Manors (Mainline) to Manors (Metro) - Pointless Journeys
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- Another pointless journey! This time from Manors to Manors! From the National Rail station to the Tyne and Wear Metro station! With a cancellation along the way..
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As a child and teenager, I would often use platform 4 at Monument then stay on the train as it turned at St James, because it just felt more convenient than waiting at Monument for the same train
Aye and you get a seat too
Surely, people will use Platform 4 at Monument to get off a train.
Love the reaction when Northern decided to pull a Northern! Great Video and love the detour to Morpeth
@@RandomTFLupdates-PEPS_FOR_LIFE Hello
@@Sim0nTrains No Simon. Northern pulled a classic ‘Metrolink’
@@MrTransportAddict Metrolink pulls a Metrolink and Northern pulls a Northern
2 big towns with a decent population, Morpeth and Cramlington, getting a decent service to Newcastle. Except its often cancelled.
@@Nav1g8r1 Morpeth does have more services than Cramlington, CrossCountry Trains, LumO, LNER and TransPennine Express stop there as well.
Pointless journeys are always the funniest things 😂
Also how was the Northern 158?
@BriishTrainspotter did you know you can differentiate from which onea are ex Scotrail and which ones were direct to Northern?
Here's a suggestion for a pointless journey: West Hampstead Thameslink - West Hampstead Overground - West Hampstead Underground
I’ve never clicked a Nick Badley video as fast as this! Going to watch now!
same
West Hampstead (London Underground) to West Hampstead (Overground) to West Hampstead (Thameslink
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"No one ever uses platform 4 at Monument"! Wanna bet? I've seen it crowded before!
Go on a football day, and you’ll find many supporters changing at Monument, off Metros from South Shields/South Hylton and also the North side of the loop, as its quicker than going all the way round the coast
on a football day its crowded
Windsor and Eton (Riverside) to Windsor and Eton (Central)... WER to Waterloo to Paddington to Slough to WEC
As my mother always said to me "Watch your Manor's" ;-)
There are generations of Geordies to this day, who accidentally miss-spell 'manners' as 'manors' because of that station/area 😄 (I was one for a while).
Good video : ) For next time you could do Newcastle (Mainline) Newcastle (Metro) (Northern to Heworth, Yellow line to South Shields, Ferry from South Shields to North Shields, take the Yellow line back again to Central metro.
Seems like this opens up a lot of new ideas for these videos . Piccadily national rail to Metrolink?
Could you do Newark North Gate to Newark Castle as a pointless journey?
I'd have done a large loop, Manors - Newcastle - Darlington - Thornaby - Sunderland - Monument - Manors
you should do the Heathrow terminals
Edgware Road subsurface to the Bakerloo line would also be interesting
@Ro99 it's wouldn't be much of a route though as the lines are an interchange at Baker Street or Paddington (Kensington branch)
The moment I saw the title, I knew it was the most pointless thing to do. End result : watched the entire video. This series is Internet Gold
Great pointless journey Nick. I’ve never been to Morpeth or Sunderland!
Wigan Wallgate to Wigan north western would be a great video!
Looks like you had fun.
Wigan Wallgate to Wigan North Western next! 😂
0:53 you was like "oh" because the train was CancelEd!
Great video nick
Walkergate is OK. Just a mainly residential area with a Lidl and a bus depot. Not particularly dangerous.
It’s true, not many people get on
from Platform 4 at Monument, but it’s the busiest station on the Metro and is in Newcastle City Centre. Plenty people use Platform 4 when getting off.
I was born in Walkergate. Did I miss Nick mention Walkergate in this vid?! Never heard it mentioned.
brilliant pointless journey im loving Morpeth & i love Monument station with its proper retro feel at that station and i love Manors station which is Tyne & Wears least used station and great for trainspotting keep up the awesome work
Yes, it's also quite staggering just how big Manors Metro Station is, considering there is absolutely nothing in Manors (anymore - there used to be a great cinema there 'til the early 80s) and no-one ever gets on or off there!
Great video, Nick! Thanks for adding captions too
Northern class 156s are a nightmare I hope they will get replaced with a fleet of class 158s.Also the Tyne and Wear metro is supposed to get new trains but they are on test still.
I saw the title of this suggested and did a double take, I love the absurdity of this, I can also remember as a very young child being taken to explore the derelict Manors station. It was huge and had numerous tunnels running under it, which we tried to get through. It says on wiki it closed in 1978 but it would have been mid 80s when we explored it.
You should do a London tube pointless journey on the circle line Edgware Road to Edgware Road
Monument P4 is great when arriving from the coast, and IIRC can be used single line runnin in case of an issue in P3
You should do Bicester north to Bicester Village that’s mega pointless haha
Could we get behind Catford to Catford Bridge, the journey so pointless that you can’t get a ticket for it?
as a student i often used platform 4 returning to college after shipping in the dinner hour
The St James Line would be used for all football goers as it stops outside the stadium for matchdays
Platform 4 at Monument, is mainly there for Matchdays, same with St. James Metro Station. As it gets extremely busy when loads of Newcastle Fans are travelling to a Home Match at St James
Some pointless journeys in Scotland ideas. I have 2 ideas the first is the between the two stations serving Glenrothes in Fife which are actually located in villages outside of Glenrothes. The two stations are Glenrothes with Thronton on the outer Fife Circle line (in the village of Thornton) to Markinch which is a station on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen main line. The second idea I have is between the two main stations in Coatbridge. Coatbridge Sunnyside (on the North Clyde Line) to Coatbridge Central (on the Motherwell to Cumbernauld Line).
0:54 welcome to Norhern Teritory
I'll be surprised if trains will be on time or not cancelled...
People do use platform 4 at Monument to get to football matches. There was an original plan to have an exit from the station straight into the ground but it was cancelled! Incidentally I bought the first passenger ticket from Monument, November 1981 I think. And sold it for £5 immediately.
Imagine how much it would be worth now! I was there on the first day of operation (actually August 1980, before the Queen's - later - official opening), St James to Tynemouth (or possibly North Shields) on the old Blue line. Wish I'd kept my ticket!
@@droge192 August 11th 1980 and I missed it. Did travel on it the next day.
Platform 4 is used on specific days when football matches are being played and is designed to accommodate capacity for away team fans
Said in a previous video, Monument to Monument platforms 1/2 to 3/4.
Others you could do but would cost a bit are some of the Scottish ones where the train splits.
Highbury and Islington London Overground to Highbury and Islington Underground would be a cool video
At manors you can’t forget your manors
Really enjoying these pointless journeys so far, if I can offer up a few suggestions for future videos in the series:
Severn Beach to Pilning. About a 35 min walk between the two but the train journey is much longer and also made even more complicated by the fact that no trains towards Cardiff call at the station anymore. I think you have to go to Severn Tunnel Junction and then come back down the line again and even then the station only gets 2 trains a week (I know there's a local campaign group to get the station back on the map properly)
Upper Warlingham to Whyteleafe: It's a 3 minute walk between the two stations but the train journey involves having to go all the way up to South/East Croydon and then coming back down the other line again
Dorking (main) to Dorking Deepdene: Another short walk between two stations but on perpendicular lines. I think you have to go to Guildford and then get a train towards Leatherhead, make another change there and then come back down the line towards Horsham
Clock House to Beckenham Road Tram Stop: a 3 minute journey by foot but the train/tram journey is much more complicated. There are occasional train journeys from New Beckehnam to Beckehnam Junction but these are very limited, the easier thing to do would be to get a train down to Elmer's End and then change to the Tramlink services, changing over at Arena for a Beckehnam Junction tram.
Dorking to Deepdene is reasonably straightforward as far as pointless journeys go. Dorking to Horsham, Horsham to Gatwick, Gatwick to Deepdene.
Thank you for this amusing video ! You didn’t really need to go all the way to Sunderland to change for a northbound train to Manors. A simple cross platform change at Pelaw would have been much quicker, with additional trains coming up from South Shields !
Pelaw doesn’t have a national rail platform, he was getting a northern from Newcastle mainline to Sunderland, as Sunderland is a station shared between national rail and the metro, so he wouldn’t have to change stations like he would at a station like Heworth
@@billymcmedic4221 - I thought there was only one station at Heworth (used by National Rail and Metro)? You're right about Pelaw, no National Rail connection, but are you saying there are two separate stations for Heworth; NR and Metro? Because I ised to live in Heworth (albeit for a short while) and didn't know this haha.
@@droge192 aye yeah, you need to head out through the ticket barriers at heworth metro, cross over the bus station and you get heworth mainline
Do this with Meadowhall tram stop and Meadowhall train station in Sheffield even though the stations are right next to each other that would be hilarious 😂
I know Geoff Marshall has done it but Catford to Catford Bridge is a great one, can literally throw a ball between the two
Start of manors to manors Tyne and Wear, Metro
btw u can get tyne and wear metro from newcastle central station the green and yellow line stop there also metros are every 20 minutes so u didnt just miss 1 also can u do sunderland station (metro) to sunderland station (nat rail)
From Newcastle you could have got a yellow line train round the coast amd into Manors from there, or alternatively, getting off the Mainline train at Heworth and jumped on the Yellow Line there
Please try Smethwick Galton Bridge LL-Smethwick Galton Bridge HL
Next time, you could do Thorne North to Thorne South
Great video! I don’t know if it’s already been suggested, but perhaps Wigan North Western to Wigan Wallgate? Situated yards from each other but serve very different types of traffic.
Platform 7 in Newcastle is the undisputed coldest place on earth (my opinion from many years of waiting for the Hexham train)
Loving the Pointless Journeys vlogs ... Something different
Love the videos. Smethwick Galton Bridge?
Chathill there’s a pointless journey within itself
Agree! Why is Chathill a terminus station for the Northumberland Northern trains?? There's nothing there 😄 The population of Chathill is about 4 wealthy farmers and a couple of rich Northumbrian land owners 😆 I'm surprised all Northern trains don't either just terminate at Morpeth, or go on to Berwick.
King’s Cross St Pancras (Tube) - St Pancras (National Rail)
Lol Really enjoyed that.
Altho you could’ve made it a lot shorter by going from Manors Metro, to Monument then change from platform 4 to P1 then head to Central Station and get Northern from there.
Still a really enjoyable video Nic.k. Thanks for a very entertaining few minutes.
I’ve got a pointless journey idea! Windsor and Eton Central to Windsor and Eton Riverside. It’s like a 2 minute walk up a hill and taking the train between them is pointless.
Also Dorking to Dorking Deepdene
Farnborough (main) to Farnborough North
Birmingham Moor St to Birmingham New St
Maidstone East to Maidstone West might be a good one
I like your style!
I recently discovered both your channel and series, needless to say, I've subbed, and one pointless journey I'd suggest is Catford to Catford Bridge (a journey so pointless that National Rail Enquiries says it's an invalid journey)
Blaenau Ffestiniog (National Rail) to Blaenau Ffestiniog (Ffestiniog Railway), via Shrewsbury, because who really wants to use that potentially 'dangerous' pedestrian level crossing when you can go on an adventure?
Nice concept. I like the music you use too
Monument Platform 4 would be busy on Newcastle match days
Catford to Catford Bridge 'stones throw away from each other.
03:00 well I never (just a joke, great video!! I tried to do something vaguely similar way back in 1989. Manors (mainline) was then a wilderness of mostly overgrown infrastructure with a couple of platforms actually habitable, kinda surreal.
Bradford interchange to Bradford Forster Square
Recommendation; Oulton Broad North to Oulton Broad South, they’re not directly connected by rail
I would guess that "useless" platform is there in case the line is extended.
It's used by about 30,000 people when Newcastle United are playing at home. People get the Metro into Monument, then change to that Platform 4, for the 1 stop journey to the St. James terminus (which is right in front of NUFC St. James Park).
I imagine lots of people use platform 4 at monument... but only to alight the train coming from the coast 😁
A suggestion of a pointless journey to do is Canterbury east to Canterbury West in kent. They have no good connection lol
I have got two pointless journeys for you. Sheffield Mainline Station to Sheffield Station tram stop. Meadowhall train station to Meadowhall tram stop.
In the past you could have gone between the two BR Manors Stations, North and West I think they were called.
Love these pointless journeys! I've a few pointless journey ideas, mainly National Rail to Metrolink journeys in the Manchester area, bar one Earlestown to Earlestown from the "Northern" platforms to the "TFW" platforms. For the Manchester area : Manchester Airport National Rail to Manchester Airport Metrolink, East Didsbury National Rail to East Didsbury Metrolink, Navigation Road National Rail to Navigation Road Metrolink, Altrincham National Rail To Altrincham Metrolink also all the other National Rail to Metrolink links. One totally Metrolink journey Sale to Sale Water Park a 30 minute walk, but according to the Metrolink app route planner, a 23-minute journey via Cornbrook.
Eccles National rail to Eccles metrolink? Not sure how close they are though walking
@Oli P They are a 5 minute walk from each other.
Some more pointless Manchester ones:
Deansgate - Deansgate Castlefield (National Rail & Metrolink)
Manchester Oxford Road - St Peter's Square (National Rail & Metrolink)
Trafford Park - Stretford (National Rail & Metrolink)
Heald Green - Peel Hall (National Rail & Metrolink)
Exchange Square - Market Street (Metrolink)
Old Trafford - Firswood (Metrolink)
Chorlton-cum-Hardy &/or St Werburgh's Road - Barlow Moor Road (Metrolink) (St Werburgh's gets you bonus points for being even more pointless)
MediaCityUK - Imperial War Museum (Metrolink)
And soon to be pointless journey, Gatley - Cheadle (National Rail)
I would like to say to you I like your videos and most important thing I like in your videos your British English accent second for me how you explain us. You doing very good thank you very much.
Pointless journey idea: Smethwick Galton Bridge to Smethwick Galton Bridge (high and low-level platforms). There could even be the potential to double it up with Worcester stations
I used platform 4 once, then the train broke down just before st james.
Love this series, really makes me miss living somewhere with a national rail station.
Perhaps you could do something like Sudbury Hill Harrow to Sudbury Hill (tube) if you are ever in the London area?
Or st Albans Abbey to St Albans City?
Ayy, you passed my local station. Cramlington!
He could have got off there and switched platforms, instead of going another 10 miles up the track to Morpeth!
You just popped up on my feed for some reason? ..interesting concept!
But what struck me is, you're a Doppelganger for a bloke on another 'interesting concept' channel 'Christopher Collects'. Even down to the slightly cheesey incidental jazz muzak!
Morpeth is actually a really nice town, though quite a hike from the station, from what I remember. You should go there sometime and do a proper explore. And I know just what you mean about Sunderland - reasonably central location in large city, yet usually fairly quiet! Other ideas? Helensburgh Central to Helensburgh Upper, Tyndrum Lower to Upper Tyndrum, Paisley Gilmour Street to Paisley Canal, Falkirk Grahamston to Falkirk High, Coatbridge Sunnyside to Coatbridge Central, Blackpool North to Blackpool South, Heath High Level to Heath Low Level, Wakefield Westgate to Wakefield Kirkgate, Pontefract Monkhill to Pontefract Baghill via Pontefract Tanshelf... and doubtless, many more!
Another suggestion, if you're in London ... West Hampstead (Jubilee line) -> West Hampstead (overground) -> West Hampstead (Thameslink) -> West Hampstead (Jubilee).
Love it
If you fancy a Pointless Journey in London, you could try Penge East to Penge West. 10 minutes away between the two, but from Penge East you’d have to go to London Victoria, then either to East Croydon or Crystal Palace.
or you can do East Croydon to West Croydon meaning you havw to go to Victoria then change for a 06 or 36 service to West Croydon (or you can get the 00,30 or 16,46 to either epsom downs or sutton)
7:00 Platform 4 is only really used on match days when Newcastle are at home, other than that its not used
how does your ticketing work for this? you don't appear to buy any
I usually buy e-tickets on my phone, or in the case of non-National Rail Metro systems, I'll buy a paper ticket before I begin filming
Or sometimes I do have a camera shot of me pulling the ticket out of the machine 😁
Next, do St Budeaux Ferry Road to St Budeaux Victoria Road!
Manors has a much better service now as few years ago it only had a few a day as I think that only the Chathill service stopped there .Same with Blaydon and Dunston.I think that Teesside Airport is the most infrequently serviced north east station with one a week that's if you don't count BS Redcar which currently doesn't have a any trains stopping!
liverpool central to liverpoll lime street
I think we need a pointless journey from King's Cross Station to St Pancras International :D
Dovercourt to Harwich town in Essex with Greatanglia shortest distance btween 2 stops in England
Yes but wouldn't be a pointless journey as they're directly connected and only take 18 seconds to travel between.
On 6:50min you say no one uses the platform, but in fact there are passengers getting off the Metro cars on platform 4, hence still have a puprose, even just to stand there and, make footage of it and post on a video hoping for success out of it. Anyway, thank you for sharing the interesting video.
You should go Cambridge to Cambridge north
Fantastic vid nick!
Can I suggest a pointless journey from St Budeaux Ferry Road [SBF] to St Budeaux Victoria Road [SBV]
Oh and we have the furthest south highway sign pointing towards Station (As a pedantic chap I believe it should say Stations since Victoria Road SBV and Ferry Road SBF are technically separate) with a West Yorkshire Metro (M) on it! Down at the last stop before Kernow- Cornwall.
idea: hackney central > downs (probably via stratford and tottenham hale or something)
It my favourite station to train spot at
Yep, more trainspotters than passengers at Manors. Literally!
Another "logistics" questions (because I'm all about those). How do you plan your Pointless Journeys? How do you know where to go and change? I'd be interested in a video that shows how you plan these (after you publish the actual Pointless Journey, of course).
I think it's what's known as "looking at a map"!
Platform 4 is used for the Newcastle matches. So gets used by fans. 😀
How about this one for pointless...
Bank (DLR to Stratford) to Bank (Central) to Waterloo (Waterloo &City) to Kennington (Northern) to Bank????🤔🤭
“It’s a good day 2:58 2:58 2:59