Great Western HST to Weymouth!

[@taylorwilliams9299]

Its what i love about bashing HSTs. You can open carriage door windows and do that.

[@transportvlogs2841]

Awesome cool train video

[@sam8alex12]

Enjoyed the journey very much, Thank you Matt

[@alanfbrookes9771]

We get so used to Bulleid Pacifics on the Weymouth trains that we tend to forget that Weymouth was originally a GWR line, and the main service to Weymouth used to be from Paddington, not Waterloo.

[@mitchellhurd8958]

Very clear announcement and apology from the train manager too :-) 👍!

[@eliottjeary1492]

love the semaphores still in use at yeovil

[@TrainPlaneHub]

Very old skool! They look great

[@Bruno.Trains]

Wonderful rail movie !!!

[@TrainPlaneHub]

Thank you!

[@gilhams]

Used to use that line lots when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s. It was usually a DMU or sometimes a class 33.

[@Matz32]

Nice trip.

[@moogmike1]

30 minutes of my life I will never get back.

[@TrainPlaneHub]

Michael Gadsden 2 seconds of my life I won’t get back reading your dumb comment

[@moogmike1]

@@TrainPlaneHub Slow reader then eh?

[@TrainPlaneHub]

Michael Gadsden Don’t watch the video if you’re not interested you weirdo. The other 21,000 viewers and all 87,000 of my subscribers are more than satisfied. The fact that you aren’t does not bother me.

[@WestCountrySteamVideos]

Great vido mate :)

[@johnboy8846]

seem to always be on the wrong side to see the junctions

[@mitchellhurd8958]

As the GWR Weymouth services are Standard Class, I forget that First Class on the HST's is declassified. I never went on the Weymouth Wizard HST to Weymouth. What a shame that 2+3 seated Turbos are taking over. They're nice trains don't get me wrong but an HST is the better train on this route. The only problem with the Weymouth Wizard was there were complaints about the engine running which the fumes reached someone's back garden. I believe there was one occasion where the engine was running for the whole 5+ hours! I couldn't do that if I was the train driver.

[@AndreiTupolev]

Oh you were on that were you? I watched you arrive! if I'd known I'd have given you a wave! You didn't stay long enough for Galatea then?

[@jimmythesaint5364]

Hang on wait..... When did they start using the HST. Last time I travelled it was a awful 153 I think or was it 150...

[@zacharymolloy4437]

Jimmy the Saint 153

[@caseyneistat2437]

Summer only Weymouth Wizard. Like what EMR did by sending HSTs between Skegness and London St Pancras International

[@tarnejehovahson2148]

What are gwr doing down that neck of the woods I thought it was SWR region seems gwr are everywhere these days

[@TrainPlaneHub]

GWR have always ran to Weymouth with local services to Bristol. But in the summer they put a HST on for the extra capacity

[@tarnejehovahson2148]

@@TrainPlaneHub they shouldn’t be there with there filthy DIESIEL trains polluting everything

[@federicogallo849]

Hi! Im from Argentina, and we will visit UK in august 2018. We rent a department in Weymouth and we going to Paigton. How is the service from Weymouth to Paigton? We cant take the trains in Castle Quarry? Google maps say "yes" and National rail web say "no".. Sorry about my very bad english.

[@caseyneistat2437]

Change in Bristol Temple Meads and Exeter St David's or in Southampton's Central, Salisbury, and Exeter St David's

[@DavidHaft1970]

The conductor sounded like Eric Idle from Monty Python

[@gavinharrison7497]

So can you sit in 1st with a standard ticket.

[@TrainPlaneHub]

You can indeed. They don't offer first class on that route.

[@fgwHST43009]

the only service that allows you to sit in 1st with a standard class ticket

[@jeremywilliams2478]

It will be a sad day when one cannot put their head out of a train window. :-(

[@R-Ws308]

H.S.T's are not that rare down to Weymouth. Initially B.R/RAILTRACK/NR didn't want them down at Weymouth because if a unit broke down, it is hard to rescue that unit, unless it had a connector under the nose of course. This was b4 thunderbirds. A 442 could be towed "dead" by another 442, as could say, a dmu unit, but H.S.T.s are problematic should they fail. However, i think Virgin/Intercity etc, ran a unit or two down to Wey, via Dorch' South possibly back in the 90's, but the 47's were favoured. I don't know if anyone remembers a railtour to Wales from Weymouth via H.S.T which i was lucky to b on. The unit returned to Bristol via Dorchester South/Reading as i recall. I have a film of this event but it was shot by Mike Penny, who i have no contact with now. If i can upload it, i will.

[@OnTheMoveTransport]

The kid at the end of the platform of Dochester West is me. Though im a lot older now.

[@johnperry6151]

So let me get this straight, you take the Caledonian sleeper from Euston to Inverness, you then catch an easy jet flight from Inverness to Bristol and now you caught the HST to Weymouth. You might as well do the penanze to John o groats challenge by train, oh wait Done that.

[@ph89787]

Wait didn't James and Richard try this with a Porsche Panamera against the British mail.

[@johnperry6151]

Did they? I don't remember. I do remember when they did a race across UK but not that specific race. I might need to watch the video for it :)

[@lorcan2541]

First?

[@AndreiTupolev]

Well, yes, but they call themselves Great Western RAILWAY now

[@chileanyways1275]

+AndreiTupolev he means that he's the first person to comment on the video lol :)