Discovering the Atmospheric Railway while visiting every station on the Riviera Line!

I'm back at Exodus and Davids again the sun is just Rising today I'm going to be visiting every station on the Rivier line this one should be a Scenic one but I've already done exodusent Davids so I'm going to start this video a little bit different by walking to the first station and this is going to be a very nice walk I'm going to walk along the X down to ex to St [Music] Thomas well I only just made that would have been a long wait if I didn't it's the biggest level crossing I've ever [Music] seen this is a great way to start the day might be a little bit muddy but as long as I don't get flat on my face to the left of me is the river XX to the right of me is the X overflow Channel they had a really bad flood here in 1960 and it looked like it was going to continue happening so they did loads of work including three new massive overflow Channel so now it looks like there's two River rexes here one's the original one's the [Applause] Overflow Buckle in there's going to be a lot of water in this episode that's a lower lower water just over on this side is the Overflow Channel currently not overflowing and the vigorous amount of water over there is the river X the original channel of it I'm about 10 minutes from existent day with now so don't worry we'll be riding some trains soon I'm just absolutely loving the sunrise over the river ax this is just perfect perfect start to the video my time walking along the water is coming to an end got walk up this ramp to get to exitus St Thomas one of the smaller exitus stations anyway Exodus St Thomas is just here that's the old station Building looks a bit dilapidated now such a shame have one of those stations that's pretty much fallen from Grace it's now fairly dilapidated two platform station there was never any more Platforms in this but it used to have like a station roof and everything and it was just a bit more grander and the steps up there was photos of how it used to be and yeah I wouldn't want to be waiting up here in a storm so station only gets one train an hour on the line through to painting other trains run through fast I did you in about 5 minutes time and already my hair is doing hair things after saying nice things about gwr's timekeeping yesterday first train is already 7 minutes late and to make things worse it's a 2car class 150 Joy [Music] [Music] [Music] you know what I'm going to say don't you I love it I love everything about zaras we're like practically on the beach here like the beach is down there I've got an hour here and I'm very okay with that fact so starcross is home to the starcross XO Ferry which leads from here except if you're here in November it doesn't run in the winter but if you're here in the summer can easily get across to exmouth it just smells of the Southwest and I use that in a good way this is special I was going to do this later in the day but I'm glad I picked this moment now when the railway here opened they attempted to open it as an atmospheric Railway now it wasn't brunell's idea but he definitely championed the idea and it it it didn't go so well um an atmospheric Railway in a nutshell is there there's a tube down the center of the Rail trains are pushed Along by differences and pressure within the tube behind me here is an engine house this was pumping air in and out of the system to provide that difference in pressure that moved the trains along there were problems with the system pretty much from day one it lasted between a year and two years Brunell didn't come out of this one smelling of roses it wasn't long before trains reverted just to using steam again one of the things I've learned is this is a very good place to watch trains go by not those are ones though we don't like 150s I was going to walk to get some nice shots of the station from down here but it's a bit too muddy my trainers aren't designed for this so I think I may give that one a pass it's definitely better than hide Central I was just thinking to myself oh no I'm going to miss an amazing shot of the going past turns out it's only a voyager nobody cares so sadly my time at StarQuest is coming to an end now we jump on a train back up towards Marsh Barton so here at Star Cross seems like a perfect opportunity to say a massive thank you to my lovely patreons you're all scrolling on screen right now massive thank you guys you're really making videos like this possible if you want to get your name onto this list the links to do so are in the description but seriously guys thank you [Music] we are now approaching [Music] Mar so Mar Barton looks awfully familiar of course it opened on the 4th of July 2023 and I was here on the very first rain I'll leave a link in the corner to the video of that day but if I didn't come back it wouldn't feel complete on this line so here I am I'm not going to spend too much time at the station because well I've already done that so I'm going to leave the station and actually go down the road there not before at 150 decides to go past so on the opening day I actually stayed kind of at the station I didn't go and explore more that way and that's what I intend to do right now so I've come here to what is known as the Riverside Valley Park the river is a bit further over this is actually a canal you know I love me a good Canal so this is the exitor Ship Canal clearly trying to copy Manchester it was built because back in the olden days rich people had a habit of putting Weirs on the river Rex which stopped shipping from getting into ex to City itself so the City built the ex to ship canal it's not as Grand as Manchester ship canal I like it though I love a good canal but I'm walking down to see the X because a river and a canal in one episode what's not to love about that I mean we have already seen the X but we love the X here and by the X talking about the river not the failed social media Network so behind me there is another one of those overflow drainage channels for the X main river just comes in from Thats side that one's a lot more dried up though but I'm going to Hazard to guess when there's a lot of water that fills up quite quickly it's really nice here really really nice you just see the city center in the distance Marsh Barton station isn't just for the industrial estate you can come here and have this walk in this amazing little Park you're surrounded by water so it's right up my street and it's probably right up your street too definitely don't judge Marsh Barton by its cover come and spend some time here and leave the station the opposite way to the industrial date though I'm properly impressed with this it's hard to think that it's been nearly 5 months since it's opened it feels like it was only yesterday as was here at stupid o' in the morning it's a great day that she come to station openings they're good fun in these 5 months this station has been a success on my trip down here I've been through a few times now at peak times and loads of people are getting on and off the trains it's a well used station yeah right now it's dead because we're very much in the quiet time it's half1 something like that it's a it's a really weird time to be here but this just proves that when you build new stations not just cuz there's houses but when there's jobs and Parks people will come and use it I mentioned in one of the earlier videos while I've been down here at new court the station with move out a car park because it was just there to serve the people in the immediate area this is here to serve the people in the immediate area you do not need a car to use a station so I feel Marsh Barton is very much a success story more like this please platform one from the 1036 Great Western Railway service to painton Great Western ra it makes me glad that I'm here offseason things that I didn't expect be doing in November I'm here to tell you do it there's a lot to love here even in November the rules still apply but at some point cross country was going to get me and of course it's delayed so have Junction Station between the main continue down to Tour line to tour be a good set for a zombie movie it's as bad as I remember

Channel: JenOnTheMove

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Keywords: United Kingdom

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Length: 10min 47sec (647 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 05 2024