Trains at: Chester, 28/05/22
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- A very enjoyable afternoon spent at Chester station situated on the North Wales Coastline where we see plenty of services from Transport for Wales, Northern, Avanti West Coast and Merseyrail.
This wasn't the first station to make an appearance in Chester as in 1840 the first station was opened by the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, and then no more than a week later a second station was opened by the Chester and Crewe Railway. However both of these stations didn't survive for long, this was because when they were built there was no easy way to transfer goods and passengers between the two of them which made them very unpopular and as such was very little interest.
These were subsequently replaced by a third station which sat on a junction with the Chester and Birkenhead Railway and the Chester and Crewe Railway. This is now the sight of the current station. Why this wasn't done at the very start is beyond me. This station was also the starting point of the Chester to Holyhead railway which was designed by Robert Stephenson. This new station started construction in 1847 and was officially opened one year later in 1848. This station recieved massive acclaim from the local community nd surrounding areas because of the vast amount of places you could now get to thanks to this station.
When the station was built it was given a fairly standard design which was one through platform with a pair of bay platforms and the main station building, now this would work for a quiet rural station. But because Chester station was built on a junction to three different lines it meant that the station became quickly congested with trains waiting for access into the station.
In the next 20 years the station was expanded by adding in new sidings, warehouses to store the goods, signal boxes and two motive power depots that would see steam engines getting serviced, this would be used by all the various companies at the time. Between the 1860's and 1870's the station went through some more work by adding in two island platforms and two additional bay platforms that would ease the flow of traffic coming into Chester.
Chester is a busy station but nowhere near as much so as when the Edwardian period was in full swing as this was 200 trains everyday and a staff of 100 strong keeping the station going, there was a huge amount of freight going through the station, most of this was mail trains.
During the first world war the station was heavy use from troop trains as they would transport soldiers from the Welsh training grounds down to southern England where they would be sent off to the Western Front.
The same thing happened in WW2 but this time saw more ammunition trains coming through, there was still heavy troop trains coming through aswell.
Since the mid 2000's the station has had different work done to it including resurfacing platforms and modernising the signalling in the area. As well as new access into and across the station including a new footbridge and lifts being installed, the canopy roofs were also maintained as well.
My next film will be from the footbridge at Sandy on the East Coast Mainline.
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As mentioned below the gap in the roof was due to an accident in 1971 when an oil train failed to stop and crashed into the Bay No5, BR never bothered to replace the roof so we are just left with the isolated piece. The 777s are due into service late 2022 and throughout 2023 so the old girls have got a little bit of life in them yet!
Chester is in it's twilight at the moment, once the 777s and 197s appear we'll lose all the BR sprinters, EMU's and 175s leaving Northen and the 67+Mk4+DVT Sets as the only variety left :( But as a regular (and a local)it's still a gorgeous station even If BR ruined it by getting rid of most of the original features!
It is a shame that our rail network is losing its charm with the lack of rolling stock variety that we used to have, but thank for you for the info in regards to the damaged roof.
TFW to Manchester Airport run via Warrington Bank Quay, Chat Moss and Manchester Piccadilly. The Northern services to Manchester Piccadilly diverge from this route at Mickle Trafford junction near Chester and run via Knutsford, Altrincham and Stockport. The 777's are not in service yet.
It is surprising how many cities are served from Chester, it really is a great hub station
@@Tornado922 it was better 25 years ago when a lot of North Wales trains were 37 hauled and HST's did London - Holyhead.
Another great video 🍺👍
Thanks very much
Great video great to see out and doing your amazing train videos
Thank you very much!
Fantastic video once again! I really enjoyed this :)
thanks very much!
Good video mate
Thanks very much
A lovely station, I have only travelled through twice, mid sixties and early seventies. There used to be a single box at the end of one of the platforms as well as a footbridge, water tower and I believe a goods shed where those houses & 197's are. Great video & thoroughly entertaining.
It is a great station to come to, I just wish I had the chance to come here back when we had loco hauled services running around the country as the variety would've been amazing to see.
My home town station :) If you came a couple of weeks ago we had some class 37s & 66s passing through. Quite rare to get the freight locos nowadays.
That video was fun to watch. Nice one. :)
I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Always nice to see you nearer to my neck of the woods :) Good variety at Chester tbh! Merseyrail, Northern, TFW etc! does well considering it is not electrified apart from the Merseyrail services !
I really should make more of an effort to come to this area of the UK as there are some amazing stations around here that I haven't been to before!
Great video at Chester
Thanks very much
Hi Tornado922. Great film at Chester. I enjoyed seeing the Avanti 221 Super Voyager. I will also miss those when they go. Looking forward to next film at the Sandy footbridge. Kind regards, Chris.
Thank you kindly Chris
Good evening buddy and a another awesome video buddy from Alan in Lowestoft
thank you kindly
Great video and commentary.
You didn't notice the liveries on the 507s n 8s being 2 different colours.
One side will be silver grey and the other side will be yellow😊
Red Rum was an Aintree Racecourse champion 3 times back in the 70s,so has connections with the Merseyrail network. Other named sets include,John Peel, Harold Wilson and The Beatles.
Tbh I love the PEP units.
Will be sad to see them go.
Chester 30 years ago was great.. 47s on the holyhead.. class 20 on the Derby Llandudno.. 37s on the locals to Bangor and summer Saturday trains hauled by anything they could find..
I really do wish I was around when the railways were at their best with all of the traction that we had running around the country at the time
Great video Jared. Chester is a really nice station in the North Wales Line the TFW 197s will be replace the 175s and 158s and maybe 170/2s (will may go to EMR), the 777s from Merseyrail will replace 507s and 508s. Your next station will be Sandy on the ECML
Thanks very much, this is a great station to come to although I do wish there was a little bit more variety to be seen. Hopefully when the new trains take over it won't take away the enjoyment of coming here
Nice railway video mate
Thanks very much
The Voyagers are really nice tbh
Brilliant video legend tornado . I am gutted about class 221 . Will take over 805, 807 by avanti west coast
Thanks very much bud, it will be a shame to see the 221's go off the network
Was the Crewe to Shrewsbury line diverted this day? Pembroke, Milford, Carmarthen trains at Chester?!
The class 507 and 508 trains look the same to me! I have no issues with any of the class 220 and 221 Voyagers at all! I'd happily take the Cross Country ones any day! All of the runs from them that I see at Nottingham tend to be in the hands of class 170 Turbostars though! 43184 for Cross Country incidentally is now in the Intercity Executive livery.
I think the 507/508 units are for the most part completely identical. Probably have a few subtle differences
Lovely video, been here once before and I enjoyed it very much,the variety is brilliant with Merseyrail electrics mixing with the TFW/northern/Avanti diesels
just to add..would you be going to the DRS open day on the 16th Of July?
Thanks very much, this is a great station to come to although you only really need an hour here in order to catch everything that comes through. Sadly I wasn't able to attend the open day
Excelente
Thank you kindly
Can you go to Bermuda Park please
When are you going to visit the southeastern network again?
I will covering that network later this year
Can you next do underground trainspotting
Underground train spotting is something I probably won't do as there isn't any variety anymore
@@Tornado922 What do u mean
@@Train-series When you look at the London Underground network all the trains are the same, there would be no point in me filming them
@@Train-series I used to do underground trainspotting with someone very close to me. We have been separated and it hurts me a lot.
@@Train-series Yournext2009
No particular line Chester is on?
North Wales Coast Line
after this please can you do carlisle
I will be doing Carlisle later in the year
Oh you picked the most boring station haha. But it's local to me live your vids.
Gotta give every station a fare chance haha
@@Tornado922 yeah very true. I live on the North wales coast, all we get is the 175s 150s 158s and 156. Oh and the avanti west coast voyager. But honestly your vids are the best. My son is autistic and uses your vids to sleep at night.
@@dbgaming5952 TFW dosnet have 156s i think you mean 153s and you forgot 197s
@@SionsTrainVideos I got it wrong it was 153s
@@dbgaming5952 yeah and you get 197s on the north Wales