Railway enthusiast-turned-professional. Haven't uploaded in a while (but I'll be back soon, I swear).
Here you can find a catalogue of videos on all-things-railway, including news, documentaries on interesting topics, trainspotting and various trips & holidays. I talk about my life & general politics in "The David Frankal Show". All views expressed very much my own.
Lunedì 1° luglio partono i lavori della revisione generale decennale dell’ascensore Montegalletto. Come previsto obbligatoriamente dalla normativa, trascorsi 10 anni dall’ultima revisione generale avvenuta nel 2014, l’impianto deve essere sottoposto ad una serie di interventi e controlli ad ampio raggio sulle parti in movimento e sulle componenti a terra. Il complesso lavoro di revisione comporta la chiusura dell’impianto da lunedì 1° luglio fino a mercoledì 7 agosto. Per diminuire i disagi alla clientela e ridurre al massimo il periodo di chiusura, nei mesi scorsi sono state già eseguite diverse lavorazioni e controlli preliminari. Tuttavia, per completare le operazioni di manutenzione, si rende ora necessario il fermo dell’ascensore, così da consentire lo smontaggio, la manutenzione e il ripristino degli organi di trasmissione. Di seguito vengono indicate le attività più significative in programma: revisione delle pulegge di deviazione delle funi e della sala macchine; revisione della puleggia motrice di sala macchine; revisione dei sistemi di automazione del collegamento vetture alla fune di trazione; revisione delle centraline idrauliche di vettura e della sala macchine; revisione dell’impianto frenante di vettura e dell’argano. Terminate queste importanti fasi degli interventi, l’ascensore verrà riaperto al pubblico; potranno seguire ulteriori brevi fasi di massa a punto. La revisione generale consentirà di avere a disposizione un impianto ancora più sicuro ed efficiente.
There are SIX and not four main terminals in Paris: Nord, Est, Saint Lazare, Lyon, Montparnasse and Austerlitz. Indeed France and its SNCF focus more on the organisation, interconnections, passenger throughput etc than on Architectural prowess. There are also rules in France about protecting the "Sites Classés" (National heritage) that you cannot change without a thorough review and "National intrerest" aspects for changes. Massive walls around Eurostar installation is British Sovereignty at its best. On the continent, we have no borders but with England there were always barriers and its not going any better since Brexit. Shitty weather: you picked a very poor day for your video.
I worked in this area for a short time and would walk at lunchtime all around the local area so this is an area I got to know well along the tow paths, under railway arches and through the parks it is a nice area though could change a little at night and squealing tyres could often be heard.
For what it's worth, there is a scale model of the demolished Buxton station in the booking office of the existing station. This was built by my uncle, who's father (my grandfather) used to be a stoker/driver on the line which ran to Millers Dale. This was known locally as the 'pull and push', as it ran back and forth between the two stations. At one time, you could board a train in Buxton which took you to Millers Dale. The carriage was then uncoupled, and then coupled onto the Manchester train at Millers Dale meaning you could travel to London without the inconvenience of changing trains. Furthermore, trains used to travel directly from Buxton to Manchester via Millers Dale, negotiating an almost hairpin bend, the radius being the most acute allowable. I've been on it and the scraping of metal on metal was alarming. I also recall seeing the back end of the train almost opposite out of the window near the front of the train.
He didnt destroy these two! He is basically a child who doesnt want people speaking at university if they talk about something he doesnt agree with! They want it their way! The only people allowed to speak are those that agree with them and if soneone has a different opinion then they should be silenced!
12:15 נהריה 12:22 עכו 12:32 קריית מוצקין 12:35 קריית חיים 12:39 חוצות המפרץ 12:44 מרכזית המפרץ 12:52 חיפה - מרכז השמונה 12:57 חיפה - בת גלים 13:03 חיפה - חוף הכרמל 13:13 עתלית 13:26-13:37 בנימינה 13:41 קיסריה - פרדס חנה 13:47 חדרה - מערב 13:57 נתניה 14:02 נתניה - ספיר 14:05 בית יהושע 14:13 הרצליה
i’m acc rlly worried about 7:46 because trams have loads of volts and can kill you easily if you’re too close. there’s no trams, yes, but still trams are very fast and might not have enough time to stop because it takes so long
From 4 December 2022 the horizontal oblique lift of Villa Scassi, an evolution of the horizontal vertical one of Monte Galletto, is "temporarily" suspended!!
@@ilcanaledegliascensori I went there on Tuesday with the gordito and my Peruvian caregiver: it is always stopped and the service is carried out by a replacement bus.
Could any roommates or snack buddies tell me if there are other rack railways around the planet equipped with needle-free switches designed by the Swiss engineer Carl Roman Abt? In fact, although in many official documents it is called a "funicular", the legendary Principe - Granarolo railway is and has always been a rack railway. It is probably precisely because of the presence of the Abt-type switches, as well as the 1200 mm gauge, that many mistake it for a classic funicular with two counterweighted cabins like, for example, that of Sant' Anna
I first visited West Berlin in July 1989, taking the train from Amsterdam through the DDR border crossing at Frankfurt Oder, terminating at Zoo Station. I crossed in and out of East Berlin on the U-Bahn through Friedrichstraße. I returned to Berlin in 1991 and arrived into the old Hauptbahnhof (now Ostbanhof) early in the morning and just walked around Mitte heading west and saw that much of the wall had been removed and had left behind evidence of what had been severed. One sight I’ll never forget was what looked like old elevated Stadtbahn tracks that suddenly ended in mid air.
