Welsh Marches Line (Shrewsbury to Cardiff Central) - DRIVERS EYE VIEW
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2022
- It is finally here, the last drivers eye view of 2022 has arrived, the Welsh Marches line from Shrewsbury to Cardiff Central on board one of Transport for Wales's loco hauled services. Our train will run non-stop to Hereford (45 minute distant) before continuing to call at Abergavenny, Cwmbran and Newport. As a bonus we continue along the South Wales Main Line into Cardiff.
This fasinating route was filmed over a year from November 2021 to October 2022 and so will see a variety of season changes. Sadly on the drivers eye view on some parts the sun was very low in the sky, not a cloud to be seen, so some shots maybe quite blinding. Nonetheless we have put in trackside shots, narration explaining the history (past and present) and captions on various locations with the Welsh names inprinted below.
Your continious support to this channel have always been appreciated over the years so please continue to like, comment and if you haven't done so already, subscribe to this channel for more drivers eye views that you wish to see in the future. For now, sit back and enjoy the ride down the Welsh Marches Line.
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0:37 Shrewsbury
16:25 Church Stretton
22:37 Craven Arms
28:30 Ludlow
36:00 Leominster
46:07 Hereford
57:26 Pontrilas
01:05:23 Abergavenny
01:17:05 Cwmbran
01:27:25 Newport
01:41:16 Cardiff Central
Excellent production. The commentary and inclusion of non-cab footage make this far more interesting and enjoyable than traditional cab-view videos.
I used to drive a truck from Chirk to Newport or Cardiff three times a week and do a return journey, loading up in the Forest of Dean, or at Pontrillas Sawmills, back to Chirk. It was lovely covering the same route, only this time from a Train Drivers View. It brought back many lovely memories.
Travelled Ludlow-Shrewsbury mid 58-62 every school day. Thats when my passion for railways started.
I am living in New Zealand now, my fathers hometown is Bridgenorth. I went to school at a place called Apley Park, in the late 60's. We used to go to Shrewsbury quite a few times, and walked around Wales, on school trips. I have not been back since 1970. I would love to visit, and take my daughter with me. I have been to Craven Arms, Ludlow etc.. watching this makes me homesick !!😊😊
I used to commute from Hereford to Ludlow for work back in the 90s, that video brought back some memories, it used to be a fantastic trip in the December when people would make the journey between Hereford/Leominster/Ludlow for Christmas shopping, never heard so much laughter on a train. My late Grandfather was an engine driver between the wars and lived in Eye (34m 20s point) and when my Dad, so the story goes was a child during WWII he'd often walk with his Dad to the end of the lane to the station where trains, including goods trains would often stop, even if they weren't meant to and pick my Grandad up to take him to work. 🙂
I've only just discovered your videos and they are so good!I used to watch Don Coffey ,as he had subtitled info at bottom of screen.Yours are better in the sense it's easier to listen than read titles on screen,well done!Hope there's many more routes to be covered?
36:36 I live in Scotland, but had a little shiver of nostalgia when the train passed through Leominster, where I spent most of my summer school holidays as a kid....
Great video, love the voice over, cutaways and detailed info. Bravo - more to come I hope !
Took me back home to my roots. Love the Welsh Marches and this railway journey from Shrewsbury to Cardiff brought back wonderful memories for me to dwell on.
Glad to see you back missed your videos really good and fabulous commentary Paul in Kent
Thank you again, awesome work!
Appreciate your time and research in giving us another excellent and informative video.
Nice supplementary shots, pity about the sun although we don't see much of it in Wales
Enjoyed this very much along with your excellent and informative narration. It is also in my 'neck of the woods'. Thank you. Look forward to more from you soon.
This is great. Lots of very interesting info. ZERO waffle. Good videos.
Another beaut video. Can't really complain about the sun - the camera sees what the driver sees.
Lovely countryside and informative commentary, but perhaps filming in the other direction would have been better, to avoid looking in to the sun.
The TfW Mk4 stocks are very nice as they were used on LNER. Lovely video. 😊
Good to see you back! I was supposed to do this route recently but they set swapped it for two 158s instead so I had to do It in the other direction
Great Video and Commentary first class
Please do many more as much appreciated and enjoyed. Thank You.😊
Loved this, I’m a pontypoolian and it’s about time I see a local drivers-eye view ❤️❤️
Like your videos and the information you give
I remember this line very well, we used to get the night train from Manchester Piccadilly direct to Newquay in Cornwall regularly in the 70s and 80s when going on our holidays, for some reason they always routed our train via the Welsh Marches line, maybe it was to keep us out of the way, our journey used to take about 12 hours, i do remember we used to stop in Hereford for a couple of hours, our homeward journey was via Gloucester and Birmingham.
Totally agree, it's good to see you back with another excellent video, also highlighting the challenges drivers face with the low sun. Hopefully more videos soon?
Most definitely more to come for the future 👍🏻
Great Video. Very enjoyable.
The very detailed commentary enhances this video of a line through beautiful country...thanks.
Found your channel recently. After watching a few videos, I find them very informative and entertaining. You must have a team with you, otherwise it would take you several days to film 1 journey!!
Coincidentally, I did the reverse of part of this journey, from Newport to New Street in June 2022!!
Superb video, great channel, subbed!
Excellent quality 👌 👏
First time I've seen your work on the 'tube. Very nice scenery - not an area of Wales I've travelled., having only been down the west coast to Llandudno then either Blaenau or Holyhead.
great video
Great Cab ride and on a 67 Mark 4 and class 82 Dvt .
I travelled this line recently from Church Stretton To Shrewsbury and return. On the way out the train was full to capacity with many standing. On the way back it was even worse, not a problem for me as my journey was short but many including older passengers had been on the train for a lot longer and had to squeeze in where they could. This was not a specially busy day or prime time, some passengers were saying its often like that. If so I wonder why Transport for Wales do not provide sufficient cars.
Excellent presentation. Greatly appreciate the inclusion of the Welsh names. I shall put this on my bucket list for my next visit to Wales
Transport for Wales is Totally failing Wales.
TfW just suck at everything they do that involves their main-lines. Branch line services such as the Pwllheli line are served well with referbished 158's and other sprinter types, but everything else is always rammed. I did this particular line in the video once. 2 car train, standing room only...at 2pm on a Tuesday. Stupid service run by incompetant sods 😂
Just driven this on train sim from Shrewsbury to Newport 90 odd miles Isit I used a voyager for the trip btw lovely scenery lost count of the whistle signs lol
Best way to see Leominster,straight through it.
Excellent video although it could be argued that the Cambrian Railway is not the only railway into Mid Wales. The Heart of Wales line runs through much of Mid Wales certainly whilst still in the county of Powys.
Yeh good comment, I travelled on that line from Swansea back in the 60s to Manchester Piccadilly and thankfully back then we still had steam and a lot of the old Welsh branch lines were still active, my journey started out from Pwllheli in North Wales via the Cambrian Coast railway down to Carmarthen and onto Swansea, great journey and great memories.
I used to ride behind 25s and 33s on that route. Those small locos could really struggle to build up any speed when they pulling six MK I coaches up a hill from a standing start, like at Abergavenny for northbound trains and Craven Arms for Southbound trains. Happy days!
A great addition to a great library of routes. Well worth a like & subscribe. I wonder if Drivers are issued sun glases; I doubt it.
Great video, very interesting and informative.
A brilliant video of an area of England I have never been to! The narrations giving snippets of history along the line are a nice addition. Must travel the line sometime.
This train ride really is beautiful...if you are one of the very lucky ones to actually get a seat on a TFW service
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As an old Newportonian, I cheated and joined you just south of Cwmbran. Very interesting to see the view from lines I was familiar with from outside the railway land. Thankyou.
BTW, it's AlexandRA docks at Newport, not AlexandER. Also, if you're pronouncing the local names correctly, they've been strongly Welshified since I left in 1970. As I was growing up in eastern Newport in the '50s and '60s, I knew more people who self-identified as Jewish than Welsh, and that was less than a handful. We pronounced Gaer to rhyme with hair, and Caerleon was k'LEE'n, where ' is the very weak central schwa vowel that's represented by a turned e in the IPA.
That poor pigeon at 24 mins
I've yet to see one of these sets in operation, be it at Manchester or Chester. Wonder if the new December timetable will alter their operations? Certainly lots of changes in the Manchester area, plus the new Liverpool to Cleethorpes via Warrington Central that should hopefully be 68+mk5 sets. Be good to see 67s and 68s in passenger service at Man Oxford Road.
Need to go to Shrewsbury. Diesels 145.7!
Good video. Leebotwood is pronounced Lee Bot Wood mate that's from a Salopian and would prefer to the now agreed pronunciation of Shrewsbury as Shrew bury not Shrobury although that is an ancient English word. Locals used to refer to Shrewsbury as Salop, the county town . Thanks for the video.
Alan
Shrew as in the animal
Awesome video! But I'm a little confused that at 32:24, what 'Sobra K' exactly is as it's auto-translation😂
Sobriquet - a nickname
Great to see the signage in Welsh too. After all Shrewsbury is known as Amwythig in Welsh .
But not in England!
ATW wished to re-sign the English stations - it didn't go down well
Interesting. Being English myself I wouldn't mind at all some stations near Wales having the name in Welsh as it is at least a native British language. I remember being greeted in Welsh over the phone by work colleagues from Oswestry and Whittington so yes it's spoken somewhat in England near the border too.
@@Isochest Errr, no. Welsh is never spoken in Shropshire. I know, I live here. Why would anyone speak Welsh unless they were visiting from across the border?
It'll be the same for Cheshire and Herefordshire
Wait transport for wales have 91s???
Why does the driver keep sounding his horn?
Observe the line side signs with the letter ‘W’ - often used on the approach to various types of level crossing. Many of them are there for local farmers and the like.
A good video but a few mistakes though, first it's is pronounced Shrews - bury not Shrowsbury as a lot of locals will tell you, this can be proved by visiting a National Trust/ English Heritage house in Shropshire " Hardwick Hall" which was being built by a friend of Queen Elizabeth 1st from proceeds of a divorce from her husband, when you go around the remains of her first attempt of building her home the shell of a House run by English Heritage there is a time line board around one of the rooms telling you the history of this house and Shrewsbury and in QE 1st's days it was called Shrowsbury spelt with an " O " but some time after QE 1st reign it changed it's name to " Shrewsbury" replacing the O with an E, so in this context you don't call a Shrew a Shrow or Shoeburyness Showburyness. Why people keep calling it Shrowsbury god knows as the locals don't call it that they as I said call it Shrews - Bury and I have asked them, the next thing is that when the train reached Sutton Bridge and where the Severn Valley Line diverged from the line you stated that the line closed in 1970, it did not the Severn Valley Branch from Shrewsbury to Kidderminster was closed as far as Bridgnorth in 1963 and the closure stopped there, it was taken over by volunteers and opened up as the SVR steam line in 1970/71 from Bridgnorth to Hampton Loade
Consider to go 4k.
Tranport For Wales Class 82
It's called a DVT mate :)
Class 82 is a Beyer Peacock built electric locomotive built in the 1960s and served until the mid 80s.
The vehicle in the video is a DVT with a coach number that starts with 82, doesn't make it a class 82.
Tranport For Wales Class 87
Nope.
There are both positives and negatives with this video.
The producer has gone out of his way to edit in "outside" shots which are very informative and show the reverse angle of "outside-looking-in".
The major problem is the head-on setting sun which is particularly low in the sky (probably winter).
Also the screen could do with a clean.
I know it's not an easy task because you don't want an overcast day.
Tricky - I know. But then, we have to remember the potential thousands of viewers we're filming for, and in the TV and film business they're constantly aware of these climatic considerations.
How do you get your camera in the cabs?