By far the best way to visit Camborne.

This wasn't filmed on a Wednesday, because as the comedian 'Jethro' told us, "The train doesn't stop at Camborne on a Wednesday".

@Cous1nJack

3 жыл бұрын

*train don’t stop Camborne Wednesday.

Thanks for the cab ride and information about old stations etc. Part of the route is very scenic love seeing some of the old mines!!😎🚃🚃🚃🚃

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

Well done. I don’t really know the area but it’s great to see things from a different perspective. Appreciate the points of history too, keeps the past alive. First time I saw something like this was a canal trip along the west Kennet and Avon canal, they also dropped in historical notes as the narrowboat chugged along. Then a little after that a bus journey over the Yorkshire moors if I remember rightly. Great to see.

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Pre 1976 the Longrock shed had a tall wooden slatted fence the became almost transparent when our dad drove past at the right speed so we could see what was inside! I once had a cab ride (with my older brother) from a friendly driver from PZ station to Longrock in a Warship and back in a Western. What I remember most was how squirrely the Warship was on the footplate compared to how steady the Western was. I also remember being at Gwinear Road (long closed) at the end of the Helston branch having travelled out behind a 45XX a 600 Warship in BR Green. Our grandad got us onto the footplate of a 45XX in Helston when I was 4, still remember it though.

Thank you. It was great to see it from the driver's perspective

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

No problem 👍

I live near Truro so know this line very well great to see it from the cab

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

Right on

Gawd, i never knew trains were this quiet now 😄

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

D'oh

You are spoiling us! A thoroughly enjoyable ride and informative captions. Thank you.

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

More to come!

That's me waving at 24:00

@rik2034

3 жыл бұрын

No it's not 😂

@RealMeggy

3 жыл бұрын

nice

@stnicholas54

3 жыл бұрын

Are you certain it's you ? :-)

Great film, i really enjoyed it.

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it!

Wow, Thanks. I can see the house and garden I grew up in..

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

Another great video, you see so much more than if you are just getting a passenger's view. and the snippets of information keep you interested and informed. keep up the good work. Cheers, Neil

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I’m here for the scenery and history, not for the sounds. Really good quality. You do a superb job. I’ll be back later with my questions...

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I travelled from Exeter St David's to Penzance in 2001. On the journey to Penzance the train passed through a little station where someone had set up home in an old railway carriage. It was picturesque and quaint seeing a TV aerial on top of an older railway carriage.

@danchapman4160

3 жыл бұрын

Still there today I believe it is lostwithal station

@phph1731

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the memory jog. I remember old carriages at stations back in the 60s that my Grandad (a railwayman) said were for holidays. My clearest memory is that were some at Brockenhurst in the New Forest and regularly saw these as a little lad pulled by a Bulleid to see the grandparents at Hamworthy Junction. I imagine those were a bit basic, but good fun.

I love this route, Can’t wait for them to be coming with sounds after covid

A few small points. The Perranporth branch left the main line about a mile west of Chacewater Station by way of the triangular Blackwater junction before heading northwards over the rhododendron covered embankment over the A30 and then wending its way through Mount Hawke and St Agnes to Perranporth. Decades ago British Rail also misspelt Camborne station when they replaced the station name board - it was hastily replaced.

Nice scenic vid,Theirs a lot of closed stations on this line,Thank you cheer's bob.

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I used to live in the West of England forty years ago, but never got west of Bodmin Road (Parkway) on the railway, so appreciate seeing what it is like.

I guess they were ‘slam door’ coaches at the start of the video. I miss the sound of those doors being closed. 🐨🇦🇺

There are few views as breathtaking as St Michael's Mount.

Bril - thanks v much, much enjoyed and nice having the snippets!

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I like it quiet. I have a soft rain video with a bit of jazz playing along with it.

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

I enjoy Music when watching too. Soooothing, I find.

Another really beautiful ride.

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

It really is!

Thank you for a nice piece of filming. At 28:24 it says "127 yard Blackwater Viaduct where the line from Perranporth to Newquay passed under prior to its closure." I don't think that last bit about the Perranporth line can be right. The junction between that line and the main line was triangular, with spurs facing both west and east; and it was about three quarters of a mile west of the Blackwater Viaduct, where nowadays the A30 runs adjacent to the railway. I'm not aware that any line ran under the viaduct; though it's always possible that some kind of tramroad or branch connected with a mine was there for a while. But thanks again.

@chriswilson4128

3 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking. The Perranporth line went off at the blackwater triangle between Scorrier and Chacewater. Don't know which tramway went under that viaduct. Also check your spelling of Camborne. Otherwise, great video and well shot.

I hope those who work out the timetables are learning from this ... absolutely no chance of passengers from St Ives making a connection to Truro despite the branch train arriving at the adjacent platform ... ridiculous!

I Live very near Combe Halt.... Liskeard -Looe,.....thus,...all good viewing this!.... Thankyou

Very good filming! if this was filmed 3 year's ago it's probably a Voyager judging the way it pulls away from the Station stop's!! an HST! eeerm wouldn't have thought so!

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

Its a sprinter.

@Cous1nJack

3 жыл бұрын

Year’s what? Do you mean years?

Classic journey from Leeds to Penzance once you get into Cornwall feels like a different country

@tonyjones9442

3 жыл бұрын

It was at one point. Was called west Wales, with what is Now called Wales, being North Wales. I'm Welsh and Welsh speaking, Cornish , Welsh and Breton are sister languages. I.e penzance is an Anglicised version of the Welsh name, Pensarn. Pointless information but you never know when it may come in useful.

@robrees8207

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonyjones9442 West Wales was what the Saxons of Wessex called the Cornish. Didn't they themselves call themselves Kernow?

@tonyjones9442

3 жыл бұрын

@@robrees8207 yes, Kernow means cornish.

Uk level crossing long rock spotted 3:38

Interesting to see the train from St. Ives arriving just as this train left St. Erth. I guess the company wanted anyone from St. Ives to wait around for an hour on a cold station to get on. Dreadful service

@georgelawrence7937

3 жыл бұрын

It’s more like 10 mins, not that dreadful

I enjoyed this. Was there a compelling reason why your train didn't wait at St Erth's for possible transfer passengers from St Ives?

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

It was not timetabled to.

@brucewilliams8714

3 жыл бұрын

@@RailMart Thanks for that. It just seemed strange.

@bencripps1472

3 жыл бұрын

A telling example of why the railways exasperate people. I couldn't believe that the main line train pulled out just as the train from St Ives pulled in. I would have been fuming if I had been a passenger arriving from St Ives for a station served by the main line train. Waiting:- "More than my job is worth"

@MxWintersAFOL

3 жыл бұрын

This is what happens when you don't have an integrated public transport system that is run by 1000 different companies. Integrated is a concept that is totally alien to companies like First Great Western and the Department Of Transport. During the days on the proper Great Western Railway (not tis fake wanna-be GWR run by the worse company in Britain (First Group)), they used to wait for a train on the main line to arrive and allow passengers to change onto change onto the branchline train but that rarely happens now, that's just how incompetent TOC's are.

Your information regarding the line to Perranporth is incorrect. It didn't go under the Blackwater viaduct at all. Approximately 1/2 mile west of Chacewater Station was a triangular junction called Blackwater Junction. Originally, there were two chords here, east and west and 3 signal boxes, north, east and west. All three had closed by 1924 along with the west chord. The branch line from Perranporth ran next to the GWR main line from here for the last half a mile into Chacewater Station. The branch closed in February 1963 and Chacewater Station closed in October 1964.

Love the video but..... please leave the script on the screen for long enough for me to read. Many thanks

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

Comments noted. Will do for the future. Could I also suggest pause.

@22Purplemist

3 жыл бұрын

@@RailMart - the pause feature dims and partially covers the image so it doesn't work 😔

Yes, it's Camborne, not 'Cambourne'. Thanks for posting the video.

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

My bad

Cambourne?

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

Noted.

Was this on a Voyager?

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

No a GWR 150

I think this video could be enhanced by some dada da da...

Not the same since they lost the 'clickety-clack' over the expansion joints

@Bigbro28

3 жыл бұрын

I used to love that sound. Fortunately, I still have it on some old cab ride videos. 🐨🇦🇺

@22Purplemist

3 жыл бұрын

I have memories of that when travelling down from the Midlands to see family in Exeter. I remember it was winter and it was dark and I was rear facing, and my Dad saying 'clickety-clack' to me as we went over what I now know to be expansion joints.

You've made the same mistake as British Rail did back in the '70s when they put up a new sign for the station. You've mis-spelled Camborne. There's no U in it!

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

D'oh!

@jilljohnwooley4092

3 жыл бұрын

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Leave the writing on longer some of us are not speed readers

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

Noted. You are not the first. We will in future videos leave text on longer.

@billmilsom3505

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@22Purplemist

3 жыл бұрын

- I read quite quickly but due to font size (which I appreciate has to be small) even I couldn't read all of them

No U in Camborne

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

Noted.

Cant believe u called Chacewater 'Chasewater' at one point. Smh

@RailMart

3 жыл бұрын

Apologies for a Typo.