it's Wednesday the 10th of May Day four
we're at bable station and we're going
to visit
xoth bable our taxi driver just now was
telling us used to have three stations
one of them has been turned into a
church he said and another one's now
become a McDonald's but yeah beaching
Cuts in the 60s brought it back B's now
the end of the line single track used to
go a lot further it's a cute little
station there very cute
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we at the the line at xoth and it's
gorgeous we're right by the X as we came
in the river's just over here and it's
beautiful uh but we're back out on the
same train that we came in on on the
exmouth branch um this is nice man it's
nice down here
so on the way back lyston Commando is an
mod military of defense and it might not
stop so we're hopefully just going to
get some sneaky shots out of the
window God was telling us that basically
you know you get these young muscular
men and the joke is that if you ever see
them on a Wednesday or a Thursday it's
cuz they haven't made the grade they've
had enough of the training and and
they've left the camp and he says to
other musicum s is on a Friday night you
get about a group of 20 of them on the
platform going into EX for Friday night
out you know to have a few beers other
than that you know you don't really see
many people get on off so that's the
amazing weird station that is Limon
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Commando we're at htan station we we're
not in a rural Park um we're sort of on
the outside of EX
but I think this is the place where I've
heard the bird song the loudest and
there are some little trees behind
me with little sparrows flying in and
out building their
nests love
it it's very interesting the train came
in on this platform and the train we got
to do the the feniton double back by the
way fenon reminds me of do you remember
a few years ago there was a viral video
um a dog owner lost his do he like
Fenton so all I can think of when I hear
that is fenon that's all I can hear
although there's two tracks they appear
to be only using one platform and One
Track and then you can tell the other
track isn't in Ed because the tracks on
this side are all shiny and on that side
they're not worn down at all we're now
on Southwest trains which is a train uh
operating company I'm very familiar with
having lived Southwest London and worked
in Windsor using those trains a lot and
I suddenly feel in familiar surroundings
you've got the Southwest trains blue and
white branding and you've got the dock
Matrix and the trains when we sat on the
trains the Marette of the Cypress trains
feel a bit more
familiar there goes the train we're at
benon Benetton benon
um if our video editors are any good
they'll have picked up on the tweet that
Adams Adam James Ashford just tweeted to
us hi Adam uh and he created us a
feniton awkward station Award of the day
so if there's any justice in the video
that will be appearing on screen right
about now like below my
chin um I've already spotted something I
really like what you like it's got
nothing to do at the station well you've
got half an hour here so on what is it
you want to go look the pub there's a
pub called the NOG in lock it as in the
Noggin
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uh we've done the uh the awkward station
that's fenon fenon now we're doing the
dilton marsh
Shuffle and we're back on gwr farewell
fwt hello gwr this is first
class is it what is it first class I
don't think so why why the seat so big
in comy this goes to prove that I'm not
a train Spotter and I'm a r cuz I don't
know what type of class of trains
otherwise I'd be going it's a class 185
or something I don't know there's load
of leg room I've never been on this type
of train before that's amazing and I
didn't see the number as I came in so
when it when we get off to something I
have to get a picture get in I don't
know nice green
teas this is Warminster um the train
that we caught at Solsbury uh doesn't
stop at dilta Marsh so we have got out
here at Warminster we're waiting for the
next train which to take us to dilton
Marsh which is the least used station in
wheelchair but there is uh something
else that we've come to see at
Warminster um and I have no idea where
it is
so I can see it come
on so just outside Warminster Station is
a bus stop but not the kind of bus stop
you might expect it is a London bus stop
with a tfl round on it and why is it
here every year since 2009 a route
Master bus service has taken passengers
from this bus stop to uh a tiny village
called imber which during the second
world war the war office told the
residents of in to leave to evacuate and
they use that Village for war purposes
no one has ever been allowed back in
it's now a ghost Village and so Peter
hendy who's one of our Kickstarter
pledges uh set up every year uh this bus
service taking people from Warminster
Station on rout Master buses down to the
Village the deserted village of
imba underneath the number 23 it says
annual whereas you might get like night
bus or between 7 and 9 it says
annual the question we must ask is do
you think they accept oyster
cards and if it isn't then sir Peter you
should make that
happen so we're at D Marsh the guys have
to get off at the front of the train um
because the platform is Tiny um but as
we came in there was actually staggered
platform so the platform on the other
side is a few few hundred yards back
it's not even slightly staggered it's a
few hundred yard no one has gotten
on we are changing trains we're at West
gree we need to go well I was going to
say up and over but I think we need to
go down and to platform one we've only
got three
minutes 1 minute 1 minute oh
jeez it's that
one we missed it we missed it
with it I thought it was platform one it
was it was it was the Eon platform
platform
2 it
waits till it can make the
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connection T do you fancy spending an
hour in Westbury
do I have a choice
no can you see how it's flashing that
one is flashing I think that means it
normally comes in on two the one is
signaling a platform aeration clearly
platform alterations happen here at
Westbury I feel partially Vindicated
partially so after our slight shall we
say faux par at westrey we made it to
wouth but if we hadn't have been on a
train to us later we wouldn't have met
the love Healey hello Madam nice to meet
you we got chatting on the train now
tell me what happened with the newspaper
the newspaper was funny what happened
well I got on the train at YoVille yes
and the metro
newspaper somebody had done the crossw
and the seduko and to both of them yes
so but the Guard the guard did something
brilliant didn't they well I had to
complain I said it's not the standard
one
expects so he said he would turn put the
problem right he went and got me three
newspapers hoping that one would have
both parts and done lovely to meet you
Andy we're staying in WTH tonight where
should we hit the town where where
where's the where's the box go along the
seaon and then all around the harbor to
pick your yacht uh and a m
we made it to wayth hey it was a day
full of chatting to lots of different
people on the train so inanc we had the
lady who talked about the train being a
Lifeline for her andan B and coming down
the Barney line and on the Waymouth
train we were talking to a young
gentleman who commutes
toille for work and how he couldn't do
that job unless he had the train and we
spoke to a lovely lady that visited her
friend who was Ill in hospital in in
Bristol uh she had a
senior citizen ra card that was a
journey she wouldn't contemplate by car
so yeah we met a lot of people that like
the trains today yeah and I think just
shows you the lots of different reasons
why people do use the trains and how
important they are feel like we keep
doing a lot of Seagulls as well but
that's mainly CU we've been by the Sea
at some point we'll head in land and
we'll see less seagulls probably
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this is
Warminster um and we've got off here
because our train from Solsbury
Salisbury Solsbury did you just call
Solsbury Salisbury I'm asking you which
pronunciation it's no worse than me
calling lster leam Minster which I I
used to do
and B Bicester and all that you didn't
call it Bicester I used when I was
younger until I
learned okay take two