Cheap flight adventure to west England (part 1)

[@europa2000man]

In Ireland, Irish Rail used the drop down on green semaphore signals and are still used on the Limerick Junction to Waterford and Limerick to Ballybrophy lines (not for much longer I’d say)

[@AymanTravelTransport]

Probably for those in Cambridge (nearest city to Stansted) and surrounding areas to fly to Cornwall easily without having to actually go to London. There's quite a few towns near Stansted Airport too, like Bishops Stortford (right nextdoor) and Saffron Walden (40 minutes by bus), which benefit from such flights as a bonus.

[@jpro3000]

The older I get, the more I appreciate smaller airports. Instead of having to walk miles to get to and from the plane, you can get there in minutes and spend more time enjoying wherever you're visiting. I really love the cute airport at A Coruña in Spain.

[@PixelNeck]

Hi Beno from Ukraine! I like your content so much, it's interesting, funny and has good editing. Great job!

[@TheUKTransportCollection]

Newquay to Par line uses tokens still to. I did the full route with a HST Class 43 covering for a Sprinter 150.

[@Ron_TTE]

I absolutely hate small airports, but only when I fly from them, not into them. The reason I hate flying out of them, is because I always arrive to the airport at least 3 hours early. You get through security in like 5 mins and then I’m like ‘why did I arrive 3 hours early’. There’s barely any stuff to do, unlike bigger London airports which have observation decks, lots of lifts, shuttles, while at a small airport, you don’t have anything to do. But when you fly into a small airport, it’s great as you land, go through a passport control and security in under 15 minutes usually.

[@dsds3968]

The Heart of Wales line has tokens. I was at Liskeard station and was going to walk round the back of the signal box. But then I realised that it had people in it.

[@griffithsgriffiths1529]

2:20 that's actually a hail and ride section where the whole road acts like a bus stop but it's more common for routes that run through the back of an estate to have hail and ride sections but its done for country roads for walkers or residents so they don't have to put a bus stop at every house but on maps and tracking software like bustimes and google maps they mark it as a bus stop half way along the hail and ride section in order to show what time the bus is due on that hail and ride section

[@YourLocalGP]

Could be very useful with a bit of punctuation

[@davidrobert2007]

@@YourLocalGP You missed the full stop from the end of your sentence, ironically. 😊

[@YourLocalGP]

@@davidrobert2007 I deliberately leave them out to sound more deadpan

[@Ron_TTE]

Yh ur right

[@gabrielstravels]

00:06 understandably you wanted to visit Devon & Cornwall, and having been there (and especially me doing regular day trips to Devon as they're in a fairly reasonable distance from where I live) they're lovely places to visit. But if I were you, for the same price, I'd have instead returned to Naples. We have introduced new CAF Inneo trains on metro line 1 with very nice IGBT-VVVF sounds, and we are about to reopen line 6 which is also being extended to Municipio from Mergellina, allowing an interchange between lines 1 and 6. Plus, the trams are fully operational yet again and have been since 2020 (when you went in 2019, trams were temporarily suspended to facilitate regeneration works on Via Nuova Marina, one of the major roads that the tram uses)

[@The0Meerkat]

The flight is probably a feeder flight you're flying in reverse. Most people using the flight are probably going from Newquay to London then transferring to an onward flight to mainland Europe without having to go through check-in and bagdrop again. If RyanAir are flying that route with passengers anyway they may as well make it avalible for domestic travelers as well.

[@benolifts]

Ryanair don't offer transfer flights and multi flight journeys. All transfers between flights have to be done manually and unofficially, and luggage has to be collected and checked in again. This also means that the second flight will not be honored if you miss it because the first flight is delayed.

[@The0Meerkat]

Interesting. I would guess that the flight is still being used that way even if it is people self transferring.

[@joshlunt7827]

The Preston to Ormskirk Northern line has a token stop at Midge Hall

[@gabrielstravels]

18:22 I agree. I visited Torquay last year (June 2023, that is). Really nice place. I could also see why the area down there is called the English Riviera - the palm trees (coinciding with the elegant buildings and lovely sunny weather) made me think I was more in my home country (Italy) than in the UK! My only negative of Torquay is that there isn't much to see, basically just an hour and you'll have visitied everything worth seeing there

[@d947]

0:48 bro I love your humor 💀

[@joshlunt7827]

Great video as always, Beno! 😁

[@joshlunt7827]

I remember getting a teddy bear when I was little from Plymouth town centre ❤

[@msjacksshipsadventures8382]

Lucky to get that train almost done 200 trips on that FGW Train

[@DevonCornwallTransportVideos]

As a Devonshire person... this video was so funny just watching you see what we live like down this way... you think Newquay Airport is bad you should of seen plymouths before it closed (a even smaller Airport for a huge city)

[@juoig7799]

I guess you flew to Newquay, then explored West England, got to Weston Super Mare, then took the train back to London, right?

[@benolifts]

Yes

[@Andrewjg_89]

Which town or city in the West of England is better. For me I’d say Exeter because I have been to Exeter before and I quite like Exeter. And I have been to Cornwall few times.

[@benolifts]

Exeter is probably the most interesting in the area

[@wisteela]

I'd go on a flight like that. I actually like the look of all those places. Interesting with the cables replacement on the swing door lift. I like those custom announcements.

[@GTLPT]

My college has shit Dewhurst for 8 FLOORS, 8 FLOORS on Dewhurst, am I unlucky

[@WillDoesTransport]

In all fairness, is there any need to upgrade the Looe Valley Line from a token as 99% of the time it is only going to be one train on the line? I am personaly of the view that if it isn't broken why should you fix it?

[@gabrielstravels]

07:53 the Tamar Valley line from Plymouth to Gunnislake also uses tokens! As does, iirc, the Heart of Wales line from Swansea to Shrewsbury

[@Techno-Universal]

6:05 Horn jumpscare! :)

[@fbl.editz6]

He's back uploading!!!! 🎉

[@gabrielstravels]

6:40 Hey, at least it's your favourite UK train! (P.S. one of my favourite trains too, just wish the seats were more comfortable)

[@benolifts]

A new modern train being controlled by manual semaphore signals

[@gabrielstravels]

​@@benolifts Haha I just realised we still have semaphore signals down here in Sussex - at Littlehampton and Bognor Regis :)

[@PostTower]

Connecting flight at Stansted? Dat even a thing? If you do it the self-hub way on your own risk true. Cant imagine many people do that. Airports like that one are indeed a small shed. You should have seen Hemavan airport in the Scandinavian mountains. Now that is a proper shed! Arrivals and departures have the size of the departures hall in your video. Could have been a tent if it wasn't located in the cold climate.

[@benolifts]

There is a connecting flight section at Stansted, but is is very rarely used, as Stansted is mainly just RyanAir who refuseto do connecting flights.

[@iscmiscm]

If you look at the semaphore signals closely you will find that they have a counterweight, so if a cable breaks they will default to stop.

[@JimbobsTransportVideos]

The flight likely exists to reposition the plane, might as well sell seats rather then it being a dead run

[@benolifts]

It is a regular flight

[@JimbobsTransportVideos]

Oh my it is, I would assume the plane would do a trip to Spain or something Jesus

[@fernandorodriguezalmudi3553]

@@benolifts What do you work at?

[@JimbobsTransportVideos]

@@fernandorodriguezalmudi3553 nowhere he lives of benefits iirc

[@kieranstravels]

Just an update on the whole semephore signalling of Cornwall - Since filming this, All Semephores between Truro and Plymouth has gone, as well as all semephores on the Par branch line.

[@mushroomcraft]

Are we getting a Browns Folly Mine full explore soon?

[@benolifts]

Yes

[@KIRBZVIDS]

​@@benolifts is grant gunna smaah down the wall in there 😂

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

Ere yous a rite townie you is!

[@LiftSurferRYEGI]

Was there many people on the flight ?

[@benolifts]

It was about 60% full

[@LiftsinEurope]

Good Video

[@YourLocalGP]

Beno, if you think this is a tin pot airport you should see "London Southend". Not sure if it exists any more but easyJet used to use it. Half as advanced as Newquay in that it's iust one shed.

[@benolifts]

I have flown out of Southend several times. It is many times bigger than Newquay.

[@professionalineverything]

@benolifts, i thought you could not safety break generics, thought they would go out of service. But clearly you can safety break certain generics... Can you compile a video on every lift you can safety break to trip the emergency brake.

[@joshlunt7827]

St. Austell had a Dominos last time I went 😋

[@hhhythgdghmghthhytyjyhjsrdtrhf]

8:36 epic otis gen2 lift

[@YourLocalGP]

Is it time for a video on Generics?

[@adilhossain8198]

Is it me or does modern day Lesters use Absolute Positioning

[@benolifts]

Yes. It uses 2D barcode positioning. But it still doesn't level the lift as well as it should do.

[@windowsxpnt2347]

hey austin this is guys

[@Spencer24-i6o]

Try going Liester again and do a part 2 show how shit it is the only good lift tower is the premier inn

[@frankieepurr]

2:10 thats a lot of imported cars

[@SproutyPottedPlant]

Hey Austin this is guys

[@aidanphillips9337]

I have autism and I love lifts. 🛗

[@Mr_ButterKatze]

ok

[@oh_finks]

The entire youtube elevator/lift community in a single sentence

[@schindlerteejay94]

Me as well, i used to upload lift videos, when i was literally a kid, due to a lot of stuff happening, i’ve stopped uploading any lift videos for now.

[@50upss]

why

[@IceBear_OT1]

Same here, but I have ADHD, not Autism