You were absolutely INCREDIBLE at staying completely still in Jay's new video!

@TransportForLuka

Жыл бұрын

I know right? He was crazy

@ish5593

Жыл бұрын

Mad lol.It’s a tube map video so Geoff had to be somewhere

@Farleigh1050

Жыл бұрын

Ikr

@clemstevenson

Жыл бұрын

He ran out of steam 🔥🤣

@lgrcen2008

Жыл бұрын

Wait what? Which one?

No one going to mention how perfectly timed the end of the video was. Super satisfying Geoff!

@geofftech2

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍 VERY SATISFYING wasn't it!!! made me smile too when it happened :)

@tinplategeektoo

Жыл бұрын

And it only took 55 takes too 😉

@Farleigh1050

Жыл бұрын

agreed

@ukraineball953

Жыл бұрын

@@geofftech2 the Epping at Sydney used to be the end of the line :)

@markylon

Жыл бұрын

Apparently this was filmed in reverse and played backwards. Geoff has the unique ability to talk backwards. He started speaking as soon as the train doors closed, then the video was reversed. Genius.

I didn’t know that Frank Pick had a KZread Channnel ! Neat ❤

@josephkarl2061

Жыл бұрын

Coming here to say the same thing, but I'm soundly beaten to it 🤣

@Rob-James

Жыл бұрын

You seen Jay Foreman's new video? 😄

@Theonintendo

Жыл бұрын

@@Rob-James no

@thebeastproductions

Жыл бұрын

Frank is much more animated in this video!

@josephkarl2061

Жыл бұрын

@@Rob-James Absolutely 😄

"Do you like Epping?" "I don't know, I've never epped!" A joke used at every opportunity by my recently departed father in law. Somewhat frequently given he lived in Leytonstone. At least Geoff can say he has properly epped now!

@rynabuns

Жыл бұрын

very ept joke, thanks for sharing!

@mellowfellow6816

Жыл бұрын

You could say he's epped off!

@Krzyszczynski

Жыл бұрын

Did you persuade the missus to make his grave marker read "Here lies the late [name]" - so that he would have ""late" on stone?🎃

@TheGerkuman

Жыл бұрын

It's the age-old Kipling joke!

@hanstheexplorer

Жыл бұрын

I’ve also never epped!

i’m from Germany and was in London for a few days some years ago and thought “why don’t i just take the tube to a random end of line”. It ended up being epping and I gotta say it was a pretty lucky choice. lovely station with lots of heritage all around it on that bit of track 🛤

@bahnfahrenaufschlau

Жыл бұрын

Same for me, but in my case i ended up the several Metropolitan Line endings (Amersham, Chesham, Uxbridge and Watford). I also had visiting Epping in mind, but as time is limited, I had to save it for my next London trip.

@keithl3855

Жыл бұрын

Epping is also twinned with the German town Eppingen in Baden-Württemberg!

@bahnfahrenaufschlau

Жыл бұрын

@@keithl3855 🤣

@fullup91

Жыл бұрын

Did you visit epping forest?

I bumped into Geoff while he was filming this at Epping and just wanna write a comment to thank you for being so lovely and polite despite me possibly interrupting your filming, sorry if that was the case!

@user-vu8pm4dw6d

9 ай бұрын

Timestamp?

Congrats on the deadpan cameo in Jay Foreman's latest video!!

Oh wow Frank Pick is making videos about the Underground now that's really neat

I admire how Geoff likes the feeling of 'where am I? Why am I here?'

@steveosborne2297

Жыл бұрын

Are used to live in a bin for many years and I used to think the same myself . But then again my family lived in the area for over 400 years Edit just checked again over 500 years

@sie4431

Жыл бұрын

Where's my large automobile?

@TheNixie1972

Жыл бұрын

@@sie4431 where’s my beautiful wife?

For those who don't know, there is a superb cab-view video of the Epping-Ongar section on KZread, shot in 1980, the year before Blake Hall closed. A wonderful historical document.

Great to hear Epping in Sydney and Melbourne mentioned at the end. Sydney also has stations named Lewisham, Croydon, Sydenham (soon to be a metro station like Epping), Stanmore, Windsor and Richmond. We also have Woodford and Blackheath a little further out in the Blue Mountains, and Waterloo metro station opening in 2024!

@aaravyadav3748

Жыл бұрын

Yay. Transport vlog

@rodcampbell8231

Жыл бұрын

I can see a Paul Geoff collab in the future

@sydnorth5868

Жыл бұрын

And also Regents Park (although rather annoyingly without the apostrophe).

@TransportVlog

Жыл бұрын

@@sydnorth5868 Aaah yes, I missed that one!

@rodcampbell8231

Жыл бұрын

Pity about Geoff's pronunciation of Melbourne 😀

I can confirm that, around the corner beyond the bridge, TfL has installed a back-to-back train arrestor setup at the end of their rails to facilitate the Epping Glade heritage station 😄

I actually used Blake Hall Station (Ongar extension) several times back in the 1970's as it served Britain's oldest wooden church which looks incredible.

@thomasburke2683

Жыл бұрын

Stuart Hall, Now you can call yourself Stuart Blake Hall. One Monday morning about 1979, I spoke to the staff member at Blake Hall, expressing my simple view of it being quiet, the quietest on LT. Not at all, I was corrected, he had sold fourteen tickets that morning. I didn't like to ask how many were weekly tickets. The location was, probably still is, romantically rural.

Your presenting is so professional. It feels like a TV documentary.

@zachmakesstuff9866

Жыл бұрын

It’s a surprise no tv network has contacted him to produce a London transport documentary

Every time Geoff said “End of the line” I started humming the Travelling Wilburys song. Also looking at the copyright notice at the end of the video I’ve only just noticed how strangely satisfying the year 2022 is in Roman numerals with it being MMXXII.

Hi Geoff, British Rail owned the track and maintained it till 1971. A friend of mine, held the last BR residential staff pass from Loughton, as he joined prior to 1971.

So excited for the end of the Waterloo and City line!!

@reptongeek

Жыл бұрын

I'm excited for Heathrow Terminal 5's video. That will be a short one!

@iiExplosionz12

Жыл бұрын

Same! Also looking forward to that one 😅😂

@stevevasta

Жыл бұрын

But which end? 🤔

@pb4rton

Жыл бұрын

And Kensington Olympia!

@dickoon

Жыл бұрын

Damn. If you hadn't made that joke, I was about to... :D

I was a signalman at Epping in 64/65 the car park was at that time a goods yard and on night shift nearly always had a diesel dropping off and picking up truck’s before heading off to Ongar. In those days it wasn’t a particularly busy signal box plenty of time for hobbies. Happy days.

Another great video, I know Epping station well as I grew up in nearby Loughton and would often go for rides to Ongar when I was a boy. I can just remember the 1923 stock, which later ended up on the Isle of Wight, when I was very small but mostly it was the 1962 stock I travelled in most of the time. There was something delightfully incongruous being on a tube train meant for deep-level lines in central London but here instead bouncing through Epping Forest and woods and fields and stopping in the middle-of-nowhere at Blake Hall station. Epping station is delightful and when the Epping Ongar heritage line is in operation, there is a very real air of the past with RT, RTL and RF buses working their way between the station at North Weald station to provide a link to the heritage line. One thing you didn't mention, however, is that while Epping town centre is only five minutes from the station, it is a very steep climb for those with reduced mobility but there are, thankfully, buses between the two for those of us who can no longer face the climb. Kind regards, David, Crouch End, London N8

As a Harlow resident, I’m glad you pointed out the dilemma we have with two ways of travelling into London. It’s also worth noting the two waiting rooms which are almost never used, since every day apart from Sundays there’s always at least one train in the station at any time.

@ajs41

Жыл бұрын

It was slightly annoying when they got rid of the 8:55am train. I was using it for the Tube Challenge.

@Liam_

Жыл бұрын

That waiting room is perfect on cold winter days in the late evenings. Sometimes there’s a 10-15 minute gap near the end of service, so it’s much better to be in a heated waiting room than a cold miserable platform.

@DavidKnowles0

Жыл бұрын

@@Liam_ Don't they lock the doors like they do at Leytonstone?

@Liam_

Жыл бұрын

@@DavidKnowles0 sometimes, particularly post-covid. But most of the time they seem to be open right until the station closes

@zeristor

Жыл бұрын

Apart from when there isn’t a train, and there’s no canopy to shelter under.

I love the new series!

@reggytwobit

Жыл бұрын

What are you doing here? Xd

@kjriwoutube

Жыл бұрын

Do it in Canada 🇨🇦

Amersham station's car park has about twice the number of spaces as Epping's (over 1000). But as it council owned and run, rather than LU owned/NCP run, it never figures in these stats. Even before the recent expansion, it was slightly bigger than Epping's.

@kabsonline1

Жыл бұрын

Interesting as well that the TFL website does say Amersham station has a car park which would in theory would make it the biggest car park according to the TFL website even if not owned by them.

@PlanetoftheDeaf

Жыл бұрын

I suppose because Amersham also has Chiltern Railway services, not all the passengers will be for the LU service either.

Hi Geoff, was a pleasure meeting you outside the pub yesterday post half marathon! Hope your legs are not in too much pain this morning and thank you for the selfie!

These episodes never fail to make me smile and you're doing a great job

@paulseoighemcgee5772

Жыл бұрын

Hear hear !

Fun fact. Sydney's Epping was also an end of the line from 2009-2018 as part of the Epping - Chatswood rail extension. Prior to this from opening it was always a thru station on the T9/ Main Northern line, but became one end point to the T1 North Shore line. In 2018 the line was closed and converted to Metro standard along with the extension to Tallawong.

@rggummybear

Жыл бұрын

Epping in Melbourne used to be the end of its line, before it was extended to South Morang in 2012, and later Mernda.

came here last summer for a walk around the town, had a great day

If I go on holiday in London, you have now given me a new location to visit, the Epping Ongar Railway, cheers.

The opening of the train doors in the final shot Geoff were perfectly timed.

Frank Pick has his own KZread channel. Who'd ever have thought that would happen?

Cracking video, Mr Pick! 👍🏻

When I started learning English as a child growing up in Germany, the textbook centered around folks who lived in Epping. Less than a year later, I moved to a different place in Germany. The grammar school I went to after the move was in a town called Eppingen. And Epping was their sister city. That school used the same English textbook.

I love Epping! I love you Geoff✊🏾💜🥰

This popped up literally as I was coming into Epping station. Epping, New South Wales.

Good to see Epping Station again. I was a trainee booking clerk there in 1970. I'm glad I took the opportunity one day to take the Ongar shuttle. I've never been back to Epping or Ongar since but I must check out the heritage railway if I get the chance.

This Frank Pick guy is a lot more animated than I expected.

When I started working for Network Rail, way back in 2007, I first became aware of how distances are measured on the network, and some of the peculiarities of them. One of the strangest on my area was the Days Road Siding in Bristol. A short siding that ran from the line between Temple Meads and Filton and used for refuse trains and formerly linked to the docks. Most distances in the area were set from Paddington, but this one siding had a datum in Derby. Why? It hadn’t always been a siding. It used to be a branch of the midland railway route between Birmingham and Bath which was long since truncated to Westerleigh Oil Terminal. When it was connected to the former Great Western network to continue serving the docks, it kept its original, now long since severed, mileage datum.

I lived in Theydon Bois and went to school in Epping so went through that station twice a day for 5 years between 1972 to 1977. I was very lucky as my older brother was a central line train driver and sometimes we got to look in the cab between Theydon and Epping stations, but I will deny that if asked lol. He also drove the Epping to Ongar line.

Just got back from doing this end of the line Journey! Third one we've completed. Was a lovely day out, nice market in the high street, walk through the forest, and great lunch at a little Turkish spot. Have to pick an End of the Line for the next holiday.

We used Epping as a 'Park and ride' for our visit to the Paralympics back in 2012. Great facility! Thanks for sharing Geoff.

Jay uploaded, then Geoff! loved the little cameos

This series makes me want to do a tour of the end-of-line stations here on our own Singapore’s MRT network. There’s a certain quality to terminal stations, wherever they are, and they definitely deserve more appreciation.

@PrograError

Жыл бұрын

tbh there's nothing much to it, even on the tuas west extension (other than it's the nearest to the checkpoint to malaysia but there's no foot entry to the checkpoint as policy.)

@shawnli4746

Жыл бұрын

They are all quite busy other than woodlands north, tuas link and marina South pier

@EonityLuna

Жыл бұрын

@@shawnli4746 Tuas Link definitely has that quiet ambience. I should visit that station and the area around it more often when I need some quiet away time.

@emjackson2289

Жыл бұрын

Newcastle Airport on T&W Metro is so hugely disappointing (and expensive given its one stop away from Callerton PW but in a different fare zone). St James' is HUGE when empty most times but not that big when NUFC are at home at SJP (or events on). South Shields is "tidy" with handy semi-integrated bus station under it (platform elevated). This is the newest termini having moved about 100mtr further West from the old station. South Hylton feels like it's in the countryside even though its just off the A19 & about 10km from Sunderland City centre.

@DSQueenie

Жыл бұрын

Please do. I’d watch.

Hi Geoff, Interesting video that, I have a friend, a former main line Driver like myself, who works trains on the Ongar line and another who drives Classic LT buses over there on certain classic transport rallies. I trust you are now fully recovered from your challenge with Jen on the move, that was also an enjoyable watch. Thanks for all you do, Jon B.

2:50 Hooray! That’s my local station! Still use Epping to get into London often though since it’s cheaper. Always loved Epping station, and despite the fact I’ve been here more times than I can count, I still learned new stuff about it in this video. Amazing!

This was Epic-ping good video Frank Pick... Sorry meant to say Geoff. Love how you managed to use some unused footage for this video at Ongar as well. Also they run a Heritage bus to the Epping Ognar Railway as well.

I do love this series. As a kid I'd do the same thing here in Alberta on both our metro systems in Edmonton and Calgary. It was my Grandma that always took me to station/extension openings because she was a huge railfan herself and I still do the same thing with my mom even if she's not nearly as interested in it as we were... On a side note, I'm still surprised that TFL hasn't reabsorbed the old Epping Ongar railway back into its portfolio or even extended it to North Weald Station since it has an old RAF base/airport within walking distance and an active 6000' runway that is large enough to accommodate A220-300's on it if they so chose. Seems like a natural fit to either expand services out of this airport OR demolish it for the housing estate that was planned 10-15 years ago... As a transport fan, I'd say make it into a London City-esque Airport with flights to Canada, but that's just me... Since Alberta and Ontario taxpayers along with Kuwait own LCY aka London City Airport I say we build and operate a second one with more expanded offerings to British North America!

this was uploaded at the perfect time because i just came from the jay foreman video lol

@fluffymitten

Жыл бұрын

same here!

You are one of the best in terms of framing shots and doing artistic angles.

Hello from Melbourne Australia

I have driven the Epping Ongar railway. Driving a BR Class 25 locomotive and rake of coaches, for my 50th birthday treat. So you could say I have driven to the end of the line!

Hi Geoff. Just watched Jay’s video on the tube map. You did absolutely amazing there! Some scenes killed me. Keep on!

This is a really fun and informative series!! Really enjoying them Geoff.

Really looking forward to the Heathrow Terminal 5 Video!

Good to see L11 up close, the other end stars in the live cam feed (on KZread) from Epping Signal Cabin!

@eppingmuseum6259

Жыл бұрын

The cabin is part of Epping Museum, which is open every Saturday 10 til 4:30pm. Come and have a look round inside it.

I recon that yellow loco is much older then 1964...the epping-ongar branch was fantastic to work on in the summer..a pretty magical little line. Imagine being the station master of Blake hall station in the 1930s-40s..difficult to think of a better job.

Awesome new video from frank pick 😂

Great series! Thanks for the mention of the Eppings down-under. "Our" Epping in Melbourne used to be the End of the Line from 1964 up until the line was (re)extended in 2012.

@THjelm

Жыл бұрын

I remember that! I lived there in 1999 and I remember there was an "Epping/Hurstbridge" line.

Interesting tidbit for you about the Epping station in Melbourne (pronounced Melbun by us locals), Epping station was opened, then closed. Rebuilt the other side of the road, and then moved again a few hundred metres, before being rebuilt underground, closer to the original position.

@DavidJones-kn9zb

Жыл бұрын

YES Geoff did not quite get the pronunciation of Melbourne quite right but I have heard worse attempts. I grew up in Reservoir which is about 4 stations south of Epping. Your history re Epping station is spot on.

@agreencow565

Жыл бұрын

@@DavidJones-kn9zb At least to his credit it wasn’t as bad as some of the attempts by people from the USA. 🤣

Hi Great program. Also I grew up on the Epping line in Melbourne. Epping was the end of the line for many years before this line was extended to South Morang and then to Mernda.

Great video as always Geoff. Just to let you know the FP the white marker post near the points, stands for 'Fouling Point.' It's where there is not enough clearance for two trains to pass safely.

I'm in the middle of watching, well almost 2 minutes... that post in the switch says "FP" for Fouling Point. It's not the indicator of MP 0.0, at least not right there in the center of a crossover. I really enjoy your videos and this current new series. Thank you Geoff.

BTW I love your acting in Jay Foreman's Tube Map video. You emote like no one else.

Geoff, the 0.o point is actually at the buffer stops at the end of the head shunt at Ongar, that is the actual end of the line. The post with "FP" on it is a "Fouling Point" marker. Rolling stock doesn't pass this point, this allows the loco to be uncoupled, move into the head shunt, then run around the train without "fouling" it. Just thought I'd let you know.

If you're old like me and live in Essex, you may well have used Epping station during the rail strikes of the '70s. I did and changed trains onto the Ongar shuttle. I seem to remember that the destination screen at Holborn had a position for direct trains to Ongar but didn't manage to ever see such a train.

One of your very best Geoff.

Really interesting,thanks for this

The “FP” sign shown is a “fouling point”, which means that the coaches on the train cannot pass it. This is because the loco may not be able to clear the coaches when running around. The 0.0 marker is actually where the buffers are. I’m a volunteer at the EOR in case anyone asks. Great video, I hope you visit the EOR again some time.

@fetchstixRHD

Жыл бұрын

Aren't the Underground distances metric as well (in kilometres, rather than miles and chains)?

@AnythingOnRails

Жыл бұрын

@@fetchstixRHD yes they are. Which makes the EOR unique in having km posts rather than mile posts unlike most heritage railways.

Brings back memories- think 1981 when I was student in Reading. Go train to Ealing Broadway then tube to Epping. The Epping Ongar service operated in the evening. Did the branch and back to to Reading. The Ongar train was a shuttle so you crossedthe footbridge at Epping.

The Melbourne Epping station was my local station from 1999 to 2012, when they extended the line closer to where I lived at the time.

Loving this series. I often squint up at a TfL map opposite my tube seat and wonder about these places.

Ah, this brought back some distant memories - as a teen I used to work Saturdays over the road from Ongar station, and did make the journey all the way into Central London on the line a couple of times.

Loving watching your videos. Great information.👍😊🇮🇪🇬🇧

The issue of (far) cheaper fares vs Greater Anglia from Harlow and further afield means the car park is often full by 7:30am and most of the town’s residential streets are a giant residents-only parking zone. Busy extends to weekends as well due to the many WHU, Spurs and even Orient fans out here, plus Westfield.

Hey. Its Frank Picks alias. The great Geoff Marshall. 🏆☕️

Thanks for mentioning a thing that fascinates me about the London Underground, is that it's run on lines, which used to be mainline. From somebody from Moscow that sounds unbelievable, since every line is newly built. It's also that some station's feel incredibly rural.

Really like the plan map illustrating the exits - would love more of these although I expect they're time consuming to make

It would be great to see Geoff do a future series visiting all the London Underground namesake stations in Australia. He could cover a fair percentage of the Tube Map across the various systems.

@DanielHowarth00

Жыл бұрын

Too many to do just here in Sydney... But I'd like to see it too

This is my local station, one thing I’ve wondered how many other TfL stations don’t have any canopy. Ideally it being a terminus there’s always a train waiting, but quite often one is bereft of train due to issues. This leads to people crowding around the entrance for shelter. Indeed in rush hour it can take several minutes for people to exit from a train, then a second arrives. Having both exits open is a huge help.

Was impressed that you mentioned the other Epping stations in Aus! Interestingly enough Epping station on the Melbourne "metro" also used to be the end of the line until the 2010s!

It's that Frank Pick fellow Jay Foreman was rambling on and on about.

Geoff you rocked in jay’s video

I can't wait for the Waterloo & City line episode.

I love watching your videos Geoff, they always put a smile on my face everytime you post a new video. I also know a lot about trains and i love riding on them as they make a persons day from bad to good and everytime I have a bad day then they make my day so much better. Keep up the good work.

Great video, I've been watching this station on Railcam for some time now but have never visited. After watching your excellent and informative presentation I shall be heading eastbound. BTW I really like e that clock on the church.

Epping marvellous!

I grew up with South Woodford as my local station and always liked this end of the Central Line. Only went to Epping station once but liked the station and it's a really nice town. Loving this series already Geoff!

I really must explore the "other end" of the Central line, as I used to frequent Ruislip Gardens, and often wondered how the whole trip would be like...Top video, Geoff

Thanks so very much much, Geoff, for all you do. You make everything interesting. I watch from Hudson, NY.

This series of videos is awesome, exactly what I wanted

There’s a great walk from Chingford station to Epping through Epping Forest - recommended!

I've never needed a youtube video more than this. I've just come home, tomorrow will be a hard day, and so will the next days, and I just need to enjoy this last few hours of sanity. Thank you Geoff.

Being a pedant, past Geoff forgot that distances on London Underground are measured in kilometres and metres, rather than the miles and chains that most of the National Rail network uses. (Exceptions being HS1, HS2, and the Crossrail Central Operating Section, which are all in metric units.)

Yes Epping was the terminus on the Melbourne system for many years until around 2010 when it was extended to South Morang and later Mernda both parts of the former Whittlesea line a diesel service that closed in the 1950s. When it was a terminus I remember paddocks but now suburbia has caught up to it. Also at Epping is an electric car maintenance depot.

Good theme and with all sorts of travel destination possibilities. Thank you.

I grew up in Loughton. (Well, I SAY I grew up) so I know this from 60 years ago, wandering around the forest, In Theydon Bois, next down the line, there was a beekeeper - a German pilot shot down, POW, who just stayed. Good vid, thanksd

Excellent that...Geoff. very informative.

It’s so nice to see a new episode in the Series!

Your videos always make my day Geoff, thanks mate.

TfL have done all they can to prevent the EOR connecting at Epping. The Ongar branch was closed after some fantastic logic from LUL (at the time). The cut down the trains to 3 a day each way, then, lo and behold, they closed the branch as the numbers were down! Pilot Developments bought the line and were supposed to run a regular service (it was Glenda Jackson as part of Blair's government) - they never did and asset stripped the land to build houses.

I'm so glad you started this series. I was on the tube to Hillingdon a couple of weeks ago and was thinking I really need to explore the edges, and now I definitely will be.

@eppingmuseum6259

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget to pop down the car park at Epping and take a look around (www.eppingmuseum.com). Open Saturdays.

Great series! Thanks!