There's Someone Looking At Me - Episode 18, Day 31 - St Pancras to Skegness 

Vicki: "The market opened in 1204" Geoff looks at his watch and says: "That means it's only been opened for an hour." Very good Geoff.

"The market opened in 1204. Thats a long time to have a market" "Well its only quarter past 1 now, its only been open an hour" Very witty Geoff...

Sooo English. The weather. The pubs. The history. The delayed trains. The lush countryside. And Geoff and Victoria.

After a night of political chaos we welcome the warm comforting embrace of another excellent All the Stations video. A blustery episode to brighten my day.

5:57 That was one of our trams! I'm very proud of Nottingham's tramway and I think we are very lucky to have one. I'd say we have the 2nd best tramway in the uk (next to manchester because theirs is bigger)

What an absurd, but delightfully fresh excuse for 'not cleaning things'

Another good ep you two! Good work on trying to stay optimistic inspite of the problems, most delays and gone-wrongs never happen on a sunny day!

Now there's the Britain I always imagine, grey and dreary!

Leicester station has some good signs about its history and it a wonderful building

2:13 oh dear Geoff xD

Its a real pity about the weather, Skegness is great when the sun is shining. Great job at trying to get the best out of the day guys :)

that look at the camera after the Thomas Cook sponsorship reference!

As I settle into bed on a winter's night, it's such a nice finish to the day seeing the next instalment of this series. :-)

Note from the Pronunciation Police: "Ye", as in "Ye Olde Shippe" is correctly pronounced "the". Because until a long time ago the th sound was denoted by Y.

Thomas cook actually died in Leicester, He wasn't actually from there. First Thomas Cook package tour was from Leicester to Loughborough (My home town).

I've parked on the space where Richard III was found. Wonder how much he was charged?

At East Midlands Parkway, the thing out the window was a power station

You two are such heroes!

I've been to Corby (not trying to rub it in!!). Corby in the rain - you're not missing much, hopefully it'll be brighter on your return. The cooling towers at East Midlands Parkway always turned a few heads even before they opened the station there!

I love Skegness but it always rains when I visit too. ☔

Shame you didn't jump on the Tram from Nottingham Station in to the centre and slab square as it is called locally, the old market square is the original location for the Nottingham Goose Fair. The current location for the fair is on the Forest Recreation Ground, also accessible by Tram, about a 5 minute journey.

So much for the direct service between Skegness and London which was promised in about 2010 but didn't happen. I know this because I had my 15 minutes of fame on the local news when this was being reported and was the reason for the refurbishment of Skegness station.

Another great video guys! Really enjoying the adventure.

5:25 Trivia - the y in Ye was originally a separate character in the alphabet (þ) that eventually dropped out of use. It's form slowly evolved to resemble a y, but it was pronounced like a 'th, so 'ye olde' would have been correctly pronounced as 'the olde'.

I can't believe you came to my home town of Kettering!!!!!

Yay, Loughborough! I reckon that whoever sponsored that station must be pretty awesome, and oh, so handsome! ;-)

Tip for Vicky: Pacer train numbers start with 14, Sprinter train numbers numbers start with 15.

Weather wise, Tuesday was awful. You both looked cold, hard to believe it's June. Enjoyed your video.

Sorry for the storm, my fault, I was getting my decking re-laid and re-varnished.

you stopped at Kettering, where I used to live, and now I live in Skeg-vegas, great job guys

Ah, another lovely soothing video to get lost inside:)

"It's only been open an hour!" :: I Lol'ed.

Hi the series is great keep it up. I love when you show a map of the areas you are going to on your phone. 4:34. Can you please do more of that? Either as a full map at the start of the video or just as you do during the video.

You are my heroes

I'm glad I'm not the only one that finds that the use of your train is delayed due to inclement weather funny.

I want the old music

It's like the sad ending to EastEnders or Neighbours at the start 😀

Amazing as always

Pacer spotting tip: they don't have bogies.

Seeing the inn in Nottingham reminded me of a pub in St Albans that I remember was argued to be the oldest in the country (from what I heard there was one other that disputed its claim and I can't remember if it was the one you went to here) called Ye Olde Fighting Cocks down by the Abbey (lovely building that you should visit if you get the chance, Vicki, it's got the 2nd longest nave in the country I think) and Verulamium Park (got some nice remnants of the Roman wall there). Their website says ~793AD but the Telegraph has it as possibly dating back to 973AD (apparently the first licence they have is from the 18th century which is why it's disputed). I think the general idea in the area is that it does date back that long, which doesn't really surprise me given the buildings and institutions that have survived this long in St Albans itself (the oldest school in Hertfordshire, for example - ~948AD). Anyway, I'll stop rambling on about St Albans and pubs now, just thought it was an interesting tidbit! Great video and series, always love seeing there's a new one out! :-)

Why is Vicki "V Pipe" in the credits? Shouldn't her name contain All The Letters?

Olde Trip to Jerusalem. great watering hole and food.

When Vicki said a sprinter the train was actually a super sprinter train. Sprinters are formed of class 150s,class 153s,class 155s and class 156s. Super Sprinters are class 158s and class 159s

I can't believe that I was within 100 meters of the legend with my house directly next one of the stations on the Nottingham - Skegness line. Only I moved here 2 years ago god dammit. Buy hey I live somewhere Geoff Marshall has been close to

Big up Market Harborough! #Hometown

I love Vicki's rather winsome 'All The Stations' announcement just before the theme tune

you know some crazy stuff happened when the intro is the slow sad music...

4:14 "We should've got Thomas Cook to sponsor us" *sly look to the camera*

Love these videos. One point though. There is also an 'oldest pub' in St Albans (The Fighting Cocks), and also one in Chiddingfold, Surrey, called the Crown... I think that's what it's called. Don't ask me which the oldest one is, just pointing out that more than one pub makes that claim. Apologies for bring pedantic, but then I must be a bit of a geeky type to be addicted to this series right?

Incidentally, that statue was the first Richard the third ever to be polished

The Skegness Jolly Fisherman began life as a railway marketing character to promote travel to the town.

What happened to Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth and the Cromer lines?

Do you think you could do a Nottingham trams transmission?

RIP Thomas Cook

East Midlands Parkway is next to Ratcliffe on Soar power station

Re Thomas Cook - don't forget Thomas Cook Airlines - the name is printed in huge writing on the plane

Geoff I live in Kettering! (yes trains to Corby are always bad!)

The cooling towers belong to Ratcliffe Power Station. "You are using that shot" - hahaha!

Great Video

I think you have a great channel. Today I noticed that Victoria waves like the Queen :) By the way if you are sick of the rain send it down our way Victoria, Australia we down here can always use more rain :)

Ah! Leicester my home town, How was it? Very rainy like always

my station Loughborough :D

So what’s the difference between a pacer and a sprinter?

arrrg you did Nottingham and I cant belive I missed you

Skegness is a long way from pretty much everywhere.

Cheeky royal wave from Queen Victoria at 6:38

I live in Nottingham and if you have a train at Platform 2, you need to have around 5 minutes if you want to walk

Geoff. What app are you using in this vid?

The editing was really nice in this one√

2:43 It's really windy!

I told you Thameslink would be late when I met you at penge ;)

Geoff: Vicki, is it a pacer or a sprinter? Vicki: (Level crossing barrier raising noises) Vicki: Spirnter

I wonder whether there is a train from Nottingham to Skegness (or vice versa) that stops at all three least used stations on the way (Bottesford, Elton & Orston, Havenhouse). Follow-up: are there any services calling at more than three least used stations?

Did u ever do Beeston,Attenborough,carlton

You went to my station Nottingham! (but not the closest to me, Hucknall is)

Did you make it to Corby? Is now a two track line rather than single with a four track line from Kettering to Bedford, better service, apparently, when completed but no new stations.

ay! u came to kettering, my home town! I tried to meet u there and see u but didnt get there in time!

when you go back through Nottingham to Bulwell and Hucknall, you can catch the tram which runs parallel to the train line. would you do that like you did in London?

Nottingham my home town

Your episode numbers don't follow your day numbers in any ration I can figure out? can you explain to me please - just curious:-)

Before I watched this I thought Vicki Geoff and some trains. What could possibly go wrong.

5:54 Best excuse ever!

Can you go on the great central Railway in the Leicester and Loughborough area and Quran

NOOO I WAS IN NOTTINGHAM THE SAME DAY YOU WERE THERE

good video 😀

I prefer the original theme music

There are many "oldest inns in England". Another is the Bingley Arms in Bardsey between Leeds and Wetherby. It claims to date back to 953AD and has real priest holes (from a somewhat later period) up its chimney. www.bingleyarms.com/gallery-1617.html Unfortunately, it doesn't have a railway running anywhere near it (and I don't think it ever has done), so you're not going to see it on your trip.

i live near kettering and corby and the corby train is frequently canncelled or delayed

Awww poor Viicki.

I WAS AT KETTERING TODAY AND I TOOK THAT TRAIN

Are you doing the stations from St Pancras-Bedford?

Rip, that shot sounds kinda cool.

The cooling tower is part of Radcliffe power station.

Vegas 👍✌️

Ahhhh, it's a tough job but someone's gotta.....

Without sounding dumb..... What's the difference between sprinter and pacer?

I missed you going through Wellingborough. Dammit

I love the Very Special Opening Music. When was that arrangement put together? Did you KNOW you were going to want a downbeat version from the get-go, or was it a last-minute-emergency call to the composer?

4:21 That's an Express Sprinter but Sprinter is also right

Hey, is that a Fitbit tracker that Vicki taps at 6:29?