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Don Coffey and Ben Elias!! Two of my favorite train men. Thanks for another great video.

I've been checking in for a new one. Looking forward to it!

Thank s Don and Ben . Amazing video. I'm so jealous , to be there in this cabin , Beautiful sight . Many thanks for all the coments , Especialy those technicals .

More great stuff Don. I especially appreciate all the educative caption work you put in. I've clocked up my 3 score and 10 now but grew up a railway child (Dad was a Station Master and Area Manager) and ferrophilia has never waned. Keep up the good work. All the best from an ex-Sam - until I started going deaf.

A really enjoyable and informative journey. Thank you

Very interesting comments and stunning landscapes. Thx from Brittany. I ❤️ Ben

Another great cab ride! REally enjoyed this one!

Thanks Don and Ben for an interesting video on a dull old day.

Another epic video, thanks Don and Ben

Great Video again. Keep up the good work both of you. My brother in law works as a train steward for TPE and has for many years.

Many thanks to all involved in the production of this video.

Looking forward to this

I was just south of Lockerbie in a hotel/pub having a business meeting at the time Pan Am 103 was destroyed over Lockerbie. Only found out as I got in my car to return home. Felt sick thinking of all the poor people that died that night.

Thanks Don and Ben, really enjoyed that one.

A very enjoyable film & I enjoyed all the text as well . Remember the awful pan am tragedy @ Lockerbie , as I passed by it shortly after . Travelled up most of the line , en route to Glasgow , so brought back good memories for me . Thank you for the video .

Beautiful Video

Watching from South Australia .my daughter lives near Haymarket Station.. makes me feel closer to her

With the remodelling of Carstairs underway, it would be interesting to see an updated cab ride

You have done it again Don. Excellent video. Thanks for the mention of Ben etc too. Your remarks re steam locomotives I have taken on board. I fired steam loco's here in New Zealand when I first joined the railways. I loved them, and enjoyed the work. There was some dirt and soot, but we found the work OK. We used face masks for the tunnels. Cover the mouth and nose, and the air came through a filter.

I enjoyed doing test runs on the CAF 397s prior to their service introduction (Crewe-Carlisle-Glasgow) before I retired in 2019, so it is good to see the WCML again and refresh my knowledge up to Edinburgh.

Really good interesting in all respects, I like the tech & all information. Thank you Don.

Hi Don.....commenting on your RU-vid videos. I'm an expat from Manchester, having lived for the last 50 years in Australia (now in northern Tasmania). Your railway videos are by far the best on Y/T.!! The banner info you accompany the videos with provide great interest and add much to my enjoyment. As a young 'trains-spotter', I captured the Deltic on its trials on a busy day at Crewe. Unfortunately as I clicked the shutter on my Kodak Brownie 125 camera, Deltic lurched forward and all I got was a picture of the chevrons on the nose of the Deltic. Please accept my accolades for your channel and all the contributors. You make this older guy very happy.

Great video as always Don (and Ben). It is difficult to comprehend the stupidity of motorists who violate the level crossing regulations but to do so when there is an obviously marked camera van present is beyond belief!

Manny thanks for another great video and information. Having just returned by road from Scotland I recognised the route of the M74. Wish in was able to go by train.

LOVELY. BEEN UP THAT LINE AT LEAST 30 TIMES. cheers a lot

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

Mr Coffey, I think its high time you established a training school for youtube train drivers as your videos are far and above the best to be found online. Any fool can point a camera from a cab but but these trips might as well be a route in Austria for all the information we are given. Your commentaries are full of information assisting the viewer in time and place and the details of railway working are good stuff indeed. Keep up the good work and enjoy your time in the number one spot.

great show as ever, nice looking jeep behing you

Done that route many times on a leisure train trip and nice to see it from the front. Took me a while to find where that shaft of light in Haymarket tunnel was coming from on my train journeys. It's vents that are inside a 275KV substation and you can hear the trains pass through. It is off Torphichen Street and another vent is on Dewar Place Lane in a car park and visible on Google Street View, but if you're not aware, can easily pass it by.

Lovely stuff Don! Should come in very handy when I get to detailing this section on my map. :)

The weather is not the best but the train ride was super as usual , thanks Don from this old railway novice in Canada 🇨🇦

Fantastic video Don l really enjoyed it some nasty weather but this train really travels.

Another amazing journey, watching from Brisbane, Australia. Wondering if you have or would do a journey during the snow season? I have watched a few winter snow train trips from Norway and they are amazing 😎

Cheers to the photo contributors-well done!

Very Enjoyable Ride, cheers chaps!

Nice to see that Waverley south tunnel at that speed 😊🤣🙊

Just approaching Elvanfoot on this journey enjoying the serpentine track as it winds its way around these big hills. Quite a contrast from the straight as an arrow (mostly) journey from York up to Newcastle as featured in an earlier Don Coffey production.

Had a ride on a 397 a few weeks ago for the first time. Delays in introduction, Lockdowns, lack of reason for travel and then my own relocation to South Wales meant I didn't get chance. Good ride quality, but the extra capacity vs a 350 has quickly been usurped by the travelling public so once again Oxenholme to Manchester was done stood up.

Great video, as always. I enjoyed it. However, one factual error which I hope you don't mind my pointing out. At 49:54, you say Cogrie Viaduct crosses the River Clyde. It crosses the River Annan. The railway crosses the watershed at Beattock Summit, so the last crossing of the Clyde was before that.

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Beautiful filming! For RailCam Supporters; The Thankerton camera can be seen on the left @ 29:28. Beattock camera, not quite so visible, is on the house on the left @ 46:23.

great run im from livingston i know most of this area working in the past

The 1500v DC Class 76's and 77's had regenerative braking in the 1950s which helped with the line's power supply as the gradient profile (Sheffield to Manchester) was essentially "up" and then "down". A loaded coal train descending towards Manchester could generate power to be used by others climbing up towards Woodhead, from Wath or Sheffield. Same problems - got over by "wasting" the power if too much was being generated - again, quite rare.

Another great ride! Wonder if network rail will ever consider changing the carstairs junction to allow faster speeds. 15mph is so Victorian!

Thank you for another cracking video. I walked from Carlisle to Glasgow as part of my lejog walk, the motorway and the old A road follows closely with the railway. You didn't mention the sign at Beattock Summit which reads 1016 feet above sea level and with an arrow pointing towards Glasgow 57 miles and another arrow pointing toward London 349 miles.

The river annand is crossed by the corrie viaduct the final crossing of the river clyde was at elvanfoot some mile back

Hi Don/Ben, won't be watching this one "Live", as I will be sleeping, ready for my 0230 start on Monday, but will watch it asap afterwards. Nova2 /Cl397's, are the only TPE stock I have not travelled on, but hope to rectify this soon.

Hi Don. Have been watching your videos for quite some time. Good videos. One point that you should continuously update / display the speed of the train as it decreases or increases. Hope you"ll do in your next Videos. Thanks.

Hello there! I really love your videos and all the work behind them. As a train driver in Spain I have a little technical question about the signalling system used in UK: If there is a major disruption on a two track line and the track that's normally used (left) is closed by some obstacles (train in distress, construction works...), is there a possibility to continue running on the right track? I mean something like a contraflow use of the right track. I can't see any signalling placed on the right so that's my question. Here in Spain mostly on two track lines we have signalling on both sides making possible continue moving on the right or left track independently without problems or special procedures. Even it's possible to overtake another train (slower one like a freight train or a Regional train which has to stop often) without major issues. I don't know if I explained the situation correctly but I think the idea is clear. Thanks for your time and again thanks for the great work and keep doing this kind of videos, the captions are very interesting.

Some other aspects of the Quintishill rail disaster were that the troop train was formed mostly of old wooden stock, which burned very readily, and the unfortunate troops were locked into these carriages. They were largely Territorials of the Scots Guards, on their way to Liverpool to embark on a troopship for the ill-omened campaign at Gallipoli. About half the contingent perished in the accident. The surviving remainder, after a day's rest re-entrained and continued their journey to Liverpool and Gallipoli. The victims were buried at Rosebank Cemetery near Leith, where many of the soldiers came from, leaving a close knit community to grieve, though it's a sad epilogue that many more of the troops aboard that ill-fated train who survived would find their own ends during the fighting in Gallipoli.

11:10 My house in Kirknewton. Kirknewton station used to be called Midcalder station, although Midcalder village is a couple of miles away. Always confused me as a child. I believe this stretch of line is still known officially called Midcalder Up and Down as is the junction to the west of the station. Great video, as always. Many thanks.

Another enjoyable video good to see a very efficient windscreen wiper on loco.

Hi Don! First of all i really enjoy your video edit with insight about railway, nice job! I have a question for you, in the video (but also in others) when stopping and departing at stations or at speed limit post i see quite firm brake-acceleration, i've been told that drivers actually push the trains quite harder thank you think. I've been on trains and as a passenger you don't feel so much so i wonder if the camera angle tricked me about speed or the train has a better system than a car :)

Just to point out that while this train is using the Up Midcalder to Carstairs, I must point out that the Shotts route goes nowhere near Carstairs and in fact will leave the Up Midcalder at Midcalder Jnc which is just after Kirknewton station formerly called Midcalder station. As to the route onto Glasgow from Carstairs itself, there is the route via Wishaw and the more direct route which avoids the Wishaw route and goes direct to Motherwell. Railway Track Diagrams Scotland & Isle of Map Sixth Edition published 2017

Adding my thank you for a great video and informative captions. Train nerd question: are there 2 tones for signal indication, one for clear and one for both caution and danger (US translation approach and Stop)? I have not distinguished a third tone.

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This is strange, I really like these videos, but I hate travelling by train! Or maybe it’s that I used to dislike it? It’s many years since I’ve actually been on one. I used to be a British Transport Policeman. In the 80s, most of my train trips involved escorting quite unpleasant people. Anyway, these vids are great! I’ve subscribed. 👍

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Hiya Don, great footage once more! Thanks, again. 😄 Now i´ve stumbled upon something I can´t quite figure out; Pausing the footage at exactly 58:18, a speed sign shows two different maximumspeeds, for what appears to be for the tilting models.. As far as I know there are only two tilting classes of train in the UK, being the Super Voyager and the Pendolino (Classes 221 and 390, respectively). Are these different numbers applied to the different classes? Are they perhaps circumstantial nonetheless of which class of train? Or is this sign not intended for the tilting trains per se? Couldn't figure this one out.. 🤷

Class 385 EMUs were built by Hitachi not Siemens. The bridge at Kingmoor just before the speed drops for Carlisle used to carry the Waverley route over the WCML, not Carlisle MOD. Excellent film, the 397s look awesome. Btw could you get Sheffield to Cleethorpes in the future at all Don please?

Interestingly...(and I say that advisedly)...despite the map at 0:08 and the fact its near the west coast of England, Carlisle is EAST of Edinburgh. If you draw a line due north from Carlisle it hits the Firth of Forth near Port Seton, East of Edinburgh.

Another fantastic video. Oh, by the way, it's not the M74 motorway.

Hey Don, if you used some long polymer windscreen protection, such as Rainex on the train’s windscreen before you started filming through it, you’d have the rain drop bouncing off, and you’d never need to use the wipers.

Do you think that modern traction would cope with the old Waverley route? Could it be a viable alternative?

After Carlisle, does this unit head further south or does it return north? Thanks to Ben for his input. Much appreciated.

Awesome when you play at double the speed

The "tilt mechanism" is not really for safety but for comfort. Maybe a little bit for passenger safety in terms of not spilling coffee but the train won't come off the tracks at 125 in a 110 zone.

It must be difficult to go at these speeds to see the lights if it's green or yellow red. I am watching this and listening to my radio heart 80s DAB

I assume that the Carstairs station mentioned in the video is the same station where the Caledonian sleeper splits. Does the Edinburgh portion reverse here as the station is north of the junction so it seems.

Do you know much about that old signal box on the left as you leave Edinburgh? It's a fair size and strange built into the wall. Quite daunting when you see how fast they go from the drivers view. Can I ask, if possible would you be able to add locations of the now non existent stations that used to serve little villages. Only if you have time. I realise that's quite a bit more work for you. Thanks

This was great! I know it's not really your area, but if you have any other Scottish footage, I'd love to see it. I'd especially like to see Edinburgh to Dundee via Kirkcaldy, as that's the area I know best and where my family is from.

Another wonderful cab-ride - thanks again, Don. Although I might add that your Scottish (and/or Anglo-Scottish) subscribers use the M74 to travel into England! :-)

Please tell me Don , is there any special issues regarding overhead power and 3rd rail ,it's just that 3rd rail looks more tidy , or is it that economics play a big part in it all [also , does engineering advantages come into play] . Great vid' though . typical D.C. quality as usual .

Don, I watch all of the videos that I can. I am a retired Engine Driver from across the pond and I have a questions about the signalling system. In previous videos that I have watched the signals were solid and in this video the signals were pulsating. Why the difference in signals?

Not sure why they form single line before converging with the main line from Glasgow

10:24 - Slight error in the manufacturer for the Class 385. Think you mean Hitachi and not Siemens lol

Hi Don, Great video as usual. Thank you. Can you tell me the location at 1:17:28 in the video ?

Do you prefer the 802 or 397? I like both equally both are solid units

Do freight trains use the section from Edinburgh to Carstairs?

Wow. Our train network was completely destroyed by criminals over the lockdown period. Love from 🇿🇦

Hey Don, another nitpick. Carstairs junction, Ben slows to 30 on approach and then to 15 for the southbound curve, as instructed by the clearly visible lineside speed restriction signs. Once he joins the southbound WCML and clears the junction he picks up speed again, then you talk about the upcoming 110/125 speed restriction sign. My questions - what informs Ben of the new limit and what is the new limit? I cannot see any obvious speed limit sign between the 15 and the 110/125. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Xt7Y50wO27s.html I saw the yellow T board but as that terminates a temporary speed restriction I don't think it applies here as no temporary speed restriction was applied to Ben's train.

Sorry but that was not the Water Of Leith Viaduct,It was the Union Canal Viaduct. Great video though all the same.

Looks like the train has the same Windshield Wiper Fluid like any average car. Not Great. 😁

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I think all your video's should be in at least 1440 or 4k. Your channel is by far the best on you tube but others are beating you to constant 4k or so resolution.

Antes de empesar a ver esto,¿Donde está el itinerario de detenciones del tren?, ven que ya empesamos mal el video.

It would have been nicer filmed in summer. Lot of nice countryside

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If it could be reinstalled?

Wonder why NR leave there old rails lying all over

Whats that annoying BEEP/DING every 20-30 seconds?

YT "dont recomend channel" buttom.... How does one get it work????

I watch all of your vids which are fantastic, but this one... I watched some of it, but I didn't enjoy any of it at all, and I had to stop watching it as it was hurting my eyes, because it was out of focus. The camera was focused on the windscreen wipers and the raindrops on the window, everything else outside was out of focus, not good at all. Disappointed.

What a great video made even better for the scenery and the engineering facts you provided on how the 397's get and use there power what a series piece of kit. What camera do you use to film all your excellent videos has they seem such crystal clear as if the viewer is in the driving seat !! Excellent work..