 Poster: A snowHead
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Last Friday in the Ch 5 series World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys they showed an episode filmed in Austria, departing from Graz and visiting Zell am See, Innsbruck, St. Anton and finishing in Bludenz. There were some nice scenes of the ski slopes above Zell (I think filmed on the Schmittenhöhe) and also in St.Anton where they were talking to an old (I think aged 80) local ski instructor who was skiing dressed in old style clothing and on wooden skis with a single wooden pole.  The programme is I think being repeated this Wednesday at 7pm, but anyway it's available to watch on the My5 catchup website https://www.channel5.com/show/worlds-most-scenic-railway-journeys/
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Enjoyed that, 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ah the programme which ought to be called Channel 5 knocks off another format on the cheap. Bill Nighy replaces Michael Portillo without even having to leave the comfort of his sound booth and a single cameraman/producer do the leg work.
Will probably watch though for the Austrian angle.
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Is the Channel 5 website run by the Daily Mail by any chance? Just how useless do you have to be to generate this description for the programme?
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| Austria's railway offers an adventure from Gratz, then the mountains and lake of Zell am Zee, and finally to the engineering marvel of the Alberg tunnel. |
They had three foreign names to check on Google Maps, and failed with all three of them 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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And poor captioning, too. Instructor without an s in the middle - twice!
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@Alastair Pink,
Thanks for posting that but unfortunately the link doesn't work for me because I'm in Austria.
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Not sure that it covers the most "scenic" and well known railway line in Austria either, https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/785/ . Did they show the viaduct over the end of the Paznauntal? (see here) . It is very impressive driving under it on the way to Ischgl, you dont really notice from the train that you are suspended on a thin sliver of iron over a very deep gorge!
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@Scarlet, if it’s the line I’m thinking you’re describing yep it goes through Seefeld then Garmisch and onto München. Lovely way to arrive in Tirol if not the fastest 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Inboard, sounds plausible, but where is the climbing section? Or do you just hurtle straight down like you’re on the Oblivion? 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@munich_irish, interesting. Never thought anyone would film a whole train journey and play it back at the same speed, but of course they do. I see it gains a fair bit of height between Hötting and Kranebitten – I assume there’s a maximum slope angle for a standard train to climb up and presumably down, before it requires a different engineering solution and becomes a funicular. Even the one to St Anton ends up a fair way above the road it started off next to, but nothing like this one. I’ve never been to Hochzirl, but have climbed at Ehnbachklamm, some distance below the railway 
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You know it makes sense.
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@Scarlet, when I got really bored in late spring last year for some reason I ended up watching a number of these sort of videos especially of journeys through the alps. It was strangely therapeutic, watching the mountains roll by whilst I was stuck a good way away from them and no sport to watch either.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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We stopped in Seefeld a couple of times in the summer and took the train down to Innsbruck, it's a really lovely journey, curving it's way through the mountainside and tunnels, it's not partuclarly seep but there some huge drops. The way down the other side to Germany isn't as steep. Seefeld had quite a busy little train station.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| munich_irish wrote: |
| @Scarlet, when I got really bored in late spring last year for some reason I ended up watching a number of these sort of videos especially of journeys through the alps. It was strangely therapeutic, watching the mountains roll by whilst I was stuck a good way away from them and no sport to watch either. |
I did exactly the same and very much enjoyed the journey from Innsbruck to Zell am See via Jenbach, Brixlegg, Worgl through the Ski Welt and Kitzbuhel. (We're aiming to use these trains during our month long trip to Austria in January 23).
They were most relaxing and, as you say, therapeutic!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@LOTA, @munich_irish, not looked at these Austrian ones but the Norwegians have some great ‘slow tv’ of some of the really long scenic lines (eg Oslo-Bergen/ Trondheim, possibly even to Bodo), and also the hurtigruten express coastal boat service Bergen-Nordkapp. I’d always thought watching them was a ludicrous idea but found them great during lockdown last year. Lots of lovely snowy mountains and amazing islands/ cliffs…
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