Doncaster to Cleethorpes with Transpennine Express 

Cleethorpes and Grimsby - two places I’ve never been to before. Thanks for showing and nicely filmed! 👍

Another great video. The amount of research that goes into your videos is incredible. So informative. Cheers Johnny.

Good morning, Enjoyed this a lot. So much information. Thank you!

I am enjoyed as a real riding with you on the train from Doncaster to Cleethorpes ❤️

Thanks to you, I will now spend a couple of hours mildly obsessing over the gorgeous blue clock/airy upper-case typeface combo adorning D O N C A S T E R station - not to mention the surprisingly tasty interiors of those regional 185s. Cheers!

Thanks for this video, not often seen pictures from Scunthorpe

Ist class was a surprise. It looks stunning. Even standard is quite swish.

Another great video Johnny keep up the good work.

Good video 😊thank for you for sharing,

Great video. Haven't been to Cleethorpes for 50 years (on day trips by train in the 70's) inspite of me living in Lincolnshire!!!

Let's gooooo Cleethorpes

Good video Johnny, hope you enjoyed your chips.... and beer ! :)

Great Video Johnny

Thanks for posting this journey. I hoped you stopped for a pint at the No2 bar? Its not changed much in decades. Great beer and full of character. I took my wife there back in the early 90s. One of the regulars was thrown out for bringing in a plastic bag full of rotting fish! She still reminds me of it 30 years later. I take her to all the nice places ! 😂😂.

I travelled to Grimsby and Cleethorpes in 2019 from NZ in search of my Grandads birth place. Sadly the house was destroyed during WW2. But I found the House where he grew up in Cleethorpes. I was impressed with the Seafront, the Parks and Memorial for the RAF Air-Sea Rescue Service.😊

Great video. It's a nice route and Barnetby used to be a massive freight hotspot for catching freight trains. It shame the old semaphore signals are gone

Great JH

I’m surprised it turned up 😂. Joking aside I enjoyed the video

You struck lucky again having two 3 car units, so many TPE services are just one unit with serious overcrowding issues. Before I moved away from the South Coast I always enjoyed my trips on the 159s, although that was before they were refurbished into SWR grey. Story to tell about visiting Cleethorpes and beer which I'll save for the next video :) Keep up the good work!

I for one like trains and beer. ☺

I do believe the crossing over the Keady canal is a Vazon sliding bridge , very unique.

Good to watch, and shows history is as important as scenery on a rail trip. I suppose you were too early for The Draughtsman at Doncaster station. Tiny, but worth a visit.

Just got back today from a few days in Cleethorpes, 1st time i've been there.

Looks like a nice beach.

Great video 👍 Cleethorpes, Barnetby area is my local area

Love railing in Lincolnshire. Happy childhood memories of New Holland Pier and station, and the Castle ferries that went to Hull and back. I think Cleethorpes is the only seaside terminus in England that opens onto the seafront. Dawlish and Obam don't qualify and there the only other ones I can think of. My crib list for north Lincolnshire services are. At least one direct service Cleethorpes to London KX, even better if reversing at Lincoln and routed via Sleaford and Spalding. This would offer a genuine trans Lincolnshire direct service. Leicester/Newark NG/Lincoln services to run through to Cleethorpes as in BR days. At least 3 return trains every day between Cleethorpes and Sheffield via Brigg and KL. At least one direct service each day between Barton and Lincoln. Great vlog thank you.

Born in Grimsby, raised in Scunthorpe :D your voice also reminds me of the guy from Art Attack :D

Great video Johnny, the amount of research you put in is admirable. Got my fingers crossed that you didn't get your fish and chips from Papa's (the one on the Pier), but instead sampled one of the true local chippies like Steels, Becketts or Ocean Fish Bar...

Last time I went to Cleethorpes I left the station to the sight of 6 or 7 young lads running across the bus shelter roofing....

I would be very happy if you would make videos in Germany one day. I think there are some stations and routes here that you would really like. I would also like to invite you for a beer!

You forgot to mention that this line was part of the Great Central Railway network as was your next trip down the Brigg Line towards Gainsborough, Retford, Worksop and on to Sheffield where it turns off at Nunnery Junction and on to the Midland, you never know but one day they might get round to reactivating the line through Sheffield Victoria and up to Fox Valley at Stocksbridge

Transpennine used to go to Manchester Airport before they dropped it and went to Liverpool from Cleethorpes.

I have been on that service from Manchester several times it can be really busy in fact the last time I had to stand between Manchester Piccadilly and Meadowhall

Wood paneling? Formica more likely. (other brands are available).

Thank you for that little seaside journey. When are you going to the NFL games in London this month?

Interesting you mention Grimsby Town as the station and football club, as the club is actually in Cleethorpes..... I doubt you had time to visit possibly one of the best Indian restaurants in the country, the Agrah in Seaside Street.

Norwich City, but thats long since closed 🤔

To be fair, the 185s replacing the 158s on TPE didn't work out as well as was envisaged. They're very heavy and are limited to running below line speed on substantial parts of their routes, where the 158s they replaced, weren't. This is probably the main reason they are unlikely to replace the 159s on the SWR route to Exeter. Their performance is only slightly better, as well. The 159s have a little over 9 hp/tonne, where the 185s have a little over 13 hp/tonne. Hardly night and day... and this shows in acceleration. Put all of those together and you end up with the main benefits being some more capacity (on average) and a slightly newer vehicle configured (arguably) a little better for commuter services. I think the 185s will stay with TPE for their entire lives, honestly. TPE are already using them on "skip-stop" services across the Pennines, which IMO they're very well suited to. I'm interested to see whether the 158/9 are proposed for replacement even within the next decade. They're tremendous units and a real credit to BREL, IMO. Northern are only just starting to look at replacing the 150/3/5/6 units, which are also still going very strong. I saw a news article indicating SWR might use some sort of hybrid units on that route, with "discontinuous third rail" partial electrification for charging batteries. Safe to say, I think, that any ideas to replace the 159s are in the very, very early stages.