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.
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(!)
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.
@@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!
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
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.
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.
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 ?
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.
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.
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 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
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!
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.
Couldn't agree more David. 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 ?
@@johnlatham7092 The videos from other sources give great details. I especially like the Railcowgirl videos from Norway. great detail and history when appropriate.
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!?
These long runs of yellow and double yellow, but which ultimately end without the train having to stop, make me feel that one must have been following a ghost train. Where was the time to allow a train ahead to be switched to another route without our train encountering a red?
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
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).
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 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 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
Can someone explain the various beeps? I've worked out very high beep: driver alert check, requires button press high beep: green signal low beep: amber, double amber or red signal Any ID on the other beep sounds?
It’s AWS or Automatic Warning System. When the train approaches a Green signal (Proceed), a ping sounds. When the approaching signal is Double Yellow, Yellow (Caution) or Red (Stop) then a warning tone sounds. The driver MUST acknowledge this tone by pressing a button otherwise the train will apply the brakes automatically.
If you hear rapid beeps that’s the Driver Vigilance Device. The driver has their foot down on a pedal. When the beeps sound the driver releases the pedal to reset the device then reapplies pressure. Again, if the driver doesn’t reset it the brakes will apply automatically.
@@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.
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!
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.
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.
I used to live near there and had a customer who lived on the loop road which was "behind" those two level crossings. He said he was sometimes stuck at one or other of them for 10-15 minutes, waiting to leave for work or to get home at night, because the barriers were kept down while train after train passed without even a few seconds' respite to clear any backlog of road traffic. There is a narrow, bumpy lane which avoids the level crossings, which is kept there specifically to allow emergency vehicles to reach the houses in the loop road even when the level crossing barriers are down.
I find it curious that there is no horn when leaving the station...? Isn't it a standard railway thing to sound the horn when you are about to start a powered vehicle moving?
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.
I worked on the tracks in Bristol 11 years ago, and my goodness how much has it changed? When I left to move back north, Filton Bank 4 tracking was a pipe dream and we chuckled when electrification was mentioned and resignalling was a dirty word. Traction was all diesels, HSTs, Voyagers, Sprinters and the occasional Pacer. I can still remember when I first moved to Bristol, Parkway (which was my local station at first) was just a two platform station, in fact I don’t even think Abbey Wood had 4 platforms. All change.
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.
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.
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.
@@ace-paidinfull5240 Well I don't know every sound that a class 802s cab can make so it could well have been the cab to cab intercom or a GSM-R call but I think it was most likely ATP which would be supervising the trains speed to stop at the buffers this is one of the few trains on a handful of lines that has ATP in the UK but it certainly wasn't TPWS as if TPWS intervenes it slams on the emergency brakes it doesn't warn.
I am not from this part of the country so it is disappointing that the video does not indicate on the screen the stations and important junctions that the train is running through.
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?
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.
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.
@@johnlatham7092 I guess because it's an official GWR video rather than an enthusiast's.
Nice to see a UK Rail franchise are engaging with their customers without paranoia about hearing audio in the cab. Thank you GWR!
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.
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
@Tara Oh I thought it was just a smudge on the window
Rubber duck 😅😅😅😅😅😅
great video excellent quality thanks for your time and effort
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!!
I miss GWR trains so much. I used to commute frequently between Newbury and London during my visit to UK.
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 experience to be able to watch this. Many thanks to you.
We're glad you enjoyed it, thank you! - Matt
amazing video....superb cab view ❤🇮🇳love from india
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
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.
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 ?
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"!
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.
Ausgezeichnet !!!. Ein gutes Video. Danke
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.
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.
why no mention of stations passing through or stopping at
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!
Thanks for the ride. As usual, the lines running hither, thither, and yon fascinate me.
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
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!
Yeah me too, he went non stop through Swindon and Reading
Great video of the service you were on Paddington station is cool
I’m not a lifesaver but I am staying home and I am enjoying watching this video. 🐨🇦🇺
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
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.
I have been on this line today and I went via reading west towards Exeter st David's.
Great video, thanks for posting it.
Great video. Wow, right at the end that Henry vacuum near fell off the platform :-)
Bristol temple meads stop Bristol parkway stop (pass Swindon Didcot parkway even reading WTH) and london Paddington stop
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.
Very nice of you to do a cab ride GWR. Please feel very free to do some more. A very enjoyable trip.
How things have changed !
Travelled Parkway/Paddington for
almost 10 years in the 80/90's.
Thanks Chris excellent station list
It would be really nice to know a few more details about the train type. stations the train went through, speeds of the train etc.
Couldn't agree more David. 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 ?
@@johnlatham7092 The videos from other sources give great details. I especially like the Railcowgirl videos from Norway. great detail and history when appropriate.
whats the alarm at 1:26:07?
Thanks Mike for the info re the location of the floodlights at 5.00.
did i see a Deltic at 1:18:16 pulling a London Overground train along??
no not a deltic just a common class 37
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!?
These long runs of yellow and double yellow, but which ultimately end without the train having to stop, make me feel that one must have been following a ghost train. Where was the time to allow a train ahead to be switched to another route without our train encountering a red?
Very good video, thank you very much!
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
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!
1:55 is that one of them Pacer things still been used by GWR?
I love the new overhead catenary on the GWR.
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.
Saw the title and thought it would be the pretty way via Bath not via BPW
Richard Talbot I thought it would be the even prettier way through Birmingham and sparkbrook ☹️
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.
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.
8:45; Electric Overhead cable starts, are they gonna extend it til bristol Mead and Cardiff?
Yes they have. 🙄
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.
Can someone explain the various beeps?
I've worked out
very high beep: driver alert check, requires button press
high beep: green signal
low beep: amber, double amber or red signal
Any ID on the other beep sounds?
It’s AWS or Automatic Warning System. When the train approaches a Green signal (Proceed), a ping sounds. When the approaching signal is Double Yellow, Yellow (Caution) or Red (Stop) then a warning tone sounds. The driver MUST acknowledge this tone by pressing a button otherwise the train will apply the brakes automatically.
If you hear rapid beeps that’s the Driver Vigilance Device. The driver has their foot down on a pedal. When the beeps sound the driver releases the pedal to reset the device then reapplies pressure. Again, if the driver doesn’t reset it the brakes will apply automatically.
some of the other sounds you hear for speed changes and cautionary signals is ATP
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.
Not stopping at Reading is wild!!
A great production. Keep on doing so. Greetings from Germany. Immer gute Fahrt!
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 vid thanks very much for it. I hope that someday in the future we can do away with the eyesores of overhead wires.
Excellent video.......would have liked named stations en route.
Does the train erect a pantograph at 08:54 and switch to electric power?
Yes it does :)
Its a class 43 hst the not eletric
Great opportunity to show the visual to us, where does it switch from diesel to electric at Parkway or between Temple Meads and Parkway
If I am Not mistaken at 15:31 there is a warning sign to switch to overhead and at 15:38 is the instruction sign to switch to overhead collection
Schöne Tour von Bristol nach London.
Why didn’t it stop at reading usually they do
lovely views
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.
Was the train in EMU from Bristol Parkway
Great video, thanks for sharing !
fantastic thank you, any chance you could do one from bristol to penzance?
Yeah would like to see that particular route.
Im assuming by tone and sound this is an 802..would be good if posted loco so others will know..
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
Great way round. Liked the video.
why are some of the signals flashing please, or is it a camera effect?
Supposed to be new fsst service but speed restrictions most of the way also sounded like switched back to diesal power after Reading?
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 used to live near there and had a customer who lived on the loop road which was "behind" those two level crossings. He said he was sometimes stuck at one or other of them for 10-15 minutes, waiting to leave for work or to get home at night, because the barriers were kept down while train after train passed without even a few seconds' respite to clear any backlog of road traffic. There is a narrow, bumpy lane which avoids the level crossings, which is kept there specifically to allow emergency vehicles to reach the houses in the loop road even when the level crossing barriers are down.
Can you do one via box tunnel?
Love the. Video 👍👍👍
I find it curious that there is no horn when leaving the station...? Isn't it a standard railway thing to sound the horn when you are about to start a powered vehicle moving?
Nope, there's no requirement to sound the horn when leaving a station
Have they finished the wiring at BTM yet? Presumably it was a bi-mode train, and most of the catenary is live... :-D
They haven’t even started the wiring at BTM, it’s years away.
Disappointing that location names are not subtitled, I like to follow the route with mapping.
? train type
?
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.
"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!!"
I worked on the tracks in Bristol 11 years ago, and my goodness how much has it changed? When I left to move back north, Filton Bank 4 tracking was a pipe dream and we chuckled when electrification was mentioned and resignalling was a dirty word. Traction was all diesels, HSTs, Voyagers, Sprinters and the occasional Pacer. I can still remember when I first moved to Bristol, Parkway (which was my local station at first) was just a two platform station, in fact I don’t even think Abbey Wood had 4 platforms. All change.
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.
More of these please. I love cab views.
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.
Lol!! Still have the same starting buzzer as they did on the old Bogcarts 🤪
the camera must have great image stabilization as my journeys on that route are never that smooth
Is it me or does some of the new overhead catenary equipment look like some of the stuff you see on European mainlines?
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.
To think, this was my train ride every sunday back to bristol university back in 2008..
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.
Definitely a trip to do when it gets back to normal. Non-stop through Reading! Very good.
Does GWR switch to electric on the move
Did he trip the tpws or something coming up to the buffers?
if he did he'd of been stopped a lot sharper
@@tgm9991 so what was the sound then?
@@ace-paidinfull5240 Well I don't know every sound that a class 802s cab can make so it could well have been the cab to cab intercom or a GSM-R call but I think it was most likely ATP which would be supervising the trains speed to stop at the buffers this is one of the few trains on a handful of lines that has ATP in the UK but it certainly wasn't TPWS as if TPWS intervenes it slams on the emergency brakes it doesn't warn.
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Ditto the other comments about station and place names. Have a look at the videod published by doncoffie to see how it should be done.
I disagree, I enjoy coffey's videos but all the information is distracting and I have to ignore it.
@@FabianEason It is possible to have info captions switchable but would involve a lot more work for no reward.
I am not from this part of the country so it is disappointing that the video does not indicate on the screen the stations and important junctions that the train is running through.
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
Looks like they got the Filton line quadrupled. Not before time!