Cab ride - Finsbury Park to Willesden Low Level Via Primrose Hill

[@leighglendinning6263]

A brilliant ride over largely unseen tracks

[@thisisus.504]

Just amazing. It's great to be able to see things that only the drivers and that get to see! Love cab views.

[@iankemp73]

Brilliant. Brings back lots of memories. Lived in Lithos rd, Finchley Rd . Bottom of our garden was Finchley Rd and Frognal Station. Remember the Trains coming through with the Nuclear Waste Flasks . The whole house would shake. Fast forward moved to Kentish Town, Grafton Rd. From our kitchen window we could see the bridge the North London line took into Camden.. Seen all sorts. From Euro Star to steam specials go through. Good times.

[@slimchris113]

Shows why the Nightstar and HS1 - HS2 link failed to materialize

[@Sean-D78]

I absolutely love the rail infrastructure in London, all the historic connections and mainlines that are still around even if they're no longer in public use is so fascinating

[@wirksworthsrailway]

An excellent video, thank you! It’s fascinating seeing how the lines are threaded between Copenhagen Junction and Camden Road!

[@oadLux]

I Love the way the track snakes through north London like that, and all the elevation changes, tunnels! Great video

[@bradmason5064]

8:50 nice fart driver haha

[@kevinwilliams1602]

Great run, long ago memories I used to make most of the journey way back around '69-'72

[@Manorm2003]

Thanks for sharing, I was struggling with some of those single yellow aspects on the screen, was convinced you had SPADed a few !

[@ArthurRuminant-pn6mx]

You’d better go to Specsavers! (Other opticians are available)

[@Phil-oj5nr]

Oh! The vegetation! Very interesting route.

[@TheDaf95xf]

Good morning Mr train man 😀 That was a really good train ride showing the back lines that we don’t really see 👍🏻 I can remember standing on Finsbury Park station and trying my luck for a sneaky look round the depot without getting seen 🤣 Cheers Stevie 😎

[@mikechaplin2935]

We used to walk the South Hampstead DC tunnels when I was a tech at Euston. Never had to walk down the one from Primrose Hill though! As far as I was aware, at the time, it was OOU! Very old Bullhead Rail down there it seems! Very interesting! :) Walking them tunnels at night is spoooooky. Anyone seen the film Creep?!

[@tantive4]

Thanks for uploading. Fascinating bit of line

[@iantaf5559]

Enjoyed that. Thanks for bringing some rarely seen track to us 👍

[@HSTPaul]

This is a great video. And an unusual route for a cabride.

[@bobmacdonald6183]

Loved this vid. So very back street feel about it. Love the headlights. My brother drove 37’s and 47’s always complained about the lights, another mate drove passenger units in the Welsh Valleys. Same complaint. Looking forward to more.

[@bazza945]

That was the best lit railway video I've ever seen. Thank you for the perfect video. That sudden 'dive' down into the mouth of the Copenhagen tunnel was brilliant. You have an excellent cam and great presentation, thank you from NZ.

[@izzieb]

I went via Primrose Hill once, however it was dark so there wasn't much to see 😅. Thank you for the video.

[@mrbluesky2050]

nice one, had to get my rail atlas out for some bits. loved it. many thanks.

[@nicholasglanfield9221]

Nice to see the roundhouse at primrose hill . Interesting route. Thanks.

[@44662dc]

Absolutely briliant really enjoyed that .

[@andrewduffin9216]

Glad you got a photo op at Primrose Hill. Was hoping for that when i saw you got the red.

[@benshelton5230]

Loved the bit from Copenhagen Junction to Primrose Hill. Echoes of the old Broad Street to Watford Junction route.

[@earljohnson7102]

Love this video. It would be nice if Primrose Hill station could come back into use again. I used to travel on the line when the old Broad Street station was in use. You had the B2 Broad Street to Watford (via Primrose Hill), B3 Watford to Broad Street via Willesden Junction low level which was also a semi fast service and the B4 which was Broad Street to Richmond. I went to school in Stoke Newington and lived in Kensal Green for a short while. Grear video to watch. I always wanted to be a train driver.

[@twyfordlion]

Fascinating video, thank you for uploading.

[@kevinrayner5812]

This reminds me of a journey I made from Watford Junction to Euston many years ago. After exiting Hampstead tunnel instead of veering right we headed left. What the !!!! where are we going. Then descended very slowly into another tunnel and what seemed like ages we emerged over on the right hand side of the approach to Euston after going under the canal. I believe it is called the rat hole. I don't suppose any of the regular commuters even noticed the unusual route.

[@rsmith2312]

So much vegetation! So many weeds!

[@garyhardwick8489]

Looks like some very seldom used track given the condition of some of the rails. Interesting video.

[@highpath4776]

and the retaining wall etc brickwork

[@jessicamorgan3073]

Thanks for posting this fab video.

[@ThamesShips]

Great video over some rarely seen tracks.

[@timparkin9805]

Great video over a very interesting route.

[@ace-paidinfull5240]

I actually thought you was gona go via upper holloway on that lil branch off curve near haringay, but then when i saw you get to FPK i realised you was going in the opposite direction lol Nice to the route go via the old primrose hill section because its so rare if when the LO diverts this way, i was on it once going to willesden junction, the good thing is either lines end up willesden👍🏽

[@johnnybeverage]

Loads of positive comments here for a movement rarely seen by those not on the trains. I’d like to add my voice to them.

[@apc108]

Interesting. From Queens Park you were actually on the Bakerloo line! I didn't realise it was shared track. I guess it goes up to Harrow and Wealdstone.

[@markcf83]

The Bakerloo line ran to Watford until the early 80s and they had a small depot near Croxley. Today it's northern terminal is at Harrow.

[@tilerman]

So many blocks of flats!

[@mrowl-the-dsm1304]

This is excellent, so interesting, top job 👌👍

[@bobtudbury8505]

Excellent but such a slow line....it looks abandoned it parts lol but a great insight

[@1BCamden]

Not much left of Primrose Hill, sad, great footage though, thanks

[@sts8997]

Willesden Junction station has changed a lot since I last used it.

[@ryszardlorenc7047]

15.50 to 19.10 MUST be the most depressing lineside 'scenery' in the whole country ! Unless anyone knows differently ?

[@jackking5567]

I hadn't realised there were so many inclines in the capital.

[@xoneqraft]

8:51 bruh

[@markcf83]

This'll be a lot of fun then......

[@davidportch8837]

excellent

[@kevinrayner5812]

How times have changed. Right at the start, 2 class 66s? On 5 tank wagons and another wagon. 860 hp per wagon. Two type ones would have been over kill. And if i used a Range Rover to pop down to Tesco to do the weekly shop it would be called excessive. I suppose that is all that is available these days.

[@ormondsworld3947]

They have to be top-and-tailed however I agree it makes no sense to use 2 heavy freight locos.

[@craigthomson3621]

Sometimes the Stratford to Richmond / Clapham Junction Overground trains are diverted after Camden Road onto the Primrose Hill tracks during engineering works. I have, therefore, rode the Camden Road to South Hampstead via Primrose Hill tracks a couple of times. Much confusion among passengers consulting the in-car line diagrams who were expecting to be at Kentish Town West but instead were at South Hampstead.

[@ormondsworld3947]

Same here, although it’s worth noting that they terminate at WJ low level as there’s no route towards Richmond or Clapham from the DC lines.

[@davidpanton3192]

7:10 *The Ladykillers* territory.

[@gs425]

Was it really? Or are you guessing by the brick?

[@davidpanton3192]

@@gs425 Oh yes, filmed at north end of Copenhagen tunnel.

[@gs425]

@davidpanton3192 wow thanks for that. A great film

[@keithsyers5833]

I did a few rosco moves from Ilford to Eastleigh there's so many duck and dives around London. How many have you done. And how long did it take just to do one job

[@fredphipps9452]

Great ride, some of these lines are very familiar but not from a cab

[@nigel2093]

I've always wondered with runs like this, and diversions, about the drivers knowledge. Driver's who've got the route card for this route won't necessarily have signed the traction type i.e a 153, and vice versa. So do you have a driver signed off on the traction with a driver whose signed off the route in the cab to advise him?? Cracking video BTW

[@115steve]

Is your inspection train for Network Rail to work out which weeds need to be cut first?

[@jgrussell1987]

great video, bet they dont see many 153s in London haha

[@jonhoward3899]

I thought exactly the same!

[@JimConneely-mh3wp]

Worked on both lines

[@Nxtz-h9f]

14:50 damn the whole sky changed, how long was you waiting at that signal for?😂

[@SirReginaldBlomfield1234]

Was thinking the exact same thing at the time.

[@dazt5831]

wow that really is a very slow line, nice video though

[@kevinrayner5812]

I was wondering how the driver managed to stay awake. I did skip a few bits to speed it up. Why did the sign at Primrose Hill say AC trains Pans Down? If going down the DC line I suppose but why would an AC train go down the DC Line or is that to warn the driver of a dual voltage train.

[@FILNAT2011]

How long before train sim will look this real

[@vinniesuperstar8923]

how long were you waiting at Primrose Hill for it to go dark like that?

[@SuperOpticJ]

should be an hourly service !

[@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff]

STEPHEN LEE appears

[@oadLux]

8:50 lol

[@Wallsrail]

💨 💩 😂

[@johnprice1331]

Wow! so unkempt 😐

[@SirReginaldBlomfield1234]

That's London !!!

[@minixtvbox]

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[@BillyNoMates1974]

12:42 - why does this train sound like it's possessed by demonic voices ?

[@leonperry123]

2x speed, that's better😂