West Coast Main Line Driver's Eye View: Crewe to Liverpool Lime Street 

Lime St has to be one of the most imposing station approaches in the UK. The cutting from Edge Hill is a masterful piece of engineering.

Your videos are superb, thank you for sharing them with us all. I also like the non music, please just leave the audio sounds in as I love to hear the flange squeal and other associated noises, it's all part of the railway experience.

The approach to Lime Street must be the 8th Wonder of the World!

As a person who works on the railway I do take for granted how beautiful some of the areas we get to see are

My parents live in Runcorn and I am currently in Bournemouth. I haven't been to Runcorn for a year due to the pandemic, but this makes me feel like I'm home in Runcorn whilst being at home in Bournemouth. It's truly marvellous. Thankyou so much :-)

Wow ! As a Beatles fan you can imagine how I feel watching these images . Very emotional for me that never could to visit there . I loved it , the names of stations and others informations . Thank you so much .

Fascinating, the complex engineering work on the approach to Lime Street.

Interesting video, brought tears to my eyes. I first did this trip in 1955 from Liverpool to London Euston and return to visit my aunt. The last time was in 1979. It's amazing how the original track has been upgraded to high speed. The original engineers knew what they were doing. Still the same mould and mildew in the Edge Hill cutting and Lime Street Station as I remember from years ago!

Often wondered what you did after leaving Eastern Suburb’s RL Club. Great work; good, clear vision. Hope to see more of your work.

Great video many thanks. Incredible Edge Hill section, those Victorian engineers were amazing.

Great video,always loved the journey into LimeSt. My Dad was a driver in Liverpool and i got to ride in the cab as a kid a few times on this route :)

YES! I've been waiting for a driver's eye video for months now from you! Awesome videos! Look forward maybe to doing some of my own in the future.

In my past experience as a student in UK, i always have high regards and respect for the then British Railway ( in the 1980s ). I wish i can travel to the UK. Thank you for your excellent videos.

Love your videos even better with no stupid music or people talking in the background just the sounds in the cab of a train going about it's everyday 😂 business I love it well done, many thanks for sharing these wonderful scenic railway journeys from the drivers eye view? Very best wishes Roger.

Do this trip on a daily basis, Liverpool's my home city. Thanks for uploading this

I love these real-time videos... so absolutely cathartic.

brilliant work, anyone who says otherwise didnt watch it! its nice to see (and hear!) the views and hear the sounds the driver gets when driving!

Great video Ben. I would think that Lime Street would be the favorite destination for any train buffs.

You're alive! Great video

Excellent video , many thanks for uploading, enjoyed it.

A brilliant video. Thank you very much for posting it on RU-vid

Rather apt that I have admonished you today (20/05/2020) about music on your 'Sutton to Selhurst' video from 2016, then up pops this one ! There is nothing 'half arsed' about the audio on this video, Ben, you are back to your usual excellent self.

Well said...too many unappreciative people who think they can just demand things

I must’ve done this trip thousands upon thousands of times - but never from the cab POV. Wonderful - and thanks everso for the upload. AND for gettingb id of a silly muzak track.

fantastic video. thank you from france.in october i would have a great pleasure to see this wonderful arrival at lime street during my next stay in liverpool ( google traduction) tres belle video.merci depuis la france.en octobre,j 'aurais le plaisir de voir cette impressionante arrivée a lime street lors de mon prochain sejour a liverpool

I love watching these videos at double speed setting!

Loved the arrival into Lime Street under the arch!

A really good quality video without music - thank you! Like many people who have commented I can recall the Crewe - Lime Street journey from many years ago and it is great to see it 'from the front'.

They are YOUR videos so you can do what you like to them for the publics entertainment. They have no right to judge or be critical or even demand that you do this/do that to them just to please their pathetic opinions. End of the day its also your job as well! So they can button it! As an agency rail worker I love watching your videos. Gives me more of an insight to lines I have worked on or on those that I hope to work on in the future. Keep em coming and ignore the haters!

Used to live overlooking the line at Mossley Hill, great to see the Edge Hill cutting and entry to Lime Street from driver's eye view

Very good video. Nice to know where we were going, as I live in the south.

so relaxing to watch this, while in bed. I just wish there there was a full length london to scotland video, they are great to fall to sleep watching to see how far i can get (there is absolutely nothing boring about these videos, i love them. In fact i would have loved to have been a train driver, but it just never happened for one reason or another.

Awesome video mate. Lovely work 👌🏽

Watching these films always makes me feel that humanity has disappeared,hardly a soul to be seen,even working by the tracks. Great way to travel,beautiful countryside,relaxing atmosphere,and there in half an hour!

Great video, thanks for the upload

Brilliant view going over the Runcorn Bridge!

Great video. Really enjoyed.

phew. Thank you for the ride through the beautiful English countryside. Living in Australia I miss it

I see at 19mins 12s into the video as you pass the track workers the second one trips over & something like PPE flies onto the up line rail - A near miss accident! I passed train driver aptitude test twice but sadly could never get in to my dream job despite trying many times! Shows I'm sharp to notice this moment & what being a driver is all about - Good concentration & observation! Not easy to get shortlisted as so many apply for this awesome career! PS I knew Weaver Junction was a very fast set of points (used to me 70mph) but I see now 100mph for a Pendalino.. Mind boggling fast piece of engineering! Just sad most of the rest of the line into Liverpool is a slow 80mph! A bit stupid really if they can brilliantly engineer those points to 100mph but not the rest of the line upto Liverpool Parkway!

I love train rides! I once went to Liverpool on a train. This video makes me nostalgic of that!

i' m glad i found your channel thx

Thank you, great ! Seeing the Freightliner 66 whizz past made me think; when you first started driving, especially with fast closing speeds, is there a tendency to flinch as you 'meet' each other? I did just watching !

Hi! Love your videos and I hope you may do some more - do you think you might be able to ? Best regards, Dana.

"It's not perfect. Bite me". OK, arm, leg or arse? lol. Great video mate, just keep 'em coming. Cheers.

Very nice trip into Liverpool Lime Street station

Amazing description

Another great video!

Fantastic trip and video! You English railroadmen built long ago the railroad system (now completely degraded) of my state of São Paulo - Brazil: Santos - Jundiaí; Sorocabana, Noroeste, Cia Paulista, Mogiana...

Love the video btw !!!! Best regards again, Dana.

Outstanding balance

Remember once travelling down from Scotland to Hereford and stopping (on coach) at an under renovation Crewe to use their "facilities" - down into the main area - no trains, NO RAILS, literally deathly quiet - eerie as hell....

My dad used to be a driver/fireman in the steam days. He worked for LMS, out of the Sutton Oak Sheds. Wish I could have been a train driver :)

I must admit, the journey from Crewe to Liverpool is a bit random, not sure how many people do that but great video all the same. Nice weather for it.

Wow! It's been a long time, nice to see a new video. Is there more coming?

Whoaaaaaa Nelly this is fast 😮

Seems like a lot of track and OHL work has been done outside Lime St. since I was last there!

No, Ben, I won't bite you. I prefer your cab chat to music, even if I can't decipher it. A great trip. On a visit to UK, I stayed at the nearby Adelphi.

The sectional appendix is out of date (pdf version) is still showing as that platform at Lime St as out of use, last updated 9th April 18.

Great video. I love these cab views, especially at the junctions where the perspective is completely different to that from a side window. A little question - where does the line from Manchester converge - was it Edge Hill Jn?

Another wonderful ride

Interesting to see the approach to Lime St. from the drivers cab. However deoes anyone remember the Royal Scots steam engines pulling the express trains uphill out of Lime St with a tank engine at the rear to give them some push?

28:31 is there a driver's eye view video of a Liverpool to Drax train?

Excellent presentation. All the info you add to your videos makes the experience that much more enjoyable, especially to someone like me who lives in New Zealand, and couldn't practically experience this any other way. The half-arsed efforts you have used to mute the audio worked very well, I think and **IN MY OPINION** (just trying to avoid the trolls there), works much better than adding music. People like Goeff Marshall do cab rides with all music, and again, *in my opinion* it's akin to buying a Kinder Surprise and finding there's no toy inside - the chocolate was nice, but you're missing something essential.... If I may, I would make one polite request - At places like Hartford Junction (9:08), it would be interesting for me to know which other railway lines the train is merging with. A quick Google search landed nothing of any immediate relevance, and as I have said, I live on the other side of the world and can't easily go to these places and find out. I fully realise that may be too much extra work, and you have every right to ignore me, but I thought I would at least politely ask. Many thanks for well-made, informative video.

Love the video - ChrisGJ700 asked whether this was a class 350 EMU ? Can you please help us identify the unit filmed from ? Many thanks, and best regards, Dana.

A Desiro 350/360(?) class EMU, I'm guessing, going off of that distinctive "car alarm" whine which can occasionally be heard, which I believe is produced by the units' AC traction motors.

One thing I noticed when you joined the DN Liverpool, there was no warning board for the 85. You seemed to slow to 85 only at the commencement board, how come?

Great video. Have subscribed.

Another bellter Thank you.

I’ll be signing part of this route in a few months. Don’t suppose you have one going the other way 😜

To what train does the yellow "EPS" Permissible speed indicator refer? (Example at 9:40.) 125/110.

The oddity, for me as an American rail fan, is in the high speed sections, seeing full length ties, where several transit systems, and Amtrak's NE Corridor, there's a movement to using half ties in concrete bases. The rationale is that it stands up to higher speeds better, is quieter, plus lasts longer.

while watching these train videos and see a small little village in the countryside with a brick house close to the tracks, I say to myself "I wish I was living right there in that nice house"" :D

I have just arrived in London and this has convinced me to take the Virgin Pendolino to Liverpool during my spare time on this trip. Out of curiosity, are you able to advise the name of the yards on the left side as we approach Liverpool?

Liverpool Lime street to Crewe change platform for London Midland train to London Euston. took over 5 hours. I only had to wait 10 minutes even after changing platform, thats how slow the London Midland train was. Now I just get the Virgin train out of Lime street and get there without changing within 2 hours.

We are now arriving at Crewe. For passengers wishing to change for Wolverhampton... there is a Sports Direct opposite the station.

Simply a great video. Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Bob

32:01, are you opening a Pepsi/Coke/J2O bottle Ben? It always intrigues me seeing the throat of Liverpool Lime Street to Edge Hill in both directions. I remember being told that it was done by pick and shovel, I claimed that because that throat was dug in 1850, well since the Industrial Revolution that some steam machinery was used. Have you driven Class 390 (The Pendolino)?

Fantastic video do you know the date is was filmed please

Great stuff.

Hi! Any idea when your next video might be and was this a class 350 please ? Thanks, Dana

I think this is a great video

I like the looping of the soundtrack leaving Liv Sth Pkwy. You could make a good dance beat out of that

I thought the wavertree resignalling was supposed to increase linespeeds on this section? 80 seems quite low when you look at the track geometry

Another non UK res with an oddball question. Do you set the speed of the train or do you regulate the power? In other words do you set a control to, eg, 80 mph or a regulator power setting and watch the dials closely?

Finally arrived at Liverpool Lime Street. Thank you Mr. Train Driver for the pleasant ride.

Excellent.

It's always this impression of 19th century England when you come to the final miles (after 29:37), vaguely menacing, a kind of Piranese subterranean architecture, a perfect setting for a mean plot…

It would have been great to see you current speed as well as speed limits in your videos. I am planning to become a train driver and it would provide me with an overview of how you are using brake at stations.

29:222 just behind trees on the left is 1st station in world - sandstone steps for passengers still visable in cutting from sharp st and what was memphis st. off tunnel rd

Great vid

you should do a drivers eye view video from London liverpool street to shenfield on a class 345 train on the Great eastern mainline on the stopper

top video mate

Im American and when I think of Liverpool I think of The Beatles. The guy who wrote "A Hard Day's Night" screenplay also wrote a television teleplay about Lime Street in Liverpool. Lime Street must be a major artery in Central Liverpool.

That's quite the tumble from the maintenance worker at 19:09 hope they pulled out of that ok!

Five star coverage

Crewe looks like an overgrown gardens nowadays. If I had to travel by train to Liverpool I would much rather be on a Desiro than one of those tilting mobile sewers.

What other lines/routes do you sign?

Is that a rare APT on the left at 1:03?

How did you get permission?!

Hi!!! Never received a reply so I will try again! :))) Will you be able to film more of your wonderful train cab ride videos ? Best regards, and hope to hear from your soon !!!! Dana.