Freight Driver's Eye View: Daventry to Ditton 

The quality is very good on my tv screen. I reckon that this is a real classic of a video, and the sound of the loco is champion! Grateful indeed for this production.

Can not watch the premier but looking forward to watching latter

I used to live in Polesworth. I had the good fortune to be invited into the old signal box which was a raised structure, sitting between the up fast and the down fast. On the occasions an up and down service passed at the same time the box literally shook. I was also there to witness the crane that removed the footbridge, thus turning Polesworth into the parliamentary station it now is...

Another brilliant video m8... still cant get over the sound of the 66 when it idles, sounds so good!

Hi Ben. This is the best batch of track names I have seen yet. Network rail has to get a Committee to Rename Boring Tracks!

Ben I am still enjoying the video no matter the problem. Look forward to the next one

Thanks for another fab video. Keep going Ben! :-)

I enjoy watching Freight trains thanks fore a mother Video

Interesting and enjoyable ride to Dutton going through my home town of Tamworth and its surroundings.Thanks.

Wow it's pulling 5 cars like a champ

Brilliant video Ben. Looking forward to some class 90 footage in the future!

Ben: another great video. many thanks, keep em coming.

Lovely and interesting video/journey Ben, always great to watch.

yaaay it verks, thats much better. I see railcowgirl has been having the same trouble, seems you both got it sorted at the same time.

Superb Ben, thanks very much.

That windscreen wiper judder would drive me nuts!

Awesome again Ben, missed the corner speedo though this vid. Plenty to see on this route, Keep em coming pal. Regards IAN

I stumbled across your channel today, I love train vids in the background and I can't believe you have whole live streams!!

Nice thanks for sharing Ben!

Great video. And I saw you at Nuneaton this morning. A lot more than 5 wagons today! Held on the fast lines too and you had 'the feathers' to cross to the down slow.

Well done, Ben. Excellent.

Thanks for the video Ben in Central Trains we took the flyover at Nuneaton and on to Peterborough where we changed as I didn't sign to Stansted. The rest quite new to me.

Love the videos, it would be nice for non railway people like me if you could maybe include a bit of information during it. Be interesting to know what was going on during the stop for example.

Good to ride with you again, Ben. I thought you had left “training.” Glad I was wrong!

Interesting ride, thanks for the share.

Solid watch, cheers 👍

Companys spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on a new engine but only £2.50 on wipers

Nice ride, Thanks Ben. The EMD rockets along with minimal load. they do not call the loco models GT for nothing.

Good video. Depressing to see all those Freightliner electrics parked up at Basford Hall.

Love sound

So many class 86 (?) at that yard

Excellent!

Another great video, good to see the Crewe Independent lines but sad to see so many locos 'resting'. Have you signed any more routes that we can look forward to seeing in the future?

Looks great to me.

very nice video

One day they will make wipers for locomotives that don't make that hideous noise when in use when its not wet enough for them. That would drive me nuts!

Great video, thanks for sharing. Crazy this journey is diesel hauled though, under the wires! (Apart from the final shunt)

Thanks Ben, another great video and some route I have never seen before. ps is Don C still fighting the filmfuhrers?

31:07 theres a WMR Class 730 on test

Quick question - is the shunter at the end constantly using your name to avoid confusion with other drivers who might by chance be on the same frequency, or is he just mega-friendly?

Great video ben who was that fella standing by the line when you stopped….looked like a train spotter!

I see that the windscreen wipers on engines still drag and make annoying sounds in light rain.You would have thought that in all that time someone would have solved the problem.Great video though.

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Why was that guy at Crewe grumpy with the Ilkley. Was funny though 😂

Jesus ! i think it needs a set of wiper blades. drives you nuts

Great Video. From around 1hr 39 mins says Down fast Independent. It has a 10mph speed limit. Shows how much investment goes into freight. HS2 money should have gone into improving freight.

Great One again Ben How come you had to go Through Crewe Basford Hall instead of going through Crewe Sta Would have been faster for you LOL

As always a delight to see these video. It is a shame that apart form the last 3 - 4 minutes of the video the service was a diesil under OHLE . It would have been nice to see this as an electric freight service - a bi-mode would be really useful here

14:38 - What speed the Down Fast? Wondering how fast that 390 was going... Also why did you have to stop to let it by? Was it the aerodynamics of the 390 being dangerous if you were moving as well?

Was that a disused line just before MADELY JCN if so were did it come from/ go to

Hi Ben where you a passenger train driver then freight?

You were on freight but try explaining to a passenger there is no train stopping at Polesworth your ticket is valid on the bus. Then they get on a Midland Mainline train and go off in the wrong direction.

Still call it Daventry

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I was surprised how low the speed limit is through the whole of the Crewe bypass-lines. I know there's lots going on and staff moving about close to the line, but is there some other reason? Certainly in the north section where the Liverpool and Manchester lines split it feels like it could be faster. Doesn't this cause a bottleneck for even the freight traffic? I remember as a kid standing on Crewe station in the 70s and early 80s. It was frustrating missing all the freight traffic. You could hear it and sometimes see the roof or the odd pantograph. It seemed to move a lot faster than 10mph then!

Is this your locomotive?

Being a Tsw4 player since quite a while, I'm really impressed by how well they managed to simulate the Class 66's distinct sound! And not only the Class 66 for that matter, also a lot of other British and German rolling stock is very well done apparently! Would be nice though to see the entire cab, especially your actions as a driver, and not only hearing you acknowledge AWS at yellows, but also seeing it. 😁

What sort of weight would this train be? It certainly gets a move on.

Where is this freight terminal exactly given Daventry doesn't have a railway?

At 1:38:25 was the guy not impressed with your horn usage?

How many miles per gallon does a 66 these days?

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What loco are we in ,looks quick for a shed!

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can you actually do 75 when you not dragging a train?

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What units are used on the speed signs: mph or km/h?

18 days later and it's still not 4k, why is youtube so useless? I can't watch this on my monitor, it's just a lot of fuzzy blobs. sorry.

Why is it every time i watch one of these drivers eye views and they switch on the wipers they jump all over the place and just end up smearing alll the time. Seems like they are overlooked on maintanance. find that not very safety conscious.

I'm trying to find route maps of railways in England. I live in America, can anyone help please? I type Daventry to Ditton and all I get is the road routes.

bad techno music to be played on thje central line

I hate to say it but from where I'm sitting I prefer the footage from your older camera, the image is sharper and there are less visual artifacts... 🤔

For some reson it looks like the video clip has been speeded up by %2 percent. so no its not worth the time

The driver get £79k a year and they strike for more !!