Private VIP COMPARTMENT on Turkey's Flagship Highspeed Train / Istanbul to Ankara
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Hello and welcome back to Turkey for another highspeed adventure!
Today we are in the largest city, İstanbul, and will be taking TCDD (Turkish Railways) flagship highspeed service to the capital, Ankara. It's one of the best trains around today, so I hope you enjoy the video!
Date of Filming: 9/2/22
Camera: GoPro Hero 10 Black
Operator: TCDD (Turkish Railways)
Departure: İstanbul, Turkey
Arrival: Ankara, Turkey
Cost: VIP CLass - ₺145 Turkish Lira (£6.86, €7.82, $7.81)
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The central station looks incredible 🤩 literally so futuristic and luxurious
Yes! Now they just need one in İstanbul...
Hat istanbula henüz varmış değil. Onun için tren her yerde hızlı gitmiyor. Tam bittiğinde 3. Boğaz köprüsünden geçip avrupaya gidecek.
Ankara's glossy platforms and station floors are amazingly clean! You don't see that in the U. S.
Beautiful isn't it! 😃
It varies...there are some great train stations in the U.S. still standing. Some, as in Detroit, Houston, San Antonio and Salt Lake City, were torn down or sold to real estate developers.
@@jameshitselberger5845 Shame about the network tbh
Or the UK
The terrain looks a lot like Southern California. But the sky and light looks Scottish. When I was in Turkey I traveled by Motor coach. And only once was there a light snow in the city center (which looked beautiful) on just my first trip there, Feb. 1987. But on that trip we traveled straight south to Kusadasi, Ephesus, and Pamukale. On my second trip in April 1996 we took the coach through Ankara and onto Cappadocia, which was like an enchanted ancient other planet.
Beautiful! I love Turkey. Have been at least 20 times 😂
most of the region is andropojen steppes . Which mean it s use to be oak and cedar forests becoming grassland because of agriculture . As you well know Turkiye is among the first settled people live
Price of a seat at the time of filming:
*Shockingly cheap!*
Price of a seat right now:
*More expensive than before, but even very cheap for an European average traveller for a seat on the luxurious class of an High-Speed Train.*
13:48 The first AVE line from Madrid to Seville, opened in 1992, cost 5.5 Trillion Spanish Pesetas (The equivalent to today's €4.5 Billion) for only 471 km of a double-track, International gauge (Then a new gauge for Spanish people) brand new line first projected in the late 1980's for desaturate the classical, only electrified railway pass between the Spanish plateau & Andalusia (Despeñaperros Pass, through Sierra Morena Mountains' Eastern boundary, which was at a rate of saturation of a 141 percent in 1991)
Only for connecting Madrid to Seville (The city that held that year the Universal Exposition).
16 years later (In January 2008), the AVE trains arrived to Barcelona (The other highlighted city on 1992, that glorious year when Spain had all the great events on the World)
Yeah it's pretty great value isn't it! 😊
@@NonstopEurotrip Yeah, but I live in a city where the classical line between the Spanish Plateau & Andalusia via Despeñaperros Pass has a station, and we have 2 Regional (Media Distancia) services between Jaén and Cádiz and vice-versa per day and one Long Distance Train (The "Torre del Oro" Service, AKA the train you rood last year's summer between Valencia and Córdoba and that you uploaded) Service between Cádiz and Barcelona and vice-versa per day.
We had direct trains to Madrid until the arrival of the AVE line, and then Renfe decided all trains from Málaga, Huelva or Cádiz (Passing by Córdoba) went diverted via the High Speed Line up to Madrid. From my 36,000 people town, if you wanna go to Madrid,
- You can go on a regional train up to Jaén and then change into another regional train to Madrid.
- Go on a direct bus service that lasts 3:45 to 4 hours
*(Including a 15-minute stop for fresh air, for drinking some coffee or grab some snacks in a town at about one hour after leaving my town)*
- Or drive the distance of 320 kilometres or 200 miles of freeway that is between my town and Madrid.
P.S: That direct bus service connects the major points of Western Andalusia (Cádiz, Huelva, Seville or Córdoba, even there's a route from the Portuguese border at Ayamonte, Western Huelva Province) to Madrid and vice-versa. From my town this bus service is converted into a direct bus service to Madrid that, as I said, lasts *(With that fresh air stop)* 3:45 to 4 hours
@@pedrorubiotejero_aka_prt Yes, Spain is focusing so hard on high speed that they are totally ignoring the traditional network. It"s really a shame.
I recently visited the line from León to Oviedo, I must say, the new line will be much faster, but that gorgeous trip over the Pajares pass and down the mountains will be very missed by lovers of train travel... Because that line will close completely. And I understand, the villages and towns served are small at best. And I know Spain doesn't have the finances Switzerland has, who would run an hourly or at least bi-hourly service over the old line parallel to the new one for the tourists, but it's a total shame nonetheless.
The Siemens Velaro HT8000 trains are beautiful, fast and very smooth. Marvellous high speed trains in Turkey.
Absolutely couldn't agree more 😃
@@NonstopEurotrip Indeed 👍
Years ago I spent a few weeks in Adana so it was great to see what another part of Turkey looks like. Thanks!
I need to head east next time!
From the inside, it is almost identical to the DB ICE Velaro D. Even the Seat pattern is the same
It's the same train 😂
It’s amazing how German this train looks.
That's because... It is 😂
@@NonstopEurotrip for some limited time, not only they will loose Turk market but also some of their other markets.
It is German this is why lol
This is a German Siemens train!🤣🤣🤣
Ticket prices have more than doubled in less than 3 months. What a shocking unpleasant surprise!
Still cheap though 😃
@@NonstopEurotrip can you Review ICE 3 Sprinter to Freiburg HBF also happy Early Chrismas.
%150 inflation tho. Its happening to everything
@@collareddovepigeon5621 when I'm next back in Germany 😆
You should definitely try the East Express! It starts from Ankara and ends in Kars (Armenian border) in the East. I'm sure it will be an interesting video...
You should do that video and air it on TH-cam.
I've tried to book tickets before. It's very hard!
the architecture is lit !
kerenn
The Ankara train station looks incredible !
Isn't it just!
I used to travel between Ankara Istanbul, clean and very attractive
😍😍😍
Great video.
Thanks 👍🏻
Awesome video!
Thank you ☺️
Happy Thanks ❤
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Thank you great video I am thinking of doing this someday
Spectacular
Thanks 🙏🏻
Very nice video!
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Impressive! Be a better experience when the run further into Istanbul proper
Oh absolutely it will. Knock 2 hours off the trip 🤣
agreed, but with the very built-up area, that's likely going to mean a lot of tunnelling. Practical, but not really as fun. But that's what you get with most HSR systems, of course, where the old line goes around the mountain (and gives you beautiful views), the new lines shave a lot of time off by going through the mountain...
Another superb video, as to the future... how about some long, multi train trips within Europe e.g. North/South or East/West?
Thanks for the suggestions Kevin 😌
great!
Awsome video.
Thanks 🙏🏻
Love you ❤️❤️❤️
Gracias por el paseo 🇺🇾
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Amazing...
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Having a review on the D 347 Vienna Bucarest train would be awesome
It's on my to-do list...!
Let it snow!!!
☃️☃️☃️
Muy bueno. Likes
13:53 - Мощно
It breaks my heart the USA is lagging so far behind the rest of the world in the high speed rail race. I went to Innotrans 2022 in Berlin but didn't even see Amtrak. I remember when the United States had the best passenger trains in the world way before Amtrak but I will not live to see high speed rail in my country 'tis of thee.
The plane and car mindset needs to change first!
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People would not use the service to justify the costs. Interstate bus services are not even used widely. Terrain is different, priorities are different. ..
I took a train yesterday from Amsterdam central to Brussels Nord. It was an intercity train.
Quite a boring route isn't it 😜
@@NonstopEurotrip haha 😛
The high speed does the journey in 2hrs instead of 2.5 hrs for the regular but for the latter you can jump on any train and they run every hour at the same time past the hour.
@@patrickmccutcheon9361 yes that’s correct
I love the name of Istambul's suburban railway station where high speed trains are starting from.It must be very dificult to pronounce.
Sogu la tearsh me 😃
@@NonstopEurotrip 🤣😅
@@felixonrails good right?
@@NonstopEurotrip söghütlü ceshme, its simple
@@NonstopEurotrip It means "Willow Tree Fountain". "Sogutlucesme"
Do they have dynamic prices or are they fix?
The ones you told us in the video are incredibly cheap, can't probably cover the cost of operation (impressive however the inflation rate +300% on tickets)
Fixed prices. But yeah they were obscenely cheap. Still are now tbh!!
Real inflation in turkey is above 200%
@@vakana9374The currency is not allowed to depreciate equal to the real inflation so things would progressively be more expensive for people with foreign currencies.
Great trip. Hope this high-speed rail can reach Central of Istanbul, even reach the European part of Istanbul. But my question, is there any land availability to build that thing? Also I hope the dedicated high speed line can be completed on time, so this train can enjoy optimum speed.
I think the plan is to go round the north side, have a large terminal on the outskirts, and another at IST airport. And a metro link.
I think the high speed train will reach the Bulgaria border. EU is partially funding the part from Istanbul to the Bulgarian border en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul-Kapıkule_railway
Old Istanbul train station Haydarpasa is under restoration
@@ugurrr
Wikipedia 'da yazan hiçbir şeye güvenme, baştan aşağı yalan yanlış bilgilerle dolu bir site. Bu arada Avrupa Birliği, Türkiye'deki hayırlı olan hiçbir şeyi finanse etmez, bazı projeler için uzun vadeli kredi veriyorlar, onuda bir şekilde menfaatleri varsa veriyorlar.
The Turkish Version of a DB BR407/408 UK Class 374
Indeed.
I hope the train will be shown in Google maps in stations.
Great price for this room just for you!
And my friend 😊
Very good value for money. It wasn't obvious to me, but I assume each of the seats in you compartment had an entertainment system?
Yes that did Paul 👍🏻
I hope the Turkish people appreciate it as much as you do. Unfortunately, we do not know/appreciate the value of our country as much as you foreigners.
Thank you for the video!
I think they do. It's very popular!
Thank you for this video! We definitely will try it! Is it aloud for pets? We have two dogs and always are traveling with them
You'll have to check with th railway company
I'm planning a trip to Finland and Germany, specifically Munich. Always looking for the train as options, any suggestions how to make the journey would be a great help.
Unfortunately there's limited options for that trip. Much easier from Sweden 🙂
arrive in Munich by plane, take a Train to a German port on North See /Deutsches See , take a Ferry to a scandinavian port and further on by Train or Flixbus .
İzmir Mavi treni ile Ankara'dan İzmir'e kadar çeker misiniz?
I've done the Konya Maví
Can you please help why TCDD website and app is not showing booking after 11th December? I have to book for 16th December.
I never realized that the track went so far out the way. When Istanbul gets high-speed rail threw Istanbul and a direct route this trip should be slashed by 3 hours. Its less important now but when the E.U makes visa free transit threw all its territories there will be large volumes of traffic going between Europe and the Middle-East.
Absolutely, it'll be great. And it'll go to IST airport too
The line between Istanbul suburban station and Ankara is not all all high speed (200kmh)?
Noooo, not at all. Work is in progress to improve things
I hope the train will be shown in Google maps at stations soon for departures and more… .
It does ?
@@NonstopEurotrip no it doesn’t
Are you thinking of moving to mastodon too?
No plans to...
4:48 - was it Fenerbahce stadium?
I believe so!
Yes it is :)
Can you please help why TCDD website and app is not showing booking after 11th December? I have to book for 16th December.
No idea, it should be available 30 days before
@@NonstopEurotrip it should be available 30 days before but it is not available on app and website.
It seems that the 2nd class coach is decent. Notwithstanding the price, I would want to sit with other traveller's to get a better experience! Sitting alone in a compartment seems strange unless you were planning on an overnight sleeper trip!
Oh no I much prefer the quiet 🤫😂
That humming noise in the compartment is quite annoying on the phone's speaker. How it is in live?
Honestly I didn't notice it until I edited the video 😂
How can you reserve that VIP compartment? Do you book it online or buy it at the ticket office? If it's online, can you please send me a link? Thanks in advance!
Just book online with TCDD, I can't link you. You must book early tho
Why does Turkey limit high speed trains to 250kmh/155mph?
Cost saving on electric
@@NonstopEurotrip Thanks. That is the first solid answer to my question since Turkey started running high speed trains years ago
@@NonstopEurotrip Does this make such a difference?
@@demil3618 it makes quite a difference, yes, energy consumption goes exponentially higher with each km/h more. Not just with trains, there's a reason why commercial flight is slower today than it was in the 1960s...
Because it can. Bitch about everything.
Do you have a JPK lanyard though?
I have 3...
@@NonstopEurotrip I meant JPL. Urgh, I need to proof read my comments! 😂
Hey man. You should come and check us out on The Dartmouth Steam Railway!
I went last summer ☺️
@@NonstopEurotrip Ah no way! Did you have a good trip? How about coming back to review this for us? (Not your traditional type of review, granted 😁)
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@@bigwookeysvanlife5191 I loved it! I was with Superalbs when he filmed this:
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@@NonstopEurotrip Ah, amazing! That's a great vid 😁 Thanks Superalbs! I work on the permanent way and signals engineering departments , so I appreciate the 'well-maintained' observation 🙂
Love it 😀
Muito lindo trem compartimento vip privado do trem de alta velocidade da Tunísia 🇹🇳
Türkiye actually 😂
How about the noise on the train ?
I didn't notice when filming!
They're going to spend as much to improve this railroad as San Francisco spends each year in their efforts to "cure" homelessness! LOL
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I suppose it's good value for tourists with present the turkey currency devaluation.
How is the safety and security situation after the recent bomb blast?
This was filmed long before that
@@NonstopEurotrip really? But it was uploaded only two weeks back....
@@dodul65 correct
Mister Bean interferencia
Is booze sold on Turkish trains?
Not at the moment
@@NonstopEurotrip Is is a religious thing?
@@samtrak1204 not really
you can bring your own booze though
it plays a bit of a role (the last few years, Erdogan has been increasingly pushing his religious agenda, but Turkey is still very much a secular country with a Muslim majority, not a Muslim country. Alcohol is not forbidden (you'd get riots if the Turks couldn't get their raki anymore), but taxes have gone up, and like with tobacco in most of Europe, brewers and distillers can't advertise anymore, I believe, or it's very restricted at least. They don't go as far yet as putting livers with cirrhosis on the packaging...
Because the trains are more directly controlled by the government, I suppose they can be stricter, but at least at the moment, as far as I understand, alcohol sales are still just 'suspended because of Covid', so let's see if and when beer and alcohol sales come back.
@@barvdw it was completely different before. Beer, rakı, wine snacks, mezes, even kebabs and of course good music.
3 days ago new metro line from istanbul city to new airport abt 40 km long, opened. Signalisation system made by Turkish Electronic giant Aselsan. One another monopoly broken. Soon they will open to new markets of competitors decade ago who were giving messy offers.They used advantage many years. New name in railway electronic systems ASELSAN. Turkish state company
It really doesn't go to the city does it 😜
@@NonstopEurotrip There was 1man praying God, o my God please send me 100 gold,ifyou send 99 I wont accept. A friend hears all these and leaves 99 gold down his chimney, after few days visits his friend, hewassureGod send him 99 by mistake.Friend says I made a joke to you , hedoesnot accept, says MyGod who sends 99will most probably send another 1gold.
So Yes This Metro is just1 station before final projected station. So please follow it will open soon ))
Main idea is : Aselsan Signalisation. In my opinion they will soon give offer to projects in Egypt,and other countries.
looks like ice
Same train 😊
@@NonstopEurotrip thanks for the answer
Hey! I don't know if you are aware, but automatic title translations to Finnish have been generally bad on your channel. This videos title does not really make any sense and the same can be said about other recent videos. This might drive the traffic from Finland down, as it can be hard to decipher what the video is exactly about with automatic translated titles. I've been enjoying your videos otherwise!
Thanks for letting me know 😊
try the business class in China high speed trains. the coach there is even better than this -- you can even put the whole seat flat down and then sleep on the coach.
When I'm allowed in...!
@@NonstopEurotrip when, and why...
@@kind03cn borders still closed
@@NonstopEurotrip ah, get it
@@NonstopEurotrip i googled. looks like border is already opened. you can still apply for travel visa. But current Chinese covid quarrentine policy is 5 + 3. After you got off the airplan, you will be sent to a guarantee facility and stay there for 5 days, and then sent back to home (or another hotel for travelers) for another 3 days.
Can you still travel to Lake Van from Istanbul? In 1972 I travelled from Istanbul to Teheran by train before the west powers started pissing about in regime change
Unfortunately not.
@@NonstopEurotrip Thanks I was wondering if one still could travel to Iran by rail? Stupid western sanctions
@@likklej8edebilirsin. Batının yaptırımları türkiyeyi ilgilendirmez. Ayrıca artık batıda yaptırım yapacak güç kalmadı.
Batıda insanlar aç ve evsiz.
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ICE
Same train 🚂
In which part it run at High speed LoL
If you watched the video, you'd know...
Sometimes you give too little time to the viewer to read what you have written
You can always pause the video 😜
well ...I dont like that VIP compartment. There are also not much seat offer on existing train&car sets. It seems like realy wasting of precious seatnumbers. Besides, face to face seating is not comfortable when you seat and want your leg straight!...4 people in a compartment but you have to jumo over legs when you want go out.....No thanks
I prefer to business class if I have chance to find ticket...much more comfy.
There's plenty of legroom 😃
Agia Sofia🇬🇷 is the most beautiful
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All of Istanbul is beautiful 🇹🇷:)
@@Xarriable yes except that all the ruins are from Constantine
Yes malaka
"This unpronounceable station..."
Are you for real? omg
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@@NonstopEurotrip It's really disrespectful to the country you're a guest in. You didn't even bother including the name of the station in your written narration so your viewers could read it.
People from western countries, particularly the English speaking ones, who don't often travel abroad frequently exhibit a casual arrogance and dismissive attitude when travelling in areas where the language, customs and standards are different than back home. But I wasn't expecting that from an experienced traveller like yourself whose videos are usually very good.
@@basstrip73 I did actually...
Bir Avrupalı için ucuz Türkiye cennet Türkiye. Türkiye de yaşayan ortalama sınıf bir Türk için cehennem Türkiye pahalı Türkiye. Ağlanacak halimize Birak gülmeyi tebessüm bile edemiyoruz. Yazıklar olsun.
Thanks for watching 🤗
Ben Avrupaliyim ve Turkiyede sadece toplu tasima ucuz. Ya da soyle soyluyeyim: Avrupa'da 150km mesafe €60'ken ben Turkiyede business class 500km €50 oduyorum.
@@user-ge3jh2dq3q Dostum sen Avrupanin neresindesin?
Beyfendi biraz abartiyorsunuz bence ankarada devlet yurdunda kalıyorum yani üniveriste öğrencisiyim öğrencilerin birçoğu yani yapmak isteyenler kolaylikla hafta sonlari kendilerini eskisehire konyaya bursaya istanbula felan atiyor.hatta ve hatta konya merkezden gelenler cani sıkılınca kendilerini hemn evlerine atiyorlar ya da eskisehire açıkçası yorumunuzda tipik bir euro lira parite kiyaslamasindan baska birsey görmuyorum.ayrica ortalama bir sinifta bunda zorluk çekmez çünki bir kafede yiyecegin yemek kahve parasına sehir degisterbiliyorsun.
@@wallstreetwall4994 Dediğini anlamadım 🙄
That was LAME
Thanks for watching!
These high speed EMU's can make good commuter trains for the South Island of New Zealand. 🚅
They're not commuter trains
These electric multiple units use 25kV AC for electrification. Right? 🚅🚄🛤
Yes
This is a German Siemens train!
As mentioned in the video