The SR photographic department was "down there" when I visited in (shock horror) 1966. BR canteens used to be in all sorts of gloomy places. Probably the "best" was at Liverpool St. where it was in the old tunnel built for Queen Victoria's train to get from Windsor to Sandringham. Every time I sat there I expected a train to come round the corner.
That though was based on a short sequence in the British Transport Films production 'Terminus' from 1975. It was the first film directed by the renowned John Schlesinger. 'Terminus' went on to accumulate 14 international awards including Best Short film at what is now the BAFTA's. It was also awarded Best Documentary at the Venice Film Festival that year.
I had a office in the “old exchange” in the 90’s in BR / NSE days. During the winter if you didn’t go out you wouldn’t see the sun from one day to the next as there where no windows. Air wasn’t the best either and you would be covered in a black dust that came from someplace or the other. The Staff Canteen was excellent. The one you went to was in fact the second one with the first being in the Waterloo General Offices but was moved when they where refurbished in 1991. We used to have meetings down in the canteen too in the offices out the back. The last place you are which was featured in Bourne is called the “old Raft” with the “new Raft” being to one in front of it. This has offices and was primarily used for us to maintain the old Flap customer information systems which where so popular in the 90’s (the ones that made the clack, clack, clack noises!) Many a good year spent at Waterloo !
Thank you for this behind the scenes look at Waterloo. Been through it a number of times, never with enough time to truly appreciate it. Inspired to slow down some and take it all in the next time around. Talking of inspired, I'm doing 1V60 at the end of the month! Thank you for telling us about that one. Gotta be done! Keep on keeping on!!
Great video. You were quite right about the Only Fools and Horses reference, Del Boy first meets Raquel under the famous clock in a Christmas Special episode called “Dates”.
That was brilliant ! I could see a whole new series built around exploring stations , there's just so much history hidden away from public view , great to see you both again !
Always a favourite, Waterloo. Childhood memories of arriving crack of dawn from Bucks for day trips or holidays to Portsmouth, or Weymouth when it had this feel that was hard to describe. Not many people but a certain energy. Latterly, jaunts out to Wimbledon with the concourse rammed with people or flying in from Bank on the W&C Line. A station with a thousand stories.
ouh... I LOVE such things like station deep in detail on what the user usually doesn't sees... control rooms, bunkers, maintenance tunnels, abadoned rooms - everything.
I didn't realise MSF was still being used in train station clocks! It was a very interesting experience for me to see the logs of when it was broadcast from Rugby over at the BT Archives. Really sad to see that station torn down.
The radio time signal has been used for station clocks for a long time. Some of the flap clocks in Kent were connected to the German time signal (with an hour offset) as the Rugby signal was weak in Kent. That was all very well except this was a long time ago and the Europeans changed their clocks on a different weekend to us so the clocks in Kent changed with Europe and were all an hour wrong for a couple of weeks ! Also the standard time signal used to be carried over the railway telegraph wires from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to the nearby Railway stattion and was then distributed over the UK allowing 'standard' or Railway time to be adopted across the country. Could make an interesting history video.
I KNEW it was the canteen! Haha, wow that takes me back! I vaguely recall the labyrinth of tunnels when I worked there for a short while, didn’t really have much time for a wander round though. I could see the ex-tractor fan joke coming a mile off - and Vicki handled it so well - lol. Nice end bit.
Under the Clock - so normal... At Hannover (Germany) Central Station you meet "under the tail". There is a statue of a king on a horse on Station Square. So you basically meet at the side of the plinth the horse's back is pointing to (the side of the Station Building)
In the United States and Canada, there is a similar radio station that transmits the exact time near Fort Collins, Colorado that is used by clocks to set the exact time. 6:28 Vicki's reaction to Geoff's "attractive forklift" remark is priceless.
It's great how there's so much that you don't usually see when using these stations. I wonder how much history Kings Cross and St Pancras have, Since they've had some big changes since they were first built.
Many years ago, I sneaked an unauthorised look around a basement area in St Pancras (doubt you'd get away with that today, what with alarmed doors and CCTV). Saw some lovely 19th century features! I like the way that Victorian engineering had an aesthetic even for things which today would be crudely functional, such as a dial on a boiler, or metalwork which the public would never see.
You need to do another series of some kind, even if it is all the tube stations again or heritage or something. Daily or weekly videos as part of a series are great.
I recommend you do the Glasgow Central tour open to anyone you get to to look round the basement there’s a museum and an old victorian platform it’s great anybody who really enjoyed this video should go on it
In our house we have had a radio controlled clock for many years and I have owned a radio controlled watch for two and a half years now. Both accurate to the second and well worth it!
aw, you're absolutely bonkers haha loved these quirky videos. If I'm not mistaken in the movie Man up there's a 'meeting under Waterloo clock' scene, where Simon Pegg meets a girl. Was it in that film? Now I'm not sure... anyhow... now I need to watch Bourne Identity.
Funny enough I was was traveling back to Northallerton from Liverpool Lime Street Today and I must say after a fantastic weekend in Liverpool I must say that Lime Street is an impressive place to look at and admire even from being what I believe the oldest station terminus in the world (according to the bus tour guides) and even for what I have found out on Station Day is the best thing to do. Even going there straight from the Cavern Club. HAPPY STATION DAY Also I thought that Clapham Junction on the main line out from Waterloo was Britain's Busiest Station.
The "Rugby" time signal (now officially known as "the Time from NPL") switched from BT's Rugby Radio Station to Anthorn Radio Station (now operated by Babcock) in Cumbria on 1st April 2007 after BT lost the contract to provide the service.
Fascinating to see behind the scenes. I'm in Sydney these days and these old corridors look remarkably similar to what you find under Central station here. A whole labyrinth - originally used for freight, parcel post, catering, etc. We don't have a winter salt store(!) but we do have an old police cell and a railway band practice room, along with 2 ghost platforms that have never been used. Speaking of disused platforms, are the old Eurostar ones at Waterloo now in use again? Last time I was in London they were still all blocked off but I believe one or two were going to be reworked for regular services.
Most big central stations with big clocks have the same "let's meet under the clock" thing about it. As in the case for my local (Glasgow Central) (some even get married under it)
6:06 - That poor girl took a heroic swing, in order to not interrupt the filming, which almost caused her to rest her plums on that sharp guard pole. 6:24 - Oops! Closet_skeleton's time... might i add, that forklift *was* attractive, such a fine craft she appeared. 7:00 - They've tried hard to coverup with all that junk brought in for a day of filming, but still... there's an inevitable evidence in the air, that it's a drug factory on a daily basis...
That isn't what most people would consider a forklift, that's an Electric Pallet Truck, sometimes the manual ones are also called Pump Trucks because you use a pumping action to raise and lower them.
Yes in an episode of only fools and horses which is called Dates and Del arranges to meet a person called Raquel from an online dating agency and you can see the network southeast decor because it was filmed in the NSE era.
Me and my brothers were messing around discussing why Waterloo is called what it is, maybe a loo overflowed? Maybe the Thames has a loo? Then we were talking about the Bakerloo line, maybe a loo for bakers? Then I thought of Cockfosters...
The down side to the Ice Melt SPP-100 is that it cost more then double the cost of rock salt. But the money save on not having to replace corroded equipment would more than cover the extra cost.
A good place for a ghost sequence as the area under Waterloo station was used for casualties in WW1. I was told that there was a direct tunnel to the hospital across the road but have never seen any mention of it. It might have been cur when the road was widened.
Do you know what is happening to the old Eurostar platforms? I think I took a Reading train from one of those a few years ago but work on this seems to progress at snails space.
Absolutely. There was one under where the Eurostar platforms are - they used the space for the reception area. There is still one - as far as know - in an old tunnel under Brighton station. You had to be a member of BR's social club to use them.
Waterloo station, to and from Brookwood (Guards Depot Pirbright) , to and from Sudbury on themes (aunt/uncle) 1974-1976, Waterloo Station (I believe?) to and from aldershot (Royal Corp of Transport Training Camp), (Assistant Instructor) 1979-1980
6:16 There was a moment where the camera panned right to Vicki but didn't quite focus properly... which means you had Oasis and blur in the same shot. (I wasn't going to make such a bad joke, but then Geoff made his "ex-tractor fan" comment...).
This looks like it could have potential for a future series? Behind the Network Rail Stations? Glasgow Central would be interested (not at all biased...) with its abandoned platform and history during the war. They do tours underneath as well as up on the roof if the weather's favourable.
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Vicki and Geoff, it doesn’t get any better than that thank you .
"what can we get for 50 quid?"
*stationary shot of a train slowly rolling by*
A 'stationary shot of a moving train' - an oxymoron, surely!
@@roboftherock In relativity theory, yes.
The SR photographic department was "down there" when I visited in (shock horror) 1966. BR canteens used to be in all sorts of gloomy places. Probably the "best" was at Liverpool St. where it was in the old tunnel built for Queen Victoria's train to get from Windsor to Sandringham. Every time I sat there I expected a train to come round the corner.
The all the stations music for these videos is absolutey brilliant
6.35 Ex-tractor- fan, I got that one here in Alberta Canada
Great video as always, love the end part vicky recreating the only fools and horses episode.
That though was based on a short sequence in the British Transport Films production 'Terminus' from 1975. It was the first film directed by the renowned John Schlesinger. 'Terminus' went on to accumulate 14 international awards including Best Short film at what is now the BAFTA's. It was also awarded Best Documentary at the Venice Film Festival that year.
Poor Vicky at the end under the clock.
No doubt she was stood up because of an attractive fork-lift.
Silly Geoff!
I had a office in the “old exchange” in the 90’s in BR / NSE days. During the winter if you didn’t go out you wouldn’t see the sun from one day to the next as there where no windows. Air wasn’t the best either and you would be covered in a black dust that came from someplace or the other.
The Staff Canteen was excellent. The one you went to was in fact the second one with the first being in the Waterloo General Offices but was moved when they where refurbished in 1991. We used to have meetings down in the canteen too in the offices out the back.
The last place you are which was featured in Bourne is called the “old Raft” with the “new Raft” being to one in front of it.
This has offices and was primarily used for us to maintain the old Flap customer information systems which where so popular in the 90’s (the ones that made the clack, clack, clack noises!)
Many a good year spent at Waterloo !
Extractor fan joke was really good
Thank you for this behind the scenes look at Waterloo. Been through it a number of times, never with enough time to truly appreciate it. Inspired to slow down some and take it all in the next time around.
Talking of inspired, I'm doing 1V60 at the end of the month! Thank you for telling us about that one. Gotta be done!
Keep on keeping on!!
Great video. You were quite right about the Only Fools and Horses reference, Del Boy first meets Raquel under the famous clock in a Christmas Special episode called “Dates”.
That was brilliant ! I could see a whole new series built around exploring stations , there's just so much history hidden away from public view , great to see you both again !
Geoff the extractor fan. coming soon!!
How did I miss this in the original upload???
If you flip the winter salt over does it become summersalt?
That my friend is absolutey top draw, well done to everyone concerned
@@brumsgrub8633 Drawer...DRAWER!
Welcome to australia
Wow! This is amazing and gives an amazing insite to London Waterloo station
(It was actually The Bourne Ultimatum that they filmed here)
Always a favourite, Waterloo. Childhood memories of arriving crack of dawn from Bucks for day trips or holidays to Portsmouth, or Weymouth when it had this feel that was hard to describe. Not many people but a certain energy. Latterly, jaunts out to Wimbledon with the concourse rammed with people or flying in from Bank on the W&C Line. A station with a thousand stories.
ouh... I LOVE such things like station deep in detail on what the user usually doesn't sees... control rooms, bunkers, maintenance tunnels, abadoned rooms - everything.
Another great video. I have happy memories of visiting Waterloo station.
I'd like to think of this as the second episode of your Most Used Stations series, with Oakham in Rutland being the first. :D
I have been to Waterloo about 5 times in the past and it is really cool
Great video and Waterloo is one of my favourites and I'm glad the international platforms were brought back into use.
I didn't realise MSF was still being used in train station clocks! It was a very interesting experience for me to see the logs of when it was broadcast from Rugby over at the BT Archives. Really sad to see that station torn down.
The radio time signal has been used for station clocks for a long time. Some of the flap clocks in Kent were connected to the German time signal (with an hour offset) as the Rugby signal was weak in Kent. That was all very well except this was a long time ago and the Europeans changed their clocks on a different weekend to us so the clocks in Kent changed with Europe and were all an hour wrong for a couple of weeks !
Also the standard time signal used to be carried over the railway telegraph wires from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to the nearby Railway stattion and was then distributed over the UK allowing 'standard' or Railway time to be adopted across the country. Could make an interesting history video.
I like the grand, yet slightly shabby aesthetic of Waterloo station.
I KNEW it was the canteen! Haha, wow that takes me back! I vaguely recall the labyrinth of tunnels when I worked there for a short while, didn’t really have much time for a wander round though. I could see the ex-tractor fan joke coming a mile off - and Vicki handled it so well - lol. Nice end bit.
Under the Clock - so normal... At Hannover (Germany) Central Station you meet "under the tail". There is a statue of a king on a horse on Station Square. So you basically meet at the side of the plinth the horse's back is pointing to (the side of the Station Building)
Ive been waiting for another video for a long time and its here 😀
In the United States and Canada, there is a similar radio station that transmits the exact time near Fort Collins, Colorado that is used by clocks to set the exact time.
6:28 Vicki's reaction to Geoff's "attractive forklift" remark is priceless.
Just so long as 'fork handles' don't get mentioned - oops, they just did!
Your 'Matt Damon! ' thing reminded me of Scott Mills getting people to shout the two words after watching Team America around 2007.
Waterloo Station is a great piece of architecture.
It's great how there's so much that you don't usually see when using these stations.
I wonder how much history Kings Cross and St Pancras have, Since they've had some big changes since they were first built.
Many years ago, I sneaked an unauthorised look around a basement area in St Pancras (doubt you'd get away with that today, what with alarmed doors and CCTV). Saw some lovely 19th century features! I like the way that Victorian engineering had an aesthetic even for things which today would be crudely functional, such as a dial on a boiler, or metalwork which the public would never see.
Wonderful! And the last bit.... :D
very good video
..Hech, those old dissused derelict tunnels, basements and walkways are amazing..!!!.
I love Waterloo Station! 😊
Geoff and vikki my evening sorted 👍🏼😍
This was so cool!
You need to do another series of some kind, even if it is all the tube stations again or heritage or something. Daily or weekly videos as part of a series are great.
I recommend you do the Glasgow Central tour open to anyone you get to to look round the basement there’s a museum and an old victorian platform it’s great anybody who really enjoyed this video should go on it
it was the Bourne Ultimatum (the third Bourne film) that was filmed at waterloo, and not the Bourne Identity (first one) as Vicky Quoted 09:34
There used to be an art deco news cinema inside Waterloo station, on pretty much the same spot that Lush is now located.
William Mayer what!!?? Amazing!
@@VickiPipe Yep. It's featured in this fantastic film about the station from 1944: film.britishcouncil.org/london-terminus
this is my favourite station on the underground
Ex-tractor fan, loved it!
In our house we have had a radio controlled clock for many years and I have owned a radio controlled watch for two and a half years now. Both accurate to the second and well worth it!
Rip to my great uncle Fred who worked at Waterloo station, sadly he passed away 2nd of December 2018 to cancer, he will be greatly missed
aw, you're absolutely bonkers haha loved these quirky videos. If I'm not mistaken in the movie Man up there's a 'meeting under Waterloo clock' scene, where Simon Pegg meets a girl. Was it in that film? Now I'm not sure... anyhow... now I need to watch Bourne Identity.
Simply delitefull!
Funny enough I was was traveling back to Northallerton from Liverpool Lime Street Today and I must say after a fantastic weekend in Liverpool I must say that Lime Street is an impressive place to look at and admire even from being what I believe the oldest station terminus in the world (according to the bus tour guides) and even for what I have found out on Station Day is the best thing to do. Even going there straight from the Cavern Club.
HAPPY STATION DAY
Also I thought that Clapham Junction on the main line out from Waterloo was Britain's Busiest Station.
I like the shot you both sitting on different staircases, dusty steps I'm surprised Vicki has got any dust particles on her trousers
The "Rugby" time signal (now officially known as "the Time from NPL") switched from BT's Rugby Radio Station to Anthorn Radio Station (now operated by Babcock) in Cumbria on 1st April 2007 after BT lost the contract to provide the service.
Fascinating to see behind the scenes. I'm in Sydney these days and these old corridors look remarkably similar to what you find under Central station here. A whole labyrinth - originally used for freight, parcel post, catering, etc. We don't have a winter salt store(!) but we do have an old police cell and a railway band practice room, along with 2 ghost platforms that have never been used.
Speaking of disused platforms, are the old Eurostar ones at Waterloo now in use again? Last time I was in London they were still all blocked off but I believe one or two were going to be reworked for regular services.
Ohhh, the glamour of tv show making!
Most big central stations with big clocks have the same "let's meet under the clock" thing about it. As in the case for my local (Glasgow Central) (some even get married under it)
6:06 - That poor girl took a heroic swing, in order to not interrupt the filming, which almost caused her to rest her plums on that sharp guard pole.
6:24 - Oops! Closet_skeleton's time... might i add, that forklift *was* attractive, such a fine craft she appeared.
7:00 - They've tried hard to coverup with all that junk brought in for a day of filming, but still... there's an inevitable evidence in the air, that it's a drug factory on a daily basis...
Any plans for anything on Beeching? All the Beeching Stations..
A video full of swearing would fit nicely.
Did I spot the old Eurostar - Waterloo tube corridor?
Yes
Thanks for the answer. I totally forgot Eurostar was here and always wonder why they block off the passage way.
@@tongthanakorn6484 well look at waterloo now with its refurbished platforms 21 - 24 (I still don't like the 701s)
That isn't what most people would consider a forklift, that's an Electric Pallet Truck, sometimes the manual ones are also called Pump Trucks because you use a pumping action to raise and lower them.
Yes in an episode of only fools and horses which is called Dates and Del arranges to meet a person called Raquel from an online dating agency and you can see the network southeast decor because it was filmed in the NSE era.
How did I miss this video and how has it taken me this long to find it? RUclips algorithms - comprehensible to, well ... no one.
Top video as always
Neat ghost sequence. 👻
Me and my brothers were messing around discussing why Waterloo is called what it is, maybe a loo overflowed? Maybe the Thames has a loo? Then we were talking about the Bakerloo line, maybe a loo for bakers? Then I thought of Cockfosters...
The down side to the Ice Melt SPP-100 is that it cost more then double the cost of rock salt. But the money save on not having to replace corroded equipment would more than cover the extra cost.
A good place for a ghost sequence as the area under Waterloo station was used for casualties in WW1. I was told that there was a direct tunnel to the hospital across the road but have never seen any mention of it. It might have been cur when the road was widened.
Do you know what is happening to the old Eurostar platforms? I think I took a Reading train from one of those a few years ago but work on this seems to progress at snails space.
Vicki you are so funny and great
Thanks for the good video. At least I will only see this if I work there. :-)
The national physics laboratory is in Twickenham, I did my work experience there
Teddington
Cool...! Did you know there was a rifle range in the arches for many years - until the International platforms were built?
John Still John what?! For reals?
Absolutely. There was one under where the Eurostar platforms are - they used the space for the reception area. There is still one - as far as know - in an old tunnel under Brighton station. You had to be a member of BR's social club to use them.
Waterloo station, to and from Brookwood (Guards Depot Pirbright) , to and from Sudbury on themes (aunt/uncle) 1974-1976, Waterloo Station (I believe?) to and from aldershot (Royal Corp of Transport Training Camp), (Assistant Instructor) 1979-1980
6:16 There was a moment where the camera panned right to Vicki but didn't quite focus properly... which means you had Oasis and blur in the same shot.
(I wasn't going to make such a bad joke, but then Geoff made his "ex-tractor fan" comment...).
What is the blue plague for ? (5:45 through the doors)
I miss All The Staions so much, hope you’ll do all the Irish stations!
Are you going to do this at all the London terminal stations? Or indeed all the terminal stations?
Good video nice to see you both in it👍 have you got a book out or something ?? 😉🔌
I feel like they didin't film the actual bourne spots 😂 great and funny film none the less. Sad to see Geoff prefers truck lifts. 😢😢
What is that round blue plaque on the wall at 5.44 ?
I think it's a health and safety advisory. Hard hats or steel caps area. Something of that type.
This looks like it could have potential for a future series? Behind the Network Rail Stations? Glasgow Central would be interested (not at all biased...) with its abandoned platform and history during the war. They do tours underneath as well as up on the roof if the weather's favourable.
Glasgow Central tour no longer go on the station roof due to heath and safety they were thinking of bringing it back but nothing became of that idea
Great video. How about an All The Stations Day, a photograph of each railway station taken on the same day and put on the all the stations website
Pet Shop boys 'West End Girls' has a music video that was partially filmed in Waterloo featuring the clock
all the stations should do the history of all the stations across the country .
All the basements
“dust” oh yes.... so very much !!!
8:23 - Extractor Fans
The arches reminded me a little of TVC.
£50? . Probably enough for a cameo appearance in a publicity campaign for Brighton Line improvements ;-)
Looked to me like a proper Keep Left sign! Maybe Hell’s Grannies are nearby?
You should have had a visit to the W&C depot, it's a labyrinth down there!
The way Vicki runs is almost as funny as the way Matt Damon runs.
They (one of the toc’s) should get both of you into an information booth of one of the stations for a day.
Where's the shot of the garbage bag blowing in the wind?!
Wasn't Waterloo also home to the long gone London Necropolis Railway, that ferried bodies to Brookwood cemetary?
They had a private station nearby I believe
@@MattyC0900 There is a Vicki Explores about this - the London terminal still exists but is an office block and of course the cemetry exists as well.
Meeting under the clocks, just like Melbourne Australia
Geoff did you find the geocache outside Waterloo at the north entrance
In Geoff's defense, that is a very sexy forklift - what is that, a Catt?
it looks like another series. where did that sealed off corridor go in the other direction?
Padington, King cross or Manchestr Picadilly Stationday ?
Hey Geoff,Will you do an all the station for All the station episode for Crossrail/Elizabeth line when it is fully running?
I have a lush hand lotion applied currently. My mum looked for rescue in the garden and opened EVERY window of the hose...
7.57 wow
Exactly what i just said! Had to rewind it to make sure!