 Hello, thank you for joining me. Today I'm at one of the newest railway stations in Britain. This is Kenilworth in Warwickshire. This station opened on the 30th of April 2018, so it's over a year old now, but it still has that very kind of new feeling. It's not the original, there was originally a railway station here, opened by the London and Birmingham Railway in 1848. That station was then rebuilt in 1884, and it eventually closed in 1865. So from then on, the town of Kenilworth hasn't had a railway station, but it has had a railway travelling through it. So the railway never ever closed, and there's always been trains, originally they were intercity cross country, then it was virgin cross country, now just cross country, travelling through here, providing service from places like Bournemouth and Reading Castle and Manchester. Now there's a service provided by West Midland Railway, who run a train from Coventry. At the start of it was Coventry to Leving to Spa, and now they're running it all the way through to Nuneaton. So Leving to Spa is the next station that way, where you can connect for children railways trains, and then it goes that way towards Coventry, and it also calls it a new station, Bermuda Park and Coventry Arena, which are not as new as this, but Newish, so I haven't been to them, so I should go and visit them. I have done the line, but not actually been to the station. So today I finally got round to visiting this railway station. I've been watching a couple of times I've been driving down, you don't really get much of a view from the train when you're passing through on a train, but if I'd ever been driving this way, I'd call in and have a look, see what was going on with the site. Now the first time I came here to see that, the site had been earmarked for the station, and there was this public footpath that still runs across here over that footbridge, so I went on that and you could see it was just a single track and nothing was here, and then the next time I came the bridge was closed, and they were building, started to build the station. What I've done now, it's rather amazing, there's actually two footbridge, so you've got this one with lifts, and then you've got that one. Now my thought is, let's go over and we'll tell you what my thought is. My thought is, if they ever one day double track this line, it's not a double track line, it is only single track, but it's got a couple of passing loops, so there's one outside of Leamington Spa that way, and there is another one the other side of the station, so it's also quite busy, you get quite a lot of container trains going through here, as well as cross country trains which don't stop. So we're now over the bridge, it is quite high, but you can just see over. So my thought is, the reason they're provided two foot bridges, so this is the new one and that's the original one, is if they ever put a second platform in and they wanted to put ticket barriers in, the locals can't complain that they've cut off a route, so I think that and also it is for the to provide step-free access, but if it'd been purely a station bridge they probably wouldn't have kept that one, so that is my thought. So I think one day in the future we'll come down here and this will be platform two, so we're standing on where the, yeah so the track will be there and this will be platform two. If you have a look at the signal up there, the car light signal, above is a feather, now the reason for that feather is because that the passing loop is just up there, quarter of a mile or so, so that is the tail drivers if they're which, whether they're going to the left or right or one or the other down line. So we're now kind of down at the end of the station, there are lifts, but what I thought I'd do, I'm pretty sure it's getting a bit windy. I'm going to now take you back over the other foot bridge and then we're going to have a look in particular for us. The one thing I always think about this is the fact that this was a station, a town of 22,000 people that had a railway running through it and no railway station, it sort of seems a bit daft, so I'm glad eventually they've finally done the right thing and provided the people who can offer the station because they're very annoying having trains pass through, good and access. My thoughts are if in the future they do have a second platform, if they ever want to put ticket barriers they'll probably be one of those funny sort of half glass half metal shelters here and there'll be a set of three about there, then that foot bridge could stay outside the ticket barrage but I hope they don't ever actually go to put in ticket barriers because I always think ticket barriers, you know, they're all right on metro services, but places like this don't need to have them, it just makes life hard for the railway. Usually some people who want to waive people off so we're now going over the older foot bridge, the newer foot bridge is behind us, get quite a good view of the station building here which is what we'll have a look at, but this bridge actually takes us out of the station because it isn't part of the station, it's the public right way, so technically the other foot bridge over there isn't the public right way, so that's why as I said we've got two foot bridges, very close. When I finish this video I'm going to head into town and visit Kennerworth Castle, so watch out there will be a video in Kennerworth Castle, I haven't been there since I was very small, so I'm really looking forward to revisiting Kennerworth Castle and one of the reasons why I haven't waited so long to revisit Kennerworth Castle is because I've waited for them to build a railway station, and yes I've had over a year to do it but I've only finally got around to doing it today so I'm really pleased to be here, so for this turning circle in for buses, the buses can stop here, there's obviously also the bus room which makes sense, there's no point dropping people off on the bus on one side of the town and then they've got to walk across, walk half a mile or so to the railway station, this is the new station building, it's actually built to be reminiscent of the original, or not necessarily the original, but one of the older station buildings on the site, so what we'll do, we're going to have a look inside, I'll just notice something, I think there's a plaque, so there's a plaque there to say when the station opens, we're now going into the ticket office stroke cafe, there's a lot of places to see it which I think is really nice, interestingly I said the station opened to this station, the modern one, open on the 30th of April 2018 and that's what that plaque says, but the other one says in July, so when did it open, anyone knows comment and tell me please, there is a picture of the older station building so you can see how they've gone to make this station look like the original, which I think is quite a nice thing to do, there's an old British rail sign, there's even some stained glass windows which I think is another nice little touch, it's nice, I like how they have gone to the trouble to create a more traditional style station, I like how they've gone to create a traditional style station in a modern way rather than just build a station, there's just a box really, it has a bit of character, there's also a way out here, that's rather amusing it's just platform one, all trains depart from platform one, reason for that is it's only platform one, so it's just the platform, we're going to go back up here where we started the video, it's a bit of a shame I was hoping that a train might come through but it doesn't look like we're going to see a train that's getting windy, so I think what I'm going to do I'm going to leave this video here so from one of the newest railway stations in Britain, Kenilworth in Warwickshire, thank you very much for watching and goodbye.