Being born in 'Ammersmith many moons ago, this episode is hugely sentimental for me, especially the covered over pedestrian access which I remember my parents using with me being pulled reluctantly along. Thank you Geoff 👍
@@Joe90Vmy father used to do “point duty” on Hammersmith Broadway. There was a (very) small box that the could stand and wave the traffic either to go or to stop.
I grew up in Hammersmith too and in recent years (after an absence of about 40 years) I’ve been wondering what happened to the subway(s) across the busy streets. The traffic is ever more crazy yet those subways are gone! Sad.
@@geofftech2 There used to be another subway on the south side of the large roundabout, outside the old Brittania pub (now gone) that would allow access to the Hammy Odeon, now Eventim Arena. Ahhh happy days.....
Thankyou for including the Bottom bench. I went there soon after it was put in place and all the railings around it had so many tributes to Rik attatched to them, poems, artwork, and a few enormous pairs of Y fronts
All I recall from my childhood trips to London is the Hammersmith Flyover! This was a trip from South Wales to visit my grandma in Stockwell. Also on that journey a few miles before the Hammersmith Flyover, there was a Turriff Construction Corporation head office Building located adjacent to the Brentford Flyover which was easy to see from the flyover - Turriff won the contract from the government to convert all the gas cookers and fires ready for the brand new North Sea gas! They messed up this contract and it was many months before they sorted my mother's cooker. Hence every time we drove past their offices, my parents mentioned how bad this company was!
Thanks for this, Geoff, enjoyable as always. In 1971 I was living in Staines and working at the old St Mary's Hospital, Harrow Road, so every morning and afternoon I would change trains, change lines and change Hammersmith stations (!) by crossing the always busy Hammersmith Broadway from one station to the other. On my way home I would always buy a copy of the Evening Standard from the same man. Years later, having moved to the States, I came back to London with my son, for a visit, and one very memorable and enjoyable evening we got the Underground to the District line station (having been to the Science Museum in South Kensington earlier) to go to the Hammersmith Appollo to see Tenacious D, and afterwards crossed over to the Hammersmith and City station to return to our hotel near Paddington. Lots of fond memories of both Hammersmith stations!
That brought back some memories. Between 1949 and 1954 we lived in a council flat in Hammersmith and on Saturday afternoons Mum and me used to get the train to Goldhawk Rd. then walk up through Shepherd's Bush Market to my Grans place. Dad would join us after work and later take me home on the crossbar of his bike while Mum got a bus back!
I've always liked Hammersmith Station, probably because it's attached to various happy memories from seeing gigs and shows at the Apollo over the years.
Hi Geoff I have been watching your videos for 10 years and they are absolutely amazing I wanted to say that there is Edgware Road and Kensington Olympia are also end of the line.
I used to live in Shepherd's Bush and changed from District to Metropolitan lines every day. They always seemed to time the Metropolitan trains to leave just as you walked in to the station... I remember the day the line changed from Metropolitan to Hammersmith and City. There were balloons and flags with the staff being upbeat, we just wanted to get home, so I think most of us just walked in and boarded the trains without caring...
What I like about this station is that you walk in off the main road and the trains are just immediately in front of you, almost like they’re in a shop window. Charming
Thanks Geoff. Your videos are always one of the bright spots in the week I look forward to. And like others here, thanks for the Bottom mention. I have tried to find that location on Google maps many times.
An interesting point. The old underpass included a public toilet and one of those old fashioned “Wash and Brush ups”. I’ve always wondered how they really did fill it in, and is it still there, under the road.
I assume it's still there as the entrance has metal grates over the top. It may be in use as something else, service access to telecoms or whatever. Actually filling in well made tunnels in such a location would be very shortsighted, imo
Finally an end of the line I have actually been to. I'm in Sydney Australia so yeah that's a big deal. Travelled from South Kensington to the Westfield shopping centre, I thought it so odd I had to change trains and walk across the road to the next train. Thanks for the history lesson.
I've often wondered about the remnants of raised track that you can see from the trains outside Hammersmith. Thanks for explaining about the now demolished Grove Road station that makes sense of it.
You used to be able to see an orphaned section of the viaduct in the internal courtyard of the office block on Beadon Road, but it was all fully redeveloped around 10 years ago, taking the viaduct with it. You could see it from the street. It's visible in Google Street View if you view the older pictures. Also, in the King's Mall...sorry, "Livat", if you go up the stairs to the car park you can look down on the tracks and the viaduct, though they put mesh up so it's not _as_ cool as it once was. I've not been there in years, I am assuming that area is still accessible but maybe not
In the 70's, I went to Hammersmith with my late mother on the way to visit The London Transport Collection at Syon Park (the predecessor of the London Transport Museum!!). We had planned to use Hammersmith Met. Station (as it was then) on the way back, but my first sighting of a 1973 Stock train on the Piccadilly Line caused us to change our minds. Mum never did use Hammersmith H&C/Circle Line Station, and it was another ten years before I finally visited there!!
I can remember the exact date I last visited that station. 30th December 2002. I'd been to Ladbroke Grove to pay my respects as Joe Strummer's funeral cortege passed by on its way to the West London Crematorium.
Good video Geoff. Inspired me to pop into London half an hour earlier this morning to have a look round myself and take a longer journey on the Circle over to my appointment by the Barbican today.
Never really thought of Hammersmith as and end of the line, but you are on top of things. Had my photo taken on the legendary bench honouring Rik Mayall, the genius. Great video, and it's an End of the Line I've already ticked off and didn't even know it! Thanks!
My boyfriend and I came to London last November, and stayed a stone’s throw from the Hammersmiths. That cheeky Nando’s was the first place we ate at after arriving ❤
Of course if you do the Labryinth route for Tube Challenge - depending on what time of year it is - you transfer between Hammersmith stations in the dark. If you can't get a Piccadilly train from Rayners Lane and get a Metropolitan instead, you'll be crossing between the two around lunchtime
How timely. Hammersmith is a good place for this tourist visitor. 4 tube lines, handy from Heathrow and better hotel prices than inside zone one. I will be back at end of month and will keep an eye out for the ghost sign which I missed last week
Another great video Geoff! I love the end of the line series. I also recently brought your tube facts book in the London transport museum covent Garden shop! I always go there to pick up a book about railways.
It's Hammer-smith Time! for a End of the Line. Great video Geoff and around 5:10 that is a awesome location to watch District and Piccadilly Line Trains.
I remember when I was a student in London going with my father, (a native Londoner, but living elsewhere for the previous 20 years), to see the boat race, and coming out of Hammersmith station. Despite my protestations we were half way to Shepherds Bush before I could persuade him that we were going the wrong way, because we had come out of the Met station and not the District one. (Driving with him in London was also "interesting" - intending to turn right at Hammersmith church to reach Putney, only to find himself on a flyover that had appeared in the interim. But I shouldn't laugh - I get equally lost when I return to my (much smaller) native city.
Here are 4 Video suggestions: 1. 5:34 London tube,train stations from tv & film that don't actually exist like Walford from EastEnders and then try to show us where it fits in on the map and network. 2. On the train map Bethnal Green has two stations but they're not connected. 3. The only 3 train stations in London to have London in the name London Bridge, London City airport ,London Fields. 4. Which way you recommend to travel between Waterloo and bank when the Waterloo and City line is not operating.
1. Quatermass and the Pit 3. 'Whichever' underground line to relevant Central Line station and change, or to relevant Circle and District lines station and change to Monument.
I always sit on the Rik Mayall Bottom bench when I go to Hammersmith I remember that Kate Bush was on at the Apollo when Rik died. There wasn’t a bench there at the time but flowers had been laid in the vicinity
That station was the first to have the modern networked ticket machines and gates in the mid 1980s developed by Westinghouse Cubic. I was a software engineer on the project. It went live on a bank holiday weekend (Sunday) and could have gone wrong if we hadn't fixed an embarrassing bug on the Friday. Fortunately all went well and the new machines were featured in the local BBC London news. Eventually the machines, network and computers were rolled out across all the stations.
I saw the old subway entrance used by cast in an episode of the Gentle Touch in early 1980s!!!..also a bricked up high rise door which was a footbridge to Grove Road station.
I remember going to Hammersmith probably for no reason but I do like how Hammersmith has 2 Underground stations close to each other. Very interesting to see how Hammersmith has changed since the London Underground changed London as we know of today.
On my list I am now down to four underground stations: Bank (Waterloo & City) Edgeware Road (Circle / District) Kensington Olympia (District) Waterloo (Waterloo & City) I suspect Edgware Road is next.
I could never understand why there was no pedestrian tunnel between the two stations and put it down to Victorian competitive rivalry. Now I find that there was one and it was closed! Shades of Beeching!
If ever hear the track "Southern Freeez" by Freeez, I am immediately transported to the pub on Hammersmith H&C station, called somewhat uninspiringly 'The Hammersmith Buffet', in the early 1980s, when I would go there with friends I had met on a residential course. There was a competition running at the time to rename the bar, and I had suggested 'The End of the Line', but sadly this was unsuccessful and I think it became the Metro Bar 😐
It's nice to have the modern features but I prefer the old stations. They have more character. And my favorite shot of the train leaving the station. I will be riding the new Brightline rail to Miami in November. I think I will film it!
To be honest, when they extended the circle line, they should have probably renamed it the spiral line, and then effectively treat it as the "replacement" for the circle line in the publicity advertising the extension and explaining all of the implications for people.
Hammersmith Met and the line from Paddington suburban was built by the Met and GW joint as the Hammersmith & City and operated jointly for many years. Hence the GWR benches at Hammersmith.
Do I remember this rightly? The subway walk linking the two stations had dragon markings on the floor to direct people to each station in the colour of the tube lines.
Another great video, and the Rik Mayal tribute bench was a great bomus. When I was over in London a couple of weeks ago I was wondering if I would run into you on the tube. I have never been so informed as I am now thanks to you. Sadly I missed out on a Wimpy so that will have to be next visit ;-)
Hi Geoff, I might have this wrong, but it was always my understanding that the underused footbridge, where the drivers clock on, used to connect to the Hammersmith Grove Station that has now long gone.
The "Fourth Road" at 2:05 . For many year there was no track there. The curve to the buildings nearby made it look as if there were plans to join a track onto the District line to the East of the other station.
Watching this video I realized that the two lines terminating at Hammersmith have the worse names of all Underground lines. The 'Circle line' name disregards the whole Hammersmith branch, and 'Hammersmith & City line' name disregards the whole part east of the City. In fact, when disregarding historically grown names, 'Hammersmith & City' would be a great name for the Circle line.
You didn't mention the significance of the GWR benches. The branch to Hammersmith from Paddington was a Metropolitan and Great Western Railway joint venture and originally had rolling stock labelled Met and GW Joint Railway.
Geoff you forgot to mention the depot, as tubes lay up there at night .... I've a dvd on what went on there back in the mid 80' & 90's .. ( the dvd is called London Tonight) I've copy ... Worth a watch ... Not sure you would enjoy it ....
For some reason Hammersmith H&C line station always feels like a seaside station to me. It feels like you should be able to walk out onto a seafront promenade, not 'orrible old 'ammersmith Broadway. I think it's because the station was built to a Great Western Railway design (the line was originally a joint effort by the GWR and Metropolitan Railway) so it has an air of a West Country holiday destination.
I thought there was some way of getting between the two stations without crossing the road! From my memories of the mid to late sixties. I thought it was a covered way, rather than a subway, but I suppose the first part of it was a passageway!
Thanks Geoff for taking the time to the areas of interest. It brings back old memories.
No problem! Happy to have brought back old memories !! 😊
Being born in 'Ammersmith many moons ago, this episode is hugely sentimental for me, especially the covered over pedestrian access which I remember my parents using with me being pulled reluctantly along. Thank you Geoff 👍
My grandfather used to do fire spotting during the blitz from the top of the Lyons building in Hammersmith, so hugely sentimental for me too 👍
@@Joe90Vmy father used to do “point duty” on Hammersmith Broadway. There was a (very) small box that the could stand and wave the traffic either to go or to stop.
I grew up in Hammersmith too and in recent years (after an absence of about 40 years) I’ve been wondering what happened to the subway(s) across the busy streets. The traffic is ever more crazy yet those subways are gone! Sad.
Thanks Martin! Some people didn’t believe me about the covered walkways/subways so I’m glad the old ITV footage exists !!
@@geofftech2 There used to be another subway on the south side of the large roundabout, outside the old Brittania pub (now gone) that would allow access to the Hammy Odeon, now Eventim Arena. Ahhh happy days.....
Thank you for mentioning the memorial bench for Rik Mayall. Still want to visit that.
Thankyou for including the Bottom bench. I went there soon after it was put in place and all the railings around it had so many tributes to Rik attatched to them, poems, artwork, and a few enormous pairs of Y fronts
All I recall from my childhood trips to London is the Hammersmith Flyover! This was a trip from South Wales to visit my grandma in Stockwell. Also on that journey a few miles before the Hammersmith Flyover, there was a Turriff Construction Corporation head office Building located adjacent to the Brentford Flyover which was easy to see from the flyover - Turriff won the contract from the government to convert all the gas cookers and fires ready for the brand new North Sea gas! They messed up this contract and it was many months before they sorted my mother's cooker. Hence every time we drove past their offices, my parents mentioned how bad this company was!
Cheers Geoff for the “ Bottom”mention. Oo er 😂
Thanks for this, Geoff, enjoyable as always. In 1971 I was living in Staines and working at the old St Mary's Hospital, Harrow Road, so every morning and afternoon I would change trains, change lines and change Hammersmith stations (!) by crossing the always busy Hammersmith Broadway from one station to the other. On my way home I would always buy a copy of the Evening Standard from the same man. Years later, having moved to the States, I came back to London with my son, for a visit, and one very memorable and enjoyable evening we got the Underground to the District line station (having been to the Science Museum in South Kensington earlier) to go to the Hammersmith Appollo to see Tenacious D, and afterwards crossed over to the Hammersmith and City station to return to our hotel near Paddington. Lots of fond memories of both Hammersmith stations!
That brought back some memories. Between 1949 and 1954 we lived in a council flat in Hammersmith and on Saturday afternoons Mum and me used to get the train to Goldhawk Rd. then walk up through Shepherd's Bush Market to my Grans place. Dad would join us after work and later take me home on the crossbar of his bike while Mum got a bus back!
I've always liked Hammersmith Station, probably because it's attached to various happy memories from seeing gigs and shows at the Apollo over the years.
YES! Finally, a station in the series I’ve been to. It was actually quite lovely.
Hi Geoff I have been watching your videos for 10 years and they are absolutely amazing I wanted to say that there is Edgware Road and Kensington Olympia are also end of the line.
I used to live in Shepherd's Bush and changed from District to Metropolitan lines every day. They always seemed to time the Metropolitan trains to leave just as you walked in to the station...
I remember the day the line changed from Metropolitan to Hammersmith and City. There were balloons and flags with the staff being upbeat, we just wanted to get home, so I think most of us just walked in and boarded the trains without caring...
I like how there are still GWR Benches on the Platform!!! Thanks for sharing!!! 🙂🚂🚂🚂
Petition for End of the Line videos for both sides of the cable car please Geoff ❤️
What I like about this station is that you walk in off the main road and the trains are just immediately in front of you, almost like they’re in a shop window. Charming
Thanks Geoff. Your videos are always one of the bright spots in the week I look forward to. And like others here, thanks for the Bottom mention. I have tried to find that location on Google maps many times.
Ah very kind, thank you! 😊
Hammersmith, home to too many ham, hammer, and smith puns
That was my old station when I worked over at St. John's Gate and I was living in Hammersmith. I learned some things I didn't know. Thank you Geoff.
An interesting point. The old underpass included a public toilet and one of those old fashioned “Wash and Brush ups”. I’ve always wondered how they really did fill it in, and is it still there, under the road.
I assume it's still there as the entrance has metal grates over the top. It may be in use as something else, service access to telecoms or whatever. Actually filling in well made tunnels in such a location would be very shortsighted, imo
the underpass was dirty and used to flood whenever there was a heavy rain shower - good riddance awful underpass!
@@fToo Yes, it wasn't nice.
Finally an end of the line I have actually been to. I'm in Sydney Australia so yeah that's a big deal. Travelled from South Kensington to the Westfield shopping centre, I thought it so odd I had to change trains and walk across the road to the next train. Thanks for the history lesson.
I've often wondered about the remnants of raised track that you can see from the trains outside Hammersmith. Thanks for explaining about the now demolished Grove Road station that makes sense of it.
Always a favourite from my childhood days when visiting my grandparents who lived at Brook Green off the road to Shepherds Bush.
Just commuted back from there to see this! 😂Things you walk past everyday but never stop to notice
You used to be able to see an orphaned section of the viaduct in the internal courtyard of the office block on Beadon Road, but it was all fully redeveloped around 10 years ago, taking the viaduct with it. You could see it from the street. It's visible in Google Street View if you view the older pictures. Also, in the King's Mall...sorry, "Livat", if you go up the stairs to the car park you can look down on the tracks and the viaduct, though they put mesh up so it's not _as_ cool as it once was. I've not been there in years, I am assuming that area is still accessible but maybe not
That’s a brilliant nugget of info! Thanks! Going to look now …
that's so hard to find! you have to scroll back to 2012 to find it, looking through the entrance into the courtyard, but yes .. it's there! brilliant.
Love when the stations are near where I grew up!
In the 70's, I went to Hammersmith with my late mother on the way to visit The London Transport Collection at Syon Park (the predecessor of the London Transport Museum!!). We had planned to use Hammersmith Met. Station (as it was then) on the way back, but my first sighting of a 1973 Stock train on the Piccadilly Line caused us to change our minds. Mum never did use Hammersmith H&C/Circle Line Station, and it was another ten years before I finally visited there!!
I can remember the exact date I last visited that station. 30th December 2002. I'd been to Ladbroke Grove to pay my respects as Joe Strummer's funeral cortege passed by on its way to the West London Crematorium.
Good video Geoff. Inspired me to pop into London half an hour earlier this morning to have a look round myself and take a longer journey on the Circle over to my appointment by the Barbican today.
Never really thought of Hammersmith as and end of the line, but you are on top of things. Had my photo taken on the legendary bench honouring Rik Mayall, the genius. Great video, and it's an End of the Line I've already ticked off and didn't even know it! Thanks!
Awesome Video Geoff 😄😄😄😄😄😄
My boyfriend and I came to London last November, and stayed a stone’s throw from the Hammersmiths. That cheeky Nando’s was the first place we ate at after arriving ❤
I live in Hammersmith and did not know about the footbridge!! Thank you.
Can't believe you didn't mention the depot/sidings visible from the overbridge.
Thx for your vids now I love train.
Great video, Geoff. I love the interior architecture of the station!
I was waiting for this one, because it isn’t really one station, it’s two.
Thank you Geoff.
Of course if you do the Labryinth route for Tube Challenge - depending on what time of year it is - you transfer between Hammersmith stations in the dark. If you can't get a Piccadilly train from Rayners Lane and get a Metropolitan instead, you'll be crossing between the two around lunchtime
Under one minute crew! Cheers Geoff!
Thanks Geoff Marshall
How timely. Hammersmith is a good place for this tourist visitor. 4 tube lines, handy from Heathrow and better hotel prices than inside zone one. I will be back at end of month and will keep an eye out for the ghost sign which I missed last week
Another great video Geoff! I love the end of the line series. I also recently brought your tube facts book in the London transport museum covent Garden shop! I always go there to pick up a book about railways.
It's Hammer-smith Time! for a End of the Line. Great video Geoff and around 5:10 that is a awesome location to watch District and Piccadilly Line Trains.
I remember when I was a student in London going with my father, (a native Londoner, but living elsewhere for the previous 20 years), to see the boat race, and coming out of Hammersmith station. Despite my protestations we were half way to Shepherds Bush before I could persuade him that we were going the wrong way, because we had come out of the Met station and not the District one.
(Driving with him in London was also "interesting" - intending to turn right at Hammersmith church to reach Putney, only to find himself on a flyover that had appeared in the interim.
But I shouldn't laugh - I get equally lost when I return to my (much smaller) native city.
Here are 4 Video suggestions:
1. 5:34 London tube,train stations from tv & film that don't actually exist like Walford from EastEnders and then try to show us where it fits in on the map and network.
2. On the train map Bethnal Green has two stations but they're not connected.
3. The only 3 train stations in London to have London in the name London Bridge, London City airport ,London Fields.
4. Which way you recommend to travel between Waterloo and bank when the Waterloo and City line is not operating.
1. Quatermass and the Pit
3. 'Whichever' underground line to relevant Central Line station and change, or to relevant Circle and District lines station and change to Monument.
I felt good old-school Secrets of the Underground vibes here ❤
I always sit on the Rik Mayall Bottom bench when I go to Hammersmith
I remember that Kate Bush was on at the Apollo when Rik died. There wasn’t a bench there at the time but flowers had been laid in the vicinity
That station was the first to have the modern networked ticket machines and gates in the mid 1980s developed by Westinghouse Cubic. I was a software engineer on the project. It went live on a bank holiday weekend (Sunday) and could have gone wrong if we hadn't fixed an embarrassing bug on the Friday.
Fortunately all went well and the new machines were featured in the local BBC London news.
Eventually the machines, network and computers were rolled out across all the stations.
Nice video Geoff glad you're doing end of the line again.
Thanks for mentioning Rik and Adrian!
I saw the old subway entrance used by cast in an episode of the Gentle Touch in early 1980s!!!..also a bricked up high rise door which was a footbridge to Grove Road station.
Remember the Centurion being knocked down as part of the redevelopment a sad day
Great to see a bench for Rick and Ade.
Remarkable - I've never ever seen pictures of that station, let alone used it!
I remember going to Hammersmith probably for no reason but I do like how Hammersmith has 2 Underground stations close to each other. Very interesting to see how Hammersmith has changed since the London Underground changed London as we know of today.
Excellent as usual!
BTW ... typical of TfL's energy wastage policy is leaving the lights on in that unused pedestrian bridge in broad daylight.
Shout outs to The Clash's song "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais".
Also mentioned in Ian Dury's "Reasons to be Cheerful".
Ken Boothe and the UK pop reggae!
Damnit, another chance to catch a Geoff in the wild missed!
My favourite, end of the line. Nowhere else to go!
Thank you for the video Geoff it was very interesting. ❤
On my list I am now down to four underground stations:
Bank (Waterloo & City)
Edgeware Road (Circle / District)
Kensington Olympia (District)
Waterloo (Waterloo & City)
I suspect Edgware Road is next.
Just to add one coincidence regarding the Rik Mayall bench - and Bottom, really. Smells, the first episode of Bottom, aired on this day in 1991.
I could never understand why there was no pedestrian tunnel between the two stations and put it down to Victorian competitive rivalry. Now I find that there was one and it was closed! Shades of Beeching!
If ever hear the track "Southern Freeez" by Freeez, I am immediately transported to the pub on Hammersmith H&C station, called somewhat uninspiringly 'The Hammersmith Buffet', in the early 1980s, when I would go there with friends I had met on a residential course. There was a competition running at the time to rename the bar, and I had suggested 'The End of the Line', but sadly this was unsuccessful and I think it became the Metro Bar 😐
It's nice to have the modern features but I prefer the old stations. They have more character. And my favorite shot of the train leaving the station.
I will be riding the new Brightline rail to Miami in November. I think I will film it!
To be honest, when they extended the circle line, they should have probably renamed it the spiral line, and then effectively treat it as the "replacement" for the circle line in the publicity advertising the extension and explaining all of the implications for people.
Bank and Waterloo next 😂
I went to the bench in Hammersmith to pay my respects to Rik, not long after he passed. It was almost completely covered in tributes and messages.
I couldn’t think who Rik Mayall was but then I remembered: Lord Flashheart in Blackadder. Sorry, I don’t know him from anything else.
Hammersmith Met and the line from Paddington suburban was built by the Met and GW joint as the Hammersmith & City and operated jointly for many years. Hence the GWR benches at Hammersmith.
Do I remember this rightly? The subway walk linking the two stations had dragon markings on the floor to direct people to each station in the colour of the tube lines.
Geoff likes his trains
Is that the first Geoff advert? Good for you, 10% of an interesting video so you can live is well worth it.
Another great video, and the Rik Mayal tribute bench was a great bomus. When I was over in London a couple of weeks ago I was wondering if I would run into you on the tube. I have never been so informed as I am now thanks to you. Sadly I missed out on a Wimpy so that will have to be next visit ;-)
Lovely stuff
Hi Geoff, I might have this wrong, but it was always my understanding that the underused footbridge, where the drivers clock on, used to connect to the Hammersmith Grove Station that has now long gone.
The "Fourth Road" at 2:05 . For many year there was no track there. The curve to the buildings nearby made it look as if there were plans to join a track onto the District line to the East of the other station.
Watching this video I realized that the two lines terminating at Hammersmith have the worse names of all Underground lines. The 'Circle line' name disregards the whole Hammersmith branch, and 'Hammersmith & City line' name disregards the whole part east of the City. In fact, when disregarding historically grown names, 'Hammersmith & City' would be a great name for the Circle line.
The door to the drivers mess on the footbridge use to be boarded over, that is because it use to carry on as a foot crossing to Grove Road station.
Still waiting for you to do an 'end of the line' for the Waterloo & City line. 😜
You didn't mention the significance of the GWR benches. The branch to Hammersmith from Paddington was a Metropolitan and Great Western Railway joint venture and originally had rolling stock labelled Met and GW Joint Railway.
Geoff you forgot to mention the depot, as tubes lay up there at night .... I've a dvd on what went on there back in the mid 80' & 90's .. ( the dvd is called London Tonight) I've copy ... Worth a watch ... Not sure you would enjoy it ....
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Ahh found memories of nights at the Palais
I've got the bench where the "Hammersmith hardmen" sat saved in my Google maps. I will visit soon
For some reason Hammersmith H&C line station always feels like a seaside station to me. It feels like you should be able to walk out onto a seafront promenade, not 'orrible old 'ammersmith Broadway. I think it's because the station was built to a Great Western Railway design (the line was originally a joint effort by the GWR and Metropolitan Railway) so it has an air of a West Country holiday destination.
I thought there was some way of getting between the two stations without crossing the road! From my memories of the mid to late sixties. I thought it was a covered way, rather than a subway, but I suppose the first part of it was a passageway!
i've passed through literally hundreds of times, and have never spotted the GWR signage !
will have to look for it next time
2:19 CLUTTERED UP WITH OLD COKE CANS
(was this secrets of the hammersmith line or something?)
Lovely you mentioned bottom today is the anniversary of the first episode that went out in 1991 17th September
good morning Geoff
Just done Amersham and Chesham when the 1938 stock runs were happening to Watford
Nice video 😊
Both stations should be merged into one.
Nice Vid Geoff!
I really like your end of the line videos 😊😊
Would Kensington Olympia be in consideration for this series as a tiny number of services terminate/begin ?
An interesting thing at Kensington Olympia to look for is the Motorail Car Park where you could drive your car on to a train to Cornwall or Scotland
I have absolutely no idea why, but I read this as Yammersmith.
That would be a good name for an African restaurant in the area!
Yammersmith Yummersmith
Love your videos Geoff but are you keeping out of the Hendy vs Dennis thing?
I was wondering whether you would mention the bench :)
The blacksmith ate the ham and his name was mr. Smith
Did you notice the ampersand in the middle of the grille at 1:02? I've always been intrigued by that.
Hi Geoff, Thank you for your amazing content. How are you?