I just loved this video so much. Having been on TH-cam for nearly 15 years now, it warmed my cockles right up to see a lovely community get together to take part in a fun idea and just have a great day with friends. It’s so nice to be reminded that the spirit of what TH-cam is all about still has a space to bring people together. What a joyous thing, and thanks all for sharing with us. A few years back, I had a wait at Northampton where I happily sipped my coffee while looking at these displays, finding tickets from stations that have been important to me over the years, and imagining the stories behind the journeys. Elliott has created a beautiful piece of social history here. Long may it continue.
I totally forgot about this project. I could have done the Upper Tyndrum in September. I love that the museum recognizes this effort as a statement about the value of train transport
Unfortunately you can't get a correctly titled ticket from either of the Tyndrums; it just says 'Tyndrum Stations'. There are strangely several journeys which are possible, but for some reason you will not be able to have tickets issued. This is one of them, Helensburgh is another. I know, I've tried! A very helpful Scotrail conductor tried for me; at my suggestion he even put the National location code of the stations into the portable 'AVANTIX' ticket machine to try and 'force it' but it still said "no"!
As a Northampton local and avid paper ticket collector myself, I've loved this concept and was always fun to look at it when waiting for my train. I'll definitely have to contribute a ticket now!
@@TomS1299 I've got thousands of spares from my soirées around the country if you are interested.... I only need two more from self service machines and I've got the whole country.
Only in the UK could you: Come up with such a wacky idea; Have management agree to it; Find 18 people prepared to give up a day (and buy a ticket) to help the project along; Have the project declared a significant item of railway history. Just brilliant!!!
I’ve been travelling to Northampton for work once a month and so trying to help fill in the boards. The last one I added was from Shepherds Well between Canterbury East and Dover.
I used to live in Gillingham and three was a point I could name all the stations in order from London Victoria to Dover Priory. Been a while since I last heard the name Shepherds Well!
So that’s why the board looked fuller when I passed through the other day! I always mean to have a look through the remaining ones to see if I can contribute but I’m always too much in a rush. This has given me an extra push! Thank you all for contributing to this ❤
This is brilliant ! I love when the railways bring people together. Some of my favourite rail people (Nick and Natt, Luke, Jen, Louis, etc. ) are here too!
What a great idea and video, I work in the booking office of a National Rail station here in the UK and I can confirm that a great deal of our job is helping the public with the usage of E-Tickets, so this has made me very happy. Thanks Geoff
As someone who is from Northampton and has to use the train to commute to work whenever i have a spare couple minutes it is always a little fun to see the ticket wall. Passions like this give you faith in humanity
The best vlog EVER! Interesting to glimpse some of the 'not yet done' journeys. If I had known I would have come along from Ulceby, NR Immingham in Lincolnshire. Well done all, especially the staff member organizer.
Geoff! I live just outside Northampton and used to travel from the station every day... It's truly a truly remarkable piece of art and work the tickets on the wall. Well done on another fine video!
So fabulous l, what a wonderful sense of nerdiness love this so much. Luke and Jen are total legends. So much fun we need more of this majoc. Thank you everyone for making my day wish I was in UK to be part of the excitement
Emily was my guide at a recent Baker Street Station Transport Museum tour. She was awesome!! Also... These enthusiast gatherings/challenges are always interesting.
Fantastic video! It's so nice to see Nick Badley, JenOnTheMove and other train enthusiasts part of this too!! Never knew this existed, so I will pop down there one day to have a look!
Thameslink failed me this morning with a cancellation, but watching this while I waited the half hour for the next train put a massive smile on my face 😊
I enjoy all your videos Geoff but this one surprised me. What a great idea by Elliot, and amazing to see it being fulfilled. Loved watching all of you in this video - thanks for going to Northampton!
I missed this and i feel so bad because i bought a paper ticket from Hessle to Northampton only weeks ago. I need to pay more attention next time. Sorry guys but I love you all . Well done 💯💯❤❤
Brilliant video Geoff. Congrats to you and all who took part in that special day to collect all those tickets for Elliot's (LNWR) display. Didn't know anything about the collection until your video and now cannot wait until I can get to Northampton - from Bristol Temple Meads or even Stapleton Road, the latter being even closer to my home - to see it. I was especially interested in the person who came from Pilning for as we all know how difficult it is to board a train there.
A fantastic initiative. Looking at this board is a highlight for me on my occasional trips to Northampton, looking at all the different tickets and where they come from, right up to the moment when I look at my watch and say "$#!T, I'm going to miss the train!!!"
I don't know if Emily is still doing these, but she led a fantastic Hidden London tour explaining transport history in and around the Covent Garden that I went on a few years ago. If it is still running I would recommend it but even more so if she is leading on it, she was brilliant!
I was about to leave a similar comment. She is still doing the tours because as soon as I saw her on the video I thought "I know her from somewhere" then I remembered. She was the guide on a Hidden London tour I did of Holborn a few months ago and she was excellent.
I got all nostalgic when I heard Ancaster and Rauceby getting mentioned, as I grew up in Ancaster and went to primary school in Rauceby, and my first ever train journey was as a child in the 90s from Ancaster to Sleaford passing through Rauceby with my grandma! I love the idea of this and hope when it's completed another station could start anew maybe making it interactive in some way when paper tickets potentially become obsolete!
I live in Northampton and I've always wanted those empty spaces on the wall to be filled so thank you for the huge level of commitment this must have taken especially with the really grim weather!
legend love this channel, from northampton myself and always wondered about that wall with all the tickets is for when i’ve come through. great video guys
What an awesome project and great way to bring people together. Wish I had known about it when I was there. I bought and kept my paper tickets as souvenirs along with my oyster card. I used them in shadow boxes that I put photos from my trip in. I will be checking this out when I return ❤
I absolutely love this idea that you did Geoff Marshall! I will be sure to add to the collection at Northampton station soon! What another awesome video by you Geoff Marshall 😊
That’s really impressive I used to collect tickets in an old national rail ticket wallet I only use Mobile tickets now but really miss getting the old tickets rather than the paper ones
I had thousands of tickets from the 1980s that I collected, but no longer have them. I had some unusual routes where the machine would not give a ticket so they had to hand write some, like one day I tried buying Scarborough to Whitby and the machine would not do it as route closed, so they hand wrote my ticket l, going via York and Middlesbrough. Same with Scarborough to Hull, but going via York and Melton Halt, not direct.
This is the kind of wholesome content I need. And if I was still in the UK you can bet I would've happily been a part of this. Got me thinking if we can do something similar for Amtrak or the MBTA here...
Great little project to bring the community together and great video highlighting multiple journeys in. Glad I finally got to meet you at last but I think my son was more excited getting a video call from one of his favorite TH-camrs. Thank you 👍
Great video, thanks very much. The irony (and greater convenience), of consulting a paper map of the Tube while it probably exists on all handsets was not lost on me.
I remember those orange paper tickets, when in UK (from New Zealand) in late 80s early 90s, and again in 2018. Great to see that they still exist to this day 😊
Thank you for the video Geoff, you all must have had an amazing day. I wish I was a part of it. For me from where I live I have to get the main train from Broxbourne to Tottenham Hale then on the Victoria Line take the tube-train to Euston (using my Oyster Card). Then lastly take the mainline from Euston to Northampton.
Geoff, greeting from Australia. Brilliant video. I was in UK from 1997 to 1999 then again in June July of 2023 and August of 2024. Goodness know how many tickets I have as have kept as have kept them all. Someone mentioned Birmingham New Street and they are right. I check my tickets and it did say Birmingham Stations even though I bought it from Euston to Birmingham New Street. What I find it really frustrating when the barriers take your ticket. To me they are souvenirs (or maybe one day collectors items). Be great if the board could be filled.
I wish this had've been a thing 10 years ago... My wife was at Uni in Northampton, and I travelled down a couple of times a Month. There's four stations in my hometown so could've left a decent mark on this!
Really interesting concept! Brilliant video as always. Cross country haven’t gone to Guildford in years but this Sunday they are as a diversion from Southampton to Reading on the Bournemouth to Manchester services. I don’t remember the last time a cross country went to Guildford other than that once a day service that they used to have.
This is a fun idea. Is there a list published of the missing stations? Some of them will be quite expensive. Have they done Corrour yet? I might be tempted for another visit...
I travelled by train to Northampton this September to visit the Rennie Mackintosh designed house. I didn't notice the ticket wall, however the station I travelled from isn't a "missing" station according to the spreadsheet.
Should have come to my house.... I only need 2 to have a ticket from EVERY ticket machine in the U.K.... but you knew that didn't you Geoff? In case you wondered- Redcar Central (new machine) and Cameron Bridge (Stu missed that one on the opening day!)
@ that would be brilliant seeing as I just got Redcar Central! Hopefully I can get Ashington & Seaton Delavel on Sunday. Trouble is there's two machines at CB- I need machine number 21....... which is actually machine number 3538 if that makes sense...
@@TheRailwayTourManager I should be travelling there soon, unsure of how to contact you to deliver it to you but let me know! Will have a look for your machine (where does the destination have to be?)
Literally went past near Northampton the day this was filmed 🙈 If I had known about this project I'd have definitely brought a ticket from Corrour as I was there just a couple days prior. Ah well, so cool to see this project come to light
Some truly magnificent nerdery there! I shall have to find two excuses: one for a trip to Northampton and another for beginning it from an odd starting point.
Ok, Emily has posted a spreadsheet/list here …
docs.google.com/file/d/180Q8_9sjMy8uXe5CC-rXJLQEy3EpwDqA/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msexcel
I notice Berney Arms is still on the list. You have an opportunity to do something really funny.
Cheers. The Northern Correspondent needs to get one up on the board…. 🤔
My local station I always see the wall when I go to London or Birmingham 😂
@@Karlinski73 Hoscar is still available!
Did somebody already do Minehead (XBV) and Dunster (XDY), or weren't parliamentary rail replacement bus services on the list in the first place?
This is precisely the lovely lunacy that made me subscribe.
Absolute heck of a day!
I can imagine . If I knew about it I'd have done Lochwinnoch!
Nick - Glad to see you and Nat finally in one of Geoff's video's!
get @Joedanhirst involved. he does the train thing in london and originates from Northampton
I just loved this video so much. Having been on TH-cam for nearly 15 years now, it warmed my cockles right up to see a lovely community get together to take part in a fun idea and just have a great day with friends. It’s so nice to be reminded that the spirit of what TH-cam is all about still has a space to bring people together. What a joyous thing, and thanks all for sharing with us.
A few years back, I had a wait at Northampton where I happily sipped my coffee while looking at these displays, finding tickets from stations that have been important to me over the years, and imagining the stories behind the journeys. Elliott has created a beautiful piece of social history here. Long may it continue.
I totally forgot about this project. I could have done the Upper Tyndrum in September. I love that the museum recognizes this effort as a statement about the value of train transport
Is Altnabreac possible?
@@nigelkthomas9501 the spread sheet does not show it as being needed
Unfortunately you can't get a correctly titled ticket from either of the Tyndrums; it just says 'Tyndrum Stations'. There are strangely several journeys which are possible, but for some reason you will not be able to have tickets issued. This is one of them, Helensburgh is another. I know, I've tried! A very helpful Scotrail conductor tried for me; at my suggestion he even put the National location code of the stations into the portable 'AVANTIX' ticket machine to try and 'force it' but it still said "no"!
As a Northampton local and avid paper ticket collector myself, I've loved this concept and was always fun to look at it when waiting for my train. I'll definitely have to contribute a ticket now!
@@TomS1299 I've got thousands of spares from my soirées around the country if you are interested.... I only need two more from self service machines and I've got the whole country.
Only in the UK could you:
Come up with such a wacky idea;
Have management agree to it;
Find 18 people prepared to give up a day (and buy a ticket) to help the project along;
Have the project declared a significant item of railway history.
Just brilliant!!!
Love it when rail nerds come together and make a thing happen! Cracking day it was, despite the weather! 😀
I’ve been travelling to Northampton for work once a month and so trying to help fill in the boards. The last one I added was from Shepherds Well between Canterbury East and Dover.
I used to live in Gillingham and three was a point I could name all the stations in order from London Victoria to Dover Priory. Been a while since I last heard the name Shepherds Well!
So that’s why the board looked fuller when I passed through the other day! I always mean to have a look through the remaining ones to see if I can contribute but I’m always too much in a rush. This has given me an extra push! Thank you all for contributing to this ❤
Peter - Crouch.
What a very proper name.
This is brilliant ! I love when the railways bring people together. Some of my favourite rail people (Nick and Natt, Luke, Jen, Louis, etc. ) are here too!
Loving Jen's hair colour
What a great idea and video, I work in the booking office of a National Rail station here in the UK and I can confirm that a great deal of our job is helping the public with the usage of E-Tickets, so this has made me very happy.
Thanks Geoff
As someone who is from Northampton and has to use the train to commute to work whenever i have a spare couple minutes it is always a little fun to see the ticket wall. Passions like this give you faith in humanity
Network Rail looks at the station see's ~20 spaces fillled. "Bother, is Geoff at it again?"
Northampton is my local station! Love this!!
Same as! This seems like good fun!
The best vlog EVER! Interesting to glimpse some of the 'not yet done' journeys. If I had known I would have come along from Ulceby, NR Immingham in Lincolnshire. Well done all, especially the staff member organizer.
Always good to see someone who works on the railway who is genuinely enthusiastic.
Geoff! I live just outside Northampton and used to travel from the station every day... It's truly a truly remarkable piece of art and work the tickets on the wall. Well done on another fine video!
What a lovely group of participants.
This is honestly such a fun concept. Love a paper ticket. Also, great sense of community.
So fabulous l, what a wonderful sense of nerdiness love this so much. Luke and Jen are total legends. So much fun we need more of this majoc. Thank you everyone for making my day wish I was in UK to be part of the excitement
Emily was my guide at a recent Baker Street Station Transport Museum tour. She was awesome!! Also... These enthusiast gatherings/challenges are always interesting.
That’s where I recognise Emily from!
It's great to see everyone come together to help out a project, The Railway community is awesome!
Fantastic video! It's so nice to see Nick Badley, JenOnTheMove and other train enthusiasts part of this too!!
Never knew this existed, so I will pop down there one day to have a look!
Thameslink failed me this morning with a cancellation, but watching this while I waited the half hour for the next train put a massive smile on my face 😊
So many familiar faces. What a fun project!
I enjoy all your videos Geoff but this one surprised me. What a great idea by Elliot, and amazing to see it being fulfilled. Loved watching all of you in this video - thanks for going to Northampton!
What a marvelous project, both the wall of tickets and the day Emily put together.
I missed this and i feel so bad because i bought a paper ticket from Hessle to Northampton only weeks ago. I need to pay more attention next time. Sorry guys but I love you all . Well done 💯💯❤❤
Brilliant video Geoff. Congrats to you and all who took part in that special day to collect all those tickets for Elliot's (LNWR) display. Didn't know anything about the collection until your video and now cannot wait until I can get to Northampton - from Bristol Temple Meads or even Stapleton Road, the latter being even closer to my home - to see it. I was especially interested in the person who came from Pilning for as we all know how difficult it is to board a train there.
Check the spreadsheet first! (Pinned comment) to see what stations are left and need doing. 😁
I always enjoy looking at this display every time I pass through Northampton. Every Railway Station should do this!
In a mad world a quintessential example of the mastery of everything and nothing that makes Geoff a National treasure.
A fantastic initiative. Looking at this board is a highlight for me on my occasional trips to Northampton, looking at all the different tickets and where they come from, right up to the moment when I look at my watch and say "$#!T, I'm going to miss the train!!!"
1:10 Peter Crouch had a hill named after him?
I don't know if Emily is still doing these, but she led a fantastic Hidden London tour explaining transport history in and around the Covent Garden that I went on a few years ago. If it is still running I would recommend it but even more so if she is leading on it, she was brilliant!
I was about to leave a similar comment. She is still doing the tours because as soon as I saw her on the video I thought "I know her from somewhere" then I remembered. She was the guide on a Hidden London tour I did of Holborn a few months ago and she was excellent.
What ccould have appeared as a boring VLOG is interesting and fun thanks to Geoff's expert editting (could not have been easy).
Top marks
Thank you! very kind :-)
I love stuff like this .... fantastic effort by everyone on the day .... well done to the lad at Northampton for the original idea
Thanks Geoff, we had a great time! 😁
I got all nostalgic when I heard Ancaster and Rauceby getting mentioned, as I grew up in Ancaster and went to primary school in Rauceby, and my first ever train journey was as a child in the 90s from Ancaster to Sleaford passing through Rauceby with my grandma!
I love the idea of this and hope when it's completed another station could start anew maybe making it interactive in some way when paper tickets potentially become obsolete!
Would be awesome if they kept a list somewhere online of the ones they needed
See top / pinned comment! Emily has a spreadsheet.
Simply wonderful. Well done to all involved. 👏👏
I live in Northampton and I've always wanted those empty spaces on the wall to be filled so thank you for the huge level of commitment this must have taken especially with the really grim weather!
legend love this channel, from northampton myself and always wondered about that wall with all the tickets is for when i’ve come through. great video guys
What an awesome project and great way to bring people together. Wish I had known about it when I was there. I bought and kept my paper tickets as souvenirs along with my oyster card. I used them in shadow boxes that I put photos from my trip in. I will be checking this out when I return ❤
I absolutely love this idea that you did Geoff Marshall! I will be sure to add to the collection at Northampton station soon! What another awesome video by you Geoff Marshall 😊
This brings to mind the song 'Energy in Northampton' by Linda Jardim.
linked it in the pinned comment
Very awesome! Would have loved to been apart of this! Being from Northampton I’ve always taken a glance at the wall!
That’s really impressive I used to collect tickets in an old national rail ticket wallet I only use Mobile tickets now but really miss getting the old tickets rather than the paper ones
I had thousands of tickets from the 1980s that I collected, but no longer have them. I had some unusual routes where the machine would not give a ticket so they had to hand write some, like one day I tried buying Scarborough to Whitby and the machine would not do it as route closed, so they hand wrote my ticket l, going via York and Middlesbrough. Same with Scarborough to Hull, but going via York and Melton Halt, not direct.
@ yeah I normally just use the Trainline now but when I can, I prefer to get the little ticket cards that they were on about in the video
This is the kind of wholesome content I need. And if I was still in the UK you can bet I would've happily been a part of this. Got me thinking if we can do something similar for Amtrak or the MBTA here...
Great little project to bring the community together and great video highlighting multiple journeys in. Glad I finally got to meet you at last but I think my son was more excited getting a video call from one of his favorite TH-camrs. Thank you 👍
Great video, thanks very much. The irony (and greater convenience), of consulting a paper map of the Tube while it probably exists on all handsets was not lost on me.
*That dedication is sick!!* 🫡
I remember those orange paper tickets, when in UK (from New Zealand) in late 80s early 90s, and again in 2018. Great to see that they still exist to this day 😊
Hi Geoff Paul from Orpington another wonderful video what a fantastic wail with all those tickets 😊
Thank you for the video Geoff, you all must have had an amazing day. I wish I was a part of it. For me from where I live I have to get the main train from Broxbourne to Tottenham Hale then on the Victoria Line take the tube-train to Euston (using my Oyster Card). Then lastly take the mainline from Euston to Northampton.
Full marks to Peter Crouch Hill. Legend!
Thank you :D
@@poggs What's hilarious is this never clicked until I read the comments here!
1:32 Nick finally got to collab with Geoff and it only took *insert Nick Badly channel age here* years. Yay 🙃
When I was a teenager I made a deck of playing cards from paper tickets. Great vid!
Geoff, greeting from Australia. Brilliant video. I was in UK from 1997 to 1999 then again in June July of 2023 and August of 2024. Goodness know how many tickets I have as have kept as have kept them all. Someone mentioned Birmingham New Street and they are right. I check my tickets and it did say Birmingham Stations even though I bought it from Euston to Birmingham New Street. What I find it really frustrating when the barriers take your ticket. To me they are souvenirs (or maybe one day collectors items). Be great if the board could be filled.
I wish this had've been a thing 10 years ago...
My wife was at Uni in Northampton, and I travelled down a couple of times a Month. There's four stations in my hometown so could've left a decent mark on this!
Looks like I’m going to be taking a long journey from here in Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales!
I live quite near Berney Arms and have an auntie in Northampton...
Time to pop round for a cup of tea and a slice of cake I reckon 👍🏻
Was a really fun day out, great to see people from across the railway enthusiast community in one place!
Or train nerdery, the turn of phrase I used that the BBC reporter was so keen on! 😅
Love this idea Geoff! Outdone yourself once again!
Fantastic project, well organised!
So much fun. Hi from a British Railway fan in California.
Come straight from Nick's video and as soon as I finished that, this came out!
I love this idea - and what a great day out with friends as well!
Really interesting concept! Brilliant video as always. Cross country haven’t gone to Guildford in years but this Sunday they are as a diversion from Southampton to Reading on the Bournemouth to Manchester services. I don’t remember the last time a cross country went to Guildford other than that once a day service that they used to have.
That was an excellent video, well done to all involved.
Excellent video Geoff so much fun to watch. Love the ticket wall.
Just love it.
Every station should have one.
Such a lovely idea! Well done Elliott and Northampton!
This is a fun idea. Is there a list published of the missing stations? Some of them will be quite expensive. Have they done Corrour yet? I might be tempted for another visit...
me and my family always joke about Ardwick station, and the fact nobody ever uses it, so it was quite funny to see it still not on this board!
I travelled by train to Northampton this September to visit the Rennie Mackintosh designed house. I didn't notice the ticket wall, however the station I travelled from isn't a "missing" station according to the spreadsheet.
What a lovely project, well done all.
Should have come to my house.... I only need 2 to have a ticket from EVERY ticket machine in the U.K.... but you knew that didn't you Geoff? In case you wondered- Redcar Central (new machine) and Cameron Bridge (Stu missed that one on the opening day!)
I can get you one from Cameron Bridge!
@ that would be brilliant seeing as I just got Redcar Central! Hopefully I can get Ashington & Seaton Delavel on Sunday. Trouble is there's two machines at CB- I need machine number 21....... which is actually machine number 3538 if that makes sense...
@@TheRailwayTourManager I should be travelling there soon, unsure of how to contact you to deliver it to you but let me know! Will have a look for your machine (where does the destination have to be?)
It was on BBC Breakfast news about a month ago too
Literally went past near Northampton the day this was filmed 🙈 If I had known about this project I'd have definitely brought a ticket from Corrour as I was there just a couple days prior. Ah well, so cool to see this project come to light
Love this. What a wonderfully fun and silly idea to come up with.
What a lovely thing to do. Well done all!
Really impressive effort! Hopefully this encourages more people to help fill in the board.
This is so wonderfully wholesome!
I love this idea!
This is bloody brilliant.
That's an interesting project and really hope they manage to get them all before tickets are completely obsolete! Also, Luke's tie is superb!
What a wonderful project.
Love this! Such a great idea!
A real fun project from a simple idea
Love this
I noted that the Tarka and Dartmoor Line stations are not included in the spreadsheet shared - that included my local station of Oakhampton
This is fabulous! 😃😃
what a great idea, really enjoyed this video.
what a wonderful collaboration...❤❤🔥🔥🔥🔥awesome content
Good to see Luke and Jen.
Looks like you all had a fun day out. Nice video and a chance to see your fellow enthusiasts in person ❤
Some truly magnificent nerdery there! I shall have to find two excuses: one for a trip to Northampton and another for beginning it from an odd starting point.
I've noticed there's 3 stations on the marshlink line..... three oaks, Winchelsea and doleham to go!