Helsinki Tramway: Winter Wonderland at Line 8 (Eng.sub) 

The very importend difference are the temperatur! In the Video are see You snow, snow and snow. No ice. In my country are snow rare, but When you See a snow flake, you have a big problem : Ice, snow match and ice. The People from the Sauerland or Eifel make Jokes over the Rheinland, but where slide in the ditch? On snow drive is not so easy, but Not so hard to drive on ice. You have 10 km grip, but the without warning.. Bam....

The comments I've seen previously on that topic indicate like everyone but England can handle snow. In Eastern Europe, tramways have been and still are very common, as well as heavy snow and ice, and the countries managed to keep it going even in the 90s what wasn't exactly an easy period in economic sense.

English snow is the worst sort, it is generally warmer, slushier snow than the Scandinavian and central European countries generally get - but they have problems when they get our grotty stuff too. When we get dry, cold snow we normally cope pretty well although it never lasts more than a couple of days.

@@bfcmik Perhaps, it's so about the cities away from the sea, but at the Baltic coastline, usually the snow is wet. And, as usually there are slight minuses but most of the sea is not frozen, a lot of humidity gathers. So, perhaps Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Tallinn, Riga, Liepaja, Kaliningrad and Gdansk should close the tramways for the winter? We have a saying here: there is no bad weather, there are wrong clothes. If there is a need, a maintenance tram is sent out with equipment to clean the rails from snow and ice as it passes, that's it.

@@forgottenmusic1 It's also the case that in England, very few cars use winter tyres, only "all season" tyres which are specified for wet and slightly muddy conditions, not freezing. In Finland, proper winter tyres of either the "friction" (rubber compound for freezing temperatures and tread for snow) or "studded" (as above but with ice studs) type are mandatory during winter road conditions. This makes an enormous difference, more so even than the difference between two-wheel and four-wheel drive. Even so, fresh falling snow is still its own special class of problem, as the stuck HGV in this video demonstrates amply.

Thanks Jean-Luc! In Finland we use non- or studded winter tires what helps a lot. Of course, people are also used to driving in winter conditions, because it still happens every year 😉 I'm not saying we're masters at it, but everyone still needs to get to work in winter ⛷🏝☀

Swedish spoken with a Finnish accent sounds nice, but the Finnish language itself has a coarse sound in my ears.

@@staffanlindstrom576 Who asked your opinion?

@@FIN86fi Who asked yours?

@@FIN86fi finnish people are dirty people

@@NNN78434 You should see Helsinki outside one streetcar route.

Adelaide! Wow! It's wonderful that this video is being watched all over the world! Thanks Medo!

Greetings to Sydney! 35°c! Way too much for me 😁

I hope you were wearing good winter shoes 😄

U r very lucky person to get to visit FINLAND by frequent visits !!!!

Да, вы наслаждаетесь снежным пейзажем, но когда ледяная вода попадает в ваш ботинок, вы больше не улыбаетесь😁

I have high expectations for cycling this summer season. The JOKERI tramway is starting to be completed and the bicycle path next to it as well. Even if my work trip were shorter directly from Eastern Helsinki via Itäväylä or Mustikkamaa to Hakaniemi, I think I would go around the railway line to Oulunkylä and from there to the renovated and wonderful cycling track towards Eastern Helsinki.

Hi Claude! Short clips from my previous trams and winter storm video can be seen in the video about the Quebec tramway project in winter conditions. Unfortunately, the link I received for the Quebec video doesn't seem to work anymore. However, here is the link to my original video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T62xK0GprgQ.html Have a nice rest of the winter time!

@@Jontsa73 Прагаа🇨🇿🇫🇮

80s music videos have been my mentor 😁

Welcome aboard!

It's nice to hear that you also made it to the north on your trip to Europe! About train travel in those days before the internet: I remember a television show from my childhood where people competed with their skills. One gentleman had studied the Thomas Cook European Train Timetable book. As I remember, he got quite far, he knew how to answer a tricky question about a train from Germany to France, which had an exception due to a local holiday. Later it turned out that the gentleman was from my wife's hometown and he was the manager of one of Finland's largest miniature railways.

😁

Tämä video ei ole Stadin ruuhkia nähnytkään, varmaan viikonloppuaamu kyseessä ja lumisade saaneet loputkin jäämään kotiin

Juurikin näin, lauantai aamulta kahdeksan jälkeen.

Yes Rachelle, switch are heated.

It is heated

Pick up to your wishlist St. Pee, Russia. 300 kilometers from Helsinki, but MUCH bigger

@@whatisdoes Russians are on my total shit list. They are monsters who are comitting atrocities in Ukrain

American here who has been to Finland and Australia. Both on business. I am 79 now and cant stand long flights in tiny seats with shitty food.

Hi Bill! Check out my tram line 4 video from Spring 2020. I start from Katajanokka and along the way you can see a glimpse of the art nouveau style of the area. next, I drive through the Empire-style downtown. That video was also shot on Saturday morning, so there are hardly any people around. In addition, the corona restrictions had closed cafes and restaurants. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VnJngNzlINA.html

@@Jontsa73 Thank you. Looks like a fun job. Hope things are better there now. 🚋

Tarkoitatko, että olisit halunnut nähdä auton hangesta lähdön normaalilla nopeudella?

Joo, tätä on hyvä sitten katsella, kun kesällä hellettä on ollut putkeen hurjat kolme päivää 🤩

Hi Erik and greetings to Bratislava. I last visited Bratislava in January 2009 to pick up your new euro coins from the state bank! Nice visit, the clerk started small talk about Finnish ice hockey players 😀 In Finland, buses are shown a stop sign by waving their hand, and some also show a stop sign to trams for this reason. If the stop is empty and there are no people in sight, you can drive past the stop. On board the tram, press the "stop" button before the desired stop.

@@Jontsa73 Hello. Yes, ice hockey is poplar here and we remember 2011 and 2019, when the national team of Finland won the world championship and recieved gold medals in Bratislava. Trams stops are reqiuest stops in Helsinki. We have this rule only for buses and trolleybuses in Bratislava. Every stop is a request stop and simmilar to what is seen in this video, it is sufficient to stand on the stop in a manner that the driver can see you. Some people nevertheless wave their hand to make sure. But trams have no request stops, the argument being that they have a longer braking distance. I disagree with it, request stops for trams are also in Vienna, which used to have some permament and some request stops for trams, but recently changed it that all tram stops are request stops. I hope Bratislava will follow soon, especially late in the evening, trams unneccesarily come to a full stop, just to accelerate again. Waste of time and energy.

Ole hyvä! Tuliko kaipuu piehtaroimaan lumihankeen sieltä Brasilian helteistä 😄

Hi Rick! It's Kellosaari reserve power plant and still in use. The power plant uses fuel oil. According to the website, they test it every six weeks. Here's a link to the electricity company's page, which tells more: www.helen.fi/en/company/energy/energy-production/power-plants/kellosaari-stand-by-power-plant

@@Jontsa73 Those are probably what we call hot bulb engines, you have to preheat the head so it will ignite the fuel. I would love to see them start those engines! I'll bet they do not give tours!

Here is the same line 8 in summertime ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XTH3bvzg0Uc.html

The other was sweden

In Helsinki, the bus is stopped by raising hand and some people also raise hand to the tram because of this.

@@Jontsa73 And just a general question: how long is an education for a tram driver? Does a "super-"health is needed for this? Could an immigrant apply for such education and job?

Hi Alexander! A two-month teaching period in the classroom and driving the tram + four-month on-the-job learning period. Your medical condition allows working in the transport profession and sedentary work. Safe traffic and accurate communication require good Finnish language skills. ( Only in finnish: barona.fi/tyopaikat/raitiovaununkuljettaja/66f5651eb8415862815778b3c9c20afd )

@@Jontsa73 kiitos paljon! Minä opiskelen suomea, but more for fun. I had a dream in the childhood to be a tram driver, but later a tram system was liquidated in my city.

Ole hyvä @@alexanderkonyashin175 👍

Hi Leif! The idea was to show a view of the system monitor on the left and its possible alarms of wheelspin (or really, I didn't want to show how bad my posture is while lying on the bench 😜 )

😁 They didn't guess that in forty years the world wide web will come and even a Finnish entertainment program can end up going viral 😍

Swedish is second official language in Finland. About 5% of people speaks swedish as native language. Swedish is spoken mostly in coastal areas of Finland. Also Sami is spoken in Lapland.

@@jaaju1 Thank you!

@@jaaju1 A few stations, have a third English-language name announced too: eg. "University of Helsinki'" and "Central Railway station"

Tak, lubię śnieżne krajobrazy, ale kiedy do bagażnika dostaje się lodowata woda, to już nie jest zabawne 😁

Fresh frosty weather keeps you healthy, even if it blows in the wrong place 😁

Hi Robbie! After the last announcement, semi trailer truck was helped off the rails of direction 1 (Arabia) after 5 minutes and was able to continue its journey after 10 minutes. Yes, it was behind the sun visor. Nowadays, the battery lasts well in GoPro, so you don't have to change them or otherwise worry, at least in winter (camera heat problems in summer)

Winter tires also help. We change the tires twice a year. In Finland, the law changed a few years ago. Before it was date bound, nowadays you have to use winter tires when the weather demands. Finland is a long country, in Helsinki we are already enjoying the first warmth of spring without snow and ice, while 1000 km away in Lapland it is full winter. Even if some crazy starts driving with summer tires, in these weathers he will change winter tires the next day 😁 I heard that more MS "mud and snow" -type tires are used in the USA, I don't know how they differ from our winter tires.

@@Jontsa73 I just use all seasons year round. Michelins. They last about 65,000 miles for one and 80,000 for another. Been driving in the snow since I was a teen. Have had 80s cars come spinning at me like a meteor coming down a hill on bald tires and been able to evade them by crossing the road and driving up on the grass embankment as the whirled by. Kids, they rolled down the window giggling, saying "sorry". Wouldn't have been funny if they'd hit me.

Aurat ajavat lumivalleja risteyksiin, joista raitiovaunut kulkevat. Matalalattianivelraitiovaunuissa on vaunun keulassa parinkymmenen sentin korkeudessa laukaisukaari, joka osuessaan tarpeeksi isoon taikka kovaan lumivalliin laukaisee ihmissuojan. Se on korimainen rakenne, joka tippuu ja estää ihmistä joutumasta vaunun pyörien alle. Se kerää myös mukavasti lauetessaan lunta, jota on harmillisen työlästä poistaa.

Hi Stephan and greetings to Canada! They haven't camped. It's a local resident's vehicle. Often parked in that area. In some very snowy winters, the city has opened separate parking areas for long-term parking to make plowing the streets easier.

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Terve Eeli, kuten Omppelipomppeli tuossa vastasikin, niin vaunuihin joilla ajamme emme voi vaikuttaa. HSL on määritellyt minkä tyyppistä vaunukalustoa milläkin vuorolla pitää olla. Ajettuihin linjoihin on tähän saakka voinut vaikuttaa linjavaaleissa, joissa haetaan kauden ajosarjoja. Periaatteessa ajokausia on kaksi, kesä- ja talvikaudelle. Käytännössä lähinnä rakennustöiden vuoksi, joita Helsingissä on sulan kelin aikana valtavasti, on muutoksia useamman kerran vuodessa. Lisäksi työviikko koostuu niin aamu kuin iltavuoroista ja vielä lauantaille ja sunnuntaille vastaavat. On mahdollista hakea myös ajosarjaa, jossa työviikko koostuu vain yhdestä ja samasta työviikosta. Yhtiöittämisen myötä työnantaja on muuttamassa käytäntöjä. Lupauksia on, että työpäivien ennakoitavuus säilyisi.

@@Jontsa73 Kiitos oikein kattavasta vastauksesta!

Ole hyvä Eeli ja tsori että kesti, oli tässä seuraavan laivavideon kanssa kiirettä. Just julkaisin Glory-videoni: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LkQZQYpnT1g.html

@@Jontsa73 Juu siitä tulikin ilmotus, täytyy pian katsoa🙂

В следующем раунде колонна из пяти плугов пришла чистить улицу.

Ei ole. Sai potkut tän videon takia.

@@somdusazerate Oho, no työnantaja on varmaan tarpeelliseksi nähnyt sitten tälläisen menettelytavan.

@@somdusazerate 🤣