Step free, but 5km of walking along corridors

I love watching reactions of random members of the public Finding themselves on camera

It's great that London Underground are putting in step free access. I am someone who struggles with mobility and it's been so daunting to go into London. Out last trip in to the capital was via St Johns Wood (we did *that* crossing before going into the city) and I have to say, the lifts make it so much easier.

At 4:11 you are just casually laying on the floor of a busy station and people are just taking little to notice of you.

I’m an American that hasn’t been to London (or the UK in general) in nearly 10 years yet I love these videos of UK rail transport for some reason 😂

Thank goodness, my wife is disabled and it was difficult for her to go from Victoria Line to Eastbound District Line.

I'm so glad to see step free access all the way to the platforms! In Tokyo they have this as standard for all stations and it makes a world of difference to disabled people and luggage carriers! Fantastic!

Love the tube videos, can't get enough of them and always wish they were much longer

I want to see the edit where Geoff dashes back like a maniac to rescue his camera before someone nicks it!

1:18 just think about how weird it must be for any bystander to see a man set up a camera, walk a few steps away from it and then slide towards (possibly retake the scene a few times) it and talk into the camera while laying on the floor.

Neat little subtle excerpt of those Dan and Dan editing skills at the end, there.

Every time I see a video it puts a smile on my face!

Hadn’t seen this video until today. I worked at Victoria when we were building the new passages and lifts 👍

Lifts are my speciality

I took those lifts when I visited London a few weeks ago on my way to the coach station!

2:00 I'm glad to see that, after you pass through the gate-line, you can access all 3 tube lines. (One trap I fell into, back in 2006, was to go through the gate-line and then look for signs to the platform. I didn't realise that one gate-line leads only to the Victoria line.)

I stayed near Victoria station when I went to London in 2016 and I couldn't stand riding the tube at Victoria station, too congested - so what I did was I walked down to Pimlico station and took the Victoria line from there

The new step-free access at Victoria, is such a great relief to know! Though I was very shocked to find before the 2012 London Olympics, when so very many people would have been flying in through Gatwick, there was no access to the Underground at Victoria except via that long flight of steps. I had contacted TFL to ask, as that had always been a horrendous obstacle for the route between Liverpool Street and Gatwick! Many times, on returning from travels and with heavy bags, I had to walk up Victoria Street very late at night and face a long wait in bitter weather, for a bus to Liverpool Street. Not a very pleasant end to an enjoyable holiday! Hopefully all their lifts will be kept in full working order.

It's honestly a very impressive feat, I remember what a warren Victoria station used to be, especially to get down to the Victoria Line. Sterling work Geoff and TfL.

Young Geoff, you did good work, there, and it's still as clear as mud.

Brilliant that TFL are making progress on step free access.

Slightly confusing? I would be completely lost🤣. Really, I think your explanations are fascinating!

I use that route to get to the Westbound platform all the time, its fantastic and I much prefer it to the traditional route to the sub surface lines

At 7:33 , it reminds me of the secrets of the circle line video !! Also , the circle line runs through Victoria !! Great Job , Geoff !!

Cardinal Place FTW! In the past six years there have been so many improvements to the tubes and stations I use, it’s hard to get my head around it. Such an excellent service.

The lifts from the National Rail concourse to the Tube ticket hall are not obvious. The corridor to them lacks signage to make it obvious. I saw a buggy carried down the stairs as people had missed the lifts. However, the facilities are a big improvement and the next Tube Map should report them.

You should do the crossrail stations once it opens

I've been living in Yokohama for a few weeks now and it's so weird now to see escalators from back home with people standing on the right and walking on the left 😁

I commutes into Victoria between 2005-7 and they were renovating the station then - thank goodness it’s nearly over!

Super awesome. Next time I come in from Gatwick with more luggage than was wise I'll know that LU has me covered.

Cool Video Geoff! I love your videos!

Another brilliant video

Thank you Sir Marshall of Victoria. Knighthood awarded for underground services to mankind.

I went down there to get to the Victoria line the other day because I had noticed the hoarding was finally gone. It takes absolutely ages compared to the normal way, I was wondering where all these corridors are in relation to the old way.

Thanks, very informative video

Looks like someone's gaining an interest in lifts.

Glad to hear they've finally finished. Was at the station when they were doing the upgrade and the escalators were broken so had to drag a 25kg suitcase up stairs from platform to street level 😂😂

Visited this last fall, certainly was helpful with suitcases but a bit complicated, and at times you have to go contra-flow which can be tough.

The first 26 seconds was all I needes

Awesome Hardwork @ Geoff 🙏🍻👍🍺🍻👌🤩😘

I whent through Victoria today was impressed with the refurbishment there is a lot more walking to get to the Victoria line and on the way back I accidentally came out of Cardinal place entrance/exit also there was an elderly woman who was quite confused about the new layout

If I close my eyes you sound like Ray Mears with your voice overs. 😊 Have a great day!

Geoff and his absolute love of lifts

Damn! The refurb looks amazing! Shame I left last December...

I like how he suggests going to visit the new station like it's an outing.

Geoff i wonder what people thought, who this Guy laying on the floor !! Good video big like from Me!!

Another one! Some day all the Stations will be step-free ;)

I always enjoy these videos... even though I live in Birmingham! 😂

I've been to Victoria Station once, 16 years ago. I don't remember anything about it, except that I'd been wandering around for a while and not sure where I was, and I asked a police officer where the nearest station was, and it was Victoria.

About time, the number of times I've had to drag heavy suitcases up those stairs into Victoria station. Should have been done years ago.

I really hope to meet you one day on my London travels

My hip is profoundly grateful

strange way for me, i used vic line for years i just use the stairs from nat rail station. also geoff heard your TL PA at three bridges. nice voice work. hope you get more voiceover work

Nicely done, considering how busy Vic is. Nice doppleganger by the way.

Yes an upload 😍

You have to be careful to take the correct escalators down to the Victoria Line now - take the old left hand ones to go straight down to the platform (and be at the correct end for exiting into King's Cross), take the new right hand ones to walk half a mile around the tunnels before getting to the platform. It's like King's Cross St Pancras, although last time I went through, there was a stand with a flipchart pad on it with a sign saying "Victoria Line - the quick way" and a large arrow pointing to the left.

Many people take the lift when going down in Earls court to the picadilly line. That's why it's huge and has 2 instead of one

More information needed on the lifts. Manufacturer, speed type etc.

As someone who traveled with my husband with a wheelchair 15 years ago, YEAH! Luckily he could walk some, so we did a lot of hauling his empty chair up an escalator. Then settling him in at the other end. Bother.

I was there today!!

Major improvement

Its all about equal opportunities.... now even disabled can experience Southern Rail and their terrible service form Victoria too! If you were unable to use the stairs then you were unable to get to the platform to be told Southern Rail have cancelled your service or on strike.... overcrowding is now for everyone!

Super helpful video Geoff...planning my first tube journey for over two years at the mo...Can anyone tell me - am I right in thinking that Lift D (for Westbound District) is near the new gate line to the right of lifts A+B in the main Victoria ticket hall?

omg im so excited

Hang on... Did I just saw another Geoff walking down the corridor? Or am I hallucinating

Once upon a time Victoria Underground station was a single booking hall with a passimeter straddling the running lines and platforms for the District and Circle lines. It was sited under the arcade that ran inside a building sited between Victoria St and the LT bus station in Terminus Place. Well, that's my memory from 55 years ago as a 7 year old toddling off to school every day by Q & R stock trains. That and the rather wonderful sweet shop, in a corner of the arcade, owned by what appeared to my eyes even then by a surprisingly small of stature Portuguese family. 1/4 of aniseed candy twist please ! No tunnels, no lifts and no Victoria line then. What have they done ?

I was there today using the very lifts

Casey Marshall 😜 Love it 👍🏻

I was coming back from hoilday and the lift were good since i had big luggage.#377 Fan

Just made an interesting connection - you seem to use the same music in both this video and the Battersea Power Station (Station) video…almost like having a new station improvement music, similar to how some tube stations have tile patterns. 😅

I was surprised the amount of main line terminus that don’t have step free or they make it awkward. Waterloo to Euston is a pain. Never understood why there isn’t a ramp into Victoria from the surface.

I try the lift in St Pancras to underground on the Victoria line to Victoria underground station then their new life to mainline station and it makes easier for people from Brighton to st. pancreas via Victoria for disabled people and parents with children as well

Its 15 floors right?

Would be useful if the Network Rail Lifts at Clapham Junction worked more often than they dont (I carry heavy luggage)

When did you do this? I was in London passing through Victoria arriving by train and getting the Tube at Victoria on the 13th.

So are the Victoria works complete then? Shame I didn't know this because I was at Victoria station only the other day!

1:18 and 3:42 Geoff? Are you alright? You just slipped over there. Looks like Victoria Tube Station is a tad slippy with all of its upgrading.

upgraded victoria is now a veritable maze of corridors, stairs and escalators with a lot of redundancy, which is a good thing of course. do they plan to use these parallel routes to control pedestrian flows like in kings cross sp? access to the coach station is still atrocious, with signs from the D&C actually pointing towards the victoria street exit, resulting in a 10 minute walk down buckingham palace road. I suppose that at least separates coach station foot traffic from the main station.

Will you draw a map for it on station master and have you updated the Bond Street map yet?

Geoff - who makes the new lifts? The red/green LEDs on the doors are pretty interesting to let people know when they're closing. Also - the stainless steel is probably much easier to clean and looks sharp.

Yay underground my fav

Great to see Victoria step free now but there's still many other underground stations like Piccadilly Circus or Leicester Sq have no step free access and lifts. Underground have no plans to make both these stations step free access because they are listed building or impossible to build, I guess so?

Was there a double Geoff at the end there? Is it "meta" that people say when that sort of thing happens?

On the diagram at 4:29, why are lifts C and G not aligned? It's off just enough that it's neither obviously a mistake nor obviously deliberate.

They didn’t let you go down the fireman’s lift? Shame...🤪

What's the beeping noise in and around the lifts? Great video!

I'm actually wondering if there will ever be like a travelator at Angel station, as I know that it has one of the longest underground escalators that I know of, and getting a lift there may be quite expensive

Dope!

Is this really the first time we see 2 Geoffs?

Having elevators and escalators is what the Underground looking more like Singapore's MRT system, and the rest of the world will follow suit (At least it's not new in London Underground).

Victoria, hope your listening! ;)

A step-free access to the platforms is all very well. But what about the step between the trains and the platforms. Does LUL intend to fix its platforms to match the floor height of its trains as well?

Have they managed to reinstate the Queen Elizabeth II commemorative plaque in the main ticket hall?

Cool video. But the lifts are too smsll and narrow. Think of London Bridge jubilee line. Three prams, two wheelchairs, a couple of people with heavy luggage: soon a recipe for chaos.

3:03 The colour of the Victoria line on the signage seems a bit too light, for me at least...

Will there be a new station master map?

Victoria is my nearest station

They couldn't have refurbished it with something different than the yellow-white coloured tiles then?

Now the next question is when will Victoria tube station actually look like its finished? i dont think i remember a time when it didnt look like a half finished building site :P

Ehhm your friend from Liverpool could already do step-free to LGW via London Bridge and Thameslink and save a pretty penny in the process ;-)