Tired of Politics? Here's Westminster Tube Station 

Hazzard for PM

"and Britain would never again have a problem with sewage being dumped into its rivers or seas" 🤣🤣

I love how perfectly timed and cathartic this video is for Brits AND Americans!

A mention of our friend Mr. Yerkes, so all is well with the world. Excellent video as always Jago, thank you.

Hazzard for Mayor of London

Sunday wirh Jago is always enjoyable... Unlike politicians 😁😁😁

Before I retired and was working in London I used Westminster station a lot. I like it. My wife and I went to a reception in the House of Lords on 31 December 1999 and were then taken (with a whole lot of other people) to North Greenwich on a special train on the Jubilee line. The cars were numbered and we were assigned to a particular car, directed by marshals on the platform with numbered placards. We were ushered through security at North Greenwich, entered the Millennium dome, and celebrated the New Year. (HMQ was there and joined in the singing of Auld Lang Syne.)

Yerkes is back!

One of the problems that the architects and engineers had in designing the station and Jubilee line was that they had to avoid going under Government infrastructure and buildings, remembering Guy Fawkes. Only problem was that the powers that be would not tell the architects where this infrastructure was for security reasons. Consequently, they had to keep submitting drawings and getting them rejected with no advice on how to overcome the issue until eventually plans were submitted and accepted.

Thanks Jago. Remember to vote and have photo ID. This time, everyone's vote counts. Lets stop the sewage.

The cold open is just British enough. Anyway, I’m rooting for Count Binface

I've passed through Westminster station on a couple of occasions and I'm still fascinated by the architecture of the "Concrete box". It's a modern industrial look which is my favourite aesthetic!

I'm voting for more trains and trams on the 4th of July! Don't forget your ID on Thursday!

This Video Is NOT A Yerkes Free Zone. All hail Jago & Yerkes

My civil engineer brother worked in the jubilee line at Westminster and helped keep Big Ben standing 😊

I loved the rebuild in the late nineties when I lived in London. Along with Canary Wharf Jubilee Line station it is one of the best stations in London. Always thought it was what a tube station would look like if designed by a James Bond villain!

My only question is why, when Gloucester Road has art on a platform, do those large floodlit concrete hollows of Westminster station no longer have artwork in them? They did for a while and it made the transit from Jubilee to District line the highlight of many a journey. Can we start a campaign to bring back art to the caverns of Westminster?

My father passed away on 4th July 1986 at 57 so I know the history of the day

Baker Street still has some of the aura of those old pictures of the first underground railways. It is probably my favourite in London. That comment has nothing to do with the Westminster tube.

I remember the station before it was redeveloped, the size and scale is incomparable

Fantastic station. I feel lucky to have been through that "secret corridor" and into Portcullis House and Parliament a few times for work. It's a very impressive place.

Charles Yerkes gets a mention, and a loud and enthusiastic shout goes up from the fans!

I do remember the entrance to the Commons being a slightly darkened/security glass door with a desk behind it and mustard coloured walls back in the hazy days of 2000-2004.

It's also a reasonably handy place to switch to the boat if you're coming from Marylebone on a nice day. A short walk to Baker Street and a short walk to the boat pier and after sailing under tower bridge you can be on your way to the cable car via another short walk.

i do like the design of this station - it is so impressive as one travels up on an escalator

2:42 Yeah, there was one post on Twitter on how the London riverside looks good and I thought to myself: “The Thames are some of the worst water bodies out there.”

During construction of the Jubilee Line through Westminster they had to keep an eye on Big Ben to make sure it didn't start tilting due to the work going on and extra work had to be done to stabilise the ground by it. In the end it did move slightly but only by something like a 1CM which was well within the safe limits set by the engineers.

I can never heard the word "Ecclesiastical" without thinking of Hyacinth Bucket.

From what I remember, the pre-Jubilee, District-only station was very modest and low-profile for a station serving the Houses of Parliament and so many tourist destinations.

It's like a brutalist underground cathedral!

It never ceases to amaze me that the Met's engineer proposed a new line called the Inner _Circle,_ the Met themselves formed a new company called the Metropolitan and District which would later become the Met's most hated rival, and today, the Metropolitan, District, and Circle are 3 distinct lines.

Westminster is my favourite underground station. I love that Jubilee line extension aesthetic.

I got a job just outside the station days after it opened. Lived at halls a stone´s throw from Canada Water. The Jubilee extension was a godsend. Westminster tube indeed looks like the cargo hold of USCSS Nostromo.

Absolutely excellent video. Well on par for JH. However, having a fear of heights, and a bit of an escalator phobia, Westminster station has always scared me. There is something very cold and spooky about the architecture of that station that disturbs me.

I do like Westminster. It’s surprisingly serene despite the huge numbers of people and cavernous spaces. Gets a bit dusty on top of those pipes though.

CTY!!!!! Big up to shady Chicagoans!

wait..wait... so what you're saying is, if I eat lots of fish I can get high? This is excellent news!

Who here has already forgotten that Charing Cross was once on the Jubilee Line ?

Westminster was my first tourist stop as a kid. The jubilee line extension was constantly in the news back then. I used to think they looked like the central line then soon after I discovered they made their funny sound 🤣🤣🤣

6:59 Drink! (For those of you still playing the Yerkes drinking game)

Love your videos, you're so clever. You even fit in a joke in your ads!! Clever fellow, thanks!

We have some burials disturbed by the building of the station at brookwood cemetery

I went through there many times as a guard and the driver when we on the Metropolitan line used to work the Circle Line, it has changed beyond all recognition.

Nice to hear a mention for everybody's favourite, Charles Tyson Yerkes. He has been missing in recent weeks.

5:24 What an amazing photograph. There's so much going on.

Yerkes, being a shady character, would have fitted in perfectly with some of today's politicians. I'm sure if he was around today he'd have been involved with the supply of millions of Pounds worth of useless PPE and making a packet for himself along the way!

For some of us the football is a welcome distraction from our forthcoming election. Nice video though, although I struggled to keep up with the dates.

"You are the foundation to my Portcullis House. " Can I have that one, Jago?

Prime Minister Hazard begins to appoint his Cabinet - Chancellor Yerkes has a ring to it.....

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE! More information needed on how they lowered the station "a few millimetres at a time"! That must be Jago Gold-dust!

All these pipes, crossing escalators and cladded walls resemble internals of huge steam boiler with links, rivets, bubbles of steam and flows of liquid

I remember the wrought iron gates to Parliament being in use. Heck, I feel old.

My very favourite underground station. I rode the JLE extension on it's first fully open day as well!

@7:01, Yerkes has made a return. We've missed you. I changed from the Jubilee line at Westminster and spent a few minutes looking for the Circle/District line platforms. I can only put it down to some sort of brainstorm.

Took a fair while for Yerkes to get a mention, but there he is!

I like the idea of the 1/3 m as a convenient unit of length. 😺 1:40 - Would there be any mileage in a suggestion for videos on Norfolk Street and Trinity Square stations? I must confess to not having heard of them before.

Westminster Jubilee line station has serious Bladerunner vibes. It’s an awesome piece of engineering and architecture. Shame about the hideous Gothic horror across the road on the surface.

6:57 YERKES KLAXON

The Jubilee Line only goes through Westminster due to politics! I believe that the original proposed route of the extension wasn't via Westminster, but the government insisted that it passed through before authorising the same linked to the construction of Portcullis House. I remember having to carry radio test equipment down to the Jubilee Line levels at Westminster when getting ready for the opening of the extension from my car parked on the Embankment (you could in those days). The problem was at the end of the shift I had to carry them back up the not yet commissioned escalators! Still working on LU radio system projects and currently helping getting mobile phone coverage provided on the whole of London Underground.

I love that the period cartoons about sewage in the Thames and the great stink shown in the video came up during my GCSEs. I did history of medicine and it covered public health in Britain.

It has a majestic ambience and I love the smell of the concrete! It feels like a set from one of those space films where we’re all living in underground cities because it’s probably too hot to live above ground.

Awesome stuff as always Jago

It has a Totalitarian-UK-Govt vibe going. Is that where the house of commons will move after they let their palace digs crumble?

Jago for Britain's very first President! #notmyking

As a recently retired district driver I saw all the development work in the 90's and the District / Circle platforms to this day never looked finished to me, even the platform seating looks like the backrests are missing, when they dropped the tracks it looked very dodgy and never looked or felt safe even with a 5 mph TSR.

i would've liked to have heard more about HOW a rail line gets lowered by a couple of mm a day...

Nice one Jago

I've been in Westminster Underground station, and I cannot say that I'm a fan of the design. It's like having to walk behind the scenes in the Portal computer game. In contrast to the clinical game rooms, what's behind the scenes is what you aren't supposed to see. Regarding feet, I think we continentals can more or less figure out a foot, or even two of them. It becomes difficult when it's more than that. If something is 15 feet, I have to mentally do the maths and come to around 4.5 metres, but not quite.

Glad you've done this one - it's one of my favourites - such a vast space and completely unexpected when you enter. A modern classic.

3:45 - well I personally buy my best 'charlie' from a Haddock!

Should there be a branch line from Westminster leading to a new terminus named OBLIVION? 😮

Yea... The Tale of the Tube, Jago! ❤

All I can say is that it is a blessing to every RU-vidr than what was planned for the tube wasn’t what actually happened, otherwise your content would be much blander. The tube’s history has the power to make the plot twists of a soap opera to appear sedate and the politics of Rome, gentlemanly. 😀

Good evening Jago another informative video about London's historic tube stations. There is one lesser known fact you didn't mention namely in 1922, a new entrance and canopy was designed for the Bridge Street entrance by Charles Holden and, in 1924, he designed a plainly rendered replacement elevation for the eastern entrance on to the Embankment. These were the first commissions to Holden and the now long demolished entrance to embankment was in the Portland Stone design he used on the Morden Line extensions. I am not sure whether you have made a video in the past about the relationship between Charles Holden and Pick including their European trip that so influenced the "Sudbury Box" designs on the Piccadilly and subsequent extensions. Food for thought and keep up the excellent work.

They used alot of the old lines that had been disused after the Beeching and Marples cuts mainly the Transport Minister Marples who owned lorry transport Companies. The irony and corruption in the 1960s

And when the station opened The birds began to sing....

Apparently the enhanced build of Westminster station is now speeding up the tilting of the Elizabeth Tower (which houses Big Ben). Next time you are there have a look at how much it's already leaning.

It is also a massive nuclear bunker designed to house UK Government in the event of a nuclear attack. There are apparently 10 or so storeys beneath platform level which make up the said bunker. If you look around the station, not only is it massively over engineered you can see large steel blast doors etc. As I bought a coffee from the the shop at platform level the was a station manager in front of me in the queue, I asked him about the bunker and he joking said 'if I tell you I'd have to kill you'. He then matter of factly told me about the ten storeys underneath that make up the bunker and casually said that is where they hold the COBRA meetings. Fun fact!

This is my favourite underground station, I just love the architecture of it. I was going to do a video but won't bother now as this is (as always) excellent.

Westminster Abbey is awesome. The place is dripping in history I highly recommend a visit.

So good they stopped all that sewage going in the river.

That car horn at the end was well timed.

Yes something out of a science fiction film, how very fitting. It does look more impressive than any of the other modern stations

Jago!

P.S. Excluding Taylor Swift might the best ad for Ground News I've ever seen :D

Westminster is nominally my favourite underground station. I love all the Jubilee Line Extension. I just love all the pipes and metal work. , like something out of out a Sci-fi film.

Things can only get better. Again. For a short while.

Funny happenstance as a well known ex prime minister was caught erm en flute in the loos at that station... convicted too its said but all disappeared once the big chair attained.

YERKES! It's not a Jago Hazzard video without Charles Tyson Yerkes!

I had to wrack my brains as to why I don't recall there being a different station layout when I first went to London in '94. Then I realized I'd gotten to Westminster Abbey by bus. To be honest the first time I went to London I was so confused by the Underground that I loathed it. *gasp*

If I block Taylor Swift Undetground Football Sewage Spillage event I might miss an important story

9:42 or thereabouts: "a few millimetres per day": I think you mean "a few thirds of a line per day."

Moral of the Story: There’s politics in your niche interests

Fascinating and funny too. Thank you

Ok, so I’m thinking a collaboration of some sorts between you and ‘Dale Charman Travels’ would be really really good. You are both extremely good communicators, fantastic to listen to and knowledgeable. I’m just sewing the seeds👌😊

For an underground concrete box, it's rather good looking!

New Jago video? LETS GOO!! 🎉🎉

Excellent video thank you so much. Westminster Tube station precedes the Copenhagen Metro by a few decades and I'm struck by how similar the construction and layout is, except the metro lines run under the station proper rather than beside it as far as I can judge. Bet they had a good look at the jubilee line.

Rather than using both imperial and metric units, why not simply use natural units. Astronomers use light years. Us normal folks use light nano-seconds. It's a smidge less than a foot. (11.8")

Passed through there for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I really liked the station.