Brent Cross West station is NOW OPEN. It did not go well!
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Great video. Thank you for being so kind to my children who were thrilled to meet you yesterday!
I'm always surprised when I see your platform barriers. We in Germany got rid of them since 1960.
It is a truly great looking station, I don't think I have ever seen such a nice looking station in Germany ever.
Excellent video Jen! Was great to meet you along with Geoff Marshall, keep up the amazing content 👏😊
Great to meet you too!
I’m used to new stations being made from the same mould, but I love this because they’ve made it look great!
It’s always great to see something a bit different!
@@JenOnTheMoveagree
Great Video, It was also nice meeting you there as well
This one did had drama, Station does have character, great video Jen
Thanks Simon!
Jen, I honestly don't know how you get these videos up so fast! Efficiency at its best! Was nice meeting you on the platform!
Nice to meet you too! I’ve been doing openings for a couple of years now so definitely got the practice in!
Mm shinny new station. Whilst in the North, Deansgate station shuts during the evening as it cannot cope with a few extra people for the Christmas Markets.
Defo didn't think I would see a Tom Ingram (BTCC driver) hoodie on Train RUclips but very happy to see a fan in the wild and not in our racing world
I was the guy wearing the Underground hat and orange fleece. It was an absolute blast getting to attend a station opening for the first time and I was there for about nine hours lol
The only new station opening I've been to was the original opening of "New South Ferry", the southern terminal of the 1 train here in New York, in March of 2009. The station was open all of about 20 minutes before a water main break uptown suspended 1 service.
The original station, which still exists but is closed off, was a loop track that only had a five car long platform, but the trains are 10 cars long. So every car had multiple posters reminding people they needed to be in the front five cars to exit.
when service was stopped, two 10 car trains were stuck in the station. Everyone there; the MTA workers, the officials, the police and the railfans, all started raiding the trains for the posters as souvenirs.
I have seen several other videos about the station and i think yours remains the best.
I noted 2 design flaws:
- No clock in the concourse visible when you're looking at the departure board.
- No RLU car stop, so even though the architect has clearly designed the canopies to accommodate 8 cars, all trains go right to the end & the front 2 carriages are outside.
I think this is the first time seeing UK train station that have similar design like Japanese Train station
It was nice meeting you
Nice to meet you too! 😃
Great video Jen. Shame I couldn’t be there given it’s so close to where I live.
I love the design of the station. Its very funky
Thoroughly engaging video actually, and I agree it's a station of two halves. I thought it flowed very well, and at least everything worked as you say!
Lovely video, one of the earliest out, very enjoyable, giving a good intro to the station without being too analytical, and with nice touches like showing other RUclipsrs. Made my Sunday evening viewing.
That announcement was the saddest voice. He sounds so sorry.
Whatever the anticipated demand is going to be it is amazing how much money there is for new stations in the South rather than the stations in a box concept used elsewhere in the UK. Levelling up, was it anything other than a catch phrase?
Great video Jen i do enjoy new stations.
I was there as well. I was in my black and grey jacket.
Hi Jen,
It seems if you had waited around, there was an appearance by the London Mayor, a steel band and some Cinnamon rolls.
Good video, thanks.
I was on the same train back to the station as him later in the day 🙂
Great video Jen. Always good to see another railway station open.
That would have been a dilemma if both trains arrived at the same time
But full credit to you for being there at silly o'clock on a cold December Sunday morning to ride the first train
Thankyou 😃
I literally can’t get over how cold it was!
Great video Jen and was great to meet you earlier on in the day!
Might pop it a visit soon myself
You make every train ride a great adventure 😊
Thanks! 😃
Thank you JenOnTheMcCloud. lol. It looks like a very nice new station compared to most other recent openings. Reminds me a bit of Meridian Water? The only glaring omission which I bet will be controversial is the lack of a ticket office. I wouldn't mind betting that they'll have to retrofit one in before long.
Agreed on the ticket office, especially since the machines are card only!
I visited that station last night. It looks very futuristic.
"40 minutes before the first train"
Well, that’s quite a station isn’t it? Some excellent architecture. If it’s only getting thameslink trains, why does it need 4 platforms?
Thanks for getting up so early!
I was in the video!!!
Woood is such a wonderful material. Did you know you can make houses of it? :-D You should go to Skellefteå and see the 20-storey house made of wood.
And it's not cold where you are, it's not even cold here today, only -4, so much warmer than the -20 we had last week. Dress for it and you'll be fine (there's a thermo skirt, just so you know, and that's a very good start).
Love from Sweden!
Brilliant video Jen, this is a nice station, I'll visit when the weather gets warmer. The Midland Main line just had to go wrong for this opening didn't it? lol
It all adds to the drama 😂
I'm picturing phones ringing in the homes of the train drivers early that day. "Hello? What? That's TODAY?!"
A great station, I hope to visit it someday
Great video Jen! I'm always a little jealous when London is able to build infrastructure before the houses are built, whereas the rest of the country always struggles.
Hopefully one day we can get better at this! I feel we need a dramatic change in government first though!
9:46 Service to Check Station Screens*
Random facts:
- BCZ was built by three architects, one for platforms, two for different entrances, both entrance people in which failed becsuse they put mesh which allows someone to get 'moist' (water doesnt have much moisture)
- All thameslink services thst say were going to 'Check station screens'
- The entrances will appsrently be open all the time to allow for crossing the railway, hence why:
- It was open super early
- Signs to the west exit appear at the east exit and vice versa
- Boards at London St Pancras said no thameslink departures and platforms A and B were closed which wasnpretty scary until the ticket office person said EMR plats, at least that was still open, there were zero signs on the shuttee thingys saying to go to platform 1-4
- Platform 3 and 4 are for fast lines, 1 and 2 are for slow, so why the hell dod you get to P3-4?
- Signs for the cafe on platform 1-2 leads to a probably empty room with dark windows that you cant see through
Seagulls would be to or from Welsh Harp Reservoir \m/
10k Jen🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Brent Cross West station looks amazing & i cant wait to see that station for myself when i visit at some point in the new year awesome video
Seagulls: see Welsh Harp reservoir which is maybe 2 minutes away as the seagull flies.
I'll be there Tuesday.
Excellent video Jen really enjoyed watching.
Glad you enjoyed it!
There is oyster pad machine here at this station
Fab - can go to Wing Yip by train now. Wonderful! And thanks for the review - excited to travel there and see the station for myself - didn’t not know ie before I saw the link to your review on Twitter. PS why didn’t you get off at Cricklewood given you purchased a ticket to … Cricklewood?
This station looks amazing. And I'm glad its not a flat-pack like so many others nowadays (although it is London, like Barking Riverside (and even Meridian Water tbh), so I'm not surprised). Very odd to see a 700 in the EMR platforms at St Pancras though.
I'm hoping to drive to Cricklewood later and do this station once the rain has stopped.
I don’t blame you for waiting for the rain to stop… it was very wet when I went back!
Wow, that's a beautiful station (at least half of it, as noted).
What a nice looking station! It looks like it should feel nice and light during the day too. Not a fan of there being no way to buy a ticket with cash...! But yeah what a nice place 🙂 great video as always!! 😃
I was the first person there at 0500 this morning. I expected more people and was surprised I was the only one. Whilst waiting I had a chat with the driver of the first 316 bus (no passengers). Great to have a new station in London. But no litter bins (Geoff take note, a shorter video!) only toilets on one platform and the communication from staff was frankly abysmal, particularly about the service disruption, and no update on the platform screens advising such. Although all three ticket machines worked (I managed to get the first publicly issued tickets from two of them) one was later out of service. Marginally better than GWR! See you at East Linton for the next and 8th station opening of the year!
The toilets only being on the single platform makes sense as in normal service they’ll be the only ones used. This morning was the exception rather than the rule… I forgot to cover this in the video
@@JenOnTheMove it was a bit random this morning! It wasn't clear exactly which were fast/slow/up/down platforms, although the logical position is the straightest tracks would be the fastest, so 2 & 3. See you Wednesday!
I didn't realise it was going to be so well appointed. I'll have to pay a visit from the southern half of Thameslink.
You should be able to have the option to get off FLIXBUS & National Express coaches in the Brent Cross area as the coach may take an hour to get from the end of the M1 to Victoria Coach Station
Thanks Jen for another informative video about this new station.
Nice Video 👍
It's always good to see a new station opening, but it does make me feel a bit sad, as we can't get the government to fund a cheap £15m station that would serve a huge industrial park.
It’s almost like we need a new government… 😉
It's a class issue 😢
Sadly i missed the opening but i am bit far away down in devon
Developments getting stations first , Thamesmead,Sob , Sob.
Just to correct you about the buses. The 316 was extended from Sunday to the west side of the station. However on the east side, safety concerns about construction work right against the road planned to be used, has delayed the 189 from serving the station for some time. There is also an intention to extend the 326 to the station as well.
Great new video and station! Shame EMR didn't run today and it was so wierd to be on a 700 to the EMR platforms lol
EMR won’t be calling at this station
Gulls dont just like the sea You cannot get away from them, they are everywhere I absolutely hate those touchscreens. they never see my fingers. I am probably cold and dead
No ticket offices? They'd better remedy that, pronto. Some people rely on staff to sell them tickets.
Not much point in building a ticket office when they’re closing them all.
We can only dream of having suburban city stations like this. London sucks up all the money.
I see a lot of comments like this and it shouldn’t be one or the other, it should be both
London gets what London wants.
@@LiamPennington That's factually incorrect
@@JenOnTheMove But you're part of the chummy rail establishment like Geoff and Diamond Geezer, of course you're going to say that. I'm from Lancashire, we'll live, work and die before anything like Crossrail happens. London gets what London wants every single time.
No mention of what line it is on anywhere! Or the trains not actually go anywhere?
The overbridge is open 24/7 so generally there won't be a specific opening time per se. Apparently it's not a public right of way though; Network Rail (as landowner) prevent this with declarations made at least every 20 years under Section 31 of the 1980 Highways Act, AFAIUI.
Even on the rail passenger side of things, the station gets a 24-hour service (biggest gap 60 minutes between calls) Mon-Sat by dint of access to both Luton and (overnight only) Gatwick airports. Engineering works or delays aside, anyway.
That looked really cold! It was strange because here in New Zealand's Winterless North, the weather is quite mild. (Even if it's 1 o'clock in the morning.) Well done for Jen, for enduring an English December morn.
It can be much worse than this.
On paper it wasn’t cold, but the wind was the killer!
I just found myself in the video as first train is leaving
Stations opening first isn’t really possible in the north as London gets all the funding
I sympathise with the point, as an honorary northerner.
But it shouldn’t be one or the other, it needs to be both. London needs this infrastructure, so does the north, it shouldn’t be a competition
Well, it puts Portway Park and Ride into context!
It's a decent modern station design, partly ruined by awful amateur Thameslink signage (what happened to proper implementation of Rail Alphabet 2?).
Lmfao! What a first train fiasco! But wow! What a station!
Thanks Jen, informative and well produced as usual.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Hiya Jen! It's Riku, so nice to meet you today :)
Nice to finally meet you too! Looking forward to watching your video of the day!
@@JenOnTheMove thanks!
I can't believe Jen is going to beat me to East Linton. Like I managed both Robroyston and Reston on their opening days, but I'm missing East Linton's first day because Scotrail decided to open it in the middle of the week in December.
Hopefully I will still get there before Geoff.
I saw you outside the station with geoff lol 😂
Yeah, I quietly snuck back!
The "retail park" side did look like the back-end of the shops
I think they are likely orientated in the other direction
and looking at the map
the railway line is running parallel to the A5 (Edgware Road)
and they were definitely built to be on that.
It's still a really rundown area though! I used to live in that area and went there a few times but never enjoyed it. It does need redevelopment
@@JessicasCorner1
Indeed and the entrance on that side would need redeveloping too.
I stayed last night on the west side, and being honest, did not feel like a safe area at all. I’ll be surprised if that retail park is still there in 10 years
@@JenOnTheMove As it happens, Brent Council are developing a masterplan for Staples Corner and are looking to publish a draft version next year. Though if memory serves the Brent Cross Cricklewood masterplan (of which the new station is a part) took 10 years from first publication to properly getting underway...
I wonder what other ticket Jen had and where else she was going. I presume the Brent Cross West day return to Cricklewood was a keepsake, and that she was travelling on another ticket (a one day Travelcard?) so that she could go all the way to St Pancras International on the first train.
Thanks for the video Jen - it's great to see this station open at last.
Not filmed was me changing my plan at the last minute and getting a new ticket to St Pancras.
You may spot where I talk about there being no ticket office wasn’t filmed at the same time as when I bought the first ticket 😉
@@JenOnTheMove I had missed that, Jen. Congratulations on getting the video edited and posted so quickly.
Why didn’t they call it Brent Cross Town? It’s as much south of Brent Cross as west…
That would make sense!
As a local resident, everyone is puzzled by that, especially as the Brent Cross Town developers, Argent, put in a lot of money towards the station.
Brent Cross Town would make sense, but it really is the westernmost point of Brent Cross and only south of the Brent Cross shopping mall
No freebies like GWR
I did get a badge, but it wasn’t as nice as the GWR ones
it went worse for me
random fact: i saw you there
You correctly picked the 2nd train to be the first .. well done !
If there had been a very late change, would you have bought a new ticket to travel in the other direction ?
I bought my ticket after I learnt about the delay, so bought for southbound… but then had to go buy another one anyway as I changed my plan to go all the way into that London!
Hang on where the coffee
Jen, Geoff did the same video
No he hasn’t 🙂
3:09 Wait, do we do big developments in the North? I thought everything was run on thruppence ha'penny here.
6:03 If there are no ticket offices, I shall assume the accessibility option is fare dodging.
Sounds like you were there before Geoff Marshall. I have to say that Brent Cross West station does look pretty nice and brand new.
It’s not a race! 🙂
Spot on. Maybe I should be patient. 😂
Does anyone know if the thameslink platform is raised and step free for the wheelchair carriages like the central London stations? Makes life so much easier not needing a ramp
I’m afraid not, there are manual ramps
@@JenOnTheMove gutted. You’d think they would have done that with it being a new station. The first time I used the Thameslink at St Pancras I cried because I was just like any other passenger able to travel independently. It may sound silly to some, but I am fiercely independent and hate asking for help and the step free was amazing. I hoped it would be the case for all Thameslink eventually. I love travelling on trains and yes the assistance staff are always amazing and friendly/ helpful etc but I love just rolling up (literally) and getting on like anyone else.
hey jen, might I quickly ask what platform your thameslink train arrived into at st pancras
Platform 1 🙂
@@JenOnTheMove Well that's rare
Platform 1 is the usual one Thamealink use when diveted into the high level, but the 0826 from Brent Cross West went into Platform 4, which is much rarer.
There are plans to close Cricklewood station as it only accommodates 8-Car trains but I think that Cricklewood station is likely to remain opened. Brent Cross West station does look absolutely nice and very brand new.
This plan has been denied
Ah right so Cricklewood station is to remain as it is. Hopefully Cricklewood station will have platforms extended to accommodate the 12-Car Class 700/1 trains.
Cricklewood is far too busy to be closed. 12 car trains regularly call at Cricklewood without problems. Southbound normal slow line platform 1 can take 12 cars, but Platform 2 Northbound only 8. The doors on the rear 4 stay shut. Overnight trains are regularly 12 cars calling Cricklewood. And indeed on Sunday one 12 car set at least was being used. Hendon northbound can only take 7 cars on the fast lines.
Yeah I totally agree. I have been to Cricklewood before.
what is the 108?
I’m not sure tbh!
05:58 Is this exclusivism or discrimination?
East Linton Opens On Wednesday
Why mid week ?
That there London be full of RUclips types…
Yes it was cold in London in the early morning of the Sunday before
Where was Geoff Marshall?!
I’m sure he will be there at some point!
@@JenOnTheMoveGeoff Marshall is like the Spanish Inquisition. Nobody expects him them BOOM there he is...
Apparently he was there but we were there from early and didn’t see him
@@JenOnTheMove apparently he was; he has released a video!
Anyway, I enjoy your videos and the humour!
It begs the question why is Brent Cross?
Because the first train didn't show up as planned?
Why is Macclesfield?
@@JenOnTheMove because he saw Auchenshuggle
A glorified footbridge as one of your contributors said.
London is better, sadly, because they get more money to do it?
Fair
Jen you have beaten London boy to a new station in London well done
It’s not a race 🙂
Whats the matter with your voice?
Kevin McCloud 😂 🤣 😂 🙄