hello nothing man it's Saturday 19
forged we're at Inverness and I guess
for the very last time
don't cry
this is all the station
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in Veneto a barbershop on the platform I
think each bones got one too so this is
our last train except it's not because
we're going to get out halfway there's
no second to last train
Phil ultimate rain
founders
I thought we should do like a top like a
10
with Harley from Dumbo to Carlo words of
the one after
rayma Gordon this is our train I've
jumped out he can't advance into the
next section finding out where he is I
jumped out to take a footprint shot but
there's no footbridge here so I don't
actually know how you get across to the
other platform I infer Gordon may be the
only trains now fold in we can now be on
our way
that was in machines nation and the shin
viaduct we didn't stop there
at coronation as the better crystals and
to cake with an air rolls and they're
like 60 seconds apart the finger the
closest station together in Scotland
they'll bill either side of the river
because at one stage there's no other
way across the river park there are
public railway so you can get off I
decided I think now they for the public
it's a shame nobody goes
pulling in
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- dropping castle come to the last day
without quick Vickie explores around the
castle right
work done Robin we met off the train at
my Frank can we're gonna chat to it more
later and Daniel and his wife Claire who
run this museum in the station house so
Danny was just giving us a little bit of
a tall this room here was the staff side
but this would have been the signal box
so the signal box would have been manned
from in this room here the other thing
interesting thing that Donna was saying
was that it was the dukes of Sutherland
or actually the third Duke of Sutherland
who put the line in here and still to
this day the family owned everything
except for the rails so they own the
land under the rails and the station
they own the platform everything and out
there there's a lot of siding a little
rusty siding where the Duke of
Sutherland used to keep his own private
engine slash carriage if you're gonna
build its own siding for his own little
train yeah
in this room many exciting things the
act of Parliament which opened this
stretch of railway an original newspaper
about Beeching cuts in the 1960s over
here a wonderful reproduction photograph
of the original station building which
was later replaced in the early 20th
century by the one that where we're
standing in that calling the poor Telugu
for the occasion and Michael Portillo
he cut a pink ribbon across the doorway
and unveiled the back inside and that
was our final piece of railway
restoration had done Robin and and not
only that he and his film crew then
proceeded to use it oh yes yes please
feel free is it the towels are all there
so please feel perfectly free
she flashed
I hope she walks his own hand sue
did you wash your hands
after you
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done
Robin Castle is incredible there has
been a castle here for hundreds and
hundreds of years but the castle that
you see now is largely the work of the
Sutherlands and it was the third Earl of
Sutherland coming that I can't say it
can't say it is third jook jook maybe no
no Duke
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we've made it to Rome our station we've
been a bit sneaky but anybody thinking
we just go from A to B we've actually
gone up the line to done Robin and then
we backtracked to rogar to meet the
delightful Frank Frank Frank your
surname is Roach yeah which I'm freaked
out about because I had an old boss at
the BBC his name was Frank Rhodes you're
not the same man and definitely not me
oh and no relations either Frank does
two amazing things first well can you
tell us what your job title is yeah it's
very exciting
I'm the partnership manager for high
trends which means I work for a
consortium of local authorities in the
north of Scotland and effectively my job
is developing rail services in the area
which I've been doing since 1998 now
yesterday for a bit of a fun aside video
by this video Vicky and I went to purely
station we have literally got a tape
measure and we measured it and then in
the car here today you went oh yeah
that's that's that's that's my station
so you you brought about the recreation
of buley yeah Billy was my idea and I
got the funding and also a modest you're
like you convinced the convinced the ORR
that it was safe to have a short
platform because of course that was a
you know major problem
surely somebody'll get out of the wrong
door and hurt themselves what why is it
sexual honey honey same for common
bridge same for common bridge okay
although the other station I'm working
on at the moment del cross Inverness
Airport station del cross will be
conventional length so no need to worry
about that I'm sensing that you are an
advocate of reopening up old stations so
yeah but it but then I know that there's
this trade-off and for every station you
open it adds about three minutes time
because they're stopping - that's right
the line so where is the train off
between opening a new station and having
a faster through service how how do you
balance them well you can do it two ways
one is to have skip stopping so you
don't have the full range of services
stopping other news station so for
example Kannan on Kannan and beauty
don't have every train stopping that
most do but but but some don't thank you
but before we head out you may have
noticed we're sat in what we sat in
Frank
we're sat in this is a coach called
Glenmorangie which is one of our camping
coaches here roburt sorry now when you
say now who's that well really it's it's
my wife Kate who runs this it's a it's
an accommodation business in the railway
carriages this is a mark to a FK that's
the first corridor that was built in
Derby glit Church Lane in 1968 so you
live in the older station here with no
station house but you rent out all these
old carriages they've got three
carriages people to come and stay in
that's right
I'm sorry there's a link in the
description will you show us around
really quickly yeah sure let's do it I
love these old style trains where you
walk down the corridor so one of the
components is now a kitchen I love it
this is like so this is a bit like a
dining area with a breakfast bar
someone's doing a puzzle what they'll
hear what suddenly finger.this the first
but this is another another lounge oh I
see the bedrooms using how the bedrooms
are laid out so it's like being in a
sleeper compartment isn't it it is laid
out is much more space yeah and it can't
be seen I do want to sleep here if it's
okay that's great then there's even an
old signal box here hey Frank you see
turn the signal box into a little lounge
yeah well look thank you so much for
showing us your little office okay part
the private world keep that keep up with
all your work keep improving Scottish
and British Railways yes yes yes well
we'll see what we can do I mean thanks
man come back Bo you're over some more
stations we would you do this again
in 10 years time all the stations 2027
there be more status revenue Scotland
than anywhere else in the last 15 years
and this
it's the last turn of the journey I've
made a decision I'm going to start
writing down numbers that time as of now
I was gonna say wouldn't be funny if I
just rattled off the classes this train
what is it I have no idea
five eight it isn't one public
I was really hoping Scott Reil we're
gonna lay on the Pacer my life in the
pits 1 587 Oh for
then we passed on robbing council going
back up again loss
coming to Borah
no one no one no one number 10
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- oh thanks southbound train is over
there he had to wait for us we're
heading north I have to go this one's
quite exciting at some point I will
return
to a station that is possibly more
remote than career can argue about the
one of the Commons
counting the bound of a five oh my god
the lovely catering lady is having to
move of trolley to accommodate us on
that side
someone's getting on anyway
after all that someone's actually
getting on
holder break 5
that was Scott's novel request on
no one would question it still valid
under our rules
have them
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okay number three and a countdown of the
last ten
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George's Junction train will reverse
here Wow
trains about to go up here will probably
see the points move in a second
hook up the thurzo then come back
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you just gotta go and quickly see who a
gentleman called Mike lunan who said he
within the time it takes a driver to get
to the other end of the Train lovely
conductors just confirming that such a
person does exist
this is the pirate commercial and a
locomotive
yes when no no four inches further north
the other look some more dent in the
buffers small thank you Mike let me to
the countdown
one more station to go one more thing to
go places to go one more station to go
typically we get to wick is it but
burners gonna wait hey banners I burn it
he's one of our backers and he genuinely
he just happened to be on the version
along which can't believe in the tree
and can you please leave by the side
exit as the main station doors are now
locked next to final stop is wick here
we go we missing station one would you
like - what would you like to say new
wick 2563 stations down
stations together I'm gonna say wick
tick because it rhymes
ready yeah here we go here we go it's
not there - five six three five six
surely go first
go together
now let's do the whole thing in Reverse
that's a joke
also his TV here and this gentleman
but using it looks a bit like birthday
we should get picture with them
lady
they were great
good camera pointed at you
hello and thanks thank you
this is the third time we've tried to
record Thank You segments we just didn't
know how to finish it last night here it
was raining and the lighting was weird
and thank you shot thanks bye you wrap
up the second time we try to go to the
beach to get a dramatic shower but see I
took the key to a castle
this is our last ever shot because what
else would you do well by here's a car
film and we'll fly the drone out there
because you can't defy the drone here at
Wake station because we carefully just
on the road with a no-fly zone we try
going to the lighthouse at Harbor is
still within the no-fly zone so we went
like seven miles on the road to the
castle still within the no-fly zone
there's no finale drone flying off shot
what do you want to do is your finale
chop
tangy
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welcome to all the castles yay Yaya