We Visit The Dartmouth Steam Railway (Round Robin)
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- In this video we take a trip on the Dartmouth Steam Railways Round Robin. This famous and award winning tour is the best way to explore South Devon! Includes steam train, river boat and bus visiting the quaint towns of Paignton, Dartmouth and Totnes. So that's steam train (c.25-30 minutes), a river boat (c.90 minutes) and bus (c.30 minutes). #heritagerailway #train #boat #dartmouth
Dartmouth Steam Railway,
Queen's Park Station,
Paignton,
TQ4 6AF
www.dartmouthrailriver.co.uk
Pauline's face said it all when it came to the open top bus journey🤣🤣 . I hope you both have had a good time
It did indeed!
Simply delightful. Thank you.
the look on paulines face when she seen it was her favourite coach, i bet she thought she was dreaming this, hope you really are enjoyed your day, was a great change from your usual, hope wee bobby enjoyed it to.
Hi David, it was a surprise as we had no idea that the railway had one. Quite strange having the whole coach to ourselves! Cheers Rick
Thank you for sharing your busy holiday memory's
Cheers Gary
Hello again Pauline, Rick and Bobby! I remember my oldest daughter, she now 24, going on the round robin trip, we did it in the other direction. Why I remember it is two reasons, firstly I have a picture in my head of Sammy, about three or four, sitting at the front of the boat eating a bag of crisps with the wind blowing a gale and secondly, I had a terribly painful big toe joint that started over night, I could hardly walk. It was my first gout attack, happy days.
One another thing is that the Embankment Bistro was originally build by Brunel as a railway station for Dartmouth, but it the line was never layed to Dartmouth
. Best Wishes Harry
Hi Harry, thanks for sharing, we had a nice time despite the weather. All the best Rick
Did the Round Robbin earlier this year. Started at Totnes. Enjoyable trip.
Another excellent video and very interesting will definitely do the trip myself now always looking forward to seeing your content thanks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Many thanks, it's a really nice trip and well worth the money. The river cruise on its own is 45 minutes! All the best Rick
Oh, there I parked my sail yacht, keep on forgetting those things…🤣
Don't know if I would be keen on an open bus ride, but you got to have the full experience.
But the rail trip was fab, love the GWR and the south coast railways.
That panorama coach love it, there is also a model of that coach, unfortunately don't have it in the collection.
great video…
Cheers, Danny
Great video nice day out Pauline and bob looked cold on the bus but happy good trip👍
Cheers Clive, it was bit breezy!
Great video as usual and different rides the observation coach is stunning
Sure was and now we will have to get a model one! 😀
Nice video guys. I love that observation coach. Cheers!
Cheers 😀
Great on thanks lee
Cheers Lee
That's a big day out 👍👏
been on it many times a great day out. shame you did not have a nice hott day.
Hope you had a good time down my neck of the woods. Looked a bit blowy though! Did you get to South Devon Railway too?
The weather wasn't too bad unless you were in an open top bus! Unfortunately not but maybe next time. Thanks for watching Rick
Lovely video thanks! Rgds Joachim
Not content with Dawn Quest-esque videos of railway exhibitions, you're now treating us to Michael Palin-like travel films!
A very enjoyable offering. Thanks for sharing.
Lol we have been doing exhibitions for a good few years longer albeit on a much lower budget! as for Palin he's an icon of travel and I'm flattered lol. All the best Rick
The big adventure and we are off. Windy bus rid and you look cold/ B/W video Bot ride nice !!!! I am enjoying my lovely trip threw the English side!!!! Rick it sure was great to see the Train station we just don't have anything like that here just great mate!!!Rick the passenger cars look like the ones that I have lol!!!!! The one that you all got in to WOW so nice and Polly you are so right about it . I am sure you felt like the Quean on this one :)!!!!... Dave ? LOL I sure did enjoy this and I had a ticket to ride.... Get it Tic... well ok I will move on cheers mate this was just a lot of fun thank you for this!!!!!!
Cheers Brad, glad you enjoyed the trip, it wasn't as cold as it looked but the bus was definitely breezy. As regards the joke just "Let it be" all the best Rick
It was great mate!!! And yes Let It Be lol:). All the best to you mate!!!
Gday Rick and Pauline ,, quick question for you both.
Do you's ever get any sunshine in the UK ? haha..
Cheers from John in sunny Australia.
Hi John, it seems to have stayed away this year! 😀
Excellent as usual.Beautiful setting.Again we went from Paignton the other way.Pauline,know you love observatory carriages,what a pleasure to travel on one.Bobby looks more settled on the train than on the open top bus! X😊
Hi Michael, Bobby is quite the steam enthusiast and very calm around hissing and puffing steam locos having seen so many. The carriage was very nice and quite the surprise as we didn't even know the railway had one. Thanks for watching Rick
Lovely video, great shame it was overcast, the Devon coastline is pretty spectacular. However I did like the observation car, do you you have one in ‘oo’
Hi Nick, we haven't got one but it is now added to the list! Cheers Rick
This looks like a Hamilton's water break. Water way to have a good time.
Apologies for the daft question. How do the carriages get power for the lights when the train is steam powered?
Hi there are original it was batteries under the coaches connected to a dynamo which is belt driven from the wheels. A more modern method is to externally charge the batteries. Some of these have been replaced by an on board generator which would power the whole train. Cheers Rick
Useful video thanks as I’m in two minds about this railway’s idiosyncrasies. ‘Poppy’, the old carriage, is a former DMU centre car, possibly a Class 118?
Thanks for the info!
For those who could not read the price on the ticket. It’s £39.50 per adult, child age3-15 £25.00, 2 adults and 2 children £115.00,
Come on now “steam train”, do you mean steam locomotive? A steam train is like rocking horse *hit. Was looking forward to seeing a SMU, seem plenty of EMU’s and DMU’s. When you find one will enjoy the rare video, keep hunting. 😂
A steam train is hauled, or pushed, by a steam locomotive, so both terms are correct. It is only technically a steam locomotive when it has no rolling stock. The exception to that is the steam Railmotor , which is a steam powered coach on it's own, but still a train, although could sometimes be hauling extra coaches as well, or is that what you mean by a SMU.