The Jubilee Line: An Architectural Tour

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[@anianii]

4:27 "This section was entirely new when it was built" is a great quote indeed. Very informative, thanks 😂

[@paulsengupta971]

"I was born at a very young age."

[@thomasburke2683]

If you don't like things new when built, you can opt for a Colonel Stephens railway, where everything was at least secondhand, eg old coach bodies used as station buildings, when the stations were built on a shoestring. If Stephens had not been careful with money, the lines would not have been built, thus depriving the population of a rail service.

[@mattfiretrainer3412]

You could do an entire channel dedicated to the architecture of the London Underground

[@patrickgomes2213]

I can picture him making a note in his ideas journal. In my head, it’s leather bound and filled with notes for future episodes.

[@alanclarke4646]

​@@patrickgomes2213he probably has several full ones! 😁

[@paulhaynes8045]

Don't tempt him!

[@NickyMitchell85]

I agree ☝🏻.😊

[@mdhazeldine]

As an architecture nerd, I would love more videos like this. Starting with a Jubilee Line part 2. You gave a lot of time to the old section and then just gave the whole new extension a cursory mention at the end, when I would argue it is one of the most significant things to happen to the Underground in the last 25 years. You could honestly fill a whole episode for each station as there are some really great examples of modern architecture here, but a part 2 to cover Westminster to Stratford would be an OK consolation I suppose.

[@CarolineFord1]

yes totally. The extension is the interesting bit - and it's too late for brutalism.

[@brian9731]

And not the merest split second of my Canons Park. Jago, I am disappointed in you, you're better than that. My actual house was in Geoff Marshalls "Least Used ... Jubilee ... " video.

[@tonysplodge44]

Never noticed before that Willesden Green is right out of the Farringdon design book. Fond memories of growing up in Wembley in the 1960s - waving to drivers when we stood on the Barn Hill footbridge over the Bakerloo line. Don't think they ever waved back.

[@smorris12]

Love the cut through diagram of Baker Street: takes me back to my well thumbed Thunderbirds annuals which had amazing cut throughs of all the craft, Tracy Island and anything else they could think of.

[@johng5474]

A really good round up of LU architecture . I think we should remember that Charles Holden, as a an employee of London Transport was also trying to cut costs where he could. Simple clean buildings designed to do a job with just the right amount of flair was very cost effective as well as beautiful to look at. Your last point about the architecture reflecting the view of the period is spot on. The JLE shows the underground as a working machine keeping the city moving, not a country house we hope the neighbours won't complain about.

[@pj_naylor]

🎶 "They call it Neasden, you won’t be sorry that you breezed in. The traffic lights and yellow lines, the illuminated signs all say welcome to the borough that everybody's pleased in" 🎶

[@cappuccinodriverno1]

Positively perfect in every way . Thank you

[@andyhall7032]

"this train terminates at stanmore" is arguably the thing I most associate with the jubilee line.

[@colinriley123]

It would be of interest!

[@00Zy99]

que fashionable! Yet another masterpiece from the master. Every thought for other videos here sounds highly desirable. Architectural tours of each line. Tours of each station (already ongoing). And everything in-between (signalling, trains, etc.)

[@isashax]

Yep, interested in seeing more videos like this! Thanks Jago!

[@jijichooo]

It’s all fun and games until you get to Westminster

[@RichardFraser-y9t]

Its all squeals and bangs until you get to Westminster

[@Georgehillier2014]

It's old and rusty until you get to Westminster

[@yurialtunin9121]

Was travelling a lot Jubilee line in the past. From Stanmore to the city centre. And now I know the whole story behind those stations.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

The chimera of architectural style is always exciting to learn about.

[@londonerwalks]

Nice video! I have fond memories of growing up in the Wembley Park area and taking the Jubilee Line to meet my girlfriend (now wife) at Stanmore, where she lived. I must be old, because I still remember when the trains terminated at Charing Cross.

[@roderickmain9697]

The new bits have a certain feeling looking at how London was actually constructed. Huge steel beams and concrete with the tube line threading its way through and behind the wainscotting. Its as if you've broken through the earthy surface to the Magaretheran structure below. You become the hi-tech rats of the modern London.

[@rollinwithunclepete824]

I enjoyed seeing History by tube. More please.

[@tantaf123]

Another great Jago video!

[@grahampaulkendrick7845]

I really enjoyed this one. 'Superceded by cars? What were they thinking of?'

[@pierrecaron8731]

They were thinking about cars.😛😜

[@johnm2012]

Vested interests, mostly.

[@tubaterror]

marvellous! another line please.

[@coreforce9872]

jubilee line passengers when they go from green park to bond street: 👂 💥💥💥

[@SunShine-dk6rk]

Does anyone remember the old Ticket office at Kingsbury Station and the old Maroon tubes, opposite was the old Arcade and the Record shop Record Parlour, id get my Stranglers Records from there, thanks for a super upload, Best wishes to Jago, loved ones and fellow viewers.

[@MrAsBBB]

Oh Jago, Loved this one. When I saw Kingsbury I just had to view as I grew up in Kingsbury , went to school in Kenton, lived in Kenton. It touched my heart. It brought back a flood of memories. Thank you.

[@RichardFraser-y9t]

" This section was entirely new when built.... " yeah?

[@09philipr]

Another short but very sharp essay on a part of the network with which I feel a deep historical connection; many thanks. 👍 More of the same? YES PLEASE!

[@simonwoods4268]

When young, and visiting my London living cousins, I always got excited when I saw an underground station (still do). So more videos on the architure of said staions, please.

[@PeteG143]

Love this different style - you could say it has evolved along with the tube lines you examine

[@Peter_Box]

Please carry on with Tube architecture videos, Jago. Very interesting to us.

[@trevorelliston1]

Another excellent piece of social history, at which you excel. More please.

[@jayja45]

I’m very glad there was adequate funding for the JLE, some of my favourite architectural style on the whole system is the contemporary brutalism it has.

[@flippop101]

Thank you for an excellent video. I would definitely like to see more on the subject of architecture / design and railways. Great idea!

[@benshelton5230]

Loved this, would definitely be interested in a series covering architectural styles along other lines

[@SeverityOne]

The styling of Dollis Hill looks remarkably much like what I've seen on photos of Berlin, but I can't for the life of me find them online. That rounded shape with the equidistant overhang.

[@phaasch]

Do do more of these, Jago - just about every tube line, (if not Underground, per se) is an essay in social history, even if that essay is broadly similar.

[@Jimyjames73]

All of your Vids are interesting Jago - that is why I always watch out for them 😉🙂🚂🚂🚂

[@robinjones6999]

I have a fond memory of Stanmore - I worked for a guy there and walked out once day and got the tube home, never to return.!

[@eattherich9215]

@3:10, '... in and out as quickly as possible ...'. Not with my creaking knees. @3:39, I love the 30s design that Charles Holden did. Too bad that these structures are not being maintained. @4:09, that reminds me of Great Portland Street station. I like your style, Jago, and more please.

[@sydneylam19]

Jago, I really like your accent and style of presentation! Lovely!

[@alejandrayalanbowman367]

Hi Jago from Spain. As you know my experiences go back to 1957 when I was at the Met Office training school at Stanmore while being in digs with a Mr and Mrs Hogg at Preston Rd. We were greeted with the news, one morning, that the Russians had launched Sputnik and I, for one, kept looking for it but without success.

[@BJWT1047]

Definitely keen for more!

[@PontiacS]

"Give Residents the Relaxed pace of Country Living with the Convenience of the City. "Biggest Load of Bollocks Ever Sold.

[@alfiehickson6896]

You should 100% do this on other lines. Fantastic!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I’m curious about the Jubilee line so thanks Jago!

[@paulsengupta971]

That was good! Thank you.

[@kevelliott]

Talking of stations (and I'm going a little off-piste here) one which I regularly find myself passing through and occasionally using is Stratford International. Here I find we run out of architectural style descriptors. 'Brutalist' doesn't seem quite sufficient, so I'm going to allow myself the liberty of coining a new term - 'bleakism'. Stratford International is thereby the prototype bleakist station.

[@khidorahian]

It's a sunken box.

[@yelonade]

i liked the vertical train shot

[@WiggyWigmoreUK]

7:01 It was everything *east* of Green Park that was abandoned !

[@seanbonella]

Fine video JH 👍👌

[@lawrencelewis2592]

4:57- that tile looks a lot like Crystal Palace.

[@ashermccready]

great vid!

[@graham3281]

Would certainly like more of the same please Jago

[@kidmohair8151]

i really must get me some of those vibrating tip tampons that the tube'y'all keeps reminding me i haven't heard of...

[@henrybest4057]

Jago, When the Met. built the Stanmore branch, the station after Kingsbury was built in the middle of open fields, without any settlements nearby. As they had nowhere to name it after, and it followed on from Kingsbury, they named it Queensbury, thereby creating a place name that had never existed before. Not the only time the Met. did that....Verney Junction, named after one of their directors. Maybe you could do a video on stations (on the Underground) where the railway gave the name to the place, as opposed to the place giving the name to the station?

[@18robsmith]

Chirpy-o Jag-o Another interesting view of London. Total aside - someone I know was nearly responsible for naming "Canary Wharf" as "Cannery Wharf", until someone else I know noticed the "error".......

[@marsgal42]

I remember when the platforms at Bond Street looked like a rifle barrel.

[@colinrobinson7869]

Could be nice to have a spotters guide to a line that you can play on route as dear Mr Jago points out the points of interest and there history.

[@DzogChen2]

Excelent episode Jago! Can you do another specifically on the jubilee line extension section? That will complete it beautifully!

[@richardeyers322]

other lines please do,

[@tims9434]

Thank goodness they haven't "refreshed" all the interiors.

[@highpath4776]

Did the stations harmonise with the rolling stock ? The Baker Street To Charing Cross section colours and metalwork remind me of the single leaf door carriages with the LTE Orange Brown seats (also on D Stock and M and T class buses )

[@thomasm1964]

04:28 I am willing to bet that all sections were entirely new when they were built. Rebuilding is a different matter ....

[@paulusthegrey]

Overtaken by cars... Sounds like someone lost their "Marples" with that one.

[@phaasch]

0:45 The Metropolitan Railway channelling it's inner Marlon Brando

[@hubertbreidenbach]

Took me a minute, but I got there

[@SuperRobertwillis]

Jago enjoyed that and yes please more of the same 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤

[@GeorgeChoy]

good morning jago

[@paulhaynes8045]

As a (reluctant) resident of Darkest Kent, I rarely needed to visit north London. Until a glancing association with cancer a few years ago, when I needed to travel to Stanmore Hospital fairly frequently for a while. This unfortunately reinforced the old adage of never trusting a railway station's name to be geographically logical... You can't get to STANMORE hospital from STANMORE station by puplic transport. You have to go to bloody Edgeware instead! So, I'm left with a rather poor opinion of the northern part of the Jubilee. Reenforced by the fact that it also passes Barnet's Hive stadium a little too closely for comfort. The Hive may not be the bleakest, most soulless football ground in the country - Millwall's stadium scoops that prize - but it come a damn close second. All in all, a line to be avoided.

[@reknakfarg7252]

I can't believe you skipped kilburn

[@ulicnik24]

3:45 The most famous is Leslie :-)

[@JamesMoore-i9u]

A comment and a question. I believe Westminster was built like that following the King Cross fire, so it had clear sight lines, good ventilation and nothing to burn. The question I have relates to the steel panelling as you go up and out of the Jubilee line via the Escalators at Waterloo. You will see that the steel ceiling panels whilst appearing symmetrical in installation also looks like whole rows are missing. I once heard someone on the escalator comment on this saying that either it was a money saving exercise or the installation was signed off when incomplete. Does anyone know the answer?.

[@Saul.Gone_]

Northern line next?!

[@twifsvsp]

Kingsbury is uhh, something..

[@davidsummer8631]

Was the Jubilee Line Extension the first major tube line extension for a long time? Because I remember it being big news

[@Tevildo]

The Jubilee Line Extension was the first new tube track to open since the extension of the Piccadilly line to Heathrow Terminal 4 in 1986. Before that, we have to go back to the Baker St to Charing Cross section of the Jubilee line (April 1979) and the Piccadilly extension to Heathrow Central (December 1977).

[@davidsummer8631]

@@Tevildo And in the late 1980s was also the DLR the first of its kind in London

[@networkzero0]

Yass🎉

[@stephenspackman5573]

I'm vewy fond of the bwutalism, myself.

[@TurboTimsWorld]

Jago how do you NOT manage to appear in your videos? LOL like reflections or pointing to something, I filmed at a car show Rustival2 last week (although I do video myself) I'm in the back ground of 6 other KZbinr videos, LOL

[@ThomasGray-g9e]

JUBILEE LINE NO1 BEST FUNBY TRAIN SOUND WITH BEST FUNNY ARCHITECTURE !!!

[@maedero05]

As far as my opiniion there'se only two architual style sectiionss stanmore to bakerstreet old and bakerstreet stratford new !

[@roseharvey2664]

Do people in the Stanmore area get confused and try to get on the tube through houses that are built in the same country cottage style as the station?

[@kevinpowell7948]

Yes sometimes we do, especially if we've been partaking in things and listening to Pink Floyd.

[@robertrawley1115]

🌴🌞🌴🌞💖💖💖🌞🌴🌞🌴

[@Keithbarber]

Not first 😂😅

[@tims9434]

I was first but YT doesn't let me comment. I have to try and add to other people's before I can comment.

[@kimvibk9242]

I am also not first. Just thought you would all like to know.

[@Peter-mj6lz]

I am 7,887

[@ianthomson9363]

😕

[@andywarne963]

IMHO most of the stations on the Jubilee Line Extrension are awful. Vast expanses of dirty bare concrete and sections of exposed tunnel segments stained with water ingress. It gives them an unfinished look, as if they were done on the cheap. Which they were not as the project went £6 billion over budget.

[@mdhazeldine]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess. I think they're fantastic. I'll admit some of them are looking a bit dirty now though. When it was new they looked like something out of Star Wars (one of them even ended up IN Star Wars), but they could do with a clean up, for sure.