Great video, shame about the overlaid noise. As least I know where the mute button is, but it would be so much better to hear the engine and other 'real' sounds.
Agree with many other comments, we want live sound, not canned music,, if we wanted that we'd ride in a lift. I suppose maybe the crew were singing and that was worse? LOL
Just to add to all the comments about the lower limits since the Ladbroke Grove accident, the Working Timetable schedule (start to stop) for HSTs in 1982 was 22mins.
I have recently found out that the noise of the train in the cab is pretty much nothing as there are no nearby traction motors cooling systems or diesel engines to make a noise. Drivers report that it's like gliding out of Paddington because it's so silent, the main cab noise being the cab air con.
What’s worse the music or the sounds of the IEP and cab sounds. Maybe the music doesn’t bother some people and others would like the real sounds. Each to there own
WOW, what a thrilling ride. The first passenger aircraft I flew in, mid '50s, a DH Rapide, couldn't reach 100 mph unless it had a galeforce 9 tailwind pushing it.
Worth pointing out that if we still had British Rail the line would have been electrified by 1997 and the trains would be doing 140 mph. Privatisation ended the advanced plans for electrification, signalling modifications and new electric trains would would have come into service about 25 years ago. Worth adding that in the last 10 years or so, the UK government has provided over three times the amount of money to UK railways than was given to British Rail in the 1980s (adjusted for inflation).
And on the day when Virgin East Coast is re-nationalised, note that the class 91 and Mk4 coaches still used on that line, were designed 30 years ago to run at 140 mph. Replacement will be by slower Hitachi IET trains. Now there's progress.
Worth pointing you are living in a dream world, one who has forgotten what travel was like under British Rail. Under British rail, I'd still be traveling to Waterloo with slam door 4 VEPS
So 40 years later and no improvement in speed or journey times and, nothing planned - the legacy of privatisation, oh but improved acceleration when compared with 30+ year old Class 91s.
So far I’ve travelled in and out of PAD 15 times on your new inter-city trains and they’ve absolutely crawled through slough (or slow as I call it) and then thy crawl through Hayes and Harlington and they almost never leave Reading on time!
Come on, GWR, what are you doiiiiing??? You're producing a viideo which most likely to be watched by enthusiasts and removing sounds of the train? these are sounds which we die for..! How dumb!
Yes you've got the right expression sir at last found it , sounds that we would die for , which is your favourite sir if I may ask , for me it's both EMD 645E3 in motion , and Ge dash 7 particularly those old ones under 2000 hp , hope to hear from you and all the folks which are theirs ??
Looks like a timing of just over 21 mins could be achieved with 6%G braking from 125 to 95mph and then 95mph to rest. Unless some time savings could be made between Paddington and Twyford - then somewhere between 9 and 10%G braking would be needed to beat the 20 min 46 sec record. Drivers might needs some practice and a dry rail.
I've actually been on a record run in an HST set. way back in the early 80's I believe. I paid for a ticket for my Brother and me to take the record run from Bristol to London and back. we were given a tie. a folder. special ticket in a wallet and the tannoy informed us along the way of our speed. when we got to Paddington we were informed of the time and average speed. on the way back we broke our own record. and I remember everyone cheering in the coach I was in. Out time was something like 68 minutes but coming back we exceeded an average speed of 102mph. i maybe a tiny bit hazy on exact time but I'm pretty sure it was very close to that. So unless they do something about the track and get the trains to really make use of its acceleration and top speed it ain't gonna be much of an improvement over an HST
Yes, this video has THE BEST MUSIC ON THE ENTIRETY OF CZcams. I hope every youtuber from now on uses this song in their videos. In case you haven't noticed, this comment is being sarcastic.
For anyone who has made it to the end without worrying about the music, at 7:05 mins the train passes the Southall Depot, used by steam tour company West Coast Railways. There is a loco getting preped in the Yard. Any idea what loco it might be? Just for interest.
I think it's a black 5? If you pause the video at about that point you can use the dot (full stop, period if you're American) or comma keys to step forward and back frame by frame. Using that facility as best I can see it's a black 5 but it's too shrouded in its own steam to be 100% sure.
If you run this at 1.5 times speed, not only do you get to see what it would look like if they allowed higher speeds, but the music sounds more like a steam loco!
I must admit I turned the music off before we got to the end of the platform at Paddington. Otherwise interesting to get the cab view having travelled on the blessed thing more times than I can to remember
I worked as a second man on this route back in the 70s, between my driver and I we took turns driving...He drove one way and I the other, coming back from Bristol one day I got a class 52 loco "Western Crusader" I think ? up to 114 MPH through Slough ...The road as we called it dropped slightly and this gave me the extra speed...Needless to say I caught up the time as we left late...
They go all the way to Camarthen. They run on electricity as far as Didcot Parkway, when they switch to diesel and vice versa when returning to London. If it's stopping at Didcot, they will switch whilst stopped. If passing didcot non-stop, they tend to switch just east of the junction to the Oxford branch. No IETs are currently running to Devon/Cornwall as the 800s currently in service aren't powerful enough to deal with the steep gradients, and the 802s are still being tested and aren't ready to go into service yet
I've done this journey my simulator in different scenarios & weather conditions & it's not a bad journey although I did in a APT 125 class 43 many times & also the class 166 & I haven't quite finished the full game YET!!! 🤔😁 No idea what I'll do next when I eventually complete it all. 🤔🙄. I am sure I'll find something just as enjoyable (hopefully!!!) 🙄🤔
Good video and a nice mix of trains on the way including steam diesel and electric. I assume its got kinda western sounding music because they are GWR.
I did it regularly in the early/mid '90s. The background deep resonant thrum of the HSTs at Paddington made the place feel more alive than it does now.
The Paddington-Ladbroke speed limit is to maximise signal reading time for drivers, especially because they are arranged in rows across the six lines and drivers must 'count across' to make absolutely certain that they are reading the correct signals for their train. The 95 limit approaching Reading is determined by signal spacing which leaves inadequate braking distance for higher speed.
Ladbroke Grove disaster of 1999, as a HST was travelling near to 125mph on the approach to Paddington when a local train which passed a red light crashed into it, causing one of the biggest accidents on UK railways
I recall that back in the late 1970s that the original HST scheduled journey time for London P to Reading was 22 minutes. So this IET with all the signals set to green in its favour has shaved about a minute off the original timetable. I invite viewers as old as I am to back me up here, as I have long since lost the original timetable.
I've got a BR Passenger Timetable from 1982/83 so not quite 70's but as an example: Departs Paddington at 8.10am Arrives in Reading at 8.34am Arrives in Bristol Parkway at 9.21am Arrives in Swansea at 10.56am Just to give another comparison from way back, here are times from a 1902 GWR timetable: Departs Paddington at 10.30am Arrives in Reading at 11.38am Arrives in Swindon at 12.35pm
Hi I used to work on class 55 and 40. Great days. I can't imagine sitting in your seat at that speed and suddenly finding a set of points set wrong -- say off to the right , 😮😮. !!! I'm sure it's happened. , that would ruin your day. , great video. But play some reggae. Lol 😅
It goes Royal Oak (London Underground), Acton Mainline, Ealing Broadway, West Ealing, Hanwell, Southall, Hayes & Harlington, West Drayton, Iver, Langley, Slough, Burnham, Taplow, Maidenhead, and Twyford in that order
Not really, most of the North's electrification plans were cancelled in favour of the GWML, which runs into Wales. Electrification should go at least as far as Cardiff, if not Swansea. The North has basically got a couple lines between Liverpool, Manchester and Preston and the branch to Blackpool, and that's about it.
Alasdair Clift OK but why not electrify Shrewsbury I mean it's only 30 miles from Wolverhampton plus you can get to holyhead, Swansea, Cardiff, London, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Manchester and Chester
trainnerd 5-m-t Because A: that’s Network Rails job B: it’s expensive C: there isn’t any demand as it’s a secondary route for those places, and the West Coast Main Line is already electrified and is the primary route
I'd be doubtful that the music was part of the popular request.
yes get rid of that annoying music. Train sounds better
Agreed
Also agreed.
Also agreed - if you must put music, at least change tracks! (see what I did there :) )
agreed
@@AndyBilham lol i see what u did there
Good video but for the pointless and annoying music
I had to stop. The musak is bloody awful !!
Dermot Jordan Turn off your volume then…
Mute and play your Stormzy music over the top
Getting past the awful music, that was an incredible time. I used to commute on that route and my fastest ever run was 28 minutes behind D0280 Falcon.
Great video, shame about the overlaid noise. As least I know where the mute button is, but it would be so much better to hear the engine and other 'real' sounds.
Yeah, the engine it uses when running in electric mode ...
Did anyone enjoy the muzak. To anyone making more like this just give us engine track and wind sounds. No inane chatter or elevator tunes.
It was the 1960's live with it, free video to watch and all you can do is moan.
no the music was shit and detracted from the video@@nicholasbeane4779
Please lose the music.
Turn your sound off
RegionalRailways you better stop. Ahhhhhh. STOP STOP STOOOOOOUUUOOOOPP AHHHHHH YOU BETTER STOOOOOPPPP
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Reading Station looks great!
Ngl it does me and my friend try to predict when trains will go under a bridge using our phones
Sack the person who suggested this music track. The sound of the train is enough. Can’t just mute it loses the “atmosphere”
sack you for your dumb explaination
you can just go on other tab of yt and play some other music bruh
@@tomaszek137 ummmm, that’s the point, no music just the cabin “atmosphere” thanks.
@@tomaszek137 pardon😂😂
99% of comments: get rid of the music
1% of comments: the IETs are great trains
Arggh, that music-- oh I can't stand it, I'm going to watch something else
nice cabride of the IETS but very annoying music
Turn your sound off
Loose the music please , doesn’t go well with this
I feel like a cowboy watching this, and I don't like it :(
If your sitting on a DMU 101 travelling from Kirknewton to Livingston sth you'd think you were riding a horse.
Thank you everyone who commented to say throw the music under the train. Much love.
Replace the music with a train horn?
Thank you Mr Brunel for making this possible...
Andy Powell first comment I have seen that is not complaining about the music
I wonder what Brunel would have thought about the music
Nick Lindsey “What the hell is this futuristic pop music that sounds absolutely horrible? is this what the future listens too?”
Just seen this on Paddington 24/7. Well done GWR for the attempt very close.
Agree with many other comments, we want live sound, not canned music,, if we wanted that we'd ride in a lift. I suppose maybe the crew were singing and that was worse? LOL
music was not necessary
turn your sound off
Just to add to all the comments about the lower limits since the Ladbroke Grove accident, the Working Timetable schedule (start to stop) for HSTs in 1982 was 22mins.
Why can't we hear the noise of the train.....
HSTFAN
It's a speed run you dope.
cos theres music
I have recently found out that the noise of the train in the cab is pretty much nothing as there are no nearby traction motors cooling systems or diesel engines to make a noise. Drivers report that it's like gliding out of Paddington because it's so silent, the main cab noise being the cab air con.
It's not a sped up phaha
Lose the music please
Turn you sound off
He meant he wanted to hear the sound of the IEP
IEP's don't even make a good sound.
What’s worse the music or the sounds of the IEP and cab sounds. Maybe the music doesn’t bother some people and others would like the real sounds. Each to there own
Very debatable, they sound better than the aventras by miles
Please can more of these Cab views be done once the GWML Upgrade is complete. Would be great to see the effects of the work being done!
WOW, what a thrilling ride. The first passenger aircraft I flew in, mid '50s, a DH Rapide, couldn't reach 100 mph unless it had a galeforce 9 tailwind pushing it.
5 car to Swansea on Good Friday. Train packed. Great progress
General Motors LOL
Get a car?
@Shrek Wazowski they have 800/3s and 802/1s which are 9 cars long
The best music in the world
Can You Upgrade The Seats On The IETs? People Say They Are Hard
Worth pointing out that if we still had British Rail the line would have been electrified by 1997 and the trains would be doing 140 mph. Privatisation ended the advanced plans for electrification, signalling modifications and new electric trains would would have come into service about 25 years ago. Worth adding that in the last 10 years or so, the UK government has provided over three times the amount of money to UK railways than was given to British Rail in the 1980s (adjusted for inflation).
And on the day when Virgin East Coast is re-nationalised, note that the class 91 and Mk4 coaches still used on that line, were designed 30 years ago to run at 140 mph. Replacement will be by slower Hitachi IET trains. Now there's progress.
Worth pointing you are living in a dream world, one who has forgotten what travel was like under British Rail. Under British rail, I'd still be traveling to Waterloo with slam door 4 VEPS
The IETs are capable of 140 mph and with much faster acceleration than class 91's; they certainly are not slower!!!
So 40 years later and no improvement in speed or journey times and, nothing planned - the legacy of privatisation, oh but improved acceleration when compared with 30+ year old Class 91s.
You have it the wrong way round - Privatisation is the legacy of a union ruined, investment starved, badly run, badly performing BR.
Thanks for posting. Really enjoyed it. Please feel free to do as many more of your network as you wish. Cab rides will always get 1000's of views.
So far I’ve travelled in and out of PAD 15 times on your new inter-city trains and they’ve absolutely crawled through slough (or slow as I call it) and then thy crawl through Hayes and Harlington and they almost never leave Reading on time!
Could you add the station names and have in future sound of the wind instead of music.
I've just watched a video of a Customised Van in the US with the same music. My taste in music is Eclectic.
Come on, GWR, what are you doiiiiing??? You're producing a viideo which most likely to be watched by enthusiasts and removing sounds of the train? these are sounds which we die for..! How dumb!
Yes you've got the right expression sir at last found it , sounds that we would die for , which is your favourite sir if I may ask , for me it's both EMD 645E3 in motion , and Ge dash 7 particularly those old ones under 2000 hp , hope to hear from you and all the folks which are theirs ??
This music is so annoying - How many times can you repeat the same lick? (Rhetorical question)
Looks like a timing of just over 21 mins could be achieved with 6%G braking from 125 to 95mph and then 95mph to rest. Unless some time savings could be made between Paddington and Twyford - then somewhere between 9 and 10%G braking would be needed to beat the 20 min 46 sec record. Drivers might needs some practice and a dry rail.
just did Paddington to Bristol parkway. pleasant journey and lovely staff
So the electrification is used all the way from Paddington to Reading? What's next for activated electrification?
No the electrification is used all the way up to Didcot.
Next is continuing towards Wootton Bassett Junction sometime later this year.
Electrification from London Paddington to Newbury, Cardiff Central, Chippenham, and Didcot East Junction
It was so great
I've actually been on a record run in an HST set. way back in the early 80's I believe. I paid for a ticket for my Brother and me to take the record run from Bristol to London and back. we were given a tie. a folder. special ticket in a wallet and the tannoy informed us along the way of our speed. when we got to Paddington we were informed of the time and average speed. on the way back we broke our own record. and I remember everyone cheering in the coach I was in. Out time was something like 68 minutes but coming back we exceeded an average speed of 102mph. i maybe a tiny bit hazy on exact time but I'm pretty sure it was very close to that. So unless they do something about the track and get the trains to really make use of its acceleration and top speed it ain't gonna be much of an improvement over an HST
Very good video, nice scenery.
Love the music
Don't get me wrong I like these new trains but will always prefer the class 43s and 225s
Great video. Is there any possibility of an upload with ambient cab sound?
And no music?
is there a list of stations you pass. From up north only used this train once or twice, does it go by Aldershot
Was on Paddington 24/7 this week
I need therapy after that music !
What a rush. Thankyou.
I would love to be a driver! Currently working for GWR!
Nice video. Is Saint Denis a suburb of Baltimore?
The music is wonderfull and well played
Yes, this video has THE BEST MUSIC ON THE ENTIRETY OF CZcams. I hope every youtuber from now on uses this song in their videos.
In case you haven't noticed, this comment is being sarcastic.
For anyone who has made it to the end without worrying about the music, at 7:05 mins the train passes the Southall Depot, used by steam tour company West Coast Railways. There is a loco getting preped in the Yard. Any idea what loco it might be? Just for interest.
I think it's a black 5? If you pause the video at about that point you can use the dot (full stop, period if you're American) or comma keys to step forward and back frame by frame. Using that facility as best I can see it's a black 5 but it's too shrouded in its own steam to be 100% sure.
When you were at Paddington station a green 43 came at the rear
Please can we have one for a non-stop Electrostar ?
If you run this at 1.5 times speed, not only do you get to see what it would look like if they allowed higher speeds, but the music sounds more like a steam loco!
Great shout, CERTAINLY improves that awful music played at normal speed, sounds more lively now, its.... listenable.
no music please
I must admit I turned the music off before we got to the end of the platform at Paddington. Otherwise interesting to get the cab view having travelled on the blessed thing more times than I can to remember
good pictures and railway scenery is superb thank you
Why the music?
I was on one of these that did Paddington to Slough in 12:36. We need a station for the Slough Trading Estate, just a shuttle from Slough.
I worked as a second man on this route back in the 70s, between my driver and I we took turns driving...He drove one way and I the other, coming back from Bristol one day I got a class 52 loco "Western Crusader" I think ? up to 114 MPH through Slough ...The road as we called it dropped slightly and this gave me the extra speed...Needless to say I caught up the time as we left late...
Jim Bradley a
Jim Bradley s
Appropriate speed to pass Slough
Music covers up the creaking of failed welding ... ?
Last time I drove an HST from Padd to Reading was in 2006 and still know the route like the back of my hand, very little as changed.
how far out from London do the iets get at the moment.
They go all the way to Camarthen. They run on electricity as far as Didcot Parkway, when they switch to diesel and vice versa when returning to London. If it's stopping at Didcot, they will switch whilst stopped. If passing didcot non-stop, they tend to switch just east of the junction to the Oxford branch. No IETs are currently running to Devon/Cornwall as the 800s currently in service aren't powerful enough to deal with the steep gradients, and the 802s are still being tested and aren't ready to go into service yet
The music sounds like the club penguin fishing. Remove it.
You are so correct
Greetings from Geecee Sydney Aus. I really enjoy these type of vids and also luv the geetaa, although 21 minutes is probably too much. Many thanks.
I've done this journey my simulator in different scenarios & weather conditions & it's not a bad journey although I did in a APT 125 class 43 many times & also the class 166 & I haven't quite finished the full game YET!!! 🤔😁 No idea what I'll do next when I eventually complete it all. 🤔🙄. I am sure I'll find something just as enjoyable (hopefully!!!) 🙄🤔
Watching again in September '22. So much has happened since, but that train is still flashing.
Good video and a nice mix of trains on the way including steam diesel and electric. I assume its got kinda western sounding music because they are GWR.
Great Music
Great video but there are lots of free tracks on youtube creators! Great to see these videos so please keep them coming.
Do the trains systems tell the driver how fast he/she can go as well as the trackside speed signs?
On this line, yes, the automatic train protection (ATP) system displays it in the cab.
I used to do this journey every day on the 125s. The quickest journey was 27 minutes, the longest was 4 hours.
I did it regularly in the early/mid '90s.
The background deep resonant thrum of the HSTs at Paddington made the place feel more alive than it does now.
If the driver has to sit and listen to that music he would throw himself under his own train......
You will never mentally replace the HSTs, they're just too good
2 questions. Why the ridicously long 40/50 speed restrictions so far from Paddington? And why the drop to 95 3 miles out from Reading?
As for Paddington, it's because of the Ladbroke Grove crash.
The Paddington-Ladbroke speed limit is to maximise signal reading time for drivers, especially because they are arranged in rows across the six lines and drivers must 'count across' to make absolutely certain that they are reading the correct signals for their train.
The 95 limit approaching Reading is determined by signal spacing which leaves inadequate braking distance for higher speed.
The music is great, just as the video
I like the new IETs it’s Great including Music Hanwell station was built in 1838
What does the 85/100 limit mean? Is it 85 for some trains, 100 for others?
It is indeed.
I thought it was split for trains crossing the points, with the higher speed for straight through.
85 For freight and 100 for passenger.
@@Cloudrak freight cant go 85mph. Id assume the 100mph is for HST's only
85 for loco hauled services 100 for multiple units
People just don't understand that when it comes to music "one man's meat is 99 mens' poison".
Any idea which station the train goes through around the 7.12 mark ?
Southall, old DMU depot on left. Water tower on right, the one that has a sign on it for pilots landing at Heathrow.
Thank you.
stnicholas54 7:12
Great music. Who is it?
Whats the name of this music
Why are the line sppeds out of Paddington so slow for such a long distance?
Ladbroke Grove disaster of 1999, as a HST was travelling near to 125mph on the approach to Paddington when a local train which passed a red light crashed into it, causing one of the biggest accidents on UK railways
Alasdair Clift The HST was going at 80mph actually :l
The Random Bus Still much slower than usual, and it’s 50mph for a good while out of Paddington
Did someone say speed run? *manhunt music starts playing*
For all the people saying that they hate the music... I kinda like it. Does anyone know what it is?
Only car drivers can get jealous of these speeds
It feels the music wants me to be like a fucking cowboys
I recall that back in the late 1970s that the original HST scheduled journey time for London P to Reading was 22 minutes. So this IET with all the signals set to green in its favour has shaved about a minute off the original timetable. I invite viewers as old as I am to back me up here, as I have long since lost the original timetable.
I've got a BR Passenger Timetable from 1982/83 so not quite 70's but as an example:
Departs Paddington at 8.10am
Arrives in Reading at 8.34am
Arrives in Bristol Parkway at 9.21am
Arrives in Swansea at 10.56am
Just to give another comparison from way back, here are times from a 1902 GWR timetable:
Departs Paddington at 10.30am
Arrives in Reading at 11.38am
Arrives in Swindon at 12.35pm
Class 43 sound good besides the Hitachis
Did they seriously put that song on loop for like 20 minutes straight?
after numerous comments .. when ARE you going to drop the music? 🙉🙉
I used to live in West Drayton. Express trains thunder through at a frightening speed
Hi I used to work on class 55 and 40. Great days. I can't imagine sitting in your seat at that speed and suddenly finding a set of points set wrong -- say off to the right , 😮😮. !!! I'm sure it's happened. , that would ruin your day. , great video. But play some reggae. Lol 😅
Would be nice to see the station names as we pass through. So many videos do this.
It goes Royal Oak (London Underground), Acton Mainline, Ealing Broadway, West Ealing, Hanwell, Southall, Hayes & Harlington, West Drayton, Iver, Langley, Slough, Burnham, Taplow, Maidenhead, and Twyford in that order
didnt know that train simulator upadated their graphics
I've noticed that routes all over the network are being electrified except for wales
Not really, most of the North's electrification plans were cancelled in favour of the GWML, which runs into Wales. Electrification should go at least as far as Cardiff, if not Swansea. The North has basically got a couple lines between Liverpool, Manchester and Preston and the branch to Blackpool, and that's about it.
Alasdair Clift OK but why not electrify Shrewsbury I mean it's only 30 miles from Wolverhampton plus you can get to holyhead, Swansea, Cardiff, London, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Manchester and Chester
trainnerd 5-m-t Because A: that’s Network Rails job B: it’s expensive C: there isn’t any demand as it’s a secondary route for those places, and the West Coast Main Line is already electrified and is the primary route
Since when is GWR country western?
But still better than privatisation, but there is a long list, electrification of both the West Coast and East Coast main lines, Mk4 coaches....
Dizzy. Looks like with what appears to be four main lines, your manifest freights all run on the lines on the far right.
Nice to See a Car type Wiper arm spring en all...