London’s Oldest Railway (1000+ Subscribers!) 

Geez, this wasn't even that long ago and you've multiplied your subscriber count eighty-fold. Congratulations!

116 times the subscribers in under a year. That’s very impressive, especially considering how “niche” the content is. Mate, you’re brilliant! Best proof, that you don’t need annoying music, loud noises, flashing images and bad acting to grow an audience…

Honestly, a railway in London taking longer to build than first promised, and then overcrowded at peak hours, unbelivable, see what progress the C21st has made.

World's first commuter railway was Dublin to Kingstown ( now Dun Laoghaire) 1834! Love your work - GR

Perhaps the oldest commuter line in London, but not the oldest in the world. The Dublin and Kingstown Railway opened in 1834, initially intended for freight, but from day one became a commuter line.

Not sure why this happened to your channel but you came into my watchlist at YT after watching a video of Geoff Marshall. Clicked your video, liked it, watched some more, liked them too and subscribed. As many others did too, obviously. Love the way you present your video's, many details about the subject, good sense of humor and not too long. Anyway, congratulations with the 1K mark (and the coming 5K as well). Keep up the good work!

The surge in subscribers is well deserved. This is an excellent channel, both interesting and entertaining in equal measure. 👌

Flipping heck and now its 37K. Must be doing something right.

Discovered your channel last week from my flat on Jamaica Road, and what happens? Your next video is set outside my window! It was meant to be.

Blimey, nearly at 5k now, congratulations.

Very interesting watching this back Mr Jago. My local line! Incredible that this was for your 1000 milestone and how much your channel has blown up since then. Your style was already interesting and this video is already good in it’s own right, but your style has become even more polished and refined since. Fun fact - I actually watched this on television (via the YT app on a PlayStation). You’ve made it not just onto the silver screen but the world of games consoles too. Truly a multi-platform transport icon!

All railway history is interesting whether above or below ground. So keep up the good work is what I say!

Only recently found this channel (it’s almost MY 2022 as I type this) so having to backtrack a bit to take in earlier editions. This presentation is another wonderful, interesting and educational ramble through our railway history so thanks and congratulations are in order. Yes please, make more like this!

There must be a reason. Your videos are very interesting.

I think once you hit 1K you start to get promoted by YT as similar vidz. Also you do short videos, less than 10mins, which makes them really quick to view - no need to repeat the wheel on other history/look at vidz but your take and presentation is interesting. Also if you play at 2x they are still comprehensible.

Always liked the shops under the arches idea. Every time I look at the wasted space under DCs metro and the astronomical rates for commercial space I shake my head.

1:14 I for one welcome our new insect overlords...

As I go through your catalogue of videos from the beginning, it’s amazing to see how you go from 1000 subs to 50,000 in the space of 4 videos! A very enjoyable video - amazing that the line is still useful 185 years later!

As long as the engines and carriages have steel wheels and ride on iron beams, any historical perspective on London commuter transport is very welcome dear Jago. Thanks very much.

I travelled to school on the Overground for five years, Northfields to Ravenscourt Park on the District line, back in the 60's. That said, my most enjoyable moment almost every day was catching a look at one of the steam locos shedded in the Acton Town depot. An ex-GWR pannier tank, or two, were kept there for engineering works needing to be carried out while the electricity was switched off. Spotting one in steam would be a red-letter day! Thank you for this site, nice job.

I only found your channel a few days ago, presumably because I watch other railway channels, but I agree with others that your videos are enjoyable, informative, entertaining, and very well produced. .... I am now also a subscriber.

It takes a while for a small channel to pop up in recommendations, but when it's a good channel like this one, things really take off. I subscribed yesterday after seeing just one of your videos (never done that before, I always watch a selection of videos before I subscribe). Now a day after releasing your 1,000 sub video, I see you're closing in on 6,000. Congratulations and keep up the excellent work!

As a native-born Londoner, all this is fascinating. It reminds me of my childhood, when it was still normal for unaccompanied children to travel on public transport, especially the Tube. I am unlikely ever to return to London, so your videos are very welcome. Thank you very much, and keep up the good work. I recall the time of the Moorgate crash; I was then working in Manchester, and concerned colleagues kept coming to me (knowing I was a Southerner from London), asking if I had any relatives involved. Very touching, and indicative that the North-South divide is not as impermeable as some might think.

Greetings from a ex-pat in Germany. My German/English Grandson introduced me to your channel. It brings back SO many many wonderful memories. A BIG thank you! from Lutherstadt Wittenberg.

Congrats!! Already at 4.6k! Really is a great parallel to a pioneering rail service; booms so quickly! I'd love to see more content on the non-tube rail in London and this format was awesome. Keep up the great work!

Absolutely love this channel, great to see it gain all these new subs.

This is a very good coverage of London commuter railway. Thank you.

Just want to say really enjoy your videos. I almost always learn one or more interesting facts with each one I watch. Keep up the good work.

Very good video. I only found your channel the other day, but like it immensely. I don't live in London, but have been fascinated by it, and what lies beneath for many years. For several years, the mark of quality content about the odder areas of the capital was held by Londonist/Geoff Marshall. Your videos are equally as good, with the bonus of your sense of humour - the still of Raymond Burr as 'Ironside' in your Kingston video, when referring to a Saxon king, made me laugh out loud - and your occasional wandering off-topic is something I enjoy too. You do good work. I generally judge videos on their content, if, at least once, in them, I think: 'I did not know that.' Your videos pass with flying colours, every time. Thank you.

Fascinating, have used/enjoyed the Greenwich line for decades and never new this history. Thankyou :)

Watching as you are at 48k subs, looking at 50k I'm sure quite soon. I love this channel! Thanks so much for sharing all of this with us :-)

Great work. Only just discovered your channel but you are doing an amazing job.

20 videos I have watched now So happy I discovered your channel Keep it up my friend 👍🏾🙏🏾❤️

Thank you. Well researched .. educational and beyond entertaining. You sir... are one of the reasons I still hold on to RU-vid. Respect Jago .. 🙏🏻☺️

Wow! I just realised how quickly this channel is growing, great work!

That was fascinating and anything predating the dear tube is always interesting! So! Please do thank you.

Thank you for these excellent recordings. As a Londoner I find all of your content engaging and, an absolute joy to watch. Thank you for the effort in producing these videos.

Fascinating subjects, well told, great sense of humour! Hence lots of subs. 👍

Excellently done, great visuals, interesting information put into a compelling story.

1k subscribers to almost 70k in 3 months!! Top work fella!

1 Sept '21 and you have 121,000, you deserve every one of us and I have enjoyed each and every video I have seen.

Thanks!!!! That was a marvellous video. You took me to places I never thought existed. Thank you very much indeed

I got one of your videos recommended after watching a lot of other railway stuff but this channel is definitely more watchable than a lot of others, mainly you know how to actually make clean audio which a lot of channels don't and I can't stand that.

At almost 6.5k now, about 1.5k since yesterday, I see this channel is enjoying a similar trajectory to that experienced by The Tim Traveller recently. Keep up the good work.

I regularly used to visit the Nightclub under London bridge station, 'Cable' in various stages of intoxication! The underground arches and bricks matched perfectly with the electronic music they played there. The business was turfed out by national rail during the London bridge station upgrade about the same time as they were building the hideous Shard.

Moved on a bit from 1,000 now! Cool channel and the continued growth is well deserved.

I love your outlook! I feel the same way when I'm driving somewhere. I can't tell you how many interesting places I've found just because I didn't feel like planning a route and got lost. Don't think of it as getting lost though - it's really just an adventure. I even went and explored a tractor museum once on my way to visit family. I didn't know tractors were interesting until I ended up there. Sad no one told me about the amazing tractor museum in the middle of absolute nowhere. Glad I stumbled across your channel. Your passion alone helps stimulate curiosity for something I never gave much thought.

Great stuff!! Love it. Keep up the good work

I just discovered your channel today Jago at just under 10k subscribers. I lived and worked around Tooley Street, Bermondsey, Deptford and Rotherhithe so found this particularly interesting. Very interesting content with dry sense if humour so looking good for the future. Keep up the good work.

Your voice is definitely more animated in your voice in you're newer videos. I started watching you during lockdown and how you have so many subscribers. Well done and enjoy your continued success

1000 well deserved subscribers. Really enjoying your work!

I just started subscribing several days ago. Love your videos! Your voice has a documentary-like cadence, which makes for a nice listen in the car. Also your videos include lots of details other London and/or train youtubers don’t cover. Well done. 😁

Not even a year has past and already your channel has shot up to 85k subs. I wonder if you have Geoff Marshall to thank for this? Well done! A fab channel that I discovered today whilst researching the London, Chatham and Dover line. Thank you. I'm subbed!

i'm in love with your content. i've been craving stuff like this ever since i watched jay foreman's videos on london. great stuff.

You earned this subscriber boom. I’ve now got a backlog of incredible videos to watch😊

Fascinating. Well done.

Thanks for this, interesting, and concise.

This is a great channel. Your voice and wit are remarkable. The stories always delightful. BTW, Cochrane spent some time down here under the sun. When Brazil got fed up with Portuguese absolutism and split, Peter I, our first ruler, hired him to run some part of his fleet. Family lore says an ancestor of mine was tasked to keep Cochrane under a reasonable degree of control. I always enjoy stories that mention that extraordinary character.

Fantastic scenery of London, quite an awesome place to step back through time, thank you 😎👍

I also came upon your channel by accident, liked it, watched some more videos and subscribed. I see that you are now at 7,700 subscribers. Well done! You deserve success for your informative, watchable and very professional material.

Blimey, only 2 months later and you've just hit 50k. Good going

Just caught this one sort of randomly, although I've been watching your videos for months now. This was for a thousand subscribers! Now you're at 144k! You've done well for yourself, my friend. Well deserved success!

Geoff Marshall brought me here. I liked the video, so I subscribed. As someone from the US, I love learning about transportation infrastructure outside of the US, especially trains, so you keep me well entertained.

Congratulations, 10k+ subscribers. I like the style and content. I also joined after a mention by Geoff Marshall. Keep up the good work.

There is a reason I'm watching this now two months almost since upload and you are almost at 20k. Brilliant videos quickly becoming my go too RU-vid channel when bored. Your progression is inspiration

Love your videos. This is such an underrated channel. Keep it up.

I have just discovered this wonderful channel! What an interesting video this is. Quite apart from the commentary, the quality of the film is excellent and allows us to see London stock brick in all its glory. How different it is from the uniform machine made bricks of today. Not only the appearance and colour of the brick itself, but the craftsmanship that was employed with the various dressings. Good to see that much of it has been cleaned and generally tidied-up in recent times.

Congratulations 🥳 and now close to 5000 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 you make great videos and sound and come across well 👍🏻

Yes Jago. Please do more of the Surface railways of London... like Station History, where tracks no longer are... etc I enjoyed this one and will visit some of these old loactions next time in England. (I'm In Canada, but grew up as a kid on Baker Street Chiltern Court W1 in the 1960-1970s)

Well done JagoHazard, you keep my link to the Uk, london and it’s “musty” underground smells close to my heart even tho I’ve lived in NZ for 10 years..

10.7k and I am one of your new followers :) Delighted to have found your channel !

Congrats my man!

Congratulations on your influx of new subscribers (of which I am one) - it's well deserved.

Congrats on the now almost 75k subscribers! i absolutely love your channel and style. Keep it up!!

Wow! Nearly 10k a few days later! Love the content!

Great.....Love it. Well done Jago.........From Cape Town.

I was a student in London for awhile and lived right near Goldhawk Road station where the track was also on a viaduct-looking structure. I always loved the way it looked, the trains rattling by were honestly more of a comfort than an annoyance to me. I’ve only just found your channel and it’s amazing to see such a meteoric growth from 1 to 61 thousand subscribers in just a few months. Thank you for this!

Congrats on reaching the 1000 subscribers...

Well done m8, I only found you're channel by chance while looking up Jango Fett (Boba Fett's daddy) last night and misspelt it Jago Fett and one of you're videos popped up and I've been binge watching ever since. As a fellow Londoner I love these types of videos so keep up the good work. To go from 1000k subs to nearly 100k in 7 mths shows you're doing something right and well liked. Btw Crystal Palace has always interested me.... So much history there. Maybe a future video

The best adventures are unplanned ones. Thanks for sharing. Loving the history of the underground. 😀🎃

Nearly 8K now !! Stumbled upon your videos... Saw one , loved your honesty, loved the master of fact writing, you do write your videos don't you? Awesome keep it up!!

and now it's 77.8k! dude, your channel is great. keep up the informative and well thought out content please :)

Thank you I’m not one bit surprised ,thank you so much for you brilliant videos

This is the exact content I'm interested in but dont search for

143 k subscribers!! wow!! Well deserved though, you do a great job with your videos.

I haven't been to London since 1994 and am in no hurry to go again, but I think these vids are great. I like the way it's not all about you (if you know what/who I mean).

Now you’re past 15k!? Good luck to you Jaggo Hazard. Hope you cross your next important landmark very soon. Subscribed.

Did you seriously just go from 5K subscribers to 10K in 5 days?! That's remarkable. 😳 When you mention videos you've done before, is there a reason you don't link them with "cards"? That way they show up as links in the top-right corner. I try to do this whenever I mention an earlier video and it seems to get people to stick around the channel longer. Anyway, great content as always! Keep it up!

Woah. Now its at 8.3k, just days later. That's crazy! I stumbled upon it and I find your videos fascinating! Here's to many more viewers!

Growing up in Bermondsey I used to walk past the Spa Road station all the time. Thanks for shedding a light on my home borough 😄

I’m another of your recent joiners. Been watching Geoff Marshall for ages, The Tim Traveller has similar humour to your videos, and occasionally I watch The Whitewicks. Tim’s similarly shot up and started getting promoted more. I like the bite size length of your videos, and agree occasional maps would help. Well done with the channel

Very interesting channel. Have you seriously gained 4K subscribers in a week? Wow!!! Well done, you appeared on my homepage so RU-vid's algorithm likes you, you might be at 10000 by the end of the weekend!! Congrats.

I do like this chaps very British, dry sense of humour. These videos are well researched and presented. Well done, sir!

Congrats on your channel mate. And thanks for the documentary!!

I think I was your 86th subscriber & I remember thinking that was too low for how good your videos are...so exciting for you and well deserved!!!!!

1k in July, 53.7k by middle of October! Well done. Very good presentions.

I love the journey's and the memories that these places have aqumalated .

Thanks for vlogs I'm enjoying them emencely. I like any London transport history .👍🚂🚉

Greetings from America. Your videos are well produced, and the occasional splash of droll humor is so British. Thanks.

Congratulations!