I'm glad that London's ghost stations exist. Sure you might not see them, but ghosts are still residents of London and they deserve to have their own dedicated stations just as much as the living do. Just saying! Seriously though, continue your rambling, it's good tea.
I work at London South Bank University, former Borough Poiytechnic, still postal address in Borough Road, with the National Bakery and Refrigeration Schools. Not.much demand these days for the original Farrier school for shoeing horses 🐎🐴. Borough Poiytechnic was one of the original Polys along with Regent St and Woolwich. I'm near the former Kilburn Poly founded in the Early 20th century by Middlesex County Council, to address London falling behind the continent in skilled trades. Unfortunately closed by Brent, along with the former Willesden Town Hall, the Granville baths and 2 sets of public toilets. How about a doc on the 4 stations of Kilburn / Kilburn High Road and the LGOC depot opposite the former station entrance to the London to Birmingham / LNWR railways?
I rather like the sense of community among producers on RUclips so I was amused when I heard on Auto Shenanigans: "When I see an abandoned building I'm on it like Jago Hazzard up a tube line." When you're become a metaphor then you've truly made it. Keep up the great work.
Ah yes, replacing one piece of British heritage like a train depot with another piece of British heritage, Tesco...perfectly balanced, as all things should be. Even more British when the Peppa Pig bus tour at 6:17 drove past it
Actually, until fairly recently, the Borough Rd end arches were home to a very large and active London Black Cab repairs and servicing garage. It used to be fair jammed most days. Now gone - a casualty of Uber, I guess. Black taxis - that's a piece of British heritage, no?
Frank's Cafe - fond memories from nearly 10 years working in Southwark in the 00's. Loved all the arches that one could walk around and photograph . Jago, thanks for the memories !
An interesting point you referring to the number of station staff it’s about the number that you’d expect to be at Buggleskelly . Now I can’t get out of my mind the thought Will Hay , Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt working there
Fascinating stuff. I worked on Borough Road in the 90s (actually next door to the Duke of York- or Goose & Firkin as it was) and I never knew this disused station existed, although I must have sat opposite it with a beer for many hours.. There was 'allegedly' an MI6 office at the eastern end of Borough Rd but it was deserted by the looks of it...
1) You’re the last person I’d ever call an idiot Jago. 2) I don’t know about everyone else but I love a decent ramble, some of the most entertaining people to listen to off on massive tangents, Billy Connolly is famous for going off on a sideline and getting lost. In other words part of the reason I come here is for your ramblings, I love them.
I lived in Elephant and castle for 8 years and used to walk to work along Borough road and Southwark Bridge road, it's nice to see the old streets again and Learn some of the history
That last shot was on my old walk to work. It was always interesting walking from Waterloo to St. Paul's, either along the river or down all those rabbit-warren-like back streets with all their arches and criss crossing lines.
I absolutely love this part of London. Used to be based in Camberwell so when I had a few hours off I would walk up the line all the way to Blackfriars, sometimes even further. So many interesting hidden spaces to be found amongst the viaducts, bridges, arches and junctions.
As Armorer94 said, your rambling is entertaining. It actually demonstrates your enthusiasm for what your doing. Trying to communicate every last bit. Ramble on.
Another excellent video! I love hearing your ramblings in your videos. To those of us who don't live there, your ramblings are interesting, informative, and entertaining. I was in England and London for two weeks in 1992 and loved it very much. Hearing you go on about all these topics in your videos is quite lovely and enjoyable for me. Well done, sir! Cheers!!!🙂♥️
I live here in London and have found Jago's video to be fascinating, full of information I was previously unaware of and give me great suggestions for places to go to every weekend when I am out on a 'Street Photography' walk.
It's a bit amazing that Borough Road didn't even last until WWI, when the railways shut many stations and halts "temporarily" and in many cases, forever. Perhaps the station closures made more men available to beat back the Boche? Or just an easy way to close stations without having to run a parliamentary train?
Like a lot of boroughs in London Southwark has witnessed the demise of Londoners who were born and bred there, living there for generations until regeneration kicked in and kicked the lot of them out, by displacing and relocating many Londoners outside the fringes of London and further afield to places they have no connection with. And in its place a lot of these new redevelopments in my opinion look sterile and clinical in their design. And borough market has become a snobby place for rich kids to visit and look down on us all, ordinary Londoners who gave London its original character.
JAGO,another beautiful,inspiring video,and South London,really does need to get its due!! If I could propose a follow-up video,on the ongoing series! Could you do a series on the trams,as the literally ran from Elephant &Castle,to Mansion House,via the Kingsway Subway! And to top it,there were several circular services,that literally made a figure 8,very interesting!! Oh,yes,add a cable car line,and conduit operations,made for a real mix of equipment and history!! Thanks again for your labors,and excellent editorial work!! Thanks!!
Oh no, please do continue rambling; I, for one, quite enjoy it! For one thing, you usually ramble about interesting or amusing things. And then, I also tend to ramble when I start talking about stuff I like and it’s nice to know I’m not the only one!
Thank you. Right in my immediate neighbourhood and I never knew! That's a heck of a long station platform - from the alleged Borough Road exit to the one on Webber St is 200yds/185m. Also, the widely separation between the twin tracks can't be just to accommodate the station platform. The wide median extends north another 100m to the Glasshill St viaduct but there's no corresponding gap south across the Borough Rd crossing.
A reopening of Borough Road station wouldn’t be so far fetched, if Thameslink had been predicted on the same basis as Cross-Rail- as an intra London train service. The distance from Blackfriars (much reduced since to opening of the southern station) to Elephant & Castle (likely to remain a road junction rather than a neighbourhood) is still quite a way. Stratford to Maryland is considerably less. Direct connections from this area to the new Central London hub at Farringdon would be one benefit, but also access to London stations on the Kings Cross and St Pancras branches of Thameslink.
Yes, not far fetched. I moved into the area (about 400 meters away from this station) 25 years ago. The change has been incredible to watch - apart from the Peabody/Corporation flats on Borough Rd, the Rockingham and Scovell Estates and enclaves like Trinity Church Square, the resident population was minimal. Now, there are high rises springing up everywhere, markets, universities and building generally on every spare scrap of land. Much of this area was essentially derelict when I came. The resident population now would certainly justify a renewed Borough Rd station.
@@alastairbarkley6572 With the usual caveat - would this justify the delays for every other station down the line for the extra stop, and would an alternative be better? Given BRd's proximity to Borough and Southwark tube stations, would Camberwell have a stronger claim for reopening instead?
It has some similarities with the former St James station in Liverpool, which closed during the First World War and never re-opened. Similarly serving an inner city working-class neighbourhood, with most people living within walking distance of their workplace, and only 20 minutes or so walk from the city centre. Also given the death blow by a frequent tram service. However this is actually now on a high priority list for re-opening. The demographics of the neighbourhood have changed radically recently and the area is a destination as well as an origin for many people. I wouldn't write off the chances of re-opening for Borough Road.
worked in southwark s.e.1 for many many years,there are many hidden places tucked away,and plentry of old cafes that are gone,and as for guys hospitol,yeah try looking under it,lots of hidden tunnels,which i have walked
I knew all the cafés with good cakes... right by Guys Hospital had a great selection, one near the gallery in Borough High St, another on the corner of Borough High St and Southwark St, plus of course Konditor & Cook by the Citroën body shop nr Waterloo East - still there, I believe, but others all gone.
The phenomenon of stations just short of termini and West End or City stations being weeded out by subway, tram and bus competition is not limited to heavy rail. One of the longest journeys on the Underground is from Liverpool St to Bethnal Green. When the LPTB was planning this Central Line section ih the 1935 New Works Programme, it decided not to insert a stop at Shoreditch (e.g. to interchange with the northern end of the Metropolitan's East London Line) bc surface modes had collared too much potential traffic. There are comparable gaps on the mainline exits from London Bridge, Paddington and Euston, though Vauxhall near Waterloo has more services than in the 1950s- thanks to its somewhat labyrinthine interchange with 1967's Victoria Line.
I’m pleased you’ve made your subtle points clear by including subtitles because some of us are far too unsubtle to have understood the meaning. Please continue to dumb down for us hard-at-thinking Sun readers.
If that station was still operational it would have made it so much easier to get to LSBU when I studied there. Particularly during the Northern Line Bank branch closure. Travelling from Birmingham, I could have gone from Euston to St. Pancras and jumped on the Thameslink to Borough Rd. Friends of mine who commuted from Luton would’ve found it even easier.
I attended Borough Road 3 days a week from September 2018 to August 2019. I photographicly remember every corner of Borough Road and the exact environment of it.
Jago you should do a video on the eastern gateway bridge over the Thames and how there is a leftover stump of a bridge north of Gallions reach DLR, known as the Beckton Ski Jump!
Borough road sounds like a BBC soap and the LCD boys a SAW boy and. Talking of SAW I was chatting to Pete Waterman on Thursday, I managed to persuade SWMBO that we needed a day out in Chester,lunch ,retail therapy and most importantly I could go to the Cathedral to see Making tracks 2, the latest large model railway by Pete's team, well worth a visit if team Jago can travel outside the ULEZ.
Interesting train of thought there and not a single mention of Beeching. Just proves that not all closures were down to the dreaded Dr's axe (or hacks)...
No, but it was loosely connected. A Dr. B Ching had arrived on a ship in 1889 at Limehouse and had quickly become employed by various railway companies in the London area for his economic astuteness. He rose rapidly through the ranks to managerial status and apparently it was HE who advised the closure of Borough Road. (And if you believe that you'll believe anything). His son, Ker, also proved to be adept in the manufacture and development of mechanical tills....hence Ker Ching! (Sorry, too much wine at lunch 😃)...
We love all stations, alive or ghosts. I’m interested in old or abandoned stations, so yes, more please. I’m particularly attached as it were to East Brixton, I was planning a model railway based on East Brixton and Londons Elevated Electric Railway. Ahh, now there’s a subject for you to get stuck into. 😊
Well you did it Jago. You bloody well fanned the flame with your videos and now I've just sent in my application to be a traindriver. Engine driver? Machinist. Soz for any 'English as a second language' train jargon faux pas.
Add more note: there was a person of real world wide fame from South London,but now relegated to the side lines,I refer you to Stan Laurel,the half of Laurel & Hardy,the great comedians of the 30's and 40's, whose labors are known only by the cognizant scholarship of the enlightenment! Thanks for your labors!! Thanks again 👍!
I've been stuck at Blackfriars....no, wait, that was the one in Edinburgh and that Blackfriars is a pub and I had a pint in my hand! Ma bad....carry on, nothing to see here! 😉🍻
Thx for yet another informative and enjoyable video, Sir. Two new videos in as many days, even?! You're like the proverbial squirrel saving up his late summer acorns before the autumn sets in. BTW, how did Southwark ever become Suddok when pronounced? When I sang at the Abbey, we always thought of our contemporaries across the river as our poor cousins. It would appear, at least in terms of railways, it is the other way around.
A DLR type service serving the congested streets of London calling Holborn Viaduct/ Blackfriars / Borough Road / Elephant / Camberwell etc could be useful , but tricky to fit it in space and headway wise.
I just looked this up on Google Maps. I'm somewhat annoyed that if it hadn't shut I'd have a Thameslink station less than five minutes from my flat. How short-sighted of the railway company not to take into account the convenience of someone who wouldn't be born for over fifty years.
Did Spa Valley Railway yesterday (well bits of it , the Interconnection is a neccessary evil of time due to houses on the line. From London the walk through Tunbridge Wells is not too bad, hourly service, 45 mins to East Croydon. Then wretched wait to attempt to get to Peckham Rye (without extra payment for tram to run round to West Croydon , or going via Zone 1 - an unnecessary payment to attempt to find correct platform back out at Victoria (and Thameslink was Cancelled - lack of train staff ) . So basically its either spend loads of money on a train ticket for an hour to london, or live in Zone 2 and its half an hour but your rent costs and arm and a leg
How on earth did only 2 horses pull that heavy tram? Poor horse's I bet they didn't have long lives. Thank goodness they became electrified in 1904. Thank you for a great video Jago.
Shame you cut away from that Routemaster before I could read the numberplate. One of the tea bus tour RMs was the last Routemaster to operate in Reading when Reading Mainline closed down.
I suppose you could have bundled Spar Road station into this video ( the original teminus for the L & GR - was that London's very first terminus?) or maybe that's for another day Jago?
Jago sound so sad when he said, "There is no call for reopen," and that tone and voice break my heart
I'm glad that London's ghost stations exist. Sure you might not see them, but ghosts are still residents of London and they deserve to have their own dedicated stations just as much as the living do. Just saying! Seriously though, continue your rambling, it's good tea.
Can ghosts get on and off while the train is still moving?
@@paulsengupta971 they ride ghost trains :)
Ghosts are very public spirited.
Actually Jago, your rambling is more entertaining than most peoples normal conversations. 👍
I work at London South Bank University, former Borough Poiytechnic, still postal address in Borough Road, with the National Bakery and Refrigeration Schools. Not.much demand these days for the original Farrier school for shoeing horses 🐎🐴. Borough Poiytechnic was one of the original Polys along with Regent St and Woolwich. I'm near the former Kilburn Poly founded in the Early 20th century by Middlesex County Council, to address London falling behind the continent in skilled trades. Unfortunately closed by Brent, along with the former Willesden Town Hall, the Granville baths and 2 sets of public toilets. How about a doc on the 4 stations of Kilburn / Kilburn High Road and the LGOC depot opposite the former station entrance to the London to Birmingham / LNWR railways?
I rather like the sense of community among producers on RUclips so I was amused when I heard on Auto Shenanigans: "When I see an abandoned building I'm on it like Jago Hazzard up a tube line." When you're become a metaphor then you've truly made it. Keep up the great work.
Yes, I heard that too. Seems like we like to watch the same kind of videos!
He's namechecked Geoff Marshall as well
That statement made me chuckle when I heard it as well.
"I love a good viaduct, me!" That made me laugh...wonderful!
Ah yes, replacing one piece of British heritage like a train depot with another piece of British heritage, Tesco...perfectly balanced, as all things should be. Even more British when the Peppa Pig bus tour at 6:17 drove past it
Actually, until fairly recently, the Borough Rd end arches were home to a very large and active London Black Cab repairs and servicing garage. It used to be fair jammed most days. Now gone - a casualty of Uber, I guess. Black taxis - that's a piece of British heritage, no?
You laugh, but a hundred years from now Tesco just might be something people remember in the same way.
I got reasonably excited about your, promised, Pepper Pig Bus Tour bus; but it's just a bus with Pepper Pig on? For shame Sir!
I bet Boris was having the time of his life on that bus!
The Afternoon Tea Bus Tour. A nice cup of tea and cake on a Routemaster; who could ask fir anything more?
Jago, you are brilliant; love your style, don't ever change.
P.s. keep rambling.
@4:11 - What an image!
Frank's Cafe - fond memories from nearly 10 years working in Southwark in the 00's. Loved all the arches that one could walk around and photograph . Jago, thanks for the memories !
I worked in Sampson House twice a week during the early 00s. a Frank's ham salad bap was enough to fuel me for an entire day
Thanks again, Jago, you are the Routemaster to my fast train halted by signal problems.
An interesting point you referring to the number of station staff it’s about the number that you’d expect to be at Buggleskelly .
Now I can’t get out of my mind the thought Will Hay , Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt working there
Next trains gone!
You're wasting your time....
Fascinating stuff. I worked on Borough Road in the 90s (actually next door to the Duke of York- or Goose & Firkin as it was) and I never knew this disused station existed, although I must have sat opposite it with a beer for many hours..
There was 'allegedly' an MI6 office at the eastern end of Borough Rd but it was deserted by the looks of it...
1) You’re the last person I’d ever call an idiot Jago.
2) I don’t know about everyone else but I love a decent ramble, some of the most entertaining people to listen to off on massive tangents, Billy Connolly is famous for going off on a sideline and getting lost. In other words part of the reason I come here is for your ramblings, I love them.
Went to some amazing parties in railway arches on Borough Rd in the early 2000s. Great times!
I lived in Elephant and castle for 8 years and used to walk to work along Borough road and Southwark Bridge road, it's nice to see the old streets again and Learn
some of the history
This is probably my closest abandoned station I'm glad you covered it
The change from the 1850s to now, even allowing for the war rebuilding is incredible
A whole video without mentioning that 'Suthuk' is actually spelt Southwick! Fascinating as always, thank you Sir!
That last shot was on my old walk to work. It was always interesting walking from Waterloo to St. Paul's, either along the river or down all those rabbit-warren-like back streets with all their arches and criss crossing lines.
I absolutely love this part of London. Used to be based in Camberwell so when I had a few hours off I would walk up the line all the way to Blackfriars, sometimes even further. So many interesting hidden spaces to be found amongst the viaducts, bridges, arches and junctions.
Doctor , Doctor, 'I have a fear of Viaducts' .... " Don't worry , you'll get over it "
🦊 boom boom 😊
As Armorer94 said, your rambling is entertaining. It actually demonstrates your enthusiasm for what your doing. Trying to communicate every last bit. Ramble on.
Love these stories of abandoned stations. I’m sure I could walk past it commute on the line for years and I’d never have known about it!
That’s more-or-less my situation. I’ve been over that line dozens of times without realising.
there's something quite peaceful about all this ghostliness of the stations
I'd have had to go for a peek inside that open door lol
I used to work at Bridge House just at the south end of London Bridge and the railways in the area are like spagetti junction
Another excellent video! I love hearing your ramblings in your videos. To those of us who don't live there, your ramblings are interesting, informative, and entertaining. I was in England and London for two weeks in 1992 and loved it very much. Hearing you go on about all these topics in your videos is quite lovely and enjoyable for me. Well done, sir! Cheers!!!🙂♥️
I live here in London and have found Jago's video to be fascinating, full of information I was previously unaware of and give me great suggestions for places to go to every weekend when I am out on a 'Street Photography' walk.
It's a bit amazing that Borough Road didn't even last until WWI, when the railways shut many stations and halts "temporarily" and in many cases, forever. Perhaps the station closures made more men available to beat back the Boche? Or just an easy way to close stations without having to run a parliamentary train?
A bonus glimpse of the Bluebell line? You get more bang for your buck with Jago! Thanks again..
My Daughter , Clarity, appreciates the simplified map.
Like a lot of boroughs in London Southwark has witnessed the demise of Londoners who were born and bred there, living there for generations until regeneration kicked in and kicked the lot of them out, by displacing and relocating many Londoners outside the fringes of London and further afield to places they have no connection with. And in its place a lot of these new redevelopments in my opinion look sterile and clinical in their design. And borough market has become a snobby place for rich kids to visit and look down on us all, ordinary Londoners who gave London its original character.
Majority of Londoners are in Essex or Kent escaped London changes and many don't like it's a multicultural city .
JAGO,another beautiful,inspiring video,and South London,really does need to get its due!! If I could propose a follow-up video,on the ongoing series! Could you do a series on the trams,as the literally ran from Elephant &Castle,to Mansion House,via the Kingsway Subway! And to top it,there were several circular services,that literally made a figure 8,very interesting!! Oh,yes,add a cable car line,and conduit operations,made for a real mix of equipment and history!! Thanks again for your labors,and excellent editorial work!! Thanks!!
AARGH! Put spaces after commas!
and, for goodness!!!! sakes! fewer!!!!!!! good suggestion i would say
Oh no, please do continue rambling; I, for one, quite enjoy it! For one thing, you usually ramble about interesting or amusing things. And then, I also tend to ramble when I start talking about stuff I like and it’s nice to know I’m not the only one!
Two decades ago on a Saturday or Sunday evening during the colder darker months that whole area would feel like a ghost town
Thank you. Right in my immediate neighbourhood and I never knew! That's a heck of a long station platform - from the alleged Borough Road exit to the one on Webber St is 200yds/185m. Also, the widely separation between the twin tracks can't be just to accommodate the station platform. The wide median extends north another 100m to the Glasshill St viaduct but there's no corresponding gap south across the Borough Rd crossing.
The number of staff is suggestive of some kind of goods handling
Are there two stations / Entrances ? The Taxi Repair place being one , and the minicab office another ?
A reopening of Borough Road station wouldn’t be so far fetched, if Thameslink had been predicted on the same basis as Cross-Rail- as an intra London train service. The distance from Blackfriars (much reduced since to opening of the southern station) to Elephant & Castle (likely to remain a road junction rather than a neighbourhood) is still quite a way. Stratford to Maryland is considerably less. Direct connections from this area to the new Central London hub at Farringdon would be one benefit, but also access to London stations on the Kings Cross and St Pancras branches of Thameslink.
I think you would have to accept yet more flat developments in the area, which might clash with protected views of St Pauls and similar ?
Yes, not far fetched. I moved into the area (about 400 meters away from this station) 25 years ago. The change has been incredible to watch - apart from the Peabody/Corporation flats on Borough Rd, the Rockingham and Scovell Estates and enclaves like Trinity Church Square, the resident population was minimal. Now, there are high rises springing up everywhere, markets, universities and building generally on every spare scrap of land. Much of this area was essentially derelict when I came. The resident population now would certainly justify a renewed Borough Rd station.
@@alastairbarkley6572 With the usual caveat - would this justify the delays for every other station down the line for the extra stop, and would an alternative be better? Given BRd's proximity to Borough and Southwark tube stations, would Camberwell have a stronger claim for reopening instead?
It has some similarities with the former St James station in Liverpool, which closed during the First World War and never re-opened. Similarly serving an inner city working-class neighbourhood, with most people living within walking distance of their workplace, and only 20 minutes or so walk from the city centre. Also given the death blow by a frequent tram service. However this is actually now on a high priority list for re-opening. The demographics of the neighbourhood have changed radically recently and the area is a destination as well as an origin for many people. I wouldn't write off the chances of re-opening for Borough Road.
My neck of the woooods! 😍 Thank you for this, I was always curious about that blue corner.
I liked the viaduct going through an older viaduct on the same level.
I live in Borough but I never knew this was here, I used to walk past the tesco on the way home from Primary school and I was wondered what was there
yep totally new to me .
worked in southwark s.e.1 for many many years,there are many hidden places tucked away,and plentry of old cafes that are gone,and as for guys hospitol,yeah try looking under it,lots of hidden tunnels,which i have walked
I knew all the cafés with good cakes... right by Guys Hospital had a great selection, one near the gallery in Borough High St, another on the corner of Borough High St and Southwark St, plus of course Konditor & Cook by the Citroën body shop nr Waterloo East - still there, I believe, but others all gone.
The phenomenon of stations just short of termini and West End or City stations being weeded out by subway, tram and bus competition is not limited to heavy rail.
One of the longest journeys on the Underground is from Liverpool St to Bethnal Green. When the LPTB was planning this Central Line section ih the 1935 New Works Programme, it decided not to insert a stop at Shoreditch (e.g. to interchange with the northern end of the Metropolitan's East London Line) bc surface modes had collared too much potential traffic. There are comparable gaps on the mainline exits from London Bridge, Paddington and Euston, though Vauxhall near Waterloo has more services than in the 1950s- thanks to its somewhat labyrinthine interchange with 1967's Victoria Line.
Great video. when I lived in London, this would have been the closest station, easily. Always wondered about its history - thanks!
Fun fact the building that used to be the tram station is the shape it is now because it sits directly on the outline of the tram station
Living on one of the streets around here, I had no idea this was here! Great video thanks
Very good! Thanks for posting. 👍
'Stop rambling, idiot!' God, do I know that feeling...☹️ And it gets worse with age! Happy days...👍😁
3 staff! There r major stations who dont even have that many
I’m pleased you’ve made your subtle points clear by including subtitles because some of us are far too unsubtle to have understood the meaning. Please continue to dumb down for us hard-at-thinking Sun readers.
Any time!
Ah, my lovely arches!
Liking the b & W photos!!! 🙂🚂🚂🚂
If that station was still operational it would have made it so much easier to get to LSBU when I studied there. Particularly during the Northern Line Bank branch closure. Travelling from Birmingham, I could have gone from Euston to St. Pancras and jumped on the Thameslink to Borough Rd.
Friends of mine who commuted from Luton would’ve found it even easier.
Papa visits this station after every gig
Love all the footage on this one, great stuff!
Excellent. Thank you.
Certainly NOT an idiot, but very funny and informative. Thank you.
A market for Bourough Station - now there's a station for Borough Market. (Although I suppose London Bridge is closer)
i’m pretty sure borough and borough road existed simultaneously, that probably brought up some confusion
Borough is a tube station about 10 mins walk away.
I love your trips.❤️
LIKE BUTTON SMASHED! 👍🤓😂
Finally on a British train after binging your videos so much recently. I’ve all this random Trivia dying to share 😂
Note the Webber Street street sign is probably pre-1965 vintage.
I attended Borough Road 3 days a week from September 2018 to August 2019. I photographicly remember every corner of Borough Road and the exact environment of it.
"Stop rambling, idiot!"
You're utterly delightful, please keep rambling
Interesting video, I never knew there was a station there.
Neither did I
Jago you should do a video on the eastern gateway bridge over the Thames and how there is a leftover stump of a bridge north of Gallions reach DLR, known as the Beckton Ski Jump!
Southwark is a great area. Great seeing it in your videos again!
Nice! History time right before bed!
Very good Jago - I suggest that you do a piece on Spa Road which is an infinitely more interestingly station with lots of remains 😉👍
Borough road sounds like a BBC soap and the LCD boys a SAW boy and.
Talking of SAW I was chatting to Pete Waterman on Thursday, I managed to persuade SWMBO that we needed a day out in Chester,lunch ,retail therapy and most importantly I could go to the Cathedral to see Making tracks 2, the latest large model railway by Pete's team, well worth a visit if team Jago can travel outside the ULEZ.
Don't forget the other Ghost Station in Southwark, The temporary terminus at Bermondsey
That picture at4:12is awesome. That's the Embankment isn't it. Was that a special event or just the normal rush hour tram queue, I wonder?
When I think of arches in Southwark, I think of 1980’s Daleks being blown up
I loved to hear todays ref to you on Autoshnanagans video 🙂
Lovely stuff
I know that part of London fairly well as I tend to stay in the Holiday Inn Express!! So I recognised a lot of the street scenes
Just watched Joolz and the algorithm suggested you!
And I loved "Mind The Gap"!
I live in Minnesota, US.
Interesting train of thought there and not a single mention of Beeching. Just proves that not all closures were down to the dreaded Dr's axe (or hacks)...
No, but it was loosely connected. A Dr. B Ching had arrived on a ship in 1889 at Limehouse and had quickly become employed by various railway companies in the London area for his economic astuteness. He rose rapidly through the ranks to managerial status and apparently it was HE who advised the closure of Borough Road. (And if you believe that you'll believe anything). His son, Ker, also proved to be adept in the manufacture and development of mechanical tills....hence Ker Ching! (Sorry, too much wine at lunch 😃)...
@@bobk4404 Daughter Tish, and Son Boom ?
@@bobk4404 very clever. I must admit it took until Ker Ching for the yen to drop 😅
As ever, interesting insight acquired by boroughing down into a viaduct's history. 🤣
We love all stations, alive or ghosts. I’m interested in old or abandoned stations, so yes, more please. I’m particularly attached as it were to East Brixton, I was planning a model railway based on East Brixton and Londons Elevated Electric Railway. Ahh, now there’s a subject for you to get stuck into. 😊
Nice weather you're having. We had a preview of Spring in Adeliade yesterday. Today it's .... back to bloody winter.
Well you did it Jago. You bloody well fanned the flame with your videos and now I've just sent in my application to be a traindriver. Engine driver? Machinist. Soz for any 'English as a second language' train jargon faux pas.
Add more note: there was a person of real world wide fame from South London,but now relegated to the side lines,I refer you to Stan Laurel,the half of Laurel & Hardy,the great comedians of the 30's and 40's, whose labors are known only by the cognizant scholarship of the enlightenment! Thanks for your labors!! Thanks again 👍!
Charlie Chaplin also grew up in this area.
I've been stuck at Blackfriars....no, wait, that was the one in Edinburgh and that Blackfriars is a pub and I had a pint in my hand!
Ma bad....carry on, nothing to see here! 😉🍻
Could you do video about the abandoned bridge near Blackfriars pls
Sir, again, again a beer shall await ye!
Great video Jago
6:00 I'm calling Pizza Cyclist as a new addition to Continually Pregnant Woman and Lottery Ticket Littering Guy. Look forward to a reprise.
Thx for yet another informative and enjoyable video, Sir. Two new videos in as many days, even?! You're like the proverbial squirrel saving up his late summer acorns before the autumn sets in. BTW, how did Southwark ever become Suddok when pronounced? When I sang at the Abbey, we always thought of our contemporaries across the river as our poor cousins. It would appear, at least in terms of railways, it is the other way around.
Have you ever watched Jay Foreman's video on British place names?
3 station staff? That's 3 more than most stations have these days.
A DLR type service serving the congested streets of London calling Holborn Viaduct/ Blackfriars / Borough Road / Elephant / Camberwell etc could be useful , but tricky to fit it in space and headway wise.
I just looked this up on Google Maps. I'm somewhat annoyed that if it hadn't shut I'd have a Thameslink station less than five minutes from my flat. How short-sighted of the railway company not to take into account the convenience of someone who wouldn't be born for over fifty years.
Did Spa Valley Railway yesterday (well bits of it , the Interconnection is a neccessary evil of time due to houses on the line. From London the walk through Tunbridge Wells is not too bad, hourly service, 45 mins to East Croydon. Then wretched wait to attempt to get to Peckham Rye (without extra payment for tram to run round to West Croydon , or going via Zone 1 - an unnecessary payment to attempt to find correct platform back out at Victoria (and Thameslink was Cancelled - lack of train staff ) . So basically its either spend loads of money on a train ticket for an hour to london, or live in Zone 2 and its half an hour but your rent costs and arm and a leg
I went to a boxing gym in Southwark that was in the arches.
How on earth did only 2 horses pull that heavy tram? Poor horse's I bet they didn't have long lives. Thank goodness they became electrified in 1904.
Thank you for a great video Jago.
The horses were electrified? Positively shocking.
5:53 Nice bit of IronHourse Irony there.
5:59 Wow. You really DO enjoy the double-entendre infra-dig, doncha.
Shame you cut away from that Routemaster before I could read the numberplate. One of the tea bus tour RMs was the last Routemaster to operate in Reading when Reading Mainline closed down.
Borough Road should be re-opened immediately, if not sooner.
There you go, there has been a call for reopening.
Beat me to it.
I suppose you could have bundled Spar Road station into this video ( the original teminus for the L & GR - was that London's very first terminus?) or maybe that's for another day Jago?