Euston's Abandoned Underground Station

The hidden station entombed within Euston.
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[@highpath4776]

I have not watched to the end yet, If Jago does not end with " You Are the Art Noveau Florishes to my Disused Lift Shafts ", I will be surprised.

[@neilfranklin5644]

Surprised you are in deed.

[@archstanton6102]

Always felt there should be a pedestrian foot tunnel between Euston and Euston Sq.

[@caw25sha]

I walk between the two quite often and every time they seem to get a bit further apart. Are they on different tectonic plates or something?

[@MrLukealbanese]

You and every other living human.

[@Inkyminkyzizwoz]

There will be as part of the HS2 works

[@barrieshepherd7694]

@@caw25sha Maybe there is 'stuff' in the way underground. A lot of once used government buildings in the area.

[@PLuMUK54]

@@caw25sha I believe that one is on the Young Tectonic Plate, and the other is on the Elder Tectonic Plate, which move apart rapidly... 🙂

[@neilthehermit4655]

Jago - I'm a little disappointed that you didn't say " Euston we have a problem!" ! - I'll leave quietly, no need to push.

[@ianhelps3749]

I actually like the 1960s architecture of Euston station. It's a bit too cluttered inside now, but in the 70s it still looked spacious and clean. In the early 1900s people thought that ozone (O3) was good for you, and would go to the seaside to "breathe in the ozone". However, the "ozone" smell of the sea is actually hydrogen sulphide (H2S), produced by plankton in the water. Don't worry it's far too dilute to be harmful.

[@thomasburke2683]

I'm glad somebody agrees with me regarding the 1960s Euston station. The concourse was so open and bright in the 1970s and perhaps even the 80s. But then it was filled with tacky stalls, obstructing everybody's view and causing people to bump into others. Greed, the greed for rental income from these retail units, was what messed up Euston station.

[@petermarksteiner7754]

All sources I found after a cursory search say it's dimethyl sulfide, not hydrogen sulfide. The latter, even if highly diluted, will still smell like rotten eggs.

[@oscarosullivan4513]

@@thomasburke2683 Agreed

[@ingleacre6480]

It really did look so much better in its early years, and actually in the last decade or so (when a lot of the kiosks and other obstacles that were cluttering the main concourse were moved towards the edges) it's become fairly fine again, IMO, and I like how spacious it feels. The narrow corridors that lead to the ramps to the platforms are grim - similar to Penn Station in NYC - and the outside plaza area is... well, it's fine. It feels exactly as soulless and bland as any other office complex built in the last century, and even if the pedestrian routes in and out are frustrated by the bus station and taxi ramps, it's no more or less than many other interchanges. It's not my favourite station by any stretch, but I don't get why it's so reviled either (excepting the whole "how dare they knock down my gaudy Victoriana"/concrete no longer being in fashion stuff). The revamped trio of St Pancras/King's Cross/London Bridge are all clearly superior, but the ways in which those three have been so successfully refurbed makes me feel that we're at risk of repeating the mistake of the 1960s planners. Keep that Euston concourse and redevelop around it, and play to the strengths of mid-century modernism (it has many! honestly!), instead of knocking it down just because it's been cluttered with coffee shops and kiosks. After all, Liverpool Street is an insane mess these days, but nobody's claiming that means the whole thing has to be knocked down and rebuilt from scratch.

[@wrichard11]

Agreed. Euston is a fine station

[@chazzyb8660]

In the great scheme of things it seems a shame that the facade can't be dismantled and reused elsewhere on site, or indeed on the network. Or perhaps find a home in the new Museum of London at Smithfield, into which (I think) the lower level tube platform is being integrated? Or was when the first proposals for it were being unveiled?

[@johnmurray8428]

Don’t worry the British have problems with Ottawa.

[@chazzyb8660]

Ottawa?

[@johnmurray8428]

@@chazzyb8660 It is not O T TER AH WHA. When it comes to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,. Cincinatti, they really are struggling.

[@chazzyb8660]

Mate, not sure whether to reply as you are clearly replying to another thread. I was talking about architecture. My great-grandfather's business did build a lot of railways in Canada, and some of the family moved out there, but that is a long time ago now, and I admit I haven't been to visit in years. I hope I have picked up a bit of pronunciation over the years, my parents lived in France for many years, my step-mother is Polish, but yes first-nations derived city names are a bit alien. I hope I would have the gumption to find out how they should be pronounced before opening my mouth?

[@comicus01]

I would hope they could reassemble it inside the new station. Either use it as the entry way for the tube station, or as a store front.

[@peterstean2138]

I've been on that behind-the-scenes tour, and if you're into the history of the tube (which you must be if you're watching a Jago video) it's a fantastic thing to do :)

[@rjjcms1]

I would find it very interesting,too.

[@raybolasco9457]

Love al his vIdd ,so much i lerning

[@raybolasco9457]

Would love meet jeff &have a drink with him

[@jamess1817]

@@raybolasco9457 I would love too except im a Brit in NZ. I follow Jago and others to help with feeling sad. Books are good for this too. I would also love to be there when there is an open house london event. This would be my ideal vacation trip!

[@illyasvielemiya9059]

I am not into History of the Tube. I am into Jago Hazard's video and I am still find that interesting. I am gonna visit one day!!!

[@ZGryphon]

It's a shame about the Green station building going. He had such a tragically short career that it seems especially sad when one of his works is lost.

[@oscarosullivan4513]

Which one

[@dukenukem5768]

He may have had a short career, but his stations are all over the place. I think the Ox Blood finish looks hideous, like what I'm expecting the buildings in Hell will look like.

[@ZGryphon]

@@dukenukem5768 Yeah, see, I expect most of the buildings in Hell look like they were designed by Frank Gehry.

[@dukenukem5768]

@@ZGryphon Never heard of Gehry, but just Googled him. Yes, his buildings would suit _Hell Modern_ or at least be in the circle of Hell reserved for pretentious people. But I suspect that Lucifer's taste inclines to the Greco-Roman building style (which, being pagan, was avoided by the Christian church for many years) with baroque detailing, externally faced with a highly fired hard gloss ceramic in an unrelieved blood red colour - rather like Leslie Green's creations in fact.

[@ZGryphon]

@@dukenukem5768 (shrug) I quite like them. Maybe I'm the Devil and haven't realized it yet.

[@norphar]

Fun fact: Euston was originally named after Sam Houston, the guy who was briefly president of Texas. Doubly impressive because it was named after him a decade or two before he was born, and they spelled it differently.

[@roseharvey2664]

Same logic for the naming of Heuston Station in Dublin.

[@AndyG73]

The equivalent of Cockney for 'Acne, 'ArrinGay, 'AMpstid, etc, etc. Or the oppiste treatment to Peter Ustinov's Poirot calling Edgware 'Hedgware'? 🙂

[@ds1868]

@norphar nope you are talking absolute rubbish and you know it.

[@riggerthegeek]

Euston we have a problem

[@jyw0000]

@@roseharvey2664according to Wikipedia, it was named after Sean Heuston.

[@highpath4776]

Ozone is actually found at Blackpool Beach - its where the ladies wearing full swimming kit walk into the sea water, when it gets to about their midrift they go " O, O, O ", so about 4foot out from the tide line.

[@PLuMUK54]

Thank you. Don't call us, we'll call you. Kindly leave the stage... 🙂

[@roomullan3050]

WTF !!!!

[@ROCKINGMAN]

I worked at Euston Underground Stn. from 99' to 2004. Used to do 'section 12' checks regularly, this was done to check for breaches of fire safety rules, you'd have to walk in the disused areas, dusty and dirty and untouched since 1967. Remember poster for a Jerry Lewis film, advert for an NSU car and a LT poster stating closure of old entrances and making way for new Victoria line. It's the only underground station accessible through mainline station only. Saw a number of well known people come through here too and Chris Green who was the Managing Director of Network Southeast, think he worked in the offices upstairs for National Railway.

[@DoctorAzmain]

I always find Jago's videos delightfully insightful and entertaining! Even when I've read about all the abandoned stations and other video topics or those "hmm that's interesting" moments while on the Tube myself, I always end up learning SOMETHING that I wasn't aware of, despite my inherent Tube-related geekiness 😂

[@zeddessell]

5:19 The Ozonizing plant would produce Ozone, which would be pumped into the passenger areas of the station, such as the platforms. During the 1910's this was common on the Underground as part of some scheme to improve the smell of the Underground's stations (the Ozone was supposed to smell like the Sea). This didn't really work very well, so the plan was abandoned by the 1920's.

[@msg5507]

Ozone is that kind of burnt smell in the air where someone's been welding. And while it's vital in the upper atmosphere to the survival of pasty-faced Anglo-Celts in Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes (Australia - world champions in per capita melanoma rates wooo), it's actually pretty toxic.

[@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome]

John Betjeman mentioned Ozonair in a 60's documentary.

[@seanryan325]

I wonder if they finally discovered how ozone can cause severe respiratory disease?

[@oscarosullivan4513]

@@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome Didn’t he bemoan the coming of the HST

[@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome]

@@oscarosullivan4513Possibly. I bemoan newer trains over older ones myself so that would make sense

[@iankemp1131]

Hadn't realised there would have been a direct connection from the Charing Cross branch to Euston/Kings Cross/St Pancras in the original plans. I would have loved that in my days of lugging heavy cases from Waterloo to Kings Cross and searching for the best changing points. Not until quite late did I discover the answer; Bakerloo to Oxford Circus and cross-platform interchange on to the Victoria. Not the most intuitive route from the tube map, it looks like a dog-leg. A pity they couldn't manage a cross-platform interchange at Warren Street, or find a way to represent them on the Tube map.

[@ninebangtrojan4669]

My Great Gran used to confuse Euston & Houston...for a while she was convinced they sent men into space from Euston, in fairness she was born before powered flight! Gen Dit.

[@Pesmog]

I used to get co-workers visit from Houston and we had a few Euston wordplay japes that we played on them while they were in London.

[@ZGryphon]

The temptation must be very great for railway dispatchers informing staff at Euston of faults on the line to start every such conversation with "Euston, we have a problem."

[@RogersRamblings]

As a former LT employee, it's always a source of innocent humour to experience an American tourist asking for directions to Euston. Their insistence on pronouncing every letter marks them out and they find the "eu" sound particularly tongue twisting. In the interests of train punctuality my colleagues usually put them out of our misery and explained that the "e" is silent. :-)

[@CaseyJonesNumber1]

So, they now pronounce it "Us-ton".. 😄

[@nowster]

Try "Euxton" near Chorley Lancashire. Pronounced X-ton.

[@ds1868]

I used to work in Charing Cross Road near to Leicester Square and I lost count of the number of times American tourists asked where to find "Lysester" Square. I did try to explain to begin with how to pronounce and then gave up. The disbelieving expressions on their faces was too much.

[@AndreiTupolev]

Surely it's the same as Europe? Although that might be confusing for Germans, who'd pronounce it "Oiston" ? 👨‍⚖️🙍‍♂️

[@AndreiTupolev]

@@ds1868 I don't know how many American tourists use the Midland main line, but I do wonder what they make of consecutive stations Leicester and Loughborough, which they'd go through on the way to Derby (pronounced Durby) or Notting-Ham 🤔

[@harryjohn7671]

Can jago stop stalking me. Im in the video again. 2:48. Firstly at bank now at Euston. What next Heathrow Terminal 5?

[@TadeuszCantwell]

Have you considered stalking any man filming people at a tube stop and claiming they must be Jago?

[@lomaii2847]

⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH "BEST.FURDICH.FUN" > SATISFY.BABY < tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤💌💘

[@AndreiTupolev]

I'm not one of those who hate on Euston, I always think it's a lot like an airport so it has a sort of air of excitement to it.

[@cd0u50c9]

Agree with this, it bears eerie resemblance to the original Belgrade Airport Terminal!

[@LMB222]

Air… excitement?

[@roderickmain9697]

The careful observer, like yourself, can notice all sorts of oddities. Rarely do we go check out the actual history (thanks Jago for doing what my lazy butt doesnt). What we find is that history is littered with lots of "good intentions"....which as we know, is what the road to hell is paved with. Apparently theres an underground line too with its own stations :-))

[@lomaii2847]

⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH "BEST.FURDICH.FUN" > SATISFY.BABY < tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤💌💘

[@bordershader]

Hell has underground stations? YESSSS! *presses the down elevator button* 🛗😄

[@jimthorne304]

You're a little unkind to British Rail(ways) wanting to knock down Euston, the LMS wanted to knock it down too, but WW2 got in the way of their plans.

[@highpath4776]

Could they not have given the lufwaffe a bit of better directions ?

[@CaseyJonesNumber1]

The LMS also planned for the propylaeum to go too.

[@dukenukem5768]

So even the Luftwaffe had better taste than the LMS and BR? Not surprising.

[@CaseyJonesNumber1]

@@dukenukem5768 no, they were just as bad as hitting their targets as the RAF and USAAF were...

[@tomboz777]

Nocking down a beautiful building and putting up something that no one likes? As someone from Brum, that sentence hits DEEP.

[@arthurvasey]

Euston station tube? Isn’t that something that links your ears to your throat? Oh - wait a sec - that’s the Eustachian tube!

[@ubergeekian]

A modern building that no-one likes? I like it. I fact, I think Euston station, particularly seen from 1st floor level, is one of the most stunning stations on the railway system Airy, light, beautifully proportioned - what's not to like? Stafford similarly shows the confidence and style of the sixties. Note: lots of old stations are great too.

[@peterjansen7929]

Exactly! When I lived in London, Euston was my favourite terminus architecturally. Marylebone might have come next, if it hadn't been half-finished.

[@markiangooley]

Euston has a football team named for a mathematician. It’s called the Euston Eulers.

[@lawrencelewis2592]

The biggest tragedy regarding the construction of HS2 was the closing and demolishing of the Bree Louise, one of the finest pubs I've ever visited.

[@MarvinStroud3]

Around 1940 my parents bought me a scooter propelled by a back and forth lever and steered with both feet. It was called an "Irish Mail". This was in Texas, USA. My home town of Corpus Christi is near a large city called Houston which we pronounce much like you Brits pronounce "Euston". Cheers from the Lone Star State.

[@davidjames579]

Euston, We Have A Problem?

[@MarvinStroud3]

@@davidjames579 No problem, just two nations separated by a common language.

[@kiwitrainguy]

@@MarvinStroud3 A Mark Twain quote if I'm not mistaken.

[@michaelmiller641]

It would be nice if that glazed tile facade or facades, could be incorporated in some building or other

[@tonywise198]

When the Doric Arch was demolished in 1962, it caused much angst and anguish at the time.

[@dancedecker]

Excellent video as always Jago. Many thanks. I had cause recently to use Euston quite a bit to get to Slough, (Don't ask).via Paddington of course and that 500 yard usually wet walk past beggars and such, made me think, surely there should be a tube station within Euston itself that goes directly to all the other mainline stations in London. And apparently there was, but no more. Yes, I know there is a Euston underground station, but getting to Paddington from it certainly, wasn't easy. The walk was much easier and a lot quicker, if not drier and less "confrontational". Shame they have to demolish the Green designed building. I hope they do conserve it somehow and bring back.the Arch too. The original or a replica. Cheers.

[@katrinabryce]

The 205 bus is the easiest way to get from Euston to Paddington.

[@dancedecker]

@@katrinabryce Fair enough. Many thanks for that. If ever I'm in needed in Slough again, I shall use that. Cheers

[@nlemecfc]

Euston to Paddington is easy on the tube, Victoria line to Oxford Circus then Bakerloo to Paddington though this route is never offered on the various Journey Planning tools it seems. 48 minutes walk; 16 minutes cycling; 20 minutes 205 bus; 27 minutes on my route though bizarrely TFL say it takes 7 minutes to get from Euston station to Euston Victoria line southbound platform and then 5 minutes to get from Paddington Bakerloo northbound platform to Paddington Station where as combined it probably takes me 5 minutes max but then I do know where to get on to get off at the right place to minimise walking time at all three stations.

[@dancedecker]

@@nlemecfc Fair enough. Many thanks. Next time, if there is one, I shall certainly give that route a try. Cheers

[@philroberts7238]

I'd hate to think of myself as a Mrs Grundy or Mary Whitehouse figure (remember her?), but I have taken it upon myself to report all the comments below, or above, purporting (auf Deutsch) to be from a particular website: SPEZIAL FUR DICH . I apologise, Jago, for thus interfering and I do hope I'm right in assuming that it is not in fact an ad for your secret second channel. My question to you and/or others is this: Should I claim as my reason for reporting this comment to KZbin that it's "Unwanted spam or commercial content" or would "Pornography or sexually explicit material" be more effective with the powers that be? I'm assuming both of these reasons would be valid, but I am wondering which infraction is the more heinous. I decided to compromise and have divided the accusations equally between them, because it seemed only fair to give them both a chance. In the meantime, no doubt, those who feel the need to investigate a German approach to nurturing the young child could look up the site for themselves, even if it disappears from this estimable thread.

[@marioavossa]

I cant remember how many times I have been asked about getting from Euston Square to Euston, one time I was a bit cruel and sent someone to Warren St to get the Northern Line to there. I was having a bad day. Anyway a friend of mine who works for the tube has told me they are going to build a tunnel from Euston Square to Euston which makes me wonder why its taken them so long to do that. Hopefully its not going to be a stupidly long tunnel which doesnt take an age to walk. I wont miss Euston, it has all the charm of a dead tortoise and sometimes it smells like one too.

[@adrianbaker5916]

That's when/if Crossrail 2 goes via Euston because of the size of the platforms. Foe example the Liverpool Street Crossrail platform stretches from Liverpool Street to Moorgate.

[@peterjansen7929]

You are right - that was nasty! But at least you didn't suggest going to King's Cross on one of the subsurface lines and then taking the Victoria or the Northern Line for the second leg of the trip!

[@MrGreatplum]

It’s a shame that there isn’t a place like Beamish or the weald and downland museum which looks after London buildings where the Leslie Green ticket hall could be preserved… As ever, fascinating!

[@dukenukem5768]

There are plenty of other Leslie Green stations.

[@nirgunapa56]

If they can 'move' whole buildings to form architectural and historic collections such as at St Fagans, Weald and Downland and Avoncroft why not move this. Its not as if they are short of money, our money that is...

[@BibtheBoulder]

Thank you so much for this interesting video. I have used Euston station for the last 42 years and never realised this disused station existed. I feel a visit is necessary.....

[@Keithbarber]

You could write an opera about the ventilation shafts - an "air"a?

[@lomaii2847]

⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH "BEST.FURDICH.FUN" > SATISFY.BABY < tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤💌💘

[@Markell1991]

It's a disgrace what happened to the beautiful old Euston station.

[@andrewnoble8013]

I actually quite liked Euston mainline station, at least the interior, using it as a youngster in the early 1970s. It seemed the height of modernity after going into Waterloo on an ancient Southern commuter train and crossing to Euston on clattery old red-painted Northern line 1938 stock. Emerging from the escalator it felt almost like an airport. The black rubber floor tiling was clean, the indicator board state of the art and the overhead line powered electric trains felt new and very fast, plus you got a seat! All went downhill gradually over the years though.

[@oscarosullivan4513]

Thanks

[@dukeofaaghisle7324]

It’s that mongrel ambience of airport meets motorway service station that I so dislike about Euston. Feel the same about Birmingham New Street. You can’t even see the trains from the concourse, which makes it so boring.

[@andrewrevans8496]

Yes I agree. Some of the facilities (catering, taxi rank) were inadequate from the start though, and the platforms have always been horrible. The decline started with the cluttering up of the concourse with nasty retail units in the early 70s. The recent mezzanine has helped declutter the floor space, but at the cost of spoiling the light and airy feel.

[@peterjansen7929]

I always liked the Euston mainline station, too, more than any other London terminus. Moreover, while I think that HS2 is an idiotic project, I actually *dislike* the ventilation shaft building. As far as I am concerned, if it goes for HS2 that is perhaps the project's only benefit! There is always so much talk about supposedly lightning-fast rail travel in continental Europe, and yet British railway travel is hardly if at all inferior. There is high speed travel between St. Pancras and Brussels, and yet the shortest current advertised time for travel between Essen at the heart of Germany's Ruhr area and St. Pancras is 6 hours and 35 minutes for 491 km (305 miles), giving an average speed of just 75 km/h or a little over 46 mph (!), even though there are direct trains between Essen and Brussels.

[@davidwebb4904]

Depressng destruction of our history, because of narrow minded planners.

[@lomaii2847]

⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH "BEST.FURDICH.FUN" > SATISFY.BABY < tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤💌💘

[@PLuMUK54]

Much of the destruction was not the planners (though too much was) but the developers. In many towns across Britain, planning departments refused owners the right to demolish, but, unfortunately, the planners had not been given the powers to force restoration. Consequently, developers would buy a site, let it fall into ruin, and then apply to have seriously dangerous buildings demolished, which the planning departments could not refuse.

[@dukenukem5768]

@@PLuMUK54 ... or the developers would demolish it promptly and just take the £100 fine on the chin.

[@wintersbattleofbands1144]

Dirty shame to knock that beautiful building down. Hopefully architectural details inside and out will be preserved.

[@malthuswasright]

I like the 60s Euston. Especially the interior with its extensive balcony. It's a shame if it's to be demolished.

[@KennethBarr1957]

It seems that Euston became what New York’s Grand Central Terminal could have if the Landmarks Law stepped in. There are three subway stations beneath GCT, the original 1904 station that was aligned for GCT’s predecessor, Grand Central Depot, the Lexington Avenue Line (4, 5, & 6) station & the deep tube Flushing Line (7) station. Unfortunately, all that is left of the magnificent Pennsylvania Station is underground. The building was demolished to make way for the fourth Madison Square Garden & a high rise office complex.

[@lawrencelewis2592]

Funny how Penn and Euston were demolished at the same time.

[@oscarosullivan4513]

Replaced by concrete blocks

[@tsarstepan]

Is it wrong that I'm disappointed that Hampstead Tube isn't actually called Hampster Tube

[@lomaii2847]

⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH "BEST.FURDICH.FUN" > SATISFY.BABY < tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤💌💘

[@tomwatts703]

It's always fascinating to learn new things about places I've even been to many times, I never even knew about the old building in the first place! It's a shame that HS2 will be the end of it, especially with the recent announcements, but I do hope there's some truth to those preservation rumours after all.

[@oscarosullivan4513]

HS2 I think threatens a grade one tudor house

[@Rog5446]

Every time I visit St Pancras, I have my picture taken with John Betjeman. I stand next to him with my hand on his shoulder and look up in the direction he's looking with my other hand pointing to the line of sight, as if to say, John, look up there.

[@jimmenylill]

"replaced with a new building nobody likes" :-)

[@JackMitchell404]

Ever since I first heard the plans for the Hampstead Tube buildings I've thought it would be a lovely touch of whimsy to preserve them and integrate them inside the booking hall of the new HS2 Euston Station, either as a tube entrance or a shop of some sort. Modern railway design would do well to embrace more whimsy

[@AndyG73]

One other (quite well-known) fact about Euston was that it would've been the home of the (ill-fated) Advanced Passenger train, had it remained in service and got to the APT-S stage. A shame, really, as I never got the chance to travel on one.

[@thomasburke2683]

You were lucky! The APT made people seasick, or so we were told. Very few got to experience it.

[@MattF340]

@@thomasburke2683 It made a load of well oiled journo's sick which didn't help PR. Ultimately the technology was sold to the Italians who had the foresight to perfect rather than abandon it.

[@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis]

If you’ve ridden on a class 390, you’ve ridden on the modern successor.

[@craigwelsh]

@@thomasburke2683 BR unfortunately didn't do any "average punter experience" testing before loading APT up with the well oiled journalists. What the design teams didn't appreciate was perfecting the tilt to fully cancel out the feeling of going round corners made people rather ill when they could look out the windows and see the tilt.. later on the tilt was dialed back so it didn't fully compensate for the motion and I think the windows were sized to help with the effects too. As usual with late 20th century British engineering we then sold the idea on when we'd mainly figured out the kinks so someone else could productively profit from it!

[@AndyG73]

@@craigwelsh What I was peed off to find was that the R&D budget for the train was only £50M. vVen accounting for inflation, that's a tiny amount in today's money. They never should've sent it out until it was fully tested and certainly not on a freezing cold winter's day with journos who presumably used the booze to keep warm and pass the time...

[@georgec2126]

I've always thought that it should have been GI 2, as in Grand Ideas. Mr Johnson's, of course...😔

[@jorgedasilva2054]

Your humour is BRILLIANT “we’ll be millionaires by Christmas”

[@PMA65537]

Is he claiming not to be a millionaire now? McDonalds will sell you a millionaire's doughnut without a check of your assets.

[@thomasburke2683]

But which Christmas?

[@andyyu5957]

@@PMA65537 There is a saying "you are what you eat", but despite ingesting lots of millionaire's shortbread, my bank manager vehemently denies that the balance of my account is remotely close to £1,000,000.00.

[@Bunter.948]

Opened in 1837? So nearly 20 to 7 in the evening. Sorry. Simon T

[@lomaii2847]

⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH "BEST.FURDICH.FUN" > SATISFY.BABY < tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤💌💘

[@MK-ms6gj]

Very good one Jago (as always). Apart from the different way Americans might say 'Euston', I'm almost certain there would have been a previous mention about how our American friends pronounce the word 'Tube' as 'Toob'? As a former Londoner now living near Toronto, Canada for the past 40 years, I still like to keep up to date about what is happening across the pond, and Jago's informative videos are a great help.

[@themoviedealers]

It's not spelled Chube.

[@coastaku1954]

Hey, I'm from the Toronto area~! Now I live near Fake London, Ontario. Also, word of advice, Canadians and Americans always put the state the State or Province when talking about a city, so Toronto, Canada is actually Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Toronto, Canada just sounds really really wrong to me, same as someone saying Legos instead of Lego

[@qwertyTRiG]

@@themoviedealers That's assimilation of the sounds. What Americans do is called yod-dropping.

[@michaelcampin1464]

The remnants of the Euston Arch are in situ in the canal at Bromley by Bow.i understand there are plans to recover them and re-erect the arch.

[@PLuMUK54]

I thought that they had been recovered, and are currently in storage. Maybe I'm wrong, I often am...

[@CaseyJonesNumber1]

The remains are just jack-hammered fragments. It would look a right mess, and with chunks missing. The only way is start anew...

[@michaelcampin1464]

@@CaseyJonesNumber1 not according to some accounts they are meant to be large lumps of masonry. Then again after the time they've bin there they're probably ruined anyway

[@michaelcampin1464]

@@PLuMUK54 I was watching a vlog about London so canals and I think it was Geoff Marshall who was on Londonist talking about the chunks of masonry

[@highpath4776]

Always found it interesting that the Arch at Euston was made of Hewn Stone

[@cmw3737]

The weaving of the Victoria line through what was already a busy hub and the cross platform interchanges still deserves its own video.

[@Jeagles]

What’s interesting to me has been that every time I sneak another look at Drummond Street, another building around it is gone whilst the red facade survives. Not for much longer it seems though. I love Hidden London, I must do the Euston one at some point

[@stephenjcuk7562]

Couldn't the facade and the interesting internals be removed and reused elsewhere? I hope the period details won't just be destroyed but I fear they probably will be.

[@Krzyszczynski]

Send for Drew Pritchard!!

[@andyalder7910]

Kitten Kong's scratching post lurking in the background at 7:45.

[@CocoaBeachLiving]

Aside from all the many reasons to visit London and environs, your videos make me really feel the need to revisit. Thanks

[@AndreiTupolev]

I really think you ought to go "awoooo" every time you say "Underground Electric Railways of London".

[@englishciderlover7347]

Was I imagining things, or did Jago mention UERL without mentioning Charles Tyson Yerkes? If he did, it might be a first.

[@ZGryphon]

I saw Charles Tyson Yerkes drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic's, and his moustache was perfect.

[@Bunter.948]

Well, Mr H, another superb video chock full of captivating tidbits (why is the 'd' always pronounced as 't'?) It's worth too considering that some of the original railway mania is fast approaching two centuries ago, so perhaps that explains why demands and tastes have changed (did I say it was for the better? No, I thought not). Thanks, Mr H. Do please keep up the good work. Simon T

[@lomaii2847]

⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH "BEST.FURDICH.FUN" > SATISFY.BABY < tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤💌💘

[@58andyr]

Quite simple really. TITBITS is English but our prudish American friends changed their version to TIDBITS, both in spelling and pronunciation to avoid having to use the ever-so-scandalous word TIT!!!

[@highpath4776]

@@58andyr yes, the t i t part meaning something small.

[@Quasihamster]

Yeah they can't knock down a Leslie Green station?! There'll be only three thousand remaining! Railfans, seriously...

[@barneypaws4883]

If they could re-build that great arch, that would be amazing. Backward thinking to have it demolished in the first place.

[@jshicke]

Shame such a nice building is to be destroyed. Newer architecture is just so.... temporary and lifeless.

[@RossMaynardProcessExcellence]

Did you have to go in disguise on the Hidden London tour? False mustache, deerstalker hat etc? Just in case you get mobbed by your many fans! It could happen - one day...

[@sanchoodell6789]

*Please lower the screen window to increase ventilation. Obstructing this video causes delay and can be irritating. ↔️ £500 fine for improper use*

[@spewter]

Watching this in May 2024: as HS2 is now terminating at Old Oak Common, was the Leslie Green station building saved?

[@krissp8712]

Sunday the 29th of April last occurred in 2018 and 2012 but I suspect that poster is older still...

[@lomaii2847]

⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH "BEST.FURDICH.FUN" > SATISFY.BABY < tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤💌💘

[@bordershader]

More subtitle howlers - not Houston (as you might expect, and which is indeed repeated throughout) but the "Hamster Tube" 😄 Hands down this beats "Bay Kalu Line" in one of Jago's other vids!

[@iconicshrubbery]

Speaking of ozone, can anyone explain that typical smell from the Underground, that of ellectrical burnt air; I always thought erroneously it was 'ozone,' but please correct me.

[@ourresidentcockney8776]

Don't normally deal with "craft beer" but if Jago's brewing it, pour us a pint Guv!

[@youngmurphy7556]

Who are these people who dislike Euston so much? I know only someone with the odd name of Jago. Those who use it complain about the last minute platform announcements, etc. I find it mostly very functional unlike that ugly, there's-one-on-every-high-street, Doris arch you keep going on about. Large open atrium, ease of access to bus and tube stations and the street, I barely notice the place as I pass through on my way north Exactly as it should be. When it becomes a steel and glass copy and paste of London Bridge, you'll be complaining about that too, no doubt. It's a train shed that keeps you dry while waiting for a train. What more do you want?

[@darransykes3406]

As in all cases, money talks.... If any building became superfluous, then it got knocked down for the sake of "progress"

[@PlanetoftheDeaf]

While the Green building will be a major loss, I'm more in mourning for the Bree Louise pub...

[@mickeydodds1]

In those days a railway coach really was a coach!

[@PLuMUK54]

My late father was a qualified cabinet maker, but in the 1950s so many large houses were being demolished. There was no work. He transferred to constructing the interiors of first class carriages, and used all the same skills as he did making furniture, the quality was amazing. Some men that he worked with had started their working lives at the tail end of the use of coaches, and told him that a first class carriage was the equal to any coach. Then along came He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, at least amongst railway buffs, who closed so much down. Poor dad was in the wrong place at the wrong time, again.

[@ianpatterson6552]

Pace HS2 and all that. The remains of Matthew Flinders who circumnavigated Australia were interred near Euston. He was found and reburied at his home church.

[@andrewpinner3181]

Thanks again Jago ! l wonder if anyone announcing a delayed train has quipped : Euston we have a problem ! Followed by : Well l'm of to the pub for a shot of Jago Meister !

[@scottc1589]

Call me crazy, but I think the "Psycho" poster alone makes this worth watching!

[@Redpsyclone]

Chap vaping at 0:14 - my time to shine

[@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis]

My father home-brews beer, and my understanding is that vibration is bad for beer, which is probably one of the reasons why building a line too close to a beer cellar is not considered a good idea.

[@mistywolf312]

Was Euston ever fit for purpose ? Externally its not the worst I've seen of its style. Internally however the navigation is terrible, its cluttered and it feels almost claustrophobic which for a building of its size is a pretty damned impressive feat to achieve.

[@warren_r]

The guy walking by at 0:13 wants to sell you some NFTs, bro.

[@chubbychecker5192]

I'm sold. I've never seen a man wear orange goggles and vape unironically before, he must know what he's doing.

[@lomaii2847]

⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH "BEST.FURDICH.FUN" > SATISFY.BABY < tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤💌💘

[@SS-qo4xe]

Love the beer bottle on the window sill of the party train as it pulls into the station.

[@madhatter61]

Would be good if the building was boxed up, moved and rebuilt elsewhere. Birmingham maybe

[@robertwilloughby8050]

........and not forgetting the Fylde Coast Express!😉

[@hypercomms2001]

When I was living in London, I used to like to take the somewhat hidden shortcut between the Northern line and the Victoria line....

[@isashax]

Now I am curious about what you didn't tell us... in a future video then?

[@PlanetoftheDeaf]

I've always thought it a mistake that Euston Underground stations has no entrance other than the one in the National Rail concourse, as no other major London terminus has such an arrangement - there will be passengers heading towards the Euston Road who don't want the NR station. And with the coming of Night Tube, it's forced that annoying new arrangement, where a new wall has been built to make the Underground entrance now outside the NR station. I believe that with HS2, there will be additional entrances.

[@sh8736]

Have spent far too much time at Euston over the years mostly waiting for trains as they are delayed and beaches they put to platform number up far to close to the departure time. Wouldn’t be so bad if there were plenty of seats…. Going through yesterday noticed that unless you go on the platform 8-10 to get to the underground you now have to leave the station to get to the underground? Who thought that was a good idea?

[@caw25sha]

I assume an ozonising plant is what is now usually called an ionising air purifier.

[@highpath4776]

No , ( but then I dont know what ionising does). Ozone is a chemical form of Oxygen.

[@lomaii2847]

⚡:SPEZIEL FÜR DICH "BEST.FURDICH.FUN" > SATISFY.BABY < tricks I do not know Megan: "Hotter" Hopi: "Sweeter" Joonie: "Cooler" Yoongi: "Butter So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today. Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım '' Erinder: '' Sezimdüü '' Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak '' Dene: '' Muzdak '' Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis. Aç köz arstan Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon. Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan. Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾 They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising 💗❤💌💘

[@PLuMUK54]

An ionising air purifier produces ions that attract dust and small particulates, which then fall, cleaning the air. Ozone is used either as a liquid or a gas for its antibacterial properties. It could purify air, but does not remove particulates.

[@PtolemyJones]

Funny thing, I was grocery stopping, when I started to hear Jago's voice. My first thought was that he had gotten so well known they were playing him over the store, like music. Of course my phone had somehow started this video, but just for a second it was really awesome.

[@donreed]

Perfect narration. Now, rename a Tube station after Anthony Blond.

[@Nick-kz6dg]

It's a shame they couldn't carefully take the building apart and rebuild it into the new station.

[@viennakendrick]

can you please make a video on kings cross thameslink station, which closed in 2007?

[@Jimyjames73]

Times are changing then (as always!!!) 😉🚂🚂🚂

[@ajs41]

The least charming main station in London, and the one I have to use every time I visit the capital. Very functional.

[@davidgrainger5378]

In many buildings I have seen Dry Rising Mains behind a red door. The Green building is the only one were I have seen a Dry Falling Main.

[@railfanner365]

hi. if i comment the same thing twice accidentally dont yell at me my mouse is broken and the sensitivity is near infininite

[@francesconicoletti2547]

Listening between the lines, the only things left of the Easton Green station are the façades , the interior has been gutted for a ventilation shaft, the tracks are not on their original alignment. Did I misunderstand something ?

[@Simont6.0]

I used to work in that building....the electricity sub station part of it!

[@dambrooks7578]

Oxblood, looks great as both tiles and DM boots, or maybe I am just old 🧓🏻?

[@barrydysert2974]

Fund raising idea if they don't preserve it. Sell the rubble. They will buy it

[@simonochana3189]

I remember back in 1987 missing the last train home, so me & a mate slept rough on one of the benches, only to be woken up at 5am with the station being packed with commuters!