Cab Ride - Herne Hill to Clapham Junction 

A very calming video today. Beautiful weather and the ride. See you on the next. Cheers mates! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

I quite enjoyed the chit chat with your co driver made the journey worthwhile

Clapham Junction,a train viewer's heaven. Train traffic is intense, coming and going. Loved it. Thank you for the video.

Thank you for another fascinating ride to "somewhere, via the back of beyond, and back to front". Looking (from Kiwiland) at that complex track layout, hats off to you guys for not ending up at Land's End or John O Groats.

Great to see the network of lines around that part of London. I grew up in a house backing onto St Helier signal box, now long gone (38 min) . There used to be a coal yard on the right (down side from Wimbledon) and another crossing towards Sutton that enabled the milk trains to be run round. These came from the West via Kensington Olympia to the Express dairy at Morden South, (39.10 min) that’s now the mosque. At around midnight and midday they’d be run round at St Helier. There’d be a gap in the frequency of electric service at midday to allow this. Before we had a car this route gave us access to many places, and from age 11 I used to commute to school, college and work, and enjoyed exploring those lines. Thanks for the opportunity to see the Sutton loop in particular. 😎👍

Thanks for another excellent video and grand tour of South London! It's great to see less well-known lines like the 'Portsmouth lines' down to Sutton, and the Wimbledon loop or 'Wall of Death', and also nice to see the Reversible Fast Spur at Streatham being used in the down direction. I don't mind the chat, by the way!

What a great video!

Takes me back to my student days with a flat in Herne Hill 1969./70. Green BR slam door compartment stock then

Great video nice scenery and good weather.

If you're going past clapham junction platform 15 and back up via platform 8. This is one of my favourite station, Clapham Junction has been my best station for years

Quite enjoyable. Very scenic. Coming from the US I've ridden some of these lines. I still have a 2003 London Connections pamphlet maps + an A To Z and realized this route was taking the long way from Here Hill to Clapham Junction. Great graphics, BTW.

Enjoyable video. Did not realise you had turned around !!

A very enjoyable video also liked the chit chat when i go down to London from my home in west Yorkshire i like to go spotting at Clapham jct i have been on all the rail lines in zones 1 to 6 also the whole of the Underground & the Overground and the Croydon tram link and all of the Docklands railway.

This is interesting stuff. You mentioned about "working direction" which I have seen on the side of the tamper units whist working on the work site. I would gather this makes sense since the tamper operator sits from one side of the unit with a window facing the machine that you can glimpse from the inside and will start tamping from the beginning of the job and tamp to the other end, often having to go back to the start and tamp a second time if needs be. We generally have to make sure the operator can see the fastening ties or clips clearing the ballast stones with shovels to give a rough estimate of where the sleepers are to tamp them. For ones where it cannot tamp, we use manual handheld vertical tampers. But all in all these are fascinating machines indeed!

Excellent video - thank you

Another extremely interesting video from you... Thank you my friend...

Nice video. Great to see the view from the cab going passed my flat on the left at 22.22.

Dont be sorry for the chit chat.It was good,did not spoil the ride.Thanks and safe driving.

Interesting Route, with Railway Conversation..

I enjoyed that trip! hearing all your chit chat ! hope you had a good holiday? my only complaint is next time clean the window please!

Another fascinating trip round the houses of South London (and more of my old stomping ground (Sutton). But who knew fifty years on that there would be another use for a turntable???

The amount of routes and lines in southern London, that i you guys have to get "signed off" on (and have to remember) must be akin to a Black cabbie having "the knowledge" ? Aaaaah, Wandsworth Road. Spent so many hours as a kid, day and night, stood on those platforms. Another brilliant vid. Thanks for sharing.

nice one, and a bit of line round to Wimbledon I've not previously seen.

Great video

Excellent footage there of some rarely seen suburban lines. Always been interested in seeing what they look like from the drivers point of view given how light the traffic can be. Also interesting hearing the conversation between the 2 blokes in the cab. Are you one of them by any chance?

Great video again. What a pity there is no turntable to use at Nine Elms anymore :)

What a palaver! Most interesting, thanks. (I liked the chit chat, me)

Awesome video from here in the US. For a track machine, you guys were moving along pretty well, what’s the max speed for your tamper? Here in the US most track machines (with few exceptions) are only good for 20-40 MPH depending on the machine. For transport they are usually loaded onto a road truck, or flatcar...

Great video. Lots of routes, lots of switches, lots of trains! A beautiful day for an excursion. What is a tamper? What is it used for?

Hmmm, perhaps direction reversals and re-introduction of "Turntables" is the way to go?????? Great watch - most illuminating. Thanks.

Any chance you can get on to the North Kent coast? Love the journey from Gillingham to london.

Via the world not joking! great video

Herne Hill to Clapham Junction - now that would have been a useful passenger route.

Circuitous routes are mainly used to please the transpotters and cabriders I’ll bet! Did it, too!

I think I just saw half a dozen snails race past this train! LOL

Excellent, excellent video !! The Chit-Chat is fine and welcome; it's better than having the video sound like a somber, stiff library, or morgue. It makes you real. This is the first time that I did Sutton to Wimbledon. It was a very interesting routing, especially since I'm interested in track layouts and routings ! Your photographic quality was bright and crisp; much better than the dull videos that are quite common presented; this gave a cheerful mood to the whole thing. Also, no dragging station waits which are mostly tedious. Is this a single unit tamping machine that you were riding, or was it a train with ties, ballast, and other stuff as well? Where was the origin ? What work was specifically being done ? I know what tamping is. Aarre Peltomaa of Mississauga, Ontario p.s. I am subscribed.

Nice drive. If only someone could invent a device that you drive on to that turns the tamper round (tongue firmly in cheek). :)

Just re-watched this one and read all the comments. Excellent video as usual! Would I be correct in thinking that the 'chit chat' was mainly because you had a road learner with you (calling out all the signals) and the other chat was incidental?

Thanks for the " ride". Assuming track speed is 125 mph, what's the fastest these track machines can travel?

Another Excellent vid,Thanks What sort of area do you cover?

Fantastic video. You have to go in a circle just to get to other side of s Station. Working for Network Rail. Do you go all over the country. Or just southern England? Stay safe.

What were ye actually doing? Just out for a spin? Nice day for it

Are there no ‘turntables’ any more that would maybe avoid all this travelling, saving time, money and the environment?…It’s probably a dumb question but seems worth asking!

what operator

Geez, the driver's window could stand a bit of a wash!

Well just one video to go. i have now watched all, not interested in the game ones so left them . and a like was left for all. 👍🏻

I’m not really clued up on trains but what do these tamper machines do? What is their purpose?

Looks like wading through someones overgrown garden.

What are these Atlantic lines all about?

What a rat’s nest of rail lines this part of UK is. You drivers must need to place a lot of faith and trust in the ROC workers. One wrong switch position and you could be in Reading instead of Isle of Grain! And you do it mostly at night. 👏🏻👏🏻

Reckon you could walk from HH to CJ quicker than this.

Going on holiday with the girlfriend and get asked if the wife is going with you? I wonder if I misheard that?