Budapest to Vienna on One of Europe’s Most Complex and Important International Trains
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Join me today on a journey aboard the Hungarian Railways EuroCity train from Budapest to Vienna. This train serves as a key international connection, starting from Chop, where the through carriages from the sleeper service originating in Kyiv are attached as part of the complex operation of getting this train all the way to Vienna. In this video, we’ll explore what it’s like to travel in the comfortable first-class and Ukrainian sleeper carriages. We’ll also take a tour of the dining car, giving you a complete experience of this important international rail service.
Train type: MAV Taurus Siemens EuroSprinter and various coaches
Route: Budapest-Keleti to Wien Hauptbahnhof
Train: EC140 “Chop-Wien”
Distance: 257km
Journey time: 2h40m
Average speed: 96 km/h
Price: From 13€
31 Comments
MÁV is quite an interesting story for me. They're underfunded, mismaganged, terribly inconsistent in both quality and reliability, but I just can't help but love them.
Super Video.. What year was it that you traveled this route by TRAIN?
Wow I did not know you could access the Ukrainian coaches. Might take this sometime then
You absolutely free to make pics on Ukrainian trains even now while war
Simon speaking of the carriages at the back 2 years ago that would have been four to 10 of them basically Ukrainian Railways had a policy of increased frequency away from the front lines of eastern Ukraine in some cases there would have been coaches coming in from the Donbass/Kherson region where the front line is. Basically combining the two Refugee trains into a single train to Vienna if able to do so. 120 years ago this train would have been operated by KkStb which itself actually held control of the Hungarian State railways MAV Wien Budapest Krasne Brody/Tarnopol Kyiv. Gauge change from 1.435m to 1.520m tracks ends up occurring at the two stations where Austria bordered Russia Tarnopol/Brody.
Haven't tried Regiojet, but I prefere the MÁV cars over Railjet.
Much more comfortable seats. And sometimes I also prefere travelling in a compartment, which isn't offered on the Railjets.
Honestly considering its traffic, Kelenföld may could the most important or 2nd most important train station in the country.
As a hungarian, the food prices are very reasonable… costs are about the same as a normal café shop in the city, or even cheaper
Prefer mav coaches 😉
Really enjoyed your video, liked and subscribed 🙂 I like all three companies (MÁV-Start, ÖBB, n RegioJet) on this route. They are all a bit different in their own ways. Safe travels!
I took the MÁV train to Mukacheve a year ago.
The border control in Hungary on the platform was quite chaotic, and we changed to different MÁV cars.
This train then continued to Chop and Mukacheve.
There the train arrives on a separate platform and you need to walk to the rest of the station.
I coudn't book the Mukacheve-Lviv ticket at the MÁV international counter, so I had to do it in Mukacheve. Fortunately, they had an international/tourist counter there with a nice lady that spoke English well.
Now use the combined Regiojet/UZ service from Krakow to Lviv, but trains can be booked out weeks ahead as there many people going between Ukraine and the EU and no flights due to the war.
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Ukraine mentioned!
One quick note: The light switches on these DWA Amz carriages have 3 positions, with one being right between the on and off positions. It's an insignificant thing, that took me seceral trips on these to realise.
Delay? 11:05
I remember riding on Ukrainian sleepers from Kyiv to my grandma at Mykolaiv.
Former government sold the cargo to Austria thatswhile the income of personal train tickets not enough to work well the route network.
Es würde der Verständlichkeit dienen, wenn du ein wenig langsamer sprichts. Du "verschluckst" zu viele Silben. Native speakers are much better understood.
At first sight these ukranian sleeper cars look more comfortable than the old NightJet carriages. And definitely more cozy!
Nice video!
Do all trains in Europe expect people to hang their bikes from the ceiling? or is that just a stereotype?
As a frequent traveller I prefer the MAV sets because of the restaurant car – cheap, good, comfortable. Forget the Railjet Restaurant!
I thought Ukraine has Russian trackwith ?
You forgot (or were exploring the carriages when it happened), that the EuroCity does stop at the town of Tatabány, between Kelenföld and Győr
10:00 "from my perspective as a Danish person, it's really cheap"
Isn't that the case for most things in life? 😅
A spring video at the end of summer?
Budapest Keleti is definitely one of most beautiful stations I've ever seen. It have an amazing mix really old and state of the art rolling stock all at the same time. Offers really easy connections to other local transports like trams, buses and the metro. All affordable rates and most importantly better maintenance that most western European main stations
0:11 if British railways bought the db br 182
I have never used a Railjet between Budapest and Wien but have used both MAV and RegioJet, both being really good although I do love a good dining car so MAV might just get the nod from me.
Its all smart gage tracks all uropean country y not run train in Broadgauge traks 🙂🌎🎉🎸🎸🌍🌍🎶🎶🎶👋👋🌍🎉🎉🎉🎉🌍🌍🙂🙂
České dráhy is also going to viena
Mav have romanian coaches buildet in arad😊
❤🤍💚💯💯💯❤🤍❤