World's Biggest, Longest Trains | Ultimate Vehicles | S01 E05 | Free Documentary
Spectacular Trains: Sooty express locomotives, sinfully expensive luxury trains, and freight trains that stretch for kilometers: the most spectacular vehicles on rails.
A single vehicle several kilometers long - it is only possible on rails. No wonder that trains continue to fascinate people even today, and that their fan base is one of the most devoted.
The train was one of the most decisive inventions of all time. Traveling became affordable, and freight transport was expedited. Even now, 40 percent of all freight worldwide is transported by train. And fortunately so, as the train is also one of the most environmentally friendly means of transportation.
From the Swiss Alps to the steppe of South Africa all the way to Japan: we present the world’s most extraordinary trains.
Setting speed records on gigantic wheels: the DR 18201 is the fastest steam locomotive in the world. It can travel at up to 180 km/h.
It is not the fastest of high-speed trains, but is one of the most modern - the ICE 4. Thanks to its innovative drive concept, it is more flexible and energy-efficient than all other high-speed trains.
For several years, luxury train service has been booming just like the Orient Express once did. The most spectacular luxury train is the Japanese Shiki-shima. Developed by a former Ferrari designer, the futuristic train offers luxury of all kinds: piano bar, bathtub, underfloor heating, and panorama cars.
Cog railways can handle the steepest routes in the world. But only one of them is built to climb grades of over 40 percent. The Pilatus Railway in Switzerland manages this feat thanks to a special cogwheel design.
One of the most spectacular freight trains in the world rolls across South Africa. At 4.2 kilometers long, the Sishen-Saldanha iron ore train is the longest regularly running train on the globe. It transports 34,000 tons of iron ore in one rail journey over a distance of about 800 kilometers. This unique train rounds out the episode devoted to trains.
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A train from 1939 doing a "special tour" in record speed from germany to poland. Technik die begeistert.
haha you guys are crazy
"Da werden Erinnerungen wach" - Friedrich (98)
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Blitzkrieg
Schneller als ein ICE
2:59: A German train "taking a special trip to Poland"? And then the engineer mentions that the locomotive's wheels and chassis entered service in 1939. The Germans are so oblivious to the jokes!
WAIT A MINUTE
..only the wheels are '39, the Train went on "tour" in '61..
instablaster.
There are still Reichsbahn plates on it.
I guess the narrator is also a German speaker? Otherwise I'm impressed by the pronunciation of German words.
Nahhh, they are pronounced pretty badly
He's german
Jan Janzen No
Jan Janzen wenn man zu einem Englischen Publikum spricht verenglischt man die Namen mit Absicht manchmal.
Great idea from the Chef, thick sauce across the plates to stop the food rolling off, very clever man !!
16:13 "Es ist einfach nur geil" Gotta love that phrase lol
It's really nice to see some of South Africa's technological achievements being broadcasted to the world. Hello from Cape Town!
Hello fellow Capetonian, they nogals keep the best for last
Africa and technology :D
But evidently you've only been on the internet since yesterday
Hello from Joburg🙌
Hello from JHB I haven’t seen the CPT section yet haha
Biggest plane, biggest ship, biggest train which we cannot enjoy now because of a "small" virus. Hope life can return to normal very soon.
i love these docos not because they show the greatest in the world but because they constantly get it wrong and show something from the top 5 or 10 in the world. Nice change to see the others
The british steam engine Mallard is the holder of the world speed record for steam locomotives at 126 mph (203 km/h). The record was achieved on 3 July 1938.
while slightly driving downhill and being damaged on that run ... "great" way to win. DR Class 05 reached a doubless documented speed of 200.4 km/h
@@EnjoyFirefighting A win is a win. Deal with it. No one has a whinge about Formula 1 cars that win a race and use the engine only once. Grow up FFS.
@@alastairgray5648 lol that's an entirely different thing but it seems like you just want to be at the top of the stairs at any price, no matter the damage or hazard. It's ridiculous. Luckily that never was our focus ...
More specifically, the German 05 002 casually set a World Record while catching up a Delay, and wasn't even running on its Limit according to the Footplate Crew. Mallard bet that by just one or two km/h on a dedicated Record Run, while going downhill and still burnt out a Bearing. Please don't accuse me of German Bias though, because there are numerous Records of Pennsylvania S1 and especially T1 Locomtives reaching 230 km/h while catching up Delays, but no one there cared if that was a World Record back then, so it never was offcially recognised. Today there is a Project to rebuild a T1 Locomotive and break Mallard's Record.
Glad u corrected them Driver Jo Duddington ECML
19:24 Now he's allowed to go full throttle Signal displaying speed limit 40 kmh: Ima stop you right here
becoming an ICE train driver, im so proud
The Japan train,a beauty
South Africa my homeland, loving this
ICE trains and Japanese trains and Chinese trains are really cool!
*German trains
Chinese trains are German.
Japan Luxury train for the passenger (check) but no decent space for the service personnel..? you can't even stand straight inside the room, I thought it is a stock room..Hihihih... Aruy :(
18;50 This is what worker pride looks like. A job well done sir. Well done. 30;00 This is what humility and obedient servitude looks like. God bless you.
This steam engine is much faster than our metro rail way transit.
yeah ur rigth..MRT always have accidents..
Trains in Africa are faster than American "rapid" transits.
Paname514 Public Transport in America is a joke lol
Nice stuff need to watch more
Amazing to see Transnet talent being celebrated.
The A4 Pacific: Mallard is the fastest steam locomotive in the world. That locomotive reached 126mph or 203kmh to everyone else.
I think they meant the fastest speed during regular operation. The A4s were designed to run at 144,8 km/h (100 km/h are roughly 60 mph) during regular operation and the 18 201 was designed to run at 180 km/h during normal operation. But the A4 Mallard has the official record of the fastest steam locomotive ever at 201,2 km/h. It was driving slightly downhill, though, and it was damaged at the end. Btw: American Locomotives probably could run faster than this later on but they never bothered to break the record officially.
Cafer what American steam train would break the record?
@@RRAAZZAA The Class S1 is reported to be ran at 227km/h to drive in delay. It technically could have achieved it based on the power it had. But, as said, it was never an official record and the evidence is neither clearly declared reliable or unreliable.
The DR class 18 201 steam engine is the fastest loco still in operation. The LNER A4 "Mallard" holds the world speed record at 126mph, but is a static, non operational display only.
@@99Cafer99 Americans never bothered to break many records that only Britain was able to. Oh we could have broken them if we wanted. Yeh I really believe them not.
Wonderful high speed train
Love trains too.
The Japanese built that train to spread tourism to the less populated areas of Japan and that is exactly what you have to do to create businesses that grow the economy in those sparse regions… Great work
Amazing👍👍👍👍 compilation of trains . You have missed the slowest train in world . Romanian CFR trains
16:12 he doesn't say "awesome", he says "wicked" in german :D it really sounds like he is enjoying his work ;D
You would think that people doing doco's like this would do a little research and get their facts correct...
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I like programmes like this to flex on the yanks.
Hello from kuching MALAYSIA
Very good!
Finally a narrator that tryies to pronounce german words correrctly. A rare thing sadly
The only green about that engine is the paint. Great machine nonetheless.
The steam locomotive is faster than our diesel and electric regional trains. (Australia)
Same across the ditch - that's if you're able to find one operating.
Imagine waiting at an intersection for the last train to pass... "Well, just 14 and a halv minutes left now..."
The shiki-shima train travel four days because the private train cars cost $10,000 each on a first class ride. I learn a lot of this episode. Someday i will take the whole ride of the train discuss here to have a lifetime experiences. Thank you. Sorry for bad grammar.
Yeah, im thinking the same. When you do that, please post ur experience here. When I get on it, I will post something here too :) Cheers from Indonesia
The fastest steam locomotive in the world is the Mallard from the UK with a world record speed of 202.78 kph
126mph still stands as the fastest
What is kph?
Snowpiercer brought me here...Mr. Wilford lol
shiki train new idea? Check Orient Express ;-)
Which one ? - European or Eastern, Oriental Express. The European one is what passes for the original version. The Eastern version, is the former "Silver Star", which was run by N.ZR. .
На 9:21 забавно выглядят вагоны РЖД на станции в Берлине :)))
The steam is heated twice in 18 201 through the superheater tubes and just about every other steam engine is the same. The Swiss have moved it up a notch now with heavy oil firing being old technology and the Swiss have developed light oil firing or diesel fuel for steam engines. The burner looks like a huge domestic gas stove and could be the way for the future. Couple with a Lemphor exhaust which is much better than the Giesel ejector that 18 201 has thus making the engine much more efficient. So the 18 201 is like a Mercedes it goes very well but when it needs repair it's damn expensive the same for all steam engines as there are no spares any more for any of them.
Do your research ... BHP ore train in Western Australia, 682 cars and 7.3km long, once carried 82,000 metric tons of ore for a total weight of the train, largest in the world, of 99734 tonnes. It was driven by eight locomotives distributed along its length to keep the couplings loads and curve performance controllable.
john morrison “once carried”. Might be the difference
yes John ,they also got it wrong about the worlds fastest stream loco- everyone knows that honor went the the british "MALLARD " steam loco at 126 mph - unbeaten to this day !!
@@martinc.720 So we descend to a semantic argument? This video is riddled with errors; evidence of someone who does very sloppy research.
Doing a 120kmph is impressive Considering when it was built. The air pollution is also at an impressive level
😂😂😂 niaje bro
@@codeaperture acha kunianika banaa. 😂😂😂
What is kmph?
More carbon emissions than all my ancestors did,,hats of 👍
The pillars in the cockpit are soo huge..
i subd yes
Seeing Shikishima Me: The hell, 2.800 until 10.000 USD for a trip to a small country like Japan? Who the hell want it?? Narrator: The Shikishima already fully booked until March 2019 Me: I'm just broke...
Bahkan KAI Sleeper pun juga laris manis 😅
22:29 "4 seasons island", to be exact
well patungan sama temen tapi coman bisa satu tiket😅
Steam locomotives exist that could easily equal the German loco for speed but which are restricted to 75mph/120kph because of the destructive 'hammer effect' caused by those massive connecting rods pounding up and down several times a second on the track.
What is kph?
Kilometers per hour.
@@brianfraser2495 That would be km/h.
2:31 Can we talk about that tiny little "Köf" locomotive pulling that giant steam engine out of storage?
I saw the shikishima in Noribitsu last year it pulled into the platform just after i disembarked a train from Sapporo. if i had known then what i know now i would have taken a bit of a longer look at it.
47:31 2 km is very short considered the length of the train - it stops in less that half it's over all length - I want to see a car that is capable of doing that even from 50km/h.
there's a term for train driver, it's called machinist
That moment when you are from Hamburg-Eidelstedt 14:12 P.S.: Damn, why can't Americans not say one German word correctly? :D
Der Typ der das spricht hat einen deutschen Akzent... Sowas passiert mir aber auch manchmal, wenn ich Englisch spreche und dabei einen deutschen Namen ausprechen muss spreche ich den ausversehen Englisch aus.
Wenn man in der Kanalinfo nachguckt steht da ein Impressum
Incorrect the USA did NOT have the fastest steam locomotive in the world. The British Mullard A4 still holds the fastest steam locomotive at 128 MPH in 1929.
Have you heard about the A4 mallard? It can do 200 Kph. Therefore making the A4 the fastest steam loco
What is kph?
7:45 Note that they hooked up two tenders, since there's very few places to refuel nowadays.
wow
1989 Record: South Africa. Run on 26-27 August 1989, comprising 660 wagons, 7.3 km long and a total mass of 71 765 tons on a 1 067 mm gauge line. The train comprised 16 locomotives (9 Class 9E 50 kV AC electric and 7 Class 37 diesel-electric) on the 861 km Sishen - Saldanha iron ore railway 2001 Record: Australia. Run on 21 June 2001, comprising 682 wagons, 7.35 km long and a total mass of 99 734 tons on a 1 435 mm gauge line. The train comprised eight GE AC6000CW diesel-electric locomotives on the 275 km BHP iron ore railway to Port Headland. Production ore trains: Sishen - Saldanha 375 wagons - 4 km (2018} BHP, Port Headland 336 wagons - 3 km (2011)
Beaten by BHp in West Australia over 8kms long and 100,00- tonnes
@@toodogs23 but they dont run now since the line was doubkled so this South African one is the longest regular one still running
wow
Leipzig Berlin 2 1/2 hours. ICE makes it in 58 minutes. 250 km.
Only in autumn or spring.. ;)
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my fav is Chinese bullet trains and old green trains
12:45 am äußeren wurde nichts geändert... Ist das denkmalgeschützt?
The South African ore train example at 41:33 is tiny compared to Worlds longest and heaviest train - Australia's iron ore train. The 7·3 km train was formed of 682 wagons, gross weight was 99734 tonnes. This series not a very reliable source.
Its actually really reliable. The Australian one is "only" 2,8km long since 2015. This series is about the "now" not the "was at some point"
Germany rocks!
Why is there Hangul (Korean) written on the side of the Pilatus?
Maybe ITS multyple language slogan?
And I thought the fastest steam train is the LNER A4, which achieved a speed record of 203km/h in 1938
More specifically, the German 05 002 casually set a World Record while catching up a Delay, and wasn't even running on its Limit according to the Footplate Crew. Mallard bet that by just one or two km/h on a dedicated Record Run, while going downhill and still burnt out a Bearing. Please don't accuse me of German Bias though, because there are numerous Records of Pennsylvania S1 and especially T1 Locomtives reaching 230 km/h while catching up Delays, but no one there cared if that was a World Record back then, so it never was offcially recognised. Today there is a Project to rebuild a T1 Locomotive and break Mallard's Record.
i was Hoping to see James May in the Shiki Shima
18 201 is my favorite steam locomotive. So sexy. Its a shame that she is not driving anymore.
29:51 she was fired after saying that... :v
How do you know?
@@jackchapo2011 its a joke.. 😒
I wanna see mallard
And the tgv and agv trains are far more advanced than the ice
Why do transnet dont build additional lines to Cape town.
$$$$. Can't spend what they don't have
Those computers are NOT powerful persay but they operate on a real-time basis so their inputs are met with an immediate output... this can be done scale of the scale of mhz by bespoke silicon.
electrification of a complete line for a mere million swiss franc. meanwhile today it costs 40 million to add a simple station to an existing tram/light rail line.
I am lucky to travel in this train to pilatus
great documentary and very interesting about the German steam loco - although its described as the worlds fastest steam loco - I always thought that honor went to a British A4 4-6-2 pacific class loco called "MALLARD" desigined by Sir Nigel Gresley !
It did. This is not the fastest steam loco in the world.
More specifically, the German 05 002 casually set a World Record while catching up a Delay, and wasn't even running on its Limit according to the Footplate Crew. Mallard bet that by just one or two km/h on a dedicated Record Run, while going downhill and still burnt out a Bearing. Please don't accuse me of German Bias though, because there are numerous Records of Pennsylvania S1 and especially T1 Locomtives reaching 230 km/h while catching up Delays, but no one there cared if that was a World Record back then, so it never was offcially recognised. Today there is a Project to rebuild a T1 Locomotive and break Mallard's Record.
The Mallard set a record speed of 140mph or 224kph. I don't think any of the still mobile A4 class are currently doing more than short tourist runs. So, the German steam train is the fastest currently in use.
21:54 , And it took 30 years for my Dad to buy milk
6:48 Pretty sure Mallard is fastest...
25:02 That's the sound of money
longest trains are in Australia...
Agreed, like the longest journey passenger trains being the indian pacific or ghan
@@sharkyy3995 the locomotive in the video can reach 180 km/h
@@sharkyy3995 it was said, the locomotive can reach 180 km/h. however, it runs on oil and maybe thats where the difference lies
@@robinledowski9920 Would the Trans Siberian or Trans Mongolian be the world's longest passenger train journey?
pleasant planet technological PACE 🍍
Hahahahahahahahaha the narrator obviously not heard of mallard lol
Snow Piercer should be here
Small but also important detail you forgot on the ICE4 that the ICEs before didn't have, is that it is able to lean into turns, so they are more comfortable and also be taking a bit faster.
The ICE T had that feature before the ICE 4
@@thembani5900 ICE 4 isn't a tilting train....
Terrorist im Flugzeug yeah I know I read about it after replying to the other guys comment
Shiki-Shima; "eggs in one basket".
I believe the longest train is located in Western Australia and nearly twice as long as this South African one???
Same thought. Iron ore trains, Northern West Australia &, or, the Kimberly's, to Perth ! ?🤔
@@davidarundel6187 To the iron ore port at Port Hedland, actually.
ICE 4 isn't as strong as ICE 3 series, they can't reach the same speed which is regular to ICE 3, about 320km/h.
26:54 Dear Narrator it is HO KAI DO not Ho Kai YI Do
Close enough...
strange that i got block for trying to correct the pronunciation
Ming Yuan Heng It’s because it does not matter.
@@martinc.720 well lets try to butcher your name.... m.... artin... cee
Ming Yuan Heng You think that bothers me? Wow. Just wow
Fastest steam loc is Mallard in England, it can do over 200km/h. This is one of the fastest and comfortable to drive (oil heating instead of coal shoveling), but not The Fastest one.
More specifically, the German 05 002 casually set a World Record while catching up a Delay, and wasn't even running on its Limit according to the Footplate Crew. Mallard bet that by just one or two km/h on a dedicated Record Run, while going downhill and still burnt out a Bearing. Please don't accuse me of German Bias though, because there are numerous Records of Pennsylvania S1 and especially T1 Locomtives reaching 230 km/h while catching up Delays, but no one there cared if that was a World Record back then, so it never was offcially recognised. Today there is a Project to rebuild a T1 Locomotive and break Mallard's Record.
I wish to be a fare dodger on the Japanese train
Should wear properly her hard hat (Japanese segment)
19:39 This s a lie!
the wheels do not have a diapiter of 2.5 m, maybe combined
"Fastest steam train in the world" *Sad Mallard Noises*
But the mallard is not active anymore
JustABoringJoha 36 so? Other A4 Pacific’s are, and other locos had contentions to being even faster (but unconfirmed). This seems to just rewrite history by not saying factually Mallard was the fastest ever confirmed speed of a Steam Locomotive
JustABoringJoha 36 “Silver Link” had held the record for some number of years at 113mph. And that was one of the first 4 models built. I think it’s safe to say that ANY of the A4s should have been able to achieve this, and later versions which had slight tweaks should have reached 125. That includes “Bittern”, “Sir Nigel Gresley” and “Union of South Africa”
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Actually, fastest steam train is the Mallard. Can reach 203 km/h
no comments about pilatustrain😢
A free documentary with adverts?
From the river church in any time
Else . . . can write your story .
The world fastest steam train Me: Oh no that means more pollution
Did you take this convention train to compare to those cutting-edge technological invention? which component is ground-breaking innovation at this moment? or you think 250 kmh is so fast enough to defeat ICE3 as well as HSR around the world? or traditional body structure is better than friction-stir welding method built car body because if its weight? 28Metres car body can be built by every manufacturer in the world upon request. which part of this train you can be proud of?
🙄and you are ?
@@sjefhendrickx2257 Nothing!...what do you guess?
Fastest steam engine is actually Mallard it can reach 201 kph / 126 mph
Fastest operating the should have said. Apart from that we all know that Mallard reached that 204kph on a downhill stretch. But noch need to argue whether BR05 or Mallard on flat would have been faster. Pennsy S1 in the US was faster than both.
@@qora01m Not the longest train either.That goes to BHP in western australia 8kms long and 100,000 tonnes..
What is kph?