As a spanish that worked on the construction phase II of this wonderful and huge project for a year, between Medina and Jeddah, I'm so happy and proud to see this working at full pace and I would like to visit it some day. It was a big challenge against the desert and time. Our team worked on the section between KAEC and Workbase 3 near Medina and also we conduct the first dynamic tests of the first Talgo EMU that arrived to Saudi Arabia. Thanks for your video, I loved it.
@@sajidislam5262 There are few companies involve in this projects Including (China Railway Construction Corp) CRCC, SIEMENS, ABENGOA, adif, renfe, Consultrans, OHL, Alshoula, Talgo, Copasa, IMATHIA Construccion, Indra, ineco, Cobra GRUPO, AIRosan Company.
I'm Australian (Christian) and would love to visit Saudi one of these days ... Thanks for sharing that video, knowing I can travel a long distance in a short time ... Love the scenery and the kindness of the people there ! .... can't wait to visit !
I travelled between Makkah and Madinah in August 2024, this has been the best train experience in my life so far !! U don't even feel like ur travelling at 300 kmph, u just feel like ur sitting in a idle cabin.
When my wife and I performed the haj in 2008 our group of Malaysian pilgrims travelled by rickety buses with open windows. Slow and at times uncomfortable, they were much more memorable than a high speed train. At one point on the trip from Jeddah to Medina, we stopped at a roadside rest area, and it was an unforgettable moment: the full moon was setting behind us, and in front, the sun was rising red through the desert air. These buses were great for getting a feel for the desert air and the expanses of distance. You felt more that you were IN the scenery rather than slicing through it.
Me a SRILANKAN had been The Kingdom Saudi Arabia for 8 years. What friendly nation ! When I see how KSA marching towards to development providing more facilities to to the people I can't control my happiness . MAY GOD BLESS THE KINGDOM of KSA.
You people believe in #formless God then why so violence 😢, terr0r, su!cde b00mbing. Why pray towards a Stone House 🏡😂, why circle it, why kiss the Stone from Heaven, why throw stones at Shaitan, why go religious places to places & why build m0sque??
12:51 what you said at this moment about holy mosque ,is touched my heart ❤ .... big thanks for this line ,we Muslims are very much attached to this city ... we love our prophet ( ﷺ) very much ,hence this city too .... we pray and wish you good luck for rest of your life, and may your channel grow faster than expected time.
In December 2018, I took this train from Medina to Makkah running at 200 km/hr. It was an excellent trip that took 3 hours ( 450 km) passing thru North Jiddah station.
Beautiful mountain views from the train, and that's a stunning mosque in Medina! Besides serving Mecca and Medina for Hajj, there's also umrah which is a pilgrimage that can be completed at any time of the year! Besides the HSR, Mecca has a very interesting Metro line specifically for Hajj called the Al Mashaaer Al Mugaddassah Metro line! It's 12-cars long because it operates just 7 days a year for Hajj! Each train carries 3K passengers with 150-second headways between the Hajj sites of Mina, Muzdalifah and Mount Arafat! During the week of Hajj, it carries 72,000 passengers an hour, making it the busiest metro line in the world during the week of Hajj! As every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to is required to make a Hajj pilgrimage, millions show up every year, leading to extreme congestion between the sites, so for a safer Hajj, the Saudis opted to build a shuttle metro line with Chinese support, replacing 53,000 buses! Mina is known as the world's largest tent city, because it can house 100K air-conditioned tents with a capacity of more than three million pilgrims! Mina is also the home of the Jamaraat Bridge, which is where the hajj ritual of stoning pillars (devils) takes place. Mount Arafat is according to Islamic tradition, the place where prophet Muhammad stood and delivered the Farewell Sermon to his companions who had accompanied him for the Hajj towards the end of his life. Without the Metro, it would be 21 km to walk from Mina to Mount Arafat! For year-round residents and umrah, Mecca is also building a whole metro system! The Clock Towers complex by the Great Mosque in Mecca is also impressive! Its central tower, the Makkah Clock Royal Tower, is one of the tallest free-standing structures in the world, and each clock face measures 43 m in diameter and are illuminated by 2 million LED lights! The capital Riyadh is also getting a metro system, with six lines being built simultaneously in 2024 with over 80 stations! The system will use Alstom and Siemens rolling stock and had its groundbreaking in 2014!
The Prophet's Mosque in Medina is called such because Muhammad himself was involved in the construction of the mosque, and the mosque has served as his resting place after it was expanded during the reign of the Umayyad caliph al-Walid I. At the time, the mosque's land belonged to two young orphans, Sahl and Suhayl, and when they learned that Muhammad wished to acquire their land to erect a mosque, they went to Muhammad and offered the land to him as a gift. Muhammad insisted on paying a price for the land because they were orphaned children. The price agreed upon was paid by Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, who thus became the endower or donor of the mosque, on behalf or in favor of Muhammad. Al-Ansari also accommodated Muhammad upon his arrival at Medina in 622. 622 was the first year of Hijrah, which was the journey that Muhammad and his followers took from Mecca to Medina. Muhammad died in 632. A title that the monarch of Saudi Arabia has is the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, referencing the Prophet's Mosque in Medina and Masjid al-Haram or the Great Mosque of Mecca. Jeddah facts: Jeddah has the King Fahd's Fountain, the tallest fountain of its type in the world, named after King Fahd bin Abdulaziz, the ruler of Saudi Arabia from 1982 until 2005. The fountain jets water to a maximum height of 260 meters (853 ft). King Fahd's Fountain is listed in Guinness World Records as the highest water fountain in the world! The water ejected can reach a speed of 375 km/h (233 mph) and its airborne mass can exceed 16 tonnes (18 short tons). The fountain uses saltwater taken from the Red Sea instead of freshwater. Over 500 LED spotlights illuminate the fountain at night. Jeddah is home to one of the tallest flagpoles in the world at 171 meters (561 ft) high, it was the tallest flagpole in the world from 2014 until 2021! Between the 1980s and 2010, the DPRK had the world's tallest flagpole in Kijong-dong at 160 m (525 ft) tall. The South Korean government built a 100 m (328 ft) tall flagpole on the DMZ at Daeseong-dong, and so the DPRK responded accordingly.
There are few companies involve in this projects Including (China Railway Construction Corp) CRCC, SIEMENS, ABENGOA, adif, renfe, Consultrans, OHL, Alshoula, Talgo, Copasa, IMATHIA Construccion, Indra, ineco, Cobra GRUPO, AIRosan Company.
We toured Saudi in February for 14 days and finished the trip riding this train in tourist class from Medina to Jeddah. Experience was Exactly as you described it in video. Really need to do a video on the Al-Ula area since that is their primary foreign tourism location now and really unique place. I will go back to Saudi after NEOM is further developed
it's gonna be common soon in GCC countries as all of GCC countries are making multiple high speed rails and they might be the 2nd or 3rd to have meglave in future.
Thank you for an extremely interesting and informative video! It provided a strange mix of the familiar and the unfamiliar. A high speed train which would not be out of place in Europe running in very non-European surroundings!
Not a destination I am keen to visit, but I am nevertheless impressed. You could have fooled anyone had you claimed that the building complex was an airport. Both the lounge and the train interior is as luxurious as it gets. Thanks for another amazing video. Do you plan on doing a video on the new Railjet?
I agree Luke. I was apprehensive too, but Saudi was very welcoming, organised and developed. I had a great trip! 😁 The new Railjet will be my next video 🙂
Disagree with Luke, what he said in 1st line,I am the one who love to visit this city even at the cost of $1 bn... and mind it ,it's true for many Muslims
There’s a gulf train network that I hope get completed soon, anyway I’m happy that you enjoyed my city of Jeddah we are pretty unique among Saudi cities
Never expected to be this beautiful train. I left Saudi Arabia last 2021. I regret not trying that bullet train. Will go in future to Saudi Arabia as a tourist. ♥️ I miss this 2nd home.
@@Desi365Because it's for muslims only, there are plenty of restricted access places in the west but those are okay somehow, when saudi does it it's not good. Make it make sense, hypocrite!
Great trip, finally you try this train. With this train, you can escape from long day on the road between Makkah and Madinah, or in this case between Jeddah and Madinah.
Excellent travel report. I traveled on a Spain-built trainset while in Andalusia a few years ago. What was very weird in your video was that an additional locomotive also pushed this high-speed trainset from the back. Thank you for this report.
@@NonstopEurotrip I mean in your video, in Saudia, there is visible separate loco attached (not a power car). EMU by definition has power cars on both ends.
The service of the Al Haramain is just great and lovely. It brought back for me a flair in train travel. I took a service into Makkah last winter and staff were great. One thing to take into account : when you buy your ticket online, it's not possible to change it in anyway at a staffed ticket office. I had to do this online , but was not able to do this in time for the earlier departure I wanted to take.
I enjoyed a lot this video ! It is the first time that I am visiting your channel and I really liked it ! I liked it for two reasons : a) we Israelis are always curious to know what the Gulf Nations are up to and high-speed trains are simply fantastic. To know that now there are high-speed trains in the Middle East are good news. What a pity that I still cannot visit Saudi Arabia ! b) I liked that your video was politically correct, neutral and unbiased. When showing the map of the Middle East, you called us by our correct name: Israel. THANK YOU ERY MUCH FOR THAT ! I wish you to keep up the excellent work and mat God bless you always !
Tehnically it seems to be a challenge to keep the train running because the tracks are frequently covered in desert sand. Seems like it was working well when you were there. (But no, I don't have the slightest reason to travel to Saudi Arabia myself, being an atheist preferring cooler weather.)
Great video, the facilities and trains in SA are top notch 🔥👏 Do you know if there is a plan for a HS line between Jeddah-Riyadh and a HS line between Riyadh and Bahrain/Qatar/UAE ?
A very misunderstood country. Visited Jeddah last year and found it a very welcoming country who were curious in seeing a 6ft tatoo covered Scotsman wandering around Jeddah....
Actually there are many foreigners in Saudi something like 40% of the population..mostly south asians, doing all the menial work on low wages....but obviously the pay is still better than back home.
Peak times are at specific times such as: (Vacation - night and early morning - times of Hajj and Umrah seasons - Ramadan - and others - and others) And also, often in train projects, the high profit is not of interest, but the most important is to serve tourists.
Why not…there is so much scare mongering about this country..there is so much to see and the people are very friendly. I’ve worked here 10 years and feel safer than in Uk!
Seems to be an enormously over-generous service when it's not super-busy times. You seemed to be the only passenger in the whole station. Looks like a classic government-sponsored prestige megaproject
Regarding Talgo and their peculiar wheel arrangement, from the Wikipedia article it appears that there are different kinds of bogies. If I remember correctly, the gauge-changing types don't have the same suspension that the fixed-gauge bogies have. So that might explain the difference. Or perhaps that the Chinese built the infrastructure. 🙂
@@NonstopEurotrip What @DBBravo said. It appears that the bumpiness of the Talgo is mainly limited to the gauge-changing versions. They have far less in terms of suspension than the ones that don't change gauge. The Wikipedia article describes this.
@@SeverityOne na that's not true. The Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan ones are very bumpy, yet they don't gauge change. Can't even blame track quality as the ex soviet coaches in those countries are fine.
@@NonstopEurotrip Well, put it this way then: the Talgo system doesn't necessarily have to be bumpy, but it depends on the suspension. Could it be that they have a different kind of bogie? One would imagine that the Saudis probably the most expensive version.
@@NonstopEurotrip not as in first stop. in the first place is a idiom. used at the end of a sentence to indicate what was true or what should have been done at the beginning of a situation
The rail track was built by Spanish companies OHL and Copasa-Imathia. Please check your sources. It seems that there has been a lot of propaganda about the Chinese involvement in the project and it was only in p1 with the ground movements and the structures. And they did it poorly
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As a spanish that worked on the construction phase II of this wonderful and huge project for a year, between Medina and Jeddah, I'm so happy and proud to see this working at full pace and I would like to visit it some day. It was a big challenge against the desert and time.
Our team worked on the section between KAEC and Workbase 3 near Medina and also we conduct the first dynamic tests of the first Talgo EMU that arrived to Saudi Arabia.
Thanks for your video, I loved it.
Thank you, that's very kind... And you did a great job I hope you get to ride it soon 😁
as saudi thank u for ur service
@@NonstopEurotripis this track build by China or Spain ?
@@sajidislam5262 I believe it's built by Spain, except for stations
@@sajidislam5262 There are few companies involve in this projects
Including (China Railway Construction
Corp) CRCC, SIEMENS, ABENGOA, adif, renfe, Consultrans, OHL, Alshoula, Talgo, Copasa, IMATHIA Construccion, Indra, ineco, Cobra GRUPO, AIRosan Company.
I'm Australian (Christian) and would love to visit Saudi one of these days ... Thanks for sharing that video, knowing I can travel a long distance in a short time ... Love the scenery and the kindness of the people there ! .... can't wait to visit !
I hope you make it one day!
I travelled between Makkah and Madinah in August 2024, this has been the best train experience in my life so far !!
U don't even feel like ur travelling at 300 kmph, u just feel like ur sitting in a idle cabin.
I know right?!
When my wife and I performed the haj in 2008 our group of Malaysian pilgrims travelled by rickety buses with open windows. Slow and at times uncomfortable, they were much more memorable than a high speed train. At one point on the trip from Jeddah to Medina, we stopped at a roadside rest area, and it was an unforgettable moment: the full moon was setting behind us, and in front, the sun was rising red through the desert air. These buses were great for getting a feel for the desert air and the expanses of distance. You felt more that you were IN the scenery rather than slicing through it.
Thanks for sharing 😊
If these rides are still available, I am sure you could still ride on one
Me a SRILANKAN had been The Kingdom Saudi Arabia for 8 years. What friendly nation ! When I see how KSA marching towards to development providing more facilities to to the people I can't control my happiness . MAY GOD BLESS THE KINGDOM of KSA.
You people believe in #formless God then why so violence 😢, terr0r, su!cde b00mbing. Why pray towards a Stone House 🏡😂, why circle it, why kiss the Stone from Heaven, why throw stones at Shaitan, why go religious places to places & why build m0sque??
👏
12:51 what you said at this moment about holy mosque ,is touched my heart ❤ .... big thanks for this line ,we Muslims are very much attached to this city ... we love our prophet ( ﷺ) very much ,hence this city too .... we pray and wish you good luck for rest of your life, and may your channel grow faster than expected time.
Thank you so much for your kind words 💕💕💕
In December 2018, I took this train from Medina to Makkah running at 200 km/hr. It was an excellent trip that took 3 hours ( 450 km) passing thru North Jiddah station.
Beautiful mountain views from the train, and that's a stunning mosque in Medina! Besides serving Mecca and Medina for Hajj, there's also umrah which is a pilgrimage that can be completed at any time of the year! Besides the HSR, Mecca has a very interesting Metro line specifically for Hajj called the Al Mashaaer Al Mugaddassah Metro line! It's 12-cars long because it operates just 7 days a year for Hajj! Each train carries 3K passengers with 150-second headways between the Hajj sites of Mina, Muzdalifah and Mount Arafat! During the week of Hajj, it carries 72,000 passengers an hour, making it the busiest metro line in the world during the week of Hajj! As every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to is required to make a Hajj pilgrimage, millions show up every year, leading to extreme congestion between the sites, so for a safer Hajj, the Saudis opted to build a shuttle metro line with Chinese support, replacing 53,000 buses!
Mina is known as the world's largest tent city, because it can house 100K air-conditioned tents with a capacity of more than three million pilgrims! Mina is also the home of the Jamaraat Bridge, which is where the hajj ritual of stoning pillars (devils) takes place. Mount Arafat is according to Islamic tradition, the place where prophet Muhammad stood and delivered the Farewell Sermon to his companions who had accompanied him for the Hajj towards the end of his life. Without the Metro, it would be 21 km to walk from Mina to Mount Arafat! For year-round residents and umrah, Mecca is also building a whole metro system! The Clock Towers complex by the Great Mosque in Mecca is also impressive! Its central tower, the Makkah Clock Royal Tower, is one of the tallest free-standing structures in the world, and each clock face measures 43 m in diameter and are illuminated by 2 million LED lights! The capital Riyadh is also getting a metro system, with six lines being built simultaneously in 2024 with over 80 stations! The system will use Alstom and Siemens rolling stock and had its groundbreaking in 2014!
Thanks for the information ☺️ℹ️
I watched this while cooking dinner and now my food tastes even better
What you cooking dude? 🍳😎
The Prophet's Mosque in Medina is called such because Muhammad himself was involved in the construction of the mosque, and the mosque has served as his resting place after it was expanded during the reign of the Umayyad caliph al-Walid I. At the time, the mosque's land belonged to two young orphans, Sahl and Suhayl, and when they learned that Muhammad wished to acquire their land to erect a mosque, they went to Muhammad and offered the land to him as a gift. Muhammad insisted on paying a price for the land because they were orphaned children. The price agreed upon was paid by Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, who thus became the endower or donor of the mosque, on behalf or in favor of Muhammad. Al-Ansari also accommodated Muhammad upon his arrival at Medina in 622. 622 was the first year of Hijrah, which was the journey that Muhammad and his followers took from Mecca to Medina. Muhammad died in 632. A title that the monarch of Saudi Arabia has is the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, referencing the Prophet's Mosque in Medina and Masjid al-Haram or the Great Mosque of Mecca.
Jeddah facts: Jeddah has the King Fahd's Fountain, the tallest fountain of its type in the world, named after King Fahd bin Abdulaziz, the ruler of Saudi Arabia from 1982 until 2005. The fountain jets water to a maximum height of 260 meters (853 ft). King Fahd's Fountain is listed in Guinness World Records as the highest water fountain in the world! The water ejected can reach a speed of 375 km/h (233 mph) and its airborne mass can exceed 16 tonnes (18 short tons). The fountain uses saltwater taken from the Red Sea instead of freshwater. Over 500 LED spotlights illuminate the fountain at night. Jeddah is home to one of the tallest flagpoles in the world at 171 meters (561 ft) high, it was the tallest flagpole in the world from 2014 until 2021! Between the 1980s and 2010, the DPRK had the world's tallest flagpole in Kijong-dong at 160 m (525 ft) tall. The South Korean government built a 100 m (328 ft) tall flagpole on the DMZ at Daeseong-dong, and so the DPRK responded accordingly.
This is one country I would love to visit. Travelling by train just adds to that longing. Thanks for showing.
Glad you enjoyed it 😁
My father worked in Saudi on many projects, it's nice to finally see them develop great things and projects!
Very cool!
There are few companies involve in this projects
Including (China Railway Construction
Corp) CRCC, SIEMENS, ABENGOA, adif, renfe, Consultrans, OHL, Alshoula, Talgo, Copasa, IMATHIA Construccion, Indra, ineco, Cobra GRUPO, AIRosan Company.
A great collaboration 😆
Meskipun anda non muslim, saya sangat iri anda dengan mudahnya jalan2 ke madinah menggunakan haramain....Tuhan memberkati anda...salam dari Indonesia
insha'Allah 🙌🏻
We toured Saudi in February for 14 days and finished the trip riding this train in tourist class from Medina to Jeddah.
Experience was Exactly as you described it in video.
Really need to do a video on the Al-Ula area since that is their primary foreign tourism location now and really unique place.
I will go back to Saudi after NEOM is further developed
Thanks for sharing and I couldn't agree more! 😁
Thanks for your helpful video. Enjoy my Friend 🇸🇦
So nice of you 😊
The talgo trains used in that line are called talgo 350 SRO. The talgo avril prototype used the locomotives from this model.
Thanks for the information 🙂ℹ️
High speed on a desert is just interesting and great
Thanks for watching 😀
it's gonna be common soon in GCC countries as all of GCC countries are making multiple high speed rails and they might be the 2nd or 3rd to have meglave in future.
definately exceptional to see for anyone who has not been to area before! vwery interested to see more videos from area!
Coming soon 😀
Thank you for an extremely interesting and informative video! It provided a strange mix of the familiar and the unfamiliar. A high speed train which would not be out of place in Europe running in very non-European surroundings!
Glad you enjoyed it! 😁😁😁
The Railway Stations are so futuristic and elegant. 😍
They definitely are!!!
Thanks a-lot for this amazing video and experience I enjoyed watching your videos love from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Thanks for watching!
Not a destination I am keen to visit, but I am nevertheless impressed. You could have fooled anyone had you claimed that the building complex was an airport. Both the lounge and the train interior is as luxurious as it gets. Thanks for another amazing video.
Do you plan on doing a video on the new Railjet?
I agree Luke. I was apprehensive too, but Saudi was very welcoming, organised and developed. I had a great trip! 😁
The new Railjet will be my next video 🙂
well there are 2 billion of us that are keen to visit and would pay anything to see our prophet's mosque or his grave.
Then don't visit, stay in your miserable close-minded hellhole.
@@shahrukhkhan8307yeah, stop it, "religion of peace"
Disagree with Luke, what he said in 1st line,I am the one who love to visit this city even at the cost of $1 bn... and mind it ,it's true for many Muslims
Very good presentation for introducing of Saudi Railway. This interesting video is watching from India.
Thanks for watching 😃
There’s a gulf train network that I hope get completed soon, anyway I’m happy that you enjoyed my city of Jeddah we are pretty unique among Saudi cities
You definitely are 😄😄😄
Never expected to be this beautiful train. I left Saudi Arabia last 2021. I regret not trying that bullet train. Will go in future to Saudi Arabia as a tourist. ♥️ I miss this 2nd home.
It's certainly a great project which I'm very thankful to have tried!
Please come to Spain and review the AVE S106 Avril to Asturias, or the Alvia S730 to Badajoz (Extremadura). They have finished works to improve it
Coming soon 👀
@@NonstopEurotrip thanks
From Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 welcome my brother feel like this is your country , we welcome you !
I want to go to Mecca, why don't you let me in ???
@@Desi365Because it's for muslims only, there are plenty of restricted access places in the west but those are okay somehow, when saudi does it it's not good. Make it make sense, hypocrite!
@@dodaz2049 So it's an apartheid, then. People are denied common rights based on class/race
The city is pretty much built for muslims
Also its a holy place for worship not a tourist attraction
Great trip, finally you try this train. With this train, you can escape from long day on the road between Makkah and Madinah, or in this case between Jeddah and Madinah.
Absolutely and it was so much fun 😄
Excellent travel report. I traveled on a Spain-built trainset while in Andalusia a few years ago. What was very weird in your video was that an additional locomotive also pushed this high-speed trainset from the back. Thank you for this report.
The Spanish high-speed Talgo EMUs also have a power car at each end
@@NonstopEurotrip I mean in your video, in Saudia, there is visible separate loco attached (not a power car). EMU by definition has power cars on both ends.
@@adamw1944 no there isn't, there's just one power car at each end? Most EMUs don't even have power cars, they have distributed traction...
The service of the Al Haramain is just great and lovely. It brought back for me a flair in train travel. I took a service into Makkah last winter and staff were great. One thing to take into account : when you buy your ticket online, it's not possible to change it in anyway at a staffed ticket office. I had to do this online , but was not able to do this in time for the earlier departure I wanted to take.
Thank you for the information 😊ℹ️
The stations are awesome
Nice looking train 👍
7:44 I think those are the same seats as Czech Railways use in their long distance first class cars
Interesting 😎
Not at all, those seats aren't used in any Czech train.
The stations do look pretty awesome though. Entering them like at12:23is like a scene from Dune, or a Star Wars spinoff set on Tatooine
😂😂😂
The ‚Bum Gun‘ got me 😂 Great video!
😆😆😆
I enjoyed a lot this video ! It is the first time that I am visiting your channel and I really liked it ! I liked it for two reasons : a) we Israelis are always curious to know what the Gulf Nations are up to and high-speed trains are simply fantastic. To know that now there are high-speed trains in the Middle East are good news. What a pity that I still cannot visit Saudi Arabia ! b) I liked that your video was politically correct, neutral and unbiased. When showing the map of the Middle East, you called us by our correct name: Israel. THANK YOU ERY MUCH FOR THAT ! I wish you to keep up the excellent work and mat God bless you always !
You're very welcome 🤗
I love your enthusiasm
🥳🥳🥳
Very Niceeeeeeeeee trip on video!👍
Thanks a lot!
Masha Allah you even visited Masjid An-Nabawi. Thanks bro, such an amazing trip report! 😊
My pleasure 😊 Glad you liked it! 🙏🏻
Ah salam Rayyan, i also saw this video now lol
Looks cool
Fast trains deliver the Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages
Absolutely!
Great video! I also would find it weird seeing the Renfe pato in that context 😝
You and me both Tom 😁
NICE TO SEE OTHERS. JAPAN AND CHINA. OTHERS ALSO CAN DO IT. SPANISH ARE QUITE GOOD WHEN THEY GO TO WORK. WELL DONE SA.
The rail-way was built byh China, but the car was from Spain.
@@FrankZhang-pj9nnno. It wasn’t
Been there. Its true to the claim. Just like other high speed rails that exist. Nice views of the saudi deserts and hot rocky mountains.
Tehnically it seems to be a challenge to keep the train running because the tracks are frequently covered in desert sand. Seems like it was working well when you were there. (But no, I don't have the slightest reason to travel to Saudi Arabia myself, being an atheist preferring cooler weather.)
There's rarely delays or problems
Thank you for this most interesting video. Glad to hear the Talgo train sets run well, and the onboard service looks great !
Thank you Anthony 😊
nice video dear Good Job
Thank you 🤗
@@NonstopEurotrip thanx dear
The ticket machines are like the ones in Spain
They’re provided by Indra
I worked in the project of Medina Station for Yapi Merkezi Company of Turkiye in the beginning phase.
Oh wow 😲
I remember riding this high speed train way back its opening operations in 2018 when the business class is 35 Saudi Riyals 😂
Oh wow!
How much now??
Nice video! I hope to visit Saudi!
You should! 😁😁
I love the mistake you made at 6:28 typing kuwait all over Iraq.😂😂 Reverse Saddam. Don't fix it pls.
Deliberate mistake of the video, well spotted 😂😂
Would’ve wished if you covered the opening of the Riyadh metro, because I think it opened only a week after your visit
I don't really do Metros, sorry!
Great video !!
Thanks!
11:28 anyone else getting "smooth, quiet, comfortable and an altogether delightful experience" vibes? 😆
😂😂😂
Excellent vid! Paul in Oz
Thanks Paul!
Travel in Tiago is always soo 😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝sooper
wow, what a station.
I know, right?!
How fascinating! It reminds me of Singapore
But better 👀
The desert sand....? Love the Dubai😇
Saudi 👀
wow!
😍😍
Great video, the facilities and trains in SA are top notch 🔥👏
Do you know if there is a plan for a HS line between Jeddah-Riyadh and a HS line between Riyadh and Bahrain/Qatar/UAE ?
HSL from Riyadh to Jeddah is planned
@@NonstopEurotrip That's great news, I have no doubts the Saudis will produce a great line once again 👌
🇸🇦 saudi arabia railway SAR train new Riyadh to Al-qurrayat ❤❤
Hey broYou should see the Eastern Express in Turkey (Doğu Expresi)
I have seen it 😁
idea: go on the blue bzmot in hungary (if its still in service) also not i dont mean red bzmot
Where does it run?
@@NonstopEurotrip only thing i know is 117 311 (a blue bzmot) it departs in celldömölk
A very misunderstood country. Visited Jeddah last year and found it a very welcoming country who were curious in seeing a 6ft tatoo covered Scotsman wandering around Jeddah....
100 per cent agree. I was the same 😀
How can the ride quality be so much better here than the Talgo's everywhere else - including the new ones?
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Hahaha 😂
Because of having great leaders of the country
Actually there are many foreigners in Saudi something like 40% of the population..mostly south asians, doing all the menial work on low wages....but obviously the pay is still better than back home.
That wasn't what I said, was it
Customer likely to prefered Train over Flights
So, its gonna be a busy line
You cant fly to makkah
Well obviously 😜
is this train going available to riyadh in the future?, cuz ive deciding to live in ksa if its happened
هناك قطار يخدم الرياض
Yes, it's in planning
kerja apa om disana?
What is the use of it when it was not running during haj time
It runs all year round.
Like the older videos where there was not a narrator. Videos had more style and "theater of the mind" ambiance.
I'm sorry, unfortunately the vast majority of the audience prefer narration
Is there a Jeddah - Riyadh route now?
No, but it's in planning
Lovely video, subscribed
Thanks for the sub!
@@NonstopEurotrip you are welcome
Looks lovely but not very busy!
Which was good 😊
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Mecca Medina high speed train was totally constructed by spanish companies,god bless spain.
@@AbdulRaheem-tj3im and China
Everything is good...but where are the passengers...man????...these empty stations will only burn money....
Peak times are at specific times such as:
(Vacation - night and early morning - times of Hajj and Umrah seasons - Ramadan - and others - and others)
And also, often in train projects, the high profit is not of interest, but the most important is to serve tourists.
On the train
Bom dia boa viagem ai trem lindo trem alta velocidade deserto 330 km
Large size suitcase/bag allowed in train?
Yes
Spain's ex-king, Juan Carlos, also allegedly got juiced up in this project 💰😂
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Nice travel report.
Many thanks!
You had Kuwait written on the map instead of Iraq at 14:14....
You don't want a power breakdown in the middle of the trip, in this desert with scorching heat...
I do not!
That's neon
3:31-is that Hummus(Chick Peas Sauce)?
Not sure 😊
Despite it being a country I will never willingly visit, I still bounced! That's how good your videos are!
Thank you Michael and I appreciate your POV 🙏🏻
Why not…there is so much scare mongering about this country..there is so much to see and the people are very friendly. I’ve worked here 10 years and feel safer than in Uk!
@@ianwatson3315 The reason is entirely personal, and will remain so.
You gay. We know. And no one cares there's alot of gays who travel there.@michaelmacdonell4834
@@ianwatson3315 You must be a muslim saying so. Saudis are lazy lackadaisical people, no european can stand them.
Saudi Arabia has a high speed railway while the U.S. can barely build ONE.
Amen 🙌🏻
As long as the U.S. gets Saudi Oil for cheap...
These ergonomically designed trains look classy and stylish.
Absolutely yes 😁
"There's no WIFI available onboard" sounded very heart breaking 💔
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Wow, schneller als unser ICE👍
Its a Time saving ,Madina Airport is 30-45 minutes away from The Prophet's Mosque
Why do you think the Talgo rides smoother in Saudi?
New tracks built to a high spec. Plenty of money!
@@NonstopEurotrip Are the Madrid-Barcelona high speed tracks up to Saudi standard?
I was just going to ask this 😂😂
@@samtrak1204well, they have definitely seen many, many more trains
@@NonstopEurotripit's because of great country leader
Seems to be an enormously over-generous service when it's not super-busy times. You seemed to be the only passenger in the whole station. Looks like a classic government-sponsored prestige megaproject
You should see it at Hajj time...
No bar car?
The dining car is as shown in the video
how were you allowed to mecca i thought its banned for foreigners
Mecca is but he went to medina !
I didn't go to Mecca
Regarding Talgo and their peculiar wheel arrangement, from the Wikipedia article it appears that there are different kinds of bogies. If I remember correctly, the gauge-changing types don't have the same suspension that the fixed-gauge bogies have. So that might explain the difference.
Or perhaps that the Chinese built the infrastructure. 🙂
Sorry this comment passed me by! These trains don't gauge change, like the S102/112 which they are based, so there shouldn't be much difference?
The gauge changing ones are the bumpy rides. But the infraestructure being brand new also helps
@@NonstopEurotrip What @DBBravo said. It appears that the bumpiness of the Talgo is mainly limited to the gauge-changing versions. They have far less in terms of suspension than the ones that don't change gauge. The Wikipedia article describes this.
@@SeverityOne na that's not true. The Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan ones are very bumpy, yet they don't gauge change. Can't even blame track quality as the ex soviet coaches in those countries are fine.
@@NonstopEurotrip Well, put it this way then: the Talgo system doesn't necessarily have to be bumpy, but it depends on the suspension. Could it be that they have a different kind of bogie? One would imagine that the Saudis probably the most expensive version.
Why did you go to Medina in first place??
I didn't go first
@@NonstopEurotrip not as in first stop. in the first place is a idiom.
used at the end of a sentence to indicate what was true or what should have been done at the beginning of a situation
Does Saudi Arabia has trains made from China?.. Did you happen to travel in any one of them.
No, mostly Spanish trains
Saudi Arabia's INCREDIBLE Highspeed Railway to Mecca...👍👍👍👍
The train was built by Spain
The rail track was built by China
As mentioned in the video
The rail track was built by Spanish companies OHL and Copasa-Imathia. Please check your sources. It seems that there has been a lot of propaganda about the Chinese involvement in the project and it was only in p1 with the ground movements and the structures.
And they did it poorly