Not quite. The Braille text on the handrail was SUPPOSED to be "⠎⠞⠁⠊⠗⠎ ⠞⠕ ⠕⠧⠑⠗⠃⠗⠊⠙⠛⠑" which would mean "stairs to overbridge" There weren't any transcription errors in the dots, unlike most Braille signs in the USA. And it's really really basic Braille too, so it SHOULD HAVE BEEN readable by even a beginning Braille reader. BUT unfortunately someone installed it upside down, so it's rather illegible. From the stairway-side it actually reads "⠢⠶⠦⠔⠺⠰⠺⠢⠹⠪ ⠪⠳ ⠜⠺⠔⠠⠞⠜" which says "engg?inw⠰wenthow owt arwenTar". (Yes, it's really longer upside down, and there's an uppercase T in there.)
Yes indeed the Braille is the wrong way round. Flipping the image 90 degrees anticlockwise puts it the right way up, meaning to read this with my finger correctly I would have to be standing in that small gap between the rail and the wall! Also, if it were placed the opposite way round, the beginning of the line would be closer to the platform, in exactly the place where a Braille user's hand might find it and then naturally read along, without need to perform an acrobatic act. Maybe some Braille users are better with it than me, or maybe we can call this another literary error at Cambridge North.
They wouldn't bother fixing it. I bet most braile users wouldnt even use it anyway even if it was the right way round because the stairs are obviously for the bridge.
I've not actually checked, but at over 1000 bike spaces I think the Cambridge North bike park might be the second largest in the country- the largest being at Cambridge with ~2700 (it was 2677 when I helped audit it, but the configuration has changed a bit)
Used this station two days ago. Can now walk to my companies office there rather than take a taxi - which needs expensing - from regular Cambridge. Tidy station. The 0814 I got from Kings X separated carriage 1-4 from 5-12 at Cambridge before going to Cambridge North. Service back at 1638 only stopped at Cambridge before Kings X. Fast service. :)
Its amazing. Despite being a great fan of Geoff and Vickie (especially Vickie) I expected to find myself losing noters before the end of month one. But no. You have held my interest right through till now, and, I hope into the future; every video has ha something new to tell us, KEEP UP THIS GREAT WORK.
I've only stood on the platform there as I was in a passing train. I was with my grandma and she got off there to go home with my aunt who lives closer to Cambridge north than Cambridge main station. I continued on to Cambridge because I'm closer to the main station. There's a new bike path that's opened up from around the back of the station, which goes directly past where my mum used to live on a dead end in Chesterton. Can't imagine the dead end is so quiet now! We considered going there a couple of days after it opened for the sake of it, but decided it wasn't worth it to go out of our way to get a longer train journey to London
Another tiny correction: you're right great Northern go to Kings X and Greater Anglia go to Liverpool Street, but Great Northern do express and stopping trains to Kings X, whereas greater Anglia only do fairly slow trains to Liverpool Street. Unfortunately, cross country don't stop at Cambridge North at all yet - very annoying for getting to Peterborough!
Ciaran 100 Well they could - the already have HSTs elsewhere, and could shorten them to fit on the current platforms just to provide extra capacity alongside the current turbostars
And what is going to happen on those routes that have HST's on them? The 1603 , 1703 and 1803 from Birmingham towards Derby are full and standing with a 7/8 coach HST! And you want to provide less than that 0-o
You'd think they'd be able, after all the examples in Europe, to design a building where you can also wait for buses without having to go outside into the weather & perch on sloping metal. Where you can also take shelter on the platform from the wind & be able to sit while you wait. You'd think they could provide a door adjacent to the cycle park or a cover to shelter from the weather. Maybe a seating area to wait for someone to arrive - oh yes that's outside. The car parking area is massive & perfect for travellers to set up a camp. Already happened twice. The cycle lane crosses the pedestrian footway twice & then vanishes into a shared path, completely unnecessarily. The proposed shops that will lead to the cycle path being scrapped could have been integrated into the station so you can shop while you wait. But no, in this country if you use public transport expect to be treated as a second class citizen. New station? Utterly disappointing.
I was wondering if you would make a comment about the pattern, to see if you would correctly identify it, but then you did mention it AND linked to the James Grime video! Thanks for stealing my thunder Geoff :P
I've noticed that most of the Kings Lynn trains don't stop at Cambridge North (there is one south early afternoon though that stops there instead of Waterbeach). Hardly any stop at both Waterbeach AND Cambridge North, (though there are one or two that do in the peaks). There's a notice up at Cambridge Station therefore saying that passengers can travel between Waterbeach and Cambridge North via Cambridge at no extra charge, but NOT via Ely!!
When you get to the Coventry area, there's a fairly new station (not quite as young as Cambridge North!) at the Ricoh Arena - but courtesy of the rail operator not having sufficient rolling stock, it gets served by a single DMU (75 passengers) every hour, and is closed for several hours surrounding matches at the stadium. Oops. Meanwhile, no stopping along the Leamington to Coventry line, but en-route there's a station currently in the process of reincarnation: Kenilworth, closed and demolished following Beeching, is now being rebuilt (albeit a couple of hundred metres to the South on what was originally the goods yard).
On your train that stopped at Angel Road (which will soon become a far bigger station with a new name) did you also look at the other 'new' station - Lea Bridge?
mechanic True, although the point of it being a specific pattern was for it to be from Cambridge! I don't mind either way - it looks cool to me, especially at night!
Geoff. You say in the video that Cambridge North is the newest station (correct at time of going to press). But where I wonder is Britain's, and I'm guessing the world's, oldest station still in use today. I did think it might be Edge Hill in Liverpool, but I seem to remember reading that the current station replaced the original one when the line was opened down to Liverpool Lime Street. Still wouldn't be surprised if it was on the Manchester-Liverpool Line
It still has to fit with its surroundings and the architects would have surveyed the local area. Stations generally aren't 'colourful' although they often have murals and other artwork.
Nicholas Payne They are doing ALL the stations. Look at www.allthestations.co.uk/map/ There's a number of stations north of London to complete. I think they've completed all Greater Anglia stations now.
wow, Game of life. would never have guessed. Thought it was based around the old acorn computers logo for the BBC. (the one with the owl) since that was a Cambridge company.
Industrial and sterile are the words that spring to mind but I was fortunate enough to grow up when function was not the sole purpose of any construction.
As a blindy, I literally don't understand the point of that bridge. Not only is it the wrong way round, but it's presence doesn't make any sense. If I find a step at a train station, common sense would just tell me it's a bridge anyway but hey ho
i see you included a couple of seconds of footage from a trip to hertford east at 1:11 will there be a video showing all the stations on the west anglia route or not
Kirkinstein You need to stop getting angry. Not *every* line/route they travel on will be featured in a video. Several lines haven't been featured at all. Certain 'days' aren't included either. They got funding for 4 official videos a week. They've had some extra funding recently from the London Transport Museum. Geoff is doing bonus material where possible.
You just spoiled the least used station in London, now that a know it I won't be able to watch the least used stations of London series any more. I can't believe that it's ..... Oh, I already forgot which station it was, I'm excited to hear which station is the least used in London.
Fredrik Opsahl Anywhere to Manchester United Football Ground as trains only run on match days and so the next train to MUFC will probably be the next home game at Old Trafford in August or September!
I agree. It would mean catching the one, weekly train from Denton to Stalybridge, and alighting at Guide Bridge. Then take a train to Manchester Piccadilly, then a train from Piccadilly to Stockport. You would then have to wait until the NEXT Friday, to catch the one train per week, from Stockport to Reddish South! A total journey time (by train) of 7 days! This has to be a record??
The CIS is a brand new system developed by InfoTech - the same people whom developed the new Thameslink core info screen - www.infotec.co.uk/ Also it seems it's the first to 'showcase' the actual Abellio corporate brand unlike the rest of the GA network which has a mix of 'one' and 'NatEx' across the piece.
The pattern on the exterior of the Cambridge North station building reminds me of the way the coat of arms of North Rhine-Westphalia is displayed in the hall of the NRW-parliament: www.the-dialogue.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/en55-heraldry-of-german-states_10.jpg
Singingbanana is an alias belonged to James Grime, a mathematician who made a video explaining the exterior design of Cambridge North station. That video was mentioned by Geoff in this video.
Please see video from the lovely James Grimes's wonderful singingbanana channel about the design at Cambridge North th-cam.com/video/aeyhnrZvQBE/w-d-xo.html
The braille says "This staircase is equivalent to a 15 story building"
LMAO That would be funny!!
The braille says " Stairs to overbridge"
Not quite.
The Braille text on the handrail was SUPPOSED to be "⠎⠞⠁⠊⠗⠎ ⠞⠕ ⠕⠧⠑⠗⠃⠗⠊⠙⠛⠑" which would mean "stairs to overbridge"
There weren't any transcription errors in the dots, unlike most Braille signs in the USA. And it's really really basic Braille too, so it SHOULD HAVE BEEN readable by even a beginning Braille reader.
BUT unfortunately someone installed it upside down, so it's rather illegible. From the stairway-side it actually reads "⠢⠶⠦⠔⠺⠰⠺⠢⠹⠪ ⠪⠳ ⠜⠺⠔⠠⠞⠜" which says "engg?inw⠰wenthow owt arwenTar". (Yes, it's really longer upside down, and there's an uppercase T in there.)
I did flip my paper to decipher it, yes, but I did not know if it made a difference.
Interesting error!
Yes indeed the Braille is the wrong way round. Flipping the image 90 degrees anticlockwise puts it the right way up, meaning to read this with my finger correctly I would have to be standing in that small gap between the rail and the wall! Also, if it were placed the opposite way round, the beginning of the line would be closer to the platform, in exactly the place where a Braille user's hand might find it and then naturally read along, without need to perform an acrobatic act. Maybe some Braille users are better with it than me, or maybe we can call this another literary error at Cambridge North.
Has anyone told the train company, so they can fix the sign?
They wouldn't bother fixing it. I bet most braile users wouldnt even use it anyway even if it was the right way round because the stairs are obviously for the bridge.
I've not actually checked, but at over 1000 bike spaces I think the Cambridge North bike park might be the second largest in the country- the largest being at Cambridge with ~2700 (it was 2677 when I helped audit it, but the configuration has changed a bit)
Yes and also the highest place for bike theft, Cambridge station cycle park is a serious issue
Never seen so many shades of grey. Cambridge North could do with a bit of colour 🎨
Well its like that to all stations some are just the same colour like norwich which has a red
Used this station two days ago. Can now walk to my companies office there rather than take a taxi - which needs expensing - from regular Cambridge. Tidy station. The 0814 I got from Kings X separated carriage 1-4 from 5-12 at Cambridge before going to Cambridge North. Service back at 1638 only stopped at Cambridge before Kings X. Fast service. :)
I just woke up, and totally forgot that I had my volume at 100%. The intro definitely woke me up.
Its amazing. Despite being a great fan of Geoff and Vickie (especially Vickie) I expected to find myself losing noters before the end of month one.
But no. You have held my interest right through till now, and, I hope into the future; every video has ha something new to tell us, KEEP UP THIS GREAT WORK.
I've only stood on the platform there as I was in a passing train. I was with my grandma and she got off there to go home with my aunt who lives closer to Cambridge north than Cambridge main station. I continued on to Cambridge because I'm closer to the main station. There's a new bike path that's opened up from around the back of the station, which goes directly past where my mum used to live on a dead end in Chesterton. Can't imagine the dead end is so quiet now! We considered going there a couple of days after it opened for the sake of it, but decided it wasn't worth it to go out of our way to get a longer train journey to London
The Braille says "Stairs to overbridge", but it look like it's upside down
Oops!
Obviously the stairs are for the over bridge. Where else would stairs go to at a station.
The exit, the car park, a cafe, anything really
Was there, day before inaugural opening. I like it.
My local station (Kirkstall Forge) didn't stay as the newest station for very long :-(
Yay my local station ( :-) )! I went on the opening day with beautiful glorious weather - seems you didn't quite have the same luck!
Another tiny correction: you're right great Northern go to Kings X and Greater Anglia go to Liverpool Street, but Great Northern do express and stopping trains to Kings X, whereas greater Anglia only do fairly slow trains to Liverpool Street. Unfortunately, cross country don't stop at Cambridge North at all yet - very annoying for getting to Peterborough!
I don't think cross country will ever stop at Cambridge north as their trains are extremely overcrowded and frequently formed of 2 coaches.
Ciaran 100 Hopefully they'll get some HSTs to fix that...
Are you a bit confused? Cross country don't and will never operate HST's on the Birmingham - Leicester - Cambridge - Stansted airport line.
Ciaran 100 Well they could - the already have HSTs elsewhere, and could shorten them to fit on the current platforms just to provide extra capacity alongside the current turbostars
And what is going to happen on those routes that have HST's on them? The 1603 , 1703 and 1803 from Birmingham towards Derby are full and standing with a 7/8 coach HST! And you want to provide less than that 0-o
Cambridge north looks great
You'd think they'd be able, after all the examples in Europe, to design a building where you can also wait for buses without having to go outside into the weather & perch on sloping metal.
Where you can also take shelter on the platform from the wind & be able to sit while you wait.
You'd think they could provide a door adjacent to the cycle park or a cover to shelter from the weather.
Maybe a seating area to wait for someone to arrive - oh yes that's outside.
The car parking area is massive & perfect for travellers to set up a camp. Already happened twice.
The cycle lane crosses the pedestrian footway twice & then vanishes into a shared path, completely unnecessarily.
The proposed shops that will lead to the cycle path being scrapped could have been integrated into the station so you can shop while you wait.
But no, in this country if you use public transport expect to be treated as a second class citizen. New station? Utterly disappointing.
I was wondering if you would make a comment about the pattern, to see if you would correctly identify it, but then you did mention it AND linked to the James Grime video!
Thanks for stealing my thunder Geoff :P
Funny, how Angel Road is one of my local train station (also with Northumberland Park and Tottenham Hale)
(and now Meridian Water)
I've noticed that most of the Kings Lynn trains don't stop at Cambridge North (there is one south early afternoon though that stops there instead of Waterbeach). Hardly any stop at both Waterbeach AND Cambridge North, (though there are one or two that do in the peaks). There's a notice up at Cambridge Station therefore saying that passengers can travel between Waterbeach and Cambridge North via Cambridge at no extra charge, but NOT via Ely!!
When you get to the Coventry area, there's a fairly new station (not quite as young as Cambridge North!) at the Ricoh Arena - but courtesy of the rail operator not having sufficient rolling stock, it gets served by a single DMU (75 passengers) every hour, and is closed for several hours surrounding matches at the stadium. Oops.
Meanwhile, no stopping along the Leamington to Coventry line, but en-route there's a station currently in the process of reincarnation: Kenilworth, closed and demolished following Beeching, is now being rebuilt (albeit a couple of hundred metres to the South on what was originally the goods yard).
TO THE RAINS!
Euan BCFC EuanBCFC_?
On your train that stopped at Angel Road (which will soon become a far bigger station with a new name) did you also look at the other 'new' station - Lea Bridge?
Such a nice station.
Can't believe I missed you for like the fourth time. By coincidence, I come so close to meeting you both but manage to miss you somehow lol
I see the word 'Cambridge' *immediate click*
i saw this station yesterday come up on the train indicator and wondered where this was when i got off at Stevenage.
David Price Maybe It's In Cambridge
*sarcasm* NO!!!!
I find it very amusing they gave it a pattern designed by someone from Oxford!
mechanic True, although the point of it being a specific pattern was for it to be from Cambridge! I don't mind either way - it looks cool to me, especially at night!
Geoff. You say in the video that Cambridge North is the newest station (correct at time of going to press). But where I wonder is Britain's, and I'm guessing the world's, oldest station still in use today. I did think it might be Edge Hill in Liverpool, but I seem to remember reading that the current station replaced the original one when the line was opened down to Liverpool Lime Street. Still wouldn't be surprised if it was on the Manchester-Liverpool Line
That Cambridge North station could do with a bit more colour.
bugrats They can't just add random splashes of colour. It has to fit in with its surroundings.
Green, brown & blue are colors Ham Street...
It still has to fit with its surroundings and the architects would have surveyed the local area. Stations generally aren't 'colourful' although they often have murals and other artwork.
4 years and god knows how much money and that is the best they could come up with. I cant imagine Vicky saying that is quaint in a 100 years time.
They probably didn't design it to be quaint. The mathematics link is quite apt for somewhere like Cambridge. It probably cost thousands.
The station opened on May 21st (my birthday :)) not May 31st
Also they got on a train to Bishop's Stortford (where I live) YAY!
Will you guys do the London-Cambridge line?
Nicholas Payne They are doing ALL the stations. Look at www.allthestations.co.uk/map/ There's a number of stations north of London to complete. I think they've completed all Greater Anglia stations now.
Geoff: Hello Cambridge North, got that shiny new smell.
Cut to the cab of 379 009 ....
wow, Game of life. would never have guessed.
Thought it was based around the old acorn computers logo for the BBC. (the one with the owl) since that was a Cambridge company.
I was wondering if you saw the other Cambridge video and i was all ready to send you the link but you were already on the ball
I went and watched the video about that design on the front but didn't understand a word!😵💫 Shall we just say that it's a nice pattern 😅
This is my local station and the thing on the handrail spells Cambridge north
I wish they had called it Chesterton (speaking as a Chesterton resident), it'd be so much easier to talk about which of the two stations I'm going to!
For how many minutes (or even seconds!) would Cambridge North have been the least used station in Cambridgeshire?
Andrew Saffrey Possibly 2.
Missed you again - I was in Cambridge the day after.
Doesn't Blackfriars have slidey displays like that?
Janet Richardson Same happened to me at Watford. I was there Monday, they came Tuesday.😡
Industrial and sterile are the words that spring to mind but I was fortunate enough to grow up when function was not the sole purpose of any construction.
That was proper rain.
"It's got that shiny new smell"
Might also be from the water treatment plant next door!
Live about 1/2 mile from Cambridge North, not one train I wish to use has a return at the time I wish.
Is this the video that is meant to cover the Liverpool street to bishops stortford/stansted airport line?!
If the braille did say the number of stairs........ do you think it would be the correct number?
As a blindy, I literally don't understand the point of that bridge. Not only is it the wrong way round, but it's presence doesn't make any sense. If I find a step at a train station, common sense would just tell me it's a bridge anyway but hey ho
That's no. 2567 then? You'll have another one to do when Reading Green Park opens.
Scrolling DMIs are now at Waterloo.
I love 🚆 because they are so fun
The game of life that's what the grail is the station was demised for the Cambridge science park nearby
And you STILL haven't been to Worcestershire Parkway yet.
You should have shown James in the video!
The music does say "All the stations" in it but hard to hear
Bonniez "All the stations... all of them"
@SimonHellinger Correct.
Video Editor: Geoff Marshall? What happened to your other two guys?
NiklasStøterau Videos are edited by Geoff, Dan or Will.
i see you included a couple of seconds of footage from a trip to hertford east at 1:11 will there be a video showing all the stations on the west anglia route or not
Kirkinstein Not all 2,563 will feature in a video and not every day gets a video as there's only 4 official videos a week.
im aware not every station will be featured but this is one of the routes that has been missed out
Several lines/routes haven't been featured. They can't include everything. The videos are only 12-15 minutes long and not every day.
i didnt mean every bloody station, i meant like an all the stations video (i wasnt too specific)
Kirkinstein You need to stop getting angry. Not *every* line/route they travel on will be featured in a video. Several lines haven't been featured at all. Certain 'days' aren't included either. They got funding for 4 official videos a week. They've had some extra funding recently from the London Transport Museum. Geoff is doing bonus material where possible.
The braille reads stairs to overbridge
Live 15 minutes away from this station, saved so much of a commute although at some points it’s a ghost station
so what's the oldest station? I know Stockton to Darlington was the first passenger line
Edge Hill. Originally opened 1830, current station opened 1836.
You just spoiled the least used station in London, now that a know it I won't be able to watch the least used stations of London series any more. I can't believe that it's ..... Oh, I already forgot which station it was, I'm excited to hear which station is the least used in London.
Great video i got sunburnt yesterday so thats my punishment for boasting about the lovely weather on Facebook Live yesterday!
Ayy my local station
I use this station everyday and I have had 2 bikes stolen from there
It rained today in Australia and I'm thinking, ahh we are getting in winter aka the dry season rain can F off till spring
I didn't like it cause it was heavy
And it went on and on
Cambridge North? Smells new? You were lucky, it's near the water treatment plant!! :-s
Cambrige north is multi operator
Cambridge north station is much nicer than Ilkeston station, and it probably took less time to build...
Geoff you changed trains
Thanks for spoiling the least used stations series on the londonist 😂
A pity that they don't seem to use proper English in the signs for this new station. They should say Platforms 1 to 3 not Platform 1 to 3.
ninepinezine I would assume they meant platform 1 and platform 2 and platform 3 this way -> in shortened form
The Braille says “stairs to over bridge”.
What is the hardest Station to Get to from another Station in Britain?
You can do it but not on the same day!
Fredrik Opsahl Anywhere to Manchester United Football Ground as trains only run on match days and so the next train to MUFC will probably be the next home game at Old Trafford in August or September!
Denton to Reddish South?
I agree. It would mean catching the one, weekly train from Denton to Stalybridge, and alighting at Guide Bridge. Then take a train to Manchester Piccadilly, then a train from Piccadilly to Stockport. You would then have to wait until the NEXT Friday, to catch the one train per week, from Stockport to Reddish South! A total journey time (by train) of 7 days! This has to be a record??
Dave Dave I've not looked on the map, but being local to the area, it would be about a 30 min walk perhaps ?
Well someone’s getting fired for stopping to early at Stratford
👍👍👍
Cambridge North, Station Number 2,565
32 steps it says
The CIS is a brand new system developed by InfoTech - the same people whom developed the new Thameslink core info screen - www.infotec.co.uk/
Also it seems it's the first to 'showcase' the actual Abellio corporate brand unlike the rest of the GA network which has a mix of 'one' and 'NatEx' across the piece.
The pattern on the exterior of the Cambridge North station building reminds me of the way the coat of arms of North Rhine-Westphalia is displayed in the hall of the NRW-parliament: www.the-dialogue.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/en55-heraldry-of-german-states_10.jpg
Its rainy
No Stansted Airport?
haddockman30 They went there 26.05.2017. www.allthestations.co.uk/map
Pattern :: Wolfram rule 135
I live at Stratford
smart
Braille is a language for blind people...
They could rename it Rainbridge for a day lol
Anthony Kernich uhh
Singingbanana!
Singing banana? What?
Singingbanana is an alias belonged to James Grime, a mathematician who made a video explaining the exterior design of Cambridge North station. That video was mentioned by Geoff in this video.
Please see video from the lovely James Grimes's wonderful singingbanana channel about the design at Cambridge North th-cam.com/video/aeyhnrZvQBE/w-d-xo.html
the one that we already refer to and even link to in the video ... !
'insert teaser here' :p
@allthestations @geoffmarshall CAMBRIDGE NORTH MAKES ME FEEL SAD WITH ALL OF THE GREY !!!!!!!!!!!
BORDESLEY!!!!
I literally went mad when I saw Hertford on at 1:12 XD