TRAIN DRIVER'S VIEW: Flåm - Myrdal (Trains meet at Berekvam)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ย. 2017
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Two trains in service this day, and they meet at Berekvam station.
Flåm line between Myrdal and Flåm is the steepest normal gauge (1435mm) railway in Northern Europe. The gradient is massive 55‰ (1:18).
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Beautiful scenery right off the bat, no waiting to get out into the countryside. thank you so much.
Thanks a lot for watching :)
Green grass. Red flowers. Yellow flowers. Waterfalls. Tunnels. More tunnels. Grade indicators (very useful). No snow. Switchmen throwing switches. Ah, Norway!
I love this video as it doesn't have snow or winter. The winter ones are beautiful, but in the summer it is nice to see some green grass and liquid water. Thanks.
AN INTERESTING VIDEO of Norge Kingdom... Many thanks
Thanks, glad you like them!
@@RailCowGirl Sure
We travelled from Fleishers at Voss all the way to Flam just last month. You are so fortunate to have such a beautiful office. Would love to live there full time. Keep making the videos, they are truly wonderful. Thank You.
WOW! That opening scenery is fabulous!! :) The waterfalls, the mountains.....superb.
Travelled aboard this line in the mid-1980s. Recall the trip with fondness.
I love these videos as a railfan from the States with ancestors from Scandinavia. The locomotive horns though, sound like an electronic donkey!
What can I say that hasn't already been said.The scenery is gorgeous,Norway is Beautiful. Nature or the wind has though given the Tree (7:12 right hand side) a bum wrap in where its decided to grow. The pointsman is indeed a rare sight. It seems too that Trains the World over have terrible Headlights. Thank you so much for sharing.Very enjoyable.
Being from India it just blows my mind to see how people in the west keep their surroundings clean. Hats off to all the citizens. That landscape is unbelievable...
I agree... if only people realised how simple it was to put trash in a bin... the whole world would be so much of a nicer place.
I have travelled this route in - ‘ Norway in nutshell ‘ tour .. its breathtaking!
Yes, it is that simple.
Devein inima
Ignore these people that are insulting you for your comment. You realize a difference in the mentality of the people. That's where you need to start to change things in India. Already, at a different you tube I noticed that other Indians (no, not American Indians -- (just trying to keep it light and still get a message across)) are trying to make an effort to get India into a second world country mentality. I wish you success!
looks really different with out the snow
18:25 I love how the signalman mysteriously popped out of thing air :)
Ochus Bochus
simply enchanting scenery. what a job you have! just brilliant.
Yep :) I love mu job :)
Feels like I’m riding on the front grill 😁😁
So relaxing after a stressful day at work to "ride" the train
Enjoy!
Someday I hope to visit Norway it's one of my top 5 European country s to visit the others being France and the Nederland s
Another great video from Cowgirl.
I can't get enough of this sort of video, especially Norway, and this one immediately became one of my favorites. Thank-you for posting, I very much appreciate these!
If you take the ship from Hurtigruten from Bergen to Kirkenes (Russian border) than you will see something beautifull!!!!
Thank you so much!
A perfect picture for such beautiful landscape 👍
Another wonderful train trip from Flam, 😍
Many thanks!
Bellísimo, bestifull train and mountain, river fresh, sky clean....love Norway,
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it :)
No other words can described my feeling when i watched this video except WOW!
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful scenery!
happy journey.
Thought you'd be interested in this.....on Monday I was 4.8 miles into my first run when I got a stop indication on a signal next to a level crossing. Railroad Police was there and when I stopped they boarded my locomotive and arrested me. Reason they said was I was following to close to the train in front of me. The only train in front of me was almost 3 hours ahead and was 7 stations ahead of me. I had high green blocks right from the start. I managed to get my hands on the signal towers logs and proved to the dispatcher there were no other trains ahead. Those records saved me along with the fact that he was somewhat drunk. So he is at fault and won't be working for us any longer and I'm back in the seat again!!! Think they call that karma!!
Wooooooh! That’s completely insane! You have railroad police? Like people being to make sure driver abide the rules?
That's how they work around here. Put the screws to someone so they can make themselves look good!!!
@@RailCowGirl We have railroad police for the commuter line between San Francisco and San Jose (CalTrain). They patrol the track right-of-way to make sure no one in trespassing. Some people like to take their lives by jumping in front of a speeding train and spatter themselves over the front of the locomotive. The police try to prevent this and have the offenders arrested.
Beautiful scenery and so clean and un-cluttered. Your video makes it just like being there! Thank you 😊
Where are you from lady ? 🤗
Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed it :)
Thank you so much! It is first video from loco in that direction!
I love it! Thanks! 😍😍😍
Dear Hindu, actually I think your cab ride are the best on utube. Complete, in a wonderful place well done. I just miss the loco cockpit...in this diesel loco would be amazing (as well as in the electri one!). My best compliment for your perfect job. Cheers from Italy
Thank you so much
Magnificent documentary on Spanish television about the construction of the Oslo to Bergen line
The view from this direction truly showcases the scenery. Another outstanding video.....
what a wonderful job to have looking at wonderful scenery while you work..
Wow ! Thank you for showing the trip in both directions !!! Excellent ! Thank you so much for sharing this !!! :):):)
Wow and I am scared of heights lol. Awesome I do love your train rides. Safe travels ahead.
बहुत बढ़िया ।। धन्यवाद इतने अच्छे दृश्य दिखाने के लिए।। 🙏🙏
Another surprise and wonderful video! Regards
Thank you, that was incredible! You receive so much water in your mountains it's just gorgeous! So much green even in fall. :)
Thank you! Enjoying every minute of the travel. :)
Thank you so much!
Wonderful very Gold adoro seus vídeos parabéns um melhor do que o outro continue sempre assim thankyou
What a fabulous video! My wife and I made this journey in August 2017 as part of the Sognefjord tour. I wish that my still photos were as tenth as good as your photography.
Beautiful scenery. I love it very much
Great video was there a couple of weeks ago !
Great video thanks for sharing👍
Thank you so much!
Well done!
Just a brilliant Video What beautiful scenery
Thank you!
Very nice video. I've watched the one with snow, so it was interesting to see what it looked like in the clear. Some serious gradients! I with two EL18 you have as much power as a Eurostar or TGV!
Thank you! Long awaiting video! There's couple of videos Myrdal-Flåm, and no one Flåm - Myrdal
Amazing
This must be the 4th time I have watched this video. I appears to me that the colors (especially the greens) are enhanced. Could that be so or is it my video display? HCG -- could have commented before but here's to you! UFFDA!!!
tyvm I enjoyed this ride
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it :)
Wow superb !!!
Thank you!
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Wonderful video, wonderful contry
Thanks a lot!
Absolutely beautiful
Thank you!
Scenery is Beautiful. What a Job.
Thank you so much!
wow nice video thanx bro
Thanks!
always wanted to travel on this line, now ive seen the remarkable scenery from the best place, in the cab.
Keep up the amazing videos
Thank you, I have posted lots of videos since your comment :) Hope you like the new ones too.
I like this video I can see beautiful view of your country. . ..thanks
Thank you, glad you liked it :)
sometimes I go to sleep to these videos.
Thanks for watching!
Rode my bike from Finse to Flåm over a period of 2 days this past summer. Took the train to Myrdal and transferred to a Bergen bound train
Sounds great, hope the weather was good :)
The scenery there in Norway is breathtaking. The closest comparison to here in the USA would be the mountains in east central area (Kentucky & West Virginia) Your winters there are quite a bit more harsh than we get here though.
Nice !! Thank You for Sharing :))
Thank you so much for watching!
Magnifico documental en televisin española sobre la construccion de la linea Oslo a Bergen
Wow ... beautiful trip! I am a Brazilian citizen and passionate about European landscapes. I want to leave some suggestions:
- make an outlet during the departure of the train from the locomotive with the scene showing the vision of the driver and at least part of the composition;
- put name and altitude of the stop stations and also the name and length of the tunnels through which to pass. I think it will look great.
Thank you for the opportunity to know more about Europe.
Thanks again for sharing. There’s something strangely uplifting to see the process of these trains passing each other at Berekvam and the quiet co-operation so necessary between the linesman and drivers as one enormous machine gently comes to halt to allow the other train to pass. I’m interested to know why the ‘uphill’ train stops, from an energy saving perspective, I would have thought it better for the ‘downhill’ train to stop? Why so few people and traffic about? Thanks regards from EF.
Love it
Nagyon jó videó Gratulálok! Magyarországról.
Thank you so much!
It was such a beautiful video. Please upload more videos like this. "SUBSCRIBED"
Muito bom esse vídeo
Its beauty, beauty only beauty everywhere!!!!
Thank you!
Nice! I like it
Thank you!
Very.good thankyou Love thankyou
Thank you so much!
It's the most intresting in my life.. Thank You.. Go on to the Train.. Alright..
Thank you!
very nice
Thanks a lot!
Very good
Thank you!
beautiful
Thank you!
Круто! Стрелка переключается в ручную! Зато есть постоянное рабочее место на свежем воздухе!
Well I never! I have often thought, watching your videos, that there never seems to be any enthusiasts photographing the trains. And lo! and behold, here we have a chap at Flam taking a video. :-)
Interesting method of 'signalling' at Berekvam. Nice to see they clamp facing points.
Lots of long tunnels!
I hope you run this line in winter,. I can't imagine this in snow storm conditions...wow...
Another great video. Is this four coach two loco configuration the standard setup for this route or does it change for the winter? And what do the horizontal/vertical bars on the 'Sound Horn' boards mean/? Looking forward to the next video.
+simon garrood usually with six coach configuration during summer.
Vertical line = platform for embarking/disembarking.
Horizontal = level crossing
With both = platform with level crossing
woooooooooooow nice good editingh
Thank you so much!
interesting to see manual points setting and hand signals. :-)
wonder what do you do when there is a blizzard out there!?
I love how most tunnels have those very clean entrance portals but after 3 metres there's just bare rock.
That's the way to build them. Mountains and rocks are most fragile at the surface, but gets more and more robust towards the center, unless you're amethyst :p So the nice portals functions as reenforcement of the entrance to the tunnel.
@@RailCowGirl did not know that. thanks. But why do some of the have the entrance reinforced and others don't? Is the rock harder with those not reinforced?
@@boahneelassmal bingo! :D
@@RailCowGirl now I know for sure and don't need to wonder anymore! yay! thanks!
Brilliant! ❤️
Another video I didn't comment on! WTF??? Anyway, it was just like all your other videos -- super great! As mentioned before, I never get tired of seeing the same places under different circumstances -- late afternoon, morning, winter, summer, etc. Thanks for posting!
Seeing your advertisement for your merch raises a question: If train drivers drink a lot of coffee while working, what do you do when you have to respond to a normal bodily function? I'm sure toilets are provided on the loco, but you can't use it and operate the train at the same time, can you? (Sorry for the strange question.)
There are no toilets on the loco 😱
We make sure we go to the bathroom before the trip starts and we contain ourselves to we get to the destination ;)
If not men are more lucky than us, they can run off into the forest while waiting for the green light ;)
@@RailCowGirl Yes. Our plumbing does come in handy at times. :-)
How beautiful is Norway.
Thanks, glad you liked it :)
Как же успокаивает это видео
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.
Cool
Thanks!
Interesting. @ 17:00 plus mark, railroad employees manually throwing the switches. The train in the side track appeared deserted vis-a-vis passengers. Nice video. Nice backwoods country. As for your moniker, I don't think I've run across a Hindu cowgirl in Texas, but I'll keep looking.
Are there any Hindu cowboys in Texas?
such amazing country
Thank you!
Didn't realize i said that 6 years ago, wow!@@RailCowGirl
What exquisite scenery! No wonder the folks in the oncoming train were hanging out the windows! :) Do you ever see animals on the tracks or in the tunnels?
Seldom in the tunnels, seen foxes and owls, but never larger pray. :D But we do see them on the tracks now and then. Typically at dusk and dawn. :)
Where do they post speed limit signs on Norwegian railways. Enjoy your videos very much. Ciao
They are the triangular signs you see. With number on them.
4 = 40km/h
13 = 130km/h
the crossing at berevkam... at approximately the 19.30 mark. is there a similar video in the winter season? with heavy snow on the line... that would be fun to watch.
snow flying all over, how the track appears to be after a train has crossed it etc...
thank you in advance for your response.
Thank you! In the winter there is only one train at the Flåm railway, so no crossing.
@@RailCowGirl i may have found a way to enjoy an "outside" view of the train ploughing through snow. the webcam at finse station is facing the exit from finse tunnel. in the next winter months, all i have to do is look at the trains coming out of the tunnel. that would be "live action"! only 4 more months to go... :-D
I can feel the locomotive struggling on those steep grades.
Where are U from bro ? 💜🙏
That's a lot of horn; can I ask why is it necessary at some protected crossings?
What's the difference between the two horn signs? Thanks in advance.
Hello. Why is it that the train you met at Berekvam station has two locos? Is the line so steep?
This route must be interesting in winter
Correction. In Norway, power can be produced by Hydro.
all norwegian locomotives appear to have a "snow plough" attachment.
HinduCowGirl Ich finde Ihre Filme wundervoll! Ich weis es selbst, wie Loks zu kämpfen haben, aber halte Ihre Lokomotiven für viel besser als unsere :-)) Mit herzlichen Grüssen aus Österreich und fünf Daumen ganz nach oben!
Danke meine Liebe für das Herz!
Wonderful. Is the crossing always manually operated? I would love to see a steam train attack those grades!
+balmesh yep, always manually :)
HinduCowGirl how does the guy who operates at this switch get there? Does he take the first train that goes there and then the last one to get home? Or does he walk? o.o
This must be a pretty tough job in winter too
There was a car in the station yard at the Flam end.
The dual train operation is just during the high in the summer. In the winter there is just one train, and no need for crossing at Berekvam
They get there by car, or they take the first train up, and goes home with the last one down :)