Dorchester West to South - Pointless Journeys
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Published 2024-02-10
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All Comments (21)
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‘Thank goodness it’s a fast service’ Nick says on a journey specifically designed to be Pointless 😂
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I hope people like this comment as we were particularly impressed, my grandmother with a walker turned up at the station and there was no lift, we asked the staff how to get to the other side and she simply said “il contact the driver and change the platform” ‘‘twas great!!
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On a recent trip from Poole to Bristol, I went via Southampton on the way there and via Dorchester on the way back. I rushed from one station to the other in Dorchester to catch my train, only to find it had been cancelled and I had to wait an hour for the next one.
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Another Point to Point you should do is Gillingham (Dorset) to Gillingham (Kent), seeing as you mentioned both stations
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Point to Point idea: Gillingham (in Medway) to Gillingham (in Dorset)
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5:30 There is indeed a version of what you said. Yeovil Railway Centre has a museum in an old Goods shed and runs far more events than you'd be forgiven for thinking. These include all the usual up to mainline Santa specials. In my opinion, it has the best foundation story as it was hurriedly brought into existence when BR announced that they were minded to remove the turntable. We're not having that proclaimed some sterling steam fans and lo the whole enterprise took off. Well worth anyone's support.
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Back when SW ran the Saturday special Salisbury - Corfe Castle service it went via Weymouth, and oddly provided Dorchester West with a direct service to Dorchester South.
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Try out: Catford - Catford Bridge Bromley South - Bromley North Canterbury East - Canterbury West Maidstone East - Maidstone West Gillingham (Kent) - Gillingham (Dorset) Rainham (Kent) - Rainham (Essex)
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You were lucky with the train being only slightly late as the line is notoriously bad for timekeeping because of all the single line working west of Salisbury and I should know with all the minutes stood at Crewkerne waiting for the train!
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Other ways you could do this: Walk between them. Get the GWR to Weymouth then the SWR to South. Nicks Way: West - Yeovil PM - Yeovil Junction - Salisbury - Southampton - South Theres a reason its called pointless journeys everyone
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A nice jaunt around the south of England I wonder if Yeovil would benefit from an interchange station similar to Worcestershire Parkway where the two routes cross
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More points for pointless journeys that get delayed. One day you will spend a cold lonely night on a station in the middle of nowhere. Looking forward to that 😁
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Great video, Nick! Sometime it's fun to throw in such a pointless journey! It seems totally pointless, but it sure looks like a lot of fun!
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You should do Bicester village -> Bicester north
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Nice to see my home town on here. I did Dorchester south to west via Edinburgh 😅. There is the first episode on my channel but I still haven't gotten around to doing the second 🫤.
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If you have time do Farnborough Main to Farnborough North. There are two ways so you could do an alternate return: - Farnborough Main to Basingstoke, Basingstoke to Reading, Reading to Farnborough North - Farnborough North to Guildford, Guildford to Woking, Woking to Farnborough Main
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Loving the pointless journey series
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As someone from Westbury it was very fun to qatch this, you see how we suffer down here now. Next time head to exeter, we've got 150s waiting for you
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Southern does serve Southampton...... Unless i need to catch it then in which case they'll either stop it in Fareham or cancel it completely 😂 The Portsmouth Great Western Railway services used to operated by 158s but have since been downgraded which sucks if you have to do anything more than about an hour on those trains.
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Pretty wild pointless journey but a great route!
