there are several different automated announcement voices on the network. The most common I believe is called "Anne", who does the announcements at stations like Kings Cross and sounds really posh. Theres also the South West Trains automated announcement lady who's even more posh.
Tina Onions - was a Marshall once. I was surprised too when I heard her in my student days when I regularly used Leeds station to get to and from University. I think it's mainly the stations directly managed by Network Rail that use her voice.
TRiG (Ireland) In France, they also have a pre-announcement "jingle" which has changed a few times over the years, the current one someone made into a proper song and tried to release it as a single!! I don't know how successful it was...???
Probably my favourite episode to date. Loved it when Vicki said "thank you awfully" in the movie segment. And she was very good at the announcement. And finally... Vicki is always chirpie.
Possibly the best episode yet. Vicki: great announcing, skipping in Skipton and the freeze frame Eric and Ernie moment. The Brief Encounter remake was also superb.
The Canal under Leeds is actually the River Aire however if you followed the river about 100 yards down stream you'd come across the end of the Leeds Liverpool Canal.
Just revisiting, I never completed this series, but as a Leeds dweller and ex-Keighleyen who's travelled the Settle/Carlisle line many times, I thought I'd give this a watch. The subtitles on this are mad! Trying to watch with the sound off and it's nearly impossible! What I assume is Vicki saying you can change from the mainline to Keighley Worth Valley Railway was transformed to "direct click of the purple sky with the worth money." ?!? Bonkers.
Well done Vicki for the station announcement; it sounded appropriately professional. We spent a week on the Isle of Man; It's got lots of railways and everso nearly did All The IoM stations - managed the Steam Railway, Electric Tram, Mountain Railway, Horse Tram, Laxey Mines Railway & Groudle Glen Railway. Sadly we couldn't get to the Crogga Valley or the Curraghs Wildlife Park, both minature. You'll have to go.
Thank you Geoff and Vicki for starting this video in Leeds it's where I was originally born and raised I now reside in another beautiful part of Yorkshire York, a shame Vicki couldn't explore Leeds as there is much to see and another football stadium to see is The Old Peacock Ground, Elland Road the home of Leeds United
Enjoyed the "Brief Encounter" tribute!! Those Pendolinos rushing around in the black and white footage made me really laugh as well!! I've been to the Isle of Man a few times, most recently last year. Well worth a visit, especially if you haven't been before. Yes, they have their own money, but UK English and Scottish notes and coins are also accepted everywhere on the island. Just don't bring any island notes or coinage back with you (other than as a souvenir) as you won't be able to spend them here!!
I love these two, always seem to encounter nice people wherever they go. If there’s at least one nice person on or near each of the 2,563 stations, think I may tag along!!
Gosh the Dark Arches in Leeds has gone up in the world a bit! When I was a lad, those tunnels under the station, with the River Aire running underneath, were not the place you'd want to venture even during the day, let alone at night. When I was last there, last year, they didn't have the multi-coloured lighting, and the south entrance hadn't quite opened.
Wonderful platform announcement Vicki! Is there no end to your talents? And the Skipton skip too! Plus Brief Encounter - definitely one of the best videos so far.
I love that Brief Encounter parody, I'm a doctor (thumbs up with a smile) also I like to say thanks for the heads up about that nuclear power station at Heysham because i'm planning there next month to do the ride from Lancaster to Heysham via Morcombe and when I get off I get a few quick videos and a few photos of the train at the platform stabled while on the platform, not planning to film any part of that power station but at least I know not to film it :)
I have been to the Isle Of Man from Liverpool on the catamaran, way faster, but expensive (and been on the fab railways/tramways). As far as reasons, Big Clive lives there, that is reason enough!
6:40 The “points”, “RP”: the *switches, Queen’s English* for us in Canada and the US. Vicki has perfect tone and diction to make announcements. ⭐️❤️ Her and Rebecca Smethurst.
Carnforth isn't quite the same now the West Coast Mainline trains go through without stopping and their platforms have been largely removed. My favorite fact about the film: It was supposedly set in London, but someone forgot to change the destination boards in the background of the shots, so the next train was leaving for Barrow-In-Furness; not likely from London!
i once saw alan bennett sat on a bench in leeds station just watching the world go by, he was facing against the flow of the public behind this box they have in the middle bit of the queens hotel entrance side
love your take on brief encounter and a Virgin Pendolino train goes rushing through Carnforth station when you think back to the time of the film that type of train didn't exist neither was it in the pipeline to be built but it was a great take on the film
You guys don't understand how much I am enjoying this series! You've inspired me to do my own soon so I thank you so much (Geoff and Vicki) for your inspiration
The new entrance is locally known as 'Dark Arches' and both canal (Leed/Liverpool) and River Aire. Was concepted back in the station rebuild of 1999 but kicked into long grass it finally only came to fruition in recent years opening in 2015. And ohhh Vickey did the 'tourist' mistake with Keighley saying 'Keeley' instead of 'Keith-ley' - there's a lot more of them abound in this West Yorkshire when you return Fact about the Heysham service from Leeds - it's only since 2004 that Leeds gained a direct service to Heysham, when Northern did a network retime and resource combination. Previous a separate Heysham service followed the service from Leeds into Morecambe etc and the rest is history..Mind It took a while to get Heysham in to the auto announce!
Looking forward to the 12th August trip out now to the station(s) ive never visited before... Lancaster AND Morecambe. Great episode. Get the kick starter going for "All the heritage lines" - would be a great series and welcome promotion for all the fantastic heritage lines around the country.
I love the Pendolino at 10:36, especially with the clock in the foreground. Admittedly, it took 60 years rather than 40, and it's Italian, but it _does_ show graphically that our rail system _has_ improved since the war...
Having referenced Morecambe and Wise in Skipton, I'm surprised you didn't mention them again when you were actually in Morecambe. Eric Morecambe was born John Eric Bartholomew and chose the state surname Morecambe from his family's childhood holidays in said town.
I was being pedantic, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingleton_branch_line, there also use to be a line from Wennington to Lancaster. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halton_railway_station,_Lancashire .
Vicki, if you ever do an "All the Castles", Skipton Castle is well worth a visit. They give visitors an A3 sheet of paper with diagrams of each room and the exit by which you should leave to get to the next room. This is to enforce a sort of one-way system. And there's an ancient yew tree with very gnarled bark in the centre of the courtyard where you can pretend to be Anneka Rice searching for the final clue on Treasure Hunt, which IIRC was hidden in that tree. And Geoff gets to play Graham the Cameraman, following you and getting sneaky shots of your bottom :-)
All so terribly, terribly touching dear boy - Mad dogs and Englishmen and all that sort of rot, wot! I see a great future for Ms Celia Pipe on that new-fangled Interweb film service thingy (we've seen the acting and dancing - can she sing?), but not sure about the Chap - bit wooden, perhaps? Tootle-Pip! ;-)
It was actually a better Celia Johnson than most cos Vicki didn't do the "terribly, terribly bright" thing. To be honest though I thought Geoff was less Trevor Howard and more Frankie. Good show though.
I've had about 8 family holidays in the I.O.M it's awesome! The national rail system is steam hauled in the south and electric tramway in the north. There's also a mountain tram and a horse tram!
the canal is actually a river(I think it's the river aire) that was completely open but when the Leeds station was built the river was in the way so they put the station above the river.
When you come back up North and travel through Lancaster, as you have to of course, please take a moment to look at Lancaster Castle frontage. It is only two minutes from the station.
Leeds Station's interiors looks like Hamburg Hbf's! And yeah most German railway stations will look like these, especially the newer ones. VERY functional.
yeah, our mic broke at that point so all our clips when we rode it are completely without audio! we posted all the Windemere branch photos on Instagram at the time to show that we had been there.
Your right about Leeds it is very functional but not very glamorous, could never understand why they use a pacer to Morecambe, they use a 2 or 3 carriage train to Carlisle, they used to use, what I call a compartment train, 6 seats to a compartment, its such a shame that these trains are no longer running, As always guys another great video Ps Ian (also my name 😁) is a legend
Love the Brief Encounter bit.
Vicki is really good at 1940s-style RP.
Vicki's announcement sounded so much like the official automated system I'm now thinking she moonlights as the announcements lady for Network Rail!
there are several different automated announcement voices on the network. The most common I believe is called "Anne", who does the announcements at stations like Kings Cross and sounds really posh. Theres also the South West Trains automated announcement lady who's even more posh.
South West Trains automated announcements are done by Celia Drummond, who also does the Northern Line.
Tina Onions - was a Marshall once. I was surprised too when I heard her in my student days when I regularly used Leeds station to get to and from University. I think it's mainly the stations directly managed by Network Rail that use her voice.
DarthJedi2005remixes I believe that every station in France uses the same voice.
TRiG (Ireland) In France, they also have a pre-announcement "jingle" which has changed a few times over the years, the current one someone made into a proper song and tried to release it as a single!! I don't know how successful it was...???
There's now refurbished pacers on the keighley worth valley railway 😊
Vicki needs to go back there 😂
That was just hilarious! Geoff's ridiculous gurning for the camera had me in stitches. Noel Coward would be so proud!
Brief Encounter was a brilliant film, particularly the ending where Richard Dreyfuss goes into the mothership.
You just made me laugh out loud.
Same here. I just did not see it coming!
Didn't Delboy Trotter use a similar pun?
@@vincentalexander2985 yeah in dates when he met Rachel at waterloo
Probably my favourite episode to date. Loved it when Vicki said "thank you awfully" in the movie segment. And she was very good at the announcement. And finally... Vicki is always chirpie.
Possibly the best episode yet. Vicki: great announcing, skipping in Skipton and the freeze frame Eric and Ernie moment. The Brief Encounter remake was also superb.
The Canal under Leeds is actually the River Aire however if you followed the river about 100 yards down stream you'd come across the end of the Leeds Liverpool Canal.
Just revisiting, I never completed this series, but as a Leeds dweller and ex-Keighleyen who's travelled the Settle/Carlisle line many times, I thought I'd give this a watch. The subtitles on this are mad! Trying to watch with the sound off and it's nearly impossible! What I assume is Vicki saying you can change from the mainline to Keighley Worth Valley Railway was transformed to "direct click of the purple sky with the worth money." ?!? Bonkers.
the episode where Vicki shows just how awesome she is
That brief encounter sketch IS the most charming, romantic, nostalgic bit of video on RUclips. Love it! Your a true gent Geoff! :D
I hope Ian still works at Lancaster although I always have a horrible feeling that he is not there😔
Loved the black and white All the stations end slate haha
Vicki's Received Pronounciation was absolutely spiffing. :-)
Well done Vicki for the station announcement; it sounded appropriately professional.
We spent a week on the Isle of Man; It's got lots of railways and everso nearly did All The IoM stations - managed the Steam Railway, Electric Tram, Mountain Railway, Horse Tram, Laxey Mines Railway & Groudle Glen Railway. Sadly we couldn't get to the Crogga Valley or the Curraghs Wildlife Park, both minature. You'll have to go.
Thank you Geoff and Vicki for starting this video in Leeds it's where I was originally born and raised I now reside in another beautiful part of Yorkshire York, a shame Vicki couldn't explore Leeds as there is much to see and another football stadium to see is The Old Peacock Ground, Elland Road the home of Leeds United
Enjoyed the "Brief Encounter" tribute!! Those Pendolinos rushing around in the black and white footage made me really laugh as well!!
I've been to the Isle of Man a few times, most recently last year. Well worth a visit, especially if you haven't been before. Yes, they have their own money, but UK English and Scottish notes and coins are also accepted everywhere on the island. Just don't bring any island notes or coinage back with you (other than as a souvenir) as you won't be able to spend them here!!
2 hours on a pacer? That's heaven for Vicki
Vicki is adorable.
I love these two, always seem to encounter nice people wherever they go. If there’s at least one nice person on or near each of the 2,563 stations, think I may tag along!!
You're quite right. I live in Leeds and I had no idea that entrance was there.
Love this series of videos, but this one is a particular gem. I don't think I've heard a satire of Brief Encounter before! Wonderful stuff.
Gosh the Dark Arches in Leeds has gone up in the world a bit! When I was a lad, those tunnels under the station, with the River Aire running underneath, were not the place you'd want to venture even during the day, let alone at night. When I was last there, last year, they didn't have the multi-coloured lighting, and the south entrance hadn't quite opened.
Wonderful platform announcement Vicki! Is there no end to your talents? And the Skipton skip too! Plus Brief Encounter - definitely one of the best videos so far.
as far as quaint goes, the Isle of Man railways are off the charts
Though some will tell you RP stands for 'Received Pronunciation', we know it really stands for 'Reet Proper', Keith Lee told me that
this gave me a laugh :)
You have to go to the Isle of Man. Get the Manx Electric Railway up to Snaefell mountain and to Dhoon Glen. Probably the quaintest walk in Europe
I love that Brief Encounter parody, I'm a doctor (thumbs up with a smile) also I like to say thanks for the heads up about that nuclear power station at Heysham because i'm planning there next month to do the ride from Lancaster to Heysham via Morcombe and when I get off I get a few quick videos and a few photos of the train at the platform stabled while on the platform, not planning to film any part of that power station but at least I know not to film it :)
I have been to the Isle Of Man from Liverpool on the catamaran, way faster, but expensive (and been on the fab railways/tramways). As far as reasons, Big Clive lives there, that is reason enough!
Watched A Brief Encounter with my wife Michelle after your suggestion and we both enjoyed it. Thank you for that, Rob
Good Morning all the stations from a Freight railroader in Canada!
The Isle of Man is gorgeous! The trains the are awesome.
Wow, does Vicky have the near perfect announcement voice! Impressive and extremely pleasant to listen to.
6:40 The “points”, “RP”: the *switches, Queen’s English* for us in Canada and the US.
Vicki has perfect tone and diction to make announcements. ⭐️❤️
Her and Rebecca Smethurst.
The Queen's English (RP) is not to be confused with The Queens' English (Polari).
Brillant! A lovely mix of humour, fact and good old Yorkshire weather 🌧🌤🌦
So loved this... At the same time funny, warm, moving and romantic.
👍
Carnforth isn't quite the same now the West Coast Mainline trains go through without stopping and their platforms have been largely removed. My favorite fact about the film: It was supposedly set in London, but someone forgot to change the destination boards in the background of the shots, so the next train was leaving for Barrow-In-Furness; not likely from London!
There used to be direct trains from London to Barrow in Furness as I used to regularly travel on them as a young child in the early to mid 1980s.
Lovely, best video so far; Brief Encounter with Vicki the star, very funny
i once saw alan bennett sat on a bench in leeds station just watching the world go by, he was facing against the flow of the public behind this box they have in the middle bit of the queens hotel entrance side
Brief Encounter what a great film. Yes ALL the stations LOL
Vicki you are fast becoming a utube legend!
love your take on brief encounter and a Virgin Pendolino train goes rushing through Carnforth station when you think back to the time of the film that type of train didn't exist neither was it in the pipeline to be built but it was a great take on the film
Vickie, that was a fantastic station announcement! Very well done.
You two are quite silly...and I like you all the more for it!
You guys don't understand how much I am enjoying this series! You've inspired me to do my own soon so I thank you so much (Geoff and Vicki) for your inspiration
The new entrance is locally known as 'Dark Arches' and both canal (Leed/Liverpool) and River Aire. Was concepted back in the station rebuild of 1999 but kicked into long grass it finally only came to fruition in recent years opening in 2015.
And ohhh Vickey did the 'tourist' mistake with Keighley saying 'Keeley' instead of 'Keith-ley' - there's a lot more of them abound in this West Yorkshire when you return
Fact about the Heysham service from Leeds - it's only since 2004 that Leeds gained a direct service to Heysham, when Northern did a network retime and resource combination. Previous a separate Heysham service followed the service from Leeds into Morecambe etc and the rest is history..Mind It took a while to get Heysham in to the auto announce!
Looking forward to the 12th August trip out now to the station(s) ive never visited before... Lancaster AND Morecambe. Great episode. Get the kick starter going for "All the heritage lines" - would be a great series and welcome promotion for all the fantastic heritage lines around the country.
An excellent episode. I liked the Brief Encounter ending. It just gets better and better.
Fab video! One of the best, I'd say top 3! Could almost pip "Some might say"....almost!
I love the Pendolino at 10:36, especially with the clock in the foreground. Admittedly, it took 60 years rather than 40, and it's Italian, but it _does_ show graphically that our rail system _has_ improved since the war...
unless you live in Carnforth where Pendolinos don't stop.
A mancunian by birth but❤️Yorkshire .....lovely folk there😀👍brief encounter😂😜loving it!
Keep to Trains Geoff and Vickie Your Rendition of Brief Encounter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bravo (!!) Very Witty beyond Clever (!!) I’m seeing really good Improve- your timing and play-off masterful
You should go to the isle of man it's a really nice place.. they have a transport museum too
I used to go to Leeds station a lot when I was a teenager because I went to college on the train. Definitely checking out that South Entrance
Having referenced Morecambe and Wise in Skipton, I'm surprised you didn't mention them again when you were actually in Morecambe. Eric Morecambe was born John Eric Bartholomew and chose the state surname Morecambe from his family's childhood holidays in said town.
I like how it stays in black and white to the end after the Brief Encounter sketch
Imagine if all the points at Clapham Junction were manually operated
They have taken the points out at Clapham Junction, I am surprised they did not show it in this post. As the train to Heysham does stop there.
i meant the big Clapham Junction in London. Don't know which one you're talking about Puy
I was being pedantic, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingleton_branch_line, there also use to be a line from Wennington to Lancaster. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halton_railway_station,_Lancashire .
H010 newsflash:
16 trains derail, killing 7,098 people as a guard takes his eye off of the tracks for 5 seconds
Would certainly give all those guards SWR are trying to take off trains new jobs!
Splendid video old chap.
Superb episode - They are all good - but this is one of the best. Love the Brief Encounter Encounter. Keep them coming..
Vicki, if you ever do an "All the Castles", Skipton Castle is well worth a visit. They give visitors an A3 sheet of paper with diagrams of each room and the exit by which you should leave to get to the next room. This is to enforce a sort of one-way system. And there's an ancient yew tree with very gnarled bark in the centre of the courtyard where you can pretend to be Anneka Rice searching for the final clue on Treasure Hunt, which IIRC was hidden in that tree. And Geoff gets to play Graham the Cameraman, following you and getting sneaky shots of your bottom :-)
You had me quite in stitches with the encounter. Brilliant!
All so terribly, terribly touching dear boy - Mad dogs and Englishmen and all that sort of rot, wot! I see a great future for Ms Celia Pipe on that new-fangled Interweb film service thingy (we've seen the acting and dancing - can she sing?), but not sure about the Chap - bit wooden, perhaps? Tootle-Pip! ;-)
It was actually a better Celia Johnson than most cos Vicki didn't do the "terribly, terribly bright" thing. To be honest though I thought Geoff was less Trevor Howard and more Frankie. Good show though.
Hellifield station looks lovely now, but a few years ago it looked a right dump!! They've done a superb restoration job!!
Great modern adaptation of the film scene, very funny
I've had about 8 family holidays in the I.O.M it's awesome! The national rail system is steam hauled in the south and electric tramway in the north. There's also a mountain tram and a horse tram!
Thank god (And the volunteers!) the horse tram is still running!
Magnificent! You just keep raising the bar (or the baa when you were in Wales). The Brief Encounter bit was tremendous entertainment.
For two people to the isle of man it's usually around £98
I quite enjoyed this episode. Very well done.
Yayyy the real Leeds Station before yet another renovation
I mean the newest concourse roof. Yes it was better before 2000
I never knew that exits exists. I'm gonna explore it on Wednesday.
Kudos to Will in his editing for not just switching to black and white for the Brief Encounter segment, but also switching to 4:3 aspect ratio. Nice!
All the Pronunciations!
Brilliant video
Well done with the Morecambe & Wise skip Vicky👍🏻😃💜
Selfies. That is brilliant!
the canal is actually a river(I think it's the river aire) that was completely open but when the Leeds station was built the river was in the way so they put the station above the river.
2 hours on a pacer !! Good luck 😂
Hellifield has a nice cafe and is a ‘quaint’ station. I said Leeds was functional only for Geoff to say the same thing seconds later.
What a beautiful movie. We should start a kick starter for your acting career!
Dark Neville Street! Know of the station entrance but never been through it!
Lovely Carnforth moment. Brief. Great RP, though.
All those staions though,all of them (except alas the isle of wight and emerson park !!!)
You should do an entire episode in B&W. That "Brief Encounter" parody segment was brilliant!
Well done avoiding photographing what must have been a very photogenic nuclear power station. Keep up the great work guys :)
cool well done guys
The best "Celia Johnson" voice that I've ever heard. Chars!
That was very funny today well done on a great series.
When you come back up North and travel through Lancaster, as you have to of course, please take a moment to look at Lancaster Castle frontage. It is only two minutes from the station.
Leeds Station's interiors looks like Hamburg Hbf's! And yeah most German railway stations will look like these, especially the newer ones. VERY functional.
Loved the Brief encounter bit. Very funny.
Can't believe there is no footage of the Windermere line!
yeah, our mic broke at that point so all our clips when we rode it are completely without audio! we posted all the Windemere branch photos on Instagram at the time to show that we had been there.
@@AllTheStations ah, OK you're forgiven 😀
I'm watching this in Lancaster Station on the way to Preston!!!
Absolutely brilliant!
Welcome to all the boats
Well I must say that this episode might be hard to top. I have high hopes for more unique vignettes. Good job !
Your right about Leeds it is very functional but not very glamorous, could never understand why they use a pacer to Morecambe, they use a 2 or 3 carriage train to Carlisle, they used to use, what I call a compartment train, 6 seats to a compartment, its such a shame that these trains are no longer running,
As always guys another great video
Ps Ian (also my name 😁) is a legend
So so good! What a wonderful episode!
Great little bar at carnforth called the snug, on the high speed platform side 🚋🚈🚋💨
What a delightfully silly way to start Sunday :)