End of the Line No.11 - Heathrow 

“you can catch planes here too” whilst talking about the worlds 7th busiest airport. Good old casual Geoff and his allegiance to trains

The hack to save £1.2 is a fine example of what makes this channel 110% British Love the series!

Business idea: "I will run upstairs and beep your card for £1" service at Hatton Cross, for people with luggage

As a matter of interest Speedbird is still the call sign for current day BA aircraft

I can't see the phrase "Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3" without imagining Jay Foreman singing it in my head

can't wait to see whether there's a car park at this one

I see the title card is now a pre-circle line tube map, complete with Northern City Line and Middle Circle services via Addison Rd/Olympia. Keep them easter eggs coming!

British Airways still use the radio callsign Speedbird when talking to Air Traffic Control

Used to work at Heathrow for hex can confirm Heathrow Terminal 5 is run by Heathrow Airport, all the staff (on both sides of the platforms) are Heathrow employees. Obviously there's also the west extension voids that will (hopefully) become platforms someday!

The true definition of a pod cast.

When I was at school in the late 1990s we invited the Heathrow Chaplain to come and do a sermon. He was outstanding! Afraid I can’t remember his name but of the hundreds of guests we had do sermons I remember his the most vividly!

Hatton Cross may seem to be a strange place in the middle of nowhere, but it you worked for BOAC, BEA, or BA in its pre-Waterside era then it was really crucial. It still must be for the Engineering staff still working there, but the Admin people have moved away and the old BEA base has pretty much been leveled. When you take that ride on the Pod you can see the junctions where they planned to take the tracks along the side of the A4, have bays by or even in the hotels, then dive through one of the side tunnels and into the Centra area. That would have been really neat! There was talk of an extension to Waterside (the BA HQ in the NW corner) too, but there just isn't going to be money to do that now. A memory of T2: having to convince a Customs Officer that I don't need any paperwork to import a datascope becasue I haven't actually flown in from anywhere. I'd been using to analyse signals in a small computer room in the basement of T2, but becasue it was airside I had a pass which let me roam almost anywhere in the terminals, even the baggage halls. (Well someone had to reboot the computers in the days before you could just give a PC 3-fingers.)

I never knew about the Heathrow pod, now it's on my list of things to do! Thanks!

You will find a chapel at basically any big airport, sometimes even with regular mass service and depending on location, even various spaces for various religions. Once you know, you’ll see them everywhere, even in very large train stations!

Great to see Heathrow! My Mother used to work at Heathrow Airport doing the flight announcements. When I was little she gave me a postcard of the chapel. As soon as I was old enough to start exploring London I went to Heathrow to do the Piccadilly Line and I visited the Chapel. I was also delighted when I discovered the Ultra Pods in Terminal 5, if I'm at the airport and have spare time I always have a ride on them.

Hi Geoff. Love your videos. My mum actually worked as part of the Heathrow Chaplaincy team for a number of years, mostly out of Terminal 2. In case folks don't know, Chaplains are a key part of airport staff - they form part of emergency and evacuations plans at Heathrow and on a daily basis are supporting those who find themselves in difficult situations (perhaps being forced to travel away from family or facing travel restrictions). My mum would often spend time with airport cleaning staff and those working tills on long shifts for some moral support on graveyard shifts. They are often not known about but they do good work :-)

I have a couple of friends who were part of the Chaplaincy Team at Heathrow before they retired. They said it was always interesting to meet folk from around the world, who used to visit the chapel and other multi faith rooms around the airport.

My Dad and I visited the Chapel in 1995 on our way to Greece. It was this cute little Modernist building, which had Aeroplanes embroidered into the crosses on the Altar Cloth. Somewhere I still have a souvenir pen from there which had flags of the world printed on it.

Who remembers the queen's building, where you could go on the roof and watch the planes land and takeoff? My gran used to take me there in the 80's on the underground. I wanted to go again but didn't realise it is no longer there. Shame. Happy days😟

I remember BOAC from when I was a kid - forever immortalized in the Beatles song "Back in the USSR" - "Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC, couldn't get to bed last night!"

To help drivers locate Sanctuary Road and Wessex emergency shafts, if you look carefully there are thick white bands around the tunnel walls and roof either side of each shafts location. There is a third shaft called Cromer Road on the approach to the junction outside Heathrow 2,3 from T4, but it doesn't have the same mini platforms the other two have.

For plane spotters, if you get out at Hatton Cross, cross the dual carriageway and then turn right and keep walking down, you will end up at a field which is a popular spotting point for watching planes landing at the airport's 27L runway (Myrtle Avenue). Also, if you exit Hatton Cross and then take either the 423, 285, 90, or 555 buses (555 is not a TFL bus) to Cranford Lane Hatton Cross, then walk towards the roundabout, turning right to follow the main road, you will be right underneath the approach path for runway 27R at the airport. If you take the 482 or 490 buses from Hatton Cross station getting out at Stirling Road, walk back onto that dual carriageway staying on the North side of it, and continue walking towards the west following the road. After it curves to the left a little bit, you will find a spot after 200 yards that is good for watching planes land on runway 09R or taking off from 27L. There are more spotting points dotted around the airport, Spotter Guide (it's a web page, Google it) has guides on spots at basically every major airport on Earth, as well as some of the more minor airports.

5:10 - I'm glad that you walked around to see the chapel past the bus station! Many's the time when I have also walked there to get away from the bustle of the waiting room whilst I was getting ready to catch my coach back home after a holiday!

Sterling, VA USA has some street names named after tube stations like Regents Park, Paddington, Victoria, Tottenham Court, Holborn, Ruislip Manor, Turnham Green, Willesden Junction, Brondesbury Park, Wembley Central, Tottenham Hale, Ladbroke Grove, Brixton, and Poplar all in one town.

As far as I can see, there are 28 ends of the line on the Underground: Aldgate, Amersham, Bank, Barking, Batersea Power Station Station, Brixton, Chesham, 🍆fosters, Ealing Broadway, Edgware, Edgware Road, Elephant & Castle, Epping, Hammersmith, Harrow & Wealdstone, Heathrow T4, Heathrow T5, High Barnet, Morden, Richmond, Stanmore, Stratford, Upminster, Uxbridge, Walthamstow Central, Waterloo, Watford, and West Ruislip. Maybe also Hainault via Newbury Park and Woodford on the same criteria as Heathrow T4.

Absolutely loved the pods at T-5 - saved the day with entertaining my kids a few years ago after a long delay! Worth travelling down the Piccadilly just for going on them :)

The Elizabeth Line platforms at Bond Street station look so much more "airportish" than the ones actually at Heathrow

What's with the filthy hands Mr. Marshall! Just back from Heathrow and loving your end of the line episodes 😍

5:59 - It's a shame a garden for solitude and reflection is right next to noisy roads...where the drivers drive backwards Geoff?! 😂

I own a limited edition print of the Tom Eckersley mural at Heathrow Central (as was). I love British graphic design and it is my favourite piece of art in my extremely small collection. I also love the T5 pods! They remind me so much of the transportation system around the villain’s lair in the film ‘The Incredibles’.

Geoff! Perfect timing to remind me to add "ride Heathrow Terminal 5 pods while jet lagged and killing time before hotel check-in" to my list of things to do in London. They had crossed my mind, but this was a perfect opportunity to have the details easily available.

This brought back memories of the day my dad and I went to Heathrow on the Tube, just after the Heathrow extension opened, just for the fun of it! It was between Christmas and New Year 1977. Living in Battersea, we even started our journey at South Ken Tube station too. 😊

Excellent tip on how to save on that fare 👍

Fun Heathrow fact, although not technically railway related, is that the roads are all named according to where they are, with NESW compass directions, as well as C for the centre, being the first letter of all road names. E.g. Stratford Road at T4 (S for South), and Walrus Road at T5 (W for West).

Never seen Geoff so happy bout riding the pods

They should have stuck with "Heathrow Central" to futureproof against changes to the airport terminal naming.

'Speedbird' lives on. It's the radio callsign of all BA flights.

So nice to see a new episode of ‘End of the Line’. I feel like I’ve been missing the notifications but I’m on time lol

About the Heathrow Pods, Luton is getting a cable hauled mini-train thing to transit between the Airport and Luton Airport Parkway station opening this year! Would be cool if you did a video on that when it opens

Most airports have chapels, presumably because people get nervous and need reassurance before flying? I love the Speed-bird/BOAC mosaic, thanks for showing it. I used to have a miniature pale blue bag with the Speed-bird image in white on it, I was given during a flight with them. The Concorde enamel is pretty neat too.

Can't wait for the "Start of the Line" prequel

Great series! Thanks for the heads-up on the planes! 😉😂

After seeing the Chapel and the carpark transport, I almost wish Geoff had finished this with “Good night and may your pod go with you.”

My dad and I come to London every year for about 2 weeks. Several years ago we randomly decided to take the tube to what we thought was the furthest it would go. Chesham then became a place we returned to every year. We walked the high street. Had a coffee. Ate breakfast at a local cafe. We’re from the States…so we’re a little thick. It never occurred to us to try a different End Of The Line. We have both really enjoyed this series. My dad really likes windmills, so we are planning to go to Upminster. My dad is 83. Thank you for giving us something we can do together. Watch your videos and travel ❤️. We will be back in London this summer for our annual “holiday”

Speedbird was used as a brand name for the holidays arm of BA. Back in the 1980s I remember playing in a 6-a-side cricket tournament sponsored by Speedbird Holidays.

What could be more British than Geoff Marshall enthusiastically discussing the Tube whilst riding on a pod towards the parking at Heathrow? : D Great video as always!

This is my end of the line. I live in the U.S. and fly to or through Heathrow several times a year. If I need to transfer between terminals and I have the time, I purposely take the Piccadilly Line, just so I get the chance to ride on the Tube.

I remember Heathrow T1-2-3 station still having a sign pointing the way to "Spectator Terraces"! The actual terraces closed post-9/11, but the sign was still in situ around 2012 or so (it has since disappeared).

This video is like my plane nerd self meeting my train nerd self! I never noticed the speedbirds at Hatton Cross before. Fun fact, speedbird is still British Airways radio callsign to this day. Concorde had the coolest callsign ever being SpeedBird 1. Awesome video!

Half expecting Geoff to emerge from the end door of that pod! Thanks for this video, as always entertaining and fact-filled! Last time I came to Heathrow early in the morning, waited for the chapel to open (7am it says on the sign). After waiting in the freezing cold for 10 minutes more I gave up and went back into the main building to warm up! Come on guys, stick to your timetable please!

BA should totally bring the BOAC Speedbird back, it looks so much better than the ribbon they use now. :(

Just wanted to say thanks Geoff for continuing to make these interesting videos for us.

Given that it's on a single track, one direction loop, I used to struggle to think Terminal 4 as the technical "end" of the Heathrow branch, as the train continues in service without the driver changing ends, but I suppose as the destination changes after calling there, I guess it's technically an "end" as such

I was just wondering how many of these there would be! Omg 20!? That's awesome! Excited to watch them and all look forward to the rest!

Those pods are adorable, like little robot bugs🤗🤗

Absolutely love this part of the Piccadilly line ❤ Goodnight from London, England 🇬🇧 ❤️

I’ll be at SK in a few weeks! It’s been years.

One year went to Heathrow with a few friends and we raced each other with the pods to see who gets back to the Airport first, it was awesome, haven't been on those pods for ages. Great Video Geoff

I first went to the Terminal 4 station before it opened..... on a 1938 tube stock of all things! A railtour that ran back in early 1986, stopped there for around 10 minutes or so......

Terminal 4 is the first tube station I ever set foot in, after a flight to Heathrow from JFK. It began my fascination with the tube and London.

I would love to see end of the Lines for the Elizabeth Line including Reading, Shenfield and Abbey Wood

Once again you've told me something as a Londoner I never knew about - viz those adorable pods. Understandable, I suppose, as my chauffeur used to manage my drop-offs and collections. Cheers Geoff

Really enjoying these. Been to quite a few stations at the end of the line as they tend to be launching off points for the London LOOP. You mentioned it for Cockfosters but Uxbridge and Upminster are also very close to the LOOP.

Speedbird is still how BA pilots identify themselves in communication with ATC.

These videos chill me out so much. Thanks Geoff

Love those pods, kept me entertained for hours waiting for my delayed wife and her flight

Geoff, I've been watching your videos for almost a year, I love your enthusiasm and the facts that you've provided in your vids over the years! I've always wanted to visit London and the underground.. Cheers from Singapore!!

I love the pods! They were part of our induction when I worked at LHR, we did an exercise pretending to be passengers and one of my group's directions was a round trip on the pods. It was so lovely to see them trundling back and forth again last year as they weren't operating for the longest time over Covid. Really enjoying these videos, I've visited a couple of the end of the lines but many more to go!

Genuinely fascinating vid Geoff. Loved the stories behind all the artwork too, such a fun series of videos 👊

Thanks Geoff. Another gem. I'll have my antennae on alter next time I pass though Heathrow

Nice surprise with my afternoon break. Looking to fly from there soon so thanks for the tip on the pods.

The Garden of Remembrance is for those that reached the end of the line.

Finally, a station I can say that I’ve been to the most 😂

Great video Geoff, love this series. Used to use the T5 Pods a lot when I was traveling for business a few years back, great start and end of the airport “experience”.

I literally fly out of Heathrow tommorrow for Oz.... deffo gonna take a spin on the Pods, have been meaning to for years but keep forgetting! 😆

Worked at T5 for five and a half months and never actually got around to riding in the pods; although we often talked about it. You have unlocked that memory for me, I will have to do someday.

Did the Paddington route via Reading to Heathrow last year on Elizabeth line (3 days after queen’s funeral). The trains were so quiet, clean and quick. I love the pods though. They are awesome. Stayed at the thistle hotel before flying on holiday last September and still never paid for it, even though they said you had to. National Express coach back as trains and underground were on strike the day I got back. I discovered your videos while looking for how the Luton DART worked as my dad worked on it on the engineering side and I sent him your video and he loved the video, as in his words, was a brilliant review. I’ve now started going back and binge watching loads now because they are awesomely presented and very informative. Very addictive. Thank you for all you do. 😊😊

Really love this series. Good tip re the Oyster tap out and in at Hatton Cross.

Those Heathrow pods are definitely Tim Traveller material.

Thank you for sharing this video, Geoff that was great information.

Lovely heathrow and picadilly line

Great video George. I grew up and live in Harmondsworth. Heathrow has always been my local station, even walking back home after a night out from T5, when the buses stop running. Never knew the pods were free and there was a chapel.

The heathrow express barriers at Paddington are also all double as well as the Gatwick express ones at Victoria as well i think

I remember visiting the Chapel back in the 70s when you had to walk overground from the bus station to T3. Good to see its still there even though the old control tower has gone.

That's amazing about the garden..thank you

Another great video Geoff! Enjoyed it from start to finish. 👍🏻😀

Hello Geoff Loving your videos. Was nice to see South Kensington station and Bens Cookies. Congratulations on over 300,000 subscribers. Take Care Chris and Sandra of Canada.

That Heathrow Pod looks like a useful way to get from T5 to the pubs in Longford ... must explore.

I love this series! Quite excited for the bigger end of the line stations as well - do you think end of the line Waterloo could be a follow up to least used station Waterloo? 😂

Never heard of a Heathrow pod before your amazing video! Will definitely be visiting, I'm sure I can catch a glimpse of a Heathrow express train along the way! Jonathan 😊👍

Talking of "incorrect" signage, I think it's at Terminals (1,) 2 & 3 that you'll find a route map showing "Barons court" with a lower-case C. Definitely one of the Heathrow stations, anyway. It's on the wall opposite the platform.

Put together excellently as usual, Geoff

Great footage as always Geoff, definitely looking forward for more of these videos! :-)

Geoff, you might be interested to know that I am one of the Chaplains at the Heathrow Multifaith Chaplaincy. There are 23 of us but we are usually all working out in the terminals hence a closed Chapel!

Brings back memories as we flew into Terminal 4 almost 9 years ago and got on the Tube there to make our way into the city (we were early and in no rush, so we skipped the Express and Connect rail service for a ride on the Underground. Was our first time there, and quite shocking to see not only padded seats, but armrests between the seats! (Coming from New York where all seats are plastic benches and only the end as an armrest, or a bar that keeps you from falling off.

Epic video Geoff Marshall ❤❤❤😊😊😊

Awesome video Geoff

Thank you Geoff.

Another great video, Geoff. Thanks. BTW, I worked at JFK for many years, and we have "Our Lady of the Skies Chapel", which is now inside terminal 4 there. It used to be in its own building back in the day. Cheers! Peter.

Another lovely video Geoff, love the nod to both BOAC at Hatton Cross and the Concorde artwork at Heathrow Central, tommorrow (21st January) marks 46 years since Concorde's first commercial flight with British Airways. I wonder sometimes if Tom Eckersley artwork from 1977 was inspired by David Gentleman's 1969 Postage Stamp of almost the same design?