Love the geekyness about the Overground! George Bernard Shaw, when he was theatre critic for the Saturday Review, travelled to review a play at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East. Apparently, he was very disparaging about Dalston and Haggerston, wondering who could possibly live in a place with such awful names. Presumably then, he would have travelled to Stratford via the Dalston Junction East Curve!
Fun fact about the once a day train service, it actually starts from Willsden TMD and goes empty to Upney Junction just beyond Barking and then back through Barking too Woodgrange Park to start its service.
Considering we are now in February 2020, I wonder if we take lots that Crossrail in regal purple may be in passenger service by 2025?? Would it have taken Communists even a year to bulldoze everything, displace, & build the thing? I am very anti socialism, yet sometimes...
I like this Overground new system : clean trains, brightly lit stations with vast public spaces, stairs and all… everything seems so well designed and thought. This clever video shows us a few unexpected bloops, well done
There should also be a connector blob for Saint James' Street (Overground(Liverpool Street to Chingford)) and Blackhorse Road (Victoria line) The two stations are reletavely close.
I binged all these videos a few years ago, multiple times. I'm watching them again because I'm about to go to London, in less than a month now. My hotel is right next to an Overground station: Imperial Wharf. It's just a stroll over a roundabout! I just wish the different lines were more easily distinguishable on the map, I'll have to kinda wing it to get from St. Pancras to Imperial Wharf.
+Z-TeamProject Many tram lines are built on old railway lines, parts of the Croydon (London) Tramlink are built on parts of the courses of; Wimbledon to West Croydon and the Woodside and South Croydon Railways.
Geoff I love the fact you made the effort to wear a tie yet chose to leave the shirt out! Nice touch! Not stuffy office material yet mate, keep the secrets series coming I love them! Secrets of the Buses? London Trams? Disused lines? How about national? Secrets of the Great Central?
Hi Geoff I love your videos, just thought id say that I think it would be a good idea if you made a video explaining the changes to railway lines around Liverpool Street/Broad Street/Shoreditch (East London Line), Shoreditch (Main Line)/Bishopsgate/Holborn Viaduct. Its had so many changes over the years. Just a thought, keep up with the great videos.
Someone may have already asked this, but did the railwaymen of the North London Railwaymen keep fighting in WW1 for a few extra months. Others stopped in 1918
I have spotted two overground oddities. The first is Whitechaple where the Overground is underground and passes under the Underground which is overground. The second detail I like is at Kew Gardens station where there are cast concrete smoke deflectors on the old footbridge.
I always recognize the Bollo Lane Viaduct when I see it. I hope you also mention in Part 2 how the North London Line originally continued through the lower level at Stratford to Silvertown. It was after all on the Tube Map on the back of your A - Z ;)
Not just to Silvertown but to North Woolwich. The Stratford-North Woolwich bit was closed after the opening of a new Docklands Light Railway line running very close to it.
The station house for the old Shoreditch station (East London, not North London) is still around, and I think they should put it back into service. They can build a footbridge from there to the Shoreditch High Street Station.
+Londonist Ltd When London Overground takes over Southern Railways Metro services such as the Victoria to Sutton and Victoria to London Bridge via Crystal Palace lines, will they change the seating and make trains like the Class 378. will all the lovely toilets, tables, reading lamps, Luggage racks, plug sockets and 2×2 seating disappear?
Trivia point: The Central line passes deep under Shoreditch High Street Station. There is no intention to provide interchange presumably because Liverpool Street station is nearby.
Battersea Park will be the mystery station I reckon. There is one train at 6 ish in the morning to Highbury and Is', and one which terminates from there at about 11pm I think it is (it's quite late).
5:00 thats 1983 london underground stock used on jubilee line since 1984 but it got replaced by 1996 london underground stock in 1998 just 1 year before extension to stratford, also nice videos
Tim Sekac there is. I go from crouch hill to turkey street to go to school and I change there every day. They just can’t fit the connector blob on the map
I live near South Tottenham station. This morning I woke up around 5.50-ish and saw at least two trains running past the station without stopping. One of the trains seems to be a class 315 (the one used on Seven Sisters service). Does any one know what were the two trains for? What services are these? It can't be the Saturday 0531 Liverpool Street to Enfield parliamentary train, because today is a Tuesday...
LeviNZ says... very good as always... provided your ears are tuned to 78wpm. Fortunately, the Modern Geoff seems to have slowed his delivery and made himself much more clearly understood.
Could you do a video on 1. the bakerloo extention and 2. the suburban trains being taken over by tfl because I have no idea if it's to be added to the overground or be it's own line
Why do trains having stopped at a station then pull out of a station and then stop again, if they have to wait while another train passes why don't they just wait IN THE STATION?
The line is crosses to get into the station (the lower level of Willesden Junction) is the bakerloo/ north London line . So I guess it is forced to wait for the track to be free in the timetable , hence the wait
If the tickets accept zone 2 only for Highbury, what about cannonbury, Gospel Oak and Dalston Kingsland. Technically you could go round Willesden to get to these locations or travel via Shorditch in Zone 1. What would it charge then?
+Mark Roblox Yes, Clapham to those stations are all Zone 2 to Zone 2 journeys so will be charged us such, even if you travel anti-clockwise around the 'circle' of the Overground and pass through Zone 1.
+Mark Roblox If you use the TfL Single Fare Finder page, it will tell you the cost of a journey between any two stations: tfl.gov.uk/fares-and-payments/fares/single-fare-finder
OK but neither were st annes rd etc they were NLL not overground as well Could Geoff do a secrets of thameslink vid and a secrets of the NCL with the "Hidden" Angel Road station that doubles up as an emergency exit
