Who Makes the World’s Best High-Speed Trains?
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High-speed rail is shaping the future of transportation, offering a sustainable and efficient alternative for long-distance travel. In this video, we explore the latest developments in high-speed rail rolling stock and how global manufacturers are competing to redefine passenger experiences.
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• Historical Perspective: From Japan’s Shinkansen to Europe’s TGV, learn how high-speed trains evolved over the decades.
• Innovative Designs: Discover the cutting-edge technologies behind trains like the Avelia Horizon, Talgo Avril, Siemens Velaro Novo, and China’s Fuxing CR450.
• Global Competition: Dive into the rivalry between European giants like Siemens and Alstom, and Asia’s powerhouse CRRC, as they battle for dominance in the global high-speed rail market.
• Sustainability and Efficiency: Learn how the latest trains are reducing energy consumption, integrating smart mobility solutions, and meeting the rising demand for low-carbon travel.
This in-depth analysis covers rolling stock from major manufacturers worldwide, including updates on their most advanced models, future projects, and the challenges they face in an increasingly competitive industry.
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I have had the pleasure of riding a Fuxing 400 from Hong Kong to Beijing. It was incredibly stable and surprisingly quiet even when cruising at 350 km/h for long stretches of time (30+ minutes).
Generally good video, but with a few questionable facts: 1) The Avelia was definitely NOT the first double decker high speed train. The first was the Shinkansen series E1 (1994) followed shortly by the TGV Duplex in 1995. Also, I highly question the stats about the number of Km of high speed lines. 2) Your graphic of high speed rail network length by country looks like it was taken from a Wikipedia article which records the number of Km of lines over 200kph (125mph). This isn't really true high speed rail, which generally starts at 250kph (155mph). If you were to show those stats, the UK goes from over 2000km and 5th place down to 113km and 18th place!
The map isn't wrong. 200km/h on upgraded line is considered to be high speed by the UIC - significantly faster than most highway traffic
I beg to disagree about your opinion on the speed at which a train can be considered high-speed. The first high-speed train ever, the 0 series Shinkansen, had a top speed of 220 km/h (below your threshold of 250 km/h) and was and still is considered high-speed.
The EU, which may as well be the global standards body on HSR at this point, does consider 200kph eligible for high-speed classification, but only for upgraded lines that existed prior. True HSR is at least 250kph indeed, and in my view it should only really count if it at least has the possibility of an upgrade to 300. Weird to go beyond 200, which has all the challenges of high-speed, but not up to 300.
@@mdhazeldine I think it's alright to argue about whether it's 200 or 250 km/h. But a video should be consistent at this point. And it isn't: The chart shows the amount of km of HST for each country based on 200 km/h and later in the video it's said, that _250 km/h mark the least speed of what could be called a hight speed train._
I don't care where they draw the line, but it should be the same from start to end.
@@mariokrings Yes, The video was not consistent or clear. It makes it seem like the UK has 2000km of 250kph capable line, which would be bloody amazing! but sadly far from the truth.
The UK with 2,214 kms of HSR? There is only 109.9 kms of HSR in the UK.
Same as my comment. It's to do with the speed. That chart refers to lines of 200kph/125mph and above.
@@Eurobazz 200km/h on upgraded lines is considered high speed by most official definitions like the UIC
The UK has the highest average train speed on the planet, not many people know that
@@gorgu08 no, they have HSR that leaks water
@@GForce162 no, the UK upgraded its infrastructure rather than building more meaning classic lines run at 125mh which is higher than most equivalents in countries with HSR, thereby now having the highest AVERAGE speed network
Funny channel, the transportation volume of all China's high-speed railways in one day is more than that of Europe in a year...
from the comments here i am getting the feeling that this video is just somebody reading whatever an ai returned when they submitted the title as a prompt.
Yeah, there's a lot of content made like this lately. They just have too low of value to watch. Better to spend my time of well made video from passionate people.
People who think that China's high-speed rail technology lacks technical accumulation appear to be very ignorant. Due to the huge line network, the operating mileage of China's high-speed rail has far exceeded that of Japan, the forerunner. Moreover, China’s vast land covers many different geographical environments. China's infrastructure construction capabilities are also the strongest in the world.
What do you mean by 'strongest'? What China's construction industry has excelled in is accumulating huge debts, and this is one of the factors that is slowing China's economy. It's convenient for a government when it doesn't have to justify its spending to the population, but those who are cheering China's progress tend to forget that the return on investment is likely to be minimal at best.
@@SeverityOnedid you even know that HSR was long term investment and not short nor medium term?
@@ThunderRods7-gz1jo 'Investment' implies that there is some sort of reward after a given amount of time. That doesn't have to be a measurable profit: it could be increased mobility (which tends to lead to economic growth), or giving opportunities to a wider part of the population.
Because China does not have a democratic system, the government doesn't have to justify its conduct to the population. And therein lies the problem.
For a lot of China's high-speed rail network, it is very questionable whether there will ever be a return on that investment. But because you get locked up if you criticise the government, nobody within China will comment on this.
One thing that I've come to realise is that the Chinese are very keen of proving themselves better than the West, but they do so using their own criteria. So they have the largest network, the fastest trains, blah blah, but as soon as you start asking critical questions - something that isn't appreciated in an autocratic system - they get annoyed.
@SeverityOne Infrastructure construction should never be profit-driven. Are your country's road facilities, schools, hospitals, parks and other facilities all for profit?
@@chjin1796 well of course for the country economy if those infrastructure never built then how your country gonna gain incomes and gain trust from your citizen if you want to experience it I recommend play Rebel Inc
The fuck y'all want the Chinese to do, Reinvent the wheel?? Spain did the exact same thing of "stealing the technology" (as you guys are saying) by purchasing French Tgv trains at first (which RENFE still operates to this day) and later developing its own domestic version from there. So did Korea with their first gen domestic trains, the KTX, which basically looks the exact same to the French single-deck TGVs (only the front is slightly different, the carriages are indistinguishable). A train that runs at high speed can't possibly be that much different from another train running at high speed made by another company. They are both trains (not like cows and sheep). The Chinese as latecomer had more options & after testing they chose to go with the most cost-effective one & made a domestic version out of it through technology transfers. So for Fuxing class trains the design philosophy is similar to some German ICE: EMU train with two bogies per car (as opposed to the French TGVs which feature push-pull architecture and articulated bogies that are shared between two carriages).
@@Adrenaline_chaser lol... First of all: didn't Spain buy SIEMENS Velaro trains for their high speed? So why are you talking about TGV? And Spain didn't do the same. The _CRRC Fuxing_ trains still use SIEMENS and STADLER parts and patents.
And you won't find TGV stuff in their trains, because they are using German, Austrian and Japanese technologies from the Shinkansen and Velaro train sets.
@@mariokrings the original AVE units were almost identical to TGVs, apart from the nose.
its own domestic version, not it's own domestic version.
Vibration destruction
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@@tonyburzio4107 That's not even Chinese HSR.
3:45 wasn't the TGV euroduplex the first fully double decker high speed train? and the shinkansen series 100 too had some double decker coaches
Fully double deck E1 shinkansen was in 90s.
@MohdArif-pl3sy correct, thankyou
Thanks!
Thank you Robert!
Some odd omissions here. No talk of South Korea's developments at all? They're set to become an exporter soon as well, although only to Uzbekistan so far. Also, CRRC selling to Thailand. This video feels not up to your usual standards.
@@aquaticko I'm pretty sure this video was put together by AI.
The Alstom AGV (distributed traction) was also committed.
@@mariokrings I hope not. The videos from this channel are often so well-researched and put together. I’m sure we’d all rather have fewer, less-frequent videos than have AI involved in making them.
Indonesia also has a train manufacturer called PT INKA, whose products have not only been used across the nation, but have also begun to be exported, most notably to Bangladesh & New Zealand. The company is currently developing its own high-speed train that is said to be released by 2026/2027, which would complement the already existing CRRC high-speed trains.
@@adirizkiguritno3497 now everyone is joining in high speed trains damn it. India is also developing their own high speed trains. The tender has been given to multiple companies I believe. When the high speed rail which is being made for the Japanese shinkansen trains are finished the Indian made ones will be put to test in those rails. There is also a significant technology transfer. So the Indian tech and Japanese tech will merge together. These are definitely wonderful times for HSR. Looking forward Indonesian built HSR.
Also Indian rail companies export to Bangladesh too. Never knew Indonesia exported to Bangladesh. That explains the coaches differing from the Indian made ones.
Nice to see UK built almost 2.000 km of HSR in just the time of this video😊 ( I am just ironic)
Seeing the Avelia Liberty trainsets sitting around in Philadelphia makes me question Alstom's "impeccable record."
Don't blame Alstom for the state of that poor train. It's a miracle that the train can even run anywhere in the US. The car lobby put so many hurdles to its operation it is a miracle that the service exists.
@@Sayitlikitiz101No, all the manufacturing defects are absolutely Alstom’s fault.
@@Ry_TSG Who do you think pushed for regulations that made US trains so heavy and inefficient? It's like you blaming a restaurant for preparing food according to the guidelines that fast-foods pushed you to draft.
@@Sayitlikitiz101 Siemens seems to be able to manufacture trains for the U.S market just fine. The regulations might be unnecessary but you work with what you have, and Alstom is the only one who seems to be having such extensive issues.
Awesome video! Really enjoyed this ever-current topic! It's fascinating to see how different countries approach high-speed train design and innovation. Looking forward to more videos like this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Another factor is political/economic sanction. With China, there are less political entanglement and pitfall. (just clear Taiwan issue, lol). With the west, it is a bit unpredictable. Eg. if you don't support Ukraine by not buying Russian oil, your little rail project might get hit by sanction even if your country is nothing to do with R/U problem.
0:59, By looking at the chart, I think most people already know which country has the most comprehensive HSR network.......
i think the next big market is for electrical multiple unit (EMU) trains capable of speeds up to 200 km/h (124 mph) on shorter, dedicated regional lines. This is where Stadler comes in with bilevel EMU train sets along the lines of their KISS train set, and it could be the basis of shorter, but faster regional rail like Brigham City south to Provo in Utah, Fort Collins to Pueblo in Colorado, and Edmonton to Calgary in Alberta.
I sure hope so. The Edmonton-Calgary line is the most unserved market in Canada without any rail service despite housing almost 4 million in the corridor and having the fastest growing population too... I don't like our current Premier however if she does it any rail project started HSR or even EMU Regional Rail (though with her ideological bent I am sure it would be a hydrogen project) I will be pleased since almost everyone to date since Lougheed has promised rail but failed to deliver including my old MLA Ed Stelmach...
Thanks for the vid. So many countries have developed high speed rail systems now
0:00 The film begins with a shot from the Warsaw metro station Świętokrzyska :)
More Videos needed on Trains please. Will give a like. Presentation is Top notch. Quite happy to know more about trains. Your channel helped a lot❤
Just make sure all the facts presented are correct.
This video is so full of mistakes and omissions it is unwatchable. Literally none of the facts stated are true, wow!
Your numbers are not correct: If all railway lines in operation with a maximum speed of 200 km/h and more are added together, Germany has 2,983 km of high-speed lines, France has 4,173 km, Italy has 1,845 km, the UK has 1,806 km, Sweden has 1,985 km and Spain has 4,130 km. China currently has 39,000 km, which consists of 9,000 km at 200 km/h, 16,000 km at 250 km/h and 16,000 km at 300 km/h and more.
'... EU policy makers...'
Shows Nigel Farage. 🙄
at 3:33 i believe that's the turbine that the tgv was supposed to have as engine. they swaped it out with electric traction when the oil crysis hit. the train was still in the prototyping phase
The development was more like a fork.
Thry didn't just swap a gas turbine for electric motors, they re-engineered another prototype.
0:59 It's amazing that the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand don't have high-speed rail at all. Correct me if I am wrong. I know Canada does not and think probably would never be due to politics.
Well under the >200km/h definition, the northeast corridor in the US does qualify as a high speed line
It's weird in that the image at the bottom-left of thumbnail is korean HSR but the video doesn't contain description about that.
Bro what are the camera flashes every 30 seconds and camera noise click I’ve never seen a more annoying RUclips video
Michael Farage a EU policy maker? No way!
*nigel... but "it" should not be named...
🎉🎉Tha Great Video Thankyou sar 🎉🎉
As a european: Asain countries are sooooo far ahead of us when it comes to high speed rail
They arent
China's trains are shaking themselves to bits.
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@@FuraIIIIEast Asia specifically is ahead of
Thank you.
Locomotive traction also presents another advantage not described in the video and that is higher comfort for passengers since there are fewer vibrations and less noise in the carriages. As a passenger for this alone I much more prefer the French approach.
The editing in this video was a bit much I think
does the Russian train actually exist, or is it the usual case when a mockup and drawings are done and then nothing happens?
The prototype was unveiled in Moscow. An Australian RUclipsr went inside it.
@@bogdanscripcariu6501 a prototype or a mockup? These are two very different things...
The Talgo ( Tren Articulado Ligero Goicoechea Oriol ) is uncomfortable due to its unique design. It is naturaly articulated ( bends in the curves ) and the carriages are shorter ( so they can be wider ).
Hope there's a mention to Hitachi&Kawasaki's 700 serise train. A reletively successful Japanese export and have high chance of exporting it's latest model
6:57 What do you mean by "Well recieved" ICE trains just operates in other bordering countrys for international service its the case for other trains like the TGV its not like these country bouth the train
And no there isnt service from the ICE in Spain
Please do a video about Etihad Rail in the UAE 🇦🇪
Sloppy video. Just for one, TGVs have been sold to Spain, South Korea, US and Morocco. Morocco just bought the latest TFV M, which will also run on the NEC. Also definitively no Velaro have been bought in France.
7:07 CRH3 series are also used in China
And Stadler?
At 10:48, what is that set that is coupled in front of an E5 series?
It is the E3 series.
You bought a European brand car ten years ago and drove only 10,000 kilometers in total in ten years. I bought a Chinese brand car three years ago and drove 100,000 kilometers in three years. Now you say that the quality of your car is better than mine because ten years is longer than three years. Hahaha. . . . . .
Id say Asia, mostly because of Japan, their Frequency, reliability, safety and efficiency is simply unmatched, their speed is on par with most other systems and they are likely going to be the first country with a long distance maglev which will slash journey times again and have an operational speed of something along the lines of 500kmh i believe
@@kirkrotger9208that’s exactly what the op said
see shanghai maglev please
@@uselesstable2058 lol shanghai maglev was made by siemens not CRRC it was tranfered from germany to china during 2000s
@@inosukehashibara5930 op said Japan was likely going to be the first country with long distance maglev, that train has passed. Last I checked Shanghai maglev which is a long distance maglev was in China so i kinda really don’t care who built the bloody train I just know that it’s in china
@@uselesstable2058 Shanghai Maglev is just an airport link
13:21 A high-speed tram? LOL
12:16 With 250 kph it can be used on the CMK (Central Rail Line) or for Rail Baltica services (in Baltic states), thats it. You can hardly name a 250 kph EMU "high speed rail".
*_Tiongkok paling KERÉN Keréta Cepat nya Mantap!!!_*
13:02 India indeed launched their HSR Trainset Program, with BHEL-Medha-ICF building two, 280km/h trainset. To be completed by 2026 or early 2027!
Asia has taken a big leap ahead, first it was Japan, now China and India is catching up
India catching up?? Where?? All of trains are still built by Alstom or Hitachi
india???😂😂😂
"Chinese" HSR tech is not even Chinese - reverse engineered from Japan and Europe lol
@@Banditxam5 but some train sets are produced in India as part of the contracts with foreign companies and I think the comment was more meant regarding the investments. India has invested lots of money to electrify almost all tracks in the country. Germany for example has only 61 % if it's tracks electrified and Europe's everange is 54 %. And India baught 1,200 electric locomotives from SIEMENS last year.
Another clueless dummy @@Banditxam5
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Battle？What battle ？
中国の路線は北京、上海等を結ぶ路線が黒字であって、墓の殆どのは赤字です。
Please provide subtitles for the hearing impaired
siemens of alstom
China vs world instead of Europe vs Asia
Cheers
Pastinya Indonesia... Indonesia bikin kereta cepat terunggul di dunia. Malahan udah di ekspor sampai Tiongkok. Itu kereta cepat bikinan lokal 100%... Atas disegn asal Ir. Jokowi.
Nice joke about fake Russian trains .
Politics, not track record is the biggest challenge for CRRC. The project in Thailand's northeast was chosen because the Japanese bid did not include a technology transfer. That may change for future bids that Japan enters, but clearly it is less competitive if it doesn't want to include it.
Yes, currently Indonesia and Thailand that choose China instead of Japan for their High Speed Train, because the Japanese have too much complicated and Impossible demand for ToT, not saying Japan is impossible to work with, but generally they want more government secured fund instead of private B to B.
Do you support Russian aggression in Ukraine? Do you support the annexation of Ukrainian regions by Russia? Why is Crimea marked as Russian on your map?
Who made this map, I hope it's a mistake?
The topic seems interesting enough but as soon as I heard the voice over, I knew I would not be able to listen to the video much longer. It's really irritating.
Stop using AI to throw out crap. Not helping.
japan
If you like comfort, go with TGV or ICE, if you care about speed, go with Japanese. The interior of shinkansen is too business like, similar to an airplane. Small windows allow for trains to be lighter while european trains have larger viewing windows. European trains have dining cars and tables. They're very quiet because the engines are at front and back.
Asia definitely leading and more advance in HSR, many country in Asia will be have the new line of HSR says, like Indonesia, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, etc
Europe all the way. All China has done is to copy Euro designs like Velaro or Pendolino; while a lot of innovations are seen in Europe like two level high speed trains (Alstom), Bogie-less independent wheels (Talgo), gauge changing trains (Talgo and CAF), Articulated trains with distributed traction (Alstom and Stadler), fully empty tube and covered bogie (Siemens)...
That's why China is leading in HSR tech right
@@ryuzakitodoroki2604 lol because they build without environmental permits, the n they have massive stations in the middle of nowhere
China has maglev train.
China has the largest railway network built in the shortest time.
@@hypernewlapse that middle of nowhere are bustling cities now , stop repeating news from 10 years ago lol
Us has the largest rail network but most of them are used by freight train😂 @@JSM-bb80u
Excellent report. Thank you, from Florida, USA
You should read the rest of the comments. 😂 You'll might change your mind.
Hi
What a dose of Western cope thay is missing a while lot of details
shitty report full of misinformation and lets not forget the 1.6b chinese slander going on here
1 sec in vid and ik its asia coz china be literally carrying it through
wel, the chinese train do not have the formal heritage, but these are trully german train now furtherdevelopped and manufactured in china. once more, the good old commercial politic of the germans is bitting everybody in the ass.
Japan🇯🇵>Germany🇩🇪=France🇫🇷>Other
Indian high speed rolling stock is being developed by medha servo and beml as japanese trains cost 40 billion inr !! Recently an order of 8 billion inr given by ICF to medha servo and beml to develop 8 chair car hsr train with top speed of 280 kmph and operational speed of 250 kmph !! The order must be completed by late 2026 or early 2027!! Beml and medha servo can also involve european consulting firms for the development!! So yeah india is building it's on HSR and does not necessarily rely on Japanese!!
That's a different project. Japanese bullet train will definitely arriving here
Dude you are not right at all.... We still need technology transfer from Japan and yes we are getting trains from Hitachi
@@Banditxam5 where did I said we r not getting them!! I just provide additional one that we are working our own bullet train too as japanese one are expensive
Sorry but you are showing wrong map of india 😠
"Chinese" HSR tech is not even Chinese 😂. Wasn't limited to tech transfers - Chinese policy makes companies tech transfer, and enter joint ventures with Chinese firms, from which they copy and reverse engineer, same with German Velaro trains and Shinkansen trains
The fuck do you want them to do? Reinvent the wheel? Spain did the exact same by purchasing French Tgv trains at first (which RENFE still operates to this day) and later developing it's own domestic version from there. A train that runs at high speed can't possibly be that much different from another train running at high speed made by another company. They are both trains (not like cows and sheep). The Chinese as latecomer had more options & after testing they chose to go with the most cost-effective one and make a domestic version out of it (so for instance you won't find articulated bogies of the TGV in Chinese trains. Just normal bogies like Shinkansen)
@@Adrenaline_chaser You seem triggered lol. The antics of the Chinese aren't exactly news. Renfe didn't reverse engineer by stealing the designs of trains like the CRH2 and Velaro, by a market system which forces companies to enter joint ventures, from which they reverse engineer with domestic suppliers. Kawasaki did raise concerns that China made modified later versions of the CRH2 independently. JR Central’s boss also accused China’s rail industry of stealing tech and neglecting safety. A CRH2 was involved also in the Wenzhou collision coverup killing 40.
@ce1834 There are still people who are still worried about what happened more than ten years ago. Little did he know that no more passengers had died since then. In addition, even if statistics were started 10 years ago, the safe operation mileage of China's high-speed trains now far exceeds that of Japan, which started statistics in 1964.
That's smart.
The downside of all the speeds here posted in kilometers per hour, I have no mental reference or understanding how fast any of these trains are, I can only understand miles per hour
Nice idea for RUclips automatic translations (subtitles and comments): If the settings is English (USA) , Metric units gets converted to American. If it's English (UK), back to metric.
I am actually not being sarcastic.
Well most of the world uses Km, so it makes sense to use that. There's always Google. :) Roughly speaking, the miles per hour number is about 70% of the Km/h figure.
Become literate, American
1 km = 0.62 mile, 320kmh trains = 200mph
320 = 200mph and 400kmph = 250mph.
Hope that helps