PADDINGTON to READING Great Western DMU ride with steam 1960

Although the ride is on a first generation Diesel Multiple Unit, before leaving Paddington we watch steam activity from the end of platform 1, and many steam-hauled passing trains, both passenger and freight, are seen from the front seats of the DMU. A passing steam train is also seen during a break of journey at Slough, and after arrival at Reading.
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Over the years much has changed with intersecting lines, stations, rolling stock, etc along the route:
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Paddington en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_...
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Cambrian Coast Express en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambria...
Diesel Multiple Unit DMU en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_...
Metropolitan Line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropo...
Metropolitan Railway en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropo...
Royal Oak en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_O...
Westbourne Park en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westbou...
West London Line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Lo...
North Pole Depot en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_P...
Old Oak Common Depot en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Oak...
Semaphore Signals en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway...
Acton Northolt/New North Main Line ANL/NNML en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acton%E...
Central Line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central...)
North London Line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_L...
Acton en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acton_M...
District Line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distric...
Piccadilly Line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccadi...
Ealing Broadway en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ealing_...
West Ealing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Ea...
Greenford Branch Line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfo...
Hanwell en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanwell...
Brentford Branch Line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brentfo...
Southall en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southal...
Grand Union Canal en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_U...
GWR Railcars en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_rai...
Britannia Pacific BR Class 7 Loco en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BR_Stan...
Hayes & Harlington en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_%...
Train Control AWS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat...
Crossrail/Elizabeth Line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossrail
Heathrow Express en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathro...
West Drayton & Yiewsley en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Dr...
Uxbridge Vine St Branch Line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uxbridg...
Staines & West Drayton Railway en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staines...
Iver en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iver_ra...
Langley en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langley...
Slough en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough_...
Kingsland Grange Loco en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_680...
Pembroke Castle Loco en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Eastern Hall Loco en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Slough Windsor & Eton Line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough%...
Burnham Beeches Bucks en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnham...
Taplow en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taplow_...
Mailbag Exchange en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catcher...
River Thames en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_T...
Maidenhead en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenh...
Marlow Branch Line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlow_...
Twyford en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twyford...
Henley Branch Line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henley_...
Sonning Cutting en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonning...
LMS Stanier Class Loco en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS_Sta...
Reading Southern en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading...
Southern Railways en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souther...)
Waterloo Reading Line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterlo...
North Downs Line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_D...
Reading en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading... www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog...
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[@likklej8]

GWR had the prettiest locomotives.nice video. Thanks

[@kevmorrison6323]

Fantastic footage ! When Britain was still Britain. I was only 8 in 1960 but still remember the steam days well. Thanks for sharing.

[@tinders5069]

A valuable and probably unique bit of footage from days when you could see where you were going. The drivers didn't think a lot of having an audience looking over their shoulders. Thanks for sharing

[@joeturner1597]

I was 3 when this was made. 35 years later, I would sign the route.

[@jonethomas3892]

This video I'm glad I looked at as its the only one I can find that shows my old digs of the rail hostel reading, I could of been on any of the goods trains up to London way, thanks for memory's,

[@NickRatnieks]

. This is indeed a real gem of a film. My mother would take us to Reading General to watch the trains- when it was time to go, I would throw myself face down on the platform- and would have to be dragged away by a foot until I got up and walked. My grandmother made a point of pronouncing Sonning as Sunning which is the correct way- although few did. Sonning Common in Oxfordshire, "Sunning" in Berkshire. I am afraid we tried not to look at the engines at Reading Southern as they were always filthy- unlike most of the Western engines at the adjacent Reading General- we were diminutive loco spotting snobs. When I return to Reading, I wonder where the town I knew as a child went.

[@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome]

I drove trains on the Hammersmith and City line for several years in the 90's and I never knew they used to share the tracks from Padd to Royal Oak back in the day. Fascinating.

[@dominicmeakin]

This is a superb record of the route. Many items covered in this video I have not seen recorded elsewhere, let alone on colour cine film! This channel is going to be an invaluable resource for research.

[@trainandbikefan]

Wow - this is the very first time I've seen a colour image of one of the last 1940's 'original' Swindon built GWR Diesel Railcars (W33W or perhaps W38W) painted in green with cream whiskers at

[@jimbegin6554]

Miss those DMU’s with their whiskers. Thanks for another bit of nostalgia Alan & Heather.

[@Mortimer50145]

Does anyone know of any footage online of the journey from Maidenhead to High Wycombe via Bourne End? My first memory of a ride on a train was when I was about 3 and we were living in Maidenhead. My grandparents came to stay, and my grandpa (a steam enthusiast) took me on a train "where you could look out of the driver's window". I'm sure it was the HW line. The driver saw me looking through the internal window behind him, and at the next station he invited me into the cab "to help him drive". I was in my element, and the memory has stayed with me. All the section from Bourne End to High Wycombe is long gone.

[@ianburnett7333]

Great piece of filming!

[@ianmurray250]

Thank you very much Alan for sharing this wonderful video with the world. Thank you.

[@timphillips21]

Those were the days. Great video, Pure nostalgia.

[@bradleyturner6643]

Thanks for the upload, I used to be one of those train spotters and I have used the DMU to go fishing at Tyford on the river "Loddon" there

[@Sam_Green____4114]

I had a stonking ride behind a Class 50 ,Paddington to Reading in the 1980s , a semi fast stopping at Slough and a couple of other places ! With my head out the front carriage window a lovely exhaust sound from the 50 ! took a few photo`s but no filming !

[@TheMiserablegit]

That is simply wonderful. Thanks very much for sharing.

[@vincentswift7]

Brilliant clips I saw a lot of those locos

[@peckelhaze6934]

Great clips of a time gone by. Your wife certainly does good commentary.

[@naysmith5272]

maybe of interest, in RAIL issue 976 on the last page there is a photo of a GWR 2-8-0 standing at Maidenhead in blizzard conditions, by the signal box (which I think is the one @