Lympstone Commando & Exton Request Stops

[@rickrennyoneill]

These videos SHOULD be really boring but they're not, they're great. I don't know if that is telling about my personality or the quality of the videos themselves (or both!)

[@SteveMorton]

Totally agree, Geoff just makes these things so interesting with all the little bits of trivia

[@MrBoombastic1]

Nice job lmao

[@michaeldwyer3352]

yesterday 9 December on the 15.30 Exeter Central to Exmouth the conductor actually walked the entire length of the train checking whether anyone wanted to alight at Lympstone Commando. Shows what a bit of online pressure can achieve. Well done!

[@colinedwards7250]

I have actually been into Lympstone Commando base. All I remember is that their canteen was amazing.

[@abyssaljam441]

What was the tea and coffe like?

[@josephhanlon-penny4068]

You'd call it a Galley, not a canteen

[@JonnyD3ath]

I have been also, for the PRMC, the food was pretty great but I was also always in a severe calorie deficit 😂

[@CymruEmergencyResponder]

Joseph HP the Mess.

[@CymruEmergencyResponder]

Antonio Sapienza In the UK, an entire living area on a naval station/ship is known as a Mess.

[@anther4520]

12:32 The big question is, what manner of evil genius dreamt up a combined Pacer (143617) / Super Sprinter (153370) DMU?

[@nicodo123]

that ending shot surprised me. Who would've thought that a pacer and a sprinter would join forces?

[@kateg1355]

This train line was my teen years. Me and my friends used to get on at Exeter and go to the beach. It was our first bit of freedom

[@marlonbrando6615]

It was much of my childhood as well, many fond memories

[@dansmith4601]

7:15 that bench reminds me of a bench on the upper platform at Willesden Junction. Both shelters also have two entrances also the ones at Willesden are operated with a button

[@Motordiciton]

The last time I was this early on a video, a Southern train actually turned up on time

[@robinhayhurst5943]

I like the way you said the slightly naughty word 'pisssed' and then the train objected by buzzing twice!

[@harryscorah2091]

Just requested Lympstone Commando and was told that they can’t let you off unless you have business with the camp. My second time of trying to get off there. The truth is that you roll the dice with what guard you get and you might be able to get off, you might not.

[@Synnystershy]

They can't say no as the station is owned by Network Rail and is managed by GWR and the camp can't do anything about it.

[@martenkats6915]

In Scotland there is quite a long stretch of railway that is only separated from a military base by a path. Between Monifieth and Barry Links there is a big military base along the railway line and a foot/cycle path in between the 2. I cycled there before when I had to be near Barry Links and didn't want to wait for the once a day train.

[@SpaceBiscuits]

These trains are my daily commute to work, it’s weirdly exciting to see you come down to Digby & Sowton (where I get off to walk to work). It a quiet little stop except for rush hour when it regularly has 60+ people getting on/off each train.

[@jackfield3388]

Also the stop for the rugby lot. I've gotten on many trains when chiefs are playing. The peace when they get off at digby is beautiful

[@Ulleskelf]

Exton was my second ever request stop. I got off an Exeter-bound train at Lympstone Village and managed to walk along the path to Exton in time to get the next Exeter-bound train.

[@greatbritishentertainmentl5636]

I loved the fact you had a "senior moment" getting the anticipated direction of the train to board confused - this is the problem when filming & thinking alone without an assistant - I know this when I tried filming a wedding on my own - bedlam! Anyway - very interesting video - well done!

[@rosswalker7229]

Went there last year. Ended up with a jobsworth station guard that advised we couldn't exit and had to board the next one out. I think you just struck it lucky in visiting it whilst unmanned.

[@GwresYnKernow]

Aww man, I lived in Exmouth and travelled by train to Exeter every weekday and never knew about the Ranger tickets. :( Digby and Sowton was my stop. There totally are things there. :p Before the foot/cycle path, there was nowhere to go if you alighted at Commando. So they genuinely did only let you alight if you had business with the base. Then they built the cycle path and changed the rules, but evidently haven't taken the sign down. Oh, and Newcourt is built and in use now.

[@davidrenton]

I was expecting a video of Geoff stopping at Lympstone Commando and being given the King's Shilling and now it's Sergeant Major Geoff Marshall, they did say you couldn't alight.

[@hopethehermit]

Memories of commuting from St James' Park to Exmouth 40 years ago. Back then neither Lympstone Commando nor Exton was a request stop. At that time the only exit from LC was indeed into the CTC. More recently the MoD and Network Rail had a 'discussion' and it was concluded that the Mod could not prevent civilians alighting . I didn't know abut the cycle track, must take a trip down there when lockdown is over.

[@HenrysAdventures]

You traveled down on 159,001 the pioneer of the class and the first 159 I ever traveled on!

[@EdwinWalkerProfile]

I was at Digby & Sowton the other day getting a train to Exeter St David's. Seemed to be a ton of request stops listed.

[@dantc2403]

Clapham Junction was one of my home rail stations when I was in London! I lived in Chelsea.

[@macstyle2012]

South Yorkshire Connect + (unlimited trains/buses and trams in South Yorkshire) and a West Yorkshire day rover ticket. The counties border each other, can travel a long way for under £20.

[@spicey_art]

And if you time it right you can visit all 52 of Devon's stations in 1 day ;) a group of us down here did it as a charity event, called race the ranger. Might be worth a look!

[@lloydisaacs415]

You are right you couldn't get out at Lympstone marine as it was known back in the 80s when I use to go to Exmouth during summer holidays or bunking off school how things have changed in 35years

[@thegreatstapley]

Haha! So close to me! I actually get those Pacers to Exeter pretty much every day. Its a shame i missed you, really. Hopefully I'll run into you one day if you do the Barnstaple line - good luck, it'll take ages!

[@lloydisaacs415]

You couldn't get off at Lympstone when i used to use it to go to exmouth as a kid but they put a path way in now

[@sam4468_]

Fun fact: The ‘Euxton’ in Euxton Balshaw Lane railway station in Lancashire is pronounced the same as Exton. Taking inspiration from Euston, I had initially pronounced it ‘yewxton’.

[@kspar19]

You briefly showed the town of Crewkerne which is where I grew up!

[@jtshark5817]

I moving to Exton on Thursday. SO I needed to see this video

[@jamieplaysagamie]

You had me excited when you said it might be a pacer at the change

[@loco4loco]

4:09 WAIT WHAT!?!??! A SPRINTER?!

[@Thoomas2001]

The concept of request stops for trains is so strange to me. It'd be a good solution for those villages that want a train station but the train company thinks not many people will use it.

[@Jassimoooooo]

I know nothing about trains but I always wondered what I would do if I was stuck at Havenhouse or Hubberts Bridge, Lincs. At least I know those stations work like bus stops and I wont be stranded

[@HighlandMike325]

Theres a bridge like that below the St Ives line beside the golf course at Porth Kidney beach. You feel as if you could touch the train through the sleepers above you, its that low

[@Darren79]

I was getting massive deja vu... it pays to read the video description:)

[@zane1os]

Being new to your channel and local to this area I was going to ask if you were going to visit these stations. No need now, you've already been there. Great channel by the way. Cheers.

[@typicalcitrus7848]

Longcross lost its place as least used station in Surrey to Chilworth, where my school's playing grounds are.

[@mazaradie1119]

Even if it's re uploaded I will watch it

[@charll1404]

seen this before but ill happily watch it again ;)

[@marthaanderson2656]

didn't recognize the episode until you got to the off path and the foot bridge/mud. Google maps says there is a Chicken vet just south from the station.

[@colinedwards7250]

The thing is, do the stations in Exeter still have announcements in a heavy Devon accent? Used to love that. Coming home.

[@Satters]

I'm sure it sounds different to the ICXC announcers at BHM

[@harvisterc]

Please do the requested stops on the tarka line because it's close

[@rosiefay7283]

7:11 Isn't that two seats end to end rather than one long bench?

[@ianshort2935]

I like that you got the style you added in the Brampton video on this one 😃

[@fishyface3940]

I live in Topsham Geoff and really enjoyed this, you should get off in Topsham one day (not a request stop I know but you'd enjoy it).

[@TomMAXR]

These videos are great!

[@janicew9]

Ok I am super late to this series, do you explain somewhere how exactly to request a stop? I live in a part of the US where there aren't any passenger trains and I've only taken subways, and regional trains in France so I don't have any experience with a request stop. How do you get back on the train at a request stop?

[@TurboFintan]

On a train: tell the guard you want to alight at a request-stop station. At a request-stop station: indicate to the driver you wish to get on the train as it slows on approach (usually stick your arm out clearly towards the track)

[@janicew9]

TurboFintan that seems easy enough!

[@Brian3989]

Not all trains going through a request stop, only those detailed on the timetable.

[@ianinvancouverbc]

would you go "commando" at Lympstone Commando ?

[@swanningabout]

What did you cut out?

[@matthewfazio8476]

Is it just me? Or does Exton station look like the station used in Thomas the Tank Engine and the Magic Railroad.. Where the conductor guy had a dream of that woman being on a stranded platform.... 9:35

[@RichardGadsden]

Seeing that beautiful classic green GWR livery on a Pacer just seems wrong somehow.

[@insignificantaftermathPROJECTS]

If only all platforms overlooked a beautiful lake like that.

[@loopyloomdesigns]

Do you have a vid already about the topic you were on about when you were on the train? Or is that still to come ;)

[@uwlodar]

Are you planning on doing a video for every request stop in the UK?

[@EdgyNumber1]

*Question:* Are all national rail rolling stock using Schafenburg connectors now?

[@Satters]

sadly since privatisation split up the railway with no common engineering based ruling authority, there are a plethora of different couplings, and different multiple through control systems , thus coupling differing classes of multiple units is often impossible, and rescue locomotives have a nightmare array of adaptors

[@LisaSimpsonRules]

So this train is like a London bus, you have to sign so that it stops, isn't it?

[@cycklist]

Hi Geoff. How many tube stations did you manage to visit in 2017?

[@patricescattolin43]

Also added the request stop title card?

[@Buick_GSX]

That flat spot on that Pacer is so annoying. But then again it's a Pacer so I'm not surprised.

[@grahammckay-smith4187]

But did you see the tube carriage in a garden between Gillingham Dorset and Tisbury?

[@unknown-im2bh]

Graham McKay-Smith when

[@grahammckay-smith4187]

Not in the video, but if as Geoff did, you travel Waterloo Exeter via Salisbury you can see it if you know where to look.

[@Hugo2dog]

How does the train driver know when to stop at a request stop to let you off? Do you have to ask the guard who then radios the driver?

[@GwresYnKernow]

Yeah, you tell the guard when you get on, and he notifies the driver. If you don't tell the guard, you have to hope someone else is also getting off there. :p

[@Hugo2dog]

Thank you

[@LunaDragofelis]

In Germany, trains on lines with request stops have buttons inside them like a bus. In some European countries, possibly including Germany, there are buttons on some request stops which light up a signal ahead of the stop.

[@onyekannanna61]

I have been to exeter central station

[@karl4518]

Have you been to Frimley Station?

[@SJTrains2024]

I live in exeter been on the Exmouth branch many times

[@samfri3nd]

I used to use some of these stations!

[@lrp_745]

I was *not* first I am glad that I am *not* in the Notification Squad You *did not* film this on my birthday.

[@lrp_745]

I know you hate this because you told me in person

[@nnmmnmmnmnnm]

Good advice. £40 to getto Axminster is still alot of money though.

[@victoriajames586]

According to Michael Bentine Bal ham is the gateway to the south. 1950s radio sketch. Check it out it is hilarious.

[@autistic2wheelrider72]

When it settle's in and you reliase your in deep doo doo that was brilliant haha.

[@SebSharma]

Can I make a request? Turnpike Lane

[@matthewtrainspotter7588]

8:54 - Nice shot! :D

[@peterglover1271]

How do request stops work?

[@buksi6342]

You ask the guard to stop the train at the station.

[@davekirwin]

I was just thinking to myself, 'hold on, I've seen this haven't I?' - but naturally I am wary of checking the upload date and comments first before opening my fat gob and whinging! lol. That was a lot of waffle, sorry. As you were.

[@thirtysixnanoseconds1086]

I was on this train!!!!!

[@loco4loco]

I used to live on this line

[@paulhorn2665]

I got a deja-vu now.

[@christopherwithers999]

my father was at the commando base

[@priestland1]

Yea, Clapham junction the best.

[@mason_h3849]

I think Salisbury is a request stop

[@buksi6342]

Mason_H Nope

[@paulhardingharding3192]

I live at Digby and sowton

[@mrbojangles8133]

Devon's nice

[@williamthebutcherssonprodu227]

*quaint

[@lewisgiddy57]

Nothing at

[@Katmando376]

You shouldn't be filming CTCRM without permission.

[@soulbabe79]

!trains

[@soulbabe79]

what?! why ? Geoff

[@steviewonder2049]

Catchy title...i bet you had a rail-riders membership badge when u was a nipper

[@mister19stick]

bin 9:42

[@NewcastleFlyer]

I feel de ja vu