We didn't all go through Ashfield House. I've never been there. I went to the railway training centre at White City which was demolished when the Westfield shopping centre was built and the model railway there was magnificent, especially when they took the sides off the signal box bits and you could see all the notched brass rods that mechanically locked the signalling system. A work of art and a superb feat of engineering.

West Ashfield must be the highest tube station (above sea level) on the Underground and perhaps on any underground system

@thegregbrookhouse8667

6 жыл бұрын

Ian Murray Amersham or Chesham?

@DavidShepheard

6 жыл бұрын

That's correct. If you take the stairs up to West Ashfield, it's the equivalent of climbing a 15 storey building.

@andreandpaula

6 жыл бұрын

David Shepheard nice reference there

@randompasserby

6 жыл бұрын

> and perhaps on any underground system You threw down the gauntlet there! The highest subway system in the world is probably in Mexico City - average elevation of the city is 2200 metres.

@webmozaic

4 жыл бұрын

An underground station on (probably) the 15th floor.

How many stairs is it? Is it equivalent to 15 storeys?

@RtrainProductions-ll1su

4 жыл бұрын

proud Yorkshireman congrats, I am your 200th liker!

@optecio

4 жыл бұрын

Europe Trains! Paper models Nah now its me

@RonaldMcPaul

3 жыл бұрын

How did you know?! 15 storeys

@dignaperez1681

3 жыл бұрын

100-150 @proud Yorkshireman

@southern.spotter

2 жыл бұрын

This staircase has 2 steps Equivalent to 15 stories

Nice one!! I noticed the mock-up train was based on a 1983 Stock unit from the Jubilee Line. They always had the moquette the same as Vicki's scarf in those units, and originally in the D Stock on the District as well. The blue seats there were unique to that mock-up unit.

@adolflenin4973

2 жыл бұрын

🛂✔🦄

The phonetic alphabet (alpha, bravo, charlie, etc) is used anytime you regularly communicate over the radio. The reason for this is to avoid misunderstandings involving similar sounding letters, and to assist if the radio reception isn't strong.

@denelson83

4 жыл бұрын

We ham radio operators use it all the time.

@adolflenin4973

2 жыл бұрын

@@denelson83 amazing!

Thank you London Underground For Letting All the Station in, Thanks Goeff and Vicky for this Great Film

I bet we'll be seeing West Ashfield stickers appear on the S-stock maps courtesy of tube guerrillas. Keep an eye out...

@DavidShepheard

6 жыл бұрын

It hasn't happened so far. This fake station has been around since 2010.

Was that graffiti on the model trains?? LOL

Very enjoyable video, nice surprise to see a new all the stations video. To anyone from the BBC watching, we want Vicki and Geoff at Walford East!

This one is the most fascinating video of your underground series. Thank you for showing us around the training facility.

9:30 Somebody's a 'Quatermass and the Pit' fan; one of the model railway stations is called Hobbs End :)

@jonathanwarner1844

6 жыл бұрын

I was hoping I was the first to spot that!

@DickHolman

6 жыл бұрын

Snap!

@SaturnCanuck

6 жыл бұрын

I saw it too! Brilliant!

@daveshea3067

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, but my cat is called "Hobbs" and she wasn't too keen to see that her end has already been immortalised as an Underground station ;)

One of the best videos yet! You two are so lucky to have found each other!

Well done you two!! This was a great vid and a wonderful visit to a sim 'real life' training facility!

Super awesome each time the "All the stations" theme song plays! Sending lots of support from Singapore!

That was fab. Thank you both.

Another great video keep up the good work love the all the stations theme music

I so love you both doing the videos together,

Geoff: We've visited every single tube station, _except we haven't_ *vsauce music intensifies*

Hadn’t realised how much I missed this theme tune! Brings back happy memories from last year.

It looks like a lot of fun. It's nice to get a brief insight into how TfL staff are trained.

Great video, and loving the return of the theme. Next stop, Walford East? Oh, please try, that would be cool.

@Topboy53

4 жыл бұрын

Bromley-by-Bow

I really liked this video...!!! You two have great 'chemistry' presenting together! Both naturals!

@AllTheStations

5 жыл бұрын

hey Anton, thx!

I did my driver training at Ashfield House back in 2001. I remember the model railway but the Ashfield West station must be a fairly recent addition. Great video!

@DavidShepheard

6 жыл бұрын

They were both designed by the same company. Maybe you did your training before they refurbished the floor that they turned into West Ashfield station. I've seen before and after pictures online. It started off as a corridor with some offices in it.

:( You didn't measure the platform in VIcki steps

@cjmillsnun

6 жыл бұрын

Vickishoes was the measure IIRC

@Quasihamster

4 жыл бұрын

@@cjmillsnun Vickifeet.

For Walford East, they have the ticket Hall on set then the platform and the D Stock somewhere else (unknown)

Great video! One for a Hidden London tour maybe? On another note, I love the facial expression of that guy in the lift!

Great video, and a fab piece of tube-trivia!

I was so excited to see an All the Stations episode! I miss these.

This pretty much shows you behind the scenes of the London underground... Also its like safety works to learn about safety around the tube❤❤❤

Good to see BTP in one of your videos. I visited west Ashfield during some training with BTP. Very cool to see in person. The mirror in the train got me the first time i saw it too.

Hey guys I am loving this series. I want to do the same here in the New York City metro area. We have a bunch of lines might be fun. Keep up the great work!

So is West Ashfield the shortest platform on the underground?

@beccabeme

6 жыл бұрын

How many Vicki feet is it?

@ZamanSiddiqui

6 жыл бұрын

beccabeme Was just about to ask that. 😂

@G1NZOU

6 жыл бұрын

Most likely, although it's technically not on the underground since it's on floor 3 of a building with no actual line connection with the rest of the underground.

@blessingmatadi7607

6 жыл бұрын

8:55

@gamingkiwi5810

5 жыл бұрын

yes

Lovely video Thank You.

Very interesting, never heard of this before even when I lived just opposite the building in West Ken. Sure you don't need me to tell you this, but you do a good video, very professional and well made - a lot helped by the relaxed and informal, personable and well informed presentation.

All the stations, half stations, and quarter stations!

absolutely brilliant reconstruction

This is the most amazing thing I have ever seen, so TFL

Please tell me this was on the 15th floor 🙂 Yet another great video, and I love their attention to detail (esp the fan)

@roseadxms

6 жыл бұрын

S Mac XD

@fulwell1

6 жыл бұрын

And by one of THE best matched couples I think I have ever seen - both so lovely, friendly and contented, it really warms the heart.

@alpacamacaa2863

6 жыл бұрын

S Mac i

@alfietheg4m3r-robloxmore14

6 жыл бұрын

fulwell1 REALLY DUDE XD

@eduardotogashi6011

5 жыл бұрын

the start of the vid says its on the 3rd floor so rip

Since you mentioned the Eastenders station, River City a Scottish soap based in Glasgow has a tube station supposedly on the Glasgow underground. Another one to add to the list.

8:45 oh yes, detrained so gracefully. Seriously though, I am so enjoying this video. It is fab.

Top man that Les! Was one of my trainers at Ashfield House.

I’ve been to West Kensington for my vacation and it was where we would get on everyday from our hotel. I never thought you would mention the very station!

This was so interesting, I was hoping you'd made it inside West Ashfield!

Is West Ashfield the least used tube station?

@EM81YT

6 жыл бұрын

21spangles Just beats Roding Valley!

I used to work from the Underground years ago and they had a training facility very similar to this at 10a Wood Lane, White City which is possibly part of the White City station on the way Hammersmith and City line, now a days. If I remember rightly it was just some track but it didn't have a train on it..

Goodness, I remember overhauling those Drivers Handsets when I worked at the SOS Lillie Bridge (West Ken) 1979-1983. They came in a wooden box in those days which we used paint with varnish.

Very informative. Again

This was great to see! I think that is soo cool that they let you guys check that out! The fan, the clock, the bench...everything...only thing missing was a trash bin (unless I missed it). And it was funny to see the small model trains with the graffiti on it. And I agree with Geoff..check out the EastEnders "station". And question for Geoff..which station has been filmed the most? Movies, tv programmes, videos... Thanks!

This reminds me of the Longmoor Military Railway, where they had an even more elaborate model railway system to train (principally) their signalmen (although they were called blockmen, to distinguish them from private soldiers in the Royal Corps of Signals).

I love the 'Quatermass and the pit ' reference. Someone is obviously a fan of those films. Hobb's End 😀😀

1:50... pause it and look at the map, thats an old map cause the olympia service is still full green, not green and white for limited service

Loving the 1983 stock.

Cool video Geoff and Vicki, nice to see the all the stations theme back.

@AllTheStations

6 жыл бұрын

What do you mean 'back' .. ? It's never gone anywhere, we've always used it. *confused*

@TheTransportHub17

6 жыл бұрын

All The Stations No mean that you haven't uploaded since the end of the all the stations.

@DavidShepheard

6 жыл бұрын

This is the 14th video they have uploaded since the finished going to all the stations. Some were on the tail end of the journey, but there were two in December that were not really connected with earlier footage: kzread.info/dron/7ttKX46nJxUeXZ0aoD4Q5g.htmlvideos

@TheTransportHub17

6 жыл бұрын

David Shepheard Thanks David I haven't been on KZread much so I forgot about those ones.

I think there used to be an earlier training model railway, possibly in 0 gauge, used mainly by signals trainees, there would be details in one of the London Transport Magazines.

Came here from comments on Jago's West Ken video. Never knew aboot this West Ashfield 'station' :-)

Oh how I've missed that intro music...

@johntarrant2006

6 жыл бұрын

"Hobbs End" station on the training railway is named after the station in "Quatermass and the Pit"!

Yes, you should do the Walford station too! 👍

This is a nice video. thaks.

That was a very interesting video.

I like how there’s a fan to actually simulate the wind.

Great video.

Great videos

I wish you would have filmed some more of the model rail!

at 9:29 would that be an S1 Stock? would be good of that exist for Acton Shuttle if that was still around :p

this is awesome ☺

Love the mock up 1983 stock train.

I think they only use a ticket hall - from memory they used East Finchley once and sometimes use a mock up D stock on EE

Please, please, please do a "Top 10 Stations in the UK" video from your travels. Can't think of a better 2 people to judge this

@qwertyTRiG

6 жыл бұрын

Jilbo812 They've not yet been to all the stations in the UK, though.

Good to see me old mate Les Moody getting his 15 minutes of fame 👍

That was fascinating! Are you looking forward to Maghull North opening...?

Lol. The first thing I did was download this song. I love it. It’s amazing

Pretty sure they have a map outside of Walford East with the station added to the map on the EastEnders set you should definitely go and try to visit it!

great video

How very interesting! Do you guys have plans to come and film Moscow subway some time?

@DavidShepheard

6 жыл бұрын

Get Geoff to make an attempt on the Moscow Metro Challenge record. :-P

It looks very clean for a mock-up station

There are some continuity errors on TfL's part, the platform dot matrix indicator says Metropolitan line whereas everything else, as far as I can tell, is District based!

@AndreiTupolev

6 жыл бұрын

Lewis George and an ex Jubilee Line tube carriage...

@johnm2012

4 жыл бұрын

And the cast iron effect tunnel segments visible during the de-training demo. 8:42

Reyneke Designs designed both West Ashfield Station and the model railway. They used to have three awesome videos on KZread, which I linked to from the Wikipedia article for this station: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Ashfield_tube_station Sadly, some killjoy has removed all three videos from KZread. I was hoping to post all three links so that everyone could have a look at the concept models. I'm sad that you didn't video the model railway, as the choice of station names is quite interesting. Hobs End (the station that was under construction in a Quatermas story) is the one that most people recognise, but it would have been good to have seen the entire route of the railway and hear the faults that they use it to demonstrate.

That's a 1983 tube stock replica, Vicki's scarf is the correct one for that train.

@tobysummers471

6 жыл бұрын

MrDoblo7 The 83 stock was the tube stock equivalent of the D stock at the time. I think buses then had a similar maquette too.

@MrDoblo7

6 жыл бұрын

Toby Summers Yes, that's correct, good memory. Fitted to MCW Metrobus and Leyland Titan's of the period. London Transport seemed to have a thing for that moquette at that time.

@tobysummers471

6 жыл бұрын

MrDoblo7 I remember it from an old video by Thames news explaining a video for youngsters not to vandalise buses. Sadly the moquette in the demonstration was cut to ribbons!

I did slightly cringe at the reading out of the Signal ID (As a PTS Holder and MOD 5 Tester, you use the Phonetic Alphabet on everything, from Signal IDs, to Relay Bases and Wire Terminals). If you were to go to Derby, they have a training centre at Signet, which is full of trackside equipment, such as points, signals, track circuits and even a model Relay Room and Panel. Not exactly a ‘station’ like West Ashfield, but still really interesting if you wanted to learn about trackside equipment.

Love how the model tube carriages have model graffiti on.

My favourite bit is 11:50, Brilliant!

Wow, amazing! Do you know if they do tours of this place? It would be amazing to go there

I was there today on some training

How About Vauxhall Cross from 007 Die Another Day

Very interesting...

Great video of West Ashfield, just wondering did they let you plat with the model railway while you was there?

What an interesting place.

This reminded me of some films I have featuring LU stations that don't exist such as Belgravia, Hobb's End and Camden Road. I have been to Ashfield House too, training with LU but don't remember West Ashfield. One of the intersting instructors there was Irvin Morgan, is he still there?

Loved the Hobbs End reference!

@pj100565

6 жыл бұрын

tinblue Yes indeedy! The tube stop in Quatermass and the Pit

@syedia

6 жыл бұрын

tinblue ikr

You should have asked the tube driver at West Ken. if he was going to stop at West Ashfield!

I like how everyone in the lift turns away from the doors and faces the back. Reminds me of a human psychology experiment I heard about a while ago.

my brother and i chose those colours for that district line macket . he chose black and brown and i chose being younger yellow and orange . my father had just died . i was 5 and my brother was 7 . he felt very angry at the time . i like the design . was very 70,s .love all your rail and transport vids . brill . thank you with love x.

Great video guys , have you here’d of ilford west station , it’s the Elizabeth Lines training centre at TUCA Lugg Approach ilford London.

So it's the next station after Earl's Court, then? Presumably reached by trains from Platform 9 3/4.

@jamesdavison1786

5 жыл бұрын

AndreiTupolev 9 3/4 is from Kings Cross not Earls Court. Also that’s not on the Underground at Kings Cross.

Upset emoji. This was offered after the Marsh Barton new station video. We all miss Vicki....

Seen you both at NRM York once never realized what the que was for will I walked past to get a photo of the euro star class 373

I’m reckoning West Ashfield, is really on the Isle of Wight.

@EM81YT

5 жыл бұрын

Ally Baker but how is he here if he hasn’t been?

Brilliant

There's also a Walford west.

Is Aldwych included in the 270/271 you have visited?