★ 🇨🇭Cab ride along lake Biel, Cornaux - Basel, Switzerland [2018] 

On this trip, we're travelling from Cornaux to Olten along the Jura foot railway, a line along the Jura mountains, then continuing on to Basel where the locomotive is parked. Before this video starts, the locomotive was used to bring an empty oil train to Cornaux, where it will be filled at a refinery in the neighbouring town Cressier.
Interesting is the one track section not long after the start of the video, which is in fact the only single track section of this major east - west railway line. By 2025, the SBB plans on replacing this track section with a dually tracked tunnel, so we have to enjoy it while we can. See SBB Video • Kapazitätsausbau, Lige...
Also interesting: after Tuscherz, the line used to continue along lake Biel to Biel, until the Vingelz Tunnel was built and opened in 1969. My hope is to try and capture the old path of the train on video someday so we can relive what it might have been like to travel there by train.
Another point of interest: between Hägendorf & Wangen bei Olten a new siding was constructed for a company that was relocated out of Olten. The siding cost around 2.4 million Francs. If you watch my cabride along here from 2014, you'll notice that the siding is not there: • ★ 🇨🇭Cab ride Langendor...
There are a few interesting trains and locomotives to see too - including the new train from the SOB, parked in Solothurn and a new SBB Hybrid shunting locomotive by Alstom that should be replacing the Am 841.
In case any of you are asking yourselves what the male voice is communicating, here is a brief explanation:
Sifa is the name of the German system that checks whether the driver is conscious or not. First a sign appears on the screen, requiring the driver to release the pedal. If the driver doesn't react (say he or she was looking elsewhere), then the acoustic warning "sifa" sounds. If there is still no reaction, the emergency brakes are applied.
"Störung" means that there is a problem that the driver should pay attention to. Most of these locomotives always have some sort of little problem, so its normal to hear that sound whenever you start one up. The problems vary in degrees - some problems are quite superficial while others could mean that the locomotive is no longer drivable until the problem is addressed.
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