Best KZfaq channel for the 'major construction projects' around the world.

I was once on a train that broke down while I was travelling across Egypt. All the locals started to get out of the train and walk to the next station. At first I wasn't sure what to do myself but eventually I realised that I would have to get out and walk like the Egyptians.

Glad to see Egypt buliding quality and safe railways, they can be the backbone of economy for such country. We'll be seeing it's progress in years hopefully from B1M.

'awful track record'... i see what u did there

coming from a Nigerian, their old railway doesn't look too bad 😂😂😂We're fixing our trains too hopefully we can follow suit 🇳🇬🤝🇪🇬

I didn’t know of that Project. Nice work of Siemens and I’m proud of my (the German) government that they finally understand the importance of cooperation and support in Africa!

The fact that siemens plays a part in this makes me happy, they know what they are doing and they never fail to deliver.

Finally about time , some of those trains I've been on there make you feel like the carriage is a solid 50yr old

Egyptians are one of the most nice people on our Continent of Africa i was impressed by their hospitality and i wish your rail gets to be counted among the best. Love from Zimbabwe

Morocco and Egypt have the most European railways of Africa already and are becoming even more so. Egypt actually has a curious mixture of European, American and Russian trains (getting more Russian with the TMH coaches mentioned in the video). The Siemens trains (Velaro, Desiro HC, Vectron) look like they will be very similar to what is already operating in Europe.

Always wondered when will you do a video about Egypt , we're building like 14 new cities And other mega projects that should have caught your attention 😅

Even an unsafe rail is much safer than road. Egypt loses 12000 people per year to road accidents. Even better that it is getting a major upgrade.

When I heard new, huge-scale, foreign-invested, infrastructure project, I can only think of China. What a surprise that Germany can win over their deal offer.

As someone who travelled a lot between Alexandria and Cairo during his childhood, I always looked at the egyptian train system with a lot of nostalgia. But it's really time to look into the future. And as half German I'm also a bit proud that Siemens will do it! Thank you for this video!

What is going on in Egypt is amazing from a construction stand point

Hopefully Vietnam will follow this path. We currently are considering between a Shinkansen model based network for carrying only people and a network for freight and people, too. Btw, I have an Egyptian friend and he's one of the nicest guys I've ever met. Great job Egypt!

Really happy for the Egyptians that they're getting this

Egypt dominated ancient history and now they’re taking steps to secure the future. I like that.

Hope to visit Egypt someday.

It’s FAR safer than their roads. I work for an oil company in Egypt and we were forbidden to travel any long distance by road. We had to get the train.

Finally.. a couple of days ago .. the last (old) train was finally scraped and all trains currently in service are actually brand new or has been refurbished to a (like new) condition .. viva Egypt 🇪🇬 ❤️

Just a little correction , the first phase of the train will be built by 2024 And the second one will be finished by 2026 Egyptian are fast when it comes to infrastructure 🇪🇬 And thanks to Germany for their big cooperation with Egypt in lots of infrastructure projects🇩🇪

It boggles the mind how Egypt managed to have so many train wrecks. Trains are designed to be so ridiculously safe that even having one accident would've required an extreme amount of negligence. Luckily someone recognized that having Siemens as the maintainer was a good idea and avoided a catastrophe.

B1m...please talk about roads in the country..Egypt advanced from position 108 to 28 globally in roads quality that`s huge leap. thank you

Yes I’m loving all the major infrastructure projects/upgrades coming out of Africa. Y’all Africa is rising, don’t sleep on it! If B1M sees this comment I would love y’all to do a series of videos focusing on the major projects under construction/planned from various countries in Africa, it’s quite impressive and more of the world needs to know. (Proud African here, progress from one is progress for all🇹🇿)

Glad that Egypt's transport system in finally getting a make over. Country has very and big cities but unfortunately very poorly connected, both locals and tourists have been suffering. This project will hopefully make a huge impact on the economy, quality of life and most importantly safety of the people.

I would literally watch this kind of content every day if I could. Even when the subject isn't something I'm particularly interested in you are still able to convey it in an interesting way, and often connect it to other projects that I know more about. Thanks for all your efforts!

Once again you made my day. Long live The B1M

So well projected, great videography, great editing skillsand superb narration. Love the facts and statistics that compliment this documentary.

lol, 'awful track record' 1:56

As a fan of your chanel and also an employee of Siemens Mobility i love that video.

thank you for this video. as an egyptian i've been struggling with trains trasportation and even roads. it is getting better by the time. i hope the other sectors get the same attention

I also heard Mexico is building an Electrified high speed rail line. Could you do videos about that ? So far, Canada doesn't seem to have funded plans for Electrified high speed rail. The USA has Acela (which is being upgraded BTW), while CAHSR & Brightline west are being worked on.

I had no idea Egypt had this type of issue. So happy they're working on that high speed train, hopefully safer. 🙏🏽

I’m very excited for Egypt!

As a political scientist I keep coming back to this channel as it often manages to connect infrastructure with international relations very well.

We got colonial era trains still running here in Sri Lanka so I too can relate with the Egyptians. 🤣🤣🤣

This is fantastic for them improving their infrastructure. Nice video. Keep up the good work.

This has so much potential. They could open Africa up to the whole world if they extend these networks far enough. This could bring prosperity to so many people.

The ESR was always the most British of Railways in Africa. Historically Egypt had the best railway system in Africa. As noted earlier Robert Stephenson built the earliest lines in the country. Which like all of Robert Stephenson's lines were built to the highest of standards. Echoes of the Stephenson era can be seen in the Cairo Railway Museum . Which in its collection has two locomotives built by Robert Stephenson & Co in the early 1860's One of them being the extraordinary ' No 30' a 2-2-4 steam railcar built for the personal use of the Khedive himself. A photo survives of this incredible locomotive undergoing trials outside Newcastle Central Station! In 1883 Frederick H Trevithick (The grandson of the "Cornish Giant" Richard Trevithick The man who invented the steam locomotive in 1803) was appointed CME of the ESA (As it was then). By the 1880's the Egyptian railways were in a run down condition (Shades of today's situation) and had a very disorganised fleet of locomotives. Mr Trevithick acted quickly acted quickly to sort out the locomotive situation. By introducing a standardised fleet with the various classes of locomotive having as many components as practical in common. He also instigated many other changes and improvements. A good example being the Imbaba bridge over the Nile. Which was designed and built by none other than M. Gustav Effiel. By the 1930's and 1940's the ESR was an early exponent of diesel electric railcars (Although and somewhat strangely in the early 1950's the ESR ordered a small fleet of articulated three car steam railcars from Sentinel in Shrewsbury England They were the very last std gauge steam railcars every built (Sentinel would build two more two car sets for the 3'6" gauge Nigerian Railways a few years later They were the very last steam railcars every built). It is very good that the Egyptian Government is getting to grips with the situation and that the country will soon have (Along with Morroco) One of the most modern systems in the World. Also the Government is spending a great deal of time and money on getting urban public transport sorted out following decades of deterioration and decline. I was in Southampton Docks in the summer and saw several of the new and very futuristic monorail trains that had been built at Litchurch Lane in Derby. Awaiting shipment to Egypt. Certainly Egypt will be somewhere I shall visit once these improvements and enhancements have been carried out.

I am quite surprised you only have a single video about south east asian projects. It is literally a war zone for China and Japan investments especially regarding high speed rail projects. Every country wanna get titled as the first to have hsr in this region. You can cover two Thailand hsr, Laos semi hsr, Indonesian hsr, or recently canceled Singapore - Malaysia hsr. It will be fun!

I love seeing things like this, I'd like to visit Egypt one day, and I'm half-kenyan so I'll have to give that Mombassa line there to compare back-to-back, and then see how it stacks up to whatever new trains we'll get here in the US now that Biden's infrastructure bill passed. I never knew how great trains were until I took the ICE from Berlin to Paris in 2016, and again using TrenItalia to get around Italy in 2018, and again in Spain between Barcelona and Girona, I hope, Egypt, Kenya and the US finially get near what you lucky Europeans have had for quite some time, another great video from the B1M!

I coincidentally just watched a video about trains, and B1M posted this. Im so early.

Egypt is the superpower of Africa.

I've been on an overnight sleeper train on that line. Now I feel lucky I'm still alive!

Fixing railway accident is not about building and buying new stuffs. But to keep a good maintenance, and a stable investment.

Congratulations will be the best of Africa so proud our wonderful brothers and neighbours

I am very happy to see a developing country investing in rail as opposed to road infrastructure. It's the only way forward

Love from india.. 😍😍🇮🇳🇮🇳

"Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed." -Winston Churchill

Awesome video as always. I was so happy to see the pictures of majestic TransNamib trains running through the beautiful deserts of my country Namibia in this video. I regularly chase them through the desert.

I would love to be in train in desert or next to the nile. Hopefully this project doesn't get delayed like other countries rail projects (cough,cough, HS2, cough,cough)

I'm sure that sand/sandstorms will be a constant issue that Siemens will have to overcome, but they have the experience to do it.

Great video. Please make an episode on Egypt's 'iconic tower' which is the tallest building in Africa. Also please check out Egypt's new Adminstrative capital 👍

You always find great topics for your videos. Really cool material, and your narration is some of the best on youtube.

Please, more videos like this! Great content!

Infrastructure Week :) Great going Egypt

When I went to Egypt in 2019, the first class train had a toilet that leaked into the seating area

Will it be possible one day to travel from Alexandria do Cape Town in comfortable and safe train? Africa should make as much as possible to build its modern infrastructure boosting turism industry! There is so many wealthy Europeans still afriad to visit Africa, and instead, they spend €€€ in Asia 😩

I've been hoping you'd cover this project ever since hearing about it for the first time. I knew, you wouldn't disappoint^^

hello from morocco 😍😍😍

They should really have gon for the tgv double decker for mass transit. Oh well its the same rails anyways across Europe so they can buy all sorts of high speed European trains.

I love how proud he is to talk about "us" as Siemens and "us" as Egyptians!

One of the best channels on You Tube both in quality and content. Thanks.

I’d like to point out that the safety of old rolling stock is much more a matter of maintenance then it is of age. VIA rail in Canada routinely uses Locomotives built in the 80’s pulling passenger cars built in the 40’s.

They're gonna build a metro in Alexandria

In the 3rd class between alex and Cairo they open the doors for fresh air… while the train is running

Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, South Africa and Ethiopia are making good strides in African rail.

Egyptian here, i just wish the best for my country and i hope this infrastructure wont be a white elephant

Could you make video about indonesia infrastructure project in the past 7 year?

Glad to see that there are major improvements for the african railway system.

Rail infrastructure is the best way to support growing cities and economies. I wish we had more trains where I live. Currently there's about 70 miles of track between me and Nashville and all it's used for is a weekly freight service. There's no reason they couldn't expand commuter rail service and lessen the burden on our highways.

You know you have a bad railway, when it makes Amtrak look good.

And here, in Romania, we buy all the big machineries second handed from Germany and France...

Please make a video about the Benban Solar Park that was just officially inaugurated.. it is the 4th largest solar park in the world .. or about the new cities that are now under construction all across the country.. or the new nuclear power plants on the northern cost .. or .. what ever .. there are mega projects all across Egypt 🇪🇬

An Egyptian once told me that they(govt) often undertake huge projects like this , so much so that sometimes they feel ridiculous.

I've been to Morocco and used it HSR. It's on par with Europe and way cheaper.

Happy to hear Siemens got the job, they build good equipment and infrastructure, also less likely to be a debt trap.

Hello from Egypt 🇪🇬

I know you read every comment. It would be good if you made a video about the workers of these amazing constructions, not enough recognition is given out to the workers. About their struggles, sacrifice, and loss to being us these amazing constructions!

Vietnam needs to upgrade our railway, too.

I wish Pakistani government also invests in our crumbling railways ,there are so many accidents here that I've lost count

Egypt is simply heaven.

Great video you put together with loads going on. Thanks for sharing.

For the size and her population, Egypt certainly needs a good railway system not only within the country bit also its future connection to Western Africa by a direct line to , say Lagos. This link can shorten the shipping distance by about half. Africa would certainly gain from such connectivity by rail through a pan-African railway system. And this is could be the only option for the continent to improve trades among African nations. Of course, a rail link across to Western Africa will enhance the position of the Egyptian port of Alexandria if indeed this port can be expanded!

"What the egyptian people will get is the highest standard, comparable to what europe is receiving right now". I feel for you, people of egypt. How many times I had to wait on my regular train thrue germany because of damage on a train exactly like the one you received...

Finally a video without a terrible advert at the end, and its good too.

And yet here I. The uk we are spending over £100billion to build HS2 which is one line of less than 200 miles

How do they stop the desert from swallowing up the tracks? As someone hailing from a country with "modern" rail services which are regularly halted by leaves on the track, the encroachment of dunes on some of those shots looked ominous haha

Can we get a video about the Uks HS2?

Please have some video about South East Asian countries' infrastructure, especially Indonesia.... I will wait for that

Great content as usual 🔥

I really hope they succeed and that the rest of the African continent receives a upgrade of their railways and countries infrastructures

Agree that needed the most. Japan is building new bullet train line to speed up from 320km/h to 450km/h with enormous cost. When there are countries where rail could be speed up from 50km/h to 100km/h with a fraction of a cost with huge benefits.

Egypt is the largest coast country in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea is Egypt🇪🇬

Are you planning to do Jevar Airport and the support infra [ expressways , high speed metros and a bullet train as well ] which will come up with it ?

Why not invest more in upgrading the current system? Building new lines will not solve the problems (signalling, derailments and failure of rolling stock) on the old network. This would also be a cheaper solution, but maybe compromising on speed and comfort.

I was gonna say I'm surprised China is not involved but nevermind haha

This Channel gives me hope for the future

They build a monorail? That is cool!