On this episode, Nick gets confused and thinks he's in Manchester and the trams go everywhere!

The geography of this episode just hurts my head, and I'm from Birmingham

I love how you did two pointless journeys in this one. The main one, Tamworth to Tamworth and also Birmingham New Street to Birmingham New Street!

Not only did you prove the futility of this journey at the start by needing to go through the low level platform to get to the high level, but you proved it a second time at the end by getting off at the Southbound side of the low level, which you can only exit by going through the high level.

As someone who grew up in Tamworth, I'm happy to see my hometown featured! You also got to experience the single best thing about Tamworth - being able to leave that godforsaken town!

06:51 Hi Nick! LOL another great Pointless Journey but even Tamworth itself can be a maze but not as bad a Smethwick Galton Bridge. Also Avanti West Coast do stop at Tamworth as well but not as much. However once Avanti get a good kick up the backside there should hopefully be a hourly Liverpool to London service stopping here.

I lived in Tamworth for the last 28 years. Quickest way from High level to low level would be to change at B New Street and get the train to Lichfield Trent Valley and then get the train to Tamworth Low Level. Another pointless journey is a return to Polesworth. 😁

This was indeed a great pointless journey. Great vlog Nick! Tamworth I do like that station, this is home territory for me being in the West Midlands.

Nice video Nick. Can you do another pointless journey at Litchfield Trent Valley on the high and low level platforms

I was in Tamworth station last night, just after sunset. Couldn't bear the thought of a one hour wait for my next train, so I decamped to Wetherspoons.

For anyone wondering, Nick goes on a pointless journey. Epic video as always Nick! You never fail to impress! There's some interesting stations in the video, and nice to see a glimpse of the Centro 323!

Tamworth station that has both high level and low level platforms could of been renamed as “Tamworth Interchange” or “Tamworth Junction”. Still keep up with the amazing work Nick. 😊

i really enjoyed this one brilliant pointless journey i cant wait for the next one

Great stuff Nick. 👍

Great vid as usual Would be interesting if you did New Street to Moor Street via like Coventry or leamington spa

So jealous of all these interconnections and how you can just show up and know that another train will be along soon (30 minutes was your longest wait!). We have a decent network on the island of Montreal with buses and metro, but the commuter trains are nowhere near as good as yours, and off-island? Forget it; super-low frequency buses, and that's about all you get except for a few commuter trains.

The Hawthorns really comes into it's own on match days. I was also their last year for the Commonwealth Games and it's size came in handy. I wish more corridor ended 172's had been built for other franchises. Chiltern and GWR branches spring to mind. Why the NO for a 350/2? I'm a big fan of the Desiro EMU.

Another awesome vlog

Yes you did it! Got another suggestion - Upminster to Upminster Bridge in London will involve Elizabeth line - Overground - Underground.

love your videos man. if youre ever up north, a good pointless journey would be something like platforms 1-5 at leeds to platforms 15-17 (higher/lower level i guess!)

Hello, I'm new around here. I enjoyed your pointless journey video. Never thought of this idea before. Good job buddy 👍🏻

A brilliant pointless journey video Nick, Tamworth is a station I quite like. Also I feel for you having to ride these 350/2's lol.

Nicely done 🙂

Hi Nick I guess you know but close to where I live ish is Shotton. They have a upper and lower section. Be interested to see around that area. Love your videos. I live in Wrexham. Keep up the great content.

I once did this journey, but not by choice. I was trying to get to Euston. Trained got cabcelled at BNS and the only way south was to go back to Tamworth and get a CrossCoubtry to Reading. What a faff.

A really good pointless journey you could do is Birmingham New Street - Birmingham Moor Street. A way to do this is to get a West Midlands Railway 350 service for Wolverhampton and get off at Smethwick Galton Bridge, then catch a 172 bound for Stratford, Dorridge or Whitlocks End and get off at Moor Street! Would love to see you do this!

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to be honest, I don't know Birmingham well enough to have come up with that convoluted a route for this journey... I'd have just done Tamworth- New Street- Rugby- Tamworth (or maybe swapped Rugby for Coventry and Nuneaton)

I love these videos. heres a suggestion - Worcestershire Parkway High level to Low Level

Only just been shown your channel by the algorithm gods today. Glad to see my area on the channel. Curious: did you get a Network Daytripper to cover all these journeys plus a return from Tamworth? (Covers all West Midlands county buses, trains & trams)? Or a Plus Bus add on to a Tamworth - Birmingham New St return ticket? Or just individual tickets? Went to Tamworth from Brum for a pub crawl a few months ago, but by Arriva bus 110 in the end cos it was £2 government cap single each way vs about a tenner return on the train. Plus met some friends on the bus in Erdington snd Sutton Coldfield.

If you are back in London, I wonder about the (much lost high level/ low level lost names, eg Willesden Junction , and Stratford come to mind. But other good journeys must include Catford/Catford Bridge and maybe each end of the Emirates AirLine crossing from nearest station/s).

Good one

Very good, Nick. I like this sensible stupidity!

Another way to do this journey is to go from the high level up to Derby, Derby to Leicester, Leicester to Nuneaton and Nuneaton to Tamworth.

These are pointless journeys, but frustratingly could have useful purpose because they are showing the extents you might have to go if the lifts are out of order and you require step free access (obviously not in this one as Rugeley Trent Valley was used)

Great video, although I'm a little sad you forgot about poor Avanti!

Next should be Lichfield Trent Valley low to high! LTV to Rugeley TV, Rugeley TV to Birmingham New Street (via my hometown - again!), then New Street to Lichfield TV via West Midlands Rail. If you were feeling really up for it, you could go LTV to EUS, then EUS to New Street then the local service to Lichfield!

You should really do Portsmouth and Southsea high level to low level

I used to have to get the train to the Hawthorns daily and can confirm, there is never anyone there. I think I encountered one, maybe two people at the station per week at peak hours

Nick, what about Catford to Catford Bridge ? You cannot buy a ticket between them but you can use oyster or contactless

Have you ever done Liverpool South Parkway High-Low level?

the smart alec in me will be saying this.... Easier trip... Tamworth to Bham, Bham - Nuneaton... Nuneaton - Tamworth... but ya know... Next time your in the area gives us a heads up! always love meeting rail fans!

Requesting: Southend Central to Southend Victoria.. changing lines at Barking, then Gospel Oak, then Stratford

Are there ticket barriers in Tamworth station?

Have ypu done Retford they have one on ECML then low level, Also Wakefield Westgate and kirkgate, thwn Bradford Interchange and Bradford forster square

Now do Lichfield Trent Valley, without going to New Street.

Do Shotton Low Level To Shotton High Leven Next😊

cool video i like it😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Falkirk has Falkirk High and Falkirk Grahamston (High and Low Stations) , both on different lines. One for another trip when you head north of the border

Nice, I'm not familiar with the lines around Birmingham I first thought of Tamworth -> Birmingham New Street -> Rugby -> Tamworth

Could you do Wigan Wallgate to Wigan North Western?

Tamworth also has a Limited Avanti West Coast Service

whats so bad about a 350/2? also do heathrow terminals

If your journey is essentially platform to platform, you should do the journey without changing platforms at any of the intermediate stations. Maybe crossing from one side of a platform to the other is ok. You should avoid interchanges that are further than the distance between the original start and end points.

Nice, been here before

You should make a pointless journeys video where you just go to slough

This is brilliant. I've done Glasgow Queen Street Low Level to Glasgow Central Low Level, which isn't quite as pointless but probably is not too far off

Nick how about doing Newark north gate-newark castle for pointless journey

How about a pointless journeys for Farringdon Thameslink and Elizabeth Line station to the Tube station?

Another idea would be Worcestershire Pkwy High Level to Low Level

2:49 But at least you remembered in the Nick of time!

imagine going between st pancras thameslink and st pancras international

If you want a challenge, Nick, how about Shotton High Level to Shotton Low Level

Up my neck of the woods try Newark and Retford. Retford is the funniest one as it's literally minutes to walk between the high level and low level platforms but hours by train. Newark has 2 stations perhaps 10 minutes on foot but got to be several hours by train. This video has to be the craziest one I have seen to date. Did you have to buy a ticket from Tamworth to Tamworth? Funny how you went to new street then back to new street - 2 pointless journeys in one.

The Hawthorns would be quiet on a Weekday or Weekend sometimes as there isn't really anything that way there is a few house's down Halfords Lane but they could walk to Smethwick Galton Bridge at the end of Halfords Lane walk the other way and get the every 5 minutes 74 to Birmingham or Drive and use the A41, A457 or the M5 that is at the end of Halfords Lane then take a left that merges onto the M6. But on a Matchday when the A41 and M5 are screwed it is rammed. The Tram is used most often as Away fans get it to get New Street, they may use the Train to but they would have to walk across Brum alright going there for Pre Match Drinks, Albion fans use it to. The Albion fans would mostly use the Trains to Kidderminster, Worcester and Stourbridge where a lot of them live. The tram might be used as far as Wednesday the outer edges of Sandwell and West Brom fan area or West Bromwich Central for Pubs and so, Where they could get the bus to places like Tipton or alight the train at SGB, Great Bridge and Dudley. After Wednesbury unless we are playing Wolves it is empty of Footie Fans mostly. Also interesting idea Pointless Journey from Birmingham Moor Street to Birmingham Snow Hill via New Street, cavat is you can't use the direct train from Moor Street to Snow Hill. So you could do Moor Street to Leamington Spa or Banbury, CrossCountry back to Birmingham New Street, then you could get the Tram as far as the Hawthorns or West Birmingham Central to get a bus to Snow Hill, the Tram takes you to St Chads outside Snow Hill, the bus I think stops outside

Here are two ambitious ones for you: Vienna Hauptbahnhof - Vienna Westbahnhof. Budapest Nyugati - Budapest Keleti

Shorter suggestion: Tamworth - Birmingham New Street then Birmingham New Street - Nuneaton and Nuneaton - Tamworth.

It irritates the hell out of me that LNR/WMT run refurbished 350s on the commuter route between Birmingham and Rugeley - but then the awful 3+2 configuration 350/2 on the long-distance Crewe - London route!

How about bank to monument by train on London Underground?

Yes I was the 800th person to like the vid great vid as always but can you do secrets about board green stone in Liverpool childwall

Youll soon be able to do Wolverhampton to Wolverhampton via train and then tram.

Maybe you could do Euston to King's Cross and/or St Pancras...without the tube

Do Wigan North Western to Wigan Wallgate! Maybe Wallgate to Kirkby, Kirkby to Liverpool Central, Central to Lime Street, Lime Street to Wigan North Western

You should've got on the 323 at Birmingham along the cross city line to Lichfield, then one stop on the WCML. I appreciate it's a more boring route, but it's a chance to ride the 323s before they all disappear up north.

Nick 👍

You could do Glasgow Central to Glasgow Queen Street.

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When you're cba to take the stairs

Seems like poor signage, don't think you need to go outside Walsall station to swap platforms? Yeah Smethwick Galton Bridge really is a maze. And could do with more and/or bigger lifts, so many stairs.

Another route you could have done is Tamworth to Birmingham on the high level, then Birmingham to Lichfield Trent Valley, then Lichfield Trent Valley to Tamworth. You would have passed through LTV anyway from RTV.

You need to do Worcestershire parkway (GWR high level) to Worcestershire parkway (cross country low level)

Imagine this Tamworth in UK to Tamworth in New South Wales in Australia that'd be a really pointless journey

Where u from

Should do st helens juction to st helens central no direct train link between them

Do Cardiff Central - Cardiff Queen Street Via Llandudno & Holyhead

Have a go at Mitcham Junction to Mitcham Junction

Will you do Catford Bridge to Catford?

I went to London and we stopped at Tamworth

Could have got the tram to Wolverhampton and then change trains at Stafford :) I'd prefer the scenery that way

I was suggesting that

Hawthorns would have been empty as it probably only gets used on matchdays

my guy you cou;d've just gone tamworth>new street>stafford>tamworth still fun to watch tho tbf Mabye a smethwick pointless journey could be an idea

Why not go from New St to Walsall? Saves the faffing about at Smethwick?

What about Smethwick to Smethwick?

If I were doing this, I'd probably have gone via Nottingham or Derby as some other commenters have said... But my main question is: how the hell did you ticket this? I know for a fact that the CoC/RG precludes Tamworth HL to Tamworth LL as a route and you certainly seemed to be flying by the seat of your pants this entire time :P

Pointless Journey: Ormskirk Platform 1 to Ormskirk Platform 2 (or vice versa).

Had to use Tamworth High Level at night a couple of years back. Not very pleasant, it's appallingly badly lit.

Yoooo my cousin lives in Tamworth, that's all I know about it because I've never been

@Nick Badley you could do a pointless journey video in The Netherlands from or Duivendrecht high level (where trains to Utrecht Centraal via Breukelen,Uitgeest and Rotterdam Centraal depart and the Amsterdam metrolines 54 and 50 to Gein and Isolatorweg(nearby sloterdijk) and Amsterdam Centraal depart and from the low level platforms the sprinter trains to Hoofddorp, Utrecht Centraal via Hilversum, Almere Centrum and Almere Oostvaarders and the Intercity trains to Enschede, Amersfoort Schothorst and Lelystad Centrum depart or from Amsterdam Sloterdijk low level platforms (where the sprinter trains to Uitgeest, Rotterdam Centraal, Hoorn,Zandvoort aan Zee ,Amsterdam Centraal and Driebergen Zeist(in rush hours) departs and the Intercity trains to Alkmaar, Den Helder,Nijmegen,Maastricht, Den Haag Centraal (rush hour) , Enkhuizen , Vlissingen, Heerlen and Amsterdam Centraal depart to Amsterdam Sloterdijk High level platforms where the sprinter trains to Zwolle,Hoofddorp (on Monday until Friday until 20:00 further to Den Haag Centraal) ,Amersfoort Vathorst ,Hoorn Kersenboogerd(also only from Monday to Friday until 20:00 further to Den Haag Centraal) and next to the highlevel platforms to Schiphol Airport and Amsterdam Centraal are departing the Amsterdam metrolines 50 from Isolatorweg to Gein and 51 from Isolatorweg to Amsterdam Centraal

I got one for ypu Leicester to Derby to Nuneaton and back to Leicester