Hi Rich. I was viewing this video from Sydney and had no idea through which stations we were passing. I thought it was a "lazy" video in that the person posting the video gave us no information at all. Other videos of British rail journeys give history as well as telling you where you are. This video was just a dump unfortunately. Do you agree ?
@@johnlatham7092this is a Great Western Railway Service to London Paddington, it normally stops at Stations like Bristol Parkway, Reading, Didcot Parkway, Swindon, Chippenham and Bristol Temple Meads.
While that would be nice, this does look like the official channel of the train operating company (rather than the personal channel of an employee) and so I understand why they don’t, after all it’s extra work for a member of staff to do! Either way it’s nice they uploaded a cab video, seeing we’re not supposed to be on their trains(!)
I note that they are now adding the station names etc to their more recent videos, such as the last HST from Plymouth to Paddington also available on YT
@@dixiedean1955 Well, and don't forget: You can just download the national rail map from their website and there you can see all the stations the train has passed by.
@@thepluckfamily I have watched it just sucks that its the Plymouth to Reading route they recorded not the GWR mainline all the way to Paddington. :( was still a great watch though!
Amazing Video, I'm track surveyor and sometimes my survey team takes poor quality pictures on track due to weather or night time. Track videos helped me many times to recognise and solve my surveying issues. Thanks again
Most probably the last ever cab ride video along the GWML where the chimney of Didcot A power station is visible (around the 44 min mark) - it was demolished in Feb 2020.
incase anyone is wondering, this high speed train is running on Diesel power and the reason you can't hear the engines is because the Driver cab unit doesn't have a Diesel engine underneath it because they put the Pantograph on the Driving cab unit. the Diesel engines are mounted underneath the middle Coaches of the train.
Hi there, well we've been meandering with you for quite some time now and enjoying the journey, always so good to be out and about with you. The cab view is immersive and very relaxing I find. Anyway just wanted to drop by and say thank you.
Having viewed the entire run I have to repeat my previous comment that an all round good video really needs the information to make the experience an all round pleasurable and informative view, I was totally lost from beginning to end as to where we were, and the various indications to the driver other than the aws warnings, thanks for the ride.
Couldn't agree more Norman. I was viewing this video from Sydney and had no idea through which stations we were passing. I thought it was a "lazy" video in that the person posting the video gave us no information at all. Other videos of British rail journeys give history as well as telling you where you are. This video was just a dump unfortunately. Do you agree ?
Great view and strangely mesmerising, loved seeing the four bridges in Purley from a different perspective and the new Reading flyover was awesome. Many thanks.
Lawrence Hill, Stapleton Road, Filton Abbey Wood, Bristol Parkway (Stops), Swindon, Didcot Parkway, Cholsey, Goring and Steatley, Pangbourne, Tilehurst, Reading, Twyford, Maidenhead, Taplow, Burnham, Slough, Langley, Iver, West Drayton, Hayes and Harlington, Southall, Hanwell, West Ealing, Ealing Broadway, Acton Main Line, Westbourne Park (tube station on right), Royal Oak (tube station on left).
@@arch9enius that's a bit rude isn't it I have only travelled as far as reading don't the names of the other stations beyond that to Bristol temple meads.
@@mitchellgiffard1978 Well I've had a guess at some below. Swindon Didcot and Cholsey I know for certain. See also CHrisJ Neale who is just showing off.
I would love to see more drivers eye videos if possible requested. I'm from the USA and I love watching trains on rails consistent with switches and far destinations. Thanks for sharing. Just giving my opinion.
Hello from the UK, have a look on RUclips for a gentleman called Don Coffey, he does some excellent videos, also theres Railway Emotions from Switzerland, and Rail Cow Girl from Norway, all excellent videos to watch
Haven’t been to Bristol for nearly a year, so had no idea this was gonna be non stop from Parkway! At Swindon I was surprised, Didcot less so but at Reading I was thinking when is he slowing down, he’ll overshoot the platforms by miles!
This is just brilliant - thank you. Is there any chance of more cab rides, in particular Penzance to Taunton, and two more covering Taunton to Bristol and to London? Please?
Hi Simon. I was viewing this video from Sydney and had no idea through which stations we were passing. I thought it was a "lazy" video in that the person posting the video gave us no information at all. Other videos of British rail journeys give history as well as telling you where you are. This video was just a dump unfortunately. Do you agree ?
It drew depends what you want the video for John. I have a number of cab ride videos, some of which have the information you refer to. I use them to help me develop train simulator routes and already know anything the sort of commentary you’re after would give me. A straightforward up to date cab view like this is all I need.
Couldn't agree more David. I was viewing this video from Sydney and had no idea through which stations we were passing. I thought it was a "lazy" video in that the person posting the video gave us no information at all. Other videos of British rail journeys give history as well as telling you where you are. This video was just a dump unfortunately. Do you agree ?
@@johnlatham7092 The videos from other sources give great details. I especially like the Railcowgirl videos from Norway. great detail and history when appropriate.
Have a look at Don Coffey's videos. Lots of information, historical and geographic as well as about railway operation. You've got the visuals ok, but it needs what many posters are calling for as well.
Superb journey. Always wanted to see a driver's view as I've travelled the line so many times . Pity there was no information about passing stations and other points of interest such as signalling. Otherwise great video.
Thanks GWR, great video. However you need to put some work into annotating the video - station stops, stations passed through, junction points, geographical points of interest along the way, etc.
A good question - and according to what I've seen, the first one comparing this phenomenon to other lines in Britain and the mainland. See fx (on YT) ICE 1 Nürnberg - München then forward past the 2 min mark (before, there's the less typical situation of a main station). And I think I could give the answer, but nobody would want to hear it, because it is anything but flattering. But I can give a hint: Look for human conditions like ignorance, group dynamics & the like. Something similar goes for the maker, BTW. Mankind is past 2020 and still hasn't learned to deal with human deficits.
Great video, it gives a good impression of speed. Pacer at 01:54. I need a ride on one of those before they're taken out of service. At 1:18:17 there's a 37 towing another train.
Ian Huxtable If you mean the noise at the end as it’s approaching the blocks at Paddington, then that’s ATP warning the driver to stop due to the buffers.
These long runs of yellow and double yellow, but which ultimately end without the train having to stop, make me feel that one must have been following a ghost train. Where was the time to allow a train ahead to be switched to another route without our train encountering a red?
This is immaculate compared to a ride that starts from Paignton - you can hardly see through the filth! Thank you Mr TrainDriver for this..Stuck in lockdown in Italy luckily I have an exercise bicycle that I hadn't used for 10 years since moving to the hills where I normally walk every day. I watch these videos while pedalling. Some of the Scottish ones are really beautiful. Yesterday I was on a fantastic line in Eskdale which finished in Whitby.
It’s so strange seeing all those people at Parkway, went to PAD on the train the other day and it was deserted, never thought I’d miss the busy trains but I do
I know this is a bit of an odd question but I’d appreciate if someone could answer. After the driver arrives at Paddington, Would he take a 2-3 hour break or just go to the other end of the train and get ready for a return trip to Bristol?
3 things that i miss: stationnames, allowed speed and speedindicator, but further for me enough. I have seen only seen that part to Parkway; so can not say anything beyond 10 minutes yet! I have clocked that it is only 7,5 from Temple Meads to the first overhead wire pole. Surely that small part of track will also get electrification!?
Really good to see this - thanks. Surely ones for the future include Exeter to Plymouth, Plymouth to Penzance and the Cornish branch lines. Missing travelling and hope to be on board again soon!
Enjoyable video, seeing it from the driver's view. Especially from Swindon though to Paddington, having worked out of Didcot P'way circa 2003, seeing places such as Challow or Moreton and Reading, working out of that P'way in 2004 with the Ultrasonic Rail Testing Team, I must have walked from Paddington to Reading during the year I based there.
Hi Danny. I was viewing this video from Sydney and had no idea through which stations we were passing. I thought it was a "lazy" video in that the person posting the video gave us no information at all. Other videos of British rail journeys give history as well as telling you where you are. This video was just a dump unfortunately. Do you agree ?
I heard yesterday that the Steventon bridge has been saved. Steventon is half-way between Bristol Temple Meads and London Paddington. In the future trains will be allowed to go over the level crossings in Steventon and under the bridge at 110 mph.
Hasn’t that been the case for some time? Line speeds were raised (for electric, but dropped for diesel) some time ago to 110mi/h allowing the 80x’s to not need to carry out a power changeover
Seems to be a very odd assortment of overhead gantry styles - the ones at Bristol Parkway (and periodically - almost randomly thereafter) look to be overengineered and highly visually intrusive.
Yes, they are bleedin' ugly. Structures over-engineering was one of the main reasons for GWML electrification project overspend, which led to the whole thing being 'descoped' and the government losing confidence in the rail industry to do affordable electrification. That in turn led to the bonkers decision to continue ordering new diesel or bi-mode trains - despite a policy of decarbonising transport!
The overhead was originally specified and designed to permit running at 140 mph, which in the end was found to be too ambitious. Unfortunately it was then too late to re-specify it to a lower level. Presumably though, it is something that could be thought about again in the future, particularly if ETCS is installed along the route.
I wonder why it’s gone that route via Parkway rather than the more direct route via Bath. I have travelled that route before from Plymouth but that was when they had closed the Newbury to Reading section so it couldn’t go via Westbury.
I find it curious that there is no horn when leaving the station...? Isn't it a standard railway thing to sound the horn when you are about to start a powered vehicle moving?
An interesting video but - as others have said - it could have been better. I don't mind the absence of a commentary, as so many of them are largely waffle, but it would be helpful to have an indication of where on the journey we are, especially for those among us who don't know the route.
I did mancheter piccadlly to penzance once overnight ! it was a long ass journey and got to penzance at like 11 am ..from a start of early aftenoon in manchester! had a 2 hr wait at bristol parkway to catch the overnight sleeper from paddington to penzance lol .... to say i was not fresh as a daisy after a night sleeping under a table as we did't book a bunk / sleeper ws an understatement! was in the 90s though to go to a family wedding! ......i didn't think you get jet lag on a train lol ...although things have prob improved now ! ;) luckily i now live in Bristol 20 odd yrs later so not as far to travel to penzance or even london paddington thank god!..Also did bristol temple meads to edinburgh and that didn't take half as long ...set off early morning about 8 am and changed at birmingham was in Edinburgh by tea time! ..also did it straight through with cross country ..i gotta admit both were 1 st class and x country needs to up thier game as we noticed a marked diffence between them and virgin 1 st class on the change at birmingham ....x country after what we paid was pretty poor service and not good compaired to what we got on virgin at the time ....and charged the same for a ticket be it straight through or change ...and the journey back was awful as it was a sunday straight through with x contry so very little 1 st class service ect and didnt even get a decent meal ect after what we paid for a return ...i would never get x country again if i could avoid it! but there again we are stuck with the the train companies that provide the long distance journey and where they they can operate sadly ..mind you back in the day of BR i would of got a curled up sandwich in 1st class ....oh hang on i did with x country! lol ;)
Can someone explain the various beeps? I've worked out very high beep: driver alert check, requires button press high beep: green signal low beep: amber, double amber or red signal Any ID on the other beep sounds?
It’s AWS or Automatic Warning System. When the train approaches a Green signal (Proceed), a ping sounds. When the approaching signal is Double Yellow, Yellow (Caution) or Red (Stop) then a warning tone sounds. The driver MUST acknowledge this tone by pressing a button otherwise the train will apply the brakes automatically.
If you hear rapid beeps that’s the Driver Vigilance Device. The driver has their foot down on a pedal. When the beeps sound the driver releases the pedal to reset the device then reapplies pressure. Again, if the driver doesn’t reset it the brakes will apply automatically.
I love these videos. Can happily sit watching them all day.
Hi Rich. I was viewing this video from Sydney and had no idea through which stations we were passing. I thought it was a "lazy" video in that the person posting the video gave us no information at all. Other videos of British rail journeys give history as well as telling you where you are. This video was just a dump unfortunately. Do you agree ?
@@johnlatham7092this is a Great Western Railway Service to London Paddington, it normally stops at Stations like Bristol Parkway, Reading, Didcot Parkway, Swindon, Chippenham and Bristol Temple Meads.
@@johnlatham7092 I guess because it's an official GWR video rather than an enthusiast's.
Nice to see a UK Rail franchise are engaging with their customers without paranoia about hearing audio in the cab. Thank you GWR!
Most of these cab rides give the names of the various junctions passing from and to where! Just makes for more enjoyable experience.
While that would be nice, this does look like the official channel of the train operating company (rather than the personal channel of an employee) and so I understand why they don’t, after all it’s extra work for a member of staff to do! Either way it’s nice they uploaded a cab video, seeing we’re not supposed to be on their trains(!)
That's OK if there is an option like CC which there usually isn't. They can be very intrusive and distracting.
well, if youtube allows barrage...
I note that they are now adding the station names etc to their more recent videos, such as the last HST from Plymouth to Paddington also available on YT
@@dixiedean1955 Well, and don't forget: You can just download the national rail map from their website and there you can see all the stations the train has passed by.
I wish that you would release a video for Penzance to Paddington! The only video out there with the full GWR route is from 80s in a Class 43 :(
How about one from Penzance to Aberdeen! :D
@@TheTomd79 i have been on that its a long trip
They have a video from Plymouth to Paddington and that has the stations names on it aswell
@@thepluckfamily I have watched it just sucks that its the Plymouth to Reading route they recorded not the GWR mainline all the way to Paddington. :( was still a great watch though!
In 4k!!
Great experience to be able to watch this. Many thanks to you.
We're glad you enjoyed it, thank you! - Matt
great video excellent quality thanks for your time and effort
the smudge on the window directly between the rails looks like a funny little horse
looks like a rubber ducky to me.
@@bajahipb5846 That's what I saw.
I thought it was a reindeer
@Tara Oh I thought it was just a smudge on the window
Rubber duck 😅😅😅😅😅😅
Amazing Video,
I'm track surveyor and sometimes my survey team takes poor quality pictures on track due to weather or night time.
Track videos helped me many times to recognise and solve my surveying issues.
Thanks again
amazing video....superb cab view ❤🇮🇳love from india
I miss GWR trains so much. I used to commute frequently between Newbury and London during my visit to UK.
Great Western should hire Dan Coffey to produce their promo videos. Dan's U-Tube videos are superb.
Is that Dons brother lol.
Don Coffey, not Dan
James I certainly agree with you on your comment. His videos are fantastic especially the information with them
Plus he knows all the history and where the junctions go to
Check out rail cowgirl, especially the one "sunset summer vibes and side views" An extraordinary video of the railway in Norway
Ausgezeichnet !!!. Ein gutes Video. Danke
Very good driver eye view. You should post more of these as us train enthusiasts are at home during the lockdown. Well done GWR.
Most probably the last ever cab ride video along the GWML where the chimney of Didcot A power station is visible (around the 44 min mark) - it was demolished in Feb 2020.
incase anyone is wondering, this high speed train is running on Diesel power and the reason you can't hear the engines is because the Driver cab unit doesn't have a Diesel engine underneath it because they put the Pantograph on the Driving cab unit. the Diesel engines are mounted underneath the middle Coaches of the train.
Great video of the service you were on Paddington station is cool
I’m not a lifesaver but I am staying home and I am enjoying watching this video. 🐨🇦🇺
Thanks for the ride. As usual, the lines running hither, thither, and yon fascinate me.
Hi there, well we've been meandering with you for quite some time now and enjoying the journey, always so good to be out and about with you. The cab view is immersive and very relaxing I find. Anyway just wanted to drop by and say thank you.
Having viewed the entire run I have to repeat my previous comment that an all round good video really needs the information to make the experience an all round pleasurable and informative view, I was totally lost from beginning to end as to where we were, and the various indications to the driver other than the aws warnings, thanks for the ride.
Use a map?
Watch Don Coffey's videos .
Watched this using a split screen with Traksy/Raildar/ ...(Others available) ... didn't miss one junction, station or crossover. Try it!
Couldn't agree more Norman. I was viewing this video from Sydney and had no idea through which stations we were passing. I thought it was a "lazy" video in that the person posting the video gave us no information at all. Other videos of British rail journeys give history as well as telling you where you are. This video was just a dump unfortunately. Do you agree ?
Great video, thanks for posting it.
Great view and strangely mesmerising, loved seeing the four bridges in Purley from a different perspective and the new Reading flyover was awesome. Many thanks.
A lovely journey but could you put in the bottom or top what station's we are passing! That was very relaxing to watch, looking forward to the next.
Lawrence Hill, Stapleton Road, Filton Abbey Wood, Bristol Parkway (Stops), Swindon, Didcot Parkway, Cholsey, Goring and Steatley, Pangbourne, Tilehurst, Reading, Twyford, Maidenhead, Taplow, Burnham, Slough, Langley, Iver, West Drayton, Hayes and Harlington, Southall, Hanwell, West Ealing, Ealing Broadway, Acton Main Line, Westbourne Park (tube station on right), Royal Oak (tube station on left).
@@tuanpiccus1107 Thank you! when I watch again I will know.
Try using a split screen with Traksy/Raildar/...others ... and miss nothing!
Agreed
Their later videos do have the station names on, so they must have noted your comments!
why no mention of stations passing through or stopping at
I have been on this line today and I went via reading west towards Exeter st David's.
8:43 My old High School is on the right and was a great place to watch trains "do the curve". I notice it's now where "old" meets "new"!
Interesting seeing it from the cab. Would have been more enjoyable if it had put the station names on the screen.
Do you know if this was an IET?
@@thomasjones8648 Almost certainly.
@@mitchellgiffard1978 Or get your GPS out of the car and sit by the computer with it : P
@@arch9enius that's a bit rude isn't it I have only travelled as far as reading don't the names of the other stations beyond that to Bristol temple meads.
@@mitchellgiffard1978 Well I've had a guess at some below. Swindon Didcot and Cholsey I know for certain. See also CHrisJ Neale who is just showing off.
Remember when it used to go to the right just before the bridge before Lawrence Hill? I do.. was like 2002 when I worked on the buffet cars!
I would love to see more drivers eye videos if possible requested. I'm from the USA and I love watching trains on rails consistent with switches and far destinations. Thanks for sharing. Just giving my opinion.
Hello from the UK, have a look on RUclips for a gentleman called Don Coffey, he does some excellent videos, also theres Railway Emotions from Switzerland, and Rail Cow Girl from Norway, all excellent videos to watch
1:55 is that one of them Pacer things still been used by GWR?
Haven’t been to Bristol for nearly a year, so had no idea this was gonna be non stop from Parkway! At Swindon I was surprised, Didcot less so but at Reading I was thinking when is he slowing down, he’ll overshoot the platforms by miles!
Yeah me too, he went non stop through Swindon and Reading
Why signal at 43:14 on the right track shows yellow in London direction if there is a train coming in the opposite direction at the same time?
It's a distant signal on the reversible line, it cant show a red.
Thanks Chris excellent station list
Disappointing that location names are not subtitled, I like to follow the route with mapping.
This is just brilliant - thank you. Is there any chance of more cab rides, in particular Penzance to Taunton, and two more covering Taunton to Bristol and to London? Please?
Totally agree with you, Simon.
Definitely need Exeter to Plymouth stretch. Going along seawall at Dawlish 😀
Hi Simon. I was viewing this video from Sydney and had no idea through which stations we were passing. I thought it was a "lazy" video in that the person posting the video gave us no information at all. Other videos of British rail journeys give history as well as telling you where you are. This video was just a dump unfortunately. Do you agree ?
It drew depends what you want the video for John. I have a number of cab ride videos, some of which have the information you refer to. I use them to help me develop train simulator routes and already know anything the sort of commentary you’re after would give me. A straightforward up to date cab view like this is all I need.
@@spoerers Thanks for feedback Simon. Cheers John
Very nice of you to do a cab ride GWR. Please feel very free to do some more. A very enjoyable trip.
fantastic thank you, any chance you could do one from bristol to penzance?
Yeah would like to see that particular route.
It would be really nice to know a few more details about the train type. stations the train went through, speeds of the train etc.
Couldn't agree more David. I was viewing this video from Sydney and had no idea through which stations we were passing. I thought it was a "lazy" video in that the person posting the video gave us no information at all. Other videos of British rail journeys give history as well as telling you where you are. This video was just a dump unfortunately. Do you agree ?
@@johnlatham7092 The videos from other sources give great details. I especially like the Railcowgirl videos from Norway. great detail and history when appropriate.
Have a look at Don Coffey's videos. Lots of information, historical and geographic as well as about railway operation. You've got the visuals ok, but it needs what many posters are calling for as well.
they are fab videos loads of info too ..love em
I agree with you. And I've said so in a separate comment.
By far the best - I’ve watched every one to date. 🐨🇦🇺
I like Don's videos as they have so much information eg station names & trivia.
Superb journey. Always wanted to see a driver's view as I've travelled the line so many times . Pity there was no information about passing stations and other points of interest such as signalling. Otherwise great video.
Great video. Wow, right at the end that Henry vacuum near fell off the platform :-)
did i see a Deltic at 1:18:16 pulling a London Overground train along??
no not a deltic just a common class 37
Thanks GWR, great video. However you need to put some work into annotating the video - station stops, stations passed through, junction points, geographical points of interest along the way, etc.
Does anyone know why the overhead line structures on the Great Western are so heavy duty when compared to others around the UK and Europe?
A good question - and according to what I've seen, the first one comparing this phenomenon to other lines in Britain and the mainland. See fx (on YT)
ICE 1 Nürnberg - München
then forward past the 2 min mark (before, there's the less typical situation of a main station). And I think I could give the answer, but nobody would want to hear it, because it is anything but flattering. But I can give a hint: Look for human conditions like ignorance, group dynamics & the like. Something similar goes for the maker, BTW. Mankind is past 2020 and still hasn't learned to deal with human deficits.
why are some of the signals flashing please, or is it a camera effect?
Can you do one via box tunnel?
Thanks Mike for the info re the location of the floodlights at 5.00.
Great video, it gives a good impression of speed.
Pacer at 01:54. I need a ride on one of those before they're taken out of service.
At 1:18:17 there's a 37 towing another train.
8:45; Electric Overhead cable starts, are they gonna extend it til bristol Mead and Cardiff?
Yes they have. 🙄
Very good video, thank you very much!
Saw the title and thought it would be the pretty way via Bath not via BPW
Richard Talbot I thought it would be the even prettier way through Birmingham and sparkbrook ☹️
What was that alarm that went of in the cab at the end?
Ian Huxtable If you mean the noise at the end as it’s approaching the blocks at Paddington, then that’s ATP warning the driver to stop due to the buffers.
Ah. Ok. Thanks
This is great, thank you. I was in London about 18 months ago, often took the GWR or TfL Rail into Paddington. This brings back good memories.
Does the train erect a pantograph at 08:54 and switch to electric power?
Yes it does :)
Its a class 43 hst the not eletric
Great opportunity to show the visual to us, where does it switch from diesel to electric at Parkway or between Temple Meads and Parkway
If I am Not mistaken at 15:31 there is a warning sign to switch to overhead and at 15:38 is the instruction sign to switch to overhead collection
These long runs of yellow and double yellow, but which ultimately end without the train having to stop, make me feel that one must have been following a ghost train. Where was the time to allow a train ahead to be switched to another route without our train encountering a red?
Thank you! Nice camera work; but as Davil says in his comment, the video would be vastly improved if it took a few leafs out of Don Coffey's book.
Be glad GWR are doing any in cab video.
whats the alarm at 1:26:07?
I love the new overhead catenary on the GWR.
How things have changed !
Travelled Parkway/Paddington for
almost 10 years in the 80/90's.
"There are two ways of doing things: The Great Western way, or the wrong way. I'm Great Western, and...."
"DON'T WE KNOW IT!!"
Spent first ten minutes trying to clean my screen....🤦♂️
This is immaculate compared to a ride that starts from Paignton - you can hardly see through the filth! Thank you Mr TrainDriver for this..Stuck in lockdown in Italy luckily I have an exercise bicycle that I hadn't used for 10 years since moving to the hills where I normally walk every day. I watch these videos while pedalling. Some of the Scottish ones are really beautiful. Yesterday I was on a fantastic line in Eskdale which finished in Whitby.
Stewartp the most beautiful railway (I would say) in the world is the WHL in Scotland. I live in fort william, one of the main parts of the line.
It’s so strange seeing all those people at Parkway, went to PAD on the train the other day and it was deserted, never thought I’d miss the busy trains but I do
Excellent video.......would have liked named stations en route.
Would benefit from station name time stamps.
Great way round. Liked the video.
I know this is a bit of an odd question but I’d appreciate if someone could answer. After the driver arrives at Paddington, Would he take a 2-3 hour break or just go to the other end of the train and get ready for a return trip to Bristol?
3 things that i miss: stationnames, allowed speed and speedindicator, but further for me enough. I have seen only seen that part to Parkway; so can not say anything beyond 10 minutes yet! I have clocked that it is only 7,5 from Temple Meads to the first overhead wire pole. Surely that small part of track will also get electrification!?
Great vid thanks very much for it. I hope that someday in the future we can do away with the eyesores of overhead wires.
Schöne Tour von Bristol nach London.
A great production. Keep on doing so. Greetings from Germany. Immer gute Fahrt!
Hi GWR, cool video! Would it be possible for you to do a Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour drivers eye view please?
Really good to see this - thanks. Surely ones for the future include Exeter to Plymouth, Plymouth to Penzance and the Cornish branch lines. Missing travelling and hope to be on board again soon!
the camera must have great image stabilization as my journeys on that route are never that smooth
Was the train in EMU from Bristol Parkway
Enjoyable video, seeing it from the driver's view. Especially from Swindon though to Paddington, having worked out of Didcot P'way circa 2003, seeing places such as Challow or Moreton and Reading, working out of that P'way in 2004 with the Ultrasonic Rail Testing Team, I must have walked from Paddington to Reading during the year I based there.
You can see the West Ealing to High Wycombe parliamentary Chiltern train at 1:16 44
Yes agreed. A whole bunch.
Was that the one Geoff Marshall took?
@@tommercer1406 Yes I believe it was although he went to west Ruislip.
Great video, thanks for sharing !
Would it be possible if you could put the ATP speedometer next time? I do lots of research on train safety and safety devices on train. Great video!
I presume you've already seen the old training videos? There's two on here, one of which is called Living with ATP
Hi Danny. I was viewing this video from Sydney and had no idea through which stations we were passing. I thought it was a "lazy" video in that the person posting the video gave us no information at all. Other videos of British rail journeys give history as well as telling you where you are. This video was just a dump unfortunately. Do you agree ?
Can you do Bristol TM to Penzance?
Not stopping at Reading is wild!!
I heard yesterday that the Steventon bridge has been saved. Steventon is half-way between Bristol Temple Meads and London Paddington. In the future trains will be allowed to go over the level crossings in Steventon and under the bridge at 110 mph.
Hasn’t that been the case for some time? Line speeds were raised (for electric, but dropped for diesel) some time ago to 110mi/h allowing the 80x’s to not need to carry out a power changeover
Yes you can see it on this vid, there is a 110mph board, then the level crossing, then steventon bridge, then a 125mph board.
Seems to be a very odd assortment of overhead gantry styles - the ones at Bristol Parkway (and periodically - almost randomly thereafter) look to be overengineered and highly visually intrusive.
I expect Network Rail got a job lot from Poundland.
Yes, they are bleedin' ugly. Structures over-engineering was one of the main reasons for GWML electrification project overspend, which led to the whole thing being 'descoped' and the government losing confidence in the rail industry to do affordable electrification. That in turn led to the bonkers decision to continue ordering new diesel or bi-mode trains - despite a policy of decarbonising transport!
The overhead was originally specified and designed to permit running at 140 mph, which in the end was found to be too ambitious. Unfortunately it was then too late to re-specify it to a lower level. Presumably though, it is something that could be thought about again in the future, particularly if ETCS is installed along the route.
I see it left Bristol TM as a diesel, did it put up pantographs at Bristol Parkway?
I wonder why it’s gone that route via Parkway rather than the more direct route via Bath. I have travelled that route before from Plymouth but that was when they had closed the Newbury to Reading section so it couldn’t go via Westbury.
Have they finished the wiring at BTM yet? Presumably it was a bi-mode train, and most of the catenary is live... :-D
They haven’t even started the wiring at BTM, it’s years away.
Love the. Video 👍👍👍
I find it curious that there is no horn when leaving the station...? Isn't it a standard railway thing to sound the horn when you are about to start a powered vehicle moving?
Nope, there's no requirement to sound the horn when leaving a station
Supposed to be new fsst service but speed restrictions most of the way also sounded like switched back to diesal power after Reading?
What's the alarm as the train pulls in the last few meters into Paddington? Is it ATP?
Im assuming by tone and sound this is an 802..would be good if posted loco so others will know..
Does GWR switch to electric on the move
An interesting video but - as others have said - it could have been better. I don't mind the absence of a commentary, as so many of them are largely waffle, but it would be helpful to have an indication of where on the journey we are, especially for those among us who don't know the route.
Indeed. I was about to comment on the lack of any information of any kind when I saw your comment. I second your comment without hesitation.
Is it me or does some of the new overhead catenary equipment look like some of the stuff you see on European mainlines?
I did mancheter piccadlly to penzance once overnight ! it was a long ass journey and got to penzance at like 11 am ..from a start of early aftenoon in manchester! had a 2 hr wait at bristol parkway to catch the overnight sleeper from paddington to penzance lol .... to say i was not fresh as a daisy after a night sleeping under a table as we did't book a bunk / sleeper ws an understatement! was in the 90s though to go to a family wedding! ......i didn't think you get jet lag on a train lol ...although things have prob improved now ! ;) luckily i now live in Bristol 20 odd yrs later so not as far to travel to penzance or even london paddington thank god!..Also did bristol temple meads to edinburgh and that didn't take half as long ...set off early morning about 8 am and changed at birmingham was in Edinburgh by tea time! ..also did it straight through with cross country ..i gotta admit both were 1 st class and x country needs to up thier game as we noticed a marked diffence between them and virgin 1 st class on the change at birmingham ....x country after what we paid was pretty poor service and not good compaired to what we got on virgin at the time ....and charged the same for a ticket be it straight through or change ...and the journey back was awful as it was a sunday straight through with x contry so very little 1 st class service ect and didnt even get a decent meal ect after what we paid for a return ...i would never get x country again if i could avoid it! but there again we are stuck with the the train companies that provide the long distance journey and where they they can operate sadly ..mind you back in the day of BR i would of got a curled up sandwich in 1st class ....oh hang on i did with x country! lol ;)
Can someone explain the various beeps?
I've worked out
very high beep: driver alert check, requires button press
high beep: green signal
low beep: amber, double amber or red signal
Any ID on the other beep sounds?
It’s AWS or Automatic Warning System. When the train approaches a Green signal (Proceed), a ping sounds. When the approaching signal is Double Yellow, Yellow (Caution) or Red (Stop) then a warning tone sounds. The driver MUST acknowledge this tone by pressing a button otherwise the train will apply the brakes automatically.
If you hear rapid beeps that’s the Driver Vigilance Device. The driver has their foot down on a pedal. When the beeps sound the driver releases the pedal to reset the device then reapplies pressure. Again, if the driver doesn’t reset it the brakes will apply automatically.
some of the other sounds you hear for speed changes and cautionary signals is ATP
lovely views
Rip to that pheasant at 25:10
Is this train diesel or electric because when it started there were no overhead cables.
Ditto the other comments about station and place names. Have a look at the videod published by doncoffie to see how it should be done.
I disagree, I enjoy coffey's videos but all the information is distracting and I have to ignore it.
@@FabianEason It is possible to have info captions switchable but would involve a lot more work for no reward.