"Canary wharf, its all the same station". Having blindly wandered round there trying to get from one to one of the others on sunday: it really really isn’t
Look online for a RUclipsr called "Mercateer" and his video called "I Name Almost Everything in the United Kingdom". In the same video, he not only names every island of the UK including all the Scottish islets, every council in the UK, every town in Wales, and much much more, he names every station in London *in order*. It's freaky. And there's another camera view for those who think he must be cheating.
"Let's go to the financial area where all the banks are." ... "Hmm whats this one in the middle here..." When Tom finds out, he's going to be livid... lmao
@@aristology6912But he is (almost) a Brummie, where 'mom' is actually used. In fact, it may be the West Midlands in general that uses it, which is where he's from.
@@aristology6912I’m from the same place as Tom, there’s no way he says Mum, we say ‘Mom’ here. Maybe educate yourself about your own country before correcting others.
Love that you reference The Kinks for a song that isn’t named after a London place, then get Waterloo and sing ABBA and not The Kinks song named for Waterloo
Hi Tom! I work on the underground, specifically giving tours of abandoned stations or hidden parts - including Aldwych as you mentioned which closed in 1994. Very impressed that you knew it , it passes many Londoners by! If you would like an explore sometime, let me know and I can try and sort that out for you, it definitely warrants a visit :)
@@ftgv1 Battersea Power Station _Station_ Automated Teller Machine _Machine_ Personal Identification Number _Number_ I was just drawing parallels to those things by highlighting the double usage of "station," that we also do in things like "ATM machine" and "PIN number."
I'd love to see the MapMen try this out, though I suspect they'd get three stops in and spend the next 45mins explaining one stop's history and how it actually connects to 13th century Buddhism and run out of time.
As an Italian who has never been to the uk, I am proud to say that I completed more lines than Tom! in fact, i completed waterloo and city line just by randomly typing "bank" and knowing that waterloo would be a station. I also guessed "old street" because i felt it would be a common name. In total, I managed to name only 9 stations!
As someone who lived in Tottenham and regularly travelled on the Victoria and Piccadilly Lines this was so frustrating lmao! 😅 You did waaaay better than I ever could though, that was impressive!
I love this. Never been to the UK. Don‘t know any of those stations. But somehow its just such a joy to watch you think of all these. Amazing thank you 🙏🏼
Very difficult even for Londoners as you tend to only know tube lines you regularly traverse. I crawled up to 50% before giving up and it was heavy-going.
Yeah having worked in Central London for over 6 years and living on the edge of the Zone 6, I still didn't do as well as Tom did. As you say I realised I had only ever paid attention to the regular ones I used. I only managed around 32%, but that said, was kicking myself when I saw all the obvious ones I'd missed.
he did a bloody good job for someone who isn't from London and hasn't lived here. he got many obscure ones that really surprised me, but missed brixton which i expected him to get at the beginning when he was doing the songs! thinking about that clash tune
When I first tried it I think I got around 95%, managed all but one of the actual tube stations and the only others I was missing were all obscure overground stations mostly in North or East London. It is quite literally my job though, so I may be cheating a little bit.
tom i have been watching your good stuff regularly for around a year now. i have recently purchased a rather nice vr headset, i now continue to watch you but in the ambient setting of an enormous cinema :)
me too, well ex, now Norwich, but I tried this and got all the Orange line up to Highbury and Islington, and got to about 29% without much trouble at all, then some thinking and I'm at about 80%, in about an hour.
I was screaming "Paddington" from the beginning and wondering when you were gonna get it lol (Greenwhich too). It's funny how you got such obscure ones but missed a few well-known touristy ones in the beginning haha.
Just knowing the mainline termini already gets you quite far. Waterloo, Victoria, Charing Cross, Paddington, Euston, King's Cross St. Pancras, Liverpool Street, Fenchurch Street, Cannon Street.
I played this game myself with the Berlin S+U System with my boyfriend. We got 73.4% and 460 stations. We both take a lot of public transport and I've been living here 10 years and he is born and raised in Berlin. We didn't think we would get this many. Excited to see what percentage you get.
Congratulations on being a father! This reminds me of the jetpunk quizzes like “every place in (insert state)”. There’s also an “every UK rail station”. The worst I think I’ve seen is the “every county in the US”, it really lags with those 3,143 answers
I’m an American who has ridden the tube decades ago, so I’m not super familiar but not completely unfamiliar. I was waiting for Charing Cross and Marylebone. You got one but not the other.
I had a crack at this a little while ago. I lived in London for 10 years but left 4 years ago. I used to live in Clapham, then Archway and later Finchley so I still had the whole northern line memorised. Slowed down after that and took about 40 mins to get to about 60%. I seem to recall even Geoff Marshall didn’t complete the whole thing but I could be wrong.
This was so funny and confusing for someone like me who's clueless about the subway network of London. If only there was a quiz like this, but about the Budapest Metro.
Anyone rememner the Fosters beer advert that featured Cockfosters tube station? Visiting tourist: "Can you tell me the way to Cockfosters?" Paul Hogan: "Yeah mate, serve it warm".
From Sweden, been to London once in the late 90s. Got 21 named (counted as 46 as every line per station counts as one, it seems), or 7.9 % of the total. I know that I know a few more, but can't recall their names now. Abbey Road, Baker Street, Brixton, Camden Town, Charing Cross, Elephand and Castle, Embankment, Highgate, Lewisham, London Bridge, Paddington, Picadilly Circus, Queen's Park, Ruislip, Slough, Southwark, Victoria, Waterloo, Watford, Westminster and Wimbledon.
Wouldn't have got as many as you but having parked at Stanmore (cos it's so cheap) at the end of the Jubilee line about 50 times I can definitely do the entirety of that one! And Cockfosters, of course. Angel of the more obscure ones sticks out as it has the longest escalators, think that's on Trivial Pursuit.
@@Spengleman2 You really always count 'y' as a consonant in English, huh? It's clearly used as a vowel in that word... English is a wonderful language, but your spelling rules sorted out, lol
I was surprised West Croydon didn't work for you (or did you do Croydon West?) - Overground trains go from there. SW from Liverpool Street is Bank. And my favourite little bit of underground trivia - Waterloo East. End of the northern line in Wimbledon is Morden.
Was curious, so I did a similar game for my City (Vienna, obviously much smaller). And I got 80% without help. Some Missing Stations were really frustrating cause I pass them by weekly, but if you have never interacted with them or left the tube at this Station, you just dont really remember the name....i am actually pretty happy with that result.😊
An idea for a video exploration could be to start in reading early morning and see how many % of the net you could get by evening. Congrats on the kid!
15:00 Mate, it is harder to tunnel in clay than rock. Rock you can blast and it is stable (more or less). Clay needs a lot of support measures to be stable which is by far more labourous also considering swelling of clays and settling due to dissipation of pore water pressure.
I've been to london thrice, yet I watched the entire thing, fuck me I guess. Editing by content is on point, but holy is this niche :D Gz on the kid tho
The other reasons why south London has almost no underground lines compared to the north are that a lot of other railway lines were built there and handled commuters, so there was way less demand left over for underground lines, and the remaining demand was taken over by the once extensive tram network.
By the way, the map you pull up at the end is an old one (FYI). It doesn't include Nine Elms or Battersea Power Station station (which you got, well done!)
Congrats on the little one!! Its a boy or a girl? Maybe you said but I missed it. On a note of the vid, I was shouting High Barnet & all the Northern line ones as thats where I live lol. You did well though 👏
40 minutes of a man typing the most British names I’ve ever heard
This. Winning comment.
This comment gets funnier the longer I watch.
@@26acorn34 yeah but he forgot to type “Chalfont & Latimer”. That would have really got the juices flowing 😂
Slough, Pimlico, Hillingdon, Vauxhall - I'm laughing my head off more and more. I'm not as annoyed when he calls it o-ray-gun
Yeah, and it's surprisingly enjoyable to observe, isn't it?
Paddington Bear was named Paddington because that's the station where he was found. It could've been Cockfosters.
Imagine Cockfoster Bear with his massive red hat and tiny wellies xD
Or 'Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich' if he was found on the DLR
@@harukiito8655Another one on the DLR: Custom House For ExCel Centre
I am a fan of old Mudchute Bear!
He could've been Elephant & Castle Bear!
YOU NEVER SAID SHE GAVE BIRTH ALREADY CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Is it really that exciting for you?
@@mahboobullah242 why is there always someone like you lol
@@mahboobullah242unnecessary
@@mahboobullah242uh oh! Negative Nelly alert!🚨🚨
I think he mentioned in another video that he's a dad now, but either way massive congrats Tom, Verity and baby.
"Canary wharf, its all the same station". Having blindly wandered round there trying to get from one to one of the others on sunday: it really really isn’t
you need a taxi to get from Canary wharf A to Canary Wharf B :D
@@Blackadder75 Nah, it's a 5 minute walk but you really do need to know which way to go and it is hard if you stay at street level.
Jay Foreman should give this a go, he can finish it in 3 minutes 😅
Singing!
Has he redone it with Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station added yet?
BANK!
Look online for a RUclipsr called "Mercateer" and his video called "I Name Almost Everything in the United Kingdom". In the same video, he not only names every island of the UK including all the Scottish islets, every council in the UK, every town in Wales, and much much more, he names every station in London *in order*. It's freaky. And there's another camera view for those who think he must be cheating.
Map Men, Map Men MapMap..Men Men..Men
"let's go through the alphabet. K .... J.... M.... E.... F.... M..."
I mean that was just beautiful. Gotta love the lad.
He didn't say he was going to go through it in any specific _order._
"Let's go to the financial area where all the banks are." ... "Hmm whats this one in the middle here..."
When Tom finds out, he's going to be livid... lmao
I kept thinking 'Morden via Bank' repeatedly, he will have definetly heard the announcment when on the nothern line!
Yeah, that was a frustrating miss and would have bagged lots due to all the connections. Monument is less obvious but also connected.
The sped up keyboard sound is oddly satisfying
sounds like when you've finished your carton of apple juice but keep going back in just in case
Tom's baby was like: "Mum are we recording?"
Mom*
@@jfluffydog2110he’s not American…
@@aristology6912But he is (almost) a Brummie, where 'mom' is actually used. In fact, it may be the West Midlands in general that uses it, which is where he's from.
@@aristology6912I’m from the same place as Tom, there’s no way he says Mum, we say ‘Mom’ here. Maybe educate yourself about your own country before correcting others.
@@jfluffydog2110 ur so fun
You should do JetLag the travel game show. I can’t think of anyone better suited for it than you.
seconded!
Agreed
Ooh!
Yeah I've been hoping for this for years. They probably aren't even aware that each other exists
yesssss
I'm sat her shouting BANK! and many others at the screen then you whip out some that I would never get. Good effort
I said Bank so many times it sounded like I was playing the weakest link.
@@andrewmorris9946 😂😂😂
When he was doing football stadiums I was shouting ‘Upton Park’ like I was back in the 80s
" Lets name some in the banking area" 😅
Me too, I was quite busy but had to stay to the end of the video just to see if he would say Bank.
Should I explore the abandoned underground station?... Yes, yes you should.
Love that you reference The Kinks for a song that isn’t named after a London place, then get Waterloo and sing ABBA and not The Kinks song named for Waterloo
"They seek him here
They seek him there
In Regent Street
And Leicester Square" from the Kink's "Dedicated Follower of Fashion".
Yea I thought he was going to mention Waterloo Sunset!
Hi Tom! I work on the underground, specifically giving tours of abandoned stations or hidden parts - including Aldwych as you mentioned which closed in 1994. Very impressed that you knew it , it passes many Londoners by! If you would like an explore sometime, let me know and I can try and sort that out for you, it definitely warrants a visit :)
As a Londoner, I think you did very well! It was uncanny to hear you mention certain stops
You should check out Jay Foreman's song where he just names them all. It's really clever.
ruclips.net/video/8jPyg2pK11M/видео.html
Aaron Amberleaf is my favourite Geowizard recurring character 😂
Silly fact;
The station at Battersea Power Station is actually called Battersea Power Station Station
I wonder if they have any ATM machines there to withdraw some money? Man I hope I don't forget my PIN number.
@@metalswifty23 I dont get it ?
@@ftgv1 Battersea Power Station _Station_
Automated Teller Machine _Machine_
Personal Identification Number _Number_
I was just drawing parallels to those things by highlighting the double usage of "station," that we also do in things like "ATM machine" and "PIN number."
@@metalswifty23 except these are two different meanings for station
@AFAndersen actually on the station sign it’s just called Battersea power station.
shouting at you because you said "Bank" but never wrote it down
yeah, he said "here in the banking area" but never got Bank from that.
I'd love to see the MapMen try this out, though I suspect they'd get three stops in and spend the next 45mins explaining one stop's history and how it actually connects to 13th century Buddhism and run out of time.
Jay literally has a song naming all of them.
Nah, that's what CGP Grey would do. Map Men would finish it in a couple of minutes with a song.
Jago Hazard is the channel you're looking for. He basically does that, but each station gets its own video.
I'd love that. Love those guys so much
Watching you go through Dagenham was brilliant.
We’ll try Dagenham Central then, won’t we?
As an Italian who has never been to the uk, I am proud to say that I completed more lines than Tom! in fact, i completed waterloo and city line just by randomly typing "bank" and knowing that waterloo would be a station. I also guessed "old street" because i felt it would be a common name. In total, I managed to name only 9 stations!
Sei stato bravo, 9 è più che riesco nominare per i sistemi in Milan o Roma!
As someone who lived in Tottenham and regularly travelled on the Victoria and Piccadilly Lines this was so frustrating lmao! 😅 You did waaaay better than I ever could though, that was impressive!
Technically the game should have ended on Mornington Crescent, but perhaps you're playing one of the many variations on the rules.
True! 😆
He was using the Pimlico twist, aces high.
Why?
@@vigilancebrandon It's a reference to a Radio4 comedy quiz.
Also, going from Kentish Town to Mornington Crescent isn't normally allowed in professional games unless you change the points at Blackfriars _first_.
Nice video! It'd be cool to see Tom the Taxi Driver give this a go.
He has!
"canary wharf... That's 3 different stations. Oh no, it's one..."
Nope, it's three different stations!
5:03 It's Goodge
Thank you
No, it's Goodge!
I love how it just seems like some tube names are pulled from a top hat in which high schoolers put silly submissions lol
@@RaittyRatweirdo it’s clearly Goodge
Oh shoot, I’m saying it wrong as Goodge. Now I know it’s Goodge. Thank you.
I love this. Never been to the UK. Don‘t know any of those stations. But somehow its just such a joy to watch you think of all these. Amazing thank you 🙏🏼
Very difficult even for Londoners as you tend to only know tube lines you regularly traverse. I crawled up to 50% before giving up and it was heavy-going.
Yeah having worked in Central London for over 6 years and living on the edge of the Zone 6, I still didn't do as well as Tom did. As you say I realised I had only ever paid attention to the regular ones I used. I only managed around 32%, but that said, was kicking myself when I saw all the obvious ones I'd missed.
he did a bloody good job for someone who isn't from London and hasn't lived here. he got many obscure ones that really surprised me, but missed brixton which i expected him to get at the beginning when he was doing the songs! thinking about that clash tune
I was solidly among the impressed. As well as on the entertained, this was a great video!
Watching you get so close to bow road was brutal
The pronunciation of some of those names at the end almost sent my head into outer space. Fellow Lononers would be turning in their graves
When I first tried it I think I got around 95%, managed all but one of the actual tube stations and the only others I was missing were all obscure overground stations mostly in North or East London.
It is quite literally my job though, so I may be cheating a little bit.
Which one did you miss? I live in NW London so SE was my blind spot, only got half the overground and DLR but only missed 2 undergrounds
Was anyone else counting how many he would name before he got to Mornington Crescent?
Bank and Monument are your worst omissions! Bank itself would count as 6 or 7 stations 🤣
Monument he did fairly early. Mad he missed bank when he said about the city though
I love how you pronounced Ruislip as "Roo-slip" (pronounced "Rhy-slip"). Great vid, love the underground stations!
Been on a night out, best thing to come home to is a CHEEKY geoguesser, lots of love, keep up the good content mate
tom i have been watching your good stuff regularly for around a year now. i have recently purchased a rather nice vr headset, i now continue to watch you but in the ambient setting of an enormous cinema :)
the casual "giggidy" is what makes you the goat tom
Sydenham local here. Was not expecting you to pluck that out your arse
me too, well ex, now Norwich, but I tried this and got all the Orange line up to Highbury and Islington, and got to about 29% without much trouble at all, then some thinking and I'm at about 80%, in about an hour.
@27:56 THANK YOU!! I've been screaming that for the last 15 minutes and I'm not even British 😂
Also congratulations with your baby!!
I'm from Philadelphia and know nothing about the London Underground yet I was enthralled with the entire video.
I was screaming "Paddington" from the beginning and wondering when you were gonna get it lol (Greenwhich too). It's funny how you got such obscure ones but missed a few well-known touristy ones in the beginning haha.
Just knowing the mainline termini already gets you quite far. Waterloo, Victoria, Charing Cross, Paddington, Euston, King's Cross St. Pancras, Liverpool Street, Fenchurch Street, Cannon Street.
I was impressed🙌🙌👍much love Tom
I played this game myself with the Berlin S+U System with my boyfriend. We got 73.4% and 460 stations. We both take a lot of public transport and I've been living here 10 years and he is born and raised in Berlin. We didn't think we would get this many. Excited to see what percentage you get.
The baby is born? Congratulations. Welcome to the world baby Davis.
I spent 35 minutes shouting “bank” at my phone.
@@robin_marriott everyone around you probably thought you were playing “The Weakest Link” on an app and that you didn’t know any of the questions 😂
Baaaaaaaaaaaank!
It seems that you need to watch Every Tube Song by Jay Foreman, Sir. I think that would help you remember :)
I got 93% the first time I did this, love your videos keep it up.
“Baker Street - made famous by Gerry Rafferty”. But before that, made famous by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Honestly, coming from the German countryside, there's no one else I'd watch guessing tube stations for an hour. Great video:)
Congratulations on being a father!
This reminds me of the jetpunk quizzes like “every place in (insert state)”. There’s also an “every UK rail station”.
The worst I think I’ve seen is the “every county in the US”, it really lags with those 3,143 answers
you should check out the every first level subdivision on earth quiz for a really laggy time
Geoff Marshall needs to do this in like 15 mins and get 100%
He's done it.
@@St1ckM0nk3ydo you have a link?
It took him 3 days to get 95% (after reaching 80% initially).
My biggest disappointment was Tower Hill 😮 but you got loads I'd never have thought of ❤
Lol, I was screaming inside, "Marylebone". But only because as a teenager I used to get off the tube there.
A very Acton packed video.
I thought I heard a baby before your mentioned it. Pulled my headphones of right away to listen if it was mine.
Thankfully mine are all grown otherwise I might have done the same! 🤣
Going to London for the first time in 10 years in the morning. This video helps alot 😊
Welcome back! Hope everyone's nice to you. It's a sunny Friday so they probably will be
That's some crazy timing! 😄
I just bought flight tickets for a long weekend in London and you dropped this, thank you 😅
I’m an American who has ridden the tube decades ago, so I’m not super familiar but not completely unfamiliar. I was waiting for Charing Cross and Marylebone. You got one but not the other.
I had a crack at this a little while ago. I lived in London for 10 years but left 4 years ago. I used to live in Clapham, then Archway and later Finchley so I still had the whole northern line memorised. Slowed down after that and took about 40 mins to get to about 60%. I seem to recall even Geoff Marshall didn’t complete the whole thing but I could be wrong.
This was so funny and confusing for someone like me who's clueless about the subway network of London. If only there was a quiz like this, but about the Budapest Metro.
I enjoyed that. Amazed at how many stations you were able to remember.
This is another great video, well done Tom
my man sings ABBA for Waterloo 🤣🤣🤣
Anyone rememner the Fosters beer advert that featured Cockfosters tube station?
Visiting tourist: "Can you tell me the way to Cockfosters?"
Paul Hogan: "Yeah mate, serve it warm".
Welcome to the dad club! Keep em coming, mankind needs good people.
Truth! ❤
As a brit who left to NZ when I was 10 watching this is so nostalgic. Makes me want to go back to london
My father’s favourite joke.
Is this Cockfosters?
“No it’s mine…”
🤣😂🤣
Nice, I got 44.4% but I commute to London, so you did really well.
From Sweden, been to London once in the late 90s. Got 21 named (counted as 46 as every line per station counts as one, it seems), or 7.9 % of the total. I know that I know a few more, but can't recall their names now.
Abbey Road, Baker Street, Brixton, Camden Town, Charing Cross, Elephand and Castle, Embankment, Highgate, Lewisham, London Bridge, Paddington, Picadilly Circus, Queen's Park, Ruislip, Slough, Southwark, Victoria, Waterloo, Watford, Westminster and Wimbledon.
Wouldn't have got as many as you but having parked at Stanmore (cos it's so cheap) at the end of the Jubilee line about 50 times I can definitely do the entirety of that one! And Cockfosters, of course. Angel of the more obscure ones sticks out as it has the longest escalators, think that's on Trivial Pursuit.
Already invested in this straight away :)
Knightsbridge… six consonants in a row (ghtsbr). No other English word can do that.
catchphrase
I’ll take rhythms for 7
Lengthsman.
@@Spengleman2 You really always count 'y' as a consonant in English, huh? It's clearly used as a vowel in that word...
English is a wonderful language, but your spelling rules sorted out, lol
tsktsks
I was surprised West Croydon didn't work for you (or did you do Croydon West?) - Overground trains go from there. SW from Liverpool Street is Bank. And my favourite little bit of underground trivia - Waterloo East. End of the northern line in Wimbledon is Morden.
east finchley so early warmed my heart
Lived in London in the early 90's but only been back to the UK for holiday once since. Got to 26%, reasonably pleased with that.
Wow, that was fast. Congratulations :-)
That's what she said 😉
My wife and I totally thought the baby crying was our little guy in the crib 😂. Congrats on fatherhood Tom!
Was curious, so I did a similar game for my City (Vienna, obviously much smaller). And I got 80% without help. Some Missing Stations were really frustrating cause I pass them by weekly, but if you have never interacted with them or left the tube at this Station, you just dont really remember the name....i am actually pretty happy with that result.😊
Ohhhhhh yes!! This is absolutely my kind of challenge..
I'd like to see you speedrun this lol
Have you tried it? 🙂
You did very well on this enjoyed watching
An idea for a video exploration could be to start in reading early morning and see how many % of the net you could get by evening. Congrats on the kid!
Cool idea! I might use that myself 😉
Really fun video and also educational. I'm living in Barcelona, it's a bit smaller but deff difficult enough. Would love to see you do it!
As someone who lives as far away from Britain as is possible but love my radio comedy, I kept screaming MORNINGTON CRESCENT!!!
I'm from the Netherlands but I lived in London for a year a few years ago. I could only do 20%. well done man
wouldnt have a hope with london since ive never been, but you inspired me to take a shot at the sydney trains quiz and i got 90% in 20 minutes.
15:00 Mate, it is harder to tunnel in clay than rock. Rock you can blast and it is stable (more or less). Clay needs a lot of support measures to be stable which is by far more labourous also considering swelling of clays and settling due to dissipation of pore water pressure.
Tom you would have a lot of fun looking through suburban names in Melbourne and Sydney, there are so many names that cross over with English names
I had my money on you getting at least 40%, GET IN!
I've lived in London my whole life and wouldn't have done half as well as this, well played
I've been to london thrice, yet I watched the entire thing, fuck me I guess. Editing by content is on point, but holy is this niche :D
Gz on the kid tho
Niche indeed... Just like all my videos! 😂
The other reasons why south London has almost no underground lines compared to the north are that a lot of other railway lines were built there and handled commuters, so there was way less demand left over for underground lines, and the remaining demand was taken over by the once extensive tram network.
By the way, the map you pull up at the end is an old one (FYI). It doesn't include Nine Elms or Battersea Power Station station (which you got, well done!)
It's also missing the Elizabeth Line, and some of the Overground spurs used eg the one up to Enfield Town and the one through Peckham Rye.
Glad you got mornington crescent... whenever I went to KOKO in the past I got off there
The ‘shame about all the essex people’ KILLED ME laughing but is so true tbh
lol why am I randomly watching this!!
This would be something for Jago Hazzard to try.
or Geoff Marshall
@@davidpreston9909Geoff has done it
Congrats on the little one!! Its a boy or a girl? Maybe you said but I missed it. On a note of the vid, I was shouting High Barnet & all the Northern line ones as thats where I live lol. You did well though 👏