Charing Cross: Making a station tour - Hidden London Hangouts (S05E17)
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- Опубликовано: 24 июн 2022
- The team revisit Charing Cross station to share some of the disused spaces that can be seen on our Hidden London tour. They reveal some of the things that make this popular tour possible and the work that needs to be done to safely take visitors behind the scenes.
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Alex’s excitement over hearing an announcement in the abandoned part of the station was the best reaction you’ve had in any episode: the station still being linked to the network even though abandoned, getting announcements in the station that only rats can hear, and looking the exact same as the last day of service
The space in the intro takes people back 50 years
Another fab episode! Today I received my Hidden London book! YAY! Can't wait to read it!
I'm American who traveled to London for many years and loved the Tube.and the old Transport museum I've been enjoying these videos immensely. Thanks.
Siddy, "Even I havent been to the bottom of that SHAFT!"
What a girl!! x
I do have a very soft spot for Charing Cross station. Perhaps being Station Supervisor there for 14 years explains it. My last film there before retirement was "Skyfall". 😀
Thanks for all of your help with our filming back in the day and for your help with shaping the tour in the early days!
@@chrisnix7981 Another excellent episode, thank you to all of you, for all your hard work. It was always a lot of fun putting stuff together, in days gone by. John P.
@@chenahusky1 JP! I’ve just twigged. I have such fond memories of my weekends at Chx with you. I hope you are well and enjoying retirement. I am actually back at Chx now 😁
@@jenniecollier9640 Hi Jennie, Yes it is me. Terri and I are both well and enjoying our retirements.
@@chenahusky1 Wonderful stuff. Please send my best wishes to Terri.
Hey guys , looking forward to see the new episode about “ Charing Cross Underground Station”.
Been there last Thursday. Was a amazing tour!
Got Secrets of the....on the telly, while shower after shower sweeps through, so looking forward to this with a drop of vino ;)
Always nice to see the Jubilee platforms again, lots of time used those platforms in the past, must be so much more to Charing X than could made in this video, be interested to see hidden Baker Street and Camden Town.
Mr Nix, great choice of the shirt that you wear…. My favourite brand !
I have done this tour a few times and always enjoy it. Perhaps it is partly due to me having memories of using those platforms.
But I love the history and detail that the tour brings out.
You need a cardboard version of the fantastic four (Sid, Chris, Laura, Alex) for selfies in the Museum!
So strange to think of this as disused- I also used to use it on my way home from college in the mid 90s :-)
Another brilliant episode guys! So much to see here especially the impressive shaft 😉 A little trip down your memory lane seeing a grinder preventing flange squeal 😉
It had it all, didn’t it. Nix and I just roll around laughing
Another fantastic episode. Thanks guys!
I’m loving these hangouts 😊
I’m going on this tour this Thursday 😀. Can’t wait.
I’ve got lots of my mates merrily booking Hidden London tours now.
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Another fantastic episode !
It’s always weird when this appears in films as the ceiling is missing. Bond Street should be identical, so was the ceiling cladding replaced there?
Watching you guys is like watching London Underground’s very own version of ABBA! The only question now is When are you going to cover Waterloo? 😉
Alex, a bit random I know, however I love your front room, very tasteful.
Oh you total honey! My home is my castle and we all need a nice nest. All I need now is a moat!
@@alexgrundon2346 Moats are so 11th century! 😂
Sign the petition to reopen the service for jubilee line
The King’s Cross fire was in 1987. Has the ceiling been missing while the station was open then?
Creep was filmed here so enjoyable seeing the filming location years later. Can anyone clarify why there are station announcers on a disused station? 😂 😮
Hi Hidden London hangouts team, love the youtube series .Just a quickie does Mornington crescent still survive and if so will you be poking around it at a date in the future . Thanks again for a most enjoyable and educational series. Warren.
I would love to. In my humble opinion, of all the retiled Leslie Green stations, Mornington Crescent is the best. It’s stunning.
Another great episode. Can you tell me why the entrance to the tube outside Charing Cross Main line , (by the cab rank) has been closed ?
It’s being renovated, isn’t it?
I have an odd question. How many toilets does charring cross station have, and are they open 24/7?
Thank you very much for such an informative insight to the history, development and workings of the Tour. It is similarly enlightening as Gareth Dennis' RailNatter episode 15 on Art on the Underground with Charlotte Monroe.
For example, I never thought that these tours went back all the way to the Nineties. I thought Hidden London wasn't that "old". (Or did you take on that name later probably?)
Could you please answer me a question regarding escalators: From one of Geoff Marshall's famous videos we know that a regular stair-step is 17cm high; from personal experience we know the escalator steps to be significantly higher, which is a big factor that makes them uneasy or unintuitive to use, when not in service. Why is it that escalators have such big steps, and can't they be constructed with smaller steps, let's say more akin to regular ones, so as to make them more intuitive, more easy to use, when not running?
Mr Nix noted on the "many many thousands of pounds of investment" necessary for making such a site Tour-worthy, or Tour-ready: How many Tours does it take, until you brought back in at least that investment?
Should this comment be addressed/read out in the episode, I would like to use the oportunity to say Cheers from Cologne, Germany, to everybody! *waving* (If not... well, then I guess no Hi from Germany)
At a guess, the height of the escalator steps could well be that high for simple reasons of economies of scale. Higher = fewer necessary = cheaper to manufacture, replace and run.
Also it may be another example of London UndergrounD being different: the entire "domestic scale" electrical system runs at about half the voltage of the UK national and in fact whole European system's value. So nothing would be worth stealing or would work if you plugged in your own charger.
As for your second question, that's commercially sensitive information to which you can't expect to be party.
No episode on July 2nd? Now what will I do for the rest of the day ?
to be honest with you, I genuinely get confused with this, getting to this abandoned station: what's the *main difference* between from getting to Embankment and to *Charing Cross station/Trafalgar Square?*
When's the 10th Elizabeth line video going to come out?
Next one for us is BOND STREET
I don’t really want to visit these places myself, but is there a book available with the photographs in?
Hi Stephen. Now could be a great time to start visiting them! They’re sensational. One book you could try is “HIDDEN LONDON” by Chris and Siddy from the team. I gorged on it and had done it cover to cover within a couple of days. The pics are sublime
@@alexgrundon2346 I second this, it’s a beautiful book and I think a bargain at £25. Love my copy.
Yes it is a fine book. And to make it even better, I got mine for £20!
@@daveharris7224 either way, I think it’s cheap for the quality of the content and the amazing photos.
Next hidden London, Can you all try Shoreditch?
Do you mean the old East London Line station?
All I can say is Hugh Jass.
Is this last Saturday's episode, or Tomorrow's...?
This is definately tomorrows episode, Saturday 25th June.
Is it even Saturday?! 🤣
It is when the fabulous four are on!
@@daveharris7224 So did somebody accidentally release it early...?
Not at all. Some of the episodes get shown out of sequence & for obvious reasons, the team need a few weeks off.
19:00
Why does 19 minutes appeal?
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Another great episode. Your not troglodytes, your more like Morlocks 😉
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Why the sad face? I really like this strange station.