 Hello, thank you for joining me. You can see where I am. I'm at Gospel Oak I've just come on the North London line from Wilson Junction So that way is looking towards Wilson Junction and Richmond and that way is looking towards Stratford We'll get a better view once the class 378 has departed We've come here today because we're going to do the goblin line since it's trains to parking Well, they go beyond parking now. It's a parking riverside. So as the train departs, we're gonna wait for our train to come in here So this is what's known as the goblin line as in Gospel Oak to Barking But last week they extended it by one more stop to Barking Riverside And that's what we've come to do today. There goes the class 378 So now that's gone. We'll just have a quick look at the North London line So line curves that way towards Camden and then it curves again and heads east and then if you look that way You can see that way goes towards Wilson Junction We're kind of at the bottom corner of Hampstead Heath here So this line I've seen quite a few changes on this line because when I was old enough to travel by train on my own This was class 150s on this line when it was all part of what was the Silverlink Metro And they used to use class 313s on this line Then the 150s were replaced by class 172s, which then went to West Midlands Railway So you can ride them still in the Birmingham area. In fact some of the X 150s that worked on this have now gone to Northern. I was at Bolton station in early 2020 And I saw a class 150 still in the London Midlands colours coming in So we're just waiting now for our train. In fact, it's funny on the dot matrix indicator. He says the train has arrived Hasn't. But it does say Barking Riverside. Oh, yeah, here we are So this is one of the new trains which now work the Gospel Oak to Barking line since it's been electrified Although when it was electrified I did want to travel on this line on a class 378 But shortened to four cars because I think you can only fit four cars on this line So the train's gonna pull in we're gonna ride our way right through to the other end Incidentally those lines there there. That's the freight connection. I did want to do that on a rail tour That's very rare for passenger haulage. There's a train coming in. Let's go into Richmond So we have two different types of London overground EMU. So we're gonna go on seven one ten two six five to Barking Riverside So we've arrived at Barking. We saw a couple of interesting things on the way as a C2C train Gospel to Barking trains used to terminate at the platform right over the other side of the station That's now effectively become a siding so if you're track pressure and you haven't done that siding then I don't know when your next option is going to be but we're now on the line towards Shoebring next So I've never been beyond Barking on a London overground train for you've also got the district line to upminster The C2C line straight ahead to Shoebring S. Yes, so I said this was got to you That's technically it does but this is the long way by Tilbury and a good strain It's just going past on that side and it's the good train for looking out on this But I saw quite a few other good trains on the way. So that's the London Tilbury Now we're heading down here this good strain we see it's probably come from Ripple Lane, there's a big freight yard now just before the freight yard we take this new branch So I've done this bit of track before but very soon. I'm going to Get a new bit of track that haven't been on the flyover will begin very shortly And the whole of this new line is on flyover. So it's always exciting doing a new line the last new line I did in London was obviously Elizabeth line if you're interested have a look the link on the screen now This is much shorter, but completely different whilst that was mainly underground. This is London overground So we're currently still on existing track. I have done all of this In fact one of those never did this line. I did this on the Hastings unit. Hastings 101 quite a few years ago So that was quite exciting Quite rare to probably do this on anything other than a C2C unit It's a good modern mile I'd say away from Parking where it begins. There is talk they might but another intermedia station or the car transports wagon It's just before this is becoming a Railway was a class 66 there 66 1 1 2 So this is all part I think it's part of the Ripple Lane complex is another class 66 stuff here It's quite good for our way if you just use it because of Dagmum dock You see any trains then come back and I was 66 1 6 9 I'm waddling away Now this looks like I think yes, we're on the We're not on the fly. We're on the new bits of track. I think the C2C lines the ones on there This looks like new overheads electrification. It's another class 66 66 number 30 So yeah, good bit line for all of you. You know that we're now on the new tracks. You can see Track laden's conflict if you just look ahead and just see divide that was curving away So we now cross over the C2C lines Just cross over to this side So all of this was Ripple Lane yard. I believe you know that there is still container terminals down That's probably where that container train came from we saw It's really gone C2C line. They go either side of the yard and now we're on the entirely new bit of track See the vine up snaking away ahead of us and I look like over there. They built a new country parks at the moment all of what you see looks like waste ground There's all a big ground brownfield site. It's all been regenerated. There'll be lots of new homes Probably a bit like what you can see on that side the trains at the moment the trains fairly quiet See, I'm not quite the only person on it But in a few years time this will probably become quite a busy train people will use this to commute into London Imagine flats and houses built all along there in the distance over there You can probably see some smaller tower blocks I think that's possibly Thames Mead, which is on the other side of the River Thames Well, my intention is it's called Barking Riverside to go and have a look at the river itself So we're just coming into the station now. It's a bit of a dead end What we really cool is they can one they extend it over the Thames That'd be quite exciting There's a college there a Riverside campus. So yeah the term Riverside is very much Yeah, I can just see the Thames over there and see some development is clearly going on here So So this is obviously winning station for me winning bit of track When I come back, I'm not sure if I'll get to do the crossover But um There's obviously crossover there. It depends when I come back I'll try and get a train out the other platform and I'm not too worried about the crossover So we're just coming out. I'm in the last carriage. So when we get out we'll be able to walk down The whole train and have a look look out over there. Yeah get a good view now of the Thames You can see industrial ships in it or maybe you can't but well I can see industrial ships The camera may not be picking them out, but they are there. So this view you actually get quite a good view from the station But all of this will disappear when they build houses. You won't be able to see quite so far So let's get off and have a look around this new station so I'm filming this video today um On what is it? It's wednesday 26th of july the station opened on that really really hot day when there was a heat wave Um, and everyone was advised not to travel. So I couldn't travel. I happened to be down in the south So I went to the isle of white that day. So if you want to see that have a look at link on screen now So let's have a look. So this is the train. We've just arrived on one 7-1-10-2-6-5 That's the view you get out of there. So you can see the river Ships in the distance. You can see some Incinerators and then over there. That's all the other side of the river. Let's have a look through here We get out of this is an emergency exit all it is a train just departing for gospel oak 256 It's like some sort of um large electricity substation up there There we are. You've arrived at parking riverside How can we see down here? So it's obviously bus routes come this way because I can see a bus down there From the end of the platform here gives us a chance to see the viaduct stretching off Back towards barking I think possibly in the future there's talk of the dlr being extended here And I can just see an aeroplane landing at city airport or that's the cameras picking it out I suspect it may happen that the dlr gets extended here. I think something will happen Whether it would be great if they did extend this over the river, whether they will My thought is it might have to be some sort of lifting bridge If they were to extend it because you might not get the big ships underneath at the level we're at because We're not exactly that high above ground now. Let's have a look at the architecture on the station. Look at that. It's Very quite an impressive building It's kind of semi inside and semi outside. It's quite windy up here. Nice and cool. It's not too hot today It's about about 20 degrees 19 degrees So that's why I didn't come here. I could have come here Last Tuesday, but that was that day that was the hottest day We've ever had and I didn't come here. That's a new design of seats. I've got I didn't come here on that day Because I just thought, you know, well, we're told not to travel and I think it would have been in If I don't actually think any trains ran that day I think trains ran on the opening day and then everything began to go wrong. So Trains effectively stopped running to get to here. So if you arrive and Get catch a train, it's raining. You can wait in here. Although thinking about it Would you ever actually need to sit on these seats because it looks as though there's always a train here It's a train here now and as we saw there was already a train when we arrived. So I think these seats A little bit pointless although I suppose it could be useful if there were times of disruption And you know, there were no trains here Then you may need to use those seats now. Let's have a look around This so the way out stages this lifts over there. There's um Steps going down From this end of the station. We get a really good view out over the river I can see a boat in a distance. Let's have a walk around here. So it most looks like It's not out the question that the line could go further wherever this will always be determinist I think probably what will happen Is there will be another station On this line. I don't think this will always be the end of the line. I think that will happen So just come around there. So there's the lifts will go down the The stairs to find our way out So yeah platform so that's platform whilst platform two trains to gospel oak, which is where we came from Now let's go and have a look Stairs to way out and see there. It's embossed. So if you were partially sighted you'd be able to find your way out So that's all quite good Yes, there's two sets of lifts says you go on the lifts. They go right down beyond there So that's fine out where the lifts come out because I'm you know inquisitive like to look around see I'm interested in those tiles they look like um Look a bit like a some sort of chocolate, but obviously they're not and yeah, they're just sort of lightweight concrete tiles, I think Reminds me a bit of obviously when we did come here to look around when we came to London to do the Elizabeth line on its opening day Although it's not quite the same. It's on the similar kind of Fairly grand scale although you couldn't put an Elizabeth line train in this Platform because it would be way too short. I wonder if a local train will ever come up there You might get you know one day you might get um Something like say a network rail test train coming up. I doubt a rail tour would ever come up because I'm gonna feel a short rail tour That's the bottom of the lifts Ahead of us is the gate line And so what we'll do we'll go through the gate line. We're going to have a look around the outside So here we are we're on the outside of the gate line at Barking riverside Interestingly, see how the ticket machines are actually set into the wall normally They're sort of forward because they've been put in afterwards because this was built with things like that in mind So we come out here Who says Barking riverside and there's that substation pylons So it's just some sort of drop-off zone here. Maybe a bus is well. It's a bit funny that Rope junction. Let's go through to the other side. There's not much to see out there. So we walk back through the station So we'll past Oh, I think ticket barriers, you know when they're brand new and they've got no you know, they're not worn out They they sort of look they come to look a bit tatty quite soon, but they don't yet So there's the thing is the ticket office is such which is assistant as their development parking riverside And there's also In here it says cycle parking. So let's have a look. What on earth are they? So now in the cycle parking thing Why Why is their Turnstiles Do they work right anyone watching? Why is their turnstile? They work And they go both ways That is really strange. Why are their turnstile Style Obviously not a ticket barrier Not many bikes. I suspect eventually this will be full with bikes There's what three four bikes in here now So i've done them all Why are their turnstiles here? That is the Or this thing i've ever come across This door opens So, um, yeah, that is weird. I don't even know what i'm supposed to be doing that, but that's interesting Right. Oh, yeah, look officially opened by the mayor of london july 2022 I wonder if they didn't put the date because the date It kind of opened it didn't really open because of the heat waves. They've just put july that's interesting. Anyway, um No doubt. I think what i'll have to do is come here again Maybe in a few years time and just compare the difference. That's interesting Get a view of this outside of the station with its You know overall roof that's the train we came in on I think that's what i'll have to do I'll have to come here again in a few years time and just have a look See how it's changed because it clearly Is not always going to be like this. That's what i find fascinating about visiting new stations I'll tell you another place it does remind me a little bit of Um Is brides glen That's the end of one of the louis tram lines in dublin The tram station is a bit like this it ends Here except there the development never happened. So once you get to brides glen what I notice is you get people who live Beyond there in say places like bray You see cars waiting to pick people up and they and people do ride the tram to the end of the line Um, but the interesting thing is when you get on the tram in dublin It says, um, this tram is for cherry wood Um, it doesn't say and cherry woods the penultimate stop and I said to try for one day I said why do they say it's for cherry wood when cherry wood isn't the end? And I asked him is that brides glen he said well have a look around. What do you see? I said nothing, but there's your answer. So um, it just does remind me a little bit of that But it seems to all those cranes The development is happening. This path seems to be a bit endless. What I'm going to do I'm going to keep walking and I'm going to find river Thames So as well as the station barking riverside is the Brand name for this huge development. That was that what seemingly seemed like an endless path We just walked along and there's the station. So all of this view we see here Is a temporary view, you know buildings are going to crop up all here. You might just get that view I'm not sure what's going to go on here You can see there's sort of um, there's a few paths around Um, so it's going to be quite pleasant when it is all done. There's obviously going to be building done here What's this about? This is another strange thing. Look at this There's a a temporary bridge But why is there a temporary bridge here? If we go over it and look Doesn't yeah, I don't think they've just painted it. Why have they built a temporary bridge here over nothing? Anyone watching know the answer? Goes to all four stations. If you know why there's a random temporary bridge Look and it is a bridge. It's not just a ramp. It's please serve no purpose. Look Why Why is there this temporary bridge? What's this for? Very strange It's funny place this they've had mystery turnstiles mystery temporary bridges Um, yeah, what's all this about? and it says Footpath 47. I think if we go down footpath 47 We might find river 10 and again, there's that view training the other platform Of barking riverside and clearly see the work going on I can just see the city over there and shard in the different distance Let's go down here because the 10th is now in front of us And um, that's what we've got here. There's all these containers It says barking riverside project office. So As we know, it's a big development And I you know, I am interested to see this development develop Oh, there's the tens So we've kind of reached the riverside at riverside In the distance. I can just see the qe2 bridge. I don't have to camera or pick that out But this might be a cafe or something. That's quite nice Um, what's here? So again, they're probably going to develop there I want to at least get to the river and I feel like I've reached the riverside at barking riverside I did a few years ago walk along Yeah, I think it was long there. Well, I did the london loop, which um one day I'll do into a series of videos on I went by train to ereith And I think I walked to that section's london loop And as I said, I could spot temsmead when I was on the train which temsmead is more Over abbey wood where of course the elizabeth line goes to So I think we've reached the riverside At barking riverside all over there Is your other route into london, but it's peak time only the tems clippers Go there they're building new ones. I think on the isle of y or some new boats So that's something we can do right. I'm um, can I go down here? I'm not going to go down there looks a bit dangerous and So Here we are. We've reached the river tems at barking riverside. I hope you enjoyed this video Thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment If you want to come do this yourself. It's very easy. You can just get your get the train to barking and do this nice little branch I'm going to make my way back to the station and ride the train back to barking. So thank you very much. Goodbye