+Tigershortfoot Trains are pretty good...at the right price.

I loved my experience on virgin trains! Great service as well. I love the pendolinos, they are my favourites

Elena Q XC first class is crap

@@Raygun-xb2st talk about it

This would've been East Coast, although it's been replaced by LNER

@@ovaltineforlife4778 Not from Euston. And yes, there are a few direct services on that route.

+orange70383 Thanks!

+orange70383 Thank you!

166s don't operate to New Street, 165s however operate to Moor Street

Glad you liked it! Thanks for commenting Al.

+Edward Barr Thanks :-)

+lesley scarborough Glad you liked it!

+faz z Glad you like the video! 💪🏻

Thanks. Normal service will resume next week with a flying one!

It's pretty awesome. The signalling maps are continuously expanding. It's kind of like FR24 for trains I guess. Some maps even include the current signal aspects (proceed/danger only) on the diagrams.

I do when someone else is paying!

Not your own headphones?

If you lived here, you wouldn't think it was amazing! :)

BirsbaneAU why

Really poor service, trains made out of busses (pacer trains), lack of investment, strikes. The list is endless.

BirsbaneAU still a million light years from anything we have in the USA. At least you have a viable option

Where this train was likely built!

Simon Kemp Really couldn't care about windows.

Simon Kemp, one word in reply to your comment; Greyrigg.

Rebecca Farquharson come on bro not cool!

It's also why they are so durable. Remember that derail one had up in Scotland several years back? The whole train derailed and flipped over at 90MPH and only one person died out of all the passengers. If that's not impressive I don't know what is and it's due to the extremely rigid construction.

SupaHotFire, what is not cool? Simon Kemp says the Pendalinos are rubbish and reply with one word, Greyrigg.

+Alex Eden Abellio don't have a better food selection than Virgin! They haven't had hot food in First for several years. See: www.abelliogreateranglia.co.uk/travel-information/your-journey/catering Virgin serve hot food at breakfast and dinner (and on Glasgow-London routes too).

Watford Gap is about half a mile from Watford (Northants).

Cheers! Euston is *supposed* to be getting a redevelopment when HS2 comes along. I'll believe it when I see it.

"Brutalism" just refers to "Beton Brut," i.e. raw concrete. There are a handful of decent brutalist buildings - IMHO Euston Station isn't brilliant but it's by no means the worst.

+shelby3024's Commenting That's right. My typo!

+Instagram Pro Typically, prior to the 05/06 upgrade the majority of intercity trains stopped at Rugby. Now, the only regular intercity service at Rugby is one train per hour in each direction, Birmingham/London, with a few other stops on other routes in the early morning or evening rush hour. Milton Keynes has three intercity trains per hour in each direction, London/Manchester, /Holyhead or Chester, /Birmingham.

I know Milton Keynes has a better service, what I meant was alike Milton Keynes it is alternate to wether or not trains stop there. It may be 1 virgin train per hour sometimes of the day, but there are often at least 2 or 3 fast connections to London per hour from rugby. You can have a look for yourself on the virgin website.

Paul's Trip Reports Either way, it still has a good connection. Certainly not as good as stations such as Coventry, but a good connection nonetheless

+Instagram Pro The point is the 05/06 upgrade fundamentally changed its nature from a vitally important railway junction to a provincial backwater - I used to work for Virgin and the VHF timetable made Rugby much less well-served. Some people might still think one fast train an hour to London is still a good service - maybe so - but it's a long way from the 90s heyday of the old Rugby.

Paul's Trip Reports rugby is my local station and is really good, despite only being one virgin a hour to or from Birmingham and London, it still has 1 direct service to Glasgow Mondays to Saturdays, and around 2-3 on a Sunday, the also have direct services back from Glasgow such as 2 on weekdays and more on weekends, you also get a direct lunchtime service to Chester, with a direct service back from wales once a day on weekdays, you get three direct services a hour to long haul destinations such as one to Preston and Blackpool then two to Liverpool, as well as 1 or two back most days of the week then you get a virgin service to Manchester on weekends and 1 or 2 returning on weekdays, despite Milton Keynes having slightly more virgin services a day they still only have one virgin hour just direct to Birmingham, rugby is a very good station with more than a very few services actually calling there.

Alex Clift t was a typo

+shelby3024's Commenting It means that's seat 42.

Jack Fitzsimmons no you won’t be charged, its included in the price!

@@jamiebrannonfrizocean3314 Ah ok, great thank you Paul 🙂😊.

+SupaHotFire Yes :-)

+ScotRail170471 Yes it is.

+Jack Kerr Have a great trip!

+John Perry this is the one way fare, in advance, with a Railcard. I think it was a few weeks in advance. This fare regularly pops up on the 0943 from Euston to Birmingham.

+jack roofy I agree!!

+jack roofy I agree!!

jack roofy they should get beans shouldn't they, even I don't like them though I never go for that option anyway.

+squizza28 You could add more carriages but you would also need to extend platforms at nearly all stations. How would you do this at Euston? You'd be extending the platforms into the throat of the station, so there would be no room for the rails (it narrows very sharply and immediately after the platform ends).

Paul's Trip Reports could just try fitting more trains every hour!

It's the type of train.

+Mohammed May No, this train isn't usually too busy, that's why the fare is cheap.

The legend 27 more trains stop in mornings evenings and sometimes lunchtimes.

+Thomas Leaper Buy a long way in advance, the 0943 on a weekday is not busy at all. Different kettle of fish at the weekend though. Also I have a Disabled Railcard which gets me 1/3 off, but even without the railcard it's still dirt cheap.

+eurouc Trains "call" at stations in the UK, it's just British English for you. Not sure it's used elsewhere! It does mean the same as "stop, to pick up passengers".

+Craig Cowden The trains are Italian! They’re PENDOLINO trains. :-)

+Czorńy Lisek It's a black pudding! Look it up :-)

rachel fleming try going to Leeds for a Virgin trains east coast first class it's a lot better than the Virgin West coast trains

If we're talking King's X to the North, there is absolutely no comparison. Take the East Coast route every time.

+William Talbot Buy a couple of months in advance - I also have a Disabled Railcard which gets me 33% off.

Paul's Trip Reports i have too how much are tickets bought on the day compared to Advance?

+Mark Rodin Up to ten times the price!

Paul's Trip Reports How much do you know from here (Euston) to Birmingham?

+EternalPirate Never ever use Trainline. They pick from the same pool of tickets as everyone else. The difference with Trainline is they charge a £1 booking fee, which makes it actually more expensive than booking direct with the train company (the train companies themselves aren't allowed, by law, to charge any booking fees).