This is Denmark’s very strange looking international train. I’ll be riding the IC3 from Hamburg to Aarhus in FIrst Class, and explaining the reason for this weird design. Join me for a pleasant ride though the countryside of northern Europe. 🙂
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Journey Details:
Origin: Hamburg Hbf
Destination: Aarhus H
Company: Danske Statsbaner
Train: DSB IC3
Accommodation: DSB 1′ Seat (1st)
Distance: 409 kilometres / 254 miles
Price: 759 kr. (£87.80 / €101.80 / $110.80)
Time: 4 hours 27 minutes, arrived 2 minutes early
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25 Comments
Why are all passengers wearing masks?
The reason there are border checks at a "checkless" border is bc of weight on cars, and minor minor instances of people smuggleing or "illegal" immigration, it also has to do with ww2, since after ww2 and the german invasion we decided not to risk another invasion so there is a permanant national guard and or standing military precense.
This is what i know as a dane
Also Albs I once helped to drill the train tunnel at Bastad, Sweden (yes it's an amusing name). The tunnel has a very contoversial history with the original attempt (which I was happily not involved in) poisining some of the local livestock!
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallands%C3%A5s_Tunnel
I never got to take the train myself, but I imagine travelling from Malmo to northern Sweden and beyond would be a nice journey for you.
6:48 In its early years, IC3 used to come with onboard catering, at least on national routes in Denmark. A trolley loaded with goodies like candies, sandwiches, sodas, coffee, and tea would make its way through the entire train a couple of times during those long journeys. And if you needed something in between, no worries – just track down the steward chilling in the galleyway for a quick fix.
hey. i live in Denmark, and i would like to show u around in Copenhagen if you need a guide ( or help getting out of here)
It's illegal to sell stuff you buy in Germany in danish shops, plus that bust drugs,
Just want to mention that the cellular network in Schleswig-Holstein is really patchy and you should not expect to get any internet connection 😅
What is the orange colour hammer like thing near the power sockets
I caught the 3 car diesel version back in 1999 from Sweden to København with another railway workmate. We were amazed to see that the whole drivers desk and controls swung back too. There was also a children's play area at the end of one coach.
We were also lucky enough that the train ferry was still operating from Helsingborg to Helsingør. When the train left the ferry cars and cyclists were leaving alongside with no fence to separate them from the train.
Sad that the train ferriy has stopped now along with the Puttgarten to Rødby ferry, another one I was lucky to go on in 1996 with a loco hauled train.
Sadly for me there was only old IC trains from DB with no AC, no curtains, overbooked, no toilet working in most coaches and 2 coaches out of order on departure for no reasons. Very disappointing service.
Nice video. I like these Danish IC3 trains. Despite their odd appearances they are really comfortable. I once travelled from Odense to Copenhagen with some friends from Chile and Russia. I had booked tickets without seat reservation because it was a rather calm time of the day. However, my friends kept on walking through the train, passing several empty seats. When I asked them about it they answered they'd be searching for the second class. Everything looked that comfortable to them, they thought the whole train was 1st class;-)
The reason why there are border checks whenever crossing over is cause the Danish government back in like 2015 decided that "too many illegal immigrants" were crossing over from Germany. Thus there are even border checks on the main high way crossings. This fear also led to Denmark building a fence along the border to germany. Officially they are meant to keep out wild boars, tho they are no were high enough not consistent. So one may come to a different conclusion.
Since train fares in Germany are mostly calculated based on distance travelled, and as the 10 or so km of the loop at the Rendsburg bridge do not get you to closer to your destination, the German railway did not, and to my knowledge still does not, charge for this bit of the journey. It's the only bit on the whole network that is gratis.
Belgian here, our Poperinge-Antwerpen train looks VERY similar
Politics is the reason of this border control.
"Regeringen indfører midlertidig grænsekontrol
04-01-2016
Kontrollen vil have fokus på grænsen mellem Danmark og Tyskland. Grænsekontrollen betyder, at personer, der ikke har ret til at opholde sig i Danmark, kan afvises ved indrejsen. Formålet er at skabe et bedre overblik over flygtninge- og migrantstrømmen og sikre ro og orden."
translated means
"The government introduces temporary border controls
Janaury 4th 2016.
The Border control will have focus on the Danish and German border, The border control means that persons who do not have the right to stay in Denmark can be denied access. The purpose is to create a better overview of the flow of refugees and migrants and ensure peace and order."
This Temporary control is still going on half a decade later.
RENFE (Spanish main railway operator) has a version of the ¨rubber¨ train built by a consortium between CAF and Bombardier. They name it 594 series, and as far as I know it was not very successful and not many units were purchased. In fact, not long after starting operating them, RENFE decided to go for other different models. As many of these trains had issues with the rubbery design, and the units where not often coupled and therefore taking advantage of the collapsible driving controls, they decided to renovate them rebuilding the front and rear ends and removing the rubber feature.
Anonther curious fact about the IC3 (DSB class MF) is that it can not only be coupled in multiple with other IC3s, but also with the IR4 (DSB class ER), which basically is the electric IC3, originally intended for regional trains on Sjælland, hence the R in the name. The diesel-mechanical IC3 and the electric IR4 can thus be coupled together and controlled as one train. I believe they are the only trains in the world capable of this.
Considering they were designed in the 80s, they have aged pretty well.
Americans! Listen and learn how to do trains.
A subway train. Shame.
It's too bad Netherlands ICM trains lost their "Koploper" setup some time ago
Fail. Those trains are swedish made.
This train is lovely. And super elegant function with the front and coupling and de-coupling system. IC4 could have been an improved version of the IC3 (that was one of the offers), but 'free-marked' EU-regulations gave the contract to a dysfunctional and super-corrupt south-European Italian mafia-company. And so this part of Danish industry was killed off… and the competence required to build this all lost.
Was given the not so lovely nickname “blackhead” when it started operation in Denmark.
Actually these Rubber nose trains can devide into 2 trains while driving. E.g. one large train is going to Ålborg and Esbjerg. Before e.g. Fredericia the staff close the gateway through the wagons and put the "cockpit" back in use with a second driver.
While done the train can devide itself while driving