Maida Vale Tube Station / Only Unconnect Ep.5 

Oh, yeah ! “Made of ale” ……never thought of that……very good!

Take your goddamn thumbs up. And think seriously about what you've done!

Possibly one of the oldest in the book.... but still funny!😅

I always wondered why there wasn't a pub round there called 'made of ale'. Missed a trick.

no dobt where all the dead drunk train drivers hangout. lol

Ouch! Go sit on the Naughty Step! 😂😂😂

I once saw Paul Weller hailing a cab outside Goodge Street tube station. To this day I regret not asking if he still didn't fancy the tube

@@stuartparks8094There was an A bomb in Wardour Street. That’s why he took the cab.

Was he on the way home to his wife? Was she lining up the cutlery, was she expecting him?

He lives on Warwick Avenue, I saw him come out of his house once.

😁

Fitting for a place named after a pub. 😁

100%. Brill part of town and was lucky to live there for a number of years in the noughties.

I too have many memories from passing through this station. I´d say those are definitely blast doors.

One day all of the residents of Lewisham will agree with you.

or a major water main in a nearby road?

are we sure that they are floodgates and not blast protection doors. I can imagine that they could also help in that sense.

The floodgates are are in terrible condition, it can be seen on the edge - wear and tear

It could be a GAME THEORY (matpat)😂

This makes sense. Fractures of primary water mains or sewers could exacerbate direct hits at such locations. I believe that the bombing at Balham in October 1940 was made even worse by the fact that seven million gallons of water, sewage and silt had to be pumped out from the disaster scene. The line was not fully re-opened for three months. @@ADAMEDWARDS17

Very interesting information Geoff

Does the abandoned Bull And Bush station count in the Pub Tube Quiz I wonder?

Even here in the US I learned that underground stations were used as bomb shelters. Given that it opened during the war, it seems extremely likely that the doors were blast shields.

@@johnbennett1465 The Moscow Metro was also built with this in mind which is why much of it is so far below ground.

The doors are over pressure doors. They could be used in wartime to insulate people from the outside. But equally they could be used to manage the pressure from the tubes as trains moved through them. For example it depends on how close Maida Vale is to the surface, would it be effected by the very low pressures in storms causing vacuums that could potentially bring down the roof of a tube. Also how & of what was the tube constructed. Was it cut and cover through wet sandy soil? That's makes for unstable environment. Can I suggest talking to the B1M channel and jointly doing some research. The engineering of the London underground and sewer system was a marvel of Victorian engineering. For example many tube lines were constructed in London Rivers i.e the path of least resistance with the river being fed into an iron bypass pipe. You mention a canal nearb, the doors may be in relation to a breach between the canal & the tube Do you play the game Railway Rives based on a hex maps from all over the country. A believe a very accurate map of London was used to create the railway rivals map of London as it gave rivers, different types of clay and rock, and handling for coffee dams etc.

@@johnbennett1465 Wrong war though.

@@andywash did I miss hear? I thought he said WW II.

It's hot, loud and slow. It's probably my least favourite line... Or maybe the central line

Someone has too. Although I will agree it's far from the worst.

Most polluted line 👎

It’s a great film, but I cannot watch it for fear of crying all the water out of my body.

Just googled it: Angel, Elephant & Castle, Manor House, Nine Elms, Royal Oak and Swiss Cottage.

I only knew of Royal Oak and the Elephant and Castle

@@kjh23gkAnd Maida Vale.

it's a gorgeous station, yes! Glad like you loved it ...

Yeah, it says.

It is.

Dust from brakes, ozone, warm grease, warm insulation - the London tube smell.

Yah, party wall from a previous building, maybe? Also, weren't these stations often built to allow buildings on top of them?

@@AaronOfMpls Yes, the Leslie Green ones were. The idea was that the stations would make the space above them valuable. It's odd that most didn't attract developers to build on top of them.

No, there is not. Greenford was the last one.