Exeter to Basingstoke Driver's eye view preview

[@betover68]

the english countryside is always so beautiful.

[@video125com]

Every hour at the same time rather than perhaps 30 mins past then 32 mins past then 28 mins past. It means exactly the same minutes past each hour.

[@mikegray002]

I have never travelled on this route to London so this is all new to me, always travelled on GWR line. I will have to buy this video it looks interesting.

[@jsma9999]

I Just finish watch it on DVD, This Video 125 Film Was a Great Watch All the Southern Fans and First Great Western Fans. This Will Be one the Best films that I watch and the Information in Narration Was Very informing . Over All this 4.9/5 Stars in DVD form I have Not Seen it on Blue-ray so can not Tell How good HD is.Thank you Video 125 and All the Best on Filming This Year. James M

[@davidsheriff8989]

Have travelled from Tisbury to Dawlish using this route

[@Thunderer0872]

Great Blu-ray but there were some mistakes made. 1L44 wasn't signalled into platform 2 at Exeter as it's a bay Platform, the train goes into platform 1 at Exeter. The train seen in Salisbury on departure is in platform 6 where the 1906 derailment took place, Platform 5 is at the west of the station. The comments on Tisbury and the loss of the down platform was over a long period remember that the western region was from Wilton when the line was singled so selling the land was done by the property board on behalf of the Western. They had no intentions of keeping the route once the line was singled, this obvious when there's 19 miles Wilton to Gillingham and Yeovil was for a while a single platform with Sherborne to Chard Junction a single section, (Thankfully reversed with Yeovil became 2 through platforms and the box reinstated) So back to Tisbury to say that the £435000 for the loop over the land sold was a bad decision is correct but the loop installed was under Network Southeast a sector that wanted to improve their service which was made almost impossible by a previous region that had no interest, apart from possible closure Salisbury - Exeter and yet when they removed all their Semaphore signals Westbury - Taunton - Exeter they used the line Yeovil - Exeter for their trains and since then anytime the Somerset levels flood they demand the access to the route. Nearly all BR decisions were short sighted from Beeching to the 1980's. Finally the DSD Vigilance audible warning you only referred to it on leaving Gillingham this has to be acknowledged by the diver moving his feet on the DSD peddle in order to stop the brakes applying, that is why it knows the driver is still in control.

[@trainrover]

@Gillinghamgus Old stomping grounds, hadn't known that. Cheers again 🍸🍷

[@WesternTrainSpotterUK]

In the video, how many times do you get to see the cab ?

[@video125com]

many

[@WesternTrainSpotterUK]

@@video125comoooo I’ll have to get this 😮

[@HenrysAdventures]

I'll have to get this one!

[@STEVEHARLEY1956]

Excellent Filming and narrative....Steve.

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

I think a bi-mode train (using third rail and diesel) engines will replace the 159 and 158 on SWR.

[@pomoeeyore]

Doubt it. I think the era of new 3rd rail electrification is over: there's been talk for a while about overhead wires between Basingstoke and Southampton. If that happens, overhead to Salisbury then diesel is possible...

[@DieyoungDiefast]

There was one quirk about this route. When there were issues on the line through Swindon the London bound HSTs couldn't pass beyond Andover, something to do with the running gear fouling the 3rd rail on the run in to Basingstoke.

[@jsma9999]

This Now on Sale As DVD or Blue ray From Video 125

[@greatbritishentertainmentl5636]

Very nice presentation.

[@terratec1001]

Very scenic journey.

[@kristinajendesen7111]

terratec1001 - That's why I drive out of Salisbury rather than Bournemouth and of course the wonderful British built 159s. West of Salisbury especially the Axminster and Honiton Bank area in Devon is the best.

[@SiVlog1989]

I wonder if there are any other examples like Gillingham (Dorset) and Gillingham (Kent) where two different places in the country have identical spellings but different pronunciations...

[@Northstander]

sbaker190189 Off the top of my head Southwick (Hampshire) and Southwick (Sussex), spelled the same but not pronounced the same.

[@pix046]

Luton, Devon (pronounced Loo tun) and Luton, Herts (pronounced Lew un)

[@dominicwalker1999]

Not well known but Brixton a village in Devon as well as the district in London

[@Jack-jh2to]

Is this preview in SD or HD?

[@ilirkrasniqi2801]

I did Travel every months for 5 years

[@jsma9999]

Question, Is this Narrated By Jonathan Kydd?, And just went on my Buying list. James M

[@TolworthBroadway-en9uy]

Yes

[@harryelliott4310]

South West Trains Class 159

[@craigymarsh7176]

Exeter to Basingstoke via all stops

[@SiVlog1989]

'Clock-face hourly'? What does that mean?

[@Thunderer0872]

Same minutes past each hour Like Gillingham Down trains depart XX:18 Up trains XX:52 Every hour for most of the day Monday to Friday, Saturday and Sunday's during normal operations.

[@trainrover]

@@Thunderer0872 Aha..thank you. Mightcha be twixt Shafts & Mere, you?

[@mintpolar4568]

I LIVE IN ANDOVER

[@trainrover]

+sbaker190189 Kingston x 2 and, yes, there're ways of speaking called accents.

[@trainrover]

Adopting retention toilets, they make it seem a TOC policy when I'd have presumed it an EU directive .. must this production be a rip off?

[@tomp6792]

159s got them when BR built them in 1990-92, and the EU directive only became law in 1999, so yes, it was a BR policy at that point.

[@trainrover]

Really: Clock face hourly in the digital age? I`ve never heard this term, I wonder whether youths grasp its meaning (I don't), plus I thought charging £ for train footage passé nowadays.

[@kristinajendesen7111]

trainrover - no, we use the 24hr clock on the railway, have done for almst 50 years. Frustrates me why TV programming doesn't do the same.

[@trainrover]

And next door to Wilts there Salisbury'd been our next closest station..even transfered there myself too. Military time's predominant here in French yet - like you - seldom if ever alongside core English (i.e., with French being primary here the English bus timetables will also display 24hr timings..yet not for TV shows [either] though).

[@timwattison4419]

Rather sad you did not do this clip in the 1980's. Units have no soul and a locomotive hauled train would have made the clip far more interesting 😯

[@Thunderer0872]

I wrote to them back in the early 1990's and asked if they would do the route but they sadly declined, One thing is that they like to keep the stock the same so filming on different days they can make you think it's the same train in every shot used, hence units or 125 west and far west etc.