Rail Away: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Rail Away Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Switzerland: Disentis - Andermatt - Göschenen - Brig
Jan 3, 2000
Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon. The story of one of the North-South rail links through the Swiss Alps from Bern to Italy. The construction of the railway line through narrow valleys and h
Austria: Vienna - Gloggnitz - Payerbach - Semmering - Mürzzuschlag - Bruck an der Mur
Jan 10, 2000
The Semmering Bahn. This railway was built 150 years ago and runs from Vienna to Bruck aan de Mur. There are beautiful images of large viaducts and tunnels and the snowy Austrian c
Germany: Wernigerode - Drei Annen Hohne - Nordhausen - Gernrode - Alexisbad - Brocken
Jan 17, 2000
One of the longest narrow-gauge lines in Europe, drawn by steam locomotives, is the Harz Schmalspurbahn. Written almost to death in the GDR time and replaced by buses, the railway
Norway: Trondheim - Dombås - Åndalsnes
Jan 24, 2000
We start in the harbor of the city of Trondheim and head inland to Dombas on one of the oldest railway lines in the country. Then she continues the journey to the coast of Andalsne
Austria: Innsbruck - Sankt Anton am Arlberg - Bregenz
Jan 31, 2000
The Arlberg lift. This was once the longest railway tunnel in the world, the line from Innsbruck to Bregenz near the German border. The story is told about the construction of the