I have never heard someone call it “old york” and not just “york”

Thanks for having me! Maybe I should get a side-hustle as a tour guide..

17:01 Having gone to the UK for the first time this year, I agree. British food is way, way better than people give it credit for.

Hello, Im from Lincolnshire (about an hour south of boston). The reason the area of Lincolnshire you started in is so flat is because it is all an area of reclaimed marshland called the Fens. Several hundred years ago the higher portion of what was the wash, was drained and reclaimed, this is why the most southern area of Lincolnshire is call South Holland.

Newark, NJ was indeed named for the New Ark of the Covenant.

the EMR mascot is the real Miles in Transit

A couple of things: the train operators are going to be gradually remationalised, as the contracts to run rail services expire they will be taken into government control.
Ramps are available for disabled passengers to board, though this is definitely a suboptimal approach to accessibility it does at least mean that the trains can be accessed by wheelchair users. A few newer trains do have level boarding.

What a lovely video!  Beautifully produced and an inspired choice to to the Boston - Washington corridor!  Well done!

Newark-on-Trent and Newark, Nottinghamshire are the same place.

Fun fact here the EMR used to be called East Midlands Trains (EMT) then they changed it to EMR

From Washington, you could go a few miles south to Philadelphia, or to New York 8 miles north east of Washington.

Being able to walk straight through York station is quite strange for a station of its size because it has no ticket barriers.

great video dude, you have a knack for storytelling I wish I had. 😅 Also you gotta show Miles Margo at some point!

MY favorite US-UK equivalency is Lancaster County, PA being next to York County, PA just as Yorkshire is next to Lancashire.

So awesome you managed to get Nick Badley to appear on the channel! Margo is adorable! That was so nice of the conductor to give that to you! It's good to know that Newark-on-Trent has the same pronunciation as the one in New Jersey, and similarly, has two national railway stations like how Newark has two Amtrak stations. Or should I say, as of 2024...when Amtrak expands to Scranton, Amtrak will serve Newark Broad Street as well so Newark will have THREE Amtrak stations just like Boston and Los Angeles (Union Station, Chatsworth, Van Nuys). While we don't know for sure why Newark, NJ is called such, what we do know is Newark-on-Trent derives from Old English 'niwe' and 'weorc' meaning 'new fortification or building'. In 1080, the town was listed as 'Niweweorce', and in the Domesday Book of 1086 as 'Neuuerche'. Although Newark, NJ of course doesn't have a castle, it does have a nice performing arts center, it's the origin of candy apples, Whitney Houston and Queen Latifah were both born there, it's known for its jazz culture and home to the Institute of Jazz Studies, the world's foremost jazz archives and research libraries, a cool light-rail system, the Prudential Center for hockey, Branch Brook Park having the US's largest cherry blossom collection and being the country's oldest county park, the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart which is the size of Westminster Abbey and its Great Rose Window is the largest of any Catholic church in the Western Hemisphere, and the Newark Museum of Art which has a preserved and restored Victorian house called the Ballantine House that originally had twenty-seven rooms and three floors. The house was owned by the son of Peter Ballantine, the founder of the former Patterson & Ballantine Brewing Company in the Ironbound, once the 3rd largest brewer in the US.

The ORR (our equivalent of the FRA) does indeed have an aneurysm every time Flying Scotsman takes to the mainline, but we still do it anyway.

Most of the southern part of Lincolnshire used to be marshland until it was drained and cultivated in the 17th century. The northern part of Lincolnshire is mostly rolling hills (wolds) and some flat river valleys.

4:20 what a legend

I'm sorry you had to experience Boston, Lincs 😢

The Nick Badley cameo was amazing lol, this was a great video 👌