The Longest Train (Part 2)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- It's Part 2 of the #LongestTrain and we we pick up where left off after Berwick at Alnmouth, making our way down, ticking off all the stops to Birmingham, with plenty of people catching up with us along the way.
Part 3 will be the remaining leg of the journey from Birmingham down to Penzance.
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Many thanks to the Rail Delivery Group for having us along on June 21st 2018 - the longest day of the year!
Hello Geoff and Vicki. I'm only 30 seconds in the video but I've paused and replying to what I know regarding the Aln Valley Railway. They have indeed reached about 3/4 of a mile as mentioned by another viewer. They have are now on the original trackbed and have put down sleepers up to the viaduct, track is not too far behind and once this is done they intend on putting in a loop and halt at the road bridge marking the just over half way mark. Obviously more can be found on the Facebook page but I hope that has helped. M.
The halt and the loop are now in. I visited them in May. Hopefully they will soon be running to Greenrigg Halt.
Newcastle did have the first street lit by electric lights in the world!
And Joseph Swan made the first incandescent light bulb and showed it off at the Newcastle Lit and Phil for the first time.
And Newcastle invented the train (as in the Stephenson's 'Rocket' which was made in Newcastle)
What about Electric Avenue?
And of course Joseph Swan was from Sunderland ;)
what about Blackpool, it was the first municipality to get street lighting
@@SamuelFurse berk
Fantastic journey, loved Durham Cathedral and Chesterfield crooked spire.... used to commute to Chesterfield and saw this daily :)
Thanks for this awesome journey, Geoff and Vicki. Loved that you did Vicki Explores too!
Another great informative video, we Yanks have a long tough way to compete with GB's rail system. Looking forward to an "All the Castles" & then "All the Cathedrals" series.
Vicky's face of excitement at 6 castles in one day is just amazing
Cleveland was created in the 1972 Local Government Act and came into physical being in 1974, it was abolished in 1996, Middlesbrough is now back in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, as the River Tees is the historic northern border of Yorkshire.
The Tees was also briefly, & I do mean briefly, the Anglo Scottish border.
Stockton station as in 'Stockton and Darlington' is in fact Thornaby station, not Stockton's current station. Sadly Thornaby station was demolished and replaced with a bus shelter....
"Dazzle me with a fact"
Tells a fact about lighting.
Nice one
The first street to be lit by an incandescent lightbulb was Mosley Street, in Newcastle upon Tyne. The street was lit by Joseph Swan's incandescent lamp on 3 February 1879.
Geoff & Vicki I got drenched in Croydon! But I'm watching!
I Think Cross Country Should do this trip with a HST !!
the amount of enthusiasts you could get would be ridiculous
Absolutely. Should be an HST diagram.
I think they use the Voyagers for the fuel capacity, but I agree that it should be a HST ran service. A buffet is much nicer than a trolley!
Oh really? That's really dissapointing. So they have the carriage still there, but no buffet inside?
If Cross Country did it, there would only be 4 carriages and it wouldn't have made it past Newcastle with a working toilet
The first street electric lighting.....INCANDESCENT... was indeed Newcastle! Arc lighting was first used in Paris.
My Grand Central train was delayed long enough for me to watch this at Wakefield Kirk gate, the one with Jerusalem playing in the underpass.
That got so annoying after about 20 minutes because it's not even all of Jerusalem, just a 30 second loop from the middle
Thank you ☺️ that’s the very best video I’ve ever seen
Get in. We are Leeds.
great video guys
Would be great to ttavel with Geoff as he makes any train journey an adventure .
If you meant genuine castles and not castle named stations, I can easily beat 6 in a day in South Wales. There's 4/5 (depending on whether you consider southerndown 1 or 2) within 15-20 minutes of my house
Great to see Roger French again.
The 3rd part goes through my hometown, Bromsgrove ;) I think this train stops there, but not anymore. :(
Geoff the Aln valley railway now goes 3/4 of a mile I think. They now need to get planning permission to build over a viaduct
been to the heritage railway... very nearly left my new ipad in the gift shop!! phew, it was still there
Geoff: How many castles could you do in a day?
Vicki: ALL OF THEM!
Real castles, you could probably do Newport to Swansea (approx 10-15) in one day. One is now a pub that Tennyson stayed in for a writers retreat...
The first railway was Manchester and liverpool but passenger was Stockton and Darlington
Stockton to Darlington Was The first line but it was a fraight line
Do go to Durham Cathedral and Castle.
That couple at 1:36 knows how to live. I unironicly aspire to be them.
Love the Ampelmännchen-Shirt :)
I find the leg room inadequate on the Voyager cross country trains. I suspect this is why you opted to travel First Class.
what about Alstom. (Pendolinos for Virgin West Coast and Junipers for Scotrail and South Western Railway)
I’ve alwayd been told stockton - darlington was the first railway.
what about Blackpool, it was the first municipality to get street lighting
If you're getting a new "tick" then does that mean the tick we did at An Evening of unnecessary Detail will be obsolete?
“There are toilets..........”. Phew! 😅. 😂🤣
#AllTheCastles ....
when dont you get a delay in Birmingham??
I go to Birmingham often
I thought this stopped at Morpeth guess it choose Durham instead 🤷♂️
2:34 Pacers! Where was Vicki??
Please can you do London Euston to holyhead on a class 221 avanti West Coast
5:00 Where do you get the app for that map of all the stations?
(I know. I know. You did do a video)
Ryan Couchman-Sawyer he made another video about it just a could weeks ago. It's actually a PDF. I think it's in his other channel
Ryan Couchman-Sawyer great stuff.
Joseph Swan invented the light bulb but went on holiday before he patented it. Typical Englishman.
In the meantime, Edison who was trying to get the same tech to work, eventually patented it, and effectively got all credit.
Got something vitally important to do? DO IT BEFORE GOING ON HOLIDAY!
It is typical of many breakthroughs that several people are concurrently close. Swan's case must have been very frustrating.
Crow T. Robot Well look at Frank Whittle's work. The Germans, who were also researching turbine engines, got the jump because the RAF saw little value in his research (although his commanding officer was working on a similar solution but couldn't quite refine it - rivalry.)
Some of his papers got declassified for all to see.
Thankfully though, Sir Frank got the credit, even if the Nazis produced the first jet fighter.
Actually Edison only got the credit by the Americans Swan had already patented it 10 years before Edison only created the Swan Edison lightbulb company to avoid being sued
I love the vids
Middle is no longer a county but it's still used. as in in Middlesbrough county cricket club,
It's Middlesbrough Cricket Club, as a quick Google will show. Middlesbrough was never a county.
At 10:40, were you at Derby station because I live in Derby
Love it !
All the information you need on the Aln Valley Railway
www.alnvalleyrailway.co.uk/
watching Vicky talking about the voyager are the one you on is the tilting and it allowed to tilt on the cross-country service?
I know some have it turned off and some have them total removed as well
Vickie why do they say silent carriage when there is no such thing as a silent carriage on a train as there are still people talking and can be heard, I know it will be for none use of phones but if you stay in them long enough you will see people using there phones as ive seen this happen on many occasions as we have travelled in the so called silent carriage on the Virgin Trains either to Euston or Edingburgh
Did you know that some scenes of Harry Potter were filmed at Durham Cathedral
And others at Gloucester cathedral
👍👍👍👍
Actually, Lincoln has the best cathedral, once the tallest building in the world.
Cleveland was abolished?
Ohio will be eliminated.
I just hope people get this joke...
Those across the Atlantic pond have been stealing the good English names!
Now we know why Lebron signed with Los Angeles.
Cleveland was one of the metropolitan counties established in 1974. Several, including Cleveland have now been abolished, but the name is used for that particular area. Other Metropolitan counties, such as Tyne and Wear still exist, but don’t really do much, as the five authorities that make up Tyne and Wear have full power themselves
Started chuckling the moment I read it :D
Hartlepool wants to be County Durham but I dont think they want them
Before 9? I’ve always lived by before 11 cos most of the people I know like a lie in and I would hate to wake someone up 🤦🏽♂️
Middlesbrough was Yorkshire until 1974 when Labour brought in the metropolitan counties such as Cleveland (including Tyne and Wear - Newcastle was in Northumberland and Gateshead in Durham, Stockton was Durham and Middlesborough the north riding of Yorkshire). There was a lot of controversy because the ridings of Yorkshire went when the metropolitan counties were formed. And bits of Yorkshire were lost to elsewhere. Some places like Saddleworth, even became, shock horror, Lancashire! A lot of the old metropolitan county areas are now unitary authorities.
Newcastle was a County (City and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne) from 1400 until it became a Metropolitan Borough in 1974 .
Nothing to do with Labour really. Although it's true that Harold Wilson had been PM for four weeks by the date that the measure establishing the new county of Cleveland (the Local Government Act 1972) came into effect, that act was passed under Edward Heath's Conservative administration of 1970-74.
#LongestTrain
Wait why does everyone have to get off at Birmingham?
The Minecraft Alliance
Passport control 😉
The train developed a technical fault, they had to detrain everyone to reset the whole 221 set, hence you see it restarting and hence the 14 odd minute delay from the station on the day.
I love the term "detrain", it's like "derail" 😁
Did they "retrain" when it was fixed?
Yes this presumably gave rise to the equally horrific 'deplane' or perhaps it's worse than that - the other way round!
Justin Cryer thanks for the info
derby
Should that this be titled "The longest train journey within Britain"?
The couple with the champagne is definitely Geoff and Vicky one day - celebrating because they're on a train
I think it will be all of us once back to normal
This comment makes me sad now... knowing about Geoff and Vicki. 😔
@@relaxinstillness4189What happened?
@@bwilliamson3887 they broke up i think
@@Hiros-OfficeI'm still in disbelief about that 😮😢
"We're having a slight delay at Birmingham"
Yep, welcome to New Street....
good thing my dad lives in Staffordshire next door In Stafford with one virgin train a hour COME ON VIRGIN MAKE ONE STOKE GO VIA STAFFORD PLS
For the full New Street experience you need:
a) a delay
b) To lose your driver (yes, has happened to me multiple times)
c) a free taxi to your destination because of a) and/or b)
It’s not New Street unless you’re delayed, and it’s not CrossCountry until you miss your connection because of said delay
They should've just replaced the service with an HST if the Voyager failed... I mean that would be great!
@@ironmantrains sadly last time i used XC to birmingham they swapped a hst for voyager although a traction change they still ran the bottom half derby-plymouth but XC sent me a rail voucher in the post so little victories.
I was going to ask whether you had visited any of those stations. But of course, you have visited ALL OF THEM.
EinkOLED not isle of Wight tho
hahaha, i knew there would be an isle of wight reference in here!!
I visited York about six weeks after this video was shot.
Yes!! That's me at Durham Station.
Don't care
@@geznicks well that's rude
That was the Gooner.... Well I'll be..
@@geznicks I care
@@slicedatdice8074 I've no idea. Got a bit excited I think! 😁
1:28 The view of Durham Cathedral from the train. That is a beautiful view.
You get just as good a view of Worcester Cathedral as you go between Foregate St and Shrub Hill. That is, if you're not distracted by the local supermarkets!
Ely Cathedral too :)
Lewis Carty in 1964 I was a young boy and for a treat I was taken to the top of Durham Cathedral it's when my mother & I found out I have a fear of heights just a silly fact
2:50 Yeah! David is wearing a "Ampelmännchen" t-shirt. Only found on traffic lights in east berlin. So, greetings from the Spree ;-)
You can find it on traffic lights in the whole of east Germany.
Julian R. Ok! You're right;-)
But I'm afraid of the wolfes that roam around in Brandenburg again. So I keep myselve save within city limits 😂
There is one at Bismarckplatz in Heidelberg too.
Think what bugged me is its the walk symbol but it's in red 😂 love the shirt otherwise
@@JulianRyf It's been copied in west Germany now too; Saarland has adopted it, I'm not sure about anywhere else.
I have to put this train journey on my Bucket list for when the COVID madness ends.
I like how you fit a Vicki Explores in 😆😆
I got so excited when you went past Chesterfield and videoed the Crooked Spire. Yay!
I just checked Wikipedia, yes Newcastle did have the first street lit by incandescent lighting. Surprised me too!
Also I love the Berlin Ampelmännchen shirt David is wearing
This is a very interesting series. I live in the USA and over here if you don't drive, well you may as well give it up. Yes, the large cities (New York, etc.) have rail transport, but most cities/towns don't. Either hope you have great feet or learn to drive around here! So this series was so fascinating. I fell in love with trains as a child in the 50s when I read Agatha Christie novels. Lots of things seem to happen in and around trains in her books.
Thanks for using the Crooked Spire at Chesterfield as the backdrop to “Vicki Explores” #hometown #proud can’t wait for the other parts too! :-)
13:18 "Instagaram" and in the last one it was "Instragram"...!
Older couple celebrating because they are on a train -- Did Geoff just meet himself and Vikki in the future?
I will be more than happy to stand corrected on this one but I think the Stockton and Darlington (1825) was the first for freight, and the Liverpool and Manchester (1830) was the first for passenger, like I say, I may be wrong on both counts.
In summary:
- Mumbles Tramway (1804)
-- Open to the public
-- Mainly passenger (but designed for freight)
-- Horse-drawn
-- No stations or timetables.
- S&D (1825)
-- Open to the public
-- Mainly frieght with some passenger traffic
-- Partially steam-hauled
-- No stations or timetables.
- L&M (1830)
-- Open to the public
-- Mainly passenger (but designed for freight)
-- Entirely steam-hauled
-- Stations and timetables.
A definitive answer is only really possible with a precise definition of "railway".
I catch a train at sheffield around the time this train is due to depart. Announcements are made throughout the station that this train is due to depart from platform 6 and the announcement also lists every single station stop it is due to make. It takes about two minutes to announce this train! Then the announcement is repeated about a minute later! Its almost comical!
Who is that handsome bugger bottom right hand corner at 0:38 and seen later in the vid at 4:13 having moved across to the single seats, well none other than yours truly. Great day out whilst using my All Line Rover. That day did Lancaster - Edinburgh then Edinburgh -Derby with a brief chat with Roger French on alighting this train. Then up the Matlock branch, bus to Stockport as Northern were on strike so didn't chance there being a train from Buxton. Back on the train from Stockport to Manchester Piccadilly then on to Warrington Bank Quay and back to Lancaster, If anyone is interested I'm posting my photos taken during my 14 day All Line Rover jaunt onto my Flickr site at www.flickr.com/photos/ian_simpson/collections/72157670305678508/ (See Day 8 - June 21, 2018) for photos of this trip.
Fantastic video! i would love to make this journey someday! Its amazing just how many people you met on the way too! :D
As for the early railways, i'd say the Stockton & Darlington was the first in 1825 (Which isnt easy for me to say as a Lancashire Man!)
The Liverpool & Manchester railway wasnt even the first Railway in Lancashire, it was beaten by the practically forgotten Bolton & Leigh railway which opened its first stretch of track almost 2 years earlier then the L&M in 1828. The Bolton & Leigh's cheif engineer was no less then George Stephenson, and the first locomotive on the line was the "Lancashire Witch" built by Robert stephensons company in Newcastle as a development of Locomotion!
Most of the railway is gone now, just a few bricks and stones remain aswell as a Railway road and a Railway street. Not even one plaque or heritage sign for the railway can be seen. Even though there is a plaque dedicated to the motorway bypass that now covers part of the route!
It would be fantastic if you could do an "All the lost stations" :P although that would probably be quite a hard project as there are sadly a lot of lost stations :/ plus lost stations tend to have no service xD
Looking forward to the next installment! and i hope you enjoyed the journey as much i enjoyed watching it! :D
Earlier this month, I took a nine-hour train journey (it should have been eight, but there was a delay.) I went from Portland, Oregon to Vancouver, British Columbia, and while it was certainly fun, it was a long ride. I wish the Amtrak trains were as nice as the ones you have in Britain. (Pacers excluded, of course.)
Amtrak are far nicer for long journeys. I’ve done Seattle to Vancouver. Lovely trip with much more comfort than you’ll get on a british train.
I was staying in the Corona area of California a few years ago and went into Los Angeles (Union Station) for a day out a few years ago. The train was pleasant and comfortable. However the service was limited, the last train back being before 7pm. Pretty useless really if you wanted a good night out or even if you were working overtime, long or unsocial hours or did shift work. Perhaps things have altered since, but probably not as the Americans don't really do public transport. Where I live just beyond the Greater London boundary the trains run frequently from before 6am until gone midnight as do most of the local buses. Indeed one of the local bus routes from central London runs 24/7.
I saw Ruth and thought Laura Tobin lookalike (weather girl on GMTV for you who don't know)
Yes! I've waited like a week and a half for this! #3rdcomment
I love this series sooo much 🔥🔥
the first passenger railway was Stockton to Darlington
"All trains are good". Sorry Jeff, but Ansaldo Breda made horrible trains. Look up the Fyra debacle where the Netherlands built high speed train lines only for the brand new V250 trains to be so poorly made and unreliable they were taken out of service completely after 6 months.
1:16 good job he has the torch on his phone switched on; it's pitch black out.
Bombardier made the CRJ200
Vicki explores.... a train toilet
Geoff whats the oldest bit of train track still in use since it opened ?
i.e. no closures or track lifted and then reinstated at a later date.
Ruth is the spitting image of the wrestler Nikki Cross
For those trying to plan journeys to book tickets for this one, the Diagram will have to run until the end of the current timetable I would think (mid December). However, don't forget that planners will direct people onto faster services with changes unless otherwise instructed. So, go to additional options, select "Trains with no changes" and try again. It runs on Mondays-Saturdays. Note that the Saturday run has 46 stops, one additional from the 45 on Mon-Fri. Sat runs are dependent on engineering work of course. The future of the service is uncertain. I think Plymouth - Aberdeen / Newquay - Glasgow will continue, but I know there was talk of introducing CrossCountry back to Guildford with possibly a route from Scotland.
Which app allows “trains with no changes”?
@@RSDonovan National Rail Journey Planner had it under 'additional options', but you had to do it via a computer for it to be visible, not mobile.
A good voyager tip I've found is that at the opposite end of the train to first class there's an extra large vestibule with large luggage racks. If you've got a big case that's definitely the place to head to even if your reservation isn't in that carriage. There's also cycle spaces which you can book.
Sorry to be a killjoy among all the positive comments but when Vicki explores at 9:36 the background music is so loud that I just cannot hear what she is saying which is a shame because it looked interesting! (sorry) :)
Durham = dominic Cummings
Cleveland existed 1974 to 1996. It was abolished at the same time as Avon and Humberside. It was formed from parts of North Riding of Yorkshire and County Durham, and was replaced by Hartlepool, Stockton on Tees, Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland councils.
Interesting factoid the Stockton to Darlington follows a line of pubs and taverns as George and Robert surveyed it on foot and it turned out to be a thirsty job. Most have gone now but your never more than about half a mile away from the site of one.
Newcastle central deserves its own episode. That’s where Robert Stephenson and his team did most of their prototyping in station and points design.
Looking forward to part 3 ...
Another fantastic video Vicki & Geoff. How come you have 5 thumbs down? (Send these 5 to Siberia)
Awesome video Geoff and very interesting.
Stockton and Darlington was FIRST!!!
Best view of any cathedral in the UK ---------------- Truro. Forget the Norf! Cornwall wins by miles.