Both Ways to Travel From Warrington to Acton Bridge by Train
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Warrington Bank Quay and Acton Bridge are 1 stop apart, however there are oddly no direct train services between the two. So what do you have to do to get there by train? And how long does it take?
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Hey Nick, just a lil advice to treat trainline with a bit of caution. They regularly sell people tickets for trains which don’t exist or are somehow invalid. Perfect example is on strike days they’ll sell you a ticket for a train which isn’t running, then charge you £10 to cancel the ticket. Worth booking direct through the TOCs if you can
Yeah I am aware that they aren't exactly the greatest.. I mainly just use them to either check journey times or book small quick spontaneous journeys. Everything else I book with TOCs.
@@NickBadley I’ve found TrainPal for tickets and NR enquiries for journey planning to be more reliable. Lost count of the ‘but trainline said’ conversations I’ve witnessed at the gateline
@@miniaturesteamnickI use TrainPal for all my journeys. Split ticketing is more efficient, tickets are cheaper than Trainline and no admin fee or hassle for cancellations!
@@Class777 isnt train pal a chinese company app, I am wary sharing data with them
@@highpath4776 @Class777 i mean i have compared the 2, and the only diffrence between trainline and trainpal is the booking fee and i use trainline because i find trainpal a bit sketchy
There is 2 more crazy ways to get to Acton Bridge from Warrington Bank Quay and Central but involves getting to a Station called Greenbank on the Mid-Cheshire Line. Can do Warrington Bank Quay to Chester, Chester to Greenbank, 15 to 20 minute walk to Hartford and then catch the train to Acton Bridge and then ether from Warrington Central/Bank Quay to Manchester Piccadilly and then Manchester Piccadilly to Greenbank and walk it to Hartford to catch the train that way but guessing these methods will be longer than the ones mentioned in the video. Great video Nick.
this would make a good Jen On The Move race
There's actually a THIRD method that can be done, should you be willing to catch a bus. You can get Northern or TFW to Frodsham, and then the 48 bus service that runs a few times a day to right outside the station. It takes, give or take, about an hour if you can time it right. It's a interesting experiance to say the least. Great little video as always nick!
Or why don’t you get the TFW to Frodsham, wait ludicrously long for the connection to Runcorn (as they are once every 2 hours currently) and then change at Runcorn for LNWR to Acton Bridge!
@@LeoMartinDJ That's actually true, that's a fourth way to do it! I'd say that the train then bus method is actually one of the quickest however if timed right, where as that type of method would probably be something reserved for a pointless journey type video 🤣
I used to regularly get off at Acton Bridge when visiting my parents when I lived in the East Midlands. There aren't many trains that actually stop there. The other option was getting a train to Frodsham - a completely different line.
this ia a brilliant journey & nice to see soe EMR 170s which make a change from the usall 158s brilliant vlog
I have a recommendation for a pointless journey. Windsor and Eton riverside to Windsor and eton central. It would involve SWR, TfL to Paddington and GWR to Slough and then a change at Slough onto the eton central shuttle service.
Great video Nick! I can't decide if this is a Pointless Journey or an Unnecessary Journey!
I wouldn't call it a pointless journey, as it is almost 10 miles from Warrington to Acton Bridge, so it isn't exactly walking distance. It is however an awkward journey to make by train
I watch your videos every week cuz your the best
Class 170s regularly run from Crewe to Derby via Stoke-on-Trent
I had a weird one the other night. Some late services, to go from Worcester Forgate Street to Worcester Shrub Hill, you have to go via Droitwitch and change trains there!
By train it’s a sub 5min journey between the two stations when direct, it was about 25 doing it this way!
I think I could’ve walked it in 20min but didn’t wanna risk it as had a connecting train, so the big diversion it was.
I wasn’t the only person doing it either, was at least 3 of us, so it’s not unusual to happen.
The third Worcester station, ie Worcestershire Parkway, has zero direct connections with the other two…
You can get a direct train from Worcestershire Parkway to Worcester Shrub Hill/Foregate GWR services.
You can also buy a one-way ticket Tyndrum Lower to Upper Tyndrum which is the same price as a day return from either station to Crianlarich. No surprise!
Nice to see the old Central Trains vibe is back with the return of the 170 on Norwich-Liverpool. A bit from the video just reminded me of another pointless journey to do; St Albans City to St Albans Abbey.
1:21
Pause here Nick, you forgot something.
ITS A REFURBISHED PENDOLINO
Great vlog Nick. I’ve visited both Acton Bridge and Warrington Ban Quay and it’s one of the few places on the entire WCML you can’t get a direct train between. Another 2 Stations you can’t get a direct Train between is Worcestershire Parkway and Bromsgrove in the West Midlands.
Or Redditch and Stratford upon Avon but you got a bus that does that
I went to Acton bridge last night and seen 3 class 390’s, 2 freight trains and one LNWR train to lime street
Hello from Singapore. Another great video. Some may call them trivial, but I am finding them intriguing. Well done, love your style of presenting!
Nice one
I'm not sure how you come up with some of these ideas, but I'm all for it!
Funnily enough, I tend to get most of my ideas while I'm falling asleep, no idea why!
@@NickBadley Most of mine are spontaneous! At Smethwick I was changing trains and then I randomly just decided "this is a good pointless Journey location" so I may or may not have magpied your idea (sorry!)
Very cool comparison! When you are back down south you should try some of Greater Anglia's 755s - they are really nice regional trains.
As my favourite thing to go on all different Trains❤❤❤❤❤
my brain said yay he uploaded again
you're lucky to have different types of train, for me here in Australia, i only have one type. V/Locity by Bombardier.
Acton bridge is probably one of my favourite stations
Just a wee idea for a video, there's a new line opening in Fife Scotland in 2022.
The line closed to passengers 1969 ish stayed open for goods to the Docks and coal slurry to a now gone power station. The line was mothballed late 90s early 2000s and is now being reconstructed.
Always love your videos and they always make me smile
Another great vid keep it up
6:10 Why is that funny? I've walked that before and it's a nice journey. In fact I walked over to the ECML via the Alban Way which I recommend. I think the walking icon could be more creative though I do like the wheeled case he's pulling.
It was meant to be a reference to Pointless Journeys abiut how I take trains between close stations rather than walking, however that joke may have fallen a tad flat 😅
@@NickBadley OH, maybe a little more verbosity at the time and I would have gotten that. Perhaps they're suggesting you take on St A's next? Get the Flyer to Watford, London Overground to West Hampstead and Thameslink up to the Midland station? Or you could go North via Coventry and Leicester but that's quite far.
Hi Nick, only discovered your channel and subscribed.
I did see my first 170 at Manchester Piccadilly on Monday.
Maybe they are following you from uni?
i`ve spent a lot of my time in the vestibule on Pendalinos
Hi Nick why not try Thorne North to Thorne South in South
Yorkshire. Great videos.
You can’t be a true railway enthusiast owning a car!! 🤣🤣🤣 Another great video, well presented and explained. Doesn’t the lovely weather make a huge difference to video making and life in general? - perhaps film all your videos now and spend the rest of the year editing!
Brilliant video Nick, very interesting to see how one gets from Warrington to Acton bridge when there's no direct trains between these 2 locations. Also The thing I don't like about turbostars with EMR is they sent all the Class 156's to Northern.
Great video!
wish I could do some random train journeys, been way too stressed camped out at home all the time..... just don't know anyone to visit or go with lol
Went past it on the Liverpool service
Warrington Bank Quay to Crewe single is £14.60. £1 more than Warrington Bank Quay to Acton Bridge with the change at Crewe.
do they ban you getting out at crewe ?
@@highpath4776 Doubt it, I am a smoker and change trains at Crewe a lot, i always leave the station without a problem.
So there's now an 8th Acton station?!
But this one isn't in Acton
Nice.
Nice.
Close this time, passing through Widnes to South parkway. As normal everything just passes through Widnes, only I stop here because I live here. 🤣🤣🤣👍
big up Crewe
Google Maps say this is a 24 minute trip one way by car! 1h24 and you get no seat by train. So much for getting people into public transport!
You get to Warrington then Crewe get to the London north western to Acton bridge
Another route Warrington BQ to Chester - Chester to Greenbank - walk mile and a half to Hartford then it’s Hartford to Acton bridge
Wait wait, you own a car? I was not expecting that.
you could do the pointless journey from Exeter Waterloo train platform to Exeter Paddington station platform?
It does seem bizarre when you can't get a direct train from one station to the next station down the line
A bit like Chathill and Berwick-upon-Tweed on the East Coast Main Line
I mean there are other ways, train to Lime St and then Acton, train to New Street, back to Acton etc
When I go on a train I have to stop every single stop❤
I do wonder if it'd be useful to have a "local" service Crewe > Warrington > Wigan [maybe even via Newton-le-Willows]. The biggest frustration I find is having to reserve a bike space for the journey from Crewe to Warrington - if there's none available, you either have to wait for a train which has one or go via Warrington Central and Liverpool South Parkway. Whether LNR or Northern would run it is up to them - remember many years ago when there was the once a day, one way only Central Trains Class 350 from Birmingham to Preston? 😁
Back in the 1970s there was a Crewe to Preston local service using class 304 EMUs which served stations such as Winsford, Acton Bridge, Earlestown etc
I live in Warrington and like bank Quay
Must be quite annoying though with journey from Bank Quay actually whizzing through Acton Bridge knowing you have to come back on yourself. It's a shame that there isn't enough capacity on the West Coast Main Line for a more local stopping service. It is also a strange quirk of the line that the only operator linking Wigan and Warrington is Avanti, the main express/Intercity operator.
Hi Nic. Why didn't you go to Liverpool then onto Acton Bridge. Alan.
Thanks idubbbz
What car do you drive Nick?
Can u do a pointless journey from Wigan Wallgate to Wigan North Western
How did the car get to Acton Bridge? And how did you get back to your car after Acton Bridge?
And why didn't he just go one way and then back the other one?
0:03 the stop mark looks a bit sus 😳 (pause to see it)
I watched your pointless journeys I thought you might do one in worcester as they have 3 stations Parkway.forgate Street.and Shrub Hill
Great vid nick
Heres a pointless journey suggestion, Catford to Catford Bridge, Not sure what route you would do, but i would love to see one!
Oh nice keep up the good work
Which one is a pointless station. Perhaps you should go to Polesworth as it has 1 platform and is a pointless station on the West Coast Main Line.
ok
he didn't complete that trip if its all by train part of the way and part of it by car both ways to Warrington and Acton bridge all by train plus he didn't state resun for not getting train back bank quay going back i presume he didn't get a train hence the journey back in the car
Wait, there's another Acton station I didn't know about 😱😱
It’s a very long way away from the other Actons
@@miniaturesteamnickI wonder how quickly you could do all the Acton stations including this one 😂
Heath high level to low level
faster to walk??????
Not quite! It's about 9 miles to walk, so would still be somewhat longer than the train journey!
i am taking a train from LONDON to northern WALES-the sea coast-this summer...want to see some of the WELSH countryside.
thanks for your videos...get to see some small ENGLISH towns most likely will never visit
Creeper
They should put pull-down chairs in the vestibule as I've spent more time in there rather than a seat in the coaches 😢