Rush Hour Trains at: Leighton Buzzard, WCML, 05/07/19
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- An amazing evening spent at Leighton Buzzard on the West Coast Mainline where we see no end of services from London Northwestern Railway, Virgin Trains, Southern and freight from Freightliner, GBRF, DB Cargo UK and Royal Mail.
The station was opened by the London and Birmingham Railway in 1838 and was simply known as Leighton, the line had been planned to go through Buckingham but this was opposed by the Duke of Buckingham which forced the line to head east through Linslade. The original line was dual track.
In 1848 the station became a junction when the branch line to Dunstable was opened. This was used by freight and passenger traffic, the freight traffic would typically take animals from Dunstable and bring them to Leighton Buzzard where they would be unloaded and taken up into the high street for the local market. Freight traffic was introduced to the line in 1859 when the London and Northwestern Railway acquired the line to build a new station and incorporate a freight yard known as Wing Yard. The new station was located 160 metres to the south of the old station. This is now the current site of the station. The station used to have 2 signal boxes, the northern signal box controlled access to the branch line and the signal box to the south of the station was used for the actual control of the signals for the line, yes I know that doesn't make any sense what so ever but it seemed to work for them at the time.
In 1927 the LMS (London Midland and Scottish Railway) had created a cross over junction for the slow and fast lines. By this time the line had been made into 4 lines because of the amount of traffic running along the line, this was to play a major role in the first major train crash at Leighton Buzzard in 1931 when a driver on-board Royal-scot hit the cross over at 50-60 mph when he was actually supposed to take it at 15mph, 6 people died that day including the driver and the fireman as the loco turned over as it hit the junction.
In 1957 to 1958 the station buildings were rebuilt and a new concrete awning was constructed over the platforms, at the entrance to the station there was a new booking/waiting hall, central heating, electric lighting and a cycle storage area.
In 1967 Wing Yard was closed to freight traffic following the closure of the Dunstable branch line. The yard is now the car park which you see during the entirety of the film.
In 1989 the station went through a £1.8million make over which also included the platforms being lengthened to accommodate 12 car trains.
The latest change to this station was the removal of the old footbridge that would allow you to cross the station without having to go through the station building. So you could walk from Southcourt Avenue to the park behind the car park.
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Pendelino: exists
Turtle: wow
American train: tries to speed
Turtle: lol
Eurostar: BYE ALL U IDIOTS!!!!!!!!
I’m hopefully going to London Euston over the summer
I hope you have a good time
Nice video, I think that the 16:54 London Northwestern Railway service to London was possibly short formed due to a train fault, or it was booked to be a single 350.
thanks very much, it was booked as a single 350 because of the time when it left Rugeley Trent Valley
I genuinely find it hilarious when you start judging stupid passengers. You're putting into words the exact nuance of the way in which I shake my head and tut.
I speak on behalf of the viewer haha
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hello from Australia fantastic video shooting this is what Sydney and melbourne really needs i live on the border of New South Wales and Victoria we get the XPT (based on the english HST( twice daily but only thing is you have to book the train goes from melbourne to sydney vice versa a twelve hour journey keep up the good work cheers
hello from sunny England :D I'm always amazed that people from all over the world watch my films and enjoy them. I would love to have the chance to come over to Australia one day and do some filming at one of the major stations
Tornado922 thank you from a very cold state of Victoria
Always great Leighton Buzzard! Enjoyed it very much. Thanks for sharing :)
thank you Debby :D I love coming here
Very good station to have as your local there Jarred, I'm coming over to the west midlands in the week of the 22nd July and really looking forward to it, keep up the good work and a thumbs up from me as always
Thanks very much, I love coming to this station. I always have done :) I hope you have a great time!!
Another superb video on the West Coast Main Line, well done. Was cool to see three Class 319 units working together at speed. :)
thanks very much, I love coming to this station there is always something good to see
@@Tornado922 You're welcome. I am glad you have fun every time you visit Milton Keynes Central Station. :)
I like your funny commentating
Another Fantastic Rush Hour Film Tornado922, Very Enjoyable :)
Thanks very much!!
Awesome vid. Loved every single bit of it :)
I do recommended going to Alexander palace as it is right by bounds green.
Thanks very much, I have been there once before and it was a great station to go to. I will go back there one day
Do Trains at St. Helens Bridge. It's in Stepford.
PFFFFFFFFFT **wheeze**
Great video again.
Can you please do Lichfield Trent Valley.
thanks very much, I will look into it for you
When you think its 3 inches of steel and a half inch thick steel flange thats all thats keeping ypu on the track...at those speeds...its an amazing feat ...
Fabulous video, thoroughly enjoyable. Those two 70s sounded awesome and as usual the 66s were in good voice. I keep reading that the 70s suffer from reliability problems, in that case why don't they order some 68s with an uprated version of the Caterpillar engine. I look forward to the next video. Be well and keep safe, regards Gary.
Thanks very much, I don't know what the overall issue is with the class 70's but they were designed to haul heavy freight trains and get put through their paces when doing initial start ups, unless they aren't being properly maintained
A wonderful Film indeed. Thanks much! B.P.
thank you kindly sir!!
And you good man! B.P.
Can you do wolverhampton and London Euston when you get chance ?
I certainly can
Another great video. Shame to old footbridge had to go. That was the last of the stations heritage.
thanks very much, I have to agree it is a shame that the bridge has been removed as it gave the station some more character
Great video
Thanks very much
16:00 I call that the graffiti train bc it always carry’s graffitied carts 😂
You do love going to stations with a bit of charm to it - and standing in the middle distance is an attractive-looking young female! So I'm not quite sure if you meant the station or the mobile scenery! :-P
lol my sentiments too...
I totally meant that station :P
Nice one
thanks very much
Rush Hour Trains at: Leighton buzzard, WCML, 05/07/19
Healthy Noise From Freightliner Class 66. Is She Eating Apples, Pears, Bananas, And Oranges?
Brilliant video tornado 922
Thanks very much
Nice video tornado
thanks very much
Is 325016 that the middle.
That my home town Train Station
As it is mine
@@Tornado922 you live in Leighton Buzzard I did not know that that is cool. Where abouts?
@@WCML730 I used to live in Leighton Buzzard so I will always consider it my home town, I used to live in Greenlands, adjacent to the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway
@@Tornado922 I love the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway but the Main one is the best one
@@Tornado922 Also Sorry for being Rude on the Brighton Video I'm just used to it as three one three than three hundred and thirteen
Just bought new Nikon to do some myself...128gb sd card enough ?.. was bridge there before electrification?..assume it wasnt in way...started to film using my ms phone but its not uhd...filmed Grangetown in Cardiff as test did ok...im going to go for frieght more than anything. inspired by people like you and these quality videos.
128GB will be plenty for what you want to do to!! You'll get some cracking shots
nice video tornado i see you saw a 70 i got my first 70 a weak ago
Thanks very much, I caught two 70's that day
What’s a 70
Nice one. Is Finsbury park gonna be on the radar.?
thanks very much, it would probably be a weekend film
Fantastic video, congrats on 6000 subscribers!
thanks very much!!
2:44
Tornado922: 390 118
Me in my head: (Song from 118 118 advert!!)
*Who do you call? 118!!*
I always have the temptation to do that song when I say 118
Even KTV Videos sing 118 😂😂
You nearly done 1 hour of trainspotting.
I was at the station for just over 2 hours
Please may you return to Kettering this weekend or in the summer holiday then I can be in a vid
I will be going to Kettering later in the year
The middle 319 was probably 319219
Right ok
Fords on that 70....moss...are they export...thought those fords made here
Trains 🚊 Is Stop by train station 99,49, minutes
Was the Crewe train at 6:10 First Stop Leighton
I'm not to sure
Lovely Video! Does Leighton Buzzard have ticket barriers?
thanks very much, no it doesn't have any barriers
@@Tornado922 Amazing! I have Family in the nearby village of Heath and Reach! After I leave, I can go to this station!
I live in Leighton Buzzard and I went to this station alot to film trains and Ride them and no it doesn't have ticket Barries. I think they have no Barries because its a Queit station and Not that many trains but I still live going there.
@@WCML730 I kinda already know...
25:46 Do you reckon it might have come from Euston? LOL
never.............lol
I take it they changed the timetable
Indeed they did
28:18