I've only just discovered this channel and would like to say a sincere thanks for such well presented videos. The commentary, historical & curent information along with the additional shots of the train itself are all excellent, making the videos a joy to watch. Thank you.

Birmingham New Street to Dudley Port was part of my commute for many years. And still I learned some things from this video. The production was great. Dudley Port low level is likely to have a new life as part of the Midland Metro extension

Well presented and researched particularly with reference to canals and motorways. They are my main interest. The old and the new.

Thanks great footage and loads of info! I lived very close to the line, between Gailey (worked at the Spread Eagle for a year) and Penkridge. We used to walk along the Huntington colliery line. As a kid I used to watch the 8F steam locos pulling dark red coaches (or was it freight) enveloped in thick clouds of smoke as I did the washing up.

A great drivers eye view from Birmingham to Liverpool hope you do more drivers eye views in the future 🖒☺

Thank you for a really awesome video. Cannot fault it except it is a shame that more couldn't be done to keep the front window clearer of the inevitable collection of squashed bugs. Thanks again.

Hello from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil! Excellent video, very well produced and much informative. I am an enthusiast of British trains and railways since 1973. Thank you for sharing this work. All the best!

@hughmnyks

2 ай бұрын

Olá Salvador. Eu costumava assistir os trens a vapor rodando nesta linha quando eu era menino. Eu sempre sonhei em ir para o exterior, mas nunca imaginei naquela epoca que tocaria samba reggae no carnaval de Salvador (em '96 e '98). Saudades.

Brilliant! Really well put together especially with all the fascinating information provided as well, subscriber! Look forward to any any new Films. Eddie🤓👍

Thanks for lovely scenery & professional narrated video, takes me back to my youth when I was last in your beautiful country, 26 years ago. Incidentally my late paternal grandparents were from Liverpool, I shall continue to listen carefully with your video. Greetings from New Zealand.😎👌👍

Very impressed. A very well made video, certainly to professional standards. Great commentary and external views make this a really interesting ride. A lovely way to spend the afternoon watching this.

Amazing attention to detail and so much effort! Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work

Thank you for producing such a high quality video, so informative and interesting to watch. Especially thought the line footage and shots of the train passing was very clever and superbly edited. Looking forward to watching more of your videos if they re such to this high quality !!!

A very enjoyable cab ride with excellent commentary. Many thanks for sharing.

Spot-on sound, very exciting, great work

great train site my friend great P.R job on this trip really enjoyed what you where saying. Can't wait for more from you

Nostalgic! Used New Street for many years travelling to Glasgow & Edinburgh. And I used to walk the Birmingham canal walkways frequently from home. I live abroad now but visit Birmingham often. You have kept this vid very informative. Great work. And your voice is fabulous!

Another beaut video. Good on ya. Watching this is a great to pass the time during a hard lock-down in Sydney.🐨🇦🇺

Having left the UK some 55 years ago, I am in awe at the progbress made by Network Rail and others. The commentary, history and geography lessons leave me absolutely gob smacked. And this cmes from from an ex pat who has not seen a train or had the opportunity to ride in one for at least FOUR years. Thanks Paul.

Very enjoyable and informative, one of the best I have seen of cabrides

Great video and brilliant info. very enjoyable thank you.

Very nice video. And thanks for the very informative commentaries. Side shots are very appropriate. Thanks again.

Great video; grat commentary and lovely run-by clips - many thanks (from abroad!)

Superb Sunday afternoon entertainment, thank you.

Outstanding video and info too. Thanks

Great video and do like the history of the line. Look forward to future presentations.

Really excellently assembled video. Better than a movie.

Excellent! Thank you!

Excellent work!!!! This is possibly a professional standard production, in as much that it is comparable with productions from the likes of Video 125. Have now subscribed. More of this please!

Great Video, thank you! 👍

A truly excellent, exceptional vid

Brilliant! Usually videos like this have no sound so I really appreciate the commentary

I like the way you interspersed the cab view with exterior shots. Very professional video.

I'm liking these shows I like the commentary because you point out different landmarks scenery used & disused railway lines . Like for example the old Dudley to Dudley railway line which goes on the parkhurst viaduct.

Very good, thanks for making this excellent video 👍

Great video Paul. Keep it up man 👍👍👍

Excellent production and very professional - definitely comparable to other paid for products. Look forward to seeing more in the future

thanks mate . excellent ride .

Awesome job. Very information, and aside from the Class 67 error (it was a Class 70) at Runcorn, you did a fantastic job with the research. Keep 'em coming!

@glenndaniels5219

Жыл бұрын

Another error just before Crewe, was the mentioning of a mk2 carriage. When it was actually a mk3. Nevertheless, all very enjoyable to watch 👍

Very informative as always

I love this video. I'm from liverpool and the information in this is...well Amazing really I learned alot since I'm a student interested in becoming a train driver. Keep up the good work Eddie 👊☺️

Excellent video, nice to see external views of the line and not just a cab ride, the information provided in the commentary is amazing, nice to see people going the extra mile to inform us of our heritage.

Great video Paul and some interesting commentary 👍

Remarkable video and comments. I'm always impressed by how the builders of those lines did a huge work, like it's shown int he last minutes of the trip. It's a kind of Piranesian urban landscape here…Only to be found in UK, I think

Excellent video. I've just discovered this.

….hmmmnn… people refer to the cuts made by “Beeching” (c 1963/4). The much maligned doctor didn’t clise anything - Alec Douglas-Home’s conservative and subsequently Harold Wilson’s labour governments did the hatchet job! Beeching only made recommendations based on line foot-fall & revenue.

A splendidly informative and enjoyable video. It defeats me how drivers can stand that incessant buzzing sound!

Awesome 👍👍

great video

The original shopping centre above BHM was called The Pallasades prior to the station refurbishment and renamed Grand Central after it reopened. Part of the multistory car park above the station in Pallasades days got taken out to produced the more open, light main concourse area.

Weekend movie sorted! ❤️

Traingeek Oscar nomination!

Paul, many thanks to your team and of course you for so much pleasure. 🏳‍🌈

Absolutely love it well done I can't fault it can you do one from Waterloo to Weymouth in Dorset but as for this its a big thumbs up 💯 percent

Excellent video, and well produced. As others have said, it's quite similar to a Video125 production

Very enjoyable, the commentary meant you did not miss anything by reading long texts. A small detail missing liverpool central station was mentioned but not liverpool exchange station.

Excellent video. i never get tired of watching the almost Gothic approach into Liverpool from Edge hill. all carved out by shovels and a bit of dynamite ..a tribute to Victorian Engineers.

@simonf8902

2 жыл бұрын

All true. Except dynamite wasn’t invented till 1867. They used black powder. Aka gunpowder. And a lot of man and horsepower.

@peterwhitaker4038

2 жыл бұрын

@@simonf8902 I knew I should have listened more in school during 'history of explosive devices!'

@simonf8902

2 жыл бұрын

@@peterwhitaker4038 we made various explosives. Quite successful till we demolished the science block.

@peterwhitaker4038

2 жыл бұрын

@@simonf8902 just thinking about George Stephenson's famous Loco 'Rocket'....how did he know what a Rocket was in 1830?

@simonf8902

2 жыл бұрын

@@peterwhitaker4038 correct. He was the first man to launch a locomotive into space. Actually rockets have been around as weapons since mediaeval Chinese times !

Should've shown an exterior shot of the arch viaduct at 1:11.

So a road called Penny Lane. I do not have to tell you this famous road. That tune springs to mind even though I was not born in the 1960s. I once went to Liverpool in 2004 with my father on a Pendolino under the Virgin trains banner from London Euston when my sister studied in Liverpool.

I grew up a stone’s throw from Dudley Port.

Great video. Can you please do Birmingham to Edinburgh/Glasgow or Birmingham to Newcastle next. Many thanks.

I would Love to see my Local Train Journey, Redditch to Four Oaks I think it is. It goes through Kings Norton and Selly Oak etc.

I like this Barron Hatherton.!🤣! That's how to play the game with BR eh.!!!.

Good but shame about the windscreen dirty

Hi Paul, i have a question about driving a train is how the drivers know whens the train arrive at a station?

Like a couple of previous comments, I’ve recently stumbled across your channel. And, thank you for an easy to watch, informative and interesting video. Especially here in Australia, as I model BR, and small things like trackside views help to build something that’s reasonably accurate!

Excellent video, with nice and useful comments. Two very minor points: the branch doesn't go to Winsford & Over (CLC) but to Over & Wharton (LNWR). Also, the CLC included the Great Central as well as the Midland and Great Northern.

The Beatles will always remain synonymous with Liverpool and are still one THE most respected rock bands of all time with only in recent years losing their No 1 spot to Queen.

Briljant!

I can't believe the amount of rolling stock still in London Midland livery.

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Don't forget Liverpool Exchange station ..

Spotted 89001 in Soho Depot

hi paul euer GB gefellt me mache weiter so goode movies

You make several references to Birmingham canal, but there are several different canals.

Interesting: all outside shots done 2-3 mos later.

This is professional quality. I preferred this to video125 productions. I've signed this route for 18 months as a SC and I still learned a lot, especially between stops which we don't cover that much off in our training. Weird to think I could have been the SC on this trip, but the timing of the TFW 158 near Coseley suggests this was filmed on the 12:04, so I could have been the SC after wolverhampton as we swap SCs at wolverhampton on the 12:22 (couldn't see me on the platform though)

@Aidankiwi

2 жыл бұрын

I could easily agree as this is of equitable video quality, excellent narrative and in contrast to Video 125 it shows the entire route - not with chunks edited out.

I second the comment below

Great drivers eye view, how do you get narrators doing your videos because I know someone who can do some, don't mind me asking.

@train_paul9478

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I do the narrations myself now as I find it easier to do

@trainsimgamer0342

2 жыл бұрын

@@train_paul9478 OK, keep on making good drivers eye views.

I think it's true to state that Britain's railway operating companies do not own the rolling stock. They lease them from from three leasing companies. So you can see why our railways are so rubbish because both structures are not even British but owned by nationally run by eg. French, German, Italian and even Japanese countries. That is another reason our train fares are so expensive as we subsidise those countries rail travel.

@SteveW139

2 жыл бұрын

I’m afraid you’re right. One of the reasons for the fragmentation was that any strike would only affect a small part of the overall system.

15:09 TfW should be using 3 car bi-modal Stadler FLIRTS on this route. Instead they order crappy diesel CAF's.

Terase, As you are Paul's research assistant I will ask you. Which list is longer? The stations that are or were.❓🏳‍🌈

Legal

It said a Class 67 at Runcorn. It was a Class 70 🤣

@train_paul9478

2 жыл бұрын

I recognised that mistake also 💩

Wednesbury is pronounced Wensbury, much like the day.

Do you know what happened to rachel the angel of crewe

why do they leave old rails in the centre of high speed trains surely that is dangerous?

you pronounce Minshull as two separate words making it sound like mins hull when the word is one and when pronounced properly the end of the word sounds like shull hence Minshull Vernon

Oh sorry I mean paul 😖

Sorry, but it was a class 70 at Runcorn, not a 67.🙄🤭. Great video otherwise.

You sure like your dates Paul, Ha Ha .

Its a noisy cab!

At least Paul narrates. Others, like 'Trains, Trains, Trains' (surely a clever, unusual, original sounding name), just show a cab view with no narration or subtitles whatsoever. And what's worse: cab views already done by others! How lazy and boring!😔

Nevertheless, an excellent video - ta

You forgot to mention Exchange station n that Lime St is the oldest mainline terminus in the world