All The Stations - The Documentary

"cesariojpn" (cesariojpn) 05/20/2018 at 02:56 • Filed to: Trainopolink, Trains, All The Stations

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A look behind the scenes of the 2017 series visiting the over 2500+ Train Stations in England.

Fun Fact: The current count is half of the amount before Beeching did his infamous cuts back in the 60's.  

Svend > cesariojpn 05/20/2018 at 03:42

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I watched quite a lot of these videos.

Especially when they came to my county then my home city.

Carlisle. You don’t get to see much of the station, other than the south west wall with platforms 1, 2 and 3 in between the train on platform 4.

It would of been nice if they showed more of the station though.

Platform 4 looking back towards the entrance

Platform 4 looking south from the bridge

Platform 4 looking south towards the bridge in the centre of the station

Carlisle station back in 1898

Platform 4 during some video work for an advert for Homebase DIY store

Regular steam trains

Svend > cesariojpn 05/20/2018 at 03:59

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One thing you forget when you don’t use the trains very often is that the staff are so incredibly helpful.

They have to put up with a lot of crap from customers who arrive late or got the wrong ticket, trains that aren’t running on time, etc... yet they manage to smile and help and so approachable you can have a laugh with them.

pip bip - choose Corrour > cesariojpn 05/20/2018 at 04:22

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i’d never heard of the effort to go to all the stations.

TheRealBicycleBuck > cesariojpn 05/20/2018 at 08:19

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Sounds like job security. Let’s see, 2,500 stations, 500 weeks, that’s about 9 1/2 years of work if you only work five days a week and limit post-production.

Now I just need to find my own thing to document. All the bridges? All the McDonalds? Heck, All the Stations U.S. version! Wait, that won’t keep me busy for long.

Ash78, voting early and often > Svend 05/20/2018 at 08:48

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I visited the Ribblehead Viaduct on my honeymoon in 2004. Settle-Carlisle is one of the most beautiful trips I’ve ever been on. Even though we were based in London at the time, it was worth the long daytrip.

People thought going to the UK in October was crazy (Jamaica is a 2-hour flight).

Screw them, it was awesome. Except the high-speed lines were shut down due to gales that day, so we has to take local lines which was even cooler.

I’ll see if I can find my pics and post them...most are digital, some film.

Svend > Ash78, voting early and often 05/20/2018 at 11:25

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If more people did what you did and explored further out from the main big cities they’ll find places like Cumbria have such an amazing and beautiful history and scenery.

Cumbria has a rich history of trains, writing, art, etc... and links to America.

I’ve been over Ribblehead a few times but always in a regular train.

I’d love to do it on one of the three different Pullmans pulled by a steam engine that goes over it.

It’d like that, some people take pictures different to others, different focal prospectives, etc....

Ash78, voting early and often > Svend 05/20/2018 at 18:31

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It was pouring rain with intemittent gales roaring across the moors, so the conditions weren’t amazing (both umbrellas got destroyed) but in my mind, you can do far worse than sitting in a quiet pub at 2pm with your new wife and sipping on an Old Peculier while trying to dry your only pair of socks on the radiator.

Those are the kinds of things we remember most clearly and most fondly on all of our trips.

simon-on-the-river3 > Svend 08/28/2018 at 17:10

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Just had a look at their video on my patch, which seems a bit disjointed. Somehow I’d expect the wait at Conwy to be a bit longer than 15 minutes.

Svend > simon-on-the-river3 08/28/2018 at 19:26

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They did a gofundme and it cost £38,000 to do all the stations. They cut some short and some they didn’t get off the train or leave the station and explore. They recon if they did it would of taken about two years to do the whole list.

They seem like people you’d want to sit and talk to (but have an exit strategy should it be needed) with a few beers.

I’m at work at present, regretably (the manager tonight is a total a-hole).

But will look at that video in the morning (I likely would of already seen it, lol). 

simon-on-the-river3 > Svend 08/28/2018 at 19:48

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I’m going to have to take a peek at dome of their L ondon jaunts.

Svend > simon-on-the-river3 08/28/2018 at 22:10

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Is was looking on my last break at steam train trips on the Carlisle to Settle line. I missed one on the 24th. As Carlisle train station is only a five minute walk, I can get a steam train to Settle and then back, pick up a take away and go home.

Sounds like a good plan.