A friend of mine used to tell me about working these freight lines out of Nine Elms when it was still steam powered. Just shows how old we are getting as we are talking sixty years ago. Nine Elms is where the New Covent Garden market is.
Where are all the sidings gone!!! The sidings that are still there are overgrown and decrepit. How sad that things have continued to decay since the EWS days when I used to work for them. On another note, I have always found it vexing how there can be such lovely track with limits up to 125 mph and yet so many branch / local lines are still restricted to puny 15 and 25 mph limits. Thanks for the video. It was great to recall some of my old stomping grounds and see how things have changed.
Tom O' Dowd Too bad none of the old roots blown EMDs made it to the UK. You would have loved that. I used to love being assigned the old GP9s. We now have some SD30s, which have the same innards as the class 66. They were rebuilt from SD40-2, which is what class 59 was based on.
I wondered where I recognised the start from, it appeared on one of the Paddington 24/7 episodes! The crossings just outside of the yard had a crack in them.
00:00 Leaves Acton Yard. Acton Mainline station on the Great Western Mainline is on the right 01:06 Passes under Horn Lane 01:58 Line veers left away from the Great Western Main Line 03:32 Joins North London Line/West London Line for a short distance at Acton Wells Junction 03:54 Passes Acton Wells box and takes the Dudding Hill Line 04:43 Passes over Victoria Road 05:46 Crosses over and leaves the Dudding Hill Line at Acton Canal Wharf box, taking the spur towards Wembley 07:11 What is now Willesden Logistics Hub is on the left (formerly Willesden Freight Terminal) 07:41 Passes under the Dudding Hill Line, which we just left, and which continues northwards 08:01 Passes under Acton Lane 09:31 Passes under the West Coast Main Line and the Up and Down Willesden goods and continues into Wembley Yard Loco Sidings
At @5:48 you must pass a Pikey camp judging my the caravans and mobile homes. The lineside is strewn with junk and crap lobbed over the embankment only at that point and the four foot is covered in crap.
Thanks for this but I have a general question. How is a route planned? If I want a train to go from say Bognor to Acton, who is involved, is it planned ahead and how is the progress of the train monitored? How are the points set correctly for a special train? Sorry a bit of a schoolboy question....
This may be late, but the red light is only for trains going straight at those points. The position signal on the right of the red signal is showing 2 white lights in the up position, which means the train is clear to proceed turning right at the junction. Position signals are used for shunting and yard movements
Nice video. It's changed a bit since i drove trains out of there! I'll have to up-load my light engine move with a pair of 37s to Cricklewood RTS, off to work the morning Forders and the joy of 23 end changes!
From which end? Ballast trains arrived from Bletchley and the bins arrived from the Bedford end with Acton drivers and the Forders shunter getting on in Bedford in order to do the run arounds.
Brings back happy memories! I used to drive that route many times! Nice to know I still remember it after 4.5 years of ill health retirement! Thanks!
Love these journey's, it's a hidden World from the General public, keep them coming.
A friend of mine used to tell me about working these freight lines out of Nine Elms when it was still steam powered. Just shows how old we are getting as we are talking sixty years ago. Nine Elms is where the New Covent Garden market is.
Great to see some of these normally hidden and unseen lines.
Thank you for this: some really rare track and packed full of meaty goodness for such a short video!
Cheers Neil
I get what your saying, you're right!
Great video thanks for the ride as a ex rail worker great to see other areas please keep them coming
Great video. Ive got to learn Acton yard, poplar lines, Wilsden reliefs, sth west sidings etc to Wembley and this is great. 👍🏻
I love the fact that the trail of sand in the four foot of the Down Poplar is growing ever larger, 6V34 from Dagenham ARC has a lot to answer for!
Soi Buakhao At least its mopping up the oil
Where are all the sidings gone!!! The sidings that are still there are overgrown and decrepit. How sad that things have continued to decay since the EWS days when I used to work for them. On another note, I have always found it vexing how there can be such lovely track with limits up to 125 mph and yet so many branch / local lines are still restricted to puny 15 and 25 mph limits. Thanks for the video. It was great to recall some of my old stomping grounds and see how things have changed.
Really interesting. Love the sound of a 66.
Tom O' Dowd Too bad none of the old roots blown EMDs made it to the UK. You would have loved that. I used to love being assigned the old GP9s.
We now have some SD30s, which have the same innards as the class 66. They were rebuilt from SD40-2, which is what class 59 was based on.
It's good to travel light engine now and again 👍🇬🇧
Thanks for video, what a peaceful short journey, love it.
I wondered where I recognised the start from, it appeared on one of the Paddington 24/7 episodes! The crossings just outside of the yard had a crack in them.
Fantastic Class 66 Cab Video ride. I'm a big fan of the Class 66. Keep 'em coming...
Cheers !
Smashed the like button........outstanding video. Thanks for sharing 👍
Marvellous video!
Full of German rail! I had no idea DB was so active!
You should see Toten yard
Another top video....keep ‘em coming fella!
Going through all those junctions and on the freight only trackage was interesting indeed Subscribed!
Cheers !
Shows how much I thought I knew. I just assumed the line through Canal Wharf Junction was wired all the way. Seems a bit strange not to have done it.
Fantastic footage!
Cheers !
Great video 👍
Excellent.
Brilliant! You have a like and a new subscriber.
thank you !
Nice ride.
Captions please! Those of us who love cab rides but don’t know the UK need captions.
Thomas Knight and those who don’t stay in England, or London for that matter.
00:00 Leaves Acton Yard. Acton Mainline station on the Great Western Mainline is on the right
01:06 Passes under Horn Lane
01:58 Line veers left away from the Great Western Main Line
03:32 Joins North London Line/West London Line for a short distance at Acton Wells Junction
03:54 Passes Acton Wells box and takes the Dudding Hill Line
04:43 Passes over Victoria Road
05:46 Crosses over and leaves the Dudding Hill Line at Acton Canal Wharf box, taking the spur towards Wembley
07:11 What is now Willesden Logistics Hub is on the left (formerly Willesden Freight Terminal)
07:41 Passes under the Dudding Hill Line, which we just left, and which continues northwards
08:01 Passes under Acton Lane
09:31 Passes under the West Coast Main Line and the Up and Down Willesden goods and continues into Wembley Yard Loco Sidings
Route Learning
Thank you.
I enjoyed that thanku for posting
Cheers Stephen
good to see from this view, i subbed
Hi you've got some good videos here ,will you be doing some longer ones at all ??
5.52 I see the Railway is still a favourite of the 'Fly Tippers' 😡🤬
At @5:48 you must pass a Pikey camp judging my the caravans and mobile homes. The lineside is strewn with junk and crap lobbed over the embankment only at that point and the four foot is covered in crap.
So many valve blow off noises throughout.as a driver they would send me absolutely crazy......
good video !!
and your getting paid for all this pleasure brillo video's, feel like a trainee driver
Super video of interesting sidings, hope it's not gong to sit there and rust away for the rest of its life now.
Thanks John
Who added the sound?
7:14 so many aspects for a line so slow
Thanks for this but I have a general question. How is a route planned? If I want a train to go from say Bognor to Acton, who is involved, is it planned ahead and how is the progress of the train monitored? How are the points set correctly for a special train? Sorry a bit of a schoolboy question....
Bore
Did you pass a red light at 11:40 ?
This may be late, but the red light is only for trains going straight at those points. The position signal on the right of the red signal is showing 2 white lights in the up position, which means the train is clear to proceed turning right at the junction. Position signals are used for shunting and yard movements
So what happens when you get to Wembley Yard ? Do they give you a 66 to return in or do you catch a cab back to Acton ?
You go home :0)
Freight Rambler Yep! I guess you do
If its a class 34, why the hell does it have a class 66 engine
Nope my bad, i didnt read it properly. My honest apoligies
What stationdid they leave from Acton ?
Acton Mainline is the station at start of film...
thanks
what class loco is this?
Dan Reeder Class 66, I can tell by its distinctive noise :)
Yep, defo a 66.
@@MaterialAmbience that and it says so in the description lol ;-)
Once you have dropped off the 66, do you then have to get a taxi back to Acton?
Nice video. It's changed a bit since i drove trains out of there! I'll have to up-load my light engine move with a pair of 37s to Cricklewood RTS, off to work the morning Forders and the joy of 23 end changes!
No Bakerloo to Charing Cross & home...
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I used to go to Forders in the 90's
A mate of mine left Acton about two years ago, he said the jobs were still pretty easy, be back home home before you booked off!
From which end? Ballast trains arrived from Bletchley and the bins arrived from the Bedford end with Acton drivers and the Forders shunter getting on in Bedford in order to do the run arounds.