End of the Line No.8 - Uxbridge
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- Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2022
- Back to the other end of the Piccadilly to Uxbridge, which is also a Metropolitan line station. Is Uxbridge the most architecturally stunning station on the network? Let's go to Zone 6 again and find out ...
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The SCALE of your commitment to a joke is unprecedented.
Yes, but what did the scales read ?!
He weighed up the options and decided he had to do it!
And do we know how much Geoff weighs? We'll just have to 'weight' and see!
The lack of usable scales at the station was weighing heavily on his mind
I’m really not feeling mentally well at the moment, having a really difficult time. But a Geoff video calms me down and reminds me of the simple joys that are out there. Thank you for everything, Geoff.
Take care and please know that things will get better.
Sorry you're in the trenches, always know you're among friends here. Totally agree, find Geoff's videos great for my mental health too!
Wishing you all the best and better days ahead🙏🏾
You deserve that heart from Geoff.
@@RJH1971 agree, nothing better than looking at a railway that’s 10,000,000 better than the boring one down here. My local rail network is not bad, it’s just boring, that’s all.
Oh god. He's doing his Portillo with a book routine now 🙂
I hope he doesn't start wearing pink trousers.
@@geofftech2 Oh Bloody hell
"Great Underground Journeys"? 😁😁😁
@@geofftech2 DO IT!
@@geofftech2 For Hammersmith / Barking Hammersmith and City Line ? ( and does the circle have one end two ends or four ends ?)
As an ex-Brunel student, Uxbridge was my home tubestop, and the canal walk indicated in the guidebook was a regular routine to get a bit of fresh air and exercise with an audiobook, so it's heartwarming to see it get some love, as the Vine Street episode did too. As for the question of Metropolitan or Piccadilly line to St Pancras - I had to do the trip a few times to visit my family when they were living in Paris. Metropolitan line is on average 14 minutes faster than the Piccadilly line.
I would thought the Met line had a much faster journey time to Kings Cross because there are fewer stops and there is the possibility of catching a semi fast Met line which is quicker that the all stations Met line train.
And now I live in Vancouver ,Canada, but remember the Wednesdays in the late 1940s when my mother used to deposit me at Uxbridge library,whilst she went to Lloyds Bank to draw her 7 pounds a week housekeeping money. We always took a Met. or Piccadilly train from Ickenham and a 220 bus on the return. Your video stirred up memories of long ago and far away. Thanks for yhe memory!
Omg the Uxbridge Station has some beautifully preserved stuff.
Love the Pic of the 607 Trolley Buses that used to terminate at the Cinema (Savoy, Regal?) & follow the Uxbridge Road all the way to Shepherds Bush. Strange that the emphasis is now 'Electric'!! Here in Limoges France, we still have Trolley Buses, EU progress?
Uxbridge has a beautiful station. Love the design.
That platform indicator light box is manually controlled from Rayner's Lane signal cabin. So if it's displaying the wrong platform, apologies, one of us must have just hit the wrong button! 😅
Also, the station used to look even better before they ran those awful cable trays along the length of it 🙄 + I conquer the café is definitely worth a visit 👍
Totally agree on the cable trays and the cafe where time has stood still, its totally bizarre but love it.
The area just outside the station is also fascinating and deservers some minor exploration.
People in charge of information displays do like a laugh, one person in Cambridge described Letchworth (that train's only stop between Cams and Kings Cross, it was an express train) in ye olde vernacular, it got on the local TV broadcast.
What else is there to do in Uxbridge? I used this station a few times when staying as an air cadet at the RAF base, just up the road. You used to stay there if you were doing something very privileged and fun like going on overseas camp, or on the International Air Cadet Exchange, as it was close to Heathrow. Fond memories. The base was demolished about 10 years ago for houses, but the Battle of Britain bunker remains, as does a fascinating RAF Cinema hall, and one or two former 3-storey barrack blocks (the old 12 man room type) I'd stay in. It's an interesting site to walk around and do take note of the housing estate that was built on the site, which has some interesting street names!
Top floor of the library - display of historical objects.
Thanks Paul, very interesting, 😊👍
I remember the R.A.F base at Uxbridge. When I was in Air Cadets I went there for a weekend drill course. Took the Metropolitan line from Baker Street, quite a journey. Shame to hear that the base is no more.
I adore your videos as they remind me so much of the enjoyment of years of using the tube in London. But I had to donate, and not just ‘like’, for the weighing scales skit. Simply sublime. I hope this covers at least some of the cost of the scales.
Chris that is supremely kind of you, thank you so much. That covers the cost of the scales AND the book as well! 😁👍
@@geofftech2 Maybe after this series, you can make another end of the line series, but this time, from the lines then they were first opened, for example, the district line's original end points, were South Ken, and Westminster, and King william street and Stockwell, on the Northern line.
youre actually so rich.
What a lovely bit of serendipity, finding that book! (Also, "while buying some Elizabeth Line moquette" is the most Geoff phrase ever).
Nice to see this weighleway station, Geoff.
Or the whaleway station for some ... 😛
I was brought up in Iver Heath; my father was a professional musician and would spend the day in his workshop, change into his DJ, cycle the 2 1/2 miles to Uxbridge Station with his instruments on his back, leave his bike locked in the secure area, hop on a Met or Picc train and could be in the orchestra pit at the Royal Opera House in an hour and 20 from home. Later I worked as a printers messenger for an Uxbridge-based firm and had a weekly "Go As You Please" ticket as we delivered printing blocks (what are they, eh?) to the various London newspapers and magazine HQs. Explored the tube network extensiveIy in the 1970s. I love the station and how it really hasn't changed much inside.
I must be getting old - that all seemed like a couple of years ago...
(I also vaguely remember being taken to Uxbridge Vine Street station when it was still just about in use - sadly it was very run-down.)
Thank you. Most interesting.👍😊😊😊
I also have certain memories too that only felt like a few years ago, yet they were actually 10 years ago!
I've been to Uxbridge in 2017. It was peaceful surprisingly.
I haven't been to Uxbridge station in about 30 years. Used to go there every day as I went to Brunel University. I can't believe how little it's changed.
Yay Uxbridge!
Just down the road from Brunel University.
Was there from 1997 when an all zone travel card was £4.80.
Yes.
We'd travel to random places just for fun.
Happy days.
Although those are some fancy new trains there, not like the clunky old things we rode on.
Still miss the A-stock.
I've been to Uxbridge once when visiting London. The reason for my visit to the end of this line was a visit to The Battle of Britain Bunker. A great museum 15 minutes walk from the station. Had I seen this video before my visit I would have taken a closer look at the lovely station building. I love these End of the Line videos.
Been waiting for this episode since im from the small town of Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada, which was named after its sister town of Uxbridge in the UK! Lovely to see the other Uxbridge.
Loved this one I used to live here and miss living here
Always loved Uxbridge
Fish finger sandwich for dinner and a Geoff Marshall video to watch. Life is good!
Excellent Geoff I've been waiting for this one. I've known Uxbridge since I was a kid in the 1970's visiting my gran when we came to London from Suffolk. It always reminded me of a Thunderbirds silo as we came in to dock! 😃Happy days
I used to study at nearby Brunel University and I used this station almost everyday for three years. Lots of memories! Love Uxbridge
I live in Perth West Australia and faithfully watch all your videos as you bring them as they bring back memories (London born but have lived in WA for 50 years). In march next year -23- I have booked a months holiday in London and plan to ride all the underground lines to the end of the line. I will have to buy a copy of that book you showed us. How knows. I might even see you but doubt if I'd have to courage to say hallo.
used to live in uxbridge, you ventured along roads and paths that i used to hang about and walk along myself.
Uxbridge is soooooooooooo beautiful station!
Also for fans of architecture, of course, Uxbridge is the home of Brunel University, to which the adjective "magnificent" has very frequently been applied. And where scenes for A Clockwork Orange were filmed. I believe it's on the track bed of the old GWR West Drayton - Uxbridge branch
Vine Street!
St. Andrew's Church in Uxbridge was designed by George Gilbert Scott, who of course designed St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel, ie the beautiful frontispiece of St. Pancras Station.
@@arthurballs9632 And at end of the line Amersham there is Gilbert Scott Court, build as workhouse in 1838. Located next to Amersham hospital.
"Dear Middlesex, dear vanished country friend,
Your neighbour, London, killed you in the end"
John Betjamin.
But Middlesex still lives, only the County Council administering the county was abolished.
@@CaseyJonesNumber1 I still write it for my addresses. I will also consider myself from Middlesex and going to London as being something outside of where I'm from.
On the Uxbridge town towpath where you were, a couple of years ago I saw a Kingfisher on the opposite concrete bank. I thought this timid creature would fly away as soon as I approached my side of the canal, opposite. It didn't, It just perched there feeling perfectly safe and enjoying the sunshine. After a while, I was the first to leave.
Love the guy giving you the thumbs up while boarding
My old stomping ground as I was born in Uxbridge in 1970, about 5 mins walk from the canal and about 10 mins to the station, before we moved to Hillingdon (again, about 5 mins walk to the station) so would travel from Hillingdon to Uxbridge station to go to my one of my locals on a Thursday night to meet up with my mates down there.
Always loved the station for its quirkyness of the little kiosk type shops and the old newspaper kiosk they had in the station that you don't see many off nowadays. I always remember the café as being something that was stuck back in the 1950's when I was younger.
I left in '92 and haven't been back there properly for quite a few years now, but it is so nice to see the old station is still exactly the same as it was before, but I'm sure that the whole of the high street has completely changed from the time I was there.
I look back and laugh now when we'd walk all the way up to the front of whatever train we were getting to go back to Hillingdon as we could then get off right by the stairs. Now I look back and think how daft it was as we used to think it was quicker doing it that way, but in reality we still ended walking the same distance 🤣
4:00 Wow! It’s beautiful! 👏🏽
Thank you for this really engaging edition to the End Of The Line series, Sir Geoff Marshall!
I love this series so much. Thanks for the hard work you put into it.
@@geofftech2I love your videos, I’m not-even from London. I live in New York!
Love your quirkiness, the encyclopedic knowledge,
razor-sharp consciousness,
& your utter joy of life, Geoff.
Mr Tube, you are the Rail Deal!
My black taxi bud just sent me this.. my home town!
Love Uxbridge, the canals are a Godsend, wonderful place to escape and lose yourself in nature.
Lovely people too!
My local terminal station, check; part of my walk to work, check; great views of canal, check! Cheers, Geoff.
The stained glass above the ticket hall not only inlcudes the arms of Middlesex County Council but also those of Buckinghamshire County Council (a swan) as it sits just on the border between those two counties.
Thanks Geoff! It's my 'home' station. I probably only moved here 40 odd years ago because the house was near a nice out-of-town pub! But the great thing about Uxbridge is that there are 3 rivers, the Colne, Frays (with an 'a'!), and the Pinn. There were 3 railways termini (I think the only other place was Lowestoft?!). There are 3 further education Colleges (Brunel Uni, Bucks New Uni, and Uxbridge College). And we are very near 3 motorways: M25, M4, M40. Yes, we do things in threes here! Great!
uxbridge is my favourite station for a reason! beautiful building, and some personal history with the town too. thanks for the video geoff :D
Woooo, my home station! Glad to finally see you here :D
Another great end of the line video .. a station I have changed buses at many times in late 60’s/70’s .. living in High Wycombe back then .. used to catch Green Line 711 to the front of the tube Station & then catch a 207 to Shepherds Bush (after purchasing a Red Rover Ticket at the station) .. then after London Country took over the former LT Country Area on 1/1/70, could get a Golden Rover ticket & change on to a 727 to Reigate or Crawley & after 1972 a 724 to Staines via The Cargo Tunnel at Heathrow. Alternatively.. walk round the side to the old open bus station & catch a 321 to St Albans or Luton etc. or a 348 to Windsor. Always admired the frontage at Uxbridge. Another place to visit at Uxbridge is the Battle of Britain bunker at RAF Uxbridge.
Thanks Geoff that is such a WEIGHT off my mind.
Love David and Lily.
Love all the retro in this station
I was there a few times. Wonderful station.
Grew up in Uxbridge. We’d never go to Rayners Lane and change as that was a windswept and cold open platform and the Piccadilly had so many stops. Met line to Baker Street was the start of many days out, just make sure you get the last train home.
I used to go to Uxbridge when I worked in the area. Always came out and in from the side entrance and across the bridge I couldn't help but stop and watch for a while as i walked across the bridge. The view is just perfect.
Been waiting for this end of the line episode since I have been going to Uxbridge recently. It is magnificent and it did give me cathedral vibes when I first saw it and ut still does everytime
Worked in Uxbridge from. 2006 to 2010.many after work drinks in the three tuns and bar roosh!
Cracking station, went from there to the LT Museum on an open day at Acton depot. Well worth a look.
You are insane for buying your own weight scale at that store and taking it to the train station like that; & I love it. Best smirk laugh I’ve had all week.
one great video straight into another. (Jay Forman)
Uxbridge has always intrigued me since I first saw it on the Piccadilly Line. I look forward to what we see today.
When I visited London a number of years ago, I was tempted to visit the end of the line stations but didn't due to time and other things planned. So I am very happy that you are doing them and I can watch along and choose which to see if I visit London again.
There were a couple of little Chocolate Vending Machines on the right hand side of the entrance that are now covered by the Tube Map. I was there just before Lockdown and they were putting the Map Frame up at the time.
I forgot the vending machines, used to use them on a few platforms. London Underground was Cadburys, BR Nestles
What a beautiful classic station! Another must see! Thanks!
Five so far (Uxbridge, Harrow and Wealdstone, Stratford, Stanmore, and E&C) five scheduled for tomorrow (if the DLR counts). Hooray for 60+ Oyster cards!
Why those five?
@@WifeMamaArtist Uxbridge, as I needed to visit Ruislip Manor, and thought, "why not?" Stanmore to Stratford to tick off the Jubilee, H&W to E&C to tick off the Bakerloo. (TfL's own heritage railway). Going to try West Ruislip next week, back on the Piccadilly (via U1 bus to Ruislip). I will get there.
Loving this series.
Best end of the line vid yet
I think i have to take a trip out to uxbridge..thanks geoff
Uxbridge Shopping Centre has great Car Park very useful for Wembley Stadium
Uxbridge is probably my favorite terminus for a Metro line in the UK, as it looks like a terminus, unlike a fair few termini (i.e Chesham and Amersham), though, if we include international ones, Pireaus on the Athens metro is pretty nice, albeit a little grubby
To be far to Amersham its not actually a terminus station, and was never built as such
I used to travel to Uxbridge in 2009, when the old and rattling Metropolitan Line trains were still in service. I was impressed by the station of course and specifically the train indicator. Made a few illustrations right there
The Old Rattler as it was known. Apparently it was the points that were mostly responsible, according to a representative of the Transport Museum who gave a talk at the Ruislip History Society in 2014ish. He specified the ones at Neasden. Which reminded me of people nearly being bounced out of their seats back in the 90s.
Great series Geoff! Loving the series, entertaining and educational
Love the book plug. What a great find.
The only thing that will trump the purchasing of the scales would be if you left them in situ so that those of us who have had to urgently weigh ourselves before joining the train could have our needs met.
On why it is there - no idea but as a kid in the late 70s and early 80s, I vaguely remember seeing scales (usually with a big red cast iron case and what seemed like a huge face) in lots of public places and specifically in woolworth stores
One of your best Geoff, thoroughly enjoyable.
Love this series!
Thanks, Geoff.
Love your content.
Hi, my aunt lived in Denham, I use to go to Uxbridge and get a bus , I used that weighting machine so 60 years ago, good to still see it’s there, great to see you use your own scales , if I ever get back to London, I will do the same, thanks for the idea. Regards. JH
Just visited Uxbridge for the first time last night, at twilight. Beautiful!
Great video as usual Geoff!
Fantastic End of the Line today Geoff! Thank you.
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Ahh you got me all excited for a canals series! Loves the video as a canal dwelling Uxbridge local.
The book sounds great- sad I'm no longer living near London. And I was once in India for three months and concerned about my weight after bad stomach- there was lots of weighing machines in their train stations so I used one- on the card that came out it told me my fortune too!
the last time I got a fortune card out of a machine it read 'your seven year cycle of good luck has just come to an end...'
Another quality video Geoff, thanks
You see Geoff, you jest about doing a series on the canals but there's so much history there it would actually be great.
Weigh to go Geoff! Excellent video!
During the train strike this weekend I need to drive to a tube station. Thanks Geoff, this has made it all seem a lot less scary.
Very pleased that there was no mention of the town's extremely part time, part year MP
I agree that Geoff with a G is the superior spelling.
ive been to Uxbridge loads of times its a great town in West London and i love the station and i cant wait to do my next visit to Uxbridge in the new year brilliant video
It’s funny thinking back, there used to be cig machines, chocolate machines and weight scales all over the place… happy memories of buying a bar of Cadbury Tiffin from a machine in some random location…oh bugger, I’m getting old
Cadbury’s Tiffin! Oh my. That takes me back ….
I worked in the short-lived Paperchase branch inside the station a few years ago, it was a lovely place to come to work every day!
watching this at home in uxbridge! I love how the station looks
My grandparents lived in Uxbridge when I was a kid. As I grew older, I used to catch the train from South Harrow across to Uxbridge, where I'd either stroll up to their place near the Common or Granddad would pick me up. Still have great affection for the town. This video was a lovely reminder.
😍 I so enjoy this series Uxbridge seems a good place to visit - thank you G
Uxbridge is awesome, great video Geoff
This was my regular gateway to London. Lived in Iver Heath until 1995.
Iver Heath, once a rural village, I spent my childhood in the area. My Grandparents are buried in the Churchyard close to the 5 Points roundabout, leading to Wood Lane, Slough & Pinewood Studios, which was a 'lane' back in the day. My father worked for United Dairies delivering Milk from their Depot in West Drayton & I often used to accompany him on his deliveries to Pinewood Studios via 'Rostrover Gardens' (have I got that right?) I saw many 'Film Sets' in the making at the Studios. Black Park behind the Studios was always a 'Sunday Walking Treat' with our family Dog with the 457 Greenline from Uxbridge! Many happy memories of my childhood! Those were the days!!
@@JMHM3170 I remember it vividly. I was born in 1970. Moved to IH in 1972. Yes, I remember that walk in Black Park that adjoined the perimeter fence of Pinewood Studios.
I think it's Rostrevor Gardens. That as a cul-de-sac to the South East side of Church Road. It doesn't lead anywhere.
I also remember Black Park and that part which adjoined Pinewood Studios.
Bus route was 458. It ran from Uxbridge to Cippenham via Langley and Slough.
Good old days,.
Hi Geoff nice to meet you. Last year I worked at Uxbridge and used to marvel at this station. It was like revisiting today with your RUclips series. Thank you.
Literally "the end of the line" for me during my working week! The best overhead view of the station is *actually* the office block I commute to most days of my life! (...Tiny glimpse on 0:55) I should also say that anyone paying a visit there should definitely "pop in" to that station caff you mentioned in passing - a regular lunch time haunt for me and my friend - and the people who run it are really great!
Always so interesting ! And full of humour...
Top work Jeff
Now to find a friend to race with! Always happy to see a new Geoff video :)
if you'd have crossed the canal, having said that, Bandit country, Denham South Bucks, there's the old Kingsmill flour mill, home of the Kingsmill loaf
Thanks Geoff! Another great video! I've always loved Uxbridge station! And you buying the weighing scales is hilarious! 😂😂😂
Thanks!
Nice!
Geoff congratulations on 300k!! The best transport RUclipsr
Another fantastic video Geoff!
beautiful station, very nice videos :)