Technically 2 - cos it picks up supplies from the city and then travels it to the centre of the Vatican City - the world's shortest railroad. If I am not mistaken.
@@sumit_ES44 only one of the stops is in Vatican City itself. The other end connects into Rome's rail network, so would count as part of All The Stations Italy. The line itself is primarily used for freight but various popes have been known to use it when they wanted to by pass the crowds to get out of Rome
@@stephenreardon2698 Yes I guess then that one stop in Rome would be part of All the Stations Italy lol. Though its one line. That would make a fun video. There was an interesting video by Half as Interesting on the shortest railroad in the world - great video and channel and his main channel Wendover Productions.
Does anyone think it's at all possible that it might have been used to get the gold out of the Vatican during the War? Because it's still not been made public how they did!
It's always fun to watch British people board a high speed train. They are used to thinking they have HS services in their country, but appart from the Eurostar, they don't. So it is quite fun to watch them review a proper high speed train.
Did the Frecciarossa from Naples to Rome. Standard Premier was fab - you got free snacks and coffee in the morning, and snacks and prosecco in the evening! Ace all round.
I've used Italian trains quite a lot this year (high speed, urban and regional), and they've largely been quite impressive. They're cheap, comfortable, clean and punctual. For some reason they don't seem particularly popular though, they've often been nearly empty, except at peak times on commuter routes in large cities (and even then not hectic). I'm used to trains in and around London though, which are the opposite on all counts - expensive, uncomfortable, grubby, late and always packed.
Man, i don't really know what kind of train you've been taking here in Italy, because they are the opposite of what you've just described. They're always smelly, never on time and very uncomfortable.
It depends: many commuter routes are overcrowded and regularly experience delays and cancellations. The newest double-decker carriages that have been put into service (the Vivalto, that you can see for a moment at 6:38) are a design disaster, with small seats and no seriouse luggage space. On the other end, many new trains are being purchased, and some regions, that are in charge of planning local public transport, are trying to improve the train service. Weirdly Lombardy, the richest one in Italy, where Milan is, is known to have the worst regional railway services. I've commuted for years out of Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna, and I can't complain too much, even if I had to go through some crazy moments. The high-speed services are usually way better: all trains are new, they're always clean and often on time (but track failures that block the entire high-speed network for hours happen too frequently than they should), but they can be really expensive. You must reserve your seat in advance and the pricing system works similarly to a low-cost airline. If you had to purchase a ticket on the day you have to travel you'd end up having to pay a ridicolous price. In general, the more you move away from big cities, and the more you go south, the worse the train service is. That said, having tried the railways in the UK myself, I have to admit they're way worse than the Italian ones. The ticketing system is confusing, prices are way higher and the infrastructure is not as advanced. I think privatisation has been really bad for the system, and the whole All The Station series shows in many moments how outdated it is. In Italy there are no such things as manually operated level crossing, or lines where train traffic is regulated using a piece of wood that one driver passes to the other. Recently on all the lines where there is no cab signalling control system trains can't go faster than 50 km per hour, which for me is absurd, but shows how different is railway safety perceived here.
@@LucaPasini Funnily enough most of the trains I've used have indeed been North of Roma, and as you say the high speed inter-city trains are typically better than local and commuter trains (though even those seemed okay to me). The same is actually the case for the UK. Realistically most of the network is fine, but my god, where it's bad it can get REALLY bad. The Southern and South Eastern routes into London are staggeringly unreliable and always rammed full.
In the UK I've travelled on a Southern train from Gatwick to Clapham Common, I took a HST from London to Edinburgh and I've tried several Scotrail services. I think the first one was running delayed, but what I found really bad was the trip on the ECML. Just the fact that Virgin makes a diesel train run for hundreds of miles over an electrified line seems absurd to me. The train was overcrowded and many people were sitting on the floor: in Italy it would be impossible, as you must reserve a seat when buying a ticket on an intercity train. If the train is full, you just can't buy a ticket for it. The fact that there was a car for luggage only, and a paper ticket saying which seats were reserved gave me the impression of a return to the past, as these features, on Italian railway,s have been abandoned since the nineties, I think. Regarding the Italian commuter trains, it really depends on when you travel, on which line, on which rolling stock and on how lucky you are. The new double-decker trains are terrible if you have to carry suitcases, as there's almost no place to put them, and you often end up putting them on a seat. Seat themselves are insanely narrow and close to each other, and the screens that should indicate the next stop, the temperature, the train number and other information normally never work properly, even on brand new trains, sometimes telling absurdely incorrect information (outside temperature -20° on summer), sometimes not working altogether. If you add overcrowding, almost predictable delays, cancellations, and the amount of rolling stock that is systematically covered in graffiti (something I've never seen in the UK) you can get the bad image that Italian commuter trains usually have. I quickly developed a "Geoff Marshall" attitude to commuting and by carefully analyzing timetables I learnt which trains to avoid, which are usually almost empty, where to buy tickets and railcards without queues and so on. I also visited almost all the stations in my area and I travelled on all the lines. I guess I could be a good "rail guide" in Italy...
This train is Trenitalia Frecciarossa 1000 made by Bombardier. It belongs to a family of high speed trains of Bombardier called Zefiro.There is also Zefiro trains in China called CRH380D and CRH1A-A. These are fantastic trains and Zefiro is my favourite type of high speed trains.
I took the same train from Milan to Florence in May. Basically the last leg from Bologna to Florence was in tunnels, an amazingly fast journey 300kph. Almost as good as Shinkannssen in Japan...
What a perfect outtake, you guys just keep informed of everything that is going on train wise and I think you are both the best for doing it. Thank you so very much.
I've taken this journey a number of times over the past dozen or so years, but never have seen all the parts of the train that you did. What a wonderful video, I'm quite jealous.
The freccie are great and the Italo open-access services are a good example of how competition can work. I've recently booked to travel from my home in northern Italy all the way to Palermo on Sicilly by freccia and night train, won't be as glamorous as this but I can't wait!
Couple of months ago I was Interrailing around Europe. On my Italian leg I took a Frecciarossa for one portion of the trip, and I have to say that overall it's a very impressive service even in Standard class (the auto-looped cartoons plus all the other features on the screens at either ends of the coaches were a definite plus :P). Definitely had a better experience than on the German ICEs (which I had been looking forward to). Hats off to TrenItalia, and the train manufacturers I guess too.
@Tom The one I've ridden is the AVE. That's a great system, super fast and nice. My only complaint is that the onboard wifi isn't easily accessible if you're a foreign tourist (at least, I couldn't figure out how to sign up).
The only problem is that in Rome there is the newest HighSpeed Train in Italy and here,in Sardinia, is already a lot if a train takes 90 minutes to travel 90 kilometes
Doesn't surprise me, thinking about how most economic activity and wealth in Italy is centered around Roma, Firenze and mostly Milan, or the Pianura Padana in general...
I've been on HSR in Italy and I enjoyed it. Crusing through the countryside at 185mph was pretty cool. I paid €10 each to go from Milan to Venice and Venice to Rome.
Wow!! Complimenti Vicky! Il tuo italiano è buono!! OMG, I'm so disappointed: I'm a Roman fan of both of you, currently living in Germany, and I came back home few days after this video was uploaded. I hope I can show you Rome's railways (they're not that many). I like your videos!! Saluti! E "arrivederci in tutte le stazioni!!" 😁😁
The only reason Amtrak can't upgrade 99% up it's lines is because those lines are owned by freight companies like CSX, BNSF, Union Pacific, etc. If they were to buy the lines they would be able to upgrade them.
One you would really enjoy is Rome to Palermo or Taormina by excelsior sleeper . I say either because the excelsior is on one route or the other but not both at the same time . Being shunted on to the boat and crossing the straights early morning is very interesting .
Appears California is building a high speed rail line from San Francisco to Los Angeles, although its still a decade or more away from being finished. Unfortunately California faces two mountain passes with it appears two of the longest railway tunnels to be built in the US, even longer than the present Cascade and Moffatt tunnels. Texas Central is buying property rights and will soon start construction for a high speed rail line from Houston to Dallas. Texas Central expects to be operating within four years. Florida is building diesel high speed rail of around 125 mph to Orlando from Miami using similar Siemens trainsets that Via has recently purchased for its Trunk line from Windsor to Quebec City with Toronto and Montreal included. Yes, high speed rail will be in America soon, although not presently...
Acela is a very heavy (due to the USA regulations that mandate “survivability” in a crash with a just as heavy goods train) trainset with modified Alstom TGV Power Cars bookending Bombardier LRC Passenger Cars. The very old Northeast Corridor Railway from Washington, D.C. to Boston is almost entirely too curvy, too old or too congested to offer fully high-speed service, except for some stretches in Pennsylvania/New Jersey and around the Rhode Island/Massachusetts border where the train is actually allowed to operate at 150 miles per hour.
Ten years ago... you flew Turin/Milan -> Rome. Now with independent train operating companies, providing competing quality services, running on tracks operated by a state owned company, err there is a real alternative to flying. Amazing how this EU model for rail is so opposed by some in the UK.
ive been on the white one ... from milano to torino and milano to verona .... ive been from south to north by rail in italy thats where my parents from ... ive also done roma to firenze by rail and to venice also ... ive done rail to germany and switzerland and rail around france in 2016 and done the tube in london and also rail to gatwick and from stanton also done rail in sweden and austria
London to Birmingham? I can feel the heart attacks happening at Chiltern, already! 7:27 _"That's what LNER are gonna be running."_ I think you mean CrossCountry. And they'll probably double their prices, for the pleasure.
I think that Hitachi should build new HS2 trains at Newton Aycliffe. Which could be similar to these trains in Italy. Mind you they do look really nice.
It will be very exciting if the HS2 trains are even remotely close to that Italian very high speed train. Here's hoping they will be! The DFT has a pretty bad track record right now, so I'm not holding my breath. I love to be pleasantly surprised though
The Bombardier/Hitachi partnership got much more complicated since Alstom have announced plans to acquire Bombardier. Seems like it will now be Hitachi on its own with Alstom, Talgo and CAF still competing
07:18 it will probably be better than the IEPs that LNER are going to have. Plus you can put coaches on the back that have slam doors and slide down windows. Then it will be a proper train.
AnsaldoBreda is the new Hitachi Italia. AnsaldoBreda has been building trains for 100 years, all companies in the world may have some problems. Gly Ex Fyra trains for the Netherlands were bought by Italian railways for high speed and they work very well ;-): //ruclips.net/video/wLjRwnLVlDI/видео.html
Let's hope Hitachi can do a better job for HS2 than the Italian company it acquired did for Danish railways, DSB. AnsaldoBreda built DSB's IC4 4-car InterCity trains, which were delivered 7 years late (with the final set entering service in 2014) due to a multitude of immobilising problems, and which already sound and feel old. Norwegian railways NSB bought AnsaldoBreda trains, reportedly a huge success after initial delays, while Oslo bought trams from the same maker, some of which are already set to be replaced by Spanish street cars.
AnsaldoBreda is the new Hitachi Italia. AnsaldoBreda has been building trains for 100 years, all companies in the world may have some problems. Gly Ex Fyra trains for the Netherlands were bought by Italian railways for high speed and they work very well ;-): //ruclips.net/video/wLjRwnLVlDI/видео.html
A joint venture between AnsaldoBreda (Hitachi Rail Europe) and Bombardier will only work if the Italians only do drawings for the interior and let Bombardier do everything else. As someone else commented, the Pistoria plant have made some of the worst trains in the last 20 years. Fyra V250 in the Netherlands and Belgium that fell apart and was returned. In Denmark they were suppose to deliver the new IC4 trains in 2005. They are still not working or running properly, and most of them have been scrapped already and never went into service. Just stay away from AnsaldoBreda :-P
@@sebastianmalton5967 The German part of Bombardier (former Adtranz) usually knows how to build things properly. There has been some hiccups there too, but my understanding is that most of it is built well at least and will work when it leaves the factory. But there has been delays. I know the streetcars for Toronto has been very delayed and had lots of issues. Blame Canada! ;-)
@@sjokomelk The hq of Bombardier Transportation is in Berlin (at least I think it still is, they will move to their factory just outside of Berlin). They are in charge for the railway sector worldwide. But they are lately known in Germany for some screwups, they delivered the last trains for Deutsche Bahn late and had pretty big issues. The Talent 2 regional emu had caps in which the drivers got wet from rain.
Hopefully the Hitachi take-over fixed a lot of things, but that situation with the tied-down pantographs taking down all the catenary recently may indicate not all is well in Pistoia.
Bombardier isn't better with the Twindexx. 5 years of delays and the train still doesn't run as desired. We can also speak about the IC2. Bombardier become the same as AnsaldoBreda.
What a difference, when you visited a workshop in the UK you had to wear high viz, hard hats & eye protection, didn't see anyone inc the workers wearing any PPE, so much for European Safety Standards.Standards See Virgin Trains Bonus Video 17/8/2017
No wonder UK companies have difficulties competeing on price for these contracts when we spend billions on H&S which clearly they dont, the EU is not a level playing field, sorry to get political.
@@jaxmar88 Sorry to continue being political but the H&S rules which are EU-mandated are the same throughout the EU. If we take them more seriously than the Italians, that's our own "fault". Frankly though, the rules are there to protect people in the rare cases when something does go wrong. When companies cut corners we end up with tragedies like the Grenfell tower disaster, which I think anyone could agree are best avoided.
By the way there is a reason to why these train have 4 electrical systems because you need 15kv Germany Austria Switzerland 25kv 50hz Italian and French high-speed tracks also Northern France. 3kv DC Italian & Slovenian regular tracks 1.5kv DC Southern France
Vicky should do a series called "all the languages"
When I saw they were in Rome I was hoping for another country to be ticked off. All the Stations Vatican City. One station. Tick
Technically 2 - cos it picks up supplies from the city and then travels it to the centre of the Vatican City - the world's shortest railroad. If I am not mistaken.
@@sumit_ES44 only one of the stops is in Vatican City itself. The other end connects into Rome's rail network, so would count as part of All The Stations Italy. The line itself is primarily used for freight but various popes have been known to use it when they wanted to by pass the crowds to get out of Rome
@@stephenreardon2698 Yes I guess then that one stop in Rome would be part of All the Stations Italy lol. Though its one line. That would make a fun video. There was an interesting video by Half as Interesting on the shortest railroad in the world - great video and channel and his main channel Wendover Productions.
Does anyone think it's at all possible that it might have been used to get the gold out of the Vatican during the War? Because it's still not been made public how they did!
Sumit Singh To be really technically, not the shortest Railroad in its itself but the shortest "National" Railroad... 😀😎
It's always fun to watch British people board a high speed train. They are used to thinking they have HS services in their country, but appart from the Eurostar, they don't. So it is quite fun to watch them review a proper high speed train.
I love Vicki’s Italian accent! Great video! Thank you for your passion about trains and languages😍
I just love Vicki full stop. I would watch her reading names out of the phone directory.
Nate Hill Agreed!!😄😄
Did the Frecciarossa from Naples to Rome. Standard Premier was fab - you got free snacks and coffee in the morning, and snacks and prosecco in the evening! Ace all round.
I've used Italian trains quite a lot this year (high speed, urban and regional), and they've largely been quite impressive. They're cheap, comfortable, clean and punctual. For some reason they don't seem particularly popular though, they've often been nearly empty, except at peak times on commuter routes in large cities (and even then not hectic). I'm used to trains in and around London though, which are the opposite on all counts - expensive, uncomfortable, grubby, late and always packed.
Man, i don't really know what kind of train you've been taking here in Italy, because they are the opposite of what you've just described. They're always smelly, never on time and very uncomfortable.
It depends: many commuter routes are overcrowded and regularly experience delays and cancellations. The newest double-decker carriages that have been put into service (the Vivalto, that you can see for a moment at 6:38) are a design disaster, with small seats and no seriouse luggage space. On the other end, many new trains are being purchased, and some regions, that are in charge of planning local public transport, are trying to improve the train service. Weirdly Lombardy, the richest one in Italy, where Milan is, is known to have the worst regional railway services. I've commuted for years out of Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna, and I can't complain too much, even if I had to go through some crazy moments.
The high-speed services are usually way better: all trains are new, they're always clean and often on time (but track failures that block the entire high-speed network for hours happen too frequently than they should), but they can be really expensive. You must reserve your seat in advance and the pricing system works similarly to a low-cost airline. If you had to purchase a ticket on the day you have to travel you'd end up having to pay a ridicolous price.
In general, the more you move away from big cities, and the more you go south, the worse the train service is.
That said, having tried the railways in the UK myself, I have to admit they're way worse than the Italian ones. The ticketing system is confusing, prices are way higher and the infrastructure is not as advanced. I think privatisation has been really bad for the system, and the whole All The Station series shows in many moments how outdated it is. In Italy there are no such things as manually operated level crossing, or lines where train traffic is regulated using a piece of wood that one driver passes to the other. Recently on all the lines where there is no cab signalling control system trains can't go faster than 50 km per hour, which for me is absurd, but shows how different is railway safety perceived here.
@@LucaPasini Funnily enough most of the trains I've used have indeed been North of Roma, and as you say the high speed inter-city trains are typically better than local and commuter trains (though even those seemed okay to me).
The same is actually the case for the UK. Realistically most of the network is fine, but my god, where it's bad it can get REALLY bad. The Southern and South Eastern routes into London are staggeringly unreliable and always rammed full.
In the UK I've travelled on a Southern train from Gatwick to Clapham Common, I took a HST from London to Edinburgh and I've tried several Scotrail services. I think the first one was running delayed, but what I found really bad was the trip on the ECML. Just the fact that Virgin makes a diesel train run for hundreds of miles over an electrified line seems absurd to me. The train was overcrowded and many people were sitting on the floor: in Italy it would be impossible, as you must reserve a seat when buying a ticket on an intercity train. If the train is full, you just can't buy a ticket for it. The fact that there was a car for luggage only, and a paper ticket saying which seats were reserved gave me the impression of a return to the past, as these features, on Italian railway,s have been abandoned since the nineties, I think.
Regarding the Italian commuter trains, it really depends on when you travel, on which line, on which rolling stock and on how lucky you are. The new double-decker trains are terrible if you have to carry suitcases, as there's almost no place to put them, and you often end up putting them on a seat. Seat themselves are insanely narrow and close to each other, and the screens that should indicate the next stop, the temperature, the train number and other information normally never work properly, even on brand new trains, sometimes telling absurdely incorrect information (outside temperature -20° on summer), sometimes not working altogether. If you add overcrowding, almost predictable delays, cancellations, and the amount of rolling stock that is systematically covered in graffiti (something I've never seen in the UK) you can get the bad image that Italian commuter trains usually have.
I quickly developed a "Geoff Marshall" attitude to commuting and by carefully analyzing timetables I learnt which trains to avoid, which are usually almost empty, where to buy tickets and railcards without queues and so on. I also visited almost all the stations in my area and I travelled on all the lines. I guess I could be a good "rail guide" in Italy...
They are not cheap for the tax payer unfortunately.
This train is Trenitalia Frecciarossa 1000 made by Bombardier. It belongs to a family of high speed trains of Bombardier called Zefiro.There is also Zefiro trains in China called CRH380D and CRH1A-A. These are fantastic trains and Zefiro is my favourite type of high speed trains.
I took the same train from Milan to Florence in May. Basically the last leg from Bologna to Florence was in tunnels, an amazingly fast journey 300kph. Almost as good as Shinkannssen in Japan...
What a perfect outtake, you guys just keep informed of everything that is going on train wise and I think you are both the best for doing it. Thank you so very much.
Hearing the All the Stations intro music makes me unreasonably happy :-)
I was once briefly acquainted with a gal that had her own high speed Hitachi...
Anything can be a high-speed train if you're brave enough :P
@@Mainyehc oof.
it was a terrible service, she could only get off.
It was a very pleasurable journey. She got off multiple times
Yh?
And I'm Hikaru Shida's boyfriend
The first time I went to Italy I was in Firenze for two days before I realised it was Florence.
The first time i went to England I was in London for two days before I realised it was Londra
Yay. All the Stations team back in action. Brings us all joy for Christmas.
Great video! I was expecting a "Vicki explores...Florence" section.
Sì!! finalmente all the stations arriva in Italia!(finally all the stations is in italy!!), Vicky you were almost right in the intro!
It's so interesting seeing all the different trains around the world...!!!.🚅🚆😀🔝👍
I've taken this journey a number of times over the past dozen or so years, but never have seen all the parts of the train that you did. What a wonderful video, I'm quite jealous.
The freccie are great and the Italo open-access services are a good example of how competition can work. I've recently booked to travel from my home in northern Italy all the way to Palermo on Sicilly by freccia and night train, won't be as glamorous as this but I can't wait!
Couple of months ago I was Interrailing around Europe. On my Italian leg I took a Frecciarossa for one portion of the trip, and I have to say that overall it's a very impressive service even in Standard class (the auto-looped cartoons plus all the other features on the screens at either ends of the coaches were a definite plus :P). Definitely had a better experience than on the German ICEs (which I had been looking forward to). Hats off to TrenItalia, and the train manufacturers I guess too.
@Tom The one I've ridden is the AVE. That's a great system, super fast and nice. My only complaint is that the onboard wifi isn't easily accessible if you're a foreign tourist (at least, I couldn't figure out how to sign up).
Nice to see they are painting them rather than vinyls.
The only problem is that in Rome there is the newest HighSpeed Train in Italy and here,in Sardinia, is already a lot if a train takes 90 minutes to travel 90 kilometes
Doesn't surprise me, thinking about how most economic activity and wealth in Italy is centered around Roma, Firenze and mostly Milan, or the Pianura Padana in general...
I travelled Milan to Rome a few years ago, it was great
Great video! I enjoyed watching, I hope we get trains as good as what you travelled on for HS2!
Am a simple person. See all the stations or Geoff and Vicky I click :)
This wont die down like me
I've been on HSR in Italy and I enjoyed it. Crusing through the countryside at 185mph was pretty cool. I paid €10 each to go from Milan to Venice and Venice to Rome.
"High Speed Hitachi" as a title is likely to bring you all kinds of views that you aren't expecting LOL
That intro was close to the cutest yet.
Nice, could've watched more.
The 'All the Stations' theme music is so evocative......
Mamma mia! What a beautiful train...
Germany needs those trains... Meeting rooms inside trains...
Wow!! Complimenti Vicky! Il tuo italiano è buono!!
OMG, I'm so disappointed: I'm a Roman fan of both of you, currently living in Germany, and I came back home few days after this video was uploaded. I hope I can show you Rome's railways (they're not that many).
I like your videos!!
Saluti! E "arrivederci in tutte le stazioni!!" 😁😁
This was really interesting. Thanks 👍👍👍
That was fascinating to watch, Thank you.
Watching at 6:30AM from India and I am getting late for work.. doesn't matter, coz I just love trains and of course, ATS and GnV.
Hi. I have been on those trains before. I love them.
Amtrak, take notes
The only reason Amtrak can't upgrade 99% up it's lines is because those lines are owned by freight companies like CSX, BNSF, Union Pacific, etc. If they were to buy the lines they would be able to upgrade them.
You're everywhere
I've literally seen you on other videos that aren't related to trains... Justin Y?
+Luke Loves MC! // LLM Are you talking to me or someone else?
@@ADJLfanatic52 @Avery B
Another fab video I really like the music from all the stations , that chair looks like what Dr evil has in Austin powers lol 👍
When I was there (for holiday) I went on Frecciarossa owned by Trenitalia at the time like 6 AM I went to Florence to.
One you would really enjoy is Rome to Palermo or Taormina by excelsior sleeper . I say either because the excelsior is on one route or the other but not both at the same time .
Being shunted on to the boat and crossing the straights early morning is very interesting .
video fantastici ragazzi
A meeting room... on a train!!! Wow
I love you guys!
Lovely video,
Filmati adorabili (lovely footage) since Italian for Video is.... video :p
Vicki sounds different in this one😄
Love your adventures!
Omg! I've just realised the time! 01:57 this must be the last video & by the way I've liked and subscribed Great Work, Well Done!
Cool Doc Martins Vikki. Too bad the US will never get high speed rail though
Appears California is building a high speed rail line from San Francisco to Los Angeles, although its still a decade or more away from being finished. Unfortunately California faces two mountain passes with it appears two of the longest railway tunnels to be built in the US, even longer than the present Cascade and Moffatt tunnels. Texas Central is buying property rights and will soon start construction for a high speed rail line from Houston to Dallas. Texas Central expects to be operating within four years. Florida is building diesel high speed rail of around 125 mph to Orlando from Miami using similar Siemens trainsets that Via has recently purchased for its Trunk line from Windsor to Quebec City with Toronto and Montreal included. Yes, high speed rail will be in America soon, although not presently...
@@ronclark9724 Acela?
Doesnt the North East coast have high speed rail between New York City and Philadelphia?
Acela is a very heavy (due to the USA regulations that mandate “survivability” in a crash with a just as heavy goods train) trainset with modified Alstom TGV Power Cars bookending Bombardier LRC Passenger Cars. The very old Northeast Corridor Railway from Washington, D.C. to Boston is almost entirely too curvy, too old or too congested to offer fully high-speed service, except for some stretches in Pennsylvania/New Jersey and around the Rhode Island/Massachusetts border where the train is actually allowed to operate at 150 miles per hour.
@@erik_griswold That doesn't stop us from classifying mixed TGV feeder lines as part of the TGV system.
Loved it as usual
ahhh Hitachi always surprising us
Very nice, should have showed the map of Italy in the intro though hehe! ;)
not have time for it
the chair looks more like it belongs on Star Trek than on Mastermind- specifically it belongs on the bridge of the Enterprise-D
Ten years ago... you flew Turin/Milan -> Rome. Now with independent train operating companies, providing competing quality services, running on tracks operated by a state owned company, err there is a real alternative to flying. Amazing how this EU model for rail is so opposed by some in the UK.
Vicky your Italian is pretty good. Complimenti
Great video
ive been on the white one ... from milano to torino and milano to verona .... ive been from south to north by rail in italy thats where my parents from ... ive also done roma to firenze by rail and to venice also ... ive done rail to germany and switzerland and rail around france in 2016 and done the tube in london and also rail to gatwick and from stanton also done rail in sweden and austria
I have been on that before! Love those trains! Don’t you agree?
Great to see you spreading your wings around Europe. Time for All The EU Stations! One country at a time.
Trenitalia own my local TOC in the UK
Wow you cake to my town Rome ! Vicky she speaks good italian
London to Birmingham? I can feel the heart attacks happening at Chiltern, already!
7:27 _"That's what LNER are gonna be running."_
I think you mean CrossCountry. And they'll probably double their prices, for the pleasure.
8:22 that looks high tech!
Very informative
Heh. Ya should come to zurich. We have new bombardier trains which are wonderful but I have only ever been on one.
The comfort on these and the Italo units should be noted by DFT ,even standard class is more luxurious than UK first class .
The 3 people that have disliked this have obviously never seen an All the Stations video....
Or, they're Dutch, look up "Fyra".
I think that Hitachi should build new HS2 trains at Newton Aycliffe. Which could be similar to these trains in Italy. Mind you they do look really nice.
Whats the point of Vicky explores if you’re not going to do it in Florence!
Looks different to the high speed Hitachi my girlfriend uses 🤔
oh thats just wrong...
I had to scroll down further than I would have thought to find this joke.
All the Italian Castles!
That would be a quite enjoyable experience. I would be honored to guide them through at least some of them...
It will be very exciting if the HS2 trains are even remotely close to that Italian very high speed train. Here's hoping they will be! The DFT has a pretty bad track record right now, so I'm not holding my breath. I love to be pleasantly surprised though
All the Stations in Italy when? 😜
Benvenutto
It's a shame the UK is so far behind in high-speed trains.
Why you wrote Hitachi/bombardier when the main company working on the train is AnsaldoBreda?
The Bombardier/Hitachi partnership got much more complicated since Alstom have announced plans to acquire Bombardier. Seems like it will now be Hitachi on its own with Alstom, Talgo and CAF still competing
07:18 it will probably be better than the IEPs that LNER are going to have. Plus you can put coaches on the back that have slam doors and slide down windows. Then it will be a proper train.
I went on the Frecciarossa from Naples to Rome (and back).
I love how Hitachi is bragging about a train that isn't theirs
There seem to be quite a few teething problems on the GWR Hitachis. I also don’t find them to be particularly comfortable.
They also build the v250 Fyra trains in that factory, bit then is was called AnsaldoBreda
AnsaldoBreda is the new Hitachi Italia.
AnsaldoBreda has been building trains for 100 years, all companies in the world may have some problems.
Gly Ex Fyra trains for the Netherlands were bought by Italian railways for high speed and they work very well ;-): //ruclips.net/video/wLjRwnLVlDI/видео.html
I like those chairs. Have they told you, when it's in the flat position, a dentist will come along? :)
Bombardier & Hitachi said they will also partner up for hs2
ALL THE JUNKETS!
I went on one of the Italo trains in Italy (actually many times hahah) IMO they look a bit nicer from the outside
When did you film this?
You didnt fly out, you took Eurostar!
It's Pistoia not Postoia, actually :)
Oh so that's the guy recording himself on the platform
Let's hope Hitachi can do a better job for HS2 than the Italian company it acquired did for Danish railways, DSB. AnsaldoBreda built DSB's IC4 4-car InterCity trains, which were delivered 7 years late (with the final set entering service in 2014) due to a multitude of immobilising problems, and which already sound and feel old.
Norwegian railways NSB bought AnsaldoBreda trains, reportedly a huge success after initial delays, while Oslo bought trams from the same maker, some of which are already set to be replaced by Spanish street cars.
AnsaldoBreda is the new Hitachi Italia.
AnsaldoBreda has been building trains for 100 years, all companies in the world may have some problems.
Gly Ex Fyra trains for the Netherlands were bought by Italian railways for high speed and they work very well ;-): //ruclips.net/video/wLjRwnLVlDI/видео.html
Excellent video.
Have you been on italo AGV 575 train
Tragic we now build so few trains (and cars) here in the UK
lovely doc martens
Really missed you two thanks for your videos ..Bonjorno and Bob Natale
Bon Natale
A joint venture between AnsaldoBreda (Hitachi Rail Europe) and Bombardier will only work if the Italians only do drawings for the interior and let Bombardier do everything else. As someone else commented, the Pistoria plant have made some of the worst trains in the last 20 years. Fyra V250 in the Netherlands and Belgium that fell apart and was returned. In Denmark they were suppose to deliver the new IC4 trains in 2005. They are still not working or running properly, and most of them have been scrapped already and never went into service. Just stay away from AnsaldoBreda :-P
Is Bombardier under different management over there then here in Canada. Here they are notorious for being very late on deliveries
@@sebastianmalton5967 The German part of Bombardier (former Adtranz) usually knows how to build things properly. There has been some hiccups there too, but my understanding is that most of it is built well at least and will work when it leaves the factory. But there has been delays.
I know the streetcars for Toronto has been very delayed and had lots of issues. Blame Canada! ;-)
@@sjokomelk The hq of Bombardier Transportation is in Berlin (at least I think it still is, they will move to their factory just outside of Berlin). They are in charge for the railway sector worldwide. But they are lately known in Germany for some screwups, they delivered the last trains for Deutsche Bahn late and had pretty big issues. The Talent 2 regional emu had caps in which the drivers got wet from rain.
Hopefully the Hitachi take-over fixed a lot of things, but that situation with the tied-down pantographs taking down all the catenary recently may indicate not all is well in Pistoia.
Bombardier isn't better with the Twindexx. 5 years of delays and the train still doesn't run as desired. We can also speak about the IC2. Bombardier become the same as AnsaldoBreda.
What a difference, when you visited a workshop in the UK you had to wear high viz, hard hats & eye protection, didn't see anyone inc the workers wearing any PPE, so much for European Safety Standards.Standards See Virgin Trains Bonus Video 17/8/2017
sums up a lot really I think
No wonder UK companies have difficulties competeing on price for these contracts when we spend billions on H&S which clearly they dont, the EU is not a level playing field, sorry to get political.
@@jaxmar88 Sorry to continue being political but the H&S rules which are EU-mandated are the same throughout the EU. If we take them more seriously than the Italians, that's our own "fault". Frankly though, the rules are there to protect people in the rare cases when something does go wrong. When companies cut corners we end up with tragedies like the Grenfell tower disaster, which I think anyone could agree are best avoided.
Firenze not Firenz, they pronounce the e at the end of the word, that's why it's such a beautiful language.
yes please do more variations on the theme. their Hitachi trains look neat. how does Phil find you?
I've been on this train before one of the journeys took 5hr
By the way there is a reason to why these train have 4 electrical systems because you need 15kv Germany Austria Switzerland 25kv 50hz Italian and French high-speed tracks also Northern France. 3kv DC Italian & Slovenian regular tracks 1.5kv DC Southern France
Would I be correct in assuming that the Bombardier/Hitachi bid for HS2 trains will specify crap seats to satisfy DfT requirements?