Marvellous. Young Geoff's version was much more glitzy, and longer, but nowhere near as gritty. Equal, but different, contributions to human Tube knowledge.
Even more so if the NHS actually delivers its projects… let alone under budget. 11bn NHS IT project… abandoned… among many that the public never hears about
Any under budget infrastructure project is a massive achievement, due I think to contractors putting deliberately low estimates to secure the contract...? Basically my point is this isn't just a London issue.
@@jschreiber6461 Mainly because mission creep become mission bloat… entirely due to being directed by Whitehall committees made up of mandarins who have not the faintest understanding of either health services or computers. Add in rapacious consultants and you have the perfect recipe for eye wateringly expensive disasters that deliver nothing except profits to the consultants.
scandalous that the council reduced the affordable housing quota for the developers. I appreciate how you clearly frame the tube as a huge boon to the developers profits, and point out 9% is absurd. subtle but important thing to mention and its great to know you care
@@thryduulf Dunno, no-one left to tell the tale. Honestly that escalator sudden stop I am surprised they didnt all fall down like a stack of dominos as no hands on the handrails due to holding cameras and phones up on the descent.
@@juanescobar8123 They'd probably need an electrical substation in that case and it would be called : Battersea Power Station Station Bus Station Electrical Substation
I absolutely love that new Poster design. My favourite that I have seen is an old one for Hampstead where the tag line was ‘Bring you’re Son and Heir, to the where there’s sun and air’ something along that line.
"back in the real world" .. is one way of looking at it but for me your shot of Kennington Station, with its lamps lit for approaching dusk, its lantern dome, Doric pilasters, bronze window-framing, retro signs, bespeaks a magic and a warmth I can only envy as someone who can no longer get to London - at least for the foreseeable - magic, that is, in that it still exists, can still be had, the envy of less happier lands ...
Really pleased to see it has opened from here in Kuala Lumpur, both as a Northern Line user (when in UK) and a railway designer. Even more impressed to see that Jago has included some shots of the track or permanent way. In the two new stations the track sits on Delkor baseplates to reduce noise and vibration whereas in the tunnels on Vigier's Sonneville blocks, a newer variant of the those used in the Channel Tunnel.
Could that be Charles Yerkes' reflection I spot in the car's window when the backtracking on affordable housing by the developers of Battersea Power Station is discussed at 1:45?
I'm absolutely delighted to see Nine Elms appear on the tube map. I've grown up with stories of the old Nine Elms goods yard from my Grandad who worked there in his youth. Thanks Jago, keep it up.
Here's the Battersea Power Station Community Choir's gloriously anarchic song show-stopper (actually endorsed by TfL, lol!). This was the opening duh! ua-cam.com/video/WcfO7RgNE-s/v-deo.html
And lo in far off California a lone middle age woman, a Pink Floyd fan, threw up her arms in grand rejoicing "Hark and Hallelujah! There is finally a Battersea Power Station station!" And then she sang a round of "Hallelujah", the Handel one, not the Cohen one, and realized she really should get some sleep. (Half past three in the morning? Oh sir, that's when I finally crawl my way into bed...)
Lovely. Nice to hear the 'off message' dig at the developers unreasonable complaints. If developers want to build, they should be responsible for paying for all the costs for the added infrastructure.
Because too much affordable housing would drag down the property values in the area by cluttering it up with too many people who aren't filthy stinking rich.
they didnt want the plebs, they got two zone 1 stations ( another comment on another vid said this was the middle of London - at least the taxi drivers wont have to do the Trafalgar Square - south of Vauxhall Bridge and loop back over Battersea Bridge now.) that even price the council housing opposite Nine Elms out of travel.
@@OofusTwillip "affordable housing" Let's just make one thing clear, the world affordable doesn't mean "affordable" in a sense that average person could afford it. Affordable housing in London means, a bit cheaper than the rest but still out of reach for middle class peasants.
The construction of this line extension shows that attractive stations are not an unaffordable luxury for public transportation. The actual fittings and interior of a station are a tiny fraction of the final cost, yet that is what the public experiences most directly.
Here's the Battersea Power Station Community Choir's gloriously anarchic song show-stopper (actually endorsed by TfL, lol!). This was the opening! ua-cam.com/video/WcfO7RgNE-s/v-deo.html
Jago Hazzard has the uncanny ability to eloquently turn in "Oh, and I spotted Geoff Marshall" into "The great and the good are here". I tip my hat for you, sir!
I have never before been the very first to watch a youtube video 🙂 Thanks for all you videos and effort, I don't understand how but you are succeeding making videos about the underground in London interesting for someone that has only been to London once 🤷♂️🙂
Aha. Spotted you at long last. Another UA-camr, Hung Henniges, was filming from the top as the escalator stopped and I could see the chap filming behind the girl with the hi viz and spotted shirt. Your cover is blown, but at least you got your video out before Geoff Marshall.
Hung Henniges has another video outside the station where you can see Jago filming the shown outside shots. At one point Hung walks past Jago very closely. ua-cam.com/video/Pulk2xHaQLM/v-deo.html
Is Jago the silver-haired gentleman with the shiny black bag? It's hard to imagine such erudition and humour in a younger man. Mr Henniges is the Shirley Crabtree to Jago's Kendo Nagasaki. But who is Jackie Pallo?
If only - on to Clapham Junction, Central Wandsworth, East Putney, Roehampton, Kingston University, Kingston. A dream since childhood to cover the inner A3 spine. I'm in my seventies now so I will never live to see it.
As part of my plan to get out a bit more, I'm going to do a few Tube lines from one end to the other. I did the Central & Met Lines a few years ago and this week it's going to be the Northern from Edgware to Morden. On the return journey I'll jump off at Kennington and explore the new bit. I might even arrange to take in Bank and finish at East Barnet.
Mr H, yet another superb video, all about new station station station stations. I think I've got that right, but no doubt one of your faithful followers will correct me if not. Have I mentioned previously that I think your material (and delivery) is materially good. No? Well I'd better do so now. And I have. Thanks, Simon T
How nice in this modern day and age to hear of anyone being amongst the first to do anything! So much evolves around being the last, crusader, detective, of a kind, or temptation. But I'll ne'er be able to see that name, no matter how many 'station's are added, without being reminded of Ian McKellen's Richard III, who in many ways was the last. Thank you for the ongoing stream, Jago.
Nice video, I do love your narration style. Really surprised there are no Platform doors at these new Stations. I would have though they would have been there by default these days.
Good to see continuing investment in public transport in central London. I just wish this was mirrored in other parts of the UK. I’m lucky enough to live in an area where we still have a comprehensive overland train network (Cardiff), but investment is slow and minimal. The old pacers are being phased out, after many years, thank God, but replacement trains are hand-me-downs from, you’ve guessed it, London, and we’re still running old sprinters on many local services. On the plus-side, there are several new stations going in to extend the network.
Interesting that the two stations don't have the protective glass screens like the stations on the Jubilee Line extension. Did they decide that was too expensive, or unnecessary? I suspect that the new line will be handicapped somewhat by being in zone 1; Nine Elms is within walking distance of Vauxhall, so anyone coming from the south on the Northern Line could just change onto the Victoria Line at Stockwell and anyone coming on the South-Western main line could also just jump off at Vauxhall. BPSS is also fairly close to both Battersea Park and Queenstown Road stations, both in zone 2. There are also buses running along Nine Elms Lane which can take you to Vauxhall and other places. I suspect a lot of the users will be coming from the north and have to travel through zone 1 anyway, or people with enough money that they don't mind the extra money on their season ticket.
Although the Northern line has automatic operation, there isn't the hardware on the trains to interface their doors with platform screen doors and it wouldn't be economical to upgrade the current fleet. Whenever the stock gets replaced, they could spec it then and retrofit screens here. Apparently the new stations were designed with future screening in mind. I doubt it'd ever be economical to screen off legacy stations though.
2:02 so to travel towards Battersea Power Station Station Station and Oval, the line goes from Zone 1 to Zone 1/2 to Zone 1 to Zone 2 - that will be easy for the tourists...
I was on the extension today just after 12pm. Very impressive. Platform level is very clean, uncluttered, simple and utilitarian. Nice long escalators. Lovely open concourses and entrances. Nice to have the first new tube extension since Heathrow Terminal 5 in 2008.
@@sodorflubbs5000 I would agree that Wood Lane (also 2008) might not count since it was a new station on an existing line, but Heathrow T5 was an extension just like this one, so if Heathrow T5 somehow does not count, then this shouldn't count either. (Obviously, both should)
So glad you mentioned the developers' trade-off of the amount of available "affordable" housing, in return for a tube extension. Not that "affordable" means very much in this location. Social housing limited to just 386 new homes.
Amazing! I was so excited to see Geoff that day that I didn't stop to realise I was within striking distance of Jago Hazzard. We definitely would have seen each other if I'd have turned around in Kennington, although I probably wouldn't have recognised you as I don't know what you look like.
I don’t think any developer ever has ended up completing their initial offering of affordable housing. The developers always give a percentage figure to councils to get the planning permission off the ground. Then one way or another that percentage gets whittled away. Councils make half hearted moaning noises usually once a project is at least half built and then cave into what the developer wants. No reason why Wandsworth would be any different to Southwark Council for instance.
That someone rises from his bed at such an ungodly hour to bring us news of a new bit of underground railway leaves us feeling blessed and grateful. I do suspect that there will be a station name change at some point in the not too distant future Battersea Power Station station won't be correct when the new development is completed. Although given Battersea Power Station closed many years ago I'm not sure that Battersea Power Station station is accurate now. However, I'm sure the good people at TfL know what's afoot. Whether or not those good people have any influence is, of course, a different question.
Marvellous. Young Geoff's version was much more glitzy, and longer, but nowhere near as gritty. Equal, but different, contributions to human Tube knowledge.
... and there he is at 1.51 in.
@@sainttrinian4570 Wow! A Geoff Marshall cameo in a Jago Hazzard video.
@@davidjames579 proves they are differrent people
@@stephenhemingway8218 Lol! If Geoff and Jago were one and the same person, they're a Bloody Good actor.
@@sainttrinian4570 It's starting to feel like when something opens the first people there are all UA-camrs! 😆
Anything under budget is impressive when it comes to London Transport projects.
Even more so if the NHS actually delivers its projects… let alone under budget. 11bn NHS IT project… abandoned… among many that the public never hears about
I suppose nobody guessed when construction started that it would be open before Crossrail!
Any under budget infrastructure project is a massive achievement, due I think to contractors putting deliberately low estimates to secure the contract...?
Basically my point is this isn't just a London issue.
@@jschreiber6461 Mainly because mission creep become mission bloat… entirely due to being directed by Whitehall committees made up of mandarins who have not the faintest understanding of either health services or computers.
Add in rapacious consultants and you have the perfect recipe for eye wateringly expensive disasters that deliver nothing except profits to the consultants.
@@calmeilles don't forget changing ministers with changing (vested) interests
I love how Jago's delivery takes on a historical tone here, even for a brand new event.
I like living in the past.
@@JagoHazzard Must like Jethro Tull. Stand Up!
Im pretty sure he has the same tone buying stuff at Tesco.
@@JagoHazzard It's cheaper
@@davidjohnson00001 if anyone has locomotive breath...
scandalous that the council reduced the affordable housing quota for the developers. I appreciate how you clearly frame the tube as a huge boon to the developers profits, and point out 9% is absurd. subtle but important thing to mention and its great to know you care
Agreed
Build infrastructure for rich people who won't use it.
Its crazy how the government has to force affordable housing
Im glad that you are calling the station by it’s correct name!
Battersea Power Station station station. 😂
Its.
@@imouse3246 Was he imitating "Map Men, Map Men, Men, Men" maybe?
@@EElgar1857 or Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan perhaps
Whats the incorrect name then?
Imagine if it had crashed. The cream of train enthusiasts wiped out in a single trip. It would have been like the Titanic..
UA-cam's train enthusiast output would have been decimated.
It would however be the best documented train crash in history!
@@thryduulf Dunno, no-one left to tell the tale. Honestly that escalator sudden stop I am surprised they didnt all fall down like a stack of dominos as no hands on the handrails due to holding cameras and phones up on the descent.
A lot less wet I would have thought
Were there many train enthusiasts on the Titanic?
Battersea indeed has a very powerful and stationary station
I wanna live in battersea or Canary Wharf
station station.
I see what you did there😂
And if a bus station is built it will be battersea power station station bus station
@@juanescobar8123 They'd probably need an electrical substation in that case and it would be called :
Battersea Power Station Station Bus Station Electrical Substation
Given the state of TFLs finances, I honestly would be impressed with a £170 saving
170 pounds ain't much, mate!
I loved that you managed to append a barely noticeable extra "station" to the name at 2:45, pronouncing it "Battersea Power Station Station station"
The first draft of this script had the name getting longer and longer until I realised it was getting a bit forced.
Think that would be correct, if referring to it in a detached fashion. It is Battersea Power Station Station.
@@apuldram The Proper Name in Journey Planner Is Battersea Power Station Underground Station.
How about just calling it Battersea Power Station ♾ and having done with it?
@@josephkarl2061 Battersea Power Station
Nice touch Geoff getting Vicki to film the shots of you in the background to 'confirm' that you and Jago are not the same person.
Gasp!
I didnt see Vikki !?
@@highpath4776 actually considering the history content, it is more likely that "Jago" is in fact........... Vicki
wow
I absolutely love that new Poster design. My favourite that I have seen is an old one for Hampstead where the tag line was ‘Bring you’re Son and Heir, to the where there’s sun and air’ something along that line.
Heath
"back in the real world" .. is one way of looking at it but for me your shot of Kennington Station, with its lamps lit for approaching dusk, its lantern dome, Doric pilasters, bronze window-framing, retro signs, bespeaks a magic and a warmth I can only envy as someone who can no longer get to London - at least for the foreseeable - magic, that is, in that it still exists, can still be had, the envy of less happier lands ...
Can't wait to see the Jago video explaining the history of these 2 stations, especially their original names. 😄
And let’s trawl through all the other videos to see if they got Jago in the background:)
I mean, I don't think "Battersea Power Station" will last long. Maybe soon it will just be "Battersea"
@@RunawayTrain2502 It'll last long imo because the memes
Really pleased to see it has opened from here in Kuala Lumpur, both as a Northern Line user (when in UK) and a railway designer. Even more impressed to see that Jago has included some shots of the track or permanent way.
In the two new stations the track sits on Delkor baseplates to reduce noise and vibration whereas in the tunnels on Vigier's Sonneville blocks, a newer variant of the those used in the Channel Tunnel.
Glad to see we finally got a northern line extension, even if it was in the other direction!!
Should it be the Southern line extension?
These days being awake at 3:30 am does not mean your life has gone wrong, it is just a function of Old Father Time catching up...
I was hoping to be the first to notice Geoff "You-Know_Who" at 1:51 but somebody beat me to it.
He is also at 2:36
So.........now the burning question is, "will Jago Hazzard appear in Geoff Marshall's video ?"
@@joop1991 I couldn't see him at 2:36, but I think I spotted Vicky, wearing a green top, there.
@@henrybest4057 he is quite clear at 2:39, with camera on the gate line looking right :D
Could that be Charles Yerkes' reflection I spot in the car's window when the backtracking on affordable housing by the developers of Battersea Power Station is discussed at 1:45?
And at ua-cam.com/video/TZ1LUtTzxj8/v-deo.html Mr Hazzard can be seen doing a G. Marshall impression. (So you are two different people?)
He may have paid someone to film going down the escalator. Case is not definitively proven yet...
I'm absolutely delighted to see Nine Elms appear on the tube map. I've grown up with stories of the old Nine Elms goods yard from my Grandad who worked there in his youth. Thanks Jago, keep it up.
Here's the Battersea Power Station Community Choir's gloriously anarchic song show-stopper (actually endorsed by TfL, lol!). This was the opening duh! ua-cam.com/video/WcfO7RgNE-s/v-deo.html
I live far away from London and yet I'm just celebrating - it's nice to have both a new Jago Hazzard video and probably Geoff Marshall's one as well
I think I see Mr Marshall briefly at 1:51
@@arp201267 Yes, that's him, yay
@@naruciakk Riduculous when the creator is more famous than the subject of their videos
@@highpath4776 It's not like that, just these creators make quality content that describes all the interesting facts about the railways in London
Geoff is still editing, so gotta watch this first. :)
Geoff is more of a craftsman than me - I must admit that I rushed this out as soon as I got home from work.
@@JagoHazzard Did you meet up with Geoff or any other youtuber before filming?
@@JagoHazzard Work ?! did you achieve anything today. or were they surprised when you clocked in early?
@@JagoHazzard but Geoff and you are one and the same person (or so Google says), so how can this be?
I always thought that @Jago Hazzard and David Mitchell are the same person.
And lo in far off California a lone middle age woman, a Pink Floyd fan, threw up her arms in grand rejoicing "Hark and Hallelujah! There is finally a Battersea Power Station station!" And then she sang a round of "Hallelujah", the Handel one, not the Cohen one, and realized she really should get some sleep. (Half past three in the morning? Oh sir, that's when I finally crawl my way into bed...)
Lovely. Nice to hear the 'off message' dig at the developers unreasonable complaints. If developers want to build, they should be responsible for paying for all the costs for the added infrastructure.
The first draft of the script was even angrier. It’s just a bit of a bugbear of mine.
I saw it first on BBC News and wondered how long before the Jago version - and here it is !!
9% affordable housing! Stomach churningly selfish. Enjoyed the vid.
Because too much affordable housing would drag down the property values in the area by cluttering it up with too many people who aren't filthy stinking rich.
they didnt want the plebs, they got two zone 1 stations ( another comment on another vid said this was the middle of London - at least the taxi drivers wont have to do the Trafalgar Square - south of Vauxhall Bridge and loop back over Battersea Bridge now.) that even price the council housing opposite Nine Elms out of travel.
@@OofusTwillip "affordable housing"
Let's just make one thing clear, the world affordable doesn't mean "affordable" in a sense that average person could afford it. Affordable housing in London means, a bit cheaper than the rest but still out of reach for middle class peasants.
@@z00h Ain't that the truth.
I'm a bit shocked that they didn't block off the doors with other ones, such a good Idea they are.
I was there :)
The construction of this line extension shows that attractive stations are not an unaffordable luxury for public transportation. The actual fittings and interior of a station are a tiny fraction of the final cost, yet that is what the public experiences most directly.
Battersea Power Station Station: So good they named it twice!
But as the power station is no longer operational, its the New Old Battersea Power Station Station.
Here's the Battersea Power Station Community Choir's gloriously anarchic song show-stopper (actually endorsed by TfL, lol!). This was the opening! ua-cam.com/video/WcfO7RgNE-s/v-deo.html
"The line serves 2 stations..." I would hope it serves 3 (Kennington) otherwise it's just a NE - BPS shuttle.
Was anyone there in Charles Yerkes cosplay?
Sadly no.
@@JagoHazzard Sorry I was late on the second train.
I always find funny all the ways developer achieve the reduction of affordable housing they need to provide.
Shameful, isn't it?
It usually involves holding a public body to ransom. TFL in this case, Haringey council in the case of the Tottenham Hotspur stadium, etc.
Someone said it was "taking from the poor and giving to the rich"
"Its 3 in the morning, do you know where Your life went wrong?" the MCU couldn't have made a better post credit scene!
love your videos, keep it up!
Colliers Wood
@@AlexWindsor The charles holden is hosting a knitting sale of the local postbox tops style Sat 2nd
But you are a good and great Jago! Thanks for rushing this video for us. Appreciate the dedication
You and every Tube nerd in London. It was wonderful to see so many out for this.
Don't sell yourself short, this was very nice. Looks like I need to make a visit in the future. Thank you.
Jago Hazzard has the uncanny ability to eloquently turn in "Oh, and I spotted Geoff Marshall" into "The great and the good are here". I tip my hat for you, sir!
I don't think Wandsworth was ever interested in affordable housing.
Looks that way. How disgraceful of that Council! What with prices of London housing being way too high, affordable London housing is very much needed.
How dedicated of you Sir, you are a brilliant inspiration to the housebound amongst us...
Woah! The power of youtube! They actually made a new £1.1 billion line just so Jago's got something new to make a video about!
Must have some powerful Patreons. Glad he was willing to share the opportunity with Geoff M.
@@trueriver1950 You mean they're not the same person! Shock! Horror!
I love how you could have appeared in the background of anyone else's video of the opening and none of us would know.
I have never before been the very first to watch a youtube video 🙂 Thanks for all you videos and effort, I don't understand how but you are succeeding making videos about the underground in London interesting for someone that has only been to London once 🤷♂️🙂
Battersea Power Station Station Station.....priceless!!!!!
Aha. Spotted you at long last. Another UA-camr, Hung Henniges, was filming from the top as the escalator stopped and I could see the chap filming behind the girl with the hi viz and spotted shirt. Your cover is blown, but at least you got your video out before Geoff Marshall.
I just came to the same conclusion xD
Hope Jago und his pal Geoff had a little morning chat^^
Hung Henniges has another video outside the station where you can see Jago filming the shown outside shots. At one point Hung walks past Jago very closely. ua-cam.com/video/Pulk2xHaQLM/v-deo.html
Chap in the white shirt, green bag, glasses, and blue mask?
Is Jago the silver-haired gentleman with the shiny black bag? It's hard to imagine such erudition and humour in a younger man. Mr Henniges is the Shirley Crabtree to Jago's Kendo Nagasaki. But who is Jackie Pallo?
@@cebudave That's him I think ;-)
Hands-down the cleanest track bed I've ever seen.
Watching this, on a train albeit outside the UK
Jago opened new station. Cool!
"The southern extension of the northern line"
The irony is not lost on me
I'm from New York City love my subways... I love London subway, railways my favorite is the way the stations look
Nice to see they haven't put doors to the doors on the platforms, if you know what I mean,
Honestly northern line being split in two is a good idea. It already feels like two lines anyway, making that official just makes sense.
As always erudite, amusing and informative. Always look forward to your latest offering!
Geek paradise! Thanks for bringing this to us.
Finally proof Jago and Geoff are not the same person. 1:51 in 😊
Smoke and Mirrors
@@highpath4776 But you're not allowed to smoke on the underground.
If only - on to Clapham Junction, Central Wandsworth, East Putney, Roehampton, Kingston University, Kingston. A dream since childhood to cover the inner A3 spine. I'm in my seventies now so I will never live to see it.
Great video Jago. Go have a well deserved 😴💤
Good thing Jago's day job is as a researcher in the NHS into sleep deprivation
Thank you Jago, Keep safe !
As part of my plan to get out a bit more, I'm going to do a few Tube lines from one end to the other. I did the Central & Met Lines a few years ago and this week it's going to be the Northern from Edgware to Morden. On the return journey I'll jump off at Kennington and explore the new bit. I might even arrange to take in Bank and finish at East Barnet.
I liked the two new stations, but the rest of the journey wasn't particularly exciting.
Thanks for getting up at what must have been a ridiculously early hour. I will mosey along presently.
Anyone noticed how Nine Elms Station has adverts everywhere but I couldn't see a single advert at Battersea Power Station.
Mr H, yet another superb video, all about new station station station stations. I think I've got that right, but no doubt one of your faithful followers will correct me if not.
Have I mentioned previously that I think your material (and delivery) is materially good. No? Well I'd better do so now. And I have. Thanks, Simon T
You got yours out before geoff did. Well done you 👏
what out
£160 under budget would have been quite a magnificent achievement, and very precise accounting.
This and other NLE opening day videos have been fun to wake up to in the states. Thanks Jago!
what is NLE?
@@SamSitar Northern Line Extension (not The One To The Elephant - I'll pack me trunk)
Can't wait to experience it🏴❤️
Was you in camouflage, everyone will be wondering.... "what that him....????"
My dad was temporarily part of the digging of the tunnel at Kennington he was only there for a month but he really enjoyed it
If I knew where my life went wrong, I wouldn't be awake at half past three in the morning 😅
That's what I always say! 🤣
How nice in this modern day and age to hear of anyone being amongst the first to do anything! So much evolves around being the last, crusader, detective, of a kind, or temptation. But I'll ne'er be able to see that name, no matter how many 'station's are added, without being reminded of Ian McKellen's Richard III, who in many ways was the last. Thank you for the ongoing stream, Jago.
Thank you for your early rise and giving us a glimpse of the opening of the Battersea extension!
Nice video, I do love your narration style. Really surprised there are no Platform doors at these new Stations. I would have though they would have been there by default these days.
That's how it was £160 under budget.
Good to see continuing investment in public transport in central London. I just wish this was mirrored in other parts of the UK. I’m lucky enough to live in an area where we still have a comprehensive overland train network (Cardiff), but investment is slow and minimal. The old pacers are being phased out, after many years, thank God, but replacement trains are hand-me-downs from, you’ve guessed it, London, and we’re still running old sprinters on many local services. On the plus-side, there are several new stations going in to extend the network.
My local Edgware Facebook group had a pic of the Battersea destination board. Very exciting.
Interesting that the two stations don't have the protective glass screens like the stations on the Jubilee Line extension. Did they decide that was too expensive, or unnecessary?
I suspect that the new line will be handicapped somewhat by being in zone 1; Nine Elms is within walking distance of Vauxhall, so anyone coming from the south on the Northern Line could just change onto the Victoria Line at Stockwell and anyone coming on the South-Western main line could also just jump off at Vauxhall. BPSS is also fairly close to both Battersea Park and Queenstown Road stations, both in zone 2. There are also buses running along Nine Elms Lane which can take you to Vauxhall and other places. I suspect a lot of the users will be coming from the north and have to travel through zone 1 anyway, or people with enough money that they don't mind the extra money on their season ticket.
Although the Northern line has automatic operation, there isn't the hardware on the trains to interface their doors with platform screen doors and it wouldn't be economical to upgrade the current fleet. Whenever the stock gets replaced, they could spec it then and retrofit screens here. Apparently the new stations were designed with future screening in mind. I doubt it'd ever be economical to screen off legacy stations though.
Well done for being there that early! Being picky, the last new Tube "line" was the Heathrow T5 branch in 2008.
Yeah, I blame my sleep-deprived brain. I’m thinking I might do a video clarifying the truth.
wonder why they did not put doors/screens on the platforms as they did with the new Jubilee Line extension stations
See the London Transport Museum Hangouts video from 10am this morning
The 1995 stock cannot communicate with platform doors.
@@88kristina: Before watching the mentioned video, surely they could be made to work with them, as per the 96ts?
@@highpath4776 thank you
@@88kristina thank you
Let's all hope that the Clapham Junction extension goes ahead..it's very needed.
Notice how is possible to complete a line on time and under budget, when it is not Project-Managed by Bechtel, and not called Crossrail?
Crossrail would have been running long ago if it had been built as a tube line at a fraction of the cost.
Lets see what HS2 does.
Biggest waste of cash already but those involvedcwill milk us dry for centuries.
@@thebrowns5337 I guess you're one of those "just upgrade the existing network" people? Overlooking the bit where that's literally exactly what it is.
2:02 so to travel towards Battersea Power Station Station Station and Oval, the line goes from Zone 1 to Zone 1/2 to Zone 1 to Zone 2 - that will be easy for the tourists...
Another seminal video. Thanks
Next extend the Bakerloo to Lewisham
They have been trying for to happen for 40 years.
I was on the extension today just after 12pm. Very impressive. Platform level is very clean, uncluttered, simple and utilitarian. Nice long escalators. Lovely open concourses and entrances. Nice to have the first new tube extension since Heathrow Terminal 5 in 2008.
"The first tube extension since the Jubilee line in 1999"
What about the Piccadilly extension to Heathrow Terminal 5 in 2007?
2008 I think, but yes - why aren't people (Siddy Holloway, government peeps) including that?
I think he did mention extension didn’t count. This is the first completely new line.
@Sodor Flubbs In what way is it a completely new line? The Northern line's been around for decades.
@@sodorflubbs5000 I would agree that Wood Lane (also 2008) might not count since it was a new station on an existing line, but Heathrow T5 was an extension just like this one, so if Heathrow T5 somehow does not count, then this shouldn't count either. (Obviously, both should)
So glad you mentioned the developers' trade-off of the amount of available "affordable" housing, in return for a tube extension. Not that "affordable" means very much in this location. Social housing limited to just 386 new homes.
It’s a constant bugbear of mine, as someone who works two full-time jobs and still can’t afford a decent-sized place in London.
Such dedication to your art!
Nice video! I am honestly surprised that clapham junction hasn't got a tube line yet!
I wonder why they haven't used platform screen doors, like on the JLE?
See London Transport Museum Hangouts video from 10am
@@highpath4776 thanks!
Yeah you did!! Nice one Jago
I appreciate you getting up early to make this historic video.
Amazing! I was so excited to see Geoff that day that I didn't stop to realise I was within striking distance of Jago Hazzard. We definitely would have seen each other if I'd have turned around in Kennington, although I probably wouldn't have recognised you as I don't know what you look like.
When I watch videos right to the very end, that's when my life goes wrong.
No wonder my life is such a mess!
Disgusting how those developers managed to weasel out of building much social housing. I wonder how many bribes passed hands.
I don’t think any developer ever has ended up completing their initial offering of affordable housing. The developers always give a percentage figure to councils to get the planning permission off the ground. Then one way or another that percentage gets whittled away. Councils make half hearted moaning noises usually once a project is at least half built and then cave into what the developer wants. No reason why Wandsworth would be any different to Southwark Council for instance.
Affordable housing isn’t even social housing. It’s a nothing term.
That someone rises from his bed at such an ungodly hour to bring us news of a new bit of underground railway leaves us feeling blessed and grateful.
I do suspect that there will be a station name change at some point in the not too distant future Battersea Power Station station won't be correct when the new development is completed. Although given Battersea Power Station closed many years ago I'm not sure that Battersea Power Station station is accurate now. However, I'm sure the good people at TfL know what's afoot. Whether or not those good people have any influence is, of course, a different question.
Battersea Park Road seems to be the obvious choice
I think Battersea Power Station has become some sort of cultural monument or something. Some people love it.
Ooh I have a lonely cameo appearance in this one. Haha.
you could have put the timestamp :-(
@@1258-Eckhart lonely
@@1258-Eckhartthough now also trying to figure out which of the people i saw this morning was Jago!
Ah Battersea Power Station Station! Thanks for getting up early so we didn’t have to!
Battersea Station Station Station :) - and yes, that poster is outstanding! (Wonder if TfL will offer them for sale to this side of the pond?)
I am fully expecting them to sell them at the London Transport Museum shop/website 😀
@@misschocobunny8734 I'll have to keep looking there - thanks!
@@loydenochs8572 It was a privately made A5 leaflet - see the Geoff Marshall Video. So not LTM alas
@@highpath4776 bummer😞,but thanks for the info!
Sweet Geoff Marshal cameo at 1:51
I look forward to the eventual Northern Line Extension Extension beyond Battersea Power Station Station.
Young Geoff would be proud. Battersea power station station
It needs a commemorative David Bowie plaque. You could call it the "Station to Station Station at Battersea Power Station Station"! 😆