Bottesford - Least Used Station in Leicestershire
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Time to tick off another Least Used Station and Dave came along with me, in what is perhaps a two-parter, as we went to two stations in one day! This one, and the next one at Elton & Orston station which is just over the county line in Nottinghamshire.
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Thanks to Bob too - we hope Bottesford gets its garden!
If Dave and Bob walked apart you'd have "Six Degrees of Separation".
I thought that that was the gag Geoff was going to make! 😂
That's even worse than the three degrees joke 😂
Haha, Bob, what a legend! So keen to be involved. You should have taken him along, that wouldn't have been weird, it would have been awesome!
Every least used station needs to have a Bob. Geoff put that on your checklist ‘does this station have a bob’
#stationbob
It could be like an honorary title to anyone who's there even if they aren't named Bob. "Today, you shall be our BOB".
That will confuse any Dutch viewers....as BOB always drives the party home after going out (B.O.B. = Bewust Onbeschonken Bestuurder, or designated driver in english) :)
BOB is the name of one of the loaves of bread at work
Bob: the name given to an old retiree who just won't go away :)
I’d be worried if there was a Bob at Redcar British Steel!
Bench fact: The bench you sat on is a variation of the one designed specifically for Milton Keynes by Brian Milne, its design is now used all over the world
And that they used to have round holes but were changed to slots as people got their fingers stuck in them!
I thought it was an old Network southeast bench
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The camera on the luggage rack was brilliant. I loved that angle. You've gone Hitchcock Geoff!
Random update on the Community Garden, it did get there in the end
i was hoping to see such a comment :)
Do you know Bob?
I loved it how Bob just kept cropping up in the background
"It's quite a nice day" -- Geoff Marshall, about a totally overcast sky. Confirmed British.
It's not raining. It's a nice day.
Very good! I love the shot of the tractor passing the church!
The guy driving it would have been going home for his lunch and is a bit of a local character
It's easy to forget Bottesford is even in Leicestershire. It's up there on that little nib between Notts. and Lincs.
I used to work in Bottesford, and half the people who live there think it's in Nottinghamshire.
I have to say I live near Bottesford and had always assumed it was in Lincs. Incredible fossil hunting in the ploughed fields round there.
@@Zeem4 to be fair it does use a notts postcode so I can see why it'd be confusing
Counties are weird like Ashby-Swaddlincote-Burton you traverse Leicestershire Derbyshire and staffordshire, See Geoffs least used northamptonshire that's another due to county boundary anomalies,
@@ProfessorPesca bottesford is definitely in Leicestershire and the Borough of Melton. :)
Never ever thought I'd see Sheila Ferguson in a Least used stations video.
I'm amazed (and pleased) at how well provided with bins Bottesford is. Several years ago, I had reason to de-train at Peterborough, a main line station, and there was not one bin in which to deposit my coffee cup and pie wrapper. They got half a day out in York.
bins were removed from stations following the 1970s IRA bombings
Another Fantastic Least Used Station Geoff! I think the community garden at Bottesford would look Really nice!
I was born directly opposite the station. I can still recall steam trains arriving there!
Love the Sound of the hst coach squeaking as you departed so miss the HSTs set
Bottesford used to be an east-west, north-south junction between the Great Northern and London and North Western Railway companies. The church seen in the background is famous for its tombs, including "victims" of the Witches of Belvoir. Bottesford was also a WW2 bomber base. Fun fact: the now closed Redmile station nearby, had a wooden trapdoor in the platform that exposed steps for the exclusive use of the Duke of Rutland. Saved him having to bother crossing the line the long way round.
The Nottingham - Grantham line was GNR and the now-closed Newark- Leicester line was GNR/LNWR joint. Each line had its own station.
Yes, I wasn't suggesting Bottesford station was a junction, I meant Bottesford the place had a 4-way junction. IIRC it had four signal boxes. I think Leicester-Skeg excursions used the junction until quite late.
Another great video Geoff! I live in Grantham and have friends in Bottesford, they used the train to get to and from school in Grantham. Also, I did my dissertation on young people’s usage (or lack of) of public transport in Lincolnshire.
When I worked for Leicestershire CC, based in Leicester but essentially mobile, nobody ever believed you needed to go there. Over an hour from Leicester, it's reputation was as the place to disappear to for a day, totally off-radar. In Leicestershire but north of Nottingham.
Take a walk through Bottesford 40 years ago .That's when it was a village.The sheep were taken from field to field though the High street
.yes we did get our community garden.can you remember when every station had a garden? It was a pleasure to see,the stationmaster kept them beautifully.
Typical Leicestershire County Council. The Borough of Melton as a whole is totally ignored by Leicestershire County Council especially in places like Bottesford, Buckminster and Redmile. The Borough of Melton needs its independence from Leicestershire.
What a pretty village.
If you look very carefully you'll see Bob appear in every, yes EVERY TH-cam video.
Hey Geoff I love your work. I have been a massive fan of yours since June last year when you got me addicted with the tube. Every weekend i pretty much rewatch all your videos and particularly like your secrets of the underground series. When the Elizabeth Line/Crossrail opens will you do a secrets for that??
Bob's a legend!!
I would love to see you and Tom Scott work together on something.
Geoff! Come to Denver! (When the covid situation is under control). We have a light rail (As a fellow Englishmen who ended up in America, I admire the South Carolina experience!) - Me and my friend have been watching the videos and we're going to try and re-create this format at every station!
Geoff, loved the video as always. Can I heartily recommend getting an external mic with a deadcat/windjammer on it though - considering most of your outdoor shots are in exposed places it would be a good investment (I use a Rode rifle mic with a DeadCat on, it works wonders in the wind).
I kinda like the wind effects
Ah, then you could record the background noise on a separate channel and lower them when someone is talking.
I thought it would be a Six Degrees of... gag.
Great video Geoff i enjoyed watching it.
Got a disused airfield as well.
Flew over it 2 years ago.
Dave is a good companion to Geoff....do more with him!
The Three Degrees on 10.20 is superb! Tick!
When you stood Dave and Bob next to each other, I though you were going to have them walk away from each other and call it 6 degrees of separation...
I really am enjoying your films which I have only recently discovered. I noticed something on this which you didn't pass a comment on but as the train leaves you at Bottesford, a flippin' 153 with a name on it. Not only that, it was named to commemorate the 150th anniversary of something or other. Why didn't they stick that on a 150 or am I just too literal with these things?
bit late but it's in honor of a herrrtiage railway the ecclsebourne valley railway in derbyshire which uses 153s or it did not so much now on the adjacent national rail station on the Matlock-Derby line,
Omg it's so peaceful on this video I only said this because it's calm
are you going to make us wait a week for the next one?
Geoff looks even more younger then before
That 3 degrees joke was on Par.
Geoff found a rare train movement it happens once a day 6 days a week and is very unusual
That's quite busy for a least used station. (unlike the next station over)
Legend Dave!
I am a bit disappointed that you didn't make the whole "if Geoff stands apart from Bob and David then it would be six degrees of separation!" gag too! Hindsight eh?
The 3 degrees...I laughed !
Welcome to my home county 👍👍👍
What were the two black concrete looking objects you can see on the platform from the footbridge at 5:06 in the video? They look very strange or could they be bike locks?
It's a bike rack
Carrier bag - end of forest gump as well!!
Geoff. How are you going to do least used stations when it comes to Scotland? By county still? Or are you really just focusing on England since it would be a trek and a half to Highlands...
@11:07 The British Rail Class 156 Super Sprinter #156497
How many counties did you walk through on that day?
I have noticed you and you friend have the same shoes
Bob appears to be Mike Jeavons in the future!!
Check out VIZ, there used to be a character a young lad and he had a Border black bin bag as his faithful companion. He stayed at his aunt's in the Highlands and thwarted evil people. Gotta be better than watching one blowing in the wind, Dylan, more stations thank you.
Where is your friend Dave from
Can you do a video of the least used station in Lincolnshire
Customers obviously ‘bottled it’ from using it!....... I’ll get me coat 😞
Close. But Bottlesford's a lovely little place in Wiltshire. This'un has no 'l'.
Yay my city. I thought Hinckley was the least used station.
I think that Bob would have followed Geoff all the way back home in London.
What about Bruton.
Least used station in Worcestershire is conveniently close to all the stations on the Severn Valley heritage line. Another opportunity for two videos in one day at some point in the future.
Can you do least used station in Derbyshire
And there's me struggling with basic algebra...
Problem with Leicestershire is the postcode for the station.
Bottesford, Nottingham NG13 0GT!
It's not a problem, or unusual, or anything to worry about. Grantham and Sleaford (both Lincolnshire) are NG31 and NG34. The most surprising one I can remember is Aberystwyth (SY23) which is a Shrewsbury postcode.
Can I do a least used station?
He managed to get the community garden btw
excellent! thanks for the update Dan :-)
Poor Dave. Not on drugs just a happy good looking guy
Does anyone know why Bottesford has staggered platforms?
They said the footbridge was new, so presumably there used to be a crossing (certainly looks like it) Staggered platforms are common there so that you can cross the line behind a train standing the platform- if the crossing is just after the platform, it will be within the safety margin ("overlap") of a train drawing up to the signal at the end of the platform and has to be closed before the train arrives, and then all the time the train is stationary.
Norbiton Flyer Oh yes, of course the same principle would apply for people on foot as for car drivers wouldn't it? Cheers
#justiceforbob
7:36 you got a northern accent there. you said l-a-st rather than larst
Nice punch hole at 2:42 - you don't get that with mobile tickets!
Will be passing Bottesford at about 06:20 tomorrow morning, on my way to Eastcroft Depot, Nottingham.
Not far from me! As I'm from leicester, Pal!
Is David American
when the math phd guy has a better physique than the train guy, you know the physique of the train guy is seriously messed up
PhD in mathematics. Surely he's seen Good Will Hunting?
Aaah, I live in Leicester so not really that far away from me. I must say that East Midlands Trains are very good. They are the best in my opinion.
The way the other bloke said Bottesford was triggering me 🤦♀️
#geoffsbaginabreeze
I totally read that as geoffs bagina breeze
90 is alot. letrs play by some rules. No more 10 people a day.
Go do videos in America
Never mind
You ditched Bob! :'(
I knew Dave a degree in maths, I just didn't realise he had a PhD and hence three of them! :-D
I’m watching this instead of revising for my maths degree finals
after the 3 degrees joke, you should have asked them to stand a little further apart and said, 6 degrees of separation.
Geoff Marshall Ned least used in wrexham then cceshire
You went with the three degrees, but my thought was- with the two of them- six degrees of separation.
Geoff Marshall when will you be doing least used Nottinghamshire
Update: Yes Bottesford does have its garden and it is very nice
Should have taken Bob with you!
All the Stations - Rubbish Bins Blowing in the Breeze Edition.
you should one day go by yourself and find a Bob. He was good value. 😁
Bob’s a good sport. Hope Bottesford gets/got its garden from EMR.
There was another gag, you should have left a gap between Bob and Dave, then you could have had six degrees of separation!
Do least used station in Rutland please :)
Well up for that
The least-used station in Rutland is also the most-used station in Rutland :)
Isnt there only 1 station in Rutland.....
Yep, my home town of Oakham
So Oakham
#allthedegrees
Bottesford was once a major junction from Newark into deepest Leicestershire until the late 50s. The last section went in 1988.
From now on, every time I watch one of your videos, I will be looking out for Bob the Parish Councillor in the background.
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Cheaper to get the train from Bottesford (free parking) to Nottingham than driving to Nottingham and parking in the city centre. Station has always been (relatively) busy every time I've used it - but the 2 hour wait for trains back is a bind...
6:28 Geoff's reaction after Dave failed to take his hint.
8:33 I see you credit Sisi (sp?) with pointing out about passengers making return journeys -- had you really not taken that into account before?
I'm a recent subscriber and i would like to see more of Bob, he seems like an awesome chap
Only just noticed that the letters in your name in the end credit change colour - I thought my eyes were going nuts!
I've been on trains through there many times, but never stopped there. Always notice the fantastic spire on that church, including when I'm driving on the main road a bit farther away. Must be one of the tallest village church spires in the country, if not one of the tallest in general.
Ahhhhh, the old Nottingham > Skegness run..... quite a few low use stations on this run..... just wished EMT would use something better, than those god awful "Dogbox" 153 Sprinters, especially now Skegness is heading towards peak season. Oh Geoff, may want to look for EMT's Jolly Fisherman service (Normally on a saturday, starting at Nottingham), which in recent years, has been covered by an HST..... Staff at Nottingham (Michael "Mad Mick" is normally good for this info) are generally helpful here.
It used to be a pair of class 20s. Summer only as no steam heating on the choppers.
Oh yes, pair of Whistling Billy's, and a nice rake of compartment style coaches..... absolutely loved them.
Did you take in your calculations that 2016 had 366 days Geoff?!!!
Nice job on getting the stopper to Newark. I always get that train if I can, because its always mostly empty
A little nerdy fact. One of the units on the train from Grantham to Bottesford is named after a heritage railway and the train after the naming ceremony ran on the heritage line quite a few times as it was attending a gala!
I be honest Geoff, your least used stations get funnier and funnier each time I watch them, great video to watch while on a Southern Train
Which was a first for me, watching your great video on a Southern Class 455 👍🏻
It would be better on the later style 377' :)