The original 15 storey building joke comes from Covent Garden station, which is actually the equivalent of 15 storeys. It has 193 steps. Hearing it as a fact at any other tube station is just a funny joke - don't get offended
LIES AND UNTRUTH ARE IRRESPONSIBLE AND OUT OF ORDER AND FAR FROM INTERESTING, PLUS THEY ARE BORING AND CONFUSE PEOPLE, THE TRUE FACTS ARE INTERESTING THOUGH. TIS STUPID GUY NEEDS YOU TUBE TO GIVE HIM A BIG ROLLICKING OR KICK HIM OFF YOU TUBE ALTOGETHER, TOTALLY BANNING HIM FOR GOOD FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL.
NO, THIS IS NOT A JOKE, BUT TAING THE P, PLUS CHILDISH AND IRRESPONSIBLE WHILST CONFUSING PEOPLE NOT IN THE KNOW, GEOFF NEEDS KICKING OFF YOU TUBE IMMEDIAYTELY.
@Robert Baker - Yeah... I know. Depending on how comments come up for you, the guy under mine types much the same way under the name "graham lea" and yet signs off with "Peter" so i suspect he is one and the same person causing trouble under different names
Actually, if you take the cable car with an Arsenal shirt, you have to pay four pounds. The price resembles Arsenal's position in the final league table every year.
Brilliant thanks Geoff, I've just submitted a PHD dissertation on London history, it's my life work and I've added a lot of this at the last minute because to be honest I'm embarrassed I didn't know it!!!
I’ve heard they are planning to increase the number of cars per set and also the platform length. Also, I heard of an outlandish project to extend the cable car to Waterloo to help with congestion, with the cable car going underground to meet directly with the Jubilee. However, the platform is curved, so you really must mind the gap there.
I loved all the references to the past episodes and facts, like that 'secret loop that no one knows about' which is a nod to Kennington loop, or the incorrect numbers of steps at the 'ghost station'. It's also fun to see you again on video :D Thanks for the laughs friend! :P
GentlemanlyNinja thanks Mr Ninja! that was always the plan, to gently poke fun at our our series of videos .. a nice reward to all those that have watched the entire series. thanks!
Did you hear about the recent expansion plan that’ll take it all the way to Sydney with just two towers at either end? Naturally they need to be pretty high but TfL promises they’ll only have to be about fifteen stories tall.
This video was honestly almost believable to someone who has never been to London and doesn't know the history of the cable car up until the part where you show us the super secret footage of the cable car going through the loop
This is an amazing payoff to those of us who have enjoyed the rest of the genuine series, in the way it parodies itself. One of the most original April Fool's jokes in a long time.
"If you look at them *really* closely - zoom in - and look at the design, you can see what they are. That's right! Different shades of red rectangles." Just the heightened excitement of the line delivery followed by the complete deadpan explanation at the end fucking killed me.
I can't decide whether if this instead a subtle nod to the fact that many Londoners rather dislike the Emirates Air Line and that Geoff dislikes it too or if it is nothing more than a April Fools Day joke. Either way, it was brilliantly done. I was laughing loudly to myself on the tube this morning while watching it.
when to the Cable Car in an Arsenal Kit. asked for a free ride. guards soon came and had me on my knees in handcuffs. a lady then walked towards me and whispered into my ear "Spurs FTW". I am never taking the cable car ever again!!
I'm so glad this was an April Fool, because a genuine video would have been 15 seconds of Geoff saying "It's a complete waste of money and it's shite!"
I was confused when I couldn't find any information about it. I looked at the date in the description, which says 31st of March... Oh, wait, that's followed by...?
I told my Mother for a joke that the cable car ran from Crystal Palace to Alexandra Palace, she didn't comment until we were on the DLR and finally realized I was joking! Thanks Londonist for the idea! :)
Wonderful stuff! Though I do think the Emirates Air-Line gets far too much stick for what it is. Yes it has relatively low passenger numbers, yes it was expensive to build but It is a unique way to see London's skyline. It is much, much cheaper than The Shard, which I love, and Up at The O2, which I loathe.
Watching this 11th August 2021, I managed 47 seconds before shouting 'what the eff is he on about.' Very nicely done, but does need an April Fool's warning now- some people won't get the joke and others, who don't read the description, will think he's mad.
Adam Horsfield I somehow doubt that, given the history of all the lines involved. I suspect the difficulty is figuring out how to partition it into videos, and simply fitting everything into a short enough video.
It doesn't matter whether or not the "facts" are true. It's whether you *wish* they were true that matters :-) I'd love to have seen the cable car going over its full route from Ally Pally to Crystal Palace and I'd love to have seen the opening ceremony with the banquets (including butlers and waiters) in each cabin. Ah well, I'll just have to imagine those. Thanks for a wonderfully humourous end to your excellent "Secrets of" series about each tube line. Maybe you should do one about all the DLR lines and one about the Croydon Tramlink. And then maybe one about each of the mainline terminus stations. PS: I loved the "here we go all over again" split-screen edit at the end of the Circle line one.
There wouldn't be much point if there was to be a cable car between Alexandra Palace and Crystal Palace. If there was there would be stops between as well because there is quite a distance and it would probably be cheaper having a shuttle train if they really needed to link them
'' they wanted to build it in a zig zag line, but they found plague pits, so they had to build it in a straight line to avoid those plague pits'' Thats brilliant, that is.
189 steps, equivalent to 15 floors Don't be a hero, you'll get knackered after 30 seconds Just be like everyone else, and wait for the lift Wait, do they even have lifts?
I honestly thought this was real up until about 1:30 in. I thought 'I didn't know it was that old, I thought I was built in the past few years'. Very well done though
Yeah Amazing experience, I never forgetting in my life most beautiful Moments, I had Cable Car visit started new year in 2017 n' wid lotz of rains but I'm enjoyed full of fun also I took some beautiful pictures of my gud memories. ..I keep always in my heart.
Equivalent to a 15 storey building!! love it :-) I now say that to my family whenever we have to climb the steps at the shopping centre car park, they have no idea
Question about riding the Cable Car in an Arsenal Kit. does this free ride still happen to this day or has it changed. Because if it still happens why do normal people have to pay the full fare when people wearing Arsenal Kit go on for free ride i think its a little unfair. but i also have to say its not a bad price i don't know if the prices have gone up since i last went for a return ride on the cable cars. but i will understand because it has a sponsorship with airline Emirates.
Wow, London is just great city. I didn't know it has so many forms of mass transportation. And yet that vast network is ever expanding. I recon it is really easy to access all parts of the city thanks to it's huge and diverse transport network.
How all of this would work: Cable Car would've closed down shortly after WW2 and go under rehabilitation but it got demolished and had to be rebuilt The abandoned station was like a roundabout where cables stopped but because the system was too unreliable it had to be shut down The zig-zags wouldn't have made the main route possible so when they realized there were plague pits they decided it was all for the better That secret loop became visible and they had to stop hiding passengers on the loop It was too expensive to build escalators People think because of the lines they're squares not rectangles The Arsenal Shirt thing ended up losing money for the cable car so they stopped the promo ...cables were weirdly fast that day? Geoff lives in West London
Dammit! I spent five minutes trying to research if I’d missed some huge part of history as I’m a bit of an expert on Crystal Palace. Took that long to realize everything sounded slightly ….off
You didnt mention the branch towards dover via the hs1 line that was demolished in 1999 which was run by the class 701s back in the day😮it was my way to school back then🤗
Lol! I do get the references form the older videos. Also from another secrets video, there is a station that is used by less than 1000 people a year(I think). Because BBC bought the towers now it has gained a lot of popularity! Wow!
