The Sunday ONLY Class 159 to Reading

This was recorded on the 19/05/2024
Today I rode a SWR Class 159 Super Sprinter to Basingstoke, but my start wasn’t anywhere ordinary, it was Reading. Where class 159s go every 1-2 hours every Sunday.
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[@TransporterTony]

Good to know!

[@simon11235]

Great video Zack - I like trip-report or blog style videos! It's interesting that those trains are quite rare down where you are, or are they just unusual on that particular route? I think it was a 158 that I got from Newcastle to Hexham a couple of months ago and it had USB sockets at every seat for powering phones etc. Power sockets of some kind are a must on trains these days - even buses often have USB or wireless charging points! I now need to hunt down your 1st video to see what the reference was about. 🙂

[@ZackMurray12]

Yeah, it’s only rare because SWR never do routes to Reading normally, except from the ones from London to Reading, but this one was going the other way down to Basingstoke and Yeovil, and they only do this on Sunday, so I guess it is a bit rare, and also because the northern 158s are refurbished, they have plug sockets, but SWR didn’t refurbish these trains to have plugs in standard class, for some reason :)

[@theclass171guy]

7:14 Gotta love that horn and the sound departing! good video btw

[@PTLtrainspotting]

Very nice video Zack, At first I thought it would go to London Waterloo and then I realised it was platform 2 at Reading! 😂😂

[@finnandbobo]

Nice

[@simon11235]

Making us wait until tomorrow - how mean! 😜 I like 158s - they are a go-anywhere DMU - I have ridden lots of Scotrail & Northern 158s.

[@ZackMurray12]

Haha, yeah sorry, they are quite nice trains!

[@SimplyBurgerYT]

No clue how you even found this out lol! Well I’ll set my alarm for the premiere 👍👍👍

[@simon11235]

@@SimplyBurgerYTIf you mean how did I find the video release date, the premier date shows below the title on the Videos page.

[@SimplyBurgerYT]

@@simon11235 sorry I wasn’t clear earlier, I meant about the 159 service as I had never heard of it before

[@simon11235]

@@SimplyBurgerYT No worries, I did wonder as you replied to me rather than starting a new comment thread. 🙂

[@RoscoTrain107]

Very Nice Zack

[@ZackMurray12]

Thanks!

[@Oscar.w07]

Do you travel alone or with parants?

[@ringermikey]

Alone I think

[@bus3s]

@@ringermikey might have to call social services

[@ringermikey]

@@bus3s wtf

[@ZackMurray12]

@Oscar.w07 I didn’t for this one, I went with my Mum as I also went to Midgham that day :)

[@ringermikey]

@bus3s why social services?

[@bus3s]

thanks, shite shaky footage once again

[@ringermikey]

It's not even shaky man

[@bus3s]

@@ringermikey it is

[@ringermikey]

@@bus3s how?

[@bus3s]

@@ringermikey have you watched the video? the footage is so shaky

[@ringermikey]

@@bus3s no its not use ur eyes