Bath Spa to Severn Tunnel Junction cab video (no audio) - HDL Green Dragon railtour - 18 April 2015
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- Cab view from Bath Spa to Severn Tunnel Junction, Saturday 18 April 2015, on our Green Dragon railtour to Cardiff -
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Video footage is from an unattended cab-camera (motor coach 60118 Tunbridge Wells); this video does not contain a soundtrack because the driver was being conducted over this route.
0:00 - BATH SPA station
1:52 - Oldfield Park station
2:14 - Bellotts Road bridge and adjacent S&DJR bridge
2:32 - Twerton-on-Avon (station closed 1917)
3:04 - Twerton Short Tunnel (45 yards)
3:16 - Twerton Long Tunnel (264 yards)
5:34 - Saltford (station closed 1970)
5:56 - Saltford Tunnel (176 yards)
8:09 - Keynsham station
10:17 - St. Anne's Park No.3 Tunnel (1017 yards)
12:13 - St. Anne's Park No.2 Tunnel (154 yards)
13:15 - St. Anne's Park (station closed 1970)
15:12 - Feeder Bridge Junction
16:51 - Dr. Day's Junction
18:16 - Lawrence Hill station
19:30 - Stapleton Road station
20:18 - Narroways Hill Junction
20:59 - Ashley Hill (station closed 1964)
23:05 - Horfield (station closed 1964)
23:58 - Filton South Junction
24:20 - Filton Abbey Wood station
25:05 - Filton Junction (station closed 1996) and Filton Junction No.2
27:05 - 4m08s of waiting time cut out
28:29 - Patchway Junction No.1
29:04 - Patchway Junction No.2
29:24 - Patchway station
31:09 - Patchway Tunnels
31:28 - Patchway Old Tunnel (1760 yards)
32:29 - Patchway Short Tunnel (62 yards)
34:01 - Pilning station
35:30 - Ableton Lane Tunnel (97 yards)
35:48 - Severn Tunnel (4 miles 624 yards)
37:44 - bottom of Severn Tunnel
40:26 - exit of Severn Tunnel
41:56 - SEVERN TUNNEL JUNCTION station.
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Equipment: video by GoPro Hero3+ camera with extra battery and
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Britain has a reason to be proud of preserving its heritage.
Wonderful landscape. Reminds of visit to Bath and King's mead Square and lovely floral landscape.
wonderful architecture of the bridges the entrances are faced with lovely dressed stone ,almost a cupid bows shape.
Great Video, living in New Zealand have theoretical knowledge of the area thru Simsig, nice to tie it all together with the view from the footplate
Glad we could help you out with this, and with English Electric classic traction too. :)
I like this full on cab on this important and interesting line-on a fine day too. Wish there was one like this from Cardiff to Fishgard !
Go to any railwayana fair and there are stalls with people selling off old videos etc - many of them re from a series of UK cab rides - you'll probably find a Fishguard trip there
Great video!
Just found this video and loved it!.Gave me a right blast from the past, as I used to live in Bath and took this route to get back to Newport for University after weekends at home.
I loved getting to see the route from this perspective! especially when in the tunnels!! :D. Someone below commented what? 2 years ago, saying you need to cut that black tunnel bits out Well can I say I am glad you didn't!. It is awesome seeing it from this view!.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it (tunnels and all). I've since published a better version of this route, see "Westbury to Bristol" and "Bristol to Newport".
Another great video
Interesting video👍🏻 I was born in 1959 and used to visit my grandparents on a regular basis when I was a little lad. Their back garden backed onto the railway just down the road from Horfield station which had just closed by the time I started to watch the trains( they lived in Wordsworth Road). I can still remember vividly watching the last few years of steam and earlier diesels. I used to sit on the top of the concrete posts that held up the chain link fence at the bottom of the garden balancing my notebook on my legs and absolutely crapping myself when the steam engines would come clanking up the gradient chucking smoke and cinders up into the air, I’m sure sometimes there was a banking engine as well! I’m sure there used to be 4 tracks in that section, when did the other tracks disappear? Cheers Neal.
Another fine piece of victorian engineering.
great journey 😃
why is there so many old raiway lines left inthe middle of the track and on the sides too?
Length of the tunnels at this video in km:
1.Twerton Short (0.041 km)
2.Twerton Long (0.241 km)
3.Saltford (0.161 km)
4.St. Anne's Park No.3 (0.930 km)
5.St. Anne's Park No.2 (0.141 km)
6.Patchway Old (1.610 km)
7.Patchway Short (0.057 km)
8.Ableton Lane (0.089 km)
9.Severn Tunnel (7.007 km)
Much enjoying these cab rides. I now realise how important it would be sound the horn just before exiting a tunnel because your forward vision is literally blinded by that approaching light.Has this Thumper made any excursions over the Salisbury to Exeter route that have been filmed?I can recall a glimpse of one passing Feniton (Sidmouth Junction) level crosssing, complete with oil tail lamp to keep the WR happy.
Thanks for this. We've been that way on occasion, yes; I recall heading to Totnes on The Eclipse DEMU in August 1999, via a (brief) overnight halt at Salisbury! I haven't filmed along that route, however.
Is there a way out
9:47 as originally built to Brunel's specification this short section seen in shadow was actually in a tunnel which was opened out in the 1880s
Yes indeed. See my subsequent video of the same route, with better footage, an audio track and more research, which refers to the old tunnel and Fox's Wood Quarry at 40 minutes: th-cam.com/video/T3qZ5ZYQB_I/w-d-xo.html
@@hastingsdiesels Many thanks - I will check that out - thank you so much for putting up these great videos = in years to come they will be historical documents too !
13:20 hopefully they'll reinstate St. Anne's Park Station there in the future.
Why on earth would they do that? The railways are already bankrupt ...theyre closing stations not opening new ones. Britains railways are some of the worst in the world
This is ace! I mean, it's shot from the front of a Thumper and there's no blurry, juddery, shaking because of the engine like so many other DEMU cab films I've seen. Please can you tell me how this was achieved?
Thank you. Forward-facing cab videos from the Hastings DEMU prior to 2015 were filmed using a conventional camcorder and mounting system, which resonated with engine vibrations. The current system relies on a GoPro camera both suction-mounted to and braced against the windscreen, which has yielded an improvement in this regard.
Thanks.
Absolutely love the video you did a very good job but you should turn the volume up so everybody can experience a whole face just says you do that would make it more realistic but very good job my friend
Thanks. I can't 'turn up the volume' on this video as the footage would include members of the traincrew conversing - so there'd be a privacy issue there. Since the year I took this, I've tried to put a second microphone in the rear cab to use audio from there instead in such circumstances.
Great video. I wonder why they closed St Anne's Park station. It is very much commuter country.
benbisley shhi
Same reason as "they" (Dr. Beeching?) closed Bathampton Station, on the same line, which was also prime commuter country for those working in Bath?
I assume this is pre-electrification?
no lights on the train,,,that guy got bigger balls than me,,,nice video
That tunnel looks scary
Why are there no headlights on this train? Going through that tunnel in total blackout seems insanely unsafe. Liked the video a lot.
The train has a high-intensity headlight. Its purpose is to warn others of the train's approach. It does not illuminate the track usefully, and does not show up on the video because of technical limitations with the camera. Given the stopping distances of trains, headlights serve no purpose to the driver except at 5mph. Trust me, I'm a train driver too!
Its only 4.5 mi
The train is speeding through and yore safe
Pity about the blob on the lens coming into Bristol.
+meandmymouth It was water on the windscreen.
+meandmymouth Talk about the prefect place for a blob of water to fall. lol
There's someone standing on the side of the line at 09:09
OMG yeah perched on the edge of a bridge with a camera
Well , yore safe in a train and it makes noise inside
Yore safe inside the train in the tunnel
It's too bad that the film has no sound.
tnx
How many miles
About 27 miles.
4 miles (624 yards
Just over six kilometres.
no audio?
+bryant ho Correct. "No audio' is in the title, and an explanation for the lack of audio is given in the description.
+bryant ho Just put some music on and watch the video ;)
Johnny Cash "Fulsom Prison Blues" works well.... :)
Why didnt you put on your lights
Where was Bristol TM ?
+itsonlycapnkirk This route avoids Temple Meads by using the "Rhubarb Loop" from Feeder Jn to Dr Days Jn. It's the sharply-curved stretch of track with a large road flyover running to the left of the time.
No stops so guess this was a freighter ?
+meandmymouth No, it was a railtour with the Hastings DEMU -- see the link in the description.
+Hastings Diesels Ltd Thanks. Very enjoyable to get the driver's view of a route I know well (apart from the rhubarb loop :-). Maybe one day passengers will be able to share such a view from their seats by CCTV like some air passengers enjoy ? As a bit of a rail nerd myself it was great to see some remnants of Brunel's original architecture from his pioneering masterpiece. Also a good record of the line before they electrify it :-)
+meandmymouth I had wondered about CCTV cab view streaming to the saloon, actually! Not sure the co$t would be justifiable though. Good point about the pre-electrification record of the line.
This tunnel is scary
It's very long, very dark and very wet! Welcome to the world's first submarine railway tunnel - all six kilometres of it - which connects the Kingdom of England to the Principality of Wales beneath the muddy and fast-flowing waters of what the English call the "Bristol Channel" and the Welsh call the "Severn Sea".
Dont british rail trains have windscreen wipers?
Yes, yes they do. Who would have operated that particular wiper?
75 miles per hour by the look of it. . . . . . . .
Pilning used to look NICE!?
Shame there is no sound
I’ve since videoed the same route with an audio recorder in the back cab, so if I ever get through the backlog there will be an improved version of this one!
For A minute
Did the driver have a cold?
If you were gonna go in the tunnel ,why didnt you put on the lights
You should buy a video recorder that does sound as well
One drop on water ruined it
Can't help thinking...... isn't about time we built a new Severn Rail Bridge?? ....we have the technology and know how now which wasn't really the case back in Victorian times, or even 50 years ago.
I know the Severn is considerably wider than the Forth, but even so. If Denmark and Sweden can do it .... .then so can we.
The tunnel is continuously being drained of water. It's not an ideal situation, and must be costing Network Rail a fortune every year. Even an expensive rail bridge would prove value for money in the long term.
Nope, it is too complicated for Tory's goverment.
Instead we have deepest water spring in entire world! (As You mentioned: Severn Tunnel still leaking since build, and pumps running 24h to pump water from it) but not worry, taxpayers cover electicity bill for this :) (Network Rail is own by goverment, so all bill are covered by nation)
Please don't post video tunnels that are all black we want to see the walls. if you cant , just eliminate the tunnels & show the rest of the run.
I'm just posting *what it looked like from the cab*. If it's all black because you're in a tunnel, that's what gets posted.
Steam railways are all about chuffing noises, clicking noises, and all the other noises associated with steam trains... the absence of any sound on this video makes it completely anodyne....
It's not a steam-hauled train and it's not running on a steam railway - it's a Diesel-Electric Multiple Unit running on a main line from which steam trains were banished by the Western Region in 1965.
It's a good thing to pay attention to the screen you are filming through. That spot of water should have been wiped away. It spoils several minutes of an otherwise enjoyable video.
Please read the description! This was an *unattended* camera. That means that nobody was there watching what it was doing. The driver route-conductor who may have been looking through the same windscreen would be unaware of my filming efforts, while I would not be allowed in the cab while the train was moving. It's just one of those things, I'm afraid.
Four minutes of blackness. Really exciting. A good editor would do something about that.
I'm only bringing to you what the driver sees. What would you suggest I do about that? (BTW when I produced this video I didn't have access to any but the most rudimentary editing software)
@@hastingsdiesels i am thankful for your efforts - spot or no spot and black tunnels - always can fast forward the video if it concerns you that much