There is indeed a windmill on wimbledon common. The windmill is probably a 30 minute walk from the station. Alternatively the 93 bus goes there. Get off at Parkside Hospital and walk down "windmill road" to get there.
I was lucky enough to meet Geoff Marshall on Sunday ( yesterday 13th Nov ) on the way back from him shooting this video. I saw him on the Elizabeth line. I got on and there was Geoff. He was incredibly charming and generously spirited. Thank you Geoff
2:04 Correction: There's actually 7 platforms at Upminster. You forgotten Platform 1A, but that's rarely used, but when used, it's for trains mainly on the Grays to Upminster Shuttle Service
I missed windy miller in my early years as my parents didn't have a TV but I had to watch one episode to understand the reference to the seat animation. The episode I found was when Windy Miller got drunk on apple cider - hmmm .. not a suitable subject for kiddies today!!
Geoff, at 3.15, you can be seen walking away from the station, with a green electrical box behind you. What you probably didn't realise is that the green box is marked 'London Electric Tramways'! I have no idea why it's there, on account that Upminster never had trams, however, it must be one of very few pieces of London tram infrastructure still in use!
Geoff! I love your channel, I love the stories you tell and I love this video especially as I spent 7 years using Upminster to travel to secondary school on the shuttle (or push n pull as it was often known) but from ROMFORD - not Barking! You said Emerson Park twice and you said Barking (incorrectly) twice but not the wonderful Liz-Line station of Romford! I think you can go to Barking from Upminster but on the C2C from platform 1 or 2. Keep the videos coming, I have learnt so much!
Thanks. Saved me writing it. I used to use it occasionally when I lived in Romford but it was operated by national rail. The trains were old things from the 70s when I used it ten years ago. It’s a single track so just one train push and pull.
I'm tired and sick but getting a notification of your new video makes me really happy. Thank you from my bottom of my heart Geoff, now I feel better than before ☺️❤️
Great one Geoff, I remember Windy Miller as being the hardest character on TV, because he never looked or checked as he walked between the moving sails. I doubt the HSE would be happy with him these days.
Growing up in cranham I was looking forward to this end of the line ep to see what information I could learn from this and I can say I was pleasantly surprised!
Excellent video... I too am of a "certain age" and well remember the said Windy Miller!!! Visited Upminster a few Sundays ago - on a evening where it absolutely "tipped" it down with rain and sheltered in that very shelter on Platform 6 whilst waiting for an Overground train, after narrowly missing one that pulled out as I was crossing over from the Underground.. Thanks - I've got that bloody Windy Miller theme going around my head now!!! :)
Discovering London thanks to you, love your videos as a french, understand everything, I'm learning a lot of things about London transit, quite useful when I'm travelling in this massive city
Nice to see a bit of (former) Essex! I used to get the Upminster-Romford link, long before the Overground took over. The service was terrible. I also had no idea Upminster still had a Wimpy -- my home town (Grays) still has one, I think.
I’m planning a visit to Upminster for a different reason. I’m a Brit living in the city of Savannah, Georgia USA and I learned that General James Oglethorpe, founder in 1733 of the colony and now state of Georgia is buried at All Saints Church, Cranham. And now I know the depot is there too! Thanks Geoff!
brilliant video ive passed through Upminster a few times now and ive done the Emerson Park branch on the London Overground and handy knowing that theres a Wimpy there too keep up the awesome work
Brilliant video, cheers. The Windy Miller musical chairs sequence was particularly inspired, with a psychedelic undercurrent that might have been more at home on The Magic Roundabout. 😉
I travelled the District Line from,to back from there when staying for several nights at a secluded hotel in a place called Bulphan,a taxi journey into the greenery from Upminster station. Someone said the outward appearance of the hotel reminded them strangely of the Bates's house in Psycho.
Guess you are refering to rhe 'Ye Olde Plough House,' (also just known locally as 'The Plough.) It's still there, don't know if it's still as popular as it was for a wedding venue.
Another great edition. The Windy Miller waiting room edit shows why your videos are a cut above. But ‘Windy’ is a character from Camberwick Green not Trumpton.
Grrr. A windmill but a full binbag so we can't see a windmill blowing an empty bag. Thanks Geoff, another good un and a windy miller seat shuffle. Happy days.
Loving the Geoffy Miller edit in the waiting room! 😂 The last time I was in London and found myself with some free time. I headed out to Upminster for a go on the Overground just to say I had 😬
Between 1910 and 1939 the District Line went even further east than Upminster, to Leigh-on-Sea, then Southend Central and Shoeburyness with seasonal Summer excursion trains. There were up to three a day, starting from Ealing Broadway. Upminster was where the electric locomotive was changed for a steam one as the Southend Line was not electrified until 1961. The District Line coach set for this service were fitted with retention toilets.
Often gets busy on the weekends for Upminster! Being a Westcliff resident who now works at Southend East station, nice to see the spotlight shone back on c2c a little bit
I've been to Upminster a couple times and I have indeed visited the windmill. I did *not* know about the other entrance though, and I do agree it looks nicer than the main one.
You should do a series where you propose made-up extensions (anything you think would be a good addition to the network) to tube lines, overground lines, new lines etc and use your amazing diagram skills to showcase. All regardless of engineering/ construction constraints, as it would be purely hypothetical.
As someone who is also old enough to remember Windy Miller, I loved this video Geoff, especially the clever seat animation. Having worked in Upminster back in the day, this brought back some fond memories... Keep up the good work!
Excellent Geoff. My fav End of the Line. Especially ❤ the musical seat hopping w classic windmill sound sample👍🏻 I hope lots of ppl go off and check out Windy Miller and Camberwick Green after this. Oh yes, exorcise that earworm!
I never got as far as Upminster "back in the day"! My late Nanny Banks lived at Elm Park. Great video, Geoff! Have just started to watch this new series of yours! And, yes, I used to love Windy Miller and the other characters in Camberwick Green!!
I went to Upminster a few months ago to get to Emerson Park Station. I remember it vividly. It’s a pretty nice station that feels a little bit too quiet for London/Essex.
Between the station and the windmill is St Laurence church where in 1709 the rector, William Derham, was the first person to calculate the speed of sound. And three of the other stations beginning with U are at that end of the District line - Upminster Bridge, Upney and Upton Park.
Two other nice things about Upminster - there's a lot of very nice 1930s architecture (reflecting when the place took off), and the church is very attractive too.
Woohoo! Upminster! My Dad was a signalman on the BR box there back in the late 70s/early 80s. Spent many a Saturday there with him as a kid (even got a cab ride and the chance to drive a Class 302 on the Upminster/Grays branch one weekend. Wouldn't get away with that these days) Don't think the box is there anymore, but happy memories.
The old box is gone but there’s a much bigger signalling centre there now just beyond the station car park. Geoff should’ve mentioned it - it controls all the signalling for the whole LTSR and even parts of the GOBLIN!
@@samp3180 Thanks for the info! I only realised the old box had gone when looking at Google maps a few years ago. I've often tried finding photographs of the old Upminster box my dad work at. I've only found one photo of Upminster East signal box, but I don't think that's then one (mind you, I was only 11 years old at the time so it could be memory fade). Found photos of the other two boxes he worked at that I remember going with him to, Purfleet and Tilbury East.
Geoff I LOVE LOVE LOVE your videos, your drive, enthusiam, your knowledge and the wonderfully inventive camera tricks and angles to make every video you make such compulsive viewing. The waiting room sequence with Windy Miller sounds was laugh out loud. The best railway channel by far on RUclips ... even if you've never been to the Isle of Wight. 🙂🙂🙂
Another brilliant video. Also of a certain age, Windy Miller lived in the village of Camberwick Green which was in Trumptonshire of which Trumpton was the main town ..... obviously.....I will get my coat 🤣
Always liked Upminster due to it being the District Line Termius! Also a WIndmill in greater London Goose Lord!! Looking forward to the next end of the line episode which also begins with the letter U!
In NYC the western most part of the “subway” is actually the last stop on the Staten Island Railway (it’s also the southernmost point). The easternmost point is just past the last stop on the F train at 179th Street, there’s just enough “tail” track to store several trains on two levels, but the top level goes farther and ends at a “temporary” wall as the old plans to extend the line possibly almost all the way to Little Neck Parkway (just short of the Queens/Nassau County border) never happened. (The lower level was always just going to be storage). The northern most is in the little bubble of the Bronx/Westchester County Border on the 2 line at East 241st Street, Westchester County starts at East 243rd street. It’s an elevated station that just slices off at the north end. The depot is next to it, but the rails accessing it are farther south (many lines have their depots along the line near the last stop, but not past it. (Even the major depot in Coney Island is before the last stop at Coney Island (and the trains sometimes have to crawl through it to get by.)
Ok, this is funny. I found one of these videos by chance and I thought it didnt look very interesting... and here I am watching all of them now :D And I noticed I've been in london for many years but I've only been to one end of line, Uxbridge :O
“There are no roundels here, except of this, and also these Overground roundels. Oh, and the roundels in front of the station that I won’t even mention.” 😂 Thanks for these videos, I enjoy them immensely.
Hi Geoff, Another great video from yourself, 2 stops away from Upminster on C2C is where I live, as Upminster is where I go to get my connections into London etc! I look forward to your next video! 😊
Upminster has 7 platform tracks! Next to the 1 and 2 National Rail, 3,4,5 London Underground and 6 Overground, there's also a platform 1a, that is used only used during engineering works and only accessible by trains from or towards Gray.
You must have watched the Camberwick Green repeats, Geoff. Because Brian Cant and Trumptonshire were my era, quite a bit before your time! Glad you remember them, though.
I'm very close to Upminster but never noticed the lack of roundels - when all too familiar maybe I fail to take these details in. The Upminster to Romford line provides a nice connection from C2C to The Elizabeth Line too. Thanks for a fantastic vid.
Excellent. Between Cranham, Woolwich Arsenal, and Guernsey (well, Alderney, but close enough) you've almost covered everywhere I've ever lived 😄 If you do a video a video in Aberyswyth that'll be a clean sweep.
Worth a trip to Emerson Park on the Romford-Upminster Overground line, if only to visit The Hop Inn. Nice little micropub close to the station. Some lovely beers, and thoroughly decent folks running the place too.
Geoff I’m not a train buff,spotter, hobbies type of person. However just your knowledge, presentation, research and involving other people of the same Ilk some how draws me in to watching! I’m guessing it’s my grandfathers genes who was involved in train driving?? Spooky? Keep up your quests, reach your goals! It would be great for you to set up a fan fund to go to China and research the bullet train. That would be so, as my son would say “fresh mate”’🙄 Top job as I would say 😊
Hi Geoff, great video. I often go CrazyBeat Records and the excellent Wimpy when I'm in Upminster. I live in Upper Holloway and my cousins live in Hornchurch, so it's a place I'm fairly familiar with. I'll have to visit the Windmill when I'm there next. I noticed you had to get the Windy Miller sound effect in someplace, nice touch! I'm of that age too! I think you made a boob though about the shuttle. It runs between Romford and Upminster not Upminster and Barking!
I live in this area and the windmill always made me think of Windy Miller, thanks for the memories. I think you mean Romford-Emerson Park-Upminster and not Barking
OK, so there *IS* a windmill at on Wimbledon Common, but i wouldn't say that it's close to the station ...
Brixton!
There is indeed a windmill on wimbledon common. The windmill is probably a 30 minute walk from the station. Alternatively the 93 bus goes there. Get off at Parkside Hospital and walk down "windmill road" to get there.
Brixton has also windmill
Brixton Hill has one where Blenheim Gardens is located and only 15 minute walk from Brixton Station
I saw the windmill and thought Jonathan Creek
I was lucky enough to meet Geoff Marshall on Sunday ( yesterday 13th Nov ) on the way back from him shooting this video. I saw him on the Elizabeth line. I got on and there was Geoff. He was incredibly charming and generously spirited. Thank you Geoff
He is a very charming man, no blur pun intended.
@@LisaSargent03 ...or Morrisey
Nice! #LizPurpRoyalty
@@geofftech2 Thank you Geoff. Keep making those videos, you are the best at what you do😎
@@geofftech2 👏👏👏👏👏 nice callback not a lot of celebrities will do so
2:04 Correction: There's actually 7 platforms at Upminster. You forgotten Platform 1A, but that's rarely used, but when used, it's for trains mainly on the Grays to Upminster Shuttle Service
I usually like Geoff's videos, but if I could give it a double like it would be for that seat animation with the Windy Miller sounds. Genius!
I'm now stuck with the earworm ''Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb'' 😀
@@jacksomb1 Windy Miller was from Camberwick Green, not Trumpton.
But I know the bit you mean.
The role call before the Fire fighters set off.
I missed windy miller in my early years as my parents didn't have a TV but I had to watch one episode to understand the reference to the seat animation. The episode I found was when Windy Miller got drunk on apple cider - hmmm .. not a suitable subject for kiddies today!!
@@EngineerLewis That's the one most of us of a certain age remember!!
@@EngineerLewis He was always getting drunk and falling sleep. Don't know if anyone remembers The Pogles? They always drank Elderberry Wine.
It’s so nice to see a new episode of ‘End of the Line’ with “Marshall. Geoff Marshall.”
Geoff, at 3.15, you can be seen walking away from the station, with a green electrical box behind you. What you probably didn't realise is that the green box is marked 'London Electric Tramways'! I have no idea why it's there, on account that Upminster never had trams, however, it must be one of very few pieces of London tram infrastructure still in use!
The EOTL series is such a joy to watch! That's all
Lots of useless info.
Geoff! I love your channel, I love the stories you tell and I love this video especially as I spent 7 years using Upminster to travel to secondary school on the shuttle (or push n pull as it was often known) but from ROMFORD - not Barking! You said Emerson Park twice and you said Barking (incorrectly) twice but not the wonderful Liz-Line station of Romford!
I think you can go to Barking from Upminster but on the C2C from platform 1 or 2.
Keep the videos coming, I have learnt so much!
I noticed this but as nobody else had commented on it I thought maybe I had got it wrong 😂
Thanks. Saved me writing it. I used to use it occasionally when I lived in Romford but it was operated by national rail. The trains were old things from the 70s when I used it ten years ago. It’s a single track so just one train push and pull.
I'm tired and sick but getting a notification of your new video makes me really happy.
Thank you from my bottom of my heart Geoff, now I feel better than before ☺️❤️
Great one Geoff, I remember Windy Miller as being the hardest character on TV, because he never looked or checked as he walked between the moving sails. I doubt the HSE would be happy with him these days.
They’d make him wear a Hi-Vis at the very least. And put yellow and black tape on the edge of the sails. 😆
Growing up in cranham I was looking forward to this end of the line ep to see what information I could learn from this and I can say I was pleasantly surprised!
Excellent video...
I too am of a "certain age" and well remember the said Windy Miller!!!
Visited Upminster a few Sundays ago - on a evening where it absolutely "tipped" it down with rain and sheltered in that very shelter on Platform 6 whilst waiting for an Overground train, after narrowly missing one that pulled out as I was crossing over from the Underground..
Thanks - I've got that bloody Windy Miller theme going around my head now!!! :)
Windy Miller was in Camberwick Green which was the sister program to Trumpton along with Chigley
Discovering London thanks to you, love your videos as a french, understand everything, I'm learning a lot of things about London transit, quite useful when I'm travelling in this massive city
Nice to see a bit of (former) Essex! I used to get the Upminster-Romford link, long before the Overground took over. The service was terrible. I also had no idea Upminster still had a Wimpy -- my home town (Grays) still has one, I think.
I used to love a Wimpy Beanburger. Last saw one in Swanage.
There’s a Wimpy in Lakeside shopping mall.
Grays does still have its Wimpey, along with one in Lakeside.
Excellent stuff! I haven't seen a Wimpy for a while - used to love their original quarter-pounder 🙂
'A Bang and a Wimpy, And home in time for tea. ' Thanks Attila the Stockbroker :)
The Windy Miller waiting room edit was inspired Geoff!! 🤣
Absolutely brilliant!
See if you can weave into your dialogue my childhood hero - Zebedee...'Time for bed '. Your enthusiasm is infectious. Thanks for your hard work.
I’m planning a visit to Upminster for a different reason. I’m a Brit living in the city of Savannah, Georgia USA and I learned that General James Oglethorpe, founder in 1733 of the colony and now state of Georgia is buried at All Saints Church, Cranham. And now I know the depot is there too! Thanks Geoff!
There's also a local school named after him. I had no idea of his connection to Georgia, TIL! :)
I went to Oglethorpe School from 1955 to 1960. I can remember some Americans visiting once and we thought they were all film stars! @@Balthelion
brilliant video ive passed through Upminster a few times now and ive done the Emerson Park branch on the London Overground and handy knowing that theres a Wimpy there too keep up the awesome work
Funny there is a Wimpy at Morden (and used to be one at Wimbledon till the Fridge on The Bridge came along)
So which of the 5 seats in the waiting room was your favourite? 🙂
Got to love the Windy Miller earworm you left us with - happy nostalgia!
Windy Miller, a children's TV icon!
Another blinder Geoff. You always make the mundane fun and interesting. Love it.
Don't forget about the Brixton windmill! The last working windmill in London and end of the Victoria Line :)
Pretty sure Wimbledon has a windmill
Love it that in the Upminster signal box they listen to the banging dance tunes of London’s premier dance music station KISS 100FM ❤
Other sights to see in Upminster include the Tithe Barn, a museum of nostalgia if you will. It is only open on select days of the year.
Brilliant video, cheers. The Windy Miller musical chairs sequence was particularly inspired, with a psychedelic undercurrent that might have been more at home on The Magic Roundabout. 😉
Thanks! Love this series so much! Seeing this in my feed this morning brought warmth to my heart 😀
I agree 😁
Wow! To Upminster today to shop at M&S nearby! What a small world. Thank you for a fascinating episode, as always.
I travelled the District Line from,to back from there when staying for several nights at a secluded hotel in a place called Bulphan,a taxi journey into the greenery from Upminster station. Someone said the outward appearance of the hotel reminded them strangely of the Bates's house in Psycho.
Guess you are refering to rhe 'Ye Olde Plough House,' (also just known locally as 'The Plough.) It's still there, don't know if it's still as popular as it was for a wedding venue.
Another great edition. The Windy Miller waiting room edit shows why your videos are a cut above. But ‘Windy’ is a character from Camberwick Green not Trumpton.
Very nifty bit of editing for the waiting room / Windy Miller sequence, well done!
Grrr. A windmill but a full binbag so we can't see a windmill blowing an empty bag. Thanks Geoff, another good un and a windy miller seat shuffle. Happy days.
Loving the Geoffy Miller edit in the waiting room! 😂
The last time I was in London and found myself with some free time. I headed out to Upminster for a go on the Overground just to say I had 😬
The windy miller Gag in platform shelter at towards End made me chuckle Geoff always knows how to make me smile
We need a 10 minute or maybe 1 hour version of geoff switching chairs in the waiting room
oddly therapeutic...
Between 1910 and 1939 the District Line went even further east than Upminster, to Leigh-on-Sea, then Southend Central and Shoeburyness with seasonal Summer excursion trains. There were up to three a day, starting from Ealing Broadway. Upminster was where the electric locomotive was changed for a steam one as the Southend Line was not electrified until 1961. The District Line coach set for this service were fitted with retention toilets.
Often gets busy on the weekends for Upminster! Being a Westcliff resident who now works at Southend East station, nice to see the spotlight shone back on c2c a little bit
I've been to Upminster a couple times and I have indeed visited the windmill. I did *not* know about the other entrance though, and I do agree it looks nicer than the main one.
Fascinating facts, as always. Quite something to see the windmill in such good condition.
You should do a series where you propose made-up extensions (anything you think would be a good addition to the network) to tube lines, overground lines, new lines etc and use your amazing diagram skills to showcase. All regardless of engineering/ construction constraints, as it would be purely hypothetical.
Liking this idea @ Geoff Marshall.
In the spirit of End of the Line, he could call it Extending The Line 🤔
That would be awesome
As someone who is also old enough to remember Windy Miller, I loved this video Geoff, especially the clever seat animation. Having worked in Upminster back in the day, this brought back some fond memories... Keep up the good work!
Very enjoyable as ever, Geoff - love the Windy Miller references! 😀
Excellent Geoff. My fav End of the Line. Especially ❤ the musical seat hopping w classic windmill sound sample👍🏻 I hope lots of ppl go off and check out Windy Miller and Camberwick Green after this. Oh yes, exorcise that earworm!
I never got as far as Upminster "back in the day"! My late Nanny Banks lived at Elm Park. Great video, Geoff! Have just started to watch this new series of yours! And, yes, I used to love Windy Miller and the other characters in Camberwick Green!!
I went to Upminster a few months ago to get to Emerson Park Station. I remember it vividly. It’s a pretty nice station that feels a little bit too quiet for London/Essex.
I am pleased to have found this video. I previously lived in Cranham. Haven't been to Upminster station for over 30 years.
Between the station and the windmill is St Laurence church where in 1709 the rector, William Derham, was the first person to calculate the speed of sound.
And three of the other stations beginning with U are at that end of the District line - Upminster Bridge, Upney and Upton Park.
The Windy Miller waiting room editing was totally worthwhile 😊
I really enjoyed this video. Your videos always cheers me up.I love your videos Geoff.😁
Two other nice things about Upminster - there's a lot of very nice 1930s architecture (reflecting when the place took off), and the church is very attractive too.
Not only is the church attractive, It's also where the speed of sound was first (correctly) recorded, way back in 1709.
That's where my Grandparents and my Aunt live. But my Grandad died.
Woohoo! Upminster! My Dad was a signalman on the BR box there back in the late 70s/early 80s. Spent many a Saturday there with him as a kid (even got a cab ride and the chance to drive a Class 302 on the Upminster/Grays branch one weekend. Wouldn't get away with that these days) Don't think the box is there anymore, but happy memories.
The old box is gone but there’s a much bigger signalling centre there now just beyond the station car park. Geoff should’ve mentioned it - it controls all the signalling for the whole LTSR and even parts of the GOBLIN!
@@samp3180 Thanks for the info! I only realised the old box had gone when looking at Google maps a few years ago. I've often tried finding photographs of the old Upminster box my dad work at. I've only found one photo of Upminster East signal box, but I don't think that's then one (mind you, I was only 11 years old at the time so it could be memory fade). Found photos of the other two boxes he worked at that I remember going with him to, Purfleet and Tilbury East.
Great video Geoff. Brought back some happy memories.
Another great “End of The Line” video Geoff… especially like the Windy Miller treatment for that waiting room!
This is really an amazing series!
I have watched the windy miller seat shuffle about five times now and it still makes me laugh like a drain .
Thanks for another end of the line video Jeff. Lots of going on's here with different companies. Good to see the depot must visit here!!😎🚇🚇🚇🚇🇬🇧
Met the legend himself filming outside wimpy! Spent the rest of the day chuffed I'd met you, thank you for taking a selfie with me
Ha ha! Hey Alex! nice to have met you!
Only here for the Wimpy!
Have they changed their menu recently ?
The Windy Miller seat shuffle was strangely hypnotic, I’m glad it stopped when it did.
As a child I lived in Aveley so this was my local station. Feels really nostalgic seeing this area again.
I live in Aveley as well, wouldn't you say Ockendon station is more local?
Geoff I LOVE LOVE LOVE your videos, your drive, enthusiam, your knowledge and the wonderfully inventive camera tricks and angles to make every video you make such compulsive viewing. The waiting room sequence with Windy Miller sounds was laugh out loud. The best railway channel by far on RUclips ... even if you've never been to the Isle of Wight. 🙂🙂🙂
thank you! that's very kind if you and appreciated ... i do make an effort! thank you for every time you've watched :-)
Another brilliant video. Also of a certain age, Windy Miller lived in the village of Camberwick Green which was in Trumptonshire of which Trumpton was the main town ..... obviously.....I will get my coat 🤣
There is also a platform 1a that operates during engineering works!
I was going to add: ‘Time flies by when I’m the driver of a train…’, but then realised that was Chigley, which is in Zone 7.
Thanks for doing Upminster I’ve been waiting since ep.1 Thanks Geoff! 🙂
Worthy of a Brian Cant BAFTA Tribute award, splendid editing there
Not Trumpton for WIndy Miller Geoff, my brother said it was Camberick Green in the county of Trumptonshire.
Always liked Upminster due to it being the District Line Termius! Also a WIndmill in greater London Goose Lord!! Looking forward to the next end of the line episode which also begins with the letter U!
In NYC the western most part of the “subway” is actually the last stop on the Staten Island Railway (it’s also the southernmost point). The easternmost point is just past the last stop on the F train at 179th Street, there’s just enough “tail” track to store several trains on two levels, but the top level goes farther and ends at a “temporary” wall as the old plans to extend the line possibly almost all the way to Little Neck Parkway (just short of the Queens/Nassau County border) never happened. (The lower level was always just going to be storage). The northern most is in the little bubble of the Bronx/Westchester County Border on the 2 line at East 241st Street, Westchester County starts at East 243rd street. It’s an elevated station that just slices off at the north end. The depot is next to it, but the rails accessing it are farther south (many lines have their depots along the line near the last stop, but not past it. (Even the major depot in Coney Island is before the last stop at Coney Island (and the trains sometimes have to crawl through it to get by.)
Windy Miller was in "Camberwick Green" not "Trumpton", though he may have guested!
Ok, this is funny. I found one of these videos by chance and I thought it didnt look very interesting... and here I am watching all of them now :D And I noticed I've been in london for many years but I've only been to one end of line, Uxbridge :O
Love to see Frank still around after the Last of the D-Stock vid!!
Brilliant! I love this series
“There are no roundels here, except of this, and also these Overground roundels. Oh, and the roundels in front of the station that I won’t even mention.” 😂 Thanks for these videos, I enjoy them immensely.
Loved the waiting room sequence - I remember that music intro too.
Love your videos Geoff and your enthusiasm for all things on the London underground hope to meet you one off these days best wishes. Paul Bianchi
Hi Geoff, Another great video from yourself, 2 stops away from Upminster on C2C is where I live, as Upminster is where I go to get my connections into London etc!
I look forward to your next video! 😊
Great video Geoff ! Great pub at Upminster Bridge by that windmill . Nice place Upminster / Hornchurch area 🚂
Nice touch with the Windy Miller segment, that me smile
Upminster has 7 platform tracks! Next to the 1 and 2 National Rail, 3,4,5 London Underground and 6 Overground, there's also a platform 1a, that is used only used during engineering works and only accessible by trains from or towards Gray.
Geoff...there is a windmill in Brixton,too. Only a few mins walk (less than a mile) from the tube station in Windmill gardens off Brixton Hill
Brilliant edition, even if Windy Miller is now grinding in my ear 🥴
...and now the windmill noise is in my head too! Thanks Geoff 🙄
Gorgeous station, visited yesterday
You must have watched the Camberwick Green repeats, Geoff. Because Brian Cant and Trumptonshire were my era, quite a bit before your time! Glad you remember them, though.
I have to say the Windy Miller gag was laugh out loud funny 😂
We have a windmill 5 miles away at Bircham, Norfolk but, unfortunately, no railway. Another interesting video Geoff.
This is my favorite series
I'm very close to Upminster but never noticed the lack of roundels - when all too familiar maybe I fail to take these details in.
The Upminster to Romford line provides a nice connection from C2C to The Elizabeth Line too.
Thanks for a fantastic vid.
Excellent. Between Cranham, Woolwich Arsenal, and Guernsey (well, Alderney, but close enough) you've almost covered everywhere I've ever lived 😄 If you do a video a video in Aberyswyth that'll be a clean sweep.
Loved the trumpton bit at the end.
Worth a trip to Emerson Park on the Romford-Upminster Overground line, if only to visit The Hop Inn. Nice little micropub close to the station. Some lovely beers, and thoroughly decent folks running the place too.
Argh, that tune. Now I've got to work all day humming that 😂
Geoff I’m not a train buff,spotter, hobbies type of person. However just your knowledge, presentation, research and involving other people of the same Ilk some how draws me in to watching!
I’m guessing it’s my grandfathers genes who was involved in train driving?? Spooky?
Keep up your quests, reach your goals! It would be great for you to set up a fan fund to go to China and research the bullet train. That would be so, as my son would say “fresh mate”’🙄
Top job as I would say 😊
Hi Geoff, great video. I often go CrazyBeat Records and the excellent Wimpy when I'm in Upminster. I live in Upper Holloway and my cousins live in Hornchurch, so it's a place I'm fairly familiar with.
I'll have to visit the Windmill when I'm there next. I noticed you had to get the Windy Miller sound effect in someplace, nice touch! I'm of that age too! I think you made a boob though about the shuttle. It runs between Romford and Upminster not Upminster and Barking!
Really enjoying this series, looking forward to Wimbledon my home town, where you will find a windmill on the common 😀
We just went to Upminster. Took a look at the Windmill. Went to a park. Very nice day. We haven’t forgotten about Epping
I live in this area and the windmill always made me think of Windy Miller, thanks for the memories. I think you mean Romford-Emerson Park-Upminster and not Barking
The Trumpton / Camberwick Green reference was just brilliant