Heres something you may find interesting. :) The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird ''turkey'', well let me explain. :) Name of my country has always been Turkiye, that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means ''land of/belonging to''... ...just like the Latin suffix -ia in such countries as Latv-ia, Roman-ia, Eston-ia, Austr-ia, Austral-ia etc etc. Another example; decades ago Czechoslovakia Republic changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia). Anyways, most likely the Latin -ia suffix was derived from the Turkish version -iye, as Turkish is much much older. Because in old times people of different languages could only pronounce it as their languages allowed them, we got various differences in spelling like Turchia (in Italian), Turquie (in French) and Turkey (in English) all trying to resemble the pronounciation of ''Turk-ia'' thus Turkiye. Mind you this was way BEFORE the animal we currently know as 'turkey'' was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas.... ...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird ''Turkey Fowl'' meaning ''Turkish Chicken''..... ....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), Rhodesian Ridgeback (because it's from Rhodesia), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc. In time you don't get to call the Greek Harehound as simply as ''Greek''; or you don't call the British Terrier as ''British''; or the German Shepherd as ''German'', but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just ''turkey'', and has been going on for hundreds of years. Now in 2023, this is causing confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their OWN country on the atlas, this ''confusion over the naming'' needed to be corrected. So my country decided to rectify this confusion that has been going on for so long and corrected the name in other languages to Türkiye, which it always was, we basically didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : ) So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : ) Best wishes. ;)
@@KenanTurkiye Deuschland is Germany in English. Latveja is Latvia in English and other languages. In English Türkiye is pronounced Tar-kay so it’s even worse than Turkey. If I was speaking Persian or Arabic then Turkiye makes sense, but not other languages. Turkey is better in English. When I speak Spanish I say Turquia. Context matters.
@@mustafaak9311 Türkiye/Turkiya is a perso-Arabic word and not Turkish. “-iya” meaning “from” in those languages. Just like the word a Turk is Chinese. So yes, they can actually pronounce it because it is their own language.
@@thespy9888see every country in the world is seeing inflation, its not something exclusive to turkey , certainly turkey has a higher rate , but now the inflation is really slow , as a person that lives in İstanbul
I'm really impressed by the Turkish infrastructure - they are way ahead of Balkan (except for the short 200 km/h section in Serbia). This train also looks smart from the inside. The outside appearance is a bit weird to be honest - like as if the train was scared. 🤣🤣 But I have no complaints against Turkish manufacturers. In Prague, we have some new Iveco Streetway buses made in Turkiye and they ride very smoothly.
Turkiye's homemade train is super impressive, even though it's not high speed. Based on your comments, I would like to see TURASAS build trains for Istanbul Metro, Marmaray, and the YHT. Though I hate to admit, this has the most powerful hand dryer in any train in the world. So much power... 😮
TÜRASAŞ’s applicances are something else.. their air conditioners and hand dryers are a modern wonder.. On another note, the opposition-ruled Istanbul Municipality has started building a train they call “Tram34”, and it will probably be used on a few tram and light metro lines in Istanbul in the upcoming years if it succeeds
As a Turkish I wanna thank you for your objective and informational vlog. Great job. There are multiple destinations inside Anatolia you should take for . Have a nice journey.
Mind you those trains do look amazing and beautiful. Very nice trains. Plus the scenery is also incredible to watch whilst travelling on the train at high speed.
The ride was super smooth, modern exterior and interior, comfortable seats and really like the location of reading light for the following reasons 1. it does not disturb other people 2. it is easy to access 3. being closer means good illumination for reading
I was on several trains in Norway, Sweden, Hungary and Croatia during summer of 2022. Turkish trains are much better and more comfortable. There were delays in those countries , too. Watch.. Turkey will become China of Eastern Europe first..Then, they will dominate the entire Europe with their manufacturing capabilities.
No name-No photo social media users are most of the time the same, they like to express their bull-shit feelings and thoughts that they could never find a chance in real life to do, but here in social media. Like those bull-shit swearing machines in the city traffic while driving at other drivers and other bull-shit generators there in the stadium in football matches. Those nameless and faceless bull-shit generators are unfortunately live alongside with us in our daily life, but they hide themselves all the time ... Just Bull-Shit ...@@Pannoid
@@Pannoid A dominance will not happen, at least not in the short-mid term for sure, this is a bit of an exaggeration, but here is the truth. Now we are even capable of producing the engines of our own warplanes, my friend. This progress is faster than any other country in Europe. There's some shit going on here...
Exactly 100 years ago, when Turkey was newly founded, the founder had a vision of transport that would connect the east to west, north to south as both routes are essentially difficult due to the mountainous ranges. That's the reason why TCDD (state railways) was founded and why we have a marching song called "10th. Year March" (to commemorate 10th year of the republic) where the lyrics explicitly say "we've woven the motherland with iron webs from four directions" implying the importance of the railways to the republic. Sadly, it took more than half a century for Turkish the governments to understand the importance of the railways again and invest in it. Atatürk had the right idea, sadly he passed away exactly 85 years and 3 days ago, couldn't complete what he dreamed of.
@@aselimsoyakThat's like saying Italy was founded at the same time the Roman Empire was founded it's just dumb and incorrect. Seljuk Empire and the Republic of Turkey are two different things while they're both from the Oghuz tribe they're not the same thing. Saçmalama amına koyayım.
Turkey is possibly the perfect size for high speed trains to cover the whole country and they have a lot of short 1-2hr internal flights that could be replaced.
I like these locally produced train sets, successful work. I hope these train sets will spread all over Turkey. As someone who lives in Arifiye and travels to Istanbul by YHT, what bothers me is that the trains deviate too much from the set hours and fail to stick to the time schedule. Maybe the reason for this problem may be the large number of renovations and new line constructions. Thank you very much for your valuable review, if you come to Arifiye/Sapanca/Adapazarı again, I would like to meet you :)
Heres something you may find interesting. :) The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird ''turkey'', well let me explain. :) Name of my country has always been Turkiye, that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means ''land of/belonging to''... ...just like the Latin suffix -ia in such countries as Latv-ia, Roman-ia, Eston-ia, Austr-ia, Austral-ia etc etc. Another example; decades ago Czechoslovakia Republic changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia). Anyways, most likely the Latin -ia suffix was derived from the Turkish version -iye, as Turkish is much much older. Because in old times people of different languages could only pronounce it as their languages allowed them, we got various differences in spelling like Turchia (in Italian), Turquie (in French) and Turkey (in English) all trying to resemble the pronounciation of ''Turk-ia'' thus Turkiye. Mind you this was way BEFORE the animal we currently know as 'turkey'' was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas.... ...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird ''Turkey Fowl'' meaning ''Turkish Chicken''..... ....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), Rhodesian Ridgeback (because it's from Rhodesia), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc. In time you don't get to call the Greek Harehound as simply as ''Greek''; or you don't call the British Terrier as ''British''; or the German Shepherd as ''German'', but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just ''turkey'', and has been going on for hundreds of years. Now in 2023, this is causing confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their OWN country on the atlas, this ''confusion over the naming'' needed to be corrected. So my country decided to rectify this confusion that has been going on for so long and corrected the name in other languages to Türkiye, which it always was, we basically didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : ) So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : ) Best wishes. ;)
@@KenanTurkiye nasil sacmalamisin belli degil, ulke olan misirdan bahsederken, yiyecek misir mi anliyorsun sen, context diye birsey var. Almanlar da cikip bizim ulkemiz Germany degil Deutschland diyor mu, ulke isimleri dillere gore farklilik gosterir, o zaman bizim de England'i ingiltere diye soylememiz yanlis.
@@aykutavci89 Şu an Türkiye diye bildiğimiz topraklar 1200'lü yıllardan beri ingilizcede ''Turkey'' yani fonetik olarak Turk-ia yani Türk-iye olarak kayıtlarda bilinir. Hindi hayvanı ise avrupalılar tarafında ilk 1519 yılında tanınmıştır, ve ülkemizin adından (çünkü o dönem bizdende satın aldıkları bazı tavuk çeşidinden) ''Turkey fowl'', yani Türkiye tavuğu adı konulmuştur. Zamanla 'tavuk' ibaresi düşürülüp, sadece ''turkey'' kullanılmıştır. Şu an yabancıların bazıları, ülke Turkey'nin, hayvan turkey'den geldiğini düşünebiliyor, halbuki tersi geçerli. Bu kısımları anlamamış olabilirsin.
@@aykutavci89 ...bu arada fonetik ses bnzerliği demektir, yukarıda ki yazdıklarım daha anlamlı olsun sana diye yazyorm, çünkü daha anlamlı olup daha itiraz ettikçe senin saçmalamanın senin öününde duvar gibi çarptığın bir gerçeklik olsun anlamadan bir daha lütfen saçmalama, anlayıp ise de benim kendime ne ad vereceğimi karışma, isimler özeldir sahibi karar verir, başkası değil, başkasına ülkemizin adının ne olacağını niye onlara teslim ediyorsun, ülkenin adına sahip çıksana ülke isimleri özel isimdir, senin adın aykut olmasını söylemene rağmen ben sana ayşe diyebilirmiyim? diyemiyeceğim gibi ülke adım da benim kararımdır, bu hakkı başkasına tanıma, özgürliğin kalmaz bu kadar saçmalama yeter mi? anlayan için yeter.
I study in Istanbul while my parents live at Adapazarı, and I am very grateful of our railway transit. It is way faster, more comfortable and cheaper compared to traveling by car. Although, the old trains are still at service and are much less comfortable than the new trains, the railroad is still my go to. I have also used the YHT (high speed rail) many times when I travelled to other cities, and I can only wish it was extended into more places. The main problem is that we don't have any big scale rail network beyond the century old istanbul-ankara line that all the major trains travel. It was a huge initiative of Atatürk to nationalize and expand the railways across Türkiye, but much of it is left to rot as cars and highways took priority.
Turkey has manufactured it's own passenger airplane in 1938. An ambulance airplane exported to Denmark in 1952 (THK 5A) is currently exhibited in Health Museum of Copenhagen. By the way, Diesel-Electric locomotives are being built in Turkey under various licenses (DE Series) since 1970. All kind of carriages were built in Turkey (Adapazarı & Eskisehir) since 1951.
Cok ovunulecek birsey degil. Motor dahil bir suru parca Almanya'dan gelmis: Birde ucak 6 kisilikmis. 2. Dunya savasi nedeniyle parcalar gelmeyince proje durmus: Uçağa, Almanya’dan alınan iki adet Brahamo Sh. 14-A4 motoru takılmıştı. Her biri 160 beygir gücündeki motorlar, 2200 devirde uçağı saatte 325 kilometre hıza kadar çıkartabiliyordu. Pervane iki palliydi.
so glad that you made an other video about Turkish trains. As a Turkish native, I enjoyed it a lot! Hope to see you on the izmir mavi tren or the izmir blue train connecting Ankara to İzmir😉😄
Thank you so much for the video, being a foreigner living in Istanbul is actually really hard to reach info avaliable on English related to the trains, specially routes to such scenic places like Sapanca, amazing to have you in Türkiye travelling on the growing network!
In railroads area, Turkey has many issues and shortcomings and more things has to do (especially compared with other countries). However when we see your and other people’s appreciation, our hopes on Turkish State Railways gradually increases. Thanks for the review, it’s great as always. Note: These first series of “New Sakarya” units actually classified as “regional/mainline trains” having 160 km/h top speed. It is said that second series will have 225 km/h top speed, therefore they able to run on some YHT (high speed) or HT (higher speed) services.
Our American allies fooled us into thinkig that railroad systems were ''communist things'' and steeered us into mass consumerism of petrol and diesel and hence bus use.
Heres something you may find interesting. :) The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird ''turkey'', well let me explain. :) Name of my country has always been Turkiye, that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means ''land of/belonging to''... ...just like the Latin suffix -ia in such countries as Latv-ia, Roman-ia, Eston-ia, Austr-ia, Austral-ia etc etc. Another example; decades ago Czechoslovakia Republic changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia). Anyways, most likely the Latin -ia suffix was derived from the Turkish version -iye, as Turkish is much much older. Because in old times people of different languages could only pronounce it as their languages allowed them, we got various differences in spelling like Turchia (in Italian), Turquie (in French) and Turkey (in English) all trying to resemble the pronounciation of ''Turk-ia'' thus Turkiye. Mind you this was way BEFORE the animal we currently know as 'turkey'' was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas.... ...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird ''Turkey Fowl'' meaning ''Turkish Chicken''..... ....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), Rhodesian Ridgeback (because it's from Rhodesia), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc. In time you don't get to call the Greek Harehound as simply as ''Greek''; or you don't call the British Terrier as ''British''; or the German Shepherd as ''German'', but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just ''turkey'', and has been going on for hundreds of years. Now in 2023, this is causing confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their OWN country on the atlas, this ''confusion over the naming'' needed to be corrected. So my country decided to rectify this confusion that has been going on for so long and corrected the name in other languages to Türkiye, which it always was, we basically didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : ) So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : ) Best wishes. ;)
I hope my country Indonesia also invests heavily in the railroad industry and the trains themselves... Salute to the Turkish government, greetings from Indonesia
Turkey has built a nice train sets. Infrastructure is also very impressive. As an indian i also confirm that, india is also on the course of manufacturing such train. Our infrastructure is also gettting better day by day. Anyway happy to see the progress in turkey as well as in india.
Like how Ada express is similar to Train18 in India, which is a similar homebuilt train here. In some ways even better than the train18 or Vande Bharat as it is called. Cheers and respect from India.
This was a really great video! For your information, the maximum speed of the E44000 series (the one you ride with) is 176 km/h and the maximum operation speed is 160 km/h allocated by TCDD. The high-speed version of this train is currently being planning and will have a maximum/operation (I really don't remember which one) speed of 225 km/h and it will have some minor modifications on the exterior and interior. Probably because this train is a regional train, the quality of the materials in this train is a bit cheaper, but I think these materials will be of better quality in the high speed version.
12:45 Actually Turkish people don't care who seats next to them. But especially in long trips, news are showed some spesific incident. So right now, TCDD applied that rule.
It used to run between Haydarpasa and Sakarya. I frequently used this line (Pendik to İzmit) when I was a middle-school student in Golcuk, Kocaeli, between 1993 and 1997.
I used to take Ada Ekspresi between Izmit and Söğütlüçeşme in the late '90s to go to my university campus in Göztepe. The engines used back then were primitive, more than a few times were were stuck for hours in the middle of nowhere with no explanation. The cars had comfortable seats and great heat in winter, but no A.C. It is great seeing newly built sets operate on this line. But Haydarpaşa is cutoff, many stops in the old line are not part of the new line. This is not the Adapazarı Ekspresi I know and remember from late '90s and early 21st century.
Thank you to you and your team, my dear friend, you made me happy. Thank you also for this detailed Introduction. Believe it or not, I haven't taken a train in my country yet.
About the seat gender availability, we don't separate men and women in general but some women are less comfortable sharing a seat with a stranger male hence the policy popularized by itself in time, I believe Japan has similar policies as well but believe me, as a man I find it extremely annoying too since women doesn't necessarily pick seats next to other women while empty rows are available. Couples, friends/familes and willing strangers like in your case are completely fine sitting together issue is more about positive discrimination rather than a cultural norm. Thanks for the video, I loved the production quality and commentary. Cheers!
I actually don't think Japan has that policy, at least in the Shinkansen. They do have women only cars on transit but I don't recall JR ever caring about my gender (I could be wrong tho). The policy makes sense in that context though. It's like how I'd be annoyed if I lived in Japan and was on the subway and the women's only car was empty. But I'd get why it's there.
I hope you enjoyed Sakarya and Adapazari. My parents will take this train tomorrow to go to my family who lives in Arifiye, on the outskirts of Adapazari. So this video coming out is a nice coincidence for me 😂
god documentation from passenger view. As an engineer I would also expect some more technical details about the heart of the train: the engine and its efficiency, reliability.
Thank you for sharing your experience with the very first turkish high speed train. I think this is the first review I have been waiting since the train was freleased for testing in about 4 years ago. Currently it is used for suburb transportation around istanbul, Currently this train set is running below 200 km/h; however, Turkey is designing a new high speed train set that runs above 225 km/h.
Actually these are some of the old standard trains. There has been a new model for almost 1 year and it is definitely a first-class interior with full comfort. Not all trains are new models, I think only 15-25 percent are currently.
A slight explanation on the vending machine; They are a standard feature and were originally intended for hygiene and other necessity products (TCDD branded one shot toiletry & toothbrush & general hygiene kits) along with a few racks for the ever present water & drink bottles but sales were never really there and after Covid (when these products were removed and the machine was filled with masks and gloves) these kits never came back.
I've used it so often, almost every Friday and Sunday. I've never seen this train arrive on time. It's always LATE, sometimes by 20 minutes, sometimes by 30, but it has never reached its destination as scheduled.
I also took a trip from Gebze to Adapazari and return at the end of August 2023. I expected the train to be an E68 locomotive + carriages, but was surprised to find the new EMU providing the service. In my case it was E44001, whereas you had E44002, so I assume there are now at least two of these sets in service. I wonder whether E44001 is still in this region, or whether it has been sent on test elsewhere in Turkey. My overall impression was that this is a good quality domestically-produced train, which would be ideal for some medium or long-distance services away from the YHT routes.
Great trip. And yeah, for a local built train, it is great, and i hope this train can be exported in the future. Ah yes, that dryer is powerful as Boeing 777 engine 😂😂😂😂.
Very informative video for travelers and tourists who want to explore Turkiye by train. I like the vlog and thank you for taking an efforts to present Turkish train.
12:41 the thought behind it is, if a lady doesnt mind sitting next to a man its all good, hence any female can sit next to a man if the man got the seat first. But a man cant sit next to a lady because she may not want it if she got the seat first. So, females are prioritized here, however what they can do is that they can ask "are you okay with a male sitting next to you?" as they purchase the ticket online and if they say yes, you should be able to choose the seat.
12:40 regarding gender separation during the reservation process.. it is full of contradictions in Türkiye: for booking plane tickets, no such separation exists. Nor does it on local transport (buses + metro). It is only a thing for trains and intercity coaches, and actually there is no such law on gender separation.
@@SuperalbsTravels logic is simple. If there will be a long journey where female and male sit together. They dont want that in order to prevent any kind of unpleasent incident... you know what I mean. But yes you are right the planes are exception to this but same with long journey busses.
@@SuperalbsTravels I too complain about this situation. Fyi women get to choose whether they allow a man to sit next to them or not, while men do not. It's not a law or anything but when it comes to interprovince travelling this is the norm, both in private and public transportation. The part I'm complaining about is not that women get to choose but men dont, the part I'm complaining about women tend to buy a ticket for one of two empty seats rather than buying a seat next to another woman. Gladly, some dont. Sometimes a man cant buy a ticket despite having almost half the vehicle empty, because of how this works. Imo women should be able to choose whether its okay for a man to sit with them or not, but if they choose to not sit with a man they should also accept that they may be moved to a different seat. A priviledge for a consequence.
The gap between train step and platform leaves a lot to be desired on a number of the journeys you've been taking. (I'm watching these in reverse order, because they will not play chronologically on this browser.)
As for the comment at 6:46, I felt the urge to tell you about the Ankara-İzmir (the capital city and the third most crowded city of Türkiye) high speed train line, which was planned in 2013 and the government (still in power) broke the ground/began construction, promising to open in 2016. However, a tender was initiated only in 2020, the result of which was announced in December 2022. At first it was planned to cost $2.4 Billion (₺4.3 Billion), now it is planned to cost $2.55 Billion (₺47.1 Billion). Besides the loss of time, energy, financial resources after ten years there is still no high speed train line between the capital city and İzmir.
Izmir sucks, and the government is right to re-allocate those funds to other transportation projects across the rest of the country especially Eastern Turkey rather than Izmir and its demographics of the cockiest people in Western Turkey.
It is a very rough terrain to pass a railtrack through but you are right. There are no excuses. We should have built it already. I think there is a credit loan the Turkish government got from the UK for that project as well but I can't remember the full details.
This was better than expected. Impressive quality and the ride looked so smooth. Congrats Turkey.
Heres something you may find interesting. :)
The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird ''turkey'', well let me explain. :)
Name of my country has always been Turkiye, that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means ''land of/belonging to''...
...just like the Latin suffix -ia in such countries as Latv-ia, Roman-ia, Eston-ia, Austr-ia, Austral-ia etc etc. Another example; decades ago Czechoslovakia Republic changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia).
Anyways, most likely the Latin -ia suffix was derived from the Turkish version -iye,
as Turkish is much much older.
Because in old times people of different languages could only pronounce it as their languages allowed them, we got various differences in spelling like Turchia (in Italian), Turquie (in French) and Turkey (in English) all trying to resemble the pronounciation of ''Turk-ia'' thus Turkiye.
Mind you this was way BEFORE the animal we currently know as 'turkey'' was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas....
...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird ''Turkey Fowl'' meaning ''Turkish Chicken''.....
....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), Rhodesian Ridgeback (because it's from Rhodesia), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc.
In time you don't get to call the Greek Harehound as simply as ''Greek''; or you don't call the British Terrier as ''British''; or the German Shepherd as ''German'', but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just ''turkey'', and has been going on for hundreds of years.
Now in 2023, this is causing confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their OWN country on the atlas, this ''confusion over the naming'' needed to be corrected.
So my country decided to rectify this confusion that has been going on for so long and corrected the name in other languages to Türkiye, which it always was, we basically didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : )
So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : )
Best wishes. ;)
@@KenanTurkiye Deuschland is Germany in English. Latveja is Latvia in English and other languages. In English Türkiye is pronounced Tar-kay so it’s even worse than Turkey. If I was speaking Persian or Arabic then Turkiye makes sense, but not other languages. Turkey is better in English. When I speak Spanish I say Turquia. Context matters.
Arabs and persians can not pronounce the Türkiye@@Moemuntz
@@mustafaak9311 Türkiye/Turkiya is a perso-Arabic word and not Turkish. “-iya” meaning “from” in those languages. Just like the word a Turk is Chinese.
So yes, they can actually pronounce it because it is their own language.
It is not arabic or perso word. Im philologist and Turkish. U can not know my language better than me :)@@Moemuntz
Turkey has excellent Engineering expertise. Their industries are world class
%100 inflation rate 🤩🤩🤩
@@thespy9888 %3131 actualy
@@thespy9888 %126*
@@thespy9888see every country in the world is seeing inflation, its not something exclusive to turkey , certainly turkey has a higher rate , but now the inflation is really slow , as a person that lives in İstanbul
THY
I'm really impressed by the Turkish infrastructure - they are way ahead of Balkan (except for the short 200 km/h section in Serbia). This train also looks smart from the inside. The outside appearance is a bit weird to be honest - like as if the train was scared. 🤣🤣
But I have no complaints against Turkish manufacturers. In Prague, we have some new Iveco Streetway buses made in Turkiye and they ride very smoothly.
lol When I first saw the train I saw a cartoon character smiling at me. :)
But you get used to it. Looks alright.
Romania infrastracture for internet far better ım turkish Turkish internet infrastracture is shit
www.turasas.gov.tr/national-electric-train-set exterior has changed actually
Haha I can’t unsee that now😂
train and rail system are developed by Siemens.
Turkiye's homemade train is super impressive, even though it's not high speed. Based on your comments, I would like to see TURASAS build trains for Istanbul Metro, Marmaray, and the YHT.
Though I hate to admit, this has the most powerful hand dryer in any train in the world. So much power... 😮
TÜRASAŞ’s applicances are something else.. their air conditioners and hand dryers are a modern wonder..
On another note, the opposition-ruled Istanbul Municipality has started building a train they call “Tram34”, and it will probably be used on a few tram and light metro lines in Istanbul in the upcoming years if it succeeds
I ❤ 🚂🚃🚄🚅🚈🚞🚝
I have a folder on ''transportation''
thank you chou chou chouuuu :))
malmısın aq chou chouu ne aptal@@KenanTurkiye
@@caniplayzz Tram34 still exists as a 3d model in metro istanbul servers so we wont be seeing that for a long time
@@aruseijin 1) based pfp
2) i’m confused on what you mean?
cleaner than many countries
As a Turkish I wanna thank you for your objective and informational vlog. Great job. There are multiple destinations inside Anatolia you should take for . Have a nice journey.
At first moment the turkish train seems to be more beautiful than our german ICE. Especially the blue colour hits my eye. Congratulation Turkey !
That looks better than most 1st class trains I've seen.
Nice train! Well done Turkey!
How you doing fellow train fan. ;)
@ScreechWantsNOTHING :)
Hi I'm from turkey.
Thank you for your review, I'm glad you were satisfied.
Mind you those trains do look amazing and beautiful. Very nice trains. Plus the scenery is also incredible to watch whilst travelling on the train at high speed.
You're a train guy like me Andrew!
Have a great day! :)
The ride was super smooth, modern exterior and interior, comfortable seats and really like the location of reading light for the following reasons
1. it does not disturb other people
2. it is easy to access
3. being closer means good illumination for reading
Amazing looking train! Reminds me a lot of the Arriva trains here in the Netherlands which ride on regional lines
I was on several trains in Norway, Sweden, Hungary and Croatia during summer of 2022. Turkish trains are much better and more comfortable. There were delays in those countries , too. Watch.. Turkey will become China of Eastern Europe first..Then, they will dominate the entire Europe with their manufacturing capabilities.
LMAO. HILARIOUS SHIT I'VE EVER HEARD.
@@Pannoid yea, hilarious but real.
No name-No photo social media users are most of the time the same, they like to express their bull-shit feelings and thoughts that they could never find a chance in real life to do, but here in social media. Like those bull-shit swearing machines in the city traffic while driving at other drivers and other bull-shit generators there in the stadium in football matches. Those nameless and faceless bull-shit generators are unfortunately live alongside with us in our daily life, but they hide themselves all the time ... Just Bull-Shit ...@@Pannoid
@@Pannoid A dominance will not happen, at least not in the short-mid term for sure, this is a bit of an exaggeration, but here is the truth. Now we are even capable of producing the engines of our own warplanes, my friend. This progress is faster than any other country in Europe. There's some shit going on here...
As a Turkish, no we can not be the China of Eastern Europe.
Turkiye is so smart and strong country...
Turkiye definitely can build a lot of good stuff
For sure! 😍
Exactly 100 years ago, when Turkey was newly founded, the founder had a vision of transport that would connect the east to west, north to south as both routes are essentially difficult due to the mountainous ranges. That's the reason why TCDD (state railways) was founded and why we have a marching song called "10th. Year March" (to commemorate 10th year of the republic) where the lyrics explicitly say "we've woven the motherland with iron webs from four directions" implying the importance of the railways to the republic. Sadly, it took more than half a century for Turkish the governments to understand the importance of the railways again and invest in it. Atatürk had the right idea, sadly he passed away exactly 85 years and 3 days ago, couldn't complete what he dreamed of.
@@aselimsoyakThat's like saying Italy was founded at the same time the Roman Empire was founded it's just dumb and incorrect. Seljuk Empire and the Republic of Turkey are two different things while they're both from the Oghuz tribe they're not the same thing. Saçmalama amına koyayım.
@@aselimsoyak Wait what? That was the Seljuk expansion on Anatolia, by Turkey he means the new republic, it is obvious.
@@mustafacemaksu4706 okay. Sorry I misunderstood wrong 😑
@@aselimsoyak misunderstood*
@@aselimsoyak no need to add wrong if you use misunderstood. It literally means understanding wrongly.
Turkey is possibly the perfect size for high speed trains to cover the whole country and they have a lot of short 1-2hr internal flights that could be replaced.
I like these locally produced train sets, successful work. I hope these train sets will spread all over Turkey. As someone who lives in Arifiye and travels to Istanbul by YHT, what bothers me is that the trains deviate too much from the set hours and fail to stick to the time schedule. Maybe the reason for this problem may be the large number of renovations and new line constructions. Thank you very much for your valuable review, if you come to Arifiye/Sapanca/Adapazarı again, I would like to meet you :)
Heres something you may find interesting. :)
The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird ''turkey'', well let me explain. :)
Name of my country has always been Turkiye, that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means ''land of/belonging to''...
...just like the Latin suffix -ia in such countries as Latv-ia, Roman-ia, Eston-ia, Austr-ia, Austral-ia etc etc. Another example; decades ago Czechoslovakia Republic changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia).
Anyways, most likely the Latin -ia suffix was derived from the Turkish version -iye,
as Turkish is much much older.
Because in old times people of different languages could only pronounce it as their languages allowed them, we got various differences in spelling like Turchia (in Italian), Turquie (in French) and Turkey (in English) all trying to resemble the pronounciation of ''Turk-ia'' thus Turkiye.
Mind you this was way BEFORE the animal we currently know as 'turkey'' was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas....
...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird ''Turkey Fowl'' meaning ''Turkish Chicken''.....
....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), Rhodesian Ridgeback (because it's from Rhodesia), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc.
In time you don't get to call the Greek Harehound as simply as ''Greek''; or you don't call the British Terrier as ''British''; or the German Shepherd as ''German'', but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just ''turkey'', and has been going on for hundreds of years.
Now in 2023, this is causing confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their OWN country on the atlas, this ''confusion over the naming'' needed to be corrected.
So my country decided to rectify this confusion that has been going on for so long and corrected the name in other languages to Türkiye, which it always was, we basically didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : )
So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : )
Best wishes. ;)
@@KenanTurkiye nasil sacmalamisin belli degil, ulke olan misirdan bahsederken, yiyecek misir mi anliyorsun sen, context diye birsey var. Almanlar da cikip bizim ulkemiz Germany degil Deutschland diyor mu, ulke isimleri dillere gore farklilik gosterir, o zaman bizim de England'i ingiltere diye soylememiz yanlis.
@@aykutavci89 anlamamışsın, belki de hiç anlamayacaksın, kendine iyi bak
@@aykutavci89 Şu an Türkiye diye bildiğimiz topraklar 1200'lü yıllardan beri ingilizcede ''Turkey'' yani fonetik olarak Turk-ia yani Türk-iye olarak kayıtlarda bilinir.
Hindi hayvanı ise avrupalılar tarafında ilk 1519 yılında tanınmıştır, ve ülkemizin adından (çünkü o dönem bizdende satın aldıkları bazı tavuk çeşidinden) ''Turkey fowl'', yani Türkiye tavuğu adı konulmuştur.
Zamanla 'tavuk' ibaresi düşürülüp, sadece ''turkey'' kullanılmıştır.
Şu an yabancıların bazıları, ülke Turkey'nin, hayvan turkey'den geldiğini düşünebiliyor, halbuki tersi geçerli.
Bu kısımları anlamamış olabilirsin.
@@aykutavci89 ...bu arada fonetik ses bnzerliği demektir, yukarıda ki yazdıklarım daha anlamlı olsun sana diye yazyorm, çünkü daha anlamlı olup daha itiraz ettikçe senin saçmalamanın senin öününde duvar gibi çarptığın bir gerçeklik olsun
anlamadan bir daha lütfen saçmalama, anlayıp ise de benim kendime ne ad vereceğimi karışma, isimler özeldir sahibi karar verir, başkası değil, başkasına ülkemizin adının ne olacağını niye onlara teslim ediyorsun, ülkenin adına sahip çıksana
ülke isimleri özel isimdir, senin adın aykut olmasını söylemene rağmen ben sana ayşe diyebilirmiyim? diyemiyeceğim gibi ülke adım da benim kararımdır, bu hakkı başkasına tanıma, özgürliğin kalmaz
bu kadar saçmalama yeter mi?
anlayan için yeter.
I study in Istanbul while my parents live at Adapazarı, and I am very grateful of our railway transit. It is way faster, more comfortable and cheaper compared to traveling by car. Although, the old trains are still at service and are much less comfortable than the new trains, the railroad is still my go to.
I have also used the YHT (high speed rail) many times when I travelled to other cities, and I can only wish it was extended into more places.
The main problem is that we don't have any big scale rail network beyond the century old istanbul-ankara line that all the major trains travel. It was a huge initiative of Atatürk to nationalize and expand the railways across Türkiye, but much of it is left to rot as cars and highways took priority.
Ride quality is the most important aspect for me. Turkey is definitely on my list, I want to see Hisarlik.
Great trains, fits perfectly for the short distance trips.
Sakarya is my hometown. I feel so happy when I see my home (it's so close the Justinianus bridge) ❤
Turkey has manufactured it's own passenger airplane in 1938. An ambulance airplane exported to Denmark in 1952 (THK 5A) is currently exhibited in Health Museum of Copenhagen. By the way, Diesel-Electric locomotives are being built in Turkey under various licenses (DE Series) since 1970. All kind of carriages were built in Turkey (Adapazarı & Eskisehir) since 1951.
Cok ovunulecek birsey degil. Motor dahil bir suru parca Almanya'dan gelmis: Birde ucak 6 kisilikmis. 2. Dunya savasi nedeniyle parcalar gelmeyince proje durmus:
Uçağa, Almanya’dan alınan iki adet Brahamo Sh. 14-A4 motoru takılmıştı. Her biri 160 beygir gücündeki motorlar, 2200 devirde uçağı saatte 325 kilometre hıza kadar çıkartabiliyordu. Pervane iki palliydi.
so glad that you made an other video about Turkish trains. As a Turkish native, I enjoyed it a lot! Hope to see you on the izmir mavi tren or the izmir blue train connecting Ankara to İzmir😉😄
Thank you so much for the video, being a foreigner living in Istanbul is actually really hard to reach info avaliable on English related to the trains, specially routes to such scenic places like Sapanca, amazing to have you in Türkiye travelling on the growing network!
In railroads area, Turkey has many issues and shortcomings and more things has to do (especially compared with other countries). However when we see your and other people’s appreciation, our hopes on Turkish State Railways gradually increases. Thanks for the review, it’s great as always.
Note: These first series of “New Sakarya” units actually classified as “regional/mainline trains” having 160 km/h top speed. It is said that second series will have 225 km/h top speed, therefore they able to run on some YHT (high speed) or HT (higher speed) services.
Our American allies fooled us into thinkig that railroad systems were ''communist things'' and steeered us into mass consumerism of petrol and diesel and hence bus use.
I ❤ 🚂🚃🚄🚅🚈🚞🚝
I have a folder on ''transportation''
thank you chou chou chouuuu :))
Heres something you may find interesting. :)
The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird ''turkey'', well let me explain. :)
Name of my country has always been Turkiye, that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means ''land of/belonging to''...
...just like the Latin suffix -ia in such countries as Latv-ia, Roman-ia, Eston-ia, Austr-ia, Austral-ia etc etc. Another example; decades ago Czechoslovakia Republic changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia).
Anyways, most likely the Latin -ia suffix was derived from the Turkish version -iye,
as Turkish is much much older.
Because in old times people of different languages could only pronounce it as their languages allowed them, we got various differences in spelling like Turchia (in Italian), Turquie (in French) and Turkey (in English) all trying to resemble the pronounciation of ''Turk-ia'' thus Turkiye.
Mind you this was way BEFORE the animal we currently know as 'turkey'' was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas....
...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird ''Turkey Fowl'' meaning ''Turkish Chicken''.....
....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), Rhodesian Ridgeback (because it's from Rhodesia), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc.
In time you don't get to call the Greek Harehound as simply as ''Greek''; or you don't call the British Terrier as ''British''; or the German Shepherd as ''German'', but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just ''turkey'', and has been going on for hundreds of years.
Now in 2023, this is causing confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their OWN country on the atlas, this ''confusion over the naming'' needed to be corrected.
So my country decided to rectify this confusion that has been going on for so long and corrected the name in other languages to Türkiye, which it always was, we basically didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : )
So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : )
Best wishes. ;)
yaptığın akademik çalışmayı bizimle paylaşır mısın mobilinsan? neyle nasıl karşılaştırdın ölçümler fotoğraflamalar vs? Kaynağın "kaba etin" mi yoksa ezik türkümsülerden misin?
Would really be great if they stopped putting all their resources to the bigger cities and actually focus on the cities that need better infastructure
I hope my country Indonesia also invests heavily in the railroad industry and the trains themselves...
Salute to the Turkish government, greetings from Indonesia
I hope they don’t privatize train factories
chou chou chouuuu :))
Do you like trains? 🚂🚃🚄🚅🚈🚞🚝
I have a folder on ''transportation''
Need to electrify more rail lines, at least for local train service.
Your country just fell into China's debt trap. Next Sri Lanka and Pakistan in making..
Aleyküm selam.
Thanks for all your great reports! It's always a pleasure to discover a new report every week.
Turkey has built a nice train sets. Infrastructure is also very impressive. As an indian i also confirm that, india is also on the course of manufacturing such train. Our infrastructure is also gettting better day by day. Anyway happy to see the progress in turkey as well as in india.
Proud to work on this train project.👌
elinize saglik
Elinize sağlık tebrikler 👏👏👏
Like how Ada express is similar to Train18 in India, which is a similar homebuilt train here. In some ways even better than the train18 or Vande Bharat as it is called. Cheers and respect from India.
This was a really great video! For your information, the maximum speed of the E44000 series (the one you ride with) is 176 km/h and the maximum operation speed is 160 km/h allocated by TCDD. The high-speed version of this train is currently being planning and will have a maximum/operation (I really don't remember which one) speed of 225 km/h and it will have some minor modifications on the exterior and interior. Probably because this train is a regional train, the quality of the materials in this train is a bit cheaper, but I think these materials will be of better quality in the high speed version.
From Istanbul to Adapazarı is not easy to have high-speed trains. It is a very crowded area and the stations are very close to each other.
this train looks amazing!
12:45 Actually Turkish people don't care who seats next to them. But especially in long trips, news are showed some spesific incident. So right now, TCDD applied that rule.
Thanks!
It used to run between Haydarpasa and Sakarya. I frequently used this line (Pendik to İzmit) when I was a middle-school student in Golcuk, Kocaeli, between 1993 and 1997.
I used to take Ada Ekspresi between Izmit and Söğütlüçeşme in the late '90s to go to my university campus in Göztepe. The engines used back then were primitive, more than a few times were were stuck for hours in the middle of nowhere with no explanation. The cars had comfortable seats and great heat in winter, but no A.C.
It is great seeing newly built sets operate on this line. But Haydarpaşa is cutoff, many stops in the old line are not part of the new line. This is not the Adapazarı Ekspresi I know and remember from late '90s and early 21st century.
Also I just remembered the simit, ayva and pişmaniye sellers of those times ....
I want to thank you for the video.Noone else has given such detailed information about the new train built in Turkey.
So proud to see that kind of video :)
The views are amazing! Nice one. 👍
Love their colour scheme. Well done, Turkey 🇹🇷 👏
Thank you to you and your team, my dear friend, you made me happy. Thank you also for this detailed Introduction. Believe it or not, I haven't taken a train in my country yet.
Türkiye's transportation infrastructure is very strong and constantly updated.
haha I worked on the assembly and testing of their electrical units, they are really high quality.
Bilgi ve gözlemleriniz çok güzeldi, teşekkür ederim
i mean for a regional carrier this is very luxurious its like the german Regio just smaller and more compact
About the seat gender availability, we don't separate men and women in general but some women are less comfortable sharing a seat with a stranger male hence the policy popularized by itself in time, I believe Japan has similar policies as well but believe me, as a man I find it extremely annoying too since women doesn't necessarily pick seats next to other women while empty rows are available. Couples, friends/familes and willing strangers like in your case are completely fine sitting together issue is more about positive discrimination rather than a cultural norm.
Thanks for the video, I loved the production quality and commentary. Cheers!
I actually don't think Japan has that policy, at least in the Shinkansen. They do have women only cars on transit but I don't recall JR ever caring about my gender (I could be wrong tho). The policy makes sense in that context though. It's like how I'd be annoyed if I lived in Japan and was on the subway and the women's only car was empty. But I'd get why it's there.
nah its just Tayyip bullshit. gender integration doesn’t work with his Salafist worldview.
I hope you enjoyed Sakarya and Adapazari. My parents will take this train tomorrow to go to my family who lives in Arifiye, on the outskirts of Adapazari.
So this video coming out is a nice coincidence for me 😂
That's pleased things Turkiye have got to create such a modern and great train, like European of.
Wonderful content, thank you for uploading 👍
Very cool, thanks for sharing 😊
Many thanks... Good job.
god documentation from passenger view. As an engineer I would also expect some more technical details about the heart of the train: the engine and its efficiency, reliability.
Looks great
Thank you for sharing your experience with the very first turkish high speed train. I think this is the first review I have been waiting since the train was freleased for testing in about 4 years ago. Currently it is used for suburb transportation around istanbul, Currently this train set is running below 200 km/h; however, Turkey is designing a new high speed train set that runs above 225 km/h.
I can't wait to try the new generations! :)
Actually these are some of the old standard trains. There has been a new model for almost 1 year and it is definitely a first-class interior with full comfort. Not all trains are new models, I think only 15-25 percent are currently.
A slight explanation on the vending machine;
They are a standard feature and were originally intended for hygiene and other necessity products (TCDD branded one shot toiletry & toothbrush & general hygiene kits) along with a few racks for the ever present water & drink bottles but sales were never really there and after Covid (when these products were removed and the machine was filled with masks and gloves) these kits never came back.
Every year in travel using thus train,First Class isnt much expensiver but fantastic.,the train really glides and comes Always in time
Sheesh nice! Love from Turkey.
Türkiye ;)
Looking good.
I've used it so often, almost every Friday and Sunday. I've never seen this train arrive on time. It's always LATE, sometimes by 20 minutes, sometimes by 30, but it has never reached its destination as scheduled.
Wow, great video packed with interesting facts, I didn't know some of them even as a rather frequent commuter of YHT :D
As an Iranian I'm happy for Turkey, I hope they can export to Iran. it can be very beneficial for Iran as well.
13:26 Thanks for getting a They Might Be Giants song stuck in my head. People just liked it better that WWWAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
I also took a trip from Gebze to Adapazari and return at the end of August 2023. I expected the train to be an E68 locomotive + carriages, but was surprised to find the new EMU providing the service. In my case it was E44001, whereas you had E44002, so I assume there are now at least two of these sets in service. I wonder whether E44001 is still in this region, or whether it has been sent on test elsewhere in Turkey.
My overall impression was that this is a good quality domestically-produced train, which would be ideal for some medium or long-distance services away from the YHT routes.
Would you mind explaning why did you write "!!!! CHANGE IT !!!!" next to mithatpaşa station in the subtitles at 13:29 .
Great trip. And yeah, for a local built train, it is great, and i hope this train can be exported in the future. Ah yes, that dryer is powerful as Boeing 777 engine 😂😂😂😂.
Very informative video for travelers and tourists who want to explore Turkiye by train. I like the vlog and thank you for taking an efforts to present Turkish train.
I BEEN ON THEM THEY ARE AMAZING WENT TO A FOOTBALL GAME PERFECTLY ON TIME AND VERY CLEAN
Please make more videos about Turkey
Thanks for your comments and trip.. 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷💯💯💯
Thanks for watching! 😁
..did not know the local trains are running.. interesting, it looks quite good
Beautiful, smooth, 👍
12:41 the thought behind it is, if a lady doesnt mind sitting next to a man its all good, hence any female can sit next to a man if the man got the seat first. But a man cant sit next to a lady because she may not want it if she got the seat first. So, females are prioritized here, however what they can do is that they can ask "are you okay with a male sitting next to you?" as they purchase the ticket online and if they say yes, you should be able to choose the seat.
Adapazari/Sakarya !! congrats, you have arrived the Coventry of Turkey
really unexpected from our neighbour , turkey, CONGRAAAATS🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Önümüzdeki yıllarda dünyanın en hızlı treni seferelere başlıyacak Türkiye üretilen tren test sürüşleri ne başladı
Happy for Turkiye, keep up
I live in Gebze , welcome my friend, I hope you didn't have any problems.
Mabrook mabrook ! good thing work ! keep it up.
awesome video just 1 question did the train have WiFi on it?
daymn i must visit this summer
12:40 regarding gender separation during the reservation process.. it is full of contradictions in Türkiye: for booking plane tickets, no such separation exists. Nor does it on local transport (buses + metro). It is only a thing for trains and intercity coaches, and actually there is no such law on gender separation.
Never though about that. What a silly rule.
@@SuperalbsTravels logic is simple. If there will be a long journey where female and male sit together. They dont want that in order to prevent any kind of unpleasent incident... you know what I mean. But yes you are right the planes are exception to this but same with long journey busses.
Unpleasant experiences can happen anytime anywhere regardless of where you sit or by whom you sit.
@@SuperalbsTravels
I too complain about this situation. Fyi women get to choose whether they allow a man to sit next to them or not, while men do not. It's not a law or anything but when it comes to interprovince travelling this is the norm, both in private and public transportation. The part I'm complaining about is not that women get to choose but men dont, the part I'm complaining about women tend to buy a ticket for one of two empty seats rather than buying a seat next to another woman. Gladly, some dont. Sometimes a man cant buy a ticket despite having almost half the vehicle empty, because of how this works. Imo women should be able to choose whether its okay for a man to sit with them or not, but if they choose to not sit with a man they should also accept that they may be moved to a different seat. A priviledge for a consequence.
It is good that you didn't use YHT between Istanbul and Gebze. Surprisingly, Marmaray goes faster than YHT on that section.
I did use the YHT from Istanbul to Gebze. I cannot stand the Marmaray, it is terrible!
Why you did not take more long trip to Ankara or Eskişehir maybe
Hi from Turkiye 👋
God, i love istanbul so much
haven't seen a fan that powerful since the brabham bt46b f1 car
😂😂😂😂😂
As a Turk, I can buy a ticket for the seat next to a woman's seat, and this is the first time i've heard of such a thing.
You can soon Travel from istanbul to ankara a distance almost.400 km in 350 kmh
Surely the train floor and the platform floor should be the same height. Then no steps in the train are needed.
11:49 ASMR with Superalbs
Turkish trains are affordable and good.we should collaborate with them
I'm really glad to be a turk when after i see this.
I use this train almost like every month and I have no idea how you find this info, you are a tight researcher 😁4:38
Love yout videos ❤
Félicitations Türkiye ❤
Süper!👍👍
The gap between train step and platform leaves a lot to be desired on a number of the journeys you've been taking. (I'm watching these in reverse order, because they will not play chronologically on this browser.)
12:26 The system allows man and woman sitting side to side (As seen at 12c-12d, 9d-9c, 1d-1c and 21a-21b). Maybe you had some other problem about it.
As for the comment at 6:46, I felt the urge to tell you about the Ankara-İzmir (the capital city and the third most crowded city of Türkiye) high speed train line, which was planned in 2013 and the government (still in power) broke the ground/began construction, promising to open in 2016. However, a tender was initiated only in 2020, the result of which was announced in December 2022. At first it was planned to cost $2.4 Billion (₺4.3 Billion), now it is planned to cost $2.55 Billion (₺47.1 Billion). Besides the loss of time, energy, financial resources after ten years there is still no high speed train line between the capital city and İzmir.
Izmir sucks, and the government is right to re-allocate those funds to other transportation projects across the rest of the country especially Eastern Turkey rather than Izmir and its demographics of the cockiest people in Western Turkey.
It is a very rough terrain to pass a railtrack through but you are right. There are no excuses. We should have built it already. I think there is a credit loan the Turkish government got from the UK for that project as well but I can't remember the full details.
Even 10billion € would be cheap
Still better than the hs2 in the uk estimated to cost 70-90 billion pounds. That would be $100 billion.