Peterborough to Hitchin - Hastings DEMU cab ride - 1 July 2017

[@michaelgamble296]

When my Father Regd. retired in 1965 he was Commercial Officer at Peterborough. He started the modernisation programme there by straightening the ECML through the North Station - which had to be rebuilt from the original overall roof I remember. Thank you for this .

[@sunrockewr1960]

i worked on the peterborough track for 16 years and i was a track charge man i was in charge of the block item gang i still have my picop and picow cards from the 90s i worked on all this line what is shown and filmed,

[@florm9944]

Putting this on as background noise while I'm running my small model railway. Much better sounding than empty electronic whirring.

[@ballantynemoyes8019]

I love all the information you put in the video. It makes for very interesting reading and viewing. Many thanks.

[@robinmoss5470]

I've just watched this after finding it by chance. Another excellent video - many thanks.

[@HotSpace2007DaveB]

I love watching these videos ♥️👍♥️

[@simonprice8737]

Oh thank you, oh frabjous day, that's wonderful the best one yet, brilliant !!!

[@gordonshuffle9827]

Great video really like the captions very informative thanks.

[@richardwestwell4902]

Abbots Ripton: Scene of a disaster on 21st January 1876. Three train collision caused primarily by a very heavy snow storm. ( Red For Danger- L.T.C. Rolt, chapter 4 , Bridge failures-storm and tempest)

[@stevewyman2822]

..I always thought the ECML was 4 Track...to Peterborough from the Cross..apart from the couple of miles of twin track @ Welwyn Garden...for the Viaduct..then where it opens out to 4 Track again....didnt realise it was just twin track again towards Peterborough..

[@anmolmehta7116]

Very nice video. Liked all the lush green fields as the train goes by. Can't you extend this video into a two and a half hour ride?

[@hastingsdiesels]

Thanks! There's already much more than two and a half hours-worth of material published just from this day's outing (you watched Part 9 in the sequence), and Part 10 will be published today...

[@HenrysAdventures]

Brilliant footage!

[@dhaynes4515]

Nice video. Can anyone tell me what the little "shacks" you see on the side of the tracks. Some even have a chimney or stove pipe.

[@russouk]

I reckon when in middle of winter as its exposed country its for Rail cres to use to warm up anst eat in....lol probably to do with the electrification...transformer boost relays ..pipes to expel hot air ?...

[@richardhancock2297]

I am trying to be come a writer how do you find out if a Railway Station has not be written about yet and to get it published.. Thank you

[@Louisa93able]

Hastings Diesels forever!

[@djtrainspotter]

Exellent stuff, i'm going through all this channel, exceptional work, thanks. My ex girlfriend drove diesel loco's around London, so cab-ride vids is my latest hobby! . . Also i am wondering how 'down' trains access the bay platform at Huntingdon?

[@hastingsdiesels]

Thank you. It doesn't look as if any trains much use the bay platform at Huntingdon, but I'm not local to there and don't know.

[@m222rjr]

Assuming that the owners of the unit are not allowed to drive it on NR tracks, how do the professional drivers get experience in driving a "Hastings" DEMU? I Suppose this question really applies to any motive power. Nice, well produced video. Thanks

[@hastingsdiesels]

Thank you. A good question! Drivers who need experience gain that experience by accompanying existing drivers in the cab, and either observing, or handling the train under their supervision. This is another cause of there being more than one member of traincrew in the cab and hence conversation, hence me using the back-cab audio sometimes.

[@russouk]

ECML is Network Rails strategic route G...and afaik we are watching this on the ecml lol

[@martinevans7090]

26:10 - lol, so the bypass is bypassing a bypass!

[@GTRider69]

You don't often see an train stopped on the down fast at St Neots

[@barryowen195]

There was a hastings demu trip that went on the north Norfolk railway called the Weybourne wanderer will it be uploaded soon?

[@hastingsdiesels]

I do have some footage of that which I'd like to publish, but I can't promise a timescale.

[@russouk]

were you diverted at Hunt`don as faster trains were catching you up ?..lol 225 probs. lol was close...in vid No-10...it was hst

[@hastingsdiesels]

We were booked to cross onto the Slow Line at Huntingdon, as part of the timetabled working of the train.

[@AndreiTupolev]

40 for the slow line turnout at Huntingdon? That seems to call for some rather unnecessarily heavy braking, since the line speed immediately after it is 75. Couldn't the points allow for higher speed?

[@hastingsdiesels]

They could do. But...! Higher-speed turnouts are much more costly to build and require more maintenance. As with all things there's a cost/benefit assessment that will have been done, to balance the cost of the points (up-front cost, projected maintenance costs throughout their lifetime) against the cost of the speed restriction imposed for them (in fuel, brake wear, timetable pathways).

[@MalcolmCrabbe]

Are you going to upload the next section from Hitchin ?

[@hastingsdiesels]

When I have produced it... yes that is my intention.

[@g7usl]

Focus lost coming onto the Fens. Very poor.

[@hastingsdiesels]

Focus is fixed at infinity.

[@stefanharrison5337]

Great Northern or East coast

[@hastingsdiesels]

This particular video is entirely on the East Coast Main Line.