Lime St has to be one of the most imposing station approaches in the UK. The cutting from Edge Hill is a masterful piece of engineering.

@Vikkin1218

4 жыл бұрын

It does look stunning, do we know why the speed restriction?

@wilsonator2008

4 жыл бұрын

Wanting to go to Liverpool after all the Coronavirus stuff dies down and look at the merseyrail network, not been to Liverpool in 2 years or so currently so saving up for the train journey over there.

@GuyKenward

4 жыл бұрын

Josh Wilson its really good here there is a bridge outside of speke great for vids and photos

@kevinkibble8342

3 жыл бұрын

It's very similar to the northern approach to Sheffield, with all the tunnels and trenches.

Your videos are superb, thank you for sharing them with us all. I also like the non music, please just leave the audio sounds in as I love to hear the flange squeal and other associated noises, it's all part of the railway experience.

@johnwrigjt8658

4 жыл бұрын

You made me home sick. This was the last rail journey I had as a 15year old headed for a new life in Canada. Thankyou John G.

As a person who works on the railway I do take for granted how beautiful some of the areas we get to see are

My parents live in Runcorn and I am currently in Bournemouth. I haven't been to Runcorn for a year due to the pandemic, but this makes me feel like I'm home in Runcorn whilst being at home in Bournemouth. It's truly marvellous. Thankyou so much :-)

The approach to Lime Street must be the 8th Wonder of the World!

Wow ! As a Beatles fan you can imagine how I feel watching these images . Very emotional for me that never could to visit there . I loved it , the names of stations and others informations . Thank you so much .

Fascinating, the complex engineering work on the approach to Lime Street.

@KrotowX

5 жыл бұрын

Sure. those tunnels for 4 trains are enormous.

@KrotowX

4 жыл бұрын

@북극곰 UK

@bulwinkle

4 жыл бұрын

@S R T you have heard of Google, right?

I love these real-time videos... so absolutely cathartic.

Great video many thanks. Incredible Edge Hill section, those Victorian engineers were amazing.

YES! I've been waiting for a driver's eye video for months now from you! Awesome videos! Look forward maybe to doing some of my own in the future.

Interesting video, brought tears to my eyes. I first did this trip in 1955 from Liverpool to London Euston and return to visit my aunt. The last time was in 1979. It's amazing how the original track has been upgraded to high speed. The original engineers knew what they were doing. Still the same mould and mildew in the Edge Hill cutting and Lime Street Station as I remember from years ago!

Great video,always loved the journey into LimeSt. My Dad was a driver in Liverpool and i got to ride in the cab as a kid a few times on this route :)

You're alive! Great video

Often wondered what you did after leaving Eastern Suburb’s RL Club. Great work; good, clear vision. Hope to see more of your work.

brilliant work, anyone who says otherwise didnt watch it! its nice to see (and hear!) the views and hear the sounds the driver gets when driving!

In my past experience as a student in UK, i always have high regards and respect for the then British Railway ( in the 1980s ). I wish i can travel to the UK. Thank you for your excellent videos.

Excellent video , many thanks for uploading, enjoyed it.

A brilliant video. Thank you very much for posting it on KZread

Do this trip on a daily basis, Liverpool's my home city. Thanks for uploading this

Love your videos even better with no stupid music or people talking in the background just the sounds in the cab of a train going about it's everyday 😂 business I love it well done, many thanks for sharing these wonderful scenic railway journeys from the drivers eye view? Very best wishes Roger.

Used to live overlooking the line at Mossley Hill, great to see the Edge Hill cutting and entry to Lime Street from driver's eye view

I love watching these videos at double speed setting!

Loved the arrival into Lime Street under the arch!

fantastic video. thank you from france.in october i would have a great pleasure to see this wonderful arrival at lime street during my next stay in liverpool ( google traduction) tres belle video.merci depuis la france.en octobre,j 'aurais le plaisir de voir cette impressionante arrivée a lime street lors de mon prochain sejour a liverpool

I must’ve done this trip thousands upon thousands of times - but never from the cab POV. Wonderful - and thanks everso for the upload. AND for gettingb id of a silly muzak track.

Great video Ben. I would think that Lime Street would be the favorite destination for any train buffs.

Very good video. Nice to know where we were going, as I live in the south.

A really good quality video without music - thank you! Like many people who have commented I can recall the Crewe - Lime Street journey from many years ago and it is great to see it 'from the front'.

Great video. Really enjoyed.

Rather apt that I have admonished you today (20/05/2020) about music on your 'Sutton to Selhurst' video from 2016, then up pops this one ! There is nothing 'half arsed' about the audio on this video, Ben, you are back to your usual excellent self.

Well said...too many unappreciative people who think they can just demand things

@paulanderson79

5 жыл бұрын

I am in complete agreement. KZread seems to host a lot of unpleasant individuals.

@lonewolfgeoff

5 жыл бұрын

well i personally think you did very well with this 😊 these people on youtube who dont appreciate good work need their heads looking at! at least us folks who appreciate your work give you credit for it! 😊👍🏻

@Drone3774

4 жыл бұрын

paulanderson79 welcome to the internet 😂😂

so relaxing to watch this, while in bed. I just wish there there was a full length london to scotland video, they are great to fall to sleep watching to see how far i can get (there is absolutely nothing boring about these videos, i love them. In fact i would have loved to have been a train driver, but it just never happened for one reason or another.

Great video, thanks for the upload

Awesome video mate. Lovely work 👌🏽

Watching these films always makes me feel that humanity has disappeared,hardly a soul to be seen,even working by the tracks. Great way to travel,beautiful countryside,relaxing atmosphere,and there in half an hour!

Brilliant view going over the Runcorn Bridge!

i' m glad i found your channel thx

I love train rides! I once went to Liverpool on a train. This video makes me nostalgic of that!

Another great video!

They are YOUR videos so you can do what you like to them for the publics entertainment. They have no right to judge or be critical or even demand that you do this/do that to them just to please their pathetic opinions. End of the day its also your job as well! So they can button it! As an agency rail worker I love watching your videos. Gives me more of an insight to lines I have worked on or on those that I hope to work on in the future. Keep em coming and ignore the haters!

phew. Thank you for the ride through the beautiful English countryside. Living in Australia I miss it

Amazing description

Outstanding balance

I see at 19mins 12s into the video as you pass the track workers the second one trips over & something like PPE flies onto the up line rail - A near miss accident! I passed train driver aptitude test twice but sadly could never get in to my dream job despite trying many times! Shows I'm sharp to notice this moment & what being a driver is all about - Good concentration & observation! Not easy to get shortlisted as so many apply for this awesome career! PS I knew Weaver Junction was a very fast set of points (used to me 70mph) but I see now 100mph for a Pendalino.. Mind boggling fast piece of engineering! Just sad most of the rest of the line into Liverpool is a slow 80mph! A bit stupid really if they can brilliantly engineer those points to 100mph but not the rest of the line upto Liverpool Parkway!

Very nice trip into Liverpool Lime Street station

"It's not perfect. Bite me". OK, arm, leg or arse? lol. Great video mate, just keep 'em coming. Cheers.

Remember once travelling down from Scotland to Hereford and stopping (on coach) at an under renovation Crewe to use their "facilities" - down into the main area - no trains, NO RAILS, literally deathly quiet - eerie as hell....

Another wonderful ride

Fantastic trip and video! You English railroadmen built long ago the railroad system (now completely degraded) of my state of São Paulo - Brazil: Santos - Jundiaí; Sorocabana, Noroeste, Cia Paulista, Mogiana...

Hi! Love your videos and I hope you may do some more - do you think you might be able to ? Best regards, Dana.

Love the video btw !!!! Best regards again, Dana.

My dad used to be a driver/fireman in the steam days. He worked for LMS, out of the Sutton Oak Sheds. Wish I could have been a train driver :)

Great stuff.

Whoaaaaaa Nelly this is fast 😮

Another bellter Thank you.

Great video. Have subscribed.

Thank you, great ! Seeing the Freightliner 66 whizz past made me think; when you first started driving, especially with fast closing speeds, is there a tendency to flinch as you 'meet' each other? I did just watching !

@MetalFan10101

3 жыл бұрын

I do the same when my girlfriend overtakes parked cars!

@arthurrytis6010

2 жыл бұрын

I normally flinched going through Linslade tunnel on the down fast. Especially with an 86 !

Great vid

Seems like a lot of track and OHL work has been done outside Lime St. since I was last there!

Excellent.

Simply a great video. Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Bob

Interesting to see the approach to Lime St. from the drivers cab. However deoes anyone remember the Royal Scots steam engines pulling the express trains uphill out of Lime St with a tank engine at the rear to give them some push?

top video mate

I think this is a great video

We are now arriving at Crewe. For passengers wishing to change for Wolverhampton... there is a Sports Direct opposite the station.

The oddity, for me as an American rail fan, is in the high speed sections, seeing full length ties, where several transit systems, and Amtrak's NE Corridor, there's a movement to using half ties in concrete bases. The rationale is that it stands up to higher speeds better, is quieter, plus lasts longer.

The sectional appendix is out of date (pdf version) is still showing as that platform at Lime St as out of use, last updated 9th April 18.

Liverpool Lime street to Crewe change platform for London Midland train to London Euston. took over 5 hours. I only had to wait 10 minutes even after changing platform, thats how slow the London Midland train was. Now I just get the Virgin train out of Lime street and get there without changing within 2 hours.

while watching these train videos and see a small little village in the countryside with a brick house close to the tracks, I say to myself "I wish I was living right there in that nice house"" :D

I like the looping of the soundtrack leaving Liv Sth Pkwy. You could make a good dance beat out of that

I’ll be signing part of this route in a few months. Don’t suppose you have one going the other way 😜

Five star coverage

I must admit, the journey from Crewe to Liverpool is a bit random, not sure how many people do that but great video all the same. Nice weather for it.

A Desiro 350/360(?) class EMU, I'm guessing, going off of that distinctive "car alarm" whine which can occasionally be heard, which I believe is produced by the units' AC traction motors.

@neilcrawford8303

4 жыл бұрын

It's a class 350. You can see the corridor connection to the left of the camera. 360s run out of London Liverpool Street out to Essex and beyond. They also operated the Heathrow Connect commuter services from Paddington.

@markcf83

4 жыл бұрын

Class 350 probably a London Midland one.

@RWL2012

2 жыл бұрын

it's a 350. would've been nice if he had put that in the title or description but yeah

29:222 just behind trees on the left is 1st station in world - sandstone steps for passengers still visable in cutting from sharp st and what was memphis st. off tunnel rd

No, Ben, I won't bite you. I prefer your cab chat to music, even if I can't decipher it. A great trip. On a visit to UK, I stayed at the nearby Adelphi.

It's always this impression of 19th century England when you come to the final miles (after 29:37), vaguely menacing, a kind of Piranese subterranean architecture, a perfect setting for a mean plot…

@ds1868

4 жыл бұрын

Let alone one of the finest pieces of engineering anywhere in the world.

Finally arrived at Liverpool Lime Street. Thank you Mr. Train Driver for the pleasant ride.

Nice vid,thanks ben cheer's bob.

It would have been great to see you current speed as well as speed limits in your videos. I am planning to become a train driver and it would provide me with an overview of how you are using brake at stations.

you should do a drivers eye view video from London liverpool street to shenfield on a class 345 train on the Great eastern mainline on the stopper

85mph junction onto Liverpool line. Nice😀👍

Crewe looks like an overgrown gardens nowadays. If I had to travel by train to Liverpool I would much rather be on a Desiro than one of those tilting mobile sewers.

28:31 is there a driver's eye view video of a Liverpool to Drax train?

Wow! It's been a long time, nice to see a new video. Is there more coming?

@beneliastrains

5 жыл бұрын

There will be!

@harveyjohndrew907

5 жыл бұрын

I'll look forward to them

Excellent presentation. All the info you add to your videos makes the experience that much more enjoyable, especially to someone like me who lives in New Zealand, and couldn't practically experience this any other way. The half-arsed efforts you have used to mute the audio worked very well, I think and **IN MY OPINION** (just trying to avoid the trolls there), works much better than adding music. People like Goeff Marshall do cab rides with all music, and again, *in my opinion* it's akin to buying a Kinder Surprise and finding there's no toy inside - the chocolate was nice, but you're missing something essential.... If I may, I would make one polite request - At places like Hartford Junction (9:08), it would be interesting for me to know which other railway lines the train is merging with. A quick Google search landed nothing of any immediate relevance, and as I have said, I live on the other side of the world and can't easily go to these places and find out. I fully realise that may be too much extra work, and you have every right to ignore me, but I thought I would at least politely ask. Many thanks for well-made, informative video.

@beneliastrains

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Joseph, thanks for your comments. I appreciate people don't want to listen to music when watching these videos - I am much the same, it's just a lot less effort to overlay music than it is to do as I've done here which is why people (including myself) do it/have done it in the past. I see your point about diverging junctions and in future videos I will see what I can do with regards to adding this information.

@josephkarl2061

5 жыл бұрын

@@beneliastrains Many thanks for the reply. I absolutely appreciate how much extra effort is required to silence the audio, and at least from my perspective, it is greatly appreciated. Again, many thanks for your efforts. Joseph.

@colbrazier

5 жыл бұрын

That seems to be a branch off the Stockport - Chester line

Great to see it from the front! Being a guard i only ever get to see it going backwards lol

@philnewton3096

5 жыл бұрын

Long may you atay on the train

Nice clip .

I thought the wavertree resignalling was supposed to increase linespeeds on this section? 80 seems quite low when you look at the track geometry

Im American and when I think of Liverpool I think of The Beatles. The guy who wrote "A Hard Day's Night" screenplay also wrote a television teleplay about Lime Street in Liverpool. Lime Street must be a major artery in Central Liverpool.

@Mortimer50145

5 жыл бұрын

Lime Street is a busy A road (main road) in Liverpool city centre. It is probably best known as the name of Liverpool's main railway station. goo.gl/maps/5oJdgnFQEKPXJdmh9 is the station front; spin road 90 degrees left or right to see the street. The big red logo on the front of the station (two parallel horizontal lines intersected by a zig-zag line) was the logo of the nationalised company British Rail which ran UK's railways from 1947 to the early 90s when the system was privatised; the old BR logo continues to be used, now by National Rail, the company that owns the track, signalling and most of the stations. Thinking of the Beatles, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Rigby_(statue) is a bronze statue in Stanley Street, a small insignificant street in the city centre, to the fictitious character. I hadn't realised until I looked it up on Wikipedia that was designed and made by the entertainer Tommy Steele.

That's quite the tumble from the maintenance worker at 19:09 hope they pulled out of that ok!

@iaspex1289

5 жыл бұрын

Face first, that's gotta hurt!

@martynd

5 жыл бұрын

Could of been worse, the helmet came off as well and bounced off the rail.

@roboftherock

5 жыл бұрын

Nope. helmet didn't come off. Looked like some rubbish, but helmet stayed put - as it had to.

@RogerDiotte

5 жыл бұрын

Good Catch!

Second viewing, thanks Ben.

Great video. I love these cab views, especially at the junctions where the perspective is completely different to that from a side window. A little question - where does the line from Manchester converge - was it Edge Hill Jn?

@extrude22

4 жыл бұрын

mountainrover There are 2 separate lines between Liverpool and Manchester. They both converge just before Liverpool South Parkway Station.

Love the video - ChrisGJ700 asked whether this was a class 350 EMU ? Can you please help us identify the unit filmed from ? Many thanks, and best regards, Dana.

@RWL2012

2 жыл бұрын

it's a 350.

One thing I noticed when you joined the DN Liverpool, there was no warning board for the 85. You seemed to slow to 85 only at the commencement board, how come?

Sad to see the APT sat there

To what train does the yellow "EPS" Permissible speed indicator refer? (Example at 9:40.) 125/110.

@beneliastrains

5 жыл бұрын

The higher speed applies to class 390 Pendolino trains and the lower speed applies to class 221 Tilting Super Voyager trains.

@beneliastrains

5 жыл бұрын

Though in the scenario at the time you mention, the EPS speed applies to both 221 and 390 trains and the standard 110 applies to all other passenger trains.

@pgchase4578043026

5 жыл бұрын

FourFoot What does "EPS" stand for? (Sorry I don't live in UK). Thanks.

@beneliastrains

5 жыл бұрын

@@pgchase4578043026 enhanced permissible speed

@stevies.1975

5 жыл бұрын

FourFoot I thought EPS applies to all tilt equipped stock?

Fourfoot Enjoyed video and your comment.

I have just arrived in London and this has convinced me to take the Virgin Pendolino to Liverpool during my spare time on this trip. Out of curiosity, are you able to advise the name of the yards on the left side as we approach Liverpool?

@AlwynMaynardLPL

4 жыл бұрын

Wavertree Sidings, I think.

Fantastic video do you know the date is was filmed please

@iaspex1289

5 жыл бұрын

Hiya Alan, this seems like it was quite recent because of the new Lime Street upgrade, so within a month.