First ScotRail Caledonian Sleeper | Inverness to London Euston
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2014
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On the sleeper yet again down the Highland Mainline from Inverness, onto the West Coast Mainline down to Euston on Wednesday 18th (into 19th) June 2014.
The service leaves Inverness at 20:44, but due to how far north it is sunset isn't until nearly 22:30! Meaning the first several hours are still in complete daylight. Sunrise further south in the Lake District was just after 4am, so there was only a few hours of darkness all night! Even after 11pm the sky wasn't completely dark and by 3am colour was starting to come through on the horizon again. I took advantage of the daylight and tried to cover as much of the journey on camera as I possibly could, hense the rather long video. I did not include anything between Edinburgh & just before Preston, because 1. It was dark. 2. Theres not all that much to see in that area (Apart from Carlisle really) 3. It my opportunity to get a few hours sleep.
67022 hauled us in the sunset between Inverness & Edinburgh, where DB livery 90036 took over for the sunrise run to London.
I've featured stations and the time we passed them in the video, but here is featured moments in order of appearance.
IN ORDER & TIMES OF APPEARANCE IN VIDEO:
00:09 - A look at 67022
00:35 - Departure from Inverness
03:55 - In a passing to allow a 170 to pass.
05:25 - Culloden Viaduct crossing
10:30 - Another passing loop, another 170
13:44 - Tomatin Viaduct & river Findhorn below
15:12 - Entering the Cairngorms National Park
16:05 - Passing Carrbridge Station
17:10 - Aviemore
21:28 - Kingussie
22:51 - Newtonmore
24:03 - A look around the berth
26:00 - Beautiful red sky sunset
27:37 - Blair Atholl
30:04 - Pitlochry
32:30 - Dunkeld & Birnam
33:45 - Perth
35:44 - Stirling
37:00 - Arrival at Edinburgh Waverley
38:50 - Shunting movements to join the rest of the sleeper
40:40 - Departure from Edinburgh
41:50 - Passing Haymarket
42:27 - Beautiful foggy morning sunsrise near Lancaster at 4am!
43:44 - Departure from Preston
45:37 - Departure from Crewe
48:20 - Speeding along the WCML!
49:39 - Passing Nuneation
50:14 - Congestion near Rugby as rush hour begins
53:20 - Passing Rugby
54:25 - Kilsby Tunnel
55:30 - The "Slow Lines" from Northampton join
55:53 - The old platforms of Castlethorpe
57:08 - Passing over Haversham viaduct & Wolverton Station
58:00 - Passing Milton Keynes Central
58:56 - Bletchley
60:15 - Kings Langley & M25 passing overhead
60:34 - Passing a class 90 hauling Royal Mail 325's!
61:30 - Watford Junction
62:56 - "X-Men" livery 390155 passing
64:10 - Wembley
66:16 - Arrival in London Euston
There you go! Very busy night. Stunning sunset & sunrise and lots of things to look out for. Another good night on the sleeper :)
Thanks for watching!
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Did you know?
The first Virgin Train of the day, the 05:26 to Liverpool, is the hardest working train in Britain!
It does the 04:22 ECS from Wembley, 05:26 to Liverpool, 08:47 from Liverpool, 11:30 to Glasgow and the 16:40 back, then it's 23:00 to Manchester, and then arrives at Longsight at 02:28 the following day. 1,383 miles altogether
I've no idea why you have so many "thumbs down" I'm thinking of doing this trip.I think you did a great job! Thanks..
The thumbs down are from envious americans.
Fantastic video, well shot. Gave me good memories of the half dozen or so trips I made on the Sleeper between 2008 and 2011 when I lived in the UK. It was always expensive and there were times I found flying from London up to Inverness cheaper. Thank you.
My favorite video, the sound of wheels and rails it's just amazing!!!!
she's a mighty beast,the highlander,when she's all formed up!
A beautiful journey,lovely sights. Thanks Matt
Not my original intention, but I ended up watching this in its entirety.Will let that speak for itself.
Brilliant video of the Caledonian sleeper the best part is departing Inverness with the tones
Wowww!!! Amazing and breathtaking landscape beginning at 5:30. What a beautiful ancient bridge. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Brazil.
What a life you have Matt! Visiting all these airports and on planes, and then seemingly every train journey and station possible (although weren't you bored at Inverness station? lol). I envy you! I always look forward to your new videos - please keep them coming! Thanks.
Great Video I really enjoyed this thought I would watch it for a couple of mins then switch off, watched it all, used to drive Scottish Citylink Coaches to Inverness and back to Glasgow, Edinburgh would have swapped for the train journey any day!! also remember the line crisscrossing the A9. Some Citylinks wen`t through Kingussie and Newtonmore and I remember the line there too. Been to Fort William and Oban within the last year saw the sleeper leaving Fort William and arriving. The trains to Fort William and Oban are joined together then split at Crianlarich, now I realise they do the same with the Caledonian Sleepers at Edinburgh to make one massive train, makes sense really
Great video :-) watched every minute. Some close shots to the trees and I loved the parts where you were filming reverse down the line.
your landscape is fantastic. Amtrak has many similar routes. Lakeshore Limited is one of them. upper beds are premade when you lower or unfold them from the ceiling/wall. just unfold the sheets. wow low light at 2330 is different. very early sunrise also.
Beautiful route, beautiful train and awesome video! To favourites :) .
Interesting video. Loved the way you had to duck in sharpish to avoid that tree around 19 minutes in. :-D
TMV Possibly the same one that smacked against my head in 1966. I can still feel it!
Happened to me a few times, once at 95 mph behind a 47 between Lancaster & Preston!
Great video. I admire your stamina hanging out of the window for so long. Great view to Edinburgh at 1st coach then great view from Edinburgh as last coach. I counted 15 maybe 16 coaches, now thats a real train. Well done its very interesting. Did it last year in October and doing it again this August, looking forward to the brightness this time. Thanks, John Inverness.
It jumps to about 20/21 coaches, as much as Eurostars, after Edinburgh towards Euston.
Excellent video mate
Another very good video. What a train this is i've only done the sleeper northbound then to Fort William to catch the Jacobite, i had 036 for haulage too. I should think you were shattered after being up most of the night.
Love going on the Caledonian Sleeper! :D
Approaching Edinburgh in the dark, lights around the castle
Cracking video; enjoyed it very much. Thanks for sharing. What's the arrangement at Waverley? The Aberdeen and Fort William portions are already there? Presumably the Inverness portion reverses onto them from the east?
Nice video ,Thanks for upload
Great video really enjoy it
Awesome Video :)
Great trip/ video thanks for sharing!
Northbound would be awesome too! :D
Did you purposely asked for the last sleeper knowing it would be on the end of the train after they were coupled in Edinburgh? Thanks...
This is just before Serco took over from Scotrail for the Caledonian Sleeper and GBRF won the contract from DB Shenker to haul it and the rebuilt Class 73/9s were introduced to replace the Class 67s to be transferred to DB Cargo UK and some GBRF Class 66s helped out on some Caledonian Sleeper services in Scotland to assist the Class 73/9s on the Highland and lowland sleepers and Class 92s came out of storage and took over from Class 90s from Glasgow and Edinburgh to London Euston
Hi I would love to do this journey some time next year do you need two tickets to travel on it or just the one if your travelling all the way down to London as the Caledonian website says 1 ticket and if you ask anywhere else they say you have to have 2 tickets so confusing
I've travelled on this service- much more comfortable in the bunk bed
Im a bit puzzled why you bought a sleeper now, LOL.But nicely done, good memories for me from my old part of the World.
I didn't realise sleeper services still existed - I thought with 100mph+ track speeds the journey was so quick it wasn't worth going to sleep!
Now that the service is run by Serco, do they still use Scotrail carriages or only Serco carriages? What happens to all the old Scotrail carriages if they dont use them? Do they recycle them somewhere else on the network?
Wonderfully covered trip,but the locomotive change should have been covered...
That waz amazing! Did the train go via Northampton or Weedon? I live by the line in Weedon and wanted to identify my place.
Ann Brown Sleepers usually go fast line (Via Weedon) unless they're late or the lines shut.
Edinburgh Waverlay station 01;14 to collect the Edinburgh to London section of the train, 15 mins in Edinburgh to back up, hook up and continue to London
great shot at around 1.04.10
Can you do Lapworth and Birmingham airport?
Calling at Aviemore station, Aviemore's wrought iron bridge
Why doesn't this train take the direct route like the "Clansman" used to, through Coatbridge and Motherwell?
the very first virgin trains from london euston is the 05:30 to Glasgow central
Your car become the rear car eventually? I am confused
It changes direction at Edinburgh
How long is it?
What's the journey time between Inverness and London?
About 11 hours
There's a trip I'd like very much to do :)
According to Scotrail 9hours 34 minutes.
48:25 what is that sound?
Brill video
Excellent video a couple of points though. If nothing much is happening audio wise think about switching off mic. Wind noise is a bit annoying . Next my I suggest please show the platform side during station stops. Otherwise enjoyed very much thank you.
I'm just gonna upload the video with huge parts in silence I'm afraid. And if I have my head out the window on the side of the platforms the staff will spot me and ask me to get my head in. On the sleeper there is no dispatchers on the platforms so the driver has to get out and flash a green light at the guard, I don't want to be in the way of that.
rachaelmatt "...so the driver has to get out and flash a green light at the guard" Are you sure it isn't the other way round?
Inkyminkyzizwoz Nope both of them flash a green light at each other, to acknowledge
rachaelmatt I don't know if you've heard (though judging by how often you travel on it, you probably have), but the Caledonian Sleeper is going to be a separate franchise to the main Scotrail one from next year. It's been awarded to Serco and they're planning to bring in new rolling stock from 2018 - I don't know whether the windows on that will open or whether it'll be air conditioned
rachaelmatt That's rare to see an XC voyager at Crewe.
make more uploads like this!
Do u know what the steam was at 1:06:04 on the right
Ive absolutely no idea I'm afraid.
oh ok thanks though
It's a steam train.
It is an ex LMS 1930s design, Mixed Traffic "Black 5" (4-6-0 wheel arrangement), in post 1957 British Railways livery. Cannot see the number but a handful of these useful locomotives are privately preserved by various groups in working order, some being authorised to run on the mainline national network.
james pegnum that was already implied in the question (OP knew) - among trainspotters the word "train" after steam etc is assumed!
Actually this is the other way round! 67s can go 125 but 90s can only go 110 so it's best if a class 90 went from Inverness to Edinburgh for the 67 from Edinburgh to London!
But a class 90 cant do Inverness to Edinburgh because its electric and 67's can only do 125 on HST routes not EPS routes like pendolinos and they will never operate a sleeper train at over 100mph.
As the train was entering Kingussie, it came very close to scraping on bushes. I wonder if it could be expedient to Scotrail to install an "automated machete" on the side of the engine to keep that stuff under control as they run past! (It might also be necessary to install a brush deflector behind that to insure that the cut brush was thrown well away from the train as it all went by! Kill 2 birds with one stone?
...continued:
By the time the train reached Blair Atholl, it looks like the time was about sunrise of the second day? Was that right?
...continued 2:
As the train gets to Perth it becomes obvious my previous assessment was wrong. there I see you posted the time of day as close to midnight, and it was dark.
One of uz muzt have mizzed that bit! (zorry about the 'z'z - key broken!)
How many coaches and their type?
16 coaches long
type is BR MK3 coach
Steam locomotive at 1:06:07
It's 20:44 in the night, fuck it's bright
Angrythomasfan3210 0 Must be summer up north nearer the circle. Above the circle there is daylight all day, the sun never sets. On the other hand during the winter it turns dark much earlier.
inverness hardly in the artic circle,but does stay light until 1030-1100 in high summer
? Please
Cool videos but do u just travel to places for no reason but just to film
Berth !
Footage is great but the audio is shite, invest in a better windsock for your micrphone, if you haven't an external microphone then invest in one which will make your video's much better
the thumbs down could be because of the wind noise!
Interesting, but the question is: Why does the electric locomotive (90036) bear the logo of the "Deutsche Bahn" (DB), German National Railways. This implies that the British Taxpayer is now helping to fund the German State Railways, something I feel is at the very least ethically incorrect !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Theduke71000 I'm sure you're aware that Arriva, that operates train lines in Britain, is owned by DB. In addition, other rail companies in Britain, such as Abellio that now operates the former Scotrail lines except the sleeper, are owned by Nederlandse Spoorwegen, (NS) the government owned railway of the Netherlands.
Indeed, so we have to ask the question. Why are Nationalised Railways of other countries operating bits of the British network? Presumably to reduce their taxpayers costs and keep their fares lower.So the British public is now subsidising other EU countries !
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz wooops I fell a sleep nice sleeers
why are caledonian sleeper long trains
Because there are 3 different portions of the train. One portion comes from Inverness, one portion comes from Fort William and the other portion comes from Aberdeen. They all join up at Edinburgh Waverley for the journey to London with the power of a electrified train at front instead of diesel.
is the diesel train not powerfull enough ?
SupaHotFire The diesel loco is powerful enough to take the entire train, but its not needed, when theres overhead wires so an electric loco can take it which is more efficient.
howardkevinm Howard. In this particular case the class 67 diesel has a designed maximum speed of 125mph with 3,300hp (Built around 1995). The class 90 Electric loco is designed for 110mph with 5,000hp (Built around 1984). In both cases these locos were primarily designed for express passenger work.
Your idea of horsepower is based on the unusual situation appertaining to the US Railroads, which have had little need since the 1950s of anything but freight locos. Diesels suit the US freight business very well, as Diesels by their nature obtain higher Tractive Efforts per horsepower than equivilant electric locos, and freight trains need Tractive Effort. The advantage of electric locos really shows in acceleration and high speeds, (neither feature needed by freight) so by default electric locos tend to be higher power !
howardkevinm *than
Don't you find been a train nerd boring ever thought about getting a proper hobby
Brill video