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Friday November 27th over 1,2 million Norwegians watched parts of ?Bergensbanen? on NRK2. The longest documentary ever? At least the longest we have made, almost 7 1/2 hours, showing every minute of the scenic train ride between Bergen on the Norwegian west coast, crossing the mountains to the capital of Oslo.

Bergensbanen is 100 years in 2009, and the documentary was a wild idea from NRK staff that came through, and was a surprisingly big success.

The documentary had picture-in-picture clips with videos about Bergensbanen, a reporter interviewing people on the train, music and two cameras pointing to the sides of the train. Because of rights, we had to remove the music and many videoclips, so we decided to make a clean frontcamera version for this download. It?s recorded on a Sony 700 camera in XDCAM HD 1080 50i. The camera has a 30 seconds buffer, making it possible to switch disks when needed. So we have a continuous recording of 7 hours.

The original file was 165 GB, too much for most people to download. We coded a 720 50P, 1280�720 version, resulting in a 22 GB file.

De Bergensbanen is spoorlijn tussen Bergen en Oslo in Noorwegen. Het is de hoogste hoofdspoorlijn in Europa. Hij gaat over de Hardangervidda-hoogvlakte tot meer dan 1200 meter boven zeeniveau.

Het traject heeft een totale lengte van circa 493 km met 182 tunnels over 73 km. De langste tunnel is circa 10,6 km lang. Op het traject zijn circa 300 bruggen over enkele rivieren en stromen. Het hoogste station is in Finse, 1222,2 meter boven zeeniveau. Het hoogste punt is Taugevatn dichtbij Finse op 1300 meter. De totale reistijd van het traject is circa 6-7 uren.

Prachtige beelden voor de spoorwegliefhebbers, je rijdt mee op de voorzijde van de locomotief.

LET OP, IS WEL 22GB GROOT.