They Must Not Touch! - Episode 40, Day 72 - Liverpool to Blackpool South

I think I might be the only person in the 3-way Venn diagram of (association) football fan,railway enthusiast, and never set foot on the UK. Thanks for making me feel special, Geoff.

There is an even bigger British Rail logo at Gatwick Airport station; it's on the roof and it's so big you can clearly see it from a landing plane!

Vicki's childlike wonder and off the wall comments (as in the stinger clip here) make the videos even more awesome than they otherwise would be. Never change!

"You don't do football, you support Norwich" Thank You For That Geoff, from an Ipswich fan

Vicki explores was very in-spire-ing!

All of the love for the signal box lady! 10:26

Once again Vicki proves very wise indeed. You see, once long ago at Kirkby a Merseyrail train did indeed fall in love with a Northern sprinter. Soon enough one thing led to another and a child was born, the dreaded Merseyrail-Northern hybrid pacer. So hated was their new child that Northern decided to abandon his child and an affair with a Spanish company resulted in more children on the way. Angered by what she saw, poor Merseyrail decided she could not bare to see Northern again, even if he was the father of her child. She took out a restraining order and as such the two can never meet unless supervised. Which is why to this day they will, on occasion meet for discussion at Chester, supervised by ATW but invariably leave the station in different directions.

Yes I love football just as much as I love trains and the railway network Geoff

I have just realised why you 2 work so well together. G is interested in "The project" the trains, the tracks, the timetables, the history. V is interested in the places, the people. G has a sense of accomplishment, V has a sense of wonder.

"You don't do football - you support Norwich!" How very true, Geoff 😂

They must not touch, or "never the train shall meet". Can't believe you didn't say that.

Football and rail go nicely together though Geoff. I try to use the train to go to games all around Scotland as much as possible.

Love Vicki's story of unrequited love between trains - and Geoff's "she's absolutely barking" look :-)

13:39 Priceless! You both are just adorable! Go Vicki and Geoff!

The thing with trains and the British public, is that it's such a cliché to complain about "the bloody trains" that as soon as something goes wrong or a slight delay happens, its portrayed as a terrible inconvenience to the travel and typical of the railways failures. When in reality all transport systems suffer delays etc.

My husband and I live in Florence Al USA. I love watching your videos and he loves Manchester untied football. I made him watch your video of the Old Trafford station with me and he loved it. Old Trafford is also the name of our WiFi network because not many people in Alabama know what Old Trafford is!

Yes, sometimes trains make additional stops but other times they don't stop at all! Recently, we changed at Kirkcaldy for Dalgety Bay to find that as the train was running about 6 minutes late Scotrail decided that it would go non stop to Inverkeithing missing out Kinghorn, Burntisland , Aberdour & Dalgety Bay. However, we were advised to take the train to Inverkeithing & catch the next train back to Dalgety Bay. So we were only 15 minutes late not 30!

Loving it. This has become a regular watch for my wife and I . More video of Vicky knitting please

I love nothing more than travelling around the country on trains to watch Norwich City, and given our geographical location that often involves a lot of hours on trains! Good choice of club Vicki. OTBC

Ormskirk! Glad you gave a section of the video to it. The station has quite a bit of history too.