New Entrances at Hackney Central / Imperial Wharf

[@SkeletonSyskey]

Geoff's getting very creative. walking backwards, talking to himself on the stairs - Great Stuff

[@Ruscombephotos]

Very creative with talking to yourself on the stairs. I’m no videographer, but I’m guessing good editing software makes that possible. If only Ealing Studios and Alec Guinness had that when they shot Kind Hearts and Coronets; it would have made the scene where all seven characters played by Sir Alec appear on screen simultaneously much easier. As it was, it was a technical marvel at the time. I had never heard of Imperial Wharf.

[@moofey]

Doesn't change that they all are the same height as a 15 storey building

[@danwiddon3854]

Neatly not talking over your better self on any of the fun new shots to obsess over. Great job Geoff and other Geoff!

[@SamSitar]

he should do more of that.

[@ethanhall8118]

Hello

[@TheUnknown313]

Can we all just admire Goeff's editing in this please? The Day of The Geoff.

[@markmartindale7215]

¡Sí, se puede!

[@Karlinski73]

Loving the double-Geoff moment on the steps. Excellently put together! SKILLZ!

[@TransportofPerth]

Do you have and idea how that is done?

[@evanb.529]

@@TransportofPerth Likely two shots were recorded at the same position back to back, cut in half down the middle of the stairs, and spliced together. You can kind of tell by looking at the sky behind him

[@DeathInTheSnow]

It's nice to see some lovely improvements to the area. Wasn't expecting them, but very welcome. I guess you have to take the Hackney Ups with the Hackney Downs.

[@Sim0nTrains]

Out of the 3 Hackney Stations, Hackney Downs has to be my favourite, was only using the walkway between Central and Downs last week while in London. Love the Geoff and Jeff Clone (Thanks to KZbin automatic subtitles) interaction as well. Love video Geoff.

[@arnoldspottingvideos5652]

Hackney Central, Hackney Wick and Hackney Downs

[@tescotrain]

@@arnoldspottingvideos5652 I'd say Homerton is also one, even though it doesn't have the word Hackney, it's still in Hackney and it's between both Hackney Wick & Hackney Central

[@justinb9265]

If you ever do a least used station episode without a special guest. You should definitely do the whole video with yourself as your special guest!

[@itstimeforham]

My wife and I did the walk between Downs and Central most weeks when she was pregnant to get to Homerton hospital. The walkway felt longer and longer the further along the pregnancy we got.

[@tramcrazy]

Thank you, Geoff. It is absolutely glorious to have a man on the ground for every major TfL event, especially for us non-Londoners.

[@szbnahl]

This "Geoff" guy seems nice. You should do an episode of Choo Choo Chat with him.

[@moe_1886]

What's better than a Geoff video?? Having TWO Geoff's in a Geoff video!! Love it! 😎

[@IowaTrainGay]

Omg! I thought I was seeing double! 🤣 Here I thought it was just from staring at excel sheets all morning! 🤣😂 Love this! Thank you for sharing!

[@tommcgonagle7750]

I never comment really on things generally but thanks for the effort with the video production Geoff (and with graphics in other videos where you're explaining stuff), it's really lovely to watch :)!

[@UnmayoGaming]

You did feature the Hackney Passageway in like 2 seconds on the Overground 112 Stops Fastest Time video!

[@NickBadley]

I hope to see more of Geoff's twin brother Jeff in the future

[@a11oge]

Mega impressive editing on this fun and informative video. 11/10 Geoff

[@matthillmedia]

Great video and so good to see secure bike storage facilities at Hackney Central. Hope we see more of this rolled out everywhere.

[@25mileswest86]

Well, once again, thoroughly entertained AND nicely informed for the whole vid. Creative flair is strong with this one.! Corrected my ashamed lack of subscription to the channel...

[@amandaslater4183]

I really like the camera work. Fantastic video. 😍

[@samuelfitzgerald2025]

Great to see these sorts of improvements highlighted! Would be lovely to see a video like this to show the remodeling at March station.

[@jimparlett4099]

A March station? Then what the hell do Cambridgeshire residents do the rest of the year? Seems a bit shortsighted to me . . . .

[@guillaumemaurice3503]

Thank you for the video Geoff that was very interesting. Where I live in Hertfordshire the some of the trains do stop at Hackney Downs.

[@jabbertwardy]

Always nice to see Geoff in a video with Geoff! He's so helpful, counting steps with a smile 😄

[@sebxiou-av375]

Hi Geoff. What a fab vid! Thanks a zillion. I don't live in London - three months in 1977 was sufficient! (London's a great city but I can't stand urban areas) But your vids are interesting, informative and entertaining; Lord Reith would have been delighted, no doubt. But your video is also a fab lesson for You-Tubers in artistic possibilities. Whilst I'm here, I have watched many of your vids and you are never short of being superb; thank you.

[@travelswithjess]

I love watching your videos Geoff, they make me smile 😀

[@raphaelnikolaus0486]

Love this content! Still my favourite. Portraits of stations or (more general) Transit Passenger Infrastructure. And not only of the Underground of course, but all of the TfL / London Railway Transportation realm. And how fitting that this was funded by the DfT as it is the Overground, which is part of the NR system (as is Cross TfL ElizzaRail of course).

[@tonys1636]

I wonder how long before the Elizabeth Line becomes the Lillebet Line?

[@ronyinparis]

Hackney Downs/Central connector footbridge is so so so useful 👌

[@HenrysAdventures]

I can see why there is no wide aisle gate on the new Imperial Wharf entrance but a new gateline without a wide aisle must be rather rare these days.

[@darrin0044]

Great video. Bushey Station also has a bike storage facility too at the back entrance of the station.

[@melvynbuckton6881]

And no step free access

[@scullytawoody4852]

Love the newish stations . As I like coming to London when I can gives me ideas of different locations. Thanks.

[@JimbobsTransportVideos]

I once stayed at The Travelodge at Hackney Central and got the best room possible, it overlooked both railway lines and was a suite size room!

[@michellebell5092]

Thanks Geoff and Geoff. As always, I’ll go and visit the two stations myself. Cheers

[@cjayos7654]

This video could have easily been a few shots of the stations with a few descriptions, but it is clear that each shot is carefully considered, the sound is well mixed and edited, and technically simple but well executed visual effects add to an already polished film. Geoff, are you trained in film-making or are you an autodidact?

[@DanLoudShirts]

Thanks

[@timwillett7802]

You are a master of your craft sir!

[@davidgrant8824]

About time that TFL updated its "Avoiding Stairs" tube map for new lift openings, the Elizabeth Line and the Overground. Including the Thameslink would also be good. They could also remedy the omission of the cross-platform interchange at Finsbury Park and include the GN electrics at Highbury & Islington. For some inexplicable reason, the new tube map shows the Cambridge Line of the Thameslink (rather than the GN line) and the stations at New Southgate, Oakleigh Park and New Barnet, when the Thameslink doesn't stop there most of the day even though GN does. It also shows the Charing Cross Branch of the Northern Line as the connector to the Victoria Line, when it should be the Bank branch Truth be told, disabled access on mapping and station signage needs a bottom up change. I have been looking , this week at central London interchanges by visiting them, and most are unfit for people who have difficulty walking long distances, or people with luggage. In many cases more than one lift is needed and the signage between them is non existent. On the other hand, the obsession with completely level access to the train (as in the "Step Free" tube map) and the ignoring of huge distances on the flat appears to be a huge omission by TFL. The reference to distances on tube maps is selective and inconsistent. Many of the stations are really separate rather than interchanges. Harry Beck needs to unsolder all his joins. As for the hash they made at the lift interchange at Custom House by increasing the walking distance by over 1000% by putting a one-way gate line in the way; it is inexplicable. National Rail, as well as TFL have a blind spot for signage. Try and find platforms 10a, 11 and 12 at Stratford and then when you have found the stairs, try and find the lift access. Stratford is an awful interchange. I hope that once the Elizabeth Line goes through in November that mapping can show the cross-platform interchange between Elizabeth and Central lines as well as the DLR on platform 3a. The current connections between Central and Elizabeth lines at Liveropool Street and Tottenham Court Road are ridiculous. I assume that most National Rail station improvements are funded by the Government rather than TFL. I think that the only part of the Overground owned by TFL is the East London Line.

[@praiserdusty]

Can you do an episode on the London necropolis railway. Tom Scott did it but didn't show much just a description. I bet you could get more access to where it ran and all its stops maybe even find an old train that ran the line even if it's just a museum piece. 1st 2nd and 3rd class funerals were run on the line and so much more right there in London. I'd love to see more

[@RB-xl1nd]

Loving the double Geoffody! Great Video. I wonder how quickly you could do all the Hackney stations? Can't wait for the next video.

[@roderickmain9697]

They all look rather cool. Nice to see something being improved. Not to mention raising the bar for other KZbinrs - multiple Geoffs!!!!

[@SamSitar]

fun watching them too.

[@emmaslater7927]

I loved the video Geoff.I found this video really interesting.✌️

[@christopherbrown3695]

Loved the snazzy editing young fellow, top work.

[@raphaelnikolaus0486]

2:34 Reflection of what I assume is a TfL Press Officer in the Lift doors. Does that count as them being in the shot?

[@stevelknievel4183]

We can only hope so. If it doesn't, then maybe the shot at 5:57 does though.

[@raphaelnikolaus0486]

@@stevelknievel4183 Lol, well spotted! :D

[@davidedwards3137]

I spend my life trying to stay out of shot 😁

[@tardismole]

Cleverly done and entertaining.

[@darranhebert]

Wow Geoff I love your new slick edits!! Hats off to you all. Thank you.

[@etbadaboum]

This passageway built in 2017 with no graffiti is a miracle (so far)

[@michaelbruchas6663]

Am surprised so many sets of stairs! Good cardio…

[@callumwhite2993]

At 1:55, I’m pretty sure it was in the 112 Overground Stations in the fastest time video.

[@wastelandwanderer9491]

Outstanding Geoff!.

[@geoffbarry9540]

Good luck with the new entrance at IW...covered walkway but bare stairs and platforms, no canopies or shelters. Should be great fun in the winter or any other time when inclement weather arrives! Don't think anyone will be spreading out along the platform then...

[@jw4499]

I knew there had to be two Geoff's ...its how you are able to travel so much and make lots of vids 😃😃😃

[@paulasser1589]

Not sure if you are aware, but there is a dedicated bike store/shed at Enfield Town station

[@jamieslifee]

You DID include a shot of that bridge before, in your 112 Overground Challenge! (still waiting for your retry of that) :)

[@onix321]

Editor had way too much fun with this one. Love it.

[@cj-br9mq]

Geoff thanks all video you have made on youtube i am autistic i like trains and bus video

[@BulletNoseBetty]

What's next? A video series on "All The Geoffs"? Seriously, I really enjoyed this one.

[@Nethead]

Love your videos. Thank you! Always interesting🧐

[@david-stewart]

Some amazing video editing in this

[@transitcaptain]

So the 22 steps make up a 15-story building?

[@ianellis4276]

Exactly what I was going to put ;)

[@HarryLovesRuth]

I had to scroll way to far to get to this comment.

[@nachbarslumpi7093]

I love that stair thing, great.

[@HenrysAdventures]

I always think London Marylebone could do with a second entrance on Rossmore Road. It would free up congestion on the main concourse, and could be constructed quite easily with a concourse sitting above tracks of platforms 2-5 with a gateline level with the street and stairs and lifts down to the platforms.

[@Gremlins_Modelling_Mayhem]

Though not directly attached to the station building, but there is a bike storage facility at Finsbury Park station

[@jgodfrey546]

Brilliant bit of editing there, sir! Well done!

[@paulknight5018]

Loving the Geoff clone not seen him since one of the Purple/ Elizabeth/ Crossrail Line discussion you had with yourself 😀

[@londonglide]

That Imperial Wharf walkway is all fine, but the Bude Tunnel is still the best...

[@hughs591]

Love the doppelgänger sequence!

[@paulmark63]

Love ❤️ the 2 Geoff’s

[@XboxgeorgebeanRollercoasters]

Geoff's twin returns!

[@Graham_Rule]

I just got back from the optician who warned me to get in touch at once if I started getting any double vision. Curse you Geoff(s) ! 😁

[@kevingraham3161]

Very clever editing Geoff, don't know how you are doing it having your other self but very good.

[@southofthethames]

Worth Pointing out that the Walkway between the two Hackneys is not an entirely new thing. One existed until 1944 when the original Hackney Station (North London Line) closed.

[@creepermk]

I‘d love to see you do a video where you feature all the underground stations of the overground. So little footage online, especially Dalston Junction. But maybe that’s just my obsession with underground stations talking (which you kindled btw). Much love

[@carel_dfx]

3:56 I'm imaging myself there in a _Hackneython_ on that store talking about the Underground

[@andrews0208]

@geoffmaeshall so Romford has new lifts and entrance on the Elizebeth line but interestingly I don’t think they made London overground platform step free only the the Elizebeth line and greater anglia platforms

[@MrJamie2345]

Unrelated question to the video. I went to London last weekend and I noticed where we stayed Piccadilly trains ran through district line stations near Hammersmith but my question is why don’t Piccadilly line trains stop at all stations along that way when they have platforms to do so ?

[@cjayos7654]

Stamford Brook, Turnham Green and Chiswick Park have Piccadilly line platforms for early morning and late night trains. Piccadilly line trains can stop if there are works on the District tracks. Otherwise on this stretch of the network the infrastructure allows the District line to act as a local service while Piccadilly can use the fast inner tracks, which help get people to the airport promptly. There may be some reconfiguration of this arrangement in future with regards to Chiswick park, once much needed new trains are placed on the Piccadilly line.

[@nzhook]

Nice editing of Geoff doing Geoff stuff with appearances from Geoff.

[@davidgibson1978]

Use the connecting walkway between Hackney Centrsl and Hackney Downs which is a great addition to Hackney, before that I would walk between the stations which I could do in 4 minutes as I walk quickly, but I can change quicker now with the walkway.

[@laudermarauder]

Thanks Geoffs

[@c.morland]

Also please visit Highams park! With the level crossing!

[@damian-transport-enthusiast]

Awesome video, as always!

[@thomasrobinson8336]

Great Editing job. Well

[@cd0u50c9]

Great job to all Geoffs involved.

[@neon3690]

Thanks Geoff and Geoff

[@GreenJimll]

I knew it! There had to be more than one Geoff to get all these videos produced constantly!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

It’s always such to see a new video. I feel like I know all the shots and the signature Geoff-isms like that camera placement near Stairs or BINAUGURATION.

[@gadaboutwalks]

Nice to see a tribute to the Tom Baker-era Doctor Who titles sequence in the footage of the Central-Downs connecting passageway.

[@ryans20981]

Mind blown with your magic tricks 😂

[@tehklevster]

Getting quite impressed with your edits Geoff :)

[@VictoriaElizabethUK]

But hang on though, they had covered cycle storage facilities for years and years at Leytonstone Underground Station (Church Road exit) and I think there was also one at Walthamstow Central. The Council and TfL teamed up to put them there. I think most of the Waltham Forest Stations got them. I'll be surprised if they aren't still there.

[@michelvoogd272]

Great video again Geoff! With so many changes on the network, do you have any plans to update your Station Master app with new maps etc?

[@stephenrider2413]

Perfect Geoff to Geoff banter!

[@Thats_Mr_Random_Person_to_you]

6:38 was that an adafruit 'new new new new new' song or just totally coincidence? Great content as always

[@christyschrader9012]

Sounds like the 10th Doctor talking about the 15th New York?

[@jeffreykregel3821]

New gateline, times 6

[@Theyluvkai7218]

Geoff with another banger video 🥶

[@Mustang00007]

Over here at the moment..the sign north bound south bound how do you find which point of the compass and station is which before you enter the station?

[@Diddy45.]

Developed well comparing 2000 and 2010 and 2020

[@benh4509]

Very clever video 👍

[@APTX48691019]

02:23 someone flipped the up/down button and the braille gone wrong

[@henreereeman8529]

Great vid Geoff!

[@markmartindale7215]

THANKS GEOFF! (Sincerely)

[@Thornaby37]

Great video, Geoff and Geoff I'm guessing that those camera tricks were inspired by GLovesTrains KZbin channel

[@c.morland]

The hackney downs - hackney central connection v useful to connect two branches.

[@eastlancsesteem]

Cool! More ways to enter the Overground.