@@TXnine7nine It's crazy how they opened nearly 60 stations in the first 8 years of the system's operation, but we've waited these last 8 years for 6 stations. And they're not even underground.
No timetable because ScotRail trains don’t serve the station- an oddity for a station managed by ScotRail! Glad one of the locals has seen fit to put that right, but also glad that the stopping patterns of others can be altered to help in times of need.
I read today (on Wikipedia so it may not necessarily be up-to-date/accurate) that the now-defunct East Midlands Trains had trains calling at 87 stations but managed 89 stations
2,571 Stations... now that's an amazing accomplishment! Well done Stuart! As for Reston, lovely station. The glass panelling on the footbridge is a nice touch as well. Thanks Geoff.
TPE is in utter turmoil as of late, cancelation or curtailing services constantly due to the ongoing dispute with the unions. Scot-Anglo services (Well what TPE call the England - Scotland services) are often the ones to be cancelled or curtailed along with the Hull and Cleethorpes trains too. It's been a total nightmare on a really busy commuter route.
Perhaps they should offer sensible wage increases. 4% after pay freezes is taking the pee a bit. That amounts to a real terms pay cut - especially this year.
@@EdgyNumber1 Nearly everyone paying those fares has also taken a real terms pay cut. We're all suffering. I'm a key worker (in another sector) and got just 2%, so no sympathy...
The amazing thing, at least to me, is that there are people wondering around the vast array of railway bits and pieces all over Britain - which us "normal" people just take for granted every day - but who are orders of magnitude more obsessed with that stuff than Geofff! He's kind of their rational, national spokesperson who makes a key connection (as it were) between them (the enthusiasts) and us, the (casually curious), RUclips audience :) Geoff invented that gig and he he pulls it off every time with unique and easy brilliance. One of the great communicators. It's all consistently wonderful stuff as a result.
I have also basically done all the stations, another Stuart from Cumbria!. I've been doing it for so long that my spreadsheet has 2629 stations of which I have been to 2620- of the 9 remaining 4 are on the Elizabeth Line and then there is Barking Riverside. The other four have all closed since I started so can't be reached. I did Reston and most of the Elizabeth line on their respective succeeding opening days, although not on first trains!
There is a long term plan for a regular ScotRail Edinburgh - Dunbar service - and THAT was an integral part of the business case for the station! However with Scotrail short of staff following the pandemic the introduction of this new service has been postponed to try and preserve the services elsewhere. That has left other operators to try and fill the gaps - but as noted their InterCity operations do not lend themselves to calling at what is fundamentally a 'local station for local people' When the staff shortage problem has been resolved then ScotRail will try and introduce their service to Dunbar giving Reston a much better service
I'm currently at 516, out of 2576. I've only really been going to do stops when I'm visiting areas, rather than specifically travelling to an area to do the stops (excepting diversions on my long distance travels, like I did Sunderland to Scarborough via the Bishop Auckland line so I could do the last few on there). I do try to go into London to do some whenever I visit, but now I'm living down here, I'm gonna try to finish the Underground (currently 189 stops done) and Overground (77/113 to do, Clapham Jn to Surray Quays plus down to wherever it goes, and Euston to Bushey still to go, plus Barking Riverside) and trams (the New Addington branch still to go, plus Church St and George St), plus Crossrail (the new section, plus Heathrow stops and Maidenhead (which I'll do when I do the Marlow branch) still to go) before the end of the year. Not as bothered about the DLR atm, but I have done all 60 of the Tyne and Wear Metro. And trams elsewhere, I'm more about doing all the routes rather than individual stops (not done any of the Birmingham or Blackpool or Edinburgh trams yet, not done much of Manchester or Sheffield, and haven't yet completed Nottingham either). And I haven't done any public transport in Scotland at all... I didn't start from scratch when I started ticking them off about 3-4 years ago, but I am having to go back to stations to get photos of the station signs if I've missed them. And the majority of the stations I've done have been in the last 18 months (about 300 of them).
At the end you made the point of a more frequent service. It's been wanted for years a frequent stopper between EDB and NCL but never happened. Either a new Scotrail service, extended, higher frequency Chathill or the local service to Morpeth extended. With the Northumberland Line it could also bring more local services to north Northumberland as well as the Borders.
Reston has, at least nominally, up and down sidings between the new location and the old. It would have been really neat if NR had turned them into passing loops with platforms for the station so fast trains could go through while local services were calling at the station. 104 passenger services booked to go through today but only 12 will be calling and I'd bet at least part of the reason will be line congestion.
Belated welcome to my neck of the woods. Not much to say about Reston but my nana recalls using the original one way back when. She used to live out there and get it into Berwick to work when the Borders railway was a thing. She's not too impressed by this one and referred to it as a waste of money 😂 We offered to take her up to visit for nostalgia reasons and she was having none of it. 😬
I feel so sad, Everywehere around here where there was a train station it has either been abandoned or in the case of the city I live in turned into a pub. But such is the state of Passenger Rail travel in Canada outside of the corridor between Montreal and Torronto and maybe the one train that runs across Canada but which only stops in major major cities like Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver.
Agreed, it feels like every other country is leaving Canada in the dust when it comes to passenger rail. So many places it would work wonderfully and really open up the country.
I blasted through Reston on Saturday via a CC train. The CC train had actually let me on with a TPE ticket which shows they're not all bad. Seemed to be a very large unused car park at the moment, that will stay like that until more services stop there. TPE seemed to be having more than a few issues that weekend with many cancellations - a strike without actually voting for one if you will. You'd think the train companies weren't ready to stop there when the station opening was announced so services will need that time to adjust. Thanks for the video.
Hi Geoff, looking forward to your visit when our new stations here in Birmingham are opened at Kings Heath, Moseley and Pinapple Rd (construction not started yet but….!)
The footbridge is apparently unique on Network Rail, because it is the only one where the stairs take you up to the middle of the bridge, and not one of the ends! The staircase also has that interesting twist as you ascend... With a price tag in excess of £20M, the entire station is considerably elevated above street level, upon the embankment above the largely-empty car park and the somewhat isolated bus shelter; and is a superb example of a new unstaffed station: of that there can be no doubt. Yet, for as much as I do support the (re)opening of more stations on our railways and I do agree that ideally, there should be a minimum service of a train stopping at each platform every two hours; we needs to be mindful that we are applying urban logic to a very rural setting... The population of the area covered by Reston and Auchencrow Community Council is about 950. (Auchencrow is about 4 miles to the north, on the bus route towards Duns, which is the administrative centre of Berwickshire, and which itself has a population of 2787; while Houndwood and Grantshouse, the next settlements north on the bus route towards Dunbar and Edinburgh, are also included). Coldingham, a similar distance to the east - but with no direct bus service at present, is home to around 500 people; while St Abbs, a mile and a half farther east, has twice that. Ayton - a few miles to the south, and on the bus route to Eyemouth (and Berwick) has about 600 residents; while Eyemouth is the biggest settlement in the area, with 3500. The scattered rural communities surrounding all of these has a further 2000 or so souls; so the total population of what might be considered Reston's catchment area is around 10,800. There is out of necessity high vehicle ownership, as bus services are pretty sparse, to say the least! The 253, which terminates outside Berwick railway station - and not in the town centre, which is about half a mile away down a steepish hill; serves Reston four times a day (the first Berwick and last Edinburgh services by-passing the village completely). The 34, which runs between Tweedmouth and Duns, also runs four times a day; though the late afternoon journeys on both are less than 25 minutes apart. Coldingham and St Abbs - a major tourist destination in its own right, are served only from the south; hence the last buses from Eyemouth to Reston are currently at 1501 (253) and 1502 (34)! None of the buses are timed to connect with train arrivals at Reston with both of these 'last' buses from Eyemouth obliging the Edinburgh day tripper to wait 1hr 40min for the next northbound train departure (or just get the 253 all the way there, as it is quicker). It's also worth noting that the 34 arrives in Duns five minutes after the departure of bus 60, which continues west from there, to Greenlaw, Earlston, Melrose, etc. If the 8 daily buses between Berwick & Eyemouth - Coldingham & St Abbs were to be extended to Reston (or perhaps include it on some kind of circular route), many more day or longer trip opportunities would be possible, including two later journeys from Eyemouth. Hence, it isn't all about just increasing the number of trains that call at the new station...!!
Hi Geoff, great video. I noticed you pointed out the EV charging points. I work with the largest growing EV charging point company in the UK. We work with many local councils and service sectors including rail companies and Network Rail. If you were ever interested in doing a video on it then I'm sure our team would be happy to be part of it.
I saw reading green park when i was comung back from bournemouth towards reading, waiting to see it open in december, Also that enviro 200 sounds like an mmc which is strange.
Yeah, the issue with the TPE service is that tpe have hourly from Liverpool to Newcastle then 2 hourly on a different service from Newcastle to Edinburgh. I feel they should reinstate the hourly service or share it with LNER. So then at the minimum, they get an hourly train in both directions plus direct train to London aswell.
@@engineeringvision9507 Nah, it seems rightly worded. They serve the Pennines locally and outside they are intercity services. Don't see them stopping at local stations much outside the Pennines now
There is absolutely no way that LNER will be stopping more trains there. It would increase their journey times for hundreds of people, just so that one or two people can get on (maybe). The only LNER trains that do stop (1tph in each direction) are "short workings" to/from Newcastle and Leeds, which already have a lot of stops in them, as they serve as the first and last trains of the day on their respective routes.
At last! They've been fighting for it to reopen for years. Good point about the lack of trains. I did read, not so long ago, that the Dunbar stops were being cut back to allow Reston trains to have the stop between Edinburgh and Berwick instead which seems to mean that no one train would stop at both. I wonder if this has come to pass.
Not forgetting East Linton station on the East Coast Main Line is due to open sometime next year and will also see some of LNER, Crosscountry and TransPennine Express trains stopping there.
I tried and failed to visit Reston by train. My trains there and back both got cancelled. I got the train to Berwick instead and went to visit the new miniature railway at Ayton Castle!
Geoff, I see you had the same problem as me - cancellations galore. My intended train was cancelled yet there was a TPE set berthed in the sidings at Tweedmouth, just south of the Royal Border Bridge, having arrived not long before from Waverley. The station looks well designed and constructed and not too much of a giant Airfix kit. You are dead right about the paucity of the service. However, Reston itself has nothing to commend it and it was a good job you didn’t go in search of a cup of tea. Clearly it serves the hinterland but if the service is not reasonably frequent and reliable business won’t pick up. It will be interesting to see the figures when available.
Good to see Reston back on the rail map but how did a village of just 400 get a new station? I visited 3 weeks after opening and walked around the village and there not a lot there, not even a pub! Looks like East Linton will be the next reopening on this section on line.
It was reopened to help serve the Eastern Borders, so that places such as Eyemouth, Duns etc are once again served by a railway station. Remember a station in a town or village isn’t there purely to serve that town or village
@@paulbrown9802 Whenever a new station south of the Watford Gap is opened, there are comments people from further north about how the transport budget favours the south. But at least the new stations in the south tend to get heavily used. This appears to be a complete waste of money.
@@timw.8452 So it’s a waste of money because you won’t be using it? People in the catchment area, whether it be 10, 100 or 1000, have as much right to be close to the rail network as people in the south. They pay their taxes which go towards rail infrastructure so why shouldn’t they have some of that money invested in their area?
@@paulbrown9802 I don't understand the 10, 100 or 1000 comment. Miles? My point stands, if no-one appears to be using the station and hardly any trains call there then I think it's money wasted. It would have been better spent improving links from Liverpool to Leeds/Sheffield and possibly Hull via Manchester.
@@timw.8452 people, if 10 people use the station every day then it’s not a waste of money to those people. This area was denied any kind of rail service for years following Beeching and following two campaigns those wrongs were put right. People in these areas deserve a connection to the rail network as much as you or anyone else does
There was plans that scotrail would run a service from Edinburgh to Berwick (basically extending the Edinburgh - Dunbar services) however this has not ran as there is currently little pathing space on the ECML, this means that stations like Reston and East Linton (coming soon) have to provide on what would be the additional services as there main services from the station. Hope that answers the debate in the comments, and also a final point, Reston and Berwick are both stations which are only serviced by Intercity services and no regional or commuter services, I wonder is there are any other stations like thst across the country (a potential video idea there!)
Yes, and then the basic question - why is a trans-pennine train company travelling to and from Glasgow and Edinburgh? It sounds more like an intention of "don't give it to Northern - they can't handle what they have already".
True. If only our governments had had the foresight to supplement trunk lines with high speed lines to free up capacity. Instead they wasted a bunch of money on the APT instead. Now, as much as I love the APT, it would’ve only ever been a stopgap measure, not a replacement. And then we didn’t even get it!
Haha, glad to smell the stinky Voyager toilet! You have to be fairly desperate for that, one way or another. Looking forward to seeing your video from West Yorkshire next year when they open the new White Rose station.
i got a fact for you about railway stations: Did you know that Saltash station is the only train station in Cornwall (at least on the mainline) that still has first great western station signs instead of gwr?
I think I was the only person who did both the first trains at Reston and the Elizabeth Line the day after. Only just got my ticket from the recalcitrant ticket machine at Reston, thanks to the very kind help of Rob and Letitia Mace from Reston!
Yesterday I was on a TPE train which actually stopped at Reston! Didn't get off though... and didn't see any other passengers who got on or off either.
As a train conductor - I find Geoffs need to tap specific 'bell codes' when calling for a lift quite interesting. Not sure what 3 - 1 might be for Driver / Guard communications But I belive that for Signalbox - Signal box it means 'is the line clear for a stopping passenger train' A signaller may want to verify or correct me on that 😅😅 I only typically work with 1 2 3 4 6 9 2 - 2 3 - 3 & 3 - 2 - 1
I haven't been to Reston yet although I could see the lift towers from the A1 recently when I went to Eyemouth. I think East Linton which is also on the ECML and which will be be served by TPE and Scotrail is due to open in Spring 2023. I am really excited about that as I used to live there.
@@geofftech2 that is AMAZING! Can't wait! Please let me know if you need any info or guidance. Worked for the MTA for over 13 years. (Now in the private engineering industry managing construction projects for the MTA.)
A bus with wireless phone charging? The bus I take in the morning to work was built in 1871 and requires all the passengers to use their feet just to get it going.
One of the other odd things about Reston is that among the collection of stop boards on the platforms is one for VT(Virgin Trains), which is very strange given that VT no longer exist, and haven't since the station started in build. This is another station, like Bow Street in Wales, which has a fire exit at the very south end of the up platform. That seems excessive for a totally open air station. The buses may be swish, but are very sparse- 5 a day totally uncoordinated with the train timetable. They were heavily cut during Covid and have not been reinstated. The other interesting thing about Reston is its old cattle market, and uniquely shaped building. There is interpretation about that in the village. I too was. there on opening day on one of the absurdly cheap Great Rail Sale tickets from Cumbria. On opening day TPE did free tea and coffee for everyone.
@@DavidJohnson-ew4wh In Short yes. But then it is also no-ones job to co-ordinate the Bus and train services to actually inter-connect. At least they have moved the village bus stop to be at the station rather than on the main road. The bus service is a commercial operation which runs in 2 countries and at least four council areas, so it is almost impossible for any one to co-ordinate it. Almost impossible, as the Dumfries to Edinburgh bus has just been saved from the axe by a number of local councils co-ordinating with each other.
@stuartnicholson1478 Good to hear councils co operating. I found out yesterday that the trains to Portsmouth Harbour do link up with the departures of the Ryde catamaran to the Isle of Wight from the terminal at the end of the platform. I only discovered this as I and another passenger both missed the previous sailing because of late journeys. So it does exist.
I passed through here on the way up to Scotland a few weeks ago. Just before I was coming back, the power cables broke and my train was delayed by around 3 hours. Not a great start for this station!
That bicycle rack. They literally have fields of space around the station, and they still chose a stacked bicycle rack. Those racks are very useful when even cyclists need to be economical with space, like in Utrecht. Here it is absurd to expect people to lift their bikes on those stacked things. They never expect a driver to put their car on top of another car!
@@kaitlyn__L It screams people who haven't had to count or be accountable for the spending of public money in their life. They have built a station capable of carrying 100x + the capacity of passengers it will ever attract. There are routes / stations up and down the country that would benefit from 10% of the money wasted on this crimson kipper.
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A new station at Reston, with an actual train. The DC Metro is jealous!
Was about to say the same thing. 8 years for 11 miles of silver line track is ridiculous even for DC.
Yeah, for a moment I thought he was in Fairfax County, Virginia.
@@TXnine7nine It's crazy how they opened nearly 60 stations in the first 8 years of the system's operation, but we've waited these last 8 years for 6 stations. And they're not even underground.
*A* train. At most stations, we like to have more than one!
My Dad worked for a few weeks in Reston Virginia many years ago.
Worked on this for 5 months. Really glad to finally see it finished and up and running
But there was a power line failure
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No timetable because ScotRail trains don’t serve the station- an oddity for a station managed by ScotRail! Glad one of the locals has seen fit to put that right, but also glad that the stopping patterns of others can be altered to help in times of need.
I read today (on Wikipedia so it may not necessarily be up-to-date/accurate) that the now-defunct East Midlands Trains had trains calling at 87 stations but managed 89 stations
@@willch.2259 yes, CrossCountry doesn’t manage any stations despite a few stations only seeing XC trains
Lockerbie similarly is managed by Scotrail but no Scotrail service
Can see it getting a scotrail service possibly in the winter 2022 timetable
@@willch.2259 One if those was Burton-on-Trent . They may have had a few services but not many. It’s was staffed and they had East Mids Uniforms
2,571 Stations... now that's an amazing accomplishment! Well done Stuart! As for Reston, lovely station. The glass panelling on the footbridge is a nice touch as well. Thanks Geoff.
Some stations have acrylic windows on the footbridge, which have severely yellowed over the decades. I hope this is _actually_ glass.
Much better than the grey plastic eyesores Scotrail usually put up.
Seriously, I need someone as enthusiastic about train stations as you in every state of Germany
It could ( and should) be you!
TPE is in utter turmoil as of late, cancelation or curtailing services constantly due to the ongoing dispute with the unions. Scot-Anglo services (Well what TPE call the England - Scotland services) are often the ones to be cancelled or curtailed along with the Hull and Cleethorpes trains too. It's been a total nightmare on a really busy commuter route.
Was gonna say exactly this, they're far less reliable than Northern at the moment...
I say, steady on there!
FirstGroup as a whole is in utter turmoil
Perhaps they should offer sensible wage increases. 4% after pay freezes is taking the pee a bit. That amounts to a real terms pay cut - especially this year.
@@EdgyNumber1 Nearly everyone paying those fares has also taken a real terms pay cut. We're all suffering.
I'm a key worker (in another sector) and got just 2%, so no sympathy...
The amazing thing, at least to me, is that there are people wondering around the vast array of railway bits and pieces all over Britain - which us "normal" people just take for granted every day - but who are orders of magnitude more obsessed with that stuff than Geofff!
He's kind of their rational, national spokesperson who makes a key connection (as it were) between them (the enthusiasts) and us, the (casually curious), RUclips audience :)
Geoff invented that gig and he he pulls it off every time with unique and easy brilliance. One of the great communicators.
It's all consistently wonderful stuff as a result.
I have also basically done all the stations, another Stuart from Cumbria!. I've been doing it for so long that my spreadsheet has 2629 stations of which I have been to 2620- of the 9 remaining 4 are on the Elizabeth Line and then there is Barking Riverside. The other four have all closed since I started so can't be reached. I did Reston and most of the Elizabeth line on their respective succeeding opening days, although not on first trains!
There is a long term plan for a regular ScotRail Edinburgh - Dunbar service - and THAT was an integral part of the business case for the station!
However with Scotrail short of staff following the pandemic the introduction of this new service has been postponed to try and preserve the services elsewhere. That has left other operators to try and fill the gaps - but as noted their InterCity operations do not lend themselves to calling at what is fundamentally a 'local station for local people'
When the staff shortage problem has been resolved then ScotRail will try and introduce their service to Dunbar giving Reston a much better service
I was working on that service and thought I’d recognised you 🤣
I love the bus montage and I was excited to see the Wireless Charging Tabletops.
Excited for tables?
I love Stuart’s accomplishments! So cool 👏🏽
Buses with tables… very cool.
I'm currently at 516, out of 2576. I've only really been going to do stops when I'm visiting areas, rather than specifically travelling to an area to do the stops (excepting diversions on my long distance travels, like I did Sunderland to Scarborough via the Bishop Auckland line so I could do the last few on there). I do try to go into London to do some whenever I visit, but now I'm living down here, I'm gonna try to finish the Underground (currently 189 stops done) and Overground (77/113 to do, Clapham Jn to Surray Quays plus down to wherever it goes, and Euston to Bushey still to go, plus Barking Riverside) and trams (the New Addington branch still to go, plus Church St and George St), plus Crossrail (the new section, plus Heathrow stops and Maidenhead (which I'll do when I do the Marlow branch) still to go) before the end of the year. Not as bothered about the DLR atm, but I have done all 60 of the Tyne and Wear Metro. And trams elsewhere, I'm more about doing all the routes rather than individual stops (not done any of the Birmingham or Blackpool or Edinburgh trams yet, not done much of Manchester or Sheffield, and haven't yet completed Nottingham either). And I haven't done any public transport in Scotland at all...
I didn't start from scratch when I started ticking them off about 3-4 years ago, but I am having to go back to stations to get photos of the station signs if I've missed them. And the majority of the stations I've done have been in the last 18 months (about 300 of them).
At the end you made the point of a more frequent service. It's been wanted for years a frequent stopper between EDB and NCL but never happened. Either a new Scotrail service, extended, higher frequency Chathill or the local service to Morpeth extended. With the Northumberland Line it could also bring more local services to north Northumberland as well as the Borders.
Reston has, at least nominally, up and down sidings between the new location and the old. It would have been really neat if NR had turned them into passing loops with platforms for the station so fast trains could go through while local services were calling at the station. 104 passenger services booked to go through today but only 12 will be calling and I'd bet at least part of the reason will be line congestion.
Congratulations to Stuart on "properly" visiting everywhere! What a great re-enactment of opening day arrival at Reston!
Well done Stuart with your achievement of visiting every station in Britain, will check out your website.
Thanks for the video Geoff
Put that guy on the NYC. Subway System. That should settle his hash.
Belated welcome to my neck of the woods. Not much to say about Reston but my nana recalls using the original one way back when. She used to live out there and get it into Berwick to work when the Borders railway was a thing. She's not too impressed by this one and referred to it as a waste of money 😂 We offered to take her up to visit for nostalgia reasons and she was having none of it. 😬
I never thought I'd see the day when CrossCountry actually helped someone lol. Honestly, Reston does need more trains stopping there.
Ain't that the truth about Cross (Cross; British adjective meaning: angry, annoyed, irate. peeved. vexed, CrossCountry, etc) Country helping anyone.😀
I feel so sad, Everywehere around here where there was a train station it has either been abandoned or in the case of the city I live in turned into a pub. But such is the state of Passenger Rail travel in Canada outside of the corridor between Montreal and Torronto and maybe the one train that runs across Canada but which only stops in major major cities like Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver.
Agreed, it feels like every other country is leaving Canada in the dust when it comes to passenger rail. So many places it would work wonderfully and really open up the country.
I’ve seen Geoff doing the coolest things on the channel but nothing felt cooler than seeing the bus montage.
Bus montage FTW!!
And now for something completely different! 🙂
This is my local station, great to see you visiting! Hope you enjoyed the Borders.
I appreciated the reenactment of the first arrival at Reston. 👍
I blasted through Reston on Saturday via a CC train. The CC train had actually let me on with a TPE ticket which shows they're not all bad. Seemed to be a very large unused car park at the moment, that will stay like that until more services stop there. TPE seemed to be having more than a few issues that weekend with many cancellations - a strike without actually voting for one if you will. You'd think the train companies weren't ready to stop there when the station opening was announced so services will need that time to adjust. Thanks for the video.
Love the perspex, much better than a metal wall. Respect to Stewart/Stuart great effort
Hi Geoff, looking forward to your visit when our new stations here in Birmingham are opened at Kings Heath, Moseley and Pinapple Rd (construction not started yet but….!)
The footbridge is apparently unique on Network Rail, because it is the only one where the stairs take you up to the middle of the bridge, and not one of the ends! The staircase also has that interesting twist as you ascend... With a price tag in excess of £20M, the entire station is considerably elevated above street level, upon the embankment above the largely-empty car park and the somewhat isolated bus shelter; and is a superb example of a new unstaffed station: of that there can be no doubt. Yet, for as much as I do support the (re)opening of more stations on our railways and I do agree that ideally, there should be a minimum service of a train stopping at each platform every two hours; we needs to be mindful that we are applying urban logic to a very rural setting...
The population of the area covered by Reston and Auchencrow Community Council is about 950. (Auchencrow is about 4 miles to the north, on the bus route towards Duns, which is the administrative centre of Berwickshire, and which itself has a population of 2787; while Houndwood and Grantshouse, the next settlements north on the bus route towards Dunbar and Edinburgh, are also included). Coldingham, a similar distance to the east - but with no direct bus service at present, is home to around 500 people; while St Abbs, a mile and a half farther east, has twice that. Ayton - a few miles to the south, and on the bus route to Eyemouth (and Berwick) has about 600 residents; while Eyemouth is the biggest settlement in the area, with 3500. The scattered rural communities surrounding all of these has a further 2000 or so souls; so the total population of what might be considered Reston's catchment area is around 10,800. There is out of necessity high vehicle ownership, as bus services are pretty sparse, to say the least!
The 253, which terminates outside Berwick railway station - and not in the town centre, which is about half a mile away down a steepish hill; serves Reston four times a day (the first Berwick and last Edinburgh services by-passing the village completely). The 34, which runs between Tweedmouth and Duns, also runs four times a day; though the late afternoon journeys on both are less than 25 minutes apart. Coldingham and St Abbs - a major tourist destination in its own right, are served only from the south; hence the last buses from Eyemouth to Reston are currently at 1501 (253) and 1502 (34)! None of the buses are timed to connect with train arrivals at Reston with both of these 'last' buses from Eyemouth obliging the Edinburgh day tripper to wait 1hr 40min for the next northbound train departure (or just get the 253 all the way there, as it is quicker). It's also worth noting that the 34 arrives in Duns five minutes after the departure of bus 60, which continues west from there, to Greenlaw, Earlston, Melrose, etc. If the 8 daily buses between Berwick & Eyemouth - Coldingham & St Abbs were to be extended to Reston (or perhaps include it on some kind of circular route), many more day or longer trip opportunities would be possible, including two later journeys from Eyemouth. Hence, it isn't all about just increasing the number of trains that call at the new station...!!
Really good website stuart has. Very detailed. I've spent over an hour on it and looking at the stations on google maps.
Hi Geoff, great video. I noticed you pointed out the EV charging points. I work with the largest growing EV charging point company in the UK. We work with many local councils and service sectors including rail companies and Network Rail. If you were ever interested in doing a video on it then I'm sure our team would be happy to be part of it.
I saw reading green park when i was comung back from bournemouth towards reading, waiting to see it open in december,
Also that enviro 200 sounds like an mmc which is strange.
The fact that they sit on the footbridge tells us how new it is
Yeah, the issue with the TPE service is that tpe have hourly from Liverpool to Newcastle then 2 hourly on a different service from Newcastle to Edinburgh. I feel they should reinstate the hourly service or share it with LNER. So then at the minimum, they get an hourly train in both directions plus direct train to London aswell.
Or just drop the word "express". Seems like false advertising.
@@engineeringvision9507 Nah, it seems rightly worded. They serve the Pennines locally and outside they are intercity services. Don't see them stopping at local stations much outside the Pennines now
@@zaveexixterteen3841 I was thinking more of their other services
There is absolutely no way that LNER will be stopping more trains there. It would increase their journey times for hundreds of people, just so that one or two people can get on (maybe).
The only LNER trains that do stop (1tph in each direction) are "short workings" to/from Newcastle and Leeds, which already have a lot of stops in them, as they serve as the first and last trains of the day on their respective routes.
@@engineeringvision9507 Which other service?
Awesome video Geoff! I liked the shots you did of the LNER trains passing through the stations.
Hi Stuart! So nice to meet you at last! Congratulations on your achievement.
Thank you for inviting him Geoff, great to see you again too of course!
I love the Geoff Marshall Way that’s just pressing a button three times lol
Country and Western always springs to mind when Reston is mentioned, those who will know will know.
I get this.
I think Geoff has a new addiction of lifts and lift buttons!
i went past reston on 22nd june on a lumo service from london to edinburgh and also passed through it on the same lumo service back home to london
At last! They've been fighting for it to reopen for years.
Good point about the lack of trains. I did read, not so long ago, that the Dunbar stops were being cut back to allow Reston trains to have the stop between Edinburgh and Berwick instead which seems to mean that no one train would stop at both. I wonder if this has come to pass.
Not forgetting East Linton station on the East Coast Main Line is due to open sometime next year and will also see some of LNER, Crosscountry and TransPennine Express trains stopping there.
Of course! Reston! Can't believe I haven't paid this station a visit yet! Gotta do that at some point
I love that it is Crossrail, not Elizabeth Line, that comes naturally to Geoff.
I tried and failed to visit Reston by train. My trains there and back both got cancelled. I got the train to Berwick instead and went to visit the new miniature railway at Ayton Castle!
We need an “all the replacement buses”. 👍😀
With a massive bus montage!
Thanks for mentioning Worcestershire Parkway 😄
Geoff, I see you had the same problem as me - cancellations galore. My intended train was cancelled yet there was a TPE set berthed in the sidings at Tweedmouth, just south of the Royal Border Bridge, having arrived not long before from Waverley. The station looks well designed and constructed and not too much of a giant Airfix kit. You are dead right about the paucity of the service. However, Reston itself has nothing to commend it and it was a good job you didn’t go in search of a cup of tea. Clearly it serves the hinterland but if the service is not reasonably frequent and reliable business won’t pick up. It will be interesting to see the figures when available.
Great video! Stuart is a truly lovely guy! (Also props to Crosscountry for getting a train to stop!)
Nice video and i didnt know that reston was in scotland
Love the vids, keep them up!
I wish South London streets were aesthetically beautiful and clean, with beautiful people with nice personalities.
Then that's 90s South London 😃
Great thanks geoff & stuart well done cheers bob.🦘🐨🍺🤠😄
Good to see Reston back on the rail map but how did a village of just 400 get a new station? I visited 3 weeks after opening and walked around the village and there not a lot there, not even a pub! Looks like East Linton will be the next reopening on this section on line.
It was reopened to help serve the Eastern Borders, so that places such as Eyemouth, Duns etc are once again served by a railway station. Remember a station in a town or village isn’t there purely to serve that town or village
@@paulbrown9802 Whenever a new station south of the Watford Gap is opened, there are comments people from further north about how the transport budget favours the south. But at least the new stations in the south tend to get heavily used. This appears to be a complete waste of money.
@@timw.8452 So it’s a waste of money because you won’t be using it? People in the catchment area, whether it be 10, 100 or 1000, have as much right to be close to the rail network as people in the south. They pay their taxes which go towards rail infrastructure so why shouldn’t they have some of that money invested in their area?
@@paulbrown9802 I don't understand the 10, 100 or 1000 comment. Miles? My point stands, if no-one appears to be using the station and hardly any trains call there then I think it's money wasted. It would have been better spent improving links from Liverpool to Leeds/Sheffield and possibly Hull via Manchester.
@@timw.8452 people, if 10 people use the station every day then it’s not a waste of money to those people. This area was denied any kind of rail service for years following Beeching and following two campaigns those wrongs were put right. People in these areas deserve a connection to the rail network as much as you or anyone else does
I thought the same! Reminds me of Worcestershire Parkway too, but at least that has a regular GWR service.
There was plans that scotrail would run a service from Edinburgh to Berwick (basically extending the Edinburgh - Dunbar services) however this has not ran as there is currently little pathing space on the ECML, this means that stations like Reston and East Linton (coming soon) have to provide on what would be the additional services as there main services from the station.
Hope that answers the debate in the comments, and also a final point, Reston and Berwick are both stations which are only serviced by Intercity services and no regional or commuter services, I wonder is there are any other stations like thst across the country (a potential video idea there!)
Lockerbie aswell? Only served by Avanti and TPE
wait. there are:
2572: woolwich
2573: Custom house
2574: canary wharf
2575: TCR
2576: Barking Riverside
Yes and Reston opened before all of them, making it 2571.
Part of the service problem is just the ECML is so busy, it’s hard to find more time to stop more trains is what I’ve been told
Yes, and then the basic question - why is a trans-pennine train company travelling to and from Glasgow and Edinburgh? It sounds more like an intention of "don't give it to Northern - they can't handle what they have already".
True. If only our governments had had the foresight to supplement trunk lines with high speed lines to free up capacity. Instead they wasted a bunch of money on the APT instead. Now, as much as I love the APT, it would’ve only ever been a stopgap measure, not a replacement. And then we didn’t even get it!
Haha, glad to smell the stinky Voyager toilet! You have to be fairly desperate for that, one way or another.
Looking forward to seeing your video from West Yorkshire next year when they open the new White Rose station.
I believe I was on the LNER Inverness to KX service that blasted through the station in the video.
i got a fact for you about railway stations: Did you know that Saltash station is the only train station in Cornwall (at least on the mainline) that still has first great western station signs instead of gwr?
Geoff: "it's quarter to twelve"
the clock behind him: 'You sure about that?'
27 seconds is the earliest that I’ve been on this channel. I’m so excited to see the BINAUGURATION, if it ever happens.
How about going to Tokyo and document their amazing trains? To the Trains!
Lovely little video. Lovely little footbridge.
Also: "underserved" would be an understatement, I guess.
Both underserved and overserved, depending on whether you're looking at the station infrastructure or the local population!
I think I was the only person who did both the first trains at Reston and the Elizabeth Line the day after. Only just got my ticket from the recalcitrant ticket machine at Reston, thanks to the very kind help of Rob and Letitia Mace from Reston!
Yesterday I was on a TPE train which actually stopped at Reston! Didn't get off though... and didn't see any other passengers who got on or off either.
This is transport RUclips's equivalent to an unboxing video
A few years ago I did a lot of walks in that area and had to get the bus from Edinburgh or train and bus. Had I only waited!
Pretty cool way to every corner of your country, I have to consider see my own country that way
Came through there on an LNER Azuma on 24th May. Was a bit fast to see it though. :-))
As a train conductor - I find Geoffs need to tap specific 'bell codes' when calling for a lift quite interesting.
Not sure what 3 - 1 might be for Driver / Guard communications
But I belive that for Signalbox - Signal box it means 'is the line clear for a stopping passenger train'
A signaller may want to verify or correct me on that 😅😅
I only typically work with
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You should've said how many steps there were so someone could make the 15-storey building joke
I haven't been to Reston yet although I could see the lift towers from the A1 recently when I went to Eyemouth.
I think East Linton which is also on the ECML and which will be be served by TPE and Scotrail is due to open in Spring 2023. I am really excited about that as I used to live there.
My father lived in East Linton from 1946-start of 1964 and remembers the previous EL station which closed that year I believe🎩
It's the only station in Scotland at the moment not to be served by ScotRail.
what about Lockerbie?
@@georgeadams2555 oh yeah I only just realised. BUT STILL SCOTRAIL DOESNT SERVE 2 OF ITS STATIONS. it serves Carlisle though.
Trans Pennine cancelled my train last week at Preston caught the next Avanti cattle crush to Glasgow . Got to Lancaster and no one else could get on
Great video
Is that MetroCard wind breaker a hint at a future video series across the pond??
@@geofftech2 that is AMAZING! Can't wait! Please let me know if you need any info or guidance. Worked for the MTA for over 13 years. (Now in the private engineering industry managing construction projects for the MTA.)
They certainly do say aye in Cumbria
Geoff, the bus you got has tables and seatbelts!?
It happens I had an optare solo like that it normally because they are on college routes is the reason for seltbelts
Forget Civil War reenactment, The Reston Station Reenactment is what I’m here for 😂
A bus with wireless phone charging? The bus I take in the morning to work was built in 1871 and requires all the passengers to use their feet just to get it going.
1:24 "where's the 253?"
Probably in Hackney Central somewhere 🤪
One of the other odd things about Reston is that among the collection of stop boards on the platforms is one for VT(Virgin Trains), which is very strange given that VT no longer exist, and haven't since the station started in build. This is another station, like Bow Street in Wales, which has a fire exit at the very south end of the up platform. That seems excessive for a totally open air station. The buses may be swish, but are very sparse- 5 a day totally uncoordinated with the train timetable. They were heavily cut during Covid and have not been reinstated. The other interesting thing about Reston is its old cattle market, and uniquely shaped building. There is interpretation about that in the village. I too was. there on opening day on one of the absurdly cheap Great Rail Sale tickets from Cumbria. On opening day TPE did free tea and coffee for everyone.
Are all the administrators of corporations and public bodies useless?
@@DavidJohnson-ew4wh In Short yes. But then it is also no-ones job to co-ordinate the Bus and train services to actually inter-connect. At least they have moved the village bus stop to be at the station rather than on the main road. The bus service is a commercial operation which runs in 2 countries and at least four council areas, so it is almost impossible for any one to co-ordinate it. Almost impossible, as the Dumfries to Edinburgh bus has just been saved from the axe by a number of local councils co-ordinating with each other.
@stuartnicholson1478 Good to hear councils co operating. I found out yesterday that the trains to Portsmouth Harbour do link up with the departures of the Ryde catamaran to the Isle of Wight from the terminal at the end of the platform. I only discovered this as I and another passenger both missed the previous sailing because of late journeys. So it does exist.
This one looks wayyy better than the other recent ones. Was that bridge really windy/exposed though?
This video is the first time I’ve seen tables on a bus!!!
Pass through Berwick-upon-Tweed on saturday on the train up to scottland haha
Keep up the good work Geoff 👏
reston looks like a very relaxing station.
Like somewhere somebody could have a Rest at... I'll show myself the door.
It's a very relaxon place for reston.
This station is based off the new Ashland park in step ford county railway
I do wonder how often services will be able to call there given there are no passing loops to allow fast services to overtake a stopping service.
Now that he's visited all the stations in Britain, could all the stations in Ireland be next? The map already includes the markers for them...
Fellow Cumbrian here. Can confirm I say “aye” in every sentence
The lift towers looked great on the drone footage
Hi Geoff, have you thought about doing Middlesbrough on LNER?
Must have been hard to resist doing a 'rest on my laurels' gag
I passed through here on the way up to Scotland a few weeks ago. Just before I was coming back, the power cables broke and my train was delayed by around 3 hours. Not a great start for this station!
It’s nice to see a new station
Great to see new stations open... but... that's an awful lot of impermeable surface...
Wow, you got Paddy Pimblett in your video.
That bicycle rack. They literally have fields of space around the station, and they still chose a stacked bicycle rack. Those racks are very useful when even cyclists need to be economical with space, like in Utrecht. Here it is absurd to expect people to lift their bikes on those stacked things. They never expect a driver to put their car on top of another car!
Sadly I think they’re just cheaper due to being mass-produced. This entire station screams bean counters!
@@kaitlyn__L It screams people who haven't had to count or be accountable for the spending of public money in their life. They have built a station capable of carrying 100x + the capacity of passengers it will ever attract.
There are routes / stations up and down the country that would benefit from 10% of the money wasted on this crimson kipper.