"A ghost train. This is not as exciting as it sounds, unless you're a train nerd." Or Geoff Marshall
@alejandrayalanbowman367
Жыл бұрын
Or an exBR employee
@ianmarlow805
Жыл бұрын
Not forced to watch.
@luxford60
Жыл бұрын
Surely the category "train nerds" is assumed to include Geoff Marshall.
@johnmurray8428
Жыл бұрын
Are we all not train nerds? I am proudly one!
@peterharvey1762
Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂 seen that video
@MikeWillSee
Жыл бұрын
This line gives the same energy as the Romford - Upminster line
@christophernoble6810
Жыл бұрын
When I attended Ealing County Grammar back in the mid 50s we had a games field close to South Greenford Halt. We were supposed to playing football but many of us used to spend more time watching the trains. There were a lot of freights then passing over the branch. Only in 1962 did I travel over the branch, and then only between West Ealing and Castle Bar Halt. Your video brings back good memories.
@billy54bob
Жыл бұрын
I used to go to ECG daily from South Greenford. Games day meant that 😊I could walk home in minutes. I travelled the line last year. That same old changing room still exists. Hope that the same old concrete communal bath does not.
@analogueman123456787
7 ай бұрын
Those school playing fields down the road from South Greenford remained in use by (what became) Ealing Green High up until the school closed in approx 1993. The council subsequently wanted to sell off the grounds for housing development, but local objections that went all the way to Parliament blocked that from happening, and the playing fields remain as was to this very day, though woefully underused.
@davidsteele5102
Жыл бұрын
The Greenford service stopped going to Paddington in around 2017/2018 to make way for the Hayes and Harlington shuttle that was to increase capacity before the Elizabeth line was running. The Chiltern service used to run into Paddington every day. This was for driver familiarisation as Paddington was sometimes used as a diversion if Marylebone was closed. The HS2 works caused the use of busses. The 165s are just Turbos. That’s what BR called them. The TurboStars are the later classes.
@johnm2012
Жыл бұрын
There are no HS2 works that could be used as an excuse for cancelling the Parliamentary service. The New North Main Line was severed between North Acton and Old Oak Common by Elizabeth line works so the section between there and Greenford is effectively out of use but the single track section between Greenford and South Ruislip (Northolt Junction) is still in use daily by freight trains and could still carry the West Ealing to West Ruislip shuttle. In fact, on another channel, someone said that it has been reinstated on some Sundays, though I haven't seen it yet myself - I live in that area with a view of the Central line. All HS2 work east of West Ruislip is to be in a tunnel and work on the tunnelling hasn't started yet, though there are two or three ventilation shaft sites currently being constructed ahead of the actual tunnel boring.
@PeterHHodge
Жыл бұрын
I was lucky enough to travel down this branch behind 9466 a few years ago.
@BoaFilmsPlc
Жыл бұрын
I used to work the Greenford "Bubbles" in 1990-91 whilst based at Old Oak Common Depot. We used to do our turn at the "Oak" then get the worker bus to Paddington, see the TCS (Train Crew Supervisor) there & see if there was anything uncovered (to obtain 12 hours pay). Normally it was a Greenford & back on a class 121 bubble car or a Reading one wayer for me. The starter signal at Greenford was rather unique, as it was a pneumatically operated, lower quadrant semaphore operated from Greenford Signal Box. Sadly now long gone, replaced by a 2 aspect colour light by the looks on your video.
@mateolopez9172
Жыл бұрын
This is so strange, I only just travelled on the Greenford line a few weeks ago. I literally was watching your "Greenford station video" from a few years ago while I was waiting for the West Ealing train. It was just over a half hour wait, for a journey that took about 12 mins. Nice to see a more in depth video about the branch line😁😁
@Mgameing123
Жыл бұрын
Apparently they want to run it one day every 15 minutes.
@johnm2012
Жыл бұрын
@@Mgameing123 That was the promise, as a sweetener when the through service to Paddington was cut back but, well, ...the pandemic. Maybe the Class 230s will allow that or maybe after a 12 minute journey they'll need to charge for half an hour or maybe they won't see service. I'd like to see the line become part of the Overground.
@Mgameing123
Жыл бұрын
@@johnm2012 No I think its using a fast charging technology.
@darganx
Жыл бұрын
It's a shame the line doesn't run on Sundays, seems like the perfect day to try it out!
@dublodad7367
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this, I used to travel from Ealing Broadway to South Greenford, where the school playing field was, during the mid 1950's. The train was two coaches when carrying us to South Greenford, but a single coach at other times. The "spare" coach was parked in a siding to the London end of Ealing Broadway station when not required. Generally the locomotive was one of Southall based 14XX 0-4-2T's, but occasionally either 5410 or 5420 pannier tanks.
@GeoffArnold1
Жыл бұрын
Another St. Benedict's guy, yes? ;-)
@dublodad7367
Жыл бұрын
@@GeoffArnold1 No Ealing Grammar School
@GeoffArnold1
Жыл бұрын
@@dublodad7367 That whole area included playing fields of various institutions, mostly because it was the flood plain for a stream (cue John Rogers!) and probably a watercress growing area, and hence really flat.
@richardadams3655
Жыл бұрын
I used to commute from South Greenford to Westbourne Park. Does anyone else remember a time when they closed Westbourne Park but the kind drivers used to stop there anyway, a sort of running stop, before the buildings themselves were removed? Perhaps I am imagining this!
@ianmcclavin
Жыл бұрын
I was unaware that any trains on the main line continued calling at Westbourne Park after that side of the station closed, I remember they used to share the entrance with the tube station...the passageway to the right was then blocked off. No sign of the platforms now.
@highpath4776
Жыл бұрын
@@ianmcclavinlooks like that could be an interesting future service as the number of flats increases
@analogueman123456787
7 ай бұрын
@richardadams3655 - Not quite. No trains called at Westbourne Park after the station was officially closed. What you might be remembering, was that not all the trains coming to (or going from) Paddington / Greenford were timetabled to stop there. However, a kind word to the Guard who would ask the Driver often meant they would (unofficially) stop for you. Did it many times.
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus
Жыл бұрын
You could have mentioned that Greenford Signal Box still survives, and even still works lower quadrant semaphore signalling! It fringes on all 3 sides with modern signal boxes at Marylebone IECC and Thames Valley Signalling Centre, BR never had the money to replace it when modernising the surrounding area in the early 1990s..... Until the late 1990s the signals were still paraffin lit, very hard to see at night! I used to sign the road back in the 1990s, a very handy route for light engine moves from Acton Yard to Old Oak Common depot, or for turning HST's that had been turned elsewhere and had 1st Class at the wrong end, or turning the Heathrow Express trains to even out the wheel wear they get on the curves at Airport Junction. The embankment did start to collapse the the mid 90s and a fortune was spent propping it all back up again......
@tonys1636
Жыл бұрын
Push pull is still common even on main lines, the Gatwick Express was and here in Ireland on main lines.
@anthonylloyd6094
Жыл бұрын
....and indirectly, or more directly,..... I had the joy of travelling on the final Parliamentary Train from West Ealing to West Ruislip.
@georgegard.aka.currymonste1498
Жыл бұрын
Jago just keeps puffing along giving us so so much information
@ianstransporthistorystuff8175
Жыл бұрын
I agree it's a intresting branch line , used it a bit over the years.just as a train nerd and rember when it had semaphore signals and the single Class 121 dmus.
@richcolour
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the memories! As a 70s kid, my granny called it the Push Me Pull You. Used to love Saturday shopping rides into Ealing Broadway. More recently it's been ideal for trips to Greenford, then a walk through Oldfields Circus up to The Greenwood pub. Loo comes in handy on the return journey.
@analogueman123456787
7 ай бұрын
Believe it or not, that's exactly what my Gran used to call it at the time!!
@AzureOtsu
Жыл бұрын
6:13 small correction, the correct name of these trains are the Class 165 Networker Turbos or Thames Turbos. Turbostars refers to bombardier's family of diesel multiple units
@thesteelrodent1796
Жыл бұрын
maintain a half hour service is pretty good going. Far better than what's happened to many other lines
@surajgandecha5908
Жыл бұрын
Speaking of quirky little branch lines, I've recently started using the Bromley North to Grove Park shuttle and as much as it infuriates me, it equally amuses me.
@iankemp1131
Жыл бұрын
Tried it recently and the thing that nearly caught me out was the lack of signage at Grove Park station on which way to go to catch the shuttle - I followed the crowds to the bridge at the wrong end of the platform before finding out and had to sprint back to catch the shuttle just in time.
@8bigs8
Жыл бұрын
My ends. Love it !!
@julianaylor4351
Жыл бұрын
I went on this line once years ago, they were running smelly diesel trains, very slowly because they were mending several sections of lines and bridges. Good to see it has half decent trains now, it didn't then. That pagoda shelter at West Drayton, reminds me of an old black and white photo of Perivale Station, same sort of shelter.
@thomasburke2683
Жыл бұрын
Juliana, I don't know about "smelly", but they still run diesel trains on this line, class 165.
@julianaylor4351
Жыл бұрын
I've not been allowed to reply to you properly by someone or something that is incredibly stupid and rude. Basically the diesel trains of a few decades ago are very different from today, you'll have to find out for yourself, because apparently as a female, I'm supposed to be too stupid to know what I'm talking about.
@Nuts-Bolts
Жыл бұрын
Yes. It must have been over thirty years ago that embankment slippage required very slow running. If I remember rightly it was on the Greenford side towards the bridge that took the line over the A40. Back then the rolling stock were smelly British Rail Class 121 diesel multiple units (see wikipedia for confirmation and photos). Greenford Station being on an embankment, a leeward down-draft from any breeze going over it would pull down diesel exhaust to head level, whilst the fumes of diesel fuel dribbling over hot rattling engines, just below feet level, would waft up and remind one that you were not in Kansas any more Toto.
@oliverstemp9132
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if Chiltern Railways were going to run the 230s, and that why it’s now a bus service.
@Jimyjames73
Жыл бұрын
Hey Jago @ 0:15 - don't worry about it - Guess what - I haven't travelled on that Railway Line either - I don't think - so we are in the same boat - or should that be Train??? 🤔😀 Oh yes @ 6:23 I did hear some thing about that 'ghost Train' - not sure / can't remember where I heard it from - either you / Geoff Marshall or the TV??? 🤔🚂🚂🚂
@ianrazey8412
Жыл бұрын
With Cross Rail (Elizabeth line) I do not believe there is track capacity for trains to take the Greenford Branch from east of West Ealing. At Acton yard they build a dive under for Cross Rail (Elizabeth line) trains so they do not conflict with freight trains heading west.
@cefnonn
7 ай бұрын
At 5 minutes 28 seconds a semaphore signal is visible on the "New North Line" at Greenford. It is still there (in Feb 2024). Incredible but true!
@saxbend
Жыл бұрын
I remember getting it from Ealing Broadway about ten years ago. I have video evidence buried deep on my KZitem channel probably.
@highpath4776
Жыл бұрын
"the preserve of London Underground" . Can this jam be bought at the LT Museum ?
@Rog5446
Жыл бұрын
So, when did GWR build the Old Oak branch that connected to the GCR?
@ianmcclavin
Жыл бұрын
South Greenford 's southbound platform had to be rebuilt some years ago, the entire platform was lost due to a landslip.
@DanBen07
Жыл бұрын
Can you do more videos on small branch Lines.
@charlieOkeene
Жыл бұрын
Jago, no need to be coy about not using this line before. My wife comes from West Ealing and I worked in Greenford for a year or so. Not only have I never ridden the line, either, I don't even know where Greenford Station is 😮
@msamour
Жыл бұрын
Hey You British folks! Does anyone know how many days it would take to try out all the various lines in the South of England?
@temy4895
Жыл бұрын
Does that mean you have in fact been on the North Bromley Branch?
@mfaizsyahmi
Жыл бұрын
"You are the push to my pull" 😳
@esmeephillips5888
Жыл бұрын
First time on the shuttle for Jago, and for me the first time I guessed what the Patreon payoff line would be.
@traeyboy529
Жыл бұрын
0:18 - Whoops. That's gonna need fixing.
@highpath4776
Жыл бұрын
rebuilt with more substantial platforms and less interesting features , ahh my girth expanding since the age of 20 , roughly at the age of 40.
@taloire43
Жыл бұрын
OK. You are forgiven this time but don't let it happen again!
@shawnli4746
Жыл бұрын
0:18 editing?
@unpoppablebubble
Жыл бұрын
Morning!
@cramarshe
Жыл бұрын
I used to live at south greenford and realised i could just take the south greenford train to greenford station and then the central line for slightly cheaper pay as you go instead of walking to greenford like i usually would. Not sure why it was cheaper but it was closer and quieter :). Also the one stop journey was so relaxing coming back after a long day in the evening going over the a40 right before getting off.
@GeoffArnold1
Жыл бұрын
For a few months in 1962 the Greenford shuttle was a key part of my commute. 60+ years later, I can remember it vividly. That summer, we moved from London to Beaconsfield, Bucks. I had just completed my first year at a school in Ealing, and I wanted to try to continue to attend it. My mother was skeptical, but.... So from September to December in 1962 my morning commute looked like this: - Walk a mile from home to Beaconsfield Station. - BR train to West Ruislip. - Central Line to Greenford. - Greenford Shuttle to Ealing Broadway - Walk (or bus) a mile to school. And then reverse in the evening. I was 11-12 years old. At the end of term, I transferred to another school.....
@roderickmain9697
Жыл бұрын
Well researched (again) and recorded. Ghost trains, or parliamentary trains ...there are several other names... are an interesting oddity to keep lines or stations open. There used to be one at Newhaven Marine (not to be confused with Newhaven Harbour) that would leave on a Sunday night at about 19:00 and effectively terminate at Lewes with no intermediate stops. Not advertised, no timetable. You could ride it if you knew about it. You could often see the train "parked" at the station early on a Sunday afternoon. Sadly, Marine station is no more. It used to double as the passenger terminal for the ferry service. Almost no trace of it is left.
@markiangooley
Жыл бұрын
The phrase “Parliamentary trains” always makes me think of that song from The Mikado: The idiot who, in railway carriages, Scribbles on window-panes, We only suffer To ride on a buffer In Parliamentary trains.
@hb1338
Жыл бұрын
@@markiangooley ... with the syllables enunciated individually "par - lee - a - men - ta - ry".
@norbitonflyer5625
Жыл бұрын
@@markiangooley In the Victorian era a "parliamentary" train had a slightly different meaning - all railways were required by law to provide at least one train a day calling at all stations, available to 3rd class passengers at a fare of 1d per mile. Needless to say, the railways ran these to very slow schedules, with ancient rolling stock, and at inconvenient times of day.
@SB-km6fp
Жыл бұрын
Sadly it looks like they're now winding down Newhaven Harbour railway station
@tt-ew7rx
Жыл бұрын
I first came to the UK more than 30 years ago and this line was one of the first I used - the very first train ride for me, even.
@philipgibbard304
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Jago! I remember seeing westbound push-and-pull trains at Ealing Broadway in the late 50s to early 1960s, made up of two coaches and a pannier tank engine.
@nixtrain
Жыл бұрын
Yep, The Greenford Flyer.
@bertspeggly4428
Жыл бұрын
I used to ride push-pull trains on the Finsbury Park - Alexandra Palace shuttle. I just took them for granted, didn't realise they were a "thing".
@bigaspidistra
Жыл бұрын
In the way that old terminology sticks on the railways, the curve north from Didcot is still called the "Chester Curve" even though trains wouldn't have gone that way regularly to Chester since the "New" North Line, 120 or so years ago.
@atraindriver
Жыл бұрын
Don't worry, Network Rail are busy replacing historic names for lines, junctions and pretty everything else much the public aren't aware of, apparently for no better reason that that someone at Milton Keynes doesn't like historic names and wants everything to look nice and neat on their database.
@tongmasi
Жыл бұрын
Woah there Jago! The Greenford to Paddington service most certainly did not stop in 2000. Late 2010s or so (someone here will have it). Could have mentioned the (rather rare) ungated level crossing at West Ealing. Everyone’s a critic. Really enjoy your videos. Keep going!
@alanfarquharhill
Жыл бұрын
2016 iirc. I was using the service at the time, & ppl were having to do a very unsafe run down the platform as of course the connecting trains were late and GWR decided to not hold them. Then they held them, but stopped again when TFL took over the mainline stopping services (which were not super reliable for making the connection). This period killed a lot of the demand for the service, especially in the evening. As did not really being a good way of getting to/from Ealing Broadway for local pax anymore.
@analogueman123456787
7 ай бұрын
@tongmasi - Actually, Plassers Level Crossing has half barriers. And has done for years.
@PokhrajRoy.
Жыл бұрын
Jago hasn’t been on a train? Train Nerds left shaking. How could you do this to us? (Jk)
@qtrainprod
Жыл бұрын
how could he betray us like this...
@TerraFirmaTyger
Жыл бұрын
King Jago 👑 He’s consistent. Entertaining. Informative. Actually funny without forcing it like others.
@Lynxfan2
Жыл бұрын
Hello Hugo. the Class 165 are known as Network Turbo and there were two subclasses built : Class 165/0 - Chiltern Turbo for London Marylebone - Amersham - Aylesbury and London Marylebone - High Wycombe - Banbury Class 165/1 - Thames Turbo for London Paddington - Reading - Didcot Parkway/Oxford The Chiltern Railways Class 168 are known as and referred to as Clubman The Class 170 are known as and referred to as Turbostar.
@asdaneedsfunds
Жыл бұрын
*Networker Turbo, with their electric versions in classes 365, 465, and 466 known as Networkers
@markstramtrainbuscapades1729
Жыл бұрын
I rode the line back in 2004, and the service was still running from Paddington then, as that's where I caught the train, going to Greenford and getting the Central Line to East Acton, from where I caught a Routemaster on the 7 just before it was one manned! The service was cutback to West Eailing when Crossrail began to be built.
@fernbedek6302
Жыл бұрын
1 train a week is a ‘minimum legal service ghost train’ in the UK. In Canada that’s pretty normal Via Rail service. 😆 (😭)
@janehollander1934
Жыл бұрын
Oh woaw!!😮 Such a 🚅 schedule would be unheard off, and bring the whole of The Netherlands 🇳🇱 to a total standstill. Like "Pandemic style standstill"😔. ✌🏻
@sams3015
Жыл бұрын
King Charles better hurry up with that OBE for Jago’s services to train nerdiness
@ianpatterson6552
Жыл бұрын
CBE surely.
@neville132bbk
Жыл бұрын
The GCSI at least.
@ianpatterson6552
Жыл бұрын
@@neville132bbk Order defunct in 1947.
@hb1338
Жыл бұрын
Have you submitted your recommendation ? That is how gongs come to be.
@williamgeorge2580
Жыл бұрын
"I have never traveled on the line..." Monocles pop out in shock and splash into brandy glasses across the internet.
@Julius_Hardware
Жыл бұрын
Flabbergasted. My butler had to revive me by shouting "Yerkes!" in my ear.
@janehollander1934
Жыл бұрын
@@Julius_Hardware😂👌🏻
@Orforio
Жыл бұрын
It's charming! I enjoy walking along the canal to Greenford then hopping on the train to Ealing. It has that rural vibe to it.
@norbitonflyer5625
Жыл бұрын
The main purpose of the Greenford Loop was to allow trains (mainly freight trains) from the GW Main Line to reach the New North Line, on routings such as Reading to High Wycombe or High Wycombe to Acton (for the connection to the North London Line) This has been particualrly useful recently when the bridge collapse at Nuneham prevented trains travelling direct between Didcot and Oxford - many freight trains between Reading and Birmingham were diverted via the GWML, the Greenford Loop, and High Wycombe to rejoin the original route at Banbury. A few years ago, during a scheduled closure of the West Coast Main line, Virgin West Coast ran some trains via Banbury, High Wycombe, Greenford, Ealing Broadway and Acton Wells to rejoin the WCML at Willesden.
@jeremybuck1818
Жыл бұрын
Recently the Wednesday rail replacement bus has been operated by a very large Oxford Tube coach, due to a contract change...generally with no passengers.
@fumthings
Жыл бұрын
so... does GWR, NOT stand for the Greenford and West ealing Railway...
@ianhalsall-fox
Жыл бұрын
Like many of the Middlesex / West London stations, Greenford is also very handy for narrowboaters like me in getting access to the Grand Union Canal.
@MsGrandunion
Жыл бұрын
So did the Black Horse close? I saw plans a few months ago but never found out.
@jonistan9268
Жыл бұрын
Didn't Greenford trains go to Paddington before the purple trains started absolutely crowding the main line? The ghost train actually ran daily at first and was later cut back to a weekly service, running only on Wednesdays. Officially at least. In reality, the train ran Monday to Friday. Starting at Marylebone, it went up to Ruislip, down to West Ealing and then back up again past Greenford to wherever. It just wasn't open for passengers. I actually witnessed this once, I went to West Ealing to see a Chiltern train arrive, stand around and then leave again.
@liveevil6386
Жыл бұрын
Im requesting a video about the mainline westbourne park station plz. For a lomg time it was a sculpture studio within a ramshackle bus depot. tawkt'me
@davidwebb4904
Жыл бұрын
Half the time, this train stinks of weed….
@Keithbarber
Жыл бұрын
3 intermediate stops, no ticket barriers, invites all, and sundry onto the line Including weed smokers
@simonwinter8839
Жыл бұрын
And the other half ?
@heidirabenau511
Жыл бұрын
@@simonwinter8839Urine...
@stevewfreeman
Жыл бұрын
In the fifties we would go on the push pull from west ealing to greenford and back as a treat. It was pulled by a pannier engined steam engine
@malcolmgibson6288
Жыл бұрын
Paddington to Paddington via the loop truly was the Great Way Round.😂
@PtolemyJones
Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the Push Me Pull You from the old Dr. Doolittle movie from the sixties.
@johnm2012
Жыл бұрын
GWR promised to increase the train frequency to 4 per hour as compensation for cutting back the through service to Paddington but used the pandemic as an excuse to renage. I'd like to see the line become part of the Overground. The line sees a fair amount of freight traffic these days - one train every 1 to 2 hours on typical weekdays. There are ballast trains from the quarries in the west country heading towards Calvert via Princes Risborough and Little Kimble. They usually have a locomotive at each end (the rear one shut down) so presumably there's a lot of end changing en route with limited run round facilities. There are also car transporter trains taking Minis from Cowley. And there are the empties going in the opposite direction.
@alanfarquharhill
Жыл бұрын
Tbh this isn't quite my understanding. There was a government commitment to making this happen ages ago but it was quite clear by 2015 they were not going to do it. I had a conversation with the DoT or whatever it was called at the time. GWR always had zero interest in using additional stock or a 2nd driver on the line if they didn't need to. The truth is pax numbers don't really justify a higher service, at least outside of peak times.
@norbitonflyer5625
Жыл бұрын
It has been very useful when the Nuneham viaduct (just south of Oxford) was closed for emergency repairs. Any car trains for Southampton Docks had to run via Banbury, Greenford and Reading.
@General_Confusion
Жыл бұрын
Never ever ever confess to anything, make them prove your sordid unforgivable guilt.
@harveybrant3352
Жыл бұрын
Another oddity about the line is that Greenford still has a manual signal box. When I applied for a job there in the 1980s I was told I was mad because it was going to close within 3 years. It ended up outlasting the power boxes at Old Oak Common and Slough, and even the IECC at Slough which replaced Old Oak Common! As well as passenger traffic the line carried a fair amount of freight, and was used to turn HSTs.
@johnrgm3047
Жыл бұрын
The machine room where all the relay sets are located in transparent cases sat on racks of metal shelving looks like it belongs in a museum. I was told it's cheaper to keep the manual signals and pay the signalmans wages than to upgrade the whole of the signalling in that area to enable it to be automated. That's why it's still manual and the box is about 120 years old!
@johnm2012
Жыл бұрын
It is currently seeing quite a lot of freight on weekdays.
@PavlosPapageorgiou
Жыл бұрын
Castle Bar Park has something for everyone!
@baxtermarrison5361
Жыл бұрын
This begs two questions... 1) How did this line survive Dr Beeching? 2) Is the current passenger traffic comprised entirely of KZitem train nerds?
@JagoHazzard
Жыл бұрын
1) It was a useful connection and 2) Probably…
@StarboundUK
Жыл бұрын
@@JagoHazzardI used to be.a regular on the line some 15-20 yrs ago (half hourly service) going from Paddington to Greenford when I lived in West London primarily Ladbroke Grove & was doing various ad hoc contract work out West London.... No fighting for a seat, meandering views of West London... Good times
@johnrafferty8087
Жыл бұрын
I went Gurnel Middle School as was. Next to Castle Bar Park. 4 years watching trains. I have now been working on the Railway for nearly 3 decades.
@batman51
Жыл бұрын
You mention the lack of toilets on the Elizabeth Line which, from Reading to Chelmsford could be a problem! The strangely named "CityBeam" trains now appearing on the South Eastern are similarly deprived; the platform indicators even draw attention to this omission. Not really a step forward.
@StarboundUK
Жыл бұрын
Ahh the Greenford line😂 .. I used to catch this line from Paddington WAY back in the day when I used to do contract work at old GSK in Greenford when I was living in West London.... All ways guaranteed a seat if not a near half a coach to your self... Nice meandering trip through Acton & Ealing... Good times.... 😂
@StevensPaul
Жыл бұрын
"Corrugated Iron." Oh, Baby 👀🤪....... The "Ghost Train" might have been used by YERKES and his old boys network......... they have to get out once in awhile too ya know......😉!
@photoisca7386
Жыл бұрын
Unless Jago brought a bike with him, filming all those intermediate stations would have taken hours. I last used the line on Friday only to be stymied at West Ealing because the Lizzie line had failed again. Thank you E7, somethings still work. I do so love software upgrades, provides endless entertainment.
@hanwellianben
Жыл бұрын
6:00 mistake! The Greenford to Paddington service ran all day up to Dec 31st 2018 to prepare for the Elizabeth Line. I think it was 2018, but it could have been 2019.
@Shads5
Жыл бұрын
I travelled on the “Ghost Train” back in November 2016 when it ran on Fridays only from Paddington to West Ruislip avoiding the Greenford branch altogether
@glynwelshkarelian3489
Жыл бұрын
Has anyone travelled on the WEPRAM to WROAB (West Ealing Parliamentary Required Absolute Minimum to West Ruislip On A Bus)? Does the bus actually run? Is there proof on this there internet? Anybody else fancy a day out if it does?
@alanfarquharhill
Жыл бұрын
Yeah that notion of the service being trimmed to GFD-WEA in 2000 is just wrong. Happened in 2016, ostensibly as a result of needing to make way fo Elizabeth Line trains. Greenford line trains could be found at Platform 14 all the way up to that point - and that was one reason why it had been a great service; up until some rebuilding circa 10 years ago you could be on the H&C Line platform at Paddington within a minute of getting off your train.
@markwanklyn4195
Жыл бұрын
used to use the line on a regular basis in the late 90s when it still ran though to Paddington - ran every 30 mins back then as well. It normally used the two shorter platforms at the back of the station (13 & 14?) next to the Hammersmith & City line. Was a useful route for me as could take the Central line to Greenford then GWR straight to Paddington with my office being the GWR building right outside the station (on the right as you went up the ramp to Praed St from by Platform 11/12 Remember the old semaphore signals being there and I still pass though Greenford every few weeks and see the remaining ones on the line.
@TimHall42
Жыл бұрын
Did it last Tuesday afternoon. It was my last network rail passenger line anywhere in the South East….so the timing of this is a happy coincidence. Done all DLR and Tramlink, but there’s quite a few extremities of the Underground to go yet. Can I be bothered to come from Cardiff to finish them?
@neville132bbk
Жыл бұрын
Just the rigjt length of line to have one.s early Monday morning coffee in the sun, in early winter....this cute little line approved by LeviNZ.....who confesses to never having travelled the ==short but much much less appealing Melling deadend line in Wellington.
@chiefponcho
Жыл бұрын
0:17 audio mixing error
@DavidShepheard
Жыл бұрын
Why has the West Ealing to Greenford Line not been handed over to London Overground? I'm sure they could run four trains an hour and run a Sunday service.
@iankemp1131
Жыл бұрын
Unlikely to improve things I'm afraid. They do Romford-Upminster as a half hourly service in the same way.
@piearm1271
Жыл бұрын
Trumpers halt, we should petition for it to be reinstated as a venue for the Vesta box curry, sprout and stout enthusiasts depiction of William Shakespeare’s the Tempest. Rage wind, blow, crack thy cheeks and thunder out thy rage and fury. What a spectacle it could be and doubtless attract tourists.
@highpath4776
Жыл бұрын
I feel I should have done the full Paddington to South Greenford, but it was something I never had a need to do, the Earls-Court to Park Royal Picc Line being more frequent should I need it
@martindeane9631
Жыл бұрын
I was born at Perivale Maternity Hospital which used to occupy the land to the east of Sound Greenford station which is how housing. That's one of my security questions that I am going to have to change 😆
@PenryMMJ
Жыл бұрын
Battery electric trains seem like the idea of a company that prefers being practical to being imaginative. I'd go for steam electric. Use the electricity to boil the water, and make sure you've got sufficient head of steam to carry you over the non electrified bit. I think people would travel from all over the world just to ride on that.
@blameless_hyperborean8638
Жыл бұрын
I suppose the question before the House is whether it is now quicker for the citizens of the Greater Hanwell Conurbation to take the Greenford Shuttle to West Ealing and then change for the Elizabeth Line, rather than just trundle in on the Central. If so, then you would think that it might well give the thing a new lease of life.
@tsguy-h3q
Жыл бұрын
Tell me 10 trains that I should absolitely ride if I'm visiting London for a week.
@brianbell4937
Жыл бұрын
Interestingly this weekly ghost train replacement is operated these days by an 87 seat double deck coach. Very much doubt it will ever get to more than an eightieth of it's capacity unkess you include enthusiasts riding on it for the sake of it !
@goatgamer001
Жыл бұрын
As someone not from the UK i haven't actually been in a single uk train that is not tube or dlr, apart from the class 379
@darkhillwoodstudio2195
Жыл бұрын
I live in South greenford so this is a cool history and video about GWR from West Ealing to Greenford 😊
@johnburns4017
Жыл бұрын
There is a bus replacement wirh a once a week parli.entary service. Then we are told a haf hourly service. Which is it?
@mad_wombat
Жыл бұрын
I once went on a Steam Hauled railtour to Paddington, and they used the Greenford Loop to turn the loco round.
@nickbenton4881
Жыл бұрын
Is this the only line in the London area you hadn’t been on? Fess up Hazzard! 😅
@baystated
Жыл бұрын
The rhythmic shot of the GWR train passing in front of Acton Main Line sign was a moment of excellence. 4:17
@cantliff9
Жыл бұрын
Seems to be a slight audio glitch around 0.20
@kennyangel
Жыл бұрын
I did travel on that line once, after work drinks in Ealing, then get on the wrong train drunk.
@Andrewjg_89
Жыл бұрын
London Overground could of taken over the West Ealing-Greenford branch line and to replace the Class 165 and Class 166 with Class 230 Hybrid-Battery operated trains that Vivarail converted from Ex-London Underground D78 Stock before they went into administration and sadly folded. But instead GWR wants to use the Class 230 Battery-Hybrid trains to be used on the Greenford branch line and is schedule to enter service sometime this year or next year. And they could inherit the redundant Ex-London Northwestern Railway Class 230s that could operate on Windsor & Eton Central branch line.
@michaelrose6233
Жыл бұрын
Lovely trees and blossom everywhere. Easy on the eye when you live in the desert.
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