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

Cleethorpes Clipper part 4: Cab view from Stevenage to Peterborough - over 48 miles at an average of nearly 65mph! Filmed from our preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 1 July 2017, during our Cleethorpes Clipper railtour.
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Video footage is from an unattended unmonitored cab-camera in motor coach 60116 Mountfield.
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In this video we run down the East Coast Main Line, keeping out of the way of faster trains that overtake us on the Fast Line by using the Slow Line. From Hertfordshire we cross Bedfordshire and end up in the fenlands of Cambridgeshire.
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0:22 - STEVENAGE station
4:30 - Hitchin station
4:41 - Cambridge Junction
5:13 - Hitchin North Junction
7:38 - Site of Three Counties station (closed 1959)
8:42 - Arlesey station
12:02 - Biggleswade station
14:10 - Sandy South Junction
14:22 - Sandy station
15:00 - Sandy North Junction
17:04 - Site of Tempsford station (closed 1956)
20:16 - St. Neots South Junction
20:36 - St. Neots station
23:33 - Offord D'Arcy
23:58 - Site of Offord and Buckden station
25:59 - Huntingdon South Junction
26:15 - Huntingdon station
26:34 - Huntingdon North Junction
30:21 - Site of Abbots Ripton station (closed 1958)
32:05 - Woodwalton Junction
33:16 - Connington Junction
36:34 - Holme Junction
37:00 - Site of Holme station (closed 1959)
38:56 - Stilton Fen crossovers
40:41 - Site of Yaxley & Farcet station (closed 1959)
42:48 - Fletton Junction
44:24 - Crossing the Ely branch and the River Nene
45:20 - Crescent Junction
45:40 - PETERBOROUGH station
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Video © Copyright 2017 Hastings Diesels Limited.
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Equipment: video by GoPro Hero3+ camera with suction-mount and extra batteries; processing by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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Here are links to annotated extracts from Network Rail’s Sectional Appendix:
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Outward: www.dropbox.co...
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Return: www.dropbox.co...

[@smilevideobritain499]

most enjoyable thank you

[@Cinemadamenic]

Another superbly informative film. Thank you very much to Richard Griffin and all involved with this journey!

[@hastingsdiesels]

Thank you! ^RG

[@joaogoncalves1097]

Very nice HST overtaking at 18:00. Great video with useful information. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Brazil.

[@paulwhitear4983]

Another great video. Didn't realize how many stations have closed over the years. Looking forward to next instalment.

[@matthewharbin8881]

Great video. Cannot wait for the adventure to continue.

[@barrydelahaye6540]

Cannot argue with Matthew, it really is a great informative video , thanks a lot. biz of Swindon.

[@andyjames4997]

Very much appreciated for train timing in a retrospective sense, it provides corroboration of times and speeds of the unit when the film is unedited.

[@hastingsdiesels]

Glad to hear it - where I do cut time out of the videos I'll continue to state in a caption exactly what I've done. Also, I've got the saved actual timings on a webpage... it's really waiting to go in a News article but until then, here it is in the /tmp/ folder: www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/tmp/2017-07-01-actual-timings

[@AndreiTupolev]

Nice whistle acknowledgement from the NVR.

[@HowardLeVert]

A rather absorbing video :) I remember when Holme Lode Crossing had a crossing keeper and a house adjacent to it; but I was saddened to note you didn't mention the long-closed Peterborough Crescent railway station that was just to the south of Crescent Bridge. Although it was only open for eight years, it stood for many more.

[@tact86]

Great video, Captions are helpful. Well Done!!!

[@HenrysAdventures]

Brilliant video!

[@ercaysalih5433]

you can see more clearly now this was before they built platform 5 what a diffrance

[@nickyaerobones]

Loved this !

[@KasabianFan44]

Interesting how the platforms at St Neots are numbered “the other way around” compared to the rest of the stations on this stretch of the line.

[@quintoflyer]

great informative video thanks

[@fagash60]

Great video... very detailed

[@andypreston1524]

Great video....they had the Road for a nice long time in this one eh? 👍👍

[@AndreiTupolev]

The people at Stevenage going "What the hell is that?!"

[@richardknights2436]

What a run to Peterborough. Britain does have a bullet train.

[@nstheboss]

12:10 was that birds lucky day!

[@pgchase4578043026]

Maybe I'm a slow reader, but I had to keep pausing to read the longer comments. Very interesting and helpful, however.

[@hastingsdiesels]

Sorry about that Peter; since the time that I produced this video I've deliberately increased caption durations as a result of similar comments.

[@pgchase4578043026]

@@hastingsdiesels Thanks. I'm going through the entire Playlist of the Cleethorpes Clipper series. One video flows into the next. Thanks for making these available.

[@Thursdaym2]

Agreed.

[@TheJetexproductions]

Awesome footage as always. It's a shame the videos are so heavily compressed though.

[@hastingsdiesels]

I haven't compressed anything... please explain?

[@TheJetexproductions]

@@hastingsdiesels perhaps it was the camera. The videos have a lot of artifacts, it's easy to see when you pause the video.

[@hastingsdiesels]

It was a standard GoPro 3+, recorded and edited with the least available amount of loss/compression.

[@TheJetexproductions]

@@hastingsdiesels I think you might need an even more expensive camera then :P

[@Westhamsterdam]

What happens if you stop in a neutral section of track? What sort of train is this? Only 75mph on the first 10 mins of track? Looks like 125mph+, straight & flat.

[@hastingsdiesels]

If an electric train stopped exactly within a neutral section, they'd have to roll forwards or backwards or get a push from another train to get out of it. But the neutral section itself is only a few inches long and so this is pretty unlikely.

[@Westhamsterdam]

@@hastingsdiesels Doesn´t the driver have to take down the pantograph, when going through nuetral?

[@hastingsdiesels]

Not physically, no. The driver is supposed to "shut off power" i.e. to select Coast or Off at the driving controls, to avoid a jolt or potential damage to equipment; but the train gets briefly (2 seconds?) disconnected from the pantograph automatically anyway, by means of high-speed circuit breakers actuated by magnets on the track.

[@brooklynroad8581]

excellant more please. why doesn't network rail pick up the old rail. realley makes the line a tip. most be worth a few bob in scrap !!

[@KasabianFan44]

23:54 - how come the signal on the fast line was red, if there was no train on the track and the signal after it was green?

[@hastingsdiesels]

The red signal, P331, is a manually controlled signal and so will only clear when the Signaller clears it. The signal after it, P335, is Automatic (look for the black horizontal stripe on a white rectangle) and will clear so long as the conditions are met for it to do so. Why? Because of the level crossing, which must of course be protected by signals at Danger.

[@KasabianFan44]

@@hastingsdiesels That makes perfect sense, thank you! :-) Quite surprising that level crossings are still present anyway, on such a busy high-speed route... the WCML doesn’t have one until Staffordshire (I think), the MML doesn’t have one until Long Eaton, the Chiltern line I don’t think has one at all, and yet this line has so many before we even get to Peterborough!

[@daveadams3897]

what is the purpose of the yellow "box" between the rails that makes the bell ring in the train cab? As you can guess, I'm a newbie to your site. Great videos!

[@hastingsdiesels]

Thank you! It's the Automatic Warning System: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Warning_System

[@6yjjk]

Arlesey - I can't help but read it as Arseley.

[@mrunixman1579]

That is what I call it.

[@TrainSpotter-rd4hs]

Have you got the return

[@hastingsdiesels]

Yes. There's many hours of material to put together with its soundtrack, research, caption and check ... but I do intend to publish it, yes. ;)

[@robinmoss5470]

Frankly, I'm impatient to see the continuation of this! I'm particularly interested in which way you were routed: via Newark or via Sleaford.

[@hastingsdiesels]

Sleaford avoiding line. I was able to make progress with this while on Annual Leave, hence 2 videos in 2 days. Not so much now, but I will get to it.

[@TrainSpotter-rd4hs]

Hastings Diesels Ltd because I will c myself at yaxley lode crossing and I would like to send it to a friend

[@robinmoss5470]

Thank you. I'll wait. By the way, the quality of your videos is far superior to most in-cab videos on KZbin. When this project in completed, I hope you'll continue with another.

[@georgestaunton6994]

When I was stationed at RAF Alconbury, I used to go monthly to London from Huntingdon station at 26:18. I think I went to London more in one year than many of the folks in my pub have ever been in their lives. When the medical center was at RAF Upwood, I was stopped quite a bit at the crossing at Holme at 37:05.