Author Topic: Live train driver's view (Read 9058 times)

bobb · « **on:** 08 January, 2018, 01:31:58 pm »

I've spent way too much time watching this train travelling through Norway

Kim · « **Reply #1 on:** 08 January, 2018, 01:50:00 pm »

This is possibly the best thing since the live coverage of the moose migration.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #2 on:** 08 January, 2018, 01:56:48 pm »

Oh hell Bobb that screwed my productivity for the near term.

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #3 on:** 08 January, 2018, 02:01:09 pm »

He's been sitting at those lights for a while.

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #4 on:** 08 January, 2018, 02:03:07 pm »

Here we go.

bobb · « **Reply #5 on:** 08 January, 2018, 02:06:21 pm »

Good job it's not the wrong kind of snow!

Kim · « **Reply #6 on:** 08 January, 2018, 02:09:12 pm »

Also, unlike the moose migration, I think these guys are being somewhat misleading in their use of the term 'live'. Not that there's anything wrong with streaming a pre-recorded video so that people can synchro-watch and chat about it in realtime, but we don't appear to be watching a mammoth feat of backhauling video from a moving train in the sort of terrain that makes radio links distinctly challenging.

https://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/18/bergensbanen/ refers.

T42 · « **Reply #7 on:** 08 January, 2018, 02:31:54 pm »

I'm sure this is what all those nice MPs were looking for when they found that other stuff.

Beardy · « **Reply #8 on:** 08 January, 2018, 05:01:19 pm »

Well this isn't nearly as dull as it sounds like it aught to be

I've currently got it showing on one of my monitors that I use for my VERY BIG spreadsheet. If it's live, he's got a very bright light!

jiberjaber · « **Reply #9 on:** 08 January, 2018, 05:15:26 pm »

What a great find!

I have just seen it pull in to a 'station'... when I say station, it just stopped near some huts where teh people were stood next to the line and they must have got on... a lot different to how we do it over here!

citoyen · « **Reply #10 on:** 08 January, 2018, 05:26:01 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 08 January, 2018, 02:09:12 pm

Also, unlike the moose migration, I think these guys are being somewhat misleading in their use of the term 'live'. Not that there's anything wrong with streaming a pre-recorded video so that people can synchro-watch and chat about it in realtime, but we don't appear to be watching a mammoth feat of backhauling video from a moving train in the sort of terrain that makes radio links distinctly challenging.

https://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/18/bergensbanen/ refers.

Probably just as well it's not actually live, in case of any suicidal glory-seekers.

Strangely mesmerising though.

Aunt Maud · « **Reply #11 on:** 08 January, 2018, 05:29:44 pm »

We used to take the Bergen-Oslo train to Myrdal then take the corkscrew train through the hill ti Flåm to go ice climbing. To catch the Flåm train back up, we used to stand at the side of the track and flag it down. The conductor would get the Flåm train to stop wherever we wanted on the way down, it was very civilised.

To get the Oslo-Bergen train to stop on Hardangervidda, we used to stand in the tunnel and wave at the driver. It was fun and a bit freaky watching the train blow clouds of snow through the dark tunnel when it was coming towards us.

bobb · « **Reply #12 on:** 08 January, 2018, 05:38:39 pm »

Thank fuck the driver turned the wipers back on - that watery blob was starting to annoy me!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #13 on:** 08 January, 2018, 06:01:43 pm »

Some similar here (but without snow): http://www.dailymotion.com/user/IndustryInsider/1

Aunt Maud · « **Reply #14 on:** 08 January, 2018, 06:50:02 pm »

Flåmsbana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFqYZJWVTto

cycleman · « **Reply #15 on:** 08 January, 2018, 07:04:30 pm »

I have been enjoying a number of you tube videos of cabrides .I do like the snowy one's

runsoncake · « **Reply #16 on:** 08 January, 2018, 07:23:04 pm »

Oddly compelling. Wonder if there are trolls in those tunnels?.

Salvatore · « **Reply #17 on:** 08 January, 2018, 07:27:46 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 08 January, 2018, 02:09:12 pm

Also, unlike the moose migration, I think these guys are being somewhat misleading in their use of the term 'live'. Not that there's anything wrong with streaming a pre-recorded video so that people can synchro-watch and chat about it in realtime, but we don't appear to be watching a mammoth feat of backhauling video from a moving train in the sort of terrain that makes radio links distinctly challenging.

https://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/18/bergensbanen/ refers.

And at 20:24 it should be much darker at this time of year. It's as 'live' as the Beatles "Live at the Hollywood Bowl 1964" .

Aunt Maud · « **Reply #18 on:** 08 January, 2018, 07:31:03 pm »

It's from NRKs' slow telly series. If you're really bored you can watch wood burning for a whole night.....

https://tv.nrk.no/serie/nasjonal-vedkveld

Chris S · « **Reply #19 on:** 08 January, 2018, 08:01:49 pm »

This one is my favourite - once higher up, there are no visible tracks, and the plough on the front gets busy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=facDr2lTAUM

Aunt Maud · « **Reply #20 on:** 08 January, 2018, 08:19:27 pm »

1:06:00 Sunny day at Finse.

If you get off there with your bike in the summer, it's downhill all the way to Myrdal on the Rallarvejen. Take the train from Myrdal one stop and it's downhill all the way to Voss.

Much fun.

hellymedic · « **Reply #21 on:** 08 January, 2018, 08:45:03 pm »

Those train drivers are friendly; one even hooted at me cycling solo on the E10, 30 years ago...

Wowbagger · « **Reply #22 on:** 08 January, 2018, 08:51:50 pm »

When I was Vice-chairman of the kids' primary school, the Chairman's day job was driving trains very quickly between London and Edinburgh. I know the Head went with him in the cab on one trip. I would have loved to have done that - but he didn't ask me!

Of course, that was a long time ago. Ron (for it was he) must be well into his 80s now. He and I retired from the governing body at the same time, which I reckon was about 20 years ago. I doubt that he would be able to get away with that these days, what with turrism and elfnsafety.

Salvatore · « **Reply #23 on:** 08 January, 2018, 10:10:26 pm »

I've just seen a stretch of road I've cycled on, on the Trondheim-Bodø line, just before Bodø.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #24 on:** 08 January, 2018, 10:14:31 pm »

I bin on that train several times, getting off at Geilo

Not this year though, I'm having a rest from that conference, scenic as it is, it's a bit of a ballache getting there and back again.

Author Topic: Live train driver's view (Read 9058 times)

Chris S