Coombe Junction - Least Used Station in Cornwall
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ต.ค. 2017
- As part of our return to Cornwall to visit all the stations on the Looe Valley line, it was time to do Coombe properly in-depth, as it's the least used station in Cornwall.
Coombe Junction Halt is also on twitter: / coombejunction
ORR Statistics for passengers numbers are here: orr.gov.uk/statistics/publishe... (Second link down)
Geofftech 'Least Used' website, here: geofftech.co.uk/leastused/
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You see what you've done now, don't you? Each time you visit a least used station, someone will organise a group to go there so that next year it's not the least used station. So you'll have to come back next year to visit what is then the least used station. You've just made this project infinite!
Isn't it great?
But thats good cuse in that case the station isnt lonely anymore
next we'll have least used station: waterloo. and then what?
Very good.
Just been to Coombe Junction Halt today (due to the video) and happy to report that the phone has now been fixed!
please wait.
I wonder if someone with the phone company saw the video and were embarassed.
Did you go in a group?
Help! Someone’s dying!
**please wait**
I saw this programme once..there was a journalist reporting from an obscure station in the middle of the nowhere, with the train in the background. The reporter was saying "..and this is the only train that runs from here, once a week.." As he's talking to the camera, the train starts to pull out. The reporter looks over his shoulder and says "Oh, **** !"...Then there's a blurred jerky shot, as the whole crew run after the train ! :D
could you name the programme or location of the station?
Loool
Sorry that made me laugh!
Can you say the name of the program or the station?
@@Ash-vm6vy Yes I could.
@@mistofoles so tell me please.
For some reason I'm always hyperaware that you have to go into/over to someplace a first time to put down the camera so you can film yourself going over the second time.
I'm always impressed that Geoff takes such care to set up those shots!
Liam H ii
Oh yeah, me too. #myImmersion
Liam H ikr I feel like it's not even worthit
Imagine if someone just runs off with the camera 🤣
Rumour has it that the information point is still trying to connect the call.......
Continue to hold,your call is important to us
please wait
Slightly worrying,...how long would they have had to wait if they'd pressed the emergency button in the event of it being genuine?
IM DYING ABDXISGDJEUE8E8DU
"please wait."
I meant if an emergency situation was genuine, not the call button.
@@mistofoles It would likely attach to a regional or national emergency line
there wouldn’t be anyone
On most help points, the Information button connects to National Rail Enquiries which is outsourced to India, and the Emergency button connects to the train operator's control room.
To be honest the over the top enthusiasm is infectious.
Lived in Looe my whole life and I don't think I know anyone that has gotten off at Coombe
It's amazing that such an unused station is still serviced by a train every day, while Houston in the US shockingly only has 3 trains going to it per week
Miren Summers The US is built for the automobile, both by city planning and, according to stereotypes, biologically. There’s low demand for passenger rail.
I believe that should change. US has the best rails in the world in my opinion.
@@filipinordabest in America, you're likely to fly between 2 cities
Please wait
Kirkwood New I’m waiting
There is a video of a DMU that looks very old was at that station and it was being filmed. I think it is a train from late 50's !
*PLEASE WAIT*
These videos are really helping me get through a bad time. You two look very happy together,remember the good days if you ever hit some bad ones
love the punchline at the end!! Actually the historic walking tour group sounds like a good day out and something to keep in mind for visiting
I love how Geoff makes friends with literally everyone
Very well done video, including the way Coombe Junction works, a brief glimpse of Moorswater Viaduct and some locals. Not much has changed about it since I was there as a boy in the 1970s and it's comforting to see that. If I missed the school bus home (me? Detention? Of course not...) I would walk all the way from school to Liskeard Station and wait (and wait) for the Looe train and get off at St. Keyne (probably only marginally busier than Coombe) and walk home (Trewidland). If memory serves, the cross-country course we used to do took us all the way down the hill from town to Moorswater and almost under the viaduct.
Sorry for the rambling, enjoyed your vignette.
The freight train that goes past Coombe Jcn Halt also makes a return journey on Thursday. It passes Devonport station at about 4pm, just before my train
Ghast3965 Gaming Gona be one long train 😂
*COOMBE JUNCTION*
The junction with 1 track that isn't even a junction
This was a very nice recommended video! I learned quite a few things and it was nice to discover a cool abandoned station! Thank you very much Geoff
I've been waiting for ages for this video of Cornwall's least used station!
Geoff, every time someone asks for a certain video in the comments section, I'm now looking forward to your 'Please wait' response.
watch till the very very end of the video it responds
I had already seen this video a couple of years ago but got reminisced when I read an article on the cement factory line in Cornwall daily yesterday. I will be joining UCL this September, so looking forward to travelling to Coombe Junction, one of the inspirational least used stations.
Great video. This area was a curiosity for me as I was planning my summer holiday in England and using Network Rail's map to plan out my train trips. The railway configuration looked funny on that map. And so I was quite excited to see this rail line from the tall viaduct on my train from Penzance to London!
Brilliant. I stopped ar Coombe nearly every day in may when I stayed in Looe and I kept catching the 0909!
£1000 saved
Keeping the "waiting" bit in there was hilarious! I watched through to the end just for that. Awesome!
Love the least used stations
Chris L Yes so do I especially when they sit In nature
They are alot nicer than the city stations
Impressive horn! A proper train sound. Thanks for exploring this end of the world! x
Very entertaining. We go to Cornwall every year and it’s nice to see a different part of Cornwall
proud to say I've used that station several times, has some lovely lanes to walk around.
Quote of the day : please wait
Please wait
After 3 years: Please wait
I think that ranks as one of the most fun Least Used Stations videos!
That was a funny video. I also rember walking under the viaduct when i was young, probably in 2002 or 2003 and that gate at 9:55 in the video. If I rember correctly i was lost with my dad looking for my sister & mom, who had also got lost. We walked around in circles for hours. I rember 2 large 5 or 7 inch diameter blue pipes running alongside the track which were carrying water. Its a very strong memory....but where did those pipes lead? I never found out!
I am sure that you have thought of this already, but just in case...
Could you do the Most used station in... county at the same time as these least used ones?
Please wait.
I had to, sorry..
Michael Dreksler The most used is Manchester,Liverpool, and Chester.By the way your welcome.
Your video makes me want to visit the station. Thank you!
Gotta go down there on a Wednesday lunch time 👍😃.
Another brilliant video, thanks.
Geoff I've been wanting you to do this for ages
Superb. I really enjoyed this.
You guys are legends. Thank you
And I rewatch this video nine months later. So glad to see he original please wait clip
This station could easily get a more regular service as the train has to slow down all the time when it changes direction. It can only take an extra minute to travel an extra fifty metres and turn around at the station
I live in the USA, and I’ll tell you, we have buses, but trains are for going long distances, like, Seattle to San Francisco. We don’t have disused stations, at least on the West Coast, cause they are all used, all the time. The difference is that the trains stop at every station once a week, at most, but they go the entire distance of Britain a couple times a week. But closer in to individual cities, they have their own mass transit, and have almost no least used stations. The least used have like 2 trips to them at maximum on the weekends, 8 or more on the week days.
Lovely video, makes me want to move to the UK even more...
That was great fun!! I love your videos.
I love this line!! I live in penzance and it's great to go here in the summer
Wouldn't surprise me if Lelant Saltings now became the least used station in Cornwall. Park and Ride is now at St Erth and the Saltings now has one train a day in each direction.
@@elizabethmh_465 Yes well it's like this: The Saltings (disgraceful edifice and concrete monstrosity, spits on the floor) was the Park and Ride Station for St . Ives. Now, There is a much better and appropriate Park and Ride facility at St Erth. And so now, there is just the single return journey each day at Lelant Saltings and now (Trumpet Sounds) my Home Station of Lelant now gets more listed stops each day although it is still (Geoff Please note) a Request Stop!!!! Looking forward to the Request Stop video Geoff!
I live 20 miles from Shippea Hill, this is why me, ex British Rail 1974 to 1992, uses my faithfull Ford Mondeo.
I love, love, love your videos, fantastic!
Love your videos!
Another great video, really good fun! Going to watch the Redcar British Steel one now 👍
Every time that “Please wait…” shows up, I think of this: “Dinsdale…”
Please keep these videos coming. They really do add a bit of sparkle to any day. Hope the evening at the museum went well, wish I could of flown over and taken it in.Any chance that a video of the talk will ever pop up?
Comment is coming... PLEASE WAIT
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I like trains !
@cowscrazy
This should be a meme.
cowscrazy WAHAHAHA
ElijahTCK Why it is the natural heritage railway you can't make a meme out of it.
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worth the wait
I love this. Fabulous couple.
I remember years ago I took the looe train and always remember a stop near a cottage and the train stopped and the guard jumped off and delivered eggs and some newspapers to the cottage ....
I hope this series picks up before this years stats come out!
Great video Most enjoyable! I remember going there when the trains were steam hauled!
Wasn’t “strong and stable” the tagline from the Tory’s election campaign last May/June?
David Who strong and stable brexit
Hypotheticlz yeah apparently
Me want brexit
@@Seung_Hee-kyung well you can't have it! -_-
@@Fireglo I can!
Is the information point still saying please wait?
*_PLEASE WAIT_*
She did at the end of the video. She announced the train they had arrived on.
I assumed it was directly connected to the mainline equivalent of Trackernet, Fabe's Trains.
Btw, a single-car 153 unit as seen here on the Looe Branch was what they used to use on the Stourbridge Town shuttle before the Party People Moved started.
What I didn't realise until looking at one of the links you've supplied here Geoff, was that there was a train on this branch in London Midland livery, (presumably with their green moquette seats inside), very probably the one displaced from the Stourbridge service!!
0 teas? Anyone else disappointed in Geoff?
Mr Railman i already drank one, on my second now!
MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
No yes no yes no no no no
tea yummy🚰
Intercity 43 yes definitely
So from the video there is a factory right next to the station. But the trains aren't timed to make it suitable for anyone working there to use the train to get to work. A missed opportunity surely?
Hi Geoff. Love the video (and all the stations). When you do Combe in Oxfordshire I would be happy to come too (as that is my local lest used station).
Ugh those "Help" Points. I'm disabled, and we came back from Tenerife to Heathrow, we had help booked to meet us at the Gate, which was miles away from anywhere. Well, it didn't turn up. We got kicked off the plane and left there alone. Fortunately they did actually bring my mobility scooter up to the gate and our first point of call was one of those Help Points. Which nobody answered. So we somehow managed to get the scooter onto the train to the luggage carousels. NIGHTMARE. A woman in Border Control helped us the rest of the way, as she had finished her shift. Got out of the airport 3 hours late.
I think the cement factory you referred to was a China Clay processor
Lovely video, as always! :)
I actually used Coombe Junction station twice when on holiday in the late nineties. It was November (I think) and my ex wife and I were off to St. Ives for the day to see the Tate. We had to rise before dawn and walk from the cottage that we were renting to the station. In the distance an owl was hooting and nothing else moved until the train did. It was a little other worldly being so deserted especially for a Londoner. We did of course use it on the second occasion to return. It was no less basic than Talybont station on the Cambrian coast line which I used in the early eighties and a good deal cleaner.
Loved this video!
Yay my local county! Thanks Geoff :D
Nerdy Productionz yay kernow!!!!
Hey Geoff, this might get buried but I'd be interested to know which train companies (Great Western, South Western, etc) operate in let's say, the top 10 least used stations? Or the least used station series? Does such information exist or would anybody be interested if i collected it all up?
Very cool video!!
Two years of "please wait"
I can remember using that station in the late seventies, my mates' gran lived at Moorswater and we used to walk from Coombe to her house for pasties.
We live within walking distance of the least used station in Melbourne Australia -- Tecom station on the Belgrave line (which turns into the Puffing Billy steam line). We do our best to get its numbers up especially around MIFF -- film festival time. MIFF is the second oldest film festival in the world and it started in Olinda which is up our way. Terry
Omg I actually thought that that was it until I watched until 5:53 where you went out of the gate, I was about to say "Now what are they gonna do?" :L And this is really interesting to watch, I go to Cornwall ever year on holiday and I didn't realise that there were unused stations like this one!
Interesting to see you at Liskeard - the hardest town in Cornwall - at least that is what one guy told us who was going to Liskeard for a drink and to spend his evening arm wrestling!
Geoff, just wanted to say love your videos (since I not on twitter). Also, not sure if anyone else has pointed this out, but if you look at the viaduct on Google Maps, you can see supports for the previous viaduct (parts of 7 of them still visible). Random guy in USA...
Surprising how the gap between the track and platform is less than the gap of a Croydon tram platform
I like seeing the grass growing between the tracks! If you really want to see that in a big way, go to the “train featuring channel”, which is based in the Philippines. The concept of gravel around the tracks does not seem to have caught on there! It’s grass between the tracks, and palm trees reaching out all around.
"HEELLPPPP!!! I'M BLEEDING TO DEATH !!!!" - "Please wait."
This was a charming little station.
I wanted to comment on the Angel Road station. I had to use it three or four times, apparently it is in an area very popular with companies to have warehouses and their flagsips ,so every time I went it was because of job interviews. The last time I was there it was freezing and raining so heavily! No toilets, nowhere to buy cofee, nobody there -- just trains that flash by without stopping. A horrendous crappy station. I don't understand why trains do not even stop there... it's in a quite a popular area in London. Many people would use it if they could. And the information point worked exactly like the one at Coombe Junction: nobody was there.
You should do another London's lost railways with the North Woolwich to Stratford part of the North London line Geoff
Project Blackwood technically, most of that line is not lost to railway use.
i guess so but it would be a good way to show the crossrail works in Copenhagen tunnel if he ever gets invited there
Project Blackwood Abbey Wood branch is pretty much finished now. The BBC Crossrail documentary did have an episode on the tunnel restoration.
ah cool, I'll have to have a look at that :D
btw, the noise behind the wall along this tiny station comes from the Devon & Cornwall Wools factory installed just between the tracks and the road to Liskeard road allowing to walk back straight to Liskeard station in just a few minutes!
I've been watching the least used station series as well as all the stations. I'm thinking of visiting the UK next spring and doing all the least used and most used stations in each county. who wants to go?
a least used station that have more passengers annually but looks like an abandoned station
Very funny finish. Great video.
Another great video! Love Cornwall... Must go again soon!!! Geoff did you report the non-working payphone to BT? Just curious!
The building behind the station that was making the noice was a textile mill! it's pretty empty considering its not to far from a mid-size twon!
Wish I could have met you guys when you came down!
Cool station and train! By the way, what music do you use in your video opening?
Great videos! Can I ask, what editing software are you using? I used Windows Movie Maker until in was discontinued. I’ve hundreds of hours worth of video that needs editing - help!
I'd love for you guys to do the history of the Newquay to Par line. There's some viaduct action there too!
Very intresting and funny too thanks i needed a chuckle.
Well done, always on track..🚊
I think I accounted for three of those forty-eight passengers at Combe Junction Halt in 2015/16. Doing my bit!
I wonder if we'll eventually see a video of the least used station on The Isle of Wight.... ever.
Nigel Oulton Please Wait
Geoff I got off at Coombs Junction Halt
I brought a return ticket in June so that's 1/24th of the total to beat (48) achieved.
Thoughts on the predicted least used station this year???...
What a cool driver. Wish all drivers were like that.
That's cool you should explore some of our train tracks in Ireland