Did The Victorians Have These Problems? - Episode 27, Day 45 - London to Hereford

[@gtmc]

Aww, that was a sweet hug at the beginning!

[@binyaminbutt639]

Yup. Cuter Than I Expected 💘

[@D5300noah]

2 year late comment here it was cute

[@binyaminbutt639]

@@D5300noah GTMC Made The Comment Before Or After The Premiere

[@tapchangerproductions]

They’ve split now :(

[@camotech1314]

​@@tapchangerproductions I wonder what went so wrong 😢

[@airplaneplustrainguy8143]

Hey Geoff I am a 11 years old boy living in the Philippines Every 5:00 PM I always watching All The Stations

[@wilsor90]

Why? What is so interesting about Britain's railways for a young Filipino?

[@neobe195]

Ernesto Sanchez dunno i find wanted to but your coming across a bit rude.

[@gabri_maybe]

Haha I live in Italy,and my parents are OFW (Overseas Filipino workers) and I'm interested in British trains and I'm wondering why Almost every British train have a Yellow front

[@cajmo8635]

@@gabri_maybe Safety. It's (evidently) more visible, however the newest trains have much more powerful headlights, so aren't required to have them. - e.g. the Class 397

[@dls-nandanabad5868]

I live in India and I am obsessed with All The Stations!

[@mrquordlepleen]

I found your videos by chance and I'm hooked. They're brilliant, beautifully presented by you both and wonderfully produced. I'm originally from Sussex and moved over to Ireland in 2008. Now, possibly 'too much information' here but I watch these regularly, on a Tablet, whilst soaking in a late night bath in County Tipperary: bliss! As a kid growing up in Hastings - 60's and 70's - I would often go down to St.Leonards Warrior Square station just to 'be' there and enjoy the feel of the railway. It's hard to put into words - my wife is very understanding - but you'll know what I mean of course. Used to wait for the unique Thumper diesel multiple units to enter the tunnels, one at each end of the platform. Specific narrow stock for the narrow tunnels; that's another story. The rail network is small here and mostly single track. However, there's still a real branch line way of thinking. Our local trip from Birdhill to Limerick for example. Two trains a day and if you're running a little late you can often ring Birdhill, speak to the Station Master come Ticket Collector come Signalman, and he'll (theres just him) hold the train for you as long as it's just a few minutes. A bit different to my old commute of Horsham to Gatwick :-) Love these videos, love your Underground ones too. Thanks for making them! Now, where's my plastic duck?

[@73APhotography]

"Oh there's Aldi" Shows Asda

[@danhaythorn7621]

Well spotted, have a biscuit.

[@stephenreardon2698]

That's Worcester's one-way system for you. The coach could not continue westerly down Lowesmoor as that route is restricted so had to turn south, at Aldi, towards St. Martins Gate, passing Asda, before reaching the City Walls Road and turning north again. Given the state of the city's traffic it is often quicker to walk, especially in 'rush hour'. The route does not pass the Cathedral.

[@clareholzapfel3676]

Not saying your wrong, but aldi is behind them so Vicki might have been looking the other way to the camera...

[@carolinegreenwell9086]

lovely to see the pair of you having a hug ... heaven knows you both needed it that day

[@adolflenin4973]

Why?

[@NigelFowlerSutton]

I have just spent the last 5 hours looking at your videos on KZbin, all thanks to the BBC. Absolutely brilliant, compulsive viewing Vicki & Geoff..... Now I am able to catch up and watch your vids as them come on line..

[@jacquelinebowden7135]

Nigel Fowler Sutton I

[@barvdw]

Always nice to see some familiar places :) I came back back home to Belgium from Chester via this windy route, via Hereford, Great Malvern, Worcester and Birmingham Moor Street to London Marylebone. There are some great sights to see. Didn't make it to the city centre in Hereford, unfortunately, but I did in Worcester. Great Britain is littered with historic cities...

[@melanietuffen]

Best after credits clip yet. Also that is an amazing waiting room!

[@eelsemaj99]

Half the stations half of them

[@HenrysAdventures]

I thought I'd watch it again a year on! It's still just as enjoyable as the first time!

[@ChoobChoob]

"Did The Victorians Have These Problems?" They did. They also had problems like trains falling off bridges and crashing into each other.

[@ronclark9724]

Every railroad faces this problem during the hot summer months when temperatures effect the steel rails in hot climates. Frankly the British are lucky not to have really hot weather compared to other areas of the world...

[@Threelinkdave]

True re safety. However point failurewould be dealt with by the local fitter in almost no time at all, even if it was clamped and flagged

[@peteredwards338]

The brakes on Victorian trains were pretty bad!

[@masonsmainlineroblox]

@@ronclark9724 what if it was thailand..... 33 celcius like EVERY DAY???!!!!!

[@huubhuijbens8816]

(1:55) "smile, your on CCTV" man, I love England! Best people!!

[@andrewholloway231]

Superb closing views of Hereford Station and sunset. And I adore the outtake at the end! Brilliant.

[@angelaharvey4499]

Love Great Malvern Station and the Malvern Hills. Been there many times from London. A beautiful day's outing.

[@mikecowen6507]

Congratulations on the first half done! BTW: Loving the post-roll bloopers!

[@chxrliethompson]

4:44 - That shuttle bus is to take people to Bicester North station, which is the more major Bicester station.

[@hazzalandy]

Lovely piece on the BBC News this morning about All The Stations, congrats on the 1/2 way mark!

[@thomasjones8648]

I really love the shots of Great Malvern out of the HST window!

[@limeyfox]

So less than 50% of the stations left... but nearly all of the scenery to come. Lots more to look forward to! Seriously, you two are the most uplifting thing that has happened for literally months. When you reach 100% can you just, like, keep going? I don't mind seeing the same places twice :-)

[@EthanAfro707]

Go to Oxford station at around 17.30 and get on the 17.35 to Didcot Parkway. That train is one I have found which stops at appleford and culham

[@princethe7]

I can confirm there is also one around 8 in the morning that does both stops

[@olivergray1367]

17:20 Didcot Parkway to Banbury calls at Appleford, Cullham and Radley and then all stations to Banbury

[@ElectricianTS]

...and nobody mentioned, except me (just some Canadian guy living in Trieste, Italy...), that you went through the Great Malvern station where they shot some scenes for the 70's BBC series Survivors. We visited that station and other Survivors' sites back in 2009 and a few more in recent years as well. Yes, we took pictures of the station.

[@ElectricianTS]

www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/articles/2008/11/24/survivors_local_feature.shtml

[@ElectricianTS]

You'll have to come visit Trieste, Italy, once they finish putting back together the tramway Trieste-Opicina.

[@ElectricianTS]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqeXmp6doamrbJo

[@Nimrod24]

Hi Geoff and Vicky, really enjoying your trip so far! All of my friends find it weird that I am fascinated by trains but have told them to enjoy your series and see the glory of rail transport in the UK! Although I live in St Albans now (of which we have had too much coverage haha), I am looking forward for you to pass through Nailsea & Backwell my real local station. I'll also add that you should give the Weston Super Mare branch line a real bit of coverage! Nothing like being on an HST on single track passing through Weston Milton, a station from my experience is barely used. Good luck! Mike

[@LTK1031]

Great to see you pass the 50% mark! Still loving the content and the chemistry between you two, especially in this video

[@unbreenmehdi7020]

I would like to tell you that Hanwell and Southall are the closest stations in London. I’ve never been on a Caledonian Sleeper before and I would like to go from London Euston to Edinburgh station on a Caledonian sleeper one day. I love your all the station videos with Vicki pipe.

[@RichardWatt]

I've done the Caledonian Sleeper from Euston to Edinburgh back in 1999/2000. A really nice night's sleep. And a cup of tea with a shortbread biscuit to wake up to :) Then I had to get a train north of Edinburgh, that was not so nice :(

[@JR-SCOOT]

Congratulations on reaching the half way stage guys. Been with you all the way looking forward to seeing the final 50%.

[@olivergray1367]

17:20 Didcot Parkway to Banbury stops at all 3 stations!

[@ianmcclavin]

There's a lovely little tea room on the Worcester bound platform at Great Malvern, if you're round that way again. It probably does a good bit of trade, as there's a fair number of trains terminating there, you do have to switch platforms though, and back again for a connection to Hereford.

[@janet3528]

Watched you on the bbc this morning,so subscribed at once....ex pat living 41 years in Holland,great to see the uk💖super films😀👍best wishes🤘

[@peterjohncooper]

Just seen the item on the BBC website. Congratulations. Your journey makes us all feel better.

[@Ad-gn8pl]

Eeeugh the plague of problems at Worcester in 2017, I was commuting to Birmingham then and there was literally not a day when there was no delay, short form or cancellation, the bad days of London Midland. At Shrub Hill the signal gantry at the Birmingham end is magnificent and dates back to Victorian times. Great Malvern station is glorious and has a secret exit. Hereford again is a magnificent station, the second built in the City and has a little used Platform 4. Also if you stayed at the Travelodge, then that was then site of the other Hereford station.

[@jackeyre1263]

Hi Geoff, I had a look and there are 7 direct trains from Appleford(APF) and Culham (CUM) No joke that is it's 3 letter station code 😊 Love the video's Hi to Vicki as well. From Jack Eyre, Year 9 at The Featherstone Academy, Yorkshire

[@oddcinema]

Glad you got to see the waiting rooms at Shrub Hill; they were a little neglected until recently and now look smashing. Those tiles!

[@Crowley2979]

My favourite route back home - Reading to Oxford then up to Worcester SH and a local service to Kiddy (and then on to the SVR) Some lovely views - I like seeing the Malverns looming in the distance...

[@TheMisterTibbles]

Apologies that you were greeted by construction barriers and the sight of Morrisons (terrible supermarket, used to work for them). Anyway, hope you enjoyed your brief stay in Hereford, the true cider city!

[@ElectricianTS]

5:39. I was in Great Malvern Station. That's where they shot scenes from Survivors 1975-77 BBC series.

[@MrKashmire123]

Always knew you'd love both Malvern stations - had the awesome-ness of living within the town for 10 1/2 Years until 2009 when Wolverhampton came calling. So glad this getting worldwide attention!

[@philiplettley]

Used to walk past shrub hill all the time, dad worked next to the station, and I walked 5 minutes to where I worked. Missed a lot of stations on this route like moreton on marsh, Evesham etc. Often used to do Worcester moreton, also moreton to Paddington

[@georgewalton7418]

What a great couple just light relief in our hour of need

[@ryancouchman-sawyer2355]

13:00 Argh AQA. The three letters that terrify students as well as OCR and EPQ

[@JeSuisRene]

Agreed

[@ElectricianTS]

12:24. I was in Worcester. :-)

[@mikefuller2019]

Glad to see you more stoic than after your missed connection at Westbury. I was really worried for you that week. Carry on, like others I will get withdrawal symptoms after the series ends.

[@dorsettyke]

45 people have checked trainline today for Appleford to Cuham! Not.as difficult as Geoff made out?

[@halcyondaystunes]

When i see Geoff struggling with the heat i wanna tell him it'll be over soon and the usual temps will arrive soon....Then i realise these are recorded days before they are posted ;) another great vid. i'm addicted.

[@TheOrangeAngle]

Thanks for the upload! From across the pond; I'm loving the series and I am jealous of England's (edit: Britain's) rail network

[@cbak12sg]

TheOrangeAngle Our neighbours in Scotland and Wales might not appreciate being excluded; and I exclude Northern Ireland because their railways are not connected to those in Great Britain.

[@cathallawlor989]

TheOrangeAngle we have barely any lines and the prices are quite literally a joke

[@tfkfunguy9109]

cbak , Scotland and Wales *are* in Britain...

[@ciaranbird3373]

I will allow. some trains in America are good like the tide light rail but Amtrak being stuck behind 5mph freight trains is a bit shite let's be honest

[@simontay4851]

The network used to be A LOT bigger before 1966.

[@busesinprofile2114]

ha you should do all the buses

[@railway31]

Yay happy 50 percent. Geoff, Vicki it is always a pleasure to watch your updates. You both bring an excitement to travelling by train. This summer we are holidaying in the west county and have decided to go by train. Looking forward to my second journey on a HST 😁 I have purchased one of your "All the stations" green T-shirts looking forward to wearing it on Holiday. Darren

[@RevGear99]

This episode should have been called "Trains and stuff, woo!",

[@CaalamusTube]

That was endearing :]

[@bockersjv]

Just waiting to catch your again on BBC breakfast at 07:50. !

[@Bristoltwingo]

This is like the walk between the two Yeovil stations. which of course doesn't have a connecting train at weekends...Which makes trips from Bristol to Lyme Regis that bit more challenging.

[@AndyMcCavish]

Well done on hitting the halfway mark & I also got to see my local station as well - wondered if it would make it on screen.

[@nidostar2013]

Congrats, Geoff & Vicki on passing the halfway mark. Also great that you were featured on BBC Breakfast this morning.

[@andrewyork8208]

RE: "Bicester Village Station" well as far as a few of us locals are concerned it's still called Bicester Town Station as it was for so many years. Bicester is not a village but a Town ! Yes you are right - it's all car park for the shopping centre. We do in fact have a real high street called Sheep Street with shops where you can buy things for a pound.

[@markgarness23]

Vicki, glad you liked worcester, its a lovely place.

[@jimobasa525]

So sweet. She gave him a little hug right at the start.

[@Bullmannumber4]

Bicester Village used to be called Bicester Town, a one platform station that marked the end of the line for passenger services that used to be serviced by a two car Turbo with First Great Western. The trip used to take about 25 minutes and only stopped at Islip.

[@Tevildo]

Ahh, I remember when it was NSE Class 121s, before Islip was reopened, and it was a long walk from the station to any non-residential properties. I see from the video that the double-tracking has been restored - how far towards Calvert have they taken the double-tracking?

[@Bullmannumber4]

As far as I'm aware it's still single track between Bicester and Calvert.

[@works9989]

A long day on the Longest day, over 50% done. Well done Vicki & Geoff.

[@wl03bu]

You guys pack very light!

[@patrickhemsley8631]

Those sunglasses are a mood geoff

[@cduemo]

I am subscribed. I love the videos. There is a problem though. Residing in Surrey (B.C./Canada, NOT Surrey, U.K.) I am awakened by the You Tube bell between 2 & 3 a.m. most nights and HAVE to watch! :)

[@johnhaines4163]

Don't know what the trouble with the points would have been but continuous welded rail, although providing a much smoother ride, makes the tracks much more vulnerable to buckling than the old fish plate jointed short sections of rail. The tendency to sideways buckling is combated by heaping the ballast at the ends of the sleepers to provide resistance to sideways movement. If that heaping up is reduced, possibly because of old ballast spreading or work adjacent to the track, the resistance is reduced. This often leads to the imposition of speed limits in hot weather (so a derailment is less serious). At worst, major track buckling can occur and stop trains entirely.

[@cephalopod7300]

Thanks for the info. Do the rails 'unbuckle' straight again when the whether cools, and the sleepers get dragged back into place by thermal contraction of the rails, or does this have to be sorted out manually when it happens? And the range of temperatures in the UK is well short of what some parts of the world experience especially in the interior of continents. Do these places not use continuous welded rail or is some different solution used? I would guess high speed lines especially need continuous rails, but how do they avoid buckling in the heat? Just from better piling up of ballast?

[@johnhaines4163]

@@cephalopod7300 Even if the rails straighten out a bit when it cools, there is no guarantee that this would be adequate. Also, the fact that they buckled means that the ballast needed to be topped up so re-alignment and more ballast is required. These days this is all handled by large machines operating overnight. As for other countries; you're right in identifying temperature range as the issue, not just high (or low) extremes. I don't have experience of what's done. I have seen rails painted white but I doubt that has much effect. I have travelled on the suburban railway in Yangon. Rails were all over the place, the trains travel slowly.

[@cephalopod7300]

@@johnhaines4163 Thanks for the info!

[@ianmcclavin]

I think this story made one of the railway magazines a few years ago, a discarded seat reservation ticket found on the ground somewhere - Worcester Foregate Street to Worcester Shrub Hill, yes really !!

[@RoulinBrooks]

Geoff went to Hanborough on his own. Does that mean that Vicki will be doing all the stations except Hanborough?

[@OwenJennings]

Woo Acton Main Line! Yeah, it was my favourite Acton station when I lived there. Only two trains an hour though!

[@Escape_Adventure_Live]

Love your videos there great, they've changed the outside area of Hereford train station with new buildings and a transport hub which is still being done

[@poowey]

You were on the Telly!! 😀

[@McGubbins42]

0814 and 0853, Appleford to Culham. Takes 1 minute only.

[@RedHillian]

Also 1704 & 1733; 3 minutes and 2 minutes respectively.

[@liamtahaney713]

I have been to the Oxford station! I've never been on a more crowded train than Oxford to London in July 2012. As an American used to having trains to himself off peak(septa) it was quite the culture shock.

[@MrBiggordy]

Sorry to be a car geek inamongst all the railway enthusiasts, but did anyone else spot the Triumph Stag convertible in the Hereford station car park at the end (15:45)?! Wow, what a day!

[@zakk-kaye]

Awh this is my homeland. I live in London now but got the train from paddington to Hereford just a few days ago :)

[@camotech1314]

London is a mess, why did you move?

[@gbrading]

Congratulations on reaching Half Way There Day at Shipton-Under-Wychwood! It's all North from here! :D

[@ianmcclavin]

Interesting layout at Worcester Foregate Street isn't it? It looks like a double track railway at first glance, but it's actually two single reversible lines, Platform 1 for all trains to and from Shrub Hill, and Platform 2 for everything direct to and from Droitwich Spa.

[@arfski]

Ooo a lovely looking Triumph Stag at Hereford station!

[@peternorton188]

Here in Philadelphia, it's always the 3rd day when all the trains get affected by the hottest weather. It's not fun!!

[@mclj10]

Rail Travel in Worcester is always hell, they've got perpetual signal problems at Forgate, and there's something wrong with those points at Shrub Hill. And of course London Midlands is pretty naff, never enough coaches, especially on the peak time trains from Hereford to New Street, where there usually a good 100 college students from Hereford Sixth Form who have to sit on the floor.

[@jackcooper384]

Have you herd of the new plans to refurbish Oxford Station?

[@gobears6487]

They have! Their Oxford guide told them (me :-)) [or to be more correct, I told Vicki, Geoff was in Hanborough!]

[@keepgoing1973]

You've gone to the effort to film all these videos. Why didn't you do the small thing and put them in order in the playlist?

[@whoseeuro121]

I did the greenford branch 6 weeks before this was filmed , it's weird but a fun 12 minute ride and the bay at greenford is so blizzard

[@yellowa4725]

I used to live a few minutes from Great Malvern station and have spent more time than I wish to remember on the station. It is a lovely station though. I now live in Herefordshire and Hereford is my local station, not a patch on Great Malvern though!

[@Guted77]

Just saw you guys on the 1'oclock news!

[@williamg209two]

I had to get a coach to Hereford from Newport or somewhere, I really cant remember, wasn't a fun trip home from Swansea

[@mattsharman4733]

Outstanding work, as always, guys!

[@briancarson9309]

Super work.

[@venetiacaine9252]

With only 30 minutes, I would never risk a walk to the village, shopping, and back!

[@OlanKenny]

All the Car parks...

[@robk23oxf]

I still find it a bit weird boarding at train on the new Chiltern platforms at Oxford in what used to be the place where I parked my car.

[@dougf94912]

Love the Shrub Hill waiting room!

[@jordangipson1125]

That giggle at the end was adorable

[@williamg209two]

only time I've ever been to Hereford is when I passed thru recently on a rail replacement bus so I was too annoyed to look at its beauty

[@clareholzapfel3676]

EYYY!!! LOCAL TO ME!! Well Done on 50% too and this has got to be the best video yet!!

[@trainreviews3715]

When Crossrail is out, do another all the stations!!

[@jwuertz7101]

Just remember if things had gone to plan you wouldn't have gotten the sunset shot! I try to keep that perspective when things go a miss. That perhaps there is a silver lining. 😀

[@peabody1976]

I forget how far north Britain is, and at the summer solstice it's half ten at night and the sun hasn't fully set. I'm so sorry the points failure made this leg so dreadful. But humour is intact!

[@zacharylewis-briers5495]

I live in Worcester and I’ve never looked in the Victorian waiting room at shrub hill

[@cephalopod7300]

Have you had the chance to check it out since?

[@zacharylewis-briers5495]

@@cephalopod7300 I have checked it out but sadly I do not live in Worcester anymore

[@MarkMaddyGriff]

I want that British Rail/National Rail Reverse Arrows Flag at 13:47 from Malvern Link!

[@stevies.1975]

LoL! I was thinking you’d gone out of the wrong exit at Bicester Village, for the Village.... 😂😂😂

[@samuelmoorey6008]

I was on a train between Paddington and Newton Abbot and when we got to Castle Carry the train had to stop because the tracks were to hot so I know how I feel.

[@cowscrazy]

You can see that persons bike on Google Street view too !!

[@gobears6487]

maybe it's abandoned! (looked like no seat?!?!)

[@paulweaver5624]

It is a gorgeous view, the fact your'e still together after so many stations is amazing, well done. Now, forget #allthecastles, how about #allthehotels?

[@scrimperuk]

Brilliant videos. But what happened to Kingham Station? I was happily watching the trip on the Cotswold line, you got to Shipton under Wychwood then you were at Worcester and I was left disappointed! Particularly like Kingham as I was born there, it was once an important railway junction with lines to Cheltenham and Banbury plus I used to travel on the line to work each day back in the 1960's. Please keep up the excellent videos, you two should have your own TV programme. :)