 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm in Worcester today. Just see the Cathedral over there This is Worcester Shrub Hill railway station. Now Worcester is known for its two railway stations Worcester Shrub Hill and Just about probably as the crow flies half a mile or so that way. There's Worcester Fourgate Street But a week ago a third railway station opened in the city or should I say on the outskirts of the city And that's where we're going today We're going to travel to Worcester Shrub Parkway So I'm going to go and buy my ticket for the journey and I'll tell you a bit about it So I've just purchased my ticket to Worcester Shrub Parkway It is also valid to Fourgate Street as well. So on the way back I might I might not stay on to Fourgate Street just you know for the run. So here we are Worcester Shrub Hill I really like this railway station. It's a very traditional Feel to a railway station. It's you know, everything a railway station should be it's still got semaphore signal That's why I'm walking down this end of platform so I can show them to you as a train that'll form a train through Birmingham out it's probably going to go to Dorwich So it will go along to Kidderminster and then through Stambridge through Birmingham Snow Hill And then eventually terminate Dorwich down the Chilton mainline There was tell fairly recently a bridge there a cargo bridge, but that's been taken out I think I'm not entirely sure if anyone wants to confirm the plan might be to put it back But we've lifts in to make the station fully accessible I'm not entirely sure but if someone does want to clarify that then Please do comment and tell me. So here we are. Here's the array of semaphore signals It's really nice, you know to see Semaphore signals still in use Controlling, you know everyday trains and their movements about the area around the corner over there Worcester Forgate Street also has semaphore signals as does droidwich spa. So it's really nice I think you know, they're still being used and there's some more down that way So what we've got to do we've got to wait for the train which will take us through to Worcestershire Parkway and It's going to be a train from Hereford to be two of the new Great Western 800s or 802s I call them cucumbers because they're long and green and look like cucumber when especially when they're kind of curving around the corner But before we do that is something else I'd like to show you at this railway station one the reasons why I really like this railway station as You know a bit more than some of the others I do I mean like any railway station, but particularly like this one I'll just so you can see them there. Look, it's the little shunt signals known as dollies now. You can see those sort of wires Going like that They're what go from the signal box to the signals themselves So they when the man in the signal box the signalman pulls the lever those wires move and The signal which could be you know a fair distance away the signal then goes into place and Sets the route up for the driver of the train. So I'm now going to take you over the bridge this bridge here We're going to go and have a look at something on the other platform and Then I'm going to come back over here to catch the train to Worcestershire Parkway Which is currently the newest railway station in Britain. It only opened a week ago So it's always exciting to be, you know, I'm not the first to visit it quite a few people Infuse guests went on the first day, but you know visit it as early as possible you can so we're now Up here up on the bridge So that way looks towards London and eventually down to Gloucester and Cardiff etc. And then that way Looks towards Birmingham Problem is with Worcester is because it's kind of off the main line that goes up by the the licky incline on the whole long-distance trains Don't come through here But Worcestershire Parkway is going to have some of the long-distance trains stopping there So what that means is if you do live in Worcester You'll be able to catch a train from here or for Gate Street to Worcestershire Parkway And then from there you'll be able to catch a train either up or down the country You'll look on this bench still got GWR on it, which I think is really nice The station would have once had an overall roof now I wanted to show you down here Because I think they're really cool are the waiting rooms They're possibly the most ornate waiting rooms on any railway station. I believe they were The tiles are to show off what can be done So the tiling companies up in the iron bridge area and the iron work companies So you've got this lovely iron work here. You've got all these different tiles, which you know make a very Attractive waiting room, you know, you got Tiles down there. You've got a motif around the top. Let's just go in have a look I think they're more spectacular on the outside, but here we are Nice old wooden benches Yeah, I think I'll find quite interesting is They've been extended at one point. So if we go, yeah, we can get this one The next one is private. I think that's possible That was the door blowing shut possibly like a star for him There goes the train To Dorwich. I'm not catching that one. It's going in the wrong direction So what I've noticed here is it looks as though they've been extended because when you get to this one The tile will stop. It's a bit plainer. They carry on down below, but they don't carry on up here So I think they must have extended them, but they are really like the most ornate waiting rooms They would have been done really more as to show what can be done to you know Prospective buyers could have been traveling by train and I think what that looks nice I want those tiles, you know in my kitchen or wherever So, you know, I think that is these are my favorite waiting rooms on the whole of the national network I'm now gonna go over to the other side and I'm gonna wait for my train to Worcestershire Parkway Approaching Worcestershire Parkway the line which goes down towards Cardiff goes just over there. You can't quite see it and the line from Cardiff up to Birmingham will cross directly underneath us So we'll go down and have a look on those platforms So we're just pulling into the station now They haven't made an announcement to say that we are but we are be interested if anyone else does get off the train at Worcestershire Parkway Just walk through and we're gonna see this new station. I'm quite excited because it's always good to see a new railway station opened And yeah, here we are. We've arrived There we go, just telling us we are arriving at Worcestershire Parkway So from our first views it all looks quite exciting but we're gonna get outside and have a look around the whole of the station and really see what there is It's further away from the city centre than I thought. You know, it really is quite a long way So let's get off the train, wait for the thing to light up We'll step off the train. If we walk up here, you can watch the train depart. It feels like we really are in quite a rural area We'll have a look at the view from the station in a moment So this is a single track. This is on this platform. This is the line towards London Paddington Well, it goes to Oxford first then London Paddington through places like Morton in Marsh and really through the heart of the Cotswold So there we are. That's our 800. 801.7. Let's watch it disappear So that is this train. So this is obviously platform 3 While we wait for the train to go, let's just have a little look from what we can see So there's the main station building over there You can see the other platforms on the line to the north There is. Somewhere over there. There's a monastery. Not a ruin monastery, but a monastery as in the modern sense But I don't think I'm going to have time to go and check that out today I can just see in the distance. I don't have the cameras picking it out the Malvern Hills Is this train going to go? I think so. I think it's been dispatched And now the wind's picking up. I can mess up my hair a little bit more And we're going to go and see the rest of the station. God, the wind is picking up While I'm waiting here, one thing I will just say I know people have said about there not being much of a waiting room on the platform Although I can see a waiting room because I've heard they want people to wait in the main station building But we'll have a look at that. I'll see what I think on that one I can understand yes it's a bit cold to wait up here But there is a little waiting shelter Is that the guard I think he's about to get on the train and dispatch it? There he goes. Blown his whistle so we're going to watch the train disappear And then we're going to go and look around the rest of this Of Britain's newest railway station They've been opening various partways over the last sort of few years There was Oxford partway, Stratford-upon-Aven partway I filmed a Great Western castle go through there. Have a look at that out for that video There we go. The train's going now So as the cucumber disappears let's go and explore the station So we're just on the outskirts of Worcester It pretty much is as you can see. Countryside beyond here Has a very desolate feeling There is someone else on the platform. I don't know if they got off the train I think I might have been the only person who got off the train All of my hair looks a bit better now. The wind's blown it over There's a sort of pond down there. There's a stream flowing through the site You get quite a good view. If a steam train was to run along that line You get quite a good view of it going through here Okay, yes, you've got this bit interrupting in the middle But it's quite a good view. So there is a shelter on the platform Yes, I see what they mean. It's not an enclosed shelter But to me, this is alright There's a rather large bridge structure. It's quite a mega structure And that's your main station building It looks like there's some bus shelters down there So I think a bus route might be being altered to stop here So if you lived in the villages that way You could potentially get a bus here And then get a train from here into Worcester or anywhere else for that matter I think the other thing is, the main function is going to be Well, two things. One is to stop people driving into Worcester So they can get their train here Whether that be for work or for onward travel The other is it'll act as an interchange So say if I was going to Cardiff, I could get a cross-country train From the low-level platforms One other thing I've just noticed that's quite interesting Is it might be the newest railway station in Britain But it's got 7 and 4 signals Obviously the 7 and 4 signal would have been there already But it's still quite a nice little fact So there you are, there's a 7 and 4 signal I don't know if you can see it But there is one there where the camera's picking it up So there's the main lines down there There's another footbridge To me that looks like that's a footbridge that's outside the station So people don't have to use the station to get from one side to the other It must be a pre-existing footpath Whether there was a bridge before, I don't know So this is where it really is quite big Quite a big structure So my plan is to take you around the whole of the station I haven't been here before so I'm exploring as I show you It's a strange sort of feeling because I'm like the only one here The main ticket hall is down there which you can now see the roof of There's a windmill over there So I believe there's a monastery somewhere over there It's huge this bridge, it's enormous I think yeah, this is quite a good place for watching trains Because you've got two railways The next train stop at this station Is to Worcester Shrub Hill Which is probably the one I'm going to get So that probably means we're not going to see any other stopping trains But hopefully we'll see some pass through But if we don't, well, just one of those things So there's the low level platforms Let's go down and have a look at them And then we'll go out the front of the station I want to walk over the new footbridge What, I don't know, is there an entrance out there? We'll find out that one in a minute Yeah, when we get down here So I'm really pleased to see a new railway station open We can never have enough railway stations But this isn't a reopening like some modern railway stations This is a completely new railway station There wasn't a station here before Yeah, it's quite a structure that So I quite like the fact that here we are At this brand new railway station There are shelters down here So that's good, it's interesting So the station's obviously managed by Great Western Railway So there we are, it's a station sign It says Worcestershire Parkway It's got the GWR logo on it But their trains never actually stop here This is purely served by Cross Country There you are, I see Worcestershire Parkway GWR So that's good to see I'm really pleased about that Let's go and have a look up there So there is, like I said, there's the line we came in on There's this line, there is also a third line Which doesn't have a platform over there So you can get from Worcestershire Park Worcestershire uphill rather, onto this line But you can't... So really a train could go that way That's what I was trying to say If you wanted to do that journey though You'd probably have to come, you know By train and change here So is there an entrance out this way? That's what I'm wondering Possibly, or is that just a fire exit? I think it's just a fire exit But there is a gate up here Yes, it looks like we can't go out that way But that, yeah, it's all locked So if I was to have a criticism Of this new railway station But if you've walked from there You've got to go up all the way over that bridge And then come back in again To me, I would have had another entrance here So that is my kind of one criticism Of the new station We're now going to go up here in the lift And we'll go out the front And just see what we can see from the front I was going to show you the view out But it's all a bit steamed up Due to today's weather We'll go out the front of the station And we'll just have a look See what there is, it's not a lot I agree, but then we're not in I wasn't expecting a town centre I knew this was, you know, on the edge of the city So we're back up here again So let's go down and out the front Of the railway station And we'll perhaps go for a walk Over that footbridge just because we can So we came from that way I'm just sort of impressed Just how kind of vast and spacious And light an area is That's what I like about this station It's, you know, it's... I just like it really It's enormous Right down here So there's no ticket barries Interestingly, on all drawings I ever saw of this before it opened It always showed it as having ticket barries But there isn't any Whether they will put ticket barries In the future, I don't know But we... Let's go out here We'll see the front of it So, you know, there's the ticket office just there So I can sort of almost imagine a line of ticket barries There's toilets there It's a station cafe coming soon So there will soon be a cafe And we go out here That's where we came in on up there So we're kind of in the apex now Of the two railway lines It nicely says in big letters Welcome to Worcestershire Parkway And there's a huge BRDouble logo signed And I can hear a train Look which line that's on Just heard a horn See, it looks like buses do come round here So you can get a bus here So that's good I want to go over that other footbridge though Let's go and see where that goes That is huge That must be one of the biggest Double arrowed signs in Britain I can hear but not see a train I think, yeah, yeah The cross country voyager not stopping That's possibly working say From the west country up to Well, it could be anywhere up as far as Glasgow Really, or Scotland Anyway, in Scotland possibly They do do some quite long distances For short trains So now, this is the public right away Which I assume is pre-existing What I don't know is Before the station opened How did passengers cross the lines To me, the footbridge looks like It's new So I'm wondering Did Was there a older footbridge Which has been taken down Or was there A foot crossing Quite a structure to that as well So again, my Like I said, my only criticism Is really the fact That there isn't an entrance there Especially now While they haven't got ticket barriers I can sort of understand When they have ticket barriers They want everyone Obviously to pass through So no one can Fair dodge But They can still have ticket barriers If they had An entrance, say, there That's the one thing I'd say I don't like about this railway station Other than that I'm, you know Very complimentary I'll tell you what will be fun though See that stairway up to the roof Which clearly isn't for people Like me to go up It's for maintenance staff They should have a roof garden up there Imagine a cafe on the roof Of the stations You could sit there and have a coffee And watch trains That would be amazing Unfortunately this bridge Is a bit too high To see over Although if you hold your camera high You get a good view of trains Passing So I'm going to probably Leave it here It's a bit windy So the footpath Goes down and off there There you can see both railways Let's get out the wind Let's just have a Just let you have a better look at that I was a bit quick, I agree So there's the two railway lines There is a third spur Over the other side of that field Other than that Hope you enjoyed watching this video And you know you may end up changing trains Or possibly Travelling from this railway station in the future So please You know do feel free to like Subscribe, comment and Thank you very much for watching From the bridge outside of Worcestershire Parkway In the middle of Worcestershire Parkway Thank you very much for watching And goodbye