We welcome any comments and suggestions for videos, or routes to be edited and uploaded. We have various Cab ride and rail videos and are looking when time permits to have more lineside footage and travel reports. Whilst We do have access for our camera equipment in some driving cabs these are normally when there are two or more persons in the cab and involves different Drivers/ Guards and technical staff most of which are under instruction/ training. So there is as you can imagine a considerable amount of talking. As part of the agreements to access the cabs as was the case many years ago we are not permitted to replay voices. We have tried to edit out voices and remove them and do some dubbing, but it has proven far too time consuming for the return we recieve from You Tube. If anyone knows of a quick/cheap way to do this the please drop a comment below. Thanks for watching and please subscribe.
lovely video.... I lived in Exeter many many years ago and sometimes miss it....pity to see so much built up now ..the countryside rapidly disappearing, and the wild life with it. Sad.... 70/75 % reduction in most insects, plants, trees, animals since the 1970s....
Thanks for sharing. It's a nice video of this former Branchline to Grassington. I saw this railway while driving from Skipton to Grassington on holiday this year and wondered about its history. Thanks again.
Wasnt there once an idea to reopen the Leamside Line and start passengers services between Tyneside and Teesside also utilising the Stillington Line, but nothing ended up coming of it
Curious if you know: Apparently that crossing is interconnected with the traffic signal on Hwy 6 - when a train is passing through, does the light stay green on 6 or does it go into flash mode?
Well I am not familiar with the countryside. However you really need to see our train ' The Ghan' . Hours of entertainment going through the interior of Australia.
Did this trip in the cab of an 8f Austerity in Spring 1967. At Ferryhill, 92065 (ex Tyne Dock, with air pumps for the doors on the iron ore trains ) was shunting, then waiting to go north. Passing us in the opposite direction, tender first, was K1 62041 on Dolomite empties. Our turn was to finish at Steetley's, Hartlepool, Cemetery North - where we'd begun early that morning, after coaling up by the enormous stage at West Hartlepool Loco.
Must be boring being a driver on that line, flat as a pancake, I come from up north, we have structures called hills and mountains. The line could do with a few curves to stop the driver nodding off.
There used to be through coaches from Liverpool Street on the Clacton train, and we split at Thorpe with Henry taking the larger portion on to Clacton and Thomas hooked on to the rest for a slow chuff up to Walton. Trains often passed at Frinton, which shows how frequent the service must have been on Summer Saturdays; You also needed to book seats or you would be standing the whole way in packed corridors.
Our Holbeck job was always a pair of class 31’s,a nightmare to get out of the yard with 2,000 ton of limestone loaded just slipping and sliding due to being too light. A lot of this went to Hull Dairycoats sidings and it was used for the Humber Bridge i believe, I once second manned a Neville Hill man to Dairycoates from Holbeck in the early 1980’s
What I find incredible about this, and most rail routes in Britain, is that they were built in the mid to late 19th century. This was in a time of basic primitive equipment, and these routes are still in use today, although speeds have definitely increased somewhat! I had the pleasure of travelling this route, north to south one cool fall day in 1973, on a "real" train (locomotive and separate carriages). Half of the passengers were enthusiasts with head and cameras outside of every available opening, and the other half were poor wretched souls trying to keep warm. Needless to say, I was in the first group.
My dad was a driver and my grandad on intercity and virgin trains, also drove steam which looks very hard work still don’t know how the drivers manage to see them signals
Fascinating. I knew where this line went but have never been over it. It never had much of a passenger service. A useful route for excursion trains from West Riding Towns to Cleethorpes.
Pity about the no sound but at least we dont get those irritating track bells and buzzers kudos for some interesting cab rides alot better than some others
First time I ever “scored” this line was on a class 144 pacer. It would normally have gone all stations Leeds-Doncaster then reversed out to Scunthorpe. Adwick and Bentley didn’t exist in 1989 so there was no issue serving them. The train used this line direct to Stainforth. It then reversed to Doncaster before reversing again to Scunthorpe.
Magnificent catches of the train departing from the station, I like it 5 stars. Thumbs up. Keep up the perfect work, my friend, liked and subscribed, Greetings from Portugal to the UK.
