Driver's Eye View - Prater Park “Liliputbahn” Miniature Railway and the Giant Vienna Ferris Wheel скачать в хорошем качестве

Driver's Eye View - Prater Park “Liliputbahn” Miniature Railway and the Giant Vienna Ferris Wheel

The “Prater Liliputbahn” is a 15 inch (381mm) gauge light railway located in Prater Park, Vienna, Austria. It was opened in 1928 and extended in 1933. Operating primarily as a tourist attraction, the 2.5 Miles (4 kms) long route also provides a public transport link to locations around the park including the amusement park (Wurstelprater) and the sports stadium. The railway used to run all year round, now it is closd during the winter months. Originally operated using miniature steam locomotives, most trains are now entrusted to random outline diesel locomotives. The railway can be reached using tram line one to it's terminus a short walk from railway's Rotunda Station. The railway was named after the fictional island “Lilliput” home to the "Little" people featured in the four Gulliver's Travels story books by Jonathan Swift. Three steam locomotives were ordered from the Munich-based company “Krauss Engineering”, designed by Chief Engineer Martens they were based on a class of main line 4-6-2 locomotives. Twenty of these locomotives were built including those destined for the Prater Liliputbahn of which only two were delivered with the order for the third being cancelled, both locomotives are still working on the line today of which one was to have hauled our special train chartered by the group I was travelling with, unfortunately it was out of action on the day. To learn more about the railway, please click on this link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prater_... This video also features one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions, the Vienna Giant Ferris Wheel (German: Wiener Riesenrad ) located close to the Prater Amusement Park entrance, at 212ft (64.75 metres) tall it was the world's tallest Ferris Wheel from 1920 to 1985. The Ferris Wheel was designed by the British engineers Harry Hitchins and Hubert Cecil Booth. It was constructed in 1897 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Franz Joseph by the English engineer “Lieutenant Walter Bassett”, it was one of the world's earliest Ferris Wheels and sadly Bassett's Ferris wheel manufacturing business was not a commercial success, he died almost penniless in 1907. It was to have been demolished in 1916, but due to a lack of funds to dismantle the wheel, it survived. Originally built with 30 gondolas, it was severely damaged during World War II and when it was rebuilt only 15 gondolas were replaced. To learn more, please click on this link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_... Music - Track - Composer – Source 00:00, 21:35 & 26:15 - ES_Long Morning Coffee - Medite - epidemicsound.com This visit was part of a rail tour organised by “The Railway Touring Company” - if it’s something you’d like to know more about, please click on this link - https://www.railwaytouring.net/europe