There's Someone Looking At Me - Episode 18, Day 31 - St Pancras to Skegness
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- It's Tuesday 6th June, and bad weather causes grey skies, plenty of rain, and a cancelled train. But Geoff & Vicki battle on to find a dead king, Nottingham's trams, and the lights of Skegvegas. Oh, and did we mention the rain too?
View the progress map and loads more information about the project on the website at: allthestations....
ROUTE: St Pancras. Kettering, Leicester, Nottingham, Skegness
Vicki: "The market opened in 1204" Geoff looks at his watch and says: "That means it's only been opened for an hour." Very good Geoff.
I don't know why that made me laugh so hard. Very well done Geoff! Great joke!
where was that??
@@americanrailfanner1519 2:05
Me to so funny
Don't encourage him :)
"The market opened in 1204. Thats a long time to have a market"
"Well its only quarter past 1 now, its only been open an hour"
Very witty Geoff...
Sooo English. The weather. The pubs. The history. The delayed trains. The lush countryside. And Geoff and Victoria.
The dynamic duo.
5:57 That was one of our trams! I'm very proud of Nottingham's tramway and I think we are very lucky to have one. I'd say we have the 2nd best tramway in the uk (next to manchester because theirs is bigger)
Transparent Lemon Sheffield is great too, just very under subsidised😂
After a night of political chaos we welcome the warm comforting embrace of another excellent All the Stations video. A blustery episode to brighten my day.
John Vocking oh, the PM elections in the U.K. Must be miserable for you guys.
TheRyanHund I'm from America, I don't really know what I'm talking about
Don't forget we political types were out in that weather on Mon and Tues! (Stop cheering out there.) Yes, I WAS impressed with the tram/canal shot as you seem to have so little time at each town.
What an absurd, but delightfully fresh excuse for 'not cleaning things'
2:13 oh dear Geoff xD
Leicester station has some good signs about its history and it a wonderful building
Another good ep you two! Good work on trying to stay optimistic inspite of the problems, most delays and gone-wrongs never happen on a sunny day!
I'm in love with your username xD
Now there's the Britain I always imagine, grey and dreary!
At East Midlands Parkway, the thing out the window was a power station
Its a real pity about the weather, Skegness is great when the sun is shining. Great job at trying to get the best out of the day guys :)
that look at the camera after the Thomas Cook sponsorship reference!
Possibly knowing now best not to be sponsored by Thomas Cook
Robert Lilley ha!
Thomas cook actually died in Leicester, He wasn't actually from there.
First Thomas Cook package tour was from Leicester to Loughborough (My home town).
As I settle into bed on a winter's night, it's such a nice finish to the day seeing the next instalment of this series. :-)
Ian Anthony well you are describing somewhere like New Zealand
very rainy in sydney
An overcast and chilly Masterton, New Zealand
Note from the Pronunciation Police: "Ye", as in "Ye Olde Shippe" is correctly pronounced "the". Because until a long time ago the th sound was denoted by Y.
More accurately, the sound was written as the latter þ, called thorn, which looked very similar to y in some fonts, but fell out of use eventually.
Yeah. We know.
I've been to Corby (not trying to rub it in!!). Corby in the rain - you're not missing much, hopefully it'll be brighter on your return. The cooling towers at East Midlands Parkway always turned a few heads even before they opened the station there!
I've parked on the space where Richard III was found. Wonder how much he was charged?
Shame you didn't jump on the Tram from Nottingham Station in to the centre and slab square as it is called locally, the old market square is the original location for the Nottingham Goose Fair. The current location for the fair is on the Forest Recreation Ground, also accessible by Tram, about a 5 minute journey.
Ham Street but they said 45 minutes when coming out the BBC offices.
I love Skegness but it always rains when I visit too. ☔
You two are such heroes!
5:25 Trivia - the y in Ye was originally a separate character in the alphabet (þ) that eventually dropped out of use. It's form slowly evolved to resemble a y, but it was pronounced like a 'th, so 'ye olde' would have been correctly pronounced as 'the olde'.
Another great video guys! Really enjoying the adventure.
So much for the direct service between Skegness and London which was promised in about 2010 but didn't happen. I know this because I had my 15 minutes of fame on the local news when this was being reported and was the reason for the refurbishment of Skegness station.
I can't believe you came to my home town of Kettering!!!!!
Yes, but they got off!
I can't believe I missed them at Wellingborough!
I am so proud the train was also insanely delayed in Kettering. getting that realistic East Midlands train service.
you stopped at Kettering, where I used to live, and now I live in Skeg-vegas, great job guys
Yay, Loughborough! I reckon that whoever sponsored that station must be pretty awesome, and oh, so handsome! ;-)
Weather wise, Tuesday was awful. You both looked cold, hard to believe it's June. Enjoyed your video.
Tip for Vicky: Pacer train numbers start with 14, Sprinter train numbers numbers start with 15.
Presumably different types of train are maintained at different types of depots, you won't find 'Pacers' that far south(?) I have a cold spot in my heart for 158s, feel cramped the 150s have a much better layout, but maybe reduced capacity.
Matthew Albery I prefer 156. They are very loud but nice to sit on going through the highlands.
Sorry for the storm, my fault, I was getting my decking re-laid and re-varnished.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that finds that the use of your train is delayed due to inclement weather funny.
I want the old music
Ah, another lovely soothing video to get lost inside:)
Hi the series is great keep it up. I love when you show a map of the areas you are going to on your phone. 4:34. Can you please do more of that? Either as a full map at the start of the video or just as you do during the video.
great feedback Harshil, noted!
agree ATS, liked that too! veey cool shot
+gobears6487 or very*! doh
Yes please. A great idea. Does anyone have a link to the map app I could use on my PC. I don't own a smart-phone.
www.projectmapping.co.uk/ I use their www.projectmapping.co.uk/Resources/TOCs%20AS%20v26%20June%202017.pdf map.
It's like the sad ending to EastEnders or Neighbours at the start 😀
Seeing the inn in Nottingham reminded me of a pub in St Albans that I remember was argued to be the oldest in the country (from what I heard there was one other that disputed its claim and I can't remember if it was the one you went to here) called Ye Olde Fighting Cocks down by the Abbey (lovely building that you should visit if you get the chance, Vicki, it's got the 2nd longest nave in the country I think) and Verulamium Park (got some nice remnants of the Roman wall there). Their website says ~793AD but the Telegraph has it as possibly dating back to 973AD (apparently the first licence they have is from the 18th century which is why it's disputed). I think the general idea in the area is that it does date back that long, which doesn't really surprise me given the buildings and institutions that have survived this long in St Albans itself (the oldest school in Hertfordshire, for example - ~948AD). Anyway, I'll stop rambling on about St Albans and pubs now, just thought it was an interesting tidbit!
Great video and series, always love seeing there's a new one out! :-)
"It's only been open an hour!" :: I Lol'ed.
I can't believe that I was within 100 meters of the legend with my house directly next one of the stations on the Nottingham - Skegness line. Only I moved here 2 years ago god dammit. Buy hey I live somewhere Geoff Marshall has been close to
Skegness is a long way from pretty much everywhere.
When Vicki said a sprinter the train was actually a super sprinter train. Sprinters are formed of class 150s,class 153s,class 155s and class 156s. Super Sprinters are class 158s and class 159s
Pacer spotting tip: they don't have bogies.
you know some crazy stuff happened when the intro is the slow sad music...
RIP Thomas Cook
I love Vicki's rather winsome 'All The Stations' announcement just before the theme tune
ChrisInTheNorth I noticed they used one of the alternative arrangements of the theme tune for the first time. Slow arrangement because it rained, and you had a cancellation?
And the downbeat version of the theme tune, maybe reflecting the initial mood of the day.
East Midlands Parkway is next to Ratcliffe on Soar power station
Amazing as always
4:14 "We should've got Thomas Cook to sponsor us" *sly look to the camera*
Why is Vicki "V Pipe" in the credits?
Shouldn't her name contain All The Letters?
Incidentally, that statue was the first Richard the third ever to be polished
You are my heroes
Olde Trip to Jerusalem. great watering hole and food.
Big up Market Harborough! #Hometown
Re Thomas Cook - don't forget Thomas Cook Airlines - the name is printed in huge writing on the plane
The Skegness Jolly Fisherman began life as a railway marketing character to promote travel to the town.
I live in Nottingham and if you have a train at Platform 2, you need to have around 5 minutes if you want to walk
Love these videos. One point though. There is also an 'oldest pub' in St Albans (The Fighting Cocks), and also one in Chiddingfold, Surrey, called the Crown... I think that's what it's called. Don't ask me which the oldest one is, just pointing out that more than one pub makes that claim. Apologies for bring pedantic, but then I must be a bit of a geeky type to be addicted to this series right?
Chiddingfold! Been past there on my way to Littlehampton
I think you have a great channel. Today I noticed that Victoria waves like the Queen :) By the way if you are sick of the rain send it down our way Victoria, Australia we down here can always use more rain :)
Ah! Leicester my home town, How was it? Very rainy like always
Geoff I live in Kettering! (yes trains to Corby are always bad!)
2:43 It's really windy!
Great Video
ay! u came to kettering, my home town! I tried to meet u there and see u but didnt get there in time!
Geoff: Vicki, is it a pacer or a sprinter?
Vicki: (Level crossing barrier raising noises)
Vicki: Spirnter
You went to my station Nottingham! (but not the closest to me, Hucknall is)
There are many "oldest inns in England". Another is the Bingley Arms in Bardsey between Leeds and Wetherby. It claims to date back to 953AD and has real priest holes (from a somewhat later period) up its chimney. www.bingleyarms.com/gallery-1617.html
Unfortunately, it doesn't have a railway running anywhere near it (and I don't think it ever has done), so you're not going to see it on your trip.
I stand corrected in that point.
The cooling towers belong to Ratcliffe Power Station.
"You are using that shot" - hahaha!
i live near kettering and corby and the corby train is frequently canncelled or delayed
I told you Thameslink would be late when I met you at penge ;)
my station Loughborough :D
same!
arrrg you did Nottingham and I cant belive I missed you
Finlay Wishart Same
Do you think you could do a Nottingham trams transmission?
How did this happen? What a tramsition??
Cheeky royal wave from Queen Victoria at 6:38
Leo Levontine 6:31 actually...
The editing was really nice in this one√
What happened to Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth and the Cromer lines?
Ditto ! Looking forward to see Brundall again ;)
Yes was looking forward to seeing my home patch!
Robbie Glow That's where I live! :-)
I'm not English and don't know a lot of these places. But I remember in the first Adrian Mole book Adrian's family wanted to go on vacation to Skegness and he hated the idea. Adrian thought that Skegness was the worst place in the world.
Awww poor Viicki.
Before I watched this I thought Vicki Geoff and some trains. What could possibly go wrong.
good video 😀
So what’s the difference between a pacer and a sprinter?
NOOO I WAS IN NOTTINGHAM THE SAME DAY YOU WERE THERE
I wonder whether there is a train from Nottingham to Skegness (or vice versa) that stops at all three least used stations on the way (Bottesford, Elton & Orston, Havenhouse). Follow-up: are there any services calling at more than three least used stations?
Did you make it to Corby? Is now a two track line rather than single with a four track line from Kettering to Bedford, better service, apparently, when completed but no new stations.
Did u ever do Beeston,Attenborough,carlton
If you need a lift to or from Corby in the future let me know .
I WAS AT KETTERING TODAY AND I TOOK THAT TRAIN
The cooling tower is part of Radcliffe power station.
Nottingham my home town
Hey, Same!
FlameXXD Hey, your that Notts fan I was commenting to few months back
5:54 Best excuse ever!
I missed you going through Wellingborough. Dammit
when you go back through Nottingham to Bulwell and Hucknall, you can catch the tram which runs parallel to the train line. would you do that like you did in London?
Rip, that shot sounds kinda cool.
4:21 That's an Express Sprinter but Sprinter is also right
Ahhhh, it's a tough job but someone's gotta.....
Can you go on the great central Railway in the Leicester and Loughborough area and Quran
I agree
Very clever post-credits bit!
Geoff. What app are you using in this vid?
Vegas 👍✌️
Shortly after the bit about being on the same train for two hours, the editing made it look as if they kept on changing direction. Video taken from both side of the train I suppose.
great video what are you guys doing next ?
This turned into a history lesson @ 3:17