Inclusion of current speed is such a great addition. Really gives context to the sights and sounds of the engine!

Great video! Looking forward to more cab ride videos.

You know a line has "light" traffic when the adjacent tree branches scrape along the side of the loco. It's a nice added dimension to hear the communications with the signaller. Thanks.

Great trip like the speed indicator, helps with previous films and information 👍

Speedy work Ben, considering you only worked this turn earlier today. A brilliant bit of footage. Thanks very much for sharing such a unique perspective.

Awesome, I especially enjoyed your chats with the signaller. Most others edit them out or mute them.

This is fascinating to me. So much detail on such a short trip. I know this area so well, and even more so now. Enjoyed the experience. Thankyou.

Around four years ago I was walking the towpath of the semi-derelict Sankey Canal alongside this line and noticed an enlarged gap in the palisade fencing close to the distant signal FF1. The canal at that point has a blockage in it allowing access up to the fence. I reported it to Network Rail, kept an eye on it on subsequent walks, and noted it had been fixed a couple of weeks later. It would appear to be an issue still!

the quality of the video image is unreal! Well done

Who else expected a flashing minus points warning in the bottom left when he dipped into 21mph in the 20 zone ? great video as always.

Just awesome mate

Love it!!! Great to see you back and on some freight routes. Live speed is an excellent inclusion, brilliant.

👍 Great onboard views of industrial Cheshire.

Thoroughly enjoyable. So different to the usual driver eye views.

Great to see current speed now available. Seen it used many times in European vide.

Excellent video. Great picture quality and good sound. Live speed a great addition. More like this please.

Thanks Ben enjoyable to see other parts of the network.

Amazing! I love the live speed too

Great video! Really enjoyed the ride!

Thanks for that Ben, keep em coming.

Many thanks for posting this vid. Very enjoyable. Would like to see more trips if possible. Thks

Brilliant ben,love the speedo.just subbed

Excellent thank you for sharing

Awesome scenic view ride bro 😎👍😊

Nice ride. Thanks for the video and chat. Cheers mate!

Love the sound of the 66 and brilliant with the speed indicator

Fantastic video, really well done

I have circled near the power station several times, but I never saw a train. Thank you for uploading.

It’s about time this line via Warrington Bank Quay low level was reopened right through from Liverpool to Stockport!

Excellent thanks. Real time speed is a great addition.

Loved this video, spot on.

Beautiful video! Excellent channel! Subscription 💪🙂

Great video ben look forward to the next one 👍

Love the live speed.

Morning Ben. Just come across your channel and have subscribed 🤩 Fantastic ride down one of the busiest freight lines back in the 70s when I was a lad train spotting lol 😆 love the speed showing as it gives an added dimension to your videos & also the commentary to the signalman was awesome 👏🏻 as we don’t usually have the privilege of that 👍🏻

cracking video mate!

Well done Ben very enjoyable experience on the cab viewing. My son is a driver too for GBRF, Works from Buxton area at the moment. Home base is Tyne coal terminal near Jarrow. Thanks again. Brian 🙏👍

OO - A return journey from last week - thank you, thank you, thank you.

excellent video!

Cracking watch, this is

i always seam to miss this at warrington ...

Yet again another amazing video. Looks like network rail need to do a bit of vegetation clearance.

Enjoyed that, thanks.

Cool, great video, thanks

Great Vid, again. Those signallers at FF, AJ and at the crossing boxes must get so bored though!

love the live speedometer.

Headcode? Good video as always ben, glad to see you back uploading

Love it

so a DB loco on hire to DRS on hire to DB? good video, nice to see the current speed included too

Driving the class 66 hedge trimmer today :) Two signal faults, could have ruined the day, at least they were out fixing one of the others.

Sounds like a lot of new paint is going to be needed on the side of that loco from under-trimmed vegetation !

Great video. Curious how you pulled and synced the speedo data? GPS I take it but how was the data/video sync achieved with the graphic?

Did I see correctly that you, at 26:50 use the slow speed rocker, to enforce the 5mph limit? awesome video by the way, super cool to see the back roads of british freight

Looks almost third world with the state of the vegetation, especially compared to the old black and white pictures from yesteryear that we are all so familiar with. Are they ever going to do something about it? (I think I already know the answer)

Some interesting EWS coal wagons dumped in the yard. Bet the National Wagon Preservation would like them

RIP Ditton station 😭

Do you ever go Frodsham/Helsby way ?

We hve a feight line behind us, which is frequented by Class 66 locomotives. My favourite. They stop at a red light behind the house before continuing on to Dow. I hope someone does a driver's eye view of that journey, to see where it comes from. Would be very fascinating. A question I've had for a while: what makes a line Up or Down?

I like the new graphics of line and loco speed. Do you know why that cross-over by Arpley box had the track painted white?

I wonder how long it will be before this line is shut.

Nice video Ben. When you were authorised to pass signal DN302 at danger I expected a loud bast on the horn before proceeding. Are there local noise abatement instructions?

An observation Ben! Your caption for Carterhouse Junction - should that not be Widnes West Junction or the junction for Widnes Shed? I think Carterhouse Jct. should be where the concrete fencing appears at around 9:13!! What do you think?

A few colour light signals and the sprawling vegetation and the routes not changed much at all really - god help them trying to make this a electrified high speed route, never heard of Arpley sidings 2 end referred too as Arpley grid iron north junction makes it sound posh.

Will someone cut the brush?! The whole line looks abandoned! What an obstacle course. Other than that, looks fine.

7:27 It's funny that the passenger speed would be lower; isn't it usually higher? I wonder why it's the other way around here.

Interesting. When you reversed direction back into the yard, the ground d signal came off rather than the main with a feather , I’m surprised at that

Where is the Ditton you started at?? Looking at Google Maps I can only find a Ditton south of London and I doubt it's that one!!

Please explain the signal 302 passed at danger. I could not hear the conversation with the signaller, thank you.

7:27 speed restriction sign. Top figure (lower speed) - Applicable to all trains, except passenger and empty coaching stock trains not conveying four-wheeled vehicles. Bottom figure (higher speed) - Applicable only to passenger and empty coaching stock trains not conveying four-wheeled vehicles.

That red at the start. Who or what gave you the go ahead to proceed?

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Is this line still in use anymore? I would like to film the level crossings at Crosfield’s, Monks Siding and Marsh House but I don’t know when trains would run on this line.

Do passenger train drivers only drive passenger trains or do they do freight and vice versa?

And just like that, it was over * sad face *

Resolution is too low. Don't get the true train experience without 4K.

Never realised you went over to freight?

7m 22s PSR BOARD 30 OVER 40....30 for freight 40 for passenger and light engines or is deviation line different?

there is abit of intruding shrubbery which needs to be aggresivey cut back....!

Hi Ben... More More More please... Worked for British Rail in the class 43 days as a driver. Paxman turbo's on notch 5 pulling out of Kings X Hee Hee. Sod Greta Thunberg...

I wanted to know why don’t they dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so they extend the unused abandoned underground stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock and remix and make them all together and also redesign them overhead line and also make them into 5 cars per unit and also having 2 Disabled Toilets on those 5 cars per unit A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into a 11 car per unit so it could have less doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers. A Stock Trains and also having 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it more bigger and extend it to bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those 4 European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Train tunnel into an High Speed train. The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Train line to make it 8 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those 4 European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbish 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 37 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project that is OK for London Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly line and also build a brand-new underground train stations so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street and also make another brand new tunnel train stations in Chingford and could they extend the DLR. All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel five carriages to disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extend doing roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and they can order Every 17 Octagon and Hexagon shape LNER diagram and unique small no.11 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 117MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 117MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 16 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 16 Tonnes for all of the 117MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!! so Please make sure that the Builders can do as they are Told!! And Please do something about these very important Professional ideas Please Prime Minister of England, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Germany, Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.😉😅😅😀😀😅😀😀😅😅😀😀😀😀😀😉😉

Thanks for posting. Very enjoyable. Sorry to be a bit picky though. For me this is a front view. A driver's eye view would be what the driver actually sees.