I really enjoy your videos but wish you would put the title bar (from-to destinations) in English. We could then be able to follow along with the Taiwan Railway maps.
+Heather stubbs My friends this is the newest model (TEMU2000 ) of Puyuma Limited Express train (Puyuma Tze-chaing) No. 5406 from Taipei to Taitung (South-eastern part of Taiwan)
+aryo bray it is literal "block" all right, meaning the next block is clear to go. It is a safety requirement that driver must exercise "Point and call" and this "Block All Right" is one of them, when they see a green light ahead.
@ 26:39 & 1:20:54 - What is being said? "He" keeps repeating the same word over and over. And later on in the video, there's a different word being repeated e.g. @ 2:15:01. It's quite annoying. Is it a person or recording? Whatever it is, it sounds like a demented simpleton. Great journey though :)
He said ''閉塞 all right ''.It means the semaphore of this train is safe (green light).The train can drive with high speed. If train driver said ''閉塞 注意''..It means the semaphore of this train is yellow light.The train can drive with middle speed. If train driver said ''閉塞 險阻''..It means the semaphore of this train is red light.The train can't keep on. So, it is a person！ Maybe they change the driver on a big station~~~ Thank you ！ by my silly EnglishXDD
It is call Pointing and calling, and this method is to keep driver awareness of everything like signals etc. Conductor has to speak out everything related to the train operation such as Green light, speed limitation. There are researches in Japan point out that using Pointing and calling can greatly reduce possibility of accident.
