The relevant "Pre-Grouping Atlas" and "Railway Junction Diagrams" pages would make things even clearer - each map tells a slightly different story to give a clear overall understanding.
@@2H80vids A good question, which I have pondered about myself before as a possible reason why it hasn't been done. I am only guessing. However I see lots of other images (e.g. old photos) appear on videos by Jago and others, and I have seen maps on other sites (and the Underground strip map and Regents Canal map on Jago's) so I assume it is possible. It may require permission and acknowledgement. I don't know if a fee would be requested, and would hope that it is low or zero since this is essentially a non-profit channel. However, just 2 books (Pre grouping atlas and Railway Junction diagrams) would cover most foreseeable situations where a map is needed.
I remember using the DLR back in the 80's when the Canary Wharf site was still being built. Tower Gateway was the station, long before Bank station. The trains used to stop at some parts along the route at the station points before they had been built. The majority of passengers were builders. I think it went from Tower to Island gardens. I used to get off at Crossharbour. Again long before all the redevelopment got going near that part of the line.
It sounds like the journey I made several times probably around May 1990, when I worked IIRC near Crossharbour for a couple of weeks. I don't think I have ever been on the DLR since, unless I used it to get to the now demolished Docklands Arena once - I think I only went there once, but have no memory of how I traveled to it.
I was going to write regarding the 'Calculating Boy' nickname, "those Victorians and their cunning names for things", but then realised that Bidder was a child before Victoria came to the throne, and "those Hanoverians and their cunning names for things" just doesnt have the same ring about it. Well at least we got a map, of sorts :) Well done for 75k, well deserved.
2:47 Oh, he was _that_ Bidder. I'd heard of the boy famous for his arithmetical capability, and wondered what happened to him. Glad he achieved success in later life.
Congratulations on getting to 75,000. Love your content especially this style with the history of why these lines were built and the politics involved. Here's to 100,000!
About gauge: In an old copy of the Model Engineer an old gent wrote that his grandfather had been the Stephenson's works manager. He told the grandson that the gauge had originally been five feet as the wheels had their flanges on the outside of the track: when the flanges went inside the gauge deducted two track thicknesses to get what would become standard gauge.
24th of July - 1,000 subscriber special 30th of July - 10,000 subscriber special 16th of October - 50,000 subscriber special 4th of December - 75,000 subscriber special That is some crazy growth
There was a hiccough in August, so he was a couple of weeks late reaching 25,000, but growth has exploded since then and back in August I would never have guessed that he would add 50,000 subscribers between early September and the start of December.
When I was first recommended a video by RUclips, he was at 2000. When I got around to watching it (and subscribing) he was at 7000 or so, and something like the next day or two he was at 10.000. Crazy.
@@fnordpojk I think it was about 650. Funny we will all go nostalgic about "what was the first Jago Hazzard video you watched, and PS the route diagram needs to be done for the whole network, so much better than Beck.
@@fnordpojk You must have been a day or two ahead of me, I found this channel right as he hit 5,000, but had already passed 10,000 by the time he uploaded the 5,000 subscriber special.
An excellent episode, I giggled quite a few times. I'm tired and stressed, the weather's miserable and I've got an eight hour shift to look forward to (in Sainsbury's, in December, during a pandemic, lord help me!) So this is balm for the soul. ❤
Yeah, pretty much! At least in Bedlam the inmates were locked up, as opposed to roaming free, causing havoc and coughing with neither face covering nor a hand over their mouths. (Those people are the worst, it was bad enough pre-covid, now it should be certifiable.)
My daughter, when she was little, couldn't say balm. She always said blam! So don't forget your lip blam Sapphire! And hope your shift is smooth! With a capital SMOO.
Some of our essential workers are more unsung than others ... all the best to you and your colleagues. And also to carers etc who have slogged on through the pandemic but have had relatively little attention.
Thank you for the little visual joke at 11:50. (for the less observant you said 'sic transit gloria mundi' - always a good line in any case - and then cut to a shot of ... a Ford Transit) What fun you must have editing these little entertainments! Just one question: how did you know the Transit was sick?
Thank you for a well researched piece here, very interesting. Over 40 years back I took a bus rover day trip trying to explore the outer eastern reaches of the London and Blackwall Railway. The whole area was very different to how it is today - an industrial wasteland, more akin to a collection of bomb sites and derelict factories.
On the subject of river pirates, I recommend going to the River Police museum in Wapping next time it’s open. Lots of stories about boarding actions and piracy
Wow, that sounds like an interesting place! Have they a web site? Visited the Museum of London many years ago and was amazed by their collection of "stuff" fished out of the Thames. (I live in Oz) 🙃
I really enjoyed the sketch map. :) I use the dlr from city airport to bank almost daily and love looking out the window as i pass. I screen shot the map so i can try finding the locations on route. :)
That was 18 miles well spent. This is precisely the minutiae of detail we need to know that transcends what the tourists get. It takes it up a level- all thoroughly fascinating. My ears pricked up at the mention of the Eastern Counties Railway. They took over the Northern & Eastern Railway on Jan 1st 1844. The N&E ran from London to Bishops Stortford by 1842. Both used 5 feet gauge, but in Sept 1844 both systems were converted to standard in just one month. This is the height of railway mania, and it’s all so wonderfully messy.
My London sojourn included the time when they were building the DLR and I was delighted that they reused the old viaduct down the Isle of Dogs (one of the stations was called Mudchute). I think that it has meanwhile been redecommissioned.
The Stratford to North Woolwich line would be an another interesting topic in the same part of London. Just the old North Woolwich station alone has an interesting history - it was used for a rather quirky little museum during my childhood years. Congrats on 75k subs.
Well Done That Man! Feel free to self-indulge, Master Jago. It's always a pleasure to find your new contributions. Thank you from St Helena, Downunder. 😉
Jago produced a great map! Well done! The stations were getting definetely confusing having same names but being in different places! I wonder if anyone lived long enough to constantly be using old railway and started using DLR.
I read on a railway forum. The GER operated the Loughton/Epping/Ongar service from Fenchurch Street until these were withdrawn with the opening of the Central line of the London underground. The longer and additional platform at Fenchurch were for the LNE trains; the service between Fenchurch Street and the Loughton line caused major problems at Stratford, where they had to cross the GER main Colchester line to take the Loughton branch. The Fairlop loop line (which came off the GER main line where the current Ilford emu car sheds are located) services also originated at Fenchurch Street. When they re-modelled Stratford for the Central line, they built two bay platforms (one currently used by the DLR), for a planned shuttle service between Fenchurch Street and Stratford to connect with the Central line to Loughton/Epping, were for a time you changed to steam operation to complete your journey between Epping and Ongar. However, although the platforms were built, the track and service was not instigated. I thought you had done a video on Fenchurch Street Station, but I cannot find it
I remember finding you when you were at the 200 mark and thinking why such a low number of subscribers? Anywhere here you are at 75k and your postings just get better and better ❤️🙏
Congratulations and thanks for keeping me informed and entertained, it's great to see your viewer base rise so quickly. Minories/Mineories will always bring back memories.
Absolutely fabulous film ! What an education , I'm from the Midlands but picked up wood and veneers from the east end and know the area well , thanks for film , congratulations on milestone I'm not surprised !
Most enjoyable but so confusing (like most Lunnon railways). The thought of a freight railway along Commercial Road blows my tiny mind! As a former HGV 1 Driver the chaos would be awesome to have beheld. Thanks for this one Mr Hazzard, a line that has been of interest for many years but so little written about. Congratulations on 75k, Onward (SER motto) toward the 100K! Thanks again.
Interesting note you make on Limehouse having originally been called "Stepney." Many of us (especially myself!) will know of Stepney from the Reverend W. Awdry's great little books "The Railway Series" known today as "Thomas and Friends." I thought that the loco "Stepney" (LBSCR No. 55) was named after "Stepney Green" on the Hammersmith & City, and District lines! Jago, you are a wealth of knowledge!!! 💖
Ah, there’s an interesting story behind Stepney’s name, which I want to look at in a future video - basically, the London & Blackwall were going to build a connection to the East London Railway at Shadwell and the LBSCR named some of their new A1 locomotives after LBR stations in anticipation. But the connection never happened in the end.
@@JagoHazzard Yes, we could all look up the LBSCR loco names, (not just the A1/ AIX but the bigger ones too) but a vid could well be nice. i think i did a bit of wheel cleaning on sutton on a days work at Spa Valley
My experience of the Docklands Railway was before it existed and there were four tracks from Stepney East into Fenchurch Street and having to walk along the line and into the old Commercial Road Goods Yard in search of kids throwing stones at the trains.
I had a book on the history of the line which quoted somebody as having been on the train one time in the winter when the cable broke, and saw a load of sailors travelling on it get out and have a snowball fight.
9:45 Sounds like how Austin and Houston, Texas are not in Austin or Houston Counties, and how California's Mount Shasta is not in Shasta County, and Lassen Peak is not in Lassen County (it's in Shasta County).
I've had some good nights out at the Limehouse Town Hall, back when it was in the care of Space Hijackers. Positive action by positive mental attitudes challenging complacency.
Hi Ja, well, I was born In Limehouse but dont really know much about the real London apart from Hospital visits in my later years to its capitol. Only once been on the DLR and for my visits really only used the underground.. I sit and watch with fascination at the places I dont really know but lived less than 20 odd miles or so away from.. I wonder If I have missed something In my life by not knowing more about its Capitol, but then comes along Jago with his pictures, videos and history lessons telling me everything I need to know making it easily understandable.. If not for its added history about Londons Infrastructure used daily by millions, how else would I know what I have missed In my life, so for that, a smile, a wave, and a cheery THANKYOU.... Ian...
Congrats on getting to 75k, that's not easy! A lot of hard work, especially during this period. Keep it up, no doubt you will get to 100k in short order! Wow, Geoff Marshall also does transport around London and UK, and he's at 210k and been doing videos a long time, your quickly gaining on his tracks! Also, I've noticed some of your more recent videos have been 1080p, so I suspect you have a new phone, and some of these recent videos include older footage before the upgrade. Love it!
I used to live in the building next to the Blackwall Majestic and always felt it seemed rather out of place! It's surrounded by heartless high-rises and the A13 flyover and really stands out.
First,congratulations on your 75,000 viewers,that's a real accomplishment,and you do keep peoples attention! Second,a New York addition,(actually more Brooklyn),way back when,the Brooklyn Bridge,was put into service,and to be up with the times,there was a cable railway,going over it! Basically,it was a shuttle operation,and was later upgraded and converted into an elevated line,with connections to various BRT lines,and also Long Island Railroad through services! Very complex,and I'll try to keep it simple,(note,there were also a number of cable car lines operated in Manhattan,and two more in Brooklyn. Another complicated story!) So the American side is as mixed up,and hard to put in a minimum format,as any London operation,no wonder,sometimes you forget,which end is which,with all the duplicate names( you really have to use the mileposts,to distinguish between,or the Acts of Parliament), headache time,and mileage racking! Thank you,Jago,and the East and West Ends of London,should get equal billing,as I know the GWR,was involved in so many schemes and bypassing in that area! Another day,and a beautiful video,and thanks for a birthday 🎂 present! Made my day!! Thanks for a wonderful day!
Great video again - and an intriguing mass of railways there old and new. Could watch you all day exploring those. Including that odd orphaned branch you see at 3:55 - always wondered whether that went to. And how about taking a bow now? Let's see you on screen!
That's the Limehouse Curve, if I'm not mistaken, which connected the L&B main line east of the current DLR Limehouse Station, to the Bow Extension (the current London, Tilbury & Southend route). There's another stubbed branch like that closer to the City, that was used to access one of many other railways' goods sheds that were located along the line.
@@Petecope You might be able to see it here (if the link works): maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=51.51365&lon=-0.03687&layers=163&b=1 It's the eastern leg of the triangle, with Stepney (now Limehouse) Station at the western corner.
It sounds like the cable railway was the first to use the principal of slip coaches used again in the 20th century, I think between the wars but it may have lasted a bit longer. It must have been fun if you got on the wrong coach and went sailing past your stop. 😺😺
Congratulations on 75k! 💐⭐️🥳🖖🏼 And thanks again for helping me explore another part of London virtually. Keeping me sane until I can finally cross the Pond and explore it physically. Poplar: appears in pop culture in the video of the Pet Shop Boys song “Can You Forgive Her?” Meet you all there in a dunce cap and orange jumpsuit! 🧡
Not just East London but also my beloved Shadwell, Stepney, Cannon Street Road and Commercial Road within the mix. You've made my day dear chap. You Sir truly are a 75K+ LEGEND! 👍
Congratulations, and thank you for your hard work making this video! The London & Blackwall is one of my favourite railways, after having only learned about it earlier this year. I think I may have found your channel via your video "Millwall Leviathan," when trying to learn more about the Millwall Extension Railway. Good job for just sticking to the main line...trying to understand all the permutations and combinations of services along the line run by the North London Railway, Great Eastern Railway, and the London, Tilbury & Southend is mind-boggling. That being said, the LT&SR does (of course) form another tangible, continuous link from the L&B's ancient past to the present. And at the point where you said that transportation would be "key" to Docklands redevelopment...was that another pun? ("Quay"?)
Jago English dictionary: Self-indulgence, the practice of walking most of a marathon filming old things with your phone in east London
:D
This aesthetic is something which I now always need in my life
Jago - the man they couldn't lock down... 😉👍
I have to admit that I’ve been sitting on this footage for quite a while...
Jago unchained?
@@JagoHazzard You dont have to explain yourself!! Fresh air is good for your immune system.
@Harris Pork no we are, but only for “essential journeys “
Found the use of the hand drawn map useful. More use of maps to give overall location, would be even more useful. Keep up the good work.
I like the fact that he acknowledged how confusing all of this was. Looking forward to the supplementary video he suggested
I am going to copy that map, if that is ok? I have ancestry down there in the Victorian era, who must had lived through all that development.
The relevant "Pre-Grouping Atlas" and "Railway Junction Diagrams" pages would make things even clearer - each map tells a slightly different story to give a clear overall understanding.
@@iankemp1131 While I do agree with you, would there not be copyright issues using pages from these atlases?
@@2H80vids A good question, which I have pondered about myself before as a possible reason why it hasn't been done. I am only guessing. However I see lots of other images (e.g. old photos) appear on videos by Jago and others, and I have seen maps on other sites (and the Underground strip map and Regents Canal map on Jago's) so I assume it is possible. It may require permission and acknowledgement. I don't know if a fee would be requested, and would hope that it is low or zero since this is essentially a non-profit channel. However, just 2 books (Pre grouping atlas and Railway Junction diagrams) would cover most foreseeable situations where a map is needed.
I remember using the DLR back in the 80's when the Canary Wharf site was still being built. Tower Gateway was the station, long before Bank station.
The trains used to stop at some parts along the route at the station points before they had been built. The majority of passengers were builders.
I think it went from Tower to Island gardens. I used to get off at Crossharbour. Again long before all the redevelopment got going near that part of the line.
It sounds like the journey I made several times probably around May 1990, when I worked IIRC near Crossharbour for a couple of weeks. I don't think I have ever been on the DLR since, unless I used it to get to the now demolished Docklands Arena once - I think I only went there once, but have no memory of how I traveled to it.
I'm sorry, you can't just amble past a phrase like "river pirates."
You can, if you're on the DLarrr!
That ought to be the best River Pirate I've ever seen.
@@Quasihamster Underated joke of the month Jim lad!
I would have to agree. This is one of at least five topics for future videos.
Let us pray for river pyrats!
I was going to write regarding the 'Calculating Boy' nickname, "those Victorians and their cunning names for things", but then realised that Bidder was a child before Victoria came to the throne, and "those Hanoverians and their cunning names for things" just doesnt have the same ring about it. Well at least we got a map, of sorts :) Well done for 75k, well deserved.
2:47 Oh, he was _that_ Bidder. I'd heard of the boy famous for his arithmetical capability, and wondered what happened to him. Glad he achieved success in later life.
Congratulations on getting to 75,000. Love your content especially this style with the history of why these lines were built and the politics involved.
Here's to 100,000!
About gauge: In an old copy of the Model Engineer an old gent wrote that his grandfather had been the Stephenson's works manager. He told the grandson that the gauge had originally been five feet as the wheels had their flanges on the outside of the track: when the flanges went inside the gauge deducted two track thicknesses to get what would become standard gauge.
24th of July - 1,000 subscriber special
30th of July - 10,000 subscriber special
16th of October - 50,000 subscriber special
4th of December - 75,000 subscriber special
That is some crazy growth
the 100k and 250k are probably cannonised awaiting liberation from said can
There was a hiccough in August, so he was a couple of weeks late reaching 25,000, but growth has exploded since then and back in August I would never have guessed that he would add 50,000 subscribers between early September and the start of December.
When I was first recommended a video by RUclips, he was at 2000. When I got around to watching it (and subscribing) he was at 7000 or so, and something like the next day or two he was at 10.000. Crazy.
@@fnordpojk I think it was about 650. Funny we will all go nostalgic about "what was the first Jago Hazzard video you watched, and PS the route diagram needs to be done for the whole network, so much better than Beck.
@@fnordpojk You must have been a day or two ahead of me, I found this channel right as he hit 5,000, but had already passed 10,000 by the time he uploaded the 5,000 subscriber special.
I've never lived more than 10 minutes from a DLR station. As a born and bred Docklands boy, keep these videos coming! Love it!
An excellent episode, I giggled quite a few times. I'm tired and stressed, the weather's miserable and I've got an eight hour shift to look forward to (in Sainsbury's, in December, during a pandemic, lord help me!) So this is balm for the soul. ❤
Good God, sounds like bedlam. Good luck!
Yeah, pretty much! At least in Bedlam the inmates were locked up, as opposed to roaming free, causing havoc and coughing with neither face covering nor a hand over their mouths. (Those people are the worst, it was bad enough pre-covid, now it should be certifiable.)
My daughter, when she was little, couldn't say balm. She always said blam!
So don't forget your lip blam Sapphire! And hope your shift is smooth! With a capital SMOO.
Some of our essential workers are more unsung than others ... all the best to you and your colleagues. And also to carers etc who have slogged on through the pandemic but have had relatively little attention.
Here's some pointless trivia for you: the only railway station in London without a corresponding underground station is...
Fenchurch Street.
Fenchurch Street! But it would have had a tube interchange had the Fleet Line been built.
Do you know what the deepest section of the tube is maybe a vid if I'm not being to cheeky
I think you mean central london
Lots of railway stations in London don't have corresponding underground stations.
@@markearl7172 somewhere on bakerloo isn't it?
I'm from America and have never been to London but I love these videos I have no idea why but I get so excited for each video 😂
You're not alone - we can't wait for next instalment - they are little beacons of light
@@jerrysims6691 That's a great way of describing them
Thank you for the little visual joke at 11:50. (for the less observant you said 'sic transit gloria mundi' - always a good line in any case - and then cut to a shot of ... a Ford Transit) What fun you must have editing these little entertainments! Just one question: how did you know the Transit was sick?
Thanks for pointing it out - I hadn't noticed!
I always thought the problem wasn't the Transit but Gloria, as she would always be sick in the Transit on Mondays...
@@atraindriver et in terror parks her minibus...
Thank you for a well researched piece here, very interesting. Over 40 years back I took a bus rover day trip trying to explore the outer eastern reaches of the London and Blackwall Railway. The whole area was very different to how it is today - an industrial wasteland, more akin to a collection of bomb sites and derelict factories.
Possibly because 40 years ago it was a collection of bomb sites and derelict factories...
On the subject of river pirates, I recommend going to the River Police museum in Wapping next time it’s open. Lots of stories about boarding actions and piracy
Wow, that sounds like an interesting place! Have they a web site?
Visited the Museum of London many years ago and was amazed by their collection of "stuff" fished out of the Thames. (I live in Oz) 🙃
We demand more sketch maps!
We do.
... Please
I really enjoyed the sketch map. :)
I use the dlr from city airport to bank almost daily and love looking out the window as i pass. I screen shot the map so i can try finding the locations on route. :)
A very welcome addition. Thank you.
So deserved well done sir “75000” onward. To the next milestone - forward to the next story 👍1
Congratulations on hitting 75k!
That was 18 miles well spent. This is precisely the minutiae of detail we need to know that transcends what the tourists get. It takes it up a level- all thoroughly fascinating.
My ears pricked up at the mention of the Eastern Counties Railway. They took over the Northern & Eastern Railway on Jan 1st 1844. The N&E ran from London to Bishops Stortford by 1842. Both used 5 feet gauge, but in Sept 1844 both systems were converted to standard in just one month. This is the height of railway mania, and it’s all so wonderfully messy.
My London sojourn included the time when they were building the DLR and I was delighted that they reused the old viaduct down the Isle of Dogs (one of the stations was called Mudchute). I think that it has meanwhile been redecommissioned.
Only Jago Hazzard can make sense of the many Station name changes!
Cheers Jago!
I really like it when the humourous and ironic tone kicks in. A merit goes to the vivid style of presenting Tube's history by Jago.
Had a terrible work day, got a takeaway and see a big Jago Hazzard in my inbox
Made my day, here's to 150,000
'So good at maths that, as a child, he was exhibited' - sounds like Victorian times, right enough.
Or channel 4 now?
The Stratford to North Woolwich line would be an another interesting topic in the same part of London. Just the old North Woolwich station alone has an interesting history - it was used for a rather quirky little museum during my childhood years. Congrats on 75k subs.
I wonder if part of this route is now used for Crossrail?
Parts of it is be in used for the woolwich to custom house part of crossrail
And the DLR canning town to Stratford route was part of the north london line
Well Done That Man!
Feel free to self-indulge, Master Jago. It's always a pleasure to find your new contributions.
Thank you from St Helena, Downunder. 😉
Second. I really love your videos as a London and Underground history fan. You deserve your rising star
Jago produced a great map! Well done! The stations were getting definetely confusing having same names but being in different places!
I wonder if anyone lived long enough to constantly be using old railway and started using DLR.
I read on a railway forum.
The GER operated the Loughton/Epping/Ongar service from Fenchurch Street until these were withdrawn with the opening of the Central line of the London underground.
The longer and additional platform at Fenchurch were for the LNE trains; the service between Fenchurch Street and the Loughton line caused major problems at Stratford, where they had to cross the GER main Colchester line to take the Loughton branch. The Fairlop loop line (which came off the GER main line where the current Ilford emu car sheds are located) services also originated at Fenchurch Street.
When they re-modelled Stratford for the Central line, they built two bay platforms (one currently used by the DLR), for a planned shuttle service between Fenchurch Street and Stratford to connect with the Central line to Loughton/Epping, were for a time you changed to steam operation to complete your journey between Epping and Ongar. However, although the platforms were built, the track and service was not instigated.
I thought you had done a video on Fenchurch Street Station, but I cannot find it
Improved public transport in the Docklands was considered absolutely...quay.
Wow! 75k already, I remember when it was 10k! Good job!
Congrats on reaching 75K! Quality content like this and you'll reach 100K in no time.
Content is the key, for sure. Looking forward to seeing the Wimbledon Branch of the District Line covered one day.
@@frglee How about "The branches of the District line" ???
Wow. Absolutely loved this as someone that spent 36 years of my life along this stretch, mostly Shadwell. Thank you for the foot slogging.
The winding house is just outside Fencurch st station. Just above the DLR tunnel.
Fantastic bit of video making which answered lots of questions for me, and raised some new ones!
I think we demand a video on river piracy!
I remember finding you when you were at the 200 mark and thinking why such a low number of subscribers? Anywhere here you are at 75k and your postings just get better and better ❤️🙏
And it still fells like only yesterday when you started your channel. Well done mate
it is standard railway practice to name a junction for where the branch goes to
Well done Sir ...your commitment to the subscribers is most heartily acknowledged.
I think that after 15 miles you deserve a good substantial meal!
At this rate your worn out boots will have their own channel some day. Congrats on 75,000! Here's to the next.........!
Thank you for the Pre Cineworld pictures. I really like hearing about the silly and pointless deals that railway companies made in the 1800s and 1900s
Congratulations on 75k subscribers...all down to your dulcet tones and wonderful knowledge...👍🏻
Congratulations and thanks for keeping me informed and entertained, it's great to see your viewer base rise so quickly. Minories/Mineories will always bring back memories.
Wikipedia comes down on the short side, I suppose because it is directly from the Latin where it is always short
Congrats on hitting 75k = so well deserved. Onwards and upwards.
Your videos are brilliant and very informative.
This is the way, the railway!
Absolutely fabulous film ! What an education , I'm from the Midlands but picked up wood and veneers from the east end and know the area well , thanks for film , congratulations on milestone I'm not surprised !
Another interesting video and congratulations on hitting 75,000 addicts to information with dry humour!
Most enjoyable but so confusing (like most Lunnon railways). The thought of a freight railway along Commercial Road blows my tiny mind! As a former HGV 1 Driver the chaos would be awesome to have beheld. Thanks for this one Mr Hazzard, a line that has been of interest for many years but so little written about. Congratulations on 75k, Onward (SER motto) toward the 100K! Thanks again.
If you look up 'Old Deptford history', you can see pictures of the freight trains that used to run down the middle of Grove Street.
Interesting note you make on Limehouse having originally been called "Stepney." Many of us (especially myself!) will know of Stepney from the Reverend W. Awdry's great little books "The Railway Series" known today as "Thomas and Friends." I thought that the loco "Stepney" (LBSCR No. 55) was named after "Stepney Green" on the Hammersmith & City, and District lines! Jago, you are a wealth of knowledge!!! 💖
Ah, there’s an interesting story behind Stepney’s name, which I want to look at in a future video - basically, the London & Blackwall were going to build a connection to the East London Railway at Shadwell and the LBSCR named some of their new A1 locomotives after LBR stations in anticipation. But the connection never happened in the end.
@@JagoHazzard Thanks Jago! I look forward to that particular video!
Best Wishes, Toby (not quite a tram engine!)
@@JagoHazzard Yes, we could all look up the LBSCR loco names, (not just the A1/ AIX but the bigger ones too) but a vid could well be nice. i think i did a bit of wheel cleaning on sutton on a days work at Spa Valley
fantastic video - Whitechapel and Poplar are my area, found out things I didn't know
'Hydraulic accumulator tower'. More new things to go and research. I love this channel!
I always wondered what the building originally was used for as I disembarked at Popular heading for the new Canary Wharf station site.
My experience of the Docklands Railway was before it existed and there were four tracks from Stepney East into Fenchurch Street and having to walk along the line and into the old Commercial Road Goods Yard in search of kids throwing stones at the trains.
Congratulations on 75k. No surprise given the great content and the presentation is sooo, English. Wonderful, thank you.
I had a book on the history of the line which quoted somebody as having been on the train one time in the winter when the cable broke, and saw a load of sailors travelling on it get out and have a snowball fight.
9:45 Sounds like how Austin and Houston, Texas are not in Austin or Houston Counties, and how California's Mount Shasta is not in Shasta County, and Lassen Peak is not in Lassen County (it's in Shasta County).
Blackwall is one of my favourite London places - so close to London yet for so long its own little world.
My co-workers said I have a dry sense of humour, but you, sir, are the Master.
Brilliant as usual. I remember the 677 trolley bus going to Cubitt Town! Jago on
Thanks Jago. Congtrats on the subscriber milestone. I'll be spreading the word too where I can :-)
I've had some good nights out at the Limehouse Town Hall, back when it was in the care of Space Hijackers. Positive action by positive mental attitudes challenging complacency.
Drat! I missed 75K and you're already at almost 76K. Well, on to a hundred thousand!!!
Hi Ja, well, I was born In Limehouse but dont really know much about the real London apart from Hospital visits in my later years to its capitol. Only once been on the DLR and for my visits really only used the underground.. I sit and watch with fascination at the places I dont really know but lived less than 20 odd miles or so away from.. I wonder If I have missed something In my life by not knowing more about its Capitol, but then comes along Jago with his pictures, videos and history lessons telling me everything I need to know making it easily understandable.. If not for its added history about Londons Infrastructure used daily by millions, how else would I know what I have missed In my life, so for that, a smile, a wave, and a cheery THANKYOU.... Ian...
As always - an excellent exposition. Thank you.
Congrats on getting to 75k, that's not easy! A lot of hard work, especially during this period. Keep it up, no doubt you will get to 100k in short order! Wow, Geoff Marshall also does transport around London and UK, and he's at 210k and been doing videos a long time, your quickly gaining on his tracks! Also, I've noticed some of your more recent videos have been 1080p, so I suspect you have a new phone, and some of these recent videos include older footage before the upgrade. Love it!
I used to live in the building next to the Blackwall Majestic and always felt it seemed rather out of place! It's surrounded by heartless high-rises and the A13 flyover and really stands out.
So many shots directly outside my flat. Interesting stuff!
Thank you so much for sharing.
Wonderful!!! As always you make history more and more interesting. Thank you
Congratulations Jago, bloody good channel.
I find it amazing that you can weave a little transit commentary into your comedy routines. Very clever!
75K subscribers - Woooooo ! Woooooo ! as the old steam trains used to go ! Well done !
First,congratulations on your 75,000 viewers,that's a real accomplishment,and you do keep peoples attention! Second,a New York addition,(actually more Brooklyn),way back when,the Brooklyn Bridge,was put into service,and to be up with the times,there was a cable railway,going over it! Basically,it was a shuttle operation,and was later upgraded and converted into an elevated line,with connections to various BRT lines,and also Long Island Railroad through services! Very complex,and I'll try to keep it simple,(note,there were also a number of cable car lines operated in Manhattan,and two more in Brooklyn. Another complicated story!) So the American side is as mixed up,and hard to put in a minimum format,as any London operation,no wonder,sometimes you forget,which end is which,with all the duplicate names( you really have to use the mileposts,to distinguish between,or the Acts of Parliament), headache time,and mileage racking! Thank you,Jago,and the East and West Ends of London,should get equal billing,as I know the GWR,was involved in so many schemes and bypassing in that area! Another day,and a beautiful video,and thanks for a birthday 🎂 present! Made my day!! Thanks for a wonderful day!
Excellent video and you got your steps in. Congratulations on another subscriber milestone.
75k already? Wow. Can't wait to see where you take your channel as we approach and exceed 100!
I don't think you'll have to wait very long.😁
I think your content is brilliant, just.binge watched a stack of your videos, thanks Hugo for taking the edge off of my lockdown.
the channel is growing
Congrats on the milestone! It's been great to have these fairly frequent and periodic mostly-railway trivia videos through these past several months!
Congrats! You had it coming!
Also hyped for the new DLR trains...
Many years ago I was told the correct translation of Sic transit gloria mundi:
Gloria was sick in the back of the van.
Ànother superb video and congrats on reaching 75k subscribers. Your commentary is brilliant
Well done on 75,000 and amazing video.
Excellent video - thank you. Great content and I waiti hawkishly for your new videos.
Great video again - and an intriguing mass of railways there old and new. Could watch you all day exploring those. Including that odd orphaned branch you see at 3:55 - always wondered whether that went to. And how about taking a bow now? Let's see you on screen!
That's the Limehouse Curve, if I'm not mistaken, which connected the L&B main line east of the current DLR Limehouse Station, to the Bow Extension (the current London, Tilbury & Southend route).
There's another stubbed branch like that closer to the City, that was used to access one of many other railways' goods sheds that were located along the line.
@@sewing9434 Thanks for that - I'll explore it a little more now!
@@Petecope You might be able to see it here (if the link works):
maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=51.51365&lon=-0.03687&layers=163&b=1
It's the eastern leg of the triangle, with Stepney (now Limehouse) Station at the western corner.
There was a proposal to turn the Limehouse curve into a mini High line, but probably nothing will ever come of this.
London is very beautiful.
It sounds like the cable railway was the first to use the principal of slip coaches used again in the 20th century, I think between the wars but it may have lasted a bit longer. It must have been fun if you got on the wrong coach and went sailing past your stop. 😺😺
I've got a bright idea. Why don't we spread the news around and try to get Jago to 100,000 for Christmas Day, or at the latest, New Years Day?
The 4d Rope sounds like an East London folk band
Congratulations Jago! 👍🎉
Congratulations on 75k! 💐⭐️🥳🖖🏼
And thanks again for helping me explore another part of London virtually. Keeping me sane until I can finally cross the Pond and explore it physically.
Poplar: appears in pop culture in the video of the Pet Shop Boys song “Can You Forgive Her?” Meet you all there in a dunce cap and orange jumpsuit! 🧡
Your content and presentation leave me in a puddle of delight. Psst... It's a good thing!:-) 🖖
Thanks for the sketch. 😊
Interesting history & facts from even when I started using DLR in 1990 when it was fairly newly built between poplar to Shadwell thanks this upload.
Not just East London but also my beloved Shadwell, Stepney, Cannon Street Road and Commercial Road within the mix. You've made my day dear chap. You Sir truly are a 75K+ LEGEND! 👍
Shadwell, Stepney, Cannon Street Road and Commercial Road , are not in east london ?
@@highpath4776 They are indeed.....glorious London E1. I meant that it focussed upon those areas - apologies for the confusion.
*Pre-Cineworld*
made me chuckle love it
Congratulations, and thank you for your hard work making this video! The London & Blackwall is one of my favourite railways, after having only learned about it earlier this year. I think I may have found your channel via your video "Millwall Leviathan," when trying to learn more about the Millwall Extension Railway.
Good job for just sticking to the main line...trying to understand all the permutations and combinations of services along the line run by the North London Railway, Great Eastern Railway, and the London, Tilbury & Southend is mind-boggling. That being said, the LT&SR does (of course) form another tangible, continuous link from the L&B's ancient past to the present.
And at the point where you said that transportation would be "key" to Docklands redevelopment...was that another pun? ("Quay"?)
Nice one Jago! Well on the way to 100,000! Thank you for the ride so far!
Congratulations on 75k, you should of course have a good few more subscribers. I’m sure you’ll get there though