This HIGHSPEED TRAIN was Built in Turkey... But is it Any Good?

Hello and welcome to back to Turkey, where today we'll be riding the first Homegrown EMU that marks the future of Turkish Railways!

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We'll ride from Gebze to Adapazari along the stunning Sea of Marmara coast and check out all the facilities of this new train...so sit back and enjoy the video!

Date of Filming: 3/9/23
Camera: GoPro Hero 12 Black
Operator: TCDD (Turkish Railways)
Departure: Gebze, Turkey
Arrival: Adapazari, Turkey
Cost: Second Class - 120 Turkish Lira (£2.89, €3.24, $3.65)

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00:00 - Intro
01:15 - Heading Istanbul On The Marmaray
02:20 - Arrival At Gebze & Station Tour
03:10 - Train Information
03:30 - OMIO: For All Your Ticketing Needs
04:00 - Boarding & Route Info
05:04 - Departure from Gebze & Pricing
06:02 - Seat Tour!
06:50 - #TrainWIndowViews
07:24 - Calling At Izmit
07:55 - Onboard Service
09:02 - Exploring The Rest Of The Train
10:00 - Lake Sapanca & Trip Summary
10:45 - Arrival At Adapazari
11:20 - Outro

[megalithagnusdei]

2:05 marmaray emus are actually formed by 10-cars. Also there is a boutique railway museum in sirkeci garı which many people overlooked. There is some interesting stuff there including front end of a old suburban emu used by previous istanbul suburban rail.

[felixonrails]

great train set and good video! Thankfully, without cameo 😄

[hemaccabe]

Very impressive accessibility features.

[hemaccabe]

I've seen a lot of food videos from Turkey. The food looks so good. Would like to travel there.

[Abnerbandanovotempoinscritomi]

Bom dia lindo trem boa viagem ai show novo trem da tuquia

[mariadelmarjimenezarroyo]

Excelent video. Sorry for disturbing saying the same in each video

[mrvwbug]

Seems like a lot of export potential with these trains, for developing countries looking for cost effective trains to build out their railways. Probably much more reliable and safe than begging China to build a railway under predatory BRI terms.

[xBris]

0:08 "Semi high speed"? A lot of regional rail has top speeds of 160 km/h in Europe, so how is this different? Also your route has lots of stops in minor cities and your average speed is well below 100 kph as it seems. This all screams "regional rail". Why invent a new category of speed just to make it sound better than it actually is? Did you get talking points from TCDD?

[f.g.]

I love your videos and the format, always like how you add commentary about the sights/stops/locationd along the route. But since the title was putting a lot of focus on the rolling stock I was expecting to hear you talk a bit more about it and the specs.

It seems really dishonest to call it a high speed train in the title, max design speed of this train is 176 Km/h which is well within the range of conventional speed rail. I read that they're still developing the project and they're hoping to have these trains hit 225 Km/h in the future, and at that stage I could understand a "higher-speed" or "semi-high speed" label if you must. The current title just feels misleading.

Regardless of the appropriate tag or title, it seems like a nice train and great to hear that Turkey is making such a good effort to enter in the industry, in recent years it seemed like rolling stock manufacturing was becoming a fixed monopoly of a handful companies, so this is refreshing news.
As always thanks for showing us these unique journeys, we're living vicariously through these videos!

[rezaalan]

Great trip. If only they have narrow gauge version of this train, and long distance rail in my country fully electrified, I'm sure it's great to have it in the future.

[Frost]

You should see Izmir too next yime you are in Turkey.

[samtrak]

How do high speed operators protect trains from graffiti? I don't think I've ever seen grafffiti on a high speed train set.

[samtrak]

The converted airbus resturant doesn't look wheelchair accessible.

[devoacdc]

I visit Cyprus and the beach is amazing and beautiful.I have opportunity to visit Turkey but my friends dont have enough time.

[CAFUrbos]

commeting on every new vid untill he goes on some hungarian transport

[davidwebb]

I want you to see you do the 24 hour Ukrainian Railways journey from Przemysl to Kharkiv. In summer.

[ZRHTrainspotter]

It’s a Spectacular Train! And Türasaş will even start building much Faster Trains than this soon! I hope to ride them all soon. I love Türkiye and its railways 🇹🇷 ❤

[denizleventyuruyen]

Alanya and Bodrum are verry nice. The dimçay in the mountains also

[abrahammallomiranda]

Nice clickbait with the high speed attention. This is slower than some classic trains from the 70 in other places in Europe or Asia

[AndreUtrecht]

The wall support in the wheelchair toilet was broken? It looks like it’s hanging down …