I misread the title before starting the video as 'Measuring Beauty'.. I thought you were going to make a scientific analysis of whether Scottish stations are more beautiful than English ones.
We used Beauly station a couple of years ago when we visited the Highlands and did the Thurso / Wick line. The car park meant we didn't have to find somewhere to park in Inverness - need more small stations with car park facilities
I thought it said "Measuring beauty". I thought, can you scientifically measure beauty? Isn't it solely a subjective concept? Anyway, I'm pretty sure Wimbledon Staff Halt must be the shortest of all, and the shortest at a public station I suspect is probably Damems on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, though I'm willing to accept that Bealy is the shortest on Network rail. (So it's pronounced Beaulieu is it, as in Road?)
In elementary particle physics another name for the bottom quark is the beauty quark (along with truth for the top quark). So in a sense you can measure beauty :).
I work for ***insert TOC here***. We have a database which contains all the platform lengths of the stations we operate to measured to the nearest 10cm. So in theory someone has had to go do what you've done for every station in Britain. Imagine how long it would take to single handedly go to all the stations and measure all the platforms!
The platform of my hometown is - like every suburban station in Austria - 140 meters long. I didn't measure it, but the train stopping sign tells me :D
I was hoping to be really Geeky and say it would depend on the temperature of the tape measure (or Vicki's feet). But disappointingly it would only be out by 0.2 cm for 10C.
There are stations in Australia much shorter than that. You have to tell the guard you want to stop and you have to sit in the last carriage of an 8 car train (about 170m long). The "platform" is only long enough for the last door of the train to be used.
The block of land my house is built on is 2 metres longer than this railway platform.
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Geoff you should ride some of the Tram-Trains around Karlsruhe in Germany. Some lines usually run multiple units of two coupled elements in the rush hour. Somewhere on the line, the station announcement tells you (in German) "At XXX, YYY and ZZZ stations, due to short platforms it's only possible to alight from the element at the front of the train, if you plan to alight please change now to the front of the train". Last chance to use a long platform to change to the front element. At XXX station indeed, the platform is 30 m long and not the usual 60 m. And then surprise, the station announcement for YYY (as well as ZZZ) tells you "Due to *very* short platform, only the two first doors of the element at the front of the train will open." And yes : the platform is 11 m long and just fits the two doors of the front car of the front element :-) Look around you : 5 houses, 3 cars parked. And yes these 10 people living here in the middle of a valley have a public transport connection to the city center of Karlsruhe. Of course it's a request stop with a push button on the platform (one for each direction if single track). Example of such a platform, with a single EMU near to it : forum.gtvier.de/myBB/showthread.php?tid=2012&pid=30648#pid30648
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And what I read on that same message in that forum is that on the S11 line near Bad Herrenalb there is even an "unadvertised stopping point" where the vehicle is allowed to stop, to link a few houses with the city. The driver will stop its vehicle with only the very first door in the middle of a level crossing to allow a passenger waiting there and which would have depressed a request stop button near the level crossing to board, and passengers having directly asked the driver to alight to do so. Remember the vehicles are a hybrid thing between a tram and a train, and are fit wit retractable steps to allo street level entrance... Of course that wouldn't be applicable to UK train gauge but it's good to be known :-)
It' may be the shortest platform on the UK standard gauge network, but if you ever do "All the Preserved Railway Stations", you'll have to go to Cynfal halt on the Talyllyn Railway. As far as I'm aware it is possibly the shortest raised platform in Britain (on any railway authorised by Act of Parliament) at only about 20 concrete blocks long, although the Bala Lake Railway and Ffestiniog Railway also have very short platformed halts...
For one thing, Geoff & Vicki kept coming back home. They sometimes did this from quite a long way away. For example their bonus video about Thorne ua-cam.com/video/SP6FDDLhPrg/v-deo.html showed that they finished that day's station-ticking at Doncaster, from where they went home that day.
Why not do all the measured stations? OR all the castle's perimeter!! Maybe even all the Harry potter locations or all the railway children locations! I am just giving you more challenges to do! #WeWillRememberAllTheStations
Can you measure Mouldsworth, Delamere, Cuddington, Greenbank, Northwich, Lostock Gralam, Plumley, Knutsford,Mobberley, Ashley,Hale,Altrincham, Navigation Road(Birkbeck), Stockport,Heaton Chapel, Levenshulme. Whole of my local line except the end stations
I think you might be thinking of platforms 3 and 4, which are physically the same platform but logically are two separate platforms which happen to be end to end (that's why they have different numbers). Not sure they count as one platform. But if you do count them as one platform (presumably also counting the bit in the middle between the platform 4 buffers and where trains at platform 3 actually stop) then that is indeed Britain's longest platform: 620m according to Wikipedia.
No where near the shortest platform! Wondabyne, Wollarobba, Most stations on the hunter line also Zig Zag (Blue Mountains) and Wondabyne (Central Coast) they can barely fit half a door!
Continuity has gone out of the window! How many times did you get Vicki to measure the platform? Some shots she's right next to the lighter coloured platform tiles...other shots she's nearer to the edge!!!! Poor girl! The things she does for All The Stations!!!
You could allow, say 1 in 5000, for heat expansion. What if the platform isn't level or flat. You'd have got a quicker estimate by counting the flags. Begs the question if there's a railway platform standard flag?
All The Stations and you missed out on the Isle of Wight, how can you miss out on the Isle of Wight, that's a crime in itself so yeah you better start over, and make sure you definatly fit in the Isle of Wight which you clearly have not done 😉😝🤔
Sicco Dierdorp No they're not actually. Although I two-car 1938 (ex LUL) Stock unit is the norm, sometimes they run as 2 units (ie 4 cars) and those fit in the platforms with space to spare. I think the older stock used before the '38 Stock on the IoW was even longer. Beauly and Conon Bridge can barely take 1 carriage, and only 1 set of doors on the whole train is opened at those two stations.
This is the shortest rail station platform in Britain. So Scotland is part of Britain? Is Britain the same as England? The same as Great Britain? Is Wales part of Britain? The U.K.? Is Cornwall its own region (it has its own language)? It's all confusing. I remember years ago seeing a Venn diagram that explained it all.
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_the_British_Isles . Incidentally, the Venn diagram in that article is debatable - there are parts of England, Scotland and Wales that are arguably not part of Great Britain (eg, the Isle of Wight, the Shetland Islands, and Anglesey). The maps are accurate, though.
Frank Brown - Indeed. Determining the _infima species_ of Great Britain is tricky, as we need to use more and more precise (and therefore arbitrary) definitions of "island". Did Great Britain itself stop being an island when the Channel Tunnel was opened?
I command that Vicky Feet be made the official unit of measurement for all platform lengths.
Did anyone else accidentally read the thumbnail as Measuring Beauty?
Darryl Fraser Nope. I did too.
100% I was so confused for the first 30 seconds until I realized my mistake
How would you go about measuring beauty? Would there be marking criteria and a checklist?
Me. Thinking video was about "measuring" Vicki then realized mistake
Me
Beauly is in the eye of the beholder
"I'm not wearing the same shoes - but I *do* have the same feet on" :-)
I'm going to miss All the Stations...
Why miss?
I misread the title before starting the video as 'Measuring Beauty'.. I thought you were going to make a scientific analysis of whether Scottish stations are more beautiful than English ones.
We used Beauly station a couple of years ago when we visited the Highlands and did the Thurso / Wick line. The car park meant we didn't have to find somewhere to park in Inverness - need more small stations with car park facilities
You just left the bag there?! When the dot matrix clearly says "Do not leave luggage unattended" 5:07
Oh, while you two are at it, could you perhaps measure London St Pancras Intl's Eurostar platforms as well? :)
I thought it said "Measuring beauty". I thought, can you scientifically measure beauty? Isn't it solely a subjective concept?
Anyway, I'm pretty sure Wimbledon Staff Halt must be the shortest of all, and the shortest at a public station I suspect is probably Damems on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, though I'm willing to accept that Bealy is the shortest on Network rail. (So it's pronounced Beaulieu is it, as in Road?)
In elementary particle physics another name for the bottom quark is the beauty quark (along with truth for the top quark). So in a sense you can measure beauty :).
Even if you didn't tell Scott Rail.... Would measuring the platform really be a crime?
It would depend on whether they knew anyone called Scott Rail.
As for Scotrail, I'd be surprised if they were that bothered.
I work for ***insert TOC here***. We have a database which contains all the platform lengths of the stations we operate to measured to the nearest 10cm. So in theory someone has had to go do what you've done for every station in Britain. Imagine how long it would take to single handedly go to all the stations and measure all the platforms!
It would've been cool if the outro said "all the platforms" sort of like "all the castles"
The platform of my hometown is - like every suburban station in Austria - 140 meters long. I didn't measure it, but the train stopping sign tells me :D
That was superb. I enjoyed this.
Taking dancing lessons is an excellent way to learn to maintain balance control placing one foot before the other. Even backwards. And it's fun too.
I think Vicki feet should be the UKs official unit of measurement
I was hoping to be really Geeky and say it would depend on the temperature of the tape measure (or Vicki's feet). But disappointingly it would only be out by 0.2 cm for 10C.
think this is the cutest couple I've seen in a while!
There are stations in Australia much shorter than that. You have to tell the guard you want to stop and you have to sit in the last carriage of an 8 car train (about 170m long). The "platform" is only long enough for the last door of the train to be used.
she's carrying all the stuff for both of you! (I never see Geoff carrying a bag)
The block of land my house is built on is 2 metres longer than this railway platform.
Geoff you should ride some of the Tram-Trains around Karlsruhe in Germany. Some lines usually run multiple units of two coupled elements in the rush hour. Somewhere on the line, the station announcement tells you (in German) "At XXX, YYY and ZZZ stations, due to short platforms it's only possible to alight from the element at the front of the train, if you plan to alight please change now to the front of the train". Last chance to use a long platform to change to the front element. At XXX station indeed, the platform is 30 m long and not the usual 60 m. And then surprise, the station announcement for YYY (as well as ZZZ) tells you "Due to *very* short platform, only the two first doors of the element at the front of the train will open." And yes : the platform is 11 m long and just fits the two doors of the front car of the front element :-) Look around you : 5 houses, 3 cars parked. And yes these 10 people living here in the middle of a valley have a public transport connection to the city center of Karlsruhe. Of course it's a request stop with a push button on the platform (one for each direction if single track).
Example of such a platform, with a single EMU near to it : forum.gtvier.de/myBB/showthread.php?tid=2012&pid=30648#pid30648
And what I read on that same message in that forum is that on the S11 line near Bad Herrenalb there is even an "unadvertised stopping point" where the vehicle is allowed to stop, to link a few houses with the city. The driver will stop its vehicle with only the very first door in the middle of a level crossing to allow a passenger waiting there and which would have depressed a request stop button near the level crossing to board, and passengers having directly asked the driver to alight to do so. Remember the vehicles are a hybrid thing between a tram and a train, and are fit wit retractable steps to allo street level entrance... Of course that wouldn't be applicable to UK train gauge but it's good to be known :-)
Do a special on the contents of Vikkis bag !!! Lol ...all those timetables i guess !
Poor Vicky had to do it twice for filming purposes, it’s very evident
It' may be the shortest platform on the UK standard gauge network, but if you ever do "All the Preserved Railway Stations", you'll have to go to Cynfal halt on the Talyllyn Railway. As far as I'm aware it is possibly the shortest raised platform in Britain (on any railway authorised by Act of Parliament) at only about 20 concrete blocks long, although the Bala Lake Railway and Ffestiniog Railway also have very short platformed halts...
What about the slight curvature? Presumably if you know the radius of the rail at that point, you can compensate?
Like an American sobriety test :)
geoff said 16 o10 instead of 16:10
A better question is: How do you manage a 3-month-long trip with only one standard backpack? (especially with all the filming equipment)
For one thing, Geoff & Vicki kept coming back home. They sometimes did this from quite a long way away. For example their bonus video about Thorne ua-cam.com/video/SP6FDDLhPrg/v-deo.html showed that they finished that day's station-ticking at Doncaster, from where they went home that day.
Can you come and visit the station platform on the Bekonscot Light Railway? I think it might just be slightly shorter! :)
Why not do all the measured stations? OR all the castle's perimeter!! Maybe even all the Harry potter locations or all the railway children locations! I am just giving you more challenges to do! #WeWillRememberAllTheStations
Can you measure Mouldsworth, Delamere, Cuddington, Greenbank, Northwich, Lostock Gralam, Plumley, Knutsford,Mobberley, Ashley,Hale,Altrincham, Navigation Road(Birkbeck), Stockport,Heaton Chapel, Levenshulme.
Whole of my local line except the end stations
platform 1 at balmossie station has a tiny platform compered to platform 2
Hi again! This video was not opened when trying from the "All the videos" page of the project.
on the sign board it clearly tells you not to leave luggage unattended ... and you dump Vicki's backpack down and wander away ... naughty !!
You saw it, you said it, but did it get sorted?
They didn't travel more than 15m and 4cm away from the bag, so that's sort of attended.
Meausure Haymarket Railway Station in Edinburgh, Scotland
Killdale on the esk valley railway is a shart platform not sure if its smaller though
16 0 10. Love it.
I wonder how many Vicky Feet long Colchester Platform 5 (I think 5 (The very long one)) is?
I think you might be thinking of platforms 3 and 4, which are physically the same platform but logically are two separate platforms which happen to be end to end (that's why they have different numbers). Not sure they count as one platform. But if you do count them as one platform (presumably also counting the bit in the middle between the platform 4 buffers and where trains at platform 3 actually stop) then that is indeed Britain's longest platform: 620m according to Wikipedia.
Rosie Fay Yeah, that one
Step 41 looked a bit longer than the others.
Can you measure Hemel Hempstead Railway station please. Geoff
No where near the shortest platform! Wondabyne, Wollarobba, Most stations on the hunter line also Zig Zag (Blue Mountains) and Wondabyne (Central Coast) they can barely fit half a door!
imagine if all of the lines that closed were open that would take u about twice as long
That departure board looks like a very different dot-matrix board-or it’s simulated somehow ?
Continuity has gone out of the window! How many times did you get Vicki to measure the platform? Some shots she's right next to the lighter coloured platform tiles...other shots she's nearer to the edge!!!! Poor girl! The things she does for All The Stations!!!
Now to measure the longest station! Be interesting to know which station that is
Avoncliff station is tiny. On a 1 car train, you can only use 1 door to get off. Has to be shorter than this platform.
Believe it or not, it is about double the length of Gilfach and Beauly
How long is both of the Dilton Marsh platforms.
I am please to see Brits doing measurements using the metric system. How many Vicky feet to a foot?
All measurements are done in metric except from the height of people...
andrea22213 I for one only accept measurements in Ramsoen's chains. Or meters. This podophilic heresy needs to end!
Sorry Geoff! You don't have the heaviest thing known to Man, as you don't have my rucksack, which I think is heavier then Vicky's bag.
Measuring All The Stations next?
How long is Beauly in 'Geoff feet'?
You could allow, say 1 in 5000, for heat expansion. What if the platform isn't level or flat. You'd have got a quicker estimate by counting the flags. Begs the question if there's a railway platform standard flag?
Next platform to measure: London Waterloo? Euston (Eurostar)? 😁😁🚝
is it smaller than Three Oaks
Did you measure Avoncliff?
Berney arms or coombe jh?
Can you come and measure my local station (York)? 😂
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vicki must have heavy stuff in her bag.
I'm sure that she's called Vicki not Vicky...
Far canal, Geoff! How do you manage to look and seem so young at 45?
On a lot of Liverpool you missed all northern line routes and 1 Wirral line route
again, you're right. we missed these out. silly us. we'd better go back to Penzance and start all over again.
Co HD allthestations.co.uk/stationlist/ see all those green markers? All visited.
All The Stations and you missed out on the Isle of Wight, how can you miss out on the Isle of Wight, that's a crime in itself so yeah you better start over, and make sure you definatly fit in the Isle of Wight which you clearly have not done 😉😝🤔
come over to holland and measure the platforms at cuijk station
Have you measured Berney Arms?
That should do longest platform
I was going to say that you will proberly probably run out of tape at Gloucester!!
Please do Watford junction
I've been there.
Measure the Scarborough bench :)
Nah, a Eurostar platform! 😁😀😄
Now find the longest one
What’s the longest then?.......
Come measure Fleet's platform!
Do at pancreas international on the Eurostar platforms, 18 cars= lots of wasted time
Now, go measure Gloucester. :)
All the platforms on IOW are shorter I bet
Sicco Dierdorp No they're not actually. Although I two-car 1938 (ex LUL) Stock unit is the norm, sometimes they run as 2 units (ie 4 cars) and those fit in the platforms with space to spare. I think the older stock used before the '38 Stock on the IoW was even longer. Beauly and Conon Bridge can barely take 1 carriage, and only 1 set of doors on the whole train is opened at those two stations.
Do dover priory
Measure Batley train station
Funny enough my bare feet are exactly 1 feet (12") long LOL
and you didn't measure that
Measure Gloucester
I get the impression that now the adventure has ended we are being fed scraps.
you'd better unsubscribe and stop watching then.
East Stander you do realise there is still the west highland line and the far north line to come?!
This is the shortest rail station platform in Britain. So Scotland is part of Britain? Is Britain the same as England? The same as Great Britain? Is Wales part of Britain? The U.K.? Is Cornwall its own region (it has its own language)? It's all confusing. I remember years ago seeing a Venn diagram that explained it all.
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_the_British_Isles .
Incidentally, the Venn diagram in that article is debatable - there are parts of England, Scotland and Wales that are arguably not part of Great Britain (eg, the Isle of Wight, the Shetland Islands, and Anglesey). The maps are accurate, though.
Tevildo - And Portsmouth.
Frank Brown - Indeed. Determining the _infima species_ of Great Britain is tricky, as we need to use more and more precise (and therefore arbitrary) definitions of "island". Did Great Britain itself stop being an island when the Channel Tunnel was opened?
Measure zig zag station, wondabyne station and traverston station in Australia