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Across the Pennines with TransPennine! - Huddersfield to Manchester Victoria
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2023
- Any journey starting from Huddersfield's amazing station is worth doing, whatever the weather. Which is a good job because the weather in Yorkshire today is pretty awful.
We get to ride a TPE Nova 1 through the heart of the Pennines on the short hop from Huddersfield to Manchester Victoria. Riding an Intercity route at regional train speeds on regional train seats. But at least it's just for about 30 minutes. The Colne valley still looks wonderful as we travel through the rain and the Standedge tunnel through the Pennines is a wonderful 19th century piece of engineering.
Departure: Huddersfield, England, UK
Destination: Manchester Victoria, England, UK
Distance: 41 km / 26 miles
Duration: 34 mins
Average speed: 72 km/h 46mph
Cost: Standard class advance single, with 1/3 railcard discount: £7.55 / €8,70
Date of Travel: September 2023
Operator: Transpennine Express
Motive power: Class 802/2 Nova 1 bi-mode multiple unit. Built: Hitachi (2017-2019)
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That`s a seriously imposing structure - and two pubs! The orange dog was a bit puzzling though...
We enjoyed that slightly damp journey, thank you, and pleased to see the subs count steadily advancing :) You do deserve lots more.
Thanks. Nice to have the dog question answered in another comment.
Dunno about how many subs I deserve, I suppose you just keep plugging away and see what happens as always 🤷♂️
But it's lovely that nice people watch and say nice things 👍
Great video
Thanks, nice of you to say! And thank you for watching 👍
@@JohnnyHooverTravels Slathwait, not slowit.
It will be interesting when Huddersfield upgrades are completed, regular visitor after a trip along the Penistone Line, which is well worth journey
thakns - I will definitely keep the Penistone line on my list of things to do! And thanks so much for watching this one 👍
The dog was a part of a charity event last year where the local hospice had all these dogs put around the kirklees. They were all painted by local schools and clubs. This dog was positioned outside the train station. The hospice at the end of the event auctioned the dogs off, and I assume the train station got the dog and gave him a home in the station.
Ah, thanks. I thought it was rather jolly.
Thanks for the clarification. What a lovely story, and for a great cause too 👍
Lovely video. I like TPE and What a fantastic station building at Huddersfield. One journey i made this summer was Liverpool Lime Street to London Liverpool St. Then walked to Lime Sreet in The City. I did benefit from were heavily discounted travel as i worked on the railway, I’ve now retired. Till the next one.
Lime Street to Lime Street! Just the sort of daft thing this channel fully supports! Nice one👍
And thank you so much for watching 👍
Excellent vlog. You missed the famous cat in Huddersfield, Felix and Bolt.
Next time should you join a narrowboat and travel the cannal under the train tunnel. What master pieces those tunnels are - how they managed to built them
Those tunnels really are something and yes, no cats! Sorry about that! 🐈⬛
A fantastic video, There are some very interesting towns to explore in West Yorkshire. Thank you for uploading this video 😊
Yes, I've been up there for a few days recently (as you'll tell from the video output) and I heartily agree.
Thanks for watching and commenting 👍
@@JohnnyHooverTravels your welcome
Nice video as always. I enjoy these little rural hops, always something interesting to see like that river that was diverted over the tunnel entrance. Your ranger ticket gives us a promise of more rural hops to come perhaps...?!
Indeed it does. Also mostly involving a lot of rain too!
Best wishes to you and thank you for watching another 👍
Victoria Station was a very nice station even before it was modernised. But by comparison with Piccadilly most stations will come off well.
But I can't believe that I have been to station that you have not yet visited and such a gem as Liverpool Lime Street.
Thanks! I'm at Lime Street right now with my cameras! 👍
@@JohnnyHooverTravels Well that didn't last long ... ;^)
@@garrytuohy9267 haha! Well... I was in the North...
Weirdly even though I lived in Huddersfield
and I visited my parents regularly
I have never been to Manchester Victoria.
I was so pleased when they took down the plastic BR sign
on the front of Huddersfield station.
BTW in what would now be my "gap year"
I worked at Standard Fireworks
at Crossland Moor
and took the bus from opposite the train station.
Back in those days, i suspect Victoria would have been a lot more grimey.
I like what they have now done to the place.
Likewise Huddersfield is rightly one of the gems of the network.
Best wishes to you 👍
@@JohnnyHooverTravels
Before they cleaned it up
Huddersfield Station was black
just look for pictures of it in the 1960s
The funniest thing is that the Lion Chambers
opposite the railway station
when they were cleaning it up
They found the lion statue was too fragile
so it was replaced by a plastic lion
and after fifty years the plastic lion hasn't discoloured
in the same way as the rest of the building
so it is very noticeable.
Very wet day but still a very good video. Isn’t Huddersfield the home of famous station cats? Loved the way the water was redirected over the tracks. So much better than an ugly old bit of pipe.
Yes, it was a bit lucky that I was recording as we passed that water chute - with all the rain, some of the images out of the window weren't as good, but we did get the benefit of seeing the torrent of the river flowing over the railway.
Thanks for watching another 👍
...and yes. I missed out on the station cats at Huddersfield. It was not the weather for cats mind you. I know mine would have been asleep under someone's desk in the weather. 🤣
Tremendous stuff. I always enjoy watching your videos because I always learn something. Specifically in this one, the correct pronunciation of Slaithwaite. For that I shall always be in your debt!
Thanks! You're welcome. Another commenter pointed out I got a couple of others wrong so hey, I'm not perfect!
I travelled on the Trans Pennine Express a few times in the late 90s and in 2004 from Manchester Airport to York and return. It's a lovely journey. However this looks like a much nicer train than those I travelled on! They had carriages where half the seats faced towards the front of the train and the other half faced towards the end. This led to much confusion at Manchester Piccadilly when people who had boarded at the Airport and had chosen to face forward suddenly found themselves looking at where they had been rather than where they were going when the train departed Manchester PIccadilly. It's a journey I'd love to do again - I really like York - but travelling by train is now very expensive in the UK.
Ah yes. A reversing train causes much confusion and consternation!
My daughter lives at York, so I have had the pleasure of visiting there many times.
Wrt the cost of train travel. There are still deals to be had, but I appreciate the world is not full of people like me who have the time to find them and the flexibility to make use of them!
Thanks for watching 👍
I was at Huddersfield Polytechnic on the early 1980s and have a soft spot for the area. The pubs you mentioned are meant to be pretty good and you might want to consider a visit to the famous Staybridge bar on the platform. How about a trip to Hebden Bridge ?
I have done railway pub crawls with mates from Leeds, which included those! There's lots of great watering holes at stations in the area, I was most impressed. Hmm... it is an idea, although I'm not sure that my monetisation status would be ok if I have a video where I deliberately get drunk on a railway pub crawl 🍺 Advertisers do like "wholesome" fare 😁
Thanks for watching 👍
Great video Johnny, I agree with your comments about Huddersfield Station, Its frontage is more like a City Hall than a Station. Pity about the weather...😒
Thank you! I always find the different station designs fun to discover and Huddersfield really is straight out of the "banks and town halls" book of architecture.
Do like Manchester Victoria station. Very grand as you say however the only downside is that the actual platforms as quite enclosed and with mainly diesel trains, can get very loud!
Ah yes. I can agree with you there.
Thanks for watching 👍
Super pronunciation of Slaithwaite. Otherwise it’s Stan-edge and Mozzley.
I think journey and destination both superb. Need to have the trip at 46mph so you can enjoy it
Thanks for upload
Damn! Only managed one out of three! 😉
Pity about the weather. I was at Huddersfield recently. Marvellous buildings, but the train shed did leave something to be desired!
Yes. I must agree. But it it did keep the rain off (mostly). Did you have time for a pint?
@@JohnnyHooverTravels Yes; but in Wetherspoons.
How about some rail journeys where you end up at a fabulous monument? For example I enjoyed that trip that ended up with a walk to Calstock viaduct. Suggestions could be Blackpool Tower, Angel of the North, Ribblehead viaduct, Grimsby Dock Tower, etc.
Love that! Between you and me, when I do a Settle and Carlisle video it would be rude not to break the journey at Ribblehead and have a look at the viaduct from down below. Also I was thinking about Blackpool, with its two stations and the tower. I know nothing of Grimsby dock tower so will look that one up too.
Thanks for watching and for the ideas 👍
@@JohnnyHooverTravels The Dock Tower is another fabulous structure the Victorians left us, standing tall and proud at the mouth of the Humber. In any other part of the country it would be the jewel in the crown of a fabulous Harbourside development. Unfortunately, with it being Grimsby, we are still waiting for the levelling up money..!! 🤔
@@VVellieMan i have just had a merry time reading about it on Wikipedia. It is now "on the(albeit quite long) list 👍
Still better than driving IF the trains are on time, not cancelled, or subjected to strikes.
Well yes, I certainly agree with that! Maybe things will get better when we change the country's management 😉
Thanks for watching!
I like this route it’s ok but u need to try Bradford interchange to blackpool north it’s a great route for countryside when you get near burnley Manchester rd and Preston and not so much on Bradford interchange to halifax
That's good advice. I may well do that route in 2024. Thanks!
and thanks too for watching 👍
You missed Greenfield 🙂
Ah. My apologies to the good people of Greenfield.
Thanks for watching 👍
I don’t understand why that Transpennine Express are not going to use the Nova 3 Class 68 Mk5A anymore and are to be moved for storage. Or to be cascaded to Chiltern Railways as they want extra rolling stocks. I haven’t been to Huddersfield but I have been to Leeds and Scarborough on Transpennine Express.
I don't know either. but I suspect it will be something to do with either reliability, leasing costs or running costs. I'm sure they won't have factored in things like comfort though!
Thanks for watching 👍
Totally agree 😊
How about Lime Street to Ellesmere Port?
I went Lime St to Chester. That will be out soon. Is there something special to see at Ellesmere Port I should put on my list?
@@JohnnyHooverTravels Ellesmere Port boat museum is a 15 min walk away.