Intercity rail. Trains that go between cities. Which countries have it and where does it go? Watch and learn.
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0:00 – Intercity Rail
1:33 – North America
3:39 – South America
5:03 – Europe
17:48 – Africa
24:16 – Asia
34:17 – Oceania
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Running list of corrections:
– Amtrak's longest /service/ is their through cars between the Texas Eagle and the Sunset Limited, linking Chicago to Los Angeles via San Antonio
– Spain's Trenhotel services are no longer operational
– China no longer has slow trains between Hong Kong and the mainland
– Indonesia recently opened a regional intercity line on the island of Sulawesi
– Israel is in the process of rapidly electrifying much of their railway
– Malaysia has a small intercity line on Borneo called the North Borneo Railway, and the east/central line operates a few times a day, not once a day
– I got some details of Armenia, Denmark, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Russia, and Serbia's services wrong, or missed key parts (see comments for specifics)
Damn imagine running services to another country with trains that have “*insert other country here* is ours!”
(Cough cough Serbia cough cough)
talks about austria, shows 3 pictures of swiss trains..
1:26 the image is Taipei Metro's c381 train, i think you want to put SBS's c651
Taiwan is not a country
16:48 You showed it a little wrongly, in the first photo there is an ordinary local train that makes all or most of the stops, in the second one on the left there is a locomotive used for sleeper trains, on the right is an intercity one. (The map you showed is not exactly an intercity map, but it shows the main connections.) But still, you said the main information correctly. Therefore, difficulty of making such a video, some mistakes can be ignored.. Good video by the way, you did a good job
Small correction on Algeria: main corridors actually run more modern, faster diesel trains which run twice a day (if I remember correctly). Those that you showed are mostly sleeper trains nowadays. Great video though, I imagine this took an enormous amount of effort ^^
Vande Bharat trains are not really the fastest trains in India; they only appear so because the RW govt has slowed down other premium trains to make this hollow propaganda train appear faster. Its just made to look like “European” trains from the outside to catch the public’s eye. It is costly compared to other trains and these are mostly running empty because the common folks can’t afford it. These trains are nothing special, it’s pure propaganda and marketing by the Supreme Leader to peddle his agenda. Its 1984
This has got to be the most informational train video ever, so much packed into 35 min but still very clear. I can’t wait for your british isles journey and other videos to come.
Fun fact about the uks train system it has a lot of seperate companies but wales trains are ran by transport for wales and scotland trains are ran by scot rail which are both goverment owned entities. The uk rail network gets more complicated e.g in liverpool there is a local oparator called Merserail which oparates a simmiar around the city and goes to a few olaces near the city like chester. Merseyrail is owned by Nederlandse Spoorwegen. A lot of train oparators have to also run local services e.g south eastern which runs london to dover high speed service also runs local services. The uks best intercity train is the pendilino 390
8:43 DB (Deutsche Bahn) isn't a national operator by means. It's a private company, the shares of the DB are owned by the state tho, so it's a national operator with more steps
It is criminal that this video has fewer than 7000 views right now.
Where's the Philippines 💀💀💀
The through-car on the Texas Eagle from Chicago to LA via San Antonio is a much longer trip than the California Zephyr.
Also, Spain suspended pretty much all of its Trenhotel trains since 2020.
Great video!
Some corrections
Armenia: Yerevan-Tbilisi sleeper train rides to Batumi during summer season
Azerbaijan: most intercity trains are suspended during Covid Pandemy except Baku-Ganja-Agstafa service
Belarus: since 2021 there are also 2 daily international trains from Minsk to Moscow (Lastochka)
Czech Republic: trains Prague-Brno/Ostrava ride through Pardubice, no through the Vysočina region
Kyrgyzstan: Tashkent Issyk-Kul train is suspended during Covid Pandemy, all trains from Central Asia to Moscow are suspended until 2024 (all international trains ends near the Volga River).
Tajikistan: there are no passenger trains to Amudarya river. Domestic services: Dushanbe-Kulob (once a week) and Dushanbe-Khujand through Uzbekistan (in the spring and autumn).
Uzbekistan: high speed trains ride from Tashkent to Samarkand, Bukhara and Karshi, no to the south part of the country. Domestic sleeper trains ride from Tashkent and Andizhan to other cities and international trains to RU, KZ and TJ. There are also a few local trains, but their timetables aren´t on internet.
lololol that Taipei MRT stock image used when glossing over Singapore MRT at start was so troll 😂
A recent corridor also opened between Agartala in India and Akhaura in Bangladesh
Taiwan is only a province of China
Mentioned the "border" on the island of Ireland… but then called it Derry. Dancing that fine line of Northern Irish politics masterfully there Caleb.
Incredibly well put together video! I've always been interested in the various rail networks outside of the U.S., and started a bit of research about these systems a few years ago, but I wasn't able to obtain too much info off hand. Thank you so much for summarizing these diverse railway networks!
In the future, would you ever do a video on Tshuetin rail transport?
Nice! 🙂
For Austria you picked two fictional / hardly operational trains 😉
5:57 this is some concept art of… something
6:06 this is a Bombardier Talent 2 (called "Hamster Cheek" in Germany) which was returned to the manufacturer after a short period of grave delays and problems. Now, new trainsets all are Siemens Desiro Mainline EMUs.
6:44 Čapljina = "Tchahplyeenah". Now, there are at least international seasonal Talgos to the sea in Croatia – to Ploče – again.
yeah south africa has abandoned its rail network 🙁
How the Indian Railways was shown was shown in the photo of Bangladesh. There was a blue colored train on which there were many people, it was very crowded but it was from Bangladesh.
@Classywhale that guy who told you that vande Bharat trains are slow is a heavy propaganda machine against the current ruling govt. Let me tell you these trains are tested to be 180-200 kmph and are the fastest running trains. They aren't going empy too.
And kindly those overcrowded trains you show aren't Indian. Please remove it. 90% of our routes are electrified. No one does that now. India is also launching it's own bullet train in 2026-2027.
31:20 Intercity Train eXpress-Saemaul/ITX-새마을(formerly Saemaul-Ho) also, Saemaul-Ho with Diesel locomotive now runs ONLY at Janghang line.
31:24 Nuriro-Ho and Mugunghwa-Ho is Same(yes they share the same fare).
also, there are ITX-Maum/ITX-마음(for replacing Mugunghwa-Ho for a price of Saemaul) and ITX-청춘 for Yongsan – Chuncheon.
Small correction Serbia has one “high speed” train called Sokol between Novi Sad abd Belgrade
Thx for the hard work