As a N London dweller of some 35+ years, I must have driven past that building many dozens of times, but had no idea of its history until now. Cheers for the explanation Jago ! 😎👍
Grandad came to visit us years ago when we lived in that area and asked for a ticket to Marlborough Road Station. ''You been inside or summin' guvnor ?'' said the man in the ticket office. ''It's been shut for years !'' Grandad was based in rhe nearby St John's Woods barracks before WW1 so probably used it a few times when it was open !
@@Apollo_Mint Yep ! Herbert J. Peck. He also left his walking stick on the bus once ... and Lost Property were reluctant to give it back as it turned out to be a sword stick !
@@archstanton6102 it's a shame they had to 'vacate the premises' - I miss the sound and site of the horses pulling the gun carriges along the early morning streets !
I remember years ago when I lived up that way, seeing them exercising their horses about 4.30-5.00 am. First time I saw it, about 50-60 horses being corralled up Haverstock Hill, I didn't know if I was still asleep and dreaming, or if I had somehow slipped back in time. It was an amazing sight, and sound.
Finally, you're in my neck of the woods, Jago. The last restaurant to serve in the abandoned station was a posh Chinese restaurant that always seemed empty. The building was painted black back then and it was out of the way from the shops, apart from an estate agent and dental hygienist round the corner. Further round the corner at 14 Queen's Terrace was a pub that would have been the local for the Underground staff called 'The Knights of St John's Tavern'. Sadly it served its last pint in 1994, but if you pop round there you will see the pub's extremely rare plaster frieze with the Toby logo painted on it. As a certain Cockney actor would say: "Not many people know that".
The Chinese restaurant was a real pain in the backside and it caused many expensive delays to the Met Line! How you ask? Well the owner was no the greatest at taking advice, His restaurant used a lot of fat and caused blockages in the drainage system which caused flooding on the tracks which, in turn, caused the track circuits to fail and return the signals to danger. he was warned on several occasions but failed to heed the warnings and was finally taken to court by London Transport where he was heavily fined and the establishment shut down.
Marlborough Road really was intended to be the exception and to be closed completely. The original plan was to keep the Metropolitan platforms open at Swiss Cottage and that to be the southerly interchange with the Bakerloo (as it then was), and St John's Wood Road (AKA Lords) was to open on match days. Wartime economies showed the efficiency of just closing them.
If you can find John Betjeman's "Metroland" from 1973, (it's on Dailymotion and Vimeo), towards the beginning, he does a feature on this station. In those days, there was still a small part of the platforms remaining, and the cast iron brackets which supported the overall roof. Betjeman used the station whilst courting, so at least it had some use. This was also where Thomas Hood the poet lived. In JBs words: "He wrote "I remember, I remember, the house where I was born"... and the railway cut through his garden".
Causing City gents to have to use the scruffy little tube line to reach Lord's for the afternoon's sport instead of a direct train from the City just isn't cricket.
Do you think you can do a video explaining how all of the companies were merged into one and not one of the bosses of the old companies made a sound there’s not a word of discontent added in the annals of history by these people it just seem to go extremely smooth I’d like to know more about that and the process behind it Or would I be better served going to university
St John's Wood was also notable, in the days of my youth, for being the only tube/underground station which contained none of the letters in the word "mackerel". Is there a modern equivalent of that riddle?
OK, I was sufficiently interested, bored and hiding away with COVID to investigate. And, as far as I can see, St John's Wood is still the only station on the underground (or at least on the Open Streetmap list of 305 stations) to contain none of the letters in "mackerel". However. "mackerel" is not alone, because there are 15,216 other words in the standard Linux British English word list which also share letters with all but one underground station.
I lived down the road from this former station about fifteen years ago, and I remember when it was a Chinese restaurant with a big sign saying "Dim Sum Served Daily".
@@Basaljet No, I mean the Gerry Rafferty song...... Winding your way down Baker Street, Light in your head and dead on your feet.... the opening two lines of the song.
Walking to Finchley Road with my then girlfriend about 1996, I saw this building (in its Chinese restaurant reincarnation) and said 'I bet that used to be an Underground station!'. I've been looking around for disused stations a lot of the time since then whenever I'm in London. I take issue with St John's Wood having 'frequent' trains though. Every time I got to the Southbound platform the next train always seemed to be 11 minutes away (which of course doesn't take into account the extra minute or so when it reads 'Next train approaching').
Have I now got to be measured going on the tube ? Its bad enough taking a bottle of water with me , finding a dog to carry up the escalator now If I am a short commuter coming from Watford I have to take the Bakerloo, if Tall the Met ? ( comment applies to about 1978)
This is pwoppa content! Love it! Can I humbly request a similar video for Primrose Hill station, especially a full explanation of the reasons for it's demise.
The population around there is far denser than it was in the 1930s. These days it probably would survive. The Metropolitan Line tunnel runs sub surface under Wellington Rd next to Lord's Cricket Ground. A station there opening up _directly_ into the ground and the district would be ideal. There is also two shunting tunnels under the Nursery End of the ground which could be a station for the ground. Lords *needs* a station. MCC could contribute.
That is probably missing the point. The Metropolitan were running multiple patterns of services down the same corridor. Beyond Finchley Road they had four tracks (actually they had six with the extra pair being loaned to the Great Central/LNER but let's forget them). Stopping services were on one set of tracks and express/non-stopping services (esp. those running fast between Wembley Park and Finchley Road) the other - express services could easily go past the stopping ones. Suddenly at Finchley Road they had only had two. If a stopping train stopped, it held up all the express/fast services too. Far better to separate out the traffic - moving the stopping services to the Bakerloo basically fixed that. It was not originally realised quite how important this was - they were going to keep Lords open for match days which would have probably been chaos.
@@tremensdelirious From the sidings south of Lords, north of Marylebone station, the main line out of Marylebone runs under the Nursery End. Either side are two _shunting_ tunnels accessed from the south. They terminate in the road just north of the Nursery End, so if they wanted to extend they would have no hassle with Lords. WG Grace stopped the construction of the tunnel, taking parliamentary intervention to uncover the Nursery End and back fill, compensating Lords. That is why three were built - in case. Buildings on the Nursery End cannot be more than 500mm deep and only light framed buildings. There has been all sorts of speculation of what to use the tunnels for - gyms, etc.
@@johnforrest695 As heavy match days are at the weekends I doubt it would cause too much trouble. St.John's Wood station was on the Met line, at St.John's Wood Road where the Danubious hotel is. Marlborough Rd station was just up Wellington Rd on the same line. The Bakerloo line came in with a new station to be named Acacia Ave yards from Marlborough Rd, but was named St.John's Wood. When it opened Marlborough Rd closed, but the St.John's Wood station stayed open on the Met line. You cannot have two St.John's Woods, so it was renamed Lords. WW2 broke out so Lords was closed temporarily, due to staff shortages. It never reopened. Parts of the station still exist. The station was named Lords for around six months. My point was that if they opened up Marlborough Rd station for whatever reason, it would be viable.
@@JP_TaVeryMuch T20 games, etc, are common. Full house with 30,000. 30,000 is a lot for that tight district. 20 years ago it was 25,000. The extra 5,000 make a big difference.
How nice that the once outcast station was eventually let back into the fold 😄 I knew there were abandonments with the Stanmore branch but had no idea there was still a station left. Just as well someone at TFL knew really 😜 I remember something in the murky past about there having been a Lords station too, but I am quite sure your future production will fill in the gaps of my brain scribble with felt tips of enlightenment, to which I naturally greatly look forward 🤓 Splendid sir! 🍻👍🍀
A good story about repurposing infrastructure there. I wholeheartedly approve! I also like it whenever Verney Junction is mentioned, because I live about 50 miles from the centre of London and yet Verney Junction - the furthest extent of the Metropolitan railway - is roughly only 8 miles from where I live!
Talking about repurposing infrastructure, recently, when the bulldozers were due to sweep away the last remnants of Verney Junction, a friend of mine, along with a team from the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire railway, were allowed several days at Verney to recover as much useable material as they could. They then repeated the operation at Swanbourne. It was a fairly hectic period for them, but successful. So even if those stations no longer exist, a good proportion of them will still return to railway use, just somewhere else, instead.
If you drive I bet you've seen a lot of gee-gee boxes making their way in and out of the turning to Verney Junction onto the A413. The new station built on the near-end outskirts of Winslow is only a few minutes' drive from Verney Junction. Swanbourne,tucked away in the country back roads off the other side of the A413,is little bigger than a village,isn't it?
@@rjjcms1 I haven't been out that way in a long while, mainly because the straightest route there has been blocked because of the EWR development work (As well as HS2, I would imagine, as they converge in roughly the same area).
@@phaasch That's a bit like the main visitor's centre at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton Road (Just down the line from Verney Junction, as it happens). The structure for that was the former Rewley road station building in Oxford.
"There was a crossing loop to enable trains to switch tracks if needed" ... that would be a crossover. In fact it was a loop to allow trains going in opposite directions to get past each other, the M&SJWR being, originally, single track.
Sampler: " Predictably, Walford East, like many other parts of the Underground, recieved it's share of unwanted attention from the Luftwaffe. Like here, in September 1940. This same bomb blew in all the windows of the Queen Vic, and the landlord, understandably " 'ad the right 'ump abaht it.""
you said there was no sign of the Original Lord's station.. you were looking at the wrong building.. which is still there.. (Now an Overfinch Range Rover dealership)
Is that true? My understanding is that St John's Wood Road had a building the style of Finchley Road which happened (because they had space?) to have some garages around the back. I don't think the main building is there anymore.
@@johnforrest695 I'm referring to the Old Lords' station on the Metropolitan line which was around the corner of the hotel look at the front facade of the car dealership.. that was the station
The original building was a single-storey one that was demolished to make way for a C W Clark design, which in turn was knocked down for the hotel. I have a video on Lord’s in the queue.
@@JagoHazzard well that’s told me then I just grew up always being told by my late father that was it when he grew up between my great grandfathers apartment off abbey road & the family house in Redbridge plus looking out the window on the metropolitan line at what’s left there now (storage)
@@JagoHazzard Sad to say that there is nothing below ground thanks to the massive pilings to support the hotel. There is the evacuation platform, but who knows if that is accurately placed on the site of the original St Johns Wood Rd (Met). It was only called Lords for a few months.
Jubilee was opened around the time of the silver Jubilee so I suppose the Elizabeth (not an Underground) line is in time for this years Jubilee. I wonder if we'll ever get a Charles line?
This is Great! I used to live in the St Johns Wood area and I still live around the area. I would walk past the Marlborough Road Station almost everyday and it was so cool.
John Betjeman (who, I hope, looks over our online activities) mentions the abandoned Marlborough Road in 'Metro-land' (1973); I was disappointed that this was not mentioned.
Good question... *Highway to Hell* would be fitting for the Northern Line, given its depth beneath the earth :3 The would-have-been Fleet Line definitely would be *Hearts of Oak* . *In the mood for mischief* comes to mind for the DLR, for some reason.
Well done Jago , another bit of the underground covered. A little surprised on your pronouncation as standard English pronunciation is th-cam.com/video/j5sbtfH5oGs/w-d-xo.html Could have mentioned the old platforms that are clearly seen as the modern Met line trains clatter through from Baker St to Finchley Road. The metropolitan ran from Finchley Road to Wembley Park ( for the Empire Exhibition 1924) , with platforms at Kilburn ( bridge over the High Road ) , Willesden Green and Neasden. You can see traces at West Hampstead ( old Station building now an estate agent) . The Great Central ( now Chiltern trains run parallel from Finchley Road to Neasden , where it branches off to Wembley HIll ( now Wembley Stadium) . You can clearly see the date on the Bridge at Kilburn High Road , and the "Squaredle " on the outside of Willesden Green Station. The Met line used to run out to Aylesbury as late as the 1960s. I remember as a very young child traveling with my Grandma to Wembley Park on the Met line with slam door carriages , pulled by Sarah Siddons like dark red locomotives . An example of this type of electric locomotive stood at the side of the Neasden works / sidings and LPTB reserve power station. Keep up the good work and don't always oversimplify your histories. The nearby significance of the Lord's cricket ground to Marlborough Rd and Lords Met Railway , as well as St Johns Wood (Jubilee line - formerly Bakerloo line Stanmore branch) is pretty significant to cricket fans 😂😂. See also John Betjamin film Metroland , whom used the Marlborough Rd station to visit his girlfriend.
I remember my late father taking me down Malborough road as a kid as he lived there when he was a child. Strangely enough the tube station is nowhere near Marlborough Road itself but is near Marlborough Place (unless I'm mistaken!).
I think Marlboro ( which I smoked when I did smoke in the last century) Road has quite a interesting if short history in the context of the story of UndergrounD.
Excellent as always. Definitely looking forward to Lord's. And the entire cricket ground. Oh what about famous Cricket Ground tube stations. That'll be Lord's and the Oval.
The thing is, I always remember that place as being a Peking/Chinese Restaurant, reminiscent of many a memory on the 113 bus from Oxford Street back to Edgware.
Some time ago I didn’t make the connection that Marlborough Road and Marlboro Road were the same station, I always thought Marlboro Road was named after the cigarette brand :/
We have a city in MA that is also officially Marlborough but also called Marlboro. It neighbors other towns which have a complicated relationship with the -ugh. Ugh.
@@baystated Thank you.Seeing that your country only makes up 6% of the world's population you maybe shouldn't expect us all to know your local nomenclature for your equivalent of counties.
Actually Marlborough/Marlboro would be another for the "Underground stations with disputed pronunciation" file, Marlboro(ugh) or Mallboro, as in the Duke of? ... 🤔
I hadn't realised that the Underground was now using this building as a substation, as I remember it as being a Chinese restaurant for many years, and had wondered why it was then closed and bricked up! Sadly I never went inside to have a meal and check out the architecture...
In one of the Bond books (Man with The Golden Gun), Bond masquerades as Mark *Hazard* of Transworld Consortium. A coincidence or am I on to something ?
My guess is that the new stock accelerates faster. This needs more power and draws more current at least for a few moments, even if the trains are more efficient overall.
@@channelsixtysix066 also, the system needed to be upgraded to handle the regenerative braking. That’s more current in the system too - the speed would’ve otherwise been shed as heat, now fed back in as electricity.
@@kaitlyn__L _"also, the system needed to be upgraded to handle the regenerative braking."_ - OK, yes. I didn't realise the older stock didn't have regenerateive braking.
As a N London dweller of some 35+ years, I must have driven past that building many dozens of times, but had no idea of its history until now. Cheers for the explanation Jago ! 😎👍
Grandad came to visit us years ago when we lived in that area and asked for a ticket to Marlborough Road Station.
''You been inside or summin' guvnor ?'' said the man in the ticket office. ''It's been shut for years !''
Grandad was based in rhe nearby St John's Woods barracks before WW1 so probably used it a few times when it was open !
Your grandad was in the King's Troop Artillery? Top chap!
@@Apollo_Mint Yep !
Herbert J. Peck.
He also left his walking stick on the bus once ... and Lost Property were reluctant to give it back as it turned out to be a sword stick !
I lived at the barracks from 2008-10. Not King's Troop but did date one of the female L. Cpls.
@@archstanton6102 it's a shame they had to 'vacate the premises' - I miss the sound and site of the horses pulling the gun carriges along the early morning streets !
I remember years ago when I lived up that way, seeing them exercising their horses about 4.30-5.00 am. First time I saw it, about 50-60 horses being corralled up Haverstock Hill, I didn't know if I was still asleep and dreaming, or if I had somehow slipped back in time. It was an amazing sight, and sound.
So if the substation was at Battersea power station would it be called Battersea power station station substation?
Finally, you're in my neck of the woods, Jago. The last restaurant to serve in the abandoned station was a posh Chinese restaurant that always seemed empty. The building was painted black back then and it was out of the way from the shops, apart from an estate agent and dental hygienist round the corner. Further round the corner at 14 Queen's Terrace was a pub that would have been the local for the Underground staff called 'The Knights of St John's Tavern'. Sadly it served its last pint in 1994, but if you pop round there you will see the pub's extremely rare plaster frieze with the Toby logo painted on it. As a certain Cockney actor would say: "Not many people know that".
Fascinating..those ghost Chinese restaurants. Btw; Aforesaid " Cockney actor"' was actually from Elephant and Castle. many people may know that.
I spotted that pub! There’s a photo of it on my Instagram.
@@iconicshrubbery Not many people know that either 😆👍
@@iconicshrubbery Charlie Chaplin ?
@@highpath4776 You 'avin a larf son?
The Chinese restaurant was a real pain in the backside and it caused many expensive delays to the Met Line! How you ask? Well the owner was no the greatest at taking advice, His restaurant used a lot of fat and caused blockages in the drainage system which caused flooding on the tracks which, in turn, caused the track circuits to fail and return the signals to danger. he was warned on several occasions but failed to heed the warnings and was finally taken to court by London Transport where he was heavily fined and the establishment shut down.
[Not] a succulent Chinese meal
Sounds like a Chinese take-out.
An early example of the fatberg problem which has had more prominence recently.
Marlborough Road really was intended to be the exception and to be closed completely. The original plan was to keep the Metropolitan platforms open at Swiss Cottage and that to be the southerly interchange with the Bakerloo (as it then was), and St John's Wood Road (AKA Lords) was to open on match days. Wartime economies showed the efficiency of just closing them.
If you can find John Betjeman's "Metroland" from 1973, (it's on Dailymotion and Vimeo), towards the beginning, he does a feature on this station. In those days, there was still a small part of the platforms remaining, and the cast iron brackets which supported the overall roof. Betjeman used the station whilst courting, so at least it had some use. This was also where Thomas Hood the poet lived. In JBs words: "He wrote "I remember, I remember, the house where I was born"... and the railway cut through his garden".
No trace remains of Lords??? That's just not cricket 🏏
Although there's no trace of Lords, there is a Traci Lords. Might be a bit of a sticky wicket after all these years though
@@JP_TaVeryMuch I live nearby so I’ll pop over and have a look. I think I know where you mean. Didn’t realise that’s what it is. 👍
@@Apollo_Mint No, these days pitches are covered except when play is in progress. Sir Geoffrey talks about this quite a lot.
Causing City gents to have to use the scruffy little tube line to reach Lord's for the afternoon's sport instead of a direct train from the City just isn't cricket.
@@JP_TaVeryMuch Which means you'd have to change trains as well.
These regular uploads are great 👍🏻🇬🇧
There was an excellent Chinese restaurant there at one time. The ticket window was still in the wall.
A succulent Chinese meal!
When you live in a young developing city, and lived in London previously, you realise the insane amount of infrastructure London has. It's remarkable
Do you think you can do a video explaining how all of the companies were merged into one and not one of the bosses of the old companies made a sound there’s not a word of discontent added in the annals of history by these people it just seem to go extremely smooth I’d like to know more about that and the process behind it Or would I be better served going to university
St John's Wood was also notable, in the days of my youth, for being the only tube/underground station which contained none of the letters in the word "mackerel". Is there a modern equivalent of that riddle?
I remember my art teacher told me that riddle when I was in secondary school lol
OK, I was sufficiently interested, bored and hiding away with COVID to investigate. And, as far as I can see, St John's Wood is still the only station on the underground (or at least on the Open Streetmap list of 305 stations) to contain none of the letters in "mackerel". However. "mackerel" is not alone, because there are 15,216 other words in the standard Linux British English word list which also share letters with all but one underground station.
Covering Lord's just in time for the cricket season to begin then, right?
I lived down the road from this former station about fifteen years ago, and I remember when it was a Chinese restaurant with a big sign saying "Dim Sum Served Daily".
I remember that. Wasn't it also an Indian restaurant at some point mabye in the 80s or 90s?
...a succulent Chinese meal!
Marlboro Road sounds like a smokey place, must have been bad for the underground.
Clever!😉
Ta, good one!
I love this video. I used to live next door and this was a nice nostalgic trip for me 🙂
I used to live in a road called Marlborough Road,but not that one.
"And on to Stan, moreover"
Mention of the name, "Baker Street" evokes memories of the 1978 Gerry Rafferty song.
Makes me think of freshly baked bread, and a fictional detective... but I'm not a Londoner XD
(not be residence anyway)
Surely you mean Baker Street muse 1976 jethro Tull album minstrel in the gallery!
Cue sax solo
@@Basaljet No, I mean the Gerry Rafferty song......
Winding your way down Baker Street,
Light in your head and dead on your feet.... the opening two lines of the song.
@@TadeuszCantwell LOL
Walking to Finchley Road with my then girlfriend about 1996, I saw this building (in its Chinese restaurant reincarnation) and said 'I bet that used to be an Underground station!'. I've been looking around for disused stations a lot of the time since then whenever I'm in London.
I take issue with St John's Wood having 'frequent' trains though. Every time I got to the Southbound platform the next train always seemed to be 11 minutes away (which of course doesn't take into account the extra minute or so when it reads 'Next train approaching').
Have I now got to be measured going on the tube ? Its bad enough taking a bottle of water with me , finding a dog to carry up the escalator now If I am a short commuter coming from Watford I have to take the Bakerloo, if Tall the Met ? ( comment applies to about 1978)
This is pwoppa content! Love it! Can I humbly request a similar video for Primrose Hill station, especially a full explanation of the reasons for it's demise.
So, "Secrets of the London Underground Substations" series?
The population around there is far denser than it was in the 1930s. These days it probably would survive. The Metropolitan Line tunnel runs sub surface under Wellington Rd next to Lord's Cricket Ground. A station there opening up _directly_ into the ground and the district would be ideal. There is also two shunting tunnels under the Nursery End of the ground which could be a station for the ground.
Lords *needs* a station. MCC could contribute.
That is probably missing the point. The Metropolitan were running multiple patterns of services down the same corridor. Beyond Finchley Road they had four tracks (actually they had six with the extra pair being loaned to the Great Central/LNER but let's forget them). Stopping services were on one set of tracks and express/non-stopping services (esp. those running fast between Wembley Park and Finchley Road) the other - express services could easily go past the stopping ones. Suddenly at Finchley Road they had only had two. If a stopping train stopped, it held up all the express/fast services too. Far better to separate out the traffic - moving the stopping services to the Bakerloo basically fixed that. It was not originally realised quite how important this was - they were going to keep Lords open for match days which would have probably been chaos.
@@tremensdelirious
From the sidings south of Lords, north of Marylebone station, the main line out of Marylebone runs under the Nursery End. Either side are two _shunting_ tunnels accessed from the south. They terminate in the road just north of the Nursery End, so if they wanted to extend they would have no hassle with Lords.
WG Grace stopped the construction of the tunnel, taking parliamentary intervention to uncover the Nursery End and back fill, compensating Lords. That is why three were built - in case.
Buildings on the Nursery End cannot be more than 500mm deep and only light framed buildings.
There has been all sorts of speculation of what to use the tunnels for - gyms, etc.
@@johnforrest695
As heavy match days are at the weekends I doubt it would cause too much trouble.
St.John's Wood station was on the Met line, at St.John's Wood Road where the Danubious hotel is. Marlborough Rd station was just up Wellington Rd on the same line. The Bakerloo line came in with a new station to be named Acacia Ave yards from Marlborough Rd, but was named St.John's Wood. When it opened Marlborough Rd closed, but the St.John's Wood station stayed open on the Met line. You cannot have two St.John's Woods, so it was renamed Lords.
WW2 broke out so Lords was closed temporarily, due to staff shortages. It never reopened. Parts of the station still exist. The station was named Lords for around six months.
My point was that if they opened up Marlborough Rd station for whatever reason, it would be viable.
The walk helps stagger arrivals of spectators at Lord's and helps a bit of the local economy with shops, etc
@@JP_TaVeryMuch
T20 games, etc, are common. Full house with 30,000. 30,000 is a lot for that tight district. 20 years ago it was 25,000. The extra 5,000 make a big difference.
How nice that the once outcast station was eventually let back into the fold 😄 I knew there were abandonments with the Stanmore branch but had no idea there was still a station left. Just as well someone at TFL knew really 😜
I remember something in the murky past about there having been a Lords station too, but I am quite sure your future production will fill in the gaps of my brain scribble with felt tips of enlightenment, to which I naturally greatly look forward 🤓
Splendid sir! 🍻👍🍀
And in the shots of the abandoned station building, I see some extractor fan vents = it was a restaurant/pub before “smoking” indoors was illegal 🚭
Appropriately enough for Marlboro Road
@@AndreiTupolev tar, good one!
A good story about repurposing infrastructure there. I wholeheartedly approve!
I also like it whenever Verney Junction is mentioned, because I live about 50 miles from the centre of London and yet Verney Junction - the furthest extent of the Metropolitan railway - is roughly only 8 miles from where I live!
Talking about repurposing infrastructure, recently, when the bulldozers were due to sweep away the last remnants of Verney Junction, a friend of mine, along with a team from the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire railway, were allowed several days at Verney to recover as much useable material as they could. They then repeated the operation at Swanbourne. It was a fairly hectic period for them, but successful. So even if those stations no longer exist, a good proportion of them will still return to railway use, just somewhere else, instead.
If you drive I bet you've seen a lot of gee-gee boxes making their way in and out of the turning to Verney Junction onto the A413. The new station built on the near-end outskirts of Winslow is only a few minutes' drive from Verney Junction. Swanbourne,tucked away in the country back roads off the other side of the A413,is little bigger than a village,isn't it?
@@rjjcms1 I haven't been out that way in a long while, mainly because the straightest route there has been blocked because of the EWR development work (As well as HS2, I would imagine, as they converge in roughly the same area).
@@phaasch That's a bit like the main visitor's centre at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton Road (Just down the line from Verney Junction, as it happens). The structure for that was the former Rewley road station building in Oxford.
@@TheCyberSalvager Which itself repurposed the casting patterns for the Crystal Palace...
"There was a crossing loop to enable trains to switch tracks if needed" ... that would be a crossover. In fact it was a loop to allow trains going in opposite directions to get past each other, the M&SJWR being, originally, single track.
A passing loop, in other words. :)
A suggestion for fictional tube stations: would love to see walford east covered from the popular British soap opera Eastenders
Sampler: " Predictably, Walford East, like many other parts of the Underground, recieved it's share of unwanted attention from the Luftwaffe. Like here, in September 1940. This same bomb blew in all the windows of the Queen Vic, and the landlord, understandably " 'ad the right 'ump abaht it.""
From Station to Closed Station to Sub-Station!
Jago, please make a video on yesterday’s TfL bus proposal! They are withdrawing 16 routes (11, 24, etc) and altering so much more routes!
You really are a knowledge powerhouse. Cheers for making our days brighter and smarter.
SJW station is pretty important to Beatles history--it's closest to Abbey Road studios and is used in Hard Days Night
As it happens, there’s a video in the queue on St J - and of course, a certain famous zebra crossing makes an appearance.
The station used in Hard Days Night was Marylebone. Crowcombe, on the West Somerset railway also puts in an appearance.
you said there was no sign of the Original Lord's station.. you were looking at the wrong building.. which is still there.. (Now an Overfinch Range Rover dealership)
Is that true? My understanding is that St John's Wood Road had a building the style of Finchley Road which happened (because they had space?) to have some garages around the back. I don't think the main building is there anymore.
@@johnforrest695 I'm referring to the Old Lords' station on the Metropolitan line which was around the corner of the hotel look at the front facade of the car dealership.. that was the station
The original building was a single-storey one that was demolished to make way for a C W Clark design, which in turn was knocked down for the hotel. I have a video on Lord’s in the queue.
@@JagoHazzard well that’s told me then I just grew up always being told by my late father that was it when he grew up between my great grandfathers apartment off abbey road & the family house in Redbridge plus looking out the window on the metropolitan line at what’s left there now (storage)
@@JagoHazzard Sad to say that there is nothing below ground thanks to the massive pilings to support the hotel. There is the evacuation platform, but who knows if that is accurately placed on the site of the original St Johns Wood Rd (Met). It was only called Lords for a few months.
Another example as to why train operators should not be selling of their estate piecemeal. You never know what will be needed in the future.
Spent many nights parked up in Marlborough place when I drove a cab. Never knew about this old station.
The remains of the platforms at Marlborough Road, are somewhat ghostly looking at night, because you can see the staircases.
Jubilee was opened around the time of the silver Jubilee so I suppose the Elizabeth (not an Underground) line is in time for this years Jubilee. I wonder if we'll ever get a Charles line?
Jubilee line opened 2 years late in 1979
Maybe; though I suspect *William, Duke of Cambridge* will be King before such a line is finished.
The somewhat delayed opening of the Purple Line worked out quite nicely, didn't it
I thought lines of Charlie already exist in some quarters... 😯
@@Keithbarber and it was previously to be named the Fleet Line.
Fascinating, thank you Jago!
This is Great! I used to live in the St Johns Wood area and I still live around the area. I would walk past the Marlborough Road Station almost everyday and it was so cool.
It is criminal to paint brick, looks horrible and stops the bricks breathing. Blast off all that muck and restore it to how it was.
Another day another upload to enjoy on my week off work 👍
Missed an opportunity for a "You are the sub(s) to my station" at the end there.
John Betjeman (who, I hope, looks over our online activities) mentions the abandoned Marlborough Road in 'Metro-land' (1973); I was disappointed that this was not mentioned.
Not seen 'John Betjeman in Metroland'? He did a piece to camera on the old platforms when they were still there.
Hello people in the comments! Which music best represents each London underground line?
Good question... *Highway to Hell* would be fitting for the Northern Line, given its depth beneath the earth :3
The would-have-been Fleet Line definitely would be *Hearts of Oak* .
*In the mood for mischief* comes to mind for the DLR, for some reason.
Well, Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty for the Metropolitan, natch
Waterloo by ABBA for the W&C
God Save the Queen by the S*x Pistols for the Jubilee... ? 🤔
Northern Soul?
Thank you Jago. That is the finest looking electrical substation i've ever seen !:-)
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These videos are theraputic
Excellent! Very informative. Thanks
The underground treated hole istically - is that how we got the circle line ?
Those City of Westminster street signs are truly lovely.
Interesting video yet again mate.
Another episode enjoyed here in the Vienna woods 😊👍🏽
Loved going past it on the 13 when I was a conductor and I always look out for it on the met when I travel
Don Jago.
Have you watched "Metroland" by John Betjeman? If not you should.
Funny how the current St.John's Wood station is closer to the old Marlborough Road station than the old St.John's Wood station. lol
"...Stanmore-over."
Liked that.
V/O excellent as always. (From someone who has worked in V/O for a long time.)
Well done Jago , another bit of the underground covered. A little surprised on your pronouncation as standard English pronunciation is th-cam.com/video/j5sbtfH5oGs/w-d-xo.html
Could have mentioned the old platforms that are clearly seen as the modern Met line trains clatter through from Baker St to Finchley Road. The metropolitan ran from Finchley Road to Wembley Park ( for the Empire Exhibition 1924) , with platforms at Kilburn ( bridge over the High Road ) , Willesden Green and Neasden. You can see traces at West Hampstead ( old Station building now an estate agent) . The Great Central ( now Chiltern trains run parallel from Finchley Road to Neasden , where it branches off to Wembley HIll ( now Wembley Stadium) . You can clearly see the date on the Bridge at Kilburn High Road , and the "Squaredle " on the outside of Willesden Green Station. The Met line used to run out to Aylesbury as late as the 1960s. I remember as a very young child traveling with my Grandma to Wembley Park on the Met line with slam door carriages , pulled by Sarah Siddons like dark red locomotives . An example of this type of electric locomotive stood at the side of the Neasden works / sidings and LPTB reserve power station. Keep up the good work and don't always oversimplify your histories. The nearby significance of the Lord's cricket ground to Marlborough Rd and Lords Met Railway , as well as St Johns Wood (Jubilee line - formerly Bakerloo line Stanmore branch) is pretty significant to cricket fans 😂😂. See also John Betjamin film Metroland , whom used the Marlborough Rd station to visit his girlfriend.
This channel is more interesting and fun than Yesterday TV programme "Secrets of the Underground" 👍
Thanks jago, I’ve been ‘transformed ‘.
I remember my late father taking me down Malborough road as a kid as he lived there when he was a child. Strangely enough the tube station is nowhere near Marlborough Road itself but is near Marlborough Place (unless I'm mistaken!).
I think Marlboro ( which I smoked when I did smoke in the last century) Road has quite a interesting if short history in the context of the story of UndergrounD.
North London privilege. 😂
Excellent as always. Definitely looking forward to Lord's. And the entire cricket ground. Oh what about famous Cricket Ground tube stations. That'll be Lord's and the Oval.
I suppose it was doomed when they banned cigarette advertising.
Of all the names of stations around London, Finchley Rd and Frognal is by far my favorite
Would be nice if there were any photos/ videos of the Bakerloo on the now-replaced branch.
I'd like to watch one about Mornington Crescent, and why it's so funny on Just a Minute
The thing is, I always remember that place as being a Peking/Chinese Restaurant, reminiscent of many a memory on the 113 bus from Oxford Street back to Edgware.
0:15 don't see many challengers in the UK, good find
Some time ago I didn’t make the connection that Marlborough Road and Marlboro Road were the same station, I always thought Marlboro Road was named after the cigarette brand :/
First? Second? Third? *(CHILDISH COMMENT)*
Plus: only 1st & 3rd matter on this type of channel anyway :3
:-(
First time I saw this building, it was in use as a restaurant. I don't know when the restaurant there closed, but at least it still survives
Apparently they were causing a nuisance and TfL got their licence revoked in court (info. somewhere else in the comments).
A nice piece of film. Why is not used as an office ? It is better to 'use' the building than not use it.
I think I went there when it was a Chinese restaurant, which was rather good.
We have a city in MA that is also officially Marlborough but also called Marlboro. It neighbors other towns which have a complicated relationship with the -ugh. Ugh.
Where's M.A? I'm running through the list of countries that can be abbreviated to M.A. and drawing a blank...
@@Aengus42 Massachusetts, New England, USA
@@baystated Thank you.Seeing that your country only makes up 6% of the world's population you maybe shouldn't expect us all to know your local nomenclature for your equivalent of counties.
The old station used to be a Chinese restaurant when I lived there.
I’d love to have a nose around inside the building.
Actually Marlborough/Marlboro would be another for the "Underground stations with disputed pronunciation" file, Marlboro(ugh) or Mallboro, as in the Duke of? ... 🤔
Just a shame they painted it over so poorly.
It would be nice to see the structure given more attention than just monochromatic beige, but then they probably want it to not stand out.
Loudoun Road (confusing in many ways)
Bruh .... it's "Mawl-bruh".
0:15 Nice Dodge Challenger!
I never did get to eat at that restaurant where the station was
Thanks very interesting 🧐
Underused, overused, Wombling Free...
A ghost station if ever there was!
Do the denizens of St John's Wood call it Sin-gents Wood? Inquiring minds want to know!
None of the dozen or so that I know.
Use to live in the area and I miss it the more I think about it
I hadn't realised that the Underground was now using this building as a substation, as I remember it as being a Chinese restaurant for many years, and had wondered why it was then closed and bricked up! Sadly I never went inside to have a meal and check out the architecture...
...a succulent Chinese meal
Interesting how an abandoned station can end being of some service. Thanks again, Jago!
enjoyed this video
"OK 007, we know the METROPOLITAN and St Johns Wood line is a secret front for another company; but which could it be?"
In one of the Bond books (Man with The Golden Gun), Bond masquerades as Mark *Hazard* of Transworld Consortium. A coincidence or am I on to something ?
a really sad story
Maybe a verney junction metropolitan line video?
Betjeman did that some years ago.
That's disappointing. New stock is meant to be more efficient, thus drawing less current from the supply. What happened here?
My guess is that the new stock accelerates faster. This needs more power and draws more current at least for a few moments, even if the trains are more efficient overall.
@@fritz46 OK, makes sense.
Increased frequency of service almost certainly means an increase in energy consumed and therefore power required.
@@channelsixtysix066 also, the system needed to be upgraded to handle the regenerative braking. That’s more current in the system too - the speed would’ve otherwise been shed as heat, now fed back in as electricity.
@@kaitlyn__L _"also, the system needed to be upgraded to handle the regenerative braking."_ - OK, yes. I didn't realise the older stock didn't have regenerateive braking.
St. John's Wood is the station near Abbey Road right?
Yep!
Very good 🙂🚂🚂🚂