The Most USELESS Airport Station in Britain?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- If an airport is close to a train station, you would be forgiven for thinking you could actually use it when you're taking a plane. But not here... welcome to Teesside Airport station, officially one of the least used train stations in Britain.
Let's find out why it's just so useless.
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Imagine if you missed a train by 10 seconds late and have to wait an entire week just to take it again.
OMG NINJA!
@Anne Woodward XD
@Anne Woodward There's a bus stop just down the road at the airport. Incidentally, they tried an airport shuttle bus from Darlington station. It didn't last. No passengers :(
That would suck.
Fr lmao
The sheer state of the station shows how much northern care honestly. If we look back to the year the footbridge was closed, it had at least 1 train every single day - Which after the footbridge was shut, dropped to 3 trains a week, then 2, then 1. Northern Rail (Or Northern Trains now) are infamous for doing this type of thing, with British Steel Redcar falling into a similar state, and now, Stanlow In Thornton has had it’s footbridge closed too.
This station could be a useful link to the airport, it really could, if they just repaired the footbridge, maybe added a heated waiting room on ether platform, as well as a few other facilities, and simply ran a shuttle bus to the airport timed with the trains, and I think usage figures would look a lot less bleak. The problem is, no one wants to pay for it.
The last remnant of British Steel went last week when the the furnace was blown up to develop the Free Port area. If that does well it could see both reopen.
@@davidpeters6536 That'd be neat, it's not often a mothballed station comes back from the dead
Chinese trains?
@@muckle8 I'm not sure what you are referring to.
Isn’t the free port owned by a Chinese firm?
When Teesside Intl. Airport was RAF Middleton St. George, my Uncle did his national service there. They'd get the train back from Newcastle to Middlesbrough & pull the emergency cord next to the fence for the base, jump off and clamber through a hole then walk to the barracks.
Madness like.
Crazy!
to quote another military person: if it’s crazy but it works, it’s not crazy🤣
madness, but ingenious too!🤣
This makes the current rail option for LAX looks really good 😂
I actually enjoyed this video
Well shit I live near there lol
Rename it "London Teesside Airport".
Ryanair are going to call it Edinburgh South International
😂
Hahahaha that might work
London North!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was one of those 42 people, having visited the station in July 2022 as part of my longstanding Station Count Challenge. I'd boarded the train at Allens West, showed my ticket to the train guard and he remarked that he'd served Teesside Airport a dozen times and never had a single passenger up to that point.
Fast forward a few minutes and as the train is coming to a stop at the station, I'll never forget hearing the most geordie sounding "OH MY GOD!" from the guard when he'd noticed someone was at the station waiting for the train. 😂
Ha!
A Geordie voice on Teesside?
@@Aysome well its not really far
@@Aysome Railwaymen DO get around!
Its a farce, though farces are normally funny. The folly of this situation was demonstrated when an airshow was mounted at the airport during the summer. Mostly due to incompetence by the organisers, the result was total road gridlock for miles around, meaning that many visitors couldn't even reach the airport! Meanwhile, trains trundled alongside the jams, passing the station without stopping. As for the airport, its now really only a vanity project by the current Mayor. It still only has scheduled flights to Aberdeen and Amsterdam, which is all its had for a decade or more, plus a very few summer holiday charters. There's also a brand new freight terminal....without any freight. I can only presume that the 42 passengers last year were all TH-camrs doing videos about Britain's least used station!
@@crapmalls He probably has already!!! I remember he visited the nearby British Steel station not so far away and nearly got stuck as the only train back was cancelled - and there was no way out of the station!
I used to go to the Airshow when I was a kid back in the early 60s.
It has a few more routes, like Belfast and London... but yeah, not well managed
@@edificity No sign of any London flights on the airport's website (I think they were pulled a while ago). Belfast flights only 4 days a week, so a bit limited.
@@timbounds7190 The Wright brothers would be doing flips if they read this comment
Most of those visits to Teesside Airport station airport would be Geoff Marshall, going on about how few people visit Teesside Airport station.
What do you mean there's no train from here to Redcar British Steel?
@@emjackson2289
Isn’t there ?
Oh.
I’m sure he would have visited here to demonstrate that.
it’s not the first time that happened…he’s going to get someone hurt one of these says 🙄
@@lewis72 needs an HS2 spur just for that service 🐶
@@emjackson2289
Good call.
42 passengers, and one train a week. Its probably just one person who does a weekend shift in the local industrial estate and takes the train on a Sunday when they run
It’s probably rail enthusiasts going out of curiosity. Or maybe even just buying a ticket as a novelty item and not travelling at all. There’s probably no “genuine” passengers.
New from Northern Rail! : Redcar British Steel - Teesside Airport, non-stop. Operates once per decade in one direction only, on a full moon, departing 03:41am prompt!
🤣 not to mention, short formed!
Imagine you get to ride this line for the one time in that decade and its actually a rail replacement bus...
As the train will only run on Christmas Day, one can't guarantee the full moon.
Prior booking will be required, tickets to be collected personally one night in advance from the purser on the Isle of Skye Ferry.
@@peterjansen7929 trains _never_ run on the big day, you should know that
@@notthatntg Well, then the passengers will just have to push it.
They are building freight depot as well with a new road to link it to the rest of the area and yet they neglect the train station. When I went to their air show, the roads were backed so my family and I think that reopening it just for that day will turn 42 people into 10,000 people!
Teeside used to be a seriously busy little airport in the 90s. I seem to recall there were at least 6 daily flights to London and early as many to Amsterdam.
And I bet those 42 people were all rail enthusiasts who wanted to ride a parliamentary service to a least used station.
Having a train station so close to an airport (it is actually close) is a gift! I bet that some investment in the station and the area around it would be a good investment.
A common gift these days. Newcastle is just up the road and even has a metro line that goes straight to the airport. 10 minute train from Durham will get you to Newcastle too.
A few road markings for bikes/pedestrians, some direction signs and either a shuttle bus or some rentable e-scooter/bike scheme and it would be quite usable. Might have even added to those low passenger numbers.
All those small changes could have been done by the airport, local groups or a private/public partnership. But if no one is willing to take responsibility on their shoulders, nothing ever gets done.
A good investment? I'm not too sure it is
@@solaraspect5255 All pretty much pointless since there's already a bus that gets you there.
@@truth.speaker You might as well invest in the Angel of the North :)
Teesside Airport is being rebuilt in 2023/24. The reason it has 1 service/no service a week is due to the disrepair. Network Rail didn't refurbish the station earlier due to Peel Group running the airport into the ground so it wasn't known if the airport would survive to justify spending money on the station. Now the airport is in public ownership, the mayor has spoken with NR who have now agreed to rebuild the station now there is some certainty on the airports future. This is a full rebuild with new platforms and new footbridge and once done I believe the airport will connect it up with shuttle buses.
Its taken a few years to plan as it requires the line being closed for numerous weekends so has been aligned to be done alongside the Darlington Bank Top extension which also requires line closures.
here is what to do :
- Renovate that station
- Put at least 12 train stop by day
- Put a (free ?) shuttle between airport and station. (a 14 passengers minibus will do - maybe 2 for big days).
Last problem maybe the train cost in UK
Perhaps it should be demolished and rebuilt with park and ride facility and shuttle buses running between Teeside Airport and Teeside Airport railway station and perhaps rename it as “Teeside Airport Parkway” station.
I've lived in Teesside all my life and i didn't even know the airport had a train station. it just goes to show how little information we get given about it
The station was only opened in 1971.
Bruh, if folks from Teesside are told about somethin’, it’s generally had all of its parts nicked, and sold for scrap, within a week...
@@MadnessIncVP Within in a week is outrageous mate its usually up to 2-3 working days.
@@zoots5436 In Teesside, there's no such thing as a working day!
This is the train I took to college every day for two years, on the days it doesn't stop at the airport it runs every thirty minutes and still goes through the station, it's called the Bishop line and services all the villages between Darlington and Middlesbrough where a lot of my friends travelled from to get to the same college. It was practically the luck of the draw of which train you would get, often it would be a bare bones two decades old train which has what looked like bus seats in it. People who don't come from this area of the North East really don't understand what it's like growing up here, I honestly thought it was normal as a kid having every public service I used to have 20-30 year old technologies. That is till I moved down south for university and boy did it feel weird having what I would call the nice train but what everyone else called the normal train every time I rode on public transport.
When the station opened in 1971, there was roughly one train an hour in each direction on weekdays, with a reduced Sunday service. Allen's West Station, just a short distance to the east, was originally for Government use only, but became available to the public when Teesside Airport opened.
A sad example of infrastructure neglect in the north of England.
"It's just rubbish" - sums it up perfectly! Rumour has it, the station was conceived of by an egotistical councillor who pushed and pushed and called in favours to have it built as his 'legacy', despite the facts, information and advice that were put forward, on it's likely uselessness in service. You can bet that the 42 service users per year are all rail enthusiasts, surveying it's state of disrepair and all round uselessness! :)
"Redcar British Steel" was on that line too wasn't it, that would be a service
I think they've finally closed that one for the time being
@@edificity The actual steelworks is long gone . . .
I was one of the 42, got the train, they count it as a request stop, ish, I had a flight to Amsterdam as I do most of the time these days, and there is a shuttle its just the airport managers car and you have to ring in advance for him to pick you up
Lucky man
I was one of the 42 people that used it. I was in the area so thought it would be funny to catch it yo Darlington
>train that comes infrequently and drops you off a full mile away from the airport with no transit connections and *no sidewalks* for the entire trek
are you sure you're not in the american south?
I wouldn't actually call that a station, considering it's basically abandoned train platform. I was expecting you to say if a passenger misses the train, it's only a one-week wait for them until the next one comes by. No worries. Just a little patience and they'll be on their way. ;)
Wouldn't stations like this be a good place to build affordable housing and restore a regular rail service? Does anybody else remember 'levelling up'?
With approx 4 flights a day in winter and only 40 miles from Newcastle airport close it!
I think the station should just be closed and have a rail replacement service like Barlaston on the WCML. Northern have shown how much they care about the station so at least they wouldn't have to run a whole train there anymore.
The spelling of "Tees-side" really bugs me more than it should
I lived in Middlesbrough for four years and never once used this airport, genuinely easier to just go to Newcastle airport whether you have a car or not
Reminds me of small airports here in germany like Lübeck for Rostock or example
About 2 flights per week but substituted with millions of tax money each year..
Most Amtrak service in the USA is basically a parliamentary service.
not even close to the same thing
Still better than London Southend Airport
honestly, if they have an airport with a rail link, they need to have regular service
As the airport is growing after many years of Peel running it down with the most likely reason to sell it off for housing (see Doncaster now!), the flights need to be established to create a customer base. After this maybe the useless train company may be willing to do something about the station. Yes it is a distance from the terminal, but its always been like this. I remember many years ago the shuttle bus being an old Leyland National 3111
Growing up, we'd drive passed the station and I'd always think: "why is there a train station in the middle of nowhere" - it's so pointless! It's a real shame because if it was closer to the airport and ran a proper service, it WOULD be used!
It’s a well-known fact that Teesside International Airport only has a departures lounge
I always think ScotRail was bad but they were planning to close Breich but with plenty of support they changed there mind, renovated and it now has a regular 1 hour service
It makes Polesworth (one train a day) look like St Pancras International. :)
Just needs closing as a whole Tesside, costing a fortune to operate. Its is to close to Newcastle and Leeds to compete and be finacially viable.
Sound sense, but the mayor has public money to play with (and an ego to match!).
I used to watch Vulcan bombers using it when in RAF hands, but their bombs obviously missed.
Sometime common sense and logic is thrown into bin and this is great example.
What’s the point of even having this station if it’s set up to fail like this? Seriously, I’ve seen stations in here in the U.S. that are significantly better, which is definitely saying something.
It takes an act of Parliament to close a station in Britain and this is the sort of thing that one person would stall just enough to make it a pain.
Airport station?
Where's Geoff Marshall when you need him?
He did a video about this station a few years ago
I visited in april 2019, getting the train from Allens West to there, then cycling one stop further to get back to my car. The footbridge wasn't closed, as I went across to the other platform and got shots of the public phone.
I'm sure as part of the upgrading of the airport, there were plans to fix up the station and make it useful again...
Here I was thinking Liverpool South Parkway's 2 mile bus journey to Liverpool John Lennon Airport was absurd!
It has a bus service? Luxury!
To clarify: it's 2 miles as the crow flies, about 3.5 miles for the 86A bus, and 4.3 miles for the 80A.
I flew from teeside in 2019 and to get there from Durham, I got the train to Darlington and then walked to the airport from there. Over an hours walk but it was still quicker than the bus.
Failure to co-ordinate air and rail in Britain has been endemic since WW2, blighting far more important projects than botched local-government vanity airports such as Teesside or Doncaster-Sheffield.
Pre-war plans for Heathrow envisioned a spur off the Great Western main line into the central area, but LHR was built without heavy rail connections; the world's busiest international hub did not even gain a Tube till 1977, despite Gatwick's being integrated with the Brighton line from the getgo. Stansted had a spur from the outset, but Luton lacks one and Manchester had to wait for 55 years. Leeds Bradford has only buses. The Scottish SNP administration is supposed to be more public transit-aware, but Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness await heavy rail links. Compare with Germany, France or Switzerland, where trains and hubs are inseparable.
Similar planning blind spots meant that New Towns such as Peterlee, Basildon, Skelmersdale and Cumbernauld were built with poor or no rail connections.
*Wait, this isn’t a video of Geoff Marshall, packed with about 10 Million Unskippable ads...*
Surprised some central Middlesbrough crackheads haven’t nicked the sign to sell for scrap...
I think “Stratford International”, that goes as far as Dover is a contender surely.
Seems this airport is on the way out ,one time on a flight from Amsterdam there was fog in the vale of York plane circled for some time
going out over the coast and back .eventually we landed at Newcastle and after trying to find out what was going on saw a bus outside
that took us back to Teesside arriving in the afternoon instead of the plane early morning ! .at the airport i saw one man he checked your bags worked
the bar and then took your boarding pass as you walked to the plane ,wonder if you still have to pay 5 pounds for your case ? .
I watch this from a suburb of Melbourne where we don’t have an airport station and politicians don’t think it’s feasible since the 1960s. Yes one is planned now but construction won’t start until 2023 and expected to open in 2029.
they need 6 years to build one Station or do they bild the whole railway?
@@andreaswiesheu2240 The whole railway, the distance is not huge, they are waiting for the big tunnel project to be completed in 2025 which I think is just an excuse to delay the airport line. I look forward to the next reason to delay it.
That's terrible. Big airport hubs need transit options, no question
The government around 2000 pointed to the white elephants in Sydney and Brisbane and now Perth is getting one at apparently little fuss, I don’t know why it’s so hard in Melbourne, never seems to go beyond the numerous feasibility studies. As Sir Humphrey says, you never have a feasibility study where you don’t know the outcome.
@@edificity You can ride the 901 From the airport all the way to Frankston if you really wanted. Most people get taxis.
Nothing beats East Midlands parkway used a lot more but it’s nowhere Near East Midlands!!
Well a useless station for a useless airport!The Tory Tees Valley Mayor keeps bailing out the airport presumably because having an airport on his patch makes him feel more important.Although neither are totally useless as I caught a train there once and a flight, BMI,to London Heathrow.When I was a child we also flew from there to LHR and onwards to Johannesburg Jan Smuts as it was then called.I think that the service that stops there now , westbound only,is one of the strange Sunday only Hartlepool to Darlington trains? Really the north east only needs one airport and Teeside should be shut and the few flights transfered to Newcastle.
Surprised Ben Houchen hasn't found a way to take this down. He controls transit with an iron fist so he can launder money into vanity projects. It'd be illegal elsewhere, but welcome to Teesside!
Shows how the powers of the London bubble really don't give a fuck about anyone away from the M25
6 flight per day with 1 train by week
No shuttle between Airport and train
"We OnLy HaVe 42 PaSsEnGeRs PeR YeAr"
Should really just be closed TBH. Ditto Polesworth and Pilning IMO
A very informative video, thank you for sharing! 💜💜
We've got many stations in South Yorkshire that don't have barriers.
Often people board without tickets
So with that in mind who knows how many people travel from those stations
Plus all the money on hs2 leaves the North much like this
I don´t think it would be costly to arrange for a suitable connection between the station and the airport - if the will was there.
Teeside airport is certainly served by taxi´s and certainly has a small minibus in its inventory that could connect station and airport at minimal cost - we´re talking about just a 1 mile distance and it doesn´t have to be a free shuttle.
But - in order to make this work Northern Rail has to be forced to make certain trains stop on a daily basis and once these services start advertising to use the service has to do its part.
This could work even if there are not going to be thousands of passengers to be expected.
Taxi business must be quite lucrative up there.Maybe this is just a Northern thing,my train from Shildon to Darlington was cancelled in the middle of a cold rainy afternoon because it didn't have a driver a couple of weeks back,thanks Northern.A garden shed is more comfortable than that lousy shelter at Shildon too!
it's a transport and penny-pinching thing in general - to save money, firms run services with the absolute bare minimum number of staff, with no reserve staff available
so if a driver or conductor rings in sick, the trains or buses they were meant to operate just won't run
Never involve Tesside with London. Smoggies no thanks. Its a fecking long walk from the station to the airport
3:55 'It's just rubbish.' Three words to accurately describe the entire railway network outside of the London commuter belt (which now extends to Birmingham, apparently)
42 passengers is it me or does anyone else think a train station is a great way to launder money
So many of the outter birmingham stations are like this it's quite sad, especially when you see stations like kidderminster basically state of the art lol
The Tees Valley Mayor is so incompetant that he can't handle an airshow, even when he's earning tons out of it. I doubt this station will ever be useful.
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Lived there when it was RAF Middleton St. George and again after it was civilianised. Remember the station being built.
Could if actually be only one or two people who constantly use it throughout the year, instead of 42? Just a thought.
It’s useful in some way because my dad goes there for business trips
Teesside Intnl is just a cash sinkhole for Ben Houchen. It's a joke.
I womder if the regional train Pass there anyway why dont just stop there wont hurt anybody.
GET does the local government need to spend money when the private sector won't touch it. There's a fucking reason. The civil servants in charge should be jailed for abusing tax payer and council tax payers money.
As someone who uses the only service that calls at this station to get literally anywhere I never knew that it stopped here on occasion
I don’t get it put a bus line between the train to the airport and problem really solved why they don’t do that?
well, this is a good type of videos for city councils and MPs.
Remember when air transport was glamourous?
Its the fault of the local authority planners that allowed the station to be built that far away from the airport.
Why not move the Airport? Problem solved.
So glad I found this channel. Does anyone know the name of the song?
British airport hospitality at its finest.
Heathrow.
@@56independent42 I was thinking more of Stansted.
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Why do you need a station when it only takes 15 mins to get to the airport either by car or a taxi lol
Why not have all the flights go to London and Edinburgh?
Bro I used to live literally a 2 minute walk away from this
Don’t know how I found this video. But it’s super Interesting.
Why build it then in the first place, if it serves no purpose
As soon as i saw the tittle of the video in my recomended videos i knew it was teeside airport station
6.......how is that commercially viable....
There's a station on Sheppey that's just as pointless!
Pontefract baghill 0 trains ever
Its existence sounds like total incompetence.
It's not that the station is a waste, the airport itself is a big one!
"It's just rubbish!" Er...yeah!