Exeter St Davids to Penzance via Dawlish Driver's Eye View

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  • Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024

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  • @TruckerGaz
    @TruckerGaz 18 дней назад +30

    Finally..... I've been waiting for this cab view run for ages. And now it's arrived.. hurrah

    • @richardgriffiths5920
      @richardgriffiths5920 15 дней назад +1

      Me too for the last time I had a proper train ride in Cornwall was way back in 1957 when it took us hours and hours to get to Bristol Temple Meads where we had to spend the night in a waiting room before another train took us to Birmingham, then onto Coventry.

  • @andrewholloway231
    @andrewholloway231 18 дней назад +31

    I have just finished watching this video. It is brilliant, the scenery, the viaducts, 43251's engine... Thank you very much Ben.... really appreciate this.

    • @richardgriffiths5920
      @richardgriffiths5920 15 дней назад +2

      Me too having had my only trip to Cornwall by good old steam train back in 1957.

  • @100SteveB
    @100SteveB 14 дней назад +6

    What a great time of day to do that run. Low sun and the mist patches really added to the atmosphere of this beautiful stretch of line.

  • @thecolneranger1588
    @thecolneranger1588 18 дней назад +11

    Beautiful video. The weather conditions give it an ethereal quality.

  • @lesleyhirst3422
    @lesleyhirst3422 17 дней назад +12

    I've also been hoping someone would make this run; it was well worth the wait. Thanks very much!

  • @duainesimpson274
    @duainesimpson274 18 дней назад +9

    Absolutely wonderful, Just a dream to see it from a view point! Class 43 from Devon into Cornwall.. fantastic 💯💯💯

  • @KatharineA0203
    @KatharineA0203 18 дней назад +14

    Nobody sits down coming round the estuary at Starcross - just a spectacular view 🤩🤩

  • @Kivetonandrew
    @Kivetonandrew 17 дней назад +5

    A brilliant video. Is amazing how twisting and hilly the route is. Cornwall is my favourite county to visit, home of my ancestors.

  • @theo-v7t
    @theo-v7t 14 дней назад +5

    Great video!
    Brought back memories of being sat atop Dawlish Warren’s Langstone Rock or its little brother to the north when Warships were so very common!!

  • @ianpeddle6818
    @ianpeddle6818 15 дней назад +3

    Fantastic and iconic journey. What an absolute joy and a treat. I’ve waited years for this journey in full. Thank you for posting. Atmospheric weather and stunning scenery. It doesn’t get much better. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @Trond_travels
    @Trond_travels 6 дней назад +1

    This journey is absolutly lovely, I had to watch it twice.

  • @edwardbarnes2702
    @edwardbarnes2702 14 дней назад +6

    Whow! Just watched this again, its brilliant in that you say the sound recordings are from the engine department, This really adds so much to the journey, that engine sound it doesn’t need any voice commentary. Just excellent. 🤓 Eddie

  • @DavidTurner-r1k
    @DavidTurner-r1k 17 дней назад +6

    One of the great railway journeys of the world.

  • @kevinellis8869
    @kevinellis8869 16 дней назад +4

    Great trip, it highlights the different weather conditions you have to contend with.

  • @venerablebeade
    @venerablebeade 11 дней назад +2

    love the bit where it goes over the Tamar Bridge- great video- thank you for using the real engine sound as well.

  • @johnledbury8403
    @johnledbury8403 15 дней назад +2

    That was good, thank you. I have traveled on that line many times, but seeing it like this was marvelous.

  • @pdunderhill
    @pdunderhill 17 дней назад +4

    God's Wonderful Railway, thank you for stirring memories of Redruth to Bristol Temple Meads, and back, on HS125s in the '70s and '80's. A couple of Winter journeys I did wonder if we would get stuck in Dawlish due to the Storms!

  • @Bigbro28
    @Bigbro28 18 дней назад +6

    An outstanding video, maintaining your high standard of excellence 👍. (That's a long flamin' walk along the seafront.)

  • @78Alcione
    @78Alcione 13 дней назад +1

    Nice to watch this great cab view ride thru inland and coastal segments. Beautiful! Thank you.

  • @letrainavapeur
    @letrainavapeur 17 дней назад +3

    A very interesting run, the light at the first start of the run was particularly nice.

  • @Going-Full-Circle
    @Going-Full-Circle 17 дней назад +5

    This is a beautiful train line to travel on.

  • @30041946
    @30041946 18 дней назад +4

    Hello Ben . Another excellent trip. Thank you. Roger

  • @pgw1977
    @pgw1977 14 дней назад +2

    A wonderful journey! Thank you Ben. 😃

  • @martinhew981
    @martinhew981 8 дней назад

    I have worked this line and also the now the West of England line since the early 80's and this video has been a rare treat. How wonderful to see it in such good quality and so recent too. Also congratualtions on filming the Exe estuary and Dawlish with the tide up! and in calm weather. I think i will be watching this many times as one of my all time favorites. Thank you.

  • @vinniesuperstar8923
    @vinniesuperstar8923 10 дней назад +1

    amazes me how Cornwall, and Penzance in particular gets such an intense service. Great video, I don't think I've ever seen the route in that direction.

  • @basingstoke63
    @basingstoke63 16 дней назад +3

    A fantastic video ,Ben . The end of what I believe is the longest rail journey in the ,UK , starting at Aberdeen . Thanks for uploading .

  • @steamisbest
    @steamisbest 17 дней назад +4

    Brilliant video, it's such a better view from the cab than being a passenger which i've done many times. Would love to see the reverse working with the shunts into Dawlish Warren and Paignton.

  • @jessicamorgan3073
    @jessicamorgan3073 18 дней назад +3

    Thanks Ban and Colas.
    The light was fantastic

  • @leplessis8179
    @leplessis8179 18 дней назад +4

    Walked over the Tamar road bridge last weekend - spectacular views of the railway!

  • @Rollin-Rant
    @Rollin-Rant 18 дней назад +3

    You're video brought back a lot of memories along the route and a lot of changes with the old semaphore signals gone, happy to have seen them at St.Erth Station though, brilliant video 👍.

  • @iangallaugher3468
    @iangallaugher3468 17 дней назад +1

    Tide's in! I think this is first I've seen with the estuaries full. And a lovely calm day too. Thanks for this, from the other side of the world.

  • @andrewjohnson582
    @andrewjohnson582 3 дня назад

    Walked along that sea wall at teignmouth on a day out,brings back memories, great video

  • @mrandsp
    @mrandsp 6 дней назад

    Great quality video coupled with the engine sound and the wonderful scenery - many thanks for posting. Great to see the old semaphore signals at the Penzance end still working!

  • @raysmith114
    @raysmith114 14 дней назад +1

    Awesome journey - one of the best. Thanks Ben

  • @1903bretep
    @1903bretep 17 дней назад +2

    Thanks Ben, another great run and I think having the audio come from the engine room actually added to the experience despite the lack of AWS etc, just a thought for future videos.

  • @nmb46
    @nmb46 14 дней назад +2

    Amazing Ben, thanks very much.

  • @nineoneten
    @nineoneten 18 дней назад +3

    That is a seriously beautiful route, the view crossing the Tamar into Cornwall is outstanding. Used to travel to Cornwall on holiday trains back in the 80's and spend the holiday running up and down the main line and the branches on a rover ticket. One of those videos that are good at 0.5x speed with the sound off. A shame to rush them !

  • @ramonwilliams5721
    @ramonwilliams5721 13 дней назад +1

    A great video, never been into Cornwall, was born in North Devon, and finished up in Worcestershire. kind regards

  • @marksamuel130
    @marksamuel130 18 дней назад +5

    Gods Wonderful Railway in all its splendor

  • @ridefast0
    @ridefast0 13 дней назад +1

    Excellent video thanks. Must be a proper climb from Newton Abbot up to Dainton tunnel, judging by the amount of revving! Great to see these magnificent vehicles re-purposed and still going!

  • @alanmusicman3385
    @alanmusicman3385 18 дней назад +3

    So good to get a decent HD view of this maximally scenic route. It always feels to me that the waterside sections to Newton Abbot are saying to the remaining sections into Plymouth "Ha! Follow That!" and the remaining sections shrug and just say "Nah, not even gonna try".

  • @GaryCheater
    @GaryCheater 16 дней назад +2

    Great video, love the coast routes 😊

  • @revjohnoliver
    @revjohnoliver 15 дней назад +1

    Outstanding video, beautiful ride.

  • @Nenlothiel
    @Nenlothiel 10 дней назад +1

    Perfect video! Thank you so much.

  • @ETRuT1
    @ETRuT1 5 дней назад

    Brilliant, on a beautiful day! Thank you.

  • @tact86
    @tact86 16 дней назад +1

    Great Video, Thanks. Would love to see more like this.

  • @firestarteronyoutube5542
    @firestarteronyoutube5542 17 дней назад +3

    YES! THANK YOU!!!

  • @geraldmartin2729
    @geraldmartin2729 17 дней назад +1

    I like the way the captions line up exactly with the picture.

  • @WalterKuhn-pb2rd
    @WalterKuhn-pb2rd 15 дней назад +1

    Fantastic trip, thank you!

  • @fouloleron2002
    @fouloleron2002 18 дней назад +3

    Absolutely superb.

  • @ianinvancouverbc
    @ianinvancouverbc 18 дней назад +2

    Had in laws in Dawlish and Torquay made this trek a few times, stunningly beautiful

  • @markmason5523
    @markmason5523 17 дней назад +2

    Great video …Thank you…

  • @johnsumner1667
    @johnsumner1667 10 дней назад +1

    Thank you for posting this. I was going to ask if a video like this would be possible

  • @44662dc
    @44662dc 15 дней назад +2

    I really enjoyed that Ben. You did get checked a number of times only to see the signal step up. Still good to see the old G.W. semaphores around ,but for how long

  • @Fenestra_M
    @Fenestra_M 15 дней назад +1

    I like this video I have played it through several times even at slow speed- really good.Long overdue not available until fairly recently. I do not know if there is a video Pasddington or Waterloo to Exter. If there is I will play that-but- thanks for this one !!

  • @ChangesOneTim
    @ChangesOneTim 18 дней назад +15

    Well done Ben - you made Exeter-Plymouth in 50min; must be some 25yr since any non-stop runs were in the passenger timetable. And...you must have been one of the first (if not THE first) to be checked down at the new Grampound Road signal CL5883 1:51:50 since it was added earlier this year. By the way, at 2:11:03 is Treleigh (pronounced TreLAY) R/G footpath crossing. Thanks as ever for the ride 😀

    • @richardkennell6428
      @richardkennell6428 18 дней назад +1

      Seriously addictive!
      Many thanks Richard

    • @AndreiTupolev
      @AndreiTupolev 15 дней назад

      @@ChangesOneTim there were some non-stop runs in the up direction on summer Saturdays before the end of HST operation, but there didn't seem to have been any in the down direction, so this might well be a contender for 'fastest run for quite a while'

    • @nicklittle8780
      @nicklittle8780 5 дней назад

      @@AndreiTupolev Not like the days of the Golden Hind and Cornish Riviera expresses, eh?

  • @tristcm9633
    @tristcm9633 17 дней назад +2

    Wonderful video! Nice to have been caught at EXD 😂

  • @K1W1fly
    @K1W1fly 15 дней назад +3

    "I.K. Brunel, Engineer, 1959" - The Royal Albert Bridge is spectacular!

    • @AndreiTupolev
      @AndreiTupolev 15 дней назад +3

      1859!

    • @nicklittle8780
      @nicklittle8780 5 дней назад

      @@AndreiTupolev My all-time favorite railway bridge! I grew up a ten minute walk from the Devon end and never fail to wonder at the incredible engineering. Great pubs underneath the bridge on both sides of the river!

  • @jwslijm7278
    @jwslijm7278 18 дней назад +3

    Oh this is a huge one! See it when i have time. Plymouth - London i have seen om the last day of 1 certain operation. So to Penzance is the final nail in the coffin. Hope it does not dissapoint.

  • @davecroad6277
    @davecroad6277 8 дней назад

    Traveld on that line many times really scenic line always nice to travel on

  • @oliverbaylis7773
    @oliverbaylis7773 18 дней назад +2

    Looking forward to this one, bravo!😊

  • @SMILEVIDEOTRAINS
    @SMILEVIDEOTRAINS 16 дней назад +1

    great journey, thank you

  • @Phil3756
    @Phil3756 8 дней назад

    Wonderful video of two wonderful counties with everything sea, countryside, viaducts and still a little of the semaphore signalling, it must take some time putting up all the locations/speeds so Thank you for taking the time with both video and captions. The red car on the A30 after st Erth at 2h.09m have been doing some speed with you able to do 75mph and they flew past you. Very nice to reminisce of times past by the sea wall, and holidays in Cornwall mainly with family, but would try and get a day free to see the 37's on china clay at Lostwithal. If you do request tallies of routes would very much like to see the WCML Trent valley, and via Tamworth high level, please.

  • @Frostie3672
    @Frostie3672 8 дней назад

    My favourite route to drive in train sim classic & with the HST enhancement pack from Armstrong powerhouse the HST sounds are spot on to the real thing as well.

  • @the1gip
    @the1gip 18 дней назад +2

    Oh my goodness it's so pretty!

  • @deltic1964
    @deltic1964 17 дней назад +2

    Excellent Ben

  • @neilcharlton456
    @neilcharlton456 15 дней назад +3

    you cross the Tamar bridge and you think it's not far now. 90 miles later you arrive in Penzance ! Cornwall is a very long county !

  • @billydoidge7661
    @billydoidge7661 18 дней назад +5

    saw myself on the platform in Truro lol

  • @BIGV710
    @BIGV710 18 дней назад +2

    wow so it was you who went past my house just after laira loco shed i thought i heard a HST after lipson junction on right next to tracks it was on friday 18 oct

  • @GordonShuffell
    @GordonShuffell 18 дней назад +4

    Fantastic your best video yet?

  • @mrbluesky2050
    @mrbluesky2050 17 дней назад +1

    Nicely, more so since I spent last April on a weekly Cornish ranger up and down Plymouth to Penzance and all the branches, ( St.Ive's, Falmouth Docks, Newquay, Looe and Gunnislake. )

  • @jacobsmith385
    @jacobsmith385 18 дней назад +4

    I’ve never seen the exe so full!

    • @markcf83
      @markcf83 18 дней назад +1

      Must've been not long after all that heavy rain down there.

  • @ELPaso1990TX
    @ELPaso1990TX 16 дней назад +1

    Would be great if more videos like this then can do a full UK train cab journey from Thurso to Penzance.

  • @kernow9324
    @kernow9324 18 дней назад +5

    I hadn't realised how many single track sections there were.

  • @iangarbutt7451
    @iangarbutt7451 17 дней назад

    Fantastic memories of my trip to St Ives... my starting point was Farnham.... on to Woking, then change at St David's 🧡🚄🧡

  • @Harryvolting
    @Harryvolting 9 дней назад

    Wonderful, but difficult though it was I had to jump off at Newton Abbot.. chores and cheers Ben.

  • @philipperry1304
    @philipperry1304 18 дней назад +3

    I'll watch it Monday

  • @britannia55
    @britannia55 11 дней назад +1

    About to go past my home on the left right just before St Thomas station

  • @johnkeepin7527
    @johnkeepin7527 2 дня назад

    It was interesting to watch the footage. Not much change in the layout between Exeter & Totnes since the early 1980s. I’m one of the people who worked on the Exeter Panel Signal Box project then, when it was brand new.
    No sign of any electrification yet though! When it was designed, it was done in a way that would have been compatible with it - things like maximum cable length, types of relays used, types of track circuits (they were normal then, before axle counters became popular here) and so on. As it is, it’s likely that much of it will be obsolete by the time the OLE is extended that far west.

  • @paulchapman1175
    @paulchapman1175 18 дней назад +3

    to ben elias very good video from paul chapman at London uk 🇬🇧

  • @mikecarroll6358
    @mikecarroll6358 16 дней назад +1

    Beautiful trip. Ex pats will be homesick.

    • @nicklittle8780
      @nicklittle8780 5 дней назад

      Dead right! Not been into Cornwall many times since moving Stateside in '95.

  • @david-stewart
    @david-stewart 17 дней назад +2

    Excellent

  • @ianstevenson9844
    @ianstevenson9844 15 дней назад +1

    Great to see how things have changed down here since the signalling upgrade. Typical Cornish weather!

    • @nicklittle8780
      @nicklittle8780 5 дней назад

      Where are the signals controlled from now? I remember the installation of color light signals in Plymouth.

  • @suzukidaniel1396
    @suzukidaniel1396 13 дней назад +1

    They say it always rains in Penzance and low & behold I can see wet weather approaching Penzance

  • @ACELog
    @ACELog 17 дней назад +3

    Great to see Dawlish at 10:02 ! Never seen Driver's Eye View of it before! Often watch the live webcams, though. They're a useful check on what weather is on it's way to London!

  • @andrewjohnson582
    @andrewjohnson582 3 дня назад

    Bridge over the Tamar bearly looks wide enough for a train! No wonder it's single line only and it's "nice" to see the A38 on the right of it still going strong 200 miles away considering I live just off it in Birmingham 😂

  • @radekgmyrek7244
    @radekgmyrek7244 18 дней назад +2

    Super film

  • @RichardD-f6p
    @RichardD-f6p 18 дней назад +3

    Nice video and best view I've seen going over the Royal Albert Bridge. One question- what does a measurement train measure?

    • @dizstruxshon1012
      @dizstruxshon1012 18 дней назад +5

      Track geometry: Uses transducers and accelerometers to measure the up and down movement of the train and the shape and movement of the rail head
      Track faults: Uses a Plain Line Pattern Recognition (PLPR) system to detect faulty track components with lasers and cameras
      Data collection: Can collect around 10 terabytes of data for every 440 miles traveled.

    • @RichardD-f6p
      @RichardD-f6p 18 дней назад +1

      @dizstruxshon1012 Interesting. Thanks for the detailed answer

  • @AndreiTupolev
    @AndreiTupolev 18 дней назад +2

    Water looks slightly worryingly high in the Exe estuary, I have to say. Next subject for fears of flooding? 😰

  • @minimaxi802
    @minimaxi802 17 дней назад +1

    The railway reaches the sea three times, at Dawlish, just before St Austell and finally Penzance.

  • @trevstreasurehunts9701
    @trevstreasurehunts9701 18 дней назад +9

    Any news on the bus yet

    • @beneliastrains
      @beneliastrains  18 дней назад +1

      It's been scrapped, years of sitting on grass took its toll on the chassis. Other bus projects in the pipeline though, we now have a few with some videos hopefully coming soon. The buses under restoration aren't mine so I am not in control of how long it takes.

  • @ZsoltUK
    @ZsoltUK 16 дней назад +1

    Riviera line 🤩

  • @muttsnutsNAFO
    @muttsnutsNAFO 18 дней назад +1

    This route to plymouth should be on tsw! Now to plymouth a ideal end point... but after wcl it was unsatisfying when royal albert bridge wasnt involved. Can saltash really be a end point/start point?

  • @TheCornishtrainspotter
    @TheCornishtrainspotter 18 дней назад +3

    Great video! What did you think of the south coast ?

    • @beneliastrains
      @beneliastrains  17 дней назад +1

      Lovely down there, I want to go again in my own time at some point!

  • @adrianbew9641
    @adrianbew9641 15 дней назад

    There are 42 viaducts in cornwall that's equivalent to one every one mile and three quarters of main line track between pz and Plymouth.

  • @UKbrownSkinBoy
    @UKbrownSkinBoy 18 дней назад +1

    Oh you little beaut, you...

  • @cutter004
    @cutter004 18 дней назад +3

    👍👍👍

  • @aellis6264
    @aellis6264 14 дней назад

    Excellent video Ben. Do the loops and platforms lines ever get scanned by the NMT?

  • @Ortac22
    @Ortac22 18 дней назад +1

    It's behind you....

  • @altern8tive
    @altern8tive 18 дней назад +3

    📷 Dave spotting - 13:17