Gold Star Professional London commuting: Knowing which "No Entry" stairwell to take to get to platform faster eg: Tott. Court Rd to Central. And "never change here" eg: Charing Cross Bakerloo to Northern. Holy jeepers, they should put in a bus service.
It should be public knowledge though. Displays and boards could show this info to encourage passengers to walk a bit further earlier and spread the train and station load more evenly. This is done more prominently in Japan.
@@gojenson I was wondering why on earth everyone was taking the escalator at Marylebone. I just arrived there from Stansted, backpack, suitcase. started the stairs, then looked up. I didn't give up obviously.
@@tvlhd If you live or work nearby, you have to climb them once in your life. It's a rite of passage. But only when you are young. Not to be attempted by the over...er 15 years of age, say.... Chuckle. It has to be done ... honestly... Oh...and do take essential supplies...hot strong tea, sustaining sandwiches, oxygen...that sort of thing.
You should organise the TfL Triathlon which is a combination of Tube, Walking and Bus. Competitors have to get between two points in the fastest time using all three modes of transport ;-)
This would be an interesting competition, you dedicate a start and end point, must do all 3 types but as a connection between 1 tube station and another so no like riding a bus one stop and coming back, or walking 50 feet then walking back, before you get to the end destination, but must arrive at the end destination by tube,.
There was a race between 3 of them to elephant and castle a while ago... that was good. How about clockwise vs anti clock wise on the overground from Clapham Junction to the theoretical mid point in the north?
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I've actually often got off at Leicester Square and walked to Covent Garden even if already on the Piccadilly Line (Eastbound), especially if going to somewhere other than the Tube station, e.g., if you're going to the market itself or to some restaurant or theatre. The reason is that the lifts at Covent Garden are horrendously slow, particularly on busy days, so the escalators at Leicester Square save you a lot of time. Would have liked to see you two run a trial on that.
I agree. That's the test I want to see. The tube would be quicker but by how much? As you say, it depends how long you have to wait for a lift at Covent Garden.
I actually took that journey. My feet were killing me, but in hindsight, it was probably easier to walk. And I had a Travelcard, so I didn't really care about the fare.
OlofTheOrange I did this with a paper ticket, I had a travel card with me although my dad had it, so I got a paper ticket. Long story involving football, McDonald’s, and hurting legs
I think the comparison method used in this video is quite practical, so once again, well done Geoff. Although the walking might not be very recommendable on a sunny summer day. And lucky that Geoff for waiting for just 4 for his longest try. I had to wait for *20* for my Picc trip last time.
I used to work in Covent Garden and always used to get off at Leicester Square and walk because it always felt a tiny bit quicker and was less stressful than the lifts at Covent Garden, especially at peak times. O and to tell a little story of tube nativity when I first worked in London - in Covent Garden - I decided to nip from our offices to Forbidden Planet, which was then on New Bond Street. So, being an idiot I got on at Covent Garden, changed to the Northern Line at Leicester Square and got off at Tottenham Court Road and walked the last bit. At which point it dawned on me that it would have been quicker and less of a pain to have walked it.
Tube users are always in their own world. And everyone's so used to TV crews, TH-camrs and tourists with video cameras and narration that again no one bats an eyelid.
Why not do the reverse direction as a trial too (rather than going all the way to TCR to restart)? It's the same ground to cover, just in the opposite direction.
No practical use - you can't change lines at Covent Garden so there's no reason to get off an walk. If you're already on the Piccadilly line it'll be quicker to get off at Leicester Square, but the only way this "hack" could be practically utilised is if you're changing trains at Leicester Square to go one stop.
@@toni4729 The question is: if you're *already* in the Northern Line part of Leicester Square station, should you exit the station and walk or should you change to the Piccadilly Line to take a train to Covent Garden?
In standard (non-highway!) triangular hazard warning signs - e.g. as shown above the 'spikes', the background colour is yellow. I guess if this principle is carried forward to the depiction of 'spikes' they are correctly shown black against a yellow background.
It also depends on how you change at LSQ. If you go via the long passageway it's way longer than if you take the stairs at the end of the platform. It also depends on the time of day as there is waiting for the lift at Covent Garden. As someone who worked at both stations and lived in Covent Garden, I always preferred to walk.
@@valvlog4665 TfL use anonymised journey records linked to people's Oyster, Freedom Pass and contactless cards to understand usage of the network. Geoff's usage will be far from representative of a typical user but, in practice, will be lost in the statistical noise.
its enjoyable that you did an entire video to prove something i've known my whole life. it's always been quicker to get to covent garden from Leicester square station. especially in the past when the lifts at covent garden seemed to always be broken
0:01 covent garden enterence 2:21 Tottenham court Road northern line platform 2:27 northern line Tottenham court road to leicester square 3:21 Leicester square Piccadilly line platform 3:50 Piccadilly line Leicester square to covent garden 4:44 covent garden walk through to exit 6:09 Tottenham court Road northern line platform 6:17 Northern line Tottenham court Road to Leicester Square 7:05 Leicester square Piccadilly line platform 7:58 Piccadilly line Leicester square to covent garden 8:07 Covent Garden walk through to exit 9:01 Tottenham court Road northern line platform 9:11 northern line Tottenham court Road to Leicester square 10:07 Leicester square Piccadilly line platform 10:43 Piccadilly line Leicester square to covent garden 10:54 Covent garden walk through to exit
I had a work colleague (also from New Zealand) who came down on the Northern each morning and transferred to get to Covent Garden. He did this for a year before we realised their above ground locations.
the journey between Leicester Square and Covent Garden is not only the most expensive train journey in London, but is in fact the most expensive train journey in the world!
Would have been interesting to do in the rush hour: more people on the street, and (perhaps) more frequent trains.. The results could have been different.
I often wondered about this as I had to use the Northern Line and I worked in Covent Garden. Now I know! The lift at Covent Garden could take a wait too in my day. Very creeky! Looks as if it has improved.
On the BMT Brighton Beach Line are two stations that are about 500 feet (152m) apart. They are Beverly Road and Cortelyou Road. Looking at a Google Map aerial, the platform ends seem to be slightly less than 500 feet (152m) apart. But, the station entry head houses seem to be about 800 (244m) to 900 (274m) feet apart. A Q train of ten cars is 600 (183m) feet long, so a train going from one station to the other can simultaneously platform the ends of both stations briefly.
I love taking on the stairs at Covent Garden station 😁 also the distance between Embankment and Charing Cross is just as close since I once found a spot where you actually could just about see both stations
when we came back to the UK in June, we used the steps at Covent Garden....i lost count of the steps in total, as i wanted to confirm the number, but having made it to the top, we were not going to do it again
In Glen Rock NJ, there are two stations that are a two minute drive from each other on the same street yet they're on two separate lines. It's cheaper to walk the distance than take a train down to a junction an hour away just to take another train back to where you started in the NJ case (although you technically can't buy tickets between the two). In your case, I'd rather walk. Good exercise. The quickest journey (excluding the wait for the train) is either between Times Square and Penn Station or Times Square and Bryant Park. Both are two minutes
I found during my second visit to London that it was often faster to walk than take the tube. Just depended on your final destination. I had a better sense of the layout of London on my second visit and was a pro by my third visit. First time there I was a real novice and relied on the tube for everything. Greetings from the United States.
Haha a 4 minute wait on the picadilly is so short. I either switch to the picadilly or walk from Holborn to covent garden for work and I only take the picadilly when it's raining outside or really late. Way faster to walk when you just miss a train and the next is in 6 ☹️
Well if you are on the Central line and want to get to somewhere in Covent Garden then you might as well get out at TCR or Holborn and walk, there won't be much in it.
The distance between Leicester Sq. and Covent Garden is about the length of a train. In Paris many train stations can be closer than you find in London but for different lines.
Maybe they should just extend the Leicester Square passageways over to the Covent Garden exits lmao. About as long as the Waterloo travelator, certainly shorter than the Bank/Monument interchange, and would speed up through traffic on the Piccadilly by a minute or so
I really enjoyed this video. Agree with the people saying you should have done it from the northbound northern line platform as well. And you should have swapped who was walking and who was tubing to account for different walking speeds. Sooo to sum up, you should have done it 9 more times. Back you go ;)
Not being from London I find the tube and its quirks endlessly fascinating. It's always an adventure when in London to travel around using the underground.
loxxxton poxxxton Yeah it really is fascinating! The geek in me awoke. When I traveled on the tube for the first time, I looked the whole network up. A beautiful piece of Victorian engineering which is still in use today.
It's usually quicker to walk between any of the central stations - surface to surface - often for up to three stops. Try it! Charring Cross to Oxford Circus: it's quicker to walk!
True. I often travel between 2northdown and The Bill Murray and there’s not a lot of difference between walking and the train because you have to walk back to kings cross, get down to the platform, wait for a train then get out of Angel, plus you’ve not got to pay if you walk.
Similar thing between Lancaster Gate and Paddington (which you probably already know) but it is very useful if you want to show your Great-uncle more of London, and only leave 15 mins to make the 9:03 to Penzance, and just dash up the road, and just make it...
I used to have to travel through London on my way from the North to the South, and always used to leave the station at Kings Cross and walk to Euston, just to break up the journey. I've no idea if it was quicker or not :-)
shortest distance nearest to nearest exit is definitely mansion house and cannon st. i actually paced both today. 310 steps between cannon st / mansion house and 370 for leicester sq / covent gdn. and then i got home and realised that bank now has an entrance on cannon st. which will be even closer than that albeit not on a connected route. the new 2012 entrance to cannon st looks to be in same place as the old one just wider. so i dunno why this has gone unnoticed
It never ceases to amaze me how close stations are in London and how frequent the services are compared to other parts of the UK. And yet people still complain about the service there if they can't get a train within a few short minutes. Many places, if you miss the bus (as that is all the public transport there is), you have to wait at least several hours for the next one, and sometimes DAYS. Still wouldn't want to live there thought thank you very much.
Daniel Saint Around 5.5 million passenger journeys each day, about equivalent to the population of Scotland- people who complain often don't appreciate the scale of the operation.
@@ianmoseley9910 I'm not saying that London shouldn't have such an operation. It would just be nice if some other parts of the country had even a fraction of the availability of transport options that Londoners enjoy and mostly take for granted. The 'we shouldn't use private cars' argument is simple cloud cuckoo land for many of us who live in rural and semi-rural parts of the country where there is no realistic option. When I worked in the nearest city to me (8 miles away) I would have had to leave home by about 6.30am to arrive at work for 9am, and that would include a 1.75 mile (hilly) walk. To get public transport to the same city from where my mother lives (just 4-5 miles from the City), I'd have to leave at 3pm the afternoon before, and wouldn't get home until about 11am the next morning, so leaving home before I finish work the next day!
Woah surprised I got here early. Loved your vids for a few years it must be now. Thought I saw you on the West Somerset Railway but still not sure though, was def on your train :)
I am glad I am not the only person who thinks London Transport minutes have little in common with minutes on timepieces. It also makes a difference if you get out from the right carriage and door to connect. If the weather is ghastly, I would take the train, and sod the "lost" seconds.
Where can I get a map like that? I have really poor eyesight and Google Maps is basically unusable now because none of the roads have these outlines and the text is tiny. I love the map you used at 0:55
Don't do what I once did. Having explored the Covent Garden market, I explored up Neal St. and a street market in Earlham St.. I then returned to Covent Garden tube station and thought about where to go next. How about Charing Cross Road? Nearest Tube station: Tottenham Court Road. So I did that. Exploring down the south end, I saw a small street market. It seemed to be selling the same sort of clothes as in that other street market. Then I noticed that I'd only gone and done a big loop!
Well, it looks like you enter the Northern line in car 3 each time, which is next to the way out at Leister Square, while the corridor to the Piccadilly is all the way in the front. If you are at the very first door, it would make it around 20 seconds quicker to the Piccadilly line and 20 seconds longer to the way out, which would skew the results slightly. In the best case scenario the change to the Piccadilly could take just under 5:30, while walking would be just above 6:00.
Reminds me of the first time I learnt about Lancaster Gate being so close to Paddington and the hassle I’d had when the circle and district were closed and I was told my the gate marshal to get a bus to Victoria and continue my journey from there. They didn’t even know about Lancaster Gate 🙄
if you include overground, camden town and camden road. euston square and warren street perhaps. or paddington (bakerloo) to paddington (circle) .. maybe there is a whole section of "worst ways to get to the station you are already in"
My view is Park Royal to Hanger Lane. There was a plan to build an interchange station there but it seems to have died when Metronet PPP committed suicide. Hammersmith to Hammersmith is a long way by train as well.
Well I learnt something. I thought that not only was it a shorter distance between Charing Cross and Embankment than Leicester Square and Covent Garden, but also shorter between Northfields and South Ealing.
I think the distances between platform end to platform start and from Station Exit to Station Entrance are not the same for any given pairings of stations on the same line in the same direction
Depends whether its actually Covent Garden Station itself you want to get to, or elsewhere in the area, as that would then result in a walk from Covent Garden Station
Professional London commuting. Knowing which tube door opens by the Exit
He wrote the app!
Gold Star Professional London commuting: Knowing which "No Entry" stairwell to take to get to platform faster eg: Tott. Court Rd to Central. And "never change here" eg: Charing Cross Bakerloo to Northern. Holy jeepers, they should put in a bus service.
It should be public knowledge though. Displays and boards could show this info to encourage passengers to walk a bit further earlier and spread the train and station load more evenly. This is done more prominently in Japan.
Koverpy exactly, in Japan this is pretty much standard on the busier routes
Even more professional if you know where to stand on the platform to get on the train at the right door
Geoff avoiding 15 floors of steps, good choice there, Sir.
Storeys even. I hope you saw his video on that, it's amazing :D.
@@gojenson I was wondering why on earth everyone was taking the escalator at Marylebone. I just arrived there from Stansted, backpack, suitcase. started the stairs, then looked up. I didn't give up obviously.
I’m so glad you filled us that’s hilarious 😂
The stairs at Covent Garden are no joke
@@tvlhd If you live or work nearby, you have to climb them once in your life. It's a rite of passage. But only when you are young. Not to be attempted by the over...er 15 years of age, say.... Chuckle.
It has to be done ... honestly...
Oh...and do take essential supplies...hot strong tea, sustaining sandwiches, oxygen...that sort of thing.
You should organise the TfL Triathlon which is a combination of Tube, Walking and Bus. Competitors have to get between two points in the fastest time using all three modes of transport ;-)
This would be an interesting competition, you dedicate a start and end point, must do all 3 types but as a connection between 1 tube station and another so no like riding a bus one stop and coming back, or walking 50 feet then walking back, before you get to the end destination, but must arrive at the end destination by tube,.
@@hotohori69 i want to watch that.
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tobortine
East Croydon to Amersham.
@@hotohori69 In Portland, Oregon, they have a 4T "Trail" that includes 4 modes of transportation:
www.travelportland.com/article/4t-trail/
This reminded me of one of those old school Top Gear races, I'd love to see you recreate one of those, tube vs car vs bike vs boat across London!
Richard Lartey yes! Would definitely be awesome if they recreated the car vs public transport vs boat race to London City Airport
@@Spermwhales93 yes! and a Heathrow version once the Angry Lizzy line is open.
I’d like to see a race of different routes. (Example Bakerloo vs Jubilee, Baker Street to Waterloo)
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There was a race between 3 of them to elephant and castle a while ago... that was good. How about clockwise vs anti clock wise on the overground from Clapham Junction to the theoretical mid point in the north?
193 stairs = a 15 story building
I cant believe he did that over the speaker. lol
@Wayne Herby Well you would wouldnt you.
Time stamp?
@@Alex__Butcher 5:03
It's an automated announcement to encourage you to take the lift. This station really _is_ a fifteen-storey building.
@@K-o-R Nah, it's more like a 10-storey-building.
I admit : My Oyster journey history for today looks very strange!
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Geoff Marshall I went to Covent Garden
Yes
Is South Ealing Northfield shortest outdoor stations ?
Only Geoff could come up with such a mad idea and make it work so well. Brilliant!
I've actually often got off at Leicester Square and walked to Covent Garden even if already on the Piccadilly Line (Eastbound), especially if going to somewhere other than the Tube station, e.g., if you're going to the market itself or to some restaurant or theatre. The reason is that the lifts at Covent Garden are horrendously slow, particularly on busy days, so the escalators at Leicester Square save you a lot of time. Would have liked to see you two run a trial on that.
I agree. That's the test I want to see. The tube would be quicker but by how much? As you say, it depends how long you have to wait for a lift at Covent Garden.
I actually took that journey. My feet were killing me, but in hindsight, it was probably easier to walk. And I had a Travelcard, so I didn't really care about the fare.
OlofTheOrange I did this with a paper ticket, I had a travel card with me although my dad had it, so I got a paper ticket. Long story involving football, McDonald’s, and hurting legs
You make the most interesting/boring videos ever. So weird. But I keep watching.
Brian McGuinness that’s a good way of saying it literally a video of people walking around London with monotone voices but I stayed to the end
Agreed, same here. I think it's because he's a charming nerd.
It's a plain topic but it's pretty interesting!
I think the comparison method used in this video is quite practical, so once again, well done Geoff. Although the walking might not be very recommendable on a sunny summer day.
And lucky that Geoff for waiting for just 4 for his longest try. I had to wait for *20* for my Picc trip last time.
I've done this. Got on the tube at Covent Garden and off again at Leicester Square.
I used to work in Covent Garden and always used to get off at Leicester Square and walk because it always felt a tiny bit quicker and was less stressful than the lifts at Covent Garden, especially at peak times. O and to tell a little story of tube nativity when I first worked in London - in Covent Garden - I decided to nip from our offices to Forbidden Planet, which was then on New Bond Street. So, being an idiot I got on at Covent Garden, changed to the Northern Line at Leicester Square and got off at Tottenham Court Road and walked the last bit. At which point it dawned on me that it would have been quicker and less of a pain to have walked it.
As a Londoner I can guarantee that them talking and filming on the tube will have made the other passengers extremely uncomfortable 😂
Tube users are always in their own world. And everyone's so used to TV crews, TH-camrs and tourists with video cameras and narration that again no one bats an eyelid.
@@davidjames579 Not true at all.
@@liamhiggins70 Mate! tourists do video diaries to upload to Instagram, so this is pretty commonplace.
@@davidjames579 I work in the hotel industry. I can tell you for sure they do not do this. Taking photos on the phone or a small DSLR is different.
@@liamhiggins70 You haven't seen what I've seen.
I love your videos, they are always so informative and interesting.
You know, neither informative nor interesting are words that spring to mind about this one. Entertaining does, yes, but mostly I'd go with "why?". ;-)
Why not do the reverse direction as a trial too (rather than going all the way to TCR to restart)? It's the same ground to cover, just in the opposite direction.
No it isn't
No practical use - you can't change lines at Covent Garden so there's no reason to get off an walk. If you're already on the Piccadilly line it'll be quicker to get off at Leicester Square, but the only way this "hack" could be practically utilised is if you're changing trains at Leicester Square to go one stop.
I see no reason why TRC was utilized at all.
@@disphoto Yeah, this is the decision in question here.
@@toni4729 The question is: if you're *already* in the Northern Line part of Leicester Square station, should you exit the station and walk or should you change to the Piccadilly Line to take a train to Covent Garden?
5:04 The decals are backwards on the doors; it should look like there are yellow -- not black -- spikes to harm you if you block the doors.
There's no spikes on the door
Katie Young it represents spikes. It’s trying to trick your brain.
@@itstrain7248 ohhhhh makes sense
😂 Sorry its 2 am where I live and my brain is asleep
In standard (non-highway!) triangular hazard warning signs - e.g. as shown above the 'spikes', the background colour is yellow. I guess if this principle is carried forward to the depiction of 'spikes' they are correctly shown black against a yellow background.
@@caitlingroves2053 now I'm imagining if the doors genuinely did have spikes instead of just the picture... that would be pretty intense.
A Classic "it's really windy" popped in there :)
What about Waterloo to Southwark? You can walk along the Waterloo East platform.
It also depends on how you change at LSQ. If you go via the long passageway it's way longer than if you take the stairs at the end of the platform. It also depends on the time of day as there is waiting for the lift at Covent Garden. As someone who worked at both stations and lived in Covent Garden, I always preferred to walk.
If TfL haven't managed to find your Oyster cards to filter out of demand calculations and similar by now, they're getting further justification today!
Could you explain? Thanks
@@valvlog4665 TfL use anonymised journey records linked to people's Oyster, Freedom Pass and contactless cards to understand usage of the network. Geoff's usage will be far from representative of a typical user but, in practice, will be lost in the statistical noise.
@@DavidWood2 Got it. Yes, Geoff doing 3 journeys from TCR to Cov. Gdn and back in 2 hrs looks super weird.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Jeff’s card was flagged for possible miss use at some point
@@almostanengineer or its logged in the system as being that of a transport vlogger and this is perfectly normal
its enjoyable that you did an entire video to prove something i've known my whole life. it's always been quicker to get to covent garden from Leicester square station. especially in the past when the lifts at covent garden seemed to always be broken
0:01 covent garden enterence
2:21 Tottenham court Road northern line platform
2:27 northern line Tottenham court road to leicester square
3:21 Leicester square Piccadilly line platform
3:50 Piccadilly line Leicester square to covent garden
4:44 covent garden walk through to exit
6:09 Tottenham court Road northern line platform
6:17 Northern line Tottenham court Road to Leicester Square
7:05 Leicester square Piccadilly line platform
7:58 Piccadilly line Leicester square to covent garden
8:07 Covent Garden walk through to exit
9:01 Tottenham court Road northern line platform
9:11 northern line Tottenham court Road to Leicester square
10:07 Leicester square Piccadilly line platform
10:43 Piccadilly line Leicester square to covent garden
10:54 Covent garden walk through to exit
"It's really windy!" Looove it!
Can't believe the Covent Garden M&S is gone no reason to rush up the stairs now haha
Dedication 3 times. Good for people in nz who love the tube and london in general. Get to notice more if you see it 3 times. Thanks.
I had a work colleague (also from New Zealand) who came down on the Northern each morning and transferred to get to Covent Garden. He did this for a year before we realised their above ground locations.
the journey between Leicester Square and Covent Garden is not only the most expensive train journey in London, but is in fact the most expensive train journey in the world!
Came up in my recommend and it was definitely worth watching!!!!
I just give the thumbs up on your vids as soon as I click on them. I always know they're going to be awesome 😁
Would have been interesting to do in the rush hour: more people on the street, and (perhaps) more frequent trains.. The results could have been different.
Try do Charing Cross To embankment
Vivid Louie Animates ROTFLMAO!!!
Timewise I feel that to be shorter than Covent Garden Leicester Square. Waterloo-Southwark is a quick one as well.
Charing cross to embankment on a skateboard is about 10 seconds but also a death wish going down that hill😂😂
If we're talking exterior of station to exterior of station, I'd say C Cross to Embankment is quicker than L Square to C Garden.
I often wondered about this as I had to use the Northern Line and I worked in Covent Garden. Now I know! The lift at Covent Garden could take a wait too in my day. Very creeky! Looks as if it has improved.
On the BMT Brighton Beach Line are two stations that are about 500 feet (152m) apart. They are Beverly Road and Cortelyou Road. Looking at a Google Map aerial, the platform ends seem to be slightly less than 500 feet (152m) apart. But, the station entry head houses seem to be about 800 (244m) to 900 (274m) feet apart. A Q train of ten cars is 600 (183m) feet long, so a train going from one station to the other can simultaneously platform the ends of both stations briefly.
I love taking on the stairs at Covent Garden station 😁 also the distance between Embankment and Charing Cross is just as close since I once found a spot where you actually could just about see both stations
when we came back to the UK in June, we used the steps at Covent Garden....i lost count of the steps in total, as i wanted to confirm the number, but having made it to the top, we were not going to do it again
This is a fantastic video, really good. Superb information for tourists and Londoners alike.
In Glen Rock NJ, there are two stations that are a two minute drive from each other on the same street yet they're on two separate lines. It's cheaper to walk the distance than take a train down to a junction an hour away just to take another train back to where you started in the NJ case (although you technically can't buy tickets between the two). In your case, I'd rather walk. Good exercise. The quickest journey (excluding the wait for the train) is either between Times Square and Penn Station or Times Square and Bryant Park. Both are two minutes
Euston to Euston Square, Warren Street to Great Portland Street and most famously Queensway to Bayswater are all examples of this in London.
Catford and Catford Bridge
I found during my second visit to London that it was often faster to walk than take the tube. Just depended on your final destination. I had a better sense of the layout of London on my second visit and was a pro by my third visit. First time there I was a real novice and relied on the tube for everything. Greetings from the United States.
Haha a 4 minute wait on the picadilly is so short. I either switch to the picadilly or walk from Holborn to covent garden for work and I only take the picadilly when it's raining outside or really late. Way faster to walk when you just miss a train and the next is in 6 ☹️
It would be a way longer to walk (and overground not underground) but you can see Rotherhithe Station from the platform at Canada Water
Love is such a beautiful thing, I love how she just shares his passion of trains with him
But are the escalators at Leicester Square the length of 15 floors?
I loved this one and you two look like such a happy couple.
I love your channel and all the videos of trains
Please do more of these. Even races across the tube
SOOOOO LOVE THE BACKING MUSIC!!!!
Well if you are on the Central line and want to get to somewhere in Covent Garden then you might as well get out at TCR or Holborn and walk, there won't be much in it.
The distance between Leicester Sq. and Covent Garden is about the length of a train. In Paris many train stations can be closer than you find in London but for different lines.
Maybe they should just extend the Leicester Square passageways over to the Covent Garden exits lmao. About as long as the Waterloo travelator, certainly shorter than the Bank/Monument interchange, and would speed up through traffic on the Piccadilly by a minute or so
I really enjoyed this video. Agree with the people saying you should have done it from the northbound northern line platform as well. And you should have swapped who was walking and who was tubing to account for different walking speeds. Sooo to sum up, you should have done it 9 more times. Back you go ;)
Loving this vids, keep up the great work, Geoff.
Highly amusing, hardly surprising. And man do I want to be in London now
The purest of content
Not being from London I find the tube and its quirks endlessly fascinating. It's always an adventure when in London to travel around using the underground.
loxxxton poxxxton Yeah it really is fascinating! The geek in me awoke. When I traveled on the tube for the first time, I looked the whole network up. A beautiful piece of Victorian engineering which is still in use today.
Love your channel man. Great stuff!
Another great underground race video. Loving your work 👍🏼
3:39 It literally looks like that man is about to rob her...
Nice profile picture.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that!
It's usually quicker to walk between any of the central stations - surface to surface - often for up to three stops. Try it!
Charring Cross to Oxford Circus: it's quicker to walk!
Now now nigel dont be a billy bullshinner
@@johnsmith-wx5fb try it then! It may not work every time, but it certainly has for me. And no running was involved.
Sure....the walk from Oxford Circus to Holborn saves time if heading back to Liverpool Street.
It's a good 15-20 minute walk from those two stations, and around 10 on the Tube
True. I often travel between 2northdown and The Bill Murray and there’s not a lot of difference between walking and the train because you have to walk back to kings cross, get down to the platform, wait for a train then get out of Angel, plus you’ve not got to pay if you walk.
Your intros are always so cool
Ahhh! TCR I was there just yesterday as part of a journey from Euston to Waterloo
Great video guys you both amazing of what you do😊👍💜
you are right
Thanks mate 😊👍👍
your welcome buddy😀
I really like you as a best friend 😊👍👍
really ?
Love your videos! You should come to Trondheim, Norway and make a video about the world's northernmost tram!
Keep an eye out on the 73 stock interiors as I saw one that looked like it had a refit inside.
Similar thing between Lancaster Gate and Paddington (which you probably already know) but it is very useful if you want to show your Great-uncle more of London, and only leave 15 mins to make the 9:03 to Penzance, and just dash up the road, and just make it...
😁Well done.
I used to have to travel through London on my way from the North to the South, and always used to leave the station at Kings Cross and walk to Euston, just to break up the journey. I've no idea if it was quicker or not :-)
Nice. Keep doing tube videos!
Fantastic video Geoff everything u go is great keep it coming
I was in London once when it rained, and caught the tube between these stations. Not sure how relevant that is.
Canary Wharf to Westferry on the DLR is very short also...
Enjoyed the declaration of “nine nine nine” with the blues and two’s behind Geoff.. heheh
shortest distance nearest to nearest exit is definitely mansion house and cannon st. i actually paced both today. 310 steps between cannon st / mansion house and 370 for leicester sq / covent gdn. and then i got home and realised that bank now has an entrance on cannon st. which will be even closer than that albeit not on a connected route. the new 2012 entrance to cannon st looks to be in same place as the old one just wider. so i dunno why this has gone unnoticed
Geoff avoiding 15 floors of steps good choice there keep making more videos and Great work
It never ceases to amaze me how close stations are in London and how frequent the services are compared to other parts of the UK. And yet people still complain about the service there if they can't get a train within a few short minutes. Many places, if you miss the bus (as that is all the public transport there is), you have to wait at least several hours for the next one, and sometimes DAYS.
Still wouldn't want to live there thought thank you very much.
Daniel Saint Around 5.5 million passenger journeys each day, about equivalent to the population of Scotland- people who complain often don't appreciate the scale of the operation.
@@ianmoseley9910 I'm not saying that London shouldn't have such an operation. It would just be nice if some other parts of the country had even a fraction of the availability of transport options that Londoners enjoy and mostly take for granted.
The 'we shouldn't use private cars' argument is simple cloud cuckoo land for many of us who live in rural and semi-rural parts of the country where there is no realistic option.
When I worked in the nearest city to me (8 miles away) I would have had to leave home by about 6.30am to arrive at work for 9am, and that would include a 1.75 mile (hilly) walk.
To get public transport to the same city from where my mother lives (just 4-5 miles from the City), I'd have to leave at 3pm the afternoon before, and wouldn't get home until about 11am the next morning, so leaving home before I finish work the next day!
I always walk from Marylebone to Baker Street unless I'm getting the Bakerloo Line or going South of the Jubilee Line.
Now this is classic Geoff Marshall stuff I signed up for!
Actually loved this! Thanks for the video guys 🙂 x
Woah surprised I got here early. Loved your vids for a few years it must be now. Thought I saw you on the West Somerset Railway but still not sure though, was def on your train :)
i mean ... th-cam.com/video/G5SrWqO2mrg/w-d-xo.html
I am glad I am not the only person who thinks London Transport minutes have little in common with minutes on timepieces.
It also makes a difference if you get out from the right carriage and door to connect.
If the weather is ghastly, I would take the train, and sod the "lost" seconds.
Thank you for clearing this up ❤
Where can I get a map like that? I have really poor eyesight and Google Maps is basically unusable now because none of the roads have these outlines and the text is tiny. I love the map you used at 0:55
That map can be found at: carto.metro.free.fr/cartes/metro-tram-london/index.php?gpslat=51.505951&gpslon=-0.101642&zoom=2
carto.metro.free.fr/metro-london/
Also Charing Cross to Embankment is 31 seconds when heading south. I timed it yesterday
Don't do what I once did. Having explored the Covent Garden market, I explored up Neal St. and a street market in Earlham St.. I then returned to Covent Garden tube station and thought about where to go next. How about Charing Cross Road? Nearest Tube station: Tottenham Court Road. So I did that. Exploring down the south end, I saw a small street market. It seemed to be selling the same sort of clothes as in that other street market. Then I noticed that I'd only gone and done a big loop!
I'm sure there's so many other Tube experiments like this to be done
He's done some.
Well, it looks like you enter the Northern line in car 3 each time, which is next to the way out at Leister Square, while the corridor to the Piccadilly is all the way in the front. If you are at the very first door, it would make it around 20 seconds quicker to the Piccadilly line and 20 seconds longer to the way out, which would skew the results slightly. In the best case scenario the change to the Piccadilly could take just under 5:30, while walking would be just above 6:00.
Reminds me of the first time I learnt about Lancaster Gate being so close to Paddington and the hassle I’d had when the circle and district were closed and I was told my the gate marshal to get a bus to Victoria and continue my journey from there. They didn’t even know about Lancaster Gate 🙄
This was fun and informative - I liked and enjoyed it, thank you! x
I really thought I'd walk up the stairs in Covent Garden Station today. That was a huge mistake.
Love the 15 storey building Easter egg!😂😂😂
Good experiment! Would be interesting to see how the different factors would work during rush hour 🤔
Good video and I watch all of your videos Geoff
YOUR ON TRENDING
Hoping to see a new least used station in Cornwall. Lelant Saltings. It lost like 98% of it's train services.
Congrats on making trending!
These are always fascinating challenges. Reminds me of using the tunnel under Monument to get to Bank 😁
What is the worst pair of tube stations to travel between by train vs walking? I think Wood Lane and White City would be a contender..
if you include overground, camden town and camden road. euston square and warren street perhaps. or paddington (bakerloo) to paddington (circle) .. maybe there is a whole section of "worst ways to get to the station you are already in"
My view is Park Royal to Hanger Lane. There was a plan to build an interchange station there but it seems to have died when Metronet PPP committed suicide.
Hammersmith to Hammersmith is a long way by train as well.
Kenton to Northwick Park
You guys should do South Ealing to Northfields, that also has a short distance between each other.
You don't need a tube train for that one, just a pole vault...
I thought Embankment to Charing cross will be closest station to each other both on the northern line
Well I learnt something. I thought that not only was it a shorter distance between Charing Cross and Embankment than Leicester Square and Covent Garden, but also shorter between Northfields and South Ealing.
I think the distances between platform end to platform start and from Station Exit to Station Entrance are not the same for any given pairings of stations on the same line in the same direction
Depends whether its actually Covent Garden Station itself you want to get to, or elsewhere in the area, as that would then result in a walk from Covent Garden Station
You are so right loool...I never realised it but the two stations are very pretty close, just two streets away actually....great vid thanks