- Oh, absolute chaos here at London Paddington station,
as it is across most of the railway network today.
They don't seem to have any drivers
at the minute for any of the trains.
So everything is canceled.
It's just ridiculous.
But hopefully mine won't be as we take our ride
out of Paddington tonight.
Need to figure out where we need to go.
Do you have the Big King today or?
Cheers, thank you.
So I figured I'd come sit out here for a bit
just to escape some of the madness
inside Paddington Station right now.
It's just chaos, all these train cancellations
and everything that's going on.
It's absolute madness in there.
So I thought I come and get a little bit
of peace and quiet out here.
So yeah, I'm taking a train tonight,
from Paddington, hopefully, fingers crossed.
And it's the other sleeper train
that we've got here in the UK.
You've seen my Caledonian Sleeper videos probably, before.
If you've not, I'll pop a link up on the screen
but there is another sleeper train here
that is probably second fiddle
a little bit to the Caledonian sleeper,
but it's one I've been wanting to do for such a long time.
So we're gonna do it tonight
and take a sleeper train from here at London Paddington.
Oh, would you have a look at who I found here
at Paddington station?
Hey, it's my old mucker Paddington Bear.
Doesn't look very active today.
He's very sort of static and stationary, but nevermind.
All right, let's go and see if we can find
a lounge or somewhere to while away
a couple of hours before me train goes.
Oh, hey, how are you? - How are you?
- I appear to have entered a gentleman's club
or establishment.
Look at these old sofas and beautiful like little rooms
that we've got here in the first class lounge,
here at Paddington station.
Loads of like railway stuff on the walls as well.
Look at this.
So, the train I'm taking tonight,
that is called the Night Riviera,
and it's operated by a company called GWR
who operate the trains in this part of the world.
And it's gonna take me from here
in central London at Paddington,
right the way down to the tip of Cornwall
in South West of England to Penzance.
It's literally as far as you can get on the train
in the South West of England.
And it's an eight hour overnight sleeper train,
that's gonna be leaving from here
in a couple of hours time
and taking us through the night
across the West Country down to Penzance.
So I'm really super looking forward
to taking the Night Riviera train.
It's been on my bucket list for quite a long time
and looking forward to getting on the train
and seeing what it's all about.
So then, my train has arrived.
This is the Night Riviera train
that's gonna take me from here in London, Paddington
all the way through to the South West of England,
to Penzance, right down on the tip
of the tip of the furthest southwesterly tip of the UK.
And yeah, shall we go and see if we can get on board?
Right, so we've got to go and try and find
our room on board this train now,
which is in coach G.
And this is D, so some way to go yet, I think.
It's a long train, this one.
We're literally down at the bottom end of the train,
I think.
Here we go, Coach G.
Old fashioned sort of door.
That's okay then, if it works.
Still locked, got to wait a minute.
Right, G 11 then.
I don't know where the door numbers are. Hang on.
This'll be us then, hey.
Ooh, very snazzy.
Let's drop me bag, let's have a look around the room.
So then, here in me room on board the Night Riviera.
Very, very cool.
It's not massively spacious, this room.
It's not as big as a lot of the sleeper trains
I've been on before.
We've got a single bed here,
which is all right, and it's, ooh,
yeah, relatively comfortable.
What else have we got?
It's kind of like a closet
with a bottle of water down there as well,
which is quite nice, in the closet.
Then what we got over here?
We've got the window, pull here.
And a view out over Paddington station at the minute.
It's nice how it's sort of clips down.
It's like a night shade.
So, it's like a blackout blind
which is quite nice, very handy.
And we got power here.
Room service button,
power, USB, flipping heck,
more USB, more power, more light switches
and a bendy wendy light.
It's very nice, yeah.
Pretty nice, this actually.
And a towel.
Did you sleep well? I don't know yet.
I haven't tried going to sleep but we'll find out, hey.
But it's quite nice, actually,
for the eight hours sort of ride
down to Cornwall from here in central London.
It's gonna be so cool.
I was looking forward to this a lot
and I'm very tired now 'cause it's very late.
This train doesn't actually leave until sort of midnight.
And it's like, it's only half 10 now.
So we've got about another hour and a half here
on the ground in Paddington before we actually get going
on our way down to Penzance.
So, yeah, it's a late one,
but thankfully they have let us
on the train a little bit early.
All right, so they're very friendly.
I want to say a Provodnitsa,
like you get on the old Soviet trains,
but like, she's not a Provodnitsa
but they're very friendly.
I don't know what you call them, actually.
The lady who's looking after us anyway tonight,
has just come around and taken my breakfast order
for in the morning.
They're gonna bring that round
at about quarter past seven in the morning
or around about 40 minutes before we arrive into Penzance.
So that's good, that's good.
It means I don't have to go down to any car
or anything like that, they bring it all to your room.
That's pretty nice.
She's also given me a couple of other little
hints and tips around the room.
I didn't realize this, but apparently under here,
under here, apparently this lifts up, oh it does.
Wow, okay.
There we go, we've got a little sink.
Very cool little sink there.
Put that back.
And we've got temperature controls as well up here
which I hadn't noticed.
There we go, so hot and cold.
Warm that up a little bit,
it is a little bit chilly in here,
but yeah, here we go.
Very, very nice. Nice service so far anyway.
I'm looking forward to getting me breakfast
in the morning, but more than anything,
I'm looking forward to getting a little bit of sleep
because it is quite late and I don't...
You know, it's quite an early start really.
It's like a 7:00 am wakeup call in the morning.
So for me, that's quite early.
So I'm hoping to get to sleep pretty soon,
but equally I wanna be awake when we pull out of the station
to actually enjoy the first moments of the trip.
But anyway, I think I'm gonna get into bed actually.
Now it's sort of, what time are we on?
It's 11 o'clock at night at the moment.
I think I'm gonna get into bed and wait for us
to pull out of the station here at Paddington.
Right. In bed. Very comfy.
Oh, this duvet's so fluffy and lovely.
Now it's actually, it fits on it quite well that way,
I mean, remembering I'm six foot four here.
So length wise, not an issue.
Widthwise it's a little bit tight.
I think I'll have to sleep on me side tonight
but I suppose at least with having the wall
this side at the front of the train,
that means that if we have to stop at stations and things,
I'll be rolling into the wall
rather than rolling out of bed
as I did on the Prietenia train over in Moldova.
Check out that video, by the way, if you want to.
Hopefully, this train's gonna be a little bit
nicer than that.
Hopefully we don't get woken up
at all hours of the night, by people entering the room
to do maintenance on it and stuff
and check our passports and stuff like that.
Do you need passport for Cornwall?
I don't know, actually.
I've had me inoculations and I think me visas
and everything are all up to date.
I think we're all right
but hopefully no passport checks tonight anyway.
But anyway, I'm actually quite comfy.
I'm gonna try and get some rest and yeah,
I think soon we'll be pulling out of Paddington
and getting on our way.
Well, good morning from Lostwithiel in Cornwall.
That's quite incredible.
I think I've just had the best night's sleep
I've ever had on a train,
ever, like seven hours nonstop.
I literally fell asleep as we pulled out of Paddington
and just woke up now.
It's such a smooth train, this one.
It's incredible.
Compared to even the Cale sleeper, it's just ridiculous.
You don't even feel that the train is moving.
It's just such a lovely, lovely train to ride on,
this one, the old Night Riviera down to Cornwall.
And yeah, the sun's just starting to come up.
It is sort of, what time is it?
Quarter to seven in the morning.
So very soon, I imagine, another hour
and we'll be arriving down into Penzance.
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- Right, time for a very quick loo review
on the Night Riviera.
It's a shared toilet at the end of each sort of carriage.
You don't get your own bathroom like you do
on the Caledonian sleeper or anything like that,
but it's typical national rail style.
Not much to say, it's alright.
Just have to wait for it to become free,
that's the only thing.
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Here, me breakfast bags arrived.
Maybe we've got a tray as well,
but you've gotta be up quite early for that.
They do, like from about half five onwards,
they do like a tray breakfast,
but I wanted a bit of a lie in, if I could.
And I'm glad I did because I slept really well.
But anyway, let's see what we got in here.
Let's have a look.
Bacon cob.
Been a little bit squished but it's alright.
It's alright.
Few biccies.
And we got me coffee which I ordered
and an orange juice as well, which I ordered.
Then, dum dum dum,
aside from all the usual bits and bobs that you get.
Bit o' brown sauce.
Ketchup and everything,
and some disinfectant
so I can wipe down my bacon before I eat it.
It's very important, of course, in these times.
And yeah, there we go.
Lovely jubbly.
It's not bad, this is, is it?
135 quid, this cost me for this train.
And considering that I pay about 160, 170
for a first class one way ticket
from Chesterfield to London,
135 quid to get from London to Penzance in a sleeper,
is just really cool, I think.
Very good value for money,
especially considering you have breakfast included as well.
It was pretty decent and we should be in Penzance
before eight o'clock this morning.
So, if you were ever going to work,
I don't know why anybody would want to,
would be traveling from London to Penzance
for work, I guess,
but I'm guessing there is people who do that,
it would work out really well.
And of course, for people who are going on holiday
down there or something, it's really cool.
And I actually met a few people last night
in the lounge at Paddington who had been on holiday
and they were coming back home
to Cornwall and the Scilly Isles
and they just get into London on the late flight
and then get the sleeper back down to get home.
So, it works really well, I suppose,
if you live that far away from places like London.
It works really well to be able to get on a sleeper
rather than the six, seven hour slog
that you get, usually, if you're on a commuter train.
But it's nice, very nice way to travel.
I'm gonna enjoy me a bacon cob, actually.
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Right, time to get off.
So here we are then at Penzance in Cornwall.
Yay.
Well, here we are then, Penzance railway station,
here right in the southwestern tip of England.
This is the end of the line, literally.
You can't come any further south and west
on the train than here at Penzance in Cornwall.
And yeah, lovely little ride down on the Night Riviera.
That was quite nice, actually.
I got an amazing night's sleep,
certainly the best night's sleep I've ever had,
on board a sleeper train, even here in the UK.
The Caledonian sleeper is nowhere near as smooth
as that one, so I really enjoyed it.
Would've been nice if we'd got bathrooms in the rooms
I suppose, but they seem to be quite problematic
for Caledonian sleeper on there.
So, I suppose it's kind of,
makes sense that they don't have them on there.
But anyway, it doesn't really matter
because we're here in the beautiful,
the glass seaside town of Penzance, in Cornwall
where I'm gonna go and have a little wander
around the town, see what there is to do here.
But let me know what you thought of this video
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And thank you so much for watching.
Take care and I'll see you on the next one.
Bye for now.