Do you want to sit on this side?
I do normally go that side
it's a bit Ant and Dec isn't it?
which ... are you Ant, or are you Dec?
i don't know! i don't know which is which anyway
can we be neither, can we be somebody else?
Oh. right, hi! we've started Roger
i didn't realise, cameras running
oh dear - Breaking news!
i've got a new jacket - have you!
so, the old ... light and grey
two two jacket with the red trim ... GONE
retired
we've already recorded one video this morning we've gone and done request stops
but this, this one this video is coming out before
so we'll record them out of order - ah, Ok
pretend like we haven't been to those request stops yet
we're going to Britain's newest railway station
w-w-w - don't confuse the intro Roger!
Go one what - What didn't we do this morning?
the request stop video! - oh right
which'll be out after this video
this just a minute of waffle at the beginning
i can't use this - no you can't
no, i'm totally using this
where we going?
Invernes Airport - Britain's latest, newest, station
yes, Britain's newest station
is a ten minute ride, one stop east from Inverness
opened on the 2nd of February
it's on the Inverness to Aberdeen line
where you'll recall, another new station - Kintore
also opened recently
and welcome to Britain's newest railway station
Inverness Airport
although, as we'll see in a minute i was here last night
and Roger also flew in yesterday
but you were just having a quick count of ... people with bags
ten people, and they've all just walked past the bus stop
and there is in fact a bus due
in ... nine minutes
but it's not entirely clear, where you go to walk
we already knew, in advance
that this was going to be like a cut and paste station
in fact, i can't remember who it was in my "six stations" series last year
was it Karl, was it Jen or was it ... it might have been Lewis actually?
somebody said "It's a cut and paste station"
and then someone came up with the expression ... 'Cookie Cutter'
it's like a cookie cutter station
so to that end Roger, i have brought
oh wow - i have brought some cookie cutters
so at the end of the video
when we get to the airport you're going to award the cookie cutters
to the modular - the modular aspects of the new station
yeah, then we can go and build them elsewhere
we'll know, exactly how to do it with these
is there a ticket machines?
indeed there is, we're standing in front of it
is there a footbridge with lifts? - there is
it's a standard footbridge with two lifts - are there two platforms?
there are two platforms
is there a car park with EV charging?
there is a car park with EV chargins, and! one car in it at the moment
and there are dot matrix displays? - there are dot matrix displays
but it is extremely ... hold them up
cookike ... Cookie! Cutter
i've never been so excited by seeing a bus before
what number is it? it's a route number 11
where does it go? which goes from here
into .. Inverness
but one end is extended to Nairn
but there's no specific shuttle bus
you're relying on the scheduled bus service
yes, two an hour
so you might as well just walk
yes, well in fact everyone has
when people have walked - we're gonna time the walk obviously later
do you want to get up on your phone
just to see how long Google think the walk takes
and while you do that i'm just gonna say that noted that
not only is there no train timetable
there's no bus timetable either
so Scotrail, hi! could you put up some timetables please so that
we know if it's hourly, or two hourly or whatever ...
Google reckons it's 20 minutes - no way
but they think it's round the road
they haven't worked out that you can go via the footpath
Roger it's OK i'm gonna do a cut- - here comes
the next two buses
i'm gonna do a cutaway
and here's that cutaway to show that yes
if you go by the road it takes 20 minutes, but
a brand new tarmaced, so it's good for rolling suitcases
footpath, has been built
and we're gonna time it later
to see how long it takes to walk
from the station, to the terminal building
now, i was actually here last night
you were here yesterday afternoon - yes
i did the walk ... after you
i did the walk from the airport to the station in the dark
so actually i have an idea of how long it takes
but it was lit, the path was lit
here's last night!
i think the path starts here
now it is lit up, but
there's these lights on the side i'm using the map on my phone
'cause there is absolutely no signage
zero signage
glad the path is lit
i'm still quite dark
aah, double arrows
there .. station
there!
So there are a couple of signs here
station, telling you there's a footpath to
the airport, but they don't very well, which actual sign
footpath to take, or where to go
but at the airport, there's absolutely nothing at all
please, put more signage in
i also noticed, there's a sign over there saying
you're on CCTV, somone on Twitter said that there's 97 CCTV cameras here - Wow!
also, then what happened to me last night
was that platform 1 and platform 2
and you natrurally assume
this used to be a single track, they've now doubled it
Platform 1 is for Aberdeen bound trains Platform 2 is for Inverness bound trains
i was on this platform last night, platform two
and the Inverness bound train came in on platform one
and i had to run over the footbridge
to catch it - oh it's doing it again
as it's doing now!!
what!
that's unplanned
look at that ... it's on
and it stops right down the far end
why would trains not run through on this side?
and there's a bus ... so everybody getting off that train
it's just just ...
that's stopping quite a way down
and i had to run down these steps last night
and run along the platform
and i only just made it
Scotrail
why are you stopping the trains further down, and why on the "wrong"
wrong side
i'd like to know
but that makes me wonder
if you live in Inverness
you might just get
the taxi or the bus anyway, might inverness
station be more useful to Aberdeen
passengers, because the station for Aberdeen airport
is Dyce ... - yes
but if you're flying, if you're say going home from London
to Aberdeen
might a better way to go now to be
to fly from Gatwick to Inverness Airport
and then get the train down towards
could well be so, so ..
the advantage of inverness airport is that it's now really handy
to get to Aberdeen
Inverness Airport Station? - station!
is that, Aberden people now might use it more
well interestingly, there were eight off that train
that's just come from Aberdeen
and, but there were ten off our train
that's just come from Inverness
i think you may be right, i think you may be
the Aberdeen direction, may prove more popular
Bin bags ...
not. blowing. in the breeze.
Ah well.
it is extremely ...
... extremely modular
it's just like Kintore, it's on the line i did
the station, Kintore
just down the line, from last year
its almost indentical
to Kintore
'cause 42 million was the total price
for the whole line, this station alone was just 14 million
which is about par for the course now
this is what 14 millions gets you - especially two platforms
get you ok - and it's roughly an hourly service
annoyingly they're not at the same minutes past the hour
so you do have to check the timetable
nice view of the station behind me from the footbridge
from where you can also get a good view of the airport
plane spotters, come and stand on the footbridge
at the new station!
i've been chatting to Stuart
my friend website and twitter on screen now
from every station
who we spoke to at Reston
Stuart had text me, 'cause i asked about
why trains come in on the other platform
he says the thing with Innverness Airport station is that
it's future proofed - thanks for this Stuart
there's a new town that's being built, called ...
... Tora, Toragrain?
thank you, that will bring laaaarge numbers of potential passengers
with the doubling of the track here
is to allow for higher service frequency in the future
there are also potential plans
to relocated the Airport terminal building
which as we know is about 15 minutes over there
to the station side if the airport
as part of the airport's 25 year development plan
so Inverness Airport station
is very much built with the future in mind
thanks Stewart, and i can see Roger down there
so we're gonna go for a walk
to the ... station
to the airport!
and time it, before i do
i'm gonna record a separate piece here, i've just counted
about how many current stations there are
and people always ask me about future stations
so, in the description
later on, there will be a link
to show many stations there are
in the future, and a short video that i've made on that
and with the video done
let's walk ... to the airport
right, we're timing, let's go!
to the airport!
i almost said station again
ok, admittedly, THE WIND
we just find a temporaty sign, but we're going at a Roger walking speed
i can walk a little bit faster
but we'll take - you're younger than me
alledgedly, but we'll take your speed
to be the average yeah we want an average
the average walking speed, alright = we're still going quite quick
for average person - i'm gonig at your pace Roger
aaaaand, Roger's got the stopwatch
are you ready ... - Ready! ready?
tell you what, the moment you put your hand on the door
put your hand on the door
aaaaand, stop!
thirteen minutes
fifteen seconds
just under
thirteen fifteen
and that was quite a pace actually
i have to say
quite a pace
i reckon it's fifteen minutes for the average person
and that's from Platform one
platform two ... add another couple of minutes on
seventeen
end of video, we're checked in
thanks for Inverness, Scottish things
thank you! - i believe you've got
your four awards
yup, the circle
is it? well it's kind of a cloud
cloud, yes, that would be
that would be for the
shelters on both platforms
and the seating in the, and indeed the four seats
very very cookie cutter
the circular cookie cutter?
the circular cookie cutter
would be for the dot matrix signs
then the star
would be for the bus shelter outside
the electric, the EV points in the car park
and then the heart - what we love
is of course the footbridge, which is fully accessible
because it's got two lifts, and in the old days
you never bothered with lifts at a station like that
but now, there are proper lifts
and so it's accessible for you
and it's GOOD that it's cookie cutter
that's a good cookie cutter - very very good
we want all new stations to have that
and that's partly why new stations do cost a lot more now
because lifts are so expensive to put in
but it's good that the rail industry is now doing that
that's it! another station ticked off
what's next? Marsh Barton?
Portway Parkway? Brent Cross?
good argument ... i dunno i ... - Thanet Parkway?
Reading Green Park - Reading Green Park!
Who knows? - We'll be there
he won't be there, i might be there
we'll see .. you'll go anyway, whatever
go on my own - err, like and subscribe Roger
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bye! - bye
didn't we go a goodbye aleady? - sssh ssh! that's in the other video
oh yes - which we haven' publshed yet
oh, sorry! there isn't another video that we've just said goodbye in
* both laughing * right, let's go to those request stops and film that now