Reminds me of a former Geography teacher who would smother the blackboard in minute chalked notes during the lesson ...and then finally. would rhetorically ask the class, "Is that all perfectly clear?".
As London's transit system evolved there was no one authority with one vision to oversee development, and this is the kind of confusion that resulted. In the process a lot of money went down the ... (oh, dear!) Tube.
But then they'd announce trains to "You are here", which would be confusing. So I propose that the termini be renamed "The place the train goes to" and all the other stations "You are here".
I've always thought of embankment as embankment as that's what the sign on the station says, just as well the other stations, but yeah there so close you could of called them charing Cross but then the northern would of had two charing Crosses.
Disallowed. According to the 4 Station Switcheroo Protocol you can't go directly to a station that has never had it's name changed. I play Warren Street (originally Euston Road).
Geoffrey Piltz: Then Charing Cross. (Edited: ‼️ Damn sorry this WAS the episode about Charing Cross! 🤐 I guess I’m I’m in Nidd! Adjudication, Humph? Jack?)
@@mr51406 Jago has already played Charing Cross, Embankment, Strand, Trafalgar Square and Aldwych. As you are new to this game we can suspend Nidd and you can go again. (Hint: Wikipedia is vary good on individual station histories.)
@@mr51406 I could play Tottenham Court Rd but that's too obvious. Turnham Green is the equivalent of a Get Out of Gaol Free card, being valid for all variations of the rules, but only if played as a suggestive pun. I am going to play it as a Switcheroo though.
I'm a poor Yank who was living in England n the 70's and I was sooooo confused because every time I came up to London the station names were different . . . NOW I get it. (Saw your video re the BOAC terminal at Victoria linked on FLyerTalk and now I'm hooked ;-) Thanks for all your Tube [and DLR]Tales. Thanks!)
I remember the change from Charing Cross to Embankment in the 1970s but I hadn't realised all the plethora of name changes before that ... It sounded like a cross between Sir Humphrey Appleby and 45 Dollar Bid (Auctioneer). Actually it's sometimes useful to remember the old names; if you go down the Trafalgar Square entrances you know they are close to the Bakerloo but far from the Northern, and vice versa at the main line station. Maybe you might add something one day on so-called "Monument for Bank" and the infamous "Escalator connection" (the Northern Line platforms at Bank are closer to the District than the Central; to get between the last two is two short escalators, some long corridors and the whole length of the Northern Line platform). Often wondered if Tube maps or info could show which inter-line changes are really easy (cross-platform) and which are really difficult and tedious ...
Charing Cross probably wins the record for the most amount of homeless street sleepers at the entrances. And the number of times AmericanTourists ask me which Underground Station for Trafalgar Square.
There used to be a famous cardboard city under the bridge but when i last went there a year or so back they had all been moved on, as i cant believe they were found homes.
@@chrisstephens6673 There have been some projects to get folk off the street in London with assorted sucess, the Waterloo Roundabouts had a lot of folk around too. Many were drug addicted. The Charing Cross ones up Villiers Street tended to be older men. Years ago the men at waterloo all seemed scottish.
@@highpath4776 thanks for that, I think back in the days when I would drive that way they seemed more likely to be drinkers than junkies. While thinking of the cardboard city something came to mind. Do you remember the rows of camper vans for sale in Temple place? Another bit of London's history lost to the clean up squad. 🤔
The final change was due to the construction of the Jubilee line. As there was construction work at (the present) Charing Cross, it included knocking the two stations Trafalgar Square and Strand into one. That's why Charing X is such a cavernous station. I hate it: if I'm on the Northern line I'll get off at Embankment and walk.
The current Charing Cross tube station makes little sense to me, now the Jubilee Line has been taken out. The walk between the two lines is so long that it would a lot less confusing if they just called the Bakerloo line bit "Trafalgar Square" again and just showed it with a connector blob on the tube map.
@@gymnasiast90 The Jubilee Line trains can still run into Charing Cross in the event of an incident in the newer section completed in time for the current century.
@@gymnasiast90 Im fairly certain the bakerloo platform 'bullsyes' still have 'Trafalgar square' in a small font below 'Charing Cross' ...but yes, without the jubilee line its a long walk to anywhere apart from the immediate exit out onto Trafalgar Square
I really do not see why they changed it up, surely London would benefit from multiple stations of similar names that ate close to one another; better yet they could change station names on a quarter hour rotation so it changes all together while a person is in transit, because that wouldn't be annoying at all, especially for those of us that like to catch up on missed sleep while in transit 😴🤷🏻♂️😁
And if you use the pill from the till to put the drug in the jug, you won't need to use the candle with the handle to blow up the gateau from the chateau.
Dang, if only I'd known I would have used the Strand/Aldwych station before it closed. It's such a cool looking building. I was there for the first time that summer before it closed. Though back then I didn't know my way around like I do now. Albeit with all the new stuff going on I think I have a lot more new stuff to get used to. LOL
Halfway the video I was already suffering from a nervous breakdown due to so many changes! Side note: I remember Sherlock Holmes mentioning Charing Cross a couple of times in the books, and I always been foolish enough to think it was one single station, probably the same I knew.
Makes perfect sense to me. I’ve lived through it all (well, since 1960, and Charing Cross Embankment and Trafalgar Square) and have never succeeded in explaining it to young people as well as you!
I am confused. You had the perfect opportunity to make a way more confusion riddled video, yet instead you gave us this rather confusingly enjoyable video. thank you.
It's always seemed odd to me (and must be baffling to tourists) that there's no station called Trafalgar Square, which is surely one of London's best-known landmarks. Call Embankment Charing Cross, since who knows where Embankment is, and call Charing X for Trafalgar Square (or even Trafalgar Square for Charing Cross). Oh of course, that would cost too much wouldn't it 🙄
Thanks for clearing that up. I always wondered what happened to Trafalgar Square station. And I did not know there were two Strand stations, both later renamed.
I truly appreciate your vocabulary and viewpoint. Not to mention the virtual tour of places I've been reading of for years. Please keep sharing these, I promise to like them all!
If they reopened Aldwych as Stand (Aldwych) with Aldwych in brackets, they could easily rename it to Strand Aldwych without brackets the very next year.
The "new" Northern Line station platforms (mentioned at 3:31) which opened at the same time as the Jubilee Line arrived, are actually the old Strand platforms. The closure of Strand was always intended to be only temporary (originally 1973 to 1976), but lasted until 1979 due to delays. The closure was necessary was because the escalator shaft from the new "Charing Cross" booking hall had to be driven though Strand's existing lift shaft. A similar closure to link the Bakerloo's Trafalgar Square platforms into the new Charing Cross complex was not necessary, as that station's access already had escalators, which were installed before WW2. Today the old Trafalgar Square booking hall acts as a 2nd booking hall for Charing Cross, but was closed for about 3 years for refurbishment in 1979, after the new Northern/Jubilee ticket hall opened, reopening around 1982.
If memory serves (which it increasingly doesn't these days) the original route for the Fleet Line (and who else wishes they'd kept that name??) was to continue after Charring X to Aldwych, and then make its way to Fenchurch St. Thus saving Aldwych from being utterly pointless AND finally connecting Fenchurch St with the Underground. I loved the tidyness and completeness of this, and so renaming the Fleet AND rerouting it was a personal double blow to me that I have still not fully recovered from...
Embankment station is a quarter of a mile from Charing Cross junction itself. Charing Cross station is halfway between Charing Cross junction and Embankment station. Embankment's name is correct because it's on the embankment. Charing Cross station's name could be one of several things based on where it is, the local area it serves, Paris-style - the area it goes to (Kent), or like Waterloo, name it after a battle, Agincourt for example.
Think I'm going to need a power point and a lot of tea to understand this. Tried to write this down with each tube line as a title. Then put the name changes underneath to understand it better. My brain exploded!
i have watched this twice now and ended up slumped on the floor with clear liquid running from my ears. i would give it another viewing but am afraid of getting brain damage. good film though.
How about a video on all the 'Crosses' in London, places presumably named after where the body of Queen Eleanor stayed overnight on her way to her final resting place. It's a shame they didn't do it in Liverpool for Eleanor Rigby - or perhaps not!
Yeah, why not throw some sponsorships while we are at it? Imagine it! "Pepsi Charing Cross (Embankment) - Strand" (it's surprising that they didn't use a hyphen somewhere yet)
Nah, if they extend the DLR from Bank to Charing Cross through Aldwich, we might see the Bakerloo station become Trafalgar Square again, to accentuate the massive distance between the other Charing Cross stations and the Bakerloo one.
I can definitely feel your frustration as you talk, LOL. This sounds mightily confusing (especially as I'm not from the UK, nor have I ever sadly visited or had the opportunity to ride the Underground). Despite this, I do find your videos very fascinating from a historical perspective.
Love it🤣I’ve been so confused for such a long time on this! To be honest though am I any the wiser?mmm.. Not sure I am 🤔 Very entertaining though Name changes on the tube were very common it seems 🤔
I believe I'm right in saying that when the film Daleks Invasion Earth 2150AD was filmed, there was no Embankment station at the time (1966) yet it featured in the film so they had the foresight to predict the name would be reused again in the future.
I find it funny that the dialogue in Thor 2 only makes sense if the original Jubilee route had gone through Temple as planned, since you can't do Charing Cross to Greenwich on a single train otherwise.
In 1976 my then girlfriend and I had our photos taken in the booth at Charing Cross/Embankment on our first trip to London together. We have been together ever since and married for over 30 years. I still carry the (tattered) photo. So far, so romantic...but I can't remember the exact date and you don't specify WHEN in '76 the name changed from C.C. Embankment to Embankment. So I still don't know exactly where we took the photo :)
That was absolutely enlightening!! (Being sarcastic). I saw all those stations when I was in London but I didn't know that so complicated piece of History.
It´s really sad that there´s no "Trafalgar Square" today. Nelson would absolutely deserve the honour. I guess he has to be a national hero to you british people.
Keeping "Trafalgar Square" would have made a lot of sense. For those answering tourists' questions, "Which station for Trafalgar Square?" must be second only to "Which station for Buckingham Palace?"
Wow! That was epic Jago! Thanks for putting this video together, and especially for the explanation. I think I kay have somewhere an old tube map which belonged to my late dad, which shows the Bakerloo Line Trafalgar Square, the Northern Line Strand, and the District and Circle Line Embankment Stations. All pre-Jubilee Line too, so interestingly north of Baker Street, where the Jubilee Line nows runs to and from St. John's Wood, shows originally as being part of the Bakerloo Line. That in itself would make a great video (i.e. how that part of the Bakerloo Line was separated to make the Jubilee Line). Anyway, this history of the Stations in the Charing Cross, Embankment, Strand, Trafalgar Square area, is amazing. 👏🏾⭐👏🏾 Special prizes to those who actually try and interchange between the Northern and Bakerloo Lines at Charing Cross. You can get some good pedometer mileage in there...
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And all Thor wanted was to get off at Embankment.
So he thought!
The video was as clear as the Thames at low tide.
Reminds me of a former Geography teacher who would smother the blackboard in minute chalked notes during the lesson ...and then finally. would rhetorically ask the class, "Is that all perfectly clear?".
When I was 13 and trying to explain this to my friends, I didn't know that one day there would be such a thing as RUclips.
At this rate I'm surprised there isn't an Embankment Embankment (Embankment)
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Don’t you go and put ideas into their heads 😂😂
Take a shot every time Jago says “Charing Cross” or “Embankment”
See you in the next life 😉
Or Charles Yerkes!
As London's transit system evolved there was no one authority with one vision to oversee development, and this is the kind of confusion that resulted. In the process a lot of money went down the ... (oh, dear!) Tube.
I found myself lamenting the situation today as I tried to find my way from one line to another at Bank.
@@JagoHazzard Have they changed the walking and signage routes at bank again ? Easier to walk Cannon Street To St Pauls.
It's a damn shame the W&C isn't anything too special - otherwise you could've said that a lot of money went down The Drain!
probably confused the Luftwaffe.
Easy solution: Simply call each station "You are here"
But then they'd announce trains to "You are here", which would be confusing. So I propose that the termini be renamed "The place the train goes to" and all the other stations "You are here".
We've got Embrankment Cross, Trafalgaring Square and Strandwych still to be utilised for new names - take note TfL.
By the end of this, my head was spinning due to all the name changes.
my head hurts
I've always thought of embankment as embankment as that's what the sign on the station says, just as well the other stations, but yeah there so close you could of called them charing Cross but then the northern would of had two charing Crosses.
Two words: Mornington Crescent! 🤣
Disallowed. According to the 4 Station Switcheroo Protocol you can't go directly to a station that has never had it's name changed. I play Warren Street (originally Euston Road).
Geoffrey Piltz: Then Charing Cross.
(Edited: ‼️
Damn sorry this WAS the episode about Charing Cross! 🤐
I guess I’m I’m in Nidd! Adjudication, Humph? Jack?)
@@mr51406 Jago has already played Charing Cross, Embankment, Strand, Trafalgar Square and Aldwych. As you are new to this game we can suspend Nidd and you can go again. (Hint: Wikipedia is vary good on individual station histories.)
Geoffrey Piltz: Thanks Geoff!
Very friendly of you for this Canadian novice.
Goodge Street (originally Tottenham Court Rd)
@@mr51406 I could play Tottenham Court Rd but that's too obvious. Turnham Green is the equivalent of a Get Out of Gaol Free card, being valid for all variations of the rules, but only if played as a suggestive pun. I am going to play it as a Switcheroo though.
I'm going to rename this channel to Charing Cross Embankment (RUclips Branch)
Run that past me again?
I'm a poor Yank who was living in England n the 70's and I was sooooo confused because every time I came up to London the station names were different . . . NOW I get it. (Saw your video re the BOAC terminal at Victoria linked on FLyerTalk and now I'm hooked ;-) Thanks for all your Tube [and DLR]Tales. Thanks!)
So THAT'S what happened to Trafalgar Sq station. I always wondered.
Brilliantly unclear, loved it 🤣🤣
That was easy for him to say.
I am pregnant and this made my morning sickness worse
How colourful all this could have gotten, had the line coloured Roundels been used :D
Now I can see why people collect tube maps
I remember the change from Charing Cross to Embankment in the 1970s but I hadn't realised all the plethora of name changes before that ... It sounded like a cross between Sir Humphrey Appleby and 45 Dollar Bid (Auctioneer). Actually it's sometimes useful to remember the old names; if you go down the Trafalgar Square entrances you know they are close to the Bakerloo but far from the Northern, and vice versa at the main line station. Maybe you might add something one day on so-called "Monument for Bank" and the infamous "Escalator connection" (the Northern Line platforms at Bank are closer to the District than the Central; to get between the last two is two short escalators, some long corridors and the whole length of the Northern Line platform). Often wondered if Tube maps or info could show which inter-line changes are really easy (cross-platform) and which are really difficult and tedious ...
Charing Cross probably wins the record for the most amount of homeless street sleepers at the entrances. And the number of times AmericanTourists ask me which Underground Station for Trafalgar Square.
There used to be a famous cardboard city under the bridge but when i last went there a year or so back they had all been moved on, as i cant believe they were found homes.
@@chrisstephens6673 There have been some projects to get folk off the street in London with assorted sucess, the Waterloo Roundabouts had a lot of folk around too. Many were drug addicted. The Charing Cross ones up Villiers Street tended to be older men. Years ago the men at waterloo all seemed scottish.
@@highpath4776 thanks for that, I think back in the days when I would drive that way they seemed more likely to be drinkers than junkies. While thinking of the cardboard city something came to mind. Do you remember the rows of camper vans for sale in Temple place? Another bit of London's history lost to the clean up squad. 🤔
@@chrisstephens6673 Sorry, Temple was outside of my knowledge zone then.
@@highpath4776 no worried, it just came to my rather random mind being in the same area.
A perfect example of how the Underground was built by separate companies and not envisaged as a joined up network...
The final change was due to the construction of the Jubilee line. As there was construction work at (the present) Charing Cross, it included knocking the two stations Trafalgar Square and Strand into one. That's why Charing X is such a cavernous station.
I hate it: if I'm on the Northern line I'll get off at Embankment and walk.
The current Charing Cross tube station makes little sense to me, now the Jubilee Line has been taken out. The walk between the two lines is so long that it would a lot less confusing if they just called the Bakerloo line bit "Trafalgar Square" again and just showed it with a connector blob on the tube map.
@@gymnasiast90 The Jubilee Line trains can still run into Charing Cross in the event of an incident in the newer section completed in time for the current century.
@@1963TOMB I know, yes. But are they really critical to the Jubilee Line, or could it do without?
@@gymnasiast90 Im fairly certain the bakerloo platform 'bullsyes' still have 'Trafalgar square' in a small font below 'Charing Cross' ...but yes, without the jubilee line its a long walk to anywhere apart from the immediate exit out onto Trafalgar Square
Having been down Charing Cross (Jubilee) for work I can state it’s probably the cleanest part of the network. Rails you could eat off!
Ye Gods! And I thought Australians were mad.
Never ask a time traveller to meet you at Charing Cross station, London.
Sounds like a a typical London Transport Committee meeting
It seems like they wanted to confuse people and have a good chuckle about it.
I really do not see why they changed it up, surely London would benefit from multiple stations of similar names that ate close to one another; better yet they could change station names on a quarter hour rotation so it changes all together while a person is in transit, because that wouldn't be annoying at all, especially for those of us that like to catch up on missed sleep while in transit 😴🤷🏻♂️😁
I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle...or something like that? 🤣
gpan62 🤣 Danny Kaye!
And if you use the pill from the till to put the drug in the jug, you won't need to use the candle with the handle to blow up the gateau from the chateau.
No less clear than the latest guidelines relating to the current pandemic. The only difference is the timescale between the confusing changes. ☺️
Dang, if only I'd known I would have used the Strand/Aldwych station before it closed. It's such a cool looking building. I was there for the first time that summer before it closed. Though back then I didn't know my way around like I do now. Albeit with all the new stuff going on I think I have a lot more new stuff to get used to. LOL
I used the Aldwych branch once, in 1987, just so I could say I'd done it. A previous attempt had foundered on the station's restricted opening hours.
Halfway the video I was already suffering from a nervous breakdown due to so many changes!
Side note: I remember Sherlock Holmes mentioning Charing Cross a couple of times in the books, and I always been foolish enough to think it was one single station, probably the same I knew.
I think when Sherlock Holmes (or more likely, Dr. Watson) mentions Charing Cross, it's in relation to the main line station.
@@RJSRdg Yes, you're probably right
Very interesting... I think I need a lie down now!
Makes perfect sense to me. I’ve lived through it all (well, since 1960, and Charing Cross Embankment and Trafalgar Square) and have never succeeded in explaining it to young people as well as you!
I am confused. You had the perfect opportunity to make a way more confusion riddled video, yet instead you gave us this rather confusingly enjoyable video.
thank you.
Bib's head is spinning so fast it has detached itself and rolled around the kitchen floor....
Quite brilliant 😃😂😅🤣😄 Had me cackling like a witch on helium 🧙♀️ 🎈😜
It's always seemed odd to me (and must be baffling to tourists) that there's no station called Trafalgar Square, which is surely one of London's best-known landmarks. Call Embankment Charing Cross, since who knows where Embankment is, and call Charing X for Trafalgar Square (or even Trafalgar Square for Charing Cross). Oh of course, that would cost too much wouldn't it 🙄
This video was as clear as being down the tube when they turn the tunnel lighting off 👀 great work!
Thanks for clearing that up. I always wondered what happened to Trafalgar Square station. And I did not know there were two Strand stations, both later renamed.
I truly appreciate your vocabulary and viewpoint. Not to mention the virtual tour of places I've been reading of for years. Please keep sharing these, I promise to like them all!
I wouldn't be surprised to hear the ticket printers had a seat or two on the naming commitees.
To quote Vinny Barbarino from Welcome Back Kotter...
"I’m so confused.”
This is the charring cross/embankment saga
That was very amusing and frustratingly confusing...thank you for the conundrum...it will keep me awake tonight trying to work it all out.
If they reopened Aldwych as Stand (Aldwych) with Aldwych in brackets, they could easily rename it to Strand Aldwych without brackets the very next year.
Brilliant! Now I need a coffee as my head hurts! Lol
As clear as dishwater! Thanks for trying to make sense of it all!
The "new" Northern Line station platforms (mentioned at 3:31) which opened at the same time as the Jubilee Line arrived, are actually the old Strand platforms. The closure of Strand was always intended to be only temporary (originally 1973 to 1976), but lasted until 1979 due to delays. The closure was necessary was because the escalator shaft from the new "Charing Cross" booking hall had to be driven though Strand's existing lift shaft. A similar closure to link the Bakerloo's Trafalgar Square platforms into the new Charing Cross complex was not necessary, as that station's access already had escalators, which were installed before WW2. Today the old Trafalgar Square booking hall acts as a 2nd booking hall for Charing Cross, but was closed for about 3 years for refurbishment in 1979, after the new Northern/Jubilee ticket hall opened, reopening around 1982.
A map would have made this much easier to understand, but far less confusing, and therefore far less funny.
If memory serves (which it increasingly doesn't these days) the original route for the Fleet Line (and who else wishes they'd kept that name??) was to continue after Charring X to Aldwych, and then make its way to Fenchurch St. Thus saving Aldwych from being utterly pointless AND finally connecting Fenchurch St with the Underground. I loved the tidyness and completeness of this, and so renaming the Fleet AND rerouting it was a personal double blow to me that I have still not fully recovered from...
Embankment station is a quarter of a mile from Charing Cross junction itself. Charing Cross station is halfway between Charing Cross junction and Embankment station.
Embankment's name is correct because it's on the embankment. Charing Cross station's name could be one of several things based on where it is, the local area it serves, Paris-style - the area it goes to (Kent), or like Waterloo, name it after a battle, Agincourt for example.
Should have put in a mention of Charing Cross (Glasgow)
Could throw Charing(Kent) into the mix too; make everyone "cross".😁
@@2H80vids continue the theme with Leeds Castle (Kent)
Think I'm going to need a power point and a lot of tea to understand this. Tried to write this down with each tube line as a title. Then put the name changes underneath to understand it better. My brain exploded!
Sent this to my 23 yr old, non-railway-geek son. He is still laughing.
i have watched this twice now and ended up slumped on the floor with clear liquid running from my ears.
i would give it another viewing but am afraid of getting brain damage.
good film though.
How about a video on all the 'Crosses' in London, places presumably named after where the body of Queen Eleanor stayed overnight on her way to her final resting place. It's a shame they didn't do it in Liverpool for Eleanor Rigby - or perhaps not!
I think I just had a stroke...
I am bamboozled and lost in Embankment-Charing Cross!
Just listened to this one….it’s a magnificent piece of word play. Luv it.
That's going to cause a little confusion. Mind if we call them all "Bruce" to keep things clear?
Very very funny. Best comedy I've heard for years
It's high time for some re-naming again isn't it? They should have done it when the Jubilee closed.
lipkinasl.
How about Coronavirus Central?!!
Yeah, why not throw some sponsorships while we are at it? Imagine it! "Pepsi Charing Cross (Embankment) - Strand" (it's surprising that they didn't use a hyphen somewhere yet)
Nah, if they extend the DLR from Bank to Charing Cross through Aldwich, we might see the Bakerloo station become Trafalgar Square again, to accentuate the massive distance between the other Charing Cross stations and the Bakerloo one.
I can definitely feel your frustration as you talk, LOL. This sounds mightily confusing (especially as I'm not from the UK, nor have I ever sadly visited or had the opportunity to ride the Underground). Despite this, I do find your videos very fascinating from a historical perspective.
I wish to see the changes to the Mornington Crescent rule book during this period.
Wrong instructions
Went on the Viennese metro.
Sorry, that happens a lot.
And who got paid a fortune through this schemozzle? Words Fail!
This should have been accompanied with a timeline change of the tube map of the area. Dates and names go in one ear and out the other.
TFL state it's too expensive to rename an Edgware Road station 🤣
Love it🤣I’ve been so confused for such a long time on this!
To be honest though am I any the wiser?mmm..
Not sure I am 🤔
Very entertaining though
Name changes on the tube were very common it seems 🤔
I believe I'm right in saying that when the film Daleks Invasion Earth 2150AD was filmed, there was no Embankment station at the time (1966) yet it featured in the film so they had the foresight to predict the name would be reused again in the future.
I find it funny that the dialogue in Thor 2 only makes sense if the original Jubilee route had gone through Temple as planned, since you can't do Charing Cross to Greenwich on a single train otherwise.
I think it a great pity that Trafalgar Square was lost to the underground map.
Someone read Stovold's Companion and was trying to avoid nidd.
I need to lie down for a bit...
In 1976 my then girlfriend and I had our photos taken in the booth at Charing Cross/Embankment on our first trip to London together. We have been together ever since and married for over 30 years. I still carry the (tattered) photo. So far, so romantic...but I can't remember the exact date and you don't specify WHEN in '76 the name changed from C.C. Embankment to Embankment. So I still don't know exactly where we took the photo :)
*District:*
Charing Cross Charing Cross Embankment Embankment
*Bakerloo* *(Embankment):*
Embankment Charing Cross (Embankment) Charing Cross Charing Cross Embankment Embankment
*Bakerloo* *(Charing Cross):*
Trafalgar Square Charing Cross
*Northern* *(Charing Cross):*
Charing Cross Charing Cross (Strand) Strand Charing Cross
*Northern* *(Embankment):*
Embankment Charing Cross (Embankment) Charing Cross Charing Cross Embankment Embankment
*Piccadilly:*
Strand Aldwych
*Jubillee:*
Charing Cross
i think this has the potential to be turned into a crazy game...
This one made my brain sting.
it could have been worse: they could have dragged in the less well known and wholly unrelated Charing Cross in Glasgow
Mr.Gumby says : "my brain hurts " !
Perhaps, as a public convenience, they could rename all stations Cheltenham, except for Cheltenham Racecourse, which is good for the trots.
Brilliant! The English committee - the peak of civilisation - much love Jago
I have watched this four times and my mind still melts
One of my favs, though I’m
still 💯 percent confused 🤷🏼♂️
I couldn't stop to laugh. This is amusing vid. I must say I lost myself during the explanation but compliments to you for the research and the video.
Wtf! I need to watch this like 20 more times
That was absolutely enlightening!! (Being sarcastic). I saw all those stations when I was in London but I didn't know that so complicated piece of History.
Well, that cleared that up! 😀
I'm still getting confused about Bank and Embankment not being in the same place
Do you often stand confused waving your cheque book at a river bank? One involves the Bank of England and the other a bank of the Thames.
It´s really sad that there´s no "Trafalgar Square" today. Nelson would absolutely deserve the honour. I guess he has to be a national hero to you british people.
Keeping "Trafalgar Square" would have made a lot of sense. For those answering tourists' questions, "Which station for Trafalgar Square?" must be second only to "Which station for Buckingham Palace?"
Wow! That was epic Jago! Thanks for putting this video together, and especially for the explanation. I think I kay have somewhere an old tube map which belonged to my late dad, which shows the Bakerloo Line Trafalgar Square, the Northern Line Strand, and the District and Circle Line Embankment Stations. All pre-Jubilee Line too, so interestingly north of Baker Street, where the Jubilee Line nows runs to and from St. John's Wood, shows originally as being part of the Bakerloo Line. That in itself would make a great video (i.e. how that part of the Bakerloo Line was separated to make the Jubilee Line).
Anyway, this history of the Stations in the Charing Cross, Embankment, Strand, Trafalgar Square area, is amazing. 👏🏾⭐👏🏾
Special prizes to those who actually try and interchange between the Northern and Bakerloo Lines at Charing Cross. You can get some good pedometer mileage in there...
I'm high as fuck and never been more confused in my life
Thanks for clearing that up
Let's hope they keep the names they got now without changing them.
I feel like this could benefit from a map
Needed a graph really Mr jago to cheese things up
This reminds me of the horrible histories skit with Bob the weatherman
Wow, that was a mouthful but semi unclear.
Excellent stuff. Had me chuckling away I must say.