Great video, brings back some memories having spent my youth living in Spalding, thanks.

I nearly got dragged by my parents to live in this neck of the woods in 1987 when I was 13, at Heckington, near Sleaford. Sense prevailed, and we remain to this day at Sussex by the Sea !!!! Lovely vid as usual, gorgeous old Thumper....and Mountfield's turbo whistle just does it for me! Cheers guys !!

A line that I have never done. Many thanks for posting this.

Smashing video,what more can I say,thanks!

Left late, arrived early. Great work! Thanks as always for these excellent videos.

Excellent video...most professional.

Great video, I've really enjoyed the series. Look forward to more. Thanks for posting on KZread.

Great stuff, Guys - a splendid job as usual! Long may Ye continue!

thanks for that, a line I've never been over, Lincolnshire certainly is .. flat ... really flat ! but, great series of videos, thanks again.

@pwensor

4 жыл бұрын

We have great sunsets - no hills to get in the way !

Great video. Looking forward to the next instalment. Lot of stations closed on that section. Lack of use I suppose. Nice some have reopened though.

Amazing to think that route has been open for 170 years. You have to hand it to those Victorian engineers. Great series of videos many thanks..

the best as always

Yet another fabulous video Richard and Co. Watching this one,like others previously, in bits and pieces.

Thanks for all the markers. I used them to spin through after noting the on-screen comments.😃 Michael

Great video, very informative, wish others were as good as this

really enjoyed this lets have some more long journeys in the cab!!

Brilliant footage! I really enjoyed watching!

used to live near here worked in Spalding at Springfields show garden. Signed the petition to keep this line open in the 1980s

Now I’m not a train buff, but bloody loved this. Thankyou.

@hastingsdiesels

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, thank you!

Next time you travel by train north out of Peterborough if you look carefully in the grass between the fomer GNR and MR lines you can still see the boundary markers between the track bed of the 2 companies.

The five videos covering this run are brilliant. Sub-titles covering current rail operations, historic railway and other information, significant rail, road and water crossings and all stations identified. There are an awful lot of poor "Cab Ride" videos which just seem to have been uploaded completely unedited.

@hastingsdiesels

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you appreciate the effort. It does involve a lot of work and this can only happen as and when my own work & other projects allow, so the rest will follow 'in due course'!

Great sub titles. very good video

great video thanks

I'm glad you captioned former station locations otherwise I'd never known especially the way nature has reclaimed the stations and former ROWs.With all the closed stations it seems that the line was Beechinged before Beeching.

very informative video

Fantasic video

ps but thanks for the video, and fro putting in the notes on the historical sites. Kind of ironic you note the "Lincoln avoding line" just after the works going on for the Lincoln bypass motorway (:

Do love the extra info on stations and junctions but although you included spiral junction you didn't mention the closed line there.

29:31 the Turbo Conquering Mega Eagle international workshop of progress. thanks for the cabside view of it!

The landscape on this ride is strikingly similar to that of the Netherlands.

7:47 Pity about the divergence of the line from Werrington. I was looking forward to your comments on the 'racing ground' - Essendine, Little Bytham, etc., etc.!

brought up at Moulton , yes the M&GN line closed to passengers in February 1959, my cousin Sydney Dolton had to become a Shunter Guard as He was Just on Passenger trains before that at Spalding, He was Killed in a Shunting Accident in October that year,

Always wondered how elec trains go thru a washer. (Slowly, wearing thick rubber boots! LOL!). Surely it would be necessary to perodically clamber on the roof and scrub it clean, after the unit/loco has been switched off/isolated?

57:02 I have filmed a train from that bridge! The Potterhanworth Road Overbridge. Misspells the name on the bridge info sign too 😂

I'm very grateful for these cab view videos. The pictures are nice and stable and the captions with extra information are extremely useful. Is there a special anti-vibration mount in use here and are you considering getting hold of a 4k camera in the near future?

@hastingsdiesels

6 жыл бұрын

No anti-vibration mount, just well and truly suctioned to the inside of the windscreen. I hadn't planned to buy a 4k camera, the sheer quantity of data from this HD camera is plenty to be going on with...! (and takes plenty of processing power to edit)

Any idea when the Lincoln to Cleethorpes section will be uploaded please? Really enjoying this run.

@hastingsdiesels

6 жыл бұрын

I wish I could give you a straight answer! "When I have time" is the truthful one, unhelpful as it may be. I'm only too well aware that I haven't finished even the outward portion of this yet. Too many things on my plate as ever!

Just wondering why the train does not stop at Spalding & Metheringham

@hastingsdiesels

4 жыл бұрын

Because it was a private outing from Hastings to Cleethorpes. If you seek a parallel, trains from London to Edinburgh don't stop at Chester-le-Street.

Great video but is there any chance we can get to ever see the next segment please.....in anticipation ....

@hastingsdiesels

6 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed! It's been far too long since I've had time to work on this material, and I only went and captured another 50GB of material yesterday... 😳 No promises but I am aware this journey needs its next segment preparing and publishing!

@simonprice8737

6 жыл бұрын

Hastings Diesels Ltd thank you..

@robinmoss5470

6 жыл бұрын

Very good and welcome news!

12:12 St James Deeping is actually incorrect, it should be Deeping St James. It was painted on the signal box in error years, ago but never removed.

@hastingsdiesels

4 жыл бұрын

The village nearby is called Deeping St James. The station was called St James Deeping and the level crossing still is.

@paulcaswell2813

4 жыл бұрын

The village of Deeping St James contained (at least until the 1950s) evidence of private fields behind the houses going back to the middle ages - in some cases going back to 1086. Proper smallholdings from long before 'enclosure' laws which gave us today's farmland. For further information, see Beresford and St Joseph 'Medieval England - an aerial survey' (Cambridge UP 1958) pp100-102. Sorry to be a bore!

@richardirvine1997

4 жыл бұрын

@@paulcaswell2813 Not a bore at all!!

Excellent video, pity no aws sounds, countryside started to look like the England I used to know at about 45 mins in when the hedgerows started to appear instead of impresions & marks where they used to be lol

@TheSpotify95

5 жыл бұрын

The AWS sounds are on some of the other videos that have front cab audio. This one has rear cab audio so you won't get the AWS.

Can anyone tell me is this part of the railway line I used from 1947 until 1959 to go from London (Kings X) to Grimsby Town via Peterborough /Spalding/Lough/Grimsby Town.

@hastingsdiesels

6 жыл бұрын

From Peterborough to Spalding it would be, yes. But after Spalding to get to *Louth* you would have gone straight on to Boston, and from there onward to Grimsby - both of those sections are closed and dismantled, apart from a section from Boston as far as the former junction with the (still open) line to Skegness.

Very interesting video. Is it possible to display actual speed?

@hastingsdiesels

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. No, not easily. You could work it out for yourself if you were interested though! Find the mileages on www.dropbox.com/sh/462ppk6kr8uywz6/AABHhlr_BfbfcURJIH7VuWWia?dl=0 for the locations between which you wish to check the speed (mileages are given in miles & chains, there's 80 chains per mile), then see how long it takes the train to pass between those points. Voila!

Why did they route on the down fast when they could’ve put you straight into the (not sure of name) track to Spalding just north of the station?

@hastingsdiesels

4 жыл бұрын

Is this Peterborough you're asking about? See the annotated Sectional Appendix (outward portion), there's a link in the Description; turn to pages 53 to 55 of the PDF. The only way we could have avoided the Down Fast would have been to have crossed over before Peterborough and gone 'wrong road' via platforms 1/2/3 and continued 'wrong road' on the Up Slow for nearly 3 miles... which would have been much worse for line-capacity than just running us down the Down Fast.

@jasonlee3247

4 жыл бұрын

Hastings Diesels Ltd at 1:36 there’s a sequence of points that cross to the Spalding line, seems a quicker way across unless there’s an express due I guess.

@hastingsdiesels

4 жыл бұрын

This would still have involved proceeding 'wrong road' for quite some distance - and as you'll see there were *two* expresses due on the Up which we were booked to wait for.

Lol, That’s me at the crossing at 43:23.

@edwardharriss1463

5 жыл бұрын

Heh, video overlap

@swall219

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah it looks like you wanna cross

Nice English countryside ride.

Great vid, but I bet the drivers of this route hate doing this run...miles and miles of flat straight line...I think I would end up being hypnotised staring into the distant point.

@uhegbu

6 жыл бұрын

Quite surprised that Spalding had seven stations in its formative years.

@nlo114

6 жыл бұрын

Possibly right there; what it lacks in features, it makes up for in, erm, er, foot-crossings and ditches.

Make Spalding Great Again.

look carefully on the left ..... for what? must be missing something :)

@hastingsdiesels

5 жыл бұрын

Whereabouts please?

@yorkshirefazer

5 жыл бұрын

47:30 guess it must be something to do with the properties on the left before the bridge, but can't make anything out.

@hastingsdiesels

5 жыл бұрын

It's to encourage you to spot the remains of Digby disused station which is captioned immediately after this. The remains of the station are glimpsed only for a fraction of a second between the trees.

I worked the gate box at Littleworth in the 90s the oak gates, under road rack, interlock and distant signal all suffered from the cold. I was nearly killed twice with idiot drivers trying to drive through whilst I was pushing them shut!

@muzmason3064

2 жыл бұрын

Having watched the film wow what a difference 30 years makes! From an old Lever frame box, coal fired heat and armchair with a lamp man to this no more saluting HRH the QM by the side of the track, it was far more desolate in those days, I switched over to the ECML at Offord Cluney so I could get 3 shift and overtime......biggest mistake I ever made ☹

Great video,I cannot understand why the railway company's don't sell off all disused sidings,such a shame to see them not being used

@robinmoss5470

6 жыл бұрын

A lot have been sold off over the years. Some in strategic locations are held back in case they are ever needed again for railway use.

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

6 жыл бұрын

Philip Taylor why should Network Rail retain, and pay for, what they no longer need?

@70humdinger94

6 жыл бұрын

I've wondered why the disused sidings (many of which look to have been out of service for decades) don't have the rails/ties (sleepers) out so the material can be recycled for re-use?

@SynchroScore

6 жыл бұрын

Just in case they might be needed again. And besides, it costs money to tear up track, and costs nothing to leave it in place.

@phillee6993

5 жыл бұрын

A note about sidings being used again, look at broxbourne plans are if cross rail 2 get made to use sidings at broxbourne for it terminus or to allow increase platforms.

What class it it ?

@hastingsdiesels

6 жыл бұрын

Our train is considered by TOPS to be Class 201. The Hastings DEMUs were Class 201, 202 and 203 during their use in BR days.

It would have been easy for the fireman in steam days

I have never been over this route, so I did watch it all the way through. I'm sure it was a bit more interesting in steam days, with mechanical boxes and a few more stations and active junctions, but I have to say, that has to be THE most boring section of track in the country. It must be, what, 60 + miles with just two stations of note (and on the Sleaford avoider, you miss one of those!). And in all that time, after passing Werrington Jcn - I can't remember seeing you pass a single train. (Did I fall asleep?) Yet the p-way looks in very good nick and the line speed must be what, 70 or 75 mph? I have to say, I would never have recognised Peterborough. It looks like it's out in the country and I was looking out for the site of New England shed, but there seemed to be nothing there.

@hastingsdiesels

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it is over 54 miles and much of it is relatively featureless. I only brought the footage to you, so am not responsible for how interesting you find it. ;) Yes, once past Werrington there's an oncoming train just before Spalding if I recall. And agreed, where we used to have bypasses for railways, now we have bypasses for roads. :-(

Nice video, obligatory "choo choo m***********!"