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Stunning Swiss Scenery by Rail
By Ed Waldrup
"Breathtaking Alpine Scenery and rich history of Switzerland are beautifully documented. Each program takes you on a dissimilar journey, explaining the history and working of the rail scheme itself, and stopping along the way to tour fashionable resort towns, castles, and other attractions that make Switzerland one of the worlds most frequent travel destinations." This series of broadcast quality Swiss Rail travel videos was produced by former BBC manufacturers Sue Knight and Chris Harnett. The series has been broadcast on PBS so the quality is firstborn rate. The six tapes include The Albula Line: Chur to St. Moritz. The Davos Line: Landquart to Davos and Filisur. The Montreaux-Ovberland Bernous Railway (MOB) Montreaux to Zweisimmen. The Arosa Line: Chur to Arosa. The Bruening Line, Part 1: Interlaken to Meringen. The Bruening Line, Part 2: Meringen to Luzern. My wife and I watch these over and over again to plan for a rail tour of Switxerland. It's almost like being there. VHS Stereo approx. 50 minutes each. Highly recommended.

2 of 2 humans found the following review helpful.
Repeated viewing
By H. Johnson
I have many, a good deal of videos in all types of genre. This is one of the few box sets that stays close to the VCR for viewing. I've viewed all the tapes in this box set and they're all high quality railway videos. The editing of train, landscape and points-of-interest shots merge nicely with a comprehensive, yet non-obsessive narration. Some of the technical info may seem to be over-the-top for a great deal of viewers, but it's not the basis for these videos. The narration includes historical, technical, tourism and demographical information. In all, a well rounded description of the railway that the viewer is traveling.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Switzerland at it is best
By Adam August
These six videos, and the nine that follow, are done the way documentaries will have to be done. Narration is no more than utterly necessary, the background music adds to the production and never intrudes, and the effigy quality is regarding as good as you may get on VHS tape. Favorite in this set is Arosa Line and Brunig Line constituents 1 and 2 -- utterly breathtaking. There is a good deal of technical and historic railroad selective information presented, probably for the British trainspotter hobbyists. Following the six videotapes in Swiss Rail Journeys I, there are another six in set II and three more in set III. So far as I may tell, these are still the only ones available in the US from the 24 total programs developed by MITV. (The full set of 24 is sold on DVD by MITV on it is Web site, but only in European PAL format, so unless you own a PAL to NTSC converter, you're out of luck there.)

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