Interesting fact, the Exmouth to Exeter line actually survived the Beeching cuts, he had suggested it should be closed. I've been told that it's the only line that didn't get cut but can't be sure if this is true (anyone know?). This line is now used by millions of paying customers every year now and has even had an extra station added to it in 2015. The trains are well used through the day but especially as a commuting line to Exeter. There was another line that used to finish at Exmouth and joined the mainline at Sidmouth junction, this one was closed in the Beeching cuts and can now be cycled on as far as Budleigh Salterton. There was also a line that went from the station down to the docks.
You can actually get off at Lympstone Commando station but you cannot leave the station. The MOD have acknowledged they cannot stop members of the public from alighting there.
Geoff : that theme music!!! Is it just me or is anyone else transported back to educational/schools programmes on VHS circa 1990? Enjoying the ATS story so far. Keep it up!
Nightmare regular commute. Exeter Central to Salisbury; change for Eastleigh; replacement bus via Southampton; do several circuits of Southampton to cover suburban stations (Southampton Central closed for maintenance); bus carries on to Ashurst New Forest and Brockenhurst where we were dumped on Winter nights to pick up a connection to Christchurch. Over 4 hours in the middle of Winter - every Sunday for 3 months.Happy Days!
Westbury! It was there, two years ago, that, because of a trespasser on the line outside Castle Cary, I had finally to accept that I would miss my light from Heathrow to Jo'burg, and where I exchanged calls with my travel agent who brilliantly fixed me on the next flight - which still met my onward flight to Windhoek, Namibia.
Very smart additions to the package- interviewing charming train riders and anecdotal notes of meetings with passengers and observations of the journey- makes the content very appealing. ■ Liked the segment of missing connections and positive recovery. Terrific couple interactions. Best of Luck on the adventure (!!)
"regular people are not allowed to alight there!" OH BOY GET STRAPPED IN FOR PEDANTRY TIME There was a bit of a legal tussle between Network Rail and the MOD a few years ago because the MOD wanted to ban regular people from alighting at Lympstone Commando, but a court ruled that the station itself was Network Rail property, not the MOD, so the MOD can't stop people getting on or off trains there. However, the only way out is through the army base, so once you get off you can't leave until the next train comes along.
i’ve been rewatching this series i am in love with you guys’ passion ! honestly i have been a train nerd since very young and this is my comfort series ❤️ love from cornwall
Kind of makes me want to jump across the pond and join you! I know this a Herculean effort, but you two seem to enjoy it. I do appreciate the little snippets of history and random passenger comments. Enjoy the videos and eagerly await each one; but am really looking forward to when you do Norfolk -- having been in that area a few years ago.
Hello Vicki, hello Geoff, you did a great job and it seems you have fun. Saw now all videos in a row (no ISP via landline atm) and I am excited for the next one. Have a nice Sunday and do not have too much stress next week.
Watched all four episodes. wonderful. Cant beat the railway to get around. I spent a very nice holiday in Hale. Looking forward to watching the rest of the story.
Cheers for showing Gillingham and Tisbuty. Your taking it easy for all lines, mind you back when Exeter - Salisbury had loco's and coaches I'd be out all day on a South West Rover. Have a good trip anyway.
it's a class 158 you caught Geoff. You'll be on loads of them too. In Wales, the east midlands, northern England and if you're finishing at Wick it'll be a 158 that gets you there from Inverness and Thurso too.
Platform alterations at Westbury are a regular occurrence and a right pain. I once saw a party of French school children with heavy luggage have to transfer from platform 2 to 1 to then a few minutes later told to go back to platform 1. Network rail blame it on capacity problems and there is an idea to reopen platform 0, but no doubt only if someone else pays for it.
You had shown the creatively named "Nogg Inn", but missed the wonderfull chance to also show "The Tides Inn" towards the end in Weymouth, unless I am jumping the gun and that appears in day five.
I'm loving these videos. Love the talky bits you do with members of the public. How about bleeping the expletives with different train horns. Would just add to the great humour in the videos.
I have only ever seen freight or ocassionally a Pompey train from the other platform at westbury. I think it's funny how you race off without looking at the screens. :)
Things to see in Weymouth: the old Wemouth Harbour station (still has tracks), the vertical view thing like a Lisbon elavadore now called Jurassic Skyline, if you're lucky Pelican of London (a working tall ship that you can go crew on) and a mini-version of London Bridge which is the same vintage and mechanism but smaller.
The train you do not know is a GWR refurbished Class 158 Express Sprinter DMU train. It is a sister train to the Class 159 that South West Trains use on their West of England Line between London Waterloo - Salisbury - Exeter. For your information, GWR mainly use their Class 158 on the Cardiff - Bristol - Bath - Southampton - Portsmouth route, which is incredibly busy!
@Diogo Macena - I like to refer to myself as a railway enthusiast as I take photographs of trains and ride aboard trains. I do a lot more than note the class and number of my train.
Goes to show you should always look where you are going I lived in Warminster for just over 6 years when I was based there and used to get the train regularly and I'd never seen that bus stop. Have slept in imber village though. Many times
I'm a little behind on your videos. Your video brings back fond memories of Weymouth, and France. The first time I left Britain was for a day trip to Cherbourg, France from Weymouth where we were camping. Don't think that ferry runs any more. Been a while since I was down that way, but nice to see the sea front once more at the end of the video. Regarding the bus, I expect it would be at least zone 8 or 9 on the Oyster card.
This popped up as I was watching #3, woo hoo! Early video posting!! Had to pause to make a comment: I am so excited to hear you mention Peter Hennessy! I'm a historian of 20thC Britain & he is one of my heroes!! (Not to mention also a very nice man :-)) And now I get the title... Carry on. And I hope you can take some full days off!
I live in the Midwest part of the USA. Those little English sparrows are everywhere here. Apparently early English settlers missed their morning calls and so brought them to the US. Now there are millions of them and that little song is everywhere.
According to Wikipedia Imber was to be used as a training facility for Urban Warfare by the US Army during 1943-1944 and was later by the British Army preparing for service in Northern Ireland.
You went to the other Gillingham! I live in Gillingham, Kent you went through Gillingham, Dorset that always gets me on autocomplete address web forms.
The GWR 158 is truly magnificient, Northern variants have similar comfy seats and it's standard class only - crazy considering it's better than many first class seats!
You can tell Geoff isn't a trainspotter, after getting off a 158/159 at Salisbury he gets on a gwr 158 and says that he's never been on one of these class of train 😂
Barnstaple railway station is my local station and it's nice to see a popular RUclipsr at my local station is cool and it's nice to hear you say the names right
at Honiton they only use platform 1 because they pass at Axminster they only use platform 2 when the Great Western Mainline is closed they diverted them via Honiton so to do so they have to use platform 2
That's interesting about Imber, but I'm not so sure that it's even a ghost village now: Google Maps doesn't show any buildings there at all, closer than a nearby church. (Approximate co-ordinates found via Wikipedia.)
Jack Sainthill Most of the buildings have been altered for military to emulate a warzone for training or destroyed but I see what you mean having just looked at google maps. I would presume as it's still an active military training ground they made them scrub out the houses and buildings.
+Celtic Goals 2016/17 Thanks for the info. I'm also wondering whether the 'official' location of the village was ever fudged a bit for security reasons. Cheers ;)
Looks alright on Google Maps to me www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2368837,-2.0523398,913m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en I went there on the Imberbus last year. My photos are here: strolling.guide/imber
Love the videos! Just a quick question if you are only doing 4 videos a week. Will videos cover multiple days or will you run behind and be posting for weeks after they've finished? Good luck Geoff & Vicki :)
I'm sorry you didn't mention that the two Gillinghams are pronounced differently. The one in Dorset is pronounced with a hard G, the one in Kent with a soft G. I do wish the announcements in London Charing Cross would get it right. They keep announcing trains that make a sudden leap from Chatham in Kent to Gillingham in Dorset!!
She stared straight into your soul when you got the platform wrong Geoff, haha
Interesting fact, the Exmouth to Exeter line actually survived the Beeching cuts, he had suggested it should be closed. I've been told that it's the only line that didn't get cut but can't be sure if this is true (anyone know?). This line is now used by millions of paying customers every year now and has even had an extra station added to it in 2015. The trains are well used through the day but especially as a commuting line to Exeter.
There was another line that used to finish at Exmouth and joined the mainline at Sidmouth junction, this one was closed in the Beeching cuts and can now be cycled on as far as Budleigh Salterton. There was also a line that went from the station down to the docks.
imagine missing the annual bus by 5 seconds lol
Anthony Kernich want to spend a year here?
Or even worse, you wait a whole year and two show up at once...
That literally describes #nationalexpresswestmidlands
Anthony Kernich We are sorry to announce that the 2017 bus to Imber is cancelled.
SimonHellinger ): ):
You can actually get off at Lympstone Commando station but you cannot leave the station. The MOD have acknowledged they cannot stop members of the public from alighting there.
Geoff : that theme music!!! Is it just me or is anyone else transported back to educational/schools programmes on VHS circa 1990? Enjoying the ATS story so far. Keep it up!
Nightmare regular commute. Exeter Central to Salisbury; change for Eastleigh; replacement bus via Southampton; do several circuits of Southampton to cover suburban stations (Southampton Central closed for maintenance); bus carries on to Ashurst New Forest and Brockenhurst where we were dumped on Winter nights to pick up a connection to Christchurch. Over 4 hours in the middle of Winter - every Sunday for 3 months.Happy Days!
Feniton was originally called Sidmouth Junction, where it used to connect for the branch line to Sidmouth.
where I went to primary school briefly nice part of the country.
Geoff at 4:53 : I’m not a train spotter. I am a rail way man! lovely quote!! 👍
Then he proceeds to say that he isn't a train spotter as he doesn't know the train class but I feel purposely said a 185 when it was a 158 😂
Westbury! It was there, two years ago, that, because of a trespasser on the line outside Castle Cary, I had finally to accept that I would miss my light from Heathrow to Jo'burg, and where I exchanged calls with my travel agent who brilliantly fixed me on the next flight - which still met my onward flight to Windhoek, Namibia.
4:12 That is some good editing, Dan. I like it.
Also, FENITON!
Very smart additions to the package- interviewing charming train riders and anecdotal notes of meetings with passengers and observations of the journey- makes the content very appealing. ■ Liked the segment of missing connections and positive recovery. Terrific couple interactions. Best of Luck on the adventure (!!)
The inner tube challenger inside of Geoff came out when they missed that connection. That's why I think Geoff was angry at himself.
Sure he wasn't more deflated..?
You two are epic, this was so full of emotion for me as my dad is nursing care in Weymouth, I'll be down there again soon, but is a stunning bay front
*crying rapidly
"regular people are not allowed to alight there!"
OH BOY GET STRAPPED IN FOR PEDANTRY TIME
There was a bit of a legal tussle between Network Rail and the MOD a few years ago because the MOD wanted to ban regular people from alighting at Lympstone Commando, but a court ruled that the station itself was Network Rail property, not the MOD, so the MOD can't stop people getting on or off trains there. However, the only way out is through the army base, so once you get off you can't leave until the next train comes along.
it's not fun to miss your 🚆. love watching your journey.
The part when you were at Feniton reminded me of the 1988 TV series 'The Train Now Departing'.
...And in a few weeks they'll visit Loogahburoogah station.
I would watch theses videos all day long :)
i’ve been rewatching this series i am in love with you guys’ passion ! honestly i have been a train nerd since very young and this is my comfort series ❤️ love from cornwall
Imber Village sounds wonderful! Keep up the good work guy - may you have all the energy you need!!!!
Barnstaple. Always seems to remind me of the time James May from the Grand Tour / Top Gear did that model train trip to Bideford
Kind of makes me want to jump across the pond and join you! I know this a Herculean effort, but you two seem to enjoy it. I do appreciate the little snippets of history and random passenger comments. Enjoy the videos and eagerly await each one; but am really looking forward to when you do Norfolk -- having been in that area a few years ago.
So good to have content almost daily.
Hello Vicki, hello Geoff,
you did a great job and it seems you have fun. Saw now all videos in a row (no ISP via landline atm) and I am excited for the next one. Have a nice Sunday and do not have too much stress next week.
Watched all four episodes. wonderful. Cant beat the railway to get around. I spent a very nice holiday in Hale. Looking forward to watching the rest of the story.
Great video. Had to laugh at the Westbury missed connection. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!
Love those cool train window effects
I'm going down
I'm yelling Imber
The closed captioning on the video interpreted Warminster Station as "Warming Sensation" @6:43
Been to Dilton Marsh before, nothing there at all...not even a Pub! I went there as it's my nearest Request Stop, and least used in Wilts!
According to the railway map, there is also a summer sundays only service to Okehampton. Looks like you'll be back in this part of the country :)
Honiton is near me - my station is Cranbrook, which they would have gone through on that line
One of the newer stations on the network!
got off on dilton marsh a few times ... fab place !!
portsmouth-cardiff central via salisbury is run by GWR 158 & Geoffrey & Victoria were on a 158
Cheers for showing Gillingham and Tisbuty. Your taking it easy for all lines, mind you back when Exeter - Salisbury had loco's and coaches I'd be out all day on a South West Rover. Have a good trip anyway.
Great video! Loved the dashing around its exciting.
Keep up the good work guys! Loving all the videos so far. Hope to see you when you're up in Cambridge.
it's a class 158 you caught Geoff. You'll be on loads of them too. In Wales, the east midlands, northern England and if you're finishing at Wick it'll be a 158 that gets you there from Inverness and Thurso too.
Platform alterations at Westbury are a regular occurrence and a right pain. I once saw a party of French school children with heavy luggage have to transfer from platform 2 to 1 to then a few minutes later told to go back to platform 1. Network rail blame it on capacity problems and there is an idea to reopen platform 0, but no doubt only if someone else pays for it.
You had shown the creatively named "Nogg Inn", but missed the wonderfull chance to also show "The Tides Inn" towards the end in Weymouth, unless I am jumping the gun and that appears in day five.
Really enjoying this series, getting better every episode
Today is the 8th of February 2023, and I'm watching the 7th episode of All The Stations ❤
I'm loving these videos. Love the talky bits you do with members of the public. How about bleeping the expletives with different train horns. Would just add to the great humour in the videos.
Eyyy Salisbury, commute from Andover to there everyday for work by train, keep up the good work guys
I have only ever seen freight or ocassionally a Pompey train from the other platform at westbury. I think it's funny how you race off without looking at the screens. :)
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Weymouth Quay branch. Unless that's in Day 5's video.
Ahhh, Feniton. Waited there many times - it's the closest to a musical festival I go to at Escot Park. Been in the Nog Inn too...
You should see if you can get a mention in The Railway Magazine!
Keep up the good work. Best wishes.
Things to see in Weymouth: the old Wemouth Harbour station (still has tracks), the vertical view thing like a Lisbon elavadore now called Jurassic Skyline, if you're lucky Pelican of London (a working tall ship that you can go crew on) and a mini-version of London Bridge which is the same vintage and mechanism but smaller.
The train you do not know is a GWR refurbished Class 158 Express Sprinter DMU train. It is a sister train to the Class 159 that South West Trains use on their West of England Line between London Waterloo - Salisbury - Exeter. For your information, GWR mainly use their Class 158 on the Cardiff - Bristol - Bath - Southampton - Portsmouth route, which is incredibly busy!
@Diogo Macena - I like to refer to myself as a railway enthusiast as I take photographs of trains and ride aboard trains. I do a lot more than note the class and number of my train.
Goes to show you should always look where you are going I lived in Warminster for just over 6 years when I was based there and used to get the train regularly and I'd never seen that bus stop. Have slept in imber village though. Many times
That Dilton marsh train you took is the one I take home from college every day, bloody overcrowded!
Is it ever only 1 coach?
Ciaran 100 It was a 153 a few days ago on the 15:44 departure from Bristol to Westbury, got that myself.
Yeah it's normally 3 coaches
I'm a little behind on your videos. Your video brings back fond memories of Weymouth, and France. The first time I left Britain was for a day trip to Cherbourg, France from Weymouth where we were camping. Don't think that ferry runs any more. Been a while since I was down that way, but nice to see the sea front once more at the end of the video. Regarding the bus, I expect it would be at least zone 8 or 9 on the Oyster card.
"I'm not a train spotter I'm a railway man" that class of train was a Class 158 with a Cummins engine
This popped up as I was watching #3, woo hoo! Early video posting!!
Had to pause to make a comment: I am so excited to hear you mention Peter Hennessy! I'm a historian of 20thC Britain & he is one of my heroes!! (Not to mention also a very nice man :-)) And now I get the title... Carry on. And I hope you can take some full days off!
Barnstaple was where James May built a train set. Twice. And it was good.
I live in the Midwest part of the USA. Those little English sparrows are everywhere here. Apparently early English settlers missed their morning calls and so brought them to the US. Now there are millions of them and that little song is everywhere.
Really liking these, just wish there was some kind of map-age to work out where they are / what line they are on. Just for us non-locals lol
The train that you didn't know what it was, was a class 158. Great wee units.
According to Wikipedia Imber was to be used as a training facility for Urban Warfare by the US Army during 1943-1944 and was later by the British Army preparing for service in Northern Ireland.
GEOFF AND VICKY YOU HAVE 💔 MY Heart *crying
Cool to learn there is a Gillingham in Dorset! I'd never heard of it and was confused as to the route you were taking!
cool to know! thanks for sharing.
I've fallen foul of platform alterations at westbury before - I ended up going to Cardiff unexpectedly. I'm assuming you did Frome on this day too?
I live in Exmouth you should have looked round it's beautiful
Can't wait for you to hit the East Midlands and visit Loogabarooga.
Loogabarooga? That's an actual place?
@@simontay4851 Loughborough (pronounced by some people as “luff-bruh”).
@@simontay4851 It's a long-running joke about Loughborough, usually involving an Australian tourist asking for directions and pronouncing it that way.
Love the hallows ear rings.
08:58 - My experiences on Southern for the past three years, not lol. To be fair, they are getting a bit better recently.
"Senior Citizen Railcard" sounds like a (Rail) Card you would get as a gift by the Government for your, let's say, 65th (or so) Birthday
I live in Feniton and no-one seems to know it exists, so it's good to see it getting a mention
Also, the second track at Honiton is used but not as much as the other one.
You missed the tube train in the garden between Gillingham and Tisbury
arrrr you guys - this is great ! xxx
You went to the other Gillingham! I live in Gillingham, Kent you went through Gillingham, Dorset that always gets me on autocomplete address web forms.
Gillingham is also near Norwich dont have a station tho
5:47 just behind Vicky is the vending machine that has a grate that you talked about when you went there
The GWR 158 is truly magnificient, Northern variants have similar comfy seats and it's standard class only - crazy considering it's better than many first class seats!
They did before the refurb...
You can tell Geoff isn't a trainspotter, after getting off a 158/159 at Salisbury he gets on a gwr 158 and says that he's never been on one of these class of train 😂
A 158 might be very similar to a 159, but it isn't actually the same class :-)
Barnstaple railway station is my local station and it's nice to see a popular RUclipsr at my local station is cool and it's nice to hear you say the names right
Exton is a beautiful station- why didn't you show it. Also the tiny st james' park
plus I sponsored it!
at Honiton they only use platform 1 because they pass at Axminster they only use platform 2 when the Great Western Mainline is closed they diverted them via Honiton so to do so they have to use platform 2
I know I was talking about 2016/17 period
The 53 on the london bus station is confusing because the 53 is an actual bus in south and central london! That's a long bus journey!
That had me confused as well since I got off a 53 about an hour ago and was in Blackheath, not the west country!
Josh the 53 on the bus stop runs from Warminster to Frome which used to go into Center Parcs holiday resort!
Damn, I was hoping to see Frome station get a mention as it's one of the only through "Train-Shed" stations on the network
Nice number of 158s in this video (159 for SWT?), my favourite DMU
Four different lines out of westbury being portsmouth, cardiff, weymouth, cornwall, london paddington.
Geoff: it's a class 185 or something!!
Me (screaming at the screen) :it's a 158 express sprinter!!!
Omg that cat crossing the tracks at Feniton yikes
That's interesting about Imber, but I'm not so sure that it's even a ghost village now: Google Maps doesn't show any buildings there at all, closer than a nearby church.
(Approximate co-ordinates found via Wikipedia.)
Jack Sainthill it exists. Tom Scott did a video about it
Jack Sainthill Most of the buildings have been altered for military to emulate a warzone for training or destroyed but I see what you mean having just looked at google maps.
I would presume as it's still an active military training ground they made them scrub out the houses and buildings.
+Celtic Goals 2016/17
Thanks for the info.
I'm also wondering whether the 'official' location of the village was ever fudged a bit for security reasons.
Cheers ;)
Looks alright on Google Maps to me
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2368837,-2.0523398,913m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
I went there on the Imberbus last year. My photos are here:
strolling.guide/imber
***** yeah that wasn't there earlier when I looked, it was all just greenery surrounding the church
I was surprised when I first heard about them, that Gillingham (Dorset) is not pronounced the same as Gillingham (Kent)
wonderful xxxx
12:26 Name bomb of my former home town. It's famous. 😍😍
"Tea?" 😂😂😂
Congratulations to the Video editors for Feniton station! :D
Love the videos!
Just a quick question if you are only doing 4 videos a week. Will videos cover multiple days or will you run behind and be posting for weeks after they've finished?
Good luck Geoff & Vicki :)
I'm sorry you didn't mention that the two Gillinghams are pronounced differently. The one in Dorset is pronounced with a hard G, the one in Kent with a soft G. I do wish the announcements in London Charing Cross would get it right. They keep announcing trains that make a sudden leap from Chatham in Kent to Gillingham in Dorset!!
You were close about guessing it was a Class 185, that's TransPennine Express. The correct answer is Class 158 (rearrange the numbers basically :) )
Glad you're not as stressed missing connections as in the earlier episode, will be plenty more I am guessing, only human after all.
Welcome to Dorset! Im from Dorchester, I guess you'll be passing again tomorrow 😂
Living on the Exmouth branch :)
You were possibly sat in a priority seat hence the extra legroom. Certainly the row behind was.
Jan Buxton Nope, GWR Class 158s just have massive seats.
Ah OK. Only had experience of Northern 158s which are nice enough but not generous with legroom.
Jan Buxton Yeh, Northern Class 158s haven't been refurbished in a while considering the almost brand-new refurbishing of the GWR ones.
Jan Buxton yes, that's what I thought..they are probably in the priority seats, but they deserve that extra leg room!
Oyster card is awesome and should used in all major cities and towns.
should have renamed this episode THE WESTBURY FAILWAY!