Your welcome 🤗

@@geofftech2 thank you

Those were great questions, by the way. It's amazing how you came up with those.

Uncle Tim! :-)

Am I too far off if I assume you actually recorded your voice-over at Geoff's? Considering that "hey I'm in London" stuff and all...

Hahaha!!

On its side, yes.

Of course it is! I used to live on a ground floor flat -- that was equivalent to a 15-storey building!

(Most) Stations between Upminster Bridge and Upney are at street level. Thats equivalent to a 15 storey building!

Do you also inspect Changing Places ? I'm not disabled and I do/would. I use 'disabled' toilets (preferred facilities) but am appalled at the number of emergency cord pulls I find wrapped through handles so they're out of reach. My local-ish main hospital installed a Changing Place - and on my inspection, I broke it. Wall mounted support bars had been fitted with too small screws - and they pulled out of the wall !

Nice to see you wearing your EveryDoctor mask Sarah. They are very comfortable and for a good cause.

@@millomweb Many stations do have Changing Places toilets now, which is really great (and not before time). I do try to check them out when I can. :)

I think after Osterley, Sudbury Hill and Harrow are all made step-free (or sooner), a collaboration between you two is in order to check out and evaluate accessibility at all the newly step-free stations!

That's a fact to pull out at a wedding speech!

Wait, what? I am certain things are allowed to be silly. It’s just that they are not allowed to be “too silly.” 🤣

Lol i didnt realise that

3:47

@@caesar7734 Ha ha. Glad someone else noticed 👍😀

I spotted that on the 4th one, and then went back through the whole video to spot them all!

Station Station Station Station Station!

1) (PEDs) Battersea Power Station | Nine Elms 2) (Step Free) Nine Elms | Battersea Power Station 3) (Bus Stops) Power Station Battersea Station | Nine Elms 4) (Kennington Loop) Station Station Station Station Station | Nine Elms 5) (Timing) Robert Palmer and the Power Station | Nine Elms 6) (App) Battersea Power Station | Nine Elms 6a) (3D view) Battersea Power Station Station 7) (Clapham Junction) All the Power Stations | Nine Elms

All The Power Stations!

@@grapesofwraith1066 all of them.

They’ll surely split it completely (Morden to Edgware and Battersea to HB) before long. It must be so confusing for tourists

Ive always wondered why it’s not just 2 separate lines. Surely it would be simpler and easier to manage.

@@philippetts1701 because sometimes you can get from the eastern brand in the north and go to the western branch in the middle... on the same train.. and sometimes you can go from the eastern down the eastern so it'd have to be 2 lines which both have branches.. which is confusing. they might totally split it so you have to change trains but that will not be popular with everyone

@@mralistair737 it will make Euston and Camden Town less confusing, plus half the time people have to change trains anyway

@@robWolvesfan1 I think it will be split BPS to Edgware and Morden to HB just because of the situation at Camden Town. Also what will the other line be called? Surely the line to HB will remain as the Northern line (because it goes further north, unless the bushey heath extension happens, which is highly unlikely) so what will they call the Edgware to BPS line

Rumour (just made up by me) is that the Geoff and Tim collab is called ‘toutes les gares’. Supplementary question: is the rumour true?

Wish You Were Here?

@@autieab Gosh, that was driving me mad yesterday. What's the German word for "recognising the tune but not knowing the name?"

@@autieab Yes! From back in the day when Gordon Giltrap had the monopoly on TV travel theme tunes - he also did the BBC "Holiday" themes

Indeed - I always think that lifts are often made too small to be fully accessible to some users!

Especially when accessibility is more than wheelchair accessibility. That's also the reason why train doors have been painted in contrasting colours for a while, now. It's a good idea to have such infrastructure better popping out from the wall, and yes, signage should be added. Unfortunately it's unlikely the lifts are going to be widened anytime soon as but more visible clues should be possible.

@@barvdw yes, you're very right... There is more than one type of "accessibility". It's not a catch all idea whereby lift=accessibility

I think it will only be extended to CJ if Crossrail 2 happens

@@juanescobar8123 Or if the northern line splits.

Interesting, I never knew that !

Got that information as well from the video of the London Underground museum when they visited the stations

They also greatly reduce the costs of clearing litter and dropped items from the trackbed

Most of the lines in Tokyo have chest height doors (even the larger open air stations), which seems to work well

It's also about preventing "One Under" incidents & the risk assessments for BPS & NE identified that the expected volume of footfall and available platform space are adequate mitigation for the early stages of development given how unlikely it is that the fleet will be upgraded in the near future. Passive provision has been made for future retrofit should the need or opportunity arise.

I especially loved "All the Power Stations" and "Battersea Power Station (squared)"

I like this one the best, vs Southbound only service into Clapham or half-length Clapham departure platforms as other comments have suggested!

@@kaitlyn__L the plan is that the line will only get extended to clapham junction after crossrail 2 gets built

Automatic train operation and Platform Edge Doors will probably go together, with the ATO both lining new trains up flawlessly and enabling trains to run with higher frequency. On the Northern Line demolishing and rebuilding Camden Town Station, and splitting the Northern Line into two lines (Charring Cross Line and Bank Line) will also be necessary. It's crossing trains over at Kennington and Camden Town that stops them running trains more frequently. This extension is half the solution, as it gives TfL somewhere to get rid of trains.

Good point so WTF did they not mark the doors ;) You'll find the doors at all the stations ;)

@@millomweb Because Northern Line trains turn round every time they go round the loop at Kennington. The step-free doors are not in the exact middle of the train so they change depending on which way the train is facing.

Actually the doors ARE marked. It’s the double doors on the 2 and 5 cars/carriages

@@spinba11 Interesting. Could also be confusing if you do get on at a full step-free platform and miss the platform signage.

@@oysterfarescentral before the extension opened you could only get on the 2nd going south or 5th going north as that was the only place that were level.

Yes, I preferred Transport for London to Transport for Battersea. Clapham Junction tube would dilute foot-shuffling at Victoria and Waterloo; reducing journey times for everybody.

I don't really understand the too many passengers dilemma for potential CJ extension. Surely more connectivity allows for more options and relief on other routes as mentioned. Although Wimbledon is a less busy station than CJ, its District line terminus picks up a lot of SWR, tram and Thameslink passengers.

@@rajubabuno1 Well, they seem to be saying that a tube station at Clapham Junction would be totally inundated by passengers because Clapham Junction is such a massive station with a huge number of people, and the tube trains would be so full that no-one would be able to get on at Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms. That seems to be their argument.

@@RobinWootton Yes, I agree. I think it should be extended to Clapham Junction.

Given the economic climate its a great that they've managed to build anything, doing it on schedule is frankly miraculous. Although some would obviously prefer to have left the area as a derelict, contaminated, post industrial plot.

@@UltimateAccuracy My issue is with the popular narrative that this extension was 'privately funded', not with the fact that it was built. Though I believe a Bakerloo extension would be a better use of public money.

Nine Elms to Stockwell is Walkable.

Nine Elms to Stockwell is 1.2km and there is only one OSI which is longer (Marylebone NR - Paddington NR which is an OSI no-one uses). Nine Elms to Vauxhall is 850m. There are only 6 longer OSIs (Marylebone - Paddington, Embankment - Waterloo East, Fenchurch Street - Liverpool Street, Kings Cross - Euston and Bromley North - South are all NR requested OSIs). Only Ickenham - West Ruislip is further and agreed by TfL due to the lack of local bus services in the area. Basically, Nine Elms to Vauxhall is further than TfL will allocate to an OSI.

Simon, the music is "The Carnival" by Gordon Gilltrap, and since the late 80s was the theme tune to that programme!

It's Tim playing, and it's also the outro to all his videos. He also plays piano renditions of other theme tunes as background music at appropriate points in them. Needless to say, comments try and identify as many as they can.

I'm glad they haven't put any in. They make it boring and I don't like that penned-in feeling.

It's also used as the outro to all Tim's videos (it's his playing)...

No, he carefully counted all zero of them 😉

It's The Tim Traveller's outro music! (the guy asking the questions)

which train number is that? I travel gWr a lot with a scooter.

While I think it is Tim's rendition of it, the song is called The Carnival and was composed by Gordon Giltrap... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/itx3krZ726fDZ30.html

And, of course, played by Tim.

It doesn't have to be Crossrail 2, nor does it have to be finished (eg out the other side of Z1, or west/south of CJ). What it does need to be is a high capacity route linking Clapham Junction and Central London.

@@sihollett so much would the Northern Line be suitable for this high capacity route?

@@Alto53 No, because the required presence of the high capacity route before extending the Northern Line to CJ is because the Northern Line isn't capacious enough to meet the demand from CJ - even at a 36tph and with new trains, the Northern line can only move 30k/hour due to small tunnels and short platforms. That's a theoretical maximum and we're looking more at the 25k/hour ball park. Crossrail 2 was going to be 45k/hour. The Elizabeth line will be 36k/hour. Any 'tube' link to CJ needs to provide that sort of capacity to deal with boarders from CJ, and also have room for further boarders from mostly-residential stations (eg Chelsea on CR2, or Battersea & Nine Elms on Northern Line) between CJ and central stations were passengers start getting off to change onto other tube line or walk to their destination.

@@sihollett okay understood. Thanks.

@@sihollett Extend from Battersea Power Station under Queenstown Road (station and road) then under Cedars Road, with a new station on the North perimeter of Clapham Common (A3). It could then re-join the main line at Clapham South.

well most on first day had to walk down it.

What Line Mate is it the Cannon Street Loop Lines

@@thecyberleaderwhufc I think they Orpington line and the Hayes Line