Little tip but the quickest connection from KGX-WAT is actually to take the Victoria to Oxford Circus and then the Bakerloo. Cross platform interchange at OXC makes it the quickest route.
Great video as always Nick. Another interesting way to do this journey would have been to get: Northern to Sheffield EMR to Manchester CrossCountry to Bournemouth SWR to Poole Cuts out London but still includes 4 TOCs. Though I can't imagine 5 hours on a 220 Voyager would be particularly comfortable.
Assuming you were weekday running, I’d have taken the Northern line to Bank and change there for the Waterloo & City line to Waterloo. It isn’t the faster way, but the Waterloo & City line is always fun.
As a purist, to keep it strictly train and not tube, you could have got off the LNER train at Peterborough, taken a Thameslink train to London Bridge, transferred there to a train to Waterloo East, walked through to Waterloo for your train to Poole.
Great video Nick One way to get to Waterloo without using the Underground is to catch a Thameslink service from St Pancras to London Bridge, then a Southeastern service to Waterloo East
Hello, I’ve been on the number 50 before, but although it runs from Bournemouth, it doesn’t go from Poole like this video suggests. you need an M1 to get from Bournemouth station to POOLE, then you need the number 40 that goes the roadway from POOLE to Swanage via Wareham and caugh Kassel. That one doesn’t go across the ferry either. i’m an expert on buses around the Bournemouth/pool area now, I’ve done a number of journeys on them.
Great video, Nick! Nice to see you used LNER and the ECML in this video to get down to London! Sometimes it's nice to switch sides, which I still need to do with Avanti on a longer scale to get down to London!
With living on the WCML, the Avanti route is my easiest way down to London. I'm still yet to do a trip on the ECML down to London to see how that compares.
If you do Shipley to Shepley as part of this series (a much easier one than this!), you'll have a chance to tick off Grand Central if you do the Bradford shuffle and take GC from Bradford Interchange to Mirfield.
Idk why but seeing Basingstoke in these videos is really cool to me, as someone taking Waterloo and Portsmouth train to and from Basingstoke for college
There are other services that split and go half fast, half slow. The southern services from London Victoria to Southampton or Portsmouth and Bognor Regis are like that: they run all together till Horsham and then the front half runs fast to Barnham and then stops at a bunch of stations along the coast to either Southampton or Portsmouth, and the back half stops at all stations to Bognor Regis
Not on a Sunday, they don't 😅. The whole train runs to Barnham, and the front portion runs to Portsmouth (no Southampton work from London on a Sunday). The rear portion runs to Bognor Regis.
Yeah I suggested that once before I knew the place didn't have a train station. Which station do you think you should get off at and switch to bus a Stoke-on-Trent Longport or other?
A lot of trains on the old Southern Region split en route and go to different destinations. Some of the splits continue along the same route, but call at more stations as you've found
Poole - my home town. I was born in a house overlooking Branksome Station (2 stops before Poole). Looking forward to seeing what you get up to in my neck of the woods.
With an hour to spare in London you could walk it from Kings Cross to Waterloo. Best way on the Underground is Victoria line to Oxford Circus then Bakerloo line to Waterloo.
Doing these only by national rail would make it more *interesting*, so no using the tube. For this journey you could walk to Euston and get the Overground up to Willesden Junction then go upstairs and down to Clapham Junction and onwards to Poole. OR you could get Thameslink from St Pancras to Denmark Hill then Overground to Clapham Junction that way. OR if you want to really go around the houses, Thameslink to Wimbledon, then back to Clapham Junction from there.
You could also take Thameslink from St Pancras to London Bridge and then go from London Bridge to Waterloo East, which has a direct walkway to Waterloo Main
I once bnooked an advanced ticket from Alfriston, Derbyshire to Southampton Central without checking the route... Ended up going Nottingham, St Pancras, Paddington, Reading, Southampton. The first train to Nottingham was 58 minutes late; I went to the Train Manager who sorted it out by signing my ticket, which enabled me to get any other train on the route. Ironically, the only train I had a reservation on, I ended up not sitting in my seat, as I spent the journey chatting to the Manager!
Hey nick, I live in Southampton, and if I'm travelling up north, from Waterloo I get the bakerloo up Oxford circus, and the Victoria to King's coss. Plus its Cross platform interchange at Oxford circus.
Great video. Its lovely to hear you’re so excited about your future, unfortunately that has never been the case for me. P.S. I still think its wild that ‘the bridge’ on the ecml is like a 2 minute drive from my house!!
Nice to see u down on the south coast, Southampton central is a station I tend to use a fair bit when I’m travelling. There isn’t many trains down here on the Isle of Wight though
An idea for a future point 2 point - travelling between 2 stations that was once connected directly by rail but now you need to change elsewhere (Carmarthen to Aberystwyth for example). Keep up the good work.
Goole and Poole does rhyme. I wonder if there are other stations that has “ole”. Goole is where Siemens are building a new train manufacturing plant and to manufacture & assemble the new Piccadilly Line 202x tube stocks and possibly new tube stocks for the Bakerloo Line.
Kings Cross St Pancras to Waterloo is one of those journeys that has about 10 different ways of doing it that are all pretty close on time. Personally, during the week, I'd go to Bank on the northern line just to get a go on the Waterloo and City line and go straight to the platform.
Problem with those Weymouth services is that they stop at a lot of stations between Winchester and Poole... So to getting to Winchester is pretty quick on XC and SWR but afterwards it's like being on a local train. I've done the XC service from Manchester Piccadilly to Bournemouth and that felt time had almost come to a stop by the time I got to Winchester.
Interestingly, to get from Kings Cross St Pancras to Euston, it's possible to take a southbound Victoria Line train, or a northbound Northern Line train. I think it's that way round anyway. Jago Hazzard has a video on the subject.
With that hour to kill in London, you could have gone down the Northern Line from King's Cross to Bank, and straight to Waterloo via the Waterloo & City Line - Unless it was the weekend when you filmed this :)
another version of this i had in mind was: Goole - Doncaster Doncaster - Reading Reading - Basingstoke or Bournemouth Basingstoke or Bournemouth - Poole
when at kings cross you should go to the further entrance to the underground from the station since it takes you straight down and is quicker, it is the original entrance and tfl make you take a longer route if you take the closest entrance. i love the vid btw.
Liverpool (or Blackpool either would do if you went via the east)to Hartlepool would allow you to get Grand Central under the belt by getting out at Northallerton or Thirsk or York.
I'd love if the Point to Point animation would change for every single journey. I know it would be a lot of work, but it would be really cool and a fun easter egg.
Journey suggestion in London go from Victoria to Royal Victoria which is a DLR station. Another suggestion London Waterloo to Waterloo a merseyrail station.
You could have avoided London by going to Manchester and then Cross Country to Bournemouth doing the whole journey and a short hop onto Poole afterwards as an alternative trip
Love a point to point. I'm sure I'm not the first to suggest, but have you considered doing Charing Cross to Charing Cross? It can be done with no out of station interchange or using TFL.
@@grassytramtracks South Eastern to London Bridge Thameslink to a station on the East Coast Mainline, probably Stevenage Continue on to Edinburgh on another train or possibly two. Then there is a direct service from there to Charing Cross.
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How about a series where you travel between two identically named places - this one is Goole to Poole - how about Gillingham with a juh in Kent to Gillingham with a guh in Dorset or vice versa - or something similar!
Surprised you didn't go down to Birmingham from Doncaster on Cross Country? And who takes the tube from STP to Euston, the walk from KingsCross to the tube lines is ridiculously long
Don't forget that the southbound Victoria line and Bakerloo line (to Waterloo) has a cross platform interchange at Oxford CIrcus
I wouldn't suggest going on the bakerloo line unless you absolutely have to lmao
theres also Victoria to Green park then jubilee line
@@henreereeman8529 How dare you disrespect the Bakerloo line
@@TransportFan2003if you like a long walk that's okay but I avoid that one
@@TransportFan2003changing trains at Green park is for crazy people
Little tip but the quickest connection from KGX-WAT is actually to take the Victoria to Oxford Circus and then the Bakerloo. Cross platform interchange at OXC makes it the quickest route.
Totally agree, it's the way I used to do it.
Point to point idea- Oxenhope (KWVR) to Oxenholme (WCML) also involves a heritage line too.
You should do Stratford (London) to Stratford-upon-Avon at some point! Loving the content ❤🎉
What a happy young man, doing things that you love doing...... Keep it up Nick damn good video.....
Great video as always Nick. Another interesting way to do this journey would have been to get:
Northern to Sheffield
EMR to Manchester
CrossCountry to Bournemouth
SWR to Poole
Cuts out London but still includes 4 TOCs.
Though I can't imagine 5 hours on a 220 Voyager would be particularly comfortable.
Having done the journey from Manchester to Bournemouth / vice versa more than once I can tell you that it is indeed very uncomfortable. Awful trains
@@Extra_Randomtotally agree. Especially when the 10 car train turns up as a 4 car.
Definitely would avoid 5 hours on a Voyager if possible 😅
@@NickBadleyYou need to ticked off Aberdeen to Penzance on a Voyager 😉 you’ve gotta do it at some point 😂
Assuming you were weekday running, I’d have taken the Northern line to Bank and change there for the Waterloo & City line to Waterloo. It isn’t the faster way, but the Waterloo & City line is always fun.
That was another route I had in mind!
Never seen it open on Sundays. Looks like the W&C were intended for commuters and not for leisure.
As a purist, to keep it strictly train and not tube, you could have got off the LNER train at Peterborough, taken a Thameslink train to London Bridge, transferred there to a train to Waterloo East, walked through to Waterloo for your train to Poole.
Alternatively, you can go full whack to KGX, then walk to St Pancras for that Thameslink.
You could get the Victoria Line to Vauxhall, and then get the first train into Waterloo or Clapham Junction from there
swinton, greater manchester to swindon, wiltshire could be a good idea for a future ptp, might be quite a journey though
There's also a Swinton in South Yorkshire
@@AymanTravelTransport he already done that one
It was a good job your train was late.... avoided the Super Voyager lol Great video Nick and looking forward to some South Western Railway videos
Great video Nick
One way to get to Waterloo without using the Underground is to catch a Thameslink service from St Pancras to London Bridge, then a Southeastern service to Waterloo East
Nice! Bournemouth is an amazing place. Since you bought a train ticket, do buy plus bus! You can go on the open top bus 50 and it’s quite cheap!
Hello, I’ve been on the number 50 before, but although it runs from Bournemouth, it doesn’t go from Poole like this video suggests. you need an M1 to get from Bournemouth station to POOLE, then you need the number 40 that goes the roadway from POOLE to Swanage via Wareham and caugh Kassel. That one doesn’t go across the ferry either. i’m an expert on buses around the Bournemouth/pool area now, I’ve done a number of journeys on them.
Where next Nick? Hexham to Wrexham maybe? Another excellent video - can’t wait for your next 8 days of videos😁
This guy is almost like a British Miles in Transit, I love it!
Great video, Nick! Nice to see you used LNER and the ECML in this video to get down to London!
Sometimes it's nice to switch sides, which I still need to do with Avanti on a longer scale to get down to London!
With living on the WCML, the Avanti route is my easiest way down to London.
I'm still yet to do a trip on the ECML down to London to see how that compares.
@@anerdtravels Always good to explore different routes and trains and compare to see what's best!🙂
If you do Shipley to Shepley as part of this series (a much easier one than this!), you'll have a chance to tick off Grand Central if you do the Bradford shuffle and take GC from Bradford Interchange to Mirfield.
Watford to Waterford perhaps?
Northampton to Southampton ? Hexham to Wrexham ?
Great little channel Nick, keep entertaining us.
great video as always Nick, look forward to more of your adventures
It's like I'm obsessed Gillingham to Gillingham please
Best route from KGX to WAT is Victoria line to Oxford Circus, where it’s a cross platform interchange to the Bakerloo line.
Welcome to Dorset Nick ! Looking forward to seeing where you venture to !
Funny tube route..... I'd have suggested Vic Line to Oxford Circus, then cross-platform interchange onto Bakerloo to get to Waterloo.
Idk why but seeing Basingstoke in these videos is really cool to me, as someone taking Waterloo and Portsmouth train to and from Basingstoke for college
There are other services that split and go half fast, half slow. The southern services from London Victoria to Southampton or Portsmouth and Bognor Regis are like that: they run all together till Horsham and then the front half runs fast to Barnham and then stops at a bunch of stations along the coast to either Southampton or Portsmouth, and the back half stops at all stations to Bognor Regis
Not on a Sunday, they don't 😅. The whole train runs to Barnham, and the front portion runs to Portsmouth (no Southampton work from London on a Sunday). The rear portion runs to Bognor Regis.
Perfectly explained. Have a nice day.
It seems this man has entered the town I live in. I've been waiting for this video.
My point To point highlight was Liverpool Lime Street to London Liverpool Street, and then a short walk to, Lime Street EC3 travelled via Norwich.
If you include bus connections you could do Newcastle upon Tyne to Newcastle under Lyme
Yeah I suggested that once before I knew the place didn't have a train station. Which station do you think you should get off at and switch to bus a Stoke-on-Trent Longport or other?
Love watching your videos, Live in goole so cool to see you there
A lot of trains on the old Southern Region split en route and go to different destinations. Some of the splits continue along the same route, but call at more stations as you've found
Look forward to the Bournemouth videos, used to travel down there as a kid for holidays 😅
Already wondering what the next point to point will be.
Great video, as always Nick.
Brilliant video Nick, it's a shame the Doncaster to Kings cross leg of the journey wasn't a 91 set lol.
As an ex-Poole resident looking forward to seeing where you go.
Poole - my home town. I was born in a house overlooking Branksome Station (2 stops before Poole). Looking forward to seeing what you get up to in my neck of the woods.
With an hour to spare in London you could walk it from Kings Cross to Waterloo. Best way on the Underground is Victoria line to Oxford Circus then Bakerloo line to Waterloo.
I'm loving the point to point series
OMG nick you are in my local station Goole!
im so happy
Doing these only by national rail would make it more *interesting*, so no using the tube. For this journey you could walk to Euston and get the Overground up to Willesden Junction then go upstairs and down to Clapham Junction and onwards to Poole. OR you could get Thameslink from St Pancras to Denmark Hill then Overground to Clapham Junction that way. OR if you want to really go around the houses, Thameslink to Wimbledon, then back to Clapham Junction from there.
You could also take Thameslink from St Pancras to London Bridge and then go from London Bridge to Waterloo East, which has a direct walkway to Waterloo Main
Great Video & i look forward to seeing the others which are forthcoming
This is such a pleasant video. You look really happy and I'm sure you're inspiring many! :)
Love to see Hull to London. Thats Paragon Station to Paddington Station would be interesting.
Brilliant as always Nick!! May I suggest, for local pride, Swinton to Swindon?
I once bnooked an advanced ticket from Alfriston, Derbyshire to Southampton Central without checking the route... Ended up going Nottingham, St Pancras, Paddington, Reading, Southampton. The first train to Nottingham was 58 minutes late; I went to the Train Manager who sorted it out by signing my ticket, which enabled me to get any other train on the route. Ironically, the only train I had a reservation on, I ended up not sitting in my seat, as I spent the journey chatting to the Manager!
Fun factoid: the new Pcadilly Line trains will be assembled at the Goole Rail Village.
Hey nick, I live in Southampton, and if I'm travelling up north, from Waterloo I get the bakerloo up Oxford circus, and the Victoria to King's coss. Plus its Cross platform interchange at Oxford circus.
Great video. Its lovely to hear you’re so excited about your future, unfortunately that has never been the case for me.
P.S. I still think its wild that ‘the bridge’ on the ecml is like a 2 minute drive from my house!!
Have fun on your adventures Nick.
Nice to see u down on the south coast, Southampton central is a station I tend to use a fair bit when I’m travelling. There isn’t many trains down here on the Isle of Wight though
An idea for a future point 2 point - travelling between 2 stations that was once connected directly by rail but now you need to change elsewhere (Carmarthen to Aberystwyth for example). Keep up the good work.
That LSWR passing trains might be the Salisbury Exceter sercice !
That must of been a long distance!
Perhaps you should do more point to point videos. Keep up the good work.
When you do have waterloo as your terminus station, make sure you make your way down to Salisbury, and I’ll show you around
Hi I used to drive buses around Goole and my grandfather used to live in Poole weird!
Goole and Poole does rhyme. I wonder if there are other stations that has “ole”. Goole is where Siemens are building a new train manufacturing plant and to manufacture & assemble the new Piccadilly Line 202x tube stocks and possibly new tube stocks for the Bakerloo Line.
Kings Cross St Pancras to Waterloo is one of those journeys that has about 10 different ways of doing it that are all pretty close on time. Personally, during the week, I'd go to Bank on the northern line just to get a go on the Waterloo and City line and go straight to the platform.
And now cental went to the beautiful Baker Street then jubilee line to Waterloo in a recent video too .
Problem with those Weymouth services is that they stop at a lot of stations between Winchester and Poole... So to getting to Winchester is pretty quick on XC and SWR but afterwards it's like being on a local train. I've done the XC service from Manchester Piccadilly to Bournemouth and that felt time had almost come to a stop by the time I got to Winchester.
Interestingly, to get from Kings Cross St Pancras to Euston, it's possible to take a southbound Victoria Line train, or a northbound Northern Line train. I think it's that way round anyway. Jago Hazzard has a video on the subject.
When you go back up north, you could do Bentley (Farnham) to Bentley (Doncaster) :)
As someone who takes SWR services for a number of things, it's kinda weird to see my commuter route 😅 shout out to my hometown for Basingstoke!
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With that hour to kill in London, you could have gone down the Northern Line from King's Cross to Bank, and straight to Waterloo via the Waterloo & City Line - Unless it was the weekend when you filmed this :)
another version of this i had in mind was:
Goole - Doncaster
Doncaster - Reading
Reading - Basingstoke or Bournemouth
Basingstoke or Bournemouth - Poole
Pointless journey: Southend Victoria to the end of Southend Pier (train on pier) via Southend Central
I really enjoy following you on your trips. Well done!! Would you advise us the costs of of these trips?
Nice. I have a good suggestion for point to point journeys Bank tube and DLR to Bank foot Tyne and wear metro
Now that would just be a trek.
Well most of them are a long journey anyways
You could probably get in an extra point to point on the way home by doing Waterloo (London) to Waterloo (Merseyside)
Yeah I've suggested that a few times.
Goole!!!!
Fantastic video Nick! 👍
You can recite the stations between Bournemouth and Wool to the tune of Baa Baa Black Sheep
Nick fantastic video keep it going 😄👍
when at kings cross you should go to the further entrance to the underground from the station since it takes you straight down and is quicker, it is the original entrance and tfl make you take a longer route if you take the closest entrance. i love the vid btw.
when taking the vic or pic lines but im not sure about northern
So Point to Point, Northampton to Southampton because weirdly both with a direction and ampton in their name but no other connection :)
You should do Manchester Victoria to London Victoria!
Liverpool (or Blackpool either would do if you went via the east)to Hartlepool would allow you to get Grand Central under the belt by getting out at Northallerton or Thirsk or York.
I'd love if the Point to Point animation would change for every single journey. I know it would be a lot of work, but it would be really cool and a fun easter egg.
Journey suggestion in London go from Victoria to Royal Victoria which is a DLR station.
Another suggestion London Waterloo to Waterloo a merseyrail station.
I enjoyed this.
Hope you e joyed some fish'n'chips in Poole.
Do you prefer super super voyagers or IET’s? If you like super voyagers, do you think the 805/807 will be a good upgrade?
ever wanna do one of these in Belgium im game xD
You could have avoided London by going to Manchester and then Cross Country to Bournemouth doing the whole journey and a short hop onto Poole afterwards as an alternative trip
Love a point to point. I'm sure I'm not the first to suggest, but have you considered doing Charing Cross to Charing Cross? It can be done with no out of station interchange or using TFL.
How about Charing Cross in Glasgow?
That's the Charing Cross I meant
@@grassytramtracks
@@grassytramtracks South Eastern to London Bridge
Thameslink to a station on the East Coast Mainline, probably Stevenage
Continue on to Edinburgh on another train or possibly two.
Then there is a direct service from there to Charing Cross.
@@grassytramtracks That's the Charing Cross I was referring to 🙂
do all the platform zeroes :P
Another idea:
St Margarets (South Western Railway, between Richmond and Twickenham) to St Margarets (Greater Anglia between Ware and Rye House)
An idea for pointless journeys: pontefract monkhill to pontefract baghill
Well someone liked The Radio Beeb's Cabin Pressure!
Idea/Recommendation: Visit The Swanage Railway nearby by train Via Wareham or Bus/car Its A Really Nice Heritage Railway.
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Great video nick Trust northern to get you off to a bad start.
How about a series where you travel between two identically named places - this one is Goole to Poole - how about Gillingham with a juh in Kent to Gillingham with a guh in Dorset or vice versa - or something similar!
Surprised you didn't go down to Birmingham from Doncaster on Cross Country? And who takes the tube from STP to Euston, the walk from KingsCross to the tube lines is ridiculously long
Amazing video!
When are you gonna do Brighton to New Brighton?
Berwick to Berwick is an obvious but slightly dull Point to Point
Appely Bridge to Apperley Bridge is going to go hard
Goole to Poole, cool.
swindon to swinton could be a good idea
You should do Northumberland to Northumberland Park. Or Northampton to Southampton
You should do a Cam to Cambridge Video
You should do Runcorn to Runcorn East!!