Next week we’re going to get an intro where he goes “welcome to the grand new station in central York, wait a minute this ain’t the grand new station in central York this is New York grand central station”
The delightfully incongruous & somewhat ramshackle ‘Cafe Cairo’ coffee stall out front of the Victorian station building has long been one of my favourite features of this charming station. There’s a hilarious Google review on the legendary institution which states: “The fact I walked nearly 2 miles to what I thort was a cafe and turnt up with it being closed and to top it all of it's not even a shop it's a poxy coffee stand just wanted to say thanks for the wasted journey ITS NOT A CAFE DUMMY'S” 😂
I moved to London about 2 years ago, Woodside Park (just happened to be) my nearest tube and I’ve used almost every day since; it’s never got old, the charm of that old dilapidated signal box (bit of a signalling enthusiast), beautifully preserved canopies, simple platforms with a charming waiting room (and one can’t forget the almost always open toilets, a very welcome facility) just all work- it’s a lovely little station and I’m so glad to be able to share my appreciation of it. ❤
"This is the third time I've..." Done this bit, yes Jago we know. Eternal gratitude for revisiting my childhood station, my favourite but also unbiasedly clearly the most beautiful station on the network.
Fun fact the late great spike Milligan lived just a little up the road from the station. I have many fond memories of woodsidepark as it was where my aunt and uncle lived and my first ever tube station ! Most excellent video as always x
I've already posted this somewhere else but Spike Milligan paid to have the station painted red,white and blue because he thought it too drab and it needed cheering up. I can remember it still being in these colours in 1975. I'm adding a red ,white and blue repaint to the list of things I would do to/for the Northern line should I ever win the lottery. Another thing I would do is pay to have that dreadful cladding and canopy replaced at the Oval with something in white Portland stone and a more Victorian looking canopy. Is there anyone else out there in Hazzard land that thinks the outside of Oval Station could look better.
@@simonwinter8839 He also helped restore the Fairy Tree in Hyde Park but unfortunately it's now in an obnoxious steel cage that would look more at home in the London Dungeon. It needs to be protected but should be in a glass enclosure or something similar. He lived in Highgate for a while, the house is now demolished though.
@@simonwinter8839 I've read his 7 volume war memoirs. They are partly humorous and light hearted, but are frequently grim and moving, an absolutely unique insight into the life of an ordinary soldier. He was concussed by a mortar bomb in Italy which caused him lifelong mental health problems. He had a very strong sense of right and wrong, justice and ethics, as the book of a selection of his campaigning and complaining letters shows.
Along with Totteridge & Whetstone this was my local station from the age of 4 until my late 30s and back then the area was indeed very rural and I loved every minute I lived there.
Not only see the Victorian station but imagine steam hauled traffic on the line. Its like one of those Hornby stations that I had 50 odd years ago - which itself was probably designed after Woodside Park's bretheren. TBH, I have yet to darken the northern heights doorstep - but its on my "to do" list now.
what a delightful station! I had no idea a station this attractive (of the vintage) survives on the Underground. The nerd inside me is champing at the bit to take a ride out to see it in person.
Another wonderful video, what a great station! that is exactly what I expect a train station to look like. I"m often disappointed by modern minimalist stations with spare industrial fixtures and fittings. A station like Woodside Park seems just so cozy like you could move it Thank you again for another swell video
Jago, you simply must get one of those TfL maps. I hear Geoff Marshall has a few. But that you could do this three times means the station names are very... close, even if not as the crow flies. Naughty Greater London. I wonder if you are doing video playlists for each line's stations you highlight; I haven't looked, but might be nice, as there are plenty of stations to go! And it's nice to hear about yet another "smaller" station many may not know about.
@@simonwinter8839 I think you're referring to a coalition. Collisions tend to be very messy and people tend to get hurt by them, which shouldn't be the case for a coalition.
A realy fantastic video, this has been my local station for 41 years. I love Finchley and Woodside Park. it's a really nice area to live in. I was half expecting to see myself in the video LOL. Fantasitc work Sir!!
After mentioning the automated ticket barriers at Stamford Brook in your last video, I'm surprised you didn't mention that Woodside Park is one of the few stations left that can be entered without going through a barrier, albeit only the northbound platform.
You really don't need the lack of a barrier for fare dodgers to be in evidence. At my local Tube station they just push out through the barriers. It p****s me off that I work hard and pay my fares and others, well, don't.
@@seanbonella - this is not about being political. I see where you're coming from but it's irrelevant which party I vote for - fare dodging is a crime. I'm just an ordinary bloke making a reasonable living but I was brought up to pay my way in an honest manner.
What a charming station, it almost feels like something on a heritage railway. I love when stations that are still so of the period are used for regular passenger service - my ever-beloved Chesham is the main example I can think of on the Underground. Great video!
When staying at my Aunt's house in the late 60's I used to 'go for a walk' which always ended up at Woodside Park Station. I just loved it there and over the years I graduated to actually buying a ticket to the next station and eventually all the way to Oxford Circus. I would have been 8 or 9 years old in shorts and sandals (see Famous Five)......The red 1938 stock trains used to make a strange tinkling sound on the rails as they approached and they had wooden floors and Metro-Cammel cast into the door cills. I'm glad to see it still has that country station atmosphere. Thanks Jago.
This station is truly a commuter only station and virtually dead outside the rush hours and from mid Saturday pm to Monday am. There are no stores or events areas nearby what so ever and hence it has remained almost frozen in time for 100 years! Finally each house is approaching a million pounds in value and 99% of them are divided into multi dwellings now.
Once you're out of the station name trick in London, you can visit Paris we also have a few subway/RER ( I'm not going in the sub-urban trains, there's just too many stations ). Things like Corentin- Carioux and Corentin-Celton... or Charles de Gaulle-Etoile and well (Roissy-)Charles de Gaulle Airport ( 1 & 2 )...
Recently did the High Barnet line on my tube and Elizabeth Line challenge, it still does feel somewhat different to the densely packed feel of central London. Its an interesting change, especially if your one more likely to spend time in Central London generally. Woodside Park shows that vibe pretty well I feel,
Woodside Tram Stop in South London to Woodside Park station on the Northern Line High Barnet branch is quite a journey. Just like Stamford Hill Overground station to Stamford Brook station on the District Line. Have to say that Woodside Park Northern Line station is quite nice. And with more new development being built in Woodside Park.
Many thanks for the information about the name changes. Every source I've looked at so far has said that Torrington Park was renamed a month after opening, and became Woodside Park ten years later, but without saying what it was called in between, Needless to say this has been irritating me mightily for some time, so thank you for delivering me from this misery.
@@emjayay: no, it's a development of 86 one-bedroom units from Pocket Living, which are going to be very small because that is what they do. The units are aimed at first time buyers at a 20% discount on the full market value.
You may be interested to know that "Torrington" station re-opens tomorrow (05/08/23 10am) Ok this is Torrington in North Devon and the track is only about 500yrds long but its the first time paying passengers will be able to ride a train since the late 1970's
@@andrewhotston983 Viaduct ? a couple of bridges across rivers but Im trying to think here lol, Torrington to Meath direction at Torrington there is a multi point metal bridge that used to be wood and narrow gauge You have me thinking Andrew, I mean I may have to dust of the bike and WD40 the chain and ride the route. LOL I will add 2 more; the ancient abandoned pub at the site of the canal's incline plain where the boats were hauled over a ridge and down a rail track to the lower canal to the river powered by a underground water wheel, You have got me thinking on this one, I will pop down there tomorrow with my camera (Im not getting the bike out theres to many spiders on it so will take the Land Rover). You are right that sea view from Bideford to Barny are great and as we know James May (top Gear) was the last one to drive the Flying Scotsman along that section !!
A feelgood video, Jago. Thank you. It's a sort of forgotten station really. I think this stems from it's location...nowhere near anywhere in particular
An engaging video as always. Thank you, Jago. A Victorian signal box always gives a station that countryside feel - for a moment, till you stop daydreaming and see blocks of flats right next to the station. I like the traditional canopies over the platforms (probably a name for those).
Better a travel/ train fan video, than something the Economist channel would do. 😁 I noticed that the buildings are built with typical London yellow brick, like the buildings that used to be on mainline platforms of Watford Junction. Those bricks were also used to build many buildings from the late nineteenth century until the mid twentieth....cheaper and easier to make, than the better quality red bricks, which incidentally made up the gone buildings of Watford Junction suburban platforms. Many stations in London aren't clearly as well preserved as your favourite one.
Many years ago when I was a young surveyor, an old brickie on the firm I worked for told me these bricks were called Buff Orpingtons, as the clay they were made from was dug in Kent. In my naivety and youth, I had no reason to believe otherwise. It took me many years to realise this was, in fact, a chicken. Whilst there is an element of truth in the Kent element of the tale, I still think of London Stocks as Buff Orpingtons...........and aren't there hundreds of buildings built with them!
It would be interesting to know if its Victorian features are protected with some sort of listing like some of the other architecturally important stations ?
The late great comedian Spike Milligan once paid for Woodside Park, his local Station, to be painted red,white and blue because he said it looked drab and needed cheering up.
@@JagoHazzard Can't wait for your video on Morden station. You know with the tram arriving at Morden Road!!. Wish you were here in Jamaica with me but considering the company you're probably relieved you're not !!
He was very keen on preserving the station as it had been, there were plans to modernise it, the Finchley Society came into existence around the same time and also put pressure on to preserve the station.
Of course now I'm expecting that Wildly Interesting vid on the interplay of a railway and a neighbourhood's economic development! You mention new development of housing estates after the opening of a railway station often enough, so you should have plenty of material ready for re-use. Perhaps you could apply a macro-perspective: how have railways and metro influenced (if not downright determined) the building of suburbs, the economic and social change implied, and the form and functioning of London as a city? With maps and graphs please, and (just) under 45 minutes in length.
This sounds rather more hectoring than I intended. What I really meant was to give you some suggestions. Or perhaps I just didn't get your original joke, that's also possible of course. 🤔
I don't know why when modern underground stations are built these days why they can't follow the example of their Victorian forebears to a greater or lesser degree! Thanks for uploading.
Nowadays it's unstaffed tin hovels with no toilets and help points that don't answer, or nothing. And they have to open at least a year behind schedule and cost upwards of £5,000,000 apiece.
JAGO: In a previous video, you featured the charming, and delightful station at WEST FINCHLEY; would you say that it ranks nearly as high on the list of “most Victorian” stations as Woodside Park? Regardless, both stations retain a sense of authenticity.
Great stuff as ever. Thank you. So the mind boggles, two videos ago it was Blackhorse Lane/Road, then Stamford Brook, not Hill nor Bridge. Today Woodside Park, not just Woodside. I will spend a few hours searching maps and trying to guess on a location.
There is a Woodside Station on the Long Island Railroad that connects with the # 7 Line of the IRT Subway System which can take you to Grand Central, Times Square and many other places that you may want to go. Also, it can take you to Citi-Field ware you can watch a Baseball game that you Brits may appreciate. It's a little like Cricket but much better.
@@edwardsadler7515 Baseball happens to be a very complected game to those who understand it. It's not only two teams which compete against each other but the managers as well. The game is not only played on the field but also in the mind.It's very much a thinking mans game. In baseball a game can be won or lost on just one play.
Next time "This is Ruislip... Hang on this is WEST Ruislip..." Zoom zoom zoom "Oh no this is Ruislip MANOR" zoom zoom zoom "Nope, this is Ruislip Gardens... Aaand this is South Ruislip... Ah! THIS is Ruislip" 😄
I spent many hap ... er ... many years commuting on the Northern Line from here to Bank in the late '90s. Seems to be becoming rather more built up than I remember though.
I will be honest Jago I have always preferred you doing your you job, I have a similar fascination with Margate station because of its architecture similar to a station in South London possibly Peckham something, close to the cinema...
There used to be a notice in the car park requesting drivers to park with their radiators towards the fence. So minis sideways and no VWs at all. I kid you not.
I find it hilarious how many times Jago gets lost on the tramlink, hopefully he can go visit abbey road and not get sidetracked on the DLR... (foreshadowing)
I used Woodside Park station three years ago to visit a nearby eye hospital for an operation, and I totally share Jago's appreciation of it. However, since my visit, the Victorian ambience of the station and it's surroundings has been ruined by that monstrosity of a building erected since I last used the station. Such a shame.
Going back to the economics of the railway for a moment, this video tells you quite a bit. Railway company invests money to build a railway. This makes land along its route more valuable for housing. Landowner sees increase and sells making a packet. Railway gets zero of that unearned uplift. It's a positive externality. It is also a prime argument for land value tax.
The original Woodside House was located where Cissbury Ring North (N12) is now. Its exact location is said to be marked by a plaque, but I've not been able to find the precise address, and it's not immediately visible on Google Street View.
Can’t believe they managed to get planning permission for it, especially given the lovely church (converted into flats) right by it. A damn monstrosity!
If you do a Leytonstone vid (and I'd really like it if you did), the best part there is if you get it mixed up with Leyton you only have to go one stop
Would love a Leytonstone video, I was bowled over by the murals when I went there recently (to try the out of station connection to the Goblin line, but that's another story)
We really need to get Jago a map. Apparently the London network has quite a good one.
He knows, he made the original version.
Next week we’re going to get an intro where he goes “welcome to the grand new station in central York, wait a minute this ain’t the grand new station in central York this is New York grand central station”
he drew the original one in Jay Foreman's tube map unfinished london video, as Harry Beck
@@jacksonmacmanus1001 I already made that joke.
@@JackOfHarts96 And it was a good one-two.
Woodside Park definitely feels like something out of a vintage children’s storybook. It’s quaint.
My reaction was TFL Railway children, especially the LNER signal box.
In the next episode: Jago is going to talk about Charing Cross in London, but ended up in Charing Cross in Scotland instead
Or Croydon railway station (one of two in Australia).
@@allangibson8494 is that the one near Mitcham ?
@@highpath4776 Or Burwood (NSW).
When he did Stamford Brook rather than Stamford Hill I wondered if he was going to end up in Stamford (Lincs).
or Islington in Liverpool, which is a much less genteel neighbourhood than its London counterpart
The delightfully incongruous & somewhat ramshackle ‘Cafe Cairo’ coffee stall out front of the Victorian station building has long been one of my favourite features of this charming station.
There’s a hilarious Google review on the legendary institution which states:
“The fact I walked nearly 2 miles to what I thort was a cafe and turnt up with it being closed and to top it all of it's not even a shop it's a poxy coffee stand just wanted to say thanks for the wasted journey ITS NOT A CAFE DUMMY'S” 😂
I moved to London about 2 years ago, Woodside Park (just happened to be) my nearest tube and I’ve used almost every day since; it’s never got old, the charm of that old dilapidated signal box (bit of a signalling enthusiast), beautifully preserved canopies, simple platforms with a charming waiting room (and one can’t forget the almost always open toilets, a very welcome facility) just all work- it’s a lovely little station and I’m so glad to be able to share my appreciation of it. ❤
Beside the old fire place shown in the video the bookself is a free to use library anyone can leave or take a book from there.
Honestly, when I saw the video title I assumed the opening joke would involve Woodgrange Park Station
"This is the third time I've..."
Done this bit, yes Jago we know.
Eternal gratitude for revisiting my childhood station, my favourite but also unbiasedly clearly the most beautiful station on the network.
I have never been to Woodside Park. I have however been to Corrour, so at least Geoff Marshall is happy.
Fun fact the late great spike Milligan lived just a little up the road from the station. I have many fond memories of woodsidepark as it was where my aunt and uncle lived and my first ever tube station ! Most excellent video as always x
I've already posted this somewhere else but Spike Milligan paid to have the station painted red,white and blue because he thought it too drab and it needed cheering up. I can remember it still being in these colours in 1975. I'm adding a red ,white and blue repaint to the list of things I would do to/for the Northern line should I ever win the lottery. Another thing I would do is pay to have that dreadful cladding and canopy replaced at the Oval with something in white Portland stone and a more Victorian looking canopy. Is there anyone else out there in Hazzard land that thinks the outside of Oval Station could look better.
@@simonwinter8839 He also helped restore the Fairy Tree in Hyde Park but unfortunately it's now in an obnoxious steel cage that would look more at home in the London Dungeon. It needs to be protected but should be in a glass enclosure or something similar.
He lived in Highgate for a while, the house is now demolished though.
@@caw25sha Definitely an all round good egg.
@@simonwinter8839 I've read his 7 volume war memoirs. They are partly humorous and light hearted, but are frequently grim and moving, an absolutely unique insight into the life of an ordinary soldier. He was concussed by a mortar bomb in Italy which caused him lifelong mental health problems. He had a very strong sense of right and wrong, justice and ethics, as the book of a selection of his campaigning and complaining letters shows.
@@caw25sha I think the title of one of his books "Hitler,my part in his downfall"said it all.
Loving the Wright/Pegg-style travel montage, that was perfection.
I used to work on the high road there for many many years. Walking from the station to the main road was always a right old pain.
Along with Totteridge & Whetstone this was my local station from the age of 4 until my late 30s and back then the area was indeed very rural and I loved every minute I lived there.
Not only see the Victorian station but imagine steam hauled traffic on the line. Its like one of those Hornby stations that I had 50 odd years ago - which itself was probably designed after Woodside Park's bretheren. TBH, I have yet to darken the northern heights doorstep - but its on my "to do" list now.
what a delightful station! I had no idea a station this attractive (of the vintage) survives on the Underground. The nerd inside me is champing at the bit to take a ride out to see it in person.
Another wonderful video, what a great station! that is exactly what I expect a train station to look like. I"m often disappointed by modern minimalist stations with spare industrial fixtures and fittings. A station like Woodside Park seems just so cozy like you could move it Thank you again for another swell video
I expect a train station to look like a railway station. Conclusive proof I'm getting old !!
@@simonwinter8839 in my case that is true. I"m not getting old, I am old
Can you light a fire in that fireplace to keep everyone warm on a winter day/evening?
A wonderful station, shown in its full glory by this superb video.
I went to the nearby Finchley Catholic Grammar School and used to see Spike Milligan at the station often. He lived nearby.
Jago, you simply must get one of those TfL maps. I hear Geoff Marshall has a few.
But that you could do this three times means the station names are very... close, even if not as the crow flies. Naughty Greater London.
I wonder if you are doing video playlists for each line's stations you highlight; I haven't looked, but might be nice, as there are plenty of stations to go! And it's nice to hear about yet another "smaller" station many may not know about.
Geoff Marshall and Jago Hazzard should form a collision. Imagine how well the country would be run then !!
You'd think he'd be able to get a few free copies, given that he designed the original version! If you know, you know.
@@simonwinter8839 Collisions have a distinct tendency to result in things not running at all, generally...
@@laurencefraser Usually true but Geoff and Jago would probably do a better job than what we have now though it wouldn't be difficult.
@@simonwinter8839 I think you're referring to a coalition. Collisions tend to be very messy and people tend to get hurt by them, which shouldn't be the case for a coalition.
The view from that hill towards London was gorgeous.
A realy fantastic video, this has been my local station for 41 years. I love Finchley and Woodside Park. it's a really nice area to live in. I was half expecting to see myself in the video LOL. Fantasitc work Sir!!
I lived in Woodside Park for 10 years, the best thing about the station had to be that sweet sweet exit with no ticket gates
After mentioning the automated ticket barriers at Stamford Brook in your last video, I'm surprised you didn't mention that Woodside Park is one of the few stations left that can be entered without going through a barrier, albeit only the northbound platform.
Some of the fare dodgers enter the system via the Northbound platform, travel to Totteridge and then travel South.
You really don't need the lack of a barrier for fare dodgers to be in evidence. At my local Tube station they just push out through the barriers. It p****s me off that I work hard and pay my fares and others, well, don't.
@@brian9731 that you Sunak???? hahahaha
@@seanbonella - this is not about being political. I see where you're coming from but it's irrelevant which party I vote for - fare dodging is a crime. I'm just an ordinary bloke making a reasonable living but I was brought up to pay my way in an honest manner.
You have no idea (NYC subway user).
How beautiful. Reminds me of the station near my great Auntie's house back in the day. Takes me back!
What a charming station, it almost feels like something on a heritage railway. I love when stations that are still so of the period are used for regular passenger service - my ever-beloved Chesham is the main example I can think of on the Underground.
Great video!
This is quite possibly my favourite Tube station!
Loving these intros so much. Thanks always for your rail insights.
When staying at my Aunt's house in the late 60's I used to 'go for a walk' which always ended up at Woodside Park Station. I just loved it there and over the years I graduated to actually buying a ticket to the next station and eventually all the way to Oxford Circus. I would have been 8 or 9 years old in shorts and sandals (see Famous Five)......The red 1938 stock trains used to make a strange tinkling sound on the rails as they approached and they had wooden floors and Metro-Cammel cast into the door cills. I'm glad to see it still has that country station atmosphere. Thanks Jago.
Any plans on making a video on Highgate station? Underground and of course the abandoned station on the surface !
I used to go here every day to get to school. It is lovely and has a character shared by all the stations north of West Finchley
Nice station that, and while the immediate area is built up you don't have to walk far before you get to some nice open space and indeed farmland.
This station is truly a commuter only station and virtually dead outside the rush hours and from mid Saturday pm to Monday am. There are no stores or events areas nearby what so ever and hence it has remained almost frozen in time for 100 years! Finally each house is approaching a million pounds in value and 99% of them are divided into multi dwellings now.
Once you're out of the station name trick in London, you can visit Paris we also have a few subway/RER ( I'm not going in the sub-urban trains, there's just too many stations ).
Things like Corentin- Carioux and Corentin-Celton... or Charles de Gaulle-Etoile and well (Roissy-)Charles de Gaulle Airport ( 1 & 2 )...
Jago forsake English stations for foreign monstrosities?
Never sir. Never.
But everyone loves to hear about long term economics of railway particulary to how they relate to one specific line!
That is quite a good station. That intro is quite funny!
Well, quite!
Recently did the High Barnet line on my tube and Elizabeth Line challenge, it still does feel somewhat different to the densely packed feel of central London. Its an interesting change, especially if your one more likely to spend time in Central London generally. Woodside Park shows that vibe pretty well I feel,
Woodside Tram Stop in South London to Woodside Park station on the Northern Line High Barnet branch is quite a journey. Just like Stamford Hill Overground station to Stamford Brook station on the District Line.
Have to say that Woodside Park Northern Line station is quite nice. And with more new development being built in Woodside Park.
I look forward to a video on railway economics in the future; that’s very much my jam.
Also, the “wrong station” opening remains brilliant 😂
Oh, who hasn't confused stations with similar names? Here in Chicago, there are seven different train stations all called "Western Avenue".
Lovely---what a charming station.
Thank you so much. It's a delight to see historical continuity, rather than manufactured Heritage.
Many thanks for the information about the name changes. Every source I've looked at so far has said that Torrington Park was renamed a month after opening, and became Woodside Park ten years later, but without saying what it was called in between, Needless to say this has been irritating me mightily for some time, so thank you for delivering me from this misery.
'Naturally housing developers took an interest ...' Then as now judging by the expanse of flats up going practically on the platform.
Maybe offices actually?
@@emjayay: no, it's a development of 86 one-bedroom units from Pocket Living, which are going to be very small because that is what they do. The units are aimed at first time buyers at a 20% discount on the full market value.
Got to love the old Southern 455 at 0:16 cant believe theyve been out of service for over a year now...
You may be interested to know that "Torrington" station re-opens tomorrow (05/08/23 10am) Ok this is Torrington in North Devon and the track is only about 500yrds long but its the first time paying passengers will be able to ride a train since the late 1970's
Torrington to Barnstaple would have made the BEST heritage railway - it had it all: tunnel, viaduct, sea views, BR connection.
@@andrewhotston983 Viaduct ? a couple of bridges across rivers but Im trying to think here lol, Torrington to Meath direction at Torrington there is a multi point metal bridge that used to be wood and narrow gauge You have me thinking Andrew, I mean I may have to dust of the bike and WD40 the chain and ride the route. LOL I will add 2 more; the ancient abandoned pub at the site of the canal's incline plain where the boats were hauled over a ridge and down a rail track to the lower canal to the river powered by a underground water wheel, You have got me thinking on this one, I will pop down there tomorrow with my camera (Im not getting the bike out theres to many spiders on it so will take the Land Rover). You are right that sea view from Bideford to Barny are great and as we know James May (top Gear) was the last one to drive the Flying Scotsman along that section !!
I was counting the bridges over the Torridge as viaducts.
@@andrewhotston983 th-cam.com/video/VPuNo0gt3R8/w-d-xo.html
A feelgood video, Jago. Thank you. It's a sort of forgotten station really. I think this stems from it's location...nowhere near anywhere in particular
An engaging video as always. Thank you, Jago. A Victorian signal box always gives a station that countryside feel - for a moment, till you stop daydreaming and see blocks of flats right next to the station.
I like the traditional canopies over the platforms (probably a name for those).
A new town centred around public transport, what a marvellous idea.
I'm a Tube nerd, and I call it the Northern Heights. Sometimes.
Another fab video. What a charming station!
What a delightful video, and what a lovely station.
Jago is Woodside Park Station a listed building? It should be if not.
Wonderful video Jago also do you know if the station is grade II listed, and if it isn't I think it should
Good to see this,it's quite amazing how these rather quaint locations survive in this day and age.
A fascinating insight into another station on the Underground network👍👍👍
And I'll say it again...
"Jago Hazzard: Time Jumper"
Best...Action-Adventure...Show...Title...EVER!
Better a travel/ train fan video, than something the Economist channel would do. 😁
I noticed that the buildings are built with typical London yellow brick, like the buildings that used to be on mainline platforms of Watford Junction. Those bricks were also used to build many buildings from the late nineteenth century until the mid twentieth....cheaper and easier to make, than the better quality red bricks, which incidentally made up the gone buildings of Watford Junction suburban platforms. Many stations in London aren't clearly as well preserved as your favourite one.
Many years ago when I was a young surveyor, an old brickie on the firm I worked for told me these bricks were called Buff Orpingtons, as the clay they were made from was dug in Kent. In my naivety and youth, I had no reason to believe otherwise. It took me many years to realise this was, in fact, a chicken. Whilst there is an element of truth in the Kent element of the tale, I still think of London Stocks as Buff Orpingtons...........and aren't there hundreds of buildings built with them!
It would be interesting to know if its Victorian features are protected with some sort of listing like some of the other architecturally important stations ?
Probably protected by TFL's lack of funds to rebuild it !!
Ahh, my beloved Woodside Park, my childhood station, my unchanging familiar old haunt- 1:32 er, what the hell is *THAT* ??
The late great comedian Spike Milligan once paid for Woodside Park, his local Station, to be painted red,white and blue because he said it looked drab and needed cheering up.
Ah, that rings a bell.
@@JagoHazzard Can't wait for your video on Morden station. You know with the tram arriving at Morden Road!!.
Wish you were here in Jamaica with me but considering the company you're probably relieved you're not !!
He was very keen on preserving the station as it had been, there were plans to modernise it, the Finchley Society came into existence around the same time and also put pressure on to preserve the station.
@@JagoHazzard one of the two waiting rooms on the ticket office side also had a fireplace, I think it was in the ladies waiting room.
@@antonygraham3001 What's a lady ?
Now there's a joke for the times.
Closed for…good. Love it. Used to travel here on occasion to visit friends.
I hope it's at least grade two listed so some up and coming architects and TfL don't mess around with it.
Of course now I'm expecting that Wildly Interesting vid on the interplay of a railway and a neighbourhood's economic development! You mention new development of housing estates after the opening of a railway station often enough, so you should have plenty of material ready for re-use. Perhaps you could apply a macro-perspective: how have railways and metro influenced (if not downright determined) the building of suburbs, the economic and social change implied, and the form and functioning of London as a city? With maps and graphs please, and (just) under 45 minutes in length.
This sounds rather more hectoring than I intended. What I really meant was to give you some suggestions. Or perhaps I just didn't get your original joke, that's also possible of course. 🤔
You quite easily see Bernard Crippins standing by a big steam engine there.
I don't know why when modern underground stations are built these days why they can't follow the example of their Victorian forebears to a greater or lesser degree! Thanks for uploading.
Nowadays it's unstaffed tin hovels with no toilets and help points that don't answer, or nothing. And they have to open at least a year behind schedule and cost upwards of £5,000,000 apiece.
I like Woodside Park too.
Jago, when was the last time you read the tube map?
JAGO: In a previous video, you featured the charming, and delightful station at WEST FINCHLEY; would you say that it ranks nearly as high on the list of “most Victorian” stations as Woodside Park? Regardless, both stations retain a sense of authenticity.
West Finchley considerably post dates the other stations on the Barnet branch, being built in the 1920s or 30s I think.
I ❤ Woodside Park. 😌
Great stuff as ever.
Thank you.
So the mind boggles, two videos ago it was Blackhorse Lane/Road, then Stamford Brook, not Hill nor Bridge. Today Woodside Park, not just Woodside. I will spend a few hours searching maps and trying to guess on a location.
Great video Jago
….and you, Sir Jago Hazzard are the “Garden Estate 🏡” to every station 🚉 of TH-cam subscriber of yours!!
Is High Barnet anywhere near High Forehead, the famed University locale?
There is a Woodside Station on the Long Island Railroad that connects with the # 7 Line of the IRT Subway System which can take you to Grand Central, Times Square and many other places that you may want to go. Also, it can take you to Citi-Field ware you can watch a Baseball game that you Brits may appreciate. It's a little like Cricket but much better.
My American friend from New York described baseball as '15 minutes of excitement compressed into 4 hours". At least you get afternoon tea in cricket!
@@edwardsadler7515 Baseball happens to be a very complected game to those who understand it. It's not only two teams which compete against each other but the managers as well. The game is not only played on the field but also in the mind.It's very much a thinking mans game. In baseball a game can be won or lost on just one play.
Next time "This is Ruislip... Hang on this is WEST Ruislip..." Zoom zoom zoom "Oh no this is Ruislip MANOR" zoom zoom zoom "Nope, this is Ruislip Gardens... Aaand this is South Ruislip... Ah! THIS is Ruislip" 😄
Wait till he gets to Acton or Ealing.
I spent many hap ... er ... many years commuting on the Northern Line from here to Bank in the late '90s.
Seems to be becoming rather more built up than I remember though.
I’m beginning to love your intro.
I love this running joke.
I will be honest Jago I have always preferred you doing your you job, I have a similar fascination with Margate station because of its architecture similar to a station in South London possibly Peckham something, close to the cinema...
Brilliant video sir!
Appreciate the education concerning the "parallel" station names with your "false starts."
There used to be a notice in the car park requesting drivers to park with their radiators towards the fence. So minis sideways and no VWs at all. I kid you not.
I suppose that was to avoid having their exhausts belching goodness knows what toxins on to the platforms. In which case why not say so outright?
I'm a Woodside Park boy. Enjoyed this.
Jago is really flogging this joke,,lol.
And why not, I say :D
Is Jago really just practicing for the Tube Challenge?
I find it hilarious how many times Jago gets lost on the tramlink, hopefully he can go visit abbey road and not get sidetracked on the DLR... (foreshadowing)
It would seem Mr Hazzard has invented a new variation of Mornington Crescent for those of an absent-minded disposition.
I used Woodside Park station three years ago to visit a nearby eye hospital for an operation, and I totally share Jago's appreciation of it. However, since my visit, the Victorian ambience of the station and it's surroundings has been ruined by that monstrosity of a building erected since I last used the station. Such a shame.
Long may stations like this survive - I had no idea there were still stations like this on the tube.
Going back to the economics of the railway for a moment, this video tells you quite a bit. Railway company invests money to build a railway. This makes land along its route more valuable for housing. Landowner sees increase and sells making a packet. Railway gets zero of that unearned uplift. It's a positive externality. It is also a prime argument for land value tax.
nice looking station ...!
I can't wait until you accidentally visit Aberdeen while aiming for Aberdare.
Jago gonna have a fun time if he gets the wrong Harrow
I love this new series of Intros. Keep it up! 👏🏽 #ThirdTimeUnlucky
Mr Hazzard, could you do a video on the smells of the london underground, the londonist did a fantastic new map of the differing smells recently
Will we see Jago getting confused with Liverpool Street and he is actually stood on the Kop?
Is Woodside House still around, couldn't find much on the net.
The original Woodside House was located where Cissbury Ring North (N12) is now. Its exact location is said to be marked by a plaque, but I've not been able to find the precise address, and it's not immediately visible on Google Street View.
Attractive station.😊
Wonderful station. I’m afraid that the big construction underway will not complement the Victorian appearance of it.
What's being constructed?🤔🎩
Can’t believe they managed to get planning permission for it, especially given the lovely church (converted into flats) right by it. A damn monstrosity!
@@neilmcdonald9164the huge thing with blur netting right next to it
This is also the beauty of London though as it never stands still, always growing and changing!
I agree, it's a real shame for such a lovely station to be ruined by that new development. Its right up against the fence to the platform too!
If you do a Leytonstone vid (and I'd really like it if you did), the best part there is if you get it mixed up with Leyton you only have to go one stop
Would love a Leytonstone video, I was bowled over by the murals when I went there recently (to try the out of station connection to the Goblin line, but that's another story)
Lovely station. I know it well from years ago. But what are they constructing next to the northbound platform?
Flats, I believe.
@@JagoHazzard And not "affordable" ones, I imagine.
Third time? My god. Give this guy a map