Bonus Secrets Of The Underground
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- čas přidán 30. 09. 2015
- Geoff's back on the tube, in a bonus video from our Secrets of the Underground series.
Join him as he discovers more old, secret and generally fascinating things about the tube that you probably missed while on your travels.
Also, if you've clicked on this info box and are reading this part then WELL DONE! Not everyone sees it. So write in "Bonus Secrets!" in the comments, and it'll confuse everyone else ...
One thing I’ve always wondered is how the hell do they get the number of steps wrong in almost every single station? How hard is it to just walk up them and count like Geoff does? You would also think that when they placed the order for the steps they would have to know how many there are! I’m amazed that the only time he ever found a sign that was correct, it was in a disused station😂
But no matter how many steps their are its always equivilent to a 15 story building
Probably, done on purpose for whatever reason
probably some sort of psychological trick
Yeah it’s probably to deter people
Hm yh
me: "Video about the underground? This is gonna be boring"
*18 videos later*
"Wow, that was was really interesting"
Simon Griffiths that’s how they get you
Simon Griffiths funny
MusicalElitist1 it’s only in a joke
love Jeff reminds me of living back in the UK he finds stuff no one would ever see!
Ok?
He predicted the colour of the Elizabeth Line!
Thanks for making these vids - they're a nerd's paradise :)
+Brutus Smithicus You're welcome Brutus, here at Londonist we're a whole bunch of self confessed nerds!!
Brutus Smithicus I’m an American nerd! Back in 1968, as a student at LSE, I took the Tube all over. During January 1969, I lived near Hampstead Heath, and worked near Paddington Station. I changed trains at St Pancras/ Kings Cross, maybe at the missing station shown here.
District Line : The next station is Turnham Green
Geoff : Actually the next stop is Hammersmith
LOL
Next stop King's Cross
*changes to Thameslink 319*
Ok St Pancras.
The District Line Train Was A S Stock
A LITTLE BIT OF BLUE
The next station is Turnhan Green. This is a District line train to Upminster.
how do you know
121 steps. That's 15 stories right?
PXL_LP 😂😂
You're probably correct.
Hehe Even Clapham Common/North Has A 15 Stories Stair
Correct
When you find yourself watching videos about secrets of the underground train network of a city which is not your home is when you realise that you're a real U-Bahn-Nerd.
Greetings from Berlin :D
i wish he still made these. ever since the tube show, i wished there were more, but there never is. he's even in one of the tube shows, doing his guiness record attempt.
At 2:47 he passed over the bridge over Freston road, which was used in the Rick Astley-Never Gonna Give You Up music video
This is my favourite series that you do, Geoff. Thanks so much! I look forward to more!
The series that brought me to this channel is back - yay! Without it my last trip to London would've been half as good.
Had no interest in trains before but with 3 uni deadlines within a week I have become extremely fascinated by them and havnt stop watching these videos 😂
Did you meet your deadlines?
Also, at Boston Manor, the Boston Bruins' (an ice hockey team) uniform is black and yellow
I love these video's, great facts and really interesting. To think most the time we are too busy and just pass by things we just do not see or know are there, keep em coming!
Love this series it just shows the simple everyday things you would not notice and i love the diagrams and timelines
Hello Geoff, we met at the Open Weekend at the Museum Depot. Another great video! P.S, I got to go on a D Stock, after waiting 22 minutes at Acton Town Station.
+Geofftech Great!
Thank you Geoff. Always interesting. Takes me back to my younger years. Cheers from Australia.
Just randomly come across these vids I'm hooked
Im so late to this series but I literally can’t stop watching it having grown up in London. My local station is Ealing Broadway, I go past it all the bloody time and I’ve never noticed the original station aGH!
Glad this series has made a return. Here's hoping for more Underground secrets in the future. And possibly Thameslink and Crossrail secrets to.
+Geofftech I thought it opened 2018
+Geofftech o
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I just love these videos and I also can't wait for part 4 of the Canals series!
+Geofftech Brentford are nicknamed the Bees due to pronunciation issues. The nickname was originally the B's for Brentford, but the press miss interpreted it
+Rowan Caldwell this is brilliant! didn't know this, thanks Rowan.
+Rowan Caldwell interesting- thanks for that!
And they play in red and white, not yellow and black!
@@chrisd66 exactly. That's the other Bees, Barnet.
Thanks for the information about Grove Road and the viaduct. I'd been passing that for years, looking it up on old AtoZ maps but never quite getting the lay of the route and where it went. A few years ago I found some late-1800s maps on the internet which suggested the line had at some stage gone up to Willesden Junction. So after decades of doubt I thought I'd solved the mystery. Probably not as it turns out.
So thanks for setting us straight on Grove Road. I seem to have become an addict of your videos so keep on keeping on (Churchill had a version of that saying but it's too rude to put on the internet). Am now retired and fascinated by oddments of the city where I grew up.
As always, brilliant, thank you
Many years ago I used to go to Burnt Oak Station and there was a sign which still said Stag Lane Airdrome. It may now have long since gone. However it was a reminder of the Stag Lane Airdrome.
was gonna suggest a thameslink series the other day until I read your twitter!
Cheers Geoff 👌. First class video 🇬🇧.
Interesting stuff, keep it coming. Thanks!
not sure whether this counts as a secret or not but this is for the the Bakerloo line north of Queens Park. the line is shared with London Overground as far as Harrow & Wealdstone. the underground trains are a lot smaller than the overground trains so the platforms just on this section are built at a special height from the ground meaning you have to step down to join an underground train and slightly step up to join the overground trains. rather than mind the gap you need to mind your head!
an additional thing is something that may confuse someone who is perhaps not local or a regular commuter from near the top edge of the Metropolitan line. Between just north of Harrow-On-The-Hill and Amersham the tracks are shared between Metropolitan line services and a Chiltern railways service that runs from Marylebone to Aylesbury Vale Parkway. this is the only example that i know of, where a regular service with diesel trains shares the lines used by the underground trains in which nearly all of them are electric. i should also point out that Chiltern railways don't stop at all the local stations en-route meaning you can have a quicker journey time into central London and home again than on a 'met train'
delticsi :. Under British Railways, before privatisation, the same tracks were shared between met and B.R. steam trains. One train (from time to time it was 2) a day stoped at Harrow on the Hill to pick up northbound and set down southbound. This was very handy for travellers to the East Midlands from the northwest London suburbs. One such train was the "South Yorkshireman" to Sheffield and Bradford. Probably the only case of a named steam express stopping at an L.T. station?
love these. more please!
Love this video absolutely great love watching these please make so many more real underground fan and when I go down to London on the underground I look for these things.
Spent a few days in London in the summer and spent one of them dragging my mum and dad around the underground pointing out these facts and looking at all the stations thanks to you it made my day and got to see my favourite station Baker Street circle line platform old school
Thanks for making these vids and make some more
What is your favourite station on the underground?
I wish this series went on forever. :( Bonus Secrets 2 please! Looking forward to the next canal episode too. I'm moving to London in 2 days so these videos are now extra exciting. xD
Also I don't know if this has been done, but have you ever considered making a series or a one-off video of doing every station in a day? I've seen you do it on a TV show, but a revised and modern version would be cool - even if you weren't going for the record!
+Geofftech Cool video
if you are wondering he was on a northern line at the end of the video
+giantrobot9000 I like how you throw out just "one five minute video" per week clearly not knowing how much production time and cost these things take! However I do want to see more videos, with that I agree.
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Geoff, I love your secret shows! Keep up the great videos!
The owl at canning town is my favourite, I pass it everyday! Thanks!
Love it, love it...choo, choo...
Ye Gods.....there is someone who can make the underground interesting. Subscribed!
If I was younger, and in a whole lot better shape, I'd like to come over there [ from U.S.] just to see if I could keep up with you. Which I highly doubt. I enjoy these videos, learning a lot about London that I will never have a chance to otherwise. Thanks for sharing.
I love your videos, I have been on the tube for years and never knew these amazing facts. Your app is cool too.
Another brilliant video! Interesting that for a fairly recent video there's already some history. The D Stock trains and the class 319 no longer working in London.
Thanks again!
Loved it. FYI Today I noticed Google has the track paths color coded. The last time they just had the fine grey lines of railway tracks. Now it is bold color coded lines. You have to click on a station to turn it on. Rob
Fun fact - at Canada Water if you go to the edge of the southbound platform you can see rotherhithe station again the fact it is 300 metres away
Great videos and channel - thanks!
1:10
Train announcer: The next station is Turnham Green.
Geoff: Actually, our next stop is Hammersmith...
Great work, this is all super informative, I have subscribed
York Road station was only served by southbound trains heading towards Moorgate, northbound trains from Moorgate came up the other side of Kings Cross station where platform 11 is.
Technically southbound trains stopped at two stations that had the same connecting station, Kings Cross York Road & Kings Cross Metropolitan (Thameslink) both were connected to Kings Cross Mainline.
I've been to London a number of times and also for visiting relatives who live there, these secrets are really interesting. I missed them all though!
thx. Always wondered about those arches at Hammersmith
Well you, "Jago Hazzard" and "Siddy Holloway" make the underground fascinating! More Please!!!
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5 years later we're still waiting for that new crossrail ealing Broadway station
wow.. i used these stations on my last two visits to London!
BONUS SECRETS? This is a Christmas special Geoff Surely? You're too nice to us!
Geoff didn't know Crossrail wasn't going to finish any time soon XD
Canada Water and Rotherhithe have a similar distance to Covent Garden and Leicester Square on the london underground. I believe this is the closest gap between two stations on the entire underground.
Also for fun Underground facts: all trips were made during school trips (i'm from Telford), the longest I covered I believe was Holloway Road after seeing the Arsenal ground and South Kensington.
The last time this happened we were meant to start at Bounds Green but due to a trespasser all eastbound trains terminated to Wood Green so we all sat on the upper deck of a 221 bus to Wood Green, which terminates at Turnpike Lane station
The trespasser must have cleared soon after because the journey across london on the underground did end at Bounds Green
In the 2 trips I've made I have touched 3 lines: Piccadilly, Jubilee and Metropolitan. During my last trip we only ever touched the Piccadilly, which was interesting
These are the underground trips we made
Oct 2017 trip: Bounds Green to Covent Garden on the Piccadilly, Westminster to Wembley Park on the Jubilee to watch England, Wembley Park to Kings Cross St Pancras on the metropolitan line and King's Cross to bounds Green on the Piccadilly.
Mar 2018 trip: Wood Green to Arsenal, Holloway Road to South Kensington, South Kensington to Leicester Square and Covent Garden to Bounds Green, all on the Piccadilly
Fact about Stratford: Go to the Jubilee line platforms, and there are lots of train runners.
Hmm
I agree
@@noahshoesmith4106 kff
Good episode!
I don't know if it still is, I haven't been there for a few years, but from the emergency stairs at Kentish Town it used to be possible to look into the escalator machine room through a glass window in a door. I haven't seen this at any other station.
I love these videos
Is anyone else wondering why they can't use that abandoned tunnel (through York Road station) for the Thameslink Programme and instead they're building a new tunnel to the north of it?
IS IT bad that I don't like trains but I'm oddly addicted to this channel
York Road was only for southbound trains. Northbound trains had to use the other Kings Cross Suburban platforms next to the mainline station
I have very little interest in trains...however your vids are essential viewing. Love the history of uk you uncover in each video
please do another! i know it’s been a long time but it would be so cool!
That viaduct has been demolished now(2019).
Yes You Are Right
Loving the new thumbnails Geoff 😜😜😜
On the left at 0:50 you can see an old roundel for the station that he talked about in the secrets of the district line
Great video
That's the Grenfell tower on the right of Larimer Road station!😢
jjtwhite and Wood Lane on the left
Rest in peace all
Canada Water secret is also an Underground secret
The Jubilee Line use this station
As always, a great video. The shot at 1.28 is very interesting. Look up "Cosh Boy" (1953) at 29.24 also on CZcams to see the same view in the early 50s. What is the name of the street? There are a few night shots of the same location throughout the film. I've always been intrigued by this structure-thanks for the information!
The modern generations have turned the railways into a right hotchpotch - it's amazing the system actually functions rather than hitting a major brick wall (pun intended)
1:05 A LITTLE BIT OF BLUE!!
The best view of London is behind a tube window. Much nicer than ever getting off
3:56 this is consider an underground secret, because before 2007, there is a line called east london line and now, it is converted into the london overground network.
1:07 [unintelligible squeak about how fast that part of the sentence was]
He said "Everybody stutters one way or the other, so check out my message to you: As a matter of fact, don't let nothing hold you back, if the scatman can do it, so can you."
이영주 He said: “For The Piccadilly,”
A LITTLE BIT OF BLUE
Another question to do with the Thameslink underground section of the route: In very close proximity to City Thameslink station heading northbound there is a series of vaults/an entrance to a tunnel on the left hand side - would you happen to know what it is? Thanks :)
Thanks for video, Oh will be adding to Secrets Of The Underground DVD when release? thanks.
excellent
Great series for the geekiest of the geeks! But I love it.
Can you do a video explaining the cross rail please? I'm really confused about what it is and what it involves and the tfl one is really confusing 😊 love these videos
+dizzyizzy We do have that planned, yes!
Geoff,Always bring a paper,glue tape and marker if you will count the steps and write under it
'Londonist'
Turnham Green!!
*cheers loudly*
Mr. Geoff can you also upload a video about Shanghai Metro,
-Secrets of Line 1
-Secrets of Line 2
-Secrets of Line 3 and 4
-Secrets of Line 5
-Secrets of Line 6
-Secrets of Line 7
-Secrets of Line 8
-Secrets of Line 9
-Secrets of Line 10
-Secrets of Line 11
-Secrets of Line 12
-Secrets of Line 13
-Secrets of Line 16
-Secrets of Line 17
-Secrets of the Pujiang Line
-Secrets of the Maglev Train
-Secrets of Shanghai Trams
-More and Bonus Secrets of Shanghai Metro
With the Help of Shanghai Government, bc O know you aren't from Shanghai.
I do this coz I'm your fan. :-)
You can check Shanghai Metro Videos.
Don't forget the four immaculate 'Red Dot' enamel station signs dating from the 1900s located at Ealing Broadway (District Line) station.
Not from London (clearly) but I did discover something I don't think I saw covered in these videos via Geoff's station master app. (More specifically, this image - www.stationmasterapp.com/images/screenshots/liverpoolstreet1024.png )
Liverpool Street has 4 platforms for underground services, 1 & 2 for Circle, Met and H&C lines and 4 & 5 for Central line trains.
Not sure how well known this is but I dug a bit deeper and found out that the missing platform 3 was once for terminating Met line trains. It still sits there inaccessible and disused. The old spur track leading into it can still be seen at street level running to white panels that have the platform boarded up. ( c1.staticflickr.com/5/4069/4696851360_7c756fddbf_b.jpg )
I tried to look for a similar view to that image on Google maps but all I can find are Crossrail hoardings blocking the view onto the track.
I found it really cool so I thought I'd just stop here to share it for possible future use and thank Geoff for making me aware of its existence.
+Hi Ho Wolverhampton this is great! i don't think we knew about this! are you OK if we used the in a future video?
Definitely.
+Hi Ho Wolverhampton #WWFC #COYW
+Londonist Ltd never as me
Looks like Central line has private platforms
your the best
3:31 don't try to tease me,it's still in use
It would be great if you could do a vid explaining all the redundant viaduct stuff that you can see on the train between Wandsworth Town and Putney that is very similar to what is explained here around Hammersmith.
Re. the buffers at the end of the District Line platforms at Ealing Broadway, surely behind that wall was the original station entrance that you've referenced from the outside? Have walked around those many times and I'm sure they would be exactly in line with that old entrance...??
One thing I've noticed but haven't yet place which might be what you were talking about with York Road is that on Thameslink between St Pancreas and Farringdon, there is a platform with the sign saying do not get off here. I don't know if this is York Road, the old King's Cross Thameslink(it feels like it's way closer to Farringdon but might be wrong) or something else.
I don't know if this would be relevant, but for hockey fans here in North America, the Boston Bruins team colours are black and gold as well.
You maybe wrong over King's Cross. There are two extra stations that supplements King's Cross. King's Cross York Road & King's Cross Suburban. The former for southbound trains whilst the latter, for northbound trains. You only showed the York Curve Tunnel, which is a one-way southbound tunnel, the Hotel Curve, one way northbound one, you missed, is to the left of the tunnel and pops out to the left of King's Cross. I think (since i'm not living in London, so i can't confirm) the open area you found was the King's Cross Suburban station. The York Curve tunnel can be seen if you view King's Cross from the north, where many tracks crosses each other and into the Terminus. From this view, the track leading to the york curve tunnel should be on the leftmost, to the left of Platform 0 of King's Cross terminal
What I like about the northern line is the Kennington loop.
LOL Willedesen Green!!
There is another 'secret' on the Pic line. Well, sort of on it. At Hounslow Bus Station, there's a local history plaque that talks about the old Hounslow Town station (Where the bus station is now).
my favourite station is holborn because in the past a station named aldwych was used only for the Piccadilly line which only had approx 3 stations.
I like the Piccadilly line because it makes me think about my favourite colour
Boston Manor also has a rather quaint little signal box on the platform.
I stayed at the holiday inn near Brentford Lock for a week, and I never knew about the secret about it
3:19 was this reused for the recent link to the east coast mainline?
My first Kitkat was 2P bought from a manual machine at a tube station platform, I couldn't remember which station, it was in the 1973. You put the money in the machine and turned the knob you got your Kitkat.
When I first used the Tube you could buy packs of cigarettes from vending machines on the platforms. Different times.