This Displeases Me - Episode 41, Day 73 - Blackpool North to Burnley Manchester Road
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2017
- It's the 18th of July, and we start in Blackpool and travel around Lancashire, calling at Clitheroe, Colne, and beyond ...
Follow Geoff's 'End Of The Line' series on his Instagram: / geofftech
Dales Rail Sunday only service beyond Clitheroe and up the Settle and Carlisle! www.communityraillancashire.c...
The link to the 'Accrington Stanley' advert appears in the top right corner at the moment that Geoff talks about it .. click on it!
You can buy 'All The Stations' t-shirts, mugs and more on our merchandise page, here: allthestations.co.uk/shop/
Geoff and Vicki are visiting ALL 2,563 national railway stations in Britain - view the progress map and loads more information about the project on the website at: allthestations.co.uk/
ROUTE: Blackpool North, Bolton, Clitheroe, Colne, Preston, Burnley Manchester Road
"Pacercise" - the new fitness craze.
There is an old progressive rock band called Yes. Their founding lead singer Jon Anderson is from Accrington. That is how I have heard of the place.
I can't get over how surprisingly refreshed you guys look.
Burnley Manchester Road was opened built by BR in the early 80s when BR reintroduced the service between Preston and Bradford - due to the Provincial Building Society (NatProv) relocating from Preston to Bradford. As you've seen the station on one side has recently benefited from gain a new waiting room and ticket office - replacing an earlier, simpler version
Todmorden curve took 10 years and £9m to build, which is quite impressive considering it's less than 500 meters long and runs on an existing formation!
For anyone who didn't already know, the 2 boys from the Accrington Stanley commercial got hired recently to do another commercial (30 years on from the original) to do the exact same commercial but instead of milk, it's a vodka distilled from milk. It's worth checking out.
HI HO WOLVERHAMPTON (Yes,I am a Wolves fan)
Bowlergaming Wolves ay we
@@bowlerstuff9589 oh hello
You stopped at my hometown Chorley, you don't know how happy it makes me feel to see you show that station.
Mine too - I dont think they stopped though!
Talking about the Accrington Stanley advert, when at the York Railway Museum with my kids a few weeks ago, I met a bloke and his son. They were Accrington Stanley fans, but the bloke's brother had been the producer of that advert, and apparently the football club were delighted by it as they got payment for featuring on the advert.
I've done press ups on a pacer 😂😂. Other passengers faces when I did it. Top quality
this series is a great travelogue of all the places to visit in britain :)
You should have taken someone called Frankie with you on that day, just so you could call the video Frankie Goes To Hall-i'-th'-wood
Steve Gregory 😆😆😆😆😆
What if after all the stations have been visited, you get all of us viewers to do a tour of our local station for the channel, so that you can have an in depth library of all the individual stations stored on record. A short but concise video of shareable quality.
See David Brewer
See st Anne's on the sea
The other thing that Accrington is famous for is that it was where Jon Anderson, the original singer of prog-rock band Yes, was born, and he started his career there, which explains the Lancashire accent. And Besses'o the barn would have taken some beating for a station name, but it's now part of Manchester's Metrolink (and was one of the first stations on the Bury line)
the accrington brick company is famous
Wow! A pacer on the Blackpool north line, never get that now!
Great laugh. Good to see them so relaxed and enjoying the day!
This hasn't aged well 😅
It's most definitely Pleasington, not Pleasington.
I did that one when I walked it from Ramsgreave & Wilpshire. Weather wasn’t great 😢
I note you can’t comment on any of your videos. Is there a reason for this? When you did Hebden Bridge I would’ve thought it much easier (and quicker) to have simply got a bus for the last bit rather than wait ages for a taxi Northern clearly couldn’t be bothered with. Hebden Bridge now has lifts on each side.
Who doesn't love a nice tram.
Duncan Campbell Manchester
We had two cats once - Stan, named after Accrington Stanley, and Ozzie, named after Oswaldthwistle.
I was involved in quite a lot of work in building the new Burnley Machester Road station. It brings back memories
You also missed the fact on the Blackpool south line, the guard uses a telephone at St. Anne's on the Sea for Blackpool bound trains and at Blackpool South for Preston bound trains to get permission to pass the end of the runway at Blackpool Airport.
Cool I never knew that.
I recall a couple of years ago, in Perth Western Australia, during a cricket test match between Australia and England, that during a drinks break that the commentary team started admiring the lovely images being screened on the TV at the time, including the surrounding Swan River and picturesque skyline and surrounding beautiful images of the city. John Lloyd (English commentator) broke the silence by saying '"it reminds me of Accrington...". I still laugh when I think of it.
Unusual upload time! Surprise treat!
keeping you on ya toes ...
All The Stations will do please can geof do the viki explores and lett viki have a rest
Can’t believe Rishton was missed out
Excellent video im loving the journey up north!
Jon Anderson, of YES, was born in Accrington - and so was I! Twas lovely during the 1970s. Not so nice now.
Considering the electrification from Preston to Blackpool North was completed in mid 2018, it is interesting to look at this for posterity
Wahoo, ACCRINGTON! missed a lot on the line and noticed you fly about from one train to another. couldnt see Hapton, Brierfield, Nelson, Huncoat, Kirkham and Wesham. One of the actors from the Milk advert was special guest at a party at the football club a few years ago.
If anyone does walks on old railways that are no longer there, you can walk a lot of the old line that ran through Rishton, Greatharwood, padiham etcmost of it is wheelchair accessible and also get to see suck places as the Martholme Viaduct, just after Great Harwood
it's a pity, on the subject of pleasing names, that Besses o' the Barn is no longer National Rail and is now part of Metrolink.
Been waiting for the notification since the Facebook live. A lovely rare evening treat. Keep up the superb work
in isolation with covid, vicki and geoff....u 2 have kept me going, esp with vickis off the cuff comments. makes me laugh. more please.
Pity you missed Clitheroe castle,really nice ,gardens and walks,plus a cup of tea in the cafe.nice town,.big cement factory and rail served.good luck
Wasn't Clitheroes claim to fame the lowest unemployment rate in the country?
Your videos are amazing thanks so much
Burnley Barracks was my commute stop for a good couple of years. The barracks themselves have long gone but back in its heyday the whole area was a hive of activity.
Geoff that is so bad 🤣. In the 70's my mum bought me the "Charles Buchan's Football Yearbook 1969" from a jumble sale. I learn't about Accrington Stanley from there...very pre 80's
I'm halfway across the world and I've heard of Accrington Stanley O_O
Hall-i-th-Wood is still a part of Bolton, in fact, it only takes less than five minutes to travel from Bolton itself to there
I LIVE IN ACCRINGTON!!
hazzia_ my commiserations. Tesco hides the train station, right?
@@Dude0000 ahahah, thanks. The tesco was built after the refurbishment of the station, it only covers some of the westbound platform.
9m24s Burnley/Manchester Road. Thank you for spending so much time on the platform. I traveled by bus past that station twice each school day for four years 1952-56. Sunnybank School looked a lot like the building behind Vicky. Two years in a row Mum & Dad, Lia and I traveled by bus from Goodshaw to Burnley/Manchester Road and caught the train to/from Billy Butlin's camp at Filey. Filey! Now I can boast that I have been to a station that you've NOT been to! Cheers, Chris
Fantastic trip
Omg i have just found your videos and Bolton is my home town. I am so amazed
Not to brag but two of my old school friends have played for Accrington Stanley! They didn't last though, they didn't meet the high standards 😂
I have been over the line north of Clitheroe when I've been on special trips of the Settle and Carlisle, and there is a campaign group for that line to get a direct service to Manchester which would presumably run via Clitheroe
fab as always! thanks!
"Hall - ith - wood". Pronounced as it is written really. Just Lancashire dialect for "Hall in the woods". -The hall was the home of inventor, Samuel Compton, who designed the Spinning Jenny, which lead to the industrialisation of cotton production and weaving in the North West. It is now a museum.
Correction hindler, Samuel Crompton invented the Spinning Mule, not the Spinning Jenny; which was invented by James Hargreaves. Regards, Mike
Michael R Gentry Oops, you are quite right Mike. Thank you for pointing that out.
I thought it was Hol-ith-wood rather than hall
You passed my local station- Accrington. Been waiting to see Accrington in this for ages aha
I heard though the grapevine, you had some trouble at Blackpool North. Great video .
Haha! On the day I went hiking from Entwistle (and had to request the stop!), I watch this episode!!
It's not just Milk. But If you knock an old building you'll see Accrington everywhere as it was a brick manufactoring town. You might want to revisit Blackpool north and Kirkham and Wesham next year as those stations have had a massive redevelopment as part of the Great Northern Rail Project.
How about a series for all the stations that were only created for Army, RAF and Navy barracks, garrisons, bases, stations?
The Railway Touring Company's Cumbrian Mountain Express travels over the line between Hellifield and Clitheroe Southbound and it's steam hauled!
Another wonderful video guys....and I'm very proud to be its 400th "like". Hope you will soon visit my local station - Hebden Bridge - one of the "quaintest" stations in the North of England. Vicky will love it although, unfortunately, we don't have a castle. However the station cafe serves a brilliant cup of tea! Keep up the good work! Immensely enjoyable!
The automatic Announcer at Preston pronounces it Please-ington
I went to Colne a few weeks after you did this line - I noticed at Preston that the pre-recorded announcements refer to "Please-ing-ton" [not "Ples-ing-ton"} as well !!
Was on a train that stopped at Entwistle recently, coming back from Blackburn
There's a woodland cemetery at Entwistle where apparently sometimes they bring the coffins in on the train instead of in a hearse!
Did the Dales Rail from Blackpool North-Carlisle back in 2000! Worth it for the Settle & Carlisle as well as the rare Clitihroe-Hellifield section.
Along with the interesting town names let me throw in mine. I was born on Railroad Ave. in Experiment, Ga. so naturally I am enjoying this series.
All the Chorleys! Great episode.
It was sorta home for ya. You where on the Northern to Mill Hill. ;)
oh no! No shot of my home station, Bromley Cross! :( Lovely weather that day though!
Did anyone notice that Vicki is wearing a different top at the end of the journey to the start.
Wish I had known the day you were visiting Bolton. I work just around the corner from the station. Would have been delighted to meet you.
Bolton - did you find a Pet shop that sells Norwegian Blue Parrots?
*Notlob
No, but I know the name of the lover of Mrs. Betty Teal.
Yeah they were all dead
@@starlinguk The palindrome for Notlob is Bolton, it doesn't work!
That particular shop is not in Bolton, it's in Ipswich.
Colne used to go through to Skipton til around '69 or something. Pity you didn't get out in Accrington and show the arched railway bridge, looks like a scene from the victorian age. We were there in 2012.A short walk from there is clayton le moors, right on the leeds to liverpool canal. Used to go to school there many years ago.
Vicki makes me laugh every time.
Wow u was lucky to get a pacer on that line
Hall in-th wood! - there's a stately home, or hall, in the wood.
Few facts for you (since I'm from Bolton):
Hall i'th Wood is pronounced hall ith wood.
It was once double track all the way up to Blackburn - there used to be a station in between Hall i'th Wood and Bromley Cross (which you missed) called The Oaks (you can still see the Southbound platform in the undergrowth which used to be quad tracks, the same at Entwistle.
In between Bromley Cross there used to be a station called Turton and Edgworth which was also double tracked and famous as a previous Monarch (I forget which one) once stopped in the local village and stayed the night because the royal train got stuck.
Their also used to be a station in between Entwistle and Darwen called Spring Vale and one inbetween Darwen and Blackburn called Goose House.
Entwistle incidentally only still exists because it was privately owned so survived the cuts.
Ahh the Bolton to clitheroe line. I used to live in Darwen and did a Daily commute to Manchester.
Entwistle is a funny station, in the middle of nowhere and actually stops there frequently for requested stops and scheduled
Lovely pub right by the station and beautiful reservoirs to walk around.
1 minute in and im laughing my face off, MY GOD THIS IS BRILLIANT! XD
I'm gonna miss this a lot when it finishes :(
The thumbnail amuses me.
My dad was born in Accrington and my granddad did actually play for the original Accrington Stanley (reserves).
The organisation to do this must of been crazy, I live in Birmingham and thinking about it just to do the stations in my area I wouldn't know how to go about it, would love to see how you planned it all and how much you spent on tickets
I've been planning to take the Settle - Carlisle line for aaaages.
1:56 I knew that Geoff would make that reference!
I'm a Pompey supporter from the USA; Portsmouth played Accrington Stanley twice last season in League Two, and once in the FA Cup. Pompey split the season series with them 0-1 away and 2-0 at Fratton Park, and the Blues won the FA Cup 2nd round fixture by 1-0. Does this count as having an association with Accrington Stanley? I would imagine most yanks would not have known that. Cheers!
I live in Burnley. If it was raining, it would be complety different.
I have been to see my football team play away at Accrington Stanley 6 times and all of them have been on the train
The Excellent Adventure Continues (!!)
Good to see Fred making a brief appearance there
There used to be a station. Still may be, near Munich called Kissing
I only tuned in to the video to see how you covered Burnley as I am from there
Late I know, but my wife has just started watching your videos. My Dad in his youth when he was Goalkeeper for his school was offered a trial for Accrington Stanley
I live in Accrington and will probably miss the screeching Pacers over the viaduct
There is no longer a church in Church, it closed a few years ago. But to avoid calling it Church, Church, it was known as Church Kirk.
Sunday morning's there's a Hellifield - Preston service that goes north of Clitheroe!
Oh you said that hehe, but the opposite direction they run one too!
Old mate of mine was Chairman of Accrington Stanley - saved the club from liquidation some years back - he grew up in Accrington, so its must less mental than you might at first think.....
A very pleezant video! :D
My grandmas friends son used to play for Accrington Stanley. I don’t know if he still does, though.
I am glad she explored Bolton, I will have to get to know it in September
*Update: been getting to know the town better and better
At the moment Blackpool line is closed at the moment for a major upgrade they are upgrading it to electrification and it will be open end of on the 25th March
Kudos for doing the Accrington Stanley quote without affecting a scouse accent 😜👍
"Blackpool!" "It's uppercase Tuesday." "BLACKPOOL" "Thank you."
I'm not sure why, because it feels like a reference to something I don't know, but that made me laugh for a good 20 seconds.
All the stations is my second favourite, second only to Accrington Stanley
I was in Blackpool on Tuesday
3:40 "I don't think I'll ever not be bored of request stops"? :P
He was confused,
6yjjk the I do not think that I will ever not be bored makes total sense for his context
You'll have done these by now, but my favourite line for station names in Manchester to Glossop; Bottomley and my favourite Flowery Field...
Did Geoff keep spilling his tea over Vicki today.. she seems to get through about 3 t-shirts?
And I'm not sure why Burnley Mac Road is 'awkward'.. every train on the Leeds to Preston line stops there
Fact about me My nearest train station is Poulton le fylde right now but where I live we are getting the trains back to where I live
Hi. I've started to watch your series. Fantastic, I'm a Blackpool lad myself and my local station is Layton. Did you manage to stop there between Blackpool North And Poulton?