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"and Britain would never again have a problem with sewage being dumped into its rivers or seas" 🤣🤣
well someone should inform thames water then XD
A mention of our friend Mr. Yerkes, so all is well with the world.
Excellent video as always Jago, thank you.
Imagine London without Yerkes
Is there Yerkes merch yet? Maybe a shot glass for a drink every time his name is mentioned in a video.
I love how perfectly timed and cathartic this video is for Brits AND Americans!
And Canadians, Happy Canada Day on Monday.
Jago has an exceptionally relaxing and mellifluous voice. He is the ideal commentator.
@@meijiturtle3814 He's the ASMR of transit nerd TH-camrs.
@@emjayay You are Not Wrong .
Hazzard for PM
Cruel
Leader of the Underground Electoral Railways of London Party
@@rcm926or the Yerkes Party for short
Give Jago a Go!
He’s no Hazzard to the country!
He'd get my vote
One of the problems that the architects and engineers had in designing the station and Jubilee line was that they had to avoid going under Government infrastructure and buildings, remembering Guy Fawkes. Only problem was that the powers that be would not tell the architects where this infrastructure was for security reasons. Consequently, they had to keep submitting drawings and getting them rejected with no advice on how to overcome the issue until eventually plans were submitted and accepted.
Ok, so now i have to simply get all these earlier designs & i can puzzle out where the boundaries are....
Muhahaha, my quest for worlddomination is going smoothly.
@@LeafHuntresswe literally did that - it was a farce. You could, by overlapping the rejected, see where “non-existent” bunkers basements etc were. It was the most ridiculous game of battleships ever.
If they’d proposed a route suggestion or two, in first place.. 😂
Sunday wirh Jago is always enjoyable...
Unlike politicians 😁😁😁
Before I retired and was working in London I used Westminster station a lot. I like it. My wife and I went to a reception in the House of Lords on 31 December 1999 and were then taken (with a whole lot of other people) to North Greenwich on a special train on the Jubilee line. The cars were numbered and we were assigned to a particular car, directed by marshals on the platform with numbered placards. We were ushered through security at North Greenwich, entered the Millennium dome, and celebrated the New Year. (HMQ was there and joined in the singing of Auld Lang Syne.)
Just a shame the Millennium Dome became the O2, bloody corporate branding winds me up and changes often as happens with many football stadia, the names many grew up with gone maybe for eternity.
@@tonys1636i don’t love the name but it’s much nicer as a concert venue than it was as a late 90s nonsense arena
Yerkes is back!
A Hazzard video is always better with a mention of Charlie Boy.
It's that man again
He’s like Voldemort.
I hope you all raised a drink when he appeared.
I thought that he was heading for an appearance before the 7 minute mark, though.
The cold open is just British enough. Anyway, I’m rooting for Count Binface
Given who he's running against, I can't imagine why anybody in his district wouldn't vote for him.
Aren't there Daleks also running?
What was there before the late 90's rebuild to accommodate the Jubilee Line has pretty much been completely swept away, apart from the track on the District and Circle Lines!!
Hazzard for Mayor of London
He's too good for the job.
Baker Street still has some of the aura of those old pictures of the first underground railways. It is probably my favourite in London.
That comment has nothing to do with the Westminster tube.
I was blown away the first time I stopped there! :) I'm sorry to say it's still the only time I've stopped there, but I don't travel well.
This Video Is NOT A Yerkes Free Zone.
All hail Jago & Yerkes
Westminster is my favourite underground station. I love that Jubilee line extension aesthetic.
Mine too. I love going from the Jubilee line platforms up to the Circle and District line platforms. The transition from modern concrete and exposed steel beams to Victorian elegance is weirdly satisfying.
It is also a massive nuclear bunker designed to house UK Government in the event of a nuclear attack. There are apparently 10 or so storeys beneath platform level which make up the said bunker. If you look around the station, not only is it massively over engineered you can see large steel blast doors etc. As I bought a coffee from the the shop at platform level the was a station manager in front of me in the queue, I asked him about the bunker and he joking said 'if I tell you I'd have to kill you'. He then matter of factly told me about the ten storeys underneath that make up the bunker and casually said that is where they hold the COBRA meetings. Fun fact!
I loved the rebuild in the late nineties when I lived in London. Along with Canary Wharf Jubilee Line station it is one of the best stations in London. Always thought it was what a tube station would look like if designed by a James Bond villain!
Love ths flying escalators
It actually features in "Skyfall".
i do like the design of this station - it is so impressive as one travels up on an escalator
I agree. I just wish there was a little colour to it instead of everything being grey.
I've passed through Westminster station on a couple of occasions and I'm still fascinated by the architecture of the "Concrete box". It's a modern industrial look which is my favourite aesthetic!
I remember the station before it was redeveloped, the size and scale is incomparable
During construction of the Jubilee Line through Westminster they had to keep an eye on Big Ben to make sure it didn't start tilting due to the work going on and extra work had to be done to stabilise the ground by it. In the end it did move slightly but only by something like a 1CM which was well within the safe limits set by the engineers.
My only question is why, when Gloucester Road has art on a platform, do those large floodlit concrete hollows of Westminster station no longer have artwork in them? They did for a while and it made the transit from Jubilee to District line the highlight of many a journey.
Can we start a campaign to bring back art to the caverns of Westminster?
That about sums up 14 years of the Tories eh?
It never ceases to amaze me that the Met's engineer proposed a new line called the Inner _Circle,_ the Met themselves formed a new company called the Metropolitan and District which would later become the Met's most hated rival, and today, the Metropolitan, District, and Circle are 3 distinct lines.
I do like Westminster. It’s surprisingly serene despite the huge numbers of people and cavernous spaces. Gets a bit dusty on top of those pipes though.
P.S. Excluding Taylor Swift might the best ad for Ground News I've ever seen :D
6:57 YERKES KLAXON
Should there be a branch line from Westminster leading to a new terminus named OBLIVION? 😮
i would've liked to have heard more about HOW a rail line gets lowered by a couple of mm a day...
It's also a reasonably handy place to switch to the boat if you're coming from Marylebone on a nice day. A short walk to Baker Street and a short walk to the boat pier and after sailing under tower bridge you can be on your way to the cable car via another short walk.
I find it quicker to walk to Marylebone from Baker St. Train is really quick of course but it’s finding the bloody platform that confuses me
CTY!!!!! Big up to shady Chicagoans!
It's like a brutalist underground cathedral!
6:59 Drink! (For those of you still playing the Yerkes drinking game)
Love your videos, you're so clever. You even fit in a joke in your ads!! Clever fellow, thanks!
Westminster Jubilee line station has serious Bladerunner vibes. It’s an awesome piece of engineering and architecture. Shame about the hideous Gothic horror across the road on the surface.
This is my favourite underground station, I just love the architecture of it. I was going to do a video but won't bother now as this is (as always) excellent.
wait..wait... so what you're saying is, if I eat lots of fish I can get high? This is excellent news!
Moral of the Story: There’s politics in your niche interests
Should you travel to London ( in the harsh midwinter ? ) for an interview with the BBC ( ? ) , and find you have in excess of ONE HOUR before the arranged event , and , need somewhere ( VERY cheap ? ) to warm up .... then doing a FULL trip around the Circle line takes almost exactly 1 hour ! ( and FUN it was ! ) .... ( tried - n - tested ) ...... DAVE™🛑
As a recently retired district driver I saw all the development work in the 90's and the District / Circle platforms to this day never looked finished to me, even the platform seating looks like the backrests are missing, when they dropped the tracks it looked very dodgy and never looked or felt safe even with a 5 mph TSR.
I went through there many times as a guard and the driver when we on the Metropolitan line used to work the Circle Line, it has changed beyond all recognition.
My civil engineer brother worked in the jubilee line at Westminster and helped keep Big Ben standing 😊
I'm voting for more trains and trams on the 4th of July!
Don't forget your ID on Thursday!
Jago for Britain's very first President! #notmyking
Awesome stuff as always Jago
9:42 or thereabouts: "a few millimetres per day": I think you mean "a few thirds of a line per day."
Fantastic station. I feel lucky to have been through that "secret corridor" and into Portcullis House and Parliament a few times for work. It's a very impressive place.
We have some burials disturbed by the building of the station at brookwood cemetery
3:45 - well I personally buy my best 'charlie' from a Haddock!
I got a job just outside the station days after it opened. Lived at halls a stone´s throw from Canada Water. The Jubilee extension was a godsend. Westminster tube indeed looks like the cargo hold of USCSS Nostromo.
Nice to hear a mention for everybody's favourite, Charles Tyson Yerkes. He has been missing in recent weeks.
Westminster Abbey is awesome. The place is dripping in history I highly recommend a visit.
Prime Minister Hazard begins to appoint his Cabinet -
Chancellor Yerkes has a ring to it.....
Emperor Yerkes sounds better for a Star Wars sequel....
I do remember the entrance to the Commons being a slightly darkened/security glass door with a desk behind it and mustard coloured walls back in the hazy days of 2000-2004.
Nice one Jago
@7:01, Yerkes has made a return. We've missed you. I changed from the Jubilee line at Westminster and spent a few minutes looking for the Circle/District line platforms. I can only put it down to some sort of brainstorm.
From what I remember, the pre-Jubilee, District-only station was very modest and low-profile for a station serving the Houses of Parliament and so many tourist destinations.
MPs used taxis or private vehicles
@@Evemeister12 but there are a lot of people working there who are not MPs. Regular civil service employees.
Hurray!!! A Yerkes number! This video has a Yerkes number of 418 !! (Y=418)
I love the bare concrete I think that it has a kind of beauty. I used the Jubilee Line quite a bit a few years ago.
Who here has already forgotten that Charing Cross was once on the Jubilee Line ?
Never!
Yea... The Tale of the Tube, Jago! ❤
My favourite tube station. In my humble opinion it is a finer piece of modern art than 90% of the stuff in the Tate Modern.
The Jubilee Line only goes through Westminster due to politics! I believe that the original proposed route of the extension wasn't via Westminster, but the government insisted that it passed through before authorising the same linked to the construction of Portcullis House.
I remember having to carry radio test equipment down to the Jubilee Line levels at Westminster when getting ready for the opening of the extension from my car parked on the Embankment (you could in those days). The problem was at the end of the shift I had to carry them back up the not yet commissioned escalators!
Still working on LU radio system projects and currently helping getting mobile phone coverage provided on the whole of London Underground.
All I can say is that it is a blessing to every TH-camr than what was planned for the tube wasn’t what actually happened, otherwise your content would be much blander. The tube’s history has the power to make the plot twists of a soap opera to appear sedate and the politics of Rome, gentlemanly. 😀
My very favourite underground station. I rode the JLE extension on it's first fully open day as well!
I’d have thought you’d have been a swifty… surprised
Charles Yerkes gets a mention, and a loud and enthusiastic shout goes up from the fans!
Jago!
I've been in Westminster Underground station, and I cannot say that I'm a fan of the design. It's like having to walk behind the scenes in the Portal computer game. In contrast to the clinical game rooms, what's behind the scenes is what you aren't supposed to see.
Regarding feet, I think we continentals can more or less figure out a foot, or even two of them. It becomes difficult when it's more than that. If something is 15 feet, I have to mentally do the maths and come to around 4.5 metres, but not quite.
I love that the period cartoons about sewage in the Thames and the great stink shown in the video came up during my GCSEs. I did history of medicine and it covered public health in Britain.
Never mind the politics, here's Westminster tube station.
My father passed away on 4th July 1986 at 57 so I know the history of the day
I remember the wrought iron gates to Parliament being in use. Heck, I feel old.
All these pipes, crossing escalators and cladded walls resemble internals of huge steam boiler with links, rivets, bubbles of steam and flows of liquid
Still getting over the shock that jago
Isnt a swfitie 😂
My vote is JH all rhe way
And when the station opened
The birds began to sing....
Yes something out of a science fiction film, how very fitting. It does look more impressive than any of the other modern stations
Yerkes!
Westminster was my first tourist stop as a kid. The jubilee line extension was constantly in the news back then. I used to think they looked like the central line then soon after I discovered they made their funny sound 🤣🤣🤣
Yerkes, being a shady character, would have fitted in perfectly with some of today's politicians. I'm sure if he was around today he'd have been involved with the supply of millions of Pounds worth of useless PPE and making a packet for himself along the way!
He'd have been given a peerage no doubt.
If Yerkes was around today, he'd be back in the U.S. Seeing that the political campaigns have become venues for legal corruption.
Took a fair while for Yerkes to get a mention, but there he is!
Didnt the District line go as far as Southend on Sea ,albeit run by the LMS (?)
'When the Underground went to the Seaside' by JH.
So good they stopped all that sewage going in the river.
I like the idea of the 1/3 m as a convenient unit of length. 😺
1:40 - Would there be any mileage in a suggestion for videos on Norfolk Street and Trinity Square stations? I must confess to not having heard of them before.
Westminster is a very cool station.
"You are the foundation to my Portcullis House. "
Can I have that one, Jago?
Thanks Jago. Remember to vote and have photo ID. This time, everyone's vote counts. Lets stop the sewage.
Good luck with that - storm drains have been emptied into rivers for decades.
5:24 What an amazing photograph. There's so much going on.
Glad you've done this one - it's one of my favourites - such a vast space and completely unexpected when you enter. A modern classic.
A mention of CTY but not Edward Watkins? I’m frankly disappointed, oh and the football comment too 😮
06:57
Aaaand... Another Charles Tyson Yerkes namedrop.
What would a Jago Hazard video on the Tube be without one?
he’s obsessed with him…it’s sickening how much he resents a man who has been dead for 120 tears and Jago ignores all of the other shady things done by the real culprits behind his shady things
but it’s easier to blame the Yank than any Brits
@@bostonrailfan2427 You seem to overestimate how much Jago distains CTY. While it may be deduced he doesn't like him, saying he blames him for everything wrong about the Tube is thoroughly unsubstantiated. He has never said anything like that.
@@RonnieOP rewatch earlier videos, he literally puts the issues with their finances on Yerkes despite it being horrible for years before he even arrived
@@bostonrailfan2427But CTY is our favourite pantomime villain.
@@rachelwalker7091 this isn’t a pantomime, unless you’re saying his videos are just fiction…
I have stopped looking at news , as its extremely depressing, mainly about war and war criminals acting as international leaders.
For some of us the football is a welcome distraction from our forthcoming election. Nice video though, although I struggled to keep up with the dates.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!
More information needed on how they lowered the station "a few millimetres at a time"!
That must be Jago Gold-dust!
Quite the relevant video.
* I descended into The Box on 15-Sep'22, and was duly impressed.
* I noticed Portcullis House whilst walking the Embankment(s).
While I didn't remember what was there in 1973,
I was sure it wasn't that hydra of chimbleys.
And no,
I _don't_ prefer metric.
YERKES!
It's not a Jago Hazzard video without Charles Tyson Yerkes!
Electrically powered corridors, feeding electorally changing (?) orators - the Mother of Democracy's foul opium tubes? : )
New Jago video? LETS GOO!! 🎉🎉
6:58 Shady character? Surely you mean a friend of the channel?
he ignored all of the shadier people who used him as a scapegoat for their own actions…gotta blame the Yank bot the Brits 🙄
Ok, so I’m thinking a collaboration of some sorts between you and ‘Dale Charman Travels’ would be really really good. You are both extremely good communicators, fantastic to listen to and knowledgeable. I’m just sewing the seeds👌😊
Off(ish) topic: I love finding people referencing CTY out in the wild and we're like "Jago?" "Jago."