Busy Afternoon at Doncaster Station, ECML | 01/09/18

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A brilliant few hours at Doncaster station on the East Coast Mainline on a Saturday afternoon. Managed to catch a full set EMT 43 with VP185's and also a 60!
Doncaster railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the town of Doncaster, South Yorkshire. It is 155 miles 77 chains (251.0 km) down the line from London King's Cross and is situated between Retford and York on the main line. It is managed by London North Eastern Railway.
It is a major passenger interchange between the main line, Cross Country Route and local services running across the North of England. It is also the point for which London North Eastern Railway services branching off to Leeds diverge from the main route continuing north towards Edinburgh.
History:
The railway station was built in 1849 replacing a temporary structure constructed a year earlier. It was rebuilt in its present form in 1938 and has had several slight modifications since that date, most notably in 2006, when the new interchange and connection to Frenchgate Centre opened.
In May 2015, construction commenced on a new Platform 0 to the north-east of the station adjacent to the Frenchgate Centre on the site of the former cattle dock. It will be used by terminating Northern services to Hull, Beverley, Bridlington and Scarborough. This will allow these services to operate independently of the East Coast Main Line.
Accidents and incidents:
On 9 August 1947, a passenger train was in a rear-end collision with another due to a signalman's error. 18 people were killed and 188 were injured.
On 16 March 1951 a derailment occurred south of the station in which 14 passengers were killed and 12 seriously injured.
Services:
Seven train operating companies (or TOCs) call at Doncaster, which is the highest number of companies in the UK and is also equal in number only to Crewe in the UK.
CrossCountry have dropped most Doncaster to Edinburgh services. They offer an hourly service to Newcastle and Reading with one service per day running through to both Edinburgh Waverley and Guildford or Southampton Central. The majority of CrossCountry services at Doncaster use 4-car Voyager DEMUs (Class 220s).
East Midlands Trains offer a limited direct service to London St Pancras and to Leeds, York and Scarborough. Services to London St Pancras run via Sheffield, Chesterfield, Derby and Leicester but less often and take with longer journey times than London North Eastern Railway services. They also operate a local service to Lincoln which occasionally extends to Sleaford and Peterborough.
Hull Trains operates services between London King's Cross and Hull or Beverley via Selby.
TransPennine Express serve stations towards the east to Cleethorpes, and to the west towards Manchester Airport. TransPennine services operate hourly in each direction generally.
Grand Central offers four trains a day between Bradford Interchange and King's Cross. All Bradford-London services call at Doncaster. Southbound the next stop is King's Cross with a journey time of around 90 minutes - the fastest on the route due to the non-stop nature of the service.
Northern generally offers services from Doncaster to stations within Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, such as Sheffield, Leeds and Lincoln. It provides stopping services, stopping at every station along-route, and 'fast' services, stopping at just the principal stations. It is possible to travel on Northern Rail to Retford from Doncaster, via Sheffield, on a direct train. However, this involves a journey of 80 min from Adwick. The direct London North Eastern Railway service takes, on average, just 14 min. On top of this, there are also two services a day, originating at Adwick, through to Manchester Piccadilly calling at all stations along the route, including those through the rural areas of the Pennines.
London North Eastern Railway offers regular (55 trains per day) direct trains services to London King's Cross, which can be reached in 100-115 mins, depending on the service. All trains to Leeds call at Doncaster, and an hourly service to Newcastle or Scotland (Edinburgh and the once daily Glasgow Central service). London North Eastern Railway also offer services to cities such as Leeds (terminating services), York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Aberdeen.
There were plans to add platforms 9 and 10 to cope with Eurostar trains but this project was cancelled when it was decided that Eurostar would not serve Britain outside the South East of England.
In the media:
In 1973 the station was featured in the first episode of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, entitled Strangers on a Train, featuring James Bolam and Rodney Bewes. Although it is not stated where the scenes in the station were filmed, signs for Grimsby Town and Scunthorpe are visible in the background.

[@geoffreystevens663]

Enjoyed that, thank you. And what a lovely day it was, roll-on summer 2019!!

[@Desiro360]

Cool video of trains at Doncaster Station, well done. Was great fun to watch. :)

[@lanchester101]

I've just recently done a train journey up to Doncaster to go to Rotherham and it's a nice station

[@BritishRail60062]

Nice to see 60065 back out on the beat.

[@SouthCoastTrainspotter]

Great Video

[@LNER_TRAINS22543]

Great video I was there that day

[@AndreiTupolev]

That's a great view at 23:20!

[@32AProductions422]

no its not.

[@stargems6205]

I think so to

[@matthewbull7]

I must get myself there one day !

[@GaryJohnWalker1]

I'm from there and still watched the whole thing. Good video - for the enthusiast or anyone just wanting to chill at passing trains.

[@simonrichardson5077]

Thumbs up

[@atomiswave1971]

had to stop watching because of the constant zooming.

[@malcolmelliott1876]

Likewise