The comedian drinks magic water and wears rubber gloves as he pootles around on the railways. Plus,retracing The Silk Road – the internet of its dayThere are 152 of them on Britain’s railways, one for every 138 miles of track on average. Request stops that is, and now known as Paul Merton’s Secret Stations (Channel 4,Sunday). He – Paul Merton – is stopping off at a few, after telling the ticket collector, and because thats what you absorb to do in order to alight.
To board,you stick your hand out as the train approaches. Like a bus, although it’s more satisfying to stay a train, or I imagine. That seems to be a proper part of the attraction for Paul,stopping a train with his hand. That and an interest in the out of the ordinary, and the out of the way.
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Source: theguardian.com