All 45 DLR Stops in the Fastest Time
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ม.ค. 2020
- So there's an unofficial 'record' time for travelling to all 45 stops on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in London, of 1 hour and 53 minutes - but I'd never actually given it a go myself.
Until one morning, I woke up with the urge to do it, and headed out onto the driverless trains to see how fast I could get round ...
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Some number cruncher at TfL looking at Geoff's travel on the DLR: "Is Geoff doing one of his "Runs" again?"
I like to think that either they have a number cruncher assigned solely to Geoff, or that whenever one of them notices one of his "runs", the supervisor sighs and pulls out a three-inch thick file with Geoff's name on it
I love how people in London are always asking, "how much public transport can I do in one day?". People in most of the UK are asking, "will I see any public transport today?".
John Randall yeah mate you can’t get anywhere in London without the tube really because traffic
Meanwhile people is the US:
"What's public transport?"
My favourite bit of the DLR is plunging into the depths of the earth going into Bank.
Before they slowed it down the journey from Royal Albert to Prince Regent was the best, came accelerating down the hill and slammed on the brakes on the curve into the station. If it had just started raining there was a good chance it would slide right through the station.
Best part is between Pudding Mill Lane & Bow Church; Single tight track going round a corner feels like you are on a roller coaster if sat at the front!
Between now church and pudding mill lane races the TFL RAIL XD
Why on earth do i find these videos so interesting?
Good editing that's all
Lol for me its to see stations near my house but i never do
cause they are
What about all Emirates Air Line Cable Car Dangleway Stations in the fastest time possible for April Fools???
Got to do it in peak times when they speed it up
Dangleway?
Achyut Chaudhary 😂😂😂😂
Mr. Wray160 it’s a cable car
You could do this, station to station, but do it by any alternative route that isn't the dangleway.
I’ve done it in about 2hrs 30 mins I think. Need to do it again
2hrs on the DLR? Must have been shaken to bits.
i am a simple boy, i see a geoff marshall video, i click it.
And I like it
This is the most interesting challenge I have seen. A good way to see how reliable the Rail Transport is. Well Done.👍
Another 5 star video from you Geoff. To all the DLR trains and stations!
The DLR is so awesome to ride. I love the journey towards Woolwich Arsenal. The views are 👌👌
Clicking on Geoff's new video in the fastest time possible - instantly!
As I remember, when the Stratford International branch opened, trains all ran to Beckton, except in the peaks, when they ran to Woolwich Arsenal instead. It wasn't long, however, before they surmised that more people wanted to go to Woolwich, so they re-arranged it so that the whole service went there from Stratford Int. Initially they had Beckton trains running to West Ham and terminating (a slick turnaround in the Stratford bound platform) but this was soon curtailed back to Canning Town. Hence the Canning Town and Tower Gateway trains shown on the DMI at Beckton. Trains terminating at Canning Town from Beckton all do so in the lower level platforms, so that Stratford Int - Beckton passengers dont have to negotiate the passages to the high level services from Tower Gateway, and also it would cause too much congestion to turn them round upstairs.
Can someone do a map of the actual standard route services. I think I have seen one with the sort of two/three lines that indicate this but not sure if some runnings that appear possible direct to the passenger are missed out ?
Yes, that annoyed me because I live close to Stratford and work next to Royal Albert on the Beckton branch, so while I could once do it in a single train journey, I can't anymore.
Great meeting you on this trip as you reached Shadwell, always enjoy your videos Geoff.. cheers , from Pete 👍
Thank you for the video Geoff that was very interesting. I've been on the DLR trains a few times and it is an amazing service. Great video.
YES! Do the overground!! Great vid Geoff, theres something I love about the DLR.
Tower gateway -“What side does the doors open on?” This confused me. Commuted to tower gateway for a long time, you can open the doors on both sides even if the announcement say that you need to exit on the right side
Tess Larsson was about to comment this
The doors open on both sides you're supposed to leave from the right side so you have a clear platform to leave as people are awaiting to board from the other side. During packed times it slows you down if you get off the wrong side as you end up walking on a busy platform of people awaiting to board. There was a plan to open the exit doors first to let people alight from the train and then enable the entrance doors but it was too complicated and costly to re-programme the trains.
Thanks Geoff, watching your programs is like living in London again.
For sping break im going to london and im going to be living next to the DLR.
Cool video and I really enjoyed it. Keep up the fun videos
I enjoyed this. I have fond memories of the DLR as when we used to holiday in London when I was a kid we stayed in a hotel in the docklands and always had to catch the DLR into London for connections.
Always interesting to see Lewisham DLR on video. I travel from there to South Quay every day, normally takes about 12 minutes. Thanks Geoff!! Feels weird seeing everyone travelling on the DLR without a mask on!!
This inspired me to do another unofficial record!
Trying to do all 60 Tyne and Wear Metro Stations
The Current Record is just under 3 Hours
I have no idea why I watch these videos but I love them
I’m old enough to remember all these places when there was nothing there, West India Quay, a quay, Pudding Mill Lane ,some tyres,and Island Gardens, the foot tunnel. Time moved on and left me there.
Wonderful scene in the Long Good Friday, Bob Hoskins at West India Quay, filmed I guess in 1979. Just sheds.
This might sound like a mad idea for a long series but I would love to see what is the most interesting thing around each station. (i.e. North Greenwich - O2; Westminister - Big Ben; Fulham Broadway - Stamford Bridge and so on)
Good Idea, one could rename each station - with a different station name for each line for fun.
This is the DLR Tube Challenge!
Hi Geoff,
Inspired by your attempts at the Tube Challenge, I’m planning to try to visit all 1763 tram stops in Melbourne in the fastest time possible. (The route I’ve come up with so far should take a bit over 25 hours)
I am considering applying for a Guinness World Record for the challenge, but I am concerned that some of the requirements for evidence could be very difficult to satisfy.
The evidence guidelines require two independent witnesses to be present for the entire attempt, working in shifts of up to four hours, but there is also a requirement for epic journeys to have two witnesses at the start and end of the journey.
Are witnesses still required throughout the journey? How have you found witnesses for your attempts?
Do you have any advice on applying for a world record or generally for completing this type of challenge?
Thank you very much for your help and the video content you produce.
Hi
record it and put in up on YT please
Well did ya do it?
@Samuel1127Lee Nice job man
@@SamuelLee-gw6wr did you record it?
Great video, I enjoyed watching. I'd love to see a Manchester Metrolink version of this!
I love the DLR. Great vid
I managed 2h 28m, a missed bus by 30 seconds and then a late running next bus added a good 15 minutes, I didn't travel peak so add a couple of minutes at CW for a change and I also couldn't be arsed getting the tube so started at Tower Gateway then to Shadwell, back to Bank and then Shadwell again which also added time.
One day I shall try again.
Noice one mate, hoping to see you one day somewhere 😉
Two months after DLR opened, I moved to London for nine months, the first month or so of that on the Isle of Dogs. So DLR was a part of every day when there were just 15 stations. From what I can tell, the area is a little different today.
It certainly is.
I love your vids Geoff!
I have done all the tube stations + all the DLR + all the Overground + all the tram stops and all the main line stations in zones 1 to 6 but as i did it on day trips to London from my home in Yorkshie it took me about a year 2018, I have also done all the Nottingham & Manchester tram lines the Newcastle metro and Mersey rail lines and Glasgow subway. Glasgow takes about 25 mins its just a big circle an inner and outter loop so i did both ways round. i will have to try the DLR again summer to see how long it takes me.
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Geoff should now see if he can break the world record for visiting all the tube stations in the fastest time.
@@geofftech2 Good question. I'll ask around and see if I know anyone.
I must say pudding mill lane is my favourite dlr station
Your bonkers, lol. I feel for you as you look so tired afterwards but at least you see the fun side.i like watching your videos.
My last visits to London involved me taking the DLR, good times
Haven't done the DLR for years. Time to do it again on my next visit to London.
Surprised it took you so long.
While I have been through every station on the DLR at some time or another, I've never done them all in one go. might have to do so at some point.
Now Geoff, you’ll never have one of those mornings again!
There is a route that appears just before peak times when additional trains are added to the system. The trains leave Beckton Depot and go from Gallions Reach to Lewisham. It does not work backwards, however, as the trains to be removed are designated "not in service" at Lewisham.
I'm not sure does this info helps with the record breaking but here it is.
Fastest time to go to all overground stations
including Battersea Park?
Mercenary Pen all means all
@@MercenaryPen Battersea Park is a station on network rail that two services of overground trains serve but it is not on the Overground Map (but in the timetable) so does not count as an Overground Station.
@@highpath4776 Theyve frequently been diverting Clapham Junction trains to Battersea Park at several times during the day, it can happen ad-hoc at any time. Plus the scheduled runs, I think it does count as an Overground station!
112 stops on the London Overground
I love the DLR station names :)
I'm afraid you've done a mistake
"If you finish by running/transferring to or departing from your last required station, [...], you must keep the stopwatch going until you arrive at the NEXT station in any direction."
That's not logical, it means you would have visited one of the stations twice.
@@geofftech2 But the other times on that leaderboard have followed that rule, so it's about comparing like for like.
yeah, but he realised thst, said in the video, and gave us the longer time
You ve inspired me to try all 99 Metrolink stations in the fastest time
Doing well Geoff good Challenge good timeing
I have a challenge for anyone interested... It's on the Prague Metro which is nice & simple. The premise is to board/alight at every station on the network - to add to the spice, all travel between stations must be by metro train & at interchange stations you must board/alight a service on both routes; you can not depart on the same service that you arrive on - i.e. you cannot simply step off & back on at each platform. For added challenge factor you can add in exit to street level with a bonus level for re-entering via alternative entrances where present. At the end of the challenge you then have to drink enough beer to stop "Ukončete prosím výstup a nástup, dveře se zavírají." from rattling around your skull!
Great video as per. 👍
You’ve re-ignited my curiosity about how long it would take to do the entire Manchester Metrolink network. Lots of “out on a limb” scenarios to deal with, though......
That's something i've considered doing a few times. Needs to involves buses as well I think like Bury to Rochdale, Alty to the Airport.
I thought that Carl. Would love to try it. I'm guessing Trafford Bar, Cornbrook and Victoria would be key in all of that
@@craigwilliams9110 Altrincham to the Airport is the sticky bit. There's buses but they will do serious damage to your overall time. Bury to Rochdale there's plenty of buses...but the distance!
@@lukeedwards8599 You really want to try and do it with the minimal amount of doubling-back. Ashton, Eccles, Rochdale and the Airport all give you opportunities to hare back to central Manchester via National Rail.
Karl Florczak yeah if the times aren’t right I reckon you could run it quicker.
thank you, great fun.
Maybe you can also do a race walking against cycle line tube from start to end station - please
Geoff is truly living my dream doing all these challenges 😁 What a legend
Wow! So cool!
All CrossLizPurp stations:
- Train from Reading to Paddington
- Heathrow Express to Heathrow
- Train from Heathrow to Paddington
- Train to Abbey Wood
- Train to Woolwich
- DLR from Woolwich Arsenal to Stratford
- Train from Stratford to Shenfield
Hi Geoff:
Oh, how I miss those voices!!. The woman announcing the stations & connections, & the man with the classic "Mind the gap" (I watched a video of him recording it). I'd love to be able to live in London (or anywhere in England rather). I'll be visiting England in October, but I won't go to London this time. I'll go to Liverpool, Manchester, & maybe York. Of course, if I can get a job there, I'll visit London as often as I could. I ❤️ ENGLAND.
Thanks & greets from Argentina (Hope it is from England someday)
IDsign4U (Marcelo Miguel Bazan)
can i ask you something? with what type of visa are you coming and which type of job do you want to get?
im brazilian but also have an interest in moving to the UK so if you could tell me all about your experience id be overjoyed
@@prado1205 Hi prado. Well I go just as a tourist, so I don't need any special visa for that. My idea is to make some contacts in any of my fields (web design, 2D &/or 3D graphic design, programming, office computing, teaching, customer service, etc.) before travelling. As far as I know, if someone hires you, you can apply for a working visa, so you can stay beyond the period the UK allows people to stay there (for us, including Brazilians, I think is 6 months). Hope that helps. Cheers.
IDsign4U it did help a lot! But from what I’ve read, in order to get a working visa you must be employed before you travel and the visa has to issued in your country of origin, doesn’t it?
I didn’t really search that much so I might be wrong
TH-cam is a brat. I'd just kicked my 'railway binge' after going thru every video i could find from LT safety videos from the 60s to subscribing to network rail's youtube, with a brief stop on 'how they built the picadilly line'... and once i thought it had relented, yt reminds me about you. LOL
you crack me up. Thank you
Well that was a great video.
Been looking at the Alternative Tube Challenges and just wondering how the Alphabet Challenge works, I'm guessing that you start at A but you press the timer once the train starts at A and stop when the doors opened at W? also i'n guessing you have to get off and watch the underground/Tube Train leave and then board the next one?
I sometimes watch this channel just for fun but it's not a big thing in my life. So imagine my surprise last night when I dreamed about Geoff Marshall. It was one of those "I'm on the wrong train" sort of dreams and there he was in the seat across from me to offer me advice and hope. I woke up screaming.....
0:14 Hey, there's that carriage I was on when it sort of blew up at Pontoon Dock that day. Good times.
You know for the next All the Stations series you should have that 1 slash end on the corner as you pass through every station!
To the trains!
DLR sounds like Mtr M train
I had put on 'All the stations' some time ago, over a year ago, about a time challenge all tube stations and DLR in one go
With the best part of a day on the tube network add the 2hrs for the DLR and one is knackered.
Here is a challenge my friend suggested. Visit (as in get out, not just go through) every station on the circle line in an anticlockwise manner, but only on clockwise trains. So you would do a full loop each time. No idea how long it would take to do this
There are 27 stations, not counting the Hammersmith extension, and a complete circuit takes about 50 minutes, so approximately 1350 minutes or 22 h 30. So it can't be done in a day until the Circle gets a Night Tube service.
I used DRL yesterday for the first time. Amazing and quick service. 8 minutes from Canary Wharf to Greenwich.
If the timings didn’t have you just miss two DLR trains you would have come in under 1 hour 53 amazing challenge
I love Woolwich Arsenal Station.
Obviously.
Hello from Gallions Reach
"I can never remember which sides the doors open at Tower Hill" both, Geoff, both. (although etiquette prevents you from leaving on the left hand side - unless you are at the end of the train)
I was planning on doing this when I'm in London next week
No driving the DLR for you, Geoff!
It’s blocked off at the moment unfortunately as well. Due to Covid restrictions, the PSA is at the front behind a plastic barrier. Hopefully it’ll be possible to sit there again soon!!
When the new Trafford Centre Line opens on Metrolink in a few months plan to cover all of them in a day, just because.
I would love to see a secrets of the metrolink - think its the biggest light rail network now in the UK and he could probably get a couple of episodes out of it. I wouldn't wish anyone on stopping in Rochdale or Oldham though...
@@joncurtis199 At present I think tyne and wear metro is the largest non-Network rail rail based network, will Manchester overtake it when Trafford Centre route opens - its certainly more complex than tyneside. The liverpool area mersey electrics services are also a nice self contained system to visit.
@@highpath4776 What are you basing that on? As system stats go metrolink is bigger in both amount of stations and miles, and I'm not sure there is any track it does share with network rail?
@@joncurtis199 Correct, neither system shares track with network rail at the present time. The Tyne Metro was called the biggest system in a recent broadcast TV documentary, I was sceptical about the claim ( the programme website correctly says 2nd largest I note, www.limepictures.com/news/programme-news/151-tyne-and-wear-metro-opens-its-doors-in-new-series-from-wise-owl-films but the voice over I was certain said largest.
Very good. Next you’ll do the c2c trains lol
I would love that, c2c is my local operator and to do Liverpool Street and Stratford, Geoff could do the tube from West Ham to Stratford then National Rail/Tube (Central Line) or TFL Rail from Stratford to Liverpool Street
I think I'll do this too- not to set any sort of record time but more just for fun to spend a couple of hours travelling on the DLR.
I remember when a NY Daily News reporter rode to every stations on the subway on a single fare. This was decades ago. It took more than 24 hours. Someday Geoff will explain why East London got the DLR instead of real Underground lines.
Geoff! The class 710 trains slowly start to run on the Liverpool Street - Enfield branch!
Since when?
EssexLad 8919 It was started on the 3rd March 2020 from the Liverpool Street branch
Nice, heard that in 2022, DLR - Docklands Light Railway will have brand new rolling stock trains
But no more rolling stock than they have now if I’m right, which is mad.
Batters56 an ITV article states that 43 trains are in the initial contract, with 33 replacing existing stock and 10 additional to boost capacity :)
Yes this will be good
Can I log a record, from back when the DLR was just Stratford Tower Gateway / Island Gardens?
I've done many DLR journeys but gta try this sometime 😊 at the moment doing all the underground stns n abandon... I manged to get the 06 dlr
The obvious challenge left to do is the TfL-chalenge! All stations on the Underground, Overground, DLR, Elisabeth-line and the Croydon trams! Must be possible to do that within two days 🥳🥳🥳 No cars, no buses, just rail and walking 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
My freinds watch you and none of them are even railway fans.
@@geofftech2 Yes absolutely!
I wasn't either when I started.
@@geofftech2 hello its me luke Alfords friend hehe
@@rosieburton3493 hello my freind nice to see you
I'm not a railway fan but I enjoy Geoff's videos. They are very interesting.
What about these:
1. All LO stations including Battersea Park in fastest time possible.
2. All Night Tube stations including Overground ELL in fastest time possible.
Still preferred the monopoly run visiting a pub for each square! Nobody went to jail thankfully 😂
Also the circle line pub crawl was great fun
The DLR is more extensive than my entire region’s network.
All stops on the DLR without changing at Canary Wharf, Poplar, or Canning Town! Sometimes I have to do all three of those in one journey!
Its probably easier not to change at those stations, too many people. Interesting to see if DLR or JL are quicker from Stratford Station Bus Station Entrance to Canning Town after the walk and wait are taken into account.
Nice!
I get thoughts like that! But there is usually a couple of pints involved 🥳
Purple Trains are going to make an epic mess of this if you can use other forms of transport - could go from Canary Wharf to WA and delete a lot of doubling back and maybe use CH to CW to shortcut something.
When I used to live on the WA branch Stratford Int trains always ran on the Beckton branch, then as soon as I moved to Beckton branch they all started running on the WA branch. When I found that out I was pretty pissed as somebody who uses SI a lot I can tell you. It's also a PITA going the other way - if you start at SI and go Beckton way the Beckton train on high level always hits the station at the same time as the SI-WA branch so you always have to wait the full 10 minutes for a Beckton train. Every time they do those surveys it's my complaint every single time, they still haven't fixed it.
I'm fairly sure it changed because of all the building around where I used to live around Silvertown - the developers gave DLR a *lot* of money to improve services and instead of improving services what they did is threw Beckton branch under the proverbial bus and presumably pocketed the cash - though the development around me has done the same thing now and ABP is basically a thing now so presumably the services on Beckton branch will improve round about when I move away from the area..
Ideally extend the Beckton line to Barking Riverside. delete the Beckton westbound routing - just a shuttle to Gallions Reach ( that is still a desolate place about time some housing was built on tesco's car park !),
@@highpath4776 there's *vast* amounts of housing being built around GR - and the developers have given money to improve services so I doubt they'd be very impressed with that.
About 2hr 50 last time my son and I went to London. Totally on DLR though. Not using buses or tube. Then we did all the tram stops later that day.
If there was a town called Nerdsville you would be the king.
Or Tubesville
I don't know if you have ever tried going around the Glasgow suburban stations.
Not the Subway stations because I know that you have already done a video for that.
But overground stations like Anniesland, Partick, Maryhill and Alexandra Parade etc.
Something similar to your 112 station challenge in and around London but about a third of the scale.
That was fun. I used to commute from Uxbridge to Canary Wharf each day. That took about 2 hours and was less fun. (Before that I used to drive from Uxbridge to Whyteleafe every day. Again 2 hours each way, as no M25.)
included the famous walk from manument to bonk
All the DLR stations
How about doing the same thing on the Newcastle Metro sometime? I can't actually find the fastest time online, but there must be one.
from Wimbledon to
South Croydon only using thameslink
and overground at the end
Great information you give Geoff but can you do more history
Cyprus looks just like Beckton Park. Reminds me of the island of Cyprus, want to visit that nation
actually Cyprus is two nation country, still very interesting, summers are the best
Yes, Beckton Park and Cyprus are both beneath roundabouts, and are of similar design. Between the two, the line actually runs along the central reservation of a dual carriageway!!
@@ianmcclavin Yes, the road and railway were built at the same time. I don't know of any other examples of that happening, certainly not in this country.
Geoff, maybe if you try this again you can livestream it like a speedrun