Oh no, I'm so sorry you didn't make it to Scotland! Obviously, your positivity about the whole melons-up situation is both inspirational and on-brand. Cheers!
great video G! even though things went definitively melons-up, I’m glad that you were able to remain positive about the situation you ended up in (at least on camera!) hope you eventually end up in Inverness 😊
what a lovely video apart from the cancellation but am surprised they didnt put on replacement bus services from Newcastle to Berwick etc, with me being from Aberdeen i can guarantee you will absolutely love the views basically from after Newcastle all the way to Inverness and when you next get to do the full trip let me know and we could meet up for a coffee in Inverness if you like and it will even be my treat, keep up the great videos as am really enjoying them. Stuart from Aberdeen
This trip (excuse the pun) came up on my home page so I just had to take a look. I love the 'melons up' description but with a FC ticket I trust you had some compensation for an incomplete journey without even the cost of your overnight etc.
See that you only made it as for as Northumberland, with it great landscapes Did you go back to Manchester on the Transpennines Express? Newcastle is my neck of the woods.
I do love the East Coast route and I have noticed others mention scene gets even better after Newcastle. I often travel to Aberdeen on the 07.08 and particularly love the route just coming into Berwick up to Aberdeen. that said £88.00 first class is bloody good value.
Yeah g'day, It's a bloody shame that the journey was canceled but at least it was a legitimate safety reason and not due to the usual work to rule for better conditions. Hopefully, we get another chance to travel with you very soon. I hear Newcastle can be a fun night out.
Fantastic video, G! I'm glad you finally got to ride LNER! You rode 800103, which is one of my favourite units! That was also the unit I bumped into a friend that I previously had in August, so definitely brought back some memories there! I'm sorry you didn't get north of Newcastle! I'm sure you'll make up for it and get up there soon!
I can imagine the disappointing moment of not making it to Inverness and have some existing things to see & do other there.😢 Hope you'll be able to get up to Inverness in the near future as there some great thing there.
I remember travelling on the Highland Chieftain back in 2017 and travelled First Class which cost £49.50 with a railcard but it was Class 43 HSTs back then and was a epic journey, it's a shame that you didn't get to Inverness but still a great video G
Ah, shame about the melons! Doing the trip the whole way is something of an epic experience, so I hope you get to do it soon. LNER do tend to look after you quite well and first class is very comfortable. Only downside is the food portions are small. Also I find the scenery between London and Newcastle to be very boring, mainly because it's a trip I've done a lot, but further north it gets much more interesting.
Great video shame about the disruption to your journey I hope your getting some form of delay compensation?😊 you deserve too. You do so well to not get mad about the situation - such a legend!
Such a shame that LNER are stopping the Sunderland service but at least Grand Central will continue to operate their service to Sunderland using Class 180 Adelentes. But overall LNER are still a good train operator.
I'm glad you got to enjoy an LNER Azuma for the first time and in first class I'm sorry that your journey got cut short hopefully you'll be able to do the journey again sometime
You took this really well, still looking on the positive side of things despite the pretty major setback. In my experience trains are the most unreliable form of transport there is. But still love watching your travels 😌
Such a shame you couldn't get on a rail replacement boat to get past the flowing water flooding the railway But at least you spent a bit of time at Newcastle, which is a very nice place
G has done that . I've not done it Northbound to Inverness, only southbound from. I've tried many times and tickets were either unavailable for the dates I needed but my time on it Southbound means it's not exactly unusual for tickets to be sold out (when I used it last month from Inverness, it was announced as sold out which I suspect is partially due to seated Deerstalker passengers using those seats from Edinburgh).
@@GabrielsReviews I knew she had done the CS but wasn't aware it was to Inverness. I can only apologise to her, Lucy and her subs. Yes I'm different as I need accessable berths. It varies for me. Some years I'm lucky to go twice with average priced tickets other times nit so lucky. Did it Northbound last year but this year way to expensive.
@@GabrielsReviews Yes. We get a choice. A double berth with double bed (no ensuite) or a accessable twin bunks (no ensuite). Both are large as they accomadate more then one wheelchair. I stayed in the double bed last year with my partner and we wasn't impressed with bed as the mattress was really thin. We pay same price as a classic room (£100 to £200) no matter the berth. There's a disabled toilet next to berth. I found the ordeted food to berth was amazing. Just very expensive. The cooked breakfast was poor though.
Hey! Since you’re the queen of trains and I’m going to the UK in July, I need to go by train from Gatwick to Eastbourne and later up to London. I found an app called Trainline to get tickets. Is it any good? won’t have a rail card I guess. Do you have any tips on best route and good fares for me?
What a shame! LNER has good service, even in standard. I'll be making this journey in a few weeks' time but hopefully I'll be able to go the whole way!
Great vlog G. I’ve traveled with LNER a few times a few years ago but not in first class and I must say it does look nice. Shame you didn’t make it to Inverness. Supposed you could spend some time in Newcastle then lol, I’ve been there a couple of times mainly for a hotel stay. I enjoyed watching as always.
So sorry your journey got short changed!! From that flowing water up in the sky but u will do it again soon I'm sure, you did get a fantastic experience on LNER as far as Newcastle fantastic blog G look forward to your next adventure cheers 👍🤗
Bless you it's always a pain when things go wrong i thought LNER might off put a luxury coach on for the rest of your journey or is that asking to much
Back in 2002 or there abouts, I had a interesting journey. I was due to travel on a Cardiff to Paddington as far as Reading and onto Horsham. Ok, at Cardiff, heard a announcement they couldn't locate the driver, so a slight delay already. We was further delayed by the time we reached Bristol Parkway, held at Swindon to allow us to pick up extra passengers from other services. At this point, the guard asked us to remove any unused seat reservation cards as we made a extra stop at Didcot. Opposite me, was a mother with her two daughters on their way to Heathrow. I wonder if they made their flight? Arriving Reading some 90 minutes late, a journey time of 3 hours. Looked for my onward connection, just missed it and meant another hour wait, knowing I would have a further connection at Redhill - knocked it on the head at this point and headed home. Thankfully, this was the only journey where things went pear shaped.
Great video G! Absolutely gutted that you didn’t make it all the way but LNER are absolutely brilliant and they do look after you very well, hopefully you can make the second attempt at this journey when the weather is a bit warmer and not raining continuously but the best views are between Newcastle and Edinburgh as I’ve not been to Inverness but glad you enjoyed the experience despite it ending in disaster but not LNER’s fault
What a shame you didn't get to Inverness. You MUST retry and it's really surreal travelling so far on one train, not to mention a beautiful destination. I did the trip in the opposite direction recently (just four days before your attempt) and luckily, everything went smoothly. Travelling south means you depart around 8am so you get to try both the Breakfast and Lunch menus too! A full cooked breakfast while looking out on the snowy Cairngorms takes a lot of beating! Just a note about seat selection: You can reserve a seat for free on the LNER website wherever you buy your ticket (or even if you don't have one). That's quite useful when travelling on a rover or InterRail ticket, as I was. You can also modify or cancel it later, which most other train companies don't allow.
It doesn't take much for services to grind to a halt north of Newcastle. Better luck next time but at least you managed to spend some time in one of the best cities in the UK...where it was typically raining 😆 Jury is still out on LNER for me, had good and bad experiences in the past with them.
What a shame for you G !! It would've been great to see where in Inverness you would've stayed, and which other journeys you'd have done - Kyle of Lochalsh maybe !??
Ironic that flowing water cancels your 1st class trip to Inverness but It's such a shame as Scotland has eye watering scenery!! Still Newcastle is great for train spotters as it's like Carlisle but on the East Coast and lots lots of flowing water!
@@MatthewHarding007 Thet did that in September owing to engineering works, but they need to plan ahead as the service started 2 hours earlier in London to allow for staff & arrival time etc
@@GLovesTrains What a shame. My first attempt to catch that train ended up with 7 hour replacement bus between Edinburgh & Inverness for which LNER gave me 2 x complimentary 1st class tickets as compensation😎
brilliant review of LNER i do really love the AZUMAS & ive only done short hop rides on those like from Newcastle to Durham & Northallaton to Darlington while on holiday in Newcastle in 2022 & last year i rode one from Leeds to Doncaster & i do love filming the AZUMAS too & im still on the lookout for the Pride & Eleanor livery ones & i holidayed in Newcastle in 2022 & its a great city & i love the station too brilliant vlog
Sorry it didn’t work out, as LNER are usually very good. Think I have sat at that table in the 1st Class Lounge at KGX. 😊 I remember the days of the Highland Chieftain being an HST. I could hear one on the service passing my work during the week. One of the last times I traveled with LNER, I ended up being on the last train out of Edinburgh before the OHLE was brought down in a storm!
Brilliant video G, shame things went very wrong that day and I hope the hotel situation got resolved. LNER Azumas are nice trains I'll admit (I've not done first class on them though lol), I do want to go from York to London Kings cross (or the other way round even) non stop someday. Newcastle is a nice place, I did go once in 2022. :)
Hi G, Such a shame that you Inverness trip was terminated. I hope you didn't have to much hassle cancelling your hotel and return bookings...that's the sort of luck I have, such a bind... So best thing was yurn a debacle into a result and check out what Newcastle had to offer, hope that turned out ok... Take care, Jon B.
Cool video G! Shame about the train being cancelled due to weather, I'm excited to be travelling LNER for the first time in a few weeks myself (albeit from Leeds to London)
Wow it was such an amazing journey until ... Well, at least you got to know New Castle. Other than that, the Train looks wonderful and so the Stations. And... Guess what, I have an Umbrella just like yours!! 😂 I got it for my Mom a long long time ago on a Perfume Sale in New York.☂️😄 It was a fabulous trip, thank you!! ❤🙏😊
I had a similar experience funny enough,I was 1st class with avanti west coast from Birmingham new street which was supposed to call at international, Coventry, rugby, milton Keynes, Watford Junction then London euston but the train stopped just after Birmingham international due to an incident and got diverted all the way back up to Stafford and then went back down to rugby so it could miss out Coventry. Also and I thought seat H 2 on avanti pendolino didnt give you much of a window but that has no window
Newcastle -> Carlisle via tyne valley line Carlisle -> Edinburgh or Glasgow Central then Edinburgh or Glasgow to Inverness. or they got you a taxi to Edinburgh or Invernes. Never the less full refund on the single or di you manage to get a return?
Gutting for you but in my experience the line has so many issues with it some its own doing some down to mother nature and faults and 300 odd miles to travel on...love your positive take on things regardless..me id be proper rinsed about it all..wish i could have more of your attitude to life..Inverness is a wonderful place to visit and the coastal scenery you were about to get to is a joy..hence the right hand side seating..look forward to take 2..that price for 1st class is cheap how did you do that?
Nice..... back on normal service, adventures on UK railways 🤩 Didnt stop at Peterborough....... its full on into Yorkshire until a stop. At least it was a good ride to Newcastle.
Oh no that's not good G i hope you got refunds on everything the azumas are nice trains but i find the seats very uncomfortable on long journeys i preferred the seats on the hst's before they got refurbished. I hope next time you get to complete the journey ❤
On LNERs site, the seats that aren't supposed to have windows are marked R. The ones that are just bad due to poor seating arrangement isn't labeled, however
@@MontytheHorse there are people who prefer no seats, but a blind that doesnt allow light (i think its called blackout, im not sure) on those seats instead would just make more sense, with a normal blind on the others
so what happend in he end did you get to inverness ,pay extra or get any money back , also one thing you need is sleep g your getting dark cicles round your eyes bless you. and keep safe and on railing
Thanks for the video G,I've been too Inverness it's a stunning journey. Also the night train from Aberdeen to London I think it was about 12 hours ,great party on board. Please do your journey soon as you will love it!!😎🚄🚄🚄🚄🇬🇧💚
If you want to amuse yourself in Newcastle, get a Hi-Vis vest and sit outside the Greggs with a beer. I guarantee you will be asked about trains and platforms by multiple people. (Personal experience, whilst commuting through Newcastle every morning/evening). Hilarious.
Looks like the same day I went to Berwick. Train back to Newcastle arrived over 3 hours late. An hour late leaving Berwick then further delays along the route because of the rain.
Oh dear sorry that the train had to be cancelled it looked to be an amazing trip to do, hope you have received refund on that trip especially your hotel booking here is too the next time, good luck 👍👍✅✅
G, what a shame that was that would be a lovely trip right up to Inverness and I think you had such a good price £88 all that way in first class. Thank you for sharing and I do hope you are able to complete the trip before too long.
I have been on an Azuma before - was well impressed by it, especially the smoothness of the ride. How was the veggie masala? Well, I hope you do make it up to the Highland capital one day soon, as Inverness is lovely and one of my favourite places to visit. (I am fairly local to there.) Hopefully next time will not involve large round fruits going up! 🤣
Sorry to hear you didn't manage to get all the way to Inverness. Do give it another try sometime soon, maybe with a day out to Kyle or the Far North while you're here. You did get a good seat. A couple of weeks ago I travelled to Edinburgh sitting at the back of the third 1st Coach. I think they probably didn't have as many requests for the full breakfast as usual that morning and when they got to me had plenty left over. When it arrived I did notice there were two fried eggs, and then beneath them I found there were three slices of bacon. I know where I'll try to get a seat next time, but don't tell everyone! 🤫
I did that journey in 1982. HST Class 43 Intercity 125. Had a second class ticket but was aloud to dinner in the first class diner. I liked Inverness. It related to my home town in Sweden.
I have been on LNER to Edinburgh Waverley couple years ago for a funeral and apparently there was major disruption on the ECML due to signalling problems near Newark Northgate. But I do like LNER and I have been to York, Leeds, Edinburgh Waverley and Doncaster and hopefully go to Newcastle in the summer.
Another cheery, happy trip with Gloves Trains displaying remarkable patience as the journey quietly goes off the track- as someone who saw the railway track workers watched as my slow moving train trundled over a suspected broken rail - I know the suddenly backwards movement !
aaaaaarr Poor G, sorry you had to cancel your trip to inverness 😢if you get to redo your trip, we stayed in little town called Nairn, lovely beach there , not far from inverness, and if your traveling on lock ness Jacobite Cruises Limited re friendly crew, they even have a bar on boat , when your not filming, hope you get a refund so as to redo this trip, so chin up you Rock remember take care
It’s weird if you don’t sit for a long time on a train from london to Scotland. Once sat in an avanti train for 3 hours just south of Motherwell. The. Train was cancelled at Crewe so we had to move to another train which was rammed. Mental.
One cool little tip about travelling First Class from King's Cross is that there's a "secret" gate line just outside the lounge that takes you straight to the platforms via a bridge and escalators. So far out of all the first class services I've tried, LNER's feels like the best.
Great vid G 👍 and you had the best view of all gan owwa the Tyne, I need to gan yhem noo, I'm feeling homesick. it's geet canny ya knaa. And going through Darlington, home of the railway. If I'd known you didn't make it to Inverness I could of rang a family member to shacked you up for the night 😅. Good news for future reference there are two Travelodges only a few hundred yards from Central Station, Quayside and Central.
Great vlog as always G just a shame you were unable to complete you journey hope you were able to obtain a refund for the hotel and the remainder of the train journey still Newcastle is a great place
Right-hand side going north ⬆️ you have the Yorkshire Moors, Durham Cathedral, Northumberland Coast, southern Scotland coast and after that not sure as i rarely get north of Edinburgh sadly.
I said screw it and booked this trip back in January. I didn't take into account that it would be pitch black from Edinburgh onwards but it was absolutely worth the £85 (I hardly ever travel first class + it'd been a bucket list trip for a while). I'm sorry you didn't make it all the way. Absolutely should have another go if you can 🙂
Why didn’t they stop the train at Newcastle would have saved moving back up the line I wonder how far you had to travel until you could switch to the other line to travel south
It's a lovely journey beyond Newcastle as the scenery is awesome . Enjoy the trip when you do it again
Thanks!
@@GLovesTrains ....why did the line have to close?
Watching you is always a pleasure. Keep up the videos and keep being yourself.
Thanks!
Oh no, I'm so sorry you didn't make it to Scotland! Obviously, your positivity about the whole melons-up situation is both inspirational and on-brand. Cheers!
Thanks!
great video G! even though things went definitively melons-up, I’m glad that you were able to remain positive about the situation you ended up in (at least on camera!) hope you eventually end up in Inverness 😊
Thanks! I'll get there one day 😂
what a lovely video apart from the cancellation but am surprised they didnt put on replacement bus services from Newcastle to Berwick etc, with me being from Aberdeen i can guarantee you will absolutely love the views basically from after Newcastle all the way to Inverness and when you next get to do the full trip let me know and we could meet up for a coffee in Inverness if you like and it will even be my treat, keep up the great videos as am really enjoying them. Stuart from Aberdeen
Cheers, gutted I didn't get to see those views!
This trip (excuse the pun) came up on my home page so I just had to take a look. I love the 'melons up' description but with a FC ticket I trust you had some compensation for an incomplete journey without even the cost of your overnight etc.
I got a full refund on this journey 👍
Have you thought about making a video about the Tyne and Wear Metro?
See that you only made it as for as Northumberland, with it great landscapes Did you go back to Manchester on the Transpennines Express? Newcastle is my neck of the woods.
I do love the East Coast route and I have noticed others mention scene gets even better after Newcastle. I often travel to Aberdeen on the 07.08 and particularly love the route just coming into Berwick up to Aberdeen. that said £88.00 first class is bloody good value.
Newcastle an awesome place to visit not bad night out either.
Hope you managed to get a rebooking glad you managed to make a good journey out of it
Great Video 👍👍Better luck with your journey next time 👍👍
Thanks 👍👍
Great Video G I Enjoyed it😊
Cheers!
Yeah g'day,
It's a bloody shame that the journey was canceled but at least it was a legitimate safety reason and not due to the usual work to rule for better conditions. Hopefully, we get another chance to travel with you very soon.
I hear Newcastle can be a fun night out.
Fantastic video, G! I'm glad you finally got to ride LNER!
You rode 800103, which is one of my favourite units! That was also the unit I bumped into a friend that I previously had in August, so definitely brought back some memories there!
I'm sorry you didn't get north of Newcastle! I'm sure you'll make up for it and get up there soon!
Aw nice! Ye least I can come back ride up there again haha
Eeeesh, yikes, that's a pain. Hope you were able to get refunds on your hotel in Inverness 😬
Unfortunately not 😂 least I got one on this tho
@@GLovesTrainsCould of got plane 😂
Hi Nick! Didnt expect you here.
You do miss out on the Yorkshire Dales view sitting on the right but the North Yorkshire Moors look more impressive from that side.
I can imagine the disappointing moment of not making it to Inverness and have some existing things to see & do other there.😢 Hope you'll be able to get up to Inverness in the near future as there some great thing there.
Tell me about it - Inverness is one of my favourite places to visit, and fairly local for me.
Thanks ye ill try again some day!
I remember travelling on the Highland Chieftain back in 2017 and travelled First Class which cost £49.50 with a railcard but it was Class 43 HSTs back then and was a epic journey, it's a shame that you didn't get to Inverness but still a great video G
Thanks! And wow that was a good price!
Ah, shame about the melons! Doing the trip the whole way is something of an epic experience, so I hope you get to do it soon.
LNER do tend to look after you quite well and first class is very comfortable. Only downside is the food portions are small.
Also I find the scenery between London and Newcastle to be very boring, mainly because it's a trip I've done a lot, but further north it gets much more interesting.
Ye I want to see the scenery further up!
Great video shame about the disruption to your journey I hope your getting some form of delay compensation?😊 you deserve too. You do so well to not get mad about the situation - such a legend!
Thanks ye I got full refund
Such a shame that LNER are stopping the Sunderland service but at least Grand Central will continue to operate their service to Sunderland using Class 180 Adelentes. But overall LNER are still a good train operator.
I'm glad you got to enjoy an LNER Azuma for the first time and in first class I'm sorry that your journey got cut short hopefully you'll be able to do the journey again sometime
Hope so!
Hi, great video. What camera do you use?
You took this really well, still looking on the positive side of things despite the pretty major setback. In my experience trains are the most unreliable form of transport there is. But still love watching your travels 😌
Thanks and ye I understand that 😆
Such a shame you couldn't get on a rail replacement boat to get past the flowing water flooding the railway
But at least you spent a bit of time at Newcastle, which is a very nice place
Bahahah! Yeah still had a day out its all good 😆
You need to go on Caledonian Sleeper to Inverness. I love it in Inverness. Beautiful up there. You must try agian.
G has done that . I've not done it Northbound to Inverness, only southbound from. I've tried many times and tickets were either unavailable for the dates I needed but my time on it Southbound means it's not exactly unusual for tickets to be sold out (when I used it last month from Inverness, it was announced as sold out which I suspect is partially due to seated Deerstalker passengers using those seats from Edinburgh).
@@GabrielsReviews I knew she had done the CS but wasn't aware it was to Inverness. I can only apologise to her, Lucy and her subs. Yes I'm different as I need accessable berths. It varies for me. Some years I'm lucky to go twice with average priced tickets other times nit so lucky. Did it Northbound last year but this year way to expensive.
@@johnroberts2331 Fair enough. Are the accessible berths much larger than the regular ones?
@@GabrielsReviews Yes. We get a choice. A double berth with double bed (no ensuite) or a accessable twin bunks (no ensuite). Both are large as they accomadate more then one wheelchair. I stayed in the double bed last year with my partner and we wasn't impressed with bed as the mattress was really thin. We pay same price as a classic room (£100 to £200) no matter the berth. There's a disabled toilet next to berth. I found the ordeted food to berth was amazing. Just very expensive. The cooked breakfast was poor though.
@@johnroberts2331 I think the ''breakfast'' is just intended to tide guests over until they get something at their destination.
Hey! Since you’re the queen of trains and I’m going to the UK in July, I need to go by train from Gatwick to Eastbourne and later up to London. I found an app called Trainline to get tickets. Is it any good? won’t have a rail card I guess. Do you have any tips on best route and good fares for me?
I use trainpal, it usually comes up with the cheapest fares 👍
@@GLovesTrains excellent! I’ll give it a try! Thanks!
What a shame! LNER has good service, even in standard. I'll be making this journey in a few weeks' time but hopefully I'll be able to go the whole way!
Ye hope it goes better for you! 😂
Great vlog G. I’ve traveled with LNER a few times a few years ago but not in first class and I must say it does look nice. Shame you didn’t make it to Inverness. Supposed you could spend some time in Newcastle then lol, I’ve been there a couple of times mainly for a hotel stay. I enjoyed watching as always.
Haha thanks Sam!
So sorry your journey got short changed!! From that flowing water up in the sky but u will do it again soon I'm sure, you did get a fantastic experience on LNER as far as Newcastle fantastic blog G look forward to your next adventure cheers 👍🤗
It was fantastic!
How did it end ? Did lner give you money for the shortened journey? and the booked hôtel ?
Bless you it's always a pain when things go wrong i thought LNER might off put a luxury coach on for the rest of your journey or is that asking to much
Haha think so 😂
Back in 2002 or there abouts, I had a interesting journey.
I was due to travel on a Cardiff to Paddington as far as Reading and onto Horsham.
Ok, at Cardiff, heard a announcement they couldn't locate the driver, so a slight delay already.
We was further delayed by the time we reached Bristol Parkway, held at Swindon to allow us to pick up extra passengers from other services. At this point, the guard asked us to remove any unused seat reservation cards as we made a extra stop at Didcot.
Opposite me, was a mother with her two daughters on their way to Heathrow. I wonder if they made their flight?
Arriving Reading some 90 minutes late, a journey time of 3 hours.
Looked for my onward connection, just missed it and meant another hour wait, knowing I would have a further connection at Redhill - knocked it on the head at this point and headed home.
Thankfully, this was the only journey where things went pear shaped.
Day out in itself that! Hope they made that plane 😄
You could have walked the rest of the journey! The GLoves Trains way! Loving your content. Thank you.
Haha maybe one day 😂
Great video G! Absolutely gutted that you didn’t make it all the way but LNER are absolutely brilliant and they do look after you very well, hopefully you can make the second attempt at this journey when the weather is a bit warmer and not raining continuously but the best views are between Newcastle and Edinburgh as I’ve not been to Inverness but glad you enjoyed the experience despite it ending in disaster but not LNER’s fault
Thanks Jack! And ye LNER were great totally not their fault!
What a shame you didn't get to Inverness. You MUST retry and it's really surreal travelling so far on one train, not to mention a beautiful destination. I did the trip in the opposite direction recently (just four days before your attempt) and luckily, everything went smoothly. Travelling south means you depart around 8am so you get to try both the Breakfast and Lunch menus too! A full cooked breakfast while looking out on the snowy Cairngorms takes a lot of beating!
Just a note about seat selection: You can reserve a seat for free on the LNER website wherever you buy your ticket (or even if you don't have one). That's quite useful when travelling on a rover or InterRail ticket, as I was. You can also modify or cancel it later, which most other train companies don't allow.
Oh that sounds wonderful!
It doesn't take much for services to grind to a halt north of Newcastle. Better luck next time but at least you managed to spend some time in one of the best cities in the UK...where it was typically raining 😆 Jury is still out on LNER for me, had good and bad experiences in the past with them.
Shame about the flooding on the route. Apart from that, Newcastle Upon Tyne is a nice place to be as I know out of my own experience.
What a shame for you G !! It would've been great to see where in Inverness you would've stayed, and which other journeys you'd have done - Kyle of Lochalsh maybe !??
Kyle of Lochalsh line is amazing, I went on the journey back in February and it was beautiful.
Ye was well excited for it!
Ironic that flowing water cancels your 1st class trip to Inverness but It's such a shame as Scotland has eye watering scenery!! Still Newcastle is great for train spotters as it's like Carlisle but on the East Coast and lots lots of flowing water!
They could have diverted via Carlisle and reversed at Edinburgh
@@MatthewHarding007 Thet did that in September owing to engineering works, but they need to plan ahead as the service started 2 hours earlier in London to allow for staff & arrival time etc
Carlisle line was shut as well 👍
Haha ye I love flowing water!!!
@@GLovesTrains What a shame. My first attempt to catch that train ended up with 7 hour replacement bus between Edinburgh & Inverness for which LNER gave me 2 x complimentary 1st class tickets as compensation😎
Shame you couldn't get to Inverness, hope you enjoyed your visit to Geordieland
brilliant review of LNER i do really love the AZUMAS & ive only done short hop rides on those like from Newcastle to Durham & Northallaton to Darlington while on holiday in Newcastle in 2022 & last year i rode one from Leeds to Doncaster & i do love filming the AZUMAS too & im still on the lookout for the Pride & Eleanor livery ones & i holidayed in Newcastle in 2022 & its a great city & i love the station too brilliant vlog
I spotted the pride one that - it looks great!
What a shame, could you not catch a train to Carlisle for the WCML to Scotland?
That line was closed too 👍
do you for north and the kylr=e of lochalsh line when you was up in inverness
Sorry it didn’t work out, as LNER are usually very good. Think I have sat at that table in the 1st Class Lounge at KGX. 😊
I remember the days of the Highland Chieftain being an HST. I could hear one on the service passing my work during the week.
One of the last times I traveled with LNER, I ended up being on the last train out of Edinburgh before the OHLE was brought down in a storm!
Ah nice and geez got out of there in time then 😆
Brilliant video G, shame things went very wrong that day and I hope the hotel situation got resolved. LNER Azumas are nice trains I'll admit (I've not done first class on them though lol), I do want to go from York to London Kings cross (or the other way round even) non stop someday. Newcastle is a nice place, I did go once in 2022. :)
Yeah you should deffo do that! 😄
Hi G,
Such a shame that you Inverness trip was terminated. I hope you didn't have to much hassle cancelling your hotel and return bookings...that's the sort of luck I have, such a bind...
So best thing was yurn a debacle into a result and check out what Newcastle had to offer, hope that turned out ok...
Take care,
Jon B.
Yeah was a bit irritating as they were unrefunable 😆 Cheers Jon
Hey there nice to meet you. Wow I really enjoyed that video, excellent production well done. Sorry your trip got cancelled, cheers Mike
Thanks Mike!
Cool video G! Shame about the train being cancelled due to weather, I'm excited to be travelling LNER for the first time in a few weeks myself (albeit from Leeds to London)
Thanks and sure you'll enjoy it!
@@GLovesTrains LNER vs Jet2, let's make it a Northern smackdown!
Wow it was such an amazing journey until ... Well, at least you got to know New Castle. Other than that, the Train looks wonderful and so the Stations. And... Guess what, I have an Umbrella just like yours!! 😂 I got it for my Mom a long long time ago on a Perfume Sale in New York.☂️😄 It was a fabulous trip, thank you!! ❤🙏😊
Haha cool thanks a lot!
What is the speed on these trains
I had a similar experience funny enough,I was 1st class with avanti west coast from Birmingham new street which was supposed to call at international, Coventry, rugby, milton Keynes, Watford Junction then London euston but the train stopped just after Birmingham international due to an incident and got diverted all the way back up to Stafford and then went back down to rugby so it could miss out Coventry. Also and I thought seat H 2 on avanti pendolino didnt give you much of a window but that has no window
Ah I been on an Avanti that did that sort of thing! And yes no window 😂
Shame you never made to Inverness but hey ho at least you got to see Newcastle fab city 😊 almost my neck of the woods.
Haha ye least I been Newcastle now!
Newcastle -> Carlisle via tyne valley line Carlisle -> Edinburgh or Glasgow Central then Edinburgh or Glasgow to Inverness. or they got you a taxi to Edinburgh or Invernes. Never the less full refund on the single or di you manage to get a return?
Yeah that line was shut as well but got a full refund immediately 👍
Gutting for you but in my experience the line has so many issues with it some its own doing some down to mother nature and faults and 300 odd miles to travel on...love your positive take on things regardless..me id be proper rinsed about it all..wish i could have more of your attitude to life..Inverness is a wonderful place to visit and the coastal scenery you were about to get to is a joy..hence the right hand side seating..look forward to take 2..that price for 1st class is cheap how did you do that?
Thanks! I just kept looking from time to time on the prices 👍
That was a shocker G, you missed the best parts of the route. Wonder why no diversion via Carlisle was attempted? Hope you make it one day.
Carlisle line was shut as well
@@GLovesTrains can't win them all then! Maybe next time.
Nice..... back on normal service, adventures on UK railways 🤩
Didnt stop at Peterborough....... its full on into Yorkshire until a stop.
At least it was a good ride to Newcastle.
Ye York was first stop 👍
I enjoyed your video a lot. I use LNER a lot down south…it is not great.😌
New subscriber, brilliant video G, shame you couldn't get to Inverness, but Newcastle aint too shabby 😀
Thanks a lot!
Oh no that's not good G i hope you got refunds on everything the azumas are nice trains but i find the seats very uncomfortable on long journeys i preferred the seats on the hst's before they got refurbished. I hope next time you get to complete the journey ❤
Thanks I hope so, and thats fair! I did find the seat comfy 👍
On LNERs site, the seats that aren't supposed to have windows are marked R. The ones that are just bad due to poor seating arrangement isn't labeled, however
I find it mind boggling that someone thought that designing a train with seats that have no windows was a good idea.
Are they - i didn't notice that! 😆
@@MontytheHorse there are people who prefer no seats, but a blind that doesnt allow light (i think its called blackout, im not sure) on those seats instead would just make more sense, with a normal blind on the others
so what happend in he end did you get to inverness ,pay extra or get any money back , also one thing you need is sleep g your getting dark cicles round your eyes bless you. and keep safe and on railing
That's the way I look.
As someone who has only seen Kings Cross station on a monopoly board, thanks for this
Thanks for the video G,I've been too Inverness it's a stunning journey. Also the night train from Aberdeen to London I think it was about 12 hours ,great party on board. Please do your journey soon as you will love it!!😎🚄🚄🚄🚄🇬🇧💚
Thank i will try!
Have you either already done, or have any plans to do the UK's longest route Aberdeen to Penzance?
I'd love to do it one day!
If you want to amuse yourself in Newcastle, get a Hi-Vis vest and sit outside the Greggs with a beer. I guarantee you will be asked about trains and platforms by multiple people. (Personal experience, whilst commuting through Newcastle every morning/evening). Hilarious.
Looks like the same day I went to Berwick. Train back to Newcastle arrived over 3 hours late. An hour late leaving Berwick then further delays along the route because of the rain.
Quite possibly the same day!
Oh what a shame… I hope you were able to grab refunds on your hotel etc… as for what happens next, do we find out in next week’s episode? 😜
Just went home 😂
nicker hwks. hope you had a nice time in london. im from london. i love your videos !
Thanks a lot!
@@GLovesTrains ♥
@@darrylrichardson7940 i did. i really like their style of filmography
Oh dear sorry that the train had to be cancelled it looked to be an amazing trip to do, hope you have received refund on that trip especially your hotel booking here is too the next time, good luck 👍👍✅✅
Thanks and ye got full refund on the train 👍
If LNER kept the HSTs operating on the Highland Chieftain that would be so much better
G, what a shame that was that would be a lovely trip right up to Inverness and I think you had such a good price £88 all that way in first class. Thank you for sharing and I do hope you are able to complete the trip before too long.
Yes will try again! 😂
2 hours before a stop and scaling at least half of England. Imagine boarding that train by accident haha!
I know right! 😂
I'd be curious to know what the compensation was, if any? Especially for hotel and onward train?
Full refund for this and everything else unrefundable
I have been on an Azuma before - was well impressed by it, especially the smoothness of the ride. How was the veggie masala? Well, I hope you do make it up to the Highland capital one day soon, as Inverness is lovely and one of my favourite places to visit. (I am fairly local to there.) Hopefully next time will not involve large round fruits going up! 🤣
Haha hopefully not! And the food was yum I wanted more!
@@GLovesTrains Good luck on your next trip up North!
Sorry to hear you didn't manage to get all the way to Inverness. Do give it another try sometime soon, maybe with a day out to Kyle or the Far North while you're here.
You did get a good seat.
A couple of weeks ago I travelled to Edinburgh sitting at the back of the third 1st Coach. I think they probably didn't have as many requests for the full breakfast as usual that morning and when they got to me had plenty left over. When it arrived I did notice there were two fried eggs, and then beneath them I found there were three slices of bacon. I know where I'll try to get a seat next time, but don't tell everyone! 🤫
Haha I won't tell! 😆
I did that journey in 1982. HST Class 43 Intercity 125. Had a second class ticket but was aloud to dinner in the first class diner. I liked Inverness. It related to my home town in Sweden.
Awesome!
@@GLovesTrains Class 43 of course! I corrected it now.
I have been on LNER to Edinburgh Waverley couple years ago for a funeral and apparently there was major disruption on the ECML due to signalling problems near Newark Northgate.
But I do like LNER and I have been to York, Leeds, Edinburgh Waverley and Doncaster and hopefully go to Newcastle in the summer.
Another cheery, happy trip with Gloves Trains displaying remarkable patience as the journey quietly goes off the track- as someone who saw the railway track workers watched as my slow moving train trundled over a suspected broken rail - I know the suddenly backwards movement !
Thanks and geez!
aaaaaarr Poor G, sorry you had to cancel your trip to inverness 😢if you get to redo your trip, we stayed in little town called Nairn, lovely beach there , not far from inverness, and if your traveling on lock ness Jacobite Cruises Limited re friendly crew, they even have a bar on boat , when your not filming, hope you get a refund so as to redo this trip, so chin up you Rock remember take care
Thanks, hopefully i can get up there at some point haha
I did the chieftain in first class a couple of years back, it was fabulous.
It’s weird if you don’t sit for a long time on a train from london to Scotland. Once sat in an avanti train for 3 hours just south of Motherwell. The. Train was cancelled at Crewe so we had to move to another train which was rammed. Mental.
Melons Up,what a fantastic phrase will be using this to the end of its natural life!!! xxx
Haha same!
Hi G, sorry to hear all your plans went awary, looked a good trip until then 😊
One cool little tip about travelling First Class from King's Cross is that there's a "secret" gate line just outside the lounge that takes you straight to the platforms via a bridge and escalators. So far out of all the first class services I've tried, LNER's feels like the best.
Ah ill have to look out for that!
If LNER's first class is the best - I dread to think what the rest must be like.
Great vid G 👍 and you had the best view of all gan owwa the Tyne, I need to gan yhem noo, I'm feeling homesick. it's geet canny ya knaa. And going through Darlington, home of the railway. If I'd known you didn't make it to Inverness I could of rang a family member to shacked you up for the night 😅. Good news for future reference there are two Travelodges only a few hundred yards from Central Station, Quayside and Central.
Cheers and I need a translator for that 😂
Great vlog as always G just a shame you were unable to complete you journey hope you were able to obtain a refund for the hotel and the remainder of the train journey still Newcastle is a great place
Thanks, LNER gave full refund, everything else non refundable 😆
Fun fact: the seats in 1st class on these IETs (both LNER and GWR) are the same seats that DB use in 2nd class on their ICE trains.
I’ve done that journey albeit from York - 1st class - took a whole 9 hours😎
So what happened next, did you stay over in Newcastle? Any refund on your hotel or train fare?
Right-hand side going north ⬆️ you have the Yorkshire Moors, Durham Cathedral, Northumberland Coast, southern Scotland coast and after that not sure as i rarely get north of Edinburgh sadly.
what a great video G, have u ever done the Aberdeen to Penzance direct train
Not yet
@@GLovesTrains i am doing it in end of May and i am recording it all 13hr40mins of it
I said screw it and booked this trip back in January. I didn't take into account that it would be pitch black from Edinburgh onwards but it was absolutely worth the £85 (I hardly ever travel first class + it'd been a bucket list trip for a while). I'm sorry you didn't make it all the way. Absolutely should have another go if you can 🙂
Haha ye better do it in summer ey 😂
I thought you was a travel blogger like planes trains everything. You are mostly into trains
@@darrylrichardson7940 does kinda give it away doesn't it? well, maybe not to some people. . .
She's much better than him, he only reacts to people who pay him and his mate Marsh. Also my screen cracks a little bit every time his videos come up!
Why didn’t they stop the train at Newcastle would have saved moving back up the line I wonder how far you had to travel until you could switch to the other line to travel south
Excellent video as always. I'm doing this journey from York in June hoping for better luck.
Good luck! 😆
Yeah, that didn't exactly go to plan there, we'll mark that one down as a fail, move on and try to get to Invo another day
Haha yep will definitely have to try again 😆
one journey i want to make. looks lovely.
They didn't offer rail replacement?