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Lord Grantham?

Sure that the UK doesn't have a station with one train per week or another one with 2 trains a week?

Oh hey, Dave! Nice to see you here! The whole "barrow crossing" name makes a ton of sense actually heh. And as for getting back to civilisation? 'Twas yet another 3 mile hike back.. I did 30,000 steps that day. Help me.

@@NickBadley You must one of the fittest railfans in the UK.Rebecca and Paul might give you a walk for your money .Greetings from Australia.

​@@NickBadleycouldn't get a bus on time?

If I were able to bring my car to university, definitely would have done that! Unfortunately, that was not the case.

What would you do if you hopped off the train there and realised the next train is in a week?

@@ianhosier4042 the walk to Reedham doesn’t take long along the river and you can also catch trains there as well as buses

😂 I’m that guy

Stanlow and Thornton station has been closed since January 2022 because of safety concerns with the footbridge. I cannot see any prospect of funding being obtained to repair the problems; I'd think it is more likely that the footbridge is removed and the station reduced to service in one direction only or closed entirely.

The rock salt in the bin is for improving the conditions under foot in snow and/or ice.

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I think if 4 trains per day called the 40 would go up by more than 4 times

I think the problem is the lack of connection to the cities more than anything. A good train station is usually built near to a bus station/tram station or when there is a lot of transport lines around there. It does look quite useless as well. The problem is more planning than anything else. At the same time you are talking about a tiny settlement around the station. As far of what I have seen in the video, there isn't anyone working there either.

On English country roads it is - if it is 6 miles each way

It makes sense when you think about it. Crossing on a maintained level deck with measured regularly inspected sightlines is very different from skipping across the ballast and over the rails.

I probably would if I had a large enough audience 😂

​@@NickBadleymate I'd join you

Most likely because if you make a station a request stop, you've got to build enough time into its schedule for it to decelerate, do a station stop, then accelerate back up to line speed. It's only a few minutes, but those few minutes (especially if repeated at Ancaster, Rauceby and all the other stations on the route with limited service) can make the difference between a timetable that works and one that doesn't. Platform availability at Nottingham is limited, and there are three single line sections on this route so if you stop one here you'll definitely delay one coming the other way at Heckington, and probably the one following at Bellwater too. Enough of those delays and you can't cover the hourly service with the trains you've got...so you end up needing an extra set, and a couple of extra crews to run it. That's a lot of money to spend, especially if you're betting that demand increases at the quietest stations in the country will be enough to repay it.

Well I do have a discord for Patrons and Channel Members!

@@NickBadley Ah okay! How do I become a patron?

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I'm in Ellesmere Port. 2 trains per day from the port to Helsby. Can't get up there by road anymore as in middle of Stanlow. Dunno if you can walk or cycle through oil sites road anymore either??

Welllll sorta, not really. For the whole year, the station was closed, which in my opinion, shouldn't count. Elton and Orston was the least used *actually open* station.

Had to walk all the way back!

The Beeching era was weird. Closures could be opposed by objecting to the local TUCCs but the only grounds on which they could refuse permission for closure was "hardship", which was left undefined. Inconvenience wasn't enough, and you weren't allowed to challenge BR's facts and figures even if you thought they were dodgy. That meant that a closure where a large population would be slightly inconvenienced by having to drive or take a slower bus would be allowed (eg Sibsey), but a mere handful of people left with absolutely no alternative (eg because there was no alternative means of transport) could force a station to open- thus Thorpe Culvert and Havenhouse survived primarily for a couple of kids to get to and from school each day. The problem with re-opening stations on busy routes (or branches feeding into them) is line capacity. There are plenty of large villages and town stations- eg Bawtry on the ECML- that could provide a useful link if opened, BUT laying on a stopping service would tear such a big hole in the timetable (probably losing a couple of fast "paths" per hour) that the losses would outweigh the gains. It might be nice for some people to go from Bawtry to Doncaster, but not at the cost of turning away several hundred at KX.

Rocker Jim, there it is, heading west at 09.34 just over Nick's shoulder!

It's legally quite difficult to close stations in UK so it can be cheaper to just keep then open with a limited service.

Yes but you go to a bus stop/station and a taxi rank etc.

@@epender Oh, not that excuse AGAIN! What else could you call them? The railway is always there but the train isn't!

@@Inkyminkyzizwoz and the bus isn't always at a bus stop or a bus station. You don't call a bus stop a road stop, do you? Train station and Railway station are interchangeable terms, this is a really weird hill to die on / try to troll people about.

idot If I've said it once I've said it a hundred times, it isn't called a road stop because BUSES AREN'T THE ONLY VEHICLES THAT USE ROADS!

@@idot3331 Anyway, 'train bridge' and 'train tunnel' seem to have become a thing now as well, and you definitely DO refer to a 'road bridge' and a 'road tunnel', so how do you excuse that crime against the English language?