hello
i'm in aberdeen
it's a bit windy uh by the union square
shopping center you'll notice here in
this frame of the video there's a gap
that's because i'm going to introduce my
guest for today everyone say hi to lewis
i feel like you should say hi lewis say
hi to yourself hi luis and you're quite
local aren't you i am as we're about to
discover because we're going to get the
train where are we going kin touristy
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are you filming as well is that just
b-roll for me
okay lewis
instant contour impression go right i'm
spanking you loving it it's very shiny
um
nothing out please
now with jen yesterday we struggled to
find a coffee
at rob royston station i think we might
struggle to get a cup of tea here at
kintore but weirdly
and this is the reason why i've chosen
news for today's adventure yes because i
always like to get a local person local
knowledge is always good and you
couldn't be more local could you because
you're actually from where from chemni
which is where females will be just you
so you were born just you grew up you're
born in aberdeen yeah predominantly
that's where the hospital is but you
grew up as a child just three miles down
the road yes when this station wasn't
here so as a young lad this would have
been really handy yes so is it weird for
you coming back to your
home
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how does it feel right now uh exciting
brand new station
and then another great bit of local
knowledge fact um gareth dennis hi
gareth if you're watching uh he's
actually you say it's from he's from
he's from
which is the next stop this one that way
yeah why not yeah so if you've ever
watched gareth dennis on youtube or his
real matter he's been in a couple of my
videos he's he's from here too yeah
another look you didn't like go to
school then no we didn't even met
i think it goes without saying that all
new build stations are completely
accessible
hello the camera's moved
lift totally works step three to both
platforms
we're sat in the waiting shelter on the
now is it northbound or westbound
platform one
do they even do that's pretty sure
that's a tube thing isn't it on the
underground they go they have their
compass points this is platform one yes
it's definitely double platformed yes it
comes up to up timber really this is
nice
so the hilarious joke i like to make
news is that we're sat in the waiting
shelter so in terms of facilities at
this station are there waiting shelters
yes
half their ticket machines yes is there
a bike rack there is
yes is there an enormous car park with
more spaces than you could possibly god
yes do the platforms have dot matrix
displays oh yeah a help point oh yeah
bin bags definitely okay what else feels
modular
modular yes everything's kind of like
you bring pieces together like lego and
then
it's like a
uh nestle around it around what you
should do you should uh release like a
lego set like build your own new station
and they're all like it's just like
same stuff because it is a lot like uh
rob royston that i was at just yesterday
seems to have a bit more character to it
like there's like there's a there's a
field over there with like cows and
cheese horses and whatnot so that feels
a lot wealthy but how far is it to walk
to kintore
is it a town or a village a town
it's a good
it's a town village
a town village it's got it's it's it's
a
village village
that's not a word
louis i've noticed there's traditional
station signs the blue and the white
with the
scottish gay look at this gaelic remind
me
gallic thank you very much but there's
also what is this
here why is that is that wooden
give it give it a tap try give it a go
give it give it a thud with you
yeah is it wooden yes why why is there
an old stove sign do you know i don't
actually know but it's nice it adds to
this sort of character of the station
but that's very similar to
something you've pointed out outside the
station something quite cool on the
benches do you want to take us to the
benches so what we got
look at that
these are from the original kintor
station
1860 something
1968 i think it is to
1964. very good very good
you look like you're posing
how's the bench
very heritage like
just to prove how windy it is still got
my wind here
there's like a little what is that
do we know what it is i don't quite know
it's a piece of infrastructure i've seen
for it's got a solar panel as well so
must be part of something rather
important could somebody tell us what
what what why what why
it is spinning a lot okay
spinny thing
it must have a technical name
it isn't like a window but what's it
doing is that helping to charge
it's a solar panel and a turbine big box
that is charging yeah
it's very chilly um
you were pointing out
in the distance
sometimes down there
is roughly the location of the original
contour station
and
now where we are at the moment where the
new station is is actually in the v
shape where the railways the double
track went off up to brewing and off of
the rest and where we're standing
roughly
right about here is where the line out
to the alfred valley railway not to be
confused with the average valley railway
that it exists a moment which is a
miniature railway and therefore valley
railway takes you all about offered via
chemney money musk
mostly for passenger traffic but also um
granite um
around about this area is very well
known for its granite supplying stone to
a lot of aberdeen and more importantly
for you jeff um for putney and cue
bridge
for the cheap for the bridges across the
yes the underground across the thames
yes
it's really cold i want to get i want to
get a cuppa
i'm thinking why don't we go one stop
north in the
yes
excited i'm excited to go back home to
yeah because that feels like home to you
will do yeah when was the last time you
were here in veruri yeah oh
10 years ago no
oh
oh so this will be like a nostalgic trip
for you
oh i'm quite excited we've just seen the
next train in is uh
an old hst
now formed into an intercity into sorry
an inter-seven
city set so it's nice to see an hst
uh look at my wind swept here if
anything the wind is picked up rather
than diminished so we're gonna go one
stop everybody and you said there's an
amazing station cafe yes there should be
and we'll wrap up there yeah so we're
gonna get the boring train the one five
eight nothing or the hst and uh yeah
again now when we arrived i was like
instant reaction to kintore and now
you've seen it and we're departing
it's still good um
okay
the reason why it's good is because we
have a station here now
that's why
we've been itching to get a station for
ages it's all been buses now we've got a
station everything's fast we can get
into aberdeen
this
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lovely little cafe we had a cup of tea
i drew a diagram
i tried to work out the pattern of
service i found out that on the event of
aberdeen line there's like an inverness
to elgin local stopper and there's an
aberdeen sometimes extended to montrose
to invaruary stopper and then ally or
two hourly so it's like an hour or two
hourly core service then plus
local infills and you also then drew me
the old lines the old gooey map yeah
that goes to the buccaneer information
line uh the alfred valley ruby line and
then has a little stop for the improved
local works so it's great we just nerded
out just drawing back and then we're
going to get the train back south of
aberdeen and wave uh contour as we pass
through again what's it been like when
you're on your old stomping ground
nostalgic memories it's all nostalgia
coming back and i'm i'm amazed at the
improvement works they have like more
trains
uh nice new clean stations
um yeah it's been awesome yeah okay
right uh that is it and that is the end
of the six
station series thanks thanks for being
my guest
that's right uh so thanks to rob thanks
to sarah thanks to carl uh thanks to dan
thanks to jen and thanks to lewis we'll
do another little fist bump thing uh
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you