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Croatia to Switzerland across the Alps by night train
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Croatia to Switzerland across the Alps by night train



Zdravo,

Welcome to this new trip report where I will review a train I wanted to review since day one of my channel, the Euronight Croatia between Zagreb and Zurich, I was very excited to the HZPP sleeping car but the journey ended being simply stunning!
Enjoy!

– TRIP INFORMATION –
RECORDED JULY 2022
Railroad company: HZPP, SBB, ÖBB, SZ
Train type : HZPP 1142, ÖBB Taurus and HZPP WLee
From : Zagreb Glavni kolodvor to Zürich HB
Time : 14h42
Price : 129 €/$ (114€ with Interrail pass)

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00:00 : Intro
01:44 : Zagreb Glavni kolodvor
02:14 : Euronight Croatia
02:48 : Boarding
03:20 : 100% Made in Croatia
03:51 : Departure from Zagreb
04:00 : Review of the compartment
05:40 : Welcome to Slovenia
06:11 : Sava river gorge
07:38 : Ljubljana
08:12 : Sunset & chill
08:33 : Nighty night
09:02 : Mid roll ads
09:29 : Morning Austria
10:30 : Breakfast in Switzerland
10:52 : Outstanding views of the Alps
11:48 : Lake Walenstadt
13:13 : Toilets time
13:54 : Walkthrough
15:08 : Lake Zürich
15:40 : Spotting in Thawill
16:08 : Zürich HB
16:34 : Conclusion
17:05 : Outro

37 Comments

  4. Meyer Schlom

    And the Auto car was starting in Villach and going to Feldkirch. The Taurus switched in Schwarzach St. Veit. The Taurus in Switzerland was coming from Graz HBF. Usually from Dobova to Schwarzach St. Veit is a slovenian Taurus.

    Since I traveled first time to Croatia and Serbia it wasn't possible to Go to Serbia without switching the cars. The serbian cars are only going to Ljubjana. Maybe they will come back with the new timetable in 2023 (start on 11th dicembre 2022). I only belive it, when I see this or somebody will make a report that je mad this journey.

    Actuall the best was to go from Zagreb to Belgrad is to take the bus.

  6. EOS1

    Excellent video! Your captions were very interesting, descriptive and to the point. Subscribed!!!

  10. Monica McCarthy

    Excellent ride. I love love love Zurich. I have been there twice. Thibault, please include date the video was filmed and cost of the ticket in each video. I really enjoy your videos. Great job. Greetings from New Jersey, USA.

  13. tobias köhler

    I love seeing the Walensee and Zürichsee at breakfast time … from a different part of the same train: The section from Zagreb is coupled up in Schwarzach St Veit with the nightjet 464 Zürichsee from Graz (which also brings some automobile carriers that are uncoupled in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg). I have done this trip (from Graz or Leoben) several times. But I also love travelling on the Arlberg line by day, a view missed when taking the night train.

    And all train toilets have a drain on the floor (sometimes closed with a lid), how else would you clean up a flood?

  19. Jeff Goldman

    Your videos are beautiful, but if you would narrate them instead of using subtitles, it would allow us to watch the scenery instead of reading. That really puts me off.

  21. Kenneth Hughes

    What a beautiful, relaxing and well-composed video. I love it when the journey starts in the evening and ends in the daylight…with beautiful weather all along the route. The scenery as you were traveling through Switzerland is some of the best I've ever seen. My only regret is that it had to end. Fantastic job of filming!!

  25. Antara Sinha

    How clean is everything in Europe! It's the best thing about the developed nations. In India, we can't even imagine and ever expect of that cleanliness in our stations. I often feel so frustrated in my country. The stations are so dirty here. If one travels in first class, one can expect a little about the train to be clean otherwise the trains are more dirty. People who take birth or get a chance to live in developed nations are really lucky in so many ways. And the journey was great with all the beautiful and wonderful sceneries or landscapes of Europe.

  26. Bare36

    If you want a real adventure,try the passanger train from Zagreb to Vinkovci. 260km, five hours ride,often no lights in night and once a was scared for my life. I was thinking,that the train is gonna derailed.. everything was schaking and strainge loud noices…in summer no ac and windows stuck closed…(croatian national railway is well known for coruption and stupidity , like more/less everything connected with gouverment,)

  28. the train

    You should come to Bulgaria one more time , but to try the chaika express from sofia to burgas (it s a train that travels only in bulgaria). The coaches are refurbished. Also this video is really cool.

  32. Martin Krupina

    You could try the railway line from Zvolen to Vrútky, it is the most beautiful railway line in Slovakia. Btw, the longest tunnel in Slovakia is located on this railway line.

  33. Ctwentysevenj

    The trip will go through three different voltages the train would use. Croatia: 25kv 50hz ac, Slovenia: 3kv DC ,Austria and Switzerland :15kv 16.7 Hz ac . The Croatian locomotive can only take 25kv. That's why there was a change of locomotive. The OBB Taurus 1216 class is a multivoltage and take all three voltages.

  34. V43 1018

    I don't like these ugly interiors of these sleeping cars from the 2000's and 2010's. They make all a soulless, depressive and sterile impression.

  36. Félix Weber

    I’ll have a long weekend in Zagreb at the end of October and I’ll take this train too! I’ll just be in a 6 bed-room. It’s funny you uploaded the video the day I booked my trip

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