it's Sunday the 7th of May 2017 we are
at pen an station and we're going to all
the stations
2563 stations all of them Let's Do
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It And So It Begins
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chain one station
one we have officially left our first
station to start our journey one station
down 2,000
562 to
go we are an earth station the bus
station in cornall the t- rooms
apparently in 2009 won an award one of
the best t- room station t- rooms we
don't have time to tample their tea
because we have to get the 1218
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it genuinely feels like we're in the
Mediterranean The View was
phenomenal the the sea is so
blue I don't understand how we can still
be in
England we're going to make it sound
like we've researched this we don't need
to research it cuz there's a sign
telling us stuff uh this Branch line
it's an i Bay line opened in June 1877
love this it was the last Railway in
Britain to be built to brunell's Broad
gauge so it was the last broad gauge
built
Railway uh 50 years it carried a mix for
Freight and passengers and basically if
you look at the map here the trouble
with st ibes is that it's tiny narrow
windy hilly streets and they try and
encourage people to come and you can
park at the L salting just like a
parking ride and then get the train down
we're chatting to the lovely lady on the
platform star there uh she says that
normally it's a two-car train in the
summer the height of you know tourism
they run a fourcc car train and at Max
they sometimes squeeze like up to 360
370 people onto a fourcc car train and
sometimes in the summer it's so busy
they have to close the gates and stop
people getting on the train and there's
a rear entrance and they sort of
actually have to have a oneway system
and in out so a tiny tiny Branch line
here at St I they actually close the
gates which you only think of at like
Victoria or Waterloo like a Mainline
Terminus so it's hilarious that it
happens here at at s i so yeah wor
we couldn't come to St Ives without
going to the Tate um St Ives is famous
for artists and as we've been walking
through the town we've seen hundreds of
wonderful little galleries um ceramic
galleries visual art galleries so we
popped along to the tape which is right
next to the Sea um the tape reopened in
March of this year and there's an
extension which will also open later
this year in the autumn
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car he's checking us out he wants to be
in the video the joke we hear even by
locals is that if as a tourist you can
escape the day without being dropped on
from above by a seagull then you've done
well um do you want to hear my riddle I
would love to hear your riddle
apparently this is a really famous poem
SL riddle I think I know the one you're
about to say what's it called I don't
know but I think I'll know it when you
say it's called as I was going to seven
IES as I was going to seven IES I met a
man with seven wives each wife had seven
sacks and each sack had seven seven cats
now each of those cats had seven kittens
so kittens cats Sachs and wives how many
in total were going to St IES this is a
genuine math problem so do all your
multiples of seven and we'll put the
answer in the description no in the
comments no hang on yeah in the show
more on YouTube we'll have the answer
um hello how's your name sir it's gav
I'm Vicki hi Vicki nice to meet you um
so it says on your little sign that
these these rocks are balanced they're
all balanced yeah is that real yes it is
yeah I can take one off if you want to
see one come off and then you can uh
watch it go back how long have you been
doing this uh about 2 years okay and how
did you discover you could do it boredom
on a beach in Portugal okay and uh with
my wife who's over there and uh just
started doing it and a German lady came
over to me and said uh am I an artist I
said no no no no but I live in CTI so I
came back and I enjoyed it carried on
doing it uh last May I raised £1,000 for
the rnl doing it oh wow um so yeah I've
done a bit for charity and obviously a
bit for myself as well so but I enjoy
doing it and people uh find it quite
quite unique it's there's not too many
people who do it as a
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demonstration okay we are about to catch
the train home but before we do we've
met a very nice local gentleman called
Rowan who has agreed to tell us a little
bit about why uh he lives in knives hi
Rowan Hello nice to meet you you what is
uh so good about living in St I it's a
beautiful place to live you wake up you
can look out your window and see a
beautiful view every day and do you
often get the train from s um very often
when I'm traveling to bouth I hear Caris
Bay has a different name it was
originally called po Rector before they
changed it because it outgrew where it
originally was okay and what does Paul
Paul say say the name again por repor
and does that mean anything I don't know
what the repor means but the POR means
Beach oh okay and we're sitting on
portst okay
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we've lent Ives we could just go back to
penan or we could have some fun at leant
leant leant the
land cuz one of those stations is a
request stop let do the request stop
request
stop so here's the plan we're now going
to walk back through a station we just
didn't stop at
theant take us 5 10 minutes uh in the
meantime that train will go to said
Earth then go back to St Ives and then
when it comes back heading south again
we'll then do a request stop uh and as
you Vicki did the one at nuclear on the
test day I I get to I get to flag down
the train this time but it's ridiculous
because we've already told the guard to
expect us we'll be like we'll be at lant
and you'll see us so we'll wave it down
so
um lant
next I get to flag down the train
how shall I
wave make your intent clear Jeff make my
intent clear yes
okay like this more vigorous more
vigorous like like
that drive wave I'm so happy that's all
I wanted
see
captur hi oh what is that that's the um
staff for staff
working I I don't know what that means
what does that mean um instead of token
block to go down to St Ives it's staff
working so the only train that can go
down there apart from to rescue the fail
train is the train that's got
that so in the morning so the driver has
be in possession of it all day so the
signal man hands that over in the
morning and then he hands it back in the
day but the best bit is that we think
that's the original one from like the
1870s no as far as I'm aware all the
bits on it
are that's
phenomenal I feel like I should have
white gloves on oh gets tued off I think
at one stage it probably had a key on
the end of
it I think that bring us to the end our
day on the St
hives Branch line that was good yeah
enjoyed that there's one tiny thing we
have to mention oh yes and that's a
bonus steam train video which will be
linked here
yeah but about that how was your day at
9 I loved it I really loved it six
stations
done so many more to go that will be
1,500 don't even attempt to do the math
57 7 so 2,000 what did I say 1,000 oh my
God
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