Our Story of the Journey Belgrade - Budapest - Vienna - Warsaw

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In this video, which is somewhat different from the previous ones, we are talking about our 6-day trip to Warsaw in Poland, where we attended an excellent conference called Railway Direction Days 2023 in the organization of Centralny Port Komunikacyjny or CPK!

Namely, we began our trip on Tuesday, 17th January at 5 am from Belgrade. We arrived in Warsaw at 10 am the next day via Budapest Keleti and Vienna Hbf. In the meantime, we used a van, changed a few long-distance trains, saw the metro and the urban rail systems in Vienna and Warsaw, and even experienced evacuation from the station in Vienna due to a false bomb alert. It was not easy, there were several delays, and almost missed connections, but on the other hand, we met some fantastic people, gained some new perspectives and knowledge, visited the Technical Museum of Poland, had some great food, especially in Warsaw, and many others.

At the conference, we had the opportunity to hear many interesting railway stories, to get to know the STH project better, but also we managed to do our first exclusive interview for the channel with CPK’s CEO. And, one of us even had the honor to participate as a moderator in one of the panel discussions on the topic of innovations in rail.

Our story is split into two videos: this one, representing a trip report, ie. part from our departure from Belgrade to our arrival at the conference in Warsaw, and the second one, representing a conference report, which will cover our experience of the conference, our exploring of beautiful Warsaw, some great people that we met and food that we had, and also our visit to the Technical Museum of Poland in Warsaw!

We are doing this for the very first time on the channel, so we indeed hope that we will manage to share with you at least some of our experiences from this memorable journey!!
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[userfriendly]

One of best YouTube channel for railway technology

[JanGotner]

What a perfect Central European travelogue. Trains, stations, rain, coffee, beer, tiny sleeping compartments, professionalism, meticulousness, pleasant accent and not one smile on any of the photos! ;) can't wait for the next parts, love the format, great to have you here from a Varsovian subscriber :)

[johnmcqueen]

For quite a while you’ve been explaining things to us that we had never even thought about but are now happy that you have elucidated for us. Now with your first dive into trip report territory, you even threw in a bomb scare! I can’t wait to see what you add next to your repertoire, and I’m sure it will surprise and inform us. Thank you and kudos for all you do.

[mr_wrongway]

So nice to see my Home Town in one of my favourite YouTube channels! Great vid!

[voilin]

Thx bro, really looking forward to Belgrade Budapest line being fixed, I had opportunity to travel from Vienna to Belgrade and it was exhausting. Other than that Soko is amazing

[Helvett]

Uwielbiam pociągi od dziecka a najbardziej podobają mi się szwajcarskie. Fajną podróż odbyliście 👍

[railwayjade]

Very cool video! Was great to finally see you in a video!

[uzytkownik]

Hello from Polish subscriber (or "Hej!" in Polish)! As a person who discovered your channel recently, I got extremely keen on your way of explaining the characteristics of railway transport. I hope I'd make up all of your previous videos 😅

Greetings from Silesia metropolitan area, it's nice to see there are many more train transport fans ❤

P.S.: don't worry about the delay. Warsaw's authorities undertake a huge project of rebuilding the city railway intermodal junction. It might last as long as a few years, currently all of the elements of rebuilding are planned until 2030.

[etreni]

Nationality reveal finally. Anyway this is the breakthrough video that levels up the channel.
Keep it up the great work!!

- railfan from Philippines.

[alexpetrov]

Greetings from Bulgaria! I hope that one day HSR will connect us with you too, but maybe that will be just a dream. Great content!

[lindavainomae]

I really enjoyed your first trip report video and would love to see more. It combines your usual excellent factual explanations with the excitement of a long journey. It was interesting to get an idea of the things you saw and did along the way. Keleti station looks really beautiful and appreciated getting such a good look at it.

[kotak]

very enjoyable and informative video! hoping for more of this!! thank you. 👍👍😁

[trapper_keeper]

Been watching for so long, it's finally great to see the faces behind the channel. Big fan of this direction. Love the more personal touch and, as always, the lovely diagrams and technical details.

[nauudb]

So cool you're from Serbia! I did an interrail trip through the Balkans last summer and it was awesome! I would love a video on rail in Serbia and neighboring countries, a lot seems to be planned :)

[GojiMet]

Thanks for the trip report, I'm pretty sure railfans and many others appreciate your future efforts. There can be a lack of interest from the English-speaking train world in the affairs of that eastern part of Europe, so I am glad to hear more about it. Also, very great to see those model trains being used to explain the different coaches of the train! I still have my Roco trains with me.

[trainspottingtech]

Congratulations for the video! I hope you enjoyed both the trip and the conference! 👏😊

[dreimalnein]

Railjets also bring you from Austria to Brno and Praha in Czech Republic. The blue ones.

[matefulop]

Hope you had a great time in Budapest! You should check out Metro line 3 after the reconstruction ends in March.
Great content btw!

[fv]

Very good travel description! I do prefer the part with voice-over to the part spoken live, because the selection of images is much better and consequential.

[peter]

Loved the video! Hopefully there'll be more vlogs like that one 🙂