Author Topic: Live train driver's view  (Read 8994 times)

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #25 on: 09 January, 2018, 10:00:24 am »
In Norway even snowbound singletrack gets overhead line electrification.
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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #26 on: 09 January, 2018, 11:24:40 am »
In Norway even snowbound singletrack gets overhead line electrification.
That is probably a major link track.
Norway has some major single track rail lines linking population centres. Makes the timetable planning painful (when they had a rail crash some years back, I was thankful not to be on call to be checking to see if our software had screwed up. It hadn't, btw).
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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #27 on: 09 January, 2018, 11:49:56 am »
Seems to be stopping at a lot of stations at the moment...
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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #28 on: 09 January, 2018, 11:51:44 am »
There goes the rest of my day  ::-)

I note with interest that there is very little snow in the immediate vicinity of points on the track.
Heated points, perhaps?

Hello Network Rail, is anyone watching this?

ETA - its showing 16:15 on the platform clock of the last station it stopped at - so not really live.....

hulver

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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #29 on: 09 January, 2018, 12:03:10 pm »
The HinduCowGirl channel on Youtube is fantastic (drivers eye view of Norway train journeys). I'll sometime just put one of the 2hr+ videos on the TV when I'm reading a book or something. Very relaxing.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj-Xm8j6WBgKY8OG7s9r2vQ

Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #30 on: 09 January, 2018, 03:36:57 pm »
Is it wrong of me to confess to enjoying having this on one screen, and tracing the journey on Googlemaps / Streetview on the adjacent screen.



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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #31 on: 09 January, 2018, 03:38:50 pm »
In Norway even snowbound singletrack gets overhead line electrification.

Ultra cheap electricity due to forward thinking government and a metric shedload of rain, that's why Norwegians always leave the chuffing lights on when they come a visiting.

Chris S

Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #32 on: 09 January, 2018, 05:21:17 pm »
I find them strangely hypnotic, but I can't watch them when fboab is around - there's only so much pi$$ taking I can handle in one day  ;D

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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #33 on: 09 January, 2018, 08:15:07 pm »
The HinduCowGirl channel on Youtube

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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #34 on: 09 January, 2018, 11:48:26 pm »
I used to commute from just outside Oslo - Hvalstad station which you will go through just after one of the wee tunnels heading out from Oslo. This train doesn't stop there, first stop would be Asker. Great to see this - must download the video.
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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #35 on: 10 January, 2018, 04:58:36 am »
Thanks very much for this.
A year ago at a family gathering, a nephew had it running on his big-screen tv device.  Most of the guests sat around staring at it at length.

The Al-Voss run is particularly of interest - Aol (sorry, can't get the little "o" on top of the A) is where one of the Norwegian forefathers on my mother-in-law's side emigrated from.

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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #36 on: 10 January, 2018, 09:03:43 am »
Allow me: Å.

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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #37 on: 10 January, 2018, 01:47:28 pm »
Is it wrong of me to confess to enjoying having this on one screen, and tracing the journey on Googlemaps / Streetview on the adjacent screen.

How have you worked out where it is? TBH, I'm not even sure what direction the train is travelling in, never mind where it is!
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Aunt Maud

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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #38 on: 10 January, 2018, 01:49:00 pm »
You could try Aa instead of Å, that works just as well.

Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #39 on: 10 January, 2018, 02:49:13 pm »
Is it wrong of me to confess to enjoying having this on one screen, and tracing the journey on Googlemaps / Streetview on the adjacent screen.

How have you worked out where it is? TBH, I'm not even sure what direction the train is travelling in, never mind where it is!

There was a bit where the train crossed a bridge over a large river, following which it passed by a large hotel, the name of which was displayed on the side of the building. It didn't take a huge amount of googe-fü to narrow down the options as to where this could be.

Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #40 on: 10 January, 2018, 02:56:41 pm »
Nice work, I shall try that once the the train gets out of the middle of nowhere!
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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #41 on: 10 January, 2018, 03:05:16 pm »
Also, Norway, if there's snow on the ground and you can see anything of the sun (there have been glimpses) and it's not near the horizon - I think it's safe to assume that where the sun is, is roughly south.
No?

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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #42 on: 10 January, 2018, 03:12:47 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!
Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh is a bit like that.
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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #43 on: 10 January, 2018, 03:57:01 pm »
Ideal to watch whilst on the Turbo Trainer
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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #44 on: 10 January, 2018, 04:39:14 pm »
Oh, a place name just came up on screen, so I have now pinpointed it on Google maps via



Not sure yet if travelling to or away from Bergen though - need another place name to pop up...

Edit: It's going east
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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #45 on: 10 January, 2018, 05:14:20 pm »
Ideal to watch whilst on the Turbo Trainer

GPWM!  Mental note made for next time I'm unfortunate enough that resorting to the turbo trainer seems like a good idea.

Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #46 on: 10 January, 2018, 05:45:36 pm »
Oh, a place name just came up on screen, so I have now pinpointed it on Google maps via



Not sure yet if travelling to or away from Bergen though - need another place name to pop up...

Edit: It's going east
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And it has to be cheaper than actually going there - according to the subbies who I send out there.
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Norway.

I've still gotta hankering to go there - even if it is just to spend a few hours onna train. In the snow   ;D

Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #47 on: 10 January, 2018, 06:15:06 pm »
Most expensive BigMac anywhere on this planet?

Norway.

Apparantly it seesaws between Norway and Switzerland. Not a problem for me as I can't imagine ever entering a McDonald's in either of those countries (Unless I was desperate for Wi-Fi!)
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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #48 on: 10 January, 2018, 06:44:45 pm »
Don't know what it's like now but the expenses claims clocked up on fairly mundane items by the chaps setting up the LAN in my then-employers' Tokyo office 25 years ago were truly staggering.
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Re: Live train driver's view
« Reply #49 on: 11 January, 2018, 01:32:11 pm »
Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh is a bit like that.

Much of which I slept through IIRC  :P

Anyway, not to worry - Kyle of Lochalsh to Inverness is included in this excellent episode of All the Stations   :)
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