(wind howling)
Hi.
(chuckles)
This isn't a train.
We're in a car.
What?
Where are we?
We are at Braystones
In Cumbria.
We're in a hire car. It's by caravan park.
We got to come down a little road to get here.
The weather is...
Questionable.
There's some wind. but nonetheless,
we're going to walk.
We are.
If we're going to get a Northbound train one stop.
Okay.
To Nethertown
Mh mm.
And then walk back to where we are now, at Braystones.
In the rain.
Would you like to officially introduce the video?
Welcome to the least use station in Cumbria.
(upbeat music)
Like we talk about it being right on the beach
railway track, station, beach, sea.
It's right there.
I was really hoping that, because we're here in August,
the weather would be better, that is not the case.
It's raining.
Uh, there's a little sign that says
Platform nine and three quarters
on the house, next to the Platform.
I've noticed it has this shelter,
which handily well, not handily,
just got a whole panel missing.
So the wind just...
This is for your sea view.
This is your unimpeded, sea view,
But note how the shelter is facing,
like back to from the light.
Oh, because they know that the wind and the weather
is going to come off the sea, don't they?
I feel I should set you a little
challenge right now though.
How wet can I get in the next 30 seconds?
Obviously, because this is a special one
because Vicky's here.
Hey.
You have to measure the platform.
Not in the rain! but I want to know,
which has got the longest platform.
(wind blowing)
30. It's 237.
How many?
(clears throat)
237
All right.
So we'll compare when we get to Nethertown.
Okay.
All right.
Do you want to go sit in the car for five minutes?
Yes.
It is worth noting that Braystones is also a request stop,
so you get to...
Oh, make my intent clear.
So much water on the lens.
(beeping sound)
Hello Hi
Good afternoon.
(laughing)
Give us a wave. Go on.
Bye
(laughing)
What now?
So if you remember, I got off here.
Yeah, Yeah.
While you just carried on St Bees.
And I had a moment of like, wow, welcome to Nethertown.
(wind howling)
63.
163
Which is longer?
Braystones
Ah.
Which is shorter?
Nethertown
Just checking
Um, for pure clarity,
I started each measurement
uh, where it says you cannot cross past this point
because I like to obey the rules.
Um so even though the
physical platform might have gone longer,
I started both where it says, you must not cross this line.
We're in the tiny waiting platform shelter on...
This one's facing the right way.
Yeah, I don't know whether it's Platform one
or Platform 2.
There's only a single Platform now in Nethertown.
There used to be two Platforms.
Uh huh.
There used to be a ticket office.
Uh huh.
It used to have like...
it was like an old sighting here.
It was full on...
Little cafe.
There might not have been a cafe.
Um and a few years ago, there were like,
it was getting a thousand passengers a year.
But Vicky, how many passengers
according to the RR stats, 2017 get at Nethertown?
532.
Which divided by 365 is...
(Vicky making funny sounds)
Gonna be about 1.7, isn't it.
Hang on. I'll do it.
So we've broken the stats already today?
532 divided by 365,
1.45.
Okay.
Per day On average
Uh, I'm interested to know
why it's fallen from like a thousand four or five years ago
down to like halved.
But I think they've increased
the number of trains stopping here.
Including Sunday services.
So less people but more trains.
Yes. I think to do that, we need to look at the timetable.
Okay.
Uh, we got the timetables here.
The line, it says there's Lancaster to Burrow and Carlisle.
I think trains...
Do they go all the way through to Lancaster?
Some of them come through from Manchester.
That's interesting.
But generally the pattern is going North,
so we'll do a
Barrow up to Carlisle.
There's one, two, three, four, five, six.
The sixth one is another request stop interestingly.
Six, seven, eight, nine.
So nine trains going North.
It's interesting that 1518, isn't a request.
It's a stop but you slide on down,
then going back the other way,
going South, so coming from Carlisle,
going through to Barrow and beyond,
we've got one, two, three, four hour gap,
four, five, six, six, only six.
That's the weird thing.
That's why we've had to get the train North today,
rather than the South,
because there's three more trains heading North
than there are South.
Sundays service, there is a Sunday service.
I'm pretty sure they didn't use to be a Sunday service
and Northern in the May, 2018 timetable
only added in the Sunday service recently.
But it's also interesting, to note
that on those Southbound stoppers,
they're all request stops,
but that Northbound one, the quarter path three,
is that like, is that for school kids or something?
Is there a school around here?
Why is there one mandatory stop going Northbound only
at a quarter past in the afternoon?
(Wind blowing)
I feel like this wasn't here last time.
(knocking)
I'm going to check the 2017 footage.
What's very amusing about this,
Northern you're on it.
Buy tickets
as we did,
except it's the law obviously.
Buy from the ticket office or machine at this station.
(laughs)
There ain't no ticket office or machine at this station.
That is a perfect segue into discussing
the delightful facilities at Nethertown station.
It has a waiting shelter and that's it.
(Train moving on train track)
I'm pretty sure that was in...
That's Old Scott rail livery.
Northern have borrowed some Scottish sprinters.
They've removed the word ScotRail
and they're running them down here.
Still not a pacer.
All there is, is the waiting shelter,
time tables, and then the bin.
And even the bin I have issue with
because we all know that I love a bin
that blows in the breeze,
but this is, I saw one earlier.
I didn't want to highlight it at Braystones.
It's the same here.
What they've seem to have done
is put the bins inside a hard plastic tube,
which stops,
stops the bin bag from blowing in the breeze.
(knocking sound)
Why would you do that?
We should create a hashtag.
Let bin bags breeze.
Let bin...
(laughs)
You know what to do.
Do it as the hand.
#LetBinBagsBreeze.
Why would you do it?
Look, it there. Look, look!
It looks sad and contained.
It's restrained. It's like it's in prison.
(Wind blowing)
You know, but to be fair it's oh, to be, hello.
To be fair it's probably, you know,
to prevent rubbish from blowing around
and polluting the environment so,
so it needs to be around the bags really.
(wind blowing)
I've been reading the Wikipedia entry.
It says five trains called in each direction upon request.
That is not the case.
So I can probably...
Mmh, update that.
Someone could update the Wikipedia entry.
It also says that Pearson's 1992 railway guide
describe these as almost desolate as anything
that you'll see on the British round.
These two stations near the town.
And...
I mean it's pretty remote.
It's not quaint is it?
On the Goeff desolate scale.
(Vicky laughs)
Have you created a new scale?
You didn't, you didn't agree with it.
You didn't...
What's the word?
(Vicky laughs)
You didn't uh, For all those
that have watched, Confirm with me.
Have watched the least used Husker.
Like I have
Where we established the desolate scale.
Vicky doesn't actually watch my videos
I have to eat and shower and stuff.
I've sort of unofficially
started a desolate scale.
Wow.
I like Nethertown because of its remoteness.
And because there are crashing waves, literally right there,
(Goeff imitating wave noises)
right by the edge.
It is remote.
(seagulls imitating)
What can you see?
Seagulls.
I've got binoculars now, cause I'm cool.
I really like looking through binoculars
but I can only see seagulls.
(wind howling)
Ladies and gentlemen, the magnificent
and I mean that in every sense of the word beach,
at Nethertown.
You alright?
Just walking along the beach.
I mean, who the heck lives here?
Who? That's someone's house.
You live here with this as your view?
(laughing)
Wow.
We are almost back at Braystones.
That's an amazing walk.
There's somebody over there.
They're driving a beach buggy.
That was the train. We made it back.
It didn't stop
Seeing the guy on the beach buggy?
Uh huh
It's Pretty windy.
It is
But It did still raining.
It did
And on him, on a scale on awesomeness.
Yep.
It was pretty awesome right?
Yeah, it was the aw in awesome.
(seagulls squealing)
And we end up
back where we started
at Braystones.
That was a nice walk.
That was bracing.
(Vicky laughing)
All the cobwebs have disappeared
There's a lot of fresh air.
(Vicky laughing)
More fresh air through the walk
between Nethertown and Braystones.
Can we go?
Sure
Okay, bye.
Tipsy.
(Upbeat music)
Oh now, okay
(Upbeat music)