The Nonexistent Train Station that Legally Exists

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  • @halfasinteresting
    @halfasinteresting  Před 4 lety +1187

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    • @xaifer2485
      @xaifer2485 Před 4 lety +7

      39 seconds ago

    • @odyseya
      @odyseya Před 4 lety +4

      Hello!

    • @McDondalds
      @McDondalds Před 4 lety +45

      Hi.
      What do you have against Wendover Productions?
      Please make a video about him.

    • @xaifer2485
      @xaifer2485 Před 4 lety +24

      @@McDondalds in pretty sure both channels are owned by the same people

    • @vpc298
      @vpc298 Před 4 lety +5

      You know you can just go like -your word- to -cross it out- lol

  • @grtshw
    @grtshw Před 4 lety +2688

    "In the US, one train a day would be an improvement for some small towns like Houston"
    Houston resident. Can confirm it is a small town.

    • @verybighomer
      @verybighomer Před 4 lety +229

      Thought the one train per day was a joke, but it seems this would be an actual improvement from 3 trains per week according to Wikipedia. O_o

    • @grtshw
      @grtshw Před 4 lety +154

      @@verybighomer yeah there definitely isn't much train based transportation here, lol. we've got 7 million people, but only 1 train every 3 days .

    • @user-xb9yv2ci4c
      @user-xb9yv2ci4c Před 4 lety +33

      Is there any public transport within Houston? Like at least a bus?

    • @quack9694
      @quack9694 Před 4 lety +65

      @@user-xb9yv2ci4c yes there is lots of public transportation in Houston, including light rail within the city

    • @verybighomer
      @verybighomer Před 4 lety +54

      @@user-xb9yv2ci4c Yes, buses seem to be available and a little bit of MetroRail (tram-like), but Houston seems extremely car dominated.

  • @thomasyoung5147
    @thomasyoung5147 Před 4 lety +3416

    When you've ran out of videos about planes so you keep making them about trains.

  • @thepietrain7083
    @thepietrain7083 Před 4 lety +1942

    Hold up, this is Geoff Marshalls job

    • @tiefighter9027
      @tiefighter9027 Před 4 lety +213

      HAI: *makes a british railway video
      Geoff Marshall: *You dare oppose me mortal*

    • @K1_Trains
      @K1_Trains Před 4 lety +170

      Jokes on him geoff did this years ago and even caught the ghost train

    • @ZaunpfahlsSpieleVideos
      @ZaunpfahlsSpieleVideos Před 4 lety +48

      he already did at least two videos on Newhaven

    • @jalpdesai6244
      @jalpdesai6244 Před 4 lety +2

      The Pie Train your subscriber number noice

    • @szymongorczynski7621
      @szymongorczynski7621 Před 4 lety +52

      Thanks to Geoff I already knew what this video was about just from the title 😂

  • @danielmarrs-gant9669
    @danielmarrs-gant9669 Před 4 lety +521

    I've been there, can tell you there is a platform that is sometimes accessible on foot depending on the fencing. The once a day ghost train service ended recently due to signalling upgrades, which is probably why the department for transport is going through the process of legally closing it. There are plans to build a new rail freight terminal near the station that uses the track that goes through it, and so running an empty train into the platform would get in the way of these new freight services. The level crossing that allowed cars to get near to Marine was closed a few months ago, and now, ironically, the only way to get near Marine is by foot over the bridge at Harbour Station. You can't get there in the free taxi as there is no longer a road to get you there either.

    • @alastairbrand5821
      @alastairbrand5821 Před 4 lety +10

      I think that the urgency to proceed with official closure is down to the new depot.
      I live close to the site and two brand new freight sidings have appeared just beyond the end of the old station site. This all ties in with the new industrial development close by, so if they're wanting to start running a regular freight service then they will want to avoid collision with the non existant passenger train with its non existant customers.
      A special service (steam hauled enthusiast's service called there in around 2002 but I believe it was the last time real people got on or off a train there.

    • @davidbrown5628
      @davidbrown5628 Před 2 lety

      Thanks for the info and update

    • @EddersGTI
      @EddersGTI Před rokem +2

      Update for you, The freight terminal has been built and one or two freight trains a day visit it. A passenger train still goes into the site of the Marine station, twice a day. There is a service that terminates at Newhaven Harbour from Brighton, the service goes into the Marine, then reverses out to make its return journey to Brighton. This is done to keep the drivers route knowledge in the event of disruption.

    • @danielmarrs-gant9669
      @danielmarrs-gant9669 Před rokem +1

      @@EddersGTI nice one, been a while since I was there

    • @oOinsertusernameOo
      @oOinsertusernameOo Před 11 měsíci

      @@alastairbrand5821what about fake people? 😮

  • @abcrtzyn
    @abcrtzyn Před 4 lety +74

    “One here, one here, one here” and Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe have been to all of them.

  • @scifilmmaking
    @scifilmmaking Před 4 lety +814

    Real talk tho,
    In terms of the UK, I generally prefer trains over driving a car on the highway; no driving stress, cheaper, and much much easier on longer journeys. Plus, it gives the youth way more freedom of mobility.
    Yeah, with a car you can choose EXACTLY where and when you go, but at least here WE HAVE THE CHOICE

    • @iamalexp
      @iamalexp Před 4 lety +149

      Far better for the environment too

    • @sultanalowais5822
      @sultanalowais5822 Před 4 lety +6

      Sambor Czarnawski-Iliev why are you screaming

    • @wesleymercer4536
      @wesleymercer4536 Před 4 lety +43

      You make a really good point. Technically we have trains here in America, but I don't think anyone really trusts them and they are kind of sketchy. At least where I am from anyway.

    • @SamSitar
      @SamSitar Před 4 lety +11

      trains are more sociable as well.

    • @jovialmonster757
      @jovialmonster757 Před 4 lety +69

      Sam Sitar in the UK we don’t really do “train sociability” (at least on the tube in London) it is more like “do literally anything to avoid eye contact with the people around you”

  • @jarynn8156
    @jarynn8156 Před 4 lety +428

    I couldnt help but break out laughing when he said one train a day would be an improvement for small cities like Houston

    • @MegaBallPowerBall
      @MegaBallPowerBall Před 4 lety +18

      Jarynn It's true though, Houston doesn't get more than a few trains a week.

    • @KanyeTheGayFish69
      @KanyeTheGayFish69 Před 4 lety +5

      Megaball Powerball no one rides trains in Houston

    • @abemooreodell4507
      @abemooreodell4507 Před 4 lety +14

      @@KanyeTheGayFish69 maybe because there aren't enough trains...

    • @KanyeTheGayFish69
      @KanyeTheGayFish69 Před 4 lety +3

      Abe Moore Odell trains don’t make sense in low density places

    • @ClementinesmWTF
      @ClementinesmWTF Před 4 lety +5

      Abe Moore Odell no. It’s because most Houstonians live well over 50 minutes from the train station and have highways/car access galore.
      Soon we’ll be getting the US’s first real HSR based on Japan’s that goes from Houston to Dallas, but it’ll still probably be hard to sustain if the city keeps sprawling.

  • @CityWhisperer
    @CityWhisperer Před 4 lety +188

    1:24 "But one thing I know about boats is that they are not trains" Give this man a medal immediately.

  • @danielpavlick5006
    @danielpavlick5006 Před 4 lety +501

    Does this station exist?
    "Well yes but actually no."

    • @killerOO7death
      @killerOO7death Před 4 lety +5

      Daniel Pavlick give this man top comment

    • @AxxLAfriku
      @AxxLAfriku Před 4 lety +2

      I' really exist even though it should be illegal what I am doing on CZcams

    • @User31129
      @User31129 Před 4 lety

      Well ACKSHUALLY

    • @danboekenoogen4957
      @danboekenoogen4957 Před 4 lety

      It’s like the Romanian guy who was legal dead, but was very much alive

    • @dashtron7966
      @dashtron7966 Před 4 lety +1

      Yesn't

  • @freshm8492
    @freshm8492 Před 4 lety +580

    This video is sponsored by Geoff Marshall

    • @JimmyLemon
      @JimmyLemon Před 4 lety +63

      I feel like I am cheating on him by watching this!

    • @cmul7651
      @cmul7651 Před 4 lety +27

      Geoff's already done video about this station

    • @radiogeekdaniel
      @radiogeekdaniel Před 4 lety +19

      & Vicky!

    • @freshm8492
      @freshm8492 Před 4 lety +19

      @@radiogeekdaniel More like "sponsored by Vicky and filmed by Geoff"

    • @1BarnetTE.
      @1BarnetTE. Před 4 lety +2

      @@freshm8492 XD

  • @bgezal
    @bgezal Před 4 lety +352

    “But the plans were on display…”
    “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
    “That’s the display department.”
    “With a flashlight.”
    “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
    “So had the stairs.”
    “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
    “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG Před 4 lety +6

      Ever thought of going into advertising?

    • @Eulers_Identity
      @Eulers_Identity Před 4 lety

      yep

    • @dennis8196
      @dennis8196 Před 2 lety

      Bureaucracy hasn't changed. It's this kind of behaviour that caused laws to created making it a legal requirement for certain notices to be placed in he 3 major Gazette papers. It used to be common for important legal proposals to be made so difficult to find that even the press wouldn't know about them.

  • @RufusE
    @RufusE Před 4 lety +135

    An interesting topic for a video would be the ghost stations in East Berlin when Germany was divided. Some subway lines crossed the border and drove thru stations, but they didn't stoped. You couldn't leave or border the trains. Now, after wall fall the stations are open again.
    Would be an interesting topic for many people

  • @mirzaahmed6589
    @mirzaahmed6589 Před 4 lety +383

    Geoff Marshall has a good video about the station.

    • @joermnyc
      @joermnyc Před 4 lety +2

      Mirza Ahmed yes, it appears they were simply using that stub line to short turn around the train once a day, as the Newhaven Harbour station is also not a terminal, there was a switchyard that allows trains to continue on south and east.

    • @mintylectable
      @mintylectable Před 4 lety

      Joe R M wow

    • @bfapple
      @bfapple Před 4 lety

      Joe R M What’s a switchyard??

    • @MukYJ
      @MukYJ Před 4 lety

      dB en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_yard#Switchyard

    • @nleak92
      @nleak92 Před 4 lety +6

      Guess technically this is Britain’s least used station

  • @tahimig1
    @tahimig1 Před 4 lety +611

    You heard him guys. Its time to go to England and complain about the official closing of the station! LETS KEEP IT OPEN FOR THE MEMES

    • @Eliteerin
      @Eliteerin Před 4 lety +15

      As a British person I'd recommend this video on the subject czcams.com/video/yTmumbrKohs/video.html

    • @gustavhebner2174
      @gustavhebner2174 Před 4 lety +16

      Can someone start a petition? Ideally one that doesn't catalog ones location?

    • @StefanoLinguanotto
      @StefanoLinguanotto Před 4 lety +1

      @@Eliteerin That's cool!

    • @gustavhebner2174
      @gustavhebner2174 Před 4 lety +3

      @@zackdavies2949 why thank you! As an American citizen I sure hope parliament is smart enough to discount my opinion!

    • @TankEngine75
      @TankEngine75 Před 4 lety +6

      YEAH AS A TRAIN FAN,LETS TURN THIS STATION TO A PRESERVATION SITE FOR OLD TRAINS

  • @mistervideosoex
    @mistervideosoex Před 4 lety +11

    4:02 *when Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe called the taxi number, he had no idea the sign existed*

  • @lukestevens9375
    @lukestevens9375 Před 4 lety +64

    0:14 How do we stretch this topic out to 10 minutes for the algorithm?
    0:22 Oh right, this is HAI and we don't need 10 minutes.

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un Před 4 lety +185

    Geoff Marshall told me about that station, great lad

    • @Nooticus
      @Nooticus Před 4 lety +8

      ^ Me too Chairman Kim

    • @raptorfromthe6ix833
      @raptorfromthe6ix833 Před 4 lety +2

      why arent you spreding Juche to south korea

    • @titan9259
      @titan9259 Před 4 lety +2

      1OOTH like

    • @MyExStacyOfficial
      @MyExStacyOfficial Před 4 lety +1

      You lie and you lie and then you lie some more! Vicki was the one who told you about it!

    • @Hans-gb4mv
      @Hans-gb4mv Před 4 lety +1

      He told me about all the stations ;)

  • @chriskeene
    @chriskeene Před 4 lety +6

    I live close to here. Some more info for those interested. You could imagine Newhaven harbour and Newhaven marine as one station, they are closer than a two minute walk. Newhaven harbour is on a two track branch line which continues a bit further along two the nearby town of seaford.
    You can think of Newhaven marine as a third platform which is not a through line (terminates at the end). Many years a go this was useful for long trains from London Victoria (then the gateway to the continent) specifically for the ferry. The platform was (a) long, the other platforms being shorter for the local trains, and (b) wouldn't block the through lines while it terminated there.
    The ferry goes from the same place today, however with customs and motor vehicles taking more space, the entrance to the port a few hundred meters away, in fact another station is closer, Newhaven town.
    As soon as the dedicated 'bost traina' ended many years a go there was no use for the the Newhaven marine platform (it's hard to describe but of it was open today you would have to walk out via Newhaven harbour station anyway). The tracks as still used to store trains that are not in use.
    Finally you can search CZcams for a video Geoff/Vicky from allthestations made aboutten years a go.

  • @robertk1701
    @robertk1701 Před 3 lety +16

    This train station is currently set to close on September 26, 2020, unless you're reading this in the future in which case it either closed on September 26, 2020 or, at the rate this year has been going, there was a freak earthquake that severed the station from the rest of England thereby making it impossible to physically access it to declare officially closed.

    • @awakeningcry
      @awakeningcry Před 2 lety

      The whole building is completely demolished now

    • @alastairbrand5821
      @alastairbrand5821 Před 11 měsíci

      @@awakeningcry
      That was due to the earthquake.

  • @QuarioQuario54321
    @QuarioQuario54321 Před 4 lety +14

    Here’s an announcement from Lewes Station:
    Platform 2 for 1945 southern service to Newhaven Marine. Calling at Southease, Newhaven Town, Newhaven Harbour, and Newhaven Marine. Customers for Newhaven Marine should hitchhike the outside of the train. This train is formed of 3 coaches.

  • @JimboRustles
    @JimboRustles Před 4 lety +47

    2:00
    "one could drive to Dover"
    Actually shows video of Beachy Head about two hours away from Dover

    • @JimboRustles
      @JimboRustles Před 4 lety +14

      Also the car train cars are in Folkestone which also isn't Dover, but I'll allow that one

    • @pintpullinggeek
      @pintpullinggeek Před 4 lety +2

      Ahh yes, suicide Mecca. I wonder if they still have a permanent priest on site or if that is just an urban myth.

    • @MrGrenades123
      @MrGrenades123 Před 4 lety +1

      @@pintpullinggeek I went for a walk there and there was a chaplain driving around

    • @ianmoseley9910
      @ianmoseley9910 Před 4 lety

      pintpullinggeek Well, we don't have guns ...

    • @lzh4950
      @lzh4950 Před 4 lety

      Didn't know there were France-bound ferry services from Newhaven; thought they all operated from Dover/Folkstone instead

  • @felixw19
    @felixw19 Před 4 lety +99

    2:52 Of course in the US 1 train per day would be an improvement for some small towns, like Houston 😂

    • @hewhohasnoidentity4377
      @hewhohasnoidentity4377 Před 4 lety +4

      At least here in Las Vegas, when we lost Amtrak trains we got an Amtrak bus to take people to Needles to meet the train.

    • @brandenr6073
      @brandenr6073 Před 4 lety

      @@hewhohasnoidentity4377 Well, there's nothing else between Vegas and Salt Lake, so a train would be worthless

    • @ClementinesmWTF
      @ClementinesmWTF Před 4 lety

      Felix W. I hope this is a joke, but Houston is the 4th largest city in the US and will probably overtake Chicago to be #3 this decade. 7M people live in the metro. We only get 3 [passenger] trains per week.

    • @brandenr6073
      @brandenr6073 Před 4 lety

      @@ClementinesmWTF There are metros that have more population than Houston's, but that's largely because cities and suburbs must get a judge to approve whether or not to merge a town or suburb with another. Another thing would be because people living in the suburbs don't want their town to be part of the central city, so I would guess that's why Houston seems less important than Boston or Philly

    • @ClementinesmWTF
      @ClementinesmWTF Před 4 lety +1

      corporate shill yup. I think Houston is the 5th or 6th largest metro (maybe further down depending on definition). But it’s still by no means actually small. If you only consider the population, you’d think it would have reliable train service, but population density has to be considered also then it makes more sense.

  • @otanakugaming3357
    @otanakugaming3357 Před 4 lety +85

    *Newhaven Marine: The Least Used Station in Newhaven*

  • @jerry2357
    @jerry2357 Před 4 lety +7

    I used this station when it was still open in the 1980s, doing the overnight London to Paris journey (and back) via Newhaven and Dieppe. This overnight service was the cheapest way to get to Paris from England back then.

  • @EyesOfByes
    @EyesOfByes Před 4 lety +42

    I used to work at the Swedish Railways. So this story sounds perfectly normal to me. Railway bureaucracy is weird.

    • @alfi_csgo6011
      @alfi_csgo6011 Před rokem +1

      Who doesn’t love a pointless law or two!

  • @Fightre_Flighte
    @Fightre_Flighte Před 4 lety +11

    I always loved that Half As Interesting is just Wendover's "bonus facts" section, with it's own channel.

  • @dzakydanendra4304
    @dzakydanendra4304 Před rokem +8

    "Havent yet recognized how hassle-free, quick, cheap, and all around great highways are." HAI: Proceeds to show a clogged highway.

  • @stormysamreen7062
    @stormysamreen7062 Před 4 lety +11

    *"Back in ye olde days, when Cosby was cool, MTV played music and wars were less warm."*
    Oh my god i can't-

    • @thhseeking
      @thhseeking Před 3 lety

      It's not "ye" as in "Yee"! The supposed "y" is a "thorn", and is pronounced "th".

  • @CJSHM
    @CJSHM Před 4 lety +166

    Did you get a new microphone? Sounds really different, genuinely thought someone else was narrating this one for the first few seconds.

    • @98Mustangguy18
      @98Mustangguy18 Před 4 lety +5

      InfiNorth Ik! This isn’t my HAI

    • @RealClutchMcGee
      @RealClutchMcGee Před 4 lety +10

      Rewatching an old RLL video and hearing Sams voice made me wonder what happened to his voice

    • @Eudomac99
      @Eudomac99 Před 4 lety +4

      I think he's just ill

    • @RealClutchMcGee
      @RealClutchMcGee Před 4 lety +2

      Euan Macdonald his voice has been different for months now

    • @saturn4rchive
      @saturn4rchive Před 4 lety

      Same lmao

  • @ISUCKATGAMINGOFFICIA
    @ISUCKATGAMINGOFFICIA Před 4 lety +50

    I think he might've said everything there is to say about planes. IT TRAINS TIME NOW BOYS

    • @Septimus_ii
      @Septimus_ii Před 4 lety

      I'm OK with this

    • @jk-gb4et
      @jk-gb4et Před 4 lety

      WHERE. IS. *BRICK*

    • @SuperSMT
      @SuperSMT Před 4 lety +1

      Once he's done with trains, he'll finish off the trifecta with automobiles.

    • @jk-gb4et
      @jk-gb4et Před 4 lety

      @@SuperSMT or boats

  • @DissociatedWomenIncorporated

    It's wildly hilarious seeing this "British food is bland" trope when you live here and know that most British people actually love spicy food.

    • @alfi_csgo6011
      @alfi_csgo6011 Před rokem +2

      It helps us get away from the blandness of British life

  • @Da__goat
    @Da__goat Před 4 lety +54

    Uploaded 3 minutes ago. “The Dark side is a path to many abilities one considers, unnatural.” This is very much....adequate. The last time I was this early all roads still lead to Rome.

    • @Chilukar
      @Chilukar Před 4 lety

      They still do, its just that we are travelling the wrong way.

  • @barrygower6733
    @barrygower6733 Před 4 lety +7

    For someone who is used to ‘railway’ stations, ‘train’ station sounds somewhat jarring to the ear.

    • @davidw1518
      @davidw1518 Před 3 lety +3

      Yes, I much prefer English to American.

  • @frglee
    @frglee Před 4 lety +3

    In 1975 I used this station (twice) to get to Paris and back from London, using the British Rail boat train from London Victoria station, the ferry to Dieppe and the boat train to Paris St. Lazarre station. It took about 8 hours as I recall. The modern direct Eurostar train service through the Channel Tunnel from London St Pancras station to Paris Gare du Nord station takes 2h20m. People can still use trains (or coaches) and ferries via Dover and Calais to do this journey though, it can be cheaper, but it still takes about 8 hours.

  • @leecollison7527
    @leecollison7527 Před 3 lety +2

    Fun fact, if you are getting the Ferry as a foot passenger via the train, you now have to get off at Newhaven Town station, not Newhaven Harbour as the terminal to check in is that end of the harbour, then walk down to the Ferry dock adjacent to the old Marine station.
    The old Marine station also used to serve as the foot passenger terminal.

  • @ttcgeek
    @ttcgeek Před 4 lety +13

    Plugging the Geoff Marshall video he made about Newhaven Marine.

  • @jayja45
    @jayja45 Před 4 lety +11

    You know you’re a train enthusiast when you can guess what the station is before it’s revealed.

    • @Zoroaster4
      @Zoroaster4 Před 2 lety

      So if you jumped the fence when that train pulled in would they have to let you on?

    • @alfi_csgo6011
      @alfi_csgo6011 Před rokem +1

      @@Zoroaster4 actually god knows

  • @_TeXoN_
    @_TeXoN_ Před 4 lety +12

    Did Sam just mention more train stations tan the entirety of the US has?

  • @marktownend8065
    @marktownend8065 Před 4 lety +2

    Removing one platform at a passenger station where other facilities are to remain doesn't usually require a formal public consultation and closure order in UK. At Newhaven, the Marine platform, although really part of Newhaven Harbour operationally, and known as that station's platform 3 for a period, was built later and under a different Act of Parliament however. Hence it requires the full closure procedure to formally withdraw passenger services; the platform is adjacent to a different railway legally. Note the track alongside the platform will remain as a handy turnback and refuge facility for late-running trains or for when engineering work or a failed train is blocking the single-track branch line beyond to Seaford. A narrow platform is likely to remain for train crew use. The adjacent sidings are to be developed as a freight facility.

  • @SiVlog1989
    @SiVlog1989 Před 4 lety +15

    Additional weird thing about Newhaven Marine station, when it was a fully functioning station the platform number it was given was number 3. This was because in practice, it provided additional capacity to Newhaven Harbour station, allowing some trains to terminate there rather than going all the way to Seaford, the regular terminus for trains using that section

  • @tinyupes
    @tinyupes Před 4 lety +40

    0:46 yes there is but it's low down from the tracks, so it's hard to recognise as one

    • @thanosattorneyatlaw4062
      @thanosattorneyatlaw4062 Před 4 lety +1

      What is this? A train station for mice!

    • @KasabianFan44
      @KasabianFan44 Před 4 lety +2

      Hasn’t it been demolished though? I came through there a few months ago and the entire site has been taken over by some kind of development. In fact the track was blocked off as well so trains couldn’t actually use it either.

  • @Mergatroid
    @Mergatroid Před 4 lety +13

    Hey, Geoff Marshall has already covered this station!

  • @stormysamreen7062
    @stormysamreen7062 Před 4 lety +3

    I'm surprised, given the circumstances in which Newhaven station closed down, that there aren't more stations like this.

    • @iankemp1131
      @iankemp1131 Před 3 lety +1

      There are quite a few, but they are kept going by one "ghost train" service a week to avoid the expense of the legal closure procedure.

  • @g-rated3514
    @g-rated3514 Před 4 lety +13

    0:23 fun fact: If you take the first letter of the name of each train station given on the map, in order, you probably spelled a made up word

  • @samwilder6708
    @samwilder6708 Před 4 lety +8

    “Tunnels haven’t been discovered yet” I was done

  • @jasinere35
    @jasinere35 Před 4 lety +2

    what would be more interesting is a documentary on the stations that do exist but no longer have a rail connection & here in the uk we have quite a few of them

    • @alfi_csgo6011
      @alfi_csgo6011 Před rokem +1

      True I can think of about 5, and with the closure of the Marston Vale (Bedford-Bletchley) line for the foreseeable future due to rolling stock problems, even more were just added to the list!

  • @DitzyNizzy2009
    @DitzyNizzy2009 Před 4 lety +3

    Update - The consultation finished in April. They’ve been through the comments they’ve received and due to little resistance against it, this station will be officially closing sometime this autumn.

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican Před 4 lety +7

    I've heard about that station before, very interesting. Odd that they keep it open even though there's a station a minute walk away

    • @zacm.2342
      @zacm.2342 Před 4 lety +8

      It's cause of all the legal stuff around closing them, makes it bloody difficult so they generally don't bother until a good excuse, in this case signalling upgrades meant they had to stop the ghost service for a while.

  • @TheHylianBatman
    @TheHylianBatman Před 4 lety +4

    I love hearing about the quirks of the UK rail system, it's just so fun.

    • @ianmoseley9910
      @ianmoseley9910 Před 4 lety +2

      TheHylianBatman Well, it is about 200 years old, so it is bound to behave a bit oddly😋

    • @alfi_csgo6011
      @alfi_csgo6011 Před rokem +1

      @@ianmoseley9910 tell me about it! Actually where I live currently (Guildford) we used to have a service that ran to Newcastle which ran for route requirement reasons (aka a ghost train) but they recently closed it unfortunately. Shame since I used to live getting to Sheffield from Guildford in 3 hours flat!

  • @ccityplanner1217
    @ccityplanner1217 Před 3 lety +2

    I went there recently on the still-regular ferry service, it has been replaced with a storage lot for scrap metal being shipped for recycling. The photo at 1:29 is from before it was demolished.

  • @marsgal42
    @marsgal42 Před 4 lety +7

    "All the stations all of them..."

  • @lucid5734
    @lucid5734 Před 4 lety +9

    "foreigners taking our jobs"
    -geoff marshall

    • @robbiemeikle2919
      @robbiemeikle2919 Před 4 lety

      What? When did he say that? About what?

    • @Dave_Sisson
      @Dave_Sisson Před 3 lety

      @@robbiemeikle2919 Lucid meant that a foreigner, namely Wendover/HAI, is taking the job of a Briton, namely Geoff Marshall, as it's Geoff's job to make videos like this one.

  • @AnimilesYT
    @AnimilesYT Před 4 lety +9

    When someone repeats "here" too often it starts to sound like "ghjeer" xD

  • @Willmorrison99
    @Willmorrison99 Před 4 lety +1

    3:36
    Thanks for including Wansford station. I’ve visited the village every 6 months my entire life to see relatives, and never knew it had a train station.

    • @TimWhelan74
      @TimWhelan74 Před 4 lety +1

      It's on the Nene Valley railway. So you can catch a vintage train from there to Peterborough.

  • @cdfort
    @cdfort Před 4 lety +1

    Great video I used to live in Newhaven Harbour so I often got the direct train from Newhaven Marina to London... Was great as I used to be the first on the train and could select the best seat. Its a shame they are closing the station as I remember using it as a kid for the ferry, but I understand the reasons. I still regularly use the harbour station as my business is nearby, I call it my personal station as I'm generally the only user... I often give a dirty eye to any other passengers that dare use it too, they have Newhaven Town which is only up the road.

  • @unscentednapalm8547
    @unscentednapalm8547 Před 4 lety +4

    0:10 bad start seen as the flag is upside down!

  • @Raudnen
    @Raudnen Před 4 lety +22

    still facts and comedy, the perfection it self!

  • @richmayes8451
    @richmayes8451 Před 3 lety +1

    The Eurotunnel service for taking your car across to France is actually in Cheriton on the outskirts of Folkestone. Dover is the main Ferry Port from the Southeast of England, nearly 12 miles (19 kilometres) away.

  • @Mugtree
    @Mugtree Před 4 lety +1

    Love this. I’ve actually used this station back in the day on my way to Paris. Very good video. Thank you

  • @jasontran2612
    @jasontran2612 Před 4 lety +9

    “That Wendover is a part of.” Are you okay?

  • @RetepElpmet
    @RetepElpmet Před 4 lety +3

    I have fond memories of taking the ferry from the UK to France and vice versa, although I was much more excited to be able to take a hovercraft. Those things were fun!

  • @iankemp1131
    @iankemp1131 Před 3 lety +1

    I remember using Newhaven Marine on my very first overseas visit, taking the ferry to Dieppe. It was an enjoyable trip, but it took most of the day to get from London to Paris by that route. Via Dover/Folkestone and Calais was quicker, but more expensive, an important consideration for a student.

  • @iankemp1131
    @iankemp1131 Před 3 lety +1

    I used Newhaven Marine in 1982 to get the connecting train to and from Victoria. At that stage Newhaven-Dieppe was very useful, especially as the through London-Paris fares were lower than on the shorter and quicker route via Calais, very helpful for an impecunious student!

  • @lordmattis94
    @lordmattis94 Před 4 lety +18

    Damn! Never would I think to see a HaI-video about a subject I knew about.

  • @Jose-mq8os
    @Jose-mq8os Před 4 lety +8

    I literally laughed at 2:51
    (I live in Houston, which has a metropolitan area of 6.5M)

    • @matthewhernandez8342
      @matthewhernandez8342 Před 4 lety

      Damn I didnt realize Houston was bigger than Philly. You guys have a light rail right? Or is that Dallas I'm thinking of?

    • @Jose-mq8os
      @Jose-mq8os Před 4 lety +1

      @@matthewhernandez8342 We have 3 light rail lines. The main one runs for the most part along Main Street.

    • @MarceloBenoit-trenes
      @MarceloBenoit-trenes Před 4 lety

      @@matthewhernandez8342 they are talking about trains, not LRT. The only passenger train running now thru Houston is the thrice weekly Sunset Limited from New Orleans to Los Angeles. Amtrak has not enough cars to make this train and the Cardinal daiky, which will lead to passenger number increas and a reduction of fixed costs.

    • @ianmoseley9910
      @ianmoseley9910 Před 4 lety

      Jose 713 Lonon, UK official population is about 7.5 million and we have 6+ main line termini plus some with through trains, plus TFL services of various types. The London Underground part of TFL manages over 5 million passenger journeys a day (equivalent to the population of Scotland). Houston must be swamped with cars.

    • @Jose-mq8os
      @Jose-mq8os Před 4 lety

      @@ianmoseley9910 yeah! we have local transport. But long range public transport does't really exist. when it comes to long range trans we have one line, that can go west to San Antonio (300 KM) or east to New Orleans (500KM). The Long Range route is seldom used, and almost always empty.
      Dallas (7 Million) is 400KM north of Houston (6.5 Million) and there is no train route that can take you there. I Imagine that a small and insignificant city has a train route to London; while the 2 largest cities in Texas (#4 and #5 Biggest nationwide) aren't connected with trains.
      There's a large and pretty straight motorway between Dallas and Houston, and USA overall has a great Motorway system. Without Traffic, Houston and Dallas are less than 4 hours apart driving.
      Much of Western USA was developed during the 20th century (Model T came out in 1908) and cities were designed with cars in mind. England was developed centuries before the car came along.
      I really don't think that a train route between Houston and Dallas (2 massive cities) will magically sell tons of tickets.

  • @lawrencesimmons5093
    @lawrencesimmons5093 Před 4 lety +1

    I'm devastated. I might have wanted to think about considering contemplating possibly musing over toying with the idea of maybe some day using that station - perhaps.

  • @karlmachnow4961
    @karlmachnow4961 Před 4 lety +1

    Under the well-known uncompleted airport in Berlin is a train station that has been finished and could be operated at any time. It exists for nearly 10 years know, yet it hasn't seen a passenger train once.
    Despite it being unusable (as the terminal with all the technical problems is directly above) it sees trains regularly. The Berlin S-Bahn drives empty trains into and out of the station regularly to push fresh air into the tunnel. Also, as far as I know, it's sometimes used for freight trains.

  • @leonleon2021
    @leonleon2021 Před 4 lety +25

    Wow, I'm here so early, so lemme tell you a joke:
    Last time I was here so early, England was my city.

  • @crazyoncoffee
    @crazyoncoffee Před 4 lety +3

    Newhaven marine. Yes I’ve seen the Geoff video!

  • @CasterAzucar
    @CasterAzucar Před 4 lety

    OOOOOPH I needed this, CZcams is so quiet at the moment! Can always felt on wendover/hai 👐👐👐

  • @sergeysharapov4766
    @sergeysharapov4766 Před 4 lety

    That Houston shade that you threw, absolutely hit home

  • @Lafv
    @Lafv Před 4 lety +23

    “One train a day would be an improvement for some small towns like Houston”
    It’s sad how accurately this describes North American passenger rail
    Edit: I hope that line about highways being great and hassle-free was a joke. I mean, I assume it was based on your past videos, but I feel like it wouldn’t that obvious for people new to the channel

    • @davidw1518
      @davidw1518 Před 3 lety

      Don't you think that the shot of traffic crawling along the US highway made it obvious that he was being ironic?

    • @Lafv
      @Lafv Před 3 lety +1

      @@davidw1518 yeah it did, idk what i was on

  • @Derpsii
    @Derpsii Před 4 lety +3

    train station: *doesnt exist*
    also train station: *exists*

  • @DJTechYT
    @DJTechYT Před 4 lety +2

    0:06 "the streaming video platform that Wendover is a part of."
    Me: wait, so is this HAI or Wendover?

  • @sushiman56
    @sushiman56 Před 4 lety

    Yay I'm finally early!
    I just wanna say Half As Interesting thank you for making these amazing and informative videos. I'm a big fan and I hope you keep on making these wonderful vids. Thank you very much!!!

  • @demkooldud3s365
    @demkooldud3s365 Před 4 lety +3

    Laws: you exist
    Nothing:
    Laws: so you agree?
    Nothing:
    Laws: you exist now

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache Před 4 lety +18

    Okay, someday you’ll have to change your username to *Fully Interesting* because I’m very intrigued and interesting in the topics you talk about.

  • @trevormillar1576
    @trevormillar1576 Před 2 lety +1

    What about Tilbury Riverside? It was demolished years ago, there is a container depot on the site, but tickets still say "Tilbury Town or Riverside. "

  • @jnurse24
    @jnurse24 Před 4 lety

    “And wars were less warm.”
    Amazing

  • @martijnellenbroek6448
    @martijnellenbroek6448 Před 4 lety +3

    Imagine everyone watching this video protest argainst closing the station😂😂 BIG OOF

  • @lennoxchen8646
    @lennoxchen8646 Před 4 lety +11

    "sometimes they like to spice things up, unless we're talking about food"
    This damn bloody true. McDonalds have spicy nuggets with spicy tomato dip. (TOMATO ≠ CHILI)

    • @screaminlordbyron7767
      @screaminlordbyron7767 Před 4 lety

      Yeah right!

    • @stanleyt.7930
      @stanleyt.7930 Před 4 lety +1

      What? England is famous for curries!

    • @asmallyoutube
      @asmallyoutube Před 4 lety

      Kwok Chong Chen E X T R A D I P

    • @mbrady2329
      @mbrady2329 Před 4 lety

      Because America is soooooo famous for its spicy, not at all bland or beige, food!

    • @grahamsmith9541
      @grahamsmith9541 Před 3 lety

      @@stanleyt.7930 First dedicated curry restaurant opend in London in 1810. Curry was served in many coffee houses.

  • @roderickmain2154
    @roderickmain2154 Před 4 lety

    You are almost correct on the trains arriving there in its ghost station days. In fact it was one a week - on a Sunday. When you could get to the platform, you could actually get on the train and its next (and only) stop was Lewes. In fact there were 3 platforms at one time in the days when services arrived from all over the country. The other platforms disappeared as successive remodelings/rebuildings of the station took place. But yes, in essence your story is correct. Which is sad because London - Newhaven - Dieppe - Paris was the shortest - and probably fastest - route between the two cities.

  • @tiger3249
    @tiger3249 Před 4 lety

    I live right by this!!! Did not expect to see a video on it from u guys!

  • @matthiasrobins9669
    @matthiasrobins9669 Před 4 lety +4

    3:02
    1) London and many major cities in the UK physically CANNOT adapt to have superhighways
    2) We tried doing that in London. We hated it. We take the tube instead if we want to get around
    3) Superhighways dont fix the problem. They make it worse and make otber factors worse too. Look at Los Angeles

    • @brendonhalverson5178
      @brendonhalverson5178 Před 4 lety +1

      It was a joke bud.

    • @mbrady2329
      @mbrady2329 Před 4 lety

      @@brendonhalverson5178, someone should've pointed that to our politicians in the 1970s and 80s!

  • @_thereswaldo
    @_thereswaldo Před 4 lety +3

    Me *sees the title*
    "Ah it must be those train-loving Brits again..."

  • @CoastwayWill
    @CoastwayWill Před 4 lety +1

    I've been to Newhaven Marine Station as it's on my local line. Pleased to report it's basically a dump sight for construction work

  • @quantisedspace7047
    @quantisedspace7047 Před rokem

    A similar thing happened on Watford, with it's little line to Watford West an Croxley Green. An industrial estate severed the railway line so a temporary bus service was implemented. They couldn't legitimately 'close' the line, so the bus service became permanent. The bus company running the replacement, actually ran the routine buses along that route, so the replacemt rail bus became 'get the number XX' bus instead. It sometimes was a taxi. Needless to say, people couldn't be bothered with this, so they said 'look, no-one uses it, so can we close it now ?"

  • @tomaspietravallo3832
    @tomaspietravallo3832 Před 4 lety +30

    Where’s the emotion and hyper fast talking?
    *I feel cheated :(*

    • @LeoStaley
      @LeoStaley Před 4 lety +1

      Definitely felt more Wendover than HAI. Like a Wendover video with some low key jokes.

    • @extraemontamontes3618
      @extraemontamontes3618 Před 4 lety

      @@LeoStaley personally prefer it this way

  • @oliidp8066
    @oliidp8066 Před 4 lety +7

    geoff Marshall did a video on this years ago

  • @EmsiYTs
    @EmsiYTs Před 2 lety

    I love that I literally took this train very often on my way to Seaford but never noticed the station.

    • @EmsiYTs
      @EmsiYTs Před 2 lety

      And I take the Newhaven-Dieppe ferry once a year.

  • @AmericanBear
    @AmericanBear Před 4 lety +2

    After the first 30 seconds of the video, there was a echo in my ears of, here here here here here here.

  • @Pikselas
    @Pikselas Před 4 lety +6

    welcome abroad [REDACTED], we will soon be heading to [REDACTED]

    • @railwaymedialondon
      @railwaymedialondon Před 4 lety

      Welcome to route Not In service, we will be calling at [REDACTED]

    • @Megajim454
      @Megajim454 Před 4 lety

      Mind your [DATA EXPUNGED]

  • @TakanashiYuuji
    @TakanashiYuuji Před 4 lety +3

    Honestly, I would have been fine with 5 minutes of "one here".

    • @philipmcniel4908
      @philipmcniel4908 Před 4 lety +1

      It might be subway stations (or, as the British call them, "tube" stations) instead of train stations, but here's a song that basically does that: czcams.com/video/8jPyg2pK11M/video.html

  • @shad6644
    @shad6644 Před 4 lety +1

    At 2:53 says ‘one train a day would be an improvement’ and shows a picture of St. Louis (which has about a dozen daily arrivals/departures...)

  • @benjicool2808
    @benjicool2808 Před 4 lety

    There is the same thing on the border between Belgium and the Netherlands, there is non-existent station to calculate the train ride costs in case you cross the border because at least on Belgian side the price is calculated by the distance

  • @zacm.2342
    @zacm.2342 Před 4 lety +3

    I like how much of the stock footage was heritage railways instead of our main railway network :P
    Also, who's sending this to Geoff & Vicki? :P

  • @mbrady2329
    @mbrady2329 Před 4 lety +7

    "Sometimes, [the British] like to spice things up - unless we're talking about food, of course.", says an American! :-P
    Not heard of curry then?

    • @mbrady2329
      @mbrady2329 Před 4 lety

      @The Vibe Inspector, not on every high street, like it is in the UK.

    • @davidmcguire6043
      @davidmcguire6043 Před 4 lety

      You very, very obviously don't know many Americans. I have a cabinet full of spices that get used and sometimes I drink hot sauce just because I like the taste and I am not alone.

    • @Jessnyan
      @Jessnyan Před 4 lety +1

      Y'all made that more mild than the original dishes tho lol. Spiced it down.

  • @robertwilloughby8050
    @robertwilloughby8050 Před rokem

    You also had the "station" on Lake Windermere (actually two!) that were officially "railway" stations, but were actually the piers for the Lady Windermere ferry service.

  • @grumpygoomba9763
    @grumpygoomba9763 Před 4 lety

    Slight error, the Eurotunnel terminal where you board the car train cars is actually in Folkestone not in Dover, although the two towns are quite close to each other.