Camden Road to Kensington (Olympia) – Hastings DEMU cab ride – 1 July 2017

Cleethorpes Clipper part 11: Cab view from Camden Road to Kensington (Olympia), filmed from our preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 1 July 2017, during the return leg of our Cleethorpes Clipper railtour.
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This video concludes our 11-part series which covers the forward view for every inch of this railtour from Kensington (Olympia) to Cleethorpes and back, a total distance of 374 miles and 77 chains.
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In this video we cover the concluding 7.43-mile portion of the recorded footage. It follows our progress round the North London Line to Willesden Junction (High Level) where the day’s last driver is waiting to board and take the train forward to Hastings; we then continue via Mitre Bridge Junction and the West London Line through Shepherds Bush to Kensington (Olympia).
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From Willesden Junction, the presence of two drivers in the cab means that the front-cab audio is mostly unusable. Ordinarily I would have been able to publish the synchronised rear-cab audio in such circumstances; however on the day I was preparing to alight at Kensington (Olympia) and so had to retrieve my rear-cab recorder, and walk the length of the train in the ensuing 10 minutes — to be ready at Olympia to alight, speak to the driver, enter the cab, retrieve my GoPro and vacate the cab all without causing any delay. Therefore the soundtrack is largely silent during the final 10 minutes.
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Video and audio footage are from an unattended unmonitored forward-facing cab-camera in motor coach 60118 Tunbridge Wells.
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0:00 – CAMDEN ROAD station
1:25 - Camden Road West Junction
2:45 - Kentish Town West station
4:12 - Gospel Oak station
4:33 - Gospel Oak Junction
5:54 - Hampstead Heath station
6:15 - Hampstead Heath Tunnel
7:53 - Finchley Road & Frognal station
9:02 - West Hampstead station
10:28 - Brondesbury station
11:59 - Brondesbury Park station
14:09 - Kensal Rise station
15:54 - Kensal Green Junction
17:38 - Willesden Junction (High Level) station
18:07 - Soundtrack ends
19:35 - Willesden High Level Junction
21:27 - Mitre Bridge Junction
22:47 - North Pole Junction
26:17 - Shepherds Bush station
25:51 - Soundtrack returns for 25 seconds
28:16 - KENSINGTON (OLYMPIA) 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 by GoPro Hero3+ camera with suction-mount and extra batteries; processing by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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Parts 1 to 10 of this tour (comprising continuous footage from Kensington (Olympia) to Cleethorpes, and back to Camden Road, are already available on this channel. This is the final part, no further footage was recorded by us on the day.
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Here are links to annotated extracts from Network Rail’s Sectional Appendix:
Outward: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n5jjmb9uee2...
Return: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5fmu0xdqagx...