GoVolta connection from Amsterdam to Berlin

Earlier today GoVolta's first passenger service departed Amsterdam Centraal from platform 8 at 08:34. Since I've moved out of the Netherlands, I couldn’t film the inaugural trip. Fortunately, as always, Dylan's Depot is quick with their videos and had one out a few hours after the train left.

In the video we see 8 ex-NMBS I10 carriages being pulled by TrainCharter Service's Alsthom 1700, number 101001. The class 1700's were taken out of regular passenger service with the last one operated by NS in 2023. Now with the GoVolta service you can once again ride with these locomotives up until Bad Bentheim where the locomotive is swapped for a Siemens Vectron capable for running in Germany. In a video recorded by Trainspotter RRX we can see this one used today is RailPool operated Vectron, number 193 828.

As for the eight carriages, out of the presumably 13 purchased from NMBS, the exterior sports the new GoVolta livery with scenery from various cities. We were able to get a sneak-peak before the launch through LinkedIn posts by GoVolta and the CEO.From the quick view of the interior shown in the video by Dylan's Depot we can see that most of it is left unchanged from when NMBS used the carriages.