I have terrific memories of as a child & growing up listening to the distant and haunting sound of the trains clattering along at night between Newbury Park & Barkingside. I would sit precariously on the edge of my open bedroom window with my legs dangling out, waiting for those trains. You could only hear them if the wind was in the right direction over the fields, it was probably a couple of miles between me and them. I wonder how many other folks have nostalgic & eerie childhood train memories? Thanks TGW
Martin Sawyer I lived about a mile and a half from the Reading to Guildford line, and especially at night, I could hear the DEMUs pulling out of Crowthorne station with the distinctive throbbing sound of the diesel engine.
Not childhood memories but on summer nights in the house I now live in after leaving home, I can hear Felixstowe line trains from the short distance between me and the line and also if the wind is in the right direction, trains on the Liverpool Street-Norwich line as they head into Ipswich tunnel over the river. It's great!
You are making me reminisce about living around the Hainault loop and Loughton. I grew up near Grange Hill, and remember in the summer, window open at night hearing the new whistle of the 1992 stock as they rolled into Hainault depot.... Live 40 miles away now, right by the Norwich-Liverpool Street main line, but it's not the same...
And I rolled into Hainault in 1992 to look after the new stock....one of the train cleaners mother was the lady who stole used bank notes from the nearby bank of England printing press!
@@applanateearth586 If these notes were from a printing press as you state,surely they should be new and not used. And incidentally if anyone has any spare bank notes I'd be very etc........... !!!!!
@@applanateearth586 I remember that, I went to school near the bank, in Debden. Taking money out in their knickers! ITV did an excellent drama - Hot Money with Caroline Quentin, it's on TH-cam somewhere... I think the knickers bit is about the only thing that's true.
@@simonwinter8839 The Bank of England set up their printing works in Debden, but they also had a furnace for old, damaged, out of date notes which were returned back via high street banks (They shred them now instead). It was the damaged notes returned to the same site ready for incineration that were stolen. Search Hot Money (based on True Events - the only thing known was they were stolen and taken out in their knickers, the rest of the drama is speculative). The site is right by Debden station and the M11 - which only has a south/London bound junction so that any potential getaway from the bank can't get away so easily. PS If you look out for it on Google Maps the building is now run by DeVere currencies.
@@alanlittle4589 No that's some knickers I'd have liked to have got into.Not only the usual thing one would have expected but money as well !! AND she could also do the housework!! Just preparing now for an onslaught of TH-camr's telling me I'm sexist. I am only joking 🙃.
The Great Eastern Railway, with it's Jazz Trains, ran the most intensive steam operated suburban service in the world at that time. 200,000 suburban passengers passed through Liverpool Street Station everyday. And that was six days a week. due to people working half day Saturday morning. There was so much pressure on the driver to be on time that he could be on the carpet for being as little as a minute late. And being late could result in the train being held back until a lot was found for them to enter Liverpool Street Station. None of the engines had a speedometer to let the driver know how fast he were gong and the only timepiece used was owned by the driver. And the main job of any station station staff during rush hour saw to make sure the passengers got onto or off from the train as swiftly as possible. Then slam the door shut. Failure to make sure the door was closed before t moved off usually brought instant dismissal.
I'm not a huge fan of older architecture in general, but there is something about these charming little stations on the London Underground. I love that the network as a whole can comprise stations such as this, the modern construction of places like Canary Wharf and the wonderful Leslie Green creations such as Mornington Crescent. Light and shade.
Mentioning no names (but his initials are G.M.), it is quite amazing how many ‘plugs’ the gentleman receives in the comments section of a Jago Hazzard video.
Historical note; there is a New York connection in this tale! Back in the day,the GER,wanted to run an intensive,and extensive steam operated commuter service,and they brought in a gentleman from the Long Island Railroad,a Mr. Thornton! He did what was expected of him,and did it well! That also laid out the ground work,for the later electrifications(first DC,than AC)! Mr Thornton went to greater fame,as the head of the Canadian National! Also got a knight hood,not bad for a wayward Irishman! Another side note,oft overlooked! Thanks Jago,and those country stations are real gems 💎! Beautiful,and idyllic,and so unbelievable non- London,and unexpected 😀! Thank you for your time and effort 👍!
Used to work up at Barkinside Police Station and got the tube to and from most days. Used to hate walking into the ticket office and see the westbound pulling in and having to run up and over the bridge, just like some were doing in the video by the looks. Barkingside FC used to play at Oakfield next to the station for 56 years before being forced out by the council in 2014.
I loved Barkingside, I used to have to go there overnight to repair the rolling stock and upload the train computers when the stock was still new. I was based at Hainault depot with ABB Adtranze.
Nice video, my dad worked at the Barnardo's Village and we lived there in the early 80s. Used to walk to the station to go to school at Newbury Park and Gants Hill.
When the Metropolitan Railway expanded out into the leafy countryside, it actually bought farmland near the new stations with the intention of building affordable quality homes on it - so it could profit twice, from property sales and commuter tickets, creating 'Metro-land' in the process. Makes me wonder if the Great Eastern did anything similar with the land around stations like Barkingside, or was their approach a rather bumbling 'If we build it, they will come'? Seems a bit odd to build a line and then close down a station a few years later because no-one uses it. The houses (and commuters) here not coming until rather later.
Thank you for this. I am fond of these old Victorian style stations. Okay not exactly the epitome of architecture, but they were warm and full of character. In their hey day, they had a waiting room with a coal fire, and even a separate ladies waiting room. There often was a bed of flowers and a friendly station master who went up and down checking up on people, checking tickets and announcing the trains with loud characteristic shouts. Modern day concrete structures are cold, uninhabited, soulless, with automated ticket machines and digital displays to tell you when the next train might arrive.
Malcolm Abram You left out the station 🐈 cat. There was nearly always a cat at these kinds of stations Perhaps you left cats out because you're allergic!!
I live here. All the addresses on our post say “Street, Redbridge, Ilford. Essex. IG postcode” we are in the county of Essex as well as the London Borough of Redbridge. Look it up we seem to fall into both
@@johnh7727 it's historic country of Essex only, the actual location is now fully London. I live in same area too! It's colloquially Essex, but not officially. Nobody ever seemed to catch on or want to change!
The county of Essex used to stretch SW to the River Lea at Stratford, and included the areas that are now London Boroughs known as Redbridge; Havering; Waltham Forest; Barking & Dagenham, and Newham. In fact, in County Hall (Chelmsford) to this day there are beautiful coats of arms of components of Essex like Chingford, Wanstead, Romford and Barking etc
possibly one reason why the GER couldn't make a financial success of this line was that, unlike the Metropolitan.Railway, they had no statutory powers to acquire land for development on either side of their tracks. I think the Met was unique in this respect - and Metroland was the result.
Very Good! The LNER did own a proportion off the London Underground "1938" rolling stock. Of the nine working (A tenth set was sent for spares) two car units that were sold to BR becoming Class 483 for use on the Isle of Wight at least three of them were ex LNER vehicles. From memory I think the last former LNER unit in service was 483 007. It was finally withdrawn on the 2nd of January this year after some 82 years or service along with the other surviving Class 483 units.
I can't pin what it is that draws me to into watching your content but to point at the smile you gift me with whenever i do... thank you, Jago. It's just that i've never been to London nor had i even planned to so what gives? Oh well it's becoming late already, maybe i'll find out the next episode :) Greetings from Köln
Fab video as always Jago! I love the comments below (my home station was Grange Hill)…. who remembers the stabling sidings between Barkingside and Fairlop on the West side of the line, which became a Sainsbury’s, sometime in the ‘70s.
Barkingside took quite a long time to develop as a suburban area. It was only 50 years ago when the station was in the top 10 of least used tube stations. The station sits quite a way from the main town it’s named after, and with the other side being Fairlop Waters Country Park, it has managed to keep a lot of charm to this day
A lovely station out of time, and brings back childhood and teenage years, as it was the stop for my dentist, and for visiting my grandmother's grave in Mossford Green. When we moved away in 1968 Bobby Moore came to view our house!
My local station while growing up. Barkingside is a lot fancier than other stops on the Fairlop loop. I heard a rumor this was due to the proximity of the Barnardo's home, which received frequent royal visits. If so, the old station probably reeked of paint for its first couple of decades.
@@guccimain89 Ilford is the name of a town, which was given its name from the domesday book in 1086. As first Ilford was a compact village in the Becontree Hundred in Essex.
Those "country stations" on the eastern end of the Central Line are very charming! When my grandson was a very small boy, he was fascinated by trains of all kinds, and enjoyed nothing better than an afternoon spent "on the overground bit of the underground". I remember once changing trains somewhere - can't remember offhand where, but it might have been Woodford - and it not only had loos, but really nice-smelling soap provided in the washbasins!
I somehow hope to see "Wallace and Grommet" show up at one of these charming little stations. Or maybe this American dad is just nostalgic for watching them with his once-small kids. Time, tide, tots and trains wait for no one.
Barkingside; what a splendid station. I’ve always admired it. Somehow, the brickwork and masonry of the exterior give it a very “permanent” look. The station buildings and the canopies were very attractively built by the Great Eastern Railway. One of my sons lived near this station for some years. There was a notable incident in the life of Barkingside Station. Dr. Thomas Barnardo , who had established over 50 orphanages and schools for poor children, died in 1905.A special train ran from Liverpool Street Station to Barkingside carrying his coffin, which was then taken on to the Girls’ Village Home for the funeral service. There is a notable photograph of the procession outside the station (27th September 1905).
What a delightful station. Very similar to stations west of London (e.g. Gerrards Cross). And, of course, it was beautifully presented. Thank you Mr J Simon T
I have only visited Barkingside on a few occasions but like some of the other stations at the top of the Central Line they are jolly interesting. Time Capsule springs to mind ....we are so lucky to still have these stations more or less in their original state . The New Works Programme deserves a video of it's own. I am looking forward to the Newbury Park visit .....Thank You SMO
Even now it feels pretty quiet, as the area to the east of the station is Green Belt land. Some quite nice countryside is a short walk from many of these stations on the "loop"
I used to work in and around London so was always on the tube so watching your videos in answering a lot of unanswered questions I had but now my four year old wants to go on the tube which living in Sheffield might be a bit difficult and now she goes to school shouting mind the gap every time we get to the edge of the road
Sounds like LA in the early years of the 20th century. Henry Huntington built an interurban type system out into agricultural districts surrounding LA. First the tracks then the houses. ( my oversimplified version). He made out very well.
Glad to see Newbury Park and Barkingside are being covered too. As I said on your Gants Hill video, I used to commute into London from Barkingside, as well as when I was a teenager (45+ years ago), I went the other way from there around the Hainault Loop to get to my college.
A local tale is that they had to hastily build toilets on both platforms because when the Queen came to open the station they wanted to cover all bases if she wanted the lav.
It may be my failing memory but I recall it being a hell of a long way from Barkingside High St. I can't wait for the teeming masses in the throbbing nexus that it Theydon Bois.
Oddly, my aunt, who I mentioned in the comments about Gants Hill, lived just around the corner from Barkingside station, as did my father and their other sister, who still lives there, in the same house.
My home station! Well, it was. I was born in Barkingside, moved to Bristol aged 3, but moved back for some time in the 90s. My first job in London was in facilities management in Westminster and clocking on was 8am. So I was up very early to this station for the long commute via Mile End. Often saw rabbits in the fields opposite the platform. There is a story that this station was opened especially so that the Queen could come and open the Dr Barnardo's Village Homes - is there any truth in this?
My absolute favorite bit of the underground network. Mainly because my idea of showing my first girlfriend a good time was to take her for a trip round the loop. (Not a euphemism...). Thanks JH.
Its a shame the Finsbury Park - Alexandra Palace line and Highgate - Edgware and beyond didnt get electrified as planned, would save so many road journeys both bus and car. The extension to Bushey would be standing room only by the time it got to Edgware nowadays!
Beautiful station! If I'm ever in England, I'll have to look up if there's anything out that way. (And last time I was this early, steam trains were still running there 🙂 )
What did the railroad expect from a station named Barkingside? Lots of people with their dogs moving in maybe? Thanks for another not underground (originally) station video.
You show me Barkingside and I'll show you Woodside Park, my home station on the High Barnet branch. Beloved and restored by nearby resident Spike Milligan.
Glad this wee gem got its own video. I am glad LUL didn’t sanitise it and kept so many original features 🤔 It used to confuse the hell out of infant Timmy why it was that Barkingside was nowhere near, let alone in any way accurately describable as ‘to the side of’ Barking 🤷🏻♂️ I see Newbury Park is already done and ready to be viewed! Eyes down for a double dose! 😎👍🍷
I think you're right. I wonder what house prices are like there now. It may have gone the way of The Slow Train if it wasn't for the Underground. It says something that Flanders and Swann need little explanation on this channel.
0:25 Surely a series of railway - based Ealing Comedies or a Will Hay film entitled "Whoops Mr Beeching" And there is of course Arthur Atkins little ditty th-cam.com/video/har3xEKXpj4/w-d-xo.html
I'm enjoying the Central Line stuff Mr.H. I've used it as far as Loughton several times but there's quite a bit I've never done, including the Hainault Loop. No idea why but I seem to have missed out on one of the most history-laden lumps of the whole UndergrounD.
Well technically Barkingside was in Essex. But it’s now in Greater London in the London Borough of Redbridge. And my Nan still say it’s in Essex because my Nan lives in Hainault. And I know Barkingside very well as well Chigwell and Hainault. And maybe Transport for London could spend more money on stations including Barkingside to become step-free with lifts. Just like at many stations on the London Underground.
Lea/Lee Valley is an excellent example of this. Get off at Broxbourne , Roydon or Cheshunt and all have nice walks nearby. One often sees seniors walking groups do this who come out from London on the train and then walk back into the city down the scenic Lea valley.
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Thank goodness London Undergound got hold of this line before Beeching could swing his axe on it.
Beeching had no impact on London, a sleepy London station is still really busy when compared to the rest of the country!
@@PlanetoftheDeaf *sobs in Great Central Line*
"'you must be barking" if you have never been to Barking!
Beechingside doesn't have the same ring.
My local station next then Jago.
1:37 The little black and white cat walking down the path
came out to greet YH
The cat obviously has acquired some prime real estate
@@pavlekodak2147 Mr Hazzard, do you have time for pot of tea and some rather delicious cake?
Doesnt like to get their paws muddy
"Where's Barkingside?"
"It's to the side of Barking."
It's nowhere near Barking.
Woof 🐕
"What's up with him?"
" He's a bit on the Barkingside if you ask me!"
I believe it got its name as the little town was described as on the Barking side of Hainault Forrest.
@@andrewgwilliam4831 it.dates back to centuries ago when parishes dominated everything and Barkingside is in fact the side to barking!?
Thanks to the Brits, we have a whimsical name in Barkingside.
Thanks for showcasing another beautiful station.
Woofing Side 🐕
Thank you Jago, you are the distraction to my existential dread every time you upload!
word 😆
I have terrific memories of as a child & growing up listening to the distant and haunting sound of the trains clattering along at night between Newbury Park & Barkingside. I would sit precariously on the edge of my open bedroom window with my legs dangling out, waiting for those trains. You could only hear them if the wind was in the right direction over the fields, it was probably a couple of miles between me and them. I wonder how many other folks have nostalgic & eerie childhood train memories?
Thanks TGW
Your comment was like reading a novel. Very poetic.
@@ovig8917 On clear nights I can here SWR trains and see the electric arcing flashes.
Martin Sawyer I lived about a mile and a half from the Reading to Guildford line, and especially at night, I could hear the DEMUs pulling out of Crowthorne station with the distinctive throbbing sound of the diesel engine.
Not childhood memories but on summer nights in the house I now live in after leaving home, I can hear Felixstowe line trains from the short distance between me and the line and also if the wind is in the right direction, trains on the Liverpool Street-Norwich line as they head into Ipswich tunnel over the river. It's great!
Sorry, as they travel beside the river, not over it.
You are making me reminisce about living around the Hainault loop and Loughton. I grew up near Grange Hill, and remember in the summer, window open at night hearing the new whistle of the 1992 stock as they rolled into Hainault depot.... Live 40 miles away now, right by the Norwich-Liverpool Street main line, but it's not the same...
And I rolled into Hainault in 1992 to look after the new stock....one of the train cleaners mother was the lady who stole used bank notes from the nearby bank of England printing press!
@@applanateearth586 If these notes were from a printing press as you state,surely they should be new and not used.
And incidentally if anyone has any spare bank notes I'd be
very etc........... !!!!!
@@applanateearth586 I remember that, I went to school near the bank, in Debden. Taking money out in their knickers! ITV did an excellent drama - Hot Money with Caroline Quentin, it's on TH-cam somewhere... I think the knickers bit is about the only thing that's true.
@@simonwinter8839 The Bank of England set up their printing works in Debden, but they also had a furnace for old, damaged, out of date notes which were returned back via high street banks (They shred them now instead). It was the damaged notes returned to the same site ready for incineration that were stolen. Search Hot Money (based on True Events - the only thing known was they were stolen and taken out in their knickers, the rest of the drama is speculative). The site is right by Debden station and the M11 - which only has a south/London bound junction so that any potential getaway from the bank can't get away so easily. PS If you look out for it on Google Maps the building is now run by DeVere currencies.
@@alanlittle4589 No that's some knickers I'd have liked to have got into.Not only the usual thing one would have expected but money as well !!
AND she could also do the housework!!
Just preparing now for an onslaught of TH-camr's
telling me I'm sexist.
I am only joking 🙃.
The Great Eastern Railway, with it's Jazz Trains, ran the most intensive steam operated suburban service in the world at that time. 200,000 suburban passengers passed through Liverpool Street Station everyday. And that was six days a week. due to people working half day Saturday morning.
There was so much pressure on the driver to be on time that he could be on the carpet for being as little as a minute late. And being late could result in the train being held back until a lot was found for them to enter Liverpool Street Station. None of the engines had a speedometer to let the driver know how fast he were gong and the only timepiece used was owned by the driver.
And the main job of any station station staff during rush hour saw to make sure the passengers got onto or off from the train as swiftly as possible. Then slam the door shut. Failure to make sure the door was closed before t moved off usually brought instant dismissal.
I'm not a huge fan of older architecture in general, but there is something about these charming little stations on the London Underground. I love that the network as a whole can comprise stations such as this, the modern construction of places like Canary Wharf and the wonderful Leslie Green creations such as Mornington Crescent. Light and shade.
Thanks Jago for highlighting this station and its history, a hint of the Metropolitan and Metroland.
Mentioning no names (but his initials are G.M.), it is quite amazing how many ‘plugs’ the gentleman receives in the comments section of a Jago Hazzard video.
[Opens up Flanders and Swann piano book]
He’s referencing, I believe, the pair’s painfully whimsical song to the vanishing English beauty being slaughtered by Beeching, _”The Slow Train.”_
Such a niche reference...love it
Historical note; there is a New York connection in this tale! Back in the day,the GER,wanted to run an intensive,and extensive steam operated commuter service,and they brought in a gentleman from the Long Island Railroad,a Mr. Thornton! He did what was expected of him,and did it well! That also laid out the ground work,for the later electrifications(first DC,than AC)! Mr Thornton went to greater fame,as the head of the Canadian National! Also got a knight hood,not bad for a wayward Irishman! Another side note,oft overlooked! Thanks Jago,and those country stations are real gems 💎! Beautiful,and idyllic,and so unbelievable non- London,and unexpected 😀! Thank you for your time and effort 👍!
Used to work up at Barkinside Police Station and got the tube to and from most days. Used to hate walking into the ticket office and see the westbound pulling in and having to run up and over the bridge, just like some were doing in the video by the looks. Barkingside FC used to play at Oakfield next to the station for 56 years before being forced out by the council in 2014.
I loved Barkingside, I used to have to go there overnight to repair the rolling stock and upload the train computers when the stock was still new. I was based at Hainault depot with ABB Adtranze.
Nice video, my dad worked at the Barnardo's Village and we lived there in the early 80s. Used to walk to the station to go to school at Newbury Park and Gants Hill.
When the Metropolitan Railway expanded out into the leafy countryside, it actually bought farmland near the new stations with the intention of building affordable quality homes on it - so it could profit twice, from property sales and commuter tickets, creating 'Metro-land' in the process.
Makes me wonder if the Great Eastern did anything similar with the land around stations like Barkingside, or was their approach a rather bumbling 'If we build it, they will come'? Seems a bit odd to build a line and then close down a station a few years later because no-one uses it. The houses (and commuters) here not coming until rather later.
"If you build it, they will come"
"Who?"
"Pervert architects, probably."
I'll get me coat.
My brother just showed me some of the new designs for LU station roundels, by a well known northern artist. I'm still laughing.
Thank you for this. I am fond of these old Victorian style stations. Okay not exactly the epitome of architecture, but they were warm and full of character. In their hey day, they had a waiting room with a coal fire, and even a separate ladies waiting room. There often was a bed of flowers and a friendly station master who went up and down checking up on people, checking tickets and announcing the trains with loud characteristic shouts. Modern day concrete structures are cold, uninhabited, soulless, with automated ticket machines and digital displays to tell you when the next train might arrive.
Malcolm Abram
You left out the station 🐈 cat.
There was nearly always a cat at these kinds of stations
Perhaps you left cats out because you're allergic!!
@@simonwinter8839 I love cats, and am not allergic. And yes, you are absolutely right. The station cat is an essential part of the scene.
@@malcolmabram2957 I'm never going to make it as a comedian, am I ?!!!
@@simonwinter8839 The cat used to announce the trains when the station master was drunk.
@@malcolmabram2957 I used to have a conversation with the cat when I was drunk !!
I love good old Barkingside...it was close to my secondary school. Miss meeting up with friends there to head in to London #nostalgia
Barkingside has been in London Borough of Redbridge since 1965! There is no Essex here (as much as the residents may argue otherwise!)
Essex post code (ish)
I live here. All the addresses on our post say “Street, Redbridge, Ilford. Essex. IG postcode” we are in the county of Essex as well as the London Borough of Redbridge. Look it up we seem to fall into both
@@johnh7727 it's historic country of Essex only, the actual location is now fully London. I live in same area too! It's colloquially Essex, but not officially. Nobody ever seemed to catch on or want to change!
@@highpath4776 IG postcode was only Essex until 1965!
The county of Essex used to stretch SW to the River Lea at Stratford, and included the areas that are now London Boroughs known as Redbridge; Havering; Waltham Forest; Barking & Dagenham, and Newham. In fact, in County Hall (Chelmsford) to this day there are beautiful coats of arms of components of Essex like Chingford, Wanstead, Romford and Barking etc
you've got to love any station that's gone largely unchanged for the better part of a century. charming ambiance to them, generally without exception
possibly one reason why the GER couldn't make a financial success of this line was that, unlike the Metropolitan.Railway, they had no statutory powers to acquire land for development on either side of their tracks. I think the Met was unique in this respect - and Metroland was the result.
Indeed! I’m planning on delving into the Metroland stations at some point.
It's another wonderful Jago morning!
Thankyou for brightening my pre-work time up with a super interesting (as always) video!
A beautiful, unspoiled, proper station. Reminds me of my old local station Gorleston on sea in the 60s before the axe .
Ah, now there's a line that should never have been closed. Imagine if that had been preserved and was still running today...
@@dvdvnrYes lovely old line,used to travel it often Gorleston to South town and then all the way to Lowestoft ! Those were the days.
@@petertate5741 As a kid I managed to have just one trip on it not long before it closed.
Very Good! The LNER did own a proportion off the London Underground "1938" rolling stock.
Of the nine working (A tenth set was sent for spares) two car units that were sold to BR becoming Class 483 for use on the Isle of Wight at least three of them were ex LNER vehicles. From memory I think the last former LNER unit in service was 483 007. It was finally withdrawn on the 2nd of January this year after some 82 years or service along with the other surviving Class 483 units.
I can't pin what it is that draws me to into watching your content but to point at the smile you gift me with whenever i do... thank you, Jago.
It's just that i've never been to London nor had i even planned to so what gives? Oh well it's becoming late already, maybe i'll find out the next episode :) Greetings from Köln
When I got the notification, all I saw was "The Charm of Barking". I thought "okay, this is going to take A LOT of convincing..."
Fab video as always Jago! I love the comments below (my home station was Grange Hill)…. who remembers the stabling sidings between Barkingside and Fairlop on the West side of the line, which became a Sainsbury’s, sometime in the ‘70s.
I love this part of the Central Line. I think it has character.♥️
Elizabeth Spedding
Central line ,but let's put it down to your spellchecker.
@@simonwinter8839 Its a bit middle of the road.
Barkingside took quite a long time to develop as a suburban area. It was only 50 years ago when the station was in the top 10 of least used tube stations.
The station sits quite a way from the main town it’s named after, and with the other side being Fairlop Waters Country Park, it has managed to keep a lot of charm to this day
Rly nice footage, such a calming station too
Jago you are doing a excellent job with these uploads. 👍🏻🏴🇬🇧
A lovely station out of time, and brings back childhood and teenage years, as it was the stop for my dentist, and for visiting my grandmother's grave in Mossford Green. When we moved away in 1968 Bobby Moore came to view our house!
Speaking as a Sydneysider, this reminds me of Wollstonecraft or Waverton stations; which are only 7.18 kilometres from Central.
Are you and Geoff in cahoots for Newbury Park? 🤔😂
They're arch enemiies. Nemeses' if you will 😅
I’m not aware of any beef between us...
@@JagoHazzard I find your videos less smarmy.
I note that Jago did include a plastic bag waste bin blowing in the breeze. Will Geoff will be tutting or doing a tick motion with his hand?
"Which end of the platform dya wanna come from". (or maybe it should be spaghetti eastern music)
I occasionally went to Barkingside by accident. When I was trying to go to Snaresbrook CC and wasn't paying attention.
Funny the opposite happened to me lol
My local station while growing up.
Barkingside is a lot fancier than other stops on the Fairlop loop.
I heard a rumor this was due to the proximity of the Barnardo's home, which received frequent royal visits.
If so, the old station probably reeked of paint for its first couple of decades.
Awesome video, I grew up around ilford and Woodford. There are some lovely stations at this end of the central line
Huh. I’m in the US. I buy Ilford 35mm film for my old cameras I like to use. I was curious where the name came from.
@@guccimain89 Indeed there was an Ilford Factory in the area - poss near Chadwell Heath ? (Kodak were in Hemel Hempstead)
@@guccimain89 Ilford is the name of a town, which was given its name from the domesday book in 1086. As first Ilford was a compact village in the Becontree Hundred in Essex.
We used to live in one of the old railwayman’s cottages alongside Grange Hill station, great...
Really enjoyed this video. Barkingside Station looks gorgeous
Thanks for this Jago, I grew up in Barkingside but haven’t been back there for some years. The station is a real gem!
Those "country stations" on the eastern end of the Central Line are very charming! When my grandson was a very small boy, he was fascinated by trains of all kinds, and enjoyed nothing better than an afternoon spent "on the overground bit of the underground". I remember once changing trains somewhere - can't remember offhand where, but it might have been Woodford - and it not only had loos, but really nice-smelling soap provided in the washbasins!
I somehow hope to see "Wallace and Grommet" show up at one of these charming little stations.
Or maybe this American dad is just nostalgic for watching them with his once-small kids. Time, tide, tots and trains wait for no one.
You've been following Geoff around - or has he been following you?
Jago can easily fit through narrow doors, unlike Geoff.
I‘ve been clinging on to the underside of his car.
@@JagoHazzard Now we all expect footage from said location - should be fun trying to eliminate the camera shake!
@@JagoHazzard An exhausting way to travel
Needs a series on old shunting locations / Marshalling Yards
LoL the old loop, Fairlop Waters, Grange Hill, Gants Hill, Hainault. I've used these a few times. ~Trooper
Look forward to the Newbury Park video. An art nouveau station.
It’s coming on Sunday! I think.
@@JagoHazzard I hope I can find my grandads 1948 tube map. My fiancee rearranged my flat and I can't find anything
Barkingside; what a splendid station. I’ve always admired it. Somehow, the brickwork and masonry of the exterior give it a very “permanent” look. The station buildings and the canopies were very attractively built by the Great Eastern Railway. One of my sons lived near this station for some years. There was a notable incident in the life of Barkingside Station. Dr. Thomas Barnardo , who had established over 50 orphanages and schools for poor children, died in 1905.A special train ran from Liverpool Street Station to Barkingside carrying his coffin, which was then taken on to the Girls’ Village Home for the funeral service. There is a notable photograph of the procession outside the station (27th September 1905).
What a delightful station. Very similar to stations west of London (e.g. Gerrards Cross). And, of course, it was beautifully presented. Thank you Mr J Simon T
I have only visited Barkingside on a few occasions but like some of the other stations at the top of the Central Line they are jolly interesting. Time Capsule springs to mind ....we are so lucky to still have these stations more or less in their original state . The New Works Programme deserves a video of it's own. I am looking forward to the Newbury Park visit .....Thank You SMO
Lovely video Jago.
Even now it feels pretty quiet, as the area to the east of the station is Green Belt land. Some quite nice countryside is a short walk from many of these stations on the "loop"
you never fail to entertain me. thanks
Another gem of a station and video. Thanks Mr.W !
For odd personal reasons, I am extremely fond of all of those stations on the Hainault Loop. Thank you for giving one of them the love it deserves.
Thanks for another great evening after a difficult day at work.
I used to work in and around London so was always on the tube so watching your videos in answering a lot of unanswered questions I had but now my four year old wants to go on the tube which living in Sheffield might be a bit difficult and now she goes to school shouting mind the gap every time we get to the edge of the road
Sounds like LA in the early years of the 20th century. Henry Huntington built an interurban type system out into agricultural districts surrounding LA. First the tracks then the houses. ( my oversimplified version). He made out very well.
What a gem. I'd never have guessed those houses were railway cottages.
Always interesting videos
A pleasure to watch.
beautiful station and beautiful countryside. Truly Charming. I especially liked the house at 1:35
So did I. Complete with black and white cat walking down the garden path.
Fantastic. Really enjoyed it.
Glad to see Newbury Park and Barkingside are being covered too. As I said on your Gants Hill video, I used to commute into London from Barkingside, as well as when I was a teenager (45+ years ago), I went the other way from there around the Hainault Loop to get to my college.
Jago, with his elaborate adjectives in sign off. Bucolic, a new word to me and a good one too!
A local tale is that they had to hastily build toilets on both platforms because when the Queen came to open the station they wanted to cover all bases if she wanted the lav.
Thank you Jago
There! I clicked the like button. I hope that satisfies the itch - at least until the next video.
Keep up the good work! 👍
It may be my failing memory but I recall it being a hell of a long way from Barkingside High St.
I can't wait for the teeming masses in the throbbing nexus that it Theydon Bois.
Oddly, my aunt, who I mentioned in the comments about Gants Hill, lived just around the corner from Barkingside station, as did my father and their other sister, who still lives there, in the same house.
Never thought I’d hear charm and Barkingside in same sentence lol
You're even less likely to hear 'charm' and 'Barking' in the same sentence.
@@englishciderlover7347 Barking is even worse, the absolute pits... smelly ol place
@@aintnoplum Aww, see John Roger's walk along the Roding from Ilford.
@@highpath4776 Yh ive seen the one your on about with Paul
@@aintnoplum I know. I used to live in Hornchurch, and I rode the District to central London for work for about 10 years.
My home station! Well, it was. I was born in Barkingside, moved to Bristol aged 3, but moved back for some time in the 90s. My first job in London was in facilities management in Westminster and clocking on was 8am. So I was up very early to this station for the long commute via Mile End. Often saw rabbits in the fields opposite the platform. There is a story that this station was opened especially so that the Queen could come and open the Dr Barnardo's Village Homes - is there any truth in this?
My absolute favorite bit of the underground network. Mainly because my idea of showing my first girlfriend a good time was to take her for a trip round the loop. (Not a euphemism...).
Thanks JH.
Ian Buryan
What number girlfriend are you on now.
Is it in the high hundreds?
Did you manage to take her up the West End?
@@AtheistOrphan I did suggest taking her up the Limpopo, but she wasn't keen...
@@AtheistOrphan I heard he took up the Arsenal on the Piccadilly line !!
@@AtheistOrphan or even took HER up the Arsenal!
I thought I had by chance visited this station on my trip to London but in fact it had been Ladbroke Grove. I really do enjoy open subway/metro stops.
Great video Jago
Loving the green paint on the iron canopy supports, was this the original colour of the GER, I wonder?.
Excellent work as always fella!
Barkingside? @geofftech will be Barking mad over the bin in breeze footage!😄
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Its a shame the Finsbury Park - Alexandra Palace line and Highgate - Edgware and beyond didnt get electrified as planned, would save so many road journeys both bus and car. The extension to Bushey would be standing room only by the time it got to Edgware nowadays!
Beautiful station! If I'm ever in England, I'll have to look up if there's anything out that way.
(And last time I was this early, steam trains were still running there 🙂 )
What did the railroad expect from a station named Barkingside? Lots of people with their dogs moving in maybe? Thanks for another not underground (originally) station video.
A map showing the proposed plans would have been nice to see at 2:38.
Nice video... So, do those long abandoned platforms shown on the last shot for the old scheme, for long commuter trains?
Certainly looks like it.
My former local station perfectly summed up. 👍
Makes me want to move to Barkingside, this does.
Same here, and I live in rural Sussex!
@@AtheistOrphan Sussex is luverly 😊
The rest of the town is not nearly as pretty as the station!
@@Twannnng I'll move in at the station then 😉
The station name is BARKINGside but no single dog mentioned. I am dissapointed
Jago's saving it for Barking,a few miles south!!
There is a cat...
@@JagoHazzard but does it bark?
You show me Barkingside and I'll show you Woodside Park, my home station on the High Barnet branch. Beloved and restored by nearby resident Spike Milligan.
How much of the tube is not the tube, being built by national rail companies
looking forward to Newbury Park! I usually get off the train before th
Only 270 ish stations to do LOL . Great video .
Glad this wee gem got its own video. I am glad LUL didn’t sanitise it and kept so many original features 🤔 It used to confuse the hell out of infant Timmy why it was that Barkingside was nowhere near, let alone in any way accurately describable as ‘to the side of’ Barking 🤷🏻♂️
I see Newbury Park is already done and ready to be viewed! Eyes down for a double dose! 😎👍🍷
3:30 Obligatory shot of bin-bag blowing in the wind :D
I think you're right. I wonder what house prices are like there now. It may have gone the way of The Slow Train if it wasn't for the Underground. It says something that Flanders and Swann need little explanation on this channel.
Reminds me of Hall Green Station in Birmingham, even though it would have been a GWR Station and is a few years younger.
0:25 Surely a series of railway - based Ealing Comedies or a Will Hay film entitled "Whoops Mr Beeching"
And there is of course Arthur Atkins little ditty
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I'm enjoying the Central Line stuff Mr.H. I've used it as far as Loughton several times but there's quite a bit I've never done, including the Hainault Loop. No idea why but I seem to have missed out on one of the most history-laden lumps of the whole UndergrounD.
Oops… I meant between Barkingside and Newbury Park!
Well technically Barkingside was in Essex. But it’s now in Greater London in the London Borough of Redbridge. And my Nan still say it’s in Essex because my Nan lives in Hainault. And I know Barkingside very well as well Chigwell and Hainault. And maybe Transport for London could spend more money on stations including Barkingside to become step-free with lifts. Just like at many stations on the London Underground.
It reminds me of Northwood station for some reason
Ruislip has a similar 'country station' feel to it, and a footbridge to get from one platform to the other.
I like these semi-rural areas that are about an hour or so from central London , but you can still enjoy a walk in the countryside if you want .
Lea/Lee Valley is an excellent example of this. Get off at Broxbourne , Roydon or Cheshunt and all have nice walks nearby. One often sees seniors walking groups do this who come out from London on the train and then walk back into the city down the scenic Lea valley.