Done the whole route one of the more scenic rail routes 158s seem perfect for the route as well but I wonder if other units sneaked on before ETMRS Im sure I saw a 153 pass when I stayed at Hafan Y Mor once around 2005 I think.
This is my All Time Favourite Train Startup Sound, identical to the Jubilee Line Trains & As far as I can remember, the Original Heathrow Express Trains too.
I do love junipers , but i do think they were like a more unstable example of an early 2000s EMU, When compared to all other units ime desiro and bombardier electrostars. i think they were the slowest accelerating and most problematic when it came to their motors.
Beautiful scenery. Cambrian passengers certainly got a better deal with 158s than West Highlanders did with the 156s! It's a tribute to the fleet engineers in the noughties that they were able to squeeze new ERTMS cab kit into the 158s. I like the flat crossing at Porthmadog; the only other one on Network Rail is at Newark. As the WHR pre-dated the Cambrian, NR was legally-bound to reinstate it.
I wonder if Lumo could allow a service to be formed as 10-Car (2x 5-Car Class 803) if they were to order more extra Class 803 IETs. Same with Hull Trains and Transpennine Express. As LNER operates services with 10-Car (using 2x Class 800 and Class 801 5-Car units) and GWR also operates services with 10-Car (2x Class 800 and Class 802 5-Car units).
Such a pity it took years of expensive mods and refurbs to turn the 180s into decent (ish) trains! Not been on one since their second disappearance from FGW in 2017, but by that time they were riding better and not sounding so gruff as in 2001. 180s can move off 'like shit off a shovel', and braking is great but (like the disgraceful Voyager and 800 'families') never a patch on HSTs for InterCity on-board refinement and ambience.
Probably not worth saying this, but I do miss the good old days when train-spotting meant loco-spotting. The newer multi-unit trains barely spark my interest, but thanks for uploading all the same!
The Class 334, Class 458 and the Class 460's are from the same family of trains with the same motors and are made by Alstom. The Class 390 trains have different motors but is also made by Alstom too.
Yep, it’s not worth changing anything interior-wise given that they’re in the fleet for only another couple or years. Won’t have been costed into a budget anyway.
So what is happening with the Class 180 Adelantes as EMR are replacing with the Class 810 AT300 IETs which has been nicknamed “Aurora”. And is schedule to enter service from 2023. Will the Class 180s be going to Grand Central as they have 10 Class 180s. 🤔
Which would be an absolute shame. When they work properly, they are a fantastic train; but given that DMU and Intercity don’t go together these days, there’d probably be no long-term takers apart from GC. So, as for the future, it’d be short-term leases or, as you say, for the scrapheap just over half way through the possible working life.
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Gosh they are so quiet now well done EMR for taking these on what a difference did they rattle ?? Most complains were bad rattling from the train itself how was it ? I think they are taking over the HST with the class 222 for a while well done on the video matey
Indeed so; curvature, structures, level crossings and the Inumber of station stops restrict speed on the whole coast branch compared to the Cambrian main.
The "small branch of the Ffestiniog" at Porthmadog is in fact the Welsh Highland Railway running all the way up to Caernarfon, and twice the length of the Ffestiniog. Both are very worthy of a visit and you need to allow a day for each; you can not do both in the same day.
And the 'Welsh Highland Railway' at Porthmadog (13:45) is actually the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway (www.whr.co.uk) which is administratively separate from, but with physical connection to, the Welsh Highland Railway that runs to Caernafon (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Highland_Heritage_Railway)
Class 158s the best rolling stock the Cambrian ever had. British Rail did well. And thanks to EU money the track and signalling upgrades mean record fast times between Aberystwyth and Shrewsbury. The avalanche shelter marks the spot where a Cambrian loco was driven off the track and fell to the beach, killing the crew 😕
the reason they have 158s is because any other trains (like 175) is too heavy to go over barmouth bridge, or the lower sprinters (153 etc) are too week and not powerful enough to pull along
@@cymruconnections4776 Regional Railways did a deal with the Welsh Office/ Assembly in the 1990s which wanted to see a big cut in journey time to Aberystwyth. To do that involved increasing linespeed over some stretches to over 75mph, and for the timetable to work each westbound train had to reach Talerddig loop within (IIRC) 60min from Sutton Bridge then cross each eastbound train. Only 158s had the grunt and the light axle loading to achieve this. Given the Cambrian's gradients, I reckon RR would have specced 159s if they could, as Network SouthEast did for Waterloo-Exeter, but the money didn't stretch.
