Metropolitan Railway then, one of the last steam hauled underground railways to be taken over when London Underground was formed, never part of UERL, the infamous dodgy American businessman, Charles Tyson Yerkes never got his slippery, greasy fingers on it.
@@tonys1636 And yet without Yerkes the much of the Underground we know and love would most likely not exist. His grubby little mitts saved the bits of railway that became the Piccadilly Rly, the Bakerloo and the Hampstead Tube. He died before they opened and expansion of the UERoL was the work of his successors.
The first time I visited Wendover was a brief stop at the train station in 1998, before a short, deeply foreboding bus journey to the nearby RAF Halton to start my basic training. I next went back to Wendover ten years later to find it was still 1998.
I was the Project Engineer for the construction of that bridge at Verney Junction (among others!) Nice to see it in you video. I claim no ownership of the drainage I was purely in charge of the structures!
I was standing on a corner In Winslow, Buckinghamshire, and such a fine sight to see it's a girl my lord, in a clapped-out Ford, slowing down to find a place to pee...
Then he should have mentioned Wendover was a junction of sorts with a freight rail link to the RAF camp at Halton. Just old enough to remember it working.
I lived in Wendover for a bit. I was renting, and so I wasn't really a local, which is why I fully consented to HS2. I hated all of the Yuppie NIMBYs around there.
I laughed my socks off when I heard all the opposition to HS2 from the residents of Wendover. I have a motorway at the end of my road. Now you know what it is like.
Thanks for another *Quacking* episode, Jon. I think this has been a good week for nearly everybody in the UK. It's pronounced *jail* but you already knew that.
Loved the healing water, not suitable for drinking. This is the closest journey to my location, you have undertaken. I know all the locations you talked about very well, but I still learned some new facts, so thank you John
6:23 "We need to get back on track!' Boom. Boom. Tish! LOL I used to live in Shrivenham in the 90s. I am hoping you will pass by. You have already done the Swindon Magic Roundabout, which is in town. I don't think you have done the Uffington White Horse yet. Nearby, I use to like driving on the B4507 for fun. Hoping the guide book takes you there.
Gotta love a slab-sided concrete building built in the cold war with a bunker in the basement that'll be flattened with all inside had the canned sunshine ever been dropped cos slab-sided buildings love having extra-strong pressure-waves hitting them... :P
Fantastic? What is wrong with you. No it doesn't. It effing horrible. Its called brutalist for a reason. Because its brutal and horrible. It looks like some sort of soviet prizon.
At least the rail centre got a good recommendation - one of our favourite days out (esp the ride on train at VAMES). Shame Wendover got a bit of flak as it's a nice little place with an excellent butchers.
I used to travel the A41 a lot back in the last century. Surprised you didn't point out some of the old airfields, one where research *was* being done into some revolutionary new aircraft, or rocket, engine, and the other airfield where ejection seat makers Martin-Baker have a test facility, both visible from the A41.
Seconded. My home town of Abingdon also had an "Old Gaol" (which was a leisure centre in my day, now posh flats) and that was pronounced the same as Jail.
Bugger it John, me and the mrs have missed you 3 times now, the A41(M), Berko (where we're from) and now through Aylesbury (where we live) 😂😂😂 We love your videos, they're fantastic
2:20 aw yeah, the railway tangent in the road journey series, you know just what I like. 5:49 even more rail, you should just do a Great British Rail Journeys next. 6:58 The answer is usually simple like a big budget and a need to spend it or lose it.
I think Great British Railway Journeys has been done... by some failed pompous politician. John is way more entertaining and not pompous in the slightest
For the third one: Surely there is more to it. Like inflated egos, superior complexes, small 🍆, and so on. Otherwise that big budget surely could have been used for something more beneficial for the county.
@@Vtarngpb As it's Winter again we are having Sunday Roast with still warm Cherry and Chocolate cake with cream. Before you ask, the plague of locusts masquerading as my family have eaten the bloody lot.
A very fair review of aylesbury, you covered everything the town has to offer. lol You missed claydon house, which is the family home of the verney family, hence verney junction.
@@antonycharnock2993 very cool. One of the best looking cars in my opinion too. Marlboro era wasn't it? I've been meaning to bimble over to the museum on a random holiday day sometime soon. I used to marshall at Snetterton, I love the atmosphere surrounding a racing track.
Great seeing my home represented. Aylesbury is a lovely place! We have a singing statue of David Bowie just off the Market Square! The East-West Railway was supposed to have a spur to Aylesbury, upgrading the freight line to a full passenger service and allowing for trains to run via Winslow to Milton Keynes, a very handy journey and taking traffic off the very congested roads. However spiralling costs has meant that this spur has been shelved. Yay.
Brilliant & most accurate. Well done for getting out of Ayleshole whilst you still could: no longer an easy feet given the abysmal lack of main arterial road planning in favor of millions of new houses (and of course .. cars) - another Watford in the making. Great Vid - really enjoyed the vigorous narrative :D
Another top video. It's the mix of wit and sarcasm that just gets me every time. Addictive viewing, especially when I'm working from home, it's p1ssing it down yet again, the dog is asleep and I've nothing else to do to fill time until my next Teams meeting. Take take, bye bye.. look forward to the next episode of wit and humour.
I went to Verney Junction some years ago before the line was relaid and as far as I could tell the old level crossing in the hamlet/village only went into the fields beyond. That bridge seems like a bit of expensive overkill.
Hi Jon, another great Sunday video, some nice villages in this area and never heard of the but good to watch, plenty of road and railway facts in that area, Great video take care
Great video - I was born in Bucks my late parents never left the county after meeting at RAF Little Horwood near Winslow, derelict and returned to agriculture since the late 40's but ripe for a few thousand new arrival houses
The use of COR-TEN weathering steel in the construction of the bridge is interesting. It was first used architecturally in the construction of John Deere’s world headquarters at Moline, Illinois during the 1960’s and its most prominent use in the UK must be The Angel of the North statue thing. Glad you asked.
One of the railways that terminated at Verney Junction was.... the Metropolitain Railway (the Metropolitain line), before it was cut back to Aylesbury in the mid 1930s. Also Quainton Road was another Metropolitain station. and that the Brill Brnach of the Met, a very rural railway that was for a time a part of the met, branching off at Quainton Road.
Another great video John, thanks. We lived a couple of miles from Winslow. Surprised you didn’t visit some of the disused airbases and the Wellington bomber memorial plaque next to the water tower at Mursley the next village along. You’ve pretty much covered everywhere where we live now, Thanet, Buckinghamshire, Darlington area.
Yes you are. Its horrible. Shropshire council offices were also built in the 60s with the same type of nasty concrete and its the ugliest building in Shrewsbury.
@@simontay4851 Three people chime in to say the OP is not alone, and you just deny our existence? This stuff is all subjective. For me the ugliest building in Shrewsbury is Princess House, four storeys of brick and concrete. I'm sure there are uglier buildings in the town, but this one takes up a whole side of The Square. Shire Hall Shrewsbury may be built of the same kind of concrete as County Buildings Aylesbury, but even looking at photographs I can tell that the Aylesbury offices' concrete is much more carefully finished, and dressed at ground level. Nearly every other twentieth century building in the centre of Aylesbury is far drearier, to my mind.
6:42 am I the only one to quite likes that structure? It has a very hight glass to concrete ratio, and the uneven layering of straight wall to bulging bays makes it look strangely organic for such an imposing building. I would just have liked to see the oxidised copper on the little roofs to be used more on the exterior detailing
Yes you are the only one. Square grey concrete buildings are always horrible. Even though the new bridge is concrete as well, it looks nicer because its a bright colour.
Grew up just outside of Aylesbury and left in the 1980's .... Sorry that you didnt mention the "Blue Leany" an awesome glass structure that has been blinding drivers for decades.... Keep up the good work Jon ...
Jon proving once again that he's out standing in his field
By standing in front of a Dungheap.
@@tonys1636 in a field
I'd prefer "He stands out amongst his peers." If he's just standing out in his fields... That might get him a "Crazy Man" reputation.
My priest always warned me that if I pumped and pumped and pumped, the devil would appear.
That sounds almost counterintuitive, although I guess it depends on whether said priest was present for the pumping...
@@simonneep8413 Probably was when he wasn't getting his organ stuck in a hymn.
If I am not mistaken Verney Junction was the original terminus of the Metropolitan Line, now part of London Underground.
Metropolitan Railway then, one of the last steam hauled underground railways to be taken over when London Underground was formed, never part of UERL, the infamous dodgy American businessman, Charles Tyson Yerkes never got his slippery, greasy fingers on it.
@@tonys1636 Now, we won;t be having any slanderous talk about Charles Tyson Yerkes - without him, Jago Hazzard would be out of a job! #Satire
@@tonys1636 And yet without Yerkes the much of the Underground we know and love would most likely not exist. His grubby little mitts saved the bits of railway that became the Piccadilly Rly, the Bakerloo and the Hampstead Tube. He died before they opened and expansion of the UERoL was the work of his successors.
The first time I visited Wendover was a brief stop at the train station in 1998, before a short, deeply foreboding bus journey to the nearby RAF Halton to start my basic training. I next went back to Wendover ten years later to find it was still 1998.
Fewer pubs now.
Another great episode of Rail Shenanigans!
😂😂
Whew! A lucky thing that I just happen to like trains. 🙃
Verney Junction was the most northerly point on the Metropolitan Railway
I can't get enough railway content on this road-oriented series.
I was the Project Engineer for the construction of that bridge at Verney Junction (among others!) Nice to see it in you video. I claim no ownership of the drainage I was purely in charge of the structures!
I commented too soon, I also managed the construction of Winslow Station! The Bell Inn was our local and the pies are amazing!
Grace Bros !
I'm freeeeee.
My first thoughts as well.
Old Mr Grace doesn't get about much anymore.
I wonder if they actually named the fictional store after the actual store.
Does anyone know?
Not seen young mr grace for a while, must be in another office with his secretary!😊
@@lxtechmangood9503 No, you must be thinking of young Mr Grace. Old Mr Grace is never seen!
I was standing on a corner
In Winslow, Buckinghamshire,
and such a fine sight to see
it's a girl my lord,
in a clapped-out Ford,
slowing down to find a place to pee...
Take It Sleazy - The Beagles.
I live... well exist, in Aylesbury.
You actually talked the place up.
No mention on the ducks?
I could not live in Ay for love nor money.
The roadworks are constant and _everywhere._
@@alexg1778 I very rarely go to Aylesbury. Just about the worst place I know of for road lay out. I avoid the place at all costs.
I lived there for a few years, on the Rotherhams estate. I liked it 👍
Lots of railway in this video, I approve 😎
Then he should have mentioned Wendover was a junction of sorts with a freight rail link to the RAF camp at Halton. Just old enough to remember it working.
Nice to know Aylesbury still impresses...
Aylesbury which had the vile MP David Lidington who quelled the news of Asian gang rape attacks on underage girls.
I had to do jury duty in Aylesbury many moons ago. It certainly is a place that exists.
I lived in Wendover for a bit. I was renting, and so I wasn't really a local, which is why I fully consented to HS2. I hated all of the Yuppie NIMBYs around there.
Almost £5 for a load of bread. I almost fell off my chair. Definitely not wicked, sweet, awesome. Great vid. Hope your well John. Sunday complete ❤
I laughed my socks off when I heard all the opposition to HS2 from the residents of Wendover. I have a motorway at the end of my road. Now you know what it is like.
I admit - I swore at that, and I'm used to ridiculous gluten free prices
There's always room for a crap pun followed by a "ba-dumm tssssch" rimshot.
Keep up the good work Jon.
Thanks for another *Quacking* episode, Jon. I think this has been a good week for nearly everybody in the UK. It's pronounced *jail* but you already knew that.
Loved the healing water, not suitable for drinking. This is the closest journey to my location, you have undertaken. I know all the locations you talked about very well, but I still learned some new facts, so thank you John
My favourite episode because my bus was then one in the background in Aylesbury 😂
6:23 "We need to get back on track!' Boom. Boom. Tish! LOL
I used to live in Shrivenham in the 90s. I am hoping you will pass by. You have already done the Swindon Magic Roundabout, which is in town. I don't think you have done the Uffington White Horse yet. Nearby, I use to like driving on the B4507 for fun. Hoping the guide book takes you there.
Gotta love a slab-sided concrete building built in the cold war with a bunker in the basement that'll be flattened with all inside had the canned sunshine ever been dropped cos slab-sided buildings love having extra-strong pressure-waves hitting them... :P
Now I know why the pub in Winslow on the way to North Marston was called the devil in the boot.
6:30 That building looks fantastic. I have always loved 60's and 70's architecture (I think it is called "Brutalist").
Fantastic? What is wrong with you. No it doesn't. It effing horrible. Its called brutalist for a reason. Because its brutal and horrible. It looks like some sort of soviet prizon.
Classic episode featuring places nobody goes to nor care about, what more can one ask for? 😂
Besides my wife you are the only person who asks how I am every time I see you. Cheers for that and keep up the good work. 😆
But just like your wife, he doesn't actually care!🤣
@@2760ade True but it the thought that counts 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’m from Quainton. And I’m disappointed you didn’t visit the windmill. It’s a really interesting piece of history.
Well done on another great video.
Same. I’m also sad that he didn’t talk at all about Waddesdon despite the road map at the start showing that he drove through it
At least the rail centre got a good recommendation - one of our favourite days out (esp the ride on train at VAMES). Shame Wendover got a bit of flak as it's a nice little place with an excellent butchers.
Thanks John, very enjoyable
Grace Bros!.... "Are you being served"
Another whicked sweet awesome video 👍
With the Grace Brothers connection I really think we should've seen you being served at the Bell Inn.
I think he's a bit too young to get the reference, but I'm free!
Remember he is driving.
@@martinh4982 Giving away the age of John's audience - poor chap!
6:37 for an office block, I quite like it
Probably the best looking New Brutalism structure built, and normally I find them offensive to look at.
I love it
You like it? What is wrong with you! Its a disgusting monstrosity! It looks like a soviet prizon.
Grace Brothers? As in "Are you being served?" 🙂
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, as used in Series 8 of Taskmaster.
Seems to pop up in quite a few tv locations. In Morse I seem to remember or was it Endeaver?
Love your comments John, especially with reference to Wendover. I can't wait to hear your comments about Maidenhead!
...yes, that brutal telephone exchange, built to survive an atom bomb
I used to travel the A41 a lot back in the last century. Surprised you didn't point out some of the old airfields, one where research *was* being done into some revolutionary new aircraft, or rocket, engine, and the other airfield where ejection seat makers Martin-Baker have a test facility, both visible from the A41.
Martin Baker are based at Chalgrove which isn't anywhere near the A41.... or have they got another place too?
I'm presuming they are referring to Westcott with rocket testing and the old runway.
You used to travel ON the A41...
"An area..." :) :) :)
apparently the Buckinghamshire county council office is almost completely empty. And Wendover is lovely, if a bit pointless.
Another fwickedsweetawesome video, Jon. The transition at the end made me chuckle 😆
Special healing water you can't drink?! Hmm...🤔
Nice one Jon. But Gaol. Gowl...? Surely it's pronounced the same as Jail...???
Seconded. My home town of Abingdon also had an "Old Gaol" (which was a leisure centre in my day, now posh flats) and that was pronounced the same as Jail.
Yup, it's the same word, jail is just the modern spelling.
@@llynellyn More the American misspelling which has made its way back across the Atlantic :(
I think this is his humour guys…
Means something rather different in Ireland. You would rather be inside a gowl than inside a gaol.
You are compulsive viewing love all your videos lol 😂
The original council offices in Aylesbury featured as the crown court building in the 1964 Miss Marple film "Murder Most Foul"
Another good vid John !
Yet again there’s a good bit of railway coverage 🤪👍
This was a particulalry great episode for me. I grew up in the now abandoned pub in Verney Junction so was shocked to see it mentioned
As always I enjoy the Swift editing and the little bits of wit
Brilliant video of going through my town Aylesbury!
Just a thought and only a thought I can't think of a better host than yourself jon a few videos on the railways 🤔 could be a winner
It's almost like the was a small rail based disagreement in the 1960's.
Perfect timing for my cuppa tea
Bugger it John, me and the mrs have missed you 3 times now, the A41(M), Berko (where we're from) and now through Aylesbury (where we live) 😂😂😂
We love your videos, they're fantastic
2:20 aw yeah, the railway tangent in the road journey series, you know just what I like.
5:49 even more rail, you should just do a Great British Rail Journeys next.
6:58 The answer is usually simple like a big budget and a need to spend it or lose it.
I think Great British Railway Journeys has been done... by some failed pompous politician. John is way more entertaining and not pompous in the slightest
For the third one:
Surely there is more to it. Like inflated egos, superior complexes, small 🍆, and so on.
Otherwise that big budget surely could have been used for something more beneficial for the county.
I can now have my lunch... wickedsweetawesome.
What’s for lunch?
@@Vtarngpb As it's Winter again we are having Sunday Roast with still warm Cherry and Chocolate cake with cream. Before you ask, the plague of locusts masquerading as my family have eaten the bloody lot.
That was a really interesting episode! Love the strangeness of that well!
These Videos are getting better each week.
That county council building is… special!
You spelt disgusting wrong.
I live in Aylesbury. Thank you mate
Grace Bros Yeah! 😂
Greetings from a Perth West Aussie 🇦🇺
A very fair review of aylesbury, you covered everything the town has to offer. lol You missed claydon house, which is the family home of the verney family, hence verney junction.
It was the Varsity line through Verney junction which was also the end of the original Metropolitan line from London.
A video featuring Buckinghamshire and "Silverstone" released around the time of the Grand Prix? I see it what you did there John ;).
(Come on Lando!)
I worked there in 2022 as security. I ended up on the pit tour and guarding Nigel Mansells 1992 F1 car
@@antonycharnock2993 very cool. One of the best looking cars in my opinion too. Marlboro era wasn't it? I've been meaning to bimble over to the museum on a random holiday day sometime soon.
I used to marshall at Snetterton, I love the atmosphere surrounding a racing track.
Another Fantastic and informative video Jon, loved the ending 😂
Great seeing my home represented. Aylesbury is a lovely place! We have a singing statue of David Bowie just off the Market Square!
The East-West Railway was supposed to have a spur to Aylesbury, upgrading the freight line to a full passenger service and allowing for trains to run via Winslow to Milton Keynes, a very handy journey and taking traffic off the very congested roads. However spiralling costs has meant that this spur has been shelved. Yay.
Brilliant & most accurate. Well done for getting out of Ayleshole whilst you still could: no longer an easy feet given the abysmal lack of main arterial road planning in favor of millions of new houses (and of course .. cars) - another Watford in the making.
Great Vid - really enjoyed the vigorous narrative :D
Nothing happened near these places during the 1st and 2nd disagreements!
Interesting to see the roads have hardly changed and no little chefs!
love the drone shots John. keep it up mate. 👍
Another top video. It's the mix of wit and sarcasm that just gets me every time. Addictive viewing, especially when I'm working from home, it's p1ssing it down yet again, the dog is asleep and I've nothing else to do to fill time until my next Teams meeting.
Take take, bye bye.. look forward to the next episode of wit and humour.
Thank you for mentioning Buckingham. I've been through the town by bus from MK, and I learned more about you. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
I went to Verney Junction some years ago before the line was relaid and as far as I could tell the old level crossing in the hamlet/village only went into the fields beyond. That bridge seems like a bit of expensive overkill.
Another fab video and gave me a few places to go check out. 😊
And just over the road from the Aylesbury eggbox is a really lovely theatre thats far too nice for the rown it finds itself in...
Can't wait till you venture more north west and I see more roads I actually use but I've still watched every episode!
I admire your ability to talk really fast and not get out of breath, I think id pass out. Super smashin episode cheers.
Winslow used to have a pub called 'The Devil in the Boot' (or similar). Now I know why. Thanks!
The railway to Milton Keynes was operational up to the mid 1980s as I travelled on it on a rail tour in 85
I can't put a finger on it. Something I enjoy about dry *informative humor presented in scene with old bits of stone. Cheers!
Wickedly interesting 😂😂😂❤
Great video,as always
Sunday mornings are for auto shenanigans
Great video as always thanks John. You will be at 150k in no time 👍
Nice one John. Cheers.
Hi Jon, another great Sunday video, some nice villages in this area and never heard of the but good to watch, plenty of road and railway facts in that area, Great video take care
Jon visits my home town, and I missed it! Dang!
Jon, if I'd known you were in my back yard I'd have put the kettle on.
Very enjoyable episode!
Thanks
Great video - I was born in Bucks my late parents never left the county after meeting at RAF Little Horwood near Winslow, derelict and returned to agriculture since the late 40's but ripe for a few thousand new arrival houses
The use of COR-TEN weathering steel in the construction of the bridge is interesting. It was first used architecturally in the construction of John Deere’s world headquarters at Moline, Illinois during the 1960’s and its most prominent use in the UK must be The Angel of the North statue thing. Glad you asked.
Corten. The same steel used for shipping containers. It has the ability to generate a thin oxide coating that then protects it from further corrosion.
Perfect video to watch with breakfast!
Hello Jon, how the devil you, have you had a good week?
One of the railways that terminated at Verney Junction was.... the Metropolitain Railway (the Metropolitain line), before it was cut back to Aylesbury in the mid 1930s. Also Quainton Road was another Metropolitain station. and that the Brill Brnach of the Met, a very rural railway that was for a time a part of the met, branching off at Quainton Road.
Another great vid Jon 👍🏾👍🏾
Another great video John, thanks. We lived a couple of miles from Winslow. Surprised you didn’t visit some of the disused airbases and the Wellington bomber memorial plaque next to the water tower at Mursley the next village along. You’ve pretty much covered everywhere where we live now, Thanet, Buckinghamshire, Darlington area.
am i the only one that loves the council building?
Sameeeee
me too!
No, you're not. Fred Pooley of the county council was an outstanding municipal architect.
Yes you are. Its horrible. Shropshire council offices were also built in the 60s with the same type of nasty concrete and its the ugliest building in Shrewsbury.
@@simontay4851 Three people chime in to say the OP is not alone, and you just deny our existence? This stuff is all subjective. For me the ugliest building in Shrewsbury is Princess House, four storeys of brick and concrete. I'm sure there are uglier buildings in the town, but this one takes up a whole side of The Square.
Shire Hall Shrewsbury may be built of the same kind of concrete as County Buildings Aylesbury, but even looking at photographs I can tell that the Aylesbury offices' concrete is much more carefully finished, and dressed at ground level. Nearly every other twentieth century building in the centre of Aylesbury is far drearier, to my mind.
6:42 am I the only one to quite likes that structure?
It has a very hight glass to concrete ratio, and the uneven layering of straight wall to bulging bays makes it look strangely organic for such an imposing building.
I would just have liked to see the oxidised copper on the little roofs to be used more on the exterior detailing
Yes you are the only one. Square grey concrete buildings are always horrible. Even though the new bridge is concrete as well, it looks nicer because its a bright colour.
I'm more and more convinced that Jon is just Jago Hazzard's alter ego. Suspicious number of railway mentions in a channel named "Auto Shenanigans". 😉
Good one.
'... The Chiltern Hills, an area of outstanding natural beauty, and then there's... Aylesbury, an area.' 😂
An area of outstanding concrete ugliness.
Grew up just outside of Aylesbury and left in the 1980's .... Sorry that you didnt mention the "Blue Leany" an awesome glass structure that has been blinding drivers for decades.... Keep up the good work Jon ...
Was that the owned by the dispicable Equitable Life pension company?
Great video John. look forward to the next one. Cheers Bob
Wendover has some expensive bread, but it’s the cheese that’s really worth getting excited about. That, and the Chiltern Brewery.
Better the devil you can find in a boot than the one you don't! 🤣 lol
Top vid again John .!!👏👏