A ticket inspector just came into my bedroom and charged me a penalty fare...

This is how Driver's eye videos should be!  Not only the clear, steady, central, uninterrupted view, but the information - tells you where you are (be it junction or station), what line you're on and what the speed limit is - but doesn't clutter up the view with unnecessary info.  Good work!

i remember when i was about 9 or ten years old me and my family went on a train to bedford at the time i was wearing a baseball cap that said train engineer on it and the ticket inspector came along and noticed me with my hat and he said "I like your hat" and i said "thank you" and then he asked me "would you like to sit up front with the driver?" of course i wasnt gonna turn that offer down cause it was a once in a life time chance so he took me to the cab introduced me to the driver and then unfolded this seat and i got to ride in the cab with the driver even got to have ago at sounding the horn. ever since then ive had a huge fasination with trains. when we arrived at bedford we took a photo of me with the driver and inspector. i still have that photo i just wish i could find it.

This brings back memories... I was a driver at the beginning of my career at London Bridge & at Bognor Regis in the 1980's before immigrating to finish my career off for the last 30 years in South Wales. I used to work over a large part of the Southern Region Central Division, including the Brighton Line, Mid Sussex line, Coastway West to Portsmouth Harbour, Littlehampton/Bognor/Hastings via Lewes/Eastbourne & most of the Central Suburban area... I remember "losing a shoe" (which collects current from 3rd rail) one evening at Keymer Junction after some idiot threw a carpet out of a first class compartment window of another train, which fell onto the 3rd rail... this caused an almighty flash & bang as my train hit it at about 80mph; the shoe went up underneath, bursting the air main reservoir pipe (which feeds the Air Brake Pipe via the driver's brake valve on 1963 type stock), causing train to come to a grinding halt by the action of the automatic brake just north of Wivelsfield Station... after informing signalman at Three Bridges via a nearby signal post telephone, getting the juice switched off & trains on opposite running line stopped... I put the short circuiting bar down, sawed off the shoe lead, removed the shoe fuse, isolated the main res cocks between leading & second coach to stop the air leak, removed short circuiting bar, put the guard up in the leading cab & then drove cautiously (with signalman's permission) from an intermediate cab the 3 miles or so to Haywards Heath, where the rather full 12-car train (from Portsmouth Harbour/Littlehampton, combined at Worthing Central) was terminated... many people must have missed their flights from Gatport Airwick that evening by that thoughtless act...

My god!!!  watching this is better than anything that's on the tv at present

This was outstanding!  Really took me for a long relaxing ride.  I live in the US.  It was really cool to see your country and a small moment of your daily life.  Just what I needed today!  Brilliant!

I'm an American living in Hove and working in central London. I've got one year remaining on my work visa. I've saved this video so that I can be reminded of my time here in the years to come. A huge thanks for posting!

Travelled up and down from Brighton to London when I was a lad back in the Fifties ,most school holidays to stay with my Aunt in London.Now many years later I am 12000 miles away in Australia but this video brought back many memories of my youth. Migrated when I was 14,now in my late 70,s. Thanks so much for the post.

I just love the sound of train movements, their engines and looking at the sheer scale, size and varying styles of London's urban density.

From grey skies in London to bright blue in Brighton! Great video, I have really enjoyed it.

Probably one of the best quality drivers eye videos I've had the pleasure to watch - The external view gives an uninterrupted view down the track - You have set a new level of quality, that everyone should aspire to deliver - Indeed you could give Video 125 some hints and tips for making their commercial videos better! - Hope you make many more ;-)

All I could possibly want from an onboard video of this type. Excellent video quality, real time sound, no silly music, and some useful information. Brilliant & actually rather hypnotic.

One of the first routes I played in Train Simulator was the London Victoria to Brighton route.  Nice to be able to see a driver's eye view like this.  The 377 Electrostar also drives beautifully in that route DLC from 2013, so I can imagine it must be a treat to be able to do this in real life.

This video's route is also possible in that game now thanks to a merge with South London Network, which adds the London Bridge terminus, so I wonder if someone will ever recreate this video as a scenario in there. =)

i now live in the Caribbean for 12 years now and as train pulled past norwood juction i wanted it to stop so i could get off and walk 5 mins to my flat...good video to remind me of home

Many happy memories! Drove many times over this line between 1977 and 1990 whilst a driver at London Bridge Depot!

I now live in New zealand, But Brighton was my home town when a youngster. Trains have changed, tracks still squeak. Loved it.

I used to work on Brighton S&T in the early 70s.
Jumped out of the way of a few of these buggers in my time ;)

Those weird scraping noises are part of London trains for me. I hope they NEVER vanish.

In 1978 I was at a Ruddles County Pub in Leicester Square, W1.  It was the night the film 'Grease' was premiered.  I was with a girl called Beverley and we had too many Ruddles.  We got to Victoria station meaning to get off at East Croydon but we woke up at Brighton.

This is fascinating to me it’s like your on the train while I’m laying in bed in a cabin in Arkansas .