Slam door trains?

and remember if you are tempted to run to the train... its better to be safe than sorry...

Yeah people takeing bike frams and wheels when they can. (IDIOTS) can't leave thing's alone 😡. Left mine at Great shelter outside Cambridge before BIG MISTAKE. Good video and information tho Geoff

Beautifully produced video Jeff. And Tim's music captured the mood perfectly. Always enjoy yours and Tim's content.

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Thanks Geoff

It's such a lovely video. Trains via Bookham are mostly hourly again, but at least they run to Guildford. There are no trains via Sutton anymore. I use to commute from Guildford to Harrow. In the evening there woul be a 20 minute wait at Clapham Junction so I would visit nearby railway stations to kill time.

Used to get off at Ewell West every day for work, we may have crossed paths haha

This is a reason I watch your videos Geoff. Reflecting on the past, like we all do - I just think this is up there with your best.

Thx for sharing Geoff. Such a nice retrospective 🤗

Thank you Geoff, as a resident of Bookham during the late 80s and early 90s I often travelled to Guildford on the train and remember how annoying it was to have to change at Effingham Junction just one stop down the line from Bookham because trains didn't run all the way to Guildford. Having recently returned to the area its a great improvement that they do now go all the way without having to change! I don't recall Thameslink services though but thanks for a nostalgic trip down memory lane in a section of the rail network I know very well. ❤

Absolutely wonderful video Geoff - thank you.

I really loved this Geoff. Your videos are always good, always creative and innovative. In the last couple years however, that level of quality and those touches of brilliance have been ever more present. There has been several videos of yours of late that have really moved me in some way. You seem to have a way of capturing expression, nostalgia, and making the most of what you enjoy that really resonates. I feel drawn in to whatever story you are telling through your art and the way you piece it together. Its really quite something and I just want to thank you. I was having a truly awful day today, but I really enjoyed this. It focused my mind and made me realise that its all okay in the grand scheme of things. Hope you're well. Cheers.

This is such a beautifully choreographed video Geoff!

Does this explain why Connex ran a Guildford service to/from London Bridge in the late 90s?

I commuted to school in Guildford around the same time (same line). Thanks for the memories and weird to think I may have crossed paths with you in *this* universe - no alternative needed...

Lovely video. Shame that post covid there is now only one train an hour from Epsom to Guildford instead of two like before. Cutting services makes local places more remote.

Fabulous memories of services past. Local stoppers on the ECML are mine. Newcastle to Durham. Darlington to York. York to Doncaster via Selby, then on the ECML. However best of all Cleethorpes to New Holland PIER, prior to the short branch to NHP being closed when the Humber Bridge opened. Few resort stations open directly on to the sea front as Cleethorpes does.

Could you once get a train from Highbury & Islington to Basingstoke ?

Brilliant. I was so fortunate because my father worked on the railway. I started travelling in 1990, 14yo travelling to the country. . So wish I had been looking back. I wish I recorded every trip. Thanks for all your amazing videos. You're a legend. I remember watching you all station of the underground that was mad.

1:50 couldn't you have given him your front wheel? I mean you had no use for it in that moment 😂

Magnificent Geoff, how seemingly mundane things in your past can have a huge significance now. What's more, it was accompanied by Tim's wonderful rendition of Take On Me.

I just love your videos! I was watching it thinking ‘should I be bothered about a train going to Guildford?’ But yes! You make me want to be bothered about a train from the 90s which I never took and never likely to ever take! Thank you so much for the joy you bring.

best video in ages - thank you!

Certainly an interesting time! Still remember Virgin Cross Country serving Cardiff and Swansea with services to basically anywhere! Great to see XC are returning the direct service from Cardiff-Edinburgh

A stunning video, Geoff. I can appreciate that this would have taken some time positioning the camera, cycling past it, going back to get your camera etc! You are an excellent storyteller!

I thinking of superloop 2

A hard no. Ballyburn can jump

I almost cried. Beautiful Geoff 👏🏼

I love when we have those "a-ha!" moments of wistful days gone by. I hope your summer will be a slow and happily memorable one, Mr Marshall. Thanks for a delightful train journey into your personal past.

Nice work Geoff Marshall

Sorry to hear about your Bike Geoff - Bet you won't make that mistake again!!! 🤔🚂🚂🚂

Beautifully made film which I guess took a lot of starting and stopping shots, but also how nice to hear that tune again

Geoff on a Bike - Don't think I've seen that before!!! 😉🚂🚂🚂

A nice little Station Geoff - Yeah, does look a bit like a Bank in a way!!! 😉🚂🚂🚂

I've never really thought about this Geoff 🤔🚂🚂🚂

Interesting - I did not know!!! 😊🚂🚂🚂

I am planning to come back to the UK from Canada and will be riding trains and going to randon stations 😊

Making me feel old remembering commuting by train back then but my soulless commute wasn't nearly as bad as yours. Sounds like you have an informal Have and Adventure day in there.

Very warm and reflective, Geoff - thank you.

What a strangely, beautiful, melancholic video. It is an area of the country I have no link to but somehow felt strangely nostalgic for it. And a reminder of the relentless march to our ultimate destination.

Very much enjoyed this one

Similar to what i have to do nowadays i spend hours of my life waiting at Guilford for trains to Farncombe as there is only like 1 every half an hour similarly with smaller stations just after Guildford like Milford and Witley

I❤Guildford from 🇦🇺

Thanks for sharing.

This brings back happy memories of my school days in the late 1970s, when my friend and I did this trip on regular bus services one summer holiday, using a 35p Red Bus Rover ticket. I even recall doing the same interchange in Walthamstow in the dark as I waited for the number 69 to get me back to North Woolwich. It took a lot longer than 9 hours that day, and was a real eye-opener for a kid who had grown up in the outer suburbs of south east London. Thank you!

Erm HOW DID GEOFF TIME THAT VIDEO DURATION??? Incredible skill 😂

The melancholic piano, is that Tim? Edit: Guess I was right. 🙂

When I was a child/teenager, Ewell West was my local station & 4SUBs were the main trains , now live in Guildford. Nostalgias great but I wouldn't swop the railways of the 1970s with todays. I too remember long waits at Effingham Jct and dark winter days at Ewell West.

I had Pink Floyd - Time stuck in my head throughout this video. Nice one