Oh my goodness - I just realised after five years of watching the odd All The Stations video that in the final piano part of the intro music, there is a voice rhythmically singing the words "All The Stations All Of Them".
I've not posted before, but I felt I had to say thanks to Geoff and Vicky for your fascinating series of videos - I'm totally hooked on your rail adventures! The London ones (almost) make me wish I were still living back in the capital, but nowadays, living in the Fens I can easily visit the weirdness that is Shippea Hill!
The area of development of the Olympic site used to have freight railway sidings, and many businesses but very tatty. When I worked nearby most of these along Carpenters Road were closed and very rough. The road I used had rows of burnt out cars when I used that road route from the A12 to a college on Stratford High Street.
I rode on one of the last trains into Broad Street just before it closed in 1986. The station was a shadow of its former self then, with most of it already having been turned into a building site. They constructed a curve linking the line through Dalston Kingsland with the Liverpool Street line just north of London Fields Station (the Graham Road Curve, which still exists today), so that they could run the remaining ex-Broad Street trains into Liverpool Street, but this then became little more than a Parliamentary service, which was frequently canceled!! They then announced a formal notice of closure,.due to not many people using it!! We've gone full circle now, with most of the Broad Street line reopened, and Shoreditch High Street station providing a connection close to the Broad Street/Liverpool Street area, and at least 6 trains per hour serving it !!
Your declaration that your journey was starting in Clapham brings up the ongoing loss of identity that we who were bought up in Battersea resent so much. Back in the day when the railway came it was decided to name the station Clapham Junction rather than Battersea Junction as Battersea was a bit too industrial inner city. Even today retailers and estate agents are chipping away at my old Borough with South Chelsea and Clapham or Lambeth popping up in descriptions. Clapham Junction is in Battersea and we're proud of it!
That was a really touching monologue on the former North London Line, Geoff - there's something about people valuing these things and investing in projects to improve people's lives that stirs emotions, isn't there?
Thanks for showing Stratford area and especially Forest Gate where I lived in 1999-2001. Regards from Ukraine, keep doing great work. Hope to see Leytonstone high road station as well.
On London Overground and Underground they make regular announcements asking people not to do it. On the new Thameslink trains the doors are wide enough to allow people to alight and board at the same time.
I was feeling homesick for London watching this, then I saw that and remembered!!! You forget how rude everyone can be in London. Rather impatiently I used to declare quite loudly: "Please allow passengers to disembark before boarding... oh no you didn't bother" I was quite considerate when younger but it used to so annoy me I'd just barge through! LOL
I used to take the North London Line in the late 90s to get from Gunnersbury to Highbury & Islington. It was very...functional and the trains were not busy at all but it was nice to travel without going through busy central London. Loved the video, and have added the Brunel museum to the next trip list! And I'm glad Vicki took the bus to Richmond Park. It is much more than a few minutes walk!
Some people might say that the Royal family and Palaces is Londons main feature, but the jewel in the crown is the Underground system. I'm a northerner but family lived at Kew and I was fascinated by the tube, the fact that from arriving at a station, within minutes I could get to anywhere in London virtually stress free. I'm not really a city person but I love London and I think that is all down to tfl and the underground.
12:52 We say the same thing about cycleways in the Netherlands and it always happens. Also in London or other cities you always find that same result. Still, people keep complaining about it.
I tried to do all the museums before moving away from London two years ago but the Brunel one was never on my radar - I would have loved that! Stratford has been divided since the redevelopment. There's all the new stuff one side and all the forgotten ignored stuff the other.
At 6:03, you can hear the choppers in the electric motors gearing up. This is very similar to the sound older Montréal Métro trains make when they leave the stations. Also, that's a pretty dress, Vicki.
Watching this as a New Yorker is eye-opening. Everything Geoff says about the Overground is what the MTA here could become if investments were directed in the right places.
A LOT of the traffic at Imperial Wharf will be from Chelsea matchdays, as most of those flats around there are empty because they're foreign bought investments, but it's still true, build it and they will come: I used to walk up to West Brompton when Fulham Broadway Tube was too busy, but it makes sense to walk the other way down the line when they've built a station there.
I used to live near Brondesbury Park and then Hoxton. I loved the overground - it's less claustrophobic in feel and you tend to get internet reception while you travel :)
2:05 - that's a classic vantage point from several freight rolling stock books and internet archive sites - the cleaners' platforms with the street scenes below.
The traders at the old Stratford Centre mall originally feared the worst when Westfield was due to open, but the influx of additional shoppers in the area actually had the opposite effect and the centre is doing well. The recent addition of a Lidl has boosted it further.
i didn't even live in london or even in UK, but in Indonesia our subway network is 80% overground and 20% elevated. so it's cool to see the contrast between indonesia's Commuterline network with Tfl's London Overground network.
"It was getting a million passengers a year which doubled to three million" - so trebling then? Very enjoyable though, even after the two Overground videos already
I’m gonna have to check out that museum next time I’m in town, cheers. Also, Imperial Wharf was always my stop for the football at Stamford Bridge because it was a little more of a walk than Fulham Broadway but much less busy
What can I say guys! Thank you for a wonderful video. I really enjoyed this one. Interested to learn that there were four Brunels, the acoustics in the tunnel are amazing and the Overground.
I live near Stratford and when Westfield opened up we all thought that Stratford centre and a nearby cinema would shut, but it didn't. If anything they're all busier because of the influx of people due to the flats and the fact that the shops are cheaper and usually not ones you can find in Westfield. E.g. There's literally two poundlands next to eachother in Stratford centre
I was born and bred in Stratford , I can remember it before the old shopping centre was there let alone Westfield. I recently paid a visit to the area and a lot of the people who work the market stalls in the old centre are the sons and daughters and grandchildren of the people who ran the stalls when I was a kid. Even the chip shop behind the Swan pub were the same family who had the chip shop called The Brothers in Water Lane when I was a youngster . :)
The Euphrates Tunnel was _allegedly_ a 0.6 mile tunnel, built under the Euphrates river in between 2180 and 2160 BC. There is writing describing the tunnel, but as yet no trace of it has been found. If it did exist then the Thames tunnel was the 2nd tunnel under water.
Just wondering, I thought Eurostar calls at Stratford, isn’t that an interchange worthy of a logo on the display, Paris Brussels? Aware Kent trains use the HS1 line.
Stafford - or Stratford?? I remember a load of car dealers and other light industry 'under the arches' which were swept aside for the Olympic Park - got a dodgy car fixed at a dodgy garage there long ago....
I was in London this week, staring at the map while on a train, and wondering if you included the Overground, but not the underground (which I know you've done before)... its a symptom of enjoying your videos and following your adventure is not when I look at a railway map I think 'I wonder which route Geoff and Vicki will be taking'
Everyone thought that the old shopping centre would be decimated by Westfield, strangely the opposite happened, it has increased footfall and Sales and higher shop occupation.
The overground routes are really hard to understand since everything is just an orange line on the map. The different overground routes should have numbers like the s-bahn in germany
Love you more, Ian! i did email ya a few weeks back, but you never replied! Gonna email you again. Would love to come talk to you on a Welsh railway somewhere....
Clapham North on the underground and tube car map had the BR interchange pictogram by its name. The OSI should be extended to include Clapham Common - It would create footfall for Clapham Shops and reduce platform overcrowding at Clapham North. The Overground South London Line should have interchange stations put in at Brixton and Loughborough Junction.
That guide does so very well the amazing acoustic in the building where he works every time so in his free time he learned some opera for his own additional pleasure! He is having it awesome. Geoff? Is with all the many lines and many ways of transport and with the expanding of make the district more valuable the Stratford train station a much more bigger project station than the new London Bridge station??? Is it more exciting?! Could it be for big city train station lovers as myself and you really exciting exciting exciting?? Or is it mwoah? With not a big underground connecting point and not in the middle of London City not so big?
Awww Missed you on the GOBLIN line, it s my reg commute from Blackhorse Rd to Upper Holloway, Agree with Vicki, people seem terrible about not letting passengers to get off on this line
It's a pity they didn't mention Wanstead Park (the actual park, not the station) which is one of the biggest parks in London, especially if you include Wanstead Flats, but hardly known outside the area.
Why am i always surprised of the complete brutality and disregard English laborers were treated. Thanks for the series. Wish you had more time for more side excursions.
'If you build it, Geoff will come'
Ewanerd YT hahaha
This comment deserves so many more likes.
If Geoff comes,All Of his fans will come
Train of Dreams
sounds like some kinky Lego sex game
I feel like I'm watching 'Secrets of the Overground Part 3'.
lel
Callie Masters it's 'secret Secrets of the Overground part 3' 😂
Hi man Matthew B
Oh my goodness - I just realised after five years of watching the odd All The Stations video that in the final piano part of the intro music, there is a voice rhythmically singing the words "All The Stations All Of Them".
Me too! Just today! OMG!!
😮😮😮
I've not posted before, but I felt I had to say thanks to Geoff and Vicky for your fascinating series of videos - I'm totally hooked on your rail adventures! The London ones (almost) make me wish I were still living back in the capital, but nowadays, living in the Fens I can easily visit the weirdness that is Shippea Hill!
Geoff! Why not you can do some secrets of the national rail. first, do the southeastern, it's the best railway!
Done!
The area of development of the Olympic site used to have freight railway sidings, and many businesses but very tatty. When I worked nearby most of these along Carpenters Road were closed and very rough. The road I used had rows of burnt out cars when I used that road route from the A12 to a college on Stratford High Street.
acoustics in the Brunel Museum are amazing. Drummed in there!
What A Wonderful Wave From That Overground Driver At The Start.
This was Geoff in his element. Nobody is better at explaining the Overground. Maybe the best episode of All the Stations.
TFL should take over all the remaining privatised suburban rail lines in London with the Overground.
At the very least I think the Elizabeth line should be part of the Overground.
They tried to take control of all rail lines passing through London - that bombed but I am sure they would do a better job than others.
The line going in to Enfield town and Cheshunt from Liverpool Street has recently become Overground
No it would be bad
@@n4thb4dc0 Yes, and (being a local of those lines) it’s improved massively. It’s only been Overground for little fewer than 6 years!
FENTON!!!
Lorenzo Hermoso OH JESUS CHRIST
You mean Fenitoooooon!
Lorenzo Hermoso came to say the same thing!
Was that in Richmond park?
Yup.
LOL!!! Thanks Vicki for telling us that the park gate is the way into the park :)
these vids feel like little mini-vacations to me. When i come to London / England, the trains are a highlight.
I rode on one of the last trains into Broad Street just before it closed in 1986. The station was a shadow of its former self then, with most of it already having been turned into a building site. They constructed a curve linking the line through Dalston Kingsland with the Liverpool Street line just north of London Fields Station (the Graham Road Curve, which still exists today), so that they could run the remaining ex-Broad Street trains into Liverpool Street, but this then became little more than a Parliamentary service, which was frequently canceled!! They then announced a formal notice of closure,.due to not many people using it!!
We've gone full circle now, with most of the Broad Street line reopened, and Shoreditch High Street station providing a connection close to the Broad Street/Liverpool Street area, and at least 6 trains per hour serving it !!
16 Trains per hour. 4 each for Clapham Junction, West Croydon, New Cross and Crystal Palace.
One of the best videos in this series so far, but they're all absolutely brilliant.
Your declaration that your journey was starting in Clapham brings up the ongoing loss of identity that we who were bought up in Battersea resent so much. Back in the day when the railway came it was decided to name the station Clapham Junction rather than Battersea Junction as Battersea was a bit too industrial inner city. Even today retailers and estate agents are chipping away at my old Borough with South Chelsea and Clapham or Lambeth popping up in descriptions. Clapham Junction is in Battersea and we're proud of it!
That was a really touching monologue on the former North London Line, Geoff - there's something about people valuing these things and investing in projects to improve people's lives that stirs emotions, isn't there?
The video's are even getting better! 👍🏻 Love the interviews, more of that please.
yes by the time they finish they might be perfect have to redo the hole thing
Thanks for showing Stratford area and especially Forest Gate where I lived in 1999-2001. Regards from Ukraine, keep doing great work.
Hope to see Leytonstone high road station as well.
I cannot stand impatient people who try to get on trains before people have gotten off, especially on underground trains.
It just makes no sense, the driver can see if people are still boarding, it's not an action movie.
I just push people off when I'm trying to get off the train. It's pretty funny because they get all uppity about it.
On London Overground and Underground they make regular announcements asking people not to do it. On the new Thameslink trains the doors are wide enough to allow people to alight and board at the same time.
I was feeling homesick for London watching this, then I saw that and remembered!!! You forget how rude everyone can be in London.
Rather impatiently I used to declare quite loudly: "Please allow passengers to disembark before boarding... oh no you didn't bother"
I was quite considerate when younger but it used to so annoy me I'd just barge through!
LOL
They need to give people a ticket who board before passengers got off
I used to take the North London Line in the late 90s to get from Gunnersbury to Highbury & Islington. It was very...functional and the trains were not busy at all but it was nice to travel without going through busy central London. Loved the video, and have added the Brunel museum to the next trip list!
And I'm glad Vicki took the bus to Richmond Park. It is much more than a few minutes walk!
Some people might say that the Royal family and Palaces is Londons main feature, but the jewel in the crown is the Underground system. I'm a northerner but family lived at Kew and I was fascinated by the tube, the fact that from arriving at a station, within minutes I could get to anywhere in London virtually stress free. I'm not really a city person but I love London and I think that is all down to tfl and the underground.
12:52 We say the same thing about cycleways in the Netherlands and it always happens. Also in London or other cities you always find that same result. Still, people keep complaining about it.
I tried to do all the museums before moving away from London two years ago but the Brunel one was never on my radar - I would have loved that!
Stratford has been divided since the redevelopment. There's all the new stuff one side and all the forgotten ignored stuff the other.
At 6:03, you can hear the choppers in the electric motors gearing up. This is very similar to the sound older Montréal Métro trains make when they leave the stations.
Also, that's a pretty dress, Vicki.
Lots to See in London (!!) by Rail ... great close out Vicki's a Hit (!!)
Watching this as a New Yorker is eye-opening. Everything Geoff says about the Overground is what the MTA here could become if investments were directed in the right places.
Love Richmond Park. My home park as I lived in Kingston.
I've watched a lot of your videos and you do a fantastic job, so thank you😁
I want a video with Vickie and Tom Scott looking att ducks. It would be adorable!
A LOT of the traffic at Imperial Wharf will be from Chelsea matchdays, as most of those flats around there are empty because they're foreign bought investments, but it's still true, build it and they will come: I used to walk up to West Brompton when Fulham Broadway Tube was too busy, but it makes sense to walk the other way down the line when they've built a station there.
I like ur videos .I love simplicity of it
I used to live near Brondesbury Park and then Hoxton. I loved the overground - it's less claustrophobic in feel and you tend to get internet reception while you travel :)
Perfectly timed upload to watch over dinner! another great vid
Another amazing video! Keep it up guys and good luck with the rest of your journey.
Those overground announcements are so familiar to me... I take them all the time.
Excellent! Love the little diversions. And I've realised I can always predict accurately who the editor is!
I'm not saying ones better than the other, just different styles!
2:05 - that's a classic vantage point from several freight rolling stock books and internet archive sites - the cleaners' platforms with the street scenes below.
Very cool video, loved the Deer!
Geoff we know u still love London Underground network rail is getting in your way don't let network rail stop u from loving London Underground
The traders at the old Stratford Centre mall originally feared the worst when Westfield was due to open, but the influx of additional shoppers in the area actually had the opposite effect and the centre is doing well. The recent addition of a Lidl has boosted it further.
i didn't even live in london or even in UK, but in Indonesia our subway network is 80% overground and 20% elevated. so it's cool to see the contrast between indonesia's Commuterline network with Tfl's London Overground network.
"It was getting a million passengers a year which doubled to three million" - so trebling then?
Very enjoyable though, even after the two Overground videos already
1M x 2 = 3M
I’m gonna have to check out that museum next time I’m in town, cheers. Also, Imperial Wharf was always my stop for the football at Stamford Bridge because it was a little more of a walk than Fulham Broadway but much less busy
I'm looking forwards to when they do Harrow & Wealdstone to Queen's park as it runs along the Bakerloo
What can I say guys! Thank you for a wonderful video. I really enjoyed this one. Interested to learn that there were four Brunels, the acoustics in the tunnel are amazing and the Overground.
Enjoyed the museum article.
It is so funny that about a month ago I visited the Thames Tunnel Museums. 😊😊
The Overground network saved London Underground system love it when things go right in London
Brilliant video.
Well done
I live near Stratford and when Westfield opened up we all thought that Stratford centre and a nearby cinema would shut, but it didn't. If anything they're all busier because of the influx of people due to the flats and the fact that the shops are cheaper and usually not ones you can find in Westfield. E.g. There's literally two poundlands next to eachother in Stratford centre
I was born and bred in Stratford , I can remember it before the old shopping centre was there let alone Westfield. I recently paid a visit to the area and a lot of the people who work the market stalls in the old centre are the sons and daughters and grandchildren of the people who ran the stalls when I was a kid. Even the chip shop behind the Swan pub were the same family who had the chip shop called The Brothers in Water Lane when I was a youngster . :)
378205 (7:16) was the first train I ever drove! I haven't driven it since lol
Enjoyed this 15 minutes!
Underground, overground, Wombling free!
it was only a matter of time before someone came up with that line. I nearly put it in but resisted it myself .
LMAO!
In Andy Carter’s 16 lines of Christmas video, David sings that at Clapham High Street (Part 1)
The Euphrates Tunnel was _allegedly_ a 0.6 mile tunnel, built under the Euphrates river in between 2180 and 2160 BC. There is writing describing the tunnel, but as yet no trace of it has been found. If it did exist then the Thames tunnel was the 2nd tunnel under water.
I was at Clapham Junction on that day. Shame I missed you
Rotherhithe station! It's "my" station. And you talk about Brunel and visit the museum. That's the reason I choosed this station. 👍🏻🚇
Yes! A lot of people were kicked out of their homes in Newham for the regeneration. Very sad
Who remembers Silverlink? Their metro services were awful
Trying hard to forget :D
TurboFintan Never will forget
Nowthedlr
What is silverlink?
@@tobeytransport2802 The metro system before the London Overground
Just wondering, I thought Eurostar calls at Stratford, isn’t that an interchange worthy of a logo on the display, Paris Brussels? Aware Kent trains use the HS1 line.
used to go to Stafford depot all the time , markets by the station etc ... all gone
Stafford - or Stratford?? I remember a load of car dealers and other light industry 'under the arches' which were swept aside for the Olympic Park - got a dodgy car fixed at a dodgy garage there long ago....
1:23 - Probably my favourite station in London!
So... Geoff, you've now fully used the Underground and the Overground. Does that mean you're wombling free?
Reverb! Another great video with some interesting bits and pieces. Well done to the editing team too.
I was in London this week, staring at the map while on a train, and wondering if you included the Overground, but not the underground (which I know you've done before)... its a symptom of enjoying your videos and following your adventure is not when I look at a railway map I think 'I wonder which route Geoff and Vicki will be taking'
Omg my local town and my local bus/station /park
Not doing the tube lines as part of All The Stations? Surely that would only be, say, one extra day for someone of your experience Geoff? :-)
Geoff you already did the tube when u did secrets of the underground your vids are great u and vicky keep it up!!!
Geoff and Vicki are without doubt the best youtubers to have ever gathered by Stratford's Westfield steps. (look up 'baiting out'...)
You're so close to Barking!!
Great video! ...
Apart from...
1 million passengers per year doubled...
to 3 million passengers per year?
Yes, now I find myself singing 'All the stations, all of them, all the stations, all of them'......
You missed out the Romford to Upminster Line!
It's called 'All the Stations' - they did all the stations.........!
The tunnel was built by sir Mark brunel i think
Awesome!
Vicki reminds me of Miss Pauling
7:17 the train from secrets of da jubilee lin3
9:43 Now *that's* a transition.
Everyone thought that the old shopping centre would be decimated by Westfield, strangely the opposite happened, it has increased footfall and Sales and higher shop occupation.
The overground routes are really hard to understand since everything is just an orange line on the map. The different overground routes should have numbers like the s-bahn in germany
Did anyone else catch that smooth transition at 2:34?
I love you.
Love you more, Ian! i did email ya a few weeks back, but you never replied! Gonna email you again. Would love to come talk to you on a Welsh railway somewhere....
Forest Gate is my local station as well as Wanstead Park
Yeah - they’re not that far from each other!
Clapham North on the underground and tube car map had the BR interchange pictogram by its name. The OSI should be extended to include Clapham Common - It would create footfall for Clapham Shops and reduce platform overcrowding at Clapham North. The Overground South London Line should have interchange stations put in at Brixton and Loughborough Junction.
That guide does so very well the amazing acoustic in the building where he works every time so in his free time he learned some opera for his own additional pleasure! He is having it awesome.
Geoff? Is with all the many lines and many ways of transport and with the expanding of make the district more
valuable the Stratford train station a much more bigger project station than the new London Bridge station??? Is it more exciting?! Could it be for big city train station lovers as myself and you really exciting exciting exciting?? Or is it mwoah? With not a big underground connecting point and not in the middle of London City not so big?
the orbit slide is so fun
Is that Matt Gray at 12:01? :P
It's a great series, keep it up!! :D
Do the tube lines! Also, does Overground count as National Rail? It's TfL.
Yes. London Overground is a National Rail network managed by TFL. Similar to the Elizabeth Line
Awww Missed you on the GOBLIN line, it s my reg commute from Blackhorse Rd to Upper Holloway, Agree with Vicki, people seem terrible about not letting passengers to get off on this line
could have waved to the 86 bus stand!
The Museum guy's voice! If Darth Vader wore a suit then he'd sound like this guy!
brilliant overground train
I wonder if the 'Stratford Shopping Centre' still has the roller blading/skating meet up on the Friday evenings?
9:38 It still blows my mind that London had a diesel powered metro service.
Had - a few years ago, the line was electrified and replaced with the electric class 710 trains.
Has anyone else realised the main lines into London look like the Union Jack?
Dalston Junction only appears for a while...
Overgrounds is a great line.
Overground
It's a pity they didn't mention Wanstead Park (the actual park, not the station) which is one of the biggest parks in London, especially if you include Wanstead Flats, but hardly known outside the area.
Im so glad the goblin line is now 4 cars the 710s are so much better than the old 172 trains
I only know the main Brunel because of my history class.
Why am i always surprised of the complete brutality and disregard English laborers were treated.
Thanks for the series.
Wish you had more time for more side excursions.