Embankment Used To Be Called Charing Cross
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- The two Underground stations that are Embankment and Charing Cross are very close to each other, and over the years have changed names numerous times. Here's an animated timeline showing how the Tube lines have grown in the area, and how the names have changed with them.
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Thanks for charing this.
That joke makes me cross.
@@TrekkerUK Your comment appears to be an Embankment to @regenbogenjohnny's comment :P
You're never alone with a Strand
But you could find yourself stranded at the end as an Aldwych.
@@trainbuff1090 I was Banking on someone making that joke.
You forgot that Aldwych closed in 1994. :)
I well remember the old Strand station whose platforms were reached via a lift from street level. As the lift doors closed the scratchiest of audio recordings said, "Stand clear of the gates". I can hear it now!
Thanks Geoff! I was doubting myself when my dad took me to London many many years ago, we used Trafalgar Square station - and even as a child I noticed it was so close to Charing Cross station. Well explained!
I really like how you manage to get across a lot of information in a very concise and still comprehensible way 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
These are like the secrets of the... I love those videos.
Ooh! Two days in a row! Keep it up Geoff! Daily videos suit you!
I remember the 1970's changes first hand. Often went to that part of London.
I remember as a small child in the early '60's being fascinated by the coloured coded ceiling mounted direction signs showing the paths to different platforms through the labyrinth of passenger interchange tunnels beneath the District & Circle to the Northern & Bakerloo lines when it was all called Charing Cross. I grew up in the Victoria area nearby. Always loved exploring the Underground, local red and green bus routes and travelling on BR EMU's like the Brighton Belle.
Finally! Thank you. I was always curious why these stations were so close but had different names. I actually calculated and it takes less than 28 seconds for the tube to cross from Charing Cross to Embankment.
I was at the McDonald's/Five Guys combo there at the end last Xmastime, having been in the former while waiting for mates queuing in the latter. I offered a homeless man who came up to me a chicken nugget and he got arsey because I didn't have any sauces to go with it.
something tells if he was arsey he might not have been a geniune homeless person while their are geniune ones, there are also professional beggers who are trying it on.
00:55 That shop used to be Mr Spud in the early 90s!!! Brilliant spuds!
keep the history stuff coming, love it.
Feeling some intense deja vu with this one
Hoorah for Strand as one of the few large enamel roundels graces my stairwell in pride of place - having been purchased for the princely sum of £20 at Uxbridge Station many many moons ago on a Sunday enthusiasts special when I was a wee nipper and my Godmother worked for LT. I recall the looks of bewilderment as a Piccadilly stock train went round the District line on part of the tour!
My dad's AA Road Guide to London from the 70s has Trafalgar tube station. My mum was using it a few years ago to plan a trip to London and she was all set to go to Trafalgar Square tube station. My dad said he didn't think there was a Trafalgar Square tube station and I agreed with him but my mother produced the map! We were very confused but this explains it!
I, stupidly, did just get the tube the one stop between the two of them. I just remember the endless walking from Charing Cross mainline station to the Bakerloo platforms. And, just to compound my error, I got on a northbound train by mistake and landed up at Piccadilly Circus.
What a satisfying video. Yes I did now (most of) this already, but it was so good to see it neatly presented.
Yup. Confused me from the 70s onwards with all the name changes. Basically Embankment and Charing Cross are at either end of the mainline station.
Thank you. I've always wondered about the point of having two stations and two stops so close (i timed a 30 seconds travel between the stations, 46 seconds to full stop)
Love the videos Geoff .... keep 'em coming. Regards from Sydney Australia.
Another "Race the tube" video, Charing Cross to Embankment vs the Northern line AND Bakerloo
That was fascinating. Thank you for doing these videos
Me: has no idea about trains or anything like that
Also me: interesting...
Another great video Geoff, always informative and interesting
I have an old paper map with embankment being called Charing Cross, think it’s a late 50s early 60s
as of 2000, there was still one exit that still said Trafalgar Square Embankment on the rotundle, it was the one that exited behind the Galleries (the signage there was a mosaic done in white & Bakerloo-line Brown, so no one changed it)
The three New York City subway companies were merged in 1953 and the management structure under MTA came in 1968. There are still tile signs built into tile walls directing passengers to another company line (IRT, BMT, IND) here and there at combined stations.
it has changed so much i will subscribe
yay 1+ subscriber
But in 1999, there was no Aldwych right?
Yep, it closed in 1994.
@@JeSuisRene If not for the Fleet line extension it would still be open
Top quality infotainment Geoffers.
They just need to make a huge blob on the tube map that says "this is where queen and more trains, go there"
I bet they will build a Embankment-Charing Cross-Aldwych Station Just to confuse us even further and link it to the eurotunnel. LOL. Good bit of history there, thanks Geoff.
Another very enjoyable, and informative one Mr Marshall. More of the same please
Geoff, long time fan and we met once at Pancras. You should do a lets play of a game called mini metro. You create your own tube network starting in London and then moving on to cities around the world. I'd love to see how you crack some of the harder levels.
I have a map in my bedroom from Liberty that still has the old stations and is missing the jubilee line
...And so it shows the Circle Line as a circle and the eastern end of the Central Line going out to Ongar?
There was a video on the same topic several years ago. This is basically the same, just with some facecam added.
Brilliant Video, wonder if they will be more of these, if they are, will be looking forward in seeing them!
Some strange memory of a club named "Heaven" at Embankment......
The changing names reflect network growth, faster trains, a greater people focus for city spaces, and the growth of tourism. But Charing Cross does not reflect anything but the station name. The name for the group of stations should be Trafalgar as the north entrance (bus stops area) is literally 100 metres from the square. Waterloo and Trafalgar are a great pair of names for major stations north and south of the river.
Fascinating!
wonderful remake
I love these videos too! So interesting. Thank you. Stay safe! x
I have a book called "London Lines" by Michael Kelly and he, too, explained this histerical name changes for Charing Cross tube stop (I forget the page number now).
Ken, I think it is hysterical that you called it histerical instead of historical.
Thanks for the information!!😎🐓🐓🇬🇧
New series idea all (or near enough) Heritage stations. I love the blue Bell railway station
I thought I got my head around this from a previous video. Now this new video and I'm even more confused and I think I need a little lie down...
Great video mate I really like watching your videos there really this is really interesting😌👍👍
And those Piccadilly LIne passengers going to Charing Cross Main Line?
Get off at Leicester Square and walk down the side of Trafalgar square, 5 mins max.
(Back in the day you'd be treated to a massed choir of starlings in an old lime tree by the National Portrait Gallery... different times.)
OMG. what a way to go. Changing names. I wonder what folk who lived around there thought about it. ?
Thanks
I slept at charing cross train station after viewing the queens coffin and missed the last metropolitan line train back to amersham.
....and Kings Cross used to be known as 'Battle Bridge' but long before the underground was built...
Nice video Geoff Marshall
Can you make a video about:
In 1890s, the Wickhams family wanted to start a Business Inn. But the Spiegelhalter family, a watchmaker and jeweler, did not allow it. So they set it up to surround the house and the winner was Spiegelhalter family.
Im gonna send the picture about it.
I enjoyed this video. Superb.
Fun fact: 1996 stock trains are programmed as if the line could go again to Charing Cross, in fact there’s a recorded announcement saying: “The next station is Charing Cross, change for the Bakerloo & Northern lines, and National Rail Sevices”
You forgot to add that in 1994, the Piccadilly Line station down the road called Aldwych closed.
I won’t lie. I once got bored on a day out to London so did get the tube from Charing Cross to embankment cos why the hell not
Back in the days of the GLC and ken livingstone there would be occasional free days for children. So we spent the day going to places with the weirdest names. Places like seven sisters for instance. And of course there was nothing to look at. But we had a smug satisfaction of having reached these places, looked around and then went on to our next destination. 😁 we were bored children so don't ask why? Plus you were free to wander around aimlessly without social services getting involved or being petrified by the boogy man!
Love trains and your videos
As a kid I remember using Strand station.
I WAS ALSO THINKING ABOUT THIS EARLIER. Geoff, are you reading my mind??
My brain hurts
Fantastic video 👍
Geoff video in July about the Tube and no one else has commented yet? Don't mind if I do.
That explains why it's such a schlep to change from the Northern to the Bakerloo at Charing Cross!
I'm sure I've seen this before, despite it only being uploaded today
Yes. I thought the same. I saw Geoff's previous version too.
Your animation should really show Aldwych station closing :p
nice vid
Hi Geoff. I always follow your videos. B.T.W. Have you seen the new stock on the Overground Watford Jct - Euston. Very smooth and sexy.
Welldone guys keep up the good work stay safe 🙏
Also, The Aldwych Station Closed In 2000’s.
1994
Your 1999 slide shows Aldwych station as open when in fact it closed in 1994.
Awesome video Geoff
When you run out of material and hash out your old videos
I think we now know why these stations are so close to each other.
Had the Jubliee Line been extended on its original planned course the Jubliee platforms at Charing Cross would still be open and it may still be called the Fleet Line!
Aldwych would have still remained open
I remember you did a video of this a few years ago
Cool. Have you ever been into the old Jubilee line tunnels...?
If only I could board a train at Aldwych in 1999. :(
Trafalgar Square station was very useful.
2:51 Or Cannon Street to Monument on the District & Circle Lines
To me, Charing Cross always evoke the hospital and how it featured in the opening chapter of The Hound of the Baskervilles. How about a series of vlogs on stations used by Sherlock Holmes? Now there's an idea!
I distinctly remember, in 1977 on my first visit to Britain, alighting at Trafalgar Square for Chatring Cross. On a later visit it had been renamed. Is my memory at fault?
No
@@highpath4776 Thank you, I'm pleased at that.
@@brucewilliams8714 It was renamed when the Jubilee Line opened to Charing Cross in 1979.
No. Your memory is not at fault. It was done to ease the name change. It is now the reverse: Charing Cross for Trafalgar Square.
Can you take the Tube between Embankment and Charing Cross? Never mind the rhetoric question. The fact is that you are a genius, Geoff!
It's my local branch line
I would like another video about these stations which are close together, I once did a journey from Kew going to Chelmsford on a hot muggy day, I needed air I had to go up to street level feel better then went back down. I later discovered I could have walked across a park for 5min and rejoined the system successfully completing my journey to Liverpool Street.Help us out of towners
Oh, so that's why the tube stations are an absolute maze...
I already seen this video several years ago.
Maybe you could do a history of the Underground, unless you have already done one
How many names do you want in one station?
yes
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do a video on Bournemouth West station and the Southampton to Dorchester line through Ringwood!!!
Why?
I presume that this means that there's an abandoned tunnel and platform for the Jubilee line to Charing Cross? I wonder how much of that remains.
I can remember Embankment as Charing x.
Never change between the Bakerloo and Nothern Lines at Charing Cross. It's much easier at Embankment. (Hope I've got that the right way round!)
I've would call this station 'near enough' You can probably get to your destination from here, whatever it's called.
You failed to mention the closure of Aldwych Station in the video!
I feel, a version with an actual geographical street map would also be nice
the whole 1979 Trafalgar square/strand thing is confusing me. Did the Bakerloo line move? is that old line still there? is it operational? AHHHHHHHH
Oh, is this an updated version of the older video?
Used wirk strand the strand was set of step into bowels if the earth or that is what felt like seemed a Public Toilet entrance not a station so so steep..
Personally CCX should return to being Trafalgar Square.