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Hello, from the Isle of Wight. | 0:00:05 | 0:00:06 | |
It's planes trains and automobiles, just not in that order. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
My dream is to end the need for anyone to sleep rough. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:13 | |
This is the bus. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:14 | |
We're on board the homeless shelter changing lives and perceptions. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:18 | |
People expect us to smell and be addicted to anything under the sun, | 0:00:18 | 0:00:22 | |
but hat's not true. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:30 | |
-- People expect us to smell and be addicted to everything under | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
the sun, but that's not true. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:34 | |
If you just think how much I have thrown away. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
Without them, I would be on the street, living rough. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
Also, how this man is starting his own train service to take | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
on failing Southern Rail. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:43 | |
I thought, well, let's see what we can do. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
There's got to be room for competition out there. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:55 | |
And we try to solve a South Coast World War II mystery. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
First, when the only emergency night shelter here on the Isle | 0:01:04 | 0:01:06 | |
of Wight closed last winter, rough sleepers suddenly found | 0:01:06 | 0:01:08 | |
themselves left out in the cold. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
Step forward an unlikely hero, Kevin Newton. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:20 | |
It's not a safe place. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:23 | |
It's somewhere that's out of the way. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
There was a tent here last time I came, | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
a couple of weeks ago. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:28 | |
Still remnants of it. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:29 | |
My main concerns is they are lonely, they're vulnerable, | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
they could be attacked. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:36 | |
I was a rough sleeper, about 11 years ago. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
I slept in doorways, in blocks of flats. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:45 | |
One time where I did get attacked, I was asleep. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:51 | |
Somebody had saw me on the floor, kicked my head | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
in and left me for dead. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
I fractured my skull, lost part sight in my right eye. | 0:01:56 | 0:02:01 | |
And I could have died. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:05 | |
I could have. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:06 | |
I was nothing to them. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
I was just somebody lying on the streets. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
But far from being nothing, Kevin's a man with the plan. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:15 | |
I knew of around 15 people that were rough sleeping, | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
and I created something that could solve that problem. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:22 | |
And this is what I created. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
This is the bus. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:30 | |
Since Kevin raised the ?15,000 needed to convert his bus, | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
22 people have got on board. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:37 | |
At the permanent address it provides, they can | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
access health care, benefits and other support. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
Some have been in prison, with addictions or mental health needs. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:47 | |
A mixture of people, obviously there are some | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
very strong characters. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
People with a lot of history. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:52 | |
But everybody seems to support each other and get on well. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:59 | |
Until three years ago, Jonathan was a successful | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
agricultural scientist. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:02 | |
Losing that job lead to depression, alcoholism and ultimately divorce. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:06 | |
And, at Christmas, Jonathan found himself homeless. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
You never know what's around the corner anyway. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
I had a beautiful, five bedroom house. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:17 | |
I had my own boat I used to go sailing on it at the weekends. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
A beautiful wife. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
It's all gone. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
Depression turned into alcoholism, but eventually the money | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
and the health ran out, as it does with alcohol. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:32 | |
I had to find somewhere pretty quick to live | 0:03:32 | 0:03:34 | |
and the council suggested Kevin. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:39 | |
Without them, I would be on the street, living rough. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:45 | |
If you just think how much I've thrown away. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:49 | |
Jonathan's drinking would have barred him from many shelters. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:53 | |
But the bus is a wet shelter, meaning it is open to all, | 0:03:53 | 0:03:57 | |
even those still on drink or drugs. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:03 | |
Look at that. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:04 | |
The only rule is they don't do them on board, or pose a danger | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
to others, as Matty explains. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
If anyone comes in drunk, they will go into the tent, | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
it is called the tent of shame. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:18 | |
Basically they get put in the tent and get a sleeping bag and get put | 0:04:18 | 0:04:22 | |
into the tent of shame. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:23 | |
I have mental health problems and all the rest of it. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:31 | |
We all have problems, we'll have demons. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
I hit addiction because it's like a blanket. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:36 | |
You're right on the streets, you are cold. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:38 | |
I think I would be dead by now. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:40 | |
I would be. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:41 | |
Being on the bus is a godsend. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:45 | |
You can see we have 14 bunks. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:50 | |
We find that when people come the first night, | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
if they're not completely exhausted, they won't sleep very well anyhow. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
Just for a couple of hours because that is what their body | 0:04:55 | 0:04:58 | |
is telling them to do. | 0:04:58 | 0:04:59 | |
Without a good night's sleep, your mental health is not good, | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
you can't function, you can't think properly, so we do see | 0:05:02 | 0:05:04 | |
a massive difference, full of energy to start with. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:06 | |
They are wanting to do more productive things. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:08 | |
This is Parkside Pavilion. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:10 | |
I was kindly invited to the Christmas party | 0:05:10 | 0:05:11 | |
and they asked me to stay on and help them out, | 0:05:11 | 0:05:14 | |
so I volunteer usually twice a week. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:21 | |
Jonathan has been on the bus and stayed sober since Christmas. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
He is now able to see a future for himself. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:26 | |
He is a lovely, caring person. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:30 | |
He's a good man. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
We're blessed to have him. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:35 | |
It's brought me up from where I was and it's given me | 0:05:35 | 0:05:38 | |
another insight into life, brought back my confidence, | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
effectively, where I can move on, find my own place to live, | 0:05:41 | 0:05:46 | |
hopefully find a permanent position somewhere in the long run | 0:05:46 | 0:05:50 | |
and start my life again, basically. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:58 | |
We're going to Aspire, which is our partner charity, | 0:05:58 | 0:06:02 | |
and we are going to get in our evening meal, | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
they make it every night for us. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:07 | |
Monday to Friday. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
There will be enough for about 20. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:14 | |
So this is all waste food that's come from different supermarkets | 0:06:14 | 0:06:20 | |
and would have been thrown away. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:23 | |
But it's going to be reused. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:24 | |
What have we got tonight? | 0:06:24 | 0:06:30 | |
Barbecue potato wedges, cheese and garlic flatbread and beef lasagne. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:32 | |
This is all come from the waste food? | 0:06:32 | 0:06:34 | |
Come from waste food, yes, from Tesco's. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:38 | |
There'd be no bus without partner charities like Aspire who supported | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
Kevin from the very beginning. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:43 | |
They also make a cracking lasagne. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
We have two lasagnes. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
There are some wedges. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:55 | |
Evenings on the bus are quite chilled. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:57 | |
Everyone mostly does their own thing. | 0:06:57 | 0:07:01 | |
Some people colour, read, listen to music, | 0:07:01 | 0:07:03 | |
we have a good laugh. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:05 | |
There's also good bit of banter going around. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:07 | |
We all look after each other. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:09 | |
How many of us are there? | 0:07:09 | 0:07:14 | |
Got a safe place to be with lots of other people. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:16 | |
Meeting people who have been through similar situations. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:22 | |
The community. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:23 | |
We are all community. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
We've all been through everything. | 0:07:25 | 0:07:26 | |
Holly has been lucky. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:27 | |
Unable to pay her rent and she says with no support, | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
the bus shelter opened just as she herself homeless. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:40 | |
-- the bus shelter opened just as she found herself homeless. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
We can tell everyone what we have done and people will go, OK, | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
that is fair enough. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:47 | |
We don't get judged for anything. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:48 | |
People expect us to be like in trench coats and smell | 0:07:48 | 0:07:51 | |
and have no sense of hygiene, or, you know, be addicted | 0:07:51 | 0:07:53 | |
to everything under the sun, but that's not true. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:56 | |
I mean, you look at Lisa and Andy and you can look at me, | 0:07:56 | 0:07:59 | |
a few other people on the bus, we are dressed nicely, | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
we don't smell. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:03 | |
You know? | 0:08:03 | 0:08:04 | |
There's only a few rules. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:06 | |
No smoking, no drinking, polite. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:10 | |
I can't imagine not being on the bus. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:12 | |
I can't imagine. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:14 | |
I will get myself sorted out and I'm going to get myself sorted out. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:18 | |
It's not going to take long now, no way. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:20 | |
No. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:27 | |
Meals happen at set times, to get people back into routines. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:33 | |
Breakfast is from 7am until 9am and as well as those on board, | 0:08:33 | 0:08:36 | |
Kevin is happy to feed anyone in need. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:41 | |
There is no excuse for anyone being hungry. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:43 | |
We know of about six people who don't want to engage with us | 0:08:43 | 0:08:49 | |
but they are always welcome to come and have food here as well. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
We won't turn anyone away. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:59 | |
How many? | 0:08:59 | 0:09:00 | |
Two for each of us, is that OK? | 0:09:00 | 0:09:03 | |
Like many rough sleepers, Mark came to the bus with no way | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
of proving who he was. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:07 | |
Thanks to Kevin, he now has his birth certificate | 0:09:07 | 0:09:09 | |
and a safe place to sleep. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:13 | |
They are very comfortable, memory foam mattresses. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:19 | |
They are really comfy, you get a good night's sleep. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
Someone kindly donated these to me, the hat and trousers. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:31 | |
There's kindess of people's hearts, where they do donate. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:38 | |
Where they do give homeless people a chance, which Kevin | 0:09:38 | 0:09:41 | |
has quite happily done. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:42 | |
He's given me a chance. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:43 | |
I can't repay that. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:44 | |
After what he's done, bless him. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:45 | |
He is a good man. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
We have motivation to get up in the morning and you can | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
have a nice cup of tea. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:52 | |
Makes all the difference. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:53 | |
People to talk to. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:54 | |
Get familiar with. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:59 | |
Instead of not knowing who's there when you wake up in the morning. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:09 | |
Until the bus came along, Lisa had spent months | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
sleeping in a field. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:13 | |
It was a frightening time. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:17 | |
I did have a situation when there was a homeless guy, | 0:10:17 | 0:10:21 | |
he would literally pick on homeless people out there, | 0:10:21 | 0:10:23 | |
vulnerable people out there, who he knew was homeless. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:25 | |
Being here is a safety net from all that. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:27 | |
You have the option to either choose a safe | 0:10:27 | 0:10:29 | |
or a better life for yourself. | 0:10:29 | 0:10:31 | |
It is not easy but it is a step forward in the right | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
direction, definitely. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:35 | |
We have ended the need for anyone to sleep rough on the Isle of Wight | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
and that will be my dream, is to end the need for anyone | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
to sleep rough in the UK. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:43 | |
It certainly gets people off the streets, it makes them safe, | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
it gives them a chance to get their life back together. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
It's estimated there are more than 250,000 | 0:10:48 | 0:10:50 | |
homeless people in England. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
But today there is at least one less. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:55 | |
Look at this. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:59 | |
Wonderful. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:00 | |
In just three months, Kevin has helped move | 0:11:00 | 0:11:02 | |
11 of his passengers into permanent homes. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:06 | |
A table someone donated, a television. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:12 | |
And the support doesn't end when they step off the bus. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:15 | |
Wonderful. | 0:11:15 | 0:11:16 | |
It is one big family and, like all families, | 0:11:16 | 0:11:18 | |
when your children leave home, you still keep in touch. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:21 | |
As when your family move out, you help them with benefits, | 0:11:21 | 0:11:24 | |
you help them with getting furniture, getting | 0:11:24 | 0:11:27 | |
their place sorted. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:30 | |
As we have done with Jonathan. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
It's a whole mix of people I would never have met in life before. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:37 | |
I've never met drug users and those sort of people before, | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
in my previous life. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:46 | |
My whole view on life has probably changed with respect to I have a lot | 0:11:46 | 0:11:51 | |
more respect for people and between us all we have | 0:11:51 | 0:11:54 | |
managed to help each other and they have helped me, | 0:11:54 | 0:11:57 | |
bringing my self confidence and my abilities and my self | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
worth back and hopefully I have managed to give | 0:12:00 | 0:12:02 | |
something back to them. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:07 | |
To know that somebody like Jonathan, who has come from high up and had | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
all the trappings of life and then has gone right down | 0:12:10 | 0:12:15 | |
to the bottom and he's now, I'm enabling him to get | 0:12:15 | 0:12:17 | |
back on the ladder, | 0:12:17 | 0:12:21 | |
to be rebuild his life, there is a sense of pride. | 0:12:21 | 0:12:26 | |
-- to rebuild his life, there is a sense of pride. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:29 | |
There is. | 0:12:29 | 0:12:30 | |
Now, Kevin's bus shelter idea certainly seems to be catching on. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:32 | |
So far, five more buses are being converted and should be up | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
and running on the mainland within the next few months. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:39 | |
Still to come on the programme, a World War II mystery. | 0:12:39 | 0:12:45 | |
I haven't got any idea what I was going to do, | 0:12:45 | 0:12:48 | |
to be quite honest. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:48 | |
I did the best I could when I was there. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:53 | |
Next, if your train is late or cancelled, as a passenger, | 0:12:53 | 0:12:56 | |
you have two options. | 0:12:56 | 0:12:58 | |
One, you can get cross and rightly so. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:01 | |
Two, you can try to set up your own real service and do better. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:05 | |
Here's Natalie Graham. | 0:13:05 | 0:13:10 | |
Many a boy has dreamed of running his own railway. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:21 | |
But one man is setting about attempting to turn | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
that dream into reality. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:28 | |
Steve Williams would like his only grown-up train set. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:34 | |
-- Steve Williams would like his own grown-up train set. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:37 | |
Why? | 0:13:37 | 0:13:38 | |
Because he's a passenger of Southern Rail. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:39 | |
The eureka moment happened in the beginning of December, | 0:13:39 | 0:13:42 | |
a train had been cancelled, I'd been left and abandoned. | 0:13:42 | 0:13:44 | |
Pretty dire by the train company, absolutely disgusted. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:49 | |
Steve used to work as a train dispatcher, | 0:13:49 | 0:13:51 | |
at Gatwick Airport Station. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:54 | |
Coming from a railway background, I thought, well, | 0:13:54 | 0:13:57 | |
let's see what we can do. | 0:13:57 | 0:13:59 | |
There's got to be room for competition out there. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:01 | |
So this is Steve's big idea. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:04 | |
Instead of moaning about Southern Rail, | 0:14:04 | 0:14:06 | |
he wants to set up his own railway service in competition. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:11 | |
I'm doing something about this, so people are no longer | 0:14:11 | 0:14:14 | |
treated this way any more. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:21 | |
So would Southern passengers like an alternative? | 0:14:23 | 0:14:27 | |
Well, it makes more sense to have a choice on the railway, | 0:14:27 | 0:14:31 | |
just because then competition leads to better service. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:33 | |
It would be a brilliant to have a choice to whom to go with. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:40 | |
I think Southern Rail are rubbish. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:42 | |
This is all well and good but of course it's simply not | 0:14:42 | 0:14:44 | |
possible to set up your own railway. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:49 | |
I'm meeting up with Steve at King's Cross Station in London | 0:14:49 | 0:14:51 | |
to find out why on earth he thinks it can be done. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:54 | |
Steve, operating your own train company, it sounds crazy. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:06 | |
It sounds crazy, but giving a customer a choice | 0:15:06 | 0:15:09 | |
of who they want to travel with, you have a smaller company out | 0:15:09 | 0:15:12 | |
there, it can be managed better, you can look after your customers | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
a lot better and you can do great things for them. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:19 | |
Tell me what your company is going to be called and why | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
you have given it that name. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
Basically, we are going back to the old days of London, | 0:15:24 | 0:15:26 | |
Britain and South Coast Railway. | 0:15:26 | 0:15:31 | |
-- Brighton and South Coast Railway. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:33 | |
We're going back to the golden era when you cared | 0:15:33 | 0:15:35 | |
about your customers. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:39 | |
So why are we on a train heading to Yorkshire? | 0:15:39 | 0:15:42 | |
Well, we are on their way to meet somebody who had the same | 0:15:42 | 0:15:48 | |
-- Well, we are on our way to meet somebody who had the same | 0:15:48 | 0:15:52 | |
crazy idea up north. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:53 | |
Several years ago, this man wanted to set up a railway service | 0:15:53 | 0:15:56 | |
in competition with Virgin, from Yorkshire in the | 0:15:56 | 0:15:58 | |
north-east to London. | 0:15:58 | 0:15:59 | |
Hello, Ian. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:00 | |
I'm Natalie and this is Steve. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:02 | |
Hello, Steve. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:03 | |
Nice to meet you. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:07 | |
You will find a lot of people tell you it can't be done. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:11 | |
You start to think, have they got a point? | 0:16:11 | 0:16:13 | |
Particularly if it looks as if you're you're | 0:16:13 | 0:16:15 | |
not moving forward. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:16 | |
But here's the thing. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:17 | |
The Government gives out franchisees to train companies to operate | 0:16:17 | 0:16:20 | |
services in various parts of the country. | 0:16:20 | 0:16:25 | |
But there is something called open access operation. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:29 | |
It's technically possible for a company to apply for open | 0:16:29 | 0:16:33 | |
access, to run a service in competition with | 0:16:33 | 0:16:35 | |
the existing franchise holder. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
As long as they add something extra, like stopping at stations | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
the existing service does not stop at. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:44 | |
This is exactly what Ian did and the result | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
was Grand Central Trains. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:51 | |
Well, if you look at traditional type open access, | 0:16:51 | 0:16:54 | |
which is where Grand Central came from, we have opened up areas | 0:16:54 | 0:16:57 | |
of the country which long ago lost all their direct | 0:16:57 | 0:17:01 | |
services to London. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:06 | |
Oh, a Grand Central train. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:07 | |
There it goes. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:08 | |
Do you feel proud when you see that train? | 0:17:08 | 0:17:10 | |
I do actually, still. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:11 | |
It gives me a tingle. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:20 | |
The very first train went through with less | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
than 30 people on it. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:24 | |
Grand Central now runs nine daily services from the north-east | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
of West Yorkshire to central London. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:27 | |
Other open access operators include Eurostar and the Heathrow Express. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:35 | |
So, Steve wants to do the same in competition with Souther Rail | 0:17:35 | 0:17:38 | |
and that is technically possible. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:42 | |
-- So, Steve wants to do the same in competition with Southern Rail | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
and that is technically possible. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:47 | |
But Ian has worked as an entrepreneur in the railway | 0:17:47 | 0:17:50 | |
industry for decades. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:50 | |
Steve, on the other hand, is just a guy with a vision. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:56 | |
As I'm sure Steve is finding, everyone is telling you it | 0:17:56 | 0:18:02 | |
won't work, you won't make any money, and we found, | 0:18:02 | 0:18:05 | |
it will, it takes a bit of time to get your plans | 0:18:05 | 0:18:08 | |
right, it well. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
Open access operations have eased slightly so he's now looking | 0:18:10 | 0:18:12 | |
for opportunities down at the southern end of the country. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:15 | |
Namely, Southampton to London, to compete with Southwest trains. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:19 | |
Nobody in the South has really any price competition, | 0:18:19 | 0:18:21 | |
which is why your proposal has come along as well as the new journeys | 0:18:21 | 0:18:24 | |
you offer and why we have also got an application | 0:18:24 | 0:18:27 | |
currently, as well. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:30 | |
Mainly to relieve passenger congestion, because there | 0:18:30 | 0:18:34 | |
is significant overcrowding even on that route, but obviously | 0:18:34 | 0:18:44 | |
to bring some price competition which is long, long overdue. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:54 | |
We Southern Rail what they thought about Steve's plans to set himself | 0:18:54 | 0:18:59 | |
-- We asked Southern Rail what they thought about Steve's | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
plans to set himself up in competition with them. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:04 | |
But they declined to comment. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:06 | |
So, one frustrated Southern Rail passenger has a dream | 0:19:06 | 0:19:08 | |
to set up an alternative. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:09 | |
Some would say he is inexperienced and has no financial backing. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:12 | |
But Ian has some words of encouragement. | 0:19:12 | 0:19:14 | |
It is a difficult one. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
You have to believe it yourself, for starters. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:19 | |
You will have to do, as I'm sure you're doing, | 0:19:19 | 0:19:25 | |
a detailed business plan, bearing in mind that most open | 0:19:25 | 0:19:27 | |
access operators haven't been successful and there is no reason | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
why you can find somebody who would be prepared | 0:19:30 | 0:19:32 | |
to invest in your proposal. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:34 | |
It sounds as if you have a mountain to climb, Steve. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:38 | |
Have you started? | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
Started to climb that mountain, yes. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:43 | |
One day we will reach the top. | 0:19:43 | 0:19:48 | |
I can't wait to see that you started. | 0:19:48 | 0:19:50 | |
One day we will reach the top. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:52 | |
I can't wait to see the view on the other side to be | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
absolutely beautiful. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:56 | |
Natalie Graham reporting there. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:57 | |
Finally, a World War II mystery which more than 70 years | 0:19:57 | 0:20:00 | |
on remains unsolved. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:03 | |
The events of the 18th of April 1944 over the South coast have inspired | 0:20:03 | 0:20:07 | |
books and then sparked debates ever since. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:09 | |
But what really happened to the bomber? | 0:20:09 | 0:20:10 | |
Early morning. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:15 | |
A bomber takes off from an airfield in central France. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:21 | |
It's due at a forward base in preparation | 0:20:21 | 0:20:30 | |
for a bombing raid on London. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:34 | |
But instead of heading for Holland, it turns | 0:20:34 | 0:20:36 | |
north-west towards England. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:37 | |
It's just after 6am. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:45 | |
On the south coast, the build-up for D-Day is underway. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
If word gets out the most ambitious amphibious invasion | 0:20:48 | 0:20:53 | |
-- If word gets out the most ambitious amphibious invasion plan | 0:20:53 | 0:20:55 | |
in history will be in jeopardy. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:57 | |
The lone German bomber was first detected by British radar | 0:20:57 | 0:21:01 | |
at just after seven, 15 miles west of La Habra. | 0:21:01 | 0:21:09 | |
-- at just after seven, 15 miles west of La Havre. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:15 | |
It was following a course which would take it over the south | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
coast and the D-Day preparations. | 0:21:18 | 0:21:19 | |
But, surprisingly, no British aircraft are scrambled. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:21 | |
Author John Stanley picks up the story. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:25 | |
It was just before half past seven when it emerged from the crowds | 0:21:25 | 0:21:30 | |
on the Isle of Wight and started to circle variable, very | 0:21:30 | 0:21:39 | |
-- It was just before half past seven when it emerged | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
from the clouds on the Isle of Wight and started to circle | 0:21:43 | 0:21:45 | |
variable, very slowly. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:47 | |
The Royal Observer Corps, monitoring the movements | 0:21:47 | 0:21:48 | |
and watched in disbelief. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:50 | |
It was attacked on numerous occasions by anti-aircraft fire and, | 0:21:50 | 0:21:57 | |
interestingly, each time it was attacked, it did not | 0:21:57 | 0:22:02 | |
return fire nor do they try to evade the gunfire. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:04 | |
Instead it fired a series of red distress flares. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:06 | |
After circling the A-1, it headed from the mainland, | 0:22:06 | 0:22:13 | |
continuing to signal with flares also | 0:22:13 | 0:22:14 | |
known as lights. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:18 | |
A young Maldwin Drummond watched from his bedroom. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:26 | |
I could see it as it happened yesterday. | 0:22:26 | 0:22:28 | |
We heard machine gun fire outside the window | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
and rushed to the window, of course, the one thing | 0:22:30 | 0:22:34 | |
you shouldn't do, and saw two typhoons shooting at this bomber. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:44 | |
It had one engine on fire and I remember it fired flares. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
I'd never seen anything so close. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:49 | |
It was literally, you almost felt you could picture and at the window | 0:22:49 | 0:22:52 | |
and touch one of the planes. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:55 | |
My father said, come on, boys, we hopped into the car | 0:22:55 | 0:22:57 | |
and we will drive over and see. | 0:22:57 | 0:23:01 | |
I think it's somewhere near Exbury it will have landed. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:03 | |
So we pursued it. | 0:23:03 | 0:23:10 | |
By 1944, Exbury had been commandeered by the Navy. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:14 | |
Named HMS Mastodon, it was involved in the planning and the temporary | 0:23:14 | 0:23:17 | |
home to hundreds of servicemen, amongst them, dispatch | 0:23:17 | 0:23:19 | |
rider Sam Mundy. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:20 | |
I saw it and I saw the German markings and I thought, it can't be | 0:23:20 | 0:23:24 | |
sore, and of course it disappeared. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:25 | |
It was all a matter of a few seconds. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:27 | |
I went back into the heart, said, lads, did you hear that noise, | 0:23:27 | 0:23:31 | |
that was a German plane. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:32 | |
We argued the toss and the plane came back again. | 0:23:32 | 0:23:34 | |
With an engine still on fire, do you wheeled around | 0:23:34 | 0:23:37 | |
expertise water tower, now in a shallow descent. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:38 | |
I started to rush towards the fence at the back and gathered up | 0:23:38 | 0:23:42 | |
lots of other people at the same time. | 0:23:42 | 0:23:44 | |
I hadn't got any idea what I was going to do when I got | 0:23:44 | 0:23:47 | |
there, to be quite honest. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:48 | |
I did the best they could when I was there. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:50 | |
Racing to the scene in a car with his father, Maldwin Drummond | 0:23:50 | 0:23:55 | |
Maldwin Drummond could see where the bomber came down. | 0:23:55 | 0:23:57 | |
You could see a plume of smoke over the top of those trees. | 0:23:57 | 0:24:00 | |
Goodness knows what was happening in the fuselage. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:02 | |
It must have been pretty horrific. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:05 | |
It hit the ground with such a force, didn't it? | 0:24:05 | 0:24:09 | |
Yes, it did. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:19 | |
It really had a violent impact, throwing several of the crew out | 0:24:19 | 0:24:25 | |
of the cockpit forwards against the hedge and indeed | 0:24:25 | 0:24:27 | |
into the road itself. | 0:24:27 | 0:24:28 | |
What is a significant about this area? | 0:24:28 | 0:24:36 | |
Well, if you look you can you can see a very thin area of hedge | 0:24:36 | 0:24:41 | |
and this was in fact where one of the engines of the bomber broke | 0:24:41 | 0:24:44 | |
free, the impact was so violent. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:46 | |
And there were three bodies. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:47 | |
Those arriving on the scene quickly discovered more. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:51 | |
Almost immediately, there was surprise at the number of men | 0:24:51 | 0:24:53 | |
who had been on board this plane. | 0:24:53 | 0:24:55 | |
Which, at the time was thought to carry a crew of just four. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
And yet there had been seven men on board this plane. | 0:24:58 | 0:25:01 | |
So a lot of speculation about what on earth this bomber had | 0:25:01 | 0:25:04 | |
been doing with so many men on board. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:11 | |
Earhart had only joined the crew at the last minute in place | 0:25:11 | 0:25:19 | |
of the last minute in place of a sick colleague. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
The initial thought was that it had been on a scouting mission to carry | 0:25:21 | 0:25:24 | |
out reconnaissance of the huge build-up of Allied troops | 0:25:24 | 0:25:26 | |
and shipping across this stretch of the south coast and maybe | 0:25:26 | 0:25:29 | |
the additional men on-board had been needed | 0:25:29 | 0:25:31 | |
for the special spying mission. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:32 | |
But those theories have been discounted. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:42 | |
The additional men | 0:25:48 | 0:25:49 | |
appear to have been the aircraft's ground crew crammed into the bomber | 0:25:49 | 0:25:52 | |
for the afflicted the foreign base. | 0:25:52 | 0:25:53 | |
But that doesn't explain why it ended up over the Hampshire coast. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:56 | |
The German bomber was what was known as a pathfinder aircraft. | 0:25:56 | 0:26:01 | |
Its job was to take bombers safely to and from their target. | 0:26:01 | 0:26:04 | |
It was thrown by competent clues with specialist equipment on board, | 0:26:04 | 0:26:07 | |
so how could it simply have got lost? | 0:26:07 | 0:26:09 | |
We know that the plane took off in very bad weather, | 0:26:09 | 0:26:11 | |
very poor visibility, and therefore the crew | 0:26:11 | 0:26:13 | |
would have had no official contact with the ground, | 0:26:13 | 0:26:15 | |
that said, there were navigational aids on-board this plane as befits | 0:26:15 | 0:26:18 | |
a specialist pathfinder crew, so direction-finding | 0:26:18 | 0:26:22 | |
equipment, to enable them to home in on beacons. | 0:26:22 | 0:26:24 | |
It is absolutely inconceivable that all this could have gone wrong | 0:26:24 | 0:26:27 | |
at the same time on the same flight. | 0:26:27 | 0:26:29 | |
And there's another mystery. | 0:26:29 | 0:26:30 | |
If the German bomber was picked up by British radar, | 0:26:30 | 0:26:32 | |
why was nothing scrambled to intercept an enemy | 0:26:32 | 0:26:35 | |
aircraft heading directly for for the D-Day preparations? | 0:26:35 | 0:26:38 | |
The combat log of one of the Typhoon pilots shows that the bomber | 0:26:38 | 0:26:41 | |
was only discovered by chance. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:47 | |
But one witness claimed to have perhaps overhead the reason | 0:26:47 | 0:26:50 | |
why nothing was sent. | 0:26:50 | 0:26:59 | |
I was contacted by a lady who had served with the Royal Observer Corps | 0:26:59 | 0:27:03 | |
in the headquarters at Winchester | 0:27:03 | 0:27:05 | |
and she had a very clear memory of this incident. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:15 | |
She remembered that she was just finshing her night shift | 0:27:18 | 0:27:22 | |
about 7.30am in the morning and she remembers the German bomber | 0:27:22 | 0:27:27 | |
appearing on the plotting board approaching the Isle of Wight. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:29 | |
She was then absolutely stunned to hear a conversation to the effect | 0:27:29 | 0:27:32 | |
that the German bomber was approaching the Isle of Wight, | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
it would be crossing the island and no offensive action would be | 0:27:34 | 0:27:37 | |
taken against it. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:38 | |
But no other witnesses can confirm the story. | 0:27:38 | 0:27:40 | |
The likeliest solution has to be that for some reason, | 0:27:40 | 0:27:50 | |
the crew did lose their way but they lost their way | 0:27:51 | 0:27:54 | |
immediately on take-off. | 0:27:54 | 0:27:55 | |
And by the time they realised their mistake, it was far too late. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:58 | |
But the cause for this catastrophic error remains unknown and I'm | 0:27:58 | 0:28:01 | |
afraid we will never know. | 0:28:01 | 0:28:02 | |
Three days after the crash, all seven men were buried | 0:28:02 | 0:28:05 | |
with full military honours at all Saints Church in Forley. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:07 | |
In 1963, they were moved here to the Cannock Chase German | 0:28:07 | 0:28:13 | |
military cemetery where they lie side by side, as they were on that | 0:28:13 | 0:28:16 | |
fateful day in 1944. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:20 | |
That's just about it for now. | 0:28:20 | 0:28:25 | |
More stories from the South the same time next week. | 0:28:28 | 0:28:31 | |
Till then, bye-bye. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:40 | |
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