the 12th
of july good morning hello dave do you
know what day it is
60 something 67. we're at the delightful
west kirby he's very cute we're here at
the whirl
the werewolf the wiggle we knew that
time to do some mercy round
all the stations
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so
but more importantly we have a small a
small milestone let's go by the stream
this is station 1708
that is two-thirds sixty-six percent wow
it's over here by the doors there's no
buttons to open the doors
when we do the loop in a minute under
the city it becomes a little bit like
the london underground
and i think one of the subtle things is
that on the underground there's no
buttons to open doors it's on the
nursery
trains there's no buttons the doors just
open for you
and that makes it very underground-esque
good
we're at bogan head north this
footbridge is only a couple of years old
opened officially on the 4th of june
2014.
then my vicky's gone i need vicky for
the quaint amateur
that should be an actual thing i'm gonna
turn straight around but i can see the
beach
and the water down there oh and a
mermaid
the park here um on the sign that says
the world's first public park
and apparently it's the park that
inspired a very famous central park in
new york
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the same for the northern line it's not
black it's in piccadilly blue i'm very
confused
it's a long way to edward it's a long
way to eduard
well we could just spend an hour here
taking pictures of all the delightful
signs at
james street people in the wimbledon
liverpool are so nice
trying to move to liverpool i thought we
decided on cardiff
it's just too many options too many nice
places
this is very cool look at the toilet
there's the sound of
running water so if you're ever in
london and you do
what was the london line now the
overground between whopping and rather
highs
brunell's famous tunnel it's
disconcerting because you can hear the
sound of water
it's the same here at james street yes i
can hear the water
just the dark tunnel
i'm so glad it's a sunny day the last
time we came to liverpool it was
it wasn't it was a rainy miserable wet
day today
basically you can't come to look we just
wanted to if we didn't get a shot at the
mersey
people be like i can't believe you
didn't come to liverpool
is that the ferry across the mersey do
they play fairy customers
oh can we get their ferry across the
mersey
you can be in my shop
youtube doing a jeff youtube
um it makes me think of whenever i see
that written down
back bucky it reminds me of bacchus the
greek god
of wine and fertility the other great
thing is that
uh we're going back up the line to stop
at port sunlight
but not every train stops at capenhurst
luckily
we already did it on the way down but
reminder for the drivers as well
whether they need to stop or not and
there's this brilliant sign
right by the cab did you stop at
capenhurst
train does not stop at cape and her okay
quick train related thing first there
appears to be
secure cycle storage at port sunlight
although the poster suggests
that you can get them across the network
and basically you need a fob
to go the shutter goes up and you can
securely
lock your bike away it's also part of
the bike and go scheme now i've seen it
in a
in a few places but i don't know enough
about the bike and go scoop i should
probably visit the website but i can go
to cody uk
but i'd like to know is it regional is
it national i can't remember where else
we've seen it
is there somebody out there that's from
bike and go that would like to talk to
us
about yours about bike and go at railway
stations or is there somebody
watching youtube right now they can
leave us a comment tell us more about
bike and go
i want to know if you can actually bike
and go or do you have to like
bike and do something before you can go
it sounds easy but how easy is bike and
go
i sense your is is already here's the
quantometer
no i just think we should
so this is not quaint this is quaint all
right yeah
okay out of the station
port sunlight is a model village bit
like bourneville
and we're at bourneville all the
railworks at swindon
it was built by the lever brothers who
owned the lever
factory to make soap they wanted their
workers to have
decent housing good wages a nice safe
community in which to live
so they built this village for them the
lieber brothers were about saying
rather than all of your money and
profits going into drinking
and getting drunk you know give it to me
and we'll put it back into the village
to make a really wholesome place
for you to live and as a result
port sunlight was created
this oh hello this is
hume hall famous for being a venue where
the beatles have played but perhaps
most significantly it was the venue for
ringo starr
debut with the beatles on the 18th of
august
1962.
you get married here as well
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i've just discovered something brilliant
um it's an
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i can't say it angelmatic
sundial i think that's correct so to
tell the time you need to stand
on the month stone and the time will be
where your shadow is cast across the
our pillars the inner circle is british
summer time
the outer circle is the winter months
it's casting
one one o'clock
i don't know if i should take my outer
edge
to be because it's about 20 to two
which here that's about right
that's incredible where else in the port
it's really sunny
that's better what i want to go
do not do not know how to do the trick
no the trick's brilliant it works both
ways look i can take them well off is
this hand
and then to put them on again you just
use this hand it's work
you should try it sometimes which hand
right is on okay
and then left left is off okay okay
yeah it's not quite the point is
merging rail trains to elizabeth every
half an hour northern trains from
elizabeth
just four a day four a day people and
we're on one of them for the awkward
stan lowe and thornton which is coming
next
it's a train it's not a pacer you've got
yourself a sprinter
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stanley thornton oh driver hello
i've made it to stan now and thornton
there used to be more trains running
through here more freight more passenger
services you know just been scaled down
the scale down
it's a classic parliamentary style
service there's an oil refinery uh over
there over here it's a very industrious
area
but it's not just men in you know harder
hats digging for oil it's also
office workers like dave dave came back
to me is hello dave hi
you saw that we were coming through and
you work
at the orifice right is that correct so
what's your job first of all i'm a
mechanical engineer
i uh sort of help design tanks and pumps
and
in the way and who do you work for what
do you work for sr
it's an ess er this used to be shell now
it's known
so the main question is is how do you
get to work is it by train i wish it was
unfortunately you know it's my car
do you drive where do you live i live in
bronberg which is sort of
the land on the world okay would it be
quicker if there were more trains for
you to get a train absolutely yeah
really there's lots of people there's
probably
a thousand people work on this site 25
of those could use the train i'm sure
interestingly we were sort of told in
advance a security guard comes down and
you're not meant to come here unless you
work at your refinery but you've just
walked here
from your desk so you left your office
building yeah and walked down
is there a way out to the public street
there is yes yes there is
you can get out to the public can you
you have to walk through
the refinery road but it is it's open
you can walk down
there's no barrier there's no sign
saying no passenger engines here
no no but is there any sign on the
street is that the famous you know br
yeah yeah so there's a logo out on the
street is there like a post with a time
there is something
there's a pub it's a it's a proper
station it's a real national rail
station but it's just not
used that frequently but you would like
it i would yeah be ideal for me yes so
so northern rail dave would really like
to get the train to work
wouldn't you just please yes
make it happen
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kick
this is genuine yeah i'm just thinking
cash out we're at warrington i come out
vic
is talking talking to a strange man the
man turns out to be neal i've been
called a lot worse yeah
and you're just offering us a lift to
the other warrington station central
station another random
recognized you didn't recognize me
yeah i think i saw vicki first we got
chatting she's asking about warrington
right well can you get as quickly to see
the ones that
brilliant thanks for not abducting us
and giving us how to open your door
mate bro oh no we've got a broken latch
on the door time do you train
we get the 57 we do the stopper don't
you we have to get the stopping one yet
we can't take the slow wave we have to
go the long way
all right good luck with your endeavors
thanks another random lift in morrison
nice to meet thank you so much i forgot
your name jeff
and that saved us time so we've
unexpectedly got the train ten minutes
ahead so it stops everywhere
thanks neil amazing you saved us 10
minutes
which because of our connection yeah
we'll end our day half an hour earlier
that's the way if you miss a train by
five minutes and it puts you half an
hour down you know make up a train by
five minutes
push you halfway ahead thus ending
foundation
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i don't want to feel like i'm just
conforming to the stereotype where
everybody says
everyone from london is so lovely but
genuinely
genuinely interesting everybody today
was just mega friendly
mega chatty remember in the pilot we
went to hull and there's a lady in hull
going holly the friendliest people
oh you got some competition definitely
got a competition
with liverpool we have yet to get the
whole so we
might have a you've got time to you know
have some sort of fandom
up your game as to who's the friendliest
city because currently liverpool
is genuinely winning bye
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it's like you've seen the movies when
people have had babies and
they get put in like the crash area of
the hospital
you can only look at the bikes you can't
you can't go and
ride them we're leaning in like you're
looking at the baby bikes
they're so cute we have to have a cut
away
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we have to get the shot though of you
looking in i haven't moved what have you
been doing
is