How France Bought 2,000 Trains That Were Too Wide
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Adam while writing: because Adam thinks that’s funny I guess
Adam-ception
_ironic_
Just like kenneth
v.dog Adam is that you?
finn m I get that reference
Half as Interesting?
More like Half in French
Half-Assed French
"half in french" is just Canada
'Alf as Interestique
Half in French?
More like All in Canadian.
Isn't that the same?
what I learned in this video:
- france ordered trains that were to wide
- sam speaks french
- skillshare has a new logo and the old one looked better
Rebranding was bad
Maybe the new logo designer learned how to design from skillshare? That new logo is hideous.
The new logo is terrible, my eyes hurt when I try to read it.
TIL Wendover's name is Sam
REALLY, SKILLSHARE?!
Lol apparently the qualifications for being a train, according to half as interesting is:
1 - Fit on train tracks
2 - Not an airplane
Apparently you are French since you forgot the fits to the stations part.
Does that mean I'm a train?
@@eier3252 no, your'e too small to fit on the tracks.
Im a train then
Sounds like each tramway that is not a ropeway is a subway.
As a Frenchman, I'll be honest: that was awful but hilarious.
Say hedge-hog.
ACogloc french can speak english?
@@Alberto23Ferrari They can, they just don't want to.
@@petermuller7687 They can but they aren't good at it
I really had to laugh because tbh he started pretty ok but then his pronunciation of monsieur killed it
As a native Baguette speaker, this was hilarious
As a baguette learner, it was hilarious too
As a baguette eater this was confusing
Sorry I don’t speak *SURRENDER*
Ai read zis wiv uerr voice
@@SquirrelKnight50 😂😂
So next time I'm seeing a French train I'm gonna play that wide music
*wide putin intensifies*
@@stubblycuber2729 wide marcon*
Song for Denise*
Song for Denise?
@@mustardgas750 it's song name
Sam: "We have a 3 min vid, how do we extend?!"
Alex: "Hold my bière..."
And, faster than you can say "Jherray Louiee"...you've got an HAI video!
"Veuillez tenir ma pinte de bière pour un cour instant"
I thought It was Adam
ADAM
*adam
Alternate title: Thicc french choo-choos.
*Tchou tchou
@@patrickconti4297 C'est la meilleure correction que j'ai jamais vue 🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good band name also
why
I watched the whole ad hoping to hear French version of skillshare script.
Suddenly canada.
So did i
I was kinda hoping he'd say that Skillshare can teach you French.
he probably isnt allowed to say it in french because skillshare pay them to get customers
He wrote this for a Canadian audience.
Maybe? Maybe not? That accent was -- well, it was /odd/. But aside from that, it was much more of a Metropolitain (France proper) accent than a Québecois (the poutiney part of Canada) one.
@@SeanNicholsEh "the poutiney part of canada" lmfao
Well only part of Canada is French
@@SeanNicholsEh anglophone canadians who speak french don't tend to sound typically quebecois i've remakred...
It sounded like French with a North American accent, can’t say I’ve ever heard a French-Canadian person speak
Doesn't look like that bad of a blunder. The end result was actually better than if they'd have built narrower trains for the old standard. The French now have wider trains and all stations upto standard for these wide trains, and the extra costs were miniscule compared to the whole project.
I don't understand the EU directive that forced the French railways to split into 2 companies - one for the tracks and one for the trains.
The EU directive had several goals including making use of public money more transparent and allowing competition not on the tracks but on the trains.
@@aidanclarke6106 I.E what the United Kingdom uses currently (which considering they left the EU recently if I'm not wrong they could renationalise the network in trains and tracks)
fred white - The EU does not require railway companies to be private. Each member state can privatize or nationalize companies as long as it does not distort fair competition, whatever UK politicians can say.
@@aidanclarke6106 --- "as long as it does not distort fair competition" that is exactly what nationalizing (Fully nationalizing having the track owners and train operators being the same company being directly operated by the government) does sides from roads and even then BR did operate a door to door delivery service at one point The UK rail network today operates like it did before 1923 excluding railway maintainence work (one reason why so many delays happen today is the same reason they grouped all of the railways in the UK down to 4 in 1923 is because of so many independent companies fighting for control over certain areas having so many different companies crammed into small areas does that however in the US (completely different country I Know) the majority of tracks are owned by freight companies that BY Law! Have to give precedence of Amtrak trains over their own trains this is likely similar to the UK with Railfreight and other companies that operate in the UK But Amtrak is a pseudo Public company (meaning it is on the stock market and is able to do business independently from the Government But it receives government funding another company that does this is USPS) not a company that is operated by the government directly as BR was and likely SNCF Is. what was the tagline of the BR adverts? Oh yes! "Britain's Railway" as far as I know Britain still has a Nationalised Mail service I.e "Royal Mail" but it does compete with other parcel delivery services in fact there is a growing call to renationalise the rail network of the UK (as far as T.O.C's or train operating companies go)
fred white
EU membership has nothing to do with public or private railways. France is in the EU and, as per this very video, both the RFF and the SNCF are government-owned.
You ever just buy trains that are too wide?
Relatable
Why do you show up everywhere?
You mean Relatablé
This is literally the first time I have ever saw this user
Oh, and don't worry, we have other things with our trains that could make Amtrak laugh. For example, our high speed trains ( TGV, which stand for Train à Grande Vitesse) regularly run at 198,85 muricameters per hour (or 320 croissants par baguette), but they still have delays. Which are only registered as delays if it's more than five minutes. With the TGV, you can just arrive late, faster
Nobody:
Daytrader: *320 croissants par baguette*
Nobody:
HAI: *half the video is in French*
H: H
A: alf the video
I: is in french
Sam: Better speak Baguette then
Blame Adam lol.
And the other half is the interesting one ?
That makes it 'half as interresting'
Damn, he managed to sneak in an airplane again …
3:28
but no bricks
as a native french speaker your pronunciation was honestly adorable
Raïle, Maguenifique, Stoupide
i wonder how they realised this mistake.. did a train just yeet itself through a platform before and they went oopsies
There's probably a test train that tries to drive through them with weird things poking out to the same width and height as the actual trains. Imagine the train skeeting the station and a metal bar just *bop* d off.
@@GeeTransit they probably would have screwed that up too. I'm going with INX's idea.
I am not sure how they actually realized, but the trains where actually able to pass the platforms. The clearance between platform and train was lower than required.
That happened on the GWR in the mid-19th century and the Flying Scotsman in Scotland.
"Hey... Hello boss, well I have something to tell you... you'll see it's funny 😅😅😅"
As a French person, I didn't notice any "Clichés" at all, not a single one.
C'est faux.
C vraie
Je suis d'accord.
c'rst vrai que c'est faux
Is it tho
Voulez vous coucher avec moi? 😄
“Like trying to shove a baguette into a bottle of sauvignon-Blanc”
-sam lol
During an internship at la Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer I asked an employee who worked in the Infrastructure’s section of the SNCF about how could this happen. And he told me that they were perfectly aware that those trains wouldn’t fit in in those rural stations and that they would have to do some works. So the media said that they weren’t aware but they actually were 😄😄
That makes sense. Just a reason to modernize and unify the system
At this point my whole life is sponsored by skillshare.
At least it's not raid shadow legend s.
And I never even searched it in google
Count Dankula's baby is literally paid for by Raid shadowlegends lmao no joke
And Squarespace!
"Adam bullies Sam for 4:55 minutes straight"
I'm surprised more JetLag fans haven't marked this as the official introduction of Adam lol
this sounds like an improvement to the rail system; upgrading the older platforms at a cost of $68mil for 1,300 stations sounds reasonable. the width constraint was silly, it always made sense to upgrade the platforms especially since the guideline for rebuilt and brand new platform was already wider.
Adam: *How much French shall I put into this video?*
Also Adam: *Oui!*
Hahaha
Wow a video not about planes
Wait he still managed to put one in
the french couldnt with their trains :P
"Fit one in"
I still remember when the workers came to fix the platform in my local train station in order to make more space for the new trains.
Yeah it was a good laugh. But it was worth it after all, these new trains are really great.
3:15 Actually, the French don't ever say "sacrébleu", they use swear words like "putain" or "merde"
Indeed. "Sacré bleu" would get people thinking you're from the 18th century.
-From France
There is scientific evidence that the average french person says "sacrébleu" 49 times per day... why are you looking at me like that? Yes i did get this from the video, "A Garbage Guide To Overwatch Heroes" are you saying that is not a valid scientific source?
@@kakahass8845 no. No it isn't
So France is boring now.
@@cullenmitchell9165 No, it isn't
As a French, including french words randomly during in an english video was a mindfuck for me to listen
I thought mixing languages a normal thing for multi-lingual people?
@@DragN_H3art It is but you tend to mix certain words/phrases not just random words here and there.
@@DragN_H3art Naaah. If I were to 开始 parle en 法语, anglais, et Chinese, I voudrais 自杀. (that sucked)
When I'm in Europe and listening to youth talk they always through in words and phrases in English. It's hilarious.
@@GeeTransit Naaah. If I were to begin speaking in French, English, and French, I would commit suicide.
since it's 2020, Sam gotta flex that bilingual gift
kurva do píči hej do prdele Sam není jedinej kdo tady umí více jazyků
(if someone knows my language, it's a joke, I don't mean this)
@@Krackerlack Znám tvůj jazyk
@@Krackerlack As Mr. Gott used to say, tak tohle jsem tedy opravdu nečekal.
@@Krackerlack Я, visdrīzāk, соглашусь с Вашим мнением, jo es zinu pāris valstis kur lielāka daļa iedzīvotāju ir или билингвалы или хотя-бы сносно говорят на двух языках. And sometimes they speak three oder vier Sprachen.
Scooty789 all I know is that kurva is a magnificent insult
in the end these stations would have to be standardized eventually, you either keep building trains to the old standard or bring the old stations up to the new one
A friend of mine conjectured that the engineers did it deliberately, because their managers were being slow about standardizing the older stations.
How could the old trains use the narrow and wide tracks then?
@@whathevid Most likely not. If it's my country most train is local, as in only serving certain region, so say there's station A and B that's old, and station C that's new, old train will serve A and B, and new train will serve B and C.
@@whathevid probably thanks to a little step that comes out above the platform, bridging the gap when there is a bit more space to the newer platform. I know this because in Belgium our platforms used to be even less standardised, with 3 different heights and at least 2 different widths. Most of our trains have some kind of system underneath the doors with a step that comes out or similar to bridge the gap.
I'm french and I have to say I am impressed by your pronunciation
The trains were too T H I C C
E X T R A T H I C C
*Les trains étaient trop T H I C C
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Anyone notice that 'train' is masculine and 'gare' is feminine? Anything to do with the fact that the train goes into the station?
@@Inkyminkyzizwoz English nouns are not gendered
*Maybe you can talk about Belgium (or Denmark) and how they bought trains that immediately began to fall apart while driving.*
LOL what? :D
Danish person here. Well....
Netherlands did the same. Italian trains aren't all good apparently
@@Duci1989 Sweden have Italian trams. They är horribel to take a ride in
Actually Italian railway company FS took those trains back and put them in service last year. They needed dome work to be adptated to national standard but now they are as efficient as the others. Google about Etr700
France: *buys trains that are too T H I C C*
Putin: *_First time?_*
Finally someone who actually does not mispronounce every goddamn word he uses that is not english! Kudos
Ach komm, ist aber auch nicht so schlimm wenn sie das nicht richtig aussprechen, Ich meine die Deutschen sprechen ja auch cringemäßig englische wörter aus.
Wow.. finally.. someone that doesn’t speak English actually said the words correctly. Why are we expecting people to know how to pronounce words outside their language. I don’t ever rip on people trying to speak English it’s rude and egocentric
"How can we pad out this video? Pronounce all abbreviations in full"
As a french, I'm tottally with Adam. That was incredibly fun to hear Sam try so hard to pronouce french words (Not bad btw, pretty good accent !).
As an American who speaks French, I was pretty impressed as well. I used to speak with a pretty decent French accent, but now when I try to speak French it takes immense effort to not sound like I'm speaking English.
To me, as dane with 0 french understanding it sounded really good :P Its odd how language is.
*as a frenchman. As a french ça veux rien dire.
@@mookieyomu7285 that's just dumb. You don't say Germanman, Britishman, Russianman, Spainman or Italianman, why would French be different?
@@raznaak Because Francean, Franceish, Franceiard all sound stupid, and they can't call themselves Francs because that's money and also sounds the same as "Franks" who were people who didn't even speak French.
When Australia does this, they just pretend that they always intended to widen the tunnels that the trains don't fit through.
How are there almost 10% dislikes? French people unsatisfied with his French accent or the fact that he's shedding light on this embarrassing mistake by the French government?
That would be far from the first embarrassing mistake that our government made. And most French don't like the government. On a more global point, I think people don't like that a third of the video is endless French joking because otherwise, with all the information given in that video, there's like 3 minute that's dedicated to that.
Oh and for the accent, I heard some of my fellow French pronounce in a more broken way that he does. Sure, when he's speaking, it's really obvious that he's not the best French speaker, but I've heard worse.
I'm french and I just love this video, I definetly liked it
As a French I really enjoyed this video, he honestly speaks quite well in French, and about the problem with trains, it's a mistake that is so big and dumb that it deserves to be made fun of ! I don't understand the French that disliked the video as it's not disrespectful or anything, just funny. We have to learn to joke about ourselves, and happily most of the French liked the video !
@@louloubrubru8692 Should be noted that it seems not to have been an accident - upgrading the platforms had always been planned alongside the new fleet.
now for the frenchest part of the video: french people condescendingly correcting every little mistake in the comments
Correction: Parisians correcting every mistake, with the addition of a dig at the South of France’s supposed ethnic makeup. (And you wonder why French registration plates now no longer make reference to the owner’s place of residence.)
get outskayled Officially the change was to free up numbers across the country, but there had been stories - I’ll leave it to you to determine how true they are - of cars with 75 (Paris) registrations getting vandalised when taken down south. The plates still carry the departement codes on a label, just less prominently and not as part of the registration number.
@get outskayled well its still there. But smaller at the right side. But technically its not part of the licencenumber anymore.
images.app.goo.gl/zVFg1w5B33Pbhd818
@@AlexOnTheBus EU standards and driving. Like the time the EU changed the driving regulations for motorbikes in kmh which exceeded the UK speed limit so £120 million had to be spent on offroad driving test centres to meet European law. The UK opposed almost every change in that roads directive, our objections were ignored as always, little wonder that we left the EU a decade later.
@Kim Yo Jong's Sandwich France handed over hundreds of thousands of its own citizens to the Nazis to be killed off in death camps. But about your opinions on civilisation...
The French are a constant source of entertainment for us
Why ?
@@flitzsdomingos I'm from the uk
@@queeny5613 And I'm French, for me this mistake was just funny (a very expensive joke anyway !), just as the french prononciation of Sam in the video.
All i see is a white flag
@@ThatPickleDude1509 all i see is a joke that is dead for 5 years
I feel like I have to finish my French course now
What I learned today:
Skill share changed their logo
Makes a video about trains
3:27 - AIRPLANES!
Can't make an HAI vid without an aviation reference lol
You could almost hear the smirk on Sam's face as he read it, too. "Haha I got a plane reference into a video about trains, suckas!"
Had to mention it!
Call Wendover
I dont know other things, skillshare's logo has changed.
I know, right? And yet I can't find any info on it.
@@EGRJ Here's about the changes: www.skillshare.com/blog/company/sharing-the-next-step-in-the-skillshare-journey
I seen so many skillshare ads but i wont even open that site lol
Don't you mean SKiLL SHare?
@@verynice.mp4613 me too😂
i like that he kept slowly shifting into a french accent during the duration of the video
Thank you Adam... Sam, I am very impressed!
Here in Brisbane Australia we don't make stupid mistakes like buying trains which are too wide for our platforms. Instead, we buy trains which are too tall for our tunnels.
Train: am i too big?
Station: yes baby, please stop
Stop.
Hes going "off the rails"
X'D
Is it a sort of porn?
*gulp
*laughs in Philippines
Clearly you haven't heard of our incompetence in rail
As someone who traveled from Brussels to Bordeaux by train last summer... I will say that the line between Paris and Bordeaux was by far the best train experience I've ever had
"Everything runs as smooth as a ball of mousse au chocolat"
*Laughs in grèves and only one train out of 3 running*
Mdr tellement
Et puis grève c'est "strike" en anglais
Everyone: Trains are just ground planes
HAI: *Hmmmm*
Trains are planes that had their wings clipped off
planes are just sky trains smh
@@kukuruzayevhenii8764 No they are Air-Buses
@@nima8032 but buses arent long like that
@@nima8032 Some of Hong Kong's airport coaches are indeed called AirBus
Adam: So how many French words do you want?
Sam: Oui
Similar thing happened in Melbourne, Australia.
The new double-decker trains fit perfectly on theLilydale line, but were too all or any of the other metropolitan lines.
"Things were far from fantastiqué"
Sorry can you say it in English i cant speak baguette
Fantastique*
He said fantastique not fantastiqué
Fantastique means fantastic
Fantastiqué means something like fantasized,
Moreover, fantastiqué is almost never used in french, and with french grammar you would need to add an e because things is feminine in french, and add a s because things is plural, so fantastiquées
@@Gautier-cw9bu r/wooooosh
@@spanishinquisition5417 I'm pretty sure misspelling what Sam said wasn't a joke
And also r/itswooooshwith4os
@@Gautier-cw9bu you already on reddit
Your French sounds like the ones we hear in the south.
south where? antarctica?
Cuore Sportivo there’s a southern part of france, y’know.
I do not agree.
His pronunciation is quite good, but it still features irregular nasalization and a guttural /r/ too weakly pronounced, but it does not have any feature of the southern dialects (such as affrications or diphthongisation of final /ɛ̃/).
PS: I'm a French native speaker too
@@scj6693 like réunion?
@@CuoreSportivo the south of metropolitan France
Sam speaks better french then my French teacher
To put this into context the amount of money they used to fix this mistake would fund 203 meters of HS2
203 METERS
Plot twist: Sam is his own writer. He uses Adam as a name to say: Don't blame me.
jk love your content
Ah but he is the writer, at least in older videos
And recently Sam blames an intern for his Australia conspiracy.
"Look, he didn't mention plan--"
3:27
New South Wales in Australia did the same thing recently, bought a whole lot of trains too wide to fit through some of the tunnels near Lithgow.
your videos are amazing and funny🤣 keep it up! I have watched all of your videos. Next I will watch All of wendovers all videos! So much info is very helpful..
HAI : * start speaking french *
Me, a french viewer : sah quel plaisir !
The last time I was this early bricks were not used to bore CIA agents
In NSW, Australia, the government has done a similar thing with the NIF (New Intercity Fleet). The trains that are currently being delivered are 3.2m wide, which is much wider than the current rolling stock which is only 2.9m wide. For this reason, on the Blue Mountains line, the government has begun re-aligning the track in some locations and shaving back tunnels in order for the NIF to fit on the tracks.
Adam this is what you do! Thank you this was funny and amazing
I’m glad HAI hasn’t been sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends
Yet!
God please no
yet.
this comment was sponsored by raid: shadow legends
Wenn der Zug zu breit ist:
Keine Schiene zeigen
Damn you and your three genders
Wie?! Warum ist es einfach überall?!
Was ist der schnellste Zug?
Felix Orion Die Baller lös train
Was heißt das?
As a train designer.. Loading gauge is most important thing to check to make sure the train can pass through station, bridge and tunnel..
Me: is this french now? Hai: well yes but no
Most of 4:55 mins of the video was just pronouncing the full name of french train companies lmaooo
Video: is about trains
Me: so i won't hear anything about airplanes right?
HAI: well no but actually yes
English side ruined, must use French instructions!
“Le Grille?!?!” What the hell is that?
Hahaha, one of the best Homer quotes 😂
4:01 everything runs as usual... except when there's a 3months strike
That is as usual.
Jokes on them. They did it on purpose so that they could have a “way” to upgrade the old stations. Maybe maybe not but sounds like a good way to get that done.
saddest part ? it's probably the case
68m is a low price to pay for it too, compared to the price of the trains
They had two choices: make trains that can use the majority of the stations, mostly newer ones or make trains that can use the minority, mostly older ones. In the latter case, the outcry and cost of upgrading the new stations to the "old standard" would have been many times greater.
And yes, in the scope of a large european governement budget, that 68m€ is a drop in a bucket.
@@ibfreely8952 Exactly 68 mill is a rounding error compared to several billion in trains
Now, if they were ITALIANS, they'd already have a nephew or two lined up to do the work, even before ordering the trains that don't fit.
That's a Trainwreck.
Sorry, that was rail-ly bad.
Man I didn't expect that many likes. This comment is off the rails.
You just had to derail it didn’t you...
Sir, you're under arrest.
@@therand0mchannle350: Yep, I'm really good at gauging -unlike the French It seems-
If i had tomaotoes and you were on stage I'd throw them at you. 🍅
The only good "tHAnKs fOr tHe liKEs" edit I've seen
It’s amazing how Sam turns 2 sentences into a 5 minute video
Honestly, that price to fix thousands of stations and have them use the same standards than the rest is really good. It will probably turns out for the better eventually, in a time where such a mistake could be a lot worse.
As a French I felt my soul descend into madness
1,000 Subscribers With No Videos Challenge *as a Frog
Thank you, Adam, for blessing us with this script.
Reminds me of the time it the US where the bureau of ships equipped some battleships with a new type of gun, while the bureau of ammunition created a incompatible, new ammunition type.
They got new guns with no ammo and new ammo with no guns
I got a nosebleed from all the French words spoken
As a bilingual french canadian, that video was really weird because I perfectly understood even though he kept switching languages
When the majority of HAI's stock shots of TGV trains were filmed in one of your local stations... Aka Cannes station on the French Riviera 😅
#randomfacts
What's the best season to visit Cannes (out of the way of the british beachgoers ofc)
@@mfaizsyahmi early spring or late autumn after all the tourists have gone 🙂
mfaizsyahmi. May to June or September
this is the HAI vid that made me laugh the most! thx, Adam the editor!
The cgp grey joke tho looooool this is the best but it’s so trueeee u both are awesome
HAI: shows new skill share logo in the intro
Me: What's that
I learnt more French in this video than in any of my high school lessons.
There was an even stupider version of this problem in NYC. The MTA, in 1973, looked into buying longer 75-foot cars for the BMT-IND division. They did the measurements and found that the 75-foot cars wouldn't fit on the "Eastern Division" lines (the J, Z, M & L trains).
They bought them anyway. Then more. And more. And more. They ended up buying 1,551 cars from 1974-1987 that couldn't run at all on the Eastern Division.
absolute geniuses.
Have a similar story from sweden: Köping Uttersberg-Riddarhyttan railway originally built for 3 1/2 english feet (1067mm, a common narrow gauge.) and ordered a steam loco from a swedish manufacturer, wanting it to be built for a 3,59 swedish foot (1066mm). Comversion errors made the manufactuer making a loco being 3,59 english feet (1094mm). It was too expensive for the railway to correct the loco, so they made the railway and wagons 3,59 feet wide instead. It closed down in 1969, but alot of the rolling stock and part of the railway still exist. I belive there is an ambition to revive it as a heritage railway...
your pronounciation of french stuff made me laugh but it's actually pretty decent, good job (can't believe i'm learning something about my own country from something not french at all)
There's a new SkillShare logo‽
My disappointment is unmesiourable and my day is ruined
How did you lay the question mark (?) over the exclamation point (!) ?
@@ScottRothsroth0616 On mobile hold the ? and the ‽ will come up
@@ScottRothsroth0616 wym‽
@@ScottRothsroth0616 kneel down to the almighty interrobang
MetroDink did the same in 2016. I reworked so many loco steps. Also its called plates for having the dimensions of locos and cars to fit into a station.
03:27 Even when talking about les trains, Sam (and Adam) managed to get un avion into the video
This was a really interesting video and also very funny imo as a french person. Well played Adam!
As a Frenchie, this episode was a delight!
Same thing happened in Bucharest, Romania with the subway. They had to cut like 15cm from the stations.
He's really feeling himself speaking French In this video