The platform 7 toilets that stay open until 2am at Finsbury Park on the national rail section have saved me and my bladder many, many times after an evening out in central London lasted a little longer than expected. Even when not changing to a national rail train I often make the journey up and down just to use them. They may be disgusting, but at least they exist.

Of course when I visit Farringdon on Friday, this video comes out.

Great history but what a mess!

Most underground stations have now closed their ticket offices and staff facilities associated with them, so they could easily be turned into extra toilet facilities.

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Do you think that trains and Roundels will change colour? Or would it still be Orange.

Naming potential Heavy Metal bands..another string to your bow, Jago! How about Charlie T Yerkes and his dodgy diggers of Death?Also, would digging up bodies in your tunnel be described as dead boring? you certainly have a good (or bad) nose for digging up a good story! 8/10! (and a House point)

Did I spot Fowlers Ghost, or is the theme getting me carried away?

So "Into the cut'n'cover trench of death dug the 600..."

Have you read 'Necropolis', by Katharine Arnold? A truly fascinating, horrifying, and disgusting history of London and it's dead. I thoroughly recommend it. It's superbly researched, beautifully written, and unputdownably horrid.

Or the “non specific suburban relocation” to one’s “perpetual rest.”

A case of graveous bodily harm.

This is an oddly hilarious video, considering the subject matter

Thought this yesterday when travelling round London for a few beers...Alternative measures were required for one penny to spend!

The Bruce Campbell reference.

Your voice put me into sleep 😴😴

Proof that building a railway can turn out to be a grave undertaking.

Your introduction makes it sound as if you’ve had some unwelcome surprises in your new abode?

This silly idea has made travelling from Paddington to Euston much more difficult. It worked perfectly well before, they should never have changed it. I know that sometimes I had to change at Edgeware Road, but the change was not that difficult, but now you have to go from one end of the station to the other. Not easy when you have luggage with you.

Why has Farringdon main line got such a wavy, curved platform?

If you were to do that today you would come up against stiff opposition.

Funny you should mention a heavy metal band kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rNJ7a6iVqdHIdZs.htmlsi=V28SbB2UY7WMPd5W or there's the film from 2003 House of 1000 corpses.

Is this stuff that nearly ended up in the Necropolis video? 😀

The surveyors must have used dead reckoning to lay out the line. ☠

Should have saved this one for Halloween.

Was there a deadline for the video to be posted?

A fascinating story, but one very important detail was left out - what kind of engine pulled the special train full of shareholders and press? I thought this was a rail enthusiast channel!

"enough dead people on the tunnel to make even Bruce Campbell think twice" ... Groovy

Perhaps they should have renamed it the Necropolitan Railway.

When the Tremont Street Subway was built in Boston,there were two major cemeteries on the route,some 900 bodies,were relocated! Also when the Subway in New York,was being built,there were cemeteries,in both Manhattan and Brooklyn! Greenwood Cemetery is one of those relocation areas,from earlier building operations! Lots of gory,and not so gory,Victorian history,on both sides of the pond! Happy Father's Day,Jago,and a most interesting commentary,on a morbid subject! Thank you 😇 😊!

Well Jago, the puns in this one made me nearly choke on my coffee "hardly a grave matter!" saw it come out my nose

Smithfield meat is a horror. That is why I am vegan !!!

Fascinating , Jago. ...& people think transit projects cost an arm & a leg these days...

Conspiracy Theory: The vault is a cover story and the miasma was so thick it ate the flesh off the workers and residents.

Should have listened to that wise old railway engineer, Karl Marx: "Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living." For 'history' read 'underground lines', and for 'tradition' read 'corpses'... 😲

I am impressed at how your delivery stayed Deadpan throughout - I'm certain I would've corpsed.

Very interesting. More grisly tales on the railways pr tube please 😅

Bruce Campbell is the finest man to grace a silver screen All the other actors just degrade his noble scenes

I highly recommend getting a pret subscription for the coffees. Not only do you get coffee, you also get to use their toilets, and Prets are everywhere.

Oh, Jago, won't you have fun when you do one of your regional videos and it's the connection between Leeds City station and Leeds Marsh Lane... Let us put it this way, your peaceful grave is now a railway embankment, and your mortal remains are in it! There's headstones on one side of the embankment, roughly, very roughly where your original grave was. 😅

I loved this and the amount of research you must do

definately interesting

Crossbones Graveyard is at London Bridge and was used for Jubilee line extension works. The grey hoardings saying 'Jubilee line extension' were still there until about 15 years ago...

What a great Father's Day video.

Deadpan delivery when mentioning the Fleet is best.

"We are sorry to the delay to the director's special, this is due to bones on the line"

Love the personification of the River Fleet and the dead

Dealing with a load of skeletons…that’s quite an undertaking, and the relatives might have a bone to pick with those involved 😆 Question: did the vault have a skeleton key 😂

This is a fantastic bit of history I didn’t know about, even though I used to work in Farringdon. Though it would be interesting to see a video about the most popular/common ghost stories from the underground. Halloween special? 🤔

Those puns are criminal sir, criminal I say! Brilliant tho.