I remember back in the 1950's watching the steam trains negotiating that tramway along the quay to the ferry in Weymouth. They'd frequently have to stop the train and bonce parked cars out of the way that were parked to close to the tracks. As this was way before the time MOT's became standard, sometimes the bouncing had strange results. I can recall seeing vehicle wings etc. coming away in enthusiastic helpers hands.
I live in Weymouth. The ‘Boat Train’ service to the quay was an amazing asset to the town. I don’t know any locals who are happy to see it go. They could have revived it and run specials down there and back all year. It was unique. I’m so sad that we’ve finally lost it.
Ashurst (New Forest) used to be called Lyndhurst Road. The renaming in 1995 was seen as beneficial to the area, but the "(New Forest)" suffix was added mainly to alleviate confusion with the other Ashurst station, on the Uckfield Line in Kent (close to the East Sussex border).
Travelled on that Weymouth Harbour line through the streets of Weymouth in the 1970s (heading for a ferry) - it was a wierd experience looking out of the carriage window into the front rooms of houses 20 feet away!
The unusual device that swung across the track at Brockenhurst was used by Royal Mail to get the mail sacks across from the up and down mail trains. I believe there is or was one at Eastleigh too.
Oct 2020 - Actually Network Rail officially gave Poole Council notice that they were going to "eventually" close Poole High Street Level Crossing... However, the tracks are only a few feet above High Tide (the railway being almost on the ancient Sea Moat that ran past the Station Site at the Town Gate, hence Towngate), so no tunnel possible for foot passengers, and no room for an accessible road over the railway. Impasse. The Footbridge is dated 1873 and needs some TLC. Network Rail, please note.
There used to be one of those luggage extender bridge thingamies at Eastleigh. It used to bridge the line from the parcel office (roughly where the ticket office is now) to platform 1. The entrance then was a staircase up to the footbridge and the ticket office was on the bridge. That was in the days when Eastleigh had 4 platforms.
Had the pleasure of being a secondman on the route. Two shunters and sometimes the police. The shunters would jump the cars out of the way. The Channel Island Boat Train. Class 33 Weymouth to Bournemouth and depending on the era E6100 or class 73 from Bournemouth. Luggage extender at Brockenhurst. was used for Red Star Parcels. Memories they used to carry me across the line in the fifties.
Have done the Weymouth Tramway a couple of times, once on an old DMU all the way from Stourbridge Junction, and once with a Pair of 33s also on an excursion that had originated in the Midlands
There is footage of British Rail re-claiming the rite of passage for trains to Weymouth Pier The line I believe was originally built for the Portland stone quarry
The gap in the middle is because it was an old GWR station with the old 8ft gauge and 14ft wide carriages just like the old Paddington platform layout before they were realigned with extra one or two added.
I was fortunate enough to ride the "Weymouth Tramway" on one of the last days immediately prior to closure. They ran special trains from the Town station at Weymouth (reversing at the points junction just outside the station) for the benefit of folks just wanting to have one last ride through the traffic!! I stayed in Weymouth for a whole week in 1979, and only saw one train on the street-running tracks on my last full day there, on the Saturday. They weren't very frequent then, even less so now!!
In regards to Weymouth you can find old videos on UA-cam of people and police pushing the parked cars out of the way as a passenger train makes it way down the street to the dock it looked like a painfully long process.
I was missing this one!! Although I do wish you'd shown footage going through Botley, my grandparents lived half a mile up the road in Curdridge and we'd travel there by train from Swindon all the time! 💜
The notion of not putting the final destination on the departure DMI seems common to me. I've seen it at York (garforth rather than leeds on the harrogate services) and KGX (Foxton on the stopping Cambridge services) Maybe it's another wormhole to go down after least used or request stops is finished?
The 'luggage extender' was also used in the morning/afternoon for foot passengers. Not sure if it's the case any more, but a large number (>500) of students arrive at Brockenhurst station for 6th form (across the street down the road a couple hundred of metres), as the 6th form serves everything from the outskirts of Bournemouth to Totton.
That is not any old wooden train on the platform. That is the platform Wilbert Vere Awdry use to visit as a child before his family moved to Box in Wiltshire. That platform is where the idea of Thomas the tank engine was originally inspired from.
There was talk of getting a train to go to Weymouth harbour during the Olympic Games but Weymouth council were apparently worried about the state of the tracks in the road saying they maybe unsafe because it hasn’t been used since 1998 ish ( please correct me if I am wrong ) personally I think it would of been a good idea but with all the health and safety these days Weymouth council probably lost there bottle to do it
Hopefully anyone else like me who has the old version also chooses not to post the more obvious "why". It would negate the whole purpose of the edit and is also just not fair play.
@@kindredsheep No one is forcing you to answer questions, but I am not sure I agree with your assertion that discussing the reasons would somehow negate the edit.
"We are in Poole" - I'm very sorry to hear that. I go there frequently by train, the station is pants and very poorly placed within the town. You did pass through Christchurch Station though... and my house. Its strange seeing a 158 used for the Lymington branch, so used to the 450s being used now. And the luggage ramp at Brockenhurst is sadly no longer there, it is sat outside the Network Rail siding there.
The tracks in the middle at Bournemouth might have been for the engines of terminating trains to run round to the other end. Were they called reversing loops or something like that?
Chris Webb @Geoff Marshall, the extra lines at Bournemouth Central (Bournemouth West is now a Co-Op and Coach Park) were mainly for freight trains. Though there was also a large MPD as well as freight yard back in the days.....
Yes the carriage servicing roads at the West end of Bournemouth station used to facilitate the placing of 4REP EMU's prior to the extension of the 3rd rail electrification to Weymouth in the late 1980's. The 4REP would be at the London end of a 4TC consist which would be detached at Bournemouth and a Class 33/1 attached at the country end for the push/pull diesel service to Weymouth. Vice versa London bound trains would arrive from Weymouth pushed by the 33/1 and attached to the waiting 4REP.
They do the fake destination thing on the Waterloo loop via Teddington, Strawberry Hill, etc. Otherwise, it would show as to London Waterloo when you're already at Waterloo 😆
Yes, that practice is common now, the loop services from Cannon Street which loop from one of the three Dartford lines to another and then return to Cannon Street (or Charing Cross) via another branch without going into Dartford Station have these "pseudo-destinations" en route on the outward leg. For example, platforms indicator displays for trains at Abbey Wood returning via Crayford and Bexley to London used to display "Sidcup," these have recently been switched to the Bexleyheath line; the boards now display "Eltham." At Bexley/ Bexleyheath, in the anti-clockwise direction, indicator boards would display "Woolwich Arsenal." None of these destinations normally have trains terminating there, but it's better than displaying "London Cannon Street" on the "country bound" platform.
Would you do the Fawley branch line (known as the Waterside line) when it reopens to passenger use and South Western Railway operates a new service from Southampton Central to Fawley. With Marchwood, Hythe (Hants) and Fawley stations to reopen. And Class 158 DMUs to operate between Southampton Central-Fawley via Totton. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawley_branch_line
@geffo just catch a Bluestar 2 bus Southampton stations basically the stations in the Southampton area Millbrook Southampton Central St Denys Bittern Woolston Sholing Swaythling Southampton Airport parkway Eastleigh Change for Bluestar 1 bus for Chandleress ford
They do something similar at Leeds/York with the trains on the Harrogate line, if you’re getting a train from Leeds on the Harrogate line, if it’s going to York, the terminus will be shown as Poppleton, and if you’re getting one at York, the terminus will be shown as Burley Park, it’s a good idea as it stops passengers from getting a train to the same destination which will take much longer
Congrats to the staff who won the best unmanned station in 1994. I hope they got promoted for their efforts!
They were all women
@@sillypuppy5940
You do not know how much you're unappreciated joke made me giggle 😆
but...
@@sillypuppy5940 that took me too long to get
"Poole Station, um, is in the middle of..." [car horns] "...lots of cars." is probably the best line here.
You never realize how much you miss the "All The Stations" theme until you hear it!
Firefly 24601 it’s a bloody good theme
Firefly 24601 you can get it off iTunes and listen to it on repeat for hours and hours!
Geoff and Vicki on trains together again talking about stations. I almost want to cry.
This Video is old and from 2017 reuploaded
Just now discovered this whole series. What a wonderful thing to watch in the midst of this zombie apocalypse. Marathoning it right now. Thank you!
I remember back in the 1950's watching the steam trains negotiating that tramway along the quay to the ferry in Weymouth. They'd frequently have to stop the train and bonce parked cars out of the way that were parked to close to the tracks. As this was way before the time MOT's became standard, sometimes the bouncing had strange results. I can recall seeing vehicle wings etc. coming away in enthusiastic helpers hands.
I live in Weymouth. The ‘Boat Train’ service to the quay was an amazing asset to the town. I don’t know any locals who are happy to see it go. They could have revived it and run specials down there and back all year. It was unique. I’m so sad that we’ve finally lost it.
Ashurst (New Forest) used to be called Lyndhurst Road. The renaming in 1995 was seen as beneficial to the area, but the "(New Forest)" suffix was added mainly to alleviate confusion with the other Ashurst station, on the Uckfield Line in Kent (close to the East Sussex border).
This never gets old, always excited to see any videos from all the stations
Still excellent after 3 years. Wow 3 years, time to go round again.
Travelled on that Weymouth Harbour line through the streets of Weymouth in the 1970s (heading for a ferry) - it was a wierd experience looking out of the carriage window into the front rooms of houses 20 feet away!
Awwwww pre covid days!! Miss this
The unusual device that swung across the track at Brockenhurst was used by Royal Mail to get the mail sacks across from the up and down mail trains. I believe there is or was one at Eastleigh too.
Yep. I remember the one at Eastleigh.
My old area. Used to frequent soton central when I was living there to get trains to many places. Back in Australia now and it just is not the same.
I'm re-living All The Stations!❤️
Oct 2020 - Actually Network Rail officially gave Poole Council notice that they were going to "eventually" close Poole High Street Level Crossing... However, the tracks are only a few feet above High Tide (the railway being almost on the ancient Sea Moat that ran past the Station Site at the Town Gate, hence Towngate), so no tunnel possible for foot passengers, and no room for an accessible road over the railway. Impasse. The Footbridge is dated 1873 and needs some TLC. Network Rail, please note.
There used to be one of those luggage extender bridge thingamies at Eastleigh. It used to bridge the line from the parcel office (roughly where the ticket office is now) to platform 1. The entrance then was a staircase up to the footbridge and the ticket office was on the bridge. That was in the days when Eastleigh had 4 platforms.
I don't remember the pacing in your original edit but this was very fast paced. Never a dull moment, Geoff & Vicki!
Ah, the time before social distancing
They will be back. Don’t accept “the new normal”.
Well it’s kinda getting back to normal. I got the Jubilee line on Sunday from London Bridge and it’s was rammed like the good old days.
Had the pleasure of being a secondman on the route. Two shunters and sometimes the police. The shunters would jump the cars out of the way. The Channel Island Boat Train. Class 33 Weymouth to Bournemouth and depending on the era E6100 or class 73 from Bournemouth. Luggage extender at Brockenhurst. was used for Red Star Parcels. Memories they used to carry me across the line in the fifties.
Used to shunt the Weymouth tanks, Fareham and Hamble, but we were leading railman by then. Happy memories!
I was really missing this day as it travels around parts of my old stomping ground
Phew. I wondered where this video disappeared in the UA-cam matrix.
Remember seeing trains going to the harbour station when we holidayed in Weymouth in the early 1970s.
I traveled on this line on a Hertfordshire Railtour Pullman Special back in the 90's to Weymouth Ferry Terminal!
Have done the Weymouth Tramway a couple of times, once on an old DMU all the way from Stourbridge Junction, and once with a Pair of 33s also on an excursion that had originated in the Midlands
Well this was a nice surprise seeing a new ATS upload about 3 years late😂-I love it.
This was one of my favourite episodes
There is footage of British Rail re-claiming the rite of passage for trains to Weymouth Pier The line I believe was originally built for the Portland stone quarry
The gap in the middle is because it was an old GWR station with the old 8ft gauge and 14ft wide carriages just like the old Paddington platform layout before they were realigned with extra one or two added.
they also do that on GWR for the Paddington Trains and say that the trains terminate at Ealing Bdy
Malton station used to have one of those trolley things that went over the track for passenger use.
Chandler’s Ford is my local station! Beautiful place, it is.
I lived there from 1963 to 1986, nearly all of that time without a station!
The weymouth tramway tracks have been sadly removed this year.
I was fortunate enough to ride the "Weymouth Tramway" on one of the last days immediately prior to closure. They ran special trains from the Town station at Weymouth (reversing at the points junction just outside the station) for the benefit of folks just wanting to have one last ride through the traffic!! I stayed in Weymouth for a whole week in 1979, and only saw one train on the street-running tracks on my last full day there, on the Saturday. They weren't very frequent then, even less so now!!
@@ianmcclavin you're very lucky to have done that
I like all the stations so much
Do a giveaway for all the station maps
Level crossing and tiny footbridge = Quaintometer Overload
In regards to Weymouth you can find old videos on UA-cam of people and police pushing the parked cars out of the way as a passenger train makes it way down the street to the dock it looked like a painfully long process.
Yes I've watched that. I think it lasted until 1995. It's amazing it went that long, considering the speed, organisation and disruption it cost
Wooo @3:52 New Milton. I live there!
I was missing this one!! Although I do wish you'd shown footage going through Botley, my grandparents lived half a mile up the road in Curdridge and we'd travel there by train from Swindon all the time! 💜
How many times does Vicki just barely make the train to go see a historic building?
Worth the risk. I love the mix of historic building and trains.
@@DantheMountainMan and jeopardy!!
Saw a “new” ATS video in my feed... Ive never jumped on a video so fast...
I was just about to write something about Corfe Castle, when I saw on the right you made a video just for that one station. :D
The notion of not putting the final destination on the departure DMI seems common to me. I've seen it at York (garforth rather than leeds on the harrogate services) and KGX (Foxton on the stopping Cambridge services) Maybe it's another wormhole to go down after least used or request stops is finished?
FGW do it for slow trains to Paddington from Reading. Advertised as only going as far as Ealing Broadway.
4:15 Shame you never made it to the Isle of Wight... ZuHMoOs-ciQ
They did, he did an extra on it
@@beckyvlogger9880 That's the joke? If you go to the youtube video I referenced (ZuHMoOs-ciQ), you'll see the extra vid.
amative1 I appreciated the joke 😂
Th8: theme is my official highlight of 2020
The 'luggage extender' was also used in the morning/afternoon for foot passengers. Not sure if it's the case any more, but a large number (>500) of students arrive at Brockenhurst station for 6th form (across the street down the road a couple hundred of metres), as the 6th form serves everything from the outskirts of Bournemouth to Totton.
"I should get a photo at least to prove I was here"
Camera: Am I a Joke to You
Would be fascinating to re-do the journey today and see the difference!
miss the 158 running lymington line hasnt ran that for 6 years but now we have the 450
Yeah I have now seen all the stations..all of them.
Welldone guys keep up the good work stay safe 🙏
Is the theme tune available as a ringtone? No trains on Heart of Wales for 5 weeks now missing them.
That is not any old wooden train on the platform. That is the platform Wilbert Vere Awdry use to visit as a child before his family moved to Box in Wiltshire. That platform is where the idea of Thomas the tank engine was originally inspired from.
Are all of the episodes being remastered?
Just when all councils are rushing to put tram lines down, Weymouth council are taking them up !
Will you be riding the 507/508 on merseyrail for the last time?
Went on that 1969 had steam down from Waterloo. Battle of Britain loco.Then shunter diesel to dock for ship to Guernsey.
That confused me for a second - I'm back on youtube for 5 seconds again! yay!
Mr. Marshall any chance of reason behind the new edit?
There was talk of getting a train to go to Weymouth harbour during the Olympic Games but Weymouth council were apparently worried about the state of the tracks in the road saying they maybe unsafe because it hasn’t been used since 1998 ish ( please correct me if I am wrong ) personally I think it would of been a good idea but with all the health and safety these days Weymouth council probably lost there bottle to do it
Anyone know why this was re-edited?
I don't... Waiting for the really nerdy fans to enlighten me...
Hopefully anyone else like me who has the old version also chooses not to post the more obvious "why". It would negate the whole purpose of the edit and is also just not fair play.
@@kindredsheep No one is forcing you to answer questions, but I am not sure I agree with your assertion that discussing the reasons would somehow negate the edit.
Joddit i fully agree
Lachlan Ellis pls tell us
"We are in Poole" - I'm very sorry to hear that.
I go there frequently by train, the station is pants and very poorly placed within the town.
You did pass through Christchurch Station though... and my house.
Its strange seeing a 158 used for the Lymington branch, so used to the 450s being used now.
And the luggage ramp at Brockenhurst is sadly no longer there, it is sat outside the Network Rail siding there.
I wondered why this video was missing. What's the reason it was taken down?
notice how 'dean' station is owned but GWR but no all the gwr trains pass through only swr stop there.
I’m still trying to figure out what Geoff meant at the end after he said ‘shut up Meg’.
"That's a family guy joke"
The tracks in the middle at Bournemouth might have been for the engines of terminating trains to run round to the other end. Were they called reversing loops or something like that?
Chris Webb @Geoff Marshall, the extra lines at Bournemouth Central (Bournemouth West is now a Co-Op and Coach Park) were mainly for freight trains. Though there was also a large MPD as well as freight yard back in the days.....
Yes the carriage servicing roads at the West end of Bournemouth station used to facilitate the placing of 4REP EMU's prior to the extension of the 3rd rail electrification to Weymouth in the late 1980's. The 4REP would be at the London end of a 4TC consist which would be detached at Bournemouth and a Class 33/1 attached at the country end for the push/pull diesel service to Weymouth. Vice versa London bound trains would arrive from Weymouth pushed by the 33/1 and attached to the waiting 4REP.
They do the fake destination thing on the Waterloo loop via Teddington, Strawberry Hill, etc. Otherwise, it would show as to London Waterloo when you're already at Waterloo 😆
Yes, that practice is common now, the loop services from Cannon Street which loop from one of the three Dartford lines to another and then return to Cannon Street (or Charing Cross) via another branch without going into Dartford Station have these "pseudo-destinations" en route on the outward leg. For example, platforms indicator displays for trains at Abbey Wood returning via Crayford and Bexley to London used to display "Sidcup," these have recently been switched to the Bexleyheath line; the boards now display "Eltham." At Bexley/ Bexleyheath, in the anti-clockwise direction, indicator boards would display "Woolwich Arsenal." None of these destinations normally have trains terminating there, but it's better than displaying "London Cannon Street" on the "country bound" platform.
Why did you skip day 5 to day 9
Three years ago already?!! Time flies! Loved this series.
Went to Guernsey from there in 1975
Ive seen a train on that track about 7 years ago
6:42 is very very popular in Russia... 123 meters you know....
This is my area and it’s so weird seeing them and pointing like I know where that is! 😂
Don't think the 16-25 railcard works below £12 or something... Does it? Or have I been doing it all wrong...
Monday to Friday 4:30am - 10am, except July and August.
I'm sure that there was a luggage extender at Malton station
Would you do the Fawley branch line (known as the Waterside line) when it reopens to passenger use and South Western Railway operates a new service from Southampton Central to Fawley. With Marchwood, Hythe (Hants) and Fawley stations to reopen. And Class 158 DMUs to operate between Southampton Central-Fawley via Totton.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawley_branch_line
I think SWR want to open a new station on that line called Hounsdown which is just south of Totton
Transport Centre UK Ok
10:28 my station! Thought for a second you'd revisited it!!
Fawley station will not re-open as it is now within the refinery so lots of security and health and safety issues.
Paul Baker Right 🤔
My local stations! Eastleigh C’Ford no Soton Pakrway though!?
Why aren't these videos in order on your playlist?
Gaaaa! "Editorial reasons"? Whatever! You've made me start watching ATS all over again! Great marketing! :D
Your playlist "Ats 2017" is incomplete, this one wasn't in it 😮
Street running we call this.
That movable gangway at Brockenhurst was supposed to be going to Eridge for the Spa Valley Railway. Nothing seems to have come of it.
Still love this
Where is Portsmouth and Fareham?
2:39 how interesting.
R.I.P. Weymouth Tramway
Has Vicky got her 2020 Man United shirt? It comes in a fine red moquette.
This video was filmed 2017
0:20 I've stood there I'm local
@geffo just catch a Bluestar 2 bus
Southampton stations basically the stations in the Southampton area
Millbrook
Southampton Central
St Denys
Bittern
Woolston
Sholing
Swaythling
Southampton Airport parkway
Eastleigh
Change for Bluestar 1 bus for Chandleress ford
It has gone now 2022
wait so they recorded it in 2017 but was published 3 years laterr!?!/11/
It's a reupload, edited for some reason
You made that passengers day
7:31 ITS MY STATION!
They do something similar at Leeds/York with the trains on the Harrogate line, if you’re getting a train from Leeds on the Harrogate line, if it’s going to York, the terminus will be shown as Poppleton, and if you’re getting one at York, the terminus will be shown as Burley Park, it’s a good idea as it stops passengers from getting a train to the same destination which will take much longer
Do dorchester to weymouth plss
Meg could be vicki's younger sister!.
Hey guys, why dont you do your own version of Bradshaws guide, ok the bbc made a program out of it. But still. Youd put a much better twist on it!!
You do need to wear salmon slacks and a sports jacket, though.
Where's day 6 7 8 I con't find them they are all in the wrong order
Ah, yes, the *_Before Times..._*
you can get a train to Southampton right from waymouth
You were so young then 😁
those were the days... of blatant traveling on a train