Abandoned Tube Stations (Pt.1)

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Geoff takes us on a street walking tour of some of London's abandoned tube stations, in this two-part series. Subscribe to the channel to be first to see Part 2 next week.
This video was originally available on the 'Secrets of the Underground' DVD two years ago, but that's no longer for sale, so we thought it was time to upload it to RU-vid.
If you want to see inside some abandoned stations, goto the the Hidden London section on the Transport Museum website to buy tickets for abandoned stations tours, including Down Street, Euston, Hampstead, Charing Cross and Aldwych: www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/hi...
The Yoga studio at South Kentish town has since gone, and has now turned into an 'Escape Room' game - so if you want to go inside South Kentish Town tube, click here! www.missionbreakout.london/
To see a map of all disused and abanonded tube stations in London, it's here: assets.londonist.com/uploads/2...

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22 дек 2016

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@ssbohio 6 лет назад

Signs: "Risk of death." "All staff and contractors are to avoid making unnecessary noise." Meaning: "If you must die, please do so quietly."

@victoriaf8571 4 года назад

Truly the height of British culture

@jimtaylor294 4 года назад

If you must kick the bucket; do so British'ly.

@taraelizabethdensley9475 Год назад

Lmao

@myoldreteacher 7 лет назад

This makes me very homesick... I love the Tube. When you live elsewhere in the world you soon realise just how fortunate we are to have such an expansive and accessible transit system, in order to get around the city of London.

@paulwilliams6159 Год назад

Ride the New York City Subway (Underground) & in the sweltering heat of a New York summer & despite the fact the cars (carriages) are air-conditioned the stench of urine will overwhelm you at no extra charge. Lovely.

@pedropandemolde2928 6 лет назад

Those 1930s esque tube trains are still used on the Isle of Wight, because there's a 395 yard tunnel, which is too small to handle modern trains, if we raised it it would cause the homes above to collapse -_-

@highpath4776 5 лет назад

Not Quite, the Tube Stock on IoW is 1938 Stock, this here is the Cravens Stock- pretty rare even when built.

@user-ky6vw5up9m 5 лет назад

I grew up on those 1938 trains great to see them at IoW

@AzureOtsu 5 лет назад

Class 313s would run on that line just fine due to the lower heights

@carolewilson1311 4 года назад

Also one of the Channel Islands

@cat1554 4 года назад

Then lower it

@lostinmuzak 5 лет назад

A long time ago I worked at the Holborn underground station for students summer job. It was fun. I used to shout mind the gap, clean the station, and sometime man the checkout booth. Often used to wonder how they built this place! Amazing engineering that we take for granted. I still visit the Holborn station when I get a chance to visit UK. Thank you for putting London Underground on you tube. It is like the artery of London.

@livvyboo1573 5 месяцев назад

Northfield closed in 1517 and opened in 1971 Younge on the Old Victoria line

@livvyboo1573 5 месяцев назад

Opened in 1167

@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp 6 лет назад

Ongar Station was always a place I wanted to go as a wee-lad looking at the Underground map. It seemed at the end of the world!

@tonyforward634 4 года назад

It is rhe end of the world!

@SarahJB288 4 года назад

it definitely is because theres nothing here in ongar! but its heritage now with steam trains

@alexleo172 3 года назад

No wonder it got closed

@rjjcms1 2 года назад

I used to think that when looking at the map on Tube journeys in the 80s. Never went there but did go to Upminster at the end of the District Line,having to take a taxi ride to and from there when spending several days at a rather odd hotel out in the wilds somewhere in a place called Bulphan.

@nothing-gz4gw 2 года назад

*wees*

@zacmumblethunder7466 5 лет назад

Had a holiday in London many years ago and remember the surprise I felt the first time I went through an abandoned station on the tube. Fascinating and creepy in equal measure.

@Heimbasteln 7 лет назад

Why do I even watch this? I have never even been to London. Probably because it is entertaining

@Blandtoast-ru3yy 5 лет назад

Ive been to London but I also love the tube

@sdaiwepm 3 года назад

It gives us a reason to visit!

@AndiROH 2 года назад

That's weird?

@AndiROH 2 года назад

@@Blandtoast-ru3yysame

@OgTubie 2 года назад

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@theminer3746 7 лет назад

Ahh my favorite tube series are back!!! This is the best christmas ever!!!

@brianartillery 7 лет назад

A subject that has fascinated me for many, many years. Nice one.

@sputumtube 5 лет назад

Wow!! That was really interesting. Such beautiful architecture. Thanks for posting.

@willpembroke5732 7 лет назад

I have never ridden on the Tube as I am not from London, but I know more about it than a lot of people thanks to these videos

@airplaneplustrainguy8143 7 лет назад

Me too I am from Manila, Philippines but I share my knowledge about London Underground because of this video and fellow Londonist Jay Foreman

@spicychickenwings-lc4rf 6 лет назад

Been on it a few times know probably more than a person from London

@marcussheen 6 лет назад

Jay Foreman is hilarious, I wish he did more London videos

@ovaltineforlife4778 5 лет назад

I'll happily send you some tube maps for free.

@harryfoley2294 4 года назад

OvaltineForLife the comment is 3 years old bud

@Leonaristo 7 лет назад

Wow! Wonderful video! Looking forward to watch the following parts. Great job Geoff!

@andrewholloway231 7 лет назад

Looking forward to Part 2 of this series. Superb video as always.

@k.jamescarters9557 4 года назад

Love those red station buildings. I can see something like York road reopening if that area gets a mega development. Down street needs to be a museum based on the history

@lordofcinder9931 4 года назад

London holds so many secrets underground. Its amazing!

@ActuallyYes 2 года назад

Huh? London Hold?

@russrh 7 лет назад

Love this series! so much information, it's like being there

@LorenzoFreireStella 7 лет назад

Finally !! Thanks Geoff , good job !

@wulla2 Год назад

Geoff, this is wonderful - a fine piece of research beautifully presented. Well done

@busandtrainuser619 7 лет назад

Great video Geoff, thanks. Looking forward to Part 2.

@johnpeddubriwny6403 6 лет назад

Excellent video with good presentation skills and production values. TYVM.

@Trainlover4472 7 лет назад

Great video! Can't wait for part two!

@RedHillian 7 лет назад

Thanks for releasing this; I had "Secrets of the Underground" on my Christmas list, but then I found it wasn't on sale anymore.

@joshgreaves9934 6 лет назад

How have I only Just found your channel! I love it!!!

@dozenazer1811 5 лет назад

5:20 you brought memories when I had to use this toilet in emergency

@davekirwin 7 лет назад

Another nice little video by Geoff/Londonist - thanks guys!

@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp 3 года назад

Love this series!

@oc2phish07 7 лет назад

Other folk on here may have already mentioned this but there is an excellent book by J.E. Connor called London's Disused Underground Stations that makes for a very interesting read and contains many great photos. I really enjoyed this video too, well done and thanks for posting.

@joannegray5138 6 лет назад

Does anyone else feel like a game of Mornington Crescent? Lol!

@helenstone9711 4 года назад

How have I never seen this!!!!!

@briannamacciarain2169 5 лет назад

Fabulous video, huge thanks 💙

@dukenukem5768 5 лет назад

Ongar was the favoured starting point of tours of the entire system, hopefully to set a new time record. It was customary to stay in a hotel or B&B in Ongar and get the first morning train. John Betjeman is said to have done the tour and he probably still holds the record for the longest time (whatever it was), as he is said to have got out to look around every station.

@GenoppteFliese Год назад

When visiting the Brick Lane area in 1996 there was still much more evidence of the Bishopsgate station and all the tracks running to it. I remember lots of small stalls for the weekend market being located inside the railway arches below the tracks. Some years later, when I wanted to do photographs of this unique area, most of it was gone ;( Watching your video I had lots of memories of my latest tour in the area, but that memory is a lie as my latest tour was a virtual one done with "street view". I also have memories of the area around the "Cheers" pub in Boston or Fisherman's Wharf in SF, although I'm really sure I've never been to the US ;)

@teacherrea5319 11 месяцев назад

I have memories, very vivid, of Scotland in the Middle Ages and Israel, around 60 yrs after the crucifixion. No I'm not religious but I am sure some of us reincarnate and we remember. I met people who were in Scotland with me and remember and in Israel who remember too. I knew who they were the moment I met them. No I don't think everyone reincarnates. I have pondered it for decades and no...many here are empty vessels, Nothing to reincarnate. No offense but they are fleshbots.. AI meat droids soon to be replaced far as I can tell. No, I'm not kidding nor am I crazy and IDGAF any more what anyone thinks about it to be quite honest. I'm done putting other ppls ideas before what I know is true.

@businessbuilding1 7 лет назад

Loved this! In Toronto we only have two abandoned stations that are little more than 50 years old.

@GreatBritishGamers 7 лет назад

Been waiting for a video like this for so long, great video! Big fan of your London train videos!

@FateBoost 7 лет назад

GreatBritishGamers There was a DVD from 2014, that is no longer for sale.

@charleshutchison771 6 лет назад

There was Eglinton st sta just afore Central......

@rightcoast7049 5 лет назад

"Tubestock" sounds like a hipster music festival with people only wearing tube socks.

@Krakabraka 3 года назад

yes

@Logicalx 7 лет назад

Love these videos!

@DJ_K666 5 лет назад

I actually did use the Jubilee platforms at Charing Cross, On 1983 stock as well. It was on quite a long run between there and Green Park so the train got a good bit of speed up.

@MikeS 7 лет назад

Love these videos!!

@kdean9537 4 года назад

Great video Geoff!

@nathanwilson3737 Год назад

I was inside south Kentish tube station last night doing an escape room and it was good seeing part of the inside. Also done a tour of down street which was interesting to see what it was like inside during the second world war.

@aziztukubaev1693 7 лет назад

You are my fave Geoff! keep it up!

@OnkelJajusBahn 7 лет назад

Very interesting, for a guy like me, who loves undergrounds and history, London is a paradise.

@yinan02 7 лет назад

Good to see this video uploaded, I could never find a link to buy the DVD as they were mostly invalid.

@koeln-sued1948 7 лет назад

I though Christmas was tomorrow :D I love your videos :)

@timdaugherty5921 7 лет назад

This was a great video!

@thekevin26167 7 лет назад

I bought the dvd specifically for this video but it's nice to release it. :)

@PapercutzUksocial Год назад

Great video Geoff

@garymcwilliams2001 7 лет назад

Great informative video I find this stuff really interesting

@64bakes 5 лет назад

I used to work on Down Street only a few years ago, in the office next door, to the left of the old station. I never realised what it was and it only just clicked with the mention of it now being a newsagents. I used to go in there almost every day!

@tyrozone5 7 лет назад

Geoff is meditating

@jackiebayliss 5 лет назад

I love these vids...very interesting ♥️

@kugul1683 4 года назад

The guy should be called 'Lesley Maroon', not 'Lesley Green '

@JackBremer 4 года назад

or Terry Cotter

@LiftEnthusiast2020OFFTOPIC 5 лет назад

Beautiful old place

@melathena828 7 лет назад

I passed the hotel at 2:42 a week ago and only knew it had to be an old Tube station building because I watched some of your videos featuring the Leslie Green stations prior to my London trip. =-)

@IxiaClover 4 года назад

omg..... ive passed the york road one so many times from egg nightclub to kings cross station but never noticed.... its been right in front of me but ive never seen it, thats mad

@yourpalcal1412 7 лет назад

Yay another tube series!

@73APhotography 7 лет назад

YourPalCal it was originally part of the secrets of the underground DVD but that is no longer for sale

@AppleLoverCZ 7 лет назад

Great Video!

@bobblue_west 7 лет назад

You'd think some enterprise chap would convert the old stations into coffee shops or restaurants. The architecture is fab and sooooo London

@MrHovis44 4 года назад

Geoff. I will be honest I have no interest in The London Underground and can't even think how I got to your videos but I am finding them absolutely fascinating. Many thanks.

@mreverythingme5567 7 лет назад

I got the DVD for Christmas and it has changed my life for good

@ilikebananassometimes3608 7 лет назад

Lucky sod. Goes for about £60 these days.

@mreverythingme5567 7 лет назад

I know , right?

@alfiewhittaker3763 7 лет назад

i am drooling over this vid

@airplaneplustrainguy8143 6 лет назад

Every time that Geoff will look in a footbridge there is always!!!!

@thingsandthemes3474 7 лет назад

Very nice video. Narration excellent

@aperrin9727 7 лет назад

Merry Xmas Londonist

@bengale9398 6 лет назад

I subscribed your content is really interesting

@matthewb6916 7 лет назад

I was on the tube all day yesterday, on all 11 lines. Wish I'd done so after seeing this video! Amazing video though, gotta love a tube series with Geoff ;) Cheers, Matt

@balham456 4 года назад

I used to work at the old IH building on Piccadilly. In the basement you could feel the vibration of trains passing on the Piccadilly line.

@darrenhudson5503 5 лет назад

There is a staircase from the old pizza restaurant down to the platforms..I used to work.there in the ticket office and used to do security checks..down the spiral stairs..the old lift shafts and knot the platforms at hyde park corner

@kennethboyd3788 4 года назад

I worked in York Way station when it was offices. An amazing place.

@zeevox 7 лет назад

I want part 2... now! 😉

@TheDanielCoyle 7 лет назад

You can also see the tiling of South Kentish Town station when you go through it on the train from one side, and a big gap where the platforms used to be on the other side.

@SomeOne-lx6ms 5 лет назад

TheDanielCoyle I always pass it

@aidasahutoglu3774 2 года назад

AMAZING

@jacksugden8190 4 года назад

I had been down that secret staircase at the old Hyde Park Corner tube station, it’s on the left, Leeds down a passageway, spiral stir case from the top/bottom are empty lift shafts that reach a reception area which collect to stairs leading down to the platforms via a brown wooden door between the platforms.

@rsmck 7 лет назад

you are awsome geoff i love you

@catalyst3767 7 лет назад

Been waiting for this video since you mentioned it in another secrets of the underground video!

@vanessak.9168 5 лет назад

This is so interesting

@BalthazarDesign 5 лет назад

didnt you also have a series about the lost london railways? I remembr watching it but cant find it anymore

@Laurenteamec 7 лет назад

South Kentish Town is also an escape room now. Pretty interesting interior.

@Londonistvids 7 лет назад

yes , read " show more "

@Laurenteamec 7 лет назад

Londonist Ltd my bad, sorry.

@Londonistvids 7 лет назад

Laurenteamec always read the description! 😃

@PopeLando 4 года назад

Used to go down there often, before the yoga studio days. It was a.. uh, "recreational spa"!

@ianmcclavin 7 лет назад

Also at Caledonian Road there's an old "Bullseye" type sign at the end of the York Road/Kings Cross end westbound platform. They were still fairly common on the Piccadilly Line even in the 70's, at places like Holloway Road, Arsenal (still with the "Highbury Hill" suffix), and Finsbury Park (virtually the whole northbound platform still had them until refurbishment). The only other examples of them I know still on the system now are at Covent Garden (again at the western end of the westbound platform) and on the District Line terminal platforms at Ealing Broadway.

@liamspeers8017 Год назад

I like this video 👍🏻

@jondonnelly4831 4 года назад

Do a congar line on the ongar line

@jameshaury2716 6 лет назад

taking up yoga just to see an old station.You are dedicated.

@ianmcclavin 7 лет назад

On the Epping Ongar line, did they put the roundel signs back up specially for that day? I take it the Cravens unit must have been loco-hauled or pushed as there's no electrification there now.

@tundetheepic8631 3 года назад

Hi Geoff!!!

@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp 3 года назад

As a kid living in London WI (Baker Street - Chiltern Court) The Ongar Tube station on the Map seemed like it was at the end of the world.

@missgfaulkner 7 лет назад

A video about abandoned tube stations? Christmas has come early!

@leebottomley5177 4 года назад

At 1:11 you mention the unique level crossing used by the farmer.... Isn’t there one at the west end of the met line towards Amersham and Chesham that’s still open?

@1963TOMB 5 лет назад

Most of these abandoned stations are now Emergency Intervention Points where the emergency services can access and passengers can egress from trains. As part of my role helping to upgrade the radio services on the underground we had to ensure that the LU and fire brigade radio services were present at these locations etc.

@wilhelmsenholderlin8025 7 лет назад

0 thumb down is extremely rare for such a frequently played video on youtube. Very nice video.

@Londonistvids 7 лет назад

Wilhelmsen Hölderlin ah, we wish! But our usual two people have thumbed it down - great for us because they still haven't realised that thumbing down is better than not thumbing at all! RU-vid promote those more who get more engagement whether it's good or bad, so we love it! 😇

@IanPhillipsWildlife 7 лет назад

Thumbs up from me, a good watch.

@TomDeartle 3 года назад

Top Video as always Geoff. I was just wondering about 1 thing about Down Street Station. I have been using the Piccadilly Line a fair amount recently and took an essential Journey from Acton Town to Kings Cross. I knew about Down Street (from watching this video so many times because it's so good and informative) and thought If it was like York Road where you can see the remains of it. On a Northbound train from Hyde Park Corner about 1-1.5 minutes in there was a large open space big enough to fit a platform and I think I saw cream coloured Tiles in the tunnel through the window. Could this be the Northbound Platform of Down Street? Just wanted to know whether it is possible to see it from a train or not

@teddyowot 7 лет назад

Fantastic

@tonyjones9442 4 года назад

And now due to covid 19 nearly all of them are about to be abandoned - who would have thought that 3 years ago.

@iulianatonoiu5964 7 лет назад

I wish in part 2 to be all abandoned stations. (without those from this part) ;). I like your videos Geoff!!!!!

@yegventures 7 лет назад

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Geoff can start a yoga class on the tube. It might become a thing around the world.

@jojoray 5 лет назад

Lincoln Ho | YEGventures.ca with all the screeching haha

@jaymir4776 5 лет назад

Cool

@julianaylor4351 4 года назад

Down Street was used in an old black and white British thriller film. The Old Bull and Bush is the name of the pub in the famous music hall song.

@dilan4fernando 5 лет назад

I love you well done

@TransportEnthusiastYT 5 лет назад

Love it

@sdaiwepm 3 года назад

Interesting! And ... I expected you to break into the hotel and find that Secret Stairwell.

@Triadii 5 лет назад

“I am thinking of taking up yoga, so I can have a look around inside.” 😂😂

@rjjcms1 2 года назад

And get over that high fence.

@wooble73 7 лет назад

Interesting!!!👏👏

@PopeLando 3 года назад

I've always been interested in the closed stations on the Underground, so I clicked... only to find Geoff paying a visit to one of my favourite places, the Epping Ongar Railway! Go there if you're a bus nut too! (Still on tenterhooks about if they've survived the pandemic.)