Fawley Esso to Southampton Central - Hastings DEMU cab ride - 13 May 2017
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Fawley Forester, Part 3: Cab view from Fawley Esso to Southampton Central, filmed from our preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 13 May 2017, during the Fawley Forester railtour/charter.
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** BACK CAB AUDIO: Between 1:00 and 23:30 the soundtrack in this video is from the *back cab*: this means that you won't hear the horn or whistle, because the microphone is in a noisy cab 120 metres away from the front of the train; you also won't hear the driver's controls. From 23:30 to the end you will hear these things. The reason for doing this is that during those times there were two members of traincrew in the cab conversing.
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This video comprises parts of two different trips from this date - there were three return trips between Southampton and Fawley Esso on this outing. We start off with footage from trip 2, but that ends before we reached Southampton; we conclude with footage from trip 3 in which the driver was on his own in the cab (hence leading-cab audio available).
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In this video we cover 12 miles and 23 chains, first up the Fawley branch through the former station layout at Marchwood (still with signals and points for trains accessing the Marchwood Military Port), and then rejoining the South Western Main Line near Totton for the remaining distance into Southampton.
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Video footage, and audio from 23:30 onwards, is from an unattended unmonitored forward-facing cab-camera in motor coach 60118 Tunbridge Wells. Where back-cab audio is provided instead, this was simultaneously recorded in the rear cab, motor coach 60116 Mountfield, and accurately synchronised with the video.
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This outing began at Hastings and ran via Tonbridge and Redhill to Woking, and then via Winchester to Southampton and on to the Fawley branch. Three return trips were made between Southampton and Fawley; this is the outward leg of the first such trip. Part 1 of this mini-series covered the outward leg between Woking and Basingstoke, and Part 2 covered trip 1 from Southampton to Fawley Esso.
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0:00 - FAWLEY ESSO
3:33 - Hardley Halt disused station
6:12 - Frost Lane Level Crossing
7:45 - Hythe disused station
9:01 - School Road (Hythe) Level Crossing
10:18 - West Street Level Crossing
14:32 - Veals Lane Level Crossing
16:16 - Pumpfield Farm Level Crossing
17:00 - Junction with Marchwood Military Port branch
17:45 - Marchwood disused station
19:15 - Tavells Lane Level Crossing
20:39 - Trotts Lane Level Crossing
22:56 - Jacobs Gutter Lane Level Crossing
25:10 - End of the Fawley branch
29:35 - Rejoining the South Western Main Line
30:48 - TOTTON station
33:16 - Redbridge station
35:58 - Millbrook station
38:08 - SOUTHAMPTON CENTRAL station
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Video, soundtrack and captions © Copyright 2017-2018 Hastings Diesels Limited.
www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/
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Equipment: video (and its soundtrack, where present) by GoPro Hero3+ camera with suction-mount and extra batteries; rear-cab audio by Sony ECM-MS907 stereo electret microphone and Sony MiniDisc MZ-R30 recorder; still photo by Canon PowerShot S2 IS ‘bridge’ camera; video production by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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This outing began as a charter by Three Rivers Community Rail Partnership, which seeks to promote and improve public transport in the Southampton area: www.threeriversrail.com/
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ERRATUM: At 0:34 the motor coach from whose back cab the audio was recorded should show "60116 Mountfield".
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Reminder: the soundtrack on this video, from 1:00 to 23:30, is recorded in the back cab. You won't hear whistles, horns, or the driver's controls from there.
@williamcarrington3474
5 жыл бұрын
Very relaxing to watch , quite therapuetic in fact , many thanks . Marchwood brings back memories of boarding a LSL , and sailing to Cyprus , transfer onto HMS Hermes and helicoptered to Sardinia , 1970's .
@SDH-g8g
5 жыл бұрын
No doubt in response to all the smart arses who were moaning that the driver wasn't using the horn!
@hastingsdiesels
5 жыл бұрын
@@SDH-g8g Oh yes. :-|
@chrispearce6024
4 жыл бұрын
Any more journeys on this line planned in the future? I am aware of a campaign to reinstate the line to Fawley to passengers.
@squarewheelsorguk
4 жыл бұрын
@@chrispearce6024 No plans for any leisure journeys anywhere just at the minute I'm afraid.
So loved these trains, was just sparing a thought for the driver at New Cross Gate who driving one of these kids had thrown a rock down from the bridge above, very tragic. The service to Hastings was detoured due to engineering works think it was around the Knockholt area so BR had to send the Hasting's trains the long way round which was a rare treat for cushion riders like myself. I remember having to speak with me dad at London Bridge box to assure him I was alright and I was a fair bit upset when they took the poor driver off by ambulance crew.
Thanks for the video and commentary in the corner.
Great footage! I was on the first run to Fawley. The second run shown here, I was one of the two filming/photographing at the Hythe West Street crossing, and then for the third run I was filming from the bridge between West Street and Jones Lane. A great experience to have been able to ride a thumper past by back garden, after having had 13 years of seeing and hearing the oil tanker trains trundling past, and always wanting to ride a train on that line. Thank you for making it possible!
@hastingsdiesels
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. If you paid on the train, that was me taking your fare too :)
Very nice videos. Trying to watch yours in order. Thanks for sharing. Safe travels ahead for you. God bless
Even better than the outward trip, thank you for a very informative ride. Have subbed and look forward to many more of these. Cheers!
@hastingsdiesels
3 жыл бұрын
Again thanks. I look forward to finding time to make more of these, I have plenty of footage 'in the can' but lack the large amounts of available time that creating the videos hoovers up!
Great video. Keep up the good work. Super way to tour England from the comfort of my home in Galway!
Once again a well presented and documented video. Thank you.
Aamazing footage, love this, thanks for sharing
Been looking forward to this many thanks.
Another Brilliant video!
Love these videos - thanks again
Great video. Enjoyed it immensely.
For a disused/lightly used line the track looks to be in great condition, fewer weeds than many mainlines. Shame its turned into one of those 'green tunnels' though as the views over the Solent must be good.
Great video enjoyed all the way from Australia. The permanent way seems in really good fettle for an infrequently used line.
I was on board for the 2nd round trip from Southampton to Fawley & Back including a couple of 1st for me, arriving eastbound from the west into platform 4 at Southampton Central and also the whole of the Fawley branch including both sides of the loop at Marchwood.
@hastingsdiesels
5 жыл бұрын
Excellent stuff, glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful video,love the journey thru the forest,Do many trains use the branch line?Many thanks cheers from bob in sydney australia.
@hastingsdiesels
5 жыл бұрын
I don't think many trains use the branch line - a few to Marchwood MOD but almost none beyond towards Fawley. Perhaps one day that will change...
Fantastic video thanks ......Will Fawley ever open again??? Will this branch stay open, I presume Network Rail Maintains the track and signals ....cheers
@hastingsdiesels
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Network Rail is responsible for the infrastructure. Whether the branch will stay open, and whether passenger trains will routinely come that way again, I don't know.
@williamcarrington3474
5 жыл бұрын
@@hastingsdiesels A really pleasant journey , thankyou . Will there be a "Santa Special " ?
@hastingsdiesels
5 жыл бұрын
We don't have any outings until April I'm afraid.
Is the signal frame at Marchwood in the building on the platform? Is it manned on a regular basis or does the signalman* come down when there's a train going down there? * sorry, sexist language
What’s the issue with having audio in the leading cab? Seen plenty of cab ride videos with audio. Is the driver having a top secret discussion or something ?
@hastingsdiesels
5 жыл бұрын
The issue arises when there are two members of traincrew in the cab. They will be talking, naturally enough, and they have a reasonable expectation of privacy. My camera is allowed there on the understanding that I don't publish these private conversations.
Does this ever go through Micheldever and Winchester stations at all?
@hastingsdiesels
3 жыл бұрын
We have come down the LSWR Main Line a number of times, yes - there will eventually be cab video of this too - it's likely that we'll be down that way again... one day, when things are easier.
@automix343
3 жыл бұрын
@@hastingsdiesels I look forward to it. I have been on a train to Winchester and going through Micheldever many times and often saw goods/freight trains roaring through both stations.
Is it a standard gauge line or broad gauge.
@hastingsdiesels
5 жыл бұрын
Standard gauge, just like our train.
Marchwood station doesn't look disused! 😂
@shaunfarrell7347
5 жыл бұрын
It was closed to passengers 14.2 1966,but still used for freight to this day,from a life long marchwood resident.
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England is so fucking beautiful compared to here. I so want to live there. I have British lineage. They should be forced to take me back since they forced my forebears here.
Great ride. Why not have the audio in the front instead of the back? Why is the driver so secretive on his conversations with the train staff? Must be a high profile meeting, something like that.
@hastingsdiesels
5 жыл бұрын
The issue arises when there are two members of traincrew in the cab. They will be talking, naturally enough, and they have a reasonable expectation of privacy. My camera is allowed there on the understanding that I don't publish these private conversations.
Women at 38:55 has that look of someone who is not impressed by the whole event.
@hastingsdiesels
5 жыл бұрын
She might just have been waiting for a normal train to Netley or somewhere
@williamcarrington3474
5 жыл бұрын
@@hastingsdiesels Netley once had a Military Hospital in the 1960's .
@gibbo9089
5 жыл бұрын
Thought she had hooves!