very good duncan

@DiggleJunction

18 күн бұрын

Thanks mate

Great selection Luke, thanks for sticking it out. It's quite a novelty to see the sparks fly with the third rail, doesn't clutter up the place as it does with all the overhead stuff! Do have a great Christmas, I trust you'll have bit of a relax and here's to a cracking 2024 for you and yours.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot John, it was great to see it after the rain the sparks really fly. Hope you had a great Christmas mate and all the best for the New Year.

Thank you for another awesome video Luke. Pity about the signal failure so well done in sticking it out for us. Hope you had a great Christmas and I wish you a very Happy New Year to you and yours

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot Katrina, think it all worked out in the end. I had a lovely Christmas thanks, hope you did too and all the best for 2024.

I have never come across your work prior to this viewing and I was just about to hit the 'pit' after watching Carlisle by L.G. when your name popped up on the next offerings menu. So I dived in and was pleasently surprised and thankyou very much. Cracking stuff!

@DiggleJunction

5 ай бұрын

The KZread algorithm sometimes throws me a bone mate haha. Glad to hear you’re enjoying the stuff though Chris, cheers!

Thx for a fantastic year .!!🥃🥃🥃merry Xmas to you and yours .!!👍👍👍👍

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers mate, made sure to take those emojis to heart haha. Hope you had a great Christmas and all the best for the New Year.

Fantastic 🎉. Great to see 37409 out again. Great video

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks mate, hopefully we’ll see a lot more of it soon when the painting is done.

Nice puff-puff choo-choo steamer with duff in tow 🥰

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Wait till you hear it powering out up the hill in part 2 mate. The black 5 working very hard with the duff really pushing hard to help at the back too.

Brilliant video, thankyou. It never rains in Eastleigh.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Haha just my luck! Thanks a lot mate.

Perfect viewing for Christmas Day, thank you 😀

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot mate, hope you enjoyed it 👍🏻

Excellent as usual. Thanks for taking the time and trouble. Merry Christmas and a Happy new year.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers Alan, hope you had a good Christmas and all the best for the New Year too

That DVD is mine this time! hahahahaha good work on part 1 buddy :)

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Haha would be an easy delivery mate!

@bungle6668

6 ай бұрын

@@DiggleJunction id be round like a shot bangin on the door! 🤣🤣

Great video Luke looking forward to part two.Have a great christmas and new year👍

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers Tony, hope you had a great Christmas and all the best for the New Year 👍🏻

Excellent stuff. Many thanks for this marathon filming.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

My pleasure mate and cheers 👍🏻

Thank you for the channel and the live, camera throughly enjoyed them both a merry Christmas and a happy new year to you.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

You’re more than welcome mate, glad to hear it. And thank you, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too!

I've enjoyed your content for a while now. keep it up! Have a great Christmas, looking forward to your New Years Eve episode. I hope they let you stay on the station this time, I never could do over night spotting, I think you're all mad! Cheers Luke.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot Martin, much appreciated. Thankfully managed to stay on this time, third times a charm!

As usual Brilliant video keep it up merry Christmas.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers Kevin, hope you had a great Christmas.

No need to apologize for something beyond your control Luke. We seem to be a fairly dedicated crew, we Digglers and I don't think you will be seeing volumes of subscribers rushing to leave over some imagined slight about train volumes. Have a good day tomorrow mate.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot Chris, appreciate that mate. Hope you had a great Christmas and all the best for the New Year, see you in the stream soon.

Great video Luke . Admire your stamina staying out in that weather . Merry Christmas and all the best for the coming year

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot mate, I think starting again was the right choice getting most of the next day dry but as you’ll see in Part 2 it didn’t last long! Have a great new year Les and hope you had a nice Christmas.

Fantastic as ever. My little boy looks forward to watching your videos every two weeks. He loved this episode. Keep it going Luke.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot mate, glad he enjoys them. Start them early lol.

My go to station for freight and variety. Great video, nice one 👍

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Lucky to be down there mate, always something interesting around there it seems. Cheers 👍🏻

you're a better man than me.....long waits between trains sometimes...not fun when it's raining too. You go boy......Good place for seeing a lot of railway infrastructure and trains. Thanks.MP

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks mate, at least those lulls gave me chance to get some grub or a drink. Stafford was a lot harder not having any time to leave the station for a break.

Brave man to attempt a 24 hour marathon. Great video, well done 🤓

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot mate, glad you enjoyed it. Makes the effort worthwhile 👍🏻

Well done Luke interesting as usual, merry Christmas and a great new year, thank you.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks very much Sheila, have a lovely Christmas and New Year.

Another great production Luke. Might I suggest that if you ever need a theme tune, Crowded House's "Weather with you" might just work. :)

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Haha thanks mate. Think you could be right there!

Great video, looking forward to part 2

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot 👍🏻

Great video as usual luke ,24 hours on a station in December!! Well done.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers Howard, thinking of going North for the next one so better put on a couple of pairs of long johns haha.

Brilliant video and I rate the bingo ahah! Also I think I speak for everyone we appreciate you showing what engines are on the train, their numbers and where they’re coming and going. Brilliant mate

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers Jack, always like to do the bingo on the 24 hour vids to add a bit of fun to the proceedings.

Amazing video as always👍

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot pal 👍🏻

Things you do for your subscribers! Well done for 24 hours part one and looking forward to pt2. Love the bingo and shed count as ever and it would be nice to splash the wins each time a little more. It can be too subtle for me! Getting near to 4k is no surprise and roll on the celebration 24hr. Will it be Scotland next, in winter as I know how much the weather is part of it🤣 Merry Christmas Luke and family🎅👍

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

I’ll see what I can do for the next one mate, good idea! Plans already afoot for the 4k one, think I could probably pick anywhere and get terrible weather. Merry Christmas Andy, hope you had a good one.

Great video mate, very interesting locos out and about, you'll be getting used to these 24hr sessions soon haha - Merry Christmas 🎅

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Too used to em mate haha. Thanks a lot, hope you had a great Christmas.

@HuddersfieldTim

6 ай бұрын

@@DiggleJunction I had a quiet but really nice Christmas, I hope you had a good one too

Another Cracking video, pity about the signal failure, but that's the railway for you, anything can happen. I have liked this video & subscribed earlier after watching another video of yours. I was going to suggest for your 4k subscribers 24hrs as Stafford, but i see you've allready done that one lol. Look forward to PT 2 of Eastleigh. Happy New Year.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Haha great minds think alike mate, hope you enjoy the Stafford vid if you give it a watch. We’ll be going further up north for 4K if the plan comes together 👍🏻 have a great new year pal.

Great video Luke!

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot mate 👍🏻

very good

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot Duncan 👍🏻

Ay up Lad Merry Christmas & congratulations on the achievement mate

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers mate, hope you had a good Christmas! All the best.

Excellent as always Luke. You do well sneaking in "old school" locos in on your 24 hours 👍

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers mate. Always do my best to plan ahead and get the most interesting stuff but couldn’t have imagined this one!

Great video! This channel is awesome! Congrats on 4 thousand subscribers!

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers mate, glad you enjoy it 👍🏻

Excellent as per mate Merry Christmas to you

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers pal, hope you had a great Christmas 👍🏻

@timothytraynor6669

6 ай бұрын

​@@DiggleJunctionyes thankyou hope u did too

Brilliant video Luke and well done for your 24hr shift!! When I worked for Network Rail managing the Eastleigh network services, we were able to turn directionally sensitive traffic by running them via Chandlers Ford to/from Westbury to correct any traffic that was the ‘wrong way round’.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot mate, bet those were some interesting times! They could have done with your expertise that night I’d bet ha.

Hi Luke, thanks for a great video and your persistence. Happy Christmas and a prosperous new year.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot John, much appreciated. Hope you had a great Christmas and all the best for the New Year.

Quality...You should make this an annual event. I would defy anyone who says Eastleigh cant produce the goods. Great stuff, now onto part 2... cheers.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks again mate, would like to make it down at least every 6 months 👍🏻

Great video again

@DiggleJunction

5 ай бұрын

Cheers Andy, glad you enjoyed it mate 👍🏻

great footage

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers Paul 👍🏻

Cracking one mate, always something going on down in the south. Merry Christmas and a happy new year mate. Inter city already have a good line up for 2024

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers mate, got more variety than I could ever have hoped for to be honest. Think I’ll be booking on a couple of trips for the new year. Hope you had a great Christmas pal.

@Heavyweight37716

6 ай бұрын

@@DiggleJunction cheers, all they need is a pacer tour and i'm sorted and yes it was a great chritmas thank you, hope's your's was to.

Great Video..

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers pal 👍🏻

great video buddy keep up the good work

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers Jamie, much appreciated 👍🏻

hi Luke great video as always 37s sound amazing look forward to part 2 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot mate, can’t beat the 37’s! Hope you had a nice Christmas and have a great New Year.

@user-bk6qo5mu2o

6 ай бұрын

@@DiggleJunction yes thanks and same to you

Thanks for another great one Luke, sorry the signal failure spoilt your day - you did look disappointed. Happy Christmas.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers Bill, yeah wasn’t sure what to do at the time but think I made the right decision in the end. Hope you had a great Christmas pal and all the best for the New Year.

Great journey Luke. Good to see a Whatley Quarry working, literally a stone’s throw (sorry) away from me. Have a good Christmas.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Haha I’ll let you off with that one! Thanks mate, hope you had a good one too.

Loved the video and have joined thank you

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks very much Geoffrey, great to have you 👍🏻

Nice video 🎉5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐s 🎉🎄☃️

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers mate 👍🏻👍🏻

Eastleigh is a great spot. Used to be a lot busier but its still a good days worth of trains to see there.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Par for the course everywhere these days, but with a bit of luck we can still get decent days out.

Thanks for another great video - excellent technique, mostly with tripod I assume, and you let the trains do the moving not the camera. Makes for very good viewing. Look forward to part 2. Happy New Year to you and cheers from Martin down under in New Zealand.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks very much Martin, yeah that’s a conscious effort to not pan too often. I use a mix of tripods and a monopod when I don’t want to take up too much room on a platform. All the best for the New Year mate 👍🏻

Love the class 37 and class40

@DiggleJunction

5 ай бұрын

Me too 👌

cool video nice tractor trash 🥰 bet you frozen your sack off!

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Need to remember the long johns next time!

You are always enthusiastic Luke come hail rain or shine . Always an interesting watch John

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Do my best John, don’t always feel it by the 18th hour haha.

Congratulations🎉🎉🎉

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot 👍🏻

13:00 lovely weather! 😁🙄😬☔

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Haha think I made the right choice starting again just to get out of that weather!

Absolutely great stuff, sorry about the signal failure, but you still got a great variety of Loco’s. It’s worth knowing, exiting the Station, turn right and right over the bridge, and there is a superb, food and craft beer bar, called Steamtown, which brews its own plus guest beers. And of course you have Spoons Opposite.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers John, it more than made up for it in the end. I got a breakfast in spoons after finishing, did mean to visit steamtown, I saw it on google maps but just didn’t have the time to get over there in the end. Next time!

Thanks all the best

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers Barry, same to you 👍🏻

You need to find something less arduous for these subscriber milestones however entertaining they may be. 24 hours on a UK station in winter is nuts - the equivalent of climbing the North face of the Eiger!

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Haha I didn’t expect to ever be doing them so often mate but they’re a lot of fun. Hopefully we get another one a little closer to summer!

Thank you for sticking it out

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers Ann, always worth it in the end.

Fantastic video it's got it all 37s 69s & 47s and the black 5 can't wait for part 2 all the best my friend have a great Christmas and New year 😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👍☃️🌲🚆🚅 Rory

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers Rory, it was one hell of a trip down to your neck of the woods. Hope you had a good Christmas mate and all the best for the New Year 👍🏻

@rorynicol3969

6 ай бұрын

@@DiggleJunction having fun right now with my two grandsons all the best my friend 😊🚆🚅

Last time I went to Eastleigh was 1989. There was a good range of rolling stock coming and going, and it was a scorching hot day.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Sounds like a grand day out Jack. Bet there was some great variety back then.

@Jack_Warner

6 ай бұрын

@@DiggleJunction 47's, 37's 33's mainly. Plus some BR Mk1 coaches parked in the sidings. I believe it was 9th August '89, that I went there. I was visiting my mate in Southampton.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

@@Jack_Warner amazing that 30 years later you can see the same locos in a couple of days (although most probably not in the same quantity ha).

nice video your braver than i am

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers Simon, braver or madder, not sure sometimes!

very ambitious for a 3k subscriber "special" but well done for trying this I should wait till 10K subscribers for your next big one maybe Rugby as a good spot for lots of freight

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Cheers mate, I do them every 1000 subs and we’ve got to 4 since so will have another coming up soon. Not been to Rugby for a few years, need to go back soon it would be great for a special.

😅I am new to the channel. A former resident of Southampton and now living in Suffolk. I actually have a press cutting of the first electric test train through Eastleigh back in the day.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Nice to have you Peter, blimey that’s a great keepsake. What year was that from?

I did 12 hours overnight at Crewe back in about 1987/88 and despite there being almost every class of loco there - 08s, 20s, 31s, 37s, 47s, (no 50s that far north though!), the very occasional 56 or 58 and even one of the few 25s or 45s that were still around, 81s, 85s, 86s and 87s, plus DMUs, EMUs, all kinds of freight wagons, tanks and a lot of mail vans all through the night - after 8 hours or so it was becoming a bit of a challenge to stay i. awake and ii. interested in whatever was about, but I couldn't leave as a I went up there by car with a few mates and two of them, including the driver, had buggered off somewhere else so I had to wait for him to return - this was way before mobile phones, obviously! Anyway, if I was currently wearing a hat, I'd take it off to you for managing 24 hours somewhere, especially these days. At least the 66s come in a variety of colours to keep things mildly interesting! 😀

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot mate, it does get tough to stay enthusiastic getting close to that 24 hour mark to be honest. True about the 66’s, we’ll take what we can get when it comes to sheds haha. Bet Crewe was fantastic back in the day, it was still great when I was a kid in the mid to late 90’s!

Awsome Video i Subscribed u chanal cheers from netherlands

@DiggleJunction

3 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot mate, really appreciate that 👍

Picked a good 24hrs!

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Got so lucky mate, I knew the steamer was running but everything else was a nice surprise!

@AaronThompson

6 ай бұрын

@@DiggleJunction definitely! Eastleigh is always good for freight but picked the right 24hrs for all the extra stuff!

My local station from my dads ofc

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Top place to have so close mate 👍🏻

wud love to do overnight eastleigh

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

It’s great on a busy night tbh mate, without ticket barriers etc you’re alright on there.

Come do a 24 hours at Taunton as I hear all kinds of tons and noises and it would be interesting to see tbh

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

I’ll have a look at Taunton mate, if it fits the bill it’s definitely an option.

@silvershadow03

6 ай бұрын

@@DiggleJunction omg thanks so much

Many apologies for the 'never come across your work prior' comment because, of course I obviously have! It was the location that turned me upside down and left me scratching my old bald crust! Therefore I must pay more attention to detail instead of relying on guesswork. Sorry about that.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

No apologies necessary mate, totally understandable, these videos aren’t my usual fair 👍🏻

So, wait. With the restart, this is actually 40 hours? 🤔🤯🤧 Guessing that 66796 will need at least a partial repaint now? 🤭

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Not too far off yeah, I did go to bed for a sleep after cancelling the first try though so only 24 straight. Haha at least a few red crossings out on 796 😂

Another corker of a 24H special ! These things happen I guess but you must have been knackered after getting up for being ready by 7 so not even a full night sleep beforehand! When did the issues become resolved and had you persevered overnight would you have got much?? Should have changed the Bingo sheet “Tesco Container” to “ONE Container” 🤣👍🏻

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot Roy. They seemed to sort out in the early hours but there was so many delays I’d say only half or so of the trains ended up actually running so didn’t miss too much. I’d have got it really quick with a pink container haha.

Did u start again the following morning ?

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Yeah mate, I knocked it on the head after stuff started diverting and began again at 7am the next morning.

Hope I win np diggle to a fellow train spotter to train spotter let’s roll

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Good luck mate, got to be in it to win it!

@silvershadow03

6 ай бұрын

@@DiggleJunction oh im in it to win it for sure

You must be jinked, along comes the black 5 and a unit blocks the view on the following line.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Heart dropped when I saw it accelerating into shot, thankfully fast enough to be out the way in time!

24 hours in 34 mins, not 24 hours is it then 😅

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Haha maybe part 2 will be 23 hours, 26 minutes long? 😂

@ReelFilmProductions

6 ай бұрын

@@DiggleJunction I hope so 🙏

There is more action at Eastleigh than Diggle junction.Train spotters paradise

Your a serious train spotter but don't use the 24hr clock.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Ha always do mate, I was going for a counter for this one rather than the date and time I usually do 👍🏻

I guess with 4k you are in trouble - again.

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

Haha I must be a glutton for punishment mate. Plans already in place for the 4k, should be a great one.

How is 5z76 ecs classed as a railtour?

@DiggleJunction

6 ай бұрын

It’s a tenuous one tbh Mark, the tour finished a couple of stops up but with the halt for coal etc is a part of the trains tour. With the bingo being just a bit of fun I’ll class it as close enough.