It's Yorkshire, They Do It Properly - Episode 38, Day 69 - Reddish South to Huddersfield
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- It's Friday 14th July and we start our day catching the most awkward train on the network! It's the once-a-week Friday only train, and we got on it at Reddish South ...
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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....
Geoff on pacers: "They're essentially a bus on wheels"
As opposed to.....?
They're not opposed to anything else thats the point xD
Pacers are actually based on buses and use a lot of bus components.
Alice Hancock I
...literally every other train out there, where the bogies are separate from the train body, making the train more stable (as in less shaky)
Alice Hancock They are bus bodies literally welded onto a flatbed railroad car. They were built in the 1980s as a temporary fix for a shortage of rolling stock.
We need a bonus video of the Pacer under Manchester!
www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2017/04/crashed-pacer-142059-manchester-victoria/
That pacer front was repaired and is ready for use as a spare for when the PPS get a unit
The proper name for the town is Huddersfloof. Thankyou.
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@Sleeper Train Fan Jesus!
As someone from Pontefract, the fact we have 3 stations but you can only regularly get to 3 places is ridiculous. Would definitely appreciate more trains to Sheffield, Huddersfield and Manchester.
Well just been to Pontefract yesterday and I think the surrounding environment is somewhat Barren. Also I understand your feeling. Only Baghill has trains to the cities of Sheffield and York, and maybe too much trains to Leeds. But you can see Leeds as a useful hub to transit.
at least you can get to london from there
It's great that you're highlighting least used stations. I hope someone high up is taking notice and maybe get a better service for them.
It's Chapel-Town pronounced as it's written (I know, most towns in Yorkshire aren't) and it's the nearest station to where I grew up. Yay! Did you know it was moved in 1984?
Should've gone to the Haribo factory in Pontefract!
Great seeing Stocksmoor Station at 9:28, apparently this quiet little station was once used as a filming location for a Last of The Summer Wine episode ''The Man Who Nearly Knew Pavarotti' (1995) for the scene when Compo, Clegg and Foggy prevent Billy Ingleton (Norman Wisdom) from boarding a train due to his rampant stage fright before a piano concert he is due to perform. The scene was apparently filmed in September 1994, towards the end of the British Rail era; and looking at recent images of the station, not much has changed since then.
Very nice to see places I'm so familiar with. If I had a pound every time I'd sat in the stations at Huddersfield and Dewsbury, I wouldn't have to have spent half my student loan on a travel card. An interesting thing about the railways in West Yorkshire is that near my house you can still access the remains of the abandoned Tingley Station which closed in 1954 and follow the route the tracks used to take to Howley tunnel which has unfortunately since been sealed shut and become full of toxic gas. I hope that one day I'm able to walk the length of the tunnel and properly explore it. Nonetheless, if you're ever back in the area I would highly recommend covering up, wading through the nettles and exploring the abandoned station.
My grandparents used to live in big, cold Victorian house on the Leeds Road just south of Tingley Crossroads and grandpa was headmaster of Blackgates school in West Ardsley for many years. I remember him taking me for a walk along the railway behind their house near Tingley station.
As a kid in Batley, we used to go to Howley Tunnel -- you could go into the tunnel through a door in the sealed tunnel entrance. It was a spooky place to a 9 year old boy, with horror stories of a train derailment occuring there one night ... brings back memories (I emigrated with my family to Australia in 1969 Batley->Elizabeth, South Australa)
How evil of the ToC to run the parliamentary train a few minutes before the pensioners are allowed to use it. :-(
Absobloodylutely
Needed more Felix. Next year All The Station Cats? :-D
Really? The one time you don't say what day number it is and it's 69? 😭😂
KasabianFan44 and they do peniston
If only that stalybridge Stockport train ran more it would have been so useful when I was commuting
9:17 - So Childish.
I love it.
On day 69 too
Better than Scunthorpe
😂😂😂😂😂 @@AshleyRyan15
I like Pacers. Especially the old 2 by 3 bus seats trains. Will be sad to see them go when withdrawn from service at the end of the decade.
Great to be in Yorkshire. Some lovely stations and people again. Shame a lot of the stations are a shadow of how things used to be.
"It's a bus on wheels." Love it.
Just checked the map to discover you've already done The Lakes Line. (Though it's run by Northern now, not TPE)
Had I been paying attention I'd have come meet you gdi
Huddersfield 💙🖤 ah so many views and stops I've experienced on commutes... I miss it lots! Took me 2 n half years to pronounce Slaithwaite right...
Calling All Stations I know right? It's pronounced slowit...
Aw, yay, a station cat! I don't follow the cat on Facebook, but I follow you guys, so...take that how you will.
e: a tanshelf is a shelf for tans. you put your tan on it when it's not summer.
ThisIsARubbishName 👍👍 to both comments!
So like pontefract stations use such ancient and cultural names
I regard Pontefract as a truly amazing historical town.
When you're so early that the HD version is not uploaded yet -.- 😂 probably forgotten on the Isle of Wight
SimonHellinger drat. same here... 🤓
Impossible, cause they haven't been there, so how could they've forgotten anything?
Now that you say that...
so you got to meet a bigger Internet star than yourselves
You missed me by a day! I see you have have visited the lines I go on on a regular basis. I live in Penistone and regularly travel to Sheffield and up to Huddersfield if I need to go to Newcastle, where I just went recently, or Manchester. You also managed to pronounce Slaithwaite right. Yorkshire is nice, just don't walk more than 100 yards from Huddersfield station, trust me. Nevertheless, brilliant video.
I’ve just been reading Felix’s book!
I can't wait for Lancashire, aye.
You should’ve had a pizza from Centros in Huddersfield! That would be an excellent “tick”! 😋😋😋😋😋
Vivki your love of Harry Potter is so very appreciated while you are on this adventure. Just wondering if you are planning anything special when you get to Goathland Station? After all, that was the Hogsmeade station
What about Morley Lower Station between Batley and Leeds? There can't be many stations right next to a bloody long tunnel.
I drive under the Woodlesford station every day I go to work
bless you thinking that dewsbury is nice 😂
John Betjeman thought Huddersfield Station frontage second only to St Pancras. Surprised you didn't mention travelling through the longest tunnel in the country to get to Slaw'it. At the weekend most of your route is on the "Ale Trail" including two pubs in Huddersfield Station.
What happened to meadowhall Wombwell barnsley Dodworth silkstone common Dendy dale
Thing about Reddish South...it's the only point in the line where it's single-track. It's actually triple-track from Stockport, then merges into single track through Reddish South, and then it's double-track through Denton, does that weird thing at Guide bridge where it goes into the station the wrong way, then it's double-track through to Stalybridge.
The reason it's single-track is apparently because of the motorway...but it goes over a bridge at the motorway...it shouldn't be too much of a bother to replace it with a bridge wide enough for a double-track...then they simply need to dig out the platform at Reddish South and lay the second track there, hook up a bit of track to go into guide bridge on the correct side, and bob's your uncle, you got capacity for a regular train service down that branch line, and hey, less traffic at Piccadilly and more traffic for the underutilized Victoria.
It's even useful as a complete Manchester bypass. You got Leeds just a little ways up the line from Stalybridge, and all the places beyond that. Heck, Freight trains use it as a bypass all the time.
There's just so much potential for the Reddish South line if they just invest in it and apply the regular services.
Did you go into Pontefract? It's the home of Dunhills sweets, who manufacture Haribo! Also, do you know the Yorkshire nicknames for places there? Pontefract - Ponte Carlo, Castleford - Cas Vegas!
I have bad memories from Pontefract. I went there to try some of their famous cake, visited all the bakeries and shops, and all I could find was liquorice sweets. The cake is a lie!
@@B3RyL Town of liquorice could Pontefract be.Local history is amazing too
anyone visiting Batley should remember the wondrous battle re-enactments by the Batley Townswomen's Guild on Monty Python.
I have piece of mind knowing he saw mirfield 😌
YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES FOCUSING ON THE FIRST TWO SYLLABLES OF THAT STATION NAME. SMUT!
The Harry Potter discovery story was amazing - thanks for sharing that!
07:16 My parents and sibling live here... Well Batley Carr and Thornhill. lol
Regarding the Parliamentary service to Reddish South and Denton. Back in the day, the Trans-Pennine Express trains operated by British Rail ran from Liverpool to Hull via Manchester Victoria. Trans from London and the south would terminate at Manchester Piccadilly. If you were travelling from the south to go east or west on the Trans Pennine trains, you would alight at Stockport and get a shuttle train that ran via Reddish South and Denton to Stalybridge, where you could pick up the trans Pennine trains (and the opposite connection could be made too). The shuttle ran hourly every day to provide this link.
After engineering works created a new link from the line used by Trans Pennine trains from Liverpool connecting it to Manchester Piccadilly - all trans-Pennine services were diverted through Piccadilly and Guide Bridge to Stalybridge. This provided a direct transfer at Piccadilly station, and negated the need for the shuttle between Stockport and Stalybridge. Traffic and Reddish South and Denton was deemed too low to warrant a service, so it was withdrawn.
I think the future of Reddish South and Denton is with tram-trains, make an extension of metrolink from Stockport (when it gets there).Also - when the Ordsell Curve is completed, Trans-Pennine trains will return to operate via Manchester Victoria, taking some pressure off Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road stations. For the first time, trains will be able to travel to between Victoria and Piccadilly. As many trains will do this, it will create the link to Trans-Pennine services previously provided by the shuttle via Reddish South and Denton.
I like how they're honest enough to admit on the departure indicator things "This is a slow train".
7:00 That's a pretty majestic looking cat.
Lots of great stuff and I'm only at 5:45 so far and... OMG! Mid-July and the lady getting off the train has a crazy load of fake fur on!!!! Is it seriously THAT cold up there in mid-July?! (And even if it is cold, the coat still makes me laugh...) 😃
ps I'm tweeting to Yorkshire Tea now and if they do not RT this video I will unfollow and block them! 😋
Tha missed out t'station at centre of t'universe, MARSDEN, and the famous 4 tunnels at Standedge - Stannage- nor did you comment about t'canal tunnel neither. Other than these glaring blunders - in my biased view- its a great video, well done!! Love all the stations! Absolutely brilliant concept!
Meltham is the centre of the universe, not Marsden.
That clock on the town hall at Huddersfield looks like the one from Back to the Future.
That is not the Town Hall that is the train station
Gordon Prentice great Scott! (Sorry).
he looks the same as the one they done in wales
ohh hes now with tfw
Pontefract my own town i live 10 min walk from Pontefract Monkhill Station And 20 mins From Baghill Station
Where is Keeley? Is it near Keefley?
5:02 aren't all buses on wheels !!!????!!
Hope there's something in the extras for Denton too, another station that needs more love. As well as the promised interview with Felix, we need to know how to say All the Stations in cat language! Great video once again!
John John Needed a bonus Felix video.
I think this is the 4th or 5th time I’ve watched this series, I still love the fact they were in my city on my birthday!
Geoff, you're talking too fast for youtube to subtitle accurately, look at the subtitles from 5.00-5.02 :P
I was getting increasingly excited as you passed through Dewsbury and Batley, and about to hit Morley and Cottingley, my local stations growing up. But I was disappointed they didn't get a mention :(
Tbf there's not a huge amount to see at either station, but Morley's a lovely old town :)
Maybe Leeds is more prominent🤣
Chapeltown - Chapel+town (not Chapelton).
the ASDA next to Chapeltown station (pronounced: Chapel town) is the one from the full Monty. I know you can't show every station but I'm a bit sad you didn't show my home station of Barnsley. the famous market town
The ASDA in the Full Monty is the old Handsworth ASDA
Is Wakefield Kirkgate still the largest unstaffed station on the network?
just trying to plan a Reddish South to Manchester journey - it is now on Saturday mornings. Reddish South to Guide Bridge is £2.90 single, Guide Bridge to Manchester Piccadilly is £4.30 - but Reddish South to Manchester Piccadilly (USING THE SAME TRAINS) is £25.20!
9:16 Finally! CC Peniston(e): th-cam.com/video/xk8mm1Qmt-Y/w-d-xo.html
Yorkshire #1
...." Pontefract ( ponte-carlo, to us locals ) has three stations, all of them separate,"... Hmmm, 'appen if they were all TOGETHER it'd only be one station..... just sayin' like.
Changing the train time by 3mins and denying pension discount is scummy
I destroyed the living room trying to find my old Greenwich Mean Time calculator as I tried to figure out how this posted in the middle of the night here. Oops.
As to cats, I had to frequently tell my husky "That is not a chewy toy!"
I have to admire the number of cool and friendly people you've met on your journey. Enjoy your love and experience.
According to Wobblipedia: In the 20 May 2018 timetable changes, Northern introduced a return service at the station, as well as shifting the day of operation to Saturday. The first service departing at 09:00 to Stockport and then return at 09:50 to Stalybridge on Saturdays only.
What would you say the most awkward, awkward station is
Woodlesford 8:04 - HOME "tick"
oh and the old Penistone joke. Well edited. Hope you enjoyed your brief venture into Yorkshire and look forward to your return.
I commute regularly through Huddersfield (because I live there) and I always visited Felix. And then she pissed on my feet.
Least you guys pronounced Slaithwaite right
Hudds: the Northernmost place I've been in the UK
Mine is Edinburgh
Mine is Paris
People will miss the Pacers when they're gone.
I agree. People love to complain but, deep down, there is something people admire about an plucky underdog. They are a bit loud around corners though...
8:02 - They _do_ do it properly, don't they? Love the arrival times on the dot-matrix display, that's properly useful.
Diesel electric ? Could it be the D train aka LU D Stock converted to mainline train
No, they are 2 different types of train, one electric one diesel. They've already been announced as the Class 195 (Diesel) and 331 (Electric)
What video is Preston in
First video where there are more than a few stations I've actually been to. No footage of Leeds station yet (although it's not the prettiest station)
I like Leeds Station, which is shown on the next vid
Awww the Huddersfield cat, what a sweetie
REDDISH SOUTH IS NOT A REQUEST STOP!!!
Excuse me, that should be "they do it proper" )))))
Mossley, marsden?
Chapeltown is correct. Not Chapelton
Ah, God's Own County at last!
I love Yorkshire.👌💖💕💟💞💓💝💜💚💗💞💞💞👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Gods own county.
Don't mean to be rude but have you forgot the route in the description?
I’m so annoyed my local stop didn’t get shown it
You must have passed dodworth
When are you going to Darlington?
Ooooooh I work at Fox's, in Lancashire!
Alex WJ93 Interesting that Geoff said that he liked them in a former life... Tea keeps you slim, but not Fox's Biscuits!
Geoff, Did you see the Fox's next to Kirkham & Wesham Station?
haha naughty Geoff 9:17
I've never heard of a bus without wheels, Geoff...
Smeg-up of the day 😂
Daniel Nimmo No, me neither, and I've driven quite a few !! Except ones in scrapyards maybe!
Never been to Venice then ?
Anthony Houghton Well, if you're going to include the gondolas in Venice, you may as well count the MBNA Thames Clippers!!
They changed the music at Wakefield Kirkgate station, it's now Ilkley Moor Baht 'at.
The station had a lot of issues with anti social behaviour and a perception (probably justified) that it wasn't safe. Although plans to replace the underpass with a bridge didn't happen they put artwork and music in the tunnel which I think was to try to stop people hanging around the station for reasons other than catching trains.
Oh yes Reddish South. Did this from Stockport to the Stalybridge, again in the late 90's There wasn't the cafe/bar in Stalybridge then of course and there were only two passengers. That will be CAF building the trains then. Go job I've bought some of their shares.
The Pacer was is based on parts of the Leyland National bus. Many of fixtures and fitting from the bus can be found on them. The body of the is mounted in a 4 wheel/2 axle chassis from a freight wagon. Both axles were fitted directly to the chassis rather than being mounted on bogies, hence the rough ride .
Reddish south and Denton get a poor service because a) Stockport is rammed full with far more important services, b) it doesn't go anywhere - just links two suburbs of Manchester, c) if you did extend it to Victoria it would take forever, d) far better served by buses which are faster too
You never mentioned the famous ale trail www.realaletrail.net and you really should have sampled the delights of Stalybridge Station Buffet. www.beerhouses.co.uk/pub/stalybridge-buffet-bar/ Reddish South is my local station, for all the use it is to us! Really enjoying the series, thanks!
Being from barnsley we pronounce it penis stone lol
Always reminds me of top gear when their race car had peniston oils on the doors with penis on one door and ston oils on the other ,
Always laugh at the station anouncers saying woombwell and elsay car in a posh voice instead of wombwell and elsecar, if we had known you were passing through barnsley we would have had a brass band flat caps and whippits salute as tha passed tha noes.
If a train departs a station at say 9:25-9:29. Can a Pertis ticket be used for say 5p before a concessionary pass becomes valid?
The 5p ticket does fill the requirement of showing intent to pay?
Confess now - who else can't help thinking of the Cadbury's Smash advert?
_IT IS CALLED - HUD-DERS-FIELD!!!_
Had to revisit this episode now that Felix the cat has recently passed away.
😢😢😢
If you want extra information when on the Leeds commuter lines I'm a local and have a good knowledge of the railways in the area
How did you enjoy Standedge tunnel?
It's long.
There's also lots of disused stations along that route as well.
National Park station in New Zealand used to have a station dog that would run after the passenger trains as they left.
Skimble! Where is Skimble?
For unless he's very nimble,
then the train can't go.
I was on the transpennine express to Manchester when i saw a cat on the station at Huddersfield. now I know who it was 😂