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We’ve talked a lot about London’s core urban rail services such as the Tube, the Elizabeth Line, and the Thameslink, but what about the massive network of suburban rail lines of the city? Let’s take a closer look.
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Special thanks to Tyson Moore & Martha Lauren for helping with this video – it was a doozy to put together!
the only problem is that some of the older lines get really really hot in the summer especially. It is actually unbearable sometimes
6:33 – Stockholm's Arlanda Express goes at up to 125mph (200km/h), though I will acknowledge that Heathrow Express is quite impressive!
Do a video about the Basel S-bahn and suburban network . Its an international s-bahn😮. Would be cool ðŸ«
You will have no idea for how long I have been waiting for this video
Anyone else notice the thumbnail to the latest Jago Hazard video? What a coincidence! 😅
I wonder if a grey squirrel could easily sneak onto a train.
Form memory I tried to guess all the stations in the first 5 minutes, enjoy:
00:11, Leicester Square
00:13, Abby road
00:16, queenstown road (Battersea) ?
00:22, Farringdon
00:46, Baker Street
01:02, Stratford
01:11, London Bridge
01:32, Finsbury Park
01:34, not a station but I was crossing over that bridge on a train last week
01:54, at pancreas international (themslink)
02:11, Abby road again
02:27, chlapham junction
02:37, Paddington
02:40, London Waterloo
02:45, London Liverpool Street
02:50, London Bridge
03:02, Chalpham junction
03:07, Queenstown road (Battersea)
03:16, London Paddington
03:23, Abby road
03:24, Moorgate (tube)
03:53, not a station but if you are interested in the subject Jago Hazzard made a good video on it
03:58, Queenstown road (Battersea)
04:35, City themslink
04:40, Queenstown road (Battersea)
04:47, Acton mainline?
04:52, Queenstown road (Battersea)
04:55, Stratford
05:10, St pancreas international (themslink)
05:17, Canning Town or custom house
Actually, the AirPort Express train in Oslo operates at speeds of up to 200 km/h. Hehe
Citymapper Citymapper Citymapper. The absolute best app for navigating London. Was heading out to Greenwich recently and it mapped out the route perfectly. Missed a train at Charing Cross due to a wrong turn down a tunnel and it rerouted me to another train including platform number leaving like 6 minutes later.
Not totally convinced why the Battersea Power Station extension wasn't further extended to Clapham Junction .
Southern class 377/7s are also dual power for going up to Watford junc and beyond
Fun Fact: the public footbridge at 1:34 – The shot from the canal of the line heading into Marylebone Station – is currently unaccessible due to renovation works along that side of the Regent's Canal towpath. (Or it was as of April this year. Works may have finished, but it's London so……)
8.56 Finsbury, not Finchley Park
You need to add Osaka/Kansai to London and Tokyo for your list of 'most complex suburban network'.
Great video, but I think you missed a trick in not stressing the role of Clapham Junction as a coordinator for Southern and Southwestern networks (esp given your fondness for 'shoulder stations')
Well done. I travel up to and around London fairly regularly, and it's mind-bogglingly complicated at times. At least I can tap in and out of pay gates with a maximum charge or but a ticket to London with all 6 zones included for trams, busses and tubes.
CHELMSFORD MENTIONED 🗣
The entire length of the video my german mind is thinking about how one would turn this into a giant S-Bahn Network
When I lived in London, my Southern station had a train every 15 minutes, which sounded nice, until I realised every second train went to either Victoria or London Bridge, so my commute would always drastically change depending on what time I left lol
13:53 that East Croydon – Watford Junction service used to be much longer, it’s been extended and shortened many times over the decades. I think it went something like this:
– Gatwick Airport – Rugby
– Brighton – Rugby
– Brighton – Milton Keynes Central
– Three Bridges – Milton Keynes Central (?)
– East Croydon – Milton Keynes Central
– East Croydon – Watford Junction (current)
Sometimes the trains might only run as far as Clapham Junction at the southern end.
London, like the rest of the UK, is a dump, appropriately suited to the Brexitmuppets who define its festering mess.
With a network that huge, maybe they should just move to a numbered system! There are so many services, many competing, that is must take quite a lot of time to unravel it all. Is this due to the privatization schemes from Thatcher and onward, a relic of past eras in which multiple companies built lines, or both? It's quite impressive, but there must be s simpler way to brand it all.
The Hertford Loop trains now all terminate at Stevenage which has a dedicated terminal platform for them and a dedicated route clear of the Kings Cross to Stevenage/Peterborough/Cambridge line.
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This is all possible or because so many competing companies built their termini in London. These built lines offering alternative routes out of London which have now been largely integrated.
Best transit and best city I have seen hands down.