Cab ride on a Class 207 from Eridge. 24/4/22 (Spa Valley railway)

What a wonderful day at Spa Valley railway. I had a ride as a passenger from Tunbridge Wells West and then ended up getting a cab ride back from Eridge.

[@1973ts]

Superb! Haven't ridden on this line since 1982, so really must make a return trip for the thumper.

[@piercelidseveraltime]

OMG I nearly passed out with happiness, thanks for dropping the vid ! I might just surprise the wife with a trip to Spar Valley, I'm sure she will love it just as much as I enjoyed being in the lingerie section of Primark for half an hour last week.

[@keith800]

Lovely video , I enjoyed my visit to this railway last week and great to see how it has progressed from its early days.

[@nicksrailwaymad4271]

Our railway company keep moaning that they don't have storage space for trains. This was one big yard they could have kept.

[@justinobrien3593]

Nice sounds they sound like a class 20 locomotive or chopper as I call them you can't beat EE English electric engines from the 1960s nice dmu the thumper units 🥰

[@bobbrooks266]

Absolutely brilliant ❤

[@cannadineboxill-harris2983]

I needed to know why they couldn’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for most of the mainline Trains so that they could extend the unused abandoned underground train stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock which will include the class 507, class 508, class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign all of them into an overhead wire line trains and also make most of them into Five carriages per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on those Five cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Gardner 6LXCT, Leyland 510, Gardner 6LXC, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner LG1200 and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7 Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 10 Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 507, class 508, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into 11 carriages per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers? A Stock Train and 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it even much more Larger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Railway tunnel into a High-Speed Railway lines? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Railway line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. Then put the modernised 11 carriages per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 carriages per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 47 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project if that will be OK for London Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from the Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden more Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly Line and also build brand-new underground train stations so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street can they also make another brand new underground train station in Chingford and could they extend the Piccadilly Line and the DLR right up to Chingford? All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Gardner 6LXCT, Leyland 510, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXC, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner LG1200 and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Five carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and can they order Every 87 Octagon and Every 48 Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13 and unique small no.11 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 147MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 147MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units, can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!!!!!!!!!, oh can you make all of those 18 Tonne Boxes of Coal for all of those 147MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!!!!!! So please make sure that the Builders can do as they are told!!!!!!!!!! And PLEASE do something about these very very important Professional ideas Please? Prime Minister of England, Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Germany, Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.

[@wizhaynes1302]

Very nice :)

[@nicksrailwaymad4271]

Thank you.

[@Southern_Region__Productions]

There is a scouting headquarters call Adams wells forgotten how to spell it but know that place as been there for Staint Georges and other evert where get train in morning to high rock and walk on a small footpath to there .

[@nicksrailwaymad4271]

Im glad you watched the video. The analytics shows that people only watch 30 seconds. I was very lucky to get that cab ride.

[@JamesHodgson-v2r]

Great video - just thinking that there are a lot of people that live in Uckfield and Crowborough and work or go to college in Tunbridge Wells there with a bit of joined up thinking couldn’t an agreement be made between Spa Valley, NR and Southern to run a week day morning and evening commercial commuter through service from Uckfield to Tunbridge Wells? Maybe NR could upgrade the Spa Valley section to allow slightly higher speeds

[@nicksrailwaymad4271]

I think the problem with the whole disused rail system is that they keep building on it. They don't think to leave the track beds there for future rail as it gets demanded. I do believe the cuckoo line should have been let. Heathfield and Hailsham are now too big not to have their railway.

[@markhjones956]

​@nicksrailwaymad4271 And, of course, in many places BR or Network Rail sold off small parcels of land to deliberately prevent a line being re- opened by some other enterprise.

[@Martindyna]

Thanks for the fantastic video. I was a bit confused as to what signal stopped the train @ 5.50 5:15. The signal @ 7.20 doesn't appear to move from horizontal (Danger) to clear the line. Could you please explain?

[@nicksrailwaymad4271]

I wasn't the driver. I was lucky enough to get a cab ride. I do remember that we stopped as there was another train in the station. I can't remember what class it was, just a steam locomotive doing a shuttle service for the scouts. So yeah, that's why we stopped.

[@nicksrailwaymad4271]

The signal that is white with the black line is for the first set of points that we waited at. The red signal is at the bridge coming into the station. If you look as we approach, we have a green signal. Sorry, the video isn't very clear, but we do have a clear signal.

[@bennickss]

Didn’t know the thumpers spread over multiple classes, i thought they were only 205s

[@nicksrailwaymad4271]

No they got the nick name thumper because of the English diesel electric engine in them. There's a group on Facebook called preserved thumpers, take a look.

[@nicksrailwaymad4271]

The nickname came about in the later years of the units after the Hastings units had been withdrawn but they come under the banner and the name got adopted in Northern Ireland too.

[@Southern_Region__Productions]

Lol scouts