Records on the Metropolitan Line
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
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Metropolitan Line has some major elder sibling energy lmao
Yes, you definitely tell, even nowadays, that this is a 'real' train. Nobody at Amersham, Watford etc calls it an 'UndergrounD station'; it's usually just 'station' or 'met station'.
@@quantisedspace7047
I have long advocated transfering the Amersham/Aylesbury Section of the Metropolitan Line to the Elizabeth Line itself, even if it meant having to build a Paddington-Wembley Tunnel as a result.
Chesham is a very pretty station I was there last week. There is an old disused platform which has been converted into a lovely garden.❤
There's a few other bits of trivia:
While it currently is the line with the highest speeds, it used to have even higher speeds with the A stock, with the 4th rail speed record being 70 mph.
the Metropolitan Line is the only line to not have any interchange with the District Line, despite the Metropolitan founding the District
The Metropolitan Line is the only line with stations in Zones 2 and 4 to not have any stations in Zone 3.
About 40 years ago I did some train timing and can confirm that both the A stock and the BR dmus approached 70 mph on the Rickmansworth-Harrow-Finchley Road stretches. The A stock was pretty bouncy at that speed especially with thick well-sprung seats. Hadn't realised the new S stock was limited to 60, seems a pity.
In the 70s there was a talent show called Opportunity Knocks presented by Canadian Hughie Green. He lived in one of the Baker St flats and had a model railway in it. "And I mean that most sincerely folks."
If you have to tell people you're being sincere, you aren't!
@@OofusTwillip He probably wasn't allowed to say "that act was %&#$"
I doubt if he could pronounce %&#$
One of my last memories of the UK was Hughie Green, that could almost be tube station name: along with Stepney Green and Turham Green.
there's also Charlotte Green, Cameron Green and Peter Green (and Fleetwood Mac)
These *are* a bit trivial. I'm glad Amersham got one of the records, I was worried it would all go to Chesham.
It is all shams.
Amersham girl, eh?
Isn’t technically amersham the furthest west? I believe shunting beyond the station means that the driver technically can be further west?
@@ulazygitChesham is the most westerly station, but yes, Amersham sidings are the furthest west an underground train goes.
The maintenance boundary with Network Rail is even further west, so if you take a Chiltern Railways train towards Aylesbury you will cross the most westerly point on the Underground
Amersham deserves another record not mentioned: the most western LU track. While the station itself is not as far west as Chesham, the track beyond Amersham owned by LU reaches further west. That said, only the immediate tail track to the west of Amersham can be used by underground trains because the centre traction power rail does not continue to the end of LU's ownership.
Amazing to think the highest Underground station is 480 feet above sea level !!!
If you walk from Old Amersham to Amersham station (like I do) it seems MUCH higher than that!
That is odd actually, underground station well above sea level, didn't actually think of it when it was mentioned.
Is that the height of a 15 story building?
IIRC there's a church near High Barnet station with a mark quite low on its wall that is at exactly the same elevation above sea level as the cross on top of St Paul's Cathedral.
@@stephenlee5929 Allowing around 10 feet per story, it is nearer 50 stories. For reference, BT Tower is just under 600 feet tall.
"Child of the First War, Forgotten by the Second,
We called you Metro-land"
Abd this is the sole reason I can only say Verney Junction in the voice of Sir John Betjeman.
God I wish it was still possible for TV programmes like that to get made. When you watch it, you realise just how far we've fallen.
@@nickmiller76Isn't that the truth.
With so many points about Chesham I think it deserves a video of its own.
Back in the Day I did many trips to & from Baker Street; there is more to it than meets the eye.
Geoffs end of line , and I think Jago might have one in the back catelogue
Mr Hazzard did a video about Chesham a while back, and wandered round a fair bit of the town.
In my day, Chesham was pronounced Chess-ham, being situated on the River Chess. Once upon a time a railway man in a spot of domestic bother, found it necessary to live in the disused signal box.
It has suffered the same fate as my home village/suburb of Cosham (north of Portsmouth), originally pronounced Coss-am but over the last 50 years invariably called Cosh-em. "The settlement belonging to Cossa" - Saxon origin. Cheshunt also usually gets pronounced with a -sh- but I don't know if that's original.
Listening to people mispronouncing "Ruislip" is quite fun.
"Once upon a time a railway man in a spot of domestic bother, found it necessary to live in the disused signal box."
I had a colleague who was known as Swampy after a domestic "issue" resulted in him living in a tent in the staff car park at his depot for more than three months!
@@iankemp1131 I've always pronounced Cheshunt as Chezznt, and so did everyone I knew. I grew up only about 5-6 miles away.
@@Shalott63 In this and similar cases, local people will be fully aware of the way that it has historically been pronounced. However, for people from further afield or newer to the area, they may tend to try to pronounce a name phonetically or "as it looks", or come up with various alternatives where it's not obvious.
All this talk about Baker Street has me thinking of an excellent saxophone solo!
Na na na naya na-i-na
Which was actually flat, but Gerry Rafferty much to the annoyance of the saxophonist, insisted it be left on the finished take....useless music trivia unless it's a pub quiz answer.
Also totally useless trivia, most people can't actually sing the song, because they don't know the lyrics. I can and most people try to sing it with the saxophone solo as the starting point. That's not the song. It starts with Rafferty sing it. Give it a proper listen, its about the loneliness of living a big city and the now lost street life of Baker Street, which has now been turned into an office and shop street...most of the pubs and bars are gone, and only restaurants near the station remain.
The Metropolitan Line is the original. The Northern Line is a mere trainee.
A very dear family friend - now enjoying the sky service beyond the Pearly Gates - lived at Rickmansworth and insisted that he lived in the countryside and that the Underground train took him into the capital. Woe betide anyone who suggested he lived in the suburbs!
To be fair legally he didn't, Northwood is the last station in the suburbs.
You only have to walk about Rickmansworth for a few minutes to realise that it most definitely *not* in the suburbs !
We have a friend who lives in Chesham - if she’s anything to go by, electricity probably reached the town itself in 1961, not just the railway!
A friend eh ? I wouldn't want to be one of your enemies !!
If you go to Chesham you have to have a cheese and ham sandwich. If you go to Amersham you have to have a Ham and Ham sandwhich.
If you go to Sandwich theres a sign that says Ham (left) Sandwich (right). True
@@nicks4934Loving the Associated Television logo !
Baker Street station on the Metropolitan line is one of my favourite Tube stations in terms of its architecture, it's a little adventure to wander around on. I love that little passage on one platform on the main section that leads directly to the platforms also used by the Circle and Hammersmith and City lines. It seems to a sort of after thought; tacked on. The upstairs actually has proper shops including restaurant space and a branch of Boots, unlike many other stations in Central London, that aren't in terminus station, that just have a tacked on shopping arcade or the odd kiosk or shops on the outside of the building. There are bits of original architecture and signs, everywhere; a fine piece of Central London railway station architecture.
Baker Street's main entrance is actually on the Marylebone Road, the side entrance is where there is a major bus stop and one of my favourite shops in Central London, The Beatles Shop. I have often used that bus stop to get to Oxford Street, getting off by the side of Selfridge, where the Food Hall entrance is; a great place for unusual chocolate and cooking ingredients.
Born in Chesham and grew up in Croxley, but more importantly my mum met Mr Hazzard whilst she was working in Three Rivers Museum, Rickmansworth.
@Themclachlans Jago moves in mysterious ways his vids to produce. Akin to a Royal Visit it is, if your mum meet the Legendary Jago.
What does he look like ?!!!
@@simonwinter8839 She won’t say!
It occurs to me that the Chesham branch is probably the only “proper” single track section on the underground?
I like Chesham but I do rather wish it was occasionally just turned over to steam at the weekends because "hey let's have fun"
the Chesham to Chalfont stretch is probably the best place to do that on the whole network.
The bay platform is still functional at Chalfont! Sometimes being used for departmental vehicles. Question is how will it work with the new signalling that is being installed as part of the 4LM project.
@@chaoringmeisteryou’d just close the Chesham branch on the CBTC system and have the steam train shuttle back and forth while “locked in”
@Chaoringmeister Does the 4LM project include Chesham? Thought it was only possible on the TFL sections, which stops at Moor Park Junction as the mainline Chiltern services still need old fashioned signals?
@@quintuscrinis8032 TfL are clear as mud about the project…but that would make sense.
Fantastic stuff. It's a shame the metropolitan railway never managed to achieve their original ambitious plans. I quite like the idea of jumping on a train here in Manchester and going direct to Paris. It would need to be a bit quicker than a tube train though.
You could always pack sandwiches and a Thermos :)
@@robfenwitch7403No Champagne then ?
@@simonwinter8839 Perhaps the traditional Fortnums hamper?
‘What’s inside it?’ asked the Mole, wriggling with curiosity. ‘There’s cold chicken inside it,’ replied the Rat briefly; ‘cold tongue, cold ham, cold beef, pickled gherkins, salad, french rolls, cress sandwiches, potted meat, ginger beer, lemonade, soda water-’
‘O stop, stop,’ cried the Mole in ecstasies: ‘This is too much!’ ‘Do you really think so?’ enquired the Rat seriously. ‘It’s only what I always take on these little excursions
What Travelcard Zones would Manchester and Paris be in?
I've always had a fascination for this line, ever since I first visited the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton. It's amazing to think that I live roughly 8 miles away from Verney Junction and never would have thought that London's underground lines reached that far!
Quainton Road was the junction for the Brill branch, possibly the most buccolic part of the Met.
Do we need to award a record to Chesham for the most mentions in a video that isn’t specifically about that station!?
The 1938 stock will be running on the leafy extents of the Met to Amersham this weekend and I'll be on it! I doubt there'll be any tickets left now, but it might be worth trying if you're interested.
You'll probably have run into Mr.Hazzard. Tell us what he looks like !!
Tickets? I and my band of merry Errol Flynn lookalikes don't need tickets.
@@simonwinter8839 I doubt that I will- I'm going on the last trip on Sunday and a keen chap like Jago would probably have got an earlier ticket if he's going.
If I did run into him I would of course not repeat his description, that would spoil the fun.
How I would have loved to finish work and board the Met's Pullman car, being conveyed to Verney Jct and contemplating the evening's entertainment! (I do remember Verney Jct before it closed with its pretty rockery, mermaid and pool upon the platform 'garden' but the stub of the divergence for the Met was used for storing carriages).
I'm impressed Jago. Guess I'm quite an impressionable train loving old chap. I find every video you present most enjoyable, and look
forward to tuning in on most evenings. I can't get my bride of 57 years to share my passion for trains but she doesn't have a family
train lineage. We've had some great train journeys together, and with family and friends. But she doesn't have the passion. As I'm
thoroughly enjoying your train stories, she's enjoying cooking shows, and Hercules Poirot on the telly. It all works out well in the end.
Congratulations to Chesham.
It was a series! Brilliant.
Me, my brother Matthew & dad did part of the full length of the metropolitan line ~ Aldgate > Chesham, as my dad has interest in trains, he wants to go on all the underground lines in London
2:51 I didn’t know this. Thank you for the recommendation!
Hi Jago from Spain. Thanks for another outing on one of my favorite Underground lines and when I first used it, the trains were loco hauled out of Baker St. and they were stam-door stock.
Who knew that there was so much interesting information about the met line, thanks for another great video Jago
Hard to believe that Edwardian gents could board a club car (Pullman) at Verney Junction and ride in state to the big city.
It only existed as the interchange for the branch to Buckingham, and was named after the local landowning family bc there was nothing else there. Trains on the reopened Bicester-Bletchley line will pass the site without stopping.
The Metropolitan had an even remoter outpost at the end of the 'tramway' from Quainton Road to Brill, a remote hillside village in Oxfordshire. Both these termini were fondly recollected by John Betjeman in his classic documentary 'Metro-Land'.
It used to go to Hammersmith and Barking until 1990.
The East London line was considered part of the Metropolitan too when I was a kid, via Brunel's Thames Tunnel, to New Cross and New Cross Gate.
@@christopherames5650I remember reading in the in house publication of London Transport, The London Transport magazine in the 1960s a letter from a member of staff who pointed out that although the Shoreditch to New cross/New Cross Gate gate section was part of the Metropolitan line it was actually operated as part of the District line by District line staff.
@@christopherames5650 Yeah. The Lewisham borough used to have 2 tube stations.
Chesham is so annoyed Amersham manages to be on a higher elevation
The Chilton Restaurant was back in was the LUL recruitment centre. It was where I did my initial interview for the Booking Clerk role.
For years, outside the peak hours, Chalfont & Latimer to Cheshan was just a shuttle service, but today sees through trains from Baker Street or Aldgate, this is because the trains were only half length, one unit running solo instead of two coupled-up, which used to depart from the bay platform 3 at Chalfont. S Stock, unlike the A Stock it replaced, cannot be split in two, each train is a complete unit, which cannot fit in Chalfont & Latimer's bay platform, hence the through running (at the expense of Amersham services!!) 🤔
Chesham commuters - for years - demanded to be part of the line as a whole with through services. This campaign happened to coincide with the introduction of the S-Stock. Through services were introduced alongside the S-Stock and Chesham customer have complained ever since that they now are not only fully connected to the underground, but now have to endure any delays / cancellations etc. that may impact the Met Line as a whole. The Amersham service was always generally every 30 minutes and remains to this day as such (with extra peak trains). Speaking as a Met Line Controller and also attended the meetings back in the day when Chesham wanted a through service and certain high profile figures in Pinner wanted an all-stations service all day. I suggested both were not ideal.
It is a pity that it doesn't get to Aylesbury anymore. I have to go this month and will have to change at Amersham.
The trials of living in a First world country !!
"Good evening,"
Its midnight here
I will watch this before I inevitably fell asleep and then watched this again tomorrow
A slight correction Moorgate has 2 abandoned platforms, not 4
Have they returned the Metropolitan bay platforms to use then? 🤔
@@SportyMabambanot in regular service, but they are used for turnback as needed. Especially during engineering works around the Aldgate (or even on the District line beyond either side).
I’m pretty sure they get used at some point each day
So funny that this came up as a suggestion to watch while I'm on break as a Metropolitan Line driver, before I'm about to drive to.... Chesham!
A new Jago video is the highlight of my day.
Which line has the most abandonded stations? I reckon the current Jubilee Line route has a few though I guess some of them also served the Metropolitan Line? In fact thinking about it they'd have to be metropolitan because they shut IIRC before the Jubilee opened! Thinking the one next to Lords Cricket ground and the one half way between Swiss Cottage and St Johns Wood (with the optional apostrophe).
There's also totally derelict platforms at Old Street and the amazing Victorian station Marlborough Road, with its small staircases. Too small for most modern people, although if it wasn't derelict, I could walk down them, because I'm only five foot two and a half inches tall.
I have had to become accustomed to the transport network in London as I've frequented to hospital there, thanks to your channel I can navigate it quite well and with confidence, the story I see while I go about it has become an attraction of London to me in itself, thankyou
"Secrets of the Undeground" did a piece on Verney Junction. If I'm recalling correctly, the line used to go on to Quainton, where it linked up with a tramway that brought agricultural goods from the surrounding area to the railway for transport to London.
Northern and Met are my two favourite lines. I acc hope you do a video about Golders Green at some point. But class video Jago
Definitely Golders Green! I lived there (on Ashbourne Ave.) in 1991, when I spent the summer in England.
I was interviewed for my last job before retiring in The Metropolitan! And it wasn’t for a job as a bar manager or employee!! Tough gig, that IT consulting was.
The Wetherspoons at Baker Street is where i took my aptitude test to transfer from London Transport buses to the Underground, way back in 1986. It was the LT Recruitment Office back then.....
"...if you need to impress someone..." Jago's hot tip for a great first date: tour of the really interesting points on the Underground. Excursion to Chesham -- "Let's go all the way."
i know these are short and a bit gimmicky but i’m loving them… despite being not quite in my third year of london living, i feel there must be more trivia to the metropolitan line (i feel this because of all the other great content on this channel)
The oldest and still the best. Basically all the other lines are just siding and shunting for the Met.
Apropos of nothing metropolitan in particular, I remember sitting in an A60 stock train near harrow on the hill and being chased by a black 5 and it's train out of Marylebone. Must have been about 1965!
How about it will soon be the only line with trains that have transverse seating - when the '72 stock goes? As a born and bred Metrolander, I enjoyed that!
Baker Street used to have a bar wholly inside it. We used it returning home from Wembley after watching the 1978 World Individual Speedway Final.
Speaking of series how about Jagos good pub and restaurant guide to the tube? You might want to get researching straight away. 😂😂
I'm intrigued as to how Baker Street was the first tube station to open.
Surely at least two stations would need to open at the same time for the trains to have somewhere to go?
Or was there only a matter of minutes in it and the next station down the line was open by the time the first train to leave Baker Street got there?
Very good Jago. As always
Can Chesham cope with so much importance?
Please please please a video on Verney Junction! (And maybe all of the other abandoned Metropolitan stations in the area, to better use your traveling resources)
Until Jago mentioned it I always thought Amersham was further west than Chesham. Looking through Google maps I see Chesham's about 200m further west. 😅
Me too. The tube map gives the erroneous impression Amersham is further west. A reminder that it is more a diagram than a map, and is filled with geographical inconsistencies as regards location and distance.
I'm so ready for the annual works quiz
0:17 Defending the honour of this line is more than it's ever done. (from Groucho)
I wouldn't ride on a line that would have me as a passenger !!
Jago Hazzard, I love your channel logo which shows two aged station platforms on either side of long-gone railway tracks! It reminds me of a long-gone railway track near my parents' house, which was a rural railway in Cardiff, no doubt erased by Dr. Beeching's vast rail network cutbacks. Me and my sister spent many hours around that area, it was really quite nostalgia for the past!
Best to look at the ceiling when in a 'spoons! 😊
Thank you for the “record setting” episode. 👏👏👍😎
I went to Verney Junction a few years ago. The Metropolitan joined the line that ran between Oxford and Cambridge there. Apart from the abandoned westbound platform and around a dozen houses there is absolutely nothing else at Verney Junction.
I have no idea why the Met chose to run its line all the way here. If someone knows I’d like to hear about it.
The Oxford to Cambridge line is in the process of being reinstated but unsurprisingly there are no plans to reopen the station at Verney Junction.
I believe but I'm not sure that the Metropolitan served Verney Junction solely for the Verney family whose has you can still visit as I once did.
Quaffed many a pint in the "Met Bar" although many of my LUL colleagues remember it as where they were interviewed for their jobs, by HR, when it was part of the admin offices for the Met Line.
Wait, help out an old colonial, please. If Baker Street was the first station to open, where did they go? wouldn't you have to open at least two stations? Or did the passengers get on the train, stand around for 5 minutes then get off for the next group? All for 2 cents *sorry* tuppence. Man, the things Victorians did for fun.
I guess, technically, first 'dedicated' underground station. The train ran from Paddington.
@@Alan_Mac I will accept your premise, but it wasn't Paddington. And that's the bear fact.
Nah,the tuppenny tube was the Central London railway !!
@@delurkorPaddington bear.Rememberiing Her Majesty who passed away a year ago today.
I think the Met holds another record, viz. for having the longest stretch between stations normally served by its trains - the run from Finchley Road to Wembley Park is apparently about 4.4 miles, so even longer than the distance from C&L to Chesham.
The fact that you could get the tube to the last public execution in London blows my mind
Nice observation.
Piccadilly line also serves express service between acton town and Hammersmith
And Jubilee line from Stratford to Canning town
The A Stock used to run at 70MPH, the limit allowed with train stops, and lots of memorable train races between the BR trains and the Metropolitan line. They were also the worlds fastest four rail commuter train.
Someone may have already said it but my understanding - based on a terrific article in BRILL many years ago on the 1961 electrification - was that the loco exchange at Ricky was timetabled for two and a half minutes, not four.
Thanks for sharing Jago - I used to have a Friend who used to Live in Chesham. 🙂🚂🚂🚂
The Chiltern Line runs almost to Verney Junction. If it's on old Metropolitan track, maybe it should be on the tube map too..? 🤔
Hello Jago, I believe that the Metropolitan Railway was the only Metro to run Pullman coaches in its trains. One in the morning, serving full breakfasts and an evening service from which one could enjoy a Whisky (Scotch) or Whiskey (Irish) on your homeward journey.
No such Pullman service operated on the USA Metros. Cheers old friend
The Pullman carriages/cars being named Galatea and Mayflower
Go to check an old radio programme if I can find it to check if I remembered the info correctly
I remember there being a bar on the westbound platform at Sloane Square and having an illegal drink there when I was 17 !!
Legend has it in a fictional universe, the people of the (haven’t quite figured out the specific location yet) along the Westbridge valley railway were impressed by Chesham on the metropolitan line so much, they constructed a 15 mile branch line out to a station that was - you guessed it, named chesham. (Definitely didn’t take one look at the station headboards on the dreadnought carriages and metropolitan locomotives available for Trainz and think “Aha yes, I think I shall steal that name”) but I digress
There used to be a Chesham shuttle that went between Chesham and Chalfont and Latimer ... only ...
I am not certain this is still true but at one point the Metropolitan line was the most overground underground line ... mostly due to the part to Chesham
Right up to the introduction of the S-stock there was a shuttle service between the 2 stations. The exception when electrification came was 4 through services - 2 services directly Chesham to the city in the morning, and 2 returning in the evening.
Chesham is more important (or at least interesting) than I thought.
Thank you for your latest instalment! I wonder whether you might like to do one on the escalator tunnels out of the jubilee line at Waterloo (the ones the Elephant is above that you have previously mentioned). It would appear that the metal cladding is only partially complete on the tunnel walls. I once walked behind a couple or people who were talking about this and appeared knowledgeable. They said that when it was built TFL signed it off without knowing it was only partially complete hence they spread the panelling out to good effect but did not have enough to cover it. Personally i suspect it was budget savings! It would be interesting to know the truth in you can find out. The design is a metallic equivalent of the Elizabeth line and would have looked quiet different if complete.
Took the metropolitan line from Amersham last year to see the Queen's coffin. First time on the metro as prior to that I always accessed London from the district line west London area or mainline from Egham to Waterloo. I remember thinking for an underground line so much of this is out in the open.
Today is the 8th of September. A sad anniversary indeed.
@@simonwinter8839 yeah I remember it well. If I had lived really far I wouldn't have gone down but I'm only 2 hours drive from Amersham. My car wasn't ulez compliant so I decided to get the furthest tube station out of London.
@@gordonchard6243 The car park at Hillingdon is much larger and has easy access to the A40. Strangely, Google Maps seems to think it is a National Rail station.
A Metropolitan Line Station that I haven't been to?.... Chesham, 😂 but seriously a nice video Jago
Well worth a visit. Chesham is a lovely place (can even enjoy a beautiful walk from Amersham to Chesham if you have the time.
@@quintuscrinis8032 do need to visit Chesham as sometimes I do track bashing (Meaning to ride the line to clear that part of the Rail Network) So at one point will visit Chesham
@@quintuscrinis8032 With a bit of thought and TLC, the town centre could be very pleasant, but you only have to look at the "bypass" to realise that the local councillors' collective IQ is not more than 27.
………..and you, Sir. Jago Hazzard are the CHANGEOVER to my *RUclips Channel* and to ALL of *RUclips!*
Thundering through the intermediate non stopping stations going into town or back home is always a thrill. Getting there in A/C comfort,,,,,
Regarding highest speeds, the 'A' stock farewell railtour in September 2012 managed 74mph between Finchley Road and Harrow-on-the-Hill
It's an Underground Railway, not a subway, this was pre Yerkes 😅
Has anyone noticed that Underground cars are now being called carriages?I was on the Victoria line and an in -car, announcement (pre recorded) asked people to move down inside the carriage.
Another super video, thank you.
It just dawned on me, an abandoned platform, or orphaned and left to haunt the underground for ever!
Fascinating; thanks for the great info and video.
The Metropolitan is the Willie Nelson of underground lines.
Only a little dismayed DJago didn't work in BB Gabor's Métropolitan Life as a fade... but majorly impressed by the moving train footage, taken from a moving train
"Let's play the drinking game with Jago's new video," he said. "Ok, what station should we use?" "What about, I don't know, Chesham?" Boy was that a dumb idea!
maybe this video should have been called the Chesham Appreciation Society! Another good, un, Jago!
Sincerely hope this video sets a precedent for Chesham's inclusion in every possible video which includes any stat or record. "The station is 230 feet above sea level, which sounds impressive until you realise that's just roughly half that of Chesham."
It's Chesham.
The answer. Whatever it is, the answer seems to be Chesham.
The Metropolitan line has the only sole use quadruple track section on the underground (Wembley Park to Moor Park) and until the late 80s the longest non stop service- Finchley Road to Moor Park. You forgot the Brill branch which lasted into LT days.
Educate me,the ignoramus that I am,what's the Brill branch ?
@@simonwinter8839 Quainton Road to Brill. Closed 1935 I believe.
@@surreygoldprospector576 Cheers !!
@@simonwinter8839 This will explain better than I can, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brill_Tramway
Nice one Jago, how about including a geographic map as many of us do not or cannot visualise exactly where these far flung stations are. A map covering the bottom easterly quadrant of England would serve I am sure.
Another very interesting video Jago. Greetings from Australia.
The ladies will be queuing up to hear my knowledge of Chesham......I wish. 😂
Very enjoyable. So much info in so little time. You do know that, now you've started, you've got to do one of these for every line don't you? Hmm? A bit like Geoff's End Of the Line and Secrets Of ... series.
Splendid. I have drunk in that pub at Baker Street. I have also been to Chesham, though not on the same occasion.
I have been to Chesham a number of times. I have not only drunk (several times) in that pub, in a former incarnation I also attended my first interview to join the London Underground (and a subsequent one some years later for a promotional position) when the building spent a number of years as the LUL recruitment centre.
You are not a drinker if you haven't been drunk at Baker Street and Chesham. That's a falling asleep drunk on the train and waking up at the terminus joke.
A bit short,but enjoyable, please keep them coming.
Although Baker Street is the oldest station the original platforms are the ones currently used by the Circle and Hammersmith & City Lines. Although they date from 1863 they are much modernised.
I should hope they have been modernised having been in existence since 1863.
Sounds like I'd better go to Chesham sometime. I've been to Baker Street already.