network rail in uk chopped up an 1840's railway bridge. if they had to replace it the least they could do was to remove it in big pieces for re-assembly somewhere else.but they didnt.
Many thanks for your excellent video and equally excellent and precise English! I feel ashamed that my Norwegian is so limited! In June 2024 I visited the Flåm Railway again (last time I visited was in 1972) and again I was impressed by the love the local people have for their special railway. I wish the bridge well in its new life and thanks for sharing the news with the wider community of railway enthusiasts. Best wishes from Rob Bournemouth, in England.
Well done, and like it was said, precise English. I take pride in the fact that if I attempt to speak in another language, I try to do so properly. Travelled through Europe once and discovered my friend and I were using the incorrect greeting in Switzerland. Someone corrected us in a polite way and we were a bit embarrassed.
The sound of my childhood in the 70’s & 80’s… I was lucky to get a cab ride in an EL13 from Larvik to the now closed depot at Lommedalen (Oslo S) mid 90’s. A (same childhood) friend was by then a driver, and the consist was pretty much like the museum one in this video. They kept going until EMUs replaced loco-hauled trains entirely (type 70, 1992 onwards). (Oh, that made feel old… 😂) Many thanks to mr Nyborg for sharing…!
As a native New Yorker, I greatly appreciate enduring architecture and smart engineering. We Americans have a famous structure that opened a few years after your Minnesund Bridge. You might have heard of it.... The Brooklyn Bridge.❤
Hello from UK A superb video, so well explained, and put together, I have been over the bridge, I may now have to try and walk/cycle over it one day. Thank You for sharing this footage
Thank you for posting these historic moments. It is good that the bridge will see further use. It would be nice to see that the station has been kept open for other purposes too. Cheers!
as of December 1st 2024 satellite imagery on google shows the tracks are already gone! can we rent some norwegian engineers to do our rail projects in Canada and the United states? xD great video very informative 👍
New times require new approaches, that's how it is. However, so many lines in Sweden have been closed down and then torned up, but which today would have been excellent for relieving the main lines or constituting alternative routes if needed. Don't do this mistake. Beautiful video though.
143 years? Man you could've fooled me, I work on railways here in Canada and if our bridge structures and tracks looked like that I'd think they just built them recently? What a sad pity this is shutting down!
Wow, I imagined, only steam locomotives had that kind of classical train whistle. Why didn’t they as well continue with that familiar train whistle on even more modern trains? Thanks for the video! RIP Minnesund station btw. too many train stations have been closed down, because of the need of speed, which means some people will no longer take the train, unless they live on a more populated place.
Such whistles are more expensive to build than a macrophone. In addition, there have been tests in Austria to give trains whistles that are difficult to get used to. These are now becoming more and more standard on all new trains throughout Europe!
The El 13 and the older electric locomotives actually had the exact same multi-tone whistle as the large steam locomotives. The difference is that the steam had higher pressure and produced a more hissing sound.
Wonderful video! Thank you, HR. Wouldike to have seen the switch change before the *[:]* signal turned green. So glad thathe bridge will be saved. Wife and I woudove to ride our tandem bicycle on the bridge and railroad right-of way trail.
Nice video. It's sad that no heritage trains won't pass the bridge in the future. Place is so beautiful for trainspotting. I wish to see steam train on the bridge one day... The electric heritage locos look similar like polish EU-07's. ❤
Vintage railway preservation is preferable to a silly bicycle path. We destroyed so much tracks in our country it makes me cry. Please do not do the same.
In my country they build the bycicle paths on the right of way of the line that ehere abandoned, to preserve the right of way, so nobody can build on it. But if you want to reopen the line for regular service, you can't build on the original right of way, becouse the bike path is there. We have about 300km of railway lines that have a cost and use factor of 1.0 or higher (which means they are profitable. But oly one third of them can be rebuild becouse of the bycicle paths. As if the politicians think that more people would use their bycicles there and not the train.
It is a pity that railways are being closed down but trains are being replaced by road transport. Unfortunately. But I do like the idea of re purposing the lines for cycling, walking, horse-riding😊
Call me a nitpicker but I think for a "farewell journey" on a 143 years old bridge a steam locomotive would be more fitting than 60+ yrs old electric one... C'mon, when the bridge was builld, in 1881, there weren't even diesel locos around, right?
So Britain is not the only country to abandoned some of it railway lines and still going on today by government in other countries, We should be saving these lines for future generations and in the name of so call climate change.
tragisk. synd å se den gå ut av drift. får tru de gjør den om til en gangbro eller noe i det minste. hadde vært gøy om de lot skinnene fra stasjonen og over brua stå, for preservasjon. kunne hat en sykkel dresin eller to til å kjøre over.
If you watch the video before commenting, you have the answer. The old single track line was replaced by a dual track high-speed line. You can see the new bridge and tracks in the background in several shots.
The bridge OBVIOUSLY is s till well used so WHY stop using it and removing it's rails? NONE of this makes any sense!!! I thought the Norwegians were smarter than this but maybe I am mistaken.
?? The bridge is going to be used as a pedestrian and cycling bridge Even if it wasn't, and was destined for the scrapheap, at least it is being replaced by more rail infrastructure. Not like the line is closing or anything.
Rail fans are universal in their appreciation of structural history. Bravo guys, this was great!
Beautiful Video! So Glad that the BRIDGE will NOT be demolished! Magnificent structure!
(BRIDGE will NOT be demolished!) So pleased to learn this.
network rail in uk chopped up an 1840's railway bridge. if they had to replace it the least they could do was to remove it in big pieces for re-assembly somewhere else.but they didnt.
@@vsvnrg3263 I don't know about the QUALITY of the demolished BRIDGE? Some parts MIGHT have been SUPERIOR to some of today's stuff???
Many thanks for your excellent video and equally excellent and precise English! I feel ashamed that my Norwegian is so limited! In June 2024 I visited the Flåm Railway again (last time I visited was in 1972) and again I was impressed by the love the local people have for their special railway. I wish the bridge well in its new life and thanks for sharing the news with the wider community of railway enthusiasts. Best wishes from Rob Bournemouth, in England.
Well done, and like it was said, precise English. I take pride in the fact that if I attempt to speak in another language, I try to do so properly. Travelled through Europe once and discovered my friend and I were using the incorrect greeting in Switzerland. Someone corrected us in a polite way and we were a bit embarrassed.
Very enjoyable. The whistle on the loco was a lovely sound.
The sound of my childhood in the 70’s & 80’s…
I was lucky to get a cab ride in an EL13 from Larvik to the now closed depot at Lommedalen (Oslo S) mid 90’s. A (same childhood) friend was by then a driver, and the consist was pretty much like the museum one in this video. They kept going until EMUs replaced loco-hauled trains entirely (type 70, 1992 onwards).
(Oh, that made feel old… 😂) Many thanks to mr Nyborg for sharing…!
Will the bridge be re-used as a hiking track/footpath or similar?
Found answer in other posts!
That bridge was built sturdy and faithfully maintained, no small thing in an era of cost-cutting and neglect for neglect's sake.
Beautiful bridge---may it stand forever! Thanks for this outstanding video.
That's a handsome old bridge - thanks for sharing the moment
I am glad the bridge will be preserved and re-purposed. It would have been a pity to dismantle it.
Great coverage of the trains passing over this beautiful old bridge! Well done!
Great footage of a very beautiful bridge. Fantastic, letting the bridge live as a "lightweight traffic" bridge.
T U of course.
Cool. I am a big fan of railway bridges
Tusen takk for det!
As a native New Yorker, I greatly appreciate enduring architecture and smart engineering. We Americans have a famous structure that opened a few years after your Minnesund Bridge. You might have heard of it.... The Brooklyn Bridge.❤
Hello from UK
A superb video, so well explained, and put together, I have been over the bridge, I may now have to try and walk/cycle over it one day.
Thank You for sharing this footage
It is nice to see rail cars that are clean and without children painting the sides, like in the states.
Their is a bridge in new delhi known as the old yamuna bridge which is a road cum rail bridge, its 158 yrs old and is still in operation.......
Great video. I must have travelled over that bridge many years ago, but it was dark and very snowy and I didn’t appreciate the bridge.
Very interesting video. I’m glad the original bridge will not be torn down. The history of it is spectacular.
That bridge has certainly paid for itself many times over.
Thank you for posting these historic moments. It is good that the bridge will see further use. It would be nice to see that the station has been kept open for other purposes too. Cheers!
Lovely little documentary!
The museum train brought back memories of travelling on this line in 1972.
What a great video and commentary - thanks for sharing :)
Beautiful camera work!
Beautiful location.
as of December 1st 2024 satellite imagery on google shows the tracks are already gone! can we rent some norwegian engineers to do our rail projects in Canada and the United states? xD great video very informative 👍
New times require new approaches, that's how it is. However, so many lines in Sweden have been closed down and then torned up, but which today would have been excellent for relieving the main lines or constituting alternative routes if needed. Don't do this mistake. Beautiful video though.
i was just going to ask about the bridge being used as a bike path. glad that the country had some good thinking
Fantastic video and catches
143 years? Man you could've fooled me, I work on railways here in Canada and if our bridge structures and tracks looked like that I'd think they just built them recently? What a sad pity this is shutting down!
Excellent video. Great tribute.
Well designed and maintained bridge only made obsolete by track and curve limiting speed of trains.
Good progress all round. Happy retirement for the bridge!
Surprised bridge survived WW2 era
Wow, I imagined, only steam locomotives had that kind of classical train whistle. Why didn’t they as well continue with that familiar train whistle on even more modern trains? Thanks for the video! RIP Minnesund station btw. too many train stations have been closed down, because of the need of speed, which means some people will no longer take the train, unless they live on a more populated place.
Such whistles are more expensive to build than a macrophone. In addition, there have been tests in Austria to give trains whistles that are difficult to get used to. These are now becoming more and more standard on all new trains throughout Europe!
The El 13 and the older electric locomotives actually had the exact same multi-tone whistle as the large steam locomotives. The difference is that the steam had higher pressure and produced a more hissing sound.
Beautiful video!
Many thanks to the bridge for his job and best wishes for quiet a retirement !! 🙂
I knew that Norway has fjords, but I never knew that lakes could be such a challenge to railway designers!
Really makes sense on google maps. The old bridge was a serious bottleneck. Although beautiful ❤
A great video, thank you. And yes, it was "mournful".
Wonderful video! Thank you, HR. Wouldike to have seen the switch change before the *[:]* signal turned green. So glad thathe bridge will be saved. Wife and I woudove to ride our tandem bicycle on the bridge and railroad right-of way trail.
That bridge has earned its retirement for sure. Very good video
How terribly depressing. It is a beautiful bridge. I'm glad it isn't being destroyed, but without trains, it just won't ever be the same.
Hello from Kansas 🇺🇲
End of an era. Bit sad, but at least the bridge will be a monument to the past.
Nice video. It's sad that no heritage trains won't pass the bridge in the future. Place is so beautiful for trainspotting. I wish to see steam train on the bridge one day...
The electric heritage locos look similar like polish EU-07's. ❤
I love those E13 whistles! Sound like South African steam locos.
Le futur est-il toujours meilleur que le passé ? On peut souvent en douter .
Vintage railway preservation is preferable to a silly bicycle path. We destroyed so much tracks in our country it makes me cry. Please do not do the same.
In my country they build the bycicle paths on the right of way of the line that ehere abandoned, to preserve the right of way, so nobody can build on it. But if you want to reopen the line for regular service, you can't build on the original right of way, becouse the bike path is there. We have about 300km of railway lines that have a cost and use factor of 1.0 or higher (which means they are profitable. But oly one third of them can be rebuild becouse of the bycicle paths. As if the politicians think that more people would use their bycicles there and not the train.
It is a pity that railways are being closed down but trains are being replaced by road transport. Unfortunately. But I do like the idea of re purposing the lines for cycling, walking, horse-riding😊
Det var en litt vemodig dag.
Surprised it lasted through WW2, they pretty much destroyed every bridge in Europe during that war 😮
Sikken en fin bro.
Sad that this bridg is being closed, will they tear it down?
No, it's going to be turned into a bike and pedestrian bridge. :)
That’s nice, then we can still experience it
@@kristenburnout1 I was MOST pleased to hear that the bridge will ENDURE!
Will they build a new bridge beside the old one so trains could still use the line?
He mentions that the high-speed rail line bridge is visible in the background
Like , comment and share please. 🎉
Call me a nitpicker but I think for a "farewell journey" on a 143 years old bridge a steam locomotive would be more fitting than 60+ yrs old electric one... C'mon, when the bridge was builld, in 1881, there weren't even diesel locos around, right?
Do they not want to maintain it, or is it needing that much time and money to bring it up a modern state.
So Britain is not the only country to abandoned some of it railway lines and still going on today by government in other countries, We should be saving these lines for future generations and in the name of so call climate change.
I love the combination of English and Norwegian being spoken. "Class one five - ni (nine in Norwegian)" 😁😂
It was a small slip. :)
@@harrikolanrailways9829 It was charming. Everything doesn't have to be perfect English when it is not your first language.
I was on a last train over a bridge, but that was because a homeless man set it on fire (we think by accident).
Nyborg the Cyborg
Will houses be built on the line
very sad!
So did a Norwegian name our US State "Minnesota"?
Gangbro
tragisk. synd å se den gå ut av drift. får tru de gjør den om til en gangbro eller noe i det minste. hadde vært gøy om de lot skinnene fra stasjonen og over brua stå, for preservasjon. kunne hat en sykkel dresin eller to til å kjøre over.
Den er blitt en del av Mjøstråkk nå, så du kan sykle over.
Why? Whats replacing it? Such a shocking waste!
If you watch the video before commenting, you have the answer. The old single track line was replaced by a dual track high-speed line. You can see the new bridge and tracks in the background in several shots.
it's called improving and upgrading the network ...
@@sjokomelk Yes, I noticed that, but I would assume only fast high speed expresses would use that line. Where are the local services going to go?
The bridge OBVIOUSLY is s till well used so WHY stop using it and removing it's rails? NONE of this makes any sense!!! I thought the Norwegians were smarter than this but maybe I am mistaken.
Where is the traffic being diverted?
The new parallel high-speed railway under construction, which is also visible in the video.
How sad and what a waste of good natural resources.
?? The bridge is going to be used as a pedestrian and cycling bridge
Even if it wasn't, and was destined for the scrapheap, at least it is being replaced by more rail infrastructure. Not like the line is closing or anything.
how is it a waste of ressources?