Traveled on this last year Lyon to Milan. Went to the buffet car 5 carriages away and got breakfast for 4 people, including 4 coffees in the usual fairly flimsy takeaway containers. Train traveling at its max speed for the journey and I made it back to my seat without spilling a drop. Impressive engineering.
Around 1912 my grandmother (at age 14) for the first time traveled by train (from NW Dalecarlia and about 400 km SE to Stockholm). The speed was about 35 km/h (22 US miles/h) and she had been worried that she might pass out because of the speed. She lived until 1990 so she got to see much more including the moon landing.
That was a fast speed for a train at that time. I hope she didn't pass out! My Great Grandmother was born in 1894 in Europe and lived until 1993. She also saw the same amazing things like the moon landing, like your Grandmother.
@@RichardASK Because a Swedish mile (and Norwegian mile - maybe also Danish mile - I don't know) is 10 kilometers (about 6.21 miles as the mile is interpreted in the U.S. (1 such mile = 1609 m)). After four years in the U.S. I am used to the mile as it is interpreted there - may be it should just be called "English mile" perhaps they still use that in England but not in Australia, New Zealand or bilingual Canada). I just wanted to emphasize the two different meanings of the word "mile" depending on which country it is referred to. There have been serious accidents due to misunderstandings of some unit (that NASA satellite which crashed 24 years ago is one example).
At the turn of the 1900, there was a speedy trial on the Hartford-Newhaven Rail Line out of South Station, Boston, MA, USA. This trial was for the "Morning Express" to New York City. After one stop at the Back Bay Station, the train would skip the Forest Hills Station - Jamaica Plain, Boston - which was maybe 2/3 miles away on an elevated track. This track was built after the Great Stony Brook Flood in the 1800's. They 'Clocked' this Steam Train at over 100 MPH going through Forest Hills Station. Of course, there were bends and areas that the Train would 'Slow Down'. I forget the average Speed/Time for the Trip. Track Walkers & Crossing Guards were employed in the Day. Heart Stopping in the Day.
@@RichardASK si esta mal lo que dice , la milla es una unidad de longitud ( creo del sistema ingles de medicion ) algo asi como 1600 metros ( del sistema metrico decimal ) lo que pasa que el que escribio ese comentario seguro vio muchas peliculas de ee uu y cree que esa medida es excluciva de los estadounidenses .
Average speed of passenger train in India is barely 60 kmph. Less than 40 MPH (few trains are exceptions, else in general its less than 40 MPH). By road to have a safe travel, its barely 40 MPH average speed over longer distances.
@@aagosgoswami and they ride hanging on the sides of the train, and even on the roof. India has more train wrecks in a year, than most countries have in their entire history.
Oh yeah, well in America, trains have been moving at the same speed for the last 125 years, and no one gives a shit, and now all our roads and bridges are falling apart and you guessed it, no one gives a shit, we complain to our political leaders and they don't give a shit, that's why I can't wait to get the hell out of here.
Indeed! The German ICE runs on normal tracks part of the way, and it's not smooth and can't reach its top speed except on the specially designed high-speed track sections.
I believe this was done a couple of days after the Germans claimed the fastest train title with an experimental train. The French took a standard TGV train unit and ran it at a speed of 101 km/h faster than the German record! ..Very, impressive.!
Just look at the shape of a train…. Nobody else can drive a massive baguette faster than us the french mate… Especially our cousins and friends the germans, that said we let them the fast supercars and the highways without speed limits.
it's a regular TGV, it's just shorter, maybe the engines are a little bit overloaded to setting the reccord but it need a reaserch to confirme - one power machine at each extremity, with one engine per bogie - one half powered car/couche with an engine on the "full owned" bogie - this one seems to have a single "passenger car" with all the technique stuff inside, with a bogie at each end, shared with the half cars (and with the next car on the usual trains) the shape make the TGV really strong and stable and inspire all the other high speed trains in the wolrd
Seeing a massive, heavy, long lump of metal able to travel faster than any supercar with only inches of contact to the ground is crazy when you think about it 🤯
Jup. And a great reason to move away from intercity car networks and moving towards intercity rail networks. The fact that steel wheels on steel tracks have no rolling resistance while cars do and that cars tear up their own infrastructure faster than any other type of transport make trains fastely superior.
I just got back from Europe and took the high speed train from Milan to Venice and it was really a great experience. The last time I was there there were only steamers where my heart still is.
I caught this train from Paris to London and we went through the channel tunnel. Paris to Dover, England, took about ten minutes, then due to leaves on the track in Dover we had to get off and take a British Rail horse and cart to London, which took about two days.
I've been on that train the TGV twice the last time I was in France in 1992! It doesn't feel that fast from the inside of the train, especially when you're out in the countryside where there is nothing to focus your vision or attention on! If you ever have the privilege of spending time in France, I recommend trying it out at least once!
worth noting that for the test it was heavily modified with larger diameter wheels and the voltage on that circuit was raised from normal 25kV to almost 30kV. The German ICE models with their respective performances were always stock with no voltage enhancement.
That is a good point and interesting. But the French ran the train engine on the same rail track, showing that their *system* was very safe, both the engine and the track and the signaling. (Because they presumably did not reconstruct the entire length of track only for that test; and the test was conducted only a short time later.)
@@billwindsor4224 well, my understanding is that when France introduced the TGV trains they also laid down new tracks for it at the same time i.e. designed for faster travelling trains, so the track infrastructure could remain the same (didn't require further upgrading) as it was already designed for the regular TGVs, or high speed trains, right from the outset.
Hey thanks @@cosmicdebris2223 - yes, thanks for the amplification -- that is actually what I meant, and it is impressive that they designed it this way. So they could demonstrate a higher-speed capability from their initial design. Good discussion here - cheers
Meanwhile, a packed train pulls out of a London station and travels at 15 mph for a mile. It increases its speed - to 30 mph. Then it stops. For no reason. Passengers sweat. Break wind. A drunk man starts demanding cash because he "needs 50p to get home". By the final carriage, he has £67. Passengers look at their tickets and are reminded they are holding the most expensive train pass in Europe. They catch their own reflection in the dirty windows of the carriage and briefly make eye contact. They look away. Such a person is surely too miserable to engage in conversation.
Wow, what was that? Read it somewhere or wrote it yourself? ... i didnt really understand it tho.. But it was beautiful.. What does the last line mean? Why is such a person too miserable to engage in conversation?
In Northern Rhodesia we used to sing the Rhodesian Railways theme song, "I'll walk beside you" when traveling to and from boarding school in Lusaka. 200 aprox miles took about nine hours on a good run. They usually left Ndola on time but were always at least an hour late into Lusaka. Not bad if you had a Garrat loco but if it was a "coffee pot" you were late for sure. Great times.
My favourite part isn't all the awesome engineering involved to make a train go that stupidly fast but the way buddy pushes up his *short-sleeves* in order to prepare to drive a train with his thumbs. Hands down the most French thing I've ever seen.
For all this great advancement in speed, this locomotive still runs with flanged wheels on rails similar to those first introduced in 17 century England!
Probably the only thing thats really changed with them, would be the technology involved in making the steels they use for the wheels and tracks to make them more durable and last longer.
If it's the standard railroad gauge, it goes back further than that. The standard gauge came from standard wagon wheel width. Those came from the width of the ruts in the Roman roads from 2,000 years ago. Those came from the standard width of Roman chariots. Standards are powerful.
I was cycling in northern France, and on a deserted country road came to a level crossing with the barriers down. Not a thing in sight. I turned to my friend to ask him if he thought there was a barrier malfunction and BAMMMMMM I was nearly sucked down the tracks after the damn thing !!!
You people are so lucky to have watched that so close. At time index 1:26, If that was in Australia there would have been 250 traffic controllers, 1000 Police and an exclusion zone of 2Km at that overpass. But then again, we would need to have a train like that first.
I left Australia in 2017 luckily I missed the dystopian police state and insanity that followed the covid (clown show) virus and now live in a free country.
+AllAndOneOfTheWorld It could have been a good joke, except there's no level crossings on high speed tracks. We're using a nice invention called bridge. A good joke is plausible.
skylinegtsrock Neither do I. Stupid people shouting stupid jokes are a good start to ruin a perfectly organised party, like a storm, a twister, an earthquake or a hornet invasion.
Considering that this whole engineering marvel is balanced on finely tuned and engineered tracks and the wheels it all rides on is fantastistic. You can push a train faster, an airplane faster. But to do it safely is awesome.
@Matrixnukum It doesnt have to do a 65 degree turn. The only thing it has to do is being fast on straight tracks. The most efficient path is a straight one.
You've not been on this train. It's not a passenger train so you wouldn't know. At this speed you would probably have a feeling of how fast it's going.
@@aaronlean1350 Actually you can take that train (the TGV) on every single major line in France, but commercially its speed is limited to 350/400kmh. Still extremely impressive and indeed you don't feel much. I've taken it more times than I can count, especially going from Lyon to Paris.
On the 5th march 2020, a TGV derailed, it was "running" at 270 km/h when it derailed because of a movement of the ground under the rails. The TGV stayed straight on its wheels, there were 1 severely injured (the driver - some broken bones), 21 slightly injured, no deaths. You may find many photos of it if you search for it.
Watchings this fills you up with hope and amazement at what humans can do, as it pierces through the countryside. Surely a career highlight for the drivers too.
I took that train. It's so fast, if you're heading south from Paris, you can literally gaze out the window and watch the climate change: from cold, cloudy northern Europe, you watch it become dry, balmy Mediterranean. Pretty amazing.
Two weeks ago I rode on a DB "ICE" train between Wuerzburg and Munich at over 300 kph. Was very comfortable and speed didn't seem to be excessive. I could easily understand another 20% faster without issues.
That must have been between Nuremberg and Ingolstadt, and you'd have to be late and on an ICE 3 set being allowed to get that fast. Usually they run at 280kph max, or slower depending on max speed of the set. ICE 3 can go up to 330kph, but the only place they are allowed to is France. Germany has max speed of 300kph on very few lines, usually slower.
True sometimes I wonder what's the point of riding it. And the worst part is that they always keep announcing "trains make up and lose time" along the track when it's late as if they ever speed up. Never once in the dozens of times I've taken one has it made up time by speeding up LOL! Only silverlining if you can call it that is hearing passengers that take it all the time talk about the time when the speed was 0 for hours since the train hit something on the track so they had to come to dead stop for some reason or the other LOL!
France almost clocked 600km/h speed 14 years ago and america is 20 years behind on their "high speed trains" with a max of 280km/h. A project that has now been cancelled:)
@@xlartanislx 16. Meaning WAY too old for Publicans like Roy Moore and Spanky, and the wrong gender for Lindsey Graham and Denny Hastert (not that there's anything wrong w/ their preferences, of course -- it's the hypocrisy).
I played with the prototype maglev that was invented by Nickoli Tesla in the Colorado Mining Museum on his property when I was teenager. They had an entire room filled with what was left of his experiments,and the maglev device was there. It was 3 rings on a platform with a 100 pound mining pan sitting in the center of the rings. You applied electricty and the pan would hover at the top of the rings. It was like experiencing magic itself watching that pan hover in the air. You can thank Nickoli Tesla for what we have now.
Not all tesla. There were many more pioneers of ac. Take a look of the work of Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti his work predates that of tesla yet he seems to have had the same idea.
This train is traveling at ~15% of the top speed of a rifle bullet (a 5.56 NATO round exits the barrel at about 3550 km/h), and 40-50% off the speed of a pistol bullet. In fact, it would pretty quickly overtake a pistol round, since at
They traveled so fast that when they retured to the depot, the occupants noticed that everyone outside of the TGV had aged 10 years due to time dilation.
As a big fan of train engineering, the TGV system is one of the most remarkable networks in the world. This is what you get when the government gives the engineers freedom to surpass records. I hope to be able to ride on one in the near future.
In 1970 my mother saw me off to Melbourne Australia from Adelaide. That train trip took 13 hrs as it did in 1953 when she did the trip. I bet it takes that long still.
@@riyaansheikh7470 at what distance, at what frame rate, with how many train cars ? That doesn't mean anything. Give it to me in kilometers per hour, like a civilized person 😀
@Jean Roch For distance, i would say maybe 10 or 12 km at 60fps at a speed of 10000 kmh. Now i know that is unrealistic but i would love to see what would happen if a train did manage to reach such speeds
"follow the damn train CJ"
The train:
That's a true gamer right there
@@aryan7013 Finally someone who liked there own reply
Gangsters on top of the train :
Train : I AM SPEED
The Train : My Acceleration and Velocity are beyond Your Understanding
If you put it on 2x speed you'll see a 1148kmh train
That means if you could travel in a straight line continuously, it would take you just under a day and a half to circle the earth (34.904 hr)
@ArsalHD ahh I see sarcasm at it's finest
Technically no, if this is a joke, ignore me
Or 714mph if you live in the US and UK
I heard you are the son of Einstein .. Is that true?
Traveled on this last year Lyon to Milan. Went to the buffet car 5 carriages away and got breakfast for 4 people, including 4 coffees in the usual fairly flimsy takeaway containers. Train traveling at its max speed for the journey and I made it back to my seat without spilling a drop. Impressive engineering.
And by the time you made it back with breakfast in hand, you were already in Egypt. 😂
Too scary for me. I'd sooner take my chances on the Knight Bus😂
You didnt spill the coffee bc at that speed the time went backwards and the coffee turned back to coffee beans😂
Unfortunately, at that speed, you arrived at your destination before you could drink it.
i suppose by the time you carried the coffe back to your place, your mates had already disembarked in milan, to have some real coffee.....
Around 1912 my grandmother (at age 14) for the first time traveled by train (from NW Dalecarlia and about 400 km SE to Stockholm). The speed was about 35 km/h (22 US miles/h) and she had been worried that she might pass out because of the speed. She lived until 1990 so she got to see much more including the moon landing.
That was a fast speed for a train at that time. I hope she didn't pass out!
My Great Grandmother was born in 1894 in Europe and lived until 1993. She also saw the same amazing things like the moon landing, like your Grandmother.
What do you mean US miles/h?
@@RichardASK Because a Swedish mile (and Norwegian mile - maybe also Danish mile - I don't know) is 10 kilometers (about 6.21 miles as the mile is interpreted in the U.S. (1 such mile = 1609 m)). After four years in the U.S. I am used to the mile as it is interpreted there - may be it should just be called "English mile" perhaps they still use that in England but not in Australia, New Zealand or bilingual Canada). I just wanted to emphasize the two different meanings of the word "mile" depending on which country it is referred to.
There have been serious accidents due to misunderstandings of some unit (that NASA satellite which crashed 24 years ago is one example).
At the turn of the 1900, there was a speedy trial on the Hartford-Newhaven Rail Line out of South Station, Boston, MA, USA. This trial was for the "Morning Express" to New York City. After one stop at the Back Bay Station, the train would skip the Forest Hills Station - Jamaica Plain, Boston - which was maybe 2/3 miles away on an elevated track. This track was built after the Great Stony Brook Flood in the 1800's. They 'Clocked' this Steam Train at over 100 MPH going through Forest Hills Station. Of course, there were bends and areas that the Train would 'Slow Down'. I forget the average Speed/Time for the Trip. Track Walkers & Crossing Guards were employed in the Day. Heart Stopping in the Day.
@@RichardASK si esta mal lo que dice , la milla es una unidad de longitud ( creo del sistema ingles de medicion ) algo asi como 1600 metros ( del sistema metrico decimal ) lo que pasa que el que escribio ese comentario seguro vio muchas peliculas de ee uu y cree que esa medida es excluciva de los estadounidenses .
Watch at 2x speed, this is what a 1148km/h train looks like
Woah am I the only one who did this 😂😂😂😂
This is how fast sound travels
1:31 Wow
A. G. 574 + 574 = 1148
DB jake 999 galaxy express
This was 10 years ago and we still have a max speed of 80MPH on the Long Island Rail Road.
Henry Black Lmao
In Hungary people run faster than the trains. Search it up ;)
That's 'cause we's a bunch backward ass country folk.
Average speed of passenger train in India is barely 60 kmph. Less than 40 MPH (few trains are exceptions, else in general its less than 40 MPH). By road to have a safe travel, its barely 40 MPH average speed over longer distances.
@@aagosgoswami and they ride hanging on the sides of the train, and even on the roof. India has more train wrecks in a year, than most countries have in their entire history.
Cheers to the men and women who designed and built the tracks to be able to let the train run smoothly and flawlessly at those speeds!!
Oh yeah, well in America, trains have been moving at the same speed for the last 125 years, and no one gives a shit, and now all our roads and bridges are falling apart and you guessed it, no one gives a shit, we complain to our political leaders and they don't give a shit, that's why I can't wait to get the hell out of here.
i bet the overhead catenary was "shot" afterwards.....
SNCF and Alstom : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF
The men designed the train the women designed the breakfast menu
Indeed! The German ICE runs on normal tracks part of the way, and it's not smooth and can't reach its top speed except on the specially designed high-speed track sections.
I believe this was done a couple of days after the Germans claimed the fastest train title with an experimental train. The French took a standard TGV train unit and ran it at a speed of 101 km/h faster than the German record! ..Very, impressive.!
Just look at the shape of a train…. Nobody else can drive a massive baguette faster than us the french mate… Especially our cousins and friends the germans, that said we let them the fast supercars and the highways without speed limits.
This was not a standard TGV. It was 2 power cars and 2 couches. That's 24000hp to do this, but mighty impressive nevertheless.
The French won't ever lose an opportunity to show that they are superior to the Germans.
@@RichardASKthree not two coaches. And the wheels were larger.
it's a regular TGV, it's just shorter, maybe the engines are a little bit overloaded to setting the reccord but it need a reaserch to confirme
- one power machine at each extremity, with one engine per bogie
- one half powered car/couche with an engine on the "full owned" bogie
- this one seems to have a single "passenger car" with all the technique stuff inside, with a bogie at each end, shared with the half cars (and with the next car on the usual trains)
the shape make the TGV really strong and stable and inspire all the other high speed trains in the wolrd
The service speed of 320km/h feels so safe knowing it was tested up to 574km/h
Imagine this test but the train derailed and everyone on-board died.
@@ErikaKellyGeorge no.
@@ErikaKellyGeorge I'm good lad
@@ErikaKellyGeorge bruh
@@ErikaKellyGeorgeImagine air wasn’t breathable?
Then ask yourself what the point of such comments is.
Follow the damn train CJ
lol
You made my day bro :D
All you had to do was to follow the damn train Cj
loool
Officer Pulaski lol
Officer Pulaski awesome comnt brother
Travelled on this from Avignon to Paris, a few years ago. Impressive speed! And as someone said, very smooth.
Lucky you.
Who cares 😂😂😂😂
I wonder how the Stephenson brothers, inventors of the first steam train (1829), react to this. What a marvel of engineering. Congratulations.
Not brothers but father George and son Robert.The first steam train was constructed by Richard Trevithick around 1804..
Our body does not feel constant speed, no matter how high this is...our body feel acceleration.
I stand corrected. Thanks.@@stevengriffin7873
I don't think they react to this at all, because they are dead!
They might be a tad embarrassed by the fact that their steam-engine was named ROCKET, if they could have seen this thing whizzing down the tracks.
*1:25** That's how my childhood life passed by!*
with 2×Video Speed
True that!
😢
My childhood is not passing.... 😭😭😭😢😢😢😭😭😭
My Life also bro
Seeing a massive, heavy, long lump of metal able to travel faster than any supercar with only inches of contact to the ground is crazy when you think about it 🤯
Not really. Metal on metal > rubber on asphalt. Also, electric motors > petrol engines.
Jup. And a great reason to move away from intercity car networks and moving towards intercity rail networks. The fact that steel wheels on steel tracks have no rolling resistance while cars do and that cars tear up their own infrastructure faster than any other type of transport make trains fastely superior.
The low contact patch is exactly why it’s faster than most supercars
@@piccolo917 but you can't drift with trains though :/
@@DrumToTheBassWoop why would you want to drift anything during regular transportation, exactly?
I just got back from Europe and took the high speed train from Milan to Venice and it was really a great experience. The last time I was there there were only steamers where my heart still is.
I caught this train from Paris to London and we went through the channel tunnel. Paris to Dover, England, took about ten minutes, then due to leaves on the track in Dover we had to get off and take a British Rail horse and cart to London, which took about two days.
To clarify something : the TGV isn't the fastest train in the world, however it is the fastest rail train in the world
No shit Sherlock
Desert Crusader no need to be rude?
@@DoubleDTVx2 a'ight mate
Desert Crusader some weird people on the internet
A train kinda has to run on rail. Maglevs are maglevs, I wouldn't consider them trains
2:06 sad, i feel you brother 🥺
I've been on that train the TGV twice the last time I was in France in 1992! It doesn't feel that fast from the inside of the train, especially when you're out in the countryside where there is nothing to focus your vision or attention on! If you ever have the privilege of spending time in France, I recommend trying it out at least once!
Go and stand on an intermediate platform, when the TGV come through at 320kmh.
574 is the record, with a specially modified train and extra voltage in the power lines. Normal speed is about 300.
worth noting that for the test it was heavily modified with larger diameter wheels and the voltage on that circuit was raised from normal 25kV to almost 30kV. The German ICE models with their respective performances were always stock with no voltage enhancement.
That is a good point and interesting. But the French ran the train engine on the same rail track, showing that their *system* was very safe, both the engine and the track and the signaling. (Because they presumably did not reconstruct the entire length of track only for that test; and the test was conducted only a short time later.)
@@billwindsor4224 well, my understanding is that when France introduced the TGV trains they also laid down new tracks for it at the same time i.e. designed for faster travelling trains, so the track infrastructure could remain the same (didn't require further upgrading) as it was already designed for the regular TGVs, or high speed trains, right from the outset.
Hey thanks @@cosmicdebris2223 - yes, thanks for the amplification -- that is actually what I meant, and it is impressive that they designed it this way. So they could demonstrate a higher-speed capability from their initial design. Good discussion here - cheers
How fast do you want to go on these new railway tracks?
TGV: yes
Haha
lol
TGV: Oui
@@eleSDSU TGV: inOui
Meanwhile, a packed train pulls out of a London station and travels at 15 mph for a mile. It increases its speed - to 30 mph. Then it stops. For no reason. Passengers sweat. Break wind. A drunk man starts demanding cash because he "needs 50p to get home". By the final carriage, he has £67. Passengers look at their tickets and are reminded they are holding the most expensive train pass in Europe. They catch their own reflection in the dirty windows of the carriage and briefly make eye contact. They look away. Such a person is surely too miserable to engage in conversation.
very good, very true.
whoa..... that's deep.
cool story bro
Wow, what was that? Read it somewhere or wrote it yourself? ... i didnt really understand it tho.. But it was beautiful.. What does the last line mean? Why is such a person too miserable to engage in conversation?
The last line is referring to ones self image. They see themselves in the dirty window only yo realize there own misery.
Achieved by the French TGV at 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph), on 3 April 2007
All the crew and others who are on this test train need to be given bravery awards. This is insane speed and an engineering marvel.
still slower than how my ex left me
akshay, knew you were a jerk, smart woman
alllllaaaahu akbar
+Akshay Arora muuuuuuuu
congrats..your's win!!kikiki
Ohh you should contact guines book of records 😅😅
No wonder CJ couldn't follow the damn train
Winner 😂👍👍
LOOOL!!!
WazzawProgram lmao
This comments happened 7 months ago but still lmao
omg that mission
kkk
Eine technische Meisterleistung, großer Respekt!
In Northern Rhodesia we used to sing the Rhodesian Railways theme song, "I'll walk beside you" when traveling to and from boarding school in Lusaka. 200 aprox miles took about nine hours on a good run. They usually left Ndola on time but were always at least an hour late into Lusaka. Not bad if you had a Garrat loco but if it was a "coffee pot" you were late for sure. Great times.
😂
Meanwhile here in NY it took 1 hour to travel 30 miles to work.
Lol facts
that's why smart people don't live in NY
Habibi come to Dubai 🤑
Cute
@AKHIR ZAMAN the train isn't the problem. It's the infrastructure and how there hasn't been any work done on Penn Station for decades.
All we had to do, was follow the damn train CJ.
Bill Bed Bruh
Dragunov E.N.D how about you, you weeaboo child
Bill Beds W. long live San Andreas
Hardest mission for me
Yes!!
Still mind blowing after all these years 😱.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
My favourite part isn't all the awesome engineering involved to make a train go that stupidly fast but the way buddy pushes up his *short-sleeves* in order to prepare to drive a train with his thumbs. Hands down the most French thing I've ever seen.
When she says she's home alone.
Or he.
I can just see the flames on the track when I read this
And then the effects hen the flash runs
Te mamaste wey 😂😂😂😒
Really funny.....😁😁
I'd still be late for work
SERBINATOR 85 😂😂😂😂
Lol 😂😂😂
lol. Best RUclips comment ever!
That's funny as hell!!!
Probably because you would be catching the train 20 mins after your work start time
For all this great advancement in speed, this locomotive still runs with flanged wheels on rails similar to those first introduced in 17 century England!
Probably the only thing thats really changed with them, would be the technology involved in making the steels they use for the wheels and tracks to make them more durable and last longer.
If it's the standard railroad gauge, it goes back further than that. The standard gauge came from standard wagon wheel width. Those came from the width of the ruts in the Roman roads from 2,000 years ago. Those came from the standard width of Roman chariots.
Standards are powerful.
Only if we had something like that here in australia.
I was cycling in northern France, and on a deserted country road came to a level crossing with the barriers down. Not a thing in sight.
I turned to my friend to ask him if he thought there was a barrier malfunction and
BAMMMMMM
I was nearly sucked down the tracks after the damn thing !!!
1:25 *when my crush says, i’m home alone.*
the train almost comes as fast as you
hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha vey funny
Jeffy
LOL I had playback speed set to 2x
13 years later and this video it's still insane!
Incredible not insane
... this video still is* ...
You people are so lucky to have watched that so close. At time index 1:26, If that was in Australia there would have been 250 traffic controllers, 1000 Police and an exclusion zone of 2Km at that overpass. But then again, we would need to have a train like that first.
In Australia the trains barely run faster than 60 km/h
The lucky country left behind firmly in the 1950s
I left Australia in 2017 luckily I missed the dystopian police state and insanity that followed the covid (clown show) virus and now live in a free country.
I love thé TGV. Been riding this from Paris to Marseille since the 80s. Smooth comfort all the way.
2:05, he missed that handshake...
xD Underrated comment
I did noticed that poor guy XD
lol,, poor guy😗😣😓😢🙁😬😡
Warning, there's a truck six miles ahead on the rails!
What?
There was six miles behind a truck on the rails...
+AllAndOneOfTheWorld It could have been a good joke, except there's no level crossings on high speed tracks. We're using a nice invention called bridge. A good joke is plausible.
+CaptainDangeax I wouldn't want to be at a party if you where there
skylinegtsrock
Neither do I. Stupid people shouting stupid jokes are a good start to ruin a perfectly organised party, like a storm, a twister, an earthquake or a hornet invasion.
The high speed rails only has tunnels and bridges.. no crossings.
+MK3424
Wow, you are so clever ;)
this hits even harder with kickstart my heart over it
That was absolutely fantastic.
0:38 RIP Mosquito
Dahahhahahahhaha XDDDD
Your comment made ma day.. This requires more likes
Also the sound when the mosquito gets smashed
Thank you for this
😂😂
Alberto good death
e
just going to stick my head out the window for some fresh air.......face gone....
+robbie Kelleher whole head is gone!
lol😂😂
+robbie Kelleher LOL
😂😂😂😂😂
😂
Considering that this whole engineering marvel is balanced on finely tuned and engineered tracks and the wheels it all rides on is fantastistic. You can push a train faster, an airplane faster. But to do it safely is awesome.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
SNCF since 2015. With 37.9 billion passenger-kilometres in 2020 with the TGV alone
Nice section of track. Camera at the wheel showed buttery smooth rolling.
French engineering is incredible! The TGV is way ahead of its time here
Merci.
@アフタヌーンヌアクショット no it’s still
@Matrixnukum It doesnt have to do a 65 degree turn. The only thing it has to do is being fast on straight tracks. The most efficient path is a straight one.
@@Nzonzimi no it was
@@AIDANBC it’s still
Thomas the tank engine on cocaine
JB999 Mobile Gamplays so true
JB999 Mobile Gamplays Thomas the dank engine
K2_SLAYER_ LMAO
JB999 Mobile Gamplays LMFAO 😂😂😂
nah he's on roids, it's "Thomas the TANK engine"
Awesome , I like the paint job . 😳🧐😄😳👍🙏
Its amazing to see such a new modern train use old style overhead power lines for it's power source but I guess it's old but proven to work well.
If you introduce this technology in India,you will still get people riding on roofs XD
Let's Hack it - so true 😂
Yup its true
Yup lol
Funny peoples are always funny
haha
Imagin a cow chilling in her field having a heart attack...
Best comment on earth 😃😄😅🤣😂😁😆...!!! 😋😍
I wonder if the screen is toughened glass, like really tough, just in case!
Fabulous train and wonderful film, thanks for this!
Meanwhile, in Ireland....announcer: the train will be 45 minutes late because there are leaves on the track
Even at most tensed situation, The driver never loosed smile of his face ❤️
Like the bridge crew on Star Trek...standing bravely against certain death...
The most tense*
Never lost the smile off*
If it went wrong death would be instant, no worries if you know God.
q
Strangely enough when inside the train, there is no real sensation of speed ( incredibly stable and smooth )
Amazing
Thanks God
Its because of constant speed and a raisonnable acceleration
You've not been on this train. It's not a passenger train so you wouldn't know. At this speed you would probably have a feeling of how fast it's going.
@@aaronlean1350 Actually you can take that train (the TGV) on every single major line in France, but commercially its speed is limited to 350/400kmh. Still extremely impressive and indeed you don't feel much. I've taken it more times than I can count, especially going from Lyon to Paris.
Impressive as it looks, I would NOT want to be on that if it derailed!!
the good thing is you probably wouldn't know much about it
At that speed it would be a real mess with a lot of casualties. The debris field would be immense as the train broke apart and still had to slow down.
On the 5th march 2020, a TGV derailed, it was "running" at 270 km/h when it derailed because of a movement of the ground under the rails.
The TGV stayed straight on its wheels, there were 1 severely injured (the driver - some broken bones), 21 slightly injured, no deaths.
You may find many photos of it if you search for it.
Watchings this fills you up with hope and amazement at what humans can do, as it pierces through the countryside. Surely a career highlight for the drivers too.
Faster than my internet.
Makes sense, internet in Pakistan is shitty
TheBlackHandElite lol
Abdulai Bah 😁😁😁😁lol
not faster than mine virgin 350 lol
Abdulai Bah A SNAIL IS FASTER THAN MY INTERNET.
I took that train. It's so fast, if you're heading south from Paris, you can literally gaze out the window and watch the climate change: from cold, cloudy northern Europe, you watch it become dry, balmy Mediterranean. Pretty amazing.
😂😅😂
It’s 2023 . I’m watching this & reading this comment...what is cold? No one in the media uses this word anymore. It is banned. 🤪
My fav childhood video :)
Wow!!! I can't wait to see the backup replacement bus service.
2:05 awkward moment
Hahaha
Lmao top 10 most awkward handshakes
Raman Kumar true
Raman Kumar he's gonna remember that for the rest of his life
Hahahahahaha
"ALL WE HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN, CJ!"
Need a hydra in that case.
It was all your fault.
Your comment got me.
And cj's bike just drive 60km/h .
Thats exactly how this mission felt.
WOW !! IMPRESSIVE !! I hope that there are sturdy & high fences beside the tracks.
Two weeks ago I rode on a DB "ICE" train between Wuerzburg and Munich at over 300 kph. Was very comfortable and speed didn't seem to be excessive. I could easily understand another 20% faster without issues.
That must have been between Nuremberg and Ingolstadt, and you'd have to be late and on an ICE 3 set being allowed to get that fast. Usually they run at 280kph max, or slower depending on max speed of the set.
ICE 3 can go up to 330kph, but the only place they are allowed to is France. Germany has max speed of 300kph on very few lines, usually slower.
Wouldn't want to fuck around in that track lol that thing would make someone disappear
If that train hits me bitch is going off track😂😂😂
+SUNIL PATIL did you call yourself a bitch
KrishKrusher I said the train is bitch...
It should be "that bitch"...my mistake😂
I will go to sleep by the time it departs
Wayne Larson. they should make trump disappear
574 kph... That's fast! We have Amtrak. On a good day, we get to travel at 5.74 kph.
lol
ha ha lol
HAHA LOL
hey Japan Fastest train is 578KM/H or speed break record 603KH/M
True sometimes I wonder what's the point of riding it. And the worst part is that they always keep announcing "trains make up and lose time" along the track when it's late as if they ever speed up. Never once in the dozens of times I've taken one has it made up time by speeding up LOL! Only silverlining if you can call it that is hearing passengers that take it all the time talk about the time when the speed was 0 for hours since the train hit something on the track so they had to come to dead stop for some reason or the other LOL!
France almost clocked 600km/h speed 14 years ago and america is 20 years behind on their "high speed trains" with a max of 280km/h. A project that has now been cancelled:)
Fun video. Thank you.
When the train driver's girlfriend said her parents weren't at home
Most epic comment!!!!
How old is his girlfriend?
@@xlartanislx 16.
Meaning WAY too old for Publicans like Roy Moore and Spanky, and the wrong gender for Lindsey Graham and Denny Hastert (not that there's anything wrong w/ their preferences, of course -- it's the hypocrisy).
Go to 1:23 to see it pass under the bridge.
awesome
Eric Dolby that train was not going 574 mph it was way too slow.
Costa Sergio the train was going 574 KM not mhp
Costa Sergio Oops. Kmh, not mph.
rahmij whatever it looked slow af.
I played with the prototype maglev that was invented by Nickoli Tesla in the Colorado Mining Museum on his property when I was teenager.
They had an entire room filled with what was left of his experiments,and the maglev device was there.
It was 3 rings on a platform with a 100 pound mining pan sitting in the center of the rings.
You applied electricty and the pan would hover at the top of the rings.
It was like experiencing magic itself watching that pan hover in the air.
You can thank Nickoli Tesla for what we have now.
Not all tesla. There were many more pioneers of ac. Take a look of the work of Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti his work predates that of tesla yet he seems to have had the same idea.
This is a very normal science fair demonstration, but normally they use a superconducting magnet.
Gratulation ! Das ist der richtige Weg ! UND erstaunlicherweise ohne aerodynamische Verrücktheiten.
At least death will be instantaneous and therefore painless upon derailment.
Speed of the train and speed of socialism are just the same.
+morison andoor Socialism goes 574 km/hr?
xD
The fastest jet: I'm the faster vehicle
The train: Hold my beer
Superman:Hold my beer
🤣🤣🤣
PhantomJokr YT dude fastest jet top speed is 7200Kmh
@@assislima6953 I think it is faster, maybe 10k plus.
What?!
They are scooting right along, that’s for sure!
This train is traveling at ~15% of the top speed of a rifle bullet (a 5.56 NATO round exits the barrel at about 3550 km/h), and 40-50% off the speed of a pistol bullet. In fact, it would pretty quickly overtake a pistol round, since at
I am here after 9 years
Edit 1 = __.
I'm later than you:-)
Go to hel
OH yeah yeah
Cjs still tryna catch up
Im later than you all!!
1:32 Too fast for the camera...
Haha yea
It's a hoax that's why
IMAO 😂😂😂
It glitched :D
nailed it😂😂
They traveled so fast that when they retured to the depot, the occupants noticed that everyone outside of the TGV had aged 10 years due to time dilation.
As a big fan of train engineering, the TGV system is one of the most remarkable networks in the world. This is what you get when the government gives the engineers freedom to surpass records. I hope to be able to ride on one in the near future.
When this Baby hits 574 km/h your gonna see some serious shit!
Let's jump in front of it lol
you're going to see some serious shit.....in my pants
What a line !
I Wish My Internet Speed Be The Same... :P
Pijush A Sinha. its $20 ...these days unless u live in a shitty country
Well that shitty country has just done wonders, google for the info my frnd...
India. ever heard?
Yeah, when are most of the population getting sanitary living conditions again?
Again???
Now lets put a huge ramp ahead to see if the train flies off to space.
In 1970 my mother saw me off to Melbourne Australia from Adelaide. That train trip took 13 hrs as it did in 1953 when she did the trip. I bet it takes that long still.
Train from Edmonton to Vancouver now takes 50% more time than 15 years ago. Almost 36 hours instead of under 24. And that is 1200 km
when she says her parents aren't home
carlofburgundy XD XD XD
Comment of the decade!
carlofburgundy true😂
That’s when you go in and rob the place, right?
The bridge shot really tells you how fast this monster is. That and they needed a frickin jet to keep up with it.
Still too slow. For it to qualify as fast in my dicktionary, it has to be seen in only a few frames even from a distance
@@riyaansheikh7470 at what distance, at what frame rate, with how many train cars ? That doesn't mean anything. Give it to me in kilometers per hour, like a civilized person 😀
@Jean Roch For distance, i would say maybe 10 or 12 km at 60fps at a speed of 10000 kmh. Now i know that is unrealistic but i would love to see what would happen if a train did manage to reach such speeds
@@riyaansheikh7470 it won't, because physics. That's hypersonic speed. Even in the high atmosphere it's a challenge.
@@TheNefastor great anecdote the plane responsible for filming the tgv going slower than the tgv
It takes a lot of guts to pilot a train to that speed.I would be terrified as a passenger.Very brave thing to do.
Any slight imperfection in the track or the wheels, any slight problem at all, and survivability is 0% - no chance, instant human salsa.
If you look closely you can see Chuck Norris running alongside of it
Shanda862004 Chuck Norris is gay, and small and does the same move every time, just a shit actor.
Shanda862004
Wasn't that Chuck kicken' up all that dust pushing the train?
Chuck Norris is a fucking nobody.
V. Adams loser you liked your own repley
I call BS! Chuck Norris doesn’t run. The earth moves under his feet.
Then a cow walking on the train tracks..... R.I..P
instant burgers
+Klate Wilson No , how bout burger bits. emmmm !
Red Mist
+Klate Wilson
Instant ground beef
+Andrew Sinclair haha!
Would be interesting how much energy the train used there (and compared to the speed of a 'regular' high speed train)
A bike in that speed would be unnoticeable
If it ever derails... gg mate.
they never go faster than 300 with passengers on board
irfan123100 a TGV nether do that due to ist architecture
Stoned Mole, Titanic was also built using foolproof, unsinkable engineering ....
ja ko in normal use only. During a test session it happend because it was 100kmh faster than it should.
irfan123100. like any train or plane crashing nothing new
serbia hlods the record for the slowest one
holds:)
He's Slavic, so, L before any vowels. Oh, my bad, what vowels.
no its not serbia its pakistan
man... you haven't been to Ukraine yet...
I have a small model of a Bogamil tombstone in my home in uk if that helps?
Considering it still uses those tiny metal wheels is amazing.
I admire the French for two things:
1 Their ability to protest.
2 Their high speed trains.