Class 66 cab ride Severn Tunnel to Cardiff

Class 66 cab ride from Severn Tunnel Jct. to Cardiff on 7 Nov 2009, just before the area was remodelled and resignalled.

[@davidwall7747]

So - it didn't actually include the tunnel journey - fucking brilliant.

[@DavidWilliams7037A]

Thanks for this. It brought back a lot of memories. I was a passed cleaner at STJ in the late fifties!

[@elvispresley2599]

I did pass these railway journeys on to a railway driver who is in his 80 s and had nothing to do all day but he as now thanks to everyone

[@TrainsandRails]

Thank you for sharing, it's nice to see a cab ride in a different location (I'm in Scotland) :)

[@GARYINLEEDS]

Helps with my, Tinnitus! Thanks for sharing,shared.

[@KeiranCounsellKC1994]

thank you so much for this, i have always wanted to see this journey from the drivers seat :)

[@Gwril76]

Bloody excellent...really enjoyed that. More please !

[@MrMKH2010]

The "bing" is a bell sounding a green signal, from the Automatic Warning System. If you hear a horn, the signal is either green over yellow, yellow, double yellow or yellow over red (prepare to stop) . There is a collector shoe under the loco, which goes across one of the rectangular boxes between the rails. The warning beep is a drive alerter. He has to ackowledge it or the computer will stop the loco. You do NOT want that to happen.

[@davecook3840]

Michael Hill you will also notice that the alarm goes off when he goes over temporary AWS magnets installed where the Temporary Speed Restrictions are (yellow boards to the left) Also some don’t sound the alarm at all, that’s because they have shrouds on them as this was filmed before we commissioned the new Signalling system. This was many years ago now and things along this line look very different now !

[@papaschlumpf332]

thanks for the explanation. So, on a single line, how does the system knows in which direction the train is going?

[@rubyait]

I enjoy seeing the different liveries.

[@johnnycab23513]

Good video. I enjoy all of your vids. Thank you.

[@NOMAAM1970]

Who put this video on my page?

[@LeShark75]

Great Video, really enjoyed it and thanks for sharing. Currently loving the class 66 on Train Sim World. I have to say this beats the hell out of sitting in traffic on the M6, what a great job to have.

[@stansquaredful]

Very nice capture it helps me to see the work i hope to be doing in around 10 years

[@stansquaredful]

Thank you very nice capture it helps me to see what I am in for in a decade (hopefully)

[@davidthurman-newell3633]

i thought you had been forgotten about at the signal C112! great video and sound.

[@catmar1944]

Chasing the yellow my friend. Nice video, seems like hauling freight is pretty lonely, good if you enjoy your own company. Thanks for putting it out.

[@BrianTuckerRailvideos]

Thoroughly enjoyed thanks very much

[@stevewyman2822]

I must say..that Track views & track layouts..look so much better..without all the Overhead Wiring, Rigging etc...

[@lcd815]

Thanks for posting this great cab ride Ray. I really enjoyed it. I hope to become a driver my self with ews or fl. Hope to use your vids as road learning practise. Once again thanks.

[@hooser-u8k]

I remember the family catching the Aust ferry

[@Mulletsrokkify]

Excellent video Ray!

[@jerrydowse5061]

Ray,that was goooooood..thanks for that.Happy New Year.

[@peterzpictstube]

What a nice sounding engine!

[@TheMichaelWilcock2016Railways]

Wish that was me ! Non rail staff don't stand a chance since I made mine in the years of VHS in the 1980s.

[@Palifiox]

This reminds of a friend's story. She grew up on various Pacific islands and knew nothing about trains. On a visit to the UK, back in the 1980s she took a train , as she thought, to Cardiff as she had relatives in Wales. After half an hour or so the train stopped somewhere and she heard her name called over the station PA system telling her she was on the wrong train! The one she needed came along about 10 minutes later. How did they know?

[@Bluffdemon]

Thanks for the great video

[@mikecooper6999]

Great video. Surprised how noisy the 66 is from inside the cab, they are much quiter on the. outside

[@medwaymodelrailway7129]

Nice video.Enjoy it thanks

[@nigel2093]

Great post, thanks.

[@АртурГнатенко-и3з]

It's interesting. Thank you for this video!

[@RailfreightWales]

Great stuff, thanks for posting.

[@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge]

Fascinating

[@bobhatcher5505]

Great stuff Ray

[@nyshortline]

The ever so familiar sound of a GM 16-645E.

[@RayEvans319]

It's a 12-710.

[@mikecawood]

Great video.

[@ArcturanMegadonkey]

really enjoyed that

[@quintoflyer]

great video for road learning

[@SmokeyBCN]

I can't count the number of times I've done the Bristol-Cardiff journey on a FGW DMU

[@PositionLight]

Why is the new signaling still single direction ABS?

[@benGBRf]

Great journey. Love the way you kept some of the waiting time at signal Charlie 112 as that adds to the real experience. Just out of interest how long did you wait in the end roughly?

[@mellisa212]

that's an EMD if i ever heard one.

[@rabde1041]

Very nice!

[@keithjones7024]

66's are great locos.

[@rolandlong3870]

brill vid

[@mnshp7548]

what does the horn sound like in the tunnel, once heard a pendalino honk in shugborough tunnel and that was cool

[@Isochest]

Futtocks! I had a few friends from school who let me ride in the cab many times into the 1990s but don't know if they could get away with this now:-(

[@Raygun-xb2st]

Isochest you'd be allowed in the cab at the station

[@timw6928]

Lovely

[@antiussentiment]

Cool accent.. What are the cool ruins by the river at 19:30?

[@RayEvans319]

Newport Castle, built in the 14th century.

[@hostile177]

Nice video. How is there graffiti out in the middle of nowhere and how do they avoid getting run over?

[@EnterprisingRailFilms]

That's what I would like to know ;)

[@znour0]

Why every passenger train in england have a banker from 2007 (around)?

[@graemedavis9264]

Proper silly question what are the box things in the middle of the track that makes the "bing" noise in the cab.

[@davecook3840]

Graeme Davis they are the AWS (Automatic Warning System). Electromagnets tied to the Signalling system that set of the receiver in the train that gives a warning according to the state of the Signal you are approaching. Bell for proceed or buzzer for anything else, which then has to be cancelled or the train brakes are applied. The magnets are so strong that if you get a analogue wristwatch near them it will fry it and get 2 stuck together on the hand trolley when you are installing them then it’s almost impossible to separate them!

[@stevewyman2822]

Yeh, as another guy commented...66 's seem to be very Noisy indeed..when inside them...and seem to produce a very noisy ride indeed....Drivers of these machines must have to wear friggin' ear plugs..they have such a loud drone-ing sound to them...!!!.

[@rolandlong3870]

Id like to know is it still possible to apply for a cab ride these days

[@6109river]

thanks for the explanation regarding signals, whats the top speed ? on this route and will it get better when they've done all the track work

[@stephenkettle]

40mph, I'd hope so. Seems terribly slow for good track

[@aldean2984]

Proper audio-recording equipment to capture these bassy, low Hz wavelengths here.

[@marcosrobertoalves4310]

cv b

[@marcosrobertoalves4310]

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[@trainsofthewest265]

Cooll!!!

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

I don't know what Australia does to keep its train drivers awake, but I know the system to prevent running a red light is a lot simpler, and is nearly fool-proof (nearly... there's no such thing as absolutely fool-proof, as the designer of the Titanic discovered). Next to each signal is a metal box with a spring-loaded pivot emerging from the side at one end. The pivot is attached to a metal arm which ends in a metal "shoe." If the signal is at "stop" or there is a fault, the arm is raised. It lowers only if the signal is set to any version of "proceed." On each engine is a pipe leading down to a small lever at the same height as the raised shoe. If the shoe is raised and the train goes past the signal, the lever is forced back by hitting the shoe, which releases the air from the brake system, forcing the train into an emergency stop. The driver cannot prevent or override this. Period. The driver has to actually get out of the cab and physically move the lever back to the vertical (which requires a tool since the lever is deliberately made to be impossible to move by hand) before the train can proceed (although even a lump of wood makes a suitable tool, still it does require a tool and not just bare hands).

[@paulhoare9184]

What you are describing is called a "trip" mechanism, and only exists in New South Wales electric passenger trains. It can be rest by the driver from within the cab.

[@suntariari4201]

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[@AnthonyRailwayBVideos]

Nice footage. How do you get to go in the cab of one of those, because I'd really like to do that, or are you a train driver? Oh, and I also do railway vids. If you could, I would really appreciate it if you checked out my channel and subscribe if you like. Thanks!

[@KrotowX]

I'm sorry but aren't Severn Tunnel wasn't under large river estuary and deeper in middle? How we can see a light from other end of this tunnel then. Where are the river now?

[@tomstickland]

This is trip is from Severn Tunnel junction to Cardiff. The tunnel is behind the train at the start.

[@KrotowX]

tomstickland Thanks. I understood that later when I found videos with actual tunnel.

[@seabulls69]

Ahh, the sweet sound of an EMD... nothing like it. Thanks.

[@Shadow78UK]

I love cab vids but that was truly a yawn fest

[@smudger1309]

why not put them on to DVD and sell them i no i love to add theses to my cab ride collection

[@aldean2984]

with the proper speakers/headphones this sounds bass-gasmic

[@GWRProductions-kg9pt]

now that voice is bugging me for some reason

[@drithen]

What’s the big station, 22 minutes in?

[@RayEvans319]

Newport

[@roderickscott7429]

what was the station around 22 minutes ?

[@RayEvans319]

Newport

[@bettyboop65340]

thats a red light

[@xtstevie]

Put the foot down John ffs :~0 !!!!

[@Quasihamster]

That enginge clearly speaks American!

[@catlover4971]

Slow, slow, slow-slow slow