Kidderminster to London via the Chiltern Main Line - DRIVER'S EYE VIEW

[@Bigbro28]

This is, by far, the best cab ride channel. Both informative and entertaining. Keep up the good work.

[@BillyKirbyUK]

Another fantastic video, well recordeed and editded. I especially like the external shots.Amazing!

[@billseymour-jones3224]

Today your films, together with those of other luminaries who record our railways in such detail, might be seen as being of niche interest to some, however they are of tremendous historical importance and I do hope that they are being properly archived. Thank you for all your hard work in filming, researching and producing these excellent documentaries.

[@Fenestra_M]

A nice ride through the centre of England with good view of the Chiltern Hills- thank you.

[@VIDDYONVIDEO]

This is bloody Excellent and to such a high standard I feel like I should be paying for this!!! Excellent work!!

[@AndyGabrielPowell]

Your work just keeps getting better and better. A little vibration apparent, but other than that, excellent. A credit to your perseverance.

[@andrewr2825]

Greetings Paul from Australia! Your videos just get better - this was a great run on a route that has a lot of interest for me having lived and travelled on it many years ago. Keep ‘Em coming👍🏻👍🏻

[@rickstravelrides]

Nice, a full journey of the Chiltern Mainline. I do like Leamington Spa station as it has it's GWR look to it. Surprisingly, a class 168 and not a class 68 and MK3 set for this journey. A brilliant journey along to the capital :-)

[@mark5439]

very pleased to see so many positive comments and 23k views already. your videos deserve the biggest audience possible

[@jessicamorgan3073]

Thank you, you put a lot of work in this.

[@gregdover9316]

Really enjoyed this video, history provided making it extra special, thanks

[@EdgyNumber1]

There's something oddly satisfying about hearing the sound of a choir of droning TurboStar engines, at full chat from a distance.

[@EASYTIGER10]

34:40 I'd just started at Uni in Birmingham many moons ago when the rebuilt Snow Hill Station was opened. What a grim, depressing piece of architecture it is and such a contrast to the elegance and light of Moor Street. Given its high usage and importance to Brum, hopefully it'll be replaced with something a bit more fitting some day. Great video!

[@rwm2986]

Thanks for a good presentation. I used to live at High Wycombe pre-privatisation when this was the Cinderella line of British Rail. Ancient DMUs and Marylebone was always under threat of closure but a magnificent pint of Ruddles County in the pub on the station. What a difference under Chiltern Railways. There is also a plan, I don't know how 'firm' it is, to reinstate the fast through lines at Beaconsfield

[@johnledbury8403]

Nice one. Really enjoy your comments as we went along. Thank you.

[@TheNorfolkThunderbolt]

Excellent production! Keep up the good work!

[@davidbird4713]

Great filming and commentary, lovely countryside.

[@markduhig6472]

From Neasden South Junction to Marylebone the distances are measured from Manchester London Road via the ex GCR. Marylebone is 205 miles from there.

[@TheMisterB2u]

Very informative,so look forward to future productions!

[@woofwoof1able]

Lovely video. And a piece of history. With the Chiltern service from Kidderminster to London withdrawn, Hagley's one direct service to London a day (with no direct return) is now history. I'm glad there is this record, not least so that it will be possible to show people in the future that a Hagley-London direct service did actually exist!

[@markcf83]

Excellent video as usual. My sister lives practically next to Saunderton station and the main line is at the foot of the garden of her home.

[@brrob8108]

Another great video, well done. Excellent captions and narration.

[@ramoth01]

Excellent video. Really good work Greetings from Naples

[@barryatkinson4695]

Very good videos you get better everyone you make

[@jackharrison6771]

Excellent video, thanks. Enjoyed the trip. I think I only used Marylebone once or twice.

[@davidlouisson8445]

🎉with a serious upgrade of the Chilten line to Birmingham, we could have saved many millions on the HS2 project??

[@LittleWing-35]

Don’t even go there. Chiltern have gone from getting to London in 1hr 20 to now 2 hr 5 minutes and crawling between stations. On top of that, passengers are now paying more in their tickets for a slower service and it’s not the best, anymore.

[@nutsnproud6932]

Thanks for the video.

[@AFCManUk]

Lol. Going through the Hampstead and St John' Wood tunnels could sometimes be a spooky experience back in the late 80's with the old slam-Door trains....especially as sometimes, the driver forgot to turn the lights on in some carriages!!

[@Mortimer50145]

I have heard of couples managing to get into a non-corridor compartment of a slam-door train with no other passengers (usually on a late-night train) and making "good use" of the 12 minutes between Marylebone and Harrow-on-the-Hill - a sort of train equivalent of the Mile High Club ;-)

[@AhtNFG]

they still forget to turn the lights on to this day - sitting in a 165 with the only light being the information displays

[@baedenwilliams8291]

15:30 Aw, look at that train! It’s just so smol.

[@johnkeepin7527]

Good to see the the double track replacement north of Princes Risborough via Bicester, and the new junction, which is used for services between Marylebone and Oxford. The Chiltern Railways depot at Wembley is relatively new as well. There was a minor error re the introduction of the first commissioning date of Marylebone IECC. It was actually August bank holiday weekend 1989 (I was there, around 05:00 when it came into service). It was a tiny stage geographically, as it was just between Amersham and just short of Aylesbury. However, it was complex enough for something that was novel, and it did have a boundary with London Underground, at Amersham (the other one being at Neasden). At that time, Marylebone IECC was only the second one ever brought into use, the other one being one of the earlier stages of Liverpool Street, out as far as Bethnal Green.

[@TicTacTrolleyServiceTico]

A Driver's Eye View i've been waiting so long to watch is finally here! I grew up on this line and remember my journeys between Kidderminster-Birmingham on the Class 150 Sprinters, 165 and 168 Clubmans! It brings back so many memories. Shame this part of the route is not featured on JustTrains Chiltern Mainline route for Train Simulator

[@timothymorris814]

Superp as all your Videos are thankyou Tim

[@martyncarroll5035]

No mention of the railway Accident that occurred at Knowle and dorridge on 15 August 1963 The driver of the passenger train involved in the accident Was Ernest morris Who is the driver of the video Let’s Go To Birmingham A wonderful video keep them Coming A surgestion Freight train ride from Buxton Via chapel in le frith central Towards Sheffield or Manchester

[@jimififul]

Was just about to post the same!

[@nicktyler6254]

Great film. One small pedantic point. London Bridge, Euston & Kings Cross all host occasional diesel trains,

[@harrh4528]

what was the point in withdrawing the section from Kidderminster?

[@geofer023]

Excellent captures👍👍👍Succes for the future videos🙏🙏

[@CaliforniaKarl2]

Well done!

[@dilwich]

This video has a lovely 1970s feel to it.

[@shamus2503]

Thank you!

[@davidkimmins8781]

Thanks for a great video. The Kidderminster-Brum stretch has changed a lot since I last travelled it (in 1982!). Just a couple of picky spelling observations - it's Beaconsfield with an 'a', and Gerrards Cross with another 'r' (as if 3 weren't enough!)

[@alandavidpryce5459]

Nice opening title sequence, and excellent cut aways, as per usual - you could make an interesting video just using this material

[@martinbradshaw7877]

Great video. I was saddened by the fact that we saw only one freight train the entire journey. Surely a missed opportunity to lighten the roads

[@damiendye6623]

Line from Oxford to Leamington is mainly fright, so basically between anyho junction and Leamington has a lot running though. You can stand at my local Banbury and watch the containers come though with a 66

[@customtransport2777]

The less congested way of getting myself from London to Birmingham

[@laurenceskinnerton73]

This will eventually be electrified.

[@christopherhulse8385]

​@@laurenceskinnerton732030 to 2035 latest estimates for electrification.

[@alexpeak16]

@@laurenceskinnerton73When? I’ve not heard anything about electrifying and I wonder if battery trains are the Chiltern future

[@LittleWing-35]

@@alexpeak16it won’t be even considered until 2030, the government have said that to chiltern. In the meantime, diesel is the way until then. No battery powered either, the hybrid wasn’t a success and is being transformed back to a diesel unit

[@amnohakka]

@@laurenceskinnerton73 probably eventually but not for a while

[@laurencecope7083]

We went on this from Comberton primary school summr outing in 1969, but it terminated in Euston.

[@pjaygeorge8016]

Con: sun glare, cab/camera vibration, dirty screen/interior reflection, light/dark exposure. Pro: nice journey, commentary, railside shots. But still worth a subscribe/view. Tx.

[@LodzkiKomunikatyw]

Cool video, liked and subscribed

[@peterwhitaker4038]

every December i have to go to a meeting in London (from Liverpool) so this year instead of the norm (Avanti) i am going to go London North Western Lime Street - Birmingham, have a look at the BULL. have a bite to eat then Moor Street (a must see station) for this chiltern line to Marlybone. why not? can't wait!!

[@masters6672]

Thanks Paul, another ripper

[@telhudson863]

Thank you. It's difficult to gauge the correct amount of info in the voice over. I think you got it about right. 😊

[@NeilStamper-j4x]

Yes.

[@grahamaldridge5570]

GCR distances were measured from Manchester London Road via Sheffield Victoria.

[@poppasmurf]

I travelled this line before I retired in 2009, and remember it being very overcrowded with standing room only leaving London Marylebone. But can anyone tell me - Was this line ever considered for a substantial upgrade instead of building HS2? I know others have said the old Great Central line trackbed should have been used by HS2. It would be interesting to know.

[@Lee_303]

They wanted to close it & replace it with a busway. But with the M40 & the Oxford Tube bus running very frequently, no real need. No idea why they simply haven't lengthened the "mainline" loco hauled service.

[@fatwalletboy2]

Was it 1.47 where the line crossed the WCML?

[@darthdmc]

You leave Birmingham upon entering Olton, which belongs to the Borough of Solihull.

[@jimififul]

According to Wikipedia the zero mile post was at Manchester London Road, now Piccadilly

[@kevinellis8869]

Another very good, informative video. You might want to change the narrative about Marylebone and diesel trains to the fact it's the only non-electrified station. Euston has the Voyagers for Holyhead and Waterloo has the 159s for Exeter.

[@kiarnturner9739]

And any of the intercity EMR services out of St Pancras are operated by diesel class 222s (at least until they get the 810s)

[@simonsv9449]

But St. Pancras and Euston have overhead wires and Waterloo has third rail so they have electrification.

[@davidredgewell7415]

We need the trains back to kidderminster and the catering trolleys restored on the long Distances trains to Birmingham Snow hill and stourbridge junction

[@hamshackleton]

Judging by the amount of camera shake, it must be a rough ride in those units!

[@Lee_303]

The you should try a 196! The clubmans on Chiltern have a far better ride with very comfy seats.

[@hamshackleton]

@@Lee_303 Maybe - bt the Chiltern line is a long way from me!

[@Volvoman24]

Excellent as ever, and I got the first like in 😅

[@laurenceskinnerton73]

Interesting.

[@davidredgewell7415]

The Stratford on Avon Honeborne line to Cheltenham need reinstating

[@richardgriffiths5920]

I agree as the run through that part of the north Gloucestershire Cotswolds is beautiful.

[@davidharrington9651]

Love the video & great commentary, but can you please do less cut-aways (especially ones of level crossings & bridges) as I feel this takes you out of moment.

[@bogieman9654]

It's not demolishment, the word is DEMOLITION! Otherwise, a great video, thanks.

[@rolymier8659]

May 2023 - The operator has made the data-driven decision to make small reductions in service where appropriate. Chiltern Railways will no longer serve Kidderminster, but there is no reduction in frequency to Birmingham due to service enhancements by West Midlands Trains. There will also be small reductions in off peak services in Buckinghamshire, and between London Marylebone and Aylesbury

[@drdoolittle5724]

I really appreciate all the effort and input to produce these videos but the camera shake makes it very uncomfortable to watch!

[@ПавелСмекалкин-е7ю]

Добрый день! Привет из России. Класнно снято видео ! Спасибо примерно сколько стоит билет на этот поезд? У вас действительно стоит дорого проезд на поезде в Великобритании!?

[@Lee_303]

Still baffled at why it needs to go to Kidderminster. You'd think that, with all the new 196's coming in, WMR would run their own services. And then there's the EWR, which will be running WMR's 196's. D'oh!!!

[@craigymarsh941]

If you get accepted please do a drivers eye view on the jacobite.

[@andrewrcmadwilkinson6999]

CHEERS MATE 😜

[@transportlegendshorts]

Cool

[@davidredgewell7415]

And the interchanges entance at Birmingham snow hill need completing it's a very poor interchanges for Wolverhampton at present

[@tram6214]

Great driver eye view it ashame that Chiltern Railway's only do one train a day from Kidderminster to London when a few years back they did about 4 to 5 journey's from Kidderminster to London in the morning and 5 on the return Journey in the Evening.

[@christopherhulse8385]

They don't do any from Kiddy any longer, just 1 from Stourbridge Junction in the morning.

[@tram6214]

@@christopherhulse8385 I know I just found that out it's ashame really like going from 5 service a day to nothing it's just show how the railway had become like I heard that maybe it's due to that Citren railways withdraweling their class 68 and Mark 3 stock .

[@davidredgewell7415]

Do not know what the future is with Arrive Group plc chiltern railways by the German state railway later this year

[@BigPaul62]

Bledlow Ridge is pronounced Bled - low not bleed low! I live in High Wycombe and consider myself lucky to have one of the best lines in the country on my doorstep. It was a big mistake closing the line from HW to Maidenhead - being an old fart I just about remember it!

[@Mortimer50145]

I *think* my very first train ride, at the age of 3, was on the Maidenhead-Wycombe line. We were living in Maidenhead and my grandparents came down to look after me when my mum was about to give birth to my sister. I can remember Grandpa taking me on a DMU with a forward view through the cab, and the driver spotted me at the inner window. At the next station he invited me into the cab to "help him drive" to the next station. It made my day. It would have either have been on the main line to Twyford or Slough, or else along the Bourne End / Wycombe branch. Even more exciting than getting home to find I had a baby sister ;-)

[@johndashwood7671]

Good to have the run without the ugly gantries.

[@billyshearer117]

Chiltern no longer serves Kidderminster

[@Andrewjg_89]

I’ve heard that Chiltern Railways want like 70 new trains in the next few years. But they should keep the Class 165 and Class 168.

[@mrbluesky2050]

perhaps they could take on the class 68's and mk5A sets that TPE have made A COMPLETE HASH of using

[@darthdmc]

Bordesley is pronounced Boards-lee

[@davidredgewell7415]

The lifts need to be completed at Warwick

[@harryelliott4310]

Children Railway Class 168

[@davidredgewell7415]

The line needs modern inter city trains

[@laurenceskinnerton73]

Electrify the Chiltern Line!

[@Mortimer50145]

No, keep it free of unsightly OHLE gantries - especially if they use the really heavy-handed, fugly gantries that they used on the GW Main Line.

[@optout130]

👁 I see today (09/25/23) that passengers CAN still get from Kidderminster to London Marylebone via Birmingham Moor. Now a 2 or 3 train course instead of just 1 £36.30 [2 hours 50 minutes] ,_,_🚂🚃🚃🚃_,_,_,__