I got a train with 8 other guys from Beaulieu Road Station in 1988..to cut a long story short i was in the Royal Mail on their then cadet scheme and we were on a 5 day residential course in Hampshire. We had camped over night at some camp site in the New Forest and in the morning the 2 groups were told to make their way to a meeting point in Brockenhurst. Looking at the map someone said if we walk this way its about 7 miles...i looked at the map and worked out if we walked the opposite way to the train station, we can get the train to Brockenhurst. We got there and found there wasnt a time table but a train turned up about 15 minutes and it all costs us £1.10 each and was the best £1.10 ive spent on a train journey!! At Brockenhurst we all went into the station cafe had bacon sandwiches and tea and even had a sleep at the meeting point where we were met by the mini bus..It turns out the other group had spent 9 hours walking to their meeting point!!!!
The next station up the line is Ashurst (New Forest). I suggested the re-naming of this station from Lyndhurst Road, when I was the chief clerk of the Information Production Unit (Timetables/Posters etc) at Southampton Central. Slight problem there is also an 'Ashurst' on the Uckfield line, to avoid confusion we had to add the (New Forest) to the name. Though by adding the (New Forest) we got the New Forest District Council to help with the costs. I had also planned to change Beaulieu Road at the same time, but I bottled out! The choice was Shatterford Bottom or Matley Bog! That would have sounded good at Waterloo over the tanoy! I now have the original Lyndhurst Road sign on my garage wall.
There are also other places that could do with not having the same name of station, like how there's London Road (Guildford) and London Road (Brighton), two Swintons, which sounds way too similar to Swindon and many more
I did a big comment about this then saw yours! Whoops. I used to live very near it; there is literally a signal box there and one house, that's it. They only installed automated barriers fairly recently. Prior to that, the guy would come of the signal box and open the gates manually. The next stop heading towards Norwich is Lakenheath (my mum lived there) which is another oddity, because it's actually 3 miles from the village itself. I just used to get off at Ely and take a taxi.
Mike Freedman Expand this to include getting across London/UK with roller bag and not having to use stairs (the nightmare of Holborn changing from Piccadilly line to the Central)
I used to use Beaulieu road station regularly in the 1970’s when I was a kid…..I lived in Southampton and I kept a horse at the riding stables at Beaulieu rd so travelled there every day in the Summer. When I was 12/13 my Mum would put me on the train and then the other end I only had to walk about 3/4 mile up the track to the stables…..she made me learn all the stations in order that I’d know where I was and wouldn’t get lost….I can remember them to this day…,Southampton, Millbrook, Redbridge, Totton, Lyndhurst road, Beaulieu road, Brockenhurst, Sway, New Milton, Hinton Admiral, Christchurch, Pokesdown, Bournemouth!! Happy days…..😂😂😂
Good to know you're doing all the county's quietest stations like Coombe Junction Halt for example in Cornwall as I live in Cornwall and it will be interesting see you do that one. Great video. :)
the only railway line that serves where I live is the Far North Line, in the Highlands of Scotland, a good number of stations are only big enough for one carriage and make some of the stations you visit look busy!!
Beaulieu Road railway station is located at the point where the South Western Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth crosses the B3056 road from Beaulieu to Lyndhurst in Hampshire, England. It is 88 miles 6 chains (141.7 km) down the line from Waterloo. Beaulieu Road is the least used station in Hampshire according to the official passenger statistics.
This railway station may not get many passengers but it certainly gets a lot of visitors in the Summer when The Dorset Coast Express from Victoria to Weymouth stops here for water.
I went there about 6 years ago, not knowing it was the least used station and I DEFINITELY agree it's in a beautiful but quiet location. I stayed in that hotel where you went.
Passenger numbers are improving with Beaulieu Road moving slowly up the national ranking but still the least visited station in Hampshire. The service has improved to about 8 trains each way on weekdays some direct from Waterloo others with good connection via Southampton. Travel time is about 1hr30m. The stopping train you caught has gone (you could have made a quicker journey by changing at Soton). Strangely off peak connecting down trains stop at Waterloo, Woking, Winchester etc while connecting up trains stop at Winchester, Basingstoke, Clapham Jn and Waterloo. That timetable needs more thought. Beaulieu Road is the closest active rail station to the dozen or so towns and villages along the New Forest Waterside south of Marchwood, sort of outer Southampton suburbia with around 40000 residents. It should have much more use but there is no bus connection and when they sold the station master's house they sold the car park with it. No Park and Ride and even dropping off, Kiss and Ride is not legal but we all do it. The station is very well suited for bike and train. It is a lovely 20-25 minutes across the forest to the Waterside towns. All services carry bikes which is necessary because bizarre timetabling means return journey may be via Totton or even Soton when the connections are missed. During pandemic a modified Sunday service ran every day giving a regular hourly service direct to Waterloo. There were more trains and regular times - a much better service. Occasionally there were more train crew than passengers
But if they changed at Southampton, they would have had to go to Brockenhurst, and then back on themselves, where as the train they were and went directly. It would have been easier that way.
Beaulieu Road is my local train station. I had never even seen what it looked like. Until now. Which probably proves your point. What a strangely fascinating video... thanks!
Beaulieu - despite its French-sounding name and pronounced Bewley - is in Hampshire - someone I used to know was convinced Bournemouth was in Hampshire - it’s actually in Dorset - the same person thought County Durham was in Northern Ireland!
@@TrexplorerUK Bit confusing for the locals - they go to bed in one county and wake up next morning in another and not moved an inch! Teesside became Cleveland around then, which necessitated a name change for the local BBC station!
Don't remember there being shelters at either Monks Risborough or Little Kimble (it has been at least two years since I used Monks though and I've only used Kimble twice in the dark getting off). You'll find out soon enough though...
Morning Geoff. An idea for you for content; what about an insight of onboard catering? Which TOCs have what now versus what used to be? Routes covered? Etc etc.
Beaulieu Road is also used for steam specials from London often take on water for Weymouth. The reason, so I am informed is that, it gives a stopper in front a chance to get ahead, and the steamer not to have to keep slowing down. The steamers pull up 1/2 to 3/4 way along the platform, with carriages way back under the bridge and towards Southampton. Also Beaulieu Road is in Hampshire, along with 3 more stations towards Bournemouth, Brockenhurst, Sway and New Milton, before entering Dorset at Hinton Admrial, which was built for as I understand the land owner Sir George Meyrick to use.
If you're ever in Lincolnshire, you need to do Kirton Lindsey station on the Cleethorpes to Sheffield Line. It only has trains serving it on a Saturday, so no service through Sunday to Friday, and it only had 200 passengers in 2016.
There's also a hotel next door to the pub (had our wedding reception there) and across the road is a market which sells new forest ponies. Still in the middle of nowhere though.
This randomly came up in my suggested. No idea why, no massive interest in train stations to say the least. However I must've been one of the few people contributing to the numbers. When I was at Brockenhurst college (10 or so years ago) I caught this train twice a day, four days a week for two years! I could easily ride my bike there jump on the train for a couple quid and it was easy than driving (the forest roads get flooded quite frequently) and less crowded/miserable than the bus. I've spent hours there over the years, the lack of shelter made it truly miserable in the winter. I haven't been there in years, might wonder down this weekend and relive the horrors!
The only time I've got out at Beaulieu Road was on a steam hauled tour to Weymouth and we stopped at Beaulieu Road for water. I ran over the the London bound platform and put 5p in the permit to travel machine to get a permit to travel as a souvenir and put the stats up by one passenger!
Great film, keep it up. I am now trying to find stations without a shelter. I guessed Hamble in Hampshire would be a dead cert, but it has one. BTW, I think you'll find that things are not 'lathed' but 'turned'... On a lathe, of course. Lathe wins the vote.
In the 1970s & 80s Beaulieu Road had an extrodinarily good service, with hourly trains in each direction 7 days a week. Better than many large towns could boast. The current Sunday service seems to be a hang over from those better days.
I love your mispronunciation of Dovey Junction 😂 FYI, it's pronounced "Duvvey" On the subject of least used railway stations, why not try Broome in Shropshire? I'd be glad to tag along if I'm free! Loving the vlogs
There is a great pub just the other side of the bridge, Beaulieu station is about 10 miles from the motor museum, Lymington station is closer, about 5 miles
There are quite a few people named Beaulieu in the part of Maine I come from, thanks to the proximity of French Canada. Most have been on this side of the border for enough generations that they pronounce it "Bowlyer".
Shawford serves 3 villages and has a lot of commuters into Southampton, Winchester and London. What is odd that as I live in Southampton (St Denys is my local) we often take the train to B'mouth or Lymington via Brockenhurst in the Summer; that Beaulieu Road usually has a lot of cyclists or hikers getting on and off which doesn't seem to be reflected in the stats I remember one 10 carriage train to Poole where there must have been at least 100 got off at once and the other platform was fairly busy as well. I remember it because of the short platform many had to walk through our carriage (5 of 10). But love these 'least used' videos.
If a train is perceived to have an inferior service, then passengers do sometimes buy a ticket to a station with a better service frequency (e.g. Brockenhurst) just incase they have problems getting home.
Stats are misleading because hikers and cyclists might get a return to Brockenhurst or Ashurst then walk/ride to or from Beaulieu Road to compete a round trip.
I might be a brony but one of my OLDEST hobbies are trains. To give you a idea of how old it is I was a toddler when I first got into trains. I live in Chicago and we're the train capital of the Midwest. We have all of the Freight Railroads that are in America and we have Amtrak which Chicago is a hub for Amtrak between the east coast and the west coast. We also have obviously a transit system called CTA L. We have a commuter rail service called Metra and we have the last operating interurban railroad in the world The South Shore Line. I've been on all of them in fact I have been on all of the CTA L Lines and I have been on all but one Metra Lines and I have been on The South Shore Line and of course I have been on Amtrak (In fact I am trying to plan a trip to St Louis and back just for fun on Amtrak Lincoln Service but it might won't be until April until I do it). I prefer to use the trains over buses any day because I find trains more fun than riding the bus. I know that people don't like Trump but one thing I like him is because he's from New York City and anybody who lived in NYC billionaire or not knows how important it is to have a reliable transit system and I was rooting for him because I knew that he would most likely be good for transit systems. You can't just rely on the highway system for jobs you need to rely on both highway streets and a reliable transit system. I might have learning disabilities but even I know that you need to rely on a reliable public transit system along with cars it's a huge fact.
Hi Geoff, love this series! If/when you end up doing Faygate, I live nearby, have used the station before, and would love to meet you and perhaps feature in a video :) (more than happy to take on tea buying duty xD) Either way keep up this series! Dan.
Hey Geoff New Clee between Grimsby and cleethorpes and also Thornton Abbey on the Cleethorpes to Barton on Humber did not have shelters last time I went there
Wouldn't turned be the better world? And it's a class 08, also you should of done it during them summer when a steam train stops there to get water, and you went though my home town, another interesting fact is the bridge over the railway was broken when taking rocks to exbury gardens and the gardens had to pay lord montigue for the repairs
You be glad to know that Corrour station does have a shelter, along with a nice B&B And a Royal mail post service 7 days a week! Also, the term you should use is Turned not Lathed
"YES! It's quite likely that I'll try and do every county in the UK. " So that therefore means that you are going to have to do the least used and most used station in Rutland at the same time :) Also since it is still part of the UK, does data for Northern Ireland's most and least used stations even exist publicly?
Lelant Saltings (GWR, St Earth-St Ives line) does not have a shelter, the only one I know about! However due to the nearby St Ives/Penzance Park and Ride it is very popular.
Thanks for the ORR link Geoff I'm looking up the least used station within the Glasgow's former SPT area it is Barrhill on the Glasgow to Stranraer line (Glasgow South Western Line) 10150 people used that station in 2015/16
Been there by train a few times. Always surprised there aren't more passengers, as it's in such a lovely location. But then, sadly, people are so wedded to their cars these days.
I recently met a Brit who swore that the cold is different there. I'll have to take his word for it. Still, if it's warmer than -20c, I'm laughing in Canadian (with you, not at you because I'm Canadian). 😂
I was here just a few weeks ago. Not like I planned on going there. I was on a walk and found a tiny train station and just instinctively went to explore it.
I don't think Dilton Marsh on the Cardiff-Potsrmouth Harbour has a shelter because it has such a small platform (either that or Sugar Loaf on the Heart of Wales line) btw another great video (one of my favourite series)
Shalford! Thats were I used to go and practice my close up highspeed camera shots. One time I did get accused by some angry local old lady of being a terrorist! (With a tripod and camera). Beware travellers, this local old bint thinks Shalford is a high priority target. I got nothing. literally speechless.
Dovey Junction does have little shelters... they're only little bus shelter type shelters though. They even have the big dot matrix displays for the few people who get a train from there....
0:13 "I've chosen a day where there's a Southern strike." Isn't that every day at the moment?
I think you're thinking of SWR.
I got a train with 8 other guys from Beaulieu Road Station in 1988..to cut a long story short i was in the Royal Mail on their then cadet scheme and we were on a 5 day residential course in Hampshire. We had camped over night at some camp site in the New Forest and in the morning the 2 groups were told to make their way to a meeting point in Brockenhurst. Looking at the map someone said if we walk this way its about 7 miles...i looked at the map and worked out if we walked the opposite way to the train station, we can get the train to Brockenhurst. We got there and found there wasnt a time table but a train turned up about 15 minutes and it all costs us £1.10 each and was the best £1.10 ive spent on a train journey!! At Brockenhurst we all went into the station cafe had bacon sandwiches and tea and even had a sleep at the meeting point where we were met by the mini bus..It turns out the other group had spent 9 hours walking to their meeting point!!!!
There was such a thing as Royal Mail cadets?
What was it like?
I was in Royal Mail for 6 years and I had no idea they existed.
2:28 "Shall we spend 10 minutes hanging out in Southampton?
I grew up in Southampton. Trust me, that's 10 minutes too long.
Live there now, completely agree ha ha
The next station up the line is Ashurst (New Forest). I suggested the re-naming of this station from Lyndhurst Road, when I was the chief clerk of the Information Production Unit (Timetables/Posters etc) at Southampton Central. Slight problem there is also an 'Ashurst' on the Uckfield line, to avoid confusion we had to add the (New Forest) to the name. Though by adding the (New Forest) we got the New Forest District Council to help with the costs. I had also planned to change Beaulieu Road at the same time, but I bottled out! The choice was Shatterford Bottom or Matley Bog! That would have sounded good at Waterloo over the tanoy! I now have the original Lyndhurst Road sign on my garage wall.
There are also other places that could do with not having the same name of station, like how there's London Road (Guildford) and London Road (Brighton), two Swintons, which sounds way too similar to Swindon and many more
Geoff Marshall, the Casey Neistat of trains... :D
Always thought that!
Who? Are you using an American as a point of reference for your American followers?
Slightly less frenetic than Casey
do Shippea Hill, the least used station in Cambridgeshire (and the whole of Britain). Only 12 people used it in 2015/16.
Chris Cutner read the video description
I did a big comment about this then saw yours! Whoops.
I used to live very near it; there is literally a signal box there and one house, that's it. They only installed automated barriers fairly recently. Prior to that, the guy would come of the signal box and open the gates manually.
The next stop heading towards Norwich is Lakenheath (my mum lived there) which is another oddity, because it's actually 3 miles from the village itself. I just used to get off at Ely and take a taxi.
Chris Cutner he should do that at the end of the series
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Being a wheelchair user, a series of decent destinations with good wheelchair access? Or perhaps a video about wheelchair access on the underground???
Mike Freedman
Expand this to include getting across London/UK with roller bag and not having to use stairs (the nightmare of Holborn changing from Piccadilly line to the Central)
Mike Freedman, I hope Geoff read your comment
The Bournemouth bound platform at beaulieu road is step free
He did a few vids about it by now
When you're about to sleep but Geoff uploads
Hi Geoff, yes Dovey Junction does have a shelter. I past it on my train to Machynlleth!
I love these. I'm looking forward to seeing Pilning, in South Gloucestershire, which had all of 46 users last year! Great video as always, Geoff!
I used to use Beaulieu road station regularly in the 1970’s when I was a kid…..I lived in Southampton and I kept a horse at the riding stables at Beaulieu rd so travelled there every day in the Summer. When I was 12/13 my Mum would put me on the train and then the other end I only had to walk about 3/4 mile up the track to the stables…..she made me learn all the stations in order that I’d know where I was and wouldn’t get lost….I can remember them to this day…,Southampton, Millbrook, Redbridge, Totton, Lyndhurst road, Beaulieu road, Brockenhurst, Sway, New Milton, Hinton Admiral, Christchurch, Pokesdown, Bournemouth!! Happy days…..😂😂😂
I swear Lawrence is now a guard for SWR because he was in one of the All The Stations videos
Lelant Saltings in Cornwall on the st Ives branch line doesn't have a shelter, which is weird as it is a park and ride station!
I live in one of the cottages! Did not even realise you were right bloody outside.
_Beaulieu._
We English pronounce it a bit steaupidlieu.
;)
The French Canadian in me felt physical pain every time Beaulieu was said
@@andrerenault yes that is very right
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I was camping in Ashurst once, just one stop away from Beaulieu Road
Good to know you're doing all the county's quietest stations like Coombe Junction Halt for example in Cornwall as I live in Cornwall and it will be interesting see you do that one. Great video. :)
the only railway line that serves where I live is the Far North Line, in the Highlands of Scotland, a good number of stations are only big enough for one carriage and make some of the stations you visit look busy!!
These Least Used Station videos are really good. I enjoyed this one.
Beaulieu Road railway station is located at the point where the South Western Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth crosses the B3056 road from Beaulieu to Lyndhurst in Hampshire, England. It is 88 miles 6 chains (141.7 km) down the line from Waterloo. Beaulieu Road is the least used station in Hampshire according to the official passenger statistics.
how about the most used stations in each county. see how crowed it is compared to the least used stations.
All in London
in each county
Oisin Smith oh. Whoops.
Justin Maxwell the busiest in the uk is clapham junction it says in the vid
@@unknown-im2bh in terms of services at least, Clapham Junction is the busiest. For passenger numbers, London Waterloo is the busiest
This railway station may not get many passengers but it certainly gets a lot of visitors in the Summer when The Dorset Coast Express from Victoria to Weymouth stops here for water.
I went there about 6 years ago, not knowing it was the least used station and I DEFINITELY agree it's in a beautiful but quiet location. I stayed in that hotel where you went.
Passenger numbers are improving with Beaulieu Road moving slowly up the national ranking but still the least visited station in Hampshire. The service has improved to about 8 trains each way on weekdays some direct from Waterloo others with good connection via Southampton. Travel time is about 1hr30m. The stopping train you caught has gone (you could have made a quicker journey by changing at Soton). Strangely off peak connecting down trains stop at Waterloo, Woking, Winchester etc while connecting up trains stop at Winchester, Basingstoke, Clapham Jn and Waterloo. That timetable needs more thought.
Beaulieu Road is the closest active rail station to the dozen or so towns and villages along the New Forest Waterside south of Marchwood, sort of outer Southampton suburbia with around 40000 residents. It should have much more use but there is no bus connection and when they sold the station master's house they sold the car park with it. No Park and Ride and even dropping off, Kiss and Ride is not legal but we all do it. The station is very well suited for bike and train. It is a lovely 20-25 minutes across the forest to the Waterside towns. All services carry bikes which is necessary because bizarre timetabling means return journey may be via Totton or even Soton when the connections are missed. During pandemic a modified Sunday service ran every day giving a regular hourly service direct to Waterloo. There were more trains and regular times - a much better service. Occasionally there were more train crew than passengers
But if they changed at Southampton, they would have had to go to Brockenhurst, and then back on themselves, where as the train they were and went directly. It would have been easier that way.
Beaulieu Road is my local train station. I had never even seen what it looked like. Until now. Which probably proves your point. What a strangely fascinating video... thanks!
Beaulieu - despite its French-sounding name and pronounced Bewley - is in Hampshire - someone I used to know was convinced Bournemouth was in Hampshire - it’s actually in Dorset - the same person thought County Durham was in Northern Ireland!
@@arthurvasey Bournemouth was in Hampshire before the county borders moved in 1974, so you can forgive that one (perhaps).
@@TrexplorerUK Bit confusing for the locals - they go to bed in one county and wake up next morning in another and not moved an inch! Teesside became Cleveland around then, which necessitated a name change for the local BBC station!
Beaulieu Road is closest station to around 40000 people in Waterside Towns. Only 1hr30m to London, everyone should use it.
Don't remember there being shelters at either Monks Risborough or Little Kimble (it has been at least two years since I used Monks though and I've only used Kimble twice in the dark getting off). You'll find out soon enough though...
Who wouldn't want a video at half past one in the morning (german time). Great, thanks :D
Ben1948 why not
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Wow this station is under 10 miles from my house, wish I came to visit. Also Beaulieu Road is definitely in Hampshire (New Milton local)
Morning Geoff. An idea for you for content; what about an insight of onboard catering? Which TOCs have what now versus what used to be? Routes covered? Etc etc.
Beaulieu Road is also used for steam specials from London often take on water for Weymouth. The reason, so I am informed is that, it gives a stopper in front a chance to get ahead, and the steamer not to have to keep slowing down. The steamers pull up 1/2 to 3/4 way along the platform, with carriages way back under the bridge and towards Southampton.
Also Beaulieu Road is in Hampshire, along with 3 more stations towards Bournemouth, Brockenhurst, Sway and New Milton, before entering Dorset at Hinton Admrial, which was built for as I understand the land owner Sir George Meyrick to use.
Refreshment trolleys on trains - I remember those!
If you're ever in Lincolnshire, you need to do Kirton Lindsey station on the Cleethorpes to Sheffield Line. It only has trains serving it on a Saturday, so no service through Sunday to Friday, and it only had 200 passengers in 2016.
Wow, I remember seeing a documentary on the National Motor Museum a while back. Didn't click until you mentioned Lord Montagu.
You should do a railway tea ranking video soon Geoff 🍵
There's also a hotel next door to the pub (had our wedding reception there) and across the road is a market which sells new forest ponies. Still in the middle of nowhere though.
This randomly came up in my suggested. No idea why, no massive interest in train stations to say the least. However I must've been one of the few people contributing to the numbers.
When I was at Brockenhurst college (10 or so years ago) I caught this train twice a day, four days a week for two years! I could easily ride my bike there jump on the train for a couple quid and it was easy than driving (the forest roads get flooded quite frequently) and less crowded/miserable than the bus.
I've spent hours there over the years, the lack of shelter made it truly miserable in the winter. I haven't been there in years, might wonder down this weekend and relive the horrors!
You visited Denton and Reddish south. neither of those two have shelters. also many request stops in Wales and Scotland
The only time I've got out at Beaulieu Road was on a steam hauled tour to Weymouth and we stopped at Beaulieu Road for water. I ran over the the London bound platform and put 5p in the permit to travel machine to get a permit to travel as a souvenir and put the stats up by one passenger!
Looking forward to your visit to Midgham (Berkshire)!
Thoroughly exciting to see all the places I go to in Hampshire (it's where I live!)
Any vid with a PTT is a great vid. Lawrence seems a fun companion too. More of him please !
Great film, keep it up. I am now trying to find stations without a shelter. I guessed Hamble in Hampshire would be a dead cert, but it has one.
BTW, I think you'll find that things are not 'lathed' but 'turned'... On a lathe, of course. Lathe wins the vote.
I once got lost in woods in Beaulieu! Never been back since.
ever thought about going to Tesside airport station? The least used station in the North East of England with only 2 trains a week stopping there.
In the 1970s & 80s Beaulieu Road had an extrodinarily good service, with hourly trains in each direction 7 days a week. Better than many large towns could boast.
The current Sunday service seems to be a hang over from those better days.
I love your mispronunciation of Dovey Junction 😂
FYI, it's pronounced "Duvvey"
On the subject of least used railway stations, why not try Broome in Shropshire? I'd be glad to tag along if I'm free!
Loving the vlogs
There is a great pub just the other side of the bridge, Beaulieu station is about 10 miles from the motor museum, Lymington station is closer, about 5 miles
We went to Dorking Deepdene last weekend and it had nothing on the platform other than a help point. No shelter on either platform.
Just one tea on the way back? 🤔
Great video and Beautiful station!
With all the tea you drink, maybe you could do a "best lavatory" league table?
Love your programmes...theyre great!
Ahh, Brockenhurst - the station before! I went there a few years ago!
There are quite a few people named Beaulieu in the part of Maine I come from, thanks to the proximity of French Canada. Most have been on this side of the border for enough generations that they pronounce it "Bowlyer".
actually not a bad destination. train, nice walk out into the nature reserve and then back to the pub for a warm up before the train
Only 1 stop before brockenhurst. Knew I've seen it before, on holiday on the way to Southampton
Holiday in Southampton??wat
Yes Geoff, there are several. Lelant Saltings, Lawrence Hill (but it will have one in several months), Roman Bridge, just to name a few.
Shawford serves 3 villages and has a lot of commuters into Southampton, Winchester and London. What is odd that as I live in Southampton (St Denys is my local) we often take the train to B'mouth or Lymington via Brockenhurst in the Summer; that Beaulieu Road usually has a lot of cyclists or hikers getting on and off which doesn't seem to be reflected in the stats I remember one 10 carriage train to Poole where there must have been at least 100 got off at once and the other platform was fairly busy as well. I remember it because of the short platform many had to walk through our carriage (5 of 10). But love these 'least used' videos.
If a train is perceived to have an inferior service, then passengers do sometimes buy a ticket to a station with a better service frequency (e.g. Brockenhurst) just incase they have problems getting home.
Stats are misleading because hikers and cyclists might get a return to Brockenhurst or Ashurst then walk/ride to or from Beaulieu Road to compete a round trip.
I might be a brony but one of my OLDEST hobbies are trains. To give you a idea of how old it is I was a toddler when I first got into trains. I live in Chicago and we're the train capital of the Midwest. We have all of the Freight Railroads that are in America and we have Amtrak which Chicago is a hub for Amtrak between the east coast and the west coast. We also have obviously a transit system called CTA L. We have a commuter rail service called Metra and we have the last operating interurban railroad in the world The South Shore Line. I've been on all of them in fact I have been on all of the CTA L Lines and I have been on all but one Metra Lines and I have been on The South Shore Line and of course I have been on Amtrak (In fact I am trying to plan a trip to St Louis and back just for fun on Amtrak Lincoln Service but it might won't be until April until I do it). I prefer to use the trains over buses any day because I find trains more fun than riding the bus. I know that people don't like Trump but one thing I like him is because he's from New York City and anybody who lived in NYC billionaire or not knows how important it is to have a reliable transit system and I was rooting for him because I knew that he would most likely be good for transit systems. You can't just rely on the highway system for jobs you need to rely on both highway streets and a reliable transit system. I might have learning disabilities but even I know that you need to rely on a reliable public transit system along with cars it's a huge fact.
You've been to a station with no shelter quite recently Geoff; Swale doesn't have one (unless you count the bridge). :)
Always went out to Beaulieu Road and walked back to the previous or wondered the forest for hours only to return to the cosy train.
Hi Geoff, love this series! If/when you end up doing Faygate, I live nearby, have used the station before, and would love to meet you and perhaps feature in a video :) (more than happy to take on tea buying duty xD) Either way keep up this series! Dan.
The French pronunciation is more like BO-LEE-ERR. There's a station on the Brussels Metro called Beaulieu as well.
how nice for Brussel ( Dutch spelling, it is in what was once the Dukedom of Brabant )
@@mrbojangles8133 I lived there for a while in childhood so I know about the different spellings.
Was quite lucky, I was on a steam charter train to Swanage which had a water stop there. Funny stopping at a least used station with steam.
'I've never met this man until 10 minutes ago but we've been talking on Twitter...' the policeman in the background looked over
Hey Geoff New Clee between Grimsby and cleethorpes and also Thornton Abbey on the Cleethorpes to Barton on Humber did not have shelters last time I went there
Wouldn't turned be the better world? And it's a class 08, also you should of done it during them summer when a steam train stops there to get water, and you went though my home town, another interesting fact is the bridge over the railway was broken when taking rocks to exbury gardens and the gardens had to pay lord montigue for the repairs
You be glad to know that Corrour station does have a shelter, along with a nice B&B
And a Royal mail post service 7 days a week!
Also, the term you should use is Turned not Lathed
I suspect coffee is your favourite drink
I think a feature on the best cup of tea on the Railway should be made..... 🤔
"YES! It's quite likely that I'll try and do every county in the UK. "
So that therefore means that you are going to have to do the least used and most used station in Rutland at the same time :) Also since it is still part of the UK, does data for Northern Ireland's most and least used stations even exist publicly?
Last time you was in Eastleigh was 20 years ago
Last time I was in Eastleigh was just yesterday seeing the Bluestar bus depot
Wow a least used station I have actually used, but then again I do live in Southampton.
Ooh, Buckinghamshire is my home county, can't wait to see the next one Geoff!
Lelant Saltings (GWR, St Earth-St Ives line) does not have a shelter, the only one I know about! However due to the nearby St Ives/Penzance Park and Ride it is very popular.
I`m afraid Geoff, when talking about the "lathing" It would be referred to as wheels being turned! :D
Plinth, great wor. If you're ever doing a Berkshire vid I'm more than happy to buy the teas :)
Thanks for the ORR link Geoff I'm looking up the least used station within the Glasgow's former SPT area it is Barrhill on the Glasgow to Stranraer line (Glasgow South Western Line) 10150 people used that station in 2015/16
Geoff, you should visit Gilfach Fargoed, in South Wales! It only has 16m platforms but an hourly service!
An average of about 10 people use it per day. And it has an hourly service!
Denton has no shelter! I got soaked last Friday waiting for THAT train!
Shawford used to be my local station. Usually the only open one set of doors there do let people on and off.
BEAUlieu road is very Beautiful.
Been there by train a few times. Always surprised there aren't more passengers, as it's in such a lovely location. But then, sadly, people are so wedded to their cars these days.
hi Geoff, love the videos, have you ever done a video on / been to the isle of Wight, they use old London underground rolling stock.
I recently met a Brit who swore that the cold is different there. I'll have to take his word for it.
Still, if it's warmer than -20c, I'm laughing in Canadian (with you, not at you because I'm Canadian). 😂
Dovey Junction is the best station, and yes it has a shelter. Also really good mobile reception.
nothing better on a freezing cold day that visiting a station that no-one uses
I was here just a few weeks ago. Not like I planned on going there. I was on a walk and found a tiny train station and just instinctively went to explore it.
Narborough? There's a station building, but it's not always open...
Winchelsea? I don't recall seeing any shelters there
swt 450 OK, it had been a while since I had travelled along that route, fair enough
Another great video Geoff!
geoff could you do a least used station video for each london borough?
I don't think Dilton Marsh on the Cardiff-Potsrmouth Harbour has a shelter because it has such a small platform (either that or Sugar Loaf on the Heart of Wales line) btw another great video (one of my favourite series)
I have literally no interest in trains but I still find these videos really entertaining for some reason.
The vsoe orient express used to stop at beaulieu road en route to Southampton to link with qe2 and queen Mary 2
Shalford! Thats were I used to go and practice my close up highspeed camera shots. One time I did get accused by some angry local old lady of being a terrorist! (With a tripod and camera). Beware travellers, this local old bint thinks Shalford is a high priority target. I got nothing. literally speechless.
Dovey Junction does have little shelters... they're only little bus shelter type shelters though. They even have the big dot matrix displays for the few people who get a train from there....
4:48 good old gronk. They're fantastic shunters.
The least used station in Bucks, Little Kimble, has about half a shelter (it'll keep you dry as long as the rain is coming straight down!)