Vienna to London by train in a single day - from €89.80
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- A train ride from Vienna to London in a single day, no airports, no flights - just a chill-out day by train, firmly on the ground. Vienna depart 06:52 via Frankfurt & Brussels to London St Pancras arriving 21:03. How much does it cost? How to buy tickets? See www.seat61.com...
Note that the video shows departure from Vienna Westbahnhof, the ICEs to Frankfurt now depart from Vienna Hauptbahnhof.
WOW the trains over there sure are beautiful compared to what the looked like back in the mid '70 's when I was in the US Air Force stationed @ Zweibrucken AB , Zweibrucken , Germany from June ' 73 - may ' 75. I traveled a lot by train & buses back then. I wish the USA had the great train system like Europe & other parts of the world have . Thanks for taking me along on your train trip. Happy travels Mark.
Returned from Vienna to London with an overnight stay in Brussels (by choice) as part of a trip London - Rotterdam - Berlin - Prague - Budapest - Vienna in 2013. Fantastic way to travel and brings some excitement to international travel when compared with the (now so boring) experience of air travel. Being able to view over the driver's shoulder on the train Vienna - Frankfurt was an unexpected bonus. You can't do that by air (unless you're a hijacker).
Nice Video. The only thing missing is the magic moment in the middle of the channel tunnel when all prices in the bar change from Euro to Pounds Sterling.
I did the following trip: Glasgow-London-Brussels-Aachen-Lüneburg, using all kinds of trains (Caledonian Sleeper, Eurostar, Talys, Interregio...).
Aww I used to deliberately wait to catch the ICE train to work everyday from Interlaken to Bern (it alternated with domestic trains)...you often could get a cabin room to yourself, very quiet, smooth and look through those big windows at the gorgeous lakes and mountains. I miss my commute to work, probably one of the best ones in the world and one of the nicest trains in Europe. Swiss trains are really great too, what train in the world has a Starbucks double decker carriage (best view from a coffee shop ever) and even a carriage with a playground for kids. But ICE still stands out as the coolest for me. ;)
Great video Mark. It really shows the benefits of train travel over air. I took the Pendelino and Eurostar from Stockport (south of Manchester) to Paris this summer and did the 770km trip in 4h40m, less than the total travelling time by air and much more enjoyable.
I also prefer travelling by train. I also feel more comfortable in a train.
Great you travel environmental friendly Anthony. So do I. Greets from Vienna, Daniela.
I've actually done it, am I the only one?! Did it the other direction, London to Vienna in just over 13 hours, with changes in Brussels and Frankfurt Hbf. The break point in the ticket was Cologne. paid £49 plus €49, so cheaper than the flights that day.
I love your site, Mark Smith!!! Keep going, and don't listen to the complaints of the laity: it's too complicated, too long, etc. blah blah blah. It isn't!
Really enjoyed this video! Never realized such a trip could be done in a day. I've only had the pleasure of taking the Eurostar once, from Paris to London, but now I'm wishing I had been able to tour more of Europe by rail. America's Amtrak has some scenic lines, but nothing as extensive or enjoyable as this, I think.
I like to see different countries he has crossed by the train : Austria, Germany,Belgium
France and UK, a pleasant travel by train better than the plane or by car
Those scenes in Germany sure brings back memories when I use to ride the DB mainly from Frankfurt (where I was stationed) to Wurzburg or Nurnberg.I sure do miss Germany!!!
Europe is so beautiful.
Europe should be below sea level.
Excellent video, Mark. Beautiful quality and super journey. The meal at 2:44 ... I'll take one of those. And you can't beat the German's for planning. 4:29 "Let's build the cathedral here, and when we invent trains in 600 years, passengers will have wunderful view when they arrive."
Calif. US.
William the I, the first emperor of the Second German Reich, ordered to finish the cathedral as national symbol and next to build the central station that manner trains and travellers (!) down over the Rhine bridge directly to the cathedral.
BIRT Edu
It wasn't mere luck but providence.
BIRT Edu maybe the station was built with the cathedral purposely for beauty
When we (the British) flattened all the German cities, we left the cathedrals standing, because they were useful to navigate by.
I think you give too much credit to our bomb-aiming capabilities. We were usually lucky to hit the right city.
I enjoy watching videos of passenger train service whether it be Amtrak, Metrolink, Coaster, MARC rial, ViaRail Canada, the ICE train, Eurostar, TGV, Thaley's, Pendolino in the UK, Italiarail, the China High speed rail, the Japanese bullet trains, they are great to watch. When I travel long distance, I take Amtrak and will be riding Amtrak more often when I'm in the San Diego area when I go to Los Angeles & Oxnard to visit my late wife's crypt in Los Angeles, visit my late daughters grave in Ventura, CA. The train is the civilized & relaxing way to travel.
This is civilized travel, the hell with airports, security harassment and flying sardine cans!
I agree!
@Cuthbert Bracegirdle well that is impossible
100 Years ago people could only dream about this
100 years ago was the first world war, which was mostly happening in Europe... so i don't think it would been a dream, more like a nightmare
Kai FRIEDRICH
I would do quite a bit to pull some poor bastard out of the Great War and give him a chance at a goid life here.
Sgt. Eclair
Let him use Google Playstore and see all the wonderful apps before returning to 1917.
on my bucketlist when next in Vienna, the city of my dream and I think Austria is my second Vaterland. Born in the Netherlands. My first visit to Wien was in 1961. Lost my heart to Austria, but migrated to Australia in 1965 after my marriage. Returned to Europe and Austria many times. Most recently in 2017, Feel so at home in your beautiful country., Clara
Looks like a great way to travel. Thanks for sharing!
I'm the boring kind of guy who rather sleep during a tedious journey like this one. Still nicely filmed. Keep it up!
You would like Thailand then...most trains travel at night when it is cooler and good for sleeping...not great to see the countryside though...
you can do that as well. there are also --sleeper-- trains that go during the night.
Fuck you bro..!
Just kidding :)
Overnight it's a long journey with plenty of transfer times:
Wien Hbf 20:39 - EN 90490 - 8:15 Köln Hbf
Köln Hbf 9:43 - ICE 214 - 11:35 Bruxelles Midi
Bruxelles Midi Eurostar 12:52 - EST 9133 - 14:05 London St Pancras International
If you want to save two hours, get up earlier in the morning and ask the sleeping car attendant to pack up your breakfast so you can eat it in the station waiting for your connection:
Wien Hbf 20:39 - EN 90490 - 5:36 Frankfurt Flughafen Regionalbahnhof
Frankfurt Flughafen Fernbahnhof 6:43 - ICE 18 - 9:35 Bruxelles Midi
Bruxelles Midi Eurostar 10:52 - EST 9133 - 11:57 London St Pancras International
No risk of missed connections here as you have plenty of time everywhere you change. Note that at Frankfurt Flughafen you'll have to walk to the other station. Curious they're routing the nightjet through the local station there.
Too bad the EN arrives half a hour too late in Cologne to catch the ICE there, despite leaving Frankfurt 1 hour earlier.
I don't know how bad the check in times really are for the Eurostar, you may still catch the same EST if you stay in the EN, and change to the THA 9424 in Cologne, arriving in Bruxelles at 10:32. However, I think I'd also rather get up earlier than risk to miss the Eurostar.
Fantastyczna podróż pociągiem z Wiednia do Londynu.
I really enjoyed this video thankyou Mark Smith sharing this video with audience.
The ICE trains are so cool! And must be lovely to eat lunch and seeing the scenery flying past the window :)
I traveled in this route (using ICE) many times from Wien to Frankfurt. You are very lucky Mark, as it seems you were quite well fed by warm food - not very common in this route.
In 1937 my grandfather decided to send my mother to Switzerland from Vienna because London was too far away. Th ICE trains are beautiful.
Europe is magnificent because its culture but also for its modernity. A pleasure on wheels!
Mark, thank you for this remarkable video which gives me a wonderful travel experience my current budget just doesn't allow!
I used to love trains when I was a little kid and now my son now loves trains and other transport
Amazing! this is why i love traveling in Europe, crossing several countries in a day by train with different culture and scenery!
As a Brit living in Austria I use to fly to the UK but I got bored with that so drove over a couple of times but that was boring and stressful. So I thought why not go by train? Was looking through You Tube one day and saw your video. Brilliant excellent video/videos. Thanks so much. Saved this 'old guy' a lot of messing around. 😁
My mom and I took a Eurostar from London to Brussels back in 2010. That's why we're from Henderson, Kentucky USA.
I think I need to make that journey in reverse, DEFINITELY stopping at Liège-Guillemins - that station is jaw-dropping! Beautiful scenery all of the way - great video :)
Again an excellent video!
Nice video Mark. I really like your travel video's, especially by train!
okay!
Thank you very much
We did this the in the other direction recently, but coming from York in the UK we broke the journey with an overnight in Cologne. There's a direct Cologne-Vienna service leaving about 0950 which goes down the lovely Rhine Valley (which the fast Cologne-Frankfurt line cuts off). I can recommend the route if you fancy doing this but the early start/long day combination puts you off - we had a 9-year-old in tow and she loved it!
Recently traveled with Deutsche Bahn from Frankfurt to Vienna. First class was overbooked so people stood in the aisles. AC didn't work properly. On top of that, the windows had no sunshades so we broiled in the sun for 3 hours. In general, many German trains are crowded, lateness is normal, many trains are dirty and poorly maintained and many stations are in bad shape and litter-strewn.
Nice video. Thanks for sharing. I'll be taking the ICE trains around Germany in a couple months (FRA-MUC, and MUC-BERLIN) and now have a little better idea what to expect. I'll be in first class too...booked already online and so easy.
Jonnie Bangkok az
Beautiful views from the train 🚂. And the countryside and villages look so peaceful. I wish we had trains like that in the USA. I took a train from NYC to Chicago it took 24 hours and the train was shitty. It was a very uncomfortable ride, I'll never travel that way again.
What a relaxing and civilized way to travel, well done!
Excellent! I wish I will see those days when high speed trains will connect ALL Europe an dbeyond...
Maybe I'd have done this years ago, but watching this frightened the pants off me. However, may I recommend this: the train from Barcelona going up into the Pyrenees, by-passing Andorra, and arriving at Aix-le-Thermes in France some hours later. Utterly breathtaking. Robert.
Eh? Where was the 'scary' bit with the ghosts?
@mark....Maybe you're referring to 'frightening the pants off me'. I merely meant that travelling on trains nowadays which involves changing platforms, following signs, reading overhead messages, and at my age of 70 feeling fraught is not an easy thing. Kind of unkind to answer as you've done. Robert.
Oh - I was wondering how it could possibly be scary. It's quite relaxing, with a good book and a beer or two! But you have to do some reading and following signs whether by air, rail or driving yourself.
Great! I don't do any of those things now, but I really enjoyed your trip from remembering when I was a young guy and travelling through Europe. Robert.
I took a ride on both the ICE and Eurostar trains a while back on my trip across Europe. Those are some of the best trains I've ever ridden In the world compared to what I got here in the Los Angeles area
Ah, the train... Such a civilized way to travel... In Europe at least. Cheers and thanks für uploading.
My, the meals look substantial. I also did a nearly one-day travel in September from Salzburg to Geneva. I think that was the longest European train ride I've ever done. Pleasant journey.
How that big church in Cologne survived all that allied bombing in ww2 is a miracle!!
Yes it was. www.quora.com/Why-wasnt-the-Cologne-dome-bombed-during-the-WWII
Great Video Mark. The food looks great on the ICE.
nuestra América latina debería estar unida en trenes como esta Europa. saludos desde Buenos Aires Argentina q también debe estar unida x el tren
+Gonzalo Lorenzo en el minuto 4:43 se puede escuchar una señora argentina hablando detras de quien filma :)
Gonzalo Lorenzo no
En Estados Unidos se niegan a construir lineas de alta velocidad, a esos estúpidos no les importa contaminar el aire del planeta con sus aviones .
But there's so many fucking mountains..really, you want to break tunnels through the Andes? Well good luck with that.
★ Copypasterino Kripperino ★. Pero los Europeos tienen los Alpes y no es un impedimento
..... Beautiful video, beautiful trip in beautiful trains and in great weather! Thank you for the upload!
At 1:43 I like the way the book has been kept... :)
Very nice video...
Pleasant video, thanks.I love train journeys but you know what? Austrian airlines really rocks!
Thanks very much for this vid...love train rides to see the beautiful view along the way...wonderful memories in europe
Awesome man. I could really imagine myself to do this exact journey some day - since I'm from Vienna ^^
Looks like a very nice trip for train travel fans.
Very good video; I love those ICEs!
So cool. i would love to experience this train ride across Europe. seems so fun
Video molto bello!! Complimenti. Treno bello ed elegante.
Great, cool calm, clean , cozy , beautiful, fast and and so enjoyable !!!
Love the look of the Inter City Express trains!
Austrian grassland farms are just fabulous in the morning sun.
If you want to experience 24h trip, you should try Belgrade - Bar. It is 400 km trip. Nature is very nice and you can enjoy being stuck in middle of nowhere with no AC or water for hours.
That's pretty cool. As a child I went on a trip from Detroit to Denver. That was a LONG trip. But fun. Trains are cool.
+Nick Lindsey
Amtrak still stops in Detroit (google "amtrak wolverine schedule")
Excellent video. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing. I had seen first time in my life, prawns served with boiled potatoes! :-)
Excellent video Mark! I would love visit Germany! We found out that, on my Dad's side of the family, our German ancestors were from Passau!
nice city by the way
Mark Smith thanks for sharing this video. I was reminiscing my back packing trip in Europe and i had purchased the Euro pass which allowed me to travel on the ICEs between Holland, Germany, France and Spain and the separate charge for the Eurostar from and back to London via Brussels. It was an amazing trip..it was clean everywhere. The stations were are all amazing in their own way.(architecturally speaking). What was the fastest section of your travel? I think we hit 180MPH between Amsterdam and Cologne and 175MPH in the Chunnel.
What year are you talking about? I travelled Europe and North Africa in 1970-1971....the train from Paris to Toulouse was fast and impressive for me then!!
Speed limit through the channel tunnel on Eurostar is 100mph / 160kph. For other trains it is 60mph / 100kph
The 180 mph is only on the stretch Cologne-Frankfurt section of the trip Amsterdam-Frankfurt. In the Netherlands and Emmerich-Duisburg the train travels at about 85 mph (140 kph) and between Duisburg and Cologne the train hits 125 mph...
I can't understand why they built Cologne Cathedral next to the railway station
Because they didn't have somebody as smart as you when they started constructing the cathedral some 800 years back!
Hey this is my board, I started it, now lets havesome sensible conversation
SuperSatan666devil Yes, I'll look after him
SuperSatan666devil Leave that to me. How long have we got?
SuperSatan666devil That's alright darling, I suspected as much. Did you get home safely?
Thank you, Mark, great video!
I'm glad to see my favourite HTC M8 in use :)
this is so cool.added to my must-try list
Very nice thanks for such a great journey video , I'll go soon
Relaxing video! Very nice! :)
Beautiful country side views... !
Excellent video! ...please! you could make a video showing in detail the blink of external doors of ICE train?...Sorry, my English is not good.
Very nice video; thanks to share with us.
Bernard Babin
Quebec City, Canada
Fantastic I love train journeys.
Very nice, video is wonderful, thank you very much, I never knew this.
One day ,I will plan to travel in this train.:)
Fantastic report..very systematic..loved all the explanation..thank you very much for sharing.Of course, you could have used an aircraft for half the price, reaching London in 1.5 h i guess. So the rain is not really competitive..but its a nice experience:)
Flying would involve a train, plane then another train, and take 5h. If you fly, the final leg from Heathrow/Luton/Stansted to London by train costs £20 one-way, on top of the flight! So not as much longer or as much more in cost as you'd think. But it's not about time, it's really about the experience.
Very nice short film .
Reminds me of my trip on the ICE train. Looks like I was there around the same time as you.
Dear Mark the video quality was the best I have ever seen. I felt like I was seeing it first-hand. It was movie quality. What kind of camera did you use? The content was also great. What was that entrée at 5:57? It looked like larvae.
Very nice! I like it, hope my wife and I can do this without the kids one day. Thanks for sharing.
Great video, thanks for sharing!
How much did the travel cost you with the train? When im comparing Amsterdam to Frankfurt its already around 100,- When looking at that price it mustve cost you like 400,-? Tell me please I want to see how much expensiver it is compared to plane.
Vienna-Frankfurt from €29.90, Frankfurt-London from €59.90. Fares work like air fares.
Mark Smith wow I looked today from Amsterdam to Frankfurt and it was Around €60...
And look in 2 months time and it may be €29.90.
Nice Video - Thanks
Good informative tour! Greetings from Galicia (Ukraine).
Thank you for this excellent video. I even forgive you for having a beer with lunch in lieu of a decent bottle of Germanic Plonk. The architectural images captured were wonderful - thank you.
so much more beautiful than the plane..but much more expensive i suppose !!! thank you for sharing your trip !! greets from Toulouse !!
It's actually much cheaper to take a train, but much slower too!
So in the 2nd class the total price would be 100 euros. I just checked the prices to fly with Norwegian from Vienna to London and the average prices were around like depending on the time, from 100 euros to up to 200 euros... But you fly from Vienna to London in like two hours, that versus twenty four hours I think we have the ultimate winner here, airplane.
Travel is like Life. It's not about how quickly you get it over with, but what you do with it. The train wins on experience, every time! ;0)
+Mark Smith (The Man in Seat 61) Well that's your opinion, I much more prefer the time in the place I'm going to rather than the time in the train / airplane / whatever I'm travelling on.
+Matti "SpayKi" Mustonen OH and by the way I didn't mean 24 hours I just meant a whole day, typo!
Very nice video, and it's great your mention of Calavatra as the architect of Liege train station ; the close vicinity between Köln cathedral and its famous station is also great in its kind, in my opinion.
You didn't ride the new Eurostar stock, the new one is much better than the one you experienced, and can compete with ICE, though narrower due to british gauge…
Thank you Mark !
The food looks delicious
Fantastic. Thanks for this.
I do like a little bit of Austria!
Great video; I really enjoyed it. UK train operating companies need to be MADE to watch it and then buck their ideas up!!
Very nice,i love to travel vith train
Nice atmospheric travel.
nice trip report
Very interesting ! Superb video!
Here in Queensland Australia, in Brisbane the trains go from here all the way to the top of it, around Mackay, and that is called the spirit of Queensland with the tilt train that only goes to Rockhampton which is like REALLY hot. I was there once, (living there) and the tropics of Capricorn goes through it. It’s the emu tilt train that goes there, because that’s the electric tilt train with the other train also a tilt that goes up to Mackay. And that train does go to rocky, (short for Rockhampton) but the train that only guys up to Rockhampton is called city of Rockhampton. It’s my dream to go on BOTH, also to see my friend in rocky. Hope you didn’t mind reading all this but thanks anyways 🤣 I’m out.
amialRBLX our trains in Qld are ,compared to long distance in Europe very slow and very slow.
The food service in the Ice train seems to be better
I did London to Vienna in a day on a coach back in the 70s. Cost me £40 odd quid and I bet we saw a lot more of the country than you did.
Nice videos as usual..small suggestion is to add route map of the trip in the beginning of video..thanks
Very good ... but you're making them too short. For me, 15 minutes would be more comfortable to watch ... and feel the journey.
Looked very nice.. Yes, when you can take the whole day to go somewhere in Europe is not bad..
I wish trains were a thing in the US. Such a nice travel experience.
Alexander Locke i'm pretty sure there are trains in the us. 😉
Alexander Locke They are there,you need to use them.