*waits 45 minutes for train* *train arrives* "This will hopefully pass in 30 seconds"

170,000 people came here to watch a cement train pass by a pedestrian road crossing lol. We are truly special indeed.

"It's London's only foot crossing. Apart from the other one" - Marshall 2019

RE your comment about the "mann in orange hi-vis" walking up to meet the train: I occasionally am that man. As there are 3 parts to Angerstein (Cemex covered by DB and Aggregate and Norris Skips covered by GBRF) we have to walk up the run round loop to ensure the line is set for where we want to go, then meet the train at the stop board to give the driver a radio (If required) and give them authority to pass the stop board. :)

“It does smell like wee a bit” -Geoff 2019

This may qualify as The Video Most Difficult To Explain Why You're Watching It To A Sane Person prizewinner for 2019. Also, surely we must now have All The Footcrossings.

"It does smell of wee, though" - cue huge belly-laugh from my seven year-old who was watching over my shoulder. A video for all ages.

Used to play on it as kids. You walk from Fairfield road onto the track, turn right and walk up the track. In the old days it went to a huge area of railway waste ground and an old WWII pillbox. Nowadays that area is Ikea, back then it was miles of derelict docks and warehouses, the largest adventure playground for kids in the world.

Stumbled across one recently. Lincoln Road, Enfield, en1 1js is a road crossing that can also be crossed by foot

This is, basically my favourite video of yours Geoff. As much as I love stations, and hidden quirks etc. I LOVE hidden alleyways and secret enterances. A tiny almost neglected footbridge & rail crossing, that's just there, is amazing to me. It's obviously not used enough to warrant health and safety barriers, or else it would be blocked off or limited access. It's just the coolest little thing. To be able to get so close to rail rolling stock without much hassle and fanfare, is just, crazy and amazing.

Geoff, you might be interested to know that Network Rail renewed Angersten Junction only a few months ago. We did look at an option to move the signal back to avoid the train stopping on the foot crossing. Also the option to remove the foot crossing altogether was suggested but there were objections.

I normally like to comment a pun but it looks like everyone else is a step ahead of me.

Does make you think of all the industrial lines/branches which have now gone. Let alone the military/munitions "iron roads" we once had. I just think Geoff is wonderful. He has surely thrown out the old pictures of "platform veg" or "train spotters", & shown how intelligent, how knowledgeable, and safe people who do care about our railway are.

there’s a railway foot crossing near me in north london! in between enfield town and bush hill park overground stations. not sure if it counts or not as it used to be a manned crossing for cars to cross too, but they blocked it all off for cars and now for the past few years it’s just a foot crossing. love your videos so much! :)

Love how much effort and enthusiasm he puts in each video, love it mate!

Thank you once again Geoff for another great video.

This is my daily commute! Didn't realise it was one of the few crossing like this..

Before the motorway was built my aunt’s house on Westcombe Hill looked out on to the line to Angerstein Wharf.Yourvideo brought back memories of 50 odd years ago.

Fascinating! One of your best, Geoff.

Excellent Geoff! Your vids are so solid , they're concrete!!

Before the A102M Blackwall Tunnel approach was built I used to live close to this crossing and would use it as a shortcut to Fairthorne Road and hence to Woolwich Road and the local Fish and Chip shop. Of course, at the time there was no fancy walkway or connection to Westcombe Park station, just a wooden staircase up from Westcombe Hill, the crossing and the tunnel out into Fairthorne Road

Re Geoff's comments about Ikea and Sainsbury's...........everywhere looks like everywhere else these days....... :(

Thanks Geoff, I really enjoy these videos

Geoff - unbelievable. Watching in Australia (train buff) and have actually been on the crossing. My brother lives right there and saw you filming the clip. Small world.

Hi geoff im a network rail railway engineer that is on my patch angersteins wharf of an old army/feight line glad you liked it keep it up your man walking the line is a shunter mate the train is off to pick up sand

I've seen this ginnel before on youtube somewhere. I recognised it from the moment you started filming. Nice one.

I love this so much. It's the alleyways and little used/known things that really spark my interest. When I visit London I just want to see all this obscure stuff.

I love the way you made a 8 minute video out of a train crossing 😁 Love your work, really fun 😎

@Geoff Marshall Dont forget the Emerson Park halt (Romford-Upminster) has one on the east side of Emerson Park station. And its within M25 and in a London borough of Havering. 😜

Visiting London in April and very happy to know that I can get my Ikea, gas station coffee, and a foot crossing all in one stop. 😉

Great video, thanks Geoff. Good to see the crossing is well used, looks like there were two others waiting on the other side whilst the freight train went through...

A pleasure as always. I’m becoming obsessed with trains!

Yes, I'm sure I've seen a video of this before too....

Judging by the comments... you need a New 'LONDON FOOTCROSSINGS' series ;p

i actually came across it last month randomly and i was amazed..im a train geek and i checked all your videos for lost rail lines as i thought this was one of them but i was surprised not to see any video about it untill i found this one

Visited the crossing in June 2018 GBRf 66 768 was waiting near the crossing. it was a video like yours that prompted me to visit the crossing. John from Oz

There is one in Kenley on the Purley to Caterham branch connecting Bourne View to the 434 bus stop

That is an interesting little crossing.

I'm always entertained by videos like these, here in Boston people don't even blink an eye at foot crossings, I've crossed rapid transit lines by foot, commuter rail, etc

super great video - like always - looking forward to it every week.....😃

I remember this crossing , morthren did a video on it

I live near another foot crossing. It used to be road but they closed it off to cars years ago, so ~technically~ it's a foot crossing, but it does have gates which become locked when a train passes, so I guess it doesn't count for this! It's located between Enfield Town and Bush Hill Park on the overground

Thanks! That was educational. I didn't know any of that; and it never crossed my mind to wonder if there were any foot crossings in London.

Looks like a nice spot to take a picture of this train. Another nice video!

Morthren turned me onto this

Geoff, There's a Foot Crossing Off Osbourne Road in Romford on the Romford-Upminster Branch Line

It amazes me how tracks can be so wobbly and still be fine to use.

The packed A2 and the constant drone of the traffic remind of why I emigrated from SE London to New Zealand's South Island.

There is one to the east of Upminster and has two trains in each direction per hour, but perhaps you don't count that as part of London.

There's one between Riddlesdown and Upper Warlingham stations. Greater London

The coolest part of this whole thing is that someone lives over that little alleyway arch

Thank you for the video really good. As a kid I used to walk all over London.

05:05 You got creeped out when all of a sudden man just walked behind you out of silence

There is one in rainham on the c2c

3:51 Woop Brentford! I lived there for a month with my auntie and uncle on a house boat on the River Brent. Loved every bit of London i went to! Can't wait to go again.

Love your videos

What about the footpath between trumper's way and the long wood in Hanwell? The line runs between Southall station and a concrete plant in Brentford, under the three bridges. Pretty sure I've seen a video by you where you cross it :) Edit: About 30 seconds after I commented this he was stood on Trumpers. Shouldn't have doubted you Geoff!

Geoff, you're the only man who looks at an alleyway and thinks "fun"

Yes! Thanks Geoff - I had to do some gardening job (labouring work) in a house just nearby and yes, the only place I had to buy a coffee was the shopping centre you found and the only place I could have a pee was that crossing.

I have absolutely no idea why I’ve been recommended these videos, but I keep watching them anyway

What about on the upminster to romford line. Or is that not a foot crossing?

The freight trains on the branch convey sea-dredged aggregates and not cement.

A delightful video skilfully made. The track has seen better days. Geoff is a latter-day Betjeman, fashioning an intriguing story out of the inconsequential and humdrum . . .

When I first moved from Czech republic to London I have found the lack of foot crossings very strange. We have them almost everywhere even very close to a city centre on a very busy rails.

Im sure ive seen this crossing before on one of your videos Geoff, is this a repeat?

Hey Geoff, there is a foot crossing at the London/Surrey border line on the East Grinstead branch just north of Upper Warlingham.

I'm on my way, Geoff. Thanks for that insight. Hope to see you on the Imberbus run this year 👍

Keep up the good work Geoff

I was expecting a super fast passenger train like whoooossssshhhhh

There's a foot crossing between Kenley and Whytleafe on the Caterham line

Very apt timing Geoff as the crossing is now closed! The exit signal for the branch has been moved, and an awaiting train would breach the crossing

I passed this crossing earlier today. I was thinking 'where have I seen this before?' Came straight to KZfaq to rediscover!

Not sure if it counts as it's just outside the M25, but there's a foot crossing out by Heathrow between Wraysbury and Staines, on a proper passenger line. 51.454468, -0.537018 And it doesn't smell of wee.

There's one between Gordon Hill and Crews Hill in Enfield.

Great video, as usual. In the last shot of the back the goods train, the track looks like it's had better days. High speed that is not!

I find concrete footpaths, footbridges and small backstreet alleyways incredibly satisfying

There is a crossing at Neasden depot for staff to get from the car park to the depot itself though not for public use

Morthren did a video of this crossing not that long ago.

It's nice that branch lines like this still exist (there used to be a lot more).

Great video as per! There's a foot crossing near Emerson Park on the Romford to Upminster line.

8:16 those rails look like they're getting rough. In America, for freight trains on main lines they can be incredibly long and take significant amounts of time to pass, but that is not necessarily the case when freightcars are being delivered to sidings for specific customers. Granted, there are less and less of those kinds of sidings as intermodal transportation has meant that trains are more commonly offloaded at depots directly onto trucks and those trucks do final delivery, but for those businesses still receiving bulk material as cargo, short trains to deliver that cargo are not unheard of. My guess is that since concrete is a mixture of Portland cement, fine aggregate (sand) and coarse aggregate (gravel or other suitable small rocks), that this train is delivering one or more of those ingredients, most likely the aggregates. If they're manufacturing Portland cement on-site, then the train could be delivering limestone, clay, and/or gypsum as Portland cement's base ingredients. I'd also expect that this is delivery to the factory, not shipping from the factory, as care needs to be taken with the transport of Portland cement and products using it to prevent moisture from curing the cement prior to its final application. If a hopper car with Portland cement were to be rained upon that cement could cure and harden in the car, ruining the load and probably the car as well.

Known by the staff working there as Angry Stain. Not joking, check in on Facebook and see what it says.

Great video. Took me back in time as I lived in this locality for 12 years and remember using this foot crossing. Always looked both ways carefully and hurried across! Must say the locality has certainly developed a lot since as it really was something of a backwater. The coming of the DLR at Greenwich and Woolwich must have acted as a bit of a kick starter.

Known of this place for years, nice one Geoff!

Went to IKEA Greenwich last Sunday and walked over this crossing, thinking "oh wow an interesting railway thing Geoff hasn't talked about yet!". Am not disappointed. Also at the end did you say that it smells of wee or weed? Because both seem to be believable given the area :)

Between Gordon Hill and Crews Hill there is (or was) a foot crossing. Rural.

I have been racking my brain since watching the video trying to remember if there any further foot crossings in London. So far I have come up with the following all of which are in a London Borough. On the West Anglia line via Tottenham Hale there is a foot crossing between Angel Road and Ponders End stations. The entrance is at the end of Pegamoid Road off the B137 Montagu Road. Not been down that way for a while so not 100% sure if is still in use. There also two foot crossing on the Dagenham/Grays branch of the former London Tilbury and Southend Line (now C2C). One is at Rainham, a former level crossing that has been converted into a foot crossing with automatic barriers. The other is at Wennington (although I am not sure if this is within the Borough boundary or not) and is accessed via a tunnel under the HS1 line. The foot crossings on the Romford to Upminster branch have already been mentioned.

I don't live in London I don't use public transport I don't really find trains that interesting but I love this channel and seeing all the quirks and historical weirdness that can be found

3:31 - Insert Ali-A theme tune.

In more "things that are similar but not really" news, there's a foot crossing on LUL infrastructure at Mantles Wood just beyond Amersham station way out there in Zone 9. It's just after the sidings where the London Underground ends and is only used by Chiltern/Freight trains on a stretch of line which feels more like no-man's-land than the Underground as it's basically on the boundary where they hand the track back to network rail. Also: best views of the Thames Barrier are by where you were Geoff. You have to negotiate an industrial estate which stinks of piss, but it means you end up on the side of the river where you can see the barrier with Canary Wharf in the background. It's much nicer than looking at Woolwich. ;)

Nice video thanks very much.

Hi Geoff. There is another railway foot crossing in London. It’s on the Oxted Line between Riddlesdown & Upper Warlingham.

"Londons only foot crossing (except for the other one) " 😂

Fairly certain there’s a foot crossing at Beckenham Junction tram station

London looks wayyyyyyyy safer than the US for road safety. He crouched down for quite a bit in the road and doesn’t seem worried in the slightest of getting hit by a car anywhere in this video

Hi Geoff. We love your videos, you should make a vlog about the East Coast Main Line and fill us up with information about when it was built.

7:45 I bet you were tempted to jump on that train

I don't suppose the paths across Tramlink routes count...?

In Cranham in Havering there is a foot crossing crossing the very fast C2C lines. Footpath goes from St Mary's Lane to Sunnycroft gardens.

Foot crossing across a double main line about half way between Crews Hill and Gordon Hill stations at Enfield. Footpath connects Crews Hill Golf Course and beyond with Strayfield Road, St John's Church and Hilly Fields. Once known as Tingey Tops It would have been a major cart track/footway pre railway days linking the farms towards the Enfield Ridgeway in more agricultural times. Took my 94 year old dad with thick mud for a little off road wheelchairing adventure at the foot of the embankment last year. The steep path down is now little more than the exposed rubble and rocks forming the embankment. We waited safely inside the gate at the side of the track for a train to pass. The driver was surprised to see us and put his hands over his eyes.