The New Beaulieu Park Station is Under Construction
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2024
- There's a new station being built right now on the Great Eastern mainline out of Liverpool Street. Just north of Chelmsford is where Beaulieu Park is going to be - all part of a massive redevlopment of the whole area. I went along to have a look at it In an advanced stage of construction.
[ I suspect this will be station number 2,588 on the network when it opens! - Station count update is included in the video ]
Network Rail page : www.networkrai...
With thanks for drone footage courtesy of the constructors - J Murphy & Sons Ltd.
What do YOU call the National Rail ( British Rail ) symbol …
Double Arrows? Crows Feet? Bars and Arrows? Something else?
Double arrow, I think you're right, geoff
@@lordgemini2376 cambridge street parkway scr???? 😱
Always double arrow's to see in my mind two trains passing
I was told when I was a boy in the 1960s it was called the British Rail Flash. Not sure how widespread that was though.
BR arrows, BR Logo, ive also heard crows feet used before aswell
Proper canopies. Finally someone within Network Rail has realised it rains quite a bit in the UK 😅
Hey Geoff, you should play SCR some time... 😅
Yes, you 2 should play some time
Hi peng
Came here from the post 😅
hey peng peng
Lol
I have been putting together a HUGE spreadsheet with all the new stations coming up in the next few years, and have been tracking the progress of this station for quite some time now. Great video as always Geoff, you must be delighted to have the opportunity to visit all these construction sites.
Is this spreadsheet publicly available?
That wooden triangular roof structure looks really good
Station looks like it will be a impressive one and also love how they added a bi-directional station in to allow stopping services to be put on a different line to allow express trains to pass, great video Geoff
Ok that is so weird. I went through Beaulieu Park this morning on a train and actually thought "I wonder if Geoff is going to do a behind the scenes video of this". Stay out of my brain, Geoff.
You should take a trip through Cambridge South as well … 😅
@@geofftech2 spoilers 😉
Cool to see it coming along nicely. Looking forward to your Cambridge South video.
Geoff summoned the whole SCR fanbase here 💀💀💀
I have a sneaky feeling Geoff secretly played SCR one time
@@BritishTrainsRBXI have never played Roblox/SCR! 😊
@@geofftech2 You have to play once, they've made a video about you in Stepford... Like you was riding Airlink, and Stepford Connect 🥰
@@geofftech2 You should the game got a massive overhaul
@@geofftech2If you don't get the reference there is a Station in SCR called Beaulieu Park with the exact same spelling.
Great to see something from my neck of the woods and nice to see something that I see every few weeks form an inside perspective!
Really cool to see new stations that are 12 coaches long. Must have been a while since a 12-car station was built from scratch
Cambridge North is the most recent one I can think of.
Last one was Brent Cross West I believe which opened last year
As others have pointed out, it happens fairly often.
The 12 car class 745s won't be stopping there, although they're actually 10 metres shorter than a 2x5 car class 720 which will the station is built for. Two 720s are actually the same length as a 12 car class 700.
@@luelou8464 yeah
Great to see investment like this in the rail industry. Excellent video. Many thanks, Geoff.
Thanks Geoff, great video, i have been waiting for this train for over 45 years, i look forward to seeing you when it opens in 2025. Keep up the good work
can't wait for my train to Elsemere Junction 👀
I'm headed to Morgantown, hopefully the Express train there isn't late.
Great video, and it's good to see a local station to me. Been watching this large site grow and evolve. It's rare to watch such a station being built, as so many are simply a small station building with a car park. This is much more.
This would make such a good standard dessign for future stations on busy twin track lines. That bi directional middle platfrom is so preferable for trains stopping there, removing all conflicting moves!
Another superbly informative video, Geoff, thank you. I can't wait to see your new one for Cambridge South, I have had to go to Papworth Hospital a few times recently and the new build next door looks absolutely amazing. Keep up the excellent work, you lucky man! Eric.
Great to see Winslow get a mention at the end, I look forward to when you get the chance to visit it under construction, or when it opens. Be sure to visit Bletchley High Level as well when you visit East West!
Adam there's a charter Oxford to bletchley on November 16 a pair of 33 locos now the shock 135 pounds a ticket 😊,
Going through this line every week, it's interesting to see what's happening with this new station!
The name of this station just so happens to be one from a popular online game, called Stepford County Railway...I literally thought of that Beaulieu Park, and it seems that other people in the comment are on the same wavelength as I am :))
yh i thought geoff was playing scr lol
Lol
@@joshtrains-qr8ie That'll be a good collaboration 😍
Don't play SCR myself so I'd love to know where their Beaulieu Park is. If it's Chelmsford, that would be an insane coincidence!
@@Cpr1234SCR is fictional
Another great video Geoff, I use the great eastern railway railway 😊and I’ve been looking at Beaulieu Park station as they’ve been building it/
What a great insight into the new station, thank you
We’ve been waiting for this station in Chelmsford for ages
Thank you for sharing the video Geoff, it was very interesting. 💖
Excellent video as always Geoff, always love new stations coming to UK Rail Network, this definitely looks like a station to visit, can't wait for it to open 😁
This was a fantastic opportunity Geoff, great to see :)
My company (resonate based in Derby) will be doing the signalling update as you say. Our IECC Scalable product will be updated with the new screens (that are basically all done now) along side our Traffic management software (Luminate, which i work on) which will also be updated in line. So users can make changes to trains to loop them or run them fast, and those changes will be automatically reflected in the timetable and passed to ARS to automatically be implemented. Exciting stuff!
Derby :’) 💕
@@Chevy-jordanderby=shithole
I think it's good to see new stations which have buildings being built, as many recent stations are just platforms and a car park.
Geoff, It’s Hatfield Peverel. Thanks for your explanations using mapping though.
My bad! damn typo sneaking in again -- thank you!
I have delivered and picked up my companies kit there a few times. That is the problem I there are too many different contractors on site and finding the one you are working with is fun.
I drive past this every week so it is great to see what's going on inside
The new road was finished some time ago that goes around the station which makes life much easier. Station well needed as new housing estate is huge. I'm local so be nice to see and use it when it's done. Drive past every day and it's progressing rapidly.
Yes same, can’t wait to see it all finished and apparently a large commercial centre going next door too?
@@robr9170 apparently so. But no time frame on much yet. Although it seems to be going much quicker than expected.
Great video as ever Geoff. I was raised not dar from where the new station is and it has been spoken about for over 40 years. Initially it was going to be about half a mile west of its current location and be known as 'Springfield Halt'. However it just never happened and with the Beaulieu Park housing development coming to fruition, they have reverted to plan B.
I recently went past the sites for Darlaston & Willinhall stations on the Birmingham to Shrewsbury train. Both stations have not seen much progress this year despite an agreement with new contractor to continue the work back in April. I can’t see them opening in 2025 probably early 2026.
I wonder how many will end up at this station looking for a motor museum!!
Well they got motors... On an aventra that is
Least used stations at the Beaulieu Motor Museum when?
Henry Ford's former UK Mansion, the old Ford test track and tractor school are just across a new bridge or two, now largely an Essex Police play thing, not forgetting Henry VIII old crib (Beaulieu Palace) is immediately behind the station, now a Catholic school. Marconi's old mansion / former GEC college is also a min down the line. There's also a complete set of German car dealerships across the road.
@@JasonHillier-ob8nv None or fewer at a guess.....
Anyone who's interested Saturday 16 November a pair of 33 charter Oxford to bletchley now the shock 135 pounds a ticket, it's good to new stations being built on the network again,😊,
Especially glad to see the water permeable brick 'cobbles' outside the station. If every paved footway and hard standing had this feature, there's be a LOT less flooding and a LOT less water shortages every time the sun comes in the summertime
Passed Beaulieu Park today when heading to Chelmsford looking forward to seeing the finished station
I'd love to see Cambridge South. That and the Hitchin flyover and Stevenage platform five mean the route of my childhood has had a lot more enhancement in recent years than the one I've lived on more recently (Euston-New Street).
Looks a lot better than the typical flatpack station that GWR has been putting everywhere.
GWR do nothing. SCR built this! Stop copying TFL or whoever operates this 🗑️ copy. Its a joke do not worry
Our local station! My kids are adamant that I’m not going to go to the first train lol😂
The Beaulieu Park development was begun in 2005, it was intended at that time that a station would be built to serve the hundreds of homes planned.
The Roblox game SCR was released in 2017.
Hopefully not too much damage will be done to the new station by halfwitted youths looking for souvenirs.
scr 2.1 sneak peek?
"Real or fake" ahh
Dawu i found you here wtf
Nice. Thanks Geoff
Geoff, I got a present from your channel, for a birthday present, I got 2 new Geoff Marshall shirts, one with an Intercity 125 on and the other with an Intercity swallow shirt.
I’ve been watching since the Londonist videos,
Have you seen the new West Midlands Metro line to Brierley Hill in Birmingham?
Or that the Urbos 3 trams have batteries to power to Edgbaston Village and Wolverhampton Station.
Or that Wolverhampton St George’s is currently closed until November 2024?
Great video Geoff!
Really enjoyed it.
great update! thanks!
Thank you.
The list of new stations is incorrect if you include Belfast Grand Central, the rail portion of which is (finally) opening on October 13th.
The Cambridge South station might be even bigger than this one, being four platforms on two wide islands. That would make for a good visit sometime
Cambridge street parkway is better
@@nswtrains3153 As a name, or is there a separate station proposal? I highly doubt there's a better placement than where Cambridge South is being built. As for the name, it matches up well with Cambridge North and is easily understood.
@@andrewreynolds4949 I was referring to the SCR one 😶
Thanks for covering this project, at the *real* Beaulieu Park, not some fictional one some of your commenters seem to have read about.
Minor correction, though: Hatfield Peverel.
'fictional one some of your commenters see to have read about'
wait since when did you read a train simulator 💀
@@mudchute4dlr Stepford County Railway, anyone?
@@hanstheexplorerme
My company helped Working on the building development near here, the train station was integral to the success of this site and helping to reduce congestion around Chelmsford
I’d much rather they’d given us back our station in Maldon, but there we are.
Far more expensive unfortunately. It will be interesting to see the effect the new station has on the number of people commuting from Hatfield Pev
Geoff you forgot about I think it’s called Butetown on the Cardiff bay line it looks close to opening and I think it will open next year
This is exactly what the Railways should be building. Instead of wasting so many billions on a duplicate line like HS2, here is a project which will improve the lot of commuters in the area. Now they can avoid the congestion in Chelmsford when they get the train to London.
Groan. Another person who gives their two pence on HS2 without knowing its purpose. Uneducated commentators like yourself are the reason why the project was butchered in the way that it has been. Please learn about how HS2 will revolutionise freight and stopping services before you spread the dangerous narrative that it's a waste of money and simply a 'duplicate line'. If you don't understand how freight and stopping services will be improved, you don't understand HS2.
So strange, I used to live near there and they only started the new development right after I moved away. Would've been useful back then!
Jago Hazzard made a video about the history of the British Rail symbol, starting with the lion on wheel, to the present 1965 logo and confirms its a double arrow, representing two trains in opposite directions.
Those bricks are really special, especially considering how much it rains.
Cambridge South has a superb curved wood roof which I think needs twinning with Manchester Oxford Road. Another big station with 4 x (I assume) 12 car platforms.
I can see some confusion arising with people wanting Beaulieu Road. Not that very many people do
You are at LST! Which has overtaken WAT to become the new busiest station in the UK.
roblox train game kids when an irl place just so happens to have the same name as a place in their favourite fictional railway game:
(in all serious though, looking forward to seeing this station when it's completed and open 👀)
it'll just be like the class 321 farewell tour, loads of people on board with scr merch LOL
you also a roblox train game kid tho ☠
SCR?
I know this is irrelevant but Camberwell Station and most of Camberwell Station Road is slowly starting to resemble the plans set in Summer 2023, though they where supposed to finish Summer 2024 not start. I do hope you find the to visit the road once the works are complete.
s106 mentioned!! Good to see councils using the powers they have with planning obligations, to get funding for awesome things like this. It's exactly the sort of thing the s106 agreements are designed to be used for.
Great to see bantech designing real rail projects. Morganstown next?
2:43 The Crows Feet flowed nicely into the scissor lift mechanism.
an SCR youtuber needs to travel between here and Newry (northern Ireland) by train when this Station opens
Ah?
I think Rayleigh Bay is real aswell near Kent
I wonder why they didn't put in 2 passing loops one for up one for down. Looks like there's space for it?
Almost choked on my tea, Beaulieu getting a new station?!!...oh, hold on, not 'that' Beaulieu...as you were.
ps. The arrows of indecision or double arrows.
Good to know, I've passed through and wondered who would use this because there is nothing around. It's metroland Essex style. Was interesting but not as big a surprise as the polar bears just before Ipswich
Haha yeah Jimmy's 'Farm' which is more of an arctic zoo now - can see wolves from the train too I'm pretty sure! Makes a change from when it was the odd donkey
Polar bears … ?!
@@geofftech2Yep, just south of Ipswich.
@@geofftech2 Wolves too!
@@geofftech2 Yes, as per other responses, Jimmy's Farm just south of Ipswich. I wasn't expecting to see a polar bear ambling towards the train but there they were.
That is scary, I never realised that on the Great Eastern railway to think I went on the mainline for the first time back in the summer from London to Southend Victoria.
are there no Solar Panels planned for the roof? A lost opportunity if not
oh god, this comment section's gonna get full of roblox kids, isn't it? the station seems nice enough though
Apparently it’s the same name as a station in SCR or something …?! 😅
@njr_b312 frfr LMFAO i only came onto this video because of the roblox kids 😭😭
@@aalexazander Same (even if i play SCR)
@@geofftech2 The roblox kids have picked up on your comment, you can blame @SquadFam9000
Great video though! I can assure you that this Beaulieu Park is better than the other one 😅
Look forward to your Cambridge South video. Grew up near there and still have family that way, so I've seen Cambridge north evolve, and look forward to south opening soon
A Cambridge "really" Central would have been nice"
Thank you
Great video. Thought Okehampton Interchange was going to open in 2025, but looks like it's going to be Feb 2026 now
The other interesting thing about the station is that it saw the previously straight double tracks realigned into the new station alignment here. Trains to London are currently on a temporary speed restriction through the station but towards Colchester, trains are free to run at line speed.
The size of the station is needed, Chelmsford station was previously the busiest non-terminus station outside of London. Beaulieu Park should also take a lot of passengers who originate from outside the city and currently bus/drive to Chelmsford station, alleviating pressure here.
Chelmsford finally has another major transport hub
I live/work very near this and it is a large site and that’s great since Chelmsford station is far too small, so hopefully this relieves some pressure. My complaint before it’s even opened though - it’s situated by itself with a golf course pressed up against it, so from what I can tell you’ll need to take a car or bus to get to station. It doesn’t seem like they’re even going to link it with a pedestrian bridge or tunnel to the McDonald’s, hotel, fuel station on the other side of roundabout (and onwards to Sainsbury’s, KFC, Starbucks etc) which is a strange choice. There won’t even be direct access with car/bus from the roundabout it sits on, presumably so it doesn’t cause traffic, so it’ll need a long access road. Still, some attention to rail infrastructure so great - now, if they would only reopen/rebuild the link from anglia mainline to Stansted & east coast mainline so it’s not detached from rest of the country sitting alone by itself.
I will be visiting the new Beaulieu Park railway station once it opens next year. A brand new railway station in Essex for 2025 since Southend Airport railway station opened in 2011 which has replaced Rochford.
Perhaps you should do Cambridge South and see how the new railway station is taking shape with 4 platforms and to serve Addenbrooks Hospital and Papworth Hospital. Since Cambridge North station opened in 2017.
I suppose this is an extension of Chelmsford.
Well, that's one benefit of an expanding population - more stations and more trains.!
But I'm not sure that any feasible study has ever been made of how much capacity the London terminals will be able to handle in the future.
Once you get out of the South East, population and passengers dramatically reduce (except in the Metropoitan Counties).
It's a totally different world that can't be experienced by any non-stop intercity train, nor motorway service station!!!
Steve did all the stations - it's certainly a great achievement.
Better still to see what goes on in the world around each station - but that's something that would take a life-time !!!
Looking good - can't help thinking Spanish Solution would've been a more useful layout \m/
When the French and the English come together to cooperate, it is usually about creative spelling to make it difficult for tourists to explain to taxi drivers where they want to go.
I am so jealous of all these new stations being opened around the country. I'm waiting for Cardiff Parkway to become a thing but the Welsh Government have recalled an approved planning application for review and are dragging their feet over it. They cancelled new road building as they want people to use public transport then they delay or maybe worse cancel the building of this much needed station on the east side of Cardiff that is next to the main South Wales to London mainline but has never had a station.
Bro summoned SCR 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
Great video Geoff
The thing is that it’s not the Beulieu Park in Brentwood if you happen to try and search it up because it doesn’t exist just yet, it’s a brand new housing estate and it’ll mainly serve the village of Boreham in Essex
I seen pass-by my mum car. We went to Grandma visited in Springfield Lane, in Ipswich of Suffolk, by occasional holiday.
Lots of work going on at Cambridge South (Biomedical Campus, including Addenbrookes, Rosie Maternity and Papworth Hospitals & medical company labs) and on the track, junction and signals to the south of it. At least lots of weekend rail replacement buses for travellers. 😂
Hopefully takes some commuter traffic pressure off the road between the city centre and the Biomedical Campus when it opens. 👍
Will stepford connect services stop at this station? Amazing videos as always!
Beaulieu Park
That stations sounds familiar 🤔
Beaulieu road
Now where's Morganstown?
Awesome Video Geoff
There was an avoiding line at the main Chelmsford station, but it was removed.
Look forward to these videos
Hello Geoff, are you going to the opening of Belfast Grand Central?
Welcome on board this Stepford Connect service to Morganstown. The next station is Beaulieu Park. (SCR Reference ((:)
@@TheCircuitBoardYT or "Welcome on board this Stepford Connect service to: Stepford Central / Beechley"
@@theherbata yes GET STEPFORD COUNTY RAILWAYED
Looking forward to ticking this one off. Anyone know where the name Beaulieu Park comes from?
It will also mean we have three similar named stations in the UK. We all remember Beaulieu Road as least used station on Hampshire. There's also Beauly in Scotland which I believe is the shortest railway station platform in the UK.
There's a new housing development to the north of Chelmsford called Beaulieu. The school there is also called Beaulieu Park
@@eewead the name of the housing estate comes from the school which occupies the remains of a palace that was once the home of one of henry viii's wives, i think anne Boleyn
And Beaulieu Park is also a station in SCR.
I happened to think of Stepford... 💀
(P.S: I'm not SCR "fanboy", but I sometimes play it...)
(P.P.S: If Ashdean or -St. James Park- will become an IRL station, there'll be BR fans too, so...)
It became so popular in-game they made it irl
@@BaileyChap I know right...
St. James Park is already real tho
There is a St James Park station, and also a separate St James's Park station
theres like a hundred stations along the name of st james park
It's great that there's new stations being built but it's always down south while in the midlands we are largely egnored as we've been waiting for aldridge, willinhall and services to be reinstated between Burton and Leicester which it's looking like it's never going to happen sadly
And I thought this would be in the New Forest (though I couldn't figure out where without a new branch line...)
The first thing I thought of when I saw this video was Beaulieu road station in the new forest.
Will the Beaulieu Park station have any effect on the service pattern on the Great Eastern Mainline?