Woking to Basingstoke - Hastings DEMU cab ride - 13 May 2017 

I am a retired train driver from the USA, AM ENJOYING YOUR VIDEOS VERY MUCH!

Very enjoyable. I do like your cab rides.

Just love that art-deco signal box at Woking, great that it's listed too. I was gutted when my two local boxes, Hampden Park and Polegate were destroyed, went in both when I was a kid !!😢😢

10/10 for not cutting out any acceleration, braking, cruising or coasting. Also for the best sound reproduction I've ever heard on RU-vid & engaging & informative commentary. :)

Excellent video. The added information makes it so much more interesting. Thank you. Bob Mac.

Growing up in Basingstoke I've done this line a good few times! 😀👍

I used to love the old slam door stock, the clunk of the brass handled doors, the clatter of the compressor under the floor, and that lovely train smell. Looks like corals coal yard has gone from Farnborough station.

This is a top notch video. Good quality with the driver's eye view and the info enhances it. I find it an enjoyable escape, for a while anyway. Thanks..

Fabulous footage. Have enjoyed all your videos. The sound of the purring Diesel engines brings back fond memories of the time when I travelled up to Cannon Street/Charing Cross from Warrior Square back in the Seventies.

Enjoyable to watch, and good captions en route. It reminded me that at least a decade ago I did some work on a feasibilty study re converting Woking Junction to a flyover; evidently it didn't go anywhere, at least not yet.

You can just imagine how this route used to be back in the 1950s/60s. Bulleid Pacific's speeding along between the coast and the capital. Miles of straight, uninterrupted quadruple track. What an impressive sight it must have been.

Brilliant footage! I traveled on this section of the South Western Main Line many times but never seen it from this view!

An excellent video of a cab ride, I enjoyed watching this, well done and thank you.

Excellent and picture quality of high standard.

I really must get myself booked up for a tour next year. That old thumper is calling my name now every video I watch...

Another fine video well done cheer's bob.

Addictive! Thanks.

The bridge at 12.44. Is in an area called Deepcut, which was named after the excavation work that took place building the railway

13.58 the Chord to the North Downs Line according to reference Books, was never connected to the main line & was just a long siding from the "up" Reading line

When back in the UK in 1979 i worked on a Pway gang out of Winchfield, and living in Basingstoke i both traveled and worked on this line. our ganger named "Joe' would not have one piece of ballast left on a sleeper. All the lineside gangers concrete huts look derelict, what happened to them, also a lot of wet beds along the track.

Grew up in Reading and so traveled many of your routes in the 40s thru 60s by train (steam! except electric from Reading South through Wokingham toward Waterloo) and by road. Have just enjoyed this run at my desk in Philadelphia suburb following your rail route (and helpful captions) with an old Shell road map (1972). At my age, this is my answer to "you need to get out more often". Keep up the good work.

Many thanks for the video...which wasn’t spoiled by the weather! Brought back many memories for me. Woking SR signal box was always crewed by excellent signalmen and a station announcer. On the left at Woking Junction you can just see the now closed Woking Electrical Control Room (ECR) , with an amazing Art Deco 1930s control panel almost completely surrounding the control desk (inside the forbidding concrete bunker style building). This is now opened usually once a year to the public and is well worth a visit. It once controlled the 3rd rail d.c. supply down to Liss on the Portsmouth Direct, to Sturt Lane on the SW main line, down to Alton and over to Reading and up to Walton on Thames. Booster substations and track paralleling huts were added on the main SW main line after I left in 1977. Eastleigh ECR now supervises the old Woking and Havant ECR systems. Incidentally, I often used to travel home to Eastleigh via the Alton to Winchester line ‘Over the Alps’ as the Hampshire Demu drivers used to call it. It was a privilege to ride up Medstead bank with the driver...often in either of the two coach units 1121 or 1122, stalwarts on the ‘Alps’ branch. What a shame the Alresford to Winchester Junction section has gone forever. Thanks again for your excellent video. Rob.

Another excellent video, thank you! Please upload the rainy one!!!

memories there im ex welsh guard .pirbright and remember going to brookwood cemetery and then to the fox and pub ...late 70,s my dad also a guardsman was there in 52...

Thanks for a nostalgic ride to Basingstoke. Pity rain spoiled the next part as I will miss going through my old home town of Eastleigh. Thoroughly enjoy all your footage from various parts of the U.K.

Something unique about British Trains? I cannot verbalize it, but they are unique!

You can see more of the passing scenery from the slow line! Unusual overtaking move by train on slow line near the beginning. Had you come onto the SW main line at Byfleet junction?

Excellent video. What were the blue diamond shape markers every so often

At 4'40 approx was that a flashing yellow above the 159 or phasing due to digital photography?

Hastings units were often rostered to run the early morning service from Tonbridge to Reading back in the 70's, alternating with a class 33 and MK1 stock. Happy days

Does the reduce power signs apply to electric as well? Are they for coasting reasons? A great video.

28:54 The pub nearby is actually called Barton's Mill?

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Can this DMU pick up power from the third rail?

0:30 Who is that guy? WHO is he?

Not so sure it was a diesel that overtook on the Down Slow at 4:07

Allways find it strange the amount of debris left by the track, all those old rails must be worth something as scrap.

The road bridge at 23:30 is not the A3 - probably the M3.