I was so hoping for a link!

Haha - I forgot about that.

Geoff Marshall Sorry, stupid suburbian American here, why make the time stations so deep?

It's not a stupid question. Hampstead station is deep because Hampstead is on a hill and the tube line is more or less level all the way through from Central London. The other two stations are deep because the tube lines (small section tunnels, small trains) were built after the main-line railways and the Metropolitan and District Railways (sub-surface lines, normal-sized trains). They had to go under the earlier lines, the Thames, and assorted sewers, gas mains, hydraulic and pneumatic power supplies.

Geoff mate - would it not have been easier to count the steps going down and then taking the lift back up?

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He climbed the equivalent of three 15 storey buildings, and that's the equivalent of 15 storeys.

@hitter kitten and you don't even have to tell your fellow players which mode of transport you used. encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTxeXGRtp4xx-dU7lK8hTTe1abae9RdQhLoXlnrg5zIygDzewL_jg

Ur house has like maybe 20 steps somet witch is equilivent to a 15 storey building

i know .. that did actually occur to me only as i was uploading it!!

You could have filled that time walking up a 15 story building

Genius!

... in keeping with the theme we can call it “ *15 minutes* ” ⁉️😂

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Too late.

@@Nirrrina he has 103 likes now queen

It's at 1.6k now:(

Its now at 555 likes

I was your 715th like!

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@@bipbipletucha good work

But think about the great workout you'd get?

Your quads would love you for it

Ah, yes, one storey is equivalent to a fifteen storey building.

More exactly like a slightly-less-good-looking brother of Daniel Craig's.

He looks like the love-child of Daniel Craig and Jeremy Renner.

You're right and I don't like it

@@Laurastar2009 OMG thanks I'm not the only one, I've been thinking about it the whole video 😅

More like Tom hardy imo

By that analogy West Hampstead must be about a 20 stories equivalent 🙄

Many tall tales?

It says 'floors' not 'storeys'? Theres a bit of a slope down from the road to the platform and if you are going south you have to use the steps over the bridge. Thats got to be worth at least 4 or 5 floors. Some of the bigger stations probably have a hundred seperate floors? ;)

Not stories. *floors*. Every time there's a pavement break in the floor, it's a new floor. Or perhaps every step could be considered a floor as well.

and east finchley

doens't solve the 17 storyes of hampstead

Nice

The world record for most stories gone through in a single day was set by David Parkerson, who went through 98 stories on september eleventh, 2001.

@@donald12998 Nice

But which one?

I‘m ashamed dislikes aren’t shown on youtube comments

But it's usually for going up in emergencies

They tried SOMETHING like that once at Holloway Road if I remember...a spiral escalator I believe.

Jamie And The Magic Torch style :D

for emergency fun.

Yes, they did try a spiral escalator at Holloway Road. It broke down on its first day of operation. Some components have been salvaged and are on display at the London Transport Museum.

Well, that's the storey.

Or when you're building an empire, so you sign a "99 year lease" on someone else's land

There's a lot of psychology at play with the TfL signage. 15 storeys seems to be the sweet spot for discouraging people from bothering with the stairs while still sounding like a reasonable number. They could have been accurate with Hampstead though.

@@theKobus That's what's used in the Bible mostly, isn't it?

@@theKobus Yup it's from the Hebrew. They have the same expression in Persian, too (or at least early modern Persian, which is what I studied, no idea if they use it in contemporary Persian)

Timmity3 maybe law of diminishing returns, don’t want to scare people off during a real emergency?

@@timotheatae Yeh, I was just thinking this. Do people think 14 stories, that's nothing, I'll give that a go, but 15 pushes it over the limit. It would be interesting to try to find out when this signage was introduced and who suggested it, and what their reasoning was!!!

The best explanation I could come up with is that 15 storeys sits near the bottom threshold of various definitions of a "high-rise" building. Most high-rise buildings in London are residential tower blocks, so a lot of Londoners have a good idea how tall 15 storeys actually is. It's a lot of climbing, but in an emergency it's definitely doable. Putting that number at 20 or more storeys would be pushing this idea into a commercial skyscraper area, the kind you see in the City, and that's more than most people are comfortable climbing, even in an emergency (obviously not talking about "fiery death" kind of emergency, but rather "please move to the nearest exit for no apparent reason" kind of emergency). So 15 storeys is A) close enough to the actual height of the staircase, B) high enough to deter casual use as people who live in high-rises know it's quite a climb, and C) not so high as to deter people from using the staircase in case there's actual emergency.

@@B3RyL I agree with you, however the vast majority of people in London don't live in building with 15 floors, I don't think I've ever lived or worked in a building with 15 floors in London and I've worked in quite a few locations, maybe this is the point. I think it's probably just a generic signage and maybe they bought in bulk and so have the same number of floors on each sign. It is to put people off going by the stairs if they aren't physically capable of doing so. I've worked on the 6th floor and during fire practices had to walk down and back up 6 flights of stairs and that was reasonably challenging. I have walked up some of these stair wells on the underground and they seem to go on forever so shouldn't be taken lightly, especially if you aren't that fit or have a condition.

@@mattpotter8725 16 is right out

Sounds like it time for AN EMERGENCY TEST OF SLINKIES

Me, a troll: You may pass.

Now I have an emergency, I need to see that

When I was last in London, I used the Hampstead station quite a bit. I actually tried to find a slinky and let it go down the staircase. What amazes me is that many of the Tube stations are over 100 years old and are still in good condition.

Try it at Angel on the up escalator.

H0ll0aloio This station is 15 storeys above ground

The northbound platform at Woodside Park is exactly at street level as you get off the train, fifteen floors above the platform.

Or at a street level station.

How about build a station in a skyscraper on the 15th floor

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Simon Langhof of course, what about if you can't go gym and want to do some tricep dips xd

I also found it interesting that it read that! I did think there would be a liability statement so nobody could sue if they got a heart attack or something but they surely shouldn’t restrict people. Why did nobody tell Geoff off?

Well in the news they say that obesity is an epidemic, and that sounds like an emergency to me.

Tried the steps once at Covent Garden when the lifts were out of service...not gonna try again unless I'm in a hurry

Hi Geoff, you've got me wanting to make a special trip to Chalk Farm now, just to check out the signage!! 4 minutes you say to ascend the stairs at Hampstead, I think it might take me a little bit longer!!

That makes much more sense

I got a laugh out of this comment! Hope it gets more likes.

@@Circ00mspice Thank you for the kind words.

@gentuxable str_format("This stairway has {0} steps. Equivalent to {1}", steps, 15);

Damn that must have hurt like a motherfucker

Rafael Sabbat I Beobachter / Observer i

Good point! I think he needs to time himself climbing a 15-storey building, in order to establish a correct benchmark.

That's a storey for another time!

@@guitarslim56, I don't think that it would be the same experience, and take the same amount of time and effort, as climbing a spiral staircase.

I suspect that's quite probably the reason why they do it. A sign effectively saying "it's too far, don't bother" is going to cause a lot less obstruction in an actual emergency than a physical barrier stopping people using the staircase.

Besides, 15 is sort of an approximate average between them all. So make one sign for them all and call it "good enough."

Tomas Antony You act like the Inspector Sands code is bad thing. Would you like to get trampled by running morons because someone threw a lit cigarette in a rubbish bin and there was a small fire? You're off your bleeding nut if you think people will remain calm when someone yells "fire" in the tube. Go put your tin foil hat back on, you spaz.

@@curlybrace314 Except all the signs are different; they display the exact step count and differing texts. The graphics are similar but the content is unique to each location. I definitely think it's a psychological thing.

colin5021 at a cut-and-cover level station!

Scott757300 "Fit in 15 (Storeys)"

Gpcas9 53 Stories

A climbing gag

Oh, you.

UnitSe7en What a thrill

After joke like that, you deserve a charlie horse.

_but how tall is each step_

@@roisinnigcrainn7722 about 15 storeys

I have 13 stairs in my house.

@@M0jibake Well, I hope you have an elevator, too ;)

I was thinking the same thing, too. I was in London, myself in '99 and 2K. I remember when a lot of the walls were filthy. However, if I am not mistaken and if I can remember correctly they still had a lot more city trains still using coal to 'power' their trains. I distinctly remember having to cover my face w/ a scarf while I waited downstairs b/c the smoke was so thick and heavy. My (US) lungs weren't used to all the thick heavy smoke.

@@trojanette8345 The last steam locomotives were withdrawn in the 60s, so it wasn’t coal smoke. Not that the air quality in any big city with lots of motor vehicles is anything to write home about, though.

"beneath ground level" 👌👌

*above ground level Lol

*to the side of ground level

*outside of the environment

*within ground level

This impatient tourist walked the Covent Garden stairs. I'll wait for lift next time.

@@howardchambers9679 Done it too, with luggage.

Howard Chambers has to

Russell Square is "my" tube station when I'm in London, and the reason I stay there is because it's within walking distance from Eurostar so I DON'T have to negotiate tube stations with luggage. I like the Piccadilly line because it takes me straight to Covent Garden), Knightsbridge and South Kensington. But I hate carrying luggage in London tube stations because of all the stairs and elevators.

As someone with difficulties walking... I'll take the lift. I don't think my carer wants to bump me up 15 storeys of stairs!

The average building does absolutely not have en average void of 3 meters.

@@markj2093 He said the void (referring to the height of each floor) is 3.04m, and the thickness of each floor (which you're calling the void between floors) is 0.60m. I'd concur with +Konsultarvode, as my house has floors of about 2.25m. Using these numbers, a storey is 2.85m, and thus is 2.85m / (0.17m / step) ≈ 11 steps. Thus, +Andy Linton's results are off by 1 - (18 steps / 11 steps) ≈ 64%. That is, Covent Garden is 15, Russel Square is 13, and Hampstead is 25. There are definitely buildings with 10' storeys, though, so "X number of steps is equivalent to 15 storeys" seems like a reasonable middle ground.

Nearly all the way there, but you forgot the fact that in a 10 story building, the tenth floor doesn’t have any stairs. So the metric “equivalent to an X story building” is the sum of the stair heights plus 1.

@@TKTGalahad Nice catch! Though I think "equivalent to X storeys" here means "equivalent to climbing from the ground floor to the X'th floor",† so that the number of steps you climb is indeed X × (number of steps per floor), and not (X-1) × (number of steps per floor). This is perhaps seen more clearly in the limiting case, where one says, "I just climbed 1 storey", which surely means that they went up some stairs, and not zero. † _Assuming we're enumerating the floors in the British fashion, starting at 0 (i.e. the ground floor is floor 0, the next floor is floor 1, etc.), and not in the American fashion, starting at 1 (i.e ground floor is floor 1, etc.)._

@@TKTGalahad I think it differs between the UK and Europe as compared with the US way of counting the ground floor as 1.

Taking the joke to the extreme

Matt H too late... he already did 😂

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Try using a wheelchair on the Tube. Nightmare. It’s time it was radically over hauled

Jane Kirk I’m all for accessibility, but the vast majority of people are capable. For the many, not the few. We don’t pander to minorities. There are plenty of stations you can use. If not, then use a bus, taxi or Uber.

@@handsoffmycactus2958 even though the tube is really a nightmare when not fully capable and willing to spend a lot of times in tiny steep crowded passages and stairwells. Here in Vienna there are signs on all stations of a line if one platform is temporarly not accesible by lift but only by escalator and stairs, as we are used to several lifts in every station. There are exceptionally signs on the U-Bahnplan (Tubemap) if a platform is NOT accesible by lift. In London there are signs on the tubemap if a station is accesible by lift. And i think this definitly has to change, giving everyone acces to the major public transport as the tube should be the norm, not the exception.

@@handsoffmycactus2958 So you are not all for accessibility.

equivalent to 15 storey

Same thought...😶

Disco Puppy he’s obviously joking

hey Beth! Welcome aboard! lots of nerdy railway fun here!!

I’ve been told that nerdy railway fun equals Asperger’s syndrome.

As are the ones at Chesham!

DatShortbreadDough Thats what tfl says but I measured them and they are actually 16 floors

Ah, yes, but if you look at it like that, Putney Bridge and East Putney are 15 stories UP.

It's Me we were at Ammersham on the 16th Jan 2018 and will be back again (from Manchester) on the 30th.

Ha ha that was my thought too

DrToonhattan it isn't just you. I too find it highly irritating.

DrToonhattan I suppose this is so trains can run multiple lines

DrToonhattan I thought i read once that the poles on the blue line we deliberately not blue because blue was the hardest color to distinguish while drunk. So pissed pub goers would take the metro late at night, try to grab a pole, miss, fall over and hurt themselves. Could be bullshit though. But still an entertaining thought.

Maurits van den Berg unlikely, as most of the poles on the Piccadilly line are blue ;)

DrToonhattan same

It's a really high platform that one...

Krister L Also, Stamford Brook is equivalent to a fifteen story bunker.

Believe it or not but there is actually a good amount of research behind stair design. All of us have probably at some time in our lives encountered stairs that were designed rather than engineered so to speak. While they may look aesthetically pleasing, walking on them feels weird, unnatural, out of rythm. Steps so shallow it feels more like climbing a ladder or just the opposite, steps so deep it feels like you have to take a step and a half forward to reach the next step up.

Covent garden is barely over 100 years old, I found a construction manual on the .gov archives from 1910 that states a single storey is allowed to be 3.9-4.5 metres tall which would make it have even fewer floors than Geoff calculated if we used the 1907 measurements as a guide

In many places floors used to be taller. Makes sense, if you're building a house with a floor or maybe two, might as well make it grand. But there's no real use for floors taller than 3m - hell, even 2,5m is excessive in typical cases. And since it's now easier to build tall buildings and land is more expensive and valuable, of course they're gonna try to cram as many floors there as they possibly can.

I don't quite see how historical storey heights are of any relevance. Those are signs that have been placed in present times, unlike, for instance, the antique "To The Trains" sign referred to at 2:03.

Person in grey walking left to right becomes someone else in pink 👀

Maybe he's a glass half empty guy

Hayley JS It's not 15 minutes tho. Oh...

Best 15 storey of your life

Probably time to ditch your fella then.

Because the pop filter has Rode (the mic brand) printed on it, but it was upside down for the shot, due to the mounting system.

The mic brand is rhode. I’m guessing this is a joke since so many you tubers have rhode mics and the logo is usually visible.

NBSV1 you cahnt sphell

@@centinoavrilado1405 Guess there's a reason I'm a mechaneck. Was really thinking it was Rhode as in Rhode Island. Guess not. And, your spilling taint match butter.

@@centinoavrilado1405 People who point out spelling mistakes online are fun in real life

Sky Works Racing, Gosh i definitely need a lift for that. Bloody hell.

61cm almost half a metre? According to conventional maths is 11cm more than half a metre.

Or of the authorities consisting mainly of idiots....

Alice Bailey does he change the mic every video?? Lol

Can't just read upside-down? It's RODE. And that's the pop-filter, not the microphone.

r/wooosh

LostName haha I agree r/whoosh

But isn't it Røde? So he forgot the / through the o.

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Probably a corruption of 'Biqoque Forrestier' - a house which may have stood on Enfield Chase as the residence of the cock forester (or chief forester) in Norman times.

Paul Hogan already done that gag.

Ikr! He climbed 45 floors in one day!

Several charities in Las Vegas that hold races up the stairs of the Stratosphere tower. 1,455 steps, equivalent to 108 floors here (810 feet/347 m), or in London 15 storeys. I run it once a year for the past 5 years.

I don't recall him saying that he visited all three stations in one day. He may or may not have done, we don't know. It's all in the editing.

@@bulwinkle he said at the end he'd do the math when he eventually got back at the end of the day, so presumably he did

@@frim3647 45 floors in a day, thats equivalent to a 15 storey building.

It still is mine every time I go to London because it's within walking distance of Eurostar. I'm from Belgium but live in Vietnam, so I tend to fly to Paris, then a train to London, a train to Antwerp, a train (or night bus as I prefer the schedule) to Paris and then fly back home. I love museums so Paris and London are always appealing.

I did similar a few years back. I'm only in London once every few years so I don't know details and when they announced that the lift at Covent Garden was down, we decided to get off anyway - sure what's the worry, we can just use the stairs (picturing the straight stairs up the middle of the escalators in Bank, etc). Lord, I nearly died! After about 30 steps I should have stopped, went back down and went on to Leicester Square, but I was too stubborn to stop and walk past all the people from the train so I kept pushing. I could barely breathe when I got to the top.