Running Time: 60 minutes (approx)(Ep6) - The Brunig Line - Part 2. Leave Meiringen behind and climb by cogwheel up the Brunig Pass. The train descends to the lush lakelands of central Switzerland to look at baroque churches and the ancient open-air parliament. Journey's end at Lucerne explores the old town and Transport Museum as well as the heartbreaking monument to the Swiss Guards slaughtered during the French Revolution. When is Swiss Railway Journeys next on TV?
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Swiss Railway Journeys is a Travel programme.
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I love your Swiss railways journeys programme, it encouraged me to visit Switzerland twice in 2007, each time getting a Swiss pass and touring the country by rail. I'll be going back several more times as well.
Although Switzerlands scenery will take some beating, do you have any plans on showing scenic railway journey programmes of any other European countries.
Seeing still pictures in books and brochures is not as good as seeing it on TV.
When I see the excellent scenery on TV it encourages me more to get out there and experience the journeys myself.
Good to see the extra travel channel 2 as well.
I only wish TC2 would get their web page sorted out. What a mess! I'm slowly working my way through all the railway journeys, and the 'rarest' one (not yet seen!) is the Gruyere Railway.
Been to most of the places visited by the Railways over the years, but not this one, only to Gruyere by coach!
My 9yr old Autistic son love watching your .tv programme If he had the chance he would watch it 24/7. He loves anything to do with trains. The switzerland scenery is out of this world long may the show continue.
I really enjoy the Swiss Railway Journeys programmes of TC2, but for the last seven days, the picture has been breaking up all the time. Is this just my television set (not on other channels though) or is there a problem with transmission?
I have been blessed to have travelled around Switzerland using their railway system. What a joy! The system is efficient, clean and the scenery is indescribably beautiful.Unfortuntely I have not been able to visit Switzerland for the last 8 or so years due to financial constraints, so you will find me sitting on the edge of my sofa reliving the experience while watching the SRJ programmes. Thank you, thank you, thank you for giving me the opportunity of reliving my experiences in a country that I consider to be a piece of heaven (I'm almost sure God has parked off under a pine tree in a Swiss meadow!)
Diane
hi
its a shame that travel tv which is showing the series of swiss raiway journeys repeatedly on sky, has not bothered to name the episodes as they are shown.
in order to find out which episode your watching you have to watch all of it and then try to work out which one your watching. an appalling waste of a brilliant show just because travel channel cannot be bothered to do these simple things.
Dear Sirs,
Please will you let me know when you next propose to show The New Glacier Express part 1 and 2 again on your channel
Thank you
Whilst enjoying the scenery, bridges, tunnels, viaducts etc. of this programme, there are a few things that really bothers me. Why is there no sound of leaves blowing in the wind, cars passing by, people talking, dogs barking, birds singing or even the sound of the train's engines? Very few people are shown, you don't hear them talk, or even see them going about their daily chores. Also the music doesn't suit the programme.
It really is a bit boring, without any creativity. Everything seems so unnatural. Why is that?
I recorded the audio for all the series what you see and hear is what is there. Some of the locations took hours to get to so remote are they and filming is only done on still clear days, it takes months to do one programme sometimes. Synchronised sound of people talking or singing is there in many episodes they are just not doing it to camera mostly. Accented Swiss German is hard for many Germans to understand let alone English, do not forget these programmes are in lots of languages so the detail is told by a commentator in the language of the country where it is shown. The series is recorded in full stereo, location sound and music. The music is especially composed to a rough edit then the pictures cut to the rythym, sorry you don't like it Sue, you can tell Lou directly now, he has a website.
We are also trying to complete a series of just tourism films about Switzerland, Sue will be happy, no music. However Sue Knight and I find making new programmes now difficult due to poor health, a lot of it caused by the physical effort of carting very heavy camera gear all over the Alps for nearly 20 years.
We tried very hard to make a series that was 'quality' No TV company paid us to make the series, it was all speculation on our part. So we had to find the money from working for others and travelling to Switzerland, shooting when we had no outside work and editing and dubbing in the evenings and spare time. That is why the series is dated from 1990 to 2004, it took time to earn enough to pay the costs. The current rate of exchange with Switzerland means that helicopters now cost around £25 a minute to fly, normally we fly for between 2 to 3 hours. I would love to do some High Definition filming but life does not always give you the body that works or the cash to do what you wish!! We had a good if hard time filming the programmes, did it make back the money? We still have to work for others to pay the bills so nothing changes.
It's a shame that Sue missed the point of the sound used in this series. We wholeheartedly agree with Chris Harnett's comments in response, and we can't get enough of this programme. We fully appreciate the amount of time and effort that must have been employed in reaching the locations presented, and we find the commentary very informative. The whole series is, in our opinion, excellent viewing!