Traveling to all the railway stations in Great Britain [video]

There's a video Geoff did that's not part of All The Stations about how when he was younger other people teased him for being a "train spotter" and he later realised not just that being a "train spotter" isn't bad, but that's not what he is, he does kinda like trains, but mostly as this series illustrated Geoff is interested in the infrastructure like stations, the trains just run on it.

This is a great series, and they manage to point out a lot of the oddities of the UK rail system.

They also busted my myth that Gloucester station has the longest platform. (It's pretty flipping long though.)

Geoff has a bunch of videos about the details of stations or ticket systems.

All tube stations have 15 floors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBTvmrRGlbE

Heathrow to Upminster for £1.50: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twtw5Xi4Neg

Oyster Oddities, are you paying too much?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sbZ6kQHuiA

> "I don't understand how we can still be in England."

That would be because they were in Cornwall. Many locals (jokingly or optimistically) say that Cornwall is not in England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall#Cornish_national_iden...

Sort of related: I gave a talk about calculating the distance between all the railway stations in Britain in the 1950s using an early computer: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/10/the-great-railway-caper-big-data...

A bit related: just last weekend I learned about [0] a YouTube channel that shows railroad crossing in (mainly) The Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/user/SAjustusSA

The most viewed video has 16M views which seems spectacular and at the same time totally logical to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rTJjIsKTa0

[0]: Thanks, Dutch Vice: https://www.vice.com/nl/article/xw55yn/een-youtubekanaal-vol...

Sadly they don't actually show every single station in the videos, but it's still a great series to watch nonetheless!

What about Northern Ireland?