Calling a railway line stupid and useless was the least offensive thing an Englishman could say in the days of yore.

Any long rambling diversion that ends up leading to Charles Yerkes is a diversion worth taking. 😁

@cv990a4

6 ай бұрын

All yarns lead to Yerkes. Jago needs some Yerkes merch.

@mirzaahmed6589

6 ай бұрын

Charles Tyson Yerkes. The middle name is essential.

@neilyoungman9814

6 ай бұрын

Yerkes. Hmm. Now where have I heard that name?

@disphoto

6 ай бұрын

As per usual, Jago maligns Yerkes with an ad hominem attack and then goes on to tell all the wonderful things Yerkes did, such as building nice stations, fixing up poor stations, extending failed lines, driving the electrification of the underground, and helping to unify the lines. Seems rather ungrateful if you ask me. To be fair, he seems to malign all the business people who got the underground built in the first place. What would Jago do if there were no Yerkes?

@jayray4327

6 ай бұрын

It is funny how, in Hazzardland, Charles Tyson Yerkes started out as an archvillain and has ended up as an anti-hero - the former bad guy rescuing rail companies in distress. Sort of reminiscent of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Terminator series. PS - sign me up for a Charles Tyson Yerkes t-shirt.

In the spirit of the season...... Charles Tyson Yerkes has bought the railway! OH NO HE HASN'T! OH YES HE HAS!

Very interesting indeed. As a very young architect, I worked on the refurbishment of the station and the replacement of the lifts in 1983. Against much opposition, we made exceptional effort to retain the original Edwardian detail, and largely succeeded.

@highpath4776

6 ай бұрын

was there a thought that "modernisation" should mean contemporary styling - I guess the Jubillee extension tiling was the current style cue. Where the Bakerloo (ironically?) met the Victoria the Victoria re-wrote the platform styles in its own image

@iankemp1131

6 ай бұрын

Bravo!

04:07 "It transpired that Wright had been selling shares between his own companies to artificially inflate their prices." I'm so glad we no longer live in these lawless times! Our modern business men, particularly all the upstanding billionaires who have made their billions through hard work only, would not dream of doing such a thing!

@stevegreen8262

6 ай бұрын

you'll note that when he was found out, he took the only honourable way out. People don' t seem to be so honourable these days, shame.

This is why I follow Jago. Lesser used stations and the backstory.

@LeafHuntress

6 ай бұрын

If we're talking least used stations i want a Geoff.

@martinjude66

6 ай бұрын

Jago Lesser? Wasn't he in Endeavour 🤔

@Boabywankenobi

6 ай бұрын

@@LeafHuntress no I want Geoff for current and future......jago is infinitely better for the history, I say that as a fan of both.

@teecefamilykent

6 ай бұрын

He's a great youtuber is JH!

This reminds me of the story of Piața Romană station. Piața Romană or Roman Square station is on Line M2 of the Bucharest Metro. But like Regent's Park, it wasn't supposed to be built, but it was anyway. The Bucharest Metro was first opened for service in November 1979 under the approval of Nicolae Ceaușescu. The second metro line, Line M2, was in the works and plans that were drawn up for the line were shown to Nicolae’s wife Elena Ceaușescu in 1985. When she saw Piața Romană planned as a location for a station, she complained that the working class and students were starting to "gain weight" and "needed to walk more", so the Communist Party ordered it not to be built. To put things into perspective about Elena, she was known for her farfetched theories. She pretended to be a scientist. She forced several actual scientists to write papers in her name so she could graduate. So despite the party's order, they secretly built it. Because of this, the platforms are somewhat asymmetrical, very narrow (less than 1.5 m wide) and the waiting area is in a corridor separated by thick walls from the platforms in order to sustain the station's structure. While trains ran past without stopping for about a year, thousands of residents reportedly wrote to petition for a station, which was opened in November 1988.

Very fond memories of using this station in the early noughties when contracting in New Cavendish Street. Not being a fan of commuting, being able to take the Bakerloo to a quiet stop and then a nice walk passed some very grand Regency buildings is the perfect way to start and end the working day.

@highpath4776

6 ай бұрын

yes, handy if you live in the North to avoid the Melee of Oxford Circus

@bertspeggly4428

6 ай бұрын

@@highpath4776 I used to walk to Regent's Park from my work in Carnaby Street, get a train to Warwick Avenue, (another lightly used station) and then walk home to Ladbroke Grove. As you say, anything to avoid the horrors of Oxford Street!

@highpath4776

6 ай бұрын

@@bertspeggly4428 I wonder if folk will work out on nice days Old Oak Common - walk to Willesden Junction, then Regents Park walk Oxford Circus (or Bond Street) is a nicer way of geting to central london?

I remember when Regents Park Station was closed for several months a few years ago. The onboard announcements and slow moving service through the closed platform was the most attention it ever had.

You’re starting to inspire me to make history videos on Irish stations.

@CarolineFord1

6 ай бұрын

I know the feeling. I feel influenced!

@TheGunnarRoxen

6 ай бұрын

Please do. I, for one, would be interested to learn about Irish stations in a way similar to Jago's awesome videos.

@jamesbutler6253

6 ай бұрын

Would you start with the DART?

@joshuaW5621

6 ай бұрын

@@jamesbutler6253 not quite. I’m starting with the Harcourt Street line in a few days.

Proving what a backwater this station is, I once got stuck in the lift which stopped about one metre above the lower level. After a good 20 minutes of pressing the alarm button and no one working at the station coming to help me and my travelling companion, I decided to force open the doors and squeeze through the small gap between the lift and the lower level.

I'd love to see platform artworks at Regent's Park Station, showing scenes in and around the park itself

A very well-preserved station, especially the bottle-green tiling. Intrigued when googling Whitaker Wright to learn about his doomed underwater ballroom in Godalming - material for a future episode....?

@highpath4776

6 ай бұрын

we need one of them for Strictly vs Pro-Celbrity Water Polo on ITV1

@JagoHazzard

6 ай бұрын

There actually is a video on this channel that talks about it. Quite an old one though.

@highpath4776

6 ай бұрын

@@JagoHazzard I remember WW (though had forgotten him in the context of Bakerloo for this vid) but dont recall the specifics of Godalming Ballrooms (Did you visit Godalming - you should, SWR train station and nearby Hollycombe collection for a day out.

@Titan604

6 ай бұрын

@@highpath4776 As long as the horses don't drown!

I remember those old staff operated lifts 🛗 at Regent’s Park, Goodge Street and Aldwych. The operator at Aldwych explained the lift was installed in 1920, refurbished 1954. They represented London’s late Victorian /Edwardian atmosphere, like a Sherlock Holmes novel

@GiselleBel

6 ай бұрын

I think Gloucester Road along had staff operated lifts. I remember having to use them in the early 1980s for the few days I stayed nearby. I found the ride in those lifts quite a frightening experience. Lots of people crammed in for each ride, the mechanical shutter gate that the operator pulled across, ugh, I didn't like them at all.

I have fond memories of Regents Park. I used to go and visit my new girlfriend (who later became my wife) almost every day, who was studying at International Student House just down the road. It feels like a bit of a blast from the past riding on the old bouncy 72 stock and getting off at a lovely old station with green tiling. It was never that busy, which I quite liked.

My Christmas is now complete! Yerkes is back, baby, and he's raring to go!

According to DiamondGeezer it is the least used station in Zone 1 with lambeth North in second but that was back in June 2023

Fascinating! I grew up in Chicago, and have been reading about Charles Tyson Yerkes for years. He was just as unscrupulous in Chicago as he was in London, just younger. My favorite Yerkes story is how the University of Chicago got him to make a donation. Charity was, not surprisingly, not his thing. So, the president of the University announced they were going to name a new building after him, even without a donation. I suppose he realized that the negative press that would follow that would be too much even for him--so he made the donation. If you like Yerkes, we have someone cut from the same cloth in America now. His name is Donald Trump. We'd love to relocate him to London, too. Interested?

@roboftherock

6 ай бұрын

Not on your life, thank you very much. NO!

@iankemp1131

6 ай бұрын

Only if he pays for and builds 3 new tube lines and stays out of politics (though I doubt he'd have the same success here as on t'other side of the pond)

@rikkichunn8856

6 ай бұрын

@@iankemp1131 But would London really want a tube line named the Trump Line? 😉

If this is the second least used tube station in zone 1, what’s the first?! (I’d guess either the Bakerloo Edgware Road, Borough, Queensway, Lambeth North or Bayswater)

@okaythisisepic6196

6 ай бұрын

I was wondering that as well. I found the usage statistics published by TfL for 2022 and from that it looks like Regent's Park is actually number 1 with 2,207,000 taps. Lambeth North is number 2 with 2,567,000

@okaythisisepic6196

6 ай бұрын

I did some more digging, and on the Wikipedia page for Regent's Park tube it states that it is the second least-used station in zone 1, behind Lambeth North. I suspect that this is what Jago is referencing. However, that claim is based on the usage data from 2015. As of 2022, Regent's Park has in fact surpassed Lambeth North as the least-used station in zone 1

@1258-Eckhart

6 ай бұрын

Because the Bakerloo Line only goes north, whereas all other lines have both north and south, or east and west feeder stations. The Bakerloo needs extending to Lewisham, then the central stations will be better used.

@andrewrevans8496

6 ай бұрын

Borough and Queensway seem reasonably busy. Bayswater is a lot quieter than the almost adjacent Queensway. Bakerloo ER and Lambeth North are good shouts. The latter is handy for the Imperial War Museum but otherwise that area still feels very quiet compared to so much of the South Bank these days.

@martyonline1957

6 ай бұрын

that's answered my question then

Fact-filled rambling is always a pleasant detour/diversion....even if "That Man" gets another mention. :-)) Perhaps the landowners were less bothered by a station by the time CTY made his application to parliament or maybe they were charmed by him. Do we know if there was ever a meeting between them?

@MercenaryPen

6 ай бұрын

Given that the crown estate was one of the objectors, the passing on Queen Victoria in 1901 may have had an effect on their lack of objection in 1902

Just love this part of Christmas when I binge on my favourite channels and get to wish someone like Jago a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for all of the presents he gives us over the past year. 🎉

Used to live just around the corner from this station. This and Great Portland St were closest, some very fond memories started and ended from these.

Three things certain in life: death, taxes and Charles Tyson Yerkees in a Jago YT clip

@CharlesTysonYerkesOfficial

6 ай бұрын

It's a beautiful thing

Hold on, a shady businessman that ISN'T Charles Tyson Yerkes????

@CharlesTysonYerkesOfficial

6 ай бұрын

There is my good friend Elon Musk...

@iankemp1131

6 ай бұрын

Yes, at 3:34 I was convinced that the "extraordinarily shady businessman" would be Yerkes! Still, you can't keep a good (bad) man down, Jago was just saving him till later.

Hi Jago, Thank you for another informative walk down memory lane for me (I used to work on Paddington Green 70s/80s and lived in W2). I've taken the tube between Regent's Park and Edgeware Road many times as it gave me access to a couple of professional headquarters buildings in Langham Place. 73, POHM

Excellent as per, sir. The lift/elevator discussion reminds me of my time living across the street from Tufnell Park and praying for a prompt descent when in a rush. I wonder if there are some nuggets of interest from the various stations which still have no escalators! In any case, my disappointment is absent and my day is made.

I’m glad to see that your co-host C T Yerkes got featured at least one more time before the end of 2023

Good old Charles Yerkes, the pantomime villain of the London Underground.

Handy station for visiting one's doctor in Harley Street when one's Rolls is being valeted.

I was nearing halfway through this video thinking to myself, you know what, there’s not enough Charles Tyson Yerkes in this story… But then moments later, sure enough, there he was!

Any video containing Charles Yerkes is a good watch. Used to use Regents Park station a few times each year and it always seemed a strange station, I guess mainly because of the lack of a surface level building. Thanks Jago.

I won't steal the silver 🤣Brilliant I used the station a fair bit in my youth. playing football in Regent's Park

Hazzard's Christmas present to the Yerkes fan club.

@CharlesTysonYerkesOfficial

6 ай бұрын

It's the only place I feel safe

Thanks for this video. My family and I lived near Regent's Park for 2 years before fleeing to the suburbs in Bucks. This and Great Portland Street were our stations. I remember the lift, which doubled as the ticket collection. A nice elderly lady ran the lift most of the time.

Multiple drinks necessary during that one, cheers Jago! #yerkesDrinkingGame

One of my favourite stations. Love the tiling.

I thought my " Wellington`s Unsung Heros: The 5th Division in the Peninsular" was a special Book...however, you just toped that with the Tube Books...well played Sir...well Played

Which is the least used station in Zone 1 then? If there's a video about it that I overlooked, apologies

@JeannieWeanie

6 ай бұрын

I also would love to know. I will be spending hours trying to find the answer

@thomasday3256

6 ай бұрын

@@JeannieWeanieHow are you getting on? All I can think of is Pimlico but not sure if that’s zone 1 or not

@JeannieWeanie

6 ай бұрын

@@thomasday3256 no luck at all. Pimlico is in zone 1 so possibly

@iankemp1131

6 ай бұрын

Lambeth North in 2015, but Regents Park had overtaken (undertaken?) it by 2022. Pimlico gets a fair amount of traffic for the Tate Gallery.

Considerate how they made an attempt to make the CCTV camera at 6:03 blend in by decorating it in the line colours and sticking a tiny Underground roundel on it

@highpath4776

6 ай бұрын

I dont think all are CCTV , some are specifcally for drivers to check platform and doors are clear

5:04 First of all, I would never use that word. Second of all, windbags are making a comeback.

Victoria dieing and being superseeded by Edward might have meant the Crown Estate was less bothered.

Thanks for all the great content have a very Happy New Year.

Loud cheers from the back at 3:59 😁

"Do you live on the Crescent?" That's not how I remember Mary, Mungo and Midge...

Another fab video! I recently was around the crescent (for a gig at 229) and it's always cool seeing it in your videos.

I'd love it if you could do a video on Park Square, the private garden there. It's got some old structures and it's split across two sides of the road by (I think) an underpass. They're doing some construction work there now. Classic Jago material in my book!

Damn you, Mr Hazard: I decided to try a game of 'Drink-along-a-Yerkes' for this video, and now I am typing while lying on the floor. Many thanks for this, a deservedly under-used station which isn't even convenient for the Zoo.

Interesting video idea. When your in the south east next, a video covering the uckfield line (history and future reopening) would be cool. It's an interesting subject and there is a chance of it still happening. There are some lovely little surprises on this line. Every station bar one is still there. There's a small heritage line. One of the old uckfield station platform still stands with it's lovely signal box opposite still standing and restored recently. Furthermore plenty of evidence of the lines double track with various abandoned platforms and evidence that the line was there. I personally just think it would be an interesting topic to cover.

I see Yerkes, I drink I lose consciousness 😂

I, too, participate in all kinds of metaphors vigorously!

Magnificent! Wishing you well for 2024.

I remember the Bakerloo when it was made out of wood, always liked it as a kid in the '60s.

As someone who's used the Underground for the best part of 70 years, I just tend to take the stations as given. They've always been there and they always will be - even though I've seen quite a few go and a lot more appear over the years. They still seem like a permanent part of London it's pretty much impossible to imagine the city without them. So it's slightly disturbing to discover just how many have ceased to be, or have changed their names - even locations. And to know that some of them very nearly didn't get built in the first place! Did the original planners and builders just not understand what should go where?! It beggars belief.

@highpath4776

6 ай бұрын

London was much smaller and the tubes were aimed at least with people with money. The market changed to the middling classes and new suburbs further out , effectively inventing Zone 3 and beyond for the masses and making central stations a bit too close together for a fast cross london routings. Routes were restricted to where you could get cheap land rights - so under roads and avoiding deep basements . Are the stations in the best places, probably not, but not far off

@hylje

6 ай бұрын

Urban development is an unpredictable crapshoot. It is perhaps the most damaging delusion of the late 1900s that it is something that can be satisfactorily planned in advance. The way to build great cities is a gradient. It’s never perfect, it’s never done. There’s always something new to build, something old to tear down.

@highpath4776

6 ай бұрын

@@hylje The big separation (in England) was to design (polluting) industry away from residential and educational/commercial. Of course the chemical noxious and explosions still happened , just more out of sight.

@GiselleBel

6 ай бұрын

I'm not an expert but I think there was no central planning of the tube network, including the central London area. Different companies built railways and underground lines that competed for passengers with each other. Companies did merge but they started out as lots of different ones. They also focused on North London because the ground there was much easier and cheaper to tunnels through. There are also plenty of areas without a tube or rail station, so not at all well served by public transport because it all started out as such a hodgepodge thing. As far as I know anyway.

@highpath4776

6 ай бұрын

@@GiselleBel That is a reasonable summary. Map over too the electric tram services and then the existing rail services of non-tube companies and you do get at least an explaination of places of work and settlement. We also forget for east london (both sides) how important the thames was , and as for thamesmead the area was marshes and barely fit for development until the concrete age. The co-op built lots of houses around Woolwich down to Kidbrook and up to 80000 people worked at the Woolwich Arsenal making bombs and field guns , which was an insane number and they would walk or take tram from that housing or other local terraces with the shops also provided by the co-op. The upper classes lived in Blackheath- with rail to London Bridge for Bank. The difference tended to be Frank Pick for the Underground Group ran services every 5 mins from most branch ends, the Southern and others it was every 30 ( and the rails had to be shared with longer distance services too - a problem which affects the Elizabeth Line esp in the west today.

TFL should have a Jago Hazzard station.

I use this station to get home from work whenever the Watford Junction - Euston overground is closed. But only going northbound because I'm too lazy to cross the street for Baker Street. It's a very quiet and tidy station with seating that never gets full since I think the most people I've ever seen on the platforms is maybe 7 or 8. Only thing I dislike about this station are the lifts.

When I worked in Dorset Square (next to Marylebone) in 2005-7, for much of the time, Regents Park station was closed with the trains crawling through at 5mph whilst it was heavily refurbished. We did take a tube there after it reopened and walked back - it’s got beautiful tiling and I’m pleased that it still looks like it’s in great condition!

All old LUL lines lead to Yerkes ! Who'd have guessed ? 😀

That was one of the most amusingly appropriate 'You are the X to my Y' outros that you've done.

I like that in London, at least the citycentre, you can travel to anywhere you have to be with the underground or the other intertwined railservices, without having to take a bus stuck in rush hour traffic.

Student who, until this summer, lived at International Students House in the East Crescent! 👋 We did not have access to the garden, sadly, but this was the home station

I used to love those huge old trapezoidal shaped lifts. Occasionally, the last remaining pair at Hampstead would get pressed into use, and they seemed to take forever, wobbling and shaking their way down the long shaft, giving enough time to take in the wooden panelling, the clash of the gates and the rumble of the outer doors, with their art nouveau fretwork. By contrast, the neighbouring pair of high speed lifts were like a fairground ride.

I am surprised you didn't mention its only a very short walk from Great Portland Street station.

Happy new year JH GREAT CONTENT AS EVER

Thank you Jago for all of your videos. Merry Christmas mate.

In case I don't have a chance later, Happy new year, Jago!

I trust the solicitor for the Metropolitan Railway also went 😝 when offering that considered judgment in the measured language of his profession

Happy Belated Christmas or whatever you celebrate and best wishes for the new year! ❤ from 🗽

I remember as a child going to the Zoo and being surprised we didn't go to Regents Park station. Outward Camden Town then bus, return - bus to Baker Street. Of course, seeing a map in later years, it all made sense.

I used to work at the Yerkes observatory and had no idea his business ventures carried outside the states, very interesting.

Definitely station of choice for Marylebone high street which has reached the moon it is so up market these days. Also good for Fitzrovia which has also come a long way in the last 20 years. I don’t mind the lifts since the passenger numbers are low you don’t need to queue.

“The next station is Regents Park. Change here for Local Buses to ZSL London Zoo.” Are there any other stations on the network where the announcements tell you to change for a bus to somewhere more interesting?

@PaulJaYmes

6 ай бұрын

Weirder still is that it's not actually a great place to get a bus to London zoo, you're better off on the 274 from Baker Street

@iankemp1131

6 ай бұрын

@@PaulJaYmes Exactly. I remember as a child going to the Zoo and being surprised we didn't go to Regents Park station. Outward Camden Town then bus, return - bus to Baker Street. Of course, seeing a map in later years, it all made sense.

The shady Yerkes was a great doer and we have to thank him for the basics of the deep tube Underground, as often said.

The number one least used in zone one being aldwych of course👍

At least I have used the little-used station when I wanted to get to, er, Regents Park. But there must be quite a few other stations in zone 1 I haven't been to, yet.

My then girlfriend (and still very good friend) used to travel down to the National Theatre on a regular basis 40 to 45 years ago. We used to watch to see if anyone got on or off at Regent's Pork ( as we called it) in the evening. Very rarely happened!

@johnburns4017

6 ай бұрын

I used it regularly at one time. 🙂

@brianparker663

6 ай бұрын

@@johnburns4017 Must've been you we saw that one time. How are you keeping? 😄

@johnburns4017

6 ай бұрын

@@brianparker663 I am fine, still wear the same loafers

@brianparker663

6 ай бұрын

@@johnburns4017 🤣

Mr Whittaker Wright. A man who enjoyed spending other people's money. On himself, usually. He owned a huge estate (possibly an early Range Rover), in Surrey, that has an ornamental lake. With an underwater billiard room in it. He bought a vast Dolphin fountain, which was so huge, the road had to be lowered under the bridges on the way to his gaff. His various financial irregularities, and general shadiness, actually make CTY. look a positive saint. When he was called to account (and many of them) he took cyanide. Glad I had no alcohol to hand for the latter part of this video.

@unclenogbad1509

6 ай бұрын

Sorry, an 'underwater billiard room'? Sound like this guy/megalomaniac needs a video of his own; that's Bond-villain level. Thanks for posting.

@brianartillery

6 ай бұрын

​@@unclenogbad1509- It gets better - access to it is via a door in a tree, and then, via a long tunnel, lit by glass portholes in the garden above it, you come to a landing stage on a lake. You would row a little boat to an island, and descend into the billiard room. Which is mostly glass, so when it was new, you could presumably see fish swimming by. His estate was Witley Park. Private now, and from what I have heard, not too keen on people 'just having a look'. You can see the remains of the place on Google Maps, if that's any help. God knows what it all cost, either (Witley Park, not Google Maps).

@iankemp1131

6 ай бұрын

@@unclenogbad1509 He does have an early Jago video, Silver Mining and Suicide, well worth a look!

I thought that was Dave Gorman in the first shot. I had to really squint to see it wasn't

Regent's Park is probably the first Tube station I've ever gotten off at in my life, I must've been around 5

Interesting story! Thanks. I used to walk to Regent's Park from my work in Carnaby Street, get a train to Warwick Avenue, (another lightly used station) and then walk home to Ladbroke Grove. As you say, anything to avoid the horrors of Oxford Circus!

Beautiful tilework there.

Happy 2024 to you, Jago, I look forward to more great content in 2024.

wonder how many people actually see those billboard adverts . (prob more on a JH vid than waiting for a train)

A great video once again. Plus I had enough beer for Charles Yerkes to be mentioned.

@CharlesTysonYerkesOfficial

6 ай бұрын

Ooh, which beer?

Just when I thought my day was a little...sh*t...in swings Yerkes (💰💸) and then all is right in my world 🤪😊! Happy Holidays Jaggo and viewers.

A Yerkes number! Mr Hazzard, have you considered doing a tour of the final resting places of the great men and women of the Underground?

@JagoHazzard

6 ай бұрын

Many thanks! It is a possible future subject.

I got so confused about the days over Xmas that I nearly missed this!

Used to commute Queens Park to Regents park when I worked on Cleveland Street for a few years. A lovely little station. Very many familiar faces there every morning too.

I find it interesting that you got Charles T Yerkes over there and we got Samuel Insull over here.

"Shady businessman". Uh oh, here we go again.

@CharlesTysonYerkesOfficial

6 ай бұрын

*Mysterious Music*

@highpath4776

6 ай бұрын

set us up nicely to call out the wrong name , had me mis-footed

Gem of a video on a gem of a station, sir!

The trouble with it is, it's nowhere near the zoo, which probably would bring it more travellers. Why else would you go to Regent's Park? 🤔

@Roland-pw5xj

6 ай бұрын

The part within the inner circle is the most botanically interesting, and being free of both dogs and sports fields, the most peaceful.

@DevonPixie1991

6 ай бұрын

Only times I’ve been there is to go to the hospitals on Harley Street

@iankemp1131

6 ай бұрын

I remember as a child going to the Zoo and being surprised we didn't go to Regents Park station. Outward Camden Town then bus, return - bus to Baker Street. Of course, seeing a map in later years, it all made sense.

My favourite station. Never ever seem to have to wait long for a train, unlike other stations in the Bakerloo Line

Happy New Year Jago and looking forward more of your videos in 2024. I hope you will get around to my challenge of Liverpool Street Metropolitan station which, went first opened, had a direct line into platform 1 of the mainline station. Also it had a bay platform that was used by the Loco hauled trains to Rickmansworth and thence by steam to Aylesbury. A spur was provided to store the incoming loco until need to take the next train out. All of these movements operated from the redundant signal box.

My go to station in my first ‘proper job’ at the Bloomsbury & Marylebone County Court in Park Crescent. My daily commute was from Hammersmith, (or when I fancied a change) or Barons Court on the Piccadilly Line, then change onto the Bakerloo Line to Regents Park. I thought I was the bees knees in my black pinstripe suit complete with rolled umbrella and a bowler hat! (I think those last two words rhyme with Pratt)! Spare a thought dear reader - I was only just into my 17th, year at the time. There were some interesting characters who worked there. The Chief Clerk used to travel in a dark suit then, on arrival at work, would promptly change into a grey nylon jacket and wander around aimlessly most of the day! Then there was the ex teacher from Gloucester who didn’t seem to do much of anything productive. The coloured lady that was constantly clearing her throat. The loud mouth girl who, (I assume) was from the east end as think was “fink”, thought was “fought”. You get the picture? And lastly, Harry in the Bailiffs Office who spoke through a stoma in his neck, (I think he was a WWI veteran who suffered a gas attack). He had the highest rate of recovery of assets in the whole of the County Court system in all of the UK. No one messed with him! In retrospect, I wish I’d had the opportunity to talk with him more but I was always mindful of how incredibly difficult it was for him to speak.

I can honestly say that I have never seen anyone get on or off at Regent's Park. And I used to go through it twice a day for years.

I’m one of the few that used Regent Street fairly often…because of work commitments!! It is a very handy stop. 😎😎🙃🙃❤️

@N1120A

6 ай бұрын

It's close to a lot of stuff and goes a lot of places! Here's to the Regent's Park Rider's Association!

@GodmanchesterGoblin

6 ай бұрын

Same here. It was my second most frequently visited station about 20 years ago.

Thanks for making this Jago. I grew up local to this station but I rarely used it. We loved Great Portland Street Stn as it used to have a Newsagent there called JimRoy’s and we used to buy our Panini football stickers there. You know, Got Got Got, Need…. I need it Man!!!

great write up! I live here and you cant steal my silver. The history is fascinating here. That garden opens once a day a year if you want footage or to mingle with the middle classes. It truly is a strange underused station

Brilliant video sir!

Two ‘extraordinarily shady’ businessmen in one story? You spoil us.