Thames Branches
Directed by
Paddington to Greenford Slough to Windsor Maidenhead to Marlow Twyford to Henley
This is an opportunity to see four of the GWR Thames Valley branch lines from the driver’s cab. We start at Paddington for a run along the Greenford branch taking us over the Great Western main line via Ealing Broadway, the line terminating at Greenford sandwiched between the tracks of LUL’s Central Line. We then travel over the Windsor branch from Slough into the one-time showpiece Royal station facing Windsor Castle. Unusually we return part of the way to show the junction arrangement at Slough. The Marlow branch is the fascinating legacy of the one-time through route to High Wycombe requiring a reversal at the constricted junction at Bourne End. Finally, we travel over the line to Henley on Thames. All trains on the four branch lines consist of 2-car class 165 Turbo DMUs. Filmed in the summer sunshine of 2015.
Duration
1h 12m
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Part ofThe London Underground Driver's Eye View
Includes Piccadilly Driver's Eye View (2003), Jubilee Driver's eye view (2001), Pendolino - Driver's Eye View (2019), Edinburgh & Glasgow Driver's eye view (2019), Bakerloo & City Driver's Eye View (2007), Victoria Line (Driver's eye view) (2009), Chiltern Mainline - Driver's Eye View (2018), HST West - Driver's Eye View (1986), The Berks & Hants Driver's eye view (2019), The Tyne Valley Line - Driver's Eye View (2018), The Far North (Driver's Eye View) (1991), Northern Line (City) - Driver's Eye View (1999), The Old Gotthard Tunnel Route - Driver's Eye View (2018), Isle of Wight - Driver's Eye View Documentary (2010), Metropolitan Main Line (1995), Northern Line (West End) - Driver's Eye View (1999), Central Line (2011), Central (1992), East London and District (2005), The North London Line (2006), 1066 DC (1988), Aberdeen to Inverness (2006), Connex Express (1998), East Coastway & Marshlink (), Enterprise - Dublin to Belfast (2006), Eurostar: Brussels to London St Pancras (2009), Eurostar: Paris to London Waterloo (2004), Exeter to Basingstoke (), Fawley Hill (2023), Ffestiniog & Conwy (1992), Hammersmith & Circle (2014), Heart of Wales (), Highland Main Line (2002), HST Far West (1990), HST Great West (1993), InterCity Norwich (1997), Kent Coast (2007), Learning to Steam (1993), Lickey Voyager (2005), Liverpool & Manchester (2010), Manchester to Cleethorpes (), Marseille to Paris (2005), Midland Mainline (2000), Norfolk Branches (), North Wales Coast (2016), Reading to Waterloo (2013), Settle and Carlisle (), SkyeTrain (1987), Thames Branches (), The Cambrian Coast: Machynlleth to Barmouth (1988), The Cumbrian Coast (1997), The Chiltern Bubble Cars (2017), The Down Fishguard (2002), The Flying Scotsman (2000), The Golden Valley - Swindon to Gloucester (2006), The Northern Lights (), The Royal Scot (2012), The West Highland (), The Wirral Line (), Transpenninexpress (2000), The Uckfield Thumper (2003), Welsh Highland Railway (2014), Welsh Marches (2012), and Wessex - Weymouth to Waterloo (1994).
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