Mallets in the Mountains - Eritrea 2009 Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2016
- Eritrea is situated in the region of north east Africa known as the Horn of Africa. It borders the Red Sea and has land borders with Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti. The railway was constructed when Eritrea was an Italian colony and reached Asmara in 1911. It has 89 bridges, 30 tunnels and gradients as steep as 1 in 30. The current length of the line is 73 miles. At one time the line extended a total of 173 miles to Bascia. During Eritrea's war for independence from Ethiopia, much of the railway was destroyed. Following victory, the line was rebuilt from the port of Massawa at sea level to the capital city, Asmara at an altitude of 7684 feet.
Most steam locomotives in use are articulated Mallet 0-4-4-0T built by Ansaldo.
As well as the steam locomotives, the line has some Italian Fiat rail-buses built in the mid 1930's.
Despite the high quality restoration the line is currently only used for enthusiast charters.
This video was shot in 2009 during a visit organised by Bernd Seiler of FarRail tours.
This is video 1 of 5 shot during this visit.
Bravissimo splendido e complimenti al popolo eritreo che ha rimesso in servizio una splendida ferrovia.
W l'eritrea
e senza aiuti,si sono arrangiati da soli,presto riattiveranno Asmara-Cheren-Agordat
Wonderful work. This railway should be included in world heritage site.
Magnificient takes, scenic country. Impressive images in the docks...
Thanks
all build by italians and refurbished by erythreans
Well, you do get in some out-of-the-way places, George. Some first-class photography there, anyway, and some lovely old locos!
+balmesh Thanks again for your kind comments. I am off to Iran next Saturday, no steam but there should be some hard working diesels in the mountains.
Felicidades por su reportaje es verdaderamente extraordinario .. Y un buen ejemplo de como hay que hacer reportajes de este tipo . Muchísimas gracias y que Dios les bendiga siempre para seguir haciendo muchos mas vídeos como este.
Myself, Ian Stephens (who you know) and two others visited Eritrea in 2007, we had a fantastic time ! Your filming George is your usual high quality and its great to watch it and compare with our own movies from our trip. Actually I didn't think they were allowing any tourist trains there for the foreseeable future, but I could be wrong,
thanks for sharing
Stewart
+hollpoll Hi Stewart, Thanks for your kind comments. You are probably correct about the tourist trains, I just assumed they were. I have deleted reference to them in the intro.
Hollpolls Sunshine Coast Railway sapnachaudry___
Great
¡Adorable! ... grandes ferrocarrileros... y grandes camarógrafos... imágenes espectaculares
Gracias!
Nice video
I love the countryside
amei este video
I was an Military Police Officer in 1972 and 1973. I guess one could say that I saw this train when it was still working but never rode it. Most Military never did because it was so slow and the smell was nothing short of horrific and it was unforgivably hot especially when you would get down to the flat lands in the dessert where temperatures far exceeded 100 F. There were very few air conditioned anything back in those days till you arrived at the TTU which was our paradise type resort on the Red Sea.If you only went there because you love trains then you missed so much of the real beauty of Eritrea
Thanks for your comment. I saw quite a lot of Eritrea while I was there, not just trains.
@@blackthorne57 Thanks. Were you able to go to Asmara. That is where our Military post was located from the early 1950s through the Mid 1970s.. I believe Asmara to be one of the most beautiful cities in the country. And talking about trains again I spent 4 years in Germany and that was a great train system they had there.
@@kagnewmp12 Yes I did spend some time in Asmara, a beautiful Art Deco city. Very clean, probably the cleanist in Africa. We travelled from Asmara down to the coast at Massawa and back by train. We stopped off at various places on the way.
@@blackthorne57 It was architecturally designed and built by the Italians to be the show place of Africa. Those mountain roads are filled with those sharp turns we use to call Switchbacks. The one spot I think was the 21 K marker where an Army wrecker went over the side and dropped almost 2000 feet or more. The driver obviously died and the truck which was the size of a full size tractor trailer was brought back up in just small pieces and the only parts that survived were the tires one being over a mile away from where the truck went over. A very beautiful but dangerous road. We also had one of our Military Policeman ambushed and murdered by Bandits. I have linked the Video with his picture and how he died at 9:25 in the video. ruclips.net/video/AndI0bX6Ey8/видео.html This happened just before I arrived. It tells the story mostly about how wonderful it was to be stationed the by Daniel Minchen. It's nice to share some of my stories and life's experiences there but if you don't wish to hear them just let me know.
Awsome video - Eritrea railways is my favourite, see my video as well - Thanks for sharing Railherbi
Ferrovie e materiale rotabile tutto Italiano, qualcosa di buono il colonialismo ha lasciato.........
They should bring an American Chez Local motive to help out with the extra struggling of these locomotives up the mountains
I do not understand your comment, what is an American Chez Local motive?
I noticed each car had like a guard, is that to keep people from sneaking a free ride.
The guard on each car is a brakeman, the line has steep inclines and the train does not have continuous brakes.
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Please explain your comment, it does not make sense to me.
Im interesting for those you post becouse im from that country.
Made in italy ,1890,piu o meno cè anche in somalia
I think they should buy an American sailor mouth out with their extra goods
What do you mean? What is an American sailor mouth?