Description: The Bergen Railway Line (Norwegian: Bergensbanen), also called the Bergen Railway, is a 496 kilometres (308 miles) standard gauge railway line in Norway between Bergen and Oslo. It is the highest mainline railway line in Northern Europe, crossing the Hardangervidda plateau at 1.237 metres (4,060 feet) above sea level. The 100 year old (2009) Bergen Line is considered one of the most exciting and beautiful train rides in the world.
This tour/collection also include "The Flåm Line" from Flåm to Myrdal, a station on the Bergen Line. The Flåm railway is considered one of the 10 most spectacular train journeys in the World. The train journey provides some of Norway's wildest and most magnificent scenery. On the 20-kilometre long train ride you can see rivers that cut through deep ravines, waterfalls cascade down the side of steep, snow-capped mountains and mountain farms that cling dizzily to sheer slopes. The Flåm Railway is one of the world's steepest railway lines on normal gauge. The gradient is 55/1000 on almost 80% of the line. An average gradient of 4,5 %. The twisting tunnels that spiral in and out of the mountain are manifestations of the most daring and skilful engineering in Norwegian railway history.
The longest documentary ever?! At least the longest Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) have made. More than 7 hours, showing every minute of the scenic train ride between Bergen on the Norwegian west coast, crossing the mountains to the capital of Oslo.
Allmost every placemark in this "The Bergen Line" railway tour has references to elapsed time (h:mm:ss BBNRK) in this documentary so you easy can locate the filmed area of any GE placemark in this collection.
Download The Bergen Line (Bergensbanen) documentary in HD (22,5 GB) from http://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/18/bergensbanen-eng/
A 10 minutes preview is available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql2qXpNVTjw
Tour creator: Tom Kjeldsen, created december 2009. Recommended to be viewed as a 'Play tour' in Google Earth with terrain feature enabled. |
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