Thanks for sharing this. I currently work in Bicester very near (what I think is called) the London Road level crossing and when this line opens for real it's going to interesting to see how it affects the down time of that crossing. I believe that Network Rail are looking at alternatives to reduce the impact on traffic flow but their options are limited due to space around the road/level crossing.
Your right iit is the old London road level crossing there was talk of closure ore a bridge over the line as the barrier would spend more time down than up, there was a station on this line that delivered milk every morning. To queen victoria, sadly that station was bulldozed to make room for this line including the station masters house,
No problem, and yes those barriers will be down for a lot longer when East West Rail service start up properly. It's an awkward location to provide a cost effective solution.
Just think how useful this line could be when and if it gets to Cambridge for the east coast ports it would save the notorious trip round north London for any trains west of London brilliant video work,😊,
I agree but there is even more that could be done throughout the route. The most obvious is the link from Aylesbury alongside HS2 running into Winslow. If they wanted to be really creative what about restoring the link line just outside Oxford parkway to the cotswold line near Yarnton? The bridge over the Oxford Canal still exists and would allow for a continuous route all the way to the Welsh boarder. It becomes even more compelling if the six mile link is restored at Honeybourne, via Long Marston for Stratford Upon Avon and Birmingham.
@@charliea9910 I think we can't get too carried away due to the cost of restoring rail links - the fact such an obvious example as this has taken SO long to get built indicates how only the most beneficial of links are currently likely to happen.
@@charliea9910 unfortunately the link between Stratford racecourse and Stratford station is now a link road and roundabout on the old trackbed, at long Marston there's an office block right across the trackbed,
Excellent to see this up and running 👍 (part of). Would be great to get to connect the East and West without having to go through London. Will freight be able to use this from the Eastern ports such as Felixstowe to continue to the West Country and vice versa?
@@MyRailwayVideos on our local news they said it was a pair of 33 locos was supposed to run 16 November now I'm told it's cancelled till February 15 next year,
@@bryanduncan6178 Yup. Cost savings are key, even if they turn out to be a bit short sighted and cost more in the longer term. Big strides have taken place with battery/hybrid trains over recent years, so perhaps a tri-mode train (diesel, overhead electric, and battery) might offer a solution in the medium term, or fast-charge battery facilities at Milton Keynes/Bedford/Cambridge. The previous situation of 'it's either diesel or electric' has now been muddied with lots of other potential solutions. Though initially it will be a diesel operated railway.
@@Whiskey2shots not really, this bunch and current are just woke torys, nearly socialists...vote reform, capitalism built this country not what we have
@@joginns778 yes....... But that's rather besides the point here. We had an electrified railway from oxford to Cambridge, we now have an u electrified Cambridge between oxford, and maybe eventually Bedford if we're lucky
@@Whiskey2shots your right but those who run the railways do many stupid things my husband was born in Corby he worked as a shunter for British steel he remembers when midland mainline was four tracks then for some reason cut back to three and now back to four again making the MML the longest four tracks in the UK again,
Thanks for sharing this. I currently work in Bicester very near (what I think is called) the London Road level crossing and when this line opens for real it's going to interesting to see how it affects the down time of that crossing. I believe that Network Rail are looking at alternatives to reduce the impact on traffic flow but their options are limited due to space around the road/level crossing.
Your right iit is the old London road level crossing there was talk of closure ore a bridge over the line as the barrier would spend more time down than up, there was a station on this line that delivered milk every morning. To queen victoria, sadly that station was bulldozed to make room for this line including the station masters house,
No problem, and yes those barriers will be down for a lot longer when East West Rail service start up properly. It's an awkward location to provide a cost effective solution.
Just think how useful this line could be when and if it gets to Cambridge for the east coast ports it would save the notorious trip round north London for any trains west of London brilliant video work,😊,
I agree but there is even more that could be done throughout the route. The most obvious is the link from Aylesbury alongside HS2 running into Winslow. If they wanted to be really creative what about restoring the link line just outside Oxford parkway to the cotswold line near Yarnton? The bridge over the Oxford Canal still exists and would allow for a continuous route all the way to the Welsh boarder. It becomes even more compelling if the six mile link is restored at Honeybourne, via Long Marston for Stratford Upon Avon and Birmingham.
Thank you. I try to record the best video possible using decent equipment and editing/grading software.
@@charliea9910 I think we can't get too carried away due to the cost of restoring rail links - the fact such an obvious example as this has taken SO long to get built indicates how only the most beneficial of links are currently likely to happen.
@@charliea9910 unfortunately the link between Stratford racecourse and Stratford station is now a link road and roundabout on the old trackbed, at long Marston there's an office block right across the trackbed,
@@MyRailwayVideos loved your video of this line, but ABIT surprised the flying banana wasn't doing the test run first,,
Excellent to see this up and running 👍 (part of). Would be great to get to connect the East and West without having to go through London.
Will freight be able to use this from the Eastern ports such as Felixstowe to continue to the West Country and vice versa?
I think freight will play an important part over the route, though it may take a bit of time to reach its full potential in that respect.
GWR running an express Oxford-Bicester Village-MK service? Chiltern to all stations?
@@EdgyNumber1 don't get to excited the GWR. 800 was just a test Train for sections of track with hundreds mile an hour speed limit,
Whatever happened to ELECTRIFICATION in these days of ban the ICE vehicles? Not cost surely?
would the class 800 go to bedford ?
Possible, but unlikely. They are just being used as part of the testing programme.
@@MyRailwayVideos where is the point of the 800 running to Bedford they can't even fill the seat in the DMU that's running now,
Needs a steamer along it
There's a rail tour planned for early next year, though I think it's diesel hauled.
@@MyRailwayVideos on our local news they said it was a pair of 33 locos was supposed to run 16 November now I'm told it's cancelled till February 15 next year,
Why isn't this electrified ?
To save money!
@@bryanduncan6178 Yup. Cost savings are key, even if they turn out to be a bit short sighted and cost more in the longer term. Big strides have taken place with battery/hybrid trains over recent years, so perhaps a tri-mode train (diesel, overhead electric, and battery) might offer a solution in the medium term, or fast-charge battery facilities at Milton Keynes/Bedford/Cambridge. The previous situation of 'it's either diesel or electric' has now been muddied with lots of other potential solutions. Though initially it will be a diesel operated railway.
shut by the labour party in 1968. now reversed . we now need to shut labour ...but no electrics?
Yes Tories cut the electrics a couple of years ago, ruined most of the plans.....
@@Whiskey2shots not really, this bunch and current are just woke torys, nearly socialists...vote reform, capitalism built this country not what we have
@@Whiskey2shots come on at least the line will reopen again, that's got to be better than nothing,
@@joginns778 yes....... But that's rather besides the point here. We had an electrified railway from oxford to Cambridge, we now have an u electrified Cambridge between oxford, and maybe eventually Bedford if we're lucky
@@Whiskey2shots your right but those who run the railways do many stupid things my husband was born in Corby he worked as a shunter for British steel he remembers when midland mainline was four tracks then for some reason cut back to three and now back to four again making the MML the longest four tracks in the UK again,