Lime St to Huddersfield
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- Опубликовано: 13 авг 2018
- Leaving Lime St to the Up Slow and then through the Slow loop at Roby and Huyton. Stephenson's magnificent “sun ray” bridges can clearly be seen further across the Chat Moss route. On past the Ordsall Chord, Manchester Victoria and then over the Pennines to Huddersfield.
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'tick' Another one watched. The Pennines are truly a magical place. Thanks Don.
What is it that makes these video’s so enjoyable. There is something so relaxing about coasting along through parts of the countryside sat in the best seat on the train whilst someone else is driving.
Thanks Don for another really enjoyable trip.
I consider myself very lucky to do it for a living Keith.
I too enjoy them...and I live in the U.S.! The high quality video and captions are truly appreciated.
used to take the train in to Lime Street from Garswood as a kid, never even thinking about the human cost of digging through solid limestone to get there. What an amazing feat of human engineering and endurance the approaches to Lime St are. I did it again in May 2018... more appreciative as an adult !
A great journey, seeing our country the cuttings, tunnels, our fantastic country, the fantastic railways. Thank you Don.
Cheers David, much appreciated 👍
@@doncoffey5820 You’re very welcome.
@@doncoffey5820 All thanks to you, Dave
A very nice conclusion to my evening, very relaxing going for a rail trip whilst having a glass or 3 of wine, thanks for sharing it
Vic Jones I am joining you.
Thanks for a great film. Highlights the massive engineering works of the 1830s in driving the cutting into Liverpool.
Yes, it never ceases to amaze me.
Superb clear shots with the sun behind on a very enjoyable ride!
Many thanks! Thats actually my first ever video and I wasn’t happy with the quality!
Great video, thanks and greetings from Australia.
Great video. Those victorian navvies were something else. Incredible feat of engineering driving the line into the city. I'm always awestruck when ever I get to see it. Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely. When you think of the millions of tons of rock excavated by very labour intensive methods, it is quite remarkable.
@@doncoffey5820 The "navvies" were little better than slaves: 'abolition' or not, the country ran on slavery of one kind or another: the only people who benefited from its abolition (abroad) were the aristos who received huge sums for losing 'their' property.
@@None-zc5vg absolutely. I’ve said right through the recent troubles that everyone other than the wealthy were effectively slaves regardless of race colour or creed. The “common” people lived in squalor while the wealthy lived in extreme opulence. It was disgusting the way poor people were treated. The navvies did earn a wage of sorts but they worked under horrendous conditions. No wonder they would go home, get drunk and slog the living daylights out of each other every night.
@@doncoffey5820 👍👍
typical yorkshire scene at 47:04 house front door trackside...cool place to live..sit in front room and watch trains with feet up,and a cup of tea,window open....having watched most of your cab vids...some more than once....lol..getting to know the junctions ,and routes,better than I do my local ones here in Cardiff...lolz..
You’ll be signing it soon Russ.
Thanks for including the full video of Standedge Tunnel.
I'm glad you made this video cause I live in Huddersfield
Great video - thanks. More please.
Loved the way the tracks appear and disappear from now where.
A great video. A nice long comfortable ride. Thanks Don.
Glad you liked it 👍
Great ride, lovely day. Is it me or were there no captions and my I.T. was Up the Goods without a Brake Stick?
Not you Rick. The videos have evolved over the years and that was one of the very early ones before my shaky attempts at editing.
Very nice cabride!!!! Cheers Onno.
Thoroughly enjoyed video, lovely route. I was surprised how quiet it was in the cab with no engine noise.
The nearest engine is about 30m/100ft away but you can hear the 19 litre Cummins growl under power. I sometimes have the cab ventilation/AC on which comes through on the soundtrack.
Enjoyed my journey with you. Thank you
That video is due for review with captions. Bear with me!
There’s a rule of thumb, that in a car, you can cover as much ground in an hour as could be done on a bicycle in a day. For these trains, it would be about one-half hour. From Carlisle to Poole took us eight days.. . I always made sure I knew where the train stations were , in case werantoo far behind schedule. . . we took the train from Paddington to Swansea later in our trip. . . after cycling from Liverpool St Station. .
Roundabout 24mins, Chat Moss signal box. In the good old days off British Rail I got dropped off quite often at Chat Moss from a newspaper train with my pushbike at some unearthly hour in the morning and then cycled home to Tyldesley. Threw up a couple of newspapers to the Bobby and nobody said a word. Can't see that happening today
more please very enjoyably
Interesting view of Standedge Tunnel with the 185 going the other direction & lighting up the tunnel at about 53:20 ☺
I first saw this back when I couldn’t comment, didn’t know how to “like,” and was much less of a pest. It is, of course, a beautiful video, and I am commenting to let you know I am still here and a PITA like always. BTW, if you told a young man he would have to work that hard today, he’d tell you to go to hell.
I know what it feels like to fumble around with new fangled led tech because I do it all the time. You aren’t a pest Thomas and along with several other regulars, I look forward to having a chat. I work a fortnight on and a fortnight off and at the moment I’m on so I don’t get much chance to go through the many comments. However, I’ll be back with more time after next weekend. All the best Thomas, speak soon.
That was a neat bit of operating, switching to the loop at Roby to overtake the 319.
Yes, normally they put the stopper through the loop but if it is booked fast, they will normally run it that way rather than walk all the customers to the other platform. I’lll be showing more loops soon.
Nice video to watch. Just wish it had captions like in your other videos. Keep up the good work.
I’ve recorded a new version James. I’ll be putting it up with captions on the next few weeks.
Multe salutări de la mine Don Coffey 🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🖐🖐🖐🚆🚆🚆🚆
Many years ago I used to travel from Birmingham to Leeds on the odd weekend away for gigs, around 1988-1992. The Trans Pennine route was my favourite for scenery, it was also cheaper to buy saver return to MCR then a sepreate ticket to Leeds, and the variety of traction - loco hauled and later on 156s and 158s. The 185 units aren't bad at all. And also went back via Hebden Bridge the one time to score the track.
Another super video, cheers Don 🇨🇦
Thanks Ron.
By the way, that was the first one I ever filmed and it was with a dash cam.
Wow isn’t that something , I know you are well respected in the train video business Don and I’m looking forward in seeing may many more of your videos . Just wanted to add that I’m really enjoying the book on the Navvies that you recommend to me , thanks. Stay safe mate 🇨🇦
Is this the Transpennine Express class 185 to Newcastle or Scarborough?
I am from Huddersfield.
Don, at 54:00 there is a long tunnel and two optical illusions the first when we went straight into the tunnel, it looked as we might leave it soon; you even had reflections off the track and the tunnel roof at 54:15 only to find the "tunnel exit" was a train coming the other way and later in the same tunnel a green signal created another illusion of a tunnel exit until we passed the signal. Was I right to call that cutting at Liverpool Mount of Olives Ravine,I believe the name is similar, but I got that name from the Middle East
Hi Tim. Thats the very first video I recorded after getting permission off the company to do it. It’s actually a car dashcam and I never really likes id due to the wide angle. I think those reflections came from the train windscreen. Its a very special heavy duty screen with a very thick rubber membrane between the panes. The amazing rock cutting is called Olive Mount Cutting. I discuss it in some of the later videos.
Nice video , , is there a drivers eye video on EMU ,s or Electric locomotives ? i see drivers eye vieuw only on noisy and airpolution dieseltrains !!
Yes Peter, look up Blackpool (Class 319), Stoke (Class 323) and Newcastle (Class 802). Footage from a new Class 397 coming soon.
Greetings from Atlanta. Really enjoyed passing thru the sprawling suburbs of Liverpool, they seemed to go on for ever. So many stations and junctions. However, with Liverpool being a seaport I expected more in the way of container traffic, freight yards and all. Guess this route is commuter traffic only. Quite a large town on 35 mins also,seems to have a light rail connection to the station. Taking a guess that this is either Bolton or Wigan following the line on google maps?
Thanks for watching Volt. That is really old footage taken with a car dashcam so the newer ones look much better now (GoPro 7). There are freight terminals in Liverpool but one is just off to the left when leaving Liverpool and the other is on the other line which goes towards Crewe. Have a look at the Class 68 video from Crewe to Wavertree Junction.
Hi Volt, the large town 35 minutes into the video is the city of Manchester and the train is passing through Victoria station. The light rail system is known as Metrolink and runs a fleet of trams that serve the suburbs north and south of the city centre
on your right The Huskisson Memorial at 19.27 approx
Its the GSM-R radio dropping out for a few seconds. Sounds like air bubbles doesn’t it!
On Thameslink we call it “A fart in a bath”...
I'm intrigued by the use of the word "chord" as in Ordsall Chord - as a guitar player - is this the same as a switchback ? I never knew Victoria and Piccadilly were connected until I had to take the train from Wigan to Victoria to get to the airport in May 2018
It’s often used on the railway but the proper definition is “a line that joins two points on an arc”.
Hi Don ... Ive probably been in one of your trains at some point as I've travelled this route often. I'm curious - do train drivers wave at each other the way bus drivers do or is there just no point at those speeds?
Yes we do mostly. I nearly always do unless I’m crawling up to a red signal or something similar. Its generally a friendly gesture but it also is an indication that the train you are passing has no concerns about the route he has passed over or that he sees no snags with your train.
Can I ask are you a driver for the railway network and for TPE that you manage to get all of these drivers eye views - which I must admit I am very impressed
I drive for TPE as a living so I get to play 1:1 scale trains. They have been kind enough to let me film and share the routes.
Don Coffey see I think that’s really good that they have allowed you. I work for London Northwestern Railway and I wanted to be able to film the route between York and Liverpool so I can make a documentary about from the cab view. I had considered asking yourself if it was possible to use your footage making the documentary and including your name in the credits but I didn’t know if you would agree to it. Anyhow it would be great to film the route in full. Is it easy to do so?
Contact me via Messenger to discuss.
Bet it feels a bit odd after years going via Warrington to now going over Chat Moss instead.
I've seen 3 cab views coming out of Lime Street and it always looks like you're going up a really steep incline. Is that the case, or is it just an illusion created by the slope of the rocks and the shadows?
Yes, its 1:83 which is very steep.
Nice video,thanks don cheers bob.
This is as close as most people will ever get seeing what a actual view from a cab looks like, After 43 yrs. and now retired from driving in N. America it felt just like yesterday. Outstanding job placing the camera. One question, no 101 history lesson as usual?
Hi Rolf. That was the very first video I posted and it was filmed on a car dashcam. No commentary but you can see a later version here; ruclips.net/video/rl4EK4wPo5A/видео.html
@@doncoffey5820 Another great video. Thank you for the passion and commitment in making these videos.
49:09 I’m going to this station on a nova hunt as I’m local nice to see greenfield
You’ll see the 185s stopping there too.
Don Coffey yup I sometimes get trains from it
Doesn't the exit from Lime Street look great with the fresh ballast.
Cracking video, the oldest inter city railway has now been modernised, Line Street looks completely transformed, fantastic, what were you driving ??
It is a Transpennine Express Class 185 Diesel Desiro. This service will soon be replaced by Class 68s with 5 mk5 coaches and a Class 82 DVT on the rear.
Mk5 coaches and a purpose made DVT not a Class 82.
I agree ...
@@transportationuk7656 How is this an upgrade? The 185s look far better than the 68s and the 82 DVT in the rear. The 68s look like they should be hauling freight.
@@valtrus901 the Transpennine class 68s have been almost completely redesigned for passenger operation, so from what I understand they're almost exactly the same as the Mark V driving van at the other end. In addition it's now a 5 passenger coach operation as opposed to the 3 coaches offered by a 185.
This video popped up and I hadn't seen, really enjoyed as usual, but question was that you driving? as coming out of Lime Street could see reflection on walls and other places and it looked like you?
It was me! That was actually a dashcam with a very wide angle lens and it got me!!!
@@doncoffey5820 New it was, you' hansom chap'!
I’m blushing Val!!!
All the videos are taken from a Class 185.
Hi Is the tunnel on the far left at 00':38" no longer in use or where does it lead to?
It is in use now Ian. That is “Lime Street Tunnel” (actually 2 consecutive tunnels) and it runs parallel to the line we are on and pops out again at about 0:50 and then again at 1:31. Its the line for Platform 1 which was being reconstructed at the time. I might have some footage passing through it somewhere.
Sorry about time gap. Thanks for that. All the complex trackwork at Lime Street, Piccadilly, Victoria and Crewe is fascinating. Learning every pathway must be mind bending. All respect to you guys who manage to learn it. Went to Crewe from Preston years ago when the OHLE was deactivated and south of Bank Quay we "made a left" and suddenly we're meandering through Holford Brinefield in a set of MKIIIs. Excellent Diversion! 😅. Keep up the good work. I like the background on the route and signalling. Great stuff! Thanks a Bunch!
I wonder why the continuous fence on the right side from 13:36 - 14:20 ?
I take it you’re not from the U.K.? That’s a common feature as the public are not invited to trespass on the railway and it is the railways responsibility to keep people out. Virtually all the railway is fenced off but it isn’t always as obvious.
The importance of steam and trains advancing the industrial revolution can be shown by an American army officer after the First World War. Tasked with the duty of driving a army convoy of trucks coast to coast in the days before paved highways, it took this officer 82 days, a train at that time could do the task in 83 hours... Days to hours almost literally. This officer eventually signed as President of the United States the Interstate Highway Act during the 1950s... Dwight David Eisenhower...
I need some frontal view moving train footage for a project I'm making, do you charge for use of clips?
Find me on messenger and tell me what you want.
am missing the naming of the station names, what is the first stop ?
There are newer versions with captions David.
Hi Don .. Can I ask a question please... Once you are qualified to drive trains ..Can you drive ANY train/locomotive?
I was talking to a trainee driver the other week he said he was learning using a class 66 ..I never got the chance to ask if he was allowed to drive ANY class of train once he was qualified... As I was only on the LNER class 91 train for 17 Minutes between Durham and Darlington ..
I was watching a video of a class 91 Electric locomotive the other day They can only run on routes where there is 25Kv powerlines.. Next to the speedometer they have "Speed limiter" where you can LIMIT the maximum speed of the train with a switch on the control panel...They have a very logic layout on the control panel. Everything seems to be placed in such a logic place.
Have you ever driven a class 91 can I ask Don? They run on the East Coast Mainline ... They are going soon once the new 800's are all up and running.
As a passenger I have been on all 31 of the class 91's. In there 30 Years of service.
Sorry I am waffling now... That is only because I LOVE trains ..
Great video once again Don.. Please keep up the good work... Love your video's
Hi Arsene. No, I haven’t driven a Class 91 (Known as an IC225 and you will see them in the Middlesborough video very soon). A driver must undergo a “conversion” to drive other types. Over the years, I have driven Class 142, 150/1, 150/2, 156, 170, 175, 185, 323, Class 25, 66 and 68 locos. I only sign Class 185 at the moment because they drop off if you don’t drive them for a period of time or change company. I’m told I will be signing new Class 802s later in the year.
@@doncoffey5820 .. The 802's look very nice in the blue TPE livery Don ..
The class 156 is one of my fav DMU's
Northern have been putting Class 156's on the 22.22 Newcastle to Darlington service on a night ..
It only costs me about a tenner return from Durham to Darlington return
It seems very strange been on the East Coast Mainline doing a maximum speed of 75 MPH
Gets into Darlington for 23.03 and then you can get a LNER back to Durham at 23.32
The only bit I dislike is the train is full of drunken people shouting at each other ..It spoils the ride a bit Don.
I spend around 1/4 of my wages on train travel.. But I don't drink..Smoke or take drugs .. So it is my hobby if you like..
I dare bet I have been on a few trains that you have driven Don ...
Please keep up the good work ..Your video's are GREAT .
Could use some information captions of places of interest, like railway stations.
The newer ones do Michael. That’s one of the very first attempts.
Are the British Railways owned by private enterprise and if so how many are there?
The track and infrastructure are nationalised but the passengers companies and the freight companies are all privatised. Not sure how many but quite a few.
@@doncoffey5820 TY
Could you reupload this with captions?
Yes, one day soon.
great video yet again is it a new camera?
Actually, that Lime St to Huddersfield was filmed with a dashcam. I’m using a brand new Go Pro for the later videos which gives superb results.
@@doncoffey5820 cheers don it just had that brand new look
I was watching for the cat
Watch the Manchester Airport to York video ;-)
Why do not have the names of stations ?? This is important for us from others countries , to know it better is someday we gonna visit there . I want to follow you . Please ,do it next time . Thank you .
Yes, working on it. They will be included in future videos and I may go back and label some of the originals.
Ok ! Excuse that words but I love to read the names and memorize them , as I liked your videos that are so beautiful , I will be more satisfied . This is really a real travel for me . I love trains of anywhere , specially the more fast. I used them all the time when I lived in Japan . Great ! Now I will follow you too. Thank you . (I'm from Brazil).
@@luziapereira6491 Where in Brazil do you live? I live in Jundiai - SP!
first station Newton le Willows
nice to watch a train ride in the English countryside,.....pity you cant see the speedometer though,
You can see clips in some of my later videos but never in a Class 185 because I’m driving it. The train was doing 90mph most of the way between Liverpool and Manchester.
Great video but I'd have liked to see information such as station and junction names and line speeds.
Yes, I wasn’t sure what to do but will add captioned versions where I can.
@@doncoffey5820 I try to follow the route on Google Maps anyway. I just watched the Hull - Manchester video. That long straight looked awesome, how fast could those 185s go if you crank up the power and ignore the speed limit?
They have a speed limiter set at 103mph. I suspect they would go quite a bit faster without it.
The 1st station stop is Newton-le-Willows my home town. It looks a mess due to it being developed as an interchange station. It should be ready in the near future. Great video to watch. Joe, Newton-le-Willows.
32:24 what's that sound?
GSM-R Radio
58:06 white horse watching you ..left
What unit is that?
A Class 185
@@doncoffey5820 well ik it's a 185 but what's the working number. Like 185001
I can’t remember what unit I drove last week, never mind 18 months ago. Sorry!
@@doncoffey5820 I thought it was a class 68 or a class 802...
But no, its the good old class 185 Anyway, great videos and I would love to see more class 68 and Class 802...
Awesome content as always...
What about the rolling stock
Class 185.
Is That Driver Have His Wife In His Cabin He drive With???
Only authorised persons in a driving cab Faheem!
Track!
The linespeed has increased with these nimble units they have on todays railway as there would have been no chance of that with proper loco hauled trains
Track quality is much better than it used to be.
Interesting part of the country. Listen to what Tommy Robinson says, not what they say he says!
Not got a clue what you mean.
Government estimates between 3 and 5 million girls have been raped. TR has been shouting the alarm for 10 yrs or more. The MSM misrepresents him. He gets far more bad press than the animals doing the torturing and raping.
The amount of vegetation/Buddleia everywhere nowadays is disgraceful.