THE DATED CLASS 165s! Reading To Basingstoke With GWR Trip Report
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Hello and welcome back to another trip report, today I’m travelling from Reading to Basingstoke with GWR in standard class
Date of travel: 30/04/22
TOC: GWR
Rolling stock: Class 165
Class of travel: standard class
Origin: Reading
Destination: Basingstoke
Length of journey: 27m
no delay
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8:14 a “slight detour”
Great Western Railway should start allowing the Class 769 Tri-mode units and to work on Reading-Gatwick Airport, Reading-Basingstoke and GWR other routes especially Oxford-Gatwick Airport, Swindon-Gatwick Airport and on the West Ealing-Greenford line and the Thames Valley branch lines.
I believe they’re still having problems with them on the testing
They should run Paddington to Gatwick stoppers
@@TheArkamedBat only issue there is that they’d need to reverse at both Reading and Redhill.
@@AnthonyFurnival No problem with that. It would help people connecting between Gatwick and Heathrow or going to Gatwick from e.g. Slough
@@TheArkamedBat true - it would also help if all their NDL services went to Gatwick, currently some terminate at Shawford, others Redhill and others Gatwick.
If you want to find out how fast (or slow) your train is going, simply divide the time taken (in seconds) to pass two consecutive lineside quarter-mileposts into the figure 900. Congratulations on having discovered the declassified First Class seating area on your GWR Thames Turbo train!
Don't even know what a lineside quarter milepost is to be honest! But thanks for the help 😂. Hope you enjoyed the video
@@danielstripreports - In Victorian times train fares were regulated by law and depended on how far you travelled and in what class of accommodation - so First Class cost 3d/mile, Second Class cost 2d/mile and Third Class cost 1d/mile. In order that passengers could check that they weren't being over-charged, railway companies were obliged to place marker posts beside their tracks at quarter-mile intervals, denoting the distance from (in England) their London terminus to that particular point. Today these bits of "lineside furniture" come in useful for working out how fast your train is travelling if you haven't got GPS. For example, if you cover quarter-of-a-mile in nine seconds, your train is doing 100mph!
23 mins, you must be thinking from Reading to Paddington
The 165/1s have a top speed of 90mph, the /0s with Chiltern have a top speed of 75mph
Line speed on the RBL is 90mph.
The 165/1s only have 1 x toilet, of the disabled variety. The 166s have 2 x toilets, 1 x regular and 1 x disabled
Yeah my bad little mistake in the intro. I looked online and it said the 165s had a top speed of 75mph, but guess there's a variation in what kind of unit u get.
RBL is max 75
I dont think they are that dated but i like them because of how small and how much character they have. They are still somewhat useable but for short services like the one shown in this video.
Plus like other train companies, GWR did have a replacement for them (The Class 769) But that plan failed so they are stuck without a replacement.
Great video and channel
Thanks!
Nice video Daniel 👍
Cheers mate, glad you enjoyed
I hate standard class on these trains it’s so uncomfortable
Nice! A line I use a fair amount - I really like the turbos. The ones that have been refurbished inside look really smart. Although I am excited the 769s to be introduced, I’ll really miss the turbos.
I think they've passed their sell by date tbh, they're not bad and certainly are ok for a route of this length but Cardiff to Portsmouth is a bit of a nightmare on these.
@@danielstripreports in their defence, they were never really designed for long distance. They were designed as a local stopper predominately (as indeed were all the networkers) where as the 158/159s were designed for the longer routes. They’ve found themselves cascaded onto routes they are not suited to. I think GWR would be better off taking on TfWs soon to be withdrawn 158/175s for the longer routes like Portsmouth - Cardiff and keeping the turbos on local routes
Very true, they're not really suited for journeys over an hour I'd say.
@@danielstripreports I’d agree - sadly like many trains, they were built for one purpose and are now used for another which they weren’t designed for.
I've been on the 165 on Chiltern
Great video-
Hi
Hello
The turbo units are awful trains one was on a Cardiff central to Penzance service last week nearly 6 hours a trip from hell the 769 units used on the rhymney line are quite comfortable trains for short journeys
Image froze towards end of video and was not able to see all of it. Watch frame rate used when editing.
Sorry noted, if you skip it just for a few seconds it'll be fine.
Reading station always looks so odd to me, I can only remember it before the 2015 rebuild, all the 'new' stuff just looks quirky and out of place
I often see these trains passing through Reading West. Is there an unclassified first class on all of them?
Yes I believe so, GWR scrapped regional first class a while back, so all first class sections are declassified.
@@danielstripreports when did GWR scrap regional first class?
“ and a half penny” the half penny doesn’t exist anymore
Yeah true, but I was calculating the price per journey, and it came back with 1.87 and a half.