Series had many loyal fans
Cult show “Railway Romanticism” is set
The train has left – the former success program “Railway Romanticism” will soon no longer be produced. A well -known face of the series is particularly disappointed.
Fans of emotional railway films now have to be very strong: the SWR stops the production of the program “Railway Romanticism” at the end of the year. “The editorial team will be dissolved at the end of the year and no new episodes will be produced in the future,” said a SWR spokeswoman on request.
The show showed films and reports for many years about steam locomotives and historical railways in Germany and the whole world. The slowly cut and quietly told contributions quickly found a larger fan base in the 1990s. The makers produced episodes such as “The Abreschviller stroller train”, “in the wood class through Cambodia” or “The Sauschwänzlebahn – strategy on rails”.
Many fans especially in the 1990s
The reportage series has been on the SWR since 1991, but was also broadcast in other third programs of the ARD and at Arte. For several years now, consequences have also been provided on YouTube and in the ARD media library.
Hagen from Ortloff presented the show for many years. He is considered the inventor of the “Railway Romanticism” as the only moderator that remained the face of the series. He appealed to the SWR in a recently published YouTube video: “Please leave the editorial team of” Railway Romanticism “.” There have been more than 1,000 episodes of the show – now the SWR is simply and relatively loveless a “cult program – and I very much regret that”.
From the break filler to the success show with a well -known title melody
The show was initially considered as a break filler in the SWR program. But the makers were surprised by the success and so the films about trains and railway lines quickly became a successful series. “The short films had a higher ratio than the programs that were shown before and after. And these were the main program,” said von Ortloff in 2016.
Many spectators may have remained the memorable title melody in the head. It was the “Sentimental Journey” jazz sounds by Les Brown. The song was heard at the beginning of the consequences, but also in the credits. At the start of a episode, pictures of the elderly Schmalspurlok of the Museum Railway Ochsenhausen-Warthausen in Oberschwaben were usually seen.
But the SWR has good news for fans of the “railway romance”: “There are currently new episodes for the program” Railway Romanticism “in production that will be broadcast in 2026,” said the SWR spokeswoman.
Tituenied “Sentimental Journey” by Les Browns
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Source: Stern
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