Geoff Marshall tours London's yellow line looking for odd bits of trivia...and himself. There's more on Geoff's own channel here: / geofftech2
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@tristanlee60948 жыл бұрын
The ending was absolutely spot on. Well done.
@Triadii5 жыл бұрын
Tristan Lee it’s what Douglas Hofstadter would call “a tangled hierarchy”
@indrearvydasmikelionis81693 жыл бұрын
It was dopeeee
@TheMightyKinkle10 жыл бұрын
I didn't even realise at 0:05 you said 'in a second'. Then at 4:50 when you have come full Circle, it's revealed that you're actually talking to yourself! Incredible
@saturnDean9 жыл бұрын
That was very clever! LOL!
@SamSitar9 жыл бұрын
GroudonKnight how did he do that?
@charliecahill72527 жыл бұрын
TheMightyKinkle I went back to check when I noticed
@robloxgamer99667 жыл бұрын
Yes I no it's crazy
@Mitsiman20246 жыл бұрын
TheMightyKinkle next Friday I am
@SmokeyBCN5 жыл бұрын
4:20 4 years later, Geoff would have a nerdgasm when he finally arrived at platform 4 in HSK on a district line shuttle
@Loghanwolfesin8 жыл бұрын
that was clever at the end, When you went "a second" at the begninning i was waiting for something but very clever indeed
@DRAKONOV8 жыл бұрын
haha, I noticed that too
@TheClunkingFist8 жыл бұрын
I thought you were being 'assled by someone. Like a Big Issue seller or something.
@NazmusLabs7 жыл бұрын
Me too
@IRAQ-OSRS7 жыл бұрын
Loghan wolfesin is
@manlykabz99517 жыл бұрын
Loghan wolfesin Very clever indeed
@johnnywalmer37279 жыл бұрын
Did Anyone else rewind the video to see if he did talk to himself in the first part aswell?
@SamSitar9 жыл бұрын
johnny walmer yes I did.
@franksanteugini41025 жыл бұрын
HE DIDN'T!! i love this vid
@stevelobow5 жыл бұрын
johnny walmer paradox
@anthoniaolloh26745 жыл бұрын
Johnny walmer i did
@aaronthefunnyboi56565 жыл бұрын
Yep
@OfficeMackerel10 жыл бұрын
Very clever at the end, and the intermission. Gave me a giggle!
@wavenine27495 жыл бұрын
To this day, a yellow shirted Geoff can still be seen, riding the circle line for eternity and revealing its deepest secrets...
@davidrogers89110 жыл бұрын
Yet another winner here 10/10 - Much better than a lot of stuff shown on TV. Your work on the London Underground needs making into a full length documentary film
@davidrogers89110 жыл бұрын
Maybe TfL would fund it, just the thing for them to sell in the LT museum shop. It would be a great souvenir for visitors to London.
@malo666 жыл бұрын
David Rogers BECTU wouldn't like it
@iurope4834 Жыл бұрын
1:17 you know a train is good when he approves
@Camzy8410 жыл бұрын
Great addition to spectacular series. My tube journeys have never been the same again since I started viewing this series, keep up the good work!
@barrivia8 жыл бұрын
Brilliant call back to the beginning. I played that back a few times to try and work out what was going on before giving up. Made the payoff at the end even better.
@EinkOLED9 жыл бұрын
This guy is brilliant. He should work for the BBC.
@YukiGersaniba4 жыл бұрын
Maybe for BBC London.
@britannia557 жыл бұрын
I do wish the circle was still a circle, it's a pain trying to find you way around
@jamessmart5167 жыл бұрын
Elaine Higham Edgware Roads a massive pain now
@QuarioQuario543217 жыл бұрын
James Smart yes the announcements are confusing
@wilfstor30787 жыл бұрын
agree
@wilfstor30787 жыл бұрын
I spent ages trying to navigate the circle when my family lived in london for 6 months
@Outfrost7 жыл бұрын
Don't they tell you though, for example, "Circle Line train to Edgware Road via Baker Street and King's Cross St. Pancras"? The 'vias' being a rather unambiguous way to tell which way a train is going.
@Anarchtea10 жыл бұрын
Brilliant as ever, and a time joke! They never get old. Looking forward to the next one.
@TheJackdolgy4 жыл бұрын
I love how Jeff peeks over the bridges to see the trains at the right time so they come in at the same time Its like he summons them
@joeylantis22 Жыл бұрын
Magic of editing :)
@DavidFrankal7 жыл бұрын
I like the groundhog day joke, although the first time you said "In a second, it's time to do the secrets of the circle line", whilst the second time you said "in a second, which means it's time to do secrets of the circle line".
@user-ol4xd6uj3t4 жыл бұрын
you must be fun at parties
@DanStorm710 жыл бұрын
Another great installment to the series. Loved the little editing trick at the end to :)
@allieuhde89566 жыл бұрын
Euston Square moved the gateline to include the lift now, but the barriers are often kept open. I love this station, friendly staff, nice, quieter than most.
@Mattbarson2310 жыл бұрын
Nice one. I've always loved these videos and I can imagine that the deluxe stuff would interest me just as much as everything else :-)
@StrangoFilm6 жыл бұрын
2:17 love the 8 bit going underground
@kappucinokid10 жыл бұрын
Always enjoy your Secrets of the Underground videos.
@banjopiggottwright1802 Жыл бұрын
That Ending was just Incredible, Well Done Jeff 👏
@bb3ca2019 жыл бұрын
i absolutely LOVE these videos. i want to visit london!
@wilfstor30787 жыл бұрын
I love the editing at the end its like going back in time
@nickyruso27868 жыл бұрын
Clever bastard! I love the trick. Excellently presented as always
@jix17710 жыл бұрын
Very interesting + well presented, as always.
@MrALANGILBERT10 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant and very informative and some very clever editing
@dovewayadder82843 жыл бұрын
I love Geoff for all his little imperfections
@macielo10 жыл бұрын
Love these videos. London ♡
@WhitehornMichael10 жыл бұрын
Wow, this series is so good!
@thehole447210 жыл бұрын
Very Informative! Noticed matching Yellow Nikes too
@masterninjahda9 жыл бұрын
That was BRILLIANT! Great video. and thank you for the info and tips!
@masterninjahda9 жыл бұрын
***** Oh yeah....I know....lol. I'm addicted to them....lots of really cool info.
@ednuttah10 жыл бұрын
4:53 Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant!
@EdVanMeyer7 жыл бұрын
Great info on these remarkable pieces of industrial heritage.
@theholymagpie82016 жыл бұрын
Love the twist at the end!! Very informative video too.
@youtube-kanal26065 жыл бұрын
As for the question in the i, I have a different solution: - Circle Line every 5' between Hammersmith and Gloucester Road, and then alternately to Edware Road (like today) or Kensington (Olympia) - Hammersmith&City Line is shut down - District line trains in relation Wimbledon - Edgware Road are extended to Barking, along today's H&C Advantages: - passengers get a direct service from around High Street Ken to around King's Cross St. Pancras, similar to the old Circle line - Kensington (Olympia) would get a proper integration into the Underground network, instead of today's limited shuttle service What do you think?
@KasabianFan444 жыл бұрын
Disadvantages: - It would look rather confusing on the Tube map: you would have both Circle and District lines seemingly going around zone 1 in a circle. Sure, the District line will “break the loop” at Aldgate East and Earl’s Court, while the Circle line won’t, but that doesn’t mean it won’t confuse a lot of people. Remember, many tourists (and even some Londoners!) still get caught out by the two branches of the Northern line - there’s no way these people would find this new sub-surface layout simple. (That is, of course, unless you rebrand and rename that new District line route via Farringdon - Wimbledon & City line perhaps?...) - Your proposal would give a total of 30 trains per hour between Baker Street and Liverpool Street (12 Circle + 12 Metropolitan + 6 Wimbledon & City), as well as 30 trains per hour between Tower Hill and Gloucester Road (12 Circle + 18 District); that’s up from 24 on both sections today. And that’s just during the off-peak - at rush hour that number may be even higher! That kind of frequency sounds great in theory but it’s not practical in reality. No other London Underground line currently runs 30tph in the off-peak, and only some lines just about manage that in the peak. Deep-tube lines like the Central or Victoria line can get away with having such high frequencies because they are entirely self-contained and only have grade-separated junctions. The sub-surface lines, meanwhile, have flat junctions at Baker Street, Gloucester Road, and either side of Aldgate; these junctions would seriously struggle to handle 30tph even at peak times - never mind throughout the day! So in conclusion, this service pattern would be extremely unreliable. - In a similar vein, there would be 30tph running through Earl’s Court station. At least the junctions either side of that station are grade-separated - but the problem here is the track layout. If you study it very carefully, you will notice that going eastbound, none of the 30 trains every hour would be able to arrive/depart Earl’s Court station simultaneously! So essentially you’re again trying to squeeze 30tph onto one bit of track, which drastically reduces reliability. (Weirdly, it wouldn’t be a problem going westbound.) - The single-track section on the Olympia branch is actually pretty long, so if you try to squeeze 6tph (or 1 train every 10 minutes) onto that track, then these trains would have to have ridiculously short turnaround times at Olympia (which causes yet another reliability problem). Sorry if I burst your bubble a little - on paper your plan sounds like a good idea - but unfortunately there are a few technical problems with it 😢.
@a4senal1018 жыл бұрын
All these videos are Fucking great
@thisherecat4black3977 жыл бұрын
Don't forget to type FUCKING. It makes you way cool.
@emilianohaskurti93443 жыл бұрын
@@thisherecat4black397 I Hate That Word
@david-stewart2 жыл бұрын
Mind your language
@a4senal1012 жыл бұрын
Grow up you bunch of babies
@djlawlz40415 жыл бұрын
That was a really good idea at the beginning and end Geoff!! I have to learn to do that end .
@848cars55 жыл бұрын
That was really bugging me that 'in a second' bit, firstly cos i thought it was quite rude that someone would interrupt but secondly that youd left it in... Glad you cleared it up cos i was getting kinda p'd off lol!!!
@GMDpowerman117 ай бұрын
That Loop is still awesome! Well done
@trainfanatic40836 жыл бұрын
I liked what you did at the beginning and the end. ("in a second...") Didn't even notice when I first watched it - now it's so hard to not notice lel
@musicmonkey106 жыл бұрын
such a cool channel...aldgate east - u can see the trains queuing up...also, on the dot matrix board, the hammersmith and city was due in 6 minutes, then suddenly disappeared lol...so got on the train to kc and over the pa, heard that "the dot matrix isn't working properly!...the victoria line was busy (busy station - one escalator!)...oxford circus (victoria line), closed due to overcrowding ...hmm, well one escalator working lol...tottenham court road (where the crossrail is hidden among the signs)...hoburn or piccalilly...lol (where ur videos meet the tourist!)..life on the northern line is fave, keep up the good work!
@Emin78 жыл бұрын
love these vids....used to travel the tube all weekend as a kid on a "red rover". unlimited travel for half a crown in old money, mind you there was'nt a jubilee or victoria line in them days, but i was totally facinated.. i feel like an anorak
@megabus540557 жыл бұрын
Emin7 A red rover was for buses only. What you must have had was a twin rover.
@alexleo1724 жыл бұрын
0:25 Edgware Rd looks like a bus stop for Tube trains
@liamchan_2 жыл бұрын
2:17 Nice _Going Underground_ test card!
@matthehat10 жыл бұрын
Been waiting for this one!
@anairaM822610 жыл бұрын
Yes
@orionjumper991110 жыл бұрын
lol! loved the "intermission". great video btw
@TransportCambs5 жыл бұрын
That ending was superb!
@chriswood64210 жыл бұрын
great stuff, thanks Geoff :)
@zaybar47222 жыл бұрын
Epic video!! The circle line is just so like the metropolitan Line and Hammersmith and city line and even the District line!!!!!
@MrCube1710 жыл бұрын
Addicted to these amazing videos
@Rafael-Matheus964 жыл бұрын
Great beginning and end haha 💫
@EVILBUNNY285 жыл бұрын
Edgware is quite possibly my favourite tune station. I just love all the plants and the tiles and how half the station platform is underground and the other half is open to the sky
@KasabianFan444 жыл бұрын
All the plants? Are you sure that’s not the other Edgware Road station (the one on the Bakerloo line)? Because that station has a “vertical garden” on one of the walls!
@ingelouisaa5 жыл бұрын
I LOVED peeking over the top in south kens! I loved seeing that when I lived there
@TowerGuy10 жыл бұрын
I watched every video on this channel, but I only realise now that you're always trying to match your shirt to the color of the line. That's great! Keep up the good work on this series
@Satters6 жыл бұрын
trainers too !
@martin.feuchtwanger4 жыл бұрын
I thought the secret was going to be "it doesn't really exist" because it's just "yellow" trains running on a collection of other lines.
@leopold75625 жыл бұрын
I spent almost the whole video wondering who had interrupted you at the beginning and why you'd left it in. And then the ending answered everything - completing the circle. Very clever! Certainly more clever than I, seeing as I'm the 12533411589844th person to mention this...
@harrytodhunter50786 жыл бұрын
Question: how do you get charged for your fare if you dont use the barriers on entry, but do on exit?
@dempsey21375 жыл бұрын
2:17 Ahh "The London Underground Song" I see what you did there ;)
@Sean-D784 жыл бұрын
London Underground, London Underground
@railrunners4 жыл бұрын
Or "Going Underground," take your pick
@hanstheexplorer Жыл бұрын
Going Underground
@jefffranklin48945 жыл бұрын
Love the London Underground song in that intermission
@KillerVybz2 жыл бұрын
Well they were probably playing Going Underground by the Jam
@dunebasher19716 жыл бұрын
Have you done a video on exactly why the Circle Line extension to Hammersmith came about? Had a look for one but couldn't see anything.
@fewgrain42455 жыл бұрын
Hi geoff. Was the music for the resoting service the underground song?
@russrh7 жыл бұрын
love your videos (and the hold music version of 'The Jam - Going Underground'!)
@DianeOfori3 жыл бұрын
Kool effect at the end! 😁
@sharonlisaboreham324 Жыл бұрын
Casio interlude of Going Underground by The Jam! Love it!
@frostycreeper10559 жыл бұрын
Aha! I saw that the map you used on ths video still has the Epping-Ongar section of the Central Line shown, the Aldwych branch of the Piccadilly line and the Metropolitan Line which ran up to Brill, Wood Siding and Verney Junction.
@ovaltineforlife47785 жыл бұрын
Not Brill/Wood Siding/Verney Junction.
@matthewverrelli48194 жыл бұрын
That ending was great
@MrFantasnick10 жыл бұрын
I stumbled across you channel a little while ago and I have been loving it so far. Being on the other side of the Atlantic, your videos are currently my only way to explore London and the Underground the way I would like to, looking for the little details that have written the story of the city. I've learned a lot about the fascinating tube system. Looking forward to the next episode! Your enthusiasm is infectous and, if I may add, you're quite handsome too hahaha!
@MrFantasnick10 жыл бұрын
Let me guess...Secrets of the Metropolitan Line and Secrets of the Overground? :P
@MrFantasnick10 жыл бұрын
***** Waterloo and City? From what I understand it's more of a National Rail shuttle than an actual tube line, at least it's what I have been told...
@alexadams333910 жыл бұрын
Waterloo and city is too obvious and it will be too short and they will never have an extension for more stations to make it look interresting
@bondbros732 Жыл бұрын
Love this vid❤❤
@nadirrahman40828 жыл бұрын
love the little buffering video and music
@pdrg7 жыл бұрын
Lovely throw and catch :)
@julianaylor43514 жыл бұрын
Love the test card, and the music is fun.😂
@elitetwistyy97355 жыл бұрын
I went to St James’ Park the other day- the gates had a mind of their own! I saw loads of people who they just opened for, they were open until someone put their ticket in and it closed, it was CRAZY!
@lesremmington-allum63847 жыл бұрын
At Moorgate, Circle Line level, there is a one station sign that is not in the standard London Underground font. Yes, it's geeky of me, but does anyone know how this came to be? It was there in August 2017.
@UKTransport2323 жыл бұрын
Congrats on 1 MILLION views!
@andrewrcoggins2 жыл бұрын
Great stuff
@jordannugara86468 жыл бұрын
You can get the circle line from one platform at Paddington, the ones next to the GWR, stay on it all the way round London and then get off at the sub surface platforms later
@captaincessna78976 жыл бұрын
Very clever editing at the end!
@barreljam10 жыл бұрын
I can see you working for the One Show! Nice informative video.
@absentjake1238 жыл бұрын
no matter how many times i see this i cant help but laugh at the end.
@tanpekhong51978 жыл бұрын
+absentjake123 Yeah
@MikeJones-ce8qh5 жыл бұрын
Euston Square has the same thing as Liverpool Lime street. A lift, down to the platform that bypasses the guards and the barriers
@tobeytransport28025 жыл бұрын
1:15 also the front doors on S stock are smaller than the rest!
@theelectricfanboy13684 жыл бұрын
the windows
@twistedcheese17 жыл бұрын
was the "in a second" you said at the beginning of the video being said to the person watching or was it to someone asking something to you?
@twistedcheese17 жыл бұрын
oh doesn't matter. I didn't see the end part. my phone ran out of charge lol
@SydBarrettsGhost7 жыл бұрын
very interesting series
@smartsearch797010 жыл бұрын
Hi Geoff, loved the series, perfect for an ex commuter like me, 20 odd years was enough though. Just a quick question though,before the Edgware start/ finish, where did the trains start and finish ?
@cardinalsin63134 жыл бұрын
Geoff, I will tell you a secret that even YOU don't know about. My uncle Jim used to service the chocolate machines on the underground in the recent past. Have you ever put money in to one of them and got nothing out? Well they used to be serviced by VI, (Vending Industries) and those chocolate machines which didn't function were known as "money boxes". They were used purposely because they didn't work and they used to be emptied of money straight into the pockets of VI operatives! Every tube station used to have a certain number of 'money boxes'. I, myself had fallen foul in the past of these monsters! So now you know! 😂
@harrymiles26529 жыл бұрын
Hmmm... so Geoff approves a Yellow hoodie on the Circle Line... I use the Overground, so I need to get an Orange and white stripey T-shirt
@SamSitar9 жыл бұрын
Don'tLookOrItTakesYou O.O yes you should.
@joesos5 жыл бұрын
Note his Yellow Nike shoes as well. Maybe you should get some orange & white nike's lol
@sdrawkcabUK10 жыл бұрын
hey guys, love these videos :) just wondering, are you planning to do one's for the DLR, overground & main line lines also??
@sdrawkcabUK10 жыл бұрын
***** lol... true! I'm sure there's a film to be made covering such unknown and unloved stations like Turkey Street and Seven Kings though... ;o)
@marsgal428 жыл бұрын
Rail gap indicator at 2:06. :-)
@ninjaz57368 жыл бұрын
Finally I've found another rail nerd that appreciates knowing stuff!
@jayrayjayme10 жыл бұрын
cool video. had to go back to beginning
@airbusm38010 жыл бұрын
Fantastic 👍
@thebluemxxn3 жыл бұрын
I noticed that on the tube map, the part from Hammersmith to Aldgate/Liverpool Street (top half) is a different shade to the bottom half (Aldgate/Liverpool Street to Edgware Road)
@notbobgeldof54686 жыл бұрын
Did you play the London Underground song during that interval
@ph013nichs57 жыл бұрын
How did u do the circle at Edgware Road?
@toddhunter313711 ай бұрын
Only London could have such a thing that actually don't exist while other cities across the UK are screaming out for such a thing but never get the funding.
@Mattbarson2310 жыл бұрын
1) will the metropolitan line be the next one coming up 2) would there also be videos dedicated to the DLR and London Overground as well 3) Taking into account what you said about keeping the videos at 5 minutes, couldn't you also do a deluxe version which has more if not all the footage recorded :-)
@cengiz2463 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video of why the circle line is always late, has Engineering works, cancelled trains, trains running on average every 11mins. I honestly hated the central line the most untill I started using the circle line. Fyi - Westminster Station trains have a 4 ft height difference when parked next to one another
@OfficialApplied10 жыл бұрын
So does anyone live at 5 Thurloe Square? You wouldn't be able to fit a table in!
@FarlandHowe10 жыл бұрын
Never a dull video. I think you sped this one up after it was all edited. It seems like it was really flying by. It is a good one.
@FarlandHowe10 жыл бұрын
***** Length does not seem to impact the view counts on my channel. Long videos, in fact, sometimes get more views, like 15 minutes. There is just no good logic to it in my experience. Day of the week posted, on a holiday, on a Thursday?
@LaWendeltreppe10 жыл бұрын
Very great ending. It's really a very good series, but I sometimes wish it a bit more slowly filmed and narrated, first to understand it better (for folks with other Mother tongues than Englisch) and second to have more time to digest the many facts mentioned here. PS: How I miss Embankment to change from Northern to Circle and District!