Weymouth to Bristol Driver's eye view preview 

Absolutely fantastic! Takes me back to my very first journey on the Heart of Wessex Line from Dorchester to Bristol... which was also on a First Great Western Class 150. Nowadays it's mainly GWR Class 165/166's in use on the Heart of Wessex Line, with the Class 150's having been moved to local routes in Devon and Cornwall. We do get the odd Class 158 still coming down to Weymouth but very rarely (maybe once a day on a weekday morning).

I loved watching this. As an exiled Bristolian who's been living on the other side of 'The Pond' for years it brought back lots of memories.

Great video. Love this route - been over it many times on a Saturday.

Excellent filming and presentation - very informative!

Looks really good - thanks for recording

Looks good! Maybe this will be my next one!

Fantastic picture quality! I remember when this route was operated using lass loco hauled mark 1 rolling stock

Looking forward to buying this when its released

Nostalgic for me. As a student I used to ride from Weymouth to Bristol in the front seat of a diesel multiple unit, so my view of the line was as good as the driver's.

When i was down fuel point at fratton train care we called the150s stella buses as they were always swilling on the floor with beer lol

I remember walking along side a train on the old quay tramway in the mid 90's. Very weird experience...

well filmed

Nice you made me want to get this

I am buying this. I travel on this line frequently.

The Tyne and Wear is on our wishlist of DEVs to be filmed some time but not planned as yet.

We did actually film from Westbury to Theale many years ago for our production ROLLING STONE (about Whatley Quarry stone traffic). Even then, we did excluded much of the route from the finished video because it had little of interest. Bearing in mind we have done Paddington to Reading, Castle Cary to Westbury and Taunton to Exeter. There isn't much of interest left to do and other routes must take priority. We hope to ROLLING STONE on line in the future.

I have this video of yours, great.

Excellent

Do the retaining walls in Bath ever get weeded, robust saplings seem to have appeared there?

We haven't done previews of all our DEVs because one can get a pretty good idea of the genre from those that we have. If we didn't have a no-quibble money back guarantee then I could understand why previews are totally necessary but if you are seriously thinking of purchasing WESSEX, then just go for it and if you don't like it, send it back for a full refund. All YOU lose is the return postage. Anyway, I will see if we can find a window to created a preview but we have the NEC coming shortly..

Yes I think it was heading to paddington

Hadn't hought of that. There will be another opportunity next year because we have finished filming the Exeter to Basingstoke (West of England) line and from Worting Junction to Basingstoke will be another repeat from Wessex.

While we intend to film A route between Scotland's two major cities, we have no definite route nor date. Which is your preferred route?

The late Ian Burbidge Dvr manager at Westbury, in the chair, a knowledgeable and much respected manager by all the train crew that worked with him.

Thanks for the cab ride this looks a great video to add to your collection!!😎🚃🚃🇬🇧🇺🇦

The HST class 125 that appears at 6.06, could it have been heading for London?

In fact I have got quite a lot of your videos. :-)

No, the class 150 is a DMU (Diesel Multiple Unit).

The train at 6.06 is a diesel class 43 hst

It's interesting to note the 18/19 years worth of tree growth between Wessex and this. Talk about the passage of time...

The whole of the Graet Western is unelectrified apart from Hayes and Harlington - Paddington. The HST does not need any electrification to run.

Can you do one from Swindon to Westbury please

Last Saturday I was standing on the bridge at Bradford on Avon and looking at the other road bridge at 4:41 in the video. It is badly rusted with large holes. Why does NR let things deteriorate, perhaps beyond repair. Same with the bridge at Westbury Station. If the bridge in BoA gets closed it's going to add to the already bad congestion in the town and may lead to the line closure for months.

You are confusing the two types of train. The former InterCity 125 is known as an HST. These are 100% diesel. The former InterCity 225 (known as class 91 loco hauled) is 100% electric. Although these are also high speed trains they are no known as HSTs. I hope that clears up the confusion.

Would love to buy the Blu-ray, if only your website was user friendly.

Would guess that the route was originally built by the GWR and should be operated by FGW. SWT run the electric services to Weymouth.

May to September 2012

When Ian is contacting the signalman, is he still in his train cab?

Was that class 60 065 Spirit of Jaguar?

Narrator Richard Bath used to be a newsreader at ITN

If you buy the DEV all the history is there.

Is the Blu-ray still available?

I gather these are electric? If so, how do they power them? Is one of the rails a power rail?

When was this filmed?

What was the freight yard called that was owned by FGW and DBshenker please?

Westbury yard.

Hmm it sounds very similar

When we hear Ian talk to the signalman, is his accent Scottish or Irish?

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Its a HST, its diesel.

Neither, it is West Country.

Are you trying to tell me that the HST class 43s can run on the unelectrified lines? Because I learnt that the HST 225s need electrification to run.

HST stands for high speed train. You should know that. But thanks for telling me the difference between the class 125 and the class 225.

That train that appears at 6.06, how could it run on that line without the pantograph on an unelectrified line?

Also if this is in Weymouth in South West England, why is the train first capital connect instead of South West trains?

I mean why is First great western instead of South West trains?

Chug train

But I thought those trains could not run on an unelectrified line especially without the pantograph.

hvyytt

this video is a disgrace putting on then saying its just a showing to and then stop the filming to make us buy the dvd to watch the rest of it thats a con and shouldn't be on you tube

When was this filmed?