Teignmouth to Budapest by Train – The Journeys

Teignmouth to Budapest by Train – The Journeys

Well, hello there everybody and welcome back to the channel. It’s really great to see you there. Today I’m back on the trains again. Uh, but it’s going to be a journey with a little bit of a difference. We’re taking not one, not two, I think it may well end up being seven different trains. We’re going to head east and then further east still. We’re starting here in Timmouth on the South Devon coast and by the time we reach our destination, we should hopefully, fingers crossed, be at Berlin in Germany, and you are invited. Come along and see how we get on. So, here we go. The first train of the trip and it’s going to be the oldest one and the slowest one. Maybe the most scenic one. You never know. Very busy here. Okay, let’s go. I don’t have another Well, that’s train number one out of the way. That was the train from uh Timmouth up to Exodus and David. Here we are. Welcome to Exodus and Davies. We’re changing here for the London train. I could not believe how busy that train was. It’s midday on a Sunday, the end of June. It was absolutely packed. Where’s everybody going? I don’t know. Anyway, more adventures to come. Next one will be the IET, the Hitachi train, the class 802 from Exodus and Davids onwards to London Paddington. And that will be our next stop after this. And here we are, train number two. Here we are in Puzzy. Welcome to Wiltshire. You doing all right there? I’m doing fine. Good. Full of biscuits. Last stop before London. Oh, here we are in Reading. This station’s like an airport now, isn’t it? Not like it used to be in my day. And it looks busy. And so eventually, here we are in London. Welcome to Paddington Station. Our next stage is to try and get across to some pancreas. Two ways we can do that. We can either take the tube or we can take the Elizabeth line and then change onto templink. Never done that before. So I think we might try that just for a change. So the first stage is to try and find out where the Elizabeth line is here at Paddington Station. Right. Here we are. Euro starter Brussels ready to go. See water somewhere in Kent. Somewhere under the English Channel. Bonjour. Welcome to France. And here we are in France. Welcome to Le Europe Station. Nothing to see here, I’m afraid. And onwards we go to Brussels. Welcome to Belgium. So, welcome to Belgium and welcome to Brussels Midi Railway Station. Now, we have another connection here. We’re going to be moving onwards into Germany to Cologne, but we have got a couple of hours in Brussels and we’re just wondering what to do with it. Do we wait around here or do we try and do something interesting? I know what I’d like to do. I’ve just got to have a word with and see if we can reach an agreement. Watch this face. Okie dokie. So, we’re back on Brussels medi station. We’ve had a very nice beer just outside. Thank you to Soona for the suggestion. There’s one of the new Euro Stars. They’ve combined with the firm Thies to do services between here, Amsterdam and Paris, I think. Anyway, we’re waiting for our German DB ice train which is going to take us to Cologne. I think it’s the Frankfurt train. So, that should be coming in soon. All right, we’re on the ice train to Cologne. This train is absolutely packed. I thought London was busy. This train is ramped. Anyway, we’re on and off we go to Germany. despite it saying you don’t need seat reservations. I’d advise anybody to make seat reservations. You’d be standing up all the way if not. Yeah. Anyway, let’s go to Germany. Great fun. Well, it’s all gone so well so far until now. We’ve sat on a DB ice train somewhere just outside of Leazge in Belgium. We’ve been here for about half an hour now. Apparently, there’s a problem the points ahead of us and they don’t know when we’re going to be continuing. We’ve got a connection in Cologne to get to Berlin at the moment. It’s hanging in the balance. So, um, what happens next? Who knows? But it’s all part of the adventure. So, uh, stay tuned to find out. So, it’s now another 40 minutes later. We’re now going in the opposite direction. We’re heading back in the direction of Brussels. And we’re wondering what’s going to happen. Are we going to go back to Brussels and get a bus or is he going to go back and then find a different line to take? Apparently the line through to Leazge uh is broken because of the points. Uh either way, it looks like we’re going to miss our connection to Berlin. So, um adventures, anything could happen. It’s zooming in on a map here, right? So, we’ll see what happens and we’ll keep you updated. Yeah. And eventually, two hours late, here we are in Leazge. This means we’re definitely going to miss our collection to Berlin, but I think we’ll be able to get onto a later train. It just means that we’ll be very late arriving into Berlin. So, uh, probably have to grab something to eat on the train instead. Well, hello a lastly age. Well, that was a little bit of a stressful journey to be honest with you. 2 and 1/2 hours late into Cologne, but we are now here. Uh the train got from Brussels to Leage which is just very close to the German border and then it stopped and stayed there for 40 minutes and then went almost all the way back to Brussels again before then diverting off onto a different line. Arrived in Leage 2 hours late. Uh we eventually crossed the German border at Arkham and then it crawled all the way to Cologne cuz apparently there’s some signaling fault uh in the Cologne area. Anyway, we’re here now. Uh we’re 2 hours late on our connection. We missed one, but we booked another train. So hopefully we’ll be on the way to Berlin in the next 10 minutes or so. Yeah, looks like we’re on the right platform. 1645 to Berlin HBF. That’s us. Hello. There we are. So, the initial plan was that we’d have about an hour and a half here in Cologne. The station’s right close to the main square, but we’re going to go and have a look at the main square and the cathedral as it is. We’ve just got a few minutes, so don’t have to wait for another visit. Anyway, hopefully any minute now, we should be on our way to Berlin. We’ll be arriving a lot later than we would have done. So, uh we’re going to grab something to eat on the train, I think. Anyway, we’re nearly there. Nearly there. All the way from Timbouth to Berlin. It’s been a bit stressy, but you know, it’s an adventure and we do it for you. This is an enormous station. This is the train that brought us here, by the way. 2 and 1/2 hours late. Anyway, got us here eventually. I think this might be ours. I’m not sure. No, it isn’t. Yeah. Our train from Brussels was absolutely rammed. Reason was the previous train from Brussels into Germany had been cancelled because of some pull. So we had two train loads of people on one train and there were some people who were standing up in the aisles all the way from Brussels right over here to Cologne. And they had to do an extra 2 hours on top of the already 2 hours journey time. So 4 hours standing up. So I felt really sorry for them. It’s a very hot day as well. This station, this is Cologne Station. It is rush hour actually. It’s 10 to 5. It is absolutely manic. I shall never complain about Birmingham New Street ever again. Anyway, hopefully the Berlin train will come soon. It is already running about 10 minutes late. So, uh, you know, if you complain about British Railways, I think DB probably just as bad. Well, it looks like our train to Berlin is also delayed. So, it’s been uh one delay after another since we got to Germany, unfortunately. Nice to see a loco hall train, though. That’s really good, isn’t it? And we did really want to see Cola, which is in the square next to the station. If you just look through the window, you can just see the smiles on it. I think that’s as close as we’re going to get. And here it is. This is our ride to Berlin. that is coming. Hanover at last. And we are here. And another massive railway station. Well, hello there and welcome back to the channel and welcome to a rainy Berlin. A little bit different to yesterday when it was nearly 40° Celsius. It’s actually quite refreshing. And here we are at Berlin How to Banhof Railway Station, the main railway station. And we’re on another long journey across Europe. Today we’re heading south and further south into a different country. And you of course are what? Invited to join us. Come on, let’s let’s do it. This railway station is just absolutely vast. Anyway, we’ve already found out that we have about a 25minut delay on our train this morning. So, uh well, good old DB living up to their reputation. We’ll see how we get on. We’re going to be on a nice train again, just like this one. I think this one is ready for a a bit of a time in the train wash, isn’t it? by the looks of it. Well, I’ll tell you what, problem number one of the day already. And we had so many issues the other day on DB coming over from Belgium. Uh it appears that DB, German railways are about as reliable as the British railway companies. Uh we’re supposed to be on a train from Berlin to Prague today, but it turns out there’s engineering work on the stretch of track between um Dresden and the Czech border. And so we have to get off of Dresdon and get a bus replacement across the border and then get on a check train. This should all be interesting though. It’s all part of the adventures. It’s like the old spy days smuggling ourselves across the East German Czech border. Anyway, it’ll make it a more interesting day. Well, the good news is at least the train has picked up some time. And here she is, our ice train down to Dresden. still kite tickets up here in the city. And so here we are at Dresden Main Station. It’s a beautiful station. Another very grand German railway station. So we were supposed to be on a direct train all the way through to Prague, but there are engineering works across the German Czech border. So now we got to find a coach and we’re going to cross the border by coach and then get on another train in the first town, the other side of the Czech border to continue on to Prague. So, let’s go and see if we can find the coach first. Looks like it might be this way. Right. You ready, Nina? Yeah. Let’s go. Let’s go, girls. Right. So, we found the bus stop. So, all we’ve got to do is to wait about half an hour or so for the bus, which should take us across the Czech border. Just got told off on Dresston Railway Station for filming. That’s the first time that’s ever happened to me. But, uh, got to be careful. I’ve been told that they’re a bit conscious about that here in Germany. So, uh, yeah, of course, always got to be careful about that. Anyway, onwards to the Czech Republic. Can’t handle it. I think the sodium will be okay. I’ll take it. Middle Xroche. So, country number five, welcome to the Czech Republic. Anyways, not very often you see an airplane in the middle of a car park. Yeah, that is true. So, after a quite entertaining journey from Dresden through some lovely countryside actually and the driver did take a very rural route. I think they were sort of spinning out the time just a little bit. Anyway, welcome to the Czech Republic and welcome to Nad Labm. That’s the name of the station where we are at the moment. Uh we’re getting a train from here which should take us on into Prague which I think takes about another hour or so. Uh looks really nice actually here. the town looked quite industrial but beautiful countryside around and as I look behind you there’s a lovely castle up on the hill and it’s quite nice big river going through quite a pretty place but anyway we’re not hanging around here we’re heading off to the big city it’s actually quite an interesting railway station oh look a rea train I’ve heard of a Reva buses back in the UK But here we have her reaver trains as well. Well, this is certainly an adventure this journey. We started off having a bus replacement service from Dresden down to what’s this place called? Ostad. Leb. Leban in the Czech Republic. Now we find out there’s been a collision on the railway somewhere between here and Prague. The train is about 35 minutes late. We’ve managed to clear the line, we think. Anyway, we’re now underway on a very, very, very busy train cuz it’s got two lots of rail replacements on, each of which consisted of eight coaches, would you believe? Anyway, we’re on our way. So hopefully the final run in to Prague. And just for the moment, we’re running alongside the famous River Ela, which of course runs right up into Germany. Another model and a very good morning from Prague main railway station. And just look at this for an entrance hall. Isn’t it stunning and a very good morning to you. Welcome to the Czech Republic and welcome to Prague Railway Station. Today we are moving countries. We’re heading in a southeasterly direction. And for this trip, we are on to country number six. All of our international rail travel so far has not gone to plan. Will today be the same? Time will tell. But uh I hope you’ll join us and we’ll see how we get on, shall we? And yet another beautiful European railway station. I really am enjoying these grand stations of Europe. Here’s one coming in just now. Right. So, we’re here in Prague in the Czech Republic, but today we are taking an OBB train, the Austrian railways train. We’re heading in the direction of Gratz and Vienna. Just waiting for our platform. Let’s see how we get on. Right, we’re on the train to Vienna. It’s a Czech train, but being pulled by an Austrian loc. Very nice journey so far. Time for a snack. Vienna biscuit. Oh, yes. What looks like Starbucks on the coffee. Some coffee to bring us up to uh, as my friend Scott would say, cruising altitude. Here we go. Oh, I don’t believe it’s Chesca Trava, the Westbury of Czech railways. Here we are in Berno. See? Yeah. So, we’ve just gone through Bricklav and we’re on approach to the Austrian border and see how close we are. Should be across the border in the next few minutes. Well, we didn’t see a thing, but we have crossed the border. So, welcome to country number six of this trip. And welcome to Austria. And here we are. We’re in Vienna. This is Vienna Van Hoff, the main railway station. That was a lovely journey down from Prague. Really, really enjoyed it. Lovely countryside. Very nice train. So, now we’re going to try and find our way to our hotel. Well, we’re going to use the underground system and then we got a couple of days to explore the beautiful city of Vienna. Right, we are at our stop. Welcome to Vin Vest Vanhoff. I think we’re staying somewhere near here. So, we’ll go and find the hotel. Very easy journey on the tube or whatever it’s called here in Vienna. What do you reckon, Nina? I think that was good. That was good. Right. So, let’s go and find the hotel. So we’ve traveled by a very quick and a very efficient tube system from Vienna Halbanhoff station across here to Vienna Vest Vanhoff Railway Station Vienna West Railway Station. And our hotel is near here. So we’re going to check in there and then we’re going to get back into the city center and see what’s going on. Well, a very good morning to you. Welcome back to the channel and welcome to Vienna Hal Vanhoff Railway Station. Today we’re on the move again. We’re going to a different city and a different country. It should be quite exciting. And of course, as always, you are invited. Let’s see how we get on. Don’t you just love light engines? Tell you what, I really do like Vienna Railway Station. This is the Hal Banhoff, the main railway station. It’s so airy and light. It’s very modern. It perhaps hasn’t got the grandeur of some of the other big railway stations we’ve been to, but it is immaculately clean. So, let’s see if the trains are as good as the stations themselves. Oh, look at that single carriage rail car. Haven’t seen one of those for a while. I’ve noticed here in Austria, and it was the same in the Czech Republic, that a lot of the trains have a loco on one end, like that one there, and then just a a driving trailer on the back. They do that in Switzerland as well. I wonder why they do that. They certainly never do that in the UK. And we’re on board another very, very busy train full, absolutely full of Spanish students, which has been the case throughout most of the trains we’ve been on in Europe. I think it must be student traveling time in Spain. But anyway, they’re having a good time. So that’s all that matters. And we’re now leaving Vienna. An absolutely huge marshalling yard here. Mixture of locos. Some Austrian. There’s quite a few DB ones here as well from Germany. Right. You know me, I love my borders. So, we’re on approach to the Austria Hungary border. Blue dot is where we are. The black line. Oh, we’ve just moved. The black line is the border. We should be there in a few minutes. And we’ve crossed the border. Here we are in the first town in Hungary. This is Hegier Shalom, which sounds more sort of like it should be in Israel, doesn’t it? Really? It’s our first Hungarian train. Two policemen there watching us just in case we break the law. So here we are in the town of Gear. which is the biggest town on route between Vienna and Budapest. It’s a very old eastern block looking station. We might just get a glimpse of the main church as we go under the bridge. Oh, just about well. It was all going very well until now. We’ve stopped just outside a town in Hungary called Tatabanya where the train came to a very abrupt halt and apparently there’s some sort of technical problem with the train. So now just standing still. This reminds me of being on the train in Belgium just last week. So we’ll see what happens from now. Railway Adventures in Europe. Wow. Seem to go from one extreme to another. But anyway, it’s all part of the story, isn’t it? So, this reminds us very much of being in Belgium last week where we just nearly reached the Belgium German border and then ended up going backwards for miles nearly all the way back into Brussels and then back out on a different line. Uh we seem to be having a very similar situation here. We’re sort of partway between Vienna and Budapest. We’re in Hungary outside a town called Tatavana and the train has just gone backwards. So, uh, we’re waiting to see what happens next. The line on the timets just turned red as well. So, I think we need to know. Might be a bus. Well, whatever the problem was, seems to have been resolved. We’re now underway again and we’re back on our way to Budapest. Should be arriving on the outskirts fairly soon. And here we are at Budapest Kellenfold Station which is just on the edge of the city. It’s about another 10 15 minutes from here into the main station. the train all the way from Tinmouth in South Devon to Budapest. Welcome to Budapest Kleti Railway Station and welcome to Hungary. Got a couple of days to have some adventures and of course you’re invited to join us as well. And yet another beautiful grand European railway station. Just look at this. Fabulous.

We travelled from Teignmouth in Devon, England to Budapest, Hungary, by train. With stopovers in Berlin, Prague and Vienna. All of our exploring the cities videos (with the exception of Budapest which I accidentally erased!) are available to watch on this channel. This is a compilation of the trains, the journeys, and the stations.

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