2.7K UHD Liverpool Lime St to Manchester Ox Rd 

The excavations out of Lime Street are one of the wonders of the modern world. Spectacular footage.

Another great video. I have nothing but admiration for the 'navvies' that built our railways. They worked hard and drank hard, in all conditions. A real tough breed!

I find your videos really relaxing to watch, but also informative with the captions! They really add a lot of context to the video. Great work!

I love these in cab videos. Great for those of us who would never experience this. It makes so much of a difference when the windscreen has been cleaned too.

This video has brought back so many memories.I did my apprenticeship in Warrington during the mid 70's. the bridge on the left just after going over the wcml used to go into one of the many factories that were in Warrington. If I remember correctly. I used to live in Hough green right across from Hough green signal box.thanks for refreshing my ageing memory

Hi Don. Greetings from Pennsylvania. Another great video chock full of great shots, information, history, interesting comments, and beautiful views of England. Many thanks. CAS

Love this video Don. I really enjoy the extras you add along the route - the maps, the historical info, and the current sites like the power stations, bridges and old Trafford. (I confess that I learned all about Premier league soccer watching Manchester United back in the days of Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie)

From an ex pat just here to admire the old scenery, thanks for a great video -- especially in such high quality and with your comments.

Love the 'returns' and 'asides' gives a more intimate feeling of the area involved.

Thanks once again for a wonderful outing. It is a privilege to join you in the cab and have a wonderful view of the line. As always it was both entertaining and instructive. It is good to acknowledge the great debt we owe to those early railway engineers.

Well done Dan. I loved it. I especially love the historical narrative which adds hugely especially to historic lines like this one

Very nice video - many thanks Don for taking the time and effort to make these!

I really loved the info and learning about the junctions.. and how things may have changed.. you have a new Subscriber... thankyou, for sharing this, Don :)

Another super cab ride Don. Thanks so much as always. Really like your captioning and second camera views. Also nice to see you mention Martin Zero. Martin's videos are always well worth watching. Thanks again.

Great video Don. Thank you. I'm a newcomer so I'm still going through your previous videos, none of which disappoint. 👍🙂

The grey bridge at Warrington is a former spur to the WCML. The line from Glazebrook used to link up with Stockport Tiviot Dale. The line used to burrow under Stockport viaduct, (the trackbed is now the motorway), and provided a link with the GCR at Godley. It was basically a Manchester bypass and the coal trains to and from Yorkshire to Fiddlers Ferry via the Woodhead route used this. Just east of Trafford Park there was a triangle junction with a line called the Fallowfield loop. This line also bypassed Manchester and ended up at Fairfield on the GCR. This gave the GCR access to Manchester Central.

Once more you have raised the bar of the content in this genre, thank you Don. It is a genuine pleasure that (after all these years), I am beginning to get a mental picture of the network around Manchester that I never fully appreciated in my teenage youth. I would purchase a B.R. "Day rover" ("Away day"?) ticket and travel to many hubs just to fill my current "Motive power-combined volume" with more highlights, but I never covered Manchester much at all. I guess back in the day spotting variants of classes; 47, 40, 86, 87, and the occasional "Peak" plus obligatory DMUs / EMUs were more exotic when viewed from platforms further afar! I realise that footage of a line in inclement weather, coupled with a noisy wiper might dissuade you from the prospect of editing and uploading such footage, but personally I love to see this kind of stuff, it really makes you realise just how brutal the weather can be for Drivers in particular. For example have you ever seen this video Don? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pUWBc76bKNk.html it really opened my eyes to just how precarious railway work can be, (and I have travelled tender first-into the teeth of cold rain during my time on preservation railway). :-) Thanks for the reference to the Martin Zero videos, I will be binge-watching those when time permits. Finally I have to ask, are Transpennine upgrading their rolling stock to just 185s and the 68 push/pull consists, or do they have plans to roll-out new EMUs also? (Assuming that Transpennine actually own any?)

Thank you so, so much for these videos! And the time and effort. Stand-alone the videos are great and the captions are a wonderful bonus.

The more I watch of these rail videos , the more I enjoy them . Will continue to watch as many as I can . Very entertaining & informative . Thank You .

Awesome cabride Don!!! Thanks for all the extra information!! Cheers Onno.

Thanks again for an enjoyable and educational film. I’ve just come out of hospital again after nearly expiring from influenza, and was in ICU for three weeks, and your films have been cheering me up no end whilst I recover. Keep up the good work!

Another excellent cab ride Don ! Par excellence ! Thank you for sharing!!! :):):)

Once again, many thanks Don, for bringing back memories of my life before Western Canada, when I lived, and worked, in the North West.

There's so many comments someone might have answered this already. You asked about the grey bridge on the left just before Warrington viaduct. That bridge is MAJ Bridge 113. It used to carry the now dismantled Bewsey Branch line. The old line used to follow a curve round to the North and ended up running parallel to WCML on the Up side. The old and now flooded track bed can be seen next to WCML at MAJ Bridge 114 on Bewsey Road. Particularly interesting video to me as I'm a structures examiner for this area and I've probably examined 80% of the bridges seen in this video including most of Warrington Central Viaduct! Very enjoyable videos. Thanks.

Thank you Don for a great video, I'm in awe of Manchester's railway infrastructures, especially around Castlefields Junction with all the viaducts and castellated turrets, and some of the old buildings right next to the line, just amazing, loved the aerial shots as well :-), we have to be proud of our engineering heritage. As a young lad back in the sixties I lived in Boxmoor Road near to Rose Lane coal sidings and most days had steam engines parked next to our back garden, happy days. thanks again Don.

Oh, these videos are a truly great escape for someone who can't find the time to get out as much as i'd like to. A really enjoyable watch. Thanks for creating and sharing them.

Great video. Loved the extra information. Thanks from New Zealand.

Just checking the actual drive as I've recently got the Liverpool Manchester add on for train sim 2019 and the game has done a great on the actual scenery. thank you for putting this video up.

Superb video, Don. I was looking for, or might have been pointed out, the section of the wall out of Liverpool that collapsed a year or so back.

Another excellent video Don, you do have the knack of getting it just right. Long may it continue.

Excellent video, very enjoyable. great work. Don't stop. Greetings from Ireland.

Another excellent and informative video Mr Coffey,keep up the good work.

Another excellent video Don, with once again brilliant information captions.

Great vid again Don, up to your usual standard, I really appreciated the detailed commentary running into Manchester. Not a route I was familiar with, other than running into Central in the steam days!

Thank you for another very informative video clip, Don. I remember coming into Oxford Road from Greenbank into the bay (Platform 5) in first generation DMUs.

There is nothing as boring as a train video with no narration and no captions and there are too many of those on RU-vid but this one was GREAT, excellent clear video from the cab and regular informative captions ,really enjoyed this video ,Thanks !

Been following your videos for a while now Don. Time I think to say thanks for this and for others. I eally enjoy the captoned info which you don't get in many other cab rides. Every vid seems to get better too. By the way I volunteer now with others at the NRM in York and we often watch your vids there

Another great video today. Enjoyable and relaxing. Thanks Don.

Thanks again for a really interesting video. The Warrington Straight Line was the original route of the 1865 Act, with the loop through Central authorised a year later (both MS&LR Acts). But whereas the line through Central was opened in July 1877 (when they started the regular 45-minute service), the Straight Line did not come till August 1883.

Can’t beat a class 156 at all, my favourite train operating in the country, and in my honest opinion the best 2nd generation DMU to be built, always fell in love with the throttle controls noise, very distinctive ching,it would be my dream that I can one time drive one of these beastly units. (Providing Scotrail don’t get rid of their 156 stock in the coming years) Also love the vids aswell Don, very well produced and very informative!

Excellent stuff! I remember walking from Barton Power Station on Redclyffe Road (now a B&Q) to Salford via Trafford Park and the numerous lines in the Park.. These lines used to serve firms such as Carborundum, Lancashire Dynamo, Kellogs & GEC (to name but a few). Also there was a rail bridge connecting Salford Docks to Trafford Park but they moved the bridge when redeveloping the Docks into The Quays.

As always, a very good video and very informative too! Please keep doing them.

left for New Zealand 1978 from Lime st on the sleeper, enjoyed your video,great ride thanks, traveled that many times, grew up in New Brighton :)

Another nice one with interesting extra commentary. Thanks Don.

Love the video. Love the footnotes!

Excellent,thank you. Irlam station and The Steam house at Urmston are great places to alight and enjoy good food,a nice glass of wine and a superb pint of real ale plus brilliant company.

I love all your videos Don, your knowledge is fascinating.

Hi Don great video, good to see the line from your point of view. After seeing the old disused bit 👍🏼

Used this service so many times. Always wanted to see it up front. Cheers 👍

Really interesting video, especially about the Cheshire lines. Growing up in Altrincham I was always really curious about that line that comes off Skelton Junction!

Enjoyable, and so informative, thank you!

Good shout out for Martin Zero. His videos are great.

Another great video, thank you. I like the use of the longer focal length lens; it avoids that curving distortion of verticals and horizontals (poles and overbridges) which a wide-angle lens is prone to. Your captions are, to this Australian viewer, a mine of information. I track your programs in Baker's Rail Atlas of Great Britain (which I see just now I bought at the NRM in 1982.)

Informative as ever sir. This is a great vid but my absolute favorite is MIA to York. That vid had everything, beautiful train, views, day and a lovely destination in York. I've been to York many times and It's a place everyone should visit.

Hi Don, yet another great film! Great again with the very informative captions makes for more interesting watch. What more do do need in that a cup off coffee plus hot x bun and a free rail journey! 😀, beats standing on cold platforms❄️ keep them coming. Eddie🤓

Allerton depot (8H) in the 60s was a DMU depot, modern for its time. Fidler's Ferry power station used to get its coal from Yorkshire, brought by paired Class 76 locos over the Woodhead route - in the 80s that was the sole purpose of the line.Diesels took over at Guide Bridge. My aunt, Dad's eldest sister, was a nurse based at Burtonwood and Padgate during WW2. She dealt with American airmen casualties from bomber raids over Germany. Forget the videos - she said they arrived, still alive, virtually cut in half by Luftwaffe cannon and machine gun fire. Your captions are always informative - Penny Lane! The building society I worked for 1974-82 opened a branch near there. In its first month it exceeded all investment targets, but suffered three armed raids!!

Your videos keep getting better. Thanks.

Thanks Don. So many memories of my hometown Urmston. I well remember the accident near Urmston Station in 1958 that could have taken so many more lives and I even saw the bridge before Flixton where, as a 10 year old I used to get my face covered in soot as I peered over the side when the steam locos thundered past below.

I travelled the route from Chassen Road to Oxford Road five days a week between 1973 and 1978. There was no Humphrey Park station in those days, and after Trafford Park station the line has changed out of all recognition... .

Done this trip many times, never seen this view though. Great.

Another super informative video, thanks Don.

That famous cutting has to be one of the greatest railway works in the country.

Truly enjoyable. Thank you, Don.

As usual, Don, a first rate and educational cab ride!!

A brilliant video Don and so informative

Amazing Video finally a video on my local route!

Hi Don, Very interesting video, with the ex thameslink 319's being put to good use, and the new 769 'flex' bi-mode units, this type of unit is commonplace over here (France) since 2005 with the articulated B81500 and B 82500 the latter being also dual current (1,5kv dc and 25kv ac). With regards to the grey bridge approaching Warrington, the spur that it once carried served the Dallam & Bewsey forges and was not a cord onto the WCML. Lastly, windscreen wipers have been in the past a sore point for many drivers in europe aswell as in the UK in many cases they were particularly good at spreading the dead flies into an almost opaque mush across the screen..!

Great video don love watching ur videos carnt wait for next one

Its really quite something to see when people talk about Edge hill station. Even in the present guise as seen here it is still older than any station still standing in Manchester or surrounding areas. The orignal Edge hill station, is still standing in the Cavendish cutting and it still in its original condition, it is the world's oldest station. Crown street station was older as the train left there first on its first run to Manchester, but Crown street station has gone, while Edge hill is still there.

I visited Birchwood earlier last month (March 2019) on my way to Patricroft from Manchester - yup - caught the wrong train! Thanks to the guard who was very helpful and pointed me to the right train. Even so got plenty of time to spend photographing the route of the Clifton Line from Patricroft as far as Black Harry. Martin Zero explores Clifton Station at the other end of Black Harry in a couple of his fascinating videos, "Exploring a Disused Railway line. The Manchester to Rossendale Line Parts 1 & 2"

Another great video Don very informative well done

Also, love the editing-in of clips from older vids and the repeat of Irlam Station. Incidentally at 34.33, the water you can see down on the right is The Mersey. Passengers get a great view of the confluence of the river and canal which then share a course for a few miles before splitting at Rixton.

I remember travelling on a class 185 over this route, when it was First Transpennine Express and when the Scarborough services would call at: Liverpool South Parkway, Warrington Central, Birchwood, Manchester Oxford Road and Manchester Piccadilly. It was too slow for my liking. I preferred the Newcastle services, when it would travelling non-stop between Manchester Victoria and Liverpool Lime Street.

Fantastic video Don. I've travelled on this line from Warrington Central to Manchester Piccadilly many times and am fascinated by the history that you have mentioned. Great way to see the line from this perspective.

Another great video, Don. Thanks. At 30:50, you mention Glazebrook East junction, and the diverging line South. But at that exact point - Moss Lane / Dam Lane, there was a signal box controlling "Dam Lane Junction" - part of the dual track chord North to Culcheth and Lowton St Maries. And further on, "Glazebrook Junction West" which is another dual track chord from the same, before you get to Glazebrook Station, and thence to Glazebrook East Junction. Love researching these old lines on National Lines of Scotland (Side by Side using the OS 25"/mile 1892-1914 maps) Superb detail and a great resource. Your question about the grey bridge at Bewsey, seems to point to a chord from the WCML, but the map referred to above seems to show the line being blocked somewhat by Bewsey Foundry, unless it indicates going under a building.... Love your videos, but you really can get me dragged into a bewildering amount of digging down, watching, referring, watching again.... Keep up the superb efforts! And get yourself another beer! Derrick

The bridge looks to have connected to the Dallam and Bewsey Works (Iron works and forges) from circa 1890 (although an iron works had been on this site since the early 1850's) and possibly a link on the what is now the WCML (lots of sidings so hard to make out). The line is still visible in 1963 but by 1972 the line had been removed leaving only the bridge.

FYI, the gas fired power station between Irlam and Flixton is called Carrington Power Station - I used to work there! Great video.

It was fascinating watching this - I travelled from Trafford Park many many times over the years. The station is nothing like it used to be. We used to sit in the waiting room by the lovely warm fire waiting for the train to arrive. If the fire wasn't lit - it was the Porter room for me - my dad worked on the railway at Trafford Park Junction box for years, before becoming a relief signalman and then in the Power Box at Central Station until it closed. I haven't been on this line for many years as I went to live in York and then moved to France . I would have liked the Humphrey Park station to have been opened back in the 50's as it would have been great for me going to school.

Another great video Don, as before well captioned. Just as well its pouring down here in Co. Durham or i would`nt get any gardening done.

Another lovely vid Don. Just been looking at old OS maps of Warrington. Although that bridge remnant near the WCML crossing is indeed the remains of a chord southbound WCML to east bound Cheshire Lines, that facility looks like only an afterthought to the main purpose of linking to a network of goods lines that circle the Dallas Brewery & Forges. They are best seen in the 1937 OS map. The chord is still there on the 1970 map but by then the forges had long gone and the brewery, in which I worked in 1969 (just a summer job loading trucks before my A level year) was no longer served by trains. It was pretty modern by then and had Ben extended over the former forges. The first available on-line map showing no chord is 1984 but it could have been lifted anytime between 68 and 84.

Don? I've never been interested in trains but I find your videos so interesting? I watch every one!

liked 501 ! another nice and well captioned video, maps are useful too, I follow on a rail atlas, also a useful help,

Brilliant video

I love coming in to Lime Street, all that sandstone, and mad tunnels. After Edge Hill you start going subterranean, as more and more roads go over the line until you are completely underground then as you get to the station there are flashes of daylight and if you look up you can see the street far above you, then you burst in to the station itself under cover of that glass roof, think it was the largest glass roof in the world for a spell when it was built.

Great! Another good un. Keep em coming😃

That grey bridge coming into Warrington. Very old maps show a chord from the WCML to the CLC and it would have gone over that bridge.

As you said, at Halewood the CLC. went round the back of Liverpool to Aintree and thence to Southport Lord Street. It passed threw West Derby, Childwall, Norris Green, and Knotty Ash.

Love your work Don.

What I find amazing the cutting at Liverpool and all those arches constructed by hand must have taken some time to complete.

Great video.

I simply would love to see your footage from the emt class 156! Not every video will be perfect as that’s life and the railways as a matter of fact !

Widnes Station (17:00) is reputedly where Paul Simon wrote 'Homeward Bound' while waiting for a train ("I'm sitting in the railway station, Got a ticket to my destination"). There is a commemorative plaque in the ticket hall.

Great video!

excellent and informative video grazie

Aaaahhhh, the whistling cab door - remember it well from when I drove 156's around the North West for BR thru to TPE, Barrow, Manchester, Blackpool, Winderemere, before I finished in 2005. They don't improve with age then!!!!

This footage is going to be priceless to historians not yet born. Lets hope it can be preserved so future generations can see how we really lived.

Widnes, on this line, was often referred to as Widnes North. Another line went along the river to a station in the town centre, but this was closed years ago.

another brilliant video

don, in answer to your question about the grey bridge just before w'ton station. this formed part of a spur that connected to the wcml . there is also -or was a steep embankment leading down to the wcml from the same direction the train is travelling on. -i used to note these while travelling the same route many years ago when i moved to w'ton from l'pool!!. excellent cab ride vids sir , keep them coming!.regards dw. cheshire.

I feel for the driver. Has to be his daily. So he either lives in Manchester or Liverpool. Heart felt feeling for the poor fellow or female. Joking aside. Great video's.