No, you didn't make a mistake in taking this trip. You relied on the train operators to proivde the advertised service which was the let down. However, you achived what you set out to do within 48 hours, so good on you! It has made me wary though of making a journey reuwirng multiple changes of trains. Your videos have become complusive viewing for me, so all the best for the future. 💗
I love to see someone making a video travelling the entire length of the south coast of england from Dover to Penzance by rail without going through London over the space of 2 or 3 days.
Well done Dylan, taking one for the team! This was class, enjoyed this, I would have absolutely hated the loud kids too, I am a stickler for noise on trains and expect silence from everyone!! But you made it and as I have said before, you should be extremely proud at the amazing range of travel across the world and at such a young age too. You have lived 2 lifetimes already!! Keep it up man! 👍✈🚆🚄
Agree. Am I selfish on that as I was once a child. Yup. But I just like to sit in silence watching. Don’t mind quiet chat but it’s the same with those with headphones that still think they have a right to have it as loud as possible so it leaks out and that we should all enjoy it as well. I’d pay a few £ for a total supervised quiet car that means no loud headphones and no children under 12 and that actually removes people that break certain rules.
Travelling from Manchester (preferably Victoria) to Holyhead for the ferry to Dublin on SailRail, I’d love to see more direct services without having to change trains at Chester, Crewe, Bangor or Lladnuo in Wales and ideally, I’d love to travel in first class where possible, preferably in a private compartment - on the ferry, especially overnight, I prefer to get a cabin for the 3 hours crossing if I’m feeling especially tired, otherwise it’s the Club Class Lounge on the Irish Ferries Ulysses ferry
Reminds me of June 1975 when me and my mate did a week on the trains on an all line rail rover . Just what you have done but 7days . Enjoyed every minute 😀
I once did a similar trip all around Ireland, Mayo, Dublin, Cork, Dundalk, back to Dublin - and a 5 hour coach trip from Dublin to Donegal Town and onto Letterkenny - when I eventually arrived back in Dublin by coach for my overnight coach and sail back to Manchester, I was wrecked
What an Odyssey! Delays, loud lads and kids, missed connections and nearly the entire length and width of Britain. This was very entertaining and if such a complex trip had gone perfectly it would have been a miracle. It's a trip you'll always remember. Congratulations on 100K.
The boy done well! 😀😀 Congratulations on both achievements: subscriber base and surviving 48hrs in British trains Standard Class Seats. Well edited into a palatable length capturing the flavour of the trip.
I love your "Hit & Run" trip across the UK. I am amazed at the sheer number of trains serving both large cities and small villages and towns in the UK ...and of course, I'm jealous because I live in auto-addicted USA.
This was fun . I decided to put this itinerary into a spreadsheet. I counted 19 trains and 8 different operators . The total mileage is estimated at 1908 miles. GWR 2 trains 346.875 miles LNER 2 trains 925.9125 miles Caledonian Sleeper 1 train 400.375 miles Scotrail 2 trains 283.15 miles Northern railway total 4 trains 38.4375 miles Transpennine express total 2 trains 42.55 miles LNWR total 2 trains 197.85 miles Greater Anglia 4 trains 19.725 miles
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. It was realistic and showed rail travel for what it really is sometimes. I like this more relaxed style you are developing and it made me smile quite a few times as have been there too! Keep it up, brilliant.
Thanks Dylan that was great. You deserve all the praise you get. I wasn't expecting you to start at Berry Brow - a station I used when visiting friends on the road up to Castle Hill! I've used the All-line Rovers myself, they give you complete flexibility without having to worry about missing a pre-booked train and losing money as a result. I remember once completely altering my plans on Shrewsbury station when a train I wanted was cancelled. I was surprised you hadn't done that for this trip. Although I live in Scotland I've never used the Caley Kipper as it has a bad reputation for reliability, unlike the older sleepers which I used to use quite happily. £7 a pint for beer in London - and recently a Londoner had the nerve to complain to me about a bar in the Highlands charging £5! What a cheek! I've no idea what monetised RU-vidrs earn, but you've earned it with this one Dylan. Well done.
Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers! You’re genuinely the best trip report RU-vidr I’ve seen. You deserve every single one of those subscribers and more! I still can’t believe that you’ve done this LOL. Complete dedication to the content, respect for that.
Congrats on 100k subscribers! I spend a lot of my time on trains as I work for LNER so typically spend 7 to 8 hours per day working on them but I couldn't do what you did! Excellent video :)
Best video ever! Glad you got it in the can before winter. Been waiting to see you hitting the Replacement Bus Service, LOL. The narration has made the channel blow up along with the facetime. You are funny with just a neat bit of sarcasm and a very expressive face. Faces are my business. Keep it up son and 200k is next! Congrats!
Congratulations Dylan on reaching the great milestone of subscriptions 🤩👍🏽 What a great video...a great tour of the UK 😀🇬🇧👍🏽 I used to do this in the 1980’s with BR in my youth and it never, ever went to plan, but it was great fun all the same 😀👍🏽🎉 Thank you for keeping us all entertained with your well presented video’s that are always interesting to watch 👀😎👍🏽 Keep those trip videos coming - we all love them 🤩👍🏽🎉🎉
Well done Dylan great to see you get the rewards for your hard work. Thoroughly enjoyed all the destinations and rides you've taken us the viewer on throughout the UK and Europe.
Congrats on 100,000 subscribers. I've been a fan of your videos for a long time and you really deserve the success you've had with this channel! Thank you for letting us come along on your trips. Personally, I look forward to every one of your videos. A lot of us wouldn't be able to experience the journeys you take. It is much appreciated. Thanks again!!
Congratulations, Well Done on achieving 100K Subscribers, Dylan. Oish, what a way to celebrate your milestone, taking a 48 hour runabout through England and Scotland. Being young helped get you through the journey. The delays were unfortunate unforseen hiccups in your plans, except for oversleeping. Keep up the good work, Lad. Slàinte Mhath🏴
Wow Dylan, this was quite a challange!! I was very impressed that you kept filming for 48 hours. I can imagine that you were quit exhausted at he end. Well done mate and congrats of reaching 100.000 subscribers, you deserve it!!! Keep on going!!
A marathon journey, and I could feel your frustration and exhaustion as the plan began to unravel. My wife and I took VIA Rail Canada's "The Ocean" from Montreal to Halifax in coach, back in 1983, and I envy those people who can actually sleep in coach seats on long-distance trains. I was a zombie for the following 24 hours until I managed to get a real night of sleep in a stationary bed.
Congrats on a epic trip! Truly an Odyssey with all the obstacles. I sympathize with the loud people. I go through that nearly every time I'm on my bus to/from college. It can get excruciating!
Hello Dylan, since the pandemic I have been watching your videos and thanks to you I have discovered many trains throughout the world and know how comfortable they are and what they offer in case one day I go to one of those countries. I wanted to propose a TOP 5 of all the trains you have taken in these 48 hours in second class, which is the TOP 5 of the best second class according to comfort, train vibrations etc etc, and for the quality price, thanks and I really enjoyed this video a lot. CONGRATULATIONS ON THE 100,000 SUBS, I hope you reach 500,000 hahahaha.
Wow what a journey! Congrats on 100K subs! So glad that you decided to start narrating your videos, always very well done! Well-deserved to reach this milestone to celebrate your great content!
Well done that man! Being Huddersfield born and bred myself I can perfectly understand why you embarked on a 48 hour journey from Huddersfield to get to Huddersfield!
Glad you didn't use a Cross Country Sardine-can Voyager! Grant Shapps should be made to travel from Penzance to Glasgow in one every week, standard class.
Thanks for a great video - I really enjoyed it, although I'm not sure what the railway 'Social Media Team' would make of it. The delights of train travel in the UK! By the way, 'Penistone' for me always evokes the Woodhead Line. Sorry for showing my age.
30 minutes being a tight interchangeable is something that just feels so wrong here in the Netherlands. Even the least used local lines still have trains every 30 minutes, and the busiest lines every 10 minutes. Interchanges that are three minutes are normal here and expected to be possible.
Great trip in the 80s I used to travel on the class 37s in Scotland going up on a Sunday night and staying on until Friday on the internal overnights Enjoyed your vlog and look forward to watching many more
2:17 Many years ago, I had a similar problem when travelling from Athlone and Mullingar on the Sligo line via Maynooth to Dublin Connolly, even though I had a tight connection from Dublin Hueston to Thurles - at Clonsilla, the train terminated and I was “peppering” as I knew that the traffic along Dublin’s Quays is notoriously busy at that time of day - in more recent times, this problem has been resolved with the use of the Phoneix Park Tunnel via Liffey Junction for passenger/commuter services
VERY Well done - both on the 100,000 subscribers; and the 48-hour ride. Compare if you will the bright happy face at the start of the video with the travel-weary knackered one at the end! You should have allowed yourself at least one standard sleeper cabin - we'd not have minded. But you'll know next time - as more laid-back videos would be nice, every now and then... Interesting that they feel the need to put notices on the backs of the tip-up seats on your Liverpool Street to Stratford train - informing us that they're not in use when they're in that state, isn't it? And there was me thinking they might be occupied by really small people... And, Aberdeen station... just when will they leave that place alone, I wonder? Thanks for staying awake to film Kintore, too. You'll have Inverness Airport next time you're up that way - and maybe Reston and East Linton - and maybe even direct from Huddersfield at that; seeing as ScotRail is doing its best to forget about its plans for an Edinburgh to Berwick local service...?!! There's an idea for you: everywhere you can get a direct train from Huddersfield to...
Congratulations Dylan!!! Thankyou for sharing your epic journey. I particularly like this one I’ll be watching it a few more times over the weekend. Everyone hit that like button 👍🏻… One of the best milestone videos I’ve seen in recent years. 100k subs is well deserved of such a great channel. Keep the awesome videos coming… props Dylan
Thank you Dylan. Another enjoyable trip. It reminds me of my train spotting adventures in the 80s. I’d also spend days away, travelling the country using rail rover tickets. Surviving on cans of coke, bad sandwiches from the station buffets, and sticking 10p pieces into the Space Invader machines. Do you actually record loco / rolling stock numbers by the way, or does that not interest you?
Brilliant video! Reminds me of the trips I did down South this year leaving home on Monday morning and getting back on Wednesday night. That would consist of visiting two cities linked to London on the rail and two nights on the Night Riviera (seating area) visiting somewhere new in Devon or Cornwall. I feel you when you say it’s tiring but god it’s an experience and great fun being out on the rail!
Fantastic content. Thank you for taking us along with you, enjoyed every second. Please continue sharing your travels it's a weekly highlight for me. Miss that wonderful British weather !!
30 minute transfer at Edinburgh after coming off the Inverness train, you are a braver man than me! Have been delayed up and down the Highland line by all manor of things over the years from snow to broken windscreen wipers.
Wow! I sure as hell wouldn't want to do that trip. I'm glad you survived in one piece. Anytime I do long-distance trains here in the states, I always book a sleeper. It makes all of the difference in the world, as you know all so well.
Well done, Dylan. What an epic. You did well to cope with all the delays and changes. The whole video brought back lots of memories of trips I have made, though I've not done Stratford to Meridian Water. I expect I will one day. Keep up the good work.
Congratulations, Dylan. First of all congratulations on your 100,000 subscribers. Second of all congratulations on this wonderful and extraordinary video, which I have thoroughly enjoyed. I must tell you Dylan that you are now my idol and my hero. You’ve done something I would like to have done, but haven’t been able: spend 48 hours on different trains. In my various trips in London and the UK, I could not have used that time for this extraordinary adventure. And in my country, Argentina, where we used to have a very wide railway network, most of it has disappeared. However, while in London my last time, in 1985, I did a station tour. In one of two days. I visited most railway terminal stations: Victoria, Waterloo, London Bridge (which is not real a terminal), Liverpool Street, Kings Cross, St. Pancras, Euston, and Paddington. I am sure I have missed one or two. Most of the stations I had used in my different. Thanks again, Dylan, congratulations and blessings. And see you again next time. William Grant (Willie) from Buenos Aires Argentina.
If you’re at Euston and want a slightly more reasonable pint, the Euston Tap is just outside. If it’s raining you’ll struggle to find somewhere to sit, but standing whilst not bankrupt is preferable to the inverse.
Great to see you're taking this into a great passion and showing it for us! Here's to many more! I'd be flat out exhausted after 5 hours, could never imagine doing this 😂
Congratulations, brilliant job! Also when you get your playbutton, enjoy it! You definitely earned it, you put in the hard work; your videos are amazing and you put in crazy amounts of work and dedication, you earned 100K!
Congratulations on the amazing milestone Dylan and for the epic journey you took to mark the occasion - it made for an enjoyable video. Too bad you missed out on seeing Felix and Bolt - perhaps you need to bring along a sachet of Felix catfood, which I read in Felix's biography is her favaourite! Thanks for pointing out Liverpool South Parkway also has a resident cat!
Well done Dylan. Great achievement. Good video too. I'd like to try it myself one day. It's never going to go exactly to plan. But that's where the fun is! I'll keep watching, every week.
What an epic adventure. Well done Dylan. I am sure your channel will grow and grow as I and I am sure many others love what you do. It is so much nicer now that you talk on the epsiodes.
Congratulations on 100K subs, Dylan! It’s one thing to travel around the country using only rail, but it’s another animal to do it in 48 hours! Well done!
Greetings from St. Thomas Ontario railway capital of Canada (I think not) most enjoyable video I have subscribed to yourChannel. I was born in Chingford Essex so I know Liverpool Street very well. Keep up the good work!
Well done on reaching 100,000 subscribers Dylan and for finding the stamina to do such a trip like that. I stumbled across your channel and videos during the pandemic and am supremely glad I did so as a few of the trains and trips you have reviewed in previous videos I will be sampling myself in May.
Both trains I requested during your q&a have been reviewed in one video! Really shows you listen to your fans keep up the amazing content! 👏 Congrats on 100k subs you really deserve it!
Congrats on the 100K Milestone. Perhaps an idea for a future milestone video would be to buy a 7 day all line rover and see how many miles you can cram into the 7 days. Throw in a few challenges in there too such as a collab with someone else between certain destinations, with you going one line and the other person doing a different route. I'm sure other ideas could easily be thought up.
Hell of a good video! Well done! Me traveling in July to London by train via Paris! Global Interrail 1st class! In UK with one country Interrail pass to Shrewsbury then to Coventry and finally down to Poole! Then by Eurostar via Frankfurt and Munich back home to my town Bregenz!!! I have never really used trains in UK for the last 50 years - was in southafrica for 40 years! Now i will see what European trains TGV‘s, ICE‘s n Eurostar have got on offer! And of course the UK railway system - will be hopefully interesting but not too frustrating as I might not find my way around easily!😢😢Good luck Wilfried - my name!
As an ex-Melthamer it's great seeing someone so local ...and local lingo too - 'gobbing off' ! Only one thing would have improved this odyssey, and that would have been a timecode on each leg to show the hours passing by. But anyhow - a marvellous long-form 100k celebration - felt your pain !
Congratulations on your milestone. I feel for you having to endure the 3 worst types of train in existence in the uk (185, 170 and 80x) AND a rancid bus on top of the delays. That was really REALLY bad luck. What a fantastic challenge you set yourself, keep it up 🤙
A huge congrats to your channel, it's always a treat to see your vids from wherever part of the world you are! Here's to more railway trips in the not too distant future!
Great video as always. I watched a few of your videos with subtitles back and the voice over videos are so much more enjoyable. Looking forward to seeing what is to come!
Congratulations Dylan, another superb video with lots of interesting content. You were unfortunately forced to take an alternative route for the challenge, but you succeeded and enjoyed the process over the tiredness, making something special to celebrate your 100K subscriber milestone. Not silly at all!
Aged 15 (back in the 1970's) I used all my savings and bought a 2 week 'All-Line' 1st class rail-rover. Didn't tell my mum until it started on the Sunday. Even then I was economical with the truth, but things were different back then. Nonetheless as crazy an idea as it was I had just the best time. Still remember it fondly all these decades later.... EDIT: Your mum and dad must be incredibly proud of you, and rightfully so. Over 100,000 subscribers....what an achievement...
Well done for managing this test of endurance! Hats off to you, Dylan. Berry Brow! Well, I stayed at the Berry Brow Hotel in the Isle of Wight in the late 60s and here the nemw popped up and the memoried=s flooded back. Have a rest before the next trip and I look forward to many more. Thank you very much indeed.
London tip - Euston to Moorgate is quicker than Euston sq. to Liverpool Street. Less walk from Moorgate than there is to Euston sq too. You're better off drinking in the Euston Tap too, in the old gatehouse by Euston rd. A fine selection of beers.
Nice video and congratulations, you deserve it. 🙂 I have two minor disagreements.. First, I don't think the Class 195 or 331s are bad trains. They are boring and unremarkable but I find them fine on the Calder Valley Line and WCML. Suspension is a bit hard and not quite as good as the 150s, but they are much more modern and I think nicer to travel on. If you don't focus on the ride quality you don't notice it. Secondly, while LNW have offered me some fantastically cheap fares from Crewe to London. Their 350 trains are often filthy and uncomfortable. I have got on at Crewe to find litter everywhere, stained carpets etc. After an hour the seats are like sitting on a park bench. Still the fare was so cheap compared to Avanti I couldn't complain. Just my thoughts anyway. 🙂
