HST train In Minehead

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  • Опубликовано: 14 дек 2024

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  • @frglee
    @frglee Год назад +38

    Makes me think how much Minehead needs to be part of the national rail network again, with services to Taunton and Bristol, and even possibly to London in the holiday season - even if it were just one train out early in the morning from Minehead, and one back in the evening. That surely would not interfere with the heritage railway operation and could provide valuable income for it.

    • @leeroberts1192
      @leeroberts1192 Год назад +4

      Swanage Railway is another possibility. The traffic on the roads getting to/from Swanage is really bad at times

    • @billywindsock9597
      @billywindsock9597 Год назад +1

      I’d use that.

  • @davedear929
    @davedear929 Год назад +1

    Great video . Love the long shots and drone footage. The long shots seem to show some dodgy bumpy rails. Many thanks.

  • @StrawberryStationMusic
    @StrawberryStationMusic Год назад +46

    It's about time the speed limit for Light Railway Orders was reviewed - it's bittersweet. It's a big relief knowing HSTs are being preserved, but having them trundling along at 25mph is kind of sad!

    • @ianpark1906
      @ianpark1906 Год назад +17

      Looking at the condition of the track in the "long shot" @4.40..
      I think most preserved lines would need a lot of investment to get the speed limit up. But , yes kind of sad. Like a caged tiger.

    • @riklund691
      @riklund691 Год назад +11

      True....but no worse than holding Scotsman or an A4 back on preserved lines!!

    • @andrewbowen4544
      @andrewbowen4544 Год назад +13

      I think the HST deserve a bit of light work. They've worked over 40 years doing 125mph everyday.

    • @riklund691
      @riklund691 Год назад +2

      @@andrewbowen4544 funnily enough,I was at minehead today! We had the beautiful large prairie and a Manor as our steeds!!

    • @melanierhianna
      @melanierhianna Год назад +3

      @@ianpark1906 But still a lot better than your typical US freight line!

  • @tonyburford421
    @tonyburford421 Год назад +12

    It doesn’t seem that long ago I saw the prototype HST and APT next to each other at Swindon. In fact it was probably 50 years ago,unbelievable.

  • @jonathansmith7400
    @jonathansmith7400 Год назад +4

    I had no idea an HST could actually travel that slowly. Impressive.

  • @CameronJohnston-pf5gy
    @CameronJohnston-pf5gy Год назад +12

    It’s good that they’ve been preserved and on heritage railways but it’s be nicer to see them used as charter trains on the main line where they can really stretch their legs!

    • @mr8I7
      @mr8I7 Год назад +3

      There's loads of them so I'm sure some of them will be charter trains.

    • @leeroberts1192
      @leeroberts1192 Год назад +3

      I hope we see some HSTs on charters next year head ing this way towards Poole, Bournemouth, Weymouth and Swanage

  • @trainadventuresuk
    @trainadventuresuk Год назад +1

    Love your videos. Me and my son make train videos and want to ride one of these

  • @ThatBIGTRAINGuy
    @ThatBIGTRAINGuy Год назад +6

    Lovely aerial shot and a nice video overall. Very nice!
    I was firing Earlestoke Manor on Saturday morning, and it was fun passing the HST at Williton. There were photographers all up the line!
    Cheers!
    Simon

  • @ds1868
    @ds1868 8 месяцев назад +1

    As others have said, condition of track not the best. It really needs replacing, but at what cost?

  • @JamesofQPR
    @JamesofQPR Год назад +2

    I like the music actually as well 🙂

  • @RobertJones-xq1si
    @RobertJones-xq1si Год назад +1

    Can't believe the state of the line near that station! May as well have just crossed a farmers field...

  • @nicholasbell9017
    @nicholasbell9017 Год назад +1

    So long since I took a ride on a train, I thought these were still state of the art!
    So incongruous to see this train wiggling along tracks that look like trails of molten solder through a wildflower meadow. Like a thoroughbred put to grass, but strangely new. Like the first view of the Daleks!
    From head on, it looks like Sid Vicious.
    Nick.

  • @mr8I7
    @mr8I7 Год назад +2

    Feels weird seeing these on heritage lines.
    Only a few weeks ago just outside Edinburgh Waverley there's a good number of HSTs still in use on the mainline with Scotrail.

    • @brianwheway1933
      @brianwheway1933 Год назад

      hs125 is almost a heritage train anyway haha its 50 years old

  • @simonf8902
    @simonf8902 Год назад +3

    It’s hard to believe BR abandoned this wonderful area. Thank heavens for WSR. 🎉

  • @davidpring9108
    @davidpring9108 Год назад +3

    West Somerset Railway should look into preserving a HST set, even if it is shortened

  • @exmoorbaydrones
    @exmoorbaydrones Год назад +7

    Me coming back from Dunster Beach on my Mountain Bike @ 4:25

  • @telemachus53
    @telemachus53 Год назад +4

    I knew it. As soon as they ended the glorious reign of the HSTs they'd use them on heritage railways. Deservedly so, they are, after all, a part of our heritage.

    • @icdgyixify
      @icdgyixify Год назад +2

      They are still common in Scotland.

  • @Exparcelman
    @Exparcelman Год назад

    I’m travelling on an evening HST at the Nene Valley this weekend. It will be strange on a heritage line but I’m pleased that they are being preserved and run.

  • @GarethJonesPilipala
    @GarethJonesPilipala Год назад +12

    A nice tribute to the HSTs. I was on one of the Saturday trains and I thought that the way GW trains had prepared the train announcements using the same ‘voice’ as on the main line trains was an excellent touch. Probably the last time I will travel on a HST.

  • @Kandlelite
    @Kandlelite Год назад +3

    @5:44 the grass needs cutting back lol great video too

  • @andrewbowen4544
    @andrewbowen4544 Год назад +3

    The line is great especially on TSW

    • @mr8I7
      @mr8I7 Год назад +2

      Certainly a test of patience with the 25mph line speed.

  • @Beatlefan67
    @Beatlefan67 Год назад +2

    Had a ride behind the Manor the other week which was great in both directions, our Grandson was thrilled, as ever. I wonder what he would make of riding on an HST which I don't think he's ever done. Hopefully, it'll be in action again here.
    (Lovely to see they're cultivating a linear garden on the WSR. Difficult to say if they or NR will win the prize this year...)

  • @geoffp1354
    @geoffp1354 Год назад

    If you haven't seen it, look at the video of the Weymouth Ferry Train. I remember this - a full sized passenger train travelling down the middle of the road. Ended in the late 1970s possibly early 80s.

  • @Spark-jq2gf
    @Spark-jq2gf Год назад +10

    It's Great they are being preserved. They don't really look right on a single branch line going that slow. Great to see though.

  • @davidturner9120
    @davidturner9120 Год назад +4

    Well, thats one way to straighten out the steel..

  • @davidredgewell7415
    @davidredgewell7415 Год назад +3

    Great video should have GWR First group plc train serviceHST Taunton to Minehead for Butlins

    • @Kandlelite
      @Kandlelite Год назад

      The castle sets are being replaced by class 800 sets

  • @roysimmons3549
    @roysimmons3549 Год назад +3

    The track approach to the platform was taken gingerly.

  • @mikebuick2332
    @mikebuick2332 Год назад +2

    Great video. The drone shot is fantastic 👍 There’s also another version of that track called Midnight Dream by Daniel Finot 👍👍

  • @jeremypreece870
    @jeremypreece870 Год назад +4

    Looks like the train took a wrong turning.

  • @alasdairgibb8433
    @alasdairgibb8433 Год назад +1

    HST's always used to run at this speed whilst travelling tough Cornwall😂

  • @ricardosam8050
    @ricardosam8050 Год назад

    People just standing there also cars keep passing over the rail . Why it’s going that slow ? Thanks for sharing ❤❤❤ she a beauty

    • @curlywood
      @curlywood  Год назад

      its going slow as aproach the road level crossing

  • @KaelansTrainsVlogs
    @KaelansTrainsVlogs Год назад +2

    A luxury heritage train lol

  • @TheThejpmshow
    @TheThejpmshow Год назад

    Few comments about the speed restrictions not 25mph
    See the track at around the 05:00 mark and that’s why it’s a 25 limit

    • @fetchstixRHD
      @fetchstixRHD Год назад +1

      Mind you, an argument could be made that it's also a bit the other way round, that because the limit is 25, there hasn't been a need to worry as much. Which of course brings the other point up, money 💷

  • @dieselpower7075
    @dieselpower7075 Год назад +4

    These 125mph beasts down to only 25mph. Such a shame

    • @BrokenIET
      @BrokenIET Год назад +1

      A lot better than them being scrapped though, and people
      would’ve thought that when steam was retired.

  • @stevea4771
    @stevea4771 Год назад

    Once you raise speeds you raise costs on everything. Track maintenance has to be upgraded to start as does the quality of the track. Stock may have to have recertification for higher speeds

  • @BasicModelling
    @BasicModelling Год назад +1

    What was the purpose?

  • @joeritchie7286
    @joeritchie7286 Год назад +3

    That tune makes me think of Saltwater

    • @curlywood
      @curlywood  Год назад +1

      its love on a real train orignated from Tangerine dream

    • @dct1
      @dct1 Год назад

      I thought of saltwater too

    • @mr8I7
      @mr8I7 Год назад

      GTA 5 ambient music when you switch the radio off.

  • @David-j3o7k
    @David-j3o7k Год назад +4

    HST 0.25.

  • @Shuttlefield
    @Shuttlefield Год назад +3

    Love the music - what a great track and totally thematic of course although perhaps the part of the film portrayed by this piece is perhaps not quite appropriate here! Of course we are still enjoying our rails here in Scotland being graced by these fab old units - even in shortened versions. 'Inter-7-city' - although I feel they will have to be renamed to take into account our Eighth city now!

    • @curlywood
      @curlywood  Год назад

      This is the original love on the ral train ruclips.net/video/DOa_wqUdm-U/видео.html

  • @trevorgospel4195
    @trevorgospel4195 Год назад

    It looks like when you're lost in the car and grass starts to appear in the middle of the road

  • @mt5144
    @mt5144 Год назад

    This HST will be going back to GWR Laira within 2 weeks.

  • @geoffcollier8736
    @geoffcollier8736 Год назад

    Could a mower be attached?

  • @Wotan2900
    @Wotan2900 Год назад

    What music is this? Sounds like Tangerine Dream.

    • @curlywood
      @curlywood  Год назад +1

      it is T.D.

    • @Wotan2900
      @Wotan2900 Год назад

      Which album@@curlywood

    • @curlywood
      @curlywood  Год назад +1

      Risky business and also from state azure a cover of it

    • @Wotan2900
      @Wotan2900 Год назад

      @@curlywood I thought it was 80s TD, but I hadn't heard it, which was really confusing me. I haven't seen that film. Thank you for the intro to that.

    • @curlywood
      @curlywood  Год назад +1

      @@Wotan2900 And its on the album Hyperborea (Deluxe Version / Remastered

  • @gmeredith8834
    @gmeredith8834 Год назад

    I'll be leaning on the bar in the Buffet carriage!

  • @mikemoreno4469
    @mikemoreno4469 Год назад

    Is that a GWR service?

  • @Sam_Green____4114
    @Sam_Green____4114 8 месяцев назад

    I bet the locals be very afraid !!! " It be a Dragon . Run !! " Especially around Williton !!! On a more serious note are they thinking of running services the GWR ?

  • @mutantthegreat7963
    @mutantthegreat7963 6 месяцев назад

    Is it me or is that track next to the station not very straight..

  • @Buses5748
    @Buses5748 Год назад +4

    I thought these HS T's are gone

    • @Kandlelite
      @Kandlelite Год назад +2

      Some have been saved this is one it’s not gonna go 125mph some castle sets are still about until December 2023 by GWR

    • @Buses5748
      @Buses5748 Год назад

      @@Kandlelite oh ok

  • @Jonathanbaker
    @Jonathanbaker Год назад

    Have you seen the state of the track

  • @howarddavies1383
    @howarddavies1383 Год назад

    Great peace of music buy Tangerine Dream

  • @thomasm1964
    @thomasm1964 Год назад

    Wow that track is rough.

  • @TC-qd1zw
    @TC-qd1zw Год назад

    Is that track really suitable for that Engine.

  • @HarrysTrainsRBX
    @HarrysTrainsRBX 10 месяцев назад

    Is this a usual occurrence? As in once a year etc or was this a one off?

    • @curlywood
      @curlywood  10 месяцев назад

      its a one off its gone back to where it belongs now they might do it again next year

    • @HarrysTrainsRBX
      @HarrysTrainsRBX 10 месяцев назад

      @@curlywood Ah okay

  • @pablorobertodurso8892
    @pablorobertodurso8892 Год назад +1

    Great vdeo

  • @MrMarkymarksurrey
    @MrMarkymarksurrey Год назад

    Lovely sight but why so slow?

    • @brianwheway1933
      @brianwheway1933 Год назад

      look at the crappy rails mate, up and down like a see saw

  • @johncas1
    @johncas1 Год назад

    Can you fly a drone over railway tracks i have one but did not know if you can someone told me its illegal

  • @jayeff3196
    @jayeff3196 Год назад

    It's great to see these machines in preservation but they were built to top 125mph and transport our population around the country....so sad to see them only top 30mph....

  • @timbarnes2259
    @timbarnes2259 Год назад

    The state of the track limits speed to 25mph..

  • @brianwheway1933
    @brianwheway1933 Год назад

    ive just been looking at the very poor state of the rails, they are all over the place, no wonder the driver is going slow, it would be nice to see a lot of these old lines open back up, more trains the passanger would steadily grow, then this would lead to investment, and people would leave the cars at home if the ifastruture is there.

  • @michaelodwyer4442
    @michaelodwyer4442 Год назад +4

    Music from risky business Tangerine dream film background

  • @richnhacker
    @richnhacker Год назад

    Great idea. Shame you added the music though

  • @moosifer3321
    @moosifer3321 Год назад

    Weeds on the LINE?

  • @boereboere
    @boereboere Год назад

    what is HST?

    • @mr8I7
      @mr8I7 Год назад +1

      High Speed Train - They were trains first used in the mid 1970s all the way up to today. They're diesel express trains that could get up to 125mph.

  • @aidenbrewster4209
    @aidenbrewster4209 Год назад +4

    It just doesn’t feel right seeing them go 100 mph under their max speed, it just doesn’t look that appropriate

  • @bowlerwildcatGaming1991
    @bowlerwildcatGaming1991 Год назад

    I'm guessing HST is not normal for minehead

    • @mr8I7
      @mr8I7 Год назад

      Definitely not. It's a heritage route for tourists. So a steam train is more likely to be seen at Minehead.

  • @gerryquinn5224
    @gerryquinn5224 Год назад

    Well, don't bother with HS2 if that's as fast as they go. 😅

  • @kenrogers7369
    @kenrogers7369 Год назад

    Like I said the world's gone mad

  • @granthardy3550
    @granthardy3550 Год назад

    No, find me the most expensive flights I have money to burn, not so high speed now. Crawling in to beg for some sort of mercy in Minehead, mein Gott, Gott in Himmel.

  • @andrewbennett7756
    @andrewbennett7756 Год назад +3

    It's sad but there being presvered

  • @transporttimeagain3632
    @transporttimeagain3632 Год назад

    Classic comedy

  • @armandoperez7967
    @armandoperez7967 Год назад

    Not very fast when going along this track.

    • @armandoperez7967
      @armandoperez7967 Год назад

      I love seeing videos of trains from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean!

  • @Cortinaman63
    @Cortinaman63 Год назад +5

    As a comical comment, Is that Train Driver Drayford, or Have they got the pointless 20 mph limit on train tracks as well now,?, lol. if that is High Speed Train, not much hope for this world.

    • @curlywood
      @curlywood  Год назад +2

      its a limited speed on these track im afraid

    • @Kandlelite
      @Kandlelite Год назад +6

      OH GROW UP!!! Crying out loud

    • @davidturner9120
      @davidturner9120 Год назад +2

      HS2 might be able to manage 27mph through there. Maintain the faith!

    • @melanierhianna
      @melanierhianna Год назад +1

      You know the 20mph limits are only in urban areas which is common in English big cities too. The estate where I live has had a 20mph speed limit for years because there are children. You can still do 70mph on main roads. Similarly the Light Railways Act says that lines like this have a max speed of 25mph. You can still do 125 on the East Coast Mainline. Still need HS2 though because they were doing 125mph on the ECML 80 years ago!

    • @Cortinaman63
      @Cortinaman63 Год назад

      @@melanierhianna I know it is all Urban areas (every bloody village I drive through in Wales now has it), and it is stupid, and adds 40 minutes a day to journey times, When I was a kid I and all other kids knew "not" to play in or near roads, I went to schools on Main Roads, so I find it a farce to hid behind safety for kids, by the government when maybe be they should be looking at teaching basic skills like how to cross a road, if they are to stupid these days to work it out , from the age of 7 years old, I traveled on foot, busses, 2x underground trains and foot again to school, 1 1/2 hours each way 5 days a week, on my own, from North to West London, even crossing the busy West Way in East Acton (before they eventually fitted pedestrian crossing lights) just fine, but in my day we did not have our faces glued to a mobile phone on facebook, or have ear buds in with music blasting away, while doing so, and the journey home was spent talking to other passengers, more often than not, I miss the good old days when common sense was popular, among the public at large and Politicians.

  • @alzeNL
    @alzeNL Год назад

    whats with the music when there is visibilly a lovely bit of 'clag' at 1:37 - dammit i hate music in videos.

    • @curlywood
      @curlywood  Год назад +1

      sorry to disapoint you but that is part of it

  • @fishypie
    @fishypie Год назад +1

    that new rail net work is a right waste of space, billions down the drain

  • @violinstar5948
    @violinstar5948 Год назад +1

    the tracks look dodgy

  • @astonmartin8706
    @astonmartin8706 Год назад

    Is this the West Somerset Railways HST ?
    Is it theirs to run on the railway for good ?