 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm at Virginia Water Station today. It's Easter Sunday 2023 and the reason I've come here is to do something I think you can only do here at this railway station just for a few weekends. We're going to get on a train at Virginia Water and the next stop is going to be Virginia Water. The reason for this is there's some engineering work so we're on the line that's looking towards Reading. My train will soon arrive from Reading and it's going to Weybridge. Now what will happen? The train will pass through the station towards London but that's where the engineering works are. So it's going to reverse and then you've got these platforms over here that's on the line that goes down through Chertsey, Adelston and to Weybridge. You can also get to Woking but not that many passenger trains go there although quite often steam charter trains go that way if they're going down to Weymouth or Salisbury. So the train will stop here it's going to go up there and it's going to reverse. I don't know if the camera's going to pick it out but it says the 1035 to Weybridge it says the next stop is Virginia Water. So it seems very funny to see to be at Virginia Water and be told that your next station is Virginia Water. They're just saying there's a train coming in not in use on platform 2. There was an empty train sat here when I arrived at the station. That went up to the signal that's pulling in so that's just an empty stock. There's a railroad placement buses over there. See where it's going to. So that's your way to London if you want to go to direct route but I'm just catching the train over to Weybridge. So here comes this empty stock movement at class 485. Interestingly there actually used to be a triangle over there. I don't think there ever any platforms on it but had that triangle still been here our train which is pulling in now it may have skipped out Virginia Water altogether but it wouldn't have had to have done this reverse. So here it comes class 450, 450 number 32. So I'm going to get on and it takes about 15 minutes I think. Well it's due to leave here at 10.35 and I think it's 10.47. It calls Virginia Water the second time. So let's get on the train. Not too busy today trying to find a nice quietish carriage. The other one other unit is number 10. So we'll go and have a look see what we can find and we're going to do this unusual journey. Like I said we're at Virginia Water and the next stop is Virginia Water. So I'm just going to sit down now and wait and see the train depart now. As for trains calling at the same station on the journey that's not entirely unique. An example of that being if you want to get on the circle line, if you do the whole circle line, you get on the Hammersmith, you're passed through Edgewood Road. You'll go right around the circle and then the train terminates at Edgewood Road. So it's not unique that trains call at the same station on their journey. But to call at the same station in succession as far as I'm concerned that is unique. If you do know if anywhere else this happens. Okay it happens on miniature railways where you know you get on the train, goes around and comes back to the same station. Some heritage railways. An example being like say the Chinnah Prince of Rishborough. Before the extended Prince of Rishborough you get on the train Chinna, you go up and down and the next station would be Chinna. But for an actual network rail passenger train to call at the same station twice in succession I think this is unique. If you can think of anywhere else this has ever happened please do tell me. But I'm fairly sure this doesn't happen anywhere else. So I'm just going to sit here now and wait for the departure. So here we are, we're departing Virginia Water. It's not a lot to see on that side of that trains blocking the view. So we'll sit here, we'll see the journey out the station. Virginia Water is actually one of those class stations. There's a few of, a lot of them have been demolished but you can see it's a fairly sort of basic concrete structure that became quite common in the 60s right now. That's where we're going to go in a minute. So we've departed Virginia Water towards London. As I said we're not actually going to London. We're going to Waveridge. So at the moment we're on the up line. That's the down line next to me there. There's a posh housing estate in there. I don't know if we're going to see it. There's a tower beyond these houses and that was built purely just to be seen by travelers from the railway. I believe that there is there. The light's not helping but I believe that was built by Thomas Holloway. Of course not far from here is Royal Holloway University. So we're now, I think it's down a bit of a hill to here. You can see there's once a siding there and the sidings are usually level. I came here last year, December last year. So Nigel Gressley passed through. You want to see that I've looked at links to be announced. Nigel is really stormed through this station because to find up the bank. Yeah so that is a siding and that it's hard to see here but the siding we level the line drops down. So at this point we've now stopped here. The driver is going to have to walk to the other end of the train. So he or she will, I expect they'll walk through the train. I doubt they're going to put a high vis on and go on to the track but keep a lookout. So there's no trains running on that train. Maybe the old engineering train. So as the bus was going to Houndslow. So basically that line's out of action. The Windsor line is out of action. When you get to Houndslow you'd be able to catch a train into London. Or you could alternatively go the way I'm going via Waybridge where you'd be able to change trains and travel up to London. That way. I think we're booked to sit here for quite a while. So I'm just going to sit and look out at that housing stake because it's probably about the time I'm ever going to sit on the train here for any amount of time then soon. We'll continue on back towards Virginia Water. The driver just walked through the train so he's now down that end. There's a few confused passengers not quite sure what's going on. I'm wondering why we're stopping at Virginia Water. Twice I've sort of saw a few people talking about what's going on. Anyway so we're going to wait now. We're going to go that way. I suppose we've got to wait for signal although I can't see there's much to wait for because you can only really have one train in here at time. So if we don't go nothing can you can't do the same manoeuvre in the opposite direction because you can't use the track there. You can't use the down line to do this manoeuvre. It's to wait. The point is that's just got to wait to to go back the other way. As I was saying I think it is unique like hearing calling it Virginia Water. Virginia Water Jersey to hear the same station twice and many people on the train if you had got on at Reading or Ascot or wherever you'd have heard that we're going to call it Virginia Water twice. The other thing I think is quite funny is that some people insist on facing forwards. Maybe they don't feel a hundred percent if they're going backwards. So it's going to confuse a few people in a minute. Anyone who I mean they're not going to have much problem with moving seats because you can see there's not many others about two other people in this carriage. I was at Evely the other day and I was on the train and they reverse. The train was going from Norwich to Liverpool. I was heading towards Peterborough and there was a table and two ladies got on and they sat down and they said I cannot stand traveling backwards on a train and I said to them well you need to sit the other way. They never said no but the train's coming this way. I said yeah it came in that way it reverses. So trains do reverse on their journey. That's not unusual and that confuses people who don't like going back was another example if you want to take a train up from Norwich to sharing them you'll reverse it. So we're going to reverse in a moment or go forward towards Virginia Water for the second time today. So we're moving we're heading back towards Virginia Water. I was just thinking as we sat here I wonder what would happen if you turned up at the ticket office and said can I buy a return or even a single to Virginia Water. You know you just wanted to get on the train and do this journey. I somehow don't think that ticket exists but I wonder what they'd say that either say no or they'd say I don't know would they just say go and have the ride because you're not actually going anywhere so you don't need to pay. Maybe I don't know do they sell platform tickets. Virginia Water has now got ticket barriers. I've never bought a platform ticket at Virginia Water. Whenever I've come here I've either been traveling or or I just asked the staff nicely and he's let me on. So we've just done this cross-off because that's a rare bit of track for any track rush just it's a rare bit of track and we're now coming back into the state. So that's the line we were on a moment ago and then we're going to turn left in a second into Virginia Water and call here for a second time. I can think of another similar example. When I was little once we went on a train up to Scotland and the train passed through Doncaster on the fast line then reversed into the platform so it passed through the station and then stopped so but it didn't call it twice. There's a view of the station the light is not helping and there's the new station. There used to be an old footbridge across there. That train yeah it still sat there so that one that came in empty stock looks like it's now forming trains ready. Interestingly most people seem to be a lot of people or very few people getting on there so whether they've all just arrived they might have just come off a bus thinking about it say for Megan or somewhere or did they just all choose to get on the train the second time it called here. I'm not too sure so we're now on that very sharp curve where the line turned off so as I said it's like a a v-shaped station Virginia Water. The one thing I'm going to try and show you now I don't know how well it's going to work and is the old side of the triangle because there's a bridge so if you drive along the road that passes under the... Good morning we are now on Virginia Water. This train is for Waybridge calling at Chertsey, Alduston and Waybridge where we are scheduled to arrive at 11.03 We're departing this station at 10.49. Next stop on the service is Chertsey. So when we depart we will see that. So it's interesting when there was no announcement until we arrived here and I've just seen there's quite a few people who have got off here so some people who and I'm going to do this later on some people have come from Reading Ascot directions seem to have stayed on the train for the extra time on the train. Now when I come back here I'm not going to get off work beyond that side. I could get off there but I'm not going to do the ride just you know because it's novel and you can and it's unusual. You don't normally get to do you know these things. This is just what I like. So it's about five minutes now till the train goes so I'm going to sit here wait to go and when we go I'll try and point out the bridge on that triangle. Now here we go we're now departing Virginia Water so we're going to try and see that bridge. I appreciate the sun's messing us about a bit but let's try and spot the first side, form the third side of the triangle. So there's a road in a minute so that's all sort of just woodland. I don't think you can get into that. I do want to try and get onto that side of the triangle but I couldn't. Right we're going over the road now have a look. You can just see see there's the road bridge. Not easily that easy to see because there's all the bodily areas in the way but here is where the junction would have been. So if I haven't taken that side of the triangle out I probably wouldn't have made this video if the trains could have bypassed Virginia Water and the replacement buses would have probably continued to Ascot and people would have called the trains there. Anyway I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment. It's Easter Sunday by the way hence the engineering work so happy Easter to everyone watching. Thank you very much for watching. Enjoy your Easter.