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I did a contract (IT) at an investment bank at Canary Wharf. From Balham, that involved going through Bank, a horrid place, so DLR was a peaceful respite (although the jankers were not). One day, one of the hankers offered me a ride back to London Bridge in his Porsche. It took twice as long as the train. Silly person.
The disinterest in developing East London's infrastructure (especially after the docks closed) meant there were a lot of bits and bobs left over (like abandoned railways and derelict buildings) when they finally got round to injecting some cash into it, though that only really benefitted the locals when they started to kick up a bit of a fuss. Visited my old neighborhood in Stepney about twenty tears ago and was shocked to find they actually got round to filling in the bomb craters that had been there since the war. Very posh! It's quite fun using Google Street View and Google Earth's historical imagery to see the changes all over London - and of course Jago's exceptional videos.
agreed, it's a revelation. i looked at Alan Wood's films of Stratford, suggested by Jago the other day,, and I began to see what all the fuss was about. I mean to say, I got a much clearer picture of the trains and goods routes
I really like the DLR and use it whenever I am in London. I remember once a few years ago I was coming back from Canary Wharf at night and I was talking to the train "driver" who was explaining how they use keys to make sure the automated systems are working as they should. He was a nice guy and seemed passionate about his work.
I also really appreciate the vintage newness of the DLR; modern and antique all at once. Kinda hoping for an ‘Every renamed station on Tramlink’ video; I suspect it’d be longer than I’d anticipate!
@@JagoHazzardyou should do a vid on the diff levels of DLR. Stations like Beckton are fairly surface level, and sometimes goes underground into tunnels later on. Other stations, like West Silvertown or Pontoon Dock are high, above land. The way the DLR dithered between above and below ground is both curious and confusing 😂
Cornhill sounds like a name you'd come up with to attract immigrants from the American Midwest and South America to make them move to that part of London and think there's a hill with maize, but end up trolling them because there's no corn there.
“To quote the man Joey Grimaldi: Here we are again” So just the family friendly original version of “Ah sh!t, here we go again” from GTA San Andreas before it became “Ah sh!t, here we go again” For what it is, the DLR has served as a great substitute to connect East London to the the main part of the city before the Elizabeth Line came around. And unlike the Elizabeth Line, you can pretend you’re driving it.
It's been a decade and a half since I read it, but I do recommend Janet Foster's "Docklands: Cultures in Conflict, Worlds in Collision" as an important analysis of the Docklands redevelopment. There are definitely some good things that came out of it (the DLR being one of the best), but also many aspects were handled poorly.
For anyone that cares, I will also recommend Foster's "Villains: Crime and Community in the Inner City", but that is less germane to the discussion at hand.
I just wish they gave in and renamed the Stratford International stations to something more relevant/interesting, East Village, Celebration Avenue, Olympic Park perhaps...
Back in the 1970’s/80’s I always thought Stratford High Street was a station. Always wondered why it looked abandoned. This is the 1st time I’ve seen refurbished and in use👍🏿
On my first trip to London in 1997 Island Gardens was the terminus and I crossed to Greenwhich using the foot tunnel under the Thames. Those were the times!
@@Taschenschieber Wow, guess like with cars nowadays traction control eliminates the slip provided it is mechanically capable of climbing that gradient.
An excellent video on my favourite & local line. However you missed a trick. Originally there was due to be a stop called Carmen Street. When money became tight this was not actually built. However, many years later the station was built, but was renamed Langdon Park, even though the west side of the station is in Carmen Street. We were just happy to finally get the stop, so no one kicked up a fuss.
The DLR,seemingly is/was like Topsy,it just grew!! London's answer to an automated octopus 🐙! Really amazing with the amalgamation of the old,and new!! Thanks Jago,for another glimpse of London's transit history!! Thanks again 👍 ☺️ 😊!
For one of the best views of old Beckton gas works, episodes of the Sweeney and Professional's used the industrial backdrop often but the John Wayne film Brannigan gives you prob the best panorama of the size of the place and the sheer industrialness of it, it was a huge site with plenty of rail to feed it with coal and to take away clinkers and ash for use in fertilisers and chemical production elsewhere. BTW any chance of Deptford wharf branch line being covered? It used to peel off the East London Line just after leaving New Cross and had quite a sorting yard, maybe something about Deptford creek lifting railway bridge?
09:34 " the DLR. the fact that its simultaneously old and new" its trackways are borrowed from other railways, and its trains are painted...red with some blue!
The DLR is much like the Tyne & Wear Metro - a video there, if ever you manage to get up to Newcastle, Jago.... ;) - with the mixture of new/reused infrastructure. As with the DLR, the T&WM stock also have the best seats in the house (sort of, given the Metro-Cammell Metrocars have a half-width drivers' cab), but that is due to disappear with the new Stadler-built stock that's currently under construction (they have full-width cabs).
Hmmm T&W Metro runs on old tracks of the former tyneside electrics that existed since the north eastern railway. Although difference now is the fact the metro uses Cantanary power instead of the old 3rd rail.
Surprised you didn't mention Shadwell East London Line - originally a main line connection between the GER at Liv Street and (I think) LBSC at New Cross. Now part of overground. Until the early 60s was a busy freight line. Also had an incarnation as a tube line - linked by St Mary's curve, just after Whitechapel, to the district line.
It's not quite a renaming but King George V effectively replaced the old North Woolwich station, so that sort of counts. It's the best we on the Woolwich branch have got anyway!
Thanks for mentioning CJ Freezer. Minories the original model railway in a violin case/suitcase etc. But just imagine waiting for your train while the gaslight flares in the murk and the Ripper stalks the streets above!
Canary Wharf's original station name (1987) was Canary Quay, which was shown as CAQ on the DLR's control displays at their Operations and Maintenance Centre (OMC) at Poplar. The station never opened to passengers as the Canary Wharf building complex construction started about the same time the DLR opened for service. A few years later, the station eventually opened as Canary Wharf, and the DLR's control displays were changed to CAW.
It's a shame that they renamed "Crossharbour and London Arena", as it was good for trivia questions about how many TfL stations had "London" in their name (at the time, 2; now 1).
And there's London Fields, but that's Overground so you can then argue over whether that's TfL or not. Sounds like the classic opportunity for a pub quiz disputed answer.
It boggles the mind, when the mind is prone to being boggled through lack of more useful stimulus, that whatever powers the proverbial bee didn't, when railings and whatnot were being recycled for the war effort, why the rails that consisted the lines which were closed during the war weren't similarly reused, either as rails elsewhere or as javelins against Jerry.
@@highpath4776 sounds like an excuse in the same league as leaves on the line. That said, leaves on the line is, apparently, a problem because it wreaks havoc with communication systems.
I'm old enough to remember when West Ham was just a single platform station on the District Line that closed early. Right next door to the Sausage Factory* - as we used to call it. *Not a euphemism.
What amuses me about the ExCeL is, that its name is an acronym or abbreviation for Exhibition Centre London, however on the facade it says (rather newly) "ExCeL London", which makes it the Exhibtion Centre London London. And then also it's often referred to as the "ExCeL Centre", making it the Exhibition Centre London Centre. One day it'll probably become the Ex-ExCeL... [For the sake of the public viewer, I'm posting my older comment from under the Patreon version of this video here too.]
Ah the DLR - easily my favourite part of my commute down to Canary Wharf when I had to “show my face” in London twice a week The morning ride as the city was waking up was always special
I wonder if, like the London Underground which runs heritage steam-hauled trains on occasion, the DLR could not do something similar given its history. Seeing a steam locomotive making its way through the old docks would be a fantastic sight.
There are a lot of fairly steep gradients on the DLR that steam locomotives hauling a train would struggle with. Most of them can't handle a grade of much over 1 in 40. Then there's the issue of weight, much of the DLR was built for lightweight "Electric Multiple Units" rather than heavy steam locomotives, so the track, bridges, etc. might not be strong enough to take steam trains.
1987 worked at Beckton old gas works site .Next to Windsor terrace . At the texas homcare they built there . Was all just Marsh land . Watch full metal jacket filmed there . Then they started building the houses and the dlr ....I was 21yrs old . Sees a life time ago .
Aaah I fondly recall attending a public interest meeting in Beckton, prior to the arrival of the DLR, where the opposition to losing other transport services once the DLR was to open resulted in a very clear statement of the terrible service as “Dont Like Running.”
As the Docklands Light Railway was built and opened in 1987. Southeast London (including Greenwich and Lewisham) does benefit from the DLR with better transport links and East London also relies on the DLR since the extension was completed in recent years plus with the extension to Thamesmead. And the DLR took over the former North London Line between Stratford & Canning Town since it once was operated by Silverlink Metro. Also DLR is getting new light rail transit from CAF and is to enter service possibly from next year or in 2024. And a new DLR station called Thames Wharf that is to be built and could be completed next year.
... and I'm confident that your faithful viewers will never get tired of you, Mr H. A top-notch video, entirely up to your excellent standard. Thank you, Mr H. Simon T
Glad someone's living my dream of visiting every station on the British train network. On a side note the West India station surrounding looks a bit like Boston (probably due to that building with a pyramid at the top).
'Central' is my favourite grandiloquent name: a dockers' halt with a sparse shuttle service. Not 'Albert Dock Central' or even 'East End Central' or 'London Central'- just 'Central', as if it were the hub of the country's or planet's railways. Mr Hazzard says there were no renamings eastward. But Gallions Reach on the DLR is only a few yards from Manor Way, the penultimate stop on the old Gallions branch which German bombers knocked out in the 1940 blitzkrieg.
Jago - I've got it ! - You have sneakily been playing your own version of "Mornington Crescent" with all these name change videos! - Thanks for another piece of confusing,fun history.
Limehouse station was always in the London district called Limehouse, but as it was close to Stepney Junction station it got renamed to Stepney East. The old maps (c. 1914 to 1947) only show Limehouse and West India Dock stations east of Stepney Junction station.
Well I am astonished how much there was to this subject, but as you rightly say, it is easy to overlook the fact that much of the DLRs raison d’etre was to essentially regenerate an formerly busy area which had its own infrastructure and therefore was ripe for repurposing (albeit a very similar purpose!) 😅 It still seems a bit weird when the trains suddenly duck down and underground at mudchute rather than up and onto the old viaduct! Just shows how quickly things change in the capital though! 🤔 Cheers old fruit, many thanks as ever 🍀🍻👍
What about Brunswick? (Which even used to be programmed into the train word-related-to-place-displaying-thing in the DLR trains back when they had those awful failure-prone multiple-segment LCD units to display the words related to places on) (and trains resting or even sleeping in Poplar would be switched to display Brunswick for some codified reason)
I know it's not technically a rename, but no mention of South Quay station being the only DLR station I'm aware of to be demolished and rebuilt a bit further down the track?
My ears picked up and I gurgled into my coffee with excitement when you said Minories and 1953, right at the heart of The Goons. Spike and the rest loved the sound of words and silly voices, both together, and had a thing about Min: Minnie Bannister, West of Min ster library, and Minories which I think was uttered in the Quatermess episode. Though in fact that might have been a corruption of Mind the Doors, and anyway since you actually said 1853, it only proves that radio should have had subtitles long ago and I don't know why I'm writing this but it's a really entertaining video nonetheless and helped pass a really great cup of coffee.
Always a treat t listen to sir. I remember wondering back in the day what the then wasteland would turn into with help from the DLR, it’s been an interesting journey.
Theres a case for "Stratford International" to be renamed given that its never had any international trains stop at it. On the other hand, if it became a through stop from say Glasgow/Edinburgh to Paris, Brussels et al it may become the "London" stop on the route. The track connections exist - I suspect the will and/or the business case doesnt.
The problem is that both Stratford International and any of the connected stations (eg Glasgow/Edinburgh and intermediate stops) would need UK customs and border controls.
Goes to show: the DLR is pretty diverse. Rather surprisingly. :) [For the sake of the public viewer, I'm posting my older comment from under the Patreon version of this video here too.]
A lot of closed Stations then, also @9:15 I have a Model Steam Loco (a 4-6-0 Loco) Called 'West Ham United No. 61672 from the 'East Coast Express' Train set - Just thought you might like to know!!! 😉🚂🚂🚂
I use a VPN but not Surfshark, I use IP Vanish, but it is essential to use a VPN in order to circumvent government restrictions and to download files that the government doesn't approve of.
I'm always terrified that therre is going to be an exam at the end of these videos. I try to concentrate but the pictures are too beguiling.
Where do you get the study notes?
@@marvintpandroid2213 London Underground for Dummies would be a good start.
Don't give him ideas now
That why I also watch so many Disney theme park advice videos
review is your friend here, friend
I did a contract (IT) at an investment bank at Canary Wharf. From Balham, that involved going through Bank, a horrid place, so DLR was a peaceful respite (although the jankers were not). One day, one of the hankers offered me a ride back to London Bridge in his Porsche.
It took twice as long as the train.
Silly person.
Too bad there is no DLR branch going to King's Cross St Pancras, I would have loved hearing Jago explaining the story of that one one more time. x)
I want to go to St. Liver. Or maybe St. Kidney.
@@fredashay How about St. Spleen? St. Appendix?
St. Bladder, St. Armpit, St. Cochlea, St. Anus. This game never grows stale.
DLR to kings cross...
Oh jeez the tracks around there will end up looking like bank...
@@comicus01 Yes! I want to go to those stations, too!
The disinterest in developing East London's infrastructure (especially after the docks closed) meant there were a lot of bits and bobs left over (like abandoned railways and derelict buildings) when they finally got round to injecting some cash into it, though that only really benefitted the locals when they started to kick up a bit of a fuss.
Visited my old neighborhood in Stepney about twenty tears ago and was shocked to find they actually got round to filling in the bomb craters that had been there since the war. Very posh! It's quite fun using Google Street View and Google Earth's historical imagery to see the changes all over London - and of course Jago's exceptional videos.
agreed, it's a revelation. i looked at Alan Wood's films of Stratford, suggested by Jago the other day,, and I began to see what all the fuss was about. I mean to say, I got a much clearer picture of the trains and goods routes
I really like the DLR and use it whenever I am in London. I remember once a few years ago I was coming back from Canary Wharf at night and I was talking to the train "driver" who was explaining how they use keys to make sure the automated systems are working as they should. He was a nice guy and seemed passionate about his work.
I also really appreciate the vintage newness of the DLR; modern and antique all at once.
Kinda hoping for an ‘Every renamed station on Tramlink’ video; I suspect it’d be longer than I’d anticipate!
I may or may not be researching this…
@@JagoHazzard every renamed station in the dangleway
Vintage newness. I like that. Yes. The last 40 years have flown by.
Every re-named stations on the Purple Line...
@@JagoHazzardyou should do a vid on the diff levels of DLR. Stations like Beckton are fairly surface level, and sometimes goes underground into tunnels later on. Other stations, like West Silvertown or Pontoon Dock are high, above land. The way the DLR dithered between above and below ground is both curious and confusing 😂
"Many of these old routes have been recycled into ...."
You missed allotments, sir. Allotments!
Cornhill sounds like a name you'd come up with to attract immigrants from the American Midwest and South America to make them move to that part of London and think there's a hill with maize, but end up trolling them because there's no corn there.
You should rename a hill in Pyongyang "Burgerhill"! After all, Kim Jong-il invented it...
Its so called because walking up it gives you corns on your foot
“To quote the man Joey Grimaldi: Here we are again”
So just the family friendly original version of “Ah sh!t, here we go again” from GTA San Andreas before it became “Ah sh!t, here we go again”
For what it is, the DLR has served as a great substitute to connect East London to the the main part of the city before the Elizabeth Line came around. And unlike the Elizabeth Line, you can pretend you’re driving it.
at 4:37, to the extreme left of the picture, you can see one of the ticket machines I used to repair/service in my last paid employment.
It's been a decade and a half since I read it, but I do recommend Janet Foster's "Docklands: Cultures in Conflict, Worlds in Collision" as an important analysis of the Docklands redevelopment. There are definitely some good things that came out of it (the DLR being one of the best), but also many aspects were handled poorly.
For anyone that cares, I will also recommend Foster's "Villains: Crime and Community in the Inner City", but that is less germane to the discussion at hand.
I just wish they gave in and renamed the Stratford International stations to something more relevant/interesting, East Village, Celebration Avenue, Olympic Park perhaps...
One day we will rejoin the EU and the Eurostar will start stopping at Stratford International.
Back in the 1970’s/80’s I always thought Stratford High Street was a station. Always wondered why it looked abandoned. This is the 1st time I’ve seen refurbished and in use👍🏿
although the current station doesn't actually use the original statin building, apart from as an entrance.
"Central" is one of my favourite disused station names.
The “renamed foot paths” is going to be such a great series of videos!
I was staying in Cannon Town recently on my last trip to London. The DLR is so handy, it still feels fairly modern despited it age
On my first trip to London in 1997 Island Gardens was the terminus and I crossed to Greenwhich using the foot tunnel under the Thames. Those were the times!
Interesting, particularly as I know next to sod-all about the DLR. 👍
The DLR is a fascinating railway, amazed at some of the gradients, thought the wheels would slip.
Then you'd enjoy Stuttgart, where the tram has a bit with an 8.5% gradient (not a typo). And that's just the regular tram, not the rack railway tram.
@@Taschenschieber Wow, guess like with cars nowadays traction control eliminates the slip provided it is mechanically capable of climbing that gradient.
An amazing amount of research gone in here on when the various stations were named, renamed and unnamed.
An excellent video on my favourite & local line. However you missed a trick. Originally there was due to be a stop called Carmen Street. When money became tight this was not actually built. However, many years later the station was built, but was renamed Langdon Park, even though the west side of the station is in Carmen Street. We were just happy to finally get the stop, so no one kicked up a fuss.
Well everyone would have called it very Bizzy, or Carmen Geddit, Miranda.
Very good! I like your style.
Thanks
The DLR,seemingly is/was like Topsy,it just grew!! London's answer to an automated octopus 🐙! Really amazing with the amalgamation of the old,and new!! Thanks Jago,for another glimpse of London's transit history!! Thanks again 👍 ☺️ 😊!
For one of the best views of old Beckton gas works, episodes of the Sweeney and Professional's used the industrial backdrop often but the John Wayne film Brannigan gives you prob the best panorama of the size of the place and the sheer industrialness of it, it was a huge site with plenty of rail to feed it with coal and to take away clinkers and ash for use in fertilisers and chemical production elsewhere. BTW any chance of Deptford wharf branch line being covered? It used to peel off the East London Line just after leaving New Cross and had quite a sorting yard, maybe something about Deptford creek lifting railway bridge?
Bow church station reminds me a bit of a petrol station
for the record: i like model railroads and found it very interesting even when i did not knew it, but well, it's more an english term
Nice to see a reference to the late Cyril Freezer. He got an obit in the Telegraph, which is a nice touch
09:34 " the DLR. the fact that its simultaneously old and new"
its trackways are borrowed from other railways,
and its trains are painted...red
with some blue!
Always going to find gold nuggets of information with Jago Hazzard
The DLR is much like the Tyne & Wear Metro - a video there, if ever you manage to get up to Newcastle, Jago.... ;) - with the mixture of new/reused infrastructure. As with the DLR, the T&WM stock also have the best seats in the house (sort of, given the Metro-Cammell Metrocars have a half-width drivers' cab), but that is due to disappear with the new Stadler-built stock that's currently under construction (they have full-width cabs).
Hmmm T&W Metro runs on old tracks of the former tyneside electrics that existed since the north eastern railway.
Although difference now is the fact the metro uses Cantanary power instead of the old 3rd rail.
Surprised you didn't mention Shadwell East London Line - originally a main line connection between the GER at Liv Street and (I think) LBSC at New Cross. Now part of overground. Until the early 60s was a busy freight line. Also had an incarnation as a tube line - linked by St Mary's curve, just after Whitechapel, to the district line.
Ahh! All the names of the stations on the Diddy Little Railway. The history which predates the history.
It's not quite a renaming but King George V effectively replaced the old North Woolwich station, so that sort of counts. It's the best we on the Woolwich branch have got anyway!
I did debate including that one. And by the same token, London City Airport/Silvertown.
I think we should be told what would happen, if all of Jago's videos were "smooshed together". 🤣
Thanks for mentioning CJ Freezer. Minories the original model railway in a violin case/suitcase etc. But just imagine waiting for your train while the gaslight flares in the murk and the Ripper stalks the streets above!
Jago AND THE HAZARDS
I’m so jealous you get to ride such a great system around regularly. :(I’m American)
Thanks for sharing!
Nice little pub there at Minories with some decent grub. I had some nice liver & bacon with onion gravy and mash there a few years back.
Canary Wharf's original station name (1987) was Canary Quay, which was shown as CAQ on the DLR's control displays at their Operations and Maintenance Centre (OMC) at Poplar. The station never opened to passengers as the Canary Wharf building complex construction started about the same time the DLR opened for service. A few years later, the station eventually opened as Canary Wharf, and the DLR's control displays were changed to CAW.
4:12 Thames sailing barge Xylonite. I sailed on her 40 years ago from Maldon up to Harwich and back.
I love that boat, it highlights just how long the era of the Thames sailing barge was. Here’s a sailboat literally named after a type of plastic.
It's a shame that they renamed "Crossharbour and London Arena", as it was good for trivia questions about how many TfL stations had "London" in their name (at the time, 2; now 1).
They should rename "Custom House for ExCeL" to "Custom House for Exhibition Centre London" just to bring it back up to two!
whats the other one ? ( I assume its not London Road, Guildford )
@@highpath4776 London Bridge
There's also London City Airport on the DLR Woolwich branch.
And there's London Fields, but that's Overground so you can then argue over whether that's TfL or not. Sounds like the classic opportunity for a pub quiz disputed answer.
It boggles the mind, when the mind is prone to being boggled through lack of more useful stimulus, that whatever powers the proverbial bee didn't, when railings and whatnot were being recycled for the war effort, why the rails that consisted the lines which were closed during the war weren't similarly reused, either as rails elsewhere or as javelins against Jerry.
wrong type of steel I think
@@highpath4776 sounds like an excuse in the same league as leaves on the line. That said, leaves on the line is, apparently, a problem because it wreaks havoc with communication systems.
5:45 i remember that. first time i came to london in 91 it was above ground, close to the river.
I understand the problem with the use of Excel in station names is because it is on loan. What, you never heard of Excel - lent. Ba-bump, pish.
I'd give a reply here, but !ref
@@truckerallikatuk He's here all week but DON'T try the chicken. 😁
I'm old enough to remember when West Ham was just a single platform station on the District Line that closed early. Right next door to the Sausage Factory* - as we used to call it. *Not a euphemism.
The same as I will never get tired of your voice. Cheerio!
Excellent video, thank you.
I hadn't heard the expression "a bit of a swizz" in a looong time! 😀
I know it from the Limehouse Golum.......'and here we are again'. Good movie. Now I know where the line comes from.
Jago is the RUclips expert on London railways. Now which station will be renamed today?
What amuses me about the ExCeL is, that its name is an acronym or abbreviation for Exhibition Centre London, however on the facade it says (rather newly) "ExCeL London", which makes it the Exhibtion Centre London London. And then also it's often referred to as the "ExCeL Centre", making it the Exhibition Centre London Centre. One day it'll probably become the Ex-ExCeL...
[For the sake of the public viewer, I'm posting my older comment from under the Patreon version of this video here too.]
Does Jago have a regular job? Does Jago somehow have 35 hour days unlike all of us?
Ah the DLR - easily my favourite part of my commute down to Canary Wharf when I had to “show my face” in London twice a week
The morning ride as the city was waking up was always special
DLR = Delightful Lite Rail? !:-)
💜🙏⚡️
TBH although it's a fascinating system I'd prefer a tram network
I wonder if, like the London Underground which runs heritage steam-hauled trains on occasion, the DLR could not do something similar given its history.
Seeing a steam locomotive making its way through the old docks would be a fantastic sight.
I doubt the CBTC system on the DLR can handle that, tbh.
@@Taschenschieber There is one way to find out.... 🚂
@@Taschenschieber There is that bit of no railway over the bridge that the DLR didnt use, Suppose that could be used for heritage
There are a lot of fairly steep gradients on the DLR that steam locomotives hauling a train would struggle with. Most of them can't handle a grade of much over 1 in 40. Then there's the issue of weight, much of the DLR was built for lightweight "Electric Multiple Units" rather than heavy steam locomotives, so the track, bridges, etc. might not be strong enough to take steam trains.
I mean it is a light railway..
soo biggest engine that would fit will probs be a 0-6-0 shunter.
1987 worked at Beckton old gas works site .Next to Windsor terrace .
At the texas homcare they built there .
Was all just Marsh land .
Watch full metal jacket filmed there .
Then they started building the houses and the dlr ....I was 21yrs old .
Sees a life time ago .
indeed very strange how something from the 1980s seems 'old'
I do not know why, but as soon as Stepney was shown on the screen.... Stepney & Son popped up in my head!
Too much coffee perhaps? 🤨🤔😉😆😂
Steptoe & Son. Stepney is the name of an engine in Thomas the tank engine
I always say CUSTOM HOUSE FOR EXCEL because its name is just unusual and funny to me
Barking Road sounds like one of those GWR Stations in the Middle of Nowhere. Its a long walk to Barking from Canning Town (done it)
Custom House for ExCel implies the existence of Beckton Park for PowerPoint...
Aaah I fondly recall attending a public interest meeting in Beckton, prior to the arrival of the DLR, where the opposition to losing other transport services once the DLR was to open resulted in a very clear statement of the terrible service as “Dont Like Running.”
As the Docklands Light Railway was built and opened in 1987. Southeast London (including Greenwich and Lewisham) does benefit from the DLR with better transport links and East London also relies on the DLR since the extension was completed in recent years plus with the extension to Thamesmead.
And the DLR took over the former North London Line between Stratford & Canning Town since it once was operated by Silverlink Metro. Also DLR is getting new light rail transit from CAF and is to enter service possibly from next year or in 2024. And a new DLR station called Thames Wharf that is to be built and could be completed next year.
... and I'm confident that your faithful viewers will never get tired of you, Mr H. A top-notch video, entirely up to your excellent standard. Thank you, Mr H. Simon T
Glad someone's living my dream of visiting every station on the British train network.
On a side note the West India station surrounding looks a bit like Boston (probably due to that building with a pyramid at the top).
Very informative as ever. I too am a fan of the DLR, though what I’m really waiting for is for Jago to tackle Crystal Palace in his inimitable style
"A heck of a lot of History..." You could pretty much re-name the Channel right there!
'Central' is my favourite grandiloquent name: a dockers' halt with a sparse shuttle service. Not 'Albert Dock Central' or even 'East End Central' or 'London Central'- just 'Central', as if it were the hub of the country's or planet's railways.
Mr Hazzard says there were no renamings eastward. But Gallions Reach on the DLR is only a few yards from Manor Way, the penultimate stop on the old Gallions branch which German bombers knocked out in the 1940 blitzkrieg.
Jago - I've got it ! - You have sneakily been playing your own version of "Mornington Crescent" with all these name change videos! - Thanks for another piece of confusing,fun history.
Maybe one day a DLR station will be renamed to "Jago Hazzard Junction"!
Limehouse station was always in the London district called Limehouse, but as it was close to Stepney Junction station it got renamed to Stepney East.
The old maps (c. 1914 to 1947) only show Limehouse and West India Dock stations east of Stepney Junction station.
+1 for Cyril Freezer / Minories references.
Well I am astonished how much there was to this subject, but as you rightly say, it is easy to overlook the fact that much of the DLRs raison d’etre was to essentially regenerate an formerly busy area which had its own infrastructure and therefore was ripe for repurposing (albeit a very similar purpose!) 😅
It still seems a bit weird when the trains suddenly duck down and underground at mudchute rather than up and onto the old viaduct! Just shows how quickly things change in the capital though! 🤔
Cheers old fruit, many thanks as ever 🍀🍻👍
What about Brunswick? (Which even used to be programmed into the train word-related-to-place-displaying-thing in the DLR trains back when they had those awful failure-prone multiple-segment LCD units to display the words related to places on) (and trains resting or even sleeping in Poplar would be switched to display Brunswick for some codified reason)
Is that the junction name and not a station stop ?
Types even more nefarious than corporations and governments?!? Now there's a frightening notion.
I know it's not technically a rename, but no mention of South Quay station being the only DLR station I'm aware of to be demolished and rebuilt a bit further down the track?
I am pretty sure Pudding Mill Lane got closed, and moved South, to make room for Crossrail / Elizabeth line?
My ears picked up and I gurgled into my coffee with excitement when you said Minories and 1953, right at the heart of The Goons. Spike and the rest loved the sound of words and silly voices, both together, and had a thing about Min: Minnie Bannister, West of Min ster library, and Minories which I think was uttered in the Quatermess episode. Though in fact that might have been a corruption of Mind the Doors, and anyway since you actually said 1853, it only proves that radio should have had subtitles long ago and I don't know why I'm writing this but it's a really entertaining video nonetheless and helped pass a really great cup of coffee.
Anybody remember the DLR gift shop at the old Island Gardens? Loved going there as a kid :) is it enough to get a small video out of ?????????
Always a treat t listen to sir. I remember wondering back in the day what the then wasteland would turn into with help from the DLR, it’s been an interesting journey.
"a bit of a swizz" had to Google that one.
Stratford international has never been renamed despite having never seen an international train stop
Stafford?
StRaTFord unless Eurostar have been running invisible trains up the Trent Valley main line. 😀
Jago,
In a future video you cold explore the fact there have never been any international trains from Stratford International!
He already did a video on that ;)
You can do the renamed stations paddington-reading and liverpool street-Shenfield section of the Elizebeth line
And he can add Farringdon Street/Farringdon and High Holborn yet again. It must be at least two or three videos since he last mentioned that!
Theres a case for "Stratford International" to be renamed given that its never had any international trains stop at it.
On the other hand, if it became a through stop from say Glasgow/Edinburgh to Paris, Brussels et al it may become the "London" stop on the route. The track connections exist - I suspect the will and/or the business case doesnt.
The problem is that both Stratford International and any of the connected stations (eg Glasgow/Edinburgh and intermediate stops) would need UK customs and border controls.
@@henrybest4057 Good point
@@henrybest4057 Waiting for Scots Independence
Re SurfShark - good service but be careful of the automatic renewal.
Nice to see this series has made a comeback, very interesting to hear about the renamed DLR stations or the ones on the sites of old stations.
I was at Tower Gateway multiple times on the day this video got uploaded...it's strange. Considering I'd never passed it before :')
Great! Any chance of a video covering Beckton gasworks & its rail network?🤔
Always good. 👍🏻🇬🇧
Stratford International might be new but were there staff halts for the GER Works in that locality (some had names)
i really need to go on the DLR the next time I visit London
Goes to show: the DLR is pretty diverse. Rather surprisingly. :)
[For the sake of the public viewer, I'm posting my older comment from under the Patreon version of this video here too.]
Poplar used to be a popular name for a train station
A lot of closed Stations then, also @9:15 I have a Model Steam Loco (a 4-6-0 Loco) Called 'West Ham United No. 61672 from the 'East Coast Express' Train set - Just thought you might like to know!!! 😉🚂🚂🚂
One of the "Football" class of naming one of the train company went through
@@highpath4776 Ok 🙂🚂🚂🚂
Bravo again sir, I must sort you out some beers!
@2:43, I most certainly do not.
Very intressting - thanks for sharing
Tidal Basin used to be between Canning Town and Royal Victoria
Hooting at the various names of Stratford High Street here
I use a VPN but not Surfshark, I use IP Vanish, but it is essential to use a VPN in order to circumvent government restrictions and to download files that the government doesn't approve of.
Time for a tedious comment about Westferry Station being named after a ferry service that never existed.
DLR shows that we do not need drivers or guards , they should think of that next time they go on strike.
yeah brilliant transport system have used it many time,that and the tram system got to be the way ro go.
'DLR shows that we do not need drivers or guards ...' Not so. DLR trains have captains who assume manual control over some stretches of the network.
@@eattherich9215 Never seen one but I have only travelled on the DLR a few times.
They have train captains, so there is still a member of staff on board.
What do you think the staff in the control room do all day? And the train captains who dispatch the trains and can drive them in case of emergency?