Cab Ride: Twickenham to London Waterloo 

London must be such an interesting city to drive trains in! Incredibly busy and complex network.

That clickety clack sound going over crossovers is incredible. Amazing.

I don't know how old you are young man but when I was a kid i use to go from Liverpool to london in the cab. You will never forget that day well done great video.

I have a two monitor setup and watched this video while also watching the route on Google Earth. Added an interesting aspect to the whole thing. Saw some places I had been in 1979 while doing the big O.E. Ahhh the memories !

This young guy knows his stuff. If I were a gambling man I'd put my money on him being a train driver one day.

You're lucky to get a cab ride. I had a ride with an instructor on the Bakerloo line. It was amazing. I've also driven on the District line and my mate has done the Waterloo & City.

Even if this isn’t the fastest train journey, it’s very charming listening in on your conversation.

Great video! The young fella knows his stuff & asks some very good questions, obviously a train driver in the making 😉. Thanks for sharing a great ride!

Well done again for a great video. Another pleasure to watch and listen. Jack.

Been "traveling" all over Europe, lately, on RU-vid cab view rides. I'm amazed how much electrification there is. In many cases there's a conduit of some sort following the right-of-way, on or in the ground, winding around every obstruction, cased in a rectangular metal box.

A very well executed video. Like the chat very much. Really enjoyed my view

A most interesting video. Thank you for posting. My admiration goes to all in the cab... (and good luck to that young person).

Great video, this young lad is already very knowledgeable. We can all learn interesting points with a video like this. Really good.

Sounds to me like that young lad is almost qualified~ Good on you son, enjoy your time in the cab, I never forgot mine and I'd give anything to be able to go back to it!

Takes me back watching this route.....I was a Signalman at Twickenham West Junction Box in the early 1970s

Nice ride. Gotta love those UK trains.

zoomshane: He was asked to be quiet when the train was runing under caution (single yellow on the main aspect signal). As it means that the next signal is at danger (red), the driver shouldn`t be distracted with talking. To work a train on linespeed under green signals is not a big deal, but when you need to be prepared to stop a 300 tonns veichle at a certain point it requires full attention. If the driver would have missed a breaking point because they were talking, it could resolt a SPAD (Signall Passed at Danger), and it had serious consequences.

34:59 looking to your left you can still see the old Eurostar terminus of Waterloo that has been closed since 2007

I Am A Person Who Always Loved To Go On Trains And Look In The Cab:: CAB DRIVE Its Just Wonderful

An interesting and entertaining ride-along.

Being Irish and living 22 years in Manchester, I find this fascinating - I know that some fellow Irish people living in London are Tube Drivers 🇮🇪☘️🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thanks for the ride. Loved it .

Brilliant video, Dan... and through your questions I have really learned a lot about the workings aso, which 'll come in handy once I play Train Simulator again...

Heading into the South Bank purpose based terminus is the London Studios and you can see it again even as the train enters platform 18 of Waterloo.

At 1'27" there used to be a fiddle yard and when us boys were going to school in the mornings over the footbridge we would try our hardest to get sooty from the steam so as to get told off!

Love those train cab rides...there was a great one w/ Spain's High speed train - Madrid to Barcelona, but they removed it.

It is very interesting to see the number of commuter trains in your videos nothing like it is here were you would see only a few

Ah -- thank you, Mr Sykes ! One continues to learn. Something I see on roads all over the world: at rail overpasses, there is almost always a pair of "guard rails" (?) placed between the rails proper, and wedge-shaped at their beginnings and endings. Are these a form of protection against catastrophic derailment . . . ?

Great Video but my question is, what happens to all the Old Railway that is Discarded around the Network. Does it ever get collected as it seems it lies there for years.

14:25 The little metal pedestrian bridge ever the railway, we used to wave to the trains as kids on this.. as did our Dad before us, and my son did too.... Generations of kids probably have, as little kids can see through the wire mesh on the sides of the bridge.

12:43 notice how the "off" indicator illuminated as the starter signal changed

This video made me thinking of this track when I was in UK. I used to travel to London by catching this train!

Thanks, Tom. That gets it. I note that the overhead (my dad called it a catenary) line that powers so many trains moves right and left, even on a straight. I assume that's to keep the pantograph from heating up in one spot ?

great video!

PMSL! Kid tells the driver to set his DRA! That's funny!

Nice, thank you!

Hello, Nice vid ! Not familiar with the UK signal, but It looks like the train passed over a double red at ca. 11:30 and 23:25 (which is here an abolute stop). Also the train arrives at platforms at very low speed. Any regulation about that? Thanks.

They say near the end "Is this train going on the old Eurostar tracks" Did Eurostar just use that one line to the left going backwards & forwards from 30m54s > Waterloo ?

The Glasgow electric Blue Trains were great. You could sit behind the driver and see the track in front.

those are limit of shunt signals. applies to trains performing slow motion

3:35 - why is there scrap rail in the sand drag after the catch-point? If someone spadded and hit the scrap rail, it could throw it out into a running road, defeating the object of the catch-point and sand drag.

how do you get so many cab rides

Excellent video. Why is it you kept having to keep quiet for a few moments every so often?

If you want a laugh, turn on the Closed Captions and watch RU-vid murder the commentary. LOL!

I love the accent of the girl who is talking, where is it from?

I've been wondering why nothing is heard -- usually -- as wheels pass over the gap in a crossover. Is the outside diameter of the wheel riding on the rail at that point, rather than the wheel flange ?

Well said mate, I like it.

what kind of engine are you in and you are a lucky guy to be in the cab

what's that track connecting to platform 3 for i couldn't quite get what they said about it also i assume the platform extensions are for 10 car accommodation

Nice ride

great video. Pity anout the audio. Sometimes it is hard to follow clearly

Marvellous.

MotoCrazy, I had trouble with the cab chat because the local dialect, RR vocabulary, and pronunciation aren't familiar to me. I would love to know just how bright that young fellow is, and what he learned on this trip !

Mortlake used to be our Local Station :)

When I went to London in August I arrived in London waterloo

Why do you have to be quiet at certain times?

As a North American most of the chat was lost on me -- sorry to say. Would love to know what that third rail is for -- and why it switches sides from time to time !

Worryingly the driver doesn't remember the last crossing, after White Hart lane, in Barnes.

Very good video and please do more. Merlin Video Services.

OK thanks. So @ 00:45 it is also a "double orange"...

@4:03 the signal on the other track is a landmark for when to speed up after st margerates

steven chung---- why do you want to know about the kid (several times)? Perhaps you are on the wrong forum.

Looks like all the signals were red :-/

St. Margarets is my local station. :D

What class of train is this

Do you ask the drivers if you can ruses

That kid really knows his stuff...

Great video ,, But please keep the camera still

Even the trains drive left just like cars.

you are running on 750 Volts DC

What Class where you riding in?

Watching

Was the train the Class 455?

Good

why did they build Twickenham and St Margarets so close to each other ?

The chatter made this a better-than-average cab ride, even though my American ears couldn't decipher a lot of it! The young man was properly inquisitive, and the two adults were very helpful with their answers. As for the ride itself, it was slow speed, and the train must have become quite crowded. I wonder if a more up-to-date signal system would let it move along faster.

Does every driver get such a brilliant co-pilot? :P

people who live in glass houses shouldn't live near bricks

If you can ride In the cab*

interesting

Instead of rattling on about nothing it would have been good to have an announcement for each station.

Hi anslem

I think he has permission from the company.

haha I like the blokes response to "Why do you have first class?" at 21:46

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So?

Ah right fair enough

Great video. I thought that drivers could get the sack nowadays for letting people in the cab, especially for a cab ride. Something to do with health and safety, not saying it's nice to be let in the driver's cab, 'tis very fun.

What is that kid's name and how old is he

I need to learn my phonetic Alphabet!

Nicely Done!! I have a Time Lapse video of Waterloo Station in London on my channel that you might enjoy. Let me know what you think. Thanks and have great week.

What is that kid's name

Britain's toughest rail journeys with Danny Dyer and his pansy son!

What is kid's last name?

Pity about the chatter. Otherwise, very interesting.

So it's ok to a have a member of the public in the cab is it😡 So easy to distract a Driver, A moments loss of concentration caused the Harrow and Wealdstone Disaster

5 seconds

what is that kid's last name

What in the hell is so funny?

Yawn. passenger trains... its all signal work...now running 3500ft. coal trains through the rockies in canada on the canandian pacific line...thats railroading...grew up in a rail road home...handled mountain freight trains when i was but 8-9 years old in the mid 90's...i actually had the engineer seat/controls to myself while my dad just told me what to do..