First Class on India’s SHOCKING high-speed train! 

6:45 was the smoothest transition I've seen

One year old locomotive?? That thing looks like it has decades, jeez.

I rode Indian trains in the 80s. Making a first class reservation meant going to the station and telling the agent where you want to go. He goes to get the ledger for the correct train and writes your name in the seat number location. He hands you a small chit of paper with train, car, and seat number. On the day of travel I wasn’t expecting to actually get the correct seat on the correct train. I went to the correct platform, found the correct carriage which had a piece of paper under glass at the door with the names of the passengers assigned to that carriage. Lo and behold, my name was on the list. I was amazed that such labor intensive system actually worked efficiently. The family sitting around me was so nice they invited me to visit them in Calcutta.

As an avid watcher of your channel, and also as an Indian, I was pleasantly surprised to see you are in India and experienced this. Of course we are far far away to reach the spanish or italian high speed railways. The priority has always been to serve all sections of society than technical implementation. Love your videos.

I rode this line back in March 1970. We travelled in first class in an old-style six (6) seater compartment on corridor stock. Breakfast was brought onboard at an intermediate stop. The train was steam-hauled and took three (3) hours. As a nineteen (19) year-old, I really enjoyed the experience but of course it was not in the same league as the Taj Mahal.

The locomotive pulling the freighter at 0:52 is a Wag-12B, India's most powerful locomotives in current operation packing 12k horsepower per unit.

In August 1978 I got myself an Indian Rail pass for 3 weeks. Great train system. When I traveled again in India 1979, I took mostly second-class sleeper trains. When tired you could just jump off. The station masters were very helpful to find a hotel. I had a 60 W light bulb in my luggage. Most hotels had a single 25 W bulb in the 2 Dollar rooms I stayed in. I always filled the bucket when there is water in a hotel. There could be no water for many, many hours... In the south of India, you could get a great, unlimited vegetarian meal at the railway station. Served on a banana leaf...

6:44 is so nice, I love that touch!

I really love train travel in India. The noise, the chaos. It's a real adventure which you remember years afterwards. I have been on the Shinkansen dozens of times but hardly remember any of those train rides, unlike the train trips in India.

I know Indian Trains are not like fancy European or any western countries trains but its main motto is to serve India's huge population and I think they are doing pretty well....India is still a developing country and working so hard in every sector and also focusing on made in India things......I personally think its an experience and its a journey that makes you remember.....btw you can also try new vande bharat express which runs about 180 kmph.....and Also India is constructing RRTS train,bullet train and many more such semi and high speed trains.....All i can say is India is fastest growing Economy and came a long way but still learning and growing and its a very long journey ahead.

I have travelled there back in 2012 on an early morning train (Bhopal Shatabdi) that was also the country's fastest train at the time. Also from Hazrat Nizamuddin which required a very early start from our hotel, but we got some good breakfast on board. I see the trains haven't changed much since then, and the WAP5 are still built in the same shape.

Nice report ! All these rakes are atleast 10 years old ! They all are set to be replaced by Vande Bharat Rakes by next year. VB rakes are multiple units equipped with modern furbishment the only reservation being cramped Chair car seating arrangements as compared to existing chair car coaches. Washrooms are also more Morden in those sets. ❤

I rode the Delhi to Kalka shatabdi some six years ago which was a four and a half hour journey. I was also in AC (first class - AC stood for - wait for it! - Air Conditioned) but here our experiences differ. At the time the return fare was also around £18 and both the service and general overall condition of the carriage was far better than your Gatimaan Express journey. Breakfast was on the table before we had cleared Delhi and there was more of it. I can understand your wish to go south to Agra to see the Taj Mahal (went there too but we travelled by car from Delhi along the Noida Expressway) but you missed a real treat. The shatabdi terminates at Kalka but you could have continued on to Shimla via the narrow gauge Kalka-Shimla Railway which is one of India's four 'toy trains'. Admittedly it would have taken two days (you would have needed to stay overnight in Shimla but that in itself would have been worth it). We came down from Shimla in the toy train and as there was no air conditioning except that provided by the windows, I spent almost all of the trip sitting in the open doorway with my feet on the external step trying not t o get my toes skinned in the very many tunnels on the line. Probably the best railway journey I have ever done.

You need to cover Vande Bharat to showcase to the world India's next generation train sets. 10 of them have already been launched with 75 by mid August and 500 over the next few years. Indian infrastructure is on the take off stage and one can now see acceleration all around. Even the terminal building are seeing major modification. In a few years railways will have primarily electric locomotives only

The WAP5 locomotive which was hauling the train has a potential speed of 225kmph but it operates at 160kmph 👍

You should definitely also travel on the Vande Bharat trains! India is investing a lot in Railways lately and they're one of the products of that.

Hello from Canada. Respect to the people of India for having less graffiti than in Western countries. Now THAT is civilized!

I wouldn't call it "high-speed" but it looks like a good experience, and it has a good price too.

Great coverage! The P5s are our fastest locomotives and are limited to 160kph! Hoping to see more videos of Indian trains from your side!

Great review and very interesting. Thanks for taking the time to make it and a BIG thumbs up.

I did this journey 30 years ago on overnight sleeper train.... It took 8 hours from Delhi to Agra... It was a milk run service which probably stopped at every station.... It was a three up verticals rooms with 6 bed per booth. When not in use it was very social congregating with people of many caste discovering the Indian people in a way different to my other experiences. The Taj was mesmerising but Agra was a flea bitten slum of a city juxtaposed against the magnificence of The Taj. I was back packing bum saving money where I could and travelling by the base level local transport... A hard country to travel like this but a life changing experience of memories for a life time.... Sometimes the journey is the adventure...

Well, I took that train in 2019 from Gwalior to Nizamuddin and I also appreciated the service in EC. Thanks for showing.

Thanks for the view of India today and a glimpse at developments. Anything about India and particularly their famous rail network is great to see. I'd love to go again to Darjeeling. That's the thing about the place for all who love it.

I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! I KNEW YOU WILL MAKE ONE OF MOST FAMOUS TRAINS and one of my favourite for the horn blow

9:48 Even if that faucet lever looks flat on the top side it is ball faucet not disc faucet. You need to push up that lever and water will flow. Flow control depends how much lever will be up or down. Also left is hot water right is cold water on the ball faucet system. Water mixing is possible pushing lever left or rihght betwween two sides.

Stumbled upon your channel this morning. The content was great; and for the report with warts and all 👍

Beautiful video. It's always great how you go into the details. I'd love to take this trip!

To all those people saying vande Bharat is fastest, currently the fastest operational on track fastest is still gatimaan express as it runs on the best railway line of Agra Delhi. And also if proper tracks are there gatimaan can reach as fast as 230kmph,still 10kmph faster than possible speed for vande Bharat.

How does a one year old locomotive look like that?

Beautiful views with beautiful music. I enjoyed this video very much, thanks!

Brilliant video of your train rides. I didn't know India had this kind of train. Your pronunciations of the places are so beautiful. Keep up the good adventure, and make me want to travel these trains.

In India the first priority is to serve the masses of the country which is a huge task. Due to population pressure and the effort required to serve such a huge population Indian railways has not been able to achieve the speed what many European countries, and Japan had achieved in rail transportation. However in last few years serious efforts are being made to increase the speed of the passanger trains and track upgradation is in full swing. Hopefully in next few years we find trains running at 200kmph on few routes. Happy to know that you enjoyed this journey.

Sorry if a train's speed is less than 200km/hr it can not be classified as high speed train.

That blue coach with the AC chair cars, reminds me of when I was young and always used to ride the Shatabdi express to go from Bengaluru (my home) to Chennai (my cousins home), oh how I miss those days, thanks for bringing those sweet memories back to me!

Pls do a journey of Konkan Tejas express from Mumbai to Goa It's an absolutely gorgeous scenery all the way through during monsoon months

Great trip. A year old of locomotive but feels like dated from decade, the design of the locomotive make it older than it's operational age. Same like in India, in my country Executive Class on the train also using 2+2 seating configuration, but as far as I remembered mostly airline style seating. And for chair class, it's remembered me about economy class in my country, same 2+3 seating configuration but not using individual seating like that, mostly soft padding bench and on face to face layout (only small table on the window). India actually one of many country which passenger and freight traffic is balance.

The semi-high speed of 100 mph is impressive for India. The average speed of 70 mph (116 mles/110 mn.) is pretty fast also. This is comparable to the 2021 Laos train. The food service seemed satisfactory to good. Not a bad value for less than $19.

Nice video of travel by the Gatiman Express. Great to see you in India. IR is improving rapidly now. The train stations are way cleaner now and the trains, at least the important ones, are fairly clean too. I should know that as I have traveled extensively in the trains in India right from the early 70s. Maximum speed in those days used to be 110 kph and that too, only a handful of trains like the Rajdhani Express could achieve those speeds.

I had travelled on Gatiman express back in 2016. It seems now the service has gone down a bit. When I was travelling in the north India, passengers on EC class of Gatiman express were welcomed by a crew traditionally dressed up. And every passenger were welcomed with a fresh red rose. Moreover, interior looked more cleaner than shown on the video with light green fabric seats. I wish if I could share photos here. Anyway, love your trip coverage! ❤

You know its india when they cars are honking for no reason. Also, i can't believe that locomotive is only one year old lmao. it looks like its from the 80s or something.

Seems bumpy af, water looks to be about to spill from the cup

We have traveled all over India by train and would highly recommend this method of travel. What a route might lack in emmenties is easily made up by the pleasant staff.

Thank you for the video @Superalbs Travels! Very Interesting! funny thing 6:53 "very good suspension resulting in a very smooth ride" yet at 6:35 we can see the hot tray slightly turning because of the shaking ;D

I took the train once in India (Delhi to Changigarh, 2016). I remember how incredibly convoluted the booking system felt (to a foreigner, anyway). There was some sort of waitlist for online tickets. Complex procedures (ID verification via email) and mysterious acronyms. Cost me Rs. 535 (6 EUR / 6 USD) for "AC chair" for a ~4h ride. The station at Delhi blasted announcements with the windows XP "error" sound.

These are the old coaches. New ones are wonderful

I really like your videos . Btw love to see a report on vane bharat express

This was so pleasant to watch! Welcome to India :) Enjoy your time here!

Your videos really make me want to be there, too. Thanks for doing such a great job!

That rolling stock certainly looks well worn. I presume the air con must have been fairly effective?

5:51 I just appreciate how long that orange train, considering the high speed of both trains in opposite directions

Than You Very Much for releasing the India series. 🙏🏻

Your pronunciation of every word is accurate. Big ups! 😉

Wow this is so interesting. I kinida want to visit India some day and do some train travel, in premium classes of course :) Can we expect any Chinese train reviews anytime soon?

It was good to see you ride a train in my country. I would recommed you Vande bharat express next time, its our version of OBB Railjet and DB ICE.

A very interresting and well produced video. Thanks a bunch! 👍

Here in italy we have real luxury at relative low cost even in economy, the world is different everywhere

I've recently came here to USA from India and when i see the standard of India's fastest train and the aeroplane which i took, United airlines, i'll ride IRCTC without any doubt 😀

1:04 "Considering how you can just walk rigth past it *Proceeds to walk through a no entry entrance*

I love anything about India. It is my DREAM to visit there and take this train.

Yes, I would absolutely choose to ride this train AND at the upper class level. The scenery is exactly what life is like in India.

For a train built in 2021 it looks like it comes from 1921.

Please do a review of Vande Bharat express in the future! They are upto international standards in terms of seating, comfort and acceleration times. Their top speed however is limited by the track infrastructure.

Not any more just today vande bharat express from delhi to bhopal inaugurated which runs at its actual operational speed 160km/h.

I was waiting for this! Thank you.

Indian railways are managing a massive population. It's doing pretty well and has most solid infrastructure. In recent years indian railways development goes exponentially better. Even we indians got shocked to see this kind of development. All old stations are going to be rebuild with airport like facilities. Also station are more cleaning and promise more safe journey.

People forget when they compare other railways,is that India carries higher densities of freight than most European countries,that too on same tracks,so achieving higher passenger speed is a hurdle. With Land acquisition problems,Dedicated freight corridor projects also suffered many delays,however once Dedicated freight network is completed,India plan on implementing jointless bolt tracks all over diamond corridor network followed by fencing (for high speed safety),only after which 180kmph service will be started all over major distances,i.e Mumbai-Howrah-Delhi-Mumbai,Bengaluru-Chennai etc. These project is classed as semi-highspeed network,there's an ongoing project for high-speed track layout from Ahmedabad-Mumbai with 240kmph speed. Even this project is also delaying due to Land acquisition problem. PS: Newly build Vandebharat Exp has the capabilities of cruising at 200kmph with very minimal vibrations,we just lack the Dedicated tracks for it.

The first place i reported to as an App JE/S. Have fond memories of this beautiful station, calm town and really good people. It was in 2005. First station in MYS division with RRI.

i would really recommend the srinagar banihal railway line its an enginnering marvel going through the himalayas in kashmir ,its also being expanded to jammu and will be finished in a few years .

One thing is certain, Indian Railways still needs a LOT of improvement. The cleanliness, the interior and exterior design of trains, accessibility, etc. definitely need a lot of work. Believe me, if you had come about 7 to 8 years ago, you would have found it to be in a much worse condition. The trains and the tracks used to smell horrible and nobody really liked going by the train. Thankfully, things are slowly improving now. I hope that you still had a good time.

You should ride the high speed train afrosiyob in Uzbekistan from Taskent to bukhara , is very good train . Love your video !

The coaches that modern Indian railways use are German LHBs (LinkeHauffmanBausche) which offer better safety, comfort and stability. The locomotives are either licensed production of General Motors/Alstom Locomotives or their Indian modified variants.

I was surprised at the extensive meal service, considering that this was not a long trip.

Nice review, but I didn't see what you thought was so "SHOCKING" about the train, as you described in the video title.

Indian railways is improving with each passing day in the form of Tejas , Vande Bharat and electrification of routes , connectivity to northeast etc

This is good review . Very honest .

You took the Gatimaan, thats cool! And you got a train hauled by my favourite locomotive class as well! The WAP5s are awesome!

The Shinkansen-esque line should be a game changer, but is way too slow and expensive, India needs to be more self-sufficient in its rail technology, but even in China, it was a very long transition to high speed - India with its economic potential is one to watch. The Vande Bharat sets just seem like conventional coaches with some gangways and a pointy end, but still a start imo

5:27 that's tejas express which is one of semi premium train series of indian railway like gatiman express, rajdhani or Shatabdi express.

This is not the only fastest train in India. There is Vande Bharat express running between Rani Kamalapati (Habibganj)-Hazrat Nizamuddin which also is permitted to travel at 160km/hr on the same route. It is a typical EMU style semi high speed train with Automatic doors, odour control system, bio-vacuum toilets, sensor-based water taps and rotatable seats which you don't find even in European trains.

160km/h is the standard speed for german regional trains

HOLD ON wait a minute, did this man just say HOT milk with corn flakes??? Who eats hot milk with any breakfast cereal.

Dude u get cornflakes... Nice. There's loads of info in these vids and the comments btw, good channel.

Welcome to India and Trip was amazing 👏 .

Many people prefer bhopal shatabdi instead of gatiman due to huge price difference for speed difference of 5kmph and bhopal shatabdi is India's first shatabdi express- day time intercity service and aim was to provide an airline like Premium service, but when it comess to average speed÷ max speed ratio varanasi vande Bharat wins and for sleeper luxurious intercity service mumbai Tejas rajdhani wins

12 minutes delay for about 140 kilometers - I consider this fairly okay ! German Railways doesn't do it better!

The Taj Mahal is close on Friday it's a beautiful place go early and take your time. Enjoyed the trains in India. Recommend going to shimla on the narrow-gauge train.

WAP 5 locomotives initially some 100 of there were imported from Switzerland made by ABB and then they were made in Chittaranjan Locomotive Works in India under technology transfer. The WAP7 and WAG9 are completely Made in India . Were P stands for passenger and G stands for Goods

Massive respects to India for their rapid Improvements on Railways. Electrification and everything is super impressive!

You should try Vande Bharat Express.. they are newer with more modern amenities!

I like the funky 1970s wall covering. .

Nice to see all that clean air.

Would you also check out the Vande bharat train? it'll soon replace most premium trains (like Rajdhani, Shatabdi including Gatimaan)

Note: This is the fastest operational train...The construction of a bullet train is underway which will run at 320km/hr

My experience riding Indian trains goes back to the 70s, in the lowest class carriages. What an experience. People often boarded through the windows, or passed their luggage to friends via the windows to secure a seat before it was taken by someone else. I think there must have been more passengers than seats. People sat in the isles, on the floors, on top of luggage. The toilets? Don’t ask. Very uncomfortable at the time, but something to remember. Of course, there were higher class carriages, too, but we all got to our destination at the same time as those in reserved seats!

Thanks for such a, Great insight. From, my armchair! Here in, Leeds.14! I, really enjoyed. Learning, something, New.

Looks very good much better than a lot of trains here in Britain

Intresting video albs! Looking forward to more Indian content

Try having a ride in the recently launched Vande Bharat Express. the deco, the feel are at another level. Hope you will enjoy it.

Been to delhi but never tried other mode of transport. But this is definately an eye opener.

Inida are u kidding me? 0:13 in the video & there is already trash on the step of the train.... WTF is this behavior ?