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It's All Gone Wrong - Episode 26, Day 44 - Maidenhead to Marylebone

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  • Опубліковано 23 чер 2017
  • It's Monday 19th June, and All The Stations head out west from Paddington to do all the stations in the Thames Valley area. They've got a lift from Dan which helps, a ride too in some self driving cars at Heathrow, except that due to it being the hottest day of the year, and a pigeon that explodes, it all goes a bit wrong ...
    Download the All The Stations theme tune from iTunes here: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/all... (other stores are available....)
    Geoff and Vicki are visiting ALL 2,563 national railway stations in Britain - view the progress map and loads more information about the project on the website at: allthestations.co.uk/
    ROUTE: London Paddington, Hayes & Harlington, Maidenhead, Marlow, Henley-on-Thames, Twyford, Slough, Windsor & Eton Central, Heathrow Terminal 5, Heathrow Central, Heathrow Terminal 4, Heathrow Central, Boston Manor (Tube), Hanwell (no train caught), Drayton Green, West Ealing, London Paddington, London Marylebone (no train caught).

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  • @RoulinBrooks
    @RoulinBrooks 7 років тому +12

    I laughed at Vicki's gasp of astonishment when the pod door opened up. Also, as much as the day didn't go as planned, bravo on riding such a varied range of transport: trains, a car, a bus, a Heathrow pod and the Underground. A day like this isn't great for Geoff and Vicki, but it makes for entertaining viewing.

  • @markjaques5921
    @markjaques5921 7 років тому +35

    I have lived in the US for 11 years so it has been great watching the journeys I always loved traveling on trains. What are the odds that I had to go to London for business and was slightly even more amazed to bump into you two at Paddington station. The Americans with me got totally confused and bemused as they thought I had seen some celebrities they way I was talking, good luck on the rest of the endeavor from Seattle USA.

  • @railenthusiast88
    @railenthusiast88 7 років тому +13

    Thank you for carrying on despite the heat and delays. Although not the best day for travelling it was a good snapshot of when things go wrong on the railways.
    Your day reminds me of one I did from Leeds to Porthmadog return. A domino of delays on the way and when the guard realised on the transpenine route the late running meant I missed the connection at Manchester and my next train was in 4 hours sorted an alternative route and a taxi from Bangor.
    Trust with the temperatures dropping the next few trips are less stressful.

  • @TomLane11
    @TomLane11 7 років тому +46

    In the Evening Peak (roughly when you were at West Ealing, I think?) on that day the performance measure for on time trains hit 0% for local stopping trains out of Paddington that evening.

  • @thestargateking
    @thestargateking 7 років тому +21

    When I eventually go to the UK this video series will be my travel guide

    • @crazyoncoffee
      @crazyoncoffee 7 років тому +1

      Tina Onions - was a Marshall once. When?

  • @moritzl7065
    @moritzl7065 7 років тому +39

    "The next train is 11 minutes followed by one in 12 minutes"
    It's sad how common that is on the Piccadilly line...

    • @ianmcclavin
      @ianmcclavin 6 років тому +3

      I suppose having 50% of the Heathrow branch trains coming from Terminal 5 and the others from the T4 loop doesn't help. That explains the dwell times at T4 Station.

  • @etmccaus
    @etmccaus 7 років тому +6

    Stayed up late here in the U.S. catching up on ATS videos and in a stroke of serendipity, caught you both on BBC World News. Worlds collide!

  • @dorsettyke
    @dorsettyke 7 років тому +18

    I could feel your pain at the end of that vid. Nothing left in the tank!Well done :-)

  • @CallingAllStations
    @CallingAllStations 7 років тому +23

    Wakefield Westgate, now that's a station I can't count how many times I've changed at and never ventured outside.... Next time!
    Good old tube trying to save the day... still, well done on managing to turn a stinker of a day into another great episode!

    • @joshmorris5580
      @joshmorris5580 7 років тому

      Calling All Stations it's lovely outside very modern with some greenery with a slope up to the city centre it's about a 5 minute walk into the city centre from the station

    • @julieaylward7033
      @julieaylward7033 7 років тому +1

      I must say that I preferred the old Wakefield Westgate (Denton Station in A Touch Of Frost). The new one is too clinical, not on a bus route, has a microscopically small drop-off area, has the First Class lounge at the wrong end of the platform and does not have an Upper Crust buffet. Apart from that....

    • @joshmorris5580
      @joshmorris5580 7 років тому

      Julie Aylward going to look for photos of the old train station. I know there was a free city bus that stopped outside the station and other places of interest I don't know if it still is in operation

    • @julieaylward7033
      @julieaylward7033 7 років тому +1

      Hi Josh, Yes, the Free City Bus still runs but but only between 07:30 and 18:40 (17:00 on Saturdays) and not at all on Sundays!

    • @joshmorris5580
      @joshmorris5580 7 років тому

      Julie Aylward I live in Doncaster I like Wakefield it's a very nice small city everything is spread out a bit but I like it. shame the free bus doesn't run on a sunday

  • @320ifq
    @320ifq 7 років тому +11

    It is a shame things went so badly, the Maidenhead/Marlow (walk along the Thames ) Henley / Twyford loop on a summers day really is world class tourist trip ....... Try it again on a summers day when that is all you have to do other than be at the flower pot pub Medmenham for lunch.

    • @DanLoudShirts
      @DanLoudShirts 7 років тому +2

      .... or the Bounty at Bourne End!

    • @TheFrozenSaint
      @TheFrozenSaint 7 років тому +1

      Or just gone to the Marlow Brewery

    • @Parlophonic
      @Parlophonic 7 років тому

      The Bounty is officially in Cookham because it in Cockmarsh on the Berkshire bank of the Thames.

  • @matthewb6916
    @matthewb6916 7 років тому +3

    Changed at Grantham for Kings X countless times, not once have I stepped outside the station! Great video, this series is everything I expected it to be and more!
    Cheers,
    Matt

  • @DarthJedi2005remixes
    @DarthJedi2005remixes 7 років тому +2

    I used to live in Leeds as a student and became very familiar with the platforms at Peterborough and Stevenage when catching the train back to my parent's house in Cambridge. Wouldn't have a clue what they look like from the outside!

    • @Tevildo
      @Tevildo 7 років тому +1

      Stevenage doesn't really have an "outside" - the ticket office etc are all on the footbridge between the car park and the leisure centre, so what you can see from the platform comprises the entirety of the station.

  • @KasabianFan44
    @KasabianFan44 7 років тому +123

    I don't think many regular users of Clapham Junction know what it looks like on the outside 😆

    • @ashleypike125
      @ashleypike125 7 років тому +7

      Yep, I pass it all the time, changing from South West Trains to Southern and I have never been outside of it.

    • @connorgeorge6294
      @connorgeorge6294 7 років тому

      KasabianFan44 true

    • @robz7846
      @robz7846 7 років тому +2

      KasabianFan44 Clapham Junc is quite busy, esp near Northcote Road and Falcon Road. I always get the Overground in to Clapham Junction.

    • @LucaPasini
      @LucaPasini 7 років тому +4

      I've been there just once to change between Southern and the Overground, and I went outside just because I was curious to see what was there! (Greetings from Italy)

    • @jamesfunnell7075
      @jamesfunnell7075 7 років тому

      KasabianFan44 True but in me you have an exception! Is my local station.

  • @geraintpreston3959
    @geraintpreston3959 7 років тому +2

    Thank you for visiting my adopted station and giving it a quick walkaround despite the HOT heat! I get to visit my hometown so rarely these days.

  • @Nooticus
    @Nooticus 7 років тому +5

    Thanks a lot for persevering when things go bad to carry on making these amazing videos!

  • @riccisun9695
    @riccisun9695 7 років тому +2

    Congratulations for being featured on TV! Been following your journey from the start and it's amazing to see Britain from such a different angle especially for foreigners like me from Hong Kong, so way to go and looking forward to all the great videos ahead!!

  • @michaelwatson113
    @michaelwatson113 7 років тому +2

    Well done you two. The weather is way hotter than normal. Train service is disrupted more than usual. And you stay cool. Good on you. You found some great shots,eg from the pod. And you gave a good challenge to commuters: look around that transfer station. All in all a good day.

  • @connorgeorge6294
    @connorgeorge6294 7 років тому +12

    When your a lover of Planes as well as Trains and you're freaking out when they are at Heathrow!

    • @DanLoudShirts
      @DanLoudShirts 7 років тому +7

      what you missed on film but Geoff And Vicki reacted to was a 747 going right over the top of us. an amazing sight!

    • @connorgeorge6294
      @connorgeorge6294 7 років тому +1

      DanLoudShirts amazing!

  • @smdhomeworkhelp
    @smdhomeworkhelp 7 років тому +3

    Great episode! Obviously not nice to see everything going wrong in the afternoon but ultimately that shows that the trains are not always perfect. You will look back on this episode in 10 years time and be glad it happened just to illustrate how frustrating trains can sometimes be. We all love trains but we also know they are susceptible to problems like any other mode of transport.

  • @andrewholloway231
    @andrewholloway231 7 років тому +3

    I would like to say, thank you Dan. You're doing a grand job.

    • @DanLoudShirts
      @DanLoudShirts 7 років тому +1

      Well thank you very much, sir!

    • @davidmabon4091
      @davidmabon4091 7 років тому +1

      DanLoudShirts and Dan you have a marvellous Mondeo

  • @gobears6487
    @gobears6487 7 років тому +12

    Hi guys! Why "donkey"? In California the old logging trains were called "steam donkey", and there's a cool little restaurant in the Sierra, north of Yosemite, called The Steam Donkey! 😀 xo ccfg

    • @EARTrains95
      @EARTrains95 2 роки тому

      its donkey because donkeys used to run on the line between Marlow and Bourne end.
      but donkeys died not long after they started on the line so they put trains instead and then proceeded to name it donkey.

  • @scottdurling3857
    @scottdurling3857 7 років тому +21

    When you have to run through a station you should shout "All The Stations Coming Through, make way for All The Stations!"

  • @linusfotograf
    @linusfotograf 6 років тому +4

    Dan the Man. He seems so friendly and cheerful.

    • @DanLoudShirts
      @DanLoudShirts 5 років тому +2

      I'm a miserable old bugger really.

    • @camotech1314
      @camotech1314 4 місяці тому

      ​@@DanLoudShirts your profile picture says different 😅

  • @mrtulala1
    @mrtulala1 7 років тому +6

    East Croydon - I often change there for London Bridge, but have never ventured into Croydon itself. I don't think I'm missing much, mind.

  • @ambivalent_hoax
    @ambivalent_hoax 7 років тому +2

    I do enjoy all the aside moments in these videos where you find a point of interest or someone with whom to talk. Also, never knew about those pods. Rather nifty.

  • @PaulWhitehead-tl4we
    @PaulWhitehead-tl4we 3 місяці тому

    I used to watch the Steam Donkey (plus 1 or 2 carriage rake)chuffing up and down the valley from Winter Hill where I would be picnicking with my parents on sunny summer Sundays in the early 60's. Amazed to find that the service survived the infamous 'Beeching Axe'. Presume the 'Donkey' didn't make a sanctuary though?

  • @gobears6487
    @gobears6487 7 років тому +2

    Vicki!! Thanks for the cute pooch shot! (In a camper in Henley 😎) Awesomeness!

    • @roseharvey2664
      @roseharvey2664 4 роки тому

      Agreed, was sweet. Bet the dog was trying to cool down.

  • @sonnyrowles1769
    @sonnyrowles1769 7 років тому +6

    Fantastic episode Geoff!

  • @airfoxtrot2006
    @airfoxtrot2006 7 років тому +2

    Brilliant photo loved the Heathrow pods!

  • @rjc83x
    @rjc83x 7 років тому +5

    That ending was DARK man....

  • @zigzogoid4591
    @zigzogoid4591 3 роки тому

    The Marlow Donkey used to have a central bay platform at Slough Station in the early 1960's. When it was no longer needed it gradually became full of rubbish until finally it got filled in permanently.

  • @Northernlightshow
    @Northernlightshow 7 років тому +3

    The last time I was travelling from Maidenhead to Marlow a few months ago they held the branch line train as there was a busy connecting train that was late. In this case it was full of schoolchildren.

  • @DEFarnes
    @DEFarnes 7 років тому +13

    All the terminal 5 pods

  • @WilliamHBaird-eq2hp
    @WilliamHBaird-eq2hp 6 років тому

    As a wee Lad I grew up near Henley on Thames before I moved to Canada. in the 1970's Thanks for this~

  • @deadwing04
    @deadwing04 7 років тому +1

    Despite the end of the video, this is my favourite episode so far... Heathrow pods and mentioning my birth city, Budapest in one episode... awesome! :D

  • @TOJPFC
    @TOJPFC 7 років тому +8

    She said it! Vicki said "Quaint!" Everybody drink!

  • @IANROD2000
    @IANROD2000 Рік тому +1

    Nice to see my hometown Station Maidenhead with no overhead wires…

    • @camotech1314
      @camotech1314 4 місяці тому

      But electricity is more eco friendly 😊

  • @peterturner8766
    @peterturner8766 4 роки тому +1

    You might have done better to just walk back over Bourne End bridge on the footpath bolted on the side of the railway bridge and gone to the Bounty instead.
    Dan didn't mention but the Marlow Donkey had a setup that enabled the loco to be controlled from the carriage.
    Marlow Bridge was built by William Tieney Clark. The only other bridge of his that survives is in Budapest.
    As you came off the bridge the road on your left is called Quarry Wood Road. It leads past the house where Kenneth Grahame, author of the Wind In the Willows lived - Quarry Wood is the Wild Wood - and there are still badgers in it!

  • @klaudiagrob
    @klaudiagrob 4 роки тому +1

    I really admire what you did. It's unbelievable.

  • @gobears6487
    @gobears6487 7 років тому +2

    Hmmmm, some really very strange stuff on the notice board PIS thingie on the Heathrow Express (around 11:45 or so)... interesting!

    • @Tevildo
      @Tevildo 7 років тому +2

      I'd be interested to know, as well. 0014D3050B99 is a MAC address assigned to SEPSA, the train's manufacturer, if that helps...

    • @gobears6487
      @gobears6487 7 років тому +1

      Tevildo I guess I need to read through all the comments again, because I was surprised not more people had input on it! And we know from a prior video that Geoff is connected with a guy who makes/designs/is involved with PIS stuff (not sure how to make PIS plural, LOL!)...

    • @Tevildo
      @Tevildo 7 років тому

      Well, MS becomes MSS, but I'm not sure that we can use the same process in this case...

    • @cephalopod7300
      @cephalopod7300 2 роки тому

      @@Tevildo This is great observation on your part

  • @MrGreatplum
    @MrGreatplum 7 років тому +1

    If only there were more air con trains this day! It looks incredibly warm!

    • @DanLoudShirts
      @DanLoudShirts 7 років тому +2

      they got an AC blast in my car! plus a plethora of cold drinks!

  • @jaksims
    @jaksims 7 років тому +1

    I've had to do that same run for the Marlow train before, late running trains seems so common when you have to make a connection...

  • @Darren79
    @Darren79 7 років тому +1

    Thank you, Vicki! Your factoid on the Windsor and Eton station tussauds exhibition - I'd totally forgotten going there in the early 80's:)

    • @DanLoudShirts
      @DanLoudShirts 7 років тому +2

      Darren79 Royalty & Empire it was called. I went there with my school and two of my friends won a competition to meet Joe Brown there (randomly!).

    • @jonathancombe9991
      @jonathancombe9991 7 років тому

      I remember it too. I do wonder if anyone apart from school parties went there. I also went there with school.

    • @Roblilley999
      @Roblilley999 6 років тому

      Crazy Cockney Joe Brown?

    • @grazeme
      @grazeme 5 років тому

      As well as maintaining the replica train I also used to run the theatre show at the station.

  • @jamesjames9226
    @jamesjames9226 3 роки тому +2

    The intro was like a Bond cold opening

  • @jjfromhonolulu9023
    @jjfromhonolulu9023 7 років тому +1

    Jeff & Vicki, 3 questions for you:
    1. Are there any steam trains still in operation in Great Britain?
    2. During your All The Stations Adventure, have you stumbled onto any surprise locations that you would recommend for a visit (ie, day trip from London)?
    3. What's been your biggest surprise so far?
    Cheers
    JJ

    • @cephalopod7300
      @cephalopod7300 2 роки тому

      I can answer question 1: there are a lot of steam trains in operation, mostly on heritage railways that are not part of the main network, but they also venture onto the main network occasionally as charters or special trips.

  • @DarrenKC53
    @DarrenKC53 7 років тому +26

    All the delays....

    • @ElectricMotive
      @ElectricMotive 7 років тому

      Darren Johnson yes

    • @barvdw
      @barvdw 7 років тому +2

      It wasn't better in Belgium, that day. I'm afraid trains don't like temperature hikes. And neither do most humans...

    • @davidwho1011
      @davidwho1011 7 років тому

      All the sweating

    • @Inkyminkyzizwoz
      @Inkyminkyzizwoz 7 років тому

      So much for continental railways being much better than ours!

    • @barvdw
      @barvdw 7 років тому

      You can travel for months and not have a delay. You can take a train for the first time in decades, and have the worst delay ever. That's life!
      BTW, buses or planes aren't much better.

  • @graemebrand4740
    @graemebrand4740 7 років тому +1

    I pass through from Gloucester to Paddington for work regularly. Haven't got a clue what some of the intermediate stations look like.

  • @joshmorris5580
    @joshmorris5580 7 років тому +1

    I commend you both trying to do this monumental task in that heat I can imagine it became very frustrating towards the end of the day

  • @nmart1n
    @nmart1n 7 років тому +1

    Such bad luck! Try it again on a cooler day x

  • @davekirwin
    @davekirwin 7 років тому +1

    Oh, I feel your pain when it all goes wrong! No matter how you try to get round the system, something else crops up to ruin the plans! There is no shame in bailing - lol. Good job on the taxi front Dan.

  • @sonnyrowles1769
    @sonnyrowles1769 7 років тому +2

    I always find that taking the heathrow trains from Ealing Broadway can be so annnnoying so I just take the Piccadilly from Acton Town instead as the services are way more frequent.

  • @marthaanderson2656
    @marthaanderson2656 7 років тому +4

    A Steam Donkey is a steam powered winch once used in logging

  • @Cptnjenks
    @Cptnjenks 7 років тому +1

    well done guys. great effort despite bad circumstances. keep it going.

  • @whoseeuro121
    @whoseeuro121 6 років тому

    Marlow Donkey is a fantastic pub, went with my partner's family and were going for his 40th in 8 weeks :)

  • @DerickRethansXdebug
    @DerickRethansXdebug 6 років тому

    Heathrow Express' connections are definitely the worst. So many problems all the blooming time I go through there.

  • @oscare.quiros6349
    @oscare.quiros6349 7 років тому +1

    Geoff and Victoria: If possible, can you please add a simple map of Britain so that we, non-Brits, could locate more or less where you are each day. Love your show!!

  • @IainG81
    @IainG81 7 років тому +1

    well done, thanks for your efforts.

  • @grazeme
    @grazeme 5 років тому

    I used to maintain the replica Queen Victoria train when it was Madame Tussauds. Now I am a guide in Windsor and tell my sightseers about it. There is a lot of history at the station shame you didn't say more.

  • @metropod
    @metropod 7 років тому +3

    "The Donkey" at least doesn't sound as bad as the New Jersey Transit shuttle that connects Princeton University to the Northeast Corridor mainline, "The Dinky"

  • @christhetube
    @christhetube 7 років тому +1

    Thank you both for such great videos. Both of you do a great job of presenting. I do have an idea which you may or may not have thought of. How about Preston to Blackpool South and North and you could include the trams (preferably when the heratige trams are running) and don't forget the Pleasure Beach Express.

  • @penaltygallery
    @penaltygallery 7 років тому +49

    Will the cd be available in Woolworths soon?

    • @DanLoudShirts
      @DanLoudShirts 7 років тому +10

      also coming out on laserdisc, 78, 8-track, cassette and wax cylinder.

    • @DavidLeeKersey
      @DavidLeeKersey 7 років тому +3

      What no Reel to Reel?!?!?!?

    • @DanLoudShirts
      @DanLoudShirts 7 років тому

      ooh, I forgot that particular format!

    • @tomsmith5584
      @tomsmith5584 7 років тому

      DanLoudShirts Vinyl records are making a comeback, at least in the U.S.

    • @cjmillsnun
      @cjmillsnun 7 років тому +2

      They are here too

  • @cantbants
    @cantbants 7 років тому +1

    Hang on in there guys! It has been far too bloody hot for travel lately.

  • @timor64
    @timor64 4 роки тому

    Wow. You guys worked so hard that day and yet both kept your good humour. Psychologically what I found interesting is when the Heathrow Express/Connect option failed you reached instinctively for the Tube because you know it like the back of your hand. If this happens to anyone else -140 bus runs every 10 mins or so from Heathrow to Hayes & Harlington. Also it doesnt cost £6! I love your videos. Thank you for all of them.

  • @jdoyle5938
    @jdoyle5938 7 років тому +1

    The station at 123 is now just terminals 2&3 as terminal 1 closed. Look on a tube map it's a change most people won't notice.

  • @ethanr__
    @ethanr__ 7 років тому +1

    8:53 I change at Finchley Road all the time, only been out of it once.

  • @Cloudrak
    @Cloudrak 7 років тому +5

    I live in Slough and it is really annoying when people misspell the town.

  • @ianmcclavin
    @ianmcclavin 7 років тому

    You said about the ride on the Marlow branch being bumpy, same units being used on the branch as on the main line, but you really notice the difference on jointed track after being on continuously welded rail for most of the time!!

  • @thomasnorton2679
    @thomasnorton2679 7 років тому +1

    the Thames Valley branch lines are beautiful

  • @kimburgess
    @kimburgess 7 років тому +1

    Poor Geoff and Vicki! I hope you were able to cool down and your next day was better!

  • @R3VStudios
    @R3VStudios 7 років тому +1

    Oh please. In DC, it's 39C. And on this day, there were a TON of strikes.

  •  7 років тому +2

    yaaay the mini chain bridge, Clark Ádám, our hero :D we all learn about Adam Clark in school

    •  7 років тому

      there is a square named of him

  • @Parlophonic
    @Parlophonic 7 років тому +1

    Aggggggghhhhhhhhh! I've missed you! I live in Cookham! Allas.Oh sorrows all.

  • @wycombedaz1
    @wycombedaz1 7 років тому +1

    Just downloaded the album good luck guys

  • @benivanphillips
    @benivanphillips 7 років тому +1

    Gatwick is lovely and simple. It's on a mainline, so the trains are more straightforward

  • @nnmmnmmnmnnm
    @nnmmnmmnmnnm 7 років тому +1

    You look hotter and more weary as the day goes on, as do all the passers by. Top tip on breaking journeys from Geoff.

  • @ianmcclavin
    @ianmcclavin 7 років тому

    On the tube, some may be lamenting the demise of the "A" and "C" Stock, but those "S" Stock trains have certainly come into their own with their air-conditioning in the hot weather!! Last Saturday I had to change at Mile End from the District Line onto the Central to go to Stratford, getting into that 1992 Stock unit was like entering a mobile sauna!!

  • @DanTheCaptain
    @DanTheCaptain 7 років тому +1

    As I am of Canadian/Hungarian and having family in Budapest, I thought that bridge looks awfully familiar. :)

  • @richardtalbot8769
    @richardtalbot8769 7 років тому +1

    Heathrow pods are great, yet they deliver you to the car park lifts to the terminal.

  • @borderlands6606
    @borderlands6606 7 років тому +1

    There was also a Delph Donkey round the Saddleworth villages.

    • @SMlFFY85
      @SMlFFY85 6 років тому

      I was wondering if anyone would mention that.

  • @FMGfootballmadgamer
    @FMGfootballmadgamer 7 років тому +1

    Preston and crewe is a station I have changed at multiple times, also Manchester Piccadilly

  • @Hanzilla75
    @Hanzilla75 6 років тому +1

    Dan is the man. Good work fella.

  • @halcyondaystunes
    @halcyondaystunes 7 років тому +1

    great episode...and well done for keeping going on the hottest day of the year, i was sat in my god daughters paddling pool while you were negotiating Heathrow :D
    Loving this series and having been someone who isn't all that interested in trains, i have the urge to start exploring the country myself on them, i just wish it wasn't so expensive.

    • @AllTheStations
      @AllTheStations  7 років тому +3

      halcyondaystunes thanks! Our tip? Get a railcard ... third off, and always buy online in advance! Some great value tickets out there ...

    • @LemoncloudGT
      @LemoncloudGT 2 роки тому

      @@AllTheStations go on northern when they do their £1 sale

  • @tomsmith5584
    @tomsmith5584 7 років тому +6

    If this makes you feel better, it was 49℃ in Phoenix last Tuesday. If you tripped and fell down on the sidewalk, you could have received severe burns from where you landed.

    • @ala0284
      @ala0284 5 років тому

      Tom S. But how often does it snow or freeze over in Phoenix 🤨

  • @annamae859
    @annamae859 4 роки тому

    Don't know if anyone else has mentioned this in the comments, but Marlow Bridge is indeed Szécheny lánchíd in miniature, both by the architect William Tierney Clark.

  • @Divinearchangel1
    @Divinearchangel1 5 років тому

    Bristol Temple Meads for me, Rarely step outside that station as it's a good place to change from WSM. When I do it doesn't feel right at all xD

  • @harlowrog1
    @harlowrog1 7 років тому +1

    Best episode so far 👌

  • @SM-Flyers
    @SM-Flyers 7 років тому +1

    I wonder if it was called the 'donkey' because on a ship, a small engine that is used for utility purposes, like pulling chains, is called a donkey engine. Hence the small engine for the local run they called it a Marlowe Donkey.

  • @boldford
    @boldford 6 років тому

    If you go to Slough again look at the roof crestings on the main station building and compare with what was Dartford booking office.

  • @jjwtj95
    @jjwtj95 7 років тому

    Heathrow Central Terminal Area used to consist of T1, T2 and T3 however it is under going redevelopment. The old terminal 2 was initially demolished leaving T1 and T3 operational. But now that the first stage of new Terminal 2 has been built, Terminal 1 has been demolished so that it can be integrated into T2. This leaves T2 and T3 operational. RIP Terminal 1.

  • @sognsvann3
    @sognsvann3 7 років тому +1

    All the stations seems so much harder than reaching the south pole or mount everest.

  • @dobbigaming1060
    @dobbigaming1060 6 років тому

    The only thing I love more than trains is... Planes! Great episode

  • @gaz198210
    @gaz198210 7 років тому +1

    I've never been out of Liverpool Street station, on my way to and from Ipswich ( I live in Manchester and via London is quicker and cheaper than East Midlands trains via Nottingham and Peterborough) I get the Met to or from Euston Square so never see outside.

  • @johnusher1921
    @johnusher1921 7 років тому

    All The Pods - should have been a bonus video!!!

    • @DanLoudShirts
      @DanLoudShirts 7 років тому

      londonist.com/2014/09/a-ride-on-heathrows-self-driving-pods

  • @petekernow1
    @petekernow1 7 років тому +1

    Re breaking journeys, I thought the T & C said break allowed on return leg? This includes overnight breaks. In practice I've never had a problem outwards, even several hours for meetings, but I've never tried overnight as it could be expensive!

  • @littlemissgiggles165
    @littlemissgiggles165 7 років тому

    I was at terminal 5 last week and didn't know about the pods, I should have watched this video sooner!

  • @roberthindle5146
    @roberthindle5146 7 років тому

    YAY! Geoff and Vicki have made it onto the Beeb!

  • @nathanparker8165
    @nathanparker8165 7 років тому +1

    13:52 I take it Geoff couldn't resist! 😂😂😂

  • @AndreiTupolev
    @AndreiTupolev 7 років тому +7

    There must be some deep significance in "SGNTKID CIA"* on the dot matrix thingy on the Heathrow Express.
    * or possibly C1A

    • @ian9outof10
      @ian9outof10 7 років тому +4

      Significance is that everything breaks in hot weather here.

    • @nzd3742
      @nzd3742 4 роки тому

      It's SGNTK1D C1A and was the display's ID showing in error. twitter.com/HeathrowExpress/status/594071545443647489

  • @nightveil4464
    @nightveil4464 7 років тому +2

    That title has never been more fitting

  • @robertellard622
    @robertellard622 6 років тому

    as a retired b r employee with rail concessions travel free I would like to meet both Geoff and vicky keep up the good from bob in bristol.