wires at diggle will start this year

@@joshuabetty1700 I suppose that's progress, but a sad sight as far as I'm concerned.

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Thanks John, as others have said, sadly that’s going to be coming to an end soon which is certainly going to ruin the view. Hopefully it at least means more varied traffic. Just glad I can bring plenty of trains in the beautiful scenery to people in the meantime.

Really appreciate that mate, in all honesty I’m overwhelmed with how quickly things have grown in not much over half a year. Great to have you on board!

Haha cheers mate.

Thanks a lot Kevin, glad you enjoyed it!

Nice one mate!

Cheers mate!

Cheers Mark, much appreciated!

Cheers pal, thanks for watching!

Haha glad you’re enjoying it mate, I do try to pack as much in as I can!

Cheers Bill, honestly what a pain that was. Went out for a couple of hours and ended up being out all day!

Nice one John, if you see someone there in a cap it will no doubt be me haha. I'll be there in the next couple of weeks although dates keep getting changed for one thing and the other.

Thanks a lot mate! Pretty cool aren't they? I'm working on wagons/coaches so I can hopefully display the full consists in future rather than just the loco.

Cheers mate, glad to hear that because I like to make sure I don't shoot from the same spot too many times to keep it a bit more interesting.

Thanks a lot mate, always appreciate the support!

Cheers Anthony, couldn't believe my eyes on Realtimetrains when it said all three 69's were on it. The first time I saw that HST it was from miles away and had no idea what the hell it was lol. I'll pop a note on here when i've got my dates fixed, would be great to meet you guys.

Thanks a lot mate, you make an cameo appearance in this one haha.

@@DiggleJunction yeah haha with the NMT

Thanks a lot mate, glad you enjoyed it!

Anytime! I know I'm a bit late to reply but did you make the train icons or are they on a website? If there on a website would I be able to use them? Great video anyway, you make great content! Congrats on 1K subs too, you deserve it!

@@ENC_Trainspotting Hi mate, thanks a lot! I contacted Ben Wright on the RailUK forums for permission to use them from his train database. You should be able to find the link in the video description to find it. They need quite a bit of work to "transparency" them for the vids though.

@@DiggleJunction Ok, thank you👍

Cheers mate, yeah there’s always plenty going on round Manny!

Yeah always great to see them. The blue light is a big laser that’s used to measure of different thing above the track: bridges, tunnels, cabling, etc.

Haha funnily enough a nice fella mentioned he watched my videos and enjoyed them!

Thanks a lot mate, yeah i've just recently found out about that one. I'm going to keep my eye out for it. Definitely worth a trip up the road to see that blasting out of Staly!

@@DiggleJunction Yh normally really good got it last week and thrashed out Also in June there is a planned small engine Gala at the ELR so perfect time for some hopeful shunted haulage

Thanks for the comment Brian, I had to look those abbreviations up, very interesting. I usually catch the autofocus and force focus it but sometimes forget.

Thanks Ken, appreciate that as i'm not always sure about including the night shots.

Hi Mike, thanks for the comment. You can find all the running information from a few website these days, the main one I use is RealTimeTrains (www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/). Not all loco numbers are shown so I have to write those down the old fashioned way as it comes by haha. The Diggle Hotel is the best place around for a pint and rag pudding, or maybe a cheese and onion pie if the mood takes you ha 👍🏻 A long long way from Texas. Cheers mate.

@@DiggleJunction Wonderful, I will enjoy looking at that site. But (even though I think of myself as a "foodie" . . . . and a British one, at that), I have NO IDEA what a "Rag Pudding" is. I (even though I am only a hundred and change northeast of you, near Tyneside, as to my boyhood home) have never heard of it before. I will definitely have to look up what it is. Wikipedia: "Rag pudding is a savoury dish consisting of minced meat and onions wrapped in a suet pastry, which is then cooked in a cheesecloth.[1][2][3] Invented in Oldham, the dish is also popular in Bury and Rochdale, and is eaten across the Lancashire area.[4][1] Rag pudding pre-dates ceramic basins and plastic boiling bags in cookery, and so the cotton or muslin rag cloths common in Oldham were used in the dish's preparation during the 19th century.[2][3] Rag pudding is similar in composition and preparation to steak and kidney pudding,[2] and may be purchased from traditional local butcher's shops in Lancashire.[1]" I think I mentioned preciously, my (then) girlfriend, (now) wife, lived in Mossley, and the thing I vividly remember were the miniature steak and kidney steamed puddings sold at the chippie in Mossley. I LOVED THEM when I was 18, and definitely still would (at 65!).

That location is on the Calder Valley line not the Diggle line, it's Smithy Bridge near Rochdale

Thanks for the feedback Reid, this is actually something I meant to do for this video but only remembered after it had been rendered. Will make sure to include this going forward. Thanks for watching! The loop isn't used too often so this was a pretty rare spot, it's usually used to get something out of the way for an express behind or for driver training to make sure they know it.

Cheers John! I'm not 100% sure to be honest but I think TPE are using the sidings there for training the York crews.

@@DiggleJunction that was what I was thinking as they will be diverting via Castleford later in the year and also for extended periods next year when there will be a blockade for work in the Neville Hill area.

Ah right yeah, makes a lot of sense in that case!

It's used to measure the height of objects above the track, bridges, tunnels, trees, etc. It looks like they're using it a lot here to size everything up for the electrification coming in the next few years.

Cheers Stephen 👍