Least Used Station - London Waterloo
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- I can't believe we haven't got around to doing this one sooner! So it was time for me and Vicki to get along to London's least used station ... Waterloo, so see what limited facilities it has.
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With thanks to Network Rail & SWR for their permission to film at ... this terribly small and underused station! ;-)
Also so many of the people who come with you where in it!! They must have been in on this.
I just spotted loads of 'ex' All the station contributors..!
Thanks for the love and the pin Geoff!
If you go to 7:32, you could see about three or four of them.
At 10:24, there is another set of people...
Ceci 1:45, companion while doing Kings Sutton
Dave 2:11, companion while doing Bottesford, Elton & Orston
Nayson 2:13, companion while doing Polesworh
Tom 2:17, companion while doing Angel Road
Will 2:20, companion while doing Buckenham
Dan 3:14, companion while doing Midgham
Andy 5:55, companion while doing White Notley
Pete(r) 7:34, companion while doing Havenhouse
Roger 7:35, companion while doing Park Street
Geoff's mum 7:35, companion while doing Faygate
Sarah 10:28, companion while doing Broome
Chris 11:04, companion while doing Dilton Marsh
Not sure if I have missed anyone. Good job for everyone making this vid.
Just 500-600 Parliamentary Trains a day preventing its closure.
Miles Bown - Hey dude, you might wanna check the date.
Well there just isn’t the passenger numbers, it will have to close sometime, it costs network rail so much
James Taylor
It’s a key link to areas outside London and into London.
National Rail doesn’t need to make money always it’s about connecting the country.
Unless they build a new one, it’s staying. It also connects Waterloo East and everyone coming from the South-East and South-East London into central.
I guess most just go to London Bridge before or Charring Cross instead.
Didn’t spot the slight sarcasm there did you 😀😀
*Not* True. I regularly take SWR to Waterloo. None of the trains are Parliamentary
I always get off at Vauxhall. Had no idea about this.
lewd!
This is an April’s fool joke
@ali nariman Whooosh
Ah yes, one of my favourite request stops.
I hope they stop
W&C a classic.
Dave Curran only one train every Sunday on the first of the month with a full moon every fortnight to request I believe!
It's got the most deadly accidents of any request stop, since no one uses it the trains keep slamming into the buffers. They've been replaced recently with massive nets to slow the train down.
@@devontransportproductions1411 I believe tha service is twice a year on the solstice
5-600 Parliamentary trains a day to stop it's closure, a measly 32 ticket machines and a rarely manned ticket office.
How Waterloo can remain open with so few passengers is beyond me, even a tube connection can't help.
In seriousness, this has to be the best April Fools I've seen today
Not seen it all yet, but 2 things, it is possible that for services Waterloo is the least profitable station on the network - all those inter peak trains nobody uses for example. And did they visit the entrance to the one time necropolis station for the service to Brookwood Cemetary ?
Don't forget that one of the tube lines connected is the least used line on the underground.
It is a bit of a dead end, I don’t think any trains pass through at all
they used to. There was a line between plat 1 and 2 going to Waterloo East
Paul Hamilton did the Waterloo East trains even bother to stop?
Dave Church Trains from southeast London and Kent stop at Waterloo East on there way to that much bigger Terminus Charing Cross.
As someone who used to commute through Waterloo I can confirm it's a limited service.
its pretty sad that thats not sarcasm :D
I think those low passenger numbers must have something to do with the much easier to access and more regularly serviced Waterloo East.
Hahahaha
No doubt about it
I'm wondering now, almost a year later, just how genuinely quiet Waterloo is.
Same, if only America could handle the crisis like the UK
I never knew London Waterloo station existed! Wow, so interesting and very impressive!
Why?
@@r21747 sarcasm
@@belgianwaffle3883 yes
@Jay Jay thank you
as someone whos grown up using south west trains it completely escaped me, its not like its a well known station like worcester park or new malden
6:35 you missed a gem behind you! The old fella pushing the wheelchair his name is Dom... he is the longest serving railway staff member in the country. He is in his 80’s and still working and has been at the station since he was 16. The BBC even made a small piece on him.
P.S if you wanted to measure the platform you should’ve gone to P24 it’s the longest in the station and reaches a quarter down to Vauxhall...
I can't believe you got 11 whole minutes of content out of such limited facilities!
It's amazing really. So much to talk about, out of not very much!
Next year April fools joke: Least used tube station King's cross St Pancras.
No: Least used station on the Cable Car Line ;) There can only be two
@@acmenipponair I bet that King's Cross St Pancras is far less used than the mighty cable car, with all it's popularity!
Oxford circus
I was there once and my train forgot to stop.
Reminds me of a line in a stage production of The Railway Children:
"Does this train stop at Dover?"
"It's gonna be a bloody big splash if it doesn't!"
Ouch
As a terminal station, all trains must stop, or run into the Buffers Stops.
Brightstarlivesteam You can’t be serious 😂 It was a joke
Brightstarlivesteam its a joke
Happy April fools to you too Geoff 😂
I almost forgot. I didn't add 2+2 to realise it was April fools🤣
Omggggg!!! I was so confused by the title lmaooo. Thanks for this comment
I'm so happy you finally decided to do a least used station of the Waterloo & City line!
No you silly
This was clearly shot on a green screen on the Isle of Wight I bet you have never been to Waterloo (if such a station even exists).
Note that this is a South West Railway Station, which can only mean it was shot on the Isle of Wight.
I have a feeling that remaking this video for April Fool's 2020 would actually be closer to a 'Least Used Station...' video experience.
I believe Waterloo was somewhat popular at one point, but then Emirates Air line opened and most passenger switched to the cable car, so Waterloo is somewhat now an ghost town, still if you want to avoid the crowd, I would head down to Waterloo
Funny
1,000,000 people used to use it every year, Now it’s a abandoned building.
Don’t hate me idk how many people go to Waterloo every year
снёrễnkітту Exactly 5 minutes into the video he says that it has around 250000-300000 a DAY.
Which ofcourse, is a terrible number considering that Redcar British Steel has a solid 1 person / 10 days!
That Emirate Air Line is putting the whole Underground out of business, sad times
Man, what a remote place and I thought Shippea Hill was bad...
Shippea Hill is the Country’s most used station, isn’t it?
@@supremethunderous4566 Absolutely heaving, had to fight my way onto the train. And that was on a Sunday!
@@supremethunderous4566 no it's now Stanlow in Thornton
40 years ago I remember Shippea Hill having quite a good service and a reasonable number of passengers. It was the railhead for RAF/USAF Lakenheath; Lakenheath itself had almost no trains. Never quite got over looking at a map and finding Shippea Hill is a whole 9 feet above sea level (like the surrounding countryside).
I won't be using this station. There is only 32 ticket machines
Yeah, what if you need to buy 33 tickets?
@@solarpenguin1 or 34 tickets
@@LukeAlfordUKsteam
or 35 tickets 🤢
That isn't enough. I need 33 😂😂😂😂😂😂
2:00 _Only_ 32 ticket machines?
EDIT: I’ve just realised this is an April’s fool joke
Wait, how did they film this AND secrets of the Elizabeth line while being in IRELAND??
*Top 10 Questions Science STILL can't answer*
It's obviously their secret time/space machine, which they still haven't used to visit the Isle of Wight.
I don’t know maybe they can teleport
There's a secret Hyperloop between Ireland and Waterloo, but only the government and Geoff know about it.
They probably filmed this before going to Ireland
Geoff has a Deloreon
As luck would have it, I wandered into that very same station a couple decades ago when I visited London! I caught the train from the Waterloo stop to a town out in the country called “Paris.”
Paris was very quaint, but being American, it was hard for me to understand the local accent. It almost sounded like a foreign language. If you go, check out the big observation tower in the middle of town.
I understand they have discontinued service on the line from Waterloo to Paris in the last few years. It’s a shame they have to cut back like that. Hopefully, the station can stay open with the reduced traffic.
For the life of me, I just can't understand how they can afford to keep this station open and operating. I mean, it's wonderful of them to accommodate these few occasional passengers but goodness, it must be such a drag on their financial bottom line.
to be fair with SWRs current performance there probably is around 4 trains a day
You were lucky there mate, they demolished it yesterday!
Seriously?
Err...no! 😉😉
I laughed out loud at this
I used to be one of the small band of regular passengers using Waterloo. Back then it also used to service a small branch line to Paris. When I moved away that fell into disuse for some 10 years but I see those platforms have now come back into service. Hopefully the people of Paris have found another way to get up to town.
It's sad isn't it. They tried those platforms for an experimental "Railway Children" service but alas that failed as well. You just can't get passengers to a station built in the middle of nowhere.
St Pancras Interntional
A manned ticket office in London? Nice try Geoff, clearly a green screen!
Yeah, there is one and it’s manned. My London station is manned and it’s semi-key station in zone 2.
There are manned ticket offices at London Kings Cross
Sam the Awesome Gamer
I’m surprised ANYTHING in London is manned, quite frankly... Thought London was a bit of a backwater ghost town
Who would have guessed that less than a year later it would actually look like a least used station with all outlets closed and virtually no passengers. I remember having to travel through at the beginning of the pandemic and I was one of only two passengers on a 10-car train to Portsmouth Harbour!
There's no service between 1am and 5am. I believe 4 hours with no trains from this least used station.
I do love all the cheeky cameos in the background! You had be howling with laughter throughout! Best on today! Thanks Geoff!
The really funny thing about this is that technically speaking Waterloo DOES qualify as a least-used station! On the Waterloo and City line it is the joint least-used station, along with Bank; but of course since there are only two stations on that line it's also the joint most-used station.
@Robert Baker They've renamed Waterloo East?
@@andymerrett why? The criteria are arbitrary anyway. I just thought it an amusing additional point to this video.
According to the figures at www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/mayor-launches-new-interactive-tool-to-reveal-the-capitals-busiest-tube-line-and-how-many-others-a3790486.html the number of passengers on the W&C is asymentric so Waterloo is the least used station onm the W&C.
London Waterloo is national rail. It’s not part of underground or overground service. Completely separate entity
@@leahhumphrey9600 - sort of except the assets still partly belong to National Rail as they were the previous owners and it was built by the same company that built Waterloo Bridge Station as it used to be known.
6:44 I wonder if that staircase is equivalent to a 15-storey building?
Brilliant ;)
This might be one of the best April Fools video I've seen for quite a few years
CruisingTheCut has said they are going to put a boat-wash similar to a car wash using the tunnel infrastructure
@JWB_: Whaddaya mean, 'April Fools video'?
I burst out in laughter as soon as I saw the title to the video as I opened TH-cam app.
I'm surprised this station survived the Beeching cuts.
Beeching and his irrational hatred of trains.
@@stikibunn *cut to mustachioed gentleman angrily kicking a train while grunting in fury*
my nearest station also survived, it was first opened in 1849 so this year it's 170 years old. wow
@@obliviousotterI I too love jay foreman
LIKE POLESWORTH, trains only depart in one direction. THIS IS ACTUALLY TRUE!!!
I have never heard of this station, it looks quite quaint!
It's off the Quaint-O-Meter
quaint or cute?
Why not both?
Who dose not know this station
Cute
I've watched this so many times...and only today, have I realised all the people in the background are friends and guests on your other videos. Made me laugh no end I can tell you. Need to watch it again now to see how many there actually are! Fantastic!
😂😂😂😂😂 “Is there a Permit to Travel machine?”
I think I can remember Platform Ticket machines here or it might have been at Liverpool Street.
That rural tramstop is so quaint!! :-)
I don't even know how could you hold back laughter in such a hilarious video.
I must visit that station one day. If only it wasn't so remote and inaccessible, and poorly served though, it would be a nightmare if you missed the next train out and were forced to wait 3 minutes in a desolate and empty station in the middle of nowhere.
I saw the title and was like ??? What??😂😂Great video!
The fact that this station is still open is clearly a case of "Parliamentary Service" gone mad!
It’s amazing how few people use this station... I’m proud to include myself in that small number of people! 🤙🏼
FrankTheLondonGamer -
Train passengers at Waterloo... A very exclusive and prestigious group of individuals indeed 😂
"I've come to the end of the platform and ... IT'S REALLY WINDY!"
Great videobombs from all the familiar people!
When I first started to work in 1954 , I used to commute through Waterloo. A member of the publicity department used to occupy a glass office above the station, and would play vinyl records to keep the crowds moving. In the morning, she would select brisk music to get people to work, but in the evening she selected gentle peaceful music, to sooth shattered nerves after their day's work. Some years' ago I happened to be talking to a lady and reminiscing about the station, and to my surprise, she told me that it was she who played the records that I heard each morning.
Going back even further, to when I was young: I used to go to Waterloo Station to enjoy the News theatre, which was high up above the station, at the Suburban end, when the films would often break down, and where they were accompanied by gentlemen asleep and snoring in the back row.
Its 1am here in usa i need to go to bed. *Geoff Marshall uploaded a video* I NEED TO WACH IT. Also nice april fools video
No bin waving in the breeze though. The bin in this one was totally static. Boo!
And as far as the surrounding countryside goes, there isn't much there. There is this odd place just down the road called the Royal Festival Hall if you are into such things and there's a river just beyond that...
No Castles Though. (Ian Allan Bookshop in The Cut(? No Lower Marsh) though).
Happy April Fools! You never fail to impress Geoff
The mezzanine was specially built, just so you can see the clock at eye level. a missing fact!
I love the cameos of former Least Used Companions
I got to play my own stunt double
I have gone unspotted thus far.
@@peel_acres I think I spotted you at some point. The only people I didn't see were Ben Goldacre, Lawrence & the bloke who did least used Merseyside and I've forgotten his name. 🤦♂️
@@EdwardMason9000his name Mark
I really love the idea of having so many people we know from other least used station in........ . Loved this thanks.
I remember using this station when I used to live in the south west. I remember missing my train more than once and having to wait for one of the other 500 services. It definitely needs a better service, as there’s nothing to do if you do miss your train either.
I’m stupid enough to have seen the title and thought that there was some odd station also called Waterloo. Keep forgetting that it’s 1st April!
There is. On Merseyside. Much busier though: it has eight trains an hour.
I had to watch this because my first reaction was: least used London Waterloo?
It was actually named after the ABBA song. St Pancras was supposed to be renamed ‘Gimme, gimme gimme a man after Midnight’ but Portillo objected to it!
I can't believe you've only just got round to this.
Are you sure it's in London, it looks really similar to the least used on The Isle of Wight
No permit to travel... and more importantly... no pacers! :(
Waterloo is the busiest station in the UK
Just realised this was an April Fools Joke
Thought Clapham Junction was.
Alex Wright it gets the most trains but not the most passengers
And meanwhile the Japanese are laughing: 99 Million passngers? You mean per month, right?
Acme. Nipp-on-AiR the underground is far more superior than the Tokyo subway
@@acmenipponair yeah isn't Shinjuku something like 3.5 million a day?
Shamefully It took me more than a minute to realise 😂
Realise what?
@@paulsengupta971 that it is an april fools joke
Sorry, I was trying to be funny! :-)
It took me about 5!
Don't worry same here
I once heard about a young chap from deepest Somerset who went up to Waterloo Station, walked round it for several hours and when he arrived back home said to his mother that he didn't know that all of London was under glass.
Aye right. Next you'll be telling me you can get a fast train to Kingston from this station. :-))
hey, kingston gang!
If Only. Its Quicker to Go To Surbiton and Walk.
Amazing that so many Londoners shared your experience of the very quiet Waterloo station!
Anyone notice the cameos, from people who starred in previous least used stations.
Winner winner chicken dinner! 😃👍
no, please tell us!!
At 5:56 I saw one but I can't remember his name, argh
@@juansdf1 keep looking,
Hint look out for
To The Trains
And
D Stock mocette
There's more also but these easiest to find
@@juansdf1 Andy from Calling All Stations
It took me half the video to realise it was a joke.
Was sitting here thinking “Jesus, how big must the other stations in London be?”
And to think i"ve been to London 4 times and no one has ever told me Waterloo Station existed!
Like the fact that there’s people who have apperead on previous least used station dotted about.
The annual number of passengers is only eight (digits) No wonder it's so little used, when a large city like Bristol only has three trains a day to it.
7:11 for such a quiet station, that bin's pretty full. It can't have been emptied for weeks!
They change the bags twice a year. So it must have been 3-4 months since the last time.
No waiting room or shelter - darn, i would not want to visit that out of the way back water of a station. I really think its time the railway started to give these quieter stations better facilities. ;-)
Is that true , no waiting rooms ? you might be right, even for first class.
I thought it was destroyed by Napoleon before his surrender.
A few months ago I was at the least used Glasgow Central Station, and I saw a pigeon there as well. I was so surprised that I took a picture of it.
Waterloo, true, least used station. ;-) So little used actually they could afford to have 4 platforms sitting dormant for years after the Eurostar pulled out and moved to St. Pancras :-)
I love a bit of London Waterloo. It’s always been the station that I pull up to and the noise and bustle of it gives me that excitable feeling of being in London.
Personally Kensington palace is my favourite all those rich people and me #nottoflex
Dan Smith I love being a poor person in a rich place.
"Millions of people swarming like flies round Waterloo underground
But Terry and Julie cross over the river
Where they feel safe and sound"
Not only the least used station, but with the least cameos too!
😂 I came here because I thought you had gone mad 🤪 Then I remembered the date 😁👍
Five minutes into the video and I am laughing so much. Although, 92 million passengers annually, that's more than London Heathrow and its commercial flights!
Why is recommended to me on April fools man
After yesterday losing to Portsmouth, this really made me laugh and cheered me up. Brilliantly delivered deadpan!
I was puzzled for a minute or two but in my defence I am watching this in October!
Absurdly over-equipped for such a quiet station. No wonder the railways need subsidy. Note that the posting date of this video isn't shown but appears to have been 1/4/2019.
Amazingly the second least used station on a tube line too 👍😉
I love the way Geoff so nearly manages to keep a straight face.
I would love to visit it one day, unfortunately you can't get to London directly by train from the Midlands.
You can. Birminghamham New Street to London Euston, Nottingham to London St Pancras, Birmingham Snow Hill to London Marlylabone. Unfortunately none of them go to Waterloo which is the busiest station in the UK.
@@ILikeTransport CrossCountry from Birmingham New Street to Basingstoke, South Western Railway to London Waterloo. Not direct, but close enough!
You guys didn't really get the joke did you...
r/woooooosh
@@tsguyoldchannel2691 I did. London Waterloo is the busiest station in the UK but they said least used.
I visited Shinjuku Station Tokyo a few years ago. It is so less used, there are underground lines with only two stops inside Shinjuku Station. And in rushhours it is completly empty, you may see 500 people entering or leaving trains per second, which means Shinjuku Station has only 3-4 million commuters per day...
For such a nice small & quaint station it's really a shame that more people don't utilize this facility.
So that’s where Ray Davis of The Kinks got inspiration from! Always thought it was poetic licence!
Wow, it's very quaint!
Saw the title and knew what day it was uploaded
I can’t believe there’s not a permit to travel 😂
As a non-Brit (hello you fellow Europeans ;) ) I had to look up what a permit to travel actually is. :D
You two were having WAAAAYYYYY too much fun doing that. Bravo for the April Fools joke.
3:37 The station is so small it had to cram all of the about 1 train times into space saving shelves.
Brilliant. I love the way you have to have watched lots of Geoff Marshall videos to get the joke.
Yeah, I always thought that scene from The Bourne Ultimatum that they filmed there was a bit boring. They could've at least tried to shoot it at Coombe Junction Halt.
All those cameos from the people that been in your videos. Love it fantastic.