Ashton to Eccles via Media City UK
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- Опубликовано: 12 ноя 2021
- We travel with our friends at Metrolink from Ashton to Eccles via Media City UK. We’ll also take a look around Velopark and Media City UK and make the 1st City Crossing via Piccadilly Gardens and St Peters Square. You’ll be familiarised with the layout of Manchester Docks and the redeveloped Salfar Quays.
Addendum;
Pamona should of course read Pomona 👍
That was superb to watch. As a Tram driver you really have to have your wits about you, almost like a train and a car driver together, constantly on the look out on the road sections for wobbly cyclists, pedestrians distracted by their phones and slow moving traffic. Utmost respect to them, especially when it's dark come winter etc.
Yes, I must admit I have a much greater respect for them since I’ve been producing these videos.
Probably THE best hour I've spent on youtube. A fascinating journey full of facts, info and explaining how our fabulous metro link works and the skills of its drivers. Thank you Don. I appreciate it.
Glad you enjoyed it Kenny. Lots more videos to come.
Don, thank you for another look at the Manchester Metro system. The info about the city docks was very informative as to how this inland city was able to have a deep water port for many years and is still a water destination for pleasure travelers. Am looking forward to the day when circumstances will again allow you to publish videos from your own runs on TPE.
Thanks Sharon. I’ve set the ball rolling on that one and just need to get chance to talk with my ops standards director. He’s already agreed in principle that I can resume.
Don, I'm always glad to see a new video from you and never disappointed. Your train rides are a great escape from the everyday nonsense and drama of America. Thank you! mp
Much appreciated Mark. More soon.
Having time to adsorb the peripheral views gives a great insight into the architectural history (both ancient and modern) of the area. Probably one of your best educational videos Don.
Thanks Roger. We’ve got a Metrolink triple bill coming next 👍
Rode that line a few times while on holiday in Manchester and the others. It wasn't till a while later did I realise why the platforms were so high compare to the likes of Edinburgh. Because it's been built on mostly old heavy rail routes. Smashing video.
You are a similar age to me so we remember the same things!
subtitles are brilliant for me. i am deaf and now I fully understood what the signals mean. Top quality video. I wish more trams in Britain and our government are not interested in trams, yet they spend billions on HS2.
I think you’ll see more light rail in the UK soon John. Watch out for the next video which is back with Metrolink 👍
This is really well thought out and edited. I like the way you include maps showing the line and location, and also the occasional external shots cut in, plus the useful commentary underneath where there is something of interest.
Love it.
Glad you liked it Jeffrey. The videos are designed so that the more you watch, the more you’ll pick up as I can’t cover every subject in one video.
fantastic as always, thankyou!!
Thank you so much! I'll be watching this one numerous times...as I have done with all the rest of the fabulous videos you post.
Glad you like them, thanks for following.
Brilliant! Thank you for sharing. MetroLink is by far my favourite mean of transport around Manchester. Thank you for your service!
Thank you too Ovidio, much appreciated.
Fantastic video, as usual!
Your channel has given me so many hours of relaxation and enjoyment of the British countryside.
Thank you for that!
Thank you, much appreciated 👍
Another excellent video, thank you and keep up the good work. 👍
Much appreciated 👍
I thoroughly enjoyed coming along for the ride. Thanks.
Glad you liked it John.
Thanks for another excellent video. Your ‘extra features’ are always much appreciated. 🐨🇦🇺
Thanks Martin, much appreciated.
Excellent film, loved all the interesting information popping up on screen, gives a great insight into the cityscape , well done. 👏
Thanks Keith, much appreciated 👍
Many thanks Don for another very interesting video, and for the extras, the glimpses into other parts of Manchester, it's certainly changed since I was last there, but it was a few years ago, but well done.
Glad it brought back memories for you William.
👍 Great video as always ! Detailed and relevant comments and explanations. Really very nice work ! Thanks for us. 👏
So nice of you Philippe, much appreciated.
Brilliant and so informative (as always Don) ❤️🙏😊
Thanks Andrew.
Another great video, thank you.
Thanks Gaz.
Thanks Don and Metro link for filming these interesting and insightful videos on how a light railway operates. I enjoy watching all of your videos reading the rolling captions for the historical and the knowledge you share on how a heavy and light railway operates. Looking forward to more of your videos from the loco shed of Excellence !!!
Thank you too and I can tell you there’s another freight video premier on Tuesday night.
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Great video Don. Thanks to all concerned.
I have a special interest in the ruute. I was born in a nursing home that stood close to where the line crosses Carruthers Street and for twenty odd years worked in the area covered by this route.
Glad you liked it Colin 👍
Thank you, Don (and Rob). I rode to Media City a few years ago while the Trafford Park line was still under construction; it's interesting to see the changes. Another excellent video!
There will be more soon Roderick! We’ve filmed the entire network.
Thank you, Don, for posting this excellent video; and for the informative written commentary too. And thanks to your colleagues in Metrolink for the camera-work. I've known Manchester well for many years, dating back to the late 1960s, and well remember the dereliction of the docks area. What a difference today! And the tram has made a huge contribution to that positive change.
Working on these videos has opened my eyes Martin. I’m very impressed with the operation.
I'm from New York and though I worked for the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority. We unfortunately don't have light rail or trams here. It was fun watching your video and the information was most informative. I've never really seen what Manchester looks like until now. Though I did actually visit London and rode their buses and Underground.
Thanks Vincent. We’ll be exploring much of Manchester by tram soon. I’ve got footage from every route.
Thanks Don another great video. Always amazes me pedestrians ,car drivers, see a tram coming & don't think of the consequences. A tram hits you there is only one outcome. Thank you.
Its true Tom and it does happen but they don’t learn.
Excellent video!
Don, as with your previous postings, a fascinating and very informatively captioned video. Thank you.
I've not visited Manchester since the introduction of Metrolink - though for a long while I've promised myself a visit to the Velodrome, for which I'd obviously use the tram to Velopark, but I must admit to a love/hate relationship with this form of transport. I've used the Croydon Tramlink quite regularly, and in my wife's native Warsaw, as in other Polish cities, the tram network is first class, but conversely, I still bear vestigial scars from an "over the handlebars" encounter with the tramlines of Ghent during one of my Polhill club cycle racing trips to Belgium, which earned me a visit to the Universiteit Ziekenhuis for X-Rays and stitches. One of my first childhood memories which must have been before 1951, is of being with my Mum on a London tram on route 46 between Woolwich and Lee Green as it made the tight turn by Eltham Church, and being alarmed to tears by the (to my delicate young ears) deafening sound of the wheels grinding on the rails, before it began its dive down Eltham Hill.
Crikey Hugh, no wonder you are wary of them. I guess they are a nightmare for cyclists. I’ve been in most cities of Europe myself and seen the trams while working there. I rather like the old fashioned type.
Many thank Don for another enjoyable journey.🚊
My pleasure Jim.
Another great video! Really enjoyed this tram ride!
Thanks as always Henry. Thanks for being a regular follower. The next premier is Tuesday night.
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Brilliant Don. Really enjoyed that one.
Thanks Mick.
It's neat you mention Manchester Liners Dock 9 being used for their service to Montreal. I'm from Montreal and my parents emigrated to Canada on Manchester Liners in 1954. They must have left from this dock.
They will definitely have left there Ian. That dock was used exclusively for that service 👍. There’s another video to show from the other side of the dock to come soon.
Another interesting and entertaining video Don - Thank you. Looking at the state of some of the roads, it's a fair bet that it will be a lot smoother ride on the tram.
Haha, apparently all done to a high standard now David. It was filmed last spring.
Another excellent production
Much appreciated Martin 👍
Bravo! Great driver's eye view; but the editing in of pictures and video took great skill. Thank you!
Much appreciated, glad you liked it.
Great video, really interesting 👍
Thanks Matt.
Excellent video, thanks. I had no idea what Manchester was like before this.
Glad you enjoyed it.
excellent quality video and, as always, very informative (it’s a cheap way to travel to the UK). Keep’em coming!
Will do Dan, all the best.
Really interesting video! I live in Los Angeles, where our light rail system is called Metro Rail, and our trains also sport yellow on both ends. Great mix of street running and grade separation!
Interestingly enough, Metrolink is the name of our heavy rail regional commuter service, which uses diesel locos with bilevel coaches in push pull configurations.
Cheers from the US!
Cheers Steven. Thanks for the info on your systems.
great vid mate cheers ,. have a fantastic christmas
Signing you off on the trains too Brett 👍
I live on this line and it's really cool to see it from the drivers POV.
Nice one Darren, there’ll be more soon.
Thanks Don very interesting to see and learn a wee bit about Manchester. A long time ago I was in Manchester as the tram system was starting to be built to go to a model railway show at a large venue, sorry forgotten the name of it.
Good to hear from you Phillip. Not sure where the venue would be but there is a very good one in my home town of Chapel en le Frith. I’m usually there on at least one day.
That was a brilliant video, you certainly would need nerves of steel.Hope you and the family are well Don.Kind regards
All well Ramon, I hope the same for you. Take care mate.
My 1st time here and me not knowing Anything about where this is, I absolutely LOVED it... Already a huge fan...
Glad you found us John. Lots of new content to come.
Thanks for this Don 👍 and it's an Eccles cake for me.
Either for me Chris but with custard even better 👍
Probably the best tram journey I have watched on RUclips. Very informative, but not too informative. You got the balance just right with your written commentary. You got yourself a new subscriber 🙌
I consider that an accolade, thank you. Some people say “why didn’t you mention this or that” but getting the balance and the timing right such that you get time to read it then look up and see the feature is not easy. I’m really pleased you appreciate it.
This brings back some memories, ain’t done this journey in a while
Glad you liked it Keanan.
I love to see trams, we should have them everywhere. Watching the cab rides in Japan, their older lines become the railway in places.
Some of the Metrolink routes are a real mix. Wait until we do the Bury line!
Had to giggle at 16:55.
I drove lorries down there over the past years, and always smiled at Alan J Bradley, Funeral Directors.
Given, of course, that Alan Bradley on Corrie was famously killed by a tram albeit in Blackpool!
I remember it too Alec!!! 😂
Good video about trams
Cheers Steven.
Nice run, interesting to see two trams connected, not seen that before, both Nottingham and Sheffield tram systems are also in mph too :)
Thanks Ian. I keep getting comments saying I’m wrong and it’s km/h but it defo is mph. Rob suggested Supertram was the same but didn’t know about Nottingham 👍
Manchester is much better than when I visited 20 years ago.
Yes, really nice in places.
Great facts in there as well!
Glad you liked it.
I just love trams they peace ful to travel. 👍🏻
You see NOW I want an Eccles cake AND a Chorley cake...... thanks Don
Me too Duncan!
G'day ExPat Mancunian , I really enjoyed this, was back there in 2018,stayed a week ,it was great seeing my old stomping ground again, MUFC blew me away ,wow what a change, sad to see what had happened to Piccadilly gardens ,any way thanks mate!
Thanks Paul. Some changes are due to covid regulations but yes, much has changed. Stay safe over there 👍
Piccadilly is some rabbit warren!!! Another fantastic ride Don
Thanks Scott. Yes, its a labyrinth under there!
I just came across this video via RUclips Algorithms recommendations and enjoyed it (and the Comments Section). You are one of the few RUclipsrs who answer people's queries and comments, which must be a huge task I imagine. Well done!
The clean windscreen and bright focus was much appreciated, as was the editing and additional information via subtitles. Cheers from Chiang Mai, which probably ought to have had trams for the past 100 years, but the Elephants 🐘 most likely would've gone on strike, and where would it all end? A very messy situation cleverly avoided.
Thanks for the comments, much appreciated. I try to answer every comment mainly through common courtesy but occasionally after uploading a couple of popular videos, I just can’t and despite feeling rude, it’s like swimming against the tide and I’ve got no chance. Glad you found us and they’ll be more content soon 👍
Wow, deansgate looks a lot better now! The fresh plants and modern look
Yes, things have improved somewhat 👍
Another marvellous programme . Tram drivers are certainly at the mercy of doughnut brain public . I like the signaling but you've got to be plugged in to drive one . 750 DC is the same current as third rail so there's some gradient climbing power 👍🇬🇧
They do climb like a mountain goat 🐐 Stephen. There’s more from Metrolink soon.
Very nice to see how it is done in the UK, here it is Manchester! My usual sources for tram videos have been from: Holland - Den Haag, Poland - Warzaw and Krakow, Melbourne and Pert - Australia, Germany - Berlin +?(don't remember) Stuttgart - Frankfurt, and a very steep one in Lisbon - Portugal.
The raised platforms in Manchester: I only remember seeing them in Frankfurt as well. Most of the trams I have seen were low-boarding, especially those that also drove on city streets and had plenty of stops there. It's all out to the layout of the city I guess.
If possible can we please have some more of this, and also from other cities as well?!
Edit: this just popped up in my recommendations: East Didsbury to Rochdale Town Centre. Will be watching that now!
Not sure about other cities but we have the entire Metrolink network to view so there’s lots more of Manchester to see yet 👍
that was fab
Thanks Jason, much appreciated.
Those roads look rougher than I remember, not having been in that area for about 15 years (pre-tram!). - - Eccles or Chorley cakes - Eccles tend to be smaller in diameter, but fatter, whilst Chorleys are larger diameter but flatter. Both colloquially known as 'flies graveyards'.
But with custard, cream or nothing? 🤔
As a (now long retired) tram driver I enjoyed this video, although I do find the whistle/hooter a little irritating. Our Bombardier trams had/have a much more standard bell (and horn). I was one of a small delegation from our local ASLEF branch who were invited to visit (and ride on) this system and we were made very welcome by our Manchester ASLEF branch colleagues and hosts. At the time we were a fledgling branch, struggling to gain recognition from a company chairman/CEO who vowed we would never succeed as long as he was in charge. Meanwhile ASLEF was already quite well established in Manchester and had been for some time.
Since our visit some seventeen or eighteen years ago there have been some amazing changes around Manchester and, although memory fades with age, certain parts obviously still look familiar, especially the exit from Piccadilly.
As a member of the RMS of (a fully recognised) ASLEF Croydon TLR No.1, I'd like to thank all those drivers at Manchester who made us so welcome to their area and place of work all those years ago.
I’ll pass that on to our union guys - thanks.
As a long time Goons fan it just makes me happy to know that there is a place called Eccles :-). The guy on the bike with the hi-vis ninja costume was keeping up with the tram pretty well on that last stretch. Thanks Don.
Yes he was funny wasn’t he. Used to love the goons on a Sunday too.
Great videos! Would love to see the Bury line :)
Tomorrow night Luke!!!
When on our narrow boat holiday doing the Cheshire ring we passed through Manchester on the bridgewater canal and moored in one of the mooring docks off the castlefield basin and had dinner in one of the pubs in that area. We could see and hear the railway and tram flyovers from where we were moored, I have never been on one of these modern trams as we live in Enfield - north London, and the tram network is in Croydon - south London, other side of the river Thames 😕
Watch out for the Trafford Centre line Samual. It goes along the south bank by the Bridgewater and Ship Canal.
Amazing video as always, i love your content...
Ashton also has a Beautiful Bus interchange ( Ashton interchange)...
Facts:
Ashton is a major hub for Stagecoach Manchester. It also serves First Bus.
I am looking forward to see more of the Metrolink.
Sending greetings from Bolton.
Thanks Muhammad, much appreciated 👍
Goooood
Much appreciated 👍
Great video Don, Downtown Manchester is unrecognizable from when I was last there in the late 80s.
Oh heck, it’s changed since I first worked there in 2010 so it’ll be off the chart for you Anthony. Glad you liked it 👍
First class Don. East Manchester is totally changed (for the better) from when I knew it. The dive under Great Ancoats Street made me wonder whether the ghost of Bernard Manning might appear!
Haha, I never saw him but if his ghost is as noisy as he was we surely will.
Amazing as usual Don, those road surfaces seem to be deteriorating around the tramlines as you get further towards Eccles. Is it's Metrolink or Manchester council that has responsibility for road maintenance?
They’ve apparently done it now to a very high standard Nigel. The footage was filmed last spring.
Hi Don, It would be interesting to see a re-run of this post-Covid . Even more difficult for the driver I would imagine with additional traffic, crowds - and idiots!
As it happens Roger, I’ve got some new footage coming soon. Not the same route but it goes into Trafford which should be a reasonable comparison.
Piccadilly at 2.40 in the afternoon!!! Wow!
Quiet? It was in the height of lockdown. The still were not necessarily taken at the same time.
Good video with all those natural noises none of that awful back ground music.
No music and not even my dulcet tones Jenny! Just the pure soundtrack. Take care.
I was born and lived in Manchester for 37 years before moving to North Yorkshire for work. I don't recognise it anymore. Great video though.
Yes a lot has changed but you can still see some fine old buildings. All the best John.
Of note is the building in the background at Weaste with a clock tower. It used to be a bus garage for the Greater Manchester PTE.
I think I mentioned it in another video. Cheers Mark.
An excellent tour through Manchester city. The ride felt really relaxing, like, you know, you're actually riding the tram and experiencing everything yourself. Where to next? What about a ride on a freight train?
Absolutely Anmol - this coming Tuesday at 9:00pm;
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Nice
Thanks
A very interesting video Don. Some of the road surfaces are in appalling condition,
It was but apparently it’s been tarmaced and is smooth as a baby’s bum 👍
Another lovely video Don, I’m really enjoying this. Unfortunately it is interrupted by a lot more advertisement compared to your other video’s (every 5 minutes) but maybe it’s time for me to upgrade my RUclips account. Anyway, keep up the good work!
Sorry about that Biem. The videos are dependent on having the ads in because the companies are keen to support that charities.
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Love these. Can you do one up the east lancs to Colne?
It’s not impossible Peter but Covid is making things really awkward at the moment.
Looks like veryone's using the facebook page, instead of leaving comments here. The YT algorithm won't like that and I seldom use facebook, so I hope you don't mind me sticking to the comments section Don.
As I've got the place to myself, might as well ask a quick question: what was the story with the queue of trams on the central section? Thanks for another interesting journey, rather different to mainline running.😁
Cheers for now,
Dougie.
Don’t worry Dougie, this community page is alive and well. The numbers on this poll eclipsed Facebook and I will keep coming back every few days to answer questions. The queue was due to a signalling problem restricting access to Deansgate Castlefield.
Awesome video! Nice footage of the metro trams of Manchester in the UK!
I would like to know when this was recorded?
It was recorded in spring this year.
Not quite your 125mph train but still very interesting Don. It looks like that part of this light rail ran over former heavy rail right of way.
Hi Richard, I trust you are well. Yes, the elevated section towards Cornbrook definitely is. Take care Richard.
Once, travelling on the old, 1950's trams, I saw two notices - one said "Do not spit" and the other said "Use the ship canal".
You know what David, I see those do not spit signs now but people still do it and they do it inside our really plush trains - disgusting.
Tram is definitely a viable mod of urban transport
Another trip on Manchesters expensoline system.They could have completly replaced all the buses in Manchester for what it cost! Oh, by the way the stop is called Pomona, named after Pomona docks not that well known spelling mistake "Pamona."
It’s another option for transport and eases the road and railway network. I know about the spelling error but unfortunately I can’t edit it now 👍
Great to see the Etihad in the background home to my beloved Man City 👍
I don’t do footie Stephen but glad you liked it. The stadium was very impressive.
excellent video, cant understand why no comments?
Occasionally somebody puts up something really offensive, not about me but various cultures etc so I hold every comment for review and kick out the nasty ones.
Excellent video as usual Don. Interesting perspective on a familiar city. I note on several occasions the tram pushed through trailing points, both on street running and on open tracks, I assume they are not fitted with point motors or are they sprung to return to a particular route after?
They often push through in the trailing direction Mick and leave it for the next to run through or push from the other direction. Where routes need to be variable in the facing direction they have motors.
Great video, really enjoyed watching it. Do you know what caused the queue of trams at the birdcage? I suppose it only takes one incident to bring everything to a halt. Shame Manchester trams don't have the bell option which sounds more friendly, Croydon trams use the bell for most things and the horn only for the more serious things.
The guys at Metrolink did tell me. An incident or equipment failure at Deansgate Castlefield I believe was it but my memory isn’t brilliant.
Superb as usual, note that it is ‘Pomona’ not ‘Pamona’
I can’t edit it now Martin but there is a correction in the description. Take care Martin.
thank you very much. enjoyed it from east to west. absolutely disgusting amount of litter in certain sections, like ashton u lyme and the piccadilly approaches. wonder what the ultimate person responsible, GM Mayor Burnham, thinks and does about it. he could take part in our citizens litter picking days like many of us do already. media headlines are filled up with clean air zones etc, they are ok, but to start with we want our cities clean and safe and mayors must work in that direction. littering is an offence against the environment, against us all.
Aye it is bad in places. Watch the Phillips Park video, it’s terrible round there.
Don, great journey through the Mancunian highlights of my early life - and Salford in my wife's case. One thing to correct however - it is POMONA, not PAMONA.
Thanks Gary. I can’t edit it now but there is a correction in the video description. All the best.
I think Manchester Metrolink is the only tramway system in UK that has engineering link with heavy railway network.
Maybe so…..
There's no dilemma. Eccles beats Chorley hands down. :-)
Ah but David, custard or no custard???
I presume the tram signals (horizontal bar=stop, vertical bar=proceed) are deliberately chosen *not* to use the normal red/green because this could confuse road users. But how easy do tram drivers find it to see and decipher two signal states which are both white (like many other lights which are not signals) and which differ only in orientation? Looking at the videos, as we approach road/tram lights, I can see and distinguish road traffic lights by colour *long* before I can even *see* the tram signal which is alongside, let alone determine its aspect.
How normal is it for a signal to be held at stop until a tram is very close, and only change to proceed after the tram has slowed? Is it to deliberately slow trams at road crossings or is it to minimise the time that road traffic is stopped?
I think the viewing of signals is really down to use and experience as that system is pretty well universal amongst light rail systems. It works both ways because car drivers can’t claim to be confused by them and they surely would if they were colour lights. The signals step up either as a result of a request from the driver or the network controller setting the route. The camera doesn’t quite give the right perspective and there is slightly more viewing than it shows.
As the Mancunian version of the song goes: ‘Twas there in Albert Square, the evening that I met her. Her eyes they shone like diamonds and the evening it was wet, wet, wet. Her hair hung down in curls, and her face was covered over, and we walked all night, in the pale moon light down to Pomona.
Nice song! I will get the spelling right next time.