Freight and Passenger Train Variety, at speed & in station! Across Cumbria. 04 - 06 April 23
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- A Train Variety, slow and at speed
Mostly in Cumbria but starting in North Yorkshire.
Heavy freight,
Engineers' Trains
and Passenger.
04 - 06 April 23
Recorded on my travels at Skipton, Carlisle, On the West Coast Main Line at Greenholme, Grayrigg / Beckfoot and the former Hincaster Junction and finally at Cark & Cartmel on the Furness section of the Coast line.
Captions are largely copied from Real-time Trains web site. Occasionally I'll expand on initials that are obvious but not those where I'm unsure.
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hi Les once again you have surpassed yourself what a great video around the area just shows us what a beautiful area you live in and thank you for showing us a lot of it has it given you any ideas for future videos which i look forward to please look after yourself and stay safe my friend
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Really nice to see a variety of locations Les including trains at speed. Thanks once again.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks Andy
Like your library
Hehe - this is the down-sized library!
Lovely variety Les, and wonderful scenery!
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Thanks for sharing. Stay safe.
Thanks Mike
Thank you Les. Great video work again. The new locations make it more interesting.
Thanks David. I think over the summer I'll be heading to those places again
Awesome video thanks for sharing it😊
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Fantastic vlog Les particularly the Tebay locations which are scenically superb, I know the locations well, and this makes a nice change from the citadel as much as I always enjoy your vlogs from there, you are very lucky living up here, a great selection of traffic. They certainly are getting their money from the use of class 66 the loadings are very heavy. 😁😁
Thanks. Now that the weather is improving I expect to get away up and down the WCML at least once a week
Loved the locations Les, these were places i used to read about in the railway press of the 50s but never has the means to visit them although I did manage citadel for a day in 58 - Canal A3s did not let me down.
Thanks! Somehow I fell upon Hincaster by accident, the Grayrigg location I'd used over 40 years ago. I still look for those classic locations although several are not available any more.
Good variety of locations here Les...Cheers
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Anothere great video Les love the shots at Skiptpn looks cool , never been to skipton thanks for sharing loved it and the awesome zooming towards the end your becoming quite an expert now with your camera well done Les brilliant matey stay safe matey
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Glad you enjoyed it Syd. Still trying to get a decent location at Skipton - its a lot busier these days than when I first went there!
Great video Leslie 👍
Thanks!
Excellent video Les, some interesting locations.
Glad you enjoyed
Some great new locations in this one Leslie. Was in Carlisle today at C&M. Took a wander down to the Citidel-but no Leslie 😅
Thanks Euan. I didn't bother going - things to do and nothing special since they cancelled the steam excursion. It's a quiet weekend!
Thanks for another great video. Obviously like seeing out in the countryside having not been there. Was in Ireland last September via Heathrow so maybe next time Carlisle should be on the itinerary! Richard, Melbourne Australia.
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Great video Les, there’s some lovely scenery along the Cumbrian coast should definitely go there more often. I think the ballast cleaner is one of the longest trains on the network at full length
Thanks. The coast is nice, just lacks freight. Still to see the very long ballast cleaners
Hey, Leslie! I saw "Cumbria" and couldn't wait to watch on the big screen, and you didn't (couldn't) disappoint. What scenery to backdrop the trains with, especially the old bridge/viaduct/aqueduct shots near the end. Brilliant filming, only made more special by the scenics.
Thanks Anthony. I thought you'd appreciate the locations. The viaduct is a difficult location but I think that the results were good. The motorway was closed in one direction making getting from place to place slow. That's why lines of traffic appeared on rural roads. - thanks sat nav!
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A splendid variety of viewpoints there. I don't know just where you filmed the Skipton sequence from but it took me a minute or so to work out where we were - I didn't recognise the place at all from that angle!
Some interesting freight too.
Thanks Tim. At Skipton I walked up onto the overbridge at the west end of the station. Going out of the station cross the road and turn left then up the road that rises up over the road past the station and over the railway, if you understand me. It's got very high parapets sadly and the line is only visible from the south end - in winter before the trees are in leaf.
Great stuff Leslie, thats the way to see freights...going fast like that. 66186 had a load didin't? loved the way it snaked over the track. All the best.
Thanks Tim
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Hi Les Another great video there and some very nice locations, Those curves near the M6 look good and in nice weather will no doubt be excellent. There was one shot with a country road in the background which seemed very busy, was there a steamer due??? Thanks
Thanks Peter. The M6 southbound was closed for 5 hours. Traffic was heading down rural roads with some pinch points, following sat nav no doubt and ignoring one very large sign saying that the road you noticed was unsuitable for traffic diverted from the motorway!
Leslie, at 1446, why is there such a queue of motor vehicles? Are they waiting to enter the freeway/motorway as you imply below, with the motorway closed in one direction but traffic lights only admit one at a time? Is this congestion "normal"?
Another excellent quality video. Your submissions are informative and captivating.
That track layout at one end of Carlisle (which I did not notice when there six months ago, as I had a suitcase and so wasn't easily able to move to each platform end lest I miss my connecting train) is amazing: so many crossovers and points. A nightmare if a train derailed there, not that I ever wish it to occur.
The queue was due to the motorists following their sat navs to get to the next motorway entrance - sadly sat navs have no idea how narrow British roads can be and motorists can rely on them too much. If they had taken a different less obvious route they would have been back on the motorway without too much delay! They were about 4 or 5 miles from the next junction but had to pass through a very narrow spot with oncoming traffic. In fact they's passed and ignored a big sign saying that the road was unsuitable for traffic diverted from the motorway!
The junctions at Carlisle are quite intricate but showing their age (the layout dates from 1972 and probably even earlier). Several major derailments have been narrowly avoided - most recently the one at nearby Petterill Bridge Junction when the cement train derailed. I think Network Rail would have sorted that out pretty quickly.
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Ah, variety is the spice of life, I'm wondering who'll be the first to model a ballast cleaner train... Sounds like a job for Accurascale?
Indeed and then the competition will be on for how long a train of them might be. Those on the east coast have bee half a mile or so
Wonderful video Leslie
Thanks!