Horden Station / Six Stations (Episode 4)
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- Опубліковано 13 кві 2022
- It's Day Four of #SixStations as I go and visit the six newest stations in the country that I've not been to yet. In each video I've got a different guest with me each time, and today Dan joins me on the line between Hartlepool and Sunderland and the new station at Horden.
The six new stations in this series are:
Worcestershire Parkway. Bow Street, Warrington West, Horden, Robroyston and Kintore.
Original music by Seb Lee-Delisle : / sebstar55
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I've never seen two people have so much fun with a banal piece of infrastructure, good stuff
Tenuous connection between Star Wars and green crosses: David Prowse played Darth Vader and was also in the Green Cross Code films teaching children how to cross the road safely.
When railway nerds get together they have such fun.
With all that purple around, it looks like the Northern extension of the Elizabeth line! 😂
It's blue!
@@benfll I believe specsavers have some great deals just now!
@@almuric1baggins337 It's Northern's company branding, it's most definitely blue, they use it everywhere
Yeah - I thought it was purple. But looking again - maybe that's just the effect of the light. Logically I'd have thought Northern's colours more likely.
@@benfll Cross Rail 2 might be Blue, the secret it out.. CrossCharlesBlue, you heard it here first...! CrossElizPurp#2
Honestly, so much of the fun here is who shows up, either in-person or represented by something. The community in this space really cares.
It's hilarious that Dan has an obsession with car park space counting. I should try it myself!
It's underrated.
Wow, wasn't expecting to see the Red Arrows in this video! So majestic.
But have they been specially laminated for the occasion?
Appreciation post for the way Dan says "seVEN!" 🤣
I used to be a Signalman In the Horden signal box.. Happy Days
So, i live in Sweden. I don’t know why I’m so into British rail all of a sudden… i do love the underground and have been a follower of your channel for some time now. I have also fallen in love with trainsimworld 2 since the time you Geoff visited their studio. Now i just feel like going to England and going by train from London to Brighton and also to st Ives. As soon as travel bans are over ill start planning :)
They have already been lifted, well here at least.
There are no restrictions at all in the UK now - even Scotland. And no test requirements to enter!
I just imagined someone asking their Alexa "What line is Horden on?" and it saying "Morden is on the Northern Line and is the southernmost station on the London Underground". Lmao
It's a good job Hawarden doesn't have a station. Imagine going to the wrong place, like Halewood vs How Wood
I thought Hawarden IS a station?
@@2themoon863 It is! 3 letter station code is HWD
These videos are brilliant. Thanks Geoff and to your guests so far.
I didn’t hear any Horden/hoardin’ puns. Commendable self-control. I wouldn’t have been able to resist
Dan is far and away the most entertaining and fun guest host on this series. Thanks for another fun episode!!
I think you’re wrong and should change your opinion. The guy is such a pedantic so and so!
Dan's the man. Amazing work. Thank you for the video.
Great intro, with Dan doing the name of the station
I am absolutely loving this series, but as a Glaswegian who's done lots of work in Aberdeenshire, it's about to begin for me!
I've actually been to Horden Station. Nice Modern Station!
Without measuring those ramps, they look a little shallow in grade, however what I do like about them is the flat "refuge" areas every so often As someone with a disability I use a walking aid that I push, and any sort of prolonged slope causes a lot of strain on my body and back as I fight the "runaway" effect, so it is always nice to stop and "recover" on flat ground if need be. Thumbs up overall on the ramp from me, someone actually thought about wheeled aids.
Some great insights there. I assumed they did it to save money because they could make it really modular, but I didn't think about that aspect. I still feel like the solution is very over engineered. Our local station just has 2 lifts, but I suppose in a remote place like that, a ramp is cheaper and less likely to break down.
I think that they are a complete monstrosity and way over engineered as Mark Hazeldine says. They put one up in Lea Valley park north of London to replace a foot crossing and it looks terrible and it is even longer than this one. What I don't understand is how some parts of the network get new-build modern spiral ramp overbridges, which apparently also comply with the legislation, and are far more elegant, yet other places get these silly things. The spiral ramps look much cheaper to build as well.
These level sections are more or less compulsory on new build ramps over a certain length. The Approved Document for the accessibility requirements of the building regulations require it.
@@DanielsPolitics1 Well, you probably have a choice between a long ramp or an elevator on each side. If there's enough room for the ramp, it's probably cheaper than the elevator.
You can actually get onto the old Horden station still today. Out the car park, take a left onto Third Street, Then a left onto Cotsford Lane, follow this road past Yohden Primary School and around by some new build houses on your right, the road bends to the right and then left before passing another school on your right. You will see a rail bridge ahead. Go under it and take the dirt road on your left. You come to a Timber yard if it is still there. The houses behind the bridge is the Railway cottages.
There is still remanants of the old railway sidings on the old colliery site on what is now Seaview Industrial Estate.
Loving the series Geoff. Also set in my home county, Durham
great video geoff loved the star wars bit and way your friend did the len goodmen inpersonation of the number 7 from strictly come dancing :)
Thanks for the video glad they are back on the rail map!!😎🚆🚆🚆🚆🇬🇧🇺🇦
The on train announcement at the end sounds like "This is Croydon".
Geoff recreating ’Star Wars’ at the Holden Footbridge is the Transportation Journalism I love watching. Great job 😂
Haha, brilliant 😂 I am glad to see you managed to have great fun on a station that is relatively in the middle of nowhere on a blustery day (albeit it did seem quite sunny 🌞). Interesting to see you go via the Ordsall curve. The purist in me hates it because it severed the link to the original L&MR terminus, but I reluctantly accept it was brought about be necessity 🙄
I rather like that mural and the clever design representing the shafts and everything. Clever piece of functional art. And there was an allotment which was an added bonus! The arrow, the cross and the general silliness of this episode were splendid. Certain,y beats watching the telly 😜
Cheers Geoff, this really has been a splendid mini-series 🍻🍀👍
I love that intro song! Great video once again Geoff, nice to have a little series running again!
My home town is the next station north. Seaham! Great to see a new station.
Not been back on a train there for ten years - but Horden would be a great place to get to Newcastle from my last place in lovely Castle Eden. The old line through Castle Eden is now a great downhill cycle track from Durham to the sea to Blackhall just down the road from Horden.
Its a cycle track from Sunderland to Hart actually, I also live in Castle Eden, but I wouldnt dream of driving to Horden to get a train to Newcastle. It is much faster, convenient and safer to take the car to Newcastle.
Been ages since I sat on the floor of a train! The Green Cross, Red Arrow and counting car parks is bonkers and I love it! epic video Geoff btw may have to rename it to Six Stations plus One when Reston opens next month.
Highly amusing gentlemen!
I'm really loving this mini-series, can't wait for the next episode!
You can literally see Geoff trying not to laugh lmao 9:52
great laminated sheets
Always enjoy your videos, but this one was one of the best. Great Star Wars trench scene!
And an evil man dressed in black!
I also love these videos but will love it more when you are in my home 🏡 country Bonny Scotland 🏴. Looking forward to tomorrow’s video Geoff. 👍
I'm absolutely loving these videos, keep it up
Used to travel regularly to Horden by bus, good to have a train station to add to the links.
Very surprised you didn't have a laminated sheet for each platform...
Very entertraining, shame about the wind but it gets like that oop Norf.
Great as always. Loving the guests as well.
Although I live on the other side of the world, I can hardly sleep until seeing Station Road (Robroyston). Please don’t make me wait much longer to see the place where I grew up…
No prizes for guessing how that got its name.
"other side" like ..where" from LeviNZ.
3:46 It's like Beggar's Canyon back home!!
Didn’t see any womprats though.
loving these videos, keep it up!
Brilliant as always Geoff 👏🏻
Great video as always Geoff!
These videos are great keep it going
Great video love this series the allotment joke is very funny.
Beautiful station, local to me. ;)
I visited this station last year and parked my Lada Riva 1.5 E Estate in the carpark! I must be the only person to park a Lada at Horden Railway Station!
Delightfully nerdy, thanks!
I like to think of myself as a delightful nerd!
With all that wind, it's almost as if you're next to the see or something!
Enjoyed this one, looks like you had fun making it 😀
Am I the only one finding the six stations intro and outro so much fun to listen to 😂
It reminds me of that recent Alan Partridge program
The Day Today?
@@rjjcms1 no This Time
I am really liking the “six stations” intro music. I do wish there was a longer version of that music. As always I love your videos Geoff.
Great video - I think I need a laminating machine. Horden sounds like it should be written using twice as many letters.
As cars get (massively) more expensive, rail connections will allow young people to truly live their lives. Finally they can go to a city, socialise, and get home. Maybe even have a beer. Beautiful.
I loved the ramps!! A skateboarders delight!! I thought the stations signs were cool with BR logos included.
I was looking forward to this one, since I’m originally from Hartlepool. I’ll be back next month to see it for myself.
The whole area used to be collieries/mining villages. Just to the south is Blackhall, which was featured in the Micheal Caine movie ‘Get Carter’. And just to the north is Easington, which was the backdrop for ’Billy Elliot’.
I'm quite liking this 6 stations series you've had a great selection of guests thus far,
Apart from this one. They guy was half blind and not very funny. Anyone that counts car park spaces in a train video is a twit.
Love it!
actually, there are just 1 bus service. its a circular. 209 goes to Peterlee clockwise while the 210 which is the exact same bus does the route anti clockwise. both services have 1 bus between them on the entire route. I used to drive this route when I was a Go North East driver before it was renumbered from 232/233
Awesome! Wish I was there!
All the car parking spaces are going to be like a showroom for all the joyriders from the numbered streets 😜 (sorry Horden, love you really!)
Quick fact… Blast Beach just up the coast from Horden can be seen in the opening sequence from Alien3
These videos are fantastic Geoff! I’m enjoying the series so far 👍🏻😀
Hilarious guys! And 2 more episodes in this series to go, I can't wait!
I don’t like railways or trains and I can’t stand Geoff. The camera operator wasn’t up to much, the sound engineer was not much cop either. It was only the script writers, the impressive editing and my large fee that made this video almost palatable.
I live in the US. I’ve been following you for quite some time. Not quite sure why, but I am Really enjoying #SixStations. Can’t wait until June so I can actually Be on the tube!!
thanks Geoff. I only live 9 miles away but did not know about it! know Horden well but didn't realise they had opened the station.
There was I thinking new stations in Australia, where I live, are boring, modern and utilitarian. But they're literally works of art in comparison to the new stations I've seen in this mini series! But, strangely as they're in my home country I find them endearing
This is crazy! I've just been looking at houses in the Peterlee area on Rightmove, then this gem of a video pops up! Horden would be my closest station if we get the house I'm after. Nice easy access to Sunderland and beyond (not sure about Hartlepool though lol) 👍
didn't they used to have the cheapest houses in Britain? bet that new station bumped prices up by a lot
There are buses from the terminal to Newcastle, Sunderland, Durham and Hartlepool. You can use the train station to get to Hartlepool or Newcastle or even the Metrocentre for a day out.
@@shawnli4746 lol absolutely not the station is very out the way of the town and the area is still very run down
It is good that Horden finally has a station after 56 years, the problem is with its location to Peterlee and the A19, it only has two direct buses an hour from Peterlee and with Peterlee being served by the Go North East X10 to Newcastle and Middlesbrough, it is easier for the people of Peterlee to get the X10. Horden is well known for being run down because of the Numbered Streets, there are several videos on UA-cam documenting this.
great video well done boys Dan is great
Laminated sheets are great, but they make it harder to correct typos ("I was a mining village')
ooo Jen is in the next one! looking forward to it
Awesome video
Horden looks very nice now
Looking forward to you and Jen together again!
Great video
That was wonderfully entertaining - love Dan and his laminated sheets - great banter!
As for the station, that fencing is really grim isn’t it?
Got to love a good lamination! The station can be described as semi-brutalist utilitarianism at best.
I really like 👍 you’re editing style and I appreciate the time ⏰ and effort that goes into these vids 😆 😀!
I never knew Horden even existed till now.
Nice to see Peterlee and Horden got their own station now should help cut traffic on the A19.
Also Hartlepool has got funding and plans on reopening platform 1 with a new footbridge ready for the tall ships coming back.
brilliant
Very funny episode Geoff! Should have had Dan actually measure the extra extra extra long ramps instead! 🤣
He didn’t pay me enough to do that!
Very good 🙂🚂🚂🚂
Of course Jen has a Costa in her hand in the preview 😂
That ramp is so long I personally wouldn't call the station accessible.
Yay! You made it!!
Reston station is opening on the 23rd May. It will have 14 TPE services a day and 2 LNER ones.
I'm local and didn't have a clue about that. I should take my nana up when it does so she can reminince over the days where she'd get the train down to Berwick for work.
so the TPEs are finally gonna get north of Newcastle again then?
The purple and yellow colour scheme reminds me of the LA Lakers kit.
Loved seeing Grand Central's Darth Vader zip by at 3:02
A few years ago when my dad and I were visiting the UK we got in the tube and took it to the furthest point. By chance we ended up in Chesham. We now go back there every year when we visit. Do you have any other suggestions like that?
Really love your shows geoff there are fun to watch and really interesting 👍 😀
So, looks like you're going to have to pay another visit to Coventry. Lot of new steps to count. Lots.
I have to ask Dan, where does the "Seveeeennn!" come from? its something we say in our office (after an awful presentation where my manager got stuck saying "Seven Lamps" again and again) but it must come from somewhere!!!
Horden is served by a Go North East Peterlee Purples branded route it did operate out of Peterlee outstation but that closed so all Peterlee Purples routes are now Deptford based now
What a fun video! Looks like a decent little station, but man are those ramps ridiculous! I wonder what made them go for the extra long ramps rather than lifts
Cost! And ongoing costs. Plus, given the area, how long before those lifts were vandalised?
I did this station in late December 2020, it was really cold. I really appreciate the lights under the handrails instead of overhead lights (a common feature for new stations), and the displays showed a fault when I went too (although the one on the southbound platform was also upside down...).
I still find it odd that we get 158s on this line, since the 142s ended a couple of years ago. And I still am sad about the fact GC don't use HSTs any more.
Also I just got a rake of 16 of those biomass wagons for my model railway today, specifically to model a shortened version of that 24-wagon train.
Ngl 158's and 156's are better than pacers i'd take them any day.
Though yeah i do prefer GC's class 43's.
Something about buffers 43's in black with orange stripe.
This is the first one I haven't visited as a rail replacement driver 🤣🤣
If the cross is used to reference a spreadsheet, would there be a suitable formula in said spreadsheet that could be known as the Green Cross Code?
Are you still thinking about little used lines after you did the East Putney journey? We have a few in the Birmingham area but the problem is that most of the passenger routes are during the night.
ALL THAT WIND and the bin bag barely flutters! Devastating!
You can wave at Reston on the way past it opens on 3rd of May