Trains at: Colchester, GEML, 26/09/2020
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2020
- An excellent afternoon spent at Colchester on the Great Eastern Mainline where we see plenty of services from Greater Anglia and freight from GBRF and Freightliner.
Even though this was filmed on a weekend that engineering works were taking place between Ipswich and Norwich there was still plenty of variety to be seen, although the weather wasn't overly wonderful throughout my stay here.
Colchester was opened in 1843 by the Eastern Counties Railway, and when it was first opened it was simply known as Colchester, although the locals knew it was Colchester North in order to distinguish it from Colchester Town Railway Station. Unlike most major railway stations Colchester is actually a fair distance away from the town centre, it has connections with the local bus service along with shuttle train services to Colchester Town which is closer to the town centre, hence the name. For the next three years the station was the terminus of the Great Eastern Mainline until the Eastern Union Railway opened the line to Ipswich once local businesses started to generate some interest.
When the station was built it obviously didn't have the passenger numbers that they have today and as such was only built as a simple station with a couple of platforms and was built on a relatively sharp curve as we can all see today anyway, but with this came a rather large problem, trains would run to Clacton-on-Sea during the summer months which would naturally bring with it a large number of people, and the passenger count did indeed grow exponentially. So eventually the line was modernised in 1962 and given the format that we all know today. With this then gave Colchester the longest physical platform in the country with a length of 620m or 2034ft, not to be confused with the record that Gloucester has as that holds the record for the longest unbroken platform at 1977ft.
My next station is going to be Kettering on the Midland Mainline which is a cracking station.
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A nice warm shower and a hot cup of tea and watching some trains what could be better than that. Thanks for braving such horrible weather to bring another fantastic video to us all. Look forward to seeing more. Regards and stay safe
Thanks very much bud, I had a great time getting this film out together. The weather was indeed completely pants but you can't always win
Got to love colchester
It's a great station
14:24 the most random thing I've heard this week. Caught me more off-guard than that 66 I messed up with at Tamworth.
Not an image I want to keep in my head.
Thank you for the amazing video
I'm glad you enjoyed watching this :)
Fantastic video! I really enjoyed this :)
Thanks very much :)
Excellent video.
I remember when the Class 321s had liveries that really stood out, especially
Network Southeast.
But nowadays they look so plain.
However the one thing that that does stand out on the Class 321s are their traction motors.
I also remember the NSE livery on the 321's, it was their best livery in my opinion, but the traction motors just keep getting better
Great video. Nice of you to visit my local main line. Glad you got to see a good variety of trains despite the wind. :)
Thanks very much, I must spend more time on the GEML as it's a great railway!
@@Tornado922 do so. If you get there at the right time you'll see several intermodal trains running to and from the Port of Felixstowe.
Good video and nice to finish with a pair of 86's.
Thanks very much, the 86's were amazing to see
Excellent video as always Tornado, good lord that freight train made a hell of a noise.
Thanks very much, suffice to say if you were asleep on the platform that would have woken you up!
@@Tornado922 I don't doubt that
Nice shots my friend😉 LIKE
Thanks very much :)
The NEW Stadler trains are amazing.
Awesome acceleration.
They are fantastic!
Being the Class 86s are in their 55th year they look and sound ace still! long may they reign the rails!
It's good to see the old girls still working hard, they should be getting refurbished
Great video & keep it up 👍
Thanks very much
The 66 on Platform 1 would've come out of the sidings just outside of the station, possibly after being held, however some freights do go through platform 2 at speed, like the 86's at the end
It did indeed come out of the siding you are quite right
Another very enjoyable video.
I would love to see some of these trains here in Australia, but alas we don't have suitable tracks or population.
Thanks very much, I have seen a few films of trains over in Australia and it looks like you have a good amount of trains running around the country
Great video.
Thanks very much
Wow. Three GBRF 66s in the video. I think you will take that 👍
I will happily take that haha
Nice!!
Thanks very much
Other brilliant video legend tornado
Thanks very much
Ah! So happy Hull Trains didn't eventually collapse.
I think a lot of people are happy about that!
The class 360s r not going to be removed they r going to be on the midland mainline
True
Well now they say that the TfL 360s and the GA ones will stay.
When I say they are going to be removed I didn't mean that they are going to be removed from active service all together. I meant that they are going to be removed from service from the GEML
The stadlers are nice and comfortable on the inside but my mum drives the shorter 4 car ones and she says they aren't very good to drive because they are so light.🤣
When I travelled on one a few weeks ago I found them very comfy to travel on, suffice to say I haven't driven one but would like the chance to do so haha
Very nice variety you had from Colchester. A lot of variety going on.
Do you miss the class 90 sets that used to run by Greater Anglia?
Given that there was engineering works taking place I think I did reasonably well all things considered haha, the 90's did add a sense of character to the line certainly
Rather than doing Romford on the GEML, why not go one stop up the line to Gidea Park, it's a quaint little station with both the GEML and the Tfl Rail 345's running through, the footbridge above also allows a great vantage point of the tracks and maybe even the nearby sidings provided you can get the right angle!
Actually Romford has better views of the line and has the Upminster shuttle
I must admit I had never thought of going to Gidea Park before, I'll be sure to give it a look next time I'm down the local area
@@Tornado922 Thank you so much, never thought I'd actually get a reply!
@@M1CAE1. I always reply to every comment on my films :)
@@Tornado922 The beauty of smaller TH-cam channels!
Berry nice!! Bojo homour there, lol!!
P.s
Did you ever watch Russell Howard's Good News?
Nah I haven't watched that show
2:53
We are gathered here today to celebrate the lives of all headphone users watching this. I'm not wearing headphones and I nearly went deaf. I can just imagine the pain you headphone users are going through.
RIP.
Oh it isn't too bad
It was bad enough for me standing there!
I haven’t been to Colchester in years. A great video for a place that I should go to more
One quick question. What specific model of Galaxy tablet do you use?
It's a great station to go to, probably up there as one of my favourites on the GEML, I use a Samsung Galaxy Tab E I believe to do all of my filming
Please do chelmsford on the weekend so we can see each other
I live in chelmsford so it’s easy for me to get there
And at 8:30 I hate those trash plastic foreign bags
I don't when I will have the chance to go to Chelmsford given what's going on around the country
8:23 8:43
what you doing down my neck of the woods??!?
😂😂😂😂
they do share platforms 4-5.,
it's pronounced like "with an hoe"
@@samson374 I'll be sure to remember that!!
Eventually when the class 321s leave greater anglia the majority of them will be converted into Hydro multiple units called the class 600 breeze and also you can't do Romford because London is in tier 2 of COVID
You need to remember the date this was filmed, not released!!!
8:23-8:43 THE CLASS 745'S SUCK!!!!! THE 90'S RULE!!!
Actually the 745s are really good replacements. From what I've heard they are brilliant trains the 745s. Do kind of miss the 90s
@@hst8260 you KIND of miss them, I REALLY miss them. They were great
@@hst8260 oh but I miss the 43’s more
@@cactustown5237 there's this thing called opinions. The 90s can still be seen working freight. I saw a ex GA 90 working a freight. Might upload the video of it soon