Geoff, thanks for taking the time to talk to me and partner at East Croydon the other Sunday, sorry I caught you in a moment of deep thought but it was great to meet you, thanks for being so polite!
Well that took me back a few years! Between 1965 & 1970 I was a student at the London College of Printing. I lived in Wembley and travelled from Stonebridge Park station to the Elephant, Monday to Friday over that time. The trains were 1938 stock in those days if I remember correctly, and there was even one ‘smoking’ carriage! Also have a memory of freezing on Queens Park Station waiting for a Euston train to continue north if the Bakerloo terminated there.
I work in the local area and must have passed by there hundreds of times and never noticed those former stations . This is why I appreciate your work and why I'm a transport/urban planning enthusiast. You're doing the lord's work Geoff 👍👍👍
I’m pleased that you didn’t quit TH-cam. I have been to Elephant and Castle and I still think that the Bakerloo Line will extend to Lewisham and Hayes/Bromley. Do keep them coming.
Great video! Have to say though that reopening Camberwell and Walworth Road stations would be hugely beneficial for the local areas which are quite badly served by trains at the moment (because the distance between Elephant and Castle and Loughborough Junction is really quite big). I hope they reopen at least one of these stations in the future to serve some quite dense neighbourhoods
I’ve been hoping so for years (as a North Londoner who just wants to see a well connected city) but unfortunately I doubt it’ll happen. The construction on a line as busy and densely populated as this one will probably be prohibitively expensive
Great video, as always! Lots of info, presented well. Thank you! I'm a Yank, but lived in the area in '84, so 'the Elephant' was our local Tube. We have special memories of the lovely old London Transport Leslie Green-designed buildings, and we did notice the tiles and the general old-fashioned feeling of the station, along with the lovely old iron-work & fixtures. It was also a great memory for us to think of all the generations of S. Londoners who came through that station to get the 'Norvern Line' or the Bakerloo, and to remember the bravery of Londoners in WWII who took refuge in the deep stations. When returning to the E & C going south from Camden Tube, we always had to remember to read the front of the Northern Line trains for the direction "Morden via Bank," to be sure that the train wld stop at E & C. I do miss the area, even the '60s-era shopping centre there and our local Tesco. I'm back in the States, unfortunately, and surely miss walking home with a Bermondsey "portion of chips, open" w/Sarson's malt vinegar & salt, and the Bermondsey Manze's pie & mash, the New Caledonian Mkt, the scent of coal fires in winter, and the best-ever Routemaster buses - a packed, warm & cozy refuge in winter nights, which allowed us the vast convenience of hopping on & off when we pleased! Some great years in the final years of an older-style, less hectic London. Lifetime memories!
What a random event! I was just there at Elephant & Castle today! When this video released! Just arrived home from a week long trip to the UK and stayed in London over The Weeknd not far from Elephant & Castle but today was the first time we didn’t take the bus back, the 435, but took the Bakerloo line from Piccadilly to here. Mainly because my son and I wanted to go by train 😊. First time in the UK for him and the 8th for me but first in over 15 years. I passed that hand written sign at the bottom of the stairs! 😊
I always liked the name of that station. You’re lucky to live in London. I’m sure there are times that you may not think it on days when it’s crowded, rainy, etc. But it truly is an amazing place, and I’ve been wanting to get back for years. We have a small chain of British pub/restaurants with 5 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada called Elephant & Castle. Having been to the U.K. many times, they always feel pretty true to their country of origin. They also used to be one of the only places that I could get Fuller’s London Pride and Porter on draft, and dispensed with traditional pump handles and at room temperature. Sadly the last time I was in a location my Fuller’s was ice cold, and when I asked about it the bartender didn’t seem to care or know what I was talking about. But they’re still decent places.
The new shopping centre development incudes a new tube station entrance with escalators. The developer is paying to build it and TfL will be responsible for the fit out. This is scheduled for next year I think if funds can be found. Fingers crossed the new broom in Westminster may feel more generous towards TfL.
As a two-time tourist to London and self-admitted train nerd, the Bakerloo Line carriages are my favorite of all the Underground. Sure, they may not be as fancy as the S stock, but they’ve got a lot of character to them.
I remember the old lift with the concertina gate in the at The Bakerloo Line entrance, and I also remember there was a manned operator for that lift, and the one on The Northern Line entrance. There was also an underpass which linked the two stations with St Georges Road. I was brought up just around the corner from there.
Elephant and castle is the station I enter and exit every single day. I can’t believe I didn’t see you but this is such a great video nonetheless! Glad you’ve finally done elephant ❤
What a random event! I was just there at Elephant & Castle today! When this video released! Just arrived home from a week long trip to the UK and stayed in London over The Weeknd not far from Elephant & Castle but today was the first time we didn’t take the bus back, the 435, but took the Bakerloo line from Piccadilly to here. Mainly because my son and I wanted to go by train 😊. First time in the UK for him and the 8th for me but first in over 15 years.
Must had been about 1952, my mother and my aunts dragged along their 5 sons while they went on a Saturday shopping trip in the west end. Somehow on the journey home we had to change at Elephant and Castle. I was beside myself and had a melt down that my mother would not take me to the surface to see the Elephant.
As a previous resident of Brockley, New Cross and Bromley, who often travelled between those places and E&C/Southbank and also Bromley, I don't dare to believe the BL will ever get extended, but I like the idea of the Bakerloop bus.
Would have been nice if it had been extended to Brockley. When visiting relatives in Brockley we used to get the 171 bus from Waterloo. Going back to Waterloo, we used to walk around to Ladywell and get the train to Waterloo East.
Oh buddha, do I remember those spiral stairs. Thanks for bringing some of my memories back to life. Last millenia, almost half a century ago (early 1980's) when I was a wee lad I was on a school trip to London. Stayed at a cheap hotel near the Elephant & Castle tube station, London Park Hotel I think it was called, located behind the old churchyard/park. I remember how the locals were running through the churchyard in the evening, I guess it wasn't the safest place in London at night. There was also a nice little burger shop just on the other side of the railway viaduct.
The building and those tiles are gorgeous. I love the mix of old and new. I will have to watch the video about how the station got its name. London has such unusual names for areas and tube stations. The more I watch, though, the more I realize how many of those names we have copied here in the States. We even have Hyde Park in Tampa, but ours is more of a city area to live with bars, not green space. Great video. I learn something each time.
Another great video, from the Series That Wouldn't Die! Greatly appreciated by this son of the other very famous Elephant & Castle (Coventry, that is) Just proves the fact that there are more steps going up the staircase than there are going down.
I work opposite the old Camberwell station in the bus garage, have done for nearly 20 years but I didn't know about the Walworth Station off Walworth road. Thanks for the video Geoff!! BTW. When I was a driver on the 360's I used to use the Bakerloo Line canteen in South London House. Really nice grub!!
Very interesting. Probably my most used station (apart from the my local one ) I do some work at South Bank Uni and never noticed the London Rd depot basically opposite the building we use . I also use the Thameslink to get there --- and the Bakerloo interchange to get up to Marylebone for trains to visit family..... I also get a cup of tea from that cafe next to the Bakerloo bit. 😊
The backs of 1830s town houses you can see overlooking Lambeth North depot are in London Rd. I rented a dodgy flat at the top of one in the late 90s and my kitchen window had a fantastic view directly over the tracks. I could never convince anyone I lived in Lambeth North and not Elephant and Castle. I never received a lecky bill, which is just as well as the big 'portable' heater that came with the flat was a relic from the 1930s and must have cost a bomb to run.
I remember when the roundabout surrounding the Michael Faraday Memorial was a full roundabout, as opposed to now where it's 3/4 of one. I was never aware of the old Camberwell and Walworth Road stations though, and I've rode on that line countless times. That was fascinating to know.
Great video I heard that the pedestrian subways have all been filled in and are no longer in use nowadays. There used to be a lot of them under those massive roundabouts when I lived in the area 20 years ago.
Never really knew that this was an actual place. It sounds so familiar and yet. There is an eatery in San Francisco called E&C at 424 Clay Street (between Battery and Sansome) which I must have walked past. In must be very fancy as I never went in. Thanks for the fabulous commentary explaining what is it.
My mum used to live, at her mums, down Glastone Road overlooking the depot from back window. I recall watching the red eyes in the 1970s wondering what they were - after all Underground trains aren't visible from surface are they ;-)
Thanks Geoff. Been there lots. We went to see Bedlam -- sorry the Imperial War Museum -- and would walk south to the no-longer shopping centre, board the tube and go home.
I go to UAL just at Elephant and Castle! So cool to see all this information about the station where I get on and off almost everyday! Thanks Geoff Edit: The new development being built next to the station is an extension of London College of Communications, I think due to be finished 2028/29 if I remember correctly.
Used both stations early 70's but preferred the Bakerloo as less crowded to and from Waterloo. Often had a fellow passenger, a tabby cat doing the same journey, a night on the tiles somewhere secret, an assignation at Waterloo under the clock? It even used the lift, the attendant giving it treats.
Loughborough Junction was a Monday to Friday only station for many years; even after Thameslink started in 1988, it was another 2 or 3 years before trains started to call there at weekends.
Did you know there was a huge Midland Coal Depot with coal drops on the east side of the viaduct , just south of E&C Station between Steedman Street and Amelia Street? It was called Walsworth Road Coal Depot.
Thank you for sharing the video Geoff, it was very interesting. For me from where I live I need to get the mainline train to London Liverpool Street then take the Central Line from there to Bank then lastly take the Northern Line from Bank to Elephant & Castle. There are other routes I could take but this one would be the quickest & easiest. 😊
I've been at elephant and castle many times when i was younger and lived in London, mainly on the weekend when ministry of sound opened and i was going there to stomp my feet off for 8 hours. Good times!! 😅
When I traveled to England in November 2019, I was staying near this station. That it was the terminus station of the Bakerloo line, was an interesting alternative in relation to buses. It's a pity, I remember, that outside this station my phone was stolen, but it's a detail. 😂. Anyway, when I see the video, it brings me good memories about the neighborhood, where I went to the Shopping Mall, used some bus lines and walked (too much). Greetings from Chile 🇨🇱
Small addition, the development at E&C is actually building out some of the station box and access routes for the "new" E&C Bakerloo station thats needed for the extension down to Lewisham to take place!
Like u I used the bakerloo line a lot back in the 1980s from elephant and castle as I lived near brixton. Remember lambeth north as well as my nan lived nearby to thst station and that had a slam door lift.
The old shopping centre closed down many local independent businesses and the plan for the new centre is big brand names and whoever pays the highest rent and the least tax. Signage from the Northern to the Bakerloo is appalling in the subways as you end up looping back on yourself. as part of the new shopping centre there were (in 2019) plans to future proof the Bakerloo platforms to allow for the Bakerloo extension and these were available in 3D vision on early versions of VR headsets.
I've been to E&C a few times. University of Arts has a campus there. (Apogee/HP printers). I've been upline for E&C Tube to Embankment a few times also.
Bakerloo home from Paddington from trips to meet family. Second carriage from the front. Waiting for the points switch to know if the exit door was on the left or right. Happy days
Hey Geoff! Let me guess, is Stratford, Hammersmith, Edgware Road, Kensington Olympia, Waterloo or Bank on the list? If you were to do Kensington Olympia you'd have to go on a weekend
Excellent Video Geoff, So much fascinating detail in just over 8 minutes. Just one thing though, is the Staircase actually a Helical Staircase rather than a Spiral one. (Regular Qi recording attender here.) A spiral staircase changes size from top op bottom, or vice-versa, if it is the same size all the way down it is Helical.
Ah no, it doesn't apply to staircases, just the geometrical shapes, apparently it is down to whether the stairs have a void in the middle (helical) or a post (spiral), so in this case 100% correct, my bad.
Spot where I filmed this over two days …
DAY 1 : When it rained, and then DAY 2 : When I walked to the abandoned stations and it was a sunny day! 😅
Okay
Happy British summer!
Head line on the Metro is 9th July
I used to live be here! Used to love it, especially looking around the old tube stations in the area 😌
It’s true if you don’t like the British weather just wait 5 minutes 😂
4:21 "Bakerloop" a portmanteau within a portmanteau, delightful
Geoff, thanks for taking the time to talk to me and partner at East Croydon the other Sunday, sorry I caught you in a moment of deep thought but it was great to meet you, thanks for being so polite!
Ha ha, i was in deep thought yes! Nice to meet ya 👍👍😊
You are so very kind geoff
Well that took me back a few years!
Between 1965 & 1970 I was a student at the London College of Printing. I lived in Wembley and travelled from Stonebridge Park station to the Elephant, Monday to Friday over that time. The trains were 1938 stock in those days if I remember correctly, and there was even one ‘smoking’ carriage!
Also have a memory of freezing on Queens Park Station waiting for a Euston train to continue north if the Bakerloo terminated there.
I work in the team that installed that robotic total station to monitor the Northern line! 😊 Made my day seeing that in this video!
I work in the local area and must have passed by there hundreds of times and never noticed those former stations . This is why I appreciate your work and why I'm a transport/urban planning enthusiast. You're doing the lord's work Geoff 👍👍👍
Ah thank you! It would he nice to have a station in Camberwell, methinks …
would you use either of the abandoned stations if they were reopened?
@@geofftech2 certainly especially along old Kent road and Walworth/Camberwell road 🛣️🛣️🛣️
I’m pleased that you didn’t quit TH-cam. I have been to Elephant and Castle and I still think that the Bakerloo Line will extend to Lewisham and Hayes/Bromley. Do keep them coming.
Great video! Have to say though that reopening Camberwell and Walworth Road stations would be hugely beneficial for the local areas which are quite badly served by trains at the moment (because the distance between Elephant and Castle and Loughborough Junction is really quite big). I hope they reopen at least one of these stations in the future to serve some quite dense neighbourhoods
I’ve been hoping so for years (as a North Londoner who just wants to see a well connected city) but unfortunately I doubt it’ll happen. The construction on a line as busy and densely populated as this one will probably be prohibitively expensive
Great video, as always! Lots of info, presented well. Thank you! I'm a Yank, but lived in the area in '84, so 'the Elephant' was our local Tube. We have special memories of the lovely old London Transport Leslie Green-designed buildings, and we did notice the tiles and the general old-fashioned feeling of the station, along with the lovely old iron-work & fixtures. It was also a great memory for us to think of all the generations of S. Londoners who came through that station to get the 'Norvern Line' or the Bakerloo, and to remember the bravery of Londoners in WWII who took refuge in the deep stations. When returning to the E & C going south from Camden Tube, we always had to remember to read the front of the Northern Line trains for the direction "Morden via Bank," to be sure that the train wld stop at E & C. I do miss the area, even the '60s-era shopping centre there and our local Tesco. I'm back in the States, unfortunately, and surely miss walking home with a Bermondsey "portion of chips, open" w/Sarson's malt vinegar & salt, and the Bermondsey Manze's pie & mash, the New Caledonian Mkt, the scent of coal fires in winter, and the best-ever Routemaster buses - a packed, warm & cozy refuge in winter nights, which allowed us the vast convenience of hopping on & off when we pleased! Some great years in the final years of an older-style, less hectic London. Lifetime memories!
Never fails to brighten my day
What a random event! I was just there at Elephant & Castle today! When this video released! Just arrived home from a week long trip to the UK and stayed in London over The Weeknd not far from Elephant & Castle but today was the first time we didn’t take the bus back, the 435, but took the Bakerloo line from Piccadilly to here. Mainly because my son and I wanted to go by train 😊. First time in the UK for him and the 8th for me but first in over 15 years.
I passed that hand written sign at the bottom of the stairs! 😊
I always liked the name of that station. You’re lucky to live in London. I’m sure there are times that you may not think it on days when it’s crowded, rainy, etc. But it truly is an amazing place, and I’ve been wanting to get back for years. We have a small chain of British pub/restaurants with 5 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada called Elephant & Castle. Having been to the U.K. many times, they always feel pretty true to their country of origin. They also used to be one of the only places that I could get Fuller’s London Pride and Porter on draft, and dispensed with traditional pump handles and at room temperature. Sadly the last time I was in a location my Fuller’s was ice cold, and when I asked about it the bartender didn’t seem to care or know what I was talking about. But they’re still decent places.
Lovin’ the blond cowlick. Lovely vid. Bless you for the mention of the Hidden London tours x
Thanks!
Thanks for making me fill very old. I work on the signs at the shopping centre when I was 15/16. Just before the now demolished centre opened.
This is my local station! I’ve been waiting for this video for a while and it’s lovely to see Elephant and Castle get some love
The new shopping centre development incudes a new tube station entrance with escalators. The developer is paying to build it and TfL will be responsible for the fit out. This is scheduled for next year I think if funds can be found. Fingers crossed the new broom in Westminster may feel more generous towards TfL.
Glad they are building a new shopping centre, I remember the old one very well
@@paulhanafin9798 I hated the old one. Dark, dingy and seemed like a perpetual garage sale.
As a two-time tourist to London and self-admitted train nerd, the Bakerloo Line carriages are my favorite of all the Underground. Sure, they may not be as fancy as the S stock, but they’ve got a lot of character to them.
Another great episode of End of the Line! Well done Geoff :)
I remember the old lift with the concertina gate in the at The Bakerloo Line entrance, and I also remember there was a manned operator for that lift, and the one on The Northern Line entrance. There was also an underpass which linked the two stations with St Georges Road. I was brought up just around the corner from there.
Spooky I did this today, saw the tiles, walked the steps came home and your video popped up! never realised tiles were that old, excellent
Those tiles on the Northern Line really look lovely, nice End of the Line video.
Don't stop Geoff! Your TH-cam full length videos are fascinating and give me inspiration ... (PS, thank you!)
Elephant and Castle is now definitely on my checklist for when I visit London, great video as always!
Elephant and castle is the station I enter and exit every single day. I can’t believe I didn’t see you but this is such a great video nonetheless! Glad you’ve finally done elephant ❤
What a random event! I was just there at Elephant & Castle today! When this video released! Just arrived home from a week long trip to the UK and stayed in London over The Weeknd not far from Elephant & Castle but today was the first time we didn’t take the bus back, the 435, but took the Bakerloo line from Piccadilly to here. Mainly because my son and I wanted to go by train 😊. First time in the UK for him and the 8th for me but first in over 15 years.
Must had been about 1952, my mother and my aunts dragged along their 5 sons while they went on a Saturday shopping trip in the west end. Somehow on the journey home we had to change at Elephant and Castle.
I was beside myself and had a melt down that my mother would not take me to the surface to see the Elephant.
2:47 - I'd prefer to go to the kitchen to make a cup of tea rather than the toilet myself, but each to their own!
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LOL perhaps a slip of a tongue 👅
Thank you. With everything going on these days, this was a nice break.
Another great episode Geoff! You are a master of the craft that is TH-cam. Thanks for everything you produce (and don't quit YT!!) ;)
Nice haunting/eerie old feel to elephant and castle, love it when they have original tiles still in place at tube stations.
As a previous resident of Brockley, New Cross and Bromley, who often travelled between those places and E&C/Southbank and also Bromley, I don't dare to believe the BL will ever get extended, but I like the idea of the Bakerloop bus.
Would have been nice if it had been extended to Brockley. When visiting relatives in Brockley we used to get the 171 bus from Waterloo. Going back to Waterloo, we used to walk around to Ladywell and get the train to Waterloo East.
Really happy to see my local station on here 💪
Currently eating pastas at 11pm and watching Geoff's content at the same time. Perfect 👌
"There's an Elephant in the Room of the Castle", Legend has it...🏰
It was great to see you filming this the other day. Shame I had to jump on a Thameslink train before I could say hi!
Oh buddha, do I remember those spiral stairs. Thanks for bringing some of my memories back to life. Last millenia, almost half a century ago (early 1980's) when I was a wee lad I was on a school trip to London. Stayed at a cheap hotel near the Elephant & Castle tube station, London Park Hotel I think it was called, located behind the old churchyard/park. I remember how the locals were running through the churchyard in the evening, I guess it wasn't the safest place in London at night. There was also a nice little burger shop just on the other side of the railway viaduct.
The building and those tiles are gorgeous. I love the mix of old and new. I will have to watch the video about how the station got its name. London has such unusual names for areas and tube stations. The more I watch, though, the more I realize how many of those names we have copied here in the States. We even have Hyde Park in Tampa, but ours is more of a city area to live with bars, not green space. Great video. I learn something each time.
Another great video, from the Series That Wouldn't Die! Greatly appreciated by this son of the other very famous Elephant & Castle (Coventry, that is)
Just proves the fact that there are more steps going up the staircase than there are going down.
Yes i knew he would listen to do the remaining End of The Line's. Keep it up Geoff! 😁😁
I work opposite the old Camberwell station in the bus garage, have done for nearly 20 years but I didn't know about the Walworth Station off Walworth road. Thanks for the video Geoff!!
BTW. When I was a driver on the 360's I used to use the Bakerloo Line canteen in South London House. Really nice grub!!
There used to be a restaurant in Victoria BC, part of a chain, called the Elephant & Castle
Really enjoyed this, Geoff. Grew up around here and it's great to see it again.
Love those ancient tiles! Saw some at the London Transport Museum and have seen pics of them in King William St.
111 steps. I’m sure someone will have worked out how many storeys that’s equivalent to. I enjoyed this video - thanks Geoff!
Hmm... probably between 14 and 16 storeys...
Very lovely. Could tell this was very nostalgic for you.
Very interesting. Probably my most used station (apart from the my local one ) I do some work at South Bank Uni and never noticed the London Rd depot basically opposite the building we use . I also use the Thameslink to get there --- and the Bakerloo interchange to get up to Marylebone for trains to visit family..... I also get a cup of tea from that cafe next to the Bakerloo bit. 😊
I’ve always been curious about this station so thanks for this.
Was a train operator at Elephant in 90 91,good days hasn't changed much even still using 72 mk2 stock.
Hiding the grey, Geoff! Lol. Hair looks good!
Really interesting video Geoff. Thank you.
The backs of 1830s town houses you can see overlooking Lambeth North depot are in London Rd. I rented a dodgy flat at the top of one in the late 90s and my kitchen window had a fantastic view directly over the tracks. I could never convince anyone I lived in Lambeth North and not Elephant and Castle. I never received a lecky bill, which is just as well as the big 'portable' heater that came with the flat was a relic from the 1930s and must have cost a bomb to run.
Beautiful video Geoff.
As always a great and informative video.
I remember when the roundabout surrounding the Michael Faraday Memorial was a full roundabout, as opposed to now where it's 3/4 of one.
I was never aware of the old Camberwell and Walworth Road stations though, and I've rode on that line countless times. That was fascinating to know.
Great video
I heard that the pedestrian subways have all been filled in and are no longer in use nowadays. There used to be a lot of them under those massive roundabouts when I lived in the area 20 years ago.
The Faraday memorial is hilarious! I never knew that was there.
lol u got me to appreciate this station a little more 👍
I like the natty diagonal windows on the station at 6:35.
What a station 😍 it's beautiful and cozy
Never really knew that this was an actual place. It sounds so familiar and yet. There is an eatery in San Francisco called E&C at 424 Clay Street (between Battery and Sansome) which I must have walked past. In must be very fancy as I never went in. Thanks for the fabulous commentary explaining what is it.
My mum used to live, at her mums, down Glastone Road overlooking the depot from back window. I recall watching the red eyes in the 1970s wondering what they were - after all Underground trains aren't visible from surface are they ;-)
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Thanks Geoff. Been there lots. We went to see Bedlam -- sorry the Imperial War Museum -- and would walk south to the no-longer shopping centre, board the tube and go home.
117 steps and 124 steps both equal 15 floors
I was at Poly at E&C 1983-85. Hated the college but like the area. I remember the lifts with concertina doors well.
Nice to see London is getting the same type of summer as Scotland.
I work in that pub and can tell you filmed there last Tuesday lol
Absolutely love the Bakerloo Line woohoo ❤
I once remember going to the elephant and castle shopping center a few years before closure
Confusing they still have the signs up for the shopping centre? Was it any good? Decent shops etc?
I go to UAL just at Elephant and Castle! So cool to see all this information about the station where I get on and off almost everyday! Thanks Geoff
Edit: The new development being built next to the station is an extension of London College of Communications, I think due to be finished 2028/29 if I remember correctly.
Used both stations early 70's but preferred the Bakerloo as less crowded to and from Waterloo. Often had a fellow passenger, a tabby cat doing the same journey, a night on the tiles somewhere secret, an assignation at Waterloo under the clock? It even used the lift, the attendant giving it treats.
Great video
Loughborough Junction was a Monday to Friday only station for many years; even after Thameslink started in 1988, it was another 2 or 3 years before trains started to call there at weekends.
Great video Geoff!
Did you know there was a huge Midland Coal Depot with coal drops on the east side of the viaduct , just south of E&C Station between Steedman Street and Amelia Street? It was called Walsworth Road Coal Depot.
Thank you for sharing the video Geoff, it was very interesting. For me from where I live I need to get the mainline train to London Liverpool Street then take the Central Line from there to Bank then lastly take the Northern Line from Bank to Elephant & Castle. There are other routes I could take but this one would be the quickest & easiest. 😊
LOVE Elephant and Castle 😊
Thanks Geoff very interesting video 😊
I've been at elephant and castle many times when i was younger and lived in London, mainly on the weekend when ministry of sound opened and i was going there to stomp my feet off for 8 hours. Good times!! 😅
When I traveled to England in November 2019, I was staying near this station. That it was the terminus station of the Bakerloo line, was an interesting alternative in relation to buses.
It's a pity, I remember, that outside this station my phone was stolen, but it's a detail. 😂.
Anyway, when I see the video, it brings me good memories about the neighborhood, where I went to the Shopping Mall, used some bus lines and walked (too much).
Greetings from Chile 🇨🇱
117 steps, which as we all know, is the same as a 15 storey building
Cheers Geoff. Great vid mate. I need to get down to the Elephant and Castle next time I’m in London. 👍
Small addition, the development at E&C is actually building out some of the station box and access routes for the "new" E&C Bakerloo station thats needed for the extension down to Lewisham to take place!
If the extension to Lewisham goes ahead then will the line be renamed the *Bakerlew* ? 😎
A regular station of mine, in the past, when I used to get the first train after being at Ministry of Sound
Like u I used the bakerloo line a lot back in the 1980s from elephant and castle as I lived near brixton. Remember lambeth north as well as my nan lived nearby to thst station and that had a slam door lift.
Watching this reminds me, RIP The Castle Tandoori, which was in the old shopping centre there.
Fabtastic video as always 😊😊😊
TIL guerrilla sticker artwork is a thing. Brilliant video Geoff!
The old shopping centre closed down many local independent businesses and the plan for the new centre is big brand names and whoever pays the highest rent and the least tax. Signage from the Northern to the Bakerloo is appalling in the subways as you end up looping back on yourself. as part of the new shopping centre there were (in 2019) plans to future proof the Bakerloo platforms to allow for the Bakerloo extension and these were available in 3D vision on early versions of VR headsets.
I've been to E&C a few times. University of Arts has a campus there. (Apogee/HP printers). I've been upline for E&C Tube to Embankment a few times also.
Bakerloo home from Paddington from trips to meet family. Second carriage from the front. Waiting for the points switch to know if the exit door was on the left or right. Happy days
Hey Geoff! Let me guess, is Stratford, Hammersmith, Edgware Road, Kensington Olympia, Waterloo or Bank on the list? If you were to do Kensington Olympia you'd have to go on a weekend
Why didn't they ask you to do "Secrets of the Underground" on Yesterday with Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway? Now that would be a series to watch.
Yay - was hoping for this!
Thank you Geoff.
Still no Jubs at Stratford EOTL
Excellent Video Geoff, So much fascinating detail in just over 8 minutes. Just one thing though, is the Staircase actually a Helical Staircase rather than a Spiral one. (Regular Qi recording attender here.) A spiral staircase changes size from top op bottom, or vice-versa, if it is the same size all the way down it is Helical.
Ah no, it doesn't apply to staircases, just the geometrical shapes, apparently it is down to whether the stairs have a void in the middle (helical) or a post (spiral), so in this case 100% correct, my bad.
Awesome Video Geoff 😄😄