Cab ride Jesenice - Solkan on Slovenia's Bohinj Railway - train drivers view in 4K

In this video you can enjoy the cab ride - train drivers view on Slovenia's Bohinj Railway between Jesenice and Solkan in 4K/60 frames per second. The Bohinj Railway Line (Transalpina) is part of the 717-kilometre-long railway connection Prague-Jesenice-Gorizia-Trieste. It was built between 1900 and 1906 as the shortest connection between the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the Adriatic Sea (Trieste). The Bohinj line has a total of 28 tunnels, the longest being the Bohinj tunnel under Kobla (6327 m), five galleries and 65 bridges, including the Solkan Bridge, the worlds largest stone railway bridge on river Soča, making it one of the most attractive railway lines in Europe. Before the First World War, the Bohinj Railway Line was used by 70 train compositions a day, coming from Prague, Munich and Vienna. It was damaged in several places during the First World War, including the Solkan Bridge over the Soča River, which was destroyed (and later rebuilt) and is renowned as the bridge with the largest stone arch in the world - 80 meters high. During the Second World War, traffic along the line was not possible, as the Germans blew up the northern portal of the Bohinj tunnel. After 1960, the line was modernised and the steam train stopped using the line in 1974. The Bohinj railway is a unique technical monument of the region, making its way through the Baška Grapa past Kanal towards Nova Gorica. The CNN travel channel recently published the article where the Bohinj Railway...

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