Hull to Piccadilly 2020

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  @ewetoo · 5 years ago

  The most informative driver pov youtuber, I always learn something new.

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• RI

  @richardwestwell4902 · 5 years ago

  I honestly don't think the majority of railway passengers realizes the skill it takes to be  "an engine driver" as they used to say. Your videos really bring it home as to what it takes to drive a train. So "chapeau" to you Don and all your fellow drivers.

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  @micktait7786 · 4 years ago

  I grew up in Cross Gates, Leeds, in the 1950s and was an avid spotter, happiest spending the day at York watching ECML expresses speed through.   Now I'm old and live near the south coast with little likelihood of ever going north again, but your excellent films give me hours of pleasure and bring back wonderful memories.   Thank you very much.

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• GA

  @gazzertrn · 4 years ago (edited)

  Keep thinking im on train simulator game .This is brilliant .Real eye for history as well .

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  @Tonatsi · 4 years ago

  Don: &quot;I&apos;m putting you in charge of the train, make sure not to miss any signals!&quot;<br>Me, who doesn&apos;t know how to read semaphores: <b>Panic Intensifies</b>

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  @EM-yk1dw · 5 years ago (edited)

  Excellent Don, most informative. &nbsp;I love the enhanced view of the tunnels, Standedge tunnel is the third longest in country at 3 miles 64 yards. It’s worth noting the not all semaphore signals are fitted with AWS, normally the distant before usually is, leaving the home signals to pick out in all weathers! &nbsp;That really is where route knowledge kicks in!

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• TY

  @tyler.trahan · 5 years ago

  This is my favorite of your films, of the ones I&apos;ve seen. There&apos;s a good variety of lineside scenery, showing both the natural beauty of the Pennines and — to a former American railroader who hasn&apos;t been on a train in about a year — the comforting familiarity of railway infrastructure. Thank you for your fascinating commentary: combined with the video, it soothes my wanderlust to travel and learn new things from people with first-hand knowledge.

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  @michaelritchie5303 · 5 years ago

  Just finished this. &nbsp;Great video. &nbsp;As a little bonus for me at the end when we were waiting for the Piccadilly to Huddersfield stopper (?) to clear the junction, as it passed I got to see a switch move the rail in real time so that we could move into the platform recently vacated. &nbsp;A simple thing, maybe but it&apos;s what makes railroading possible.

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  @rydermike33 · 5 years ago

  Another great cab ride. (I do like the 185&apos;s.) The enhanced video inside those great tunnels is a great feature. As always, very many thanks Don.

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  @richardpickering3286 · 4 years ago

  Very nice video, brought back childhood memories of the late 50s/early 60s when I used to travelbetween Selby and Hull when visiting my grandparents. but oh how it has changed! If my memory serves me right at Hull station over to the right where you can see buses and cars parked were the lines/platforms used by the Hornsea and Withernsea trains. &nbsp;Brough Station was a lot bigger and I&apos;m sure the line was quadrupled in that area as I can remember going home to Selby would involve a &quot;race&quot; along that stretch of track with a service to Goole.

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  @Thursdaym2 · 5 years ago

  Another goodie Don<br>Was going to talk about my visits to Hull in the early seventies and eating my lunch under one of the Humber Bridge supports when it was being constructed but won&apos;t bother.

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  @mikeepb · 4 years ago

  Great video&apos;s; another source of &apos;lost&apos; evenings :) I live at Howden, so great to see the Hull to Selby/Leeds/Manchester runs. That used to be Howden North Station, as we had Howden South as well in the town. Thank you for the time and effort you put in to these !!!

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