@@ostlandr From India Is this train don't run under wire? Yes after reading your comment I noticed true no electric poles either side of tracks Amazing Thanks God Bless
The line that passes over this one near Westbury is the Bristol to Salisbury line, which continues to Southampton and Portsmouth. I'll be travelling over this in a few months all being well.
It must be about 40 years now since I spent a lot of time travelling in the HST125 power cars. It was the time when British rail had Mirlees Blackstone engines fitted into four of them as replacements for the Paxman engine. I designed the speed governor control system for the new engines. I traveled about with them monitoring the performance of the system. Much of the time was spent sat with the driver or in the trailing power car. All the engine fumes seemed to get sucked into the trailing power car so it was much better being at the front. I wish I had thought to do some video of it all. I did do lots of photos but unfortunately I can't find them now. Happy days!
Please keep searching those photos. When you find them, please scan and publish them. You have seen us making photos at every station. Each and every one of us will buy you a beer as a token of thanks.
@@JuanManuelGrijalvo Hi. I really would love to find all my photos but I am now thinking that they may have been at my workplace. Unfortunately four years ago aged seventy they decided I had to retire and locked me out.
@@billhall1983 I will buy you as many beers as you wish all the same--if and when I get to visit Britain: the wind is changing... My trips used to start at Oxford. Have travelled with HST more than once. Like it no end.
This is a REAL treat, thank you @Great Western Railway ! I was on board this HST set later that day as it left Paddington for the last time in public service. What a special occasion it was.
Well what a a lovely surprise on a Wednesday morning, what I was going to do went out the window and I have spent just over 3 hours in another world.Thank you for putting on the stations and thank you drivers. I loved it!
I raced one of these on my Honda 550F2 near Bristol in the late 1970s. It slowly got away from me! On my trips to Dorset until recently I saw the loco's just outside Swindon almost every time I passed. 40 years plus.
Excellent video. I spend a lot of time travelling from London to Plymouth and to have the same view as the driver as been a real pleasure for me. Thank you.
Very good and interesting video! English nature is beautiful and English railway system is one of the best in the world (IMHO). Thank you very much !!!
Just subscribed. I've seen other cab views and the UK rail system is extremely fascinating. Double track mains, double track mains diverging and converging at places like Newton Abbott as an example. The country side is just lush green! Thanks for the ride.
Have to say thank-you GWR for putting this video up for us on You Tube. We armchair travellers are most grateful to be able to travel again on GWR metals.
It is great being able to watch these videos. I love going through the Devon countryside on the train, great scenery. I especially love going through Teignmouth, Dawlish, Dawlish Warren and Starcross. Worth it just for the coastal views...absolutely stunning. Hopefully when lockdown restrictions are fully lifted, I'll be able to take a trip down that way :-)
I I'm Victor Norris a Plymouth man who loves train journeys mind you I don't do as much of it in my my old age I must say but, I have my Tablet so I'm very happy indeed to watch the journeys on it especially the Plymouth to London Paddington, love it!
I'm still getting over the end of the Westerns! Thank heavens for model railways, like it's forever 1973 on mine. Anyway, this video is great - I love the continuous filming, no zoom or fisheye effect, real sound, and there's even a rearward view. Excellent!
Great video! Very scenic route, every part of the video was interesting from the rugged coast around Devon through to the green hills of Somerset and after Reading that thing shifted! People moan about our railways but I think they are up there with the best! A fitting tribute to a legend that's missed!
I wasnt even born and i was already going on these trains, my mum used to take these trains along the Great western Mainline to where she worked. I have always loved these trains and still do! I am now 14 and have visited multiple stations along your line. My greatest dream and ambition is to be a train driver for you. GWR has always been close to my heart, from the time of my first train journey to the time I got stuck In the toliet on the way to London. I really enjoy videos like these, thanks for sharing :-)
I used to make this journey every week Monday - London, Friday - Plymouth before covid. These trains were more comfortable than the replacements that were introduced. Quieter too. Door to door 4 hrs 30mins. Great to have the drivers view, Thank you.
To think what it must have been like in the. Days of steam for the driver and fireman their day didn't finish when they Reached their destination they had the the engine to attend to ,loved the film !! Look foreward to more
Really enjoyed this video. My favorite train ride in England (US here) was from Plymouth to Penzance with going over the Royal Albert Bridge was quite memorable.
It is one of the highlights of this 305 mile journey. Paddington Station, a complete contrast to the Great Eastern's Liverpool Street, the latter being metropolis, right in the heart, centrally located where as Paddington, more suburban like, very close to a motorway, a river, etc but the station's roof, the highlight.
Sad they retired. Been inside only once but it was a great journey. They bring back childhood nostalgia to me since I live quite close to the GWR mainline and I enjoyed looking at those trains.
Thanks GWR. Great to see you sharing these Cab Rides from your vaults. Particularly like this as I have fond memories of that day and participating in the atmosphere on this special day for all that were there👍
Wonderful video, great seeing the areas where It used To work and seeing some Jobs like the estuary railing between Starcross station and the yacht club. Also on the CCL past Athelney level crossing . I live About a mile away from them crossing and use it often 😀👍. Will miss these wonderful trains on the network but at least I can still run them on my 00 scale layout. Thanks for sharing
Mezmorising. I could watch it again and again. Thank you FGW. Just wish, oh WISH, they had have included a permanent small segment in the frame shot showing the speedo!
I can understand why they didn't. It would have made the video massively more complex to edit. It's pretty easy to marry up the front and rear video but pointing a camera at the speedo and then marrying it up in post would have required a time code generator or constant frame referencing which would have been a nightmare. Im also pretty sure he wouldn't have been allowed. It's one thing to have the camera sitting in the window cupola out of the way, I suspect having a camera in front of his controls to capture the speedo would run afoul of a rule or two regarding obstructing operations and clean cab rules that are likely to be in place.
@@keffa1982 Only mentioned it because it's what makes the other cab-view videos of HSTs so interesting. They've done it from PAD to PNZ so just was hoping it would be on this one too.
Absolutely amazing video, can see myself filming it at Newton Abbot! Managed to get onboard the final service too, all the way to Exeter. It was a sad day, but a brilliant experience and one that I will never forget
Fantastic. I find these videos, along with the gems from Don Coffey, a tremendous source of relaxation and a wonderful way to sooth anxiety. I love seeing the stations and trying to guess which towns and cities the train is approaching, without looking at the blurb above.
Fantastico, maravilloso video. Mil graciaaaaasssss por compartir. Estos magnificos trenes han hecho sonar a tantos de nosotros que amamos El ferrocarril. Mil Gracias desde Argentina...
I for one will miss the iconic IC125, every journey I have made on them since my first in 1980 has been an absolute pleasure. They transformed BR when first released and their longevity is testament to the fantastic design. The earliest sets included two catering coaches, first class dining in total comfort at 125 mph what restaurant matches that? If short on time, even the buffet served up the most delicious burgers! Sadly not everything in life gets better.
01:32:45 Approx where the Penzance sleeper train caught fire in July 1978. 02:40:43 The site of the Ufton Nervert crash in November 2004. 03:11:35 Southall crash site in September 1997. 03:15:52 Ladbroke Grove crash area, October 1999. Four of the most horrific rail tragedies and accidents to occur in the current GWR region - may there never be any more like these. Indeed, the rear locomotive powering this HST in this video bears the name of the drivers lost in two of these accidents. What a great video though...where was RUclips when I was a kid? I remember taking my first HST (then British Rail, of course) from Reading to Paddington in 1980. The 125 arrived from parts unknown, from distant regions of the country, much like this one did on its Saturday morning arrival into RDG. Fast, sleek, comfortable and quiet (inside, anyway), this was certainly the age of the train and I definitely bought into that advertising campaign as a seven year old! A whole generation who likely grew up knowing the HST was their favorite train...we'll be waxing nostalgic about this train when it is truly gone much the same way our parents or grandparents did about epic steam locomotives from their day. For what it is worth, I always thought GWR - and its predecessors - always had the classiest liveries on their HSTs, and certainly some of Britain's best rail scenery! Watching this - I do realize it was filmed a year ago - makes me a little sad. Seeing the electrification along the main line and down to Newbury somehow doesn't seem right. Yes, it is progress and I know deep in my heart it was probably the right way forward. But Paddington without rows of HSTs and the periodic conductor whistle of a journey about the begin? How can that be? The new Hitachi trains look nice and fast, but will people have the same affection for those trains in 30-40 years time when they are retired? Doesn't seem possible...then again, I'm quite sure older generations thought that about the diesel replacements for their favorite steam locos, and here were are watching the Paddington farewell to perhaps the greatest of all the diesels. Long live the Class 43s/HSTs/125s! Most of all, thank you for uploading. It was a pleasure to watch.
Skilful driving: we were three minutes early at Theale and beginning to run into double yellows from thee stopper in front, so by easing off on the speed we avoided catching up with him and overtook it outside Reading (you can see it on the curve on the right just past Reading West) and were bang on time into Reading. As we'd have been into Paddington if some tardy outbound train hadn't made us wait.
Ah, thanks for the explanation. I was wondering he slowed down earlier on the approach to Reading. Also checked the remaining time after arriving at Reading, knew we're held up behind another, shouldn't take that long from Reading to Paddington anyway.
Complete run from Plymouth to Paddington? Fantastic! You can see the gradient on Hemerdon can't you, and how twisty the line is west of Newton Abbot is very clear from the cab.
looks twistier than it actually is because the front cab camera is zoomed in, thus everything is foreshortened. You also lose the sense of speed. Just compare to the rear camera which looks much better.
Very nice models.i used too build models my self but not from scratch these are very skillfully made very well done. I would love too put one on my sideboard. Well done very skillfully hands.
Good stuff. I will watch this in one sitting at some point. A great shame that due to the current situation, we're still not allowed to enjoy train journeys for real at the moment. Train journeys(providing they're not on overcrowded services!) are good for mental health.
What a fantastic rail journey. Pedal to the metal in many scenes but especially from Reading towards London - that was very quick and enjoyable if you like speed.
Outstanding video of the last great iconic Brit built train smooth riding,quite and comfortable and what is there in its place? plastic IETs noisy,seats like concrete interior fittings that come apart funny word 'progress' eh
Wow! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Minimal editing just makes it perfect! Love the rear view camera shot too! Can we please have more? Like all routes?
You guys got it good over there! Your terminals are real palaces! The closest thing we've got in New York City (as far as the NYCTA goes) is Stillwell Avenue at Coney Island, Brooklyn!
How about do a Penzance - Plymouth or South Wales to Paddington as your next video. There is Don Coffey with he's in cab videos that's mainly up north with Northern Rail and Transpennine express (TPE) so come on GWR, more videos please.
I was on the maiden voyage of the first ever prototype HST. I was at Bristol Temple Meads waiting for the 4pm back to Reading. I was expecting a 50 to show up. Bit of a shock when this white looking space age thing showed up. News crews, stewards all dressed to the nines carrying trays of champagne, etc. Had to double check to see if this was my train. I think the only part that is left of the original is at York museum, or it was when I visited the UK about 10yrs ago.
I only wish they could have screamed out in style with the Valentas roaring behind them. Those new engines were so quiet they didnt do the old ladies true justice. I travelled many miles behind the Valentas and i think a few behind the Mirlees. At Padders though when they pulled out nothing could equal the original Paxman engines. I hated these at the start as they forced out my beloved ‘Westerns’ and Hoovers but came to love them. Farewell to a train designed to last only 20 odd years....... i will dream of you rushing along this route forever now as ‘Ghost Trains’ THANK YOU HST. 😢🇬🇧👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I worked on a track gang (out of Taunton) for several months back in 1990. First Aid training and orientation at Exeter St David's. Last job (committed night shift) was a relaying track at Dawlish Warren. Saw some wonderful countryside and kept supper fit with all the digging.....happy days!
These trains are called the XPT on New South Wales Trainlink, Australia but are geared lower for the steep hills and mountains which they must travel out of Sydney north, west and south. Their top speed is also limited by our lower rail standard (low population, huge distances). They will be replaced soon but still run all major express routes, including Sydney-Melbourne (800 kilometres).
Yes design speed of XPT is 160 km/h. Carriages based on a Budd design and manufactured in Australia as were the extensively modified power cars in cooperation with BR. Original engines Paxman Valenta, changed to Paxman VP185 around 2000. N.B. The VP185 is more vocal in the XPT installation due to a different exhaust system.
@@Martindyna they rarely travel at 160 kph. as all routes out of Sydney are steep and twisting. Further out track needs constant attention from warping in heat and cold, bushfire. They can have a louder (more efficient?) exhaust as they don't travel through heavily built-up cities as they do in the UK.
@@robertmwoodley1502 Thanks. It's a shame they don't improve the tracks so that the XPT can run for longer stretches at 160 as I understand it used to years ago; I understand that there are mudholes under the Sleepers for example that cause speed restrictions. As a fan of the XPT (and the more vocal engines) I'm glad that the new CAF DEMUs are delayed until 2025 or later.
Well that's my evening sorted As a regular long distance commuter on this route (Truro-Paddington) I much preferred the HST's to the godless Hitachi 800's, The 1st class was 100x better and there was a buffet which gave one an excuse to stretch ones legs and not have to negotiate around a trolley blocking the aisle, and the toilets all had proper locks and you could stand by an open window in the vestibule for some fresh air.
..... and if you are travelling to or from Cornwall, to dine in the Pullman you have to switch to the other half of the train at Plymouth. The Hitachi's are an abomination. 2x5 - huh! give me the 1x8 HST any day of the year.
@@paul197290 Yes. This way filmed on the 19/05/2019. After the flying banana railtour, 43002 Sir Kenneth Grange was moved to the National Railway Museum in York.
High pitched beep - dead man check Medium beep - green signal Low beep - non green signal What's the low beep at around 9:23? Also notice the thud from a bird near Frome.
What a sterile railway we have created. All that infrastructure and being totally under utilised. Where are the freight trains, a perfect line to get the lorries off the road. All very sad. On a more pertinent note, my uncle passed away a few weeks after this last HST journey. He was 97 and worked at Paxmans, Colchester, as the senior fitter who ground the cylinder heads of the original Valenta engines, something which he was justly proud because of their reliability. The whole Paxman work team were given a celebratory trip from London to Reading when the train was released into service.
Keith Browning......You really are a thick pillock. Take the trucks off the roads? So please tell me, just how do you get the freight from the manufacturer to the railhead? How do you get the raw materials to the manufacturer ? How do you get the products from the railhead to the wholesaler/ retailer ? People like you come up with these wild schemes without thinking them through. When was the last time you saw a railway line running down the high street ?
@@fredgrove4220 ok I agree with your comment but it does sound very harsh even when Keith's family have history with the hsts you wouldn't say that to anyone you know would you? Sorry if my comment sounds harsh 😊
The problem with freight trains on a passenger line especially one with higher speed trains is the speed differential. You're going to end up slowing down pax services behind the freights. You could get around this by only running freight off-peak or at night which I suspect they already do.
@@jaymainline8841 I'd say oit anyone who comes out with such inane stupid comments, I spent all my working life in logistics, and have seen the result of stupid schemes that were not thought through.
Used to watch these at Didcot where my grandparents lived. There was an old bridge with a walkway next to it, an old sweet shop and the huge provender store behind (people say that was demolished a few years before I still remember seeing it - a great stupidity to reduce it to rubble as it was a wonderful building).
If you like this there are many videos cab rides from all over the country like Scarborough to Manchester and York to Newcastle, look up these two names Don Coffey and Ben Elias they have many on all enjoyable
Departure times
08:40 Plymouth [PLY]
45:55 Newton Abbot [NTA]
1:07:35 Exeter St Davids [EXD]
1:22:30 Tiverton Parkway [TVP]
1:36:20 Taunton [TAU]
2:55:40 Reading [RDG]
Enjoy!
Matthew Lai Tysm
THX
Thanks mate, just what we all needed 👍
2:34:32 Start of OHLE
No bristol ?
It’s a real shame these greats retired, but, everything must come to an end, but its legacy lives on. Here’s to the Intercity 125!
trains don't retire, they will be scrap.
@@blista2 We should import them to the US. They're more advanced than anything we have that's not running under wires.
@@ostlandr From India
Is this train don't run under wire?
Yes after reading your comment I noticed true no electric poles either side of tracks
Amazing
Thanks God Bless
@@philipjoseph1509 yeah it will be awesome if we Indians get this HST 125. It's way better than Train 18
The problem I have is not "old trains being retired", but "new ones not being better", at least when they're not running under the wires.
Some of the Main Stations and stops:
8:44 - Departs Plymouth (PLY)
21:10 - Ivybridge (IVY)
33:12 - Totnes (TOT)
43:24 - Newton Abbot (NTA)
53:47 - Dawlish(DWL)
55:16 - Dawlish Warren (DWW)
1:03:21 - Exeter St Davids (EXD)
1:19:52 - Tiverton Parkway (TVP)
1:33:30 - Taunton (TAU)
1:54:26 - Castle Cary (CLC)
2:18:53 - Pewsey (PEW)
2:24:52 - Bedwyn (BDW)
2:28:10 - Hungerford (HGD)
2:30:25 - Kintbury (KIT)
2:34:47 - Newbury (NBY)
2:37:00 - Thatcham (THA)
2:42:20 - Theale (THE)
2:50:37 - Reading (RDG)
3:00:24 - Twyford (TWY)
3:04:01 - Maidenhead (MAI)
3:04:52 - Taplow (TAP)
3:05:39 - Burnham (BNM
3:06:52 - Slough (SLO)
3:07:58 - Langley (LNY)
3:08:41 - Iver (IVR)
3:09:25 - West Drayton (WDT)
3:10:32 - Hayes and Harlington (HAY)
3:12:15 - Hanwell (HAN)
3:12:38 - West Ealing (WEA)
3:13:05 - Ealing Broadway (EAL)
3:22:30 - London Paddington (PAD)
Hero
Much appreciated.
In the middle of a Sydney COVID lockdown 😷 watching this was a great way to sit back and relax. Thanks for your stress relief. 🐨🇦🇺
Arrival & departure times
0:31 - Plymouth (PLY) | depart 8:40
21:07 - Ivybridge (IVY)
33:02 - Totnes (TOT)
42:04 - Paignton junction
42:42 - Castle Set
43:18 - Newton abbot (NTA) | depart 45:55
50:56 - Teignmouth (TGM)
53:43 - Dawlish (DWL)
55:03 - Bridge
55:14 - Dawlish warren (DWW)
56:46 - Starcross (SCS)
58:13 - Bridge!
59:08 - Voyager
59:34 - Another bridge!
59:54 - Another bridge again!
1:00:03 - M5 bridge
1:00:22 - Bridge again
1:00:31 - Bridge
1:01:12 - Factory
1:02:13 - Exeter st thomas (EXT)
1:03:03 - Exeter St davids (EXD) | depart 1:07:35
1:11:09 - White bridge!
1:11:30 - Train!
1:11:34 - Stoke cannon level crossing
1:12:13 - Bridge
1:12:31 - Bridge
1:15:30 - Bridge
1:19:44 - Tiverton parkway (TVP) | depart 1:22:30
1:32:45 - Approx where the Penzance sleeper train caught fire in July 1978.
1:33:28 - Taunton (TAU) | depart 1:36:20
1:40:33 - Cogload junction
1:54:26 - Castle cary (CLC)
1:54:20 - Junction from yeovil pen mill
1:56:34 - Bruton (BRU)
2:02:55 - Blatchbridge junction
2:04:05 - Clink road junction
2:06:07 - Fairwood junction
2:06:39 - A bridge with another train line above on
2:07:33 - Heywood junction
2:18:53 - Pewsey (PEW)
2:24:50 - Bedwyn (BDW)
2:28:10 - Hungerford (HGD)
2:30:25 - Kintbury (KIT)
2:34:30 - OHLE Starting point
2:34:47 - Newbury (NBY)
2:37:00 - Thatcham (THA)
2:39:55 - Aldermaston (AMT)
2:40:40 - The site of the Ufton Nervert crash in November 2004.
2:42:20 - Theale (THE)
2:46:14 - Southcote junction
2:48:23 - Reading west (RDW)
2:48:42 - Oxford road junction
2:50:12 - Reading (RDG) | depart 2:55:20
3:00:24 - Twyford (TWY)
3:04:01 - Maidenhead (MAI)
3:00:24 - Taplow (TAP)
3:05:39 - Burnham (BNM)
3:06:52 - Slough (SLO)
3:07:58 - Langley (LNY)
3:08:41 - Iver (IVR)
3:09:25 - West drayton (WDT)
3:10:32 - Hayes and harlington (HAY)
3:11:35 - Southall crash site in September 1997.
3:12:15 - Hanwell (HAN)
3:12:38 - West ealing (WEA)
3:13:05 - Ealing broadway (EAL)
3:13:49 - Electrostar
3:13:54 - Acton mainline (AML)
3:15:52 - Ladbroke Grove crash area, October 1999.
3:18:35 - Royal oak (london underground station)
3:22:12 - London paddington (PAD)
Enjoy!
Edit: this was quite hard to make
Thanks 😀
The Station you didn't know was acton mainline 😊👍
The line that passes over this one near Westbury is the Bristol to Salisbury line, which continues to Southampton and Portsmouth. I'll be travelling over this in a few months all being well.
Hhn Bilbo us JC MN MB
Respect
It must be about 40 years now since I spent a lot of time travelling in the HST125 power cars. It was the time when British rail had Mirlees Blackstone engines fitted into four of them as replacements for the Paxman engine. I designed the speed governor control system for the new engines. I traveled about with them monitoring the performance of the system. Much of the time was spent sat with the driver or in the trailing power car. All the engine fumes seemed to get sucked into the trailing power car so it was much better being at the front. I wish I had thought to do some video of it all. I did do lots of photos but unfortunately I can't find them now. Happy days!
Please keep searching those photos. When you find them, please scan and publish them. You have seen us making photos at every station. Each and every one of us will buy you a beer as a token of thanks.
@@JuanManuelGrijalvo Hi. I really would love to find all my photos but I am now thinking that they may have been at my workplace. Unfortunately four years ago aged seventy they decided I had to retire and locked me out.
@@billhall1983 I will buy you as many beers as you wish all the same--if and when I get to visit Britain: the wind is changing... My trips used to start at Oxford. Have travelled with HST more than once. Like it no end.
This is a REAL treat, thank you @Great Western Railway ! I was on board this HST set later that day as it left Paddington for the last time in public service. What a special occasion it was.
As a kid I remember seeing these at Paddington for the first time and being amazed
And the sound they made was deafening!
same!!
@@nafs53 the 180 is worse
Well what a a lovely surprise on a Wednesday morning, what I was going to do went out the window and I have spent just over 3 hours in another world.Thank you for putting on the stations and thank you drivers. I loved it!
I raced one of these on my Honda 550F2 near Bristol in the late 1970s. It slowly got away from me! On my trips to Dorset until recently I saw the loco's just outside Swindon almost every time I passed. 40 years plus.
Excellent video. I spend a lot of time travelling from London to Plymouth and to have the same view as the driver as been a real pleasure for me. Thank you.
Lovely video, such clear images to enjoy forever, thank you.
Very good and interesting video! English nature is beautiful and English railway system is one of the best in the world (IMHO). Thank you very much !!!
The beauty of the countryside is absolutely breathtaking.
Just subscribed. I've seen other cab views and the UK rail system is extremely fascinating. Double track mains, double track mains diverging and converging at places like Newton Abbott as an example. The country side is just lush green! Thanks for the ride.
Thanks for posting this. The resin for the nose cones was developed by my dad at Bakelite in Tyseley.
2:03:47 This pigeon can speak for the quality.
@@arch9enius "🎺euh-huh"...
*T H U N K!!!*
Have to say thank-you GWR for putting this video up for us on You Tube. We armchair travellers are most grateful to be able to travel again on GWR metals.
It is great being able to watch these videos. I love going through the Devon countryside on the train, great scenery. I especially love going through Teignmouth, Dawlish, Dawlish Warren and Starcross. Worth it just for the coastal views...absolutely stunning. Hopefully when lockdown restrictions are fully lifted, I'll be able to take a trip down that way :-)
I I'm Victor Norris a Plymouth man who loves train journeys mind you I don't do as much of it in my my old age I must say but, I have my Tablet so I'm very happy indeed to watch the journeys on it especially the Plymouth to London Paddington, love it!
I'm still getting over the end of the Westerns! Thank heavens for model railways, like it's forever 1973 on mine. Anyway, this video is great - I love the continuous filming, no zoom or fisheye effect, real sound, and there's even a rearward view. Excellent!
I'm still getting over the end of the Kings, Castles, Halls, Granges, Counties etc.
@Mark Tyrrell Actually I still use the Mosaic Mapping simulator I created around 1990. Good old Ms-Dos is still used by some of us!
Brilliant video of a route I have travelled on many times . Really enjoyed the captions & history of the route too . Look forward to the next one .
Great video! Very scenic route, every part of the video was interesting from the rugged coast around Devon through to the green hills of Somerset and after Reading that thing shifted! People moan about our railways but I think they are up there with the best! A fitting tribute to a legend that's missed!
I think people moan about the ticket prices the infrastructure itself is pretty good tho!
This journey will live on, the last hst on the gwml, thanks for sharing this quality footage.
at least they still have HSTS on castle sets on cardiff to penzance/ taunton
I wasnt even born and i was already going on these trains, my mum used to take these trains along the Great western Mainline to where she worked. I have always loved these trains and still do! I am now 14 and have visited multiple stations along your line. My greatest dream and ambition is to be a train driver for you. GWR has always been close to my heart, from the time of my first train journey to the time I got stuck In the toliet on the way to London. I really enjoy videos like these, thanks for sharing :-)
Exact same story for me. Good luck
Yep me too
@@BG-vo9lv thanks, u too
@@josephford6015 cool
Thank you. I'm glad someone got to share this final trip in such a great fashion, from the driver's point-of-view.
Brings back memories of childhood train journeys. Thank you!
Sympa cette vidéo. C'est la première fois que je vois un "cabride" avec une caméra à l'arrière. 😉❤
Merci !
I used to make this journey every week Monday - London, Friday - Plymouth before covid. These trains were more comfortable than the replacements that were introduced. Quieter too. Door to door 4 hrs 30mins. Great to have the drivers view, Thank you.
Really, I’ve always believed the Hitachi IETs were more quieter.
@@TheVlogger110 Until the engines turn on
To think what it must have been like in the. Days of steam for the driver and fireman their day didn't finish when they
Reached their destination they had the the engine to attend to ,loved the film !! Look foreward to more
@@TheVlogger110 no the iets have engines underneath every carriage but the quiet coach.
My first 125 trip was Paddington to Plymouth and back in 1982. They remain the best and comfiest. Thanks for posting.
TYVM for an epic journey! ❤ Kind regards from Figueira da Foz, Portugal.
Really enjoyed this video. My favorite train ride in England (US here) was from Plymouth to Penzance with going over the Royal Albert Bridge was quite memorable.
Next time try going over the Royal Albert Bridge, lol
It is one of the highlights of this 305 mile journey. Paddington Station, a complete contrast to the Great Eastern's Liverpool Street, the latter being metropolis, right in the heart, centrally located where as Paddington, more suburban like, very close to a motorway, a river, etc but the station's roof, the highlight.
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Sad they retired. Been inside only once but it was a great journey. They bring back childhood nostalgia to me since I live quite close to the GWR mainline and I enjoyed looking at those trains.
Used to ride them back and forth Paddington to temple meads whenever I was in UK. Do the Brunel Tour.
The IC125s were something the UK got very right.
Thank you so much for filming and sharing this for free.
Have just caught up with this GWR gem! watched from start to finish, enthralled. Thanks to all at GWR forsharing through RUclips
I loved the ride, thanks. A sad day, but nothing lasts for ever, here's to the future of rail travel. Cheers, the horn play was fun😁
Thanks GWR. Great to see you sharing these Cab Rides from your vaults. Particularly like this as I have fond memories of that day and participating in the atmosphere on this special day for all that were there👍
Beautiful trip...and these hills full of lavander...amazing👍
A wonderful video of an historic journey.
I watched this and really enjoyed it the sounds of the train
Made me tingly and relaxed thanks and what a shame our trains where great
Not ridden on an HST since 1982. Still remember the distinct smell from the brakes.
That's a huge part of the HST I'm gunna miss. The sound and the smell of the brakes as you wait to lean out the windows to open the doors upon arrival
Leaning out the window right next to the power car when they had Valentas was awesome, you would get the smell of diesel too
@@wertrocks123 come to the Midland mainline where they still run!
@@Ash-928 Yep! Used to do that for the whole journey as a kid. My dad would even lift me up and stick my head out when I wasn't tall enough!
why have you not been on a train for 35 years????
Absolutely wonderful, designing the squiggly bits around Dawlish was always rather difficult but it paid off in the end!
Wonderful video, great seeing the areas where It used To work and seeing some Jobs like the estuary railing between Starcross station and the yacht club. Also on the CCL past Athelney level crossing . I live About a mile away from them crossing and use it often 😀👍. Will miss these wonderful trains on the network but at least I can still run them on my 00 scale layout. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing, I like the unusual inclusion of the rear cab view.
Mezmorising. I could watch it again and again. Thank you FGW. Just wish, oh WISH, they had have included a permanent small segment in the frame shot showing the speedo!
I can understand why they didn't. It would have made the video massively more complex to edit. It's pretty easy to marry up the front and rear video but pointing a camera at the speedo and then marrying it up in post would have required a time code generator or constant frame referencing which would have been a nightmare.
Im also pretty sure he wouldn't have been allowed. It's one thing to have the camera sitting in the window cupola out of the way, I suspect having a camera in front of his controls to capture the speedo would run afoul of a rule or two regarding obstructing operations and clean cab rules that are likely to be in place.
@@keffa1982 Only mentioned it because it's what makes the other cab-view videos of HSTs so interesting. They've done it from PAD to PNZ so just was hoping it would be on this one too.
Thanks for the video, it was a nice run. I first travelled on them in Aug'76, before the 125mph timetable was introduced.
Excellent "sad day ride" on a wet morning. Loved all the train-spotters jostling for the best camera shot on most stations enroute!
All white men too... I found that very interesting. I guess women and people of color never found trains interesting.
Wonderful video, thanks for sharing it with us.
Thank you GWR for a thoroughly entertaining video. More of the same please. 👍
Beautiful scenery. Riding the train must have seemed like being on a peaceful vacation.
No, not at all, not in the 80s anyway. They were always noisy, too warm and overcrowded.
Awesome. Love to see a cab view of Swindon to Gloucester. That will bring back some childhood memories!
Video 125 has produced a DVD of that route filmed in a Pacer in 2006
www.video125.com/products/golden-valley
@@fgwHST43009 Thanks, I saw that one years ago and whilst very good, hopefully something hd will appear at some point.
Absolutely amazing video, can see myself filming it at Newton Abbot! Managed to get onboard the final service too, all the way to Exeter. It was a sad day, but a brilliant experience and one that I will never forget
Fantastic. I find these videos, along with the gems from Don Coffey, a tremendous source of relaxation and a wonderful way to sooth anxiety. I love seeing the stations and trying to guess which towns and cities the train is approaching, without looking at the blurb above.
I like that too. Sometimes I watch in conjunction with a map, to watch all the details.
Fantastico, maravilloso video. Mil graciaaaaasssss por compartir. Estos magnificos trenes han hecho sonar a tantos de nosotros que amamos El ferrocarril. Mil Gracias desde Argentina...
I for one will miss the iconic IC125, every journey I have made on them since my first in 1980 has been an absolute pleasure. They transformed BR when first released and their longevity is testament to the fantastic design. The earliest sets included two catering coaches, first class dining in total comfort at 125 mph what restaurant matches that? If short on time, even the buffet served up the most delicious burgers! Sadly not everything in life gets better.
01:32:45 Approx where the Penzance sleeper train caught fire in July 1978.
02:40:43 The site of the Ufton Nervert crash in November 2004.
03:11:35 Southall crash site in September 1997.
03:15:52 Ladbroke Grove crash area, October 1999.
Four of the most horrific rail tragedies and accidents to occur in the current GWR region - may there never be any more like these. Indeed, the rear locomotive powering this HST in this video bears the name of the drivers lost in two of these accidents.
What a great video though...where was RUclips when I was a kid? I remember taking my first HST (then British Rail, of course) from Reading to Paddington in 1980. The 125 arrived from parts unknown, from distant regions of the country, much like this one did on its Saturday morning arrival into RDG. Fast, sleek, comfortable and quiet (inside, anyway), this was certainly the age of the train and I definitely bought into that advertising campaign as a seven year old! A whole generation who likely grew up knowing the HST was their favorite train...we'll be waxing nostalgic about this train when it is truly gone much the same way our parents or grandparents did about epic steam locomotives from their day. For what it is worth, I always thought GWR - and its predecessors - always had the classiest liveries on their HSTs, and certainly some of Britain's best rail scenery!
Watching this - I do realize it was filmed a year ago - makes me a little sad. Seeing the electrification along the main line and down to Newbury somehow doesn't seem right. Yes, it is progress and I know deep in my heart it was probably the right way forward. But Paddington without rows of HSTs and the periodic conductor whistle of a journey about the begin? How can that be? The new Hitachi trains look nice and fast, but will people have the same affection for those trains in 30-40 years time when they are retired? Doesn't seem possible...then again, I'm quite sure older generations thought that about the diesel replacements for their favorite steam locos, and here were are watching the Paddington farewell to perhaps the greatest of all the diesels. Long live the Class 43s/HSTs/125s!
Most of all, thank you for uploading. It was a pleasure to watch.
Owen Toller Interesting, I wasn’t very familiar with that one. Just read up about it.
An HST in 1980 would've been a Bristol or Swansea service. There hadn't been enough delivered to convert the Plymouth and Penzance services.......
Skilful driving: we were three minutes early at Theale and beginning to run into double yellows from thee stopper in front, so by easing off on the speed we avoided catching up with him and overtook it outside Reading (you can see it on the curve on the right just past Reading West) and were bang on time into Reading.
As we'd have been into Paddington if some tardy outbound train hadn't made us wait.
Ah, thanks for the explanation. I was wondering he slowed down earlier on the approach to Reading. Also checked the remaining time after arriving at Reading, knew we're held up behind another, shouldn't take that long from Reading to Paddington anyway.
What's that low pitch beep after Newbury Racecourse?
@@EdgyNumber1 I guess it's the ATP safety system, since it seems like it only happens when there is a speed limit change/warning. But I'm not sure
What a fabulous video.......the very best . Thank you so much. Jeffrey.
Complete run from Plymouth to Paddington? Fantastic!
You can see the gradient on Hemerdon can't you, and how twisty the line is west of Newton Abbot is very clear from the cab.
looks twistier than it actually is because the front cab camera is zoomed in, thus everything is foreshortened. You also lose the sense of speed. Just compare to the rear camera which looks much better.
Very nice models.i used too build models my self but not from scratch these are very skillfully made very well done. I would love too put one on my sideboard. Well done very skillfully hands.
Good stuff. I will watch this in one sitting at some point. A great shame that due to the current situation, we're still not allowed to enjoy train journeys for real at the moment. Train journeys(providing they're not on overcrowded services!) are good for mental health.
Make sure you have some sanies and a bottle of pop.
How can one possibly enjoy a train journey? They should be avoided at all times especially in the UK!
Great video with a great Sound from the MTU engine 🇩🇰
Great video, thank you for sharing this historic journey
Thank you very much for the upload the end of an era.
More more more cab ride videos please. Loved it.
I just visited 43002 at NRM today in York. Awesome to see it, especially after watching this video several times. 😊
He visto hoy el vídeo y me ha gustado mucho.Gracias !!!🚂🚂🚂
What a fantastic rail journey. Pedal to the metal in many scenes but especially from Reading towards London - that was very quick and enjoyable if you like speed.
If anyone wants to see the welcome family holiday park, it’s at 55:22
I can't wait !
Outstanding video of the last great iconic Brit built train smooth riding,quite and comfortable and what is there in its place? plastic IETs noisy,seats like concrete interior fittings that come apart funny word 'progress' eh
42:46 - who let the Hornby Starter Pack out on the main?? :-D
Well that is gwr
i like that video in the front and the rear that is a very good idea you get the idea how long the train is it self
Wow! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Minimal editing just makes it perfect! Love the rear view camera shot too!
Can we please have more? Like all routes?
Stevie S. yesssss
M O A R TRAINS!
@@angusgtw What?
I forgot to add a thanks for the rear view playing at the same time. What a great idea.
They always want more!!
Outstanding! Thank you for sharing!
Great! No music - wonderful!
!! yeah!! the petrol machine produses the music!!
Ooh I don't know. We had "On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at" at 55:46 🤣
You are CERTAINLY RIGHT that one of the best aspects is :NO MUSIC! HURRAH!!
It's missing the original Valenta symphony.
Fantastic run from Reading to Paddington.
This is fantastic GWR, thank you!
You guys got it good over there! Your terminals are real palaces! The closest thing we've got in New York City (as far as the NYCTA goes) is Stillwell Avenue at Coney Island, Brooklyn!
The best part of the journey into Paddington for it to never be seen again
Wow that was a trip , thanks for sharing . Wales UK.
How about do a Penzance - Plymouth or South Wales to Paddington as your next video. There is Don Coffey with he's in cab videos that's mainly up north with Northern Rail and Transpennine express (TPE) so come on GWR, more videos please.
I was on the maiden voyage of the first ever prototype HST. I was at Bristol Temple Meads waiting for the 4pm back to Reading. I was expecting a 50 to show up. Bit of a shock when this white looking space age thing showed up. News crews, stewards all dressed to the nines carrying trays of champagne, etc. Had to double check to see if this was my train. I think the only part that is left of the original is at York museum, or it was when I visited the UK about 10yrs ago.
Amazing cab ride , definitely kept me entertained during this lockdown , so please do some more I love them GWR🤗😁😁
Wonderful film great with the camera at the rear of the train great video.
Great trains, travelled tens of thousands of miles on these.
I only wish they could have screamed out in style with the Valentas roaring behind them. Those new engines were so quiet they didnt do the old ladies true justice. I travelled many miles behind the Valentas and i think a few behind the Mirlees. At Padders though when they pulled out nothing could equal the original Paxman engines. I hated these at the start as they forced out my beloved ‘Westerns’ and Hoovers but came to love them. Farewell to a train designed to last only 20 odd years....... i will dream of you rushing along this route forever now as ‘Ghost Trains’ THANK YOU HST. 😢🇬🇧👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Semnalele sînt bune, linia de mare viteză e ok 👌👌👌🚦🚦🚦🛤🛤🛤🚆🚆🚆🚆perfect Anglia 👌👌👌👌
I worked on a track gang (out of Taunton) for several months back in 1990. First Aid training and orientation at Exeter St David's. Last job (committed night shift) was a relaying track at Dawlish Warren. Saw some wonderful countryside and kept supper fit with all the digging.....happy days!
These trains are called the XPT on New South Wales Trainlink, Australia but are geared lower for the steep hills and mountains which they must travel out of Sydney north, west and south. Their top speed is also limited by our lower rail standard (low population, huge distances). They will be replaced soon but still run all major express routes, including Sydney-Melbourne (800 kilometres).
Yes design speed of XPT is 160 km/h. Carriages based on a Budd design and manufactured in Australia as were the extensively modified power cars in cooperation with BR.
Original engines Paxman Valenta, changed to Paxman VP185 around 2000.
N.B. The VP185 is more vocal in the XPT installation due to a different exhaust system.
@@Martindyna they rarely travel at 160 kph. as all routes out of Sydney are steep and twisting. Further out track needs constant attention from warping in heat and cold, bushfire. They can have a louder (more efficient?) exhaust as they don't travel through heavily built-up cities as they do in the UK.
@@robertmwoodley1502 Thanks. It's a shame they don't improve the tracks so that the XPT can run for longer stretches at 160 as I understand it used to years ago; I understand that there are mudholes under the Sleepers for example that cause speed restrictions. As a fan of the XPT (and the more vocal engines) I'm glad that the new CAF DEMUs are delayed until 2025 or later.
Just love these trains!!😎🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Wow! Nice video! I like it so much! :)
Awesome video, must be quite a challenge taking on the south Devon banks inclines in wet weather I would imagine.
Well that's my evening sorted
As a regular long distance commuter on this route (Truro-Paddington) I much preferred the HST's to the godless Hitachi 800's, The 1st class was 100x better and there was a buffet which gave one an excuse to stretch ones legs and not have to negotiate around a trolley blocking the aisle, and the toilets all had proper locks and you could stand by an open window in the vestibule for some fresh air.
Every aspect was superior.
Totally agree. Hitachi are pathetic. Seats uncomfortable compared to HST and toilets always blocked/ out of order too. Miss the buffet.
could stick your head out the window at 70 miles an hour, that was LIVING!
..... and if you are travelling to or from Cornwall, to dine in the Pullman you have to switch to the other half of the train at Plymouth. The Hitachi's are an abomination. 2x5 - huh! give me the 1x8 HST any day of the year.
@ Like Concorde, we went backwards with these trains.
I barely travel on the Great Western now, so it's good to relive the memories of GWR ran good trains in to London
I miss going on these between Paddington and the Cotswolds Line. They were nice trains 👌
That's a fantastic route - I used to do Slough to Worcester going home. The old 43s were brilliant
Superb video loved every minute watching
It's lovely to see the view from the cab of 43002 and 43198
43002 Sir Kenneth Grange? Before she retired to the NRM?
@@paul197290 Yes. This way filmed on the 19/05/2019. After the flying banana railtour, 43002 Sir Kenneth Grange was moved to the National Railway Museum in York.
High pitched beep - dead man check
Medium beep - green signal
Low beep - non green signal
What's the low beep at around 9:23?
Also notice the thud from a bird near Frome.
What a sterile railway we have created. All that infrastructure and being totally under utilised. Where are the freight trains, a perfect line to get the lorries off the road. All very sad. On a more pertinent note, my uncle passed away a few weeks after this last HST journey. He was 97 and worked at Paxmans, Colchester, as the senior fitter who ground the cylinder heads of the original Valenta engines, something which he was justly proud because of their reliability. The whole Paxman work team were given a celebratory trip from London to Reading when the train was released into service.
Keith Browning......You really are a thick pillock. Take the trucks off the roads? So please tell me, just how do you get the freight from the manufacturer to the railhead? How do you get the raw materials to the manufacturer ? How do you get the products from the railhead to the wholesaler/ retailer ? People like you come up with these wild schemes without thinking them through. When was the last time you saw a railway line running down the high street ?
@@fredgrove4220 ok I agree with your comment but it does sound very harsh even when Keith's family have history with the hsts you wouldn't say that to anyone you know would you? Sorry if my comment sounds harsh 😊
Why was it the last high speed train?
The problem with freight trains on a passenger line especially one with higher speed trains is the speed differential. You're going to end up slowing down pax services behind the freights. You could get around this by only running freight off-peak or at night which I suspect they already do.
@@jaymainline8841 I'd say oit anyone who comes out with such inane stupid comments, I spent all my working life in logistics, and have seen the result of stupid schemes that were not thought through.
Used to watch these at Didcot where my grandparents lived. There was an old bridge with a walkway next to it, an old sweet shop and the huge provender store behind (people say that was demolished a few years before I still remember seeing it - a great stupidity to reduce it to rubble as it was a wonderful building).
I was worried the intercity ones where going for a sec my Heart dropped lmao
Best ever thing on all RUclips, thank you! Only Penzance to Paddington could possibly better it!
If you like this there are many videos cab rides from all over the country like Scarborough to Manchester and York to Newcastle, look up these two names Don Coffey and Ben Elias they have many on all enjoyable
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