Bonus Secrets Of The Underground 

One thing I’ve always wondered is how the hell do they get the number of steps wrong in almost every single station? How hard is it to just walk up them and count like Geoff does? You would also think that when they placed the order for the steps they would have to know how many there are! I’m amazed that the only time he ever found a sign that was correct, it was in a disused station😂

me: "Video about the underground? This is gonna be boring" *18 videos later* "Wow, that was was really interesting"

Thanks for making these vids - they're a nerd's paradise :)

District Line : The next station is Turnham Green Geoff : Actually the next stop is Hammersmith LOL

121 steps. That's 15 stories right?

Also, at Boston Manor, the Boston Bruins' (an ice hockey team) uniform is black and yellow

He predicted the colour of the Elizabeth Line!

This is my favourite series that you do, Geoff. Thanks so much! I look forward to more!

Had no interest in trains before but with 3 uni deadlines within a week I have become extremely fascinated by them and havnt stop watching these videos 😂

At 2:47 he passed over the bridge over Freston road, which was used in the Rick Astley-Never Gonna Give You Up music video

The series that brought me to this channel is back - yay! Without it my last trip to London would've been half as good.

i wish he still made these. ever since the tube show, i wished there were more, but there never is. he's even in one of the tube shows, doing his guiness record attempt.

I love these video's, great facts and really interesting. To think most the time we are too busy and just pass by things we just do not see or know are there, keep em coming!

Love this series it just shows the simple everyday things you would not notice and i love the diagrams and timelines

Glad this series has made a return. Here's hoping for more Underground secrets in the future. And possibly Thameslink and Crossrail secrets to.

Thank you Geoff. Always interesting. Takes me back to my younger years. Cheers from Australia.

Hello Geoff, we met at the Open Weekend at the Museum Depot. Another great video! P.S, I got to go on a D Stock, after waiting 22 minutes at Acton Town Station.

not sure whether this counts as a secret or not but this is for the the Bakerloo line north of Queens Park. the line is shared with London Overground as far as Harrow & Wealdstone. the underground trains are a lot smaller than the overground trains so the platforms just on this section are built at a special height from the ground meaning you have to step down to join an underground train and slightly step up to join the overground trains. rather than mind the gap you need to mind your head! an additional thing is something that may confuse someone who is perhaps not local or a regular commuter from near the top edge of the Metropolitan line. Between just north of Harrow-On-The-Hill and Amersham the tracks are shared between Metropolitan line services and a Chiltern railways service that runs from Marylebone to Aylesbury Vale Parkway. this is the only example that i know of, where a regular service with diesel trains shares the lines used by the underground trains in which nearly all of them are electric. i should also point out that Chiltern railways don't stop at all the local stations en-route meaning you can have a quicker journey time into central London and home again than on a 'met train'

Im so late to this series but I literally can’t stop watching it having grown up in London. My local station is Ealing Broadway, I go past it all the bloody time and I’ve never noticed the original station aGH!

+Geofftech Brentford are nicknamed the Bees due to pronunciation issues. The nickname was originally the B's for Brentford, but the press miss interpreted it

Thanks for the information about Grove Road and the viaduct. I'd been passing that for years, looking it up on old AtoZ maps but never quite getting the lay of the route and where it went. A few years ago I found some late-1800s maps on the internet which suggested the line had at some stage gone up to Willesden Junction. So after decades of doubt I thought I'd solved the mystery. Probably not as it turns out. So thanks for setting us straight on Grove Road. I seem to have become an addict of your videos so keep on keeping on (Churchill had a version of that saying but it's too rude to put on the internet). Am now retired and fascinated by oddments of the city where I grew up.

I just love these videos and I also can't wait for part 4 of the Canals series!

When you find yourself watching videos about secrets of the underground train network of a city which is not your home is when you realise that you're a real U-Bahn-Nerd. Greetings from Berlin :D

Cheers Geoff 👌. First class video 🇬🇧.

I wish this series went on forever. :( Bonus Secrets 2 please! Looking forward to the next canal episode too. I'm moving to London in 2 days so these videos are now extra exciting. xD Also I don't know if this has been done, but have you ever considered making a series or a one-off video of doing every station in a day? I've seen you do it on a TV show, but a revised and modern version would be cool - even if you weren't going for the record!

Just randomly come across these vids I'm hooked

As always, brilliant, thank you

was gonna suggest a thameslink series the other day until I read your twitter!

Many years ago I used to go to Burnt Oak Station and there was a sign which still said Stag Lane Airdrome. It may now have long since gone. However it was a reminder of the Stag Lane Airdrome.

Geoff, I love your secret shows! Keep up the great videos!

Another brilliant video! Interesting that for a fairly recent video there's already some history. The D Stock trains and the class 319 no longer working in London.

Loved it. FYI Today I noticed Google has the track paths color coded. The last time they just had the fine grey lines of railway tracks. Now it is bold color coded lines. You have to click on a station to turn it on. Rob

Interesting stuff, keep it coming. Thanks!

love these. more please!

Love this video absolutely great love watching these please make so many more real underground fan and when I go down to London on the underground I look for these things. Spent a few days in London in the summer and spent one of them dragging my mum and dad around the underground pointing out these facts and looking at all the stations thanks to you it made my day and got to see my favourite station Baker Street circle line platform old school Thanks for making these vids and make some more What is your favourite station on the underground?

The owl at canning town is my favourite, I pass it everyday! Thanks!

Thanks again!

If I was younger, and in a whole lot better shape, I'd like to come over there [ from U.S.] just to see if I could keep up with you. Which I highly doubt. I enjoy these videos, learning a lot about London that I will never have a chance to otherwise. Thanks for sharing.

I've been to London a number of times and also for visiting relatives who live there, these secrets are really interesting. I missed them all though!

Fact about Stratford: Go to the Jubilee line platforms, and there are lots of train runners.

thx. Always wondered about those arches at Hammersmith

Love it, love it...choo, choo...

York Road station was only served by southbound trains heading towards Moorgate, northbound trains from Moorgate came up the other side of Kings Cross station where platform 11 is. Technically southbound trains stopped at two stations that had the same connecting station, Kings Cross York Road & Kings Cross Metropolitan (Thameslink) both were connected to Kings Cross Mainline.

Canada Water and Rotherhithe have a similar distance to Covent Garden and Leicester Square on the london underground. I believe this is the closest gap between two stations on the entire underground. Also for fun Underground facts: all trips were made during school trips (i'm from Telford), the longest I covered I believe was Holloway Road after seeing the Arsenal ground and South Kensington. The last time this happened we were meant to start at Bounds Green but due to a trespasser all eastbound trains terminated to Wood Green so we all sat on the upper deck of a 221 bus to Wood Green, which terminates at Turnpike Lane station The trespasser must have cleared soon after because the journey across london on the underground did end at Bounds Green In the 2 trips I've made I have touched 3 lines: Piccadilly, Jubilee and Metropolitan. During my last trip we only ever touched the Piccadilly, which was interesting These are the underground trips we made Oct 2017 trip: Bounds Green to Covent Garden on the Piccadilly, Westminster to Wembley Park on the Jubilee to watch England, Wembley Park to Kings Cross St Pancras on the metropolitan line and King's Cross to bounds Green on the Piccadilly. Mar 2018 trip: Wood Green to Arsenal, Holloway Road to South Kensington, South Kensington to Leicester Square and Covent Garden to Bounds Green, all on the Piccadilly

Ye Gods.....there is someone who can make the underground interesting. Subscribed!

I love your videos, I have been on the tube for years and never knew these amazing facts. Your app is cool too.

Well you, "Jago Hazzard" and "Siddy Holloway" make the underground fascinating! More Please!!! 😊 🥳 😃 😊 🥳 😃 😊 🥳 😃 😊 🥳 😃 😊 🥳 😃 😊 🥳 😃 😊 🥳 😃 😊 🥳 😃 😊 🥳 😃 😊 🥳 😃 😊 🥳

Great videos and channel - thanks!

Fun fact - at Canada Water if you go to the edge of the southbound platform you can see rotherhithe station again the fact it is 300 metres away

Great work, this is all super informative, I have subscribed

wow.. i used these stations on my last two visits to London!

1:10 Train announcer: The next station is Turnham Green. Geoff: Actually, our next stop is Hammersmith...

Good episode!

I don't know if it still is, I haven't been there for a few years, but from the emergency stairs at Kentish Town it used to be possible to look into the escalator machine room through a glass window in a door. I haven't seen this at any other station.

Not from London (clearly) but I did discover something I don't think I saw covered in these videos via Geoff's station master app. (More specifically, this image - www.stationmasterapp.com/images/screenshots/liverpoolstreet1024.png ) Liverpool Street has 4 platforms for underground services, 1 & 2 for Circle, Met and H&C lines and 4 & 5 for Central line trains. Not sure how well known this is but I dug a bit deeper and found out that the missing platform 3 was once for terminating Met line trains. It still sits there inaccessible and disused. The old spur track leading into it can still be seen at street level running to white panels that have the platform boarded up. ( c1.staticflickr.com/5/4069/4696851360_7c756fddbf_b.jpg ) I tried to look for a similar view to that image on Google maps but all I can find are Crossrail hoardings blocking the view onto the track. I found it really cool so I thought I'd just stop here to share it for possible future use and thank Geoff for making me aware of its existence.

York Road was only for southbound trains. Northbound trains had to use the other Kings Cross Suburban platforms next to the mainline station

5 years later we're still waiting for that new crossrail ealing Broadway station

please do another! i know it’s been a long time but it would be so cool!

I love these videos

Is anyone else wondering why they can't use that abandoned tunnel (through York Road station) for the Thameslink Programme and instead they're building a new tunnel to the north of it?

That viaduct has been demolished now(2019).

On the left at 0:50 you can see an old roundel for the station that he talked about in the secrets of the district line

Great video

Can you do a video explaining the cross rail please? I'm really confused about what it is and what it involves and the tfl one is really confusing 😊 love these videos

That's the Grenfell tower on the right of Larimer Road station!😢

BONUS SECRETS? This is a Christmas special Geoff Surely? You're too nice to us!

Canada Water secret is also an Underground secret The Jubilee Line use this station

1:07 [unintelligible squeak about how fast that part of the sentence was]

IS IT bad that I don't like trains but I'm oddly addicted to this channel

Thanks for video, Oh will be adding to Secrets Of The Underground DVD when release? thanks.

Loving the new thumbnails Geoff 😜😜😜

I have very little interest in trains...however your vids are essential viewing. Love the history of uk you uncover in each video

Latim-er Rd not Latim-ear Rd!

Geoff didn't know Crossrail wasn't going to finish any time soon XD

As always, a great video. The shot at 1.28 is very interesting. Look up "Cosh Boy" (1953) at 29.24 also on RU-vid to see the same view in the early 50s. What is the name of the street? There are a few night shots of the same location throughout the film. I've always been intrigued by this structure-thanks for the information!

It would be great if you could do a vid explaining all the redundant viaduct stuff that you can see on the train between Wandsworth Town and Putney that is very similar to what is explained here around Hammersmith.

my favourite station is holborn because in the past a station named aldwych was used only for the Piccadilly line which only had approx 3 stations. I like the Piccadilly line because it makes me think about my favourite colour

3:56 this is consider an underground secret, because before 2007, there is a line called east london line and now, it is converted into the london overground network.

Thanks I always wanted to know what the fire duct was

1:05 A LITTLE BIT OF BLUE!!

The modern generations have turned the railways into a right hotchpotch - it's amazing the system actually functions rather than hitting a major brick wall (pun intended)

Turnham Green!! *cheers loudly*

I stayed at the holiday inn near Brentford Lock for a week, and I never knew about the secret about it

Re. the buffers at the end of the District Line platforms at Ealing Broadway, surely behind that wall was the original station entrance that you've referenced from the outside? Have walked around those many times and I'm sure they would be exactly in line with that old entrance...??

What was so special about the clock at Canada Water - didn't get that? Great film thanks!!

The best view of London is behind a tube window. Much nicer than ever getting off

Boston Manor also has a rather quaint little signal box on the platform.

excellent

One thing I've noticed but haven't yet place which might be what you were talking about with York Road is that on Thameslink between St Pancreas and Farringdon, there is a platform with the sign saying do not get off here. I don't know if this is York Road, the old King's Cross Thameslink(it feels like it's way closer to Farringdon but might be wrong) or something else.

There is another 'secret' on the Pic line. Well, sort of on it. At Hounslow Bus Station, there's a local history plaque that talks about the old Hounslow Town station (Where the bus station is now).

3:31 don't try to tease me,it's still in use

These videos are fascinating. Any chance of publishing a book about them?

My first Kitkat was 2P bought from a manual machine at a tube station platform, I couldn't remember which station, it was in the 1973. You put the money in the machine and turned the knob you got your Kitkat.

Mr. Geoff can you also upload a video about Shanghai Metro, -Secrets of Line 1 -Secrets of Line 2 -Secrets of Line 3 and 4 -Secrets of Line 5 -Secrets of Line 6 -Secrets of Line 7 -Secrets of Line 8 -Secrets of Line 9 -Secrets of Line 10 -Secrets of Line 11 -Secrets of Line 12 -Secrets of Line 13 -Secrets of Line 16 -Secrets of Line 17 -Secrets of the Pujiang Line -Secrets of the Maglev Train -Secrets of Shanghai Trams -More and Bonus Secrets of Shanghai Metro With the Help of Shanghai Government, bc O know you aren't from Shanghai. I do this coz I'm your fan. :-) You can check Shanghai Metro Videos.

I don't know if this would be relevant, but for hockey fans here in North America, the Boston Bruins team colours are black and gold as well.

For brick-viaduct lovers: There's another abandoned brick viaduct near Limehouse, where the DLR joins up with c2c trains running from West Ham to Fenchurch Street. It most likely served as a viaduct to connect the present-day DLR and National Rail tracks. There's even an abondoned bridge crossing the A13 there! Location on Google Earth/Maps: 51˚30'44.86"N, 0˚02'07.26"W

The Boston Manor segment was also used as an extra on the Secrets of the Piccadilly line

Any chance of Secrets Of The Overground Part 3 with the new overground lines out of Liverpool Street?

Great series for the geekiest of the geeks! But I love it.

Don't forget the four immaculate 'Red Dot' enamel station signs dating from the 1900s located at Ealing Broadway (District Line) station.