St Columb Road / Roche / Bugle / Luxulyan Request Stops
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- It's time to tick off some more request stops! There are four on the 'Atlantic Coast' line between Par and Newquay down in Cornwall, so I started bright on early on a gorgeous summer day, to tick them off, like this ...
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Loved the driver's reaction when he recognised you!
It was a very funny moment! SHOUT OUT to John, if you’re out there reading this right now!!
"No Pacers Here!" Quality
@@nixcails Especially in the West Country accent! "No Pacerrrs 'ere!"
Geoff, you’re not the only one - a bugle at Bugle! That delightful interaction with the driver - does that happen a lot with you, you getting enthusiastically recognized by staff?
A bugle at Bugle? What about marching in March in March? I did a vlog “March in March” last year just before all the covid nonsense started.
When I lived in Plumpton Green, East Sussex, the driver literally forgot to stop at the station. We did request it, he just forgot! So they ended up paying for a taxi home for me and another passenger! Lol
"The ain't no Pacers 'ere my 'aandsome..." ah Cornwall
"It isn't a non-stepfree station" is that the elusive triple-negative?
I couldn't fail to disagree with you less.
@@rosiefay7283 you do realise that this statement implies that you entirely disagree with the comment? It is an impressive triple-negative nonetheless.
If you let us know you could have come in for a cuppa at Bugle! Can see the station from my home! Haha
Next time! 😜😎
@@geofftech2 I'm sure you'd get quite a few offers if you let people know your plans of lines/stations etc. you're about to cover!
I had to do a double take when you showed the doors at the start there! I was like 'there's still awesome HST's in play?!' then I realized it's the sleeper. Also what drone do you use for the shots?
Lots of HSTs still rolling up and down between Penzance and Plymouth every day of the week in Cornwall.
He doesn't use a drone. He just has a very, V E R Y long pole.
@@simonlake_ Yes, but the remaining HST's have now been fitted with electric doors, and with the Caledonian Sleeper fleet having been replaced by new carriages also with electric doors, does this mean that the Night Riviera is destined to become (or may be already) the last "slam door" service on the National Network?
Re: the crossing. (I believe) It’ll get activated/lowered automatically as a train approaches, if it’s a stopping train it stays down while the train performs the station stop. The red flashing light changes to a white flashing light to inform the driver it has lowered.
Oh shoot, allotments. I feel a sudden urge to drink
Explain the joke to a foreigner plz
@@AndreyRubtsovRU Geoff made a bingo card for his "London's Lost Railways" videos (with the spaces being things like "allotments" or "nothing left to see"). Some commenters joked about making a drinking game of it.
On the subject of allotments, the Bexley - Sidcup line runs alongside one or two. Prior to lockdown last year, I was using that line regularly. Google/Facebook like asking nosey questions in their surveys about places your phone has picked up that you've recently visited. I kept on being asked to provide a review of "Bexley Allotments." I don't even know where they are!! (Well, somewhere in or near Bexley, obviously..)
Until the recent resignalling, the nuclear waste trains serving Sizewell had to stop and activate crossings on the East Suffolk line. You'd encounter a pair of 37s with a nuclear container, just idling away at a station, while they did it.
You should have popped in for a coffee and Cornish pasty
In Germany thre is a request stop Button on many trains on lines that have request stops
Fact about Luxulyan. In 1990, it was once served by a train, consisting of one power car, and nothing else!
Ok, it's more than that. A Newquay to Paddington HST was stopped when the lead power car derailed, and as the train could travel no further, the staff got the passengers, and their luggage etc, into the rear power car, and they uncoupled it. It then went back to the nearest station, Luxulyan. There, police were waiting to assist with passengers onto coaches, to take them to Par. The power car done two shuttles. Three weeks after that incident, Video 125 filmed the Par - Newquay branch from the cab of a conventional DMU, for their drivers eye view DVD "Cornish Branches"
You need at least 2 carriages (or a loco and one carriage) for it to be a train.
I have seen single carriages (not trains) serve on my local line.
@@millomweb you seem to be creating a controversy here sounds like a "train station" to me.
@@millomweb So a class 153 isn't a train? Can't agree with you there. In the rule book, anything powered, that runs on rails, is a train, including a light engine.
Interesting stuff. I remember the derailment but didn't know about the "power car shuttles". Sounds like there's a few unique happenings involved. I'm sure it'll be the only time a lone HST power car has worked a passenger train on the mainline but there will be other "only time that ......." things about this unusual working. I wonder if anyone got photos?
@@tonyskinner1643 What's a 'train station' ? Do you mean a railway station ?
Loved this one. Geoff I suggest a series “all the stations with semaphore signals”.
ayy new geoff marshall episode
Used to be great going down the branch with class 47's on Inter-City trains back in the day.
Petition to officially call this series
“Make your intent clear”
All these stops are all clean a neat. Well done Britain. You should see New York city.
Green Road station (appeared on Geoff's map in this video) is noted for being 'well-kept'. Some locals 'maintain it' including the addition of flower baskets etc.
My local branch line, Par to Luxulyan has some epic scenery for a railway, also a good spot to watch trains whilst out for a walk exploring the valley, aqueduct and its ruins 😎👊🏻👍🏻
Great to see you in Cornwall. My great-grandfather was a driver based at Newquay, and during my student days I had a summer job working in the booking office at Newquay (which is now a travel agency).
Be interesting to see how and when you do the request stops on the Kyle Line, trains are scarce and they're not within walking distance of each other haha.
Enjoying these videos, quite interesting.
This is a rare sight where Geoff goes to 4 Request stops in a row!
rare site
@@joesos yes *site*
Yes indeed, SpAnI...
Ima stop right there
hehehehe
Yeah, it is a rare sight.
I amazed Geoff managed to get a train from London. I thought BoJo had shown you had to fly to Newquay? :-)
No . There's even an over sleeper from London to Penzance . It's called the Night Rivera. I've used it myself a few times.
In Denmark the request stops has a botton installed that you push in order to make the train stup, well actually its two because there is one for each direction. On the trains it works like a bus where you push the botton to make the train stop.
Geoff's method of visiting stations by going "ADBCA" reminds me of permutations in maths.
This was such a relaxing video
Glad to have you back in Cornwall. That was a great book signing you both had in Liskeard.
Yes it was!
Is it my imagination, or are those timetable boards absolutely immaculate? They are shining bright with a clarity that I've never seen before. Is it something about the Cornish sunshine, or an incredible standard of maintenance or just that they are absolutely brand new?
On the Treffry Viaduct at Luxulyan, I had to look that one up as I didn't understand the aqueduct/viaduct quantum superimposition. It seems to be an astonishing dual-purpose construction, and surely ought to be on the Whitewick's schedule to visit.
I live in a stone though and thay are that emasculate cos of me I have autism and thay falid to advice the summer timetable and had not put new timetable up any long stories short got train and it was not stopping so the gard had to get me a taxi back to bugle and then a day later thay came out and put a timetable so gwr may not be the best but when it dose make a mistake thay go all out to fix it
@@brickleyyard4966 Can someone translate this for me ? He lives in a stone ?
@@stevelomas4119 Steve, I think Bradley's own words explain it for you.
Yes Steve, the Trefry Viaduct is very interesting as Luxulyan Valley was a very industrious area for a long while. The purpose of both aqueduct and viaduct is due to powering the old mining railway. It’s actually connected to a leat system that runs all the way to Charlestown. Luxulyan’s mining history covered Luxulyanite (rare red granite, actually used for Albert’s memorial in London), Copper predominantly during the boom years and much later English China Clay, back until the 1990s. The quarry shut down some time back after I left the area. For a seemingly quiet village it’s certainly has a lot of history!
Diagonal wipe transition to indicate time passing. Totally didn't know that! Geoff tip of the day.
Next week: i introduce the transition that indicates "flash back in time".
also, i think George Lucas did time-passing-wipes first, didn't he?
Did you know that in the early days of the GN Electrics, class 313s used to operate an overnight 'request stop' service between Welwyn Garden City and Kings Cross. Wish I could find a copy of the 1970s timetable that showed Potters Bar with a little 'X' next to it!
New Clee is no longer a request stop did you know? Ever since East Midlands Railway took over the Cleethorpes-Barton-on-Humber line from Northern.
So New Clee is now a scheduled stop.
It must be a lot more with New Clee being a scheduled stop so people can stop putting their hand out to stop the train.
That field scene with the wind turbine was beautiful. As nice a painting of a windmill in the Netherlands from 100.years ago.
Allotments are everywhere, watching and waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike since railways were first built.
They are motionless but also a deadly force, not made for being messed with.
You might joke about the allotments, but I always thought there's a good reason to it... the train noise makes it rather unsuitable for living. And, the space that railways occupy is not aligning with some other zone, and if it's generally deemed "too small" for that other purpose, it just gets filled with allotments. e.g. like www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/52.50106/13.28743
The best series on TH-cam. 🙋🏻♂️
Great video. I used to live in house overlooking Par station.
What time did the sleeper stop at Par, I used to think it was very early?
This branch to Newquay shows how the railway was all over Cornwall before Beeching, I knew someone in my class at school who used the line from Lostwithiel to Fowey to come to school, stopped in 1964. All towns and many villages had a railway station, Bodmin, Camelford, Launceston for example, now you need a car as the bus services are poor and don't coordinate with trains. All branch lines need reinstating with small request stops like you showed.
hey Roger! sleeper got in just about 06:45, so i walked down to the village just as the SPAR show was opening, grabbed myself a coffee and drank it sat in the part just to the east of Par station, it was delightful!
There IS a shop in Bugle !
There is a Spar shop in Bugle.
When are you doing the Tarka line? Chapleton is just down the road!!
When I did coombe jct halt in Cornwall the conductor told me that all trains have to stop there as they have to turn the train around in the direction of looe
Always love a cheery driver!
3:50 It looks like Bugle might have been an island platform
It was an island platform, i noticed when I got a train from here last week. I was talking to a colleague who lives in bugle today and from his knowledge of the area, he believes the 2nd platform used to serve part of the old ECLP railway 😊
If only they'd misspelled the sign: "Bungle" :))))
ALLOTMENTS is what we say if we ever meet Geoff in real life!!!
We have just this afternoon left Paul and Rebecca on the Haytor Tramway in the mist.
I lived in Roach for several months back in 1980. Yes a lovely part of the world.
David and Lily Reading. And Plymouth.
Morning Geoff. Always love your videos 👍🏻 Great that the Newquay line is still open 😀 But what a shame it’s been rationalised to a single line to a holiday destination 😥 Newquay station was very large in its day with lots of holiday specials arriving. I can remember Western class 52s hydraulics arriving with long rakes of MK1 coaches lol 😂 Maybe you could do a video on holiday seaside station destinations form the past like Butlins Pwllheli station 🤔 Take care cheers Stevie 😎
Thanks 👍
Yep - depending on the TOC local agreement, if driver sights no-one on the platform, driver buzzes two to the Guard / Conductor / TM - and if someone is getting off, Guard / Conductor / TM with buzz once - stop - or if not they'll return two buzzes - go. If no buzz given train will prepare to stop.
And correct since the Barton branch transferred from Northern to EMR, New Clee sees all EMR Branch services call at there.
Great stuff Geoff. Lots of semaphore signals at Par. What a timeless atmosphere there is in Cornwall. I challenge you to traverse the Lostwithiel to Fowey branch next!
You should have a look at the ruins of Roche chapel - it's on an outcrop, and it's astonishing, and oddly creepy. Where does the rock end, and the chapel start? It was used in the movie 'Omen III', too. It can be seen, fleetingly, from the train.
did not know! good info .. thanks Brian
As well as Roche Rock, Treffry viaduct also appears in Omen III, with some embellishments on the abutments.
Nothing below Par here 😁
I did not know yu ar in Cornwall now.!!!!
This branch Line to Newquay did have during summer months a direct morning gt western from Paddington, before corona.!!!!
I made a video of reopening of part of Helston railway, in 2010, an came back 10 years Later to Look at this Line an follow where i could old route mainline. !!!!!
Loved Luxulyan! Hi Geoff Mark (Skye) here - been trying to e-mail you about Achanalt and request stop stories, but the address I have is returning mail. Do you want to try e-mailing me and I'll reply?
Downloaded the request stop map no Gilfach Fargoed on the map, Rhymney Valley line apparently closed until further notice because of social distaining rules , apparently one of the shortest platforms and the Welsh Government fear some kind of overcrowding on a least used station, the world has gone mad.
Bless you for your wonderful, silly, delightful obsession!
If more people had something like this, the world would be so much more interesting and fun!
funny you mention Spar shops at Bugle - there actually is one like a minute up the road.
Roche is a super annoying station and really shouldn't be named after the village at all - there's no easy access from Roche to that station for cyclists and pedestrians. As you noticed, it's really in Victoria, which is primarily industrial estates with a few houses. The rather busy road connecting them doesn't have a pavement and given the traffic (especially HGVs) cycling is a death wish too. A bypass is on the cards which would take the traffic out of both Roche and Bugle (destined towards St Austell).
For that reason never bothered to get the train from Roche - far, far easier to drive/bus to St. Austell or Bodmin and get straight on the mainline. If I really wanted the branch line I'd actually consider cycling to Bugle (a rather quiet road connects the two villages)
As others have said, Roche Rock is a nice visit - you can climb up to the top via ladder. I believe the branch line goes over the infamous "old A30" bridge just outside of Roche - before the A30 was dualled with a new road, bridge strikes were a constant occurence despite how many height signs they put up.
Unless it's changed, ISTR when the London to Newquay service is running they don't bother running a local stopping service
I was born and grew up in St Austell, and as young teens sometimes we would ride our bikes to Luxulyan and go up to the viaduct. And since water still ran across it, there was a sluice gate at one end that could be opened to let water drain out and down the hill towards the river. Being the little scallywags that we were, one time we decided it would be a good idea to open it and watch the water cascade down the hill. On a later visit, they had removed the handle so it couldn't be turned without using a big spanner/adjustable wrench. Foiled.
Plus we used to like going up there because it was used in Omen 3 : The Final Conflict where one of the monks gets thrown off the top by a horse and lands in the river, and another gets ripped apart by a big pack of angry beagles at Damien's command .. "Take him" lol.
I just had to look up Perranwell station! It used to be a request stop when I was at uni in Falmouth, but it isn't any more. I guess with Falmouth and Exeter cramming more and more students in the number of students regularly travelling between Perranwell and Penryn has gone up.
Must be a UK thing? What's the joke about a community garden next to the train station? We don't really have anything called an 'allotment' in Canada. I guess here that may be a surveyed piece of land that is designated for development, like a building site.
St Columb Road used get off here off here when we couldn't fit in the car when camping with mum and dad. They drove sis and I took the train. Memories.
I like the colour of GWR Trains. One of the companies I need to tick off at some point.
3:03 ALLOTMENT ALERT. Thank you, Geoff, for pointing that out.
Might be a bit late here but it's pronounced lux-illy-an. Source: I'm a local round these woods
Fun fact: Roche station isnt actually in the village of Roche, its about 1 mile away in the village of Victoria
Geoff, another Cornwall video for you! Lelant/Lelant Saltings Request Stop on the St Ives Bay Line. Lelant only gets a couple of services a day as a request stop, but Lelant saltings gets one a day and has an interesting park and ride stop!
Thank you, Geoff 🏴 🇯🇵
The level crossing is an "Automatic Barrier Crossing Locally Monitored". If it's anything like the one at Newstead which I worked many years ago the driver of a stopping train presses a plunger when it's departure time to start the crossing sequence. Unless there are "non -stopping controls" on it every train is required to stop to press the plunger. In the opposite direction normal controls are fitted because trains don't stop on approach.
We have one train that leaves Roanoke VA. for Boston MA. USA in the early morning. There is one train that arrives late evening and that's all. Otherwise transportation is in a plane, bus or in a car, so I'm quite envious of your ability to travel the UK by train.
There’s a spar shop up the road, and a pub up the road with accommodation in Bugle. If you go up the stairs and turn left and walk up the road you will see them. There’s also a chip shop too.
disappointing bin 6:03
There is a Spar at Bugle for those interested in bagging these request stops. There is also a pub and a furniture warehouse and other small businesses. As for Roche, its nowhere near Roche but is next to the Victoria industrial estate and a pub, the Victoria Inn.
Taking the train in Cornwall? I hope some world leaders are watching...
If you rank all the stations names in the UK by their scrabble scores, Luxuylan must be near the top, surely?
Yep all Up trains stop at Quintrell Downs for 30s to operate the crossing. The seasonal intercity trains also stop, but they are not advertised. In the down direction there is a treadle that activates the crossing automatically.
If you left Bugle station you would find a Spar and corner shop and others.
Driven across the crossing at Quintrell Downs a few times, not for over 10 years though.
Headingley Station (in suburban Leeds) is also next to an allotment, although it's not all that close to what anyone would call Headingley.
What do you mean there is nothing at Bugle? What about the shops, cafe, furniture store car sales? You had to walk along station road to the village to find them.
Aww you're down my neck of the woods, have a lovely time here, you picked a great week for it, Sure you've done all the request stops to Barnstaple? There are a few on that line.
Hello, does anyone know what days the steam train travels over the ribblehead viaduct next week?
Nothing at Bugle!! Must have been a surprise when you left the station then....
Does UK have the giant foam hand like the USA for sports?
You can also get to the Isles of Scilly from Newquay
500 views in 10 minutes, I don't think I've ever been this early to a Geoff video!
Hahahahah he says no spar lol all u needed had done was turn and around and walk 800m
What I thought too 😎👊🏻👍🏻
That was fun. I live in Dawlish. And have not been down the Newquay yet. What a lovely little line.
was going to request could you do any cornish railway journeys then found this!
Are you going to do ‘All The Allotments’ anytime soon?😉😉
this is my childhood in a video!! used to visit my grandparents in newquay and spent forever on that line
Watching this on a very noisy Jubilee line.
They really need to do something with the noise.
Should have gone up the steps at Bugle and turned left up towards the Spar Shop!
are rolling out the button all over the country or just in scotland
0:05 - Palm trees. I love Cornwall.
I'm now convinced that Geoff knows all the train drivers
I also believe none of Greater Anglia stations are now request stops, not just Bures.
Possibly the shortest coast-to-coast rail trip in the world!
Hope you have a wonderful time in the sunny South West
Bingo… allotment… bin… (no sway) steps… tea… full house!
Love the camera falling over. Classic! Best video. Thanks Geoff.
it was very funny ... i actually swore, but i cut that bit out!
This stop request method seem archaic when there are real low tech solutions for it. Around here there is a button at the station that lights up a signal lamp a few hundred meters before the station. And in the train there are the same buttons as in a bus to request a stop.
Why are there request stops? Why not stop at all anyway to avoid any potential missed stations?
What’s your IG, Great video?!
The next series should be heritage railways ...