Lincoln to Peterborough via Spalding - Hastings DEMU cab ride - 1 July 2017

[@AQUAFONIC]

Can’t believe this is 6 years ago now love watching these over and over again

[@Louisa93able]

Whoever keeps the window glass clean for the camera does an outstanding job!

[@wentonmastermind]

"We are now running 13 minutes early." I am not surprised considering the cracking rollicking pace we made. I was made aware of how little I know of Lincolnshire and the enormous amount of line and station closures. Thank you, Hastings!

[@joshwaaa]

Honestly Lincoln used to have a massive rail network for a place of it's size, it even had a rail avoiding line. Then they just got rid of them all, if you've ever seen it from above and wonder why the Newark line has to snake all the way around the city to get in it's because that never used to be a line, it used to go into St Marks, they got rid of St Marks and A LOT of the rail network around Lincolnshire and now it's really quiet.

[@valuetraveler2026]

decimated by central government at the time (and now) - very much a forgotten county

[@tonyday7233]

I am addicted to these videos, i love the ambient sounds, the diesel sounds particularly throaty in this video, as a kid who went to school in Cove, and then Worthing, in the early 60s, i think all trains in the south should be green.I also like the bits of info that pop up from time to time.

[@RonCombo]

First class, as usual. What an elegant bridge at 5:46!

[@MrDavil43]

I was struck by all those closed stations. surely one or two might now be re-opened as travel habits change.Thanks for all those information captions, makes the journey more interesting.

[@ianprince1698]

I was told. farmers use to bring their produce to go on express trains to these stations, some even had their own light railway from the fields

[@anmolmehta7116]

Nice video. A lovely train journey. All the lush green fields and all, you know. Looking forward to a 2 hour video of a similar train journey. 😀😀😀😀

[@geoffreyhobbs1548]

On the northern approach to Spalding I noticed a white painted footbridge (?) to the left of the picture. Between it and the track we were on there was another bridge that had, at one time, carried another two tracks. Spalding station certainly has shrunk somewhat. 60116 Mountfield's engine was purring very nicely across the fens. Another excellent video, thanks.

[@simonprice8737]

Oh thank you I thought this day would never come, glad to see you again, love all your videos....keep it up !!!

[@hastingsdiesels]

Thank you... me too ;)

[@mountainrover]

fascinating routes. there so many other lines at one time. the route of the old line from Spalding to march can be seen quite clearly on google maps satellite view. Next I'll try to follow the line from Spalding to Kings Lynn.

[@edwardbarnes2702]

These are absolutely brilliant films and really kept the odd lines open, run places that cannot access, being in south east area would love to go on these, I understand agreeing to go on these trips, No outside viewing/filming for the modern day H&S reasons would be great to see the views from the front end and side windows like watching now in each carriage on a monitor/tv it’s like being in the drivers cab, Surrey the technology is there, believe me these excursions would be so over subscribed!

[@stuskivens4295]

Another excellent video. One day I will have go on one of these railtours.

[@paulcaswell2813]

From Werrington to P'Boro- whilst we were dawdling, I was imagining A4s with the brakes hard on coming to the end of the exploits down Stoke Bank!

[@ianprince1698]

Winsover road crossing was called eight gates as the lines were two different companies I was told and each had their own set of gates and yes they could have one set open and the other closed

[@jaxmar88]

Great video, just think when they constructed that line they must have had to level the odd mole hill or two.

[@ianprince1698]

I lived in Lincolnshire for a bit, most of it is flat, very flat. even Gedny hill is flat.

[@davidpanton3192]

Superbly done as always. However there can't be many parts of the UK where the sky is more interesting than the ground...

[@robertcoleman4861]

Wonderful journey,Love the sound of the big diesel engines,Why is so many stations closed,Kind regards bob from sydney australia.

[@hastingsdiesels]

Thank you! Many stations closed because (1) some lines were built in the 1800s purely for the purpose of "competing" with rival companies, causing much duplication, and (2) in the 1950s and 1960s the political climate in UK was firmly opposed to railways in favour of road-building, leading to much short-sighted closure of stations and lines.

[@delta.australia]

09:08 I've been here too! It's Karglen Estate UWC.

[@mikebutler3263]

Good, as always.

[@delta.australia]

07:26 I've filmed that bridge (Potterhanworth Road)

[@johnmacleod5775]

Great video as always. Why so many closed stations? Travelling habits are changing. Time to open a lot surely Lincolnshire is worse than Norfolk for closed lines and stations.

[@KasabianFan44]

Branston & Heighington should definitely reopen!

[@SynchroScore]

How does a grade crossing signal work in the wrong direction?

[@hastingsdiesels]

I don’t know that there is any signal involved, without re-watching the relevant part of the video; but the “works in wrong direction” means that the presence of the train approaching on the “wrong” track will be detected and the level crossing will be activated.

[@SynchroScore]

Yes, that makes sense, bidirectional track circuits. I suppose I'm used to CTC systems that allow any track to be bidirectional, while I see the routes here are signaled for left-hand running. Incidentally, the former Chicago & NorthWestern Railway lines around me are still run left-handed, and not because of British influence, as some have claimed. Rather, when the original line (the first line west of Chicago) was built, the stations were all on the north side of the single track. When the second main track was laid, it was to the south of the first. Passengers heading from the suburbs to Chicago would still be waiting in the stations, and so inbound trains ran on the north track, resulting in left-hand running. This is opposed to the line I grew up on, the Burlington, which runs right-handed and has all the stations on the south side of the tracks. And now you know!

[@bcm409]

Why does audio keep switching front to rear ?

[@hastingsdiesels]

I prefer to use leading-cab audio where I can, as of course it’s more authentic and you can hear the controls & AWS etc.. But on this trip there were two drivers in the cab, so I could only use leading-cab audio in the parts where they were not talking to each other.

[@Craig_Franklin]

St james deeping at 49.21 is actually incorrect and should read Deeping St James. The sign was written incorrectly years ago (local knowlege) Having lived near Deeping St james I never realised how bleak the fens really were

[@hastingsdiesels]

I saw from maps how the village is called Deeping St James; however what I wrote is correct: the name of the level crossing is, and the name of the old station was, St James Deeping. I realise that the railway got this wrong and mis-named their station, and Nick Catford confirms it here: www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/st_james_deeping/index.shtml However, rather than rewrite history I was keeping the captions as accurate as possible.

[@Ed_Gilbert]

Wait what train was in this video? A sprinter or a heritage diesel I.e 101, 121 bubble car etc.

[@hastingsdiesels]

Read. The. Title.

[@Ed_Gilbert]

Hastings Diesels Ltd Yeah but it doesn’t say the class.

[@hastingsdiesels]

Yeah but... WHAT exactly?! . The information both IN and BELOW the video even tells you the car-number of the leading motor coach. . If you're still not sure, you could click through the link in the information and visit our website, and read "About our train". . Or if that's beyond you, you could Google "Hastings DEMU" (which is in the title)... and the first result is our website and the second result is the Wikipedia entry for the BR Class number. . I really, really don't know how I could have made it any easier for you.

[@stevewyman2822]

..Why is it, that you keep moving the Audio Sound - Pack..from front to back..and from back to front...??

[@hastingsdiesels]

I prefer to use the leading-cab soundtrack where I can, as of course it’s more authentic and you can hear the controls & AWS etc.. But on this trip there were two drivers in the cab, so I could only use the soundtrack from the leading cab in the parts where they were not talking to each other; when they were, I had to use the soundtrack from the rear cab instead.