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@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
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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 :-)
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.
@@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.
@@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.
“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
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...
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!"
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.
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
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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...👍👍👍
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...
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 😊
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.
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.
*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 😁
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
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.
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!
Great video as usual. Thanks. But the Fast train in France is called TGV, not TVG as you said at 6:19 and 10:20 . TGV(Train à Grande Vitesse). Thank for your great videos. I have watched all of them :-)
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 👍
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.
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!
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 :)
Excellent summary, Paul. Well done. But it left me wanting to know more, not so much about the TEE, but about other rail technologies. This is a rich pool of knowledge and fascinating facts. Please do more on railway subjects. Thanks. I enjoy all of your CD videos - factual, clearly presented, and well researched. Keep it up!
@@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.
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!
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?
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.
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.
..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.
Really enjoyed this. Stunning trains and interiors aesthetically pleasing. I love travelling by train. I'm currently saving and planning for a train / tour of several countries over a four week period. So I'll be going to France , Spain Portugal. I'm subbed and happy to share this.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 😂
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.
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.
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.
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!
Very well done recounting of this generation of train travel in Europe. I have always especially liked the Germany versions of the trains. I had never seen the Italian. It is good that they are restoring one, what an artful piece of train history.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
One of the things I like about your videos is that I can rarely guess what you'll cover next! Very interesting - thanks. If only there was a true European Express network these days. We travel to Hungary twice a year, and I've always hated flying, so longed to do it by train, but wth the difficulties making connections, it becomes a two day, expensive and tiring slog. Now, 'post'-Convid, I wish even more that we could do the trip more easily by train...
Excellent video Curious Droid. You have one of the best voices, to boot. Perhaps trains are set to make their comeback? Night trains are already on their way back to power...
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@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
Great video as usual !!!
Hi Paul. French high speed rail is TGV for Train à Grande Vitesse, and not TVG as you said twice in your video
many trains in this video, i was playing the game called trainstation all the trains are there except settebello train
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TGV. Not TVG. TGV like Train à Grande Vitesse (High Speed Train)
Someone noticed it 👍
Came here to say this!
In his earlier videos he did say tgv but now it caught me too
scrolled too much to find you !
Yes
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 :-)
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.
@@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.
Great piece of quriosity. Love kraftwerk and trains so i thank you Paul
@@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.
“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
“In Vienna, we sit in a late-night cafe
Straight connection, TEE
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express” Kraftwerk TEE
Warte mal, ich bin auch aus Wien. Was meinst du genau?
Did you ask for an autograph?
I am taking autobahn 🧐🧐😝
I was thinking the same song!!
TTE🙂
From station to station
Back to Dusseldorf City
Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie
SATIS-FACTION.🎵
This would have been a great setting for a James Bond adventure.
Or an updated retelling of the 'Murder on the Orient Express".
From Russia with Love has a similar train scene in the Orient Express
That's what immediately came into my mind 😆
@@Vespuchian We already had a rework of that movie in 2017 please don't.
@@julesb6816 Ah, well. I was thinking of something simply based on the story, not a film of the book itself. Fair point though.
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...
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!"
wins the style contest by a flying mile
That Italian design was beautiful.
RocKITEman _ 2001 it looks like a mix between some of the Romancecar trains from Japan and so,etching from the Jetsons
@@counterfit5
The first was not Romance car of Odakyu.
It wasPanorama car of Meitetsu.
They all retired 2005,
💚🤍💖💚🤍💖💚🤍💖
@@APW_Manbow Sad to hear. I remember a few nice trains between Osaka and Kyoto.
@@ElectricUAM
It's Keihan or Kintetsu.
Recently, Kintetsu has launched a wonderful limited express "Hinotori" (Phoenix) between Osaka and Nagoya.
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.
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
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.
@@fermitupoupon1754 And the uncomfortable flight.
But given the considerable cost difference it isn't surprising that is wasn't viable.
@@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
The Italian Settebello forward lounge looks like the most awesome railfan ride ever. I just hope no-one is in a rail crossing accident.
Settebello was and remains the most beautiful train in the world
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.
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.
That settebello sure is gorgeous
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...👍👍👍
I am never this early. Your content is grand and chalk full of wondrous information.
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...
RIP Florian Schneider.
Rip
RIF
It would also explain the Dr. Magnus Pike hand gestures...
@@Peasmouldia Is it Pike or Pyke? I think it´s Pyke. Science!
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 😊
The Class 602 in Nurnberg museum is simply ridiculously beautiful. It's hard to believe that someone actually built it.
Very nice documented and sense of nostalgia make this short documentary one of my favorite.Bravo !
Cristian
I absolutely LOVE that you mentioned Kraftwerk in this video, because I was thinking it the whole time. Awesome!
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.
You said TVG twice. That actually has to be TGV as in Train Grand Vitesse.
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.
@@CuriousDroid TVG flows off the tongue better!
Great video! Love the Kraftwerk references. I can empathise as far as the dyslexia is concerned, easily done!
Saying it 'en francais' like "tae, jae, vae" makes it easier.
@@stevenm8970 Not in French
I love train-based videos so much! Interesting to watch and quite honestly, brings a sort of peaceful feeling to me.
He's a time traveler from the 60s, that's why he uses those psychedelic shirts.
I bet he’s the Fourteenth Doctor
Paisley was a creation of Industrial Revolution era England. Victorian I think.
@@coreys2686 Paisley is in Scotland and the pattern came from India/Iran originally.
Is that batik?
looks more like 2260
*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 😁
I laughed so hard
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
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.
well come on red and creme looks like shit on a train. give us some recognition for that hahaha
Only the Settebello has different colors, others trains such as the "Ligure" and the "Mediolanum" used the normal colors.
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!
So he is the butter to your potato? Yum.
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!
RIP Florian...
Kraftwerk made it into music album.
Great video as usual. Thanks. But the Fast train in France is called TGV, not TVG as you said at 6:19 and 10:20 . TGV(Train à Grande Vitesse). Thank for your great videos. I have watched all of them :-)
You just made this gunzel (trainspotter/foamer) wet himself with joy. More videos about trains please!
Always enjoy your videos, and I was very pleased to hear that Kraftwerk reference. RIP Florian Schneider (1947-2020).
Small error at 4:36. The DE4s were the Dutch units and the RAm's were the Swiss.
Nope. The RAM were dutch.
Designed by a dutch woman also.
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
4:15 That Italian version looks pretty futuristic.
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 👍
I think the very last ones were those from Paris-Nord to Brussels and Amsterdam until 1996.
8:13 "flying hamburger"
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.
@@sadams12345678, plus it was a sneaky reference to the legendary ghost ship Flying Dutchman.
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!
@@sadams12345678 - yes but it's still funny. Similar to when JFK called everyone in Berlin a donut.
Why not? The Italians had an Oscar Meyer Weinermobile. 6:24
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 :)
Beautiful train . Fascinating content as always, thank you very much, very entertaining and informative
Excellently produced video. Such a change to have background music really in the background, instead of drowning out the narrative, as is usual.
10:39 I think this is the tee that was scrapped in Villingen in 2020. RIP. I live near Villingen
I absolutely loved this video, thank you very much sir!
Trains aren’t really given the love they deserve these days...
Italian Design is Amazing, Forza Italia ♥️.
Excellent summary, Paul. Well done. But it left me wanting to know more, not so much about the TEE, but about other rail technologies. This is a rich pool of knowledge and fascinating facts. Please do more on railway subjects. Thanks. I enjoy all of your CD videos - factual, clearly presented, and well researched. Keep it up!
All this does is makes me want to listen to Kraftwerk.
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Fun fun fun on the autubahn.
Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie....
You should, Theyre Amazing!
@@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.
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!
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?
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.
2:50 Is that Hamburg Main Station? Still looks just like that to this day.
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.
Hehe funny, my father worked in that exact control building (Stellwerk) at 2:34. The world is small 😃
Stellwerk = Signal Box
Amazing
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.
..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.
You’ve got to give it to the Italians they certainly know how to design stuff, Bella
Thank you, Paul, for another informative video. Kraftwerk have long been a favourite of mine, especially Trans Europe Express.
Kraftwerk brought me here
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I am never this early. Your content is grand and chalk full of wondrous information.
Really enjoyed this. Stunning trains and interiors aesthetically pleasing.
I love travelling by train. I'm currently saving and planning for a train / tour of several countries over a four week period. So I'll be going to France , Spain Portugal.
I'm subbed and happy to share this.
Several details were astounding, such as having customs agents on the train so you can breeze through the destination station. Genius idea.
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.
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.
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.
Love the use of 2001 a Space odyssey classical music earlier in the video
The piece of music is Blue Danube by Strauss and i used because of the 2001 film and it seems to work quite well.
Sad state of education thinking that Strauss's Blue Danube is just some classical music from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
@@saratov99 at least people know about Kubrick, not just generic Hollywood blockbusters.
This is awesome content! Thank you so much. So glad to see that a few of these machines have been preserved.
11:16 that 602 looks amazing!
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.
Love the batik shirt Paul, not to mention the always enlightening presentation. Kudos!
Would love to ride the Italian “SetteBello”
As always, great job. Marvellous channel. Congratulations to all the curious droid team.
3:13 Who is she?
Even if she's 100 years old now, that is a fine work of art.
She's likley in her 80s by now.
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
I am a 50 years old french and I never heard of this before.
I am a 50 year old Australian and have ridden the Settebello in 84 quite an experience being in the front going through tunnels.
Damn, I'm a bit younger, but I just learned "mistral" was something else than an inter city train ... Thx Paul
Ignorance has no age
@@MiguelMorales85 Tact teaches little.
That why I love this channel. :)
I really enjoyed this! The music with the narrative and the at the time futuristic trains! I was happy they save the Italian train and restored it.
Great shirt.
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.
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 😂
Love the Settebello, though people must be fighting for the front seat.
You forgot to talk about the Spanish TEE the Talgo III RD and his incredible system that made it able to change gauges
And once again Italian design is just
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.
I didn't know that I needed to know so much about something I didn't know anything about. But I did, and now I do. :)
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.
RIP Florian Schneider
Awesome documentary as always Paul, you are so close to 1M subs. Well deserved!
I like trains. I wish international high-speed train services were more developed.
It already, if not even better with almost twice the speed
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.
The Settebello has my vote for having "the look". :)
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!
Just wanted to go to bed. Has to wait now :D
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Very well done recounting of this generation of train travel in Europe. I have always especially liked the Germany versions of the trains. I had never seen the Italian. It is good that they are restoring one, what an artful piece of train history.
Shirt appears in 1:24 and.. wow! :)
What a superb video. Thanks, Paul!
Imagine a Shinkansen like train network in Europe going through all european countries today ... how cool would that be
I wish we could get one in the us but I bet ticket prices would be insane
Just imagining Eurostar with more ticket price
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.
Some TGV in France go to foreign major cites like Barcelona
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.
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
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.
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
Trans Europe express would have been useful if it extended into Britain
Ok Boomer
One of the things I like about your videos is that I can rarely guess what you'll cover next! Very interesting - thanks. If only there was a true European Express network these days. We travel to Hungary twice a year, and I've always hated flying, so longed to do it by train, but wth the difficulties making connections, it becomes a two day, expensive and tiring slog. Now, 'post'-Convid, I wish even more that we could do the trip more easily by train...
I'm totally digging that shirt.
Is that batik?
@@rizalaffandi9463 I would say yes, I didn't know the term batik but looked it up. He was sponsored by www.madcapengland.com
Excellent video Curious Droid. You have one of the best voices, to boot. Perhaps trains are set to make their comeback? Night trains are already on their way back to power...
Leave it to the Italians to build a train that cool looking.
Superrrr videos.. I do enjoy watching .. You are a really nice person and everytime I have a free time I watch Your videos.. Thank You for such a good reliable source of knowledge.
Nice shirt!
Such a cool looking trains especially Italian one....thank you for making this!
Hope I wasn't the only one heard of the TEE from the Kraftwerk song
Believe me, if i could have used it in the background i would have
2:34 Koblenz-Lützel looks like the photo is taken at the railway museum of my home town. :)