Oakham - Least Used Station in Rutland
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- Опубликовано: 11 авг 2018
- The County of Rutland has just ONE station in it - Oakham! Which means it's the least and most used station .. time to go there with Sam, who I get to do a drawing. We also feature the Welland Viaduct! And a whole bunch of other fun stuff too!
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Sure Oakham is the least used station in Oakham, but there is always a bloody train coming past when we are trying to get to Tesco
How is this so true
I was on a train once which got delayed at Oakham when the signalman locked himself out of the box. He had to put the window through to get back in.
Oh, and that HST was going to Loughborough Brush. Probably to get painted for ScotRail.
Rutland became a district council under Leicestershire County Council in 1974. In 1997 it regained its independence when they invented what we have come to call 'unitary authorities' where the two tiers of county and district/borough are merged into one council that performs both functions. The main reason for this move seems to be a strong county identity, and a campaign against Leicestershire-rule, as it is not only small in area, but not very many people live there - hence why it got annexed in the first place!
It is the 3rd/4th (depending on the tide) smallest "county for the purpose of lieutenancy", or 'Ceremonial County' as they are commonly called by area - with City of London, City of Bristol and high-tide IoW being smaller. Many unitary authorities and districts are smaller in area.
It's the second least populated ceremonial county, behind the City of London, and, excluding the City of London and the Scilly Isles (which are uniquely governed special cases), it is the least populated top-tier (ie county/unitary authority level) council area and second-least populated second-tier (ie district/unitary authority level) council area (West Somerset has fewer people).
PS: rankings for England only, as local government and counties are different in other nations of the UK.
Rutland was a municipal "county" and "Ceremonial county" until the Local Government and Housing Act 1972 was enacted (in 1974 as you say), thereafter it remained a "Ceremonial county" only but the municipal county of Leicestershire was widened to include the geographical area of Rutland. In 1997 two of the council areas in the geographical area defined in 1972 as "Leicestershire", the city of Leicester and Rutland became unitary authorities and no longer are any oversight from Leicestershire County Council but the geographical area of "Leicestershire" remains as was and will do unless the 1972 Act is amended or repealed. But that relates to municipal boundaries only, Rutland has remained a county for Ceremonial purposes for the whole of this time.
The council's formal name, however, is 'Rutland County Council District Council'!
(Not making that up - see rutlandcounty.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s9377/Part%201%20-%20Summary%20and%20Explanation.pdf)
@@stuartfraser1856 for me it is quite simple, it has an LE postcode and is a part of Leicestershire, if I am looking at travel, observing all these weird historical oddities serves no purpose but to create confusion. I know the locals get annoyed when I map out my travel for work and include all LE postcodes as Leicestershire
@@sonadagothalus Post Codes were created by the Royal Mail (now a private business) to facilitate the delivery of post in the most economic manner.
@@sonadagothalus plenty of places where postcode regions ignore county borders. By that logic Basingstoke must be in Berkshire because it's in the Reading postcode area
That was brilliant! Least used train over the longest viaduct to the most and least used station in Rutland, complete with the shortest HST passing through!
I never knew it was Rutland's least/most used station.
I always thought it was Rutland's longest and shortest station.
But isn't Oakham Rutland's highest (and lowest) station?
I thought that fact was world famous in Rutland.
Oakham is also the oldest and youngest station in Rutland (at least of those currently open)
It's also the one that has the most and the least rubbish bins in Rutland.
I'm waiting for a new video with Jay Foreman in it, maybe them driving along the M25.
They did, but it’s the *A1M*
2:36 when you said, "What the heck was that?"
It was just a class 43 with no passenger coaches...
no shit
I have read that steam hauled trains have to coast across the Welland Viaduct as the side to side application of power puts stresses on the structure. When I saw the Flying Scotsman a few years back that seemed to bear this out.
So you're telling me the model signal box that I have is based off of the one in Oakham? Now that's awesome!
2:35 Jeremy Clarkson's "sports train"
No. It's a pair of off lease class 43 HST power cars from GWR heading off for storage.
@@oliverbrelsford5472 Way to ruin the joke.
That logo at the end was magnificent. Great video once again learned something new today.
I think Oakham should look no further for their new town logo
The line between Corby and Oakham is often used as a diversionary route when the Midland mainline is closed between Leicester and Kettering. Going to get lots of diversions over the next 18 months as the mainline is being straightened through Market Harborough
That Was a GWR HST move most likely going to get repaintined In ScotRail colours too 👍🏻
yep there suposed to be pulled by drs but thay where on there own
johnathan lane HST power cars can move on their own or in pairs, but are limited to 75mph
Really only 75mph, the power to weight ratio would probably allow close to 160mph running if they were allowed, I'm assuming it's because the brakes on the mk3 carriages allow for safer & faster use, and that the driving cars have limited braking abilities!
I think both those HST were up at Queen Adelaide just outside Ely. I go past the sidings every day and they have recently gone and just left their Mk3 carriages there.
It's because they are technically light locos when coupled back to back, so max speed is 75mph.
Long, long ago in the ancient mists of time (1983) I lived in Birmingham (UK) and, as a freelance film technician, worked all around the country including Anglia TV based in Norwich. This involved getting up at 5am to catch the first express train out of Birmingham (New Street) to make the long cross country journey to Norfolk. Imagine my deep joy of stopping at Oakham which I believed at the time to be in the smallest County of England, Rutland; in fact it wasn't because Rutland was merged another County years before, but I digress.
Now I learn the signal box was the template for the Airfix model and sported the longest viaduct in the country. Wow!
The only other thing I remember from those long ago days was, on a flatish straight section of track, USAF fighter jets based nearby used it for low level bombing practice - which was not something you'd want to see before breakfast.
Thanks for the upload - it brought back memories of long ago with new info.
Rutland is part of Leicestershire so it's not a county.
Rutland was the smallest county in England but is now part of Leicestershire. In my long ago freelance days I used to travel everywhere by train and in doing so learned amazing tedious facts about the railways. Thanks for using me an oik.
What a fantastic channel this is. I'm originally from the area and always visit the Welland Valley when I come back. Beautiful place.
Rutland was England's smallest County until 1974 when it became part of Leicestershire. In the nineties, Rutland became a unitary authority.
Rutland is a independent county again from Leicestershire. Fingers crossed Melton will be the next Borough to leave Leicestershire
And no one from Rutland weekend television came down to interview you Geoff 😂
Corby looks like a really well-used station - shows what British Rail could have achieved if they'd spent the money rather than letting it rot. There are comments elsewhere on RUclips that BR closed Corby because of vandalism, but a neglected station is a natural target for vandals.
lots of campaining & cctv, the town has certainly improved since the stations been reopened & rebuilt & with the introduction of EMR electrics could pave for a future Themeslink extension which would be good.
It’s also the most used in Rutland lol
So you've not heard of Rutland Weekend Television:
ruclips.net/video/rGrjP8ltFgw/видео.html
Not been through Oakham in years.
Yep, this Derby Resignalling project has been a fun one, with the big part now in full swing.
I'm currently working on passenger assistance, mostly covering Derby and Long Eaton (I can also be called out to East Mids Parkway and Burton-on-Trent), working Long Eaton for this week, especially now that apart from a Derby - Matlock service, everything else is rail replacement, with the London > Derby / Sheffield runs starting / ending at East Mids Parkway till Aug 19th.
Pop in and say hi to us green jackets (Or Leprechauns as some call us) if you get a chance.
Didn't even know Rutland existed in all honesty.
Rutland? Fake news!
I DID]
TheSharkLord, Its a conspiracy...
Rutland sounds like somewhere that would only exist in a gothic comedy like The League of Gentlemen.
TheSharkLord it’s better known as Leicestershire
I often find myself opening google maps and retracing your steps. It's like your videos come with a little mini game to find the places and then to explore the things around it, that you don't capture with the video. It really astonished me to see on google maps just how long this viaduct is and how many tunnels are on the train line between corby and Oakham.
That's a lovely bit of countryside, looked like a nice little town as well. A lot went into this video compared to some others, huh? We got a little field trip to see a pretty impressive bit of masonry, which is always nice.
Sam Rutland is pretty and pretty boring, small and expensive. The residents are mostly over 65 and Oakham school pupils are stuck up. Oakham has few useful shops, small shops full of expensive items (go down Mill Street and see how pricey they are) and Boots or Wilko are the most useful shops. There's an abundance of little places/pubs to eat in and too many hairdressers for one town. The other town Upoingham is even more useless and posh than Oakham and expensive. There isn't much to do unless you like pubs, a cinema held in the tiny museum, swimming and country things. I believe Oakham has a polo club. I was from there and would never live there again. Pretty but pretty boring, posh and useless.
@@vaw796 chip on the shoulder?
Interesting video Geoff. Oakham, Melton, & Stamford are manned by East Midlands trains staff. The Cross County service is only run by Class 170's Turbostar trains. One or two Norwich to Nottingham trains run by East Midlands Trains run via Oakham for route knowledge.
For some reason the Cross Country franchise operates no stations, even when, as at Burton on Trent, it provides every single train.
SO COOL, MUST VISIT WHEN WE RETURN TO ENGLAND IN JUNE - thanks for putting this on the map!
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Wow Corby station looks ultra modern like stepping into the future, and those East Midlands train look fantastic, that countryside also looks beautiful like a perfect picturesque English scene
Corby has an hourly service to London, Geoff! Most of the services are not shuttles at all.
Oakham is also the home of Oakham School. An independent fee charging school, that takes both boarding and day students.
Previous students have included cricketer Stuart Broad, Country File reporter Tom Heap, and comedian & host of Radio 4's News Quiz, Miles Jupp.
Statistics of the Welland Viaduct in Metric:
Length: 1170m (1275yd)
Height: 18m (60ft)
Width of each arch: 12m (40ft)
Hope this helps! :)
Thanks! Rutland may be an old county but I can't cope with those medieval measuremant units.
It's Harringworth Viaduct, not as said at 13.38.
There were quite a few other people catching the Corby - Oakham train when I caught it earlier this year, and fun fact it was exactly the same unit
Amazing video! Loved the logo and the viaductL
Well, I never knew that about the Airfix signal box kit! Lovely viaduct (that I'll have to visit one day) and nice logo by Sam. Cheers Geoff.
The HST was two power cars heading up to Scotland for scotrail. They usually run with coaches so nice rare catch...
Oakham is known for The Grainstore Brewery & Tap near the station. Oakham beers are brewed in the Peterborough area, not in Oakham. Ten Fifty, Rutland Panther and Rutland Beast are delicious (recommended) from The Grainstore.
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Geoff , Answer the question "What that Heck is That" it was 2 HST (class 43 Power cars) on Stock Move to Scotland or Works or Store
I should also point out that my favourite beer in the world "ten fifty" is brewed right next door at the Grainstore Brewery. I don't get back to the UK much these days (much to the chagrin of my family who still live in the town), but my first act on disembarking the train is always obvious.
Love the picture behind you and Sam in the waiting room.☺
Just watched your least used station in Hertfordshire and I’m one of your younger viewers and 5 years ago I was at primary school going to that station for school trips
Top work as usual.
That was a great logo at the end. Again, very nice video, Geoff!
It's amazing what Sam came up with on such short notice
@12.55-13.00, the building on the left is the disused Seaton Station which I believe still has the old platform, footbridge and various other railway memorabilia from its past.
That's a matter of great style to approach Oakham via the Welland Viaduct (the boring way is Peterborough on the ECML and change). Also, this vid sort of makes up for Oakham not even having been mentioned on the epic "all stations" tour (something I commented on at the time).
You knew it! The secret of Oakham Signal Box. I had one. I cycled from Nottingham just to see the real one too (but what was Airfix's station building based on- was it Braintree & Brocking?). I can vouch that the country gets a bit more compressed and lumpier down that way too. I was up and down through the gears like a yoyo.
Not just the signal box. Airfix's entire rural station, including the footbridge, was Oakham station.
Rutland became a unitary authority in 1998.
The day before it was absorbed into Leicestershire in the seventies, all the "Now entering Rutland' signs were removed by the authorities, so everyone thought. A week or so later they all reappeared. No one really knows who did it.
I don't know the situation now, but in the 90s there was only one set of traffic lights in Rutland, excluding crossings, in Uppingham, Rutland's second town.
I can confirm that the cross country Service is the Birmingham to London Stanstead, it’s mostly run by 2 or 3 car class 170’s, EMT trains do run on the line mostly 222’s to get to Syston where it joins up to the midland main line.
I spend a ridiculous amount of time in that station, lovely to see it from a enthusiastic outsiders POV!
In 2016, me and my uncle went over that viaduct behind the "Flying Scotsman" herself. on the way up from London Victoria to York. beautiful views from the viaduct, the field on your right as you are driving downhill, on the Oakham end, was filled with people watching us pass with their beer tent, and a viaduct maintenance platform with engineers waving at us as we passed them, a beautiful viaduct.
That logo looks amazing!
ONLY station in Rutland!! I'm there all the time. Birmingham to Stansted line. Between Melton Mowbray and Stamford. Lovely rural medieval town, as is Stamford.
Yes, I had an Oakham signal box on my train set when I was a youngster.
Another great video!
You should do a video showing how long it takes to walk from end to end of different trains in London! You should do the circle line, met line, Thameslink, and Crossrail!
A Like for so many things in or about this video. Least & Most Used Station, as it is Only Station. Prototype for the nationwide Signal Box. The Great Viaduct. You having bought the miniature signal box. Sam's design.
Have I missed anything?
This station and area should have a special place and mention in National Rail! And in it's marketing.
And, Geoff, I like the typeface you use for "All the facilities" and "Purple Train".
Thanks a bunch for your videos and works
Holy crap, I remember when this channel had 30k subscribers jeez you have grown!
I used to pass through Oakham twice a week on my way from Leicester to Stamford. That was only part of the journey. Going back it was Stamford to Leicester, Lecs. to Nuneaton, Nun to Crewe, Crw to Stockport, and Stk to Stalybridge. What a nightmare!
Thats an amazing set of facts!
Loving the video geoff
Great video Geoff and Sam
Enjoyed this video.
That was fun. It was great to see a professional designer at work! And the viaduct! Could the Romans have made that? I don't think so!
There is a few HST's being decommissioned so that might have been the power units being moved to where they are getting scrapped. Someone had put a video up the other day of a pair leaving a depot.
at 2:36 I wish he just kept on recording in the trains 43s direction
Oh I knew you were going to say this Henry. It’s meant to be a least used station video, not let’s spot a pair of 43s…!!! 😂
2:36 That is a light engine speeding by. Light railway engine is a railway engine that is not hauling anything. That can occur if there is an accident (Thunderbird engine,) engineering work, or a difficult incline (double heading) down the road.
Geoff: Given that the City & County's of London are separate ceremonial counties, when do you plan to do Least Used City of London?
Anoither reason its so well maintained is they do occasionally run the steam trains through Oakham, so they like to keep it looking good for the tourists.
Good video but a couple of corrections:
Whilst the Corby to Oakham service isn't frequent, Corby to London is an hourly service. The shuttles to Kettering only run on Sundays and as additional peak time weekday trains.
Harringworth rather than Harrington Viaduct.
Yup, Harrington is another village in Northants. Both villages have something in common, they both have terrific pubs - The Tollemache Arms in Harrington and The White Swan in Harringworth.
@@MatthewBrannigan bit late i know but as I local i wanted to inform you that the mucky duck in harringworth is now closed for good! A real shame.
@@BenCowley111 Gosh, I'm sorry to hear that - that certainly is a shame. So many great pubs closing these days.
You should see Rockville Viaduct near Harrisburg. Longest brick viaduct in the world, and built for four tracks. However it is pretty low because the banks of the Susquehanna River are rather low there.
The platform you can see at 00:42 actually isn't an old platform from the original Corby station. It's actually the Corby station that was built in 1987 and used for an experimental service until 1990
There is a direct train between this station and Cambridge where my university is. Added to the "hope to visit" list then.
Well done on the logo. :)
I believe the two class 43s were going for GWR to ScotRail for their HST program
Sam’s drawing was amazing
I scanned that QR at 13:42 and got a lot of info about the Viaduct, you should show of those
Geoff marshall is a beast and hello sam again greetings with respect
It’s crazy how Corby and Oakham are so close together and if you miss the one direct service a day you have to take a nearly 3 hour detour and spend 3 times as much on the fare.
Or get the bus?
Lee Ibbotson might take the train 😂
love the video, the viaduct and Sam's logo; really loved Sam's logo. How about doing "All the Viaducts"?
Those two blue locomotives were back to back HST power cars off lease from GWR.
I had one of those airfix signal box when I was younger
That viaduct is an impressive piece of engineering, we don't make things like they used to. Its like someone's heart and soul went into that, whereas now, its a bored guy in an office with a tablet and no imagination.
Now I'm looking forward to least used stations in some even smaller counties like Isle of Wight, City of Bristol, and City of London.
The train passing at 2.31 mins was two unbranded Great Western 125 power cars probably heading to Derby for refurbishment and new vinyls as they are going to ScotRail....
Cute Little Station.
The home of Rutland Weekend Television and world famous '60s beat combo The Rutles managed by 'Leggy' Mountbatten! Or did I dream that (Cheese & Onions)
I've possibly been over that viaduct travelling from Peterborough to Birmingham New Street
3:23am and I'm watching this instead of sleeping lol
Wow, that viaduct is mightily impressive.
Rutland Weekend Television - home of the magnificent Rutles - the 'Pre-Fab Four'; Dirk, Barry, Stig and Nasty.
That - of course - nice! - viaduct looks pretty much like late roman stile.
Very nice logo at the end. Real Deal. The city could use that as a proper web logo ...
What's Rutland? Didn't know Rutland is an actual place.
Damn it, Mark! I thought it was really a conspiracy!
What the hell was that Class 43 abomination
Charles9612 Maybe running to Scotland for their new HSTs
Charles9612 it was two HST heading to scotland
They were going to Loughborough for work maybe ?
They were going to Haymarket Depot in Edinburgh, to be refurbished to work in Scotland for Abellio ScotRail. They are currently running between Edinburgh/Aberdeen/Inverness.
An HST GTI
2:37 might be one on the HST's going to scotrail. Some of them are just going around.
Or hull trains but there was no mk 3s
I would like to dispute Welland Viaduct being the longest viaduct. The old London & Greenwich Viaduct had 876 arches. Most of it is hidden today by the southern widening in 1841 and northern widening in 1847. But the orignal viaduct is still there sandwiched between the widenings and visable from Corbett's Lane Jn to Greenwich. Love your videos, maybe you could make one of the London & Greenwich Railway and walk from Greenwich to London Bridge, videoing the historic reminders of the past. there is still a lot in evidence.
He covered the Greenwich viaduct on All the Stations
Which Episode?
It is claimed to be the longest viaduct in a rural setting. There are longer viaducts in city settings.
it's quite a nice town really
I'll be using the station when I go to London in July as I'll be down that way! There's more stations in Rutland, come on now LOL
2:40 "What the heck was that!?"
Never mentions it again . . .