To All The Scottish Stations - Episode 50, Day 90 - Inverkeithing to Glenrothes

It's the 4th of August and basing ourselves in Edinburgh we head north to pick up an awkward station, hear our first bagpipes, have a problem with a train delay and we divert and then go round the Circle Line. No, not THAT Circle Line ...
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ROUTE: Inverkeithing - Dundee - Stirling - Alloa - Larbert - Camelon - Falkirk High - Haymarket - Glenrothes with Thornton - North Queensferry

[@AllTheStations]

It's worth noting (hello ScotRail!) that despite what we show in this video, ScotRail WiFi we found to be the easiest to connect (no mega-field sign up page) and the most reliable to use. ScotRail win the WiFi wars! 👍

[@superjohnmcginn9817]

All The Stations l I live in Scotland and the WiFi varies from time to time

[@isaac_mp4]

All The Stations what about c2c?

[@neilwilson5785]

Easy sign-up to WiFi is soo cool.

[@mikefuller2019]

All The Stations I

[@andydrew2003]

What about Arriva Trains Wales?

[@JBS319]

5:00 notice the CrossCountry service to Penzance. As the journey comes to an end, there's the train back to where you began. Also the longest service in the UK.

[@wang_one_95]

I think the longest service is the northbound service from Penzance to Aberdeen; on the other hand, the southbound service departs 'only' from Dundee, so it is slightly shorter. Correct me if I am wrong.

[@CBeaumontHIGTFY]

Other way round, used to be as you said, but it's now Aberdeen-Penzance; Plymouth-Aberdeen

[@wang_one_95]

Ahh... that is interesting. Thanks for the correction.

[@Ulleskelf]

I attempted to do the Aberdeen-Penzance direct service last month. But I got as far as Exeter and then the train was terminated and we had to get a GWR HST for the rest of the journey

[@chazzftw9313]

Wow it’s the longest service in the UK? I was meant to takethat service to inverkeithing but it was when xc was on strike so I had to get a xc to York and then York to Edinburgh with VTEC and then scotrail to inverkeithing then the next week was an easier journey direct to burton upon Trent from inverkeithing with xc

[@LoveAngelLA]

I noticed you did a quick stop at Alloa. They are trying to reopen the line between Alloa and Dunfermline with a station at Clackmannan and Kincardine. Near Kincardine they are going to open a factory where they will be making new Trains. If planes go a head and I hope they do.

[@cowdengelly1995]

Cowdenbeath? Dunfermline? Rosyth? Apart from that omission it was a great video.

[@ya-boi-cblyth7448]

cowdengelly1995 kinghorn as well

[@neville132bbk]

I was waiting for Cupar...my father-in-law's territory, although in the 20s/30s he lived in Kemback....but no Cupar came up.... used the station on Sept 16th 2016 on day up to Dundee... staying in Cupar after daughter's wedding in London...long way from NZ...

[@solobrouk]

Those "sad penguins" in Dundee used to be "happy penguins" but they became a danger to kids etc as they get stabbing themselves on the Penguins beaks so they had to turn the beaks downwards 😂😂

[@ericjamieson]

LOL let's have a sharp prong sticking out right at the height of a child's eyeball. What could go wrong?

[@neville132bbk]

Was there .only time.. in mid Sept 2016.....didn't notice. Took special notice, though, of the "Discovery".

[@nickyp28]

two other circles to explore in scotland - the cathcart circle (glasgow central to glasgow central) and the glasgow subway!

[@liesl7617]

Many years ago, Larbert used to have the longest station platforms in Europe. I'm from Larbert and remember the incident with the bridge on the day you were here. A lorry got a bridge just outside Camelon. It has happened a few times!

[@sunnyd8585]

The song that was played on the bagpipes in Stirling is called “The Green Hills of Tyrol”

[@jamessmith6402]

Hi from a Scot in Johannesburg. Thanks for the great video.

[@garyknighton9089]

Don't recall mention of slightly awkward Gleneagles station which has massive service gaps during the day, except Sundays!

[@Louisa93able]

Excellence in diplomatic skills! No mention of the Battle of Dunbar. No mention of Willaim Topaz Macgonagall and his disastrous lament 'The Tay Bridge Disaster'.

[@jamessmith6402]

Jim from Johannesburg forgot to add my uncle used to work in the signal box at Dundee station !

[@PetertheRock.]

This is so much fun! Well done both!

[@neilburns8869]

Dundee is a remarkably small and compact station especially when you consider it's Scotland's 4th largest city. The City of Discovery. Dundee was a very affluent city at one time many years ago. Famous for making Jute. Also for the Beano and the Dandy comics. It's now becoming a city for hydrogen fuel cell technology and the bid to make net zero. There's also a computer games industry in Dundee.

[@FarlandHowe]

This is my favorite so far. I think the Kyle line is the one though. It is my favorite anyway. Good to know about the y, in the early videos somewhere I thought it was i and that carried through till now. Rock on, Rob

[@Cletusongs]

The new Tay Bridge was built next to the one the collapsed. You can see the remains of the old bridge in your video.

[@98CookR]

While I can't comment on her pronunciation of Dùn Dè, Vicki has made the classic error of saying 'gay-lik' which is the name of the Irish language, instead of 'gal-ik' which is the Scottish one.

[@StrathpefferJunction]

Robert Cook 'De' or 'Dè' in Scots Gaelic is pronounced 'jeh' or 'jay' respectively. And 'dùn' is pronounced 'doon'.

[@michaellee8410]

Hi, another fantastic video. What is all this about Vicki or Vicky. On the All the Stations video introducing the team it is Vicki Pipe.

[@Phil_Cleaver]

8:50 Nearly Headless Vic.

[@oforid2227]

Dundee an Interchangeable station with scotrail also the doc matrix is dark and light

[@pauldevey8628]

Vicki needs a scottrail kilt

[@BulletNoseBetty]

Paul Devey Just not with those hideous tights.

[@benivanphillips]

13:55 musical perfection

[@isaac_mp4]

Best bit of entire trip: 2:20

[@jasondykstra3102]

Geoff, after you finished least used stations in England, can you do it in Scotland and Wales?

[@someamazingpenguin8531]

Springfield - least used station in Fife

[@benwrong6855]

Did you miss Polmont and Linlithgow?

[@donaldgrieve8854]

you have not been to Briech station on the glasgow /edinburgh via shotts line one train a day eastbound and one train a day westbound no one gets on or off

[@stevenjlovelace]

Vicki didn't get to the Beheading Stone? So she got cut off?

[@tonybailey7037]

I hope Geoff means - Biggest disaster in British railway history.

[@AndreiTupolev]

You didn't decline the class 68 did you, Geoff?

[@RoseRodent]

I watched far too much of this just to see if Edinburgh Gateway was open yet

[@chrismccartney8668]

Penguins I think the Dundee Whalers boiled them alive for their oil...!!

[@charliemoir5591]

OMG. YOU HAVENT DONE ISLE OF WIGHT YET!!

[@thomas8692]

charlie moir they have, it's a "all the stations bonus video". Look on the bonus video playlist

[@charliemoir5591]

I know. It was a joke as everyone was saying.

[@cbak12sg]

thomas pike It's become a running joke.

[@howardsprenger3958]

It's becoming a stumbling joke now...

[@leqin]

Cancelled due to leaves on the line.

[@kacperkrakowski]

Dun Dun-Dee

[@benbielenberg853]

Also I speak A bit of Irish gaeilic so Dún Dé is most likely pronounced 'Doon Day'

[@StrathpefferJunction]

Iarnród Eireann Trains Close. It's Doon Jay

[@crownjulesgaming542]

2:19 Simpsons reference!

[@russalex6058]

This answers your question about the Gaelic pronunciation of Dundee. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIDSiHqGqN6tfMk

[@ethanrichardson5139]

Nice to know ubers run in uk

[@limeyfox]

It's pronounced 'Gallic' when you're in Scotland. 'Gaelic' is In Ireland (as-per Gaelic Football.)

[@cathyconnelly4616]

No, the language in Ireland is not called Gaelic it’s called Irish (or Gaeilge in that language). Gaelic football yes, but we never say Gaelic when referring to the language.

[@pellee5763]

Lovely how at 13:55 the buzzer kind of becomes part of the music

[@Mirciulikkk]

I had an OCDgasm when that happened

[@LemoncloudGT]

The buzzer was the train

[@Legolancer]

@@LemoncloudGT we know

[@MontytheHorse]

Lovley to see the station I commute from every day (Inverkeithing) and the station where I live finally appear on ATS. :-) Geoff, it's Fife Circle, not loop! Lucky Vicky is there to keep you right when it comes to pronunciation of Scottish place names. ;-) On the Gaelic issue, can't say I'm a fan of adding invented Gaelic names to stations in the Central Belt with no historical Gaelic name.

[@ianmcclavin]

MontytheHorse They gave up with Shawfair though! No Gaelic translation on the platform signs there.

[@ATee-vx6dm]

MontytheHorse it's unnecessary but I quite like it. All names are made-up at the end of the day.

[@DSQueenie]

Your the first person to agree with me of the whole fake Gaelic place name thing. It's like they're trying to invent a false history.

[@DavidShepheard]

Backformation is a thing with place names (even in English). So I guess it would be a natural extension for someone to try to extrapolate a Gaelic name out of an English one. With English having a bunch of name suffixes and prefixes that originate from other languages, I'm guessing that newly invented Gaelic placenames might raid bits of English to create new names.

[@AlasdairMacCaluim]

Thanks for showing an interest in Gaelic and Welsh on your travels guys! The name Dundee is indeed from Gaelic. Dùn Dè is pronounced Doon Jay. "Fort on the Tay". Scottish Gaelic is pronounced Gah-lick and not Gay-lick.

[@qwertyTRiG]

Alasdair MacCaluim Cognate to Irish dún, which also means fort. Dé in Irish is God. What's the meaning of Tay?

[@louiitrains]

TRiG (Ireland) Im pretty sure it means Fort Fire, dun being Fort as well in Scots Gaelic. Been to Dundee a few times, bit grotty to be honest. The Tay bridge definitely makes up for it though!

[@DavidFrankal]

2:11 "I am not Amelia Pond, I am a voice interface"

[@jameslovestokyo]

Thanks for the great video! While clearly amazed by Scotrail moquette ties, Geoff and Vicki missed a chance to comment on the longest scheduled passenger train journey in the country, the 08:20 Aberdeen - Penzance, which was just glimpsed over their shoulders. Perhaps a standalone video for a future challenge?

[@M1CAE1.]

5:51 - I think you will be happy to know that Dundee station has been completely rebuilt, with a Travelodge of some description above, automatic ticket machines in the station, and of all things, a piano in the station concourse. The last time I was up there visiting my grandmother (I'm from London), there was someone in the station playing Pirates Of The Carribean, it was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in a station.

[@ianmcclavin]

Re: your "training" comment at 9:25 or thereabouts, I remember a banner at Edinburgh Waverley some years ago, "Training beats Coaching!" A not so subtle marketing ploy

[@naijiktom]

I'd buy a ScotRail moquette flat cap.

[@thomaswilliams4543]

Timed the guards buzzer with the song at 13:55

[@leqin]

That definatly isn't a Scottish breakfast - that Tunnocks wasn't fried.

[@terrysansom3862]

seems so weird to me at 57 seconds in when you look at the timetable seeing 2 cornish station (i'm cornish) just beneath the one your looking at when your in scotland

[@craftythio]

"springfield" THE SIMPSONS INTENSIFIES

[@bockersjv]

Did Tommy the tea seller once work on the docks in the 80s? Also at 13:55 the way the guards buzzer is on beat with the music!

[@benivanphillips]

13:55 musical perfection

[@louiitrains]

I went to Stirling once, but the Castle wasn't open as it was a typical British torrential downpour so we just sat in the pub next door!

[@watkinzez]

I visited Stirling today. A bit less busy and a whole lot mistier!

[@Blueburst360]

More pronunciation pedantry: it's Quintinshill as in "Quintin's Hill" 😉

[@martinthomsonmuse]

Hello to my local station of Dundee :) there is a video on my channel doing a walkthrough from station to brand new concourse!! Also there is a ghost story about the railway disaster that apparently on the anniversary of the disaster you can see and hear a train making the journey that sadly was never completed. Of course make of that as you may :)

[@memofromessex]

You haven't done the Isle of Man Railway yet!

[@jrenema]

Here's an idea: the All The Stations tune on bagpipes

[@dansmith4601]

I live in Wandsworth (SW London and three stops from Waterloo) and I frequently get on a train to Hounslow via chiswick. At Hounslow, the trains then say they are going back to London Waterloo via Richmond. I checked on a map and saw there is another loop: Waterloo Clapham junction Richmond Kingston Wimbledon Clapham junction Waterloo Both loops are stopping services but I couldn't be bothered to write down about sixteen stations for each loop

[@ericjamieson]

I think that's called the "Sutton Loop." I only know about it because I got on the wrong train once and ended up on it.

[@benbielenberg853]

Congrats on finshing!

[@b34rdy]

yay you guys finally made my local station at inverkeithing.

[@briand1102]

Shame the weather wasn't better for your visit to Fife - the trip up the coast past Aberdour and Burntisland is lovely when the sun shines.

[@johnlaing1118]

at 0.22, Geoff states that there's a really awkward station. I thought he was gonna say 'Glenrothes'. Why? There is no railway station in Glenrothes. It's in Thornton, a village that has a strong railway history. Whereas Glenrothes is famous for concrete hippos and a fibreglass dinosaur.

[@chris075uk]

I've probably still got an old ScotRail tie from the First Group days, I've also got a ScotRail hi-vis and I know where that is, yours if you like

[@johnledingham852]

If you put on an unhappy face, you still look unhappy upside down Geoff. So keep looking happy standing on your feet or standing on your head. Vicki looks happy and lovely even going through a tunnel.

[@felixw19]

13:05 I´m watching this after the platform 0 video came out

[@neilburns8869]

It's a pity that you didn't have the time to go to a local Morrisons Cafe & have yourselves a fully cooked breakfast and a lovely hot Cup of tea to keep you warm.

[@keithflockhart]

another fantastic video. pity about the weather for you. Fife circle past burntisland and aberdour is great along the coast

[@TheZatrahc]

When I saw the man with the American flag visor I got my hopes up that I'd be able to clearly understand what he's saying.

[@davekirwin]

Yep, impressive bridge shot! Great stuff, I miss Scotland - for the scenery, not the weather :)

[@neilburns8869]

Stirling very famous for the Wallace Monument (William Wallace of course).

[@Kraftwerker1]

As you pulled out the Tunnock's teacake, I was literally opening one here for myself! Tremendous choice.

[@russrh]

Ah cannae help ye thaur has bin a brig strike, mair information as Ah gie it.

[@dawnlovejoy8917]

Was it Lorraine Kelly doing the train announcement? Sounded just like her.

[@haddockman30]

Who is always clicking dislike?

[@tallman11282]

haddockman30 All popular channels seem to have at least a few people who dislike every video the channel puts out. I don't understand it personally.

[@lrp_745]

You weren't judging, you were ubering

[@neilburns8869]

In contrast to Dundee station, Perth is surprisingly big. But in terms of the geography it's just at the right place to be a major hub. It receives trains from 4 directions. North: to & from Inverness, South: to & from Stirling and Glasgow Queen Street, South East: Kirkcaldy, Inverkeithing, Haymarket and Edinburgh Waverley and finally East: Dundee and Aberdeen. I think it's got 7 very decent sized platforms.

[@Sgoinneil]

Quite shocking how Dundee, despite having triple the population of Perth has only 4 platforms in its station while Perth has 7 platforms

[@mboothy]

Nice to see a shot of my local station Burntisland made it into the video ☺

[@benivanphillips]

I didn't have wifi for a week and now I'm behind 😭

[@BigSmartQuiz]

Geoff, Vicky... Have they sent you any ties as of yet? I'm very excited to know. Perhaps a mini bonus video showing you wearing them too, nudge nudge, wink wink...? :)

[@sharonkeith601]

A pyramid in the Stirling cemetery?! This is your honeymoon, isn’t it?! Lots of giggling and smiling! You look nice together! ❤️👵🏻

[@trickydicky8237]

Dundee, famous for 3 J's ............ Jute, Jam and Journalism .........

[@southcalder]

Larbert is predominately an Engineering Training Centre for Network Rail. Training NR staff on skills such as Signalling, Track Engineering, Plant and Electrical Distribution. It does also do classroom based training for office staff, topics such as First Aid. It also provides meeting space for the company and brings in schoolchildren to teach them about railway safety and to encourage STEM careers. Spent many, many weeks there over my career with them.

[@neilburns8869]

I used to live in Glenrothes and I can tell you that Vicki was the one who came closest to the correct pronunciation of the place name. It was one of the new towns in the 60s and 70s. Scotland got 5 new towns at the time. Glenrothes, Livingston, Cumbernauld, East Kilbride and Irvine.

[@Tyler.i.81]

There is also a army plaque dedicated to killed soldiers at Lichfield city station because of the IRA bomb that went off there killing service men.

[@anthonyholroyd5359]

I'm a Scotrail guard based at Perth. I work with Neil actually :P The Tay bridge is the longest in the UK. I had been told that railways run in families but always though I was the first railwayman in my family. Turns out my Uncle was a P-way guy in Belfast and my great, great, great uncle was the guard on the train that fell into the Tay when the bridge collapsed. I work over the replacement bridge most days.

[@whackingbadge]

I LOVE that shot of the Forth Rail bridge. Only one thing, Vicki corrected you on the Glenrothes pronunciation but Cam-elon is actually pronounced Came-elon. It's rather unusual. The only way I know of it is because I was at Linlithgow station recently and heard an announcement for a train to Dunblane (I think) and the ScotRail announcer said Came-elon.

[@TorstenLif]

So you stopped at Falkirk High but didn't make the detour to the Falkirk Wheel? OK, I know it's not on the railways, but then neither are most of the castles! Or are you saving it up for "All the canals"?

[@williamgeorgefraser]

My last visit to Alloa station was incredible. In 1968, my uncle, who was a driver, invited me to travel from Dunfermline to Alloa on a goods train in the cab of a Class 37. On the way back, he let me take the controls.

[@maddyharding]

I grew up just outside Stirling, lived there for 16 years, you should've gone to Banarkburn where there was a famous battle.

[@roundel52]

Watching this a little late after a weekend away, with sadness because Vicki/Tigger and Geoff won't enliven my commute any more. Glad you completed the trip though, really showing your collective stamina guys!

[@OkenWS]

I learnt to fly at Tayside Aviation, which was on your left as you left the Tay Bridge, and I can tell you the view from 3000ft is even more stunning. Was tempted to move to Dundee for university.

[@paulsmyers203]

Not only was there a proper Scotsman riding a drinks-go-round, but also a beautiful shot of the Forth Bridge. Best-Episode-Yet.

[@carrma3831]

Awhhh... I’m the Station after Springfield in Cupar. You put it in your longest route video though, I was across the road from the station when you arrived for the Longest route video and I wish I’d known you’d be there 😂

[@markc8956]

Those 158s were supposed to come to us in the West Highlands and now aren't. ScotRail since Abellio took over hasn't been good enough.

[@gareth-stuartogg7887]

Dundee is one of the majority of words in the northeast that don't have a relation to Gaelic. The use of Gaelic is pretty much a west coast/Highland language so a lot of words don't exist in language and the translations get a bit of a joke

[@jayohcee30]

@ 10:34 ... I am surprised that the stonemason that did the wording on the commemorative plaque made such a bad error ... even more surprised when it was allowed to be paid for ... (perhaps he was just following the wording that was badly spelt on the order ?) ... & grr @ ubering ...

[@Tevildo]

Um... what is the problem with the plaque, exactly? The lack of brackets around "Leith"?

[@jayohcee30]

'their' replaced the originally carved 'there' ...

[@Tevildo]

Ahh, I see, thanks. At least it's been corrected.

[@revmpandora]

I suspect the penguins are not intended to look sad, but rather they are made to look as emperor penguins do as they peer lovingly at the egg held on top of their feet tucked under their folds to keep it warm off the ice. Thanks! Btw marry me Victoria 😉

[@dancapewell]

The plack had the wrong their / there on it at one point