West Coast Main Line Driver's Eye View: Edinburgh to Carlisle 

This is so therapeutic, every train route in the country should do one of these videos it is a great way to view the scenery and stations.

The best part? The suddenly sparkling clean windows at Lockerbie .... like magic! What a beautiful bit of country! Thanks for sharing your journey with us!

Great video and just enough information to keep it interesting. After having taken many train journeys in the U.S. it's a blessed relief to travel by rail in the U.K. and get to my destinations quickly especially on mainline services. A few years ago I made the terrible mistake of being persuaded to travel by train from Chicago to Los Angeles and the 2,250 mile journey took almost 4 days. I've never complained about our train services since then.

I'm from The U.S...Sadly, I've never lived any place where there were passenger trains. I really liked the views of the countryside. And, I liked many of the old buildings, which are obviously still standing (and perhaps in use). They are much like the buildings you will find in smaller towns & cities that I am familiar with. While I haven't finished watching this video, I haven't seen the first sight of a "strip-mall". They're all over the place, here, and they're very unsightly. Thanks for this post. P.S. -- I noticed those big, round bales of hay in the open fields. Here, in The U.S., authorities are trying to pass legislation in order to make them illegal. When asked, "Why?"...they insisted that cows couldn't get a square meal.

I knowing Edinburgh and this line is very lovely. If I have nostalgia to Scotland, so I watching this video. But after Corona, I moove to Scotland.

Love these cab videos. Cheers for posting.👍😎

It says a lot about the engineers who designed and built this track in the 1800s what a good job they did with many long straight sections and sloping curves over much of the route to Carstairs .

VERY APPRECIATED ! I NEVER SEEN THIS PLACE BEFORE , ILOVE TRAINS . THANKS FOR SHARE IT . SO PRECIOUS !

The engineering is incredible. It blows my mind.

Great video again loved it from Australia ......also I'm amazed at the length of the platforms in most UK train stations.

0mg what a great train ride video to the border city of carlisle. Between edinburgh and northern england it is very rural through sparsely populated country. The west coast main line was built in the 19th century it was the only way to get to england before they started making cars from scratch.

Wow! This very great! Like travelling by trains. in Russia Moscow-Vladisotok ride 7 days! Best reards from Russia!

That was fast and fun ! Thank you for sharing !!! :):):)

Another fine video... Thank you my friend...

Fantastic footage!

Thanks bro for posting such an excellent videos..

Thanks. Enjoyed the trip.

Super video! You almost feel that you are in the cab racing along. Brilliant experience. Reminds me of a journey I did in s train of mark 1 cosches behind s class 85 back in the 1970's. Racing up Beatock at 95 mph under electric power seemed unreal! Ot eas fairly new then. Now ee rxpect it!

this is astonishing: you drive at a speed of 95 mp/h, then you get (at 0:13:04) a speed limit of 70 mp/h, which after a few 100 yards (at 0:13:11) is lifted to 95 mp/h again. I would have expected that the speed limit would have been displayed so much earlier that the train would have reached the speed reduction in time at the beginning of the bridge. Thanks for another perfect video and many greetings from the Taunus Mountains, Germany.

Great video Ben,,just shows how the old firemen must have worked their socks off firing a steam loco in the good old days. Thanks Ian.

Outstanding! Big thanks from New York.

Hey! Enjoyed watching your video! I really like travelling by trains💖Like🤗

Lovely video. Thank you

Nice to see you were doing your bit to reduce the fly population! - - As usual, a nice interesting ride down the up line.

Super Video...thumbs up!

Thanks for posting.

Great video love the countryside ........... when can we see the next production

Scotland is such a beautiful country. I hope it will stay with us in the European Union. Where it always belonged and belongs. Greeting and best wishes from Germany!

Excellent video

Super video!!!👍👍👍📹🚅🚅

Always say prayer as pass Quintinshill. Always there on anniversary of the disaster 🙏🕯️

Lovely weather for a wee trip south

Super excellent interesting & exciting

I've taking a virgin train from euston to edinburgh recently and that's the route i've been!

At about the 25 minute mark, how cool would it be to live in one of those houses?

Nice video an old one noticed the old bus parking spots at the castle car park they are beside the railway now

Alongside the top end of the ECML,I have yet to do the top end of the WCML beyond Preston. It is something I must rectify and soon. Incidentally I have travelled up the M6/M74 beyond Preston and it's simply stunning.....

Thanks Ben

Five star coverage

thank you

My ears always feel funny going through these long tunnels.

Beautiful footage!! I would like it if you switched to a 60fps frame rate for extra smoothness, 24fps is pretty choppy at these speeds lol

Thankerton webcam into view at 29:30 on the left at 100 MPH...

Interesting seeing the diff signal system there, not three position signals like we have here in Melbourne! Is the tone part of the safety equip as a reminder for the pilot valve?

Obviously, you’re not Benny Elias, the Aussie ex-rugby league player. Okay, a beaut video (no comment on the wind farms 😠) so I am subscribing to your channel. Keep up the good work. 👍🐨🇦🇺

Keep 'em coming! :)

Such a shame that the old footbridge to the L of the line over River Eden at 1:11:53 has now been completely dismantled by the BaR stewards - I last went over it a few years ago when it was fenced off at the town end, but when we were at school in St Anne's Hill up on the left we used it regularly during PE lessons to get to the Sheepmount athletics field. And my uncle and aunt from Christchurch were once doing a long distance walk through the area and a local advised THEM to use the footbridge too, as a convenient shortcut into town! Why on earth couldn't it have been repaired and made properly accessible to all?

It really won't be long before PC Train Sims look like this!

Great video Ben! A suggestion for the videos - If it's not too complicated, do you mind adding the current speed as a small overlay which could be obtained using some phone app....

Brilliant, thank you very much for bringing to us. Please tell me for I am a 100% amateur, would you know why the nearly straight section from Haymarket out to Cartairs is only a 95mph max whilst the second you hit the WCML, straight up to 110???

I needed to know why don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so that they can extend the unused abandoned underground train stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock and that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into Five cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on those Five cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers. A Stock Trains and also having 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it more Larger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Railway tunnel into a High-Speed Railway lines? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Railway line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 47 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project if that will be OK for London Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from the Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden more Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly line and also build brand-new underground train stations so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street can they also make another brand new underground train station in Chingford and could they extend the Piccadilly Line and the DLR right up to Chingford? All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Five carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and can they order Every 37 Octagon and Every 17 Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13 and unique small no.11 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 142MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 142MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units, can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!!!!!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 17 Tonnes for all of those 142MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are told!!!!! And please do something about these very very important Professional ideas Please? Prime Minister of England, Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Germany, Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.

Hi Ben, another great vid . Can I ask a couple of questions 1, is the round trip a days work or do you have to go somewhere else? 2, how much rest do you get once you arrive in Edinburgh before starting the return journey. Regards Bill /

Great film Ben, more of this standard please. One question, whereabouts is Cobbinshaws summit on the Midcalder line? Also where do Preston TPE sign?

Thanks for a scenic ride. If you came to a stop in an OHNS, how would you get out of it? .

24:57 odd place to see a bus stop Shelter.. (obviously not a bus stop as on the railway but same type)

Dear Friend: I am a fervent admirer of the railways and next year I will visit England for 12 days, the cities of London, York, Liverpool and Manchester. I am interested in knowing some station around London to observe the trains at speed. Which would you recommend for filming train passes at good speed? Many thanks and warm regards from Argentina, Fausto.-

Hello are you a train driver? If so how did you get to that stage? Did you take a course or something to become one?

Looks like they could do with remodelling Carstairs Junction to speed it up a bit.

magic

I feel I should offer my condolences for the many fine souls of the Royal Scots Historical Battle Reenactment Group (Entymological Airborne Division) who bravely gave their lives in the production of this video. God bless their tiny Rorschach patterns... 🦟🦗🐝 o7

Nice cabride. Where to next?

Another great video Ben. Where did this service continue on to? Manchester Airport?

Why the 30 and 15 speed limit at Carstairs east etc ?...is the curve unsafe at speed maybe not canted ?....or because of the multi junctions ? 34:45 typical scotish landscape...hills confiers rivers and clouds beautiful...could also be snowdonia here in Wales....makes driving a pleasure on days like that.

Waverley Station Haymarket Station Edinburgher City Railway of S Bane

'king ada!

noice

Great video, have you seen don cofefe’s videos? You should do captions like that.

Who else just skipped to the end of the line?

No windowcleaner?

56:09 Lockerbie Station managed by Scotrail but only served by Transpennine Edinburgh/Glasgow to Manchester Airport trains!

I didn't know class 350s operated into Edinburgh!? When did this start? As a Northern customer I feel a bit jealous as ScotRail customers get decent modern trains on virtually all their services while much of the Northern network is STILL served by clapped out old pacers!......though finally some withdrawals are starting to happen, thanks to newer DMUs cascaded from GWR and ironically, ScotRail. Stunning scenery along this line of course, goes without saying!

Can you tell me when your next video might be ? Thanks, Dana.

Paralel Edinburgher Dramffordd(Tramway)

Are the loud beeps to keep the driver awake?

0:00 Do the arrows next to the signals illuminate to tell the driver to stop?

Haymarket's Down South is it? I'd always thought it was Up North :D

If would only be 4k with matching memory card (video does not run smooth). Otherwise: beautiful.

Fab video, but how do drivers stand that buzzing noise? It's like torture!

Now what I'm also wondering.... Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, but Carlisle is in England, meaning this train must be passing the border between England and Scotland somewhere... Does somewhere know around where that border can be? And what I also noticed, is whenever there's a kind of a box on the road and the train passes over it I hear a "beep" and soon after a light-sign or traffic light, or how do you call that in English, is there, so I can't put the notion out of my head, these boxes cause this beep in order to warn for these traffic lights... Am I correct?

I think I got it, the beep tells the driver "watch out for the train track signals"

What’s a flashing green aspect these days? Ah, it might be the frame rate of the video camera.............?

Novice question... Why are the signal lights flashing?

Speed up to 2x lol

this is great if you like trains

Great video but either that train is doing far more than 95 mph or the video has been speeded up.

Hi ben, nice journey,cheer's bob.

Been up and down that line numerous times and never understand why the Carstairs junction has not been improved and possibly taken over on to the old solum that's very visible off to the left. I am also puzzled as to whey why ripped out the Waverley route down to Carlisle that had a lot more stations/towns being served and kept this open.

110 MPH ?? Omg !! In Australia the max speed the inter city trains travel is 80 Km /h ..!!

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ARound 27:20 or so I saw speed 110... Since this is the UK, I guess that's 110 MPH, right... so approx 177 km/h (I'm on the metric, like the rest of the world, sorry)... That seems really really fast to me

Why look British trains like subways in Germany with the car body?

Possibly the dullest part of Scotland. I cycled it once.