CrossCountry Trains Diverts on the Cross City Line

[@Sim0nTrains]

What is your favourite station on the whole of the Cross City Line between Lichfield Trent Valley to Bromsgrove/Redditch? Would love to hear which is your favourite Cross City Line stations. My favourite is Longbridge.

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

Mine favourite is my local station of Northfield

[@TravelJackJourneys158]

My favourite stations on the Cross City Line is Bournville mainly because of Cadbury World

[@TicTacTrolleyServiceTico]

Longbridge without Question

[@ReubenAshwell]

I quite like Four oaks station. :)

[@RickyNowis]

Haven't been to it but seen videos of it and looks mega to visit Bromsgrove :-)

[@RickyNowis]

Nice action on Cross City Lines and for the diverts as well :-)

[@Sim0nTrains]

Thanks Ricky

[@RichardBrooke1971]

Thank you for sharing your latest journey Simon, very enjoyable, as always. I like the look of the new class 730 trains, worthy looking successors to the class 323s.

[@Sim0nTrains]

Thanks Richard, hopefully the Class 730s are good units but they will not have the 3 plus 2 seating like the Class 323s have

[@MidlandRailEnthusiast]

Yet another very enjoyable Simontrains Railway Journey I’m glad your experiences are improving on the Cross City Lines they have been very kind to you most recently it was also fantastic to see the CrossCountry diverts especially the Class 43 HSTs passing too it’s all nice to see the Class 43s your doing a fantastic job Simontrains keep on being awesome keep up the good work and until your next Simontrains Railway Journeys take care and stay safe

[@Sim0nTrains]

Thanks Simon83

[@MidlandRailEnthusiast]

@@Sim0nTrains your welcome

[@streetrambler134]

Great video and love the ghost sign at Erdington station. Was filming on the cross city line on Saturday for a bit of Bingo myself. 👍

[@Sim0nTrains]

Thank you Street Rambler, hope you had a great day out on the Cross City Line.

[@jacobporrett]

Great video Simon. All good fun on the Cross City Line.

[@Sim0nTrains]

It always fun on the Cross City Line when it goes good or bad, thanks Jacob

[@MichaelSebastianTodd]

brilliant journey im loving the cross country HSTs and loving Gravelly Hill and Erdington also loving the 323 named Bourneville keep up the awesome work

[@Sim0nTrains]

They have recently renamed Bourneville to Bournville but that was Hunslet's fault lol just kidding, thanks Michael.

[@IanPooleTransportHub]

14:48 Yeah, gimme that mention, need all the help I can get haha

[@Sim0nTrains]

Subscribe to Ian ;)

[@antman09ful1]

Interesting video that was Simon.

[@Sim0nTrains]

Thank you antman09ful1

[@ReubenAshwell]

A brilliant video, the class 323's are brilliant units and it will be sad to see them leave the cross city line. Nice to see the cross country diverts on the cross city as well. :)

[@Sim0nTrains]

Thanks Reuben

[@ametrinemoon]

LOL when the train come at the start I thought, woah funny sounding train there, The gears of the hairy train sound like an F1 car just starting. The XC arrives in Aberdeen at 2044.

[@Sim0nTrains]

Thanks Ametrine

[@ukrailspotter21]

Nice to see WMR 730005 at Rugeley Trent Valley that's a bonus. Water Orton was closed due to Engineering works and also bus replacement as well.

[@Sim0nTrains]

It was a nice bonus indeed, Thanks Arnoldspotting Videos

[@TicTacTrolleyServiceTico]

Nicely Done Cyber! Of your 10 years it's interesting to see you've not explored these stations until now and I've enjoyed this video! Excellent to see the XC HSTs as well as the 323 Bingo and Carol! To Be Honest: 4 Indeed: 2 On Screen Now: 1 Greggs: 1 Carol: 1 HSTs: 2

[@Sim0nTrains]

Thanks TicoSprinter

[@simondavey7787]

This has been a fascinating revisit of a line in the city of my birth. You certainly got some wonderful Cross Country captures. As always, I love your work.

[@Sim0nTrains]

Thank you Simon.

[@Andrewjg_89]

I will be looking forward to seeing the Class 730 Aventras on the Chase Line that is replacing the Class 323. And on the West Coast Main Line. Nice to see 1 Class 730 “730005” on test run.

[@Sim0nTrains]

Where and when is the question, however I did hear that the Class 196s won't be in service till later this year but only a rumour at the moment, thanks Andrew

[@Andrewjg_89]

@@Sim0nTrains Totally agree.

[@SamsVlogstrainsmore]

Great vlog Simon. The cross city line is definitely one to do during cross country diverts because I was filming a few stations that day I wanna do some more stations on the cross city line as there’s a few I’ve still not got out yet. I enjoyed watching!

[@Sim0nTrains]

Thanks Sam

[@ENCTrainspotting]

Great video👍

[@Sim0nTrains]

Thank you ENC Trainspotting

[@martsmiscmix]

Very interesting, and also quite nostalgic for me as I worked and stayed for a while in the Sutton Coldfield area in my "trainee" days, which would be around 1979(!). I had digs in Mere Green, just next to Four Oaks, and would travel down from home which would then have been near Leeds to Birmingham New Street (probably by what BR called their "Cross Country" service I seem to remember), and thence up to Four Oaks. That must have been BR Corporate Blue (quite possibly Peak Class 45s on the InterCity) and slam-door stock back then. Not exactly the best time to be on British Rail from a passenger's point of view as it could be pretty grim at times. Things have changed somewhat since then. I really need to go and look at your "proper" Four Oaks video. In more recent times (I have continued to have business down there from time to time) I would be making the journey by four wheels on the M6 and M6 Toll, staying in Tamworth, but that's just plain boring! I really appreciate the history and again those captions ... !

[@Sim0nTrains]

Thanks you Martin'sMiscMix and honestly when looking at the history of the Cross City Line back in the 70s and 80s It did really look like a worse service than what they have now, at it peak there used to be 12 trains a hour between Four Oaks and Longbridge (also 12 trains a hour between Longbridge and Four Oaks) until Covid reduced the timetables. Also thank you for being a Patreon member as well.

[@joesheppard9571]

Nice to place Litchfield. When does water orton wilnecote and tamworth. Shut repairs does cross-country still stop at Litchfield City. station if tamworth shut for repair

[@TransportVloggerIan]

21:32 BINGO B*TCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Sim0nTrains]

BINGO!

[@barrowc]

Great video, Simon! It was interesting how this line got pieced together over a number of years. Do you think you'll complete Soho Bingo before all the 323s get replaced by Class 730s?

[@Sim0nTrains]

Thanks barrowc, honestly... no because I think how it played is you see a sighting of the name but you also have to match it at it's station like 323210 Shenstone has to be at Shenstone Station. Think people have a point system so it 2 or 3 points for a sighting and 5 points to match the nameplate with the station.

[@june1935]

how do you know when trains are going to be diverted?

[@Sim0nTrains]

Social Media & Websites. Sometimes there tweets/posts on Twitter/X about it, National Rail will also mention it but then I look on Real Time Trains to find the paths for the diverted trains in the detail section and not in the simple version www.nationalrail.co.uk/status-and-disruptions/ www.realtimetrains.co.uk/

[@june1935]

@@Sim0nTrains thank you

[@JoshHodginsTrains]

Hi