You've somehow made me desperately want to go and do all the things I found horrifically boring as a child when my parents took me on holidays. Your curiosity is infectious.

Big mistake to leave the tram, the route along the seaside is beautiful.

My 6 year old LOVES this video. He said, and I quote, "Mommy, he should have taken the tram. Not, climb the silly mountain." So, there you have it, from the mouths a babe.

Love those rail cars, from the wood panels and convertible seats to the little platforms on either end for people who like standing in the breeze. Nice thing about electric trains is that they don't care if they have to spend five minutes in a tunnel, the worst emissions are from the passengers.

When I was little, that train didnt need aircon because it was so open, the only thing stopping you from falling was a chain, I nearly fell out

German tourists. German tourists everywhere.

Looks like the island of sodor with Toby as the lead instead of Thomas.

in chicago on the rapid transit (up high) we had seats that could be changed by the conductor when it was time to return.

You mentioned the balcony. In Dutch at least, this bit was actually called a balcony - and to this day, the area where you board/alight a train is _still_ referred to as the balcony, even though it doesn’t remotely resemble one any more.

Damn! Just got back from cycling in Mallorca, based in Alcúdia. And now I have a really good reason to go back (as if I needed another reason). Great video!

I was on Mallorca this year for my holiday and traveled on this train and the tram, loved every minute of it.

The Mariazellerbahn, from St. Pölten to Mariazell also has electric vintage trains. It was completed in 1907 and electrified in 1911. They run modern trains (sometimes with 1st class panorama cars and breakfast in 1st class) called Himmelstreppe, vintage electric trains from around 1910 (sometimes with restaurant cars, sometimes with cabrio cars), and steam trains.

It's great that you summarise how to visit the place at the end of each video. Excellent channel!

Most trains in New South Wales have reversible seats, and if you like the end bit of the journey in this vid, there's a station in the Blue Mountains called Zig Zag that you should visit. 🙂

I took that train about 30 years ago ,in winter, Soller is a microcosym ot tropical plants. Lemons o the trees and flowers in bloom, and a Chrysanthemon that was as big as a tree, growing to the peak of a 21/2 story house! Great trip.

I rode the train from Palma to Soller in 1979. It had trolley poles, nto pantographs and the baggage car was full of mail sacks. The main station was fairly run down and there were two small roundhouses out in the yard. In one roundhouse were two 1930s vintage Citroen pickup trucks and a 1920s Renault saloon mounted on rail wheels. The entire infrastructure of steam was still present. Further out in the yard were several tracks with the wooden railcars. They had been replaced with diesel railcars. Also in the yard were a pile of Sam Browne belts with brass badges on them that were for the conductors on the railway. I removed the badges from the belts and gave most to my friends but kept one that I still have. The original city of Palma was beautiful and there was Palma Nova which had a lot of seaside bars and restaurants but really wasn't as nice as the old city.

When I was 6 years old, I went on holiday in Mallorca and I took the train & tram. A few months ago, I visited Mallorca again after 20 years. The train & tram is much more busy than it was back when I was 6. Crazy

Vivo en Palma, el tren de Soller y su recorrido son una pasada!

It’s a great train ride and the views are stunning. Done it quite a few times. Thank you for reminding me of some great times.

I've been churning through your videos, and I'm loving it!

Love the classic wooden train! It's amazing that this still exists in Europe. The Tram combo? I am in 😍

I love all the little comedy moments in your videos!

A few years ago I took a ride with this train, it was absolutely stunning for me. Sorry for my horrible English 🙏😂

Great video! love the animated graph and the humour. :)

Thanks for Creating. Love this channel. Cheers Tim!

I remember going on this train some 30 years ago on a high-school travel to Mallorca, only we did it the other way round. We had gone from Magalluf (yep, that Magalluf, only way before it was what it is today) to Sa Calobra by bus, which has already some views along the way. Then we went from Sa Calobra to Port de Sóller by boat which, yep, it had quite some views of the cliffs over the Mediterranean. And then we went back to Mallorca on this train. I would have sweared it was all by train but, as you mention in the video and I'm checking, it seems we went first on the tram until Sóller and then we got the train back to Mallorca. It was a nice experience. No air conditioning but lots of windows so air would flow nicely. I'm not sure if we got to the actual train station in Mallorca, as I remember it being quite in the middle of almost nowhere and it is not the case today, but it may be I don't remember it correctly. Anyway, for any train or public transport lover, it's a must if you're in the island.

When I was there last that was the station for all trains, time flies.

3:04 "Amount of boom" ? hahaha...

great video

I am German. But if I went to Mallorca, my main reason would be that beautiful railline. Also I would take the tram in Soller, plus the Metro in Palma propapelly. And obviously visit the sights and try the local cuisine of Wurst, Bratkartoffeln and so on...

Another great vid!

those mountains sure look beautiful

Great memories to when I did a 6 month traineeship in Palma back in 2000 and rode the train a few times.

Been there a few times it's always great to stand on the small outside section through the mountains but the tram is so good as well I can't believe you didn't do it! 😊

These tram cars remind me of the trolleys in New Orleans...same beautiful esthetic with seats that can flip direction and brass-finished window hardware..(windows that actually open!)...and no air conditioning.

I rode on it as part of an excursion whilst I was holidaying there! Such a cool relic of the past they've retained

Hope you enjoyed your trip - certainly a great video. It reminds me of a short break I had in Soller a few years ago, sadly didn't make it onto the train or tram due to spending all my time in the mountains (right choice on my view!) Even got the bus from the airport due to the cost - I even recognise that exact viewpoint!

The locomotive also doubles as the First Class saloon. I travelled here "off season" in November 2018. No long queues for tickets and no extra queue for the First Class car. The whole train is one standard class now. It doesn't cost extra to upgrade to the posh sofas and armchairs up front!!!

Tim, check out the line running from Cais do Sodré in Lisbon, along the coast to Cascais in Portugal. Beautiful!

On the list for this fall. Thanks.

You are a gifted storyteller, Sir, good work, keep it up.

Very nice presentation. Useful. I ve been to mallorca but did not realize this train existed.

Wow! It’s lovely. I would definitely enjoy a trip on that little railway!

I absolutely love the way you put your personality and your humor into the videos. 😅 Train - Mountain - Train - Mountain - Train - Subscription.

Yo vivo en soller y el tren y tranvía es una pasada como el paisaje, soy francesa y ma encanta soller😍

Excellent graphs!

This is so funny to me - back in 2004 I went to Mallorca, rented a car and drove all the way up the mountains and along the North-West side of the island, parked the car at the harbor and went up the hill with the train and then back - you basically did the opposite Tim! Now I feel the need to go back. Maybe I will, I bought the Interrail 1st class ticket at 50% off when they had the sale so I could basically go there by train and ferry next year. Definitely adding it to the list hehe

Another entertaining video! Still love your sense of humor. Keep it up! PS, I subscribed when you were in the 11 000+ range. Now heading for 9-10 times that. At least. Well deserved.

Just stumbled across this channel (not sure whether to call KZfaq’s suggestion algorithm genius or weird) and I’m finding it a most enjoyable bit of viewing. Well researched, insightful and well presented. All good stuff. Like the witty, banter like style too.

So glad you came to Mallorca!!

I love this journey, done it many times.....

And this is what is happening when you visit an island without searching first. I missed out this opportunity to hop on a vintage train and a tram. OMG I will have to go back again only for this. Thank u. And you will have to go back and hob on that vintage tram darling. BIG MISTAKE.

Looks wonderful - including the sociable / unsociable seating!

I recomend a railway that i do volunteering at. The problem with it that its not in britain but in a small town called Mariefred near the city of Stockholm so all in all its in sweden. The railway shows and operates steam locomotives collected along the years since the sixties and include a Hudswell Clarke loco but wont be shown any time soon due to boiler problems. But i recomend it very much.

I remember this from the 1980's and I did take the tram to the beach. I happened to be in Palma in December of 2018 on a cruise, but there wasn't enough time to do this ride.

Awesome video and amazing channel. Liked and subscribed.

Great landscape 👍🏼👍🏼

Appreciate the effort you put into pronouncing the names correctly! Very close to perfect :)

Easily the best video ever made about Mallorca.

Just discovered your channel. It reminds me of the old newspaper cartoon of oddities called "Ripley's Believe it or not"

Tim has a very refined and funny sense of satire.

I hiked that island last year. Beautiful place.

Looks great! It's somewhere on my list! I love trams and mountains but if I was in your position I'd have gone with the tram!

Good thing you went up the mountain, as the train was green resending to be a tram for the first ten minutes. All in one 😝

I rode the train in 1978. There was a baggage car full of mail sacks and it had trolley poles rather than pantographs. When we got to Soller, the tram was waiting but we didn't ride it. It had open sides and had a trailer car. The old station for the main railway and its related yard and two small roundhouses were still there. All the infrastructure of steam was still intact but unused. In the yard were a bunch of wooden, open platform coaches that were unused and in deteriorated condition. I found a pile of Sam Browne belts in the yard with guard badges on them and I took one and made a belt buckle out of it which I still have. I wish I had taken the belts too, but it was over 40 years ago. Also, in one of the roundhouses were two 1920s Citroen trucks marked for the railway- I was able to turn the engine over on one of them with the hand crank. There was a 1920s Renault saloon mounted on rail wheels and its steering column was removed. They were all marked with an X on the sides which I suppose meant that they were to be scrapped. When I was back there in 1979, they were gone.

Back in the 80s I was able to get a "Round the Island" ticket. Bus Alcudia to Palma, train and tram to Soller, bus back over the mountains to Alcudia. Made a great day out.

Been there, travel with that train & tram to Puerto de Soller. Wonderful trip. Also took a trip with that other train to Inca, now reguarded to meter track and new cars, also rebuild the line to another town.

4:30. ooo! ooh! We have a few of those old streetcars in San Francisco on the vintage "F" Line.

"modern" trains (meaning not high speed but the normal kind) in Spain still have that feature of being able to change the direction of the seats

I recognise that guy you showed when you mentioned all the stations, can't think where I had seen him when you mentioned travelling to All The Stations

Amazing!

I love the look of the locomotive, I might have to get a model of it or something similar

I love the reversible seats

Wonderful of this Vintage trains.

Very interesting It is actually sort of type of the locomotive that has configuration of a tram Tram which pulls carriages attached to it

Thank you very much for the video. I really thought Mallorca would be just a party island for German tourists. Thanks for teaching us the opposite.

Nice video ❤

Woo, another video!

I remember the old Palma bus and train hub. It often resembled a rugby scrum on a vacant car lot. What's there now is a big improvement

The train and the tram are f@@king great. Love it love it love it

Genova - Casella mountain railway is a quirky little train ride in Italy.

A train in the middle of the street is still very common in the USA ! In ± 600 towns ! ! And in ± 74 other countries ! The street running train- list on wikipedia is much to short . A very much longer, completer and more current list is on : www.coasttram.info/street running trains ! (also about the coasttram in Belgium.) Many video's on KZfaq , and on "streettrain" . Have fun with it !

Jokes on you! I got reccomended a video about the trams on Soller right after this!

IF I ever go to "Malle", this is the one thing I'll do...

I bought a ticket and did this trip but I was never told about changing trains above Soller! I know for next time. Thanks.

I'm a teen from a town in Mallorca, and I remember going my first time on the Soller's train when I was about 5 yo :)

Haha. I love your videos.

That is a very lovely train

The tram was worth it! And Puerto de Soller even more ;)

Muy bonito saludos desde mallorca .

Reminds me of the old Line A in Buenos Aires. Don't bother, it's no longer there. Well, there is, but a few years ago they finally changed all the trains. But up top 2013, you could travel in the original La Brugeoise cars, built by the Anglo-Argentine Tramways Company in 1913. Yes, they ran uninterruptedly for an entire century. They were super reliable too. They also had Preston cars that were beautiful too. Everything but the undercarriage was beautifully crafted wood. Since those cars were built as hybrid tramway/subway cars, they had both high and low doors. The doors in the middle where meant to be boarded from a subway elevated platform, and the ones in the back were meant to be boarded from street level. I actually used to take it daily to go to work. Now you can't do that anymore, but they do have a touristic route served with the restored original trains that runs on Sundays. So 106 years and still going!

If you like mountains AND trams, you'll love the Snaefell Mountain railway on the Isle of Man.

Have actually travelled on this!

As a tram enthusiast, you probably know what I am thinking right now.

I did this in 2016-17 and it was worth it the tram is amazing to j stayed in soller

I travelled on the train in 2002 I think when it was considerably cheaper in real terms! I'd go again though, even at the new ticket price.

I love trains

These train cars looks very similar to those who used to go on a local railroad here in Stockholm. They were built in 1913 and also electric.

I love trams so much

Greetings from Finland! You really should visit at the lake of Tuusula.