This film has made me reminisce. I was born in Heeley and many times me and my pals used to take the train out into Derbyshire, just to go through Totley Tunnel. We used to get off in Grindleford, and go walking all day, when it was safe for young lads to do so. It was all steam hauled in those days, one day a pal of mine put his head out of the window, and came back looking as if he had been down the pit all day. When you were up on the Moors above Sheffield, you could check the track of the engine by the smoke coming out of the massive air vents, all along the moor.
I'm building a model railway, and these videos are priceless for research material. I suspect all of these videos will become quiet a historical record in their own right! Thank you for sharing.
That was a privilege looking from the drivers perspective of the route, such marvellous scenery. Often I find ignorant southerners ridiculing the north of England but if they watched this then they'd realise just how much natural beauty we've got up in these parts. The engineers and navis who built this amazing line deserve so much credibility. It must've been unbelievably difficult to survey and build. It's certainly stood the test of time. Thanks very much for the video 👍
There are some nice views. Watch out for the Buxton to Manchester video which premiers at 20:30 on Friday night. I never cease to marvel at how they must have toiled building these railways. I’m glad you appreciate it.
What absolutely BEAUTIFUL scenery - cuttings, viaducts, bridges, semaphores, and tunnels! I could sit for days in the quiet of that countryside just watching the trains go by.
Another excellent production. The first section brought back happy memories of my first job after training as Area Supervisor Romiley - manual signalling and out of hours box visits - happy days!
Thank you Don. I have recently discovered your videos and it has been a real nostalgia fest for me. My Dad was an LNER Good guard and worked the lines around Sheffield to Manchester until the 1960 's.. I was born and lived in Sheffield and later lived in Chapel en le frith, working in Buxton, now in Carlisle.. it’s so great to see areas I know so well from a different perspective and it is surprisingly soporific to watch.. Your captions add to the interest. Thank you again, it has been a few hours of total pleasure and nostalgia.
Thank you for uploading this amazing videos. Very instructives ones to those of us that live in other countries. Is a good way to know and see other railways systems around the world. Greetings from Argentina.
Possibly one of the country’s most picturesque locations and very busy in the summer. I live at Chapel-en-le-Frith which is surrounded by nice scenery but we tend to take it for granted.
Those buffer stops at the end of the journey! I am positive they are the same ones that were there back in the late 1960s when I used to trainspot on the station (then called Sheffield Midland) If I remember correctly, the stone building with the blue door facing you at the stops was the shunters’ mess room. It was a popular place for the young trainspotters to gather as when shunters entered or left the building you could get a glimpse of the “saucy” pictures on the walls inside. During the summer (oh joy!) the door was sometimes propped open. Only blokes of a certain age will probably understand what I am on about, but fond memories of more innocent and restrained times.
This was my second journey with you today, Don, and this time I followed the entire route on an Ordnance Survey 1:25000 map on my iPad, which added even more life and detail to your excellent work.
Brilliant video, and all the extra information, like route learning all over again..Thanks
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Thank you for this video, Don. I'm about to take my first train journey by myself to Sheffield, so I really appreciate being able to see the journey beforehand and know what to expect. Certainly eased my anxiety!
Excellent video. I appreciated the information added along the way and the elimination of wait time at the stations.. I have added this video to my 'long cab rides' playlist.
Thankyou for another of your educational and relaxing videos! Due to Ill health I don’t get out as much as I used to, and your films bring travel to me in the comfort of my own favourite chair. PS, I last worked as TTI and Second Man Diesel on the North Norfolk Railway.
Steven, I’m really pleased they make things a little better for you. They take quite a lot of effort but it makes it very worthwhile when I hear a comment like that. If you were the only viewer I would have been happy to do it. All the best to you.
As a for er private pilot, I was always aware of how much I depended on the assistance of Air Traffic Control to help keep me safely away from other aircraft. .. But I expect it was quite different from a driver depending on the “system” to keep the switches properly aligned to prevent high speed derailments at switches, or being turned into an oncoming passenger or freight train. . .
Hi Don. Love your videos, I find them so relaxing. I want to thank you for all the hard work, research, and time you put into them. Great stuff. Thanks again Don. Keep em coming:)
Yes, there was a time when it might have become a major centre like Crewe or Derby but the planners of the day were concerned about a nearby fault called Chinley Churn. It was nevertheless a quite complex location.
Very interesting - I normally only see this route looking sideways out of the window. I liked the subtitles - always wondered why there were 2 double buzzes when the train was about to set off.
Interesting video - was a student in Sheffield so used that route often to get back to Manchester, years later I was working in Openshaw so would get the same train to Ashburys.
Another great video Don. I never realised the route was so scenic. Loved the sound of the train brakes it reminded me of the sound Mk1 and Mk2 carriages made in my misspent youth.
Great stuff . Thank you for the video and the informative captioning. It also took me back 40 years when I occasionally visited the Devonshire Royal Hosp in Buxton. The dome is as breathtaking as some of the views from your cab.
You have to stand on the spot in the middle of the dome and whisper to hear the extrordinary echo! I will be filming the Buxton line one of these fine days so make sure you subscribe for notifications.
Bril. good to see the new workers in their hi viz clothes getting ready at Sheffield. Again such a wonderful video and appreciated so much. Keep up the good work!
I did the Midland route last year from Norwich to Manchester. There is a similar trestle truss bridge in Glasgow over the M80. On the route from Springburn to Cumbernauld. Well Done.
Don!! I intend to visit England soon. Your inclusion of clips and information is beautiful!! This is a nice (imaginary) ride and tour for me. Thanks! I have subscribed.
Marple station where I spend a mainly happy 17 years in the booking office. In those day I would see the slam door 101 Met-Camms out during rush hour. Had some lovely passengers, and also had a number of TV stars coming through, most of which I would chat to on late turn. Happy days. 😊
Nice one Stuart. A very good friend of mine is in the booking office there. He was a driver with me at Buxton but lost an eye in a terrible motorcycle accident. I can remember catching the train from New Mills where I grew up to Marple to go to the pictures on a Saturday afternoon - about the early 70s so maybe you were there.
Some lovely sunlight breaking through the mist once you get out over the Pennines. Romiley signalbox looks rather sad, I suppose that's not in use now. Isn't New Mills Central in a picturesque spot.
Thank you Don for another excellent video! This is a route which, before watching this video, I knew very little about. This was a very nice watch but also informative, as I had my GB Rail Atlas book beside me, so it was a case of 'putting names to faces'
I first used this line around 1970 after the Woodhead route had shut: the tracks between Dore and the Midland station were being rationalized and the semaphores taken down, leaving (I think) just two tracks and one possibly two-way relief line. There had been a dive-under crossover (filled-in long ago) just before the Midland station. I vaguely remember passing through the platforms of a couple of disused stations between Dore and the main station: no trace now.
I’m afraid Sheffield drivers don’t sign the Hope Valley Ryan, it is exclusively Manchester drivers at the moment. Best of luck with the application, I hope you get it. Let us know.
Thank you so much. I hope we all see a functioning, integrated network connecting Greater Manchester to its commuter belt and beyond! So much potential.
Excellent video, great inrormation as well. This is the only way now one can get a drivers eye view not like the 60s & 70s when U could grab a seat in behind the drivers cab on the ealy dmus, as long as they didnt put the blinds down. Please keep them coming!
Homophones 1 - Don Coffey 0. 5'57 Hoard = cache or stockpile, Horde = Crowd, throng or multitude. Cowburn Tunnel, so straight you could boil a kettle waiting for that pinprick of light to become the tunnel mouth. Superb, with excellent commentaries 'en route'.
Blimey, I had to look up homophone! I probably spent too many hours sat watching trains at New Mills Central in the 60s when I should have been at school! ;-)
Another marvellous video, for which many thanks. The skies in the Hope Valley were looking especiall moody! Did you know that at Buxworth the line as built ran on the other side of the station house but there was a major landslip right at the opening and a whole section had to be rebuilt on the side it runs on now? And Chinley needed its space - some of the Midland London trains split three ways there, with the main portion for Manchester Central, a portion for Liverpool turning left at Cheadle Heath, and a portion for East Lancashire turning right at New Mills South and then right again at Ashburys.
This must be one of the most intresting beautiful journeys linking city to city with the spectacular peak district and the Hope valley such an enjoyable experiences. Thank you so much. My father died 4 years ago and he would have loved your videos.You give much pleasure to many. Hope you have changed Mossley to Moston on the Wakefield to Wavertree video. Thanks again
Thanks Robert. I added an addendum to the video description as I can’t edit the video once it’s uploaded. I live in Chapel-en-le-Frith near to the Hope Valley line and yes, it is rather nice. I’ve got the footage for the return journey but haven’t got round to editing it yet. I was waiting to do the Cleethorpes to Piccadilly run but my colleague took ill so that is postponed for the time being.
I fully agree: clear pictures, rock-steady camera, informative captions. Other video makers should take lessons from Don. There is a certain producer of cab-view CZcams videos of the ex-Southern Railway region who has just introduced the gimmick of a camera mounted on his head, so the picture waves all over the place as he turns his head - spectacularly bad :-(
Somebody asked me to wear a camera on my head to shoot these videos. Maybe if they pay me Liam Neeson rates but other than that - not happening! Thanks for the kind words - appreciated.
Really like when the train entered that tunnel at around the 37 minute mark, and then how slowly the end of it became, mean ing, just started out as a very small dot, and very slowly the samll dot became bigger and bigger.....
I'm working my way through these wonderful videos which must have taken much perseverance and hard work to accomplish. And very very accomplished they are too (even in crappy weather as here). Thank you Don, I am sure your many thousands of followers will agree with me that your videos bring untold pleasure to people especially during these dark (Corona) times. I always watch with Bing Maps (Ordnance Survey view) alongside. Your scrolling captions are brilliant. At Marple: "It is said that the inspiration for the Agatha Christie character Miss Marple came when leaving a train here to visit her sister". Well, all I can say is that it's a good job AC's sister didn't live a couple of miles away at Broadbottom (on the Glossop line) - it doesn't quite carry the same cachet, does it?
The first time I did this route was 21st Feb 1984, the day I joined the RAF. Itinerary said change at Sheffield for the train to Doncaster and then change to an Intercity 125 to Newark North Gate. When I asked the bloke at Sheffield where I could get the train to Doncaster, he pointed at the train I'd just got off! I said I thought it terminated here he said yes, the service from Manchester does but now it forms the train to Doncaster! As an aside, the home I left was passed as the train approached Brimington Station. Our house was marked by the large Leylandii on the left, roughly half way between the first bridge you pass after Reddish Vale viaduct and the bridge just before the station.
Thanks for some good memories. Belle Vue Elizabethan ballroom where I first met my wife, Aug Bank hol 1963. Bradbury my old home town, trainspotting on the two lines. The one from Manchester Central via Stockpot Tiviot Dale was known as the " bottom line " as it was in a cutting and the " top " line from Manchester London Road as was.
I’m not delighted to tell you that remember that ballroom too Butch but only because it indicates my age! They are building all over the trackbed of the lower line now.
Superb! Couldn't be better. Even the sun came out once we got to Yorkshire. Love the side shots as well. If you can include more shots of the speedo for future videos that would be really great. Thanks for all the work you obviously put into providing the commentaries.
Thanks John. I can only add these little cameo shots when I’m not driving so for most of the videos it isn’t possible. Everybody seems to like them so I might add more when I’m tormenting somebody else to let me film!!!
Hi Don. Still enjoying the videos, makes all the difference when the information comes from the horses mouth as it were. Isn’t it a shame the amount of rubbish that finds itself on the line side. Also nice to see so many old station buildings remain and have not been replaced by plastic bus stops. All the best. Mick
Another great video thanks, loved the extra technical info and the inset footage also. Looking at that cold wet weather though... Brrr! Reminds me why my family and I emigrated to Australia, although to be fair right now it's 32 degrees Celsius and 66% humidity, and this is a relatively cool day in the past fortnight! (Summer). EDIT: Regarding the 'buffering', that is typical of CZcams at present. Most videos > 1080P are taking hours to complete apparently.
Show off ;-) It was a cold day when the footage was shot but at least it didn’t rain. I’m still not happy with the quality although it may buffer for 72 hours.
@@doncoffey5820 I just re-checked your video (22 hours on), and the resolution is looking much better. Trust me mate, I wasn't intending to show off, average local temp over past fortnight has been >40 degrees Celsius. Summer here is when everything turns green; it is when we get the greatest amount of rainfall (conversely winter is our 'brown' season). Sadly however, everything is turning a 'dead brown' (resembles more an English summer), with hardly any rain to speak of. 40 degrees Celsius is also the point were skin becomes a fluid! :-) I do have a question I forgot to ask and I do hope this isn't construed as criticism or trying to get anyone into trouble. I noticed that the driver isn't sounding his horn till approximately 1 - 2 seconds after passing 'whistle' boards, whilst other videos of different routes, the horn is usually sounded at the board itself. Is this part of the regulations for this route or is it more a 'company' regulation / driver's discretion? I'm just curious because I used to volunteer on the NYMR and K&WVLR and was in the process of studying the rule books (just before leaving), and was surprised at the 'variances' in regulations for both routes, so I became aware that they do vary in relation to route / region?
I was watching your weather and 46C isn’t funny. It sounds nice but I’ve worked in India in 38C and that was enough for me. Yes! The use of the horn is at the discretion of the driver but close to the whistle board. The guy driving that train is very experienced and he knows that distance is set for a train travelling at line speed so he has adjusted accordingly.
This film has made me reminisce. I was born in Heeley and many times me and my pals used to take the train out into Derbyshire, just to go through Totley Tunnel. We used to get off in Grindleford, and go walking all day, when it was safe for young lads to do so.
It was all steam hauled in those days, one day a pal of mine put his head out of the window, and came back looking as if he had been down the pit all day.
When you were up on the Moors above Sheffield, you could check the track of the engine by the smoke coming out of the massive air vents, all along the moor.
I’m afraid I remember such days too Geoff. Where did they go?
I'm building a model railway, and these videos are priceless for research material. I suspect all of these videos will become quiet a historical record in their own right! Thank you for sharing.
Glad they are of help!
That was a privilege looking from the drivers perspective of the route, such marvellous scenery. Often I find ignorant southerners ridiculing the north of England but if they watched this then they'd realise just how much natural beauty we've got up in these parts.
The engineers and navis who built this amazing line deserve so much credibility. It must've been unbelievably difficult to survey and build. It's certainly stood the test of time. Thanks very much for the video 👍
There are some nice views. Watch out for the Buxton to Manchester video which premiers at 20:30 on Friday night. I never cease to marvel at how they must have toiled building these railways. I’m glad you appreciate it.
Loving those little extra clips you add, gotta appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos! 👍 :)
Thanks for that. It is quite time consuming but they seem quite well received.
What absolutely BEAUTIFUL scenery - cuttings, viaducts, bridges, semaphores, and tunnels! I could sit for days in the quiet of that countryside just watching the trains go by.
Don’t tell my workmates but so could I 😉
Another excellent production. The first section brought back happy memories of my first job after training as Area Supervisor Romiley - manual signalling and out of hours box visits - happy days!
Yet another interesting and, for me, nostalgic video. Thanks for recording and posting these fascinating rail trip videos.
You’re most welcome. Glad you’ve discovered them.
Thank you Don. I have recently discovered your videos and it has been a real nostalgia fest for me. My Dad was an LNER Good guard and worked the lines around Sheffield to Manchester until the 1960 's.. I was born and lived in Sheffield and later lived in Chapel en le frith, working in Buxton, now in Carlisle.. it’s so great to see areas I know so well from a different perspective and it is surprisingly soporific to watch..
Your captions add to the interest.
Thank you again, it has been a few hours of total pleasure and nostalgia.
Glad you enjoyed it Keith. I live in Chapel-en-le-Frith.
Great viewing once again on the big screen. Looks like a great line to drive. Cheers for sharing 👍
Thank you for uploading this amazing videos. Very instructives ones to those of us that live in other countries. Is a good way to know and see other railways systems around the world. Greetings from Argentina.
Hello Argentina. Glad you are enjoying the videos, there will be another soon.
The bits of history and telling us where those branch lines go add much to the video.
Thank you. Many happy memories from traveling between Manchester and Sheffield 40 years ago.
Never having travelled in this area, would I be right in thinking that the journey 40 years ago was identical to 2019?
Possibly a few things William but certainly nothing much.
Lovely scenery on this trip - must be glorious in the summer or with some snow.
Possibly one of the country’s most picturesque locations and very busy in the summer. I live at Chapel-en-le-Frith which is surrounded by nice scenery but we tend to take it for granted.
I love the format with the description etc scrolling along the bottom. Excellent video. Thank you.
Great Video , traveled from Edale to Piccadilly and back when on holiday in the peak district. i am a driver on Irish Rail.
If you come over again, send me a message via Messenger or on my community page and I’ll try and meet up. I can maybe show you round a 185.
Great watch thank you, especially as i have been on the Hope Valley line today.
Oh, good for you - thats a nice ride out.
It's great that you give us so much extra information in these videos.
Best cab ride I have seen yet! Superb quality and love the geographical and and historic notes underneath. 11/10!
Thanks James. Much appreciated.
Particularly magnificent journey. Thanks. Amazing how Sheffield station just "appears" after going through the peak district.
These trains were ubiquitous where I grew up, I'm going to miss those knackered old buckets when they come off the rails for good, I must admit 😏
They plod on for the foreseeable future Andrew!
A thoroughly interesting and informative video, just what You Tube was made for.
Those buffer stops at the end of the journey! I am positive they are the same ones that were there back in the late 1960s when I used to trainspot on the station (then called Sheffield Midland) If I remember correctly, the stone building with the blue door facing you at the stops was the shunters’ mess room. It was a popular place for the young trainspotters to gather as when shunters entered or left the building you could get a glimpse of the “saucy” pictures on the walls inside. During the summer (oh joy!) the door was sometimes propped open. Only blokes of a certain age will probably understand what I am on about, but fond memories of more innocent and restrained times.
I remember! I must be of that age you mention.
This was my second journey with you today, Don, and this time I followed the entire route on an Ordnance Survey 1:25000 map on my iPad, which added even more life and detail to your excellent work.
Glad to have you aboard and glad you enjoyed the trips.
I love going to Piccadilly,it’s one of my favourite places to go
Brilliant video, and all the extra information, like route learning all over again..Thanks
Thank you for this video, Don.
I'm about to take my first train journey by myself to Sheffield, so I really appreciate being able to see the journey beforehand and know what to expect. Certainly eased my anxiety!
I’m glad you found us and hope your journey went well.
Love this route, very scenic. Travelled along it on the Alphaline service in the 90s from Stamford Lincs to Manchester.
Thank you for another sight seeing trip, with goodies thrown in. Patrick
Cheers Patrick, much appreciated 👍
Yayyyyyy my favourite dmu! Thank you for this, you put so much effort into your videos with your history and everything, thank you so much
The Hope Valley is beautiful
I do a bit of cycling and the ride from Hope to Edale is my favourite... no actually, the ride from Edale to Hope is my favourite as it's downhill :-)
Excellent video. I appreciated the information added along the way and the elimination of wait time at the stations.. I have added this video to my 'long cab rides' playlist.
Glad you appreciate them.
Splendid video as always. Thank you so much.
Thankyou for another of your educational and relaxing videos! Due to Ill health I don’t get out as much as I used to, and your films bring travel to me in the comfort of my own favourite chair. PS, I last worked as TTI and Second Man Diesel on the North Norfolk Railway.
Steven, I’m really pleased they make things a little better for you. They take quite a lot of effort but it makes it very worthwhile when I hear a comment like that. If you were the only viewer I would have been happy to do it. All the best to you.
Yours are the best of the rail videos I've seen, made even more interesting by the station notifications and the points of interest captions.
Thank you Ben, thats much appreciated. I try to vary the info so the more you watch, the more you learn. Keep safe.
As a for er private pilot, I was always aware of how much I depended on the assistance of Air Traffic Control to help keep me safely away from other aircraft. .. But I expect it was quite different from a driver depending on the “system” to keep the switches properly aligned to prevent high speed derailments at switches, or being turned into an oncoming passenger or freight train. . .
Its the job of the signaller to keep trains apart and the switches are all interlocked with the signals. It should ensure a high level of safety.
Nice Video, The scrolling Information makes it. And nice to have a cab view where the camera is not constantly shaking...
Thats a very substantial Go Pro mount that achieves that Martyn.
Hi Don. Love your videos, I find them so relaxing.
I want to thank you for all the hard work, research, and time you put into them. Great stuff.
Thanks again Don. Keep em coming:)
Glad you enjoyed it. More coming soon.
Sad to see Chinley station these days, I remember it in the 1960's, it was far bigger and more interesting. Great video btw, Thank you.
Yes, there was a time when it might have become a major centre like Crewe or Derby but the planners of the day were concerned about a nearby fault called Chinley Churn. It was nevertheless a quite complex location.
What a fantastic and very informative video and to top it off some train horn awesome. Thank you for posting it
Thanks again, Don, for a great journey. Wow, semaphore signals. That did surprise me. B.
Nostalgic eh? Watch the Chester and the Buxton videos too.
Thanks for another enjoyable and informative ride Don.
Very interesting - I normally only see this route looking sideways out of the window. I liked the subtitles - always wondered why there were 2 double buzzes when the train was about to set off.
This is wonderful thanks.
Glad you liked it Monica.
Interesting video - was a student in Sheffield so used that route often to get back to Manchester, years later I was working in Openshaw so would get the same train to Ashburys.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Gotta love The Peak District National Park and living in Sheffield, it's right on the doorstep
I will get round to editing the return journey one day. Bear with me!
Another great video Don. I never realised the route was so scenic. Loved the sound of the train brakes it reminded me of the sound Mk1 and Mk2 carriages made in my misspent youth.
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice ride Don and beautiful countryside enroute, thanks Dave.
Thanks as always Dave.
Breathtaking!
I’ve got the return of that trip to edit. There is snow on the hills so it looks quite spectacular. Keep watching Barry.
Great stuff . Thank you for the video and the informative captioning. It also took me back 40 years when I occasionally visited the Devonshire Royal Hosp in Buxton. The dome is as breathtaking as some of the views from your cab.
You have to stand on the spot in the middle of the dome and whisper to hear the extrordinary echo! I will be filming the Buxton line one of these fine days so make sure you subscribe for notifications.
A picturesque journey, smooth and comfortable. Thanks Don! 🏴👍🙂🇺🇸
Much appreciated Martin 👍
Bril. good to see the new workers in their hi viz clothes getting ready at Sheffield. Again such a wonderful video and appreciated so much. Keep up the good work!
Brilliant video Don, thanks very much. Very useful info too, one of my favourite routes.
Another fascinating video. Makes you want to become a train driver! Love the info scrolling along the bottom
Glad you liked it Mark.
All those times I've been through Sheffield station and I never knew that there was a platform there.
The bay? Yes it’s the most frequently used for those Manchester turnbacks 👍
brilliant. Very informaive... thankyou
Thanks John, right up in my neck of the woods that one 👍
I did the Midland route last year from Norwich to Manchester. There is a similar trestle truss bridge in Glasgow over the M80. On the route from Springburn to Cumbernauld.
Well Done.
A most enjoyable journey and very informative. Thank you
Another great video. Your video's really are outstanding, in quality and information.
Thanks Walt, appreciated.
Thank you, i have really enjoyed watching this
Glad you enjoyed it Paul.
Hi Don another great video with excellent information. Really enjoyed.
Don!! I intend to visit England soon. Your inclusion of clips and information is beautiful!! This is a nice (imaginary) ride and tour for me. Thanks! I have subscribed.
You’ll love the next one Marlo, the scenery is superb. Thanks for the kind words.
Marple station where I spend a mainly happy 17 years in the booking office. In those day I would see the slam door 101 Met-Camms out during rush hour. Had some lovely passengers, and also had a number of TV stars coming through, most of which I would chat to on late turn. Happy days. 😊
Nice one Stuart. A very good friend of mine is in the booking office there. He was a driver with me at Buxton but lost an eye in a terrible motorcycle accident. I can remember catching the train from New Mills where I grew up to Marple to go to the pictures on a Saturday afternoon - about the early 70s so maybe you were there.
Thanks Don, another great cab ride with informative captions. Pity the weather was so dull over the beautiful scenic route.
At least it didn’t rain! Thanks for the kind words.
Some lovely sunlight breaking through the mist once you get out over the Pennines. Romiley signalbox looks rather sad, I suppose that's not in use now. Isn't New Mills Central in a picturesque spot.
Yes, Romiley signal box is out of use. They’ll probably take it down at some stage. I was born in New Mills which had a very busy railway at the time.
another great ride!..thanks
Thank you Don for another excellent video! This is a route which, before watching this video, I knew very little about. This was a very nice watch but also informative, as I had my GB Rail Atlas book beside me, so it was a case of 'putting names to faces'
Excellent. A Track Atlas costs about £27 off Amazon and is a brilliant aid to watching these because it is all to scale.
Another excellent video, many thanks for uploading.
I first used this line around 1970 after the Woodhead route had shut: the tracks between Dore and the Midland station were being rationalized and the semaphores taken down, leaving (I think) just two tracks and one possibly two-way relief line. There had been a dive-under crossover (filled-in long ago) just before the Midland station. I vaguely remember passing through the platforms of a couple of disused stations between Dore and the main station: no trace now.
I remember the dive under and the line through Door is a single one which is planned to be doubled agin!!!
Awesome video and useful information on what a stunning view from the cab
Fascinating video, thanks.
Excellent viewing. Thank you.
Thanks Ian.
Thanks for this. It was all very interesting and took me away from other important stuff I was supposed to be doing!
Sorry for the very late reply! Hope the videos still help you to escape Ian.
Nice video, I've applied for a trainee driver role with Northern rail based at Sheffield, if I get the job I hope to get this route.
I’m afraid Sheffield drivers don’t sign the Hope Valley Ryan, it is exclusively Manchester drivers at the moment. Best of luck with the application, I hope you get it. Let us know.
Thank you so much. I hope we all see a functioning, integrated network connecting Greater Manchester to its commuter belt and beyond! So much potential.
Excellent video, great inrormation as well. This is the only way now one can get a drivers eye view not like the 60s & 70s when U could grab a seat in behind the drivers cab on the ealy dmus, as long as they didnt put the blinds down. Please keep them coming!
Will do Greg.
What a incredible run ! That was amazing!!! Thanks for sharing !!! :):):)
Largely down to some help from a very good friend at Northern.
Homophones 1 - Don Coffey 0. 5'57 Hoard = cache or stockpile, Horde = Crowd, throng or multitude. Cowburn Tunnel, so straight you could boil a kettle waiting for that pinprick of light to become the tunnel mouth. Superb, with excellent commentaries 'en route'.
Blimey, I had to look up homophone! I probably spent too many hours sat watching trains at New Mills Central in the 60s when I should have been at school! ;-)
@@doncoffey5820 to two too.
I also meant to comment on the length of the former Midland station platforms. The company must have run really long trains in their day.
Another marvellous video, for which many thanks. The skies in the Hope Valley were looking especiall moody! Did you know that at Buxworth the line as built ran on the other side of the station house but there was a major landslip right at the opening and a whole section had to be rebuilt on the side it runs on now? And Chinley needed its space - some of the Midland London trains split three ways there, with the main portion for Manchester Central, a portion for Liverpool turning left at Cheadle Heath, and a portion for East Lancashire turning right at New Mills South and then right again at Ashburys.
No I didn’t know about Buxworth but I knew the layout at Chinley was extensive.
Also there was once a 261 yd tunnel to the west of Buxworth station, but this was opened out into a deep cutting when the line was quadrupled in 1902.
First time I have seen your channel most enjoyable and very informative. I will be subscribing
Thanks Denis.
Love your videos, such a pleasure to watch, thank you
Glad you like them!
Thanks for the great ride Don.
This must be one of the most intresting beautiful journeys linking city to city with the spectacular peak district and the Hope valley such an enjoyable experiences. Thank you so much. My father died 4 years ago and he would have loved your videos.You give much pleasure to many. Hope you have changed Mossley to Moston on the Wakefield to Wavertree video. Thanks again
Thanks Robert. I added an addendum to the video description as I can’t edit the video once it’s uploaded. I live in Chapel-en-le-Frith near to the Hope Valley line and yes, it is rather nice. I’ve got the footage for the return journey but haven’t got round to editing it yet. I was waiting to do the Cleethorpes to Piccadilly run but my colleague took ill so that is postponed for the time being.
Another superb video Don. Excellent, informative information given. The standard all cab ride videos should be.
I fully agree: clear pictures, rock-steady camera, informative captions. Other video makers should take lessons from Don.
There is a certain producer of cab-view CZcams videos of the ex-Southern Railway region who has just introduced the gimmick of a camera mounted on his head, so the picture waves all over the place as he turns his head - spectacularly bad :-(
Somebody asked me to wear a camera on my head to shoot these videos. Maybe if they pay me Liam Neeson rates but other than that - not happening! Thanks for the kind words - appreciated.
Another good 'un, Don, with interesting comments, as well as the captions. Keep up the good work.
Will do thanks.
love the peaks esp around Castleton and Edale-.
I’ll be doing the return journey soon. Keep an eye on the community page.
Enjoyable escape. The experience is captured so well in the driver eye view and by the info provided. Just excellent!!
Really like when the train entered that tunnel at around the 37 minute mark, and then how slowly the end of it became, mean ing, just started out as a very small dot, and very slowly the samll dot became bigger and bigger.....
Watch the Dove Holes Tunnel in the Hindlow to Crewe video as it is dead straight.
I'm working my way through these wonderful videos which must have taken much perseverance and hard work to accomplish. And very very accomplished they are too (even in crappy weather as here). Thank you Don, I am sure your many thousands of followers will agree with me that your videos bring untold pleasure to people especially during these dark (Corona) times. I always watch with Bing Maps (Ordnance Survey view) alongside.
Your scrolling captions are brilliant. At Marple: "It is said that the inspiration for the Agatha Christie character Miss Marple came when leaving a train here to visit her sister". Well, all I can say is that it's a good job AC's sister didn't live a couple of miles away at Broadbottom (on the Glossop line) - it doesn't quite carry the same cachet, does it?
Haha! Maybe she did and maybe she does! Don’t tell her though ;-)
Enjoying all your videos Don, Thank you!
Its currently buffering so give it a couple of hours to view it in HD. It will get better!!!
Compare to London. Neat houses and gardens after ten minutes. Here a dystopian wasteland.
Well done! Huge thanks for your time consuming work!
A very enjoyable watch, Don. Keep up the good work.
Chester video tonight Ben ;-)
Great video. Loved the info on the bottom.
The first time I did this route was 21st Feb 1984, the day I joined the RAF. Itinerary said change at Sheffield for the train to Doncaster and then change to an Intercity 125 to Newark North Gate.
When I asked the bloke at Sheffield where I could get the train to Doncaster, he pointed at the train I'd just got off! I said I thought it terminated here he said yes, the service from Manchester does but now it forms the train to Doncaster!
As an aside, the home I left was passed as the train approached Brimington Station. Our house was marked by the large Leylandii on the left, roughly half way between the first bridge you pass after Reddish Vale viaduct and the bridge just before the station.
Oh well, at least you got a breath of fresh air in Sheffield! I’ve probably seen your house many times on my travels!
Thanks for some good memories. Belle Vue Elizabethan ballroom where I first met my wife, Aug Bank hol 1963.
Bradbury my old home town, trainspotting on the two lines. The one from Manchester Central via Stockpot Tiviot Dale was known as the " bottom line " as it was in a cutting and the " top " line from Manchester London Road as was.
I’m not delighted to tell you that remember that ballroom too Butch but only because it indicates my age! They are building all over the trackbed of the lower line now.
@@doncoffey5820 Sorry for the typo, Bradbury. What are they building on the bottom line?
Superb! Couldn't be better. Even the sun came out once we got to Yorkshire. Love the side shots as well. If you can include more shots of the speedo for future videos that would be really great. Thanks for all the work you obviously put into providing the commentaries.
Thanks John. I can only add these little cameo shots when I’m not driving so for most of the videos it isn’t possible. Everybody seems to like them so I might add more when I’m tormenting somebody else to let me film!!!
Superb videos 👍
Hi Don. Still enjoying the videos, makes all the difference when the information comes from the horses mouth as it were. Isn’t it a shame the amount of rubbish that finds itself on the line side. Also nice to see so many old station buildings remain and have not been replaced by plastic bus stops. All the best. Mick
Thanks Mick. It is a shame that people treat the railway as a garbage site. Its the architecture that really interests me - such craftsmanship.
Thank you Don, Very good I enjoyed it.
Thanks Paul.
Another great video thanks, loved the extra technical info and the inset footage also. Looking at that cold wet weather though... Brrr! Reminds me why my family and I emigrated to Australia, although to be fair right now it's 32 degrees Celsius and 66% humidity, and this is a relatively cool day in the past fortnight! (Summer).
EDIT: Regarding the 'buffering', that is typical of CZcams at present. Most videos > 1080P are taking hours to complete apparently.
Show off ;-) It was a cold day when the footage was shot but at least it didn’t rain. I’m still not happy with the quality although it may buffer for 72 hours.
@@doncoffey5820 I just re-checked your video (22 hours on), and the resolution is looking much better.
Trust me mate, I wasn't intending to show off, average local temp over past fortnight has been >40 degrees Celsius. Summer here is when everything turns green; it is when we get the greatest amount of rainfall (conversely winter is our 'brown' season). Sadly however, everything is turning a 'dead brown' (resembles more an English summer), with hardly any rain to speak of. 40 degrees Celsius is also the point were skin becomes a fluid! :-)
I do have a question I forgot to ask and I do hope this isn't construed as criticism or trying to get anyone into trouble. I noticed that the driver isn't sounding his horn till approximately 1 - 2 seconds after passing 'whistle' boards, whilst other videos of different routes, the horn is usually sounded at the board itself. Is this part of the regulations for this route or is it more a 'company' regulation / driver's discretion? I'm just curious because I used to volunteer on the NYMR and K&WVLR and was in the process of studying the rule books (just before leaving), and was surprised at the 'variances' in regulations for both routes, so I became aware that they do vary in relation to route / region?
I was watching your weather and 46C isn’t funny. It sounds nice but I’ve worked in India in 38C and that was enough for me. Yes! The use of the horn is at the discretion of the driver but close to the whistle board. The guy driving that train is very experienced and he knows that distance is set for a train travelling at line speed so he has adjusted accordingly.