Rush Hour Trains at: Oxford, CVL, 27/05/22
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- An excellent evening spent at Oxford railway station on the Cherwell Valley Line and branch heading to the Great Western Mainline where we see no end of services from Great Western Railway, Chiltern Railways, Cross Country and freight from GBRF, Freightliner and DB Cargo UK.
The station itself whilst not very big plays a vital role in the railway network as it is the line for trains running from London Paddington to the likes of Hereford and Worcester Shrub Hill, the starting point for local trains running to London Paddington and London Marylebone, shuttle services for Reading and Banbury as well as serving the north/south Cross Country Route for trains from Manchester Piccadilly and Newcastle to then go via Birmingham New Street towards Southampton, Reading and Bournemouth.
Oxford station was built in 1852 by the Great Western Railway and was intended to be used as a starting point for their line towards Rugby, however because of the gauging issues this never took place. The station was first known as Oxford General, this was done so not to Claus confusion to the London and Northwestern Railways Oxford Rewley Station that formed the terminus of their Varsity Line that went to Cambridge. Of course this line is now in the processor being rebuilt as the East-West Rail Link.
This wasn't the first station however as in 1844 a terminus station was constructed from London Paddington on what is now the Western Road.
The only real big changes for the line came in 1872 when the GWR Broad Gauge 7ft tracks were removed to make way for the traditional standard Guage railway lines that we all see today on every part of the country. This then stayed the same roughly until the mid 1970's when the Western region of British Railways managed to get the station eyed up for improvements. This actually involved completely rebuilding the station to essentially what you see today. Then in 1974 the station was given a new travel centre which would make passenger lives easier when getting out of the station to connect to local buses or even just to walk around the city centre. The current station building and footbridge were introduced in 1990 by Network Southeast.
The station then stayed this way right up until 2016 when Chiltern Railways wee finally allowed to launch their services from London Marylebone to Oxford. This saw the introduction of 2 new bay platforms to accommodate the terminating services. During the same year track work was taking place south of the station to raise the height of the tracks so that they wouldn't be flooded by the Thames River, all they had to do was raise the line by an extra 2 metres. But because of this it meant that no trains could run in or out of the station. So for a period between July and August local buses would act as rail replacement services ferrying to and from Didcot Parkway.
My next rush hour film will be from Nuneaton on the West Coast Mainline.
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Another great video and class 68's are always a bonus 👍
That's what I said
I was watching you with some of my subscriptions.
Another great video and with the perfect finale.
Thank you kindly!
I've jus spent a few days doing 68's on York -Scarvboroigh and both DRS liveried 68033 and 034 were working as well as 019, 026 and 028 in the official TPE fleet.
I hope you had a great time!!
absolutely love the '68 at end of video. can't beat a bit of pure traction pulling a train from the front. we used to get '68,s on trans pennine from Liverpool to scarborough but they seem to have dissapeared now with just DMU or EMU not that they aren't good looking ,but as i said..traction..68....now you are talking!
Oh! 66720 is now in Wascosa livery. You said that you hadn't seen the rainbow liveried 66 in a long time and I think that was probably your last chance to see it as well, so well done on catching it sir! Congratulations!
I think the last time I caught that 66 was when I was last in Clapham Junction
That was very good to see
Fantastic video! I really enjoyed this :)
thanks very much bud, I'm glad you enjoyed watching this
Nice video great camera work as usual as always keep it up i am really looking forward to seeing your next video also when is your next video going to see on RUclips bye for now Philip
Excellent railway video as always mate.
Thank you kindly once again :)
Nice to catch a DRS 68 at Oxford that will be a bonus to get 👍
Always going to be a happy man getting a 68
Hi Tornado922. Another great rush hour film at Oxford. 12:57-13:11 was absolutely hilarious when you gave a brilliant description of what a train does for a living. 😆 Nice 1-tone from 66545 at 37:31 but it was nicely finished off with a great 1-tone from the amazing 68008 at 48:08. You can't beat the 68s! Looking forward to next rush hour film. Kind regards, Chris.
Thanks very much Chris, I had great time getting this all put together :)
Love the stations without the lines. So many great sounds!!😎🥰😁
Btw I agree and also have moments when I can't form words or sentences. You're not alone! 😂😂
Hi, that was a geat selection - and useful confirmation of stock/service. Good to see freight getting a run bearing in mind how often they get held back for late or lightly loaded passenger trains - the cost of fuel per re-start must eat into any profit. As someone else has commented, no OHL is a bonus but won't be long before Oxford views are hindered by steel and wires.
Great sound of the class 68 there mate I would recommend doing the trip from Brum to Marlybone if you haven't already well worth it for a decent run behind the purring Cat
I have been meaning to get a journey done on that line. I will be sure to go on one at some stage
Great video video at Oxford nice to see the 68 at the end
Thanks very much, it was a welcome surprise as I wasn't expecting it
Awesome video buddy from Alan in Lowestoft
Thanks once again
For those wondering, 66125 recently got repainted into DB red.
Great video
Thanks very much
If I count this video I've seen 4 class 68s in 3 days Brutus, splendid and one I didn't get the name of on Friday at York and avenger in this video unfortunately I didn't get to ride one while in York because they don't run from Manchester to York but great to see and hear
I'm certainly never going to complain about getting a 68 in one of my films that's for sure. They are always great to see and hear
fantastic video J you happy man but im with you on that the 68s sound just great .
Its another brill video my friend not too much waffle on this one but still wonderful , keep em coming J i really enjoyed it ,take care matey. A T B Syd :)
thank you kindly Syd :)
great job 👍
Thanks very much!
Great video Tornado922
Thanks very much!
The variety there must have been excellent, the 66's, 70's and the DRS 68 included, hence Tornado having been a happy man! That was more than a few refrigerated containers on the last container train hauled by the 66! I guess there were probably fresh and frozen foods inside them! Considering this may have been a ship that took the containers in first, maybe it might have been fish inside there! If you ever wanted to know what was inside the refrigerated containers, just ask Maersk in this case! 😂
There was a tremendous amount of variety that day!!
@@Tornado922 True sir but minus the HST's of course!
You’d be able to see the jubilee 66 as it is doing the Saturday steel service at the moment
I don't come here on weekends so I had would have to be elsewhere on the network in order to catch it
Great video, love your enthusiasm! By the way, could you tell me how you enter the platform? Do you just tap your credit/debit card to enter, and if so how much is it? I used to love spending time on the platform in my teens when you could just wander onto it!
I was at Chesterfield and saw 66720 and 786 but I was talking to a tamper driver and couldn't get a video of it
Ah right ok
Yes you are going to Nuneaton! My local station!
Great station
U know that 66 from frieghliner that's tone u heard that's from traindriverbrain
this was on my birthday
Could you trainspot at Penrith north lakes someday
I will see what I can do
Was there on Sunday, surprised they havent demolished those Clasp buildings on platform 4.
They could be under contractual obligation to retain some parts of the station
Awesome
Thank you kindly!
Is there no electrification between Didcot Parkway & Oxford?
You should do Hereford
I will see what I can do
Can you please go either Worcester Shrub Hill, Worcester Foregate St, or Hereford
I will see what I can do
Is that the train that stops at Combe aka the finstock flyer? (The 17.42 service) as they cut the service from Great Malvern to only Moreton in marsh for some reason
I honestly wouldn't know
I believe so, i live in hanborough so it also serves my stop
Can you do this at Shrewsbury?
He did
Have you any new stuff uploaded
Check my channel every Sunday at 11:30am and you will see new content getting released
pls do trains at shrewsbury
I have
Does the silver set work a morning peek hour service
No only once a day 8pm
Why did they remove the tilting off the voyagers?
Cost saving measure
45:14
Saving best for last
Almost like I planned it (I didn't)
Could you do this on a rainy night in Stoke?
Absolutely no chance
@@Tornado922 😂😂😂
What do u mean when there's blood splatter
The train hit a bird and it had blood on it
37:30
221134 is KTV vids stalker lol 😆
1st
ok
48:07