Metropolitan Railway then, one of the last steam hauled underground railways to be taken over when London Underground was formed, never part of UERL, the infamous dodgy American businessman, Charles Tyson Yerkes never got his slippery, greasy fingers on it.
The first time I visited Wendover was a brief stop at the train station in 1998, before a short, deeply foreboding bus journey to the nearby RAF Halton to start my basic training. I next went back to Wendover ten years later to find it was still 1998.
I was standing on a corner In Winslow, Buckinghamshire, and such a fine sight to see it's a girl my lord, in a clapped-out Ford, slowing down to find a place to pee...
I was the Project Engineer for the construction of that bridge at Verney Junction (among others!) Nice to see it in you video. I claim no ownership of the drainage I was purely in charge of the structures!
Then he should have mentioned Wendover was a junction of sorts with a freight rail link to the RAF camp at Halton. Just old enough to remember it working.
Fantastic? What is wrong with you. No it doesn't. It effing horrible. Its called brutalist for a reason. Because its brutal and horrible. It looks like some sort of soviet prizon.
I laughed my socks off when I heard all the opposition to HS2 from the residents of Wendover. I have a motorway at the end of my road. Now you know what it is like.
Thanks for another *Quacking* episode, Jon. I think this has been a good week for nearly everybody in the UK. It's pronounced *jail* but you already knew that.
Gotta love a slab-sided concrete building built in the cold war with a bunker in the basement that'll be flattened with all inside had the canned sunshine ever been dropped cos slab-sided buildings love having extra-strong pressure-waves hitting them... :P
Seconded. My home town of Abingdon also had an "Old Gaol" (which was a leisure centre in my day, now posh flats) and that was pronounced the same as Jail.
Loved the healing water, not suitable for drinking. This is the closest journey to my location, you have undertaken. I know all the locations you talked about very well, but I still learned some new facts, so thank you John
At least the rail centre got a good recommendation - one of our favourite days out (esp the ride on train at VAMES). Shame Wendover got a bit of flak as it's a nice little place with an excellent butchers.
I lived in Wendover for a bit. I was renting, and so I wasn't really a local, which is why I fully consented to HS2. I hated all of the Yuppie NIMBYs around there.
6:23 "We need to get back on track!' Boom. Boom. Tish! LOL I used to live in Shrivenham in the 90s. I am hoping you will pass by. You have already done the Swindon Magic Roundabout, which is in town. I don't think you have done the Uffington White Horse yet. Nearby, I use to like driving on the B4507 for fun. Hoping the guide book takes you there.
Bugger it John, me and the mrs have missed you 3 times now, the A41(M), Berko (where we're from) and now through Aylesbury (where we live) 😂😂😂 We love your videos, they're fantastic
I used to travel the A41 a lot back in the last century. Surprised you didn't point out some of the old airfields, one where research *was* being done into some revolutionary new aircraft, or rocket, engine, and the other airfield where ejection seat makers Martin-Baker have a test facility, both visible from the A41.
A very fair review of aylesbury, you covered everything the town has to offer. lol You missed claydon house, which is the family home of the verney family, hence verney junction.
Brilliant & most accurate. Well done for getting out of Ayleshole whilst you still could: no longer an easy feet given the abysmal lack of main arterial road planning in favor of millions of new houses (and of course .. cars) - another Watford in the making. Great Vid - really enjoyed the vigorous narrative :D
Great seeing my home represented. Aylesbury is a lovely place! We have a singing statue of David Bowie just off the Market Square! The East-West Railway was supposed to have a spur to Aylesbury, upgrading the freight line to a full passenger service and allowing for trains to run via Winslow to Milton Keynes, a very handy journey and taking traffic off the very congested roads. However spiralling costs has meant that this spur has been shelved. Yay.
Another top video. It's the mix of wit and sarcasm that just gets me every time. Addictive viewing, especially when I'm working from home, it's p1ssing it down yet again, the dog is asleep and I've nothing else to do to fill time until my next Teams meeting. Take take, bye bye.. look forward to the next episode of wit and humour.
No, I can't believe somebody's beaten me to sailing a Rubber duck on a flooded section of road. So 10/10 for that. I know 300 mm long ones are produced. That will be noticed far quicker. 10/10 for this one. Thanks for the video I appreciate the inclusion of Rail shenigans, it is great to see what's there in Buckinghamshire especially all the museums.
@@Vtarngpb As it's Winter again we are having Sunday Roast with still warm Cherry and Chocolate cake with cream. Before you ask, the plague of locusts masquerading as my family have eaten the bloody lot.
Another great video John, thanks. We lived a couple of miles from Winslow. Surprised you didn’t visit some of the disused airbases and the Wellington bomber memorial plaque next to the water tower at Mursley the next village along. You’ve pretty much covered everywhere where we live now, Thanet, Buckinghamshire, Darlington area.
Ah yes, Aylesbury - my home town. A lovely market town until razed in the 60's to put up concrete monstrosities - including Pooley's Folly as the County Offices were known.
2:20 aw yeah, the railway tangent in the road journey series, you know just what I like. 5:49 even more rail, you should just do a Great British Rail Journeys next. 6:58 The answer is usually simple like a big budget and a need to spend it or lose it.
I think Great British Railway Journeys has been done... by some failed pompous politician. John is way more entertaining and not pompous in the slightest
For the third one: Surely there is more to it. Like inflated egos, superior complexes, small 🍆, and so on. Otherwise that big budget surely could have been used for something more beneficial for the county.
The use of COR-TEN weathering steel in the construction of the bridge is interesting. It was first used architecturally in the construction of John Deere’s world headquarters at Moline, Illinois during the 1960’s and its most prominent use in the UK must be The Angel of the North statue thing. Glad you asked.
"The Ballad of Buckingham Gowl"... just like Oscar Wilde, John, you have nothing to declare, except your genius...😂...and for what it's worth, you can join my club anytime you want...😁👍🇦🇺
All that lovely concrete at the council HQ , mmm fantastic! HS2: what a total waste of OUR money. The Cameron/ Clegg vanity project, who remembers those two?
I live in Aus, Grace Brothers used to serve more regional areas (Towns around 15,000 to 30,000), while the majors like David Jones were in the cities. Myer (our other department store) bought them, took the best shops and sold the rest. The town I live in (Nowra, NSW) had one of, what I believe to be, one of the last Grace Brothers branded stores in the country, closing in 2003. (Don’t quote me)
One of the railways that terminated at Verney Junction was.... the Metropolitain Railway (the Metropolitain line), before it was cut back to Aylesbury in the mid 1930s. Also Quainton Road was another Metropolitain station. and that the Brill Brnach of the Met, a very rural railway that was for a time a part of the met, branching off at Quainton Road.
I've really been enjoying this series (as well, I'm enjoying bingeing my way through your previous series), utterly brilliant content in every video 👍 Albeit a bit overdue, I just subbed, (and I feel fwicked sweet awesome about it).
Seeing the rubber ducks reminded me, during the 1990's there was a proliferation of yellow ducks stuck on roadsigns throughout Hertfordshire, Bedfordhshire, Buckinghamshire and perhaps beyond. Never got to find out who or why the roadsigns had the yellow ducks. John?
Jon proving once again that he's out standing in his field
By standing in front of a Dungheap.
@@tonys1636 in a field
I'd prefer "He stands out amongst his peers." If he's just standing out in his fields... That might get him a "Crazy Man" reputation.
Grace Bros !
I'm freeeeee.
My first thoughts as well.
Old Mr Grace doesn't get about much anymore.
I wonder if they actually named the fictional store after the actual store.
Does anyone know?
Not seen young mr grace for a while, must be in another office with his secretary!😊
@@lxtechmangood9503 No, you must be thinking of young Mr Grace. Old Mr Grace is never seen!
Another great episode of Rail Shenanigans!
😂😂
Whew! A lucky thing that I just happen to like trains. 🙃
Verney Junction was the most northerly point on the Metropolitan Railway
I can't get enough railway content on this road-oriented series.
If I am not mistaken Verney Junction was the original terminus of the Metropolitan Line, now part of London Underground.
Metropolitan Railway then, one of the last steam hauled underground railways to be taken over when London Underground was formed, never part of UERL, the infamous dodgy American businessman, Charles Tyson Yerkes never got his slippery, greasy fingers on it.
@@tonys1636 Now, we won;t be having any slanderous talk about Charles Tyson Yerkes - without him, Jago Hazzard would be out of a job! #Satire
The first time I visited Wendover was a brief stop at the train station in 1998, before a short, deeply foreboding bus journey to the nearby RAF Halton to start my basic training. I next went back to Wendover ten years later to find it was still 1998.
Fewer pubs now.
I was standing on a corner
In Winslow, Buckinghamshire,
and such a fine sight to see
it's a girl my lord,
in a clapped-out Ford,
slowing down to find a place to pee...
Take It Sleazy - The Beagles.
I was the Project Engineer for the construction of that bridge at Verney Junction (among others!) Nice to see it in you video. I claim no ownership of the drainage I was purely in charge of the structures!
I commented too soon, I also managed the construction of Winslow Station! The Bell Inn was our local and the pies are amazing!
My priest always warned me that if I pumped and pumped and pumped, the devil would appear.
That sounds almost counterintuitive, although I guess it depends on whether said priest was present for the pumping...
@@simonneep8413 Probably was when he wasn't getting his organ stuck in a hymn.
I live... well exist, in Aylesbury.
You actually talked the place up.
No mention on the ducks?
I could not live in Ay for love nor money.
The roadworks are constant and _everywhere._
@@alexg1778 I very rarely go to Aylesbury. Just about the worst place I know of for road lay out. I avoid the place at all costs.
I lived there for a few years, on the Rotherhams estate. I liked it 👍
Lots of railway in this video, I approve 😎
Then he should have mentioned Wendover was a junction of sorts with a freight rail link to the RAF camp at Halton. Just old enough to remember it working.
There's always room for a crap pun followed by a "ba-dumm tssssch" rimshot.
Keep up the good work Jon.
Nice to know Aylesbury still impresses...
Aylesbury which had the vile MP David Lidington who quelled the news of Asian gang rape attacks on underage girls.
I had to do jury duty in Aylesbury many moons ago. It certainly is a place that exists.
6:30 That building looks fantastic. I have always loved 60's and 70's architecture (I think it is called "Brutalist").
Fantastic? What is wrong with you. No it doesn't. It effing horrible. Its called brutalist for a reason. Because its brutal and horrible. It looks like some sort of soviet prizon.
Almost £5 for a load of bread. I almost fell off my chair. Definitely not wicked, sweet, awesome. Great vid. Hope your well John. Sunday complete ❤
I laughed my socks off when I heard all the opposition to HS2 from the residents of Wendover. I have a motorway at the end of my road. Now you know what it is like.
I admit - I swore at that, and I'm used to ridiculous gluten free prices
Now I know why the pub in Winslow on the way to North Marston was called the devil in the boot.
Thanks for another *Quacking* episode, Jon. I think this has been a good week for nearly everybody in the UK. It's pronounced *jail* but you already knew that.
Classic episode featuring places nobody goes to nor care about, what more can one ask for? 😂
Gotta love a slab-sided concrete building built in the cold war with a bunker in the basement that'll be flattened with all inside had the canned sunshine ever been dropped cos slab-sided buildings love having extra-strong pressure-waves hitting them... :P
Grace Bros!.... "Are you being served"
Nice one Jon. But Gaol. Gowl...? Surely it's pronounced the same as Jail...???
Seconded. My home town of Abingdon also had an "Old Gaol" (which was a leisure centre in my day, now posh flats) and that was pronounced the same as Jail.
Yup, it's the same word, jail is just the modern spelling.
@@llynellyn More the American misspelling which has made its way back across the Atlantic :(
I think this is his humour guys…
Means something rather different in Ireland. You would rather be inside a gowl than inside a gaol.
Loved the healing water, not suitable for drinking. This is the closest journey to my location, you have undertaken. I know all the locations you talked about very well, but I still learned some new facts, so thank you John
My favourite episode because my bus was then one in the background in Aylesbury 😂
The original council offices in Aylesbury featured as the crown court building in the 1964 Miss Marple film "Murder Most Foul"
I’m from Quainton. And I’m disappointed you didn’t visit the windmill. It’s a really interesting piece of history.
Well done on another great video.
Same. I’m also sad that he didn’t talk at all about Waddesdon despite the road map at the start showing that he drove through it
At least the rail centre got a good recommendation - one of our favourite days out (esp the ride on train at VAMES). Shame Wendover got a bit of flak as it's a nice little place with an excellent butchers.
I lived in Wendover for a bit. I was renting, and so I wasn't really a local, which is why I fully consented to HS2. I hated all of the Yuppie NIMBYs around there.
6:23 "We need to get back on track!' Boom. Boom. Tish! LOL
I used to live in Shrivenham in the 90s. I am hoping you will pass by. You have already done the Swindon Magic Roundabout, which is in town. I don't think you have done the Uffington White Horse yet. Nearby, I use to like driving on the B4507 for fun. Hoping the guide book takes you there.
Thanks John, very enjoyable
With the Grace Brothers connection I really think we should've seen you being served at the Bell Inn.
I think he's a bit too young to get the reference, but I'm free!
Remember he is driving.
@@martinh4982 Giving away the age of John's audience - poor chap!
Besides my wife you are the only person who asks how I am every time I see you. Cheers for that and keep up the good work. 😆
But just like your wife, he doesn't actually care!🤣
@@2760ade True but it the thought that counts 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Another fwickedsweetawesome video, Jon. The transition at the end made me chuckle 😆
Special healing water you can't drink?! Hmm...🤔
I can't put a finger on it. Something I enjoy about dry *informative humor presented in scene with old bits of stone. Cheers!
Another whicked sweet awesome video 👍
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, as used in Series 8 of Taskmaster.
Seems to pop up in quite a few tv locations. In Morse I seem to remember or was it Endeaver?
Bugger it John, me and the mrs have missed you 3 times now, the A41(M), Berko (where we're from) and now through Aylesbury (where we live) 😂😂😂
We love your videos, they're fantastic
That was a really interesting episode! Love the strangeness of that well!
I used to travel the A41 a lot back in the last century. Surprised you didn't point out some of the old airfields, one where research *was* being done into some revolutionary new aircraft, or rocket, engine, and the other airfield where ejection seat makers Martin-Baker have a test facility, both visible from the A41.
Martin Baker are based at Chalgrove which isn't anywhere near the A41.... or have they got another place too?
I'm presuming they are referring to Westcott with rocket testing and the old runway.
You used to travel ON the A41...
Another good vid John !
Yet again there’s a good bit of railway coverage 🤪👍
Thank you for mentioning Buckingham. I've been through the town by bus from MK, and I learned more about you. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
You are compulsive viewing love all your videos lol 😂
apparently the Buckinghamshire county council office is almost completely empty. And Wendover is lovely, if a bit pointless.
As always I enjoy the Swift editing and the little bits of wit
Grace Bros Yeah! 😂
Greetings from a Perth West Aussie 🇦🇺
Love your comments John, especially with reference to Wendover. I can't wait to hear your comments about Maidenhead!
...yes, that brutal telephone exchange, built to survive an atom bomb
Thanks
This was a particulalry great episode for me. I grew up in the now abandoned pub in Verney Junction so was shocked to see it mentioned
6:37 for an office block, I quite like it
Probably the best looking New Brutalism structure built, and normally I find them offensive to look at.
I love it
You like it? What is wrong with you! Its a disgusting monstrosity! It looks like a soviet prizon.
Brilliant video of going through my town Aylesbury!
Just a thought and only a thought I can't think of a better host than yourself jon a few videos on the railways 🤔 could be a winner
I'm more and more convinced that Jon is just Jago Hazzard's alter ego. Suspicious number of railway mentions in a channel named "Auto Shenanigans". 😉
Another Fantastic and informative video Jon, loved the ending 😂
A very fair review of aylesbury, you covered everything the town has to offer. lol You missed claydon house, which is the family home of the verney family, hence verney junction.
Brilliant & most accurate. Well done for getting out of Ayleshole whilst you still could: no longer an easy feet given the abysmal lack of main arterial road planning in favor of millions of new houses (and of course .. cars) - another Watford in the making.
Great Vid - really enjoyed the vigorous narrative :D
I admire your ability to talk really fast and not get out of breath, I think id pass out. Super smashin episode cheers.
Jon, if I'd known you were in my back yard I'd have put the kettle on.
Very enjoyable episode!
Grace Brothers? As in "Are you being served?" 🙂
I live in Aylesbury. Thank you mate
Great seeing my home represented. Aylesbury is a lovely place! We have a singing statue of David Bowie just off the Market Square!
The East-West Railway was supposed to have a spur to Aylesbury, upgrading the freight line to a full passenger service and allowing for trains to run via Winslow to Milton Keynes, a very handy journey and taking traffic off the very congested roads. However spiralling costs has meant that this spur has been shelved. Yay.
Another top video. It's the mix of wit and sarcasm that just gets me every time. Addictive viewing, especially when I'm working from home, it's p1ssing it down yet again, the dog is asleep and I've nothing else to do to fill time until my next Teams meeting.
Take take, bye bye.. look forward to the next episode of wit and humour.
Aylesbury, you nailed the place. Also, Verney Junction used to be on the Metropolitan Line of the London Underground!
saw the episode of Secrets of the London Underground last night that was talking about this very location.
Winslow used to have a pub called 'The Devil in the Boot' (or similar). Now I know why. Thanks!
It's almost like the was a small rail based disagreement in the 1960's.
No, I can't believe somebody's beaten me to sailing a Rubber duck on a flooded section of road. So 10/10 for that. I know 300 mm long ones are produced. That will be noticed far quicker.
10/10 for this one.
Thanks for the video I appreciate the inclusion of Rail shenigans, it is great to see what's there in Buckinghamshire especially all the museums.
I can now have my lunch... wickedsweetawesome.
What’s for lunch?
@@Vtarngpb As it's Winter again we are having Sunday Roast with still warm Cherry and Chocolate cake with cream. Before you ask, the plague of locusts masquerading as my family have eaten the bloody lot.
Wendover has some expensive bread, but it’s the cheese that’s really worth getting excited about. That, and the Chiltern Brewery.
Another great video John, thanks. We lived a couple of miles from Winslow. Surprised you didn’t visit some of the disused airbases and the Wellington bomber memorial plaque next to the water tower at Mursley the next village along. You’ve pretty much covered everywhere where we live now, Thanet, Buckinghamshire, Darlington area.
I think the Jurassic Park music should have been played for the outro whilst stood next to the pile of muck.
Nice one John. Cheers.
Ah yes, Aylesbury - my home town. A lovely market town until razed in the 60's to put up concrete monstrosities - including Pooley's Folly as the County Offices were known.
That county council building is… special!
You spelt disgusting wrong.
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is great, and was featured in a 1980s Doctor Who serial - "Black Orchid" with Peter Davison.
Great video as always thanks John. You will be at 150k in no time 👍
Perfect timing for my cuppa tea
love the drone shots John. keep it up mate. 👍
"An area..." :) :) :)
Wickedly interesting 😂😂😂❤
2:20 aw yeah, the railway tangent in the road journey series, you know just what I like.
5:49 even more rail, you should just do a Great British Rail Journeys next.
6:58 The answer is usually simple like a big budget and a need to spend it or lose it.
I think Great British Railway Journeys has been done... by some failed pompous politician. John is way more entertaining and not pompous in the slightest
For the third one:
Surely there is more to it. Like inflated egos, superior complexes, small 🍆, and so on.
Otherwise that big budget surely could have been used for something more beneficial for the county.
Another abridged introduction.
Another fab video and gave me a few places to go check out. 😊
The use of COR-TEN weathering steel in the construction of the bridge is interesting. It was first used architecturally in the construction of John Deere’s world headquarters at Moline, Illinois during the 1960’s and its most prominent use in the UK must be The Angel of the North statue thing. Glad you asked.
Corten. The same steel used for shipping containers. It has the ability to generate a thin oxide coating that then protects it from further corrosion.
These Videos are getting better each week.
"The Ballad of Buckingham Gowl"... just like Oscar Wilde, John, you have nothing to declare, except your genius...😂...and for what it's worth, you can join my club anytime you want...😁👍🇦🇺
All that lovely concrete at the council HQ , mmm fantastic! HS2: what a total waste of OUR money. The Cameron/ Clegg vanity project, who remembers those two?
Better the devil you can find in a boot than the one you don't! 🤣 lol
I live in Aus, Grace Brothers used to serve more regional areas (Towns around 15,000 to 30,000), while the majors like David Jones were in the cities. Myer (our other department store) bought them, took the best shops and sold the rest. The town I live in (Nowra, NSW) had one of, what I believe to be, one of the last Grace Brothers branded stores in the country, closing in 2003. (Don’t quote me)
One of the railways that terminated at Verney Junction was.... the Metropolitain Railway (the Metropolitain line), before it was cut back to Aylesbury in the mid 1930s. Also Quainton Road was another Metropolitain station. and that the Brill Brnach of the Met, a very rural railway that was for a time a part of the met, branching off at Quainton Road.
Flooding issues..
Caused by building works..
Who would have thought it...
I've really been enjoying this series (as well, I'm enjoying bingeing my way through your previous series), utterly brilliant content in every video 👍
Albeit a bit overdue, I just subbed, (and I feel fwicked sweet awesome about it).
Can't wait till you venture more north west and I see more roads I actually use but I've still watched every episode!
The bridge/area at the start is a 🌈 dogging spot 😂
I don't stop in that car park anymore 😂😂😂
Jon's railway fetish is a neat counterpoint to Geoff Marshall's obsession with car parks.
Good one.
Nothing happened near these places during the 1st and 2nd disagreements!
Interesting to see the roads have hardly changed and no little chefs!
Seeing the rubber ducks reminded me, during the 1990's there was a proliferation of yellow ducks stuck on roadsigns throughout Hertfordshire, Bedfordhshire, Buckinghamshire and perhaps beyond. Never got to find out who or why the roadsigns had the yellow ducks. John?
Man, I've heard about TRW from an amazingly random collection of RUclips videos and nothing else.
Thank you for another great upload. Hope you are keeping well 😊
And just over the road from the Aylesbury eggbox is a really lovely theatre thats far too nice for the rown it finds itself in...
Had dinner, had pudding sat down and up popped Auto Shenanigans. Sunday is complete! Safe travels Jon
You're a 'Bell inn' .... great vids though as usual!