Fun fact: Despite being in service for over 50 years and servicing billions of riders, no Japanese Bullet Train has ever had a major injury caused by operation. The countless safety measures and amazing engineering have given them a quite impressive...uh... track record.

@michaeljanssen3360

Жыл бұрын

I see what you did there..... Nice

@harrickvharrick3957

Жыл бұрын

: )

@gathel8574

11 ай бұрын

Until Kyushu incident happen

@harryvlogs7833

9 ай бұрын

Fun fact France has faster trains now

@glennjacksonofficial3001

4 ай бұрын

@@harryvlogs7833 Because the French were experienced at locomotives than the Japanese, the Japanese had to visit France to find out how the French engineer their trains to make it go faster, and then the Japanese were like you know what? Let's make our high speed train and better.

Nothing but respect and admiration for the Japanese engineers and scientists.

Thank you for your interest in Japanese bullet train. About 150 years ago, we Japanese have learned railway technology from UK. I'm very happy to cooperate with your country again installing new high speed train Class 800.

I only watch documentaries because Hammond is on this

@dreamfire3879

3 жыл бұрын

me too

@Ethankeenan02

3 жыл бұрын

Same haha

@scottiedog4236

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah he’s got that informal voice !! Plus he’s funny too

@scottiedog4236

3 жыл бұрын

Qasim Chaudhary You twat ! Bet your Gay ya twat ! Get a life

@ethanporciello8807

3 жыл бұрын

Qasim Chaudhary what the fuck

At least it didn't catch fire like May & Hammond Rail

@elstevobevo

5 жыл бұрын

Fallen7Pie one of their best episodes.

@rooblez9005

4 жыл бұрын

lol!!😂

@totoyu12345

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 i almost dead 1🤣🤣🤣😂

@joewoodley6625

4 жыл бұрын

which episode was that?

@samarvora7185

4 жыл бұрын

James, your train's on fire.

and now let's see how fast it gets 'round our track...

@eugenechousein8854

4 жыл бұрын

haha!

@samarvora7185

4 жыл бұрын

Which, of course, means handing it to our tame racing driver. Some say...

@stevek6432

4 жыл бұрын

@@samarvora7185 he can stop a bullet train with his toe.

@samarvora7185

4 жыл бұрын

@@centuriongaming1868 All we know is... He's _not_ the Stig...

@atilaszlo8288

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

Just got back from Japan and my God what a marvel of a country. The Shinkansen is an engineering miracle

Richard Hammond has a wonderful voice. Wtf. Also he's a brilliant, brilliant presenter. He reads and speaks so very well, damn.

@TheBramcornelis

4 жыл бұрын

Oooooooooooo well hellow

@beeter3588

3 жыл бұрын

“Hammond you idiot” -Jeremy Clarkson

@georgeionescu6425

2 жыл бұрын

good presenter,but also a racist,narcisistic sob

@amoniousbt1110

2 жыл бұрын

@@georgeionescu6425 simply acknowledging race exists is enough to get you called that today. Stop being such a perpetually offended little shit.

@connorsmythe2039

2 жыл бұрын

@@georgeionescu6425 Shut up man

The Shinkansen is truly a marvel of modern tech. Having traveled on them numerous times, they never fail to amaze. Just a pity Mr Hammond, like so many other TV presenters, cannot pronounce "kilometres" correctly.

@adamdzwoniarek3841

9 ай бұрын

Is it because they're British? lol

@justanotheryoutubechannel

5 ай бұрын

Speaking as a British person, he’s saying it correctly, isn’t he? That’s how everyone seems to say it over here. It’s kill-oh-met-ers, I’m not sure how else it could be pronounced, unless you were expecting “Keel-oh-meet-ers” or something.

@internetpolification

5 ай бұрын

@@adamdzwoniarek3841yes, that’s exactly it.

Brilliant documentary. Only thing missing is Clarksson commenting on Hammonds failures. :D

@PianoTechSupport

Жыл бұрын

HAMMONDDDD!!!

@zye.

Жыл бұрын

Hammond you blithering idiot!

@anaveragesoviettankfromthe70s

10 ай бұрын

"Hammond you idiot..."

This guy teach better than my teacher

@cj_r3249

3 жыл бұрын

You should watch top gear, he’s on it, it’s by far the best show ever

@JohnDoe-kh8df

3 жыл бұрын

He was

@Pain-yy6um

3 жыл бұрын

@@cj_r3249 Good show,I've some of it before

16:40 He said that from 1500-3000V it increased to 25,000V. That's not as simple as increasing the volts. They also change from Direct Current to Alternating Current. Most commuter lines use 1500V DC. The Shinkansen uses 25kV AC.

"wobbling along a dead straight track" that track is more bendy than James Charles...

@farmersson6721

4 жыл бұрын

Brae Jordan G-CDJK hahahahahhahahahahhahahhahahahahahahhahahahah

@howlingwolven

4 жыл бұрын

Dead straight by UK standards!

@ziejekz2290

4 жыл бұрын

@@howlingwolven Regular passenger UK trains go 80mph as standard. Thats some unused track they are on and fairly flat. Second set of wheels went on no bother.

@jdiz7970

3 жыл бұрын

Never mind the thing put there to derail it on purpose.

Anyone else in love with that second bike and sidecar combo? The leaning mechanism is very cool.

32:42 that look on the engineers face sitting by the window is just priceless. LOL Shows what the relationship is between Japanese managers and engineers in a odd situations...

Out of the TOP GEAR guys, Hammond was the most hilarious of the three, but James May's laugh beat everything.

@valeriosalvador6810

Жыл бұрын

What in heaven did he wear a helmet with goggles for?

@liamw6562

Жыл бұрын

@@valeriosalvador6810 in case a train falls out of the sky onto his head

36:10 "And every 100 years or so, Tokyo has been shaken by an even more devastating quake" Its kinda disturbing that this show came out in 2008. Imagine watching this on the day it happened.

@zakeyomiti1478

2 жыл бұрын

Hey

@EamonMYT

2 жыл бұрын

This was Season Three so it was filmed around 2010.

@pandumiharja6769

2 жыл бұрын

@@EamonMYT and a year later the biggest earthquake and tsunami happens

@nadezhdalynxsnep161

2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: indonesia also has a Devastating earthquake every 20 years, last time it happened is in 2019 in Palu and around 20 year or so theres the 2004 Aceh Tsunami (yes i know its not perfectly 20 years but you get the idea)

Fantastic documentary" I need to watch more episodes of this series. This just goes to show you how much engineers today rely upon problems solved centuries ago.

I'd be so happy watching any documentary narrated by hammond may or Clarkson ❤

@bartholomewdan

9 ай бұрын

I've watched documentaries from all three of them and they're all fantastic presenters.

Actually leaning into the corner doesn't reduce the centrifugal force, it just shifts your center of gravity in line with your new resulting force (gravity + centrifugal), meaning the (attempted) movement vector of your vehicle is towards the ground, with no other directional component. TLDR: You just adjust your center of gravity to make the centrifugal force go completely into the wheels, instead of toppling your vehicle. It still exists though.

I enjoy education system that is informative, encouraging and entertaining. Thanks for great effort to share knowledge in such fun and inspiring way.

"It's is by my reckoning 112 wheel drive." I love that sentence. I"'m so confident I'm going topless." I love that as well.

Almost 60 years of service no fatal victims in the shinkansen... Awesome record!!! And only with an has an annual average delay of 6 seconds

Thanks for an interesting, entertaining and educational programme. I really enjoyed it. Bless you and yours.

4:30 - Voiceover: "Dead straight track." Picture: Curved track.

I love this guy. 😍 and the content. So full of good infos. 😍😍🤯

this is why Hammond is my favorite of the Top Gear guys. hes just a regular engineering nerd and loves looking at how things work.

@_KennethG

4 жыл бұрын

James May Enters the Chat

“The stopping is going to be uncomfortable” he says as the prototype destroys as it rams into the end 😂

my brain grew 2 sizes after watching this.

Leaning into turns does not reduce the centrifugal force. Rather, it merely shifts the center of mass.

@lachlanwoodsmith6064

5 жыл бұрын

Justin Case that and the fact that “centrifugal force” is not a real thing, rather a velocity acting at a tangent to the centripidal force. If the so called “centrifugal force” existed, then every time a hammer thrower released the hammer at the point where they released it (90 degrees from the intended direction of travel) then it would just bugger off into the safety net.

@quackduck4090

5 жыл бұрын

thank you also, @@lachlanwoodsmith6064 of course it is not a "real" force for us that use an inertial frame of reference, but for a frame of reference that moves with the carriage it is very much "real" you could say the same thing about gravity, it's all a matter of perspective

@Jp-mk6hj

5 жыл бұрын

Proud duck.....c'mon guy.

@Jp-mk6hj

5 жыл бұрын

I just tried duck idiots perspective on gravity. It's definitely not my perspective...when I jumped...I broke my leg...

@Jp-mk6hj

5 жыл бұрын

It was real. Other ppl saw it..not just my perspective.

Used to love watching this series after school :)

what a beautiful train, the science is awesome, thanks.

50 minutes and nothing about the nose preventing tunnel boom :(

@joemengler1666

4 жыл бұрын

Unicorn Cycling I thought the same I was looking forward to that

@NovejSpeed3

4 жыл бұрын

I don't get it. If you guys already knew that's why the nose is designed like that, why were you so strongly anticipating hearing "Hamster" tell you about it?

@hypothonk4840

4 жыл бұрын

@@NovejSpeed3 So that everyone else knows it too.

@dans6127

4 жыл бұрын

well I read this comment and now I do

@mrdeathgaming1457

4 жыл бұрын

Tunnel boom?...its not travelling at the speed of sound!

Great video and No ads makes it great.

@allways_watching_allways_a9832

5 жыл бұрын

DALE BECK lucky you, I’m infected with ads

@niteshadow1

5 жыл бұрын

None for me either.

this is frickin amazing!!

It has been two hours since I’ve seen this series I need to watch it again

How could they have known the prediction of that massive and devestating earthquake looming over Japan made in this programme would come sooner than later on 2011 as the largest earthquake in recorded history..

@Patrick94GSR

4 жыл бұрын

Harry yeah this aired June 2011 and no doubt was filmed prior to the Japan earthquake and resulting tsunami in March 2011.

@SquareBiscuitProductions

4 жыл бұрын

@@Patrick94GSR It's kinda incredible that it happened not long after this was being filmed...

36:25 that's very true. 19th September 2017, a Mexico City Subway train derailed during the deadliest earthquake in my country since 1985

Richard Hammond’s voice is the most recognizable voiceover in documentaries

@kayanad6402

3 жыл бұрын

Ey Danish-kun

@phoenixbounassif6475

5 ай бұрын

Jendogs said your a liar as David Attenborough is the most recognisable voiceover in documentary

You forgot to mention why the nose of the train is that shape?.. It's because the designer of the bullet train is a bird watcher and designed the nose of the train in that way to reduce sound pressure when exiting a tunnel

One thing not mentioned about Asaka, was it is believed the driver oversped the train through the turn to make up for the fact he was late and been essentially already written up once that day. Not soooo much engineering failure as much as operator failure.

@111jacare

6 ай бұрын

Yes, you are correct on that point. However, the driver in question had also done a "course" which was, in my mind, designed to humiliate and belittle and this made him very bitter and determined not to be late again. So it was the culture of the rail company that caused the accident as much as the driver.

I have to say.. that second side car is so cool

@radishman6563

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't realise it had only one wheel... mind blown!

I like this guy because he explains each and every thing.

I need to watch this more often

22:00 i can hear Clarkson shouting "Nonsense ! POWEEEER !

46:36 Richard: Hello Japanese bloke: *speaks japanese* Richard: Yes. Hello wow

@redd_cat

4 жыл бұрын

classic British tourist. let the man speak his funny language and pass it off with standard remarks

@_Zekken

4 жыл бұрын

I didnt catch what the japanese man said first, but when he went to shake hands he said "Nice to meet you" then "come in" Edit, I think the first thing he said after slowing it down was "we are *name of what they are*" could be wrong though.

@danadezza

3 жыл бұрын

Or it’s just a bit of comedy for a documentary u simps

@shernweilee5576

3 жыл бұрын

He was saying nice to meet you at the start.

@redd_cat

3 жыл бұрын

@@danadezza I'm British too btw. and that's a blatant misuse of the word simp >:(

This show is now my quarantine time show

Amazing documentary by Hammond

Richards second bullet train since the top gear Japan episode?

Just to be clear, springs by themselves do not dampen, the coil-damper unit dampens motion.

The Japanese Shinkansen 10 billion passengers, zero fatalities makes this the safest form of transport on the globe.

Great work Sir Richard

My home state of California is currently building America's first and so far only true high speed rail line, that'll one day connect San Francisco and Los Angeles in under three hours. Like Japan's Bullet Train, it too will employ a similar early earthquake detection system. Despite setbacks and cost overruns, not unlike Japan's first bullet train line that cost twice its original budget, progress has been moving at a steady pace for the past several years in California's Central Valley, and will one day extend into SF and LA.

@wilfredprins9718

7 ай бұрын

for sure they will go over budget

@ChrisJones-gx7fc

7 ай бұрын

@@wilfredprins9718 name a major infrastructure project that hasn’t, especially one of this scale in a place that’s never built it before. Granted that shouldn’t necessarily be an excuse for the higher price tag, but when comparing it to what we have now (driving and flying) and the alternative being continuing to expand freeways and airports at an even higher cost beyond just financial, high speed rail is the better long term solution.

@wilfredprins9718

7 ай бұрын

@@ChrisJones-gx7fc you were writing "not unlike Japan's first.... costs twice it's origan budget" I'm sure that the budget for a train in the USA will go over budget, the only way it will not be twice the budget is when the original busget had allready a minimum 80% extra incorporated into the number that was calculated

@wilfredprins9718

7 ай бұрын

@@ChrisJones-gx7fc in the Netherlands we have in Amsterdam the noord zuid lijn(north south line) subway it doubled budget also we had the betuwe route, cargo train to connect the harbor or Rotterdam to Germany, calculated on 750 million guilders (about 335 million euro) total cost when finished, slightly higher at 4.7 thousand billion euro...

From the information shared in this piece, I can only assume that the trains in Melbourne, Australia have the first example of conical wheels and no spring suspension. I take this assumption from the fact that every evening after work on the train home via Richmond, I watch as people are thrown about the carriage, even though we're going no faster than 50kph, and also watch the carriage connections sway about wildly from side to side, looking as though they will become uncoupled. Yet when I travel on the German S-Bahn, Regiobahn or high speed ICE (Inter City Express) trains, they are smooth as silk..

@nethiuz9165

3 жыл бұрын

Australian trains are pure garbage, had similar feeling on Sydney ones.

@jkardez4794

Жыл бұрын

Australians are tough masochists ; no smooth as silk for them . Bring on the broncos .

Wow what a great documentary thanks man

Amazing work done on this video

At least toddlers can watch this and understand it

21:34 Dodge: That's where you're wrong kiddo

Yes! I found it in high quality.

A Class-A Documentary! Great work!

I have been all around Japan on these, and they are amazing! I am also disappointed you didn't call it a Shinkansen as that is the name.

just sitting here, waiting for the stig to pop up, to take it for a spin on the track... anyone else??? also here, because i kinda like that dude called hammond...

Very informative and educational indeed !

great information. Hammond is still shorter than most factory workers and train passengers.

30:19 Hamster hasn't got enough mass for that

Richard Hammond talking about trains :-O

i love the bloke wearing a suit while charioteering. class

Great documentary!

first cartridge derailed because it hit the asphalt lol

@1701spacecadet

5 жыл бұрын

I noticed that too. Plus the track isn't even straight!

@TheDailyRex

5 жыл бұрын

brankobruda I emptied my cartridge while watching this

@acampoverdeify

5 жыл бұрын

Beyond that, they change the wheels AND they put weight on in order to test the performance of the new wheels. A child would realize that you aren't really getting information of ONLY the wheels performance with that. How is that grown ups are able to accept that as a valid experiment?

@ABoringTool

5 жыл бұрын

@@acampoverdeify And it's on a different stretch of track

@KevinRay_man

5 жыл бұрын

AF Gaming Lmfao 🤣 hahah that one got me. I could use a new cartridge myself now that ya mention it.

300系が走っているという事は2012年以前のものなので少々古め。

@chilton7853

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, hello

@acciid

4 жыл бұрын

@@chilton7853 Well, according to Google translate, he spotted that there was a 300-series in one of the clips, which was retired in 2012. They did seem to use a lot of stock footage in this documentary though, but I reckon it's been kicking about a bit anyway. I went to Japan in 2008 and the N700s were doing the Nozomi services back then. It's a shame they didn't show some more footage of other trains, instead of the same ones of the N700 going over the same bridge in front of Fuji. They're an ugly beast, especially when compared with the 500 or the original 0 series.

@jabiraf

4 жыл бұрын

なぜ彼らは私たちに古いテクノロジーを見せているのですか

@Davidmysoit

4 жыл бұрын

Chilton 😂

@rikuto80

3 жыл бұрын

@@jabiraf このビデオを作った時は最新だったのでしょう｡

I remember watching this when I was too young to understand. Memories~

Great communicator, indeed.

At 16:38 he says that they increased the “flow” by increasing the overall voltage. Looks like you got amperage and voltage mixed up in your analogy there Hammyboy- Amperage is equivalent to water “Flow” in say a hose whereas Voltage is equivalent to the water “Pressure” in that hose. Finally, in that same water hose analogy, Resistance is equivalent to the diameter of the hose. Just though I’d point this out real quick...

@Salpeteroxid

5 жыл бұрын

Voltage is the output from the source to the motor, amperage is what you have to push through the wire to get the voltage. The resistance in the wire is Ohms and dictates the output voltage. English isn't my first language but I hope it made sense.

@wedmunds

5 жыл бұрын

You can't simply increase current. Batteries are voltage sources and current sources are as real as unicorns. You can, however, increase the voltage so that more current may flow through.

@Salpeteroxid

5 жыл бұрын

@@wedmunds Who's talking about batteries?

@mitchellbuehler6058

5 жыл бұрын

@@Salpeteroxid He's replying to the initial comment, not you. Batteries are just an example of a voltage source, but he's right. The easiest way to increase amperage is by increasing voltage, so he was correct

@Salpeteroxid

5 жыл бұрын

@@mitchellbuehler6058 Sorry, sometimes English gets confusing when there are a lot of information in the same sentence without braking it up.

A normal train Runs on 15.000 volts. At least in Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and several others having adopted the norm in 1913. Hungarian innovation in the 1920s was to use 25.000 instead.

@meongmeong3599

2 жыл бұрын

Even at 15000 Volt AC are much better than classic 1500-3000 V DC systems. Multi-voltage locomotive in Europe are limiting their power under 1500-3000V DC system.

I respect the time tables and the fact that on average it’s only maybe a minute late at worst, the drivers are under a HELL of a lot of pressure to maintain timetables

@connormclernon26

4 жыл бұрын

BFC which I’ve heard is basically Hell on Earth

The first engineering connection series is best..

At 30:35 he says ancient charioteers couldn't have possible known about Newtonian laws but somehow they instinctively knew. lol Well yea, we learn these things as soon as we start walking. We don't know the formulas behind it but we know/learn what works. Even some animals figure out some basic physics. When playing fetch, a smart dog can predict the path of a ball and cut angles to intercept the path of the ball (my German Shepherd does this) My German Shepherd even predicts how the ball will bounce off a wall. She sees the ball going towards a wall & she positions herself to catch the ball after the bounce. She knows where the ball will go after it bounces off the wall. lol My small mutt isn't a dumb dog but she doesn't do that. She just chases directly after it. She will chase it towards the wall & doesn't alter her course until after the ball bounces off the wall. Anyways, my point being, we kinda figure out how things work. If you are running & want to turn, you gotta lean if you don't want to fall. Nature or nurture, it doesn't matter. All animals figure out the very basics like leaning and it doesn't take human levels of intelligence to figure out more complex things like predicting the path of a falling, or moving ball.

@peterclark4685

5 жыл бұрын

A Cheetah's tail for example.

@MottyGlix

5 жыл бұрын

* German Shepherd

@magnetospin

5 жыл бұрын

All the credits this video attributes to are just random bullshits.

@Son96601

5 жыл бұрын

most pointless comment ever.

Most advanced country in Asia is Japan..keep it up Japan..

@spikespa5208

4 жыл бұрын

Trivia: The scene at 45:42 is a different view of the same area found on KZread's Tokyo Live Camera CH. 1.

Great great video 👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥

Thanks for uploading

With Japanese technology, Max will be champion next season.

@weesky2000

5 жыл бұрын

who

@leoarc1061

5 жыл бұрын

@@weesky2000 f1 driver

@jeffk464

5 жыл бұрын

The Japanese rock. Very cool.

@INSEIKYU01

5 жыл бұрын

Definitely off to a good start

42:04 That's the prettiest pile of scrap I've ever seen!

Amazing! Thankyou!!

Thank you so much for this detailed explanation! I have been enjoying travel by shinkasen since 2001. I prever Shinkansen to aircraf!

27:05 Bunta Fujiwara would not be happy about that

@INSEIKYU01

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂

how cute was that.... when he's listening to a japanese lecturer. 😆 46:55

@theobserver9131

4 жыл бұрын

Totally.

Awesome been in it many times love it.

The best ka tlga brother

nothing about aerodynamics??

これGT-R vs 公共交通機関のヤツ思い出すな

Great to watch.How do the breaks work for such high speeds must have been added.

Now let's see how well the trains handle the bends, with The Stig driving !!

But you didn't tell how the braking system works at that speed!!

@Ihaveanamenowtaken

4 жыл бұрын

I think it's regenerative braking.

@felixbeutin9530

3 жыл бұрын

Probably eddy current brakes combined with regenerative braking and some conventional brakes for lower speeds

The fastest train, pause, in the world.

@sharklegs

5 жыл бұрын

w r o n g

Crikey see how fast it accelerated out the station!

That was really amazing. So many new things to learn and so many ideas for a high speed train.

this channel is uploading very old documentaries.

@popeyboy5108

5 жыл бұрын

No shit Sherlock

@spacewarpphotography1667

3 жыл бұрын

Was it Hammond's lack of goatee and wrinkles that gave it away? I'm thinking it was released before March 11, 2011, too, since he doesn't mention the Toohoku Earthquake and Tsunami.

This guy likes other stuff than cars? I am surprised!

@raymondo162

5 жыл бұрын

money ;-)

@KafanskaTV

5 жыл бұрын

He's a TV host. He did whatever show he was paid to do. This is quite old tho, later in Top Gear days, ad also nowdays in Grand Tour he gets so much money for a season that he doesn't need to do any side projects.

The voltage is literally slightly higher than the standard 22,000v that are used on semi long distance AC power lines but there are urban substation transformers that step down the voltage for homes but commonly major structures like shopping centres will be directly connected to the 22KV lines and have their own step down transformers so they don’t overload the low voltage lines that are used by homes! :)

Sir Richard Hammond👏👏👏