There we go! - Thank you
Thanks Michael - OK! we shall see you when you come back
Where are we? - Entwistle, welcome to Entwistle
Thats my guard, Michael
who recognised me, and I said
would you like to do the intro to the video?
So here we are! Another request stop ...
Welcome to Entwistle
it's a single platform
the platform by the way, has recently in the last year
Michael the guard told me this anyway
but also, I just read it on WIkipedia
and there's a fascinating thing to see here because
the stations has seen various upgrades refurbs over the years
and this section here there's like a gate
and when the platform was surface tarmaced to modern standards
a dozen of the original York flagstones
it was refsurfaced apart from, there's about
it says a dozen, i think there's about 20
what they call York Flagstones remain
at the south end of the platform complete with large white edge lettering
Mind the Step, but in a sectioned off area
that is the case, i can see that all there
But more interestingly ...
is this area over here
which was once used to do some filming at Entwistle
So the reason why i find this area over here
looks like it could have been a car park, or should have been a car park
it's clearly railway property
what it is, you can access it down that ramp there
is that at somepoint
like a TV Director / Producer has obviously thought
that'd be a great place to erect a camera rig
because you could then shoot onto the platforms here
if you place your camera there and that's exactly what they did
for Max & Paddy's Road To Nowhere
so if you're a fan ...
of Peter Kay, and Phoenix Nights, which I saw a bit of
but i never watched Max and Paddy
i gather this was a spin-off
in Episode 2 of Max & Paddy hit the road
they came here and they used Entwistle as a filming location
Interestingly!
they renamed it Middlewood station // Middlewood! //
//Middle .... Wood! //
but isn't there a Middlewood station just beyond Hazel Green, and the Buxton line?
but they called this
... Middlewood
//Beautiful Patrick// Breathe it in! //
beautiful Patrick, breathe it in!
//Hang on, that can't be right//
//What? That were it!//
//That were the last train//
that was the last train
//Well what time's the next one?//
tomorrow, that's when the next one is, zero ...
seventeen, except .. it's not it's actually the 12:03
to Rochdale, and yeah, you get the idea
// Zero seven hours in the AM //
//Eh! what's going on?//
so in that clip did you notice how there's a column that says
six to seven AM, and then
to the right of it there's obviously a column that's 7am onwards
but they put the 0713 in the column before
six to seven AM, that really ... !
that really grates
bit of continuity there!
at the station entrance
again, no timetables because of current times we're in
times of no timetables
timetables boards are replaced, there's the onwards travel information
not a lot going on, but there is
a beautiful historial board, at Entwistle
what we've got nearby are two huge reservoirs
and damns, you've got the Turton and entwistle reservoir
to the west there, and that road there
and then i think i'm pronouncing this right, the Wehyo? reservoir
which is to the south and east and there's a damn along the south side
but at this point here, there's a footpath
well first of all, Crow Trees Lane there's like a curved
road that goes over, i'm getting a shot of that
and then down here there's a footpath i can stand on
and there's railway bridge which the guard Michael said its beautful
i want to get a shot of the train
going across that ... it's gotta be done
so it says it's only seven minutes down the way, first stop is the curved road
which may or may not be a damn, over the first reservoir
and that is impressive so that is the Weyho reservoir
and we'll do a 360 you can see the bit to the north there and you can see this cuuuurve road
that cuts right across it if you're looking from the top
on Google Maps you can see how it just drops in
and there it is in the distance
i think an ariel shot at the point ... would do it justice though
Alright, so that's reservoir shot number one
what i'm really after is is we walk down this path
we get to a footbridge across the same reservoir so that the inlet to it
and the railway bridge, going across that
for shot number two
yikes!
mud!
ah, i've just seen it *laughs*
oh it's good
it's really good *laughs*
let's do a 360 reveal so i've walked a little bit further south
there's this footpath
across this part of the reservoir, so i was
over there and to the left a minute ago i've come down
to come across this
footpath, here ... what you need to see
is the railway viaduct
that's here!
and i think, there's a train due
Okay!
walking back, up
Entwistle hill lane, is a hill
i'm amused by the way the fact that it's Entwistle
ENT - wistle
that the letters E N T
stand for ...
Ears, Nose, Throat, like you get
ENT doctors if you've got like
a nasal infection or something, and whistle
obviously it's not spelt exactly right, but whistle as in
train whilst. i'm getting very tempted right now,
to put a picture of a nose and whistle
in the thumbnail, of this video
we'll see ...
Right. we're gonna go to the pub
get a cup of tea
and get the err, the 13:17 out
so i've come back for the 13:17 train
if you're ever here, look out for this stone
with the letters L Y R on it
that's the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, the company that originally built the line here
it's lovely
Gotta cup of tea!
and bought a sandwich
sandwich .. for the train ride home
the 13:17, to Clitheroe
coming in about seven minutes, er come ...
for the stunning reservoirs and the local walks that you can do
West Pennines, it's all lovely
it's NOT least used station
in the county, we've already done that haven't we?
but it does get just under 11,000 passengers per year
that's around 30 a day
and if you like all the stations from like 1 ... down to 2,563
it is the 248th
least used station in the whole of Britain, that's where it falls
that is it, that is Entwistle, it is delightful
it is lovely , it is a request stop
in the previous video, where i did Pleasington and stuff
the guards on Northern
actually told us that they were stopping at all the request stops anyway
and i know from Michael on the way out
they're' saying they're gonna stop anyway at the moment
because of the current situation they're just stopping all request stops
i'm still gonna .... stick me arm out
'cause it's fun
you again! - Good afternoon
that is it, that is request stop Entwistle
it's a bit freaky, i swear there's ... nobody else on this train
ticking off the request stops, one by one, there's a link
in the description to my request stop map
shows all the request stop in England, Walkes, Scotland, Britain
go have a look, and we'll slowly ... work round them all