Wim van Loon
Director
Rail Away (1996)
Season 7
Series about striking railways in the world. Each episode travels along a number of special locations, where the train serves as a guide and there is also attention for the landscape and culture.
Released Jan. 6, 1996
Episode 25 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.train, tmdb.railroad
Network: EO
Country: Netherlands
Languages:
Dutch
S7E1 - Germany: Berlin's S-Bahn
After the feelings of euphoria had subsided a little when the hated Wall was demolished, it was discovered that a lot of work had to be done to make Berlin an undivided city again. Work has now been going on for more than 10 years on the S Bahn, its own city railway.
April 18, 2001, midnight
S7E2 - Luxembourg & Belgium: Luxembourg - Gouvy - Liège
The railway, which was almost the cause of a war between the French and the Germans. Part of this rail route through the Luxembourg and Belgian Ardennes was an important connection for industry. Now it is a future connection for the high-speed line.
April 25, 2001, midnight
S7E3 - Denmark & Sweden: Copenhagen - Kastrup - Malmö - Helsingborg
After years of hard work, the new fixed cross-river connection over the Oresund between Denmark and Sweden opened in 2000. This 16-kilometer combination of tunnel and bridge gives road and train traffic the opportunity to cross this busy strait.
May 2, 2001, midnight
S7E4 - Austria: Salzburg - Schwarzach St. Veit - Spittal an der Drau - Villach - Klagenfurt
The Tauern lift. From Salzburg, the train travels through the Gastein Valley to the Tauern Tunnel, a climb of more than 600 meters through narrow valleys, through tunnels and over viaducts. After the 8 km long tunnel, the line descends until it reaches Klagenfurt, the capital of Carinthia, on the banks of the Wörther See.
May 9, 2001, midnight
S7E5 - England: Exeter - Plymouth - Liskeard - Looe - St. Erth - Saint Ives - Penzance
The story of the railroad through the West Country, the South West of England. The builder of the railroad through Devon and Cornwall, Brunel, was a strong proponent of the use of broad gauge and 'atmospheric power', a kind of air pressure that was to drive the train
May 16, 2001, midnight
S7E6 - Italy & Switzerland: Domodossola - Locarno
The Centovali line through the hundred valleys, which connects the north of Italy and the south of Switzerland. It is a story of the mayor of Locarno, who wanted a railway line between the two major north-south lines in the Alps, the Simplon and the Gotthard line, Italy and Switzerland.
May 23, 2001, midnight
EO
25 min/ep
25 min
Jan. 6, 1996
Sept. 14, 2025, midnight
Returning Series
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