@@A_Red_December as you mention it, he deserves yet more hysterical abuse if JH isn't his real name. this has potential to be a Barack Obama-level show-us-your-passport controversy
@@JimmyBoogaloo that is not his real name. He's mentioned & shown his real name before, but Jago is a placename historical reference he's also discussed.
@@SteamCrane The track layout in that area is, from left to right, southbound Met, southbound Jubilee, northbound Jubilee, northbound Met, up Chiltern, down Chiltern, so I believe all four trains are where you'd expect them to be. I should add that I believe the shot is taken from Walm Lane bridge, outside Willesden Green station, facing towards London with the station behind the camera. I believe the overbridge in the distance carries Lydford Road.
As a watcher of NotJustBikes & Adam Something, I think it would be cool to illustrate how many cars would be needed to carry the same number of people as those trains in this last shot :)
Your style of narration is part of the pleasure - nay, joy - of these delightful and ever so slightly eccentric videos. Please keep them coming, they are a ray of sunlight in a wintry world.
Love this series, used to spend my holidays in Cricklewood every summer , staying with relatives and I spent a great deal of time traveling around London on Red Rovers ,North London was my patch , so this brings back so many memories of London in the 1960s when parents could let a 10 year old bus spotter and train fanatic be off all day with no adult supervision without having to worry much, I now live in Australia and am likely never to see London again, so many thanks for providing this series , as its a real blast from my past !
The stories, the humour and all are great, but your delivery is exactly what is required - precise, clear, easy to listen to.... Keep it up - more people should do with a dose of Jago in their lives... you are the Embankment "Mind The Gap" to my "Whitley Bay station is closed for maintenance purposes"...
Watching videos for free and then make a fuss about how it is presented. Unbelievable how entitled some people think to be. Ignore these buffoons and hopefully you make more of these lovely videos.
Thank you for filming this. I used to live close by Willesden Green when I was in the UK. The sound of the tube reminds me of my memories and hard work
Brilliant! I used to commute to Willesden Junction and had a good friend (now deceased) whose station was Willesden Green, so I found this fascinating.
Another excellent and informative video with a timely dash of humour. I am surprised that some object to your vocal style, I cannot detect any hint of any falsehood in your dialogue. Indeed I have always thought that your narratives are exactly right for the subject matter and much, much better delivered than many others on UA-cam.
Mass adoption of digital communications, does tend to bring some bewildering persons to interesting places. I for one have enjoyed his content and never before detected any falsehood with his mannerisms.
well i’m only one foreigner interested in London matters but I do enjoy hearing your accent whatever it is. It’s easy to understand and sounds classy. all good all good!
I can’t believe that some twit criticised your delivery. Your pace, inflection and tone totally suit the information you’re communicating, so well done.
For a few month in the 70s I worked at WJ in the bookstalls on both the High Level and Low Level platforms . WJ was as glum then as it is today but one oddity was that the High Level bookstall was next to a scrapyard where dead cars 🚗 were sent before they appeared in dodgy French films ....occasionally when they were being moved around the petrol residue in their tanks exploded (it was all Health and Safety in those days folks) and the shock waves could be felt on the platform . Once the blast was strong enough to send my Evening Standards onto the platform .....oh happy days .....
Never heard of that happening before. My days at WJ are a little earlier, when the scrapyard was the main shed for the dc electrics. (Quite a circuitous route to reach the running lines at WJ HL.)
I now know about the error on that map, which I didn't before this video. Thanks, Jago! Also, you have a great voice and amazing delivery on these videos. Narrating is not as easy as you make it appear, something a lot of people aren't aware of. Whether the audio is a first take or the tenth, it is great to hear and really demonstrates your skill and dedication to the art.
Excellent detective work, Mr Hazzard. The blurb under the Railway Clearing House map of Willesden Junction that you referenced, contained a reference to the Midland Railway's Dudding Hill line, shown in green. You may very well find therein, the inspiration for a video about the "genteel" spelling of Dudden Hill, a station closure, more station name changes & the circle routes of Victorian London. All the best.
I’m a ‘bus nut’ really, (old ones, not the modern rubbish), and live in Yorkshire, with the accent to prove it. It was actually the narration of your videos which caught my interest, and now look forward to discovering more about the tube, areas of London and railways in general. Your voice is clear, easy to understand (even to us Northerners 😅) and above all, interesting to listen to.
I especially appreciate the absence of that infuriating upwards inflection at the end of every sentence that seems to turn everything into a question, that has spread like a virus through our language. Jago's lingo is pure matter-of-fact. As it should be. 😊
This confirms something I've long thought. Willesden Green and its surrounds is pleasant North West London suburbia,and it even has an adjacent park. Willesden Junction is something else,if my first visit there to change train on the way back from staying as a guest at the house of a school friend in Twickenham to my home in Watford in July 1982 was anything to go by. It certainly was bewildering trying to find the right way to go,and I had quite a long wait on one of its most far-flung platforms. It seemed to be in an airy elevated position,affording an extensive view of various light industrial works amid a patchwork of rail and non-subterranean Tube lines,and dominating it was one or more scrapyards with a towering heap or two or more of metallic junk and cars being broken up. The soundscape was a mixture of rushing of air rushing past noisily and a clanking din of industry. Interesting it was to look upon,aesthetic it wasn't.
@@RC-pt3lx Actually I believe most of the station is in the Borough of Ealing. But it's certainly the station for the Jubilee Clock (unless they've shifted it again), so 'Arlesden it is.
From the USA - my wife would say that when I was born, my mother said: oh look he has a map in his hand. Never have had trouble figuring out the tubes in London and thankfully the Brits I have met always would be helpful. Good job
Alongside the track from Willesden Junction to Clapham Junction is a sign which reads “Notice to drivers - pants down”. I assume it refers to the pantograph needed for the overhead power lines on the north London section of the line but not required on the southern part where there are electrified rails. Still an amusing sight though.
It was always known as Willesden Junction High Level and low level . It also connected to the Junction between the Midland and LNWR, running through Gladstone Park and Dudden Hill. The latter is being considered for a possible new passanger line from West Hampstead & Brent Cross to West London
I feel for you on the accent thing. I occasionally contribute to an American radio programme. One caller was most aggrieved by my British accent. I had to explain it was an affectation a lot of British people put on.
Haha. I get it :) The first time I heard that weird umlaut thing some Americans do, I thought they were trying and failing to sound English. I found out it's known as Pennsyvania Deutsch. Life is just full of unexpected surprises.
Another episode of pure pleasure, and your accent is normal, your narrating is superb, sod those who disagree, just keep these episodes of superb history coming.. Thank you again Sir 🙂
I don't know why, but I love the way the woman who does the station announcements on the jubilee line says the word willesden. She goes "This train terminates at, wiiiiiillesden green." It makes me smile every time.
I hate the way she says 'This train terminates at... STANmore.' I used to commute between Kenton and Canary Wharf and hearing it at every stop used to drive me mad. I much prefer the lady who does the announcements for Green Park & Westminster.
Really putting the emphasis on the destination. IMO, Sarah Parnell’s deliveries of ‘Walthamstow Central’, ‘Tower Hill’, ‘Upminster’, and ‘Hammersmith’ take the spotlight.
I'm old enough to have been through Willesden Green when it was a Bakerloo Line station..... and i've caught the Met Line from there once! During engineering work on the Jubilee in 1986. The Met stopped at Willesden & Neasden (except the Amershams) for 3 weekends in Feb 86 so i've sampled a little bit of quirkiness.......
While we are on the subject of accents,,, and this keyboard has an educated NZ accent .. two comments,, apart from liking The Jago's speech 1> When my daughter at age 20 took a year off from uni and worked on the staff of a public ( read $$ private) school near Tunbridge Wells, she had to adapt her very "NZ gurl" accent to make herself understood.....the reward was that for a while after returning home she spoke so beautifully clearly. Alas..all is corrupted... 2> I was in Tescos in, I think, Rochester looking at trout for sale --which is illegal in NZ,,trout may Not be sold... the nice lady behind the chilled display said something about my accent. "No dear," I replied."You're the one with the accent."..both of us being humorous.
Brilliant video. It’s got everything. Maps, measurements, mathematics and all delivered in a familiar style and dare I say, accent. Carry on old fruit, your public loves what you do. Well, I do for what it’s worth. 😉
thanks for covering my local station. I am not sure if it still happens but I remember the very first train on the metropolitan line south did stop at Willesden Green, perhaps to get staff to stations.
I love the content of your videos, always interesting. And please stick with your style of delivery - understated, with gentle humour and a touch old-fashioned in the best way!
There will always be those seeking to diminish someone else’s hard work. Your videos, and the style with which you narrate them, are individual and quite excellent. I suspect those who criticise simply cannot imagine doing anything like it themselves. I think you can see the majority here agree and, like me, keenly await the next.
I think your videos are quality products with a unique and fabulous delivery style. Keep up the good work, Sir! I'm not adverse to the odd map, though....
"I'm not much of a maps person..." may explain how Jago can think that such an egregious error can be "fairly harmless". Whereas a normal person would love maps, and take whoever was responsible outside and have them shot.
I like maps but I like curiosities and oddities even more. The defective map could easily have been remedied by having a plate bearing the word "Junction" riveted over the word "Green" but I like it the way it stands.
I'm half Maltese and English and currently living in Malta. I used to live in London many years ago. And until now I never knew how much I am missing London. Malta being a tiny island we are cursed with heavy traffic . Oh how I wish I was back in London ,for I had very a fond memory of using the Underground. Nice content by the way 👍
I really would love some more maps though, especially for episodes about closed stations or history of lines, like this one. It can be hard to visualise where they slotted in - even if you just scribble it onto a tube map with a biro. Plus, I love the B-roll at the end of this episode!
I quite enjoy your (obviously) fake accent; your half hearted sardonic/sarcastic wit, as well. Keep it up. You are the crumb cake, to my Sunday morning coffee
Please ignore the trolls, I think it’s great every youtuber uses their own style and voice in their videos. That gives the channel personality and character. How rude are people when they look at your videos, enjoy the content and then complain about the accent/dialect/whatever. Like… ”stop being so English!” Or ”Quit being so American!” No, some of the commenters should learn better manners! Don’t bring shame on yourself, and learn to be polite.
Why anyone would get hung up on the delivery when the info is so interesting is beyond me. Keep up the great work, Jago! Apologies if I don't sound like myself, I'm using a different keyboard...
Ah Willesden Green! Another station that was my local, wondered if you'd done a video on it but I am still yet to devour your entire video library so maybe you have! I always wondered about that extra platform where trains just passed through, I've itched to go up those large stairs! Thank you for your videos, gives me an extra appreciation for trains and station history, especially for those that I frequent! And your accent is great!
I can't believe you get so many rude comments. If people don't like it don't watch. I'm always entertained with your videos and find out things I didn't know. Please keep doing what you are doing👍🙂
Appreciation for your work and very clear delivery, with its humour, from Brisbane. It’s nice to be able to learn about the Underground and visit, vicariously, some old haunts.
I had no idea there were "haters" on this channel. I can only assume there are very few of them so don't waste time with them. Love this channel and all your videos.
As a kid I always found it fascinating seeing the metal name strips on tube station diagrams that replaced former names of stations with their new names, such as Barbican replacing Aldersgate.
I lived in Willesden Green for a few years from 2006 till 2011 and really liked it there. What was weird was that sometimes, when the Jubilee Line was having engineering works, the Metropolitan Line would stop at the outer platforms. It really confused some of the passengers! I don't think they can do that anymore with the new trains.
I thoroughly enjoyed this and all of your videos. You have an extremely pleasant and easy to listen to voice. NEVER CHANGE. As far as the Underground is concerned, I would rate it probably the best and most user friendly in the world. I live 75 miles from New York City, and there is no comparison. Try and find an employee to answer your questions. Impossible. London on the other hand, very friendly and helpful.
Great video as always Jago, I hope you have disregarded those who criticise your vocal narrative, to me, it perfectly suits the channel and I am not suggesting it is in any way false. I guess your naysayers are struggling to keep the marbles in their mouths while trying to sound cultured, your accent is just fine.
More likely the disrespectful commenters are the wokies who want everybody to speak as though they came from the gutter in the manner of radio one presenters.
I used to live in the area and can confirm Willesden Junction is a mess of platforms. Good luck if there are no staff to help you find the right train. Willesden Green on the other hand is a delightful station and well situated for commuters. I can remember as a young man that Met line still used to stop occasionally at Willesden Green, I seem to remember on match days at Wembley to relieve the pressure. But I can remember having to change at Harrow on to a BR diesel train to go fishing at Croxley Green (on the Met line).
That’s interesting, I hadn’t appreciated , or had forgotten that the Stanmore Branch of the (old) Bakerloo Line was originally on the (old) Metropolitan Line. Another entertaining and informative video.
One good thing to come out of the LTPB was the rearrangement of services on branch lines: the Met and District were initially flooded with branches and services, whereas the ‘tube’ lines saw few passengers in the suburbs.
Back in 2012, I was standing at Abbey Road Station on the DLR near Stratford waiting for a train and thinking how confusing that wasnt, when I was actually asked for directions walk to the famous recording studios. The person asking only spoke basic English, so I decided NOT to respond flippantly, "Well I wouldn't start from here", but that would have actually been a genuine response on that on that occasion. I'd be surprised if that doesn't happen quite a lot.
It happens so much that there are posters at the wrong Abbey Road with instructions in the form of bad Beatles puns about how to get to the correct one.
YESSS...! I've been waiting for this video for a loooong time, as Willesden Green was one of the places I spent a lot of the time commuting to and living nearby (Dollis Hill) in the mid 2000s.
I tried to love Willesden Junction station for the three years it was part of my commute but I didn’t and I don’t miss it one jot but at least now I understand the confusing configuration of platforms. So arduous was the journey from SW16 (and so often was the Overground twixt Clapham Junction and WJ cancelled) that I seriously contemplated taking the 220 bus instead. Only the prospect of a two-hour journey stopped me.
Ah Willesden Junction, happy memories of running like a lunatic from one Overground platform to the other each day on my way to work. Perhaps do the next video in semaphore?
Thanks Great video , I've used Willsdon junction many times , I've never liked the odd position of the station , or the different platform levels , , as for Willsdon Green , I've never even knew it existed , dear oh lord , call myself a Londoner .
Yeah , its far enough from Willesden itself to be a walk , its closer to bits of Harlesden. Didnt the Trolleybuses terminating ( and one time 220 bus route) terminate at a destination of 'Near Willesden Junction' on the blind?
I lived from birth till 21yrs in Dollis Hill and used all the stations on this arm of Bakerloo railway during these years. Later around my early 20s I became a driver (motorman) on both the Metropolitan and the Bakerloo, Metropolitan trains did stop at Willesden Green early in the morning and late night, in fact very last train from Baker Street stopped at every station to Wembley Park before continuing on the normal Metropolitan line. The period I was driving this line was just after the introduction of the new A2 class of stock these of course being larger than the 38stock used on Bakerloo lines . My depot was at Neasden Yards. Good times ever boys dream !
I'm still confused... but then I have never been to Willesden Green or Junction. 😉 On a separate note - your voice / accent is perfect, just the way it is. 👌 Perhaps some viewers would prefer a Cockney rhyming subtitles option?
Just to add to the confusion, Willesden Junction is in Harlesden. Although Willesden Green is in Willesden, until 1938 it was called "Willesden Green and Cricklewood".
Moved to a shared house about 25 min walk from Willesden Green stn in 92? Managed to get lost on the way, carrying my two heavy suitcases. A police car pulled up asking where I was going, and ended up giving me a lift to the new place! True story💙
I remember going to Willesden Green station to visit my brother. However, I can't remember Willesden Junction being on the same line. It would have been useful if it had, as I lived near Gospel Oak. Instead of taking the North London Line to Willesden Junction and walking, I went all the way into London from Kentish Town and then out again to Willesden Green.
Thank you for every video, that are wonderful! Can you please explain all the rails seen at the different stations? Some have rails on the sides, middle, several in sections that look like they have never been used.
Jago did do a vid on why the tube has four rails. But the use of running lines is a specialism of the Branch Line Society, whom attempt to traverse trackwork that is rarely used (especially by passenger trains).
Great reporting and a very likeable accent. By the way I strongly recommend an Old Officers accent when travelling in and around Belfast. Fantastic experience.
@@SouthPaw1805 Possibly. I have seen it mentioned elsewhere before, but when they still haven't replaced old East London Line signs and some Central Line diagrams that mention a station called Shepherd's Bush GREEN, it begs the question whether they'd do that
I dont think many people walk down that interchange as it is normally quicker to change to the Bakerloo at Elephant - though that entails stairs. Might change while the Bank Branch is half closed
You must have waited hours, if not days, to get that closing shot. Another one on my Must Visit list of London suburbs. Thanks Jago. Well told as always.
It really bugs me that in the book 'The curious incident of the dog in the night time' the boy runs away to his mum who lives in Willesden and takes the tube to Willesdrn Junction, when he should have gone to Willesden Green.
From1961 to 1965 travelled every school day from Queens Park to Hatch End. If you timed it right you could get off the DC train at Willesden Jct and cross to the (now closed) main line and travel to Harrow and Wealdstone. Then run across to rejoin. DC train for last two stops. Wonderful smell of biscuits as main line train passed McVities factory at Park Royal
I love your style and manner of delivery - please don't ever change.
Agreed, unexpected turns of phrase are highly amusing, but the videos are always laced with top quality understated jokes
Agreed! I never thought for a second this was anything other than JH's normal voice.
@@A_Red_December as you mention it, he deserves yet more hysterical abuse if JH isn't his real name. this has potential to be a Barack Obama-level show-us-your-passport controversy
@@JimmyBoogaloo that is not his real name. He's mentioned & shown his real name before, but Jago is a placename historical reference he's also discussed.
He'll have to get changed eventually - You can't go forever in the big smoke with one set of clothes... 🤣
The fact that you waited for all the trains to run through the shot before fading out did not go unnoticed and is much appreciated. My OCD thanks you.
Not only that but all three lines (Metropolitan, Jubilee and Chiltern) were represented. Twice, in the case of the Jubilee.
I really liked that final shot of the trains coming and going.
Here here!
Is the second to last train running wrong main, or this another quirk of the map?
@@SteamCrane The track layout in that area is, from left to right, southbound Met, southbound Jubilee, northbound Jubilee, northbound Met, up Chiltern, down Chiltern, so I believe all four trains are where you'd expect them to be. I should add that I believe the shot is taken from Walm Lane bridge, outside Willesden Green station, facing towards London with the station behind the camera. I believe the overbridge in the distance carries Lydford Road.
That last shot with two trains going out followed by two coming in was just too good to cut short ;-)
As a watcher of NotJustBikes & Adam Something, I think it would be cool to illustrate how many cars would be needed to carry the same number of people as those trains in this last shot :)
I like your delivery, it makes your dry wit and sarcasm even funnier! Keep doing what you're doing mate, your content is top quality
Your style of narration is part of the pleasure - nay, joy - of these delightful and ever so slightly eccentric videos. Please keep them coming, they are a ray of sunlight in a wintry world.
Love this series, used to spend my holidays in Cricklewood every summer , staying with relatives and I spent a great deal of time traveling around London on Red Rovers ,North London was my patch , so this brings back so many memories of London in the 1960s when parents could let a 10 year old bus spotter and train fanatic be off all day with no adult supervision without having to worry much, I now live in Australia and am likely never to see London again, so many thanks for providing this series , as its a real blast from my past !
The stories, the humour and all are great, but your delivery is exactly what is required - precise, clear, easy to listen to.... Keep it up - more people should do with a dose of Jago in their lives... you are the Embankment "Mind The Gap" to my "Whitley Bay station is closed for maintenance purposes"...
Man, I absolutely love how you narrate these videos! That adds extra points and love your accent! Never change it, please!
Watching videos for free and then make a fuss about how it is presented. Unbelievable how entitled some people think to be. Ignore these buffoons and hopefully you make more of these lovely videos.
Nice video!
I like the long outro shot with just the trains arriving and departing. It’s very calming.
We love your voice and delivery just as it is, Jago! No one on UA-cam has such an endearing charm - never change!
Thank you for filming this. I used to live close by Willesden Green when I was in the UK. The sound of the tube reminds me of my memories and hard work
Brilliant! I used to commute to Willesden Junction and had a good friend (now deceased) whose station was Willesden Green, so I found this fascinating.
Another excellent and informative video with a timely dash of humour. I am surprised that some object to your vocal style, I cannot detect any hint of any falsehood in your dialogue. Indeed I have always thought that your narratives are exactly right for the subject matter and much, much better delivered than many others on UA-cam.
I hadn't realized anyone would object to his accent either. What an odd thing to get vexed about?
@@archstanton6102 Indeed!
And that's an indeed from me too. Carry on regardless!😃
Mass adoption of digital communications, does tend to bring some bewildering persons to interesting places.
I for one have enjoyed his content and never before detected any falsehood with his mannerisms.
well i’m only one foreigner interested in London matters but I do enjoy hearing your accent whatever it is. It’s easy to understand and sounds classy. all good all good!
Why tf would someone hate his narration? His accent is great, he makes things interesting and even a foreigner like me can understand
Ah a relief - I knew I’d been to Willesden Green by Bakerloo line in 1978 - just in time it turns out!
I can’t believe that some twit criticised your delivery. Your pace, inflection and tone totally suit the information you’re communicating, so well done.
For a few month in the 70s I worked at WJ in the bookstalls on both the High Level and Low Level platforms . WJ was as glum then as it is today but one oddity was that the High Level bookstall was next to a scrapyard where dead cars 🚗 were sent before they appeared in dodgy French films ....occasionally when they were being moved around the petrol residue in their tanks exploded (it was all Health and Safety in those days folks) and the shock waves could be felt on the platform . Once the blast was strong enough to send my Evening Standards onto the platform .....oh happy days .....
Never heard of that happening before. My days at WJ are a little earlier, when the scrapyard was the main shed for the dc electrics. (Quite a circuitous route to reach the running lines at WJ HL.)
Fascinating. Love these videos. And your voice is just fine, IMHO!
I now know about the error on that map, which I didn't before this video. Thanks, Jago!
Also, you have a great voice and amazing delivery on these videos. Narrating is not as easy as you make it appear, something a lot of people aren't aware of. Whether the audio is a first take or the tenth, it is great to hear and really demonstrates your skill and dedication to the art.
Excellent detective work, Mr Hazzard. The blurb under the Railway Clearing House map of Willesden Junction that you referenced, contained a reference to the Midland Railway's Dudding Hill line, shown in green. You may very well find therein, the inspiration for a video about the "genteel" spelling of Dudden Hill, a station closure, more station name changes & the circle routes of Victorian London.
All the best.
Shame it didn't include the GW main line as Jago had just mentioned this.
I’m a ‘bus nut’ really, (old ones, not the modern rubbish), and live in Yorkshire, with the accent to prove it.
It was actually the narration of your videos which caught my interest, and now look forward to discovering more about the tube, areas of London and railways in general. Your voice is clear, easy to understand (even to us Northerners 😅) and above all, interesting to listen to.
I especially appreciate the absence of that infuriating upwards inflection at the end of every sentence that seems to turn everything into a question, that has spread like a virus through our language. Jago's lingo is pure matter-of-fact. As it should be. 😊
This confirms something I've long thought. Willesden Green and its surrounds is pleasant North West London suburbia,and it even has an adjacent park. Willesden Junction is something else,if my first visit there to change train on the way back from staying as a guest at the house of a school friend in Twickenham to my home in Watford in July 1982 was anything to go by. It certainly was bewildering trying to find the right way to go,and I had quite a long wait on one of its most far-flung platforms. It seemed to be in an airy elevated position,affording an extensive view of various light industrial works amid a patchwork of rail and non-subterranean Tube lines,and dominating it was one or more scrapyards with a towering heap or two or more of metallic junk and cars being broken up. The soundscape was a mixture of rushing of air rushing past noisily and a clanking din of industry. Interesting it was to look upon,aesthetic it wasn't.
That's because Willesden Junction isn't in Willesden, it's in Harlesden.
@@RC-pt3lx Actually I believe most of the station is in the Borough of Ealing. But it's certainly the station for the Jubilee Clock (unless they've shifted it again), so 'Arlesden it is.
From the USA - my wife would say that when I was born, my mother said: oh look he has a map in his hand. Never have had trouble figuring out the tubes in London and thankfully the Brits I have met always would be helpful. Good job
Alongside the track from Willesden Junction to Clapham Junction is a sign which reads “Notice to drivers - pants down”.
I assume it refers to the pantograph needed for the overhead power lines on the north London section of the line but not required on the southern part where there are electrified rails. Still an amusing sight though.
It was always known as Willesden Junction High Level and low level . It also connected to the Junction between the Midland and LNWR, running through Gladstone Park and Dudden Hill. The latter is being considered for a possible new passanger line from West Hampstead & Brent Cross to West London
But the line from Cricklewood doesn't give direct access to Willesden Jnct. Reversal would be necessary.
Nice video again Jago! Love these suburban station history videos.
I feel for you on the accent thing. I occasionally contribute to an American radio programme. One caller was most aggrieved by my British accent. I had to explain it was an affectation a lot of British people put on.
Haha. I get it :)
The first time I heard that weird umlaut thing some Americans do, I thought they were trying and failing to sound English. I found out it's known as Pennsyvania Deutsch. Life is just full of unexpected surprises.
Oh dear...
Another episode of pure pleasure, and your accent is normal, your narrating is superb, sod those who disagree, just keep these episodes of superb history coming.. Thank you again Sir 🙂
I don't know why, but I love the way the woman who does the station announcements on the jubilee line says the word willesden. She goes "This train terminates at, wiiiiiillesden green." It makes me smile every time.
I hate the way she says 'This train terminates at... STANmore.' I used to commute between Kenton and Canary Wharf and hearing it at every stop used to drive me mad. I much prefer the lady who does the announcements for Green Park & Westminster.
Really putting the emphasis on the destination.
IMO, Sarah Parnell’s deliveries of ‘Walthamstow Central’, ‘Tower Hill’, ‘Upminster’, and ‘Hammersmith’ take the spotlight.
I'm old enough to have been through Willesden Green when it was a Bakerloo Line station..... and i've caught the Met Line from there once! During engineering work on the Jubilee in 1986. The Met stopped at Willesden & Neasden (except the Amershams) for 3 weekends in Feb 86 so i've sampled a little bit of quirkiness.......
Those train shoots makes me want to travel 🥰
I like your commentary, it's one of the reasons I like the channel, tell your detractors to bugger off, and don't change.
While we are on the subject of accents,,, and this keyboard has an educated NZ accent .. two comments,, apart from liking The Jago's speech
1> When my daughter at age 20 took a year off from uni and worked on the staff of a public ( read $$ private) school near Tunbridge Wells, she had to adapt her very "NZ gurl" accent to make herself understood.....the reward was that for a while after returning home she spoke so beautifully clearly. Alas..all is corrupted...
2> I was in Tescos in, I think, Rochester looking at trout for sale --which is illegal in NZ,,trout may Not be sold... the nice lady behind the chilled display said something about my accent. "No dear," I replied."You're the one with the accent."..both of us being humorous.
Love the oddities of the underground, nice find!
Brilliant video. It’s got everything. Maps, measurements, mathematics and all delivered in a familiar style and dare I say, accent. Carry on old fruit, your public loves what you do. Well, I do for what it’s worth. 😉
thanks for covering my local station. I am not sure if it still happens but I remember the very first train on the metropolitan line south did stop at Willesden Green, perhaps to get staff to stations.
I love the content of your videos, always interesting. And please stick with your style of delivery - understated, with gentle humour and a touch old-fashioned in the best way!
Your narrative of your videos are some of the best on U Tube please don’t ever change thank you
I love your voice. It's so clear to understand you. Great video.
There will always be those seeking to diminish someone else’s hard work. Your videos, and the style with which you narrate them, are individual and quite excellent. I suspect those who criticise simply cannot imagine doing anything like it themselves. I think you can see the majority here agree and, like me, keenly await the next.
Hahaha yeah that Embassy. I actually used to live on Brondesbury Park just to right of the traffic lights
I think your videos are quality products with a unique and fabulous delivery style. Keep up the good work, Sir!
I'm not adverse to the odd map, though....
The words "... and, for some reason, the Cambodian embassy" improve every sentence!
This is fascinating! Thanks for this video, Jago. The tube network has such an interesting history. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I am unsure why but I find your videos amongst the best of all on UA-cam !
"I'm not much of a maps person..." may explain how Jago can think that such an egregious error can be "fairly harmless". Whereas a normal person would love maps, and take whoever was responsible outside and have them shot.
The maps or the people?
Shooting maps seems fairly harmless.
@@grahamstubbs4962 both. Do a thorough job. Don't want to take any chances afterall.
@@Decrepit_biker LOL
I like maps but I like curiosities and oddities even more. The defective map could easily have been remedied by having a plate bearing the word "Junction" riveted over the word "Green" but I like it the way it stands.
LOL.
Excellent last shot! Yeah, I guess the preceding part of the video was worth sitting through to see it. Thanks, Jago!
I'm half Maltese and English and currently living in Malta. I used to live in London many years ago. And until now I never knew how much I am missing London. Malta being a tiny island we are cursed with heavy traffic . Oh how I wish I was back in London ,for I had very a fond memory of using the Underground. Nice content by the way 👍
I really would love some more maps though, especially for episodes about closed stations or history of lines, like this one. It can be hard to visualise where they slotted in - even if you just scribble it onto a tube map with a biro.
Plus, I love the B-roll at the end of this episode!
I always look forward to your videos! Always superb content and great delivery. Thank you.
Of course if you want to really be taken seriously in the world of vlogging, you need to do all the narration in Latin.
Nonsense. You young people with your modern ways.
Phoenician is what you want.
@@grahamstubbs4962 Try Klingon
😂😂
In Essex we now speak fluent Neanderthal.
@@ziggarillo How passay. Cuneiform is the now style.
I quite enjoy your (obviously) fake accent; your half hearted sardonic/sarcastic wit, as well.
Keep it up. You are the crumb cake, to my Sunday morning coffee
What fake?
@@chrisstephens6673 Was my comment not sufficiently sarcastic? LOL. Ima big Jago fan
@@tomasjones3755 as am I!
Sarcasm rules ok too.😂
Vid was out late today and I had withdrawal symptoms , could not drink my coffee until it was time for afternoon tea
@@highpath4776 Indeed! I'm in the U.S. and usually wake to Jago; on Sunday. I did get another cup of foffee, when the video was posted
Hello again, it’s been a while since one of your videos have popped up in my recommended, it’s nice to see this channel again
Complaints? You get complaints? Some people have no appreciation of a job well done.
I absolutely love your style. Don't even think about changing it!
Please keep narrating as you always do! I find your style way to follow and you get to the point without waffling. I thoroughly enjoy your videos!
Please ignore the trolls, I think it’s great every youtuber uses their own style and voice in their videos. That gives the channel personality and character. How rude are people when they look at your videos, enjoy the content and then complain about the accent/dialect/whatever. Like… ”stop being so English!” Or ”Quit being so American!” No, some of the commenters should learn better manners! Don’t bring shame on yourself, and learn to be polite.
Why anyone would get hung up on the delivery when the info is so interesting is beyond me. Keep up the great work, Jago! Apologies if I don't sound like myself, I'm using a different keyboard...
Ah Willesden Green! Another station that was my local, wondered if you'd done a video on it but I am still yet to devour your entire video library so maybe you have!
I always wondered about that extra platform where trains just passed through, I've itched to go up those large stairs!
Thank you for your videos, gives me an extra appreciation for trains and station history, especially for those that I frequent!
And your accent is great!
I love the way you allow the trains to lull us to the end of the video. 👍
I can't believe you get so many rude comments. If people don't like it don't watch. I'm always entertained with your videos and find out things I didn't know. Please keep doing what you are doing👍🙂
I can't quite believe you have no more thumbs-up for this comment.
Great explanation..I lived in Willesden in 87..brought back some nice memories seeing the old station again. Thanks 🚇
Appreciation for your work and very clear delivery, with its humour, from Brisbane. It’s nice to be able to learn about the Underground and visit, vicariously, some old haunts.
I love the lack of maps on this channel. It makes the absurdity of the confusing history more funny.
Ha! Willesden Green was our local when we lived in London! Thank you for your video.
I had no idea there were "haters" on this channel. I can only assume there are very few of them so don't waste time with them. Love this channel and all your videos.
As a kid I always found it fascinating seeing the metal name strips on tube station diagrams that replaced former names of stations with their new names, such as Barbican replacing Aldersgate.
I lived in Willesden Green for a few years from 2006 till 2011 and really liked it there. What was weird was that sometimes, when the Jubilee Line was having engineering works, the Metropolitan Line would stop at the outer platforms. It really confused some of the passengers! I don't think they can do that anymore with the new trains.
We don't need that kind of detail - or maybe your 2nd word has a typo.
I have loved in Willesden Green on more than a few occasions..
@@PMA65537 🤣🤣🤣 fixed!
@@JessicaRainbow Mosploced Vowels
I thoroughly enjoyed this and all of your videos. You have an extremely pleasant and easy to listen to voice. NEVER CHANGE.
As far as the Underground is concerned, I would rate it probably the best and most user friendly in the world. I live 75 miles from New York City, and there is no comparison. Try and find an employee to answer your questions. Impossible. London on the other hand, very friendly and helpful.
Nice ending with the two trains towards. Fascinating video.
Thanks again for your work in bringing this to us
I love "The Hazzard Reports" as there is always a large portion of humour involved in among the fascinating facts.
Great video as always Jago, I hope you have disregarded those who criticise your vocal narrative, to me, it perfectly suits the channel and I am not suggesting it is in any way false. I guess your naysayers are struggling to keep the marbles in their mouths while trying to sound cultured, your accent is just fine.
I really love his accent. It'd be a big loss if this has been changed
More likely the disrespectful commenters are the wokies who want everybody to speak as though they came from the gutter in the manner of radio one presenters.
The critics are putting on street accents to try to sound urban.
It surprised me the first time I saw a video of his. Grown to love it on the second one. Couldn't live without it now.
@@chrisstephens6673 True - or the ghastly UA-cam Music advert. I guess it's for people who struggle with an alphabet of more than about 20 letters.
I used to live in the area and can confirm Willesden Junction is a mess of platforms. Good luck if there are no staff to help you find the right train. Willesden Green on the other hand is a delightful station and well situated for commuters. I can remember as a young man that Met line still used to stop occasionally at Willesden Green, I seem to remember on match days at Wembley to relieve the pressure. But I can remember having to change at Harrow on to a BR diesel train to go fishing at Croxley Green (on the Met line).
That’s interesting, I hadn’t appreciated , or had forgotten that the Stanmore Branch of the (old) Bakerloo Line was originally on the (old) Metropolitan Line. Another entertaining and informative video.
One good thing to come out of the LTPB was the rearrangement of services on branch lines: the Met and District were initially flooded with branches and services, whereas the ‘tube’ lines saw few passengers in the suburbs.
Back in 2012, I was standing at Abbey Road Station on the DLR near Stratford waiting for a train and thinking how confusing that wasnt, when I was actually asked for directions walk to the famous recording studios. The person asking only spoke basic English, so I decided NOT to respond flippantly, "Well I wouldn't start from here", but that would have actually been a genuine response on that on that occasion. I'd be surprised if that doesn't happen quite a lot.
It happens so much that there are posters at the wrong Abbey Road with instructions in the form of bad Beatles puns about how to get to the correct one.
@@rosemarywarner6759 "The long and winding tube that leads to other Abbey Road" being just one.
YESSS...! I've been waiting for this video for a loooong time, as Willesden Green was one of the places I spent a lot of the time commuting to and living nearby (Dollis Hill) in the mid 2000s.
I tried to love Willesden Junction station for the three years it was part of my commute but I didn’t and I don’t miss it one jot but at least now I understand the confusing configuration of platforms. So arduous was the journey from SW16 (and so often was the Overground twixt Clapham Junction and WJ cancelled) that I seriously contemplated taking the 220 bus instead. Only the prospect of a two-hour journey stopped me.
I always prefer “cock up” as the most probable explanation for any anomalies, rather than more elaborate theories.
Up the arsenal
Hanlon's razor: In the absence of evidence, never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence. :)
Ah Willesden Junction, happy memories of running like a lunatic from one Overground platform to the other each day on my way to work.
Perhaps do the next video in semaphore?
Hmm. That'd be intriguing. Of course, Morse is more my thing, for obvious ..-. ..- -.-. -.- .. -. --. reasons.
Hmmmmm... well I suppose that would make it easier to flag up errors? Er... I'll get me coat!
That sounds like a fun interchange. At least the lines are split now, and the routes are easier to distinguish.
Thanks Great video , I've used Willsdon junction many times , I've never liked the odd position of the station , or the different platform levels , , as for Willsdon Green , I've never even knew it existed , dear oh lord , call myself a Londoner .
Yeah , its far enough from Willesden itself to be a walk , its closer to bits of Harlesden. Didnt the Trolleybuses terminating ( and one time 220 bus route) terminate at a destination of 'Near Willesden Junction' on the blind?
@@highpath4776 I think they changed it to College Park. Don't know whether thst helped anyone.
Good one Jago - particularly the lingering shots of trains at the end 👍
Willesden Green is my old home station. Got to take a Metropolitan from there in 2017 with disruptions on the Jubilee. First time on that platform.
I lived from birth till 21yrs in Dollis Hill and used all the stations on this arm of Bakerloo railway during these years. Later around my early 20s I became a driver (motorman) on both the Metropolitan and the Bakerloo, Metropolitan trains did stop at Willesden Green early in the morning and late night, in fact very last train from Baker Street stopped at every station to Wembley Park before continuing on the normal Metropolitan line.
The period I was driving this line was just after the introduction of the new A2 class of stock these of course being larger than the 38stock used on Bakerloo lines . My depot was at Neasden Yards. Good times ever boys dream !
I really enjoyed this and your accent which sounds fine to me, thank you!
I'm still confused... but then I have never been to Willesden Green or Junction. 😉
On a separate note - your voice / accent is perfect, just the way it is. 👌 Perhaps some viewers would prefer a Cockney rhyming subtitles option?
Cor blimey, you 'aving a giraffe, ain't cha?
I can just hear it now - "Alright son, 'ave a butchers at this. Now, did you know..."
@@ericpode6095 That's a bit passe now in the best faux Cockney Shoreditch circles - we now say "avin a Turkish"
It was "avin a Steffi" at one point...
@@rodjones117 I'm from New Zealand, so the Cockney I learnt was from people born in the 1920s or 30s. Forgive my antiquarian utterances 😅
Just to add to the confusion, Willesden Junction is in Harlesden. Although Willesden Green is in Willesden, until 1938 it was called "Willesden Green and Cricklewood".
Moved to a shared house about 25 min walk from Willesden Green stn in 92? Managed to get lost on the way, carrying my two heavy suitcases. A police car pulled up asking where I was going, and ended up giving me a lift to the new place! True story💙
I remember going to Willesden Green station to visit my brother. However, I can't remember Willesden Junction being on the same line. It would have been useful if it had, as I lived near Gospel Oak. Instead of taking the North London Line to Willesden Junction and walking, I went all the way into London from Kentish Town and then out again to Willesden Green.
Was changing stations at West Hampstead no good?
Thank you for every video, that are wonderful! Can you please explain all the rails seen at the different stations? Some have rails on the sides, middle, several in sections that look like they have never been used.
Jago did do a vid on why the tube has four rails. But the use of running lines is a specialism of the Branch Line Society, whom attempt to traverse trackwork that is rarely used (especially by passenger trains).
Rails are heavy. Track crews often leave those loose ones between the tracks for later use. Sometimes for years.
not even 15 seconds in and i have to clean my monitor off from spraying my coffee when i laughed at "faking my accent!" WHAT a gem! lol
Take no notice of those people! Your voice is clear-sounding and well-spoken.
Great reporting and a very likeable accent. By the way I strongly recommend an Old Officers accent when travelling in and around Belfast. Fantastic experience.
I very much enjoy your dry narration style, you are the sponge to my leaky tap.
I remember seeing that Willesden Green sign at Embankment years ago, good to know it's still there but I wonder just how long it will remain
Possibly not very long now Jago's pointed it out. Doubly so if Geoff Marshall and diamond geezer do too. 🤣
@@SouthPaw1805 Possibly. I have seen it mentioned elsewhere before, but when they still haven't replaced old East London Line signs and some Central Line diagrams that mention a station called Shepherd's Bush GREEN, it begs the question whether they'd do that
@@SouthPaw1805 Diamond geezer?
@@UndergroundRolo Really ? Thought the Central was always Shepherds Bush (add apostrophe where you feel appropriate)
I dont think many people walk down that interchange as it is normally quicker to change to the Bakerloo at Elephant - though that entails stairs. Might change while the Bank Branch is half closed
You must have waited hours, if not days, to get that closing shot. Another one on my Must Visit list of London suburbs. Thanks Jago. Well told as always.
Actually, I was incredibly lucky - hence my slightly self-indulgent decision to post the whole thing.
Your tone is just right. Keep it, right!
It really bugs me that in the book 'The curious incident of the dog in the night time' the boy runs away to his mum who lives in Willesden and takes the tube to Willesdrn Junction, when he should have gone to Willesden Green.
Question is , is Harlesdon (or Neasden?) closer
@Helen lol
@@highpath4776 if I remember the hand drawn map in the book correctly Dollis Hill would be the closest station!
From1961 to 1965 travelled every school day from Queens Park to Hatch End. If you timed it right you could get off the DC train at Willesden Jct and cross to the (now closed) main line and travel to Harrow and Wealdstone. Then run across to rejoin. DC train for last two stops. Wonderful smell of biscuits as main line train passed McVities factory at Park Royal
Dear Jago, I love your accent. Best wishes, John in jolly old England.