The First EVER Grand Central Service - Sunderland-London KX

[Intercity47GBRail]

I miss that sound... ;(

[somerandomalex]

i love the american style that they were goin for.

[preston4eva12]

Those mark 3s look awesome

[cornettoman6]

did the service not stop at all between york and kings cross?

becase its says kings cross on ly on the board :')

[cleckheatoncentral]

Great to see Grand central re-introducing Sunderland Kings XX service. I believe the Bradford Exchange-Kings XX service will start soon I hope they re-introduce the Glasgow-Nottingham service via the S&C, which was popular but withdrawn by BR in order to shut the S&C.

[preston4eva12]

@cleckheatoncentral would be even better if east midland trains could run a glasgow-london service via the S&C, atm Notts, Leicester, Derby etc don't have Scottish bound trains.

[toonmag50]

well look on the bright side-they ve now lasted longer than Nat Express East Coast-sponsored by Mike Ashley

[Danny55022]

YouTube should not get away with cutting your Audio too!

5* for the Video (even if it doesn't have the sound)

[MidgleyMedia]

Sounds back on!

[Danny55022]

Nice 5*

[MidgleyMedia]

Sorry, guys they removed all sound becuase I was breaching copyright... right

[walrusthefirst]

was there any1 on them trains?

[MidgleyMedia]

I think passenger numbers are picking up, but some have been put off by the poor reliability of the services since it started.

[MidgleyMedia]

But if you mean on the very first one as shown in the video, there were probably about 40-50 passengers. Most of which were probably invited by Grand Central to travel on their first service. However there were quite obviously some passengers who had found the service on National Rail Enquiries the evening before, and looking round in mild surprise that their train featured photos on Marilyn Munroe and board games on the tables!

[TheXtremeEnthusiast]

always a great ride when on these, 5 stars!!

[b0grillaz]

Me and my friend once saw a grand central stopped next to pelaw r0fl..

[rutter1701]

I love watching this video, it just never gets old! Grand Central apologise...! At infinitum et absurdum...There is never a week goes by without an apology...Their tag-line makes it all the funnier...The train you've been waiting for! I have waited for it four times, from Sunderland to York...I have yet to get on it! It was a nice idea, but please, leave running a train service to the professionals, it just adds one further humiliation to the long suffering, proud people of Sunderland!

[MidgleyMedia]

Cheers Rutter, that means a lot :D

If you like that, please take a look at our first video, THE FINAL COUNTDOWN, and keep checking back for the soon to be released sequel!

[SoulPatrolUK]

Beautiful trains, very well refurbished, and the best looking stock running on any track in England :)

[lukespencer91]

i work with grand central the reason why we running a limted service is due to our rollin stock issues,

the trains are breaking down due to power supply linking the powercar with the train and a powercar electrical fault,

basicly the powercars keep losing power!

[andydriffield101]

theyre just old gner trains that theyve revamped although the hull executive still uses the old gner trains

[CapitalistPolitician]

I think the carriages look hideous, they don't look British, they look AMERICAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!11

[140522]

haven't national express(gner) got gv's aswell,if not their hst's look similar.

[140522]

Hi John,u know how the only available train developed a fault,its probably because the driver belted it out the station,anyway nice to see them up and running again,very very well done,it is a good video that you should be proud of.

[peak45]

Very Very Good.

Wayne.............

[GNER100]

like the intro music,

jack johnson if i'm not correct

[jfs0996]

Great video!!!

[kodocha123456]

grand central HST's are Pv's there the only operater still keeping them :-)

[superalexo]

Great vid! Love Grand Central's livery - it reminds me of a steamer. Do they still only have one HST set at the moment?

[EPPower]

I'm confused; that had sharp acceleration, yet it was very loud to say that it was an MTU engine...are they PV's?

It's probably better they started later and got some HST's rather than starting on time and getting Voyagers - as they are no parts for them since Bombardier washed their hands of them.

[penalinodude]

well done mate

[Sephy69]

those game boards in the tables...is that in standard class?

great video mate!

[MidgleyMedia]

Cheers! Yeah those game boards are cool! The ones on the video are in Standard Class, I'm not sure if they are in First as well or not.