Original Japanese bullet train-inside tour | Curator with a Camera
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- Bob says it's the most important train since Rocket-what do you think?
This first-generation Shinkansen is in incredible condition and it's one of the largest objects on display at the National Railway Museum. Before it was very generously donated to us by West Japan Railway Company, a completely new interior was fitted for a factory-fresh feeling.
Join our curator Bob Gwynne for an in-depth tour of this stunning vehicle and find out the history of the Japanese bullet train, which was at the forefront of a transport revolution in the 1960s.
To find out more about the National Railway Museum, visit our website: www.railwaymuseum.org.uk/
CHAPTERS:
00:00-00:17 Introduction
00:20-01:58 The most important train since Rocket?
01:59-02:58 Plane or train?
02:58-03:40 Streamlining
03:40-04:38 A brand-new line
04:39- 05:51 Bogie time!
05:51-07:17 The passenger carriage
07:17-09:41 The Motorman's cab
09:42-10:24 The earthquake button
10:25-11:18 Inside the nose cone
11:25 Like and subscribe! いいねして購読する!
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The seismometer network can actually apply the brakes before the earthquake reaches the train. The seismometer closest to the epicenter detects the earthquake and immediately commands all trains to apply emergency braking. The trains may not come to a full stop before the earthquake reach them, but they will have slowed down enough to minimize damage. They also have earthquake sirens in cities that work the same way.
What an excellent bit of tech, thanks for the info
@@NatRailwayMuseum The system doesn't give a lot of warning. Often less than 20 seconds. But especially for larger quakes that can make all the difference.
@@lars7935 The amount of warning given in practice depends on the distance between the epicentre and the railway (or city). The seismometers detect high-frequency vibrations which travel more quickly and can't be felt by humans (though some animals notice them), while the damage is typically caused by low-frequency waves which travel more slowly.
Most major quakes originate in the major faultlines in the ocean or in the Inland Sea, some distance off the coast of Honshu. For example, the Great Hanshin quake (also known as the Kobe earthquake) actually originated under the smaller island of Awaji, between Honshu and Shikoku. For these, several minutes' warning is available for even a coastal region, enough time to halt a modern Shinkansen using the emergency braking systems designed specifically for this purpose - which on the newest types even include aerodynamic spoilers (which look like ears) to supplement the usual friction efforts.
To get only 20 seconds' warning requires the quake to be a shallow inland type, which has in fact occurred, and a Shinkansen set was derailed by such a quake. This derailed train was however kept "upright and in line" as the terminology goes, and nobody was seriously hurt. These shallow inland quakes occur frequently, but it is rare for them to be as serious as the deep quakes; a major quake in that location was unexpected.
@@NatRailwayMuseum Obviously, the amount of warning varies depending on the distance from the epicenter. There may be minutes before the s-wave hits you if you've got a good distance, or it may not arrive in time at all if you're super-duper close. I think that's the big perceived weakness of earthquake early warnings: they're not predicting something in the near future but rather alerting about something that's just begun to actually happen, and unlike a tornado for example, earthquakes are quite quick by nature. Still, such a system has proven invaluable in saving people's lives by giving them those precious extra moments to prepare for the incoming shaking.
Now, in addition to train emergency brakes(which was actually what the system was originally made for), the warnings also signal the city PA systems that seemingly replaced the older siren systems, as well as TV and radio. In fact, on live TV, the presenters tend to actually be alerted to the warnings just so they can stop whatever they're doing and deliver some basic info while the newsroom's getting ready to cut in.
My only complaint about Curator with a Camera is there just aren't enough episodes! Great video, hope to see many more
Well they probably take a while to produce y,know and that’s why they are so good!
My complaint is that he uses imperial for some reason
Also could make the video 1hr and I'll watch it all!
日本人として、世界に誇る0系新幹線をイギリスが誇る国立鉄道博物館で大切に保存してもらっていることを嬉しく思います。新幹線の成り立ちから丁寧に説明されている素晴らしい動画です。ありがとう。
こっちも一緒。私は静岡県出身で、帰国したらすぐに新幹線に乗りたいです。
日本の誇りである新幹線がイギリスにあるのにびっくりです
@@MrShujinJonmichal のぞみのない静岡県……
私はスコットランド在住のイギリス人で、新幹線は他の誰よりも何十年も先を行っていたので、鉄道の歴史にとって非常に重要です。
イギリス「なんかいい鉄道ないかなぁ...そや！世界を驚かした0系を展示したろwww」
日本「Σ(ﾟдﾟ；)ｴｯ?!」
Remarkable how advanced this train is in the 1960's and more remarkable that Japan's defeat in WW2 was only 20 years earlier. I just wish Japan could build a high speed train network in Australia. It's been spoken about for endless years but nothing ever evolves. As a museum piece this train looked brand spanking new
If you weren't so busy being fascist dogs that bark when the US tells you to bark then you could have asked China for help since they have the best railway system in the world.
When Japan lost the war and was placed under the indirect control of GHQ (USA), Japan was prohibited from manufacturing weapons. Some of the engineers involved in weapon development worked in the automobile industry, while others built the Shinkansen. In economics, 'selection and concentration' was carried out.
This'd of advanced technology was made possible in part by the occupation of the United States. While we were spending billions on weaponry and allowing our infrastructure to age, japan was able to concentrate on rebuilding its infrastructure.
Taking nothing away from the excellence of the train, we should remember that Japan's infrastructure was in total ruins in many areas. They had little choice but to start afresh in many areas. Couple Japanese technical ingenuity with a great deal of Allied aid and money, and you have a new economy with a fresh transport system. Bizarrely though, the country was still using steam right in to the 70s though.
HSR just is unmatched in capacity over time. When you need to move a LOT of people within a short period of time.
If you live in the UK, once you have ridden the Shinkansen you really notice just how unfit for service UK railway is. In fact not even the shinkansen. Just any railway in Japan. It runs like clockwork and the staff provide impeccable friendly service.
Can always ride an American railway to get your sense of pride back lmao
Under investment and too much focus on motorways and private transport. This trend is possibly changing at the moment, fingers crossed
The new High Speed Rail being built will be five years late and three time over budget. Nobody in the U.K can estimate time and cost anymore.
Just too many Tories for far too long, nothing will change if their ideology continues to dominate.
@lemagreen Not just the tories Labour fu*ked it up themselves. Just Britain for you, unfortunately. Just the way it is here. Left or right it's the same shite
I love the look of the old Shinkansen. It looks like someone took an airliner, removed the wings, and tail, cut the fuselage into sections, installed electric motors, and train wheels underneath, and now you have a really cool train.
More high-speed trains should look like a plane on rails.
With how many engineers came from the aerospace industry, you are probably not entirely wrong.
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But that not how air resistance and noise reduction work
I actually take the Shinkansen just to eat Station Boxed Food aka "ekiben" which is delicious and an experience to cherish while riding a train going 200kph+ from Tokyo to Okayama.
No need to trasnfer lines, no need to board a plane. Station to Staion, you're in the middle of a big city to a big city!
Imagine you're the engineer who built this car in the 70s. Instead of being demolished its well preserved in the museum in England!
I didn't think you could even see inside the nose of the Series 0! It was a very interesting video, as few Japanese railroad fans have ever looked inside the nose of a Shinkansen.
Thanks so much for the great video!
In 2002 to 2004 I worked on the Taiwan High Speed Rail Project, rolling stock, power and train control systems. The trains were, IIRC, series 7000 Shinkansen. Some may know that this contract had been awarded to Alstom et al but that the Japanese consortium came in with such a price reduction that the Owner ditched Alstom (agreeing to pay them a huge amount in compensation) and place the order with the Japanese.
This is a long intro to the point of my tale: bogies, width, coach length, loading gauges. The approach tunnels to Taipei station had already been completed and deemed fit for the European stock, as to width, height, length of carriage etc. Remember that the Alstom TGV units are articulated.
For the non-articulated Japanese stock, there was some concern that the approach tunnels were too narrow. Japanese stock, being wider, on bogies, longer with more 'throw' on curves. Whilst the static loading gauges were deemed adequate, worries centred on the dynamic loading gauge. The Japanese companies stated that for their stock the dynamic loading gauge was the same as the static loading gauge, meaning that, inter alia, the coaches did not rock from side to side. An amazing concept.
But they were right.
I think you mean the 700 series. But other than that, you're spot on - what an amazing story this is.
@@TheMrJourneyer Thanks: 700 it is!
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I'm a Japanese train old fan.
I heard that the Japanese engineers had a hard time trying to match the two, with the track equipment and signaling equipment being made according to European standards and the Shinkansen trains being made in Japan. 😌
I understand that the major reasons for the change to Japanese-made Shinkansen trains were the ICE derailment and overturn accident in Germany in 1998 and the occurrence of the Taiwan earthquake in 1999.🤔🍀
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日本の鉄道オールドファンです。
線路設備と信号設備は、欧州規格で作られ、新幹線車両は日本製と、異なる両者のマッチングを図るため、日本人技術者は大変苦労したと聞きました。😌
なお、車両が日本製の新幹線電車に変更された大きな理由は、1998年ドイツのICE脱線転覆事故と、1999年の台湾大地震の発生が契機になったと理解しています。🤔🍀
@@Midori-Clover And Chinese make fun of this incident to sell their high-speed trains. Although India is building with Japan.
@@Saurabh_Utter-Pradesh さん
Thank you for your reply. ☺️
Yes, you are correct. 👍
China 🇨🇳 is intercepted Indonesia 🇮🇩 Shinkansen project from Japan 🇯🇵, but the project is not progressing according to the quotation they submitted. 😅
In other words, I think it can be said that China’s 🇨🇳 political purpose was the first, and the true purpose was to induce developing countries into a “debt trap”. And their technology is a copy of Germany 🇩🇪 and Japan 🇯🇵, but you can feel the “deterioration” of technology without even remembering past accidents. 🤔
In that regard, the Taiwan 🇹🇼 Shinkansen is running well, and the India 🇮🇳 Shinkansen project is progressing steadily. 🤔🍀
(Reference) India 🇮🇳 Shinkansen Project (Video created by Japan International Cooperation Agency, JICA)
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お返事ありがとう。☺️
ええ、あなたのおっしゃる事は正しいです。👍
中国🇨🇳はインドネシア🇮🇩の新幹線計画を日本🇯🇵から横取りしましたが、彼らが提出した見積書に従って、プロジェクトは進行していません。😅
つまり、中国🇨🇳の政治目的が最初にあって、発展途上国を「債務の罠」に誘導するのが、真の目的だったと言えると考えます。そして、彼らの技術はドイツ🇩🇪と日本🇯🇵のコピーですが、過去の事故を思い起こすまでも無く、技術の「劣化」が感じられます。🤔
その点、台湾🇹🇼新幹線は上手く運行されているし、インド🇮🇳新幹線プロジェクトも着実に進捗しています。🤔🍀
(ご参考)インド🇮🇳新幹線プロジェクト(日本国際協力機構、JICA作成動画)
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It’s crazy that this train design is 60 years old and does not look out of place along side modern rolling stock they really where so far ahead of the curve
新幹線の選択の内部、初めて見ました。エンジニアリング的な解説って、日本のコンテンツでも
余り無いのよね。興味深い話、ありがとうございます。
Having sat on the Shinkansen multiple times during my visit ( Thanks, JR pass), the entire ride experience, from entry to boarding to onboard was top notch. Don't think I've encountered such a seamless train ride experience before.
UK as a whole surely knows how to collect and preserve old relics. This train is very fortunate to find a good caretaker. Thank you. The curator has presented a never seen before footage with exceptional knowledge as well. 0-series was special one and it was a realization of their dream Japanese engineers had when they were forbidden to produce passenger planes.
By comparison, the interiors of our diesel locomotives of the same era look like something straight out of an iron foundry.
As an ironworker, I'm not exactly sure how I feel about this statement.
One small thing I wish he mentioned was how the nose cone was opaque at launch and was illuminated from inside the nose. It changed colour depending on the direction of travel. And then it would have been cool when he shows the head lights from inside the nose, how the red filters rotate around to change the colour. But was cool to see behind that door inside the cab, I’ve always wondered what was behind it!
This is an excellent video! In the 30 years I've lived in Japan I've ridden just about every model and visited the National Train Museum in Omiya several times but the one thing I have never, ever seen was inside the nose cone of a 0-series. Thank you for showing that!
The Omiya museum is great fun - I lived only a couple of stops away from it and never visited until I'd moved back to the UK and was back in Japan on holiday with the kids. Wish I'd gone sooner.
I‘m a Japanese living in Kansai.
The 0 Series Shinkansen trains are also in the Kyoto Railway Museum, along with the 100 Series and 500 Series Shinkansen. ☝️
If you have a chance, please visit us.🤗🍀
Small correction:
No Shinkansen line repalced any existing line. Intercity services got moved to Shinkansen lines - which translates to "new main line" - but the original main lines running along the same corridors still exist.
Nowadays these lines carry mainly regional trains but still a limited number of long distance services alongside freight.
"Shinkansen line" is redundant, "sen" already meaning line.
@@frontenac5083 Yes and since that is not commonly known it's generally translated as above. After all we aren't calling it "new main line" either.
The purpose of translation is to properly communicate, not transcribe word for word. Especially as we are talking about multiple lines on the Shinkansen network it makes little sense to talk about multiple Shinkansen as that would infer multiple different systems to an english reader.
Calling it Shinkansen lines makes it clear that it is one system with multiple lines instead of multiple incompatible systems.
And no just because there is currently no rail connection between Tokaido Shinkansen and Tohoku/ Hokuriku/ Joetsu Shinkansen doesn't make it two systems. It is still one systems split into two (almost) continuous sections. Especially since a connection via the western Hokuriku Shinkansen is in the works.
The Nagano Shinkansen has replaced 1 section of the existing main line tho
The 0 Series Shinkansen really was a vision of the future. The only comparable train I can think of that embodied such a dramatic jump forward would be the Talgo.
Japanese guys had ATC & Telecom in HSR Trains in 60's, that's something impressive for that time!
There was a cabin for passengers to make phone calls from on the move, too. Must have seemed amazing, at the time!
@@worldcomicsreview354 Specially when you consider that less than half of all UK households had a telephone in the mid 60s.
When I visited YRM, from China in 2016, it was fantastic to be able to sit inside the carriage and imagine what it was like to be a salaryman commuting to work in the 1960's.
Back in 2011 during a Japanese festival event at the NRM there was an opportunity to visit the cab of the Shinkansen and I got to sit in the drivers seat, It was such a privilege and I still remember it fondly.
It astounds me that, just as the Shinkansen revolutionized passenger trains, Britain was tearing up it's own railways and it's importance still hasn't penetrated the US.
The bullet train was the second of these Japanese “railway revolutions”. The first one was in 1872 along the same corridor (Tokyo-Osaka) and was done by just getting the line built. As one writer puts it, it “drastically altered people’s perception of time”.
1:53 smooth af transition
Over 50 years operations with literally billions of passengers in the same time period, with zero fatalities is extraordinary. We need these networks in every country.
That's called fluke.
It's only a matter of time before something goes massively wrong with these trains.
Anyone who still thinks Japanese "engineering" is still even remotely safe after what happened with their nuclear power plant in 2011 needs to wake up urgently.
@@frontenac5083 You're calling 50 consecutive years of data "a fluke"? Ok lol
@@frontenac5083 You do know that multiple experts warned about fukushima being unsafe, but the corporation running it choose not to make the suggested changes because they waould cause a small loss in profits.
When I was a kid, I had a poster of the Bullet train on my bedroom wall. I thought it was the neatest, most futuristic train I had ever seen.
I just love the green on that operator panel. I want the pantone. I need to have something that color in my life.
4:40 The bogie and vibration problems are usually overlooked in most Shinkansen videos, so this is impressive. It was arguably one of the most important engineering aspects of the system, and a little understood area for trains at the time, I believe.
The theorisation of vibration/oscillation behavior of high speed trains was essentially what allowed the Shinkansen to be ran at such speeds.
This was one of my greatest experiences while in Japan in '03. I took it from Tokyo to Kyoto and back, it was grand...the service was excellent and the ride fabulous. 😀 I so hope to get back soon and ride it again.
I think that train is still one of the most beautiful looking trains out there.
I saw one of these at the JR museum in Nagoya in 2016. That was a cool museum.
I want to ride in the nose cone looking out the headlight port. That would be an absolute blast!
That sounds pretty terrifying!
I'm totally proud of the zero series being exhibited in the UK where railways were born.
I have never seen what was like in its nose cone (which is nicknamed dangoppana, sweet rice dumpling-shaped nose, or bulbous nose) since this video, and even didn't know it was possible to enter from the motorman room.
I remember when she was in operation when I was child(approx 20 yeas ago), and felt she was looking like grandmother of the Shinkansen on its face compared with 100 series.
Thanks for fantastic video!
It's interesting that the Shinkansen was a game changer not just because of its speed, but how it was used. Trains running at 125mph+ were nothing new - the German 877 Hamburger, American Zephyr and Italian ETR-200 had done so decades before in the 1930s, but the Shinkansen was revolutionary because unlike those trains that ran on traditional rail lines, the Japanese constructed dedicated high-speed lines that lacked tight corners or steep hills, level crossings or interference from slower commuter & freight trains. This relatively simple change in operations turned the Shinkansen from simply a fast train to a phenomenally effective mode of transport.
I'm a Japanese train fan.
Japan's railways opened in 1872 with the technical and operational guidance of the British🇬🇧, and although they adopted narrow gauge (1067mm), they were not suitable for high speeds due to other factors such as the mountainous area.
Later, in 1910, a resolution was passed to convert the narrow gauge to standard gauge (1435 mm) in order to increase transportation capacity, and research progressed, but the conversion to standard gauge was canceled due to differences in intentions between political parties.
The "Bullet Train" project by constructing a new standard gauge line, which is directly related to the current Shinkansen project, began in 1939, and some tunnel construction also began in 1940; It was canceled in 1943 due to World War II.
However, the tunnel dug at this time was used as the “Tokaido-Shinkansen” line, and many people have passed through it since it opened in 1964.
Finally, with the success of this bullet train project, I am confident that this method of intercity transportation, which does not rely on airplanes or road transportation, will hold a special place in the history of world transportation.😌🍀
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私は、日本の鉄道ファンです。日本の鉄道は、英国🇬🇧の技術・運営指導により1872年に開業しましたが、ナローゲージ(1067mm)を採用しましたが、山岳地帯等、別の要因もあり、高速化には向いていませんでした。
その後、1910年には輸送力増強のため、狭軌を標準軌(1435mm)に改築する決議が行われ、研究も進んだが、政党同士の思惑の違いにより、標準軌化は中止させられました。
そして、現在の新幹線計画に直接関係する、標準軌新線の建設による「弾丸列車」計画は、1939年に開始され、1940年には、一部のトンネル工事も開始されましたが、第二次世界大戦の影響で、1943年に中止されてしまいました。
でも、この時掘られたトンネルは、東海道新幹線の線路に活用され、1964年の開業に伴って多くの人々が通過しています。
最後に、この弾丸列車計画の成功によって、飛行機や道路交通によらない、都市間連絡交通の一つの手法は、世界の交通史でも、特別の地位を持つものと確信しています。😌🍀
I’m a Japanese dude grown up in the UK, when I was little I often visited this museum to see and enjoy the old Kodama Shinkansen. I miss it, it’s still my dream train.
Accurately speaking, the mechanism of the emergency stop is that after the seismometer detects the initial microtremor (p-wave), the breaker at each substation trips, cutting off the power supply and stopping it. Thanks to this system when the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred. In total, about 29 trains were able to stop safely. Recently, stopping in tunnels or on bridges is dangerous, so by downsizing the machine, we installed a storage battery in the Shinkansen and used that power for about 40 minutes. It is designed so that even if it is able to move and the power supply is cut off, it will be possible to evacuate from the vehicle after moving to a safe position.
Fabulous!! I see that the 0-Kei(0 series) on display in U.K. can go under the hood. I saw a video of its interior for the first time.
What a beautiful vehicle.
Fantastic video. The stopwatch recess is standard on all Japan trains I believe, even on the modern Shinkansen. The timing on JR is to the 1/4 minute, and along the line they are constantly monitoring progress vs time and adjusting their speed accordingly, to maintain that 1/4 min accuracy.
Even on the controllers for train driving videogames!
Thank you for this video. I've been a shinkansen fan for years, but for some reason I never even considered that there was actually anything in the nose, let alone an actual hatch on the inside to let you enter it. At 54 I'm still learning new things. Just got back from Japan where I spent one of my 3 weeks with a JR Rail Pass backpacking up and down the country hopping on and off the newer sleek shinkansen. Absolutely marvelous way to travel.
Exceptional knowledge shown by the curator, no just the techinical aspect but also the cultural aspect, thank you for the work.
Visited the NRM with our children many times and enjoyed every return visit, great to see these new videos.
I went to see this a few years ago and the thing that struck me the most was how big wide the interior was and how high the ceiling was too! Would be great if we got a 500 series too one day!
It's a vehicle that can reach speeds of nearly 300km/h, which exceeds the legal speed limit on Japanese highways, but looking at the derailment accident records, there are no cases where it was blown off the track, which I think is the greatness of Japanese technology.
This is one of my favorite trains.
運転席からノーズコーンの内部に入れるの初めて知った！
あの中に非常用の連結器が入ってるのは知ってて、非常時に前のカバーを取り外して連結器を出すのは知っていたけど後ろにも入れる所があるなんて！
Love this, the series zero just a beautiful train.
One of the greatest projects ever done. And they're doing another line
Fabulous series. Thank you.
I saw the 0 and 200 in the Omiya museum a few days ago!
Beautiful, efficient, simple. And safe!
Post-war Japan was banned from aircraft production and research for seven years. This led to the decline of the aviation industry. Therefore, talented engineers who used to work in the aviation industry became active in the railway and automobile industries.
I like the rotating passenger seats.
Thanks for the amazing modern history lesson!
I am hoping to revisit the NRM this summer, so these CWAC sessions have been invaluable to make the visit more useful and interesting. Thank you.
We look forward to welcoming you back. How long since your last visit? Check our website towards the end of next week for our summer opening info.
@@NatRailwayMuseum Unfortunately I see the museum will be CLOSED on the day (18th July) that I shall be in York. Was not expecting a major national museum to have closed days at this time of year.
Excellent.Really enjoyed this.
One of the most interesting videos I've watched in a long while.... cheers.
thank you you solve my questions of how they change the lights to red back them, (that red filter), when you got inside the cone
Production quality is epic, really enjoyed watching this, even looking at the areas you don't get to see.
I love these videos, alot of my memories from my childhood are in the NRM.
Thanks for another informative minifilm on another fantastic train!
Loved this!
Very interesting and informative. Thank-you.
Excellent video, thank you so much. I especially enjoyed the connection between technology and societal effect/impact. This is an aspect often missing in "historical tech" TH-cam channels.
I guess one aspect that was also very novel in these Shinkansen train sets was the dual cab set up. Basically all European trains of this age required engine switching at all terminal stations, a time consuming activity.
good job bob i love this episodes
Well presented
i never knew the nose cone had such a large space inside.
there’s always more to learn about trains, how ever many times i see videos on them😊
Great video! I used to ride the Joetsu shinkansen a couple of times a week during the winter, and the thing that surprised me when I visited the Series 0 in York was that is still smells exactly like a shinkansen in the carriage!!! I realise it's a funny thing to say (what else would it small like?!?) but it immediately transported me back.
It has a very distinctive scent, subtle, but you notice it every time you pop inside.
I'm in the States and am hoping to get to the museum on my planned trip this fall. You keep giving me more reasons to visit. Keep up the good work, I'm looking forward to more temptation!
Fly to Manchester (north west of England) and take the train to York from there.
We hope you have a fantastic visit. Make sure you check out website for opening dates before you come :)
In my opinion your only doing one of them. not right in a way for me to throw this at you since visiting from afar really limits what you can travel out too. but the NRM Shildon has the apt-e and.. the high speed freight vechile...
Tadishi Masudaira was the first to solve the hunting oscilation/derailment problem and his train did 135mph, he chose the brand new rail profile and brand new wheel profile.
Alan Wickens led a team that solved the problem forever. trains can do any speed on different rail profiles that BR inherited. the limiting factor for future trains speeds, aerodynamics, motor power, wearing out rails too fast, ect. The HSFV or one of them is one of the few of these test beds left.
That train looks amazing!
Truly fascinating
Love the juxtaposition at 10.31 Shinkansen being shunted by a steam engine.!
That was one of the prototype Shinkansen end car.
Steam was still in service in some places in Japan over a decade after the Shinkansen was introduced.
Wonderful video.
Great video.
Thank you for doing a video Tour of the Zero Series Shinkansen, it's one of my Favorite trains of all Times! I got a model ho train in my Model train Box
Very interesting, thanks
If you are ever in Nagoya I can recommend the Shinkansen and Maglev museum. (If you do a search here you can find videos) If you are lucky you can even use a simulator. They also have the earliest trains used in Japan - made in the UK. How times have changed.!
Now UK is using Japanese made trains (Hitachi dominance)! Ironic.
From Japanese railway expert: Here is a less fact about the 0series Shinkansen. The train appears to be missing something which is a coupling and that coupling is hidden in the nose of the train and this style of the coupling is still in the nose of every single bullet train from they still have these hidden nose couplings from the 100 series 700 series up the to the N700
I was hoping to see a video tour of this beautiful locomotive on this channel! I had just watched a documentary on how it was delivered to the National Railway Museum a few days ago. I always enjoy these _Curator with a Camera_ videos! Are there any other foreign locomotives on display in the museum?
Same here, I watched the video of how the Shinkansen Zero Series got to the National Railway Museum
@@MrShujinJonmichal It was very interesting. It was a very tight squeeze getting the locomotive inside, but it was all worth it!
@@VictrolaFoxtrot soo True. I am actually from Japan and Want to go back and Visit Japan. I am adopted from there
We've seen that documentary, still quite incredible how much work went into transporting the Shinkansen by boat and road from Japan to Southampton then on to York.
We have what's known as the 'Chinese loco' KF7, which was built in Britain for operation in China, then returned to the UK when it was gifted to us - collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co205814/chinese-government-railways-steam-locomotive-4-8-4-kf-class-no-7-steam-locomotive
Eurostar, too, and we have a video on the way for that incredibly complicated machine.
There's also the Cape Government locomotive, which is currently at Locomotion but will be coming to York soon - collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8063067/cape-government-locomotive-and-tender-4-8-0-1896-steam-locomotive-locomotive-and-rolling-stock
...plus many more treasures from railways far and wide.
@@NatRailwayMuseum Thank you for the response. Those engines are absolutely amazing, especially that Chinese KF Class! What a beautiful restoration. I can't wait to see the Eurostar video!
Great video - really enjoyed this thanks! Your statement about it being the second most consequential train development after Rocket was very apt (in particular regarding passenger transport).
I seem to remember reading somewhere that this locomotive (?) was taken out of service, given a major overhaul until it was perfect then, before it went on the boat, it was blessed by a Shinto Priest. I believe Japanese National Railways even sent one of their regular Shinkansen engineers to help NRM set it up for display. They don't let just anybody peer into their beautiful trains.
The amount of love it received before they were happy to let it go was incredible. More than 100 staff in Japan worked on preparing it for its new home, and the entire passenger seating area was taken out and fitted with brand-new everything. Wonderful to see such pride in their creation, and we have cherished it ever since. Visitors love it, too, especially as they get to sit inside.
Just a small nitpick, but JNR was privatized into the Japan Railways Group in 1987, so this railset was donated by JR West. You can tell by the paint scheme. JR East painted theirs with green stripes.
And I liked how when looking into the nose one, you could see the red filters that would be rotated into place when the train reached its terminal. Being an electric train, it doesn’t need to be physically turned around like a diesel or steam locomotive, so the lights just change color. Nowadays I’m sure it’s all LEDs, but back then they needed colored filters.
10:43 前の四角い機械の上の扉は定期点検の際にパテを剥がして開け、列車無線などの機器類を外に出す扉らしく機器類の点検完了後に機器を戻し扉を閉じ外からパテを塗って目立たぬように塗装するそうです。
ちなみにこの話を教えていただいたのは『四国鉄道文化館』の館長さんから聞いた話です。
What an absolutely fantastic video, I shall have to take a visit to York.
One of my favourite trains. Always wanted to rid one. Certain in my top 10.
Yes I did enjoy that!
Awesome this train 👌
Very interesting video, really enjoyed it 👍👍
7:48 just below and between the two dial displays is a mantle/pedestal for the Seiko Type-19 railroad watch.
The watch had a hacking function that set the seconds hand to zero when the crown was pulled out, so the watch could be set to the second for the utmost accuracy for time keeping and schedules.
The focus of the Shinkansen is on systems such as vibration resistance and braking rather than speed.
The automatic train control was introduced for the first time in the world.
Very good observation about how the front profile is similar to the Boeing 707. They also tried various livery and color schemes. I believe they ended up being inspired by the Pan Am livery of the day.
What a great video of a fame changing train
Definitely on my bucket list! Can’t wait to make the trip from the US to see this collection in person!
When do you think you'll visit?
0系、その次の100系までは食堂車が付いた編成があった時代もありました。
It's an amazing piece of engineering. Train guy in me jumps for joy. The economic part of me panics lol. But I honestly never turn down a ride on one, truly is amazing.
Trains are one of the most economically viable forms of transit
I'm a Japanese train old fan.
Last year, 2022, was the 150th anniversary of the opening of railways in Japan🇯🇵.
When the railway opened in 1872, Japan🇯🇵 learned about construction and railway operation with support from England🇬🇧.
After that, Japanese engineers were gradually trained, and in 1964, 92 years after the opening of the railway, the Tokaido-Shinkansen opened, marking the beginning of the world's high-speed railway era.
I am deeply moved by the fact that the Shinkansen trains from that time are now carefully stored in the birthplace of railways, England🇬🇧, as if the students were giving back to their teachers.😌
Thank you very much.🇬🇧🤝🇯🇵🤗🍀
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私は、日本の鉄道オールドファンです。
昨年2022年は、日本🇯🇵の鉄道開業150周年の年でした。
日本🇯🇵は、1872年の鉄道開業時にイギリス🇬🇧からの支援で、建設と鉄道運営を学びました。
その後、徐々に日本人技術者が育成され、鉄道開業より92年後の1964年には、東海道新幹線が開業し、世界の高速鉄道時代の幕開けとなりました。
今、当時の新幹線車両が、鉄道発祥の地、イギリス🇬🇧で大切に保管されているのは、生徒が先生に恩返しをしたように、誠に感慨深いものがあります。😌
どうもありがとうございます。🇬🇧🤝🇯🇵🤗🍀
We visited a few months ago. It has a very very distinctive smell inside which brought back memories of travelling in Japan over the last decade - every train in Japan smells the same but never smelt it anywhere else. Must be something vinyl or plastic that just isn’t used elsewhere
I just added nearly exactly the same comment - I can't place what the smell is, but every shinkansen carriage smells the same! I always found the commuter trains smelled slightly different - I suppose the crowds of people mask it to an extent.
I’m an old fan of Japanese railways, but I imagine that the unique smell of trains is the smell of linoleum on the floor coverings. 🤔 But the smell is never a bad feeling. ☝️🍀
20 years after WW2 Japan was able to build this… mindblowing.
Especially all the electric (external) controls. This is incredible
Lol.
It's just a train!
Anyone can make those.
@@frontenac5083 Really? Because even today, 60 years after the Shinkansen SYSTEM came into service, there are so called "developed" countries that haven't caught up with this yet.
@@frontenac5083 the usa sure cant lmao
@@frontenac5083 The US cannot make a stable, modern, safe and high-speed train in 2023...
Last time I went to the NRM, this immediately caught my eye. This must have excited Japan at the time. I got to sit down in the passenger cabin. Comfortable but seemed a bit too modern for a 1969 train? I see that this was a new interior fitted before it came to the museum, but is that how they were in period? If so, that's strikingly modern.
8:07 : that compartment is actually for the driver’s pocket watch. Not a stop watch.
Fun fact: Japan is the only country where engine drivers still uses pocket watches in present time. Except they’re battery powered. The reason they still uses pocket watches is because of its easy to read time while on display instead of looking at a wrist watch constantly while driving.