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Hello and welcome back to Turkey for another highspeed adventure!
Today we are in the largest city, İstanbul, and will be taking TCDD (Turkish Railways) flagship highspeed service to the capital, Ankara. It’s one of the best trains around today, so I hope you enjoy the video!
Date of Filming: 9/2/22
Camera: GoPro Hero 10 Black
Operator: TCDD (Turkish Railways)
Departure: İstanbul, Turkey
Arrival: Ankara, Turkey
Cost: VIP CLass – ₺145 Turkish Lira (£6.86, €7.82, $7.81)
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Price of a seat at the time of filming:
Shockingly cheap!
Price of a seat right now:
More expensive than before, but even very cheap for an European average traveller for a seat on the luxurious class of an High-Speed Train.
13:48 The first AVE line from Madrid to Seville, opened in 1992, cost 5.5 Trillion Spanish Pesetas (The equivalent to today's €4.5 Billion) for only 471 km of a double-track, International gauge (Then a new gauge for Spanish people) brand new line first projected in the late 1980's for desaturate the classical, only electrified railway pass between the Spanish plateau & Andalusia (Despeñaperros Pass, through Sierra Morena Mountains' Eastern boundary, which was at a rate of saturation of a 141 percent in 1991)
Only for connecting Madrid to Seville (The city that held that year the Universal Exposition).
16 years later (In January 2008), the AVE trains arrived to Barcelona (The other highlighted city on 1992, that glorious year when Spain had all the great events on the World)
Why does Turkey limit high speed trains to 250kmh/155mph?
Is booze sold on Turkish trains?
Ticket prices have more than doubled in less than 3 months. What a shocking unpleasant surprise!
It breaks my heart the USA is lagging so far behind the rest of the world in the high speed rail race. I went to Innotrans 2022 in Berlin but didn't even see Amtrak. I remember when the United States had the best passenger trains in the world way before Amtrak but I will not live to see high speed rail in my country 'tis of thee.
The line between Istanbul suburban station and Ankara is not all all high speed (200kmh)?
Ankara's glossy platforms and station floors are amazingly clean! You don't see that in the U. S.
Muito lindo trem compartimento vip privado do trem de alta velocidade da Tunísia 🇹🇳
Muy bueno. Likes
İzmir Mavi treni ile Ankara'dan İzmir'e kadar çeker misiniz?
Agia Sofia🇬🇷 is the most beautiful
Bom dia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO2QhDc9i3s
Great video.
Impressive! Be a better experience when the run further into Istanbul proper
Do they have dynamic prices or are they fix?
The ones you told us in the video are incredibly cheap, can't probably cover the cost of operation (impressive however the inflation rate +300% on tickets)
Awesome video!
Very nice video!
I love the name of Istambul's suburban railway station where high speed trains are starting from.It must be very dificult to pronounce.
From the inside, it is almost identical to the DB ICE Velaro D. Even the Seat pattern is the same
try the business class in China high speed trains. the coach there is even better than this — you can even put the whole seat flat down and then sleep on the coach.
You should definitely try the East Express! It starts from Ankara and ends in Kars (Armenian border) in the East. I'm sure it will be an interesting video…
It’s amazing how German this train looks.
Another superb video, as to the future… how about some long, multi train trips within Europe e.g. North/South or East/West?
Nice
How about the noise on the train ?
That humming noise in the compartment is quite annoying on the phone's speaker. How it is in live?
Happy Thanks ❤
Having a review on the D 347 Vienna Bucarest train would be awesome
Do you have a JPK lanyard though?
Mister Bean interferencia
The Siemens Velaro HT8000 trains are beautiful, fast and very smooth. Marvellous high speed trains in Turkey.
Gracias por el paseo 🇺🇾
Hey man. You should come and check us out on The Dartmouth Steam Railway!
The Turkish Version of a DB BR407/408 UK Class 374
The terrain looks a lot like Southern California. But the sky and light looks Scottish. When I was in Turkey I traveled by Motor coach. And only once was there a light snow in the city center (which looked beautiful) on just my first trip there, Feb. 1987. But on that trip we traveled straight south to Kusadasi, Ephesus, and Pamukale. On my second trip in April 1996 we took the coach through Ankara and onto Cappadocia, which was like an enchanted ancient other planet.
4:48 – was it Fenerbahce stadium?
"This unpronounceable station…"
Are you for real? omg
Are you thinking of moving to mastodon too?
Great trip. Hope this high-speed rail can reach Central of Istanbul, even reach the European part of Istanbul. But my question, is there any land availability to build that thing? Also I hope the dedicated high speed line can be completed on time, so this train can enjoy optimum speed.
That was LAME
I used to travel between Ankara Istanbul, clean and very attractive
Can you please help why TCDD website and app is not showing booking after 11th December? I have to book for 16th December.
I hope the Turkish people appreciate it as much as you do. Unfortunately, we do not know/appreciate the value of our country as much as you foreigners.
Thank you for the video!
Very good value for money. It wasn't obvious to me, but I assume each of the seats in you compartment had an entertainment system?