Quote of the Day: “There’s a sort of understated grandeur to it. It’s like it’s trying to impress passengers but at the same time, it knows it’s not Paddington.”

I would have liked to see Gloucester Road make the list. It's spectacularly cavernous, and the art installations are always worth a look.

@Wahhhhhh735

6 ай бұрын

And the fact that the maps have always pretended you can’t change between Piccadilly and District/Circle line trains, when you can, albeit via a lot of stairs of a slow and ageing lift

@paleonard1979

6 ай бұрын

Gloucester Road is my favourite. I just love the two very different frontages.

@TheUluxian

6 ай бұрын

Gloucester ranks high on my list, as well

@benfoley8174

6 ай бұрын

@@Wahhhhhh735It’s not that many.

@smvwees

6 ай бұрын

@@Wahhhhhh735 That is the advantage of smartphones today, they show to hop over at streetlevel or midlevel.

Choosing lesser known stations as part of your list is a great idea! And it's a mix of different architectural styles and locales. It's brilliant!

@peabody1976

6 ай бұрын

I also hope you'll do a top ten Overground list as well, Jago.

@cv990a4

6 ай бұрын

Chorus: which is your favourite Underground station? Jago: I love all my children equally!

The excellent Art Deco interior of Gants Hill has always stood out above others.

Westminster is my favorite. The amazing concrete and steel architecture, with the near maze like escalators. I just love it!

@bertspeggly4428

6 ай бұрын

I used to go to Westminster sometimes in the fifties, as my dad's work was nearby. It was a gloomy black hole in the ground. Pity they did it up, it was much more interesting then!

When I worked in London, Baker Street was the station closest to my work so that’s one of my favourites as well. Special mention should be made for Canary Wharf out of the modern stations - it’s like a cathedral to mass transit!

I feel that honourable mention should have gone to Baron's Court. The street level station building is lovely, and the platforms have those church pew like benches on which the station nameplate is affixed. I like the Art Deco loveliness of East Finchley and find its present uncared look quite depressing.

@Brokout

5 ай бұрын

Baron’s Court is a beautiful station!

My favourite Underground station used to be Embankment before the wooden escalators were ripped out and replaced with metal ones. It had a unique combination of warren-like passages, escalators at all angles and - my absolute favourite - the completely bonkers tiny wooden footbridge passing over (IIRC) another escalator.

@meijiturtle3814

6 ай бұрын

Horrible station to use though, particularly when interchanging in the rush hour.

@comicus01

6 ай бұрын

Wooden escalators are a huge safety hazard. I'd be curious to see them, but just as a curiosity. I'm glad they've upgraded all the old escalators.

@paradisehotel5005

6 ай бұрын

Wooden escalators were removed for a good reason.

@brucegoatly

6 ай бұрын

@@paradisehotel5005I realize that - I just really enjoyed the old layout of the station.

@MrJimheeren

6 ай бұрын

Wooden escalators are a huge fire hazard. Kings Cross was almost lost because of those bloody things

I’m going to show some love for Canary Wharf, beautiful. Modern classic. Plus a shout out to Canning Town, where the canopy for the Jubilee line is actually the DLR. Love the engineering.

My top 10 would be: 10. Mile End 9. Canary Wharf 8. Wimbledon 7. Covent Garden 6. Roding Valley 5. Gants Hill 4. Earl's Court 3. Westminster 2. Uxbridge 1. Baker Street Some are because of architecture, some for their quaintness, and some are because of memories, but I love all of them.

Baker Street and Earls Court have the feel of a medium size mainline station, but the stations on the Jubilee line Extension have a sci-fi grandeur to them, but then the smaller stations on the Bakerloo line beyond Paddington are rather charming. Those at least would be my choices.

@jackmartinleith

6 ай бұрын

"the smaller stations on the Bakerloo line beyond Paddington" Such as Maida Vale.

Leytonstone is a nice station. It's a kind of mix between East End stations and a modernist/industrialist style. The mosaics celebrating Alfred Hitchcock in the subway connecting Church Lane and Grove Greek Road A106 just top it off; as well as two bus stations, one floating above the A12!

Glad to see Uxbridge get a mention, Jago. I also rather like the "small country station" feel of Ruislip.

I like Richmond, not so much for the station itself but for where it is. A charming village type setting with the delights of Kew Gardens and secondhand book shops.

@RafaquaQuetta

6 ай бұрын

Albeit nothing at second hand prices🤴

@mdhazeldine

6 ай бұрын

Kew Gardens is also nice, with it's pub on the platform.

@sianwarwick633

5 ай бұрын

Monstrous traffic, close to river, avoid weekends

It’s been a while since I went to London and I’m hoping I’ve got this right (please someone correct me if I’m wrong!) but as a tourist who hasn’t seen many stations, my favourite was Holborn because it has portraits of Tudor Queens on the walls and I’m a massive Tudor history nerd. For some reason I’m also fond of Covent Garden even though I kinda hate it. Sadly it’s unlikely I’ll see these stations again in person. I’m disabled now and these old stations are not accessible. Thank goodness for this channel so I can still see them on film.

Jago will hate me for this, but I love Bank station, just because it has survived despite everything that has been thrown at it. And it's some sort of perverse joy to see people getting utterly lost trying to get out of it to the place they want to get to 😂

@CleoPinto4317

6 ай бұрын

if you like confuiing stations, edgware road is the station fro you.

@clickrick

6 ай бұрын

@@CleoPinto4317 Station singular?

Kew Gardens station is a station I have always liked due to its compactness and quaintness and also being in a part of London which to me feels like a escape from fast paced modern London.

@stuartajc8141

6 ай бұрын

And a pub

@davidsummer8631

6 ай бұрын

More next to the station rather than in the station it unlike Sloane Square which had the privilege on having a pub on the platform @@stuartajc8141

I quite like Russell Square, Everything about it feels very original and pure Leslie Green. I also love the staircase and tiles and of course all the old signs.

@watchmakersp9935

6 ай бұрын

one of my favourites.

@jimmyhillschin9987

6 ай бұрын

Good call. The area too still evokes Old London, or at least it did last time I was there.

@ashleyjiscool

6 ай бұрын

I would put Russel square In place of Southgate (Southgate is 11 for me)

@watchmakersp9935

6 ай бұрын

agreed. Southgate is only really unique because of its roof but Russel Square which i use at least twice weekly is so traditional in many places (and i love the little platform signals) and long mayit continue.@@ashleyjiscool

@ashleyjiscool

6 ай бұрын

@@watchmakersp9935 I agree, Russel Square is a beautiful station: building to platforms. Southgate is also nice but Russel square is better but people don’t give it enough love

Kew Gardens is my favourite. I love how its still quite built up, yet full of plants. It feels a bit rural, but really isn't. A shame you can't go between platforms while within the station bounds though.

@thejailbreaker8675

6 ай бұрын

Kew Gardens is also my fav. Its really quite peaceful, quiet, and pretty.

@notbubu

6 ай бұрын

And it's got a pub in the station, which is always a bonus.

@simplesimon2802

6 ай бұрын

but this is a mainline station - at one time served by five different railway companies - London & Southwestern (who built the route & station), Metropolitan, Great Western, North London and District. Nowadays only the last two still run trains through here.

Can I ask if anyone remembers Tooting Bec in the 60s and 70s? On the road that runs down toward the Common was a model train shop, you could put a coin in a slot on the window ledge and a little mode train would run around said window. Probably the closest I have ever been to total happiness.

@alfamelba

6 ай бұрын

If I recall correctly, Pages of Barkingside model shop had a similar arrangement- great memories of going there with my dad

@stevetnorm

6 ай бұрын

Bec models it was called. Everything from trains to model kits to Scalextric. Used to think the bloke who owned it was a right miserable sod but when I got a bit older I found out he was a very nice man. I bought a 'Mainline' limeted edition Royal scot engine from him back in probably 1982-83 with my birthday money. Cost me about £30 back then..... Its still in its box and untouched. Recently valued at over £1200 so very happy I listened to his advice all those years ago. @@alfamelba

Westminster is my fave station.... its so futuristic. I imagine it would be amazing to draw. I was surprised that Turnpike Lane didn't make the list. Baker Street is truly stunning. Southgate reminds me of 'Googie' architecture, like something fromt eh Jetsons, so ahead of its time

@Zveebo

6 ай бұрын

I love Westminster too - it’s so atmospheric and really does make you feel like you’re in some sort of sci-fi future. Possibly a slightly dystopian one, but still.

@paulketchupwitheverything767

6 ай бұрын

Agreed. Westminster for me too. It's slightly brutalist with all the concrete and pipes within it but I feel quite tranquil when I'm there. It makes me think of images from Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

@iankemp1131

6 ай бұрын

Interesting comparison with those included by Simon Jenkins in Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations; Canary Wharf, Southwark, Westminster, Baker Street, Gants Hill and Southgate; a definite taste for the modern.

@TfL1901

6 ай бұрын

@@iankemp1131 oooh I forgot Southwark, another station I like

@TfL1901

6 ай бұрын

@@Zveebo yes!! I could imagine it in a futuristic game

My favourite station is Leytonstone and that is mainly because of the Alfred Hitchcock mural

Yes! Wholeheartedly agree about Maida Vale. I rarely have reason to go to there, but I like to anyway because it's just so cute - it's nice to pop over there on a quiet afternoon just for the aesthetic, then get a bit of cake at the bakery across the road. It's also the first station to have captured my imagination so much I had to immortalise it in watercolour (though now I have the Painting Tube Stations Bug and am compiling a shortlist for more, whoops)

@acoustictourist

6 ай бұрын

I’d love to see your work. Is any of it online?

@SamiKelsh

6 ай бұрын

@@acoustictourist yeah, thanks! I'm the same username in all the normal places :)

my favourite 2 are Baker Street and Uxbridge, so I am glad they both got a mention!

@chrisstephens6673

6 ай бұрын

I like the smoke vents at BakerStreet, very atmospheric.

South Kensington was always a favourite of mine (I haven't been to London for a number of years now). Mainly because it reminds me of my annual day trip to London with my dad in the 1950s, which always included a visit to the Science Museum. And more recently I've always appreciated the huge difference in style between the District and the Metropolitan buildings! "Yes, we are forced to collaborate, but we still really hate each other"!

@manekdubash5022

6 ай бұрын

Yes, same here with the annual trip to the museums, the anticipatory walk along the long corridor and finally arriving at the museum. Etched in memory from over 50 years ago...

I loved Bank back in ‘97-‘98. I know you probably think I’m bonkers for it, but I loved the endlessness of its passages.

@sianwarwick633

5 ай бұрын

Were there any 'improvements' being built at the time ? Being able to find yhe train was always a joy

I like the modern Westmister station on the Jubilee line. I always find riding those escalators up very impressive.

For me it would be as follow: 1 Camden town, 2 Baker Street, 3 Piccadilly circus, 4 Moorgate,5 Canada water, 6 Mile end, 7 Acton Town, 8 Bank, 9 Kennington, 10 Westminster

A fine selection of stations. My personal favourite is Westminster; a fine example of modern engineering and a good enough piece of modern art to qualify for a Turner prize. Last time I was there I went up and down the escalators twice just to enjoy the view.

@RWTWM

6 ай бұрын

My personal favourite too. It's got a very assertive style. I think it's probably let down on this list by the street level, that seems to be a big part of the ranking.

For me: - Deep level, Russell Square. Busy enough to be interesting and useful, quiet enough to be chill and creepy. Also bonus Brunswick centre - Sub surface, Great Portland Street. Similar to Russell Square in being both busy and quiet. - Interchange between both, Gloucester Road. Feels like a combination of the two above - Above ground, Hammersmith Met. Feels like a rural market town terminus. Honourable mentions to St James’s Park, Southgate, Gants Hill, Cockfosters, Clapham Common, Woodside Park and Temple.

Hard to narrow it down, but St. John’s Wood is a beauty.

East Ham always top of the list for me. 1 - The station building is a beautiful bit of brickwork, and contrasts wonderfully with the neighbouring buildings. 2 - It feels like you're in a different country when I'm in East Ham buying my mithai or going with my Indian girlfriend to get Diwali stuff. Get back to the tube station and suddenly it's like a sense of home. 3 - I'm a West Ham fan so there's that too.

@unclem7816

6 ай бұрын

Irons!

@mattbaker3569

6 ай бұрын

⚒️🛠️

@user-xh3lz9xt4l

6 ай бұрын

Sounds good to me COYI. or Upminster Bridge

@davidnicholls5528

6 ай бұрын

Glad you mentioned this station. I can remember when it had a bay for trains departing round the East Ham loop onto what is now known as the Goblin line. That bay was filled in and made a station garden.

@paulhaynes8045

6 ай бұрын

As regards the Mighty Hammers - my favourite station was West Ham. Always fun on the train to UP to watch bewildered away fans getting off there!

I quite like the Farringdon station building and the new Elizabeth line entrance. The interior of Swiss Cottage is pretty good too, with similar Art Deco uplighters to Southgate. However, it's let down by a non-descript entrance.

A very good top ten. I fancy I might include Temple in mine for being relatively small and quiet despite being in central London. It's somehow a bit out of the way, which helps. Clapham South I also like, but Clapham Common may just be better.

I'm going to nominate Bounds Green. Partly because it's a nice unspoiled (if modest) example of the Holden/Pick style, partly because it never seems to get a mention anywhere else, and partly because it was our local tube station until we moved away, when I was six, to an area which had no underground service whatever (and still doesn't).

St John's Wood. The uplights on the escalator are classic - and a nice little Beatles cafe.

My favourite stations are for personal memorial rather than architectural merit. Baker Street is one of my favourites because it was my first trip on the Tube at 5 years old. It was strange going down the wooden escalator to the Bakerloo platforms, and the rush of air as the red train roared in. Of recently visited stations, I really liked Putney Bridge for its setting and the wood panelled waiting room.

Yes, most enjoyable. Good selection. I like some of the features that appear here and there. Uplighters, domes, strange flagpolish roundals, and those Southern Northern Line island stations. (Scary A.F. most of the time). The historic bits from the steam age past are always a good find. But for me, cant get better than Baker Street.

@rjjcms1

6 ай бұрын

I must admit this video particularly makes me want to spend some time poking round Baker Street looking at all those unique features.

This is exactly the kind of randomly boringly amazingly brilliant type of thing you do which keeps me coming back for more

For stations worldwide, I love how Museum station on the Toronto subway as they have columns referencing a different part of history, like Forbidden City columns, Parthenon columns, Osiris columns, Toltec columns, and even Pacific Northwest-style columns! The Tashkent Metro does an exceptional job honoring Uzbek history, from the Silk Road to the empires that once ruled over it. Each station tells a story. Some look like ballrooms with huge chandeliers hanging from the ceiling while others look like a film set from a science fiction movie. For the DC Metro, the flashing lights on the platform whenever a train arrives, the hexagonal tiles, the waffle-style concrete vault Brutalism, it was built as a showcase system, and it shows. On the MTR Disneyland Resort Line in Hong Kong, the cute Mickey train acts like a time machine transporting people from the futuristic Sunny Bay station to the magical world of HK Disneyland at Victorian-themed Disneyland station. And of course the Pyongyang Metro artwork is incredible too. At Yonggwang (Glory) station, its chandeliers represent the fireworks that celebrated the Koreans' victory, and the pillars are sculpted in the shape of victory torches. At Kwangbok (Liberation) station, there are murals showing scenes of the forest from which Kim Il-sung led guerrilla anti-Japanese attacks

Glad to see Chesham at least made your runner-up list as it’s my favourite.

Very very good indeed. Could we have a top 10 least favourite please, in the same format? Thanks in advance!

I'm a fan of Canary Wharf... Its neo-futuristic monumentalism run amok! I also love that it's a pop culture figure now figuring in dozens of film and TV shows that are somehow never set at Canary Wharf...

@stickynorth

6 ай бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Wharf_tube_station

@iankemp1131

6 ай бұрын

Simon Jenkins agreed with you in Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations; the tube stations he included were Canary Wharf, Southwark, Westminster, Baker Street, Gants Hill and Southgate; a definite taste for the modern.

You may laugh at me for this. As an American who spent quite a bit of time in London a few decades ago, I always liked Bank Station. "Mind the Gap" still rings in my ears.

Uxbridge and Baker Street were my gateways to London in the early 80's as a teenager. I loved the spotting trips and shopping trips when I can a quid or two available.

I like Loughton - combines the rural feel of those Epping branch stations with some Art Deco grandeur. And another vote for Canary Wharf - it still feels slightly surprising to get off a tube train and find yourself in an over the top sci-fi film set. But yes, Maida Vale is an absolute delight.

@wibblewabblewoo6249

6 ай бұрын

Both of these stations came to mind for my top 3…!

Nice list. When my dad was a kid Maida Vale was his local station and his aunt used to make him wear little white gloves when he went on the tube in case he encountered “the great unwashed” If it was my list I definitely would have had a JLE station on there - Southwalk or Westminster for me.

My favourite tube station is Farringdon. For the reasons you listed, plus it has architectural features from the victorians to present contemporary styles. Plus it's a great interchange, and slightly expanding, area! Great list, I can see why you put Madia Vale there though!

Why when I read the title, did I expect Alan "Fluff" Freeman to count them down 10 to 1? "Straight in a number 8 it's Bank, down 3 at 5 it's Elephant and Castle, in at number 2, it's that cheeky fella, Cockfosters".... Good grief, I'm getting old. Thanks, once again, for the vid.

@Bigaitch

6 ай бұрын

Reading your post, I can actually hear 'Fluff' Freeman saying it...😂

3:31 One of my favourites, too. After a few hours in Hammersmith and/or Fulham, when it comes to picking a tube station to start my journey home, I'd rather pick the Hammersmith you picked. Not the crowds of the other one, but a quieter, less crowded station. And a terminus, so no frantic getting on a train that's already crowded, but a calm stroll along the platform onto the empty train that's already there.

Great list Jago. I had relatives who lived in Perivale and I was fascinated by the pinging of the wires as the train was arriving. I only experienced this at night, as I was on my way home, and so I don't know if it happened during the day. Oh, and I'm only presuming it was a noise produced by wires, it could be something else. Whatever it was, it sounded like experimental music to my ears.

If we're gonna talk about our favorite stations, as the subway system I'm used to is the NYC Subway, one of my favorite NYC stations is 81st Street-Museum of Natural History because of the tilework! When the station was renovated in the 1990s in coordination with building the new planetarium, the Rose Center for Earth and Space, a program of tile mosaics was undertaken, covering the stairs and platforms, extending to floor inlays. Stairwells evoke descents into the geological strata of the Earth (at 81st Street) or into the Ocean (79th Street) and many creatures were added! Fossil casts also emerge from the tiles of the platform as though the subway platform itself were an excavation! Another artwork I like is Hive by Leo Villareal at Bleecker Street. It's a LED installation formed to create an outline of a honeycomb and it's appropriate for a transfer corridor as straphangers frenetically change trains at rush hour like so many busily buzzing bees. Coney Island-Stillwell Ave station is a cool station because of how massive the canopy is! It's covered in nearly 3,000 solar panels! Another station I like is Smith-Ninth Streets station because when it opened, it was once the highest rapid transit station in the world at over 26 m above street level, so the views are nice!

I don't know why but I really like Chiswick Park, theres just something about it at night, with its towering illuminated look, the platforms are not much to look at but walking towards and into the building it sort of reminds me of watching the film Metropolis.

My favourites are Barons Court - which I think is a stunning, and Caledonian Road, which is also pretty great. It's always going to be hard to choose though.

Look forward to your Top Five Tanks at Bovington Tank Museum!

The island platforms used to terrify me on visits to London as a child.

I lived fairly close to Maida Vale, but tended to use Warwick Avenue or Paddington instead. But a lovely station it most certainly is. Personally I would have had Southgate higher on the list as it's just brilliant. Excellent video as yours always are, thanks.

Could you make this an annual video? Something in December to look forward too. Jago’s top ten Underground Stations of the year!

I notice that, for whatever reason, no office block type building was ever plonked on the top of Maida Vale station, although it is clear from the footage that this was intended by the architect/developer. This can be seen from the low flat roof, and the indents in the brickwork of the neighboring building.

Interesting choices. I know its been ‘modernised’ but the old Hammersmith Piccadilly/District station was superb and my no.1!

I was pleasantly surprised to see my old local station Holland Park, make it on to the list😊

The variety within the Tube, as exemplified by this video, never ceases to amaze me.

I used Maida vale station for the first time a couple of days before you posted this video and agree it's an absolute gem.

Love the sneaky nos canister at 7:15

@shrikelet

6 ай бұрын

"Oi! Who's doin' nangs under the monogramme?"

@gwarns5921

6 ай бұрын

"Hoon away from the yellow line please"@@shrikelet

I can feel a trip to London coming on to do a ‘pilgrimage’ of all these stations with this video playing in my ear to fully immerse myself in it and feel it. Perhaps a book is called for and push it to your top 20 or calendars of the top 12 even?

Tooting Broadway was the first I ever used but Tooting Bec is my favourite as it was the stop for Bec Models

Another fascinating and informative presentation. I'm so pleased that UXBRIDGE appeared in the program even though it didn't make your Top 10 although as you say it's your choice for whatever reason and I for one respect that. Oh... The reason for Uxbridge is that I was born there and spent a happy childhood in and around the town centre many years ago, so long in fact that I used to travel into London on the old Metropolitan stock with the oval front windows !... Thank You and keep up the good work, you are my sherbet dab to nostalgia !!!

Southgate looks like an UFO in disguise. You could imagine it coming to life and taking off. 😁 The floor in the Hammersmith Station on the Hammersmith and City line, has a similar floor in its concourse to Brent Cross, like a Queen Anne house entrance hall. I love the little alleyway between the Metropolitan line platforms and the Circle/ District / Hammersmith and City platforms, at Baker Street Station, plus the shopping area upstairs. All architectural oddities are always a favourite, for example the tunnel gaps where you can see the platforms on the other side, either from a train or the opposite platform, odd staircases, internal foot bridges that are totally underground, roundel concourses, interesting tiles on walls, odd rail barriers and gates in corridors, any surviving or properly preserved features, old ghost stations you can see on any line, outside features like the sign on the roundabout at Queensbury, etc, etc. I simply cannot come up with a top ten.

Glad to see Gants Hill in there. My favourite? Possibly Aldgate where you can see so much history all around. Plus, if you sit on the platform at quiet times you can see trains on the nearby |District Line in the distance. But, like you Jago, if you ask me again next week I'll probably go for Warwick Road, or Maida Vale?

"Sorry Chesham, you got done over good and proper!" :D

Excellent episode! (east end of Central Line, I'd have included Loughton)

"it knows its not Paddington" genius!!! Again. 😂

I have a soft spot for West Kensington, which was once the smaller of my two local stations. Little tucked-away place on the edge of Central London that the District Line managed to keep all to itself.

My favourite in no particular order: Mill Hill East - for its historical significance. Being the the only part of the Northern Hights development that got any use. Woodside Park - Very, very pretty trackside. Lots of loverly planters Hainault - When standing track-side you get a distinct impression that the tracks are floating, separate from its surroundings

Really interesting choices, thanks, and interesting that a faux Leslie Green creation was the victor. My own favourite might well have been Cockfosters, in part because of the Holden architecture but also because as a child I was taken on many forays into London which began at that station. Playing in my head during your countdown was “At the Sign of the Swingin' Cymbal.” Rather Philistine I suppose, and anyway copyright would have been a difficulty . .

Hammersmith is also home to a very famous bench from a certain TV programme (or was, the original sadly isn't there anymore)

Maida Vale is definitely on my list of favourite stations. I like all your others, I’ll put together a Top 10 once I’ve completed my upcoming project “Every Oyster Station , in alphabetical order “ . One of the modern stations I like is Westminster, it’s the first “modern “ and feels almost like a steel cathedral. Anyway, a very enjoyable run through your top ten . Cheers JH .

My favourite is Upminster ❤❤ It can access the district and c2c trains and can connect to the Elizabeth lines

Osterley? Just because for many years all my journeys started there. Glad you mentioned Earls Court. The heritage elements and all . Thanks again Jago

@iankemp1131

6 ай бұрын

Osterley is a rather nice station anyway with its interesting tower.

Seeing Perivale at number 8 when I live literally 5 seconds away from it has made my day 🥹🥹

i like mile end jump off the district straight on the central if they pull in the same time u jump on the central line without waiting gotta love that aint yea

Brillant list! Even if the specific stations vary in everyone's personal lists, I think we can all respect the variety you've aimed for. The only stations missing would be one of the Leslie Green stations (Picadilly line especially), as they are truly iconic and formative, and one of the JLE stations (namely Westminster or Canary Wharf, but any of the ones under ground). Personally, despite being very different, both JLE and Picc have some of my favourite stations, and I'd probably include them above Holland Park (I find the Central London Railway stations nice, if not a bit bland at platform level.). Still, there's alot of quality architectural variety on the tube, it's hard to be too picky!

@iankemp1131

6 ай бұрын

Interesting comparison with those included by Simon Jenkins in Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations; Canary Wharf, Southwark, Westminster, Baker Street, Gants Hill and Southgate; a definite taste for the modern.

Southgate also has beautiful Copper/Brass Escalators as well as matching Uplighters.

Only been to a few of these but I now love them. Great choices. As always simply love your channel. All the best.

Hurray for Jago Hazzard. A real nerd of London’s underground. Put a smile on your face instead of doom and gloom around the world. We need more people like him!

Quite a nice list, with a few overlappings with my favorites. Today's catchphrase guess: "You are the Leslie Green's and Charles Holden's to my station favorites."

I always get confused when hearing of Baker Street as being the 'first ever tube station'. Surely at least one other station opened at the same time, otherwise where would you take a train from Baker Street to?

@CarolineFord1

6 ай бұрын

the one that opened a few minutes later?

A parumblators tour,of both the interior and exterior of the Underground! The world at track level is one thing,and the stations above really contrasts the ambience of of any Railway! Thank you,Jago,another tour d'force! Thank you 😇 😊 💓!

Im glad that Baker Street was fairly high in.the ranking as I well remember seeing the steam locomotive Metropolitan No. 1 and the electric locomotive "Sarah Siddons" top and tailing the 150th anniversary trains back in 2013. I don't think I will EVER quite be able to top the sight, heat. smell and incredible experience of those journeys through and the steam remaining all around and then just as quickly as it apoeared, the steam vents did their job. The beautifully presented brickwork backdrop of the Victorian station just framed it all perfectly. Absolutely amazing. I have never been to Maida Vale, but whilst your number 2 contender, would have been.my number one, it does look a very nice station and of course, this is YOUR list of favourites and not mine. Excellent Jago as per usual.

Never really thought about how well Holland Park station is, considering I travelled there for school, but I gotta say it does bring back good memories! Good ol' Holland Park station

Thanks for making these videos Jago :)

a couple of other commenters have already brought up gloucester road, and I'd have to agree. very spacious, nice ticket hall, I love the brickwork, and the lighting has always felt really nice for some reason. normally, cool lighting doesn't work for me but here it all just licks. plus the art exhibits are great.

As a fan of Norman Foster and former user of Metro Bilbao, my favourite tube station has to be Canary Wharf.

My favourite station would be Farringdon (incl. station building) because SO MANY TRAINS to everywhere, but I follow your logic, Jago - it isn't (only) a "Tube station". I would be nominating GLOUCESTER ROAD (District Line) as my favourite, because it's in the middle of town and used to be open to the sky, but now that the real estate sharks have had their way with it, I'm having to nominate EDGWARE ROAD District, Circle and Metropolitan Line station, again, central, open to the sky, spaciously higgledy-piggledy and used to host my favourite R-Stock, Q-Stock and D-Stock trains.

Thank you for giving my station (Chesham) an honourable mention 😊

My top 10: 1. Kew Gardens - small, quiet, nice scenery, the latter of which I kind of associate with southwest London and the District Line as a whole, imo the most underrated station on the network 2. Acton Town - once again, very quiet, got some scenery, near to my favourite TfL-related place (Acton Depot) 3. Maida Vale - who just cannot love this station?! 4. Canary Wharf - love the massive roundels, the secret film screen, the very modern look to the station 5. Charing Cross - stunning artwork on the platforms, that's what really makes a it top 5 worthy station 6. Gunnersbury, gunnersbury, gunnersbury (those who have heard the song A-Z of the underground will know what I meant) - If we have Acton Town and Kew Gardens in the top 10 then we should include Gunnersbury as well, I'm all for the scenery. 7. Richmond - same with Richmond as well 8. Greenford - just because of that really cool incline lift 9. Chswick Park - what I said about Richmond and Gunnersbury 10. Edgware - really like the station because you can see the bit where they were going to start building the Northern Heights Honourable mentions: North Greenwich London Bridge Upminster

I suspect a fun game would be visiting these in order....might be my next weekend plan. I think my favourite overall is probably Moorgate. The original building though now boxed in is lovely. And the old platforms and roundels are nice touches.

I was always impressed by Northfields station building and slightly jealous as I lived in South Ealing which had a Wooden shack to start with!

Kings Cross looks much nicer now it has been 'done up'. Nonetheless it still plays second fiddle to the cathedral that is St. Pancras.

Glad to see one of my working group stations in your top three, love working there. Hope to see you filming sometime