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Season 7

Rail Away Season 7

April. 18,2001
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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.

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Rail Away Season 7 Full Episode Guide

Episode 6 - Italy & Switzerland: Domodossola - Locarno
First Aired: May. 23,2001

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.

Episode 5 - England: Exeter - Plymouth - Liskeard - Looe - St. Erth - Saint Ives - Penzance
First Aired: May. 16,2001

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

Episode 4 - Austria: Salzburg - Schwarzach St. Veit - Spittal an der Drau - Villach - Klagenfurt
First Aired: May. 09,2001

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.

Episode 3 - Denmark & ​​Sweden: Copenhagen - Kastrup - Malmö - Helsingborg
First Aired: May. 02,2001

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.

Episode 2 - Luxembourg & Belgium: Luxembourg - Gouvy - Liège
First Aired: April. 25,2001

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.

Episode 1 - Germany: Berlin's S-Bahn
First Aired: April. 18,2001

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.

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