Manchester Victoria to Scarborough Driver's Eye View with voiceover commentary 

Appreciate the dialog and enjoy hearing that there is a conductor piloting the train. My Husband retired from the Union Pacific Railroad 2004, he was 64 years old and he was very sad to leave his career, he wept and was never the same after words, oh, he went on we were busy with our rentals and life but he was not the same and may 10th 2021 he walked upstairs sat on our bed ,fell backwards and took his last breath, I sit here for hours and watch these videos and think of my wonderful man I loved so much and say, he'll be coming in soon from his run and we'll talk about his run to Elko, Nevada and back and the latest news, he'll be tired and want his dinner and then lay down and sleep for a while and we did this for many years. I hear that big train's horn blaring as it comes into the Sparks yard, (Nevada) and know here comes my railroad man. Yes, I will miss our life together and I am Proud to say I was a Railroad wife.!!!! he pulled all freight, no passengers and on wide gauge, those freight trains are huge and some are very, very long across the Black Rock Desert what a sight to see.!!!!!

I've noticed a few people don't really like the voiceover, but I thoroughly enjoyed it! Great video as always, nice to see you going through my local station (York) again :)

sitting in Kazakhstan (this is a country) and having an opportunity to follow the rout and get the comments -- it was great indeed. thank you very much!

The commentary is fascinting. As I am dyslexic and struggle to read subtitles a lot of the time the voiceover adds a lot more more information that's easier for me to absorb. Very, very interesting video and a great insight into the workings of the route.

I like how that railfan jumped when you hit the horn at Malton! Calm and confident voice,just like an airplane pilot.

Another great train ride! First-rate video quality, and terrific scenery. Please continue these. Big thanks from New York!

I like the voice overs much better than having to read

Fantastic video, thank you. I find it mind-boggling how the Victorians built the UK national rail infrastructure we have today.

Please do more of these. It allows me to have the video in the background much more easily, as well as providing information we don't get otherwise.

Agree with those in favour of the voiceover. Captions tend to get your eyes off the route, by which time you’ve missed what the caption was about. I think you’ve nailed it with a happy mix of both! But, you can’t please all of the people all of the time......!!! Thanks for your upload👍🏻

Excellent video - outstanding quality, and I'm in the 'I like the voice over' camp marginally than captions. Especially if the voice is clear - which it is. More please.

Brilliant really enjoyed that and appreciate the commentary. Keep doing more of these. The longer journeys are always better.

Great footage and brilliant commentary. Love the kid on Scarborough platform at the end

I like the video and also the voice over. It lets us know what you see and explains what we are looking at. Awesome job!! Thank you for sharing!!

Super excellent voice explanations. My wife & I enjoyed these travels. She is dead & I now live in the US

Thanks so much for posting another video ! Dana

Great video and commentary, thanks for the upload

I love the commentary. I feel I'm learning the route, not that I can drive the train!

Great journey. Looking forward to more longer cab rides of yours in the near future.

This brings back a lot of memories, from the 60's coming home on leave from North Wales to South Yorkshire. Great video. Thank's.

I really love these videos! Please keep making more

Really appreciate the time and effort you put into your videos. This and the Brighton to Bedford video are my favorites. How on earth do you manage to remember every level crossing/signal/speed change etc on such a long journey. Mind boggles!

Brilliant video! I like the voice over, makes it much more informative and enjoyable to watch.

Beautifully done, Mr Elias. Thanks.

I loved the voice-over.... Great video x

Brilliant and the commentary was A great idea

Thougherly enjoy the the voice over. Very informative. I live on Southeastern services. So nice to go through stations I've never heard of. Hope you can do some more like this. Where I live we don't get these type of video's

I am impressed and overjoyed at this Great Video! The voiceover is also greatly appreciated! Just remember you cannot keep everyone happy at the same time! Dan Wright April the 13th, 2019

Voice-over was excellent. Keep it up. Thanks.

quality filming - very good and not annoying commentary - well done

Excellent video and love the voice over. 👍🙂

Great video showing the route. Would have been good to have seen this back in the hey-days of the 80s

This is the journey I will be on in May. I can't wait for a week.

Fantastic travel for a french railway modeler ! Thank you very much.

Thanks for the great video. I am a Summer Wine nut and always enjoy riding through the LotSW Countryside.

Followed a good part of the route on Satellite View. Fascinating stuff!

Glad that I kept watching this video. At 42.08 has now just passing Cottingley Towers and heights flats where I lived in the Towers back in the 70's.

Enjoying Video from Vancouver!

Super Video! Greetings from Germany (Hansestadt Lübeck)!

très belle vidéo. Un plaisir de découvrir l'Angleterre d'Ouest en Est. Merci

Greetings. Great video !

Very good video, as I wear variofocal glasses commentary is good as I sometimes have to rewind on captions only to get the whole meaning. Thanks.

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..

Very good film, I like the unobtrusive commentary, very informative. I miss the Woodhead route though.

Great video!

Great video, thanks

Between York and Scarbourough must hold the world record for most number of crossings and whistleboards in the country, its like he was on the horn every 3 seconds lol

Very enjoyable video! Thanks. I appreciate the commentary. I would like an explanation of the various "beep" signals that occur from time to time.

smashing video thanks

Crazy how the electrification just ends as soon as you leave the station

Nice Video - Thanks

i was under the impression that drivers had to sound their horn when approaching the farm and work crossings.

I’ve got to admit; I like the Diggle route!

Enjoyed going past my local station of cross gates

Great video, as usual. I couldn't hear the voice above the train sounds well enough to understand. I like the captions, but I like the voice as well. Assuming the voiceover is during post, perhaps muting or ramping down the background noise would be possible. Either way, I really enjoy your route videos.

very good video andinformative thx from down under.

Mr Fourfoot..... superb video and supremely informative. always follow your videos and it must be really satisfying you can give the 185 its head and trundle along at 100 mph on that line. Great stuff sir, will always watch your vids. Are you on Facebook ????? Best regards IAN

Brilliant 👍🏻

Cool! Thank you!

Can you ever film the Calder valley line? That would be amazing to see

Great video, which I've only just found and I like the voiceover. At York, where you have to be signalled for plat 3 or 5, I wondered what the procedure was if it's incorrect. Is there enough time to stop and contact the signaller or do you have to carry on and then some kind of reversal carried out?

Hi! Great video ! Voice over was not bad, tho I prefer the notes, but whatever. Enjoyable as always. I wonder if you could provide a hint as to when your next video might be forthcoming ? :))) Best regards, Dana.

Brilliant :-)

Very good. Thank you, FourFoot. I know this would be more work for you, but a video like this would be even more enjoyable if you included in the voiceover, as well as the railway operating information: [a] the names of canals and rivers crossed, perhaps even main roads and motorways - so that anyone could refer the journey to a map; and [b] other things of general interest, such as the lengths of tunnels, the maximum elevation points of the line, the gradients, etc. Even commenting on, for instance, the pools of light from tunnel ventilation shafts, or the local historical reasons for double track occasionally being separated into two singles - anything that a viewer might be curious about. Names of villages, identification of church spires, large interesting buildings, hills, woods - anything. There will be many things about the regions through which you pass that you never think twice about, through being English, and having great familiarity with them, - but of which viewers are not aware. Just a thought for you to consider. You'd attract folk interested in geography, and England, and the English countryside, and so forth, in addition to railway enthusiasts. Anyway -thanks again. Keep them coming.

Very good mate.the one drawback with captions is you follow them and miss the view ahead,,,,,or is it me.cheers

Excellent video in all respects. There seems to be a prodigious amount of trackside litter, especially in West Yorkshire. Are they mucky devils up there?

why is this entertaining

I've never seen as many user worked crossings!

..so much TRACK layout variation between Hudd's & Dewsbury...2 Track most of the way, then a couple of miles of just ONE Track, then 4 Track..then back to 3...then back to 2 Track once again...!!!.

Hi ! I enjoy your videos but have not seen one in quite a while -- are you still intending on filming any addition cab ride videos ? Thanks, Dana.

I thought the voiceover improved the video, more please.

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Makes me sad, me and ex had happy holiday in Scarborough a few years back.

nice Derby D-series loco @2:32! museum-piece, I suppose...

Great video, a question, why is there a shunter in the middle of no where at 2:32 ??

Very nice. It would be great if YT offered the option to switch voice over on and off.

I honestly thought 18:31 was the light at the end of the tunnel

Are those bits of track lying between rails in places and track side.? see them in a few videos

It's a shame the colour is a bit washed out on this one, but the audio commentary definitely makes up for that ☺ Have TransPennine shot themselves in the foot by getting trains that have lower speed limits on the Hull and Scarborough branches ... does it slow them down overall, or do they have better acceleration that means they can make up the lost time elsewhere?

Can you do a cab ride from East Croydon to Milton Keynes Central, please?

The route learning for this one must do your head damage. 49:10 Now this, is impressive . 1:09:31 Lookit this guy, things he's a pigeon 1:10:35 Line just randomly singles here, did the fellow did this go on to design cycle lanes? 1:31:20 Just the one platform? 1:31:48 YAAAHHH!! Where the fuck did he come from?! 1:41:39 Brand new semaphore home signal? 1:50:31 New loading bay?

Ashton, My Hometown :D

Anychance in getting someone to do a bad ride on the southport to manchester route?

Great voice over. Are there many manual crossing gates and how are they operated please?

What are the regulations regarding usage of the farm/works crossings ?

As the train passed crossgates station 52.18 another train was stood at the platform. 38 secs later 52.56 another cross country train approached on the same up line.Is that not too close to the train in front....?

What are the types of junction indicators and signals?And what do They look like.

I wish I could be going legally 100mph on the UK motorway's

I live on this line and hear the 185s roar but in this it sounds electric 😂

What is the white 'paint' on the left running rail at 3:52? I have seen them before across the UK?

I understand if it might take away from the aesthetic a bit but any chance you could include kilometres alongside the mile sign. To make it easier to understand from an EU point? Loved the commentary btw.

They need to upgrade the line between Ashton and Stalybridge to something higher then 35. It’s meant to be express. Bet you could get it to at least 50 with some new track

When was this actually filmed? looks recent from the work on Scarborough bridge in york

Is it my eyesight but some of the signals seem to be showing a green aspect at the bottom of the display? Can some signals alter the colour of the light at the bottom, which of course is usually red?

I bet you could have 100mph line speed through Cross Gates if the through roads were reinstated!

It disgusting the amount of litter and crap that gets thrown on to the railway between the old Farnley Jn and the A58 bridge.

This video and commentary is fabulous. But I have a question. Is the beep we hear a signal to the driver that the forthcoming signal is on green?

The route's pretty boring until after the train passes Strensall (north-east out of York). The scenery improves even more once the train comes up to Castle Howard's reduced station, a small clutch of buildings that includes the one-time first class waiting room for the inhabitants of Castle Howard. It was used when Katherine Howard, (daughter of Sir William Worsley, then Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire as it then was) married Edward, Duke of Kent in 1961. The wedding was at York Cathedral (York Minster) and the reception at Castle Howard, the train that carried their guests ran behind a Gresley Class A4 Pacific (can't remember the name, have to do some reading). Along the railway here where it runs by the River Derwent are the ruins of Kirkham Priory on the south bank of the river where it bends in a near horseshoe. Malton Station has changed a lot since the Whitby Branch was lifted between Rillington Junction, several miles past Malton, and Pickering on what is now the North York Moors Railway. The Whitby bay platform's gone (the branch closed to traffic in 1965), and the track that ran under the canopy gone as well. There used to be a small wooden bridge on wheels that was run out for York passengers to join their train on the Up platform. The station on the former York & North Midland Railway (Y&NMR) was designed by George Townsend Andrews, a close friend of the 'Railway King' George Hudson, twice Lord Mayor of York before his disgrace over 'interesting' accounting procedures. Milton had a locomotive shed until the late 1950's and a large goods shed. A two-storey North Eastern Railway Central Division signal cabin guarded the crossing beyond which a railway bridge carried a line that linked with the East Coast Maine Line (ECML) from Pilmoor via Gilling and Slingsby over the Scarborough line to Driffield. A spur linked the two, enabling trains from Glasgow and Edinburgh via Newcastle-on-Tyne to be drawn - complete with train engine - into Malton Station and on down to the seaside. An accident at Pilmoor destroyed the junction that was never reinstated. End of direct trains from Scotland to Scarborough, end of holidays at the Yorkshire seaside for many workers north of the border. At Seamer more changes. Before you reach here the junction on the right is for trains to/from Hull via Bridlington and Filey. At Seamer station there used to be two signal cabins until fairly recently, an earlier NER Central Division installation replaced by a later, London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) installation and they stood almost side-by-side from the 1920's until the early one was demolished. Before reaching Scarborough Central station on the left was Scarborough's locomotive depot, mostly demolished in the mid-1960's after it was closed, its few locomotives re-allocated around the York area. The turntable and water column were kept for steam locomotives from the West Riding (Leeds, Bradford, Halifax) that still brought trains of holidaymakers during 'Wakes Weeks', when the West Riding woollen mills were stood down for a fortnight and their workforces given their annual holidays. Next on the left is the long Londesborough Road platform signal cabin, behind which is the blocked tunnel portal of the Whitby Branch (opened in the late 1880's), the Whitby & Scarborough Railway, then the Londesborough Road platform used once for holiday trains and then to store trains to return to York and the West Riding. Before you enter the station proper you see the tall clock tower, added some time after the station was built for the Y&NMR when George Hudson was director, having inherited a large estate from a wealthy uncle. Hope you enjoyed the ride.

Did my older brother train has a train driver at Manchester Piccadilly he was train driver trainer..

That's nice, but we need to see the city station names so we can follow them on Google maps. It would be great if you could show it on the screen. Thanks in advance!...😃