5 Facts About London Tube You Didn't Know
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- Join me as I reveal five fascinating facts about the Tube that you probably didn't know before!
Fact #1: Did you know that the shortest distance between two stations in the entire London Underground is a mere 250 meters? We'll take you on a virtual journey between Leicester Square and Covent Garden on the Piccadilly line, where this astonishingly short distance separates the two bustling stations.
Fact #2: Get ready for an underground revelation! The trains on the Waterloo and City line, known for connecting the City of London to Waterloo station, have a surprising characteristic - they never see the light of day. We'll uncover the intriguing reasons behind this unique feature of the Waterloo and City line.
Fact #3: Prepare to be bewildered by Paddington tube station, which actually comprises two distinct stations. What's more perplexing is that these stations are a mere 400 meters apart if you were to walk, but astonishingly, they are over 20 kilometers apart by train. Join us as we explore the fascinating history and layout of Paddington tube station.
Fact #4: London Tube stations often bear the names of notable landmarks or districts. However, did you know that there are five stations named after pubs? We'll reveal these entertainingly named stations and their connections to popular watering holes. Discover the stories behind Angel, Elephant and Castle, Manor House, Royal Oak, and Swiss Cottage stations.
Fact #5: Football enthusiasts, this one's for you! In the vast network of London Underground stations, there's only one that bears the name of a football club - Arsenal tube station. Uncover the intriguing story behind this unique station and its connection to the renowned London football club, Arsenal FC.
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west ham..?
Named after the area, not the club.
Leytonstone Orient
@@DaveSCameron leyton
@@glennvage Brentford?
The original name of Arsenal Station was Gillespie Road. The original name is still on the tiles of the platform walls.
The origin of the name Arsenal (the football club) is the Arsenal munitions factory in Woolwich, where the team worked.
@@L-mowhy bring that stupid game into it.?
@@littlebigman6957Wdym stupid?
Because it's entirely relevant to the station being renamed,@@littlebigman6957!
My ancestor was the goalkeeper for Arsenal. He was goalie in the last game at Woolwich and the first game at Highbury. We won both games.
Actually the Waterloo and City line trains see daylight at the Waterloo end where there is a hole where they lift trains up if they need refurbishing or other stuff.
Yes but in normal day to day service, they don't go above the surface.
@@OffTheRailsUK No but the Waterloo end gets to see daylight as it’s cut and cover.
@@Mgameing123 By seeing day, they mean going above the surface.
@@Mgameing123That’s correct - they do lift them in and they do see daylight in the depot.
Walked between Leicester Square and Covent Garden many times - engineering hours - don’t try it with trains running and juice on.
Fun fact: I got on the tube to go 250m from Covent Garden to Leicester Square, fell asleep, and ended up at Heathrow Airport
Edit: 239 likes, at least my trip wasn’t for nothing!
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I’ve done that on night buses - got on at Trafalgar Square and slept all the way home but stayed asleep - until I arrived at …Trafalgar Square.
My dream
Man, you fall asleep quickly, that's a 40 sec journey between those stations.
Arsenal both club and Station are both called after the Munitions in Woolwich
The club is called after the munitions yes, but the tube station is named after the club.
Arsenal FC was originally the football team of the Woolwich Arsenal, this is going back many years.The club was founded in 1886 and took the name Royal Arsenal after its first game, combining the moniker of the Royal Oak pub, where the team members met, with that of their workplace, the Arsenal munitions factory in Woolwich. Some useless trivia for you. 🤣
@@UrbanStoriesalso both west ham and fulham broadway are named after football teams.
@@Les_MeilleursMCFCWest Ham and Fulham are both areas in london, in which the football teams are named after.
@@Les_MeilleursMCFCWest Ham is an area, which both the station and football team get their name from.
Whereas the Arsenal tube station directly got its name because of the proximity of the Arsenal stadium.
*West Ham has left the chat*
And Wimbledon
@@steveheckle8847the point is that these are places, the stations weren’t named after the clubs, but the station at Arsenal is named after Arsenal
The station name came before the football team
@@steveheckle8847massive club, same applies tho. The station name came first
@@railrunners it didn’t - it was called Gillespie road then renamed after Arsenal started playing there
The Elephant and Castle is a pub named after the area, the area is The Elephant and Castle, ergo, the Tube station is named after the surrounding area not the Pub.
I was born at Lambeth Hospital, Brook Drive, Elephant and Castle, London, S.E.1.
That's actually the other way around. There was a tavern in that area since 1760, called Elephant and Castle, so people started calling the area like that too.
@@UrbanStorieswhat and you think this is the same pub?
Different pub in a different place!
Ellefant and carsel : El infanta de castile
I love seeing tourists taking the tube between Leicester Square and Covent garden. By the time you finish getting through the statio, you could've walked there and back!
When its really crowded there is usually staff outside keeping people from going in and advising tourist to just walk to the Leicester Square.
Better underground if it's raining.
Yes London underground has been designed to rob people including tourists who don't know London. Like charing cross is only about 150 meters from embankment station and farrington station only about 200 meters from black friars station
Bit like going on the underground at Euston when you’re usually far better off walking to Euston Square
Monument for Bank or vice versa. Don't do it underground, it takes ages and is tiring and sweaty. Go up to the surface and walk round the corner. It's much nicer and quicker.
“The Waterloo & City Line never sees the light of day” Meanwhile on the entire Victoria Line… (Except for Northumberland Park Depot)
Two stations at Paddington 20km apart by rail ? Which two ? The H+C and Circle can be reached by travelling to Edgware Road.? The Bakerloo and either of the above can be reached via Baker Street. If you are speaking of single-seat journeys, then yes, they are many km apart: the two stations are on different lines, so aren't connected directly. That's kind of the point.
I assume he means the two Circle Line stations, although Paddington actually has three tube stations, not just two (not counting the Elizabeth Line as that is not a London Underground station). It is a long way to walk between Paddington (Praed Street) and Paddington (Bishop's Road) and you have to go all around the circle to do it as a "single seat" journey. Of course, the Bakerloo station is on a separate line and you cannot do a "single seat" journey from it to either of the other two stations.
@@zork999Goddammit, I always forget that the Circle Line isn't an actual circle any more!
@@pintpullinggeekIkr - that 'lasso' concept does my head in!
I think he is talking about the over ground national rail service at Paddington. However they are still linked, it's a short walk between national rail & underground. We also have Elizabeth line now
Maida Vale is also named after a pub
I was just there today, can confirm it takes like 5 mins to just walk. It is important though, as Covent Garden is very very busy most of the time so people can walk from Leicester Square or the next stop, Holborn
Never use Covent Garden stairs. Dead legs if you do
Plus Leicester Square station connects to the Northern Line so useful for changing from the Picadilly Line to Northern
Genuinely, the entrance to Covent Garden will be closed with someone shouting "Closed, walk to Leicester Square", but in Zone 1 all the stations are an easy walkable distance between them
@@paulashe61if you’re a fat unfit American, yes. Some of us see stairs as welcome exercise and sprint up them 😂
Conversely, I used to go to the gym in Covent Garden, and using the stairs was an amazing leg warm up. I did it so regularly it got to the point I could take the stairs two-at-a-time and not even get particularly tired. I felt sooo smug literally overtaking tourists taking stairs two at a time while they were faltering. Admittedly, I'm not nearly as fit now as I used to be and would be exhausted if I did it now. But the repeated fitness you develop from doing it regularly is very real and noticeable@@paulashe61
One of the weaknesses of the not-to-scale nature of the Tube map (like many subway maps) is that if you're from out of town, it's not obvious that many of the central stations are close enough together that it's preferable to walk between them if you're not going any further.
But that's the joy of every safari.
Oh what's that way, let's try it it might be better.
My friend and I made that mistake when visiting London last week. On our last day, after visiting Hamley's toy shop, we got the tube back to our hotel before heading to the airport. The nearest station to our hotel was Bayswater. So, we took the Central line from Oxford Circus to Notting Hill Gate, then changed there to head to Bayswater. In hindsight, we could've got off at Queensway (one stop before Notting Hill Gate) and walked the 100 metres to Bayswater from there!
For football clubs, there’s West Ham and Watford too and the Vic Line doesn’t ever see the light of day either and the shortest distance between tube stations is between Charing Cross and Embankment
Elephant and Castle isn't named after a pub. It is in the shopping centre which is named Elephant and Castle.
Which one do you think was built first, the tube station or the shopping centre?
@@UrbanStories I from the area. The shopping centre has been there since before I was born.
@@michaeldmingo1525 And the tavern called "Elephant & Castle" was established in 1760, I'm sure it's older than the shopping centre.
There are 6 stations named after pubs, you missed Maida Vale, named after The Hero of Maida.
good point, thanks
I see your point, but if the pub wasn't called Maida Vale, then it doesn't count. The pub has to have the exact same name as the station.
@@robertnelson68 the station/area is historically named after the pub which is what the fact was counting. It’s the same as the others. It counts.
It's actually called Maida Vegas
Elephant and Castle isn't named after the pub. The shopping centre is called Elephant and castle which is the name for the area. Technically it was called le infant de castel. Which was a french or Norman family name.
That one always gets me it’s like a 20 second ride
Hammersmith tube station also has 2 stations which are not linked
More correctly, Hammersmith has two Tube stations, with the same name, as does Edgeware Road, and until 2008 also Shepherd's Bush.
@@annamae859 I got caught out by the edgeware road one once. It was interesting at least, but missed my train home from marylebone, had to wait an hour for the next one, it's an hour home. All cities should have a tube, they're great.
I came here just to say that and you could argue the same about shepherd's Bush as well 😂
After Fact 1, “Charing Cross to Embankment” ENTERED THE CHAT
You could say the same about Bank and Monument 😂
@@CaidianJohnsonThis is distance ON A TRAIN between stations. Bank and Monument aren't on the same line.
I was thinking the walk between Bayswater and Queensway?
Oy, hands of our Geoff's turf.
Love Geoff's content. But my channel is about cities (London in particular), not specifically the tube.
10/10 for calling Arsenal a ‘Football’ club and not a ‘sucker’ club.
Football is the name of whatever the standard national code is. So in England, football is the game played by Arsenal, but in the USA, football is what we call Gridiron, in New Zealand football is Rugby and in Australia, football is a weird fast moving game that is nothing like English football.
Rugby is Rugby in New Zealand … and it’s referred to as Soccer, not football here …
Manor House and Angel are roughly the same walking distance of around a mile on opposite directions to Arsenal FC.
Arsenal only tube station station named after a club. WEST HAM and WATFORD are named after the areas they serve
aye watford aint really london tho
Could've added that Hampstead is the deepest station, and Baker St the oldest.
Some of that is in part 2
Wow didn't know that about Hampstead! I made the mistake once of using the stairs at Hampstead, never again 😂
Arsenal was named after the ammunition factory near by … not the club… 1885…
You probably mean Woolwich Arsenal. The Arsenal station on Jubilee line was renamed later, when the club moved there.
@@UrbanStories I stand corrected. ❤️ thank you for your video btw.
@@UrbanStoriesPicadilly Line
It was originally Gillespie Road but was renamed Arsenal, after the football club, in 1932.
You’ll find that Embankment and Charing Cross stations are closer. It’s a short overground walk between the two.
Not on the same line though
I give up
Naming stops after pubs is rly common im surprised only 4 tube stations are. Like when you're on the bus (at least where I am outside of London) people will just name the pub when they get on the bus.
A lot of bus services would terminate in pub car parks ( some pubs had stables for horses in horse bus days) Also referenced as terminals by some tram routes
The Victoria also doesn’t see light of day apart from when they exit Northumberland park depot
Fun fact: Central line runs through all major London landmarks and is red because the official colour of London is red, that's why buses, post boxes and telephone booths are red
It does...? It goes past Marble Arch, British Museum and St Paul's, but doesn't go directly past Westminster Palace (Westminster is on Jubilee, District and Circle), Buckingham Palace (Green Park is Jubilee, Victoria and Picadilly) or the Tower of London (Tower Hill is on Circle and District).
But the phone boxes were red all over the country - except Hull where they were white as they were never part of the GPO. The post boxes were red nationally too - not just in London.
250m is what i walk to the bus stop every time i go to school
Kings Cross St Pancras is linked on the Underground but only by the Underground, above ground they are two separate buildings which is important because one serves national rail and the other serves international
St Pancras also does national
bro thought we were so dumb that we didn't know this 💀
At least he called the beautiful game how it should be named. ITS FOOTBALL NOT SOCCER
I live in London, of course it’s football
Here's a London Tube fact, Finsbury Park spelt backwards is Krapyrubsnif.
Olduns are the gooduns! Been waiting for this to rear... its head again. Thanks.
I already knew this
Knew this Hammersmith has the same situation as paddington and Waterloo and city line sees daylight at the waterloo place used to take trains out for refurbs
In Boston, the distance between park st station and downtown crossing is about 100 meters
Similarly with State and Government Center, and the various entrances to State are spread out over a bigger area than that--it's a labyrinth made of several old connected stations.
90 yards , say 4 chains
The more I watch London video, the more confused I get
metropolitan stations being named after pubs is the most british and smartest thing to do
Idk about all of them, but I'm pretty sure at least for Angel it's that the area is named after the pub (originally built in 1614), and the station is then named after the area.
Love London the city I was born, no matter what some people sayids an amazing capital of a beautiful country.
Talk about taking the long way round😂
Talk some more about it
The prices on the tube are more scarier than any of the ghost stories on the underground.
I love it when people go abroad and regale us with tales of some metro system in a gang-ridden South American favela or some Tier 4 hamlet in northern China.
The trains were brand new that morning and you get an all-you-can-eat one month travelcard for 7p, yada yada yada.
I swear on the jubilee line there’s is a station called West Ham after the London football club so not the only one 😊😊😊
It’s named after the area, not the club
And Tottenham Hale
Leicester Square to Covent Garden works out as actually one of the most expensive rail journeys in the UK.
The metric always was Is it more expensive than Concorde per mile. Heathrow Express anyone?
I used take the Arsenal tube into London for work. I occasionally had a drink in the Arsenal pub, and a few times I saw some of the Arsenal football players in the pub. Back in the 70's that was.
And I had the pleasure and honour to use it for 25 years and I miss it badly 😢
The Montreal metro doesn’t see the light of day either. So does the Los Angeles subway, except for the yard.
Fact: City Thameslink and Fenchurch Street are the only national rail stations in Central London without an underground station.
Wow. A bucket list Mega Pub Crawl with no driving between visits....
So Doable!!😁🍻😍💖
Good plan
@@UrbanStories thanks! I'll stand you a pint.🍺😁
It actually exists - it's called the Circle Line Challenge, 27 pubs, and I've completed it for a friend's stag party. I'd recommend half pints in each pub though, otherwise a) you simply run out of time in the day, and b) you'll fall over well before the end 😂😂
@@davidthomas9165 Great to know. Good advice for the 1st timer.
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The Paddington one is really confusing because depending on the station it can be quicker one way or the other and also the stations both have multiple entrances
There are a pair of stations in Paris where you can see people on the other "dock" ... (left bank, not far from Notre Dame, IIRC).
Paddington stations are not 20km apart by train. Where did you get that figure from?
Paddington District to Edgware Road, Edgware Road to Paddington H&C. It can’t be more than 1km.
Paddington H&C line/Bishop's Road on a clockwise CIRCLE train which you have to stay in all the way back round via KC, TwrHill, Vic. &c. to Paddington Circle line/Præd St. oppo Station hotel. Capisce?
Actually, the Waterloo & City Line trains do see the light of day. At Waterloo, the sidings the trains head into after terminating are out in broad daylight.
No, they are underground.
No, In the Elizabeth line at Farringdon, there's a shortcut corridor less than 250 Metres leading you to Barbican Station on the Metropolitan, Circle, and Hammersmith & City Lines.
Transport for London (tfl) is the most unorganised joke I’ve ever been on, the amount of detentions I have gotten because of train delays and strikes!
There ued to be 3 tube stations called Charing Cross.
Charing Cross Strand (Northern)
Charing Cross Embankment
(Bakerloo, Northern, Circle & District)
Charing Cross
(Bakerloo, Northern & Jubilee) used to be called Trafalgar Square
LU: what’s shortest distance on an underground branch?
me: embankment-tot court road
Not to be that person but the Waterloo and City lone does see the light of day when it is taken out of the tunnel by a crane.
There should be a foot subway from Covent garden to Leicester Square.
Just spent 10 days in Nottinghill. Close to the tube station. We went to all the city attractions with no issues at all. Underground in London is the greatest resource for visitors. MIND THE GAP!
Metropolitan line used to terminate at Verney Junction in Buckinghamshire
#2 is incorrect. The W&C line depo is underground, however, has an open ceiling (COMPLETLY, It's about 50m away from bank). There is also a crane if the trains need to be replaced.
Arsenal were still Woolwich arsenal when the tube was being built
The move to Highbury was tied to the naming of the Piccadilly line station.
The last one isn’t right
Leyton orient fc = Leyton station
The longest distance between 2 stations on the tube is from chalfont & Latimer to chesham which is 7.1km, 7 mins of travel.
The victoria line also doesn't go out of the tunnels from one too of the line to the other.
Never ever get off at Covent Garden if you are over 60! The lift isn't always working....
I was late for a date because I switched from Bakerloo to Hammersmith and City at Paddington.
I'll never forget how long that walk was, and how much I was annoyed at losing time. Amateur mistake!
In 1996 we were in London. We didn't take the trains because of attack situations going on in the news.
Sometimes I wish I had taken the London train.
As we use these every day this is amazing!😊
If you look the wrong way at Waterloo (on the W&C line,) you can see the sidings and there's some light of day streaming through from the train crane opening...
Paddington (H&C) used to be called Bishops Road
Arsenal was where the ancient military armaments were stored in a stone building. Locations in England have history further back than when football was named.
You mean Woolwich Arsenal. The Arsenal station on Jubilee line was renamed after the football club moved there. The etymology of the club's name is a different story.
There are a number of London underground stations with the same name which are not linked and it's not just Paddington. Hammersmith Edgware Road are not linked and I think there's a couple of others which I can't remember of the top of my head.
what about west ham staition
West Ham (both station and the club) are named after the area, while with Arsenal it’s the other way around
@@UrbanStories No,Arsenal F.C. is also named after a place.
The football club - yes. Arsenal station on Jubilee line though was renamed after the club had moved to the area.
I live in Woolwich and i can confirm we have a station called woolwich arsenal on the dlr and overground and the waterloo and city line actually goes over on the ground if the railway is closed or the station is closed
The station mentioned in the video is Arsenal station on Piccadilly line though, it's different.
Omg we are in. London🎉😂
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Victoria Line trains don't see the light of day either.
The depot is above ground. Waterloo&City trains are stored underground
@@routemaster3877 forgot about that part! 😂 Where is the depot?
@@jamesk1806 Northumberland Park, its absolutely massive
Yes they do: Northumberland Park depôt is above ground. The W+C has no depôt.
@@quantisedspace7047Waterloo & City line depot is under the Imax cinema. There is a large section of the Waterloo Road which can be lifted by crane to remove or replace bogey/standard carriages for repairs or replacement
South Ealing is the shortest tube name with all the vowels.
Paddington has tube and railway stations. Tube below ground and rail at ground level. Not sure how they are 20 Km apart. In the UK we dont know what Km are, we have miles!
He's referring to getting on a Circle line train at Padd. Bishop's Road as was, platforms 15/16 and going clockwise via KC, LvrplSt, Victoria, so on back round to Padd. Præd St. as was, you know the cream tiled job opposite the front of the station hotel. Yes?
I love this guy❤❤
London is serviced by more than ine train company and many train stations have multiple connections and sit on multiple lines simultaneously, that's why.
Also short doesn't mean quick. There are stopd on the Victoria line that are literally only 30s apart
There are 3 lines that don't see the light of day (Waterloo and City, Victoria, Northern), maybe even more but I am not sure.
The Northern Line does at Morden, between Golders Green-Edgware and between East Finchley to High Barnet
My anxiety can’t travel by trains 😅
Also another fact. The pollution levels below ground are extremely high and a threat to life due to the brake dust from the trains
Few more vehicular brakes to be found on the surface methinks my friend, wrapped up in a pipe-like tube or no.
@@JP_TaVeryMuch check your facts. The pollution on the underground is significantly higher than on street level. There are vids on TH-cam where it’s being tested
Arsenal's not the only station that's a football club, there's Fulham and Brighton as well
if you're wondering no Tottenham was there before the football club, you support a train station we support a football club 🗿
What ever tf that loud noise is on the train though😂😅
Do you know how many trains will be travelling in the same time on one line in the same way ?
A number of tube stops are quicker to travel between on foot than by tube when factoring getting to the platform (ignoring waiting for a train).
Never take the tube to Covent Garden. It is quicker to walk from Leicester Square, as you have to queue for ages for a lift at Covent Garden, that has no stairs or escalators.
when i went to london i literally lived at paddington station (in the hotel) and ik that the tube station and the terminus are not linked
the Waterloo and city line do at the very end of Waterloo depot
Picadilly line mentioned😎😎😎
I was fully sure that Swiss Cottage is an area just north of Primrose Hill
5 facts I knew.
paddington is linked, linked by underground walkways
The trains on the Victoria line only see the light of day when they’re parked up and out of service
I didn’t know elephant and castle was named after a pub
What about West Ham 😢
Most of the underground rail station is above ground. Like 60-64%. More since we built the over 2 billion pound Elizabethen line. A second 1 is currently being built also