Turkey made its own train. And it SURPRISED me!
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Turkey designed and built its very own electric train from scratch. I decided to try it out, and was surprised at what I found. Join me as I check out TÜRASAŞ' national electric train on a short but pleasant ride near İstanbul!
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Journey Details:
Origin: Gebze
Destination: Adapazarı
Company: TCDD Taşımacılık
Train: TCDD E44000
Accommodation: First Class Seat (1st)
Distance: 95 kilometres / 59 miles
Price: ₺71.00 (£2.10 / €2.50 / $2.70)
Time: 1 hour 23 minutes, arrived 19 minutes late
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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.
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
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
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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?
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 :)
Turkiye is so smart and strong country...
Turkiye definitely can build a lot of good stuff
For sure! 😍
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
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! :)
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.
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
Hi I'm from turkey.
Thank you for your review, I'm glad you were satisfied.
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.
cleaner than many countries
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😉😄
Ride quality is the most important aspect for me. Turkey is definitely on my list, I want to see Hisarlik.
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.
Amazing looking train! Reminds me a lot of the Arriva trains here in the Netherlands which ride on regional lines
Proud to work on this train project.👌
elinize saglik
Elinize sağlık tebrikler 👏👏👏
Türkiye's transportation infrastructure is very strong and constantly updated.
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!
Sakarya is my hometown. I feel so happy when I see my home (it's so close the Justinianus bridge) ❤
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!
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 train looks amazing!
Thanks for all your great reports! It's always a pleasure to discover a new report every week.
As a person who uses this train constantly watching your video is super funny :) To prevent women from being disturbed during the journey, a man cannot buy a ticket next to a woman as long as there is a ticket, but women can buy tickets next to men as they wish.
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 want to thank you for the video.Noone else has given such detailed information about the new train built in Turkey.
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 ....
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! :)
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.
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 😂
The views are amazing! Nice one. 👍
So proud to see that kind of video :)
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.
As an Iranian I'm happy for Turkey, I hope they can export to Iran. it can be very beneficial for Iran as well.
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.
really unexpected from our neighbour , turkey, CONGRAAAATS🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Önümüzdeki yıllarda dünyanın en hızlı treni seferelere başlıyacak Türkiye üretilen tren test sürüşleri ne başladı
Thanks for your comments and trip.. 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷💯💯💯
Thanks for watching! 😁
Sheesh nice! Love from Turkey.
Türkiye ;)
It’s so funny listening to non-Turks speak Turkish 😂 Good effort mate 👍
Thanks 😅
That's pleased things Turkiye have got to create such a modern and great train, like European of.
haha I worked on the assembly and testing of their electrical units, they are really high quality.
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.
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 😂😂😂😂.
Thanks to Erdogan, Turkey made huge improvements in infrastructure, highways, railroads, airports etc.
"How many heavy industrial factories you will open?"
Erdoğan:Yes.
i mean for a regional carrier this is very luxurious its like the german Regio just smaller and more compact
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.
Wonderful content, thank you for uploading 👍
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!
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.
Very cool, thanks for sharing 😊
Turkish trains are affordable and good.we should collaborate with them
what surprises me is the design of it
it looks weird but kinda in a good way?
The very first time I saw it, I thought it had a cartoonish smile. :)
cute
Many thanks... Good job.
Wow, great video packed with interesting facts, I didn't know some of them even as a rather frequent commuter of YHT :D
Bilgi ve gözlemleriniz çok güzeldi, teşekkür ederim
..did not know the local trains are running.. interesting, it looks quite good
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.
11:49 ASMR with Superalbs
It is TURKIYE‼Pls respect..!
13:26 Thanks for getting a They Might Be Giants song stuck in my head. People just liked it better that WWWAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
God, i love istanbul so much
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.
Looks great
Please make more videos about Turkey
haven't seen a fan that powerful since the brabham bt46b f1 car
😂😂😂😂😂
Every year in travel using thus train,First Class isnt much expensiver but fantastic.,the train really glides and comes Always in time
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.
On public transportations in Turkey, males are not allowed to buy the ticket of a seat next to a female. However, females are free to buy the seat next to a male. That is why there was a female sitting next to you on the way back :)
Yarram gibi kural bu sadece gaziantepe lazım istanbulda niye var
It's not even real.
@@creeperawman1431Yok.
@@user-4xislb var ben biliyom
I live in Gebze , welcome my friend, I hope you didn't have any problems.
Turkey has the second oldest underground railway in the world.
Dünyanın en hızlı treni önümüzdeki yıl seferlere başlıyacak Türkiye de üretilen tren test seferli yapıyor şuanda sen Türkiye'yi çok küçümseme istersen belki senin ülkede böyle treni yoktur burda Türkiye eleştirmen için sen hangi ülkede yaşıyorsun onu öğrenelim istersen 😅
Looking good.
Turkey is doing very well.
awesome video just 1 question did the train have WiFi on it?
it should not be a surprise, we used to manufacture long before...you are young...
I BEEN ON THEM THEY ARE AMAZING WENT TO A FOOTBALL GAME PERFECTLY ON TIME AND VERY CLEAN
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
Hi from Turkiye 👋
If you guys didn’t like this train
You should see the London standfort airport train so slow like 30 kmh I hated 😂😂😂
Surely the train floor and the platform floor should be the same height. Then no steps in the train are needed.
I'm really glad to be a turk when after i see this.
Good job Turkey
Finally, someone is talking about the Turkish railways! (which is very far away from where it is supposed to be!) If I had time, I would create my own content on this major issue!
After a small search, one can see that the network of Turkish railways is way behind the current era of electric trains. The network does not even cover most of the major cities, let alone small cities. (By the way, there are 81 cities where the smallest population is around 84 thousand.) The very outdated non-high-speed lines are almost useless for passengers. If you search for the figures, you will see that railways take 1% of the passenger traffic whereas railways take approx. 4 % of the freight traffic. If you ask for geographical challenges, there are a bunch of them, and not building lines everywhere in 100 years is just a shame. Challenge on geography is such an expired excuse. The reason is, if you can build an overhead line between every city if you can build highways and tunnels, you would be able to build electrified railways as well. Right? At least for freight trains.
On the other hand, the frequency of the current high-speed lines (almost only necessarily the functional type of trains) is very low. For example, if you want to book the high-speed train between Ankara (approx. 5.6 million) and Istanbul (approx. 20 million in reality), you have to book it two weeks in advance. The trains are at 45-60 minutes apart. If you look at one of the bus stations of İstanbul or Ankara, there are more than 20 busses every 10 minutes (approximation not fixed). So there is a huge demand in the line. It is unbelievable how low the frequency of the operation is.
Related to these two points, there are only a few feasible regional train lines. If you want to book a train to any one of the cities around the Mediterranean region from Ankara (the capital), you would not be able to do it because there are no functional and frequent connections.
Aaah, ah, I am feeling very bad about it. It is very unfortunate... really guys, I am not joking. This video obviously compliments the developed Turkish trains. I understand and appreciate it; this is important.
At the edge of the day, when we are about to celebrate the 100 years of our republic, I should have felt like just 90 years ago when we were proud to (trying to) cover the whole country with "iron networks"...
yeah yeah, it's Ataturk who put this country underdeveloped, he refused to industrialize the nation, he said we never go back to be aggressive and hostile nation anymore we need to be agrarian county and buy every products including defense equipment from USA, UK, that's why this country once powerful nation end up as member of developing countries, Erdogan is the only leader who brought the country to new heights
@@Jamal-um9xbwtf? The turkish lira has been going corrupt since 2020 and the enflation made everything cost 4x times more than the 2020 prices Stop talking nonsense without knowing And erdogan takes refugees to turkey just to get votes from them by giving them citizsenship AND HE EVEN USES RELIGION IN A SECULAR COUNTRY
@@Jamal-um9xb What are you talking about? Really! you got this conclusion ? Are you sure you have read what I wrote ?
@@Jamal-um9xb I think you're inventing stories inside your head. Most of the faults people slap onto Ataturk were actually done by the military rulers decades after him. Turkey had several hard coups and soft coups throughout the second half of the 20th century as well as communist insurgencies and clashes. Ataturk didn't even buy US weapons and he died in 1938. The US wasn't even relevant in Turkey in the 1930s and 1940s, only becoming relevant afterwards because the USSR increased its bullying of Turkey and even threatened to take over its territories.
Erdogan did improve Turkey's infrastructure, military capabilities, and domestic manufacturing across all industries. Partly because he was neither anti-religious right or anti-religious left but a moderate center-right and partly because he was able to implement his vision without coups and when they did try so in 2016 it was successfully resisted by all parties across the board. Unlike other developing countries where there's factions jumping onto any chance for power and thereby causing complete societal collapse, the majority of mainstream parties in Turkey have learnt from the 20th century.
The AKP had overwhelming support in their first decade, and when Erdogan's popularity started to go down in the 2010s he always formed newer alliances in accordance with changing realities. It can be argued that Erdogan is the mirror image of Ataturk, both trying to achieve the same ends with the difference being one was secular and the other isn't. Both are pragmatic leaders but who have shortcomings that can be improved upon and Turkey can become even greater.
Basically you can't go anywhere by train in Turkey. There's not even public buses in some cities. No sea way. AKP was incapable of building a metro for the most needed line in Istanbul for the last 20 something years, which they have have made promises to finish 10 years ago.
All their vision is giving rights to build to big guys only to steal from the country from the inside. And those big guys only became so with their help. And they get a cut. They won't do anything without personal gains. Not a single thing. They will build roads and bridges with your money, and then sell it to you again. What a great vision.
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.
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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.
E4400 has a top speed of 160 km/h - which classifies it at Semi-high speed trains.
Adapazari/Sakarya !! congrats, you have arrived the Coventry of Turkey
Boa tarde lindo trem boa viagem ai
Why you did not take more long trip to Ankara or Eskişehir maybe
The views you got on this video are impressive
it feels really weird seeing this cuz I am using this train very often
Good for first stage to get next stage of "Six to One thousand KM per hour Traveling Train" for Turkey.
You can soon Travel from istanbul to ankara a distance almost.400 km in 350 kmh
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.
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
Happy for Turkiye, keep up