The Sixty Marches charter, Part 6:
Cab view from Hereford down the Welsh Marches Line to Newport (Maindee East Junction). Filmed from Hastings Diesels Limited’s preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 24 March 2018, during the return leg of The Sixty Marches private charter.
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In this video we travel 43 miles and 79 chains in 49 minutes across Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, crossing and re-crossing the Wales/England border and skimming the edge of the Brecon Beacons. We follow the Newport, Abergavenny & Hereford railway over the summit of a steep climb at Llanvihangel, through Abergavenny on the way down the other side, and onward as far as Pontypool. From there the line becomes the Pontypool, Caerleon & Newport Railway which was built to act as a ‘bypass’ for the busy Monmouthshire Railway south of Pontypool, which the Newport, Abergavenny & Hereford Railway had originally been obliged to share. In the Pontypool area we pass a vast area which used to be heavily industrialised and served by many railway lines... all of them gone except for the one we are on, passing abandoned industry, overgrown railway sidings and a suspiciously new-looking housing estate. Ultimately we curve round the Caerleon district and cross the tidal River Usk to approach Newport and the South Wales Main Line, onto which we turn at Maindee East Junction.
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This outing began at Hastings and ran via Tonbridge, Redhill and Guildford to Reading; then from Reading via Hungerford (part 1) to the Westbury area (part 2) where we turned right at Heywood Road Junction, through Bradford-on-Avon and Bath to Filton (part 3), through the Severn Tunnel into Wales, to Maindee Junction (Newport) (part 4) for the line through Abergavenny to Hereford (part 5); the return journey from Hereford to Newport (this part) continued via the Severn Tunnel and Bath (next part), retracing the same route.
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Video footage is from an unattended unmonitored forward-facing cab-camera in motor coach 60118 Tunbridge Wells.
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1:23 - HEREFORD
4:17 - site of Rotherwas Junction
6:42 - site of Red Hill Junction
8:29 - Red Hill Tunnel
10:55 - Tram Inn Signal Box and disused station
13:14 - St Devereux disused station
15:59 - site of Pontrilas Junction
16:06 - Pontrilas Signal Box and disused station
16:14 - Pontrilas Tunnel
20:52 - Pandy disused station
23:49 - Llanvihangel disused station and the summit of the line
26:24 - Abergavenny Junction disused station
26:41 - site of Abergavenny Junction
27:13 - Abergavenny station
27:24 - Abergavenny Signal Box
29:23 - Penpergwm disused station
31:43 - Nantyderry disused station
34:06 - Little Mill Junction, Signal Box & disused station
35:45 - Pontypool and New Inn station
36:09 - site of Coedygric North Junction
37:11 - site of Coedygric Junctions
37:33 - site of Panteg Junction
37:47 - Panteg Goods Loops
38:03 - Chapel Lane Ground Frame
38:35 - Lower Pontnewydd disused station
38:43 - Cwmbran station
39:30 - site of Llantarnam Junction
39:56 - Llantarnam disused station
41:01 - Ponthir disused station
42:28 - Caerleon disused station
44:41 - Maindee North Junction
48:04 - NEWPORT (Maindee East Junction).
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Video, soundtrack and captions © Copyright 2018-2019 Hastings Diesels Limited.
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Equipment: video by GoPro Hero3+ camera with focus modification, suction-mount and extra batteries; video production by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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Here are the actual timings for the day’s outing:
www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/dia...
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Here are annotated extracts from the Network Rail Section Appendix:
* Outward: www.dropbox.com/s/nexbk2jdnmp...
Our return journey’s route was changed just a day or two before the trip because of a bridge strike - from Hereford to Filton Abbey Wood we were supposed to have been routed via Worcester and the Gloucester area to Yate and Bristol Parkway, but as things turned out we had to retrace our steps via the Severn Tunnel. The following shows our original route.
* Return: www.dropbox.com/s/kana0042y09...
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ERRATUM: the departure platform at Hereford should be platform 1, not 2.
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