(Diesel Engine Noise)
It's been snowing!
(Upbeat musical intro)
Monday, the 10th of Feburary it's a little tiny, one car, EMR, Class 153 train
We're at Tutbury & Hatton and i say ... "we"
because, Karen's here and we're doing ... - The Least Used Station in Derbyshire!
on a snowy day!
Feel like you've got your disguise on, because you've got your
are you prepared to take your glasses off? so we can all see Karen's face
Saturday, was a beautiful sunny day
and then yesterday, Sunday the storm came in
and today it's snowing so we've had like, three types of weather in three days
Karen, you were with us in All The Stations bizarrely here at Tutbury & Hatton - I Was
Since 2017, i said when I did Peartree I would get you back
- And if you recall Geoff the weather at Peartree last time we were there was appalling
It was appalling, it was really raining - It was torrential rain
I'm not sure what's worse torrential rain, or snow
I think i prefer the snow actually
So we await the 16:07 ... which is already running five minutes late
and then we get the train to Peartree! - We do - Brilliant
Karen, show us your ticket! we've bought a ticket we've added to the stats
and there's somebody getting on! no? they're not getting on
ok, thanks .. that's David, David give us a wave!
- Thank you very much thank you mate! regular commuter here
Now at Tutbury
the platform was covered in snow i wanted to do a thing where i spelt out the word 'Peartree'
using my feet on the platform but Karen's just gonna write it in the bench instead
The classic thing about Peartree is that it always comes up, in emoji quizzes
of railway station names because it's an easy one to do
so it's a Pear ... and it's a Tree .. you actually come up with
an emoji for Tutbury and hatton, didn't you?
- I did which was?
it was an angry looking face as in, *tut* a strawberry, for the berry,Tutberry
and then, a man with a hat on! Tut Berry and Hat On
but Peartree used to be called
Peartree and Normanton, two words separate
and we can't think of how to do Normanton as an emoji, so like Norman you know like a solider with a helmet
but we can't ... if you can think of a way of doing the word 'Normanton' as an emoji
then put it in the comments, but Karen i think you need to draw a Pear and Tree emoji on the bench
Karen, we've got an instant task for you because light is against us
sun sets at ten past five it'll be dark by the time we leave
dude, you know what you've got to do, don't you?
and we're gonns stop ... here
one hundred and seventy seven
you need to calibrate that against Vicki feet
now at a glance
would you like to talk us through the station facilities, that you can see here
this station is festooned with facilities we have signs
telling us that it's Peartree stations - two of
we've got a shelter, a couple of lights
a couple of entrance gates - Is there a bike rack?
- Can't see one Any type of ticket facilities?
Definetely no ticketing facilities no PERTIS, no ticket machine
there is bin! Geoff
there is a bin
a salt and sand distributor
a grit bin
one on each platform
right, so we got the gates, so to exit
we just push a button it lets us out
but to enter on the other side we need to do ... well you'll see
thank you!
into the street
there's no big double arrow! there's no British Rail logo
just this little thing saying station it hasn't got a Peartree sign
but it does have a helpoint, and there are timetable boards
but we'll do times, when we get down into the shelter
so what there is, to access
oh there IS an onward travel poster
but to access, Peartree station
you have to press a button, and I guess that's the CCTV up there
Now! as a kind of a ... least used twist
if you ever remember wathcing Least Used Lincolnshire
which was Havenouse, with my friend Pete
my friend Pete now works for East Midlands Railway
and he SHOULD be in the control centre today, and when
i press the button, he should be the man
on the end, going "yeah .. what do you want?"
please wait
i think that's the CCTV - Hello, East Midlands Railway
hello! we're getting the train to Tutbury please
- Ok, letting you in now thank you sir
can we push? that was Pete
ah there's a train in now!
hi! there were timetable boards, on the other side
but i didn't see them this side, but that's ok
because i got you from Derby station earlier
a paper timetable! as a souvenir
- Thank you Geoff how many trains a day
call at Peatree? - Five trains a day You already know this ?!
you've done your research in the morning
- i think there's two in the morning and three in the evening if i remember correctly
- One in this direction in the morning
So in effect there's just one train each way in the morning
- and in the evening there's one from Crewe to Derby and two from Derby to Crewe
and that's the one we just arrived on, but going southbound
there's, i think there's a quarter to
the one we've just seen go
oh so that one we saw go was the 16:44
and we've now got to wait for the 17:44
by which time, it will be dark!
so the last just of us in video will be us in the dark - It will be very atmospheric
Hello. - Hello! have you brought tea in your flask?
- I have
Why have you got a Back the the Future sports Almanac? - You recognised it! it justs a notebook
oh! but it's the cover from the one from Back to the Future
ooh la laa! as Biff would say - Karen!
how many people use Peartree station?
last year, Peartree station saw three thousand and thirty-two visitors for the whole year
Now this has gone down, it's been on the sliiiide - It has
Why is it going down?
I don't know, but it's not good because it's just a low used station anyway
it would be great if more people could use it and then hopefully, you know
make sure that those service are still maintained
Right! what else can you tell me about Peartree?
I have prepared a little infographic here for you
You've MADE an infographic!
yes but my fingers are so dry, i can't turn ...
this was just to demonstrate the plummeting figures
oh my! you've drawn a graph! *laughs*
look at this *laughs*
so you can see that obviously with 3,032 this year
before that we were approxamately 4,000
yes we were, in the previous two years
the year before that was over 5,000
and not mucch the year before that so it plummeted
quite dramatically from the year '15-'16 to now
what is here? 'cause theres a main road up there
i could smell the chicken i could see the KFC
is there like a retail park? - There is
there is a retail park over there it's a leisure park as well
there's bowling, and a cinema and a McDonald's and a KFC
and hotel, and a big Sainbury's
all the kind of thing, because when we did All The Stations
people were getting on and off for Rolls Royce which is just
well i was gonna talk about that because if you look from that side of the bridge
there's a curve of track
that goes off, to what i think is a brilliant name
a suburb of Derby called ... SinFin, is that correct?
yes, it means "without ending" in Spanish, doesn't it?
what, no! i didn't know that, you've taught me something
but there used to be
a couple of railway stations there, that's now an abandoned railway
yes, Sinfin North and Sinfin South and they used to
used to serve, Rolls Royce
previously, that line
the one that comes off to go to Sinfin used to go all the way to Melbourne in South Derbyshire
i think there's one final thing to do, and that's is that a flask of tea i can see in your bag?
that's a big old mother of a flask
can i have a cuppa?
there you go
thanks very much!
it's a mum sized flask
enjoy!
got any biscuits? - I've got cakes!
Would you like one of these cakes, Geoff?
Sure!
Thank you
As Karen said, it's a bit of a nothing station but everything's alright when
when your're having a cuppa
is this Yorkshire, this is good man, Yorkshire?
Morrisions! Oh. fair play.
in the distance through the railway arch, of the bridge
the sun's-a-settin'
and the lights-a-fadin' and we're the only people here!
ten past five, half and hour ... half an hour until the train
the only fools on Peartree station
everytime we say Peartree, ding! The pear and the tree will pop up on screen will they?
just say Peartree, peartree, peartree - Peartree! Peartree! Peartree!
it's five forty now, the train is due in four minutes
and nobody else, has come down the dark path
to get this train
so it might ... just be us!
that is the least ... used ... station ... in Debryshire
shall we do the emoji one more time
the emoji
PEAR, TREE.
there we go, thanks Karen, did you enjoy it?
- Absolutely! also, you've been waering like a carrot
instead of a pear, you should have worn a pear broch
i know i didn't foward think that one through
thanks very much! hit subscribe for more like this! thanks Karen
- Bye!
Bye