Car vs Train the challenge is on!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.พ. 2024
- A little race I think for me and Paul...BUT who will win!
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Your experience highlighted the biggest issue when travelling on trains these days: the casual disregard TOCs have for running their trains on time. Just imagine the stress you would have been under if you were heading to an airport to catch a plane?
Planes are often late and they have a huge amount of contingency built in to allow for taxing onto main runaway, and waiting to come down to the ground. You can get stressed driving to the airport to catch a flight and it’s not unheard of to get caught up in a traffic jam!
An exercise like this one assumes one of the two parties has access to a car which will be usually be the winner compared with taking a train or bus. A fairer comparison would be between a hired car or taxi and a train or bus. Need to compare costs of two modes as well as car park costs and congestion costs.
A lot of issues on that line stem from the signalling that is prone to issues plus a lot of the line is single track towards Exeter so that doesn't help if trains have to wait for one coming the other way. Naturally there's no money to fix the issues permanently so it's just repaired as best as possible. The trains themselves are at least reliable so that's something
@@andrewlong6438Trains also have contingency time in their timetable, around 5 minutes for every hour (car drivers should learn from them). It's even longer at the weekend.
You’ve nothing to complain about compared to Amtrack in the US.
Nice relaxing ride vs dealing with traffic…you win Rebecca!!
Rebecca, you have enough charisma for ten people! You are a living national treasure. Carry on!
Salisbury cathedral looks great now that all the scaffolding is down!
Journey vs journey, it's lots of fun! Thanks
Should have sent Paul by the 'direct' Active 8 bus. Or the no 87 Parliamentary bus.
Harsh!
There was no point in worrying about the signals when crossing the footbridge as that is the Salisbury to Southampton line. The train to Andover doesn't go along that stretch of line.
British places names can be fun. Saw Over Wallop on your map, and was reminded that there's also Middle Wallop, and Nether Wallop, which sounds more painful.
...and the fishing village ,"Cods Wallop".............................I'll see myself out.
England does have some interesting place names...
I used to live in Middle Wallop 👍😂
That result was shocking, but a great video
I know right! 😆
The only way for the train to win is to start the race at the station, have the train leave immediately and live next door to the destination station.
hi Paul and Rebecca , i am really enjoying these travel races lol, this was great , really well done and thank you both 😊😍
Love these competitions between you two. Always cute!
Yes, important to keep as many trains as possible running on time if the service frequency is every 15 or more minutes.
Also highlights the need for automated trains as removing the driver removes a major cost allowing shorter trains to run at greater frequency on lines with excess capacity. Better service results in more use, but it is important that the network be a grid with greater grid line density with higher population density. Great Britain has many open and closed lines that could be used to form the grid. The East-West between Cambridge and Oxford is an example of reviving a line to establish a grid.
brilliant race
Fun to watch well done!!
Ah... The lovely Rebecca and she's with... The Holy Dipstick! (I told you it might stick Paul)
UK railway signalling is complicated Paul. There's a whole Wikipedia page about it. When you read it you realise driving a train is really hard! Anyway, signal was meaningless could have been a freight train. Now Real Time Trains would definitely help.
If Rebecca's train had been on time, and everything ran smoothly, I think Rebecca may of just beat Paul. But with public transport any thing is possible.
This time, you didn't even use the ladies! 😂
Great video as usual. 😀
Stations are RAILWAY and signals are YELLOW . (Green and red).Do not excuse my pedantry. I did 35 years .
Hi Paul, On the railway they don't have amber signals only red, yellow and geen ones . Just saying. 😅
I just came to the comments to say that! From the map Paul was crossing the Romsey line too, not the Andover...
Good to see Paul has taken up running but should have started with couch to 5k!
Good fun.
Delays are the worst. But really trains mostly shine when you're in a high traffic area where cars are more likely to face unexpected delays, so taking them between 2 small cities with no big city in between, it's not surprising the car will win out, since this is its optimal environment.
Love these races, brilliant idea,. Will Paul will cheat I think , no this time,
I enjoy watching you guys!
I am excited for a long 18 day train trip in April. Spending two nights in each city I will be going from upstate to NYC, DC, New Orleans, LA where I will be staying on the Queen Mary, Seattle, Chicago and home.
Of course a car would be faster and a plane fastest but the train is scenic and relaxed. Rebecca didn't have to worry about operating a motor vehicle (something I've always hated) and got to look at the countryside passing. Also, 7 bucks is cheatper than car ownership and insurance and you still both got there about the same time.
I've done this route both by train and car and both are fast, like by car 60mph most of the way if no traffic. The train gets up to 90 but that takes a while as it's uphill to Grateley. Of course it helps if you know when the train is leaving (or supposed to!). The real problem with the train is Beeching screwed it up by singling the Exeter-Salisbury section with very few passing places, so if any train is late it scews up everything for hours afterwards. The train's more fun though, or was when they still used the big diesels.
Ah yes the days of the class 50s. Why did Chris Green not get a knighthood?
To everything (Turn, turn, turn) there is a season (Turn, turn, turn) - which is why our local Overground has been called the Weaver Line, I surmise.
If we exclude the rain, maybe the bike would also be faster on that day.
At least the trains in Scotland rarely ever get delayed since the Scottish Government took over the running of ScotRail
What a fantastic view of Salisbury Cathedral! Thank you so much!
Even more stunning when it's painted. (Salisbury Cathedral) 😁😉
Excellent video, albeit shame the train lost! I have wonder if you did Andover to Basingstoke what the results would be? 🤔 I maintain the train is the quickest between Andover and Basingstoke
2:48 the "rail incident" van can't have been a good sign!
Next time, train vs ebike...? Make him work for it.
Come on Rebecca !!! ⭐️⭐️⚔️☹️
Its like a parable on British trains in 2024. Stupidly expensive ( seven pounds for twenty minutes, which then takes an hour), unreliable and as a result massively under used.
Trains are under used in London and the South East ? I don't think so 😂
@@andrewwaller5913compared to the golden era of trains, they are under used. The trains that do run are not as frequent as they could be, which is why they appear busy.
@@watcher24601 You do know it's 2024 not 1934 ?
Great fun. Well done both of you.
I reckon you would've won Rebecca if the train you wanted to originally catch had arrived on time :) good video though :)
Spoiler alert!
nice to see he isn't cheating this time! 🤣
Oi.... ;-)
Try it all the way to Waterloo. No winning for the car there.
The moment I realised you were using SWR, I knew you would lose.... :)
Lovely vlog
I enjoyed that! Great fun to watch.
👍👍👍
Waiting for a delay delayed Train!!! 😄🚂🚂🚂
Fun episode
You should try Sunderland to Eaglescliff by Grand Central that would be close.
you will have to do more things like that.
Thank you guys 😊
@Rebeccasnest the short journey isnt fair....try an Andover to Penzance race!!!
Paul should meet you on the platform!
Love this road race! LOL!
Not much has changed since the days of British Rail then, i thought we was told Privatisation would mean trains ran on time....
We live just outside St Anne's gate and look at this wonderful cathedral every day
Actually what you did was useful to my wife & I. We know Salisbury, well so getting from there to where our son lives (East Winterslow) we use Grately station as the nearest. So I am pretty sure you confirmed driving to be our quickest mode of transport. 🤗
These are fun videos, keep them coming 😊
This is sublime story telling! You made a journey home engaging. Respect!
Pssst Rebecca - let me know when you next do one of these races & I'll come along & let down one of his tyres for you ! Don't tell Paul though !! 😂😂😱
Yikes, 7 quid for what should be an 18 minute trip! In Victoria you can cross the state for that, and then ride trams all night.
Update on my A to Z in London. As you probably know, there is an Andover Road in Bromley. In my A-Z, it's between Anderson Way and Anerley / the Mitre. I pretend to travel from 12 to 9pm/21.00, and on that day I started in Anchor street and ended in Anerley Road / Worbeck Road with a lot of walking in Bromley because of all the Anerley stops. In real time the day lasted for 8 hours 56 minutes, so almost the whole day. Usually a day lasts between 7.5-8.5 hours, so this is good.
drat and double drat catch that peugeot now lol
You have just brightened up a wet and dismal saturday, thank you.
Going to enjoy this.
The car journey is skewed as you wouldnt normally walk 20 mins to your car......you just get in go.
Fancy that! A delayed train!
I was wondering how you'd cheat a car vs train race without a time machine or a locally-connecting stargate or something. ;)
Welcome to SWR lol
Great fun video as always just a shame that the first train was delayed & i assume you do not buy your tickets in advance to save time ?😀
Well, this sums up the punctuality of the uk railways 🤦♂️ still, it looked like fun :)
Oh dear. The train lost again.
don't touch any door handles!
Train delayed ... so, normal service, then.
I get why you parked the car 20 minutes away to try and equalise the walk, but realistically one of the great benefits of the car is that you can almost always park way closer to your destination than the train station is.
Looks like you got quite unlucky with the rail journey. Perhaps another attempt is in order at some point
I commented last time that the weak link would be South Western Railway... sadly, train travel is a constant triumph of hope over reality!😞
G'day from Australia to you both. I have been to Salisbury Cathedral . I stood inside under the central spire area. Happy memories of being there.
Wow, first time watching so enjoy, I saw Rebecca on instagram her collection clothes, boots etc, I like her boots. Transport race is wow
None of those slippy leaves on the line I assume? Great fun. Well done!
Salisbury traffic - no chance in a car!!!
How unfornate the west of England main line is so underfunded. If all the money being wasted on the Stonehenge road tunnel was spent on the railways there would be genuine choice for travellers
The bridge at 2m 22 is the Southampton line, not Andover.
If this weren't in the UK, you would have won Rebecca - or the manager of public transport would've probably been dragged out their office and publicly flogged for bad timekeeping... probably! ;-)
Good fun, hope there's a video on Salisbury coming?
£7 from Salisbury to Andover? What a fuckng rip!
One thing I appreciate about your videos (both of you) is that I learn something interesting…😂
As fun as it was to watch, I am personally dismayed. This is the fourth race of this sort I have watched on You Tube, and unless YT is sophisticated enough to just feed me only the races where the car wins, that is what I've been served. Sad, if that is actually the norm for such races.
What’s amazing, from an American point of view, is that you can take for granted the availability of an extensive rail and bus transport system all across the country. Not here…
The railway use to go virtually everywhere, but was severely cut back in the sixties with 4500 mile of track being ripped up and 2500 staions closing. Only now do we realise how much a mistake that was as so many small towns that use to be served by a station have grown many time the size they were sixty years ago.
@@admiralcraddock464 interesting and true; we have no similar system in USA. Even here in NYC metro area, which has much more rail service than other area, the rail network is only a radial commuter system, to and from NY, but useless for travel within the region
UK is actually poor for railway travel.
Plagued by strikes and unreliable trains.
And as another poster pointed out, we used to have local rail links “everywhere”…..almost all ripped up during the 1960s (and early 70s).
That was the generation before me, and to me it seems completely odd and sad that we had such an infrastructure and ripped it up.
In many places, railway bridges were also torn down so making re-installation of the line way to expensive.
People here outside London often have to travel miles by car or bus, to reach a train station.
The downgrade to little more than main lines means if your lucky the train journey is roughly the same time as by road….but if the position of the station and lines are wrong it can end up taking 3h todo what a car journey can do in 45min.
Delay Repay ?
Trains are such a scam :D Here in Western Australia it costs more to travel by train than it does to just drive if you own a diesel. And that's before you get bent over and charged another $24 for parking only to find your windows smashed when you get back. All to take longer and make you and everything you are wearing smell like urine :D
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I don't understand why Paul started out closer to your destination. Why didn't he start out at the train station?
Ok…how about an episode on train timelinesses and whether it’s changed over the years?
Would the train have been delayed if the driver was paid more ?
You should have gone via Elizabeth grds. Much quicker
You could have stopped at girlfriends work on fisherton street (hair body shapers) had ur hair done :) of course paul could have popped into our house for a brew in alderbury by the canal :)
I would have been swearing
Paul is following the speed limit, right?
Have SWR got problems ?
We live less than 5 mins walk from a train station and would use them more id it wasn't for strike action, delays and cancellations msking them unreliable!! 😡
Oh dear. I wonder what the forfeit might be......