there is no space to build tracks from Anting to central of Shanghai. Shanghai is building songjiang station for long distance normal speed trains and connect lines bypass center areas. your train is running within CR Shanghai group managed limits from most southern station Cangnan to most northern Lianyungang using coast lines. Taicang station connects Hutong, Huning river South HSR and Shanghai-Chengdu river North HSR. that's why there are many flyovers. Yangtze river Bridge's other two tracks are for Nantong-Suzhou-Ningbo HSR. it is part of coast 350km/h HSR. the new tracks you saw the tracks around Nantong west station are Shanghai-Chengdu Yangtze river North HSR. both lines are under construction since early 2023. since coast line and Yangtze river line were built around 2006-2008, the speed limits are 200-250 km/h only. both lines are building parallel new 350km/h HSR. some sections are already opened.
Do a search for "bullet train china" OR "high speed rail" and you will a HUGE amount of videos posted by persons riding both high speed trains and non-high speed trains.
Looking forward to the rest of your Chinese adventures, are we likely to see you out and about in Europe any time soon? Please keep your presentation style.
@@doc7austin I would like to echo what @kevinellis8869 said above and add that if you were to set up a Patreon (or similar) web page I would gladly contribute. Thank you for the great videos.
Great video! I believe this section will be part of the second high speed link between Shanghai and Beijing while the first one has already reached its design capacity. The second line will put more emphasis on serving smaller stops along the way. This is to compliment the first line's primary focus on point-to-point speedy connection between Shanghai and Beijing. Looking forward to your follow up episodes. I did a cross China train travel in 2017. Love to see what has changed. It was important reminder to get passport number right. Last time when I registered, I accidentally got two digits of my passport number backwards. That rendered my ticket useless. I had to cancel the ticket and get a new one at ticket counter.
9:55 The reason is that the existing Yangtze River HSR bound for Shanghai actually ends at Taicang station, and the rest of the journey into Shanghai and Shanghai Hongqiao station needs to be completed through the Shanghai-Nantong railway (the line you are travelling on in the video). The real end point of the Yangtze River HSR is the Shanghai Baoshan station (located near the northern end point of the metro line 3) in the north of Shanghai, which is currently under construction, and then the train can arrive further at the Shanghai East station, which is also under construction (next to the Pudong Airport, which will be united with the airport to form an massive air-rail hub like the Hongqiao).
i think 沪苏通铁路(Hu Su Tong railway) is Shanghai-Suzhou-Nantong Railway, Tong is referred to Nantong instead of Tongji. Tongji is the name of a university.
Well for this journey, you were not riding on the new Shanghai-Nanjing (Yangtze) Riverside High-speed Railway (the new line), but completely on the old Beijing-Shanghai Railway and the Shanghai-Suzhou-Nantong High-speed Railway (the old line with 200km/h speed limit, but still defined as the entry level high-speed railway in China). Not too hard to tell the difference between the new line (350km/h) and the old line: The current operational section of the new line only starts at some point south of Taicang Station (Not Anting or Anting Xi Station). These two lines run parallel to each other between Taicang Station and Zhangjiagang Station, where the new line continues to the west to Jiangyin, while the old line goes north across the Yangtze River to Nantong. From Taicang to a point between Changshu Station and Zhangjiagang Station, the new line is on the east/north side of the old line, after crossing that point, the new line is on south / west side of the old line. As explained by the other comment, spaces between Anting and Shanghai Hongqiao or Shanghai Station are highly crowded with factories, office buildings and residential areas. Hence, it is not economically feasible to add another line in that corridor. Instead, for the new line, it will extend from Taicang through a direction to Shanghai Baoshan / Shanghai North Railway Station, currently under construction, and further runs to Shanghai East Railway Station, also under construction besides Shanghai Pudong International Airport. The new section will also serves as the branch extension for the old line between Shanghai and Nantong. The extension is now scheduled to open around 2029, at the time another brand new 350km/h line between Shanghai and Nantong (further running to Nanjing, Hefei, Wuhan, Chongqing and Chengdu) will also open for business.
@@doc7austinThose days are not far when Hindi announcement on HSR will be conducted🥹🫶 I hope you will be here in India to film South Asia's first ever HSR in 2027.
Your journey was all the way on the Shanghai-Suzhou-Nantong Highspeed Line, not any bit on Yangtze River Line unfortunately. The former has a speed limit of 160kph, while the latter 350kph.
The official name of the CABLE-STAYED bridge at 16:55 is the Hutong/Husutong Bridge. The Hutong/Husutong Bridge is PRESENTLY the 2nd longest cable-stayed bridge BY MAIN SPAN length in the world but that will drop to 5th place around 2025 as China is presently building 3 other cable-stayed span with longer MAIN SPANS. The Hutong/Husutong bridge is also the furthest downriver rail crossing of the Yangtze River.
@@doc7austin i know but i love your video's ,you just inspiered me and i did a trip from Kraków to Vienna, Vienna to Hamburg Altona. From Hamburg to Flensburgu and back . From Hamburg to Berlin and from Berlin to Kraków 😁 IT would be nice to see a video from Kraków to Bielsko on Kibel train . Good Luck stranger
Why do they do ID checks for domestic travel, as in Passport checks for foreigners? (In Japan you can fly domestic without showing anything else than your ticket) And yes, I read it's "ticketless" but it could still be digital by showing your reservation number on your phone)
Because many scalpers who hoarded tickets and sold them at high prices appeared in the past during peak periods and holiday rush hours when there were no ID checks, CR implemented the real-name ID check for tickets in order to solve this problem. Now Chinese citizens travelling by train only need to swipe their ID cards to complete all the processes of travelling, and do not need to swipe their tickets because of ID binding.
@@doc7austin well I guess my friend lucky than, because he visited China recently and he says the staff just scan the passport and let my friends go immediately. Well I guess everyone get different experience 😅
In 2006 I hired a driver to take me from Pudong airport to Nantong. It took about 5 hours with a ferry ride. First time I paid 1000 yuan but on later trips got it down to 450. Different routes each time and some were quite adventurous.
Before the bridge there were only conventional trains from Nantong to Nanjing, which means there are no direct train services between Shanghai and Nantong. Even if there had been direct trains before, it would have taken a very long time to get to Shanghai via a diversion across the Yangtze River through Nanjing. All the G-trains except some services to Hongkong West Kowloon (for example HK to Guangzhou East and HK to Fujian) will reach at least 300km/h for longer or shorter periods of time through the journey. This is also the criterion for classifying CR G-trains, which must have a section that reaches 300 km/h, and at the same time the maximum operating speed of the entire journey cannot be lower than 200 km/h. High-speed EMUs that do not meet these two criteria will be classified as D-trains. For the train No. G7540 in the video, it can run up to 300 km/h between Ningbo-Shanghai and Nantong-Yancheng.
Well actually there was the highway Sutong Bridge (opened in 2008) and the driving time is typically 2 hours from Nantong to Shanghai, if there's no traffic jam. No trains connecting Nantong and Shanghai before 2020. I'd say it's still faster to drive most of the time if you add the time commuting to the train stations. The bridge, however, links many cities in Northern Jiangsu Province (Yancheng, Lianyungang, etc.) to Shanghai, which greatly reduce the travel time. For Nantong locals, it was not really that a necessity.
I like to listen to real sounds and voices. It’s like I’m there too.
Very knowledgeable about trains and rail lines.. Good on you . 👍🏻
nice video, looking forward to the rest of this series.
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Unbelievable but true ,CHINA ! ! ! 😲😲😲
Really fascinating video, can't wait to the other ones. Thanks
stay tuned for another 17 chinese railways videos
@@doc7austincan’t wait!
so professional,I like it
Welcome to China again！
there is no space to build tracks from Anting to central of Shanghai. Shanghai is building songjiang station for long distance normal speed trains and connect lines bypass center areas.
your train is running within CR Shanghai group managed limits from most southern station Cangnan to most northern Lianyungang using coast lines.
Taicang station connects Hutong, Huning river South HSR and Shanghai-Chengdu river North HSR. that's why there are many flyovers.
Yangtze river Bridge's other two tracks are for Nantong-Suzhou-Ningbo HSR. it is part of coast 350km/h HSR. the new tracks you saw the tracks around Nantong west station are Shanghai-Chengdu Yangtze river North HSR. both lines are under construction since early 2023. since coast line and Yangtze river line were built around 2006-2008, the speed limits are 200-250 km/h only. both lines are building parallel new 350km/h HSR. some sections are already opened.
15:48 You earned a subscription and my utmost respect! I love these channels and I equally hate those with narration and background music.
thank you; yes, not everyone likes narration
Train videos about China we don't see it often so thx for this amazing video!
thank you a lot
Do a search for "bullet train china" OR "high speed rail" and you will a HUGE amount of videos posted by persons riding both high speed trains and non-high speed trains.
Looking forward to the rest of your Chinese adventures, are we likely to see you out and about in Europe any time soon? Please keep your presentation style.
thank you for your feedback
@@doc7austin I would like to echo what @kevinellis8869 said above and add that if you were to set up a Patreon (or similar) web page I would gladly contribute. Thank you for the great videos.
well, youtube is merely of a hobby of mine; there wont be any patreon or so; but thanks for your feedback
Great video! I believe this section will be part of the second high speed link between Shanghai and Beijing while the first one has already reached its design capacity. The second line will put more emphasis on serving smaller stops along the way. This is to compliment the first line's primary focus on point-to-point speedy connection between Shanghai and Beijing. Looking forward to your follow up episodes. I did a cross China train travel in 2017. Love to see what has changed. It was important reminder to get passport number right. Last time when I registered, I accidentally got two digits of my passport number backwards. That rendered my ticket useless. I had to cancel the ticket and get a new one at ticket counter.
9:55 The reason is that the existing Yangtze River HSR bound for Shanghai actually ends at Taicang station, and the rest of the journey into Shanghai and Shanghai Hongqiao station needs to be completed through the Shanghai-Nantong railway (the line you are travelling on in the video). The real end point of the Yangtze River HSR is the Shanghai Baoshan station (located near the northern end point of the metro line 3) in the north of Shanghai, which is currently under construction, and then the train can arrive further at the Shanghai East station, which is also under construction (next to the Pudong Airport, which will be united with the airport to form an massive air-rail hub like the Hongqiao).
ok; good to know
i think 沪苏通铁路(Hu Su Tong railway) is Shanghai-Suzhou-Nantong Railway, Tong is referred to Nantong instead of Tongji. Tongji is the name of a university.
and this railway only opened in 2020.
Well for this journey, you were not riding on the new Shanghai-Nanjing (Yangtze) Riverside High-speed Railway (the new line), but completely on the old Beijing-Shanghai Railway and the Shanghai-Suzhou-Nantong High-speed Railway (the old line with 200km/h speed limit, but still defined as the entry level high-speed railway in China).
Not too hard to tell the difference between the new line (350km/h) and the old line: The current operational section of the new line only starts at some point south of Taicang Station (Not Anting or Anting Xi Station). These two lines run parallel to each other between Taicang Station and Zhangjiagang Station, where the new line continues to the west to Jiangyin, while the old line goes north across the Yangtze River to Nantong. From Taicang to a point between Changshu Station and Zhangjiagang Station, the new line is on the east/north side of the old line, after crossing that point, the new line is on south / west side of the old line.
As explained by the other comment, spaces between Anting and Shanghai Hongqiao or Shanghai Station are highly crowded with factories, office buildings and residential areas. Hence, it is not economically feasible to add another line in that corridor. Instead, for the new line, it will extend from Taicang through a direction to Shanghai Baoshan / Shanghai North Railway Station, currently under construction, and further runs to Shanghai East Railway Station, also under construction besides Shanghai Pudong International Airport. The new section will also serves as the branch extension for the old line between Shanghai and Nantong. The extension is now scheduled to open around 2029, at the time another brand new 350km/h line between Shanghai and Nantong (further running to Nanjing, Hefei, Wuhan, Chongqing and Chengdu) will also open for business.
Green line express please make the Pakistan primium train greenline express from Islamabad to Karachi please make the
5:57 19:06 Wait whaaaat? Those are Indian announcements
我在东北玩泥巴，is a Chinese Song ruclips.net/video/Dx8GemHcPPU/видео.html
of course; I am always hiding some easter eggs in my videos
@@doc7austinThose days are not far when Hindi announcement on HSR will be conducted🥹🫶 I hope you will be here in India to film South Asia's first ever HSR in 2027.
@@doc7austinbtw here's the glimpse of India's HSR project:- ruclips.net/video/doXRg0QiEPg/видео.htmlsi=aFoo-YYSqM7Nvwpn
@@Basics_43Indonesia HSR already operated this year, it's the first HSR of South Asia.
Your journey was all the way on the Shanghai-Suzhou-Nantong Highspeed Line, not any bit on Yangtze River Line unfortunately. The former has a speed limit of 160kph, while the latter 350kph.
and did you watch my video? i think everything was explained there
@@doc7austin I typed this reply half way in the video, when you were crossing the river. It turned out to be clear later :)
The official name of the CABLE-STAYED bridge at 16:55 is the Hutong/Husutong Bridge.
The Hutong/Husutong Bridge is PRESENTLY the 2nd longest cable-stayed bridge BY MAIN SPAN length in the world but that will drop to 5th place around 2025 as China is presently building 3 other cable-stayed span with longer MAIN SPANS.
The Hutong/Husutong bridge is also the furthest downriver rail crossing of the Yangtze River.
ok; thank you for the additional information on the bridge
This is still with the 250 km/h to 300 km/h to provide passengers safety and due to its conditions, so it cannot achieve 350 km/h!
Can you take a trip from Kraków Główny to Bielsko Biała Główna? Or from December Kraków Główny to Zakopane 😊. Best regards
there is a video on my channel on the Zilina-Katowice train via goes via bielsko biala
@@doc7austin i know but i love your video's ,you just inspiered me and i did a trip from Kraków to Vienna, Vienna to Hamburg Altona. From Hamburg to Flensburgu and back . From Hamburg to Berlin and from Berlin to Kraków 😁 IT would be nice to see a video from Kraków to Bielsko on Kibel train . Good Luck stranger
like no music video and subscribe.
yes, I want you to hear the original railway sound - and not my voice
Background music are very Chinese
Why do they do ID checks for domestic travel, as in Passport checks for foreigners? (In Japan you can fly domestic without showing anything else than your ticket) And yes, I read it's "ticketless" but it could still be digital by showing your reservation number on your phone)
this is china ! the government wants to control, who is travelling to where
Because many scalpers who hoarded tickets and sold them at high prices appeared in the past during peak periods and holiday rush hours when there were no ID checks, CR implemented the real-name ID check for tickets in order to solve this problem. Now Chinese citizens travelling by train only need to swipe their ID cards to complete all the processes of travelling, and do not need to swipe their tickets because of ID binding.
@@doc7austin Really? Can such a country achieve such success? Western governments need to reflect on
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You mean the China's government put a bracelet on every single person's ankle that monitoring their movements in China?
🤣🤣🤣
@@doc7austinpassengers may also show/scan the QR code on their phone with ticket information which is also ok.
Sangria Hotel :-D
that was some joke from my side
The CRH380D was the Bombardier Zefiro 380 that was sold to China Railways in the pre-merger with Alstom.
yes; but from 2016 China Railways could design + build its very own high-speed trains
Is not that bad, you just show your passport and go, the staff didn't really took it too seriously like an airport.
No, the staff was always manually inputing my passport number into their system; this took quite some time
@@doc7austin well I guess my friend lucky than, because he visited China recently and he says the staff just scan the passport and let my friends go immediately. Well I guess everyone get different experience 😅
@daviano_R.T. well, not every foreign passport is scanable for these machines
@@doc7austin yeah I suppose so, and I just found out now😅
How were Shanghai and Nantong connected before the bridge? Does this train ever reach 300km/h?
In 2006 I hired a driver to take me from Pudong airport to Nantong. It took about 5 hours with a ferry ride. First time I paid 1000 yuan but on later trips got it down to 450. Different routes each time and some were quite adventurous.
Before the bridge there were only conventional trains from Nantong to Nanjing, which means there are no direct train services between Shanghai and Nantong. Even if there had been direct trains before, it would have taken a very long time to get to Shanghai via a diversion across the Yangtze River through Nanjing. All the G-trains except some services to Hongkong West Kowloon (for example HK to Guangzhou East and HK to Fujian) will reach at least 300km/h for longer or shorter periods of time through the journey. This is also the criterion for classifying CR G-trains, which must have a section that reaches 300 km/h, and at the same time the maximum operating speed of the entire journey cannot be lower than 200 km/h. High-speed EMUs that do not meet these two criteria will be classified as D-trains. For the train No. G7540 in the video, it can run up to 300 km/h between Ningbo-Shanghai and Nantong-Yancheng.
Thank you😀✌@@imwsss726
Well actually there was the highway Sutong Bridge (opened in 2008) and the driving time is typically 2 hours from Nantong to Shanghai, if there's no traffic jam. No trains connecting Nantong and Shanghai before 2020. I'd say it's still faster to drive most of the time if you add the time commuting to the train stations. The bridge, however, links many cities in Northern Jiangsu Province (Yancheng, Lianyungang, etc.) to Shanghai, which greatly reduce the travel time. For Nantong locals, it was not really that a necessity.
A ferry was the only choice.
Today there are 3 expressway bridges across the Yangtze between Shanghai and Nanton.
noticed subtitle in Ukrainian - шаньхайський тролейбус =)
yes of course; there is a lot of ukrainian video content on my channel
Wtf 6.:00 announcement is in Hindi and the station is in Delhi india😂😂😂😂
well, many Indian nationals live in nantong
@@doc7austin Really, they are doing announcement in Hindi!!
they stole bomardier regina zefiro ice 3 and shinhanshen E2 trains
lol
Stole/ More like you got a good design but no market so that is a dead design.