I’m so glad you noticed! Nix chortled as I said it

Yes, we loved it

Equally humble left-in-the-edit coz we're human Chris has informed me that I missed the tiles up above. We didn't!

Just did an internet search to get engineering background on the above claims: [...][At the core of the new energy centre is a 1MW heat pump that will recycle the otherwise wasted heat from a ventilation shaft on the Northern line of the London Underground network at the City Road station, which then transfers that heat into the hot water network. During the summer months, the system will be reversed to inject cool air into the tube tunnels.] [...] Search: "Northern Line heat exchange to warm 1,000 homes"

I went there about 15 years ago. I don’t remember much even though we took a few pics. It is an amazing place isn’t it?

@@Lisbonized Hidden London tours take you there?? As far as abandoned stations go this the filthiest due to it's major role as a Ventillation Point. Mind-you, South Kentish Town was still an unsavoury and violent experience.

@@NJPurling Hidden London don’t do tours at City Road for safety reasons. I went on an organised staff visit.

@@Lisbonized You work for TFL? That explains how you got in. Well worth getting thoroughly filthy with brake dust and who knows what else. I would love a fragment of City & Sth London 'black' tile. Surely they have some on display to display the colour change under a strong white LED. The real treasure is the fragmentary evidence of disused stations usage as shelters in WW2. Can't forget the Scabies Public Information poster

The lift machine rooms even now are fascinating. Take a look at our Kennington and Hampstead episodes for lift rooms in each

I roared with laughter as I read your comment - take a look 🤣🤣

@@alexgrundon2346 yes, I loved it too

@@alexgrundon2346 oh goodness ! How embarrassed am I ! Have now edited as don’t want people to get the wrong idea about me - lol.

It was a beautiful mispront! Loved it x

Hi Jack. Yup that’s pretty much exactly what Chris said in the episode. Looks nice now

@@alexgrundon2346 Hi Alex, a boiling hot day here in town, wondering whether TfL will close some stations to save money?.

It costs a fortune to close stations, especially temporarily, so I’d expect not

Always love these tidbits of info. Thank you

Welcome! Bond St Liz line coming in a couple of weeks!!!

@@alexgrundon2346 thank you, I worked in hmv near bond st, can't wait to revisit next year (especially as the woodstock pub has reopened around the corner!) Thank all the team for this incredible series!

Hi guys Are you or have you done Museum station?

Bond St is recorded and really cool. Bell ringing slightly delayed due to a covid outbreak.

Worth a Hangout, do you think? I adore your former station, Peter

@@alexgrundon2346 Alex, it's worth someone with a set of keys to check it out first.

One problem with installing platform screen doors, is that only the Jubilee Line has trains capable of lining up with them. (That's why the Northern Line Extension stations have passive provision for them. The second problem with installing platform screen doors is that there are far too many bent platforms on the system. So you need a lot of investment (not cost) and a plan of works to adapt things in the right order. One thing that might be useful, is for TfL to close a few stations, that are close to other stations, build escalators or travallators that take people from that station entrance to the next station along, and then use the old escalator shafts, lifts and stairs as a cooling point. (Or energy generating point.) I think that Covent Garden station would be an excellent station to close. You can see Leicester Square, from the ends of the platforms, and TfL could build an escalator shaft from the London Transport Museum to Leicester Square, and then use the abandoned station for cooling. (Plus the PIcadilly Line trains would be slightly faster.)

Haha, I love the typo!

WENDY WETWIPE 🤣🤣🤣

Clever boy!

@@alexgrundon2346 oooh! Been a long time since I was referred to as a boy! I’ll take it! 😂

Indeed! It’s why the BBC dropped the three coloured bars from its logo in the 90s….cost saving on the letter headed paper!

And…can you “mistype” your DOB….?

@@alexgrundon2346 Only if I mistype it consistently, and I don't trust myself to do so, and they are banking on that.

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Or Failing that The further adventures of Totty Tripcock.!...

TOTTY TRIPCOCK 🤣🤣🤣

I thought that too. Esp Essex Road

I think it’s a one-off but isn’t it a genius idea

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I heard your a fan of big shafts, so maybe Ms 11 Foot 8 and a Quarter

@@GazzaLDN As we all know, Gazza, that quarter makes all the difference. In a certain light….🤣🤣

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@@alexgrundon2346 2nd try, don't know where thefirst went... Google Maps shows some unusual buildings on the corner of Weston Rise and Pentonville Road, this is the entrance to the shaft to the Northern Line tunnels underneath. When the line was built it had block signalling with each station being in its own block. This meant that a train could not leave Bank NB until the previous train had departed Moorgate, and so at every station. However the distance between Angel and Kings Cross is double that of the other sections so this would result in a much greater wait for the block to clear after every train. So an extra block was added by having a signal box at Weston Rise to restore the normal block size, I seem to remember that if you ride in the front cab you can see the tracks rise and then fall at Weston Rise like the track does at Central Line stations. It can't have been a pleasant place to work, lonely, noisy, hot, dusty etc. I have briefly explored at track level but had other things to do so didn't stay for long.

I think Amazon would object to the former.

I quite like Madame Moquette… as you say, classy !

I think they reverse the system so it cools rather than heats

In absolute extremis

@@alexgrundon2346 thank you 😀😀😀

Kind of. 10 min walk to old street station and jump on national rail for one stop. You can walk to Essex road station from city road takes roughly 25 mins.