Westbury (Heywood Road Jn) to Bristol (Dr. Day’s Jn) - Hastings DEMU cab ride - 24 March 2018
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- The Sixty Marches charter, Part 3:
Cab view from Westbury (Heywood Road Junction) to Bristol (Dr. Day’s Junction). Filmed from Hastings Diesels Limited’s preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 24 March 2018, during the outward leg of The Sixty Marches private charter.
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In this video we travel the 28 miles and 1 chain across parts of Wiltshire, Somerset and Bristol. As it begins, we turn off the Reading - Taunton Line to join the Wessex Main Line through Trowbridge and Bradford-on-Avon, following the valley of the river Avon; we cross it several times, and are crossed by the Kennet & Avon Canal three times on imposing aqueducts. At Bathampton Junction we join the Great Western main line for the run through Bath (where we chanced upon steam loco ‘Tornado’) to Bristol; there, instead of entering Temple Meads station we turn right at Feeder Bridge Junction to join the Filton Lines.
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This outing began at Hastings and ran via Tonbridge, Redhill and Guildford to Reading, then via Hungerford (part 1) to the Westbury area (part 2) where we turned right at Heywood Road Junction, through Bradford-on-Avon and Bath to Filton (this video), through the Severn Tunnel into Wales, to Maindee Junction (Newport) (part 4, to follow) for the line through Abergavenny to Hereford (part 5, to follow); the return journey was via the same route. We intend to produce video footage of the entirety of the rest of this journey to Hereford.
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Video footage is from an unattended unmonitored forward-facing cab-camera in motor coach 60116 Mountfield.
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1:12 - Westbury HEYWOOD ROAD JUNCTION
3:04 - Westbury East Loop Junction
4:42 - Hawkeridge Junction
9:31 - Trowbridge station
11:46 - Ladydown Aqueduct
12:08 - Bradford Junction
18:27 - Bradford Tunnel
18:40 - Bradford-on-Avon station
20:10 - Avoncliff station and Aqueduct
21:06 - Freshford station
21:53 - Limpley Stoke disused station
22:14 - Site of junction with the Bristol & North Somerset branch to Camerton
22:42 - Dundas Aqueduct
28:01 - Bathampton Junction
29:47 - Hampton Row Halt disused station
30:29 - Sydney Gardens East Tunnel
30:35 - Sydney Gardens West Tunnel
30:47 - Bath Spa station and ‘Tornado’
32:44 - Oldfield Park station
33:15 - Twerton-on-Avon disused station
33:48 - Twerton Short Tunnel
33:58 - Twerton Long Tunnel
36:07 - Saltford disused station
36:27 - Saltford Tunnel
38:49 - Keynsham station
40:01 - Fox’s Wood Quarry
41:08 - St. Anne’s Park No.3 Tunnel
41:58 - St. Anne’s Park No.2 Tunnel
42:13 - St. Anne’s Park disused station
42:40 - Bristol East Depot, rems of
43:49 - Site of facing junction with the Bristol & North Somerset Railway
44:35 - North Somerset Junction
44:55 - Feeder Bridge Junction
46:21 - DR. DAY’S JUNCTION
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Video, soundtrack and captions © Copyright 2018-2019 Hastings Diesels Limited.
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Equipment: video by GoPro Hero3+ camera with focus modification, suction-mount and extra batteries; video production by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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Here are the actual timings for the day’s outing:
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Here are annotated extracts from the Network Rail Section Appendix:
Outward: www.dropbox.com/s/nexbk2jdnmp...
Our return journey’s route was changed just a day or two before the trip because of a bridge strike - from Hereford to Filton Abbey Wood we were supposed to have been routed via Worcester and the Gloucester area to Yate and Bristol Parkway, but as things turned out we had to retrace our steps via the Severn Tunnel. The following shows our original route.
Return: www.dropbox.com/s/kana0042y09...
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Another great train ride. Almost as good as being there. Thanks for adding the Maps. Great addition to the captions.
I'm an avid TH-camr, but I never thought I'd enjoy looking out of a DEMU cab for hours! I keep wanting to be able to swing the view right or left......
This just gets better & better, thank you so much, the maps are a great addition.
Great bit of photobombing there with all the people on the platform watching Tornado!
Excellent again. There is something satisfying in racing past station platforms at full speed. 🐨🇦🇺
Thank you Mr Griffin and HD team for another excellent video- maps are much appreciated xx ps brilliant photo bombing the little puffy train😂xx
Many thanks, the addition of the route map to this part has only increased my enjoyment, definitely a feature to keep.
These vids just get better and better, awesome stuff
Excellent video. The highlight of the week for me watching Hastings diesel video's. The maps are great.
Enjoyed the video as I travel this line when going from Weymouth to Bristol but that flat spot does my head in!
This is right up my neck of the woods, thanks for posting. 👍🙂
Great video. Notes and maps are very good and useful. Many thanks.
Brilliant footage! I love the view of 60163 departing Bath Spa!
So did I - that was an unexpected bonus !
The maps were appreciated. Thank you and hope they will continue.
Thank you to all who've expressed appreciation for the map. It's more work, of course, but I can see how it would be useful too.
Another superbly presented video, the usual informative captions and useful maps too, just great. What a lovely run too along the Avon, whet my appitite to do that route for sure. Thanks guys.
I love the map, I can see where we are. These videos are really good and the captions are always informative. I have traveled all over England via my computer in Melbourne. Cheers
Thank you Pauline.
Brilliant piece of work there - including all the captions indicating the history of this line - the passage through Sydney Gardens was wonderful - thanks for posting this up !
Excellent, good captions and comments.
One of my favourite bits of line along the Avon valley.
Nice of them to welcome you to Bath with a great cloud of steam!
A GREAT VIDEO AND THE MAPS ARE VERY USEFUL TELLING PEOPLE ALL ABOUT THE ROUTE. THANK YOU
Yes, Hamish, I appreciated that as well !
In 1989 I worked at Bradford Junction Signal Box before moving to Swindon Panel Box. Although mechanical signals were in use the area was signalled by Track Circuit Block. The line to Thingley Jnc and Chippenham was single track controlled by electric token with six machines, Chippenham island platform, Thingly Jnc, Melksham siding, two at Bradford West Junction and the one in the signal box.
There were two tracks along the east side of the junction, which is where the signal box was situated, merging just north of where the third side of the triangle joined.
Amazing video there. Best of the series so far. Good to see the map to show where the train is on its journey. Loved the part where 1001 and Tornado meet at Bath Spa. That was just fantastic, two charters on the same main line in one place.
I'm guessing you research the history of the routes you travel on, closures of stations and lines pre and post Beeching and also the history of the areas you pass through.
Love all your videos and look forward to many more from the old girl on her travels.
Good to continue the journey with some great footage and excellent captioning. Thank you!
Thank you for adding the maps. It really helped to explain all of the comings and goings. I hope it will be a regular feature of your upcoming videos.
The maps are a nice touch and add to the pleasure of watching these.
Very much looking forward to the ride up Filton, I used to work on the track alot around the area until 2001, it brings back memories, like the 37 hauled ballast I was working one night that stalled on Filton bank and had to be rescued by a RES 47 from Barton Hill!
Thank you, glad you and everyone are enjoying the maps. Yes, I'll be working on the Filton / Pilning / Maindee section presently, and as ever my aim is to publish each Saturday.
Enjoyed that one immensely...thanks. I'm always reminded when crossing the River Avon that "Avon" comes from the old English word for a river (Welsh = Afon), hence the River River!
River Usk = "river river", as does River Exe.
another great professionally produced video, shame that snooty green thing had the affront NOT to whistle back, posh kettles eh?
Also, some great views while belting along the wonderfully Gothic GWR main line towards Bristol. Just fab.
Yes, Pauline - all those wonderful Gothic pointed tunnels - the artistry of Isambard !
How lucky were those people to see TWO Heritage trains!
Once again very enjoyable thank you. For your efforts. Bob Mac
Thanks for the video and the showing the maps.
Thank you Richard for yet another excellent videp. maps are great... next thing we'll be asking for gradients :-)
Enjoyed. The video. Thank you. John Whitehouse
I wonder how many curses and groans were uttered by those watching the steam departure as you DEMU rattled through Bath Spa? Like others, the maps are a useful inclusion for those unfamiliar with the route. Might be worth continuing with.
Iknow I thought these could not be improved, BUT the addition of the maps make them even more interesting.
Thank you!
@@hastingsdiesels You are welcome. (I'd like a video of my private railway, but its not big enough for you(71/4"))
Interessante video. Met aanvullende informatie.
Another vote for the occasional map - very useful
Thanks for adding the maps.
I must say, thanks very much for these. You must put a lot of work into them.
Thank you. Yes indeed!
@Pete Coventry I don't drive this train, sadly. But there really is a lot of work, particularly if you think of all the map-drawing, the research and everything that goes into producing the finished product.
Excellent video.
Interesting to see this from this perspective
An excellent video. Good to see her given her head on Brunel's billiard table! This Hastings set has roamed far and wide since preservation. Has anyone worked out the furthest geographical point reached from Hastings? I suspect this trip must come close?
I haven't tried to work this out in terms of 'as the crow flies', but candidates for the farthest we've roamed since return to main-line running in 1996 would include Totnes, Chester, and Cleethorpes.
That was a nice ride. Wow! All that smoke coming from the Torpedo locomotive train on the opposite track at Bath Spa station . It was enough to block some visibility for our incoming train as we passed by, even if it was just for a second or two. All that smoke from the locomotive could easily pollute the air which could prove harmful.
That is not smoke, it is steam and water vapour, that is harmless. The amount of smoke produced by the number of steam locos is very small compared to fifty years ago. The loco is Tornado not Torpedo.
At the point where you pass the former Camerton Branch junction near Limpley Stoke, you can see the spot where the Ealing Studios camera crew were standing when Mr Weech and the Bishop of Wilchester drive Thunderbolt and the Inspection train off the branch while a GWR main line express thunders past on the same track that you are riding on here......
Between Freshford and Bath the line runs past my old school at Warleigh. It is on the right as you travel.
Best one yet , in my opinion. It had everything, including Tornado in steam.
Excellent video and thanks for the map.
@13:23- definitely looks like WW2 pillboxes on both side to protect the junction and the bridge across the River Avon in the event of invasion? They are on the east side of the bridge I think.
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Near Staverton, Trowbridge, UK
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A great video, as usual from Hastings Diesels.
I hope you don't mind one small correction. The Camerton branch, referenced at 22.15, did close in 1925, but only to passengers. Originally it had run beyond Camerton, to join the Frome to Bristol line at Hallatrow. When that through line close to passengers (1925), the section from Camerton to Hallatrow was indeed closed completely. But the section from Camerton to Limpley Stoke remained open for freight, and survived long enough to be used for making that wonderful railway-based comedy film "The Titfield Thunderbolt" (Ealing Studios 1953). The line had formally closed in 1951; but it was not dismantled until 1958.
Thank you Martin. When formulating the captions, I have to avoid writing more than can be read in the time available, or too much that would overload readers. Thus in cases with multiple closure dates for different modes I have end up having to simplify somewhat; closure to passenger traffic is my go-to parameter. Your point remains entirely valid, however.
@@hastingsdiesels Thanks for such a prompt reply. Your answers make complete sense. One of the most valuable things about your videos, and about the best railway-trip sites in general (such as Don Coffey's), is that they strike a balance in how much text to use. What you say is a good example of that. Thanks again.
Tornado, what a bonus!
it can't get better than that, two railway icons passing on an iconic stretch of the network, absolutely awesome, rail enthusiasts porn! Thank you so much for posting that and the new edition of the map overlays, maybe a speed indication one day?
Thank you! Speed indication? Hmm, when I've given speeds it's been by timing either mileposts or features (eg tunnels whose exact location is given in the Sectional Appendix). But a continuous speed indication? I'm sure there's a way, but it's not high on my list of priorities!
Well, you could aim a camera at the speedometer, then superimpose that video onto the main one. Granted, I don't know how complicated that would be, from a technical standpoint, or if special software would be required. And you wouldn't want another camera getting in the way of the driver's controls.
@@SynchroScore Hahaha!! You're absolutely right. I was thinking in terms of GPS-based speedometers, I hadn't thought of the two that are already on the train! Yes, it would be impractical to film the speedometer in the leading cab - the cab is very cramped as it is, so there's just nowhere to mount a camera that could be 'looking at' the speedometer. But in the back cab, well that's a different matter... actually, I *have* already produced a (n unlisted) video demonstrating the operation of the load regulator mechanism in the engine room, with synchronised footage of the speedometer and ammeter on the driver's desk overlaid. It's certainly doable.
I'm not so sure I actually want to commit to buying a second GoPro and all the other bits that have to come with it - plus the further increase in workload! - just in order to achieve this, though. :)
I enjoy watching these videos, I was about to say about the maps good idea for someone who follows thses videos from down in New Zealand, love seeing the old architecture and the age of some of those bridges, it took me a while to figure out why the bell goes off in the cab, so i would watch the video and pick out the thing that makes the alarm go off, so what is that for, I assume its to do with the train being in a section and a signal to the signal box as to where the train is am i correct anyway thanks for these vidoe
Thank you Merle. The bell is part of the Automatic Warning System (AWS, see Wikipedia for details!) and it is triggered when the train passes over the AWS ramp about 200 yards prior to reaching a green signal.
Are we able to get any videos (cab, or observer) of the train pulling into your home depot or being worked on by the mechanics? eg fixing/replacing the flat spot on the wheels. Would also love to see any "behind-the-scenes" stuff you have, even if it's just shunting.
That's beyond my remit, I'm afraid.
too bad those beautiful Twerton Tunnels portals at 33:50 can be seen only by the engineer (driver). Now with TH-cam they can be seen by all. Nothing like this in USA.
Is the colour of the signal lights distorted by the camera due to the type of light used ? Particular example is at 15:10 where to me the aspect looks yellow but the colour washes across to red just as the unit stops
In common with other non-broadcast-quality cameras, ours struggles to capture colours correctly at high intensities. As the train stops, the angle at which we're viewing the signal is sufficient that we're not seeing it so brightly, so its true colour is then seen. The human eye does a much better job than a camera: if you were in the cab yourself, the colour of the signal would be perfectly apparent to you (I say this as a driver myself).
Thanks, I had no doubt the driver would see the right colour, just seems a trait of the modern single lens lights (with LED's ?) that the camera gets confused so wondered if its related to the lighting technology as it seems curious that on quite a few yellow signals of that type they seem to change to red at the last moment whereas green always seems to show as green. I also wonder if in train cameras used for safety/posy accident viewing could exhibit problems. I really like the run up or down the Avon Valley but have always been curious as to why Avoncliff and Freshford stayed open when so close together yet Limpley Stoke from this view has far more housing around it than the other two.
One thing you didn't mention was that the Limpley Stoke - Camerton branch was used for filming The Titfield Thunderbolt.
Indeed. Can't mention everything, though I had seen that during my research.
I would've made it into this video if I wasn't getting bowled by that HST at Oldfield Park.
45:07 - is that St Mary Redcliffe visible in the distance on the left?
From careful sleuthing, yes I believe so. Also, possibly (but difficult to be sure) the Cathedral, visible almost straight ahead under the main arch at 45:13 .
I love cab rides, not just for the railway perspective (although that's the main reason, obviously) but for looking at the surroundings from a view barred to almost all the population. And many thanks for the postings. Is there any chance of the DMU visiting the West Midlands in future (obviously when 'the event' has passed)?
I'm 99.9% sure you're right. Everything adds up to the Cathedral!
Glad you like them. Well, we were down to visit Worcester in the summer, and personally I'd be keen to prioritise that trip as we've never taken our train over the Cotswold line. All 'in due course', obvs yes.
Why did we pass an HST before Melksham? They are not normally rostered to this route?
Have a look at 2:58 on Part 1 (Reading to Hungerford) of this series, which confirms the answer: the Didcot route was closed for engineering work (almost certainly electrification-related) so HSTs (and us) were on diversion via the Berks & Hants. (ITYM Trowbridge!)
It’s good to see a large number of piles in the ground between Bath and Bristol which will not be used now because of that idiot Grayling stopping the electrification projects around the Country! It’s the same between Didcot and Oxford. How much money has been spent on steel piles in the ground to support electrification masts that will not now used! Rant over, yet another fantastic video.👍
I suspect they will be used at some point. I have to agree with you about Failing Grayling...
is there still a flat spotted wheel?
stu skivens sounds like it!
Typical problem with those pre-war design bogies and wheel sets. We used to change them regularly at Chart Leacon. A complete bogie overhaul would take less than one shift. We had the Hastings units in a couple of times when I was there. All gone now sadly. Still, lovely to see this unit running well, flat tyres not withstanding.
Just like everything post-industrial nowadays, converted into flats.
The IETs at 21:04 are 800/0 not 802
Thank you, I was having to make a best assessment rather than really knowing. I can't tell them apart. How do you spot the difference?
I wish I was at Bath Spa station
Gazza B Same. The HST at Oldfield Park got in the way of my shot but I saw the return working at Patchway.
I'm guessing that showing the entire charter in an hours-long video would have been overkill.
That's why I split it into chunks. I boarded at Reading, and have shown all of it back as far as Newport. The only chunk remaining (i.e. yet to be published) is from Newport back to the Bath area, by which time it was dark and further footage was meaningless.
A fun day out on the rails on gt britain's once great rail system shame on you dr beeching cheer,s bob.
Who's Dr Day?
Dr. Day was, it seems one Dr. William Edward Day who was apparently a 'quack doctor' and the first vicar of St. Luke's. He lived at 60 Barton Hill Road. When the line was built, the bridge was named after him. The above is *not* original research, merely what I've found at www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=12179.10;wap2 and groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/uk.rec.models.rail/bufmeCEwt2g so may not be accurate.
It was probably just a nickname given to the junction when it was built and the name has stuck since.
God's Wonderful Railway looks very down at heel. Lack of investment really showing :-(