Okehampton & Samford Courtenay - Bonus Video
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- It's Sunday 25th June, and we're back down in Devon to pick up two awkward stations - Samford Courtenay and Okehampton.
The line is only served by GWR/National Rail trains on summer Sundays ONLY, and at Okehampton, the Dartmoor Railway then runs services to nearby Melton Quarry/Viaduct. They sometimes run trains back to Sampford Courtenay too.
More on the Dartmoor Railway here: www.dartmoorra...
Look out for Percy the station cat in the video, he has his own Facebook page here: / percy-okehampton-stati...
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Thanks to Martin for the drone footage - filmed with permission of the Dartmoor Railway.
You can see our progress map and load of other information on our website at: www.allthestati...
Brilliant bonus - thanks to you both and to Martin for driving all the way to Devon for the wonderful drone shots.
Great filming and drone camerawork. Good editing to fit the music. Love the piano version of the All the stations theme.
Update for this, it was recently announced that following a campaign by locals a regular service is to be reinstated between Okehampton and Exeter along with a new additional station at Okehampton. :-)
Glorious drone footage of the Dartmoor Line. Superb.
Wow! Noon on the following day, 26 June, and nearly 10k views already.Your fan base deserves to grow and I've alerted my small circle of ferroviatologist friends (no prize for working out meaning).
Lovely area - it'd be great to see a regular weekday service via Okehampton again, I'd hope that none of the retro signs and features of the stations would be replaced though. It seems to be a growing trend to rebrand individual stations on the National Network back into old liveries, long may it continue!!
Also nice to see that Thumper unit still out and about, even with the blue NSE moquette!!
boy do i have good news for you...
A delightful video; loved the piano music and the Thumper! Tempted to visit this line......
Nice to meet a fellow Thumper fan.
TWO bonus videos in a day?? Wow we're really spoilt for choice today
The most artistic cinematography in the all the stations series
Loved this bonus: love that area, love the music, great footage... yay ATS!!! 😃👍 Now I want to go on a Sunday for the slam doors, and to walk or ride that viaduct (never knew!) ... Thanks guys!
i looked it up according to GWR, there is no train to Okehampton so you have done great just to find it and publicise it for them!. Keep up the good work guys xx
Thank you for all the hard work that must have gone into getting this done on the day.
A lovely line have done it a few times! The Station Cafe at Okehapton serves good food too
I'll keep it in mind for the 2018 holiday plans. Thanks!
I know you visited it ages ago, but I just watched the Sheringham video on the Geoff Marshall channel and am really thrown out now. Deepest east, to almost deepest west almost back to back!
Brilliant Cutting + Drone Footage Mix (!!) Score ... High Five from across the Pond
Might be worth revisiting this when this line opens up to a full time, all year round, service between Crediton and Okehampton, later this year. The track has been upgraded and they’ll be an hourly service.
Wow Martin you turned that around quick!
Calling All Stations Battered my 4G data! :-)
Geoff and Vicki, it was an honour to meet you both on the train from crediton to okehampton and have a nice chat, although I think Percy the station cat has to be the highlight of the day (#allthecats). No seriously, all the best with the rest of your adventure. Regards, Gemma Barclay.
hey Geema, ah! you too, thanks!!
Never seen such a formal comment on RUclips in my life haha
I did it once some years ago. I don’t know if it’s still the same, but at that time just about everything in Okehampton was closed on a Sunday, the only day when the train runs.
lovely
lovely music, lovely surroundings, Love the classic graphics
Just had a week holiday in Teignmouth and spent one day around Oakhampton, didn't quite realise it was a sunday only service so this video answered a lot of questions xD
As someone interested in the railway, this series is just what I needed. Cheers Geoff!
1:46 what a sweetie! Elegant train station cat 💖😍😊
Excellent video! Loved the aerial shots.
Fun fact: you can cycle on the former railway between Okehampton and Lydford, a cycle path which leads you over the Meldon viaduct. And, by the way, near Lydford is a nice waterfall and gorge.
Matthijs van Egmond Amazingly we didn't know about the cycling over the viaduct (& we're cyclists!) but we LOVE Lydford Gorge... beautiful! (Thanks for the tip!)
That's what the thingy on the Dartmoor map is. I've done ten tors 4 times and seen it from a distance at least 5 times and never worked out why it was there
Better hurry up ;) Reopening the line is one of the options for a alternative route to Plymouth avoiding Dawlish.
Nice video and some great aerial shots.
Oh how wonderful, I wondered if you would get back for this special service 😍😍😍
Had no idea this line was here and I live north devon, its beautiful!
Lovely bonus video, after seeing photos of my friends on facebook (Jason Wright :p) and your photos on social media, it has inspired me to do this line next year, especially since it has a Class 205 "Thumper" unit, thanks for uploading this video
Same day video... nice
Super footage.
Ohhh just watching this makes me desperately miss Devon again.
Tina Onions - was a Marshall once. As a devon native I must say it is a wonderful place
I last went to Devon last July, but before then hadn't been for a few years. From when i was a baby to mid teens, my family and I spent a week every year staying in the same farmhouse, with the same family. My sister and I got involved with caring for the cows, milking them, feeding them... Devon has a lot of very special memories for me. I love it, and can't wait to go back again. I feel homesick for it sometimes. You are very lucky to live there.
Bee I live 30 miles away in Starcross and this video makes me miss it
Bee people always go to Cornwall for some reason but devons got the same sun beaches cliffs and so much more. And it's a lot emptier
Another good video I am enjoying All The Stations I can't wait to see the Cambrian Coast Line as it is my favourite line
Some wonderful drone footage in there - great stuff!
I actually worked on this line during the Christmas season. They have a performance of the polar express on the line. With Meldon Quarry being 'The North Pole' after a slight makeover.
I worked on painting the meldon viaduct a good few years ago. It was ace climbing round the metalwork.
Exellent, keeep up the good work. Like the music.
Great Bonus vid... always been fond of the area. Always wondered what line runs by the A30. Wasnt this line under review last year as one of the alternatives to re open if the line through Dawlish ever gets wash away permanently ??
Some great photos of Geoff and Vicki on Percy's FB pages (link above) - well done, Percy!
All the Stations with these bonus videos your are really spoiling us #ferreoroche
Great video ! Thank you all !
How things are changing!
You probably had no idea at the time that your Saturday only service would be seeing major changes.
North Lincolnshire folk are pushing for similar for Brigg and Kirton Lindsey.
And no-doubt you may know of others.
Anyway, back to Okehampton - any extension on to Plymouth will get support as a useful back-up just in case (who knows) the Devon coast line should finally one day fall into the sea!!!!!
This is brilliant: a mainline railway service to a mainline-connected heritage railway station.
I am wondering what would happen if someone managed to restore those old main lines like Waverly Route or Grand Central Railway as a heritage line, while part of those lines are still used for mainline services? (northern part of Waverly Route is now Borders Railway, while southern part of GCR is London-Aylsbury line and the Met) Will that open the doors to recommercialization of those lines?
Nice to see the Thumper. Didn't know any had survived, must arrange a visit
Thank you for sharing this!!!
Love the Allthestations project I hope that DVD,s and perhaps a diary is published. This is a modern day Bradshaw guide great work Geoff and Vicki. How do you keep fit?
doing press-ups on a Chorley bound pacer perhaps glorious weather to visit east Lancs
I'm going to be in Okehampton next weekend, though I'm not sure I'll be able to take the GWR service because of the revised timetable.
we caught the 09.08 from St. Davids on the amended timetable, and it was fine!
Okehampton line now sees an hourly service all year round since 20th of November 2021and sampford Courtney is now closed and is being replaced with okehampton interchange
1:45 Best moment of the video :) :)
Calling All Stations miaow!
Arrgh, beaten to it. Still - CAT!
Calling All Stations I
All the cats
I wondered what was happening with that grey line on the 'all the stations' map.
I was also expecting a steam train for some reason.....a little disappointed in that respect but stunning scenery and great little stations....
Atheist Orphan typo...rectified
It's going to be weird not seeing that white dot on the map anymore.
OlofTheOrange Yes, Sampford Courtney and Okehampton "ticked off" BEFORE Balham and Streatham Hill !! All The Stations are certainly full of surprises !!
Brilliant Video! So do GWR trains run over Dartmoor Railway tracks or to Dartmoor Railway trains run over Network Rail tracks?
Lukas Ruediger GWR run over Dartmoor Railway tracks.
Lovely views of the edge of Dartmoor - and very impressed how quickly you got the video out.
the best one yet!!
need to get to Oxehampton and the dartmoor railway to ride the Thumper unit
that's a damn beautiful area (dam pun not intended)
OK, that's weird... Whatever colours that carriage is wearing on the outside, at about the 1:00 mark Vicki got into a coach that used to belong to Connex/Connex Southeastern, probably in the mid to late Nineties. I recognise the upholstery pattern (maquette? No clue how spell it in this context!) from when I used to go into London before all the slam-door coaches were phased out. (I miss the slam-door coaches. Also the old destination boards in the terminus stations.)
Mate, we could almost make you an honorary Wiggle - "Wake up Geoff!!!"
If I could spell picturesque, I'd say that of this footage but I can only spell quaint, which doesn't do it justice. The drone controller did a good job of tracking the train as it leaves the station, whoever that was.
When you next visit Leeds Station bring the pianist with you and he can play your theme tune on the public piano in the concourse - right grand do
There is also a piano at marylebone station in London.
wonderful
This footage makes me want to do ten tors again
Where's The Isle Of Wight Video? Come on now 😄
Never heard of it, where is that?
All The Stations Some Say it's part of the UK But I have no idea myself 😉
It's on Geoff Marshall's channel.
Clid Gaming It's a Joke ? 😂
I must do this line, never been on it yet.
Next year: All station cats :) Probably will Rushden have a new stationcat by then (RIP Alfie).
gilles111 Was sad to read about Alfie. Followed him on FB.
Perhaps Vicky and Geoff will meet Felix in Huddersfield?
I live in okehampton I warn it's so nice there
Perhaps someone can answer a question I have for some time: Did BR use class 205 DMU's aka Thumpers on the Norfolk Wherry Lines (NorwichYarmouth) in the mid '90-ies ? Would have been just before BR got privatised.
Leo Starrenburg No. They were SR units. However 1001 has travelled around in preservation
Thanks Martin, so the quest continues. These DMU's did have an above floor motor/generator set and were dark green.
Leo Starrenburg were they regulars on the line?
Leo Starrenburg ok, a little research shows a class 201 did feature in Norfolk in the late 90s. If you google it, it doesn't take long to find bits about it
Class 201 is also known as Thumpers (all the class 201 - 207 are called so).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_201
PS In 1961 I was lucky enough to travel this line on the Atlantic Coast Express behind a Bulleid Pacific.
I had hoped I could turn the "All the stations" jingle into a ringtone after download. Looks like Google makes this extra difficult :-(
Yes! Agree! Maybe they could do it for us? (They definitely have lots of music that's not yet released, different mixes etc...) Whaddya say Geoff/Steve?! Please?!?!?! :-)
4 years later and now it's fully reopening
Never done the route between Exeter st David’s and bristol missed Tiverton parkway Taunton bridgewater Weston super mare
Is North Tawton to re open?
Great piano version of the Theme Tune also, I think it's my favourite version I've heard so far...
It's now open full time.
Could I post this video on our OkeRAIL FB page please?
Kevin Ball absolutely Kevin, go for it!
Awesome thanks. facebook.com/pg/okerail/posts/
If you want to pop over and give us some thoughts on what you thought - that would be welcome. OkeRAIL is a community group working on re-introducing a regular service between Okehampton and Exeter.
yes, we met the lovely Richard on the train who surveyed us ... he liked that our next destination was "Everywhere!". and we are advocates of a regular weekday service running on this line ...
Lovely taster, but shots were too short to have any real value; seemed very "snatched" and why you filmed the cat rather than the DEMU I cannot imagine.
Yeah 16k subs
very rural out in the sticks
I want someone to write lyrics to that tune... I'd do myself but (I've never written lyrics before)
Okehampton the station that refused to die.
its a shame that the Dartmoor railway has gone into administration now
Sampford Courtenay
Railway kitty!
The progress map doesn't have the branch checked yet...
unjinzTrash Map updates are done at 10am the following day.
the progress map always updates at 10am with the previous days activity.
Sampford Courtenay - correct spelling :-)
It would be awesome to ride that line across the viaduct in what we in the States call a motorcar or track speeder (typically a 2-seater track inspection vehicle). Do you guys have anything like that? Motorcars are now only operated by preservationists, with the "hy-rail" vehicle (a standard pick up truck with extendable rail wheels) now taking it's place. However in NZ there is a disused line in which they run groups of modified golf carts for sightseeing. ruclips.net/video/wTFs52v86XA/видео.html
The only door slam of the series at 1:03?
Bretonics Mk 2 or 3 stock?
Atheist Orphan I'm aware of that. But I'm suggesting that Mk 2 or Mk 3 stock they may travel on will also be slam door
Martin Clitheroe Where is that likely to be? (Love slam doors but not quite enough of an enthusiast to know!) ... sad to have missed the ones on the bubble train at PR/Aylesbury...
Well 1:01 really to get the slam, as for Mk2's and 3's I'll keep a look out!
gobears6487 Mk 3 are everywhere with HST sets or loco hauled (such as GEML or Scotrail Fife Circular, but NOT Chiltern). There are also Mk 2s on the Anglia and Cumbria short sets
Is that the dam richard Hammond drove a jeep up?
Always great to see a station cat. Where i am based we have one called "Sapphie" Always puts a smile on my face when i see her. ruclips.net/video/s6ulfsNDUe8/видео.html
It’s gone in to administration now 😭