Jen gets emotional at Alvechurch - Every Cross City Line Station with SimOnTrains
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00:00 Introduction
00:18 Longbridge station
00:38 Rover Factory / Longbridge town centre
02:41 Back at Longbridge station
03:24 Barnt Green station
04:51 Alvechurch station
05:19 Alvechurch marina
07:14 Jen rants about tickets
07:56 Don't make me go to Redditch!
08:33 Redditch station
09:15 Barnt Been
09:46 Bromsgrove station
10:12 Outro
10:54 Outtakes!
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The final of what turned into the 3 parts of the Cross City Line, thanks to SimOnTrains for joining me! czcams.com/users/Sim0nTrains
Coming next in the visiting every rail station series is picking up where we left off down on the Elizabeth Line, there are 4 more episodes left in that series!
The Alvechurch Rant at Barnt Green had me laughing in stitches! Like you mentioned that the Southern section brings back memories, the Northern section of the Cross City line was part of my childhood when there was no Station at Rugeley Town and less of a service at Rugeley TV, Lichfield City was used to get trains down to Birmingham (Which involves a bus as well) and as mentioned in the comments in the last video, thank you for inviting me again for the Southern part of the Cross City Line
As ever Simon, it's great to have you along.
TO THE SNOW HILL LINES IN 2023! (Did I just say that out loud?)
@@JenOnTheMove Snow Hill Lines did you say???
Emotion is wonderful, it displays our humanity.
Great video.
Thank you.
Always great to watch Gel-On-The-Move and CyberTrades 😁. That loitering sign reyt puts ya off filming dunnit geez 😂
I see you loitering here
"My hair is doing hair things"
Ladies and Gentlemen, Jen's greatest quote of the series!
Another great video Jen, fabulous conclusion for the cross-city line really enjoyed it 👍👍
Canal looked beautiful and I could see how you could fall in love with a place as peaceful as that❤
It's such a nice place!
I fell in love with the canals after my friend bought a narrowboat and 5 of us did a 2 week trip from Northampton to Birmingham and back and the journey was fun.
Completely agree with the ticket rant - the cardboard ones are so much more practical. Though I'm not as keen on them as one of my colleagues from work, who has a stack in his desk of every train ticket he has used in the last about 10 years (and was most vexed when 2020/ 2021 failed to provide a decent supply).
Memories are powerful things & I felt your emotion at Alvechurch. Love the videos... 😎👍
Perhaps you did this entire journey backwards, because if you'd started in Redditch you'd have spent all that time getting further and further away from it! :) Great ending to this (unplanned?) mini-series.
The ticket office at Longbridge was never part of Longbridge station. The station closed in 1919. The ticket office building was built long after that. The building was used mainly for parcels but you could also buy tickets, but not for Longbridge station.
The station had workers trains until 1960. You couldn’t buy tickets from the building though. It had the BR double arrow logo on it. This logo was released in 1965. 5 years after the station saw it’s last train.
Your recollection of Alvechurch Marina has also brought back memories of my own - walking from our house down the road for about 2 miles to the Hopwood moorings to see the barges there, before turning round and going back home. Longbridge retail area is also very handy for me, again within walking distance of our house, and far better than Northfield is now. I haven't been to Bromsgrove in years - maybe when West Midlands ran the 145! Might need to rectify that soon, now that they are running the 144A and apparently DaySavers are valid on the entire route.
Great vid as ever.
Though am I the only one who heard "abandoned station" and half expected a Whitewick cameo?
Oh, and the moped in the background at 2:39 is flipping off the camera XD
8:49 - Not even to drive around the cloverleaf? :)
Nice to see that you have good memories of Alvechurch. I have no such good memories of my roots in Coundon.
I've really enjoyed this series - I haven't used the x-city line since I finished at the Uni of Birmingham 30+ years ago and so much has changed, especially on the southern part. Glad to know my pronunciation of Alvechurch has always been correct! Back then Bromsgrove was the Pilning of Worcestershire and now it is a 4-platform metropolis!
That's the version of Bromsgrove that I clearly remember!
Emotions are good thing. Great video, and I agree with the ticket rant. Loved the out takes as well.
Thank you Jen and sim on trains. I have enjoyed the cross city line especially as I have train sim world 3 and love the route. It is a much quieter route than expected or maybe just time of day. Great to see you have many great memories of the canals
Get off at Barnt Green for the Lickey Hills Country Park. But it is a very hard walk up hill to the Visitor Centre.
Great video Jen always enjoy your videos.
i only resanlty discovered your channle and love it. i use to live in barnt green up untill last year. im not posh i do miss the train when it went round the corner to go upto reddicth. i lived right by the line. this vides on the cross city toward reddicth have brought back memorys. your rant on alvechurch i have the same lol.
Brilliant video its amazing to see Longbridge again as i tried to film trains there a few weeks ago when i was on a short trip in the Birmingham area but i had to abandon that due to having an incident there but i want to go back there in the future and try again as a lot of people have said its a popular station for trainspotters and again im loving the 323s the best sounding trains in the uk keep up the awesome work
Great vlog Jen. Nice job on visiting all the cross city line stations! Luckily I’ve visited Redditch so never have to go back 😂
Hi Jen, and Simon,
Great video as usual, I totally understood your emotion at Alvechurch, I get that when I revisit Plumstead, Woolwich, and Southend-on-Sea...
Pity you weren't around at Manchester Piccadilly last week, the lady at the Costa recognised your You Tube image when I showed her, she said you call at her coffee stall all the time...🙂
I shall look forward to your next video...
Take care,
Jon B.
Totally agree with you about the "bog roll" tickets
Another fab video! I started with this one so am now going to go and find the first one 😎
Brilliant video Jen, I've heard the announcements from Anne that mention Alvechurch getting it wrong and the Julie Berry ones have got it right innit? lol. And yes you've got the right idea about Reditch lol. Love the captions on this, they really do make me chuckle. :)
A definite boating holiday should be in your future!
A brilliant video . Thank you for uploading this. Take care
Another well presented video Jen. Emotional ...watching you become emotional
Regards from Whitley Bay
Redditch looked nice. Learned a lot. Thanks.
I quite like Redditch, stayed there on a very deliberate holiday to bits of the UK I had not done, far enough away from Birmingham not to be busy. I think I like Barnt Green - doesnt look too posh to me. I cannot totally remember Bromsgrove, for some reason I wasnt taking photos at the time. I sort of lost interest when Midland Red shut down
I mean, that's fair, Bromsgrove is completely unmemorable!
The 8 minute turnaround time is the perfect length of time to spend in Redditch (as someone who lives in Redditch myself 🤣)
11:05 we see what’s always on Jen’s mind interpreted for us 😂
For some inexplicable reason I want to go to Redditch now.
Hi jen I have started to watched your videos and I think they are brilliant videos to watch I do video has well I film about trains tram buses and towns centre in the West Midlands I joy your videos keep up the good work from bingo 2020 West Bromwich 👍
I think we can all agree on one thing, GREGGS IS THE BEST, just by you (Jen) saying the word had my mouth water at the thought
Quote "I don't like Redditch"
Me say
"Time to explore Redditch!!!!"
I went to Longbridge Town Centre Costa! Whilst waiting for a 144A!
I think the reason they've introduced those crap tickets is to encourage us to use mobile ticketing! Which I refuse to do!
Timed that right it's now the 20 bus route now 😂
to be fair, Redditch does sound like the colloquial name for a skin condition
Gotta like the “Cheesy” pun bit. I hope you do a review of the West Midlands Railway Class 730/0 Aventra and Class 196 Civity and London Northwestern Railway Class 730/1/2 Aventras when they do enter service from next year. With the Class 323 to be cascaded to Northern.
7:45 definitely bog roll tickets. TfW had to reprogram the ticket machines as the amount of paper used was getting ridiculous.
Been awesome to watch the Cross City Finale with Cyber! Yes Alvechurch has improved with the loop line but shame it's not used to it's full potential. As I am originally from Kidderminster i'm not a fan of Redditch either and was there for 8 mins when i did the Cross City line. Old Bromsgrove is better as you see trains thrashing up and down the lickey Incline.
I’ve never been to the north as it is too full of northerners, however I feel a sudden urge to go to Redditch and buy a bog roll ticket
The hands, it's always the hands that gives it away. However great content.
Trains Station 🚉
7:32 why do you not like that rail ticket
I live in Barnt Green- I’m not posh.
Jen in 3 months time you Will be able to play the Cross City Line in Train sim World 2 and the class 323
Redditch is world famous for its roundabouts following the publication of the Roundabouts of Redditch Callendars
Milton Keynes says: Hold My Beer!
6:09 train pun but maybe you should have said "back on water"
I'd ask what's wrong with Redditch, but I fear that would just unearth a deep, dark secret...
Someone will have already made a "Bromsgrove Rover" joke won't they?
Why shouldn't I go to Redditch?
Why do you hate it?
8 mins in redditch is defo too long (im from redditch)
Do you think they should build a Trainline to Evesham from Redditch?