Marylebone was originally the terminus of the Great Central Railway which did link to the cities of Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield and Manchester, and later on by the LNER and British Rail regional services until the late 1960s, but the station doesn't serve any of those places these days. Chiltern Railways, which operates from the station nowadays, serves Aylesbury, Bicester, Banbury Birmingham, Oxford, Leamington, Kidderminster and Stratford upon Avon.

Great video. Very interesting and informative. Looking forward to the other episodes.

I believe it wasn't entirely the fault of the old private companies. In the early Victorian period when the original railways were being authorised, Parliament decided they didn't want railways from the north coming further towards the centre than Marylebone Road/Euston Road/Pentonville Road, then quite recently laid out as part of a ring road around the central area which was even more congested back then. This is essentially the line of the northern side of the Circle Line. There were occasional proposals for a grand central station, but these never came to anything, largely due to the amount of property demolition that would have been needed. Alan Jackson wrote a book called 'London's Termini' some years ago which details the history of all these stations. Copies are fairly easily available secondhand.

Beautiful building

Your enthusiastic and gentle tone, easily makes up for the little slips.

Great video talking about the terminals

Of course, Marylebone station is the only one that never features in the Sherlock Holmes stories, even though it’s just round the corner from Baker Street, because it was the last terminus to be built, after the stories were written.

St Pancras was very different before the millennium. Direct services to Scotland ended in the 1970s, Glasgow's St Enoch terminus having closed in the 1960s. The former Midland Railway route through the Peak District to Manchester was also abandoned in 1968, and glamorous named trains and sleepers were a distant memory, leaving a connection to the East Midlands and a Bedford commuter service. Outside of rush hours, St P was a fairly quiet place, and plans to close it were underway as Victorian architecture was held in contempt by modernists. Unthinkable now, but it could have easily followed Euston to the wrecking ball.

Great video. Love running into Aussies in London, there are so many of you here :)

It’s really not possible to say how many terminus stations London has, because it depends on how you count them. I used to reckon fifteen: Paddington Marylebone Euston St. Pancras Kings Cross Moorgate Broad Street Liverpool Street Fenchurch Street Victoria Waterloo Charing Cross Holborn Viaduct Cannon Street London Bridge Broad Street and Holborn Viaduct have since been closed and demolished; that leaves thirteen of my ones still open. There are a number of reasons why some people came up with different numbers: Some counted Victoria as two stations. Some counted Bank because it is the terminus of the Waterloo and City line, which at that time was operated by British Rail. Some counted Blackfriars, I didn’t because it had bay platforms, which were on the East side until the last rebuild, but trains only used these at times when Holborn Viaduct was closed. Some counted Kensington Olympia because it used to have some terminal platforms, there was the !otorail terminal in the North West corner, where the car park is now. There ware also bay platforms at both ends on the East side; I once saw Bertram Mills circus loading up in one of the Northern bays, probably in the early ‘60s. Some didn’t count Moorgate because it wasn’t a BR station. There were also some long closed termini: Spa Road was a retains for a time until the line was extended to London Bridge. It later closed completely but the buildings survive at street level and there are traces at track level where there is access for engineers. Some years ago passengers were evacuated there after an accident. Bricklayers Arms became a goods station for many years until it closed. It saw occasional passenger trains, may mother remembered having caught a special train from there to go hop picking a xlikd, probably in the 1930s. Shoreditch, later renamed Bishopsgate, was the terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway until it was extended to Liverpool Street. It then became a goods station until destroyed by a fire in 1964. Shoreditch High Street Overground Station now stands on the site, with parts of the old walls and Viaduct still visible. I think one thing is certain, we had too many stations.

Sir Gilbert Scott may have worked on some extensions to Westminster Abbey, but the majority of that building existed 500+ years before Scott worked there.

You might want to clarify which Brunel built Paddington.

Marylebone does have intercity mainline train services to Birmingham.

St Pancras, train shed and hotel, best building in london,

Another factor to consider is that, when the railways began, London did not have a "center": It had at least two: The City and Westminster. Consequently, KX, StPan, Euston, CharX, etc. were seen as comfortably in the middle of the two centers, while Paddington and Victoria were considered suitable for access to the West End. Liverpool St., Fenchurch St., Blackfriars, etc. were seen as serving The City. Waterloo was built as a temporary terminus south of the Thames, but LSWR was never allowed to bring its trains into The City. Although proposals were doubtlessly made for connecting the two downtowns with a central steam-powered railway cutting through the center of London, only the Metropolitan and the District were ever built, and only the Metropolitan ever hosted long-distance trains, eventually even building the City Widened Lines now used by Thameslink.

I think you might’ve meant westminster cathedral, as westminster abbey is almost 1,000 years old

And New Yorkers thought two terminus stations were a lot 👻

I would add Baker Street (between Marylebone and Euston) to the list, as the terminus of the Metropolitan Railway, now the Metropolitan Line of the Underground. That it is considered "underground" rather than "overground" is more down to 1930s politics than any actual characteristics of the line, and the decision to group it with London Transport rather than LNER or LMS. The Metropolitan Railway also owned the East London Line and Northern City Line, which were later reclassified as "Overground". The South Western Railway owned the Waterloo & City Line which was considered "overground" up until the end of the Network South East era, even though it is the most underground line in the entire network.

Sir George Gilbert Scott actually designed the current houses of parliament after a blaze that consumed most of the buildings on that land. Westminster Abbey had been there nearly 1000 years befire so he did not design that.

Good video......however...why do Australians end each statement or phrase as though it were a question?

London Paddington and Liverpool Street isn't the top twi busiest train in London. The busiest is London waterloo.

I can't believe you mis-pronounced St. Pancras.

Someone still used Heathrow express?

Much better than Chi Na🎉