The Original Purple Station - Visiting Every Station on the Cross City Line

[@JenOnTheMove]

Next weeks video, "Jen gets emotional at Alvechurch - Visiting Every Cross City Line Station with SimOnTrains" is now available to KZbin members and Patreons! If you can't wait until next week to see the continuation, I'd love it if you'd consider supporting! www.patreon.com/JenOnTheMove kzbin.infojoin

[@andrewholloway231]

... ha ha, I liked it when you mentioned 'not quite Marple Aqueduct'... takes me back... a trip along the Macclesfield canal on a family boating holiday back in 1980.

[@andrewholloway231]

Great that you had a walk along the Worcester and Birmingham Canal... yep, I like canals too.

[@roncarter5532]

Excellent video Jen….you do make me laugh 😂😂x

[@jaybee1921]

Hi Jen, Yet another enjoyable watch, you pack so much in. I am currently in Davenport but on Wednesday I am coming to Manchester Piccadilly. So if you are about, say hello. I will have to arrive by bus though as there are no trains that day. Hopefully the Trams will ne running, it would be good to grab a ride on one. Cheers for now, Jon B.

[@andyt2510]

I remember them building that bridge in Selly Oak. It was built next to the railway line then over Christmas 2010, the embankment the railway was on was dug away and the bridge was wheeled into place, set into foundations and then the rails and overhead power were reconnected - all over 4 days! Also - at Kings Norton the disused platform was used for Intercity trains in the early 80's when the junction north of New Street was closed and trains were diverted between Bristol and Leeds via the Camp Hill line. Trains would stop at Kings Norton to allow passengers to connect to Cross City DMU's which were still going into New Street. There is a picture I've seen of a 125 unloading on platform 3!

[@bendrawer]

Was a UoB student a few years ago, haven't returned to the area since before Covid. Very nostalgic. Nice to see that the canal area around Selly Oak has become a bit less derelict in that time!

[@lkbergen]

I absolutely love Bourneville! I took Mrs "Bergen" to Cadbury world but didn't tell her she was going there - I told here we were going to a stuffy museum for the day. We got off at Bourneville, and she was in love with the station, but it didn't click to her at the time that we were going to Cadbury World. It wasn't until we we passed the factory gate she was like "wait ARE YO TAKING ME TO CADBURY WORLD?!". xD also that canal is very other-worldly, love it!

[@Thornaby37]

Great video Jen 👍 I hope they do bring the middle platform back into use at Kings Norton when the Camp Hill line opens, as the abandoned platforms have been an eyesore for years

[@airfoxtrot2006]

Great video Jen, Costa does amazing cakes 😋

[@downonthestour]

Great Video Jen. Looking forward to the next part!

[@kiles99]

Enjoyed this one - having been at University of Birmingham 30 years ago, very familiar with Five Ways, and interesting to see the works going on at University (as well as now having direct trains to places other than the X City line. Bournville was always purple even in those days, and the island platform at Kings Norton saw use back then.

[@kiles99]

Also, if you think those sound good, wait until we show you class 37s!

[@Boating_David]

A purple station, I approve 💜

[@weementaldavy5987]

I didn't know our new King had got a motorbike . 🤔😁

[@Sim0nTrains]

Really enjoyed watching this Jen, some of the writing was funny and the cutaway from the editing was really good! Can't wait for the follow up to this and thank you for inviting me again for the Southern part of the Cross City Line.

[@JenOnTheMove]

Pleasure having you Simon!

[@erinmcgrathejm4985]

I think a canal boat rental vacation/hangout in spring should be in your future! (Wish I could have smelled the chocolate air at Bournville!)

[@georgedowns4034]

Great video tho personally I don't mind the XC class 170s- the seats are actually pretty nice. But I don't rly like the Voyagers

[@apfwilliams]

I have only ridden this line on my journey back from Uni in Plymouth to Wigan (in the days of direct trains)

[@mattcarolinesadventures1966]

Bournville must be the best station name ever. I need to go there just for a selfie at the said station. Great video as always.

[@indydas981]

Metro-cammell engines on 465 trains here in London sound beautiful Jen!

[@IowaTrainGay]

Trixie level editing sass and I love it! 😂🤣🤣😍😂😂👌 Thank you for sharing your train and canal adventures!

[@highpath4776]

Bournville Chocolate is in the Red Wrapper, so the station should be red. Its lovely

[@tomwatts703]

As a student at UoB I've taken the Cross-City line many times, the 323s are a delight (even if they're overcrowded at times!). I'm looking forward to when the new University station buildings are finally open 👍

[@Andrewjg_89]

Hey it’s Jen and CyberTrains (Sim0ntrains). You should do a review of the Class 196 Civity and Class 730 Aventra trains coming into service from next year.

[@ellrbrown]

Fun Costa fact at Selly Oak, there is another Costa inside of Next! Oh and at least two at the University of Birmingham (only open term time Monday to Friday). Selly Oak Bypass (Aston Webb Boulevard) opened in 2011, the shopping park in 2018. It is called the Ariel Aqueduct. Battery park site being turned now into the Life Sciences Park for the University.

[@TicTacTrolleyServiceTico]

Sadly i had no option with visiting Cadbury world as it was a school trip 😂😂 Nicely done between Five Ways and Northfield! Nice to see Simon along for the trip too and looking forward to your rant on Redditch!

[@JenOnTheMove]

I just couldn't make this short enough for a single video because I ranted so much in the second half! 😂

[@TicTacTrolleyServiceTico]

@@JenOnTheMove A more sensible approach! I did the Cross City in 1 day without splitting it into seperate parts 😂

[@Rail_Focus]

Things Jen likes Costa ✅ Canals ✅ Class 323s ✅ Voyagers ❌

[@joeymandrews]

Just imagine a *Canal* where the water is actually *Costa Coffee* ! 🤣☕

[@JenOnTheMove]

You can check out SimOnTrains here - kzbin.info Since this, and the next episode were supposed to be a single video, I will be releasing the next in the series next week - rather than making you wait 9 weeks for the next one!

[@ewantennant5847]

I’ve lived on the Lichfield end of the cross city line all my life and I commute to college on it 4 times a week yet I’ve never been on it past Birmingham

[@JenOnTheMove]

I'd recommend a trip out along it, then walk back along the canal!

[@ewantennant5847]

@@JenOnTheMove i think i’ll skip the walking and just buy a return train ticket

[@jaybee1921]

Hi Jen, I am now on your turf on a wet Wednesday afternoon. No trains of course except for Trans Penine and Transport for Wales...sorry to contact you this way but there is no other way. Looking for the Costa on the concourse. I would make a video but I would have to post it on my chanel which wouldn't make any sense to anyone else as I usually talk about model railways and all things connected...if I see you I see you but if I don't it's not a problem...🙂 Take care, Jon B.

[@harrytrains37]

they should put 323 motors in electric cars so Jen can adore them everywhere she goes :)

[@jaybee1921]

Hi Jen, on the way on the bus now, if you're about...🙂

[@JenOnTheMove]

Hi! I'm afraid that I'm out for the count with a bad cold at the moment! But I hope you enjoy your time in Manchester!

[@MichaelSebastianTodd]

brilliant video im loving the canel at Sally Oak but anyway the 323s are the best sounding train ever even tho im from the South i love the class 323s and i also rode a few WWR 323s when i had a short trip in the Birmingham area recently i wish i had 323s running down here in the South and around London anyway keep up the awesome work

[@networkerfan]

I think the class 365 and class 465 are the best sounding train's

[@knownothing5518]

Shall somebody gift you a barge cruise with complimentary coffee and chocolate? Also thanks for the Paul and Rebecca shoutout, their channel is wonderful too!

[@JenOnTheMove]

Need a hire boat company to sponsor me! 😂

[@ReubenAshwell]

Brilliant video Jen, the captions were brilliant and that editing Jen part was brilliant. And yes Cadbury world, I've only been once on a school trip and to be honest, there's more exciting things to do elsewhere. That car ride at Cadbury world wasn't even scary like the boat ride in the old Charlie and the Chocolate factory film with Gene Wilder lol.

[@ariesworld3500]

come to kent listen to class 465 they sound like the 323s And 1992 stock underground

[@sr6424]

Did you know Cadbury pay for Bourneville to be painted purple?

[@networkerfan]

what's the secret in doing the magic KZbin click?

[@harryelliott4310]

Trains Station 🚉

[@dblyth5098]

Could the Abandoned Station be Blackwell?

[@TheMCRJourneys]

Hi

[@palmertrees]

really can't stand chocolate after tasting Polish chocolate from behind the Iron Curtain. Milk chocolate is horrible now.

[@insignificantaftermathPROJECTS]

You might as well change your name to FindingCosta And every video be you as far away from a Costa and you desperately getting nearer to one.