Test Train Driver's Eye View: Derby to Preston
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Join us for this Driver's Eye View trip from Derby to Preston Via Burton-on-Trent, Alrewas, Stafford, Crewe Basford Hall, Newton-le-Willows and Wigan North Western. This is the first of my new series of videos recording trips across the North on test trains which Network Rail use to judge the condition of their infrastructure. Filmed on 43274, with test coaches and 43257 trailing on 1Q47 PLPR1 infrastructure monitoring service on 24/10/2023.
So happy you're back, missed the amazing cab rides and content.
Your right
@@I_like_planesandtrains860 you're right
Merci pour cette belle vidéo, je suis conducteur de tramways de Lille France, merci encore
I was that boy at Warrington bank quay at the end of platform 4 thanks for the tones mate
Happy to see another trip from you - I'd never seen the Liverpool independent line, so something new and great! Even more of a thrill was the Claymills crossing at 13 minutes in - the Victorian building on the left is the Claymills Pumping Station that I'm part of the team restoring and running - and the car behind the motorbike at the crossing gate is mine!
Just read your comment and the other one about the storm and floods and realised I was around at the time having just got home from the Nuneham viaduct project ! The guy on the blue motorbike at claymills is me 😎 I remember wishing I'd took a snap of the test train not knowing it took one of us 😂 small world eh ?
Hi it was nice to see you today great video 😊
I like youtube because there are people like you. Thx
As a ex Fireman/Driver I really enjoyed your video, it’s a different world out there with you lads now.Kind regards🚂🚂🚂
Great video and what made it even better for some strange reason, not one advert.
Sehr gut., ein schönes Video. Danke.
I like these British train videos, because the rain is always different
I’m amazed how quiet the cab is. Really enjoyed this. Thank you.
turn your sound up,
it aint that quiet
it is compared to a 66@@terry-wc9sw
43,s are very noisy inside the cab also outside the cab too. are@@tonyhogwood4737
Too quiet. Needs a mic in the "business room".
Great cab ride in my favorite train Class 43 Hst Thanks 🇩🇰🇩🇰
This is an amazing video, so precise and clear and I so love the scenery around the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border as it was well known to me in my rambling days in the early seventies with the CHA in Coventry. Another trip to savour and take in on wet rainy, windy and snowy afternoons in Atlantic Canada. Thank you for making my day Ben and keep up the hard earned good work you make in your productions for us avid railway buffs to enjoy.
Great video. Loved the 'Ribble (falling to pieces) Viaduct' caption. Ace!
Excellent Drivers Eye View this Fantastic watch
nice to have you back brilliant video as usual thanks for time and effort
Nice video Ben and nice too see my stomping ground at the green footbridge at Euxton Balshaw Lane Junction from the cab view
You're back! How excellent 😁
I adore these videos.
Great video
Hi Ben glad to see uou back I really enjoyed this video and I will certainly be following the rest of the test train series you have fabulous
Thanks for this Ben, good to see you back. Looking forward to all the nooks and crannies you are going to be taking us to. Cheers
Great film..... especially liked the Crewe independent, Earlestown/Parkside/Lowton and down slow/down goods approaching Preston....thanks.
Excellent journey visually.
Hi Ben good to see you back I miss those HSTs
At last!!!! Great to see you posting again, excellent videos.
Very enjoyable to watch and interesting, keep them coming A1*
bit late to the watch party. but great job with the video. nice camera setup and editing. interesting part of the network. interesting diagram on a typical wet British day!
Excellent. I look forward to future videos. really interesting and great quality
You have a like and a new subscriber!
Really interesting routing and a first for me was transiting the Liverpool Independent lines through Crewe.
Good (timely) location captions, too.
Great job! I look forward to the next one…!
Best wishes from a retired S&T man (1977 - 2018).
Ben that was an excellent video. Will watch the other videos that you are planning. Thanks
Excellent. Thanks for the hard work in producing the videos, much appreciated. Look forward to future videos.
Great video thank you!
Good to see you back, and thanks for a fab video.
Excellent video Ben watched part 2 first doh! Wondered where the 321's ended up after leaving my local line. Lots of lines ive never been down on cab rid video's. Thank you for posting.
Wow ! Great video, i especially love the noise and hearing those turbos spool up 😊 as another viewer has stated, im in the video at claymills crossing on my motorbike having just finished a greggs corn beef slice and heading off on an adventure. I remember wishing I'd got a snap of the test train as it passed, not knowing it got one of me 😂 subscribed !!!
Excellent, some nice rare track there too, and good to see the goods lines at Preston back in use.
Absolutely fascinating video. Thanks so much!
Great video, thanks for taking the time to post.😊
Excellent.
Thank you for the video today, Ben. Always look forward to the ride. See you on the next. Cheers mates! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸
A really interesting video with a fantastic route. Looking forward to other videos in this series
love yer work man thanks x
Wow From my Local Station too Looking forward to this watching it Now
Thank you.
Nice to see you have made a come back.
Gracias Ben.
Un gran vídeo para un excelente y precioso viaje.!!!
Me encanta viajar en tren, y si el viaje es bajo la lluvia, entonces se convierte en una deliciosa melodía bailable, que deseo no acabe.
Me encanta bailar con trenes.!!!
Congratulations.!!!
👏👏👏
@@KahunaPepper ohhh!!! 🎶 Que lástima.!!! Me parece, que no estámos en el mismo tren.
Perdón..🥰
😘
...Respeto tu opinión.!!!
Sabes una cosa...!!
Nuestras opiniones y nuestros diferentes puntos de vista, no pueden, ni tienen que enturviar, el placer que representa, disfrutar de la misma y buena experiencia, que nos proporciona a tí y a mí, el placer de realizar un "viaje en tren".
Simplemente es que lo estamos haciendo desde "ventanillas" diferentes.
El viaje es el mismo.!!!
Un fuerte abrazo
Being Irish in the U.K. 24 years, I find these videos very interesting, educational and informative, as I’m most familiar with the Manchester, Chester & Holyhead (North Wales) lines, using SailRail to travel home to family in Ireland - the Irish government have proposed a lot of exciting changes in the next few years via its many investments and I’d love to see a high-speed tunnel under the Irish Sea from Holyhead to Dublin, which would make going home to Ireland so much easier
Afraid theres not a hope in hells chance. We can’t even get high speed rail in terms of what mainland Britain offers on the ground. Let alone a multi billion euro project.
Maybe when we have full electrification and true high speed beyond a measley 100 mph (or 90 between Dublin and Belfast) there might be something happening. Most of the future investments are probably going into Dublin and those new stations in cork and Waterford
Thank you! 👍
Great to have you back Ben, I enjoyed that Thank's. Mike👍👍👍
Ben that was a fabulous video well done looking forward to seeing some more what a train Paul in Kent
Fab video Ben. I took a photo of this working at Preston that day, think the video ends some 2 or so mins before I appeared lol!
thank you
Thank you, Ben. An excellent trip; and it was especially welcome to have a glimpse of the Crewe Independent Lines.
First time I've seen anything use the Ribble Viaduct (love the description by the way). I've seen some of the forums refer to it as the Cassandra Crossing 😆
Great video, glad to see you back posting again! Looking forward to more :)
Gee, I thought we'd lost you, Ben. Glad to see you back so keep 'em coming.
Thanks Ben looking forward to future uploads ribble viaduct reminds me of cassandra crossing
Fantastic video just watched on big TV.
Thank you for showing it
That was absolutely fascinating. Thank you so much.... that journey around the Independent lines at Crewe was interminable but wonderful 🙂
Amazing video as always keep up the good work
Welcome back
Ben nice to see you being able to post again. This is a very interesting video in that it both allows us to do a cab ride in an HST power car, but also see the aftereffects of that really bad storm tht eh UK had in the past week. The flooding is amazing and bad.
Nice to see you back Ben😁 Great video from a 43. Thank you👌
Very good.
The Ribble (falling to pieces) Viaduct reminded me of the film The Cassandra Crossing - and that's not a good thing! Great to have more videos from you Ben!
I was going to see the HST tour in London today, but this is a good way to spend my afternoon. Glad to see you uploading again.
Great video.....being a local lad bit disconcerting to see the combination heading South from Derby initially given the destination, but all's well that ends well!!
Ribble Viaduct (aka North Union Bridge) 1830s, I believe. Quite an engineering feat. A beautiful video. Thank you for sharing.
Good quality filming (with very clean windscreen). I really enjoyed watching this. Thank You for the upload.
What used to be called the track recorders , squirt out red paint on an area of twist etc . Good tools , and not seeing very many patrolmen extremely necessary..great video , must take some time to sew it together . Appreciated 👍🇬🇧
Yes Ben is back, & what a video. Well worth watching. Thanks Ben.
Quaity, interesting video. Thanks, Ben. Looking forward to the next one in your series.
Been needing aa cabride fix after exhausting yours and Don Coffey's vids 😅
Excellent video, excellent diesel sound. :-)
Fantastic video Ben, some of these unusual routings are very interesting, Crewe Independent lines and especially the one around Earlstown, by far freight traffic is the most interesting to watch, for two reasons mainly, one the slower speeds enables us to enjoy more of the rail infrastructure and secondly the unusual routings, can't wait for the next video.
Interesting, entertaining and superb quality/information. A big thanks for posting.
Love watching these, Wat are the yellow things between the rails? , Just realised the cab beeps when they go over them,,
I saw this at Preston. So funny to see me on a vid
“Wake up babe, Ben is back”
What a treat - Earlestown and the decrepit Ribble viaduct. Is that used much anymore? Thanks Mr E.
The Ribble Viaduct is a disgrace, it is a grade 2 listed building but the intention seems to be to allow it to rust into the river. Such neglect should not be allowed.
deferred maintenance is how austerity manifests itself on the railway's
They wasted so much money on HS2 that they could not be bothered to maintain existing lines - Network Rail is a disgrace, the trade unions are also too powerful
@@michaeljohndennis2231 are you under the impression that somehow the unions want less works done on the railway, and would prefer it rot than to have jobs?
@@michaeljohndennis2231 False. HS2 has been funded by borrowing specifically for HS2.
They didn't take money out of other pots to pay for it, which also means that cancelling Phase 2 didn't make money available for other purposes.
I imagine the North Union bridge will end up being declared unsafe and simply being demolished ( see Tramroad bridge, Southport rly School Lane Bridge and so on) - there are a lot of cast iron plate track beds over the Ribble and I cant imagine any of them being in rude health any more
Love it
In Central Trains days we signed via Castle Donington but not via Alrewas. Our diversions would not have fitted around the City Line service! Thanks for the look at the the back road.
Always look forward to a Ben Elias video.
Welcome Back
Cool thanks
Wow didn't know you was a train driver this is cool
great video ben on different tracks
Lovely weather, Ben! It doesn't always rain up here in the Northwest!
I drive for GWR but have always fancied doing the HST test train
Nice to see these flying machines doing 110mph plus on test trains still! pitty they still ain't in passenger use as there is still loads of left in them!!! Nice video 🥰
They are still in passenger use
2:19:00 I used to stand on the right to watch trains before the houses were built. A couple of times I saw some of the last 8 HST Power Cars built with APT-P test trains
Loved seeing the 321s and 777(s) at Walton and the old wagons on the left
Five star coverage
Gotta love the LSL Preserved GMT Class 142 Pacer on the high Level line (R) at 01:15.20 ❤
Nice to see you back - looking forwards to watching
I find it hard to believe this is quieter than most trains today
Thank you Ben for a really enjoyable video. Lovely cab ride. So, the Ribble Viaduct is in a bad way.
is the HST in the EPS or the general speed limit band? Great to see you back again Ben
Cheers! HSTs can do HST speeds or normal linespeeds, not EPS. EPS is pendo and voyager only. In this case the train is not an HST - it's a traditional loco hauled train with mk2 and mk1 derived rolling stock and so can only do 100mph and normal line speeds.