Oxford to Bicester and the Chiltern chord - Hastings DEMU cab ride - 27 May 2017

[@grahamallen1970]

I was a trainman G at oxford 88 to 89 i was one of the guards on the special opening day of Islip station....in its single line days😊 happy memories

[@ds1868]

Many thanks for the video, really wanted to see the new section from Oxford to Bicester. The mothballed section between Bicester and Bletchley now well under way to be rebuilt and the news of funding of £794 million for the project means this will be completed by 2024..

[@joncoe9046]

Great as usual. Love how you point things out on route like disused routes and points of interest.

[@hastingsdiesels]

Thank you!

[@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS]

Despite the loss of sound I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you

[@Rog5446]

When the sound went off, I heard a bell in my head, every time we went over a signal notifier.

[@EdgyNumber1]

There's nothing quite like a freshly refurbished rail route. Can't wait to ride the whole of the varsity line. At 100mph!

[@lesliegprice6652]

Thank you for clarifying that I really understand the trials and tribulations you have to endure with live recordings, I used to be a musician and am used to things not working right, thank you again for your videos I really enjoy and appreciate them all, look forward to the future elements, cheers....L.Price

[@robertcoleman4861]

Thanks richard nice video,It's great to see a line reopened in the uk and hope to see many many more,I wish they would do the same in new south wales australia,Cheers bob and keep posting the wonderful video's.

[@traindriverdan]

Shame about the recording equipment failing, but what we did hear sounded epic! Full throttle thrash, brilliant!

[@ianhosier4042]

I last rode on that track when it was just a branch line. Amazing to see it transformed like this.

[@ianhosier4042]

@@ds1868 i will definitely make a trip up north as soon as the bicester to bletchey bit is open (i live in southampton). Cross country to oxford then from oxford as far east as i can possibly go by then (bedford?) , then down the main line back to london, tube to waterloo and train home.

[@slycat1939]

Excellent video even without the sound. I see no reason for thumbs down. Unless they are looking for more passing trains and or city action. Otherwise a very nice trip. Your editing as I stated before is excellent. Your videos are very nice to watch and I love the descriptions along the way. Nice country side views as well. Safe travels for you. God bless.

[@hastingsdiesels]

Thank you, I'm glad you've been enjoying these!

[@johnkeepin7527]

Good to see the move via the new Bicester Chord as it is now. I can remember what that area was like around 30 years ago - I was one of the in-house designers when Marylebone IECC was brand new. One of the earliest - I think London Liverpool St. was a little earlier, but not by much.

[@simonpurbrick]

Great video! My brother lives in Bicester and I live in Abingdon. We travelled back to Oxford in August from Nottingham due to the major works in Derby which we had to get a cab from Kngs Cross to London Marylebone to get home to Oxford so this was my first time on the line!

[@stevehillier7018]

Lovely to see the DEMU still so popular. Hard to think it’s been 32 33 years since they stopped being used on the Hastings line. And now 51 years since that terrible Accident involving 1007 at Hither Green.

[@HenrysAdventures]

Great footage although I'm a bit disappointed the section through Gerrards Cross wasn't shown even without the audio it would have been an exciting watch!

[@hastingsdiesels]

Thank you. I aim to catch up first with all the eminently publishable material I've got 'in the can' already. One day I might run out of that, and will then scratch around for such 'B-grade' material... if that makes sense.

[@johnnorton5523]

Fab as usual👍

[@greatbritishentertainmentl5636]

Did I miss it or is there still a left-link to the Cotswold line to Worcester at Oxford? Otherwise a very nice trip full of detail and history.

[@hastingsdiesels]

You didn't miss it, we turned off to the right at Oxford North Junction about 1 mile before you'd get to Wolvercote Junction.

[@lesliegprice6652]

Fantastic and fascinating as always a wonderful piece of railway.....but excuse me it says Part 2.....is there a part One at all !!!! Cheers

[@hastingsdiesels]

Thank you - Part 1 was published ages ago: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHLReKmpf9iVatk

[@hastingsdiesels]

@Leslie G Price I'm replying to a recent comment from you which I can't now find. Yes, Part 1 was Tonbridge to Clapham. Yes, the railtour began at Hastings, not Tonbridge, so you would be forgiven for thinking that Part 1 should begin at Hastings. But I don't necessarily travel on every part of every outing; and even if I did, videoing and sound-recording every part of every outing is not always technically possible (battery life, SD card capacity), useful (we might already have published good recent footage of the same route) or desirable (it might be raining, trundling behind a stopping train, or after dark). In this case, I drove an hour round the M25 and down to Tonbridge to join the train there; Part 2 should have been Clapham to Reading and Part 3 Reading to Oxford, but a GBRf route-learner unexpectedly (to me) boarded at Clapham making the leading-cab footage unusable, and at that time I was reliant on a 20-year-old MiniDisc recorder for rear-cab audio - it couldn't record a whole day's footage and even had I known they'd boarded I had only sufficient capacity to record Oxford to Willesden - and in any case it failed 10 minutes into the return journey as we know. If you want to see the run from Hastings to Tonbridge, then I have good news for you: we do have such footage from summer 2018 and I fully intend to publish it in due course.

[@ΓεώργιοςΤζίβας]

At this video you have passed in total 22 (bridges and tunnels) and 1 railroad level crossing.

[@ianhosier4042]

If you just floored it at the start instead of pulsing it would you stall the engine out?

[@hastingsdiesels]

The driver doesn't select full power until 4:30, but that's because of speed restrictions rather than anything else. There was no 'pulsing', but when first pulling away the driver is using a low power-handle setting and the power unit is "hunting" slightly. As the power unit is diesel-electric, the engine is supplying torque to an electrical generator mounted to it: there is no possibility of stalling the engine with this setup. An 'overload' condition could theoretically occur, in which the current drawn by the motors is too great (over 1,000 Amps), if the driver selected full power with the train still at a stand.

[@uffeodgard2712]

why does the engine sound like that,,up and down

[@hastingsdiesels]

Can you give a time-stamp so I know which sound you're referring to exactly?

[@bishwatntl]

Maybe it's the normal sound as the unit starts? These diesels have a unique sound that not everyone is familiar with.

[@perrydebell1352]

This is a diesel electric multiple unit & the diesel engines are not connected directly to the wheels with a gearbox & clutch, but drive the the generator that supplies electricity to the electric motors.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_multiple_unit#Diesel%E2%80%93electric

[@henrybn14ar]

You get around.

[@royknight5532]

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[@thisisbob1001]

Looks like minecraft