(intercom chimes)
We're now approaching
Warrington Bank Quay.
I have indeed.
come up the West Coast Main line
on Avanti West Coast train,
pulling into Warrington where-
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Which means only one thing, that my good friend,
and Northern correspondent, wearing his flat cap,
Karl is here, which means we are here to do...
- Day three of six stations.
time to do Warrington West.
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♪ Six stations ♪
Give us a wave!
We've walked from Warrington Bank Quay
So it's not Warrington where they're really close,
it's Wigan where they're like 20 seconds apart.
Literally, over the road.
But Warrington, it's a bit of a walk.
And I pass you over to local knowledge
for which train we get in and how many stops does it go?
We're getting the 13:14,
1 stop.
What's that one?
Not ours, hopefully.
(Karl laughs)
I'm sorry, did I catch eating a sandwich Karl?
You did.
Which you very kindly bought for me.
So thank you very much.
How was your lunch from Greg's, tasty?
Yeah. Lovely. Yeah.
So we're getting the 13:13
which is a minute late, 13:14
going to Liverpool Lime street.
Where's it come from?
Across the road.
Oh across road.
It's just one stop to Warrington West.
(button beeping)
(train engine rumbling)
[button beeping]
Okay, that is a healthy number of people getting off.
Cross off Warrington West on my spreadsheet.
(Geoff laughs)
Let's watch the 1:50 leave.
Why is it called Warrington West, Karl?
Well it's- I don't know.
You have opinions on this .
I, I do have-
You have strong opinions on this.
I have strong opinions on this. Uhm-
Hang on. Would you like to take your seat
as the Northern correspondent
and sort of offer up your strong opinion?
Hang on.
Clear the throat.
Um, this really should be called Chapelford
because the area surrounding it is called Chapelford
and interestingly, if you do a search
on Wikipedia for Chapelford railway station
it directs you to the Wikipedia page for Warrington West.
So it should be called Chapelford, really,
or West Warrington because Warrington Bank Quay,
yes, that's in the town centre,
Warrington Central,
yes, that's in the town centre.
This isn't west of the town centre.
So Warrington West is a bit of a misnomer.
You get bonus points for using the word misnomer.
Oh God bless you.
Nice word. Well done.
So welcome to Chapelford station.
Yes.
How are you enjoying being my third guest?
Oh, love it.
Have you watched the first two videos?
I have.
We filmed it all out of order.
The what?
The magic of the edit.
You've gotta say, "The magic is in the edit".
Yeah. Out of order
and I'll edit it into order.
The magic
is in the edit.
Come on.
It is step three.
Hello reflection.
Woohoo.
Lift.
Tube. Either side.
Proper step three.
Karl. Yeah?
What you got?
You can see quite clearly why this station was built.
Over there, just out a camera shot.
And, as you can see over there,
all brand new housing development.
It's taken me like two minutes to find a local.
This is Molly.
Hi. Hi. Hi Molly.
You live here?
I do. I live just-
You were saying that that side is Warrington West.
Yes, but this side, this estate,
this is all what's called Chapelford Village.
Is the railway like a north south divide?
Is it a rivalry?
Maybe, because people in Chapelford tend to think
that they're maybe slightly better
than people that live over this side.
Wooh!
Sorry. But down the road,
is there an old station called Sankey Penketh?
Yes, there is.
What happened with that?
Um, I used to use that station
all the time when I was at university
but then this one opened
and people don't really use that one anymore.
Well 'cause they cut the service to that one.
Yes. So you all switched
to this one?
Pretty much, yeah.
Is it better? Do you like it?
I think it's much better.
It's cleaner. It's nicer.
The trains are more frequent.
I prefer it, yeah.
Thanks Molly.
Bye guys! Bye.
See what you've done there, you got the comical
"Geoff's been in the toilet" shot.
Yes? Thanks Karl.
Let's do a 360.
Stay where you are. Pivot.
Pivot.
This is kind of a waiting room area.
Ticket machines.
Information screens.
A local map about buses
and toilets and a ticket office.
And you say you found a bench outside?
Yes.
Let's go to the bench.
We have a bench,
commemorating the Royal Air Force station,
Burtonwood. RAF Burtonwood.
This whole area was RAF Burtonwood.
And the US Air Force were based here,
which is why, if you look on Google maps,
all of the streets around here,
of this new housing development,
all the streets,
are named after places in the United States. And that's why.
Can you name one of them?
San Diego drive.
Is there?
There is a San Diego drive. I've gotta run now.
I've gotta go and get a cutaway of the street name,
just 'cause you've said that.
I like how there's a,
there's braille.
"Steps up to way out, toilets and ticket office".
This is very accessible.
Lifts, accessible toilet, radar key, braille signage.
Should we do some facilities?
Yeah, why not.
You wanna do it or shall I do it?
Let's share the load.
Oh, okay.
Hi, I'm Karl.
And I'm your Northern correspondent.
Welcome to Warrington West
where there is, what do we do again?
Oh, there is a bin bag.
It's almost blowing in the breeze.
There is a bike rack.
There are shelters on both sides
and there is a dock matrix display.
How am I doing?
Brilliant. The accent's all wrong, but-
The accent, I should have done it.
I'm not, I can't do a Manchester accent.
Please don't.
Okay.
You do that thing,
where you give your glasses like a little wiggle, don't you?
Okay. Do you wanna do your best Geoff impression?
Oh, good God. If I turn the camera.
What does Geoff do?
We're having fun. Yay.
Peculiar thing I've noticed already,
is I've seen three people carrying the bikes
up on the stairs rather than getting the lift.
So I'm just gonna test these lifts out.
See if they're a bit slow or too small.
I doubt it. But we'll have a look.
[Elevator Announcer] Going up.
Doors closing.
No, can't see any issue with these lifts at all
in terms of speed or size, so.
[Elevator Announcer] Doors opening
Ah, you waited for me.
God bless ya'.
Become like the total Geoff,
with the vlogging.
How's that working out?
It's, yeah, it's alright.
Not too bad.
When are you starting your own YouTube channel?
Oh, give over.
(Geoff laughs)
The station there,
we've found a sign
that says, yes, Warrington West,
but also look, Sankey for Penketh
down that way.
Which is the station, in essence,
which Warrington West replaced
but got a limited service.
So we're gonna walk down this path.
It's only a 10 minute walk
into the the area known as great Sankey.
So we walked literally half a mile.
10 minutes down the road.
We've come to Sankey for Penketh station,
which is really nice.
The deal is, basically, this had the regular service
and when they opened up Warrington West,
this dropped to just four trains a day,
two in each direction.
One in the morning, peak,
one in the evening, peak, going west.
One in the morning, peak,
one in the evening, peak, going east.
So this now sees a regularly very service,
a very irregular service.
Thank you.
See that, so it's saying, going westbound,
the first train is for 17:45 to Liverpool Lime street.
And over there it was like the eight something.
I don't think that's right.
Northern, please come and fix your dock matrix displays
at Sankey for Panketh,
'cause if you download your own timetable,
the PDF N16
from your website,
there is an evening train going,
yeah, that starts at Lime street,
going back that way at 17:52
and then coming back this way.
Yeah, it's almost the same time.
It's 17:55.
So the next train isn't at 17:45.
It's at 17:55.
So it's four trains a day
from this station.
One in the morning, one in the evening, that way.
One in the morning, one in the evening, this way.
Four trains a day.
And the point is, is that it used to have more trains
but they don't have, there's not enough, you know, paths,
space to stop at both
Sankey for Panketh and Warrington West.
So the interesting thing to note is
that the four trains a day,
why is that four trains?
So the four trains a day that do stop here at Sankey
then don't stop at Warrington West.
So that, so basically,
you can either stop at one or the other,
but not both.
(both laugh)
So we're back at Warrington West
in the shelter waiting for 15:30.
Karl, you gonna do the hilarious,
sort of news wrap up, news correspondent ending.
Yeah, heck yeah. Go for it.
For some reason, I keep thinking,
of not the BBC theme tune,
but the John Craven news round theme tune
which goes du-du-du-dum.
So can we do that one?
Yeah. Let's do that.
And that's all from Warrington West today.
Tomorrow, we have Dan from Horton station.
Dah-dah-du-du-dum-dum.
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