Years ago I arrived at Watford Met with my "All Zones" travel card. The guy on the gate said, without a hint of irony: "This isn't a zone mate, this is Watford"
Yeah I can remember when there were only numbered zones up to 6, so the outer extremities of the Met Line were marked on the maps as "Special Fares Apply". Last time I checked, even a 9-zone season ticket won't cover you to Watford Junction.
i suspect that one of Geoff's brain cells was shouting "I need to go back on the one day of the year the side door is open, before I release the video" all the time he was doing the editing.
what a beautiful station. When you showed the elevator buttons I had an instant return to my childhood where a panel like this was used in a department store in downtown Seattle. I can feel those buttons
When I was a little boy and I got my first copy of the London and the South East train map. I started noticing that some towns had more than one train station. Then I always wanted to know facts like why & how far apart they were.
I live in Edmonton Alberta Canada and am not that interested in the Tube stations in London but because of your enthusiasm I love your channel. It started with your race to visit all Tube stations.
As an ex-resident, great to see sunny Watford Met 😎🚂 Should have gone to see the originally intended 'end of the line' on the High Street, which is now Weatherspoons 🍻🚂
Great info as always! I lived just round the corner from the Met Sta from the mid 1950s to mid 1970s and I certainly never knew it had once had a lift. Back then in the 50s of course we still had slam doors and Ladies Only compartments with the white on green window transfers on the trains until the new stock arrived around 1960. There was also a steam shunter possibly into the 1960s which worked freight movements on the line and some non LT sidings south of the Met Sta back to Croxley. But the station itself looked much the same. It could then be reached by a ridiculously wide "Station Approach" private road from Rickmansworth Road, which had all been part of making the station in the 1920s more grand than it could ever be, and half that road width had been dug up for allotments during the War, and then re-concreted over.
Watford Met is surrounded by 'Terry and June' or 'Margot and Gerry' style houses, with beautiful roses in the gardens giving off a lovely aroma as you make your way to the Park.
You are lucky to get to Watford on a hot day. Last year, when the heatwave was 40 C temperatures, we made our way towards Watford. It was really hot, and at a certain point, there was an announcement, that the train will go to Rickmansworth. We learnd from your previous videos, that the Met line splits at the end, so we knew Rickmansworth is bad for our journey. We got off at Moor Park, and took a taxi to our destination. (We are tourists, not Londoners). So, we never made it to Watford, and now have the chance to see it in your video.
Congrats TfL, definetely good experience for tourists Was there no later train to Watford? You’re also smart for getting off at Moor Park. I wouldn’t have thought that, even though I live in London
Great video, Geoff. I'm surprised nobody's enquired whether the one mile hike between Watford Met and Watford Town is what cartographers refer to as the Watford Gap.
I used to use Watford Met to go to the football when I lived in Chesham (many many years ago!). It’s a good 15-20 minute walk from the ground but better than going into London and out again.
I live in the City of Watford and I go here everyday. I used to live only 5 blocks away from the station. Btw your videos are amazing. You are one of the best people on the platform and you deserve more subscribers.
@@i69420 so 'block' is pretty much meaningless here as a distance descriptor, a pointless American intrusion? If they are different size and shape and just simply 'a box of roads' then 4 blocks is Croxley station or the edge of Sarratt. Or as close as the house on Ricky Road opposite Metropolitan Station Approach. I, too, used to live 4 'blocks' away from Watford station and that term is basically meaningless within about 3000 miles of the station. :P
I used to use Watfordmet quite a lot and it's a lovely station. Another oddity is the gents are on the platform but the ladies up in the foyer. It's also unusual that engines can around their rolling stock.
Before the Second World War, the pub in Watford High Street - 'The Moon Under Water' had been designated as the end of line station. As a youngster, I remember it as 'The Grange Furnishing' store. It was complete then with the station portico round it.
Actually, the one and only time I ever visited Cassiobury Park, the weather wasn't particularly brilliant. I was on my way to Knebworth and I got off at the Watford Met then walked through the park to get to the centre to pick up my onward journey. The weather got worse as I and my companions got closer to Knebworth and by the time we got into the venue, it was mud city! I came up with a quick idea to turn a bin bag into a poncho to keep some of the rain off by then! (It was the Deep Purple "Perfect Strangers" tour, if you are curious!)
I’ve been using Watford a lot recently. Particularly late services as the Overground last train is at around 11pm only. The Watford Met last train that connects is about 00:10. If TFL are reading we want later services from Watford!
Great video, Geoff - as always! Cassiobury Park IS beautiful and also has the Grand Union Canal passing through it. (Just thought that I'd add a "plug" for a G.U. towpath walk - great for a similarly hot day!)
My Grandad was raised not far from here before the war - I loved exploring around here. It is much nicer because of the park being nearby. Great video, Geoff.
I love these extreme ends of the Metropolitan line. On the London Underground with scenery that is far removed from London. One day I'd love to live in Amersham, Chesham or Watford.
Lovely video as always. Nerdy behind the scenes addict here... reference back to Choo Choo Chat No8 - you explained the technique you "borrowed" from news packages - a cutaway to something like a bush in the foreground with soft focus, relevant, content in the background - in this video it is immediately before the wipe to the bingo card at 3:20
My own "EOtL" adventure involved going to Chesham, walking to Amersham (it's uphill all the way), then to Watford, walking to Watford Junction, then home to Mudchute via Euston. Quite a long day. Got my steps in, though.
Back in the 70s when I used the station on my journey to school the platforms still sported their original cast iron lamp standards. On some other stations of a similar vintage these were modernised by updating the lumieres retaining the cast iron standards. It is such a shame that Waford lost theirs.
Hey geoff, thanks, great watford video, I will definitely get up there this summer, thanks again for another excellent end of the line 👍 still looking forward to Wimbledon my home town 👍
Hey Geoff! Thank you so much for calling my hometown splendid ❤️❤️❤️ tip from a local: Cassiobury is pronounced "cass-uh-berry", at least, that's how everyone I grew up with pronounces it :)
I used to use this station a fair bit when I worked some of the time on Croxley Business Park. It always felt quite luxurious to get off the bus and have a nice air-conditioned train already waiting at the platform for me.
Great video Geoff. I love Watford and have good memories from there. The Station, Cassiobury Park and the area are all really nice. As is the shopping area on the high street. A great place with a nice atmosphere. :)
Road 21 and 24 works the same way at most end of line stations where the tracks stub end at the platform and yet there are nearby, parallel storage tracks. I work as an New York Subway conductor and that maneuver is a common occurrence on the L train at the end of the line at Canarsie- Rockaway Parkway when a train is no longer needed. Comes into the station, gets cleaned out of passengers, and then reverses into a spur track and then changes direction again into the storage yard next to the station. Process will also repeat in reverse to bring trains into service.
With all these gorgeous stations such as Watford, Chesham, and Amersham, I'm surprised the Met isn't higher on your World Cup of Tube Lines. 😂 But seriously, Watford is a beauty. I'm guessing the next EotL video will be on Battersea Power Station, and if I remember correctly, it wasn't the end of the line when you started the series (because it didn't exist).
I used to live in the flats by Watford station so I know it quite well, but I learnt many new and interesting facts from this video. Guarantee was fulfilled successfully.
Watford is another End of the Line station I didn't visit on October 17th last year because there were no signal staff on Zones 7-9. At some point I do want to visit all eight stations I had to miss so I can say I've visited all 272 stations
I like this series so much I am keen to let it continue. My list of stations that are end-of-the-line for one or more tube lines but do not have video in this series: Aldgate (Metropolitan) Bank (Waterloo & City) Barking (Hammersmith & City) Battersea Power Station (Northern) Edgeware Road (Circle / District) Elephant & Castle (Bakerloo) Hammersmith (Hammersmith & City / Circle) Kensington Olympia (District) Mill Hill East (Northern) Richmond (District) Stratford (Jubilee) Waterloo (Waterloo & City) Wimbledon (District) How many Geoff will do is another matter...😀
A wonderful station. Whilst I hope that one day the Croxley Green extension will happen. I wouldn't want to loose Watford Met. You should have mentioned the most excellent Watford Miniature Railway that runs in Cassiobury Park. The ten & a quarter inch gauge line opperates both steam and diesel services. Ho Hum Geoff that could be another topic that you could look at Miniature Railways in and around London.
I'm suprised you didn't note the miniature railway that runs in Cassiobury park. I have only just noticed that your "tube" map has that new purple line on too, plus what appears to be the East London line. So not just tube lines?
I grew up literally just around the corner, in one of the metroland style houses around there, and went to Watford Boys which is around another two corners. I wouldn't move back to Watford, but watching this does bring back the good memories. Also, it's pronounced "cass-oh-bree".
Love Watford station. You can see it in 1982’s ‘Harry’s Game’; a hitman hides in the lavatory there after shooting a Cabinet Minister in central London…
Another nerdy fact about the sidings at Watford. When the 1983 stock on the Jubilee was being withdrawn, a couple of trains were parked at Watford, in those sidings, awaiting final haulage off the system for scrapping.
I still think they should revive some sort of link to Watford Junction by bypassing the station (and retaining it due to its Grade II listing) and building a 2.2 km tunnel with exactly two stations: a new "Watford" and and underground "Watford Junction". The expense even with a tunnel is the two station boxes, and possible bores between the original tracks and Rickmansworth Road and between Rickmansworth Road and Langley Road (both being used to curve the route) and the rest being cut and cover. I will say that the station as-is is very nice indeed, so thank you for this series, Geoff!
That would be hugely expensive (much more so than the cancelled Croxley Link, which used the old Watford High Street - Croxley Green branch plus one new bridge to connect with the Met), and provide little benefit. It is already possible to travel from Watford High Street to the most popular destinations served by Watford Met - Harrow, Wembley and Euston.
In the 90s when I was 6 years old I had a appointment at local hospital. And in the waiting room out of all the magazines and books I was reading the local bus timetable for the first time and enjoyed it and at the end they said I could keep it. Afterwards I started going to different places to get more bus timetables, maps & some times to get to these places i would go by train and then ended up collecting train timetables, maps. On the London and the South East network map - Watford always interested me because the tube station was a Distance away from the main train station. Always wanted to know more and no iv never been there. Also I do find it interesting when other towns have more than one train station.
Excellent video as always Geoff, still loving this series soo much. P.s. keep making more 😅 maybe do the DLR, London Overground etc, just as a thought 😁
Great video Geoff. Still haven't been to Watford Met..... Next one doesn't have no Labyrinth? Think I know which one it is and looking forward in seeing the next End of the Line Station Station.
I'm surprised you didn't go to the Wetherspoons Moon under Water in the High Street, as that building (Empress tearooms ) was brought to be the terminus.
When I saw Watford, I thought for a moment that he had moved onto the Overground stations. Now wondering if Richmond will be the bridge to an overground end of the line series.
Wonder which EOtL stations won’t get a video as there’s quite a few Bakerloo: Elephant & Castle* Central: Woodford* Circle: Edgware Road*, Hammersmith* District: Richmond, Wimbledon, Olympia* Hammersmith & City: Barking* Jubilee Line: Stratford* Metropolitan Line: Aldgate* Northern Line: Battersea Power Station (probably coming next as no labyrinth) * ones are tenuous as you can go further out on other tube lines
Nice to see the park again I used to work that way a long time ago and I learnt things from this vid I never knew about when I used to use that station Ps ....Nice mention about the bins again
Ironically I chose to go home by the Overground this evening as I was headed for the mean streets of down-town Watford - but I still get to see Watford Met anyway! My biggest gripe about the station is the lack of "Next Train" indicators - when two trains are on the platform you have to guess - and sometimes the last in is the first out!??
Local Boy : it's Cashio-bury ... never Casio-bury Bingo : There is No Windmill, But there is one at Croxley ... The saga of the Croxley Rail-link ... and it's funding ... is long and I know far too much ... especially the rail bridge at Croxley Green
@@helwig83 Born in Maplecross 1960, lived in Croxley Green 1964- 1972. Yep always pronouced it as cassa-bree. Still do when talking to family, who still live local. live in Northants now. fond memories of my younger days.
The station at Watford got a reprieve really, since the Croxley link got kicked into touch. I'm one of the few who's been to Croxley Green, it's all dilapidated now!
Years ago I arrived at Watford Met with my "All Zones" travel card. The guy on the gate said, without a hint of irony: "This isn't a zone mate, this is Watford"
Hah!
Lol
I can hear Gerard Butler saying "This. Is. Watford"
@@roderickmain9697 Lol!
Yeah I can remember when there were only numbered zones up to 6, so the outer extremities of the Met Line were marked on the maps as "Special Fares Apply".
Last time I checked, even a 9-zone season ticket won't cover you to Watford Junction.
i suspect that one of Geoff's brain cells was shouting "I need to go back on the one day of the year the side door is open, before I release the video" all the time he was doing the editing.
y e s
Exactly 😂
Geoff, I'm disappointed you never got to see the miniature railway in Cassiobury Park! It's a wonderful ride there.
A missed oppertunity.
Geoff, I'm sure you'd love to know that the little newsagents attached to the building is often shortened to the 'Met Shop'!
what a beautiful station. When you showed the elevator buttons I had an instant return to my childhood where a panel like this was used in a department store in downtown Seattle. I can feel those buttons
Used to love the walk from here via the Grand Union Canal to Uxbridge.
Also the mini railway in the Casiobury Park.
"Do you want a nerd train fact ?" Of course that is why we are watching 😂
When I was a little boy and I got my first copy of the London and the South East train map. I started noticing that some towns had more than one train station. Then I always wanted to know facts like why & how far apart they were.
I live in Edmonton Alberta Canada and am not that interested in the Tube stations in London but because of your enthusiasm I love your channel. It started with your race to visit all Tube stations.
London tube is like the unclean ghetto compared to Canada
As an ex-resident, great to see sunny Watford Met 😎🚂
Should have gone to see the originally intended 'end of the line' on the High Street, which is now Weatherspoons 🍻🚂
Great info as always! I lived just round the corner from the Met Sta from the mid 1950s to mid 1970s and I certainly never knew it had once had a lift. Back then in the 50s of course we still had slam doors and Ladies Only compartments with the white on green window transfers on the trains until the new stock arrived around 1960. There was also a steam shunter possibly into the 1960s which worked freight movements on the line and some non LT sidings south of the Met Sta back to Croxley. But the station itself looked much the same. It could then be reached by a ridiculously wide "Station Approach" private road from Rickmansworth Road, which had all been part of making the station in the 1920s more grand than it could ever be, and half that road width had been dug up for allotments during the War, and then re-concreted over.
Watford Met is surrounded by 'Terry and June' or 'Margot and Gerry' style houses, with beautiful roses in the gardens giving off a lovely aroma as you make your way to the Park.
You are lucky to get to Watford on a hot day. Last year, when the heatwave was 40 C temperatures, we made our way towards Watford. It was really hot, and at a certain point, there was an announcement, that the train will go to Rickmansworth. We learnd from your previous videos, that the Met line splits at the end, so we knew Rickmansworth is bad for our journey. We got off at Moor Park, and took a taxi to our destination. (We are tourists, not Londoners). So, we never made it to Watford, and now have the chance to see it in your video.
Congrats TfL, definetely good experience for tourists
Was there no later train to Watford?
You’re also smart for getting off at Moor Park. I wouldn’t have thought that, even though I live in London
A lesson in not reading the platform indicator board or the train destination blind as it enters the platform.
@@tonys1636 No, they changed the destinatin of the train from Watford to Rickmansworth in the middle of the ride, because of the weather conditions
The question is, why were tourists going to Watford in the first place? 😅
Why would you go to Watford as a tourist hahaha?!
Great video, Geoff. I'm surprised nobody's enquired whether the one mile hike between Watford Met and Watford Town is what cartographers refer to as the Watford Gap.
The Watford of Watford Gap is an entirely different village in Northamptonshire
I used to use Watford Met to go to the football when I lived in Chesham (many many years ago!). It’s a good 15-20 minute walk from the ground but better than going into London and out again.
As a Watford-born person now living in Perth Australia you have no idea what thrill I got watching this video which brought back many memories.
I love it when Geoff makes a video about my end of the metropolitan line. Lots more facts then previously too.
It’s so weird seeing him at places where I walk past every day!
Yeah same
Love this series. And Watford is my local tube station!
I live in the City of Watford and I go here everyday. I used to live only 5 blocks away from the station. Btw your videos are amazing. You are one of the best people on the platform and you deserve more subscribers.
You live there and you didn’t know it’s a town, not a city? 😂
My dad called it a city and I still do at 28.
'block'? There's no grid there (there's a ladder south of Ricky Road), so block is a meaningless concept of distance!
By block, I mean Whippendell, Chester, Durban, and Addiscombe. I’m talking about different sized and shaped areas.
@@i69420 so 'block' is pretty much meaningless here as a distance descriptor, a pointless American intrusion? If they are different size and shape and just simply 'a box of roads' then 4 blocks is Croxley station or the edge of Sarratt. Or as close as the house on Ricky Road opposite Metropolitan Station Approach.
I, too, used to live 4 'blocks' away from Watford station and that term is basically meaningless within about 3000 miles of the station. :P
I used to use Watfordmet quite a lot and it's a lovely station. Another oddity is the gents are on the platform but the ladies up in the foyer. It's also unusual that engines can around their rolling stock.
Hi Geoff Another thing about the park is that there is a wonderful minature railway by the canal (Grand union ) Great vid as allways
At one time, maybe still, the miniature railway in Cassiobury Park was the only place in & around London to be able to ride a train on Christmas Day.
Before the Second World War, the pub in Watford High Street - 'The Moon Under Water' had been designated as the end of line station. As a youngster, I remember it as 'The Grange Furnishing' store. It was complete then with the station portico round it.
Actually, the one and only time I ever visited Cassiobury Park, the weather wasn't particularly brilliant. I was on my way to Knebworth and I got off at the Watford Met then walked through the park to get to the centre to pick up my onward journey. The weather got worse as I and my companions got closer to Knebworth and by the time we got into the venue, it was mud city! I came up with a quick idea to turn a bin bag into a poncho to keep some of the rain off by then! (It was the Deep Purple "Perfect Strangers" tour, if you are curious!)
I’ve been using Watford a lot recently. Particularly late services as the Overground last train is at around 11pm only. The Watford Met last train that connects is about 00:10. If TFL are reading we want later services from Watford!
Priority is given to Uxbridge because it probably sees higher passenger numbers
It's also in London whereas Watford is not
Great video, Geoff - as always! Cassiobury Park IS beautiful and also has the Grand Union Canal passing through it. (Just thought that I'd add a "plug" for a G.U. towpath walk - great for a similarly hot day!)
So excited to see a new video in the series! 👏🏽
Haven’t been to Watford Met for years, however this video is very timely as I plan to do the early morning NC from Ricky to Watford.
My Grandad was raised not far from here before the war - I loved exploring around here. It is much nicer because of the park being nearby. Great video, Geoff.
Whippendell Woods, round the back of Cassiobury were used to film scenes set on Naboo in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
I love these extreme ends of the Metropolitan line. On the London Underground with scenery that is far removed from London. One day I'd love to live in Amersham, Chesham or Watford.
We'd all love to live in Cassiobury, Watford or Amersham if we could afford it, or better still, Moor Park or Chorleywood.
@@thomasburke2683 Maybe the towns around Aylesbury could do?
Lovely video as always. Nerdy behind the scenes addict here... reference back to Choo Choo Chat No8 - you explained the technique you "borrowed" from news packages - a cutaway to something like a bush in the foreground with soft focus, relevant, content in the background - in this video it is immediately before the wipe to the bingo card at 3:20
My own "EOtL" adventure involved going to Chesham, walking to Amersham (it's uphill all the way), then to Watford, walking to Watford Junction, then home to Mudchute via Euston. Quite a long day. Got my steps in, though.
The only good thing about walking from Chesham to Amersham is that you are leaving the pit that is Chesham as you climb up that steep slope!
Omg i missed this series, thanks Geoff for making another episode
Thank you for sharing the video Geoff that was very interesting and great information.
You do work booming hard Geoff!
Ah memories! Running from school to try and catch the first train home. good ol' days
We use it when we come down to matches at Wembley. So much easier than driving all the way in
Back in the 70s when I used the station on my journey to school the platforms still sported their original cast iron lamp standards. On some other stations of a similar vintage these were modernised by updating the lumieres retaining the cast iron standards. It is such a shame that Waford lost theirs.
Thanks Geoff - I've got a day off today with nothing to do ... all sorted now!
Hey geoff, thanks, great watford video, I will definitely get up there this summer, thanks again for another excellent end of the line 👍 still looking forward to Wimbledon my home town 👍
Hey Geoff! Thank you so much for calling my hometown splendid ❤️❤️❤️ tip from a local: Cassiobury is pronounced "cass-uh-berry", at least, that's how everyone I grew up with pronounces it :)
Cass-uh?-berry
Cass-oh-bree.
Yes, but at least he got the Watford Met vernacular right. 😅
@@TheBallard100No, I'm almost certain it's pronounced 'Cassiabury'. So with an 'a' sound in the middle and not an 'o'.
@@barneyward9431 well, I grew up in the Cassiobury area, and that's what we called it.
Another brilliant video Geoff. As always, thanks ever so much 🙏😊.
Hi Geoff from Spain. I was watching an old episode of 'Face the Music' the other day and I realised just how alike you and Robin Ray are.
Based on the fact that Geoff said the next end of the line station doesn't have a labyrinth...it's got to be Battersea Power Station (station) lol
I used to use this station a fair bit when I worked some of the time on Croxley Business Park. It always felt quite luxurious to get off the bus and have a nice air-conditioned train already waiting at the platform for me.
Great vid and some top nerdy facts there Geoff! Luv it! Watford……gateway to the North! ⛄️⛄️👍
They also have time-tables at Harrow on the Hill!
There was a lovely narrow gauge railway in Cassio Park that I took my kids on 15 years or so ago
After 6 months in London, I realize I missed some of most interesting places. Thanks Geoff!!
I mean technically Watford isn't in London but definitely worth visiting if you are in thebcoty for a day escape
Great video Geoff. I love Watford and have good memories from there. The Station, Cassiobury Park and the area are all really nice. As is the shopping area on the high street. A great place with a nice atmosphere. :)
So Watford has 3 stations:
Watford tube station,Watford Junction train station and Watford High Street train station.
Another Perfect Video by Geoff!
My sister used to live in the flat above the station.
Road 21 and 24 works the same way at most end of line stations where the tracks stub end at the platform and yet there are nearby, parallel storage tracks.
I work as an New York Subway conductor and that maneuver is a common occurrence on the L train at the end of the line at Canarsie- Rockaway Parkway when a train is no longer needed.
Comes into the station, gets cleaned out of passengers, and then reverses into a spur track and then changes direction again into the storage yard next to the station.
Process will also repeat in reverse to bring trains into service.
With all these gorgeous stations such as Watford, Chesham, and Amersham, I'm surprised the Met isn't higher on your World Cup of Tube Lines. 😂 But seriously, Watford is a beauty.
I'm guessing the next EotL video will be on Battersea Power Station, and if I remember correctly, it wasn't the end of the line when you started the series (because it didn't exist).
looks like the station could do with a bit of paint, which is especially important to keep on top of on a listed station (to help preserve it)
Brilliant series Geoff! Will you be creating videos on the newest Least Used Stations?
I used to live in the flats by Watford station so I know it quite well, but I learnt many new and interesting facts from this video. Guarantee was fulfilled successfully.
Watford met is great for football at Vicarage Road. About 10 minutes walk away.
Watford is another End of the Line station I didn't visit on October 17th last year because there were no signal staff on Zones 7-9. At some point I do want to visit all eight stations I had to miss so I can say I've visited all 272 stations
Thanks Geoff . Got my bingo Sheet.
I've always pronounced it 'cas-a-bree' park.
Yes, it was certainly that in the 1950s, but habits change, I guess ....
Was convinced you had already done watfodd until you mentioned lost railways now I remember!
Great video, Geoff - lovely looking building. We will see you at the next station station!
I like this series so much I am keen to let it continue.
My list of stations that are end-of-the-line for one or more tube lines but do not have video in this series:
Aldgate (Metropolitan)
Bank (Waterloo & City)
Barking (Hammersmith & City)
Battersea Power Station (Northern)
Edgeware Road (Circle / District)
Elephant & Castle (Bakerloo)
Hammersmith (Hammersmith & City / Circle)
Kensington Olympia (District)
Mill Hill East (Northern)
Richmond (District)
Stratford (Jubilee)
Waterloo (Waterloo & City)
Wimbledon (District)
How many Geoff will do is another matter...😀
The next one will be Battersea for sure. He mentioned it won't have a labyrinth, and Battersea opened after the labyrinths were put up.
A wonderful station. Whilst I hope that one day the Croxley Green extension will happen. I wouldn't want to loose Watford Met.
You should have mentioned the most excellent Watford Miniature Railway that runs in Cassiobury Park.
The ten & a quarter inch gauge line opperates both steam and diesel services.
Ho Hum Geoff that could be another topic that you could look at Miniature Railways in and around London.
Saturday morning in Sydney. Watching a very happy Geoff starts the weekend on a good note.
I think you'll find it's Friday morning and you're late for work. (Well, it's Friday here in Melbourne at least!)
@@philroberts7238Do you know, you are actually correct.
I'm suprised you didn't note the miniature railway that runs in Cassiobury park.
I have only just noticed that your "tube" map has that new purple line on too, plus what appears to be the East London line. So not just tube lines?
Watford has a good museum too.
I grew up literally just around the corner, in one of the metroland style houses around there, and went to Watford Boys which is around another two corners.
I wouldn't move back to Watford, but watching this does bring back the good memories.
Also, it's pronounced "cass-oh-bree".
My home town, been here my whole life! Would have been an absolute pleasure to bump into you while you were visiting! Maybe next time :)
The last outpost, as far north as it gets. Well done Geoff.
Chesham is the most northerly?
Love the green and red Geoff, representing Ealing Broadway.
Ahh Watford. A place I’ve been many many times
Love Watford station. You can see it in 1982’s ‘Harry’s Game’; a hitman hides in the lavatory there after shooting a Cabinet Minister in central London…
Another nerdy fact about the sidings at Watford. When the 1983 stock on the Jubilee was being withdrawn, a couple of trains were parked at Watford, in those sidings, awaiting final haulage off the system for scrapping.
Cassiobury park is such a nice place
I still think they should revive some sort of link to Watford Junction by bypassing the station (and retaining it due to its Grade II listing) and building a 2.2 km tunnel with exactly two stations: a new "Watford" and and underground "Watford Junction". The expense even with a tunnel is the two station boxes, and possible bores between the original tracks and Rickmansworth Road and between Rickmansworth Road and Langley Road (both being used to curve the route) and the rest being cut and cover.
I will say that the station as-is is very nice indeed, so thank you for this series, Geoff!
That would be hugely expensive (much more so than the cancelled Croxley Link, which used the old Watford High Street - Croxley Green branch plus one new bridge to connect with the Met), and provide little benefit. It is already possible to travel from Watford High Street to the most popular destinations served by Watford Met - Harrow, Wembley and Euston.
In the 90s when I was 6 years old I had a appointment at local hospital. And in the waiting room out of all the magazines and books I was reading the local bus timetable for the first time and enjoyed it and at the end they said I could keep it. Afterwards I started going to different places to get more bus timetables, maps & some times to get to these places i would go by train and then ended up collecting train timetables, maps. On the London and the South East network map - Watford always interested me because the tube station was a Distance away from the main train station. Always wanted to know more and no iv never been there. Also I do find it interesting when other towns have more than one train station.
It is also an excellent station when mooring our narrowboat on the Grand Union Canal, as is Croxley, Rickmansworth and Uxbridge.
Excellent video as always Geoff, still loving this series soo much. P.s. keep making more 😅 maybe do the DLR, London Overground etc, just as a thought 😁
Love the “make sure we are first in the Yellow Pages” tactic of A1 Cars.
Geoff, I'm surprised you didn't mention Cassiobury parkrun. I expect you have done it? I have, it's fab. In the pouring rain in January though.
I've mainly only been on the tube to oxford circus or other central London stations although have been to north London on the tube to Wembley stadium
Northern line is great tbh but I like Victoria line aswell
Thanks again John in Chicago
Great video Geoff. Still haven't been to Watford Met..... Next one doesn't have no Labyrinth? Think I know which one it is and looking forward in seeing the next End of the Line Station Station.
I'm surprised you didn't go to the Wetherspoons Moon under Water in the High Street, as that building (Empress tearooms ) was brought to be the terminus.
you should have gone to WheatherSpoons as it was supposed to be 'The End of the Line' 🤔👍
Love the highlights Geoff!
Ahh yes finally you are visiting my favourite station!
When I saw Watford, I thought for a moment that he had moved onto the Overground stations. Now wondering if Richmond will be the bridge to an overground end of the line series.
So, Battersea Power Station is the next End of the Line destination isn´t?
Don't forget Lotts road.
Wonder which EOtL stations won’t get a video as there’s quite a few
Bakerloo: Elephant & Castle*
Central: Woodford*
Circle: Edgware Road*, Hammersmith*
District: Richmond, Wimbledon, Olympia*
Hammersmith & City: Barking*
Jubilee Line: Stratford*
Metropolitan Line: Aldgate*
Northern Line: Battersea Power Station (probably coming next as no labyrinth)
* ones are tenuous as you can go further out on other tube lines
Looking forward to the Battersea trip next time ! Shame that new Labyrinths has not been created for there and Nine Elms
Another great video Geoff, definitely need to visit Watford Met.
Got to Love Watford. And this Miniture Railway in Casio
Very nice. One of only 6 underground stops I haven't visited.
Nice to see the park again
I used to work that way a long time ago and I learnt things from this vid I never knew about when I used to use that station
Ps ....Nice mention about the bins again
Amazing video, interesting that the 'End of the Line' screen was the lines that go through ealing Broadway (if that is correct)!
It was icy and difficult to walk into the town from there when I visited back in January. my first visit in some decades.
Ironically I chose to go home by the Overground this evening as I was headed for the mean streets of down-town Watford - but I still get to see Watford Met anyway! My biggest gripe about the station is the lack of "Next Train" indicators - when two trains are on the platform you have to guess - and sometimes the last in is the first out!??
Local Boy : it's Cashio-bury ... never Casio-bury
Bingo : There is No Windmill, But there is one at Croxley ...
The saga of the Croxley Rail-link ... and it's funding ... is long and I know far too much ... especially the rail bridge at Croxley Green
Cashio-bury? Cassa-bree, surely? Though certainly I've never heard the way Geoff says it!
@@sihollett Geoff says it like a posh boy from private school, who's not mixed with the locals.
It's always cassa-bree to me!
@@helwig83 Born in Maplecross 1960, lived in Croxley Green 1964- 1972. Yep always pronouced it as cassa-bree. Still do when talking to family, who still live local. live in Northants now. fond memories of my younger days.
The station at Watford got a reprieve really, since the Croxley link got kicked into touch. I'm one of the few who's been to Croxley Green, it's all dilapidated now!