It's the first NON-Official video, as it's a bonus one from Geoff! Expect roughly one bonus video a week here on Geoff's channel, whilst getting the official four-a-week videos on the main 'All The Stations' channel. It's Friday 5th May, and to start the trip, Vicki & Geoff take the sleeper down to Penzance ...
Our Q&A video should answer everything you need to know ...
Quite by chance, on the same day that we started (Sunday May 7th 2017), the 'Great Britain X' steam excursion trip was on day 8 of its 9 day journey, and we saw it depart at 08.45 in the morning, but not before Vicki got on the footplate! The engines are LMS Royal Scot Class 7P 4-6-0 no 46100 Royal Scot, and BR Rebuilt Light Pacific 4-6-2 no 34046 Braunton.
It’s day four - Wednesday 7th May - and Geoff and Vicki tackle fiddly Feniton, accidentally spend an hour more than they planned in Westbury, and visit a little piece of London in deepest Wiltshire. Lympstone Commando station is a special stop that you're only allowed to use if you have business at the military base. There is a gate on the platform with a keycode and a guard, regular people are not allowed to alight there!
It's Thursday 11th May 2017, with disused railways that run into the sea, some route management, a rare sighting of a luggage extender and some much overdue tea count clarification. All this (and more) in the latest episode of All The Stations.
It's Saturday 13th May, and on #AllTheStations it goes wrong early on when a train to Basingstoke runs late, and we miss our connection to Reading. It means that we'll finish an hour later than planned that day ... or does it? Geoff puts a call into his friend Jono that lives in the Guildford area, to try and make some connection to make up time!
Monday 15th May 2017 is a rainy day, with a forgotten camera battery, a travel companion, a visit to long lost station and a truly excellent seagull.
It's Sunday 14th May 2017, and Geoff & Vicki hop over the sea from Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight where the sun is shining, the natives are friendly and the trains look rather familiar…
To Kent on Wednesday May 17th. Will Geoff and Vicki do 'A Westbury' at Ashford International? Is there a toilet on the train? Is Paddock Wood just fields? How many stations have a platform 0? Which station does the prime meridian run through? Why is Rochester Castle special? Only one way to find out ...
Your questions answered, Karen! In the Kickstarter, one of the rewards was for a 'Station Enquires' pledge, where you get to send us questions which we will personal answer for you. At the discretion of the backer, some of these videos may then be made public. This was recorded whilst sat on a train between Portsmouth and Guildford!
It's Thursday 18th May and Geoff and Vicki venture out again to complete the rest of the Kent stations. There's a castle in Dover, we find out what noise Javelin trains make, a brilliant level crossing, and for the first time on the trip, the weather is not the best ...
Friday 19th May, and we're ticking off some of Southern's end-of-lines including East Grinstead, Uckfield and Caterham, which involved some double backs and a ride from Roger!
It's Sunday 21st May, and we're out to really to do just one station today, but it's an important one - the only day Geoff and Vicki can get a train to Manchester United Football Ground this summer. Plus a bonus interview with Richard Evans, a Southeastern driver (even though, the interview was done on a Southern train!) This video was originally intended to be published last week, but due to the terrible events at Manchester Arena on the Monday the day after we were there, we delayed its publishing.
Whilst in Manchester on Sunday 21st May to visit Man United Football Ground halt, we realised Vicki had never been on the trams there before, so it was time to take a ride!
It's Monday 22nd of May, and for the start of the week, Vicki & Geoff cover the south suburban area of London on a hot sunny day, discovering that Epsom Down isn't the nearest station for Epsom Downs, that you can sometimes sit in 1st Class on a Standard Class ticket, and oh ... there's a small problem at Leatherhead.
It's Tuesday 23rd May, and Vicki and Geoff forget to change trains and go wrong! But do discover where London's first ever railway - and terminus - used to be.
It's Wednesday 24th May and it's a day out on South West Trains! The plan was to visit Hampton Court along the way, but instead found ourselves in Windsor instead ... Thanks to Richard for giving us a lift between Windsor and Bracknell, and Staines to Shepperton!
It's Thursday 25th May, and In London, it's time to take a circuit of the London Overground - as these stations have to be done (but the Underground/Tube does not!). Might it just be Geoff's favourite railway company? And Vicki gets up close with some wildlife in a nearby park. Huge thanks to Robert Hulse at the brilliant Brunel museum, which you should go and visit! Their website is here: http://www.brunel-museum.org.uk/ This video is also brought to you by the London Transport Museum Friends who are a separate charity, working closely with the Museum to support its objectives and collections. Their members support the Museum by volunteering their time, enthusiasm and expertise in a variety of ways, ranging from conducting guided tours, cataloguing items in the Museum's collection, to fundraising and so much more.
Up to Aylesbury for a quick chat with Steve, on through a least used station, confirmation of a Tesco followed by a whistle-stop tour of Oxford. Then an easy ride back to London, right?
As part of the Kickstarter rewards, you could pay to choose to have a video made for you with your own personal questions answered! Here's the video for Londonist.com who asked us a whole bunch of questions!
It's Wed 31st May, and Geoff & Vicki venture into Essex, where they find an old MOD branch line, a special train that runs out to sea… and Geoff has to resist the urge to catch a tube train ...
It's Thursday 1st June, an we head out from London Liverpool Sreet to the end of many branch lines by the coast in Esses and Suffolk! It's a sunny day, some gorfeous views from beaches - and perhaps Britain's longest platform too?
It's the least used station in the whole of Great Britain, and whilst we started our travels there the following day, we went down on the Friday evening for Vicki to tell us a brilliant historical story about the station. This will filmed on Friday 2nd June, the following morning on Saturday 3rd June we did something rather special ... that main video will be published tomorrow. ROUTE: We drove from Ely to Shippea HIll. Stayed there an hour, then drove back to Ely again.
It's Friday 2nd June, and we pay a special visit to the newest station in the whole of the country - Cambridge North, which only just opened on the 21st May.
It's Saturday 3rd June 2017, and we start the day by having more people get on a train at Shippea Hill that did in the whole of the 2015/16 period! There's also a low bridge at Ely, a missed connection at Peterborough, and several awkward stations ticked off between Cambridge and Ipswich With thanks to Martin Clitheroe for the drone footage.
It's Sunday 4th June, and we're up in Norfolk, knocking out some of the awkward station, including England's most remote station - it's Berney Arms. And then we find a delightful manually operated level crossing at Brundall!
It's Tuesday 6th June, and bad weather causes grey skies, plenty of rain, and a cancelled train. But Geoff & Vicki battle on to find a dead king, Nottingham's trams, and the lights of Skegvegas. Oh, and did we mention the rain too?
It's Wednesday 7th June, and we start at the least used station in Lincolnshire, and finish on the line to Matlock. Along the way we take a ride on a cablecar, and see Peak Rail - a heritage line. And then, we get to re-create some artwork of a famous Oasis recording ...
No tea, shortly followed by getting on the wrong train. Is there a connection between these two things? Back on track at Worksop, and time for some light reading followed by a ride on brand new Pacer. Just time for a visit at another brand new station before pushing on to Peartree.
Its Friday 9th June and we're still in Derbyshire, but heading back to Lincolnshire this time talking to Karen about her local services, we chat to Peter - a dispatcher at Birmingham New Street - and bump into Bob on the train back to Lincoln. Oh, and Vicky explores Hinckley ...
Saturday 10th June, and after doing the Gainsborough to Cleethorpes line, we get a bus to Scunthorpe, and then head west to Doncaster (to see the new Platform Zero) - except we have to walk between Thorne South to Thorne North to pick up som extra stations. And this GENUINELY happened next, and I don't think we would have made it without them ... Thanks to Matt & Louse for giving us a ride in their (small) blue car!!
It's Tuesday 13th June, and before we head out onto the trains at Euston, we talk to the Chairman of Network Rail - Sir Peter Hendy! Then it's just Watford, Bletchley, Bedford, St Albans, Northampton and Birmingham to fit in - easy, along the way we find the voice of the new Class 700 Thameslink trains, and the lovely people from the Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership, who have a very special surprise for us!
It's the 14th June, and we're on the first of a few days in Birmingham into the sunny Midland shires, where we discover an unusual little train, visit a chocolate-box village, and talk to a London Midland conductor ...
It's thr 15th June, and to start the day Vicki & Vicki take a trip to Stratford Upon Avon, leaving Geoff to catch them up for some semi-awkward stations on the way to Leamington Spa. Then it's on Solihull, Coventry and Nuneaton, with an hour to kill in Warwick. If *only* there was something interesting to see in Warwick ...
It's Friday 16th June, and we start the day by getting the once-a-day only service from Polesworth - but who catches this train? Shrewsbury is pretty, and we chat to a passenger with accessibility needs, and discover a brilliant community artwork installation at Smethwick, Birmingham.
It's Monday 19th June, and All The Stations head out west from Paddington to do all the stations in the Thames Valley area. They've got a lift from Dan which helps, a ride too in some self driving cars at Heathrow, except that due to it being the hottest day of the year, and a pigeon that explodes, it all goes a bit wrong ...
It's Tuesday 20th June, and on another hot day in England, we catch up on the Bicester VIllage branch, and then get the one-a-day "Finstock Flyer", take a walk through the countryside to get to Combe station, and then head west to Great Malvern and Hereford, except that things once again did not run smoothly ...
It's the 21st June , and after having a couple of days on the trains where things go wrong, it's got to be third time lucky ... right? We also meet a ma who designs stations for a living, and take a ride on a transporter brdge in Newport. It's our most MAXIMUM VIDEO of the series so far!
It's the 22nd June, and we're starting in Bristol again catching up with some of the few remaining stations in the area, including Pewsey which gets a limited service. Oh! And there appears to be a second camera following us around for the morning .. it's the BBC!
It's Sunday 25th June, and we're back down in Devon to pick up two awkward stations - Samford Courtenay and Okehampton. The line is only served by GWR/National Rail trains on summer Sundays ONLY, and at Okehampton, the Dartmoor Railway then runs services to nearby Melton Quarry/Viaduct. They sometimes run trains back to Sampford Courtenay too.
Recorded on 22nd June, broadcast on 27th June 2017, the BBC News correspondent David Sillito came out and joined us between Westbury, Pewsey and Newbury to find us just over halfway through our journey and ask us ... "Why?"
It's 27th June, and after the BBC featured this morning (thanks!) we wanted to record a quick update to say hello to everyone that may have just come to our YouTube channel today.
It's 26th June and we're in Wales! On the Valley Lines in Cardiff, and we'd heard that Gilfach Fargeod had a VERY short platform! But how short? Only one way to find out ...
It's the 24th of June, and we take a trip to a station near Bristol that only gets TWO trains per week, both on a Saturday and in one direction only - and meet a lovely group of people who want to bring more services back to their local station.
It's Tuesday 27th June, and we're on the Cardiff Valley lines, where Vicki's welsh is improving, and it turns out that everyone we seems to meet in Wales is just super friendly. We find the shortest distance between two stations, eat some ice-cream, and then pop into the headquarters for Arriva Trains Wales to see their social media team in action.
How quickly can you do the 33 stations on the Heart of Wales (Swansea - Shrewsbury) Line, if you GET OUT at each station. There are only 4 trains that run the entire length! Notes: The PDF download page is here: https://www.arrivatrainswales.co.uk/timetables/ It's Timetable 1 you want, and the times start on page 42. Do it using the Monday to Friday timetable - it should be possible to do it starting on a Monday and NOT going into the weekend. You *are* also allowed to walk between stations, or get a lift/private ride. Use google maps to work out the correct distance and times taken. And SHOW YOUR WORKINGS! You can start at EITHER end! Is it better to start at Swansea, or Shrewsbury? ADDITIONAL CAVEAT: There *are* extra morning services (in both directions) that start even earlier, but they only go part of the way - that's OK, you can use these services too!
It's the 1st July, and we're at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch and it reminds us that we're having a problem translating the phrase 'All The Stations' into Welsh. We've asked various different Welsh people, all who have given us different ways of saying it! So HOW DO YOU say 'All The Stations' in Welsh? Annoyingly, YouTube polls only let you have FIVE choices, so we've dropped number 2. So the poll lets you choose from options 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Hope that makes sense! Also, DON'T use or think that Google Translate knows how to do this best - it doesn't. We need genuine Welsh people who've spoken the language their entire lives to tell us. Thanks!
It's the 28th June, we're in Wales, heading west! To Fishguard, and Pembrokeshire. We just wish the weather was a little better...
It's the 29th June, and we make it to the ❤ Of Wales line! Which we've been looking forward to since the start of the trip, surely one of Britain's most scenic railways? We stop at the least used station in Wales, go over a gorgeous viaduct, meet some local volunteers who tend to their local station and catch with an author who knows a thing or two about travelling on the rails themselves. Vicki's Welsh is slowly improving day by day too, Geoff's less so.
It's the 30th June, and having come up the Heart of Wales line yesterday, we now head into west Wales, to Dovey Junction, Aberystwyth, drop into the Vale Of Rhjeidol Railway, and then up the line across the amazing Barmouth Bridge ...
It's the 1st July, and we're still in Wales ... ! And our day starts with a trip on the brilliant Ffestiniog Railway, and it links us between Porthmadog and Blaenau Ffestiniog before carrying to Holyhead, oh and some place too called St Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel Near to the Rapid Whirlpool of Llantysilio of the Red Cave
It's Tuesday 11th July, it's Day 66, and we've hit the north! Manchester, Liverpool, and all the places around, there's loads of stations to do here, so let's get on with it and do them!
It's the 12th July, and we're hitting Merseyrail for the first time starting at West Kirby, hitting another milestone, and then through the delightful Port Sunlight, to an awkward station with just four trains a day
IT'S THE 13TH OF JULY, AND WE'RE ON THE TRAIL OF THE LIVERPOOL TO MANCHESTER RAILWAY, DISCOVER THAT WIGANS TWO STATIONS ARE VERY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER (AND WIGAN HAS A PIER TOO) BEFORE COMING BACK ROUND TO MANCHESTER AGAIN
It's Friday 14th July and we start our day catching the most awkward train on the network! It's the once-a-week Friday only train, and we got on it at Reddish South
It's the 15th July, and we're starting at Leeds to catch the only train of the day that goes to Haysham Port, to meet up with the Isle of Man boat. We also meet Ian the 'Selfie King', and have a Brief Encounter at Carnforth station too
It's the 27th July and we venture out of Liverpool and into glorious rural Merseyside and beyond. They encounter the Parbold pong… stress at Westhoughton… and the touching tale of unrequited trains at Kirkby.
It's the 18th of July, and we start in Blackpool and travel around Lancashire, calling at Clitheroe, Colne, and beyond
It's 19th July, and we start at limited-service station Ardwick, pick up some fresh water and find a beautiful walk between two station in Derbyshire
It's the 25th of July, and we've got to get from Manchester over to Yorkshire, via Bradford, Leeds and a few other places inbetween. Vicki hands out some chocolates on the train, just don't leave the wrappers behind, because someone will have to clear the them up. Oh and Geoff's got a cold
It's 26th July, and as we roam around wonderful Yorkshire, we discover a new children's TV programme, chat to the Virgin trains designer, forget to look at something important in Scarborough, get a little bit rained on, and oh - knock out seven very awkward stations!
It's the 27th July, and it's a rainy day but Geoff & Vicki don't care - because today they're on one of the finest train journeys in the world - the Settle & Carlisle Railway. The route takes them over hill and under dale, including the highest station in England, and the magnificent Ribblehead Viaduct.
It's the 28th July, and we head up the Cumbrian Coast line, right on the edge by the sea and set out to ride on a classic Class 37 locomotive
Starting at Middlesbrough, Geoff and Vicki visit one-train-a-day Redcar British Steel, before skirting the coast from Saltburn to Whitby, where they follow in Harry Potter's footsteps and pick up the pretty North York Moors heritage railway.
It's the 2nd August and we start our day in Thirsk, head up through Sunderland and Newcastle and catch a train to the very awkward station that is Chathill
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
It's 7th August, and we're leaving Edinburgh and heading west to do a whole week on the suburban network of Glasgow, making sure we pick up the awkward station that is Briech along the way
It's 8th August, and it's our suburban Glasgow week which finally get us to a station that we've been looking forward to going to probably the most ... Wemyss Bay
It's the 9th August, and we're still out and about on the Glasgow suburban network .. and we pay a visit to the ScotRail control centre
It's 15th August and it's finally time to leave Glasgow and head ... into the highlands. To Oban and beyond, where we stay the night at the highest station in Britain, it's Corrour! Which was always going to be amazing, and the location of where 'Trainspotting' was filmed - it was always going to be the ultimate tick!
It's the 16th August, and having stayed the night at Corrour we head north to Fort William, and then get the boat over to Skye, meet local Mark who talks Gaelic to us, and then gives us a ride to the Kyle of Lochalsh, so we can get the train to Inverness.
It's 17th August, and starting in Inverness we head down the east coast of Scotland through Aberdeen, ultimately aiming for the awkward stations of Balmossie, Golf Street and Barry Links - just as soon as we've been to visit John who operates Kerr's miniature railway
It's the 18th August, and we're onto the Penultimate leg of our trip. We just have do eight stations today on the line from Perth up Inveress, and there's a steam heritage railway to visit along the way
It's the 19th August, and we're at the end ... the very last day and there's only one line to do to finish off the whole trip! We take the train from Inverness up to Wick, but don't worry we do of course speak to people along the way, and there's even a castle
We spent the weekend in Lincolnshire in February 2017, recording a test pilot video to see how it would come out. This is how it came out! We start in Lincoln, where by the level crossing, a new footbridge has been put in place for pedestrians, and we track down the old Lincoln St Marks station ...
Travelling to all 198 railway stations in Ireland and Northern Ireland Vicki and Geoff are taking All The Stations international! The duo will embark on a journey to visit all 198 railways stations in Ireland and Northern Ireland. All The Stations - Ireland will explore the length and breadth of the Iarnród Éireann and Northern Ireland Railways networks. Along the way, Vicki and Geoff will meet the communities connected to the lines, interviewing local people and those who work on the railways, to find out about their experiences of travelling by train.
It begins! Geoff and Vicki start their Irish travels at Rosslare, and head up the picturesque east coast to Bray - taking in the walking-pace Wexford stretch and TV’s Ballykissangel country, before a nifty switchback for today’s Awkward Station, Kilcoole. The sun is shining, the sea is blue - and thankfully it’s a little less windy than the ferry…
Today Geoff & Vicki’s travels take them to the other side of Ireland, starting in Dublin and then going west across country to Tralee. Geoff is very excited to be on a Proper Train and Vicki gets her castle fix in Killarney. But although it’s another beautiful day, they can’t quite shake the blues…
It's time for a corker of an episode! As travel on the suburban network of the city that likes to say it's the real capital of Ireland! But those trains, they look a but like sprinters! Or Pacers!! Don't they?
A late train to Waterford means a day of exploring Cork and beyond. After a quick concert courtesy of the brand new station piano, it's To The Buses! Geoff explores a nearby disused railway line, while Vicki has a date with a certain lucky stone...
It's our Waterford Weekend bonus videos! Instead of resting up, we heading out ... Vicki back to Tipperary whilst Geoff goes to the beach, but they meet up again at an abandoned station before a final search for a disused railway bridge ...
Our Waterford Weekend bonus videos continue! And it’s a lovely Spring Sunday, but there’s no time for relaxing - not with a disused railway line on your doorstep. Today our adventurers have hired bikes for a trip down the scenic Waterford Greenway.
Today we come up from Waterford via an explore of Kilkenny, knock out some rather ... functional ... stations of outer Dublin, and end the day by meeting a very familiar voice!
In an unusual start to the day, Geoff and Vicki visit the Irish Railway Record Society in the morning, before hopping on their first train in the afternoon. Then it's off up to Ballybrophy and on to Limerick, chatting with the people along the way.
Today’s episode follows Geoff and Vicki’s journey to Athlone. They’re serenaded at Ennis, and at Galway Geoff meets a young inventor while Vicki explores the city’s historical wonders. But the question is, will Vicki be Geoff’s Railway Girl…?
Out of Athlone down to Tullamore, the back again up to Westport before turning around again and heading to Manulla Junction for Ballina. In between all that to-ing and fro-ing there's time to visit the largest personal collection of train memorabilia in the country.
Today starts with an early bus ride and a whistlestop Sligo tour from a friendly local. Then it’s a day on the Sligo-Dublin line with plenty of distractions: Vicki explores Longford Cathedral, ride the commuter train to Leixlip, and hitch a lift by car to M3 Parkway. A long day with lots of trains - just how we like it!
It's a bonus video! And it's was time to ride to all 67 stops on the Dublin Tram system know as the LUAS.
It's the penultimate day’s train trek (where has the time gone?!) and Geoff and Vicki are heading towards Belfast, a journey up the east coast that will take them over the border into Northern Ireland for the first time. On the way we visit Malahide castle, see the sights of Balbriggan, and tick off TWO Awkward Stations no less. To the North!
It's time to travel around Northern Ireland! Today we hit up the branches out to Bangor and then to Larne, taking in a transport museum along the way, and pay a quick visit to the Whitehead Railway Preservation Society - the full video of that will come in the next couple of weeks
It's the last day ... as we tick off the final stations of the quest and it's a wonderfully scenic journey across the top of Northern Ireland,, taking in breathtaking view as the railway hugs the coast.
We're on the Isle of Man for three days! And on the firsts day we ride the Isle of Man Steam Railway from Douglas down to Port Erin, meeting Ian along the way, seeing the request stop at the airport, oh and Vicki explores a castle, OF COURSE ...
It's Day 2 on the Isle of Man and this time we're heading onto the the trams of the Manx Electric Railway, starting at Douglas DEvry Castle heading north, along including at Laxey a trip up the Snaefell Mountain Railway ...
It's Day 3 on the Isle of Man and having ticked off the Steam Railway and Manx Electric Railway, it's time for bonus video visiting two other railways on the island! Oh, and there's a small matter of the impressive Laxey Wheel as well to explore!
It's Day 1 of Six Stations, as Geoff Marshall visits the six newest stations in the country that he's not visited. It all kicks off in Worcestershire at a station that opened in February 2020.
It's Day Two of #SixStations as Geoff visits the six newest stations in the country that he's not been to yet. Each video has a different quest each time, and today Sarah joins as we visit this new station on the Cambrian line that opened in February 2021.
Today our 'Northern Correspondent' Karl joins Geoff for a station in Warrington, that he thinks should be called something else ...
It's Day Four of #SixStations as Geoff visits the six newest stations in the country that he's not been to yet. Today's guest, Dan, joins Geoff on the line between Hartlepool and Sunderland and the new station at Horden.
It's Day Five of #SixStations as Geoff visits the six newest stations in the country that he's not been to. Today Jen joins Geoff in Scotland for this new station on the Cumbernauld line between Glasgow and Edinburgh.
It's Day Six of #SixStations. In each video Geoff is joined by Lewis for Kintore - right next to the town where he grew up!
Time to go to one of the most wonderfully named station on the rail network - that of Bat & Ball down at Sevenoaks in Kent, to talk about the kickstarter and what out stretch goals are!
Went on Talk Radio on the 2nd March 2017, to talk to the lovely Jon Holmes about the All The Stations project, what it entails, and how we're looking to make our stretch goals - as the more money we raise, the money quality videos we'll be able to bring to you for All The Stations!
Hello! So .. yes, can you help us get round to visit ALL THE STATIONS in Great Britain this summer? We would be so grateful if you would donate to the project to make it happen ...
We went for a test day to Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, and answered some of your questions that you have about 'All The Stations' whilst we were there.
It's Wednesday 31st May, and we focus on the service between Shenfield and London Liverpool street that is TfL Rail. This is the line that will become Crossrail next year, and new 'Class 345' trains were due to debut on this day, could we find one! Then, whilst passing Ilford, we get to go into the Greater Anglia train maintenance depot. Thanks also to the London Transport Museum Friends, have a look at their website at https://www.ltmuseumfriends.co.uk/ and join up to get closer to and behind the scenes stuff at the London Transport Museum! Also, a big thanks to Dan for getting us a look around inside Ilford Depot too!
Longcross is the awkward station of the day, so when we get to Windsor we call up Richard who is happy to give us a lift to where we want to go .. straight to Longcross, or Bracknell instead?
Special video on YouTube channel 'Calling All Stations' Friends of mine, Geoff and Vicki are attempted to stop at all 2563 railway stations in Great Britain. Today we're helping them out with connections and seeing some Essex railway history on the way.
It's 7th June 2017, and All The Stations has been going for one month! We find ourselves in Derby, and we thought we'd record an update video blog of how we're feeling, links to extra content you may not be aware of, and some exciting news about the ATS theme tune too!
It's May 31st, and after a long day filming out on the trains I stop off to see Dan (but not Dan) to talk about the editing process. Some of you had asked to see a bit of 'behind the scenes' stuff, and so here it is!
It's Saturday 17th 2017, and we've been doing Birmingham all week ... except for one station, and that''s Bordesley. It gets one service a day on a Saturday only, at 1,36pm - and we had to catch it! ROUTE: Bordesley to Birmingham Moor Street
It's the third of our Q&A videos for Kickstarter backers that chose to have the reward of having a personal video recorded for them, and Sam & Siân who are in Chicago said that we could publically publish this, so here it is!
We're back at home for a couple of days for a mid-season break, time to reflect upon the fact that we're at the halfway point. Also, this video should really have been titled "We've not been on a Northern Un-refurbished Class 142 Pacer!".
It's Sunday June 4th, and we head down to Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft and catch up with a local chap called Mark, who gave us some historic local knowledge, and we end up at Ness Point - the most easterly part of the UK.
As part of our Kickstarter rewards which funded this project, some people asked to have a personal Q&A video recorded for them, in which we get to answer the questions that they put to us. This one is for Chris in Austin, Texas. Thanks Chris!
It's Sunday 2nd July, and there's one line in Wales left to do! And it's best done on a Sunday, because there's an awkward station to do - Hawarden Bridge - which sees most services at it stop on a Sunday, for reasons that we still haven't managed to figure out.
In our London catchup week, we went out one afternoon specifically to go and do Emerson Park, on the shuttle/branch between Romford and Upminster.
It's the 19th July and we travel along the Hope Valley Line into Sheffield, where we meet up with local lad Phil, who's got plenty of facts to share about the all the stations along the way!
Its the 19th July, and we filmed more whilst we were at Ardwick - an odd station in Manchester that sees a very limited service! So here's a bit more of us exploring it in an 'Extra' video ...
It's another Q&A Video time, this time for Kickstarter backer Michael, who sent us in some questions - and we sat on the platform shelter at Teesside airport station answering them all!
It's the 24th July, and annoyingly we have to do a station using a Rail Replacement Bus Service - Aston under Lyne, but then we get to nip over to Clifton, an awkward station in Greater Manchester which sees just one train a day in each direction...
It's 27th July, and at the end of our day at Lancaster we catch up with a lovely man - Bernie, who has made us a beautiful customised 'All The Stations' sign. He's an artist who made this for us for free and just wanted to give it to us! A lovely, gesture and we thank you so much Bernie for doing such a brilliant thing!
It's the 30th July (a Sunday) and from Darlington, there's really only one thing we have to do today, and that's to "tick!" off Teesside (TEA) Airport station which only gets one train each way on a Sunday...
It’s the 20th July, and this special bonus video was created in collaboration with Trainline, who challenged us to leave our All Line Rovers in our pockets for the day and try out mobile ticketing for the first time to see how they work.
Virgin West Coast got in touch with us to see if we wanted to see behind the scenes of one the kitchens on there trains, so we said yes! And then we then we paid a visit to the Hitachi factory at Heighington to see where the new Azuma trains are being built .. there's also a longer version of the chat we had with Sam one their designers - it's a Virgin Trains special!
With our journey to all 2,563 National Rail stations complete, the BBC invited us onto the red Breakfast couch to talk to Dan and Naga about our trip! Here's the entire clip ...
A few weeks ago we measured the platform at Gilfach Fargoed, but word came in of an even shorter one .. Beauly, but this time we took along a proper measuring device, as well as Vicki's feet!
Tuesday 22nd August 2017 - At the end of our trip, the BBC asked us onto the red Breakfast sofa to talk about it, it seemed rude not to take my video camera and mini-vlog behind the scenes ... so we did!
It's July 30th, and back on the same Sunday that we visiting Teesside Airport, we did the line out to Bishop Auckland, and on the way back stopped over at Chester-le-Street to meet Alex who runs their station their and his own ticketing website.
When we were in Wales we got a lovely local welsh speak to translate 'All The Stations for us, so when we went via the Isle of Skye (to get between Mallaig and Kyle of Localsh) we met up with the lovely Mark who is fluent in Gaelic to also do some translating for us!
We went to many locations where some drone footage was a must, so we thought we'd put them altogether here in one place with one of our nice musical mixes. Some of the shots were done by Martin (thank you sir!) on a DJI Phantom 4, others by Geoff who carried a DJI Mavid Pro for the latter half of the journey.
Is 'Outakes' spelt with one T or two? Interesting. Either way, here are some of our favourite funny bits from All The Stations from the whole of the fifteen weeks on the rails. In particular, look out for the drone shot at Okehampton where something rather unfortunate happened! (But was later retrieved).
It's 9th September, and it's time to a visit a place that we didn't get a chance to go to whilst on 'All The Stations'. But the rule is, we can of course only go back to these places .. by train. There's no station at Runnymede though, so we got someone to pick is up from Shepperton!
We've finished! So we thought we'd pop into the Youtube London Space and have a chat about everything now that we've caught our breath. Don't panic, there are more videos to come ...
It's Friday 13th October, and we return back to Cornwall, to get out and properly explore the stations on the Looe Valley branch - that's St Keyne Wishing Well Hall, Causeland, Sandplace and Looe itself.
We whizzed through Kent and Thanet quite fast on our 'All The Station' tour, so time go back to somewhere we wanted to explore more in depth, say hello to the delightful town of Broadstairs!
On Wednesday 29th November, #AllTheStations took part in of the of LTM's 'Late Debate' sessions where we talked about the technology behind the project
Ok, DO NOT SEND US ANYTHING YET! We'll release a template in a couple of weeks time for you to download. When we do, the two things are: 1. If you live outside of the UK and English is not your first language, we want you to hold up the sign that says 'All The Stations' in your language (and tell us which language that is!) and take a photo of yourself and send it into us. 2. If you're in the UK - Buy an advance ticket NOW for the August 12th/13th weekend. Take our template with you (again, released in a couple of weeks time), print it out, take it with you and get a photo of yourself at the destination that you go to and send it into us... We'll then make video montages of all the photos that get sent in and publish them here at the end of our trip as a celebration and 'thanks' to you all for watching and getting involved.
It's Thursday 10th August, and in Glasgow Central station there is a 'Piano Garden' where anyone can go along and play a tune in public. So we invited people to come along, and presented them with the 'All The Stations' sheet music, to see how well the could play it! Thank you SO MUCH to Robert and Harold for coming out!
Britain's newest railway stations - Kenilworth - on the line between Coventry and Leamington opened on Sunday 10th December 2017, with just one problem ... it actually didn't. It was meant to though, and by the time we heard it wasn't happening, we'd already paid for our travel, so we thought we'd go anyway. Which turned out to be the snowiest day of the year ...
When chatting to TfL recently, they told us about their 'secret' 271st Tube Station on the network - the West Ashfield training facility in Kensington - and as we're doing ALL the stations, and realised this was a station we hadn't been to, we had to go along ... ! Thanks to the the TfL Press Office, and for Pat and Les for showing us around and sharing their expert knowledge with us!
On May 14th 2017, 'All The Stations' visited the Isle of Wight .. or did they? It was time to go back to the Island to tell the story of why people think that it wasn't visited. Unless of course, this whole video is faked as well.
It's Friday 9th February 2018, and we were in York at the NRM when we realised we had time to get the train back to one of our favourite places on All The Stations .. Knaresborough, but this time Vicki got to go to the castle, and Geoff had his drone with him... Also .. we meant to get out at Poppleton on the way back, but it was dark by then, and we had to make our connection at York to get back to London. One day, we'll get out at Poppleton!
Vicki and Geoff take part in the Festival of the Spoken Nerd's 'An Evening of Unnecessary Detail', where nerds meet comedy!
For fifteen weeks between May and August 2017, Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe travelled to all 2,563 Railway Stations in Britain, producing and publishing multiple videos every week online. A few months after they'd finished they then sat down to reflect upon the journey, talk about the railways and produce this .. the feature length Documentary. Contains new footage, that was not previously published in the daily videos. A huge thanks (as always) to our Kickstarter backers for making this happen!l Oh .. and .. Ireland, stay tuned!
During 'All The Stations' in 2017, the Swanage Heritage Railway started operating a service to Wareham station, but Corfe Castle didn't 'count' as a station to visit until 2018, when South Western Railway started to operate a Summer Saturday only service from Wareham to Corfe Castle, so it became a station that we had to visit! Oh, and as the name suggests, there's a castle there to visit as well ... Since completing all 2563 stations, Kenilworth opened in April 2018 to be 2564, Corfe Castle here was then served from May 2018 to be 2565, then Maghull North opened in June 2018 to be station number 2566. We'll go there at somepoint ...
It's time to go to Maghull North and Kenilworth! These are two new stations which have opened up in 2018 since we completed All The Stations in 2017. And so right after making "The Shortest Train" trip and video, we headed up to Liverpool to tick off Maghull North, and then headed home .. via Kenilworth to be 2,566 stations complete! We think the next new station to open will be Meridian Water (in north London) in May 2019 ... ROUTE: Wrexham Central - Bidston - Liverpool Moorfields - Maghull North - Liverpool Central - Liverpool Lime Street - Wolverhampton - Coventry - Kenilworth
