FULL JOURNEY ON THE 12:07PM CHILTERN RAILWAYS SERVICE FROM LONDON MARYLEBONE TO OXFORD
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
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today we are on a Chiltern railways service from lodnon Marylebone to oxford in the drivers cab. the drivers amazing, shoutout to him.
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In the absence of station-name captions, here are timings for stations, junctions, tunnels etc:
00:00 London Marylebone sta
01:20-02:47 St John's Wood tunnel
02:48 cross over South Hampstead on West Coast Main Line out of Euston
02:52-03:20 Hampstead tunnel
03:56 West Hampstead sta (Metropolitan line only)
03:40 cross over North London line (Stratford to Richmond)
04:49 Kilburn sta (Met line)
05:50 Willesden Green sta (Met line)
06:30 Dollis Hill sta (Met line)
06:50 cross under Cricklewood to Acton Wells freight-only line
06:55 Neasden sta (Met line)
06:59 Neasden junction: line to Amersham and Aylesbury diverges right
08:08 Wembley Stadium station
08:37 cross over West Coast Main Line (again)
09:11 Sudbury and Harrow Road sta
09:52 Sudbury Hill Harrow sta
10:09-10:14 South Harrow tunnel: cross under Picadilly Line
10:36 Northolt Park sta
11:10 Northolt junction: left branch joins freight-only line
(formerly GWR express line from Paddington)
11:43 South Ruislip sta; GWR line joins from left: now on ex-GWR main line Paddington-Birmingham
12:04 Ruislip Gardens sta (pronounced Rye-slip)
12:30 Ruislip depot
12:41 cross over Central Line
12:51 West Ruislip sta
14:00 (approx) cross over Grand Union canal
14:30 Denham sta
15:00 Denham Golf Club sta
15:30 cross over M25 motorway at Chalfont Viaduct ("Give Peas [sic] A Chance" bridge - Google it!)
15:57-16:05 Gerrards Cross covered way (tunnel constructed over cutting to allow supermarket to be built above)
16:05 Gerrards Cross sta
17:50 Seer Green and Jordans sta
18:50 Beaconsfield sta
19:52-20:00 White House tunnel
21:40 (approx) disused single-track GWR line from Maidenhead to High Wycombe
22:05 High Wycombe sta
24:10 (approx) site of disused West Wycombe sta
26:48 Saunderton sta
27:30 up/down tracks separate: begins
29:10 up/down tracks separate: ends
29:23 Princes Risborough sta; single line heritage (private) line to Chinnor
(originally to Watlington) diverges left;
single line to Aylesbury diverges right
33:24 Haddenham Parkway sta (large car-park to attract commuters from Thame and Aylesbury)
37:50 Ashendon junction: disused link line to GC line diverged right; up and down lines
separate for a short distance
39:44-39:50 tunnel
43:44-44:50 Gavray junctions (brand new link line constructed 2018 to join Chiltern line to Bicester-Oxford line);
main Chiltern line to Bicester North, Banbury and Birmingham continues
straight ahead
45:30 Bicester Village (previously called Bicester Town) sta (pronounced Biss-ter)
46:40 sidings to Graven Hill MOD depot
51:52 Islip sta
55:24 Oxford Parkway sta (large car park, like at Haddenham, to serve surrounding villages)
58:05-58:10 Wolvercote tunnel (widening works delayed while provision was made for bats roosting in tunnel)
59:10 Oxford North junction: line from Banbury and Birmingham converges from right
1:01:45 Oxford sta (bay platforms: train approaches station from the *north*, having originally
come from the south east)
When the Great Central originally built the line, sharing the track that
the Metropolitan Railway had built, the Met insisted that the GC used
separate track that had no platforms at the inner-London Metropolitan
stations, to avoid the GC "poaching" Met passengers.
Up/down tracks take separate routes (max 1/4 mile apart) between
Saunderton and Princes Risborough. GWR single line took the down line
that we are on; this had a significant gradient and sharp curve, so when
line was doubled, the up line was built on a flatter, straighter route
to avoid heavily-laden coal trains needing to be more powerful just for
that gradient; empty coal wagons (lighter train!) on return journey
could take the down route with a gradient.
The line from Oxford to Bicester Town was closed in 1960s (Beeching!),
opened as single-track in 1980s and then upgraded to dual-track when
Gavrey curve was built and trains began from Oxford to London Marylebone
to provide additional capacity in addition to existing Oxford to London
Paddington trains.
Brondesbury ain’t on the Met. You mean Kilburn?
@@shaddersshadwell4941 Thanks. My mistake. For completeness, I've corrected it in my posting of last year in which I listed all the stations.
@@shaddersshadwell4941 Kilburn isn't on the met either.
@@Mortimer50145 Kilburn is on the Jubilee line.
@@leonbanks5728 passes by Kilburn.
Just north of Marylebone you enter a tunnel about a mile long and the railway travels under St Johns Wood. When the railway was built in the late-1800's the landlords of St Johns Wood fought a battle with the railway company over where the last mile or so of track would go, and it was agreed to put it in a tunnel. However the freeholds of some very grand streets, as grand as anything in St Johns Wood, immediately north of where the station now is and before the tunnel, were owned by the St Johns Wood landlords aswell. These were all destroyed to build the railway and huge compensation was paid to the landlords by the railway company - which was already short of money by the time the railway had got to its conclusion at Marylebone. The pay out, and the higher than anticipated railway construction costs, meant the company was nearly broke by the time the railway was finished. It is for this reason that Marylebone station is so tiny, it is minute compared to all the other London railway stations - the company had little money left to build it.
It is however not the smallest London terminus. It has two more platforms than Fenchurch Street.
What a lovely trip....Haven't been on that route since 1980, when I used to travel from Marylebone, to Bicester. There have been MASSIVE improvements on this incredible line.....AND BEST OF ALL....No live rails....No overhead wires.....BRILLIANT !!!
I haven't been along parts of this route for a very long time, the exit from Marylebone on the former Great Central through the St John's Wood and Hampstead tunnels was interesting, but the junction with the former GWR "New Line" to Birmingham Snow Hill was the best part at Northolt Junction (we go along the former "Up" GC line as the "Down" line was to the left and burrowed under the GWR mainline) I was surprised we didn't stop at High Wycombe and had trouble spotting the former West Wycombe station site as the line would open apart some distance on a curve before entering a tunnel with the old "Hell Fire" building above it! we go along the mainline split at Saunderton Summit before the complex of Princes Risborough and onward to the isolated Ashendon Junction where the former GC line would go to the right toward Calvert, again the mainline opens out as we travel on the "Down" main, the "Up" Main would have been on an embankment and girder bridge to cross over the CG Ashendon line all now lifted and heavily overgrown, we soon leave the former GWR Birmingham Mainline just before Bicester and assume we join the former LMS line to Oxford at Blackthorn. The section of line we traveled along was the former GWR /GC joint line one of the last built in this country and this route built for high speed allowed the GWR Birmingham expresses a level 2 hour schedule to Paddington was opened in 1909, here from the 1930's to 1962 would be the racing ground for the "Kings" and "Castles" hauling 10--12 coach trains easily at 80-90 mph. sadly we don't see the old mainline from Paddington (Royal Oak) to Northolt Junction where we join up, this section was singled and later abandoned, though a "Ghost Train" service leaves Paddington each morning to High Wycombe (no return) from Platform 14. Years ago I traveled from Birmingham New Street along this severely castrated mainline along to Paddington hauled by a wheezing class 50, that was in 1984! Great video Announcer Bing, good quality and interesting to see how this route is today. :-)
Thank you for posting this. Fascinating journey through some interesting scenery, saw some fascinating stations along the way.
Hello from New Zealand, have just come across this, nice video, really enjoyed it, love seeing the English countryside. Wish we had a rail network here anywhere near that you have in the UK
No, you really do not. Lol delayed and overpriced.
Ghosts of the old Great Central. Great video. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for posting, great video for me to watch, especially as my dad Charlie Robbins, drove out of Marylebone until his retirement in the late 80’s. He also drove a number of Steam specials out of Marylebone including The Flying Scotsman & Sir Nigel Gresley among others.
Nice video I have rail atlas and follow the journey that way. Mind when I were a lad trains to the midlands, Shrewsbury and beyond left Paddington.
6 Minutes in and seeing the London Underground tube running on the Line beside you was awesome.
what a lovely journey, doing what railways should do, serving local communities and NOT decimating the countryside around Bucks. This is a wonderful alternative to hs2 and simply needs a little upgrade here and there to support the wcml to birmingham, if you want speed, get a planer.
Very interesting trip through the countryside to Oxford, thank you.
Fascinating stuff. I have travelled on that route many times over the years (Albeit to and from Bicester North), and I can see so much more scenery and infrastructure from this view. Also, it's good to see all the improvements made to the line from Bicester Town to Oxford.
12:13 if u look to ur left theres a s stock just sitting in the west ruislip depot. Why is that?
Surprised no mention of stations en route & no stop at Gerrards X,Beaconsfield or H Wycombe.Having lived in Harrow for 27 years & now Rugby for 16 years, I have an ongoing interest in the GC.From Harrow to Marylebone took 12mins on the Chiltern.I love the tunnel that goes in, comes out, just below Finchley Rd Station.I remember Marylebone when it was really run down (before Chiltern took over) with the shabby DMU,s which were the last units running from Rugby to Nottingham before final GC closure in 1969.
The Marylebone-Oxford express doesn't stop at any of those stations. It's trying to compete with GWR on a fast Oxford-London express service.
I take this route every time I go to England to Aylesbury.
No you don't. This is not the Aylesbury route. (Unless you change at Princes Risborough.)
@@12crepello Hmm looks like it.
Why don’t you put the station names, so we know which direction you are going to Oxford.
Can you do the London Marylebone to Kidderminster one? It's a special one at peak times.
Does the ping sound in every cab ride video indicate approaching a signal always been queries,I do reconnaissance the dead mans break
Excellent cab view. Part of country I don't know about. It would have been nice to know where we stopped at.
The stops were Haddenham and Thame Parkway, Bicester Town, Islip, Oxford (Water Eaton) Parkway, and Oxford.
Can you please put captions up for each stop when editing. Be nice to kown where the train stops at.
So with 0 stops High Wycombe is reached in 22 minutes
(8:09 Wembley stadium)
9:13 Sudbury & Harrow road
9:54 Sudbury hill Harrow
10:38 northolt park
11:47 South Ruislip
12:51 West Ruislip
I always wonder if the drivers get the urge to race the met line drivers 😃
better with captions, I mean, where are we, how fast are we going, how far to the next station???
Good video. Station names on screen would be good for those of us who aren't familiar with the area.
I actually don't know how to do that unfortunately.
@@announcerbing2k24 Does your video editing program have a " add text" or similar? btw Otherwise a great video.
Is this in London?
@@leroycreasey The line starts at Marylebone station which is just to the north west of the centre of London (taking that to be Charing Cross) and heads roughly north-west out of London into Buckinghamshire and then Oxfordshire.
Looks to be a good line of track with no rough ride
Thanks for the information!!
Pity we don't get the driver's audio. Trackside views not that much changed since I was a Marylebone passenger guard in the 60's. I left in '68 to fire Garrats on Rhodesia Railways.
wish you would provide stationss you go thru
Approaching Bicester South junction, the use of two successive pairs of signals to indicate that the train is routed to turn off the main line and towards Oxford is an arrangement I’ve not come across before. Are there other similar examples on the Network, I wonder? Isn’t the more normal way of indicating this sort of routing for the first signal to show a flashing double yellow aspect followed by a flashing single yellow?
They're called splitting distant signals. Used to be very common in the old old days but largely fell out of use. You are absolutely correct that flashing yellows is by far the more common, however splitting distants have made a comeback in recent years and these are certainly not the only ones
www.railsigns.uk/info/jcnsig1/jcnsig1.html
Who is the driver? Would like to know :) I'm very familiar with drivers on Chiltern
This line looks quite busy nowadays
In the 1970s and 80s', the service was fairly infrequent.
Sectorisation (Network SouthEast) and privatisation (Chiltern Railway franchise) had a positive impact on this line. Sadly, that wasn't the case everywhere else.
I like this.👍🏼
shame the audio is so low
Great video
Great run ty for uploading but the camera quality is absolutely horrendous.
Surprised the train didn’t stop at High Wycombe.
The Marylebone-Oxford express doesn't. It's trying to compete with GWR on a fast Oxford-London express service.
Too bad there isn't a business case for electrifying this line.
Why? Its wonderful to see a railway line without the encumbrances of awful overheads. I loved the ECML up until the 1980s, when it was destroyed...
@@paulcaswell2813 Why not third rail?
@@denelson83 - Electricity at Work Regulations 1989?
@@KempSimon They use third rail all over the former Southern Region.
@@denelson83 - Including between Shalford Junction and Reigate, or between Ore and Ashford International?
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Attractive countryside, but I have never seen a train from central London travel so slowly. That route is really slow isn't it.
Do south ruislip to west ealing and west ealing to high wycombe
Add station names ? Clive (in France)
Beautiful cab video. On what type of train is this? Is it one of Chiltern's class 68s?
Looks like a 168 Clubman
That's saying something when you get overtaken by a tube train,no wonder its takes so long to get where it's going.
Line speed restriction.
@@semajttam Thank you for putting Peter Fox back in his box. It was plainly obvious there was a speed restriction when the tube train was passing on the right hand side.
Doesn’t this route have ATP?
What class of train are we on? Doesn’t sound like a 68
It was probably one of Chiltern's DMUs. Either a class 165, 168 or 172.
why did he stop at haddenham but not high wycombe or princes risborough?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chiltern_railways
Do they serve drinks in Business Class?
good video spoiled by background noise and lack of information a la don coffey
Station names would help
A neccessity, I would say.
Yes, seems strange not to have mentioned them, I guess this wasn't meant for us viewers.
Is this a route learner?
11:43 Where i live :)
This cab ride video is spoiled by the annoying chatter of people in the background and the lack of information such as the class of train and names of stations.
Too much rabbit !
0:00 London Marylebone
33:15 Haddenham & Thame Parkway
45:20 Bicester Village
51:45 Islip
55:15 Oxford Parkway
1:01:40 Oxford
No reference to stations en route…….POOR.
The OP has explained up thread that he didn't know how to add captions; I imagine not everyone can afford Go Pro cameras! If you listen to the chatting various features are explained.
Purchase a Railway Atlas and follow the route like I do. Good video anyways
Boring journey, everywhere looks the same and Del Boy the driver who just won’t shut up!
Not good quality video. Blurry