You'll find me travelling around London and the rest of the country on public transport, creating stories about stations, trains and buses, as well as engineering and design.
I've previously twice held the Guinness World Record for travelling to all London Underground stations in the fastest time possible (in 2005 and 2014).
In 2017, I visited all 2,563 stations in Great Britain, followed in 2019 by going to all 198 stations in Ireland, and I continue to visit new stations as they open.
In 2024, I rode a section of all 544 Bus Routes in London.
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Hi Geoff! I’m Luca and I’m and I love all your videos ( Crossrail / Purple train, End of the line ) and in your “The Elizabeth Line - a perfect 10” and when you were at Canary Wharf,you explained how interesting trains can be for autistic and ADHD people and I’m one of those people! So I ask for a video about that subject.Thanks if you can! 10 year old Luca😊
I was surprised to see one train terminated at Birmingham International, but my mind was blown when your final destination was Abu Dhabi! That's quite the commute!
This is fantastic! Can you do a video about an electric bus garage? It would be fascinating to see the charging types and schedules needed to have electric bus operations!
Had a splendid holiday in Llwyngwril back in the 1970s. Travelled by loco hauled train from Sheffield (24s??). Visited the Talylyn and Fairbourne railways and climbed Cader Idris. Had an enjoyable day out in Barmouth shopping in Woolworths. These days might struggle to climb Barmouth high street. Old age.
This is a very useful and entertaining video. Anyone else planning on doing this , I think 2311 (2H78) Shepperton - Waterloo now runs the usual route I've looked at East Putney on realtime trains and 2L10 (0454 from Basingstoke) and 2L77 (2312 from London Waterloo) will continue to use this route . 1B01 on Sunday mornings (0105 from WAT) will but note that it often only reaches Woking .
Thanks Geoff. I went specifically to look at the bus garage last autumn and was stunned by the interior working space. It is a majorly important building for London in terms of function and architecture. I'm not really into buses, however I was born in Stockwell in 1950 but for the last seventy years have lived in Hertfordshire. The only similar building I can recall is the now demolished (2001) Brynmawr Rubber Factory in South Wales. The Stockwell garage was built using concrete due to the shortage and cost of steel in the post war period. There must be scope for more London bus garage videos but you've done the largest.
Hi Geoff. I work for the NHS and would like to request your permission to use a short (10 second) clip from this video to use in the background of an animated asset which will be displayed on a video wall in the station. The objective is the promotion of blood donation and recruitment of blood donors. The clip begins at 4.55 and is the train leaving the station. Could you grant that permission?
Geoff, I'm 34 but if you can agree with me, all transport vehicles from the 20th century, whether it is buses, cars or trains, will always be the best to look at when it comes to vehicle spotting.
At the 420 mark, you show a list of routes. Next to the numbers are the points of origin and the destinations, but don't the routes have 'names'? I'm writing from Toronto, and on the bus display you will see the number, the point of origin and destination, and also the name of the bus! It's usually just the name of the main street that route uses, or sometimes it is the name of the neighborhood.
A lot of people asking about the control system and making some assumptions. You cannot tell a driver to go faster, so green means you leave them alone(unless curtailing that trip), yellow means keep an eye on them. If a green bus is behind you may want to tell the yellow bus to slow down a couple minutes to make the gap smaller. A red bus deserves the most attention as they will be picking up fewer passengers and making a smaller and smaller gap in front. Also if its too close the operator wont be paid for running it.
I once visited the Battersea Bus Garage...I fell asleep on the last C3 bus of the night, didn't wake up at the terminal of Clapham Junction, and ended up at the Battersea Bus Garage. I only awoke because the driver was attempting a three-point turn. I was on the top and deck and when I realized where I was, I ran down and locked eyes with the driver. At that point, I understood I had 5 seconds to get out...Once outside and seeing where I was, I got on the night bus and got home.Turned out I was closer to home from the bus garage that I was from Clapham Junction!
It was the shortage of steel in postwar Britain that led to these spectacular concrete structures. Concrete gets a seriously bad rap in architecture, but much of the 1950s stuff can be really quite beautiful.
Was escort on a great National Trust architecture tour on a Routemaster a few years back. Stockwell Garage was on the itinerary and although it was not planned, our driver worked his charm with someone and we were allowed to drive into the station and do a couple of revolutions of it. Swell!
I was surprised to see that there's a hoist for the buses because from my own experience I had thought that to work on the underneath of such vehicles you used a pit and the vehicle would simply drive over the top, wheels either side with a set of stairs at each end.
