We last visited the Landwasser viaduct on the Rhaetia Bahn line from Thusis to Filisur four years ago in the summer of 2007. I described that visit in this blog entry. It was an enjoyable day out, so it was inevitable that we would go again during this summer's holiday in the Graubunden.

In the intervening years, the Landwasser viaduct has been completely refurbished in a programme that cost CHF 4.6 million. I won't bother converting that to pounds sterling as it will be out of date by the time you read this and probably even more expensive! There is an information board at the foot of the viaduct and another at the viewing point which gives details of the project. I took a photo for future reference.



The principle difference we noticed was how much open the land around the viaduct was compared to last time.

For example, this photo was taken in 2007



and here is a similar shot taken in 2011



The view from the photo point overlooking the viaduct from the northern side is pretty much the same as before, though slightly better sign posted



The other change from our last visit was that I had a new camera - a Nikon D5100 - because it has full HD video capability. Here's a composite video of the footage I took. The Movie Maker programs that comes with Vista don't like the Nikon video format, so I'm trying a trial version of Adobe Premier Elements. The source is full HD but it doesn't seem to make difference when uploaded to YouTube or perhaps I haven't waited long enough for it to be fully processed.