Somebody passed this video to me for publishing. Its a run on a nice day through the spectacular Yorkshire countryside form Scarborough to York. The sound has been edited intentionally in places.
Great video mate, I live in Scarborough so this journey is one I used to take regularly ( until a car came into my life). I love this type of videos , keep up the great work.
Watching this video after a week in Yorkshire. I took this line to visit Scarborough :) The new trains are awesome and the TransPenine staff really nice.
I would probably be the worst train driver ever because as soon as I hear those typical train sounds, I doze off. Here, I had fallen asleep before the first stop at Seamer station. ☺
after Kirkham Abbey is Howsham crossing,Then Plain Moor crossing(i lived there as a child) next Barton Hill(my grandfather was the crossing keeper there from 1950's until his retirement) he lived in the original station house until the one was built at the other side of the A64 along with the platform.
Incredible how Seamer has changed. My uncle Harold Leonard was the station Master there in the 1960s and there was a LOT of railway there. Two signal boxes, freight sidings that often had coaches in them, the road crossed at a level crossing and there were semaphores galore, many on gantries. The station had a beautiful canopy and it generally felt like a very exciting place for a train mad young boy.
If you’d read the comments, you would realise that I made a mess of syncing the sound and as such, the sound of the AWS pops up when there are no signals. Don’t worry, the whistle boards were all adhered to and not one was missed.
Very nice journey. A clear day suddenly turns rainy towards the end with a huge dark cloud gathering suddenly out of the blue sky. Funny how the weather changes in England. Why was the sound suddenly turned off towards the end though?
I didn’t drive on that video and the driver that did got involved in operational conversation with the conductor in the back cab. I’ve arranged for more videos to be filmed north of York. Bear with me.
Couple of problems noticed. 1) No cab signal when passing over several of the AWS ramps - are they inactive or broken? 2) Missed at least five (to my count) whistle boards without sounding horn/whistle.
Yes, I know about that. Some of the sound was intentionally edited out but being a bit clumsy at editing I seem to have got some of the soundtrack out of phase. In reality, everything was working and the driver never missed a single whistle board (not me on this occasion because I don’t sign that route) .
So what's with the monotone horn at whistle boards? When I was a kid the drivers ( I asked) told me that regs. required all horn blasts from trains to be dual tone "so as to differentiate them between a train and regular motor vehicles".
Its relatively new Greg and its to try and cut down on noise pollution. These whistle boards go back to the days of steam when the driver peered through a grubby little window down the side of a 30 ft boiler with smoke and steam. I personally agree with the low tone and in many cases where the viewing is good, I’d do away with them altogether.
here's a silly question for Don....do all the train staff, drivers and guards and etc, who board the train at the beginning of the work shift return at the end of the shift to the place where they started so they can spend their off time at home until the next shift? if not, where and in what accomodations do they spend the off time and who pays for the expenses when they are away from home?
Good question. It depends on the operator but where I work, the only reason we wouldn’t normally return to our “signing on location” would be adverse weather conditions and in that case we would be given hotel accommodation. We often travel one way by taxi either at the beginning or end of a shift and these journeys are scheduled in to the days work. Most train operators have phenomenal transport expenses for staff but it is probably not well understood that the logistics of getting staff to trains is bewildering. The staff never pay for any of these accommodation or travelling expenses unless it is something they have organised for themselves.
Thanks, Don! I guess that makes sense (what with it being rather tight towards the platforms' start the other side of the bridge). Must say though, I hate to see it! I'd much rather see some scissors on a dual track... but no doubt that's not as cheap to set up and maintain!
I hadn't realised that the track briefly changes from double to single track and then back to double immediately on the Malton side of Scarborough Bridge over the Ouse as you are approaching York. Why does it do that?
A lot of those junctions appeared in the 70s and 80s as cost cutting measures. It is called a “single lead junction” and allows trains to cross over so in this case, the train enters platform 4 but it could cross over to platform 5. Of course, it causes and operating restriction as only one train can use it so new signalling schemes often see them removed.
@@doncoffey5820 This is in advance of a junction. Double track approaches the bridge, goes single for maybe 100 yards and then back to double to go across the bridge and towards the platforms. It's not like the case of a double track branch which merges to single which then has a ladder junction with the first and then the second track of a main line, which is what I understand as being a single lead. I could have understood if it was single track across the bridge to avoid unequal load, like they do at Ribblehead.
Don, although it does not relate to this video, there is something I have been meaning to ask you. On other videos you have explained how expensive it is to lower the floors of tunnels, or raise the height of bridges to accommodate overhead electric wires. On some of your videos I have noticed third rail electrification. The same as you see coming out of Brighton for example. Why cant modern dmu trains employ a third rail shoe, instead of, or as well as a pantograph? Installing a live rail must be cheaper than altering bridges and tunnels? If safety is the issue, why does it not apply to all of the UK?
I’m not an expert Brian but I understand that third rail (DC) traction isn’t not as efficient as over head wire (AC) traction and in the U.K., the step of adding third rails increases risk of injury to persons, whether they are workers or trespassers.
Its called a Single Lead Junction and its done for various reasons. The bridge over the river was very old and weak so they put this junction in to stop two trains passing on the bridge at the same time.
@@doncoffey5820 I did notice that, yes. But still, it looks very impressing! (While normally, i don't particularly prefer the wide angle lens Cabviews, due to the distortion at closer ranges) But reading between the lines: There are faster accelerating diesels over there in the UK, aren't there? ^^
@@doncoffey5820 That's amazing!! As a dieseltrain enthusiast, UK's complete collections of various dieseltrains never ceases to amaze me. Especially since over here (In the Netherlands) our national railway (NS) decommissioned it's last dmu two years ago. Now only the smaller railway companies have a few of them left, combining to a total of mainly just two remaining classes of dmu's. On these classes, a top speed of 140 km/h (about 88m/h) can be considered really fast for a diesel! Seeing your regular commuter trains sometimes doing a 100m/h, honestly is mindblowing!
Why edit the sound at all, surely the sound of the aws and the warning horn is all part of the journey, makes the driver look like he’s not observing the crossing warnings!.
What is that beeping sound. It does not seem to exactly seem to correspond with crossings ? My guess is that it relays the train’s location to the main signal center.
Looks and sounds to me like an audible alert to an upcoming signal and its setting. High beep is a green signal ahead and (not sure if this is on this or other videos) a deeper beep signifies an amber signal. Beep occurs as train passes over a metal 'hump' between the rails, which presumably contains a transponder.
