Thank you for showing us another unusual route around North London including some "freight only" tracks. A slow, laborious "slog" out of Stratford and the maze of options at Willesden/Wembley. I hope there will be a continuation of this journey in due course please? Many thanks for the precise junction locations, makes things easier to follow on a map.
@Freightdriver823 жыл бұрын
There will be more to follow... Thanks....
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@westonwayne44553 жыл бұрын
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@Cookie2k3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fantastic video! 👍
@jessicamorgan30733 жыл бұрын
Nice journey. Thanks.
@Freightdriver823 жыл бұрын
And yes, before anyone says... I saw the “insert title here” which I put in by error.. lol!
@CycloneGU3 жыл бұрын
"Title Text Here" is a fantastic place. I can highly recommend it for your next vacation.
@CycloneGU3 жыл бұрын
@ep5 Seriously, though. You gotta check out the "Title Text Here" while you're in the area.
@jonathanparry95053 жыл бұрын
Excellent thank you
@nleak923 жыл бұрын
It’s amazing to see how much the railways in and around Stratford has changed over the years, I still remember the railway yard where the Westfield currently is now
@eggchipsnbeans3 жыл бұрын
It seemed a desolate place
@Keithbarber3 жыл бұрын
Stratford is now a much busier place than when I was a kid (born 1969) and was just an interchange between local services to shenfield and southend and the central line with north London line coming later
@theteacaddy27663 жыл бұрын
Interesting to watch and see what a train driver actually see's on a particular route. I think your videos are great. I so want to become a train driver.
@finbarholt3 жыл бұрын
Great stuff!!
@georgesjourneys90073 жыл бұрын
Another great video - thanks for uploading and sharing with us.
@SeanCrabtree3 жыл бұрын
Great video as always.
@andrewcrisp97003 жыл бұрын
Shame to see Temple Mills yard gone.. had a few laughs and tough days making up ballast trains there.
@Cookie2k3 жыл бұрын
Used to train spot there as a young boy. Awesome yard!
@Keithbarber3 жыл бұрын
But at least it is still used as the continuous service of the railway industry by being the Eurostar depot and orient way carriage sidings and the railway retains a presence in Stratford and the surrounding areas
@jeremywilcox3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this as well - great to see this way round and able to see some of the more rare options.
@michaelberg96563 жыл бұрын
Excellent quality of video and sound. Thanks!
@earljohnson71023 жыл бұрын
I really really enjoyed this, and I've passed this on to my friend. Very interesting journey. Loved it.
@CraigG913 жыл бұрын
Great video very enjoyable. Getting to see parts of London from a driver view is awesome.
@hamjazz3 жыл бұрын
Great video--very enjoyable thanks.
@westyham13 жыл бұрын
Happy memories, great video
@dave55uk3 жыл бұрын
Lovely video. Like A Butler says below, good to see some 'not usually seen' tracks.
@Keithbarber3 жыл бұрын
Several of these lines have been used for passenger services in the past, but its amazing the number of lines there are that see little use
@whubmf1223 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the view driver, it’s been a a few years since I have seen that stretch of line. Seems so strange to most of the signalboxes GONE…. Harringay Park Junction, Junction Road Junction, Gospel Oak, Kensal Green Junction, Willesden PSB and Willesden Brent Sidings.
@alexdokic55673 жыл бұрын
That brings back memories of the time I spent as drivers assistant at Sratford from 1976 until 1980, looks a little different, a lot more buildings and electrification of the line ,Hampstead tunnel is still as dark 😳
@johnmasters5043 жыл бұрын
I was a drivers assistant, secondman at March Depot, 1974 to 1983...
@theblacktrainboy3733 жыл бұрын
Elite drivers I see that's amazing you guys were enjoying the trains before I even existed
@michaelberg96562 жыл бұрын
Best of all the Cab Videos!
@TheMisterB2u3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting!Was at Ripple Lane freight depot (traincrew) in early 80's and so much has changed on whole route of video.
@chrisbrown30783 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video thanks for uploading
@dixiedean19553 жыл бұрын
Great trip, thanks. Interesting to see the GOBLIN electrification in full.
@bertspeggly4428 Жыл бұрын
This is my favoutrite Cab View video, the speed is just right, sound is good (no music), video clear, and just the right amount of annotation.
@ruly19733 жыл бұрын
Muy lindo video.. por la velocidad que lleva es un tren de carga?. Saludos desde Argentina
@stuartmenzies22343 жыл бұрын
Great video many thanks for sharing but intrigued by the positioning of route indicator at 2.21 but your going right across the junction.
@robertbutlin37083 жыл бұрын
Assume there are other “less right” options.
@angus5043 жыл бұрын
Junction 4 would be to the track to the right, junction 5 to channelsea goods loop and then 6 for channelsea (down or up, not sure which is which)
@steviep19653 жыл бұрын
Another Great video, the captions allow me to track the route in my rail atlas, hope to see more soon👍
@christinebeynon99673 жыл бұрын
My grandfather was a yard inspector at Stratford in the 50s. Dad worked in carriage and wagons as did an uncle. My brother at Temple Mills
@theovanstaden57663 жыл бұрын
Good video, thank you for sharing!
@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS3 жыл бұрын
excellent. thank you
@ABCDEF-yf4yu3 жыл бұрын
This is the way to get from the main line to Liverpool Street to the main line to Euston, and passes the Kings Cross and St Pancras lines. A mile further on is the line to Paddington, and continuing you reach Clapham Junction and the lines from Victoria and Waterloo.
@robertbutlin37083 жыл бұрын
Yes, though there is the more usual route via Hackney Central and Primrose Hill, or Hackney Central and Gospel Oak.
@GarethFurlong3 жыл бұрын
I used to commute from Stratford to Green Lanes, watching the freight do that exact journey was really quite frustrating in the mornings, I just wanted to jump on board!
@ianmcclavin3 жыл бұрын
I remember one weekend around 1989, when there were quite major engineering works at Liverpool Street....Enfield Town trains were starting at Stratford, and running via South Tottenham (non--stop, but even then electrified through the platforms), round another chord to Seven Sisters, then normal route. That was the only time I'd experienced electrified passenger services through there, of course now the entire "GOBLIN" Line is wired up.
@Keithbarber3 жыл бұрын
@@ianmcclavin that chord between south Tottenham and seven sisters is a remnant of the old palace gates - north woolwich service and was used for passenger services (parliamentary) until quite recently (05:00 from Stratford or something like that Saturdays only) but hasn't run since goblin electrification
@rebmcr3 жыл бұрын
@@Keithbarber Keep kicking myself that I didn't "do" it when I had the chance.
@PollyPetronella3 жыл бұрын
We travelled that way on a couple of chartered trains (one Ipswich to York, and the other Ipswich to Liverpool). Both trains got to their destinations early.
@orsoncarte85363 жыл бұрын
Certainly an unusual route to Gospel Oak junction, not one I did when I was a driver at 5ratford cica 1970s; did it in reverse when picking up freight from Cricklewood yard into Temple Mills; hardly recognised anything till Coppermll Junction!
@fetchstixRHD3 жыл бұрын
Some of those neutral section placements, though! That says a lot about either the efficiency of steel wheels on steel rails, or the skill that train drivers have (most likely both!) Interesting the sign at Gospel Oak's NL1302 signal 35:28 though, kinda makes sense why you'd need to stop there, if you don't want that stop to be extended 🤔
@filecore3 жыл бұрын
Great video, my commute takes me under the bridge at @21:16 twice a day. It's rare for me to catch a train there. Nice to see from this angle.
@AshBehindtheCamera3 жыл бұрын
Excellent video
@lon3don3 жыл бұрын
THIS SHOULD BECOME A PASSENGER ROUTE IT WOULD BE SO USEFUL
@andrekleyn7273 жыл бұрын
Always interesting the various routes being taken, the various train stations being used. What is very obvious on this video is the lack of controlling intruder bushes in train station areas which can be easily dealt with by a private entity. Nothing more pleasing than a clean area.
@philclennell11 ай бұрын
Used to mess about in Stratford shed by means of a workmens' tunnel in the 60s - happy days! No health and safety nonsense then! All long gone of course.
@andynixon28203 жыл бұрын
When this train gathers speed , inside the cab it sounds like my washing machine on spin cycle .
@johneves72962 жыл бұрын
Great and informative video, thanks. Would love to see the reverse move, is it available please?
@keystonedriving81803 жыл бұрын
That takes me back, I used to live in Tottenham and worked for Freightliner at Cardington Street and Paddington. The Stratford area has changed a lot, the other lines not so much. As a matter of interest, do you still have to have a BR29973 form (although it's probably called something else now) with your route and exclusions? I assume that even today the container trains are out of gauge, they certainly were in my day.
@Freightdriver823 жыл бұрын
We do have paperwork with routes permitted/restricted, and container restrictions (W8/W10 etc)... all our paperwork has weight, height and loading gauge restrictions which we are very rarely deviated from due to the consist of the train... however, container trains are now able to travel on most lines, subject to container height.... The ECML is one example... From Canonbury / Finsbury Park to Peterborough, my go via Hertford North (Hertford Loop) unless the train is fully W8 gauge.
@Freightdriver823 жыл бұрын
RT3973...👍
@keystonedriving81803 жыл бұрын
@@Freightdriver82 Bock in my day, Werrington Junction to Stoke Tinnel was slow lines only, the main line bridge holes were to small. Now it has been electrified it's no longer a problem. We also ran intermodal from Ipswich Griffin Wharf on a daily basis.
@niiiice13 жыл бұрын
May I ask why were you routed that way via South Tottenham? Surely quicker via Hackney / Dalston / Camden Road and Primrose Hill! Or even to Camden Road then North London? Is it traffic? Time of day? Just seems like you had a rather convoluted route! All the best!
@Freightdriver823 жыл бұрын
We have one train that goes that way, mainly for route retention purposes... Always handy as a diversion. 👍
@smileygoesfishing363 жыл бұрын
i always did wonder about the other freight route and it was nice to see it -- i do sometimes hear the horn from the North London Line when the freight trains go past -- i did get a surprise one morning when i saw DB66 pulling a stream engine in reverse :( but must of been going to the DB work yard near Stratford area and if i recall the it was also known as the nuke line for a few years in the 80's
@keka91173 жыл бұрын
I didn't realise how large the Temple Mills depot actually is!
@theunknown24703 жыл бұрын
It’s huge.
@whubmf1223 жыл бұрын
You mean was...
@stephenbagwell82753 жыл бұрын
2:13 white lights seem to be pointing left but the points take the train to the right
@popmantube3 жыл бұрын
19:25 signal here indicates a "Left". imagine the white lights, or Fingers, arranged in a circle, the one shown @ 2:13 would be bottom right, the one @ 19:25 would be top left.
@Spiderwebsider2 жыл бұрын
I lived in E16 during the early 1980s. That was before the whole docklands and Canary Island development. I didn't even recognise Stratford.
@ccjelley23903 жыл бұрын
I wonder why only one [down] container train per day goes via the Lea Valley line [used to be an earlier Lawson Street train] Shame that Spitalfields Market isn't rail served- - lorries from all over Europe arrive there. How sensible is that?
@andrewbrown67865 ай бұрын
West Anglia line is an extremely busy route - a F/L type train would mess up the normal timetable of the route 🙁
@CliqueSpace3 жыл бұрын
I note that the final piece of third rail I have found no YT footage for is the line that links Watford Junction to the rest of the LSE network. If there are any train drivers that might cover this route (say from East Croydon) that are willing to make the recording, then the set (and very possibly my life) would be complete. :)
@anthonyglee17103 жыл бұрын
Love cab view diesel videos. Wow, East London has changed so much. Does anyone know what the Blue rectangular covers are periodically in between the up down tracks?
@JC-gm3zs3 жыл бұрын
They are catchpits, which are part of the drainage system. They ‘catch’ silt and other debris carried along the drainage pipe by water.
@joehedley69643 жыл бұрын
are 1st 3 videos ive watched a continuation from felixstowe? excellant video
@johnthompson50349 ай бұрын
Great video and I have to ask what sort of camera is in use? The picture quality is exceptionally good.
@Freightdriver828 ай бұрын
Thanks. That was my Go Pro Hero8 4K. Does the job nicely… Get out and about in Midlands/WCML soon with it.
@Pori93923 жыл бұрын
Train sounds ace.
@deejay04283 жыл бұрын
Was this filmed back in Autumn.....?looking at the trees...!
@sp1m3683 жыл бұрын
Hi. Any chance of getting the routes from Stratford to Wembley via Gospel Oak and via Camden Road? Also an Ipswich to Peterborough and back cab ride would be good 😊? I see you had uploaded Felixstowe to Ipswich but will you be uploading the Ipswich to Felixstowe route?
@danamack74052 жыл бұрын
Class 66 DB Schencker EWS ?
@idgat22563 жыл бұрын
Appalling condition of track ballast at High Meads Curve
@bonkerz865 Жыл бұрын
Was your headcode 4M88?
@edwardmills64563 ай бұрын
Sad thing about video I don't think the ex boss of EWS vision of speedy freight has been realised, seemed most of journey at a very pedestrian pace.
@chielrobijn88363 жыл бұрын
I assume this is a Diesel driven train or not?
@MrGrunter03 жыл бұрын
Hi. Great videos by the way. Do you go to / from Wembley via primrose hill at all. I’m route learning it and it would be great to see it on here as it’s hard to get that way during the daytime and actually see anything! Thanks
@Freightdriver823 жыл бұрын
Yes, that is our main route to Wembley/WCML. I’ll see what I can do. 👍
@MrGrunter03 жыл бұрын
@@Freightdriver82 That's fantastic, thanks very much 👍🏻
@Freightdriver823 жыл бұрын
Uploaded just now! 👍🏻
@acleray3 жыл бұрын
I was a secondman at Kings Cross when God was a boy, well in the 70's at least. It was a regular job collecting trains from Finsbury Park to Temple Mills freight yard. (Now the Eurotunnel Depot). First time I've seen the place since I left the railway.
@earljohnson71023 жыл бұрын
God was around way long long time before you came on the scene.
@acleray3 жыл бұрын
@@earljohnson7102 I can see sarcasm and comedy are probably lost on you. Never mind it takes all sorts.
@EnfieldExplorer3 жыл бұрын
@@earljohnson7102 You don't say!
@robtyman42813 жыл бұрын
Didn't know the be Eurostar train depot had moved to Temple Mills in East London!.....thought it was still at North Pole depot in West London (nr.Old Oak Common sidings).
@EnfieldExplorer3 жыл бұрын
@@robtyman4281 Oh yes it moved way back in 2007 as part of a £402 million upgrade
@articeddie54943 жыл бұрын
How long has it been 3 lanes out of Lea Bridge ? Are the putting the curve back to link Lea Bridge with St James street/chingford branch ?
@filecore3 жыл бұрын
18 months or so.
@articeddie54943 жыл бұрын
@@filecore is the curve back in towards Chingford yet ?
@filecore3 жыл бұрын
@@articeddie5494 I don't know. I just know that I normally get the train from Tottenham Hale and now the extra line goes to Meridian Water which now allows 4tph to Stratford, over the previous 2, and as you saw, the 3rd line joins the double track just before lea bridge
@robertbutlin37083 жыл бұрын
@@articeddie5494 no plans to rebuild the Hall Farm curve.
@articeddie54943 жыл бұрын
@@robertbutlin3708 oh I thought they were going to reinstate it
@TIMBOWERMAN3 жыл бұрын
Is this a freight (goods) train or a passenger train?
@onnomulder97753 жыл бұрын
It sounds like a class 66. So I think a freight train.
@angus5043 жыл бұрын
100% freight.
@hamjazz3 жыл бұрын
Why the left-hand feather just before Channelsea when turning right?
@Freightdriver823 жыл бұрын
I don’t recall that (certainly hope not!), but I’ll have a look... 🤣
@hamshackleton3 жыл бұрын
I put the same question in - three minutes in, the 'feathers' indicate left, but the track goes right!
@Freightdriver823 жыл бұрын
They definitely don’t... I didn’t need to look to check, but had a glance anyway to see if I could see what your seeing... No idea where you get any indication of the route diverging left I’m afraid?
@Freightdriver823 жыл бұрын
If it is the route indications which are causing confusion, off Stratford the indication given is of No6 route (bottom right), which gives the correct indication for the route I was taking. The route indications on a signal can come in up to 6 in that format. The routes are designated 1-6, or as in the rulebook, read as top to bottom, left to right. There may be some pictures or diagrams on Google which will show you the layout of a signal with multiple route indications to help clear up the confusion... But, I can assure you the signalling is correct! 🤣
@hamshackleton3 жыл бұрын
@@Freightdriver82 - 2.19 in, partway along platform 10, just after the seated guy in dayglow yellow, is a gantry showing a single yellow, and above it a feather indicating left!
@dumitrulangham17216 ай бұрын
We are on a class 66 loco
@Merseynwresponses3 жыл бұрын
Was this a GBRf 66?
@ormondsworld39474 ай бұрын
Freightliner I think
@chrisbagshaw63783 жыл бұрын
What class is this 66
@russouk3 жыл бұрын
66
@bazcuda3 жыл бұрын
52:20 Show off! 😂
@peterfox25383 жыл бұрын
If I had a pound for every time I did this route I would be rich now.
@cmeonthemove3 жыл бұрын
Another great ride. Do you also sign Class 70?
@tommilton5753 Жыл бұрын
Aren't London's railways fantastic.
@EdgyNumber13 жыл бұрын
What class?
@russouk3 жыл бұрын
66
@degust013 жыл бұрын
is this a 66?
@russouk3 жыл бұрын
ye
@russouk3 жыл бұрын
Beats me why the scumbags risk lives to spray gibberish or names no one will know or recognize on boxes ,and walls in middle of nowhere these people need help..makes you wonder on the state of their homes..
@huyiii24353 жыл бұрын
Should be from Maryland to wembley
@MichaelBeeny3 жыл бұрын
Having not lived in the UK for 20 years now. A few things I've noticed. Everything near to the tracks are covered in scribble. The lack of any public on the trains or on the platforms. The painfully slow ride on many tracks. No wonder people prefer to travel by car.
@extrude22 Жыл бұрын
This is a goods train hence it takes a long and circuitous to avoid passenger trains, it’s not possible to travel this route on a passenger train. Secondly it was Filmed during the covid lockdown which is why all the stations are so quiet. And thirdly this is London, taking the car isn’t a option most of the time and even when it is it is the slower option
@colingraham10653 жыл бұрын
A great video but when will all this hideous graffiti be treated as the trespass and criminal damage it really is! Almost every structure on this route was daubed in this cr@#p. And don't give me any of that lily liveried tosh that "it's only youth expressing their art"
@johnackerley65533 жыл бұрын
OMG and they say its grim up north. Hardly a brick or piece of line-side equipment without some waster’s poor attempt at graffiti. What a depressing sight for anyone to have to live or work in.
@4376ED2 жыл бұрын
My god England how decrepit everything is.
@iman23413 жыл бұрын
Great video, extremely frustrating to see the extent to which routes like this have been wired and yet freight services are still diesel hauled. Also, cannot quite believe they didn’t bother to wire the connection between GOBLIN and the MML.
@robertbutlin37083 жыл бұрын
This was partly because the MML’s freight is all diesel, so nowhere for an electric freight to go, and I believe, it’s not cleared for high cube containers so even if links to the WCML via Nuneaton were cleared it couldn’t be used by long distance container trains.
@christill3 жыл бұрын
Completely agree. Japan seems to have replaced diesel locomotives for freight many decades ago now. Perhaps they still use them for shunting, I’m not sure. But that would be it. And even then you could use a battery locomotive for that now pretty easily if companies bothered to innovate.
@pauloconnor29802 жыл бұрын
Great to see that lunar lights are still in use. Mind you, I have nothing against theater boxes.
@Mortimer501452 жыл бұрын
What are the spirals of wire around the left-hand OHLE wire at various positions around 18:26? And in a corresponding position on the track in the opposite direction? I notice that there are little circular "targets" hanging from that OHLE. Are both the spirals and the targets something to do with deterring birds which might be flying to/from the two Warwick reservoirs that the railway passes between? I presume that wire is a return or neutral wire, rather than one that the pantograph contacts.