Buckenham - Least Used Station In Norfolk
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- It gets NO TRAINS on a Monday to Friday, and only a few services on the weekend, I visited Buckenham on a Saturday with a mystery guest, some wildlife, tractors, a little song and dance, oh and it might have been raining too ...
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The house next to the station is Buckenham Palace, a (much) less formal version of Buckingham Palace.
It’s ‘Buckingham’ Palace
😂
@@heliostransport515 WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSHHHHHH
@@heliostransport515 No it isn't, the house next to the station is Buckenham Palace. Buckingham Palace is where the Queen lives.
The Siblings 🤦♂️
I wonder if perhaps the Norwich to Lowestoft line was originally single track, as a number of the lines out to the seaside towns were originally. Then when the track was dualled, the bank opposite was unsuitable for a platform.
I think Norwich - Lowestoft was double track from the outset - staggered platforms are not unusual, especially where there's a level-crossing involved.
I was involved in a project standardising poster placement on Northern stations (visiting 101 in 6 weeks). The onward information posters only count bus services as regular if they are more than hourly.
Poor Ulleskelf (served by around 10 trains a day) has a two hourly bus service (served by one in each direction alternating each hour), but this is not reflected on the onwards travel poster - which is located yards from the bus-stop. It did seem a little churlish to claim there were no buses when there were so few trains.
We also had the fortune to meet the "Station Adopter" who told us they'd had a spate of irate fare dodgers who had been put out at Ulleskelf by a zealous conductor only to discover they were then stuck for up to 8 hours waiting for the next train.
I live in norwich and ive been past buckenham a few times
I'm waiting for a train
Just waiting for a train
What a mis'rable feeling
It's soaking again
It's late Sunday night
Not a choo-choo in sight
Just sitting
And waiting
For a train
Difference between Frogs and Toads: one is an amphibian, and the other is a kind of Brake Van... Seriously, though, Frogs have smooth skin, hop, and enjoy being in water, and their spawn resembles tapioca in appearance, whereas Toads have warty skin, waddle, are not so keen on being in water all the time, and their spawn is in long strings. There you go.
pick it up and if it pisses in your hand, it's toad...
Either way the debate is...ribbiting.
@@randaldavis8976 pissfingers
I thought it was going to be stuart ashen
That would have been a dream come true!
Subscribe to r3dseries well i thought it was going to be chef excellence
LMAO, we went on holiday to Norfolk last year looking for the nearby railway museum, got lost and we stopped outside this station for a pee!
It was pouring with rain that day too!
Hello you!
Fancy seeing you here, Larry!
I went there in the late 90s to go for an interview in Buckenham. I didn't get the job. But it was worth it just for the train journey. Then they argued about paying the expenses because they didn't believe anyone would go by train! Great video . Thanks.
It looks like the walkway.along to the Norwich-bound platform used to have the platform extending along it at one time. I wonder if something similar happened there to at Balcombe, on the Brighton Main Line, when a freight train derailed in 1985, and demolished a length of platform, they decided not to reinstate it.
I've been through Buckenham loads of times, on the way to Oulton Broad when my aunt was alive there, but I can't remember ever being on one that stopped at Buckenham, and that's going back to the late 70's!!
Least used station on the Isle of Wight so you finally get to go there!
What's the Isle of Wight?
@@wintrwunderland Island of the UK a few miles south of Portsmouth
There is no Isle of Wight. Just like Bielefeld doesn't exist in Germany.
He went there on all the stations
There is no video of Isle of Wight; there can't be anyone...
Full credit to my GoPro camera for getting in on the "rain blob on lens" action, from the start of that clip that was obviously impossible to remove in post ...
Damn and blast!
I love you kids keep it up brother
I was inspired to film train videos
do ellsmere port
YAY! Another least used station!! What is the next one Geoff?
Is it REALLY Ipswich Station, or is it Bolton in disguise?.... (Monty Python fans will get it...)
That’s intercity Rail for you.
Notlob..
Norwich to Lowestoft (and back) is my daily commute, so know that line well. Fun fact, the resignalling that's being done is costing £68 million and is mainly being done to allow modern length freight trains run on the lines again, which they haven't been able to do.
Also fun fact, Berney Arms will not get a train for SIX MONTHS due to the resignalling, so I'd imagine it will beat Buckenham next year, although there are daily services to Berney Arms which might make the difference.
You beat me to it!! I noticed last year all the resignalling. love those old signal boxes and swing bridges etc. Stunning area.
@@robinjones6999 The swing bridges are stunning but oh my days the number of times they break is infuriating. That whole line is in much need of modernisation, but it is happening, albeit slowly!
Also, looked like the speed restriction between Cantley and Reedham was still in effect when Geoff went, not sure why but it's been in place for weeks now
Freight trains????? All they ever have is passenger trains and the monthly test train
@@CuckooAboutTRAINS I know, but Network Rail are selling some disused sidings in Lowestoft at the port with funding available to upgrade them to allow for freight to run.
CAn I ask but who is getting on and off at Cantley, there nothing there but sugar beet
Telling people about u today got a load of stick but it was worth it for this episode
I love how you censor your companion's number plate but let us see everyone else's.
Do secrets of the Merseyrail please
I already mentioned something like that!
New class 777 trains are being commissioned that can run on third rail and overhead so that they can run from Liverpool to Wrexham without passengers having to change trains.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_777
I think that'd be interesting to do an episode about
Game circle 01 yeh good idea
The reason for platform is so long is because it was primarily used for cattle trains to take the cows to Norwich. As you can see, some of cattle didn't make it onto the trains and were left behind!
The only time Geoff didn't have to post the SD card to Will!
It amuses me that you're expected to cross the line to the other platform, not to mention the DIY level crossing on your walk. We station adopters at Whatstandwell asked to work on the disused platform across the line during the recent period when there were no trains for seven weeks or so. You'd think we'd asked to draw white lines on the A6 during the morning rush. There were NO TRAINS, but crossing the line was completely unimaginable. 100 metres down the line, the track to the sewage-treatment works crosses the line - we'd be fine to work there, if anyone wanted us, but not our own platform.
It's nice to get out of 'busy busy London' into the countryside...!!! 😁👍🌳🚶♂️🏃♂️🌲
So, could you say there was "Buck All" going on at Buckenham?
THere are more cows there on one day than passenger in the year
Growing up in rural Iowa I know how that is.
I only know Singing in the Rain from Morcambe and Wise.
How ribbiting seeing the local wildlife (sorry!). As always an excellent video. Looking forward to seeing more least used station videos in future.
Groan
Between Harwich and Manning tree early in the morning you sometimes see wildlife too.
so I guess this is what's commonly known as typical English weather
Question: Is this the station with the longest distance between staggered platforms in the UK? If not, where is? (simple staggered platforms only, i.e. platforms 1 to 24 at London Waterloo doesn't count)
I think Dilton Marsh is much longer, there's a substantial curve separating them.
Geoff: How come you didn't tell us you're such a good singer? Excellent intonation!
They closed my local station in the 60s and people have been asking ever since to get it reopened, and apparently they've finally got around to it for opening in the next few years.
Can you do a least used London Underground Station
Roding Valley I think
Roding Valley overall is the least used, seeing about 200,000 passengers a year. By comparison, many zone 1 stations see more than that in a day
spot on
@@agent_605 thank you. To be honest I thought it would be mill hill east as that's the part no one uses on the northern line
Thomas FclC Mill Hill East has quite a few peak time through trains to London. Meanwhile Roding Valley only has 3 trains an hour to London via Hainault, so many find it’s quicker just to go to Woodford (the next stop West) and get a train from their to London which avoids the Hainault Loop
Don't apologize for the rain. This makes me miss England.
Geoff looked so under-dressed I was feeling positively chilly in my nice warm living room. Will's parka and spray on thermal jeans were obviously keeping him nice and warm and dry until he took his hood down in solidarity with Geoff. "Brrrr, it's a bit nippy out".
Congratulations! You managed to make waiting for a train in the middle of nowhere in the rain interesting. The drowned rat look matches the locale, for sure, but imo, you could probably do with a better coat otherwise you'll catch your death! :^)
I have a feeling that you filmed this Saturday* afternoon, going by the weather, as I was sitting in the rain for 2 hours at Carrow Road watching Norwich get beaten.
Such joy.
*Ah, you hinted at this by saying it was a request stop for you, which you stated was for Saturdays... and you said so later ! Do'h !!
also at the start when i say "It's Saturday 6th October", that's the other clue! yes, there were many fans on the train on their way to see Stoke beat them!!
I just HAD to turn away when I saw Ipswich on the screen at first, so missed your introduction.
@@lewis72 You didn't hear it?
Tbh did you even check if the cows had bins or a dotmatrix display?
Yeah, a Least Used Station. I look forward to these. You do seem to have a lot of fun.
I now laugh when on anyone's video there is one of those rubbish bins with the bag flapping in the wind. It's even funnier when they are trying to be artistic. You've broken me, Geoff! 😃❤
Never been prouder to be from Norfolk.
I miss my early 50's trips to London's Liverpool St. on the Jazz service in my childhood. Gresley Quint-Arts suburban stock hauled by N7's and L1's. Some still in worn LNER teak finish with "3" on the doors. But despite the slam doors and stops at every local station, we managed to have at least 9 trains per hour in rush periods. Here in California where I live now, we are lucky if the one Amtrak train a day is less than 5 hours late.
I would not have walked to a least used station in the rain
It used to have more stopping services, as a request stop when I used to take the train to school (from Reedham). At least possible for a day in the city.
What I can't work out about Buckenham is how it gets less passengers than Spooner Row. The walk from Buckenham to Brundall is a lovely route, even in the rain.
The platforms are probably separated, so that the train can stop after the crossing in both directions, so the crossing can be lifted before the train departs and the wait is shorter
DO LEAST USED STATION SUFFOLK!
Bloody Thurston
@@jamierobinson8390Lakenheath railway station.
@@k1an24 I didn't even know they had a train station 😂
He’s already done it I think
That was toad-ally the best moo-vie - all the stations....all the wildlife...
Just a little bit of Norfolk pride coming out 😁😁 I'm so happy this video was made!
The level crossing in Brundall is amazing. It's a dead end road that leads to numerous boatyards and the road is so narrow they had to make a turning circle at the bottom. I don't know how many yards are still operating but in the mid-80s, when I worked on the Broads, you went in the front door to the office and out the back door to go onto the boat as the buildings touched each other. I was surprised to find the Berney Arms was not the least used, though it has weekend ramblers.
Gotta love automatically generated captions: 'at buckenham translates to 'up bucking them'
Another great video Geoff. I love those sort of small stations.
Have you considered attaching a cocktail unbrella to the lens of your camera? :-P
Wow, it's cool to see you up here, did you get to see the Berney Arms station on the Norwich to Yarmouth route, via reedham. Only three trains a day 2 there and 1 back.
One of the more picturesque places to work on the railway.
We I'll be damned, also I meant to ask did you get to see any of the class 37s?
The village lies in the civil parish of Strumpshaw, home of the Strumpshaw Hall Steam Museum.
FYI Elsenham has a manual crossing it is part of the conditions of use that it remains manual so it will probably be the last one in use
I know the guy who maintains the Station Gardens at Buckenham, he goes up there every couple of Sundays to look after the plants and keep the place looking great.
“We’ve got to get a shot of the train”
*almost misses the train*
That is a toad
The platform looks like it was longer once
Are you Harvey Denton?
@@Tallinn8786 NO I.... Am.... ED!!!!
Ipswich welcomes you!
The building of the new station at Wolverhampton is finally underway. The old station there is worth checking out, and the metro line to Birmingham is, in part, an old railway. There is loads of interesting trivia along the route too.
I know the difference between frogs and toads. Frogs are froggier wile toads are toadier
If it's sunny or it rains, Geoff flies by in tubes and trains :))
Have you considered fitting a hood to your lens? If it's not too windy, it might keep some drops off the lens...
According to the automatic captions, the onward travel information poster is the spiciest Geoff has ever seen
Anybody know where the sprinter 156409 featured near the end is now. I thought all of the GA 156s came here(EMR) but it isn't on their fleet list. GA however seem now not to have any left. The old GA 156s were internally in a much poorer state than the ones inherited from EMT.
As of May 2019 the manual crossing gates at Brundall are still there.
Thank you! Was curious about it
@@ligasinica6109 Sadly all gone now. All the semaphores and associated signal boxes have too, save for the two boxes associated with the two swing bridges on the Lowestoft line.
I believe that the signal boxes at Reedham Junction and Brundall are to be donated to the Mid Norfolk and North Norfolk Railways.
Great video, thanks a lot. Can't help but wonder how much money it costs to change all of the level crossings out there and whether it's really worth it, compared with having a human opening gates which must be pretty low maintenance. Talking of maintenance, they could also be used for line walks.
I love this, mainly because I live in Brundall and get the train to Lowestoft every day! And yet I still haven't been to Buckenham...
My dad, my brothers and I used to walk that road up to Buckenham station every other Saturday when he wasn’t working as a postie in Salhouse! Then on the Sunday of the alternate weekend we’d watch trains go past at Brundall station, get chips on the way back home and park up at Salhouse station to eat them before going home!
Great video, can you video about LTM soon please, I am going there in November for my birthday
A tip for keeping lenses dry & smear free. Take a chamois leather and cut it into 1 inch strips. Place in a ziplock bag. Use strips when necessary.
@geoffmarshall what is the app or image/PDF you are using in this video and others that show the map with all the stations. The best one I can find is on the national rail’s website and it doesn’t include every station.
What is there idea/history of having to open the window an then reach outside to open the door?
I travel to London ever three weeks now by German and Dutch trains in the Netherlands, replacement bus(we have our own purple line disaster) between Schiedam and Hook of Holland, ferry from Hook of Holland to Harwich, 6:57AM train to Manning tree, and than the type of train in the video to get to Londen Liverpool street station fast. Not taking the 7:15 or 7:20 train from Harwich because that stops at every cow. Yes I am that nutcase with a yellow backpack. After a day meeting I go back to Harwich to get the night ferry back to Hook of Holland
Hans Kruse Most trains originally had slam door trains, but to allow for central door locking and to prevent people messing with the doors only exterior handles were placed in later years, so sliding windows were used so passengers could open the doors from the inside. Most trains after the late 1980s had powered doors anyway
External-only door handles long pre-dated central locking. Indeed, it was the absence of central locking which made it necessary to not have internal handles, so a door couldn't be opened accidentally. And of course before air conditioning, all trains had opening windows anyway
I'm pretty sure that my uncle is responsible for about 25% of the station visitors, he lives in the area, is a twitcher, and is retired.
Yes of course it raining it's Norfolk for go sake lol 🙄🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Confuses me why he didn’t get the service from Liverpool Street to Norwich, as it still calls at Ipswich too
Great content for a station that basically had none of the basics. Just a little tip on fields of Cows and Bulls is that cows have an udder full of teets attached to it for milk while the bull only has one teet attached to it and I wish you the best of luck milking that! Also you only get one bull in a field as bulls don't get on and will always fight to the death.
I was half expecting to see Alan Partridge rambling across that field 😀
To Norwich and beyond!
SInging in the same key too. Very impressive, something that cannot be said about the station! They've ripped half the platform away.
First thing I noticed as well. Either good luck or technology??
Would be interesting if you did a secrets of south western railway
top 5 least used stations scotland : )
I'm rather sad that they didn't make their intent clear by sticking the umbrella out.
Wouldn't Brampton Station have less passengers?
I really enjoyed that! I love the remote stations of the Norfolk Broads!
Geoff, I am impressed : you sang that song in exactly the same key as Gene Kelly. Either you checked immediately beforehand, on your iphone, in which case you are probably a musician, as you pitched (and sang) it accurately; or you overdubbed it afterwards (but it was very well done, if so); or you checked before you left home, in which case you must have perfect pitch; or you were extremely lucky!
Sadly, we will never know the answer, because your original post was 16 months ago, and there is no way you are going to see this!
ha ha ... not overdubbed, i sang it in the moment as you heard it! maybe i have perfect pitch? crikey.
(I check ALL my comments, even on old videos!!)
@@geofftech2 Wow! I am even more impressed, now - both the singing 'and' the checking. I have no idea how many videos you have made, over the years, but ... checking them all?? Do you ever sleep?!
the way the UA-cam admin commenting system works is that it lists them all in chronological order. i have it set to "most recent" at the top, and check everyday ... (mainly to delete abusive ones, tbh!)
must dash ... got some singing to do
Those two platforms are social distancing.11:46
Only gets trains on a Sunday - that can't be very common.
Was I the only one expecting Alan Partridge
That was probably a toad it looked quite warty
You're not often over here in Norfolk, so this title got me a little excited to see some of my local trains on the channel! You should check out the new greater Anglia trains between Liverpool Street and Norwich when they're released early next year. There is one already released and it's a stark difference to what we are used to!
Hi Geoff, I’m planning on visiting Buckenham station tomorrow, what is there to see and is there no bus service on a Sunday?
So basically 3 half’s of people get on and of at this station
That was a entertaining video, shame about the weather, I be honest I had no idea where Buckenham was until I was editing a video which I did in August and found it on a map after Brundall and also you mentioned about limited WiFi during the video, when I was down there 2 months ago to clear some of the lines I haven't rode on, I was shocked to find the WiFi was pretty rubbish even know the land is flat! great video, cannot wait for your next Least Used Station.
I think it's a toad frogs green
That poor hamster strapped to the top of your camera! It looks half-drowned. You really should visit Westerham, and see if that really quaint old station building is still there, or if it has finally succumbed to the ivy & undergrowth.
peebee143 I live near there
Any chance you could nip there and see if the old building is still extant, or if it has now gone??? Grab a few phots if poss, and stick them on FB or UA-cam??
peebee143 I think it’s now a beauty salon but their is a plaque there
Whats the least used station music
ua-cam.com/video/4nLYzBuNRKE/v-deo.html
Not bad at singing, congrats!
Bovine bonus!
Residents of Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, pronounce 'Buckingham' as 'Buckenham'. Very irritating.
If one is interested, here's some more information about the actual Buckenham station house. It was "de-staffed" in the late 1960s. The 1840s station house is now occupied, so someone is living there, listening to trains hurl by each day.
All this exciting info can be found on page 12 of the PDF via the link:
www.railfuture.org.uk/east/rail-east/RailEast-Issue-174-June-2017.pdf
bonus points for the cows
You passed through Ipswich and didn't stop by to hello :-( Those loco trains will be going by the end of next year, so make the most of them on the Norwich-London Line.