Its a shame we probably won't see waterloo pass the 100 million annual entry and exits anymore... Would be helpful if you could give the annual tube statistics too rather than just monthly as its easier to compare. Excellent video regardless
I was wondering where Stratford came in on the list, in the COVID period it did top the usage list but this may have included Underground and DLR (used to be a Dinky Little Railway but nowadays the Docklands network would grace any medium sized city) passengers. Also, the pasenger numbers for Elizabeth line will include travellers who used to use the commuter services to Liverpool Street and Paddington but were switched when the new line opened.
It's been beaten!! Search: Teenagers break Guinness World Record after completing London Tube Challenge with two hours to spare RU-vid won't allow a link to be posted, but you'll find the articles :)
Another way is if you started from Heathrow Central Bus Station, early Saturday morning, now 285 bus turns up straight away and takes you to Feltham Station and SWR fast service to London Waterloo is at the platform whisk you off at speed to London Waterloo, then Jubilee Line is waiting whisking you off to Stratford. Whilst your competitor has to walk forever to the Elizabeth Line and just miss it by 20 seconds therefore have to wait 15 minutes for the next one therefore there wouldn't be much in it..
that's probably longer than chat cpt solution. But 285 to feltham takes roughly 20 minutes and leaves ever 30 minutes. Then the train to waterlook further 30 minutes and then the tube 20 minutes more...
surely at west ham yiu should get the much faster c2c to upminster, where you then change for the district anyway to tick off the stations in between, right?
you know it's an issue when a return ticket on the shuttle between the airport and the airport's railway station is more expensive than the cheapest flight itself
I have a quicker route, London Heathrow - Paddington using Heathrow express, H&C line or Circle to St Pancras then Southeastern Highspeed to Stratford.
He mentioned Paddington's underground station, but in fact there's two. The Circle and Bakerloo share a common entrance/exit, but are on different levels like other interchanges. However, the Hammersmith and City line is a quarter of a mile away and is for all intents and purposes part of the main line station and does not share a common entrance and exit with the Circle/Bakerloo station.
Is this to do with work from home becoming more popular. I don’t know too much of South West London but it does have some middle class neighbourhoods I think, maybe even a lot compared to other parts of London. I commute to Richmond for work but on the overground. I would assume maybe lots of professionals that use to use South West Trains work from home now. I can understand why the Elizabeth Line would shift the way people travel as well.
Definitely. The numbers (for the most part) are still not as high as pre-pandemic levels, so I think people working from home are what's responsible for that.
@@captaintorch983 Ah ha next time you see a freight train pulled by a loco with DB Schenker written on it you are looking at something run by Deutsche Bahn. Similarly Deutsche Bahn used to own Arriva who operate Chiltern, Cross Country, Grand Central and Arriva Rail London but they sold it to a Cayman Island company RMT in October last year. Our TOCs are very largely owned by foreign companies.
Birmingham New Street was the busiest outside of London at 11th place with 30.8m passengers. It is usually higher, but the Elizabeth Line contributed massively to those in London this time around
Some Thameslink Services have changed , thus North Kent , etc services go direct and although call at London Bridge run onto other stations which may be more convienent , likewise Abbey Wood's connection to Elizabeth Line might have a small change on London Bridge
Sorry, you're right. In my mind when I think of Liverpool Street on the tube map I just think of the giant connector blob, but always forget that it's Moorgate on the Northern Line, and it's just an internal interchange between the two
Thameslink trains that use the East Coast Main Line going through St Pancras rather than King's Cross is probably the reason the former has higher numbers than the latter nowadays.
Two points to think about: What would Liverpool Street be like now if Stratford had not been developed to take a lot of the load that you used to have to go into Liverpool Street for and Imagine it if that kind of throughput had had to be handled by the Jazz services of the days of steam.
I think if Stratford hadn't been developed they would have either built an entirely new hub somewhere, or massively expanded Liverpool street itself. Yeah, I cant imagine the old services would have been able to cope with such high numbers. Would have been stressful to say the least
I remember Liverpool st when it was a Fruit market, the changes have been speedy and the population has boomed, If they didn't build a magnificent Stratford st I'd imagine they would have redeveloped Liverpool St, the real winner is Stratford it was an absolute shambles in the 80s and 90s.
@@Discobiscuitcreampiebiker Yeah, Stratford has come a really long way. I didn't really witness many changes myself because of my age and not living in London, but it's incredible to see what London has become and how much it's advanced in the last few decades alone
Thanks for the feedback, I'm trying to find a balance of everything because the norm now is fast paced content, but I would like to find a way to slow it down a bit because that's what I personally prefer aswell. Appreciate the comments and glad you enjoyed 😁
yeah, fast paced content fine, whatever that means. But it has to be comprehensible, surely? Or is it just fast paced that is more important? Lets have fast paced gibberish shall we?@@DirkDastardly
@@grangetowncardiff6935 Fast paced content is pretty self explanatory, and I think it's subjective to an extent, because you're the only person that has expressed an issue with it.
As someone with rather limited knowledge of London’s railways, I expected Euston to be on the list, since it’s where the trains to Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow etc. depart from. But I guess the suburbs and surrounding towns aren’t very big that direction
Euston would have definitely made sense. Milton Keynes, Birmingham, etc, but I think the connections Liverpool street and Paddington have especially because of the Elizabeth Line put them in a league of their own. To be honest, I have no idea how Waterloo is consistently so high as the only direction it serves is the south west
@@DirkDastardlymy understanding is that the South London rail termini get their passenger numbers bolstered by the extensive network of commuter lines south of the river (due to the relative lack of tube stations in that same area)- beyond that you have commuting from further afield- with Waterloo getting passengers from the large towns along the Solent and the Dorset coast (Bournemouth, Poole, Southampton, Portsmouth), whereas the more extensive mainlines north of London have diminishing returns for commuter traffic the further north you go, with the lower volumes of intercity traffic not really providing the number of passengers to make up the difference
@@DirkDastardly Pretty sure Waterloo is so high due to the high levels of Commuting. It serves a LOT of desirable places to live and commute into London from.
Appreciate the feedback. Unfortunately it seems that to do well on RU-vid these days you have to have as much audio or visual stimulation as possible, which is unfortunate because some people don't like it, and it's much harder to edit with that in mind. Thanks for the comment though, I'm trying to find a bit of a balance, so I will take this into consideration 👍
Randomly i actually looked this up last week to see if the covid weirdness had corrected itself. I was exoecting waterloo, maybe Bridge, or maybe maybe Stratford. I was absolutely not expecting liv street. Side note, as someone who has only ever lived in East and SE London, victoria just annoys me. It seems like its miles away from anything interesting or useful.
To be honest, I only researched this properly about two weeks ago, and was going to make a whole video about Waterloo being the biggest station. How wrong I was lol. Crazy how much the Elizabeth line effects things, according to the numbers, Tottenham court road had 30m last year from the Lizzie line alone which put it at about 7th place.
0:12 My prediction is 5. Stevenage train station 📉 4. Luton DART train station 🎯 3. Luton Gipsy Lane train station 🍟 2. Luton Leagrave train station 🔪 1. Luton High town train station 🍻
@@RafaquaQuetta I was referring to the nearest geographical location as just saying “luton station” may seem confusing to those who are not brushed up on bedfordshire train stations as there are numerous stations in Luton, and therefore I decided the optimal solution was to reffer to it as the Luton High town train station, due to it being right next to high town, and practically at the very end of high town road. In the same manor I reffered to the Luton Airport Parkway station as the Gipsy Lane train station despite it not being its official name, as it makes it easier to identify for those who know Lutonia locations but arent brushed up with the scientific names of the train stations. However thank you for your concern.
@@DirkDastardly well he retired after being station master at Yarmouth South town came out of retirement for ww1 where he was in charge of road and rail in the area and when at Liverpool Street met queen victoria and was given a tie pin by her son.
@@imrandarr1094 I definitely will when I decide to do the challenge sometime this year, although I will have to incorporate the stations that have been added since then
@@DirkDastardly Might have to wait for Kentish Town to reopen before you do that! TFL also confirmed they will need to temporarily close Colindale Station in the summer due to the rebuilding works going on there!
1:17 when i got on my elizabeth line service at terminal 5 a couple weeks ago, it was really busy, managed to get on a late express service to central which was much quieter then get back onto the same train which seemed to have emptied at central, so you should probably do this if your elizabeth line service is busy and an express departs first
I believe 1080p footage is about 3gb per hour, and 4k footage is closer to 15 or 16gb per hour. Frame rate would obviously factor into it aswell. I use my phone to record videos, so I have no idea how many camera batteries that would take, sorry.
@@davidrivera9743 I'd be recording in 1080p due to the amount I'd have to film. As well as this, I wouldn't record every second, just key parts and interesting moments. I'd probably end up with around 20gb of footage if I had to guess
A few comments on the route. First of all a few of the runs arent necesary; edgware to stanmore and high barnet to oakwood can be done by bus. Mordern to wimbledon can be done by either a tram or a bus and olympia to sheperds bush can be done on london overground (if the wait for one is short). c2c from west ham to upminster saves a lot of time and finally I think that if you go on a bus from vauxhall to battersea or nine elms and then doing kennington, stockwell, brixton, stockwell, mordern that saves time over doubling back. Thanks for the video
Sorry for the late reply. Yeah, the runs are a bit of a stretch, but in the future I am planning on doing some sort of update where I involve busses, other trains, Lizzie line, etc.
Sorry for the late reply. Yeah, the runs are a bit of a stretch, but in the future I am planning on doing some sort of update where I involve busses, other trains, Lizzie line, etc.
