Yorton / Prees / Wrenbury Request Stops
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2021
- The quest to to tick off the re-quests, continues! This time, I'm in Shropshire (with a little bit of Cheshire too) as there are three on the line between Shrewsbury and Crewe, those being Yorton, Prees and Wrenbury stations. So let's hop on a train and see what's there ...
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This is a blast from the distant past, Geoff. My daughter used to attended the Thomas Adams School in Wem as a boarder. A friend of hers was coming home to Wem on the last train from Crewe when the train broke down near Prees. Passengers were told it would be towed back to Crewe but the only problem was that meant an overnight stay in the waiting room etc. My daughter's friend says he decided to jump-train and walk the country lanes, just as you did. Unfortunately for him, he was attacked by a Badger and got a nasty gash which meant he did indeed have to go to Crewe. To A&E!
that ... might be one the the most random (and best!) anecdotes ever in the comments Mike, thank you!
Fun fact - Greg Davies (Taskmaster etc) used to live in Wem, and was on one of my trains once - he was too tall for the carriage and when he stood down on the platform after getting off he was still at my head height.
this is an excellent random fun fact! 😎
My uncle and aunt live at the old station house at Wrenbury, lovely building. Quaint coming out the wazoo
That camera strap in front of the lens really complimented that shot, I can really see what you were going for
10:05 If I turned up at a station and saw Geoff lying on a bench with cameras pointed at him, I'd have to assume he was updating his OnlyFans...
Shout out to my parents who are the volunteer Transport for Wales Station Adopters for Wrenbury and won the 2019 Cheshire Best Kept Station award for Most Improved Station
Aussies and Canadians laughing when an Englishman calls something 'Isolated' XD
Indeed
@@bostonrailfan2427 with no one in the USA more than 100 miles from a McDonalds, I'd say they are in the same camp as the British :P
Indeed. When I saw one station getting 12,000 passengers a year I was thinking, hmmm that’s a busy country station here in Australia.
Forget the Outback and the Prairies, explore Mid Devon around South Molton.
@@bostonrailfan2427 Thats nothing compared to us Rural Welsh. We don't like outsiders! Lol.
The Railwatch logo looked to be similar to those for Neighbourhood Watch, Street Watch, Speed Watch and Dog Watch. These are groups of local volunteers who act as extra eyes for the police to report suspicious activity in their area.
My old Network Rail patch on Salop-Crewe. I used to love going to the signal boxes, especially at Prees (the box was right where you were sat on the ground) as it was so peaceful. When you were at Wrenbury, had you walked up the road (over the level xing ) you would have come to the Bhurtpore Inn, an absolute mecca for real ale and beautiful food
Happy memories of Yorton when off to the Flower Show in Shrewsbury. My late father in law lived in Clive, pretty much where Geoff had his finger on the map! Shame both The Railway Inn and the Post Office are now closed.⁴
I lived in Clive as a kid. The shop was Mr Brown's shop then. School at the top of the hill. Also vague memories of getting off at Yorton. Lovely to see it again.
On the BR ticket machines from the 80s to the 00s (APTIS) you had to type the first four letters of the station name then tap through if the one you needed wasn't first in the list. Great fun watching someone the first time they had to sell a ticket to one of those three letter stations! The machine staring at the member of staff waiting for character four, member of staff staring at the machine wondering what to do. (The trick was to press enter or space).
Geoff you need to get a theme tune sorted for this request series.
Geoff at Prees if it was a Chekhov play: ‘Waiting for David’.
Or Beckett.
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Waiting for Black.
Love love love this - before moving from Sansaw Heath last year, I think I was Yorton’s must regular user. The station was built at Yorton rather than Merry Lane due to Royalties visits to Sansaw Hall.
Outstanding work Goeff
Thanks Geoff, I love your videos. A slice of cheerfulness every time. Thank you.
After ‘Allotment’, my new favourite word is ‘Angle Wipe’.
I like bottom wipe too.
Personally I like "Cellar door"
Not sure if I'm a fan of the new style "Camera strap in front of the lens" shot 🤔 It *is* very artistic but also a bit in-your-face 😉
Wonderful video as always, Geoff!
It’ll be all the rage next year, I’m just ahead of my time. trust me 😆
As an ex Nantwich college student do go there, it's lovely. However great to see some familiar stations ticked off
Yeah, that’s where I live lol, I’m really surprised he has done this route tbh cause not a lot of people use it
Thanks for another great upload, Geoff.
Love this series. Cannot wait for Wales 😁
The long-closed Hadnall station is now home to the Salopian Brewery. My in-laws live locally and I'm very blessed by my father-in-law getting in a good supply of their pale ale each Christmas when we go and stay.
Another video with yet more lovely camera shots from Geoff. There's a fancy Dutch Angle shot right after that nifty camera-strap shot. More and more, I become a fan of your videography, Geoff. Thanks for the entertaining and educational presentation.
very kind. thank you!
The three lettered stations idea sounds pretty good. Lee is kind of local to me.
Another Request stop video. You gotta love em 👌
Fantastic video Geoff! I enjoy your request stop videos 😊
Got out at Wrenbury a few years ago to make the walk to the fantastic Bhurtpore Arms, named for the battle of Bharatpore in India. Has lots of Indian themes and artefacts in the interior and is famous for its curries.
Beautiful.
You are awesome, Geoff!
8:36: Prees - a contraction of Ap Rhys (Welsh for "son of Rhys"). Similarly Parry (Ap Harry), Powell (Ap Hwll), Prichard (Ap Richard) etc.
Is there a Pabitch?
Correct. The village name is a corruption of Welsh "Pres", which means (or used to mean) brushwood.
Interesting, didn't know that.👍
I once walked from Wem to Yorton via Clive, lovely village on a sandstone edge with fine views!
Prees doesn't just have an inconveniently sited station. Before that, it had a branch canal that was supposed to go to Prees, but was only completed as far a Quina Brook.
Welcome to my neck of the woods spent many hours at Shrewsbury station. I have never done these request stops on my travels so must visit them some time.
Bin bag blowing in the Prees
Nice request stops
I enjoyed that adventure! With such passenger figures, it's surprising but good that those stations escaped the sharp axe of Dr Beeching. Here in East/West Sussex, multiple stations/lines with higher and potentially much higher usage were shut down.
At 0:34 it's a former Greater Anglia Class 153 which has been transferred to Transport for Wales and you can even tell since the Ex-Greater Anglia ones ae while and the TFW ones are like a slivery/Grey colour and loving the 'Provincial' on the old poster shame that you missed out on Nantwich, it's is a lovely station to visit, in fact it was the station that I'd visited during the 'All the Stations, have a adventure day' because it was one of those stations that I have never visited. Great video and looking forward to see which request stops shall be next.
Love em!
Ayy, my line. Very nice video Geoff! :)
Nice sharing. Interesting to watch. Watching from DUBAI
Good to see you’ve been in Shropshire and that you say Shrewsbury correctly 👍.
I've traveled past Wem while on my train holiday in the UK in 2019 and on my way from Manchester to Cardiff. That's the only one I can remember for sure.
Always love request stop vedios
British rail always excites me!
Does it supprise you that theres a fire at elephant and castle
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa224 Oh really ? How
@@midnight_styx no idea.
I look Forward to Do these this week as I'm in Shropshire too 😂
Beautiful stations
Have dragged many suitcases and my family up from Wrenbury station up to the canal basin (it’s not too far, there is a shop on the way which is pretty decent and a pub or possibly two). From there you can take a barge to Llangollen in Wales, which I highly recommend (as it crosses the most incredible aqueduct and there are a fair few spectularly long tunnels as well). You can also get to Whitchurch this way, and the canal used to go into Whitchurch too, but now stops some way short (you can have fun trying to trace the ‘alignment’ of the canal into Whitchurch).
Lived in Prees for twenty years. Used the stations regularly.
Nice to see the inside of a PRM 153. I really need to do more travelling, when I have more money
When Geoff mentions Wem & all the other 3 letter stations, it suddenly dawned on me, two are near me & are one after the other on the line to Ashford, Ore & Rye.
I thought of those
We've now got 153s on selected West Highland Line services,Geoff - branded the "Highland Explorer". Not a great start for them in terms of reliability,but have got better,so I hear!
Awesome video
The "crossing" at Yorton looks like a road-rail access point (or RRAP), which is used to get machinery onto the tracks during engineering works.
I’m off on a canal boat in this part of the world next month and hoping to get to Wrenbury just so I can use their electrically operated swing bridge and the traffic stops with level crossing style lights!
Interesting place names around that area - you mentioned Clive; there’s also Trevor - leads me to wonder if there’s places called Malcolm or derek, or dare I say it, Geoff!
Peter Jones, narrator of the original Hitchhikers’ Guide To The Galaxy radio serial, was from Wem.
I'm hoping to take a train to Wem in September! Looks like a nice place!
British rail is always so fun!
Love it
Great video Geoff. I'm not far from Shrewsbury so would have been nice to meet you if I'd known. I've been to Wem a few times before and it's a small place which is alright. Never really explored the other stations you got off before.
Love the class 153s
Nice video and taking time to add captions makes it better!
Also, there's a train in the evening which I believe comes from Swansea via Llandrindod. I don't know if it still runs in this timetable, but it's just an extension of the regular Swansea to Shrewsbury service which calls at all stations to Crewe, including the request stops.
Geoff, come and see Melton Mowbray the most mysterious, weird and exiting station in Leicestershire! operated by cross country sometimes east midlands trains.
And get a famous pie as well
@@robbiemorrison7085 Yep. Got to do the Pork Pie shop!
So, not just entrancing but exiting as well!
I have been on that line heading to Swansea and Llandrindod.
Those 2x 153s would have run on this line when they were new as 155s. I think it seems a bit weird sticking your arm out for a train like you would a bus! Didn't realise there were so many request stops on the UK national rail network until a recent TV series. I believe Wrenbury only has a 2 journeys per day (circular route, 1 in each direction) from Nantwich. Caught a bus from Crewe to the Battle of Nantwich re-enactment due to the limited train service.
If you go on to Google Street View and look up these stations you will get answers to a number of your questions, such as the 'station cottage' at Wrenbury which was built sometime after 2011! -note the building that was there before it - and all of the signal boxes which were closed in 2011 - apart from Yorton which was moved to the Severn Valley Railway in 1973 and became Arley Signal Box!
Welcome to Cheshire! Seeing that Wrenbury is a request stop made me wonder what's the largest village with a request stop and the smallest village with a regular stop.
I think Conwy is north Wales is the biggest, it’s bizarre that it’s a request stop.
Hey geoff, what an icon of youtube u have become. I have some request stops, they are Great Bentley, Thorpe-le-Soken and Frinton-on-Sea. Hope u go to these places and a variety more
Oh hey, this is near me! (I live in Whitchurch and pass those stations when I make my trips to Shrewsbury.)
Knowing you’re love of canals I hope you manage to get to the Shropshire union either at Nantwich or when you were at Whitchurch
Hey Geoff! It's Fabrizio, ex manager in Pret, Brixton!
Good to see the ex-Greater Anglia 153's operating in pairs..
Rode that line today. Was just a single coach 153 on the service.
I Grew up in that area. my school bus would go through Clive and Yorton
Nice 👍
Hm. There was a David Preese here in South Africa in my final year of primary school as well. He had all the best toys and video games. :-)
Nice thanks
Rail watch sticker is for the rail cam RUclips and Facebook live streaming so train spotters can see the trains come and go.
thanks Sarah! did not know this!!
@@geofftech2 I only know because of my dad who works on the railway.
You won't be able to do all the 3 letter stations that you listed as IBM is closed now.
Fun random factoid months after the video... I remember a good few years ago reading a Railway Magazine article about how to work a theoretical trip to cover all the 3 letter stations in the country in one day. Can't remember if they said it'd be possible
I was amused at some of the speech-to-text versions.
Yes! My mum lives in Whitchurch. I'm always hoping no one stops at Wrenbury, if I'm delayed to my Crewe connection (nothing against Wrenbury - lovely place etc)
Captain Black! Mysteron Agent!
If you want to do a series of 'stations with Harrington Humps on platforms with no step-free access', Reddish North is another one!
Of course, although the line goes into Wales none of these stations are in Wales.
Class 153, developed from the class 141/142 Pacer, wonderful scenery again
Nothing in common twixt 153 & 14x. 153 came from 155s
@@pauldensley5459 which came from 142. All built using Leyland National bus bodies at Workington, all have same width window bays, roof and riveted body construction
Come to Pudsey & do a video on the Pudsey Loop. The public footpaths that now make up some of the now defunct line have a few Geocaches on them
Another excellent video - Has anyone got a list of the request stops, from the map, that have been visited already ??
If you want to have dry and sunny weather. East Germany would be suitable. If I am not mistaken they even have some request stops somewhere. On a side note: Please send us all your unwanted rain. Thank you.
It'll be interesting to see how you react to Llanbister Road, as there are only a few houses and lots of Sheep... it's very remote and nowhere near Llanbister!
Isn't that usually the case with a " Road">?
@@AaronOfMpls quite possibly... though having been there, at the station, it's one of the most remotest places I've ever been to!
All I know about Wem is that that's where Greg Davies grew up
Interesting...🙂🚂🚂🚂
If Britons can do one thing, it's beautiful gardens (front or back)
Love your videos wish I'd have know you'd done Shrewsbury would have popped by to say hello
Think Adobe autocorrected when you showed the three station stats as it said Press
I noticed that, too, but you beat me to it!
And on the line map, it says Shrewbury.
Deffinatly another challenge coming of going to all the stations with 3 letters in the name that will be good.
and yet where I am here in Western canada we've broken records for all of canada max temp all time at 46.7 in Lytton. Where I am in Kelowna it was only 43 yesterday. I wish we had weather like you have now. I HATE this heat.
For me, WEM is West Edmonton Mall
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In danger of getting Covid on an empty platform from the post, or the tree? I noticed it was windy; maybe the breeze. 🤣🤣🙄
I agree and think it’s stupid, especially at empty stations like this, but it is in the rules, and Geoff can’t be seen to break them as a public figure
Shrooooowsbury!
Can you do Conwy and Deganwy? They're both request stops in the north of Wales.