Secrets of the Piccadilly Line
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Which station has a cache of hidden gnomes? Where could you find an abandoned spiral escalator? And which station has its own unique font? Geoff Marshall goes in search of the secrets of the Piccadilly Line.
It's a shame you can't go behind those closed doors. Would be fascinating to see the frozen in time parts of the LU.
You can go on an abandoned tube stations tour for things like the jubilee line platforms at charing cross and I'm fairly sure there's one for Aldwych
TfL should let this dude do whatever he needs to do
BBC get him a documentary series
4:00 the timing was amazing
I didn't even notice, that was really well done.
These should be hour long documentaries!
As an ex tube train driver I find the station stuff quite interesting, something I never got to explore. I drove on the Piccadilly, Northern, Jubilee and Bakerloo lines in the 80's. There's so much you see from the front of a train that most people don't know about. Disused stations, tunnels connecting one line to another, disused underground sidings, disused tunnels that nobody knew where they went, secrets, ssshhhhhh.
Hello sir, in 2014, I was in London for few months. I traveled a lot by the trains. I like Harrow on the hill station most.
Also I tried fish and chips at different places in London. Will remember those things in life forever.
:)
@@prasadjoshi7373 Hi! I live in Harrow, did you like the shopping mall in St. Anne and St. George?
@@zziaoe6940 I don't remember the name of shopping mall in that area. But it was near the station. It was a good mall.
@@zziaoe6940 Hi! I live in Neasden, My favorite station is West Hampstead!
My local station is South Harrow, I normally go to Harrow for St George's, love going to VUE
I would love to see the bbc hiring you for like a little iplayer sketch about trains or stations ect, i would watch it :3
Loghan Haddock Jay Foreman should be hosted. Unfinished London should be a series
J p b Dude Collects he is
3:23 That was extremely accurate! Congratulations! :D
When I was researching my very first trip to London in 2015, I came to UA-cam for information on the tube and the Picadilly Line. This very video was my introduction to Londonist, and of course, Geoff. I haven't looked back.
Geoff marshall if you don't mind could you do an video on the experimental spiral escalator plz.
Yesssssss!
It is closed...
SupernovaDark - Roblox He Means That Geoff Should Make A Video About How They Work
@@ewanrpj3512Oh k.
@@ewanrpj3512 Hey Ewan.
+Londonist Ltd @ 4:00 you're on the platform at Hammersmith and you showed how the clock replicates the colours of the Piccadilly Line and the District Line. From what I can see on the video, if you look up above where the trains run, the roof is painted blue over the Piccadilly and green over the district. Am I right?
TheThirdMan yes I saw that
I noticed that as well
TheThirdMan Yes
It Should Swap,Because The Piccadilly Line is On The Inside and The District On The Outside.
Poo
The reason I know more about trains than I used to is because of Geoff, thanks mate
Speaking of Hammersmith, the first time I came out of that station I suddenly remembered how Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson used to stare out of a mock-up for the facade of the station shopping centre in the title sequence of Bottom. It think they should put a picture of Richie and Eddie in one of the windows in tribute.
I don't live in the UK, but use the Tube wherever I'm in London. Your videos make getting from Points A to B a lot more interesting. Many thanks.
"No, I'm not in jail"...I laughed so hard and re-watched twice!
Karen Pinchbeck ummmm... ok
That's not funny
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Waaaaaaaaaat??????
How is that funny
Once again, a fascinating insight into all the amazing things that even seasoned commuters may miss every day... Fantastic work Geoff, looking forward to the next one!
My very observant girlfriend has noticed that you change the colour of your top for every video, in relation to the line. Nice touch!
Also, great videos, nice to get some inside info.
We'll spotted
That's very sad
I don't think so. Quite a nice little touch.
Your girlfriend is not observant and you are blind
not just shirts, often line coloured trainers too !
Sudbury Town was my home station for many years and I too love it. I once saw the actor that played Gripper Stebson from Grange Hill, waiting outside the station in a car that had the driver's door missing!
Fun fact:
High Barnet and Cockfosters stations are really close to each other
What a great series. I live in North London and have always marvelled at the architecture of the Piccadilly line north London stations.
At Earl's Court if you take the stairs to the picadilly line you can get a great view of the district line
Didn't expect to find you here lol...
Or just take the lift
Noice
Really
Geoff - you didn't mention the skid pan on the Piccadilly line. If you travel between South Ealing and Acton Town and look at the left hand (northern) track (which is rarely used) you will see raised pipes either side of the track. These have holes in which can are used to squirt water onto the tracks. This is used to test the braking systems on trains.
Actually it's on the eastbound local line and is only used by test trains. Years ago it was positioned on the fast tracks (the two in the middle). The test train use to take possession of the track from the starter at Northfields to a signal just short of Acton Town. It use to do the lot, run in the wrong direction, emergency stops, and of course the skid test. It was full of test equipment. Possession of the fast tracks was usually granted between 11AM and 3PM. During that time all the passenger traffic was sent up the local lines (the two outside lines). If you click on the link below you can see the current sprayers together with the test train in action on the eastbound local.
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Another good presentation by Geoff. It supplements the 'Blue Piccadilly'!
I never ever ever been to the Piccadilly line anymore but I've been into the Victoria line circle line and jubilee line
Thanks very much for that.... Sudbury Town happens to be my favourite station too.... I lived there for many years and never failed to appreciate it's beauty when catching a tube or getting off after a long day.... cheers.
Yet another FIRST CLASS Video 10/10 5* - You really should be working in Tv full time. Your documentary skills put many so called Tv pro's to shame. looking forward to your next production
Wow....love the modernist architecture of the stations.....
Up until October 1964 the Piccadilly Line from Acton Town to Hounslow West was also served by the District Line trains, hence the four-track layout between Acton Town and Northfields. The District Line trains used the two outer tracks whilst the Piccadilly Line used (and still uses) the inner tracks. The former District Line tracks on this section are now used for testing stock, now better known as the South Ealing Test Tracks. Hounslow West was the former terminus up until 1975 when the platforms at Hounslow West were diverted into new sub-surface platforms for the extension to Hatton Cross and Heathrow Airport which opened in 1977.
Yeah! I am an ex-Alpertonian! Remember that station well...Went back there recently, after 40 years, and what a change! Popped up to Sudbury Town as well. That was still the same...
Shame we cannot just visit all these stations without actually coming out of the station...
Glad to see Londonist doing these videos. Well done there!
Used to love to sit on the tube and ride it from Alperton to Southgate to a discoteque ( The Royalty ) with Sony Walkman on at full blast just to blockout the noise of rattling tube trains when those carriages were painted grey in colour!
The rolling stock today has little character...
These videos are great! Interesting, informative and entertaining. Makes me excited to ride the tube again!
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I enjoy your Vidz Geoff Wish they were longer! As a Canadian that used to live above Baker Street Station in Chiltern Court in the 1970's I truly enjoy seeing how the tube has evolved. I suggest that in future Visits... you Show the types of Tube stock that used the station (and lines) over the decades etc as well as Before and after shots .... stuff like that! It's a brilliant concept you have come up with and works well!
Another interesting fact is that the Piccadilly line serves both the northern and western most stations with underground platforms in tunnel. With 55% of the network above ground that's good going.
Woooooow amazing.
I rewind my memories. Exactly 9 yrs before I lived n Harrow and I worked n Barnet.
So I get Piccadilly n South Harrow or Raynes lane and go to all the way to Oakwood.
nearly 1 hr journey.but I really enjoyed.
Many many good things have London Underground.but One think I really apirciate and wanna say thnks to the marvellous creaters 'they make soooo easy to anyone'
if u go any other Country 1st time. A big Problem s Traveling.
but if u come UK..if u want to go anywhere in London? don't worry abt travelling.just get One Underground Tube Map.its take u where u want to go.
Great Great Great....London Undergrounds are always Great.
Let’s not forget that like Regents Park on the Bakerloo, Manor House on the Piccadilly is also a station that is situated underground with no visible building.
When I spent a few weeks in London, we always giggled when the announcement said “this train terminates at Cockfosters”
😂😂😂
On older trains you just hear a rapid beeping sound for the door closing signal, but on modern trains an automated voice says "This train is about to depart. Please mind the doors" and then you hear the beeps and the doors close!
ex tubetrain driver picc line based arnos grove ,,,loved this vid ,,cheers mate ..
Sudbury Town's insides look a lot like Eastcote station too!
Goddamn mate, you're everywhere
STOP FOLLOWING ME
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My favourite line is the picadilly line I wish it was called Umar line because my name is Umar
Really classy video. Great sound. Great script. Super presentation. Neat job.
Classy is a vulgar word.
Much too short though
You provide some extremely fascinating videos. This is one of them. How did you learn all this. Did you just spend time cruising around aimlessly on the tube? Or, did you study it somehow from another angle? I wouldn't think this would all be in a book somewhere. Your viewpoint seems to be unique, at least to me over here in the US. Thanks for what you do. Love it. Rob
Uxbridge new station is very much like Cockfosters with the concrete shed. South Harrow moved along to a new station building with the extension but the original is still there. My grandfather was involved in building the South Harrow arches and Sudbury Town Station as well as Sudbury Hill and Alperton.Don't forget to spy the abandoned branch off the South Harrow arches that took coal wagons from Rayners Lane siding to the gas works.. all great stuff thanks for the hard work you put in.
One secret you missed: at Heathrow t4 there is a secret passageway at the end of the platform that brings you to national rail platforms
I worked on the tube for just over a year back in 1983 and did a stint at Sudbury Town, nice station.
The reason why Express Railfan nicknames it the Piccadilly Express Line because it runs as an express on the inner tracks alongside the District Line between Acton Town and Hammersmith stations.
Gone to wood green station probably millions of times yet never noticed that art work he showed us xD
I used to travel of the Aldwych shuttle going to and from school in the late 60’s / early 70s. I believe it’s possible to visit the station on guided tours and see the other end of the line from Holborn. It has also been used for lots of films.
Looking forward to secrets of the Waterloo & City Line :)
Dude your comment is out dated
love this line
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Connor 91004 Same, it is my favourite line!
My 3rd favourite tube line
Honestly the trains need an upgrade
They still use trains from the 1970s and the ride is bumpy
There is so much fantastic architecture on the Tube as we are being shown in these great videos. What a shame that the cavernous Canada Water didn't take it's inspiration from the beautiful Tube stations available.
*****, it also looks like the canopies at Hammersmith are also Blue and Green, over the two respective lines. So impressed with all this fab nerdy knowledge :)
You could of mentioned that Piccadilly line trains run the oldest trains, 1972 stock, but, a brilliant video.
Blake Meikle . Picc trains are 1973 stock . Bakerloo are from 1972. Many thanks.
Blake Meikle Except they don't. Ever heard of Island Line? ;)
That isn't part of the London Underground, despite the fact they use old 1938 Stock, and is actually run by South West Trains
EJ Vlogs 'n Gaming I know. Still 1938 stock though ;)
supermellowman 40 Exept it should be this year
3:10 "This corridor was actually boarded up at both ends; full of construction materials for when the were building the new ticket hall and then when it was finished, they opened it up again, and this is where it comes out!" For those who wanted to know what Geoff was saying when the footage was sped up.
At Hounslow West you can still see part the canopy of the old platform in the corner of the carpark by the station building.
I love you videos. They are just amazing. Thanks for sharing your discoveries with us.
What will you do when you covered all tube lines? I hope you have plans and continue to do great London videos.
what i also noticed in the hammersmith video: the covering for the lights are blue on the piccadilly platform and green on the district line platform
dont know if its blatantly obvious but at 4:00 u can see that on the piccadilly side the ceiling is blue and on the district it is green
Is it me or is this video suddenly getting recommended again?
Again, excellent as always Geoff!!
Do you guys send these on TV? I'm quite amazed by the quality of your videos, could easily see this aired on BBC.
Splendid! Thanks.
You forgot to mention the 1973 Tube Stock and its unique Compressor Sound 👌🏻
It was there on earlier ones as well. I stopped catching undergrounds way before that circa '61/2 and can remember well the "dung dung dung dung" pumping the air or was it vacuum back up after stopping at the station, then the hsttstststs as the doors shut and the whumungumngumng as it got going! Oh dear what rubbish to remember after 60 years.
Superb video with some excellent historical info - 👍👍👍
Piccadilly Line like the Central Line is one of the longest lines
I remember travelling from Rayners Lane to Russell Square, took ages. I think 21 stations, if memory serves me right.
There is a disused station at the Brompton Oratory where you used to be able to access the platforms in the 80’s...
Stations always strike me as something designed by Escher!
Some look like they were designed by Stevie Wonder.
I love Southgate station, it looks so cool!
Hey, did you realise that Geoff Marshall is in the guinness world records 2015 book!He's in the transport section. :)
Excellent mini doc..
Its quite funny but the thing I was most amazed by, visiting London for the first time, was actually the tube and the stations. xD From all the things you can see in London, but I was always fascinated by trains even as a little kid. I was staying in Richmond so I used the district line and Earl's Court is for some reason my all time favourite station it even inspires the second word of my yt username =D
Sure someone's mentioned it but York Road is an unused mystery between the Cally and King's X. You can see some disused stuff/walls as the train passes by. It's about the only stretch of line where drivers let rip (occasionally) on what is a sluggish line.
And these vids are great.
Where's the link for the explanation of the Houslow trains?! I can't see a bonus video
Geoff is pronouncing it Hole-bn. We used to say Hoe-bn. Anyone else?
Holden be building these stations like its the EARLY days of Minecraft, with the three basic materials of cobblestone, glass, and wood, albeit with the cobblestone being replaced by concrete, and the wood replaced with brick
wow, sudbury town is my local station and I certainly wasn't expecting you to mention it I have to say.
North Ealing is my favourite station on the line. It has an old world village feel to it.
I drove the Piccadilly,Northern and Bakerloo lines last year
The lifts at Earls Court also descend to platform level for the Piccadilly line. I’m surprised you didn’t mention that Uxbridge has a similar platform design like Cockfosters
Thank you for this. Picadilly line was my line when I was a student at Middlesex University in the early 80s. Check out a fringe cabaret band of that time called Pulse, they sang a cool tribute called 'Last Train to Oakwood'🤗👍😉
Sudbury town has the curved Windows!! 👍🏽😉👍🏽👍🏽
York Road and Caledonian Road station were the only two station built in 1906 on the original section of the Piccadilly line were you didn't have to use steps between street level and deep level platforms.
Been binge watching these and was pleasantly surprised to see Sudbury Town (my fav and local station) as his fav station lol
The separators aren't to separate football / Non-football passengers, they just separate eastbound and westbound passengers because the majority of passengers use the westbound trains and without the separators, the westbound passengers will not only clog up their platform but then also the eastbound passengers platform who could otherwise be getting on relatively empty trains but would instead be causing more chaos and congestion
That's right, everyone knows that no one actually goes to watch Arsenal lol
i like watching your videos because theyre comforting for dome reason
did anyone notice the Piccadilly line replacing the holborn station sign to make a Piccadilly line roundel
I love Sudbury Town too! It so nice!
Before HEX, the Piccadilly line was the cheap way to get to/from LHR.
I don't miss chewing my arm off from anxiety worrying if I was going to make my flight...
Heathrow Express is more expensive than the tube... He has done a video on it somewhere, might have been on his personal channel.
Surely the biggest secret is between Caledonian Road and Kings Cross.
York Road station closed in the 1930s
One thing you forgot.. At Acton Town, there is a disused (non-personel-allowed) 1967 Stock (Old Victoria Line) where the other Transport For London Museum is!
Play this through at 0.5 to change Geoff's Emotion.
+TheTrainGame It's like he is high!
The only other secrets I could think of is the lifts at Heathrow Terminal 5, and unused track behind Heathrow terminal 4 that was located where they supposed a 5th terminal would be built.
Sudbury Hill is my Favourite Station. I used to live in London and it means a lot. Regards
Thank for your knowledge..
In all the stations you passed through my station on the tatternam corner branch
Hello, I am from the USA, but I study the London Underground as a hobby. Here’s a fun little slogan to help remember the Piccadilly line: “Munch on a dill pickle and hop on the Piccadilly.” My mum says that’s a brilliant little slogan. What do you think?
A font of information. It's great to see decent concrete, too.
Thanks for a very interesting video. Thinking about Alperton Station, if my memory serves me correctly, the closed escalator came from the Dome of Discovery at the 1951 Festival of Britain on London's South Bank.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
on that long list of stations west kensington was blue instead of green
Between Hyde Park Corner and Knightsbridge - a section oft he tunnel where the brick colour changes, where there used to be platforms for Brompton Road
I believe South Harrow was named by LT. It was formerly called Roxeth, but most people call the high street South Harrow now.
4:04 The D Stock was my childhood! I don't like the S Stock anywhere near as much, they have no character.
RIP D Stock - 1978-2017
A very well managed Rail system
There is an unopened station by Heathrow that was built in the mid 1980's . They put it where they thought terminal 5 was going to go, however it was never put there. The unopened station is by Stanwell. The platforms and tracks are there but the station building was never put on top. There are just two bunker like doors in the ground.