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I can not hold my breath for a very long time.

Greetings from Australia ,Jago. Recently you produced a video about toilets, or lack thereof, on the Underground. Now this video on a "smelly" station. Do i detect a theme happening?

"You've probably never heard of Berrylands, so thank you for clicking on this video." Joke's on you, Jago, I'm a Yank, I don't know the Bakerloo Line from the District Line

Southwesterners are very lucky because of Crossrail 2. They will finally have high frequency tube-like train services in their area.

Ardwick…

Too many immigrants in Croydon now and too many high rise buildings. It was better in the early eighties.

Worst station in the UK? If only Broad Street was still open.

I lived in New Malden in the 80s, and I only knew one person who lived in Berrylands. The station looks more substantial than I remember. Maybe those steps are new?

Hold your breath 😊

in terms of Platforms and Accessibility Nailsea & Backwell in somerset has gotta be one of the worst, but its got shelters a booking office sometimes and a bridge so not all bad

CHEERIO!

Used to visit Cerebrum Lighting in Berrylands many moons ago. Never via rail though so can't comment on the station. It was often a tad windy, that I can vouch for...

so no berry or barry in berrylands.

5:30 they could add storage tanks, that can be pumped up to the sewers.

I like a nice 1930's suburb, a 1930's pub is even better, some truly gorgeous buildings .

I have a duel contenders for the worse rail stations for you. Kearsley & Clifton stations, both next to each other on the line between Bolton and Salford Crescent stations.

This is a Dr who ship

Having lived in Hersham for 10 years of my misspent childhood, and regularly taken the train to London, Berrylands always fascinated me. The reason? To start with, as Jago points out, no train I was ever on stopped there! But also, because it looks uncannily like Hersham - same temporary looking wooden platform, extended by concrete, same unimportant feel, but, most of all, same sewage works! Although ours didn't smell for some reason. But I spent ten years looking out of train windows, as we sped through a station that looked uncannily like my own stop, but which no trains ever appeared to stop at. And, almost certainly, the one London region station I NEVER expected to see covered on this channel!

Use the toilet at home?

As walking youtuber John Rogers would say, ‘brutalist architecture’

I'm so old I used the student halls at Clayhill when it was for the polytechnic. Railway to the south, graveyard to the north, treatment works to the east - what a location. One January morning I went outside and it was misty...you could *taste* it...

station building reminds of my pre fabricated classroom at primary school.

I must have seen some of that CLASP construction when it was new, but I don't remember it--which is probably the best you could say about it. Now, 60 years on and from the other side of the world, it reminds me of the worst of English municipal architecture: ugly, instantly ramshackle, and specially treated to cultivate mould, lichen and grunge, even in the dry climate of South East England (seriously: 60mm of rain a year is not very much). Though I suppose you could claim it's preserving the tradition of the post-war prefabs. Do pursue the worst station. There is, surely, something grounding about knowing you have seen the worst, and come through

So video suggestions. Loughborough Junction is grotty and has history. Disused platforms, lots of bridges. You can't really change trains here, despite the name. South Merton/Morden South. Two stations that are nearly the same name and nearly the same place. They are pretty much nothing. The dull end of the Sutton loop. One of them used to get milk trains, the land for that is now a mosque next to the station.

I've used Birmingham new street and every time I go there I hate it as there is far too much going on as well as its far too easy to get lost

How close is the 'offending source' to the quite visually pleasant Berrylands station as presented in this blog? Use Google maps to see what's right on the other side to that most pleasant looking underpass @5:50 / 9:07. Ah! Now I get it! (Visually if not smell). Yikes...

Smell! My last home in the UK was in Ipswich. Certain times of the year we had the smell of the sugar beat factory.

I find Essex Road is worse; it feels haunted!!!

Just wondered when you managed to find hot weather recently.

there's another ancient metro system in a european city where I live and they've recently installed public accessable toilets in major line intersections, they just put those at some not so busy corners of passageways, you pay for the visit with your regular metro card and those toilets seem to be rather clean, so I believe this is technically achievable

4:35 This was brilliant.

Ahh, breathe deep and long...coff, coff.

My toilet must be near berrylands cos it absolutely stinks at the moment

OLD JOKE: "Kiss her where it smells. Take her to...(name local spot here)"

Well, that certainly looks like a gap worth minding.

2:00 Jago on his day off?

The best smelling station is surely Bogston.

A masterclass in dry, understated humour - made me laugh out loud. And "dandy" is a word we should hear much more often.

The proposed Crossrail 2 map still shows the now closed facility at Angel Road, which was replaced by Meridian Water some while ago now!!

I used to live near Surbiton, and commuted from there into Waterloo, and a few years later I lived near Raynes Park, and commuted from there. ..... But I have never needed to use Berrylands station; it doesn't sound like I missed much. 😕

Berrylands station is on the London Loop, a 140mile walking route that runs from Erith to Purfleet along London's Green Belt. It has been cleverly designed to pass by or close to a number of Stations in the Zone 6 fare zone so the route can be broken down into several easily managed day walks. As it passes so many stations it might make an interesting video or set of video's just a thought.

I travel through Berrylands every week (but don't stop there). I haven't noticed a smell for years, but in the 1950s and ’60s you could smell Berrylands approaching a mile off. It really did stink, and the arms of the water-purifying units swinging round were a sight to behold. I seem to remember another similar sewage works near Byfleet & New Haw, but I don't remember it being quite so smelly.

Clapham Junction is surely the worst station.

Well you gotta go somewhere .

Smellylands: Brings back memories of sometimes having no alternative but to take the "stopper" to and from Surbiton. I never did get off to investigate as the major conclusion was all too apparent. Now that I live on the other side of the world I occasionally pass by a sewage works an I think of [Continued page 94]

Long ago I bet Crossrail 2 would be built before HS2, or any other major rail project outside London. I think my money is safe.

I have to say I have very fond memories of Berrylands. As a north London boy it’s not an area I should know, but playing Saturday football once a season our team would travel over by train to play at the Kings college football ground, and then after enjoy a few pints at Woodies pub.

2:02 ah the Prescott Hill Climb, spent a couple of great days there when I was at uni down the road in Cheltenham. When the vintage cars are going up the climb and with the steam trains of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire railway running up the valley it felt like being in a different time! I assume you also visited the railway?

2:02 ah the Prescott Hill Climb, spent a couple of great days there when I was at uni down the road in Cheltenham. When the vintage cars are going up the climb and with the steam trains of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire railway running up the valley it felt like being in a different time! I assume you also visited the railway?

Yay. I guessed the comedy intake.