All Tube Stations Have Fifteen Floors
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- A mention in the Tufnell Park video that I made last week caused some confusion ... how could 110 steps be the equivalent to a 15 storey building?
Ah! Yes, so I went out to explain a running gag that we have, involving London Underground stations and the signs that they have at siaircase which may not be entirely accurate ...
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Haha - I forgot about that.
Geoff Marshall Sorry, stupid suburbian American here, why make the time stations so deep?
It's not a stupid question. Hampstead station is deep because Hampstead is on a hill and the tube line is more or less level all the way through from Central London. The other two stations are deep because the tube lines (small section tunnels, small trains) were built after the main-line railways and the Metropolitan and District Railways (sub-surface lines, normal-sized trains). They had to go under the earlier lines, the Thames, and assorted sewers, gas mains, hydraulic and pneumatic power supplies.
Geoff mate - would it not have been easier to count the steps going down and then taking the lift back up?
In this video you climed 688 steps, which is equivalent to about 15 storeys.
I only regret that I have but one like to give for this comment...
53 Stories
He climbed the equivalent of three 15 storey buildings, and that's the equivalent of 15 storeys.
@hitter kitten and you don't even have to tell your fellow players which mode of transport you used.
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Ur house has like maybe 20 steps somet witch is equilivent to a 15 storey building
This video makes me really happy that I live on the ground floor.
If I lived on the second floor, I'd have to climb 20 steps every day. That's equivalent to a 15-storey building!
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@@bipbipletucha good work
But think about the great workout you'd get?
Your quads would love you for it
Ah, yes, one storey is equivalent to a fifteen storey building.
If this video had been just 67 seconds longer, it would have told a 15 minute story!
i know .. that did actually occur to me only as i was uploading it!!
You could have filled that time walking up a 15 story building
Genius!
... in keeping with the theme we can call it “ *15 minutes* ” ⁉️😂
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equivalent to 15 floors
*Do not scroll except in an emergency*
Too late.
@@Nirrrina he has 103 likes now queen
It's at 1.6k now:(
Its now at 555 likes
I was your 715th like!
Maybe the TFL planners thought "15 stories" sounded intimidating enough that it would encourage people to use the lifts, instead of having the "emergency stairs" full of people going normally to and from the stations?
doens't solve the 17 storyes of hampstead
This dude looks like Daniel Craig if he worked a normal job
More exactly like a slightly-less-good-looking brother of Daniel Craig's.
He looks like the love-child of Daniel Craig and Jeremy Renner.
You're right and I don't like it
@@Laurastar2009 OMG thanks I'm not the only one, I've been thinking about it the whole video 😅
More like Tom hardy imo
What’s so awesome about this video is: 1) the purity of the joke 2) that you went to each spot, measured, and climbed the staircase 3) you showed math and it seems like you have a love for it, which is awesome. This is just such a wholesome and beautiful video.
I love how it seems that “15 storeys” is just used as a synonym for “a lot of storeys”, just like you’d say someone is “a hundred” when they are just very old. There’s always a number that takes on an abstract rather than quantitative meaning, and for number of storeys to climb this number is clearly 15.
Well, that's the storey.
Or when you're building an empire, so you sign a "99 year lease" on someone else's land
There's a lot of psychology at play with the TfL signage. 15 storeys seems to be the sweet spot for discouraging people from bothering with the stairs while still sounding like a reasonable number. They could have been accurate with Hampstead though.
@@theKobus That's what's used in the Bible mostly, isn't it?
@@theKobus Yup it's from the Hebrew. They have the same expression in Persian, too (or at least early modern Persian, which is what I studied, no idea if they use it in contemporary Persian)
The building with the most stories is a Library
Nice
The world record for most stories gone through in a single day was set by David Parkerson, who went through 98 stories on september eleventh, 2001.
@@donald12998 Nice
But which one?
I‘m ashamed dislikes aren’t shown on youtube comments
Sign: "This staircase has 198 steps. Do not use except in an emergency!"
Me (With a box of slinkies): ...hmmm
Sounds like it time for AN EMERGENCY TEST OF SLINKIES
Me, a troll: You may pass.
Now I have an emergency, I need to see that
When I was last in London, I used the Hampstead station quite a bit. I actually tried to find a slinky and let it go down the staircase.
What amazes me is that many of the Tube stations are over 100 years old and are still in good condition.
Try it at Angel on the up escalator.
What TFL should do is put a slide down those spiral staircases.
But it's usually for going up in emergencies
They tried SOMETHING like that once at Holloway Road if I remember...a spiral escalator I believe.
Jamie And The Magic Torch style :D
for emergency fun.
Yes, they did try a spiral escalator at Holloway Road. It broke down on its first day of operation. Some components have been salvaged and are on display at the London Transport Museum.
I wonder if the reason behind it is psychological. They employ a lot of subtle traffic control systems to keep people moving maybe they have worked out that by saying 15 stories, it put's people off using the stairs even when the station is busy.
Timmity3 maybe law of diminishing returns, don’t want to scare people off during a real emergency?
@@timotheatae Yeh, I was just thinking this. Do people think 14 stories, that's nothing, I'll give that a go, but 15 pushes it over the limit. It would be interesting to try to find out when this signage was introduced and who suggested it, and what their reasoning was!!!
The best explanation I could come up with is that 15 storeys sits near the bottom threshold of various definitions of a "high-rise" building. Most high-rise buildings in London are residential tower blocks, so a lot of Londoners have a good idea how tall 15 storeys actually is. It's a lot of climbing, but in an emergency it's definitely doable. Putting that number at 20 or more storeys would be pushing this idea into a commercial skyscraper area, the kind you see in the City, and that's more than most people are comfortable climbing, even in an emergency (obviously not talking about "fiery death" kind of emergency, but rather "please move to the nearest exit for no apparent reason" kind of emergency). So 15 storeys is A) close enough to the actual height of the staircase, B) high enough to deter casual use as people who live in high-rises know it's quite a climb, and C) not so high as to deter people from using the staircase in case there's actual emergency.
@@B3RyL I agree with you, however the vast majority of people in London don't live in building with 15 floors, I don't think I've ever lived or worked in a building with 15 floors in London and I've worked in quite a few locations, maybe this is the point. I think it's probably just a generic signage and maybe they bought in bulk and so have the same number of floors on each sign. It is to put people off going by the stairs if they aren't physically capable of doing so. I've worked on the 6th floor and during fire practices had to walk down and back up 6 flights of stairs and that was reasonably challenging. I have walked up some of these stair wells on the underground and they seem to go on forever so shouldn't be taken lightly, especially if you aren't that fit or have a condition.
@@mattpotter8725 16 is right out
West Finchley has no steps. That's equivalent to 15 storeys!
By that analogy West Hampstead must be about a 20 stories equivalent 🙄
Many tall tales?
It says 'floors' not 'storeys'? Theres a bit of a slope down from the road to the platform and if you are going south you have to use the steps over the bridge. Thats got to be worth at least 4 or 5 floors. Some of the bigger stations probably have a hundred seperate floors? ;)
Not stories. *floors*. Every time there's a pavement break in the floor, it's a new floor. Or perhaps every step could be considered a floor as well.
and east finchley
My appendix burst on a Piccadilly line train on Valentine's Day 2014. I managed to get off at Gloucester Road and go up in the lift to call an ambulance. Later that year the lifts were replaced. It's a good job I didn't have to go up the stairs!
Damn that must have hurt like a motherfucker
They need to put the “15 floors” sign at an above ground station
H0ll0aloio
This station is 15 storeys above ground
The northbound platform at Woodside Park is exactly at street level as you get off the train, fifteen floors above the platform.
Or at a street level station.
How about build a station in a skyscraper on the 15th floor
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underground stations: 15 storeys deep
street level stations: 15 storeys
lifted stations: -15 storeys deep
"Do not use except in an emergency" - The need for an emergency workout does count?
Simon Langhof of course, what about if you can't go gym and want to do some tricep dips xd
I also found it interesting that it read that! I did think there would be a liability statement so nobody could sue if they got a heart attack or something but they surely shouldn’t restrict people. Why did nobody tell Geoff off?
Well in the news they say that obesity is an epidemic, and that sounds like an emergency to me.
Tried the steps once at Covent Garden when the lifts were out of service...not gonna try again unless I'm in a hurry
Hi Geoff, you've got me wanting to make a special trip to Chalk Farm now, just to check out the signage!!
4 minutes you say to ascend the stairs at Hampstead, I think it might take me a little bit longer!!
TFL sign printing programmer is developing the code:
He writes: str_format("This stairway has {0} steps.
Equivalent to
He stops looks at his co-worker and asks how to convert steps into floors, he says don't know, just put in 15.
That makes much more sense
I got a laugh out of this comment! Hope it gets more likes.
@@Circ00mspice Thank you for the kind words.
@gentuxable str_format("This stairway has {0} steps.
Equivalent to {1}", steps, 15);
One thing is missing, Geoff. You should actually go to 15-storey-buildings and show (from the outside) how high they are.
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Good point! I think he needs to time himself climbing a 15-storey building, in order to establish a correct benchmark.
That's a storey for another time!
@@guitarslim56, I don't think that it would be the same experience, and take the same amount of time and effort, as climbing a spiral staircase.
As somebody who works in architecture - there is no approximation for the height of a storey anyways. A residential building will have a significantly smaller storey height than a commercial building (mainly due to the floor thickness being considerably larger to accommodate services).
I'm getting weird nostalgia watching this ajdkfhskd
Why do I miss the tube????
Lock down has messed me up
This video is 833 seconds long
That is the equivalent of 15 minutes
Only watch in case of emergency
I've been out of the UK since 1998, but watching your videos shows something to me, and it's that someone has finally cleaned up all the walls in the stations. I've always been a fan of the antique glazed tiles that are very prevalent in London, and now they all appear sparkling and shiny again. That makes me happy as it's not what I remember of 80s and 90s London.
I was thinking the same thing, too. I was in London, myself in '99 and 2K. I remember when a lot of the walls were filthy. However, if I am not mistaken and if I can remember correctly they still had a lot more city trains still using coal to 'power' their trains. I distinctly remember having to cover my face w/ a scarf while I waited downstairs b/c the smoke was so thick and heavy. My (US) lungs weren't used to all the thick heavy smoke.
@@trojanette8345 The last steam locomotives were withdrawn in the 60s, so it wasn’t coal smoke. Not that the air quality in any big city with lots of motor vehicles is anything to write home about, though.
Your maths is OK, but you've gone the long way around (a bit like using the stairs!). If a 'storey' is defined as 10' (3.048m), and a step is 0.17m, then a storey contains 18 steps (3.048/0.17). So Covent Garden - with 193 steps - is equivalent to 11 storeys (193/18), Russell Square with 175 = 10 floors (175/18), and Hampstead with 320 steps is therefore 18 storeys (320/18).
However! 10 feet (3.04m) is only the void between floors. You need to add in the thickness of the floors themselves, which varies, but let’s use an average of 600mm.
This means that a ‘storey’ = 21 steps.
So Covent Garden is 9 storeys, Russel Square is 8 storeys, and Hampstead is 15.
So Hampstead is the only one that’s correct!
The average building does absolutely not have en average void of 3 meters.
@@markj2093 He said the void (referring to the height of each floor) is 3.04m, and the thickness of each floor (which you're calling the void between floors) is 0.60m. I'd concur with +Konsultarvode, as my house has floors of about 2.25m. Using these numbers, a storey is 2.85m, and thus is 2.85m / (0.17m / step) ≈ 11 steps. Thus, +Andy Linton's results are off by 1 - (18 steps / 11 steps) ≈ 64%. That is, Covent Garden is 15, Russel Square is 13, and Hampstead is 25.
There are definitely buildings with 10' storeys, though, so "X number of steps is equivalent to 15 storeys" seems like a reasonable middle ground.
Nearly all the way there, but you forgot the fact that in a 10 story building, the tenth floor doesn’t have any stairs. So the metric “equivalent to an X story building” is the sum of the stair heights plus 1.
@@TKTGalahad Nice catch! Though I think "equivalent to X storeys" here means "equivalent to climbing from the ground floor to the X'th floor",† so that the number of steps you climb is indeed X × (number of steps per floor), and not (X-1) × (number of steps per floor). This is perhaps seen more clearly in the limiting case, where one says, "I just climbed 1 storey", which surely means that they went up some stairs, and not zero.
† _Assuming we're enumerating the floors in the British fashion, starting at 0 (i.e. the ground floor is floor 0, the next floor is floor 1, etc.), and not in the American fashion, starting at 1 (i.e ground floor is floor 1, etc.)._
@@TKTGalahad I think it differs between the UK and Europe as compared with the US way of counting the ground floor as 1.
Is 15 storeys the only number where you think it's too many storeys to take the stairs on a normal day.... but the number where is there's an emergency you think "I'm not waiting for the lift.... I'm getting outta here".... I'm sure this is one of the many lies TFL tells us on a daily basis to keep the system flowing..... Inspector Sands Calling.....
I suspect that's quite probably the reason why they do it. A sign effectively saying "it's too far, don't bother" is going to cause a lot less obstruction in an actual emergency than a physical barrier stopping people using the staircase.
Besides, 15 is sort of an approximate average between them all. So make one sign for them all and call it "good enough."
Tomas Antony You act like the Inspector Sands code is bad thing. Would you like to get trampled by running morons because someone threw a lit cigarette in a rubbish bin and there was a small fire? You're off your bleeding nut if you think people will remain calm when someone yells "fire" in the tube. Go put your tin foil hat back on, you spaz.
@@curlybrace314 Except all the signs are different; they display the exact step count and differing texts. The graphics are similar but the content is unique to each location. I definitely think it's a psychological thing.
New announcement on the London Underground - "Mind the 15 story gap"
The thing that makes me laugh is the difference in language used on the posters - Covent Garden with its "Do not use except in an emergency" basically says "Oi! Tourist! Naah!" whereas the much more polite "If you have any difficulties walking..." at Hampstead basically translates as "Well, Ok, yaaas, you're a powerful self-determining yoga mum, you can do it!" in perfect BBC received pronunciation 😄
This impatient tourist walked the Covent Garden stairs. I'll wait for lift next time.
@@howardchambers9679 Done it too, with luggage.
Howard Chambers has to
Russell Square is "my" tube station when I'm in London, and the reason I stay there is because it's within walking distance from Eurostar so I DON'T have to negotiate tube stations with luggage. I like the Piccadilly line because it takes me straight to Covent Garden), Knightsbridge and South Kensington. But I hate carrying luggage in London tube stations because of all the stairs and elevators.
As someone with difficulties walking... I'll take the lift. I don't think my carer wants to bump me up 15 storeys of stairs!
This man's enthusiasm for, and knowledge of his subject is brilliant! There's something very comforting in watching two or three episodes with a cuppa, and the inevitable Hobnobs.
**At Mill Hill East**
"This station is located fifteen floors beneath ground level"
"beneath ground level" 👌👌
*above ground level Lol
*to the side of ground level
*outside of the environment
*within ground level
Fun fact: most stories have 13 steps...
_but how tall is each step_
@@roisinnigcrainn7722 about 15 storeys
I have 13 stairs in my house.
@@M0jibake Well, I hope you have an elevator, too ;)
Geoeff Marshall says “Forget Nutri-System, I lost 50 lbs walking up steps at five tube stations each day.”
when you gotta hit your exercise goals for the week in 1 day
Time to start a side-line in fitness videos "Geoff's 15 storey workout".
colin5021 at a cut-and-cover level station!
Scott757300 "Fit in 15 (Storeys)"
I have about five steps leading up to my house. I'm considering getting a "15 storey" sign.
Gotta love the psychology behind the underground to try and stop people using the stairs
Try using a wheelchair on the Tube. Nightmare. It’s time it was radically over hauled
Jane Kirk I’m all for accessibility, but the vast majority of people are capable. For the many, not the few. We don’t pander to minorities. There are plenty of stations you can use. If not, then use a bus, taxi or Uber.
@@handsoffmycactus2958 even though the tube is really a nightmare when not fully capable and willing to spend a lot of times in tiny steep crowded passages and stairwells. Here in Vienna there are signs on all stations of a line if one platform is temporarly not accesible by lift but only by escalator and stairs, as we are used to several lifts in every station. There are exceptionally signs on the U-Bahnplan (Tubemap) if a platform is NOT accesible by lift. In London there are signs on the tubemap if a station is accesible by lift. And i think this definitly has to change, giving everyone acces to the major public transport as the tube should be the norm, not the exception.
@@handsoffmycactus2958 So you are not all for accessibility.
I remember one tube station with multiple new lifts installed had a Level Minus 15 button to take you to the deepest level platform. I wanna say Bond Street but I don't think it was that
Taking the joke to the extreme
Went to school next to Hampstead station, can confirm, never walk up those stairs.
Matt H too late... he already did 😂
What Side
This staircase has 10 steps, equivalent to 15 floors.
A running gag? ;-) After all this climbing? :-)
Gpcas9 53 Stories
A climbing gag
Oh, you.
UnitSe7en What a thrill
After joke like that, you deserve a charlie horse.
I have watched so many videos where there are comments about a 15 storey building so I was happy when the YT algorithm decided to spit this one out for me to see.
So impressed that this could have been a thirty second video about “wow look the tube stations have wrong signs - look they all say 15 floors but they’re different depths haha” but you managed to turn this into a 15 min video
I really like the form of edit that's been going on for a few videos now. The sped-up sections with music are well-paced and balance very well with the other bits.
I'm not even a train enthusiast but I love your videos!
I don’t know how I got recommended your channel but I loved it and I am subbed. You have the kind of single-minded dedication to something that I absolutely cherish
hey Beth! Welcome aboard! lots of nerdy railway fun here!!
I’ve been told that nerdy railway fun equals Asperger’s syndrome.
I was at Covent Garden on Sunday evening and thought of this video. There was also an announcement about being in proper physical fitness if you were taking the stairs.
What it boils down to is that this is another example of the authorities treating ordinary people like idiots.
Or of the authorities consisting mainly of idiots....
I’m used to taking the stairs as my local station is Chalk Farm, so when I go up to Hampstead I always have to remind myself the stairs are like climbing a mountain😂.
It makes sense when you think about it tho, Chalk Farm is at the bottom of the same hill that Hampstead sits atop.
The tube has like the best steps ever, believe me! Very fine steps
Believe it or not but there is actually a good amount of research behind stair design. All of us have probably at some time in our lives encountered stairs that were designed rather than engineered so to speak. While they may look aesthetically pleasing, walking on them feels weird, unnatural, out of rythm. Steps so shallow it feels more like climbing a ladder or just the opposite, steps so deep it feels like you have to take a step and a half forward to reach the next step up.
It is 33cm to a meter.
You are a total hero!
Climbing all those stairs ! 25 floors! And likely more.
I live in a flat at the 8th floor, and the hight of each is 2,60 meter. Plus 15cm ceiling i guess. I will find out.
3 meters would be pretty high.
So you would get even more stories out of it.
( You can google how many is X foot in meters, it will likely show up immidiately . I found out because math's crack me up).
Thank you for your terrific trafic videos. They are very much appreciated 🌷
I live in the Netherlands and have Family in Hawarden, Wales.
So if i come via London -thanks to you - i won't get lost. Great!
This reminded me of the video Tom Scott did called "The Lies of the London Underground"
I guess my parents don't know much about the London Underground because they tried to get us to go down the stairs at Covent Garden once.
It took you 4 minutes to walk up 300 steps? It'll take me 40 minutes!!
By the same maths a ‘real’ 15-storey building should be 268 steps.
Geoff, you forgot one thing: The height of one storey changed over the years. It might be just above 3 meters now, but you can find older buildings (at least here in Germany, but I assume similar happens in all of Europe) with storeys up to half a meter or in more extreme cases even a full meter smaller, although those are centuries old. You might have to find out what storey height was usual by the time Covent Garden was constructed to see if at least that claim could have been right.
Covent garden is barely over 100 years old, I found a construction manual on the .gov archives from 1910 that states a single storey is allowed to be 3.9-4.5 metres tall which would make it have even fewer floors than Geoff calculated if we used the 1907 measurements as a guide
In many places floors used to be taller. Makes sense, if you're building a house with a floor or maybe two, might as well make it grand. But there's no real use for floors taller than 3m - hell, even 2,5m is excessive in typical cases. And since it's now easier to build tall buildings and land is more expensive and valuable, of course they're gonna try to cram as many floors there as they possibly can.
I don't quite see how historical storey heights are of any relevance. Those are signs that have been placed in present times, unlike, for instance, the antique "To The Trains" sign referred to at 2:03.
R/Madlads for going up all those steps when not in an emergency.
This video is a fifteen storey building
Daniel Craig has gone from James Bond to counting stairway steps.
THE STEPS AT AMMERSHAM ARE EQUIVALENT TO 15 FLOORS!!!!
As are the ones at Chesham!
DatShortbreadDough Thats what tfl says but I measured them and they are actually 16 floors
Ah, yes, but if you look at it like that, Putney Bridge and East Putney are 15 stories UP.
It's Me we were at Ammersham on the 16th Jan 2018 and will be back again (from Manchester) on the 30th.
Ha ha that was my thought too
Used to work in Hampstead. One day I thought "Take the stairs today, you're getting fat, it will be good for you". Took me 45 minutes to recover
Please hold on, this bus is about to move the equivalent of a 15 story building.
2 stories : Way back I worked on floor 13 at Charing Cross Hospital. So way back you needed to visit a bank and write out a cheque to get any cash. The bank on the ground floor closed at 3pm, so when you remembered at 2.55 that you were out of cash, you could run down the stairs in 90 secs, which was always faster than waiting for a lift. Always waited for the lift on the way back up though.
Now, my local parish church has 198 steps to the walkway on the tower. As they're medieval steps I doubt they're an even 17cm, but it will be a good story to tell visitors.
It might just be me, but I hate it when the colour of the grab poles on the trains don't match the colour of the line.
DrToonhattan it isn't just you. I too find it highly irritating.
DrToonhattan I suppose this is so trains can run multiple lines
DrToonhattan
I thought i read once that the poles on the blue line we deliberately not blue because blue was the hardest color to distinguish while drunk.
So pissed pub goers would take the metro late at night, try to grab a pole, miss, fall over and hurt themselves.
Could be bullshit though.
But still an entertaining thought.
Maurits van den Berg unlikely, as most of the poles on the Piccadilly line are blue ;)
DrToonhattan same
I took the stairs at Covent Garden yesterday, it’s all your fault.
Did you know that Centrale tram stop is fifteen stories high?
It's a really high platform that one...
Krister L Also, Stamford Brook is equivalent to a fifteen story bunker.
This chap would make the most fabulous teacher. Kids would love him for his enthusiasm, knowledge and charming madness.
There are eight million stories in the naked city; this has been fifteen of them.
Russell Square was my “local” Tube stop when I stayed in London in 2012. It was nice to see the building (which is very lovely); I never thought to pay attention to it when I was there.
It still is mine every time I go to London because it's within walking distance of Eurostar.
I'm from Belgium but live in Vietnam, so I tend to fly to Paris, then a train to London, a train to Antwerp, a train (or night bus as I prefer the schedule) to Paris and then fly back home. I love museums so Paris and London are always appealing.
3:56
That woman in the background just Disapparated...
Person in grey walking left to right becomes someone else in pink 👀
This is like that Mr. Show sketch where a mafia boss (played by Bob Odenkirk) decides 24 is the highest number there is.
I once climbed 10 stories when staying in a large hotel for Model UN (luggage in tow). Horrible mistake. I should’ve waited for the elevator.
All the best jokes require a 14 minute video to explain them XD
It is NOT the depth of the step it is properly called, “THE RISE”
Maybe he's a glass half empty guy
Now we need to know what is on each of the 15 floors - underground water lines, employee lunch room, storage room for WW2 food supplies, unexploded munition disposal, electric substation, vagrant detention facility, security CCTV room, broom and mop storage, spare light bulb storage, dead rat disposal room...
Just as a thing, those 15 storeys at Chalk Farm would be 61cm high. That's almost half a metre! Imagine that!
Sky Works Racing, Gosh i definitely need a lift for that. Bloody hell.
61cm almost half a metre? According to conventional maths is 11cm more than half a metre.
I've not lived in many appartments in the UK where floor-to-ceiling was 304cm... More like 230cm often. If you plug in those actual UK storey heights in your calculations, you get values much closer to 15 for CG or RS.
8:33 Geoff is Big Shaq
equivalent to 15 storey
Same thought...😶
Disco Puppy he’s obviously joking
The great big fact that our host failed to mention is how wonderful it is that since day dot of the construction of the tube, the steps/risers have been uniform across the entire network.
Not just a mathematical thing, nor a they did things better in the past thing,
it's actually for reasons of fire safety and can be found throughout the country from industrial to domestic via commercial properties.
If there's a fire and the lights are out, it's important that a fire crew doesn't have the unnecessary extra problem to deal with of tripping up on uneven stairs.
A simple idea that's so good it's stood the test of time.
This is brilliant, best *15* minutes of my day
Hayley JS It's not 15 minutes tho.
Oh...
Best 15 storey of your life
Probably time to ditch your fella then.
I searched in Google and you are correct with your maths.
Geoff, have you never thought that London Underground just might be telling people about the '15 floors' to discourage us from climbing the stairs?
This video quality is genuinely engaging and top quality imo
Mom can we get Tom Scott?
Mom: we have Tom Scott at home
At home:
I saw your video on the fanatics randomly and now I’m invested in your channel, for no apparent reason
That's the equivalent of fifteen floors.
Your channel is growing so fast! I've been following it for years and I think you deserve it all.
This staircase has 2 steps.
This is equivalent to a 15 storey building.
Do not use except in an emergency.
This station has 5 steps equivalent to a 15 storey building 😉
I absolutely love videos and channels like this of people completely nerding out over topics they're really interested in, cuz you know you're going to learn a lot, and they're going to have a lot f fun and it's just so pure I love it. You bring that tape measure, you bring it.
As you've encouraged dissent in the comments, I'll just mention that a single storey building has 0 steps, and 15 storey building has only 14 flights of stairs. So you need to add 1 to the calculated number of storeys at the end to match TFLs claim of a "15 story building" (at Hampstead for example). ;-)
Rune Broberg I was really hoping someone else was pointing this out!
And is the 13th floor being counted? :D
What about a single storey building with a roof terrace?
The numbers for these stations are technically not wrong if they were rounded to the closest 15 floors.
You fixed your microphone! Yes! I now no longer need to turn my computer screen upside down to find out which brand of microphone you use every time I watch one of your videos.
Alice Bailey does he change the mic every video?? Lol
Can't just read upside-down? It's RODE. And that's the pop-filter, not the microphone.
r/wooosh
LostName haha I agree r/whoosh
But isn't it Røde? So he forgot the / through the o.
This is so wonderful! I moved to the UK a few months ago and was trying to find information on the deepest tube stations while learning about the history and construction of London, and somehow came across this. I love how these little kind of observations of anomalies!
The last time I got off at Covent Garden, many many years ago, the damn lift was broken. So yes, I know those stairs....
I did similar a few years back. I'm only in London once every few years so I don't know details and when they announced that the lift at Covent Garden was down, we decided to get off anyway - sure what's the worry, we can just use the stairs (picturing the straight stairs up the middle of the escalators in Bank, etc). Lord, I nearly died! After about 30 steps I should have stopped, went back down and went on to Leicester Square, but I was too stubborn to stop and walk past all the people from the train so I kept pushing. I could barely breathe when I got to the top.
When I walk from my house and out on the street, there is actually 1 step, which is equivalent to a 15 storey building.
me: *takes the stairs every time because i’m deathly afraid of lifts*
It would be a horrible irony if one day (hopefully a long while in the future!) you died from a heart attack due to overdoing the stair climbing!
Same
Watched the entire video. Spent the whole time thinking about how much I don't like using public transit....... So a big thank you to everyone who uses public transit every day whether you need to or not. Your reducing vehicle traffic on city streets and reducing pollution levels by not using personal vehicles and that is making a positive difference for the environment.
No I don't use public transport..... ever.
I walked up Covent Garden steps on my way to the all the stations talk. It nearly killed me
7:28 This spiral staircase has over 320 steps
"Cockfosters"
Sounds like an even worse version of a terrible beer.
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Probably a corruption of 'Biqoque Forrestier' - a house which may have stood on Enfield Chase as the residence of the cock forester (or chief forester) in Norman times.
Paul Hogan already done that gag.
Your videos are wonderful, I've greatly enjoyed discovering them today! I've watched all 15 of them and I can't wait for more!