3:22 you know it was bad when at the turn of the century they were concerned with it being unsafe 😂

Definitely a video on Reno and his escalators straight and spiralled

I find it interesting that early Tube stations used lifts before switching to escalators, but nowadays we know we need both to keep the stations accessible and free-flowing.

@denisoleary5302

3 жыл бұрын

Escalatore were introduced to get people moving faster ie walking up and down the Escalater not to stand on. You will never see me standing on an Escalator unless I am carrying a heavy bag, and I am 72.

0:42 If you're here for Yerkes Bingo, drink the first shot now 1:21 Second shot

Never clicked that fast on a video. Had a crappy day, need relaxing content and Jago is here to cover that. Thank you.

That green stone around the ticker booths is lovely. I would do my bathrooms in that if I were rich.

@bigblue6917

3 жыл бұрын

There is a pub in Hull with that brickwork. It was originally called the Humber Dock Tavern. Then some genius changed its name to the Green Bricks and finally back to the Humber Tavern again.

@sarac.3259

3 жыл бұрын

Yes - I don't really have a reason to visit that area, but it is tempting to go just to look at the ticket hall which is gorgeous.

@davidwelch6796

3 жыл бұрын

Presumably you are part of a very large family if you need to obtain a ticket to use the bathroom.

@OofusTwillip

3 жыл бұрын

Ptolemy Jones You might find similar tiles at an architectural salvage shop. These companies sell reclaimed materials from demolished old buildings: tiles, doors, windows, masonry, fixtures...

@sarac.3259

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidwelch6796 The way things are going with our teenager doing her hair in the bathroom mirror, we may have to start a ticketing system.

When Charles Tyson Yerkes makes an early appearance you know the video is going to be good!

I had never heard of the spiral escalator but have actually wondered why no one had invented one. Well, thanks to you, now I know someone had.

@highpath4776

3 жыл бұрын

where where the handrails. Were not the access to Brunels Thames Tunnel spiral roads ?

@hairyairey

3 жыл бұрын

I doubt it would be safe, very difficult to keep the tension correct to stop people losing toes and feet.

@thomasburke2683

3 жыл бұрын

It is preserved by the London transport museum, at least the parts are, nobody knows how to assemble it, or how it works.

@hairyairey

3 жыл бұрын

@@thomasburke2683 I imagine they are a maintenance nightmare as the pressure on each side of the step is different. Unlike a normal escalator. If there is a gap for any reason people lose toes or feet. Like this one www.expertinstitute.com/resources/case-studies/woman-loses-toe-in-retail-store-escalator-accident/. Seen so many of these now online I think I'll take the stairs instead!

@TalesOfWar

2 жыл бұрын

They exist, used in some malls/shopping centres but you really need a lot more space to maintain them properly.

Spiral Escalator sounds like a prog rock group. Didn't they support Pumpkin Overdrive at the Albert Hall in '74?

@warren_r

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't Pumpkin Overdrive that short-lived band that consisted of past members of Probably and King Camel?

@NothingHereButMe

3 жыл бұрын

@@warren_r yeah, it was James Wilson played keys for King Camel after leaving Russia

@stephenbrasher

3 жыл бұрын

There was a US band called Spiral Starecase whose best known 45 was "More Today than Yesterday". Definitely not prog though!

@Tevildo

3 жыл бұрын

Not Chocolate Meringue Narthex?

@teecefamilykent

3 жыл бұрын

No that was automatic dial!

I would like to see a video on the escalator guy. At the mall in Caesars Palace in Vegas, there are curved escalators, and I always look at them very puzzled, trying to figure out how that works. Also, when the mechanical stairs broke down, the situation quickly escalated out of control.

@raakone

3 жыл бұрын

Mitsubishi is the only company to have perfected spiral escalators, they have then in Vegas, and San Fransisco, and in many places in Asia.

@svenblubber5448

2 жыл бұрын

I had a professor at university who had been contracted to design a sprial escalator to be installed in an arab oil billionaires Boeing 747... Seems like people through the years have always wanted spiral escalators, so there has to be some good reason why they are not widely available....

@darylcheshire1618

Жыл бұрын

“The Spiral Escalator” a title for a murder thriller at a tube station?

Worth a trip just to admire the beautiful original tiling.

Football, our heroes Green and Yerkies and some new guy from Kansas named Reno. I'm intrigued by this new guy; definitely do a video on him.

@highpath4776

3 жыл бұрын

I knew a girl from Reno called Kansas

Whenever I see a new Jago video my brain delivers me one word: YERKES

@sianwarwick633

Жыл бұрын

Yerkes was a jerkes

Another gem from JagoHazard. Beyond the obvious interesting story of spiral escalators etc., I'm always interested in the architectural details in the stations themselves, including the now-defunct company names written in tiles etc. on the buildings and on the platforms. Thank you.

I like to sing the name of this station to the tune of 'Holiday Road' from the National Lampoon's Vacation soundtrack

@ZGryphon

2 жыл бұрын

Well, now that's going to be stuck in my head all night.

"…will take a video in irrelevant direction…”??? Jago , there is no ‘irrelevant direction’ where you could take us, please do not hesitate… I am more and more often inclined to request LONGER videos but I at the moment suffer by rewatching your old material… And yes, we want Reno video and video about anything else… Story of history of production of green leafy ticket hall tiles? Count me in!

It's amazing to see how much has changed around there since I was a driver at Holloway bus garage in the late 80s early 90s... Great vid as usual....

Tickets for those exiting used to be collected and verified by a ticket collector who had a little cubicle as one entered the lift. The small tobacconist/sweet shop built into the facade used to be called Finlays - common to many stations at least until the ‘70s.

I love your videos on individual stations - it really opens your eyes on what's out there. Thank you 👏

Half the time I listen out for the “you are my x to my y” at the end. Brilliant everytime

@JagoHazzard

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I've probably been there, on vacation some decades back, the day I went looking for the place where Joe Meek made some great pop songs in his flat

Possibly the trial spiral escalator turned out to be more like a fairground ride, with the test persons staggering off at the top and reeling onto the Holloway Road.

I like the painted arch at the point where the train emerges at the station. Somehow it looks like the train is coming out of a.... ummm..... tunnel. I mean a ‘real’ tunnel, a proper railway tunnel, not just emerging from a piece of underground pipe.

If we aren't going to resurrect the spiral escalator, at least bring back the paternoster.

I love how the station building remains when all around it has long since been razed and replaced 🤓 That Reno chap does sound interesting so I can only assume he will get the full Jago treatment at some stage which is something to look forward to 😀 Excellent stuffs ever, cheers 🍻🍀👍

"Ne'er-do-well transport tycoon" 😆 I hope you never run out of epithets for our favourite scoundrel.

You have a very good eye for detail.

A Reno video sounds like a great idea. Perhaps one where people get together to repair and refurbish one of his escalators, it would be a Reno reno video. I'll get my coat.

I used the station for several years in the 70's when the lift had an operator - I knew about the spiral escalator and through a gap somewhere thought I could see some old bits of machinery, maybe I was right.

There are spiral escalators in Las Vegas and San Francisco now. Maybe they should have used that money for the other elevator and step-free access.

@neilstapley1101

3 жыл бұрын

Or taken a recon trip to Vegas and put the £5M on red

@johnm2012

3 жыл бұрын

The modern Mitsubishi "spiral" escalators introduced in the mid 1980s are really just curved escalators, with each section turning through, at most, 180° and being complete as an operational unit. Where several floors need to be linked several pairs (one up, one down) of curved units are installed which, when viewed from a distance look like an intricate double helix. That's no mean engineering feat in itself but doesn't really compare with Reno's design. When the Mitsubishi's treads disappear into the floor at the bottom of the travel, they are returned to the top via the underside of the unit, just as they are in a straight escalator. At Holloway Road the treads returning to the top formed the upward bound escalator, coaxial with the downward escalator. In other words, both the up and the down escalators were a single unit in the form of a double helix, with one continuous set of treads. They disappeared below the floor at the top and bottom landings, continued under the floor for a further half turn in the same plane and re-emerged to carry passengers in the opposite direction. Now that is impressive. It's a pity it wasn't a success. William Henry Aston's contribution was the flexible chain links at 3:37.

@the_9ent

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnm2012 🤯 wow

@cheesedoff-with4410

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnm2012 There must be an animation or model of this. Well I hope there is....

@johnm2012

3 жыл бұрын

@@cheesedoff-with4410 There was a plan to restore some of the parts they found and create a museum exhibit. There must be patent information too. A couple of scary things I found out about it is that the mechanism was driven by a vertical drive shaft running the full height of the lift shaft in which it was installed, with gears driving horizontal spindles, which drove the chain connecting the treads. It seems the treads were not in the form of steps but formed a sloping moving surface, so imagine someone near the top losing their footing! I'm not sure what provision was made for a handrail. It would at best be a fixed one. The synchronous moving handrail came later.

Yerkes, Yerkes, Yerkes - he seems to have been everywhere back in the day (and not in a good way) Bit of a Jerkes? 😉

@RogersRamblings

3 жыл бұрын

Without Yerkes, the London underground would probably be very different from what it is now, which may or may not be a good thing.

@highpath4776

3 жыл бұрын

@@RogersRamblings It would have been JP Morgan and would Pick and Ashcroft still have been engaged ?

Great video matey,interesting and informative.

Arsenal, Holloway Road and Caledonian Road stations were amongst the last to have tungsten bulb lighting on the platform. It was much easier on the Motorman's eyes when emerging from the tunnel. But, the health and safety bods didn't think about that when they insisted on the garish fluorescent strip lights. Although I passed through Holloway Road more times than I care to think about, it's one of the few stations I've never alighted at.

@ianmcclavin

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I remember the platforms looking a lot dingier with the old lighting. Same with Chalk Farm, Belsize Park and Hampstead on the Northern Line.

@RogersRamblings

3 жыл бұрын

@@ianmcclavin I prefer "subdued" but each to his own. 😂

They should rename Holloway Road as "Arsenal' and the old Arsenal back to Gillespie Road. Then in 60 years time Jago and Geoff Marshall will be able to make a video about the name changes.

@johnmurray8428

3 жыл бұрын

Just change Ars***l back to Gillespie Road!

@denisoleary5302

3 жыл бұрын

Why not name it Woolwich, or Gypsyland?

@hairyairey

3 жыл бұрын

Just rename it to "Holloway and Islington" - the same for the football club. The fact it still has a name reflecting a location it is no longer in is ridiculous!

@ianmcclavin

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely not rename Holloway Road to Arsenal!! There'd be near riots if the train still passed through without stopping for crowd control reasons!! (I don't know what Jago looks like, but the thought of him and Geoff still doing these in their 90's and 100's intrigues me!)

@annother3350

3 жыл бұрын

John - did you just censor Arsenal?!

I'd love a spiral escalator but given I walk with a cane I'm generally in favour of anything that saves me back and ankle pain. 😂

Quick comment taking note of Jago’s top notch card-work in this vid to his extensive back catalogue!

Was my local station in 1984 lived in Bryantwood Road near the new stadium. My pub was called the " Favourite" in Queensland Road but they flattened it to make the stadium. Never knew about the spiral escalator at Holloway Rd. Fascinating as always Jago 😎🙌

Possibly the best six minutes worth we've had from the old boy.

Your channel keeps going from strength to strength and I’ve learned so much from the videos! I’ve started my own a few days ago - just train videos - I don’t have the charisma to do what you do! But thanks for the content which is both educational and enjoyable!

Any time I walk past or come to this station I always have to listen to 'Bush - Personal Holloway', Gav Rossdale wrote the song about walking up and down the street from Archway station to Islington/Highbury. The song really captures the mood of the place in the mid-90s. Great video as always, Jago.

That Art Nouveau interior! The wood! The tiles! Magnificent! 🖖

@englishciderlover7347

3 жыл бұрын

It's art nouveau.

@barrydysert2974

3 жыл бұрын

@@englishciderlover7347 thank you.

Another very interesting video. Thanks.

Sidebar to this great content - talk about upgrade! Just watching from my phone but the audio difference is very pleasant to hear - makes for a happy Jago based on your plans for various upgrades at the end of your other videos! Awesome to hear 👏🏾

I don't know how I missed this vid. Most uplifting.

It was at this station my mother worked in the mid 1970's. I well remember the lift (singular) as my mum, seated in a wooden box, would wait for the passengers to emerge from said lift to check their tickets. As a twelve year old I would spend much time in the staff mess room waiting for my mother to finish her shift; and then on for some shopping. (I'm not sure whether the station had an SM as it was a rather small and cramped station).

Nice one! Really enjoyed that. From the (what seems to be) only surviving photograph of the Reno spiral, it might have been unfinished, but looks absolutely terrifying, with the tiny treads, no handrail, and people brushing past going in the opposite direction. Couple that with the length of Edwardian ladies skirts, and its not hard to imagine the whole thing becoming a vertical mincing machine almost from the off.

A video about Reno could be titled "Reno's Rises and Twists"

@mkendallpk4321

3 жыл бұрын

How about "Reno's Spiraling Failure to Escalate." Uplifting isn't it.

i recall being in a mall in San Fransico where they had a curved escalator, as opposed to a spiral. Thet then, looked an amazing feat of engineering, so to have made, and have working, a spiral one, deserves great credit. as for over 100 years ago, fair play indeed!

I fondly remember this station being my daily commute station as I stayed in nearby airbnb when I visited London in 2017.

I worked at Holloway Road Station many times. As the Supervisor, I had to do station checks, which included in the disused area. The spiral escalator shaft is still there although most of the equipment has been removed. It is a very shallow station with only 96 steps, making it quicker to use the steps than the lift.

@sianwarwick633

Жыл бұрын

I do think, as you are person who worked on the Underground, that there should be extra recognition for your comment, something like a LT roundel which appears next to your identifying handle

1:45 -- That embossed vitrified tiling tho! From an age that believed even the hoi-polloi deserved a little bit of taste and elegance in their daily commute.

@chrisstephens6673

3 жыл бұрын

Something for them to aspire to, poor dears.

@highpath4776

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisstephens6673 I prefer holdens brick or portland stone. The terracotta of the Central Line stations is interesting

@chrisstephens6673

3 жыл бұрын

@@highpath4776 there is something very reassuring about Holden, still seen as modern but without being brutal.

Yes!🎉🎉🎉 I've been waiting sooo long for you to do this... The spiral escalator story 🤩👍

Safety concerns in 1902? The spiral escalator must have been very unsafe!😂😂 Another gem, please keep them coming

Thanks for another informative video. I didn't live far away but I tended to use Archway at the top of Holloway Road which didn't seem to have too many problems with capacity.

My local station! I clicked like before I watched it, thanks Jago!!

Thank you, I really wanted this episode :)

Watch JH before almost everything else. Another interesting one. Thank you.

Brilliant as usual 👍

I recall one of the main reasons for the Spiral escalator being taken out of service was that it broke on its first day in service. IIRC There are still remnants you are able to see when you go down the stairs to the platforms. I recall seeing something like that as a child as I grew up in Holloway so I was in that station a lot

Once again sir, bravo, bravo!

Thank you, yet another goody. l can imagine ascending a spiral escalator, finally flailing arms & legs akimbo into the street & stumbling headlong straight into a lamp post !

0.38 - It’s ‘im with the moustache again 😉😂

I never cease to be amazed by your knowledge and research into the archives of the London Underground. Is there a book planned to accompany this great series?

Thanks, a great video with more interesting facts, it looks like it had a very narrow walkway, personally I think they didn't use it in case it spiraled out of control.... Drew

Excellent content

I like this new style of talking. Much better and the wow and flutter is hardly noticable.

I had lived at Highbury for 35 years, thankfully know more after 2020. I have seen every inch of that station, all the closed off parts, the second lift shaft, and what was left the moving staircase, the original staircase to from the platforms, plus the disused out staircase to the closed doors to the left of the main entrance from the spiral stairway which was the emergency one, shaft two is behind the grills on the passage between the lifts and stairs to platforms. I remember the original ticket windows being open at ground floor level, the London Transport ticket man in box checking tickets and station describers on the platform.

The first patent for an escalator was filed in 1859 by a man called Nathan Ames , though there is no record of one ever installed

That was very interesting, thank you.

Twice, I stayed at a friend's relative's house at around 1990-91 who just happened to live in a street off Holloway Road, and this station is where we started our daily trips from. I remember that ticket office well, as well as the distinctive exterior by the bridge and the tall building next door, but I didn't know it had the unique spiral escalator, or at least the remains of one. I feel like I've used a historical building many times.

Looking forward to the escalator spin off. Shame they didn't get around to adopt the idea,

You forgot to mention just down the road number 304 , home and tragic ending for sound genius and independent recording producer Joe Meek who wrote and recorded Telstar .

Excellent stuff. I wonder how many more epithets for future videos you can think of to describe Yerkes? Doing well so far!

I’m partial to the Paternoster.

@jasongomez5344

3 жыл бұрын

Had one of those at my building at Sheffield University. Only one still working in the country I believe.

Wow, I find the idea of a spiral escalator as awesome, would so love to see one. When I was stationed in Germany I found a non-stop elevator that was quite interesting, it looped over at the the top and under at the bottom, and had no doors. It was, of course, in an office building, where there would be no children, who would certainly hurt themselves on it, but I found it very interesting.

@davethenerd1369

3 жыл бұрын

For work, I was sent to Siemens in Berlin who had one of these installed. Timing your entry or exit was fun but the locals who used it every day seemed quite happy. One wag stayed on at the ground floor descending then reappeared on the "up" side standing on his head. Who said Germans don't have a sense of humour?

@PtolemyJones

3 жыл бұрын

@@davethenerd1369 What fun! This one was in Stuttgart, in apparently a very famous building. I guess Eisenhower might have used it as his headquarters for awhile. It was quite impressive.

@raye402

3 жыл бұрын

St Thomas “s Hospital Lambeth has a “Paternoster Lift “ continually running with no doors in a loop - for staff use only !!

@collinhunter9792

3 жыл бұрын

@@raye402 yes ray, a paternoster. always found them amazing, but wondered how they survived due to osh/ heath n safety stuff

@Tevildo

3 жыл бұрын

This makes me wonder - has a man-engine (reciprocating paternoster) ever been used for public altitude adjustment?

Jago... whatever you want to talk about, friend. You're always digging up interesting facts about quirky and not so quirky stuff... go for it. I'm subscribed!

I just read in an article a passing mention about the first spiral escalator being built in Holloway Road. Thinking either Jago or Geoff had made an episode on this topic I did a quick search and was not disappointed! :D

Seeing the Emirates and the station from a train on the ECML is when I know I’m finally in London

@Tevildo

3 жыл бұрын

I would say Alexandra Palace is the subjective boundary. For this ignorant Northerner, there's the long, slow, rural gap which makes one realize that Hatfield is not, in fact, in London, so one is inclined to give Potter's Bar the benefit of the doubt.

Arsenal station is only a 2 - 3 minute walk from Emirates Stadium, so it's still most probably the busiest matchday station. You walk past it to get to Finsbury Park!

I'm trying to work out how the spiral steps get back to the bottom and it's blown my mind! Definitely more about Mr Reno please.

Very interesting thank you.

I would just love to have a go on a spiral escalator! Such a shame it isn't still there.

@rjjcms1

3 жыл бұрын

It's something I would have loved to try out at least once,like the wobbly Millennium Bridge.

@AtheistOrphan

3 жыл бұрын

Try Caesar’s Palace in Vegas, they’ve got one there.

There was/is a spiral escalator in San Francisco. It's been a few years since I was there so but I believe it was/is at the Westfield San Francisco Centre if memory serves me correct.

There’s so much to say about the actual building itself, unused rooms, what’s behind the gate and the lack of cleaning in the platforms…

Are the brass railings at the ticket windows intended to help you stay upright when you hear the cost of your journey?

@AtheistOrphan

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I wondered about them.

Yes, please! More on Reno, please, sounds fascinating.

Thanks Jago 👍

interesting and informative!

Can't wait for the spiraly things in the future

I read that the figure from Arsenal was £7.6million, which of course is still not enough. Arsenal also agree to finance improvements to Drayton Park Great Northern station, the closest station to the stadium and they didn't do that either. Drayton Park is closed on matchday, despite the platforms essentially being underneath parts of the stadium.

Interesting. If you ever find more info about that helical escalator, particularly diagrams of how it works I'd love to see them.

The spiral escalater? Who was the in"spiral"ation behind it?

Reno spiraled this episode to a whole new level!

I would think in the past 15 years ive got on & off more at Holloway Road making my way upto the Coronet pub which is an old cinema as you know i use to go every 6 week to meet up with my 'Joe Meek' record producer friends. And as you all know Joe had his Studio and flat at 304 and the Telstar plaque is still there. A few years ago myself and one of Joe's leading girl singers Glenda Collins sat outside on the bench reminiscing about music and the singers that walked into 304 from John Leyton to Screaming Lord Sutch with a bit Richie Blackmore & Chas Hodges from Mike Berry's Outlaws thrown in. happy days from The 'Telstar' era Marc In Bletchley Towers G6XEG

Fascinating, great idea that is a shame was never followed up.

By the by, Drayton Park is even closer to the Emirates than Holloway Road. Easily reached from Moorgate, on the 'Drain' (Great Northern) ;)

@josephkerrigan3978

3 жыл бұрын

But has a woefully inadequate ticket hall and a narrow staircase down to a single island platform. When the Emirates opened, British Transport Police advised that it be closed whenever there is a midweek match on - it's not open at weekends.

My local station .. good job 👍👍

Well now I am going in circles. Wait. Spirals. Anyway good work Jago. Excuse me now as I need to lay down after watching this spiraling video.

I saw the design plans for the spiral escalator at the TfL museum - complex stuff. Not a bad idea but it needed more safety provisions!

It's that man again ! - Oh and Yerkes makes an appearance.