i must say, i love the open relationship network rail have with geoff, its very refreshing to see and i give them mad props for it. alot of other companies would never ever let a lay person have the access he has. its a real positive view of them and i wish network rail and geoff every success in the future! Cheers, from Australia.
it might help Geoff that he has been doing this now for over 10 years. for both national rail as TfL and about every rail in the UK. If you would be so consistent with a topic of your own in your area (it does not matter what) the more you work for it and build out your network with people/companies that work in said sector. the more they are willing to bring you on for more. If only because they know who you are. (with does not matter what. from interest in chairs and how they look. to trains like Geoff does. If you then also can give them back something in return. that helps a lot.)
@@geofftech2 Your enthusiasm and passion for the subject is infectious! Every video is somehow a little adventure, viewers don't need to be directly affected by the routes/stations you cover, or even need to be train/network super-fan to get something interesting and enjoyable out of your content. It's a rare skill and thank you for doing it.
@@robseybaby1 thanks Robsey, that is super kind and that is what I try and do … make an informal adventure video that does give information and insight into the part of the railway that I am at. I will keep doing it as long as I can! but you are most kind 👍👍
@@robseybaby1 I couldn't agree more. I have never even set a foot into England or Great Britain and I feel like knowing more about that rail network than about the one in my country. :D Perhaps I need to talk @Geoff Marshall into doing All The Stations Austria?^^
I’m not _that_ crazy about trains, but I subbed to the videos and watch all of them simply because of Geoff’s infectious enthusiasm. The subjects are presented in such an engaging way that I find myself riveted. I love watching people who are passionate about subjects and have the ability to bring you into their world.
I think its because he genuinely loves the stuff and its not about the money. For this specific video I think part of the appeal is also the construction side of things is always fascinating
Being in a 46-person lift that gets stuck between floors sounds like a horror movie begging to be made. (Gravely voice) “Coming this fall, they only had to travel one level up, but it was one level too far. Featuring 6 crying babies, 3 drunk Essex girls, 2 nervous drug traffickers, and one drug sniffing dog. Starring Greg Davies as Essex girl no. 2, and Andy Serkis as the dog”.
Thanks Catriona, this is well needed. Landing at Gatwick from a modern Airport and then going to the GX always felt like going back into the 80s, that wasn’t a great start into the Uk
Only the 80's, the South Terminal, the original only one, was opened along with the Station in the late 50's so behind all the newish bits is still s 50's building.
Fascinatingly, there's an old Gatwick Express Mk2 coach in New Zealand (specifically at a depot in Plimmerton). Indeed loads of Mk2 coaches were sent here in the 1990s, and some of them have since been repurposed for passenger service in the North Island. As for the current Gatwick Express service with the Class 387s, it's good fun to drive them in Train Sim World 2, and I reckon Geoff ought to try that London to Brighton route as well (thinking back to the video he made about the Bakerloo Line add-on).
Ah the welcome to Britain poster, should have been done a long time ago. I found myself at that station at about 7 am having caught a train at midnight to get to Gatwick on time. It was so depressing. Return via the station 8 yrs later in 2020 was no better. The ticketing area was cramped and confused but pleasant then descending to the decrepit platforms with all the confused visitors perhaps wondering if England was a place they wanted to get to. As the first thing outside the airport people arriving might see it will be so much less of an embarrassment.
Amazing video Geoff! You’ve outdone it again. Love to see you producing this sort of content. Feels great to know there’s other train enthusiasts doing what they love. All the best.
Geoff, I'm a Dutch guy who's lived in the Netherlands for over 30 years now, but when I was a kid I lived in Bristol. Bristol Temple Meads station always fascinated me because it's so bendy with its terminus and its through running station built to the side of it. Do you think you'll get a chance to make a video about Bristol Temple Meads?
@lordsleepyhead - There could be more relevance to a Geoff visit to one of Brunel masterpieces. As they doing work to refurbish/repaint the platform roof iron works. They have already done the outside canopy. They are creating a new entrance and I know there are other plans in the pipeline, which Geoff could discuss with Network Rail. Hello to the Netherlands my wife and I had a lovely time in 2019 travelling around Amsterdam, Den Haag Leiden, Utrecht and Delft by train.
I'm looking going on holiday from Gatwick in a couple of weeks, I can't wait to see what the place looks like when it's finished, I used to travel to Gatwick a lot before the pandemic
Have to admit I went through Gatwick from Canada in sept 2019 it was a bloody nightmare (my opinion) to get on a train. Flew out of Glasgow on my return to Canada. It’s nice to see all the hard work and expansion and improvements going on, not only there but in other areas of the UK. Thank you Geoff and all your Tour guides for these updates
@@memediatek Horley is cheaper by a few pounds, you're right, but I live in South Horley so geographically I'm closer to Gatwick station. Also it gets way, way more trains than Horley and they're direct to London too whereas Horley's trains stop at Salfords, Redhill etc
Morning Geoff 😀 Another great railway video 👍🏻 Our railway is like a big jigsaw 🧩 with new bits and bobs being added to improve it all the time and you explain it superbly 🤩
It will be interesting to find out whether the new footbridges reach all platforms, or if when changing trains one gets sucked into a herd of slowly moving suitcases and have to go via the station building. (It was a route designed by somebody who'd spent far too much time in Ikea.) And yes, I did learn never ever to use the southern footbridge ever again.
I was there yesterday and as is tradition, I took a trip on the monorail to kill time! Great to see David there, one of my wife’s friends, getting some camera time! Thanks for the great video :)
@@skyblazeeterno - I wonder how many are left now… the one at Chester zoo closed in 2019 I think and there’s not much left. The one at chessington closed 7 or 8 years ago?
@@geofftech2 it was a pleasant surprise. Looks like Gatwick has posted other YT videos in the past, so maybe it’s their thing?? I don’t recall seeing much on LinkedIn in general. I hope it means they think you make high quality content worth posting, like many of your followers and fans do. Regardless, thanks as always for your content. Always enjoy.
And of course, 18m after it opens, they'll realise that with thedesperately needed development of East Croydon and south coast capacity required, they need at least one new additional track line, and after half a decade of planning permission, it'll be shut for another two years for platform 8 to be build, which will require shuffling all those newly widened platforms back to where they were again and their original width.
It all sounds wonderful but I came back from holiday two weeks ago and my main problem was finding someone who could help me with information. Until we get more staff manning the platforms to help people when the overhead info boards aren't working, then new platforms and exits and entrances won't help. Originally I was directed to one platform, then 5 minutes before the train was due the platform was changed, next I wasn't told that it was only the first 4 coaches that would reach my station and we had to pick up our bags and rush further down the platform, and despite me being told at the ticket office that my ticker was for a direct journey, I had to make two changes.
Awesome video! You were brave climbing up that crane! I haven't been to Gatwick Airport station for years. The Electrostars look good in that GX livery. They were used on the Coastway line during the COVID-19 crisis, but that's all history now. Thanks for uploadng.
Last time I used Gatwick airport station was around 6 years ago , I had a job interview in Crawley but I really loved the station very modern. . In the 90s I was always travelling to And from Gatwick airport/station back Then it was not in a great looking way. I mean things and time's have changed since then. Very run down in the late 90s. But I don't know I think the Train station needs a bit of modernization. Really good to see they are working on that at the moment. I will look forward to visiting there again sometime in the future.
My preferred way is always train to plane and vice versa, however, occasionally I have had to meet or drop off people by car. Gatwick has been getting worse and worse for this over the years so its nigh on impossible without paying some exorbitant parking charge. I have been sorely tempted to drop them off at Three Bridges or pick them up from there. Maybe it could extend its monorail to the long stay parking areas then it might make it more accessible to pick up and drop off when you cant do it all by rail.
Great video Geoff! I find your videos so interesting, especially the ones about the railways. I have my own CZcams channel with a few videos on there 😀
The best thing about Gatwick is the little shuttle monorail train going between North and South terminals. Lets hope this work makes the stations access to the airport better
That Red Arrow does get out and about on the Internet. Lovely tour of Gatwick Airport and was hoping there was going to be a Swimming Pool.... disappointed lol (just kidding)
I've taken the train the Gatwick many time with children and buggies and always wondered why the airport train station was like a regular train station... and those lifts 😩. They were totally inadequate for people with suitcases. This is a welcome renovation
Hey Geoff I was just wondering if you could do a video on the Minster curve down in Kent, it’s a special curve of track that only 2 trains go over per day! I live near there and it would be a dream if you could do a vid on it :)
Those platform widenings are badly overdue - they’ve always been dangerously narrow (especially at peak times)! Now, if only they could run an express service on the Portsmouth route… 😄
Wow, that is a major reworking of Gatwick. In truth, I think it is overdue so great to see the team hope it will be done in under a year from now. Good that they are also seemingly rationalising the track a bit and adding a whole new platform too! I’ve only used the station once though been through it countless times, so my predominant memory of it is as a half-way point en route to Brighton 😂 On a bit if a side note, did they mention any further plans for the station approaches or further up the route? I know the station is notorious for last second platform changes, so are their any plans to alter the tracks to the north…or are there some things that even you don’t find out about? 😜 I know it’s been easy to criticise the formulaic nature of modern station building, but it is good to see that at least on the major stations, there is a still room for a considered approach to make it practical but also architecturally interesting. I really liked what was done to Reading and I am hoping this will turn out at least as well 😎 Cheers Geoff 👍🍀🍻
Before the pandemic, I used to fly a lot to London for concerts and Gatwick was my fave airport. I have gone through that station at the most unholy hours! I am not going to recognise it when I can go back!
Having taken the train from Gatwick many times, will this solve the last minute platform change that always seemed to occur? Nothing like having 60 seconds to drag your suitcase up/down escalators in order to dash for a train!
Whenever returning from a trip abroad I almost toss a coin whether I would take a train into London and then down to Tunbridge Wells (my place) or do the lovely(sarcasm) east west travel via Redhill and Tonbridge. Thats one route which needs updating. Several times going east west its taken much longer than my flight from Europe
Passed all that last weekend on the Ore no More tour with 50008 Thunderer & 50007 Hercules a great day out. they were putting in the points the guy mentioned on platform 7.
Geoff,to think that in the heyday of the LB&SC,the biggest travel problems was the Derby Day,at then Gatwick Race Course! A question,when was Gatwick converted to an airport/ airbase,WW1?? Thanks for your efforts and dedication 👏 🙏 🙌!
@@highpath4776 I honesty don't know,the data I was working from,was an album put out by Ian Allan,on the LB&SC during the 1960's,so everything is literally Yeats out of date! As to when,how,the Derby was transferred,from which course to another,again no information,and my material is not with me,so I haven't got a ready reference! Thanks for the follow-up,and your information is useful to me too!! Thanks 😊!
@@roberthuron9160 Sorry, forgot you were a train buff rather than a racecourse historian ! (we have conversed in other forums in the past on transport but I use different user names on those ).
@@highpath4776 The difference is Iron Horse,instead of Horseflesh,etc.,and don't forget how many rail lines were built to service race courses! Tons of crossovers,and nobody can keep track of everything[pardon the pun],so I do understand,and since there were,when I was living on Long Island,three race courses served by railroads,Aqueduct,Meadowbrook,and Belmont,plus there were courses in New Jersey,and Connecticut,so the selection was/is large,and of great antiquity(Ha,lol)! Thank you for your attention and time,nice to know,someone actually reads my comments! Thank you!! 😇
Would be great if Southern stopped at Balham on their way to Gatwick Airport and Brighton. Do away with the hassle of changing at Clapham Junction - I have to add though the cross platform change at CLJ is pretty good.
The layout made sense when it was built, you left the platform via the smaller bridge, which Geoff said he hardly ever used, which led straight to the departures area (when there was only South Terminal) and Arrivals led to the main station/bridge for buying a ticket and going down to the platforms. So it was quite a neat design, but it's no longer fit for purpose and the building is so ugly so glad something is being done.
i must say, i love the open relationship network rail have with geoff, its very refreshing to see and i give them mad props for it. alot of other companies would never ever let a lay person have the access he has. its a real positive view of them and i wish network rail and geoff every success in the future! Cheers, from Australia.
it might help Geoff that he has been doing this now for over 10 years. for both national rail as TfL and about every rail in the UK. If you would be so consistent with a topic of your own in your area (it does not matter what) the more you work for it and build out your network with people/companies that work in said sector. the more they are willing to bring you on for more. If only because they know who you are.
(with does not matter what. from interest in chairs and how they look. to trains like Geoff does. If you then also can give them back something in return. that helps a lot.)
Positive free PR, plus all Geoff's years of content.
@@geofftech2 Your enthusiasm and passion for the subject is infectious! Every video is somehow a little adventure, viewers don't need to be directly affected by the routes/stations you cover, or even need to be train/network super-fan to get something interesting and enjoyable out of your content. It's a rare skill and thank you for doing it.
@@robseybaby1 thanks Robsey, that is super kind and that is what I try and do … make an informal adventure video that does give information and insight into the part of the railway that I am at. I will keep doing it as long as I can! but you are most kind 👍👍
@@robseybaby1 I couldn't agree more. I have never even set a foot into England or Great Britain and I feel like knowing more about that rail network than about the one in my country. :D
Perhaps I need to talk @Geoff Marshall into doing All The Stations Austria?^^
I’m not _that_ crazy about trains, but I subbed to the videos and watch all of them simply because of Geoff’s infectious enthusiasm. The subjects are presented in such an engaging way that I find myself riveted. I love watching people who are passionate about subjects and have the ability to bring you into their world.
Same for me. What business do I have following stories about public transport in a foreign country and yet here we are
I think its because he genuinely loves the stuff and its not about the money. For this specific video I think part of the appeal is also the construction side of things is always fascinating
@@BigglesAboutTown same here, same here :)
@@skyblazeeterno true!
Same.
Being in a 46-person lift that gets stuck between floors sounds like a horror movie begging to be made.
(Gravely voice) “Coming this fall, they only had to travel one level up, but it was one level too far. Featuring 6 crying babies, 3 drunk Essex girls, 2 nervous drug traffickers, and one drug sniffing dog. Starring Greg Davies as Essex girl no. 2, and Andy Serkis as the dog”.
Especially when they make you take the lift rather than carry your luggage up/down the escalator.
NGL, I'd totally watch that. "WHY have you got a FISH SALAD?!"
I presume that is a 46 person lift before everybody has a loaded luggage trolley? Then it would be considerabley less.
Sounds like a Christmas made in heaven !
Thanks Catriona, this is well needed. Landing at Gatwick from a modern Airport and then going to the GX always felt like going back into the 80s, that wasn’t a great start into the Uk
Only the 80's, the South Terminal, the original only one, was opened along with the Station in the late 50's so behind all the newish bits is still s 50's building.
As a person that loves making videos about transport myself, I really like you relaxed style of videos!
This is uncanny. I was at Gatwick on Sunday wondering what they were doing, and just as I asked the question, up pops a video!
rip pasty shop 😔 great memories on the way back home from a holiday
Great that you get this kind of access. Massive props to Network Rail for being so open and accomodating!
Great vid! Nice to see you've mastered glove wearing, too! 🙃
i got there in the end !!!! :-D
Fascinatingly, there's an old Gatwick Express Mk2 coach in New Zealand (specifically at a depot in Plimmerton). Indeed loads of Mk2 coaches were sent here in the 1990s, and some of them have since been repurposed for passenger service in the North Island.
As for the current Gatwick Express service with the Class 387s, it's good fun to drive them in Train Sim World 2, and I reckon Geoff ought to try that London to Brighton route as well (thinking back to the video he made about the Bakerloo Line add-on).
Isn't the gauge narrower in NZ?
Ah the welcome to Britain poster, should have been done a long time ago. I found myself at that station at about 7 am having caught a train at midnight to get to Gatwick on time. It was so depressing. Return via the station 8 yrs later in 2020 was no better. The ticketing area was cramped and confused but pleasant then descending to the decrepit platforms with all the confused visitors perhaps wondering if England was a place they wanted to get to. As the first thing outside the airport people arriving might see it will be so much less of an embarrassment.
Agreed, the station is a thoroughly miserable welcome to Britain. It's not just confusing to visitors, either.
Amazing video Geoff! You’ve outdone it again. Love to see you producing this sort of content. Feels great to know there’s other train enthusiasts doing what they love. All the best.
Geoff, I'm a Dutch guy who's lived in the Netherlands for over 30 years now, but when I was a kid I lived in Bristol. Bristol Temple Meads station always fascinated me because it's so bendy with its terminus and its through running station built to the side of it. Do you think you'll get a chance to make a video about Bristol Temple Meads?
@lordsleepyhead - There could be more relevance to a Geoff visit to one of Brunel masterpieces. As they doing work to refurbish/repaint the platform roof iron works. They have already done the outside canopy. They are creating a new entrance and I know there are other plans in the pipeline, which Geoff could discuss with Network Rail. Hello to the Netherlands my wife and I had a lovely time in 2019 travelling around Amsterdam, Den Haag Leiden, Utrecht and Delft by train.
Any video with added Chris makes it 10 times more entertaining! (Not that it wouldn't be otherwise, of course)
He is really funny
I'm looking going on holiday from Gatwick in a couple of weeks, I can't wait to see what the place looks like when it's finished, I used to travel to Gatwick a lot before the pandemic
Have to admit I went through Gatwick from Canada in sept 2019 it was a bloody nightmare (my opinion) to get on a train. Flew out of Glasgow on my return to Canada. It’s nice to see all the hard work and expansion and improvements going on, not only there but in other areas of the UK. Thank you Geoff and all your Tour guides for these updates
“Improved Vertical Circulation” … totally stealing that as a Prog Rock band name! 😂
Excellent to see this. Gatwick Airport is also unofficially known as Worthing International Airport...well it's close enough.
Thank goodness!! Gatwick really did need a refresh.
I live in Horley and commute from Gatwick regularly; so it was nice to get a few behind the scenes of what's going on. Thanks Geoff!
Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to go from Horley station?
@@memediatek - I think the prices are often the same and Horley gets a pretty rubbish service compared to Gatwick
@@MrGreatplum horley is usually cheaper in my experience but yeah I can understand less service being annoying
@@memediatek Horley is cheaper by a few pounds, you're right, but I live in South Horley so geographically I'm closer to Gatwick station. Also it gets way, way more trains than Horley and they're direct to London too whereas Horley's trains stop at Salfords, Redhill etc
@@mattmerchant3524 ahh that makes sense. I live in Redhill so usually if I'm going to Horley I'll be returning to Redhill anyway
Morning Geoff 😀 Another great railway video 👍🏻 Our railway is like a big jigsaw 🧩 with new bits and bobs being added to improve it all the time and you explain it superbly 🤩
It will be interesting to find out whether the new footbridges reach all platforms, or if when changing trains one gets sucked into a herd of slowly moving suitcases and have to go via the station building. (It was a route designed by somebody who'd spent far too much time in Ikea.) And yes, I did learn never ever to use the southern footbridge ever again.
I was there yesterday and as is tradition, I took a trip on the monorail to kill time!
Great to see David there, one of my wife’s friends, getting some camera time!
Thanks for the great video :)
Relating to that I wonder IF anyone has done a video about travelling on all public monorails in the UK
@@skyblazeeterno - I wonder how many are left now… the one at Chester zoo closed in 2019 I think and there’s not much left. The one at chessington closed 7 or 8 years ago?
Never thought I would see you pop up on my LinkedIn feed but Gatwick posted it on their feed.
@@geofftech2 it was a pleasant surprise. Looks like Gatwick has posted other YT videos in the past, so maybe it’s their thing?? I don’t recall seeing much on LinkedIn in general. I hope it means they think you make high quality content worth posting, like many of your followers and fans do. Regardless, thanks as always for your content. Always enjoy.
Especially loving the framing at the end with them patiently waiting in shot and then waving goodbye 😄 another great and insightful video
And of course, 18m after it opens, they'll realise that with thedesperately needed development of East Croydon and south coast capacity required, they need at least one new additional track line, and after half a decade of planning permission, it'll be shut for another two years for platform 8 to be build, which will require shuffling all those newly widened platforms back to where they were again and their original width.
0:03 Geoff couldn't be asked to wait for the doors to open. 😂
Thank you for putting this report / update on . I passed through Gatwick Airport on a train last Saturday and was amazed at what was going on.
Geoff Marshall it's me again the one I asked to do the video with you... Your video was great👍👌😂I'm so happy
Glad I got a chance to meet the people behind the sense ... Hats Off to them (!!)
It all sounds wonderful but I came back from holiday two weeks ago and my main problem was finding someone who could help me with information. Until we get more staff manning the platforms to help people when the overhead info boards aren't working, then new platforms and exits and entrances won't help. Originally I was directed to one platform, then 5 minutes before the train was due the platform was changed, next I wasn't told that it was only the first 4 coaches that would reach my station and we had to pick up our bags and rush further down the platform, and despite me being told at the ticket office that my ticker was for a direct journey, I had to make two changes.
We need a Geoff and Chris podcast!
@@geofftech2 The third rail podcast? I'm not the greatest when it comes to witty names 😅
Awesome video! You were brave climbing up that crane! I haven't been to Gatwick Airport station for years. The Electrostars look good in that GX livery. They were used on the Coastway line during the COVID-19 crisis, but that's all history now. Thanks for uploadng.
Last time I used Gatwick airport station was around 6 years ago , I had a job interview in Crawley but I really loved the station very modern. . In the 90s I was always travelling to And from Gatwick airport/station back Then it was not in a great looking way. I mean things and time's have changed since then. Very run down in the late 90s. But I don't know I think the Train station needs a bit of modernization. Really good to see they are working on that at the moment. I will look forward to visiting there again sometime in the future.
Excellent! Cannot wait to see this new concourse and overall look - it was very unpleasant before.
Always good to see Geoff in my neck of the woods and Chris always delights with the humour
My preferred way is always train to plane and vice versa, however, occasionally I have had to meet or drop off people by car. Gatwick has been getting worse and worse for this over the years so its nigh on impossible without paying some exorbitant parking charge. I have been sorely tempted to drop them off at Three Bridges or pick them up from there. Maybe it could extend its monorail to the long stay parking areas then it might make it more accessible to pick up and drop off when you cant do it all by rail.
I've been working on this and you've still got a better insight than I do 😂
Look forward to the swimming pool opening lol 🤣
Great video Geoff! I find your videos so interesting, especially the ones about the railways. I have my own CZcams channel with a few videos on there 😀
Let us hope they take the opportunity to replace the “train station” signs and give it the “railway station” status it deserves.
Train can be understood by non Engish speakers.
Huh?
I drove trains to there from Reading for nineteen years. In all that time I went upstairs four times. The last time it was to fly to Spain.
And that was the return journey as we had to transfer to a bus from North Camp on the way out. (Engineering).
Hey Crawley tickets office getting upgraded looks nice from outside
Another excellent presentation Geoff, enjoyable and informative.
Nive vid & glad for the remodel. Up until Covid, I used to fly in from abroad & take train South to Chichester. Welcome upgrade.
The best thing about Gatwick is the little shuttle monorail train going between North and South terminals. Lets hope this work makes the stations access to the airport better
That Red Arrow does get out and about on the Internet. Lovely tour of Gatwick Airport and was hoping there was going to be a Swimming Pool.... disappointed lol (just kidding)
I'll look forward to seeing this when its finished!
I've taken the train the Gatwick many time with children and buggies and always wondered why the airport train station was like a regular train station... and those lifts 😩. They were totally inadequate for people with suitcases. This is a welcome renovation
What we need is a lift that can carry us directly from platform 7 to departure lounge 12.
Now that’s more accessible than the old school thing.
Hey Geoff I was just wondering if you could do a video on the Minster curve down in Kent, it’s a special curve of track that only 2 trains go over per day! I live near there and it would be a dream if you could do a vid on it :)
Geoff is not really an all tracks kind of person, maybe we can make him into one in due course
What services use this curve?
Keep up the good work young man
Perfect video Airports and Train Stations
Please can you do an update on Gatwick Airport Station? Thank you Geoff! 😀👍
First - Also, some tfl rail trains in the east now say Elizabeth line on the status update screen onboard
Great video as always Geoff. The station has moved lightyears away from late 70s early 80s.
As a claustrophobe, the term "46-person lift" just sent my blood pressure shooting! 🤣
4:12 Geoff - ‘You could sell it on eBay.’
Geoff (off camera) - ‘I’ll buy the whole lot off you.’
I love flying (even with budget airlines) to and from Gatwick!
Those platform widenings are badly overdue - they’ve always been dangerously narrow (especially at peak times)!
Now, if only they could run an express service on the Portsmouth route… 😄
I think Chris was trying to give us the shaft
A wonderful video as per usual. Well done. 😀
I've used lifts that large within airports (lots of room for luggage trolleys!) so it makes sense to also use them at an airport rail station.
Wow, that is a major reworking of Gatwick. In truth, I think it is overdue so great to see the team hope it will be done in under a year from now. Good that they are also seemingly rationalising the track a bit and adding a whole new platform too! I’ve only used the station once though been through it countless times, so my predominant memory of it is as a half-way point en route to Brighton 😂
On a bit if a side note, did they mention any further plans for the station approaches or further up the route? I know the station is notorious for last second platform changes, so are their any plans to alter the tracks to the north…or are there some things that even you don’t find out about? 😜
I know it’s been easy to criticise the formulaic nature of modern station building, but it is good to see that at least on the major stations, there is a still room for a considered approach to make it practical but also architecturally interesting. I really liked what was done to Reading and I am hoping this will turn out at least as well 😎
Cheers Geoff 👍🍀🍻
Pretty soon Geoff will be the official PR person for network rail :)
Before the pandemic, I used to fly a lot to London for concerts and Gatwick was my fave airport. I have gone through that station at the most unholy hours! I am not going to recognise it when I can go back!
Having taken the train from Gatwick many times, will this solve the last minute platform change that always seemed to occur? Nothing like having 60 seconds to drag your suitcase up/down escalators in order to dash for a train!
They learnt that technique from Birmingham New Street, where the distances involved are even greater.
THIS!
Whenever returning from a trip abroad I almost toss a coin whether I would take a train into London and then down to Tunbridge Wells (my place) or do the lovely(sarcasm) east west travel via Redhill and Tonbridge. Thats one route which needs updating. Several times going east west its taken much longer than my flight from Europe
Funny enough that this video came out and ill be at this exact station in less the a month for my first ever trip across the pond
Oh wow! 46 person lift sounds awesome! 👏🏽
Very good - always something going on in Geoff Marshall World!!! 🤔🚂🚂🚂
0:52 Always let your subject move all the way through the shot. Am I right? 🙂 Another excellent overview of an immense civil engineering project.
Does Geoff have all his own safety gear yet?
At this point he might as well have one of his own. With his own sub brand.
(still the Network Rail logo but mixed with his own)
I liked the Tom Scott shoutout
Will be there in just over a month, can't wait international travel at last!!
I hope they rebuilt the pasty shop. I ate at that WCPC location A LOT.
All I want is the pasty shop back!
(Also cheaper tickets to minimize the culture shock)
Passed all that last weekend on the Ore no More tour with 50008 Thunderer & 50007 Hercules a great day out. they were putting in the points the guy mentioned on platform 7.
Geoff even manages to make a building site interesting.
Is it just me who thought Gatwick needed a major upgrade? Maybe I’m biased towards Heathrow.
Excellent video as always
1:45 When you said "Look out for the Red Arrows" I thought you had arranged a flypast...!! Otherwise, great video.
love Kathrina. She's amazing.
I miss ‘Six Stations’ already.
Another good video geoff u are amazing and amazing information to play this on my train world sim 2 on the Gatwick xpress
Anyone else want to see Geoff do Soho Bingo on the Birmingham Cross City Line?
We need an update video please! 😁
"Into the sunny sunshine" @7:15 . . . is there any other type? Time for another t-shirt Geoff! :)
Great video Geoff!
I like the new changes! This should cope with the increasing demand in the airport.
Quote of the Day: “New New New New New…I don’t know, that’s 5 news.”
airport improvements are fun.
Amazing video can’t wait to see it finished also there are plans to rebuild Carlisle station
Geoff,to think that in the heyday of the LB&SC,the biggest travel problems was the Derby Day,at then Gatwick Race Course! A question,when was Gatwick converted to an airport/ airbase,WW1?? Thanks for your efforts and dedication 👏 🙏 🙌!
Didnt know the Derby was run at Gatwick - when did it move to/from Epsom (think it was at Pollards Hill for a short while many many years back)
@@highpath4776 I honesty don't know,the data I was working from,was an album put out by Ian Allan,on the LB&SC during the 1960's,so everything is literally Yeats out of date! As to when,how,the Derby was transferred,from which course to another,again no information,and my material is not with me,so I haven't got a ready reference! Thanks for the follow-up,and your information is useful to me too!! Thanks 😊!
@@highpath4776 Addendum; I don't know how Yeats got into the conversation,but years were meant!! Spell check,ugh!! Thanks 😊!
@@roberthuron9160 Sorry, forgot you were a train buff rather than a racecourse historian ! (we have conversed in other forums in the past on transport but I use different user names on those ).
@@highpath4776 The difference is Iron Horse,instead of Horseflesh,etc.,and don't forget how many rail lines were built to service race courses! Tons of crossovers,and nobody can keep track of everything[pardon the pun],so I do understand,and since there were,when I was living on Long Island,three race courses served by railroads,Aqueduct,Meadowbrook,and Belmont,plus there were courses in New Jersey,and Connecticut,so the selection was/is large,and of great antiquity(Ha,lol)! Thank you for your attention and time,nice to know,someone actually reads my comments! Thank you!! 😇
Chris reminds me of the late Sean Lock
6:03 just brilliant
Would be great if Southern stopped at Balham on their way to Gatwick Airport and Brighton. Do away with the hassle of changing at Clapham Junction - I have to add though the cross platform change at CLJ is pretty good.
i always love your content geoff, perfectly shot and edited!
Improved Vertical Circulation. Sounds like a medical technique.
The layout made sense when it was built, you left the platform via the smaller bridge, which Geoff said he hardly ever used, which led straight to the departures area (when there was only South Terminal) and Arrivals led to the main station/bridge for buying a ticket and going down to the platforms. So it was quite a neat design, but it's no longer fit for purpose and the building is so ugly so glad something is being done.