Majorca's railway

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Thu Jul 25, 2002 10:34 pm

Anyone been on that small mountain railway in Majorca?

dilflat · Post by **dilflat** » Thu Jul 25, 2002 10:53 pm

My Dad lives out there so I have travelled this route several times. The descent into Soller is awsome, you can see the line zig-zagging down the mountain.
To get the best views, sit on the right hand side going towards soller.

For those who have never been to Majorca the soller railway is a vintage narrow guage electric railway that runs from the centre of Palma (on roads in places a la tramway), over the mountains to the resort of Soller where it meets up with a tramway that takes you to the harbour.
The Locos are beautiful vintage wooden overhead electric locos.

There is a second line that runs from Palma and this is a modern commuter route serviced by DMU's

I have travelled both but the Soller line is an absolute must.
It would be worth checking the spanish MSTS site to see if anyone has come up with a version yet.
Regards,
Dave

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Thu Jul 25, 2002 11:03 pm

Yep, thats the route I had in mind. the other route goes to Inca or something like that.

The SollÃ©r route has a name, I think Ferrocar de la SollÃ©r?
I stood on the platform between the coaches both ways. The views are breath taking, especially when you stop above SollÃ©r for a 5 minute photo oppotunity. I stole a few lemons growing next to the line at SollÃ©r too

Interesting rolling stock too, all out of wood and metal, the panto's are interesting to, the diamond shaped ones.
The loco takes passengers too.

johndibben · Post by **johndibben** » Fri Jul 26, 2002 11:17 pm

Actually its Mallorca .... so there

dilflat · Post by **dilflat** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 12:10 am

Not if you fly from Luton Airport

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 4:12 pm

Mallorca is the Spanish way of spelling or saying Majorca, the J is pronounced Y.

Como estas?
Muy Bien senÃ³r.

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 8:51 pm

johndibben wrote:Actually its Mallorca .... so there

Wheres Lorraine Chase when you finally need her?

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 8:52 pm

southcoasttrains wrote:Mallorca is the Spanish way of spelling or saying Majorca, the J is pronounced Y.

Como estas?
Muy Bien senÃ³r.

Don't quote that language at me - I have all the Vengaboys records....

37714 · Post by **37714** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 10:06 pm

basildd wrote:
southcoasttrains wrote:Mallorca is the Spanish way of spelling or saying Majorca, the J is pronounced Y.

Como estas?
Muy Bien senÃ³r.
Don't quote that language at me - I have all the Vengaboys records....

You listen to that .?

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Sat Jul 27, 2002 11:54 pm

37714 wrote:
basildd wrote:
southcoasttrains wrote:Mallorca is the Spanish way of spelling or saying Majorca, the J is pronounced Y.

Como estas?
Muy Bien senÃ³r.
Don't quote that language at me - I have all the Vengaboys records....
You listen to that .?

Thats a matter of opinion

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 2:56 am

I found Spannish quite hard to learn at college.
Last September myself and 3 friends went to Tenerife on a club 18-30 holiday and my friends relied on me to speak Spannish.
After a nightclub, we jumped into a taxi and asked the taxi driver to take us the KFC. We were doing chicken sounds in the taxi to tell the driver that we wanted chicken. He took us to some prostitutes untill I spoke some french to him. "Manger, manger" I said, which I think was spanish to eat like in french. He took us to a service station outside Playa las americas where we ate chicken sandwiches.
We then thought about having a go at the prostitutes but the police arrived and they ran off.
Well we very very drunk.

I found my ticket and the leaflet on my jounery on the SollÃ©r railway. I'll scan then at a more sociable hour

37714 · Post by **37714** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 11:14 am

basildd wrote:
37714 wrote:
basildd wrote: Don't quote that language at me - I have all the Vengaboys records....
You listen to that .?
Thats a matter of opinion

Oh no, quite the contrary. If you look up 'vengaboys' in the dictionary, it quite cleary states:

Vengaboys ('vÅ“ngAkrÃ¦pp) <i>slang ~ n.</i> 1. nonsense 2. rubbish 3. a taboo word for faeces 4. Modern form of music, more commonly known as .. 5. Complete loss of sense 6. Bad taste.

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 11:31 am

37714 wrote:
basildd wrote:
37714 wrote: You listen to that .?
Thats a matter of opinion
Oh no, quite the contrary. If you look up 'vengaboys' in the dictionary, it quite cleary states:

Vengaboys ('vÅ“ngAkrÃ¦pp) <i>slang ~ n.</i> 1. nonsense 2. rubbish 3. a taboo word for faeces 4. Modern form of music, more commonly known as .. 5. Complete loss of sense 6. Bad taste.

Must be why I like it then!

Now in less than 20 words sum up Scooter...

MichaelGreenhill · Post by **MichaelGreenhill** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 1:38 pm

lmao!!!!!!!!

MichaelGreenhill · Post by **MichaelGreenhill** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 1:40 pm

basildd wrote: Now in less than 20 words sum up Scooter...

., bollox, sh*te, pis-a*se, dodgy, cheap, ., annoying, and bodge.

Did i mention .?