My dad used to spend a lot of time pushing a measuring wheel thingy around and he reckoned it was like a free pass to anywhere and everywhere.

(Geoff happily trundling a measuring wheel through the city) *TfL construction workers at Bank:* oh look, here's Geoff again, being completely normal 🤔

Ok, I admit i'm going to have to go and measure the distance between the two entrances of Hammersmith aren't I? Just ... to ... be ... sure ... ! But that is a station that has the same name, this is definetely the shortest difference between two stations with two different names.

The fact that Geoff has a measuring wheel is just fabulous!

I'd love to see Geoff using the wheel to find the two tube stations whose entrances are farthest apart.

As another exercise, you maybe want to measure the longest distance between two entrances of the same tube station.

I love how Geoff answers questions I would never have been curious about ... ... but which turn out to be interesting anyway

Geoff needs a hi-viz with "All the Stations" on the back to make him look official

I remember calling it a trundle wheel in school. I think that finding your perfect entrance/exit to bank for your journey is always satisfying

Great video … love the fact you used a measuring wheel! I worked for 42 years in the Valuation Office (VOA) and have used one of those on numerous occasions when inspecting & measuring large areas of land etc. Both those other station entrances are amazingly close to the Bank Station entrances though .. so thanks for showing us how close they really are!

What really matters is, which two stations are closest together that appear furthest apart on the Tube map.

Ha! I once pushed a measuring wheel along the entire length of the preserved section of Great Central. Nothing weird about pushing a measuring wheel along. Totally normal railway enthusiast activity.

I’m still going to claim that whilst officially Back and Monument are separate stations; they really are only one overall station (and we/you should start a campaign to get them officially recognised as such. ) So, I’m going to say that, as far as I am concerned, it’s the Wallbrook entrance of Bank(Monument) Station to Cannon Street Station as the closest between two , separate, stations.,

I know that to all intents and purposes, Monument is effectively a couple of extra platforms for Bank station, just with a different name. Since they've started the upgrade works at Bank, I've felt that although it is physically a seperate station, Cannon Street is essentially part of Bank as well. I suspect in the longer term, that may well actually happen.

If counting Overground, then CrossLizPurp will count soon. Farringdon (eastern end) to Barbican will be pretty close.

I do think that Bank/Monument can be considered as one station nowadays.

You need to put on a hi-vis to avoid strange looks.

I do love the walbrook/bloomberg entrance although i am biased as i worked on it both as an apprentice and a planning manager

Regent’s Park to Great Portland Street are very very close to each other

How Cannon Street, Monument and Bank are separate stations bewilders me

Whatever the topic of the video is, always follows after a few seconds rolling in, a sense of joy and a smile. Thanks for sharing your passion and vision of this reticular and moving world.

72m at that point they might as well just dig a tunnel between the two stations and conect them up

I really admire his dedication to learning everything he can about the Underground. Imagine the help he could give to folks using the tube in person for the first time . . .

We all love the Bonkument complex

If you're classing Monument & Bank as two separate stations (despite the subway connection), then could you say the same for the two Paddingtons (Praed Street and the Hammersmith lines)? Because the ramp into the mainline station is surely a street entrance to the Hammersmith lines, no?

I like how the this video was mentioned in the last video about Bank Station platform closure video and this video is a follow up from that video by measuring the distance between tube station entrances. But it's nice to take the measuring wheel walkies, interesting great video Geoff.

As someone who's original commute was Gillingham to Cannon St, Cannon St to Chancery Lane, I would have needed this forty years ago, to save me getting the tube from Cannon St to Monument, then the Bank to Chancery Lane. Of course, I didn't know better, being a country boy. At least, I think that's what they called me.

100% this is the content I come to KZfaq for

One of the (many) things I love about your videos is that you really don't give a damn about what you do and the many odd looks you must get whilst you're doing it. Wonderful stuff as always Geoff.

Awww loved london worked all round there, threadneedle, old broad st, linenhall, st mary, fenchurch, lime, martin lane, canon, holborn, cheapside, ludgate awwww miss it some great times and great people, thank you city of london 🤍

The way he is brave enough to walk through London with a measuring wheel and people probably walked past him like a phsycopath

Embankment (Villiers Street exit) to Charing Cross morning rush hour entrance next to the Playhouse Theatre on the corner of Embankment Place and Northumberland Avenue is around 80 metres. White City to Wood Lane, Queensway to Bayswater and Regents Park to Great Portland Street are also interesting, but at around 200 metres each.

A true mad lad. I had a look around for the southern platform today and all mention of the northern line is basically gone. The very long up down rollercoaster between monument and bank if you go underground makes this new exit seem worth it for transfers

This has made me wonder how close Charing Cross and Embankment tube stations are to each other as they are very close.

Excellent trundle wheel action

I literally walk those same routes every day. Wish I’d bumped in to Geoff.

Another interesting and thought provoking video Geoff, Many thanks. Other examples of short distances between different stations (although not as short as featured of course) are Euston to Euston Square, Euston Square to Warren St and Great Portland Street to Regents Park, All coincidently also quite close together

A measuring wheel? Love it!

Hi Geoff, was great to bump into you whilst you were filming this video! Thanks for being so friendly and chatty and keep up the amazing content!

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These videos are always very good

This is fantastic information , I want to know this in more Cities 👍

Every time someone mentions Bank station, all I want to ask is why the heck does it have SO MANY ENTRANCES?! 😅

I love that somebody had already wondered about Hammersmith. That was the first thought in my head. Also Towers Hill and Gateway?

Well are Bank and Monument even separate stations or should you see them as one giant interlinked station? I've heard several different opinions on this and I can't tell myself.

It’s true that there’s no underground connection between the two Hammersmith stations, but, growing up there, we never considered them as “separate” stations. It’s probably close to 70m but you will have a very difficult job measuring it with your wheel (due to the traffic). Incidentally, back in the 50s, before Hammersmith Broadway became one-way, my father, a Metropolitan Police constable, would sometimes do “point duty” there (directing the traffic), standing on (iirc) a tiny island built in to the road.

Why is this so entertaining ??!!?! Hot measuring wheel construction action, that's why!

Three cheers for precision ridiculousness!

Thank you for scratching that particular (and sliiightly weird) little itch with a fun video, Geoff! Cheers!

it'd be cool if you could do more on the underground structures of the stations themselves i.e. the layout of tunnels and caverns and the challenges of weaving new stuff into existing structures

Yet again, you make my geek heart beat faster.

Regarding the Walbrook entrance to Bank: you only do it once. It's a tediously long underground walk with few reference points. It seems faster walking overground to the entrance appropriately closest to your chosen line, especially now that negotiating Bank junction as a pedestrian is so much easier. It's a little like (but admittedly not quite as bad as) taking the underground walking link between Monument & Bank. Presumably the underground walk from the new Bank entrance on Cannon Street to the Bank platform will be a similarly featureless underground warren.

A man obsessed ! But very entertaining, so please keep making your videos on such creative ideas like this. 😉

I often use the walbrook bank entrance after getting off a cannon st as it's very handy for the Waterloo and city line.

Very interesting Geoff. Love that you’ve used dot-matrix in your video lol 😆

As someone who worked for LU for 15 years, I can say that Bank and Monument always were (I left a decade ago so things may have changed) one station with the same staff. The supervisor answered the phone "Bank Monument". As an afterthought, what about between Leicester Square & Covent Garden or Queensway & Bayswater?

If you visit Shadwell station, you’ll find the Overground & DLR stations are also very close together!

An issue with going gateline-to-gateline is that (correct me if I'm wrong on this) the Walbrook gateline is down an escalator. The trundle-wheel will be still going up the escalator, so won't be measuring. Also we don't know where the gateline of the Abchurch entrance is because it hasn't opened yet.

So then, what are the two furthest apart entrances for a single tube station?

I regularly used to walk underground between Bank and Monument stations, as they are interconnected. Cannon Street is also only a short walk from Bank along the pavement.

I wondered about Aldgate to Aldgate East, but seemingly that's around 250m, so not in the same ballpark as these!

This is absolute peak geek. Love it 😀👍🏻

In Boston Massachusetts, Park Street station, or Pahk Street as said with a Boston accent, is only about 50 meters from Boylston Street station at the end of the block on the corner of Tremont and Boylston Street

Fabulous video and information Geoff!! This is amazing! Love this so much!

So the two nearest are not Covent Garden and Leicester Square. Why have I been thinking that for the last 15 years??

On the Munich S-Bahn, there are entrsnces to Hauptbahnhof and Karlsplatz , (both coming out on Schutzenstrasse) which are very close, 100 metres if that. Also in Berlin, entrances to Kurfurstendamm and Zoologischer Garten are pretty close.

Had to watch this when I saw the measuring wheel.

So it is basically around 15 floors but horizontally, isn't it? ;)

It's interesting that the two closest tube stations aren't the shortest tube station journeys, I'm thinking of Covent Garden to Leicester Square which are 300m apart but takes about 40 seconds to travel between them.

Which underground station has the greatest distance between two of its exits (based on a shortest walking distance through the station)?

That must be a long underground walk from the new bank entrance to the platforms

In a related matter I researched the shorest track distance between two stations. From what I can find, is that it is Covent Garden to Leicester sq; 260 meters (Picadilly) whilst what I thought it was the shortest, Charing X - Embankment is actully a tad longer at 270 meters.. Because both stations have really difficult and dagerous traffic, to take the tube is in my mind preferable to walking, even if you;re only going between those two stops.

What about Bayswater to Queensway? You can see one from the other.

Loving the wholesome content. Also, what about the difference between Charing Cross and Embankment stations?

I'd suggest that Bank and Monument probably also have the furthest apart entrances for the same station complex, too. Must be more than 1/4 mile from the entrance in Poultry to the entrance in Fish Street Hill!

I've measured (using the Gmap Pedometer site) the *straight line* distance between the entrances to the two Hammersmith stations. It's 58 metres. Even allowing for the slight detour to cross at the pedestrian crossings, I wonder whether it might be a close contest between Hammersmith and Monument-Bank. Time for Geoff to get his wheel out again and go measure it! How does it compare with the distance between Catford and Catford Bridge stations, which are National Rail, and not London Underground? By my measuring (again, GMap Pedometer) that looks to be about 70 metres.

You can get a metal clipboard to accompany the measuring wheel. Makes people give the look of approval

If you are ever stuck for a video subject, I'd be fascinated to know how and where the tube lines have physical connections eg so an engineering train can transfer between lines. Is it theoretically possible for a single train to "visit all the stations"?

Great measure tool Geoff good for future

This is brilliant!

Whenever I see someone pushing a measuring wheel, a voice in my head says, I want that job, no idea what it entails but it always looks a cool job.

The thing that will be interesting to see once it's all open is if it is quicker to go up out of gateline to change at bank/monument than internal change

Aren't Bank and Monument really a single station? Bearing in mind one can interchange between any 2 lines without exiting the gate line - even Central Line to Monument will be quicker via the new shiny Northern Line concourse than by trekking (and climbing) to the new Cannon St exit, just to go 72 metres at street level and back down again. How about Wood Lane to White City? Google maps has that as 0.1 miles. (Yes, I really did just go and look). Alternative question: how far is it between Paddington (H&C, but now Circle) and Paddington (Bakerloo, District and, let us not forget, Circle). Also, which would be quicker - walking or going via Edgware Rd? And is it different depending on which direction you are going? And starting from a Bakerloo line train? And, while I'm here. The Underground map now shows interchanges that can be made at street level. Which is the furthest? Love the channel Geoff.

Someon has probably already mentioned it, but those stairs lead to a public subway. The actual entrance to Monument station is down in the subway. (It's rather like Old Street in that regaee.)

If you were on the District Line and wanted to change to the Central Line, would it be quicker to do the internal 'Monument for Bank' walk along the Northern Line platform or to leave Monument Station and walk to the nearesst entrance to Bank Station?

I always love watching your videos Geoff...

Probably worth measuring the Hamersmith-Hammersmith distance, because it's going to be darn close.

Thank you so much Geoff!!!

Reminds me of the two Rector Street stations in New York. They are literally across the street from each other, with a straight-line distance of about 70 feet. Going to the nearest crosswalk at Morris Street to walk between them is longer! By the way, Apple Maps reports Hammersmith to Hammersmith is about 70 meters, so you may need to check that one.

Talking entrance to entrance but not tube to tube, Sudbury Hill to Sudbury Hill Harrow must be once of the closest?

They should just make Bank and Monument be a single station named Bankument (TM).

What’s the distance between Heron Quays (yes, technically not Underground) to Canary Wharf Jubilee line station?

In Berlin we have kinda the same situation with 2 stations after the split behind Wittenbergplatz westbound. Zoologischer Garten U2 and Kurfürstendamm U1 at the east side are very close together. and because it is the only case I was really surprised as I found this 10-15 years before,

Geoff, if you just needed your hi-vis on to go with your wheel! 🤣

The speed with which Geoff brought this video out is almost impressive. I say almost because we all knew this video was coming the minute Geoff realised the proximity to the Monument entrance in his last video. 😂👏🏻

other Vlogers might open up Google maps, not GM, out with his trusty measuring wheel. Top Work

Just a Geoff taking his wheel for a roll.

you know Geoff, if you put on a Hi-Vis vest when you do things like this no one would give you a second look. It works for me.

I need to book my vaccine, I am searching for a new car, others things to do ... hey, a video with Geoff strolling on London with a measuring wheel ? of course I have to see that now !

Are Bank and Monument really 2 different stations- It was dubious enough when they opened the underground walkways. Now with the entrances overlapping too?