The classic clock looks very well hung. A couple of guys (or gals) must have been moving it up and down for hours to get it as close as that, and used some firm nuts to stop it coming down. It looks well polished too, so they must be taking good care of it. The timepiece I mean 😊
To paraphrase a couple former hosts of _SportsCenter,_ if you're on live television and you're handed a report that a baseball player is on the disabled list with a bulging disc, be safe and just say he has a back injury.
The moment I landed in London, I loved the Piccadilly line and it’s my favourite. I think my curiosity about it led me here. And yes, Cockfosters is a ubiquitous name on the Piccadilly line.
1:17 couldn't stop laughing when I saw that! **Inner Child comes out** but got all serious when one of the signs does say 'Trent Park' even know there some lovely editing there! Brilliant Video Geoff!
@@TicTacTrolleyServiceTico I wonder just what you'd make of going into The Piddle Inn in Piddletrenthide in Dorset and asking for a pint of the local brew. Can you guess what it's called? Yes you can down a pint of Piddle. They even do a bottled Cocky.
That brought back memories. I worked in the building opposite the station from 1970 to 1977. BTW Trent Park was used during the war to hold high ranking German POWs. They were treated well as senior officers and dropped their guard in conversation with each other. Their conversations were bugged and much good intelligence was obtained.
No matter how low a day I’m having, Geoff’s ebullience on pointing out wonderful chestnuts most people would find mundane, always puts a smile on my face. Thank you , Geoff, for reminding us we can still be a kid a candy shop at any age in any shop you want.
Ah! Trent Park! Proper nostalgic. Apparently my dad took me on walks round there when I was little. I also fell out of a tree there once. Wasn't very nice. Very cool video!
A brilliant video Geoff. As an Enfieldian I am proud of the four tube stations in the borough albeit on the extreme western side of the borough. I also liked your passing reference to Enfield West on the map section. I think the station should have been called Trent Park.
Incidentally, there are additional pedestrian entrances to Trent Park just before you get to where the car park barriers previously would have been at Cockfosters (practically opposite where the lift from the booking hall emerges) and opposite Oakwood station. There's also a London Loop "plaque" mounted on the exterior wall between the lift lobby and the stairs.
@@geofftech2 It's not the most obvious place to put it, I must admit, but probably the easiest at street level as the footpath into Trent Park isn't particularly wide at that entrance given it's hemmed in by the car park on one side and Trent Park Cemetery on the other, and there are all the bins and cars parked along the opposite wall.
This just goes to show that if you’re not in a rush, it pays to just stop and have a look at where you have arrived. Lots to take in at Cockfosters station.
Oh poor station could really use a touch up of paint, including the bus shelter. That and the garden and it would be quite dazzling. I wonder if they have a formula record for those colors
@@peterjones3557 my reaction was that the concrete still looks splendid but most of the rest could do with sprucing up. Especially the bus shelter. Holden was a genius.
I walked the section of London Loop to High Barnet the other day, next section will be High Barnet to Cockfosters! Looking forward to that and getting the train back into London!
There is the 384 bus that links directly between Cockfosters & High Barnet Stations, it takes roughly the same time as the 307 does between High Barnet & Oakwood Stations, although the 384 is less frequent by only running every 20 mins frequency during the day compared to the 10 mins frequency on the 307.
Car park for the win! When my family lived in Great Yarmouth as expats from the USA, I had to travel to meetings in London. I would drive up to Cockfosters and catch the Piccadilly Line for the rest of the journey. No way I’d ever drive in London! I have great memories of the car park at Cockfosters!
love your station videos Geoff, they so remind me of my childhood esp ones like Cockfosters the décor is exactly like how our council owned buildings was like public baths, piers toilets and other beach buildings look in Bournemouth,. who the designers took their idea's from London obviously. wondered how it came to that name great info.
a wonderful trip back to my childhood -- I live in Toronto now, but until I was 11 I lived just down Cat Hill (A110), and Cockfosters was my local tube station. I remember going by tube down to Stanley Gibbons stamps (??in the Strand) to get what seemed to a ten-year-old like very nifty stamps. (and because it was local, and we always were hearing the word, "Cockfosters" didn't seem unusual / silly at all)
Back in the days when earls court (also on the Piccadilly line) was full of Aussies and so called kangaroo valley, there was a joke that went Do you know the way to Cockfosters? Yeah, serve it warm mate!
Mawdryn Undead, from Season 20. Where it was used as the grounds for 'Brendon Public School' where future companion Turlough was a pupil. And Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was a teacher of Mathematics.
Great station and area and great video Geoff. :) I've done Cross Country at Trent Park in the past and it's a beautiful park. Charles Holden's designs are some of the best on the whole London Underground I think. So much character.
A really good concise video of End of line series. I know this station very well as I used to walk from East Barnet up Cat Hill to catch a tube in to Piccadilly Circus in 1970s , Later on I worked as an sales assistant at Trent Park sports shop 50 metres from the station. There was also a station cat who lived there at that time fed by the station staff.
Great video Geoff of a station fondly remembered by me. In 1999 when I had to drive to London to do some work at Islington Libraries, Cockfosters was always my way onto the underground to get down to work. After this if ever I was visiting London, Cockfosters was the park and ride station of choice. In later years I switched to using Hatfield instead but it was never so much fun (sorry Hatfield)!
Nice to see again, I lived just two roads away from Cockfosters tube station for years and took the tube into central London many times, got to say the tube train itself looks really clean almost new compared to the ones I used to use. Know Trent park very well massive area to see good fishing lake too, many visits there over the years. Thanks for bringing some good memories back with your video ... Thanks.
SO close! Please come High Barnet! I’d love to run into you on my way to my uni 😭 There’s a FANTASTIC cafe at the top of the hill from the station called Oak Caffe and I loooove their coffee (especially their pumpkin spice lattes now that ‘tis the season)
As a regular user of Cockfosters I can tell you that, yes, those little yellow shelters are used by the cleaners. Also, up until recently (a year or so, maybe?) at least one gnome could be seen in the over run section (one of the outer platforms, I think), not sure if it is still there or not. Regarding the car park though there are plans to redevelop it into some tower blocks. Will the plans go ahead or not is up for debate.
That may be the timing but the *reason* they were moved to the back corner behind Platform 4 is because they were sat in the ballast drag where the buffers slide through if a train hits them. They were lawsuits waiting to happen.
@@SportyMabamba I can now imagine members of the public being showered in plants and soil. And being attacked, kamikaze-style, by garden gnomes. All because a train couldn't brake in time
@@SportyMabamba ,I can’t imagine a bit of soil and a few bedding plants making any difference to a runaway train. I suppose the gnomes could become missiles so we’re probably best relocated.
Mate! I was so confused.. I was thinking how have I never seen this in like 7 years working here.. finally back from annual leave and it wasn’t there.. that was a slick job he didnhaha
Another great video Geoff … I’m more familiar with the other end of the line at Uxbridge .. growing up in High Wycombe .. used to get the Green Line Coach 711 to Uxbridge then purchase a Red Rover Ticket & catch a 207 to Shepherds Bush .. also once London Country took over from LT and the Golden Rover Ticket became available used to change here (outside the front entrance) in to the 727 to Gatwick or Luton or 724 to Staines or Romford. With the bus station the other side giving access to the 321/347 etc .. always admired the station architecture there .. so will definitely have to travel up to the other end of the line now! Thanks for posting this!
With the large car park, Cockfosters was always a good option if driving down from the north. I used to use both it and Stanmore many times back in thee 90's for getting into the city.
I waited to meet a relative at Cockfosters station for a walk / hike around Trent Park a few years ago. True to character, he was massively late but I am glad he was, because it gave me time to admire the 1930s feel of the station which has been cleverly maintained.
I use the Piccadilly line alot cos i come into Kings Cross so that's often the first line I use when arriving in London. Always wanted to go to Cockfosters.
Re the Gnomes & Rock Garden: Those buffers are designed to gradually decelerate a train by ploughing through the rock chippings behind them. In the event this happened, the plant pots etc would be hurled everywhere. It was a lawsuit waiting to happen so TfL moved them to the open-air corner behind platform 4. The original 1933 sand drag & steel buffer arrangement was life-expired and replaced by the current ballast-drag buffers in the 80s. Cockfosters is the last place on the LU network to have the type. They’ll be replaced by modern slide-friction buffers in the next couple of years in order to accommodate the 2024 Stock. No planting or gnomes allowed with those either, sorry Geoff!
I should think that showers of rock chippings from a colliding train pushing through the buffers would be just a likely to injure someone as plants/gnomes! So maybe the legal concerns are just an excuse? Anyway, as it's apparently going to be replaced, the option for flower beds has gone.
I visited the UK in 2019 and just had to go to Cockfosters as the name was a bit of a giggle! I wasn’t disappointed though, I do love the architecture of this station. Worth coming all the way from Australia to see!
When you do Stanmore: -Viewpoint of London at Wood Farm, just 10 min walk up the hill opposite Stanmore Station. I think you've already featured it on your channel -Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital -Cottages on the High Street built in 1565 + loads of listed buildings going up Stanmore hill -Old Stanmore Station - disused line -There's planning permission to build an 11 floor residential building on the Station car park
Nice one - now I know. Previous knowledge merely from the old lager tv ad: Chinese tourist to Paul Hogan (on tube platform): "Do you know way to Cockfosters?" Hogan (rolling eyes): "Serve it warm, mate."
Back in the 1950's there was a gents hairdressers inside the station concourse. Memories as a youngish boy riding in from Oakwood Station every couple of weeks for a trim.
After visiting London several times in the early 80s and taking the Piccadilly line in from Heathrow, one night in 1986 after the pubs closed my friend and I rode out to Cockfosters to once and for all see what was there. We arrived in the dark and didn't want to miss the train back so I don't remember much besides the parking for a large Landrover dealer that was in Cockfosters until at least the late 90s located about where the modern car park is. The other thing that sticks about Cockfosters is that in WWII the initial interrogation an dprocessing center for captured Luftwaffe air crew was there.
Looking at the thumbnail I thought “that’s one of the stations I went to when I went to every station in the first two columns on the tube map a couple of weeks ago”. Thanks for explaining that I wasn’t actually delusional and that Cockfosters and Uxbridge are very similar! Thanks also for adding the labyrinth and its number!
I think the Picadilly line is without doubt possibly a great line because it’s just got so many grade 2 listed buildings that you can at least take your time to just look at the absolute architecture that was designed by the legend Charles Holden
The bus stop at the end of the subway used to be where you got on buses to Potters Bar until TfL moved the stop to the main road...... Plus did you know Cockfosters is on the flight path for aircraft landing at Heathrow? When you sat in Trent Park you could hear one above you, they leave the Lamborne Hold and weave around North West London, back across the City and head on to final approach around Tower Bridge.... So both ends of the Picc get some aircraft action!
Visited there just the other week. Of note, P2 at both Cockfosters and Uxbridge are Out of Use (doors do not open). Having never visited before, was nicely surprised. Will visit the park when I'm next out that way.
despite living in london for many years I have barely ever used the Piccadilly line at all. Few times for Heathrow airport (and for plane spotting near it...) or just couple of stops on central london to change to another line. Thanks
I live in Oakwood... I walk to Cockfosters many times. I've always wondered why it was named Cockfosters... I know it was called something else before... there's history at every station. Nice to see someone film in our area..
You could also argue however that the most northerly line on London Underground is actually the Central line, which goes all the way out under the M25 to Epping
Full marks to Geoff for having the courage to say "classic clock". A classic clock at Cockfosters is not something to be tackled frivolously.
"Clockfosters" anyone?
Or as a friend of calls it Fosters of cock.
The classic clock looks very well hung. A couple of guys (or gals) must have been moving it up and down for hours to get it as close as that, and used some firm nuts to stop it coming down. It looks well polished too, so they must be taking good care of it. The timepiece I mean 😊
To paraphrase a couple former hosts of _SportsCenter,_ if you're on live television and you're handed a report that a baseball player is on the disabled list with a bulging disc, be safe and just say he has a back injury.
Ah yes but how many takes did it take him to get it right
1:20 is a cinematical masterpiece.
I feel like Geoff did that voluntarily
same with 0:50.
😂😂😂😂
James May approves
Reminds me when people visit Penistone station, I think Geoff did the same thing there.
"This is a Piccadilly line to Cockfosters" is my favorite thing about taking the train in from Heathrow
Foreigners must laugh at our place names. Yes they're real, and not they're not supposed to be jokes.
@@althejazzman I could never not giggle when I heard the announcement on the tube when I went to London
Only been to London twice sadly, but this is already my very favourite thing!
Love seeing and then hearing this announcement when I arrive from America. Truly the sign that you've arrived in the UK!
Mine too! It's been my local line for 17 years
It’s my father’s favourite dad joke. He says it everytime we go past.
“Is this Cockfosters”
“No it’s mine”
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Allegedly attributed to comedian Max Miller in the 1930s when the line opened...
I don’t get it 😅
@@MarioDSLifeis this cock [from] foster's?
no its mine!
Excellent, as always!
Didn't expect you to be here
Hey reece
@@hattinsonu They did a collaboration why wouldn't he watch his videos?
@@hattinsonu Reece has talked multiple times about how he enjoys watching Geoff's channel, and they even appeared in each other's videos once.
You had to do that shot, didn't you? 😂 1:17
The moment I landed in London, I loved the Piccadilly line and it’s my favourite. I think my curiosity about it led me here. And yes, Cockfosters is a ubiquitous name on the Piccadilly line.
Shoutout to Charles Holden, the legend.
Yes. The Piccadilly line was definitely his Magnum Opus.
I had my personal "end of the line" moment last week, doing my work in the train and staying on it til the last stop.
Heast fixbamoida
1:17 couldn't stop laughing when I saw that! **Inner Child comes out** but got all serious when one of the signs does say 'Trent Park' even know there some lovely editing there! Brilliant Video Geoff!
That has to be deliberate
Burst out laughing at that Pub name "The Cock Inn"
I was wondering at the sign (2:45).
@@TicTacTrolleyServiceTico I wonder just what you'd make of going into The Piddle Inn in Piddletrenthide in Dorset and asking for a pint of the local brew. Can you guess what it's called? Yes you can down a pint of Piddle.
They even do a bottled Cocky.
2:03 how has the paint eroded to create *THAT* shape? 🤣🤣🤣
EDIT: at the station with *that* name 😂
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Well noticed reece
It was absolutely intentional vandalism.
That brought back memories. I worked in the building opposite the station from 1970 to 1977. BTW Trent Park was used during the war to hold high ranking German POWs. They were treated well as senior officers and dropped their guard in conversation with each other. Their conversations were bugged and much good intelligence was obtained.
Brilliant bit of trickery I'd say
@@flubadubdubthegreat1272 One of the pieces of intelligence that was obtained was the existence of the V2 rocket development at Peenemunde.
No matter how low a day I’m having, Geoff’s ebullience on pointing out wonderful chestnuts most people would find mundane, always puts a smile on my face. Thank you , Geoff, for reminding us we can still be a kid a candy shop at any age in any shop you want.
Ah! Trent Park! Proper nostalgic. Apparently my dad took me on walks round there when I was little. I also fell out of a tree there once. Wasn't very nice. Very cool video!
A brilliant video Geoff. As an Enfieldian I am proud of the four tube stations in the borough albeit on the extreme western side of the borough. I also liked your passing reference to Enfield West on the map section. I think the station should have been called Trent Park.
I from enfield
Incidentally, there are additional pedestrian entrances to Trent Park just before you get to where the car park barriers previously would have been at Cockfosters (practically opposite where the lift from the booking hall emerges) and opposite Oakwood station. There's also a London Loop "plaque" mounted on the exterior wall between the lift lobby and the stairs.
@@geofftech2 It's not the most obvious place to put it, I must admit, but probably the easiest at street level as the footpath into Trent Park isn't particularly wide at that entrance given it's hemmed in by the car park on one side and Trent Park Cemetery on the other, and there are all the bins and cars parked along the opposite wall.
Thank you. Really enjoying these videos. Thank you from an old Brit in Tokyo.🏴🇯🇵
To the Trains!
Let's share the fact that when Geoff uploades, it makes my day!
This just goes to show that if you’re not in a rush, it pays to just stop and have a look at where you have arrived. Lots to take in at Cockfosters station.
This was something I definitely did, thanks to Geoff, when I was in London earlier this year.
It’s always a pleasure to watch your videos Geoff, thanks a lot!
The name has always chuckled me 😜 but it is a fine bit of architecture! Thanks for taking us there!
Oh poor station could really use a touch up of paint, including the bus shelter. That and the garden and it would be quite dazzling. I wonder if they have a formula record for those colors
Yes, I agree. I wonder what degree of shabbiness triggers some TLC, also concrete doesn't age well.
@@peterjones3557 my reaction was that the concrete still looks splendid but most of the rest could do with sprucing up. Especially the bus shelter. Holden was a genius.
Splendid! Also gives itself to innuendo-laden jokes.
Love this series. Always very enjoyable content thanks for making these videos
1:30 it is for preparation of the new tube for london as the new trains are going to be longer
makes sense
And they are already starting works in preparation
I walked the section of London Loop to High Barnet the other day, next section will be High Barnet to Cockfosters! Looking forward to that and getting the train back into London!
Always been a personal favourite of mine. I have a very distinct memory of coming here on a rainy evening - the shelter inside was absolutely lovely.
There is the 384 bus that links directly between Cockfosters & High Barnet Stations, it takes roughly the same time as the 307 does between High Barnet & Oakwood Stations, although the 384 is less frequent by only running every 20 mins frequency during the day compared to the 10 mins frequency on the 307.
What’s more, 384 runs between Edgware and Cockfosters. That’s three End of the Line stations in the route
@@NelsonChan Edgware is a recent extension! It used to finish in a residential part of Chipping Barnet
I like how parts of the station look like time froze sometime in the 1930’s :D
Thanks Geoff. Always a pleasure. 😃
Loving the very deliberate cropping there Geoff
I hope that someday you do a series about all of the yards! Those intertwining tracks are a visual delight.
Car park for the win! When my family lived in Great Yarmouth as expats from the USA, I had to travel to meetings in London. I would drive up to Cockfosters and catch the Piccadilly Line for the rest of the journey. No way I’d ever drive in London! I have great memories of the car park at Cockfosters!
My whole school used to travel to Trent park on the tube before we broke up for summer hols, must of been a sight to see as a commuter…
love your station videos Geoff, they so remind me of my childhood esp ones like Cockfosters the décor is exactly like how our council owned buildings was like public baths, piers toilets and other beach buildings look in Bournemouth,. who the designers took their idea's from London obviously. wondered how it came to that name great info.
3:25 Yes, 'Mawdryn Undead' in 1983, with Peter Davison as The Doctor!
Bus 384 goes directly from Cockfosters to High Barnet via New Barnet overground. Bus 307 goes direct from Oakwood to High Barnet via New Barnet.
Great video Geoff. Superbly edited and lots of interesting information stacked into 6 minutes. Can't wait for the next program in this series.
The thumbnail is perfect.
a wonderful trip back to my childhood -- I live in Toronto now, but until I was 11 I lived just down Cat Hill (A110), and Cockfosters was my local tube station. I remember going by tube down to Stanley Gibbons stamps (??in the Strand) to get what seemed to a ten-year-old like very nifty stamps. (and because it was local, and we always were hearing the word, "Cockfosters" didn't seem unusual / silly at all)
Back in the days when earls court (also on the Piccadilly line) was full of Aussies and so called kangaroo valley, there was a joke that went
Do you know the way to Cockfosters?
Yeah, serve it warm mate!
I do love that trainshed. The architecture reminds me of Montreal's Gare Centrale
Being a regular to Cockfosters the train shed and ticket hall still amaze me to this day, amazing charles Holden work
Cockfosters is such an unusual name. Gives an all new meaning to the word Oyster card. 😂
Mawdryn Undead, from Season 20. Where it was used as the grounds for 'Brendon Public School' where future companion Turlough was a pupil. And Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was a teacher of Mathematics.
Bus route 384 connects High Barnet and Cockfosters if memory serves right 😎 although infrequent
I love seeing the old Trent Park roundel when I go to Cockfosters! Can't believe it's still there after all these years
I was wondering if that was real or faked by Geoff. I Googled it and found nothing.
Great vid and info Geoff, just whetted my appetite to visit and see more of legend Holden's architecture 😊
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For those curious, the specific Doctor Who serial which filmed here is Mawdryn Undead, specifically for scenes set at a boys' boarding school.
Great station and area and great video Geoff. :) I've done Cross Country at Trent Park in the past and it's a beautiful park. Charles Holden's designs are some of the best on the whole London Underground I think. So much character.
A really good concise video of End of line series.
I know this station very well as I used to walk from East Barnet up Cat Hill to catch a tube in to Piccadilly Circus in 1970s , Later on I worked as an sales assistant at Trent Park sports shop 50 metres from the station.
There was also a station cat who lived there at that time fed by the station staff.
Great video Geoff of a station fondly remembered by me. In 1999 when I had to drive to London to do some work at Islington Libraries, Cockfosters was always my way onto the underground to get down to work. After this if ever I was visiting London, Cockfosters was the park and ride station of choice. In later years I switched to using Hatfield instead but it was never so much fun (sorry Hatfield)!
AAAAAAAAA YAY the fun host of a fun series is back.
Nice to see again, I lived just two roads away from Cockfosters tube station for years and took the tube into central London many times, got to say the tube train itself looks really clean almost new compared to the ones I used to use.
Know Trent park very well massive area to see good fishing lake too, many visits there over the years.
Thanks for bringing some good memories back with your video ... Thanks.
Great series as always Geoff, this could be the start of visiting every end of the line for national rail, trams, buses :-)
SO close! Please come High Barnet! I’d love to run into you on my way to my uni 😭 There’s a FANTASTIC cafe at the top of the hill from the station called Oak Caffe and I loooove their coffee (especially their pumpkin spice lattes now that ‘tis the season)
Loving this end of the line series
As a regular user of Cockfosters I can tell you that, yes, those little yellow shelters are used by the cleaners. Also, up until recently (a year or so, maybe?) at least one gnome could be seen in the over run section (one of the outer platforms, I think), not sure if it is still there or not. Regarding the car park though there are plans to redevelop it into some tower blocks. Will the plans go ahead or not is up for debate.
So they do move on they own accord? 😰
@@carddamom188 A Whovian hangover
I'm guessing the flowerbeds were removed after the first lockdown, when gardeners weren't key-workers during the lockdown and it all died.
Yes
That may be the timing but the *reason* they were moved to the back corner behind Platform 4 is because they were sat in the ballast drag where the buffers slide through if a train hits them. They were lawsuits waiting to happen.
@@SportyMabamba I can now imagine members of the public being showered in plants and soil. And being attacked, kamikaze-style, by garden gnomes. All because a train couldn't brake in time
@@PianoKwanMan the gnomes planned it! Cockfosters was an inside job!
@@SportyMabamba ,I can’t imagine a bit of soil and a few bedding plants making any difference to a runaway train. I suppose the gnomes could become missiles so we’re probably best relocated.
Everytime I visit london I drive to cockfosters and get the tube from there. Cool station.
Lovely
Did anyone notice that he edited the roundel to say Trent Park at 2:44
yes
Mate! I was so confused.. I was thinking how have I never seen this in like 7 years working here.. finally back from annual leave and it wasn’t there.. that was a slick job he didnhaha
Another great video Geoff … I’m more familiar with the other end of the line at Uxbridge .. growing up in High Wycombe .. used to get the Green Line Coach 711 to Uxbridge then purchase a Red Rover Ticket & catch a 207 to Shepherds Bush .. also once London Country took over from LT and the Golden Rover Ticket became available used to change here (outside the front entrance) in to the 727 to Gatwick or Luton or 724 to Staines or Romford. With the bus station the other side giving access to the 321/347 etc .. always admired the station architecture there .. so will definitely have to travel up to the other end of the line now!
Thanks for posting this!
Love this Series. I hope you make more Geoff.
With the large car park, Cockfosters was always a good option if driving down from the north. I used to use both it and Stanmore many times back in thee 90's for getting into the city.
Hilly Fields was “my” park, but whenever I see Cockfosters it feels like coming home. Thanks!
I waited to meet a relative at Cockfosters station for a walk / hike around Trent Park a few years ago. True to character, he was massively late but I am glad he was, because it gave me time to admire the 1930s feel of the station which has been cleverly maintained.
I use the Piccadilly line alot cos i come into Kings Cross so that's often the first line I use when arriving in London. Always wanted to go to Cockfosters.
Re the Gnomes & Rock Garden: Those buffers are designed to gradually decelerate a train by ploughing through the rock chippings behind them.
In the event this happened, the plant pots etc would be hurled everywhere.
It was a lawsuit waiting to happen so TfL moved them to the open-air corner behind platform 4.
The original 1933 sand drag & steel buffer arrangement was life-expired and replaced by the current ballast-drag buffers in the 80s. Cockfosters is the last place on the LU network to have the type.
They’ll be replaced by modern slide-friction buffers in the next couple of years in order to accommodate the 2024 Stock. No planting or gnomes allowed with those either, sorry Geoff!
I should think that showers of rock chippings from a colliding train pushing through the buffers would be just a likely to injure someone as plants/gnomes! So maybe the legal concerns are just an excuse? Anyway, as it's apparently going to be replaced, the option for flower beds has gone.
@@chrislaf2011 agreed, I guess chipping buckshot is considered more survivable than a plant pot to the head 😅
I used to live at Southgate and would frequently go up to Cockfosters and then into Trent park via the path next to the station.
I'm looking forward to the end of the line for the circle line...
When LUL changed the Circle line services a few years ago, they created 2 ends - Hammersmith & Edgware Road. Within LUL we called it the Lasso line.
I visited the UK in 2019 and just had to go to Cockfosters as the name was a bit of a giggle! I wasn’t disappointed though, I do love the architecture of this station. Worth coming all the way from Australia to see!
When you do Stanmore:
-Viewpoint of London at Wood Farm, just 10 min walk up the hill opposite Stanmore Station. I think you've already featured it on your channel
-Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
-Cottages on the High Street built in 1565 + loads of listed buildings going up Stanmore hill
-Old Stanmore Station - disused line
-There's planning permission to build an 11 floor residential building on the Station car park
Absolutely magnificent
Thanks Geoff. Another informative vid with a monster can in a bin bag and a wheelie bin as bonuses. Heaven!
Rubbish comment!
Nice one - now I know. Previous knowledge merely from the old lager tv ad: Chinese tourist to Paul Hogan (on tube platform): "Do you know way to Cockfosters?" Hogan (rolling eyes): "Serve it warm, mate."
Really enjoying this series Geoff!
Well done Geoff, great series. JH
Back in the 1950's there was a gents hairdressers inside the station concourse. Memories as a youngish boy riding in from Oakwood Station every couple of weeks for a trim.
After visiting London several times in the early 80s and taking the Piccadilly line in from Heathrow, one night in 1986 after the pubs closed my friend and I rode out to Cockfosters to once and for all see what was there. We arrived in the dark and didn't want to miss the train back so I don't remember much besides the parking for a large Landrover dealer that was in Cockfosters until at least the late 90s located about where the modern car park is. The other thing that sticks about Cockfosters is that in WWII the initial interrogation an dprocessing center for captured Luftwaffe air crew was there.
How many spotted the platform sign saying Trent Park?
I have worked at cockfosters depot for 6 years and i've never EVER seen that.. I cant even believe that was real
such a beautiful station!
Can't wait for the Circle Line video where you visit Edgware Road 😅 Bit of a hidden gem if you ask me, fairly quiet 😆
I'm waiting for Stratford, which is very scenic and serene!
Looking at the thumbnail I thought “that’s one of the stations I went to when I went to every station in the first two columns on the tube map a couple of weeks ago”. Thanks for explaining that I wasn’t actually delusional and that Cockfosters and Uxbridge are very similar! Thanks also for adding the labyrinth and its number!
I think the Picadilly line is without doubt possibly a great line because it’s just got so many grade 2 listed buildings that you can at least take your time to just look at the absolute architecture that was designed by the legend Charles Holden
from an architectural standpoint this is absolutely splendid.
He actually put that shot as the thumbnail. What a mad lad.
The bus stop at the end of the subway used to be where you got on buses to Potters Bar until TfL moved the stop to the main road...... Plus did you know Cockfosters is on the flight path for aircraft landing at Heathrow? When you sat in Trent Park you could hear one above you, they leave the Lamborne Hold and weave around North West London, back across the City and head on to final approach around Tower Bridge.... So both ends of the Picc get some aircraft action!
Visited there just the other week. Of note, P2 at both Cockfosters and Uxbridge are Out of Use (doors do not open). Having never visited before, was nicely surprised. Will visit the park when I'm next out that way.
A great angle on this. You've had lots of fun making it. Most enjoyable. Classic Cockfosters' clock. Classic Holden concrete.
That was good. The building is very cool.
brilliant i went to Cocfosters back in August its a lovey area in North London and the station is lovely too
The doctor who story you mentioned was Madwyn Undead, just as random fact 👍
despite living in london for many years I have barely ever used the Piccadilly line at all. Few times for Heathrow airport (and for plane spotting near it...) or just couple of stops on central london to change to another line. Thanks
Chippers chip shop across the road is worth going for alone!
Wicked video man
I live in Oakwood... I walk to Cockfosters many times. I've always wondered why it was named Cockfosters... I know it was called something else before... there's history at every station. Nice to see someone film in our area..
Brilliant video Geoff, thank you for sharing it; that was very interesting. Great information too.
You could also argue however that the most northerly line on London Underground is actually the Central line, which goes all the way out under the M25 to Epping
That car park transition was SMOOTH