Kings Sutton - Least Used Station in Northamptonshire
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 เม.ย. 2018
- It's time to tick off another county, this time to Northamptonshire and a station that is only just inside Northamptonshire. We also think that Kings Sutton might just be the only 'Least Used' station that is served by more than one TOC, is this so? Can you think of others which get multiple operators? Thanks for Ceci for coming out and being my local guide for the day. She brough sandwiches, tea, and cookies!
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Could this be the most CHEERFUL Least Used video yet? Ceci's enthusiasm is so infectious.
[waves!] thanks :-)
Like an STI?
As a passenger I love when children wave on station platforms, I always wave back! Brings such a smile to my face. :)
When I saw that Barry Links is now the least used station in the UK and had 24 passengers last year, my Dad suggested that it might be the same person travelling out and back once a month!
Petition to do a survey of train drivers across the country and make a heatmap of wavyness to find the waviest area of the UK
Probably somewhere by the sea
@@pjandthecraxfords1559 Welcome to fabulous Somewhere -By -The -Sea! 😁
Llandudno :P
Oh and Northampton and Long Buckby are on the line coming out of Euston whilst Corby, Wellingborough and Kettering are on the line out of St. Pancras (MML)
I like how the talk about the origin of Ceci, and then show a sign for CCTV.
I like how you spelled my name right! Thanks!! :-) [it's so rare!]
I always thought that Northants was much more severely and unfairly affected by the Beeching cuts than other areas of the country, it's still very poorly served by rail compared to other counties. At least they got Corby back though. Top of the lists for reopening I think would be Rushden, Daventry, Desborough and Brackley.
As a resident of Brackley I totally agree with you
A lot of them were shut before the beaching cuts way back in the 1950s
I work just down the road from King Sutton, I usually pick up my tickets there. If the trains stopped there more frequently in the evenings back from London, I'd travel from there too, but usually go from Banbury. One thing I noticed about your stations in Northamptonshire diagram, you seemed to add Long Buckby and Northampton on to the line with Wellingborough and Kettering on it, but these are a branch line off the West Coast Mainline, which spur off just south of Rugby and re-join it after Northampton. Kettering and Wellingborough are part of the midland mainline with Corby a branch off of this.
The first time I travelled through Kings Sutton was on a summer Saturday holiday train to Portsmouth Harbour in 1978. It had a very old fashioned station sign and a rather grand ornamental lamppost. The typical country station, unusually actually next to the village it serves!
Fast forward to the late eighties and the bridge and new lampposts had arrived thanks to a Network South East spruce up!
In recent years, I've had cause to use a couple of the trains that call there, the Banbury-Oxford local service being a far more civilised way to travel than the non stop, overcrowded Cross Country trains!
By far the best of the least used stations videos. The last time I was at Kings Sutton was in 1996 and none of that stuff was there. If I remember correctly, they only had the 2 platforms and that was it. Crossing the tracks to get to the other platform was by the red/green signal. No automated ticket dispenser either.
Technically you are correct. I was just saying that is all that was there. no stairs , no ticket dispenser, no recycle bin or dust bin, and what ever else that may be there now.
I feel like maybe they should have kept the crossing for those who struggle with all those statis
i’ve been looking for ages to find the version for my county and i finally found it 😂 love the videos man
Great as always. Currently working my way through AllTheStations episodes
Loved this video! Kings Sutton has a lovely village centre worth visiting!
Northampton and Long Buckby are on the West Coast mainline and Kettering Corby and Wboro are on the Midland Mainline
Anorak fact No.1
That distance between the station and the county boundary at the river at King's Sutton is about 150 metres according to Google Maps.
Not as accurate as an OS map I know but gives a rough idea of just how close it is to being in Oxfordshire.
Great vid again and superb cartography from Geoff.
In your hand-drawn map at 10:39, Long Buckby station is a loop line station between Northampton and Rugby, so it’s neither on the West Coast Mainline or the East Coast Mainline (as you indicate) though it does run parallel to the former.
It’s a curiosity that Northamptonshire is a county which has both main northerly train lines going through it (how many counties can boast that?!), but there is sadly no train line connecting the two. To add to the county’s woes of having so few stations (and Corby is a relatively recent addition), even the train lines it does have are no use for east-west travel.
Thanks for the video, it’s great. I’ve used Kings Sutton station before when I’ve done some walking in the local area so I have had nice experiences of being there.
Love the least used stations videos Geoff you are the best
INTERESTING FACT
The postcode for Kings Sutton is OX17, despite being in Northamptonshire.
I grew up in Kings Sutton and would catch the train to Banbury to meet friends.
Before the ticket machine was installed you could only get a permit. It accepted 5 pence pieces, so sometimes I would go to Banbury for only 5 pence because no one would check when you arrived at Banbury.
Also, when I lived there we had to use the old crossing on the north end before the bridge was built. The lights were not great
Postcodes don’t generally follow county boundaries. For example you can find Peterborough (PE) Postcodes in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Bedfordshire, Rutland and Northamptonshire.
@@ktmgordo thanks. Pretty sure I wrote my original comment when drunk, so just corrected a few spelling errors. But yeah, I get that postcodes don’t always correspond to counties. Again, probably drunk when posted 😂
Good map! Northampton and Long Buckby are on a branch of the West Coast Main Line by the way. Once connected to the MML on a small branch between Northampton and Market Harborough which is now a preserved railway line! Great vid as always!
Correct. Kettering and Wellingborough are on the Midland Mainline, St Pancras to Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield.
Also once connected to the MML on the Northampton to Peterborough and Northampton to Bedford lines... so much lost railway.
US States nerdiness warning. US States are just as weird as English Counties. Several states define their border as a river, so when that river moves, so does the border, unless a legal land grab happens. The original Illinois State Capital is now an abandoned town that is on the west side of the Mississippi, though it started on the east side. The river changed its course, and a quick rewrite kept this slip of Illinois out of Missouri. Didn't save the capital from moving the Springfield however. And a very strange jog in an already very wiggly unstable state border.
There are few towns where the border between the United States and Canada is IN THE MIDDLE OF A BUILDING. Prior to 9/11, nobody cared too much, but since then America has been a little more on edge about it's borders so it's become a bit of a problem.
There are some of those river borders where what happened when the river changed course was that the border *didn't* change, and now you have strange little enclaves on one side or the other.
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I'm not convinced by your claim of state borders moving with the river. For example, the Nebraska-Iowa border is declared to be where the Missouri River was in whatever year they chose. There are several places where the river has moved, leading to small parts of the east bank being in Nebraska and small parts of the west bank in Iowa. For example, Omaha's airport is in Nebraska but it's between an oxbow lake and the current course of the river. If you go around the north side of the lake, you stay in Nebraska; if you go around the south side, you're briefly in Iowa.
Faygate is another least used station that is served by more than 1 TOC with Southern operating 1 train per day that stops there but is served mainly by Thameslink
Very insightful and cool video!
It's me driving 168111 out of Banbury at around 00.57. Geoff did film a short piece to camera with me, but it quite deservedly ended up on the cutting room floor 🤣
I couldn't remember if we saw Nayson the day we filmed?
Love these videos mate, always puts a smile on my face 😊
Love the shelter, it looks to be original. That is a lot of passengers for a least used station, compared to most you have visited.
that woman at 2:11 looks at you so weird XD why do you care I'm getting on the train
You forgot to look at the number of parking spaces at the station just like you did on the Midgham. According our friends Google there are about 21 normal spaces and 1 disabled one. There is also a bike rack
I really like Cece! She is a great contributor 😊
thanks! [waves!] :-)
As a driver on the Bournemouth Birmingham route every day I drive through Beaulieu road (least used in Hampshire) Kings Sutton (least used Northamptonshire) and Kenilworth (currently least used in Warwickshire) Wondered if any other “least used” were connected,.
PS love the Vlogs
Several - 1. Rawcliffe (E Yorks) and Hensall (N Yorks) are both on the Goole - Leeds line. 2. Bruton (Somerset) and Chetnole (Dorset) are both stops on the Bristol-Weymouth line. Some SWR trains also run via Bruton, passing through Dilton Marsh (Wilts), but they don't call there. 3. Nottingham - Skegness trains pass through Elton & Orston (Notts), Bottesford (Leics), and Havenhouse (Lincs): some trains call at two of them, but no one train calls at all three stations. 4. The daily train to Acklington (Northumberland) also calls at both Dunston and Manors (last year's and this year's least-used stations in Tyne & Wear). 5. All trains from Norwich to Ely pass through Lakenheath (Suffolk) and Shippea Hill (Cambridgeshire), which are only a couple of miles apart, but I don't think any train stops at both stations. 6. Derby - Crewe trains calling at Peartree (which has replaced Dove Holes as Derbyshire's least-used) also call at Longport (Staffs) 7. The one train a day that calls at Polesworth (Warwickshire) also passes through Longport, but doesn't call. (London to Manchester expresses via Stoke also pass through Polesworth and Longport but don't call at either station). 8. Some of the Bournemouth- Birmingham trains you mention passing Beauliieu Road and Kings Sutton continue to Manchester, so also pass Longport. 9. Cross-Country Edinburgh to Reading trains pass through Acklington, Manors, Peartree, [Kenilworth] and Kings Sutton.
Hats off Norbiton flyer you really know your onions, one correction though, number 4 Newcastle Reading services are routed via Solihull not Kenilworth👍
vacma373 - If you drove through on Tuesday the 10th and a lady in a bright jacket waved at you, that was me! :-)
ccfgoxf Rest day Tuesday, passing through 1400 southbound on Friday if I see you I’ll give you a toot 👍😀
Drat, I was on the line today but won't be tomorrow... :-) But toot if someone waves anyway! :-)
No No No don't put both hands in the air, that's definitely not something you want to be doing around trains...unless you want them to stop in emergency.
Don't worry: it was a driver friend of Geoff's passing... :-)
ccfgoxf it does not matter, it signals emergency stop.
Clarification: the driver expected Geoff to be exactly where he was and to wave... and he only put his arms up as it was just past (so I doubt the driver saw anyway). :-)
Driver Definitely would have seen it as the unit clearly hadn't passed them but anyway my comment was more for future reference.
Awesome video as ever. Living in Northants so strange Kings Sutton just on the border.
I just noticed that a famous painting summarizes the companion situation in this video: Ceci n'est pas une Pipe.
Ha yes! I see a lot of "Ceci n'est pas un ..." and even have a t-shirt and a bag with such a saying... :-) Ceci
Banbury! My first 3 years of professional life at the other end of the country from where I am from. Used to be a lovely little place, if a bit weird at times.....
Ceci is awesome! (I'm possibly biased). Fun video, even for a non-train geek :-)
Also a fun rail fact
Northamptonshire had many station, there used to be a few between Corby and Oakham (Gretton, Harringworth and Manton) and another between Kettering and Corby, there are several abandoned ones on the midland mainline all closed in the 60s probably because of the beeching axe
That Freight Train Sounded So Good ❤😍😍
I didn't know Kings Sutton was in Northamptonshire but close to Banbury and the important Aynho junction. I thought the Chiltern line only went through the counties of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire.
Out of all of the "least used" stations I've seen so far, this is actually pretty well served. In my opinion, Northamptonshire doesn't have the best network of trains, so I assume people just use whatever trains they can :)
00:54 I can now prove my point Chiltern drivers wave and sound the horn to every train enthusiast.
Great video as always 👍Northampton and long buckby are on the west coast mainline operated by London northwestern and virgin but Wellingborough is operated by East Midlands trains not so sure about Kettering or corby
I would divide by 364 as trains never run on Christmas day
good point :-)
Divide by 363. Trains don't run on Boxing day either.
Or Boxing Day, ergo it should be divisible by 363.
Trains don't run at all, they havent got legs 🤐🤢
Make more videos with Ceci!!
Thanks!!!
How much do you spend for trains(tube, etc) per month (average)... Thanks
Northampton and Long Buckby are on the same line as Milton Keynes (WCML) from Euston, but they loop eastwards off the mainline. So they appear closer to the closer to the East Midlands Line (Welly/Kettering) than other WCML stations.
11:09 Nobody has been that excited about Northamptonshire before.
The Chiltern guards are nice too. I had a pass which granted free travel on London Midland and discounted on all other services, showed it to the guard asking for a ticket and he just said don't worry about it and let me ride for free.
2.27 A Network South East S stop sign, very nice.
That bit with the quite carraige sign and your unhappy face should be turned into a meme.
The Original Elizabeth Line: I don't think TfL will buy it, Geoff.
(Hi, Ceci!)
Hi back!
Geoff after Long Buckby is Northampton itself (I used to commute from Coventry to Milton Keynes Central/Bletchley via there).
It's definitely not the only multiple TOC least used station, Colwall in Herefordshire is served by both WMR and GWR
One problem with your videos: The frequency that your camera records at is different than what the dot matrix display uses. This causes a severe flickering effect and makes them illegible.
Looks much more like a normal station than a lot of the other 'deserted' ones; proper shelter, dual track, ticket machine etc.
Good choice of companion! A wave from me to Ceci
[waves back!]
[Waves back!] [Adds: apology that I missed this... there are so many comments! ccfg] :-)
Amazing video, since you did a least used video in North Yorkshire, please may you do one in South Yorkshire
Somerset definitely has more than 5 stations: we have Taunton, Bridgwater, Highbridge, Frome, Bruton, Castle Cary, Yeovil Pen Mill, Yeovil Junction and Crewkerne, plus Weston super Mare, Weston Milton, Worle, Yatton and Nailsea & Backwell (in North Somerset) and Oldfield Park, Keynsham, Bath Spa and Freshford (in Bath and North East Somerset)
The Radical Physicist Yes, in North Somerset and BaNES, which are no longer part of Somerset and haven't been for over 40 years.
I love how MK has been represented with a big scrawly scribble of indiscernible 'stuff' - much like the place ;) hahaha nice one Geoff!
This station is, like, um, a proper station. There's a parking lot, houses are right near by, etc.
There are indeed other "least used" stations served by two companies. Indeed, in one case its only purpose is to provide interchange between them. It is Smallbrook Junction. See also Bruton, Somerset (GWR and SWR): Colwall, Herefordshire (GWR and West Midlands): Longport, Staffs (East Midlands and Northern) (EDIT) others have now pointed out Oakham (East Midlands and Cross Country), Dunston (Northern/.Scotrail) and Bearley (GWR, Chiltern)
WAVE. Another stonkingly good video! Nice t-shirt Ceci, where did you get it?
[waves back!] we need the t-shirt link in the description - don't you think?? it's from here but does youtube allow a URL in comments? stores.clothes2order.com/dztzstore/all-the-stations/ladies/
Probably from the kindest person in the comments section ;)
Ceci admits to being a Dan Fan ... love the shirts! And he was excellent in his LUS video :-)
Geoff, If you ever get to Potton in Bedfordshire, near Sandy, take a look at the station that used to be. It's a ouse now. I think it was one of Beecham's disasters.
The PTT machine hasn't been working when I went there either, that was during the summer last year :(
bit of a stink eye from the lady getting on the train at Kings Sutton @2:10
How do you define the river boundary, exactly...? I mean, if everything _west_ of the river is Oxfordshire and everything _east_ of the river is Northamptonshire, then (on day of filming at least) you can make a case for both, as - with flooding on both sides - the station was technically _IN_ the river...
I live not that far from their
Also i love the vids keep up the good work
Instantly liked and clicked on
Cool station.
Somerset 'proper' (if you exclude North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset, which are part of the ceremonial county but independent for local government purposes) has 10 stations: Templecombe, Crewkerne, Yeovil Junction and Pen Mill, Frome, Bruton, Castle Cary, Highbridge and Burnham, Bridgwater and Taunton. If you count North Somerset and BANES (which I think you should) then you can include Freshford, Bath Spa (the busiest station in the county, and one of the busiest in the UK to only have 2 platforms) Oldfield Park, Keynsham, Nailsea & Backwell, Yatton, Worle, Weston Milton and Weston-Super-Mare
Nice little station. I know it well as I travel a lot between Bicester North (My home town) and Banbury (My birth town).
Hey Geoff. Can you do a video explaining the new tube upgrades coming to the 4 sub surface lines and 4 deep tube lines. I’m from Sydney so I don’t know much about what is happening.
Keep on being awesome !
On the one hand, the train passing interrupted the fast facts. On the other hand, it created a breeze for the bin to sway in. I'm not sure how I feel.
Good point!
What is the most used least used station? this one seems quite busy by comparison with some of the others. :)
I live in Northampton!
I love in Northamptonshire but does CR goes to Northamptonshire?
There are only five stations in a county as big as Northants, can you believe it: Northampton and Long Buckby on the West Coast Mainline, Wellingborough, Kettering and the fairly recently reopened Corby on the Midland Main Line - all large towns (except Long Buckby) and Kings Sutton - so not a lot to choose from. So it's really between Long Buckby and Kings Sutton. And Kings Sutton is only just in Northants and on a pretty unfrequented line. No real surprises there. But the numbers are quite large?
Seems weird seeing you at my local station (Banbury)
Actually, Dunston - on the Tyne Valley Line is served by Scotrail and Northern. You should go visit sometime and see the new station facilities.
Thought Kings Sutton would be in Oxfordshire it is just south of Banbury and that is in Oxfordshire.
The village is King's Sutton but the station is Kings Sutton without an apostrophe? Does that have a reason?
What's the least used station on underground / overground / dlr / tram? That would be a interesting vid (for me then XD)
Somerset has well over 5 stations; two in Bath, Taunton, two in Yeovil, two in Weston-Super-Mare, Frome, most of the Bristol-Taunton line, several on West of England as well as the Reading-Taunton line passing Somerset. Possibly that mixup comes from a number of them being in Avon before it became a defunct county. It does have a really low number of stations given the county's size, however.
Nineteen in total. Taunton, Bridgewater, Highbridge & Burnham, Weston-super-Mare, Weston Milton, Worle, Yatton, Nailsea: Keynsham, Oldfield Park, Bath Spa, Freshford: Frome, Bruton, Castle Cary, Yeovil Pen Mill: Templecombe, Yeovil Junction, Crewkerne:
Ah yes, three in Weston-Super-Mare then, I'd forgotten Weston Milton
Sorry, but you've included stations in North Somerset and BaNES, neither of which are actually Somerset any more as they were formerly Avon.
The names of North Somerset and (Bath & )North East Somerset suggest they are in some sense part of Somerset - the "Ceremonial" county at least.
If you go by modern boundaries you have to accept that Derby is not in Derbyshire!.
Norbiton Flyer Indeed. But then I write to the BBC every time they say Orpington is in Kent, so guess which side of the fence I'm on? 😃
gutted to have missed out on meeting you, wrong side of Northampton for me, I thought for some reason that Rushden station would be up there, not taking in consideration that of course it is not an active station even though it is still used by trains
I forgot. thanks for the geography lesson.
Cool video I live in Northamptonshire
I live in Somerset.
There are 11 stations in Proper Somerset (Including Bishops Lydeard )
There are 5 in North Somerset
There are 4 in Bath and Northeast Somerset
( 20 altogether)
Corby station only reopened about 5 years ago, and pretty much just goes to London via Kettering
Bit longer than that - 2009
Yeah Somerset isn't that the one you didn't show any stations on All the Stations?
great map actually
Hello from Wellingborough.
North Hamptonshire, Portugal turned 45% clock wise. (9:52)
For some unknown reason, this video makes me think of the tune 'The Man Who Waved At Trains' by Soft Machine. Can't think why...
Both my least used stations done. TICK✔️
Arghh this is one of those boundary issues that gets my goat. Kings Sutton is within Banbury, has a Banbury phone code and as Banbury is part of Oxford has an OX postcode. Makes no sense to label it as Northamptonshire where this is one of those boundary errors that never bothered to be corrected. Good videos though so do not let my rant take away from that :)
I lived in Oxfordshire but had an RG postcode, so Berkshire. All done strangely...
Least used station with multiple TOCs? Caledonian Sleeper and Scotrail are two separate TOCs, so I would expect that would be somewhere on the West Highland Line, maybe Tulloch (1,616 pax)?
Bearley, mentioned elsewhere, has less than half those figures and is served by two TOCs.
Why not take a 360 pic at each of the stations and put them on Google Maps?
Yes he pointed out somerset as only having a few stations. Now i can finally show my mum that bristol stations don't count as somerset
Roblox Transportation Fans border between Gloucestershire and Somerset went along the River Avon. So Temple Meads is just in Gloucestershire by that measure.
Never knew that, Thanks for telling me
David Newton I thought Temple Meads was in Greater Bristol :-/
bad stickman it is in Bristol. Depends on whether you're talking administrative counties or traditional counties. Administratively cities like Bristol were separated from the surrounding counties long ago as first county boroughs and more recently as unitary authorities. Geographically of course it's a different matter.
Roblox Transportation Fans I was about to mention this. I actually had this problem at work this week, how to deal with unitary authorities in ceremonial counties.
Geoff might have to find the Unitaries in ceremonial counties for his graph.
Technically, the least used station in the massive county of Rutland (Oakham) is served by 2 train companies: Cross Country and East Midlands Trains (although the EMT ones are only a limited number per day)....
Pssh. Oxford post code. They aren't one of us true Northants folk. And corby is a pretty new station as well. Didn't exist when I were a lad. We're an insular people.... Why would anyone want to leave!? (He says while living in Central London these days)
I remember reading a few years ago, that Corby was the biggest town in England with no station. That has changed now, apparently.
Yes, although most people in Corby still just use Kettering station because it's more convinient.
Geoff , why does the line cross the river at Kings Sutton twice just to get to Kings Sutton, if KS has nothing there ? Surely the line would have been easier to build if it had stayed on dry land in Oxfordshire.
The Cherwell is very wriggly. In order to keep a reasonably straight route, the railway crosses the river nine times between Oxford and Banbury.
How many Ceci feet was the platform???
we forgot to check!!!!! :-p :-)
ccfgoxf ohhh :( you'll have to go back and do it...
Bearley (least used station in Warwickshire as of the 2016 - 17 period) has Chiltern Railways and West Midlands Railway serving it
The "least used" map on Geoff's website still shows Polesworth as Warwickshire's representative, which it was in 2015/16, but it has now swapped places with Bearley as you say. Although Chiltern's services to Bearley pass through Kings Sutton, there is no service that calls at both stations.
Norbiton Flyer Must still be there as Geoff has already done Polesworth. Believe he said he'll be going to Bearley but it'll be a request stop video instead.