Intercity rail. Trains that go between cities. Which countries have it and where does it go? Watch and learn.
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0:00 – Intercity Rail
1:33 – North America
3:39 – South America
5:03 – Europe
17:48 – Africa
24:16 – Asia
34:17 – Oceania
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Running list of corrections:
– Amtrak's longest /service/ is their through cars between the Texas Eagle and the Sunset Limited, linking Chicago to Los Angeles via San Antonio
– Spain's Trenhotel services are no longer operational
– China no longer has slow trains between Hong Kong and the mainland
– Indonesia recently opened a regional intercity line on the island of Sulawesi
– Israel is in the process of rapidly electrifying much of their railway
– Malaysia has a small intercity line on Borneo called the North Borneo Railway, and the east/central line operates a few times a day, not once a day
– I got some details of Armenia, Denmark, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Russia, and Serbia's services wrong, or missed key parts (see comments for specifics)
Where's the Philippines 💀💀💀
The through-car on the Texas Eagle from Chicago to LA via San Antonio is a much longer trip than the California Zephyr.
Also, Spain suspended pretty much all of its Trenhotel trains since 2020.
Great video!
Some corrections
Armenia: Yerevan-Tbilisi sleeper train rides to Batumi during summer season
Azerbaijan: most intercity trains are suspended during Covid Pandemy except Baku-Ganja-Agstafa service
Belarus: since 2021 there are also 2 daily international trains from Minsk to Moscow (Lastochka)
Czech Republic: trains Prague-Brno/Ostrava ride through Pardubice, no through the Vysočina region
Kyrgyzstan: Tashkent Issyk-Kul train is suspended during Covid Pandemy, all trains from Central Asia to Moscow are suspended until 2024 (all international trains ends near the Volga River).
Tajikistan: there are no passenger trains to Amudarya river. Domestic services: Dushanbe-Kulob (once a week) and Dushanbe-Khujand through Uzbekistan (in the spring and autumn).
Uzbekistan: high speed trains ride from Tashkent to Samarkand, Bukhara and Karshi, no to the south part of the country. Domestic sleeper trains ride from Tashkent and Andizhan to other cities and international trains to RU, KZ and TJ. There are also a few local trains, but their timetables aren´t on internet.
lololol that Taipei MRT stock image used when glossing over Singapore MRT at start was so troll 😂
A recent corridor also opened between Agartala in India and Akhaura in Bangladesh
Taiwan is only a province of China
Mentioned the "border" on the island of Ireland… but then called it Derry. Dancing that fine line of Northern Irish politics masterfully there Caleb.
Incredibly well put together video! I've always been interested in the various rail networks outside of the U.S., and started a bit of research about these systems a few years ago, but I wasn't able to obtain too much info off hand. Thank you so much for summarizing these diverse railway networks!
In the future, would you ever do a video on Tshuetin rail transport?
Nice! 🙂
For Austria you picked two fictional / hardly operational trains 😉
5:57 this is some concept art of… something
6:06 this is a Bombardier Talent 2 (called "Hamster Cheek" in Germany) which was returned to the manufacturer after a short period of grave delays and problems. Now, new trainsets all are Siemens Desiro Mainline EMUs.
6:44 Čapljina = "Tchahplyeenah". Now, there are at least international seasonal Talgos to the sea in Croatia – to Ploče – again.
yeah south africa has abandoned its rail network 🙁
How the Indian Railways was shown was shown in the photo of Bangladesh. There was a blue colored train on which there were many people, it was very crowded but it was from Bangladesh.
@Classywhale that guy who told you that vande Bharat trains are slow is a heavy propaganda machine against the current ruling govt. Let me tell you these trains are tested to be 180-200 kmph and are the fastest running trains. They aren't going empy too.
And kindly those overcrowded trains you show aren't Indian. Please remove it. 90% of our routes are electrified. No one does that now. India is also launching it's own bullet train in 2026-2027.
31:20 Intercity Train eXpress-Saemaul/ITX-새마을(formerly Saemaul-Ho) also, Saemaul-Ho with Diesel locomotive now runs ONLY at Janghang line.
31:24 Nuriro-Ho and Mugunghwa-Ho is Same(yes they share the same fare).
also, there are ITX-Maum/ITX-마음(for replacing Mugunghwa-Ho for a price of Saemaul) and ITX-청춘 for Yongsan – Chuncheon.
Small correction Serbia has one “high speed” train called Sokol between Novi Sad abd Belgrade
Thx for the hard work
Missing a twice daily commuter (not tourist) Te Huia service in New Zealand, which runs between Auckland and Hamilton, and it's two years old, and is on the way to expansion, an additional third service is to be added in Feb 2024.
There's also a Capital Connection, a Palmerston North to Wellington commuter train.
The map of Tunisian rail is outdated, many lines are closed/abandoned. The rolling stock is in disrepair, unreliable and too slow. You should have done better research. You didn't even look at the french version of Wikipedia.
18:02 thats probably the wrong image
Small corrections about Ireland:
You are showing the entire train network of the country. Dublin and Cork actually have diesel ‘commuter’ trains. These are not to be confused with the DART which is electric urban rail in Dublin.
Also you didn’t mention the operator -it’s Iarnród Éireann or Irish Rail.
The Enterprise between Dublin and Belfast is indeed delayed a lot, but that’s very rarely because of security problems. The delays stem from the track it shares with urban rail services in both Dublin and Belfast Cities.
IC is great unless you are going from not a city to not a city . Which is 90% of the time . BMW