13 hours on One of the LAST SLEEPER train from the SOVIET UNION - Romania to Moldova
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Date: 2024-01-09
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-andybenson1161
Don't know if it still runs, but when I was in Moldova in 2017 there was another internal sleeper there, though it wasn't advertised on timetable as such. There was one scheduled train a day between Basarabeasca and Chisinau, the return service leaving Basarabeasca. about 10 past 2 in the morning. I was expecting usual Ganz DR1 unit, but it was a single TE10M with two hard class sleeping cars, the main part of turnaround being restocking with logs for the wood fired heating! No reservation, just grab a bed! Really characterful train, thoroughly enjoyed trip.
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Don't know if it still runs, but when I was in Moldova in 2017 there was another internal sleeper there, though it wasn't advertised on timetable as such. There was one scheduled train a day between Basarabeasca and Chisinau, the return service leaving Basarabeasca. about 10 past 2 in the morning. I was expecting usual Ganz DR1 unit, but it was a single TE10M with two hard class sleeping cars, the main part of turnaround being restocking with logs for the wood fired heating! No reservation, just grab a bed! Really characterful train, thoroughly enjoyed trip.
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-barrywood2806
Thanks for the memory. I rode one of these from Hook of Holland to Moscow in 1970, in the Iron Curtain days. And then from Moscow to Helsinki. We had the same bogie change as we passed from Poland into the USSR. Back then, you couldn't choose your hotel in Moscow and were assigned one, and each floor had a woman sitting at a desk by the lifts. Not sure what their role was. I was on the train for two nights and could still feel the movement during my first night in my hotel bed.
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Thanks for the memory. I rode one of these from Hook of Holland to Moscow in 1970, in the Iron Curtain days. And then from Moscow to Helsinki. We had the same bogie change as we passed from Poland into the USSR. Back then, you couldn't choose your hotel in Moscow and were assigned one, and each floor had a woman sitting at a desk by the lifts. Not sure what their role was. I was on the train for two nights and could still feel the movement during my first night in my hotel bed.
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-flk1331
Used to ride this train back and forth a lot in the early 2000s. Always loved watching the scenery go by and the bogies being changed.
Also, at 15: 47, the clickety clack is the normal railroad sound for me. Having been on trains in countries with better investments in their infrastructure, the smooth, near-silent rides were very weird to me -
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Used to ride this train back and forth a lot in the early 2000s. Always loved watching the scenery go by and the bogies being changed.
Also, at 15: 47, the clickety clack is the normal railroad sound for me. Having been on trains in countries with better investments in their infrastructure, the smooth, near-silent rides were very weird to me -
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-hermanmunster3358
A voice over would be far better than captions. I struggled to keep up trying to read, and had to keep pausing tge video, which took my attention away from actually watching the video. So I eventually gave up, and turned off. Completely spoilt my experience.
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A voice over would be far better than captions. I struggled to keep up trying to read, and had to keep pausing tge video, which took my attention away from actually watching the video. So I eventually gave up, and turned off. Completely spoilt my experience.
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-barbanousse
The bogie change brings back memories of going between Moscow and Prague in the 80s. I also traveled from Moscow to Georgia, no bogie changes but it was a few days on a sleeper like that one, those were the days. (for train travel, not so much other stuff hehe)
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The bogie change brings back memories of going between Moscow and Prague in the 80s. I also traveled from Moscow to Georgia, no bogie changes but it was a few days on a sleeper like that one, those were the days. (for train travel, not so much other stuff hehe)
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-user-fu9bv4ss2p
I'm a techie by nature. I love tech ( engineering and all. Big and small. This is the strangest tech I ever saw. I've loved trains since childhood. Never drove. This bogies is outstanding. You do worldclass videos.
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I'm a techie by nature. I love tech ( engineering and all. Big and small. This is the strangest tech I ever saw. I've loved trains since childhood. Never drove. This bogies is outstanding. You do worldclass videos.
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-alexlapland
The experience of travelling in a Soviet carriage would be incomplete without fried chicken, boiled eggs and tomatoes.
And salt in a matchbox.
That's exactly what people travelled with on Soviet trains: )
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The experience of travelling in a Soviet carriage would be incomplete without fried chicken, boiled eggs and tomatoes.
And salt in a matchbox.
That's exactly what people travelled with on Soviet trains: )
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-cyberi4a
The whole train had an old creepy vibe to it. I thought how can he stand on that carpet barefoot, how clean can it be. Then when you went into the toilet barefoot, I lost it thinking how unclean that would be. LOL
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The whole train had an old creepy vibe to it. I thought how can he stand on that carpet barefoot, how clean can it be. Then when you went into the toilet barefoot, I lost it thinking how unclean that would be. LOL
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-trainluvr
May I suggest you reserve blur transitions for chapter change only. It is very distracting and a let down when the transition comes and then you end up looking at the same thing from some different angle.
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May I suggest you reserve blur transitions for chapter change only. It is very distracting and a let down when the transition comes and then you end up looking at the same thing from some different angle.
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-H0Simone
The swinging flower pots on the windows, the curtains, the carpet, the bed sheets.
I love this -Grandma-Style-! ----
So cozy, lovely und adorable.
Great review, thanks for sharing!
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The swinging flower pots on the windows, the curtains, the carpet, the bed sheets.
I love this -Grandma-Style-! ----
So cozy, lovely und adorable.
Great review, thanks for sharing!
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train
This is worlds away literally and figuratively from me. Yet this is the first video of yours that takes me back to my childhood. Thank you. And that beard is not fooling anyone, we know it's you.
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This is worlds away literally and figuratively from me. Yet this is the first video of yours that takes me back to my childhood. Thank you. And that beard is not fooling anyone, we know it's you.
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-fatwalletboy2
That old soviet stock rides nicer than the latest caledonian sleeper mk5s!
Also loved seeing the bogie swap ooeration but amazed they havent moved over to standard gauge by now.
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That old soviet stock rides nicer than the latest caledonian sleeper mk5s!
Also loved seeing the bogie swap ooeration but amazed they havent moved over to standard gauge by now.
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-natepicker436
An Opinel knife. you packed well, my friend! I think I just saw the most dangerous job in the world: climbing under those lifted cars while they begin to descend onto those bogies!
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An Opinel knife. you packed well, my friend! I think I just saw the most dangerous job in the world: climbing under those lifted cars while they begin to descend onto those bogies!
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-l. burcea2165
even the main train station of Chisinau ( top 3 poorest countries in Europe) is more modern and clean than dirty EU capital city Bucharest (top 50 cities worldwide. Such a shame.
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even the main train station of Chisinau ( top 3 poorest countries in Europe) is more modern and clean than dirty EU capital city Bucharest (top 50 cities worldwide. Such a shame.
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2: 46 Uh-uh, nope. Poland does not use those cars anymore, if not over the last 15-20 years. We have our own sleeper cars, which are quiet and comfy. I suggest you trying a ride!
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2: 46 Uh-uh, nope. Poland does not use those cars anymore, if not over the last 15-20 years. We have our own sleeper cars, which are quiet and comfy. I suggest you trying a ride!
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it's funny that one of the most used lines in the country is the one taking them out of it straight to Bucharest. if that isn't a sign for reunification I don't know what is lmao
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it's funny that one of the most used lines in the country is the one taking them out of it straight to Bucharest. if that isn't a sign for reunification I don't know what is lmao
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Hey, why didn't you tell you'll visit Moldova? Are you still here? It's my country. It's a pity I didn't meet you: (
Would you ride something else in Moldova?
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Hey, why didn't you tell you'll visit Moldova? Are you still here? It's my country. It's a pity I didn't meet you: (
Would you ride something else in Moldova?
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-Je_Existe
I love it! Its literally my taste of interior. Lots of brown wood --. And the bedsheets are amazing what a beautiful sleeper! Would love the ride it one day!
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I love it! Its literally my taste of interior. Lots of brown wood --. And the bedsheets are amazing what a beautiful sleeper! Would love the ride it one day!
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-rezaalan3991
Great trip. Ah yes P42 and Velaro. I think this is first time taking a train with manual gauge changing like this, unlike previous one which automatic.
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Great trip. Ah yes P42 and Velaro. I think this is first time taking a train with manual gauge changing like this, unlike previous one which automatic.
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-christill
What an amazing / ridiculous thing that bogie change is. Surely it would have been better to have done something to avoid having to do that every day.
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What an amazing / ridiculous thing that bogie change is. Surely it would have been better to have done something to avoid having to do that every day.
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-adnyc82
I took the Soviet-era sleeper train from Tbilisi to Yerevan in late 2019, before they replaced the cars with newer ones, and it looked just like this.
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I took the Soviet-era sleeper train from Tbilisi to Yerevan in late 2019, before they replaced the cars with newer ones, and it looked just like this.
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-user-fu9bv4ss2p
I surely did spot the curtains! I WANT THEM: 2 SETS: One to put in my window; the other to wear over my top half. Where were they designed?
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I surely did spot the curtains! I WANT THEM: 2 SETS: One to put in my window; the other to wear over my top half. Where were they designed?
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-Delta-pantages
That is a seriously retro train complete with Soviet style furnishings. Fascinating! By the way, your beard makes you look so much older! -
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That is a seriously retro train complete with Soviet style furnishings. Fascinating! By the way, your beard makes you look so much older! -
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-yarwar
It's the first time I see a 110V socket with a european plug. And it's DC! Is that common on trains, or it this something specific to Romania?
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It's the first time I see a 110V socket with a european plug. And it's DC! Is that common on trains, or it this something specific to Romania?
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-AndrewG1989
Must of been quite an epic train ride in that part of the world. With so much history in it. But still quite an amazing journey.
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Must of been quite an epic train ride in that part of the world. With so much history in it. But still quite an amazing journey.
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-joebleasdale5557
Hey ho, let-s go
Folklore and rock n roll
Join the train, be our guest
CHISINAU TO BUCHAREST!
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Hey ho, let-s go
Folklore and rock n roll
Join the train, be our guest
CHISINAU TO BUCHAREST!
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-joermnyc
If Moldova ever joins the EU maybe Spain can share their tech for switching rail gauges without needing to stop.
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If Moldova ever joins the EU maybe Spain can share their tech for switching rail gauges without needing to stop.
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-user-fu9bv4ss2p
Oh. I saw that: Moldova. I own clothes made in Moldova. And used to have tablecloths from Moldova. Wow!
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Oh. I saw that: Moldova. I own clothes made in Moldova. And used to have tablecloths from Moldova. Wow!
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-karenspade4494
Wow! That-s so interesting! Also the colored fabric on the train. I loved it. Thanks for sharing.
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Wow! That-s so interesting! Also the colored fabric on the train. I loved it. Thanks for sharing.
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