Driver's Eye View - Šahy to Zvolen - Part 2 - Krupina to Zvolen
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- Rejoin our train at Krupina for Part 2 of “Driver’s Eye View Šahy to Zvolen” with diesel locomotive T478.1201. The line continues through pretty countryside with the hills becoming more pronounced as our train climbs towards Zvolen.
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) - Original video taken on 29th June 2018. Tour organised by RTC.
Map at 00:31 by Peter Pogány - licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.
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What I enjoy most about these videos is that I get to see parts of the world that I would otherwise never have known or seen.
Its nice to be able to share these journeys with you.
exactly the reason i watch them. Great to sit and and watch over a Sunday morning coffee.
Prekrásne natočené video 😉😉😉😉.
Pochvala a palec hore 😃😃😃😃😃.
Perfektné super 😉😉😉😉😉.
Very nice video and trip. Thanks for sharing with us. Safe travels ahead. God bless
Thank you, as always, its a pleasure to share my travels with you.
wonderful video, Greetings from France.
Simply a beautiful and amazing Railway.Greattings to Slovakia.😍💟🌹
Nice video Tim. Keep posting more and more.
Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed it. This is still only day two of a twelve day tour, during which we see and experience some very interesting aspects of Slovakian railways. I look forward to sharing more videos with you over the coming months.
Beautiful trip!!!
Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed it.
Super!!Ja som z Podzamčoku!!výborné video!!
Ďakujem, som rád, že sa ti video páčilo 😊.
Timsvideochannel1 delivers once again. Its a detight to watch this videos. Keep up the exellent work you are doing! Greetings from Norway 🇳🇴
Hi, I must get to Norway one day, I watched some excellent videos posted by a Norwegian train driver. I'm glad you enjoy following my adventures, I hope to share more over the coming years. Greetings from England.
Excellent view
Thank you.
Nice country clean houses lovely trip from UK viewer
Hi Peter, Slovakia is a beautiful country, it looks a nice place to live.
perfect thanks
Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed it.
Wonderful. PEACE...
I'm pleased you enjoyed it.
Hello Tim! The Sound from this Diesel ☺ wonderful ☺. Ich know this engine from my home railway Linz to Summerau to Horni Dvoriste (Oberhaid). "Heavy Metal"! It's a ship engine. Many Greetings from Hans from the Mühlviertel.👍🚂
Johann Peraus
K 6 S 310 DR is the engine type, used in these classes of loco: 751 (752 no train heating, 749 HEP) in the video, and 770/771. As I know right both classes were sawn in Austria: Marchegg, Hohenau and Summerau.
Hi Johann, I love the sound of diesel locomotive working hard, I walked through the locomotive a number of times, its both scary and fascinating to be so close to a working engine. Best wishes from Tim in the UK.
Nice video!
Thank you.
Ordinary people just like you and I. Just living their lives. Thanks another great effort. I was a tech in a TV studio so I know what it takes to put this together. I have and can use Adobe Premier but I am far too lazy as I know what it takes. Spend most of my spare time fixing antique clocks. Cheers from me. John
Hi John, there are times when I would liked to have had lessons in using my cameras and software, I seem to learn most things the hard way. In my day job I use CAD/CAM a lot, yet I have never been taught to use any of it, I just sit down with the instruction manual and persevere until I get the desired result.
GoPro cameras can be very good, especially the latest versions, but to get the best results using pinnacle Studio the video has to be converted into an .avi format, unfortunately that is not in the instructions. Another frustration is that the result played on my TV direct from my hard drive is far better than the video appears on TH-cam.
I have a very old long case clock, it is beautiful to look at, but it is the inside workings that fascinate me, they are not fancy, they were made in the days before machinery was readily available, they are mostly cut out by hand and finished with a file, the weights are just lumps of metal, not decorative. The case was made in Wales and I believe the workings were made in the Birmingham area, the clock dates from around 1800, I can only marvel at what those old craftsmen achieved, the clock keeps near perfect time today, although I do have to get it cleaned and maintained every 5 to 10 years, it is getting harder to find people with the necessary skills these days. Best wishes.Tim.
@@Timsvideochannel1 I have a longcase clock from the south of France made in the late 1800's. It was imported and as soon as I saw it I bought it. The clockmaker used to wander around with a frame with the movement on. When it sold he would get the local coffin maker to make the case. It's about 7 foot tall and has a huge lyre pendulum. The bell in it was used to wake the household in the farm to get up for milking etc. You can hear it half a mile away so it is resting at the moment. Cheers I am off to wales now. John.
@@johnmchardy1229 I have seen a French clock similar to the one you describe in a local antique shop. I didn't know they were used to wake the household up. I don't use the hour chimes on my clock, it's not really what you want to hear at midnight, besides it scares the hell out of my cat. Early clock making in both the UK a Germany was a real local home grown industry.
@@Timsvideochannel1 If you look at the clock I have it has 2 winding positions. One for the time which I use and one for the alarm bell. You set the alarm by turning a dial at the centre of the face to the time say 4 in the morning to get up to do the milking. The old French farm houses were rambling affairs so it had to be loud. It is not a chiming clock at all. It has 2 large lumps for weights and a hand made mechanism as well.
I did a course on Final Cut pro once, my brain was misbehaving and I definitely used up my internal swearing allowance. Went to Slovakia today as well. Probably win a prize for the country with the most unpronounceable place names. Dropping the punters off and reversing back over the viaduct was a hoot I had a good chuckle at that. The punters loved it as they got great picies and videos. Lovely country and simple folk. John.
@@johnmchardy1229 I've had the pleasure of staying on one of those old french farms with a family when I was still at school, I went to France on exchange trips, they were good fun.
Learning new software can be frustrating until things start to fall into place.
I love the East European rail-tours, Health and Safety is not allowed to ruin the fun. Its great to visit places tourists don't go and meet the locals, they are always welcoming, if a little confused at times, I don't think they understand why a bunch of people from another country hire an old train for a couple of weeks to traverse as many little used branch lines as possible.
Tim,
good job again. I am happily surprised about local freight train at Sása Pliešovce station. About repainted bridges and some trackside objects, too. The next year I guess a local election's year, and now I realized these things, because some local politicians and inhabitians of the nearest villages by the line made a pressure to restore at least the weekend trains to Dudince Spa, or on regular workdays morning and evening trains release the peak hours traffic jam on the state road from Zvolen to Šahy. Nice video.
(edited, because it was confusing): If I deducted well from the cabs conversation, Your journey will continue maybe at least to Brezno... Let me surprise that it is true, because the line in the Slovak Paradise is beautiful...
Hello Jan, I'm pleased you enjoyed it. Whilst travelling over branch and secondary railways around Slovakia we saw a number of local freight trains loaded with logs. If local elections result in the return of passenger trains to some of lines, that must be a good thing. I wish I understood the language, it would be nice to know what was being said.
Tim,
as first sorry for a confusing first comment, I just edited, there are 2 thoughts, one about line to Zvolen, second about my guess that You will spend night in Brezno.
The election I guess not enough to restore the trains. Maybe there is required another open acces competition as on the line no.131 Bratislava - Komárno, which RegioJet won. The passenger numbers were tripled since beginning until now, on the by ZSSK forgotten and abandoned line.
I captured something about Brezno at evening, and I deducted from it: in Zvolen loco switch around the train to continue journey via Banská Bystrica, Brezno to Slovak Paradise. The line from Červená Skala to Margecany is very nice.
Hi Jan, we continued to Brezno where we stayed in a very nice hotel for three nights allowing our group to experience more Slovakian railway adventures, videos of which I will upload in the coming weeks. I would be nice to think a way can be found to run more trains along some of the less well used railway lines.
A nice ride through the countryside!(gee, that rhymed! I'm a poet and didn't noet[know it]! LOL) Bet it would be pretty spooky riding this rail at night! Cheers, Tim! Thought I'd hold off until Part two before commenting!
Hi Neil, I'm glad you liked the countryside, most railway lines are pretty spooky at night. How long have you been a poet now.
I wonder.... If you rode along a haunted rail corridor, would you get drunk from all the "spirits"? And as for me being a poet, If I recited a poem backwards, would that be in "re-verse"? LOL
When the Pikes Peak Cog Railway re-opens they'll be on the lookout for more corny jokes, for the commentators to use. It could be the start of a whole new career.
LOL
Piękna trasa
Cieszę się, że podobała ci się jazda.
At the 38:30 mark(as an example), interesting camera angle gives the appearance that the camera is directly over the track while the loco seems to be over to the right of the track, off-centre. An optical illusion.
The window was slightly angled, that may have contributed to the illusion, along with the fish eye effect from the camera I was using.
I didn't really notice a "fish-eye" effect, as it happens.
Opäť veľmi krásne natočené video . Pochvala a palec hore .
Pred dvoma týždňami išiel Mimoriadny vlak Hontiansky Expres do Šiah zo Zvolena ,
tak som sa bol previezť . Bolo to senzačné a a vstával som o piatej ráno , tak som
bol nedočkavý a veľmi som sa tešil . Chcem sa opýtať , natočíte aj trať do Vrútok cez Kremnicu
alebo cez Banskú Bystricu až do Žiliny ?
Ešte raz veľmi prekrásne video natočené . Veľká pochvala a palec hore .
Perfektné , super , senzačné , klobúk dolu a palec hore sto krát .
Len tak ďalej .
Dobrý deň, Milan, ďakujem vám za všetky palce hore. Pozrel som sa hore "Hontiansky Express " na internete-www.Facebook.com/klubpriatelovzeleznicZU/
Natočil som niektoré trasy do Banskej Bystrice a Brezno. Ja som pracoval na video na Brezno dnes večer, dúfam, že to post na TH-cam do konca víkendu. To je len deň dva z dvanástich, existuje oveľa viac videí, ktoré sa vzťahujú na niektoré veľmi nezvyčajné slovenské železnice. Budem vysielanie videa na TH-cam zobrazujúci všetky železnice sme navštívili. Bude trvať mi tri alebo štyri mesiace upraviť všetky.
Google Translate - Hello Milan, Thank you for all the thumbs up. I looked up "Hontiansky Express " on the internet - facebook.com/klubpriatelovzeleznicZU/
I filmed some of the route to Banska Bystrica and Brezno. I am working on the video to Brezno this evening, I hope to post it on TH-cam by the end of the weekend. This is only day two of twelve, there are a lot more videos to come covering some very unusual Slovakian railways. I will be posting videos to TH-cam showing all the railways we visited. It will take me three or four months to edit them all.
Nice video Tim of the countryside. But I find it a bit distracting that the video camera angles were changed quite a lot during the journey. Otherwise it was a beautiful trip.
Hi, I'm glad you enjoyed the ride, I was having trouble with the cameras, hence the view changes to the camera that was giving the best result at the time.
Hello, Tim! Thanks for filming again, it's a celebration to me of 'virtual moving' tour by unknown me country. :-) This race are vey interesting including the way landscapes change when moving from south to north... For Bulgaria it's characteristically too. Maybe for many countries it's too. A castle near Zvolen (@41:15+ at right) is interesting. By the way, I do not know a single traditionally European castle in Bulgaria (includes architecture of Belogradchik Fortress, it's differently too.), especial with South Bulgaria: it's case of architectural heritage, who is very much different here, than in more northern and southern Europe, and with Northern Bulgaria too.
P.S. Maybe just one Evksinograd Residence is alike many traditional European castles... (But Baba Vida is not Bulgarian architecture, and its typical Austrian architecture...)
P.P.S. For compare Slovenia and Bulgaria castles architectures heritage please see it traveltipy.com/castles-in-slovenia/ and it visitmybulgaria.com/10-beautiful-castles-bulgaria/ Excuse me for this small offtopic, dear Tim! :-)
I did see castle like structures when touring Bulgaria, but I don't remember where. I used Google to find some answers - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_castles_in_Bulgaria - One hotel we stayed in looked over a castle, but without going back through my old videos I couldn't say which one although it might have been Tsarevets. The castle on the hill at Zvolen looked very impressive although there wasn't time to visit it. There are beautiful castles all over Europe, some built to guard strategic positions, others just a show of wealth and power. I see from the links that many surviving castles are now hotels, the same in Scotland. Our train is now climbing towards the Low Tatra Mountains, both the scenery and architecture become more interesting as our tour progresses. This is still only day 2 of 12 - there is a lot more to see.
Sure, the 'Tsarevets' castle in 'Veliko Tarnovo' is greatest of others, but it are whole fortified area! This place for 'ancient' (just before time of Middle Ages) capital of Bulgarian kingdom. Later, after my breakfast, i can find an articles about, if you have interest to it. /I have doubt in good quality an articlea in Wiki about this matter.../ P.S. I.e. Veliko Tarnovo is ancient 'state city-castle', but not an 'individual feudal' castle! :-)
Of course, typical Western Europian castle is heritage of M.A. time ad such feudal possessions. But 'ancient' history of Bulgaria, is just near Danube river, is history such strategic positions, defence it and armed by 'castles' alike 'Tsarevets'. It's especial 'history and geograph'! :-)
I'm glad that your RW travel now are just 2 of 12 parts -- Hooray! ;-)
P.S. A little information: 'Prehistory and antiquity: Veliko Tarnovo, originally Tarnovgrad (Търновград), grew quickly to become the strongest Bulgarian fortification of the Middle Ages between the 12th and 14th centuries and the most important political, economic, cultural and religious centre of the empire'; 'Architecture: In Veliko Tornovo you can see fragments and foundations that are part of the architecture of the Second Bulgarian State. In the old part of the city and Asenova Mahala there can be seen Churches and houses that were dated through the Ottoman rule. In the whole old part, houses from the Renaissance era were built. Characteristic of them are the ornate elements' -- see please: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veliko_Tarnovo
Additional info. About V.Tarnovo - ancient historical environment, -- see please 'Second Bulgarian Empire': en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bulgarian_Empire Small cite: 'Military: Bulgaria maintained extensive lines of fortresses to protect the country, with the capital Tarnovo in the centre. To the north were lines along both banks of the Danube river. To the south were three lines; the first along the Balkan mountains, the second along Vitosha, northern Rhodope mountains and Sakar mountain, the third along the valley of the river Arda. To the west, a line ran along the valley of the river South Morava'. And here: 'Architecture: Fortresses were built on hills and plateaus-the Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates said the Bulgarian castles in the Balkan Mountains were situated "at heights above the clouds"...'
And about 'Tsarevets fortress': en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsarevets_(fortress)
Such is difficult 'ancient' history of Bulgaria! And this is before conquering it by Ottomans imperia in 14th century!.. 🤗
Hello Chuck, thank you for this information, I found it interesting.
Excellent video tim. I like your style it's relaxed and informative. I have a couple new vids of some amazing clocks on my utube. Coldest winter we have ever had here. K class trip will have to wait. Thanks mate.
Hi John, I'm pleased you like my video style. I looked at that French clock, it's a real gem, got some age to it, how old is it? It's a shame the K class will have to wait, I hope you get to see it in action some day.
@@Timsvideochannel1 Hi Tim I think it would be 1860's to 1900. Love these vids 10 times better than Telly mate.
@@johnmchardy1229 Cheers John, I took another look at the clocks and radiogram. Good style may go out of fashion, but it never loses its appeal. As I travel, I see the work of true craftsmen, stonemasons in India, wood carvings in French churches the awesome Forth Railway Bridge and the magnificence of the 900 year old Chichester cathedral that I have lived within sight of most of my life. I have seen the temples a Siem Reap (Cambobia). The world is a better place as a result of generations of true craftsmen.
@@Timsvideochannel1 Hi I saw a doco on the French churches and the artisans. And it feels like that when i fix the clocks.
@@johnmchardy1229 My CNC milling machine made a terrible noise and stalled 9 days ago. A key locating a pulley on a shaft had broken and dropped into the works below. I phoned the manufacturer to buy a kit of parts to rebuild the head, they didn't have one part in stock. A few hours on the internet and I was able to buy all the bearings and drive belts I needed, the machine was very worn. I could not buy the various nylon headed split sleeves used between the moving pulleys and shafts of the vari-drive, fortunately I was able to obtain the nylon to make them myself. I took all the shafts and pulleys out to re-machine the various key ways true, then made stepped keys to fit. It all took a long time, but the satisfaction that comes from turning the machine on when it is re-assembled and sounding better than new is a great feeling. Today's young don't have the skills required to a job like this, they don't go into engineering these days. Good second hand machines are rare, most go to India where they are re-built and given a second life. Britain is full of unemployed university graduates with huge debts, degrees the arts, politics, media studies and other useless subjects, when what is really needed is engineers, plumbers, bricklayers, carpenters, and all the tradesmen required to fix our homes, cars and keep industry going.
Still our politician endeavour to send 70% of our young to university to satisfy the 10% of jobs that actually require a degree. The young start their working life 10 years later than I did with a large debt burden.
Old clocks will always require skilled men to repair them, just as old cars and locomotives will. Modern cars get scrapped because the engine management computer is no longer available, I wonder if today's cars will be repairable in 100 years time? Are these just British problems or are they being repeated in developed country's around the world?
I liked the countryside but found all the edits distracting. I didn't finish watching the trip. I probably will come back to it in the future.
Hi, sorry about the edits, I was using three cameras and they were all struggling with the difficult light and dirty windscreen, so I picked the best shots and edited them together.
(0:19) At Germany this loco class got nickname 'Taucherbrille' (swimming goggles). - Heinz
In Slovak and Czech language it got similar nickname freely translated: "Glasses"
And finally in Hungary this loco class got a nickname "Búvár" = "Diver"
Our Slovakian train crew laughed and said they were called "Goggles"
In Slovak glasses and goggles are the same, for both we have only one translation: "okuliare", therefore both are right.
Why did you change camera views when there was no big difference between them? It was a bit annoying. If you used one camera to capture side views and interesting things alongside the track, that would be understandable. But still, it´s great to see video from this track, because trains pass very rarely here these days.
Hi, after a long days filming, my first choice cameras had run out of battery power, so I was using older spare cameras, coupled with a dirty windscreen, a broken windscreen wiper, vibration, rain and at time bright sunlight, the cameras were giving indifferent results, so I used the best shots from each camera. There are still a lot more videos from the cab to be uploaded from this rail-tour, the majority from one camera position, although I did experience more very long days, when the old cameras were used again.
Thanks for the response.
I think everyone making comments here are trying to be WAY to intellectual. Why not just sit back and enjoy the ride
I leave these videos playing on my computer instead of using a screen saver, they remind of days spent doing what I enjoy. No story line, no need to concentrate, just nice relaxing scenery.
I watched both videos twice and still don't believe it. Except for railway employees, and cars either parked or on the road, the whole country seems devoid of life. No one walking the streets, no one working the fields. Not a horse, a cow, a sheep or a pig to be seen.
Hi Fred, It's odd to see so few people, most of the time we were passing through heavily wooded hillsides or open farmland. The farms grew plenty of crops, at the expense of livestock. Throughout Slovakia I noticed the farming methods were modern, using some of the latest machinery. I did see one or two deer and quite a few birds. At times the lack of people was almost eerie, yet the landscape looked generally well cared for.
fred grove
Sadly, some of these railway employees are there because ad-hoc scheduled train on the line, which is nearly abandoned. Only train I saw there was a local freight at Sása-Pliešovce and some waggons on the sidings. Young people moved their householdings to cities, or numberous have during the regular workdays job out there in the cities. I know some coworkers from Krupina and from the Hont (Slovak region). Our agriculture was ruined after the Iron curtain fall, now we are under the Bruxelles regulations, and our "proud people" better spend their money at foreign megastore chains than support local farmers. And at least our goverment robbery on EU funds in the name of farming...
Hi Jan, I read your comment to Fred, it reminded me of when the UK joined the, as it was then EEC (European Economic Community). I lived in a village surround by apple orchards, the farmer when bust because he couldn't compete with the subsidised apples from France. British farming has to compete against subsidised food from many parts of the EU, to make it worse, it is often British money that pays the subsidies to these farmers. Nowhere else in the world would you be asked to pay a subsidy to your competitor to put you out of business.
Tim,
yes, the same thing. In the city where I was born there were cannery, meat packing plant, diary processor, produce (apple, tomato...), state owned car and truck repair shops, lights, refrigerators, mouldings, water pumps, wood processing, textile factories, agriculture researching and tool researching and factory. Near 50.000 inhabitans. Nowadays 39.900 and dropping. 90% of industry does not exist anymore...
Britain may have a new future outside the EU, if our politicians can be made to respect the referendum result, they still can't believe the people voted to leave. It will be a painful exit, Germany, France and Belgium are angry, they will do whatever they can to make life difficult, but once Britain starts to find its way in the world again, I think the future will be bright, no longer will the EU be able to force Britain to buy trains from Germany, Spain and Italy with loans guaranteed by the British taxpayer. Britain will be able to say, "if you want to sell your trains here, they must have a least 60% British content. EU rules on railway privatisation killed our world renowned train building industry overnight, that is difficult to forgive.
Schlechte Bild-Qualität.
Ja, die Qualität des Videos, das ich hochgeladen habe, war viel besser, als der TH-cam-Player zeigt.
Schade, aber danke für die Antwort.
Gregor Wenger: Nothing wrong with the picture quality at all! It's just that you're viewing via the TH-cam platform which tends to make videos appear of poorer quality than they actually are.
No. I allways check to return to the "720p" mode when Yutube steps down because of bad internet connection.
Then that's still the system's fault, combined with your internet server there in Germany, Austria or Switzerland, whichever country you're in. If you had the opportunity to view Tim's video BEFORE he uploaded, zum beispiel, off his own computer, you'd have seen a much better "Bild-Qualität". Seine Bild-Qualität werde nicht so schlechte aussehen.