Riding the first NEW Class 730 on the Cross City Line in Birmingham

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[@JenOnTheMove]

Can I go to bed now?! 😂

[@mrgrahamreed]

Depends. Is there more 730 action to come?

[@GrahamOMara]

Yes. Excellent work

[@Jjtwhite]

No, the announcements will haunt you forever 😂😂😂

[@squidgytop.2050]

Yes

[@moneycash-wg7wp]

Can I go to bed n- "Welcome aboard this West Midlands Railway service to"

[@andyt2510]

I'm going to miss the 323's and the noise they make. I remember when the Cross City was electrified and the 323's were introduced. God I'm old!

[@stanley3647]

323 are really tight on sitting space - I'm tall person and i cannot sit in "single row" seat - with backrest in front of me, because my legs not fit into space. So I need to use "double row" and ideally in 3 seats zone - so virtually i using 2 seats because no one can sit oposite - due to lack of legroom. 730 looks more spacious, with less seats - more people can find available seat. BTW 323 has decent acceleration/braking - and this was bonus.

[@chrisdeacon2000]

I was a student at Birmingham university in 1978. The cross city line had just opened. Old, smelly DMU between there and New Street. It’s much better these days!

[@alexdavis5766]

Used to travel Lichfield to Birmingham so often with my grandma going into Birmingham or sometimes we would go to bournville as she used to work for Cadbury’s. I’m deaf now but can still hear the sound of the trains as they departed a station. So many memories seeing all those stations I travelled through so often as a child.

[@chriskrebill1842]

That purple and orange paint scheme is so pretty! 🥰🥰🥰🧡💜💜🧡💜💜🧡

[@Squareybee]

I really like that too!

[@Anonymoususer_2023]

The new Class 730 3-Car trains are quite nice and it’s good to see them in service on the Cross-City Line. I also can’t wait to see the Class 730/2 5-Car trains also coming into service later this year.

[@HyperDaveUK]

Thanks Jen! I usually end up on the Bromsgrove train.

[@AlexanderBrassington]

nice to see the orange ones in the proper place

[@Sim0nTrains]

I went to Sutton Coldfield around 10 days ago for a Model Railway show and it is a lovely town, do recommend to have a good look around Jen! Wylde Green was just funny with the announcements but it great to see that you rode the 1st train. Great video Jen

[@kerrytimm9920]

Hi, I love the smell of new trains in the morning!!!

[@DylanPurser]

You'd be waiting a long time for the eye to turn on Jen, hasn't been working for bloody MONTHS! 🤣

[@JenOnTheMove]

Wow! I haven’t been out that side of New Street in a long time, I’m usually on the other end!

[@DylanPurser]

@@JenOnTheMove I regularly go through that entrance (usually will take the 23/24 to get to New Street) and I can honestly say I might have seen it on once since the start of the year, plus at night when I'm going home I go past and there are constant dead pixels on it

[@Thornaby37]

Don't worry, you're not an incompetent KZbinr, it's West Midlands Trains forgetting to turn the announcements off when Jen is filming 😂

[@Rail_Focus]

Great to see them finally being introduced on the Cross City Line. I know people love Class 323s, but I think the xl730s are definitely a step up, they feel so much more spacious

[@TravelSignal]

Nice new train, but the old ones aren't bad - especially the Centro livery, as they all were when I was at uni there and lived in Erdington!

[@AndrewG1989]

Nice to see the new Class 730/0 3-Car trains now in service on the Cross-City Line. With more of them to be introduced throughout this month and throughout this year. Very nice trains these.

[@yan93_vlogs]

Have to say, Class 730 is much better than I imagined it being. But I will still really miss Class 323 when it disappears from the Birmingham cross-city line. Class 323 is my favourite of all the WMR trains

[@PamelaBane]

At least this time you were not interrupted by the see it say it sorted loop on the train. 😀

[@robertallmark248]

Hi jen from the man who spoke to you at the NEC on Sunday. Love and peace from Wolverhampton England

[@highpath4776]

So want Jen's voice in that tone for at least one Welecome Aboard on train announcment

[@MichaelSebastianTodd]

its nice to see the 930s now entering service on the Cross city line & the 730s are amazing & i got to try one out when i had a week in the West Midlands at the end of Febuary well i rode 2 1 during the evening rush hour from Birmingham to Wolverhampton & as it was busy with standing room only there was planty of room for standing passengers & a few day later took the opportunity to ride another one from Wolverhampton to Birmingham which i was sucsessfull in getting a seat all the way to Birmingham & the seats are confortable & i love the 730a they get a thumbs up from me awesome vlog

[@benjaminaulakh4734]

This is a really interesting interior, to me it looks a bit like the old Turbostar units, particularly the window shape and seat tables, with a seat shape of the London Midland Desiro's. I really like the West Midlands Railway branding on the trains exterior.

[@StarbitTrainspots]

Hooray! Hopefully I’ll be able to see these brilliant new trains! Say goodbye to the old and hello to the new! The only thing is that a few days after I leave Birmingham, they enter service! Good vid Jen!🎉🎉

[@jacobporrett]

Good to see the 730s on the Cross City Line now.

[@ReubenAshwell]

Brilliant video Jen, the Class 730's are nice but I am going to miss seeing the Class 323's on the cross city line, I really hope the 730's live up to their expectations. :)

[@raphaelnikolaus0486]

I think you should have a day (or more) out on the Cross City Line riding the 323's. Maybe, you could take a bit of time filming the experience, taking us along, and more time for your own.

[@SamiKelsh]

I was so relieved that you caught your train! And with coffee no less! Just the happy ending I needed on a Monday 😅

[@JenOnTheMove]

The person in the coffee shop on the platform understood the assignment!

[@squidgytop.2050]

You were doing something cool I saw you on the train and my friend was over the moon when he spotted you my friend and I are big fans

[@Squareybee]

When did you see her? ❤

[@squidgytop.2050]

I am not going to spoil it as I don’t know if Jen wants me to sorry

[@Squareybee]

@@squidgytop.2050 OK. I was just wondering if it was when I was with her or not ☺. I probably would have been holding the camera

[@squidgytop.2050]

Well there was someone filming her board the train with a camera

[@JenOnTheMove]

That’ll be @squareybee 🙂

[@marthaanderson2656]

That train seem to roll quieter ( sans announcements) than others. Design or Newness? Glad that even during a train rush you have priority for coffee.

[@MrGreatplum]

Dedication to the cause here, Jen! Now, go to bed! 😜

[@Farleigh1050]

in 4 minutes you managed to make an outro, run down those stairs, get a coffee and still make the train. in an hour, i didnt even get tome to check to see what my platform my train was at (at kings x) until right at the end, when it was announced just when RTT loaded. wow

[@caramelldansen2204]

You didn't get the number of the rear unit!!! 😭 I'm glad these will be passed on to Northern instead of being scrapped!! 😊

[@trash80media]

008

[@caramelldansen2204]

@@trash80media My hero! 😅

[@alistairbell3935]

Be glad it's a 730 and not a 230! Imagine refurbished D stock on the Cross-City line...

[@stephenmcculley7]

I notice the voice of Julie Berry on the announcements who is also the voice of Merseyrail.

[@ewantennant5847]

Only found out they started running today this morning and coincidentally ended up on one from Lichfield city to Trent valley. Was only a few mins on there but it was so nice to finally get on one. They did have some issues with door opening tho. They got the doors open in the front 3 coaches then 30 seconds later the back 3 but then the very end door didn’t open at all 😭.

[@blackcountrytraveller2139]

It’s a shame the 323’s are leaving in the summer but they have to keep the heritage regional railways 323

[@michaelmcnally2331]

I know getting older now. Remember the electrification of the cross city line and the 323 been brand new. Nan lived at northfield so used cross city line regularly then. At the time remember thinking miss the old DMU that were there before the 323.

[@JenOnTheMove]

My Nan used to live in Weoley Castle, I’m very familiar with the area!

[@gemmarie7683]

Loved the video. Five Ways is my local stop, so this is a route I do often. Lichfield is beautiful too.

[@cruelladevillhellkimpossib8425]

Nice video Jen (My friend told me that you commented on one of his videos to say hello to me thanks for that)

[@ElijahsTransport]

Great video jen! Will miss WMR 323s

[@barrybacon9790]

Great livery on these. Thanks for the upload.

[@JayJourneys_1]

Looks like the shrewsbury and Hereford train

[@Theo5550]

Nice video Jen, great ending too!

[@JoshHodginsTrains]

You make the best content x

[@dashcamexplorationuk1692]

2:11 was that Geoff Marshall? I enjoyed this amazing video Jen

[@Jjtwhite]

There's always time to get coffee ☕️ 😂

[@trash80media]

Nice video Jen, i caught it at Chester Road later on

[@harryelliott4310]

WMR Class 730

[@RandomTFLupdates-PEPS_FOR_LIFE]

My friend saw you apply, great video as always:)

[@gemmarie7683]

Yes and make sure you do visit Sutton Coldfield. The park is a highlight. They used it for the commonwealth games.

[@airfoxtrot2006]

Great video Jen 😊

[@TransportVloggerIan]

3:11 Ah yes but the good news/bad news thing with you are getting them is that whilst you are getting them, you're not having 323221, we seem to be keeping hold of Centro for some reason

[@calvinliu6304]

Great video Jen

[@TravisSwiftie13]

Love your video Jen ❤️. Also the announcement interruptions lol

[@okiecokie]

cool to see new trains coming soon! i am absolutely going to miss the class 323 trains though, absolutely legendary trains they are… when you’re a transport enthusiast though, you come to expect that.

[@LKBRICKS1993]

Great video really enjoyed it.

[@user-jr6jb5wj5s]

Yes you can go to bed now Jen on the move

[@davejoey]

Great video as usual Jen! It wouldn't be a proper Jen video without announcements interrupting you 🤣!

[@trainspotter586]

Great video

[@Farleigh1050]

im aware that nobody cares but i went on 730009 and sat one door away from where you were at 1:52 i think

[@lapiswake6583]

I still need to go finish the Cross City line. I've not done the very south end, or seen the Centro liveried 323, or seen most of the WMR ones since they were named. I do wonder whether it will remain in Centro livery when it goes to Northern, and whether Northern will do a GMPTE one. I always prefer 2+2 seating. More room when sat, less awkward with other people sitting, and more room when standing. Especially hate the 3+2 seats on the GA 720s, as I can't walk through the aisle with a backpack, and not bash my arms on the seats.

[@frogandspanner]

Nice to have 2+2 seating. Seats are rather hard. As my journey is usually Kings Norton to Brum my bum can just about cope. Long-legged friends report that the legroom of the aircraft seating is poor. I hate aircraft seating - fine for short commuter runs, but the cross city line is hybrid - with the Red-itch to Lichfield run taking 1:20 - unpleasant with the new seats.

[@1trebor2024]

Are these stored on the right-hand side as you go into euston? Been going to euston northampton these past two weekend

[@class387productions3]

Was that Geoff Marshall in the background

[@JayJourneys_1]

I thought it comes out in 2025

[@EdgyNumber1]

I wonder why they have a 7-prefix and not a 3-prefix.

[@garethsmith2250]

New street is always dark noisey and dirty

[@NameReveal-yy7qb]

I think you missed the connection and took the one 1 hour later

[@TravisSwiftie13]

1st here

[@erinmcgrathejm4985]

Haircut? It looks shorter and more lively. 🫶