that is newtown station welcome to mid
wales uh day two traveling around the
new six stations i haven't been to i
spent the night in shrewsbury a teeny
problem we had some storms a while back
uh they washed away the track the line
around welfare in three separate places
the line is currently being repaired
there's therefore a replacement bus
service in between shrewsbury and
newtown which is why i'm starting here
and from there i'll get the train down
to both street and my companion for the
day
should already be on board
tyso economy
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thank you very much
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i'm walking backwards so that i'm down
by the way my immediate impression
single platform is that any station that
has sheep in a field next to it is kind
of fun
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welcome to bow street
it's lovely sun's out it's very scenic
hello
what's in there what's in there you've
you've brought like a hamper i know why
i've only just spotted this i've brought
cake
what i have i brought chocolate the
whole hour we on the train together and
i've only just spotted that you've
brought
cake did you bring a flask of tea as
well no just cake shucks
yeah there's no there's no cafe here is
it this is going to be a recurring theme
of my week
okay so immediately that gets the
obvious thing out the way is there a
ramp for step free access yes you were
involved in the
some of the initial planning of this
station is that is that correct in more
in what aspect
um i i had a look at the plans with the
villagers and uh yeah i thought this
looks good this looks good i want to
come back and see what it's all done
i've heard in advance though i've heard
some people describe it as sort of a
little bit like you they could have
called the station i mean there is a bow
street village up the way there's like
there's a spa shop or something right
yes there is but some people have said
cheekily isn't it really isn't it just
like a park and ride for aberystwyth
could you have called it aberystwyth
park and ride is that is that what it
really is to me it looks very much like
a park and ride parkway station no if
you're already on the train you just
carry on getting the train yeah no why
would it be a parking lot for brisbane
i'm confused
it doesn't make sense no it could be
extra capacity because there's not very
much parking in aberystwyth oh okay
right okay so you would get the train to
here and then get the bus yeah into
aberystwyth because it's only five ten
minutes down the road
it's a lovely sunny day
it's gorgeous isn't it i think it's a
timetable how many services are there
well it's i i find it a station tower
date you don't always get a paper towel
table so well done transport for wales
putting up a paper towel
it's pretty bog standard it's it's a two
hourly service it's made well it's
conflicting because here the trains are
running through to shrewsbury
on the website it says they only go as
far as is it now mccomforth right
how's my pronunciation on the conference
it's pretty good they divide the company
definitely check the turntable for the
details the classic thing of course is
that they also you can also change at
davey junction but they'd like you to
change it at mccomforness okay but
generally
two hourly service okay
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i'm a little bit sad because they put
the bin inside one of those
hard plastic tubes
so the bin doesn't actually blow in the
breeze
okay you've got the cake thing open are
we going with the cake let's just go
with the cake early
what kind of cake is it chocolate cow
yes we've got a napkin as well we have
everything we even have a tablecloth
sarah's actually brought a tablecloth
you can't have a picnic without a
tablecloth
so we'll have our cake and then then
we'll talk about and then we'll talk
about station history and stats and
whatnot okay all right right and then
there was kate keaton i nearly brought
some squirty cream but i thought that
might have been
a little much
hello hello how's your bow street
experience wish it was awesome i haven't
actually made more of the scenery but um
is that the water over there see i'd
point the camera that way but the sun is
so low it's blaring right there's the
sea over there isn't it so sunny yeah
okay you enjoy the cutaway of the sun
just glaring what i want to ask you uh
is
is there
a ticket machine there is a ticket
machine is there a waiting shelter
there is we're in the world unique
shelter is there a hell point there are
two health points uh is there a bin bag
there are two is there a dot matrix
information display there is are there
timetables there are timetables is there
a bus service there is about a service
is there a car park with 73 spaces
including accessibility spaces family
parking and ev charging points there's
no ev charging points bit sad about that
i know there is a bike crack at
worcestershire park yesterday there were
loads you've been to partway as well
haven't you yeah it's amazing have you
watched yesterday's video with rob yet
it's great oh i loved it
all the uv charging points uh hang god
uh is there uh is there a tablecloth
which serves tasty chocolate cake
there is there is
uh just tell us this but this new
station open when
was you february 20 21 21 uh and there
was a previous station here am i right
yeah yeah that closed under beeching
1965 classic 665 beachy flavor but it
was further up the line wasn't it
there's a bridge in the distance up
there i'm wondering just how far north
it was and are you going to ask me about
passenger stats i am yeah what's your
question how many passengers have
visited i'm so glad you are sarah um
that's it because it opened up during a
strange time of do not travel there's
only been one accounting period for bow
street 2020 to 2021
when basically whales were like don't go
on a train so so in the whole of the
whole of one year
officially only had 306 passengers so we
need to wait for next year's figures for
the reason
technically it's quite at least used at
the moment but that's not a true reading
and everything was it's a request it is
not a request stop no okay no
i'm being a bit silly about the um about
the park and ride yeah yeah yeah it's
not parking right going to aberratworth
it's people that live in aberystwyth
that maybe could park here because they
can't park at roswell and then get the
train to mccandles or shrewsbury it's
for people going east not west really
what would that mean
do you live in a if you live in
aberystwyth would you drive here and use
this as a parking lot station to head
that way rather than that way that's
what it is isn't it
isn't it
yeah there's a help point down there
back at the main point have you seen it
there's a second help point
and there's one here
why would you come down to this end
transport for wales hi we love you why
would you install a help point at this
end of the platform why is there a like
a disability
refuge point
there's no way to escape to
do you want to do the help point
let's train to iris with
but seriously why is it yeah why is it
here when the rest of the platform
is up there i don't know why you put a
help point down here
again i'm walking backwards because i'm
shooting down some there's a lot of um
red as is per tfw's logo there's these
these little red bands because these are
like the t's these are like the red
stripes you get and then like the
benches are red and then the and there's
a little red stripe on top of the way
outside so they've they've put their the
red color is all there on the branding
the branding gurus have been in
and they've made sure even the benches
outside the station in the car park
there's lots of little
wow i feel like for this section of the
video there should just be like a little
red line you know across across the
screen or something
are you being responsible without
rubbish you're actually putting it in
the bin hold on
keep written tidy
our train the 1712 is pulling in uh
thank you sarah so much to you and your
mom for the cake uh look at the internet
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fabulous
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