DAY 19 - Revisiting the Lesbian Capital of the UK!
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- Опубліковано 2 гру 2024
- Exploring Yorkshire and the Humber by Train DAY 19 (11/06/23). Here I visit: Walsden, Todmorden, Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Sowerby Bridge, Halifax and Brighouse. Revisiting the Lesbian Capital of the UK!
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I like the fact that during the Knickers on your Head song, you passed a sign saying you’re on CCTV 😂. I bet the people monitoring the CCTV enjoyed that.
I was in hospital today - nurses discussing good place for a day out and I suggested Hebden as a good place. Then I told her it was the lesbian capital of the UK and she responded "now you are just making it even more interesting" lol
Haha brill!
@@GLovesTrainshi
Great vlog G, What a beautiful part of the world, another first with the 180 Class and stunning stations and views. Looking forward to the next one, stay safe
A lamp room is where in the olden days they used to store the paraffin and spare lamps for the semaphore signals. Around the Manchester area there were still these sort of signals into the mid 1990's when the paraffin lamps in the semaphore signal was replaced with electric lamps doing away with the need of weekly going around topping up the paraffin, since then a lot of the semaphore signals have been replaced with colour light signals.
Thanks a lot!
Lamp room - Trains have to have red lights at the back and white ones at the front, at all times. They are a safety measure and the final method of collision avoidance. Before electrical technology they used paraffin lamps. Paraffin lamps burn a long time but need refilling and wicks need trimming. Paraffin smells terrible, so it's good to keep it away from ordianry buildings. The lamp room was a dry place where a dead lamp could be rejuvinated. In the old days, you could just stop the train and fix the lamp if it went out. Lamp rooms lasted much longer than the introduction of electric lighting, because goods trains still had paraffin lamps until fairly recently.
Many thanks for making and sharing your video.
We really enjoyed this and hope you keep up the fantastic work 😀
I like the way each station has its own personality, with the signs, adverts, flowers, etc
A lamp room was for maintaining oil lamps, filling them with oil, trimming wicks etc. There were still some oil lamps in use on the railways until quite recent times.
It may be as well to mention what these lamps were used for and who looked after them. The lamps were for the Semaphore Signals and were maintained by a Lamp Man. His job was to refill the lamps with Paraffin Oil and trim and adjust the wicks, also clean the glass lenses in them. Around once a week he would take these made ready lamps to the signals, climb up the ladders and swop the lamps over, thus carrying the now depleted lamps back to the Lamp Room to start the process over again. It was customery for the Signalman to make the Lamp Man a refreshing cup of tea and a warm by the stove, especially during the winter months.
@rock_dinosaur Correct mate...🙂
What a lovely set of stations, G. I saw that there was a big old station building at Halifax in some shots - I had to look it up; apparently it’s a children’s museum now
Ah yes I did see that
Great video that. Nice part of the world. Brighouse is a very well looked after station.
Btw, I take it the lamp room was where they stored the lamps that used to feature on the back of coaching stock and freight trains.
I think that a lamp room was where they kept the lamps to put on steam trains.I had an old South African Railways lamp that worked using calcium carbide but I don't know what became of the lamp.
One of my friends and myselves favourite rides is to Hebden Bridge on the train then catch the bus in the station to Howarth for a ride on the Keighley and Worth Valley railway.
Keep up the good work as usual. 👍
Halifax is nice I highly recommend visiting the Eureka Museum across the road from the station
Excellent vlog, G! You can't beat a sunny day with lots of nice stations to visit. I like the 1980s look of Sowerby Bridge station too!
Thanks barrowc!
Thank you for sharing G
Fantastic line G always a pleasure to travel in your company nice stations and views and of course great flowing water 👍🤗
Thanks a lot!
Another great video! I was lucky enough to have a sneak preview whilst on work experience at Laira Depot of a 180 when it was new to FGW.
Just found your channel and really enjoying it so thank you
Keep them coming! Great vids
🧐 fort you were Roger thr doger, but you become @ferrari355101!
Didn’t realise that about Hebden I went a few years ago for a wander down the canal and found some amazing chips!
Hi G lots of great stations along this route Grand central have worked this route for a few years the 180's are shortly going to be replaced by ex avanti 221's as they are very unreliable i always enjoy the beautiful views along herei hope you have many more wonderful journeys
How long until they get IETs 🤣
Thanks! I'll have to ride them before that!
its amzing to see Todmorden again as i visited the town last year when i was up North & i walked up to Stoodley Pike which was recomended by your Todmorden vlog last year even tho its a long walk but i enjoyed it & its a nice walk also its amazing to see Sowerby Bridge again as i went there to film trains when i was in Yorkshire back in March its a lovely station also i visited Halifax aswell also the station is lovely for filming trains & i was lucky to film a Grand Central 180 whiile there also im still mining to visit Hebden Bridge i might visit Hebden when im back up North in September & the Calder Valley line is def a lovely line & i did a full Journey from Manchester to Leeds which i enjoyed & id ride that line again anyday awesome vlog
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the walk!
Love watching your videos G. So interesting & wonderful content.
Thanks!
G you are so good with these little gems. Deffo trying to catch your back stuff. Some local train journeys (North Wales and North West)I think I might try. Keep up your brilliant work
Thanks! North Wales is beautiful
a very interesting line all the best
Great video and lovely stations. The Victorian builders of these lines would be horrified by the train cancellations and lateness of trains though! You are very kind not to complain!
Hallo G,
Loved this video, another memory lane trip, I remember thinking that Halifax Station wasn't very big considering the importance of the town and area. Brighouse is also well known for being in partnership with Rastrick and between them have a Brass Band. This band enjoyed some fame making some recordings with the singer and piano player Peter Skellern, who sadly is no longer with us.
All in all another enjoyable watch.
I must get back up that way again, I'll put it on my "Bucket List"...
Take care,
Jon B.
Thanks Jon! Put it on ur bucket list 👍
Hey G! You need to travel on the Grand Central trains to London Kings Cross a nice longer trip in a Class 180. Yet another vlog with stunning views and fun. Ray xx
I sure want to! Thanks Ray!
Great film G. You were in the area known as "Cleckhuddersfax". Hebden Bridge is lovely. This is a brilliant series.
Thanks!
Nice vlog G. Great to see Hebden Bridge again looks like a stunning Station and I would love to visit myself one day. I’ve been to Halifax it’s alright lol. Never ridden with Grand Central or on the 180s which have been having problems recently. Nice scenery throughout with the flowing water as well. I enjoyed watching.
Thanks Sam, I'd recommend the 180s for the short ride I had on that one 😂
I love to see all the summer views and flowing water! Such summery vibes 😎
Great video as always G, the weather always makes it👍
Thanks!
Awesome Video G Loves Trains
Just a bit of trivia, whilst you were walking in Wellholme Park the bank of trees is actually the embankment of a long disused railway that linked the Calder valley line to the Halifax to Bradford line.
The Calder Valley line certainly is a route of beautiful stations and stunning views.
Glad you managed to get your first ride on a Grand Central class 180 as well
Thanks! Loved the 180
The third platform at Halifax was used by trains which ran via Queensbury to serve platforms 3 and 4 at Keighley station where the KWVR is now. Their line was actually a branch off this line, so a short section of this line to just before Ingrow still exists. There was an Ingrow East Station on the main line. Queensbury was a triangular station with lines going East to Bradford Exchange, they passed under the lines direct from Halifax, and joined the lines from Leeds at St. Dunstans. These lines closed in 1955, so nothing to do with Dr. Beeching’s report.
In Halifax, near the Chocolate factory and the old Halifax Flour Society building there is Hargreaves foundry. If you walk North from Kings Cross Station in London towards the canal you will pass a quite new building with large cast iron columns with a sort of plaited pattern on them. Hargreaves cast the sections for these columns, and also some reproduction lampposts for the Bluebell Railway Station at East Grinstead.
Nice to see a grand central train. Do I see a lucy?
I definitely have to agree that when it comes to be doing my filming on the Calder Valley, Todmorden is one of my favourites to visit as well as Hebden Bridge (for the trains obviously, nothing to do with anything else at Hebden Bridge, that is the job of the knicker monster haha) and Halifax
14:02 Indeed, I remember when I first saw the 180s for the first time and when they left, everything about them screamed 175s and if you think about it, they are a sort of evolution on the 175 being part of the same family. Just a shame that they are being plagued by a lot of problems and their future with GC is now ropey at best with talks about some of Avanti's Class 221s heading in the direction of Grand Central
Ay it is a shame! Hebden Bridge is soo pretty!
Great videos I do my trainspotting at Preston whenever I can love the ormskirk to Preston line and back hate train stations that look like bus shelters bring back the traditional railway stations they where beautiful carnforth and Lancaster stations and Preston is where I go to transpot love it might see you there on your travels keep the videos coming nice one from northern soul tony 😊
Fab video, and those stations, especially Hebden Bridge, look fab.
Thanks!
Brilliant video G, it's brilliant to see Todmorden and Hebden Bridge again. I've never been down the Calder Valley line before and I'd love to do it sometime. Also the 180's, I've had them with EMR for a bit and despite the faults that these units have experienced in the past, they have been fine for me. Shame EMR got rid of the 180's in May really.
Would definitely recommend it! And yeah that's a shame!
Class 180 are cool happy when get book on then doncaster to King's cross
Brighouse station only reopened about 20 years ago. When I lived in Yorkshire it was a freight- only line. Seems to be getting more usage now and more frequent trains…
2 trains an hour but apparently TP Express are looking to run a route from Manchester Airport to Bradford then Leeds but don't know how true that is. That's what I heard from HADRAG
How apt that you make another video on Hebden. The family and I have just arrived in Heptonstall - just above Hebden. The roads are being relaid so its temporary traffic light hell on earth which means more walking and more using the trains! The stations are very attractive in Calder vale. I wouldn't mind living up here one day as we're getting a bit jaded down South. Thanks for another brilliant day's filming.
Ah that's a pain! Thanks 😀
I do like the vibe of your videos but what is the knickers on your head all about?
spent a few hours in brighouse, lovely little suburb/village
Ahem Town
Great video G and great that you finally had a ride on a Class 180. However Grand Central are getting 2 Class 221 Super Voyagers which are ex-Avanti as the Class 180s been having problems. The Calder Vale Line was really stunning and also a good cheaper way to get between Manchester and Leeds, shame about the trains being cancelled and running late as well.
Thanks Cyber, shame about the 180s I really loved riding that one
Leeds/Bradford to Manc is very nice on Northern and cheaper.
@@Listenerandlearner870 I can agree with that, you can get some good very cheap prices for less than a fiver sometimes on the route as well.
Hey! Bummer with that cancelled train. Do you do your stops in sequence? I’ve seen another train UA-camr save some time by passing some stops and getting off and then use the returning service to get to the “middle” stop passed by prior. Many times the returning service will show up quicker than a service in the same direction. It’s a bit more elaborate but could save you some time when visiting so many stations in a day. Geoff Marshal does this for instance.
Depends how long the wait is and what I want to do at each station. I did this one in order as the waits were pretty quick
Hi I took train from blackpool to York over pennines very lovely
Yup,room where paraffin lamps were stored and trimmed.
preston to hebden bridge ie a lovely trip and the limit of the lancashire day ranger great vids g
Great vlog as always & is the elizabeth line on your to do list as well as a longer journey on grand central or lumo ?
I did a ride on LUMO i enjoyed it 👍
Great Video again G 👏
Thanks!
I've been on the Class 180s a few times back when Great Western were running them. Are they working any better now than when they had them?
They worked fine that day haha
Not ridden the Calder Vale line for some years now! Must put that right sometime, though sadly now haven't time to this summer!
Like your enjoyment on travelling on rail . And what's near a railway station.
Thanks!
Wow, Hebden Bridge is a beautiful station looks more like a heritage line station.
I swear every time l get a Calder Valley train, it's always packed!
Interesting that Hebden is famous for the manufacturing of trousers ❤
Another great video, totally agree that the Coradia 175/180s are good units, sadly my local operator (EMR) have withdrawn them. I had a good day out in Hebden Bridge a few weeks ago (mainly the pubs) and love the station. Keep up the good work!
Aw sad! Thanks 😀
Hebden bridge a beautiful real station yipeeeeeeee ❤❤ x tq
Excellennt video
Another great video all those stations looked amazing and interesting was at todmordon years ago on a brewery tour and sowerby bridge is lovely also Calder valley is great, keep up the good work 👍👍✅✅
Thanks a lot!
I enjoyed the video, as usual G! Out of curiosity, are there many days/stations left in this series?
Thanks! And dunno i don't plan that far 😂
Hi gloves trains when you were at Sowerby Bridge you did not mention the real cafe on the platform
How remembers the old style chocolate machines at the stations
Todmorden, my home town :)
Who looks after the gardens/flowers , does these stations have station staff ? Another enjoyed and fun video. From Australia 🦘
Some are staffed, some stations have volunteers
Yep, the lamp room is for lamps, but the booking office isn't for books. 😂
Lol 😂
Absolutely love the big name board at Hebden Bridge - every station used to have running in boards emphatically identifying the station name, and I find their absence nowadays very irritating.
Hope you managed to unload before you did yourself a mischief
Haha it went away 🤣
Do you know what I like the more improvised vlog. I also like "It's smells like Summer" Brilliant Vlog When glovestrains Chooseday comes. Nice bit of flowing water trains and hopefully a walk in the countryside just bliss 😊
Haha doesn't smell of summer anymore 😂
Excellent G
lol had to check mobile when that beeping sound happened.
😂😂
ive recently done these stations on my visit all station challenge tis a very nice area .......cant believe you never left a deposit at the Halifax 😂😂
😂😂 damn!
Would like to suggest to any lesbians looking to relocate to Hebden; Try Tod down the road instead. Houses are cheaper.
Did see Hebden Bridge on TV recently and was reminded of your good self. I think it’s fascinating that it has become a haven for the LGBTI+ community.
On a completely different subject, I’d bet that Quebec and Montreal Streets commemorate battles from the Seven Years War.
Nice stations, great vlog G.
As far as I am aware, Geoff Marshall has never informed the viewer that he needs a poo.
Good for him. I'm G and I need a poo.
I’ve always thought Tod Morden sounds like an American sports commentator. Also how does ticketing work? Do you get a day pass or do you buy individual tickets?
Off peak return for this one
nice one again g loves i have always meaning to ask with the name g loves trains what made you choose it
I'm G and I love riding trains 👍
@@GLovesTrains you should explore the surrey areas and sussex areas as well like faygate but you will have to do it early in the morn
You've got 10k views for this video. 9600 are from guys wanting you badly and 400 females wanting the same thing. It's a win for you either way. Have a nice day and I loved the video.
Well in that case I'd rather lose.. 😂
You mean Cleckhuddersfax as we call it
The title 😭😭😭
I am not a homophobe btw
She is so pretty! You girls are so lucky she is a lesbian!
Pretty sure all women who are transport stuff are lesbians! 😫 ❤
Great blog G, lovely area. Glad you enjoyed despite….what has become the new normal of our rail network; late trains, cancelled trains, toilets not working on stations and trains, it’s all falling apart. It shouldn’t be like this, the public and you deserve better. Grumpy 😡 old
man. Keep safe. x. 🚂🚴♂️👣🇺🇦
Make it gayer! ❤️🎉🎉🎉 Got to love revisiting major queer places!
Oh I will! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🥳
Careful G...you are very fair-skinned....would be wise to wear a sun hat with a brim to prevent sun burn.
What sun 😂
@@GLovesTrains I'm sure the ''Lair Ladies'' would provide some ''comfort'' if you did get sun burnt! 🤣🤣🤣 😉😉😉
Tenish is what Sean Connery used to watch at Wimbledon!
You and poo in this video lol lol.
Lesbian Capital of The U.K. ... have ever been to Brighton ?
Lesbian capital of the UK? Since when? 😲 I never knew that.
Two hours in Walsden? You should’ve had a walk to Gordon Riggs garden centre. Lovely cafe and farm shop.
What's not to love about Hebden Bridge.
Popstar singer & songwriter Ed Sheeran used to live at Hebden Bridge before he moved to Framlingham, Suffolk. I wonder why Hebden Bridge gets mentioned a lot because of where he comes from. Still it is a lovely place to visit.
I didn't even know that Grand Central went to Halifax! Probably the owner of GC's favourite bank is called Halifax.
Me neither!
Surely it's New Oxford Street in London that's where all the bars and clubs are.
Love Toddy and Hebden Bridge. Living in Australia I miss those places so much.😊
Aw!
Hope you do the night Rivera train and also the Plymouth or Newton abbot to Paignton
I did the night riviera was great!
Careful Miss G....they might grab you into their lair! 😆😆 🤣🤣🤣
They can take me to their lair anytime! 😜
@@GLovesTrains I should have guessed.....
😜😜🤪🤪
Good content must ask why you put knickers on your head in every vid I'm sure they must be a reason, barring that good content