The Too-Many-Stations-In-Central-London Walk
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So proud of the fact that I have wasted enough time walking around London to recognise the places where this was filmed
Same here!
Haha same here!
One day the last time I was in London I took a walk that hit some of the same locations, but was generally in the opposite direction. I recall being particularly struck by the appearance of the red piers of the defunct old Blackfriars Bridge.
no time is wasted. it's an endless thing until.........pfft.
Time spent walking around London is never wasted!
There’s nothing like a good long walk looking at history that is overlooked in the daily hustle… incredibly interesting and extremely well done - thank you as always, Jago!
For me a walk along South Bank is an essential walk for anyone visiting London
9:33 No mention of the Reliant Robin with a camper top? I know that’s not really part of this channel’s shtick, but dang! For those of us not in the UK, it’s wild to see that!
There are still a few about. The one pictured seems to be a campervan version. Unusual.
Let’s make it even more top-heavy! What could possibly go wrong?
phwoar. went back for a gander. thanks for that :)
Was it not just a colour-matched roof box? Still pretty cool though.
Somethings are better left unsaid 😅
A Reliant Robin at 9.32 - an interesting vehicle to find lurking in a City of London car park. It looks like a camper conversion, which is a bold move on somebody's part. I'd like to see it with that roof popped up. Unexpected crossover between Jago Hazzard and HubNut!
Maybe it's Jago's, and maybe just maybe he is dressed up like Batman!?!
The ultimate London visit would include a comprehensive Jago guided city tour. If only there were such a thing . . . .
Or a guidebook! I'd buy one.
Maybe there is?
We have Joolz Guides. Notice how Jago and Joolz never seem to be in the same video or mention each other? And how Jago's shadow is wearing a top hat, much like Joolz does?
They're the same person!
Oh, yes, how about a tour of London with Jago Hazzard doing the tube and J. Draper doing adjacent historic sites? Oh, it's too much for me, perhaps they could spread it out on a series of videos? I'd still like to have lunch with them live, though, such likeable UA-camrs.
9:37 oh my... is that a Reliant Robin camper-van conversion? I have many questions for whoever thought that was a good idea, including "can I have one?"
I would also like some answers to this. I wasn't expecting to see that, whatever it really was.
Funny seeing it among the rows of Chelsea tractors.
What you say about the decline of unnecessary stations followed by a resurgence reminds me of what happened in Liverpool in the 1960s and 70s. They closed Exchange and Central High Level in order to concentrate all the long distance services at Lime Street, and more recently there was talk of needing a new station for HS2 and NPR because Lime Street wouldn't be able to cope, thus bringing it full circle!
Back in the 70's I was in the Navy. Based for a while in Chatham, I arrived on, for reasons, the last arrival at Paddington. As the underground was closed and it being a lovely warm night, I decided to walk to Victoria and catch the first train. I was amazed at how busy the place was. Stopped for coffee twice.
Was that at about 5 in the morning?
@@ajs41 Probably. Sounds right.
You walked from Paddington to Victoria?! Were you feet not covered in blisters by the end of it?!
@@JW1_1 It's only about 2 miles isn't it.
@@ajs41 yeah, 2 1/2. But still a 50 minute walk, cut to 15 minutes give or take on the bus.
That was a chaotic jump around London Stations with some high quality Jago humour. I was expecting you to just end the video by saying "Mornington Crescent" (Reference: BBC Radio 4)
Jago, the City Bridge Foundation looks after five bridges over the Thames - Tower, London, Southwark, Blackfriars and Millennium. Yes it's very weird that part of the City of London is south of the river. It's not even a square mile, especially if you include Epping Forest.
I think it's just Blackfriars Bridge and London Bridge (and the land they are on) that are part of the City of London.
@@kjh23gk No, there's definitely City of London signs on the south side of Southwark bridge.
@@hairyairey The only thing I could find to back up my claim was a Londonist article "Why Is This Bit Of The Square Mile South Of The River?".
>"Blackfriars Bridge isn't the only bridge to fall wholly within the City boundary: London Bridge does too, as this map inside Rennie Garden shows:"
>"Southwark Bridge (completed in 1921) and the Millennium Bridge (2000) presumably came too late to be considered part of the Square Mile. Still, Southwark Bridge and Millennium Bridge - along with Tower Bridge, which is outside the City limits - are cared for by the City of London Corporation."
@@kjh23gk It's specifically the City Bridge Foundation. As this site is particularly weird about sharing links I haven't put one but it's easy enough to find out
Don't forget the City of London also own/control Hampstead Heath and Parliament Hill Fields.
@9.33 a Reliant Poptop Camper? 😵 that deserved an investigation at minimum
I saw that! Incredibly cool
I'd have typed a funnier comment but I was too busy dancing the Jago - a new dance move which I CAME UP WITH.
And near the end, a Routemaster bus, which makes everything, tickety-boo.
Or as we say now Oystery-boo.
@@caw25sha Equally, in today's world, the bivalve mollusks might take deep offense at having their names taken in vain.
I think if Jago had swapped all the 19th century long railway company names with different ones, I would have enjoyed it equally, and I wouldn't have noticed until I came down to a very angry comment section. 😅
Do you mean you were not aware of the Thornton Heath line run by the Surrey and South Central Railway Company?
@@simonmeadows7961 Good old S&SC, shame we don't see that lovely crimson and beige livery any more! Did you know there is a lovely disused line on the original Thornton Heath line that is now run as a museum line between Farton Green and Camberwick? Too bad all the lovely old S&SC class 1F and class J74 locomotives were scrapped when diesel took over. 😁
First time first to comment.I think the view from Blackfriars station down the river towards tower bridge is one of the best views in London.
Yes, along with the view from the cable cars. We all know how much Jago loves the cable cars, don't we?
Whitecross Street Goods Depot sounds like it may have had an interesting history...
That was quite a journey. Clearly we need an express line from Broad Street to Lambeth in order to make things a bit easier. 😁
It's called the Drain.
New York is a city that closed a majority of its commuter rail stations in the central districts, with them being consolidated at either Penn Station or Grand Central. Corridors like Park Avenue and the West Side line had plenty, and some of the elevated rail lines had stations along with the subway.
However, in an era where tunnelling was very difficult across the Hudson (and still difficult to this day), we never had the ridiculous amounts of central stations that London has.
If you like old streets you missed a lovely one parallel with The Cut, called Roupell Street, its a conservation area of 19th century terraced houses, very popular as a film location.
And an excellent pub in the King's Arms at the crossroads with Windmill Walk
Looking forward to seeing your new dance move in a Map Men cameo very soon! haha
Thanks, Jago! You are the dance-moves to my shunting-locomotive! 🪩
Moral of the Story: Thank goodness for B-Roll
The chief reason for Blackfriars being rebuilt along the length of the bridge was pier pressure.
Peppa Pig bus at the end, Jago talks about meat markets. It's the little things that make me love this channel!
Wasn't there a short-lived Snow Hill station in the vicinity of Smithfield? If so, that could also be included - even if well buried!
Snow Hill was slightly north of Holborn Viaduct, the AWS Head Office is on some of its land.
You pass through it just before entering City Thameslink from the South. It was renamed Holborn Viaduct Low Level briefly before closing in 1916 with the withdrawal of the Victoria -Moorgate Street service, the last regular passenger service through the Snow Hill tunnel until it was reopened for Thameslink.. when the line first reopened was possible to see some small traces of the station, such as a rectangular panel on the wall which was probably for posters or timetables. A photograph taken during the reopening works also showed the remains of a seat, but I think this had gone when the line opened.
Thank you for the excellent vlog and the picture of Holborn viaduct station, I used to work trains there when I was a Guard in my twenties.
Excellent work. I’ve worked around almost all of these locations and it’s great to have more information about the area and its transport history.
I love watching your videos and seeing how many locations I've been to myself :)
Broad Street and Holborn Viaduct - two stations I never saw in-person. Always wondered what they were like. Great video 📹 Jago! ❤👏🏾🌟🚉
9:26 "It is not an station!" Nice word play there.
Top video, helpful for visualising the above-ground spacings between the stations geographically, if that makes any sense. Ta 👌
I’ve done the walk under Smithfield Market when Crossrail/Elisabeth Line was under construction. It was like a big underground city down there!
I go to Waterloo often for uni, I'll give this path a walk. Cheers, walking around London is always quite fun!
I was waiting for the longest walk solely within the confines of existing stations with connecting corridors and platforms (e.g. the complex between the Waterloo and City, Bank and Monument - too many wasted hours walking from W&C to DLR via the impenetrable labyrinth).
Loving the spot of a Reliant Robin!
"Smithfield is _an_ historic meat market, it is not _an_ station." That made my day! 🤣
As someone who commuted to Holborn Viaduct for over 10 years, I miss the old place (& the Fusilier Bar on the station). I think we need a Friends of Holborn Viaduct group!
I literally just took the train from Southwark station after work and was watching the vid when 2:58 popped up, Jago is always watching 😳
That original bridge of Waterloo is awesome, definitely got my attention. I just wanted to point out the 10FOOT tag... Railfans don't tend to like vandals I've noticed, but a lot of vandals are railfans.. (hobbies like urbex/infrastructure also crossover)
10foot and Helch are all over the place. Helch's tag on the Chiltern Line bridge over the M25 has changed design a couple of times. How does he get up there? (Helch, please reply!)
Home is where the Helch is!
Not keen on tagging but well done graffiti can be great...and one of the best areas to see that is in Leake Street...jago mentions the street but doesn't show the great stuff there at all 😢
Jago's Meat Market - the mind boggles!!!!
Sounds like this would be a cool guided walk for tourists with all those sights to take in.
He mentioned Leake Street but from this video you'd have no idea that it's one of the best places to see decent artistic graffiti...best to visit at night as the place has a great vibe
The Widened Lines seem to be always mentioned in one sentence. But what a massive project that must have been, widening the cut-and cover and several stations. Did they complete it while running trains on the existing lines? The lines even cross over each other at one point on a huge sub-surface structure called the Ray Street Gridiron.
Because of that cross over (and the overpass at blackfriars) Thameslink technically goes though the circle line.
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Jaggo is hopefully not running outta ideas! Nice video.
Not a bad walk to do, if you're in London and have some time to kill.
Jago, here, seems to be rather channelling his inner 'John Rogers' :D
Those 10FOOT disciples gets everywhere! Great video as always Jago 👍🏿
That squirrel is famous on the cut, seen it go in and out of the barbers opposite the anchor and hope a few times.
While we're on the subject of too many stations..
I was in Amsterdam last weekend, and I had to meet someone in Almere which is basically a new town outside Amsterdam. This place has no less than six stations on the same line. From west to east there is Almere Poort , Almere Muziekwijk, Almere Centrum, Almere Buiten, Almere Park and Almere Oostvaarders where I had to get off. I just thought it was unusual. Acton maybe has more stations but they are on different lines.
re: south bank City of London park…it’s due to Blackfriars Bridge being entirely owned by the city, same for London Bridge. the park is part of the abutment property thus under City of London control
It would be interesting to see the area these stations cover on a map. Would give a nice idea of how much the old and new ones overlap.
Another great video from Mr. Jago H. Thanks.
Now I've actually became curious about the dances🤣
Dover being rendered by the captions as DOA has slayed me, gotta say 😂
Quoth Dan Backslide: "CON-FOUND THOSE DOVER BOYS!!!"
remember to do a "proper" video on Blackfriars Bridge Station, Mr Hazzard.
there. consider yourself reminded.
(what you consider "proper" is up to you)
A solar powered bridge 🤔🤔🤔 I’m having visions of a bridge that disappears when the sun stops shining. 🤣🤣🤣
Maybe Tower Bridge hydraulic accumulators could be charged by solar panels!
Or not.
Ah HA!! A Cheshire Bridge!!!
I love a Jago's London walk video.
"...if you can endure the smell of exhaust fumes and stale urine..."
Reminds me of the Pier Head in the 70s on a Friday night. Invokes the sound of a Corpy Atlantean pulling away on the 44D while people tramp past the doughnut shop across the perpetually greasy pavement. Happy days... 😊
"You are the underground depot to my meat market." Well, I've certainly heard that often enough! ;P
NO. Wise words Jago. Though I can imagine it is only so slightly more charming than the Holborn Viaduct
The NYC subway was quite similar in the early days, you had 2 companies looking to put lines wherever possible (some in the hopes of driving the above ground elevated railways out of business), the IRT and the BMT, then the city itself got in on the game with their Independent (IND) lines. All of them competed for riders (and more space under the city. No free transfers between the 3, even if their stations were literally on top of each other (Bleecker Street on the local Lexington avenue line ran just above Broadway-Lafayette Street on the express and local IND that connects with the sixth avenue line. Because Bleecker Street was orignally built with offset platforms, it just took literally knocking down a wall to connect the downtown IRT to the IND, but it took decades to finally connect the uptown IRT to the IND (by abandoning the north half of the platform and just building a new extension farther south.)
🎶Let’s do the Jago again!🎶
We will always have to guess how that goes! 😜
Nothing better than a nice long walk :D
So, this is an opportunity to ask a question about Blackfriars station.
Is it possible to tap in on one side of the river, walk along the bridge and tap out on the other side without ever getting on a train?
Henry Cavill appears to do just that in Mission: Impossible - Fallout. (In the meantime, Tom Cruise just bypassed the ticket barriers entirely like a fare dodger)
Yes, but you may have difficulty escaping reversing your path.
I think Geoff Marshall mentioned this in a video or one of his books.
If you are over 66 (like me) you definitely can. 😄
@@brianparker663 Well, I'm one too, and it didn't work for me a couple of weeks back at Finsbury Park. I entered at the Seven Sisters Road entrance, went to check the time of the train, twenty minutes which was enough time to get a Starbucks round the back, checked out the rear exit, got my drink, and was blocked from reentering, on an over 60s card. Worse, some comedy act was stopping the gate guy responding, so I gained the attention of someone in the control room who overrode the loopy logic.
There's too many in Acton, spread the love
The park is an extension of the bridge and is I think the only part of the city of London that is south of the river that is directly connected to the main city of London via Blackfriars Road bridge. There are other city of London sites further south, including near Croydon, however these aren’t attached to the city of London but are owned by it
it was starting to sound like a strange version of Mornington Crescent
Jago is permanently "in nip" so is debarred from playing - except on Tuesdays as you will well know.
The bridges connecting to the City of London, including Blackfriars Bridge, are the responsibility of the CoL City Bridge Foundation , including the point at which they land on the southbank - even if they are not technically part of the CoL. The parklet at 4:51 is Rennie Garden and because it is on the bridge, the CoL look after it, although it is definitely geographically within the LB of Southwark.
My biggest complaint about Waterloo is that I can never remember how to find the sodding door to get in and end up walking around those strange half underground roads for half an hour every time
Dealing with a lot of homework today but I'll always have time to come and watch the latest Jago video! :)
A shout for the TfL building opposite Southwark underground.
Comparing 2024 Jago with classic Jago and the sass is off the charts
There's quite a lot of property outside the City of London owned or controlled by the Corporation of London including Hampstead Heath & Epping Forest who both have their own independent police forces wearing the Corporation Of London's crest on their uniforms.
There's several blocks of flats on the Old Kent road with a huge CoL crest on the wall
I was in London in June and I got turned around the wrong way headed to Farringdon Station to catch the Elizabeth line West but I ended up at Blackfriars! So, I took the Circle Line to Paddington which turned out to be a good thing because the Elizabeth line was only running from Paddington that day. Only on this channel would I share such a trivial transit story!😂
The slanted roof of Blackfriars station accommodates 4,400 south facing PVCells which supply half of the station’s power! Blackfriars is the largest solar powered bridge in the world {others in Brisbane & San Mauro Torinese, in northern Italy].
And then there was the Midland Railway's Castle & Falcon Yard (on the site of the former coaching inn of that name) just off Aldersgate north of Gresham Street, adjacent to the Roman Wall, and only a short distance from Whitecross Street.
Excellent station name!
I need to see the Jago!
Unusually, this video would have been greatly enhanced by interspersing the clips with sdcans of the OS maps of the relevant dates. OS "1st" series of 1"/mile were surveyed in the early 19th centuary but were updated numerous times, mainly to add railway information. The most appropriate series were the 6"/mile (1:10,560) superceded in the 1950s by 1:10,000. OS maps copyright expies after 50 years.
“you are the underground depot to my meat market”
Best chat up line of 2024😅
Ar around 7.02, the view from Blackfriars Bridge, that;'s close to where I used to work in Bridge House, it's just between the bridge and the old entrance to the tube station. We had an office junior, who bless her wasn't the sharpest tool in the box, who one day asked "what is that river out there called" ? hmmmmmmm you had to be there
And currently I hear a lot of irritability, but that's cool, keep doing what you do. xn
Hello Jago @ 3:07 Yep I remember you telling us about 'BlackFriars Abandon Station' in another one of your Vids!!! @ 6:22 Hey Jago watch me do the Jimyjames Shuffle - Oh you can't see me either!!! Oh well!!! 😄🚂🚂🚂
Mr. Beans enemy car does exist ;) 09:40
Mr. Bean's "enemy car" was NOT a Reliant Robin, it was an AC Invacar. It was also a very different shade of blue.
@@Eric_Hunt194 Potato potato ;)
Most importantly, can you confirm that the Hole In The Wall at Waterloo & the Rutland Hotel (Bishop's Finger) at Smithfield are still in business & prospering?
The Dover Boys opening a station on the other side of the bridge, "No, no! Over here, over here!"
BTW: from King's Cross, think you can catch a train or tube direct to over half London's stations 🙂
What do you think about the possibility of more interchanges at Bow in the future. Within a very short distance you have the Hammersmith and City/District stopping at Bow Road and the DLR at Bow Church but you also have the Elizabeth Line underneath but not stopping and the C2C from Limehouse running by at Bow Triangle. There is also a big warehouse and area off Rounton Road which was used by TFL for the Elizabeth line works. There is also a random offshoot from the c2c national rail line that crosses a bridge over Bow road where an old station was but I don't think has a regular service running over it. That bridge semi regularly has a tfl rail train parked on it.
Great video JH 💯
I'd love to see a similar examination of Watford.
Soithwark's interior inspired by the Queen of the Night scene. Interesting choice, given in that aria she thrusts a dagger into the hands of her daughter, Pamina, and tells Pamina to assassinate her rival, Sarastro, or she'll disown and curse Pamina.
What a nice, kind, gentle, caring mother... .
Presumably any resemblance between the Queen's feelings and those of commuters using the station are purely coincidental and not intended... 😈
Southwark for Palestra!
The LCDR line from Blackfriars to the Metropolitan did not by-pass Holborn Viaduct - there was the short lived Holborn Viaduct Low Level, whose platforms can still be seen..
After hearing about train stations that were/became too small in this video, would there be enough examples for a video about train stations that were planned and built too big?
Under different circumstances and better planning could they have developed a through cross London mainline rail viaduct link between Holborn Viaduct and Broad Street by way of the Smithfield Goods Depot, White Cross Street Goods Depot and thereby avoiding Finsbury Circus, since the route would be connecting two terminus and be nowhere near Bank to raise the ire of the City of London?
4:56 - so Richmond isn't the only cross-river borough? Must be worth investigating. (Some would say of course that the City isn't a borough, it's The City.)
There were more before 1965, of course.
"fun fact" about the Southwark Station, it gets regularly closed due to staff shortages.
Who came up with the name "Backside Yards" for that development? Fnarr fnarr indeed!
3:42 TfL head office.
When I was a lad many many years ago during the time when the Paddington toy museum was around if you remember or did go to I’m talking the early 90’s Be a good future video on its history
Back to me as a lad the Victoria line runs under my house long before I knew which line it was my dad beloved at the time it was the post office railway I said Dad is it possible to build a miniature railway from here in islington to the Paddington toy museum my dad laughed if I win the national lottery I’ll fund it he also said if he did he buy the becenscott model village if also he won the national lottery he never did 😢
Anyway good video once again and don’t ask me to dance I’m far to old and far to Bloody sober
Remember to make a video about Blackfriars Bridge station, one of these days.
Oh, you mean one of these days remind you to make a video about Blackfriars Bridge station.
Umm, well, remind me to do that, Mr Hazzard. One of these days…
Oh, and maybe you could tell us whether it should have an apostrophe (Blackfriars’s Bridge station?)
Whatever you do, don't remind Jago that he already made a video about Blackfriars Bridge station ua-cam.com/video/iqCwPPmhILI/v-deo.htmlsi=jHMc6RV7AatB06OO
So.Many.Names. O.O But I'm here for it :)