We're Halfway! - Vlog update
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- We're back at home for a couple of days for a mid-season break, time to reflect upon the fact that we're at the halfway point. Also, this video should really have been titled "We've not been on a Northern Un-refurbished Class 142 Pacer!".
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There appears to be an updated 2014 version of the PDF map that we like, here: www.projectmapping.co.uk/Reviews/Resources/network%20uk%20map%202014.pdf
It's got the new line from Edinburgh to Tweedbank on it.
You in the Boroughs man? ...she says it better than many of us :P
That's better but still less detail than I'd have thought... presumably the boxes drawn on this map indicate that there are other maps (found elsewhere) with the detail within the boxes?
I'm from Illinois.
loving the tea junction sign
Here in Oz the videos hit right about the time I get home from work. It is great
Geoff/Vicki (and team)....Even though you are only half way, Can i say a HUGE "thank you" .
Thoroughly enjoying watching your journey.
Regards Steve
Living in the East Coast time zone (albeit in Canada)
Can confirm I now stay up til 3 in the morning to see if anything gets uploaded here.
Cheers Geoff + Vicki
Hi Ho Wolverhampton so do I
You're welcome about Newtown -it looked odd that Welshpool and Caersws (the two stations either side) were green, as all trains through there call at all 3 stations. I noticed Conwy stayed grey the following day for a bit longer than its neighbours, I thought maybe that was just an excuse to go back and have a look at the castle!! But it went green shortly afterwards, so I guess not!
Incidentally, the bridge over the Menai Straits into Anglesey used to be a tubular one the same as the one at Conwy Castle, but was rebuilt - you couldn't get the fantastic views from the Menai Bridge before, as it was all enclosed in like a tunnel.
We are really enjoying you adventures on the railway.
Don' t fear the North, they are friendly people.
By the way: All the Stations in "Yorkshire Speak" will be "All T' Station" (they don't use the word The much !)
The joys of traveling from Stockport to Chester on a 142 must be experienced by all before they are gone.
I'm guessing that might be the one my friend (who commutes to Chester) calls the "train-bus" (or sometimes "bus-train") :-)
gobears6487 yes that's the one. It's a leyland bus body bolted on a rail chassis. All the crash worthiness of a can of coke. Last week we had one with a loose window surround that let the rain in.
Oddly I can't see my reply but can see yours... and YES! she said that they leak!!!! Yikes :-/
Vicky, I do actually appreciate you guys doing All The Stations and I make my girlfriend watch it as well even though she doesn't really like trains and railways. She subscribed to you guys because of all the effort you are doing. I'm sorry you don't get as many views as we'd all hoped, but hopefully it'll increase over time. Really appreciate this.
Watched this video 7:30 pm Tuesday 4 July in Australia. My usual time for catching up with you. Will have to seriously consider ordering a T-shirt.
The times I've visited the UK before, we got a family rail pass and just took the trains everywhere. Stay somewhere not too far from London and take the train in at our convenience to visit whatever is in London.
Stayed in Conwy on the same trip too for a few quiet days and just a quick ride over to Llandudno and the Great Orme trams.
But I'll not mention the Edinburgh incident of 2003.
I like waking up and watching All The Stations videos after my coffee. Canada likes you!
CONGRATULATIONS on half way!!!! Maeve and Mark xx
We are MST in the USA & we LOVE that you at 7am because we watch at midnight before we go to bed! Also love watching our old stations (Maidenhead/Slough/Hayes & Harrington) and looking forward to seeing you at my home town station (knaresborough). Loving the insta-stories too!!
Hello from Tokyo!
I'm watching the videos now (Feb~Mar 2018), but I really wanted to have found this channel last year, and watched the videos as they've been uploaded. Also take part with the journey from the social media, in real time!
Good thing now, is that I can now watch as many videos I want in a row.
Thank you so much for carrying this project, it's insightful, it's fun and it's fantastic to see all the stations with a glimpse of the city as well!
I wish me too I'm watching it now.
Heard you on Radio Five Live talking to Peter Allen and Jane Garvey. Well done for not rising to Peter Allen's wind up!
I've been enjoying these videos very much; the tourism aspect has been really enjoyable too.
I do enjoy the new time as 7am in the UK is news hour here in NZ (6pm), all the stations for dinner is much more enjoyable
Hi Geoff and Vikki,
Many thanks for the great content. I bought an all lines rover back in 1977. I travelled alone as a green 18 yr old with the aim of trying to see as much of our great countries as I could in 7 days. Geoff, I had the 2 in thick timtable with the 1976 system map. I kept a travel log of all the trains and places i went to. I travelled on over night trains, so would get on a train in Plymouth and wake up in Glasgow. I enjoyed every minute even being threatend by a drunk scotsman carrying a knief! Sadly the travelog, timetable, map and the ticket were lost in a fire at my parents house, oh for you tube back in the seventies. The world was a different place then, all corporate nationalized grey and blue BR, souless stations and rundown rolling stock. Who says privitised rail companies have ruined the rails, looking at the stations , especally on GWR they are vibrant places you want to see and use. Thanks once again for your great work and insight into railways today, a much better place than the 70's . In a world of bad, sad terrible news you have both lifted our spirts. Promoted rail travel and community co operation, you are to be congratulated. Good Luck for the rest of the trip. Best Regards Chris
Chris, thank you so much! Lovely comment. We are indeed trying to bring a bit of cheer to the world, and to inspire others to get out and travelling on trains!!
Were you "green" after one-too-many British Rail 1970's sausage rolls ?!?
All The Stations Geoff! What, no post-roll blooper? I'm devastated!
Congratulations on making it halfway! Really enjoying the ride!
All the locks (canals) by boat, you know you want too.
Norbiton Flyer They were selective in the canals they filmed which might the best way to film them. Taken in to account the speed of narrowboats and the fact that the canals aren't all connected, it would be a mammoth task
2000 miles + 1500 locks = 3500 lock/miles divided by 4 = 900 hours divide that by 10 hrs per day (more possible in June July) =90 days. Leave out landlocked canals and navigations, if they start at Easter and get a wriggle on the should be done by August. Ok I admit I haven't allowed for return journeys where canals end in a basin. Re adjusted my aerial but still can't get channel 4 in NZ...... Happy to take your word though.
320ifq lucas #allthecanals no timetables required
I like that idea. Many years ago, I read a book called Canals Are My Home. Iris and Owen Bryce sold their farmhouse in Kent, had a 65ft narrowboat built (they called it Bix) and their aim was to take two years to tour the whole canal system. Suffice to say, it took them a lot longer...
320ifq lucas I have lived on a nb for the last six years and have cruised the canals extensively. I believe your estimation is way off the mark, but I would be happy to see G&V prove me wrong 😎
The change of time is nice for people living on the other side of the Pacific Ocean as well!!
Well done for reaching half way.
Loving the Tea Junction sign, must add it to my list of cool stuff to get later(tm).
when you have issues, try using traksy.uk - it gives you a real time signalling map for most places, allowing you to track exactly where the train is
I gotta say watching these make me really wanna visit Britain
Great tip on the network pdf map - thanks, Geoff.
Hee hee Vicki: "New Yoik" :-) [btw well impressed with your Welsh accent!] And as to the Premier Inns... if you stayed in Chester's, maybe it was a fave of Geoff's? After all, it's on the canal!!! :-) ccfg
I'm from Australia and enjoy watch all you video
Arriva Trains Wales were running on time? You lucky things, when I went to Wales on holiday their punctuality was worse than on Thameslink (and that's saying something)!
The worst Northern Rail Pacer runs between Sheffield and Adwick. It literally has benches on both sides!
And also good luck on the Sheffield to Huddersfield line. The line is beautiful but is also usually a pacer.
5:30 am here in Toronto, Canada.. usually end up watching your vids in the middle of the night!
Make sure you've not planned any Northern visits for 08, 09, 10 July - degraded Industrial Action timetables in action, also works are taking place in the Manchester area with line closures on 08, 09 and 10. A side note is that Ashton-under-Lyne station is closed until August due to a planned line closure between Manchester Victoria and Stalybridge
This is such a great project, I wish i'd done more travelling by train when I lived in England. One tiny bug - it looks like the filter-by-date feature doesn't work if your computer timezone isn't the UK. When I put in a date all the green circles disappear. My timezone is Sydney, Australia.
I'm in Canada and the 2am upload here is great !!
Regarding Premier Inn rooms, a certain rival hotel chain who I will not mention but have a name beginning with 'T' (haha!) have built at least some of their hotels rooms (not all) using shipping crates. They then load and stack them in situ on the new hotel to be. A neighbouring town to mine has one hotel built entirely in this way and the local rag gave it a shout when it was built.
I used to take my morning tea break at 10 am so I could watch your videos at work
It's 3am in Florida and it's a new All the Station's video! YAY! Thank goodness we're off for Independence Day in the USA.
I like the way you have dealt with disabled access being disabled myself i see the trouble it is traveling when disabled x
isn't the fact that all Premier are the same is actually a good thing? Because, no matter where you are you always feel at home with the place. Someone once told me something similar about Little Chef restaurants years ago. All restaurants were the same look and feel and had the same menu.
Congrats on achieving over a million views in total!
Excellent video its amazing the adventure so far.
great work guys
5:38 thanks, did wonder, downloading now.
Well done Geoff and Vicky
love your TEA JUNCTION sign, love your t-shirts (were they a gift from the Rail Delivery Group ?)
I'd love to travel to Wick (or is it Thurso) for when you finally finish your epic adventure ... you should have a "wrap" party
New video, new merch site coming - great start to the day!
I think Vicki will love Newcastle Station when you guys visit it
Well Done Geoff.
Well done guys keep it up!!
There are plenty of un-refurbished class 142's running the Preston-winderemere route, but they are being phased out as I speak. It will be chance luck if you end up ridding one, and its NOT a luxury experience!
Better (zoomable) map here:
www.nationalrail.co.uk/static/documents/content/nationalrailoperatorsmapZoom.pdf
Paul Parkinson yeah that's a good map - it's my National Rail map of choice.
I'm confused that Geoff uses a map that doesn't actually have ALL the stations on it! (That's why I use the projectmapping one...) Interesting :-)
no, I think the Project Mappnig one is inferior in design to the one i use - it's been "tube map'd" with different coloured lines at certain angles. I prefer the simplicity of the one that i use, and the more geographically correct way that the lines are drawn. The project mapping map is more of a diagram, the one i prefer to use it a map.
+All The Stations Fair enough, Geoff, like food it's personal preference ☺ but super curious how you cope with it only having bigger stations, not smaller ones etc (like mine is missing!)
That's where the back of the map maps that are still on web archive come in to play.
Project Mapping maps *are* terrible.
I did see on the map Vicki had adopted Goathland, and i did wonder as thats on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, but now i see it was an Easter Egg! You will intersect the NYMR at Grosmont though, or should do :)
love all the videos!
Barrybados! Almost as good as Skegvegas! 😁 Lovely video you two!
All the airports next year
Chiltern006 all the bus stops...
All the castles
All the Harry Potter locations.
SFM Good idea
All the French stations
Watch out for Chapelton and Chapeltown. Chapelton is in the South and Chapeltown is in the North.
Also good luck on the Pacers! Good chance of you seeing them particularly in Newcastle 😀
When will your vlogs travelling on the Welsh railways be coming. I love the lines there and can't wait to see some of the beautiful scenery. Well done on the progress thus far. My favourite line might have to bee the Kyle Line in Scotland.
I'd love one of those Britain Runs on Rail T-shirts.
i like your new publishing time because here in South Korea it is 4 pm
Vicki: "You've only got yourself to blame."
Will you do a top 10 scenic routes, top 10 quaint stations etc lists on the website? Top 10 castles or top 10 things to do on the Isle of Wight?
Looking forward to the north and Scotland !! Lake District, Settle-Carlisle, Barrow-Carlisle, and everything north of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Does Vicki have her own YouYube Channel? If not, next year you should do All The Castles and she can host! Congrats on the half-way mark, guys!
Missed you in Macclesfield - how come you were here so early in the journey? You were in the south but for some unknown reason you randomly came north! Perhaps you heard rumours about Macc and wanted to sneak in unnoticed!?! 😂
part of the Manchester United video, we had to go up back in back to hit the last day of the football season. only time we could do it!
Don't worry, is Asia it's quite common for couples to wear matching t-shirts!
I am glad you like Arriva Trains Wales I use Arriva Trains Wales lots
Geoff and Vicki I have subscribed to LIVE RECAP! - PS The Subscribe is on the other side..... you need to point right, as that's left on the screen :-)
Honestly not all the Premier Inns are the same, there are a few which have been refurbished but the new hotels have a different interior to some of the premier inns, think Basingstoke is a good example and I've compared it to Bradford.
Also If you want a good place to stay in Bradford there is a travelodge which at a good price in advance you can get it for £29 a night
www.premierinn.com/gb/en/hotels/england/hampshire/basingstoke/basingstoke-town-centre.html
www.premierinn.com/gb/en/hotels/england/west-yorkshire/bradford/bradford-central.html?ARRdd=25&ARRmm=11&ARRyyyy=2017&NIGHTS=1&ROOMS=1&ADULT1=1&CHILD1=0&COT1=0&INTTYP1=DB&SID=4
What's worse a premier inn or a northern unrefurbished pacer?
You can get a decent sleep on a pacer between sheffield and rotherham
This may already have been relayed to you by your team or one of your other followers - and I don't know when you plan to reach Yorkshire... But I heard an announcement yesterday that Train crews on Northern Rail are taking industrial action over next weekend and services could be restricted
International T-shirt delivery - tick pending!
Right, Next year: AllTheTrains (Where you try to ride all train classes that are in Public Service -on a regular basis-). And maybe AllTheAirports. Also, You forgot corby! 😂
we didn't 'forget' Corby exactly..! ruclips.net/video/d4QaT7-O1TI/видео.html
All The Stations I know, I was just pointing it out incase you forgot to go back and do it, as from what I could see on the map, it was the only station outside of London that you hadn't done (In the south, that is). It might be an awkward one, as the family I have living there are informing me about the Doubling-Up of the Track on the Single Track Line, A new Second platform, and electrification. When you are there, I highly suggest visiting the 'Corby Cube', a great price of architecture, and the East Midlands International Swimming Pool is a great day out and a lot of fun!
Arriva sucks in the Netherlands. They took over a huge portion of the bus and train routes in the south at the beginning of the year and the connections are terrible. Glad to hear Arriva is better there.
All The Ports
You'll be on a lot of those pacers in the North East!
Ah, but the northeast mainly has the Arriva (first time round) refurbed interiors, 2+2 seating etc. The proper unrefurbished experience will be bus bench seats and a brown floor.
I wonder why you don't use the transit layer in Apple maps. It's quite useful, as (contrary to its main competitor) the lines are displayed very clearly on the map. It is especially useful for finding the geographical location of a station or where the entrances are.
because Apple Maps are simply dreadful. don't get Geoff started on that ...
All The Stations That sounds like bias to me, like a lot of people have about it. I honestly get why you’d think Apple maps WAS terrible, but it’s quite nice now. It isn’t always the best option, but as a way to locate railways (in supported countries) is vastly superior.
Why do you not like the use of the Project Mapper map? Is it to do with spacing or a completely separate issue?
I really love this show guys beats Michael Portfolio's show
Premier Inn hotels are no different other than the location other than the way the room is layed out.
People obsessed with railways pointing out your errors..? Noooooooooo....:D
We know, right? Who'd have thought?
All the Geoff Marshalls and All the Vicki Pipes.
Jonathan Cook I picture that as a kaleidoscope.
I presume a Northern Pacer (that you haven't been on yet) has a special livery that involves flat caps, ferrets, homing pigeons, dark satanic mills etc, with a horn that plays "On Ilkley Moor Baht 'At". It probably has extra heating to compensate for the Frozen North. :-)
I can only get away with making fun of northern stereotypes because I'm from that part of the country,
On Ilkley Moor Baht 'At is easily playable on the two tone horn of a train, northern or otherwise!
And first class is called "Alan Bennett" class.
Martin C I know it is, that's partly why I mentioned it!
Mortimer50145 They have no heating
No, well, northern folks don't need things like heating - we're tough!
i think you would have been on an unfurnished 142 pacer when you did the Saturday only Gainsborough Central - Cleethorpes run
There was a long time when a couple of grey stations remained in south London, one of which was Brixton (which I remember from a previous video is your local?) - there I was thinking I'd cleverly worked out what station 2363 will be...
Am I right in thinking it's all going to be completely logical and the last one will be Wick or Thurso? Or can we expect something more theatrical for the end?
For those of us on the west coast, we don't even have to stay up late!
Did anyone notice that if you go down from the R in Britain on their shirts it says RUN?
I'm sure I saw you on a Northern pacer when you did the Brigg Line.
I have never been on a pacer in my life. I know they are kind of awful, but I think they still worth talking a ride on before they are replaced. Since I live in London, I wonder where is the nearest place that I can take a pacer train? I am not a super rich person so I probably do not want to spend 50 quid to go to York just for taking a pacer train... So are there any nearer options?
Pacers normally run hourly on the Lincoln (LCN) - Sheffield (SHF) route. You could get a return to Retford (RET) using Hull Trains which is often cheaper than Virgin Trains East Coast.
Brilliant. Many thanks.
the PDF map that comes up is stating that it is for 2013 and not showing all the stations e.g Scottish borders line
Just found the videos lately, I am on West Coast of the United States.
Lol.. One day ill do All the Stations in Ireland.. ONE DAY... If I ever bother... Bah let someone else do it..
They should leave Goathland station on, and then add to the FAQ:
"Are you doing Goathland station?"
"No - we're doing All The Stations Except For Goathland"
Where Did You Get Those Quaint T-Shirts Too BTW :) ??
*HALFWAY*
*hears TADA.WAV, loses it*
Your documentary is hugely enjoyable. Thank you so much!
Regarding the map links, there's also a 2014 edition of your Network Rail PDF map, containing a few changes southeast of Edinburgh, in Wales, and a line to Chingford that hadn't been shown before:
www.projectmapping.co.uk/Reviews/Resources/network%20uk%20map%202014.pdf
And if you allow me just one tiny critical remark on the videos: Maybe it's just me, but I instantly feel dizzy whenever an accelerating or slowing down train is shown in fast forward mode ... That said, I've never dared riding a rollercoaster.
Whhhhat! this is great. DID NOT KNOW a 2014 edition was available. superb! thank you.
Are you guys using 14 day all line rover for most of the trip?
Yes. ruclips.net/video/BPTxYWRxjI8/видео.html
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