It's incredible. Cheers to the author. You've been with us witnessing 10 years of progress in China, better train station waiting rooms, better rural architecture, and bluer skies
Another super program. How do you find the time to do all this ?? And the money !! I thank you for all your efforts as it allows an old man ( I am 80 ) who is past travelling to see all the things he never thought possible. Well done.
If you didn't tell me, I would think you were somewhere in the US from the look of the geography, minus the buildings, etc. The landscape looks similar to what you would see in California and beyond. I think China and the US has the best different variety of landscape environments.
The old Beijing to Zhangjiakou railway is historical significant since it's the first to be designed by a Chinese engineer more than a century ago. Many places are named according to the line including Wudaokou (5th crossing), where lots of foreign students hanging around. however as the new highspeed rail is built in the tunnel underneath, the old rails at the city center are removed. No more crossing at the 5th crossing.
Taking the bullet train going through snow mountains and gorges from Lijiang to Shangrila must be gorgeous, pls ride the newly opened Lijiang-Shangrila HS train
20:30 How can you get all the information so accurate and comprehensive if you don't understand Chinese? Impressive...I thought you were a native Chinese train fan.
I'm doing this trip soon! I'm grateful that I don't need visa for any of these states. I'm allowed to stay for up to 30 days no visa, so I'm gonna take my own sweep time travelling throughout China
10:40 That connection is not to the old Beijing-Baotou railway, but a stub line to Yanqing where some events of the winter games were held. 20:08 Unlikely, as the trans-mongolian express will likely remain a conventional train whose locomotives use LKJ signalling while the high speed lines are only equipped with CTCS. It might be possible to avoid the detour using the Tangshan-Baotou railway (passenger trains ran on that line before the high speed line entered service) but since then it has been saturated with freight.
The China 12306 website has the English version and you could use credit card, passport number, and foreign cellphone number to register and buy tickets.
This Business Class is very similar to the Executive class offered by Trenitalia on the Frecciarossa train. I think italian's one is the most similar to the Chinese Business Class. ;-)
Hi is this the train operating from Beijing > Mongolia > Russia? Im planning to do this trip one day I want to visit Mongolia and I find going to Beijing and take the train is much cheaper
There are free meals for the business seat of the high-speed railway. There will be breakfast before 8:00 am, a dinner around 12:30 PM, and a dinner around 18:00 PM. The catering for the business seat will be distributed uniformly.i am very strange why you can not get the free food every time,i suggest you ask the server next timel.
Very nice train ride. Weather is absolutely gorgeous. I wonder if it is possible to make a connection at Ulanqab to Trans Mongolia / Trans Siberia service once that is restored. I am still waiting to take a Helsinki to the East train ride. Before it was the pandemic and now it is the war. Who knows how long have to wait.
A question for you: your videos show that a lot of research was done on each trip. Is most research done after the trip as you edit the video, or do you do much of the research ahead of time so you know exactly when to turn on camera to shoot certain features?
Very nice indeed, but a similar class in Europe does exist. I would argue that Executive Class on the Frecciarossa 1000 in Italy is very comparable out of my own experience.
@@doc7austin they do not, you're right there. Having said that, it's not really a necessity for me given the travel time of most journeys on the Frecciarossa. On the other hand, they do offer all you can eat food and drinks from a high end and free menu 😉
One would rarely see an international speeping car train on true high speed lines. On fast lines like netherland and germany, you can see mixture of equipment, but on true high speed ones it is harder since a slow train would wreck havok on schedules for the fast trains. And if the sleeping car needs to wait at each station to let true high speed train pass, its travel time may not be that different from using the conventional line.
Russia and Mongolia are both broad-gauge (1,520 mm); China is standard-gauge (1,435 mm); the wheel bogies only need to be changed once on the chinese/mongolian border at erlian/erenhot
Love your videos. This reminds me of the Bullet Trains (Shinkansen) and Stations in Japan when I lived there during in the early 1990s. From memory though there was no business class. But believe me they were so good, you wouldn't need it. Japanese Shinkansen standard cabins look considerably better (less congested) then Chinese Second Class. Noise is also never a problem on Japanese trains - unless foreigners are on them!
I have been on the Chinese HSR network many times, and I can say people are pretty civil and polite on the train and people don’t very often talk loudly or play audio on loudspeakers. And there’s also this thing called quiet cars where you must switch your phone to silent mode and refrain from talking on the quiet car and if you have to take a call you must exit that car. But yes I’ve also been to Shinkansen and people are just as polite and civil there. (Maybe not for some foreigners there)
@@BukuiZhao Its like the old airlines, I preferred they way they looked. The Japanese are fundamentally minimalist and conservative.Just more comfortable and roomy. I can do without internet! And I hope the Japanese are not all playing with their computers and phones as is the case on western planes and trains.
Can you film on the platform ? The last time I was filming in China station, train attendant called me. I just ignored and went to my seat. Then they came after me and ask my passport and took photos of me and passport. I don't know for what purpose. Just filmed a public train from outside. I love weird stuff BTW.
@@doc7austin That is true. I think they have some change of policy towards foreigners or filming. They will not do so if they didn't have instructions about it.
@@travelvideosThey are also known as 水表车 (literally "water meter train"), because police will disguise as pipemen and visit your family for readings of water meter, then detain you without proper beforehand permit.
@@peterji5109 In fact, only Jiang Zemin likes to travel by train. He has a dedicated train, and Chinese railway enthusiasts take pride in tracking and filming this train. We won't be held responsible for filming this train, but we will really be driven away by the police on duty
China can make Railway 🛤 bullet train 🚅 🚄 🚆 line in hilly area why not indian Railway can make bullet train Railway line in hilly area of India We should learn from Chinese people without destroying nature we can make building Railway 🛤 Line Airports roads etc so neat and clean near railway line and Station 🚉 along with inside of the bullet train 🚅 🚄 🚆 😀 of China 🇨🇳 😀 😊 and proper construction 🚧 side where would you find like this 😮😮
A tasty looking little lunch. But be careful of the cola and orange juice, loaded with sugar! At least 15 teaspoons of sugar from those drinks combined.
Those apartment blocks in China look so univiting. The tall buildings remind me of the bleak Soviet-era high rise housing but I've seen a lot worse in and around Beijing.
Well, in China, now you can get 350 km/h at Jinghu(Beijing-Shanghai), Jingguang(Beijing-Wuhan), Jingjin(Beijing-Tianjin), Jiangzhang(Beijing-Zhangjiakou), Chengyu(Chengdu-Chongqing), Fuxia(Fuzhou-Xiamen), Guangshan(Guangzhou-Shanwei), Huning(Nanjing-Shanghai) High Speed Railway, and take Fuxing Tranin.
@@doc7austin Nobody knows cuz somehow he just hates China so much spamming everywhere lol. Great video btw. Not sure if I could pay a visit to China in the near future but your vlogs are pretty inspiring to me.
