A Train Drivers View. Boston - Skegness, Lincs UK.
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- čas přidán 23. 05. 2020
- A Drivers Eye View From Boston - Skegness in Lincolnshire, UK. Route of the Jolly Fisherman trains from the 1980's. On a Perfect Summer Sunday with the Sun shining and fluffy white clouds dotting across a lovely azure blue sky.
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The length of the platforms at Skegness show how in years gone how busy the station was with "specials" arriving from all over the midlands (mainly) especially on bank holidays. It is sad that rail travel today is so expensive as it could tempt people back if the ticket prices were reduced, a big part of the fun for me when I was a kid was the train journey itself.
Certainly were. Summer Saturdays would see train after train of 10 vehicles or more.
Great stretch of railway, i use this occasionally. It would be nice to see it rebuilt from Firsby up to Louth and Grimsby. Thanks for sharing.
Your welcome.
A great journey in the beautiful countryside cheer's bob.
Glad you enjoyed it
A pleasant half-hour trip. Must be 60 years since my last visit to Skeggy. Thanks for sharing it. 🐨🇦🇺
Glad you enjoyed it
I loved this journey too around 1963-68 in the modern 2 coach DMU's of the day. I always tried to get the seat directly behind the driver. As I remember the journey seemed to take around 45 minutes then but of course there were at least 6 stops. Halcyon days
To think this was once a proper main line, two Cleethorpes - Kings Cross trains a day, endless summer weekend excursions to Skegness & Mablethorpe, evening fish trains. Yes I was there...so long ago.
Certainly was.
Lots of memories of this train journey. Thanks :)
Glad you enjoyed it
Straight and flat.
Yes, straight and flat sums it up nicely!
Enjoy the ride.
All Aboard. All Aboard.
Brilliant video, also gives a real insight to how flat the Fens are.
You're a really useful engine Thomas.
Love the ride, love the music.
Thanks.
I like how he puts in writing all change at Skegness even tho this isn't a passenger train, when this train went through wainfleet this train passed a mirror showing DB.EWS Class 66, which traveling beyond boston on the skegness route can only mean its the track clearing train which is a pair of class 66's hauling 2 blue tank looking wagons in the middle. Still a good video never the less.
Yes it was an EWS 66. But no it wasn't a track clearing train, wrong time of year!
Shame the carriage sidings in skeg and the turn table have all gone now
Sir Topham Hatt the Railway Controller on the Island of Sodor.
What a beaut flick! Thanks I really liked it.
Glad you enjoyed it
Might be wrong but looks like the video is captioned "from the 1980s" but looking from the cab towards the station entrance the original station buildings are no longer there which were demolished around 2010
Nopr. Filmed in 2017
Great Video...
Thanks for the visit
Certainly brought back some memories, used to go to Skeg at least once every Summer when I was a kid in the 1980s on those awful old trains that smelled of old tobacco and goodness knows what. I only wish you'd kept the noise of the train instead of the music.
Lovely trip across the waters cape lands of Lincolnshire into a rather "unloved" Skegness terminus station! If the platform edge white lines were painted that would brighten it up somewhat!
Unfortunately I cannot do much about the platforms.
@@RailMart I wasn't directing my comments about the platforms at you, but the train company. Even a few flower hanging baskets here and there would cheer the station up, or perhaps Skegness is on its way out as a tourist destination which would be a shame?
Yes. there is still I believe a best kept station award.
Coming soon, a £3.3 m improvement programme for Skegness Station in 2024!
Lovely video, great selection of music.
Many thanks!
RailMart hey there, great video, I wanted to ask can I use this footage again for a drivers eye view documentary for my channel between Barton-on-Humber to Cleethorpes. If you allow me to do so, your name will be featured within the credits if you allow me to use your video and put a link in to your channel. It is of course your choice but it would be a great opportunity. Let me know if it okay for you, look forward to hearing for you ☺️
@@train_paul9478 Hi. Thanks for the approach. I have started running this as a side part of my business, along with all the other work I do within the Rail industry. I am quite willing for you to use some footage but like any business it will however come with a fee. If you wish to discuss further let me know.
RailMart actually I’ll pass
I have viewed a lot of train rides, in England. It does not matter what part of the country we see. It just seems too me that all the houses are the same. It is as if England has book of houses, and builders just look in it, and decide , I think we will build number seven this time. Same red brick, same red tiled roof. Same pokey little semi. I know because I bought one in 1959. Things have not changed much since then.
Nice video. Could you maybe add captions showing the locations of all the closed stations? Always makes me sad watching the bit where the lines curves to the right near to Firsby, thinking of how busy that junction must have been.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will take that forward.
Nice video bit could of done with out music..... and more train sound
Noted
Wow. Blue skies and blues. Any chance of the playlist?
Awesome, thanks
Thanks. I have lots of footage. Just needs the editing time.
Isn't the part out of Boston the longest stretch of straight track in the UK?
Think that is Ashford - Tonbridge section?
An excellent video marred by its "musical" accompaniment. Much better to have the natural soundtrack.
Yo, Brother....why this music ?!
Just found your channel and have subscribed. Living in Australia , I'm not familiar with UK locations so I use "Rail Map on Line" to follow the journey. Looking on RPOL , I see that there were a few junctions eg Fisby , but I couldn't see any evidence of same on this video. Yours in railways ,Richard..
Knowing the railway line, they are there but they are very difficult to spot.
What was this recorded from? And the Barton-Cleethorpes video (comments not possible). That didn’t stop anywhere?
Class 66 loco
RailMart What was the reason for that journey (If you don’t mind me asking).
@@nigelkthomas9501 Driver training.
can i use it in my videos?
E-mail info@railmart.co.uk for details.
Ausgezeichnet, ein schönes Video, danke!!. Aber ich bevorzuge den Klang des Zuges, nicht die Musik
Blimey loads of crossing of all sorts, no overbridges even semophores.
Proper old school Railway
great video - pity you dont have Boston to Nottingham as well. Understand why you cant have the real audio.
I have Grantham - Skegness filmed both ways. Will add it to the list for processing.
@@RailMart wonderful... will watchout for it. :-)
Why on earth do you think you're enhancing this video my adding music to it??? lovely video, apart from said music...
Unfortunately this was a management decision not to record in cab sound. You have the option of turning off sound. I have an full explanation as to why in my next video.
@@RailMart hi, thanks for your response. I spent 40 years on railway in UK ... 5 as a driver's assistant & 35 as a train driver before retirement... So the sounds of the traction motors & wheels grinding against the rails on curves is what I was used to... And besides, we definitely weren't allowed to have music of any description in the cab. I don't really miss the job either...
I love the industry. Only 34 years myself. At the time of the videos GDPR legislation was just coming around the corner and no one wanted to leave themselves open legally to be a test case. There was an awful amount of paranoia amongst HR managers.
@@RailMart No one at the various companies I found myself working for was willing to allow anyone to take in cab videos, unless they were done by themselves for driver training, foliage concerns, etc. I suspect anyone caught would have been dismissed...
British Transport Police. Landsheriff.
A very good quality video, would have been even better with train audio rather than the awful music!
This is England.
The best of.
This is the trouble with train journeys. Ambling along at 20mph on a line that could easily support 60mph. Why?
It is doing up to 60 Mph. It just doesn't feel like it at times. It was also following an all stations passenger service, so no point in rushing.
@@RailMart I've used the journey occasionally. Up to 60mph includes what I wrote. The speed limit signs show 20mph and that is what the train was doing. Most people have a life, and don't want to dawdle around at 20mph.
It's not 20 MPH all the way from Boston to Skegvegas, but take Firsby curve at more than the posted speed of 25 mph and you'll end up arse over tit.
Must be boring being a driver on that line, flat as a pancake, I come from up north, we have structures called hills and mountains. The line could do with a few curves to stop the driver nodding off.