Rail Away — Season 10

Aired 21 June 2004 • 25 min

Charles Hayes is the inspiration and builder of a railway line of more than a thousand kilometers through the Rockies. Even after his death - during his journey on the Titanic - his dream remained alive and still a train runs three times a week for two days through this wild part of Canada.

Aired 22 June 2004 • 25 min

A train journey on a narrow-gauge railway from Interlaken, which climbs from Meiringen over the steep Brunig Pass. The line then descends and runs along the banks of large Swiss lakes to Lucerne in the center of the country.

Aired 23 June 2004 • 25 min

A trip from the Scottish capital Edinburgh over the world's largest railway bridge to the capital of the Highlands, Inverness. Before the capital of the Highlands is reached, travelers get a good idea of ​​the wide variety that the Scottish landscape offers.

Aired 24 June 2004 • 25 min

With the Toy Train from Siliguri to Darjeeling means a journey that brings passengers back to the primeval time of the track. A hundred-year-old steam engine pulls its wagons puffing and blowing through jungles and hills to end up in a toy station net, overlooking the Himalayas.

Aired 28 June 2004 • 25 min

The railway line between Thessaloniki and the Turkish border, built by the Turks for transport between Istanbul and Europe, is still an important connection in Greece. Along the impressive mountains and through the gorges of the River Nestos, travelers get an unexpected view of the country.

Aired 29 June 2004 • 25 min

A railway of only thirty-three kilometers, which nevertheless guarantees the well-known variation of the Swiss landscape. The LSE Bahn takes travelers from Lucerne to the village of Engelberg at the end of a narrow valley surrounded by impressive mountain peaks.

Aired 30 June 2004 • 25 min

A railway line was once built right through an almost deserted area, in a rugged nature with a harsh climate. The line runs along deep fjords from Inverness to Kyle or Lochalsh to islands like Skye on the west coast. This trip is still a fantastic way to experience Scotland.

Aired 1 July 2004 • 25 min

A journey by rail through the Salzkammergut, a region that had already been discovered before the Romans. The trace became very important because of the white gold, as salt was called. The transport thereof was also the reason that the track was built, but there is much more to enjoy, as the traveler will discover.

Aired 5 July 2004 • 25 min

A train journey from Ajaccio, city of Napoleon, over the most mountainous, green, varied and most beautiful island of the Mediterranean. That is what Corsica is called and whoever takes the train there can see for themselves that nothing too much has been said.

Aired 6 July 2004 • 25 min

Across the Alps, only possible since the construction of the Gotthard railway line, a train journey gives a good impression of the Swiss country. When the new tunnel of seventy-one kilometers, which is currently being worked on, will be ready, little will be left of the fantastic view.

Aired 7 July 2004 • 25 min

Siliguri - Darjeeling

Aired 8 July 2004 • 25 min

The railway through the Yorkshire Dales is proof of the stubbornness of an English entrepreneur, who defied the inhospitable area and the harsh climate to realize his dream; its own rail to Scotland. And still the trip is more than worth it.

Aired 12 July 2004 • 25 min

Through the snowy country the journey goes from Oslo to the pinnacle of Norwegian winter sports. Inaccessible for other traffic there is the famous Finnish hotel where the train is the only connection to the outside world.