Wim van Loon
Director
Rail Away (1996)
Season 8
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
S8E1 - Austria: Vienna - Semmering - Innsbruck - Bregenz
In the winter, a journey is made from east to west through Austria, through impressive tunnels, viaducts and landscapes. Route: Vienna - Semmering - Innsbruck - Bregenz.
July 11, 2001, midnight
S8E2 - Egypt: Alexandria - Cairo - Luxor - Aswan
Route Cairo - Assuan. A train journey along the lifeline of Egypt; the Nile. From the capital Cairo we follow the river to the shores of Lake Nassar at Assuan. In addition, many aspects of Egypt can be seen: both ancient cities and the countryside and the desert.
July 18, 2001, midnight
S8E3 - Switzerland & Italy: Bern - Domodossola - Locarno
Rhätische Bahn part 1. The story of a Dutch banker, founder of the Rhätische Bahn, a narrow-gauge railway in the canton of Graubünden in Eastern Switzerland. One of the lines runs from Chur via Davos to Italy, with a stopover in Tirano.
July 25, 2001, midnight
S8E4 - Switzerland: Disentis - Brig - Zermatt
Rhätische Bahn part 2. As a follow-up the Arosa Bahn is followed. Interesting is the famous route along and in the bed of the Rhine, also known as the Swiss Gran Canyon, from 1903. The Vereina tunnel, the longest narrow-gauge tunnel, is striking.
Aug. 20, 2001, midnight
EO
25 min/ep
25 min
Jan. 6, 1996
Sept. 14, 2025, midnight
Returning Series
NR
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