Driver’s Eye View - Čierny Hron Railway (Slovakia)

Driver’s Eye View - Čierny Hron Railway (Slovakia) - Čierny Balog to Vydrovo

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5 жыл бұрын

Enjoy a forward facing view along the steeply graded Vydrovska Valley branch of the Čierny Hron Railway to Vydrovo. The driver kindly allowed me to attach a camera to a hand rail near the front of the engine, affording a view not normally available to passengers as the train leaves Čierny Balog station to run next to the road, at times through the gardens of the houses lining the route, before eventually gaining its own right of way to tackle the steep climb to Vydrovo. The camera was left in place for staged photographic run-pasts as well as the run back down the valley.
To learn more about this fascinating railway in its heyday please click on this link and select “translate” to read it in English - www.chz.sk/sk/chz/historia-chld/
Track gauge 760 mm (2 ft 5 15⁄16 in) - Original video taken on 30th June 2018. Tour organised by
RTC (Railway Touring Company).

Пікірлер: 45

@evacervenova1736 5 жыл бұрын

hello tim, again great video, I'm glad you show the world what beautiful and picturesque is Slovakia, thank you (again translation through google translator)

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

Hello Eva, you are lucky to live in such a beautiful country. I am glad you enjoyed this wonderful little railway. Tim.

@johannperaus6890 5 жыл бұрын

Hello Tim! A fine video. Super sound from this machine. That is music in my ears. 🚂 Greetings from Hans from the Mühlviertel.👍👍👍

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

Hello Johann, I'm pleased you enjoyed the sound made by the little locomotive. Tim.

@afrocelticfamily9017 5 жыл бұрын

Nice video . Thanks for posting. Greetings. From BOSTON. U.S.A

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

Hi from the UK, I'm glad you enjoyed this wonderful little Slovakian railway adventure.

@BorisLu 5 жыл бұрын

Super video!

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@vb8259 4 жыл бұрын

Super!

@Timsvideochannel1 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

@janpf0624 5 жыл бұрын

Hi, Tim. So many thanks for uploading all Your videos about beautiful landscapes of my country. Very inspiring and exciting. A few years ago (about 2002) I bought one VHS tape about ČHŽ and after my household moving I left it boxed in an old house used as "garbage garage", I guess it is broken...

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Jan, I am pleased you enjoy these videos, sorry to hear you lost your old VHS Tape. I will upload my next video showing railways in Slovakia at the weekend.

@PraveenVas 5 жыл бұрын

Nice Video.

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@davidbrown847 5 жыл бұрын

Tim liked it a lot filed in my favourites 😊

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed it

@imir8atu321 5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful...

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

I'm pleased you enjoyed it.

@chucksandos8939 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Tim! Very well, I glad to continue this travel by you on this best steam train. I use your camera as "virtual eyes" or huge periscope to watching the world. And your good work to shoots the movies is help me, because today I cannot going to long travels, alas!.. Thank you very much! One question of: I understadn't whai is so strange 'evolution' does the locomotive between 14:24+ and 19:30 on this railway? /I mean the loco two times returns, and lter too... So I is terrible curious man to old age, hahaha. And I will not rest until I understand. :-)/

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

The train preformed a photographic run by for the benefit of the tour participants. The train ran past the station where all those wanting to take photographs, including myself got off. The train ran back down the hill, so that if could steam back uphill past the photographers, it then reversed back to where we had all got off to pick us up again before continuing onto the end of the line. I hope that explains it. Tim.

@chucksandos8939 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I understand now. Sure, on the railway stuff is good guys! :-)

@neilforbes416 5 жыл бұрын

@ 35:59 Gasp! Ghosts!!! I just saw two people fade away before my very eyes! LOL(Just kiddin'! Nice use of fade transition there!).

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

Victims of a video transition, I can make people appear as well :-)

@neilforbes416 5 жыл бұрын

I use the effect to bring myself into or take myself out of shot when doing my "piece to camera". For indoor shots a simple fade, for outdoor shots I use Threshold 1 or 2. Cheers!

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

I've seen it in your videos, it works well.

@neilforbes416 5 жыл бұрын

Cheers & Thanks! I've found the threshold effect to work better with outdoor shots and a simple fade for indoor. I tried threshold on indoor shots and found it caused mild discolouration to the backdrop. This I've learned though a bit of experimentation.

@pavoldatko8805 5 жыл бұрын

Sehr schone Landchaft und CHZ.

@neilforbes416 5 жыл бұрын

At 8:51, I guess the old loco needed a moment to "get her breath back"(pick up some steam). I had to wait a day or two before watching this as I was almost out of data reserve(I was down to my last few gigabytes of my August allocation and had to wait for midnight, 1st September to get my new 50Gb allocation).

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Neil, we stopped at 8:51 to pick up some photographers. I found the internet strange in Australia, when I was last there it was expensive to use and very limited in the hotels we stayed in. I am used to fibre optic unlimited internet in my home for a reasonable price and it is free in most cafes, public buildings and hotels throughout the world. Internet TV is overtaking terrestrial and satellite TV in most of Europe, with the likes of Virgin, Netflix, BT and later Sky subscribers all receiving their TV via the phone line. It is just some rural villages now that don't have hi-speed internet in the UK.

@gardnersmith3580 5 жыл бұрын

End of Track 28:33. Clearly it went further at one time. I would paint that log red or yellow or something. Any chance they might extend the line?

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm not sure what the future holds, I believe most of their effort is going into maintaining the track that is there, some of which was closed on our visit because it had below the required standards to run passenger trains. Please click on this link to learn more, there is a translate button for an English version - www.chz.sk/sk/chz/historia-chld/

@alexnagy4043 5 жыл бұрын

Vydrovo konečná is the same as Vydrovo Obrubovanská?

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vydrovo_(dolina) This article gives the impression they are the same.

@gardnersmith3580 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tim. What is this thing? 41:35

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm glad you enjoyed it. The thing at 41:35 was a piece of artwork, the valley was a sort of nature park, with a mixture of forestry artifacts, art pieces and the odd bit of redundant military hardware.

@gardnersmith3580 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I was guessing it was the Czech version of the Russian Woodpecker antenna.

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

I had to look that one up - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar - I'm pretty sure it was just artwork.

@gardnersmith3580 5 жыл бұрын

I'm sure you are right.I was just being bratty. There are some excellent KZfaq videos on Duga, including a delightful Russian gal climbing up the antenna.

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

I think I found the video you referred to, that is a massive structure, the girl was really brave climbing up part of it - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZtKPZ8mrr9zDmWQ.html

@gardnersmith3580 5 жыл бұрын

The quick switch 48:12

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

I think he was in a hurry to clear the road for the regular train.

@keeszuidema 5 жыл бұрын

Welk land is dit?

@Timsvideochannel1 5 жыл бұрын

Hoi, dit is Slowakije, heb ik de titel veranderd om het land op te nemen. - Google Translate - Hi, this is Slovakia, I have changed the title to include the country.