Transalpina Railway - Part 2 - Steam in Slovenia, including driver’s eye views

[@mickcarson8504]

Slovenia, such beautiful country. Just like Italy in 1961 where I stood by the train window and watching the scenery go by.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Slovenia has a border with Italy and the scenery could easily be mistaken for parts of Northern Italy. I love to sit by a train window watching the ever-changing world go by.

[@wallymartin3961]

What a wonderful trip! Thank you. You're at the top of the list of all the train videos I've seen on the tube. I'm a retired railroader so I see a lot of them. Thank you again.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Thank you, I really appreciate your comment, especially coming from a railroader who has watched a lot You Tube videos.

[@anml4676]

What a beautiful country, thanks for this.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Slovenia rivals New Zealand and Switzerland for natural beauty, It's one of the most scenic rail routes I have had the pleasure to travel.

[@robertcoleman4861]

Another great vid in a beautiful country,Love the wonderful stone bridges and the lovely villages and that well kept engine well done tim it's one of your best cheer's bob.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi Robert, I'm glad you enjoyed it. This is a regular scheduled train, popular with locals and tourists alike. It makes good use of an otherwise lightly used line that passes through some truly outstanding scenery. The locomotives used on this train belong to the Slovenian Railway Museum in Ljubljana.

[@robertcoleman4861]

Thanks tim cheers bob.

[@scottsinclair2201]

Tim, you have outdone yourself this time....trains AND jazz in the same video!?!?!?! Crickey, mate, I haven't heard "When The Saints Go Marchin' In" done so well since New Orleans!! I watched both episodes back to back and loved them both, as always. You take me places I will never see. I am flying over this part of the world in Flight Simulator and it is good to see what it looks like from a lower altitude. Thanks for creating and sharing, much appreciated; and please, keep em coming!!

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hello Scott, it's good to know you enjoyed it. This trip was a real treat, it had the lot, a beautifully restored train, great scenery, fine weather and good entertainment. As I edited the film, I followed the route on Google Earth, it looks even better from above with all the mountains, tunnels, bridges and lakes. I am looking forward to editing and uploading more videos from this trip around many of the countries that made up the former Yugoslavia.

[@ADMIRALSCORNER]

Your videos are so good it is becoming a problem to find new words of appreciation Tim! So well done!

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Thank you, your comment is really appreciated This was only the first day of an intriguing trip to the former Yugoslavia in search of working steam.

[@jamesrusso266]

Great job on the videos, Tim. They are better than many professional videos I've seen. We loved this trip and enjoyed traveling with you on it. Hope to travel with you again on some future RTC trip!

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi James, your comment is appreciated. This was an outstanding trip, made even better by a great bunch of traveling companions. Needless to say I have plenty of video to upload over the next few months as time permits. We are currently enjoying amazing weather and couldn't resist visiting some of the Welsh narrow gauge railways over the last 5 days, where the railway staff on all the lines visited were incredibly helpful, helping me obtain some really interesting footage. I will try to upload some of them in the next week or so. I will be traveling with RTC again next year, so there is a good chance we may meet again. Tim.

[@PriestmanCub]

That's one awesome big locomotive, great trip, really enjoyed your video.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed, it really was a trip to remember.

[@peterscandlyn]

Another wonderful video, Tim. What a great experience this must have been.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Thank you, it was a wonderful experience, especially riding on the footplate though long tunnels on the return trip.

[@VuNguyen-mh4oo]

TIMS,TOP NOTCH VIDEO! Many thanks.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Thank you. I really appreciate your comment.

[@chucksandos8939]

Very good video, nice country and best turistical organisation on trip. Many thanks!

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@sasha642]

Outstanding video Than You very much

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Thank you William, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@TDIMAXDIESEL]

beautiful landscape and video !!!

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Thank you, Slovenia is very scenic.

[@gunner-pm7jh]

i never seen before beside the bridge a castle with multiple machinegun emplacements! :D thats why i got shivers!

[@Timsvideochannel1]

This part of the world has known turbulent times, some people have lived in three countries without moving home because the borders changed after WW2 and again more recently when the former Yugoslavia was broken up.

[@krisiicc14]

This is real fanttastic,Tim.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@markoobid2005]

Hey, I was on this ride too - speaking on microphone on the train! Nice to see it filmed :) It was on the 3rd of June. And the "departure" of the train at the end isn't an actual departure - it was just a "photo ride", one of three done that afternoon for photographers.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hello Marko, this video was taken on 3rd of June. I was travelling with the "Railway Touring Company" on their "Steam in the former Yugoslavia" tour. I enjoy the false departures as it is often the only chance to see the train from the line-side. The engine and train looked superb, a real credit to the people who look after them. The weather was kind, the entertainment was fun, the train crew were very helpful, all told it was a very good experience.

[@TerryMcGearyScotland]

That was fun and interesting simulteously. Thanks for sharing! I am looking forward to going to Slovenia in a few months time. I will definately add a KZbin of my trip to my channel!

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi Terry, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Slovenia is a beautiful place, I really hope you enjoy your visit and I'll keep an eye out for your You Tube video.

[@johne5854]

Great video with stunning scenery. I'm astounded the authorities allow that 140 ton loco to stand stationary on that old viaduct. Amazing.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I think the viaduct was stronger than it looked.

[@josephstalin7995]

It's an enormously strong viaduct.

[@FredNurk]

Thanks Tim for going to Slovenia. Look most agreeable lot of Baulks. Looks like they are trying hard to get their act together.

[@StageParades]

Another beautiful video, interesting to read your reply to Roy, such a shame this country is less accommodating. Thank you so much Tim, love your edits and overall work. Steve ps That river after Plave at around 19:27 looked so BLUE and clean.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi Steve, I'm pleased you enjoyed it. My local trains are operated by Southern and with the ongoing industrial unrest, now is not the best time to seek permission to cover some of their routes. Hopefully when things settle down they may take a more positive view and allow me to cover two of my regular routes - Southampton to London Victoria and Portsmouth Harbour to Brighton. It would be nice to add in some of the places that can be visited by rail, such as the Navy Dockyard, Gunwharfe Quays, Bosham, Fishbourne Roman Palace, The Lanes in Brighton, Arundel Castle. I meet many foreign tourists who would love to visit some of these places by public transport, but they simply don't know how to get to them.

[@StageParades]

Cheers Tim, here's hoping things do indeed settle down and we get to see more interesting places in the UK. Someone, I think it was Hastings Diesels posted some interested stuff in your area which was another good watch. All I'll say is keep 'em coming. With best wishes, Steve

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi Steve, out of interest I googled "Cab ride with Hastings Diesel" and found a number of their videos such as this one - kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHLReKmpf9iVatk .There are a few Southern drivers who post cab videos to You Tube so we are not totally deprived. I am really looking forward to being able to use the train to visit my daughter in London again without the constant fear of disruption or as happened to my mother, being left stranded at Gatwick on one occasion. I have plenty a material to edit and upload to You Tube, just need to find enough time. Best wishes. Tim.

[@StageParades]

May have missed the post here, so will watch it while listening to some of our Stage Parades music. Have a long track about 10:50, let me know if you ever need some music for your stills at the end of a video and will gladly sent it to you to use copyright free. Been touring in Sussex and the south of France, Monte Carlo into San Remo and Genoa of late, what a wonderful place that looks.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi Steve, I have just enjoyed listening to some of your music tracks and accompanying slide shows. It is very kind of you offer to allow me to use your music. Did you ever hear a track by the Moody Blues that sounded like a train accelerating (the name of the track escapes me for the moment). It is a piece that I have often wanted to use, but for copyright reasons it's not possible. Are there any tracks in your catalog with a similar sound? Are the photos used in the montages accompanying your music all taken by you? Sussex is a beautiful county and I'm only too pleased to be able to call it home. Genoa is an interesting city, but I have yet to cover the South of France. Does looking at a photograph inspire your music, I love old photos of people who are no longer with us, especially workmen wearing hats that denote their position in society, I often wonder what they are saying and thinking.

[@pega17pl]

Hi Tim,.every Balkan trip by you and your wife (I hope) means discovery of beautiful green sceneries not expected at Balkan. (Maybe old West European view.)- Heinz

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hello Heinz, the former East European countries are nothing like the former communist countries I learned about at school, instead they a brightly coloured, with pretty villages, the scenery is wonderful, the rivers are so clean you can drink from them, the people are friendly and the history is fascinating. I have learned a lot about Europe as a whole, the Austro Hungarian empire, the Balkan wars, the Ottoman Empire, WW1, WW2 and the break up of the former Yugoslavia. All these wars and boundary changes have influenced the railway map of Europe. There is a saying in the UK "history repeats itself", all Empires fall eventually. I wish politicians would study history instead of politics, maybe they could learn something worthwhile.

[@MihaSinkovec1981]

A great video! And the route itself, besides being one of the most scenic routes, is an interesting part of history. It's a part of the route connecting Prague to Trieste. The 156 km (97 miles) of track connecting Jesenice to Gorica and further to Trieste was built in only 6 years and it has 65 bridges (among them Solkan bridge, which is nicely seen in the video), 5 galleries and 28 tunnels, of which the longest is 6.3 km (3.9 miles) in length. Considering it was built from 1900 to 1906 with the then available technology and around 15,000 men working on the project I think it puts many of today's engineering projects to shame.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi, thanks for the brief outline covering the building of the line. The railway is an engineering marvel, built before concrete and machinery made life a lot easier, one of the things that struck me was the high quality stonework, clearly the work of craftsmen who took great care to do a good job. The surveyors didn't have the sophisticated instruments available today, they had to scale the hills on foot or horse back to survey the tunnels, most of which were curved. It took clever men to work out the maths required to make tunnels started at both ends meet in the middle.

[@MihaSinkovec1981]

The stonework fascinates me as well. It's typical of Slovene railroads of the Austro-Hungarian era (and I imagine it's much the same in all of the countries of the former A-H Empire).

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Railways completed much later, such as the one to Bar in Montenegro, make far more use of concrete. Concrete might be more practical, but it is not as aesthetically pleasing as stone.

[@Bruno.Trains]

Nice Video I'L Love Slovania mountains Payisage !!

[@Timsvideochannel1]

It's a beautiful place, similar in many ways to the railways you feature from the French Alps on your channel.

[@MrPeerum]

Ha tim,that was amazing the ride.nice view there.thanks again.greetz:Peerke.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi, Slovenia is a very beautiful country and riding this vintage train has to be one of the ways to see it.

[@atlanticcoastexpress]

Superb Tim...thank you! It's a shame that Slovenian Railways suffers from the ever present defacing spray painting by vandals. It certainly wasn't a problem when I visited in the early 1970s and you can probably guess why! (Even photography was considered a 'Strategic Crime' in those days but ever-friendly railwaymen mostly tolerated our cameras even then). Wonderful scenery, great railway trip and excellent videography. Rob.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Graffiti seems to be the scourge of modern European railways today. I bet it interesting in the 70's with a good deal of the narrow gauge network still open. I visited in the 80's and traveled from Pula to Ljubljana by rail. The railwaymen are still friendly and very helpful, they enjoyed the steam trains as much as we did.

[@anunggaming]

Amazing!

[@florianstohr1235]

Voe 10 Jahren oder so, bin ich dort auch unterwegs gewesen. Eine wunderbare Landschaft :-)

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Es ist ein schöner Ort.

[@erranteize]

Quiero ir a vivir a Eslovenia!!! Maravilloso el paisaje absolutamente verde. Aunque imagino que así también debe llover, cosa que tanto no me gusta, es de una belleza excepcional. Me gustaría que suban más paisajes de Eslovenia. Muchas gracias.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Eslovenia es uno de los lugares más hermosos que he visto, tan verde y limpio. Haga clic en este enlace para ver algunas fotos más increíbles de Eslovenia - www.pxleyes.com/blog/2012/02/the-beauty-of-slovenia-presented-in-50-beautiful-photos/

[@josephstalin7995]

Soy Esloveno y Ruso. Gracias por decir que te gusta Eslovenia. Perdoname por mi Español fatal. :)

[@petersmith6903]

Second one very good enjoyable

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Cheers, I'm glad you liked it.

[@bob18fan29]

Wonderful Yid!!! Such beautiful scenery! Steam beats Amtrac on some East coast routes!

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I must visit the American East Coast one day.

[@itloon]

Hi Tim. What a well made video (pt1 & pt.2). My own guess of what I was about to see in your videos is always wrong - seems to be UK that buildings etc deteriorate to a point of needing replaced, while European countries seem to preserve things. Thanks for the trip. Alan.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi Alan, I'm glad you enjoyed it. The history of this part of the world is fascinating, some people have lived in Italy, Austria, Yugoslavia and now Slovenia without moving from their home. All this change is reflected in the architecture, the language and the names of the towns and villages. The first time I visited, Bled was in Yugoslavia and a lot of towns had two names one Italian and another Yugoslavian. Many towns and cities were destroyed in WW2, in mainland Europe most of the building were rebuilt as they were before being damaged, whereas in Britain many were demolished and replaced with modern buildings, this is probably the reason Mainland European towns look to have been well preserved. Thanks for joining me on this trip. Tim.

[@trevordeane3940]

An excellent video Tim. I loved the background music. How long is this railway, I know the original line went from the Austrian border to the Adriatic coast but believe it is shorter now? Looks like a nice trip to go on in the summer when the trains are running and they seem like a friendly bunch of people running it. Is it best to contact ABC tourism in Slovenia to find out when they reopen?

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi, I believe the railway still runs to the Adriatic coast, although the only passenger train that crossed the border at the time I made this trip was a motor-rail train carrying cars and accompanying passengers. The train I was on is referrer to as the museum train, it runs to a timetable and tickets can be purchased from stations along the route. For more information, please click on this link - www.culture.si/en/Transalpina_-_the_Bohinj_Railway

[@borderreiver3288]

that huge single span stone bridge is amazing as is the other one nearby and must be great to bungee jump off it....that is one big steam engine with ten driving wheels...what equipment do you use...

[@chankarathilmathewshaji5906]

Normally how many boggies wil be there

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi this is a museum train that runs during the summer months for tourists to ride. The train we were travelling on can be seen at 31:44, it was made up of one locomotive and seven carriages.

[@chankarathilmathewshaji5906]

Thanks for information i am going to watch now here 8.52 pm

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

I wonder if that man in the funny clothes was meant to be either the Pied Piper or Pinnochio? (sp?) The hat and boots incline me to think of the latter rather than the former. Fun Fact #1: The author of the story of Pinnochio tried his best to make the puppet-boy as unlikeable as possible, embodying in him every reprehensible trait the author could dredge up. Fun Fact #2: The original story didn't end with Pinnochio becoming a real boy, but with him left hanging from a rope around his neck from a tree after having been tricked (again) by some scoundrels, due to his own bad judgement. Fun Fact #3: Pinnochio squashed the cricket who was supposed to act as his conscience because he found it annoying.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

I'm not sure what the significance of court jester was, I thought it was a woman, but now you've sowed the seeds of doubt. I think they were playing "when the saints come marching in" but it was so out of tune I could well be wrong. My local football team is "Southampton" the "Saints" to their fans, synonymous with "Oh when the Saints come marching in". It is most likely that their performance had something to do with local Fairy-tales, myths and legends, but then again they were so random, they could have been advertising the local fish and chip shop. They certainly added something different to the day. I enjoyed the Fun facts, I was not aware of any of them, Walt Disney were a bit economical with truth in their version, my kids enjoyed watching it at the cinema a longtime ago, the cinema is now a Bingo Hall.

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

@@Timsvideochannel1 I was mostly looking at the clothing so it could very well be a woman. That would be consistent with it being Pinnochio who is being represented, since a woman has a higher voice than a man and the character being represented is supposed to be a young boy (albeit a puppet boy). I saw a similar costume being used in a live-action film version of Pinnochio so I'm fairly sure that's who the actor was representing as.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

@@melkiorwiseman5234 Thanks for the information about Pinnochio, it made interesting reading.

[@chankarathilmathewshaji5906]

Hai

[@Timsvideochannel1]

:-)

[@rolandgonzales3343]

Every time something cool comes up like motorbikes beside the train or going over a lake on a bridge it gets cutoff like a computer program was used on auto. I can't support that reedit!!!!

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi, sorry about that, early GoPro cameras suffered from the jello effect, the latest offerings can deal with the vibration, it would be nice if I or someone else posted a full length drivers eye view of this line using the latest Gopro camera.

[@br39161]

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