All Tube Stations Have Fifteen Floors

[@geofftech2]

If you like the "Tubespotting" excerpt, then you all definitely need to watch this clip too ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqHIlah_e5h3n7s

[@CBTstreams]

I was so hoping for a link!

[@davekirwin]

Haha - I forgot about that.

[@andrewmorris483]

Geoff Marshall Sorry, stupid suburbian American here, why make the time stations so deep?

[@roderickjoyce6716]

It's not a stupid question. Hampstead station is deep because Hampstead is on a hill and the tube line is more or less level all the way through from Central London. The other two stations are deep because the tube lines (small section tunnels, small trains) were built after the main-line railways and the Metropolitan and District Railways (sub-surface lines, normal-sized trains). They had to go under the earlier lines, the Thames, and assorted sewers, gas mains, hydraulic and pneumatic power supplies.

[@charleschuckfinley3304]

Geoff mate - would it not have been easier to count the steps going down and then taking the lift back up?

[@UKcuber]

In this video you climed 688 steps, which is equivalent to about 15 storeys.

[@mashiroikaze]

I only regret that I have but one like to give for this comment...

[@dawndoherty1]

53 Stories

[@garyb8373]

He climbed the equivalent of three 15 storey buildings, and that's the equivalent of 15 storeys.

[@TomyLobo]

@hitter kitten and you don't even have to tell your fellow players which mode of transport you used. encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTxeXGRtp4xx-dU7lK8hTTe1abae9RdQhLoXlnrg5zIygDzewL_jg

[@LemoncloudGT]

Ur house has like maybe 20 steps somet witch is equilivent to a 15 storey building

[@alex_evstyugov]

This video makes me really happy that I live on the ground floor. If I lived on the second floor, I'd have to climb 20 steps every day. That's equivalent to a 15-storey building!

[@bipbipletucha]

69th like

[@rewrose2838]

@@bipbipletucha good work

[@incognitoatunknown2702]

But think about the great workout you'd get?

[@roisinnigcrainn7722]

Your quads would love you for it

[@Dusterisp]

Ah, yes, one storey is equivalent to a fifteen storey building.

[@John2Ward]

If this video had been just 67 seconds longer, it would have told a 15 minute story!

[@geofftech2]

i know .. that did actually occur to me only as i was uploading it!!

[@12many4you]

You could have filled that time walking up a 15 story building

[@0tto-Gam1ng]

Genius!

[@smallstudiodesign]

... in keeping with the theme we can call it “ *15 minutes* ” ⁉️😂

[@marwanmtb6921]

I’m you 1k like

[@dj1NM3]

Maybe the TFL planners thought "15 stories" sounded intimidating enough that it would encourage people to use the lifts, instead of having the "emergency stairs" full of people going normally to and from the stations?

[@duboc42]

doens't solve the 17 storyes of hampstead

[@Samcomply]

What’s so awesome about this video is: 1) the purity of the joke 2) that you went to each spot, measured, and climbed the staircase 3) you showed math and it seems like you have a love for it, which is awesome. This is just such a wholesome and beautiful video.

[@YixelGaming]

I wonder if the reason behind it is psychological. They employ a lot of subtle traffic control systems to keep people moving maybe they have worked out that by saying 15 stories, it put's people off using the stairs even when the station is busy.

[@poppyEars]

Timmity3 maybe law of diminishing returns, don’t want to scare people off during a real emergency?

[@mattpotter8725]

@@timotheatae Yeh, I was just thinking this. Do people think 14 stories, that's nothing, I'll give that a go, but 15 pushes it over the limit. It would be interesting to try to find out when this signage was introduced and who suggested it, and what their reasoning was!!!

[@B3RyL]

The best explanation I could come up with is that 15 storeys sits near the bottom threshold of various definitions of a "high-rise" building. Most high-rise buildings in London are residential tower blocks, so a lot of Londoners have a good idea how tall 15 storeys actually is. It's a lot of climbing, but in an emergency it's definitely doable. Putting that number at 20 or more storeys would be pushing this idea into a commercial skyscraper area, the kind you see in the City, and that's more than most people are comfortable climbing, even in an emergency (obviously not talking about "fiery death" kind of emergency, but rather "please move to the nearest exit for no apparent reason" kind of emergency). So 15 storeys is A) close enough to the actual height of the staircase, B) high enough to deter casual use as people who live in high-rises know it's quite a climb, and C) not so high as to deter people from using the staircase in case there's actual emergency.

[@mattpotter8725]

@@B3RyL I agree with you, however the vast majority of people in London don't live in building with 15 floors, I don't think I've ever lived or worked in a building with 15 floors in London and I've worked in quite a few locations, maybe this is the point. I think it's probably just a generic signage and maybe they bought in bulk and so have the same number of floors on each sign. It is to put people off going by the stairs if they aren't physically capable of doing so. I've worked on the 6th floor and during fire practices had to walk down and back up 6 flights of stairs and that was reasonably challenging. I have walked up some of these stair wells on the underground and they seem to go on forever so shouldn't be taken lightly, especially if you aren't that fit or have a condition.

[@JK_Clark]

@@mattpotter8725 16 is right out

[@jamesmccann531]

What TFL should do is put a slide down those spiral staircases.

[@BenTheMiner]

But it's usually for going up in emergencies

[@ianmcclavin]

They tried SOMETHING like that once at Holloway Road if I remember...a spiral escalator I believe.

[@stanmarsh14]

Jamie And The Magic Torch style :D

[@PoisonousPen]

for emergency fun.

[@andymadden8183]

Yes, they did try a spiral escalator at Holloway Road. It broke down on its first day of operation. Some components have been salvaged and are on display at the London Transport Museum.

[@mcgherkinstudios]

*This comment section has 1.7K comments* equivalent to 15 floors *Do not scroll except in an emergency*

[@Nirrrina]

Too late.

[@akshitkumar9402]

@@Nirrrina he has 103 likes now queen

[@juliaf_]

It's at 1.6k now:(

[@Sonic_emperor]

Its now at 555 likes

[@shanettequao9043]

I was your 715th like!

[@gr6e]

This dude looks like Daniel Craig if he worked a normal job

[@dv2915]

More exactly like a slightly-less-good-looking brother of Daniel Craig's.

[@Laurastar2009]

He looks like the love-child of Daniel Craig and Jeremy Renner.

[@roisinnigcrainn7722]

You're right and I don't like it

[@LoreleyLz]

@@Laurastar2009 OMG thanks I'm not the only one, I've been thinking about it the whole video 😅

[@Hannah-wx7er]

More like Tom hardy imo

[@ComradeJX8P]

I love how it seems that “15 storeys” is just used as a synonym for “a lot of storeys”, just like you’d say someone is “a hundred” when they are just very old. There’s always a number that takes on an abstract rather than quantitative meaning, and for number of storeys to climb this number is clearly 15.

[@1blisslife]

Well, that's the storey.

[@pgtv14]

Or when you're building an empire, so you sign a "99 year lease" on someone else's land

[@LashanR]

There's a lot of psychology at play with the TfL signage. 15 storeys seems to be the sweet spot for discouraging people from bothering with the stairs while still sounding like a reasonable number. They could have been accurate with Hampstead though.

[@jannikheidemann3805]

@@theKobus That's what's used in the Bible mostly, isn't it?

[@Salsmachev]

@@theKobus Yup it's from the Hebrew. They have the same expression in Persian, too (or at least early modern Persian, which is what I studied, no idea if they use it in contemporary Persian)

[@domramsey]

West Finchley has no steps. That's equivalent to 15 storeys!

[@johnnyvvlog]

By that analogy West Hampstead must be about a 20 stories equivalent 🙄

[@gorillaau]

Many tall tales?

[@Ironbuket]

It says 'floors' not 'storeys'? Theres a bit of a slope down from the road to the platform and if you are going south you have to use the steps over the bridge. Thats got to be worth at least 4 or 5 floors. Some of the bigger stations probably have a hundred seperate floors? ;)

[@sylvibara004]

Not stories. *floors*. Every time there's a pavement break in the floor, it's a new floor. Or perhaps every step could be considered a floor as well.

[@logan-kf6nl]

and east finchley

[@Blue2x2x]

Sign: "This staircase has 198 steps. Do not use except in an emergency!" Me (With a box of slinkies): ...hmmm

[@SuperZeve]

Sounds like it time for AN EMERGENCY TEST OF SLINKIES

[@SagaciousDjinn]

Me, a troll: You may pass.

[@alexia3552]

Now I have an emergency, I need to see that

[@paulkurilecz4209]

When I was last in London, I used the Hampstead station quite a bit. I actually tried to find a slinky and let it go down the staircase. What amazes me is that many of the Tube stations are over 100 years old and are still in good condition.

[@TimpBizkit]

Try it at Angel on the up escalator.

[@uwlodar]

They need to put the “15 floors” sign at an above ground station

[@biponacci]

H0ll0aloio This station is 15 storeys above ground

[@ronaldraygoon]

The northbound platform at Woodside Park is exactly at street level as you get off the train, fifteen floors above the platform.

[@denelson83]

Or at a street level station.

[@isweariwillmurderevilowlso8985]

How about build a station in a skyscraper on the 15th floor

[@djedg10]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3SogqJ5ja-SqdE

[@gentuxable]

TFL sign printing programmer is developing the code: He writes: str_format("This stairway has {0} steps. Equivalent to He stops looks at his co-worker and asks how to convert steps into floors, he says don't know, just put in 15.

[@leland818]

That makes much more sense

[@Circ00mspice]

I got a laugh out of this comment! Hope it gets more likes.

[@gentuxable]

@@Circ00mspice Thank you for the kind words.

[@julien-francoiscollin9843]

@gentuxable str_format("This stairway has {0} steps. Equivalent to {1}", steps, 15);

[@SimonLanghof]

"Do not use except in an emergency" - The need for an emergency workout does count?

[@jacobiscool144]

Simon Langhof of course, what about if you can't go gym and want to do some tricep dips xd

[@BBC600]

I also found it interesting that it read that! I did think there would be a liability statement so nobody could sue if they got a heart attack or something but they surely shouldn’t restrict people. Why did nobody tell Geoff off?

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

Well in the news they say that obesity is an epidemic, and that sounds like an emergency to me.

[@tvlhd]

Tried the steps once at Covent Garden when the lifts were out of service...not gonna try again unless I'm in a hurry

[@ianmcclavin]

Hi Geoff, you've got me wanting to make a special trip to Chalk Farm now, just to check out the signage!! 4 minutes you say to ascend the stairs at Hampstead, I think it might take me a little bit longer!!

[@ARMusicOfficial2004]

The building with the most stories is a Library

[@CAG2]

Nice

[@donald12998]

The world record for most stories gone through in a single day was set by David Parkerson, who went through 98 stories on september eleventh, 2001.

[@CAG2]

@@donald12998 Nice

[@vect0r858]

But which one?

[@pi_]

I‘m ashamed dislikes aren’t shown on youtube comments

[@davidostrowski679]

My appendix burst on a Piccadilly line train on Valentine's Day 2014. I managed to get off at Gloucester Road and go up in the lift to call an ambulance. Later that year the lifts were replaced. It's a good job I didn't have to go up the stairs!

[@icantthinkofausername3572]

Damn that must have hurt like a motherfucker

[@carlin6493]

underground stations: 15 storeys deep street level stations: 15 storeys lifted stations: -15 storeys deep

[@raphaelnikolaus0486]

One thing is missing, Geoff. You should actually go to 15-storey-buildings and show (from the outside) how high they are.

[@michaeldunn9298]

Rafael Sabbat I Beobachter / Observer i

[@guitarslim56]

Good point! I think he needs to time himself climbing a 15-storey building, in order to establish a correct benchmark.

[@stevenhale2935]

That's a storey for another time!

[@_JohnDoe]

@@guitarslim56, I don't think that it would be the same experience, and take the same amount of time and effort, as climbing a spiral staircase.

[@ammieshaw2238]

I'm getting weird nostalgia watching this ajdkfhskd Why do I miss the tube???? Lock down has messed me up

[@memediatek]

I hope youve got to ride it again since :)

[@tlowthion4]

Is 15 storeys the only number where you think it's too many storeys to take the stairs on a normal day.... but the number where is there's an emergency you think "I'm not waiting for the lift.... I'm getting outta here".... I'm sure this is one of the many lies TFL tells us on a daily basis to keep the system flowing..... Inspector Sands Calling.....

[@magnusbruce4051]

I suspect that's quite probably the reason why they do it. A sign effectively saying "it's too far, don't bother" is going to cause a lot less obstruction in an actual emergency than a physical barrier stopping people using the staircase.

[@Lambda3141]

Besides, 15 is sort of an approximate average between them all. So make one sign for them all and call it "good enough."

[@lackedpuppet9022]

Tomas Antony You act like the Inspector Sands code is bad thing. Would you like to get trampled by running morons because someone threw a lit cigarette in a rubbish bin and there was a small fire? You're off your bleeding nut if you think people will remain calm when someone yells "fire" in the tube. Go put your tin foil hat back on, you spaz.

[@imaginekudryavka9485]

@@Lambda3141 Except all the signs are different; they display the exact step count and differing texts. The graphics are similar but the content is unique to each location. I definitely think it's a psychological thing.

[@JoshHarris9395]

As somebody who works in architecture - there is no approximation for the height of a storey anyways. A residential building will have a significantly smaller storey height than a commercial building (mainly due to the floor thickness being considerably larger to accommodate services).

[@andylinton2798]

Your maths is OK, but you've gone the long way around (a bit like using the stairs!). If a 'storey' is defined as 10' (3.048m), and a step is 0.17m, then a storey contains 18 steps (3.048/0.17). So Covent Garden - with 193 steps - is equivalent to 11 storeys (193/18), Russell Square with 175 = 10 floors (175/18), and Hampstead with 320 steps is therefore 18 storeys (320/18). However! 10 feet (3.04m) is only the void between floors. You need to add in the thickness of the floors themselves, which varies, but let’s use an average of 600mm. This means that a ‘storey’ = 21 steps. So Covent Garden is 9 storeys, Russel Square is 8 storeys, and Hampstead is 15. So Hampstead is the only one that’s correct!

[@konsultarvode6527]

The average building does absolutely not have en average void of 3 meters.

[@JivanPal]

@@markj2093 He said the void (referring to the height of each floor) is 3.04m, and the thickness of each floor (which you're calling the void between floors) is 0.60m. I'd concur with +Konsultarvode, as my house has floors of about 2.25m. Using these numbers, a storey is 2.85m, and thus is 2.85m / (0.17m / step) ≈ 11 steps. Thus, +Andy Linton's results are off by 1 - (18 steps / 11 steps) ≈ 64%. That is, Covent Garden is 15, Russel Square is 13, and Hampstead is 25. There are definitely buildings with 10' storeys, though, so "X number of steps is equivalent to 15 storeys" seems like a reasonable middle ground.

[@TKTGalahad]

Nearly all the way there, but you forgot the fact that in a 10 story building, the tenth floor doesn’t have any stairs. So the metric “equivalent to an X story building” is the sum of the stair heights plus 1.

[@JivanPal]

@@TKTGalahad Nice catch! Though I think "equivalent to X storeys" here means "equivalent to climbing from the ground floor to the X'th floor",† so that the number of steps you climb is indeed X × (number of steps per floor), and not (X-1) × (number of steps per floor). This is perhaps seen more clearly in the limiting case, where one says, "I just climbed 1 storey", which surely means that they went up some stairs, and not zero. † _Assuming we're enumerating the floors in the British fashion, starting at 0 (i.e. the ground floor is floor 0, the next floor is floor 1, etc.), and not in the American fashion, starting at 1 (i.e ground floor is floor 1, etc.)._

[@MikeBurke888]

@@TKTGalahad I think it differs between the UK and Europe as compared with the US way of counting the ground floor as 1.

[@marioaddict3]

This video is 833 seconds long That is the equivalent of 15 minutes Only watch in case of emergency

[@Gpcas9]

A running gag? ;-) After all this climbing? :-)

[@dawndoherty1]

Gpcas9 53 Stories

A climbing gag

[@UnitSe7en]

Oh, you.

[@redenginner]

UnitSe7en What a thrill

[@ThePhoenixAscendant]

After joke like that, you deserve a charlie horse.

[@connellylawcoprusjuris4408]

New announcement on the London Underground - "Mind the 15 story gap"

[@cwwhg]

The thing that makes me laugh is the difference in language used on the posters - Covent Garden with its "Do not use except in an emergency" basically says "Oi! Tourist! Naah!" whereas the much more polite "If you have any difficulties walking..." at Hampstead basically translates as "Well, Ok, yaaas, you're a powerful self-determining yoga mum, you can do it!" in perfect BBC received pronunciation 😄

[@howardchambers9679]

This impatient tourist walked the Covent Garden stairs. I'll wait for lift next time.

[@BoStark]

@@howardchambers9679 Done it too, with luggage.

[@a.9100]

Howard Chambers has to

[@ixlnxs]

Russell Square is "my" tube station when I'm in London, and the reason I stay there is because it's within walking distance from Eurostar so I DON'T have to negotiate tube stations with luggage. I like the Piccadilly line because it takes me straight to Covent Garden), Knightsbridge and South Kensington. But I hate carrying luggage in London tube stations because of all the stairs and elevators.

[@theMoporter]

As someone with difficulties walking... I'll take the lift. I don't think my carer wants to bump me up 15 storeys of stairs!

[@adamelsodaney8369]

I remember one tube station with multiple new lifts installed had a Level Minus 15 button to take you to the deepest level platform. I wanna say Bond Street but I don't think it was that

[@cat1554]

Taking the joke to the extreme

[@colin5021]

Time to start a side-line in fitness videos "Geoff's 15 storey workout".

[@Scott757300]

colin5021 at a cut-and-cover level station!

[@ChristopherWoods]

Scott757300 "Fit in 15 (Storeys)"

[@JasonCoulls]

I've been out of the UK since 1998, but watching your videos shows something to me, and it's that someone has finally cleaned up all the walls in the stations. I've always been a fan of the antique glazed tiles that are very prevalent in London, and now they all appear sparkling and shiny again. That makes me happy as it's not what I remember of 80s and 90s London.

[@trojanette8345]

I was thinking the same thing, too. I was in London, myself in '99 and 2K. I remember when a lot of the walls were filthy. However, if I am not mistaken and if I can remember correctly they still had a lot more city trains still using coal to 'power' their trains. I distinctly remember having to cover my face w/ a scarf while I waited downstairs b/c the smoke was so thick and heavy. My (US) lungs weren't used to all the thick heavy smoke.

[@gymnasiast90]

@@trojanette8345 The last steam locomotives were withdrawn in the 60s, so it wasn’t coal smoke. Not that the air quality in any big city with lots of motor vehicles is anything to write home about, though.

[@greghill7759]

This man's enthusiasm for, and knowledge of his subject is brilliant! There's something very comforting in watching two or three episodes with a cuppa, and the inevitable Hobnobs.

[@anthonytawil5038]

I'm not even a train enthusiast but I love your videos!

[@waltertomashefsky2682]

Geoeff Marshall says “Forget Nutri-System, I lost 50 lbs walking up steps at five tube stations each day.”

[@Idokus]

Fun fact: most stories have 13 steps...

[@roisinnigcrainn7722]

_but how tall is each step_

[@boriskalashnikov489]

@@roisinnigcrainn7722 about 15 storeys

[@M0jibake]

I have 13 stairs in my house.

[@Idokus]

@@M0jibake Well, I hope you have an elevator, too ;)

[@borisvallet6033]

I really like the form of edit that's been going on for a few videos now. The sped-up sections with music are well-paced and balance very well with the other bits.

[@sudocheese]

I have about five steps leading up to my house. I'm considering getting a "15 storey" sign.

[@Thoomas2001]

**At Mill Hill East** "This station is located fifteen floors beneath ground level"

[@frostycreeper1055]

"beneath ground level" 👌👌

[@vincentkohlumcfan22]

*above ground level Lol

[@JonnyD3ath]

*to the side of ground level

[@MicraHakkinen]

*outside of the environment

[@surrow6192]

*within ground level

[@Conanap]

when you gotta hit your exercise goals for the week in 1 day

[@iman2341]

Went to school next to Hampstead station, can confirm, never walk up those stairs.

[@bourbon75uk]

Matt H too late... he already did 😂

[@dawndoherty1]

What Side

[@alexia3552]

I don’t know how I got recommended your channel but I loved it and I am subbed. You have the kind of single-minded dedication to something that I absolutely cherish

[@geofftech2]

hey Beth! Welcome aboard! lots of nerdy railway fun here!!

[@Bought_by_the_blood]

I’ve been told that nerdy railway fun equals Asperger’s syndrome.

[@undefined6512]

This staircase has 10 steps, equivalent to 15 floors.

[@jasonbrady4894]

So impressed that this could have been a thirty second video about “wow look the tube stations have wrong signs - look they all say 15 floors but they’re different depths haha” but you managed to turn this into a 15 min video

[@tomscott2.0communisteditio64]

THE STEPS AT AMMERSHAM ARE EQUIVALENT TO 15 FLOORS!!!!

[@charliec154]

As are the ones at Chesham!

[@tomscott2.0communisteditio64]

DatShortbreadDough Thats what tfl says but I measured them and they are actually 16 floors

[@roderickjoyce6716]

Ah, yes, but if you look at it like that, Putney Bridge and East Putney are 15 stories UP.

[@Sion.Ryan.Green.]

It's Me we were at Ammersham on the 16th Jan 2018 and will be back again (from Manchester) on the 30th.

[@lucywhite9479]

Ha ha that was my thought too

[@briancwatson]

I was at Covent Garden on Sunday evening and thought of this video. There was also an announcement about being in proper physical fitness if you were taking the stairs.

[@LeveLUP.]

Gotta love the psychology behind the underground to try and stop people using the stairs

[@TheTibmeister]

Try using a wheelchair on the Tube. Nightmare. It’s time it was radically over hauled

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

Jane Kirk I’m all for accessibility, but the vast majority of people are capable. For the many, not the few. We don’t pander to minorities. There are plenty of stations you can use. If not, then use a bus, taxi or Uber.

[@Wario512]

@@handsoffmycactus2958 even though the tube is really a nightmare when not fully capable and willing to spend a lot of times in tiny steep crowded passages and stairwells. Here in Vienna there are signs on all stations of a line if one platform is temporarly not accesible by lift but only by escalator and stairs, as we are used to several lifts in every station. There are exceptionally signs on the U-Bahnplan (Tubemap) if a platform is NOT accesible by lift. In London there are signs on the tubemap if a station is accesible by lift. And i think this definitly has to change, giving everyone acces to the major public transport as the tube should be the norm, not the exception.

[@ixlnxs]

@@handsoffmycactus2958 So you are not all for accessibility.

[@FeaturesGaming]

It took you 4 minutes to walk up 300 steps? It'll take me 40 minutes!!

[@UltimateShingo]

Geoff, you forgot one thing: The height of one storey changed over the years. It might be just above 3 meters now, but you can find older buildings (at least here in Germany, but I assume similar happens in all of Europe) with storeys up to half a meter or in more extreme cases even a full meter smaller, although those are centuries old. You might have to find out what storey height was usual by the time Covent Garden was constructed to see if at least that claim could have been right.

[@rach_laze]

Covent garden is barely over 100 years old, I found a construction manual on the .gov archives from 1910 that states a single storey is allowed to be 3.9-4.5 metres tall which would make it have even fewer floors than Geoff calculated if we used the 1907 measurements as a guide

[@imaginekudryavka9485]

In many places floors used to be taller. Makes sense, if you're building a house with a floor or maybe two, might as well make it grand. But there's no real use for floors taller than 3m - hell, even 2,5m is excessive in typical cases. And since it's now easier to build tall buildings and land is more expensive and valuable, of course they're gonna try to cram as many floors there as they possibly can.

[@_JohnDoe]

I don't quite see how historical storey heights are of any relevance. Those are signs that have been placed in present times, unlike, for instance, the antique "To The Trains" sign referred to at 2:03.

[@JordanBeagle]

This reminded me of the video Tom Scott did called "The Lies of the London Underground"

[@DrToonhattan]

It might just be me, but I hate it when the colour of the grab poles on the trains don't match the colour of the line.

[@caitthenerd7470]

DrToonhattan it isn't just you. I too find it highly irritating.

[@sujaypatel2298]

DrToonhattan I suppose this is so trains can run multiple lines

[@iwilownyouall]

DrToonhattan I thought i read once that the poles on the blue line we deliberately not blue because blue was the hardest color to distinguish while drunk. So pissed pub goers would take the metro late at night, try to grab a pole, miss, fall over and hurt themselves. Could be bullshit though. But still an entertaining thought.

[@chakornshipp4155]

Maurits van den Berg unlikely, as most of the poles on the Piccadilly line are blue ;)

[@benjeffery1415]

DrToonhattan same

[@stefle]

Your channel is growing so fast! I've been following it for years and I think you deserve it all.

[@birdbot02]

This video is a fifteen storey building

[@smallstudiodesign]

When I lived /worked in UK for a number of architectural firms ... I had to do loads of stair sections and details ... I found the rise & runs quite variable depending upon whether they were escape stairs or ceremonial stairs or everyday use stairs.

[@michaelrobinson166]

Did you know that Centrale tram stop is fifteen stories high?

[@KristerL]

It's a really high platform that one...

[@michaelrobinson166]

Krister L Also, Stamford Brook is equivalent to a fifteen story bunker.

[@J1mmyMack]

But why did you stick RODE to your mic filter??

[@rossamundbrennan7248]

Because the pop filter has Rode (the mic brand) printed on it, but it was upside down for the shot, due to the mounting system.

[@NBSV1]

The mic brand is rhode. I’m guessing this is a joke since so many you tubers have rhode mics and the logo is usually visible.

[@centinoavrilado1405]

NBSV1 you cahnt sphell

[@NBSV1]

@@centinoavrilado1405 Guess there's a reason I'm a mechaneck. Was really thinking it was Rhode as in Rhode Island. Guess not. And, your spilling taint match butter.

[@vect0r858]

@@centinoavrilado1405 People who point out spelling mistakes online are fun in real life

[@EuanBCFC]

8:33 Geoff is Big Shaq

[@milkandduckrailway323]

equivalent to 15 storey

[@nova290r]

Same thought...😶

[@binzy9659]

Disco Puppy he’s obviously joking

[@mikeflaws2226]

Your videos are wonderful, I've greatly enjoyed discovering them today! I've watched all 15 of them and I can't wait for more!

[@alicebailey6345]

You fixed your microphone! Yes! I now no longer need to turn my computer screen upside down to find out which brand of microphone you use every time I watch one of your videos.

[@JonnyD3ath]

Alice Bailey does he change the mic every video?? Lol

[@RoboCoonie]

Can't just read upside-down? It's RODE. And that's the pop-filter, not the microphone.

[@lostname605]

r/wooosh

[@GreenJetsam]

LostName haha I agree r/whoosh

[@birkner510]

But isn't it Røde? So he forgot the / through the o.

[@catherinekilgour2563]

I have watched so many videos where there are comments about a 15 storey building so I was happy when the YT algorithm decided to spit this one out for me to see.

[@beachhouse13]

Please hold on, this bus is about to move the equivalent of a 15 story building.

[@AWWx2]

Your maths are fine, I think. So I subscribed. Very entertaining, and I love learning little facts about London and the UK. Greetings from the USA!

[@RuneBroberg]

As you've encouraged dissent in the comments, I'll just mention that a single storey building has 0 steps, and 15 storey building has only 14 flights of stairs. So you need to add 1 to the calculated number of storeys at the end to match TFLs claim of a "15 story building" (at Hampstead for example). ;-)

[@TKTGalahad]

Rune Broberg I was really hoping someone else was pointing this out!

[@WhiteTiger333]

And is the 13th floor being counted? :D

[@jonl8509]

What about a single storey building with a roof terrace?

[@theregalproletariat]

3:56 That woman in the background just Disapparated...

[@demago3265]

Person in grey walking left to right becomes someone else in pink 👀

[@Scott757300]

This is the sort of video that I’d only expect to see on your channel, Geoff, and they’re always very interesting! Is your standup routine a regular thing or do you have a video or anything? Would like to see it!

[@egg_mittens]

I absolutely love videos and channels like this of people completely nerding out over topics they're really interested in, cuz you know you're going to learn a lot, and they're going to have a lot f fun and it's just so pure I love it. You bring that tape measure, you bring it.

[@nicolasblume1046]

The tube has like the best steps ever, believe me! Very fine steps

[@MicraHakkinen]

Believe it or not but there is actually a good amount of research behind stair design. All of us have probably at some time in our lives encountered stairs that were designed rather than engineered so to speak. While they may look aesthetically pleasing, walking on them feels weird, unnatural, out of rythm. Steps so shallow it feels more like climbing a ladder or just the opposite, steps so deep it feels like you have to take a step and a half forward to reach the next step up.

[@jacksonskyline]

It is NOT the depth of the step it is properly called, “THE RISE”

[@Andrew-yl7lm]

Maybe he's a glass half empty guy

[@thecreator224]

Just as a thing, those 15 storeys at Chalk Farm would be 61cm high. That's almost half a metre! Imagine that!

[@TheSniper9752]

Sky Works Racing, Gosh i definitely need a lift for that. Bloody hell.

[@thomascarroll9556]

61cm almost half a metre? According to conventional maths is 11cm more than half a metre.

[@kimswaden-ward1239]

I took the stairs at Covent Garden yesterday, it’s all your fault.

[@ThatGirlWithTheCoffee]

Were you in a fitbit step challenge or something? That is an ungodly number of steps to climb in one day!

[@frim3647]

Ikr! He climbed 45 floors in one day!

[@dannybau]

Several charities in Las Vegas that hold races up the stairs of the Stratosphere tower. 1,455 steps, equivalent to 108 floors here (810 feet/347 m), or in London 15 storeys. I run it once a year for the past 5 years.

[@bulwinkle]

I don't recall him saying that he visited all three stations in one day. He may or may not have done, we don't know. It's all in the editing.

[@Alistplay]

@@bulwinkle he said at the end he'd do the math when he eventually got back at the end of the day, so presumably he did

[@charliesmithdrummer]

@@frim3647 45 floors in a day, thats equivalent to a 15 storey building.

[@zahria]

It is 33cm to a meter. You are a total hero! Climbing all those stairs ! 25 floors! And likely more. I live in a flat at the 8th floor, and the hight of each is 2,60 meter. Plus 15cm ceiling i guess. I will find out. 3 meters would be pretty high. So you would get even more stories out of it. ( You can google how many is X foot in meters, it will likely show up immidiately . I found out because math's crack me up). Thank you for your terrific trafic videos. They are very much appreciated 🌷 I live in the Netherlands and have Family in Hawarden, Wales. So if i come via London -thanks to you - i won't get lost. Great!

[@hayleyjs4162]

This is brilliant, best *15* minutes of my day

[@MenwithHill]

Hayley JS It's not 15 minutes tho. Oh...

[@britamericaball2505]

Best 15 storey of your life

[@billyunterbuchner9197]

Probably time to ditch your fella then.

[@Looneluxxe]

For some reason last time I went I don't remember those signs stating to only use the stairs in an emergency? There were a lot of people going up the stairs and I can definitely say as a fact there was no emergency... strange. Also I didn't realise just how tall that staircase was, I'm almost proud of myself for basically running up them without getting extremely tired considering my stamina is utter crap...

[@albertbatfinder5240]

There are eight million stories in the naked city; this has been fifteen of them.

[@OneEyedMonkey9000]

You have made me want to go back to London again. Thanks Geoff!

[@MegaFlyCraft]

So, I am not going to check your maths, but I noticed you rounded 13.6 to 13 which was down, but 10.7 went to 11, and 9.7 to 10, then 17.8 to 18. Now I give you the choice either round up or down for everything or round conventionally with 5 and up going up, and the rest down. Not a mixture of both

[@plumtation]

Geoff is clearly employing stochastic rounding to minimise rounding bias.

[@Ynysmydwr]

@@plumtation Wikipedia says that "stochastic rounding is a way to achieve 1-dimensional dithering". Wow! I've been a 1-dimensional ditherer all my life without having ever even *heard* of stochastics. 😃

[@juoig7799]

I guess my parents don't know much about the London Underground because they tried to get us to go down the stairs at Covent Garden once.

[@DH-cm8cy]

to maximise the comical effect of the part of your comedy show about the signs it may be in your interest to put the station with the largest number last. love the vids nonetheless

[@imaginekudryavka9485]

Wait, shouldn't it be the other way around? Since the largest number is actually the closest and most believable. Then you go down the line and show the smallest number last.

[@JoeAriminvm]

Used to work in Hampstead. One day I thought "Take the stairs today, you're getting fat, it will be good for you". Took me 45 minutes to recover

[@ajs41]

What it boils down to is that this is another example of the authorities treating ordinary people like idiots.

[@madbeagle6565]

Or of the authorities consisting mainly of idiots....

[@joshsnaj1282]

This video quality is genuinely engaging and top quality imo

[@garethpauljones1]

Daniel Craig has gone from James Bond to counting stairway steps.

[@firebert123]

This is so wonderful! I moved to the UK a few months ago and was trying to find information on the deepest tube stations while learning about the history and construction of London, and somehow came across this. I love how these little kind of observations of anomalies!

[@clackmannan]

So have you ever asked TFL for an explanation? And if so, what did they say?

[@trojanette8345]

Good Question. I was thinking the same thing, too.

[@princesskyrie]

Russell Square was my “local” Tube stop when I stayed in London in 2012. It was nice to see the building (which is very lovely); I never thought to pay attention to it when I was there.

[@ixlnxs]

It still is mine every time I go to London because it's within walking distance of Eurostar. I'm from Belgium but live in Vietnam, so I tend to fly to Paris, then a train to London, a train to Antwerp, a train (or night bus as I prefer the schedule) to Paris and then fly back home. I love museums so Paris and London are always appealing.

[@JonGilb]

I walked up Covent Garden steps on my way to the all the stations talk. It nearly killed me

[@holdingpointaviation]

What we didn’t account for is any staff stairs that go higher

[@mrtommygunwhite]

there is 4 steps outside my house ho many storeys is that?

[@robwillie226]

mrtommygunwhite 15

[@geofftech2]

Fifteen. Definitely fifteen. You should put up a sign.

[@dickiedavies6870]

Defo 15

[@thomascarroll9556]

That’s just one story and not a very interesting one.

[@terencewatson7277]

1 missing band member and a sad story

[@KimonFrousios]

I've not lived in many appartments in the UK where floor-to-ceiling was 304cm... More like 230cm often. If you plug in those actual UK storey heights in your calculations, you get values much closer to 15 for CG or RS.

[@finnohare]

I say Covent Garden could be right, depending on your definition of a "storey"... Common amount of stairs in a household staircase i.e "one storey" is 13 times by 15 floors = 195, falling just over the amount stated. Although the signs are funny, so I think just dot them around more stations as an Easter Egg of sorts :)

[@gillchatfield3231]

2 stories : Way back I worked on floor 13 at Charing Cross Hospital. So way back you needed to visit a bank and write out a cheque to get any cash. The bank on the ground floor closed at 3pm, so when you remembered at 2.55 that you were out of cash, you could run down the stairs in 90 secs, which was always faster than waiting for a lift. Always waited for the lift on the way back up though. Now, my local parish church has 198 steps to the walkway on the tower. As they're medieval steps I doubt they're an even 17cm, but it will be a good story to tell visitors.

[@NeoMorphUK]

Question: How many floors are there in the stations? Perhaps some floors have really low ceilings. 😂

[@ZGryphon]

Frankly, Geoff, I'm exhausted.

[@JAMGAM-pb9rf]

I’m used to taking the stairs as my local station is Chalk Farm, so when I go up to Hampstead I always have to remind myself the stairs are like climbing a mountain😂. It makes sense when you think about it tho, Chalk Farm is at the bottom of the same hill that Hampstead sits atop.

[@Knight_Astolfo]

"Cockfosters" Sounds like an even worse version of a terrible beer.

[@paulsengupta971]

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[@johnusher1921]

Probably a corruption of 'Biqoque Forrestier' - a house which may have stood on Enfield Chase as the residence of the cock forester (or chief forester) in Norman times.

[@darganx]

Paul Hogan already done that gag.

[@Cpr1234]

8:34 Did you know that 2+2 is four minus one that's three?

[@edcbrooks]

7:50 I see you made the mistake of touching the handrail at Hampstead!

[@ixlnxs]

You an undercover agent or something?

[@dracodrake2973]

R/Madlads for going up all those steps when not in an emergency.

[@djcarbines]

This station has 5 steps equivalent to a 15 storey building 😉

[@Leonards-leopard]

your music is aggressively cheery