Huddersfield Stopper 

Being someone who makes the occasional RU-vid video, I appreciate how time consuming it is. So I just want to say thanks for all the annotation work you put into these Don. They make these cab rides next level fabulous.

Different perspective on a stopper train. Thanks for the new video

One of the best views through the drivers I have seen; never a dull moment, navy thanjsfir the hours you have invested into this project, thank you, Patrick Northamptonshire

20:07 - Mossley is such a unique sight, practically a station in a roofless tunnel thanks to the tall buildings and embankments to either side. Thank you, Don, for another informative and beautiful video.

Love the cab view videos Don. Had the pleasure not long ago of chatting to the driver in the Knowsley waste train video at Southport station. I mentioned your RU-vid videos and he said he knew you. He was with another driver on route learning on a DB Cargo class 66 ready for the RHTT season. Both of them were great ambassadors for the railway, especially when a father walked up to them with his two boys and they took the time to chat with them.

Recently discovered this channel and binge-watched them all! Being not from the UK (I'm from NL) the explanations are very welcome and I admire all the work that goes in these video's. I find them highly entertaining and educating. By now I kind of got to know the area around Manchester. Next time I'm going to visit my sister in Leeds, I also will visit several sites I was shown in these video's. Thank you very much indeed Don!

Happiness is … crossing the country on a train on a beautiful sunny day. Thanks for this one. 🐨🇦🇺

Don is truly the king of driver's eye view videos!! Thanks once again for a great educational production.

Another fantastic video Don. Amazing countryside, captioning and clarity. Thanks you very much.

Another great video! I always enjoy a trip on this line and seeing the Huddersfield Narrow Canal from the train.

I’m so excited when you’ve posted up a video!! Thank you for all your hard work and dedication! So appreciated! Awesome vid 💯💯💯😃

Thanks for awakening childhood memories with your video. I was born in Milnsbridge in 1946 and lived there for 18 years on Manchester Road, from 1957 to 1961 I attended Crow Lane Secondary school which was at the side of the railway embankment just after the end of the Milnsbridge viaduct, it can be seen briefly on the right on the return journey. Being so close to a railway line there were a lot of train spotters in the school and if your classroom overlooked the railway and it was known a special train was going to pass the teacher let us go to the window the get the number. Swimming lessons involved a trek to Longwood and a trolleybus to Huddersfield, for a change we would sometimes catch the train to Milnsbridge station, we also stood on Cuckoo Bridge near Paddock to get train numbers.

Great video, love the bits of information along the track.Always is a magnificent sight when the Pennines come into view! This takes me back when I lived in Huddersfield using this journey to get to work in Cheshire on a weekly basis 35 years ago.Forgot what an excellent trip it is.

Love these videos... you help me to live out my childhood dream (which I still possess) to be a train driver 🥲

Looking forward to this as always. Keep up the good work!

Look forward to this one. Hey Don, just fell in love. I have the Leeds line at the bottom of my garden. Just seen the Midland Pullman for the first time. Beautiful ❤

Don, others have said it and I agree the extra work you put into these is appreciated. I will work on sharing more of my amateur videos on your Facebook page. Thanks, again from Australia. Her Majesty the Queen will be missed.

Very nice with showing progress from stop to stop with a brief look at the map. Would be nice to always be able to check progress on a map - even goods trains.

As usual, beautiful country-side. Great video. Feel like I'm, there in person.

Thank you for a fantastic viewing of this route. Really enjoyed everything.

Another great video, thanks so much for taking the time and effort and of course the Drivers and rail companies for their participation too.

Thank you for the video. Interesting to see Stalybridge Platform 3 being used in reverse direction, the new high intensity lights give better vision in the tunnels. Interesting fact about the Stanedge canal tunnel you have to pre-book to go through and are 'escorted' by canal trust staff with it being so tight as their is no towpath. Long before motors, barges had to have men lying on their backs walking them through the tunnel. I was surprised to learn they have four checkpoint landing stages where canal staff telephone control advising they're still on the move!

in the words of the song, " that used to be my playground" so many trips over that road, often going somewhere else, but many times, behind 40's, 45's and 47's on the old transpennines, sadly never had a Deltic, and, as of now yet to have a 68, BUT after all that time finally had the Diggle AND Marsden loops three years back with a pair of 37's up front... happier times, once again Don, many thanks for a great trip out.

Absolutely 💯..a must watch. 👏

My old man drives the 185s…And assuming I pass the course, I’ll be on the 66s. (Moving up from being a Ground staff). Love watching these videos you do Don. They honestly give me a great insight into how it’s done. Keep them coming!

Fantastic work Don, your videos are of such a high standard

These are awesome. Just got my dad into Train Simulator, so will forward him this channel too!

Thanks once again, Don. The indications of closed stations is great. It may be of interest to know that the stopping train from Manchester Exchange (first stop Ashton Charlestown) to Huddersfield took an hour and twelve minutes in 1953.

Such a beautiful country on such a beautiful day. Yet the green sign at Slowitt shows how deep depression can be. Thanks for all you do to raise awareness and provide support, Don.

The longevity of the Woodhead infrastructure is a reminder of how things should be done, none of the 'damage by winds' that the ECML has been subject to, perhaps this is why the GWR stuff looks horrible but is built to last? Great video again.

Very interesting video thank you again for showing more video’s

Another excellent video Don, I really enjoy watching these, also the captions are very interesting.

Great route taken, Don. There are no end of tunnels that make the video for great watching. The 185s are really up to it, and keep good time. As usual, Don, another pearler and extremely well described along the way. Many thanks, mate

Hello Don: While watching your very pleasant & well done vids, I notice quite a bit of discarded/disused railroad paraphernalia lying about. I can only imagine how many Millions of Dollars/Pounds of scrap metal (rails, plates, fittings, broken couplers, rail shavings, spikes, etc., etc.,) is lying along railroads throughout the US, UK and world!!!

I always think there's some weird-looking features around the tunnels as we leave Huddersfield. Where the Penistone line curves away; if you saw that on a model railway, you'd say it looked kind of fake - same at Paddock tunnel. I can't find much online about Paddock tunnel but it's got that look about it - might have some stories to tell. Thanks for another few hours of great entertainment Don; it's a lovely journey, in either direction, but you see so much more from the front seat.😁👍

Good Morning Don. Thanks for a really great video of one of my favourite routes. The service is a bit more frequent that it used to be. I once got stranded at Greenfield and had to take the bus back into Manchester! Think it was a class 110 that took me up the line. Much appreciated, thank you very much!

I was at Huddersfield Poly in the early 1980s and remember travelling from Stockport to Stalybridge and then onto Huddersfield. Superb scenery. ❤

Lovely video from a lovely day. Mention of the Micklehurst Loop always reminds me of a junior school day trip to York in 1962/63. The only time we 'trained' Wigan Wallgate to York and back. On the way up the Tame Valley outward bound, we appeared to be racing another train across the valley. Rarely saw the train itself but the plumes of smoke and steam were the giveaway. Disappearing in tunnels, reappearing on embankments etc. We 'won' the race to Standedge.

I get this train fairly often from Mossley to Huddersfield just for something to do. Get off at Huddersfield, go and get some cheesy chips, mooch about for a while and jump on the train back. Kills a few hours and gives me a change of scenery for not much money. Fascinating to get this different view of a familiar route.

Very enjoyable video. I used to travel this route when I was attending MRI.

Great vid Don, cheers! Fantastic to see my local line from the drivers seat 👍

Another really good video. Thank you Don.

Wonderful video! Thank you very much!

Thanking you Don, any chance of Huddersfield to Sheffield?

I do like the bits of railway operational information you include like what a signal means or why a particular thing is done the way it is. I often find these cab ride videos very relaxing. There's a large segment of the "ASMR" community on RU-vid who watch these for relaxation purposes too and it helps them to go to sleep. That's a good thing not a criticism LOL, I think it's kind of the same way people fall asleep on trains! Oh just thought it would be worth pointing out at 52:01 there appears to be a forgotten upper third that just says "Name". I'm curious as to what it was supposed to have said? 😃

Mr coffee, thank you, a video that contains, architecture, history and the best interview of a railway journey, I have seen. I like particularly the driver, ge should get an ambassador

Don thank you so much a fabulous ride. Paul in Kent

Thank you Don for yet another excellent video. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Excellent video.

a great video Don going through a beautiful area of the countryside look forward to the next video

Another great video - thank you! My late railway-mad dad would have loved these. I appreciate the time and effort it takes for you to film, produce and upload these videos - I know from the cycling videos on my own channel how long this takes!

Great video as always Don. As a Canadian viewer originally from Lancashire I would love to see a MU stopper Preston via Burnley through to York.

Great vlog... nice to see the Drivers view of Standedge Tunnel, as the only other view of I have seen, is the Standedge Canal Tunnel which took me 1.5 hours to get through. Once again great vlog...

Nice one Don. Actually makes me appreciate what a good job DTG did with their NTP route for Train Sim World, albeit earlier era and from Man Vic rather than Picc. I'll have to dust off the MetCam 101 for an all stations run later!

Thank you again Don for a very interesting video, I learn a lot about railway technology watching your vireos. On another subject I often wonder how DB get away running class 66 with EWS as a named company with NO DB in signage on the locomotive.

Thanks Don great work and welcome back!

Another great video and some good facts Don. Thank You

Glad your back Don another great journey 👍

Very enjoyable in all respects, thanks Don.😊😊😊

Another superlative video. Thanks, Don!

Excellent video. So informative and entertaining.

Brilliant, your best one yet - though I probably would say that as I'm from Huddersfield! It sounds like you're a big fan of the 185's and their power - I think they are probably the most suitable trains the Standedge route has ever seen... By comparison I always get the impression that the 802s are a bit under-powered when running in diesel mode.

A great video, Don. Have hospitalized with Covid 19 for three months. A lot of catching up to do. Cheers buddy!

Hi don-as always love your manchester videos..this is no exception..and is truelly excellent...lovely views and smooth riding...a cleethorpes to manchester would be a good one in the near future...thanks again...paul

So sad to see the remains of Guide Bridge where I spent many happy holidays waiting for class 76's and upsetting the sparrows that lived in the trash bins.

Great video and I like your remarks and information!

This should be good stuff as always Don!

Amazing livery on these trains

Thanks Don, another excellent ride, keep them coming.

Thanks for the info on why these decidedly non-express services are operated by TransPennine - I had always just assumed it was DFT being DAFT so good to know there is actually a sound reason behind it!

Another quality video Don. Thoroughly enjoyed that as usual. Mark

Great video mate hope you're well. All the best, Will

Five star coverage

Another so clear and informative video on an iconic line. PS, what was the ghost image of a crossover at Slaithwaite station?.

Another highlight I’m sure - will have to watch later

This stopper of yesteryear went something like Manchester Exchange Victoria Miles Platting Park Clayton Bridge Droylsden Ashton Charlestown Stalybridge Mossley Greenfield Saddleworth Diggle Marsden Slaithwaite Golcar Longwood & Milnsbridge Huddersfield. Must of took the best of 2 hours back then all stopping?! Times change, I guess..!

Thank you Don, excellent quality as always 👌

I didn't realise that the Pennines were an oblique rectangle. Thanks for the diagram

Thanks Don for the ride enjoyed the video 👍🏻🇨🇦🚂🥓TSM

Will this be BST 20:00 on the 5th October? I hope you do another MML something like from Sheffield to St Pancras in the not too distant future, like on a new Bi-mode train deisel to Market Harborough before switching to electric power to St Pancras, that would be a cool video to watch. Just an idea that is all. 👍

Lonely lovers symphony..by horn blast..!! What a blast.

Thanks for another interesting video Don. It's been many a long year since I drove a stopping train over the 'Wessy', so it was good to revisit. Not being overly accustomed to doing stoppers (on that route anyway), Slaithwaite on the Down road was always one of my 'bogey stations' - you know the sort, where you always find yourself braking too soon, even in good weather? I'm sure all drivers have them! Two more of mine (further east) were Deighton and South Milford, probably because they were new (or reinstated) stations that we hadn't 'grown up' with. Anyway, keep up the good work, and looking forward to whatever you bring out next.

to don coffey i enjoyed this video very much it looked like I was driving the train From paul chapman at London uk 🇬🇧 and sadly my dad died on August the 24th of this year 😢

Great video as always Don. 👍👍

Hi Don; you've captured me there at Slaithwaite station - thank you for your service! - please may I ask the date of recording? Cheers :)

As usual Don ,brilliant,,,

In 2019, I had a trip through the canal tunnel. It took over 2 hours, and you could hear trains rumbling past. There are frequent cross passages to the 1894 railway tunnel and and to one of the disused railway tunnels. Apparently these are for evacuation purposes from the railway or the canal. Our passage through the canal tunnel shadowed by a can running through the closed railway tunnel. It was a really interesting trip

Thanks for sharing, shared.

Nice to see this 'rounder' before the wires go up - thanks to all as normal.

After the termination of the ESR before Gorton. There were 'splashes' of clean ballast between the tracks at regular intervals. Marking carriage lengths or random coincidence?

As always Don, another great video. As I have twin 32" monitors its great following the train on Google Earth

Ha! I saw the cleaner we saw in real life. 🤩 Just finished the entire trip. Was wondering Don; is the electrification of the Huddersfield line all the way into Huddersfield and on through Leeds? And what a ridiculously powerful acceleration those 185s have. Man! Have a good one, Don! 🍀

I can surely say the 185s are a sure upgrade from the previous 142/150/158 examples used in the past!

Great video, Don. Paul Booth raises a great point about the comparison of journey time overall in 1953 as against 2022. Interestingly, comparing March 1951 (which must be almost identical timings to 1953) with Don's schedule, the journey times to arrival at each station are as follows (bearing in mind the departure in 1951 was Exchange, not Piccadilly): [the "+n stop" shows the number of intermediate stations served in 1951] Stalybrdge 1951: 18 mins (+1 stop) 2022: 14 mins Mossley 1951: 25 mins 2022: 19 mins Greenfield 1951: 30 mins 2022: 24 mins Marsden 1951: 54 mins (+2 stops) 2022: 31 mins Slaithwaite 1951: 1 hr 2022: 35 mins Huddersfield 1951 1 hr 12 mins (+2 stops) 2022: 42 mins That climb is certainly quicker with the 185s! Obviously stations like Saddleworth and Diggle took up time, but journey time of 7 mins in 2022 as against 24 mins in 1951 between Greenfield and Marsden is striking.

Looking forward to seeing this, but I will have to watch it a day later as the video resolution for premiers in Ireland is terrible. So it is better to wait a day or so.

Reminds me of when I play TSW or TSW2 as this exact route is on the transpennine (it’s the old class green & white trains though)

Once again a huge thank-you the quality is superb. A couple points Don if you can answer ? First Buxton is a decent little town but only a hourly service to Manchester do you think that this may become a half hourly service with one train becoming a 'fast' say only stopping at H/G rove and S/port and second is your duty set in stone in as much if you are on a meal/rest break can your duty supervisor change your second part of your 'turn' ?

Thanks, Don, for your timely reply. Other than experience, is there a way of knowing when the back end of your train is clear of restrictions, platforms, etc.?

Hi I love your videos, also do you ever see people waving at East Garforth / Garforth because it could be me

Which train sim is this? Graphics look so amazingly realistic!