Today we are taking a trip onboard the danish designed and build IC3 trains, that was exported to the Israeli railways in the 1990s. The trains will be retired from service this year so come along an explore the intresting history of these trains, their unique design and how they ended up so far from their home with DSB in Denmark.
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Train type: Israeli railways IC3
Route: Haifa Bat Galim to Beit She’an
Train: 6072
Distance: 66km
Journey time: 55 minutes
Average speed: 68 km/h
Price: 24 shekels ~ 6.3 euro
Music:
Alexi Action – Synthwave 80’s
12 Comments
The sad fact is that you CA'NT take the train from e.g Gothenburg via Copenhagen to Haifa! You'll be lucky if yo get to istanbul and then on to Adana in Turkey
BUT, there are countries from there on that deny entry to Israel.
Nice, very informative video.👍
Now you basically just need to do a video on the IC2 and then you would have covered basically all the IC3 variants
You should try out the Belgian AM96, another child of the IC3. You can find them on the IC's between Poperinge and Antwerp, Namur and Tournai, Antwerp and Hasselt via Brussels Airport and Leuven, Ghent and Landen as well as Herstal and Mons. You can also find them on most trains between France and the cities of Kortrijk, Tournai or Charleroi. They are also used elsewhere but less reliably.
I can live without reading lights on a 55 minutes ride
You have no idea how happy I was when I saw this video. The IC3 is my favorite IR train and I’m glad to see another train nerd appreciate it. I’m pretty sure that the unit you saw at the sidings was actually in the railway museum in Haifa. It is extremely sad that they are on the way out. IR is now aiming to have level boarding at all stations on all lines eventually. Currently it’s only the new Siemens trains. So the IC3 ticks all the wrong boxes. It’s old, it has stairs at the door, highest maintenance cost of any IR train, and it runs on diesel. Before Covid the IC3 was expected to have a long future in IR since it was the only train that was capable to run on the old Jerusalem line. Since that historic line was closed during the lockdowns and never reopened the IC3 had lost its only chance of staying in service in the future.
Thank you for the video
These exist in Sweden, called Y2.
“Israel” is not part of the region, rather part of the West. It is the biggest recipient of foreign/Western aid in the world
Very interresting video. Thanks.
Can you make a video about some finnish train again? Also, what's your favorite train currently?
Very nice and informative video! There are 2 of these trainsets sitting at the Malha station in southwest Jerusalem.
Malha is the newer terminal of the historic Jerusalem-Jaffa railway, which was built in the 1890s. When the new fast train line from Tel-Aviv and Ben Gurion Airport to Yitzhak Navon station Jerusalem, the old Jerusalem-Jaffa railway wasn't needed much any more. Even before the new fast train, there were bus lines that could make the trip in faster time, and left from more centrally located points of the city.
When Covid hit, the Jerusalem-Jaffa railway line was suspended indefinitely. I'm quite sad I never got to ride it, because I've heard that the views are phenomenal. But my point is, 2 of these trainsets just sit at the Haifa station, and they've probably been there since March of 2020.
You can also see faintly through the windows that the lights in the station building are still on. And the trash cans on the platforms are full. It's erie – the place is frozen in time, a testament to when the world shut down 3 years ago.
9:19 Those cars look a bit like the "Married-Pair" cars wich are running in Germany between Hamburg and Westerland on the island of Sylt.