I managed to get it ready before I had to dash out the door again! Whoop Whoop! Just in time for the new year! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all! Remember to sign up for my newsletter that comes out the last Sunday every month. Hop on over to www.railcowgirl.com for more information on that. It's just amazing to watch how the much more magical the mountain pass is when it is painted with moonlight reflecting in the snow. One never gets tiered of these views. This video was recorded with a 35mm lens instead of the one I normally use, which is 24mm. The 35mm gives you a more realistic sense of how the line really looks without becoming too compact and narrow like a 50mm would make the image. Enjoy!
Yay!!! I love your winter videos. I watched your video from Christmas last year about 20 times this year 😄 I hope you had a Merry Christmas and got some time off! Wishing you a blessed New Year!!!
I like to watch at half speed on RUclips, I can see so much detail of the countryside and tunnels. Thank you for these videos. It takes me twice as long to get to Bergen 😂
First of all, it's always a blessing to see one of your videos! Having travelled on the Bergensbahnen last March (both ways between Oslo and Bergen), I would be very sad not to see the beautiful scenery between Voss and Bergen. Well, it should have been Bergen to Oslo but, because of a freight train derailment, we were bussed to Voss to connect with the train and so I missed the scenery on the first part of the journey. Looking at the timeline for the project, I still have a few years to do the journey again! Having looked, online, at the K5 project, I can see the need for it, especially with the dangers currently faced by both rail and road traffic. What I would like to see is something on the lines of what they have done in Switzerland on both the Gotthard and Lotschberg passes where they built fast base tunnels, but kept the original routes for local traffic.
I was going to write the same kind of comment . Yep , the old Gothard and Lötschberg routes are kept intact , they are historical lines and symbols of the engineering of their time . They should keep the old part to Voss as well as a scenic touristic route
Hey there moo-girl! Just want to tell you that You inspired me to become a train driver 🚂… I applied, did some tests and got accepted to a school 🏫 in Sweden. I have been operating on my own now for approximately 8 months! I drive trains in the southern parts of Sweden, my goal now is to earn my ”Norge-kompetens” so i can come over and experience some of the scenery I see in your videos. Life goals you know 😉 Thanx for all the inspiration and all the hard work you put into your channel. You truly are one of a kind 🐮
Oh RCG, this route is so "belovedly" familiar now; and yes!, we never get tired of it. Every mile, or meter, is a welcome trip; in the snow, and at night, it's a virtual homecoming. Thank you. 😉😊
« Bonjour ! » from France. It is always a great pleasure to travel with you... and what's more, for free. ;-) Thank you! And keep on with your videos for a long time, because they are interesting, but also soothing for those who are suffering or can no longer travel physically. For some of these people..., they can (in imagination, almost real), continue walks or journeys, by train. Happy holidays 2024 and may 2025 be better...
When you are not jumping out of a perfectly good airplane here in DeLand, You are giving us spectacular views of the Bergen line in the winter. You ROCK Keistine.
I am happy to share this new journey with you. With always magical lighting in the night, and well-resolved images of great beauty, not counting your care with the map, the timed chapters and other useful explanations. Happy New Year to you. PS : Project K5: it will be great for the daily life of Norwegians, but very boring for you (always crossing in a tunnel) and of no interest for tourists => And no more midnight sun on the Bergen line ! ===> What a shame for the fjord part of this attractive Bergen line!
Thanks @RailCowGirl for this excellent new video. It's good to see you on track again. I really appreciate the work you do for us alongside your job. That's why I'm giving you this small financial support.
Norway at Christmas time looks amazing! These videos have definitely put Norway on my bucket list of countries to visit (Although I think Summer or Autumn would be a better time to do it). Will have to do it before they build that proposed new tunnel route - I want to see the scenery! Good reaction to the unexpected red too...
Hi from Scotland. I'm ex Royal Navy and been to Norway lots of times as I served on HMS INTREPID an LPD when we dropped of the royal marines for winter training. Been ashore in Bergen and Stavanger. Lovely country and great video. Subbed😀
This is a really great cab view from the train especially at night going through the countryside with awesome scenery on each side of the tracks and this is really beautiful thank you RCG.🚂🚃🚃🇸🇯
What a peaceful video. ❤ 😊 I am enjoying the armchair travel very much, as I’m currently homebound with a health issue and on long term immunosuppressive drugs. It will be a while before life is normal again. I am rewatching and enjoying all of your videos as I work on my recovery. I hope you had an awesome Christmas. 🙂
I like the way the train switched over to the snow-covered track on the right...I thought it was being derailed because I couldn't see the track since it is covered with snow. 👉 00:28
99% of travelers engage with a smart device during the commute anyways. A tunnel is a great efficiency upgrade for the infrastructure and not many will rue the loss of the landscape aspect during a commute. The pace of upgrades of railways in Norway is astonishing. Over the years, many stations were improved, rolling stock renewed and now infrastructure improvements gain momentum. Impressive!
The ringerike line was supposed ti be done in 1986. Arna - Stanghelle was supposed to be under construction four years ago. The Bergen line is part of Norway in a nutshell and heavily dependent on tourists.
@@RailCowGirl I agree about the tourists. The updates are fine for commuters, but the Bergen line has always been about the tourists. The old parts should be left with tracks as a heritage line.
@@stormraven4183 Problem is that BaneNOR does not want to use money on maintaining it, and with the new construction planned at Stanghelle, the line would need to be torn up, and won't have any possible connection point to the new line there due to elevation differences.
In Portland Oregon, USA, there was an old train line that went through southeast Portland into Milwaukie then curved towards the stockyards of Portland. They turned it into a bike/walking path years ago and it is still in operation today. If you look it up it is called the Springwater Corridor.
Good day to you. Even the reinforcing in the rockface looks like Christmas decorations. Hope you had a good Christmas and hope that you have a happy new year and keep the booze to a minimum. Geoff🎄🏳🌈
Спасибо за видео, поздравляю с Рождеством! Работаю слесарем на железной дороге, всегда жду Ваши новые видео! Приятно побывать в кабине локомотива и увидеть всё глазами машиниста, а не через окно пассажирского вагона, сидя в купе. Ещё раз огромное спаибо!
Congratulations that you are back on the Bergen Line ! - Concerning your question I may answer that in some years the double track will be completed between Genova and Ventimiglia, this far away from the coast of the Mediterranean in long tunnels allowed for a high speed traffic, this comparable to the well known mountain railway between Udine and Tarvisio.
Yah it is sad that the Arna-Stanghelle new line will be mostly in tunnels, but ultimately it increases the speed the trains can go at, secures the tracks from future flooding and avoids the dangers of a land slide, probably cheaper to do maintenance as well. Personally I’d much prefer if they built double track on the Jærbanen from Sandnes and Nærbø but that will probably never happen 😅
When i was in Norway one year ago, there was no train between Bergen and Arna. My trip was from Oslo to Voss and back from there to Myrdal to have some wonderfull days at the Flåm Valley. When there is a bike path in the future, i have to come back with a bike to see the old line again. 😀 Happy New Year to you!!
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"Now ... let's put all the Corn Flakes back in the box."
The K5 project does lend one to take pause. (reminds me of an old Joni Mitchell song, "They took out the trees and put in a parking lot. You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.".
Another expertly made and beautifully shot video of yours! Thanks so much. I also liked the lens change. Have we ever been stopped in the loop at Trengereid before? I don't recall that. I imagine the loop is in fact the older track bed, as the new straighter route requires the ends of the platform to be in the tunnel itself. As for whether that amount of freight on the west-bound train was worth waiting for .... ! That can't have been a cost-effective journey for that train. As for the K5 plan .... The world will of course always have your videos of how it was. You could even occasionally become BikeCowGirl and give us trip down memory lane on the old track bed! As for the impact, I think there are a lot of side-effects. Yes, it is progress and it will allow much faster running, but will it be cost-effective? Will it also hit the tourist traffic? It will remove all of the running alongside the deep fjords, and of the constant little views of how the track hugs the shore, with now and then the glimpses of the much older tunnels to the tracks which were even more precipitously on the very edge of the water. But tourists don't travel by train to sit in tunnels, so there will be nothing to see. From Stanghelle you will have 3 long tunnels to Bergen, one of them almost twice as long as the Finse one, and that is all the view you will have. Concrete, concrete, concrete! Of course, that same progress has also affected the central portion of the plateau with the long Finse tunnel. But had that not taken place, the route from 40 years ago was fairly tortuous and slow, and would now probably have entailed almost continuous snow-sheds to protect it, so it wouldn't have been scenic any longer. Maybe foreign visitors won't travel through to Bergen so much, and it will turn Voss into the tourist terminus for the scenic line?
The Finse tunnel is the longest tunnel on the Bergen Line with its 10.300m. No other the Bergen Line exceeds that length :) But yes, I totally agree. The product Norway in a Nutshell and everything about being a scenic train ride will go down the drain the day K5 is completed. Thankfully it will take an extensive amount of years before it is completed, and I have no faith in it being completed within the next 30 years. LOL
Just amazing. The infrastructure amazes me. I have always been fascinated with trains. I'm 61 now. What a beautiful country. I will be retiring in 2028. After watching your videos, I will be making a trip to your country. To Bergen from my home is 13+ hours. I live in the south western suburbs of Chicago. Thanks for what you do.
Happy holidays! Be nice if they kept the other route for tourists. Lot of nice scenery and train stations. Are they going to keep the train stations? I always like watching the trains arrive at each station.
I think we're going to see a huge debate on that at some point in the future. part of the old Voss line is maintained by the heritage railway, and I would think it would me natural for them to maybe get the chance to run on what will become the old line in the future as well.
That's the first time I've seen another train in the Finse tunnel. I'm guessing the signaling problem didn't occur until the driver was already inside. Great camera btw. Makes the scenery more visible at night.
For some strange reason, that error usually happens when there is a train waiting there. I have tons of videos where you see a train waiting, or me waiting for other trains in the Finse tunnel :D
Please, when arriving at a station you display the station name, could you also display the general map for a moment, highlighting the station where we are, to better locate us during the journey? Thank you very much
I managed to get it ready before I had to dash out the door again! Whoop Whoop! Just in time for the new year! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!
Remember to sign up for my newsletter that comes out the last Sunday every month. Hop on over to www.railcowgirl.com for more information on that.
It's just amazing to watch how the much more magical the mountain pass is when it is painted with moonlight reflecting in the snow. One never gets tiered of these views.
This video was recorded with a 35mm lens instead of the one I normally use, which is 24mm. The 35mm gives you a more realistic sense of how the line really looks without becoming too compact and narrow like a 50mm would make the image.
Enjoy!
Thank you for taking the time to upload etc.Take care,Merry Xmas and New Year.👍
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too. Thanks for all of the wonderful videos from your homeland.
Merry Christmas!
Was missing you! All the best to you and yours! 😊
Yay!!! I love your winter videos. I watched your video from Christmas last year about 20 times this year 😄 I hope you had a Merry Christmas and got some time off! Wishing you a blessed New Year!!!
No music, no bullsht. just a nice train ride. Thank you
A little talk would be nice. Also a movable camera. So that we could see out the side.
@ of course a devil would say that. Just enjoy it man
Let let us travel through the mountains.
She posts interesting trip notes from time to time. 😊
For several years I've been enjoying viewing your videos from the Bergen Line. Thank you for this one!
Thank you so much for watching :D
When the RailCowGirl logo replaces people's heads, i laugh every time. ❤
Hehehehe 😂
35mm lens. I’m wondering if that may be why the video is grabbing my subliminal attention for the field of view
I like to watch at half speed on RUclips, I can see so much detail of the countryside and tunnels. Thank you for these videos. It takes me twice as long to get to Bergen 😂
First of all, it's always a blessing to see one of your videos!
Having travelled on the Bergensbahnen last March (both ways between Oslo and Bergen), I would be very sad not to see the beautiful scenery between Voss and Bergen. Well, it should have been Bergen to Oslo but, because of a freight train derailment, we were bussed to Voss to connect with the train and so I missed the scenery on the first part of the journey. Looking at the timeline for the project, I still have a few years to do the journey again!
Having looked, online, at the K5 project, I can see the need for it, especially with the dangers currently faced by both rail and road traffic. What I would like to see is something on the lines of what they have done in Switzerland on both the Gotthard and Lotschberg passes where they built fast base tunnels, but kept the original routes for local traffic.
I was going to write the same kind of comment . Yep , the old Gothard and Lötschberg routes are kept intact , they are historical lines and symbols of the engineering of their time . They should keep the old part to Voss as well as a scenic touristic route
Crystal clear and no vibration...nice!
Heavier optics = less vibrations .... aaaaaaaand smother wheels = less vibration too :D
Hey there moo-girl! Just want to tell you that You inspired me to become a train driver 🚂… I applied, did some tests and got accepted to a school 🏫 in Sweden. I have been operating on my own now for approximately 8 months! I drive trains in the southern parts of Sweden, my goal now is to earn my ”Norge-kompetens” so i can come over and experience some of the scenery I see in your videos.
Life goals you know 😉
Thanx for all the inspiration and all the hard work you put into your channel. You truly are one of a kind 🐮
Oh RCG, this route is so "belovedly" familiar now; and yes!, we never get tired of it. Every mile, or meter, is a welcome trip; in the snow, and at night, it's a virtual homecoming. Thank you. 😉😊
Finally, a long-awaited video. 🌲Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🌲
« Bonjour ! » from France.
It is always a great pleasure to travel with you... and what's more, for free. ;-)
Thank you! And keep on with your videos for a long time, because they are interesting, but also soothing for those who are suffering or can no longer travel physically. For some of these people..., they can (in imagination, almost real), continue walks or journeys, by train.
Happy holidays 2024 and may 2025 be better...
The picture is buttery soft. Wonderful to watch 😊
Thank you for the wonderful trip! We can enjoy the real train ride without going from home 😊
Immer wieder schön, egal welche Route Sie auch fahren!
Thanks!
Thank you so so much! :D
When you are not jumping out of a perfectly good airplane here in DeLand, You are giving us spectacular views of the Bergen line in the winter. You ROCK Keistine.
Dedication, effort, quality and time spent for this video is quite rare. Thank you so much for this. Happy holidays!
Oh my gosh, this is really a magical cabride! By far my favorite of all cabrides that i ever seen! Thank you so much girl🙂
Thanks you for this beautiful Christmas gift Merry Christmas to you too
... mi immergo in questo stupendo viaggio e vivo le stesse vostre emozioni... grazie Buon Natale e felice nuovo anno 2025 !!!
What a beautiful country
Hope you had a great Christmas. Thanks so much for another wonderful video. Hope you have a happy new year.🎉
I am happy to share this new journey with you. With always magical lighting in the night, and well-resolved images of great beauty, not counting your care with the map, the timed chapters and other useful explanations.
Happy New Year to you.
PS : Project K5: it will be great for the daily life of Norwegians, but very boring for you (always crossing in a tunnel) and of no interest for tourists => And no more midnight sun on the Bergen line !
===> What a shame for the fjord part of this attractive Bergen line!
The snowy trips have always been my favorite.
Thanks @RailCowGirl for this excellent new video. It's good to see you on track again. I really appreciate the work you do for us alongside your job. That's why I'm giving you this small financial support.
Thanks & Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too, and Thank you so much for the support! :D
I watch and listen at night. Such a wonderful excursion ! ❤
I can already tell this will be my new favorite!
I just noticed. Before the year ends ... Congratulations on 10 years!!🥳🥳🎂🎉🎊
Thanks! I hope you had a merry christmas - I wish you a happy new year!
Wow! Thank you so much! 🎁🎄❤️
I like that in this, and other videos in all kinds of weather, the Station Master at Myrdal always comes out to give a friendly wave!
What else to do on a ledge 866meters above sea level with no road access? LOL nearest shop is 24km away.
Norway at Christmas time looks amazing! These videos have definitely put Norway on my bucket list of countries to visit (Although I think Summer or Autumn would be a better time to do it). Will have to do it before they build that proposed new tunnel route - I want to see the scenery! Good reaction to the unexpected red too...
Autumn is probably the best time to come to Norway to see more of the different and changing colors
I hope the Ministry of Tourism is sending you checks for these 3 hour advertisements for traveling in Norway. Absolutely gorgeous views.
Hi from Scotland. I'm ex Royal Navy and been to Norway lots of times as I served on HMS INTREPID an LPD when we dropped of the royal marines for winter training. Been ashore in Bergen and Stavanger. Lovely country and great video. Subbed😀
I love spacing out to this ride over the mountain. Thank you for creating this! I would love to have your job 😂
This is a really great cab view from the train especially at night going through the countryside with awesome scenery on each side of the tracks and this is really beautiful thank you RCG.🚂🚃🚃🇸🇯
Thank you Rail cow Girl. Enjoyed this video immensely. Always happy to see Hoth in the winter. Finse looks cold. BRRRR. Happy New Year.and stay safe.
The photography gets better with each new episode
Thank you :D
What a peaceful video. ❤ 😊 I am enjoying the armchair travel very much, as I’m currently homebound with a health issue and on long term immunosuppressive drugs. It will be a while before life is normal again. I am rewatching and enjoying all of your videos as I work on my recovery. I hope you had an awesome Christmas. 🙂
i'm crossing my fingers for a swift and flawless recovery
I like the way the train switched over to the snow-covered track on the right...I thought it was being derailed because I couldn't see the track since it is covered with snow. 👉 00:28
hehehe.. Yeah . I was like YES YES YES! nothing is more fun that plowing through snow like that :D
Your channel is a source of endless laughter and fun. Keep inspiring us with your fun and lighthearted content!🐎🦍😾
Very tricky lighting beautifully captured, excellent work and a wonderful surprise. Happy New Year to you too. D
Happy New Year 🎉🎉❤ thank you for miles of entertainment! Love from usa!
From FRANCE: "MERCI !" *****
99% of travelers engage with a smart device during the commute anyways. A tunnel is a great efficiency upgrade for the infrastructure and not many will rue the loss of the landscape aspect during a commute.
The pace of upgrades of railways in Norway is astonishing. Over the years, many stations were improved, rolling stock renewed and now infrastructure improvements gain momentum. Impressive!
The ringerike line was supposed ti be done in 1986.
Arna - Stanghelle was supposed to be under construction four years ago.
The Bergen line is part of Norway in a nutshell and heavily dependent on tourists.
@@RailCowGirl I agree about the tourists. The updates are fine for commuters, but the Bergen line has always been about the tourists. The old parts should be left with tracks as a heritage line.
@@stormraven4183 Problem is that BaneNOR does not want to use money on maintaining it, and with the new construction planned at Stanghelle, the line would need to be torn up, and won't have any possible connection point to the new line there due to elevation differences.
@@RailCowGirl 🤦
Thanks for this.
What a way to relax after Christmas. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and have a great New Year!
Thank you! You too!
In Portland Oregon, USA, there was an old train line that went through southeast Portland into Milwaukie then curved towards the stockyards of Portland. They turned it into a bike/walking path years ago and it is still in operation today. If you look it up it is called the Springwater Corridor.
Thank you from Vermont, USA. Your videos are always a treat.
Good day to you. Even the reinforcing in the rockface looks like Christmas decorations. Hope you had a good Christmas and hope that you have a happy new year and keep the booze to a minimum. Geoff🎄🏳🌈
Everything is spent at work. lol Happy New Year to you :D
It’s morning here in Southern California, so I plan on watching this in the evening to set the mood…..😉😘❄️🚂
Sounds great! :D
Can not wait to watch this! Happy holidays and and have a great new year.
Спасибо за видео, поздравляю с Рождеством! Работаю слесарем на железной дороге, всегда жду Ваши новые видео! Приятно побывать в кабине локомотива и увидеть всё глазами машиниста, а не через окно пассажирского вагона, сидя в купе. Ещё раз огромное спаибо!
Love your videos. Do you think you could add call outs for the different signal aspects and their meanings?
Example: 20B: Stop
21: Proceed diverging
Awesome i am loving the video watching it on my TV right now to get the most out of the amazing views. 🙂
The videos are for sure the best on a large screen TV :D
@RailCowGirl They so are as a mobile phone does not do them justice. 🙂
Wonderful.
Congratulations that you are back on the Bergen Line ! - Concerning your question I may answer that in some years the double track will be completed between Genova and Ventimiglia, this far away from the coast of the Mediterranean in long tunnels allowed for a high speed traffic, this comparable to the well known mountain railway between Udine and Tarvisio.
Thank you, I guess? :D
That is awesome, looking forward to see more news on that :D
Amazing clear video this night video far surpasses those first video way back... God jul og godt nytt år. May your channel keep on shining.
hahaha! The videos way back was recorded with a 300$ gopro. Videos now are recorded with a 5000$ cinema camera...
@@RailCowGirl That is what I mean, how times have changed. Keep safe and healthy K. 🍮
Love it in 4K it relaxes my mind watching your journeys ❤
Super Vielen lieben dank für‘s reinstellen. 👋🏻
So glad to see you back! Love your videos, especially the night ones.
Hope you have a good New Year.
So thankful for this new one ! All the best for you and you all in 2025
Holiday Greetings from New Jersey, USA!
Thank you for this video. Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy, Prosperous and Safe 2025 to you! 🎄🎅🎁🍾🎆🥂
Same to you :D Happy new Year! :D
Ooh a new video! Thank you!
Yah it is sad that the Arna-Stanghelle new line will be mostly in tunnels, but ultimately it increases the speed the trains can go at, secures the tracks from future flooding and avoids the dangers of a land slide, probably cheaper to do maintenance as well. Personally I’d much prefer if they built double track on the Jærbanen from Sandnes and Nærbø but that will probably never happen 😅
Always nice to join a trip when RailCowGirl drives freight trains
Thanks again!
Glad you got it posted in time. Have a wonderful New Year ❤🎉
Thank you so much!
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Takk 🙏
AMAZING! Thank you!!!
very cool! happy holidays!
It was nice of the driver, of the Oslo-Bergen train, to wave to you at Urdland!
Merry Christmas for everybody from Brazil
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too :D
You had me at moonlit 😊
Wow wow wow what a lucky young lady you are to have this beautiful scenery and call it work! beautifully videod
Happy New Year to you 🥰
When i was in Norway one year ago, there was no train between Bergen and Arna. My trip was from Oslo to Voss and back from there to Myrdal to have some wonderfull days at the Flåm Valley. When there is a bike path in the future, i have to come back with a bike to see the old line again. 😀 Happy New Year to you!!
Happy New year!
So Beautiful there
God jul 😊
A little silver-haired lady calls her neighbor and says:
"Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can't figure out how to get started."
Her neighbor asks, "What is it supposed to be when it's finished?"
The little silver haired lady says, "According to the picture on the box, it's a rooster."
Her neighbor decides to go over and help with the puzzle.
She lets him in and shows him where she has the puzzle spread all over the table.
He studies the pieces for a moment, then looks at the box, then turns to her and says,
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My favorite railways❤😊
The K5 project does lend one to take pause. (reminds me of an old Joni Mitchell song, "They took out the trees and put in a parking lot. You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.".
Nice video. Wish I could ride through all those tunnels. lol
Another expertly made and beautifully shot video of yours! Thanks so much. I also liked the lens change.
Have we ever been stopped in the loop at Trengereid before? I don't recall that. I imagine the loop is in fact the older track bed, as the new straighter route requires the ends of the platform to be in the tunnel itself. As for whether that amount of freight on the west-bound train was worth waiting for .... ! That can't have been a cost-effective journey for that train.
As for the K5 plan .... The world will of course always have your videos of how it was. You could even occasionally become BikeCowGirl and give us trip down memory lane on the old track bed!
As for the impact, I think there are a lot of side-effects. Yes, it is progress and it will allow much faster running, but will it be cost-effective? Will it also hit the tourist traffic? It will remove all of the running alongside the deep fjords, and of the constant little views of how the track hugs the shore, with now and then the glimpses of the much older tunnels to the tracks which were even more precipitously on the very edge of the water.
But tourists don't travel by train to sit in tunnels, so there will be nothing to see. From Stanghelle you will have 3 long tunnels to Bergen, one of them almost twice as long as the Finse one, and that is all the view you will have. Concrete, concrete, concrete!
Of course, that same progress has also affected the central portion of the plateau with the long Finse tunnel. But had that not taken place, the route from 40 years ago was fairly tortuous and slow, and would now probably have entailed almost continuous snow-sheds to protect it, so it wouldn't have been scenic any longer. Maybe foreign visitors won't travel through to Bergen so much, and it will turn Voss into the tourist terminus for the scenic line?
The Finse tunnel is the longest tunnel on the Bergen Line with its 10.300m. No other the Bergen Line exceeds that length :)
But yes, I totally agree. The product Norway in a Nutshell and everything about being a scenic train ride will go down the drain the day K5 is completed. Thankfully it will take an extensive amount of years before it is completed, and I have no faith in it being completed within the next 30 years. LOL
Looks like your favorite pile of gravel is still there at the end of the platfom in Voss!
I Love This Epic New Video ❤❤❤❤
I need to visit Norway now.
Good idea to show the elevation chart above the map
Merry Christmas and happy new year!!!!!!
Hi Devin, Happy new year!
Happy New Year :D
Snow time is back!😃
Nice, i love it.....
Just amazing. The infrastructure amazes me. I have always been fascinated with trains. I'm 61 now. What a beautiful country. I will be retiring in 2028. After watching your videos, I will be making a trip to your country. To Bergen from my home is 13+ hours. I live in the south western suburbs of Chicago. Thanks for what you do.
Merry Xmas to you, MoonFlower
Happy new year to you from Stockholm too......
Wow, very nice, CowGirl!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Super kanał ,oglądam od dawna
Thanks for the video. All the best for 2025🎊
Happy holidays! Be nice if they kept the other route for tourists. Lot of nice scenery and train stations. Are they going to keep the train stations? I always like watching the trains arrive at each station.
I think we're going to see a huge debate on that at some point in the future. part of the old Voss line is maintained by the heritage railway, and I would think it would me natural for them to maybe get the chance to run on what will become the old line in the future as well.
That's the first time I've seen another train in the Finse tunnel. I'm guessing the signaling problem didn't occur until the driver was already inside. Great camera btw. Makes the scenery more visible at night.
For some strange reason, that error usually happens when there is a train waiting there. I have tons of videos where you see a train waiting, or me waiting for other trains in the Finse tunnel :D
Please, when arriving at a station you display the station name, could you also display the general map for a moment, highlighting the station where we are, to better locate us during the journey?
Thank you very much
Norway is dream country
Just got to Bulken for Voss ❤❤❤❤❤