We lived in Cardiff and between 1959-63 and my father used the car link from Severn Tunnel Junction many times for work and always for holidays to Cornwall. The passengers travelled in a single coach and were deposited on platform 1. On return we had to wait on PLATFORM 2 while the cars were loaded, but had to stand back as the express trains from London were at full speed heading into the tunnel. These were all steam trains, Castles and Kings and is a memory that survives until today.
Well that video made me feel old. As a kid we used to use the car on train service using Pilning to go on our holidays each year in Cornwall traveling from south wales before the original Severn Bridge was built. It saved having to drive up to Gloucester to cross the River. Oh how I loved that part of the journey. Thanks for rekindling happy memories
With only two trains on a Saturday and both running in the same direction making a return trip impossible it's pretty much fated to only get worse from here on out unfortunately. I feel like stations like this are destined to eventually lose all service and practically useless service levels like this only exists so the rail line can claim they haven't closed the station yet.
They removed footbridges at Polesworth and Briech in Scotland (on the Shotts line) also. Breech was for electrification purposes also , but that built earthwork banks up to the nearby main road to maintain acces to both platforms. Polesworth was not so fortunate, resulting in a similar situation to Pilning.
A* for trainpal Geoff. Ive been using trainline for years and paid £92 for a return from Plymouth to Southampton (with a railcard) just used trainpal and that's now £48. Even with trainlines £10 cancellation fee that's still a £34 saving. Thank you thank you!!!
I lived in nearby Bradley Stoke for a few years, and used to enjoy sitting at Pilning for a few hours watching the world go by. Was a great place to see the original Valenta HSTs at full power on the climb to Patchway. Years later, I started working for Network Rail and found myself at Pilning in a professional capacity, and it was a huge change. Electrification hadn’t happened, but most of the services had been withdrawn already. The footbridge was a great place to get shots of the tunnel entrance with a good zoom lens.
The amount of times I’ve driven through Pilning on Train Simulator (Bristol TM/ Parkway - Cardiff comes standard with the game). I stop every time regardless of direction; nobody ever gets on or off though. Pilning has no footbridge in the game but it doesn’t have the overhead electric lines either.
It probably doesn't help Pilning that Severn Beach station is not much further away from Pilning village than Pilning station is, and Severn Beach has an hourly service into Bristol (albeit by a different route) (Edit having measured, Severn Beach is /Slightly/ closer at 1.7km vs 1.9km - measured from the centre of the village)
Pilning station can also serve Easter Compton, although from there it may be faster to go up to Cribbs Causeway and catch a bus into Bristol or to Bristol Parkway Station than to get a train from Pilning or Severn Beach.
Well that was fun, wasn't it? A pleasure to show you the sights of Pilning, Geoff! You're assured of a warm welcome back to Gloucestershire any time. #Footbridge4Pilning 😁
Even with only a one-way service, Pilning could be a 7 day a week service and a regular request stop. It's miles to any other station on the Severn Tunnel line.
However Severn Beach station is also nearby with an hourly service, and depending on where you are in Pilning village may be closer than Pilning station
I used to live down that way. I was never there but saw it either on maps or signposted when out on the bike. It reminds me of the land between Dundee and Perth: fields bordered by hills you could see for miles from, and an underused station (Errol which closed on Sept 30th, 1985). It's like a hidden bit of Gloucestershire It's a shame it lost its footbridge. Maybe I missed something here but foot bridges and 25KV overhead can live happily side by side. It's a shame about everything really. A lot of potential. Pilning, if it isn't already, is also the sort of word that should be in Douglas Adams' book, The Meaning of Liff (which is a wee village on the other side of Dundee).
I was at Pilning one time when an HST broke down and had to detrain it's passengers and send them back to Bristol Parkway. Every Wales bound train in the meantime had to use the avoiding line behind platform 2.
@@robertwilloughby8050 That one is hard on the eyes but they say it looked better on a 405 tv - I think it was just because it was the 60s and they were all on drugs 🤣
Pilning also used to have the mainland side of the Severn Tunnel Emergency train, but sadly thats been replaced by road rail vehicles at the fire station now.
Love the battle Pilning has to reopen their platform 2. Its only 10 minutes by taxi to Seven Beach, so I guess someone has said that is why we don't need it! If you need a guide when you do least used station in South Glamorgan, I will bore you witless with Welsh railway history 😅
Taking a look at Google Maps Satellite View, you can still get a reasonable idea where the mainline split just "before" (East of) the current Pilning station, and looped around, roughly tangent to the M4, and down to Severn Beach Station.
When I was in Scotland on holiday last month, I was on a train from Wemyss Bay to Glasgow and enroute passed through the now abandoned station of IBM. In some ways, it reminded me of Redcar British Steel, prior to closure, it served a factory that had long closed before the trains stopped serving it. Just goes to show that building stations to access only a worksite is only of use so long as the site remains in use, otherwise it's short term thinking.
IBM is being retained so if the factory site is redeveloped the station can be reopened. At least being on a single line there's no issues over accessible footbridges.
I believe the bridge was removed because the overhead wires were put in, and they never replaced the bridge, which is shame. I've not been to Pilning for a while. I must go back there soon.
The biggest problem for Pilning is how close it is to Severn Beach, and Severn Beach return to Temple Meads is £3... Even if you reopen the station, it would be nonsense to get the train from there to Bristol TM.
When talking about traditional counties, which historic date do you use? 🤔😁 I'm a cartographer and now work in street maning and numbering, hence my interest in such pedantry.
Hey Geoff, think I walked past you at Covent Garden on Wednesday last week. Did a double take, but was too busy to check if it was you. Keep it up with the videos!
I might be going slightly mad but I’m sure the train that goes past at 11:39 played the theme to Match of the Day with its horn. I think I watch too much telly…
Wasn't' Pilning where you got on the Car/ Train to go from England to Wales without using the Ferry? Disembarking at ? Where I've done this as a child, but cant recall now.
Geoff please respond this comment or make a video. London transport is the most expensive in the world. Why are there strikes then? tfl charges us huge amount of money amd train drivers strike every single week. What do they want again? Where does our money go? Please respond. And how to fight with tfl? maybe passengers will strike one day and no one will pay for the tube. They will see how this will affected them. Regards.
Hi Geoff, Can you do another tube challenge soon. I have a recommendation for you. All Piccadilly and Victoria Line stations in the fastest time possible. Hope you are well. Train sim fan 2022
@@alivinghuman1 logical but the website says “Cash tickets are available for 30 mins at the box office” but it’s not clear if this is in addition to the ones available online
I've always loved these videos and have been subscribed for many years, but I have recently started to find it quite frustrating when the guests are interrupted or talked over at times. 😕
3:22 Just to be pedantic, you said that "Pilning famously lost it's footbridge because of the electrification - it had to come down" but that is not true. The actual facts are that there was that their was a multi-million pound project to electrify the West Coast Mainlne, and due to clearance problems, Network Rail needed to replace the existing footbridge with a new one. And due to the fact that it's now illegal to discriminate against disabled passengers, Network Rail had a duty to replace the old footbridge with an accessible one. So Network Rail actually had a legal duty to give Piling Station a new footbridge with a lift on each end (or maybe a ramp). And the government had a legal duty to provide the funding. Network Rail did not want to do that, as they are colluding with the Train Operating Company to intentionally offer a useless service to local people. So they used emergency powers to remove the old footbridge without a public consultation. But it was not legal for them to do that. Emergency powers are for emergencies. If vandals damaged the bridge and it was at risk of falling onto a train, that would be an emergency. And pulling down the bridge would be covered. But, this was no emergency. You know that these works would have been planned months or years in advance and the lobbying for government funding would have been done even earlier than that. If Network Rail wanted to close half of Pilning Station, instead of making the station wheelchair accessible, they should have declared their intention to do so, to Parliament. And if the government of the day wanted to hobble Pilning Station, to avoid their obligations for disabled passengers, this should have been declared at the time the electrification project funding was being discussed. Either way - regardless of whether the government or Network Rail decided to close Pilning's second platform - the local people had a right to know, to be given the opportunity to object and Network Rail should have done this with enough notice, so that an accessible footbridge could have been installed, without a delay to the electrification program and without disruption to passengers. But they secretly took the footbridge away instead, and tried to pretend their emergency powers allow them to do that. And that's why the local station support group are not happy. In Wales, the South Wales Metro program is increasing the number of commuter trains on the West Coast Mainline. In England, literally on the same line, at the first station in England, we have state-authorised vandalism of a station that could be workiing in connection with local busses to reduce the number of people driving between England and Wales. There are actually four tracks very close to the platforms at Pilning Station. With a bit of adjustment the station could easily have four tracks, with the outer two tracks being used for slow trains to wait and let express trains through the Seven Tunnel. So upgrading Pilning Station could have actually increased the number of trains per hour that could use the Seven Tunnel and given signallers an emergency place to "park" a commuter train that was having problems, to increase reliability for the line. All of this could have been made into a business case, costed up, authorised, and implemented. And with four tracks and two accessible platforms, Pilning could have been given a proper service from the ToC. We could have lowered car dependency at Pilning and increased viability of local businesses. But someone decided to screw over local people in England. And English people deserve to have service improvements, as much as Welsh people - on the other side of that tunnel - do. You do really good work, showing railways. And I'm very glad that you get access to things like the Crossrail and HS2 construction sites. But, when you cover stations that have a Parliamentary Service, some of those stations are kind of pointless, but other stations - like Pilning - have a high local population, that means that those people should have a service. I really have no idea why the ToC, Network Rail the DfT and the government want to screw over people living in Pilning, and places similar to Pilning, but it's not cool that highly paid men in suits have been shrugging off the demands of local people. This stuff should be a national scandal. If you have the time to do the research, I think it would be good to look at the local population figures, find a station in London or a town in the South East, with a similar population, and compare the service levels of the two stations, so that viewers could get an idea of the potential number of passengers, stations with Parliamentary Serivices might get, if the ToCs and the DFT were not working together to suppress rail demand. I would say the same to the Pilning Station support group. Go find Pilning's twins, around the UK. Show how many passengers Pilning could be getting. Work out how many trains per week Pilning is being denied. Show how the DfT stats are passing off "sabotaged stations" as "least used stations", so that the public can tell the difference.
Such a shame you've promoted an online ticketing service. Many station ticket staff can find the same, and occasionally better deals than online apps, including split ticketing. Defend the staff at all costs.
Thats 4 passengers per train, and thus much more that many other least used stations (for example Lakenheath 2020 with 454 passengers per year but just about 1 per train) and a better metric than passengers per day.
@@daveharrison9107Pilning is potentially very useful if there is an emergency in the Tunnel. Severn Tunnel Jcn at one end, Pilning at the other, I think that fact has kept it open for many years. How long that is the case remains to be seen.
@@daveharrison9107 It is genuinly perfect to build some flats and houses and turn pilning into a big village or a town. Towns like Keynsham and Yatton pretty much thrive from the railway there
As there is only one platform and it's quite a busy line, does that mean that you can only go in one direction from Pilning? And presumably can't get back there unless you do a huge loop?
justice for pilning station 😌
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@@xander1052General Kenobi!!!!
Well this is a first!
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We lived in Cardiff and between 1959-63 and my father used the car link from Severn Tunnel Junction many times for work and always for holidays to Cornwall. The passengers travelled in a single coach and were deposited on platform 1. On return we had to wait on PLATFORM 2 while the cars were loaded, but had to stand back as the express trains from London were at full speed heading into the tunnel. These were all steam trains, Castles and Kings and is a memory that survives until today.
Well that video made me feel old. As a kid we used to use the car on train service using Pilning to go on our holidays each year in Cornwall traveling from south wales before the original Severn Bridge was built. It saved having to drive up to Gloucester to cross the River. Oh how I loved that part of the journey. Thanks for rekindling happy memories
Fantastic stuff, Geoff - I wish they could give that station a proper service!
Ed was a great guest too!
With only two trains on a Saturday and both running in the same direction making a return trip impossible it's pretty much fated to only get worse from here on out unfortunately. I feel like stations like this are destined to eventually lose all service and practically useless service levels like this only exists so the rail line can claim they haven't closed the station yet.
They removed footbridges at Polesworth and Briech in Scotland (on the Shotts line) also. Breech was for electrification purposes also , but that built earthwork banks up to the nearby main road to maintain acces to both platforms. Polesworth was not so fortunate, resulting in a similar situation to Pilning.
Polesworth featured in a Least Used Station video five years ago...
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"Push for Helpy the Helpful Help Point"
A lovely touch whoever put that there.
A* for trainpal Geoff. Ive been using trainline for years and paid £92 for a return from Plymouth to Southampton (with a railcard) just used trainpal and that's now £48. Even with trainlines £10 cancellation fee that's still a £34 saving. Thank you thank you!!!
This series not gonna end . This is the best series ever
Met Geoff in Bristol Temple Meads earlier this month. It was great to meet you within all the delays and cancellation chaos that day!
It was a mad day! It took me a looong time to get back to London. Nice to meet you too! 😅
I lived in nearby Bradley Stoke for a few years, and used to enjoy sitting at Pilning for a few hours watching the world go by. Was a great place to see the original Valenta HSTs at full power on the climb to Patchway. Years later, I started working for Network Rail and found myself at Pilning in a professional capacity, and it was a huge change. Electrification hadn’t happened, but most of the services had been withdrawn already. The footbridge was a great place to get shots of the tunnel entrance with a good zoom lens.
The amount of times I’ve driven through Pilning on Train Simulator (Bristol TM/ Parkway - Cardiff comes standard with the game).
I stop every time regardless of direction; nobody ever gets on or off though.
Pilning has no footbridge in the game but it doesn’t have the overhead electric lines either.
Ah, another classic Geoff video, makes one all kind of warm and fuzzy doesn’t it!
It probably doesn't help Pilning that Severn Beach station is not much further away from Pilning village than Pilning station is, and Severn Beach has an hourly service into Bristol (albeit by a different route)
(Edit having measured, Severn Beach is /Slightly/ closer at 1.7km vs 1.9km - measured from the centre of the village)
Pilning station can also serve Easter Compton, although from there it may be faster to go up to Cribbs Causeway and catch a bus into Bristol or to Bristol Parkway Station than to get a train from Pilning or Severn Beach.
Thank you for visiting. Hope to see you again soon!
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Good to see you here.
Well that was fun, wasn't it? A pleasure to show you the sights of Pilning, Geoff! You're assured of a warm welcome back to Gloucestershire any time. #Footbridge4Pilning 😁
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Even with only a one-way service, Pilning could be a 7 day a week service and a regular request stop. It's miles to any other station on the Severn Tunnel line.
However Severn Beach station is also nearby with an hourly service, and depending on where you are in Pilning village may be closer than Pilning station
I’ve never had a bigger urge to go and steal a sign just because of the irony
I used to live down that way. I was never there but saw it either on maps or signposted when out on the bike. It reminds me of the land between Dundee and Perth: fields bordered by hills you could see for miles from, and an underused station (Errol which closed on Sept 30th, 1985). It's like a hidden bit of Gloucestershire
It's a shame it lost its footbridge. Maybe I missed something here but foot bridges and 25KV overhead can live happily side by side. It's a shame about everything really. A lot of potential.
Pilning, if it isn't already, is also the sort of word that should be in Douglas Adams' book, The Meaning of Liff (which is a wee village on the other side of Dundee).
I was at Pilning one time when an HST broke down and had to detrain it's passengers and send them back to Bristol Parkway. Every Wales bound train in the meantime had to use the avoiding line behind platform 2.
I seriously enjoy these videos Geoff, can't wait for future least used videos!!
As an old tv idents nerd, I love the HTV aerial t shirt 😊
Well, at least it wasn't the Black and White "migraine" Harlech logo!
@@robertwilloughby8050 That one is hard on the eyes but they say it looked better on a 405 tv - I think it was just because it was the 60s and they were all on drugs 🤣
Geoff should've used the HTV ident music at the end of the video.
Pilning also used to have the mainland side of the Severn Tunnel Emergency train, but sadly thats been replaced by road rail vehicles at the fire station now.
10+ points to the creative version of Imagine - Fun video as always, Geoff!
I love these little train stations out in the middle of nowhere.
That HTV tshirt brought back memories I didn't know I had
Love the battle Pilning has to reopen their platform 2. Its only 10 minutes by taxi to Seven Beach, so I guess someone has said that is why we don't need it! If you need a guide when you do least used station in South Glamorgan, I will bore you witless with Welsh railway history 😅
Excellent T Shirt Ed!
Taking a look at Google Maps Satellite View, you can still get a reasonable idea where the mainline split just "before" (East of) the current Pilning station, and looped around, roughly tangent to the M4, and down to Severn Beach Station.
Pilning sounds like it can be somewhere near München or Wien lol
Brilliant video Geoff.
After 5/6 years of waiting and here we are!
Really wished I could see you as I love our channel and trains! Love your videos and thanks for doing these perfect videos! ❤❤❤
Geoff is just such a good UA-camr, I love these videos
That was brilliant! I work at the local school and didn’t have a clue about the history! Thanks so much!
I’m looking forward to the episode which shows Old Oak Common as the least used station in London when it opens. 🥴
only if this crap govt doesn’t cancel the whole of HS2
Maybe it’s in the ceremonial county of Middlesex ?
Big up the Gloucestershire massive!
When I was in Scotland on holiday last month, I was on a train from Wemyss Bay to Glasgow and enroute passed through the now abandoned station of IBM. In some ways, it reminded me of Redcar British Steel, prior to closure, it served a factory that had long closed before the trains stopped serving it.
Just goes to show that building stations to access only a worksite is only of use so long as the site remains in use, otherwise it's short term thinking.
IBM is being retained so if the factory site is redeveloped the station can be reopened. At least being on a single line there's no issues over accessible footbridges.
I believe the bridge was removed because the overhead wires were put in, and they never replaced the bridge, which is shame. I've not been to Pilning for a while. I must go back there soon.
Instant Thumbs Up for the HTV West T Shirt
I might be planning to go to Shippea Hill, one of the UK’s most isolated stations ever
Love the HTV West T-shirt
Trying to plan a journey from Pilning to Polesworth might bring up some interesting results
The biggest problem for Pilning is how close it is to Severn Beach, and Severn Beach return to Temple Meads is £3... Even if you reopen the station, it would be nonsense to get the train from there to Bristol TM.
If there could be a link re-instated to Severn Beach, it could form part of a loop line for Bristol...
Would be nice, but rather tricky, since there are now lots of houses built on the route.
@@misterflibble9799 tramtrain time ! tramtrain time !
I live about 10 kms away from Pilning. I didn’t even know it had a train station. 🤓
Could have a historic transport day at the station maybe to use the car park a bit., or a Saturday Farmers Market
Geoff, you need to take the 'Least Used Stations' Music, and release it as a charity dance single!!
Still need to visit Pilning. Great video Geoff.
I've been to Gloucestershire yesterday. And I haven't known this for my life
So, is this station closed but they have to run those parliamentary trains? Two per week in one direction?
I walked from Severn Beach. It was ok. There's a pub just down the road if that's your sort of thing.
I wonder, what would happen, if one were to steal that "Don't steal signs" sign...
If you did that, there'd be nothing to tell people that you're not allowed to steal the signs 😂
When talking about traditional counties, which historic date do you use? 🤔😁
I'm a cartographer and now work in street maning and numbering, hence my interest in such pedantry.
Hey Geoff, think I walked past you at Covent Garden on Wednesday last week. Did a double take, but was too busy to check if it was you. Keep it up with the videos!
Is "Covert" Garden a secret station? 🙂
@@cakemartyr5794 tired typo
I'm in that Imagine video with my Footbridge for Pilning T-Shirt on :)
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Greenford branch line is getting new class 230 for GWR and replacing the class 165 due to 2024
I might be going slightly mad but I’m sure the train that goes past at 11:39 played the theme to Match of the Day with its horn. I think I watch too much telly…
Wasn't' Pilning where you got on the Car/ Train to go from England to Wales without using the Ferry? Disembarking at ? Where I've done this as a child, but cant recall now.
Have you included Welham Green and Brookmans Park? If you live near either of these stations. You will need to get a bus to Potters Bar.
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Geoff please respond this comment or make a video. London transport is the most expensive in the world. Why are there strikes then? tfl charges us huge amount of money amd train drivers strike every single week. What do they want again? Where does our money go? Please respond. And how to fight with tfl? maybe passengers will strike one day and no one will pay for the tube. They will see how this will affected them. Regards.
11:38 sounded like an imitation of 11:47 :)
Why's wales all in old counties like dyfed isnt a thing its pembrokeshire Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion anyway keep up the good work
Hi Geoff,
Can you do another tube challenge soon.
I have a recommendation for you. All Piccadilly and Victoria Line stations in the fastest time possible.
Hope you are well.
Train sim fan 2022
Hey Geoff! Quick question about your standup shows - will there be any tickets sold on the door? Didn’t manage to prebook :(
Most probably not is my guess as i assume if prebooking is closed then tickets must have sold out
@@alivinghuman1 logical but the website says “Cash tickets are available for 30 mins at the box office” but it’s not clear if this is in addition to the ones available online
Aha
The music is a banger!
I've always loved these videos and have been subscribed for many years, but I have recently started to find it quite frustrating when the guests are interrupted or talked over at times. 😕
3:22 Just to be pedantic, you said that "Pilning famously lost it's footbridge because of the electrification - it had to come down" but that is not true.
The actual facts are that there was that their was a multi-million pound project to electrify the West Coast Mainlne, and due to clearance problems, Network Rail needed to replace the existing footbridge with a new one. And due to the fact that it's now illegal to discriminate against disabled passengers, Network Rail had a duty to replace the old footbridge with an accessible one.
So Network Rail actually had a legal duty to give Piling Station a new footbridge with a lift on each end (or maybe a ramp). And the government had a legal duty to provide the funding.
Network Rail did not want to do that, as they are colluding with the Train Operating Company to intentionally offer a useless service to local people. So they used emergency powers to remove the old footbridge without a public consultation. But it was not legal for them to do that.
Emergency powers are for emergencies. If vandals damaged the bridge and it was at risk of falling onto a train, that would be an emergency. And pulling down the bridge would be covered. But, this was no emergency. You know that these works would have been planned months or years in advance and the lobbying for government funding would have been done even earlier than that.
If Network Rail wanted to close half of Pilning Station, instead of making the station wheelchair accessible, they should have declared their intention to do so, to Parliament. And if the government of the day wanted to hobble Pilning Station, to avoid their obligations for disabled passengers, this should have been declared at the time the electrification project funding was being discussed.
Either way - regardless of whether the government or Network Rail decided to close Pilning's second platform - the local people had a right to know, to be given the opportunity to object and Network Rail should have done this with enough notice, so that an accessible footbridge could have been installed, without a delay to the electrification program and without disruption to passengers.
But they secretly took the footbridge away instead, and tried to pretend their emergency powers allow them to do that. And that's why the local station support group are not happy.
In Wales, the South Wales Metro program is increasing the number of commuter trains on the West Coast Mainline. In England, literally on the same line, at the first station in England, we have state-authorised vandalism of a station that could be workiing in connection with local busses to reduce the number of people driving between England and Wales.
There are actually four tracks very close to the platforms at Pilning Station. With a bit of adjustment the station could easily have four tracks, with the outer two tracks being used for slow trains to wait and let express trains through the Seven Tunnel. So upgrading Pilning Station could have actually increased the number of trains per hour that could use the Seven Tunnel and given signallers an emergency place to "park" a commuter train that was having problems, to increase reliability for the line.
All of this could have been made into a business case, costed up, authorised, and implemented. And with four tracks and two accessible platforms, Pilning could have been given a proper service from the ToC. We could have lowered car dependency at Pilning and increased viability of local businesses.
But someone decided to screw over local people in England. And English people deserve to have service improvements, as much as Welsh people - on the other side of that tunnel - do.
You do really good work, showing railways. And I'm very glad that you get access to things like the Crossrail and HS2 construction sites. But, when you cover stations that have a Parliamentary Service, some of those stations are kind of pointless, but other stations - like Pilning - have a high local population, that means that those people should have a service.
I really have no idea why the ToC, Network Rail the DfT and the government want to screw over people living in Pilning, and places similar to Pilning, but it's not cool that highly paid men in suits have been shrugging off the demands of local people. This stuff should be a national scandal.
If you have the time to do the research, I think it would be good to look at the local population figures, find a station in London or a town in the South East, with a similar population, and compare the service levels of the two stations, so that viewers could get an idea of the potential number of passengers, stations with Parliamentary Serivices might get, if the ToCs and the DFT were not working together to suppress rail demand.
I would say the same to the Pilning Station support group. Go find Pilning's twins, around the UK. Show how many passengers Pilning could be getting. Work out how many trains per week Pilning is being denied. Show how the DfT stats are passing off "sabotaged stations" as "least used stations", so that the public can tell the difference.
Gtreat Western Main Line, not West Coast (although though the GWML sees much more of the west coast than the WCML does!)
@@norbitonflyer5625South Wales Mainline if you want to be a true pedant
These are great
Google Earth still shows the Footbridge
Such a shame you've promoted an online ticketing service.
Many station ticket staff can find the same, and occasionally better deals than online apps, including split ticketing.
Defend the staff at all costs.
Wonder if you'll come check out the new facilities at Dawlish?
What time our next train is at. Something up with which I will not put.
Thats 4 passengers per train, and thus much more that many other least used stations (for example Lakenheath 2020 with 454 passengers per year but just about 1 per train) and a better metric than passengers per day.
I still want to know how one "pilns" - as "pilning" is the active tense of the verb... yup.
Eleven parking spaces? Isn't that the same as a fifteen storey building?
I thought there was still 15:32 to Taunton stopping there
I kind of want to steal that sign.
So you couldn't get a train to Pilning, only from Pilning? Couldn't Pilning become a request stop with trains passing through so regularly?
Pilning has such potential to be a thriving station. Why doesnt GWR and Dft invest in it?
Money.
Because no-one lives there and Severn Beach is nearby. Either close it and have done with it, or build a new town around it.
@@daveharrison9107Pilning is potentially very useful if there is an emergency in the Tunnel. Severn Tunnel Jcn at one end, Pilning at the other, I think that fact has kept it open for many years. How long that is the case remains to be seen.
@@daveharrison9107 It is genuinly perfect to build some flats and houses and turn pilning into a big village or a town. Towns like Keynsham and Yatton pretty much thrive from the railway there
Pedantry Corner? was that a little reference to Tim Traveller?
good video as always Geoff!
1:55 lol, I can see why this is least used. Its like intentionally scheduled to make it difficult to take, haha.
Yes Geoff another bang on vid
Why is Geoff not saying all the stations and instead saying “the culture railway project”
I wonder if there’ll a car park allotment bin dot matrix display in Gloucestershire
The Sprinter Merch 😂👍
Sprinter Tshirt is the best of the lot. It's worth paying that extra penny because is so good.
i hope you reported the fly tipping to the council?
Can you review Northampton it might be the least used station in Buckinghamshire
Yes. I'm sure it is. Pip Pip.
Lol, it's about as accurate
Can't Network Rail or GWR just put in a foot crossing to the other platform?
Not on your life ,or anyone else's for that matter just no way it could be safe on a high speed main line not to mention the risk from 25000v ohle.
Is Piln the verb for using a motorail service? I piln, you piln, he she or it pilns; I am pilning...
Loving the HTV shirt 👌 #wales
How hot was it Geoff on this supposedly hottest day of the year?
DBS3 in the back ground
As there is only one platform and it's quite a busy line, does that mean that you can only go in one direction from Pilning? And presumably can't get back there unless you do a huge loop?
exactly ! thats why they have the challenge
1:20 in London if he had of waved at the train driver, they would have been confused!
A question is there trains that don’t stop
what were the day stats, looked like 3 off ?
can't wait for the one from Worcestershire. it's my surname, so i can't wait till i hear someone attempt to pronounce it :;)