Great to see, my Grandparants live in Wareham and my Dad worked for a while at Corfe Castle. Great to see some of the scenery when I'm on the other side of the world.
I love swanage Railway. I used to go there all the time as a kid. Then my dad moved there a couple of years ago so I got to ride on it all over again! The people of swanage are odd (the night before this was filmed, the did the annual wheelbarrow race where competitors where fancy dress, get absolutely hammered and race around the town whilst the whole neighood watches on) but the area is beautiful and the railway is fantastic!
I'm sat watching this on 11th April 2021, knowing that tomorrow restrictions lift somewhat and I'm headed to Corfe for few nights in a cottage to play with trains and castles. It's making me a little emotional actually.
I have been to Bournmouth myself a few years ago to do the Swanage Railway and I even went on the Open Top Bus so looking at this it does bring back some happy moments of a splendid and interesting journey. Great Call.
It's so good to see you made the trek down to Corfe, I'm only sorry that it was cancelled due to the strike. As a volunteer on the railway it is so great to see that all of our hard work on project wareham is starting to pay off!!
I went on the Swanage Railway 2 years ago and it was fantastic. The castle is also very good :) Can’t recommend enough as it really brings to life the glory days of steam.
Finally got around to watching it. Terrific video! Lots of things to love in this one. Lots of modes of transport too. 😊 My favourite local pub has a BR mirror in it, many's the time I have eyed it up and wondered if I could smuggle it out. When (not if 😉) you come to Derby to do our cornucopia of lovely heritage lines in the area, we'll take you to see the mirror. Vicki would love the pub too. It's a quintessential English unspoilt beauty, with lots of original features, and Morris dancers in the summer. Now to catch up on the rest of the backlog.....
Love this it's the first time I've watched this particular video I'm contemplating moving to Swanage when retirement comes knocking in a couple of years. Heritage railway a big selling point for me. x
Covfefe Castle, tremendous castle, tremendous! They're gonna move it all to Arizona, great state, tremendous state and build a wall around it, a tremendous wall, its gonna be great.
My Grandfather spent months taking measurements and detailing Corfe Castle station into an 0 Gauge Scale Model. I’ll have to find it, it’s in the attic somewhere. He spent years of his life in Corfe as did my Mum. We go down occasionally for a ride on the train and to lay flowers and my grandad’s grave.
Your videos are great so enjoyable .been to corfe station many times going back in May 2020 going on the train this time do fun. Keep up the good work you to great
Love the SR, been going down there every summer for the past 10 years since being a young boy to a young man, have always loved the railway, the beautiful county and the wonderful surroundings!
Oddly enough I had planned to take the Salisbury/Weymouth/Wareham/Corfe service on the same day as you guys! I have been to Swanage many a time and it is one of the most beautiful places in the country. Due to a very special connection, last time I went down to Corfe I was amazingly privileged to operate the signal box there.
The seat Moquette is called “Bournemouth Blue” and was used extensively in British Rail MK1 carriages and also first generation DMUs & EMUs. It was also used to a lesser extent and with slightly larger squares in BR MK2 rolling stock.
By far the most relaxed video. And I've seen them all. You're lucky with all the nice stations and places in your country comparing with the Dutch (I'm Dutch) stations. We don't have room for them I guess. We have some nice big old stations with a lot of history like Amsterdam and Haarlem where I live. But the small ones here are just no fun. For me nice places and ideas to visit next time I go to your country. Greets Fred
This video makes me realise how much I miss my regular dose of All The Stations. Thanks for another great video ! Lest I forget, my girlfriends asked me to say they realy liked Vicky's hair.
Managed to actually catch the train a week earlier before the strike. Was packed but fortunately and had got on at Basingstoke where it started. A nice 4.5 hours meander through Wilts & Dorset...
Geoff you must be following me, when I stayed in a hotel in Waterloo, you did a video on the Waterloo and city line crane, and now when I was staying in corfe campsite you were in corfe!!!
I was lucky enough to find a non-strike day (BH Monday) to take the SWR train. In fact all the way from Salisbury for just £10 return, possibly the train service with most reversals anywhere; Yeovil Jct, Yeovil Pen Mill, Weymouth and Wareham! Wonderful bargain. So many great ways to reach Swanage; the steam train from Norden park and ride, the bus across Sandbanks ferry (voted in Britain's top 3 bus routes) or a boat from Poole Quay past Old Harry Rocks and part of the Jurassic Coast. Also saw an interesting tender at Furzebrook; it turned out to be for Adams T3 4-4-0 No.563 of 1892, which is being restored for operation in 2023 (it featured in The Railway Children at Kings Cross and ... Toronto!)
There's something special about travelling on a train with compartments and I think that the Harry Potter thing is totally it for me. I've actually recently been on a recent train that had compartments: I was working in Brussels a few years ago and was sent to Strasbourg for work and my employer booked me a train to go in the morning. Naturally this wasn't the fancy high speed direct train but instead a slow stopper to Luxembourg where I'd have to change but it didn't matter since this random Brussels-Luxembourg train had fucking compartments. Since it was a big group of us going on our little adventure it did feel a little like a weird school trip and the fact that we had a compartment of our own made that feel even more special.
Ah Corfe Castle . On the way back from a Geology field trip in the eighties I had chronic food poisoning and was ill in the minibus. Never been back since. Lovely place it seems !
Good video, I should probably go to the Swanage railway one day. I live near Bournemouth and I was going to comment about the 50 bus being an open top but you went on it anyway 😂.
In 2007 I went on this railway and visited the Castle with a Scout Group while the Scouts raced to the top us leaders were looking at the Gate house and were discussing how the one side of the gatehouse was out of line with the other by about 3ft/1metre. It was then a guide came past and said "After Parliament forces captured the castle they undermined the gatehouse and laid explosives to stop the castle being used again. The guy who laid the explosives is still under the gatehouse"
grahamlive I’ve done the bus journey from Bournemouth to Swanage for the past 10 years, thank goodness they’re running trains between Wareham and Corfe again!
Here's a thought. If you were doing all the stations in 1951, you would have had 6510 of them to visit. This number was taken from a British Railways book published in 1951 for the Festival of Britain.
The 90 Trains was suppose to be this year but West Coast Railway pulled out so they couldn't run any diesel mainline trains this year, but they also being using DMUs (Diesel Multiple Units) for the Wareham to Swanage services but they are at the workshops in Eastleigh (also on a side not there is some stored 1967 Tube Stock at Eastleigh, not sure IF they still there or not but there was at least 5 because this was nearly 2 years ago when I had a private tour around Eastleigh Works) Great video, really enjoyed it, I did went there myself last year when they ran the Diesel services and it was a lovely journey. And found it shocking that a bus service uses a ferry!
Number 50 bus has just been voted 3rd most scenic in the UK. We used to catch it in the 70s and I'm glad it's still running. It has to go "round" (via Poole) when it's time for the Chain Ferry to close for its annual service or when there's high winds.
So, as I understood it, there was a connection from Corfe Castle to Wareham on Saturdays only; on checking I see there is an RMT guards dispute strike with SouthWest Rail on Saturday 2nd and Saturday 8th September, which scuppers any chance of doing this properly. I will have to think again.
Ahhh this brings back memories from a family holiday I went on to Swanage a couple of years back. Still the best holiday I've been on. One day we walked up the coastal path from Swanage to the first bus stop our side of the crossing and got the bus back (which included walking along the nudist beach, with my dad, which was rather awkward) Did your knuckles turn white holding on for dear life on that bus like ours did? That road is quite twisty with many a low hanging branch to watch out for haha.
Excellent video! Hope you had fun down in this part of the world - despite the lack of train from Wareham to Corfe Castle. - Just means you will have to come back and do it again sometime. I am guessing you caught the train back to London from Bournemouth? If so was it the slow stopping service? Because that thing takes ages to get to Waterloo! I live two minutes from Christchurch station and regularly go to a pub nearby which is an old station, 'The Avon Causeway' -recommend checking it out for food and railway memorabilia if you ever have spare time this way. There is still a coach in the platform, now used as a dining car! Another old station nearby is a tea room well worth visiting for a quick stop, especially as the nearby Iron railway bridge is due to be replaced within the next year or two. The lines may be gone, but at least we can still enjoy parts of them. Thanks to peoples efforts. Who knows, much like the Corfe Castle-Wareham link, its not impossible to re-open small sections of long lost lines!
What a great video - jam packed with quaintness. It had it all - trains, stations, strikes, open top buses, wind, castles, theme music, dot matrix, semaphore signals, hanging flower baskets, steam, weigh scales, foot bridges, slamming doors and fire buckets. We even got treated to a 'Quaint Scale' and a 'Vicki Explores..." But wait - there's more... We even got a ferry ride. However what spoiled it for me was a few key bits that were missing, namely:- No Harry Potter Earrings (the Harry Potter bag is a poor substitute) No seagulls No mention of the Isle of White No "Vicki looks different/the same (delete as appropriate) in this one" quotes. Please rectify before the next video. ˙ᴉʞɔᴉΛ ⅋ ɟɟoǝפ 'oǝpᴉʌ ʇɐǝɹƃ ɹǝɥʇouɐ ɹoɟ sʞuɐɥʇ - ʎlsnoᴉɹǝs ʇnq
Only recently found this channel and now I find out you've met my Dad working the signal box!
My local heritage railway! Lovely!
Great to see, my Grandparants live in Wareham and my Dad worked for a while at Corfe Castle. Great to see some of the scenery when I'm on the other side of the world.
Vicki's voice is so lovely she should do Enid blyton audio book reading
We used to go to Corfe Castle on family holidays so this takes me back to my childhood. Very *quaint* village and station. Plus: Heritage Railway!
Swanage Railway is fab, Corfe Castle is amazing and always seems windy up there!
I love swanage Railway. I used to go there all the time as a kid. Then my dad moved there a couple of years ago so I got to ride on it all over again! The people of swanage are odd (the night before this was filmed, the did the annual wheelbarrow race where competitors where fancy dress, get absolutely hammered and race around the town whilst the whole neighood watches on) but the area is beautiful and the railway is fantastic!
I'm sat watching this on 11th April 2021, knowing that tomorrow restrictions lift somewhat and I'm headed to Corfe for few nights in a cottage to play with trains and castles. It's making me a little emotional actually.
Hope you enjoyed it!
Awe that's cute 😅😊
I have been to Bournmouth myself a few years ago to do the Swanage Railway and I even went on the Open Top Bus so looking at this it does bring back some happy moments of a splendid and interesting journey. Great Call.
Wonderful stuff. I cant wait for the Isle of Wight Castle trip.
Big belly laugh, thank you Victoria for all the quaintness ! A quintessential English village, & castle. Great video.
I've grown up in this area and it was a joy to see you two enjoying it all.
My grandparents have a caravan in Wareham and I've been on the Swanage Heritage Railway a bunch of times. Surreal seeing it all here
Wow! Looks like something that has to be done. Trains, castle, bus on ferry! Brilliant
It's so good to see you made the trek down to Corfe, I'm only sorry that it was cancelled due to the strike. As a volunteer on the railway it is so great to see that all of our hard work on project wareham is starting to pay off!!
I went on the Swanage Railway 2 years ago and it was fantastic. The castle is also very good :)
Can’t recommend enough as it really brings to life the glory days of steam.
But you also have to visit Swanage itself for the Putting Green on the Hill and the tiny (at high tide) beach.
Ah, the good old days. I must go there again one day.
Finally got around to watching it. Terrific video! Lots of things to love in this one. Lots of modes of transport too. 😊 My favourite local pub has a BR mirror in it, many's the time I have eyed it up and wondered if I could smuggle it out. When (not if 😉) you come to Derby to do our cornucopia of lovely heritage lines in the area, we'll take you to see the mirror. Vicki would love the pub too. It's a quintessential English unspoilt beauty, with lots of original features, and Morris dancers in the summer. Now to catch up on the rest of the backlog.....
Love this it's the first time I've watched this particular video I'm contemplating moving to Swanage when retirement comes knocking in a couple of years. Heritage railway a big selling point for me. x
man I do love England so - a historic castle with a beautiful and quaint little village nearby - I can't wait to go back
Covfefe Castle, tremendous castle, tremendous! They're gonna move it all to Arizona, great state, tremendous state and build a wall around it, a tremendous wall, its gonna be great.
And Dorset County Council is gonna pay for it!
Gawd I hope not in my home state 🙄
And it will be grand Três Grand!
All the feels! I got a little teary with the music & drone footage! Glad to see you guys again!!
Excellent video and I’m glad you went on the swanage railway as I’ve been going on it for 8 years.
Hello There, Great Video, I love the Heritage of the line, it looks pretty amazing. Cheers Peter :)
Great to see some more All the Stations!! Two big fans from California were very excited. :)
I love the Swanage railway. Real rolling stock.
One day I might get sick of the Isle of Wight jokes... but not today! Love the video guys!
Corfe Castle Footbridge Originally was installed at Merton Park, where I stood on it with Diesel Hauled Coal Mineral wagon trains passing under it.
I love England and its countryside I hope one day I can come back! thanks for your great videos!
Thanks guys for sharing this with me
My Grandfather spent months taking measurements and detailing Corfe Castle station into an 0 Gauge Scale Model. I’ll have to find it, it’s in the attic somewhere. He spent years of his life in Corfe as did my Mum. We go down occasionally for a ride on the train and to lay flowers and my grandad’s grave.
Your videos are great so enjoyable .been to corfe station many times going back in May 2020 going on the train this time do fun. Keep up the good work you to great
Maximum quaint! *lol*. Viki your so delightful! To the buses #allthebuses You two keep up the good work!
LOVE IT! Maximum Quaint-ness achieved!
All the Castles please
Love the SR, been going down there every summer for the past 10 years since being a young boy to a young man, have always loved the railway, the beautiful county and the wonderful surroundings!
A superb video, really enjoyed it. Thank you Geoff and Vicki.
That is the classic BR moquette brings back memories from my early days of train travel in the early 80s
Oddly enough I had planned to take the Salisbury/Weymouth/Wareham/Corfe service on the same day as you guys! I have been to Swanage many a time and it is one of the most beautiful places in the country. Due to a very special connection, last time I went down to Corfe I was amazingly privileged to operate the signal box there.
Lovely meeting you both. Glad you were able to get the bus.
4:26 the music here reminds me of children's TV programmes from the '90s. Love it :o)
Great to see another episode for all the stations. Cheers Matt
Yet another great video. I love them. Keep up the great work. Thank you.
Keeping Geoff's spending habits in check I see Vicki good show
The seat Moquette is called “Bournemouth Blue” and was used extensively in British Rail MK1 carriages and also first generation DMUs & EMUs. It was also used to a lesser extent and with slightly larger squares in BR MK2 rolling stock.
By far the most relaxed video. And I've seen them all. You're lucky with all the nice stations and places in your country comparing with the Dutch (I'm Dutch) stations. We don't have room for them I guess. We have some nice big old stations with a lot of history like Amsterdam and Haarlem where I live. But the small ones here are just no fun. For me nice places and ideas to visit next time I go to your country. Greets Fred
Its just brilliant craic I'm from Dundalk in Ireland and I'm a train and station nut well done I love it
This video makes me realise how much I miss my regular dose of All The Stations. Thanks for another great video !
Lest I forget, my girlfriends asked me to say they realy liked Vicky's hair.
I see you've made a start on "All the Bus Stations" and "All the Ferries"!
*Disclaimer* - Geoff and Vicki have never been to the Isle of Wight... allegedly!
It is just a myth - was all green-screened...
I can say that IOW train is fun.
Brilliant, reminds me of my holiday last year.
The theme music is so evocative.....love it.
My congratulations to this super video. You tell the story and made it very interesting. Thank you. Mike
Your a cranky pair ( in the nicest possible way) and I love it. So much so that I have subscribed. Happy traveling.
Barry.Devon.
YAY for ATS and more lovely music!! So psyched for this one - love Corfe, love that heritage line, love everything about this! :-)
I was just waiting for reference to Knoll (Nudist) Beach! 😆😜
Managed to actually catch the train a week earlier before the strike. Was packed but fortunately and had got on at Basingstoke where it started. A nice 4.5 hours meander through Wilts & Dorset...
All the Preservation Stations! That really needs to be a thing, please make it a thing :D
I enjoyed this video! I miss "All the Stations"!
Geoff you must be following me, when I stayed in a hotel in Waterloo, you did a video on the Waterloo and city line crane, and now when I was staying in corfe campsite you were in corfe!!!
Great Video, I like it a lot. interesting and fun to watch. and I've watched a lot of your video's.
I was lucky enough to find a non-strike day (BH Monday) to take the SWR train. In fact all the way from Salisbury for just £10 return, possibly the train service with most reversals anywhere; Yeovil Jct, Yeovil Pen Mill, Weymouth and Wareham! Wonderful bargain. So many great ways to reach Swanage; the steam train from Norden park and ride, the bus across Sandbanks ferry (voted in Britain's top 3 bus routes) or a boat from Poole Quay past Old Harry Rocks and part of the Jurassic Coast. Also saw an interesting tender at Furzebrook; it turned out to be for Adams T3 4-4-0 No.563 of 1892, which is being restored for operation in 2023 (it featured in The Railway Children at Kings Cross and ... Toronto!)
Nice you did swanage , my brother drives the steam train's sometimes I think you're lucky people.
Finally the CGPGrey video on the Royal Family Tree has come full circle as we know have the full story on Ethelred the Unready.
There's something special about travelling on a train with compartments and I think that the Harry Potter thing is totally it for me.
I've actually recently been on a recent train that had compartments: I was working in Brussels a few years ago and was sent to Strasbourg for work and my employer booked me a train to go in the morning. Naturally this wasn't the fancy high speed direct train but instead a slow stopper to Luxembourg where I'd have to change but it didn't matter since this random Brussels-Luxembourg train had fucking compartments. Since it was a big group of us going on our little adventure it did feel a little like a weird school trip and the fact that we had a compartment of our own made that feel even more special.
My 28th Great Grandfather's son, William de Blomvyle was a Constable at Corfe Castle.
Ah Corfe Castle . On the way back from a Geology field trip in the eighties I had chronic food poisoning and was ill in the minibus. Never been back since. Lovely place it seems !
OMG, I was at this station one day before you guys.
Great video as usual.
Vicki, you should go to the mid-hants railway, at one of their stations they have the footbridge that was used at kings cross in Harry potter...
I can remember push-pulls that used to run via wareham to wool for WD connections. (link with your bus trip)
Good video, I should probably go to the Swanage railway one day. I live near Bournemouth and I was going to comment about the 50 bus being an open top but you went on it anyway 😂.
Such beautiful railway
Vicki's "OW!" at the description of medieval combat cracked me up.
Great video! Managed to include a Vicki Explores too.
In 2007 I went on this railway and visited the Castle with a Scout Group while the Scouts raced to the top us leaders were looking at the Gate house and were discussing how the one side of the gatehouse was out of line with the other by about 3ft/1metre. It was then a guide came past and said "After Parliament forces captured the castle they undermined the gatehouse and laid explosives to stop the castle being used again. The guy who laid the explosives is still under the gatehouse"
Geoff for the love of god, next time you make out with a moquette please dont make eye contact with the camera.
uncut needs to change to cut!
Brilliant video as ever....
Love the videos you should visit the new maghull north station in merseyside it opened on the 21st of June :)
I LOVE THAT PART OF THE WORLD! My parents used to have a holiday home that way and going on the train to Corfe was a regular thing. Happy memories...
I’m sure there’s another series idea... all the ‘bus replacement services’
Such a fun loving couple, but Geoff you don’t half ask some silly questions “would you like to go to the castle?”
I used to go on the diesel from harmams cross to swanage amd back on the steam for school for a year!
"Let's do it on the bus". **cue childish laughter**
grahamlive I’ve done the bus journey from Bournemouth to Swanage for the past 10 years, thank goodness they’re running trains between Wareham and Corfe again!
All The Bus Stations.
Here's a thought. If you were doing all the stations in 1951, you would have had 6510 of them to visit. This number was taken from a British Railways book published in 1951 for the Festival of Britain.
COME ON YOU TWO ! get organised , we need more like this , it's been far too long since All the stations , I miss your infectious enthusiasm .
they just started doing all the stations in Ireland (!!!)
Yay I'm from Dorset so I'm happy to see this!
I love books by Paul Attenbury. It makes me any to travel in the saw way All The Stations does!
:)
And what's the matter with the isle of Wight .... Haha, we've got steam trains and a bus museum. Great video by the way.
The 90 Trains was suppose to be this year but West Coast Railway pulled out so they couldn't run any diesel mainline trains this year, but they also being using DMUs (Diesel Multiple Units) for the Wareham to Swanage services but they are at the workshops in Eastleigh (also on a side not there is some stored 1967 Tube Stock at Eastleigh, not sure IF they still there or not but there was at least 5 because this was nearly 2 years ago when I had a private tour around Eastleigh Works) Great video, really enjoyed it, I did went there myself last year when they ran the Diesel services and it was a lovely journey.
And found it shocking that a bus service uses a ferry!
Number 50 bus has just been voted 3rd most scenic in the UK. We used to catch it in the 70s and I'm glad it's still running. It has to go "round" (via Poole) when it's time for the Chain Ferry to close for its annual service or when there's high winds.
and here's a picture of it boarding the Sandbanks end in 1928 www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/resources/images/5199095/?type=responsive-gallery-fullscreen
So, as I understood it, there was a connection from Corfe Castle to Wareham on Saturdays only; on checking I see there is an RMT guards dispute strike with SouthWest Rail on Saturday 2nd and Saturday 8th September, which scuppers any chance of doing this properly. I will have to think again.
West Coast Railway didn't pull out, SR postponed it on cost grounds.
Ahhh this brings back memories from a family holiday I went on to Swanage a couple of years back. Still the best holiday I've been on.
One day we walked up the coastal path from Swanage to the first bus stop our side of the crossing and got the bus back (which included walking along the nudist beach, with my dad, which was rather awkward)
Did your knuckles turn white holding on for dear life on that bus like ours did? That road is quite twisty with many a low hanging branch to watch out for haha.
All the heritage, all of it!
You need to do an "all the castles" series
Vicki Explores should be a regular series imo
Excellent video!
Hope you had fun down in this part of the world - despite the lack of train from Wareham to Corfe Castle. - Just means you will have to come back and do it again sometime.
I am guessing you caught the train back to London from Bournemouth? If so was it the slow stopping service? Because that thing takes ages to get to Waterloo!
I live two minutes from Christchurch station and regularly go to a pub nearby which is an old station, 'The Avon Causeway' -recommend checking it out for food and railway memorabilia if you ever have spare time this way. There is still a coach in the platform, now used as a dining car! Another old station nearby is a tea room well worth visiting for a quick stop, especially as the nearby Iron railway bridge is due to be replaced within the next year or two.
The lines may be gone, but at least we can still enjoy parts of them. Thanks to peoples efforts. Who knows, much like the Corfe Castle-Wareham link, its not impossible to re-open small sections of long lost lines!
What a great video - jam packed with quaintness. It had it all - trains, stations, strikes, open top buses, wind, castles, theme music, dot matrix, semaphore signals, hanging flower baskets, steam, weigh scales, foot bridges, slamming doors and fire buckets. We even got treated to a 'Quaint Scale' and a 'Vicki Explores..." But wait - there's more... We even got a ferry ride.
However what spoiled it for me was a few key bits that were missing, namely:-
No Harry Potter Earrings (the Harry Potter bag is a poor substitute)
No seagulls
No mention of the Isle of White
No "Vicki looks different/the same (delete as appropriate) in this one" quotes.
Please rectify before the next video.
˙ᴉʞɔᴉΛ ⅋ ɟɟoǝפ 'oǝpᴉʌ ʇɐǝɹƃ ɹǝɥʇouɐ ɹoɟ sʞuɐɥʇ - ʎlsnoᴉɹǝs ʇnq
BTW, Geoff and Vicki, you have to do the Heritage Railways next
Aha I see you're using the same speedy-up effects that they used in Thomas the Tank Engine to make them look faster :P
Corffe Castle beautiful place watched the first moon landings there
You should do a trip like All The Stations but call it All The Heritage Stations.
All The Heritage Lines With Castles!