Fawley Esso to Southampton Central — Hastings DEMU cab ride — 13 May 2017

Описание: Fawley Forester, Part 3: Cab view from Fawley Esso to Southampton Central, filmed from our preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 13 May 2017, during the Fawley Forester railtour/charter.
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** BACK CAB AUDIO: Between 1:00 and 23:30 the soundtrack in this video is from the *back cab*: this means that you won't hear the horn or whistle, because the microphone is in a noisy cab 120 metres away from the front of the train; you also won't hear the driver's controls. From 23:30 to the end you will hear these things. The reason for doing this is that during those times there were two members of traincrew in the cab conversing.
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This video comprises parts of two different trips from this date – there were three return trips between Southampton and Fawley Esso on this outing. We start off with footage from trip 2, but that ends before we reached Southampton; we conclude with footage from trip 3 in which the driver was on his own in the cab (hence leading-cab audio available).
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In this video we cover 12 miles and 23 chains, first up the Fawley branch through the former station layout at Marchwood (still with signals and points for trains accessing the Marchwood Military Port), and then rejoining the South Western Main Line near Totton for the remaining distance into Southampton.
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Video footage, and audio from 23:30 onwards, is from an unattended unmonitored forward-facing cab-camera in motor coach 60118 Tunbridge Wells. Where back-cab audio is provided instead, this was simultaneously recorded in the rear cab, motor coach 60116 Mountfield, and accurately synchronised with the video.
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This outing began at Hastings and ran via Tonbridge and Redhill to Woking, and then via Winchester to Southampton and on to the Fawley branch. Three return trips were made between Southampton and Fawley; this is the outward leg of the first such trip. Part 1 of this mini-series covered the outward leg between Woking and Basingstoke, and Part 2 covered trip 1 from Southampton to Fawley Esso.
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0:00 – FAWLEY ESSO
3:33 – Hardley Halt disused station
6:12 – Frost Lane Level Crossing
7:45 – Hythe disused station
9:01 – School Road (Hythe) Level Crossing
10:18 – West Street Level Crossing
14:32 – Veals Lane Level Crossing
16:16 – Pumpfield Farm Level Crossing
17:00 – Junction with Marchwood Military Port branch
17:45 – Marchwood disused station
19:15 – Tavells Lane Level Crossing
20:39 – Trotts Lane Level Crossing
22:56 – Jacobs Gutter Lane Level Crossing
25:10 – End of the Fawley branch
29:35 – Rejoining the South Western Main Line
30:48 – TOTTON station
33:16 – Redbridge station
35:58 – Millbrook station
38:08 – SOUTHAMPTON CENTRAL station
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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 (and its soundtrack, where present) 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 by Canon PowerShot S2 IS ‘bridge’ camera; video production by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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This outing began as a charter by Three Rivers Community Rail Partnership, which seeks to promote and improve public transport in the Southampton area: http://www.threeriversrail.com/
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ERRATUM: At 0:34 the motor coach from whose back cab the audio was recorded should show "60116 Mountfield".