Nethertown - Least Used Station in Cumbria 

I live in nether town and I find it extremely hard to believe there’s 507 passengers per year at that station lol, I’ve seen maybe 3 people there in my life, and I’ve lived in Cumbria for 16 years

Taking a car to a deserted station underneath a naff camp site, measuring the length of the platform with your own feet in the pouring rain and mulling over the timetable... Sounds like Bill Bryson would describe the most British pastime this side of Little Dribbling!

"How wet can I get in the next 30 seconds" .... ok then

I feel like the least used stations keep changing because those two keep going to them

Its always nice to see these videos in my timeline when they get released.

Great place to live, uninterrupted sea view, lovely isolation but a train service on ones doorstep. Not many places that isolated can claim to have Public Transport that close, if at all. I think it is a beautiful place when the sun shines. I would love to live there.

As a Cumbrian, firstly... WELCOME! Secondly, thank you for putting out Cumbrian Costal line on your "least used" map.

Every place you're at I tell myself: "I wouldn't mind being there now". The sea and beach and wet are so evocative

For people who are quite misanthropic, Nethertown looks like heaven!

Nethertown - a place I go to when I want time on my own........ It's lovely and peaceful on a sunny day......

One of your videos changing from Victoria line to the piccadilly line at Green Park Station has helped me. I use to follow the route.. Now I got to the exist.. Up the escalators and then back down to piccadilly line. Saved me from being late to work on numerous occasions. Many thanks

Love this - you both look excited at such an amazingly unexciting station. Pity about the weather - it is nice sometimes here!

Ah, the British summer! I was at a camping festival this past weekend, and Friday was like this!

The nicest and most unique least used station you've done to date. Next to sea, that strange platform, incredibly remote. I feel slightly inspired to go this area one day. You can barely Street View this area on google, despite there being a few roads. People always think of Dawlish. You've got here aswell.

Can I just say that the Cumbria coast in bad weather... is wonderful... I love it along that line

Geoff, your expression about the bin bags at 7:47 is just... classic!!! :-) :-) :-) And love the final shot with your beach writing too... clever.

I have a love hate relationship with these videos. I love to watch them especially when Geoff and Viki are together. I hate them because, now retired, I realise I wasted all my life working when I could have been riding trains.

Love the drone shot 4 minutes in!

The character on the “buy your ticket” poster looks like Geoff and of note is drinking something that could be tea.

No idea how I got here but i enjoyed watching it!

Makes you wonder if that shedueld stop is because a railway employee uses that stop everyday.. Oh and... #itstoowindyforbinbagsinthebreeze

OK, someone round here must know the answer to this question: how many grass platforms are there in Britain?

The view from Nethertown in clear weather is excellent, you can see the Isle of Man. When I was visiting a friend who used to live in Whitehaven, the Sunday service was afternoons only between Whitehaven and Carlisle , there were no trains between Barrow in Furness and Whitehaven.

I was just down the line last year at Millom. I watched a herring-gull attack and destroy a rubbish bag, spreading the contents over the platform. This year, the plastic tubes kept the buggers off.

I adore this series of videos, it’s all the weirdest and strangest places in the country!

I did Carlisle to Lancaster via Barrow in early May this year. It was a gloriously sunny Sunday and the views were stunning.

If only all bus shelters had their backs to the road like that, to stop cars etc spraying people waiting to become passengers

I'd consider the beach as a facility, since it's basically attached to the station. Your take is more polished than mine, as expected haha

Enjoying all your videos form Australia 😍

Nice work, guys. Good on ya :)

I can remember when going to Eskdale Outward Bound Centre in 1984, catching a train from Carlisle to Ravenglass, and the train stopped at umpteen small country stations en route, which included the tiny station of Nethertown, a few stops before Ravenglass

It’s a loverly Line when the weather is nice! This trip rather reminds me of a trip from Fort William to Mallaig when I was a child. It rained all day, could not really see out of the windows and was so wet we came straight back again. Similar to a charter trip to Paignton when it was too wet to cross to Dartmouth from the preserved railway and I was soaked through.

Looked like a lovely day out!

Loved that clickety-clack of the DMU running through the station at speed

I do think the bins are contained because the wind can get quite rough by the seaside, and when it does, the container prevents the bin bag from thrashing around and prevents all the rubbish from flying out. Edit: Nvm

To be fair, that platform *is* 3/4 of a platform! Also, welcome to northern weather - we have to deal with this all the time!

3,000 miles of Atlantic Ocean infront of you there , no wonder it was a bit bracing . As usual great video .

I was on holiday at the caravan site mentioned when you filmed this. Had a gut feeling that you'd be filming there soon. Shame I missed you.

Looks nice for bad weather!

I’ve been waiting for this video for while now. I’ve binged watched most of your all stations video. I must say there better then crack.. I’ve send this video to a few proud west Cumbrians.

never been this early. Very nice station and beaches indeed :D

Looks like a pleasant walk!

Great video

Used to catch the train from Nethertown to Whitehaven every Saturday when I was a kid in the early 70's. There was a signal box there then and we used to wait in there and get warm around the stove. My mum nearly bought the house on the seaward side of the station; she always regretted buying another caravan instead. You probably didn't notice, but just below the station was the remains of a small sea filled paddling pool built for the tourists that used to come to Nethertown; hence the name of the local pub, The Tourists.

that's a pretty powerful drone to be flying in that wind - beautiful views. I believe Northern is running from Manchester Airport to Barrow these days. I wanted to do the Lancaster to Carlisle via Barrow a few years back but it was almost impossible to do it due to the timetables not matching up, sounds like it might be possible now

Gorgeous spot love this line did it 2 months ago , also yes Northern now have a few super sprinter ex scotrail trains ( think they replaced to nomlonger loco hauled trains)

I've been up in Cumbria for a 12 week placement, back in July the weather was lovely, I like the line from Whitehaven to Workington, so close to the sea!

I use that line occasionally. I sometimes buy a ticket to Nethertown even though I'm not wanting to go there because I feel sorry for the lonely little station. The price is the same, so why not? So that is at least one person in those user numbers that didn't actually go to Nethertown.

I can remember the (both disused) signal box and station building still being there in the 80s. Both were cosmetically renovated for the "Spoils of War" series then demolished not long after.

i'm amazed they modified it with ramps - it literally used to have a step-box for you to get on and off with.

Welcome to Cumbria. Good to see you covered the line. I moved from London to Dalton 10 years ago and still not used to the summer weather lol. I think most of the trains to Carlisle are not straight through from Lancaster and you have to change at borrow. I feel the main reason numbers have dropped is coz of the reliability of the service. And borrow station is the worst for customer service. Lancaster is the best when things go wrong. But saying that things are improving. Slowly. Your lucky you got the train on time. Must have been a good day lol

I used to live just a few stops down from there in Seascale. Brilliant to see that view again. Good to hear the correct pronunciation, 'ton not 'town.

A few facts for this part of the line, a Sunday service was only reintroduced between Barrow-in-Furness and Whitehaven in May 2018 following a gap of around 40 years. There was a derailment of a tanker train back in 1977 following the collapse of an underbridge resulting in the train demolishing some of the bungalows at Nethertown. There was another derailment albeit not as serious back in 2012 following a landslide due to heavy rain between St Bees and Nethertown.

Guys, GUESS WHAT, I was on holiday when you were there. I was in nearby ravenglass as Drigg was my closest station. #SUBSCRIBER

10:53: "Who the heck lives here?" LMAO! Someone who is not going to chip into the All The Stations Germany Kickstarter! :-P

Loved this 😁 bracing indeed

Geoff obviously only glanced at the timetable otherwise he'd have seen that the timetable actually shows no trains from Carlisle along the coast go to Manchester, they either terminate at Barrow or Lancaster and onward connections are shown, as is the Barrow - Manchester Airport service which is generally worked by the new class 195 units, which I don't think are permitted to operate north of Barrow.

Used to get the steam train from St Bees to Corkickle Early 60s to school. Saturdays St Bees to Seascale to go fishing!!!!!!

There are so many stops and request stops on this route that if you're at Lancaster or Carnforth the announcement for the train goes on for *ages*. It's mildly amusing.

You had the full experience of a Cumberland summer!

Reminds me of San Clemente Pier station (and it's partner, San Clemente station, without the "pier"), south of Los Angeles, in that it's right on the beach like those two (fairly rare for a train station). Of course those are quite a bit sunnier and quite a bit more urban. Another much more rural station directly on the beach in Southern California is Lompoc-Surf station, north of LA.

I’m in Cumbria and this video pops up in my recommendations...

“Not in the rain” - the things you do for dedication!

This is my favourite station, not least because the first you see when driving up is a sign literally in a field.

Unusual/unique station features, I’ll start you off with Harlow Mill. There is a reversed double arrow sign outside the station

And.... when measuring the platform at Nethertown, did you calculate the extra distance made by the rise and fall of the hump? ;-) One to get Matt Parker to do!

That beach looks amazing. Going to sell my condo in Byron Bay asap and buy a beachfront right next to that amazing huge rail hub.

Used to use this station at weekends to get to Barrow and back. Quite sure they ran on Sundays back in 1988.

Love the video when will you do like a Q&A

You should’ve paid a visit to the Ratty (Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway) when you did this station! Or did you? Will we see the footage in due course?

So a few questions answered: - Southbound trains are more frequent as the 'big' towns are down south (Preston, Manchester) - Sellafield is just round the coast so a lot of workers might go on the trains in the morning - St Bees has a grammar school so a lot of local pupils will use the train to get there - Seagulls peck at the bin bags, the wind swirls round the bin bags, too. Plus less noise for the caravan owners.

The tube is for keeping birds from pecking on the bag.

I walked from Seascale to Sellafield along the beach earlier in the summer. On a sunny day that’s a nice walk. The bit alongside the Sellafield works is is interesting - especially past the nuclear flask locos - just don’t talk any photos unless you want to be known to the security services!

A few 156 units transferred from ScotRail to Northern Rail when Scotrail introduced new electric 385 units. Some ScotRail 170s went to Northern as well as Southern Rail possibly although I believe these have since been converted to 172's to make them compatible with other Southern DMU's, I could be wrong though.

Binoculars are cool.

You get real British summer weather !

I live about an hour (by train) north of there - wish you were here in Workington in 2009/10 to see how to build a railway station quickly after flooding destroyed 1 road bridge & made the other impassable (we were in the national news a lot then)

I took a train from Carlisle to Lancaster last year, which sadly did not go along the coast there.

The most scientific measurement of a platform seen on YT, yet!

Just come back from a week in the Lakes - managed to tick off another 17 stations but didn't get further north than Kirkby-in-Furness. Weather very like in the video...

I’m sure Homes 🏠 Under The Hammer 🔨 featured a property very close to Braystones on the beach side of the track on land owned by Network Rail 🤔

I have only just discovered all of your various videos, all the stations and the others. Fabulous stuff. I am glad to see that you are keeping things rolling as well. Here is a question: why do so many stations have these ramps that go off into nothing at the ends? Why don't they just have hard stops?

Could the train that isn't a request one have been one of the services that used to be operated by loco & MK2 coach set

'Ya'right?' Love it.

That might have been one of the old sprinters from my way since the end of the Alloa line got fully electrified a year or so ago

Glad to live down the road from here

Nethertown Station was featured in the TV series " A family ar War" back in the 70's.

The bin bags tend to blow away very easily in strong coastal winds.

Another interesting least used station in Cumbria to explore would be whichever stop it is on the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway 😊

Please do a video at Barlaston and Wedgewood! Two stations that I think you can get tickets to but is closed since 04

the intro makes me vibe

What is the difference in passenger numbers between the 2 stations?

Nice!

Wonder which train stations came first, Bray, Greystones or Braystones

Mate.... you wanna try working there...... did 7 weeks there back in November 2013...... Nethertown.... yes! it rains sideways there.....

1:20 I didn’t know you can catch the Hogwarts Express from Cumbria

Great video, was like a mini holiday. ps you didn't do your end screen links.

Waiting shelter -- luxury!

You certainly pick your days weather wise.

When are you going to Darnall Geoff? The least used station in South Yorkshire. I live in Sheffield so I am wondering if I can come with you when you do.