Class 50 cabride Exeter - Salisbury

This must be filmed post 1983, as that was when Templecombe Station was reopened. Thank you for bringing old memorise back to me

That was some run! Only now are people beginning to appreciate the gross disservice done to this country by Beeching sixty years ago. Difficult to imagine the work undertaken laying these tracks,all by hand,possibly with a steam shovel,but mostly long hard days,summer and winter,sleeping in tents,and just digging day in day out. Definitely a bygone age.

Very scenic ride and love those English Electric locomotives.

Great Video. Reminds me of when I started work on the Railway at Oxford in 1988. I use to catch a train at 06:50 from Banbury every morning. This service was the Banbury to Paddington . Every day it would be a class 50 with 8 mk1 coaches on . Use to lean out of the window and hear the engine working hard pulling away from the station. Really miss the loc and coach’s, these plastic trains now are not the same. I went from Reading to Exeter last year on a class 800. They are quite impressive with their acceleration .

I spent the best part if 17 years driving 159s up and down this line. I would by have loved to experience what it was like in a class 50...not the breakdowns though especially with no mobile phones. My workmates at Sals told me how they had to go across a field to a farmhouse sometimes. Very long sections, few signals and few phones. I used to joke that the next signal was in the next county they were so far apart.

Sounds fantastic. I actually drove from Exmouth to Salisbury last week, takes bloody ages. Would rather have been on this train.

I remember that climb from St Davids to Central in the late 1940's when a Merchant Navy or a West Country would have 2 E1/R tanks assisting. A lovely experperience, thanks for the ride! Viewed frrom Queensland Aust.

Lovely to hear that big old 16CSVT digging in on the steep climb up to Exeter Central.

0:07 Exeter St Davids (Depart) 1:59 Exeter Central (2:52 Depart) 3:42 St James Park 3:59 Blackboy Tunnel 5:44 Exmouth Junction 8:37 Pinhoe (9:17 Depart) 11:35 Broad Clyst (Disused) 14:32 Whimple 17:30 Feniton 21:11 Honiton (21:44 Depart) 24:01 Honiton Tunnel 28:14 Seaton Junction (Disused) 30:53 Axminster (31:22 Depart) 36:52 Chard Junction (Disused) 43:28 Crewkerne (45:53 Depart) 51:44 Yeovil Junction (52:15 Depart) 57:14 Sherborne (57:41 Depart) 1:02:34 Milborne Port (Disused) 1:05:55 Templecombe (1:06:27 Depart) 1:10:28 Buckhorn Weston Tunnel 1:12:56 Gillingham (1:13:28 Depart) 1:18:38 Semley (Disused) 1:23:16 Tisbury (1:23:36 Depart) 1:32:26 Wilton South (Disused) 1:35:32 Salisbury (Arrive)

At 27:29 the driver, for at first no apparent reason, sounds the two tone horn. However, there is an unusual reason why. At 27:48 the train crosses a road bridge, and there's a house just visible. The lady who occupied that house was a pensioner, who always used to wave to the trains as they passed by. She was so well known for doing so, the drivers started to blast their horns to let her know they were coming. Sadly, in November 1987, the 84 year old was found murdered, and the case featured on Crimewatch. Her killer was later caught, and jailed for life. Incidentally, the village the train passes at 27:48 is called Shute.

As I am now finally not a newie living in Honiton (Moved here in 2000) it is great to see the massive changes on the railway and surrounding countryside.Whimple before they extended the left hand platform out to meet the track and removed the right hand platform. Honiton Wow station has chamged. That ticket office was there when I moved down here but was soon replaced by a loverly new and bigger one. Signal box now gone and where George Blake saw mills now a new building and Bradfords. Also the house i have was not built yet just fields. Exeter Central have removed all those large planters within the last year and a half and done some new work to spruce the station up with the new lifts installed. Exeter St Davids now a massive change within the last two years. A new and inproved TSD for the class 150s and now finished the new large GWR offices and spares building. I started coming down here in 1996 when my sister moved to Whimple. Use the route from Honiton to Exeter weekly befor this covid 19. We were just starting to get the goverment to see dueling the line would be a good thing and the passanger numbers are still rising. Trains were getting packed at all times of the day before covid. Thanks for posting this video.

A lovely little piece of history - thank you for making & sharing! :)

Classic and iconic sound of the Class 50 hoover ❤

Great video !! In your description, a reminder of some grafitti years ago on the "Do not flush the toilet while in a station" sign...... Under it was scrawled "Except at Aldershot".......!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Cannot stop watching. Brilliant

Interesting as the film reveals "Wrong Line Working", between Exmouth Junction and Pinhoe station (Due to track relaying). Probably filmed on a Sunday. NOTE: The train stops at the signal (displaying a red) just after "Black Boy Tunnel". The Flagman standing by the signal, communicates by signal post phone with the signalman in Exmouth Junction box a couple of hundred yards further on, before giving the Driver permission to pass the signal at Danger, and "Proceed at Caution Wrong Line" to Pinhoe station. At Pinhoe another flagman is waiting on the platform exhibiting a red signal (hand held flag). He must liase with both Exmouth Junction signalbox, and the Person In Charge (PIC) of the level crossing. Which has to be operated manually, in this situation, as this CCT (Circuit Controlled Television) full barrier crossing, is not fitted with bi-directional automatic control. Hence the PIC standing the other side of the crossing, awaiting instructions to lower the barrier, once the signalman gives permission. The Driver & Guard, would of course have known in advance of the track occupation, and the method going to be used to pass trains. As all this information would have been printed in what were known as the "Weekly Notices", which were given to ALL staff likely to be involved, such as train crew, signalmen and track staff. All the carefully laid out rules are of course in the then BR Rule Book, to cater SAFELY, for such out of course operations !!!!!!!

That 1:37 incline just before Exeter C is incredible!

Great video and my favourite loco and seeing that climb from St David's to Central is sommack, listening to that engine working on headphones is wonderful as well you get a great sense of the power of these magnificent machines. Use to work a lot down here in my railway DAYS, litter picked all the stations and worked on almost all the structures. Thank you

Class 50's on this route. they were the days!

Wonderful nostalgic scenes of bucolic West of England. Even the weather was perfect. Thank you.