I actually quite like Bank. It represents the Underground perfectly: it's messy, sprawling, it was built at different times on top of itself, it joins up stations that have no business being together... But most of all I like that when you know how to navigate it, when you've mastered it, you finally feel like a superman among the tourists and plebs. And then they refurbish it and you have to relearn everything again.
Same here, used it a lot as a kid, also when I went to Southwark College in 1971-72 I changed there onto the Waterloo & City (still with the lovely old trains) to Waterloo, no Southwark station in those days. The travelator was rather a weird thing back then as well. Don't much like it now, don't much like most of the system now it's nearly all been 'refurbished' for no apparent reason. Why can't things stay as they are..? At least until I've popped my clogs, and at 69 I don't think that's far off, the way the world is going 😔
You really should have finished with Mornington Crescent. If you play Jago's variation of the game, with double diagonals resulting in a player being put in Nid until a subsequent usage of double parallels, the sequence used would have been a near perfect game. 😂
Someone should explain to foreign viewers here who might not be cogniscent with British radio panel games shows, specifically a comedy one called 'I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue', that 'Mornington Crescent' is a game with surreal rules and plays that involves travelling around London on the tube and ending up at Mornington Crescent.
It would've been easier to just lost the stations people DIDN'T mention!! What's most impressive to me is that you had a shot for each of them. You've definitely been around a bit!
The best thing about London is that all the stations are different. As much as I love the København metro, my favourite station is Marmorkirken for the sole reason that has a slightly different platform layout to everywhere other underground station.
One factor is that the København stations were all built in roughly the same period. A hundred years from now, there'll probably be a lot more variation.
You could have gotten Jay Forman to just do his station song :) And I can’t hear Mornington Cressant with out saying “yaaaaa” after it Another Fantastic video!
I just love Russel Square station, but I understand that the reason is for the memories that it brings as it was the one I used to use the most back in 1993 when I first visited London as I lived nearby for around 3 months. Sentimental reasons, really.
I have to mention Euston. Du😊ring my student days more than half a century ago, emerging from the final escalator into the mainline station meant that I was about to embark on the penultimate stage of my journey home, a journey which had begun on an Eastern Counties bus to Cambridge station, and would end on a Lancaster City Transport bus to Scotforth.
So you didn't try the wonderful cross country route via Peterborough, Leicester and Nuneaton? (probably changing again at Crewe and Preston in those days ... :)
I do think Bank has been massively improved by the rebuilding works. The biggest issue still is the interchange with the W&C that is still very long coming from the DLR.
And indeed from several other directions. The Central to W&C route now actually seems to bypass the travolator. Admittedly the W&C platforms are awkwardly located for historical reasons, ironic as it was the first line at Bank!
Look what you've done! Now someone needs to record a karaoke version of this song, with the Tube stations replacing the regular lyrics. I'm waiting for the clip to turn up on TH-cam any day now.
As Whitechapel, Stepney Green and Mile End have been mentioned, may I add Bow Road as my favourite (and local) station. Grade 2 listed and in both tunnel and open air, the steepest gradient on the Underground system, spectacular cast iron pillars, whistling trains, lots of doors going nowhere, also an absolute mess of cables at its eastern end. Worthy of a programme of its own, in my opinion.
In the end it might have been quicker to list the stations nobody mentioned. I was patting myself on the back for growing up on the High Barnet branch that you named a lot of, when I thought, "He's just going to name every underground station, isn't he?" As it is, I'm very happy with the following successive stations that were part of my youth: East Finchley, Finchley Central, West Finchley and Woodside Park.
I grew up in North London with Totteridge and Whetstone being my local and I think each of the stations from East Finchley thru to High Barnet had/has its own individual "charm".
A 3D model of sub-terrain central London would be fun & keep your hamsters fit! Gnawing into 'Lock, Stock & Peanut-butter' bank vaults in pursuit of extra points, it could be a sensational new boardgame : )
I'm mostly just impressed that you have footage for every one of those stations and dug ALL of them out! I did love going to Ravenscourt Park, partly because it's invariably very calm, partly for the more classical architecture (and sometimes classical background music!), but also because I went there at lunch to take a sanity break from time in the office and thus saw the park itself as a kind of workday haven.
I can't believe that no-one (unless I missed it) mentioned Hammersmith (H & C). It makes me think of a quiet branch-line terminus in a sleepy market town In the West Country.
I don't live in London. I haven't visited in years. I have no plans to go back. ...SO HOW HAS THIS BECOME ONE OF MY TOP THREE FAVORITE CHANNELS TO WACTH!??? Thanks, Jago. Please keep up the amazingly good work!
To be honest I didn't get Gunnersbury. It's down in a cutting between elevated car parks and under a 20 storey concrete tower which includes the rather dingy entrance to the station. Don't remember seeing much greenery although it was at least in the open air.
I thoroughly enjoyed the rapid-fire list of viewers' favourites! It was really fun to see bits of each station. My own favourite is Russell Square, but only because that was "our station" when I first visited London in January 1979 as a student at uni. At that time the station still had the three massive lifts that exited right onto the street. When we were back in 2016, the lifts had been replaced and a lot of the fun I'd had was gone. But I understand, progress must happen. 🙂
The untangling of Bank station interchanges has improved the station immensely. What has been an unwelcome addition is the cacophonous noise when you're riding towards the new southbound Northern line platform. It must now be loudest part of the Tube.
Having worked on the lovely jubbly jubilee line extension (we nicknamed that because we earned well)between Waterloo and Westminster i can honestly say Westminster Station is my favourite , futuristic sums it up perfectly , a happy new year and from a luditte who has to get his grandson to donate on patreon on my behalf keep up the good work 🎉😊
Jago had a letter from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales who wrote "Dear Geoff Marshall, whenever you talk about the Northern Heights Project I ask myself this: What does a Londoner know about the North anyway? Yours, Mrs Trellis"
Canary Wharf was in the final version of the movie Rogue One. It was also in some deleted scenes but the deleted scenes of Rogue One are a massive story of themselves.
As much as we might like to complain I think we are very well off in terms of variety of design, in other cities I've been to although the design might be slightly varied all the stations can feel the same, which is something I don't feel so often in London.
Yes, I'd agree (if I havent before) that some of the concrete edifices put up post war leave a lot to be desired (like most of it). I'm quite fond of the quirky Victorian stations - especially those that were once run by mainline rail companies. But also I'd agree about the "steam punk" bits of the Jubilee extension. In fact, even the above ground style is more attractive to my eye. But I dare say if we all liked the same stuff it would get dull and thats also part of the charm. Hardly any two stations are alike. I take it this video gave you the chance to snip bits from your vast library of stuff 😁. One can surmise its impressive. Good work.
Well, obviously that long list of statiions should have stopped at Mornington Crescent. Glad you gave some love to Westminster - it's one station I just find literally staggering due to basically being a giant cube cut into the rock filled with escalators and ducts. So unexpected and different.
good to see the modern stations getting some love here. the jubilee line extention, northern line extention and elizabeth line all have some great arcitecture.
Excellent video as always. Fairly exhaustive ( and exhausting) list there. Lol. I hadn't yet visited my favourite and least favourite, as of when you asked for nominations, but now I have. The one I dont like, but for none of the reasons you gave, is Kennington. I went after watching the absolutely brilliant programme, "Ghosts on the Underground," that delves into the Kennington Loop and the ghostly tales, so i was already a bit suspicious of the place. But now... it's just creepy. The trains crawl in at 5mph, which I've never seen anywhere else on the tube. It has a strange atmosphere and when the trains go into the tunnel to go on the Loop, they make a ghostly moaning sound. Yes, I know it's only the traction motors, but here, it just sounds louder and more pitiful. It was just after rush hour but the platforms were all deserted and its weird seeing a totally deserted train setting off into the dark. Then when a door rattled violently as i passed it, with no train due to cause a draught for at least 3 minutes, it was time to go. Really spooky, creepy place. The other end of the scale was Embankment, but just the platform where the original "Mind The Gap" announcement is made. I just think that shows that LT/TfL have a heart. Ok, I admit I'm not using any of the usual criteria, but it is a personal choice and those are mine and my reasons, for what it's worth. If its prettiness, it's Baker Street on the 1863 Met platforms. For above ground architecture, it's Cockfosters, or any of those that look like a UFO. Awesome. Cheers .
Think this is the first time I've seen so many Tube/Underground Stations in a single Jago video! I do love Chiswick Park Underground Station. Great video.
As an only very occasional visitor to London, I was glad you included Temple, which would be my favourite. Due to the lovely little park right outside the entrance which I discovered when alighting there a few years ago.
north greenwich might be an unsung gem of the JLE, doesn't really get much attention but it's quite a futuristic statement to behold. Took me completely by surprise when i went there for the first time to catch a bus at half one in the morning. I think i like it so much because no one ever seems to sing its praises - and it's a big bus interchange!
Well shoot. If I had had any idea that nobody would mention Farringdon, I would have spoken up. I like it for its proximity to a very historical area of London, its exterior architecture and vintage signage, its Victorian ironwork, and for personal and sentimental reasons.
I actually quite like bank, the circular staircase up to the central line and Peter Lodge’s legacy always made it unique for me. I’ve def got a thing for the Piccadilly stations west of Hammersmith and Metroland obvs! Keep up the good work old chap!
Do you have a folder with clips of each individual tube station? This is admirable editing! I am particularly fond of the cyberpunk feel of Westminster and Canary Wharf.
Essentially, yes. He has done a video or two where he answered questions about how he makes his videos. He goes out and about and takes various shots of things he thinks are interesting or might come in handy later. When he later uploads them, he tags them with applicable descriptors. I would guess he has a folder for each line, and then a sub folder for each station. But some stations are interchanges! Hence the tags. And the tags would also come in handy for which architect was the designer, or everyone's favorite: Mr. Charles Tyson Yerkes. Those other random aspects of stations and lines.
I'm happy at least one person said Epping is their favourite station, the only local tube station to where I grew up in Harlow, spent many a time getting there at daft o'clock in the morning to get into London early enough to warrant the journey - and it's tied in to the heritage Epping & Ongar Railway which is honestly one of my favourite heritage lines currently, it's so quaint
Fair play with the readers favourite stations montage, very enjoyable! I used to be a regular at Bank and the narrow tunnels and heat especially in summer where unpleasant. Never understood why it was Monument for Bank when it seemed easier to get off at Cannon Street and just walk a short distance up the hill.
I hate all zone 1 interchanges. I'd rather walk or get a bus than have to go through the subterranean hell of any of those stations where millions of people, usually confused tourists (and I'm not being anti tourist, I find them confusing enough myself) are endlessly trudging through tunnels, down escalators, down more tunnels, down more escalators. It's positively Dante-esque
Thought it's useful if you can find the few cross-platform interchanges, those are wonderful. A pity there isn't a way of marking them on the map. National Rail and TfL route planners don't seem to recognise them either (for example best way from West Anglia to Waterloo is definitely via Tottenham Hale, Victoria to Oxford Circus, XP to Bakerloo - totally non obvious from the tube map!
If it's a mile, easier to walk in zone 1. In good weather 2 miles is ok too! Just the problem is no-one knows how far away anything is in Central London. Apart from cabbies...
That could make an interesting subject for a quiz: What have (inter alia) Warwick Avenue, Fulham Broadway, Camden Town, King's Cross, Waterloo (and no doubt many many more) got in common?
@@Tevildo Pet Shop Boys, "King's Cross", from the 1987 album "Actually" (a bit spooky because it includes the lines "Only last night I found myself lost by the station called King's Cross, Dead and wounded on either side, you know it's only a matter of time", and the album was released only a month or so before the King's Cross fire)
@@highpath4776 Yes, the Australian one is mentioned in a - let's say, "earthy" - song by Mike Harding or Jasper Carrott or someone of that ilk, but I didn't think that was the song in question. 😺
Excellent video, Jay. Excellent choices. "If I wanted to go for a long walk, I would not catch the tube in the first place !!!". NEVER A TRUER WORD SPOKEN. They totally ruined Bank. Then the same tossers totally ruined Kings Cross St Pancras. Both route matches seen totally pointless. They used to just go straight up, now they go around, and around,and around, down so many long corridors you feel like you have walked three or four miles. I think Kings Cross (Victoria Line) to the mainline, and especially to the Met and Circle must go in the Guinness World Records for distance, while Bank seems to like going up a flight of steps midway, going down a flight of steps a couple of times, just so you can use your knees but utterly pointless (obviously they had to thread the corridor between tube lines, has pipes, electrical wires, water pipes and sewage pipes, and the frigging post office railway). Rant over. Oh it is good to let off steam ! I needed that. Cheers Jay.
Easy , take the escalator to the Euston Road exit, then up the lift or stairs and KX is in front of you (SP is a pain since they shoved the midlands halfway down the road but the passageway would be ok to keep out of the rain apart from hordes of lost tourists
@@brigidsingleton1596 I think it might be deliberate given Mr Foremans every tube station song. + being Mr J Hazzard at the formal introduction could lead to mis-hearing
What's wrong with South Kenton? It might be a run down tiny thing in the middle of a field but it has character - mainly of being a tiny run-down, middle of nowhere place.
my mutter mutter interchange was always the long trek the the tunnels of Oxford Circus back in the day don't know what it's like now left London in 77 PS as soon as I heard you say Finchley Central my mind automatically filled in the Parumph of the Sousaphone (anyone else old enough to remember that song)
When mentioned, the explicit Bakerloo line Edgware road omission was merely a clarification. By the time the list was over, it was some fairly harsh shade.
Bank is pretty nice now unless you're doing a full W&C to district change which I imagine is very uncommon. At Bank you can now go from DLR to Northern to Central within 90 seconds which is pretty good for 3 whole lines regardless of station. DLR to Northern is like 20 seconds because they're above/below each other with a short escalator linking their new wide concourses. Then Northern to Central is the other minute because of the new travellator again through very wide concourses. Feels way quicker than any central Elizabeth Line interchange for sure. I bet that a large percentage of passengers who use Bank station now probably never use any part of the station or ticket halls that didn't exist 3 years ago(not including platofrms)
Threw me for a sec, you showed a train coming into a station whose far wall was barren, then one of a train pulling out of a station with ads there. Took me a second to realize they weren't the same place! LOL
It's kind of amazing how genuinely I whooped when "my" station was mentioned (Tufnell Park). This video is both a showcase for the Tube itself as well as Jago's hip-hop prospects
My favourite Tube station is to be honest Mile End, because I really like the crosss-platform interchange between the Central Line (Tube) and District/Hammersmith & City Lines (Sub Surface)
Agree, a very neat piece of New Works Programme planning. Not many tube/subsurface cross-platform interchanges except the shared section of Piccadilly and District.
If Jago had pulled out his guitar and started singing each station name, it would have been a fairly decent cover of Jay Foreman's Every Tube Station Song
Kings Cross is probably one of my least favourite Tube stations- some stations can take a while to enter/exit but Kings Cross feels like walking halfway to your destination and back just to get to the platforms. Victoria has also slipped down in this regard, with the Victoria line now being a massive detour compared to the old layout of walking down a set of steps and an escalator.
I don't know much about Star Wars - something about a Bristolian giant made intelligible by an asthmatic earl and a Lavender Hill mobster trading quips with a dustbin full of whale noises, I'm given to believe. But I can't believe Canary Wharf is between the Death Star and Tatooine.
I think Wembley central is my least favourite - because the monstrous gap size between the platform and the overground train will one day be the end of me. That would be an interesting subject for a video - which gaps should you mind the most?
Great shots of Westminster. I think they capture the atmosphere. I think that I likened it to Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' when commenting on the previous video and so see the Blade Runner reference.
I used to gig around London with my 88 key synth. I used to hate Bank for the spiral staircase if I was gigging around Angel or Camden areas. Having used Bank yday I’m very impressed how much easier it is now.
I personally love East Finchley, Loughton and Gloucester Road for the architecture. But Farringdon, Moorgate and London Bridge are also there for sentimental reasons.
For me it's always architectural oddities that I like, so I find the abandon stations interesting to. I have an now totally out of date on Underground station architecture, which contains images of stations, that have now been redeveloped including Wembley Central, which the had its original buildings above removed, including the little shopping arcade, which unfortunately at the end of their life were pigeon infested crumbling ruins. Because of my enjoyment of architectural oddities, I love the Piccadilly line stations built in the thirties, the decorative windows at Uxbrige and clock and ramps at Sudbury Town for example. So much the same goes for stations of the same vintage on other lines, like the roundabout feature at Queensbury, on the Jubilee ( formally the Bakerloo Stanmore branch) . But it's the actual station platform features, I enjoy the most, like the tiny side alleyway from the main Metropolitan line platforms and the shared Metropolitan, Hammersmith and City and Circle line platforms, those footbridges underground where you can see or hear the platforms below, the glimpses of the platform on the other side of the station, which is at its most spectacular at Piccadilly Circus on the Bakerloo. Original and themed tiling and those occasionally bits of original station furnishings. It's always a pity when some get permanently removed. I don't think there is an underground station I detest, but some do have draw backs, the long corridors at Bank, the island platforms that are fully underground, although it appears that some are being removed, pigeons everywhere like the last time I was at Morden in the 90s, hopefully the redevelopment there stopped that, the habit of TFL to lock the roundel exit/enterance hall at Oxford and Piccadilly Circuses and the windswept places, like Hanger Lane in the winter.
At one point, I thought you might include a clip from Jay Foreman's TUBE STATION SONG, where he mentions every Underground station (he even ends the song with Bank, which may also mean that that's his least favorite!)
I dislike Stratford, for no other reason it is all over the place. My ever popular stations Barons Court, simply walk across the platform Piccadilly to/from the District & Central to/from District the same at Mile End. Another superb video, thank you.
Charing Cross is my second least favourite station. I will always walk past it and use Embankment instead if I am in the area, even if it means going past it again on a northbound train.
Hi jago, I don't mind Kings Cross, but if you pick the right carriage, you can go straight up the escalator to the ticket hall, and not the way they want you to go. I also like turnpike Lane, only because it was my local station growing up, and the trains would go right underneath where I used to live. Keep up the amazing work
Was Warren Street on there? That's my favourite because not only is it the one I have used the most, but also, the platforms are on the wrong side which is really advantageous on the commute. Great video!
For a minute I thought you were about to launch into the Jay Forman tube stations song! - which incidentally features in the excellent play called "Cockfosters" (about travellers on the Piccadilly Line and Tube history)
I like Westminster. The most frustrating Station is Kings Cross St Pancras, entering from Kings Cross Main Line. As you come out, if you go down the stairs immediately to the right, rather than the ones closer to the main road, the signage takes you on a 10-15 minute loop to get to the platforms. If you ignore the signs at the bottom of the stairs and go left instead of right, you are in the original ticket hall, and it's a mere 2 minutes down to the platforms.
My favourite station would have to be Baker Street, if only for the entrance to the Circle Line platform going West to East; just a few steps down from street level and the decor is magnificent, particularly the seating in lit alcoves.
I really love your comments about the London tube stations. The uniqueness of London tube (or underground I call it) is that each one is different from the other and that makes London a fascinating city. Like you or perhaps many others are interested in London Underground for its uniqueness. Dear Jago, have you written a book about London Underground? I feel it would be a sellout. When I was very young (many years ago!) I used to travel from Euston to Clapham South (Northern line) to go to school (private!) and walked to Wandsworth (about 10 minutes walk). One day I had a small green case that consisted of my pyjamas, an apple, and a few other things (I can’t remember what) and I ran down the escalator to catch the train, my case fell open and out came out the apple, rolling across the floor, my pyjamas and a few other things, I managed to retrieve most of the items but not the apple! I managed to get on the train to school!
Personally my favourite is Wilesden Green, It's just a beautiful station plus everytime i go to london i also stay near wilesden green and it gives a lot of nostalgia
I actually quite like Bank. It represents the Underground perfectly: it's messy, sprawling, it was built at different times on top of itself, it joins up stations that have no business being together... But most of all I like that when you know how to navigate it, when you've mastered it, you finally feel like a superman among the tourists and plebs. And then they refurbish it and you have to relearn everything again.
Same here, used it a lot as a kid, also when I went to Southwark College in 1971-72 I changed there onto the Waterloo & City (still with the lovely old trains) to Waterloo, no Southwark station in those days. The travelator was rather a weird thing back then as well. Don't much like it now, don't much like most of the system now it's nearly all been 'refurbished' for no apparent reason. Why can't things stay as they are..? At least until I've popped my clogs, and at 69 I don't think that's far off, the way the world is going 😔
I feel like you made this video partly to show off how huge your archive of shots of all the different tube stations is.
Ah, but how many stations did Jago have to rush out and film just because he did not have archive footage of them ? 😀
I think you may be right, and I highly approve. (And my bet is he has footage of every station.)
Yup, I was thinking exactly the same
Huge flex. Jago has all the B-roll and don't you forget it!
@@cv990a4 he is a B-roll A-lister
I admire the dedication in editing all those clips together. It must have taken hours.
and you just know he had all that b-roll ready to go. impressive.
@@mister19stick Absolutley. It was the Jago/Underground equivalent of The Elements song by Tom Lehrer. :-)
If he has all the clips filed already I bet an AI could put them together.
@@PMA65537 Possibly. I’ll wager he did it the old fashioned way though. He had the clips, all filed by name, and it was the personal touch.
I see Tom Lehrer, I upvote. Such a disgraceful omission from Oppenheimer, given they put Feinman in! @@doctordeej
You really should have finished with Mornington Crescent. If you play Jago's variation of the game, with double diagonals resulting in a player being put in Nid until a subsequent usage of double parallels, the sequence used would have been a near perfect game. 😂
Came to the comments to say the same
Someone should explain to foreign viewers here who might not be cogniscent with British radio panel games shows, specifically a comedy one called 'I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue', that 'Mornington Crescent' is a game with surreal rules and plays that involves travelling around London on the tube and ending up at Mornington Crescent.
There are rules?!@@frglee
@@stevelknievel4183 Oh yes but not everyone knows them especially the variants.
@@stevelknievel4183 Allegedly :P
It would've been easier to just lost the stations people DIDN'T mention!! What's most impressive to me is that you had a shot for each of them. You've definitely been around a bit!
Well, for one thing, nobody appears to like Baker Street.
The best thing about London is that all the stations are different. As much as I love the København metro, my favourite station is Marmorkirken for the sole reason that has a slightly different platform layout to everywhere other underground station.
One factor is that the København stations were all built in roughly the same period. A hundred years from now, there'll probably be a lot more variation.
You could have gotten Jay Forman to just do his station song :)
And I can’t hear Mornington Cressant with out saying “yaaaaa” after it
Another Fantastic video!
I was just going to say that! Cheers Jago. You are the voice to my Sunday lunchtime
Hearing him say "Ealing Broadway Tooting Broadway" I immediately finished it with "... Arsenal"
Crescent
Bank.
Croissant @@jarvisa12345
I can’t be the only one who did a little internal shout of “hooray!’ when you said Mornington Crescent” 😅
But then he kept going! What the thundering hooves are these rules?!
An underground station based on Blade Runner...?
"I've seen C-Stock glitter in the dark off Notting Hill Gate..."
I just love Russel Square station, but I understand that the reason is for the memories that it brings as it was the one I used to use the most back in 1993 when I first visited London as I lived nearby for around 3 months. Sentimental reasons, really.
I have to mention Euston. Du😊ring my student days more than half a century ago, emerging from the final escalator into the mainline station meant that I was about to embark on the penultimate stage of my journey home, a journey which had begun on an Eastern Counties bus to Cambridge station, and would end on a Lancaster City Transport bus to Scotforth.
So you didn't try the wonderful cross country route via Peterborough, Leicester and Nuneaton? (probably changing again at Crewe and Preston in those days ... :)
@@iankemp1131 no, but when I was short of funds I went by coach, which was a fairly round-about route.
I do think Bank has been massively improved by the rebuilding works.
The biggest issue still is the interchange with the W&C that is still very long coming from the DLR.
And indeed from several other directions. The Central to W&C route now actually seems to bypass the travolator. Admittedly the W&C platforms are awkwardly located for historical reasons, ironic as it was the first line at Bank!
I wasn't expecting Jago's version of "We Didn't Start the Fire" today, but I'm certainly not complaining that I got it. 😁
Look what you've done! Now someone needs to record a karaoke version of this song, with the Tube stations replacing the regular lyrics. I'm waiting for the clip to turn up on TH-cam any day now.
Missed a trick not ending the list on Mornington Crescent. You had a perfect Hainault Tryptic at one point
I liked that Westminster was likened to "Bladerunner"! I still like Baker Street, as a reminder of where it all began..nice one Jago!
As Whitechapel, Stepney Green and Mile End have been mentioned, may I add Bow Road as my favourite (and local) station. Grade 2 listed and in both tunnel and open air, the steepest gradient on the Underground system, spectacular cast iron pillars, whistling trains, lots of doors going nowhere, also an absolute mess of cables at its eastern end. Worthy of a programme of its own, in my opinion.
And they recently reinstalled its long-lost labyrinth too !!
In the end it might have been quicker to list the stations nobody mentioned. I was patting myself on the back for growing up on the High Barnet branch that you named a lot of, when I thought, "He's just going to name every underground station, isn't he?" As it is, I'm very happy with the following successive stations that were part of my youth: East Finchley, Finchley Central, West Finchley and Woodside Park.
I grew up in North London with Totteridge and Whetstone being my local and I think each of the stations from East Finchley thru to High Barnet had/has its own individual "charm".
A 3D model of sub-terrain central London would be fun & keep your hamsters fit! Gnawing into 'Lock, Stock & Peanut-butter' bank vaults in pursuit of extra points, it could be a sensational new boardgame : )
For some reason i now have Tom Lehrers Elements song stuck im my head. Id love to hear a London Underground version of it-but it would go on forever!
Yay! It reminded me of that too - and several other commenters.
I'm mostly just impressed that you have footage for every one of those stations and dug ALL of them out!
I did love going to Ravenscourt Park, partly because it's invariably very calm, partly for the more classical architecture (and sometimes classical background music!), but also because I went there at lunch to take a sanity break from time in the office and thus saw the park itself as a kind of workday haven.
Some of its role may have ended up on the cutting room floor, but the Canary Wharf platforms are still quite recognisable in Rogue One.
I was never quite sure what Rogue One was about unless the main point was the origin of Lethbridge-Stewart.
I can't believe that no-one (unless I missed it) mentioned Hammersmith (H & C). It makes me think of a quiet branch-line terminus in a sleepy market town In the West Country.
I don't live in London. I haven't visited in years. I have no plans to go back. ...SO HOW HAS THIS BECOME ONE OF MY TOP THREE FAVORITE CHANNELS TO WACTH!??? Thanks, Jago. Please keep up the amazingly good work!
I feel like there should have been a pause for congratulatory applause after the mention of Mornington Crescent!
3:53 I've never even _heard_ of Gunnersbury, but it looks so cute! I like how it's nestled amongst all this greenery.
Sadly the approach to the station lets it down, as it's through an office block. - maps.app.goo.gl/mQ1MFuw833WuDSCn7
To be honest I didn't get Gunnersbury. It's down in a cutting between elevated car parks and under a 20 storey concrete tower which includes the rather dingy entrance to the station. Don't remember seeing much greenery although it was at least in the open air.
I thoroughly enjoyed the rapid-fire list of viewers' favourites! It was really fun to see bits of each station. My own favourite is Russell Square, but only because that was "our station" when I first visited London in January 1979 as a student at uni. At that time the station still had the three massive lifts that exited right onto the street. When we were back in 2016, the lifts had been replaced and a lot of the fun I'd had was gone. But I understand, progress must happen. 🙂
Is a favourite of mine too for same reasons…uni days
The untangling of Bank station interchanges has improved the station immensely. What has been an unwelcome addition is the cacophonous noise when you're riding towards the new southbound Northern line platform. It must now be loudest part of the Tube.
*westbound Bakerloo into Paddington entered the chat*
Eastbound central line into Notting Hill Gate has entered the chat
Having worked on the lovely jubbly jubilee line extension (we nicknamed that because we earned well)between Waterloo and Westminster i can honestly say Westminster Station is my favourite , futuristic sums it up perfectly , a happy new year and from a luditte who has to get his grandson to donate on patreon on my behalf keep up the good work 🎉😊
You should have left Mornington Crescent until the end of the list. 😊
Jago had a letter from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales who wrote "Dear Geoff Marshall, whenever you talk about the Northern Heights Project I ask myself this: What does a Londoner know about the North anyway? Yours, Mrs Trellis"
Lost the game. 😁
Canary Wharf was in the final version of the movie Rogue One. It was also in some deleted scenes but the deleted scenes of Rogue One are a massive story of themselves.
YOU'RE THE BEST JAGO! Beautiful images. Thank-you.
This illustrates the sheer amount of footwork you’ve put in over the years! Just amazing!
That was an epic list, accompanied by clips too. I was holding my breath all the way. Very well done.
Nah, he should have done the list alphabetically. 😜
This was almost the Jago version of Tom Lehrer's 'The elements'
...and sodium..." (which sounds everso slightly obscene...?!!)
Jay Foreman: Am I a joke to you
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Huh ?!
As much as we might like to complain I think we are very well off in terms of variety of design, in other cities I've been to although the design might be slightly varied all the stations can feel the same, which is something I don't feel so often in London.
Yes, I'd agree (if I havent before) that some of the concrete edifices put up post war leave a lot to be desired (like most of it). I'm quite fond of the quirky Victorian stations - especially those that were once run by mainline rail companies. But also I'd agree about the "steam punk" bits of the Jubilee extension. In fact, even the above ground style is more attractive to my eye. But I dare say if we all liked the same stuff it would get dull and thats also part of the charm. Hardly any two stations are alike.
I take it this video gave you the chance to snip bits from your vast library of stuff 😁. One can surmise its impressive. Good work.
Yes very sad Blackhorse Road was featured I love the horse art on the outside with the Victoria line blue for the background
Well, obviously that long list of statiions should have stopped at Mornington Crescent. Glad you gave some love to Westminster - it's one station I just find literally staggering due to basically being a giant cube cut into the rock filled with escalators and ducts. So unexpected and different.
I do like Canary Wharf personally but I don’t like embankment only because I get mugged there, £2 for a bottle of coke 😜
Surely Mornington Crescent should come at the end of that list. Followed by a cheer.
The pot plants at Cockfosters really make it special for me.
good to see the modern stations getting some love here. the jubilee line extention, northern line extention and elizabeth line all have some great arcitecture.
i mean it when i say this: this is the most interesting youtube channel i have come across. great work jago!
The fast edit really highlighted the remarkable variety of architectural styles that form the network.
Excellent video as always.
Fairly exhaustive ( and exhausting) list there. Lol.
I hadn't yet visited my favourite and least favourite, as of when you asked for nominations, but now I have.
The one I dont like, but for none of the reasons you gave, is Kennington.
I went after watching the absolutely brilliant programme, "Ghosts on the Underground," that delves into the Kennington Loop and the ghostly tales, so i was already a bit suspicious of the place.
But now... it's just creepy.
The trains crawl in at 5mph, which I've never seen anywhere else on the tube.
It has a strange atmosphere and when the trains go into the tunnel to go on the Loop, they make a ghostly moaning sound. Yes, I know it's only the traction motors, but here, it just sounds louder and more pitiful.
It was just after rush hour but the platforms were all deserted and its weird seeing a totally deserted train setting off into the dark.
Then when a door rattled violently as i passed it, with no train due to cause a draught for at least 3 minutes, it was time to go.
Really spooky, creepy place.
The other end of the scale was Embankment, but just the platform where the original "Mind The Gap" announcement is made. I just think that shows that LT/TfL have a heart.
Ok, I admit I'm not using any of the usual criteria, but it is a personal choice and those are mine and my reasons, for what it's worth.
If its prettiness, it's Baker Street on the 1863 Met platforms.
For above ground architecture, it's Cockfosters, or any of those that look like a UFO.
Awesome.
Cheers
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Think this is the first time I've seen so many Tube/Underground Stations in a single Jago video! I do love Chiswick Park Underground Station. Great video.
As an only very occasional visitor to London, I was glad you included Temple, which would be my favourite. Due to the lovely little park right outside the entrance which I discovered when alighting there a few years ago.
“I asked you for your favourite underground stations,” proceeds to basically read the index from a tube map…
It’s not a deleted scene in Rogue One, there is a shot in the finished film.
north greenwich might be an unsung gem of the JLE, doesn't really get much attention but it's quite a futuristic statement to behold. Took me completely by surprise when i went there for the first time to catch a bus at half one in the morning. I think i like it so much because no one ever seems to sing its praises - and it's a big bus interchange!
I use north Greenwich quite often since I tend to change from the DLR at Canning Town for the Jubilee line.
Well shoot. If I had had any idea that nobody would mention Farringdon, I would have spoken up. I like it for its proximity to a very historical area of London, its exterior architecture and vintage signage, its Victorian ironwork, and for personal and sentimental reasons.
I actually quite like bank, the circular staircase up to the central line and Peter Lodge’s legacy always made it unique for me. I’ve def got a thing for the Piccadilly stations west of Hammersmith and Metroland obvs! Keep up the good work old chap!
Do you have a folder with clips of each individual tube station? This is admirable editing!
I am particularly fond of the cyberpunk feel of Westminster and Canary Wharf.
... and the reference to Blade Runner, which has always been my impression.
Essentially, yes. He has done a video or two where he answered questions about how he makes his videos. He goes out and about and takes various shots of things he thinks are interesting or might come in handy later. When he later uploads them, he tags them with applicable descriptors. I would guess he has a folder for each line, and then a sub folder for each station. But some stations are interchanges! Hence the tags. And the tags would also come in handy for which architect was the designer, or everyone's favorite: Mr. Charles Tyson Yerkes. Those other random aspects of stations and lines.
Wasn't a deleted scene from Star Wars. Was used footage in Rogue One.
I'm happy at least one person said Epping is their favourite station, the only local tube station to where I grew up in Harlow, spent many a time getting there at daft o'clock in the morning to get into London early enough to warrant the journey - and it's tied in to the heritage Epping & Ongar Railway which is honestly one of my favourite heritage lines currently, it's so quaint
Arsenal followed by Gunnersbury, very good
Fair play with the readers favourite stations montage, very enjoyable! I used to be a regular at Bank and the narrow tunnels and heat especially in summer where unpleasant. Never understood why it was Monument for Bank when it seemed easier to get off at Cannon Street and just walk a short distance up the hill.
I hate all zone 1 interchanges. I'd rather walk or get a bus than have to go through the subterranean hell of any of those stations where millions of people, usually confused tourists (and I'm not being anti tourist, I find them confusing enough myself) are endlessly trudging through tunnels, down escalators, down more tunnels, down more escalators. It's positively Dante-esque
Thought it's useful if you can find the few cross-platform interchanges, those are wonderful. A pity there isn't a way of marking them on the map. National Rail and TfL route planners don't seem to recognise them either (for example best way from West Anglia to Waterloo is definitely via Tottenham Hale, Victoria to Oxford Circus, XP to Bakerloo - totally non obvious from the tube map!
As an occasional tourist, I share your loathing of them. I'm also convinced they change shape at night.
If it's a mile, easier to walk in zone 1. In good weather 2 miles is ok too! Just the problem is no-one knows how far away anything is in Central London. Apart from cabbies...
Sterling work, sir!
That could make an interesting subject for a quiz: What have (inter alia) Warwick Avenue, Fulham Broadway, Camden Town, King's Cross, Waterloo (and no doubt many many more) got in common?
My first guess is that they all appear in popular musical compositions, although I'm struggling to remember where King's Cross is mentioned.
@@Tevildo Pet Shop Boys, "King's Cross", from the 1987 album "Actually" (a bit spooky because it includes the lines "Only last night I found myself lost by the station called King's Cross, Dead and wounded on either side, you know it's only a matter of time", and the album was released only a month or so before the King's Cross fire)
@@AndreiTupolev Thanks! I assume it was pulled from the air following the fire, which would explain why I've not heard it.
@@Tevildo I think there is a King;s Cross in Australia (Melborne?) too
@@highpath4776 Yes, the Australian one is mentioned in a - let's say, "earthy" - song by Mike Harding or Jasper Carrott or someone of that ilk, but I didn't think that was the song in question. 😺
Excellent video, Jay. Excellent choices. "If I wanted to go for a long walk, I would not catch the tube in the first place !!!". NEVER A TRUER WORD SPOKEN. They totally ruined Bank. Then the same tossers totally ruined Kings Cross St Pancras. Both route matches seen totally pointless. They used to just go straight up, now they go around, and around,and around, down so many long corridors you feel like you have walked three or four miles. I think Kings Cross (Victoria Line) to the mainline, and especially to the Met and Circle must go in the Guinness World Records for distance, while Bank seems to like going up a flight of steps midway, going down a flight of steps a couple of times, just so you can use your knees but utterly pointless (obviously they had to thread the corridor between tube lines, has pipes, electrical wires, water pipes and sewage pipes, and the frigging post office railway). Rant over. Oh it is good to let off steam ! I needed that. Cheers Jay.
I once made the mistake of using the then new St Stephen Walbrook Bank entrance. I thought I was never going to get down to the platforms.
@@eattherich9215 its handy for the W and C
Easy , take the escalator to the Euston Road exit, then up the lift or stairs and KX is in front of you (SP is a pain since they shoved the midlands halfway down the road but the passageway would be ok to keep out of the rain apart from hordes of lost tourists
Are you confuuuuuusing Jay with Jago?
@@brigidsingleton1596 I think it might be deliberate given Mr Foremans every tube station song. + being Mr J Hazzard at the formal introduction could lead to mis-hearing
Ever thought of doing a rendition of We didn't start the fire but naming the stations of London 😆
‘It was always burning since the world’s been turning’
Perhaps best not mention Kings Cross then...
Bravo for such tight editing !!
An impressive rendition of a long list.
My sarcatic Northwick Park and South Kenton even got a mention.
How many Tube stations DID NOT get a mention?
What's wrong with South Kenton?
It might be a run down tiny thing in the middle of a field but it has character - mainly of being a tiny run-down, middle of nowhere place.
@@quintuscrinis Nothing wrong with the place. Many the night in my youth playing Bar Billiards in the 'Windy'
my mutter mutter interchange was always the long trek the the tunnels of Oxford Circus back in the day don't know what it's like now left London in 77 PS as soon as I heard you say Finchley Central my mind automatically filled in the Parumph of the Sousaphone (anyone else old enough to remember that song)
My goodness, I was really getting into that and then.. it ended! It flew by. The sign of a great video 😊
When mentioned, the explicit Bakerloo line Edgware road omission was merely a clarification. By the time the list was over, it was some fairly harsh shade.
Bank is pretty nice now unless you're doing a full W&C to district change which I imagine is very uncommon. At Bank you can now go from DLR to Northern to Central within 90 seconds which is pretty good for 3 whole lines regardless of station. DLR to Northern is like 20 seconds because they're above/below each other with a short escalator linking their new wide concourses. Then Northern to Central is the other minute because of the new travellator again through very wide concourses. Feels way quicker than any central Elizabeth Line interchange for sure. I bet that a large percentage of passengers who use Bank station now probably never use any part of the station or ticket halls that didn't exist 3 years ago(not including platofrms)
Threw me for a sec, you showed a train coming into a station whose far wall was barren, then one of a train pulling out of a station with ads there. Took me a second to realize they weren't the same place! LOL
2:37 Basically just listing every station on the tube.
It's kind of amazing how genuinely I whooped when "my" station was mentioned (Tufnell Park). This video is both a showcase for the Tube itself as well as Jago's hip-hop prospects
My favourite Tube station is to be honest Mile End, because I really like the crosss-platform interchange between the Central Line (Tube) and District/Hammersmith & City Lines (Sub Surface)
Agree, a very neat piece of New Works Programme planning. Not many tube/subsurface cross-platform interchanges except the shared section of Piccadilly and District.
@@iankemp1131 And Finchley Rd, Wembley Park.
If Jago had pulled out his guitar and started singing each station name, it would have been a fairly decent cover of Jay Foreman's Every Tube Station Song
Kings Cross is probably one of my least favourite Tube stations- some stations can take a while to enter/exit but Kings Cross feels like walking halfway to your destination and back just to get to the platforms. Victoria has also slipped down in this regard, with the Victoria line now being a massive detour compared to the old layout of walking down a set of steps and an escalator.
I don't know much about Star Wars - something about a Bristolian giant made intelligible by an asthmatic earl and a Lavender Hill mobster trading quips with a dustbin full of whale noises, I'm given to believe. But I can't believe Canary Wharf is between the Death Star and Tatooine.
Every time I think of a favourite tube station, I come up with a different answer!
I think Wembley central is my least favourite - because the monstrous gap size between the platform and the overground train will one day be the end of me. That would be an interesting subject for a video - which gaps should you mind the most?
Great shots of Westminster. I think they capture the atmosphere. I think that I likened it to Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' when commenting on the previous video and so see the Blade Runner reference.
I used to gig around London with my 88 key synth. I used to hate Bank for the spiral staircase if I was gigging around Angel or Camden areas.
Having used Bank yday I’m very impressed how much easier it is now.
I personally love East Finchley, Loughton and Gloucester Road for the architecture.
But Farringdon, Moorgate and London Bridge are also there for sentimental reasons.
Wow! Extensive video footage of lots of stations! What a collection you have! Are there any Tube stations that you haven't visited?
I don’t think so. There are some I’ve never stepped off the train at.
I can’t believe how many stations on the north-eastern end of the Piccadilly line got a mention and yet not Southgate! Definitely the coolest one imo
Maybe we could have a variant of this video. All the stations not mentioned in this video, or would that be a short?
For me it's always architectural oddities that I like, so I find the abandon stations interesting to. I have an now totally out of date on Underground station architecture, which contains images of stations, that have now been redeveloped including Wembley Central, which the had its original buildings above removed, including the little shopping arcade, which unfortunately at the end of their life were pigeon infested crumbling ruins.
Because of my enjoyment of architectural oddities, I love the Piccadilly line stations built in the thirties, the decorative windows at Uxbrige and clock and ramps at Sudbury Town for example. So much the same goes for stations of the same vintage on other lines, like the roundabout feature at Queensbury, on the Jubilee ( formally the Bakerloo Stanmore branch) .
But it's the actual station platform features, I enjoy the most, like the tiny side alleyway from the main Metropolitan line platforms and the shared Metropolitan, Hammersmith and City and Circle line platforms, those footbridges underground where you can see or hear the platforms below, the glimpses of the platform on the other side of the station, which is at its most spectacular at Piccadilly Circus on the Bakerloo. Original and themed tiling and those occasionally bits of original station furnishings. It's always a pity when some get permanently removed.
I don't think there is an underground station I detest, but some do have draw backs, the long corridors at Bank, the island platforms that are fully underground, although it appears that some are being removed, pigeons everywhere like the last time I was at Morden in the 90s, hopefully the redevelopment there stopped that, the habit of TFL to lock the roundel exit/enterance hall at Oxford and Piccadilly Circuses and the windswept places, like Hanger Lane in the winter.
I am in awe that you have ready footage for every station mentioned! The only thing missing is @JayForeman putting them all to a catchy guitar tune.
At one point, I thought you might include a clip from Jay Foreman's TUBE STATION SONG, where he mentions every Underground station (he even ends the song with Bank, which may also mean that that's his least favorite!)
There's a lot to like about Southwark station on the Jubilee extension but why has it still got a plywood hording around the outside?
awaiting construction of a massive office block
I dislike Stratford, for no other reason it is all over the place.
My ever popular stations Barons Court, simply walk across the platform Piccadilly to/from the District & Central to/from District the same at Mile End.
Another superb video, thank you.
Charing Cross is my second least favourite station. I will always walk past it and use Embankment instead if I am in the area, even if it means going past it again on a northbound train.
me too
Surprised Aldwych (closed) didn't get mentioned. It was a lovely quiet station and a short enchanting ride when it was open. 😊
Very interesting, Jago. I agree with you about Westminster, which I used to use a lot during my workng life.
Well, that's a fun romp through the B-rolls. I think this might make my top ten Jago videos.
Hi jago, I don't mind Kings Cross, but if you pick the right carriage, you can go straight up the escalator to the ticket hall, and not the way they want you to go. I also like turnpike Lane, only because it was my local station growing up, and the trains would go right underneath where I used to live. Keep up the amazing work
It still baffles me that for passenger flow Kings Cross is not longest way in, shortest way out...
Was Warren Street on there? That's my favourite because not only is it the one I have used the most, but also, the platforms are on the wrong side which is really advantageous on the commute.
Great video!
When you were listing all those stations, I was hoping you'd do a rendition of Jay Foreman's Tube Station song.
For a minute I thought you were about to launch into the Jay Forman tube stations song! - which incidentally features in the excellent play called "Cockfosters" (about travellers on the Piccadilly Line and Tube history)
Video suggestion: What is the oldest train in the world still in passenger service?
I like Westminster. The most frustrating Station is Kings Cross St Pancras, entering from Kings Cross Main Line. As you come out, if you go down the stairs immediately to the right, rather than the ones closer to the main road, the signage takes you on a 10-15 minute loop to get to the platforms. If you ignore the signs at the bottom of the stairs and go left instead of right, you are in the original ticket hall, and it's a mere 2 minutes down to the platforms.
My favourite station would have to be Baker Street, if only for the entrance to the Circle Line platform going West to East; just a few steps down from street level and the decor is magnificent, particularly the seating in lit alcoves.
I really love your comments about the London tube stations. The uniqueness of London tube (or underground I call it) is that each one is different from the other and that makes London a fascinating city. Like you or perhaps many others are interested in London Underground for its uniqueness. Dear Jago, have you written a book about London Underground? I feel it would be a sellout. When I was very young (many years ago!) I used to travel from Euston to Clapham South (Northern line) to go to school (private!) and walked to Wandsworth (about 10 minutes walk). One day I had a small green case that consisted of my pyjamas, an apple, and a few other things (I can’t remember what) and I ran down the escalator to catch the train, my case fell open and out came out the apple, rolling across the floor, my pyjamas and a few other things, I managed to retrieve most of the items but not the apple! I managed to get on the train to school!
Personally my favourite is Wilesden Green, It's just a beautiful station plus everytime i go to london i also stay near wilesden green and it gives a lot of nostalgia