Rush Hour Trains at: Hitchin, ECML, 11/06/21
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- An excellent evening spent at Hitchin station on the East Coast Mainline where we see plenty of services from London Northeastern Railway, Govia Great Northern, Thameslink, Hull Trains and Grand Central.
Hitchin station was built in 1850 as one of the original stations along the East Coast Mainline when the tracks were first layed. The same year saw Hitchin become a junction station when the a line to Royston was built and a year later was extended towards Shepreth. There was a line running from Hitchin to Bedford and for a while was running very successfully, but when the Midland Railway built a line from Bedford to London via Luton the Hitchin branch eventually became a branch line and was starting to lose money because passengers were taking the train from London St Pancras. Eventually the line was shut completely in 1961. The embankment is still there as it now carries a single stretch of track for trains that use the East Coast Mainline for Letchworth Garden City.
The line was operated by the Great Northern Railway to start with before they became a part of the LNER, with the rest as they say is history. Before stevenage was opened Hitchin was served by Intercity services.
When First Capital Connect operated services along the East Coast Mainline they installed new safety features at the station including new lighting, New CCTV camera's and automatic ticket barriers, this in turn gave the station a Secure Station Status.
My next rush hour film will be from Oxford.
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I believe at some stage and or stages throughout this film I did call out units belonging to wrong companies. At the time of recording I never even realised I said anything.
Easily done.
On train simulator can you run a hst from Heaton to York which is possible if you have the dpsimulations ecml North East route and a hst lner reskin from a website but if you type in ts transport for Wales reskin it should come up please.
LOL, yeah, Ex-Greater Anglia on 387 Ex-GTX... So, was it the pigeons or the noise? 🤣😇
No worries
Glad to see you still making your videos, friend.. they're great to watch, packed with content and I always look forward to them 👍🙂
Thanks very much bud, I will be making videos for as long as I possibly can :)
Another excellent video. With all respect to the modern fleet I preferred it when 91's, HST's and 365's were the mainstay in that neck of the woods. I'm off to York on Wednesday for some 68 bashing.
Deltics, class 46,47 was era, that was fantastic.
I have to say the ECML has lost some of its charm with the lack of rolling stock these days
Yes I believe we should nominate you to over see the cleaning of these trains. Think there was only a handful that you said wasn't dirty lol. Another fantastic video sir. Your time and effort is appreciated by us all. Already looking forward to the next one. Regards to the family
I would be a very long time getting these all cleaned haha. I'm glad you enjoyed watching this it really is greatly appreciated
From now on, I am always going to call class 700s Stormtroopers 😂
And maybe the 387s or 465s Clone Troopers
Another great video lots of 800's and 700's
Can't wait to see your next rush hour film at Oxford
Thanks very much I'm glad you enjoyed watching this :)
Love the video and if you can,can you do a video on the MML
Thanks very much, I will see what I can do for you
@@Tornado922 thank if you can’t get to the mml it ok because you videos are still amazing
Those grand central units sound organic
All the EMU stuff squeaks and whines too much for my liking... Sets my tinnitus right off lol
Great video
Thanks very much
Love them Grand Central trains! Great video
Thanks very much, Grand Central do look good
@@Tornado922 I miss the Grand Central 90s cause they not running anymore which is sad
@@arnoldspottingvideos5269 At least we have to 180. THEY WILL BE GOING NOWHERE
Nice to see you back on the ECML
I do like getting to film on this line
A video from Alexandra Palace would be nice, wouldn't it
Brilliant video! I really enjoyed this :)
Thanks very much, I'm glad you enjoyed watching this :)
Lovely Tornado922! Mainly 800, and 700s...i love them...
Thanks very much I'm glad you enjoyed watching this :)
Last time you were here, the trains were delayed badly. Good video btw
Things have greatly improved from my last visit thats for sure haha
Brilliant video
Thanks very much
Great video as always
Thanks very much bud
9:32 So I think I have a rough idea of the meme "You'll be going Nowhere!" Lol!
its a dead meme
Awesome video buddy
Thanks very much
Great railway video again Tornado922
Thanks very much :)
Theres no more class 365 it feels a bit wired with out them
The ECML has lost some of its charm without them
another great video J as usual nice to see the 225s still going and standing in for these shit Azuma's thats cracking up lol
great commentary i e another train to "CAMBLIDGE" HA HA LOVED IT [ cause you can say it] keep em coming J stay safe matey ... Syd look forward to next one :)
Thanks very much Syd I'm glad you enjoyed watching this, I had a great time getting it all put together even with the tongue twisters haha
*Think words English man*
Tornado 922, 2021.
Funniest thing ever keep it up
Great video.
Thanks very much
Nice Video!!!
Thanks very much!
An amazing video like normal.
Thanks very much!
From hull weirdly 😂
Could be Beverly...
9 and a half subscribers! Nice one! Only 0.5k subs untill the magic number 10K!
I'm slowly but surely getting there!
Love the high speed
It is good through this station
Cant wait to watch
Also Do you know why grand Central stoped operating for like a year?
I think it was due to lockdown or something to do with reduced passenger numbers, I guess you could say their Adelantes really were going nowhere
Thanks very much, Grand Central cancelled operating last year because of the national lockdown
@@Tornado922 thank you
Great video mate. 37:14 do you mean Ex. Gatwick Express livery. I still miss 365s Express Networkers (happy trains), wow grand Central is running early well done grand central and he's waiting for the Great Northern 387s to pass first to London then the Zephyr will follow them.
I personally find the 365s pretty ugly but at least they have personality...
Thanks very much, I do indeed mean ex=Gatwick Express. I didn't realise at the time I had said Greater Anglia
@@Tornado922 😂
I honestly didn't know the Adelante's still run!
Yeah they do. I see loads
Without them grand central wouldn’t have any train
@Si Ward oh ok. I expect the hst will be retired soon as the last formal hst goodbye was the EMR one. I see a lot of class 180s where I TrainSpot but never once a hst for grand central
@Si Ward they retired the hst a few years back (2017 off the top of my head) only 180s at the moment
I am loving it so far! I love Grand Central! Is there livery normally Black and and Orange strip? Why is there a yellow strip? It looked better in black and orange in my opinion.
Yes that’s their company livery, the yellow front is a ‘warning panel’ for those on the track to see it coming along, however new headlights have been designed which meet the new safety criteria so yellow warning panels are no longer required but that depends on rolling stock etc.
could you film at Dore, you get a wide variety and decent load of freight, it is also about 6 mins from sheffield on northern
I will see what I can do for you
@@Tornado922 weekends are best times as there are so many trains, It is on the hope valley line and MML, built in 1872, it is only a halt
2:50 this class 700 had 8 or 12 coaches ? These 12 car operated services reminds me about our trains in India that run. Our trains have minimum 8 coaches and a max of 22 coaches now, and majority of our express services except Vande Bharat Express trains are loco hauled. That is going to change soon with slower loco hauled trains getting replaced by mainline EMUs or DEMUs for upto 125 miles of trip lengths.
Vande Bharat Express trains are 16 coach EMUs technically with a maximum power of approx 8 MW and max speed 110 mph (tested) and max operational speed 81 mph (in service) on 1676 mm broad gauge tracks. It is a fully AC chair coach service. There are 2 of them in service, many more are getting manufactured by ICF, Chennai.
So, a class 700 are split into two sets, being the 700/0 at 8 cars RLU eg 700027 and the 12 car FLU 700/1, eg 700134.
Other amazing video legend tornado
Thanks very much :)
@@Tornado922 no prob legend you do brilliant videos
I have got a good station. Letchworth Garden City. If you could do that it would be amazing. By the way, amazing video
I will see what I can do for you
@@Tornado922 don’t worry if you can’t
Tornado922
What is your favourite Train station in the UK?
It's a shame that the class 365 Networker Expresses are gone from the Great Northern Route
They dont meet up to present pax capacity needed with just 3 cars.....the Class 465 and 466s are atleast better with 4 coaches.
@@AnubhabKundu the 365s all had 4 cars
@@levichalcraft8702 but why 3 cars now?
@@AnubhabKundu they don’t. The remaining 365s are all stored at Doncaster with an undecided fate. They’ve always had 4 cars. The 466s which work alongside the 465s have 2 that might be where the confusion is
Question what train do u get to A million Places?
Can you do rush hour films on the SWML again like you did a few years ago starting at Southampton Airport Parkway all the way to London Waterloo????
Unfortunately rush hour films on the SWML aren't a reality for me as I work to far away from any station on the SWML network
Great video and are the 225s only been kept on Leeds services?
Thanks very much, yes they are
They are on York or Leeds services.
What date will you film at Cambridge north again ? If you are as I would like to say hello in Pierson mate been watching you for 2years now let me know a date you'll be at Cambridge north again if possible cheers mate 👍🏻
I think if I were to go to the neck of the woods I would end up just filming at Cambridge as I prefer that to Cambridge North
@@Tornado922 yes it is better and is Wylwyn north
Is Virgin East Coast Trains running still or have they gone bust? Who has replaced them?
They have and LNER is the current operator till this day.
Doesn't any freight pass through there ever?
The only freight you would see coming through here would be engineering trains
@@Tornado922 ok thanks!
I thought the lner 225s have retired
They had them in storage for a long period of time but they have brought them back for the Leeds services to help with social distancing and because the 800s had cracks found in them
@@Tornado922 have they found what has caused that to happen? with the 800s?
What app do you use for the train times
There's two websites called "Realtime Trains" and "Traksy"
Traksy is cool because it shows you a map with all the services in whatever signal block they're in but the headcodes and actual service itself is often broken.
I would highly recommend Realtime Trains, but if you are looking for unit info and stuff use "Detailed Mode".
Hope this helped :)
There’s also Open Train Times which is similar to Tracksy
Hey how do you know what the timetable is?
I use a website called Realtimetrains for all of my information
@@Tornado922 thanks!
Can u do newcastle central please
Newcastle Central doesn't exist.
@@joshuagilyardfan6117 yes it does but most people call it newcastle it's in the north east of England, just type in on CZcams trains at Newcastle and you will see for yourself
@@joshuagilyardfan6117 it may not be called "Newcastle Central" but it's still a train station in the CENTRE of Newcastle...
Indeed
@@samstravelvlogsinthenorthe9818 I will see what I can do for you
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Great video
Thanks very much
Great video again bud
Thanks very much :)
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