Coombe Junction - Least Used Station in Cornwall
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- As part of our return to Cornwall to visit all the stations on the Looe Valley line, it was time to do Coombe properly in-depth, as it's the least used station in Cornwall.
Coombe Junction Halt is also on twitter: / coombejunction
ORR Statistics for passengers numbers are here: orr.gov.uk/stat... (Second link down)
Geofftech 'Least Used' website, here: geofftech.co.uk...
You see what you've done now, don't you? Each time you visit a least used station, someone will organise a group to go there so that next year it's not the least used station. So you'll have to come back next year to visit what is then the least used station. You've just made this project infinite!
Isn't it great?
But thats good cuse in that case the station isnt lonely anymore
next we'll have least used station: waterloo. and then what?
Very good.
Rumour has it that the information point is still trying to connect the call.......
Continue to hold,your call is important to us
please wait
*COOMBE JUNCTION*
The junction with 1 track that isn't even a junction
I actually used Coombe Junction station twice when on holiday in the late nineties. It was November (I think) and my ex wife and I were off to St. Ives for the day to see the Tate. We had to rise before dawn and walk from the cottage that we were renting to the station. In the distance an owl was hooting and nothing else moved until the train did. It was a little other worldly being so deserted especially for a Londoner. We did of course use it on the second occasion to return. It was no less basic than Talybont station on the Cambrian coast line which I used in the early eighties and a good deal cleaner.
Loved this video!
hold on, that train is a single car?
Coombe should learn from Llanfairpwll and give itself a funny name. Doesn't take more to attract people from literally all over the world!
For some reason I'm always hyperaware that you have to go into/over to someplace a first time to put down the camera so you can film yourself going over the second time.
I'm always impressed that Geoff takes such care to set up those shots!
Liam H ii
Oh yeah, me too. #myImmersion
Liam H ikr I feel like it's not even worthit
Imagine if someone just runs off with the camera 🤣
Help! Someone’s dying!
**please wait**
Just been to Coombe Junction Halt today (due to the video) and happy to report that the phone has now been fixed!
please wait.
I wonder if someone with the phone company saw the video and were embarassed.
Did you go in a group?
Slightly worrying,...how long would they have had to wait if they'd pressed the emergency button in the event of it being genuine?
IM DYING ABDXISGDJEUE8E8DU
"please wait."
I meant if an emergency situation was genuine, not the call button.
@@mistofoles It would likely attach to a regional or national emergency line
there wouldn’t be anyone
On most help points, the Information button connects to National Rail Enquiries which is outsourced to India, and the Emergency button connects to the train operator's control room.
I saw this programme once..there was a journalist reporting from an obscure station in the middle of the nowhere, with the train in the background. The reporter was saying "..and this is the only train that runs from here, once a week.." As he's talking to the camera, the train starts to pull out. The reporter looks over his shoulder and says "Oh, **** !"...Then there's a blurred jerky shot, as the whole crew run after the train ! :D
could you name the programme or location of the station?
Loool
Sorry that made me laugh!
Can you say the name of the program or the station?
@@Ash-vm6vy Yes I could.
@@mistofoles so tell me please.
Every time that “Please wait…” shows up, I think of this: “Dinsdale…”
Please wait
Kirkwood New I’m waiting
There is a video of a DMU that looks very old was at that station and it was being filmed. I think it is a train from late 50's !
I am sure that you have thought of this already, but just in case...
Could you do the Most used station in... county at the same time as these least used ones?
Please wait.
I had to, sorry..
Michael Dreksler The most used is Manchester,Liverpool, and Chester.By the way your welcome.
Comment is coming... PLEASE WAIT
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I like trains !
@cowscrazy
This should be a meme.
cowscrazy WAHAHAHA
ElijahTCK Why it is the natural heritage railway you can't make a meme out of it.
ua-cam.com/video/5DjOL2we8ko/v-deo.html
worth the wait
*PLEASE WAIT*
0 teas? Anyone else disappointed in Geoff?
Mr Railman i already drank one, on my second now!
MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
No yes no yes no no no no
tea yummy🚰
Intercity 43 yes definitely
Quote of the day : please wait
Please wait
After 3 years: Please wait
Wasn’t “strong and stable” the tagline from the Tory’s election campaign last May/June?
David Who strong and stable brexit
Hypotheticlz yeah apparently
Me want brexit
@@Seung_Hee-kyung well you can't have it! -_-
@@Fireglo I can!
Love the least used stations
Chris L Yes so do I especially when they sit In nature
They are alot nicer than the city stations
Geoff, every time someone asks for a certain video in the comments section, I'm now looking forward to your 'Please wait' response.
watch till the very very end of the video it responds
Is the information point still saying please wait?
*_PLEASE WAIT_*
She did at the end of the video. She announced the train they had arrived on.
I assumed it was directly connected to the mainline equivalent of Trackernet, Fabe's Trains.
£1000 saved
That was a funny video. I also rember walking under the viaduct when i was young, probably in 2002 or 2003 and that gate at 9:55 in the video. If I rember correctly i was lost with my dad looking for my sister & mom, who had also got lost. We walked around in circles for hours. I rember 2 large 5 or 7 inch diameter blue pipes running alongside the track which were carrying water. Its a very strong memory....but where did those pipes lead? I never found out!
It's amazing that such an unused station is still serviced by a train every day, while Houston in the US shockingly only has 3 trains going to it per week
Miren Summers The US is built for the automobile, both by city planning and, according to stereotypes, biologically. There’s low demand for passenger rail.
I believe that should change. US has the best rails in the world in my opinion.
@@filipinordabest in America, you're likely to fly between 2 cities
How come British transportation workers are so damn friendly? Here in America if to try to talk to a person working for the transportation department, he'll arrest you for "Assault"
tstanton_ _ I know this was commented a long time ago, but with British Transport, one of the biggest appealing factors is how friendly the workers are, this is mostly because the people who are working in the positions have some sort of love or passion for the Railway or for helping people with their journeys. It’s frankly one of the best things about Britain, no matter what station you’re at nearly all the workers are friendly.
I remember while waiting for a train back to London from Norwich I was having a cigarette and began chatting to some of the station workers. All lovely people!
The train guys are super nice in Florida.
That's just not true
Very cool video!!
To be honest the over the top enthusiasm is infectious.
The freight train that goes past Coombe Jcn Halt also makes a return journey on Thursday. It passes Devonport station at about 4pm, just before my train
Ghast3965 Gaming Gona be one long train 😂
So from the video there is a factory right next to the station. But the trains aren't timed to make it suitable for anyone working there to use the train to get to work. A missed opportunity surely?
You should do another London's lost railways with the North Woolwich to Stratford part of the North London line Geoff
Project Blackwood technically, most of that line is not lost to railway use.
i guess so but it would be a good way to show the crossrail works in Copenhagen tunnel if he ever gets invited there
Project Blackwood Abbey Wood branch is pretty much finished now. The BBC Crossrail documentary did have an episode on the tunnel restoration.
ah cool, I'll have to have a look at that :D
This station could easily get a more regular service as the train has to slow down all the time when it changes direction. It can only take an extra minute to travel an extra fifty metres and turn around at the station
I wonder if we'll eventually see a video of the least used station on The Isle of Wight.... ever.
Nigel Oulton Please Wait
from the back it looks like an US schoolbus... on rails. ;)
Please wait.
I once accidentally flushed a train toilet as we pulled into Liskeard. 😳 It feels good to confess that faux pas!
"HEELLPPPP!!! I'M BLEEDING TO DEATH !!!!" - "Please wait."
a least used station that have more passengers annually but looks like an abandoned station
Very well done video, including the way Coombe Junction works, a brief glimpse of Moorswater Viaduct and some locals. Not much has changed about it since I was there as a boy in the 1970s and it's comforting to see that. If I missed the school bus home (me? Detention? Of course not...) I would walk all the way from school to Liskeard Station and wait (and wait) for the Looe train and get off at St. Keyne (probably only marginally busier than Coombe) and walk home (Trewidland). If memory serves, the cross-country course we used to do took us all the way down the hill from town to Moorswater and almost under the viaduct.
Sorry for the rambling, enjoyed your vignette.
I love how Geoff makes friends with literally everyone
I live in the USA, and I’ll tell you, we have buses, but trains are for going long distances, like, Seattle to San Francisco. We don’t have disused stations, at least on the West Coast, cause they are all used, all the time. The difference is that the trains stop at every station once a week, at most, but they go the entire distance of Britain a couple times a week. But closer in to individual cities, they have their own mass transit, and have almost no least used stations. The least used have like 2 trips to them at maximum on the weekends, 8 or more on the week days.
Lovely video, makes me want to move to the UK even more...
Do you still want to move to the UK?
Impressive horn! A proper train sound. Thanks for exploring this end of the world! x
I know there is going to be a joke about Looe, Sorry......... I'll be back in a second
Ugh those "Help" Points. I'm disabled, and we came back from Tenerife to Heathrow, we had help booked to meet us at the Gate, which was miles away from anywhere. Well, it didn't turn up. We got kicked off the plane and left there alone. Fortunately they did actually bring my mobility scooter up to the gate and our first point of call was one of those Help Points. Which nobody answered. So we somehow managed to get the scooter onto the train to the luggage carousels. NIGHTMARE. A woman in Border Control helped us the rest of the way, as she had finished her shift. Got out of the airport 3 hours late.
I think the cement factory you referred to was a China Clay processor
*presses emergency button*
PLEASE HELP MY FRIEND IS DYING!!
"please wait."
BUT MAH FRIEND!
"please wait."
OMG HES DEAD NOW THANKS FOR NOTHING
"you should know better than stop off at the least used railway station at this place.
please wait."
Two years of "please wait"
Lived in Looe my whole life and I don't think I know anyone that has gotten off at Coombe
"strong and Stable" is quote from Theresa may :P For the Conservative party
Describing how she would like the party to be
Please Wait
I live 20 miles from Shippea Hill, this is why me, ex British Rail 1974 to 1992, uses my faithfull Ford Mondeo.
I remember years ago I took the looe train and always remember a stop near a cottage and the train stopped and the guard jumped off and delivered eggs and some newspapers to the cottage ....
I wanted to comment on the Angel Road station. I had to use it three or four times, apparently it is in an area very popular with companies to have warehouses and their flagsips ,so every time I went it was because of job interviews. The last time I was there it was freezing and raining so heavily! No toilets, nowhere to buy cofee, nobody there -- just trains that flash by without stopping. A horrendous crappy station. I don't understand why trains do not even stop there... it's in a quite a popular area in London. Many people would use it if they could. And the information point worked exactly like the one at Coombe Junction: nobody was there.
Screaming kids in the background... yep you're definitely on a train
That train the least aerodynamical piece of machinery ever
Wouldn't surprise me if Lelant Saltings now became the least used station in Cornwall. Park and Ride is now at St Erth and the Saltings now has one train a day in each direction.
@@elizabethmh_465 Yes well it's like this: The Saltings (disgraceful edifice and concrete monstrosity, spits on the floor) was the Park and Ride Station for St . Ives. Now, There is a much better and appropriate Park and Ride facility at St Erth. And so now, there is just the single return journey each day at Lelant Saltings and now (Trumpet Sounds) my Home Station of Lelant now gets more listed stops each day although it is still (Geoff Please note) a Request Stop!!!! Looking forward to the Request Stop video Geoff!
Geoff I got off at Coombs Junction Halt
love the punchline at the end!! Actually the historic walking tour group sounds like a good day out and something to keep in mind for visiting
It's cheaper to keep the line open than it is to go through the process of closure......
Four passengers a month use this station and I can see that these people are trying to make it more popular so there must be less than that.
153369, now owned by TfW!
These videos are really helping me get through a bad time. You two look very happy together,remember the good days if you ever hit some bad ones
Not too sure, but I think the help point doesn't work. Oh wait it does (just seen the end lol)
Can I just say that my surname is Coombes?
Please wait.
Superb. I really enjoyed this.
Gotta go down there on a Wednesday lunch time 👍😃.
Another brilliant video, thanks.
Love a good old class 153
Surely this has to be the least used station in the world
There’s this train station in the literal middle of nowhere in Tibet, on the service between (I guess) Beijing and Lhasa. It has more facilities than the station shown here, maybe because it’s an emergency stop for the altitude-sickened.
Yay my local county! Thanks Geoff :D
Nerdy Productionz yay kernow!!!!
*Please Wait*
I brought a return ticket in June so that's 1/24th of the total to beat (48) achieved.
Thoughts on the predicted least used station this year???...
Chronicles of Narnia brought me here 👍
PLEASE WAIT
I've been waiting for ages for this video of Cornwall's least used station!
I've been watching the least used station series as well as all the stations. I'm thinking of visiting the UK next spring and doing all the least used and most used stations in each county. who wants to go?
why am i watching this? i like it. i guess i'll subscribe
Buggleskelly makes coombe juntion look like waterloo.
whats the song at 0:27
Likely the glass is missing from the windows to deter vandalism.
Gary Cameron : and the phone receiver is “pre-removed” for the same reason.
Brilliant. I stopped ar Coombe nearly every day in may when I stayed in Looe and I kept catching the 0909!
congrats on having woods at all
Great video Most enjoyable! I remember going there when the trains were steam hauled!
With Shippea Hill and Coombe Junction Halt going up in passenger numbers I wonder which station will be bottom in 2017/18. Maybe I should organise a flash mob to one of my local stations, Barry Links, to bump that one up as well. It could well be bottom otherwise!
The trains in England more lazy then in Germany
The building behind the station that was making the noice was a textile mill! it's pretty empty considering its not to far from a mid-size twon!
So Least used Station in Cornwall is the same as Oxfordshire's Combe , what are the odds? 2563 -1? Ok so the spellings are different, but surely that's just semantic's .
Least- used station suggestion. Sheffield Woodhouse. If it still exists. Haven't been home in a long time so I can't tell you. but if it is still there, I would love to see that.
the videos go the least used station (by passenger numbers) on a per county basis. the map is here: geofftech.co.uk/leastused/
Geoff Marshall Smallbrook Jct. on the IoW (joking aside!!!) is unusual in that technically it will ALWAYS be the least used station there as virtually no NR tickets will be sold to or from there as a final destination (as you can't physically walk out of the station premises there) only rovers or combined tickets including the Steam Railway would normally be issued, making the actual footfall of those exiting the NR part of the station irrelevant, even though, in spite of it's restricted opening hours, could well be higher than say, Brading or Ryde St. John's, or Lake. That's an interesting one!
I know why it keepsaying pls wait cause this is coombe junction HALT # HALTINGAREA
9:38 amazing to imagine a brand new IEP racing across a Victorian age bridge
I can't help noticing that the exhaust of that DHMU vents out under the floor instead of passing through the body to the roof. Just thought I'd mention it!!
Hey Geoff, this might get buried but I'd be interested to know which train companies (Great Western, South Western, etc) operate in let's say, the top 10 least used stations? Or the least used station series? Does such information exist or would anybody be interested if i collected it all up?
A station that in average has one passenger per week, and is still open!? It boggles the mind.
I looked on a map. It's actually 2 miles of train from Liskeard to Coombe Junction. And 0.6 miles by foot. It takes 12 minutes to walk according to Google. The train takes 9 minutes. It's an utterly pointless station, unless you live in Looe and have a relative at Coombe House assisted living facilities. Then you'll save 20 minutes when you go visit grandma.
Surprising how the gap between the track and platform is less than the gap of a Croydon tram platform
I came here on Saturday 14th but not on a train, I walked down from Liskeard. It's a very quaint small station
domino566 We walked down from Liskeard ;)
Your video makes me want to visit the station. Thank you!
Oh, great, so when you press the help button on the console in England, , the call gets diverted to India - "Good evening, House of Madras Restaurant". "Erm - I think we may have a slight communications breakdown here..."
I think that ranks as one of the most fun Least Used Stations videos!
I hope this series picks up before this years stats come out!
Of course there's no ticket office/shop etc...there would be no point or percentage in employing somebody to run those services on a virtually obsolete train platform !
mistofoles All of a sudden London Paddington is demolished and all trains have to go through Coombe Junction lmao jk