FLIRTING AT LAKE BALATON, HUNGARY / MAV-START STADLER FLIRT REVIEW / HUNGARIAN TRAIN TRIP REPORT
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- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2020
- Hello and welcome to another trip report!
Today we will be travelling again with the Hungarian state railway operator MÁV-START. Our route is from Siófok on the Southern shore of Lake Balaton, the largest freshwater lake in Europe, into the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
Our ride consists of 2x 4-car 11 year old Stadler Flirt 2's from MÁV's stock of 123 of them, making them the largest operator of the type.
Date of Filming: 15/8/20
Camera: GoPro Hero 7 Black
Operator: MÁV-START
Departure: Siófok, Hungary
Arrival: Budapest Keleti, Hungary
Cost: 2500HUF / £6.30 / €7.00
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Yes, I've used a Hungarian train. It had a loco. 😍
I'm hungarian, and you show perfectly hungarian railways in this three video.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
Thank you, nonstop eurotrip! I really love recent trains.
No worries, glad you like it!
Köszi , érdekes
We travelled between Prague and Budapest on a train in (I think) 2007; it was a great tip. And I agree, Keleti Pu is a lovely station! Incidentally, did you go on the Children's Railway? Great fun, if a rather uncomfortable ride.
Haha no I didn't. Keleti is amazing! 🤩
Hey! I loved this video! I have some cool facts this time as well :)
The NS Flirts were manufactured after those of MÁV-Starts', so technically, their livery is based off the Hungarian one 🚄
The first 60, red units are being refurbished, so they'll be equally modern to the blue ones. They're getting power sockets, LCD screens, etc. 🙂
Thank you for your amazing content!
Ah that's great, thanks for the info! 🙂
@@NonstopEurotrip The first 60 FLIRT was originally built for ÖBB, but ÖBB had cancelled the order, MAV bought them ready at lover price. Thats why they are in red, not in MAV colors. All MAV's FLIRT (and KISS) are specified for local commute, that's why they are not soo confy for interregional use. (There are some intercity FLIRTS in other countries.)
@@balazspetho5636 no, MÁV bought 10 TALENTs originally made for ÖBB + 10 new ones, after losing the public procurement tender for 30+30 EMUs tó Stadler. Stadler delivered brand new trains made specifically for MÁV.
In your latest Hungarian I saw you also had this ride from the Balaton lake to Budapest. What a fantastic railway station is Keleti, I liked it very much when we arrived in Budapest.
The red and white livery of this train looks a lot like the older Arriva Spurt trains in the North of Netherlands.
The livery on the NS Flirts was first used on the SLT trainsets, introduced in 2009, so it is unlikely that it was based on the Hungarian one. It is probably just a coincidence that both liveries are similar.
Great trip! ✌️
Thanks!
Nice trains Hungary, great color scheme.
Portugal just bought 22 flirts.
Good trains 😁
Great video.
Thanks!
Thks for the short trip.
😁
Nice video! 👌🏻👌🏻
Thanks!
Hello! The building of station is very beautiful!!
Yes I agree! Greetings 🇮🇹😁
Best part of Keleti are the waiting rooms on the side imo
Omg yes finally
1:29 i can see how clear the walls used to be now there all spray painted
nice video on new trains in hungary the lake battalion looks scenic and budapest kelesti looks like a grand station from a past era
Lake battalion 🤣
@@NonstopEurotrip OK 🤔
@@DanielsUKT *Balaton
@@NonstopEurotrip ok
I am hungarian. I love Flirt trains. Btw nice video
Köszi Szépen! 😁 Én is szeretem a FLIRTs 🚈
great video, I loved it! :)
interesting that we bought these trains originally for the agglomaration zone of Budapest, but more and more long distance trains are consists of Flirts
I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but the passengers like them everywhere :)
Thanks! I do love a FLIRT ☺️
Yeah, I like them too :D
They're great
I have taken the InterCity several times from Budapest-Nyugati to Szeged and I have also taken trains a long time ago from Budapest to Keszthely.
Love Hungary 🥰
Back in 2011 we took a return trip from our campingsite in Balatonfüred and into Budapest Deli. It was a wonderful trip with what I think is a better view to Balaton than from the south shore. But here there was no flirting :-) it was an old locomotive hauled train with those small 6 seat coupe´s (or what they are called), we called in the hogwarts Express because it was so old.
Those old trains are nice though in their own way 🤓
Please try the NS ICMM and check out the station of Groningen! ICMM units always run on the routes Rotterdam-Utrecht-Groningen and The Hague-Schiphol-Amsterdam Zuid-Groningen. From Groningen, Arriva (owned by DB) runs several services with Stadler GTW units ánd (!) the new Stadler WINK (only to runs to the town Leeuwarden): its a FLIRT that runs on biofuel. I really want to know what your opinion is on these trains/routes! Hopefully youll once make a video about It😄
I'll be back in the Netherlands next year, thanks for the suggestions ☺️
There is at least one operator which runs more FLIRT sets than MAV. SBB runs actually 184 FLIRT sets and they’ve still ordered more.
Don't know where I got that information from then 😅🇨🇭
I have been many times in the Balaton, though last time I went I travelled on the railway between Badacsony and Balatonfüred, which is still unelectrified and single tracked
I've been there too ☺️
@@NonstopEurotrip I have been more to the western Balaton area. In the future you should try the Citadella train between Budapest Deli and Ljubljana
Öbb railjet is not terminating in bp-kelenföld, but ends in bp-keleti
It was when I took this trip... Not anymore
To make train travel a bit more friendly in Hungary they should invest in making English announces and refurbishing most tracks on the system. In some areas the train doesn’t really exceed more than 60km/h (although those are mostly not mainlines, but still).
Hungary did manage to make its railway better though.
They are definitely improving the network with track works and better trains. But I do like the old school romance of some of the older trains and routes 😍
Very interesting video title haha 😂
😂😂😂
There are sockets on the blue-white Flirts
I know ☺️
7:21 You have a 10 for this video.
P.S.: I'm feeling a little bit sick from yesterday
Thank you! Hope you feel better soon 🙂
@@NonstopEurotrip In fact, an hour and a half before the video was released, I was on my city's hospital emergency department, because I was tired and with headaches all the time since last Thursday (A Cephalea, according to the emergency department report). In the emergency department of my city's hospital, the medicians sent me some medication and now I'm feeling better than last Friday's morning
The red Flirts are becoming rarer, because they're painting them blue, and there will be one 'retro' red Flirt.
Interesting 🤓
Not only the trains, but also many of the signs at the station feel very similar to those used in Switzerland. Can anyone tell me more about that?
I've not noticed that tbh 😅
Isn’t the Swedish lake of Vänern much bigger covering 5650 square kilometres and is also freshwater? It literally looks like an ocean.
Dunno how I missed that 🤣
@@NonstopEurotrip Are you planning on any Swedish trip reports in the future?
@@olasola1013 Next month 🤗
@@NonstopEurotrip 👍
It's like a direct copy from SBB's S-bahn interior.
I've not been on one 😊
All FLIRT units are used in suburban lines around Budapest, like the S-bahn. They were intentionally designed for local traffic.
I do not understand why trains have seats facing each other. The lack of leg room when two people are seated opposite is unacceptable.
I agree, but they still do it 🤷🏻♂️
They are probably built for families with children, since they are smaller, they don't need too much leg space
They were intentionally designed for local traffic.
As a Swiss, I'm used to commute in Kiss and Flirt trains with seats facing eachother. On most trips it's an advantage, as up to two occupants per group seat, you can really stretch out your legs. even with three occupants, that still works most of the time if people arrange themselves a bit. With 4, it becomes more difficult, but you can still sit upright with no knees touching. And lets face it: Flirting and kissing is much easier seated opposite! :-)
Good report ! Just one thing: lake Ladoga is a lot larger than lake Balaton (27 times) and is also in Europe. Balaton is a beautiful lake but not the largest like you writen at 3:40 .
Proper Europe 🤣
hungry. Hungary.
And thirsty 😉
@@NonstopEurotrip heh
Disturbing to see the lack of masks. I guess they paid the price a few weeks later.
It definitely seemed optional in Hungary back in August...
So... It's a sprinter? I hate those things, they never work!
They don't work here in the Netherlands and they don't there, speaking from experience, I had to take one station from Budapest keleti to hungexpo for summer mondocon in July, damn train didn't work! I thought it was a sprinter...so I was right 😭 😂
Was half an hour later because we had to wait for an old communism smelling diesel train thing... that off course worked perfectly 👌
These are actually VERY reliable! 😁
Just last summer, I went to Hungary to see my grandma (I’m half Hungarian) and I always go to the balaton it is one of my favourite places to go to I usually go to zamárdi. This time I went on train from köbánya-kispest as it is the closest station and the trains end terminus was fonyód. I’m not sure what kind of train it was but it was an IC one (Inter-City).
I was going with my aunt, uncle and sister so there was a lot of luggage between us as we were staying there for a week but there was plenty of luggage storage. It took a while for us to find our seats as we had never been on a train to Hungary before, despite being 13 years old 😂. We eventually found our seats and it was really well air-conditioned and there were sockets and plenty of legroom.
It was so busy as well but from what I can remember so many people got off at siófok so it was really quite after and it was really scenic as well.
Your videos are amazing and I really enjoy them. I really like watching the ones about Hungary because they remind me of home when I’m in England and it’s really nostalgic. Great videos and great content 👍
Oh wow sounds like a good adventure. I love Hungary, been quite a few times now. Great value and good people on the whole I've found ☺️ check out my other Hungarian videos too 👍🏻
@@NonstopEurotrip sure will do 👍 I love Hungary so much it is just so nice tbh