@@terranceparsons5185 ah yes. The summer of '76! Still, there must have been some good days in '75 too 😀 Thanks for watching along with another video. Next Friday, it will be a trip to Saltburn-by-sea. That was a fun, but windy one!
The Interchange is now Bournemouth bus station. The 1st bus bus station is where the cinemas are now in Bournemouth. It burnt down in 1976. When the railway station was being renovated, the scaffolding was up for over 10 years.
@@XDFRailRoadCooler Yes, someone else was saying about the scaffolding being there for so long. I bet everyone was pleased when it finally went! Thanks so much for watching 👍
Some SWR trains divide at Bournemouth with just the front unit going onward towards Poole and the rear unit terminating, going into the carriage sidings.
@@webrarian thanks and thanks for mentioning the out of the window footage as i try to keep that of the best standard i can reasonably manage. Thanks for watching my videos 👍
Thank you Johnny for another excellent video, this time of your 'little trip' through Dorset. I first visited Bournemouth in 1954, on a family holiday when I was just six years old. I remember being impressed by the roof over Bournemouth station. Previously, I had thought it was only London terminuses which had the splendour of 'allover' roofs! One suggestion. This video would have been even better if the map you showed at 5m 30s had appeared right at the beginning of the video. You could have then also briefly explained how you had got from Weymouth to Sandbanks!
@@Fan652w thanks Roger and thanks for your station memories too. I see what you mean wrt bringing the map forward. But, the video is also being watched by many people who are not (yet) avid followers of the channel. Hence, in the edit, i really do have to "get on with it!" at the start, otherwise those newer viewers are more likely to click away. That's why i have to establish the basic storyline and also the style of the video (buses, trains, architecture) before we pause to view the map. I know that isn't how you would prefer it (I'm a map person too so probably my preference too) but that is my reasoning. Very happy for more people to wade in on this one as everyone's feedback has often led to changes in the way i do things!
@@Fan652w oh and wrt Weymouth to Bournemouth... THAT will have to wait as, between you and me, it's the last of a ten video series where i complete the route of the South West Coast Path, using buses... more of that in a few months when they are all edited up!
@@NathanS2022 Yes, i knew about the Eastleigh depot so was guessing it was to get the unit back there. I suppose you can't flood the line with lots of these workings, hence some going dead. Best wishes to you and thanks for watching 👍
Great trip and very well researched too. Bournemouth station was very depressing when it was being renovated with scaffolding poles in the middle. The 444s are good but the 442s were better!
@@clivelangham435 yes, i had good weather. Although, tbh, it was on a day trip from my home, so I was able to pick a good weather day! Thanks so much for watching and for your kind words 👍
Running a train that is being positioned for the morning peak up service as a passenger service helps to offset the costs, a not in service train still requires a crew.
Super stuff, thanks. Having watched both you and Steve Marsh galavanting gloriously around the Poole region in the space of a week, I am adding Dorset to my "definitely do this next summer" list. Cheers!
Beautiful run in beautiful weather. We’re watching your video from N Ireland where we’ve had spectacular weather all week. Off to Scotland tomorrow on the Stena. :)
@@sandiandgregh great to hear you had lovely weather in NI. I'm going back to Ireland in October. I'm saving NI until they have trains running in and out of their new Central station. Enjoy the Stena ride! 👍
In the summer I did a few trips to Bournemouth from Weymouth and back, using the open top from Weymouth to Swanage and the 50 to Bournemouth. On the way back I'd usually get back to Swanage, get the train up to Corfe Castle and then the bus back from there. A very nice if long journey. And those first class seats are actually worse than the standard seats, the original first class was significantly better, not only because it was 2+1 but the seats were a lot plusher.
An option you could have gone for was the City Cruises between Swanage and Poole Quay. That makes a nice day out, we've done it a few times, got the earliest one from Poole to Swanage and then got iirc the last one back to Poole. Plenty of choice of fish & chip shops in Swanage, there must be at least 6 within around about 1/4 of a mile, with two even being literally right next door to each other.
@@dglcomputers1498 i love me a round robin route, so that definitely sounds a good un. Shame to hear about the old 1 st being better... Thanks so much for watching along 👍
Love that train ride. Thanks for the video. XC have a temporary reduced timetable just at the moment which might be the reason for the Eastleigh journey.
Your lovely videos bring me home to England which I left 50 years ago. I particularly like your narration you have a very pleasant voice, where are you from originally Johnny?🎤🔉
@@martincannon1078 I'm a bit "from all over". Born in Gloucestershire, grew up near Leicester, many years in Hull and now back in the South West. Possibly sounds like a mash up of all of those! Thanks so much for your kind words. I'm pleased i being back fond memories for you. Where are you now living?
@@JohnnyHooverTravels My French wife and I have been living in Lyon, France for over 50 years. I wouldn't come back to Blighty now. I need to renew my British passport anyway and cannot enter the UK on my French identity card. I do voice overs here from my own studio, hence my remark on your voice. I have a website but don't know if I can show it here? 🎤🎶🎼🎸
@@martincannon1078 well a quick google and i found your website/work. I'm honoured to think a professional like yourself thinks my voiceover is ok. I don't have a studio, so i record mine sat on my bed as the bedroom has the warmest sound in the house. The room where i actually edit is far too hard for doing the voiceovers! Thanks again for your interest and kind words 👍
@@martincannon1078 i was an IT Product Manager for National NHS systems, but I've been a singer in a band, hence the interest in sound. Wrt photography and videography, i learned most from watching my son Kie. This is some of his stuff. He now lives and works in Dubai in film and video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oGaQ1Acda_c.htmlsi=c8opqKO2U5H--Kzv
You might have mentioned the tracks leading off to the south which give access to what was once Bournemouth West station but is now the SWT traincare depot, and the fact that the main line to Weymouth is single-tracked between Moreton and Dorchester!
@@KempSimon wrt to the first (the line to the depot) , i omitted that info to enable the flow of the video, but you are quite right about it. I also didn't really get a chance to talk about the disused viaduct that makes the complete triangle. Wrt to the single track line, i completely missed that and really should have included it in the narration - good point 👍 And, of course, thank you for watching 👍
@@JohnnyHooverTravels - In the run-up to the 2012 Olympic Games Sailing Regatta at Weymouth the Government funded a new road into the Dorset seaside town but it wouldn't pay for the single track section between Moreton and Dorchester to be re-doubled or the inadequate electrical supply to the Third Rail boosted to allow two EMU's to operate in multiple west of Poole.
