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Welcome to Switzerland 🇨🇭 Our European Sleeper is bang on time, my sleeper room is tidy and in good condition, and the journey has been really enjoyable so far! Well except every toilet in both sleeper cars is locked out of use 😅 Way better start to this trip than my ES Berlin Paris journey! 🎉

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 14h

Welcome onboard European Sleeper from Italy to Belgium! 🇮🇹➡️🇧🇪 Initially hauled by Arenaways, part of Renfe. I’m in an Austrian-registered sleeper that has labels from its adventures with MÁV, there are German cars previously used on SJ EuroNight in the mix too! Quite the European railway cocktail 😄

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 25/09/2026

As fun as InnoTrans was, it’s time to continue the journey! Also picked up a new tool here in Praha 🇨🇿 👀

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 22/09/2026

Hello from the first day of InnoTrans! Saw some very cool stuff, and also some slightly less promising stuff 😅 But either way, it’ll be really interesting to see how many of these products actually turn out in the near and slightly more distant future! 👀😎

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 29/08/2026

Welcome onboard Finland’s new and only international train! 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 Haparanda to Helsinki via Oulu and Tampere in a little over 8 hours. Let’s go! 🚆 🌞

Ryebread sandwich, coffee and water served at seat

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 10/08/2026

What a ride on the Adriatic Express 🚆🌅 The train’s only direct carriage to Warsaw? Not found in Koper, staff had no clue. It showed up eventually after 90 min waiting on the platform in Ljubljana Now our train has been evacuated near Tychy after we broke the overhead wires Warsaw tonight? Maybe 😂

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 02/08/2026

Talgo Strikes again 🙄. As usual, if you want any chance of completing this journey without buses or last-minute rolling stock changes, book one of the ComfortJet (RJ) departures or take Snälltåget 🙌

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 23/07/2026

Spent a couple of days in the UK for our little YouTuber get-together and some cool trains! 🇬🇧🚆 And now that I apparently make bus videos too, I’ve decided to try RegioJet’s premium London–Prague service overnight bus. 18 hours in a solo panorama seat let’s go! 🚌🇨🇿

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 11/07/2026

More nonsense. 3 days before departure, the train was moved 30 min later, instead of the nice booked Velaro, we’ve been "blessed" with a duck in possibly the worst-aligned seats imaginable. Such a shame. Spain has the most HSR track in Europe, yet it’s the network I enjoy using the least by miles.

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 08/07/2026

Spanish HSR might be the worst in the world 😅🇪🇸🚆 Avril is a horrible low-quality train, cheap nasty 2+2 seatsin first class 🤢, ride quality so rough there's now turbulence on trains😭 Infrastructure is broken, our train got cancelled in Ourense after a 2h delay. Now to fight my way back to Madrid 😬

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 22/06/2026

All aboard the retro sleeper to Bucharest! Yes that loco is really running with one window stitched together with some tape 🤣🇷🇴

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 21/06/2026

🍽️ Romanian dining cars are so back! Even if the layout is still incredibly strange... 😅 IC 531 from Bucharest to Cluj and Arad is now meant to have one, and it's great to see proper restaurant cars returning to CFR's flagship trains. 🚆

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 17/06/2026

Talgo time! Let’s just say I wasn’t exactly impressed… but worst of all, there’s no currywurst in the bistro 😱 🇩🇪

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 17/06/2026

First KBH Hamburg train of the day: Talgo ❌ ⏩ Replaced by IC3 ✅ Second Talgo of the day: ❌Canceled outright. Luckily the morning ComfortJet I've booked is running! ✅ Off to Berlin on a complicated routing! (Spoiler, not taking the ComfortJet all the way) Not very busy this morning!

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 15/05/2026

I’d stay away from them. No refund for a cancelled Hamburg train! They pretend the bus can keep the same schedule. It clearly can’t, and even the quickest FlixBus, with fewer stops, takes 30 minutes longer. Comparable transport conditions do exist on this route. Clear EU passenger rights violation.

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 11/05/2026

Incredible display from SBB today The first class carriages have swapped position, so of course they have flipped the seat reservations too 🙄 Panorama reservations are now in the non-panorama car and vice versa! Oh, and we left Zürich 5 minutes late because the train arrived late 🙃

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 09/05/2026

I’ve had enough of France and nonsense open-access operators that keep cancelling and ruining the trains I’ve booked with them. So now I’m off to a country with functional trains 🇨🇭😅

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 09/05/2026

It’s long been rumoured that DSB and Vy were looking into running DSB’s new Talgos direct from Copenhagen to Oslo. However, using DB Talgos, with a restaurant car, twice daily and all the way from Berlin to Oslo, was definitely not on my bingo card 🇩🇪 🇩🇰 🇸🇪 🇳🇴🚆 www.dsb.dk/om-dsb/press...

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 09/05/2026

Where European Sleeper is unable to deliver, Ouigo can pick up the slack. To ES’ credit, we arrived in Mons on time, so there was just enough time to connect onto this Ouigo to Paris. It will even arrive before the sleeper was scheduled to, and probably before the replacement buses too 😅

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 08/05/2026

I don’t even know where to start with European Sleeper tonight 🫠 We left late, the carriage numbers messed up, so it took 30 minutes before I was in the correct carriage. 1 hour before departure I got an email saying the train won’t even go to Paris Really living up to that €300+ price tag 🤡🚆

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 07/05/2026

13 hours in first class on the new ComfortJet connection from Copenhagen to Prague. Let’s do this 👀🚆

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 06/05/2026

I hope DSB installs whatever TTS/AI voice system ČD has on their ComfortJets on their Talgos too. It sounds so much better! No more “Cul-ding” 😅

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 04/05/2026

Well, I won't be recommending GoVolta then. 2 days out, they cancelled the entire train, seemingly for their own operational convenience, and replaced it with a single bus. If I wanted to travel by bus to Hamburg, I would have booked FlixBus 🙄 Safe to say I'll be pushing for a refund.

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 04/05/2026

Welcome onboard the first Snälltåget day train from Hamburg to Stockholm 🇩🇪🇸🇪 We’re an hour late, as German rail infrastructure seems determined to destroy every train launch in May. I’ve got one of the few solo seats for the 11.5-hour journey, plus a dinner reservation in the restaurant car 😋🍴

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 03/05/2026

Good morning from Prague! Time for a joyride on the new ComfortJet service to Copenhagen 👀 Only heading as far as Hamburg today, but I’ll be back in a couple of days to ride the full route and really put it to the test, bringing you a detailed review of the entire journey and onboard experience 😉

České Dráhy 384 Vectron pulling ComfortJet to Copenhagen in Prague

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 02/05/2026

This was not where I expected to be tonight, but it’s definitely an upgrade over doing 10 hours in a seat for no reason, so I can’t complain too much 🤣 €50 for a last-minute booking in a shared 3-person “sleeper” - not bad. Hopefully it stays empty to Prague 🤞

Corridor picture of RegioJet sleeper carriage

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 02/05/2026

Well everything has gone horribly wrong 😅 Went to Prešov to catch the new LEO Express Talgo on their overnight service to Prague! But today they have sent a FLIRT instead of the Talgo 😭 Needless to say, as I only came here to try the Talgo. I've now bailed for a more comfy overnight train... 🇸🇰🇨🇿

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 02/05/2026

Off to Slovakia for real this time 🚄 A new Czech 'Thrashtron' pulls my EC to Žilina with a mixed rake of Slovak and Czech carriages 🇸🇰 🇨🇿

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 29/04/2026

Do love when the office has a ever-changing view 🚂 🇨🇿

View from the window with laptop and a canned drink

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 01/04/2026

Looks like Talgo has won the tender to build new night trains for Stockholm–Luleå/Narvik Best of luck to Sweden 💀 The new DK + DE Talgos are working very reliably. KZ was so happy with their Talgos that they kicked them out and replaced the factory with Stadler www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/klar...

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 30/03/2026

So long Taiwan, it’s been a blast 🇹🇼 If not my favourite place in Asia, it’s definitely a strong contender. Now for a ride up the high speed line to Taipei before heading to the airport for my flight back to Europe Time to get back home and into editing mode, gotta get that FlixBus video moving 👀

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 29/03/2026

Kaohsiung 🇹🇼 really said let’s run our brand new light rail straight through the old station. Which is now an open-air museum and one of the nicest places to just hang out in the city 😍🚋

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 28/03/2026

Not many days left for these almost 50 year old American built E200 series locomotives Train 708 from Taitung to Kaohsiung / Xinzuoying is still a safe bet for now, but who knows when that too will quietly turn into a brand new Toshiba E500 👀

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 27/03/2026

Have never seen this many bikes on a long-distance train before 😅🚲 Every possible space they could be stored in was full of them, must’ve been at least 30 on this EMU3000! Anyway, rough day on the Taiwan railway network, my Taipei–Taitung train went from first Unknown, to eventually 40 min late 😬

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 15/03/2026

Update Hamburg seemed too boring, so went to Taiwan instead 🇹🇼

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 14/03/2026

Talgo to Hamburg looking a bit different this morning 😬 The Talgo carriages are still an operational disaster almost six months after entering service and after being delivered two years late 🙄 The power of hindsight, we probably could have had a stable Comfort/RailJet variant running by now. 😕

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 01/03/2026

5500+ km and 107 hours later, welcome to Lisbon 🇵🇹🚌 6 minutes ahead of schedule too! Not much else to say really, off to the hotel 💤

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 25/02/2026

Good morning from Finnish Lapland 🇫🇮 at Santa Claus Village, the northernmost stop on the FlixBus European network 🚌 Over the next 100+ hours, I’ll be travelling exclusively with FlixBus all the way to Lisbon 🇵🇹 which is the longest journey you can book as a single ticket with them!

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 24/02/2026

Up to Rovaniemi today 🚆 First on the recently electrified Iisalmi–Ylivieska line, now served by 50-year-old Sr1 locomotives hauling two former Helsinki commuter carriages. Then a Pendolino Tomorrow I’m up early for a BIG adventure 👀🚌

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 23/02/2026

Back in Finland to try out the new Pendolino Plus, which is what VR is calling the now refurbished Sm6 units from the former Allegro Helsinki - St Petersburg train service 🇫🇮 🚄

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 26/01/2026

And the award for the ugliest cab car design goes to… CAF 😬 Not impressed at all. Awful ride quality, white seats that’ll look filthy in no time (just like on TPE), and the same terrible standard-class seats as the GWR/LNER Class 800s. Maybe the Mark 5As should just have stayed retired. 🚮🚆

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 25/01/2026

Spent the last couple of days riding around on some UK trains 🚄🇬🇧

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 21/01/2026

Train ferry still cool, even if it's not on the sleeper from Milan 😎🚢🇮🇹

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 21/01/2026

What a night! Arrived early into Salerno, and went straight to ticket office for rebooking Told no trains to Palermo today, I point at the departure board showing a IC to Palermo. Guy makes a phone call and ticket re-issued! 🙄 Time for 9 long hours on this IC including train ferry! (Hopefully) 🚂🇮🇹

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 20/01/2026

Things that didn't age well: Our train has been canceled at its first stop Piacenza. We're all put on the ICN to Salerno, however that means no train ferry. What a disappointment 😔😔

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 20/01/2026

Hello from Milano Centrale, where I'm catching one Europe's most interesting sleeper trains! Traveling south to Sicily we will be using one of the words last active train ferries to get across the water to Sicily! It's gonna be an exciting 20 hours hopefully! 🚄🌙🇮🇹 (Not a fan of the new iC livery)

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 19/01/2026

55€ for a MiniCabin from Wien to Rome is a great deal, so that's what I'm doing for the next 14 hours overnight 🚂🌙🇦🇹🇮🇹

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 09/01/2026

Salzburg, Wien, Klagenfurt and soon Krakow, it's been a looong day 😴🚄🇦🇹🇨🇿🇵🇱

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 07/01/2026

And that's me off on the first trip of the year! Heading south from Copenhagen on this excotic Ethiopian 787 to way less excotic Vienna 🇦🇹✈️

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Simon Andersen @intercitysimon.com · 18/12/2025

Finally got to try out DSB's new Talgo carriages this morning! I have lots to say about them in the future video, but the main thing: I was surprised how smooth riding they were! Departed 1h late from Copenhagen due to technical issues, which seems to be very common atm, stuff for Talgo to fix...

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