The Story of Africa's First 320 km/h Train
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Today, Railways Explained brings the story of the first high-speed railway in Africa - Morocco’s Al Boraq.
Linking the two cities, Casablanca and Tangier, Al Boraq was named after the mythical creature that, according to a legend, transported Islamic prophets, among others, the Prophet Muhammad - for example, from Mecca to Jerusalem, during a so-called Night Journey.
Carried out in cooperation with the French SNCF, it is not just the crown jewel of Moroccan rail transport, but in fact of the entire African continent.
As we often do in similar videos, we discussed the background and broad context of the project, including the strategic documents published by the state, early studies on feasibility, strategic interests to relieve the existing routes and end the isolation of certain areas, etc; the scope of the project, including the selected alignment, technology, and applied systems; rolling stock, which was produced by Alstom; budget and financing framework; issues that occurred during construction; and finally, the performance of the service.
If you want to find out more about this quite interesting high-speed rail project check out our video, and don't forget to share your thoughts in the comment section!
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I was on the train this summer, excellent service. Top speed 319 km/h.
Glad for our Maroccan partners. I hope it will accelerate their growth and make them the first real powerhouse of Africa. 🇲🇦🇨🇵
I’m a Moroccan living in the USA since 2005 and I’m a locomotive engineer in a company in New Jersey . I can confirm that usa is little behind in terms of railroad infrastructure.
Not a little, too much. My wife takes commute train to NY city from NJ. It is old, noise and often delay, compared to Chinese train, those trains belong to museum. American government works for rich people and big corporations who do not take train. They prefer spending more money on war than improving people live.
I can't wait to see how this system develops and grows in the future!
There will a further extension to the city of Agadir passing by Marrakech to the south (468 kms). And to the east, there will be an extension to the city of Oujda passing by Meknes and Fes (615 kms)
Nice video. Morocco and USA are friends since 1777. MOROCCO is the first country that recognized the independence of USA 🇺🇸. My greatings from Marrakech, Morocco
تعليق لا علاقة. اخوك مغربي 😁
@@DaTam-pg6sx you're karghouli????? Nice to meet you.
@@redmarrakech947 Nope! I just want to tell you that your comment is out of context
I honestly think that a modern, high speed rail project between Morocco and Europe is amazing and would really stimulate the Moroccan economy, especially if they would build some tracks for freight traffic in a Gibraltar tunnel as well. Talking about a tunnel though, I fear it might be very expensive because I'm pretty sure the Strait of Gibraltar is quite deep. But well, I guess it will be worth it considering the enormous impact that will have on the economy.
Isn't the strait of Gibraltar also pretty unstable? So price would also be way higher than for even an ordinary tunnel?
@@itsjonny1744 Sounds like something I've heard before so I think you are correct, but I'm not sure. But like I said, a tunnel would be very beneficial to the Moroccan economy so pricing shouldn't be the biggest problem.
@@jensboomgaard Price is always the issue though.
If it cost a trillion dollars/Euros to build, who will pay for it? Its rough to determine who will pay for international infrastructure as its not the road that can make a profit of the economic activity
I imagine that they would do something similar to the "floating" tunnels that Norway and Finland are proposing so as not to have to go under the actual floor of the Strait.
@@snoopyloopy You can't really do that there. It's too deep. The water pressure on the tunnel will be too high.
This should be a wake up call for all US Canada and Australia. A nation in the African continent had true high speed rail before them!
Australia is awkward in terms of High speed rail. Canada could work and the US has Dallas-Houston and the California high speed rail under construction
I agree, what all these three nations have in common is vast geography, the only justification of lack of high speed rail amongst them is it’s not necessary since majority of their big cities are too unpopulated and sprawled at least 1,000 miles away from each other, however on the other hand their cities that are indeed populated also don’t have high speed rail connecting them because of lobbyist from big oil and auto industry companies
@@Racko. High Speed Rail has a treshold where Planes get better.
Los Angeles-San Fransisco is on that limit, its almost perfect for high speed rail without stops.
Australia only has a single route that could realistically support high speed rail, Sydney-Canberra-Melbourne, the rest isn't feasable.
I would love to have HSR in North America. But the automobile lobby is so strong and the urban planning is centered around car use.
@@Racko. geography is a challenge to tackle but using it as an excuse is pathetic
Awesome video guys as always ! 👍🚄
Thanks. Whenever we publish videos on the same topic at a similar time, we really provide viewers with a full package where they get all possible relevant information about some railway line.
American politicians always like to talk about how advanced the US is. I guess they don't like that an African country has beaten them with high speed rail :D
The amount of time they spend arguing and debating whether or not to make high speed rail is the same amount of time it probably took China Europe and Morocco to make another 5,000KM of high speed rail, it’s honestly embarrassing
@@Racko. Yes exactly. They are certainly falling behind with barely any signs of catching up. The only promising project that comes to mind is the Dallas-Houston project.
The fault is mostly to blame on Republican Party. They focus mostly on roads and car infrastructure while the dems focus on public transportation like busses and metros.
but, but, but... SOCIALISM
The USA is not advanced they are primitive they should probably skip to maglev due to all their red tape the cost is so high that maglev is basically the same price as wheeled high speed rail ironically maybe cheaper due to the existing rail lines being so awful that they are not worth using
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Algeria is also known as the North Korea of Africa
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Gibraltar tunnel would be amazing, imagine just stepping on a train in Europe and rolling into Africa,
well, you can already just board a ferry in Spain and 30min later you're in Africa, or board from Morocco and bam 30min later you're in Europe, one of the reasons why Spain is reluctant to be serious about a tunnel project, as there's already a very effective system in place
there's a 40min ferry between Spain and Morocco that goes every hour, no point in wasting billions on a tunnel when the ferries already do the work
@@Yanzdorloph the thing is there is a high pressure on gouvernements especially European ones to go green and use electricity instead of fossil fuels, ferries are a lot pollutant than HSR
@@laaziznaoufal626 still, boats aren't the heavy polluters people think they are.
Al Boraq is one of the best trains of the world. I used this train on March 2023. The maximum speed was 319 km/h. The service on first class was very good. As a Swiss rail enthusiast I can recomend a train tripp in Morocco. The service on the classic trains in Morocco is very good too. They are the best trains in Africa for the puplic transport.
رغم التكلفة الكبيرة للمشروع يبقى ذو جدوى إقتصادية و إجتماعية و تنموية كبيرة لبلادنا المغرب. كما بجب على إحياء مشروع الربط الدار البيضاء أكادير بالقطار الفائق السرعة. و شكرا لكم على هذا التعريف و الروبورتاج على البراق
Top quality vid as usual. I have been looking forward to a video on this project for a while as I've always found it interesting that Morocco has such a developed high speed rail network while the rest of Africa has none. Keep it up👍
morocco is quite advanced than Africa in terms of infrastructure
I was amazed when I visited a random village in the mountain in morocco yet everyone had water and electricity access
Morocco was already a unified kingdom before colonialism era
Nice thing about this is that the poor people also use this train and it is not expensive
imagine the impact a Europe-Africa link could have... It's like Being strait crossing, if it ever gets build... These kinds of projects are almost symbolical. Maybe we'll live to see the day...
Africa needs a lot more development before that happens. the last thing you want is millions of economically driven immigrants buying a one way trip tickets to Europe in the worlds fastest train
@@astafzciba Trains like these have boarding control, so that shouldn't really be an issue. It shouldn't be any bigger a concern then such people for instance buying a ticket on a plane to Europe.
It's better to consider such things from a practical point of view, in case you're basically shooting yourself in the foot for no good reason.
@@Quickshot0 People are very dumb instead of looking at how it will improve Morocco and then in return Africa( As Morocco is the second biggest investor within Africa after south Africa) they look for every little thing that might effect them even if it's as dumb as immigration with that knowledge people might as well buy an boat to Spain🤣🤣🤣. And even if its abt Immigration it's an good thing Europe needs an work force and I want it rather legal in an peaceful manner than going with an sailing boat illegally and end up killing yourself.
@@morocco_020fc7 True enough, much safer if people can work legally. The illegal boat crossings have led to a lot of tragedies. Hopefully things can get better in future for everyone.
Fantastic video!
Brilliant videos and trains you have, greetings from the UK, have subbed
"I bless the trains down in Africa.."
Great video with lot of important informations 👌👌👌
Wow, that's relatively cheaper than the HSR that is being built in Indonesia, which is experiencing a cost over run of up to 7.2 billion USD with a track length of only 142km.btw nice video as always👍
It's because no tunnels had to built in Morocco while in Indonesia they had to pass through many mountainous areas
Much better than airport huzel buzel .safe and enjoyable
Nice video! Great to see the development of HSR all around the world. Can you cover the proposed Egyptian High Speed Rail System or the existing Uzbekistan Higj Speed Railway next?
5:16 Those are some beautiful buildings. So much nicer that what Dubai did with its money.
well the Moroccan HST is partly financed by the UAE
Taking a high speed train from London Brussels or Paris to Casablanca or Marrakech would be Amazing expérience both for europeans and moroccans i Hope it will be achieved very soon
Nice content,please do more on railway projects in Africa
I guess the travel time from Casablanca to Paris was meant to be 16 hours?
Otherwise thanks for another informative video :-)
Yeah, it is great to ride to Morocco from Paris by train. Sleeper, overnight train will be a good opportunity to spend a weekend in Morocco for French travellers.
Excellent video! 👏Very informative. I hope the lines happen and if we can go from Madrid to Tangiers in 6 hours by train, it would be benefit for all.
Thanks 👍
Nice Video, That will be so a interesting Train Network with Al Boraq. But I have one question left, how often will you bring out a video and will you bring a video about Serbian or Balkan Train Network, that would be very interesting. Because they have a nice history about the trains in Serbia and big expansion.
Seeing projects like this really does make me excited for the prospect of new upcoming High-Speed rail in the United States.
I wouldn't hold my breath …
Good luck with that. We can't even get simple shit right, like passing an infrastructure bill.
@@TheRailwayDrone Brightline will be finished by end of 2022. Whilst it's no bullet train 125mph is 125mph faster than nothing. Hopefully it will start things moving forward as I agree are leaders seem to only care about their image. Well make them look bad by building your own rail and then they may have to so they don't look as foolish as they are.
@@Notthecobracommander Good point. I'm hoping they build that Las Vegas railway as well.
@@TheRailwayDrone I predict las Vegas and Texas will be built before California is. I have I am wrong as California was started before Brightline.
Just imagine how much traffic it's taken off the roads
Another success story of HSR project
Laughs in USA
Excellent video. I wish America realized the benefits of high speed rail.
America needs to learn how to think first
@@qjtvaddict Right!
Could you please make a video about the Chinese railway line in Kenya?
Morocco invest for the best future for his population it's a great kingdom
It's Frances debt trap
@@RajGupta-bt2zz Better to have some debt and working infrastructure than no debt and no infrastructure.
@@Sedna063 France should have built it for free since they colonized this country and that's what they owe
@@RajGupta-bt2zz Why should France fund this? If we go the colonisation game, most countries will have money to give
@@Sedna063 as they should
All American continent is misunderstanding this tecnology
Given that this video is a year old, I’ll give a little update. The train made itself first stop in Marrakech so everything is going to plan.
As for the Casablanca to Algiers thing, won’t happen as long as the the Algerian military regime remains the same.
just wondering but why is (edit "was") there an #Netherlands above the titel?
also i now you guys are busy with a lot of video's but is there a plan to make a video about Belgium rail? i think Belgium is interesting for its rolling stock and rail density and stations.
(also i am belgium so its very interesting to hear about the trains you take haha)
Accidentally copied rom the last video 😂
There will be a video on Belgium some day, but we cannot tell you exactly when... 😉
5:15 a small mistake
the picture of casa voyageurs is wrong that's casa port in the picture wich is another train station in Casablanca
Thanks for correction
1:30 this will never happen, the border has been closed for two decades and studies show such a rail link will be very economically beneficial to Algeria but no so much to Morocco.
3:01 This is incorrect - the high speed line will go to Agadir, not Essaouera. If a line is going to Essaoueira it will be a normal line.
Never say never in politics . They just agreed to re-open the borders again
@@MARWANRAJA1
I believe he meant the border with "karaghila", not Spain
@@alich4961 hahaha that makes sense. The 10 in 1 brain 🧠 people
@@MARWANRAJA1 well I remember in the 90s there was a train running from Tunis to Casablanca passing through Algeria
@@TheSchiffReport unfortunately not anymore !! Apparently Algerie are one of those peeps that mix politics with everything.
Very fantastic
Morocco hsr: early studies began in 2003. line is already open and seemingly successful.
Canada hsr: early studies began in the early 80s, and we are yet to even have electrified regional rail
you can afford planes though. Moroccans cannot
We can but we don't have planes culture as Morocco isn't even that big compared to Canada which is Huge. Also, there many many many domestic flights connecting Dakhla/Laayoune ( the only southern cities in Morocco ) to the North. @@yodesuyo
cool
Can you do a video about Rail Baltica?
Do a video on the high speed lines being built in egypt
When will you cover the China-Laos railway? When it opens in December?
This.
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Not that far off the European record - hats off to Alstom indeed.
Amazing ❤🚂❤ Love from => Train Lover Himu
6:00 That's terrifying.
How fast and long is HSR in America, canada, india, Australia and Germany ?
Morocco🇲🇦⚡💙👍🏻
Would you make a video about Italian
high speed?
Sure
This is just a pie in the sky project, what we really need in Morocco is affordable conventional rail transport.
It is cheap. The poorest people in morocco use boraq. Just 80 dh
True . I keep saying it . Conventional rail is more than enough in majority of the world.
Sand storms between Casablanca Tangier 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂 yeah right 😅
Congratulation high speed Railway open 2018 #Casablanca #Rabat #Marocco🇲🇦 #Indonesian high speed Railway open 2022 from #CentralJava🇮🇩
USA is pitiful truth be told if they build new lines the northeast may end up being the slowest Amtrak line if Amtrak gives up on freight lines and builds their own lines
The maps of the future expansions are pretty inconsistent.
Another excellent video. I have to say that you are several classes above 'Simply Railways'. You take the time to produce quality videos whereas 'Simply Railways' concentrates more on quantity. Another thing which makes your videos so enjoyable is your clear pronunciation of English in your commentary. I've noticed that most railway CZcamsrs prefer English sub-titles which is fine but in your case your videos are greatly enhanced by your linguistic skills. They wouldn't be the same if you provided sub-titles. Other railway CZcamsrs can learn a lot from you.
Thanks, Barry. But we have to say that Simply Railways is also doing a great job given the concept of its channel. We consider it a complement to our concept where when we publish a video at the same or similar time we actually provide viewers with a full package, and what the train service looks like, and an explanation of the railway project in the context of all relevant information.
@@RailwaysExplained This may be the case but if Thibault wants to be on screen he needs to improve his English and not offer a form of Franglais. In addition, the English in his sub-titles needs to be improved. I have mentioned this to him and he says I should fast forward past the parts where he is on screen. This is hardly a solution. This is why I believe your videos are far superior.
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Africa has a High speed rail before USA
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Also many countries are more leaning towards high speed trains
And most likely importing them
As production of them will likely take a nation who has never produced a high speed rail will take many years
So
I feel developing economies importing high speed trains is not a problem
i dont understand why people are so hyped about this its just a tgv duplex with a different livery
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7:30: this entire project involves $2.5 billion, or a little over 1% of Elon Musk's net worth. Wow. We need to tax the super ultra rich better because even a small fraction of their wealth can solve many of humanity's problems. Imagine how many people we could help and how many other worthy projects like high speed rail we could complete!
Or you can just take a small slice of your defense budget to some worthy projects. I am all for taxing super rich but the bigger issue is how efficient we are in using that money. Why the US neglected the crumbling infrastructures for decades but poured trillions of dollars on iraq,afghanistan,.....
@@dant9133 Hi, I didn't specify that I was in the US. Also, I didn't say that taxing rich people is the only strategy. Why did you say "Or" like you can only pick one option? You can reduce the defense budget AND you can tax super ultra rich people, right?
My whole point is that we need a better system.
You should learn about wealth and net worth before making dumb comments like this because those people don't actually have that much money. That is how much money they *might* have if they sold all of their assets and stocks at that point in time and that is impossible to do and if it could be done the supply into the market would tank the prices and they wouldn't get close to their "net worth".
@@nick21614 There is no reason to be rude. I don't need to learn about any of this to understand that the existence of these ultra rich when we have millions of people living in poverty is ridiculous. As I said in my previous comment, the whole point is that we need a better system.
I don't care if their net worth isn't in the form of cash. Jeff Bezos has more wealth than he can spend in 100 lifetimes while his employees work like slaves and can't take bathroom breaks. If you think this is normal, you are exactly the sort of person the ultra rich love having as employees.
Please don't be provocative and argumentative. My original comment was meant to show that we have ridiculous wealth and income inequality and how much we could improve everything with even a small change in our tax systems, a concept you clearly have difficulty grasping.
@@person880 I have a degree in accounting and a masters in finance so I know clearly that you have no idea what you are talking about and a small change wont do anything. The 1% already pay 98% of taxes currently. Almost half of the USA doesn't pay income taxes at all. If you live in the USA and have a few dollars to your name you are in the 1% of the world. So it's all perspective.
Your idea is like saying because someone owns a small 2 BR house in Los Angeles has over a million dollars net worth so we should take their house away because there are 100,000 homeless people in LA.
people in Marroco must be really wealthy, because this tickets must not be cheap
15€ for the full trip is affordable to even moroccans
@@yodesuyo oh, its actually cheap... in my country we have a line that is much shorter than that and is not even high speed in most of the parts because of the huge amount of train traffic. the tickets are 100 €. (less if you are over 65 or studying)
@@Duck-wc9de i know, i have tried the shinkansen in japan and taiwan and the tgv in france and yeah, prices are expensive in those countries
@@Duck-wc9de Getting Brightline vibes from this description.
Hope Africa will catch up and not make the same dinosaur juice-guzzling mistake.
That high speed rail doesnt seem like moving fast enough like bullet trains from China!
Both have the same recorded maximum speed of 350 km/hour.
@@chrishanssen6738 China is 385km/hr!!
@@drewh3224 In commercial service 350 km/h. And this line has a design speed of 350 km/h, but commercial speed is 320 km/h.
@@drewh3224 And don't forget Russia. They are construct a high speed line for 400 km/h. Between Mockba - Nizhny NovgorodKazan - Kazan. It has to be completed in 2026. That's gonna be interesting.
@@remco1651 It would be interesting to know what kind of technology Russian have to provide 400km/hr. As for China, 18 years later, the new generation of 100% AI(Artificial Intelligence) driverless magnetic-levitation trains rolled out a futuristic "super-bullet" maglev train run by breakthrough nitrogen technology, not electric power, in the southern Chinese city of Chengdu with 800km/hr. Maglev trains levitate above the tracks and are powered by powerful magnets to glide and floating frictionless in the air above rails.
Your pictures about the prophet and the burqa are wrong the buraq in Islamic believe is like some half horse half mule , not that Persian human head thing
Why not here in "Murica" ?
car = freedom , or smthg like that
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Because Train is communism
Early!
Correction, South Africa already has high speed rail line called the Gautrain.
It's top speed is 160 km/h, right?
@@RailwaysExplained Yes
It is not considered a high-speed railway
@@RailwaysExplained Well, it was definitely marketed that way. What a crock!
@@louvendran7273 HSR is typically anything above 200 kph
I guss most of Muslim know what is Boraq if they atleast study a little bit about Islam
Most Muslims probably do, but there are probably a lot of other people from all around the world watching. I am not a muslim, for example, so I didn't know what it meant, and was therefore glad to have an explanation.
A fairy tale
@@ci-cy3ww no it's not man
I remember being taught the origins of Islam back in secondary school here in Europe, including al boraq.
@@syifangaming6835 It is a myth. Not a fairy tale. But unless you find us the buried remains of that donkey...
It’s a French made train sold to Morocco.
And ?
Just another algerian hater as always go get in the line to but grocery
feel sorry for your black algerian heart .. every progress morocco make is like a knife in your black heart .. y'all are the real enemies of morocco since the 60's
Kindly delete the drawings at the beginning of the video...
Next time you should be careful before saying "SO CALLED "!!!!! 🤨😠
Lol, do you have bone remains of that so called flying mule?
This is a joke.
Tooooo much vile French influence
Excellent influence.
Not vile. Excellent engineers. Excellent rolling stocks.
As a moroccan, i do boycott these trains as they decided to exclude the amazigh Language, the native language of Morocco and one of the two official languages.....btw that funny looking winged mule supposedly carried arab's prophet to meet god and he begged god to decrease the daily muslim prayers from 50 to just 5 prayers. Praise the buraq 😂
7amd
Your language and your culture do not help to invent such powerful train so they are useless
0:25 Very disrespectful to call it “mythical” and to show imagery. Please be more careful next time.
He said the truth
It is mythical. You may believe it is true but objectively we do not have facts.
Whaaaaat ? shut up ! To read such a sentence the day Salman Rushdie has been stabbed outrages me . Be more careful next time.
Frances debt trap
France got their loan back which was not that much. The Golf countries took care of the large part of the funds and the Moroccan taxpayers covered about 40%. Studies has shown that ONCF will start making profits by the end of 2021.
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Nice video! Great to see the development of HSR all around the world. Can you cover the proposed Egyptian High Speed Rail System or the existing Uzbekistan High Speed Railway next?