Nice to see a UK Rail franchise are engaging with their customers without paranoia about hearing audio in the cab. Thank you GWR!

Most of these cab rides give the names of the various junctions passing from and to where! Just makes for more enjoyable experience.

@fetchstixRHD

4 жыл бұрын

While that would be nice, this does look like the official channel of the train operating company (rather than the personal channel of an employee) and so I understand why they don’t, after all it’s extra work for a member of staff to do! Either way it’s nice they uploaded a cab video, seeing we’re not supposed to be on their trains(!)

@gb5uq

4 жыл бұрын

That's OK if there is an option like CC which there usually isn't. They can be very intrusive and distracting.

@tennyho3236

4 жыл бұрын

well, if youtube allows barrage...

@dixiedean1955

4 жыл бұрын

I note that they are now adding the station names etc to their more recent videos, such as the last HST from Plymouth to Paddington also available on YT

@acmenipponair

3 жыл бұрын

@@dixiedean1955 Well, and don't forget: You can just download the national rail map from their website and there you can see all the stations the train has passed by.

the smudge on the window directly between the rails looks like a funny little horse

@bajahipb5846

4 жыл бұрын

looks like a rubber ducky to me.

@sickymicky36

4 жыл бұрын

@@bajahipb5846 That's what I saw.

@roberthindle5146

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was a reindeer

@sw9750

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, definitely a reindeer!

@Thesquad291

3 жыл бұрын

@@sw9750 Oh I thought it was just a smudge on the window

I love these videos. Can happily sit watching them all day.

@johnlatham7092

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Rich. I was viewing this video from Sydney and had no idea through which stations we were passing. I thought it was a "lazy" video in that the person posting the video gave us no information at all. Other videos of British rail journeys give history as well as telling you where you are. This video was just a dump unfortunately. Do you agree ?

@bacongaming6094

4 ай бұрын

@@johnlatham7092this is a Great Western Railway Service to London Paddington, it normally stops at Stations like Bristol Parkway, Reading, Didcot Parkway, Swindon, Chippenham and Bristol Temple Meads.

Great Western should hire Dan Coffey to produce their promo videos. Dan's U-Tube videos are superb.

@Tiffy552

4 жыл бұрын

Is that Dons brother lol.

@bigbad75

4 жыл бұрын

Don Coffey, not Dan

@ragland3lamps1

4 жыл бұрын

James I certainly agree with you on your comment. His videos are fantastic especially the information with them

@jameschicken1008

4 жыл бұрын

Plus he knows all the history and where the junctions go to

@paulbishop6091

3 жыл бұрын

Check out rail cowgirl, especially the one "sunset summer vibes and side views" An extraordinary video of the railway in Norway

Great view and strangely mesmerising, loved seeing the four bridges in Purley from a different perspective and the new Reading flyover was awesome. Many thanks.

Amazing Video, I'm track surveyor and sometimes my survey team takes poor quality pictures on track due to weather or night time. Track videos helped me many times to recognise and solve my surveying issues. Thanks again

great video excellent quality thanks for your time and effort

I wish that you would release a video for Penzance to Paddington! The only video out there with the full GWR route is from 80s in a Class 43 :(

@TheTomd79

4 жыл бұрын

How about one from Penzance to Aberdeen! :D

@BIGV710

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheTomd79 i have been on that its a long trip

@thepluckfamily

4 жыл бұрын

They have a video from Plymouth to Paddington and that has the stations names on it aswell

@EnGxExous

4 жыл бұрын

@@thepluckfamily I have watched it just sucks that its the Plymouth to Reading route they recorded not the GWR mainline all the way to Paddington. :( was still a great watch though!

@martinplatt5928

4 жыл бұрын

In 4k!!

Great video, thanks for posting it.

Haven’t been to Bristol for nearly a year, so had no idea this was gonna be non stop from Parkway! At Swindon I was surprised, Didcot less so but at Reading I was thinking when is he slowing down, he’ll overshoot the platforms by miles!

I miss GWR trains so much. I used to commute frequently between Newbury and London during my visit to UK.

amazing video....superb cab view ❤🇮🇳love from india

Hi there, well we've been meandering with you for quite some time now and enjoying the journey, always so good to be out and about with you. The cab view is immersive and very relaxing I find. Anyway just wanted to drop by and say thank you.

I’m not a lifesaver but I am staying home and I am enjoying watching this video. 🐨🇦🇺

This is great, thank you. I was in London about 18 months ago, often took the GWR or TfL Rail into Paddington. This brings back good memories.

Thanks for the ride. As usual, the lines running hither, thither, and yon fascinate me.

Most probably the last ever cab ride video along the GWML where the chimney of Didcot A power station is visible (around the 44 min mark) - it was demolished in Feb 2020.

Thanks Chris excellent station list

Great video, thanks for sharing !

Very good video, thank you very much!

Great way round. Liked the video.

8:43 My old High School is on the right and was a great place to watch trains "do the curve". I notice it's now where "old" meets "new"!

Ausgezeichnet !!!. Ein gutes Video. Danke

Very good driver eye view. You should post more of these as us train enthusiasts are at home during the lockdown. Well done GWR.

Have a look at Don Coffey's videos. Lots of information, historical and geographic as well as about railway operation. You've got the visuals ok, but it needs what many posters are calling for as well.

@kevg707

4 жыл бұрын

they are fab videos loads of info too ..love em

@Martin_Adams184

4 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. And I've said so in a separate comment.

@Bigbro28

4 жыл бұрын

By far the best - I’ve watched every one to date. 🐨🇦🇺

@RichardFelstead1949

4 жыл бұрын

I like Don's videos as they have so much information eg station names & trivia.

Absolute Magic... Thank You My Friend...

"There are two ways of doing things: The Great Western way, or the wrong way. I'm Great Western, and...." "DON'T WE KNOW IT!!"

Great video. Wow, right at the end that Henry vacuum near fell off the platform :-)

More of these please. I love cab views.

I would love to see more drivers eye videos if possible requested. I'm from the USA and I love watching trains on rails consistent with switches and far destinations. Thanks for sharing. Just giving my opinion.

@philiptaylor664

4 жыл бұрын

Hello from the UK, have a look on KZread for a gentleman called Don Coffey, he does some excellent videos, also theres Railway Emotions from Switzerland, and Rail Cow Girl from Norway, all excellent videos to watch

Definitely a trip to do when it gets back to normal. Non-stop through Reading! Very good.

Thank you for the share!

Very nice of you to do a cab ride GWR. Please feel very free to do some more. A very enjoyable trip.

Great video of the service you were on Paddington station is cool

Having viewed the entire run I have to repeat my previous comment that an all round good video really needs the information to make the experience an all round pleasurable and informative view, I was totally lost from beginning to end as to where we were, and the various indications to the driver other than the aws warnings, thanks for the ride.

@FabianEason

4 жыл бұрын

Use a map?

@ChapelEndJunctionUK

4 жыл бұрын

Watch Don Coffey's videos .

@a.butler8908

4 жыл бұрын

Watched this using a split screen with Traksy/Raildar/ ...(Others available) ... didn't miss one junction, station or crossover. Try it!

@johnlatham7092

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more Norman. I was viewing this video from Sydney and had no idea through which stations we were passing. I thought it was a "lazy" video in that the person posting the video gave us no information at all. Other videos of British rail journeys give history as well as telling you where you are. This video was just a dump unfortunately. Do you agree ?

A great production. Keep on doing so. Greetings from Germany. Immer gute Fahrt!

Enjoyable video, seeing it from the driver's view. Especially from Swindon though to Paddington, having worked out of Didcot P'way circa 2003, seeing places such as Challow or Moreton and Reading, working out of that P'way in 2004 with the Ultrasonic Rail Testing Team, I must have walked from Paddington to Reading during the year I based there.

Great vid thanks very much for it. I hope that someday in the future we can do away with the eyesores of overhead wires.

Superb journey. Always wanted to see a driver's view as I've travelled the line so many times . Pity there was no information about passing stations and other points of interest such as signalling. Otherwise great video.

Schöne Tour von Bristol nach London.

Really good to see this - thanks. Surely ones for the future include Exeter to Plymouth, Plymouth to Penzance and the Cornish branch lines. Missing travelling and hope to be on board again soon!

Love the. Video 👍👍👍

Interesting seeing it from the cab. Would have been more enjoyable if it had put the station names on the screen.

@thomasjones8648

3 жыл бұрын

Do you know if this was an IET?

@arch9enius

3 жыл бұрын

@@thomasjones8648 Almost certainly.

@arch9enius

3 жыл бұрын

@@mitchellgiffard1978 Or get your GPS out of the car and sit by the computer with it : P

@mitchellgiffard1978

3 жыл бұрын

@@arch9enius that's a bit rude isn't it I have only travelled as far as reading don't the names of the other stations beyond that to Bristol temple meads.

@arch9enius

3 жыл бұрын

@@mitchellgiffard1978 Well I've had a guess at some below. Swindon Didcot and Cholsey I know for certain. See also CHrisJ Neale who is just showing off.

incase anyone is wondering, this high speed train is running on Diesel power and the reason you can't hear the engines is because the Driver cab unit doesn't have a Diesel engine underneath it because they put the Pantograph on the Driving cab unit. the Diesel engines are mounted underneath the middle Coaches of the train.

A lovely journey but could you put in the bottom or top what station's we are passing! That was very relaxing to watch, looking forward to the next.

@tuanpiccus1107

4 жыл бұрын

Lawrence Hill, Stapleton Road, Filton Abbey Wood, Bristol Parkway (Stops), Swindon, Didcot Parkway, Cholsey, Goring and Steatley, Pangbourne, Tilehurst, Reading, Twyford, Maidenhead, Taplow, Burnham, Slough, Langley, Iver, West Drayton, Hayes and Harlington, Southall, Hanwell, West Ealing, Ealing Broadway, Acton Main Line, Westbourne Park (tube station on right), Royal Oak (tube station on left).

@valfaulkner648

4 жыл бұрын

@@tuanpiccus1107 Thank you! when I watch again I will know.

@a.butler8908

4 жыл бұрын

Try using a split screen with Traksy/Raildar/...others ... and miss nothing!

@geoffcoglan7056

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@dixiedean1955

4 жыл бұрын

Their later videos do have the station names on, so they must have noted your comments!

Thanks GWR, great video. However you need to put some work into annotating the video - station stops, stations passed through, junction points, geographical points of interest along the way, etc.

Remember when it used to go to the right just before the bridge before Lawrence Hill? I do.. was like 2002 when I worked on the buffet cars!

Thanks Mike for the info re the location of the floodlights at 5.00.

How things have changed ! Travelled Parkway/Paddington for almost 10 years in the 80/90's.

wonderful video, Greetings from France.

I have been on this line today and I went via reading west towards Exeter st David's.

It’s so strange seeing all those people at Parkway, went to PAD on the train the other day and it was deserted, never thought I’d miss the busy trains but I do

Totally agree I have lived on the other side of the world for 50 years and a captioned video would be great

I do this route twice every month and it’s honestly a breeze, always seems faster then how long it takes!! Thanks GWR🙂

Thank you! Nice camera work; but as Davil says in his comment, the video would be vastly improved if it took a few leafs out of Don Coffey's book.

@ianplowman8689

3 жыл бұрын

Be glad GWR are doing any in cab video.

Brilliant what a great idea

Captions would be nice especially on such a historic line. You could take a lesson from Don Coffey, by far the best cab ride channel there is

Lol!! Still have the same starting buzzer as they did on the old Bogcarts 🤪

Saw the title and thought it would be the pretty way via Bath not via BPW

@throwow1014

4 жыл бұрын

Richard Talbot I thought it would be the even prettier way through Birmingham and sparkbrook ☹️

Disappointing that location names are not subtitled, I like to follow the route with mapping.

Spent first ten minutes trying to clean my screen....🤦‍♂️

@Stewartp

4 жыл бұрын

This is immaculate compared to a ride that starts from Paignton - you can hardly see through the filth! Thank you Mr TrainDriver for this..Stuck in lockdown in Italy luckily I have an exercise bicycle that I hadn't used for 10 years since moving to the hills where I normally walk every day. I watch these videos while pedalling. Some of the Scottish ones are really beautiful. Yesterday I was on a fantastic line in Eskdale which finished in Whitby.

@neobe195

4 жыл бұрын

Stewartp the most beautiful railway (I would say) in the world is the WHL in Scotland. I live in fort william, one of the main parts of the line.

Great video

fantastic thank you, any chance you could do one from bristol to penzance?

@mitchellgiffard1978

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah would like to see that particular route.

Is it just me or is there something so satisfying about the electrification

@ChangesOneTim

4 жыл бұрын

Me too; it's satisfying. A great shame though that this particular project was so over-budget and finished years late that it led to it being 'descoped', with the government forcing the railway to 'pause' or cancel most other electrification projects around the country. A lot of reputational damage caused, which is taking years to rebuild among all the pressures of 'decarbonising' transport and now recovery from COVID-19.

I heard yesterday that the Steventon bridge has been saved. Steventon is half-way between Bristol Temple Meads and London Paddington. In the future trains will be allowed to go over the level crossings in Steventon and under the bridge at 110 mph.

@fetchstixRHD

4 жыл бұрын

Hasn’t that been the case for some time? Line speeds were raised (for electric, but dropped for diesel) some time ago to 110mi/h allowing the 80x’s to not need to carry out a power changeover

@FabianEason

4 жыл бұрын

Yes you can see it on this vid, there is a 110mph board, then the level crossing, then steventon bridge, then a 125mph board.

This is just brilliant - thank you. Is there any chance of more cab rides, in particular Penzance to Taunton, and two more covering Taunton to Bristol and to London? Please?

@geoffharrison2220

4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree with you, Simon.

@catonthekbd

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely need Exeter to Plymouth stretch. Going along seawall at Dawlish 😀

@johnlatham7092

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Simon. I was viewing this video from Sydney and had no idea through which stations we were passing. I thought it was a "lazy" video in that the person posting the video gave us no information at all. Other videos of British rail journeys give history as well as telling you where you are. This video was just a dump unfortunately. Do you agree ?

@spoerers

2 жыл бұрын

It drew depends what you want the video for John. I have a number of cab ride videos, some of which have the information you refer to. I use them to help me develop train simulator routes and already know anything the sort of commentary you’re after would give me. A straightforward up to date cab view like this is all I need.

@johnlatham7092

2 жыл бұрын

@@spoerers Thanks for feedback Simon. Cheers John

43.50 -44.20 passing through Steventon village with its 2 crossings and the bridge that was saved but very close to the overhead wires

I did mancheter piccadlly to penzance once overnight ! it was a long ass journey and got to penzance at like 11 am ..from a start of early aftenoon in manchester! had a 2 hr wait at bristol parkway to catch the overnight sleeper from paddington to penzance lol .... to say i was not fresh as a daisy after a night sleeping under a table as we did't book a bunk / sleeper ws an understatement! was in the 90s though to go to a family wedding! ......i didn't think you get jet lag on a train lol ...although things have prob improved now ! ;) luckily i now live in Bristol 20 odd yrs later so not as far to travel to penzance or even london paddington thank god!..Also did bristol temple meads to edinburgh and that didn't take half as long ...set off early morning about 8 am and changed at birmingham was in Edinburgh by tea time! ..also did it straight through with cross country ..i gotta admit both were 1 st class and x country needs to up thier game as we noticed a marked diffence between them and virgin 1 st class on the change at birmingham ....x country after what we paid was pretty poor service and not good compaired to what we got on virgin at the time ....and charged the same for a ticket be it straight through or change ...and the journey back was awful as it was a sunday straight through with x contry so very little 1 st class service ect and didnt even get a decent meal ect after what we paid for a return ...i would never get x country again if i could avoid it! but there again we are stuck with the the train companies that provide the long distance journey and where they they can operate sadly ..mind you back in the day of BR i would of got a curled up sandwich in 1st class ....oh hang on i did with x country! lol ;)

Temple Meads is a really nice station.

Yeah! The new timetable for TFL Rail (Aka Crossrail aka Elizabeth Line) to Reading!

Excellent video.......would have liked named stations en route.

Great video, it gives a good impression of speed. Pacer at 01:54. I need a ride on one of those before they're taken out of service. At 1:18:17 there's a 37 towing another train.

Huge fan of GWR, as a Scot living in the north east, my knowledge of the south west is patchy. Great cab ride!

@MasterMoyle

4 жыл бұрын

Proper GWR not this that we have now.

This is great stuff to stave off the stay-at-home blues! More please! Especially down into the West Country.

Ah, a quick fly past of my old station Reading. Several happy years working there before moving on to Newbury. My son now works at Paddington. It's a good job on the railways.

*I did not expect that twist at the end!*

@lolzlolz102

3 жыл бұрын

What twist??

@StuMas

3 жыл бұрын

@@lolzlolz102 Sarcasm.

Enjoyed that, done the line so many times. Before the Lockdown did BPW to Padd non-stop, great going through Reading and avoiding the usual throng of locals.

last time I traveled down this line the cantinaries were vastly more incomplete, looks alien with all them suddenly there

Great opportunity to show the visual to us, where does it switch from diesel to electric at Parkway or between Temple Meads and Parkway

@chrisjneale5833

4 жыл бұрын

If I am Not mistaken at 15:31 there is a warning sign to switch to overhead and at 15:38 is the instruction sign to switch to overhead collection

Brilliant, thanks. Would like to know speed you went through Reading please, magnificent!

@Goonersterling

4 жыл бұрын

The speed limit is 95mph through Reading

@ffinybryn

4 жыл бұрын

The train takes about 7.5 seconds to travel the 280m length of the platform. Approx. 134kph/83mph.

the camera must have great image stabilization as my journeys on that route are never that smooth

Brilliant thanks, great experience.

To think, this was my train ride every sunday back to bristol university back in 2008..

Can you do Bristol TM to Penzance?

The contrast between the advanced led signalling and the many non-electrified lines strikes me

I hope the Overhead Catenary has reached Bristol Temple Meads by now!!!!

@ChangesOneTim

4 жыл бұрын

No, it hasn't and it won't for a while yet.

Outstanding vid...! From what class of train was filmed? I guess class 800.x.- Although is an Official User, I agree with the needing of some captions, at least with stations names... By the way, it was an excellent view. Congrats...!

@ianmurray250

4 жыл бұрын

A 5-car 800, diesel powered from Bristol TM until Parkway where the driver switches to electric traction and switches off the engines. The only sign is that you can hear the driver pressing buttons.

Great video please do produce more like this. Hope to see ones for Devon and Cornwall and from London Paddington

why are some of the signals flashing please, or is it a camera effect?

Can you do one via box tunnel?

1:55 is that one of them Pacer things still been used by GWR?

I would not like to be a modern train driver; the electrification of the is too hypnotic for me. MY admiration for ALL train drivers, who can drive through this. Certainly, I could not.

Would love to see more of these. They’re helping with my signaller training.

Great Video, I really the last Kilometres into west London. Was it always 4 tracks like that even back in the 1970's?

@ianmurray250

4 жыл бұрын

Yes 4 tracks from well beyond Slough, in the 80s the last few kilometres into Paddington were changed to six bi-directional tracks.

@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp

4 жыл бұрын

@@ianmurray250 Thanks Sir .. I would have loved to have seen Western Diesel on that line at passenger track speed back in the 1970s

@markcf83

4 жыл бұрын

It's four tracks from Paddington as far as Didcot save for the section as far as Ladbroke Grove.

Hi GWR, cool video! Would it be possible for you to do a Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour drivers eye view please?

Would it be possible if you could put the ATP speedometer next time? I do lots of research on train safety and safety devices on train. Great video!

@AlexL1805

4 жыл бұрын

I presume you've already seen the old training videos? There's two on here, one of which is called Living with ATP

@johnlatham7092

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Danny. I was viewing this video from Sydney and had no idea through which stations we were passing. I thought it was a "lazy" video in that the person posting the video gave us no information at all. Other videos of British rail journeys give history as well as telling you where you are. This video was just a dump unfortunately. Do you agree ?

Oh yes, they are enthusiasts too, they’re just corporate enthusiasts

25:12 - Goodbye Pheasant....!

I know this is a bit of an odd question but I’d appreciate if someone could answer. After the driver arrives at Paddington, Would he take a 2-3 hour break or just go to the other end of the train and get ready for a return trip to Bristol?