German Cab Rides shown on Internet

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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The German National Railway (Deutsche Bahn) has a streaming Internet TV Channel called Bahn TV. which can be found here;

Bahn TV

On this channel they have a program called “Bahn TV in Fahrt” ( Bahn TV in Motion) which shows a Cab Ride over a German Railway line. This week the shows are running at 5:00 PM CDT and 9:00 PM CDT. Each runs for 1 and a half hours.

Click on Live in the left side at the appointed hour, and then open with an external viewer (unless you like a small picture)

The schedule for the rest of this week is;

9 PM Wednesday Zwickau to Leipzig

5 PM Thursday Singen to Hornberg - the Schwartzwaldbahn “Black Forest Railway”

This line is busiest near Singen but the best scenery and lots of tunnels

near Hornberg.

9 PM Thursday Freiberg (Sachsen) to Zwickau

5 PM Friday Hornberg to Offenburg and Karlsruhe - The remaining section of the

Schwartzwaldbahn to Offenburg, then the Upper Rhine mainline into

Karlsruhe (very busy with both passenger and freight after Offenburg

9 PM Friday Dresden to Chemnitz

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Very cool! Thanks.

Now I just wish I hadn’t slept through German class in high school.

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The Cab Rides aren’t narrated, only subtitled, and some graphics at the beginning.

“nächste halt” = next stop

“Durchfahrt” = Passing through

“Überfahrt” = Passing over i.e. a river or major bridge

When the cab ride is filmed from an “IC” InterCity passenger train, minor stations aren’t named.

Depending on when it was filmed, some subtitles list the journey followed by a colon: and then the point of interest or station, while others don’t list the journey

Watching other Bahn TV programs is slowly bringing back my High-School German, very slowly they talk too fast.

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Nah, it is the other way around: you English speaking types are the fast talkers![;)]

greetings,

Marc Immeker

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Actually, it’s just us Midwesterners and Yankees who talk fast, Southerners and Texans are a different story[;)]