*The Sixty Marches* charter, Part 4:
Cab view from Bristol (Dr. Day’s Junction) to Newport (Maindee North Junction). Filmed from Hastings Diesels Limited’s preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 24 March 2018, during the outward leg of The Sixty Marches private charter.
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In this video we travel the 25 miles and 29 chains across Bristol, Gloucestershire and through the Severn Tunnel into Gwent. As it begins, we have just turned off the Great Western main line near Bristol Temple Meads; we follow the CrossCountry Route (Bristol to Gloucester Line) up Filton Bank (which has been re-quadrupled since this was filmed), then the Filton – Patchway spur. At Patchway we join the South Wales Main Line and proceed through the Severn Tunnel, which for a century was the longest underwater tunnel in the world at 7.01 km. Emerging with a slightly wet windscreen into Gwent, Wales, we continue at speed along the flatlands to the Maindee triangle just outside Newport where we turn right towards Hereford.
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This outing began at Hastings and ran via Tonbridge, Redhill and Guildford to Reading; then from Reading via Hungerford (part 1) to the Westbury area (part 2) where we turned right at Heywood Road Junction, through Bradford-on-Avon and Bath to Filton (part 3), through the Severn Tunnel into Wales, to Maindee Junction (Newport) (this part) for the line through Abergavenny to Hereford (part 5, to follow); the return journey was via the same route. We will produce video footage of the entirety of the rest of this journey to Hereford.
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Video footage is from an unattended unmonitored forward-facing cab-camera in motor coach 60116 Mountfield.
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1:12 – Bristol DR. DAY’S JUNCTION
3:02 – Lawrence Hill station
5:01 – Stapleton Road station
5:55 – Narroways Hill Junction
6:54 – Ashley Hill disused station
9:33 – a pull-away from rest on ‘Filton Bank’
12:25 – Horfield disused station
13:12 – Filton South Junction
13:48 – Filton Abbey Wood station
14:21 – Filton Junction No. 1
14:32 – Filton Junction disused station
14:41 – Filton Junction No. 2
17:56 – Patchway Junction
18:44 – Patchway station
20:30 – Patchway Tunnels
23:04 – site of Pilning Junction
23:26 – Pilning station
24:44 – Ableton Lane Tunnel
25:03 – Severn Tunnel (England portal)
29:03 - Severn Tunnel (Wales portal)
30:17 – Severn Tunnel Junction station
30:38 – Severn Tunnel Junction
32:20 – Undy Halt disused station
32:50 – Magor disused station
33:59 – Bishton Flyover
34:43 – Llanwern Steelworks East Connection
36:57 – Llanwern disused station
37:10 – Llanwern Steelworks West Connection and West Junction
37:54 – East Usk Junction
38:30 – East Usk Yard
40:42 – Maindee East Junction
43:42 – Newport MAINDEE NORTH JUNCTION
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Equipment: video by GoPro Hero3+ camera with focus modification, suction-mount and extra batteries; video production by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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Here are the actual timings for the day’s outing:
https://www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/diary/2018-03-24_actual-timings
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Here are annotated extracts from the Network Rail Section Appendix:
* Outward: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nexbk2jdnmph69u/2018-03-24_Hereford_sectional-appendix-OUT-annotated-fixed.pdf?dl=0
Our return journey’s route was changed just a day or two before the trip because of a bridge strike — from Hereford to Filton Abbey Wood we were supposed to have been routed via Worcester and the Gloucester area to Yate and Bristol Parkway, but as things turned out we had to retrace our steps via the Severn Tunnel. The following shows our original route.
* Return: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kana0042y09fy13/2018-03-24_Hereford_sectional-appendix-RTN-annotated-fixed.pdf?dl=0
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