Nice to see a UK Rail franchise are engaging with their customers without paranoia about hearing audio in the cab. Thank you GWR!

Most of these cab rides give the names of the various junctions passing from and to where! Just makes for more enjoyable experience.

I love these videos. Can happily sit watching them all day.

the smudge on the window directly between the rails looks like a funny little horse

Great Western should hire Dan Coffey to produce their promo videos. Dan's U-Tube videos are superb.

great video excellent quality thanks for your time and effort

I’m not a lifesaver but I am staying home and I am enjoying watching this video. 🐨🇦🇺

Great view and strangely mesmerising, loved seeing the four bridges in Purley from a different perspective and the new Reading flyover was awesome. Many thanks.

amazing video....superb cab view ❤🇮🇳love from india

Hi there, well we've been meandering with you for quite some time now and enjoying the journey, always so good to be out and about with you. The cab view is immersive and very relaxing I find. Anyway just wanted to drop by and say thank you.

Great video, thanks for posting it.

Thanks for the ride. As usual, the lines running hither, thither, and yon fascinate me.

I miss GWR trains so much. I used to commute frequently between Newbury and London during my visit to UK.

I wish that you would release a video for Penzance to Paddington! The only video out there with the full GWR route is from 80s in a Class 43 :(

8:43 My old High School is on the right and was a great place to watch trains "do the curve". I notice it's now where "old" meets "new"!

This is great, thank you. I was in London about 18 months ago, often took the GWR or TfL Rail into Paddington. This brings back good memories.

Most probably the last ever cab ride video along the GWML where the chimney of Didcot A power station is visible (around the 44 min mark) - it was demolished in Feb 2020.

Thanks Chris excellent station list

Great video, thanks for sharing !

Amazing Video, I'm track surveyor and sometimes my survey team takes poor quality pictures on track due to weather or night time. Track videos helped me many times to recognise and solve my surveying issues. Thanks again

Very good video, thank you very much!

Great way round. Liked the video.

Great video. Wow, right at the end that Henry vacuum near fell off the platform :-)

Haven’t been to Bristol for nearly a year, so had no idea this was gonna be non stop from Parkway! At Swindon I was surprised, Didcot less so but at Reading I was thinking when is he slowing down, he’ll overshoot the platforms by miles!

Very good driver eye view. You should post more of these as us train enthusiasts are at home during the lockdown. Well done GWR.

Very nice of you to do a cab ride GWR. Please feel very free to do some more. A very enjoyable trip.

Great video of the service you were on Paddington station is cool

Absolute Magic... Thank You My Friend...

Have a look at Don Coffey's videos. Lots of information, historical and geographic as well as about railway operation. You've got the visuals ok, but it needs what many posters are calling for as well.

Superb journey. Always wanted to see a driver's view as I've travelled the line so many times . Pity there was no information about passing stations and other points of interest such as signalling. Otherwise great video.

Great vid thanks very much for it. I hope that someday in the future we can do away with the eyesores of overhead wires.

Ausgezeichnet !!!. Ein gutes Video. Danke

counted 13 stations on the route with a stop at one , any info ?

1:55 is that one of them Pacer things still been used by GWR?

It’s so strange seeing all those people at Parkway, went to PAD on the train the other day and it was deserted, never thought I’d miss the busy trains but I do

Having viewed the entire run I have to repeat my previous comment that an all round good video really needs the information to make the experience an all round pleasurable and informative view, I was totally lost from beginning to end as to where we were, and the various indications to the driver other than the aws warnings, thanks for the ride.

A great production. Keep on doing so. Greetings from Germany. Immer gute Fahrt!

Definitely a trip to do when it gets back to normal. Non-stop through Reading! Very good.

incase anyone is wondering, this high speed train is running on Diesel power and the reason you can't hear the engines is because the Driver cab unit doesn't have a Diesel engine underneath it because they put the Pantograph on the Driving cab unit. the Diesel engines are mounted underneath the middle Coaches of the train.

Thank you for the share!

I would love to see more drivers eye videos if possible requested. I'm from the USA and I love watching trains on rails consistent with switches and far destinations. Thanks for sharing. Just giving my opinion.

More of these please. I love cab views.

Captions would be nice especially on such a historic line. You could take a lesson from Don Coffey, by far the best cab ride channel there is

Remember when it used to go to the right just before the bridge before Lawrence Hill? I do.. was like 2002 when I worked on the buffet cars!

How things have changed ! Travelled Parkway/Paddington for almost 10 years in the 80/90's.

I know this is a bit of an odd question but I’d appreciate if someone could answer. After the driver arrives at Paddington, Would he take a 2-3 hour break or just go to the other end of the train and get ready for a return trip to Bristol?

Enjoyable video, seeing it from the driver's view. Especially from Swindon though to Paddington, having worked out of Didcot P'way circa 2003, seeing places such as Challow or Moreton and Reading, working out of that P'way in 2004 with the Ultrasonic Rail Testing Team, I must have walked from Paddington to Reading during the year I based there.

Thanks GWR, great video. However you need to put some work into annotating the video - station stops, stations passed through, junction points, geographical points of interest along the way, etc.

Totally agree I have lived on the other side of the world for 50 years and a captioned video would be great

Thanks Mike for the info re the location of the floodlights at 5.00.

I did mancheter piccadlly to penzance once overnight ! it was a long ass journey and got to penzance at like 11 am ..from a start of early aftenoon in manchester! had a 2 hr wait at bristol parkway to catch the overnight sleeper from paddington to penzance lol .... to say i was not fresh as a daisy after a night sleeping under a table as we did't book a bunk / sleeper ws an understatement! was in the 90s though to go to a family wedding! ......i didn't think you get jet lag on a train lol ...although things have prob improved now ! ;) luckily i now live in Bristol 20 odd yrs later so not as far to travel to penzance or even london paddington thank god!..Also did bristol temple meads to edinburgh and that didn't take half as long ...set off early morning about 8 am and changed at birmingham was in Edinburgh by tea time! ..also did it straight through with cross country ..i gotta admit both were 1 st class and x country needs to up thier game as we noticed a marked diffence between them and virgin 1 st class on the change at birmingham ....x country after what we paid was pretty poor service and not good compaired to what we got on virgin at the time ....and charged the same for a ticket be it straight through or change ...and the journey back was awful as it was a sunday straight through with x contry so very little 1 st class service ect and didnt even get a decent meal ect after what we paid for a return ...i would never get x country again if i could avoid it! but there again we are stuck with the the train companies that provide the long distance journey and where they they can operate sadly ..mind you back in the day of BR i would of got a curled up sandwich in 1st class ....oh hang on i did with x country! lol ;)

"There are two ways of doing things: The Great Western way, or the wrong way. I'm Great Western, and...." "DON'T WE KNOW IT!!"

fantastic thank you, any chance you could do one from bristol to penzance?

Can you do Bristol TM to Penzance?

Just wondering what that alarm is sounding as the train approaches the stops? Never heard anything like that before. Proximity alarm?

Great video, it gives a good impression of speed. Pacer at 01:54. I need a ride on one of those before they're taken out of service. At 1:18:17 there's a 37 towing another train.

Can you do one via box tunnel?

Interesting seeing it from the cab. Would have been more enjoyable if it had put the station names on the screen.

Love the. Video 👍👍👍

Supposed to be new fsst service but speed restrictions most of the way also sounded like switched back to diesal power after Reading?

Lol!! Still have the same starting buzzer as they did on the old Bogcarts 🤪

Really good to see this - thanks. Surely ones for the future include Exeter to Plymouth, Plymouth to Penzance and the Cornish branch lines. Missing travelling and hope to be on board again soon!

I have been on this line today and I went via reading west towards Exeter st David's.

Schöne Tour von Bristol nach London.

A lovely journey but could you put in the bottom or top what station's we are passing! That was very relaxing to watch, looking forward to the next.

Nice journey. Could someone tell me which location has the floodlights on the left at 10 o'clock after 5.00 - thanks.

Disappointing that location names are not subtitled, I like to follow the route with mapping.

43.50 -44.20 passing through Steventon village with its 2 crossings and the bridge that was saved but very close to the overhead wires

Hi GWR, cool video! Would it be possible for you to do a Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour drivers eye view please?

Great video

What type of train is this ? Is it a bi-mode ? It was not going fast until it reached the overhead.

wonderful video, Greetings from France.

Ah, a quick fly past of my old station Reading. Several happy years working there before moving on to Newbury. My son now works at Paddington. It's a good job on the railways.

the camera must have great image stabilization as my journeys on that route are never that smooth

I heard yesterday that the Steventon bridge has been saved. Steventon is half-way between Bristol Temple Meads and London Paddington. In the future trains will be allowed to go over the level crossings in Steventon and under the bridge at 110 mph.

Does GWR switch to electric on the move

Yeah! The new timetable for TFL Rail (Aka Crossrail aka Elizabeth Line) to Reading!

Does anyone know why the overhead line structures on the Great Western are so heavy duty when compared to others around the UK and Europe?

What train it which he drives in

Is it me or does some of the new overhead catenary equipment look like some of the stuff you see on European mainlines?

3 things that i miss: stationnames, allowed speed and speedindicator, but further for me enough. I have seen only seen that part to Parkway; so can not say anything beyond 10 minutes yet! I have clocked that it is only 7,5 from Temple Meads to the first overhead wire pole. Surely that small part of track will also get electrification!?

Great opportunity to show the visual to us, where does it switch from diesel to electric at Parkway or between Temple Meads and Parkway

Is this train diesel or electric because when it started there were no overhead cables.

last time I traveled down this line the cantinaries were vastly more incomplete, looks alien with all them suddenly there

Brilliant what a great idea

Thank you! Nice camera work; but as Davil says in his comment, the video would be vastly improved if it took a few leafs out of Don Coffey's book.

Would benefit from station name time stamps.

This is just brilliant - thank you. Is there any chance of more cab rides, in particular Penzance to Taunton, and two more covering Taunton to Bristol and to London? Please?

Brilliant, thanks. Would like to know speed you went through Reading please, magnificent!

At just past 43' how does it work that on the down line the signal is showing single yellow just before a train comes down?

Will there be a return leg?

I wonder why it’s gone that route via Parkway rather than the more direct route via Bath. I have travelled that route before from Plymouth but that was when they had closed the Newbury to Reading section so it couldn’t go via Westbury.

8:45; Electric Overhead cable starts, are they gonna extend it til bristol Mead and Cardiff?

Excellent video.......would have liked named stations en route.

Would it be possible if you could put the ATP speedometer next time? I do lots of research on train safety and safety devices on train. Great video!

I see it left Bristol TM as a diesel, did it put up pantographs at Bristol Parkway?

Huge fan of GWR, as a Scot living in the north east, my knowledge of the south west is patchy. Great cab ride!

I do this route twice every month and it’s honestly a breeze, always seems faster then how long it takes!! Thanks GWR🙂

Was the train in EMU from Bristol Parkway

Why signal at 43:14 on the right track shows yellow in London direction if there is a train coming in the opposite direction at the same time?