Tuesday July 11th 2006 Saw us retun to the hotel in Darligen, after a morning in Berne, and an afternoon in
Interlaken. The video of trains filmed at Interlaken can be found on, believe it
or not, the 'Interlaken' page!
In Darligen we stayed at the Hotel Du Lac which
is on the shores of Lake Thun. The hotel had a lakeside bar and eating
area with the main railway line dissecting the two. The main problem with
preparing these pages now, is that it's so long
since we were there, I can't make any sense of my notes!
However the video on the left is taken at Darligen station on Tuesday 11 July
2006. It shows an SBB express train which would have started its journey
at Interlaken Ost. All the trains were all seen between about 18.00 hrs and
18.40 hrs.
The video on the right shows a double decker train headed for Interlaken Ost on
the main line, whilst at the station in the passing loop is the BLS local train
which is the 17.51 from Interlaken to Spiez. This train calls at Darligen,
Erlenbachis, and Zweisimmen. What I found really impressive was the short
time lag between the double decker passing and the local train leaving.
I've travelled from Perth to to Inverness a few times which is a single track
line with passing places at stations. But they never seem to take off as
fast as that BLS train did.
Another point about the station which you find on UK railways; the other side of
the road adjacent to the station was a disused cement works. Running
across the road to the cement works was a disused railway line. There was
needless to say no sign of any points or anything on the main line so the line
to the cement work sidings had possibly closed long before the cement works as
that looked like a fairly recent closure. I did take some photo's of that
but for some obscure reason they went pear-shaped
The above left hand photo is a
general view of Darligen Station buildings with the through line on the far left
of the picture. On the right, I know we are all familiar with signs
telling us not to cross the railway. Its just that in Scotland at least,
we don't see them written in four languages! I think the symbol on the
left of the sign is meant to depict someone spread-eagled across the front of a
train.
