As a child and teenager, I would often use platform 4 at Monument then stay on the train as it turned at St James, because it just felt more convenient than waiting at Monument for the same train

Love the reaction when Northern decided to pull a Northern! Great Video and love the detour to Morpeth

Pointless journeys are always the funniest things 😂

Good video : ) For next time you could do Newcastle (Mainline) Newcastle (Metro) (Northern to Heworth, Yellow line to South Shields, Ferry from South Shields to North Shields, take the Yellow line back again to Central metro.

Here's a suggestion for a pointless journey: West Hampstead Thameslink - West Hampstead Overground - West Hampstead Underground

West Hampstead (London Underground) to West Hampstead (Overground) to West Hampstead (Thameslink )

I’ve never clicked a Nick Badley video as fast as this! Going to watch now!

Northern should operate a electric service between Newcastle and Chathill & Berwick-upon-Tweed using Class 323 and Class 319 EMUs. With stops including Manors.

Next time you are a bit more south, (South of London) you should do Edenbridge to Edenbridge Town. About a 5-10 min walk from eachother but a massive diversion by train. From Edenbridge to redhill, redhill to east croydon, east croydon to Edenbridge Town. Also both station have an hourly service so bear that in mind.

Windsor and Eton (Riverside) to Windsor and Eton (Central)... WER to Waterloo to Paddington to Slough to WEC

The moment I saw the title, I knew it was the most pointless thing to do. End result : watched the entire video. This series is Internet Gold

Great video, Nick! Thanks for adding captions too

As my mother always said to me "Watch your Manor's" ;-)

Seems like this opens up a lot of new ideas for these videos . Piccadily national rail to Metrolink?

I'd have done a large loop, Manors - Newcastle - Darlington - Thornaby - Sunderland - Monument - Manors

Great video nick

"No one ever uses platform 4 at Monument"! Wanna bet? I've seen it crowded before!

Platform 4 is used on specific days when football matches are being played and is designed to accommodate capacity for away team fans

Brilliant video! Really enjoyed

brilliant pointless journey im loving Morpeth & i love Monument station with its proper retro feel at that station and i love Manors station which is Tyne & Wears least used station and great for trainspotting keep up the awesome work

Great pointless journey Nick. I’ve never been to Morpeth or Sunderland!

I saw the title of this suggested and did a double take, I love the absurdity of this, I can also remember as a very young child being taken to explore the derelict Manors station. It was huge and had numerous tunnels running under it, which we tried to get through. It says on wiki it closed in 1978 but it would have been mid 80s when we explored it.

Fantastic vid nick!

Nice concept. I like the music you use too

Monument P4 is great when arriving from the coast, and IIRC can be used single line runnin in case of an issue in P3

Looks like you had fun.

Loving the Pointless Journeys vlogs ... Something different

Said in a previous video, Monument to Monument platforms 1/2 to 3/4. Others you could do but would cost a bit are some of the Scottish ones where the train splits.

I recently discovered both your channel and series, needless to say, I've subbed, and one pointless journey I'd suggest is Catford to Catford Bridge (a journey so pointless that National Rail Enquiries says it's an invalid journey)

Platform 4 at Monument, is mainly there for Matchdays, same with St. James Metro Station. As it gets extremely busy when loads of Newcastle Fans are travelling to a Home Match at St James

0:53 you was like "oh" because the train was CancelEd!

Blaenau Ffestiniog (National Rail) to Blaenau Ffestiniog (Ffestiniog Railway), via Shrewsbury, because who really wants to use that potentially 'dangerous' pedestrian level crossing when you can go on an adventure?

Walkergate is OK. Just a mainly residential area with a Lidl and a bus depot. Not particularly dangerous. It’s true, not many people get on from Platform 4 at Monument, but it’s the busiest station on the Metro and is in Newcastle City Centre. Plenty people use Platform 4 when getting off.

Love this series, really makes me miss living somewhere with a national rail station. Perhaps you could do something like Sudbury Hill Harrow to Sudbury Hill (tube) if you are ever in the London area? Or st Albans Abbey to St Albans City?

Could you do Newark North Gate to Newark Castle as a pointless journey?

Really enjoying these pointless journeys so far, if I can offer up a few suggestions for future videos in the series: Severn Beach to Pilning. About a 35 min walk between the two but the train journey is much longer and also made even more complicated by the fact that no trains towards Cardiff call at the station anymore. I think you have to go to Severn Tunnel Junction and then come back down the line again and even then the station only gets 2 trains a week (I know there's a local campaign group to get the station back on the map properly) Upper Warlingham to Whyteleafe: It's a 3 minute walk between the two stations but the train journey involves having to go all the way up to South/East Croydon and then coming back down the other line again Dorking (main) to Dorking Deepdene: Another short walk between two stations but on perpendicular lines. I think you have to go to Guildford and then get a train towards Leatherhead, make another change there and then come back down the line towards Horsham Clock House to Beckenham Road Tram Stop: a 3 minute journey by foot but the train/tram journey is much more complicated. There are occasional train journeys from New Beckehnam to Beckehnam Junction but these are very limited, the easier thing to do would be to get a train down to Elmer's End and then change to the Tramlink services, changing over at Arena for a Beckehnam Junction tram.

Wigan Wallgate to Wigan north western would be a great video!

‘Thanks northern LOVE YOU’ love the emphasis

Great video! I don’t know if it’s already been suggested, but perhaps Wigan North Western to Wigan Wallgate? Situated yards from each other but serve very different types of traffic.

I like your style!

03:00 well I never (just a joke, great video!! I tried to do something vaguely similar way back in 1989. Manors (mainline) was then a wilderness of mostly overgrown infrastructure with a couple of platforms actually habitable, kinda surreal.

as a student i often used platform 4 returning to college after shipping in the dinner hour

Nice video!

Love it

Chathill there’s a pointless journey within itself

Some pointless journeys in Scotland ideas. I have 2 ideas the first is the between the two stations serving Glenrothes in Fife which are actually located in villages outside of Glenrothes. The two stations are Glenrothes with Thronton on the outer Fife Circle line (in the village of Thornton) to Markinch which is a station on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen main line. The second idea I have is between the two main stations in Coatbridge. Coatbridge Sunnyside (on the North Clyde Line) to Coatbridge Central (on the Motherwell to Cumbernauld Line).

Love the videos. Smethwick Galton Bridge?

The St James Line would be used for all football goers as it stops outside the stadium for matchdays

Thank you for this amusing video ! You didn’t really need to go all the way to Sunderland to change for a northbound train to Manors. A simple cross platform change at Pelaw would have been much quicker, with additional trains coming up from South Shields !

Morpeth is actually a really nice town, though quite a hike from the station, from what I remember. You should go there sometime and do a proper explore. And I know just what you mean about Sunderland - reasonably central location in large city, yet usually fairly quiet! Other ideas? Helensburgh Central to Helensburgh Upper, Tyndrum Lower to Upper Tyndrum, Paisley Gilmour Street to Paisley Canal, Falkirk Grahamston to Falkirk High, Coatbridge Sunnyside to Coatbridge Central, Blackpool North to Blackpool South, Heath High Level to Heath Low Level, Wakefield Westgate to Wakefield Kirkgate, Pontefract Monkhill to Pontefract Baghill via Pontefract Tanshelf... and doubtless, many more!

you should do the Heathrow terminals

I imagine lots of people use platform 4 at monument... but only to alight the train coming from the coast 😁

I know Geoff Marshall has done it but Catford to Catford Bridge is a great one, can literally throw a ball between the two

People do use platform 4 at Monument to get to football matches. There was an original plan to have an exit from the station straight into the ground but it was cancelled! Incidentally I bought the first passenger ticket from Monument, November 1981 I think. And sold it for £5 immediately.

Lol Really enjoyed that. Altho you could’ve made it a lot shorter by going from Manors Metro, to Monument then change from platform 4 to P1 then head to Central Station and get Northern from there. Still a really enjoyable video Nic.k. Thanks for a very entertaining few minutes.

Platform 4 at Monument used to get very busy on Newcastle United match days when I lived in Neville's Cross, Co Durham in the early 1990's. As Toon Army fans would change for St James's.

0:49 face got me cracking lol

Whenever you're in London, you can do Catford to Catford Bridge... as they're literally a stones throw from each other. 🙂

You should do a London tube pointless journey on the circle line Edgware Road to Edgware Road

0:54 welcome to Norhern Teritory I'll be surprised if trains will be on time or not cancelled...

Love the video

From Newcastle you could have got a yellow line train round the coast amd into Manors from there, or alternatively, getting off the Mainline train at Heworth and jumped on the Yellow Line there

You can also do this Catford - Catford Bridge in London (but you have to use oyster or comtactless because theres no paper tivkets for it)

Wigan Wallgate to Wigan North Western next! 😂

I only ever visit Newcastle Upon Tyne once a year (for a certain running event) and used the Metro to Manors and thought I’d got off at the end of the world! 😂 I always find the St James bit of the Metro map confusing and which trains are going where on that bit? - if you see what I mean?

Do this with Meadowhall tram stop and Meadowhall train station in Sheffield even though the stations are right next to each other that would be hilarious 😂

Recommendation; Oulton Broad North to Oulton Broad South, they’re not directly connected by rail

I would like to say to you I like your videos and most important thing I like in your videos your British English accent second for me how you explain us. You doing very good thank you very much.

Love these pointless journeys! I've a few pointless journey ideas, mainly National Rail to Metrolink journeys in the Manchester area, bar one Earlestown to Earlestown from the "Northern" platforms to the "TFW" platforms. For the Manchester area : Manchester Airport National Rail to Manchester Airport Metrolink, East Didsbury National Rail to East Didsbury Metrolink, Navigation Road National Rail to Navigation Road Metrolink, Altrincham National Rail To Altrincham Metrolink also all the other National Rail to Metrolink links. One totally Metrolink journey Sale to Sale Water Park a 30 minute walk, but according to the Metrolink app route planner, a 23-minute journey via Cornbrook.

Could we get behind Catford to Catford Bridge, the journey so pointless that you can’t get a ticket for it?

Can I suggest a pointless journey from St Budeaux Ferry Road [SBF] to St Budeaux Victoria Road [SBV] Oh and we have the furthest south highway sign pointing towards Station (As a pedantic chap I believe it should say Stations since Victoria Road SBV and Ferry Road SBF are technically separate) with a West Yorkshire Metro (M) on it! Down at the last stop before Kernow- Cornwall.

7:00 Platform 4 is only really used on match days when Newcastle are at home, other than that its not used

If you fancy a Pointless Journey in London, you could try Penge East to Penge West. 10 minutes away between the two, but from Penge East you’d have to go to London Victoria, then either to East Croydon or Crystal Palace.

Platform 7 in Newcastle is the undisputed coldest place on earth (my opinion from many years of waiting for the Hexham train)

btw u can get tyne and wear metro from newcastle central station the green and yellow line stop there also metros are every 20 minutes so u didnt just miss 1 also can u do sunderland station (metro) to sunderland station (nat rail)

You should do a Sunderland station video or the seaburn and whitburn beach video. would be interesting to see.

Pointless journey idea: Smethwick Galton Bridge to Smethwick Galton Bridge (high and low-level platforms). There could even be the potential to double it up with Worcester stations

Highbury and Islington London Overground to Highbury and Islington Underground would be a cool video

I think we need a pointless journey from King's Cross Station to St Pancras International :D

Maidstone East to Maidstone West might be a good one

You should do Bicester north to Bicester Village that’s mega pointless haha

Brilliant pointless journeys Nick, it's a shame Northern pulled a Northern on you lol. I quite like manors station, it's a nice quitet station to do spotting at. :)

Monument Platform 4 would be busy on Newcastle match days

Another "logistics" questions (because I'm all about those). How do you plan your Pointless Journeys? How do you know where to go and change? I'd be interested in a video that shows how you plan these (after you publish the actual Pointless Journey, of course).

Next time, you could do Thorne North to Thorne South

Pointless journey suggestion: Balham national rail to Balham underground. (Could also do vauxhal to vauxhal or west hampstead to west hampstead via west hampstead since there's 3 of them)

Please try Smethwick Galton Bridge LL-Smethwick Galton Bridge HL

You could do Shotton (high level) to Shotton (Low level) via Liverpool & Chester

A suggestion of a pointless journey to do is Canterbury east to Canterbury West in kent. They have no good connection lol

Please havw a go in the Class 555s on the metro when they come out some time next year.

At manors you can’t forget your manors

Cheat unlocked: Monument platform 4 eeriest spot on the system (but subsequently the best to get footage!)

You should do Dorchester South to Dorchester West going via Southampton and Westbury, that's a long one 😂 or you could just go via Weymouth

Ayyyy Morpeth, that's where I live :)

Ayy, you passed my local station. Cramlington!

I’ve got a pointless journey idea! Windsor and Eton Central to Windsor and Eton Riverside. It’s like a 2 minute walk up a hill and taking the train between them is pointless.

Another suggestion, if you're in London ... West Hampstead (Jubilee line) -> West Hampstead (overground) -> West Hampstead (Thameslink) -> West Hampstead (Jubilee).

Start of manors to manors Tyne and Wear, Metro

I used platform 4 once, then the train broke down just before st james.

King’s Cross St Pancras (Tube) - St Pancras (National Rail)