We didn't all go through Ashfield House. I've never been there. I went to the railway training centre at White City which was demolished when the Westfield shopping centre was built and the model railway there was magnificent, especially when they took the sides off the signal box bits and you could see all the notched brass rods that mechanically locked the signalling system. A work of art and a superb feat of engineering.

Nice one!! I noticed the mock-up train was based on a 1983 Stock unit from the Jubilee Line. They always had the moquette the same as Vicki's scarf in those units, and originally in the D Stock on the District as well. The blue seats there were unique to that mock-up unit.

West Ashfield must be the highest tube station (above sea level) on the Underground and perhaps on any underground system

The phonetic alphabet (alpha, bravo, charlie, etc) is used anytime you regularly communicate over the radio. The reason for this is to avoid misunderstandings involving similar sounding letters, and to assist if the radio reception isn't strong.

Very enjoyable video, nice surprise to see a new all the stations video. To anyone from the BBC watching, we want Vicki and Geoff at Walford East!

Thank you London Underground For Letting All the Station in, Thanks Goeff and Vicky for this Great Film

I bet we'll be seeing West Ashfield stickers appear on the S-stock maps courtesy of tube guerrillas. Keep an eye out...

Super awesome each time the "All the stations" theme song plays! Sending lots of support from Singapore!

Great video, and loving the return of the theme. Next stop, Walford East? Oh, please try, that would be cool.

How many stairs is it? Is it equivalent to 15 storeys?

Well done you two!! This was a great vid and a wonderful visit to a sim 'real life' training facility!

I so love you both doing the videos together,

9:30 Somebody's a 'Quatermass and the Pit' fan; one of the model railway stations is called Hobbs End :)

I did my driver training at Ashfield House back in 2001. I remember the model railway but the Ashfield West station must be a fairly recent addition. Great video!

Good to see BTP in one of your videos. I visited west Ashfield during some training with BTP. Very cool to see in person. The mirror in the train got me the first time i saw it too.

Was that graffiti on the model trains?? LOL

I really liked this video...!!! You two have great 'chemistry' presenting together! Both naturals!

Hadn’t realised how much I missed this theme tune! Brings back happy memories from last year.

All the stations, half stations, and quarter stations!

Geoff: We've visited every single tube station, _except we haven't_ *vsauce music intensifies*

This pretty much shows you behind the scenes of the London underground... Also its like safety works to learn about safety around the tube❤❤❤

Great video! One for a Hidden London tour maybe? On another note, I love the facial expression of that guy in the lift!

For Walford East, they have the ticket Hall on set then the platform and the D Stock somewhere else (unknown)

It looks like a lot of fun. It's nice to get a brief insight into how TfL staff are trained.

One of the best videos yet! You two are so lucky to have found each other!

Top man that Les! Was one of my trainers at Ashfield House.

Another great video keep up the good work love the all the stations theme music

I love the 'Quatermass and the pit ' reference. Someone is obviously a fan of those films. Hobb's End 😀😀

I used to work from the Underground years ago and they had a training facility very similar to this at 10a Wood Lane, White City which is possibly part of the White City station on the way Hammersmith and City line, now a days. If I remember rightly it was just some track but it didn't have a train on it..

8:45 oh yes, detrained so gracefully. Seriously though, I am so enjoying this video. It is fab.

Since you mentioned the Eastenders station, River City a Scottish soap based in Glasgow has a tube station supposedly on the Glasgow underground. Another one to add to the list.

:( You didn't measure the platform in VIcki steps

Came here from comments on Jago's West Ken video. Never knew aboot this West Ashfield 'station' :-)

1:50... pause it and look at the map, thats an old map cause the olympia service is still full green, not green and white for limited service

Goodness, I remember overhauling those Drivers Handsets when I worked at the SOS Lillie Bridge (West Ken) 1979-1983. They came in a wooden box in those days which we used paint with varnish.

Please tell me this was on the 15th floor 🙂 Yet another great video, and I love their attention to detail (esp the fan)

This one is the most fascinating video of your underground series. Thank you for showing us around the training facility.

my brother and i chose those colours for that district line macket . he chose black and brown and i chose being younger yellow and orange . my father had just died . i was 5 and my brother was 7 . he felt very angry at the time . i like the design . was very 70,s .love all your rail and transport vids . brill . thank you with love x.

That was fab. Thank you both.

This reminds me of the Longmoor Military Railway, where they had an even more elaborate model railway system to train (principally) their signalmen (although they were called blockmen, to distinguish them from private soldiers in the Royal Corps of Signals).

This was so interesting, I was hoping you'd made it inside West Ashfield!

I was so excited to see an All the Stations episode! I miss these.

Loving the 1983 stock.

Hey guys I am loving this series. I want to do the same here in the New York City metro area. We have a bunch of lines might be fun. Keep up the great work!

I think there used to be an earlier training model railway, possibly in 0 gauge, used mainly by signals trainees, there would be details in one of the London Transport Magazines.

Very interesting, never heard of this before even when I lived just opposite the building in West Ken. Sure you don't need me to tell you this, but you do a good video, very professional and well made - a lot helped by the relaxed and informal, personable and well informed presentation.

Cool video Geoff and Vicki, nice to see the all the stations theme back.

I’ve been to West Kensington for my vacation and it was where we would get on everyday from our hotel. I never thought you would mention the very station!

Lovely video Thank You.

Great video, and a fab piece of tube-trivia!

Is West Ashfield the least used tube station?

So is West Ashfield the shortest platform on the underground?

There are some continuity errors on TfL's part, the platform dot matrix indicator says Metropolitan line whereas everything else, as far as I can tell, is District based!

I like how there’s a fan to actually simulate the wind.

This was great to see! I think that is soo cool that they let you guys check that out! The fan, the clock, the bench...everything...only thing missing was a trash bin (unless I missed it). And it was funny to see the small model trains with the graffiti on it. And I agree with Geoff..check out the EastEnders "station". And question for Geoff..which station has been filmed the most? Movies, tv programmes, videos... Thanks!

Oh how I've missed that intro music...

This is the most amazing thing I have ever seen, so TFL

absolutely brilliant reconstruction

That's a 1983 tube stock replica, Vicki's scarf is the correct one for that train.

Good to see me old mate Les Moody getting his 15 minutes of fame 👍

Upset emoji. This was offered after the Marsh Barton new station video. We all miss Vicki....

Love the mock up 1983 stock train.

I did slightly cringe at the reading out of the Signal ID (As a PTS Holder and MOD 5 Tester, you use the Phonetic Alphabet on everything, from Signal IDs, to Relay Bases and Wire Terminals). If you were to go to Derby, they have a training centre at Signet, which is full of trackside equipment, such as points, signals, track circuits and even a model Relay Room and Panel. Not exactly a ‘station’ like West Ashfield, but still really interesting if you wanted to learn about trackside equipment.

Please, please, please do a "Top 10 Stations in the UK" video from your travels. Can't think of a better 2 people to judge this

I think they only use a ticket hall - from memory they used East Finchley once and sometimes use a mock up D stock on EE

This is a nice video. thaks.

So as you ascertained West Ashfield is possibly the least used station on the network will around 2,000 passengers passing through each year.

Love how the model tube carriages have model graffiti on.

Yes, you should do the Walford station too! 👍

Pretty sure they have a map outside of Walford East with the station added to the map on the EastEnders set you should definitely go and try to visit it!

Reyneke Designs designed both West Ashfield Station and the model railway. They used to have three awesome videos on KZfaq, which I linked to from the Wikipedia article for this station: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Ashfield_tube_station Sadly, some killjoy has removed all three videos from KZfaq. I was hoping to post all three links so that everyone could have a look at the concept models. I'm sad that you didn't video the model railway, as the choice of station names is quite interesting. Hobs End (the station that was under construction in a Quatermas story) is the one that most people recognise, but it would have been good to have seen the entire route of the railway and hear the faults that they use it to demonstrate.

How About Vauxhall Cross from 007 Die Another Day

I like how everyone in the lift turns away from the doors and faces the back. Reminds me of a human psychology experiment I heard about a while ago.

It looks very clean for a mock-up station

Vicky looking good here, she look tired now, all the early mornings

Lol. The first thing I did was download this song. I love it. It’s amazing

I wonder if someone has a model railway of the underground? It would be tricky (and expensive) to create but it’d be a great thing to see.

Great videos

Very informative. Again

How very interesting! Do you guys have plans to come and film Moscow subway some time?

Next time you do the fastest stations thing Geoff and Vicki should do it together. Might take take a little longer of course. Some shopping along the way, a few coffee breaks, maybe a pub lunch, a candlelit dinner before the theatre.....

there is also a half built fake Baker Street Tube station in Riga, it was meant to be used in the filming of the soviet Sherlock but the episode never made the final film.

I’m reckoning West Ashfield, is really on the Isle of Wight.

Great video.

A training facility with a detraining facility. With trains. So many possibilities there.

Very interesting...

I wish you would have filmed some more of the model rail!

It's like an amusement park event with a very real practical purpose.

at 9:29 would that be an S1 Stock? would be good of that exist for Acton Shuttle if that was still around :p

You should have asked the tube driver at West Ken. if he was going to stop at West Ashfield!

For the model railway they could of used the S Stock model by a model railway company called Bachmann

Hang on - so what happens if you choose West Ashfield when playing Mornington Crescent? 8o.

I was there today on some training

So Ashfield House was named after Lord Ashfield, Managing Director and Chairman of the Underground Group. So is it more than a coincidence that there is a road called Ashfield Parade, very close to the superb Southgate Underground Station, which opened in 1933, during Lord Ashfield's time in office?

That was fascinating! Are you looking forward to Maghull North opening...?

Boy Your the only man(and woman) that visited all 271 station

Walford East replaces Bromley-By-Bow on the tube map

That was a very interesting video.

To the Eastenders Tube station!

West Ashfield. TICK!!!