Hereford to Newport (Maindee East Jn) - Hastings DEMU cab ride - 24 March 2018
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- The Sixty Marches charter, Part 6:
Cab view from Hereford down the Welsh Marches Line to Newport (Maindee East Junction). Filmed from Hastings Diesels Limited’s preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 24 March 2018, during the return leg of The Sixty Marches private charter.
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In this video we travel 43 miles and 79 chains in 49 minutes across Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, crossing and re-crossing the Wales/England border and skimming the edge of the Brecon Beacons. We follow the Newport, Abergavenny & Hereford railway over the summit of a steep climb at Llanvihangel, through Abergavenny on the way down the other side, and onward as far as Pontypool. From there the line becomes the Pontypool, Caerleon & Newport Railway which was built to act as a ‘bypass’ for the busy Monmouthshire Railway south of Pontypool, which the Newport, Abergavenny & Hereford Railway had originally been obliged to share. In the Pontypool area we pass a vast area which used to be heavily industrialised and served by many railway lines... all of them gone except for the one we are on, passing abandoned industry, overgrown railway sidings and a suspiciously new-looking housing estate. Ultimately we curve round the Caerleon district and cross the tidal River Usk to approach Newport and the South Wales Main Line, onto which we turn at Maindee East Junction.
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This outing began at Hastings and ran via Tonbridge, Redhill and Guildford to Reading; then from Reading via Hungerford (part 1) to the Westbury area (part 2) where we turned right at Heywood Road Junction, through Bradford-on-Avon and Bath to Filton (part 3), through the Severn Tunnel into Wales, to Maindee Junction (Newport) (part 4) for the line through Abergavenny to Hereford (part 5); the return journey from Hereford to Newport (this part) continued via the Severn Tunnel and Bath (next part), retracing the same route.
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Video footage is from an unattended unmonitored forward-facing cab-camera in motor coach 60118 Tunbridge Wells.
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1:23 - HEREFORD
4:17 - site of Rotherwas Junction
6:42 - site of Red Hill Junction
8:29 - Red Hill Tunnel
10:55 - Tram Inn Signal Box and disused station
13:14 - St Devereux disused station
15:59 - site of Pontrilas Junction
16:06 - Pontrilas Signal Box and disused station
16:14 - Pontrilas Tunnel
20:52 - Pandy disused station
23:49 - Llanvihangel disused station and the summit of the line
26:24 - Abergavenny Junction disused station
26:41 - site of Abergavenny Junction
27:13 - Abergavenny station
27:24 - Abergavenny Signal Box
29:23 - Penpergwm disused station
31:43 - Nantyderry disused station
34:06 - Little Mill Junction, Signal Box & disused station
35:45 - Pontypool and New Inn station
36:09 - site of Coedygric North Junction
37:11 - site of Coedygric Junctions
37:33 - site of Panteg Junction
37:47 - Panteg Goods Loops
38:03 - Chapel Lane Ground Frame
38:35 - Lower Pontnewydd disused station
38:43 - Cwmbran station
39:30 - site of Llantarnam Junction
39:56 - Llantarnam disused station
41:01 - Ponthir disused station
42:28 - Caerleon disused station
44:41 - Maindee North Junction
48:04 - NEWPORT (Maindee East Junction).
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Video, soundtrack and captions © Copyright 2018-2019 Hastings Diesels Limited.
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Equipment: video by GoPro Hero3+ camera with focus modification, suction-mount and extra batteries; video production by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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Here are the actual timings for the day’s outing:
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Here are annotated extracts from the Network Rail Section Appendix:
* Outward: www.dropbox.com/s/nexbk2jdnmp...
Our return journey’s route was changed just a day or two before the trip because of a bridge strike - from Hereford to Filton Abbey Wood we were supposed to have been routed via Worcester and the Gloucester area to Yate and Bristol Parkway, but as things turned out we had to retrace our steps via the Severn Tunnel. The following shows our original route.
* Return: www.dropbox.com/s/kana0042y09...
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ERRATUM: the departure platform at Hereford should be platform 1, not 2.
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What agreat cab ride felt like I was right there and I loved the way the info was shown on screen and not by voice over and no distracting music either
The Map overlays and captions are distracting enough.
I am homebound because of illness. I used to travel but can't anymore. This was a wonderful trip for me. I can finally "get out and about" in the world. Thank you.
Thank you, glad we could do that for you.
This stretch of line is like the original railway. No electrification of any kind and complete with semaphore signalling, in places.It seems a lot of stations were closed before the infamous Beeching axe. Always enjoy the videos, very informative, and I think the map overlay was a great idea.
Thank you, Richard, glad you enjoyed it.
Back in the cab again, wonderful video Richard, thanks very much indeed.
Great video. I travelled on that line in 1990 from Newport to Hereford. Nice to know the history of it.
I find these films compulsive, almost hypnotic, viewing. The maps and information panels are so helpful. Thanks for all your hard work.
Thank you, glad you enjoy them!
Great ride! Big thanks from New York.
A GREAT AND ENJOYABLE CAB RIDE AND INTERESTING MANY THANKS
Thankyou once again for a delightful ride . The map was appreciated.
Once again. Excellent vid thanks for sharing. Bob Mac.
Just great. Thank you. Enjoyed the video
Doesn't matter that you're following the same route home, these are great videos and I thoroughly enjoy watching them. Lot's more to come I hope.
Thank you!
I enjoyed all 6 videos .especially the last two .my sister had a house in Swansea and a house in Hereford. So have travelled these two for the last two years .sadly passed away in March this year with cancer .was great to see it from a cab view ..excellent. now on to some more cheers Chris x
I am sorry about your sis .!! Sorry for your loss !! Her houses in those both locations must had been real nice vacation places for you to visit ,though !! Hope you've made lots of fond ,beautiful memories with your sister ! 💜🥁🐉🎤💞
I defy anyone to name just ONE beautiful stretch of motorway.
Brilliant video & great on-screen information. One of my favourite routes & most of my footage of the route is northbound, so its good to have a southbound view of it.
Thank you Laurie, glad we could do that for you.
Very enjoyable thank you.
Awesome ride enjoyed
After having no internet for over a week, this was a special treat, outstanding again, would love to do a tour onboard this green princess
Thank you Antony. Our trip to London, Grain and Angerstein on 6 April is nearly sold out; but we should soon(ish) be taking bookings for our trip to Norwich and Lowestoft on 11 May. See www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/railtours/
@@hastingsdiesels thank you, I will have a look
Excellent. So many stations closed 1958 , that was before Beeching Axe , why, must have been lack of use, yet when they do close public outcry !
Nice one again thank you 👏❤️😁x
Buen video !! Saludos desde argentina 😉👍
Most enjoyable.
A dull day, but an interesting ride. I thought the line to Usk had re-opened, but obviously not?
Yes, we are continuing our route towards Bath in the next segment. I expected this. Hopefully we will end up back where we had started in the first place, that is Reading. These user worked crossings (UWC) seem to be controlled manually and are not automatically opened or shut.
We won't be going beyond Bath as it is dark by then. User-Worked Crossings are indeed... worked by their users!
Hereford to M4 overbridge (42m 1ch) in 43m 4s. That's a start-to-pass avge speed of 58.53 mph. Pretty good for a veteran.
I noticed from the outward journey that you traversed at least 4 triangle junctions (Reading, Westbury, Bristol and Newport) plus the former one at Bradford Jn. I've no idea how many there are country-wide, but you knocked off a few that day!
Thank you, and yes I like that statistic!
Out of interest, how do you know the accurate chainage of the M4 overbridge?
Yes you're right about all those triangles - and if you're counting Bristol for the Dr. Day's one there was formerly also the East Somerset Junction one just east of Feeder Bridge Jn, and the Filton/Patchway complex is several superimposed triangles... :)
@@hastingsdiesels Thank the stars for that wonderful series called "Railway Track Diagrams". I've had them since they were Quail maps - and hand lettered. The chainage is there (Vol 3:30D) and used the centre of the main bridge on the movie (six pillars support it over the railway). That gave me an accurate time point also.
I swithered about including the Patchway complex, but decided that since the centre point was an overbridge to exclude it. I didn't realise Feeder Bridge had been one. That's another piece of trivia to be brought out into a conversation - sometime!
Ah yes, the Quail maps. I don't have one for this far west.
Regarding a triangular junction with the Bristol & North Somerset Railway, see ruclips.net/video/T3qZ5ZYQB_I/видео.html at 43:17 for map and as we then pass the remains of the facing junction (from superimposing old & new mapping, it went right through where the cinema complex now is).
Positive comments like others before me Richard! All I can say is it’s a great idea putting the map of the locations in the video, and the other thing is - whatever happened to Pontypool station??!! Very different to the black and white photos in my old Ian Allan books!!
Thank you Andrew.
Guess you must be very busy at the moment, any new journeys to tell us about, all the best !!!
Hi, yes I’m busy with publicity, bookings and ticketing for our two forthcoming trips, see www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/railtours/
When time permits I will produce the final segment of this outing (Newport to Bath), then it’ll be off to King’s Lynn.
@@hastingsdiesels thank you so much the up coming tours look very interesting, will you be filming any part of them ??
@@lesliegprice6652 I filmed yesterday's outing in its entirety...
Why all the station closures in 1958?
Hi richard,Wonderful pictures beautiful scenery and a great day out thank you, I can not believe they closed all those stations and will any of them come back?,Cheer's bob.
Hi Bob, thank you. I don’t know - Cwmbran and Pontypool are each modern stations so further re-openings might one day be a possibility.
more track less roads I say nice and fast at Cwmbran...love it thanks for using welsh names Dewch I mewn sub`d
Hello Richard, I do enjoy all the videos you have recorded. I was wondering when you will be releasing the the other parts of the return journey? I definitely want to go back through the Severn Tunnel.
Thank you. I don't want to commit myself to a specific date, but I do still intend to do this. I'll be getting the railtour that's in 16 days out of the way first, definitely!
A fantastic video, thanks for posting! A few questions - how long does it take to organise one of your excursions and if a charity/cause wanted to use your train for a sponsored excursion would you be willing to listen to them?
Thank you David. It takes many, many hours to organise an excursion, and a sensible amount of notice would be around 4 months. We would consider any genuine and sensible request - bear in mind that the Track Access fees from Network Rail plus the Traincrew fees from GB Railfreight are likely to be between 5 and 10 thousand, depending upon itinerary, duration etc. Please email us if interested, via the website.
@HastingsDieselsLtd Do you have any footage from the Lowestoft visit last month? I would love to see this part of the country as I travel around it a lot! And an amazing video by the way, I love listening to the engine and seeing other parts of the country I have never been to before. :)
Thank you! Yes, we have footage from the Lowestoft trip from May 2019. There's a bit of a backlog, and I don't have time to produce videos as well as help run railtours at the same time - but I certainly intend that Camden Road to Stratford to Norwich to Lowestoft shall feature on this channel in due course.
are those diesel locs still in use and efficient???
Lol. Around 1:20? The horn scared the boy ?( girl ,? ) on the platform !! Lol. It sounds very old makes me worry a bit . I am planning our trip ( with mom ) to Wales & England, others & we'll be taking our day trip to Hereford from Newport ,maybe 1st Chepstow ? But ,I'll be a bit worried if we'll take a train like this one making lots of loud noise & squeaky sounds !! Lol.😅💜🥁🐉🎤💞
More gate?
Great vid as always thanks , can you still get the parts for the engine ok ? they must last a long time as very low revving ? 600-680 for the Mk1 engine and 750-900 for Mk 2 according to Wiki .
Thank you. Hastings Diesels does have a stock of spares, and we take pains to look after them well. These engines, like most, are damaged by undue thermal cycling, and stopping & starting. We even have a specific procedure for shutting them down very gradually to avoid damaging the fan-clutch. English Electric made these to run and run, their service rev-limit is 850rpm and a centrifugal governor will cut off the fuel supply if the crankshaft rpm reaches 1,020.
@@hastingsdiesels Very interesting and thank you so much for the info , my neighbour used to work on the diesel engines years ago and he told me about "runaway " engines and how quickly that made him escape from the engine room but I am guessing that was more likely to have been a turbo version , keep up the good work .
FWIW ours has a (Napier MS100) turbocharger.
Tell us, please, do those new signal lamps pierce fog or at least mist better over there?
Over where? Where are you comparing these lamps to? I don't drive on Network Rail so I can't personally give an answer, even if I understood the question - but someone else might?
Hi, loving the videos, will there be a part 7 coming out at all.
Cheers
Glad you're enjoying them. I do intend to produce a Part 7, but it won't happen while I'm flat-out with the activities associated with publicising, booking and running current tours... sorry about that.
Ah, Richard, the return journey begins. How far shall we go before it gets dark.....?😀
It’s pretty dark by the time we get to Bath. You’ll see (or not!) in the next segment. :)
Hi sorry to bother you, I know it's your busy season, but any idea when there might be a new video,all the best !!!
No idea I'm afraid - I've just managed to get my email inbox under control for the first time since January... but my holiday from my own (unrelated to HDL) day-job doesn't go on for ever!
@@hastingsdiesels ok thanks very much.....take care
I wonder how much scrap metal lies on British railways and is it ever collected?
Great footage! Is this it for now until the next tour?
There will be more. I've simply been too busy with current HDL railtour bookings, ticketing, and management thereof, to devote any time to this channel. But I did also record loads more footage yesterday...
@@hastingsdiesels Great, looking forward to seeing them!
would like to hear crew banter or is it all swearing ? lol always loved trains but wasnt an anorak...I started watching cab and station videos afew weeks ago and im now a confirmed train video junkey...lol...need to buy a good camera and try it myself. quite relaxing watching a cab ride journey. for free no ticket lol and yours,you take time and bother to give good info..ty
Thank you. Crew chat is not always related to work at all, and the filming is only permissible on the understanding that crew chat will not be published. Sorry!
Are you going to post anymore videos hastings diesels?
I hope so. But trying to produce one per week meant that I left too many other things not-done in my life, so when things quieten down I'll come back to it - but not promising to do them as frequently.
@@hastingsdiesels thanks for the reply, look forward to it.
You got the wrong platform, it's 1 not 2.
Yes, you're right. Good spot!
Why do you & others calling it a cab ride !!? Cab means train in Wales !!? We call taxi ,cabs here in the States !! Lol.😅😆
For the country in which the train operates & was built for, "cab ride" is the correct terminology. Cab is short for "cabin", and the driving compartment is always known as the "cab". I've personally had "the cab" as my own workplace for the past 15 years (though not in this type of train!).
@@hastingsdiesels Thank you so much for your reply & educating me !! I am Japanese living in the States, here in Cali .( L.A. & everywhere else )we call taxi cab !! So...thanks !! You mean you had worked for a train company ? 💜🥁🐉🎤🎵🎶💞
Thank you. Yes, I still do.
@@hastingsdiesels That's awesome !! 👍👍😀💜🥁🐉🎤🎵🎶💞