Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington 16 December 2019
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- Get a driver's eye view of the journey from Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington. This was the first SuperFast service to leave Bristol Temple Meads via Bristol Parkway on the first weekday of the new December 2019 timetable.
Most of these cab rides give the names of the various junctions passing from and to where! Just makes for more enjoyable experience.
While that would be nice, this does look like the official channel of the train operating company (rather than the personal channel of an employee) and so I understand why they don’t, after all it’s extra work for a member of staff to do! Either way it’s nice they uploaded a cab video, seeing we’re not supposed to be on their trains(!)
That's OK if there is an option like CC which there usually isn't. They can be very intrusive and distracting.
well, if youtube allows barrage...
I note that they are now adding the station names etc to their more recent videos, such as the last HST from Plymouth to Paddington also available on YT
@@dixiedean1955 Well, and don't forget: You can just download the national rail map from their website and there you can see all the stations the train has passed by.
Nice to see a UK Rail franchise are engaging with their customers without paranoia about hearing audio in the cab. Thank you GWR!
I love these videos. Can happily sit watching them all day.
Hi Rich. I was viewing this video from Sydney and had no idea through which stations we were passing. I thought it was a "lazy" video in that the person posting the video gave us no information at all. Other videos of British rail journeys give history as well as telling you where you are. This video was just a dump unfortunately. Do you agree ?
@@johnlatham7092this is a Great Western Railway Service to London Paddington, it normally stops at Stations like Bristol Parkway, Reading, Didcot Parkway, Swindon, Chippenham and Bristol Temple Meads.
the smudge on the window directly between the rails looks like a funny little horse
looks like a rubber ducky to me.
@@bajahipb5846 That's what I saw.
I thought it was a reindeer
Yes, definitely a reindeer!
@@sw9750 Oh I thought it was just a smudge on the window
Great Western should hire Dan Coffey to produce their promo videos. Dan's U-Tube videos are superb.
Is that Dons brother lol.
Don Coffey, not Dan
James I certainly agree with you on your comment. His videos are fantastic especially the information with them
Plus he knows all the history and where the junctions go to
Check out rail cowgirl, especially the one "sunset summer vibes and side views" An extraordinary video of the railway in Norway
I’m not a lifesaver but I am staying home and I am enjoying watching this video. 🐨🇦🇺
Great view and strangely mesmerising, loved seeing the four bridges in Purley from a different perspective and the new Reading flyover was awesome. Many thanks.
great video excellent quality thanks for your time and effort
I miss GWR trains so much. I used to commute frequently between Newbury and London during my visit to UK.
Great video, thanks for posting it.
Amazing Video,
I'm track surveyor and sometimes my survey team takes poor quality pictures on track due to weather or night time.
Track videos helped me many times to recognise and solve my surveying issues.
Thanks again
This is great, thank you. I was in London about 18 months ago, often took the GWR or TfL Rail into Paddington. This brings back good memories.
amazing video....superb cab view ❤🇮🇳love from india
Hi there, well we've been meandering with you for quite some time now and enjoying the journey, always so good to be out and about with you. The cab view is immersive and very relaxing I find. Anyway just wanted to drop by and say thank you.
I wish that you would release a video for Penzance to Paddington! The only video out there with the full GWR route is from 80s in a Class 43 :(
How about one from Penzance to Aberdeen! :D
@@TheTomd79 i have been on that its a long trip
They have a video from Plymouth to Paddington and that has the stations names on it aswell
@@thepluckfamily I have watched it just sucks that its the Plymouth to Reading route they recorded not the GWR mainline all the way to Paddington. :( was still a great watch though!
In 4k!!
Haven’t been to Bristol for nearly a year, so had no idea this was gonna be non stop from Parkway! At Swindon I was surprised, Didcot less so but at Reading I was thinking when is he slowing down, he’ll overshoot the platforms by miles!
8:43 My old High School is on the right and was a great place to watch trains "do the curve". I notice it's now where "old" meets "new"!
Thanks for the ride. As usual, the lines running hither, thither, and yon fascinate me.
Most probably the last ever cab ride video along the GWML where the chimney of Didcot A power station is visible (around the 44 min mark) - it was demolished in Feb 2020.
Thanks Chris excellent station list
Very good driver eye view. You should post more of these as us train enthusiasts are at home during the lockdown. Well done GWR.
Great video, thanks for sharing !
Superb journey. Always wanted to see a driver's view as I've travelled the line so many times . Pity there was no information about passing stations and other points of interest such as signalling. Otherwise great video.
Great way round. Liked the video.
Very good video, thank you very much!
incase anyone is wondering, this high speed train is running on Diesel power and the reason you can't hear the engines is because the Driver cab unit doesn't have a Diesel engine underneath it because they put the Pantograph on the Driving cab unit. the Diesel engines are mounted underneath the middle Coaches of the train.
Very nice of you to do a cab ride GWR. Please feel very free to do some more. A very enjoyable trip.
Ausgezeichnet !!!. Ein gutes Video. Danke
Definitely a trip to do when it gets back to normal. Non-stop through Reading! Very good.
Absolute Magic... Thank You My Friend...
Thank you for the share!
Have a look at Don Coffey's videos. Lots of information, historical and geographic as well as about railway operation. You've got the visuals ok, but it needs what many posters are calling for as well.
they are fab videos loads of info too ..love em
I agree with you. And I've said so in a separate comment.
By far the best - I’ve watched every one to date. 🐨🇦🇺
I like Don's videos as they have so much information eg station names & trivia.
I would love to see more drivers eye videos if possible requested. I'm from the USA and I love watching trains on rails consistent with switches and far destinations. Thanks for sharing. Just giving my opinion.
Hello from the UK, have a look on TH-cam for a gentleman called Don Coffey, he does some excellent videos, also theres Railway Emotions from Switzerland, and Rail Cow Girl from Norway, all excellent videos to watch
counted 13 stations on the route with a stop at one , any info ?
Great vid thanks very much for it. I hope that someday in the future we can do away with the eyesores of overhead wires.
Enjoyable video, seeing it from the driver's view. Especially from Swindon though to Paddington, having worked out of Didcot P'way circa 2003, seeing places such as Challow or Moreton and Reading, working out of that P'way in 2004 with the Ultrasonic Rail Testing Team, I must have walked from Paddington to Reading during the year I based there.
Having viewed the entire run I have to repeat my previous comment that an all round good video really needs the information to make the experience an all round pleasurable and informative view, I was totally lost from beginning to end as to where we were, and the various indications to the driver other than the aws warnings, thanks for the ride.
Use a map?
Watch Don Coffey's videos .
Watched this using a split screen with Traksy/Raildar/ ...(Others available) ... didn't miss one junction, station or crossover. Try it!
Couldn't agree more Norman. I was viewing this video from Sydney and had no idea through which stations we were passing. I thought it was a "lazy" video in that the person posting the video gave us no information at all. Other videos of British rail journeys give history as well as telling you where you are. This video was just a dump unfortunately. Do you agree ?
Really good to see this - thanks. Surely ones for the future include Exeter to Plymouth, Plymouth to Penzance and the Cornish branch lines. Missing travelling and hope to be on board again soon!
Great video. Wow, right at the end that Henry vacuum near fell off the platform :-)
I know this is a bit of an odd question but I’d appreciate if someone could answer. After the driver arrives at Paddington, Would he take a 2-3 hour break or just go to the other end of the train and get ready for a return trip to Bristol?
"There are two ways of doing things: The Great Western way, or the wrong way. I'm Great Western, and...."
"DON'T WE KNOW IT!!"
1:55 is that one of them Pacer things still been used by GWR?
Can you do one via box tunnel?
Great video of the service you were on Paddington station is cool
why are some of the signals flashing please, or is it a camera effect?
Captions would be nice especially on such a historic line. You could take a lesson from Don Coffey, by far the best cab ride channel there is
Interesting seeing it from the cab. Would have been more enjoyable if it had put the station names on the screen.
Do you know if this was an IET?
@@thomasjones8648 Almost certainly.
@@mitchellgiffard1978 Or get your GPS out of the car and sit by the computer with it : P
@@arch9enius that's a bit rude isn't it I have only travelled as far as reading don't the names of the other stations beyond that to Bristol temple meads.
@@mitchellgiffard1978 Well I've had a guess at some below. Swindon Didcot and Cholsey I know for certain. See also CHrisJ Neale who is just showing off.
Thanks GWR, great video. However you need to put some work into annotating the video - station stops, stations passed through, junction points, geographical points of interest along the way, etc.
Can you do Bristol TM to Penzance?
A great production. Keep on doing so. Greetings from Germany. Immer gute Fahrt!
I do this route twice every month and it’s honestly a breeze, always seems faster then how long it takes!! Thanks GWR🙂
It’s so strange seeing all those people at Parkway, went to PAD on the train the other day and it was deserted, never thought I’d miss the busy trains but I do
How things have changed !
Travelled Parkway/Paddington for
almost 10 years in the 80/90's.
Just wondering what that alarm is sounding as the train approaches the stops? Never heard anything like that before. Proximity alarm?
More of these please. I love cab views.
Supposed to be new fsst service but speed restrictions most of the way also sounded like switched back to diesal power after Reading?
Totally agree I have lived on the other side of the world for 50 years and a captioned video would be great
Remember when it used to go to the right just before the bridge before Lawrence Hill? I do.. was like 2002 when I worked on the buffet cars!
Does anyone know why the overhead line structures on the Great Western are so heavy duty when compared to others around the UK and Europe?
A good question - and according to what I've seen, the first one comparing this phenomenon to other lines in Britain and the mainland. See fx (on YT)
ICE 1 Nürnberg - München
then forward past the 2 min mark (before, there's the less typical situation of a main station). And I think I could give the answer, but nobody would want to hear it, because it is anything but flattering. But I can give a hint: Look for human conditions like ignorance, group dynamics & the like. Something similar goes for the maker, BTW. Mankind is past 2020 and still hasn't learned to deal with human deficits.
What type of train is this ? Is it a bi-mode ? It was not going fast until it reached the overhead.
Disappointing that location names are not subtitled, I like to follow the route with mapping.
Will there be a return leg?
Does GWR switch to electric on the move
Brilliant what a great idea
Would benefit from station name time stamps.
Thank you! Nice camera work; but as Davil says in his comment, the video would be vastly improved if it took a few leafs out of Don Coffey's book.
Be glad GWR are doing any in cab video.
fantastic thank you, any chance you could do one from bristol to penzance?
Yeah would like to see that particular route.
Love the. Video 👍👍👍
the camera must have great image stabilization as my journeys on that route are never that smooth
Great video, it gives a good impression of speed.
Pacer at 01:54. I need a ride on one of those before they're taken out of service.
At 1:18:17 there's a 37 towing another train.
I see it left Bristol TM as a diesel, did it put up pantographs at Bristol Parkway?
Thanks Mike for the info re the location of the floodlights at 5.00.
What train it which he drives in
Is this train diesel or electric because when it started there were no overhead cables.
Is it just me or is there something so satisfying about the electrification
Me too; it's satisfying. A great shame though that this particular project was so over-budget and finished years late that it led to it being 'descoped', with the government forcing the railway to 'pause' or cancel most other electrification projects around the country. A lot of reputational damage caused, which is taking years to rebuild among all the pressures of 'decarbonising' transport and now recovery from COVID-19.
I wonder why it’s gone that route via Parkway rather than the more direct route via Bath. I have travelled that route before from Plymouth but that was when they had closed the Newbury to Reading section so it couldn’t go via Westbury.
At just past 43' how does it work that on the down line the signal is showing single yellow just before a train comes down?
Russell sawyer Like many others on the reversible it’s a distant signal and cannot show a red.
Nice journey. Could someone tell me which location has the floodlights on the left at 10 o'clock after 5.00 - thanks.
That's the Gloucester Cricket Club/Bristol County Cricket ground.
Schöne Tour von Bristol nach London.
I have been on this line today and I went via reading west towards Exeter st David's.
last time I traveled down this line the cantinaries were vastly more incomplete, looks alien with all them suddenly there
A lovely journey but could you put in the bottom or top what station's we are passing! That was very relaxing to watch, looking forward to the next.
Lawrence Hill, Stapleton Road, Filton Abbey Wood, Bristol Parkway (Stops), Swindon, Didcot Parkway, Cholsey, Goring and Steatley, Pangbourne, Tilehurst, Reading, Twyford, Maidenhead, Taplow, Burnham, Slough, Langley, Iver, West Drayton, Hayes and Harlington, Southall, Hanwell, West Ealing, Ealing Broadway, Acton Main Line, Westbourne Park (tube station on right), Royal Oak (tube station on left).
@@tuanpiccus1107 Thank you! when I watch again I will know.
Try using a split screen with Traksy/Raildar/...others ... and miss nothing!
Agreed
Their later videos do have the station names on, so they must have noted your comments!
I did mancheter piccadlly to penzance once overnight ! it was a long ass journey and got to penzance at like 11 am ..from a start of early aftenoon in manchester! had a 2 hr wait at bristol parkway to catch the overnight sleeper from paddington to penzance lol .... to say i was not fresh as a daisy after a night sleeping under a table as we did't book a bunk / sleeper ws an understatement! was in the 90s though to go to a family wedding! ......i didn't think you get jet lag on a train lol ...although things have prob improved now ! ;) luckily i now live in Bristol 20 odd yrs later so not as far to travel to penzance or even london paddington thank god!..Also did bristol temple meads to edinburgh and that didn't take half as long ...set off early morning about 8 am and changed at birmingham was in Edinburgh by tea time! ..also did it straight through with cross country ..i gotta admit both were 1 st class and x country needs to up thier game as we noticed a marked diffence between them and virgin 1 st class on the change at birmingham ....x country after what we paid was pretty poor service and not good compaired to what we got on virgin at the time ....and charged the same for a ticket be it straight through or change ...and the journey back was awful as it was a sunday straight through with x contry so very little 1 st class service ect and didnt even get a decent meal ect after what we paid for a return ...i would never get x country again if i could avoid it! but there again we are stuck with the the train companies that provide the long distance journey and where they they can operate sadly ..mind you back in the day of BR i would of got a curled up sandwich in 1st class ....oh hang on i did with x country! lol ;)
What's the alarm as the train pulls in the last few meters into Paddington? Is it ATP?
What train was it?
Hi GWR, cool video! Would it be possible for you to do a Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour drivers eye view please?
what unit is this?
Yeah! The new timetable for TFL Rail (Aka Crossrail aka Elizabeth Line) to Reading!
Was the train in EMU from Bristol Parkway
This is just brilliant - thank you. Is there any chance of more cab rides, in particular Penzance to Taunton, and two more covering Taunton to Bristol and to London? Please?
Totally agree with you, Simon.
Definitely need Exeter to Plymouth stretch. Going along seawall at Dawlish 😀
Hi Simon. I was viewing this video from Sydney and had no idea through which stations we were passing. I thought it was a "lazy" video in that the person posting the video gave us no information at all. Other videos of British rail journeys give history as well as telling you where you are. This video was just a dump unfortunately. Do you agree ?
It drew depends what you want the video for John. I have a number of cab ride videos, some of which have the information you refer to. I use them to help me develop train simulator routes and already know anything the sort of commentary you’re after would give me. A straightforward up to date cab view like this is all I need.
@@spoerers Thanks for feedback Simon. Cheers John
What was that alarm that went of in the cab at the end?
Ian Huxtable If you mean the noise at the end as it’s approaching the blocks at Paddington, then that’s ATP warning the driver to stop due to the buffers.
Ah. Ok. Thanks
3 things that i miss: stationnames, allowed speed and speedindicator, but further for me enough. I have seen only seen that part to Parkway; so can not say anything beyond 10 minutes yet! I have clocked that it is only 7,5 from Temple Meads to the first overhead wire pole. Surely that small part of track will also get electrification!?
Is it me or does some of the new overhead catenary equipment look like some of the stuff you see on European mainlines?
Great video
Excellent video.......would have liked named stations en route.
8:45; Electric Overhead cable starts, are they gonna extend it til bristol Mead and Cardiff?
Yes they have. 🙄
Why signal at 43:14 on the right track shows yellow in London direction if there is a train coming in the opposite direction at the same time?
It's a distant signal on the reversible line, it cant show a red.
Huge fan of GWR, as a Scot living in the north east, my knowledge of the south west is patchy. Great cab ride!
Proper GWR not this that we have now.
43.50 -44.20 passing through Steventon village with its 2 crossings and the bridge that was saved but very close to the overhead wires
I heard yesterday that the Steventon bridge has been saved. Steventon is half-way between Bristol Temple Meads and London Paddington. In the future trains will be allowed to go over the level crossings in Steventon and under the bridge at 110 mph.
Hasn’t that been the case for some time? Line speeds were raised (for electric, but dropped for diesel) some time ago to 110mi/h allowing the 80x’s to not need to carry out a power changeover
Yes you can see it on this vid, there is a 110mph board, then the level crossing, then steventon bridge, then a 125mph board.