That ending was the crossover I never thought I needed

ALLOTMENTS

Marvel: Infinity war is the greatest crossover event in history Geoff: Hold my tea

Geoff, there was something quite heartwarming about that ending, really really well done.

end game was the most ambitious crossover ever. Geoff: Hold my allotment

That ending was the crossover event that was so ambitious it makes Endgame look like a school play!

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!

Cheers to everyone in the GMCE (Geoff Marshall Cinematic Universe)

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. 😔

Love love love the ending, Thank you for an out loud laugh

I am loving the cameo appearances 😂

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.

Disney/Marvel: Avengers: Endgame is the most ambitious cross-over ever. Geoff: Hold my allotments!

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 😁

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

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.

Tim's bit with the piano was great. Then there's "mine just says castles" 😂

"We didn't see a single allotment...." HAHAHA

"You'd think I'd be good at squares" - I LOLd :-D

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

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)

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.

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.

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!

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?.......

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!

Can't stop watching your videos. I have a fascination with lost railways. More please. Love it!!

Brilliant ending! I hope Jay didn't smash his phone in all the excitement haha

Right by the old Watford Stadium station there are some allotments!!

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 😌

@ 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!

Was not expecting Half Asleep Chris!!! (Not that that’s a bad thing)

Brilliant ending, well done to all those who took part 😂👏👏

Croxley Rail Link forever in our hearts 😢

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.

Those cameos were priceless.

We didn't see a single ALLOTMENT. How did Geoff's famous subscribers get into this video? Minds blown completely! Geoff, that's amazing 😂👍

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

Glorious ending, that one! The cameo factor is huge...

Geoff, thank you for this video. I have walked along the Ebury Way many times. Great cameo appearances too.

Fantastic hysterical ending Geoff! Thank you all for participating.

You didn’t include shopping trolley on the bingo sheet :-). And hello to Tim in Paris - and his piano!

As a Watford fan this episode is amazing. Some Watford fans have the Watford stadium platform sign as their profile picture.

Best one yet purely for the end of all the KZfaq legends in one video. 👏👏👏

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!

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!

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.

Fantastic ....... grew up walking and cycling a lot of the spots in this one.....it's certainly changed!

Great video and also there are pretty easy ways you can on the rails and get a better view of the tracks

Perfect ending!

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!

Man that was such a wholesome ending

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.

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!

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

Huh.. I didn’t expect to have the ending like that! Nice crossover with other travel based youtubers

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

I'm so happy to not read the comments before reaching the end of this awesome video. The genuine surprise was really nice.

Ahh Comedic value in this video just goes the roof. Nice touch !

Loved all the cameos at the end and Tim's piano bit.

I remember that line when there was a steam link from Watford High Street to Rickmansworth ; Good Old days !

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!!!

Okay, bravo on the ending good sir, and applause for the community that agreed to play along!

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!

Thanks for including Ebury way.

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.

I'm dying here! (And probably also gone officially insane, judging from my laughter.) XD

Brilliant absolutely Brilliant, only ever said that journey once, on my only visit to Vicrage Road, in the 1980s.

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.

I seriously LOVED seeing all of your friends you've featured at the end!

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.

Thank you for another brilliant video and the fabulous cameos by your fellow KZfaqrs, love love loved it! 🤩👍

I remember discovering this with my dad in a walk down the ebury way. Lovely place

Well thanks Tim for bringing me over, subbed now!

Loved this one. Great content and a comedy ending. What more could you want - an ALLOTMENT perhaps.............well I actually have one !!!

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.

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.

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 🥰🥰🥰.

Oh that ending! Just... perfect.

A fab finale to a brilliant series, sir! Nicely done!

A grand finale indeed!

Oh the ending to this was just absolutely perfect 😂

Brilliant!! Loved the end, so funny.

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.

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.

This was such a fun episode 😂

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.

Hi Geoff, Croxley green station , the gate is open to the station 😂 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So you can go into the station and there are tracks!

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!

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! 😂😂😂

That ending was fantastic. I'd give this video more than one like if I could.

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

This looks like it would make a really nice rails to trails project

Absolutely BRILLIANT! 😂 What a mesmerising series and such a hilarious episode!! Thank you all! 🤗 #Allotment

I don’t usually comment but kudos to all the cameos at the end, excellent!!!

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.

Worth watching until the end.

My heart is warmed today with the thought of allotments.

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.

Great to see Dan again! (And Dan).