??? Better use Russian opposition RUclips channels, they have English subtitles available
Good one and up to date especially the NATO War against Russia! Keep up the good work!
NATO war against Russia? In what world would that be? When even Igor Strelok, whom you celebrated in 2015 for the escalation in the Donbass, says otherwise. The statement has really not aged well....
Suvalki is a part of a old lithuania rimerber that
And Vilnius is part of Belarus remember that also
@@longtail7770when? LOL
@@avigdonable Until 1940
You remember that Vinius was a part of Poland before II ww 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Underwaterstories Belostok was a part of Lithuania and many other towns:))))))) i know that
You watch “Russia-1” channel in hotel in Vilnius and expect to get reliable info? 😂😂😂
Well, the propaganda rhetoric on Russia-1 tells you that relations between NATO and the CSTO are terrible
You really think that Western TV broadcasts only the truth))
Both Rossiya-1 and CNN/BBC broadcast propaganda
@@doc7austin Agree, but I addressed my comment to Hack Hack. Seems only he has reliable information))
@Knob Jockey In the modern world, any information can be found on the Internet.
Speaking about Russia 1, both the euro and the American media are quoted and discussed there, since you need to be aware of what the enemy thinks about you. And we know ;)
Please don't tell me about the independence of the Western media, it's just ridiculous.
Perhaps only Fox News is the only channel with an alternative point of view, as it belongs to Trump. The rest is under the total control of the NATO states.
You say NATO border. While this is correct, you should have said EU and NATO border. I agree with you about eight airport express trains a day. They should adhere to the flight schedules. Perhaps an hourly service? If I was in the Lithuanian government I would move the capital city to Kaunas. Twenty kilometres from the border with Belarus is a little too close for comfort.
Yeah airport expresses should be synchronised with planes, otherwise they are just empty. Many other cities also have this problem.
Oh yeah you really wanted to find truth on russian tv?
of course, I know this is propaganda; i assume everyone watching my videos should know this
@@doc7austin Thanks for answer. Missunderstand you
So amazing that Lithuania as EU&NATO country still brodcasting such channel as Russia-1 in middle of Ukrainian war
what are you talking about?
@@doc7austin i mean, Russia-1 is not just propaganda channel. Speakers on this channel everyday call to leave Ukrainian cities without electricity in the winter cold. Sorry for polical comment here, but now its hard to separate war from everyday life.
No suprise these trains are empty. This is train travel in 19th century style. A regional commuter DMU on the Lithuanian branch, no comfort, train change in bitter cold on a forlorn station in the middle of nowhere, and 9 hours of ride... by air same route in one hour. I believe they keep this service just for the sheer sake of it, mainly on political reasons. Perhaps cheaper direct buses are running as well. What the three Baltic nations really need would be a HSR line, Tallinn - Riga - Kaunas - Bialystock - Warsaw - Posznan to Berlin, connecting with the German HSR system into western Europe. 250 to 300 km/h instead of 120. Well, instead Europa pumps all money into this war. Fair enough, they did not start it. But that service here has no future
Not anymore. It is a new route, so it's normal that you don't have a lot of passengers initially.
Don't you follow that the main purpose of Rail Baltica is a commercial cargo connection? Passenger traffic is secondary if not a tertiary thing.
@@fidenemini111 I have difficulties to find a need for a cargo-only project. Lithuania, Latvia and Estland combined have less inhabitants than London or Paris only. For Finland, it really doesn't make sense. Since the Russian-Ukrainian war it is clear, the land connection via St. Petersburg will be closed for long, if not decades. Finland has become an island again, so to speak, so no use in loading freight onto ships and then again onto railcars. Climate change will result in the eastern Baltic sea will remain iceless all year long, making ship travel to Finland (and Baltic countries) easier.. And finally, thanks to the billions from Brussels, Poland is upgrading her motorway system extensively. It would be better to build a four-lane motorway from Tallinn to Bialystok. Given the evolving military picture this would be even favorable for Baltic national security. I rather would invest the money floating into Rail Baltica in changing the track gauge in the three baltic nations from Russian gauge completely to European standard gauge, after that, dual tracking the route from Kaunas to Bialystok suffices. Rail Baltic was designed in the illusion of an ever-lasting European peace. That dream is over, and rail projects need to follow that reality.
@Oldschool500
Yes, that's right. The train is really slow, but a lot more comfortable than busses. And cheaper too. But not everyone has the possibility to take a flight, by different reasons. The new tracks in Lithuania are ready and ensure a fast journey. But Poland is slowland. They yet didn't built anything from the Lithuanian border via Suwałki to Białystok.
Lithuanian language sounds like Russian. It's said that it could be some kind of sound of the proto-european language.
Whats a utterly nonsense! It doesn't at alI! Its not even Slavic group of languages but Finno-Ugric.
@@jkpakosz6698 lithuanian is not in the finno-ugric group
@@andrebyche31
Yes u right. Lithuanian belongs to Baltic languages. But still it doesn't sound like Russian.
@@jkpakosz6698 well, for me it sounds like Russian. Maybe for your ears it doesn't
HOW DARE YOU
Good job! I like your reports. Hopefully NATO doesn't plan to start more serious conflict with Russia (and your country China).
Russia is the aggressor. I don’t know who brainwashed you to think that NATO is at fault.
@@szymex8341 no point to discuss with you. Definitely you have not knowledge about basics of current geopolitical movements. If you want to know more about the Ukrainian conflict you need to start digging in documents. Start from time when George Soros sent to Ukraine his most trusted Eastern European employee Leszek Balcerowicz. Poor Ukrainians are victims of decisions made not by Russia but by American/Jewish elites. I only hope Zionist guy Zelensky will be judged properly in future for everything what he has done to Ukraine.
@@szymex8341 Can you believe it even? It doesn't matter what problem we're discussing, they will pull Soros into literally everything. Has he been blamed for climate change already, and for the Swedish invasion in Poland in the 17th century?
@@szymex8341 Where does she winning? Soon there will be nothing left of Ukraine.
@@szymex8341 In a parallel reality))
So EU invests millions of dollars in Rail Baltica and trains cant go any further than they used to because someone hasnt certified a locomotive? So all that money and they are not any better than what they were under Russia/Soviet Union 😂😂😂😂
suring the soviet you the leningrad express (berlin-warsaw-grodno-vilnius-daugavpils-leningrad)
There is no Rail Baltica yet. All is under construction.
@@pik33100 but standard gauge rail has been built to Kaunas, why no break of gauge and change of trains there, in stead of small Mockava?
@@barvdw There are talks that the train change will happen in Kaunas from summer.
@@mjk8019 much better. Heck, even small Sestokai has more amenities than Mockava station.
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