 Hello, thanks for joining me. We're just going to look at the newest railway station in England. It's called Horden. It opened last year, it's just here. So I'm going to park the car and we're going to go and have a look, see what we can find at England's newest railway station. So here we are outside Horden station, opened on 29th of June 2020. So it's still at the time of filming less than a year old. There was an original station at Horden, which opened in 1905, but it closed in 1964. But since then, up the road, town Peter Lee has grown up. I did make another video there on rather interesting pavilions. I'll have a look at link on screen if you want to see that. So Peter Lee was one of the largest towns in Britain without a railway station. And the railway doesn't actually pass through Peter Lee. So they reopened Horden station here in County Durham with a free car park. So that's quite good. I did think about getting a train into Newcastle, but I've been at the Tanfield railway early today and I spent a lot longer chasing the steam engine. I went for a really nice walk. That's another video. So I've got here a bit later. So I decided to not get the train, but I couldn't not be in the area and not visit the newest railway station in the UK. So I've just got to put my face covering on and then we can go and have a look on the platforms. So let's have a look at England's newest railway station. So it's unstaffed. There is a ticket machine just there. That way it's looking towards Newcastle and that way it's looking down towards Hartlepool and Stockton-Ontes, etc. So Bigfoot Bridge. It's got ramps as well. I've just noticed something interesting. They've got these here. These are embossed and you might see on top there's Braille. So it helps blind and partially sighted people to navigate their way around the station. In fact I think that's what all this tactile here is for. So they can effectively plan a route. Here is the accessible entrance to the station. What I'm thinking is, is what is obviously providing the very useful function that it makes the station accessible for all. If a steam train or something was to come through, provide an interesting vantage point. Although I don't actually think any steam trains can come through here because further up the line they run shared tracks with a time and wear metro. Sorry, I'm looking silhouetted. That's better. They share tracks with a time and wear metro. And I think the wires... Okay, so the train was late from this episode so it's late. Anyway, what happens here then? I see there's a... I think that's just a fire exit those steps down to the platform. So as I was saying, yeah this would make quite a good vantage point if a steam train was to come through. But the problem is I don't think a steam train will come through because further up the railways of the time and wear metro and network rail share the same tracks and the wires on the time and wear metro are about 2 inches lower. Or I'm not sure if they are to it, they're lower anyway. And steam is not permitted to run under them. I know they wanted to do a tour of the K1, K1 62005 and they weren't allowed to run this route. Which is a real shame because further up it runs along by the coast as well I can already see the sea over there. So it's got some really nice views this railway station. So that's a real shame that as far as I'm aware it may have changed but I don't think a steam train has been through here for quite some time. If you know when the last time a steam train came through here please do comment and tell me. But sort of trains that can come through here are trains like 158s, 156s as we can see now. So this train I think it's going to metro centre. So let's go down, have a look. 158, 4, 8, 8. We're going to be able to go down and see it depart. There is another one going to Middlesbrough Dew imminently. I'll actually know that one really. But that's the one that's late because it was late out of the depot. But we can watch this one depart. So here we are. Here is 156 heading north. So I did think about catching the train but it's already quite late in the day. If I went into Newcastle it'd be a late trip back. So we're going to watch this train depart. And then what I'm going to do is go for a walk around the other side of the station. I don't think there's another way out but we'll establish that soon as the train has gone. One thing I did notice up on the bridge was it was too high. You can't actually see over the bridge it's a bit of a shame. But like I said they make the ramps make quite possible. Let's watch the train depart. I was going to hang around for the next train, the one that's going to Middlesbrough but it's late. So I'm not going to hang around. I'm going to have to jump back in the car and go and get something to eat I think. So it doesn't look like there is a back entrance to this station. I'd also be interested to know, admittedly this was quite a quick video where the original station was. I didn't have enough time for research I just realised I was in the air and thought right let's go there. Let's go and visit the newest railway station in England. The reason I keep saying it's the newest railway station in England, that's true. It's not the newest railway station in Great Britain because since then Kintour has opened up in Scotland and Bow Street has opened in Wales. Bow Street is near Aberystwyth, Kintour is on the railway line from Inverness to Aberdeen. So they're a little bit further away so I don't know if I'm going to be going there any time soon. So we get to here, this is the southern end of the platform. Railway curves off up there. So there's like another fire exit here. It's already open so since it's open I'm going to go out this way. I wouldn't have gone this way if it wasn't open. So it's interesting it says do not obstruct access from the fire exit. Well we're not going to obstruct. We're just going to look at the view of the sea. So that takes me down onto the platform. We're going to go up this long ramp here. It's a nice view from the railway station. Not many railway stations do you get quite that view out over the sea. So maybe if you were to get, well I'm pretty sure if you were to get the train along this line you would have nice views out over the sea. So it's pretty quite a scenic railway to go on. As I said it's a bit of track I've not done before. I did once make a video about what I call track bashing. That's travelling on railways basically that you haven't been on for fun. So if I was to do this line it'd be a winning track but this is a winning station. It's going to look funny though on my map because it's going to be highlighted that I visited this station. And of course this station is just drawn on my railway outlets. I had to draw it on last year when it reopened or opened because of course it wasn't on there. So I'm going to be able to highlight it when I get home so I'm excited about that. That is a really nice view out over the allotments here, fields and the sea in the background. That's some more of what I've said about these for partly sighted people. So you can see it's a platform one ramp and there is Braille writing. So it's quite friendly you know. Everyone can find their way around the station without a problem. So I'm going to that bridge probably. I can see someone walking over that older bridge. That proved to be quite a good bridge to go and watch strange. As I said I'm going to go get back in my larder and drive off and find something to eat. So you can see the village of Horden over there. You can just see the church in the middle of the skyline. Peterley is a mile or so in that direction. So from on the footbridge in the newest railway station of England. Thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment. And let's just have one last look over the sea. I'm going to say from the newest railway station. It's also one of a few stations that hasn't been able to see. Thank you very much for watching. Goodbye.