Hey Mike I’m local towards Ely and honestly you couldn’t describe it better. If you want great action at Ely, visit Queen Adelaide down the road between Ely and LITTLEPORT. It is situated on Ely north junction and you’ll catch all the stone traffic. God bless Lance
Well Jeff you are a few miles away, but it is do able for a day trip I suppose on the train, but probably expensive. Thank you very much Jeff for watching. Mike.
Extremely well filmed. As an Australian, this East Anglia area is the only one I've yet to cover. It's on the list. All your freight trains videoed were between 29 and 35 wagons/platforms. Much shorter wagons than in USA, Australia or Canada and far shorter trains but infrastructure limitations in UK would be one reason. Still, great to see plenty of freight moving with the international container shipping lines encouraging consignors to use rail, which many still do not.
@@antman09ful1 Given you're a relatively small island with fairly short distances (I know they seem lengthy to UK residents, but are small compared with Russia/China/Canada/Australia/USA), overall my perception is UK has done well in having a lot of freight captured by or remaining on rail. Especially good to see the occasional port investing in more shipside tracks, which is one of the keys to encouraging consignors to use rail. Keep up the pressure on politicians! You also have quite a few non-container bulk minerals etc. movements - again very good. Have a look at sites like eelsfan (Narara, Australia) and poathtv plus M & S Trains to compare operations in my country, plus greensleeves94 on RU-vid. I and many others worldwide are most grateful to individuals like you who stand trackside or on platforms to bring us current action., especially when it's competently filmed as clearly you achieve. Huge thanks! You'll be surprised where your viewers come from: many corners of the world.
Well Mike you definitely had a good day here whilst on your way to see the musicians at CBG. I have always liked this location and your video is evidence of that. Brilliant 👍🏻
Great video Mike. Only problem with Ely is the wind, it can be quite windy and then makes it quite cool as there's not too much cover. Well done 🤓 stay safe 💙
Exceptional workings there Mike, great to see Harry Beck on boxes, poor old 66144 with her flaking roof, she deserves better than that! The ROG was sensational, love the sound of bodysnatchers. Yes excellent freights you caught through Ely, worth a visit! Enjoyed cheers Nick.
Bit of a long way for you Nick, but I thought I would give it a go as I was over that way, as its been many years since I went there by car. The good part about this area you do get a good mix when it comes to freight. ATB Mike.
Your video brought back some memories Mike, spent many an hour at Ely when it was a sea of semaphores. Managed to get into North Jnc box, a superb location to take shots from. Happy days.
Brian most of the filming of bands I do I know from being involved in lots of touring I used to do, the Cambridge I filmed was Ben Poole and his mate from the Netherlands Guy Smeets who I first meet in 2019 in Germany. My RU-vid music channel is called 1michaelmitch if you want to have a look.
Please What's a 57 ? An upgraded 56 ? . And what class was that 2nd train the one with the little power car thingy in the middle see alot of those about. Thanks. Nice video.
A class 57 is a refurbished class 47 with a different engine in it which was done many years ago. The other was a class 755 new unit built in Germany for Greater Anglian. Thanks for watching.
Seems almost silly they can’t quite get in and out of Papworth Sidings from the loop to save coming and doing a run round in the station. Makes for interesting moves to watch though. Pity you don’t get to see a signalman working hard to achieve it though.
Yes you are right about not installing a loop, but for the amount of traffic using Papworth its not really worth it I suppose, but thank you for making this comment.
@@antman09ful1 The loop is already there from the Peterborough line to the Lynn & Norwich lines but it joins immediately beside the entrance into the sidings so they can’t go straight in. I’m surprised it’s still there as it gets very little use as far as I know, possibly only for the stone trains from Lynn. There’s a plan afoot to completely remodel that whole junction to be able to handle more freight traffic from Felixstowe and get rid of the single line bottle neck of the Lynn & Norwich lines. Maybe then they will be able to move the entrance into the sidings at the same time so it’s in front of the loop instead of just behind it but not sure if or when it will happen. When I go past there’s often quite a lot of stuff being stored in there.
Great video 😎🎉👍🏽 Those “Bodysnatchers” I find weird (class 57) 🤔 From the side, you expect to hear that unmistakable Sulzer class 47 engine when it pulls away and then you get something completely different that sounds like a “grid” 🤨😀👍🏽
