Cab ride on a Class 207 from Eridge. 24/4/22 (Spa Valley railway)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- What a wonderful day at Spa Valley railway. I had a ride as a passenger from Tunbridge Wells West and then ended up getting a cab ride back from Eridge.
Great video - just thinking that there are a lot of people that live in Uckfield and Crowborough and work or go to college in Tunbridge Wells there with a bit of joined up thinking couldn’t an agreement be made between Spa Valley, NR and Southern to run a week day morning and evening commercial commuter through service from Uckfield to Tunbridge Wells? Maybe NR could upgrade the Spa Valley section to allow slightly higher speeds
I think the problem with the whole disused rail system is that they keep building on it. They don't think to leave the track beds there for future rail as it gets demanded. I do believe the cuckoo line should have been let. Heathfield and Hailsham are now too big not to have their railway.
There is a scouting headquarters call Adams wells forgotten how to spell it but know that place as been there for Staint Georges and other evert where get train in morning to high rock and walk on a small footpath to there .
Im glad you watched the video. The analytics shows that people only watch 30 seconds. I was very lucky to get that cab ride.
Lovely video , I enjoyed my visit to this railway last week and great to see how it has progressed from its early days.
Our railway company keep moaning that they don't have storage space for trains. This was one big yard they could have kept.
Thanks for the fantastic video. I was a bit confused as to what signal stopped the train @ 5.50 5:15. The signal @ 7.20 doesn't appear to move from horizontal (Danger) to clear the line.
Could you please explain?
I wasn't the driver. I was lucky enough to get a cab ride. I do remember that we stopped as there was another train in the station. I can't remember what class it was, just a steam locomotive doing a shuttle service for the scouts. So yeah, that's why we stopped.
The signal that is white with the black line is for the first set of points that we waited at. The red signal is at the bridge coming into the station. If you look as we approach, we have a green signal. Sorry, the video isn't very clear, but we do have a clear signal.
Superb! Haven't ridden on this line since 1982, so really must make a return trip for the thumper.
Nice sounds they sound like a class 20 locomotive or chopper as I call them you can't beat EE English electric engines from the 1960s nice dmu the thumper units 🥰
OMG I nearly passed out with happiness, thanks for dropping the vid ! I might just surprise the wife with a trip to Spar Valley, I'm sure she will love it just as much as I enjoyed being in the lingerie section of Primark for half an hour last week.
Absolutely brilliant ❤
Lol scouts
Very nice :)
Thank you.
Didn’t know the thumpers spread over multiple classes, i thought they were only 205s
No they got the nick name thumper because of the English diesel electric engine in them. There's a group on Facebook called preserved thumpers, take a look.
The nickname came about in the later years of the units after the Hastings units had been withdrawn but they come under the banner and the name got adopted in Northern Ireland too.