That ticket machine at whitlocks end stole 6 quid from me and I’m still not over it

I need a supercut of all the shots of conductors waving goodbye to Geoff on an abandoned platform

MY FAVOURITE SERIES.... BACK!!!!!!!

The waiting room there at Bordesley has the East German concrete look !

Traffic Lights? Manual operated ones London 1926; automatic ones Wolverhampton 1927.

Find someone who is as excited to see you as Geoff is to see an abandoned toilet

"Geoff gets excited in a men's toilets"

Jen is an absolute gem and this collaboration is just amazing 👍😊

As self-appointed unofficial chairman of Club LUS it is my unofficial duty to welcome Jen into the menagerie of Geoff's Companions on this series!

Must be time for a “Worst Station Toilets” series…

You dont understand how much I've been wanting this to return, thank you Mr Marshall

May 2020 when everyone is locked down: sunny and dry May 2021 when everyone is allowed out: raaaaaaaaaaaaaain

The weather recently has really got me at my Whitlocks End! I'll see myself out.

Geoff, the return of Least Used Station just brightened up my entire life!

Lovely to see this again.

I must have missed this video in May, but the algorithm kindly reminded me today. "Least used stations" is such a great format of yours, Geoff! And Jen seems like a very beautiful soul, I will have to check her channel out!

Exactly why I have channel notification bell always turned on so I got the instant notification for this video. Glad the Least Used Station videos are back 😁

Seriously the best intro and outro music on KZfaq, so glad it's back 🙂

Oh how I've missed this. Despite the inexplicable lack of bin bags. Totally love Jen's channel too, you should all check it out

Fantastic to see the series back Geoff, really brightens my work commute down here in Australia. For those who also love it, make sure to also check out David Brewer's 'Britains Least Used Stations' book from a few years ago, its the perfect accompaniment to Geoff's KZfaq videos!

Brilliant video, and I thought Jen was an excellent companion!

I am disproportionately HAPPY to have this series back! Great video, Geoff! And Jen seems like a very nice travel companion. Now off to have a look at her channel.

A joyous day.... for so many reasons. Thankyou.

This is good, I love it. Least used stations is great. Thanks Geoff.

Great to finally see you back !

The most excited I have ever seen someone over toilets that wasn't on the verge of filling their shorts lmao. Glad to see you back dude, your channel is an odd one for me, in so much that I personally don't have any real interest in trains and their stations; but your enthusiasm and expertise on the subject matter overwhelms my personal disinterest on the subject and I always seem to come away from your videos having learnt something and entertained. All the best to you mate and I look forward to the next installment!

So pumped this series is back, I've missed it!

Marvellous to have these back

That was great Geoff. I empathize with you about the weather. In Ontario we have a saying -- if you don't like the weather just wait half and hour.

Moseley, kings heath, and hazelwell are 3 stations reopening in birmingham for the first time in decades. I am very hyped!

You are the first people I have seen get off at Bordesley ! used to pass it daily on my way to and from Tyseley TMD ! Great Video !

Great stuff. Nice to see somewhere like this in good old Brum. There's something I like about those long abandoned toilets.

I missed this series! glad its back

Lovely to see the Least Used Stations series back on track! And I learnt how to pronounce Bordesley correct and not say Bordersley but the line at Bordesley was once part of the former Great Western Railway London Paddington to Birmingham Snow Hill main line which carried on to Wolverhampton Low Level, Shrewsbury and then onto Birkenhead Woodside.

Great video Geoff. Good to see a least used station video again

You’ve bought back memories for me. I used to get the train to school from Hall Green to Snow Hill every morning, and my train was the one in the morning that stopped at Bordesley. I’m unsurprised they cut the services back further though, nobody ever got on or off.

I have been through this station, but never got off here, as I am not a football fan! Thanks Geoff! We live in Stratford-upon-Avon, it was lovely to hear a station name mentioned, that I actually know where it is!

Such a great series!

Very good to see you back on the rails.

I was really starting to miss least used stations, excited to see another one

Yay another least used station video. Just amazing.

Its Geoff's fault that I look for station facilities on my rail trips now. I was at Dawlish Warren and noted the bins were in those rigid plastic sleeves so they couldn't blow in the breeze...

Wolverhampton had the first automatic traffic light junction in 1927 and London had manually operated red-amber-green lights the year before. The concept of using red and green lights to direct road traffic had been used in London since the 1860s (basically a railway signal - so the gas lights were only for night time with semaphores during the day). I going to give it to Wolves, as they were full on modern traffic lights as we know them today rather than someone directing traffic with the help of lights to improve their visibility.

Great to see least used stations back on the channel!

I went to school in Pontarddulais. Never once visited the station there though, so I'm excited for the one where you take us all there.

Geoff, you did know the loos existed... but during All The Stations you thought it was an old station entrance that had been sealed off! 😂

Love it!

Geoff you always do the best videos

Needed this today! Love a least used!

Geoff, you may be the only one who missed the intro music more than me. It actually brought tears to my eyes, wtf?

Great to have the LUS series back 👍👍

i really missed these during the lockdowns you werent really able to do them....thank you for returning to them again :)

love the videos geoff

Geoff you have no idea how happy I am to see another least used station. I have missed new videos from you. Your videos got me through lockdown and I'm so happy to have these back You still have Welsh and Scottish counties and Northern Ireland. You could also do the Manchester tram network. Secrets of and least used. loads more content. Thanks again!

At 7:56 the timetable says "Departure from Bordesley" as there is just one train! Love it!

Great to see least used station back !

When you went into the toilets, I initially thought they were in service. I was like "hmmm, the cleaning interval might need re assessment maybe"

There's a great Caribbean cafe right by the entrance. Best goats' curry ever and good pre match grub!

Glad to see the least used stations series has returned. :)

As a Canadian who has never been to the UK and has no plans to, and wasn’t even particularly interested in trains, naturally I have found your channel to be fascinating.

In the days before Snow Hill reopened, a number of trains stopped at Bordesley. There used to be a 4 aspect signal on the Moor Street bound platform with the green blanked out, because there was only one more signal before the buffer stops at Moor Street. I did get off a train at Bordesley in about 1980, when there were problems at Moor Street.

Yes please- more Least Used. Thanks Geoff.

Lots of fun very enjoyable

After watching this video i did exactly as what you two did, same train etc but when i got off the train at Bordesley on Saturday 31st July there were 12 railway staff there. It seems that when Birmingham City Football club play at home the railway company use the station quite well as i found out as managed to get on a train at 14:18 to Snow Hill station. I enjpy your videos. Thanks Dave

I go from Kidderminster through Birmingham and into Warwickshire ever day and have done for years, I've never, ever, ever seen a train stop at this station in my entire life

Oooooo new intro graphic (very All-The-Stations-esque)

Darn! If I'd have known you were in my neck of the woods I'd have tried to pop down to say hello. Ah well, nice to see this video anyway. I'd been looking forward to seeing it!

Considering the "it probably smells a little bit" it is brave of the two of you to sit down on the floor of the shelter 🤢

I feel like a veteran. I knew Jen's channel before this Collab even happened

I remember when Bordesley was much busier. There were a lot of factories in the area but few houses. The platform would be busy at rush hour. The factories closed 1 by 1 and were replaced by businesses which employ few people. I can just remember the ticket hall. The bit at the bottom of the stairs there is a false wall - it was behind it. I still use the station on match days. The platforms are packed!

Out of all the crossover I've seen, I wasn't expecting JenOntheMove to appear on your channel. A bit weird because I knew her on another forum for several years before joining KZfaq

Coming soon, Geoff's new channel: "Least used public toilets"

Awesome.... least used stations is back 👏

Passed this every day when I drove for National Express on the way into Digbeth. Had no idea it was so rarely used!

love the vid

These videos are back! About time! Anyone would think lockdown was on or something....

Once known as Bordesley Junction until lines branching off closed. 86s used to slam on the brakes on the drop to New St.

Every other week for years and years I've walked past the glamorous entrance on my way to St Andrews.

Brilliant

If you had gone right when you came out of the station about 50 yards down is the canal with a reasonably nice walk/cycle into Birmingham.

I liked the train door sound as they opened and closed.

Your camera work is impeccable.

From what I remember having talked to colleagues about Bordesley, it supposedly is haunted? And you can see the disused platform in the wonderful "Let's Go to Birmingham" BTF film :D

I like how the timetable just says "Departure from Bordesley" (singular!)

As some one who loves very old urinals that are absurdly large and ornate... My reaction was just as excited as Geoff's!

Good to see LUS back

Just had a look at Jen’s channel will subscribe to her, wish there was more of her in her vids

“It probably smells a little bit....from memory.” - Jen, Special Guest, 2021.

We’re back geoff!! 😀😀

I did get off there once ages ago when it had a regular peak time service to meet someone in Digbeth and have been on a train which stopped there on a match day a couple of years ago

Omgggg you're in Brum!!! 🧡🧡🧡

As an Aston Villa fan it tickles me no end that the least-used station in the West Midlands is the one that serves Birmingham City FC.

brilliant video + subscribed to jen :D

awesome

9:55 The M6 was the first to be opened (Preston bypass) but the first construction works was on the Eccles bypass, M63, now M60, specifically the earthworks for Barton Bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal. I guess it depends how you interpret "First to be built"..

Great to see Least Used Station is back! I can't help thinking that given Bordesley is in such a built up area it wouldn't be the least used station in the West Midlands if it have more trains stopping.

history allsorts... love it..

One would think that in a time like this where services have been reduced, that the desolation which is Bordesley would’ve been among the first stations to lose its service, but glad to see it’s still got a service... to an extent. I guess the service is so limited there that it’s not worth removing :D

Rain, grey clouds, desolation, desperation, zero facilities, crumbling brickwork, apocalyptic toilets. But anyway, enough about my day trip to my Aunt Maud in Plaistow. Love this video! 😜 It reminds me of that abandoned station for Vicarage Road...but this is somehow on life support 😂 I think they have pulled off the "Minimalist Gulag" effect rather well! 😉👍 To be fair to Jen, I think the first proper modern traffic light system might have been installed in Wolverhampton. But I think they are referring to a gas fuelled light thing operated by a policeman that was what was the first incarnation of coloured lights being used to control traffic. I only remember because I believe an unfortunate copper on duty (tgey had to physically pull levers to make the contraption work) died when the gas tank exploded. Not sure but I think it may have been Parliament Square or Trafalgar Square. One of the main bottle necks anyway ☺ Cheers Geoff, great fun as ever🍻🍀

Ooh, least used station - Nice music by the way!