Hey guys! Sorry for the brief hiatus on this channel. Back up and running 😀😀 after a very hectic few days travelling around the Balkans. Here’s the list of trains which offer Saturday Breakfast on East Midlands Trains: www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/travelling-with-us/on-board/first-class-to-london/#First-Class-Weekend- (scroll halfway down and click “First Class Weekend Service”).

@tomarmitage7149

6 жыл бұрын

Paul's Trip Reports did you stop at wakefield

@Paul_Lucas

6 жыл бұрын

Watch the video! You typed that 12 seconds after I published.

@michaelmacdonell2942

6 жыл бұрын

No apology required. Also, Team No Sauce

@McGubbins42

6 жыл бұрын

There's a reason why very few people get the EMT to London from Leeds - Virgin Trains East Coast offer very cheap tickets if you book in advance and they cut 90 minutes off the journey time.

@C2K777

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you're back. Hopefully see some of your Balkans adventures. I'm off to Dubrovnik/ Croatia on the 21st

I've nothing against ladies having hen parties but, were I to travel first class, it would be to enjoy a quiet and peaceful experience.

Didn't know train reviews could be that much fun! Great report!

@Paul_Lucas

6 жыл бұрын

Josh Cahill cheers Josh! 👍🏻👍🏻

I loved it Paul! I really envy you Europeans with all the trains you have available. In Brazil we destroyed most of our railroads in the 60's and 70's in order to implement the car industry. We then started building more and more roads and highways throughout the country. Today our railroad system is insignificant! Thanks for uploading!

@pedrolistacarey4880

5 жыл бұрын

Captain Bolsonaro will soon solve that point !

@FrostyAUT

5 жыл бұрын

@@pedrolistacarey4880 He will? European socialists think he's the literal devil.

@pedrolistacarey4880

5 жыл бұрын

@@FrostyAUT - No wonder, being Bolsonaro an enthusiast far-rightist !

@ecoRfan

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like what USA did in the 50s and 60s

@DefaultName-hs6gd

2 жыл бұрын

If European socialists hate you, you know you’re doing something right.

i enjoyed this trip thanks for taking us along. i appreciate being able to virtually travel via your videos - thanks alot.

Another great trip report from rainy, but beautiful Britain. Although you were a bit annoyed by some of the characteristics of this train, I think for 30 pounds it is still a nice experience 😀🚂.

The Intercity 125 is still the most reliable train in the network. It will be a sad day when they are replaced.

@bradleecaslin597

5 жыл бұрын

Rob Laidler They are my favourite of all in Britain

@PlanesTrainsFan

5 жыл бұрын

Thankfully for the moment, it looks like the East Midlands trains, Crosscountry GWR 4 car and Scotrail Hst are apparently going to be around for another good couple of years

@liamdoyle9559

4 жыл бұрын

They can’t run around forever.

@jimcrawford5039

4 жыл бұрын

We still have the Aussie version since 1979. It runs between Sydney - Melbourne and Sydney - Brisbane. It is due for replacement, with what who knows!

I love the trip reports that pass through Sheffield! This one especially, as I studied at Sheffield Hallam and now work at Hallam Students’ Union 👍🏻 Keep up the great videos!

Glad you're "back on track" Paul! I'm definitely trying some of the short train trips you've done when I come over from the States.

1:54 Don't be sad you're on an old train, be happy your train is the class 43 'InterCity 125'!

@ecoRfan

4 жыл бұрын

Old timer locomotive and absolutely legendary product.

@sidewalk__

4 жыл бұрын

ecoRfan yep. One of the best trains to ever serve the UK railways in my opinion. It’s a shame to see them go as they get replaced by newer trains from brands like Hitachi, but that can be justified by the fact that these *were* made over 40 years ago, are slower than the newer trains, along with the plan to electrify as much of the rail network as possible

Just a Sheffield graduate passing by, your video recalled my good memories travelling around UK by train!

Paul, I love your videos. They are beautifully done, edited and interesting. You are honest and extremely knowledgeable.....much appreciated!

Very reminiscent of Greater Anglia First Class. I generally find East Midlands to be quite bad. I'd much rather take Virgin to London in that sense. I completely agree with fellow commentators regarding the loud people in First Class. To be honest, regardless of class, people generally seem to be oblivious of their effect on others. A very individualistic mindset among train travelers in this country. This is why travel on Japanese trains is so nice.

@tinypizza4278

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah if I had to go in first class it would be with either Virgin or grand central because theirs have really nice seats and you still get free drinks and free food.

@stevelegends8912

5 жыл бұрын

if you live in derby Sheffield or Nottingham how would you take Virgin without adding an hour to your journey travelling across from Mainline o mainline? Maybe EMT/MML is a rough journey because the Government spend all the money on the east coast and west coast, so they're smoother and faster and electrified!! I'm lucky to live on the west coast and do use Virgin or LNWR but I feel sorry for the people of the east mids who clearly get treated like second class citizens. EMT should stop at St Albans, the amount of civil servants who live there would start to make money available then

@drdewott9154

5 жыл бұрын

I mean just being loud on public transport in general is considered rude in many places including Denmark where I live (sadly the youth seems to not care about that because of their rebellious American attitudes. But I distinctly remember a case when I was on holiday in Italy. My family had taken a day trip from Venice to the Garda lake and on the return trip we had to change from the high speed train to a local commuter train on the last bit into Venice. It was about 8pm and On the station a group of 3 American girls (age 20-30. You could hear they were American on their accents) stepped on board into a coach with about 10 other people in it and started talking very loudly, as in you could hear them from 2 carriages away. Everyone who was in that coach left and a good majority of them in the coach next to them (where I sat) left too. Me and my family decided to confront them, asking them to be quieter and be more mindful of their fellow passengers, but of course they didn't care one bit, because oh they ha dot keep yelling to each other about how Jeremy cheated on their BFF back home and how the Ice cream they instagrammed about looked like it was unnatural because the vanilla was yellow, my god was that the worst part of the trip or what!

Thanks for posting Paul. I'd not heard of the Saturday breakfast trains before. I enjoy all your travel vids.

Hen and stag parties one of the hazards of traveling by train at weekends would not be happy if I had paid for a first class seat and a hen party was upgraded for free

@michaelmacdonell2942

6 жыл бұрын

It's all a part of the legislative mess that we were handed in the privatisation of the industry. De-Regulation is very much a weekend incentive to get folk to try the product. Sadly, The Great British Public are still unchanged. They just seem to dress better (?)

@SaveEastCoastRewards

6 жыл бұрын

Michael MacDonell weekend first was a British Rail invention. It dates from the times when companies were happy enough to pay for first class and therefore there was little in the way of bargains. This meant that the first class carriages ran almost empty on a weekend so they decided to offer weekend first upgrades. Personally I’d rather weekend first is now scrapped so that we’d get the same first class service on weekends as on weekdays. As you can now get bargain advance tickets the weekend first concept is now outdated.

@johnstansfield5265

6 жыл бұрын

When Weekend First began in the 1980's I seem to remember it being a flat £3 supplement and it only applied in carriages that had "Weekend First" window stickers.

@SuzLa1

6 жыл бұрын

Save East. I paid £10.00 to upgrade on GWR from Swindon to London on a weekend afternoon, and was only person in the carriage. Second class on a Saturday evening is horrible as full of drunken idiots and worse if there had been a football match, but suppose their only option to travel

@michaelmacdonell2942

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks - I didn't know that! Every day should be a school day.

Nice one Paul! Love the train reports. In fact I was on that train!! Keep up the great work!

Impressed with that meal - I’m impressed they did so well considering the ‘bounce’ of the train! (Squeaky too!)

Another great report Paul. I'm a fairly new follower and I really like your style of review for trains and planes!

Awesome trip report!

Nice report as always. Thanks

Great video Paul. Supprised you kept your food on plate with such a bumpy ride.

I love Nottingham station! It’s historical, big and has a connection to the trams. And I also like Sheffield station because it’s not as busy as normal regional stations (by my opinion) GREAT VID MAN!!!!

Thank you and indeed inspired by your review, as always.

Great trip report! Love your videos & keep it up!

Super trip report! Nice to see my local station featured (Leeds)

East Mids Parkway.... know the place well, along with Ratcliffe-on-soar Power Station..... just before you go through Redhill Tunnel, is Trent Lock (Sawley / Long Eaton), all of which I get to see pretty much every day from my flat near Sawley Marina. Maybe an idea to alert folks to the large upgrade work hitting Derby Station between July - October, and what it means for trains calling there... Cross Country are being diverted between Burton-on-Trent and Chesterfield, via the back freight line, passing through Castle Donnington, Sheet Stores / Trent Junction (Long Eaton, pretty much just before Redhill Tunnel), and on via Toton towards Ilkeston, where it will follow the same route as the Nottingham - Sheffield services, to Chesterfield. EMT will generally be running as near normal service as poss, with some being re-timed - Rail Replacement. www.derby2018.co.uk

Love the trains videos.....thanks for posting.

thanks for your video, every week a wait to see some new.....have a nice week

Hello dear, nice video, the train go everywhere easy .... thanks for sharing.... wish you the best

Great video as usual, liked the timestamps :)

Paul, I really like your new style trip reports. Keep up the good work.

love the green time box in top right! Great video

Thanks Paul, for the great video. I’ve experienced a similar ride quality experience on the VTEC HST from York to London. As all suspension components are replaceable, dampers, coils, air cushions etc., it can only suggest that the trains are not maintained to acceptable standards. There is plenty of life left in the HST sets despite its age, setting new standards of ride quality when introduced and extremely quiet at speed. Therefore, it’s a shame that things have been allowed to deteriorate and this can’t be put down to the age of the train. I also think Network Rail have to share some of the responsibility here, too, as track quality is definitely not what it used to be either.

East Midlands First Class does look very nice and comfortable!

Glad someone else found out the same. It's the most bumpiest train I've ever been on! So hard to eat and drink on there... Although the prices for first class are brilliant, sometimes it's cheaper to go first!

I very Much look forward and appreciate your Videos Paul TYVM

Nicely done. Loved it..

The breakfast looked very tempting!!

As a student currently studying in the Midlands, the HST are brilliant to ride on with quieter carriages and better ventilation compared to the 222s, and I frequently delay my journeys by half an hour to get the HSTs. The doors with sliding windows are great too, as there is proper fresh air if you need it (Not to mention that it is very amusing to watch people panicking over where the door handle has gone :P ) I do like the fact that you have added the precise time to the video, as indeed punctuality is an aspect that travelers are looking for. However, you may consider using a different layout or using a different font to it? Oh yes, and #Teambrownsauce :)

@ewannewton979

6 жыл бұрын

people panicking over the door is the best bit of the journey

I love your channel keep doing the good work

I have made the journey from London to Chesterfield several times. It is a really good breakfast.

Great trip report!!!!

I live next to East Mids Parkway 😎 worked on track thought most of the midland mainline so hope the ride was better there

Excellent report I have travelled from that station it’s ok at least good a good train

Class 43060 is now in preservation! I was lucky to see it at nene valley railway earlier today with 43045 at the other end!

Another great video Paul, keep it up.

Welcome back! I'm loving the beard look you were going on the latter part of the video.

Wow that’s looks amazing the first class wow! And I remember the sliddy door 🚪 hehe only on the hst

Great video as usual! For the future, A really interesting trip would be on the Air Canada A319 from Heathrow to St Johns!

Bit bumpy, breakfast looks good. That is what is a great start to any morning.

Good job Paul please keep up the good work

I love the train ones the best mate!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A few years back I travelled 1st class all of the time to and from Nottingham to Northampton. I looked forward to a meal as always a menu. Just my luck every time, I got a cup of tea but there was never anyone to cook a meal, not even an omelette. lol.

I was in the Army, I used to get upgraded a lot in the old BR days. Ok, it wasn't full breakfast on a 125 to Darlington but the seats where huge lol.

Great selection of music.

I was on a train to leeds from kings cross on last saturday, standard class, 5:50 am, which was delayed by 1 hour

Welcome back !

Thanks Paul.You are back on track.

I love the HST, bumps and all! That must be that part of the line that's bad as I've used them from Leicester to London and its a great ride! I'll definitely be sad to see the HST's withdrawn over the next year or two! :(

I have used that service a few times from Sheffield as you often get a good deal on advance tickets

I get the train a lot for football away days from Barnsley and, if you book in advance, it's often cheaper to get to London than it is to somewhere relatively close like Bolton.

I took the first class East midlands trains from Luton to Loughborough a lot, I discovered advance fares were only £4 per trip in first class, a couple of free coffees, biscuits and wifi made the price difference worth it. I much preferred the APT trains over the 125's

Love this trip report. Nice to see emr using dudsons table wear from Stoke on Trent unfortunately dudsons has now closed my nan worked there for many years

Wow! Never knew this existed. That interior looks a bit sluggish compared to vtec. Absolutely fantastic trip report though Paul, love the train ones. Take care

@randolphclarke4674

6 жыл бұрын

AJ AJ vtec have some met hst sets. You can tell by that they’re formed of 8 coaches and not 9

@Alan_Mac

6 жыл бұрын

Interior more sluggish? I'd wager that the interior went at the same speed as the rest of the train.

@ajaj4551

6 жыл бұрын

Juicy Hamburger all vtec trains are formed of 9 coaches

@randolphclarke4674

6 жыл бұрын

AJ AJ the sets they got from EMT have 8 www.virgintrainseastcoast.com/contentassets/6f9fe35378ad482199b8843b2f7c572a/vtec84-nl65-2017-dl-v4.pdf

@ajaj4551

6 жыл бұрын

Juicy Hamburger Never realised, thank you! All their sets have 9 though. The ones from emt are missing coach g it looks like

Loved the video but looked very bouncy indeed!!

You can try the Megabus plus service. You can buy on Megabus a cheap ticket that include a coach and a train ticket. The ticket include a train ticket between London st Pancras and East midlands parkway. At East midlands parkways there is a connecting coach service to Doncaster, Scunthorpe and Hull(included in the ticket)

I hadn't even considered EMT for my London trips - Grand Central is the closest, given they stop at Low Moor - but after the video, I'll certainly look at booking on the Leeds St. Pancras, next time I go into London. Incidentally, the age of the stock is immaterial - the ride quality on the Grand Central class 180, I came home from London on last month, was so bad the steward could only fill my tea cup to about two thirds full because it slopped over if filled any higher.

@RIGalleries

6 жыл бұрын

Well, I'm on the 06:33 Leeds - St. Pancras at the moment. Unfortunately, it's nothing like as good as Paul's trip - there is no cooked breakfast, due to (what appears to be) a shortage of staff. To be honest, I can't say as I'm massively impressed, given I'd deliberately missed breakfast - knowing there was a cooked service on that train - and I'm hungry now. The staff have been coming round with hot drinks and biscuits, but that's no substitute, when you were expecting something more substantial. I think this might be my one and only time on this train and I'll just go back to travelling in by Grand Central in future...

@Paul_Lucas

6 жыл бұрын

The Saturday Breakfast Train doesn’t run on a weekday. You can see the weekday trains that do convey breakfast here: www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/travelling-with-us/on-board/first-class-to-london/#First-Class-Breakfas

@RIGalleries

6 жыл бұрын

There were menus out for the complimentary breakfast, but they were snatched away while we were sat in Leeds. Looks like I'll be suffering a Burger King breakfast in London 🤢

Thank You

Great video as usual Paul, the first half sure was bouncy during breakfast. First Class carriage looks nice, properly better than Amtrak here in the US. Beard looks distinguished on you.

Right on time that's a surprise

Hey them seats are classic. They bounce on every bump. I know...I used to work them as a Train Manager at Nottingham and Derby for 16 years.

@robtyman4281

5 жыл бұрын

The bounciest seats of all were on the old A stock trains that ran on London Underground's Metropolitan Line. Wow they were bouncy! ...London Underground scrapped the trains several years ago, and now have newer trains with continuous 'open' style from one end to the other - no doors between carriages. The seats are also very firm, and not bouncy at all :(

Hey-o! You went through the new entrance at Leeds!

Need to try that service

I took it back from traveling around northern Europe by train. You really notice the ride quality

Nice videos bro, very impressive

The breakfast looks delicious 😋 🥞

#teambrownsauce Paul, you might want to edit the video description as it still contains the details of your previous video, the CityJet flight.

Nice train ride👍

FINALLY YES DO KORE OF THESE

Forgive me if I disagree the weather made your vid seem iconic well done!

Another great trip Paul.

Great video. You need to do the night Riviera from Penzance to padd. They have just refurbed the coaches too.

I was very lucky to be stationed in Germany in the late sixties. I traveled everywhere by train. Fabulous. I would rather take the train than fly any day.

Amazing shot @3:48.

Excellent that you’ve taken the time to talk about the railways, perhaps a review of southern trains might provoke some debate. The news and passenger feedback seems unendingly from. Thanks for the vid

@agent_605

5 жыл бұрын

Paul does InterCity journeys, Southern are a commuter service

Great Video! Its a shame about the poor ride quality! usually HST MK3 coaches are lovely and smooth, must have been a fault such as a wheel flat. Could have even been because you were near the end of the consist or even just rough track. Ive never travelled with East Midland trains but would love to in the future.

@juliettebravosprteam4072

5 жыл бұрын

I took an EMT class 222 Meridian between Sheffield and it was poor ride quality, probably the tracks. I was sat in first class near the front though but that usually doesn’t affect anything? Heard the Midlands Mainline is getting renovations anyhow.

@CS_22

4 жыл бұрын

Juliette Bravo PR / Moderator 222’s are a lot more comfy to the HSTs on the MML, but it’s not the trains issues, it’s the track quality.

@leonblittle226

4 жыл бұрын

It's the track, when a mk3 is riding rough like that you know it's overdue for relaying and probably should have been under a TSR

Not just the Leeds train that is HST, Been on a few of them from Derby to London, that start at Sheffield, that was HST. Also, the East Midlands trains timetable, downloadable from the EMT website, shows which train it will be. As for ride quality, they aren't as bad as some trains, but not a patch on the newer EMT trains. The last one I went on was a nice smooth ride, dunno if it had anything to do with the recent upgrades along the Leicester to London line, run by EMT.

Some turbulence on this trip!

They've stopped stocking the macaroons shown at 6:05. They were my favourite!

Class 43!!!!! Best loco ever built!!!!

Very nice!

Very nice EMR HST ride I hear they are due to be withdrawn in next few years so I best hurry to try this out the breakfast service looks good shame about the ride quality among other things your videos are very informative and provide the human touch that others don't often do and stay safe

Back when I used to go to London a lot on business, if it was near the end of the week I'd stay a couple extra days and visit my aunt near Shrewsbury. Great weekend breakfasts on Wrexham and Shropshire. Oh W&S you were too good for this world.

I can understand your annoyance at the noisy hen party. I try to pick the quiet coach on a long train journey, but it often ends up as anything but quiet.

As a wholesome school day week/weekend traveler ‘i always travel to work on this mode and tbh its commuters week and non at weekend & I’m soo happy for them.... my only wish is a better service at weekends ie Sunday as people are still unwell-a RGN :-)

Time wise VT East Coast being the obvious favourite, but as you said Paul, for price & Full Breakfast Service offered, EMT is a most viable option! Giving that Hen Party a Free upgrade, bit of a mistake by onboard staff, would've thought?

Breakfast on a Saturday seems like a smart idea.

please do the Dublin-Cork First Class Review, Irelands busiest intercity route and it’s MK4 too.

Great travel report and video as usual! As a student currently at Loughborough I travel on EMT very frequently- first class fares can be picked up for peanuts with a Railcard if booked in advance. EMT are one of the few operators who specify which rolling stock you’ll get with each service (either the HST or Meridian) on their downloadable timetables - I always try and get an HST, purely as the first class is much more comfortable and the meridians are unbelievably loud, also shaking you to bits if your sat over the engines. Obviously HST’s don’t have this issue, but I would recommend trying to sit in the Centre of the MK3 coaches, not over the bogies. The ride is significantly better! The EMT MK3’s don’t seems to be as well damped as GWR’s? Although I’m not sure what they are doing with their MK3 stock in relation to the 2019 accessibility regulations - they’re not modifying them like cross country are, can anyone shed any light on this?

You're just about the first British person I've ever seen take a train from Leeds without hating on the station. I don't get why so many people don't like it. I mean, sure, it's kinda just a big barn and there are better looking stations; it's no St Pancras or Glasgow Central, but I've taken trains from it and it's totally fine.