I was once on a train that broke down while I was travelling across Egypt. All the locals started to get out of the train and walk to the next station. At first I wasn't sure what to do myself but eventually I realised that I would have to get out and walk like the Egyptians.
Glad to see Egypt buliding quality and safe railways, they can be the backbone of economy for such country. We'll be seeing it's progress in years hopefully from B1M.
@@paush51 Siemens is a fantastic company, their trains are used here in Canada for our national railway system. I was riding in one in October, and it was much better than our old trains. I understand your distrust for Europeans, and the west in general. We were not nice to the Middle East, Asia, or Africa. I truly hope we can fix our relationship in the future
@@paush51 our railway is in a bad situation here in Germany, but not because of the technology. it's because of bad management and political decisions, like a train not coming at all being better for the official statistics than a train a few minutes late. That said, while our railway system is getting worse, and is better than some examples, we at least have a nationwide high speed rail system. That is not common everywhere, and would be a great improvement for many.
@@Skullair313 there is a huge difference between feeling like 50 years old and being 50 years old. Nothing wrong with being that old but if the carriages feel that old it becomes a problem.
@@doge.a.cat2002 maybe because construction outside of Lagos and Abuja has been very slow moving, not much progress being made probably due to no funding I hope this changes soon
The problem is that it will be made by foreign debts, and in 2017, the egyptian national debt exceeded 100% of the gdp for the first time since the independence of the country
@@Omer1996E.C I'm not educated enough about the Egyptian economic situation to comment on wether it's a good idea to build it considering additional debt or not, but isolated from the costs this is a very good thing.
As someone who travelled a lot between Alexandria and Cairo during his childhood, I always looked at the egyptian train system with a lot of nostalgia. But it's really time to look into the future. And as half German I'm also a bit proud that Siemens will do it! Thank you for this video!
Morocco and Egypt have the most European railways of Africa already and are becoming even more so. Egypt actually has a curious mixture of European, American and Russian trains (getting more Russian with the TMH coaches mentioned in the video). The Siemens trains (Velaro, Desiro HC, Vectron) look like they will be very similar to what is already operating in Europe.
Egyptians are one of the most nice people on our Continent of Africa i was impressed by their hospitality and i wish your rail gets to be counted among the best. Love from Zimbabwe
Evertime I go out there is literally some new projects happening like for example at the end of my street a new metro line being built and at the start of that same street a massive walkway being built with commercial areas and stuff like that it’s an amazing time to be living here
I didn’t know of that Project. Nice work of Siemens and I’m proud of my (the German) government that they finally understand the importance of cooperation and support in Africa!
Always wondered when will you do a video about Egypt , we're building like 14 new cities And other mega projects that should have caught your attention 😅
From the largest solar farm to the largest fish farms not to mention 7,000 km of new roads Egypt was ranked 110th in road quality now we are 27th in the world so there is a lot to cover
When I heard new, huge-scale, foreign-invested, infrastructure project, I can only think of China. What a surprise that Germany can win over their deal offer.
@@jerrygereden The trains are some of the most comfortable to ride. However, the rail infrastructure kind of sucks because our government decided 30 years ago that it would be nice to let freight and passenger trains use the same track, while nearly every other major European country built seperated train tracks.
@@jerrygereden If you're thinking of Bombardier trains, that was mainly due to massively incompetent (Canadian) management focusing on cost-cutting. Siemens trains generally are solid as can be, especially the Vectron, Velaro and Desiro HC Egypt is planning to buy.
It was a smart move. Which country would you rather owe "favors" to? Venezuela allowed the Chinese to use their steel to build railroads and the country hasn't been the same since. Venuzuela oil has been going to China for years now.
It boggles the mind how Egypt managed to have so many train wrecks. Trains are designed to be so ridiculously safe that even having one accident would've required an extreme amount of negligence. Luckily someone recognized that having Siemens as the maintainer was a good idea and avoided a catastrophe.
Well to give you an idea of how negligible the people running current trains are, they left a locomotive ON and the locomotive RAN INTO THE MAIN STATION AT FULL ACCELRATION, PEOPLE WERE IN THAT STATION, i dont get it, but thats how things go in egypt for the Egyptians...
It’s FAR safer than their roads. I work for an oil company in Egypt and we were forbidden to travel any long distance by road. We had to get the train.
Finally.. a couple of days ago .. the last (old) train was finally scraped and all trains currently in service are actually brand new or has been refurbished to a (like new) condition .. viva Egypt 🇪🇬 ❤️
I would literally watch this kind of content every day if I could. Even when the subject isn't something I'm particularly interested in you are still able to convey it in an interesting way, and often connect it to other projects that I know more about. Thanks for all your efforts!
Just a little correction , the first phase of the train will be built by 2024 And the second one will be finished by 2026 Egyptian are fast when it comes to infrastructure 🇪🇬 And thanks to Germany for their big cooperation with Egypt in lots of infrastructure projects🇩🇪
Yes I’m loving all the major infrastructure projects/upgrades coming out of Africa. Y’all Africa is rising, don’t sleep on it! If B1M sees this comment I would love y’all to do a series of videos focusing on the major projects under construction/planned from various countries in Africa, it’s quite impressive and more of the world needs to know. (Proud African here, progress from one is progress for all🇹🇿)
thank you for this video. as an egyptian i've been struggling with trains trasportation and even roads. it is getting better by the time. i hope the other sectors get the same attention
Hopefully Vietnam will follow this path. We currently are considering between a Shinkansen model based network for carrying only people and a network for freight and people, too. Btw, I have an Egyptian friend and he's one of the nicest guys I've ever met. Great job Egypt!
Glad that Egypt's transport system in finally getting a make over. Country has very and big cities but unfortunately very poorly connected, both locals and tourists have been suffering. This project will hopefully make a huge impact on the economy, quality of life and most importantly safety of the people.
You guys have the best train views ever. While I get how newer and faster trains are cool I definitely didn’t mind the train ride in Sri Lanka. Beautiful country ❤️
Yea bro the trains here in Sri Lanka suck. The latest s14, s13 and even S12 models are good and also those new carriages from India are good, but the rest are complete trash. However I doubt the trains were as bad as Egypt's because while our trains and carriages are old, they are maintained decently.
I also heard Mexico is building an Electrified high speed rail line. Could you do videos about that ? So far, Canada doesn't seem to have funded plans for Electrified high speed rail. The USA has Acela (which is being upgraded BTW), while CAHSR & Brightline west are being worked on.
Canada doesn’t really need electrified HSR. Windsor-Ottawa-Toronto-Montreal is the only corridor of Canada densely-populated enough to support HSR at all, and a lot of the communities along the line are too close for much more than 125MPH operation, which you can achieve with diesel trains.
Awesome video as always. I was so happy to see the pictures of majestic TransNamib trains running through the beautiful deserts of my country Namibia in this video. I regularly chase them through the desert.
I would love to be in train in desert or next to the nile. Hopefully this project doesn't get delayed like other countries rail projects (cough,cough, HS2, cough,cough)
I love seeing things like this, I'd like to visit Egypt one day, and I'm half-kenyan so I'll have to give that Mombassa line there to compare back-to-back, and then see how it stacks up to whatever new trains we'll get here in the US now that Biden's infrastructure bill passed. I never knew how great trains were until I took the ICE from Berlin to Paris in 2016, and again using TrenItalia to get around Italy in 2018, and again in Spain between Barcelona and Girona, I hope, Egypt, Kenya and the US finially get near what you lucky Europeans have had for quite some time, another great video from the B1M!
I heard you and Nigeria are also upgrading your rail lines, good to see things changing and urbanizing across Africa as a whole not the north or just the south
Great video. Please make an episode on Egypt's 'iconic tower' which is the tallest building in Africa. Also please check out Egypt's new Adminstrative capital 👍
Will it be possible one day to travel from Alexandria do Cape Town in comfortable and safe train? Africa should make as much as possible to build its modern infrastructure boosting turism industry! There is so many wealthy Europeans still afriad to visit Africa, and instead, they spend €€€ in Asia 😩
Yeah,but the sad reality, who really control the continent of Africa, who really owns the money of Africa, the government or the private foreign corporations and foreign bankers the government of Africa are dumb puppets.
Africans should build this and that so that wealthy Europeans can come in to visit. Everything is about Europeans. How about Africans building all these infrastructures so it can benefit Africans by improving human development, trades amongst African countries and boost tourism within Africa? Europeans can continue visiting Asia 😂 the lasting thing Africans want are people with superiority complex thinking everything should be done for their comfort.
I am quite surprised you only have a single video about south east asian projects. It is literally a war zone for China and Japan investments especially regarding high speed rail projects. Every country wanna get titled as the first to have hsr in this region. You can cover two Thailand hsr, Laos semi hsr, Indonesian hsr, or recently canceled Singapore - Malaysia hsr. It will be fun!
@@willengel2458 I dont think that is really the reason. While Indonesian project has the same mountainous terrain, it can achieve more than 300 km/hour. That is more with economic reason. Semi HSR is good enough for the people of Laos at the current time. I heard it can be upgraded in future? Is it true?. When they have the need they can go with HSR soon. No matter what project is atleast it is southeast asian so I cant wait B1M to cover it!
@@willengel2458 Yes I have seen both. They have similar terrains. Bandung is located in higher altitude while Jakarta is in lower altitude. From 142,3 km, 80 km are elevated and 13 km tunnel and subgrade. While China has bigger network and more terrains, they can built most of the network with high speed specification. I am pretty sure the reason is really from economic view. This project already cost Laos 5.9 billion dollars or 21% of its GDP. If they go with higher speed it means the rail need more radius to turn thus bigger area must be cleared and longer bridges are needed. It just make the cost even higher.
Some places in the middle east are paying nearby inhabitants to plant and maintain desert shrubs around the train tracks. This not only helps the poor desert people financially, but reduces the impact if a sandstorm comes.
@@neeljavia2965 Well Nigeria is an economic super power in Africa, but it doesn’t spend that much on it military unlike Egypt. Nigeria spends less than 1 percent of it gdp on the military compared to Egypt 1.22 percent. If Nigeria spends more or feel the need to boost it military spending then Nigeria will be both military and economic super power of Africa.
They should really have gon for the tgv double decker for mass transit. Oh well its the same rails anyways across Europe so they can buy all sorts of high speed European trains.
I’d like to point out that the safety of old rolling stock is much more a matter of maintenance then it is of age. VIA rail in Canada routinely uses Locomotives built in the 80’s pulling passenger cars built in the 40’s.
"What the egyptian people will get is the highest standard, comparable to what europe is receiving right now". I feel for you, people of egypt. How many times I had to wait on my regular train thrue germany because of damage on a train exactly like the one you received...
To be fair, DB lets the railway infrastructure rott in hopes that the german government will invest instead. The trains themselves are pretty reliable. Well, all but the air conditioning. But who in the fair weather of egypt needs an ac anyways? lol
For the size and her population, Egypt certainly needs a good railway system not only within the country bit also its future connection to Western Africa by a direct line to , say Lagos. This link can shorten the shipping distance by about half. Africa would certainly gain from such connectivity by rail through a pan-African railway system. And this is could be the only option for the continent to improve trades among African nations. Of course, a rail link across to Western Africa will enhance the position of the Egyptian port of Alexandria if indeed this port can be expanded!
The port is already being expanded now and will be completed before the completion of the electric train, and also this train will connect the ports of the Red Sea with the ports of the Mediterranean in Alexandria. This train serves as the Suez Canal New Berry on the land of Egypt
The problem is many countries in Africa use different track gauges most of Africa uses 3.5 foot Cape Gauge and some countries like Kenya and Mali use Meter gauge
Rail infrastructure is the best way to support growing cities and economies. I wish we had more trains where I live. Currently there's about 70 miles of track between me and Nashville and all it's used for is a weekly freight service. There's no reason they couldn't expand commuter rail service and lessen the burden on our highways.
Blame the class one railroads that own the track they refuse to upgrade it and are hostile to passenger trains it's why only the lines not owned by freight companies have high quality service
New bucket list item when phase 2 is completed: take a train from Cairo to Luxor (I think that's where the pyramids and sphinx are). Anyway, glad to see Egypt is doing this. Would love to see better trains in USA but the economics just don't make that likely.
I know you read every comment. It would be good if you made a video about the workers of these amazing constructions, not enough recognition is given out to the workers. About their struggles, sacrifice, and loss to being us these amazing constructions!
@@Omer1996E.C infrastructure debts are a good thing. You cant only look at money made back from tickets, you need to to look at the total economic and environmental benefits. For example, generating new jobs will generate tax revenue, better environment and less congestion will promote more people to move there which generates even more tax revenue.
How do they stop the desert from swallowing up the tracks? As someone hailing from a country with "modern" rail services which are regularly halted by leaves on the track, the encroachment of dunes on some of those shots looked ominous haha
Fences will be made on both sides, and the majority of the road is located in rocky lands. The Egyptian companies are the ones who work the tracks and build stations, and Siemens has the technology and the supply of trains
The ESR was always the most British of Railways in Africa. Historically Egypt had the best railway system in Africa. As noted earlier Robert Stephenson built the earliest lines in the country. Which like all of Robert Stephenson's lines were built to the highest of standards. Echoes of the Stephenson era can be seen in the Cairo Railway Museum . Which in its collection has two locomotives built by Robert Stephenson & Co in the early 1860's One of them being the extraordinary ' No 30' a 2-2-4 steam railcar built for the personal use of the Khedive himself. A photo survives of this incredible locomotive undergoing trials outside Newcastle Central Station! In 1883 Frederick H Trevithick (The grandson of the "Cornish Giant" Richard Trevithick The man who invented the steam locomotive in 1803) was appointed CME of the ESA (As it was then). By the 1880's the Egyptian railways were in a run down condition (Shades of today's situation) and had a very disorganised fleet of locomotives. Mr Trevithick acted quickly acted quickly to sort out the locomotive situation. By introducing a standardised fleet with the various classes of locomotive having as many components as practical in common. He also instigated many other changes and improvements. A good example being the Imbaba bridge over the Nile. Which was designed and built by none other than M. Gustav Effiel. By the 1930's and 1940's the ESR was an early exponent of diesel electric railcars (Although and somewhat strangely in the early 1950's the ESR ordered a small fleet of articulated three car steam railcars from Sentinel in Shrewsbury England They were the very last std gauge steam railcars every built (Sentinel would build two more two car sets for the 3'6" gauge Nigerian Railways a few years later They were the very last steam railcars every built). It is very good that the Egyptian Government is getting to grips with the situation and that the country will soon have (Along with Morroco) One of the most modern systems in the World. Also the Government is spending a great deal of time and money on getting urban public transport sorted out following decades of deterioration and decline. I was in Southampton Docks in the summer and saw several of the new and very futuristic monorail trains that had been built at Litchurch Lane in Derby. Awaiting shipment to Egypt. Certainly Egypt will be somewhere I shall visit once these improvements and enhancements have been carried out.
Second video in a row that for some reason recognizes Morocco's claim to Western Sahara. I'd be surprised if this was some sort of political statement, its just kind of weird to see.
Best UA-cam channel for the 'major construction projects' around the world.
Ah thanks mate!!
@@TheB1M hi, talk about Israel please 🇮🇱
Australia is so lame for major rail projects...
@@koharumi1 bit of work happening at VIC at the moment at least, both metro and regional
@@benjaminmcintosh857 but no large scale ones...
Besides that freight line getting upgrade.
I was once on a train that broke down while I was travelling across Egypt. All the locals started to get out of the train and walk to the next station. At first I wasn't sure what to do myself but eventually I realised that I would have to get out and walk like the Egyptians.
LOL
Ba-dum tsssh
*Cue laughtrack
The door's over there, sir.
Ur kidding right?
Glad to see Egypt buliding quality and safe railways, they can be the backbone of economy for such country. We'll be seeing it's progress in years hopefully from B1M.
Don't trust Germans in terms of railways... They are in really bad condition in Germany
@@paush51 Siemens is a fantastic company, their trains are used here in Canada for our national railway system. I was riding in one in October, and it was much better than our old trains.
I understand your distrust for Europeans, and the west in general. We were not nice to the Middle East, Asia, or Africa. I truly hope we can fix our relationship in the future
@@paush51 our railway is in a bad situation here in Germany, but not because of the technology. it's because of bad management and political decisions, like a train not coming at all being better for the official statistics than a train a few minutes late.
That said, while our railway system is getting worse, and is better than some examples, we at least have a nationwide high speed rail system. That is not common everywhere, and would be a great improvement for many.
@@paush51 I trust them
@@paush51 Your standarts might be a bit high.
'awful track record'... i see what u did there
At 4:54 "which has been dubbed the Suez canal on rails although hopefully no trains get wedged."
Loving that British humour!
this whole video is off the rails
Sounds like Amtrak
The fact that siemens plays a part in this makes me happy, they know what they are doing and they never fail to deliver.
Finally about time , some of those trains I've been on there make you feel like the carriage is a solid 50yr old
Not much difference in Leeds or Manchester
Yes, many western european countries have rolling stock in operation that is 40+ years old
50 years old isn’t that old if compared to North America. VIA Rail still operates carriages from 1947
@@Skullair313 there is a huge difference between feeling like 50 years old and being 50 years old.
Nothing wrong with being that old but if the carriages feel that old it becomes a problem.
They are 70 years old btw
coming from a Nigerian, their old railway doesn't look too bad 😂😂😂We're fixing our trains too hopefully we can follow suit
🇳🇬🤝🇪🇬
Same with Kenya
What even is train line? I am from Bhutan 🚂
@@purpleheadedmonster8735 😂😂
It's a shame how they forgot to mention your under construction railway network in the video about Chinese built African railways
@@doge.a.cat2002 maybe because construction outside of Lagos and Abuja has been very slow moving, not much progress being made probably due to no funding
I hope this changes soon
Even an unsafe rail is much safer than road. Egypt loses 12000 people per year to road accidents. Even better that it is getting a major upgrade.
The problem is that it will be made by foreign debts, and in 2017, the egyptian national debt exceeded 100% of the gdp for the first time since the independence of the country
@@Omer1996E.C I'm not educated enough about the Egyptian economic situation to comment on wether it's a good idea to build it considering additional debt or not, but isolated from the costs this is a very good thing.
@@Omer1996E.C actually it's 90 Percent
The number has fallen in recent years to 7000
@@dextrodus this debt doubled just in under 10 years,while the economy only grew by less than half in this time. And the interest rates are high
As someone who travelled a lot between Alexandria and Cairo during his childhood, I always looked at the egyptian train system with a lot of nostalgia. But it's really time to look into the future. And as half German I'm also a bit proud that Siemens will do it! Thank you for this video!
Morocco and Egypt have the most European railways of Africa already and are becoming even more so.
Egypt actually has a curious mixture of European, American and Russian trains (getting more Russian with the TMH coaches mentioned in the video).
The Siemens trains (Velaro, Desiro HC, Vectron) look like they will be very similar to what is already operating in Europe.
Egyptians are one of the most nice people on our Continent of Africa i was impressed by their hospitality and i wish your rail gets to be counted among the best. Love from Zimbabwe
We love you too our African brothers and sisters ♥️
Love you back to all our African brother ❤ 🇪🇬
❤️❤️❤️
What is going on in Egypt is amazing from a construction stand point
Evertime I go out there is literally some new projects happening like for example at the end of my street a new metro line being built and at the start of that same street a massive walkway being built with commercial areas and stuff like that it’s an amazing time to be living here
Yeah, just go to the areas actual egyptians live in, you wiuld have wished you never knew it existed
@@wls6788 why
I didn’t know of that Project. Nice work of Siemens and I’m proud of my (the German) government that they finally understand the importance of cooperation and support in Africa!
Yeah its better than the Chinese screwing everyone over with their "loans" (more like they built themselves a railway in another country)
Yeah I hope other african countries will follow. Maybe there will even be a rail link between spain & marocco in the future.
@@TheoDaJunk Germany is building a free railroad?
Hmm 🤔 What will be your response if this was a Chinese railway company?
@@onetwothreefour-s1n I wish we did.
Always wondered when will you do a video about Egypt , we're building like 14 new cities And other mega projects that should have caught your attention 😅
I was thinking the same thing
From the largest solar farm to the largest fish farms not to mention 7,000 km of new roads Egypt was ranked 110th in road quality now we are 27th in the world so there is a lot to cover
@@Drophead1991 Solar farm MV?
14cities!!! Wooo....
Egypt can make up a couple of episodes i guess
@@josemonsaji you should watch the luxor parade tomorrow
When I heard new, huge-scale, foreign-invested, infrastructure project, I can only think of China. What a surprise that Germany can win over their deal offer.
If you have ever taken German train, you would know it’s a disgrace to “German technology”. Sometimes it even messes up the Dutch train system
@@jerrygereden The trains are some of the most comfortable to ride. However, the rail infrastructure kind of sucks because our government decided 30 years ago that it would be nice to let freight and passenger trains use the same track, while nearly every other major European country built seperated train tracks.
@@jerrygereden
If you're thinking of Bombardier trains, that was mainly due to massively incompetent (Canadian) management focusing on cost-cutting. Siemens trains generally are solid as can be, especially the Vectron, Velaro and Desiro HC Egypt is planning to buy.
@@mikeblatzheim2797 what! Are you saying that bombardier monorail are bad to build ?
It was a smart move. Which country would you rather owe "favors" to? Venezuela allowed the Chinese to use their steel to build railroads and the country hasn't been the same since. Venuzuela oil has been going to China for years now.
Really happy for the Egyptians that they're getting this
It boggles the mind how Egypt managed to have so many train wrecks. Trains are designed to be so ridiculously safe that even having one accident would've required an extreme amount of negligence. Luckily someone recognized that having Siemens as the maintainer was a good idea and avoided a catastrophe.
Well to give you an idea of how negligible the people running current trains are, they left a locomotive ON and the locomotive RAN INTO THE MAIN STATION AT FULL ACCELRATION, PEOPLE WERE IN THAT STATION, i dont get it, but thats how things go in egypt for the Egyptians...
Having worked in Egypt, to be honest, nothing surprises me less.
@@lmlmd2714 I don't know people come to us to work most of the time we are the who works for other countries 😅
It’s FAR safer than their roads. I work for an oil company in Egypt and we were forbidden to travel any long distance by road. We had to get the train.
The Roads in egypt are much better now
@@aligmal5031 Riiiight.
We are also raising the efficiency of roads now, We have also spent tens of billions in this field
@@kamelnabil1108 The problem isn’t the roads….it’s the people that do the driving.
Sisi made a huge development in roads
Everyday he build a new bridge 😂❤️
Finally.. a couple of days ago .. the last (old) train was finally scraped and all trains currently in service are actually brand new or has been refurbished to a (like new) condition .. viva Egypt 🇪🇬 ❤️
I would literally watch this kind of content every day if I could. Even when the subject isn't something I'm particularly interested in you are still able to convey it in an interesting way, and often connect it to other projects that I know more about. Thanks for all your efforts!
Once again you made my day. Long live The B1M
So well projected, great videography, great editing skillsand superb narration. Love the facts and statistics that compliment this documentary.
B1m...please talk about roads in the country..Egypt advanced from position 108 to 28 globally in roads quality that`s huge leap. thank you
Hope to visit Egypt someday.
You are Welcomed any-day 😃
Just a little correction , the first phase of the train will be built by 2024
And the second one will be finished by 2026
Egyptian are fast when it comes to infrastructure 🇪🇬
And thanks to Germany for their big cooperation with Egypt in lots of infrastructure projects🇩🇪
Egypt dominated ancient history and now they’re taking steps to secure the future. I like that.
As a fan of your chanel and also an employee of Siemens Mobility i love that video.
This is fantastic for them improving their infrastructure. Nice video. Keep up the good work.
Yes I’m loving all the major infrastructure projects/upgrades coming out of Africa. Y’all Africa is rising, don’t sleep on it! If B1M sees this comment I would love y’all to do a series of videos focusing on the major projects under construction/planned from various countries in Africa, it’s quite impressive and more of the world needs to know. (Proud African here, progress from one is progress for all🇹🇿)
agree💪💪
Where can I find more.
@@truth4593 checkout the New Africa Channel
@@keno.3043 Thanks man. I am interested in development all over the world, it's so good to see rapid development happening in front of our eyes
I’m very excited for Egypt!
thank you for this video. as an egyptian i've been struggling with trains trasportation and even roads. it is getting better by the time. i hope the other sectors get the same attention
Hopefully Vietnam will follow this path. We currently are considering between a Shinkansen model based network for carrying only people and a network for freight and people, too. Btw, I have an Egyptian friend and he's one of the nicest guys I've ever met. Great job Egypt!
Glad that Egypt's transport system in finally getting a make over. Country has very and big cities but unfortunately very poorly connected, both locals and tourists have been suffering. This project will hopefully make a huge impact on the economy, quality of life and most importantly safety of the people.
We got colonial era trains still running here in Sri Lanka so I too can relate with the Egyptians. 🤣🤣🤣
You guys have the best train views ever. While I get how newer and faster trains are cool I definitely didn’t mind the train ride in Sri Lanka. Beautiful country ❤️
@@AlyMourad are you from Egypt bro?
Yea bro the trains here in Sri Lanka suck. The latest s14, s13 and even S12 models are good and also those new carriages from India are good, but the rest are complete trash. However I doubt the trains were as bad as Egypt's because while our trains and carriages are old, they are maintained decently.
@@vedhanthrathod6576 Yes. I’m from Egypt
1850 Egypt was independent.
I also heard Mexico is building an Electrified high speed rail line. Could you do videos about that ?
So far, Canada doesn't seem to have funded plans for Electrified high speed rail. The USA has Acela (which is being upgraded BTW), while CAHSR & Brightline west are being worked on.
Doesn't the USA oil lobby hates electrification of almost everything and are lobbying against it?
@@neeljavia2965 real world =/= twitter headlines
Morocco already has one high speed line for 320 kph. But the network will expand in the next decades.
Canada doesn’t really need electrified HSR. Windsor-Ottawa-Toronto-Montreal is the only corridor of Canada densely-populated enough to support HSR at all, and a lot of the communities along the line are too close for much more than 125MPH operation, which you can achieve with diesel trains.
@@dafeels3085 Nope.
What I said was true.
Check how gm killed the public transportation system in LA.
Please, more videos like this! Great content!
lol, 'awful track record' 1:56
Hahaha, YES! SOMEONE NOTICED!!
Lold at that
Awesome video as always. I was so happy to see the pictures of majestic TransNamib trains running through the beautiful deserts of my country Namibia in this video. I regularly chase them through the desert.
I've been on an overnight sleeper train on that line. Now I feel lucky I'm still alive!
Surviving the toilets is the worst part.
I coincidentally just watched a video about trains, and B1M posted this. Im so early.
I would love to be in train in desert or next to the nile. Hopefully this project doesn't get delayed like other countries rail projects (cough,cough, HS2, cough,cough)
Well, they started the study of the California high speed train back in 1996 I believe. Approved in 2008, expected to finish first segment in 2029.
One of the best channels on You Tube both in quality and content. Thanks.
I had no idea Egypt had this type of issue. So happy they're working on that high speed train, hopefully safer. 🙏🏽
Egypt has many issues, all thanks to Sisi the president, but can't speak up about him there or people disappear in jail
Our president is the reason we are dying less and getting better and safer here, we almost had to go into a civil war but then he saved us
@@RainRemnant Prayers 🙏🏽
@@RainRemnant Prayers 🙏🏽
You always find great topics for your videos. Really cool material, and your narration is some of the best on youtube.
"Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed."
-Winston Churchill
As a political scientist I keep coming back to this channel as it often manages to connect infrastructure with international relations very well.
Love from india.. 😍😍🇮🇳🇮🇳
Congratulations will be the best of Africa so proud our wonderful brothers and neighbours
I am very happy to see a developing country investing in rail as opposed to road infrastructure. It's the only way forward
This Channel gives me hope for the future
Fixing railway accident is not about building and buying new stuffs. But to keep a good maintenance, and a stable investment.
I love seeing things like this, I'd like to visit Egypt one day, and I'm half-kenyan so I'll have to give that Mombassa line there to compare back-to-back, and then see how it stacks up to whatever new trains we'll get here in the US now that Biden's infrastructure bill passed. I never knew how great trains were until I took the ICE from Berlin to Paris in 2016, and again using TrenItalia to get around Italy in 2018, and again in Spain between Barcelona and Girona, I hope, Egypt, Kenya and the US finially get near what you lucky Europeans have had for quite some time, another great video from the B1M!
I heard you and Nigeria are also upgrading your rail lines, good to see things changing and urbanizing across Africa as a whole not the north or just the south
@@Uhoh11111 Yep. I think here in Kenya almost all our rail lines are up and running
Boy do I have news for you
@@mwanikimwaniki6801 great ✌✌🥰
@@mwanikimwaniki6801 ❤❤love Kenya 🇰🇪 my father visited a few years ago would love to visit
Great video. Please make an episode on Egypt's 'iconic tower' which is the tallest building in Africa. Also please check out Egypt's new Adminstrative capital 👍
Will it be possible one day to travel from Alexandria do Cape Town in comfortable and safe train?
Africa should make as much as possible to build its modern infrastructure boosting turism industry! There is so many wealthy Europeans still afriad to visit Africa, and instead, they spend €€€ in Asia 😩
Yeah,but the sad reality, who really control the continent of Africa, who really owns the money of Africa, the government or the private foreign corporations and foreign bankers the government of Africa are dumb puppets.
*Rule Britannia intensifies*
Unlikely due to the differences in rail gauges. Egypt uses standard gauge while much of the rest of the continent uses narrow gauge.
One day
Africans should build this and that so that wealthy Europeans can come in to visit. Everything is about Europeans. How about Africans building all these infrastructures so it can benefit Africans by improving human development, trades amongst African countries and boost tourism within Africa?
Europeans can continue visiting Asia 😂 the lasting thing Africans want are people with superiority complex thinking everything should be done for their comfort.
I am quite surprised you only have a single video about south east asian projects. It is literally a war zone for China and Japan investments especially regarding high speed rail projects. Every country wanna get titled as the first to have hsr in this region. You can cover two Thailand hsr, Laos semi hsr, Indonesian hsr, or recently canceled Singapore - Malaysia hsr. It will be fun!
Laos has semi HSR because of geography of its many bridges and tunnels.
@@willengel2458 I dont think that is really the reason. While Indonesian project has the same mountainous terrain, it can achieve more than 300 km/hour. That is more with economic reason. Semi HSR is good enough for the people of Laos at the current time. I heard it can be upgraded in future? Is it true?. When they have the need they can go with HSR soon. No matter what project is atleast it is southeast asian so I cant wait B1M to cover it!
@@anotherdays9635 you actually have to take a closer look. that's why it took a long time to complete the railroad.
@@willengel2458 Yes I have seen both. They have similar terrains. Bandung is located in higher altitude while Jakarta is in lower altitude. From 142,3 km, 80 km are elevated and 13 km tunnel and subgrade. While China has bigger network and more terrains, they can built most of the network with high speed specification. I am pretty sure the reason is really from economic view. This project already cost Laos 5.9 billion dollars or 21% of its GDP. If they go with higher speed it means the rail need more radius to turn thus bigger area must be cleared and longer bridges are needed. It just make the cost even higher.
Mean while in America……….
I'm sure that sand/sandstorms will be a constant issue that Siemens will have to overcome, but they have the experience to do it.
Some places in the middle east are paying nearby inhabitants to plant and maintain desert shrubs around the train tracks. This not only helps the poor desert people financially, but reduces the impact if a sandstorm comes.
Egyptian company will do all construction Siemens will serve trains and set up communication and electrical connections on rail line
Infrastructure Week :) Great going Egypt
I've been hoping you'd cover this project ever since hearing about it for the first time. I knew, you wouldn't disappoint^^
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Hello 👋
Finally a video without a terrible advert at the end, and its good too.
Egypt is the superpower of Africa.
Wouldn't that be Nigeria?
@@neeljavia2965 Well Nigeria is an economic super power in Africa, but it doesn’t spend that much on it military unlike Egypt. Nigeria spends less than 1 percent of it gdp on the military compared to Egypt 1.22 percent. If Nigeria spends more or feel the need to boost it military spending then Nigeria will be both military and economic super power of Africa.
@@jaybee4577 Fair enough.
Too bad that superpower sucks for the people that actually live there
I love how proud he is to talk about "us" as Siemens and "us" as Egyptians!
Vietnam needs to upgrade our railway, too.
Hello from Egypt 🇪🇬
When I went to Egypt in 2019, the first class train had a toilet that leaked into the seating area
Now that's the Egypt I know 😂
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They should really have gon for the tgv double decker for mass transit. Oh well its the same rails anyways across Europe so they can buy all sorts of high speed European trains.
*MUCH APPRECIATED VIDEO*
I've been to Morocco and used it HSR. It's on par with Europe and way cheaper.
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I’d like to point out that the safety of old rolling stock is much more a matter of maintenance then it is of age. VIA rail in Canada routinely uses Locomotives built in the 80’s pulling passenger cars built in the 40’s.
Great video you put together with loads going on. Thanks for sharing.
Happy to hear Siemens got the job, they build good equipment and infrastructure, also less likely to be a debt trap.
No, everything should be look at with through lenses. Egypt should be wary of German and Chinese debt trap diplomacy.
@@jaybee4577 Germany doesn’t have a debt trap policy.
Glad to see that there are major improvements for the african railway system.
"What the egyptian people will get is the highest standard, comparable to what europe is receiving right now".
I feel for you, people of egypt. How many times I had to wait on my regular train thrue germany because of damage on a train exactly like the one you received...
Are we being swindled by seimens 😅 !?
To be fair, DB lets the railway infrastructure rott in hopes that the german government will invest instead. The trains themselves are pretty reliable. Well, all but the air conditioning. But who in the fair weather of egypt needs an ac anyways? lol
@@B4DR003 No the trains are ok. Siemens provides trains all over the world with a rather good reliability.
The problem isn't with the trains, it's with a lack of standbys.
Don't worry, we Egyptians already know about the infamous and never-ending delays in your trains from Egyptian expats in Germany.
Egypt is simply heaven.
For the size and her population, Egypt certainly needs a good railway system not only within the country bit also its future connection to Western Africa by a direct line to , say Lagos. This link can shorten the shipping distance by about half. Africa would certainly gain from such connectivity by rail through a pan-African railway system. And this is could be the only option for the continent to improve trades among African nations. Of course, a rail link across to Western Africa will enhance the position of the Egyptian port of Alexandria if indeed this port can be expanded!
The port is already being expanded now and will be completed before the completion of the electric train, and also this train will connect the ports of the Red Sea with the ports of the Mediterranean in Alexandria. This train serves as the Suez Canal New Berry on the land of Egypt
The problem is many countries in Africa use different track gauges most of Africa uses 3.5 foot Cape Gauge and some countries like Kenya and Mali use Meter gauge
Man, far too often I just get Lost in your Playlist when I have to study.
They're gonna build a metro in Alexandria
i hope its completely underground otherwise it will cause even more congestion.
very nice! who won the bid for it?
Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, South Africa and Ethiopia are making good strides in African rail.
Could you make video about indonesia infrastructure project in the past 7 year?
Great content as usual 🔥
I really hope they succeed and that the rest of the African continent receives a upgrade of their railways and countries infrastructures
Rail infrastructure is the best way to support growing cities and economies. I wish we had more trains where I live. Currently there's about 70 miles of track between me and Nashville and all it's used for is a weekly freight service. There's no reason they couldn't expand commuter rail service and lessen the burden on our highways.
Hopefully it gets better and bigger and faster, everyone should have a cheap and easy and safe way of transport everywhere
Blame the class one railroads that own the track they refuse to upgrade it and are hostile to passenger trains it's why only the lines not owned by freight companies have high quality service
New bucket list item when phase 2 is completed: take a train from Cairo to Luxor (I think that's where the pyramids and sphinx are). Anyway, glad to see Egypt is doing this. Would love to see better trains in USA but the economics just don't make that likely.
One of the top viewers.
And here, in Romania, we buy all the big machineries second handed from Germany and France...
I know you read every comment. It would be good if you made a video about the workers of these amazing constructions, not enough recognition is given out to the workers. About their struggles, sacrifice, and loss to being us these amazing constructions!
You know you have a bad railway, when it makes Amtrak look good.
u rly thought Amtrak was bad? it’s not #1 but it’s rly not that bad
@@JL1009 the services, speed, efficiency, and safety of amtrak is very bad
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Egyptian here, i just wish the best for my country and i hope this infrastructure wont be a white elephant
They build a monorail? That is cool!
I was gonna say I'm surprised China is not involved but nevermind haha
It's all the same, foreign debts of Egypt in 2017 exceeded 100% of the gdp for the first time since the independence of the country
@@Omer1996E.C infrastructure debts are a good thing.
You cant only look at money made back from tickets, you need to to look at the total economic and environmental benefits.
For example, generating new jobs will generate tax revenue, better environment and less congestion will promote more people to move there which generates even more tax revenue.
@@Omer1996E.C 100% man don't say lies
@@Omer1996E.C Spend the money on infrastructure and that is a good thing.
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very good journalism sir . much love and support from pakistan. keep up the good work.
How do they stop the desert from swallowing up the tracks? As someone hailing from a country with "modern" rail services which are regularly halted by leaves on the track, the encroachment of dunes on some of those shots looked ominous haha
They won't run the trains in the middle of the desert. And clearing tracks could be a nice way to employ some people.
Fences will be made on both sides, and the majority of the road is located in rocky lands. The Egyptian companies are the ones who work the tracks and build stations, and Siemens has the technology and the supply of trains
The ESR was always the most British of Railways in Africa.
Historically Egypt had the best railway system in Africa.
As noted earlier Robert Stephenson built the earliest lines in the country.
Which like all of Robert Stephenson's lines were built to the highest of standards.
Echoes of the Stephenson era can be seen in the Cairo Railway Museum . Which in its collection has two locomotives built by Robert Stephenson & Co in the early 1860's
One of them being the extraordinary ' No 30' a 2-2-4 steam railcar built for the personal use of the Khedive himself. A photo survives of this incredible locomotive undergoing trials outside Newcastle Central Station!
In 1883 Frederick H Trevithick (The grandson of the "Cornish Giant" Richard Trevithick The man who invented the steam locomotive in 1803) was appointed CME of the ESA (As it was then).
By the 1880's the Egyptian railways were in a run down condition (Shades of today's situation) and had a very disorganised fleet of locomotives.
Mr Trevithick acted quickly acted quickly to sort out the locomotive situation. By introducing a standardised fleet with the various classes of locomotive having as many components as practical in common.
He also instigated many other changes and improvements.
A good example being the Imbaba bridge over the Nile.
Which was designed and built by none other than M. Gustav Effiel.
By the 1930's and 1940's the ESR was an early exponent of diesel electric railcars (Although and somewhat strangely in the early 1950's the ESR ordered a small fleet of articulated three car steam railcars from Sentinel in Shrewsbury England They were the very last std gauge steam railcars every built (Sentinel would build two more two car sets for the 3'6" gauge Nigerian Railways a few years later They were the very last steam railcars every built).
It is very good that the Egyptian Government is getting to grips with the situation and that the country will soon have (Along with Morroco)
One of the most modern systems in the World.
Also the Government is spending a great deal of time and money on getting urban public transport sorted out following decades of deterioration and decline.
I was in Southampton Docks in the summer and saw several of the new and very futuristic monorail trains that had been built at Litchurch Lane in Derby. Awaiting shipment to Egypt.
Certainly Egypt will be somewhere I shall visit once these improvements and enhancements have been carried out.
I applaud your effort
Should have bought that Siemens stock already lol
yeah, just after ww2 would have been the best time.
best channel for mega changes on global stage . may allah bless you. stay blessed sir .
Second video in a row that for some reason recognizes Morocco's claim to Western Sahara. I'd be surprised if this was some sort of political statement, its just kind of weird to see.
Looks like it's just the boundary taken from OpenStreetMap
No, what is weird to see is comments like this in 2020s. It is a Moroccan territory it is the reality on ground.
An Egyptian once told me that they(govt) often undertake huge projects like this , so much so that sometimes they feel ridiculous.