Morocco's 320km/h Al Boraq High-speed Train 🚆
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Hello and welcome back to Morocco, where today we're taking Africa's ONLY Highspeed train.
Today we'll be travelling from Casablanca to Tangier, along the length of Morocco's high-speed railway onboard the TGV-based 'Al Boraq' double-decker EMU, so let's go and check it out together!
Date of Filming: 25/3/23
Camera: GoPro Hero 10 Black
Operator: ONCF (Moroccan Railways)
Departure: Casablanca, Morocco
Arrival: Tangier, Morocco
Cost: First Class - 129 Moroccan Dirham (£10.35, €11.84, $12.50)
89 Moroccan Dirham (£7.14, €8.25, $8.74)
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Love from Uzbekistan to Morocco 🇺🇿♥️🇲🇦
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Love Uzbekistan from Morocco
We love you too you are welcome to Morocco God bless Morocco and Uzbekistan ❤
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I´m really impressed. Wish Morocco a bright future! Greetings from Serbia
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Love from Bangladesh to Morocco Bd❤Mo
Morocco is a incredible country. And their trains are so fast and beautiful.
Their trains. Frensh you mean.
@@fbabarbe430Is every airline in the world European or American because of Airbus and Boeing? The trains are ours, we bought them. Oh and Alstom (the train company) has 2 plants in Morocco. Jealousy makes people silly.
@@meb5205 misplaced pride aswell
@@meb5205 the Alstom factor is just an assemblyline.
@@meb5205 Morocco has nothing to do with the French TGV. France launched the TGV project in 1973. On July 28, 1978, the first TGV 01 and 02 left the Alsthom factory in Belfort. French built in 1981 the 1st HST line in Europe. When the TGV broke 3 times the world speed record on rails, Morocco was 0% part of it. (1981: 380 kph. 1990: 515 kph. 2007: 574 kph).
If you buy a fast and beautiful Porsche, it remains a German car, 0% Moroccan.. So: *French* trains are fast and beautiful, like it or not...
CONGRATULATION MORROCO 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦👑🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🌹👏🏻
This video bring Morocco to my wishlist!!! Will definitely visit and try this train!
Hope you enjoy it!
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Молодцы в Марокко построили отдельно скоростную линию
Great review ! Morocco will host the World Cup 2030 with 6 stadiums. Casablanca , Rabat and Tanger are connected. The extension is on its way for the three other cities: fes , Marrakech and Agadir. Hello from Canada 🇨🇦
I can't wait 😍
Meanwhile... no money to rebuild the Homes of victims of the last earthquake. No Hospitals, No Healthcare system that actually works, Schools are a piece of shit.... but wow! you will have 6 stadiums! Congrats!
Fes and Marrakech are already connected with trains. But not high speed rail.
@@ricardofreitaslhaha you're actually sick in the head you jealous spaniard, morocco has built the biggest hospital in africa in tangier just recently and is building multiple new hospitals all over morocco, and about the earthquake have you seen turkey? The earthquake happend months ago but people still live in tents it's not easy to rebuild thousands of homes quickly
Long Live Morocco 🇲🇦 🙏
Well done job Nonstop and for Morocco they need to expand the network just in time for the 2030 World Cup. Watching this from the Newark, NJ area
I can't wait to try it 😍
Stunning station.
It really is!
Great job kingdom of Morocco
Absolutely!!
Love from INDIA,hope to see you back❤
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Me too!
Moracco is cool Country
welcome to morocco 🇲🇦🇲🇦
Thank you 👍
Nice one Morocco .. you've got more HSR than the UK ... great stuff!
Oh yeahhhhh 😎
Really great review! I like how in less developed countries such as Morocco are willing to invest more in high speed services. I hope they continue to develop further if they have the funds and the support from the Moroccan government
Fun fact africa is not a country
@@mounaell5252 Okay, yes I know I made a typo...
The Tanger - Casablanca HST delivered in 2018 was financed by: France 51% of the overall investment of the project, the rest was financed by the Saudi Development Fund, Kuwaiti Development Fund, Abu Dhabi and a little part by Morocco.
Rather than less developed, I'd argue that there's a greater disparity in development. When I look at the railway stations, I see a modern country. But I reckon that, once you get to the more rural areas (such as the ones that were hit by that devastating earthquake) it's a different story. I also think that those are the areas that most Moroccan immigrants in Europe hail from, because they dress far more conservatively than the people seen in the video.
@@SeverityOne you need realy to understand that the people that were living in these ereas are the amazigh that refuse to leave their home land to cities and that they are living on top of the montains were its hard to have any economic activities other than survival agriculture + they are realy separete from each other in one village you can have only two homes so this complicates the situation
Super! Thank you!
Well done Morocco, you must be proud ... unfortunately in the UK we are unable to make a high speed train from London to Scotland, millions are wasted on conferences and the government just gave up on the plan of a real high speed train from south to north ...
Amen 🙌🏻
L'espagne est à 14kms de Tanger et non 30kms..merci pour la vidéo et bon séjour au Maroc
non, c'est 30km de Tanger. 14km c'est plus a l'est close to Tanger med
❤ this country
Me too!!
Thank you for this beautiful trip❤❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
just a small correction: Rabat is not the 7th biggest city, in paper it is but it's actually much bigger because of the large agglomeration around it (namely the two cities: Sale and Temara) which are part of the greater Rabat, that makes it the 2nd biggest agglo in morocco.
I am moroccan btw
So therefore my statement was correct
@@NonstopEurotrip Apperntly yes!
In Morocco we count Rabat with Sale and temara?
Sale is bigger than Rabat btw
@@NonstopEurotrip Technically yes
@@moroccomorocco6556 I mean technicaly speaking Rabat, Sale, Temara, tamesna and Skhirrat are all just 1 city.
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*All trains depart every hour, on the hour, from 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM, except at 1:00 PM*
Every foreigner: It's due to lunchtime!
My opinion: Maybe at 1:00 PM the Moroccan Railway workers pray, 'cause there must be a train at that time, with or without being lunchtime.
You know, if they can't pray 5 times a day, they must pray, at least, once per day, at 1:00 PM.
It's like taking a break to make Allah happy. They stop, pray and then get back to work.
Btw, this could be part of a futuristic line that will cross the Strait of Gibraltar underwater.
There's a massive project between Spain & Morocco that began in the 1980's to connect themselves via a 14-kilometre tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar, like the English Channel Tunnel, with trains carrying cars, so ferries from the ports of Tarifa or Algeciras to Tangier could be less busy, specially on Summer, when hundreds of thousands of muslims working in Europe go back to their countries and vice-versa, but it's just that, a project that don't go anywhere
Very good points Pedro 🙂👍
It's actually very likely a lunch break. As in most Mediterranean countries, Morocco does observe the lunch break if not the famous "siesta time" (sieste in French). As for the prayer, Moroccans are not known for their strict adherence to Islamic rituals and regardless, prayer times changes throughout the year and may not fall necessarily at 1PM, my guess is that it likely isn't most of the year. I lived in the UAE and noticed that.
Thank you for the video, There will be another TGV connecting Casablanca to Marrakech, Essaouira and Agadir as well
Can't wait!
Another great video !!
Thanks again!
Great content as always👍
Appreciate it!
Nice train! Are there plans to extend this high speed rail from Casablanca to Marrakech?
Yes there are. For Tanger - Agadir (700 km) as well.
There is already the budjet for it, only the project is still in analysis phase and not yet decided which country will invest the high speed
For sure the megaproject will be finished before woldcup 2030.
Yes before the world cup 2030 it will be extended to Marrakech Essaouira Agadir....Also Fes and I m not sure for Oujda in east
Yes, as mentioned in the video
There is a project currently underway to extend a high-speed train between Marrakesh and Agadir, and this train will be Spanish-made
There is another project to develop the current railway between Casablanca and Marrakesh to receive high-speed trains between the two cities.
This means that high-speed train lines will run from Tangier in the north to Agadir in the south before 2030
Thank u from Morocco ♥️
Another fantastic video
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent 😊
Thanks 😊
All these less developed countries than Australia are building quality high speed rail and yet it remains just a dream in Australia. So frustrating!
do not know about Morocco, if it is developed or not ...but it sure does have very good infrastructure and its clean ... it is developed ig by the looks of it
Morocco is actually very developed.
In the 70s, we used to say if you wanted High-speed Rail, you'd have to get the Japanese to build it and run it.
I doubt we will have a Rail network in Australia that is anywhere as good or efficient as Japan and Europe. 🇦🇺🦘👋👋
Morocco is pretty developed. Just because a country is in Africa doesn't mean it's not developed.
@@downunderrob or China
thanks from morocco 🌹
Morocco 🇲🇦💚
The train seemed a bit empty, but I could tell from the light - I live in Europe, on pretty much the same geographical height as Gibraltar - that it was summer. There's just a certain intensity and hue to the light in summer. Everything starts to glare. Over here, it slows down during summer because it's just so hot, and I would imagine that it's the same thing in Morocco.
It's great that they have a high-speed train running in Morocco, but I wouldn't put too much emphasis on it that it's in Africa. Morocco has more in common with the wider Mediterranean than with Sub-Saharan Africa, and I can't really see many more places where such a train could run; be it because of geographical, political or economic reasons. Africa is a very big place.
Finally someone that understand that Morocco is a fully mediterannean country. Im Moroccan and i ve visited Greece, Albania and Portugal and felt just like Morocco
@@mehdiimsafarne9480 Well, I'm Dutch, but I've lived in Malta for over 20 years now.
Well, it is in Africa 🙃
I also filmed before most people got one, but it wasn't that busy for a weekday late morning service
The TGV Duplex virtual model in Trainz 2022 is very detailed and a good addition to the game that I play, although it's not in the coloration of the one that you rode, but it's an excellent model of such an iconic European style highspeed trainset, have you ever ridden The Inter-City 125 HST in your home country of England before?
Thanks
Very informative, as usual. Excellent; thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Nous avons voyager dans le train boraq s,etait vraiment un agreable voyage c,est confortable.nous on as eû la chance de nous restaurer dans le bar du train.s,etais geniale.
Thanks for sharing 😊
Do you think they'll ever build a rail tunnel between Morocco & Soain to connect to European high speed lines? Saw this proposed somewhere before I'm sure...
I doubt it Mark, there's no political will
Bien dit
Le projet est sur de bon Rails crevez en silence . @@bachamohamed
@@NonstopEurotripactually, the political will is there on both sides; but it’s a monumental task with very challenging technical issues due to the strong currents of the straight of Gibraltar. If it doesn’t get done for the World Cup, then it will never happen.
@@ryanmendi5607 exactly, so it won't happen. Shame because it would be awesome 😎
I love your vid!
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Great one 👌 BTW: Why don't more high-speed trains have a double decker layout? Is it only because of most routes' expected capacities not warranting it or are there any other reasons as well. Video & Channel idea/suggestion: You could vlog your intra-city travelling & exploration too and it's alright even if you aren't in front of the camera, could create a separate second channel for it too if you want to keep this one purely for train travel but I honestly think it would be great both for you as well as us, only if you're interested in doing it though. Thanks for the amazing videos 💖 Take care 🍁
Because, believe it or not, it doesn't actually increase the capacity much at all because of all the stairs and other wasted space. A single decker train of the same length only has about 20% less seats. And I don't have time to make any other channels right now, sorry 😅
@@NonstopEurotrip and because you cannot make a double decker high speed emu (japan build a few but those were limited to 240 km/h) meaning you will need to add 2 motor cars who will take up a lot of space. for example a tgv duplex can carry 510 people, but a single deck ice emu can carry 440 people already. (a single deck tgv (with motor cars) can carry 340 people).
@@NonstopEurotrip Thanks for the reply
Good vedio ❤️
Great docu 👍
Thank you 👍
Great trip. Ah yes, finally you take this train.
Yes indeed!
It seems Morocco has a Spanish style siesta period. That might explain the lack of a 1pm train if ticketing and station staff are on their extended break.
Of course, in summer time, there is no activity in afternoon
I think it's because of prayers
Lunch time as five prayers are performed during the day 😊@@NonstopEurotrip
@@NonstopEurotrip the prayers don't affect the schedule , because their time changes depending on the sun position, for exemple the sunset in summer isn't the same in winter. The thing is in Morocco we work from 8:00 to 12:00 then 14:00 to 18:00 instead of 9:00 to 5:00.
Is the other way around. Moroccans/muslims introduced many things to South Europe siesta is one of them.
Please visit Jakarta Indonesia, there's a new line of high speed train launched 10 days ago with top operational speed of 350km/h.
143 km long from Jakarta(capital) to Bandung city(West Java).
It's the 1st phase, there's a 2nd phase planned to be build in the future, much longer from West Java province start from Bandung to Central Java province to Surabaya(Indonesia's 2nd largest city in East Java province).
The entire line is around 800km long.
Java itself is the world's most populous island with over 152 million people, 60% of Indonesia's total population lived on this island, it also the center of Indonesia's economic activity.
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Wow! beautifull video! ciao ciao from Italy. Like and sub
Thank you very much! Ciao!
Great..
The little guy kill me 😂😂 from Casablanca 👋🏻
Morocco has faster train than Australia
Most places do
Thank you! Barcelona→Milan next?
I've got Madrid to Marseille booked?
I'd like to see that too.
It looks like the tgv euroduplex, or the earlier model eurostar. Neat
As he explains actually in the video it is the TGV Euroduplex
SNCF in Africa, essentially.
Exactly
Sangat keren. Semoga bisa kesana. Suatu hari nanti.
nice ride🙂
It was!
Thanks a lot. U are showing us high speed trains around the world. Nice. But one thing puzzles me. I see in some cases, train coaches are almost empty. How they manage it? Would be great if U could say something about the economics of high speed trains of the world.
This TGV is a real success and results are beyond expectations....Morocco will extend it to other big cities like Marrakech Fes Oujda Agadir in few next years.....More than 1500 Kms of High speed trains
Moroccan here, depends on the hour of the day, there's 1 every hour, some are full others less, great way to comute to work from Kenitra to rabat or casablanca
Most of my filming is done before most people board so to show the seats better. Honestly whenever I've been on this train, it's been very busy!
look at 16:18
Morocco❤❤
There is already the budjet for Extension of other cities like Marrakech and agadir or Fez, only the project is still in analysis phase and not yet decided which country will invest the high speed
For sure the megaproject will be finished before woldcup 2030.
Now we talk about TALGO from Spain
I can't wait to try it 😁
J'imagine que le train continue jusqu'à Madrid ❤️❤️❤️
One day... Maybe!!
I would love to see a Hungary train
I wish these SNCF inspired tgv would come to india❤ great review though😊
You don't, honestly. Your Shinkansen will be much better in every way
Tankyo
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With the World cup coming very soon in 2030 Morocco will start construction on The Casablanca-Agadir HSR in 2025 at max so that it can be ready for the Cup
That will be great 👍
Bom dia boa viagem muito lindo trem
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How many TGV trains are there in Morocco and when where they built?
There are 12 tgv and they entered service in 2017
12, France.
Hello, we want to travel from rabat ville. Can we buy al boraq train ticket from gare rabat ville station and then catch a train to Rabat adgdal?
You're best buying it in advance online as it's cheaper and you guarantee availability
@@NonstopEurotrip but can we catch any train from rabat ville to rabat agdal to get the al boraq or is that not included in the price?
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Hope you reach 100‘000 subs
Me too 😁
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even in Africa that West think a Backward Countries that has High Speed Train while Develope Superpower like US doesn't have it
Exactly 💯
Okay ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😅
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Don't trust google Translate : name of some stations are not correct in arabic, Casablanca voyageurs and Rabat Agdal 😂😂😂
Good video 😍, i'll take Alboraq soon in november from Tangier to Rabat , i can't wait 🤗😍😃
Indonesia sudah ada kereta cepat jakarta-bandung Whoosh, 350 km/ jam,
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Yes even Morocco has a high speed train but in sleepy Australia it's too hard all we do is have a study then another study and so on. Victoria couldn't even get a ticketing system right Miki has been an expensive joke.
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“even” Morocco? I understand your frustration with the lack of high speed train in your country, but it’s no reason to belittle another country.
Even Morocco….? Who the f… you think you are to underestimate/belittle 🇲🇦?
Looks like a French hispeed train! But man we pay fortune for a train travel in UK 😢, why ?
It is, as mentioned in the video
非洲现在都比美国先进和现代化。
Absolutely 💯
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I NOTICED NO DRINK OR FOOD SERVICE ALTHOUGH ITS 1ST CLASS .....
Indeed, just a seat upgrade
I noticed you are writing in caps
☝️🇲🇦Allah Alwatan Almalik🇲🇦☝️
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Dear Canada - you should be ashamed AF since Morocco can do what we cannot 🥵🥵
Amen 🙌🏻
What is your feverete contry ?
Japan 🗾🙂
when will you visit pakistan?
Soon 👀
Brzvo
Will you upload anymore about Chinese trains ? Like full trip between Beijing and shanghai or any other?
He must have recorded more while he was there.
@@himanshusingh5214 I did. But as stated, I couldn't leave Shanghai and it's neighbouring 2 provinces
Yeah, I remember now.@@NonstopEurotrip
* Made in France
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As mentioned in the video
The train was built by Alstom in France, it’s the french tgv
If you watched the video you'd know that was covered in it
Algeriens LMFAO…they talk about country development not who made it..tell us what’s the name of any train made by berbers?
Certainly, your video gives a good impression of the modern development of the Kingdom of Morocco in the field of rail transport, especially on Al Borak; high-speed train.
However, towards the end of your video you committed a monumental blunder by talking about the courtesy of France in providing the kingdom with this high-speed train since this country never does anything graciously because it has done everything to carry away this 14-mile walk 'tgv' trains which cost Morocco 1/2 billion dollars and all the infrastructures carried out mainly by Moroccan technicians linking Tangier-Casablanca cost the colossal sum of 02 billion dollars without including the cost of the 04 ultra modern stations between Casablanca. -Tangier which cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
So please be careful from now on before making mistakes and thank you for your understanding.
I didn't say they provided it, you should watch and understand better
Excuse me, I know very well how to differentiate the meaning between 'provide' and 'courtesy' and my comment was more to enlighten all those who watched this video and would have unfortunately understood that France had been kind enough to put graciously its know-how so that the Moroccan company ONCF can join the restricted club of companies with high-speed trains exceeding 300 km/hour.
Morocco invest in High Speed good idea but invest in the people and not recurred inmigration i thimk ; in the same time Morocco it has the only sky resort of the comtinent
Progressive thinking
Nice but it will be overthrown by the soon to operational train in Lagos Nigeria 🇳🇬 . Top speed is 330kph.
Wow really?
I thought Nigeria is one a poor country in Africa continents except South Africa, Egypt, Morocco
You said top speed 330km/h where's your train?
News to me 🙃
@@killuagon2274 google “new Lagos redline train”... and Nigeria has the highest gdp in Africa. Highest oil reserve in Africa and 11th globally. No Nigerian is no where poor in fact no nation in Africa is poor. We just have bad leaders and countries like USA and France pulling us down to look good.
To inform you this train can reach 360 km/h top speed not only 320 but they experiment it and they use only 340 km/h in some places beteween kenitra city and tangier city
@@amine91z11 not approved for passenger service
La calete de vidéo mal
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As a tourist did you find this country to be a good one to visit? I've seen lots of videos saying that the aggressiveness of the locals to try and make you buy something can be really bad.
No one is forcing you to buy. If you are exposed to any harassment, there is always a special police force for tourists. But if you ignore it, there is harassment everywhere, and Morocco is no exception
I had no problems whatsoever. I love Morocco ✌🏻😄
Overall NO, you may find few but it’s not very bad, it’s fine and easy to deal with. Not at the point to deny you from visiting this beautiful country and enjoying your time
Do not listen to the media. If merchants want to sell you something by force, this is part of the sales and marketing techniques. 😂❤
اش دخل افريقيا بالموضوع واحنا بالمغرب لسنا افريقيا ولا نعرف سيظل عن افريقيا ولا رابط لنا مع افريقيا
You're literally in Africa 🙃
Morocco is one of important countries inafrica
we're proud africans
I am Moroccan, Amazigh, African, and I am proud of my identity, our beloved continent
قارة أفريقيا والإنسان لا يرتبط بالقارة يرتبط بالعرق الجذور الثقافة اللغة واحنا كمغاربة عرقيا لسنا أفارقة سواء عربنا او أمازيغ ثقافيا ليس عندنا ثقافة إفريقية ثقافتنا مرتبطة بالشرق الاوسط لا من حيث اللغة الاكل الاداب والسلوك الدين تاريخيا ليس لدينا تاريخ مشترك مع افريقيا تاريخنا مع الشرق الاوسط كنا جزءا من الامة الإسلامية التي امتدّت من تركيا لحين اسبانيا شكلا لسنا أفارقة أنا من شمال المغرب حتا الالتئام الأسمر بمنطقتنا نادر الوجود فما بالك الأسود مستحيل تلاقي إنسان اسود
مثل ان تقول امريكا هي الهنود الحمر والأمريكي هو الهندي
Poor effort for disabled people 😢
90s thinking
I actually prefer trains that are slower.
That depends on what you're doing
Same here :> Like Oncf E1450🇲🇦❤️
C'est le TGV français.
As mentioned in the video
engineers were multi nationalité, frennch -moroccans -tunisians..
when are you gonna upload your indonesia trip?
Whoosh this week