A Randomly Generated Train Trip of London REDUX
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Hi Nick, the reason the platforms at Waterloo East are letters rather than numbers is so that passengers don't get confused between Waterloo and Waterloo East. Great video anyway!
One of my old guidebooks, I forget which one, writes about Waterloo being confusing. This was probably prior to one of the rebuilds in the last century.
same at new cross and new cross gate i believe
@@mudchute4dlrthis, and (before it closed) King’s Cross Mainline and King’s Cross Thameslink (as the same staff during the NSE days worked both stations), hence why the Thameslink platforms at St Pancras are still A and B.
Thanks, I was wondering that
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7:52 I believe the reasoning behind the lettered platforms, is to avoid confusion from the numbered platforms at London Waterloo main, same goes at New Cross to avoid confusion to New Cross Gate
Learned this myself from a video Jen made not too long ago. Unfortunately that came out after this was filmed!
@@NickBadleynick
Can u do point to Point
Chesterfield-Derby-Birmingham New Street-Nottingham-Leicester-Chesterfield
Make it order from Chesterfield
So put in a wheel
Derby
Birmingham New Street
Nottingham
Leicester
And rate chesterfield Train Station out of 10 please
This video kind of appeared as a suggestion for me and I clicked. Two of the most geeky people, clearly made for each other, took me on the most random journey for nearly 15 minutes and my tea went cold. Am I secret nerd? Should I be worried? Do I subscribe? Should I call my GP even? So many questions that need answers. I'll just watch a few more of their videos while I think about it all. Maybe you should too and use whatever excuse you like if you get caught 🙂
Glad to have you here regardless! Welcome, welcome
Brentford to Brentwood can be point to point
Maybe add a rule that if you arrive at a junction station, you have to randomise what direction you take the remaining number of stops in?
So for example when you were travelling away from Syon Lane, you would to a randomisation at Barnes to either continue or go down the branch towards Richmond, and if you continued, your remaining 3 stops could either be continuing to Waterloo, to Kensignton Olympia, to Victoria were you would have to randomise whether your remaining stop is to Brixton or Denmark Hill, to Raynes Park, to Micham Eastfields, to Streatham Hill, or to Streatham Common.
Or maybe, randomise a number of stops between 1 and 6, then at each junction point, randomise the direction you go in, where you only double-back on yourself if you are at the Zone 6 boundary or the end of a line with no other way to go.
I can't lie I am pretty hyped for the increase in London videos Nick! Lots of cool videos to be made :D
It's only temporary for the time being! Next summer is when I live in the South East properly.
Still, I'll try to avoid becoming London-based rail channel number 5 billion. We've already got enough of those!
@@NickBadley Ah I thought you were moving this summer! We have a lot of London based RUclipsrs but your videos are different and original enough to be good regardless where they are!
Point to Point idea: Mill Hill (London) - Mill Hill (Blackburn) via Mills Hill (Greater Manchester)
Great video, Nick and Natt. You've given us a great idea for what we want to do on our next trip to London. Next stop to find the randomiser you used and figure out how to set it up.
Hello Nick! Just used a UK train for the first time yesterday! (And funnily enough got a GWR before this video) Got overbooked on the first train lol
05:29 Waterloo. Couldn't escape it if you wanted to.
Been to Vauxhall and stayed at the Travelodge there. It was also our starting point when we went to join the mad crowd (which included a brief chat with Jen On The Move) for the Bond Street Elizabeth Line opening - we went via the back way and became the first passengers through onto the platform! That Travelodge was also where I first watched one of Nick's videos - again on the Bond Street opening.
Any individuality that stations may have had was lost during the early 1980s, Nick, when British Rail demolished just about every station building that ever was, other than at major terminals... While many were already semi-derelict, not a few still used their original ticket offices and windows, and had cheery, coal-fired waiting rooms to help raise your spirits as you as you arrived on cold winter mornings; and of course, everywhere had ladies and gents toilets available - including many stations on the Underground, in fact. What's more, many sported running in boards and totem signs in the relvant shades of the 1923 Groupings, while the busier ones had newspaper stalls and there were even a few station or sometimes, platform buffets! Alas, somebody seemed to have convinced them round about 1981 that we'd all prefer to give up all these facilities and stand like sardines in freeezing, basic glass and aluminium-sided bus shelters instead - or indeed outside if you arrived after it was full. If you needed the toilet - tough; and all signage was exchanged for the standard plain-white background with black-lettering corporate image that BR used at that time....
So happy to see London vids! Love my city so much fr fr
I love London ❤
Nick you could do random generated Trams in London that would be interesting.
Maybe a platform roulette kinda thing might be fun
Ashford (Surrey) - Ashford (Kent) would be a good idea! Great video man ❤
Syon Lane had a london transport museum at one time, I think they moved the exhibits to The National Railway Museum many years ago if I'm remembering correctly
The London Transport Museum is now at Covent Garden, with the reserve collection at Acton Town. There are no London Transport items in the NRM.
Awesome video Nick, would love to see more of this challenge, some of my favourite videos from you i think!
Thanks very much!
A random zone 1 to 6 only on the Elizabeth lines, seeing how many stations you can visit in 3 or 4 hours
Next time you do this challenge, if you're at a terminus station in central London, make any Nation Rail station you can reach with one tube line a possibility.
Fantastic video! You keep me entertained with fantastic content! Keep it up!
I think you should start from Sutton (or East Croydon) so that you can get thameslink from the south to the north :)
However much of the network in the north is disjointed (if Elizabeth line is not included) and chance of getting GWR/C2C/GA etc is next to zero
Excellent video as always you two!
"We've gone nowhere"
If only you'd been on a Class 180.....
How about a non-random, planned trip around London with Z1-6 travelcards where you try to maximise how many National Rail only TOCs and lines you use in a day. What's the most that you can possibly squeeze in through cunning route planning?
Maybe you could do some races across London whether it's National Rail vs Underground or Elizabeth Line vs Underground.
Brilliant video Nick, it's good you were both able to escape South West London. Shame you didn't get to North London though lol.
Great Video! I recommend starting at a place like London Paddington, (to not get stuck on SWR)
If you do this again you should start at London Bridge because it has southern, thameslink and south eastern
So you just go to the stations, but don't actually do anything when you're there? Seems like a missed opportunity to visit a few pubs.
Maybe starting at a Thameslink station would have given more variance?
An interesting video, thanks.
Interestingly, the only day you can get a train from Waterloo to Woking via Staines is a Sunday! Monday to Saturday, after Addlestone, the trains go to Weybridge. Weird.
The last train of the day on that route runs to Woking rather than Weybridge. Its also (bizarrely) run by a 444 rather than a 450/455/458 like you might expect. I caught this service home a few weeks ago and I can tell you they are not designed for suburban services as there are no grab handles and that journey in particular (being the last one of the night) was full and standing.
Personally I would always go from Guildford to working via Guildford London road to Leatherhead when I was in 6th from college. It was always easier for me to get a godalming or shalford train for me directly to Waterloo if ever wanted to go that way
Probably the moat obvious type of randomised journey would be to combine tube and national rail, as well as tube, dlr, elizabeth line, overground and tram (probably not cable car, as that shouldnt be on the tube map). You could also do a system where the number of stops is identified before deciding a service, so services with a greater number of stops have a more likey chance of being chosen, thus preventing double backs into london terminals
Rather than randomize route choices then number of stops… just take a list of all tube, tram, dlr, natl rail, eliz etc stations and pick one at random. May need to make transfers but whatever. Could bounce all over!
Another interesting quirky trip. Day Rover/Ranger tickets in Manchester/Leeds/Birmingham could be a possibility depending on service frequency though.
You would have given yourself a lit more options had you included the Underground in your randomisations. This would have given you more routes at Vaixhall, Waterloo, and Charing Cross and made getting to North London far more likely.
Next time, I’d probably start at London Bridge as you have much greater scope for travel.
Pointless journey Waterloo to Waterloo east
Northern Line to Charing Cross then SouthEastern back. Not enough to fill a video
@Nosregni national rail only could make it more interesting?
@@NosregniWaterloo - CLJ - (Queens Road Peckham) - London Bridge - Waterloo East
() - could be done directly from CLJ
fun idea: when you spin the wheel, screen record it, and then put it on screen so we can see it without all the reflections, and with the phone just for fun
Video ideas: 1 visit the Cambridge guided busway by train and get the bus B from Cambridge north towards hinchinbrook and get off in Huntington as the busway is really interesting. Second idea do a randomly generated journey of east anglia!
It might be fun for you to do this challenge again but starting at a different station like maybe Liverpool Street or one of the other termini north of the river and see how that changes things.
I thought of doing a TfL random journey in London but now I different plans now I will add lines into my journey
Aah, New Eltham, takes me back. Within walking distance of one of the Greenwich university campuses, made the walk many a time to see my partner
I wish that South Western Railway would start introducing the Class 701s with most of the Class 455s heading for scrap.
try putting all london stations in a wheel and spin 3 or 4 times and go towards those stations as fast as possible, almos like a speedrun thing so it feels like a little more of a challenge and not just riding trains
Hi Nick, great Video (as always!), keep up the good work! :)
You could do the Elizabeth line and just get it to randomise where you go to
Waterloo East’s platforms are letters so that passengers don’t confuse them with the numbered platforms at Waterloo
Just as I leave Clapham junction you appear, I wish I would’ve stayed longer
More interesting would be a no double back constraint
I love this video its awsome keep it cup on these awesome video
hi nick, since you spent the travelcard in the south of London, maybe you should do it again do it in ths north like on the ECML, WCML and MML as we had none of those operators
If you want to ensure you get to all parts of London you’d have to allow for tube travel because the only cross river connecting services are Overground or the hourly Southern service from East Croydon to Watford Junction. But you can randomise it by uploading the London termini and once you reach one of them, randomly choose which one your next journey on national rail begins from.
There’s also Thameslink
@@mediocrelogarithm5538 how did I forget Thameslink!!
respect for visiting a station on the hounslow loop 🫡
Woking via Staines? I know you went on to say as much but judging by the light level alone I knew you must have filmed this on a Sunday. Also, yes that service is half hourly any other day of the week.
The seating in the 707 is a declassified area. Glad to see you took advantage of that.
Are you sure? They were definitely standard class only on SWT/SWR, the section with 2+1 was to allow more space for standing passengers.
Out of every train, the class 707 is the kind of service where they never would have fitted first class in, particularly in 2017 when Souty West trains ordered them on their deathbed (just before SWR took over)
fun fact syon lane station is the station u get off at if u work at sky studios (the pay tv company)
Hi Nick
Great video again.
Csn you tell me how you create the randomjser wheel.
Thanks
Sounds like you need a Brentford to Brentwood Point to Point!
would be cool if you included the tube, but interchange stations only
The platforms are letters to avoid confusion with Waterloo..
Have you done the three Victoria's yet, Southend to Manchester via London. If not it would make an interesting challenge if you tried to do it without using the underground.
Change to Crossrail at Stratford, Thameslink at Farringdon, change to Southern at East Croydon to get to Victoria, then reverse that last move to get back on to Thameslink to St Pancras, then ride north to Leeds or York to catch a Northern or TPE service to Manchester Victoria.
A P2P idea Harlington to Hayes via Hayes & Harlington
Nick can you do st Margarets Greater anglia to st Margarets SWR
It occurs to me there's an all the platform As trip you need to do.
Could maybe try this on southeastern starting at Gravesend heading towards thenKent coast or Paddock wood and trying to get to the other line so if it sends you towards Ramsgate or Dover you have to find a way to Paddock wood before getting back to Gravesend or London
Random generatod london journey but you can only use trains and tube stock with an odd last number
possibly start at K+ or StP as there are trains going NSEW from these....
Point to Point or Pointless journey Pets Wood to Abby Wood. Just an idea for you Nick.
Syon lane usually gets 3 trains an hour in each direction so if you had to wait 1 hour for a train at that station it might be because of delays or the fact that your filming on a Sunday, im not a local to Syon lane but i do come there alot anyway nice video 👍👍👍👍
We were filming it on a Sunday yes :)
The outcomes were interesting and love to see this in different cities or Day Rangers. Great video
brilliant vlog
P.S. The Overground is part of TfL.
next time you do a point to point you should do tyndrum lower to upper tyndrum >~
Nick in London? He just like me frfr
SAME !!
Brentwood lives next door to his brother Harold wood
Hi Nick! Nice video! By the way, did you ho to the Taylor Swift Eras Tour?
great vid
randon journey around kent
What is the software you use to work out where you are going next?
Imagine if you did this across the entire UK 😯😯😯
The randomiser would still keep trying to send them back to London termini!
@@Eric_Hunt194 fr fr so true 😂
Point to point video: West Midlands using N Network starting at Birmingham New Street and using the random generator
Hi nick!
I live in Woking
Are 465’s staying for a while?
did swr change their announcments?
Nick could U do this in Merseyside Liverpool
Only SWR at Vauxhall? What about the Victoria Line?
If you did not hear or pay attention, he said national rail only at the start
What was all that about Nick? I didn't get it.
What about Mottingham to Nottingham.
I'm pretty sure he's already done this
already done
Could always add a trip to Cottingham on the end...
Thank you, Why not do an alphabetical? First Station begins with A and so on?
No satisfying networker sounds :(
can you give me a train journey/ challenge pls
im looking for roughly london hertfordshire any counties around there really
or anyone else doesnt have to be nick
If you're asking for a random station to visit in Hertfordshire, then: Ware
If you're asking for a random journey in the London/Hertfordshire area: Ware to Essex Road
@@thryduulf thanks
@@thryduulf i will do that today
@@thryduulf it was a great journey
let your companion finish her sentences for god's sake
1:28 I’M GAY
Why not make one using ChatGPT or something?
Me at 6:15 "LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!"