The Most Insane Railway Projects Under Construction In The World

Today we explore railway mega projects under construction around the world, the insane engineering behind these transport systems and building designs behind each rail project. We cover Mexico's Tren Maya, Australia's Cross River Rail, China's High Speed Railways, Maglev Bullet Train, East Africa's Chinese-Built Railways and UAE's Etihad Railway.
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[@TheImpossibleBuild]

Some pretty cool projects underway! Did we miss any?

[@etu1nemu]

Brenner Base tunnel, Grand Paris, HS2, Roma Line C, Fehmarn Belt...many others.

[@Edward4Plantagenet]

India #Built 5000km Railways Last year. Produced 6000 #coaches, done 6000 km route #electrification , producing Made in India Semi High speed 🚅 trains, Built 3400km Dedicated freight corridor, World's highest Rail bridge 🌉, & Built 100km Long HSR viaduct in just 1 year.

[@toniderdon]

6:01 pioneered in Japan? You mean in Germany. Germany had a functioning Maglev (TransRapid) in the 1990s. England also had a Maglev early on, but it was very slow. The German one was extremely fast

[@totallynotvme]

The Japanese "Maglev" is different from the German system implemented in Shanghai. It uses super-cooled, superconducting electromagnets instead of the "normal" magnets of the "slower" German system.

[@carts2]

In the Kenyan railway segment, the narrator mispronounced the word "gauge". It rhymes with "cage". But he pronounced it like "gouge".

[@chasmader]

and that's where I stopped watching.

[@LT-mc8vj]

Very interesting and informative! Thanks

[@michelle47]

Should have got the Chinese or Japanese to Build HS2 It would have been completed by now and a lot cheaper

[@rupeshjha0]

You forgot india.❤

[@juanmontull8550]

5:27 Yes, China has the largest network but China, as allways, is on another level, whithout them, Spain have the largest network (4000 Km) followed by Japan, France and Germany, even Marroco has a full high speed rail line!

[@guillermominarro2023]

Tren maya it’s already old and slow train 🚊

[@967jamesbaird]

Hmmm another video that’s very similar to the B1M… wonder where you get your ideas from….

[@chasmader]

at least the B1M can pronounce all the words correctly.

[@lukasu8243]

Cool video! What was missing a bit for me were more details about environmental impact and measures taken by the architects to mitigate that, as well as the dept problems African countries are facing after taking massive loans from China for their rail projects - the video for me personally sounded a bit too much like "everything is awesome". Apart from that great video, keep it up!:)

[@JenniferNg0529]

6:20 Tokyo to Nagoya by 2027 and Tokyo to Osaka by 2037.

[@SeverityOne]

Why is rail construction so expensive in Australia? When Amsterdam built its 9.7 km metro line 52, it went almost four times over budget at a whopping €3.1 billion - which is about half of what the line in Brisbane will cost. Even in Melbourne, it's a massive amount of money.

[@mayachico9766]

It doesnt stand at a crossroads for tren 🚂 maya. I live here. Theyre building it regardless.

[@user-gi8bc6us4d]

most of trains and projects are made in China.

[@laurenceskinnerton73]

HS2 should have used the corridor of the Great Central Railway it would have been built quicker it would have caused less disruption and be more popular and have cost less.

[@jacknickels6132]

What the video does not cover or choose to over look is the fact that China's HSR has massive debt and safty concerns, while Japan's HSR has one of the safest rail systems in the world. Also, the while the rail system development in Africa is impressive, here to the video does not mention that fact that most of the countries that built there rail systems with the help of loans from China are not DEEP in debt to China and may end up having to surrender ownership of the system to China.

[@jonathanchester5916]

More purple prose than a field of lilies. Just the facts sir, just the facts.

[@Eurobazz]

It's a pity you didn't know how to pronounce "gauge".

[@maxwalker1159]

!

[@davidwebb4904]

HS2 deserves the top spot, for the pure insanity of paying 10 times book price, in one of the greatest rip-offs in the history of civil engineering.

[@etu1nemu]

The same whiners that claim UK rail is old and outdated.

[@chasmader]

I can't believe, well actually I can, but I'm watching a video about railway projects and the narrator does not know how to pronounce "gauge". Hint: the u is silent. If you can't get that right, one wonders what else did you not get right?

[@petercrossley1069]

Stop saying “minimalise”. The correct word is “minimise”.

[@chrthewrestler2301]

of course it has to be china and china helping build in middle east.... it never happened or will never happen in the west lets be honest here.

[@jonathankerr4859]

Mexico is forcibly moving indigenous population out of the ancestral lands and cutting a railway through the rainforest. Don’t think the fact that there waste from the train is biodegradable will make enough difference.