West Ruislip to Willesden SW sdgs via Greenford & Ealing Bdy – Hastings DEMU cab ride – 27 May 2017

Oxford Rover, Part 3: Cab view from West Ruislip to Willesden South West sidings, via Greenford and Ealing Broadway. Filmed from our preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 27 May 2017, during our Oxford Rover railtour.
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In this video we cover 10 miles and 27 chains, and our unusual itinerary takes us along five distinct pieces of railway—some of which are seldom seen by passenger trains:
1) Chiltern Main Line (West Ruislip to Northolt Junction)
2) New North Main Line, or Acton to Northolt Line (Northolt Jn to Greenford)
3) Greenford branch (Greenford to West Ealing)
4) Great Western Main Line (West Ealing to Acton East Junction)
5) North London Line (Poplar Spur – Acton Wells Junction area)
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Video footage is from an unattended unmonitored forward-facing cab-camera in motor coach 60116 Mountfield. Audio was simultaneously recorded in the rear cab, motor coach 60118 Tunbridge Wells, and accurately synchronised with the video. The leading-cab audio from the camera could not be published because of the traincrew conversing.
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This outing began at Hastings and ran via Tonbridge and Bromley South to Clapham Junction (see Part 1), then Hounslow and Virginia Water to Reading, Didcot and Oxford; the return leg ran from Oxford via Bicester and the new Gavray Junction to reach the Chiltern Main Line (see Part 2). This video shows its return progress from West Ruislip to Willesden South West sidings where it reversed direction, running Down the North London Line to South Acton, and thence via New Kew Junction, Barnes Bridge, Clapham Junction, Brixton, Penge, Bromley South, Orpington and back to Hastings. No further leading-cab video footage was captured after our reversal at Willesden South West sidings.
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0:00 – West Ruislip station
5:14 – Ruislip Gardens Junction
7:38 – South Ruislip station
8:05 – Northolt Junction (Acton – Northolt Line)
10:00 – Northolt
12:39 – Greenford
13:45 – Greenford West Junction (Greenford branch)
16:01 – Greenford South Junction
16:45 – South Greenford station
19:20 – Castle Bar Park station
20:30 – Drayton Green Tunnel
21:32 – Drayton Green station
21:39 – Drayton Green Junction
22:44 – West Ealing Junction
23:01 – West Ealing station
24:42 – Ealing Broadway station
26:10 – Acton West Junction
27:58 – Acton Main Line station
28:41 – Acton East Junction (Poplar spur)
30:43 – Acton Wells Junction
31:54 – Willesden South West sidings
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Video, soundtrack and captions © Copyright 2017–2018 Hastings Diesels Limited.
https://www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/
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Equipment: video by GoPro Hero3+ camera with suction-mount and extra batteries; rear-cab audio by Sony ECM-MS907 stereo electret microphone and Sony MiniDisc MZ-R30 recorder; still photo © Robert Stewart; video production by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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Annotated extracts from the Sectional Appendix are provided:
Outward – https://www.dropbox.com/s/7l0cg6uhnhh6ba9/2017-05-27_Oxford-railtour_Sectional-Appendix-annotated-1outward.pdf?dl=0
Return – https://www.dropbox.com/s/zcbigq4auossrcf/2017-05-27_Oxford-railtour_Sectional-Appendix-annotated-2return.pdf?dl=0
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Clive Feather’s description of junction signalling may be useful to viewers:
http://www.davros.org/rail/signalling/articles/junctions.html
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ERRATUM: 24:18 – 1 in 1204 should be around 4 feet per mile, not 2.

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