"Hey, you know who else likes to lie about where they are? Me." Not sure if you mean "obfuscate my current location" or "find a comfy spot and stay put". If the latter, then Jago you are my hero.
Flashbacks to when I accidentally left my bag on the southbound platform of New Malden and had to rush back to get it (it was still there and I retrieved it)
The tall, ugly white office block was my workplace back in 1970. It had just been built and most floors belonged to the Surtax Office when the top rate of taxation was 18 shillings and threepence out of every pound. You would be left with one shilling and nine pence being about eight new pence today. New Malden is home to the biggest diaspora of South Koreans and has quite a few Korean restaurants. Combe and Combe Hill are still very up market and there is a famous golf course.
I was thinking about that tower too. I used to spend much of my working life dealing with something called The Superannuation Funds Office based for some years in Apex Tower, New Malden!
Railway companies did indeed build stations as near as possible by road from the town or village they were named after; this happened at Caterham (which originally referred to the area now called Caterham on the Hill), Coulsdon (the village now called Old Coulsdon), Woking (now Old Woking) and of course Malden, while a new town (often much bigger than the original) grew up around the station. The village of Old Malden was centred on Plough Green; its parish church was further down Church Road to the west. The red-brick parades of shops by the roundabout shown at 2:11 are a more recent development. (I live in New Malden.)
Jago, I would like to point out something you missed, the present station is relatively new, as the original station was at street level and slightly to the left of the present site. And as someone who grew up in the area I used to play in what had been the site of the railway, which was deserted along with its bridges, at the side of the local golf course. And prior to the resitting of the station, what is now a bridge across the high street was a level crossing, as was the same where the railway crossed the Kingston road. I have seen very old pictures from the First World War that showed the crossing of the Kingston road. So I would assume that the present station site dates from the nineteen twenties or thirties.
I don't think that can be right - the diveunder to the west of the station was built in the 1860s and the embankment was certainly there then. (The Kingston branch has always had a level crossing over Elm Road, but the main line crosses that road on a bridge). Maps from as long ago as the 1880s show bridges over both the High Street and London Road, although the latter road (A2043) now goes through a dip to allow double decker buses to pass through. The junction was rearranged to its present layout when the main line was quadrupled in the 1880s, with the former "up" line underpass made redundant as up trains no longer passed under the main line.
@@norbitonflyer5625 While I freely admit that I might have gotten my dates wrong, I do believe that there was originally level crossing on the High Street and London road. If you look at Google maps you can see a section of very dark forest between the golf course and the railway, and hidden in there were two bridges and a section of former track bed. I know the area well as it was a favourite hideaway for a very much young me and friends to indulge in various activities. Other than crossing the golf course from the track that ran across it from Cambridge Avenue to the Bypass, you could climb over the fence at the bottom of Beverly Park and through the tunnels that carried Beverly Brook under the railway. And thus into a section of land that very few adults other than the old tramp visited. We often found the remains of their fires, and the areas under the abandoned bridges that they used to shelter.
@@norbitonflyer5625 when I was in school back in the 1960's I would often watch trains from the Alric Avenue / Dukes Avenue footbridge and was curious about the separate "cutting" on the Alric side of the bridge. Was there ever another railway there? It looks to be "cycleway 31" on Google maps today.
Thanks. I caught a glimpse of an advert for Carters around 1:36, which I guess would be Carters Tested Seeds whose seed beds were alongside the railway for many years.
That tiny sushi? place, Ohaio, at 9:40 reminds me of other tiny restaurants I've seen stuck into stations or viaduct arches. Maybe I'm weird, but I'd totally watch videos where you checked out places like this. I'm kinda fascinated by how train infrastructure has been repurposed, and I like food. I dunno, every time I see a little hole in the wall (almost literally in some cases) in your videos it makes me want to try the place out. Just too bad about almost all of North America and the Atlantic being in the way.
Ah! New Malden! Long, long ago, my mate Graham and I would sometimes get returns to New Malden (from Fulwell) and spend a happy afternoon gricing the trains passing through. We copped nearly all the 4-SUBs and the 4-CORs, but every half hour or so the attraction was a Bullied, Nelson or occasionally an Arthur passing through at what then seemed to be an unbelievable speed. What sad kids we were to be sure, but it was fun at the time.
Jago, i wish to say a hearty "Thank You" to you: because of your videos, I know that Gravesend is across the Thames from Tilbury, which came in VERY handy at a quiz last night. So, Thank you VERY much, and please keep feeding me useful trivia. 😁😁
There was a signal box there in the 80s, off the end of the middle platforms and about a 20 foot walk, I used to go up there for a cup of tea after my shift at Waterloo signal box, I lived in New Malden from 69 to 88
🌅Best train station ever👌 Got off trains from the island platforms in the nineties loads when coming home from school; was just as neglected and overgrown in 1990. Network Southeast painted poles red but left the central platforms full of tall grass and weeds. Not sure a train has stopped in the middle to collect/drop of New Malden residents in thirty years... I remember using the old lift on Platform 1 back in 1980s when I was a kid. I wonder if the lift shaft is still there? We used to live on Dukes Avenue, and Dad once dressed up as an Indian (we were cowboys) and he fired flaming arrows over the heads of commuters on Platform 3 from our garden! Sometimes I would wave to Dad from my bedroom window, as he waited for his train on the southern platform. When the New Malden signal box was there in the eighties, you could sit in the pub garden, at the foot of Apex Tower, and look up to see the signalmen working away... Thanks Jago. Brought back a happy infancy that can't never be re-trod. Happy memories only
1st January 2000 around 2:00. The slow lines seemed to be closed so revellers from the millennium firework display had to alight in the middle platforms. The train then headed off to Kingston which must have been an almost unique manoeuvre.
I was in New Malden this past May- I was going to The Antelope pub in Surbiton when there was an "intruder" on the tracks so the power was shut off. Luckily I was in the NM station, I called my friend who I was supposed to meet and we met at the Wetherspoons pub in NM.
The flying junction jesy west of New Malden includes a redundant diveunder, as the original layout had both tracks of the Kingston branch pass under the main line and continue on the south side of the main line to Wimbledon, and thence to Tooting and beyond.
Thank you for clearing up that flyover - I’ve always been intrigued by that having sometimes taken the stopping service from Wimbledon and gone over it.
I lived there in the 80s. One of the best things was watching the class 50s thunder by at speed. While i was there the fabulous Korean supermarkets began to appear. Hey... maybe they can rename the station, New Malden for Korea Town?
Dear Jago, I hesitate to offer any comment which questions your encyclopaedic knowledge of transport, both within and outwith London, but Queen Victoria’s waiting room - complete with privvy ! - is at Windsor Central station, not Windsor and Eton Riverside. Presumably they were fitted as part of the jubilee celebrations of 1897? I don’t suppose you could get your hands on any footage of the goods area behind Central station, when it was in full flow? It was a huge goods service area; I’d be intrigued to see what they got up to. Nowadays it’s been reduced to a coach park for day tourists. I’d certainly like to see a campaign to bring back the doubling of the track of the Windsor- Slough shuttle - the single track encourages a dilettante service! Needless to say, I continue to greatly enjoy all of your output, delivered with style, panache and wit. Thanks indeed for a terrific collection of videos; keep up the excellent work! Tim
Both Windsor stations had a royal waiting room. Which station Her Maj used depended on where she was going - the LSWR's Nine Elms was handier for Buckingham Palace, and having been superseded by Waterloo was away from the public gaze. The stations both opened in 1849, Central being the older by about eight weeks.
What a British Video Whilst Barcelonans go violent hackling tourists and causing Mayhem... Jago simply lies to them about the location of the nearest station and hopes they are "slit by a local shark" ...indeed... this channel is the shark-steak to my Royal Dinner
At 9:09 I was looking the heritage unit in the old British Rail Blue and White colours with yellow front. Now that Great British Railways is about to be born, I wondered whether some bright spark will create heritage units in the colours of South West Trains or South Western Railways.
Boston. !!! (yes I'm that old. In fact I used that tune as part of a jingle for my University Radio show back in the day). There seems to be a lot of "platform furniture" - some of which looks quite modern - on the centre island. More than I would expect for some overgrown disused platforms. There might be more than (a feeling) meets the eye for a mouldy old stop.
I believe that the most famous regular user of this station is a guy named Karl, who commutes from a station named Malden, he worked as a cop, whilst using this stop, searching for the streets of San Francisco.
The story that I have read is that Queen Victoria didn't use New Malden because it was consideted inappropriate for the queen to have to walk down the long flight of stairs. The exit from Norbiton is at street level which was considered more suitable and her carriage could wait at the entrance. Not sure whether it is correct, but it does seem plausible. In the local Wetherspoons at the other end of the High Strert, there is actually an interesting photograph of a train on the centre platform. From the style of dress of the passengers waiting on the platform, I should think that it is Victorian. Thank you for making a video of my local station. :-)
Ooh look , right at the end there is the small bonus of the British Rail liveried 455 unit passing through. I wonder if it was on the Guildford vis Cobham or Woking Stopping service.
The destination blind says Guildford. Also seen at 8:50, passing through non stop in the same direction (but seen from the other platform). Eiter Jago was thgere a very long time, or he was filming from both platforms at once - does Surfshark let you do that?
i remember using the Middle Platform purely as a emergancy some times when the Main side on platform 1/4 had some sort of issue. This was between 1999 & 2005 as thats when i started traveling to see my Girlfriend when travling to New Malden to see her. some years later the middle platform entrance was closed off with white panels when they started renovating the place a little bit before turning it into what it is now. A side note im still really upset that Cross Rail 2 isnt happening becasue it would have gone through New Malden (We got married) which would have made my travle into central london and Cheshunt (Where my Dad lives) so much easier. I WANT/NEED More option of travel into london
I had a job where I went by rail to visit a client in that tall office block by the station sometimes twice a day and the unused platforms did not add to my "enjoyment" of New Malden station. Now a small piece of life's puzzle has been filled in apart from why Combe ceased to be a "place" but I have Gypsy Hill in my mind.
New Malden got its first electric trains on 30 January 1916, not 1917 as stated here and in Wikipedia. They ran on the Kingston Loop and the Shepperton branch. Waterloo to Claygate (now Guildford) and Hampton Court followed later in 1916. This pattern has changed little during the last 108 years, but the New Guildford Line trains do not serve New Malden.
If the middle platforms haven’t really been used since the 1950s how come they have passenger information screens on them (amongst all the foliage)? Seriously I love New Malden for its overgrown platforms. Wikimedia Commons has a few (I was going to say lots of ) photos of the plant life and I seem to have taken them all. Even if I’ve forgotten I look and it was still me. I like incongruous things like this. Makes a dull work commute much more interesting.
Probably for those rare occasions when they actually Do need to use the middle platforms, or might in the future, due to unusual circumstances or increased service or whatever. Much easier to put them in while they're installing the others than to have to work around not having them later, I'd expect.
Always liked New Malden. Used to pass through there on my way to university at Strawberry Hill, from Wimbledon (part of a 'loop style service, which started and finished at Waterloo, passing through Wimbledon, Kingston and Richmond). ❤ 🚉
Several of my Kingston friends are very fond of New Malden mainly because it isn't as crowded and overdeveloped as Kingston. And there is a song "Nothing ever happens in New Malden" (by Catherine Paver).
And still no sign of South Western Railway to start introducing their new Class 701 Arterios and to say goodbye to the Class 455. I haven’t been to New Malden but I wish that SWR would start operating the Class 701.
Having lived in New Malden for ~35 years I've only used the central platforms once. I can't remember exactly why but I expect it was related to engineering works or maybe a tree on the line? (I seem to remember lots of rain and general bad weather)
On the name changin,g I read somewhere that because Londoners pronounce Malden and Morden more or less identically, the stations had to have additional tags in case someone bought a ticket to the wrong station. Hence New Malden, Malden Manor, but Morden Road, Morden South (in the days when booking offices were the only way to buy). Any truth in this?
4:20. The arrow on South Western railway's logo oddly points north-easterly. But that is no surprise in the world of corporate deception of a gullible British public. Reform UK's own logo arrow doesn't actually point forwards, rather to the right.
The dot matrix screens on the island platform always confused me. Malden Manor station may well have been considered prestigious at some point, but by the time I moved to the Kingston area in the early 2000s the housing estate near Malden Manor had a rather less salubrious reputation!
The Bees on that New green New Malden station sign are a reference to the town's earliest known habitation when locals kept bees. Only learned that last year from local historians.
New Malden, New Schmalden. Come to Northolt Park, Jago. Plenty of trains don't stop there either and don't ask what Queen Victoria thought about it (actually, it was built long after the end of her reign).
Berrylands, New Malden, is Raynes Park next?! (Used to live in RP, curious to see anyone's take on its tedious averageness, but suspect Jago would have an interesting one!)
I have used my VPN to appear to be in New Malden so I can feel part of this week's presentation.
You are the helpful audience to his sponsored content.
a green screen could make you look like you are anywhere.
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@@darylcheshire1618you could visit every station on the Isle of Wight using green screen 😂
Funnily enough mine says Combe and Malden.
"That's irrelevant, I just really like that coach" Wonderful.
I thought you were gonna say "You are the Coombe to my Malden"
01:26 - You are the good conscience to "my" bad taste
And were then ignored 😂
"Hey, you know who else likes to lie about where they are? Me."
Not sure if you mean "obfuscate my current location" or "find a comfy spot and stay put". If the latter, then Jago you are my hero.
A place enshrined in immortality for delaying Reggie Perrin " Good morning Joan - ah, 11 minutes late, defective junction box at New Malden"
"Twenty-two minutes late, badger ate a junction box at New Malden."
Actually the station they used for shots was Norbiton!
@@CarolineFord1 Indeed, but his excuses for being late were always from other statipons on the line (escaped puma at Chessington)
@@norbitonflyer5625 the suburban banality of SW London
To brighten up my many visits there, have always referred to New Malden as Las Nuevas Maldenas.
Flashbacks to when I accidentally left my bag on the southbound platform of New Malden and had to rush back to get it (it was still there and I retrieved it)
The tall, ugly white office block was my workplace back in 1970. It had just been built and most floors belonged to the Surtax Office when the top rate of taxation was 18 shillings and threepence out of every pound. You would be left with one shilling and nine pence being about eight new pence today. New Malden is home to the biggest diaspora of South Koreans and has quite a few Korean restaurants.
Combe and Combe Hill are still very up market and there is a famous golf course.
I was thinking about that tower too. I used to spend much of my working life dealing with something called The Superannuation Funds Office based for some years in Apex Tower, New Malden!
are there still offices in it? i never see anyone going in or out of there but its a pretty big space
1:26Ugh, that car sums up the phrase "money can't buy taste" 😝
Railway companies did indeed build stations as near as possible by road from the town or village they were named after; this happened at Caterham (which originally referred to the area now called Caterham on the Hill), Coulsdon (the village now called Old Coulsdon), Woking (now Old Woking) and of course Malden, while a new town (often much bigger than the original) grew up around the station. The village of Old Malden was centred on Plough Green; its parish church was further down Church Road to the west. The red-brick parades of shops by the roundabout shown at 2:11 are a more recent development. (I live in New Malden.)
Jago, I would like to point out something you missed, the present station is relatively new, as the original station was at street level and slightly to the left of the present site. And as someone who grew up in the area I used to play in what had been the site of the railway, which was deserted along with its bridges, at the side of the local golf course. And prior to the resitting of the station, what is now a bridge across the high street was a level crossing, as was the same where the railway crossed the Kingston road. I have seen very old pictures from the First World War that showed the crossing of the Kingston road. So I would assume that the present station site dates from the nineteen twenties or thirties.
I don't think that can be right - the diveunder to the west of the station was built in the 1860s and the embankment was certainly there then. (The Kingston branch has always had a level crossing over Elm Road, but the main line crosses that road on a bridge). Maps from as long ago as the 1880s show bridges over both the High Street and London Road, although the latter road (A2043) now goes through a dip to allow double decker buses to pass through.
The junction was rearranged to its present layout when the main line was quadrupled in the 1880s, with the former "up" line underpass made redundant as up trains no longer passed under the main line.
@@norbitonflyer5625 While I freely admit that I might have gotten my dates wrong, I do believe that there was originally level crossing on the High Street and London road. If you look at Google maps you can see a section of very dark forest between the golf course and the railway, and hidden in there were two bridges and a section of former track bed. I know the area well as it was a favourite hideaway for a very much young me and friends to indulge in various activities. Other than crossing the golf course from the track that ran across it from Cambridge Avenue to the Bypass, you could climb over the fence at the bottom of Beverly Park and through the tunnels that carried Beverly Brook under the railway. And thus into a section of land that very few adults other than the old tramp visited. We often found the remains of their fires, and the areas under the abandoned bridges that they used to shelter.
@@norbitonflyer5625 when I was in school back in the 1960's I would often watch trains from the Alric Avenue / Dukes Avenue footbridge and was curious about the separate "cutting" on the Alric side of the bridge. Was there ever another railway there?
It looks to be "cycleway 31" on Google maps today.
Thanks. I caught a glimpse of an advert for Carters around 1:36, which I guess would be Carters Tested Seeds whose seed beds were alongside the railway for many years.
That tiny sushi? place, Ohaio, at 9:40 reminds me of other tiny restaurants I've seen stuck into stations or viaduct arches. Maybe I'm weird, but I'd totally watch videos where you checked out places like this. I'm kinda fascinated by how train infrastructure has been repurposed, and I like food. I dunno, every time I see a little hole in the wall (almost literally in some cases) in your videos it makes me want to try the place out. Just too bad about almost all of North America and the Atlantic being in the way.
Ah! New Malden! Long, long ago, my mate Graham and I would sometimes get returns to New Malden (from Fulwell) and spend a happy afternoon gricing the trains passing through. We copped nearly all the 4-SUBs and the 4-CORs, but every half hour or so the attraction was a Bullied, Nelson or occasionally an Arthur passing through at what then seemed to be an unbelievable speed. What sad kids we were to be sure, but it was fun at the time.
Jago, i wish to say a hearty "Thank You" to you: because of your videos, I know that Gravesend is across the Thames from Tilbury, which came in VERY handy at a quiz last night. So, Thank you VERY much, and please keep feeding me useful trivia. 😁😁
Word association: "Gravesend: Kent", "Tilbury: Essex" 🙂
Is it me, or did that photograph of the tram look more like a Lodge meeting of the Southern chapter of the Charles Tyson Yerkes fan club?? 🤔
My local station..... on the corner of Howard Road there was home to Sid James in Bless This House....
Bonus points for the retro BR livery SWR unit flashing through in the outro
There was a signal box there in the 80s, off the end of the middle platforms and about a 20 foot walk, I used to go up there for a cup of tea after my shift at Waterloo signal box, I lived in New Malden from 69 to 88
🌅Best train station ever👌
Got off trains from the island platforms in the nineties loads when coming home from school; was just as neglected and overgrown in 1990. Network Southeast painted poles red but left the central platforms full of tall grass and weeds. Not sure a train has stopped in the middle to collect/drop of New Malden residents in thirty years...
I remember using the old lift on Platform 1 back in 1980s when I was a kid. I wonder if the lift shaft is still there?
We used to live on Dukes Avenue, and Dad once dressed up as an Indian (we were cowboys) and he fired flaming arrows over the heads of commuters on Platform 3 from our garden! Sometimes I would wave to Dad from my bedroom window, as he waited for his train on the southern platform.
When the New Malden signal box was there in the eighties, you could sit in the pub garden, at the foot of Apex Tower, and look up to see the signalmen working away...
Thanks Jago. Brought back a happy infancy that can't never be re-trod. Happy memories only
1st January 2000 around 2:00. The slow lines seemed to be closed so revellers from the millennium firework display had to alight in the middle platforms. The train then headed off to Kingston which must have been an almost unique manoeuvre.
The old lift shaft is still there, closed, with a café in the old entrance to the lift.
I live in New Malden! Hope you had a good time here
Thirty plus years ago I lived in New Malden , I barely recognised the place.
Wait until you see the house prices 🤯
One stop along is the station with a weird platform layout, Raynes Park. Please do a video on how this came to be.
I was in New Malden this past May- I was going to The Antelope pub in Surbiton when there was an "intruder" on the tracks so the power was shut off. Luckily I was in the NM station, I called my friend who I was supposed to meet and we met at the Wetherspoons pub in NM.
The flying junction jesy west of New Malden includes a redundant diveunder, as the original layout had both tracks of the Kingston branch pass under the main line and continue on the south side of the main line to Wimbledon, and thence to Tooting and beyond.
nice to see a video on my local station
Whenever I hear/read Malden, I always remember about Monty Python and their icelandic saga :D
Thank you for clearing up that flyover - I’ve always been intrigued by that having sometimes taken the stopping service from Wimbledon and gone over it.
...and thanks to Jago from me too for the reference to the Wimbledon Flyover.
It IS much of a story! Really fascinating to learn the heritage of these out-of-the-way stations. Thank you so much! 👍🏻
I lived there in the 80s. One of the best things was watching the class 50s thunder by at speed.
While i was there the fabulous Korean supermarkets began to appear. Hey... maybe they can rename the station, New Malden for Korea Town?
The Korean populace of NM did try in the early 2000's to change the name of the town to Little Seoul, they failed.
Dear Jago,
I hesitate to offer any comment which questions your encyclopaedic knowledge of transport, both within and outwith London, but
Queen Victoria’s waiting room - complete with privvy ! - is at Windsor Central station, not Windsor and Eton Riverside. Presumably they were fitted as part of the jubilee celebrations of 1897?
I don’t suppose you could get your hands on any footage of the goods area behind Central station, when it was in full flow? It was a huge goods service area; I’d be intrigued to see what they got up to. Nowadays it’s been reduced to a coach park for day tourists.
I’d certainly like to see a campaign to bring back the doubling of the track of the Windsor- Slough shuttle - the single track encourages a dilettante service!
Needless to say, I continue to greatly enjoy all of your output, delivered with style, panache and wit. Thanks indeed for a terrific collection of videos; keep up the excellent work! Tim
Both Windsor stations had a royal waiting room. Which station Her Maj used depended on where she was going - the LSWR's Nine Elms was handier for Buckingham Palace, and having been superseded by Waterloo was away from the public gaze.
The stations both opened in 1849, Central being the older by about eight weeks.
The Signal Box was still in use until about 1989. It was then closed when the re-signalling was implemented for the new signalling center at Wimbledon
This is another great video jago I really found it interesting
What a British Video
Whilst Barcelonans go violent hackling tourists and causing Mayhem... Jago simply lies to them about the location of the nearest station and hopes they are "slit by a local shark"
...indeed...
this channel is the shark-steak to my Royal Dinner
It's not a bad station all things considered but that middle island platform with all the weeds and moss growing out has always looked rough
I thought you were going to say "It's not much of a story, but it's not much of a station!"
Regular, high quality videos - keep up the good work!
At 9:09 I was looking the heritage unit in the old British Rail Blue and White colours with yellow front. Now that Great British Railways is about to be born, I wondered whether some bright spark will create heritage units in the colours of South West Trains or South Western Railways.
I think Shepperton and Sunbury stations are both also some way from the villages that originally gave them their names.
Boston. !!! (yes I'm that old. In fact I used that tune as part of a jingle for my University Radio show back in the day).
There seems to be a lot of "platform furniture" - some of which looks quite modern - on the centre island. More than I would expect for some overgrown disused platforms. There might be more than (a feeling) meets the eye for a mouldy old stop.
Great video as always, as the LSWR would say “electrifying!”
Thank you.
Londons Korean mainstay 🎩
Ha ha 😂
From memory I think it might be Europes
Why do they like New Malden?
@@jasonhaven7170 They started to arrive when Samsung opened its European HQ in a building next to the Kingston Bypass in the 80's.
@@jasonhaven7170 around late 1950s South Korean embassy staff started to live in this area so it just caught on.
I believe that the most famous regular user of this station is a guy named Karl, who commutes from a station named Malden, he worked as a cop, whilst using this stop, searching for the streets of San Francisco.
Corny
Thank you so very much. I needed a reality touchstone before I did something I would regret.
Brilliant video sir.
Is it possible to get a video on this complicated junction that a flyover fixed at some point?
The story that I have read is that Queen Victoria didn't use New Malden because it was consideted inappropriate for the queen to have to walk down the long flight of stairs. The exit from Norbiton is at street level which was considered more suitable and her carriage could wait at the entrance.
Not sure whether it is correct, but it does seem plausible.
In the local Wetherspoons at the other end of the High Strert, there is actually an interesting photograph of a train on the centre platform. From the style of dress of the passengers waiting on the platform, I should think that it is Victorian.
Thank you for making a video of my local station. :-)
I read the title as Why Queen Victoria shunted New Malden... not sure if I was expecting her to be engine or driver.
Ooh look , right at the end there is the small bonus of the British Rail liveried 455 unit passing through. I wonder if it was on the Guildford vis Cobham or Woking Stopping service.
The destination blind says Guildford. Also seen at 8:50, passing through non stop in the same direction (but seen from the other platform). Eiter Jago was thgere a very long time, or he was filming from both platforms at once - does Surfshark let you do that?
Never stop watching obscure Slovakian cartoons, Jago.
That transition into the sponsorship was perfect
Thanks Jago ! I thinks it's high time to rename the station, l propose 'Malden New' !
i remember using the Middle Platform purely as a emergancy some times when the Main side on platform 1/4 had some sort of issue. This was between 1999 & 2005 as thats when i started traveling to see my Girlfriend when travling to New Malden to see her.
some years later the middle platform entrance was closed off with white panels when they started renovating the place a little bit before turning it into what it is now. A side note im still really upset that Cross Rail 2 isnt happening becasue it would have gone through New Malden (We got married) which would have made my travle into central london and Cheshunt (Where my Dad lives) so much easier. I WANT/NEED More option of travel into london
I had a job where I went by rail to visit a client in that tall office block by the station sometimes twice a day and the unused platforms did not add to my "enjoyment" of New Malden station. Now a small piece of life's puzzle has been filled in apart from why Combe ceased to be a "place" but I have Gypsy Hill in my mind.
01:25 I wonder who owns that number plate, F1 AWT. 🤔
Pimp? Rapper? Footballer?😂
@@phaasch Custom paint job on a Rolls Royce convertible.
New Malden got its first electric trains on 30 January 1916, not 1917 as stated here and in Wikipedia. They ran on the Kingston Loop and the Shepperton branch. Waterloo to Claygate (now Guildford) and Hampton Court followed later in 1916. This pattern has changed little during the last 108 years, but the New Guildford Line trains do not serve New Malden.
If the middle platforms haven’t really been used since the 1950s how come they have passenger information screens on them (amongst all the foliage)?
Seriously I love New Malden for its overgrown platforms. Wikimedia Commons has a few (I was going to say lots of ) photos of the plant life and I seem to have taken them all. Even if I’ve forgotten I look and it was still me. I like incongruous things like this. Makes a dull work commute much more interesting.
Probably for those rare occasions when they actually Do need to use the middle platforms, or might in the future, due to unusual circumstances or increased service or whatever. Much easier to put them in while they're installing the others than to have to work around not having them later, I'd expect.
@@laurencefraserthe thing is I doubt they could actually use those platforms. It’s a proper jungle.
A 456 and 2 shots of a 455 in BR blue. This is almost a train spotting video! haha
Always liked New Malden. Used to pass through there on my way to university at Strawberry Hill, from Wimbledon (part of a 'loop style service, which started and finished at Waterloo, passing through Wimbledon, Kingston and Richmond). ❤ 🚉
Another place I must visit properly(whatever her Majesty thinks😤), I normally go to the Hmart then rush home to get the fridge/freezer stuff put away.
By now I think you‘re some important person in either a rail franchise or government department linked to rail…
Several of my Kingston friends are very fond of New Malden mainly because it isn't as crowded and overdeveloped as Kingston. And there is a song "Nothing ever happens in New Malden" (by Catherine Paver).
I live here and it's dull as anything. Much better than Kingston for trains, though.
She was seethin and malden
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lol
Hey I recognise that train in the thumb nail
Great video, Jago - you must have made this just to shoehorn in Queen Adelaide’s coach 😜
If the LSWR had been honest about where the station was, you'd be doing a video explaining why there's a station called Middle Of Nowhere
And still no sign of South Western Railway to start introducing their new Class 701 Arterios and to say goodbye to the Class 455. I haven’t been to New Malden but I wish that SWR would start operating the Class 701.
"tall tale" not heard that for a very long time
Having lived in New Malden for ~35 years I've only used the central platforms once. I can't remember exactly why but I expect it was related to engineering works or maybe a tree on the line? (I seem to remember lots of rain and general bad weather)
The K1 goes here.
On the name changin,g I read somewhere that because Londoners pronounce Malden and Morden more or less identically, the stations had to have additional tags in case someone bought a ticket to the wrong station. Hence New Malden, Malden Manor, but Morden Road, Morden South (in the days when booking offices were the only way to buy). Any truth in this?
Norbiton and Surbiton - is there a place called Biton in between?
The clip of the horses 😭
Even Little Britain quoted “New Malden”
We have had 'Tales from the Tube', how about 'Tall tales from the rails'?
4:20. The arrow on South Western railway's logo oddly points north-easterly. But that is no surprise in the world of corporate deception of a gullible British public. Reform UK's own logo arrow doesn't actually point forwards, rather to the right.
It's not an arrow, it represents a network of lines spreading out to the south and west from a node (Waterloo)
1:26 That Rolls Royce is absolutely hideous. Some people shouldn’t be allowed to own a car like that.
Rolls Royce have no business making such a monstrosity.
They really have no shame, nowadays.
@@phaasch Rolls Royce or BMW......................?
always thought the station was called New Malden as a description rather than a Name
The dot matrix screens on the island platform always confused me. Malden Manor station may well have been considered prestigious at some point, but by the time I moved to the Kingston area in the early 2000s the housing estate near Malden Manor had a rather less salubrious reputation!
5:09 Queen Victoria you would’ve loved Train History TH-camrs.
I like the station nameboard at street level, painted in Southern Green.
The Bees on that New green New Malden station sign are a reference to the town's earliest known habitation when locals kept bees. Only learned that last year from local historians.
Anything interesting about Worcester Park that could make a video?
Evening Jago!
Queen Victoria apparently disliked the Town of Bridgewater so much that she had the blinds drawn while travelling through it.
5:50I'm pretty sure that's one of those quotes enshrined in legend that they never actually said
How did you gert 455-868 from two different angles at the end? Were you there quite a while?
I was lucky on both filming trips.
That's not irrelevant, that's a lovely railway carriage.
Mother Nature has taken possession of the central platform.
Congratulations subtitles: kum
New Malden station? How about talking about old Maldon station (long closed) 👍
Sneaky glimpse of Berylands!
“South West London had been *invaded* by electric trams…”
Genius
"in the hope that passengers will be fooled", like London Stansted, Frankfurt Hahn or Brussels Charleroi....
New Malden, New Schmalden. Come to Northolt Park, Jago. Plenty of trains don't stop there either and don't ask what Queen Victoria thought about it (actually, it was built long after the end of her reign).
Nice video and all, but what I'm really interested in is what obscure Slovakian cartoons you like to watch 😁
With Jago visiting the area, I like to think that I’ve maybe walked past him
What about Karl Malden Station?
I actually bought Surfshark last week but can't find any of the locations from your last few videos. Any advice?
Meera in the Little Britain Fat Fighters sketches was from New Malden.
Berrylands, New Malden, is Raynes Park next?!
(Used to live in RP, curious to see anyone's take on its tedious averageness, but suspect Jago would have an interesting one!)
theres been a Chessington branch video (which didn't mention motspur park), a new malden video and a berrylands video - so maybe motspur then raynes?