Inside Paddington Station
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- We take a look around some of the parts of Paddington Station that the public don't usually get to see, including abandoned luggage conveyor systems, hidden passageways, and up on the roof ...
With many thanks to Paddington Partnership and Network Rail.
Londonist is proud to be working with Paddington Partnership on a project to reveal the secrets, surprises, gems, wildlife, heritage and culture around Paddington.
I’ve been to Paddington and it is such lovely station. Watching this in 2022. 😄
Spend many happy hours at the end of the North Platform back in the early 1970's as a wee-lad waiting to catch British Railways Western' Class locomotives! I see the steel road bridge is still over the tracks where I used to sit!
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Came to this channel from Tom Scott's and am I glad I did! Been having a blast watching all the Underground vids! Thanks for making these! Silly as it sounds, I miss the Underground - none where I am now :(
+Martin S. Stoller Thanks Martin! Where in the world are you now then ?!
I watch tom too !
Martin S. Stoller
When I think of the solemn way a train journey towards the south west begins in Paddington station and the way it ends in Penzance in that creepy one-track station, well...
Love your videos! The crisp, warm news-report style works well. Especially the ones like this, where you get to explore London's hidden infrastructure. Really cool stuff. That luggage conveyor should be a tourist attraction, I'd ride that, too!
Great video, would love to see Secrets of King's Cross & St Pancras stations.
Teh Black Ninja Productions Here you go: londonist.com/2015/03/video-secrets-of-st-pancras-international.php
Matt Brown Oh yeah, completely forgot about that video. Thanks anyway.
@@TehBlackNinjaProductions I have posted a few secrets of King's Cross St. Pancras Station along with Abandoned Corridors on my page here: instagram.com/to_the_tube_trains/
Please can you do a "inside London Victoria railway station
Trains, canals, the post office railway and aeroplanes in the same video with lots of interesting info - could this be more perfect?? Thanks!
I really enjoyed watching this! Will there be a Secrets of Marylebone Station?
I was a station post office worker for many happy years at padd stn royal mail was a familiar part of station sights.
I'm bummed out that Geoff (and thus we all) weren't allowed to see the mail rail
My kids used to refer to the new taxi ranks at Paddington as the taxi playground
I was at Paddington a few days ago. Trouble is when you are traveling you don't get the chance to hang around to take a good look. I did see the canal boat cafe next to the station which looked great.
i love everything about london
and uk
Amazing stuff, thanks!! I so want a nose down the mail rail
Wonderful! More things to look for the next time i get to Paddington. Next year...sigh...
Why did they close the check-ins? I think that this is a great idea. I've done this in Vienna with the CAT (City Airport Train) and it was so easy, you didn't have to worry about your baggage. Our baggage even took a few trains earlier to the airport in the morning, so we could still do something the rest of the day without the baggage
SimonHellinger I know right! It's such a great idea.
SimonHellinger Here you go - it was experimental and if a success there would have been more opened at other stations. It was shut down due to low take up rather than any security issues (and only lasted 1999 to 2003). I have attached the story of its demise from The Guardian - www.theguardian.com/business/2003/jul/07/1
+Geofftech I wasn't alive during 9/11 BTW I was on a train during 7/7
Very interesting. Some things that I did not know. Thanks
My visit to Paddington, the late night Royal Post red carts and waggon trains on the platform train van loading.
I've lived near Paddington for almost 15 years now. How I miss those days when I could check my bags in for an evening flight around noon, go off and have a nice afternoon meal and then pop out to Heathrow on the HEX just in time for my flight. I believe Lufthansa was the last to give up on the service and I also believe that - like Concorde - the problem was mostly the fact the service was uneconomical. It did not bring extra business, so the cost could not be justified in our privatised profit-first model of transport.
I've also toured the Mail Rail mini-trains. Royal Mail kindly offered a tour to locals just before they were being phased out. We toured the old sorting office next door as well (also connected by tunnel) where we were shown our "sorting frame" when our postman sorted our mail for our "twice daily delivery". I mentioned that in all the years I had lived nearby, I'd never received a 2nd delivery. Next day I did. Just that once :-)
I can't pass up an opportunity to moan about how "Crassrail" works have affected Paddington. Almost anyone accessing the station now has to navigate down a busy slip road, cluttered with delivery vehicles and a filthy pack of smokers. Cyclists are not provided for - they must dismount, squeeze around a barrier and can then ride another 30 metres or so to the entrance. There are only two narrow pavements open and there are perpetual pedestrian traffic jams as commuters meet tourists with all kinds of luggage, prams, etc. Shabby.
There is no place at Paddington where a private driver can pick up or set down passengers legally. They seem to have forgotten about those users. If you ask about this, you get passed pillar to post between FGW, Network Rail and Crossrail all mumbling obfuscation."I need to drop my disabled relative at Paddington. Where is the passenger set down?" Um... ahhh....
There is no proper entrance to Paddington, as the Hilton hotel is plunked right where the public should be able to enter. Try and walk through the lobby and you will be discouraged. In the original Crossrail development plans, the western entrance (by Sainsbury's) was to be retained (which would have been hugely better) but in the event, it was shut (without explanation) and is used as a worker entrance to the detriment of thousands of commuters daily.
Paddington was never much for pedestrian access (there was a narrow stairway that connected the taxi rank to Eastbourne Terrace) and from looking at Crossrail's "artist's deceptions" it doesn't seem likely to improve much even when they are finished. Oh well, I guess we should be happy they finally managed to build some steps (from H&City end) to Bishop's Bridge Road - that only took five years...
BTW - what happens to HEX when Crossrail goes to Heathrow? They've already had a hit to their profits with the Connect trains - now there will be an even faster competitor. A cynic would say pricing (of all services) will be "adjusted" then. Please keep in mind that the HEX is grotesquely expensive (more than many flights) and "hogs" two entire platforms at Paddington which could be better used for regular train services.
CanAmSteveUK From what we've heard the HEX services will become the Crossrail trains .. they have to, because there's not enough pathing space on the tracks to have Crossrail AND Heathrow Express/Connect. So HEX will be no more - you'll just use Crossrail to get to Heathrow.
***** Interesting. Makes the BAA business plan easier to comprehend. Every time someone tells me T5 is good, I ask "Have you been to Schiphol? Shanghai? Hong Kong? Changi?" T5 came after them and only had to copy. Instead we get Brent Cross stuck in between passengers and their flights
+Londonist Ltd Who does that slide on the belt?
Heathrow connect will become part of crossrail. I think HEX will stay
Fascinating stuff. That check-in system seemed like such a great idea. I'm guessing the high HX fare put people off using it. Why don't they now remove the equipment and re-open the tunnel for people to use?
A fascinating video!
How about secrets of Waterloo station please
The canal next to Paddington is a good reminder that the place where GWR built its grandest gateway to the Metropolis was best known as a wharf area around "Paddington Basin," at the de facto end of the Grand Union Canal.
Wow this was a great video!
Seems like it was once much like Hong Kongs airport train system, with full check ins and all in town before heading to the airport. Shame it got removed but understandable why!
In North America (Most Cities Apply) our Subways are Tube trains while your Subway is a Underground Foot Path, like the one we have in Toronto but on a much smaller scale
My dad worked as a cleaner in Paddington. He use to say Paddington was the best station in the whole of London as it was soo big...
Londonist is the best.also watch jangbicks
Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo great you guys should make secrets of the great eastern railway too
You got to do similar videos of the other london termi als such as Kings Cross, Waterloo etc...
You missed out the hidden platforms that I had "accidentally" strolled on when looking for the Bakerloo line.
No trains arrived.
Trust me, it was there, it's a passageway leading to platforms (I think) next to the Bakerloo Line. Should have taken a picture for proof!
Paddington Station BritRail platform was below ground. A large ramp to the street level. London in the 1980s had no above ground freight, it was underground. Luggage from BritRail after 1921 murger, it changed. London underground streets freight turned to government, or private control.
Do you know if there is any BR (W) benches at Paddington?
Cool... 😎
Hopefully the first in a long line of a new series! Thanks Geoff.
I do miss the Paddington check-in - removed due to added security concerns or lack or use?
***** Lack of use - see attached Guardian story www.theguardian.com/business/2003/jul/07/1
Ian Ford Thanks for that. Looks like it was a drawn-out demise after 9/11. A great idea in theory, but guess one more link to secure and worry about.
Can you do secrets of Marylebone station please?
Will the front of the paddington station concourse block the view of the trains and the arch? Because it will look good.
I'm going their tommarrow
*slides into Heathrow*
I’v heard of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
From zahid
Hi ,I really enjoy your vedio, and I need to make a vedio of Paddington station and I wonder could I use part of your vedio? Of course your name will be signed in the references.Wait for your reply:).
I wonder if where the posters used to be on that old subway if there were wartime posters from the Falklands War? Were there wartime posters in Britain during those 10 weeks of 1982?
I used the underground a lot during 1982 and the posters were the same as always
Atheist Orphan Any wartime measures?
anonymous anonymous - I'm not sure what you mean by 'Wartime measures' but everyday life went on exactly as it did before and afterwards. Nothing was different. We only noticed about the war when it was on the TV news or in the newspapers. The same as the 1991/2003 Gulf wars.
LOL I thought it was VictoriaStation at start hahaha
Seen as the bags were customs cleared in Paddington, how did they get them to Heathrow?
SamJam2098 The conveyor belt system in the video took the bags along under the platforms to be loaded onto the train to Heathrow.
***** But when you got to Heathrow, how would they know that you already checked in your bag?
anonymous anonymous Because you've checked in at Paddington, so the bags will already be in the Heathrow baggage management system.
bbqroast Ah, thanks.
I forgot paddington was a bear lol opps
The person who did the Camera has the exact same name as someone in my year
That wasn't you filiming in the station yesterday was it? 27th May 2015
***** Damn! That means I'm looking 'pissed off at Mr Shouty Phone' in someone else's video.
Great vids by the way keep 'em coming.
My equipment is dusty, disused and brilliant, but I require dinner and a movie before a private tour.
I've heard that Euston has some underground secrets.
***** Can't wait to see it!
Hydraulic mechanism :O
1:45 Sadly the door is locked off!!!!! RRRRRRRR!!!!
At the end of the vid did we see the 11:36 to West Ruislip?
+GoldenCarrot256 That shot was filmed around 1pm, so we think it was just a 'standard' 2-car train to Greenford, not the Ghost Train!
Hey Geoff
Paddington
Who the hell gave this a thumbs down???
hahaha. Gotta love the haters...
2:17 hiliton v3
tried going through that door...got arrested :|
mr twollock how many days also are you serious
"Paddington station [...] is the terminus for trains in and out to the West of London"
Apparently, the Great Western Mainline only runs as far as... West Drayton?
I dont evrn eat burgurs
Who came here from Paddington the movie?
I Did (Both Paddington 1 and 2)
14 Bear attack victims don't like this video .