It's worth noting (hello ScotRail!) that despite what we show in this video, ScotRail WiFi we found to be the easiest to connect (no mega-field sign up page) and the most reliable to use. ScotRail win the WiFi wars! 👍
Those "sad penguins" in Dundee used to be "happy penguins" but they became a danger to kids etc as they get stabbing themselves on the Penguins beaks so they had to turn the beaks downwards 😂😂
5:00 notice the CrossCountry service to Penzance. As the journey comes to an end, there's the train back to where you began. Also the longest service in the UK.
I think the longest service is the northbound service from Penzance to Aberdeen; on the other hand, the southbound service departs 'only' from Dundee, so it is slightly shorter. Correct me if I am wrong.
I attempted to do the Aberdeen-Penzance direct service last month. But I got as far as Exeter and then the train was terminated and we had to get a GWR HST for the rest of the journey
Wow it’s the longest service in the UK? I was meant to takethat service to inverkeithing but it was when xc was on strike so I had to get a xc to York and then York to Edinburgh with VTEC and then scotrail to inverkeithing then the next week was an easier journey direct to burton upon Trent from inverkeithing with xc
5:51 - I think you will be happy to know that Dundee station has been completely rebuilt, with a Travelodge of some description above, automatic ticket machines in the station, and of all things, a piano in the station concourse. The last time I was up there visiting my grandmother (I'm from London), there was someone in the station playing Pirates Of The Carribean, it was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in a station.
Thanks for the great video! While clearly amazed by Scotrail moquette ties, Geoff and Vicki missed a chance to comment on the longest scheduled passenger train journey in the country, the 08:20 Aberdeen - Penzance, which was just glimpsed over their shoulders. Perhaps a standalone video for a future challenge?
No, the language in Ireland is not called Gaelic it’s called Irish (or Gaeilge in that language). Gaelic football yes, but we never say Gaelic when referring to the language.
I noticed you did a quick stop at Alloa. They are trying to reopen the line between Alloa and Dunfermline with a station at Clackmannan and Kincardine. Near Kincardine they are going to open a factory where they will be making new Trains. If planes go a head and I hope they do.
Lovley to see the station I commute from every day (Inverkeithing) and the station where I live finally appear on ATS. :-) Geoff, it's Fife Circle, not loop! Lucky Vicky is there to keep you right when it comes to pronunciation of Scottish place names. ;-) On the Gaelic issue, can't say I'm a fan of adding invented Gaelic names to stations in the Central Belt with no historical Gaelic name.
Backformation is a thing with place names (even in English). So I guess it would be a natural extension for someone to try to extrapolate a Gaelic name out of an English one. With English having a bunch of name suffixes and prefixes that originate from other languages, I'm guessing that newly invented Gaelic placenames might raid bits of English to create new names.
In contrast to Dundee station, Perth is surprisingly big. But in terms of the geography it's just at the right place to be a major hub. It receives trains from 4 directions. North: to & from Inverness, South: to & from Stirling and Glasgow Queen Street, South East: Kirkcaldy, Inverkeithing, Haymarket and Edinburgh Waverley and finally East: Dundee and Aberdeen. I think it's got 7 very decent sized platforms.
Thanks for showing an interest in Gaelic and Welsh on your travels guys! The name Dundee is indeed from Gaelic. Dùn Dè is pronounced Doon Jay. "Fort on the Tay". Scottish Gaelic is pronounced Gah-lick and not Gay-lick.
TRiG (Ireland) Im pretty sure it means Fort Fire, dun being Fort as well in Scots Gaelic. Been to Dundee a few times, bit grotty to be honest. The Tay bridge definitely makes up for it though!
If you put on an unhappy face, you still look unhappy upside down Geoff. So keep looking happy standing on your feet or standing on your head. Vicki looks happy and lovely even going through a tunnel.
Re: your "training" comment at 9:25 or thereabouts, I remember a banner at Edinburgh Waverley some years ago, "Training beats Coaching!" A not so subtle marketing ploy
My last visit to Alloa station was incredible. In 1968, my uncle, who was a driver, invited me to travel from Dunfermline to Alloa on a goods train in the cab of a Class 37. On the way back, he let me take the controls.
I was waiting for Cupar...my father-in-law's territory, although in the 20s/30s he lived in Kemback....but no Cupar came up.... used the station on Sept 16th 2016 on day up to Dundee... staying in Cupar after daughter's wedding in London...long way from NZ...
Dundee is a remarkably small and compact station especially when you consider it's Scotland's 4th largest city. The City of Discovery. Dundee was a very affluent city at one time many years ago. Famous for making Jute. Also for the Beano and the Dandy comics. It's now becoming a city for hydrogen fuel cell technology and the bid to make net zero. There's also a computer games industry in Dundee.
at 0.22, Geoff states that there's a really awkward station. I thought he was gonna say 'Glenrothes'. Why? There is no railway station in Glenrothes. It's in Thornton, a village that has a strong railway history. Whereas Glenrothes is famous for concrete hippos and a fibreglass dinosaur.
Many years ago, Larbert used to have the longest station platforms in Europe. I'm from Larbert and remember the incident with the bridge on the day you were here. A lorry got a bridge just outside Camelon. It has happened a few times!
Larbert is predominately an Engineering Training Centre for Network Rail. Training NR staff on skills such as Signalling, Track Engineering, Plant and Electrical Distribution. It does also do classroom based training for office staff, topics such as First Aid. It also provides meeting space for the company and brings in schoolchildren to teach them about railway safety and to encourage STEM careers. Spent many, many weeks there over my career with them.
Watching this a little late after a weekend away, with sadness because Vicki/Tigger and Geoff won't enliven my commute any more. Glad you completed the trip though, really showing your collective stamina guys!
Excellence in diplomatic skills! No mention of the Battle of Dunbar. No mention of Willaim Topaz Macgonagall and his disastrous lament 'The Tay Bridge Disaster'.
I learnt to fly at Tayside Aviation, which was on your left as you left the Tay Bridge, and I can tell you the view from 3000ft is even more stunning. Was tempted to move to Dundee for university.
I used to live in Glenrothes and I can tell you that Vicki was the one who came closest to the correct pronunciation of the place name. It was one of the new towns in the 60s and 70s. Scotland got 5 new towns at the time. Glenrothes, Livingston, Cumbernauld, East Kilbride and Irvine.
Hello to my local station of Dundee :) there is a video on my channel doing a walkthrough from station to brand new concourse!! Also there is a ghost story about the railway disaster that apparently on the anniversary of the disaster you can see and hear a train making the journey that sadly was never completed. Of course make of that as you may :)
seems so weird to me at 57 seconds in when you look at the timetable seeing 2 cornish station (i'm cornish) just beneath the one your looking at when your in scotland
I'm a Scotrail guard based at Perth. I work with Neil actually :P The Tay bridge is the longest in the UK. I had been told that railways run in families but always though I was the first railwayman in my family. Turns out my Uncle was a P-way guy in Belfast and my great, great, great uncle was the guard on the train that fell into the Tay when the bridge collapsed. I work over the replacement bridge most days.
I live in Wandsworth (SW London and three stops from Waterloo) and I frequently get on a train to Hounslow via chiswick. At Hounslow, the trains then say they are going back to London Waterloo via Richmond. I checked on a map and saw there is another loop: Waterloo Clapham junction Richmond Kingston Wimbledon Clapham junction Waterloo Both loops are stopping services but I couldn't be bothered to write down about sixteen stations for each loop
It's a pity that you didn't have the time to go to a local Morrisons Cafe & have yourselves a fully cooked breakfast and a lovely hot Cup of tea to keep you warm.
This is my favorite so far. I think the Kyle line is the one though. It is my favorite anyway. Good to know about the y, in the early videos somewhere I thought it was i and that carried through till now. Rock on, Rob
I LOVE that shot of the Forth Rail bridge. Only one thing, Vicki corrected you on the Glenrothes pronunciation but Cam-elon is actually pronounced Came-elon. It's rather unusual. The only way I know of it is because I was at Linlithgow station recently and heard an announcement for a train to Dunblane (I think) and the ScotRail announcer said Came-elon.
Awhhh... I’m the Station after Springfield in Cupar. You put it in your longest route video though, I was across the road from the station when you arrived for the Longest route video and I wish I’d known you’d be there 😂
you have not been to Briech station on the glasgow /edinburgh via shotts line one train a day eastbound and one train a day westbound no one gets on or off
Lovely! Was an accident, of by dint of supremely good editing, that the 'buzz-buzz' of the train departure signal (13:55) was in time with the incidental music?
It's worth noting (hello ScotRail!) that despite what we show in this video, ScotRail WiFi we found to be the easiest to connect (no mega-field sign up page) and the most reliable to use. ScotRail win the WiFi wars! 👍
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I live in Scotland and the WiFi varies from time to time
All The Stations what about c2c?
Easy sign-up to WiFi is soo cool.
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What about Arriva Trains Wales?
Those "sad penguins" in Dundee used to be "happy penguins" but they became a danger to kids etc as they get stabbing themselves on the Penguins beaks so they had to turn the beaks downwards 😂😂
LOL let's have a sharp prong sticking out right at the height of a child's eyeball. What could go wrong?
Was there .only time.. in mid Sept 2016.....didn't notice. Took special notice, though, of the "Discovery".
Lovely how at 13:55 the buzzer kind of becomes part of the music
I had an OCDgasm when that happened
The buzzer was the train
@@LemoncloudGT we know
5:00 notice the CrossCountry service to Penzance. As the journey comes to an end, there's the train back to where you began. Also the longest service in the UK.
I think the longest service is the northbound service from Penzance to Aberdeen; on the other hand, the southbound service departs 'only' from Dundee, so it is slightly shorter.
Correct me if I am wrong.
Other way round, used to be as you said, but it's now Aberdeen-Penzance; Plymouth-Aberdeen
Ahh... that is interesting. Thanks for the correction.
I attempted to do the Aberdeen-Penzance direct service last month. But I got as far as Exeter and then the train was terminated and we had to get a GWR HST for the rest of the journey
Wow it’s the longest service in the UK? I was meant to takethat service to inverkeithing but it was when xc was on strike so I had to get a xc to York and then York to Edinburgh with VTEC and then scotrail to inverkeithing then the next week was an easier journey direct to burton upon Trent from inverkeithing with xc
5:51 - I think you will be happy to know that Dundee station has been completely rebuilt, with a Travelodge of some description above, automatic ticket machines in the station, and of all things, a piano in the station concourse. The last time I was up there visiting my grandmother (I'm from London), there was someone in the station playing Pirates Of The Carribean, it was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in a station.
this never gets old - love Vicki and Geoff so wholesome, positive and upbeat all time.
Thanks for the great video! While clearly amazed by Scotrail moquette ties, Geoff and Vicki missed a chance to comment on the longest scheduled passenger train journey in the country, the 08:20 Aberdeen - Penzance, which was just glimpsed over their shoulders. Perhaps a standalone video for a future challenge?
The song that was played on the bagpipes in Stirling is called “The Green Hills of Tyrol”
It's pronounced 'Gallic' when you're in Scotland. 'Gaelic' is In Ireland (as-per Gaelic Football.)
No, the language in Ireland is not called Gaelic it’s called Irish (or Gaeilge in that language). Gaelic football yes, but we never say Gaelic when referring to the language.
Don't recall mention of slightly awkward Gleneagles station which has massive service gaps during the day, except Sundays!
I noticed you did a quick stop at Alloa. They are trying to reopen the line between Alloa and Dunfermline with a station at Clackmannan and Kincardine. Near Kincardine they are going to open a factory where they will be making new Trains. If planes go a head and I hope they do.
Not only was there a proper Scotsman riding a drinks-go-round, but also a beautiful shot of the Forth Bridge. Best-Episode-Yet.
Lovley to see the station I commute from every day (Inverkeithing) and the station where I live finally appear on ATS. :-)
Geoff, it's Fife Circle, not loop! Lucky Vicky is there to keep you right when it comes to pronunciation of Scottish place names. ;-)
On the Gaelic issue, can't say I'm a fan of adding invented Gaelic names to stations in the Central Belt with no historical Gaelic name.
MontytheHorse They gave up with Shawfair though! No Gaelic translation on the platform signs there.
MontytheHorse it's unnecessary but I quite like it. All names are made-up at the end of the day.
Your the first person to agree with me of the whole fake Gaelic place name thing. It's like they're trying to invent a false history.
Backformation is a thing with place names (even in English). So I guess it would be a natural extension for someone to try to extrapolate a Gaelic name out of an English one.
With English having a bunch of name suffixes and prefixes that originate from other languages, I'm guessing that newly invented Gaelic placenames might raid bits of English to create new names.
In contrast to Dundee station, Perth is surprisingly big.
But in terms of the geography it's just at the right place to be a major hub.
It receives trains from 4 directions. North: to & from Inverness, South: to & from Stirling and Glasgow Queen Street, South East: Kirkcaldy, Inverkeithing, Haymarket and Edinburgh Waverley and finally East: Dundee and Aberdeen.
I think it's got 7 very decent sized platforms.
Quite shocking how Dundee, despite having triple the population of Perth has only 4 platforms in its station while Perth has 7 platforms
Missed a train!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
That was an absolutely classic moment.
Nice to see a shot of my local station Burntisland made it into the video ☺
This is so much fun! Well done both!
Thanks for showing an interest in Gaelic and Welsh on your travels guys! The name Dundee is indeed from Gaelic. Dùn Dè is pronounced Doon Jay. "Fort on the Tay". Scottish Gaelic is pronounced Gah-lick and not Gay-lick.
Alasdair MacCaluim Cognate to Irish dún, which also means fort. Dé in Irish is God. What's the meaning of Tay?
TRiG (Ireland) Im pretty sure it means Fort Fire, dun being Fort as well in Scots Gaelic. Been to Dundee a few times, bit grotty to be honest. The Tay bridge definitely makes up for it though!
If you put on an unhappy face, you still look unhappy upside down Geoff. So keep looking happy standing on your feet or standing on
your head. Vicki looks happy and lovely even going through a tunnel.
tells us about the house on the little island under the bridge (at the end of the video).. lets go there..
8:36 was the best part of the series
Re: your "training" comment at 9:25 or thereabouts, I remember a banner at Edinburgh Waverley some years ago, "Training beats Coaching!" A not so subtle marketing ploy
Timed the guards buzzer with the song at 13:55
2:11 "I am not Amelia Pond, I am a voice interface"
Shame the weather wasn't better for your visit to Fife - the trip up the coast past Aberdour and Burntisland is lovely when the sun shines.
yay you guys finally made my local station at inverkeithing.
The scottish circle line is called the fife circle line
two other circles to explore in scotland - the cathcart circle (glasgow central to glasgow central) and the glasgow subway!
Hi from a Scot in Johannesburg. Thanks for the great video.
Congrats on finshing!
My last visit to Alloa station was incredible. In 1968, my uncle, who was a driver, invited me to travel from Dunfermline to Alloa on a goods train in the cab of a Class 37. On the way back, he let me take the controls.
13:55 musical perfection
As you pulled out the Tunnock's teacake, I was literally opening one here for myself! Tremendous choice.
Cowdenbeath? Dunfermline? Rosyth? Apart from that omission it was a great video.
cowdengelly1995 kinghorn as well
I was waiting for Cupar...my father-in-law's territory, although in the 20s/30s he lived in Kemback....but no Cupar came up.... used the station on Sept 16th 2016 on day up to Dundee... staying in Cupar after daughter's wedding in London...long way from NZ...
Dundee is a remarkably small and compact station especially when you consider it's Scotland's 4th largest city.
The City of Discovery.
Dundee was a very affluent city at one time many years ago.
Famous for making Jute. Also for the Beano and the Dandy comics.
It's now becoming a city for hydrogen fuel cell technology and the bid to make net zero.
There's also a computer games industry in Dundee.
at 0.22, Geoff states that there's a really awkward station. I thought he was gonna say 'Glenrothes'. Why? There is no railway station in Glenrothes. It's in Thornton, a village that has a strong railway history. Whereas Glenrothes is famous for concrete hippos and a fibreglass dinosaur.
Many years ago, Larbert used to have the longest station platforms in Europe. I'm from Larbert and remember the incident with the bridge on the day you were here. A lorry got a bridge just outside Camelon. It has happened a few times!
Larbert is predominately an Engineering Training Centre for Network Rail. Training NR staff on skills such as Signalling, Track Engineering, Plant and Electrical Distribution. It does also do classroom based training for office staff, topics such as First Aid. It also provides meeting space for the company and brings in schoolchildren to teach them about railway safety and to encourage STEM careers. Spent many, many weeks there over my career with them.
Good morning, Sunday morning
Watching this a little late after a weekend away, with sadness because Vicki/Tigger and Geoff won't enliven my commute any more. Glad you completed the trip though, really showing your collective stamina guys!
I visited Stirling today. A bit less busy and a whole lot mistier!
Yep, impressive bridge shot! Great stuff, I miss Scotland - for the scenery, not the weather :)
I went to Stirling once, but the Castle wasn't open as it was a typical British torrential downpour so we just sat in the pub next door!
Excellence in diplomatic skills! No mention of the Battle of Dunbar. No mention of Willaim Topaz Macgonagall and his disastrous lament 'The Tay Bridge Disaster'.
I learnt to fly at Tayside Aviation, which was on your left as you left the Tay Bridge, and I can tell you the view from 3000ft is even more stunning. Was tempted to move to Dundee for university.
I used to live in Glenrothes and I can tell you that Vicki was the one who came closest to the correct pronunciation of the place name.
It was one of the new towns in the 60s and 70s. Scotland got 5 new towns at the time.
Glenrothes, Livingston, Cumbernauld, East Kilbride and Irvine.
Hello to my local station of Dundee :) there is a video on my channel doing a walkthrough from station to brand new concourse!!
Also there is a ghost story about the railway disaster that apparently on the anniversary of the disaster you can see and hear a train making the journey that sadly was never completed. Of course make of that as you may :)
seems so weird to me at 57 seconds in when you look at the timetable seeing 2 cornish station (i'm cornish) just beneath the one your looking at when your in scotland
Did Tommy the tea seller once work on the docks in the 80s? Also at 13:55 the way the guards buzzer is on beat with the music!
I'm a Scotrail guard based at Perth. I work with Neil actually :P
The Tay bridge is the longest in the UK.
I had been told that railways run in families but always though I was the first railwayman in my family.
Turns out my Uncle was a P-way guy in Belfast and my great, great, great uncle was the guard on the train that fell into the Tay when the bridge collapsed.
I work over the replacement bridge most days.
Jim from Johannesburg forgot to add my uncle used to work in the signal box at Dundee station !
Always nice to see my hometown (Stirling) on film!
Same it's good to see my hometown (Dundee) .
I live in Wandsworth (SW London and three stops from Waterloo) and I frequently get on a train to Hounslow via chiswick. At Hounslow, the trains then say they are going back to London Waterloo via Richmond. I checked on a map and saw there is another loop:
Waterloo
Clapham junction
Richmond
Kingston
Wimbledon
Clapham junction
Waterloo
Both loops are stopping services but I couldn't be bothered to write down about sixteen stations for each loop
I think that's called the "Sutton Loop." I only know about it because I got on the wrong train once and ended up on it.
another fantastic video. pity about the weather for you. Fife circle past burntisland and aberdour is great along the coast
I was on my holidays in Scotland last week and went to Stirling castle - a heck of a place and it was the same piper outside the church!!
I wish you'd both gone to the station hotel, it's bar is amazing and , whatever it may be called, is the equivalent of a listed building.
Another great video. Going to miss you guys when you get to Wick.
It's a pity that you didn't have the time to go to a local Morrisons Cafe & have yourselves a fully cooked breakfast and a lovely hot Cup of tea to keep you warm.
I've probably still got an old ScotRail tie from the First Group days, I've also got a ScotRail hi-vis and I know where that is, yours if you like
The plack had the wrong their / there on it at one point
8:50 Nearly Headless Vic.
That Dundee ship looks like a LEGO creation from a distance. :D
Sad you didn't go and see more of Perth. It truly is a beautiful city with really pretty walks from the railway line.
we did go and see more of the Perth, and captured it on video too.
A pyramid in the Stirling cemetery?!
This is your honeymoon, isn’t it?! Lots of giggling and smiling! You look nice together! ❤️👵🏻
This is my favorite so far. I think the Kyle line is the one though. It is my favorite anyway. Good to know about the y, in the early videos somewhere I thought it was i and that carried through till now. Rock on, Rob
Did you miss Polmont and Linlithgow?
I LOVE that shot of the Forth Rail bridge. Only one thing, Vicki corrected you on the Glenrothes pronunciation but Cam-elon is actually pronounced Came-elon. It's rather unusual. The only way I know of it is because I was at Linlithgow station recently and heard an announcement for a train to Dunblane (I think) and the ScotRail announcer said Came-elon.
I grew up just outside Stirling, lived there for 16 years, you should've gone to Banarkburn where there was a famous battle.
I'd buy a ScotRail moquette flat cap.
Notice how the plaque has evidently been corrected from 'there way' to 'their way'!
The new Tay Bridge was built next to the one the collapsed. You can see the remains of the old bridge in your video.
Awhhh... I’m the Station after Springfield in Cupar. You put it in your longest route video though, I was across the road from the station when you arrived for the Longest route video and I wish I’d known you’d be there 😂
Those 158s were supposed to come to us in the West Highlands and now aren't. ScotRail since Abellio took over hasn't been good enough.
I'm surprised you didn't plan a stop at Aberdour as the station is literally right beside Aberdour Castle.
Vicki should go to Visby in Sweden, there are lots of castles and old things there.
Stirling very famous for the Wallace Monument (William Wallace of course).
I have a Scotrail tie but not the same one as that.
Watching just Scotland a year and a half later. Good stuff. 8:36 btw
"springfield" THE SIMPSONS INTENSIFIES
Was it Lorraine Kelly doing the train announcement? Sounded just like her.
Nr have a bunch of training centers across the country to train the technicians who maintain the railway
The definition of a true gentleman... is someone who knows how to play the bagpipes...but chooses not to!
Oh, and the Forth Rail Bridge is one of the most beautiful structures in the World.
No such thing as the Forth Rail Bridge. The one that carries the trains is called The Forth Bridge.
@@johnlaing1118 yeah, but for easy definition for those that don't know - saying it's the Forth Rail Bridge carries no doubt.
You haven't done the Isle of Man Railway yet!
Come to northern North America during winter & you’ll discover what cold weather feels like…
Killer Drone Shots (!!)
Geoff, after you finished least used stations in England, can you do it in Scotland and Wales?
So he described a pub crawl.
That Forth shot was impressive. Thanks for including.
Hi, another fantastic video. What is all this about Vicki or Vicky. On the All the Stations video introducing the team it is Vicki Pipe.
You were in my home town Clackmannanshire (alloa station)
Shite hole.
5:05 On the platform is a train to Penzance
luca ioan It's the one a day Aberdeen - Penzance service which takes 13 hours
Note also the timetable entries for St Austell and St Erth at 0:57.
13:54 that fitted great to the music)
You didn't seem to feature Dunfermline, Dunfermline Queen Margaret ,Cowdenbeath or Cardenden.
Never featured Glenrothes either. 'CAUSE THERE'S NOT A BLO*DY RAILWAY STATION IN GLENROTHES!
Rachel Gillies There Is Glenrothes With Thornton
All the pubs! Finally! Why didn't you have a pint at each on the Circle Line? Or at least a half?🍺
Dundee an Interchangeable station with scotrail also the doc matrix is dark and light
you have not been to Briech station on the glasgow /edinburgh via shotts line one train a day eastbound and one train a day westbound no one gets on or off
You could do all the European station, use Inter rail passes, take good couple of years,
Lovely! Was an accident, of by dint of supremely good editing, that the 'buzz-buzz' of the train departure signal (13:55) was in time with the incidental music?
Definitely good editing rather than a lucky coincidence!
Vicki didn't get to the Beheading Stone? So she got cut off?