BR in the 1980s Ascot to Aldershot to Guildford Cab View 1988
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- čas přidán 26. 02. 2023
- I have posted this video which was made in the summer of 1988, filmed by a good friend of mine (Nick Winfield) who sadly passed away late last year (2022) Nick filmed many of his cab rides in the South East and was an officiado on railways and architecture as well as being a musician. I was too busy driving the train, so Nick was my camera operator for that journey. The stock for this service was rather a unique working formed of the 14.44 from Reading. An oddity even for 1988! The journey is filmed in beautiful warm weather and it was also Nick's birthday.....I leave you to sit back and enjoy a blast from those days.
Sorry for the sound interference, it does steadily go....I blame the cameraman !!...also for the wrong spelling of GuilDford at the end ....Vacancy here for a proofreader......STV - Auta a dopravní prostředky
I was a driver at Reading southern and traversed this route regularly…great to see this video brings back memories
Do you really mean Reading Southern as in the 1960s before platform 4A/B at Reading General
As a young boy then wayward teenager in the 1970s this line fascinates me.
I remember 2BILs an HALs being seperated at Ascot and Tadpoles on the Redhill line.
What did you drive? Any stories you have are welcome. 🙂
Finally a video of this line, I lived in Bagshot many years ago and always wondered what the views from the cab would look like approaching both sides of Bagshot station.
Many thanks for your interest and for viewing the video John....Mark
Brings back many memories doing this route on these trains
You are welcome....Thank you for your comment ....best regards....Mark
Second comment now I’ve watched all the way through, amazing capture and I’m so glad you had this filmed, and kept to share with a wider audience. Definitely the glory days of BR for me, I was born in Aldershot in 1982 and when I was young remember it like this, it was a great time to be growing up. Sadly by the time I became a grown up it had all changed : (
On my other comment I mention the auto brake, every bit of this is incredible, from being able to judge it from far back such as Frimley to hammering it in such as Camberley and Aldershot. Quite some skill, and knowing the gradients and local elements to make it all work - shows that being a driver has a lot more to it than meets the eye!
Thanks for posting and off to view the other gems on the channel, cheers 👍🏼
Great video , used Frimley station to get everywhere , family in Bagshot and Guildford, on the pway on Woking district. Great memories . 👍🇬🇧
You are most welcome Stephen and many thanks.....best regards....Mark
Great vid Steve. I used to watch the 4 Cor units rattling through at the level crossing picking up tokens for the single track section to Ash Vale
Enjoyed the journey
Sorry for the sound interference, it does steadily go....I blame the cameraman !!...also for the wrong spelling of GuilDford at the end ....Vacancy here for a proof reader......STV
Fantastic video for many reasons, a great trip to a better time and this driver has the auto brake down to a fine art! The stop at Frimley is particularly impressive : )
Edit: Just read the description and you were the driver! Subbed too as this channel is pure gold
Many thanks for the generous comment....best regards....Mark
although fast and stylish, emus back then accelerated nearly as fast as our own diesel-electric bilevels along the St Lawrence valley here now do..!
Many thanks for your kind comment.....best regards...Mark
pleeeeease upload more of these brilliant brilliant videos
Lovely lush green countryside especially the leg between ascot and bagshot let’s hope it’s not all been destroyed for housing.
Not yet I think....best wishes to you Rebecca.....Mark
If I had a £1 for every time I've driven that route, Year and a half at Eff Jct,Three Wonderful years at Guildford, before going to Salisbury,best wishes Ian Clare.
Happy times eh....Many thanks and keep up your good work Ian.....best wishes...Mark
My great great grandad use to be signal man at Aldershot single box. I can remember standing in his garden watching the trains on the line
He certainly had a good view of the football ground behind...We used to wave at the "Bobby" in and out of the station from the train....many thanks.....Mark
@@spompey I can roughly remember standing at the bottom of the garden watching the trains go by (he didnt live far from the signal box) and if I was good I would be allowed to climb the stairs and watch from the door
Great memories I have similar of my Nans garden in Hounslow....Best wishes....Mark
@@spompey My other grandad use to live near the Romsey/Eastleigh line when it was a goods only line. I use to sit on the bridge over the line with him when he knew there would be goods training coming through the line which was very often
@@neilwilkins7686 Good memories....Many thanks....Mark
Great video
This has brought at lots of memories for me I was a driver at Wimbledon park brilliant footage 👍🏻and using auto brake 👍🏻
You're most welcome and many thanks....Mark
@@spompey mark was you a Woking driver ?
@@mrmrst9020 No I was at that time a Farnham Driver...Later moved back onto the GWR where I started my career in 1978....Many thanks for your continued interest....Mark
@@spompey thank you mark really enjoying your videos 👍🏻
@@mrmrst9020 You are very appreciated..... We may have spent our PNB's up in the rafters at WLOO together....who knows....Aaaahhh what great memories and enjoyment we used to have back in those days....The banter and practical jokes, NOT to mention the famous 4 or even 5 way fiddles...( I said not to mention them) they were so chaos causing when they went disastrously wrong.....Not for Public Information..ha ha ...all my best to you both and again thanks for watching....more to post probably over the later part of this week....Mark
its the sound mmmmmm nice... so many memories
Many thanks.....Mark
yep i did too…bagshot both ways omgddd..gradient craziness!! never liked ascot branch..it’s that whole hanging around at Aldershot if i remember!!
Aldershot , this is Aldershot. So many soldiers heard that announcement. Aldershot was home of the British Army.
My Grandad was based there in 1900....best wishes and many thanks Dave...Mark
Great vid. Thanks for sharing. Using auto brake aswell.
Yes well spotted It was more demanding than the EP and made less racket than that blessed electrical clicking....Many thanks....Mark
You are welcome.....best regards....Mark
Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
Do you know Portsmouth services ran via Claygate and Hinchley Wood in the old days?
I remember these. I seem to recall they were "all stations" services. They were, of course, in addition to the via Woking and Guildford services.
I drive this route. Absolutley horrendous in leaf fall.
Let the train take the strain
Too right....Best wishes....Mark
where did the track lead to on the left at 26-27 minutes ?
Towards Working / London, The line splits before hand at Ash Vale where you can go towards Ascot as well.
Didn't the old Ash Junction line lead to an obscure place called Tongham, which closed long before Beeching?
@@GTRider69 Woking ??
@@roderickscott7429 Yep Woking not working "damn autotext"
@@duncancurtis5971 Yes Station closed in 1937? and the line in about 1960 it use to run to Farnham.
What does VEP mean? 0:25
Vestibule Electro Pneumatic It has a vestibule and EP Braking.....Many thanks for watching and for the comment...my best regards...Mark
Do HM Gov't keep stats on Britons electrocuted by the Third (or Fourth, as in the LU) Rail?
I expect there is a record somewhere..for definate.....I witnessed 1 in my career and prevented a small baby becoming a statistic at Ascot once....Best regards to you...Mark
@@spompey I too saw a horrible sight just before Bagshot station on Ascot side. for some unknown reason a woman either jumped or fell after opening a door on the right side. This was back in the early 60's.
@@johnestowell Yes Sorry to hear that....It always remains with you for a very long time....My best regards to you and many thanks......mark
Doubt it , if they're stupid enough to play on the tracks ,
I needed to know why don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so that they can 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 that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into Five cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on those Five cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer 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 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 a High-Speed train?
The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Train line to make it 11 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 refurbished 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 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 could they extend the DLR?
All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Five carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended 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 unique small no.13 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, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 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, the Prime Minister of Sweden, the Prime Minister of Germany, the Prime Minister of Italy, the Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.
I shall pass this onto the mayor.....Many thanks for this in-depth comment and your phenomenal knowledge......Mark
Shame about the horrible noise.