Grosmont to Battersby Route Learning and Cab Ride on Class 25 No. D7628 - Part 1/2

Part 1/2
Grosmont to Battersby Route Learning and Cab Ride on Class 25 No. D7628.

Filmed in 2008 on the Esk Valley Branch.

Note that the layout of Whitby station has subsequently been altered to re-instate Platform 2 for the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.

See updated Esk Valley Line Route Learning with the new Whitby station layout:

Battersby to Whitby:

Whitby to Battersby:

[alanhunter]

A real driver who knows how it should be done. A pleasure to watch.

[paulaj]

I come from Herefordshire but to hear the Yorkshire from this young man is great..

[asbonescemetery]

What a fantastic documentary mr Cubitt and all other's involved thanks

[ChangesOneTim]

Brilliant - very informative video especially re shunting moves and token procedure at Battersby. Unless Northern send their DMU guys out for refreshers occasionally, there must be only a handful of drivers who ever get to use the shunting key there!

[MrRedneckuk]

Thanks for he great vid. Love the token machines, they look like ancient one armed bandits.

[hermannk]

Great video. I loved every moment of it. In South Africa we had the Van Schoor ticket system operating on many of our branch lines. sadly, that is long lost now.

[Bruno.Trains]

Excellent video, thank goodness we have such wonderful footage of train to see us through these difficult time.

[iman]

It appears a number of bridges with 10mph restrictions are in the process of being replaced. Pleasure to watch!

[stevenpryce]

Loved it, driver really knows his onions, fascinating to watch also as ive never been on the network rail part, you see the signs from the Moors road but you'd never know it was there

[FergusNCasey]

Super video giving an insight to how it all works. Always a pleasure to watch a pro at work.

[davejohn]

I thoroughly enjoyed that! Very professional. But l am a bit old fashioned, preferred signal boxes on the line. Thanks for sharing 👍

[dodgydruid]

I remember my late father working on Swanage's connection to Wareham planning its signalling etc, protocols for drivers, Network Rail were quite impressed as my father was the walking rule book through and through and he kept a library of them pastel books updated even after leaving BR. Have driven a 73 under diesel along the Redhill to Tonbridge line on a night mail I hitched a cab ride on and a couple of EPB's at Selhurst, my uncle was a 33 driver at Hoo and I spent several childhood summer days as his "secondman" and learned the age old quest for tea that seemed to beset every railman back then and he had the cheek of even knocking on kitchen windows of houses along the lines for a top up O.o Now I just drive on train simulator lol but hoping to offer my services to something like the Bo'ness if my move to Scotland comes through.

[andyjgough]

Excellent insight into how token systems work. Thank you

[tonyblackie]

Wow, how did he ever learn all this? Have watched a number of times, I'm still lost - respect!!

[MDBenson]

This is a great video, atmospheric, educational and a real insight into the operations on the line. Many thanks.

[msparry]

Terrific video. Interesting and informative with such lovely surroundings

[FlyingScud]

Brilliant foolproof 150 year old analogue Victorian engineering! Yeah well, telephones apart. Used to be ding-ding pause-ding on the bells, I assume.

[philgardener]

A fascinating incite to token working. there is a lot more to it than meets the eye

[peteallen]

Brilliant video, but sad to see the closed signal boxes and how stripped back this line became in the 1980s.

[James-Lewis]

Loved it, very good instruction old school, you’ve not aged a day, cheers mate