Fun fact: Euston was originally named after Sam Houston, the guy who was briefly president of Texas. Doubly impressive because it was named after him a decade or two before he was born, and they spelled it differently.
I actually like the 1960s architecture of Euston station. It's a bit too cluttered inside now, but in the 70s it still looked spacious and clean. In the early 1900s people thought that ozone (O3) was good for you, and would go to the seaside to "breathe in the ozone". However, the "ozone" smell of the sea is actually hydrogen sulphide (H2S), produced by plankton in the water. Don't worry it's far too dilute to be harmful.
I'm glad somebody agrees with me regarding the 1960s Euston station. The concourse was so open and bright in the 1970s and perhaps even the 80s. But then it was filled with tacky stalls, obstructing everybody's view and causing people to bump into others. Greed, the greed for rental income from these retail units, was what messed up Euston station.
All sources I found after a cursory search say it's dimethyl sulfide, not hydrogen sulfide. The latter, even if highly diluted, will still smell like rotten eggs.
It really did look so much better in its early years, and actually in the last decade or so (when a lot of the kiosks and other obstacles that were cluttering the main concourse were moved towards the edges) it's become fairly fine again, IMO, and I like how spacious it feels. The narrow corridors that lead to the ramps to the platforms are grim - similar to Penn Station in NYC - and the outside plaza area is... well, it's fine. It feels exactly as soulless and bland as any other office complex built in the last century, and even if the pedestrian routes in and out are frustrated by the bus station and taxi ramps, it's no more or less than many other interchanges. It's not my favourite station by any stretch, but I don't get why it's so reviled either (excepting the whole "how dare they knock down my gaudy Victoriana"/concrete no longer being in fashion stuff). The revamped trio of St Pancras/King's Cross/London Bridge are all clearly superior, but the ways in which those three have been so successfully refurbed makes me feel that we're at risk of repeating the mistake of the 1960s planners. Keep that Euston concourse and redevelop around it, and play to the strengths of mid-century modernism (it has many! honestly!), instead of knocking it down just because it's been cluttered with coffee shops and kiosks. After all, Liverpool Street is an insane mess these days, but nobody's claiming that means the whole thing has to be knocked down and rebuilt from scratch.
5:19 The Ozonizing plant would produce Ozone, which would be pumped into the passenger areas of the station, such as the platforms. During the 1910's this was common on the Underground as part of some scheme to improve the smell of the Underground's stations (the Ozone was supposed to smell like the Sea). This didn't really work very well, so the plan was abandoned by the 1920's.
Ozone is that kind of burnt smell in the air where someone's been welding. And while it's vital in the upper atmosphere to the survival of pasty-faced Anglo-Celts in Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes (Australia - world champions in per capita melanoma rates wooo), it's actually pretty toxic.
Ozone is actually found at Blackpool Beach - its where the ladies wearing full swimming kit walk into the sea water, when it gets to about their midrift they go " O, O, O ", so about 4foot out from the tide line.
I've been on that behind-the-scenes tour, and if you're into the history of the tube (which you must be if you're watching a Jago video) it's a fantastic thing to do :)
@@raybolasco9457 I would love too except im a Brit in NZ. I follow Jago and others to help with feeling sad. Books are good for this too. I would also love to be there when there is an open house london event. This would be my ideal vacation trip!
He may have had a short career, but his stations are all over the place. I think the Ox Blood finish looks hideous, like what I'm expecting the buildings in Hell will look like.
@@ZGryphon Never heard of Gehry, but just Googled him. Yes, his buildings would suit _Hell Modern_ or at least be in the circle of Hell reserved for pretentious people. But I suspect that Lucifer's taste inclines to the Greco-Roman building style (which, being pagan, was avoided by the Christian church for many years) with baroque detailing, externally faced with a highly fired hard gloss ceramic in an unrelieved blood red colour - rather like Leslie Green's creations in fact.
I worked at Euston Underground Stn. from 99' to 2004. Used to do 'section 12' checks regularly, this was done to check for breaches of fire safety rules, you'd have to walk in the disused areas, dusty and dirty and untouched since 1967. Remember poster for a Jerry Lewis film, advert for an NSU car and a LT poster stating closure of old entrances and making way for new Victoria line. It's the only underground station accessible through mainline station only. Saw a number of well known people come through here too and Chris Green who was the Managing Director of Network Southeast, think he worked in the offices upstairs for National Railway.
Around 1940 my parents bought me a scooter propelled by a back and forth lever and steered with both feet. It was called an "Irish Mail". This was in Texas, USA. My home town of Corpus Christi is near a large city called Houston which we pronounce much like you Brits pronounce "Euston". Cheers from the Lone Star State.
In the great scheme of things it seems a shame that the facade can't be dismantled and reused elsewhere on site, or indeed on the network. Or perhaps find a home in the new Museum of London at Smithfield, into which (I think) the lower level tube platform is being integrated? Or was when the first proposals for it were being unveiled?
Mate, not sure whether to reply as you are clearly replying to another thread. I was talking about architecture. My great-grandfather's business did build a lot of railways in Canada, and some of the family moved out there, but that is a long time ago now, and I admit I haven't been to visit in years. I hope I have picked up a bit of pronunciation over the years, my parents lived in France for many years, my step-mother is Polish, but yes first-nations derived city names are a bit alien. I hope I would have the gumption to find out how they should be pronounced before opening my mouth?
My Great Gran used to confuse Euston & Houston...for a while she was convinced they sent men into space from Euston, in fairness she was born before powered flight! Gen Dit.
The temptation must be very great for railway dispatchers informing staff at Euston of faults on the line to start every such conversation with "Euston, we have a problem."
Hadn't realised there would have been a direct connection from the Charing Cross branch to Euston/Kings Cross/St Pancras in the original plans. I would have loved that in my days of lugging heavy cases from Waterloo to Kings Cross and searching for the best changing points. Not until quite late did I discover the answer; Bakerloo to Oxford Circus and cross-platform interchange on to the Victoria. Not the most intuitive route from the tube map, it looks like a dog-leg. A pity they couldn't manage a cross-platform interchange at Warren Street, or find a way to represent them on the Tube map.
As a former LT employee, it's always a source of innocent humour to experience an American tourist asking for directions to Euston. Their insistence on pronouncing every letter marks them out and they find the "eu" sound particularly tongue twisting. In the interests of train punctuality my colleagues usually put them out of our misery and explained that the "e" is silent. :-)
I used to work in Charing Cross Road near to Leicester Square and I lost count of the number of times American tourists asked where to find "Lysester" Square. I did try to explain to begin with how to pronounce and then gave up. The disbelieving expressions on their faces was too much.
@@ds1868 I don't know how many American tourists use the Midland main line, but I do wonder what they make of consecutive stations Leicester and Loughborough, which they'd go through on the way to Derby (pronounced Durby) or Notting-Ham 🤔
I always find Jago's videos delightfully insightful and entertaining! Even when I've read about all the abandoned stations and other video topics or those "hmm that's interesting" moments while on the Tube myself, I always end up learning SOMETHING that I wasn't aware of, despite my inherent Tube-related geekiness 😂
Thank you so much for this interesting video. I have used Euston station for the last 42 years and never realised this disused station existed. I feel a visit is necessary.....
I actually quite liked Euston mainline station, at least the interior, using it as a youngster in the early 1970s. It seemed the height of modernity after going into Waterloo on an ancient Southern commuter train and crossing to Euston on clattery old red-painted Northern line 1938 stock. Emerging from the escalator it felt almost like an airport. The black rubber floor tiling was clean, the indicator board state of the art and the overhead line powered electric trains felt new and very fast, plus you got a seat! All went downhill gradually over the years though.
It’s that mongrel ambience of airport meets motorway service station that I so dislike about Euston. Feel the same about Birmingham New Street. You can’t even see the trains from the concourse, which makes it so boring.
Yes I agree. Some of the facilities (catering, taxi rank) were inadequate from the start though, and the platforms have always been horrible. The decline started with the cluttering up of the concourse with nasty retail units in the early 70s. The recent mezzanine has helped declutter the floor space, but at the cost of spoiling the light and airy feel.
I always liked the Euston mainline station, too, more than any other London terminus. Moreover, while I think that HS2 is an idiotic project, I actually *dislike* the ventilation shaft building. As far as I am concerned, if it goes for HS2 that is perhaps the project's only benefit! There is always so much talk about supposedly lightning-fast rail travel in continental Europe, and yet British railway travel is hardly if at all inferior. There is high speed travel between St. Pancras and Brussels, and yet the shortest current advertised time for travel between Essen at the heart of Germany's Ruhr area and St. Pancras is 6 hours and 35 minutes for 491 km (305 miles), giving an average speed of just 75 km/h or a little over 46 mph (!), even though there are direct trains between Essen and Brussels.
I cant remember how many times I have been asked about getting from Euston Square to Euston, one time I was a bit cruel and sent someone to Warren St to get the Northern Line to there. I was having a bad day. Anyway a friend of mine who works for the tube has told me they are going to build a tunnel from Euston Square to Euston which makes me wonder why its taken them so long to do that. Hopefully its not going to be a stupidly long tunnel which doesnt take an age to walk. I wont miss Euston, it has all the charm of a dead tortoise and sometimes it smells like one too.
That's when/if Crossrail 2 goes via Euston because of the size of the platforms. Foe example the Liverpool Street Crossrail platform stretches from Liverpool Street to Moorgate.
You are right - that was nasty! But at least you didn't suggest going to King's Cross on one of the subsurface lines and then taking the Victoria or the Northern Line for the second leg of the trip!
Excellent video as always Jago. Many thanks. I had cause recently to use Euston quite a bit to get to Slough, (Don't ask).via Paddington of course and that 500 yard usually wet walk past beggars and such, made me think, surely there should be a tube station within Euston itself that goes directly to all the other mainline stations in London. And apparently there was, but no more. Yes, I know there is a Euston underground station, but getting to Paddington from it certainly, wasn't easy. The walk was much easier and a lot quicker, if not drier and less "confrontational". Shame they have to demolish the Green designed building. I hope they do conserve it somehow and bring back.the Arch too. The original or a replica. Cheers.
Euston to Paddington is easy on the tube, Victoria line to Oxford Circus then Bakerloo to Paddington though this route is never offered on the various Journey Planning tools it seems. 48 minutes walk; 16 minutes cycling; 20 minutes 205 bus; 27 minutes on my route though bizarrely TFL say it takes 7 minutes to get from Euston station to Euston Victoria line southbound platform and then 5 minutes to get from Paddington Bakerloo northbound platform to Paddington Station where as combined it probably takes me 5 minutes max but then I do know where to get on to get off at the right place to minimise walking time at all three stations.
Ever since I first heard the plans for the Hampstead Tube buildings I've thought it would be a lovely touch of whimsy to preserve them and integrate them inside the booking hall of the new HS2 Euston Station, either as a tube entrance or a shop of some sort. Modern railway design would do well to embrace more whimsy
A modern building that no-one likes? I like it. I fact, I think Euston station, particularly seen from 1st floor level, is one of the most stunning stations on the railway system Airy, light, beautifully proportioned - what's not to like? Stafford similarly shows the confidence and style of the sixties. Note: lots of old stations are great too.
Very good one Jago (as always). Apart from the different way Americans might say 'Euston', I'm almost certain there would have been a previous mention about how our American friends pronounce the word 'Tube' as 'Toob'? As a former Londoner now living near Toronto, Canada for the past 40 years, I still like to keep up to date about what is happening across the pond, and Jago's informative videos are a great help.
Hey, I'm from the Toronto area~! Now I live near Fake London, Ontario. Also, word of advice, Canadians and Americans always put the state the State or Province when talking about a city, so Toronto, Canada is actually Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Toronto, Canada just sounds really really wrong to me, same as someone saying Legos instead of Lego
Great video, as per usual. I did one of the hidden underground tours years ago at the insistence of my best mate (he works for the underground). It inspired me to write my vampire novels that incorporate the then disused tunnels and stations of the network as home for the under the city vampires.
It’s a shame that there isn’t a place like Beamish or the weald and downland museum which looks after London buildings where the Leslie Green ticket hall could be preserved… As ever, fascinating!
It seems that Euston became what New York’s Grand Central Terminal could have if the Landmarks Law stepped in. There are three subway stations beneath GCT, the original 1904 station that was aligned for GCT’s predecessor, Grand Central Depot, the Lexington Avenue Line (4, 5, & 6) station & the deep tube Flushing Line (7) station. Unfortunately, all that is left of the magnificent Pennsylvania Station is underground. The building was demolished to make way for the fourth Madison Square Garden & a high rise office complex.
Funny thing, I was grocery stopping, when I started to hear Jago's voice. My first thought was that he had gotten so well known they were playing him over the store, like music. Of course my phone had somehow started this video, but just for a second it was really awesome.
The careful observer, like yourself, can notice all sorts of oddities. Rarely do we go check out the actual history (thanks Jago for doing what my lazy butt doesnt). What we find is that history is littered with lots of "good intentions"....which as we know, is what the road to hell is paved with. Apparently theres an underground line too with its own stations :-))
⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH "BEST.FURDICH.FUN" > SATISFY.BABY < tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤💌💘
Thanks again Jago ! l wonder if anyone announcing a delayed train has quipped : Euston we have a problem ! Followed by : Well l'm of to the pub for a shot of Jago Meister !
4:44 seeing Camden station in the summer time, when I'm stuck in covid isolation and am an economic excile from London, looking out at a windy cold Leeds in January, makes me quite nostalgic
@@PMA65537 There is a saying "you are what you eat", but despite ingesting lots of millionaire's shortbread, my bank manager vehemently denies that the balance of my account is remotely close to £1,000,000.00.
Crafty edit at about 1:20- a train comes from the right and then (if you're not paying sufficient attention) reverses away. I had to go back and watch it again to make sense of what I thought I'd seen. Nice one, Jago!
When posting a comment, how does one make a reference to a particular time on the clip show in blue, so that you can jump straight to that point in it? Never been able to find that out.
What you don't appear to have noticed was that it was two different lines, with a surface stock train coming in at 1:15 , but a tube stock train leaving at 1:20 !
What’s interesting to me has been that every time I sneak another look at Drummond Street, another building around it is gone whilst the red facade survives. Not for much longer it seems though. I love Hidden London, I must do the Euston one at some point
@@CaseyJonesNumber1 not according to some accounts they are meant to be large lumps of masonry. Then again after the time they've bin there they're probably ruined anyway
Every time I visit St Pancras, I have my picture taken with John Betjeman. I stand next to him with my hand on his shoulder and look up in the direction he's looking with my other hand pointing to the line of sight, as if to say, John, look up there.
It's always fascinating to learn new things about places I've even been to many times, I never even knew about the old building in the first place! It's a shame that HS2 will be the end of it, especially with the recent announcements, but I do hope there's some truth to those preservation rumours after all.
One other (quite well-known) fact about Euston was that it would've been the home of the (ill-fated) Advanced Passenger train, had it remained in service and got to the APT-S stage. A shame, really, as I never got the chance to travel on one.
@@thomasburke2683 It made a load of well oiled journo's sick which didn't help PR. Ultimately the technology was sold to the Italians who had the foresight to perfect rather than abandon it.
@@thomasburke2683 BR unfortunately didn't do any "average punter experience" testing before loading APT up with the well oiled journalists. What the design teams didn't appreciate was perfecting the tilt to fully cancel out the feeling of going round corners made people rather ill when they could look out the windows and see the tilt.. later on the tilt was dialed back so it didn't fully compensate for the motion and I think the windows were sized to help with the effects too. As usual with late 20th century British engineering we then sold the idea on when we'd mainly figured out the kinks so someone else could productively profit from it!
@@craigwelsh What I was peed off to find was that the R&D budget for the train was only £50M. vVen accounting for inflation, that's a tiny amount in today's money. They never should've sent it out until it was fully tested and certainly not on a freezing cold winter's day with journos who presumably used the booze to keep warm and pass the time...
I remember back in 1987 missing the last train home, so me & a mate slept rough on one of the benches, only to be woken up at 5am with the station being packed with commuters!
I used to work for TFL’s Hidden London - working in Clapham South Deep Level Shelter & Down Street Station. I’d HIGHLY recommend anybody who reads this visits - it’s fascinating stuff. Especially Down Street!
Another good video Jago. I do hope they rescue the Leslie Green façade before the building gets demolished. Even if it just goes into storage of a museum because if it gets trashed we can never get it back.
⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH "BEST.FURDICH.FUN" > SATISFY.BABY < tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤💌💘
⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH "BEST.FURDICH.FUN" > SATISFY.BABY < tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤💌💘
I've always thought it a mistake that Euston Underground stations has no entrance other than the one in the National Rail concourse, as no other major London terminus has such an arrangement - there will be passengers heading towards the Euston Road who don't want the NR station. And with the coming of Night Tube, it's forced that annoying new arrangement, where a new wall has been built to make the Underground entrance now outside the NR station. I believe that with HS2, there will be additional entrances.
My late father was a qualified cabinet maker, but in the 1950s so many large houses were being demolished. There was no work. He transferred to constructing the interiors of first class carriages, and used all the same skills as he did making furniture, the quality was amazing. Some men that he worked with had started their working lives at the tail end of the use of coaches, and told him that a first class carriage was the equal to any coach. Then along came He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, at least amongst railway buffs, who closed so much down. Poor dad was in the wrong place at the wrong time, again.
It's funny, for all my years living in London, being interested in railways and buses (buses more) I have never been inside of Euston station (😲gasp shock horror) I only stopped outside when I was a bus driver on various routes that served it... And now if they are knocking it down, I shall never step foot inside... Well I plan to travel back to London end of Feb beginning of March for a brief visit, as we can travel to the UK now from Austria, so maybe I might have to tick this one off..... If its still there.... Great video as usual sir..
⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH "BEST.FURDICH.FUN" > SATISFY.BABY < tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤💌💘
1961? Little had changed even by the mid-sixties at Euston. The Great Hall was still there, the soot-covered Propyleum, chalk boards pointed out the 'steam platforms and electric ones (the dc 'New Lines'). In 1968 I was always running between the being-demolished Euston (under the Propyleum) in order to get round the corner and down the steps to Euston Square Circle Line. (I always used Euston as it was only five bob's worth from Watford by a cl.5 or Jubillee-hauled semi-fast from Bletchley and I loved the old station). Thanks though, I never really noticed the 'Green' building!
Our company was replacing all of the metal gratings on all of the hallways and platforms. We stored the grates in part of the disused tunnel. It was very eerie seeing all the posters from long ago.
My father home-brews beer, and my understanding is that vibration is bad for beer, which is probably one of the reasons why building a line too close to a beer cellar is not considered a good idea.
⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH "BEST.FURDICH.FUN" > SATISFY.BABY < tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤💌💘
Well, Mr H, another superb video chock full of captivating tidbits (why is the 'd' always pronounced as 't'?) It's worth too considering that some of the original railway mania is fast approaching two centuries ago, so perhaps that explains why demands and tastes have changed (did I say it was for the better? No, I thought not). Thanks, Mr H. Do please keep up the good work. Simon T
⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH "BEST.FURDICH.FUN" > SATISFY.BABY < tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤💌💘
Quite simple really. TITBITS is English but our prudish American friends changed their version to TIDBITS, both in spelling and pronunciation to avoid having to use the ever-so-scandalous word TIT!!!
There's another fragment of the previous Euston Station that survived the wrecking ball, but it only exists in a non-physical sense. I was told by a busy Platform Manager in the very early 90s that the four middle Local and DC platforms are sometimes referred to by the staff, signalling and train crews as 'The Wood', as they were formerly constructed out of wood before the shiny 60s edifice we see today replaced the old station. I cynically wonder if this will still be the case when the next monumental Terminus rises from the site, or whether this too will be unceremoniously consigned to the memory hole.
As Euston station is to have a massive upgrade because of HS2. I think there should be a underground pedestrianised walkway/tunnel to connect from Euston Square tube station to Euston main line station once the main line station at London Euston is finished and HS2 is completed.
Tangentially related - I always wondered why part of the Euston Square Circle Line station platforms was tiled in Victoria Line grey / blue. A planned connecting walkway to Warren Street or Euston which never got off the (under) ground? Don’t know if it still is - I haven’t been to Euston Square station in years…
If they build the new Euston mainline station to somewhat resemble the the style of the other old mainline stations (Paddington, Kings Cross, St. Pancras), I think it would be neat to build a replica of the old tube station that will soon be demolished inside the new station. Either as the entrance to the tube station, or simply as a storefront for a retail or restaurant establishment to occupy. Just copy that famous facade. Jago, I once again spied a shot from the National Railway Musuem in York! I hope one day you make a dedicated video about the trains in that museum. Even if it's 8 hours long, lol. Does anyone know where we can find more photos of the old Euston Station that was demolished?? A lot of preservationists apparently bemoan it's demolishing, yet about the only photo I see online is that of the old Euston Arch. Nothing really of the interior, or the exterior besides the arch. On the other hand, there's lots of photos one can find of the old Penn Station in NYC that show off both the exterior and interior.
Used to regularly visit the lovely Bree Louise pub just around the corner, now sacrificed to the god HS2. Nice to see from Google Street View that all the restaurants on Drummond St haven't been wiped out as well.
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In fifty years of beer drinking, I have never experienced worse cask ale than in the Bree Louise. Thank God it's closed. It was only ever popular because it gave CAMRA members a discount. I am glad about the Drummond St Indian vegetarian restaurants though.
I have not watched to the end yet, If Jago does not end with " You Are the Art Noveau Florishes to my Disused Lift Shafts ", I will be surprised.
Surprised you are in deed.
Fun fact: Euston was originally named after Sam Houston, the guy who was briefly president of Texas. Doubly impressive because it was named after him a decade or two before he was born, and they spelled it differently.
Same logic for the naming of Heuston Station in Dublin.
The equivalent of Cockney for 'Acne, 'ArrinGay, 'AMpstid, etc, etc. Or the oppiste treatment to Peter Ustinov's Poirot calling Edgware 'Hedgware'? 🙂
@norphar nope you are talking absolute rubbish and you know it.
Euston we have a problem
@@roseharvey2664according to Wikipedia, it was named after Sean Heuston.
Always felt there should be a pedestrian foot tunnel between Euston and Euston Sq.
I walk between the two quite often and every time they seem to get a bit further apart. Are they on different tectonic plates or something?
You and every other living human.
There will be as part of the HS2 works
@@caw25sha Maybe there is 'stuff' in the way underground. A lot of once used government buildings in the area.
@@caw25sha I believe that one is on the Young Tectonic Plate, and the other is on the Elder Tectonic Plate, which move apart rapidly...
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I actually like the 1960s architecture of Euston station. It's a bit too cluttered inside now, but in the 70s it still looked spacious and clean.
In the early 1900s people thought that ozone (O3) was good for you, and would go to the seaside to "breathe in the ozone". However, the "ozone" smell of the sea is actually hydrogen sulphide (H2S), produced by plankton in the water. Don't worry it's far too dilute to be harmful.
I'm glad somebody agrees with me regarding the 1960s Euston station. The concourse was so open and bright in the 1970s and perhaps even the 80s. But then it was filled with tacky stalls, obstructing everybody's view and causing people to bump into others.
Greed, the greed for rental income from these retail units, was what messed up Euston station.
All sources I found after a cursory search say it's dimethyl sulfide, not hydrogen sulfide. The latter, even if highly diluted, will still smell like rotten eggs.
@@thomasburke2683 Agreed
It really did look so much better in its early years, and actually in the last decade or so (when a lot of the kiosks and other obstacles that were cluttering the main concourse were moved towards the edges) it's become fairly fine again, IMO, and I like how spacious it feels. The narrow corridors that lead to the ramps to the platforms are grim - similar to Penn Station in NYC - and the outside plaza area is... well, it's fine. It feels exactly as soulless and bland as any other office complex built in the last century, and even if the pedestrian routes in and out are frustrated by the bus station and taxi ramps, it's no more or less than many other interchanges. It's not my favourite station by any stretch, but I don't get why it's so reviled either (excepting the whole "how dare they knock down my gaudy Victoriana"/concrete no longer being in fashion stuff). The revamped trio of St Pancras/King's Cross/London Bridge are all clearly superior, but the ways in which those three have been so successfully refurbed makes me feel that we're at risk of repeating the mistake of the 1960s planners. Keep that Euston concourse and redevelop around it, and play to the strengths of mid-century modernism (it has many! honestly!), instead of knocking it down just because it's been cluttered with coffee shops and kiosks. After all, Liverpool Street is an insane mess these days, but nobody's claiming that means the whole thing has to be knocked down and rebuilt from scratch.
Agreed. Euston is a fine station
5:19 The Ozonizing plant would produce Ozone, which would be pumped into the passenger areas of the station, such as the platforms. During the 1910's this was common on the Underground as part of some scheme to improve the smell of the Underground's stations (the Ozone was supposed to smell like the Sea). This didn't really work very well, so the plan was abandoned by the 1920's.
Ozone is that kind of burnt smell in the air where someone's been welding. And while it's vital in the upper atmosphere to the survival of pasty-faced Anglo-Celts in Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes (Australia - world champions in per capita melanoma rates wooo), it's actually pretty toxic.
John Betjeman mentioned Ozonair in a 60's documentary.
I wonder if they finally discovered how ozone can cause severe respiratory disease?
@@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome Didn’t he bemoan the coming of the HST
@@oscarosullivan4513Possibly. I bemoan newer trains over older ones myself so that would make sense
Ozone is actually found at Blackpool Beach - its where the ladies wearing full swimming kit walk into the sea water, when it gets to about their midrift they go " O, O, O ", so about 4foot out from the tide line.
Thank you. Don't call us, we'll call you. Kindly leave the stage...
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WTF !!!!
Jago - I'm a little disappointed that you didn't say " Euston we have a problem!" ! - I'll leave quietly, no need to push.
I've been on that behind-the-scenes tour, and if you're into the history of the tube (which you must be if you're watching a Jago video) it's a fantastic thing to do :)
I would find it very interesting,too.
Love al his vIdd ,so much i lerning
Would love meet jeff &have a drink with him
@@raybolasco9457 I would love too except im a Brit in NZ. I follow Jago and others to help with feeling sad. Books are good for this too. I would also love to be there when there is an open house london event. This would be my ideal vacation trip!
I am not into History of the Tube. I am into Jago Hazard's video and I am still find that interesting. I am gonna visit one day!!!
It's a shame about the Green station building going. He had such a tragically short career that it seems especially sad when one of his works is lost.
Which one
He may have had a short career, but his stations are all over the place. I think the Ox Blood finish looks hideous, like what I'm expecting the buildings in Hell will look like.
@@dukenukem5768 Yeah, see, I expect most of the buildings in Hell look like they were designed by Frank Gehry.
@@ZGryphon Never heard of Gehry, but just Googled him. Yes, his buildings would suit _Hell Modern_ or at least be in the circle of Hell reserved for pretentious people. But I suspect that Lucifer's taste inclines to the Greco-Roman building style (which, being pagan, was avoided by the Christian church for many years) with baroque detailing, externally faced with a highly fired hard gloss ceramic in an unrelieved blood red colour - rather like Leslie Green's creations in fact.
@@dukenukem5768 (shrug) I quite like them. Maybe I'm the Devil and haven't realized it yet.
I worked at Euston Underground Stn. from 99' to 2004. Used to do 'section 12' checks regularly, this was done to check for breaches of fire safety rules, you'd have to walk in the disused areas, dusty and dirty and untouched since 1967. Remember poster for a Jerry Lewis film, advert for an NSU car and a LT poster stating closure of old entrances and making way for new Victoria line. It's the only underground station accessible through mainline station only. Saw a number of well known people come through here too and Chris Green who was the Managing Director of Network Southeast, think he worked in the offices upstairs for National Railway.
Around 1940 my parents bought me a scooter propelled by a back and forth lever and steered with both feet. It was called an "Irish Mail". This was in Texas, USA. My home town of Corpus Christi is near a large city called Houston which we pronounce much like you Brits pronounce "Euston". Cheers from the Lone Star State.
Euston, We Have A Problem?
@@davidjames579 No problem, just two nations separated by a common language.
@@MarvinStroud3 A Mark Twain quote if I'm not mistaken.
In the great scheme of things it seems a shame that the facade can't be dismantled and reused elsewhere on site, or indeed on the network. Or perhaps find a home in the new Museum of London at Smithfield, into which (I think) the lower level tube platform is being integrated? Or was when the first proposals for it were being unveiled?
Don’t worry the British have problems with Ottawa.
Ottawa?
@@chazzyb8660 It is not O T TER AH WHA. When it comes to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,. Cincinatti, they really are struggling.
Mate, not sure whether to reply as you are clearly replying to another thread. I was talking about architecture.
My great-grandfather's business did build a lot of railways in Canada, and some of the family moved out there, but that is a long time ago now, and I admit I haven't been to visit in years. I hope I have picked up a bit of pronunciation over the years, my parents lived in France for many years, my step-mother is Polish, but yes first-nations derived city names are a bit alien. I hope I would have the gumption to find out how they should be pronounced before opening my mouth?
I would hope they could reassemble it inside the new station. Either use it as the entry way for the tube station, or as a store front.
My Great Gran used to confuse Euston & Houston...for a while she was convinced they sent men into space from Euston, in fairness she was born before powered flight! Gen Dit.
I used to get co-workers visit from Houston and we had a few Euston wordplay japes that we played on them while they were in London.
The temptation must be very great for railway dispatchers informing staff at Euston of faults on the line to start every such conversation with "Euston, we have a problem."
Hadn't realised there would have been a direct connection from the Charing Cross branch to Euston/Kings Cross/St Pancras in the original plans. I would have loved that in my days of lugging heavy cases from Waterloo to Kings Cross and searching for the best changing points. Not until quite late did I discover the answer; Bakerloo to Oxford Circus and cross-platform interchange on to the Victoria. Not the most intuitive route from the tube map, it looks like a dog-leg. A pity they couldn't manage a cross-platform interchange at Warren Street, or find a way to represent them on the Tube map.
As a former LT employee, it's always a source of innocent humour to experience an American tourist asking for directions to Euston. Their insistence on pronouncing every letter marks them out and they find the "eu" sound particularly tongue twisting. In the interests of train punctuality my colleagues usually put them out of our misery and explained that the "e" is silent. :-)
So, they now pronounce it "Us-ton".. 😄
Try "Euxton" near Chorley Lancashire. Pronounced X-ton.
I used to work in Charing Cross Road near to Leicester Square and I lost count of the number of times American tourists asked where to find "Lysester" Square. I did try to explain to begin with how to pronounce and then gave up. The disbelieving expressions on their faces was too much.
Surely it's the same as Europe? Although that might be confusing for Germans, who'd pronounce it "Oiston" ? 👨⚖️🙍♂️
@@ds1868 I don't know how many American tourists use the Midland main line, but I do wonder what they make of consecutive stations Leicester and Loughborough, which they'd go through on the way to Derby (pronounced Durby) or Notting-Ham 🤔
I always find Jago's videos delightfully insightful and entertaining! Even when I've read about all the abandoned stations and other video topics or those "hmm that's interesting" moments while on the Tube myself, I always end up learning SOMETHING that I wasn't aware of, despite my inherent Tube-related geekiness 😂
Thank you so much for this interesting video. I have used Euston station for the last 42 years and never realised this disused station existed. I feel a visit is necessary.....
I actually quite liked Euston mainline station, at least the interior, using it as a youngster in the early 1970s. It seemed the height of modernity after going into Waterloo on an ancient Southern commuter train and crossing to Euston on clattery old red-painted Northern line 1938 stock. Emerging from the escalator it felt almost like an airport. The black rubber floor tiling was clean, the indicator board state of the art and the overhead line powered electric trains felt new and very fast, plus you got a seat! All went downhill gradually over the years though.
Thanks
It’s that mongrel ambience of airport meets motorway service station that I so dislike about Euston. Feel the same about Birmingham New Street. You can’t even see the trains from the concourse, which makes it so boring.
Yes I agree. Some of the facilities (catering, taxi rank) were inadequate from the start though, and the platforms have always been horrible.
The decline started with the cluttering up of the concourse with nasty retail units in the early 70s. The recent mezzanine has helped declutter the floor space, but at the cost of spoiling the light and airy feel.
I always liked the Euston mainline station, too, more than any other London terminus.
Moreover, while I think that HS2 is an idiotic project, I actually *dislike* the ventilation shaft building. As far as I am concerned, if it goes for HS2 that is perhaps the project's only benefit!
There is always so much talk about supposedly lightning-fast rail travel in continental Europe, and yet British railway travel is hardly if at all inferior. There is high speed travel between St. Pancras and Brussels, and yet the shortest current advertised time for travel between Essen at the heart of Germany's Ruhr area and St. Pancras is 6 hours and 35 minutes for 491 km (305 miles), giving an average speed of just 75 km/h or a little over 46 mph (!), even though there are direct trains between Essen and Brussels.
Nocking down a beautiful building and putting up something that no one likes?
As someone from Brum, that sentence hits DEEP.
I'm not one of those who hate on Euston, I always think it's a lot like an airport so it has a sort of air of excitement to it.
Agree with this, it bears eerie resemblance to the original Belgrade Airport Terminal!
Air… excitement?
Aside from all the many reasons to visit London and environs, your videos make me really feel the need to revisit. Thanks
The weaving of the Victoria line through what was already a busy hub and the cross platform interchanges still deserves its own video.
The biggest tragedy regarding the construction of HS2 was the closing and demolishing of the Bree Louise, one of the finest pubs I've ever visited.
I cant remember how many times I have been asked about getting from Euston Square to Euston, one time I was a bit cruel and sent someone to Warren St to get the Northern Line to there. I was having a bad day. Anyway a friend of mine who works for the tube has told me they are going to build a tunnel from Euston Square to Euston which makes me wonder why its taken them so long to do that. Hopefully its not going to be a stupidly long tunnel which doesnt take an age to walk. I wont miss Euston, it has all the charm of a dead tortoise and sometimes it smells like one too.
That's when/if Crossrail 2 goes via Euston because of the size of the platforms. Foe example the Liverpool Street Crossrail platform stretches from Liverpool Street to Moorgate.
You are right - that was nasty! But at least you didn't suggest going to King's Cross on one of the subsurface lines and then taking the Victoria or the Northern Line for the second leg of the trip!
When the Doric Arch was demolished in 1962, it caused much angst and anguish at the time.
Excellent video as always Jago. Many thanks.
I had cause recently to use Euston quite a bit to get to Slough, (Don't ask).via Paddington of course and that 500 yard usually wet walk past beggars and such, made me think, surely there should be a tube station within Euston itself that goes directly to all the other mainline stations in London. And apparently there was, but no more.
Yes, I know there is a Euston underground station, but getting to Paddington from it certainly, wasn't easy. The walk was much easier and a lot quicker, if not drier and less "confrontational".
Shame they have to demolish the Green designed building. I hope they do conserve it somehow and bring back.the Arch too. The original or a replica.
Cheers.
The 205 bus is the easiest way to get from Euston to Paddington.
@@katrinabryce Fair enough. Many thanks for that. If ever I'm in needed in Slough again, I shall use that. Cheers
Euston to Paddington is easy on the tube, Victoria line to Oxford Circus then Bakerloo to Paddington though this route is never offered on the various Journey Planning tools it seems. 48 minutes walk; 16 minutes cycling; 20 minutes 205 bus; 27 minutes on my route though bizarrely TFL say it takes 7 minutes to get from Euston station to Euston Victoria line southbound platform and then 5 minutes to get from Paddington Bakerloo northbound platform to Paddington Station where as combined it probably takes me 5 minutes max but then I do know where to get on to get off at the right place to minimise walking time at all three stations.
@@nlemecfc Fair enough. Many thanks. Next time, if there is one, I shall certainly give that route a try. Cheers
Ever since I first heard the plans for the Hampstead Tube buildings I've thought it would be a lovely touch of whimsy to preserve them and integrate them inside the booking hall of the new HS2 Euston Station, either as a tube entrance or a shop of some sort. Modern railway design would do well to embrace more whimsy
If i ever have the chance to visit London again some of these Hidden London tours will be No.1 on my list .Love these stories by Jago .
A modern building that no-one likes? I like it. I fact, I think Euston station, particularly seen from 1st floor level, is one of the most stunning stations on the railway system Airy, light, beautifully proportioned - what's not to like? Stafford similarly shows the confidence and style of the sixties. Note: lots of old stations are great too.
Exactly! When I lived in London, Euston was my favourite terminus architecturally. Marylebone might have come next, if it hadn't been half-finished.
Very good one Jago (as always). Apart from the different way Americans might say 'Euston', I'm almost certain there would have been a previous mention about how our American friends pronounce the word 'Tube' as 'Toob'?
As a former Londoner now living near Toronto, Canada for the past 40 years, I still like to keep up to date about what is happening across the pond, and Jago's informative videos are a great help.
It's not spelled Chube.
Hey, I'm from the Toronto area~! Now I live near Fake London, Ontario. Also, word of advice, Canadians and Americans always put the state the State or Province when talking about a city, so Toronto, Canada is actually Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Toronto, Canada just sounds really really wrong to me, same as someone saying Legos instead of Lego
@@themoviedealers That's assimilation of the sounds. What Americans do is called yod-dropping.
Always fascinated by how dis- jointed the tube started. Love the videos. And such a soothing voice !!
Love the beer bottle on the window sill of the party train as it pulls into the station.
Dirty shame to knock that beautiful building down. Hopefully architectural details inside and out will be preserved.
It would be nice if that glazed tile facade or facades, could be incorporated in some building or other
Enjoyed the video. Good historical information. Loved the brief look of the trains at the Museum.
Great video, as per usual. I did one of the hidden underground tours years ago at the insistence of my best mate (he works for the underground). It inspired me to write my vampire novels that incorporate the then disused tunnels and stations of the network as home for the under the city vampires.
Been on that Hidden London tour. Yours is a great video, as always.
It’s a shame that there isn’t a place like Beamish or the weald and downland museum which looks after London buildings where the Leslie Green ticket hall could be preserved…
As ever, fascinating!
There are plenty of other Leslie Green stations.
Another great video Jago, thank you !
It seems that Euston became what New York’s Grand Central Terminal could have if the Landmarks Law stepped in. There are three subway stations beneath GCT, the original 1904 station that was aligned for GCT’s predecessor, Grand Central Depot, the Lexington Avenue Line (4, 5, & 6) station & the deep tube Flushing Line (7) station. Unfortunately, all that is left of the magnificent Pennsylvania Station is underground. The building was demolished to make way for the fourth Madison Square Garden & a high rise office complex.
Funny how Penn and Euston were demolished at the same time.
Replaced by concrete blocks
I like the 60s Euston. Especially the interior with its extensive balcony. It's a shame if it's to be demolished.
Funny thing, I was grocery stopping, when I started to hear Jago's voice. My first thought was that he had gotten so well known they were playing him over the store, like music. Of course my phone had somehow started this video, but just for a second it was really awesome.
The careful observer, like yourself, can notice all sorts of oddities. Rarely do we go check out the actual history (thanks Jago for doing what my lazy butt doesnt). What we find is that history is littered with lots of "good intentions"....which as we know, is what the road to hell is paved with. Apparently theres an underground line too with its own stations :-))
⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH
"BEST.FURDICH.FUN"
> SATISFY.BABY <
tricks I do not know
Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today.
Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
Dene: '' Muzdak ''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
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Hell has underground stations? YESSSS! *presses the down elevator button* 🛗😄
Thanks again Jago !
l wonder if anyone announcing a delayed train has quipped : Euston we have a problem ! Followed by : Well l'm of to the pub for a shot of Jago Meister !
Very good. Spent many happy hours at Euston mainline until I retired in 2019
Good one Jago 👍
The tours get booked up super fast, I've been trying for 6 mths!
4:44 seeing Camden station in the summer time, when I'm stuck in covid isolation and am an economic excile from London, looking out at a windy cold Leeds in January, makes me quite nostalgic
Your humour is BRILLIANT “we’ll be millionaires by Christmas”
Is he claiming not to be a millionaire now? McDonalds will sell you a millionaire's doughnut without a check of your assets.
But which Christmas?
@@PMA65537 There is a saying "you are what you eat", but despite ingesting lots of millionaire's shortbread, my bank manager vehemently denies that the balance of my account is remotely close to £1,000,000.00.
Crafty edit at about 1:20- a train comes from the right and then (if you're not paying sufficient attention) reverses away. I had to go back and watch it again to make sense of what I thought I'd seen.
Nice one, Jago!
Was rather disturbing.
When posting a comment, how does one make a reference to a particular time on the clip show in blue, so that you can jump straight to that point in it? Never been able to find that out.
@@Krzyszczynski It did it on its own. I think it's caused by the colon in the middle.
@@Krzyszczynski just type it as you can see it above: 1:20 with no other characters adjoining.
What you don't appear to have noticed was that it was two different lines, with a surface stock train coming in at 1:15 , but a tube stock train leaving at 1:20 !
What’s interesting to me has been that every time I sneak another look at Drummond Street, another building around it is gone whilst the red facade survives. Not for much longer it seems though.
I love Hidden London, I must do the Euston one at some point
Great episode Jago!
The remnants of the Euston Arch are in situ in the canal at Bromley by Bow.i understand there are plans to recover them and re-erect the arch.
I thought that they had been recovered, and are currently in storage. Maybe I'm wrong, I often am...
The remains are just jack-hammered fragments. It would look a right mess, and with chunks missing. The only way is start anew...
@@CaseyJonesNumber1 not according to some accounts they are meant to be large lumps of masonry. Then again after the time they've bin there they're probably ruined anyway
@@PLuMUK54 I was watching a vlog about London so canals and I think it was Geoff Marshall who was on Londonist talking about the chunks of masonry
Always found it interesting that the Arch at Euston was made of Hewn Stone
Love that the subtitles keep refencing Houston!
They have a problem.
Every time I visit St Pancras, I have my picture taken with John Betjeman. I stand next to him with my hand on his shoulder and look up in the direction he's looking with my other hand pointing to the line of sight, as if to say, John, look up there.
It's always fascinating to learn new things about places I've even been to many times, I never even knew about the old building in the first place! It's a shame that HS2 will be the end of it, especially with the recent announcements, but I do hope there's some truth to those preservation rumours after all.
HS2 I think threatens a grade one tudor house
One other (quite well-known) fact about Euston was that it would've been the home of the (ill-fated) Advanced Passenger train, had it remained in service and got to the APT-S stage. A shame, really, as I never got the chance to travel on one.
You were lucky!
The APT made people seasick, or so we were told. Very few got to experience it.
@@thomasburke2683 It made a load of well oiled journo's sick which didn't help PR. Ultimately the technology was sold to the Italians who had the foresight to perfect rather than abandon it.
If you’ve ridden on a class 390, you’ve ridden on the modern successor.
@@thomasburke2683 BR unfortunately didn't do any "average punter experience" testing before loading APT up with the well oiled journalists. What the design teams didn't appreciate was perfecting the tilt to fully cancel out the feeling of going round corners made people rather ill when they could look out the windows and see the tilt.. later on the tilt was dialed back so it didn't fully compensate for the motion and I think the windows were sized to help with the effects too.
As usual with late 20th century British engineering we then sold the idea on when we'd mainly figured out the kinks so someone else could productively profit from it!
@@craigwelsh What I was peed off to find was that the R&D budget for the train was only £50M. vVen accounting for inflation, that's a tiny amount in today's money. They never should've sent it out until it was fully tested and certainly not on a freezing cold winter's day with journos who presumably used the booze to keep warm and pass the time...
I remember back in 1987 missing the last train home, so me & a mate slept rough on one of the benches, only to be woken up at 5am with the station being packed with commuters!
Chap vaping at 0:14 - my time to shine
Been to Euston so many times but never noticed that building, thanks
I used to work for TFL’s Hidden London - working in Clapham South Deep Level Shelter & Down Street Station. I’d HIGHLY recommend anybody who reads this visits - it’s fascinating stuff. Especially Down Street!
I would have been so chuffed to find that poster for "PSYCHO". Time capsule from the 60s indeed!
Euston has a football team named for a mathematician. It’s called the Euston Eulers.
Another good video Jago.
I do hope they rescue the Leslie Green façade before the building gets demolished. Even if it just goes into storage of a museum because if it gets trashed we can never get it back.
There are plenty of other Leslie Green stations, all in better shape too.
Really interesting one, thanks. Now I want to go on that tour. I do hope they at least manage to preserve the Leslie Green facade.
Love the old Euston underground station building. Great in the late sixties for its great illegal rock gig posters!
Thanks for sharing.
I’m going on 10 Feb on the hidden London tour. Sooooo excited.
Just the thing to start my weekend 😀
You could write an opera about the ventilation shafts - an "air"a?
⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH
"BEST.FURDICH.FUN"
> SATISFY.BABY <
tricks I do not know
Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today.
Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
Dene: '' Muzdak ''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
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Thanks for ventilating! :D
interesting video as always. good job 👍
Another interesting video,. 🦋🦋🦋 thanks for sharing 🦋🦋🦋
⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH
"BEST.FURDICH.FUN"
> SATISFY.BABY <
tricks I do not know
Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today.
Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
Dene: '' Muzdak ''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
💗❤💌💘
I've always thought it a mistake that Euston Underground stations has no entrance other than the one in the National Rail concourse, as no other major London terminus has such an arrangement - there will be passengers heading towards the Euston Road who don't want the NR station.
And with the coming of Night Tube, it's forced that annoying new arrangement, where a new wall has been built to make the Underground entrance now outside the NR station. I believe that with HS2, there will be additional entrances.
Don't normally deal with "craft beer" but if Jago's brewing it, pour us a pint Guv!
I like the Dutch angle shots at the end - very arty!
Thanks! I thought I’d mix it up a bit.
Kitten Kong's scratching post lurking in the background at 7:45.
When I was living in London, I used to like to take the somewhat hidden shortcut between the Northern line and the Victoria line....
In those days a railway coach really was a coach!
My late father was a qualified cabinet maker, but in the 1950s so many large houses were being demolished. There was no work.
He transferred to constructing the interiors of first class carriages, and used all the same skills as he did making furniture, the quality was amazing. Some men that he worked with had started their working lives at the tail end of the use of coaches, and told him that a first class carriage was the equal to any coach.
Then along came He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, at least amongst railway buffs, who closed so much down.
Poor dad was in the wrong place at the wrong time, again.
It's funny, for all my years living in London, being interested in railways and buses (buses more) I have never been inside of Euston station (😲gasp shock horror) I only stopped outside when I was a bus driver on various routes that served it... And now if they are knocking it down, I shall never step foot inside... Well I plan to travel back to London end of Feb beginning of March for a brief visit, as we can travel to the UK now from Austria, so maybe I might have to tick this one off..... If its still there.... Great video as usual sir..
Another super vid Jago.
⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH
"BEST.FURDICH.FUN"
> SATISFY.BABY <
tricks I do not know
Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today.
Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
Dene: '' Muzdak ''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
💗❤💌💘
Sir, once again you excel your good self!
As a Northerner, i fnd these vids fascinating.
1961? Little had changed even by the mid-sixties at Euston. The Great Hall was still there, the soot-covered Propyleum, chalk boards pointed out the 'steam platforms and electric ones (the dc 'New Lines'). In 1968 I was always running between the being-demolished Euston (under the Propyleum) in order to get round the corner and down the steps to Euston Square Circle Line. (I always used Euston as it was only five bob's worth from Watford by a cl.5 or Jubillee-hauled semi-fast from Bletchley and I loved the old station). Thanks though, I never really noticed the 'Green' building!
Someone please correct my dates if I confuse 1968 with maybe 1965!
Euston station tube? Isn’t that something that links your ears to your throat?
Oh - wait a sec - that’s the Eustachian tube!
Our company was replacing all of the metal gratings on all of the hallways and platforms. We stored the grates in part of the disused tunnel. It was very eerie seeing all the posters from long ago.
If they could re-build that great arch, that would be amazing. Backward thinking to have it demolished in the first place.
My father home-brews beer, and my understanding is that vibration is bad for beer, which is probably one of the reasons why building a line too close to a beer cellar is not considered a good idea.
thanks Jago, another good one. Ah the sixties. that period where all the good buildings in Bradford were demolished and rubbish built in their place.
As someone from Brum, I feel that *hard*.
Quite informative and entertaining
⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH
"BEST.FURDICH.FUN"
> SATISFY.BABY <
tricks I do not know
Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today.
Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
Dene: '' Muzdak ''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
💗❤💌💘
Was working in Melton St shaft last week!!
Well, Mr H, another superb video chock full of captivating tidbits (why is the 'd' always pronounced as 't'?) It's worth too considering that some of the original railway mania is fast approaching two centuries ago, so perhaps that explains why demands and tastes have changed (did I say it was for the better? No, I thought not). Thanks, Mr H. Do please keep up the good work. Simon T
⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH
"BEST.FURDICH.FUN"
> SATISFY.BABY <
tricks I do not know
Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today.
Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
Dene: '' Muzdak ''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
💗❤💌💘
Quite simple really. TITBITS is English but our prudish American friends changed their version to TIDBITS, both in spelling and pronunciation to avoid having to use the ever-so-scandalous word TIT!!!
@@58andyr yes, the t i t part meaning something small.
6:57 oh an old poster on the wall, such a great fire hazard
You always learn something :)
There's another fragment of the previous Euston Station that survived the wrecking ball, but it only exists in a non-physical sense. I was told by a busy Platform Manager in the very early 90s that
the four middle Local and DC platforms are sometimes referred to by the staff, signalling and train crews as 'The Wood', as they were formerly constructed out of wood before the shiny 60s edifice we see today replaced the old station. I cynically wonder if this will still be the case when the next monumental Terminus rises from the site, or whether this too will be unceremoniously consigned to the memory hole.
As Euston station is to have a massive upgrade because of HS2. I think there should be a underground pedestrianised walkway/tunnel to connect from Euston Square tube station to Euston main line station once the main line station at London Euston is finished and HS2 is completed.
You're a little unkind to British Rail(ways) wanting to knock down Euston, the LMS wanted to knock it down too, but WW2 got in the way of their plans.
Could they not have given the lufwaffe a bit of better directions ?
The LMS also planned for the propylaeum to go too.
So even the Luftwaffe had better taste than the LMS and BR? Not surprising.
@@dukenukem5768 no, they were just as bad as hitting their targets as the RAF and USAAF were...
Tangentially related - I always wondered why part of the Euston Square Circle Line station platforms was tiled in Victoria Line grey / blue. A planned connecting walkway to Warren Street or Euston which never got off the (under) ground? Don’t know if it still is - I haven’t been to Euston Square station in years…
If they build the new Euston mainline station to somewhat resemble the the style of the other old mainline stations (Paddington, Kings Cross, St. Pancras), I think it would be neat to build a replica of the old tube station that will soon be demolished inside the new station. Either as the entrance to the tube station, or simply as a storefront for a retail or restaurant establishment to occupy. Just copy that famous facade.
Jago, I once again spied a shot from the National Railway Musuem in York! I hope one day you make a dedicated video about the trains in that museum. Even if it's 8 hours long, lol.
Does anyone know where we can find more photos of the old Euston Station that was demolished?? A lot of preservationists apparently bemoan it's demolishing, yet about the only photo I see online is that of the old Euston Arch. Nothing really of the interior, or the exterior besides the arch. On the other hand, there's lots of photos one can find of the old Penn Station in NYC that show off both the exterior and interior.
Hidden London tours may be addictive, be warned. Fascinating stuff again sir, thank you.
Used to regularly visit the lovely Bree Louise pub just around the corner, now sacrificed to the god HS2. Nice to see from Google Street View that all the restaurants on Drummond St haven't been wiped out as well.
⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH
"BEST.FURDICH.FUN"
> SATISFY.BABY <
tricks I do not know
Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today.
Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
Dene: '' Muzdak ''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
💗❤💌💘
In fifty years of beer drinking, I have never experienced worse cask ale than in the Bree Louise. Thank God it's closed. It was only ever popular because it gave CAMRA members a discount. I am glad about the Drummond St Indian vegetarian restaurants though.
A genuinely funky pub, of a type that hardly exists now… actually Wetherspoons might be it’s progeny 😀
@@apuldram The beer was certainly funky...
I was at the Bree Louise on its last day, me and my mate had a couple of pints with the owner- the beer sure wasn't funky that day.