Leeds to Liverpool Lime Street Driver's Eye View 

I am from India and I love the arch bridges and high walls when you approach Lime Street. I walk from that station to Liverpool Central, get on a Merseyrail to Ormskirk to visit family. Lovely memories. Thanks a ton for such a lovely, nostalgic ride.

Thanks Ben, the approach to Lime Street never fails to boggle the mind, even after all those years ( I'm 70 now)

Fantastic video. No matter how many times I see that approach to Lime Street I'm always awestruck by the engineering. Amazing tribute to the men that by sheer endeavour cut through those rocks. Many thanks.

love the bit from 45:00 to the end of the line. the oldest inter city rail line in the world, built before General Custer was born or wyatt earp. even before Queen Victoria was crowned Queen. a remarkable engineering feat that still stands today by way of the layout and magnificent Gothic approach to Lime Street from Edge Hill Station, which must be the oldest railway station on planet earth still in it's original form.

The final approach towards Liverpool is breathtaking. Like an endless cathedral.

That drop down into Lime Street station is truly jaw-dropping. It looks like the entrance to some ancient temple of giants.

I waited and now Part 2 came out!! Awesome videos, I really do want to take a trip to the UK and get this view.

Yet another cracking ride, with so much going on. I've been to Liverpool Lime Street once and was amazed at the cutting down from Edge Hill, but after seeing it from the Cab (forward Facing) I am even more amazed ! Thanks for the ride, I'm looking forward to the next.

Veľmi prekrásne natočené video . Pochvala a palec hore . Perfektné , super .

This run was 10 mins quicker than the timetable :) Great video!

Fascinating stuff! Well done.

Excellent video Ben. I'm watching from Sydney Australia. It's great to see these videos where the person posting them takes the time to show us where we are and some background as well. Well done ! I've become a Subscriber !!

Excellent video ! Thanks, Dana.

Another bonny video, Ben. Thank you.

Thnaks again Ben, great videos

Excellent video, thanks.

Very impressive entrance to Liverpool Lime Street Station. It gives an idea of entering a mediaeval castle with bridges like keeps. Is this station classified as a monument? It surely has potential! Sitting on your seat as a passenger you can't fully experience the greatness of this station' s entry. Looking through a window you can see a massive stone wall. It's exclusively the train driver's view that makes the difference......

Brilliant. Thank you for sharing.

just like #1 fabulous ,thx again from down under.

I 'd like to watch these images in the next summer .I think must much more beautiful with the sun. Thanks .

another excellent video

enjoted that run, its good to see how the line/train operates & signalling info.

That was excellent !!!! Thank you for sharing!!! :):):)

So, Fourfoot, you are unmasked :-) I'd just like to say well done for that incident near Dewsbury. Not everyone would have done what's you did. Glad to read that the bosses supported you.

Really amazing ride . I just don't like parts of arriving ( tunnels ) . I think it's so dark and sad . I am a Beatles fan and I understand this city . These images remember the past war , hard moments of Liverpool history . Maybe , this is the reason that Beatles songs brings such fun and joyus for everyone . They gave us much happiness for our souls . Someday I would like to there , see these images .Thank you for sharing and write the names of stations . Great informations ! Good job . Greetings from Brazil .

People complain that train drivers are overpaid, yet, like airline-pilots, they're responsible for the safety and the lives of (at times) hundreds of passengers, while their vigilance may be unable to prevent or avoid unexpected on-line developments such as derailments or sudden track-blockages (a la Hixon). They are essentially trapped in their cabs with little or no chance of avoiding death or injury should anything go wrong suddenly. At high speeds, braking will probably too late to lessen the impact of a collision. And at night....

Great Vid!

Thank you, very enjoyable. One question: I noticed that signalling at first was under the control of York signalling centre, then under Batley signal box, before reverting to York. Why not York all the way through?

Very good enjoyed that .

A very enjoyable videos parts 1/2

But if you could advise whether more cab ride videos will be published, and whether any might be released in the next couple of months. Thanks, Dana.

I want to add my comment about the oldest inter-city in the world. Considering the equipment available to the men who constructed this line, it's absolutely incredible. What is also incredible is the fact that most of the rail lines in Britain where constructed in the late 18th and early 19th century with blood, sweat and minimal equipment (shovel, pickaxe and wheel barrow). It is truly awesome when you look at these lines from the driver view.

Lovely video ! I don't suppose you would want to let me know when your next video might be ? Anyhow, looking forward to it. Best regards, Dana.

In a thousand years those Drax carriages will still be outside Edge Hill.

If the York to Manchester section was down south it would’ve been quadrupled and electrified decades ago.

I have been on this route 2 times with two year fantastic journey with good view off villages and towns and old factorys nice if electrical over head lines ther are saying the views of Yorkshire

Very good

beatiful video (from italy)

wow when you exited Morley tunnel my pupils reacted the same way a drivers pupils did having to readjust to the sudden lightness

Beautiful video The speed is in kilometers or miles per hour? Greetings from Argentina

A very nice run.

how long is the Morley tunnel ?

Brilliant , a trip to Liverpool station and I didn't leave the house. Calm down, calm down.

Still can’t believe this line is not fully electrified

brilliant.

Aside from the foot passenger only ferries from Liverpool or even from Salford Quays on the Manchester Ship Canal, it really bugs me that there is no direct train services from Manchester Victoria (coming from Hull via Leeds) to Holyhead on SailRail for the ferries to Dublin - changing trains from Manchester Piccadilly (platform 14) at either Chester, Crewe or Lladnuo is a real pain, often with very little time to change trains - on the other side of the Irish Sea, they don’t even have LUAS trams from the Irish Ferries and Stena Terminals via Dublin Docklands Rail Station, let alone the constant talk of a high speed rail tunnel under the Irish Sea from Holyhead to Dublin - with the Irish governments plans to invest in Irish railways, it will be interesting to see if they will extend the M3 Parkway line to Navan, where there are also many freight-only lines around Dublin Port - and if the Irish government will implement an EU climate change directive to ban all short haul flights between Ireland and the U.K. post Brexit and post Covid - the River Liffey is a very narrow channel and many of Dublin’s bridges are very poorly designed, which do not allow vessels to pass, which despite Dublin Port’s expansion to take cruise ships, many vessels cannot travel up the Liffey at high tide to the Custom House or even Capel St Bridge - there is the Port Tunnel linking Dublin Port to the M50 motorway but it has been very badly thought out and designed

Why are there odd permanent speed restrictions along the route? E.g. at Morley the speed drops from 75 to 45 but only through the station? Id understand if it was for tunnel clearances but just through the station seems a bit strange?

The electrification gantries spoil the spectacle of the deep cutting, tunnels and bridges on coming into Liverpool Lime Street.

In the electrified parts, what's the significance of the city name in 'AC York' and 'AC Crewe'?

I'm a Kiwi, yet in my mind it's "'uddersfield", no doubt due to those wonderfully Brit' regional based TV series I watched in the 1960s/1980s period.

Enjoyef this a lot always wanted to be a train driver but my colour-blind put paid to that dream thanks for sharing will look for more, any Liverpool to Scarborough? 1 👍

Great vid. Will you do a Manchester - Scotland video in the future?

Uploads are now frequent. Your cathegory suggests this will eventually have every service in Britain

Given that this train connects two important and relatively large cities it runs at disappointingly low speed. I wonder if a little bit of track realignment here and there as well as signalling upgrades and a few other measures might help to speed this line up at least a little. Somewhere between 40 and 75 mph on most of the route isn't really acceptabel in this day and age.

Manchester needs a Victoria station worthy of the name. Compared to both Liverpool and Leeds it is left wanting. Look at Piccadilly if one wants to use that as the equivalent (which I think is fairer), it still needs to be larger and the track cleaned certainly! Liverpool and Leeds really steal the show in the North and yet they are much smaller than the Second City of Manchester in metro area, GDP - everything and by a large margin. Manchester needs some big investment. The Oxford Road corridor as well, it is working on one engine in many respects.

For someone not well versed in train/railway technology what is the occasional triple high pitch noise?

Why does York PSB cover the Leeds station area and Huddersfield?When at these areas have there own boxes ?

At 1:02:37 is that the monument to Huskisson on the left? He was the great politician who was killed at the opening of the Liverpool to Manchester (in 1830) when he couldn't get out of the way of an approaching train.

The monument on the left side at 1:02:37 is where the first death happened on any railway traveling on Stevensons Rocket.

A pity that 'Satan' Beeching axed the stopping services, especially in the Scarborough to York section.

Didn't think it was possible to get one train from Scarborough to Liverpool. Is this a special charter train?

Ok, I know nothing about these things. Is there something in the cab that indicates the speed limits too? Because those speed signals are difficult to read.... especially when moving at speed.

Strange how the line to liverpool is called chat moss. Nice ride though especially when it goes at super speed

Some realignment has been done, Heaton lodge was remodeled plus other work. It was done in anticipation for electrification but as yet that has not happened. Plus HS 2 has also been pulled, shame……

Holly Morley tunnel Are your headlights on Sir Peach black on telly otherwise good video Could imagine at night guess you seen things 😉 Thank you for the upload

I understood up to mean toward the destination and down to mean away from the destination so why is it Up Scarborough in part l having seen the train leave from Scarborough and Up Hull Main when going to Leeds?

What is the difference between solid and flashing ambers and between one and two ambers.

Wow.....

If you have electric power then why is the engine still needed? And the engine is just a generator for the traction motors right? I know nothing about this train by the way.

Apparently Leeds is the biggest place in the whole UK that only has one railway station. Interesting trivia if that's even true.

Is this a class 185 unit

Another billaint video!

Are those trains all elec or on diesel to, i was looking for the 3rd rail seeing that there are no overhead wires....

wow is that a transpennine train arriving ON TIME?

Bexleyheath to London bridge

How is it decided to call a line up or down? It used to be up to London and down from London

How on earth did you manage to record your journey , must of been so distracting thanks for your time in recording this

I don't understand what is powering this train. There were overhead cables for the first few miles but then no cables and never a third rail. Is this a diesel-electric train? When I lived in Cheshire as a teenager, there were two primary types of locomotives-the presumably diesel-electric ones used to pull freight and the overhead electrics that apparently ran from London to Manchester. I routinely road trains powered by overhead electric from Wilmslow, Cheshire into Stockport and Manchester. I never road in a diesel-electric train except perhaps from Manchester to Edinburg. In the US, except for commuter trains, which are either overhead electric or third rail, virtually all trains, both freight and passenger, are powered by diesel-electric locomotives. Unfortunately, the US has been in no hurry to diminish carbon emissions.

This is what the North gets for its High Speed Train! What a country; what a government.

Lea Green, mon amour.

Nadering Liverpool Lime Street indrukwekkend !

Just a shame people throwing their rubble out next to the railway line. In Switzerland irresponsible behaviour like this is not allowed and adhered to.

Archetypal bloody English weather.

At 59:39 the train is barely doing 30 MPH and you're showing it hurling along at 90? Come on!!!

Id prefer the journey the other way round. Scarborough much nicer place.