Top 10 Most Beautiful Modern Trains Across the World

Here is a list of the top 10 most beautiful trains in operation that I have encountered.
What are some of the most trains to you? Do you agree with the list? Is there something I left out? Where have you been that made you think "these are so beautiful or epic looking
Since this is an extremely subjective video, I would love to hear whether you agree or disagree with the list and what you consider to be actually pretty or ugly :)
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[@marcvanderwee]

4.31-4.51: About the German ICE. The train shown in that timelapse is a 'Dutch' ICE train. As there is a ICE train service between Amsterdam and Frankfurt (Main) the NS (Dutch Railways) also bought a couple of ICE trains. Because of the shared operation with the German Railways (DB), so they don't need to pay for the use of the German trains. Normally, when NS should not have ICE trains they have to pay for the distances the German ICE trains run in the Netherlands

[@youdontknowme7032]

Actually the german ICE is a train series consisting of multiple models. ICE is just the shorter way of saying Inter City Express. There are also IC Trains which just consist of some older carriages connected with a single locomotive. And yes, Inter City Express (ICE) is a different thing from the Inter City (IC)

[@adamstrainvideos]

6:58 the Locomotive and coaching stock was actually built by British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL)

[@adamstrainvideos]

The HSTs Were Built in York, whereas the Adelante (The Coradia) Was Built at washwood Heath by Alstom

[@LMZLMZ-gs2dk]

I would add: * Sweden: Bombardier Regina * USA: Avelia Liberty * Italy: AGV * China: Fuxing * Korea: KTX * Spain: AVE Class 100 * France: Z-TER

[@AshmewStudios]

Well Avelia Liberty isn’t in service yet

[@LMZLMZ-gs2dk]

@@AshmewStudios But it's a beautiful train.

[@jeffreylynn135]

As you say in your text, the choices are subjective, but I would question whether the Australian (Victorian) Walkers rail car counts as modern. They were certainly interesting vehicles though. The British HSTs (class 43) have been around for many years (since 1976 in service), even earlier in development. Grand Central is only a recent operator of the type, but they have appeared in many liveries since their inception. The first production livery used the then standard British Rail colours of blue and grey with yellow ends in a fairly ingenious and striking way. They do count as modern, though and certainly brought travel in Britain up to date. Nonetheless, I do enjoy your videos, so keep up the good work.

[@andrefourtier100]

9:14 « Turbotrain à Grande Vitesse » 😅😂🤣 The TGV is an electric train and TGV means «Train à Grande Vitesse » (HST, High Speed Train). Only the 1st prototype of the TGV was a turbotrain. Don't worry, that's not a big mistake. 🙂

[@SeverityOne]

When I first saw images (including drawings; we're talking quite a while back) of the ICE-3, or more specifically the Siemens Velaro, I didn't like it a bit. Then, one day, I was sitting in an office in Amsterdam South-East, not having much to do and looking out the window, and this spaceship on rails glided past. Then I realised what a stunningly beautiful train this is. Fun fact: the second ICE-3 you filmed is a Dutch ICE-3M.

[@partickdistel6580]

Waarom moeten Amsterdammers altijd benadrukken dat ze uit Amsterdam komen...

[@SeverityOne]

@@partickdistel6580 Ik ben Limburger.

[@scottyerkes1867]

All beautiful. All unique. Thanks Tim for the presentation.👍👍😄😄

[@土浦乗り鉄]

Very nice video.

[@RazielKainus]

ICE is my top out of these... but in general, OBB 4744/4746 CityJet trains aka SIemens Desiro ML are my favs (close call with Taurus/RailJet) :)

[@ShanHFernandes]

You're right it would be tough to come with such a list.

[@davidpanton3192]

You did say it was subjective and some of these are pretty ugly! The British HST was spoiled when the buffers were attached; most ran without them. They are still running in Scotland - without buffers.

[@jsut2654]

they are also in England with some buffered but mostly un buffered

[@bahnspotterEU]

4:14 That's an ICE-T which is not part of the Siemens Velaro family.

[@SOUTHBEATS]

Nice one!

[@metropolitantransit7276]

Wish to ride the cascades some day.

[@Fan652w]

Very interesting. As an Englishman may i comment on your number 4 choice. The class 43 type of train, the 'HST' was (until recently) very common on non-electrified British main lines, eg London to Nottingham (where I live). With a few exceptions, they are now banished to the West of England and to Scotland. The stay in Scotland is unlikely to last long, as the Scots government plans to electrify all its main lines.

[@jsut2654]

i wish for the class 43 intercity 125 it wasn't just the Grand Central one because it's not the only HST.

[@claudioferrara4455]

The rolling stock of the Moroccan train is the Italian TAF.

[@sobu_hasy]

4:18 what you showed there is basically not the Siemens Velaro (only some later ICE3 trains, manufactured after 2010 were Velaros made exclusively by Siemens). It's the tilting ICE-T train manufactured by the Konsortium ICNT (made from Siemens/Duewag, Bombardier/DWA and Alstom/Fiat Ferroviaria). ICE uses different types of trains, and their newest in their fleet is the ICE3neo (which can be considered a Velaro since is manufactured exclusively by Siemens). And ICE4 is made by a consortium from Siemens and Bombardier (today Alstom)!

[@SimonRaahauge1973]

How about the danish IC3-trains? now that you got velaro and talgo with twice?

[@Gothrailfan_Crow]

The F59PHi locomotive was made by EMD not talgo. Talgo did however make the coaches the cascades uses

[@thomass4785]

My top ten is following cars Odakyu 70000 series GSE ( Romance Car) Kintetsu 80000 series ( Hinotori ) Seibu 001 series ( LaView) JR East series E259 , series E261, series E353 and E257-2000 series ( Saphir Odoriko ) JR West series 289 and series 285 ( Sun Rise Sleeper Car )

[@saulschlapik6818]

I have my own top 10 for Japan: Shinkansen; 500, E3, E7 JR: Kyushu 885 Kamome/Sonic; Shikoku 8000 Shiokaze; West HOT7000 Super Hakuto, 283 Ocean Arrow Odakyu 50000 Romance Car, Kintetsu 50000 Shimokaze, Nankai 50000 Rap;t

[@geoffreyhansen8543]

I think I like the look of the Thalys.

[@typmitbrille]

Thats not an Velaro,thats an ICE T.

[@greghuang2314]

I would add Amtrak’s Amfleet and the 500 series Shinkansen to this list.

[@ismoleppanen]

The French TGV and German Velaro get my vote.

[@herlescraft]

I may be bias but the ETR521 fit my fancy...

[@britishcorndog6079]

Here to say some of the Paris tran stock

[@interflugOz2]

At the top of the list I would have put Trenitalia's beautiful Frecciarossa.

[@mozeskertesz6398]

What about making a video about europe's top 10 oldest trains still in active use?

[@timosha21]

Possibly!

[@evenstarelectricrailway3281]

Keisei Skyliner and British LNER are good

[@transportvibes9549]

TGV remains the best. never knew it actually was from 1980(?) i always thought they were from 2000’s

[@giddy1337]

I’m surprised Yarra Valley Railway’s RM22 made it into #5 on the list.

[@jasontrebilcock6496]

I'm not going to get into some of the details that others have/will...but, when we got to #3 and I hadn't seen anything from France or Japan yet, I was concerned. Though, after seeing the entire list, I think a lot of people could've easily predicted which train would end up at #1 (it's what I predicted at the beginning of the video.)

[@moritzz7574]

4:16 the ICE T is not a train of Siemens Velaro Plattform

[@AndreiTupolev]

The Velaro in its original manifestation - DB ICE3, RENFE Class 103 - is without a doubt one of the best looking, along with Shinkansen Series 500 (which I don't know if it is mentioned here, I haven't seen that far yet). After that, though, it got sadly bloated and uglier and uglier: see later ICE designs and the Eurostar Ckass 374. Of course, they'd blame EU regulations, everyone always does

[@supersakthi1]

Hi everyone

[@worldtraveller2711]

AVE the Spanish one operated from RENFE, we are 2nd country in the world, after China, with more high speed km railroads.

[@playerscobongameplay]

You forgot an country: ITALY

[@RaideRadaR8218]

How come 4449 is not 1st?

[@mbstarburstmapper3842]

I don't know man. The Z2M shouldn't really be on the list. I do prefer the Italian Z2M, but I think there are better trains that fit on the list (the Italian AGV, ETR500 and ETR1000 frecciarossa, some Chinese bullet trains .... just as examples)

[@moscovorto]

Class 43 aren't modern at all

[@brsvang521]

This is really biased

[@HaoweiChen]

What! No Chinese train!

[@sunglassdubsteps5268]

I mean Chinense trains are complete bullshit to be honest.