Oxford to Bicester and the Chiltern chord - Hastings DEMU cab ride

Oxford to Bicester and the Chiltern chord - Hastings DEMU cab ride - 27 May 2017

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Oxford Rover, Part 2: Cab view from Oxford to Bicester and round the Bicester Chord onto the Chiltern Line towards London Marylebone. Filmed from our preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 27 May 2017, during our Oxford Rover railtour.
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** AUDIO: The soundtrack is from a synchronised recording in the rear cab, because there were two members of traincrew conversing in the leading cab; however, the recorder failed so this video is silent from just beyond Oxford Parkway station.
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In this video we cover 12 miles and 65 chains, up the recently upgraded line from Oxford via Islip to Bicester, and then turning right at the new Gavray Junction to ascend the 1km-long chord to join the Up Chiltern Main Line.
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Video footage is from an unattended unmonitored forward-facing cab-camera in motor coach 60116 Mountfield. Where back-cab audio is available, this was simultaneously recorded in the rear cab, motor coach 60118 Tunbridge Wells, and accurately synchronised with the video.
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This outing began at Hastings and ran via Bromley South to Clapham Junction, then Hounslow and Virginia Water to Reading, Didcot and Oxford; this video shows the start of the return leg, which then ran via West Ruislip, Greenford, Ealing Broadway, the Up Poplar spur, Willesden South West sidings (reverse), South Acton, New Kew Junction, Barnes Bridge, Clapham Junction and back to Hastings.
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0:00 - OXFORD station
3:16 - Oxford North Junction
4:38 - Oxford Canal Junction
5:37 - Wolvercot Tunnel
6:15 - Woodstock Road Junction
7:26 - Oxford Parkway station
7:36 - Water Eaton Junction
9:28 - Islip station
14:02 - Bicester Depot West Junction
15:01 - Bicester Depot East Junction
15:15 - Bicester Village station
15:39 - Bicester London Road Level Crossing
16:10 - Gavray Junction
17:10 - Bicester South Junction
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Video, soundtrack and captions © Copyright 2017-2018 Hastings Diesels Limited.
www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/
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Equipment: video by GoPro Hero3+ camera with suction-mount and extra batteries; rear-cab audio by Sony ECM-MS907 stereo electret microphone and Sony MiniDisc MZ-R30 recorder (which failed to continue recording); still photo © Robert Stewart; video production by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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Here's Part 1 (Tonbridge to Clapham Junction):
• Tonbridge to Clapham J...
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And here's Part 3 (West Ruislip to Willesden South West sidings):
• West Ruislip to Willes...
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Annotated extracts from the Sectional Appendix are provided:
Outward - www.dropbox.com/s/7l0cg6uhnhh...
Return - www.dropbox.com/s/zcbigq4auos...
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@grahamallen1970 2 ай бұрын

I was a trainman G at oxford 88 to 89 i was one of the guards on the special opening day of Islip station....in its single line days😊 happy memories

@ds1868 3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for the video, really wanted to see the new section from Oxford to Bicester. The mothballed section between Bicester and Bletchley now well under way to be rebuilt and the news of funding of £794 million for the project means this will be completed by 2024..

@joncoe9046 5 жыл бұрын

Great as usual. Love how you point things out on route like disused routes and points of interest.

@hastingsdiesels 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Rog5446 2 жыл бұрын

When the sound went off, I heard a bell in my head, every time we went over a signal notifier.

@EdgyNumber1 3 жыл бұрын

There's nothing quite like a freshly refurbished rail route. Can't wait to ride the whole of the varsity line. At 100mph!

@traindriverdan 5 жыл бұрын

Shame about the recording equipment failing, but what we did hear sounded epic! Full throttle thrash, brilliant!

@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS 5 жыл бұрын

Despite the loss of sound I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you

@robertcoleman4861 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks richard nice video,It's great to see a line reopened in the uk and hope to see many many more,I wish they would do the same in new south wales australia,Cheers bob and keep posting the wonderful video's.

@lesliegprice6652 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for clarifying that I really understand the trials and tribulations you have to endure with live recordings, I used to be a musician and am used to things not working right, thank you again for your videos I really enjoy and appreciate them all, look forward to the future elements, cheers....L.Price

@simonpurbrick 5 жыл бұрын

Great video! My brother lives in Bicester and I live in Abingdon. We travelled back to Oxford in August from Nottingham due to the major works in Derby which we had to get a cab from Kngs Cross to London Marylebone to get home to Oxford so this was my first time on the line!

@ianhosier4042 3 жыл бұрын

I last rode on that track when it was just a branch line. Amazing to see it transformed like this.

@ianhosier4042 3 жыл бұрын

@@ds1868 i will definitely make a trip up north as soon as the bicester to bletchey bit is open (i live in southampton). Cross country to oxford then from oxford as far east as i can possibly go by then (bedford?) , then down the main line back to london, tube to waterloo and train home.

@johnkeepin7527 5 жыл бұрын

Good to see the move via the new Bicester Chord as it is now. I can remember what that area was like around 30 years ago - I was one of the in-house designers when Marylebone IECC was brand new. One of the earliest - I think London Liverpool St. was a little earlier, but not by much.

@slycat1939 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent video even without the sound. I see no reason for thumbs down. Unless they are looking for more passing trains and or city action. Otherwise a very nice trip. Your editing as I stated before is excellent. Your videos are very nice to watch and I love the descriptions along the way. Nice country side views as well. Safe travels for you. God bless.

@hastingsdiesels 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you've been enjoying these!

@stevehillier7018 5 жыл бұрын

Lovely to see the DEMU still so popular. Hard to think it’s been 32 33 years since they stopped being used on the Hastings line. And now 51 years since that terrible Accident involving 1007 at Hither Green.

@johnnorton5523 5 жыл бұрын

Fab as usual👍

@HenrysAdventures 5 жыл бұрын

Great footage although I'm a bit disappointed the section through Gerrards Cross wasn't shown even without the audio it would have been an exciting watch!

@hastingsdiesels 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I aim to catch up first with all the eminently publishable material I've got 'in the can' already. One day I might run out of that, and will then scratch around for such 'B-grade' material... if that makes sense.

@greatbritishentertainmentl5636 5 жыл бұрын

Did I miss it or is there still a left-link to the Cotswold line to Worcester at Oxford? Otherwise a very nice trip full of detail and history.

@hastingsdiesels 5 жыл бұрын

You didn't miss it, we turned off to the right at Oxford North Junction about 1 mile before you'd get to Wolvercote Junction.

@lesliegprice6652 5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic and fascinating as always a wonderful piece of railway.....but excuse me it says Part 2.....is there a part One at all !!!! Cheers

@hastingsdiesels 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you - Part 1 was published ages ago: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iKeeetmkr9nGZKs.html

@hastingsdiesels 5 жыл бұрын

@Leslie G Price I'm replying to a recent comment from you which I can't now find. Yes, Part 1 was Tonbridge to Clapham. Yes, the railtour began at Hastings, not Tonbridge, so you would be forgiven for thinking that Part 1 should begin at Hastings. But I don't necessarily travel on every part of every outing; and even if I did, videoing and sound-recording every part of every outing is not always technically possible (battery life, SD card capacity), useful (we might already have published good recent footage of the same route) or desirable (it might be raining, trundling behind a stopping train, or after dark). In this case, I drove an hour round the M25 and down to Tonbridge to join the train there; Part 2 should have been Clapham to Reading and Part 3 Reading to Oxford, but a GBRf route-learner unexpectedly (to me) boarded at Clapham making the leading-cab footage unusable, and at that time I was reliant on a 20-year-old MiniDisc recorder for rear-cab audio - it couldn't record a whole day's footage and even had I known they'd boarded I had only sufficient capacity to record Oxford to Willesden - and in any case it failed 10 minutes into the return journey as we know. If you want to see the run from Hastings to Tonbridge, then I have good news for you: we do have such footage from summer 2018 and I fully intend to publish it in due course.

@ianhosier4042 3 жыл бұрын

If you just floored it at the start instead of pulsing it would you stall the engine out?

@hastingsdiesels 3 жыл бұрын

The driver doesn't select full power until 4:30, but that's because of speed restrictions rather than anything else. There was no 'pulsing', but when first pulling away the driver is using a low power-handle setting and the power unit is "hunting" slightly. As the power unit is diesel-electric, the engine is supplying torque to an electrical generator mounted to it: there is no possibility of stalling the engine with this setup. An 'overload' condition could theoretically occur, in which the current drawn by the motors is too great (over 1,000 Amps), if the driver selected full power with the train still at a stand.

@user-nm1yi4if7q 5 жыл бұрын

At this video you have passed in total 22 (bridges and tunnels) and 1 railroad level crossing.

@henrybn14ar 5 жыл бұрын

You get around.

@uffeodgard2712 5 жыл бұрын

why does the engine sound like that,,up and down

@hastingsdiesels 5 жыл бұрын

Can you give a time-stamp so I know which sound you're referring to exactly?

@bishwatntl 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe it's the normal sound as the unit starts? These diesels have a unique sound that not everyone is familiar with.

@perrydebell1352 5 жыл бұрын

This is a diesel electric multiple unit & the diesel engines are not connected directly to the wheels with a gearbox & clutch, but drive the the generator that supplies electricity to the electric motors.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_multiple_unit#Diesel%E2%80%93electric