Armenia’s railway is very strange... (New RUSSIAN TRAINS!)
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
- See why I think Armenia's railway network is so strange, as I make a trip between the country's two biggest cities, aboard one of their brand-new Russian-built EP2D units.
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Journey Details:
Origin: Gyumri
Destination: Yerevan
Company: Yuzhno Kavkazskaya Zheleznaya Doroga (UKZhD)
Train: UKZhD EP2D
Accommodation: Third Class Seat (3rd)
Distance: 96 miles / 154 kilometres
Price: ֏1200 (£1.80 / €2.20 / $2.50)
Time: 3 hours 10 minutes, arrived two minutes early
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In Russia, EP2D is a cheap commuter or inner-city train, usually the trip in it does not last more than 1-2 hours, the seats in it are so dense, because during rush hours it is used by a large number of people going from suburb to city.
Yeah the seating looks like a nightmare for a long trip. 3 hours with that and my back would be breaking...
@@Mew178 в защиту скажу, что удобно. Это основная электричка в Москве для связи с соседями городами.
Ну, ээээ, Шаховская - Тула гораздо дольше, чем 1-2 часа, например
Но в час пик ехать где много сидений очень тесно. Лучше вообще без сидений
@@rusmoscow1971 ну так от тулы до шаховской никто и не едет, электричка просто разные куски с пассажирами покрывает
Armenian sleeping trains to Georgia? Yes, please.
Exotic journey
The temperature is probably being sent to the system as a signed 8 bit variable, so it has to be between -128 and +127, which *should* cover all temperature ranges you'll come across in real life.
However the train likely *reads* that number as 8 bit unsigned, which would be 0-255. (2 to the power of 8 is 256, so you get 256 values.)'
HOWEVER, there likely is a reader that isn't working properly, since 255 is "all ones" or 11111111 in binary, or FF in hex. So there's clearly something not working on the completely new train, and it's probably just a wire that didn't get attached right... :D
Thanks. i can now sleep at nights.
I love the explanation, thanks
or the sensor got unplugged
Or it measures temperature in Kelvins instead, making it close to -18°C or 0°F, which may be an option too
If it measures it in kelvin, and showed the max temperature, then we're in some cold area! (It's of course possible.)
0:48 The Georgian SSR didn't come into being until 1921. In 1899 it was part of the Russian Empire.
About the abandoned carriages: Those are likely left behind after the fall of the Soviet Union. Among former Soviet Republics, Armenia was the most cut of from the rest of the former empire, due to two reasons: The conflict with Azerbaijan over Nagorno Karabakh (which caused the closure of almost all cross-border railway lines of Armenia except the one line towards Georgia), and the Abkhazian war in Georga (which ment that former soviet mainline on the Black Sea cost from Tbilisi to Sochi and beyond was closed). This meant that trains couldn't go further than Georgia. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, sleeper trains from Yerevan went all the way to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Baku etc. All of these services stopped almost immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, leaving only the service to Georgia running. To run that service, much less carriage was needed, so a larg amount was left abandoned in the outskirts of Yerevan.
true except USSR wasn't empire
@@SpecialGoat empire of evil
Moreover, scrap metal processing seemingly does not exist in Armenia.
@@alexus267 Precisely. Shipping it elsewhere is impractically expensive, so it just stays in place until better times. If there are better times for Armenia, at all.
@@SpecialGoatn empire is simply put a state that has taken over a lot of land, which the Soviet Union did towards the end of ww2. And it inherited all the land from the Russian Empire.
I appreciate how fair you are when you share these reviews. You don't often compare different networks to each other and instead judge the trip on its own merits.
I've only been watching him a week and he's compared loads of operators to each other so don't really know what you're talking about?
@@elixier33 okay 👍
It's highly unusual to see a Class EP2D (= EMU, suburban, Type 2, built by the Demikhov Machinery Plant) consisting of only the two cab cariages (minus the intermediate ones). In fact, only three were delivered like this (the other two are EP2D-0003 and EP2D-0166). We have lots of these EMUs in Russia and normally they consist of 11 carriages, with both powered and unpowered intermediate carriages.
Обычно 11 вагонов - этот Москве, а по России, в основном 4 и 6 вагонов, реже 8 вагонов. Есть ещё электрички ЭП3Д - это полная копия ЭП2Д, созданная для линий с переменным током, там также 4, 6 и 8 вагонов в составе
In theory an EP2D could be used with consists between 2 and 12 cars
This guy spawns just about anywhere. He's like the Tom Scott of railfans
It's a great Russian train for it's type and price. It's supposed to be an inner city train and not used as travelling between two different towns.
I believe your mystery station at 6:33 is Norshen - I had a vague memory of passing a monument, the Armenian flag and a big cross before going into a small ravine. I looked back at my photos and the geotag was around there, and I was able to find something resembling the 'station' on Google Maps
Your pronunciation efforts never cease to amaze me.
The Georgian SSR definitely did not exist in 1899!
Oops, total oversight there. Thanks!
Neither did the Armenian SSR!
Great video -- I'm currently in Georgia and travelled from Tbilisi to Batumi, marvelling at the abandoned stock along the way. Just one very pedantic point -- when the line you mentioned opened, it was before the days of the Georgian SSR, when Georgia was a province of the Russian Empire.
True, my mistake. Thanks! :)
I enjoyed seeing it very much this time as well.
Thank you for delivering a wonderful video.
Also, thank you for explaining the toilet in detail.
I'm looking forward to the next delivery.
Seeing this 2 carriages long baby train when I ride it's 12 carriages version to job every day is kinda weird. BTW your pronunciation of Демиховский Машиностроительный Завод is pretty spot on!
Love seeing these cool smaller, way off the beaten path trains! Thanks for sharing. And those coat hooks look more like they are meant for curtains tbh.
In regards to the mystery of the toilet - I think the sink is plumbed into the toilet. I have seen this in really older houses where the toilet acts the main drain trap for a house (typically small houses)
"for some reason the floor was soaking wet" - they just cleaned it?! Your Russian pronunciation is excellent
Enjoyed the video , and yes I would love to see you do the Armenian sleeper train to Georgia . Keep up the great work 😊😊.
In Russia such trains (with 6-11 carriages, if course) are used as "city trains" or for city-siburban trains.
About whole EP2D series. As a Railway Engineer student from Riga(Latvia, which was in USSR) i want to tell 1 thing. These train is modification of old soviet ER2 EMU's from RVR. Technically it looks like this : ER1 - ER2 - ER2T/ER2R - ER12 - ER24 - ED2T - ED4M - EP2D. Even electrical equipment is from Riga and also quite similar to ER2's. So in general these trains are soviet ones with new body
Has Russia been able to innovate _anything_ since 1990? Honest question.
They only seem capable of face-lifting basic Soviet designs to make them look modern and that's it.
Is that also the reason why they are allowed to drive 120km/h?
@@dawidzwiednia9320 ER2's construction speed is 130kph, however maximum speed in expluatation is 100kph. That limit exists bcs of tracks. 90% of lines in ex.ussr capable only for 120kph only few has 160 or 200 kph limit
Thanks for sharing this knowledge with us! I was already wondering this when watching.
@@Z20900 I am glad that my knowledge is useful and more and more people learn about this fact. But a more amusing fact is that the line of trains I have listed applies only to the Demikhov plant. In this regard, Russian inventiveness is unlimited, there are also trains created on the basis of ER2. These are:
EM1 / EM2 / EM4 (M - Moscow, MLRZ), ES1 / ES2 (S - high-speed, but 120 kph, not very fast), ET2 / ET2A / ET2L / ET2M / ET2ML / ET2MRL / ET2EM (T - Torzhok, TorVZ) and ET4A (A - Asynchronous drive, the only train from the entire line of variations on the theme of the old Soviet ER2, others, even EP2D from video is RKSU or Rheostatic-Contactor control system. Without going into technical details, this type of electric motor control system has been used for a long time, since the late 30s, early 40s of the 20th century.).
And this is only for DC 3kV, if we take an AC, which for the former USSR is 25kV and 50Hz, there are variations on the theme of ER9 (ER2 but for AC), then I can list them until my old age, before which there is still a lot of time. Therefore, on the one hand, it’s funny that they still produce the design of the late 50s (ER1 went into production in 1957, but I’m more talking about ER2, because ER2 was sold in large numbers), but on the other hand, it’s amazing what they came up with so many variations on the theme of ER1/ER2
I've been on EP2D-class trains before; they service most of the Moscow Region. They're much larger in Russia though, and used as suburban commuter trains as opposed to long-distance trains.
You should travel here once this mess is over and check out the double-decker inter-city trains that we have; I take them every once in a while to visit my grandma. They're nice in general, but they've got a LOT of weird quirks about them that you'll appreciate.
Thanks for the info. I've wanted to travel to Russia for a long time, hopefully it will be better soon. :)
They basically look like the refurbed ER2s in Latvia.
But they only run commuter services, not multi hour regional.
These train is modification of old soviet ER2 EMU's from RVR. Technically it looks like this : ER1 - ER2 - ER2T/ER2T - ER12 - ER24 - ED2T - ED4M - EP2D. Even electrical equipment is from Riga and also quite similar to ER2's.
@@meta_dan8944я сомневаюсь, что за последние 30 лет в новых версиях осталось что-то рижское... Или Рига до сих пор поставляет оборудование?
@@teffety5466 ЭП2Д имели часть оборудования из Риги, по-моему даже привода были Рижские, которые на ЭП2ДМ заменены на ТМХшные. А РЭЗ ещё жив и очень даже. Например Украине поставлял ТЭДы для троллейбусов Богдан Т7011х. Да и комплекты приводов до 2022 года делал для ДМЗ
It would be great to see a revieuw on the sleeping trains to tbilisi(or batumi in the summer).
Thanks for the revieuw I have waited a long time to see a revieuw on this train. In the week-ends there is a express train linking the 2 cities directly in about 2 hours. I hope new trains/infrastructure and better frequenties will come to Armenia.
Great video! It brought back so many memories as I took the journey in the other direction in a frigid cold january of 2014 in an old ER-2 unit on wooden benches, which still had the Soviet railway map of St. Petersburg in the vestibule of the train. Halfway the journey a young guy spotted me as only foreigner in the train and came to sit next to me flexing with his fake gold plated Nokia and introduced me to Northern Caucasian accordeon beat music. It was... Interesting!
BTW, there is also a *Russian* city called Armavir (in the Krasnodar Territory), and a much larger one at that.
Печально, что в Армении развитие как будто остановилось с развало СССР, все станции и вокзалы в каком то упадке... Тоскливая атмосфера у видео
Блокада со стороны Аз ит Тр
As someone who's trying to learn Russian myself, your pronunciation sounds so clean...if I tried to even pronounce the names you mentioned I'd probably sound like there's something wrong with me, or that i'm insulting someone's babushka xD
respect for actually pronouncing soviet compound words, they've stumped many englishmen
There was nothing strange about That beautiful Russian train.
Great trip, and yeah another great pronounciation of other Language, especially the Russian one. The landscape is mind-blowing and the settlement too 😮😮😮.
Yerevan is home to some short trains. So much so their metro line have custom built 81-717 train that features two cabs, just to be operated as a single unit.
Looks like Gyumri (formerly Leninakan) never really recovered from the effects of the 1988 earthquake. If I remember correctly, that railway station is one of the few buildings in the city that survived the quake.
you see still some traces of the earthquake, but overall it is a usual post soviet city. But if you go by car from Gyumri to Spitak you will see a lot of big cemeteries serving small villages along the road.
@@vaporizewise9064 iirc from the reports back then, 90 percent of Spitak was destroyed. No wonder other villages along the way had it even worse.
@@ianhomerpura8937 also in (new) Spitak is also not much of the traces to see. there is a memorial in the center + the cemetery on a hilltop with a quick constructed metal church. The scale of suffering you can a bit estimate if you look on the dates people died. And it was just the start of a bigger tragedy as Karabakh and the breakup of the soviet union with ethnic violence followed.
Very strange journey indeed! But interesting to watch! Loved the temperature, that's... quite hot...
I would be curious to understand how this rolling stock is sent to Armenia from Russia, since the Russia-Georgia rail connection via Abkhazia is been closed since about 30 years and I see a routing via Azerbaijan very complicated for the well-known political reasons. I assume that it is sent by sea shipment via the Black Sea to some Georgian port (Poti or Batumi) and then by rail to Armenia, I see no other solution...
I would imagine it went from Russia to Azerbaijan, from Azerbaijan to Georgia and then from Georgia to Armenia
There are videos of these EMUs travelling through Ukraine. Then they were transported through sea.
@@dimvajra5880у них не может быть такой модификации электрички, так как это модификация российская.
@@dimvajra5880Украина не закупала российских поездов с 2014 года
Этот поезд могут переправить на большом грузовом самолёте
A new video, Nice!
I'm pretty sure the train is passing through the Aragatsotn province of Armenia, which is one of the lesser developed as well as a very mountainous region of Armenia, hence the sight which you saw.
EP2D is a SHORT DISTANCE train in Russia, it's used to reach suburbia (30-40 min trips), not travel between cities. It's perfectly comfortable for this purpose.
Agreed! 😅
In Moscow the rides are much more than 40min... The lines are actually very long, lets not forget it is the largest city in Europe.
The water doesn't end up in the toilet instead. First it passed through the drain.
It's a way of saving on toilet cleaning!
Umm, it wasn't Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1899! 😅
Great video👏👏super presentation👍👍
255 degrees looks like an 8 bit rollover. So it's probably like -1°C. Or that temperature caused the system to get stuck on that temperature
oh yeah, standard electric trains from Russia, I was riding those back in autumn of 2021, from Nizhny Novgorod to Zavolzhye
wow thanks for showing such an unknown country!
It looks extremely weird, almost post-apocalyptic to someone like me.
The winter landscape with no greenery no doubt influences it.
This was, somewhat surprisingly, an interesting video. even an element of humor👍😝
Brooo, why did you visit in winter?? Gyumri is sooo much better in summer. And about the price, I had a similar problem but now it's fixed. You can find the correct pricing on their site. Also, you were very lucky that the train wasn't packed (that is a totally different experience).
Awesome video
omg Gumri is such a pretty city would love to travel there some day , reminds me Prague.
Great! Thanks!
About that Russian Train - for Russians, it's already a Decade/Two old train. Yes, old train.
Bcs, there already was a Facelift/Modernization, and now recently a Restyling Version - EP2DM.
The new one, kinda looks more cooler, than this old train.
Also, about Commuter Trains of Russia - it's One of them. There are more of them - Ivolga (Which already have a four gens) series, and Lastochka (Siemens DESIRO commuter series) series (Which too - was recently made a Facelifted Version).
And don't start me - with others - RA series (Diesel-powered/Rail-bus trains), New Commuter trains, New Locomotives and etc.
Russian Railway Market - is indeed have BIG VARIETY of Trains, and that strange - why you people from The West - are afraid to look and show this... or maybe i know - bcs, of your hypocryte double standard vision agaisnt Russia, and Racism towards Russia.
So again - Russian Railway Market, is more active - then EU and USA one. What is more outstanding - all new THE WESTERN trains (EU/North America) are made by third party corpo's (For example - NYC New Subway Wagons - is actually are made by European company - "Bombardier"), then in Russia - all new Rolling Stock - are Fully Russian Made, 100%.
It's more active, than the US market, but that's not a high bar by any means. As for EU, dunno.
@@ChildrenOfRadiationа в США не популярны пригородные поезда/электрички?
@@teffety5466 Там окромя машин и самолётов ничё не популярно, в общем и целом.
Exploring trains on Mars would be another great episode :) //
That fact that Armenia has electric powered trains makes it much more advanced then our trains here in Canada.
Are there many non-electrified railroads in Canada?
@@user-ul5tf8ui6t There are no electric mainline railroads in Canada, not even industrial ones. Montreal had an electric suburban commuter rail line for a century, but now out of service as it is being converted to a rapid transit (metro-like) system. Toronto will convert several commuter line to electric, but construction is barely started.
@@haweater1555 Really? In Russia all major railway corridors are electrified. About 50% of passenger lines. Including the line Moscow - Vladivostok. Only the lines on which there are only a few small towns are not electrified. I live on such line. In a town with a population of 5k people. We have RA3 trains (Orlan)
Soviet legacy. That goes for all post-soviet countries. Thanks to Centrally Planned Economy.
"Electrification was cost effective due to the very high density of traffic and was at times projected to yield at least a 10% return on electrification investment (to replace diesel traction)"
SunRail, the commuter train in the Orlando, FL, area, does the same thing as this train where only one car has a bathroom.
Сомневаюсь, что они похожи, так как идея таких поездов звучит примерно, как автобус на железной дороге или быстрый трамвай.
when did you try the train in Indonesia? We are waiting..... :')
"Южно-Кавказская железная дорога" means "South Caucasus Railway" in Russian
I assume the water going into the toilet was the water going down the plug in the sink. Just a guess...
It had been said already that this train set was never meant for intercity travel. The economy version of a very simple commuter train set would obviously look strange if you expected more! :-))) Thank you for the video!
Thanks for the info! :)
Train and railway infrastructure in this video will push out instant nostalgic tear from anyone who lived in USSR and didn't got over Soviet nostalgia :) I lived in USSR during seventies and eighties, views outside window look exactly like it was 40+ years ago. Even train seems renovated Soviet era ED2T-0050. I believe seating designers used material and made feel of Soviet offices and public buildings by reason. At least toilet is decent and stairs are better than gymnastic exercise wall in Soviet era trains.
Amazing, your mastery of the local language - at least sounds like that to me :)
How do you do it for all the countries you go to?
I think he simply tried to pronounce well the names of the places, not the language per se.
A little effort to pronounce them correctly could go off a long way. It takes some extra hurdle for sounds not existent in your lauguage arsenal though
@@luke211286 He always tries to pronounce the place names in the local language, I was impressed when he was in Sweden... he had an accent, of course, but if you had tried to pronounce the names in English he would have butchered them...
не знаю как его армянский, но его русское произношение отвратительно, он еле смог выговорить - Демиховский Машиностроительный Завод
@@user-gb6kz6qd3uДля иностранца впервые читающего сложное название произношение очень хорошее
this trains might have better seats but for the higher factory cost... In Russia we have advanced comfort express trains (ticket cost more) with comfortable seats...
Wao this is amazing 🌹
0:27 What a beautiful station!
It was a great surprise! :)
that train you took ep2d is one of the cheapest russian trains being produced now, moscow commuters hate it for being loud and uncomfortable compared to other made in russia for example Siemens es2gp produced in Saint Petersburg, and "Ivolga" produced in Tver. Ep2d is basically just er2t but modernized a couple of times (ed4m for example which was before ep2d, and was basically a little overhaul of er2), it has the same interior with 3+3 facing both directions, and doors on both ends of the car (compared to es2gp, and "Ivolga" with both doors in the middle of the car)
ye, and in moscow ep2d have usb chargers under every seat, and Armenia ordered a cheaper version without them
Are you sure you still produce the Siemens trains? I read on vgudok that you develop a new and better otechestvennyy train instead, and foremost you need to develop an asynchronous engine, and that it is actually good for the consumer that it does not compete with Siemens and Alstrom. Under these circumstances, I suggest you turning to steam. It was shown in other countries that it could run as fast as 200 km/h at least; and maybe it is better to do that already in a cooperation with Chinese, they still have some funds to invest in the Russian hi-tech sector.
@@andriisokolov1587 who "you" im not from Russia bro, and yes they are still being built, and yes they are developing a "new" train with asynchronic engine, which is basically the same Siemens train but with more parts changed to those that made in Russia, it even had its first test run
Muscovites always complain about everything cuz they are spoiled af
@@andriisokolov1587 Oh such and inspired nostalgic cold war fan...
My neighbour not-George who lives downstairs is Armenian. It's the most beautiful written-language IMO. I envy you as a cis-straight-white-man so much, I'd love to go visit these places so much. Also, you think that underpass is bad, you need to go visit Perpinyà xD
The sleeper train to Georgia sounds interesting.
As a Russian speaker, I applaud your pronunciation of the railroad name and the factory name as well❤
Thanks, I always like to try! :)
When was this filmed?
to me this train doesn't seem strange as it serves my local line and it does the job fairly good, no complaints at all. however by Moscow standards it is already considered a bit outdated with our line expected to get new trains later this year. but 3h seems to be a bit of a stretch for the train. i don't think it is supposed to be used on such long routes
Come travel india as MONSOON is just arrived,you will love the landscape ❤❤
Nice video
0:48 In 1899 the USSR did not exist yet. When the railway was opened, it was still the Caucasus viceroyalty of the Russian Empire.
These trains have electric lifts for handycappers. These lifts are hidden by the shutters near some doors.
08:56 Is the temperature sensor located near the engine block ? i guess war with Azerbaijan over the Nogorno Karabakh had a severe toll on the economy.
this must be some sort of programming error of defect in the sensor.
If you have a 8bit signal, you have 2^8 = 256 Numbers, so from 0 to 255. That it displays exactly the maximum number possible in 8 bit is interesting, but i can't tell for certain what when wrong. One possibly, is that the sensor is simply defective and it displays the max number possible, other idea would be that the sensor is actually measuring -1, but at some point it is read the wrong way.
And yes got the same expression..it was a lot of destruction and abandonment visible, But sadly Armenia was already before the war not a rich country, i think people generally overestimate its wealth.
@@tzarcoal1018 oh good point. it seems like buffer overflow situation
I think malfunction of temperature sensors is definitely not a consequence of the war
Did you know that the Armenian 81-717s were modernized in Tbilisi, by the same people who also modernized the Tbilisi and Baku 81-717s and ezh3's!
Not all of them recently other ones have also been modernised in armenia these are also larger wit 3 cariages instead of 2
6:40
"I've never been to Mars"
Armenian administrative divisions of the territory are called Marz. 🙃😉
Wait really!? 😂😂😂
Bald and Bankrupt would approve of the simplicity of that train!
The waiting room in the first station did have Wifi available. Not sure the DB has that everywhere yet...
But you sure about Armenia? C'mon. There's hardly any running water, a bit of a more important thing than the wi-fi sign on a sticker. In these countries you better go with a satellite telephone in your backpack.
Good afternoon everyone.
The underpasss looks straight from a SAW Film
I did a returntrip from Yerevan to Gyumri in spring 2019. On the way to Gyumri an nice Elektritschka/электри́чка from 1966 in the original condition. Green color with a bit red on the fronts, wooden benches and no toilet.
On the journy back to Yerevan i had a Elektritschka from 1983. No toilets either.
When I had to go again before leaving Gyumri, I went to the toilet in the underpass to the other platforms. I decided very quickly to take a bush instead.🤮
"Let me know in the comments if you want to see a video on that train" ... I believe the answer is always yes!
Yezzzz...
can you do the lötschberg strecke again but with the new stadler flirt MIKa trains?
pls
It isn't quite the Orient Express lol.
Excellent video more of the same please
The stations are beautiful
Love watching your videos
I hope you get around taking a ride in Serbian "Šargan Eight" train
It would be awesome to see the Armenian Georgian sleeper train
The color of the seats has nothing to do with Armenia, there are exactly the same seat colors in Moscow.
Gyumri train station is the most beautiful train station I've ever seen (or my name is not Tigran Petrosian)
Этот поезд не новый, это вариант поезда ЭР3 (Рижского завода), но сильно модернизирован. В Москве и регионах давно используют Siemens Desiro Rus с производством на Урале. Или ЭГ2Тв (Иволга)
Алё чел ЭП2Д и ЭП3Д это глубокая модернизадия поездов ЭД9М, которые от ЭРок унаследуют чисто концепцию
Из общего у них разве что идейная компоновка вагона и то, что они пригородные электрички. А вот даже по принципу оснащения они кардинально разные - в ЭП2Д головной вагон является моторным. Поезд новый с ног до головы, производится только с 2015 года.
Incredibly large space, as a Parisian I am surprised to see that trains can be spacious. I wish we had such a railway gauge in Europe
One of the countries bordering yours has wider gauge than this!
In Europe (in the European Union), such a gauge is present, in particular, in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, and partly Poland.
It's called Russian gauge (1520 mm). But Spain and Portugal use even wider Iberian gauge (1668 mm).
I know almost nothing about Armenia, but if you asked me to imagine what it would be like, I'd imagine something pretty similar to this. The incredible station entrance hall and the modern looking accessible toilet were the most surprising things here...and the 6 abreast seating. What I find interesting about your videos is how it has kind of shattered my expectations/illusions about 1st world vs 3rd world when it comes to railways. In general, I think my preconceptions are mostly correct, but it's interesting how often you highlight things in Western countries which are pretty poor quality, and in contrast, things in poorer parts of the world that are more modern than I'd expect, and sometimes better than we have in the West! Things are definitely more of a mixed bag depending on where you go.
That's an older commuter train design for multi-million Russian cities. That's way it has three seats. It was designed to cram as many people as possible for a half an hour train ride.
@@freshname Seems a bit short for that!
@@mdhazeldine yeah, it's like 8 to 10 carriages short of the standard variant. But you can have as many carriages as you want with this type. When it was operated in Moscow it was 12 carriages, but in Nizhny Novgorod you could spot either 10 or 4 carriages depending on the destination. The number of carriages was up to the operator.
@@mdhazeldine Actually in this comment section you can find a Latvian engineer from Riga, talking about this EP2D commuter train series and how it was just basically a modified version of an even older Soviet ER2 commuter train from the 1960s.
Also somewhere here I posted a comment that after Иволга-train had all but pushed this series off the domestic market, this train manufacturer started to shop around the neighboring countries, searching for "new clients". And Armenia is not in the position to say no, unfortunately.
Armenia is 2nd world...
The sink draining to the toilet makes sense, saves water I guess.
I love Armenia, one of the most beautiful country I have visited.
Good 👍
Nice
Turkey and Armenia having a hostile relationship is the understatement of the century lol
Sorry to disappoint y’all but those “coat hooks” 5:05 are actually attachments for curtains that should be there…😂
In Poland we have the same kind of coat hangers, and the windows usually have a pull-down blind on them, with no need for curtains.
If you were just trying to make a joke though, sorry but it's cringe.
@@jendorei Thank you for the information and especially for the opinion.
woah I love the width of these Russian-built trains. They look really good too!
You can also find such wide carriages in Helsinki metro (and likely all around Finland).
The design is based on southern-US gauge, which later converted to northern gauge after the civil war.