Weymouth to Portsmouth on as Many Trains as Possible

[@tommarshall1660]

"Warham I" oh dear Nick don,t give up the day job. Good video as usual.

[@listey]

This is the day job!

[@DEDLEDXEBE117]

7:38 point to point trains trip

[@Waddon]

Pointless journey suggestion: Leytonstone to Leytonstone high road

[@SuperloopSL9-u4e]

Ruislip Manor to Ruislip Gardens is a good pointless journey and Aldgate to Aldgate east

[@AFCManUk]

@@SuperloopSL9-u4e I always said he should do Catford to Catford Bridge.

[@SuperloopSL9-u4e]

@@AFCManUk yes but Geoff marshall did it ages ago

[@AFCManUk]

@@SuperloopSL9-u4e I'm sure Nick would use a completely different route. He likes to go miles out of the way, lol.

[@SuperloopSL9-u4e]

@@AFCManUk yes he does he should do it in reverse

[@dorsettyke]

"Seatbelts.....Wareham!" One for the older listeners 😉

[@Sim0nTrains]

Enjoyed the 2 in one video, bonus point to point was good as well. CrossCountry did used to call at Brockenhurst but they sadly removed the stop, think it was done around the Pandemic

[@JackJackProductionsShorts]

CrossCountry still stop at Brockenhurst. But on a limited basis

[@GabrielsReviews]

@@JackJackProductionsShorts Think around twice a day .

[@TrainBros2000s]

@@GabrielsReviews I think 1 quarter of the trains stop at Brockenhurst

[@aarondoesyt3194]

Don't get that because it used to be easier access to Lymington and the Isle of Wight when travelling down from the midlands

[@AFCManUk]

That foot traffic level-crossing at Wareham was very similar to the one they used to have at King's Sutton (Just before Banbury) before the footbridge was built there.

[@stateofflux7453]

Nick, you getting on the Cross Country train at its starting point in Bournemouth with all the choice of seats is a good idea for a new journey concept - Travel from one city to another, but changing at every station where you can board an originating service. So travelling from Weymouth to London you could change onto starting-point services at Bournemouth, then Southampton Central, Portsmouth Harbour, Horsham, Three Bridges and then East Croydon. Every time it’s an originating train where you have (in theory) a favourable choice of seat ;-)

[@leeroberts1192]

You missed out Poole and if you done Lymington Pier then Brockenhurst as well

[@gabrielstevens3884]

You stopping in Wareham reminded me that when I was younger we actually used to have 4 trains an hour between Southampton Central & London Waterloo. 1 Southampton- London, 1 Poole to London, 1 Wareham to London and 1 Weymouth to London. Also the small platform in Bournemouth used to be used for the Bournemouth to London Victoria service which now just runs between Southampton and Victoria (when they feel like it 😂.)

[@andywillis2650]

Also used to be the stopping train from Bournemouth to Waterloo, took almost 3 hours if i remember correctly, and "93" as its headboard !

[@KempSimon]

@@andywillis2650 - Head Code?

[@andywillis2650]

@@KempSimon the number at the front of the train :)

[@mikevaughan4594]

If you want a real challenge pick a very cold night just above freezing, Bristol to Rhumney ..leave Bristol Temple meads at 20:57 then you will arrive at Cardiff central at 21:36 and wait for nearly one hour ....THERE IS NO REFUGE FROM THE WEATHER . Waiting rooms closed , on the night i went it was minus 5 !! I caught hypothermia and a gastric chill and was ill for 3 days, SOUTH WALES TRAINS didnt want to know. The challenge is to arrive at your destination well !!

[@mikevaughan4594]

Fareham far better than Fratton early morning as a few years ago I caught the southern train and had a bad experience at Fratton !!! all all the toilets were closed and I was told I should have gone on the train !! It was about 5:45am !!

[@Vanmanyo]

I need to explore down South more. Haven't done lots of the SWML! Definitely an insentive now! Great video again!

[@smudgycat6750]

We're friendly I promise

[@TrainsOfDorset]

Upwey is the station to go to if you want to see the best parts.

[@Class82trainMan]

1:49 the level crossing here is an mwl (miniature warning light) system. it’s also extremely rare as it has halogens and an extra gate that closes due to trespassing

[@TrainsOfDorset]

You could have taken a GWR service to Upwey and then an SWR stopper to Wareham or wherever. Also quite rare to get a 450 down towards Weymouth, although not quite as rare as a double 444 which we have gotten on occasions

[@KempSimon]

I thought that EMU's couldn't work in multiple west of Poole because Network SouthEast electrified the line from there to Weymouth in 1987 on the cheap, and the substations could only handle the current draw from one train in section at any one time!

[@TrainsOfDorset]

@@KempSimon Although they are able to work in 10 car formations, it is very rare because it draws an incredible amount of power, so therefore it is allowed only in 'exceptional circumstances'. I believe that the lack of power only appears once you get to Wool but is commonly perceived to be Poole because the Poole - Waterloo 10 cars terminate there and can't split at Wareham as that only allows 7 cars.

[@TrainsOfDorset]

I have a few videos of it happening - I was on board one of them when trains were delayed over 90 minutes in July 2022 by signalling problems and points failures around Weymouth. I also saw one in the snow, which came up as 10 cars from Weymouth and reversed at Wareham (back to Weymouth) to clear ice from the 3rd rail which was preventing a train that was stuck at Wareham from drawing power.

[@DanBen07]

Yeah some other train routes I recommend in the area are: 1. the circular (kind of) from Romsey - Eastleigh - Southampton - Romsey - Salisbury. 2. The part of train route between Fareham and Eastleigh. 3. Basingstoke - Reading there are two operators one dose all stop service and one is a first train. I live in South east of England southern have quite a few train routes that that you have to be in the correct carriage because the train will be too long to stop at a platform or it will separate and divide.

[@CatmanRBLX]

Love your content, Nick! Keep it up!

[@soler0fac3]

i’ve see a few 450s at dorchester, i too never knew they ran this far down the line but every now and then i get a surprise!

[@TrainsOfDorset]

It only seems to happen when I'm not between Poole and Weymouth 🤣

[@phillwainewright4221]

The slow trains don't call at Parkstone and Branksome, but the fast trains do ... Yep, that's how we roll in Dorset. EDIT - Did you know "Getting off at Fratton" is Naval slang for premature ejaculation? It's the stop before Portsmouth, and the Naval base, so the sailors didn't quite 'get there' ...

[@NickBadley]

😨

[@hamshackleton]

No - that's Portsmouth Harbour! About three minutes to the dockyard gate - I've done it many times!

[@harrycritchlow1841]

​@@NickBadleyhi

[@liftylu]

I live on this line, so I can tell you what happens. Basically the ones that now leave Weymouth on the hour are the ones that stop at Parkstone and Branksome,, the ones that leave Weymouth at 20 minutes past the hour are the ones that run fast between POOLE and Bournemouth. Hope this clarifies.

[@doug0e]

Thanks!

[@NickBadley]

Thank you!

[@Transport81-w7n]

Pointless Journey: Canterbury East - Canterbury West!

[@ReecesTrains]

Great video, Nick! Interesting variety of trains between the two stations! I gotta admit I do like the Electrostar, they remind me of the Turbostar's too!

[@grahamjarvie3461]

A good point to point would be bromley north to bromley south

[@richardtalbot8769]

one good thing living at the end of the line in Weymouth when you get on at Waterloo you get a good 2 hours sleep. Oddly i always wake up as it goes over the points at Dorchester. as local sadly i knew you were getting off at Wareham. the foot crossing at wareham has barriers and alarms as people have been known to stroll in front of the departing trains. you can also get a bus down to Swanage for the steam railway. Maybe come back in the summer and ride the saturday special to Corfe Castle.

[@PamelaBane]

Thanks Nick for another great video, loved that the point to point was added in , more please.

[@ThelittleLegogoat-jn7dp]

Really like the videos. Have a suggestion for your point to point series, warterloo(liverpool) to warterloo(london).

[@quintuscrinis]

Great video and a lovely journey, although if you had started your journey at Dorchester West, that coukd have saved you the GWR wait in Fratton and added a pointless journey to the point-to-point with Fareham/Cosham.

[@NickBadley]

Opted not to do that due to it being only 2-hourly and doing so would have left me with much longer waits.

[@thought5057]

It's only after watching your videos have I realised, how little of the UK I've visited. Great Video!

[@martinevans7090]

450's do indeed go all the way to Weymouth (not sure how often though) I was once on a 9-car 444/450 formation out of Weymouth once. Which was nice.

[@KempSimon]

How come the current draw from two units operating in multiple didn't trip out the circuit breakers on the gruelling 1:50 ascent of Bincombe Bank?

[@TrainsOfDorset]

@@KempSimon They can work like that but not often.

[@patrickhepworth976]

Point to point suggestion. Bishopstone(seaford) to bishopstone(Buckinghamshire)

[@franki7]

did the journey to portsmouth many times in my navy days

[@MilitaryBandsSouthWestUK]

As a local of Wareham, I've never even seen a 450 past Poole really so this is a rare occasion! Lol great video as always

[@archies95]

Love ur pointless journeys videos there amazing love ur new video been watching you since 2023 ur content really cool great job man!

[@warrentimothy2276]

450s rarely go past Poole. The reason is because the electricity supply towards Dorechester limits the train length to a maximum of 5. Obviously, 5 car trains are much longer than 4 (because each coach themselves is longer on a 5 than a 4). Because it's a busy route, SWR try to use the 444s on the route to maximise space for passengers, because the equivalent 8 car 450 formation is forbidden. It is rare, but 450s can go down to Weymouth, but only as a 4 car and that sucks!

[@paulharvey9149]

You could almost have accidentally done Cosham to Bosham as well, there - which the locals pronounce as Buzz'um, but then, older Pompey folks also talk of Cossum! Back in the days of Connex South Central, trains ran between London Vctoria, Southamton and Bournemouth's Platform 1, by the way. I didn't know it existed until then train I was on terminated there, either! Now I have a feeling that Portsmouth to Southampton via Eastleigh is a permitted route too, as there used to be the odd token train routed that way to serve the airport, butI may be wrong. Could be worth investigating though...

[@KempSimon]

At one time Connex SouthCentral ran an hourly train service all the way from London Victoria via Havant and Southampton to Bournemouth. If my memory serves me correctly, the eight-carriage EMU split at Barnham with one portion going to Bognor Regis and the other to Bournemouth. Here it recessed in Platform One (whilst the water tanks were replenished by the platform staff) before setting off on its long return journey. When Virgin CrossCountry introduced its "Operation Princess" clockface timetable between Bournemouth and Manchester (in 2003) there were too many trains running between Southampton and Bournemouth so the Connex services were terminated at Southampton, as is the case today. Which is a shame because the elderly Connex 4-VEP EMU's got a real workout after the traction current supply pressure went up from 750 Volts to 850 Volts at St. Denys Junction, hammering their way through the New Forest along Castleman's Corkscrew at anything up to 90mph!

[@barryaldridge1113]

Enjoyed this and have done this a couple of times and very interesting to do.

[@Trainsimfan]

You should try it with the London Underground

[@connorgeorge6294]

I am glad you got to, albeit briefly, visit my home station of Cosham!

[@kevinfitzpatrick444]

I wonder if another way to make these sort of challenges more ridiculous would be to define it as using different services instead of different operators while still travelling in a direct route. So in this case starting at Weymouth with a "Bristol" train to Upwey, then a "London" train to Bournemouth, then a "Manchester" train to Southampton, etc...

[@pinderclips5642]

Looks like a long journey with the extra stops. It's sometimes easy to forget that cross country come down to Bournemouth.

[@TrainsOfDorset]

Used to go to Poole!

[@pinderclips5642]

@@TrainsOfDorset didn't know that.

[@Andrewjg_89]

Which train on South Western Railway is your favourite. Class 450 or Class 444. I would have to say Class 444. And I have been on the Class 444 Desiro to Portsmouth Harbour, Southampton Central and Bournemouth.

[@Britainbyrail]

Brilliant vid as always. While you’re down here I must recommend you try heading down to Swanage. Norden station which is one of our terminus stations is a 15min bus ride from wareham

[@neilward3444]

My local station is fareham 👌

[@markredding3665]

Cosham my local station great vids mate

[@SouthernRex]

Was at Eastleigh today!

[@andywillis2650]

Another excellent video Nick, how are you finding it down here in the South ?

[@fkofilee]

You can do that journey on 4 x TOCs SWR Crosscountry Southern GWR

[@liftylu]

Hello, as there was that discrepancy when you caught the southern unit from Southampton in that Google maps said it was terminating at Barnham and your app/the boards showed Horsham, this is where I’d use the National Rail app, as this would be accurate showing the correct timetables.

[@simongurden9848]

I got crapped on by a pigeon walking into Fareham station. And then on the train to Bristol Chris Packham was sat adjacent to me.

[@ThisIsPeely]

I Need To Go To Portsmouth Now Since He Said It In His Title.

[@philipnesbitt3334]

You could have included a GWR train from Weymouth to Upwey and then the SWR on to Bomo and done things in a different order.

[@therodge319]

Think there are 2 that do run down to Weymouth on occasions, as a tall gentleman I’m not overly keen on them and try to avoid them, though I saw you down here, was aiming to come say hello but you had boarded the train and it was leaving, ah well… Love your videos dude, keep em coming

[@Nicolaizans]

Great video! You went through my local station!

[@dougdougsnacks]

I think I also suggested this area, or similar to that 😅

[@mcollier4566]

You finally made it to Wareham!

[@ste.h9825]

How come you didn't continue to Portsmouth Harbour? Good video.

[@Thornaby37]

Excellent video with the bonus point to point A slightly different point to point would be Cosham to Bosham, which despite the similar spellings, are pronounced totally different

[@ElijahsTransport]

Amazing video Nick!

[@markwillis2800]

I would love to see a KZbin to travel the entire length of the South coast by rail from Dover to Penzance.

[@TransportVloggerIan]

Seatbelts Wareham? He's here all year folks haha

[@chrismundy6213]

Come to Salisbury and say hello! I work there

[@jackbates7467]

Wow a British train journey I've actually done, simply to go to the end of the line from Winchester.

[@ReubenAshwell]

Brilliant video Nick, passengers blasting music out loud on trains is the absolute worse.

[@dazzlingdaz187]

Yes, public transport being let down by the public again. I also noted feet on seats. Aarggh

[@TrainBros2000s]

Great vid

[@orlandosalgado1833]

I love Portsmouth

[@jacobporrett]

Do you note down the unit numbers at all Nick?

[@warrentimothy2276]

BTW, you should do Cosham to Bosham and then Barnham to Warnham to Farnham.

[@TrainsOfDorset]

Farnham to Fareham would be a cool one as well!

[@stevelknievel4183]

Now that you've been to Fratton, why not do a point to point between Hatton and Yatton to celebrate?

[@oldtechnobodycaresabout]

I'd love to go to the south west/southcentral area but it takes 5 + hours to get there along the coastway lol does only cost £12 tho

[@espeon144]

You could do: Weymouth > Poole > Basingstoke > Reading > Gloucester > Westbury > Portsmouth

[@TRANSPORTEXCELLENCE2011]

On Monday 12 February 2024 I did a pointless journey from Oudenaarde Track 1 to Oudenaarde Track 1 by first taking the IC train to Courtrai and the IC to Brussels via Ghent but there was a defective train on that line and we were diverted via Denderleeuw to Brussels but there was a delay of 10 minutes and I only had 15 minutes in Brussels so we decided to go to Denderleeuw and there take the train back to Oudenaarde 😊

[@stateofflux7453]

Ohhh man, next week I’ll be visiting Brussels for a few days (visit there pretty regularly) and will definitely spend some time looking around the 3 main stations on the north-south connection to take in the vibe. Also will go up to Antwerpen at least once

[@annasargeant5859]

Point to point suggestion: Loughborough to Loughborough Junction.

[@adrianbromfild8624]

450 class do escape to Weymouth occasionally so you were lucky on this trip to ride on one of them

[@torinstorkey]

Convoluted journey series.

[@Eric_Hunt194]

You could have ticked GWR off sooner by catching a Heart of Wessex service from Weymouth to Upwey... might have messed up your schedule though!

[@FairpigeonVlogs]

Do Gillingham to Gillingham for point to plant

[@Transport81-w7n]

What day was this filmed? 21st Jan?

[@NickBadley]

Close! 20th Jan!

[@danielhanley-thurkettle8904]

How many stations do you go past I would like to know

[@HesterClapp]

Slightly different idea: Could you try to take every different train from Ramsgate to London in one day?

[@davidparsons97]

If I'm right in thinking, there are technically 3, if you separate SEHS from normal SE, then TL?

[@officialmcdeath]

@@davidparsons97 I'd argue more than that. 3 different HS routings, plus Charing X via Tonbridge, Victoria via Maidstone E, Cannon St rush hour service via Chislehurst and Rochester - sure I've missed something \m/

[@root_amor1912]

Gillingham (Kent) to Gillingham (Dorset)? 👀

[@dazzlingdaz187]

I was expecting you to get GWR to Dorch West then walk to Dorch South to get SWR, but clearly you wanted to spend as little time on a 150 as possible 😂😂

[@tonycook603]

You're in my area now, should have carried on to Portsmouth Harbour and then taken a ferry to the Isle of Wight. Or maybe you did!!!!

[@Britainbyrail]

How do I get in the discord server I am a member but can’t find the link

[@NickBadley]

I believe in your Discord "Connections" tab you need to connect your KZbin account to your Discord. Then it should appear in there

[@KerbalRocketry]

"cosham, great!" - the first time that sentence has ever been said without a heap of irony also you could have got the GWR bristol-pompey train from fareham no need for the extra leg to cosham, nor indeed why to stop at town rather than go all the way to harbour it's only short and they're the same ticket fare!

[@JohnC70056]

Nice video

[@MrBoombastic1]

fella is the next geoff marshall

[@Gregthebaka]

Pointless journey north Berwick to Berwick upon tweed Edit: I have a route north Berwick-Edinburgh-CarlisleWC Carlisle-Newcastle Newcastle-Berwick upon tweed

[@TRAINSPOTTING-450]

class 450

[@Brtitishrailwayzuk]

Great video. I’m going to York soon. Any tips of things to do?

[@InkItOut]

Check out the National Rail Museum if you haven’t already!

[@Brtitishrailwayzuk]

Will do thanks :)@@InkItOut

[@georgerutherford24]

Hope you checked it was a non football day before alighting at Fratton😂

[@JamesT85Gaming]

450's going to Weymouth its pretty rare. You was very lucky lol

[@jakewatson668]

I didn't know GWR went to Portsmouth

[@dorsettyke]

Portsmouth - Bristol - Cardiff. 👍

[@ZacharyPrivett-nd9ut]

Do Paddington to bouremouth

[@NameReveal-yy7qb]

point to point wick to hackney wick

[@Transport81-w7n]

Hey Nick, do Yeovil Junction - Pen Mill pointless journey

[@Ollie1660]

Isn’t much point as there is a direct rail service between the two

[@fussyboy2000]

Where's that spreadsheet?

[@NickBadley]

Linked it in the description!

[@fussyboy2000]

@@NickBadley Cool - Do you have separate lists for all visits and just those shown on KZbin?

[@Hgplayz451]

Wigan (North Western) To Wigan (Wallgate)

[@somekitten1337]

how much money does this cost?!?!??!?!

[@hamshackleton]

Here's a point to point for you, Nick - Waddington, Lincs, to Warrington, Cheshire - but not wbq - Warrington Central!

[@LemoncloudGT]

Point to point idea: Bootle (Liverpool) to Bootle (Cumbria)

[@Gregthebaka]

He already did that I think

[@idotrains]

Can u go to New Milton statoon for 1 Tomorrow afternoon as I am based around there and I want to meet you

[@MrTransportAddict]

Pointless Journey Suggestion Kensington Olympia (District Line) - Kensington Olympia (Southern/Overground) Also what do think about the New Overground Line Names?