GTR Gave me a 100,000 Award!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ม.ค. 2019
- GTR (Govia Thameslink Railway) are rolling out their new trains on the Northern City Line out of Moorgate (replacing 40 year old units) and invited me along on a test trip.
It also tied with my own milestone as they were kind enough to notice that I was about to hit 100,000 subscribers, so they had a fun surprise for me - HUGE THANKS to Roger, Alice and Matt from GTR.
Note: The old 40 year old Class 313's are still on the network, down on the south coast with Southern.
Also note: Class 717 units are now running passenger test trips, you might find yourself catching one if you pop along ...
Music: "Show Love" by Joakim Karud / joakimkarud
01:04
"Do we know which platform it's gonnna be yet?"
Said anyone who's ever got a train from Moorgate, ever.
I've been on the 717 more than 5 times
Owen, that's hilarious :'D
@@vehicleswithjacob platform 717?
@@ekvedrek Yup!
@@vehicleswithjacob + than 5 times in iRoNiNg bOaRdS
Geoff Marshall the Casy Neistat of British Railways congratulations on a very well deserved 100,000!
NO NOT DESERVED, I HAVE DONE A LOT MORE FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN LONDON AND GOT NO CUP ECT.
@@grahamlea2160 mate you have 1 video on a play list that has nothing to do with public transport 😂
Who is Casy Neistat and what is he the Casy Neistat of?
It’s Casey...
graham lea idiot
This is over a year old and he doesn't even have 200,000 yet. That is madness. This channel is the most under appreciated channel on TH-cam
he is currently at 313K
Now 316k
That aged well (!)
@@RandomTFLupdates-PEPS_FOR_LIFE yeah
7:38
"I got wind"
- Sorry to hear that Geoff. I hope it didn't cause too much embarrassment for you in those confined spaces.
Lewis72 like a fart? 😂
Congratulations Geoff. Richly deserved.
Agreed.
And finally! Congrats on 100k! (100.028) Well-deserved!
Now all he has to do is 1 mil
@@thomasowen8400 Best wishes for him to do so! I love his videos!!
101.076
112.191
128.739
Congratulations we love watching your videos.
Trains TrainsTrains you read my mind! I will like your comment
Yep that's true
OMG 106 LIKES!!!
@@OffTheRailsUK OMG! WE DONT CARE! :D
@@RocketShipSquid you idiot do you even know what ur saying
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I SAW IT, I SAW IT, I SAW IT, I SAW IT, I SAW IT. ITS THE CROSSELIZRAIL LOGO ON THE SIGN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations Geoff!
What an amazing gesture to someone who's so informative, positive and seems so popular in the train network. I'm not a massive train fan, but love your vids, all the hidden facts, different routes, and you're always happy and get on with the different rail companies employees! Congrats on the certificate, trophy and 100k subs - although as i type this it's on 103k lol. Would love to bump into you one day and shake your hand and say well done on your awesome knowledge! Congrats Geoff.
Been subscribed since 34k subs, your videos always cheer me up and are super informative. Congrats on 100k!
Same here. Good work!
So theres 99.999 others like me. Train nerds. I live in Northampton, I allwas go on British Rail, tubes, or the like, but I LOVE all your videoes, about abandoned stations, least passenger stops, the all stops on the tube challenge, and everything in between. I know more about the stations in all over Britain than in my country. Thank you, Geoff, for your marvelous content!
Massive congratulations to you on 100k!!!!!! You have spent years working on youtube and you really deserve it for all the great content you deliver! Here is to another 100k!
Congratulations! It was nice of them to give you an award.
A well deserved 100k. Your videos are very clearly thought-out, creatively edited, very entertaining and very informative. You ARE the TH-cam UK rail guy!
Gosh, I don't think I'd be the same person I am today without you Geoff. I have been obsessed with railways ever since I was 10, and here we are 6 years later, still the same rail enthusiast I am. I live in Dubai, where all we have is the Dubai Metro & Tram, and I love it whenever I go to London and see a large network of railways with a long history. I now have a determined future which I wouldn't ever have thought of. Thank you Geoff for being the person you are.
Congratulations on reaching a hundred thousand subscribers, it is a very big accomplishment to have such a huge fan base, and I hope to see you reach one million soon.
Tariq Mohammad Albastaki I’m obsessed with trains from 8
Powered by Geoff
I have been obsessed with transport ever since I can remember!
Dubai is terrible for transit, hope that gets fixed!
Been a fan since you had just over 2,000 subscribers. Your channel has become a place of gathering for transport nerds from the world all over, and I'm not sure you're aware of the massive positive influence you've had on people.
Congratulations on 100K!
You very much deserve this Geoff, and I'm glad I got distracted from my revision in order to see it.
Congratulations Geoff! You always show great enthusiasm and sparking an interest in the rail history of the UK. Travelling from Australia to the UK to explore the underground and various aspects was a highlight. Thank you.
A huge congrats Geoff. I honestly got emotional watching you receive this award. I am a Canadian who fell in love with the Underground when I first visited London in 1987. When my mom was still alive she took me everywhere on the Underground and on NSE from Manor Park (my aunt's local stop). I havent visited since 2002, but your videos which I have watched (repeatedly) since 2013 are entertaining and informative. You are living one of my dreams and watching your channel grow shows what passion and persistence can do. Extremely proud of you. Many regards from your fanbase in Canada.
I legitimately cried when you got the trophy and certificate. So deserved in my opinion. Also great music in this video, really captured the sense of amazement created by new trains!!!
Every single sub is deserved, Geoff. Your videos always get me excited
Congrats 🎊🍾🎈🎉 I really enjoy the perspective from a local. I’ve never been to England, so these videos really help to learn about the country.
Been watching your videos for past 3 years, loved all of them along with all the stations, and londonist a well deserved reward 👍👍
Congrats on 100,000 Sub Geoff from one of your loyal viewers here across the pond in Seattle, Washington, USA. #seeyouat1million #roadto1millionsubs
You are a lovely guy full of warmth and a graceful smile.Good on you well deserved 👌🙂👍
Great news that you reached the 100k mark. Thanks for providing your videos and insights into the workings of the railway system around the UK. Completed a return journey for the first time through The Canal Tunnels en-route to Alexandra Palace via Finsbury Park great addition to the Thamslink network
Congratulations, Geoff. You are certainly unique as a subject specialist. An expert deserving the attention.
Love the last piece of editing to close up the film. 👍
Congrats on the 100k!
By the way, I prefer the old 313's. Something about their mechanical nature makes them satisfying to ride.
Your new music is really relaxing.
The track is Joakim Karud - Show Love
Congratulations on 100,000 subs!! And the proper recognition!! You're a great spokesperson for all the rail entities!!
Congratulations!
Your channel is so great everyone should have subscribed long ago.
You get to go where the lucky few do and share the experience, Thankyou and Congrats!
Congratulations on your milestone... Here’s to 500K subs on your way to 1,000,000 subs
Congratulations for achieving 100,000 subscribers Geoff...!!! 👏👏👏
Your videos are very educational 📚 and I'm learning something all the time! 👍
I never knew you were friends with Geoff, Anton XD
I enjoy your video's too
Hi
Congratz, been watching you from Philadelphia , Pa/USA here, keep up the good work...
Congratulations. Love this channel so much as it allows me for to find out more about trains my favourite mode of transport.
Congratulations. Well deserved!
One more time Matt?
I remember him from a video where you were the voice of thameslink trains! 🎥🚂🚋🚃🚋🚃🚋🚃
Congrats on 100k Geoff! Well deserved, love your vids here, on ATS, and Londonist! Nice gesture by GTR to give you a gift for it too! Wonder if the old tech from when the line was part of the tube will be updated (if it can be)? As you pointed out, quite odd for a brand new train to need such old kit!
well done Geoff, great channel. as a commuter I often find it frustrating traveling into london but I do love this channel as it gives us all an insight into the railway world
Well done Geoff 👌🏼 you deserve it
Less than two years later and now homing in on 300k. Well done Geoff
Two yeard after that and not even 400K :(
Well done & congratulations on achieving the 100,000 subscribers milestone. I've enjoyed every one of your videos, and feel well-informed on the workings of the Underground thanks to your time & effort.
Congratulations and well deserved recognition! I spent the summer of 1985 in London commuting on the Bakerloo & Northern Lines and taking old Brit Rail. Always love to see how the network is evolving and improving!
Congratulations Geoff, you're an excellent spokesperson for our community and we're very lucky to have you! On a side note, I've always thought that part of Moorgate looks more like a Paris Metro station than a London Underground station
Congrats on 100k
Congrats Jeff on reaching 100,000 subscribers your video’s are very informative so here’s looking for the next 100,000 I’m in Australia and come from the Archway so it’s good to see what has transpired with the old railways that I used to travel on all those years ago thank you
Congratulations - 100k - It's always good to have new goals, 1 million, we'll keep watching your clips until then. Regards from Hamburg / Germany.
100,000 YAY 😝😝
Congratulations Geoff for reaching 100,000 subs well done! 👍
Congrats on your 100.000 subscribers Geoff! I have been watching your videos since I came to the UK, and find them very fun and informative. Keep up the good work!
Congratulations Geoff on 100k subscribers! I love watching your videos. It is so informative to watch and so useful to know all the different entrances for different, bigger station. I love your step counting 😂☺💯🎉
First view! Filmed on my birthday! Congrats Geoff! Hey Geoff, I'm fifteen and I'm doing tube challenge soon! Like this post of you want Geoff to do it with me! PLEASE!
I still wish they'd put some yellow on the front to match the 700's. They just look so odd without it ...
You are so delightful ♡ The new train looks so nice and cool. Omg that trophy. They really like you
Congratulations on reaching 100k! Love your channel and “All the stations” Really looking forward to your tour of Ireland.
And just 8 months later, 150k subs!
Hello from Needham Market
Congrats Geoff!! Stellar work over the years, keep it going!
I was on that train (I believe it was 707012), but it was around the afternoon, I was very lucky to catch that train as I had literally no idea that they were doing test trips.
EDIT:
CONGRATS ON 100K, WELL DONE!!!
Maybe is 717012,not 707012.Is a 717,not 707 operated by SE (formerly SWR)
Congrats Geoff, well deserved... Anything new on the #crossraillizpurpleline?
Congrats on the 100,000.
I used to work at Hornsey Depot .. GREAT bunch of lads and loved it.
Been waiting to see this for a couple years now! So happy for you! You deserve all the recognition you've been gaining around the UK. Cheers!
Firstly, congrats Geoff on the 100k subs! However, I'll be very surprised if this switch from old to new stock goes without major hitches. After GTR's disastrous time table fiasco of last year, I'm afraid I wouldn't trust GTR as far as I could throw them - which is not very far! Be prepared for more of the "The next train has been cancelled due to a member of staff not being available" announcements!! (the lamest excuse in the history of lame excuses). I really really hope I'm proved wrong. On this line (I live in Hornsey) we deserve a franchise fit for purpose for the 20th century. Come on GTR - please get your act together! I'll stop ranting now.....
We need a Geoff App! Gives us a real time Geoff location which ever station he's visiting!..Surely someone in the 100K can make it happen?
dangerous
Congratulations Geoff!!! Greetings from sunny central Florida.
Congratulations - good work, Geoff! I really enjoy your videos, and I am looking forward to All The Stations Ireland!
Felicitaciones amigo
Geoff Marshall De nada! That was well deserved. Here’s to one million!
Nice one 100k
Brilliant news, lovely gesture on the 100,000 - and some interesting info on how the 717 s cope with the vagaries of the line they have to work.
Been subscribed for a very long time and I honestly have enjoyed every single video! Well done Geoff and Keep up all the hard work 👏👏👏
I do like new things...!!! 👌
But I also like the old too...!!! 😂
"I've never been there before" I get the joke 😂
Congratulations! TBH, I will miss the 313s when they go. I've ridden on them since 1978 - and now I feel old!
Congratulations dude, nice video. Lovely to be acknowledged in such a great way. Some great angles, vox pops and cuts in this one - double thumbs up.
I don't really like the Siemens Desiro City trains. I prefer Bombardier Aventra Class 345 (#PurpleTrain), Stadler FLIRT Class 755 (new trains for Great Eastern Main Line) and CAF Civity Class 331 (new trains for the north)
Will you do this with the MerseyRail 507/ 508’s because their the second oldest fleet
New trains are on order, but in their usual way the RMT are protesting about the guard situation. If I recall rightly the Victoria line in London hasn't had guards from day one, causing no fatalities.
Robert Rich I know that
Congratulations Geoff!! Love that passion and a dip of history in every videos.
Well done Geoff - you deserve a million! Your videos are brilliant...congratulations!
American Train Ages: Hold my beer...
5:18 "Part of the Northern Line until the 1950's". Isn't that supposed to be "common knowledge" (let alone professional knowledge) that it was part of the Northern until 1976 (as even the Moorgate tube crash occured there in 1975)
Strudlfaust true. The 313s were the first and only (before these new 717s) standard trains to go in the Moorgate tunnels
The Great Northern & City Line might have been run as part of the Northern Line, but the size of the tunnels are totally different.
It's a real shame that the Northern Heights plan got scrapped:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_line#Great_Northern_&_City_Railway
I'd like to see TfL have a *new* Northern Heights plan, with the underground stations on the Northern City Line all made longer and the Moorgate tunnels moved, so that the tunnels can extend south to Bank, Canon Street, across the Thames to London Bridge and off to somewhere useful in South East London.
Torjuz1337 the driver was distressed that the northern heights plan was dropped 20 years earlier so crashed? I don’t get that one
It was always intended that Moorgate would be linked to Finsbury Park using tunnels that were bored to accommodate standard gauge trains. However, the branch was operated by London Underground using tube stock, instead and formed the City Branch of the Northern Line. As someone who lived in the Essex Road area, I was a frequent user of the tube from this station and can well remember the large stations from, what seemed, another era and the seemingly diminutive trains.The tunnels between Drayton Park and Finsbury Park were closed in the mid 60's as part of the Victorial Line works and the GN platforms were adopted for use by southbound Piccadilly/Victoria Line trains. The tunnel portals at Drayton Park were clearly visible from the station platforms for many years subsequently. The rest of the branch was temporarily closed in 1975 prior to intoduction of the Great Nothern Electric service in 1976. The re-opening of the branch and introduction of the new service finally brought about the original vision for the line - running trains from the City into the northern London suburbs.
When it was originally constructed in the 1900s, the rail company that built it wanted to build a rail line that would come right into the City of London from Hertfordshire. They had a partnership with the LNER, or it's predecessor, to run services beyond Finsbury Park. But after the City of London objected to the plan to bring a large, although underground, station into the heart of the Square Mile (so the route was truncated at Moorgate), the other rail company backed out and it just became a short line between Finsbury Park to Moorgate, which then got taken over by the Metropolitan Railway. It then became a Metropolitan Line branch after 1933, with Metropolitan Line rail stock. It then got transferred to the Northern Line with the Northern Heights extension plan, with Standard Tube stock and that got swapped for 1938 stock before the line was transferred over to British Rail.
Amazing video Geoff and well done on hitting this huge milestone and I will miss the 313s as I’ve travelled on them all my life and the Hertford to Moorgate line is my local. My local station is Gordon Hill and I wish I was at my local station that day then I could of seen you but I can’t wait to catch one of the new trains.
I was a late comer to the party and only found your channel recently. Brilliant videos that are most informative and presented in such a way that you dont get bored and eagerly anticipate the notification telling you a new vid has been uploaded.... congrats on your award. 😊
Does that mean that the Seaford to Brighton line is now the most archaic rolling stock in Mainland England? They are still running 313's to the best of my knowledge (could be wrong as I'm running on third hand information)
Yes, they are still running on the Coastway service. They were refurbished so don't look nearly as shabby as the GN stock. No plans to replace them anytime soon.
I also saw a 313 today at Fratton. I think it was on the Portsmouth to Brighton service, but it was in the old blue BR livery!
its apparently been painted ready to go to a museum!
Merseyrail 507 stock?
TfL overground Enfield Town to Liverpool Street is also class 313 rolling stock but refurbished.
Congratulations! And you have been on the Isle Of white in All the Stations xD 😊
Surrey Transport And Trains isle of wight!
Not having been to the Isle of Wight is a running joke- there's a video explaining it somewhere.
It was green screened
@@MercenaryPen I know that xD
@@MercenaryPen I'm aware of the running joke... Was referring to the miss spelling of wight. That was all. No offence meant.
Congratulations on 100,00 and then some. Very well deserved. Keep up on the great work. Looking forward to more.
Very well deserved i hope i see you in London in april/may!
First!!
Or second
Or third
Or fourth
I don’t really care
So a 'northern' train in London that gets hardly used gets new trains, yet northern rail in the north still has pacers...
Its london of course they get all the new stuff
Those 'Northern' trains in London are absolutely packed every morning. They definitely need to be upgraded.
'Hardly used'? These are rammed in rush hour, when a minor problem leaves stations packed because trains cannot clear them fast enough, even when running as frequently as possible. I understand Pacers are awful & used more heavily than designed but these should be replaced soon too.
They are new northern rail trains in 2020 for northern cities in the uk
@@gisar.6539 Northern Rail's new trains should have started to enter service by now, but like the 717s, they are late. Shouldn't be long now though.
Love watching your videos Geoff. Miss London and the transport system. Life is different up north. We could do with you as an advocate for better rail up here. You’ve already got 100,000 backers! ☺️
Congratulations! The Tube was still using these tunnels in the 1970's. I moved to London in 1973 and used that line until it closed before the link being made between Finsbury Park and Drayton Park for the new overhead/third rail service. I then used the new service from the day that it opened travelling from Harringey to Old Street daily. I last used this train yesterday, so I've used it for most of these 40 year old units lives. Looking forward to using the new rolling stock, though I doubt that I'll live to see the next incarnation in another 40 years time!
Great, more uncomfortable utilitarian ‘design’.
Hate these trains, currently on the Bedford - St Pancras line. Seats are the most uncomfortable on the network and the hardest. There is no ventilation, the air con is too cold or too hot. No tables. They sway and bump harshly and make me feel nauseaus.
So happy for you Geoff. Congratulations from Sydney, Australia 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
3:30 I love being in the back of a long train and just watching the train snack in front of me. The simple pleasures of commuting.
310k now. I wonder if you've had more awards? Well done. A great channel and I'm not even a train or rail enthusiast but I love your videos.
Well done on reaching 100K for your Stirling Work on this Services to The Network. Also to your dear lady. A big Thanks for keeping up with Him. He He. I am just a normal person who used to live and use the Network. I now live in Dawlish Devon. So it's always Good to see what's going on. Thank you.
Congratulations Geoff with the certificate, trophy and the soon to be received 100k TH-cam award! I'm still amazed by the long train stopping at the platforms that are too short. That such a British thing! And it will never happen here in the Netherlands. The train and the platform have to match otherwise the train will not stop. I'm not even sure it's even possible to unlock the doors partially in any Dutch train series or than by hand.
Congrats, well done and great reward for a lot of hard work, THANK YOU for all that you do please do not stop, I shall stick with you and as it said at the end see you at that million.
Best wishes from Canada. Fascinating stuff!
Well done on 100k subs watch your videos everyday I'm fascinated each time I watch them keep it up.