NORWAY | Railways

[IanCleverly]

#20 - Clear your afternoons, as it's up on Youtube

Search for 'Bergensbanen in HD' and you'll have all 6 hours of it

Originally Posted by NRK Article

Friday November 27th, over 1,2 million Norwegians watched parts of “Bergensbanen” on NRK2. The longest documentary ever? At least the longest we have made, almost 7 1/2 hours, showing every minute of the scenic train ride between Bergen on the Norwegian west coast, crossing the mountains to the capital of Oslo.

Bergensbanen is 100 years in 2009, and the documentary was a wild idea from NRK staff that came through, and was, surprisingly, a big success.

Now we want to give the material to our viewers, the whole thing, for download.

The documentary had picture-in-picture clips with videos about Bergensbanen, a reporter interviewing people on the train, music and two cameras pointing to the sides of the train. Because of rights, we had to remove the music and many videoclips, so we decided to make a clean front camera version for this download. It’s recorded on a Sony 700 camera in XDCAM HD 1080 50i. The camera has a 30 seconds buffer, making it possible to switch disks when needed. So we have a continuous recording of 7 hours.


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[trainrover]

I can't suss out how the cabin sounds got captured in the following cab ride. Anybody know what train must've done the run?

Originally Posted by trainrover

Originally Posted by trainrover

Originally Posted by trainrover

Originally Posted by trainrover

Originally Posted by trainrover

Originally Posted by trainrover

[trainrover]

Might it have been this one?

[trainrover]

[trainrover]

[trainrover]

Originally Posted by trainrover

All six hours' worth squished

[Registered_User]

Yesterday the Norwegian government announced that they will dedicate 3.9 billion NOK towards electrification of Trønderbanen and Meråkerbanen.
Trønderbanen - a line of about 120 km between Trondheim and Steinkjer.
Meråkerbanen - a line of about 70 km between Hell (on Trønderbanen) and Storlien (the Swedish boarder).

These lines are now run by diesel powered trains, and the convertion to electricity are said to save 20 minutes travel times on the longest distance and 14,500 tons of CO2 annually.

News reports (all in Norwegian):
Største satsing på tog på 50 år - NRK
Det er en gledens dag i NSB - NRK
3,9 milliarder til Meråkerbanen og Trønderbanen - Adressa