A Train Drivers View. Boston - Skegness, Lincs UK.

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4 жыл бұрын

A Drivers Eye View From Boston - Skegness in Lincolnshire, UK. Route of the Jolly Fisherman trains from the 1980's. On a Perfect Summer Sunday with the Sun shining and fluffy white clouds dotting across a lovely azure blue sky.
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@tango6nf477 4 жыл бұрын

The length of the platforms at Skegness show how in years gone how busy the station was with "specials" arriving from all over the midlands (mainly) especially on bank holidays. It is sad that rail travel today is so expensive as it could tempt people back if the ticket prices were reduced, a big part of the fun for me when I was a kid was the train journey itself.

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Certainly were. Summer Saturdays would see train after train of 10 vehicles or more.

@jontownsend8090 4 жыл бұрын

Great stretch of railway, i use this occasionally. It would be nice to see it rebuilt from Firsby up to Louth and Grimsby. Thanks for sharing.

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Your welcome.

@robertcoleman4861 4 жыл бұрын

A great journey in the beautiful countryside cheer's bob.

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@bodieofci5418 4 жыл бұрын

Lots of memories of this train journey. Thanks :)

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@michaelbutler3552 4 жыл бұрын

To think this was once a proper main line, two Cleethorpes - Kings Cross trains a day, endless summer weekend excursions to Skegness & Mablethorpe, evening fish trains. Yes I was there...so long ago.

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Certainly was.

@Bigbro28 4 жыл бұрын

A pleasant half-hour trip. Must be 60 years since my last visit to Skeggy. Thanks for sharing it. 🐨🇦🇺

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@TheClockwise770 4 ай бұрын

I loved this journey too around 1963-68 in the modern 2 coach DMU's of the day. I always tried to get the seat directly behind the driver. As I remember the journey seemed to take around 45 minutes then but of course there were at least 6 stops. Halcyon days

@robnewman6101 2 жыл бұрын

All Aboard. All Aboard.

@meijiturtle3814 3 жыл бұрын

An excellent video marred by its "musical" accompaniment. Much better to have the natural soundtrack.

@tonystinytrains1705 2 жыл бұрын

Straight and flat. Yes, straight and flat sums it up nicely!

@jayewaters3921 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant video, also gives a real insight to how flat the Fens are.

@robnewman6101 2 жыл бұрын

Enjoy the ride.

@ronaldseal5637 4 жыл бұрын

Love the ride, love the music.

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@robnewman6101 2 жыл бұрын

You're a really useful engine Thomas.

@ytxmak 4 жыл бұрын

What a beaut flick! Thanks I really liked it.

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@robnewman6101 2 жыл бұрын

Sir Topham Hatt the Railway Controller on the Island of Sodor.

@stephendark7888 4 жыл бұрын

Lovely video, great selection of music.

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

@train_paul9478 4 жыл бұрын

RailMart hey there, great video, I wanted to ask can I use this footage again for a drivers eye view documentary for my channel between Barton-on-Humber to Cleethorpes. If you allow me to do so, your name will be featured within the credits if you allow me to use your video and put a link in to your channel. It is of course your choice but it would be a great opportunity. Let me know if it okay for you, look forward to hearing for you ☺️

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

@@train_paul9478 Hi. Thanks for the approach. I have started running this as a side part of my business, along with all the other work I do within the Rail industry. I am quite willing for you to use some footage but like any business it will however come with a fee. If you wish to discuss further let me know.

@train_paul9478 4 жыл бұрын

RailMart actually I’ll pass

@Jimmy-sy2xh 3 жыл бұрын

I like how he puts in writing all change at Skegness even tho this isn't a passenger train, when this train went through wainfleet this train passed a mirror showing DB.EWS Class 66, which traveling beyond boston on the skegness route can only mean its the track clearing train which is a pair of class 66's hauling 2 blue tank looking wagons in the middle. Still a good video never the less.

@RailMart 3 жыл бұрын

Yes it was an EWS 66. But no it wasn't a track clearing train, wrong time of year!

@johnmasters504 4 жыл бұрын

Great Video...

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the visit

@philipmadhatter4006 5 ай бұрын

Shame the carriage sidings in skeg and the turn table have all gone now

@Zerbey 2 жыл бұрын

Certainly brought back some memories, used to go to Skeg at least once every Summer when I was a kid in the 1980s on those awful old trains that smelled of old tobacco and goodness knows what. I only wish you'd kept the noise of the train instead of the music.

@superteacher1000 4 жыл бұрын

Nice video. Could you maybe add captions showing the locations of all the closed stations? Always makes me sad watching the bit where the lines curves to the right near to Firsby, thinking of how busy that junction must have been.

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion. I will take that forward.

@JohnWilson-mp7xh 2 жыл бұрын

Might be wrong but looks like the video is captioned "from the 1980s" but looking from the cab towards the station entrance the original station buildings are no longer there which were demolished around 2010

@RailMart 2 жыл бұрын

Nopr. Filmed in 2017

@greatbritishentertainmentl5636 4 жыл бұрын

Lovely trip across the waters cape lands of Lincolnshire into a rather "unloved" Skegness terminus station! If the platform edge white lines were painted that would brighten it up somewhat!

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately I cannot do much about the platforms.

@greatbritishentertainmentl5636 4 жыл бұрын

@@RailMart I wasn't directing my comments about the platforms at you, but the train company. Even a few flower hanging baskets here and there would cheer the station up, or perhaps Skegness is on its way out as a tourist destination which would be a shame?

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Yes. there is still I believe a best kept station award.

@kevinmothers904 4 ай бұрын

Coming soon, a £3.3 m improvement programme for Skegness Station in 2024!

@4376ED Жыл бұрын

I have viewed a lot of train rides, in England. It does not matter what part of the country we see. It just seems too me that all the houses are the same. It is as if England has book of houses, and builders just look in it, and decide , I think we will build number seven this time. Same red brick, same red tiled roof. Same pokey little semi. I know because I bought one in 1959. Things have not changed much since then.

@robdingwall03 4 жыл бұрын

Wow. Blue skies and blues. Any chance of the playlist? Awesome, thanks

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I have lots of footage. Just needs the editing time.

@RichardFelstead1949 4 жыл бұрын

Just found your channel and have subscribed. Living in Australia , I'm not familiar with UK locations so I use "Rail Map on Line" to follow the journey. Looking on RPOL , I see that there were a few junctions eg Fisby , but I couldn't see any evidence of same on this video. Yours in railways ,Richard..

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Knowing the railway line, they are there but they are very difficult to spot.

@goingnowherefastman 7 ай бұрын

Yo, Brother....why this music ?!

@smithylee1985 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video bit could of done with out music..... and more train sound

@RailMart 2 жыл бұрын

Noted

@robnewman6101 2 жыл бұрын

British Transport Police. Landsheriff.

@hornet1068 3 жыл бұрын

Isn't the part out of Boston the longest stretch of straight track in the UK?

@chrismaybank1711 2 жыл бұрын

Think that is Ashford - Tonbridge section?

@nigelkthomas9501 4 жыл бұрын

What was this recorded from? And the Barton-Cleethorpes video (comments not possible). That didn’t stop anywhere?

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Class 66 loco

@nigelkthomas9501 4 жыл бұрын

RailMart What was the reason for that journey (If you don’t mind me asking).

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

@@nigelkthomas9501 Driver training.

@richardpettet9996 4 жыл бұрын

Blimey loads of crossing of all sorts, no overbridges even semophores.

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Proper old school Railway

@dejazO0 3 жыл бұрын

can i use it in my videos?

@RailMart 3 жыл бұрын

E-mail info@railmart.co.uk for details.

@martinrosenberg7490 3 жыл бұрын

Ausgezeichnet, ein schönes Video, danke!!. Aber ich bevorzuge den Klang des Zuges, nicht die Musik

@malcolmelliott1876 3 жыл бұрын

great video - pity you dont have Boston to Nottingham as well. Understand why you cant have the real audio.

@RailMart 3 жыл бұрын

I have Grantham - Skegness filmed both ways. Will add it to the list for processing.

@malcolmelliott1876 3 жыл бұрын

@@RailMart wonderful... will watchout for it. :-)

@bigcasey4143 4 жыл бұрын

Why on earth do you think you're enhancing this video my adding music to it??? lovely video, apart from said music...

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately this was a management decision not to record in cab sound. You have the option of turning off sound. I have an full explanation as to why in my next video.

@bigcasey4143 4 жыл бұрын

@@RailMart hi, thanks for your response. I spent 40 years on railway in UK ... 5 as a driver's assistant & 35 as a train driver before retirement... So the sounds of the traction motors & wheels grinding against the rails on curves is what I was used to... And besides, we definitely weren't allowed to have music of any description in the cab. I don't really miss the job either...

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

I love the industry. Only 34 years myself. At the time of the videos GDPR legislation was just coming around the corner and no one wanted to leave themselves open legally to be a test case. There was an awful amount of paranoia amongst HR managers.

@bigcasey4143 4 жыл бұрын

@@RailMart No one at the various companies I found myself working for was willing to allow anyone to take in cab videos, unless they were done by themselves for driver training, foliage concerns, etc. I suspect anyone caught would have been dismissed...

@onthegoldenline 4 жыл бұрын

This is England.

@RailMart 4 жыл бұрын

The best of.

@briannash8035 4 жыл бұрын

A very good quality video, would have been even better with train audio rather than the awful music!

@ianeccles111 3 ай бұрын

Must be boring being a driver on that line, flat as a pancake, I come from up north, we have structures called hills and mountains. The line could do with a few curves to stop the driver nodding off.

@seankirby2580 3 жыл бұрын

This is the trouble with train journeys. Ambling along at 20mph on a line that could easily support 60mph. Why?

@RailMart 3 жыл бұрын

It is doing up to 60 Mph. It just doesn't feel like it at times. It was also following an all stations passenger service, so no point in rushing.

@seankirby2580 3 жыл бұрын

@@RailMart I've used the journey occasionally. Up to 60mph includes what I wrote. The speed limit signs show 20mph and that is what the train was doing. Most people have a life, and don't want to dawdle around at 20mph.

@SirReginaldBlomfield1234 2 жыл бұрын

It's not 20 MPH all the way from Boston to Skegvegas, but take Firsby curve at more than the posted speed of 25 mph and you'll end up arse over tit.