That ending was the crossover I never thought I needed
@SamSitar3 жыл бұрын
it was great fun too.
@polarlicht47583 жыл бұрын
I also watch the Whitewicks and Jay Foreman.
@paulknight50183 жыл бұрын
Geoff is a hero, not the hero we deserved but the hero we needed.
@sie44313 жыл бұрын
It's not just for mid 90's NBC sitcoms anymore!
@VulcanTrekkie453 жыл бұрын
And they say Avengers is the most ambitious crossover in history
@TheTimTraveller3 жыл бұрын
ALLOTMENTS
@geofftech23 жыл бұрын
BINGO!
@TheTimTraveller3 жыл бұрын
@@geofftech2 clearly.
@geofftech23 жыл бұрын
@@TheTimTraveller Alignment! (Let's ... not do all the words. Unless you want to??)
@johna56353 жыл бұрын
03:07 Sad thing is... the view from Watford Stadium station towards Watford West... just to the left of the track there, in front of the red-brick building... there's a large open area where people grow vegetables and stuff... can't remember what they call those places!
@jasongarufi81873 жыл бұрын
Nice cameo Time Traveller
@kasparvg3 жыл бұрын
Marvel: Infinity war is the greatest crossover event in history Geoff: Hold my tea
@midnight_styx2 жыл бұрын
More like « Hold my Tube Map »
@keithkellogg60853 жыл бұрын
Geoff, there was something quite heartwarming about that ending, really really well done.
@geofftech23 жыл бұрын
thanks Keith, took a lot of work! totally worth it ...
@SamSitar3 жыл бұрын
@@geofftech2 please do more like it.
@bishwatntl3 жыл бұрын
@@geofftech2 Now I have to go back over the Tim Traveller videos to see if there were any other times he wore a moquette scarf....
@timmatthews7733 жыл бұрын
@@geofftech2 Definitely worth it. A real day-maker. Up there with Choose Carrour. :-) Choose Allotments!
@RobinHillyard3 жыл бұрын
@@Mortimer50145 and Matt Parker ;)
@Pina_Coladas693 жыл бұрын
end game was the most ambitious crossover ever. Geoff: Hold my allotment
@YetAnotherGeorgeth3 жыл бұрын
That ending was the crossover event that was so ambitious it makes Endgame look like a school play!
@michaelatkins80033 жыл бұрын
I remember steam on that line - and Watford Met. also had regular steam shunting as well. The Croxley line was supposed to have been closed back in the 60s, but although services were greatly reduced, the line was kept open in large part because my uncle Ron was very senior management at BR, and couldn't be expected to travel by bus: that timetable showing the early and late trains was drawn up to suit Uncle Ron's expected commuting times, and I was with him on one occasion when they held the train for him because he was late getting to the station!
@RatelHBadgerАй бұрын
Maintaining a timetable to suit one person, is power we can only dream of!
@ldp05673 жыл бұрын
Cheers to everyone in the GMCE (Geoff Marshall Cinematic Universe)
@raphaelnikolaus04862 жыл бұрын
*GMCU. Or *EUniverse (greetings from the continent)
@realityboost440510 ай бұрын
Incredibly moving for me as my parents bought a house on Winton Drive, at the junction of Winton Approach, in Croxley Green in 1966 and I was born there in 1971, growing up with the sound of the tube trains literally going past down the embankment at the bottom of our garden…And indeed my middle name is Croxley. 😔
@marthaanderson26563 жыл бұрын
Love love love the ending, Thank you for an out loud laugh
@PokhrajRoy.3 жыл бұрын
I am loving the cameo appearances 😂
@barttheanorak Жыл бұрын
That word 'never' is so sad. But my one little peeve about the re-opening project (which I was quite excited by) was that Watford Vicarage Road was rather a mouthful. Vicarage Road by itself would have done the job beautifully.
@josephj98283 жыл бұрын
Disney/Marvel: Avengers: Endgame is the most ambitious cross-over ever. Geoff: Hold my allotments!
@geofftech23 жыл бұрын
ALLOTMENTS!!!! :-D
@techauthor3243 жыл бұрын
@@geofftech2 Hold my beer while standing on my allotment! Or was that on the battlements of my castle?
@josephj98283 жыл бұрын
@@geofftech2 As an American, I can't fully appreciate the cultural significance of allotments in the UK, but as a subscriber to almost all of these KZfaqrs, I can definitely appreciate these impressive cameos!
@Ad-gn8pl3 жыл бұрын
That ending was way better than the ending of Line of Duty.
@ToolkiT73UK3 жыл бұрын
And scary enough I got most of the in jokes too.. LOL at the Matt Parker squares
@MrHovis443 жыл бұрын
Geoff is so so good at what he does. From races round the tube to All the Stations. From least used stations to London's lost railways it is all so watchable. And Geoff as a very proud allotment owner....they are not that bad 😁
@willingshelf Жыл бұрын
Allotment!
@kevinwilliams16023 жыл бұрын
As an apprentice in the late sixties, I had a happy time at Croxley Green Sheds working on the old electrics. Thanks for the memories
@AndyKing1963 Жыл бұрын
I used to work on that line. Where the line used to go under the bridge near Watford High Street there used to be an Ice factory (or at least that's what we called it. There was also a siding off the main line going into a power station, which had metal gates across the rails). After the line closed it was amazing to see just how quickly nature took over with fully grown trees sprouting up in the 4-foot within years.
@OkieOtaku3 жыл бұрын
Tim's bit with the piano was great. Then there's "mine just says castles" 😂
@transitimprover3 жыл бұрын
"We didn't see a single allotment...." HAHAHA
@AidanMmusic963 жыл бұрын
There'll be one in the background somewhere...! :P
@jillise29423 жыл бұрын
Yeah, just off the railway on Vicarage Road :-)
@ianbuchanan24613 жыл бұрын
You missed the allotments that are visible from the Ebury way, near the canal towards Rickmansworth, and interestingly the railway on the Ebury way alignment was an electric railway!
@cholten993 жыл бұрын
"You'd think I'd be good at squares" - I LOLd :-D
8 ай бұрын
Great video. I walked past the old Croxley station yesterday. The metal fences have been removed and the shrubs around the stairs have been cut right back, so you can get much closer now
@seanmcguigan41032 жыл бұрын
Dear Geoff, just came across and love the video. Wanted to let you know that there used to be a spur off the Watford to Rickmanworth Branch Line (now Ebury Way) for supply of coal and salt crossing Brightwells and Oxhey Hall Farms to the Eastbury Pumping Station at Hampermill Lane. It was know as the Colne Valley Water Company Light Railway (1933-1968 approx)
@Hmmm76 Жыл бұрын
Makes me feel old, I remember getting the train from Croxley to west Watford on my way home from Durrants. Really stupid thing is if we missed the train we would walk the tracks. Looking back at the things we did then I am surprised to still be alive. Maybe dangerous but really was good times.
@JR-lb7iw2 жыл бұрын
Lovely to see this. I travelled on this branch line in the 1980s. West watford station had a ticket booth near the entrance before going down the flights of stairs. The metal barriers have now been removed from Croxley Green station and so it is easily accessible to walkers.
@thesmity313 жыл бұрын
Great video. I live close by over in Ricky and am getting more involved in local council stuff, and there's some potentially interesting things on the horizon regarding that rail line. Although the met line extension is basically dead in the water now, the idea of a Croxley-Watford rail link is alive and well. The most likely thing to happen will be a light rail link of some kind going from Croxley to Vicarage Road and Watford General and then up to Watford Junction. But if it can be managed I'm personally hoping for one that starts at Rickmansworth (since there is an unused short platform there), goes past Croxley Green tube, stops at the old closed Croxley station, vicarage road, Watford general, the high street/shopping centre, and then up to Watford junction. If this can happen, not only would it greatly increase the mobility across from Ricky and Croxley over to Watford (and vice-versa) it could potentially be the start of a Herts rail network that links up Watford with places like St Albans, Hemel Hempstead etc. So be sure to keep an eye out for developments on that!
@ZeldaFitz3 жыл бұрын
That sounds like a fantastic idea, so it probably won’t happen. Rickmansworth-Watford-St Albans-Hemel Hempstead.
@kevinrayner5812 Жыл бұрын
If they couldn"t afford the Met link then light rail link to St Albans will never happen.
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus3 жыл бұрын
Another great vid.....But this line did see tube trains run over it! There was a depot at Croxley which serviced the Oerlikon, and then class 501, EMU stock. But London Transport also stabled 38 stock Bakerloo Line trains here as well, it also had a Bakerloo Crew Signing-on point. Until the late 1960s every other train along the DC lines to Watford was a Bakerloo Line working. By the 1970s there were only 4 Down trains in the evening with 4 Up the next moring. Three were Croxley crews while one was a Queens Park Depot crew. I rode the last Bakerloo to Watford back in September 1982 and the driver allowed a few of us enthusiast's to stay on board and ride to Croxley Depot. It was acessed via a head-shunt where the train reversed to get into the car sheds. The only other time i rode the line was on the Farewell Class 501 railtour in 1985. Once the 501s had been withdrawn BR closed Croxley and Bletchley maintained the class 313's used on the DC lines from then on........So i wonder what has been built on the old Depot now?.......Maybe that could be a new series of vids...closed depots & sidings?.......
@JeSuisRene3 жыл бұрын
A neat trick you did there with your friends’ cameos at the end. I liked that (and the rest of the video) - thank you Geoff!
@russellmardling7156 Жыл бұрын
Can't stop watching your videos. I have a fascination with lost railways. More please. Love it!!
@geofftech2 Жыл бұрын
you're very kind Russell, thank you! Plenty more in the pipeline ...
@Willopotomas3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant ending! I hope Jay didn't smash his phone in all the excitement haha
@lolfulls3 жыл бұрын
Right by the old Watford Stadium station there are some allotments!!
@agm13 жыл бұрын
As a child in the 1960's I'd regularly travel that line down to Croxley and then walk down to the canal and spend the day fishing, before making the return train journey. Fond memories 😌
@RichardWells13 жыл бұрын
@ Geoff Marshall - Great finish - I laughed like a drain! One of your best! It's sad the Watford connection got derailed: a poignant moment in my decade as a transport press officer, but your piece more than made up for it 😀 Thanks!
@Ro993 жыл бұрын
Was not expecting Half Asleep Chris!!! (Not that that’s a bad thing)
@rogerbrown55583 жыл бұрын
Nor was I, and Bella.
@matthieumeewis3 жыл бұрын
me neither, welcome surprise
@jjandkaz29553 жыл бұрын
Brilliant ending, well done to all those who took part 😂👏👏
@George52103 жыл бұрын
Croxley Rail Link forever in our hearts 😢
@PlanetoftheDeaf3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant ending! The Watford Stadium station was built to keep away fans separate from the home ones, something far more essential in the dark 1980s than nowadays.
@ianburnip3 жыл бұрын
yes, now they just inhabit the O'Neills next to WFJ
@DC4260Productions3 жыл бұрын
Those cameos were priceless.
@teecefamilykent3 жыл бұрын
They where indeed!
@gh18513 жыл бұрын
We didn't see a single ALLOTMENT. How did Geoff's famous subscribers get into this video? Minds blown completely! Geoff, that's amazing 😂👍
@barcancelN23 жыл бұрын
It’s like the huge crossover event was Geoff’s way of making up for the fact that the Metropolitan line extension will not be happening
@thargoff3 жыл бұрын
Glorious ending, that one! The cameo factor is huge...
@andrewholloway2313 жыл бұрын
Geoff, thank you for this video. I have walked along the Ebury Way many times. Great cameo appearances too.
@pickled513 жыл бұрын
Fantastic hysterical ending Geoff! Thank you all for participating.
@Richardincancale3 жыл бұрын
You didn’t include shopping trolley on the bingo sheet :-). And hello to Tim in Paris - and his piano!
@andydd88793 жыл бұрын
As a Watford fan this episode is amazing. Some Watford fans have the Watford stadium platform sign as their profile picture.
@coxallk323 жыл бұрын
Best one yet purely for the end of all the KZfaq legends in one video. 👏👏👏
@anomalousoddity3 жыл бұрын
This vid gave me a lot of joy, I spent so much time in Watford growing up and once went out with someone whose parents had the Abbey Flyer at the bottom of the garden - tbh I'm sure it would've ended before it did if they had not. I especially love the end of this. So much fun. Thanks Geoff!
@TehDragonGuy3 жыл бұрын
Loved this video. I grew up right next to Watford underground and know the area like the back of my hand so this was a nice little throwback. Might have to go visit some of these!
@onlygwill3 жыл бұрын
Me too lol I visit them every now and then
@johnjephcote76362 жыл бұрын
I have gone behind a 2P to Rickmansworth Church Street but never needed to travel to Croxley. I passed it on my way to school (on RT bus) 1959 to 1967 and used to see the Cl.4 tank engine serving the small scrapyard just belong the Croxley station plus the occasional electrics to Watford Junction. It was even rumoured that long again to join up with the Metropolitan.
@michaelx90793 жыл бұрын
Fantastic ....... grew up walking and cycling a lot of the spots in this one.....it's certainly changed!
@nintendopro9666 Жыл бұрын
Great video and also there are pretty easy ways you can on the rails and get a better view of the tracks
@Matt11Brown3 жыл бұрын
Perfect ending!
@Robslondon3 жыл бұрын
Great video Geoff. One of my favorite bits of trivia regarding Croxley Green station is that it a group of suffragettes set fire to it in 1913!
@nemianyamele22653 жыл бұрын
Man that was such a wholesome ending
@nitehawk863 жыл бұрын
The combination of awesome and wholesome. awholesome. No wait...
@mikevince31933 жыл бұрын
Geoff. First time I have commented but I really enjoy your outstanding videos, and have done for some time including the outstanding All the Stations. I worked as Sports Editor of the local radio at the time they opened Watford Stadium, with Elton John on the first train- no surprise there- the station was christened, wait for it 'Hooligans Halt' and it had a walkway though the allotments straight into the area by the visiting supporters area. They ran football specials to the Junction and everyone was then put on a shuttle. Some years later the club turned the stadium round and the away end became the one at Vicarage Road and that was the beginning of the end. Keep up the great work.
@geofftech23 жыл бұрын
MIke, wonderful comment ... that is some top local knowledge, thanks! i shall forever call it "Hooligan Halt!" lol
@alastairwood17453 жыл бұрын
Another great video Geoff, when I walked the Ebury Way recently I was lucky enough to get a Met Line train go past on a bridge as I walked past. If the Croxley Line is never to reopen, I really hope they turn it into a public walk and/or cycle way, it is such a waste just to leave it there. Well done on the "Avengers Assemble" ending too!
@vampireslayer2632 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Croxley Green, and would always pass by the old abandoned entrance to the station, walking by you could peer in to where it once was
@IrishKeshiHead3 жыл бұрын
Huh.. I didn’t expect to have the ending like that! Nice crossover with other travel based youtubers
@trainscranesandtrivialtale72623 жыл бұрын
Idly logged on to KZfaq the second this went live. Great stuff Geoff, love this channel and the cameos at the end! You've inspired me to do something similar here in Northern Ireland. Sadly we have more abandoned railways than active, but it gives me plenty of source material
@TheNixie19723 жыл бұрын
I'm so happy to not read the comments before reaching the end of this awesome video. The genuine surprise was really nice.
@Flybyhacker3 жыл бұрын
Ahh Comedic value in this video just goes the roof. Nice touch !
@Craig.E3 жыл бұрын
Loved all the cameos at the end and Tim's piano bit.
@derekcollier78993 жыл бұрын
I remember that line when there was a steam link from Watford High Street to Rickmansworth ; Good Old days !
@steamsearcher3 жыл бұрын
LOVED IT even with no sound as WE fall out with another computer today!!! David and Lily having an every Disused Station moment with the Whitewicks!!! THANKS!!!
@briancjohnson3 жыл бұрын
Okay, bravo on the ending good sir, and applause for the community that agreed to play along!
@brooklyntrainspotting84643 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video! I love all your videos. I’m so glad I’m not the only person who has an amazing knowledge of trains and likes them to! Keep up the hard work!
@jeantremlett1743 жыл бұрын
Thanks for including Ebury way.
@arthurreeder84513 жыл бұрын
I well remember the last of the Bakerloo red trains being stabled in the old depot that was removed just before the railway turns towards High Street. That road was always interesting as you passed under the Rickmansworth branch turn and then drove over the High Street turn.
@raphaelnikolaus04863 жыл бұрын
I'm dying here! (And probably also gone officially insane, judging from my laughter.) XD
@stephendines19363 жыл бұрын
Brilliant absolutely Brilliant, only ever said that journey once, on my only visit to Vicrage Road, in the 1980s.
@TheEmbeddedHobbyist3 жыл бұрын
We used to walk the old railway line that’s now the Ebury Way back in the 70’s when going to Croxley Moor from the oxhey area. Were it ran past the back of the industrial estate before Croxley Moor, the track used to be covered in heaps of white powder. The powder came through the fence of a cladding factory, always wondered if it was asbestos! But I’m still here 40+ years later so maybe it was harmless. I worked in west Watford from about 76 to the late 80’s but the timings of the trains always meant I had to walk from Watford high street.
@shaunganley3 жыл бұрын
I seriously LOVED seeing all of your friends you've featured at the end!
@Toledo-vh6rz3 жыл бұрын
Great video, I remember back in 1974 when I was 11 I visited the Watford Junction signal box, and was allowed to change the points for the Croxley train when it left Watford high street.
@sabinebogensperger19283 жыл бұрын
Thank you for another brilliant video and the fabulous cameos by your fellow KZfaqrs, love love loved it! 🤩👍
@luxwray48783 жыл бұрын
I remember discovering this with my dad in a walk down the ebury way. Lovely place
@stebesplace3 жыл бұрын
Well thanks Tim for bringing me over, subbed now!
@Hammondfreak3 жыл бұрын
Loved this one. Great content and a comedy ending. What more could you want - an ALLOTMENT perhaps.............well I actually have one !!!
@librarian163 жыл бұрын
There was a spell when a half hourly service was tried. I went on one of these trains and got off at Croxley Green with about six other people. Nobody left the station and we all got back on again and went to Watford Junction.
@geofftech23 жыл бұрын
ha! what year was that? i bet that didn't last long ...
@librarian163 жыл бұрын
@@geofftech2 You do ask awkward questions. :-) I can't remember exactly, but it must have been some time in the 1980s. I was told once that the biggest paying flow of passengers was FROM Watford Junction carrying men going to work at Sun Printers (nothing to do with the Sun paper). Until the late 1950s they printed many magazines.
@christianfischer99712 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing. Croxley Green has such a rich history. Over three million children escaped from London by train on the first few days of September 1939, known as Operation Pied Piper.
@richardjellis91863 жыл бұрын
You never know... With the government looking at old, abandoned rail links, and hopefully re-installing and opening quite a few across the network, this one MAY still see the light.!🤞!. LOVE THE VIDEOS🥰. KEEP 'em COMING🥰🥰. RICH 🥰🥰🥰.
@DerekHartley3 жыл бұрын
Oh that ending! Just... perfect.
@jgodfrey5463 жыл бұрын
A fab finale to a brilliant series, sir! Nicely done!
@boriskourt3 жыл бұрын
A grand finale indeed!
@peter54863 жыл бұрын
Oh the ending to this was just absolutely perfect 😂
@aliendon733 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!! Loved the end, so funny.
@Clivestravelandtrains3 жыл бұрын
There was also a maintenence depot/stabling point served from the Croxley Green branch, which was closed in 1985 or thereabouts. For some years, Bakerloo line trains were stabled there overnight having worked to Watford Junction.
@meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee2 Жыл бұрын
Trains on the DC would sometimes stop on the Bushey Curves where Colne Junction used to be. Doors would open and close (501 slam door stock) allowing members of staff for the shed to jump out of the train, and disappear down a path running along the track bed of the southern angle of the triangle.
@PetertheRock. Жыл бұрын
Excellent! I've walked that area countless times, and just wondered about the mysterious tracks. Who knows, maybe one day we will here the return of the Clickety Clack.
@PokhrajRoy.3 жыл бұрын
This was such a fun episode 😂
@bradster002 жыл бұрын
We used to run down to the tracks when I was at Westfield school back in 2005. The schools field backed onto it. Fun times.
@londongrad5212210 ай бұрын
Hi Geoff, Croxley green station , the gate is open to the station 😂 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So you can go into the station and there are tracks!
@ZacsDashcam3 жыл бұрын
I've walked this stretch of railway when the fence was down (no, genuinely), so much fun to walk along such a recent bit of track. Thanks for covering this one Geoff!
@LondonVisited3 жыл бұрын
I used to use Watford High St station in the early 80s to and from school and the croxley branch was heavily used at school times for pupils to and from schools up that line. Always remember as the trains never quite connected if you had to go southbound! 😂😂😂
@InForObservation3 жыл бұрын
That ending was fantastic. I'd give this video more than one like if I could.
@paulinacyganek74403 жыл бұрын
This video is a much better crossover than MCU, especially that it includes cameos from some of my favourite youtubers. Thanks Geoff, I enjoyed it so much
@MK-of7qw3 жыл бұрын
This looks like it would make a really nice rails to trails project
@tommybirchall16253 жыл бұрын
Absolutely BRILLIANT! 😂 What a mesmerising series and such a hilarious episode!! Thank you all! 🤗 #Allotment
@StuStones3 жыл бұрын
I don’t usually comment but kudos to all the cameos at the end, excellent!!!
@JohnJohn83UK10 ай бұрын
Cheers for this, I noticed this driving trucks around Watford. You should look into the old line that ran from bishops Stortford to Braintree. Really interesting and walkable that I will do one day. Somewhere by dunmow there is still and old carriage in the over growth and towards braintree a station is still in place and used as a cafe. The line would make a very interesting video, showing old pictures as you go.
@timballam36753 жыл бұрын
Worth watching until the end.
@Professor_sckinnctn3 жыл бұрын
My heart is warmed today with the thought of allotments.
@timothynixon94373 жыл бұрын
You should walk the Ebury Way to Rickmansworth, there is the bridge over the Grand Union that still has the imprint of the old rails.