As an American, I'm amazed at how many historic stations remain in the UK, the cleanliness of both the trains and the stations, the relative timeliness of the trains, and the friendly nature of all the crew members from station staff to onboard staff. Not to mention the great network there. In the US there are places where the nearest station could be 8+hrs away. Great Video series and I hope you do decide to do another @All The Stations series in 5 years!
I grew up in London, and it's easy for me to forget that outside that bubble, there is a lot of interesting things and great beauty in the UK. This show has reminded some of the things I'm missing out on now that I live in Taiwan. However, it has incentified me to explore more of the area around my new bubble of Taipei. :D Good job guys, thanks for inviting us on this journey!
I wanted to go on the Strathspey Railway on my one free day when I was in the Cairngorms on a wildlife holiday this June. But it wasn't running that day. At least now I've an idea of what I missed. Thank you. Been watching you in fits and starts through the lockdowns, and the bits in between, and was so pleased to be escape with you when travel just wasn't possible at all.
Thank you for the series. .. We all know it's over...but you must've been exhausted by this stage. Bravo!. . It sure was tough and sometimes it shows but you've done a great job...especially for me and perhaps those like me who couldn't possibly visit such places or even get on a train using those wooden steps.... For all of the many and diverse discoveries of our amazing national railway network, our nation...and yourselves...that you've shared with us here; I for one salute you both. And once again demand a ( subscribed ) statue of you both on St Pancras Station ( along with the revered John Betjeman ).
Re watching the Scottish legs. Been a massive inspiration to do rail challenges. Saturday me and my daughter visited all 8 Scottish cities in a day, 13.5 hrs..made sure to get off at every city
I’ve only just discovered All The Stations and have binged the series over the past fortnight, and am now feeling quite wistful that the last episode is coming up. Geoff and Vicky, thank you SO much for taking us on your journey.
Another superb video! Can't wait to see the Far North line in the final episode. After a well-deserved rest, I definitely think you should do all the Irish stations next - especially as Irish Rail are currently threatening to close large parts of their network if they don't get an increased subsidy from their government. You will meet some wonderful characters amongst both the rail staff and passengers - and you'll have great fun trying to pronounce some of the station names!
I think that this must be the QUAINTest video of them all. Loving the new music, please release it. Super love the drone shot disappearing into the smoke, and the fade edit away from it. Very classy.
You seem to have missed Newtownmore on this line. I think it is a request stop. In2019 we hoteled(if thats a verb) at this town and walked onto this station. Regards Malcolm
Aberdeenshire has two lines that can be walked most of the way, that were shut during the Beechings cuts. The Deeside heritage railway is at the end of one.
Tremendous Job -transitions bridged ahead by sound track, Dan I knew it was you right from the top (!!) going to miss your handcrafted skill… the beauty of Scotland Showcased Masterfully, Interviews Home-Runs
Perth to Inverness is actually over 100 miles between the two Scottish cities. Going by train is probably the best option. The A9 that runs between Perth & Inverness has several sections of dual carriageway but is largely still single carriageway - although plans are in place to make it all dual. There are well over 100 lay-bys and they are all numbered, in case of emergency. Very long road.
Pitlochry and trains always makes me think of the time a passing train scared the **** out of me with its horn, was not expecting it at all! Also, suprisingly good tapas restaurant :)
7:58 If one had a wish it would be to extend the line to join with the Keith and Dufftown line at Craigellachie. Craigellachie, BC, is where the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was driven. A mandatory visit if Geoff and Vicki ever do “All the Stations Canada”. The original owners of the CPR were all Montreal Scots. 🇨🇦
I'm not sure it was intentional on the editor's part, but I find something very satisfying about the way the clip of Geoff pointing out the fake signal-box cottage leads immediately to a shot of the station's dot-matrix board saying "if you see something that doesn't look right..."
Imagine Dunkeld and Birnam, with electric trains and a further drop of about 4 feet. Now imagine about thirty to forty thousand people trying to use it at once and you've got the Long Island Rail Road station at Belmont Park on the day of the Belmont Stakes (before the station was rebuilt with high platforms a few years ago.)
Too bad you didn’t stop at Newtonmore (stop after Kingussie). Not much of a station, but since my wife was a Macpherson, stopped there a number of years ago on the way to Inverness. Once the curator learned that, we were given the “freedom of the museum” and a special guided tour!
Historically, Wanlockhead (Scottish borders, at 1413 ft) was the highest station ever built on the UK national rail network. That station and the branch line it was on has, however, long since closed. For a time, Dalnaspidal (just south of Drumochter pass) held the honour of highest UK station at 1,405 ft. Blair Atholl and Dalwhinnie (the two open stations either side of Drumochter) are far lower - Blair Atholl sits around 425 ft and Dalwhinnie at 1,152 . . . Consequently, Corrour (despite being only the 3rd highest summit on the UK national rail network - after the highland mainlines Drummochter and Sochd summits) is the highest open station at 1,340 ft above sea level.
Geez, I'm sure Vicki is the type of person that would not have a bar of it if she thought she was being treated as a pack camel....i don't get it we live in a time where if Geof carried the bag all the time people would be whinging that a girl can carry a bag just as well, but if Vicki carries it we are up in arms that she shouldn't be expected to. They can/have sorted this amongst themselves try not to be feeling guilty on someones behalf.
My local station (Tullamore) is like that: they bring all trains in on platform 1 if possible; only if there are two trains in at once do they put one (usually the westbound) on platform 2.
TRiG (Ireland) I think they do the same at Aviemore, on this line. The third platform is exclusively for the Strathspey Railway, main line trains only use Platform 2 if two mainline trains pass here, otherwise they all go from Platform 1.
I have wait till now to get this far spreading them out as long as possible, such a good enjoyable series. Gonna start rewatching again as soon as I’ve completed
Will there be a video showing the return journey from wick to where ever you have to get off at London or what ever, because then we can see some fast trains
I was pondering that and thought they would probably take an aeroplane. Because despite all the fun they had on their quest, by the end they would have been utterly sick of trains.
dan b Wick and Thurso to Inverness is actually one of the few journeys where it's quicker to take the bus than the train. This is because of the cut-off bridge across the Dornoch Firth - the railway still goes the long way round!!
I’ve been watching your travels in Scotland the last few days and have to say they are just stunning and truly enjoyable! It looks like ScotRail are doing a great job - everything from the livery to stations to even the seat fabric is beautiful. And I give them kudos on making trains and stations as accesible as possible. Just curious though - do you know how environmentally friendly/unfriendly their new DMUs are? I imagine that if you think about it in terms of taking cars off the road it’s a good thing, not to mention that the expense and logistics of electrifying all these lines would probably be more trouble than it’s worth.
Lorenzo Hermoso definitely not Pilning... If I remember correctly it's from the Far North Line somewhere - had someone poking round asking about it one day, so I asked some questions 😂
+FightingisBadnews u should follow them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram they finished on Saturday 19th August and were on BBC breakfast on the 21st or 22nd. listen to the start of each episode where they read out the date
Russell sawyer The first time I went to Scotland I visited Pitlochry, with the dam and the "salmon ladder". The dam is enormous, you can't miss it, yet there was a member of our tour party saying, "Well I don't know what we're supposed to be looking at!!" (I was speechless).
I have a real issue sitting next to toilets, I have such a phobia. I don’t know how Geoff and Vicky do it, and to drink tea in front of one ! I have been scarred so many times going into a rail loo I can’t cope!
What's the story of the gravel at the majority of the Scottish stations? Is it an cosmetic thing? One of the videos showed the gravel across the entire platform which must make prams and wheelchair access a bit difficult?
Peter Clapham Anybody who dislikes any of these obviously stumbled across them by mistake and is a pathological rail hater. These are the best set of videos on UA-cam.
You call some 460 m high? Back home I live in west Austria's most populated valiey, on 574 m ;-) (Always give or take a few m due to different points of reference) Btw., today I visited 13 Scotish stations myself #someStations
I'd be testing if every next step of that footbridge at Dalwhinnie could take my weight before proceeding... seriously, people, there's products which prevent iron and steel from rusting. Simply painting the thing doesn't cut it.
I think she has done all the underground stations before (joined Geoff on a couple of Tube Challenges and as a support person). Watch the Walk the Tube videos on Geoff's personal channel, she's in those ones.
As an American, I'm amazed at how many historic stations remain in the UK, the cleanliness of both the trains and the stations, the relative timeliness of the trains, and the friendly nature of all the crew members from station staff to onboard staff. Not to mention the great network there. In the US there are places where the nearest station could be 8+hrs away. Great Video series and I hope you do decide to do another @All The Stations series in 5 years!
3 years ago today...... still the best travel bloggers around
"And the final day . . . is tomorrow." Words I was hoping never to hear. I'm going to miss All the Stations.
I grew up in London, and it's easy for me to forget that outside that bubble, there is a lot of interesting things and great beauty in the UK. This show has reminded some of the things I'm missing out on now that I live in Taiwan. However, it has incentified me to explore more of the area around my new bubble of Taipei. :D
Good job guys, thanks for inviting us on this journey!
I wanted to go on the Strathspey Railway on my one free day when I was in the Cairngorms on a wildlife holiday this June. But it wasn't running that day. At least now I've an idea of what I missed. Thank you. Been watching you in fits and starts through the lockdowns, and the bits in between, and was so pleased to be escape with you when travel just wasn't possible at all.
I'll miss these videos but at least you've saved the best until last... The Isle of Wight!
I am so going to miss "All the Stations!" Thank you all (including the Backroom Staff) for retrieving an otherwise dismal summer!
Hello from Perth in Australia. Have been following your adventures and finally got to see (a bit) of Perth station UK
Thank you for the series. ..
We all know it's over...but you must've been exhausted by this stage.
Bravo!. .
It sure was tough and sometimes it shows but you've done a great job...especially for me and perhaps those like me who couldn't possibly visit such places or even get on a train using those wooden steps....
For all of the many and diverse discoveries of our amazing national railway network, our nation...and yourselves...that you've shared with us here;
I for one salute you both.
And once again demand a ( subscribed ) statue of you both on St Pancras Station ( along with the revered John Betjeman ).
What a great pair you are I look forward to seeing you on the TV with another travel series enjoyed every one at rather a difficult time
Re watching the Scottish legs. Been a massive inspiration to do rail challenges. Saturday me and my daughter visited all 8 Scottish cities in a day, 13.5 hrs..made sure to get off at every city
I’ve only just discovered All The Stations and have binged the series over the past fortnight, and am now feeling quite wistful that the last episode is coming up. Geoff and Vicky, thank you SO much for taking us on your journey.
I've always called the BR sign, 'the indecisive arrows...'
Another superb video! Can't wait to see the Far North line in the final episode. After a well-deserved rest, I definitely think you should do all the Irish stations next - especially as Irish Rail are currently threatening to close large parts of their network if they don't get an increased subsidy from their government. You will meet some wonderful characters amongst both the rail staff and passengers - and you'll have great fun trying to pronounce some of the station names!
Can't believe All the Stations is nearly over, I'm gonna go binge watch all the previous ones as I've loved these adventures so much.
I think that this must be the QUAINTest video of them all. Loving the new music, please release it. Super love the drone shot disappearing into the smoke, and the fade edit away from it. Very classy.
You seem to have missed Newtownmore on this line. I think it is a request stop. In2019 we hoteled(if thats a verb) at this town and walked onto this station. Regards Malcolm
Nice to see old 828 back in action. That loco was a real star when it visited the Severn Valley a few years back.
I think you should definitely do All the Heritage Railways next.
All the pre-Beeching stations! - or the sites of where they used to be :)
I agree, all the heritage ralways should be their next adventure :)
Pre-Beeching stations would be difficult and boring because many have been destroyed with no trace, or are now private property.
I'd be up for that challenge! Sounds exciting to me to see how the stations have changed since the last trains ran!
Aberdeenshire has two lines that can be walked most of the way, that were shut during the Beechings cuts. The Deeside heritage railway is at the end of one.
Tremendous Job -transitions bridged ahead by sound track, Dan I knew it was you right from the top (!!) going to miss your handcrafted skill… the beauty of Scotland Showcased Masterfully, Interviews Home-Runs
Perth to Inverness is actually over 100 miles between the two Scottish cities.
Going by train is probably the best option.
The A9 that runs between Perth & Inverness has several sections of dual carriageway but is largely still single carriageway - although plans are in place to make it all dual.
There are well over 100 lay-bys and they are all numbered, in case of emergency. Very long road.
It is a long time since I was in this part of the world. I had forgotten how stunning it is!
Thanks from a viewer in Australia . I have enjoyed the whole series !!
Pitlochry and trains always makes me think of the time a passing train scared the **** out of me with its horn, was not expecting it at all! Also, suprisingly good tapas restaurant :)
Nice touch with the wooden signs at Aviemore, not just the "double-arrows" but the platform name signs as well.
Nice shots of the Strathspey Railway, never seen much about it before.
Pitlochry Station has a very nice second hand bookshop. Plus some really nice cafes/tearooms in the town. Well worth a visit.
hello great job iv enjoyed watching all the stations better then tv i can t wait to see whats next
The music over the Strathspey segment reminds me of the incidental music on Michael Palin's 'Around the World in 80 Days'
These are amazing thank you Geoff and Vicki
7:58 If one had a wish it would be to extend the line to join with the Keith and Dufftown line at Craigellachie.
Craigellachie, BC, is where the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was driven.
A mandatory visit if Geoff and Vicki ever do “All the Stations Canada”.
The original owners of the CPR were all Montreal Scots. 🇨🇦
Geoff & Vikky...we roamed England with you! Cheers from Mumbai... 🤘
Another great drone shot through the smoke. Good job!!!
Another great video and nice musical variations!
The Strathspey Steam railway. A superb line.
I'm not sure it was intentional on the editor's part, but I find something very satisfying about the way the clip of Geoff pointing out the fake signal-box cottage leads immediately to a shot of the station's dot-matrix board saying "if you see something that doesn't look right..."
Quaint..... Forres.... = For-"s" Love your videos and, so glad you did the Strathspey
Imagine Dunkeld and Birnam, with electric trains and a further drop of about 4 feet. Now imagine about thirty to forty thousand people trying to use it at once and you've got the Long Island Rail Road station at Belmont Park on the day of the Belmont Stakes (before the station was rebuilt with high platforms a few years ago.)
Ahh.. TurboStars... I am fond of these trains. Probably because they're used on my favourite railway... Chiltern.
but no shot of Blair Atholl castle - Vicky how could you let that pass??
Too bad you didn’t stop at Newtonmore (stop after Kingussie). Not much of a station, but since my wife was a Macpherson, stopped there a number of years ago on the way to Inverness. Once the curator learned that, we were given the “freedom of the museum” and a special guided tour!
I was camped at Loch Insh, on the Friday you went to Aviemore. Would've seen your train, from where I was pitched
Watching this about 50m from 828, resting quietly waiting for her boiler inspection
Can highly recommend Dunkeld, especially on a sunny day. Nice walk to The Hermitage just up the road and there's the Dunkeld Ell
Historically, Wanlockhead (Scottish borders, at 1413 ft) was the highest station ever built on the UK national rail network. That station and the branch line it was on has, however, long since closed.
For a time, Dalnaspidal (just south of Drumochter pass) held the honour of highest UK station at 1,405 ft.
Blair Atholl and Dalwhinnie (the two open stations either side of Drumochter) are far lower - Blair Atholl sits around 425 ft and Dalwhinnie at 1,152 . . .
Consequently, Corrour (despite being only the 3rd highest summit on the UK national rail network - after the highland mainlines Drummochter and Sochd summits) is the highest open station at 1,340 ft above sea level.
Might be mistaken, but it always seems to be Vicky carrying the heavy rucksack.
If I remember it was 35 pounds when she weighed it.
I made a similar comment earlier in the series. Wonder why this is!
Geoff never seems to carry anything except the camera!
Helen Rose I am sure he carries other things as well.
Geez, I'm sure Vicki is the type of person that would not have a bar of it if she thought she was being treated as a pack camel....i don't get it we live in a time where if Geof carried the bag all the time people would be whinging that a girl can carry a bag just as well, but if Vicki carries it we are up in arms that she shouldn't be expected to. They can/have sorted this amongst themselves try not to be feeling guilty on someones behalf.
Went to Pitlochry in the 80s, en route to Aviemore. All I can remember is the salmon run/power station as well. Sure it’s a lovely place really :)
I was there last year. It’s a lovely place to visit
Geoff and Vicki are very lucky indeed!
Brooomhill Station with the Glenbogle name featured in the BBC series Monarch of the Glen.
Plebs Geoff? I bet that went down well.....😆 Good job Rab C Nesbitt wasn't sitting nearby!!
I was there in Aviemore yesterday, painted sign and all
My local station (Tullamore) is like that: they bring all trains in on platform 1 if possible; only if there are two trains in at once do they put one (usually the westbound) on platform 2.
TRiG (Ireland) I think they do the same at Aviemore, on this line. The third platform is exclusively for the Strathspey Railway, main line trains only use Platform 2 if two mainline trains pass here, otherwise they all go from Platform 1.
Dilemma - Do I watch this immediately or wait as long as possible to delay the end of this series?
Watch it now and then revisit all the videos at your leisure, so the journey never ends.
You can watch this one but not the next one. That way they never finish
I have wait till now to get this far spreading them out as long as possible, such a good enjoyable series. Gonna start rewatching again as soon as I’ve completed
Ian Anthony TO PENZANCE!
Fantastic.
Spent that entire video fancying a whisky. Wonder how easy it would be to visit all the mainland distilleries by train.
Pronounce Forres like forest (without the 't), not For-rez
Vicki, how good was that to be on the footplate!!
Andrew Holloway she's a lucky sod... I've worked there for 6 years, and I've never been on the footplate...
Will there be a video showing the return journey from wick to where ever you have to get off at London or what ever, because then we can see some fast trains
they took a Transpennine Express down to Manchester to go to MediaCityUK Salford for the BBC interview
So the slow and wobbly way.
I was pondering that and thought they would probably take an aeroplane. Because despite all the fun they had on their quest, by the end they would have been utterly sick of trains.
dan b Wick and Thurso to Inverness is actually one of the few journeys where it's quicker to take the bus than the train. This is because of the cut-off bridge across the Dornoch Firth - the railway still goes the long way round!!
starlinguk they both absolutely love trains and railways, I highly doubt they'll be sick of them. If anything, they'll be sick of pacers & sprinters
I’ve been watching your travels in Scotland the last few days and have to say they are just stunning and truly enjoyable! It looks like ScotRail are doing a great job - everything from the livery to stations to even the seat fabric is beautiful. And I give them kudos on making trains and stations as accesible as possible. Just curious though - do you know how environmentally friendly/unfriendly their new DMUs are? I imagine that if you think about it in terms of taking cars off the road it’s a good thing, not to mention that the expense and logistics of electrifying all these lines would probably be more trouble than it’s worth.
Ricard III parking lot, there is a painted mark that the Richard III Society put on the tarmac.
I love the new music
Great video. Thanks. Is that the Pilning station footbridge in the yard at Boat of Garten by any chance?
Lorenzo Hermoso definitely not Pilning... If I remember correctly it's from the Far North Line somewhere - had someone poking round asking about it one day, so I asked some questions 😂
I have a suggestion! Can you make the video of the Caledonian Sleeper from Inverness to London?
they've already been on it. They finished about a month ago
TP Football Analysis okay. Thank you for telling it!
geoff and vicky wear on tv a couple of weeks back on the morning breakfast show its how i found out about all the stations
+FightingisBadnews u should follow them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram they finished on Saturday 19th August and were on BBC breakfast on the 21st or 22nd. listen to the start of each episode where they read out the date
i always think of the salmon ladder too Geoff!!
Russell sawyer The first time I went to Scotland I visited Pitlochry, with the dam and the "salmon ladder". The dam is enormous, you can't miss it, yet there was a member of our tour party saying, "Well I don't know what we're supposed to be looking at!!" (I was speechless).
The double arrow is the arrow of indecision
A great experience, a footplate ride.
Had my Honeymoon in Avimore!
NOOOOOOOOO! ONE MORE VIDEO! D:
I have a real issue sitting next to toilets, I have such a phobia. I don’t know how Geoff and Vicky do it, and to drink tea in front of one ! I have been scarred so many times going into a rail loo I can’t cope!
Very interesting mate....
Thank you
What will I do without all the stations? We need more stations. Every rail station on Earth. Don't stop !!!
Mrs. Radar!
The song around 8 Minutes has a very Clannad like vibe ;-)
Nothing quite like the smell of a steam locomotive!
Also: 13:37 - that woman's expression in the background made me laugh so much... :D
The woman reacting to being called a pleb is good too 7:06
Very nearly there!! Massive congrats!! What are you going to do when it finishes? All the level crossings? 😂😂
Yeah. Still going to miss the series though :(
All the stations amtrak
The theme music seems to still be evolving. Will all versions be added to iTunes?
rbagrizzly And Amazon Music?
I've always thought they the BR "bars & arrows" sign was the InterCity logo.
What's the story of the gravel at the majority of the Scottish stations? Is it an cosmetic thing? One of the videos showed the gravel across the entire platform which must make prams and wheelchair access a bit difficult?
Mark Smith Might be a safety issue: less likely to be slippery in icy conditions.
Geoff got relegated. Oh dear.
Great shots of the steam railway though. :)
And I can only think that the two dislikes were accidental, what is there not to like about an All the Stations video.
Peter Clapham Anybody who dislikes any of these obviously stumbled across them by mistake and is a pathological rail hater. These are the best set of videos on UA-cam.
No doubt the same person watched every single video and then disliked them all.
Real original. Whining about the dislikers.
I needed a Vicki fix!
The old BR logo was/is know as the "double arrows"..the long parallel lines should always be thicker than the angled lines.
Could you possible delay posting the next episode, so we can make this last as long as possible? Pretty please?
Noooooooo!
You call some 460 m high? Back home I live in west Austria's most populated valiey, on 574 m ;-)
(Always give or take a few m due to different points of reference)
Btw., today I visited 13 Scotish stations myself #someStations
When are you doing the harwich to manningtree line
The monster mash 2525 The finished a week ago...
a quick question have you been to bishopstone stn sussex it got a gun turret from ww2
They've been to ALL THE STATIONS!
the Double arrow was know as british rails promise- we promise to take you there and take you back
I'd be testing if every next step of that footbridge at Dalwhinnie could take my weight before proceeding... seriously, people, there's products which prevent iron and steel from rusting. Simply painting the thing doesn't cut it.
I thought Dent was the highest station in Britain.
charlie moir In England perhaps?
Lorenzo Hermoso hmm, yeah. It says on dent station sign that it's the highest station above sea level in Britain.
charlie moir England, it says here www.dentstation.co.uk/
Lorenzo Hermoso okay, thanks!
Dents the highest station in England and corrours the highest in the uk or Scotland
Does the station with steps also have a ramp or two?
in dunkeld, no but regardless, the train never lines up with the steps so it’s kinda pointless
in what video did you go to fratton?
alas, Fratton was not one of our video days. there's a bonus 'Extra' video on Geoff's channel from that day though
Bravo
Pit-lock-ray
Next, (after a break) take Vicki on all the underground stations
I think she has done all the underground stations before (joined Geoff on a couple of Tube Challenges and as a support person). Watch the Walk the Tube videos on Geoff's personal channel, she's in those ones.
I thought the version of the musical theme playing whilst they were on the steam railway was very reminiscent of Thomas the tank engine!
And 828 is Donald from Thomas the Tank Engine! Or is it Douglas, after all, they are twins.....
Is it me or does the guy Geoff shakes hands with in the intro look like hitler at 0:40
We’re staying in the signal box
in my country, Indonesia. the platforms are much loooooooooooooower than that