Hi Don, you information regarding training, exams and competence checks was really interesting, I think that we (the travelling public) take a lot for granted when we climb onto a train and have little appreciation of the high levels of professionalism the driver, and other crew of course have. Thanks for uploading, a great video.

Our son drives the train from Brighton too London and a few other places. He said when he applied to become a driver, over 1000 applied, and after the exam, only 12 were selected. He says the early morning shift is murder.

This is great. I'm self isolating and hiding from the Coronavirus at the moment. To keep fit I've got an exercise bike. I watch your videos whilst pedalling and stop when you stop. Single Yellows means setting 1, Double yellows; 2 and greens 3. When you get a kick on I move up to 4 but can't keep that for long. It'll get me through these months in confinement.

What a wonderful feeling; to be up early and 'doing things'. Marvellous. Enjoy.

Born in Derby , lived in Nottingham, now living in Lincolnshire, really enjoyed your video very nicely done very informative indeed. Thank You..

Once again, a superb and informative cab ride Don. You go from strength to strength with your work. Thanks so much for bringing such pleasure and education!

Many thanks again Don for yet another quality cab video. I can only begin to imagine the logistical nightmare, getting your camera equipment to other colleagues from different railway companies and returned for a lengthy production process. Please keep up the great work! You are a credit both to TPR and the charities you donate to.

Another wonderful insight into something so many of us take for granted. Quietly hynotic, gently instructive - the very best of 'slow TV'. Someone once said radio's 'Test Match Special' is like going to the cricket with a really knowledgable friend. This is the railway equivalent!

Oh wow I remember the previous time the Newark ECML crossing was replaced in 2002/3 ish. I spent some time at Grantham watching the chaos that weekend and was amazed at how they expected the new crossing to last 20 years. That time has gone quickly!

Been on this line between Derby and Notts dozens of times. Brings back memories. Thanks

An interesting video today. The information on the signals and gate operations were enlightening. Thanks for the ride, Don. Cheers mate.

This has to be some of the best in cab videos on KZfaq. With such detailed captions I feel like I can just learn the line from your videos! Haha! Thanks Don!

Hi Don. Thanks for a great video. I used to commute along this line from Lincoln St Marks to Nottingham in the 1970s on first generation DMUs. I would always try to sit behind the drivers cab and get the view out of the front of the train, so got to learn the road quite well! Just one point: With regard to the red signal at Collingham, this was because the level crossing barriers are kept open to road traffic if the train is due to stop at the station. The barriers are lowered when the train is ready to depart. This is to reduce delays to road traffic I believe. If the train is not due to stop, then barrier operation is normal. There is a similar arrangement in the other direction too, due to the presence of another level crossing just beyond the station.

Another first-class and well-captioned video. Many thanks to you Don and your band of helpers.

I really like the info for the signaling for the trains. Thank you for showing the landmarks and a little history about them. Please keep up the good work .JP.

Thanks for making these. I particularly enjoy the notes and interesting features that a considerable number of other cab views don't have. The quality is fantastic. Please consider making more of these. They're oddly relaxing!

I have been working this patch for 18 years, with memories of trudging back to the access gate with 2 Possession Limit Boards hanging over my shoulder , then seconds after handing back to the signaller that 1st empty stock comes screaming past. I have just recently retired from SPICOP duties & now I just Safety plan for the East Midlands Possession team, but these videos send a shiver of memories of all the locations and jobs done along the route 👍🏻

Just discovered your Driver's Eye videos. They are superb, enhanced for me by the comments about location, routes & operational info. Many thanks, keep up the good work!

This is 1 and a half years old and I just found it now. Nice to see some new track, locations and different aspects of railroading. Thanks as always.

Hello. I am currently self-isolating. Your informative and beautiful videos are keeping me interested. Thank you

Years ago in the Southern U.S., they used to have work gangs called "Gandy Dancers" who would sing rhythms to keep every one pulling together. They would shove their long steel bars under the track, one half of the team on the inside of the track and the other half on the outside of the track. They would click their steels on the rails till they were all in ca-dense with the singer. Close your eyes and listen...click, click, click pull... repeating over and over moving the track about one inch at a time till it was straight.

Found your site a couple of weeks ago and what a joy, so very informative. The journeys are very interesting and the lack of verbal commentary a pleasure

Huge shout out to the train crews that make the early morning trains to London from Nottingham a possibility, very useful on many occasions 🙌

Once again Don another great video, after watching this one and the amount of info you provide it makes for a great advert for young people who want to be a train drivers, what's really good about your videos is that I can sit in my comfortable chair and travel around England in the drivers seat and I live in Australia.

Superb video again, Don! Thank you very much for your efforts, and those of your colleagues! Informative and descriptive as ever....

A Don Coffey "Blockbuster masterpiece" ... thank you to yourself and to at your colleagues at EMT for showing us this route with excellent annotations and comments. This is a section of route I have followed on route diagrams (Traksy etc) for some time, but you have now brought it "to life!" ... Have had to watch it in 3 "bites" due to work commitments ... but will savour going over it again in "fine detail" soon at my leisure. Thank you and long may you continue at showing QUALITY cab ride videos. ... A Butler

Thanks Don for another informative video. Those early starts must be hard, but I suppose sometimes you are rewarded with a beautiful dawn. What a great debt we owe to all the people behind the scenes that organise our railways. Thank you all. I wave to any TPE passing through Ferriby in case you are driving!

Thank you, Sir. My old stamping ground. Thirty years in Lincolnshire. Travelled this way many times. Good to see it from 'up front'. Excellent vid as always.

Your videos are among the best. I really appreciate the explanations and comments. They add to my understanding and enjoyment.!

I miss loughborough, I was born there and lived there for 27 years unti, moving to the United States, Loughborough Station hasn't changed that much.

Having just recently found your videos I am overindulging in them. Coming from NZ, bring retired, and having visited The UK many times over the years this is pure nostalgia. Thank you Don I will continue to watch and enjoy.

Hi, I love to watch your videos and always follow your new blogs as they are so interesting and your vast knowledge on every line you travel on and upload is great, even your local knowledge to a certain place you pass is vast and you know lots about everywhere you travel. 👍Thumbs Up 👍

I have to repeat the fact that your rides are so interesting and fun to see the country with...and some of the stuff you indicated a driver has to learn and all the tests etc. it boggles my mind..i bet it helps to have an eidetic memory maybe? Thanks so much for the extra time you take to be informative as well as a good ride ..stay well from california

Hi don a superb video and very informative. from what I have seen they are the best and most enjoyable. Well done sir.

Another great vid, very informative. Thanks for taking the trouble Don, it's much appreciated.

Amazing to see that you reply to almost every comment. I just found your channel. I love the cab-view videos. I watched a lot of lorirocks777 in Switzerland. Now I can do some virtual train travel in the UK. Your comments are excellent and very informative. Greetings from Canada.

I pointed one of my mates at your channel. This is his answer to the current isolation from face book . Thanks Don in self isolation wanting to keep some level of fitness and retain what sanity they had. I watch a real time cab ride whilst pedalling an exercise bike. Setting 1 if we're on single yellow, 2 on double yellow and 3 on greens. Stop pedalling at the stops. So far I've gone from Derby Etches Park (05:03) to Newark flat crossing where I'm waiting for the 05:26 Lincoln to Nottingham via Northgate to complete it's reversal at 06:00.

As usual another excellent video. A very happy Christmas and New Year to you and family Don. Will catch up with you again in the new year. All the best. Mick🎄🇬🇧

Sad to pass the site which was Trent station. Excellent video and commentary, thank you.

Another awesome video. Excellent narration of of the sites and potential dangers along the line, as well as your insightful explanation of the training and skills these drivers experience as they become true professionals in their craft.

Thank you for your video's, after a busy day to sit down with a mug of tea and watch train journey's is very relaxing. Also very informative, I have learnt a lot of up north,( I live on the south coast) love them please never stop.

Another Superb Video Don... Absolute Magic... A Very Merry Christmas To You My Friend...

A route I've travelled as a passenger many times. Thoroughly enjoyable video. Thanks for the information on the route and for sharing.

Always amazed at the number of level crossings on this stretch of line!

Thanks for another great video. The added information is the icing on top.

Great video and this was my teenage years haunt, can remember parking the car up in the 80s in the waste land that is now occupied by a phone mast in Trent Junction, great to see this from a drivers POV and the flat crossing at Newark as always been a fasination to me so great to see from the cab, was great to hear the crew laughing at that time in morning.

l have loved this very brand new video. Thank you Mr. Coffey for sharing these so beautiful landscape from your country....

Brilliant from beginning to end, interesting & informative use of captions too - More of this please

Great ride! Best regards from New York.

Another excellent video, I remember getting off at Newark Castle way back in Dec 1976 to wait for the RAF coach to take us to Swinderby for our 6 weeks of 'square bashing' recruit training. Good to see the station still in daily use,

Enjoy your videos; I especially appreciate the running captions describing operations and localities.

Thanks again Don & supporting cast, I thoroughly enjoyed that, keep up the great work🚄🚄🚄🚄🚄

Don Coffey your videos are excellent, bravo keep up the good work...

Great video, I lived in Derby until 1971 and traveled in this general area quite a few time so it brings back lots of memories. I'm in Oz now.

Another fantastic cab ride, thank you

Thanks Don! Another superb presentation and your educational captions are much appreciated! Regards, from Rob In Bournemouth.

Supervised Market Harborough Station Platform works...... Derby Station looks good here although I have yet to see it in person. Great to see it all nice and tidy on the approach and beyond the Station compared to the tired and shabby way it used to look..... saving this one ... thanks for the post.

Great video, Don! I'm moving to Lincoln later this year (from Australia), so enjoyed this ride to/from the station. Learned a lot of interesting rail stuff, too. Subscribed!

As usual Don, first class and informative. The arrangement at Lincoln was entirely new to me. Thanks.

Many thanks Don. Another great cab ride. Where the line crosses the ECML on the level is fascinating. Certainly not many of those type of crossings in the UK. Thanks again.

Slightly off topic but couldn't resist. I recently read the following headline in the East Anglian Daily Times regarding the problems Greater Anglia are having with their new 755s. "Some Greater Anglia services restored - but Coffey calls for government intervention in rail crisis." Good on you, Don! heh heh

Brilliant brought back some memories fifty years ago exactly in December travelled up and down this line regularly for six weeks Newark station the destination for what was the nearest to number Seven school of recruit training RAF Swinderby I and thousands of others over time long closed down and now a large housing and industrial estate called Witham St Hughes.

Finally got to see this today and it didn't disappoint. Merry Christmas Don. Keep cranking them out!

Hi,great video ,really enjoyed the commentary ,I am a ex BR Scotland Electrification and Plant Engineer and enjoy the cab ride videos ,brings back memories of work,seeing other regions still enjoyable , maybe colour could be enhanced ,but still great trip ,well done

Great video - spent a lot of time in the 80's batting up and down this line on my £5 East Midlands Ranger ticket from my home near Lowdham. Thanks for posting Don :)

Thoroughly enjoyed this film! More please!

Hi Don Another great video. I worked in Nottingham in the 1960s and 70s and often used the train from Chesterfield to Nottingham. Midland of course as GC from Chesterfield closed. Amazed at how much infrastruture has disappeared.

I wish you a peaceful Christmas and a magnificent new year Don! Thanks again for an educating video!

Just spot on again. Don should win an award for his videos !

Thanks as always Don. Very well worth the wait. Excellent commentary as always especially the details on signals. I have only ever been over "the crossing" on the ECML. The first time was in the mid-1980s on a northbound HST that did not stop at Newark Northgate so it was travelling at line speed. There was a definite case of "what the (expletive deleted) was that" when going over the crossing!

Wonder what Don sounds like. I'm imagining that its like the video, calm, informative & gentle.

Excellent, once again, and the comments are getting even better, Don. Well done and thanks.

Nottingham to Lincoln really reminds me of the Fen Lines. Loved the video, Don.

loved that video, never seen from inside the cab before, found it very therapeutic in a way, love all the information you put on you videos, learnt quite a bit, As a hgv driver i have driven past that junction at Newark a few times, and every time I see it I think If ever there is a recipe for disaster, its right there. I am lucky enough to live not far from the severn valley railway did a bit of volunteering there many years ago, but never got to ride the footplate of the locos there, they have a few diesels there now so i will have to go and have a look around. look forward to your next adventure.

At Nottingham I still feel strange sitting in a tram on the very spot that the Great Central used to cross over the Midland Station.

Exquisite video Don. As I live in Newark and have just had to pack up driving, these routes will no doubt become familiar over the next few years. Cheers, Bob

Further to my earlier comment ... have now had the pleasure of a second, leisurely viewing . Saw plenty of detail I missed on the first sweep. Thank you! ....As an aside, I find it hard that you have had over 30 000 views, 700 "Likes" but only 8 comments! ... Glad to be at least amongst one of them! Please keep up the good work. ... Regards, A Butler.

Finally got the chance to watch this.. I loved it, Don !! .. Thankyou for the superb info and filming. Take care, hun :)

Absolutely brilliant.

You had mentioned driver training in this clip Don and i'm guessing this applies to signallers too which brings me to tell you a story about a derailment that should not have happened it was at Connington South i think the place is called. After the said derailment of the 22.30 Kings Cross- Edinburgh on either March or May The 5th 1967 the signaller on duty was jailed for two years for the willful neglect of his duties. Having returned the home signal to danger when the train was within four feet of the signal he then opened the points before the electric circuits locked them. Even though the 11 coach train was running at 75mph the speed at which the signaller worked to obviate the safety devices was sufficient to cause the rear four coaches to leave the rails. A sad story indeed but from what i heard thankfully no deaths. But another brilliant clip you put together Don.

Hi Don, yet another fascinating journey, covered lots of aspects of daily operation I wasn’t a where of, great informative information, was really surprised me was the need to start train from from Derby to run all the way to Lincoln as ECS before any revenue is earned, and taking this into account 365 days a day the wear & tare plus the amount of fuel being used is really surprising that there are no closer TMD near Lincoln, Great Video Don, regards Edie🤓

Brilliant journey...as they all are.....comments that we can follow,etc....excellent..I also follow on Google Maps and stop as we travel so I can view the villages and town....get great overviews of surrounding areas.....keep up the great work.....thanks from Wellington NZ

when you first used the wipers hell that made me jump.

nice to see my home town of Lincoln getting some love! Thanks for the hard work Don!

This is great Don. The crossing over the East Coast Mainline near Newark is amazing. Another immensely educational video.

Hi I am visiting Great Britain vith video and I learn the system of signaling I am a retired french railway man Thanks for all

Once again Don a high quality and excellent production. Not had the chance to watch it all yet but I am very much looking forward to doing so. Hope things are well with you and TPE

Very informative and interesting video.Thank you for sharing it.

This type of video is invaluable for the S&T department to desk top survey the route as regards line plant. Great work!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for an excellent, informative video 👍. I especially like it as we pass through Newark Castle station (my home town,) and terminate in my favourite city. 🐨🇦🇺

Another smashing video , very informative for us novices Don , I’m learning railway stuff all the time . Cheers mate 🇨🇦

Glad to see this one. It's right in the middle of my patch as I live in Newark and travel quite often to both Lincoln and Nottingham.

I found this to be a particularly engaging video, with the annotations. This unit can really pick up some speed where the route allows it!

Another good one Don, enjoyed every minute, though Voyagers seem to need new quiet wipers lol. Thoroughly enjoyable with the insights given

Very good and informative, thank you for the share and maps.

Love your work Don, very informative.Very relaxing to watch.Thank you...

Another good video Don thanks for posting

Thank You Don for another very good video!!

Hello Don! It is always excellent how you explain all the technical details and everything else. I'm already looking forward to the next video. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Hans from the Mühlviertel in Upper Austria.👍🚂

Excellent video as always