End of the Line No.8 - Uxbridge
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Back to the other end of the Piccadilly to Uxbridge, which is also a Metropolitan line station. Is Uxbridge the most architecturally stunning station on the network? Let's go to Zone 6 again and find out ...
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And now I live in Vancouver ,Canada, but remember the Wednesdays in the late 1940s when my mother used to deposit me at Uxbridge library,whilst she went to Lloyds Bank to draw her 7 pounds a week housekeeping money. We always took a Met. or Piccadilly train from Ickenham and a 220 bus on the return. Your video stirred up memories of long ago and far away. Thanks for yhe memory!
The SCALE of your commitment to a joke is unprecedented.
Yes, but what did the scales read ?!
He weighed up the options and decided he had to do it!
And do we know how much Geoff weighs? We'll just have to 'weight' and see!
The lack of usable scales at the station was weighing heavily on his mind
I’m really not feeling mentally well at the moment, having a really difficult time. But a Geoff video calms me down and reminds me of the simple joys that are out there. Thank you for everything, Geoff.
Take care and please know that things will get better.
Sorry you're in the trenches, always know you're among friends here. Totally agree, find Geoff's videos great for my mental health too!
Wishing you all the best and better days ahead🙏🏾
You deserve that heart from Geoff.
@@RJH1971 agree, nothing better than looking at a railway that’s 10,000,000 better than the boring one down here. My local rail network is not bad, it’s just boring, that’s all.
As an ex-Brunel student, Uxbridge was my home tubestop, and the canal walk indicated in the guidebook was a regular routine to get a bit of fresh air and exercise with an audiobook, so it's heartwarming to see it get some love, as the Vine Street episode did too. As for the question of Metropolitan or Piccadilly line to St Pancras - I had to do the trip a few times to visit my family when they were living in Paris. Metropolitan line is on average 14 minutes faster than the Piccadilly line.
I would thought the Met line had a much faster journey time to Kings Cross because there are fewer stops and there is the possibility of catching a semi fast Met line which is quicker that the all stations Met line train.
I was a Brunel student '82 to '86 and used the tube frequently to get to King's Cross (family in York). I never thought about using the Piccadilly, probably because it looks so much longer on the map and stops at so many more stations. I'm very surprised there are only 14 minutes in it. Uxbridge station was always freezing in the winter.
What else is there to do in Uxbridge? I used this station a few times when staying as an air cadet at the RAF base, just up the road. You used to stay there if you were doing something very privileged and fun like going on overseas camp, or on the International Air Cadet Exchange, as it was close to Heathrow. Fond memories. The base was demolished about 10 years ago for houses, but the Battle of Britain bunker remains, as does a fascinating RAF Cinema hall, and one or two former 3-storey barrack blocks (the old 12 man room type) I'd stay in. It's an interesting site to walk around and do take note of the housing estate that was built on the site, which has some interesting street names!
Top floor of the library - display of historical objects.
Thanks Paul, very interesting, 😊👍
I remember the R.A.F base at Uxbridge. When I was in Air Cadets I went there for a weekend drill course. Took the Metropolitan line from Baker Street, quite a journey. Shame to hear that the base is no more.
What a lovely bit of serendipity, finding that book! (Also, "while buying some Elizabeth Line moquette" is the most Geoff phrase ever).
Oh god. He's doing his Portillo with a book routine now 🙂
I hope he doesn't start wearing pink trousers.
@@geofftech2 Oh Bloody hell
"Great Underground Journeys"? 😁😁😁
@@geofftech2 DO IT!
@@geofftech2 For Hammersmith / Barking Hammersmith and City Line ? ( and does the circle have one end two ends or four ends ?)
Nice to see this weighleway station, Geoff.
Or the whaleway station for some ... 😛
I adore your videos as they remind me so much of the enjoyment of years of using the tube in London. But I had to donate, and not just ‘like’, for the weighing scales skit. Simply sublime. I hope this covers at least some of the cost of the scales.
Chris that is supremely kind of you, thank you so much. That covers the cost of the scales AND the book as well! 😁👍
@@geofftech2 Maybe after this series, you can make another end of the line series, but this time, from the lines then they were first opened, for example, the district line's original end points, were South Ken, and Westminster, and King william street and Stockwell, on the Northern line.
youre actually so rich.
I was brought up in Iver Heath; my father was a professional musician and would spend the day in his workshop, change into his DJ, cycle the 2 1/2 miles to Uxbridge Station with his instruments on his back, leave his bike locked in the secure area, hop on a Met or Picc train and could be in the orchestra pit at the Royal Opera House in an hour and 20 from home. Later I worked as a printers messenger for an Uxbridge-based firm and had a weekly "Go As You Please" ticket as we delivered printing blocks (what are they, eh?) to the various London newspapers and magazine HQs. Explored the tube network extensiveIy in the 1970s. I love the station and how it really hasn't changed much inside.
I must be getting old - that all seemed like a couple of years ago...
(I also vaguely remember being taken to Uxbridge Vine Street station when it was still just about in use - sadly it was very run-down.)
Thank you. Most interesting.👍😊😊😊
I also have certain memories too that only felt like a few years ago, yet they were actually 10 years ago!
Been waiting for this episode since im from the small town of Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada, which was named after its sister town of Uxbridge in the UK! Lovely to see the other Uxbridge.
That platform indicator light box is manually controlled from Rayner's Lane signal cabin. So if it's displaying the wrong platform, apologies, one of us must have just hit the wrong button! 😅
Also, the station used to look even better before they ran those awful cable trays along the length of it 🙄 + I conquer the café is definitely worth a visit 👍
Totally agree on the cable trays and the cafe where time has stood still, its totally bizarre but love it.
The area just outside the station is also fascinating and deservers some minor exploration.
People in charge of information displays do like a laugh, one person in Cambridge described Letchworth (that train's only stop between Cams and Kings Cross, it was an express train) in ye olde vernacular, it got on the local TV broadcast.
I used to study at nearby Brunel University and I used this station almost everyday for three years. Lots of memories! Love Uxbridge
Loved this one I used to live here and miss living here
Yay Uxbridge!
Just down the road from Brunel University.
Was there from 1997 when an all zone travel card was £4.80.
Yes.
We'd travel to random places just for fun.
Happy days.
Although those are some fancy new trains there, not like the clunky old things we rode on.
Still miss the A-stock.
I've been to Uxbridge in 2017. It was peaceful surprisingly.
Omg the Uxbridge Station has some beautifully preserved stuff.
Love the Pic of the 607 Trolley Buses that used to terminate at the Cinema (Savoy, Regal?) & follow the Uxbridge Road all the way to Shepherds Bush. Strange that the emphasis is now 'Electric'!! Here in Limoges France, we still have Trolley Buses, EU progress?
Uxbridge has a beautiful station. Love the design.
I've been to Uxbridge once when visiting London. The reason for my visit to the end of this line was a visit to The Battle of Britain Bunker. A great museum 15 minutes walk from the station. Had I seen this video before my visit I would have taken a closer look at the lovely station building. I love these End of the Line videos.
I live in Perth West Australia and faithfully watch all your videos as you bring them as they bring back memories (London born but have lived in WA for 50 years). In march next year -23- I have booked a months holiday in London and plan to ride all the underground lines to the end of the line. I will have to buy a copy of that book you showed us. How knows. I might even see you but doubt if I'd have to courage to say hallo.
Fish finger sandwich for dinner and a Geoff Marshall video to watch. Life is good!
Excellent Geoff I've been waiting for this one. I've known Uxbridge since I was a kid in the 1970's visiting my gran when we came to London from Suffolk. It always reminded me of a Thunderbirds silo as we came in to dock! 😃Happy days
used to live in uxbridge, you ventured along roads and paths that i used to hang about and walk along myself.
Love the guy giving you the thumbs up while boarding
On the Uxbridge town towpath where you were, a couple of years ago I saw a Kingfisher on the opposite concrete bank. I thought this timid creature would fly away as soon as I approached my side of the canal, opposite. It didn't, It just perched there feeling perfectly safe and enjoying the sunshine. After a while, I was the first to leave.
Thanks Geoff! It's my 'home' station. I probably only moved here 40 odd years ago because the house was near a nice out-of-town pub! But the great thing about Uxbridge is that there are 3 rivers, the Colne, Frays (with an 'a'!), and the Pinn. There were 3 railways termini (I think the only other place was Lowestoft?!). There are 3 further education Colleges (Brunel Uni, Bucks New Uni, and Uxbridge College). And we are very near 3 motorways: M25, M4, M40. Yes, we do things in threes here! Great!
Worked in Uxbridge from. 2006 to 2010.many after work drinks in the three tuns and bar roosh!
Love your quirkiness, the encyclopedic knowledge,
razor-sharp consciousness,
& your utter joy of life, Geoff.
Mr Tube, you are the Rail Deal!
Always loved Uxbridge
Uxbridge is soooooooooooo beautiful station!
I used to go to Uxbridge when I worked in the area. Always came out and in from the side entrance and across the bridge I couldn't help but stop and watch for a while as i walked across the bridge. The view is just perfect.
Thank you for this really engaging edition to the End Of The Line series, Sir Geoff Marshall!
Grew up in Uxbridge. We’d never go to Rayners Lane and change as that was a windswept and cold open platform and the Piccadilly had so many stops. Met line to Baker Street was the start of many days out, just make sure you get the last train home.
Also for fans of architecture, of course, Uxbridge is the home of Brunel University, to which the adjective "magnificent" has very frequently been applied. And where scenes for A Clockwork Orange were filmed. I believe it's on the track bed of the old GWR West Drayton - Uxbridge branch
Vine Street!
St. Andrew's Church in Uxbridge was designed by George Gilbert Scott, who of course designed St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel, ie the beautiful frontispiece of St. Pancras Station.
@@arthurballs9632 And at end of the line Amersham there is Gilbert Scott Court, build as workhouse in 1838. Located next to Amersham hospital.
Another great end of the line video .. a station I have changed buses at many times in late 60’s/70’s .. living in High Wycombe back then .. used to catch Green Line 711 to the front of the tube Station & then catch a 207 to Shepherds Bush (after purchasing a Red Rover Ticket at the station) .. then after London Country took over the former LT Country Area on 1/1/70, could get a Golden Rover ticket & change on to a 727 to Reigate or Crawley & after 1972 a 724 to Staines via The Cargo Tunnel at Heathrow. Alternatively.. walk round the side to the old open bus station & catch a 321 to St Albans or Luton etc. or a 348 to Windsor. Always admired the frontage at Uxbridge. Another place to visit at Uxbridge is the Battle of Britain bunker at RAF Uxbridge.
uxbridge is my favourite station for a reason! beautiful building, and some personal history with the town too. thanks for the video geoff :D
My black taxi bud just sent me this.. my home town!
Love Uxbridge, the canals are a Godsend, wonderful place to escape and lose yourself in nature.
Lovely people too!
I was there a few times. Wonderful station.
Thanks Geoff that is such a WEIGHT off my mind.
Love David and Lily.
I love this series so much. Thanks for the hard work you put into it.
@@geofftech2I love your videos, I’m not-even from London. I live in New York!
What a beautiful classic station! Another must see! Thanks!
Been waiting for this end of the line episode since I have been going to Uxbridge recently. It is magnificent and it did give me cathedral vibes when I first saw it and ut still does everytime
Love all the retro in this station
4:00 Wow! It’s beautiful! 👏🏽
Hi Geoff nice to meet you. Last year I worked at Uxbridge and used to marvel at this station. It was like revisiting today with your TH-cam series. Thank you.
When I visited London a number of years ago, I was tempted to visit the end of the line stations but didn't due to time and other things planned. So I am very happy that you are doing them and I can watch along and choose which to see if I visit London again.
Hi, my aunt lived in Denham, I use to go to Uxbridge and get a bus , I used that weighting machine so 60 years ago, good to still see it’s there, great to see you use your own scales , if I ever get back to London, I will do the same, thanks for the idea. Regards. JH
Woooo, my home station! Glad to finally see you here :D
My local terminal station, check; part of my walk to work, check; great views of canal, check! Cheers, Geoff.
ive been to Uxbridge loads of times its a great town in West London and i love the station and i cant wait to do my next visit to Uxbridge in the new year brilliant video
Love the book plug. What a great find.
What a lovely period station.
My grandparents lived in Uxbridge when I was a kid. As I grew older, I used to catch the train from South Harrow across to Uxbridge, where I'd either stroll up to their place near the Common or Granddad would pick me up. Still have great affection for the town. This video was a lovely reminder.
I haven't been to Uxbridge station in about 30 years. Used to go there every day as I went to Brunel University. I can't believe how little it's changed.
I made a stupid video starting at Uxbridge station (drinking Champagne by the M25, obviously) but just dashed straight out of the station, and missed most of the surprisingly beautiful details you thoughtfully highlighted here. So a special thanks for this, I think I've learned an important lesson!
During the train strike this weekend I need to drive to a tube station. Thanks Geoff, this has made it all seem a lot less scary.
Ahh you got me all excited for a canals series! Loves the video as a canal dwelling Uxbridge local.
I think i have to take a trip out to uxbridge..thanks geoff
watching this at home in uxbridge! I love how the station looks
Incredible to see where I live in one of your videos!! You definitely missed out a lot of good bits about our lovely town 😉 awesome video as usual!
The stained glass above the ticket hall not only inlcudes the arms of Middlesex County Council but also those of Buckinghamshire County Council (a swan) as it sits just on the border between those two counties.
You are insane for buying your own weight scale at that store and taking it to the train station like that; & I love it. Best smirk laugh I’ve had all week.
Really pleased to see do the exact route I do from Uxbridge over Frey's river to the canal. Our workplace's boats go to the boat center in Uxbridge for drydock work so for a week every year I do that trip everyday to work on our boat
Thanks, Geoff.
Love your content.
I love your sheer enthusiasm! I'm from just up the road from Uxbridge. About 20 minutes towards Heathrow on a 222. My dad took me on the last ever steam train from West Drayton to Uxbridge Vine Street. 1964 I think, I don't remember it. Many fond memories of Uxbridge, especially the General Elliot on the canal.
How excellent is that. Buying a set of scales because the old weighing machine is no longer working. I remember as a child the old weighing machines at stations, especially on the Isle of Wight for holidays, for a small fee you got a momentum of your visit. Fabulous 🚂 👍
Fantastic End of the Line today Geoff! Thank you.
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one great video straight into another. (Jay Forman)
We visited London for 10 days in August. What brought us to Uxbridge was the Battle of Britain Bunker Experience. I have seen the bunker so many times in documentaries, but being in the bunker itself was much better. The tour is extremely well organised. It's a short walk from the station through a park.
I have been thinking about Uxbridge tube station for around a couple of weeks now wondering what happened to the shops we used to frequent there. And lo and behold this video was put up in recommended viewing. The tiny shop on the right as you exit the train was a Fullers Cake Shop and opposite there was a Ladybird clothes shop for children where we bought a beautiful blue dress- all the memories flood back. Loved this.
Another quality video Geoff, thanks
Literally "the end of the line" for me during my working week! The best overhead view of the station is *actually* the office block I commute to most days of my life! (...Tiny glimpse on 0:55) I should also say that anyone paying a visit there should definitely "pop in" to that station caff you mentioned in passing - a regular lunch time haunt for me and my friend - and the people who run it are really great!
Geoff congratulations on 300k!! The best transport TH-camr
I used to travel to Uxbridge in 2009, when the old and rattling Metropolitan Line trains were still in service. I was impressed by the station of course and specifically the train indicator. Made a few illustrations right there
The Old Rattler as it was known. Apparently it was the points that were mostly responsible, according to a representative of the Transport Museum who gave a talk at the Ruislip History Society in 2014ish. He specified the ones at Neasden. Which reminded me of people nearly being bounced out of their seats back in the 90s.
00:45 according to the time maps, I think the Metropolitan is about 15/20 minutes faster to King's Cross.
In part because it heads a more direct route, while the piccadilly has to go all the way down to Acton first.
I worked in the short-lived Paperchase branch inside the station a few years ago, it was a lovely place to come to work every day!
The book sounds great- sad I'm no longer living near London. And I was once in India for three months and concerned about my weight after bad stomach- there was lots of weighing machines in their train stations so I used one- on the card that came out it told me my fortune too!
the last time I got a fortune card out of a machine it read 'your seven year cycle of good luck has just come to an end...'
Uxbridge has always intrigued me since I first saw it on the Piccadilly Line. I look forward to what we see today.
"Dear Middlesex, dear vanished country friend,
Your neighbour, London, killed you in the end"
John Betjamin.
But Middlesex still lives, only the County Council administering the county was abolished.
@@CaseyJonesNumber1 I still write it for my addresses. I will also consider myself from Middlesex and going to London as being something outside of where I'm from.
Cracking station, went from there to the LT Museum on an open day at Acton depot. Well worth a look.
Uxbridge is awesome, great video Geoff
How are you going to work the Heathrow conundrum, as technically despite being a middle station and the long wait at T4, Terminal 2/3 is the technical terminus of the service. It also dies down heavily passenger wise in the early afternoon, so if you come out filming, I recommend you do it around then as we’re really busy during the rest of the day.
Now to find a friend to race with! Always happy to see a new Geoff video :)
Uxbridge is probably my favorite terminus for a Metro line in the UK, as it looks like a terminus, unlike a fair few termini (i.e Chesham and Amersham), though, if we include international ones, Pireaus on the Athens metro is pretty nice, albeit a little grubby
To be far to Amersham its not actually a terminus station, and was never built as such
Great series Geoff! Loving the series, entertaining and educational
Five so far (Uxbridge, Harrow and Wealdstone, Stratford, Stanmore, and E&C) five scheduled for tomorrow (if the DLR counts). Hooray for 60+ Oyster cards!
Why those five?
@@WifeMamaArtist Uxbridge, as I needed to visit Ruislip Manor, and thought, "why not?" Stanmore to Stratford to tick off the Jubilee, H&W to E&C to tick off the Bakerloo. (TfL's own heritage railway). Going to try West Ruislip next week, back on the Piccadilly (via U1 bus to Ruislip). I will get there.
You see Geoff, you jest about doing a series on the canals but there's so much history there it would actually be great.
My old stomping ground as I was born in Uxbridge in 1970, about 5 mins walk from the canal and about 10 mins to the station, before we moved to Hillingdon (again, about 5 mins walk to the station) so would travel from Hillingdon to Uxbridge station to go to my one of my locals on a Thursday night to meet up with my mates down there.
Always loved the station for its quirkyness of the little kiosk type shops and the old newspaper kiosk they had in the station that you don't see many off nowadays. I always remember the café as being something that was stuck back in the 1950's when I was younger.
I left in '92 and haven't been back there properly for quite a few years now, but it is so nice to see the old station is still exactly the same as it was before, but I'm sure that the whole of the high street has completely changed from the time I was there.
I look back and laugh now when we'd walk all the way up to the front of whatever train we were getting to go back to Hillingdon as we could then get off right by the stairs. Now I look back and think how daft it was as we used to think it was quicker doing it that way, but in reality we still ended walking the same distance 🤣
We visited London twice in the last couple of years and used the Picadilly line from Heathrow!! I always wondered what Uxbridge was about!!!
The only thing that will trump the purchasing of the scales would be if you left them in situ so that those of us who have had to urgently weigh ourselves before joining the train could have our needs met.
On why it is there - no idea but as a kid in the late 70s and early 80s, I vaguely remember seeing scales (usually with a big red cast iron case and what seemed like a huge face) in lots of public places and specifically in woolworth stores
I went to Brunel for many years and didn't know there was a Sainsbury's behind the station or the canal was there 😂🤦♀️ oh well, better late than never to learn this info.
Great video Geoff
I'm enjoying this series so much! I would definitely love to see a race to Kings Cross, Metropolitan v. Piccadilly.
I have visited Uxbridge station, it’s definitely a station consigned to the most architectural, stricter stations out there. I love the concrete beams that overhang the station seen when you go in Uxbridge. And more to the point, the station ticket office which is of very old style, definitely brings you back the memories of how stations used to look back in the day. Glad that Uxbridge has been a grade II listed building for a reason here. I’d love to visit uxbridge station again, I think it’s one of the stations to come and visit when you’re out and about and wanting to look at places of interest. Never actually noticed there was a scale at uxbridge until I saw this video so that’s one to look out for the next time I’m back there. Though it doesn’t work anymore, but it would be a nice way to pass the time by by waiting for your train and weighing yourself (not sure why you’d need to do that anyway but you know you have your reasons). But spectacular video Geoff!
I get serious Martin Lewis vibes from you Geoff. Not a bad thing of course. Just a solid passionate presentation style 👌
Thanks Geoff, another great Vlog mate. The visit to Argos was totally random !!!!!!!
Can’t believe to see a place I have visited so often in a TH-cam video!! Uxbridge is a great meeting place to see my friends and hang out
Just visited Uxbridge for the first time last night, at twilight. Beautiful!
Oohh, it reminded of my university days in Brunel!
Thanks for another wonderful video Geoff. When it comes to *Railway Architecture* regardless whether it's (Underground / Overground, All The Stations 👌or even when you go off grid "Wombling free" ) You really capture the best aspects of what the railways gave us from the Victorian times right up to the latest builds. 👍
I spent 4 years at Brunel Uni (Uxbridge) back in the 70s. Many happy memories of student trips into London from the station. There was always a strong smell of caramel in Uxbridge back then. I think there was some sort of confectionery factory nearby.
There were a couple of little Chocolate Vending Machines on the right hand side of the entrance that are now covered by the Tube Map. I was there just before Lockdown and they were putting the Map Frame up at the time.
I forgot the vending machines, used to use them on a few platforms. London Underground was Cadburys, BR Nestles