Very impressive video. I watched a few months back and never got round to leaving a comment! Dave was fantastic with his knowledge and passion. I do miss the class 43s and the roar of the 91s but i like these Hitachi trains, their acceleration is excellent and their versatility to bring intercity/high speed services on non electrified stations to towns such as Hull is a positive things in my eyes.

Need real-time speed on the screen.

Blimey are you an official spokes person for ASLEF!

Very interesting ride. Thx for sharing 👍

Impressive how this speed of 125mph is maintained on Victorian-era routing, and that there's an upgrade to 140 in the works. As much as I bash UK rail for it's shortcomings, you have to commend the 19th century engineers who built this, and the following generations who maintained and upgraded this stuff to support speeds currently sustained today.

Awesome video Bo you drive trains through Hinckley Station

Eccles, like the cake?

As a kid we used to "explore" the lines around Hazel Grove and later in life I used the service mainly from Manchester to Hazel Grove, but sometimes all the way to Buxton, so I was surprised the train didn't stop at every station. Is this a fairly new development or has it always skipped some stations?

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Having worked that branch when it had 2 tracks which reduced the risk of being held on the main line either way, wouldn’t it make ultimate sense during the present upgrade, to close this very neglected’ branch with its very acute curve and sand drag and use Mirfield Stn as a passenger stop and change ends. Obviously it would be a problem for chartered specials, but regular services.? Thanks Don great video memories flooding back. Barry

a question what does a freight train driver do when mother nature calls when he needs a wee does he just litterally urinate in to a a plastic bottle?

Thanks for the cab ride. My 2nd cousin 4x removed George James Crosby Dawson was Chief Engineer of the North Staffordshire Railway from 1886-1914. He would have travelled the same route on his work in the area as he worked in the main engineering shop at Stoke and lived at Newcastle under Lyme.

Great ride, lovely day. Is it me or were there no captions and my I.T. was Up the Goods without a Brake Stick?

If i had a £1 for every EMR service i'd signalled, pffft, 4-1-4 Bells through Hazel Grove/Stockport for a class 1, 2-2-1-3 for an ECS to from Notts/ Lime St, 4 Bells & 2-2-1 Up the Valley. Great ride, very smooth without any hitches, bar the atmospheric conditions ?

Don't suppose you have any videos going down (Rotherham) Masborough Station to the left towards Chesterfield?

Just like to let you know these cabride videos are helping me out a ton on recreating the south yorkshire railway in Train Sim World 4. Great watch too, very informative.

(good lord, 'first'-commenter in all my time on YT?) thanks for the upload :) nice, just got to watching this one as always great info. (& presented with subtlety) - odd transition at 3m10s, i'd advise the entirety be kept/presented for posterity... single-line 'woods' section feels quiet & pretty in its own way - who knows, maybe it'll be doubled once more in the far future?

Loved it

Hadn't realised the line from Crewe to Kidsgrove had been electrified. I'm guessing for diversionary reasons primarily?

Enjoyed seeing this Don, as I never worked a train round that spur between Bradley Jn and Bradley Wood Jn. Another bit that's always intrigued me, that I never got to drive over is that spur between Greetland Jn and Dryclough Jn. I seem to remember hearing that it was a bank engine section back in the day, which wouldn't surprise me, given the climb from Milner Royd Jn towards Halifax. Does that bit of line still exist, and if so, have you any footage of it? Keep up the great vids!

Yank here. Just realized that "loop" is synonymous with what we'd call "sidings." The British nomenclature is more polite

Abergele station last time i was there was 1955! summer camp in bell tents with the church lads brigade, several companies from bolton .it was a change from the mill chimneys for us kids the sea air and sandy beaches were a tonic. and we never in our wildest dreams that a tv show would be staged in gwrytch castle.

are the speed limits kph or mph - you seem to caption both.

this view is just like cing out of d window. show lever movement and brake movement

All those times I've been through Sheffield station and I never knew that there was a platform there.

I owe you an apology had a bad day at CLJ southern driver anyway let’s move on and sorry if I offended 😊 Mark RO2 CLJ

I tried stopping the video so the drop of rain would fall to the bottom of the windscreen but it didn't help!!! 😁

#DriverView #Briliant

You wrote of the early signalling about the 40min mark. In those days the railways were little more than a slaughter house for railwaymen as being on duty for eighteen hours or more and with the unreliable engines then used where oiling would take place on the move. With the driver oiling his side and fireman doing the same and neither of them were looking at the road ahead of them. As for the rain well it wouldn't be summer without a summer shower. I saw an old Railscene cab ride from St Pancras to Sheffield on an HST with the narrator saying "as usual the weather was fowl giving rise to various lighting conditions". If you like a green country then you have to put up with the rain for there's no choice. If you want a parched countryside then come to Australia.

As usual, another great video. Thanks to Don, Mike and everyone else.

on a passenger train, does the driver have the ability to give information to the passengers via a cab radio?

First class video yet again Don- many thanks. From personal experience I can thoroughly recommend a visit to the Churnet Valley Railway and a journey through what is known as Little Switzerland. Usual question, where next?

Another great cab ride, made better with the commentary. Thanks to you and driver Mike.

Weather wise !! Why do you think i left 35 years ago,.

Another top quality video Mr Coffey! Out of curiosity, will there be any chance of you doing one of these videos for, say, Birmingham to Exeter?

Always looks slower with front facing pov compared to looking out the window. Maybe use a wider fov to increase sense of speed?

Dear Don Coffey! Getting more än more older and getting more and more less mobile I watch films with locos and railways from all over the world, and they give me great pleasure, reminding me a bit of my former life as a long range lorry/truckdriver. Being colourblind I couldnt be a locodriver, my very firtst choise. I just want to say: Thank You, Don! Your videos are in Every way the very Best, they have Everything: Especially they are from the very "birthland of the railways" and to see the fantastic work the old craftsmen and enginers and "Navvis" ! were able to do at that time! Its fantastic! Plese go on with your filming. And more of Class 66, my favorurites, ithey reminds me in many ways of my youth in big machins. Good luck! (My enthusiasm is greater than my English, sorry about that.)

That was a really excellent and informative video. Travelled to/from college several times in the early 1970's. Routing was West Allerton - Crewe - Derby - Loughborough. It was quite the trek, not for the faint hearted. That drop of water reminded me of Rover, the large white ball that kept Number 6 (Patrick McGoohan) from escaping from "The Village" in the wonderfully surreal TV series "The Prisoner" from the late 1960's. I also noted that the horn was used more frequently and far more loudly when the water droplet was on the windshield. Didn't seem to intimidate the water droplet however. 🤣

@54:06 But it's so beautiful

Excellent Video Don & Mike. Interesting facts about Nestle Factory etc. I did the Churnet Valley Railway last year. Will the connection at Stoke be reinstated etc? I looked on Google Maps at the siding at Alsager which looks to be occasionally served.

Thanks for another interesting vid Don. Although it's a line I've never worked over, it brought back memories from doing the MP12 driver training course. One of the training modules was about learning how to learn a route properly. For some reason it had to be a route you were totally unfamiliar with, and I ended up having to do Crewe to Stoke-on-Trent. At the end of that part of the course you had to produce a map showing all the signals, speed boards, bridges, crossings etc. It was the winter of 1981 and it was bitterly cold with lots of deep snow, and I distinctly remember walking round the sidings at Grange Junction, Shelton etc (which were quite extensive at the time), trying to dig snow away from the ground signals to be able to see their numbers! Happy days, although I probably didn't think so at the time!

Many thanks for this video. I used to watch the trains with my brother and grandfather from the bridge at Pear Tree station in the early 1960s. Loved being 'covered' in smoke from the steam locos.

Another great video Don, thank you and the team!

Great yideo. How is a line heading North East to Derby classified as "Up Tamworth"?

I love watching your informative videos they are an interesting watch

Another good one Don ,I see you made Mays Railnews

Super ride as always. Even the water droplet got immortalised! Loved seeing the semaphores. :)