+Richard Gerlach ETCS is a pretty awesome signalling system. Not quite the cotten-insulated 1930's interlocks on the NYC subway :).

I'm not sure that this section has ETCS yet, I think its on the section north of Erstfeld as far as Brunnen. When this video was recorded this section was standard SBB signalling, although, of course, it is a significantly more complicated system than is found in countries such as Britain and the USA.

Indeed, one of the great European railway journeys

Merci Christian. J'ai une photo de moi debout à côté de la locomotive mais je n'ai pas pensé à l'inclure dans la vidéo. Mes excuses.

@@dixiedean1955 Etre aux commandes d'un train de marchandises de 1600 tonnes fait rêver les modélistes comme moi aux commandes de mon Ae 610 à l'échelle 1/87 éme 😁.

Glad you and Cornel liked it. It was an awesome day!

Dixie Dean Thanks for letting us join the ride - though just by video but onboard anyway :-D

It was indeed a great day. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

It's great isn't it. If only GBRf or Colas or DRS would offer cab rides in their old electrics, I would be signing up straight away for a ride.

+Dixie Dean Used to have "people up front" quite a lot years ago when a motorman for the old Southern Region. Nowadays you'd get shot for even having the Guard come and natter to pass the time, thanks to PC elf'n'safety nazis. Many happy memories of the old 2HAPs on the Ore-Brightons, and the old 63 CIGs, the prototype CEPs, etc. All gone now and replaced by souless, computer controlled, plastic crap that doesn't even sound nice, let alone run as reliably as our oldies did. The last units hereabouts that sound nice with their DC motors are the 313s, 319s, and of course the Wessexes with their old EE546 motors from the REPs. We don't get 455's down here with their EE507 motors alas.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks, Christian, glad you enjoyed it 👍

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it

I'm not sure, but I'll ask around some experts and see if they know.

Apparently its the compressor.

Ok, thank you!

Not really, the tickering is the tachometer, the clonk-sounds is the tap-changer delivering electricity to the engines. Thanks for the great video!

Well, thats interesting! Some old South African Trains also made that clicking noise, just more randomly during the trips, and it was the spirax-valves that (I believe) spitted short bursts of air and moisture out of the brake pipes and main reservoir. Yet again, regards, from South Africa.

heureux que vous l'ayez apprécié Pascal

Because the first railways in Switzerland were built by the British.

So that is the reason .............silly of me !!!! , I should have guessed it by myself . Thanks for your speedy response Dixie , it is much appreciated .

I'm going to assume your enquiry is genuine - it means "journey with the driver" in German. Although, I must admit that if my wife or I have wind when driving on the continent, we always look sheepish at each other and say "Ausfahrt" which actually is what you see on the sign for an exit on the motorway/freeway.

Sorry, but it was in the days of small SD cards and my card ran out!