Havenhouse - Least Used Station in Lincolnshire
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- Опубліковано 26 жов 2018
- It's time to head into Lincolnshire - to Havenhouse, the least used station in the whole of the county, which gets just two trains a day in each direction, picking up my companion at Nottingham along the way ...
Downlaod the ORR Station Usage Estimates here: dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statist...
I love how the Skegness line has 3 least used stations.
Do you know what the other two ones were?
@@hesky10 Elton & Orston and Bottesford. Fun fact both are least used stations and also right next to eachother.
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Hi Geoff, I see you caught my signalling handiwork at Wainfleet. I was a bit surprised to see you on the platform and at the level crossing. Should have invited you up for an "off the record " chat but as you know, that can be troublesome. Happy travels
we saw you looking our way, and i did wonder ... ! ;)
This railway is known locally as the Poacher line, named by the community rail partnership that supports it. I use the line fairly frequently from Boston and Skegness, but never got off here at Havenhouse. The last time i used the line 3 weeks ago was, on one of my international rail journeys, coming back to Boston from Prague, CZ. This is a lovely line with its old skool charm of semaphore signalling and jointed track along some stretches.
Heckington is the only 8-sailed windmill* (not 7!). My grandparents live just 2 minutes down the road from the station at Heckington, I know it so well! I live right in the middle of the huge void of railway lines in East Lincolnshire. The nearest station is half an hour away which makes being a railway geek extremely difficult, and being a tube geek even harder. It feels very strange seeing you in my part of the world!
Edit: amazing video as always Geoff!
I used to deliver newspapers all down the road from Heckington to Great Hale, where I lived, from around 1966 to 1971
Nice to see Pete again. Cooling towers always impressive. Heckington is very nice! RHTT - tick. Trains passing water feature - tick. Lovely drone shot - tick. Bin function failure - lol. Nice little vid :)
Thanks David!
Failed high five at 6:10 😭😂😭😭
That’s the first time I’ve seen a help point work in one of these videos
I love to see cooling towers...!!! 1:10 😁👌
Miss them on the M1 at Sheffield...!!! 😢☹👎
Please come to london
@@Redheisenberg He works in London. Or are you just joking around?
Yayy bus guy
I once spent a night at East Midlands parkway 😂. It was a midnight after Download Festival and I was sleeping on the floor because there were no trains until the morning.
Look who stopped in to say hi
Penalty for improper use £200
I doubt anyone has ever actually been fined for that. it's probably just a deterrent.
Besides, i'd imagine that "improper usage" is more about falsely calling emergency and not just about asking why is it raining.
Hi
My friends live just up the road, the train line is in their back garden. it's a very nice area of Lincolnshire.
I saw some children get off their and walk down the road once.
Fun to see a Pittsburgh Steelers hat over the pond! My hometown!
I use East Midlands Parkway a lot because of Megabus, which is coach/train mix that can cost as little as £5 for Bradford to Londons StP's. I love the combination of the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station with the loud cascade of water inside the cooling towers, and the areas of developing scrubland on the other side of the road, where earlier this year I saw the most grasshoppers I've in one place.
These are all so pleasing to experience and this one about Havenhouse is no exception.
I have been on the "skeggy special" HST on a number of occasions. It is a fine day trip for ~£20! The best thing is the 1st class is declassified!
I think this my favourite one yet - beautifully filmed!
I don't really know why I watch these "least used station" videos but they are great! My smile gets wider and I start chuckling, can't beat that...
I love the scenery in Lincolnshire. It reminds me The Netherlands with the canals and flat land.
That area of Lincolnshire is even called Holland
I know - but SE Lincolnshire isn't called Netherlands
As Norbiton Flyer already pointed out, the area of Lincolnshire is called Holland nevertheless, but also of note is that the landscape of Holland (the two provinces) is indeed mostly flat, with canals and polders all round, so there is nothing wrong with comparing an area to Holland, in the same way you could compare an area with Lincolnshire. Heck, The Netherlands contain a lot of terrain that isn't flat with polders - just take a look at De Kempen or the provinces of Gelderland and Limburg.
I live in Skegness! Glad to see Lincolnshire getting some attention
Do you know Amanda Lee? She lived in Skegness....her mum and dad still do...
Love the camera work in this one - you've captured rural Lincolnshire very effectively. Re largest drop-off between passenger numbers at consecutive stations, Manchester Piccadilly and Ardwick is going to take some beating.
I'd be surprised if there's anything better than that! Good suggestion
Stockport & Reddish South?
MAN/ADK=27.807m/860=32334 but SPT/RDS=3.782m/94=40234.
I looked at Shippea Hill and Pilning, but it seems that they won't be good examples for this question, because their 2016/17 usage is a lot higher than in 2015/16. Clearly your videos have popularised them! Good work, Geoff!
Am thinking also Derby to Peartree?
correction. Manchester Piccadilly and Ardwick have a ratio of 32325 which is beaten by Stockport Reddish
Ooh good spot Rosie - I didn't realise Stockport's usage was so high. As for Bordesley, its figures are propped up by Birmingham City football fans so it does well enough not to be a factor here.
So happy to see you visit the village I grew up in and see the windmill. I caught a train to London from there last Friday. The gate is still manually opened and closed. Wonder if that is something that you don't see much of anymore?
Geoff I absolutely love these videos!
This is fantastic Geoff. Remember it well from All The Stations.
I have actually been to this least used station and got a train from there about a year ago!
To visit the least used station in Lincolnshire of course!!!
I love how the train you took bypassed the least used station in both Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire
Havenhouse reminds me of Burradoo Station here in Australia.
Two platforms, a tiny waiting shelter (bit bigger than Havenhouse’s admittedly), leafy surroundings and also near some large fields.
Differences are Burradoo has no station buildings at all (bar the shelter obviously) and the service is hourly (on weekdays at least). Its passenger stats are 10 daily (as of 2014).
What a gorgeous little station!
There used to be another station between Havenhouse and Skegness called Seacroft which closed in the 1960's. All that remains is the level crossing.
Stonking! Nice guest appearance from the cooling towers 😍😍😍😍
the biggest percentage drop between passenger numbers is probably ely (over 2 million) and shippea hill (around 100)
99.3%, pretty good, but neaten by Manchester Picadilly/Ardwick (99.7%)
Another enjoyable to watch least used station! Heckington Station is a favourite of mine, I'll have to visit Havenhouse one day. Is there a village called Havenhouse, from what I could see it looked like just a station on a country lane!
Wow! Geoff was in Nottingham. Wish I had known.Those HST trains to Skegness are tempting - if you do not mind being stuck on a train with a million screaming kids for two hours.
I live in Sydney Australia I’m 15 I was born in Lincolnshire and lived there for 18 months Very close to havenhouse, thank you for this video as it gives me more of an understanding of the place in a way
Pretty sure the average jail cell is bigger than that waiting room. And was anyone else hoping the special guest was going to be one the guys from the Periodic Videos/Numberphile/etc series of videos?
Heckington is lovely it has an amazing show I lived their a while but I just moved house still local to heckington I do miss it though
Heckington, the windmill was interesting but so was the manually operated level crossing.
Nice capture of the RHTT ... Rail Head Treatment Train
Rail 👇 Head 👇 Treatment 👇 Train 👇 (FTFY)
Should have gone for a pint at the Batemans when you got off at Wainfleet. Can't believe you walked to Haven house either! We'll done!
I have to wonder, when is Geoff gonna do a series of Most-used station?
Least used London Waterloo
jealous of the train stations there. jealous of the views you get and the photography opportunities at these stations i probably will never see/get.
Wonder which bank has those blurring contactless cards... wouldn't mind one myself :p (Don't blame you for blurring it up) but it is a great factional and entertaining video and I cannot believe people asked the help point on why is it raining. It did really made me laugh :)
You saw a RHTT - Rail Head Treatment Train
Plus the rail type is CWR - Continuously Welded Rail
Kind regards, Peter Skuce, St. Albans. Hertfordshire.
Geoff, will you be redoing Reddish South/Denton (depending on which was lower in the ORR statistics) so you can focus on one station, rather than passing through them? Side note, one overlooked positive to the timetable chaos of the timetable change from May 2018, is that there's been an increase in services between Stockport and Stalybridge via Denton, well, a return service anyway. Also, it now runs on a Saturday morning, rather than a Friday morning
nice vid! this was my local station until very recently, sadly never used it!
Walking along that bit of the A52 is taking your life in you hands!!
I was on a railtour to Skegness hauled by 60103 Flying Scotsman in September and Havenhouse was packed!
It was a Rail Head Treatment Train, RHTT for short!
What a charming station
I remember travelling back from Skegness on one of the High Speed Trains class 222 and haven house just looked like a blur
I love these vids. You could do wales and Scotland as well!
Another great video!
A lot of people from Sheffield and Nottingham visit Skegness and the surrounding seaside towns and villages.
Yes, but Havenhouse is not near a town (the nearest is Wainfleet, a couple of miles away, which has its own station) and Havenhouse is a good three miles from the sea (and the nearest point on the coast to Havenhouse is actually nearer Skegness station)
Love your videos
Great to see the crossing gates and red home signals.
John in Canada
As someone from near mablethorpe I find it amusing that it's still on the timetable despite closing in 1970 - although think I've realised it's a bus service
Ratio of Quiet next to busy stations suggested so far: Waterloo/ Vauxhall 4.4, Clapham Junction/ Queenstown Road 17, Surbiton/Berrylands 25, Berwick/Chathill 195, Birmingham MS/ Bordesley 451, Birmingham NS/Adderley Park 514, Newcastle/Dunston 794, Manchester Apt/Styal 889, Newcastle /manors 896, Derby/Peartree 959, Skegness/Havenhouse 3293, Ely/Shippea Hill 14163, Mancheter Pic / Ardwick 32334, Stockport/Reddish South 40231 (or a 99.998% reduction).
Is the Sheffield one the one where the doctor crashed in
Are the Scottish council regions ever going to get the "least used" treatment?
I live in london, england and i love your videos
I would go there just to take in the peaceful and beautiful English countryside - and that lady on the help line was really super friendly, if that was here in America it'd be more like, "yeah I'm busy, what do you want?" LOL
Can't believe you didn't say "Skeggy" once! Coming from Lincolnshire it's called either Skeg-Vegas or Skeggy!
VVellieMan It’s definately a Lincolnshire saying. It’s always been known as Skeggy in our family. I was born in Boston & still live in the town.
... and if you are from the place, it's usually just Skeg. :)
I lived in Holbeach, it was Skankness. 😂
And if you are from Leicester it’s Skeggeh!
@@AidanMillward Why do so many people hate the place?
What is the app you used in this and the Chetnole least used station video that has a map of the stations?
Nice and picturesque
Was the station building now a house? It looked like it used to have more importance. Perhaps for farm workers in days gone by?
I've used this line a lot.
Thorpe Culvert can't be that far behind in passenger numbers!
Old class 20's were used at one time in the summer to take holiday makers to Skeg.There is footage of them on the line elsewhere on You Tube.
Two passengers got the train in Havenhouse. You cranked up the average for this year. No headlines in the newspaper?
GEOFF! What drone do you use for your drone footage? Thanks
Ely-Shippea Hill, Newcastle-Manors and Berwick-Chathill a few contenders for biggest dropoff between adjacent stations?
Bristol Temple Meads < > Bedminster and/or Lawrence Hill
I was going to use this station many tears ago-about 1972 and there weren't many trains then. I walked from Skegness along the beach and then along the lane. I intended to get the train back but missed it. -actually from Michael
You have to come here and catch the HSTs flying through it would be amazing.
Yesterday I was on a Thameslink and I heard you voice at Blackfriars
Addicted to these videos... 😳
Try Thornton Abbey (Barton Line) or Brigg/Gainsborough Central/Kirton Lindsey for least used stations in Lincolnshire!
Alan Dixon Gainsborough central isn’t used much but my daughter lives in Gainsborough and was looking up trains home, from Birmingham new street, she found some trains did arrive at Gainsborough central. She prefers to use Lea Road as it’s closer to her home.
The strange thing about this sation is that about half a mile beyond the staiton the road it's on becomes private. So the station is essentially almost at the end of a dead-end road that serves the station building and a couple of farms. I'm surprised as many people as that do use it.
buys ticket to Havenhouse, then leaves the train without using it.
love yr vids
Walkers have released a new Brussels sprouts flavour of crisps for christmas. Another big drop between stations is Manchester pic and ardwick
as for the biggest drop in passengers between two adjacent stations, I'd guess it's probably Manchester Piccadilly and Ardwick (23,558,364 and 324 respectively). I always wonder every time I pass Ardwick on the way to Piccadilly if the station ever made any sense existing considering how close it is to the second biggest station in the north.
The Railhead Cleaning Thing is the RHTT which is the Rail Head Treatment Train
What’s with this nice looking small house on the side of the platform? The one with another waiting room in there. Is the rest of the house still used?
Very cool!
Love it !
Will you be doing a Least Used Stations Isle of Wight?
nice to see you're heading north, be great to see when you hit NELincs
He's doing traditional counties, so no NELincs, but if he did the least-used would be New Clee (1,286)
12:06 Funded by Central Trains.
There's a name I haven't heard in a long time... my dad started driving for them way back when.
They are (although those are 156s). But Central was split up in 2007, this part going to East Midland, and other parts to the Cross Country and West Midlands franchises
Is this a request stop type station ?
If you were on the platform and didn't stick your hand out, would the train simply pass through and leave you ?
great video, but why are the British trains not so frequent?
I used to get the train from wainfleet to Skegness every day to school and the train would stop at haven house everyday for the school kids only.
That’s weird I own a lodge in haven and I’m there right there now and you’ve done a video at haven house!!
When will you do the Sheffield tram-train?
Fun video. A few good laughs. 👍👍
When you’ve finished doing least used stations, can you possibly do most used in each county? Itll be interesting to see what the station would be in less populated counties
Might be difficult to shoot there with all the people running around who might not want to be filmed.
12:26 oh no, Geoff died!
He was absorbed by Pete.
I've absorbed a few people over the years.
Peter Miller Happens to us all sometimes.
I can remember the Mablethorpe line, there may have been some least used stations there if it was still open
My grandad used to drive those.
Havenhouse station, or Croft Bank as it used to be called - why is it there at all?
9:50 - is Manchester Airport - Styal in Cheshire a bigger % drop in passenger numbers? Just off the top of my head
4241292/4772 , so an 89% drop. The Skegness/Havenhouse figure is a 97% drop
when i was going to skegness the train i got on was a sprinter it stopped at every station including havenhouse lol
I would have thought that Hubberts Bridge would get less use but I have been proven wrong.
4 min 40 sec, that's a fine piece of cameramanship
I'd say that when you decide to do Pilning as a Least Used that you also do St Andrews Road at the same time. You can tick off two Least Used Stations off at the same time
Going North was possibly the only sensible thing to do last week ;)