Uckfield Thumper Driver's Eye View now realeased!

jolly · Post by **jolly** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 4:50 pm

The Uckfield Thumper Driver's Eye View video is now available on VHS and DVD from Video 125.

http://www.video125.co.uk/acatalog/The_ ... r.html#a76

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:02 pm

I'd like to know what the speed limit is between Buxted and Uckfield.

When I was on it last week the driver took the corners pretty hard lol.

Looks like a good video.

XPTE · Post by **XPTE** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:37 pm

I'll probably get this one. However, bit dissapointed that the run only starts from East Croydon and runs at just 70 mins. Most of their vids run for abou 90 mins. If they'd have started the run at London Victoria it would have been about another 15/20 mns. I guess Video 125 don't want to duplicate routes on other videos i.e. the East Croydon-London Victoria line features on their Connex Express video.

Just a minor moan though, and I'll probably still get this video anyway. Looking forward to it!

Elojikal · Post by **Elojikal** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 8:19 pm

XPTE wrote:I'll probably get this one. However, bit dissapointed that the run only starts from East Croydon and runs at just 70 mins. Most of their vids run for abou 90 mins. If they'd have started the run at London Victoria it would have been about another 15/20 mns. I guess Video 125 don't want to duplicate routes on other videos i.e. the East Croydon-London Victoria line features on their Connex Express video.

Just a minor moan though, and I'll probably still get this video anyway. Looking forward to it!

225 Studios have a London Victoria to Littlehampton (and then Littlehampton to Bognor Regis) cab ride video. It's quite good. One of the better ones as you actually get to see the driver working - ie. the drag up the slope out of Victoria, having to slow down for red lights and what not. Not just one continuous unchecked run. And it is nice to have to have a cab ride video that comes out of Victoria rather than into it for a change.

If you get it see if you can spot the continuity error/factual innacuracy.

XPTE · Post by **XPTE** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 8:55 pm

I thought this Video 125 video runs from East Croydon-Uckfield, but just found out it runs from Uckfield-East Croydon instead. Still would have been nice for it to have continued onto London Victoris though.

That London Victoria-Littlehampton vid sounds very good. Will have to order that one I think. Are the 225 Studios videos similar to the Railscene vids where you hear the driver and cameraman chatting? Or are they similar to the Video 125 vids in that they have narration?

doownyl · Post by **doownyl** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 9:04 pm

Is the 225 one the full length in real time? And does the Littlehampton one go via Redhill? - Cheers in advance

Elojikal · Post by **Elojikal** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 9:52 pm

They're like the Railscene ones mostly. No narration. Just a guy who sounds like a game show host introducing the train and its destination. But unlike Railscene they don't really have any chat either. Just the odd little bit of smalltalk from time to time. Tunnels aren't cut, only the stops at stations. That's a problem I have with Video 125. They seem to cut so much out seemingly having never head of 120 minute tapes.

Yeah it's via Redhill, then after Three Bridges off to Crawley, Horsham and Arundel. The Littlehampton to Bognor Regis bit is a seperate service. It's an odd service too. I used it recently. Lasting all of about three stops they seem to have a long stopover in Barnham just to make it seem like the service is worth it.

I don't pay that much attention to these forums, mostly lurk really, so I dunno if it's been mentioned before but 225 Studios also have Brighton to Portsmouth and Portsmouth to Brighton cab ride videos. Complete with depressingly bleak winter scenery and skies.

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:03 pm

*Sigh* I remember the good ol' early NSE days, when all railstaff were allowed in the cab. Eastbourne to Victoria was cool, so was a 319 from London Bridge to Haywards Heath. only remember them slightly, I was only 5 or 6.

Elojikal · Post by **Elojikal** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:10 pm

southcoasttrains wrote:*Sigh* I remember the good ol' early NSE days, when all railstaff were allowed in the cab. Eastbourne to Victoria was cool, so was a 319 from London Bridge to Haywards Heath. only remember them slightly, I was only 5 or 6.

That was only a well conceived plan by NSE to get as many people out of Eastbourne as they could so they could claim asylum elsewhere!

Ho Ho Ho
OK. Enough of the Eastbourne slagging...

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:12 pm

Elojikal wrote:OK. Enough of the Eastbourne slagging...

Moving on to Lewes? No wait! I work there

Seaford!!! What goes on there?

Elojikal · Post by **Elojikal** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:44 pm

Lewes is alright for "living in." In fact take away Norman Baker and his tubthumping topic of the week and it's a decent place.

The locals seem to get what it's all about. Nice area, satisfactory shopping and come Saturday morning when they all want some decent action they all pile west out onto the A27 and head for Brighton. In fact I was quite amused by that when I was recently there taking pictures of Lewes station and I was watching almost a convoy of cars heading out of Lewes and all the trains from Seaford into Brighton were absolutely packed. It was like a march of lemmings lol. "Excuse me! Hello! Beachyhead is that a-way!!! --->" lol.

Seaford and Son of Seaford, Newhaven, deserve all they get.

I couldn't stop laughing for five minutes when I recently heard that Newhaven had rejected a plan to build a modern office block with one of the councillors saying it would ruin Newhaven, a natural beauty spot. Hahaha. A natural beauty spot?

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:56 pm

Elojikal wrote:Seaford and Son of Seaford, Newhaven, deserve all they get. I couldn't stop laughing for five minutes when I recently heard that Newhaven had rejected a plan to build a modern office block with one of the councillors saying it would ruin Newhaven, a natural beauty spot. Hahaha. A natural beauty spot?

What about that pile of scrap metal? Thats the beauty spot!

Lewes is too Hilly, Station Street is ok for walking up, School Hill is a ..

Elojikal · Post by **Elojikal** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:14 pm

What's this about the sea once extending to Polegate anyway? I know the Hastings are used to be a peninsula about a 1000 years ago, a lot different to what it is today. But how could the sea stretch into land up on the south downs?

AFAIK the only major change in the local geology over the last 1000 years, with the exception of a couple of hundred yards of coast being lost around Brighton and the silting up of the river Adur, is the destruction of the river Ouse between Newhaven and Seaford about five or so centuries ago, creating the harbour at Newhaven that didn't exist back then.

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:22 pm

Pevensey was an island.
Polegate would of been on the coast, Hailsham was on the coast, Herstmonceux as well.
Did you not know what the Pevensey Marshes were?

Elojikal · Post by **Elojikal** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:30 pm

Not really. Just a vague idea.

How far inland did they go then and when did they start to recede?