The Lovely Hatch End Overground Station - Only Unconnect

Back on the 'Only Unconnect' trail, and who says we're only doing the Underground? The Overground has some brilliant stations too, and possible the most brilliant is the delight that is ... Hatch End.
In Only Unconnect, I'm visiting some of my favourite station on the Tube Map again, this time with the theme of not being connected to any other lines, they just appear with a station 'tick' on the map.

[@michaelocyoung]

1:24 I thought you said "Overground trains stop here for an hour" not "Overground trains stop here, four an hour" and I thought "that's a long dwell time.

[@anneclements2473]

Me too. Thanks for the insigh5 to what was really meant!

[@chriskigen]

Was about to ask the same thing!😅

[@WyvernYT]

I was wondering where they all parked.

[@AndreaZzzXXX]

me too! I am from Italy, of course my english is not good, sometime I feel he talk too fast for me, I am glad more people got my same issue 🙂 thank you for you comment Michael

[@alexanderlakey8483]

Hatch End was our closest 'National Rail' station until we moved from Pinner (proper) to Chesham. A nice tribute Geoff, I always thought Hatch End a beautiful station, and from a time when the railway companies really cared about their infrastructure and it didn't just have to be functional.

[@Nooticus]

They still do care about infrastructure in many cases

[@DavidMeggers]

Clearly my thumbs is for Overground leaving followed by Avanti Pendolino. Brilliance. Really don’t want to detract from the rest of the video also. Lovely.

[@geofftech2]

it was such a lucky shot! i was about to REC OFF when i heard the Pendo coming and kept rolling .... perfect!

[@DavidMeggers]

@@geofftech2 that’s made my day that I got a reply from Geoff. This is a thanks for everything you do.

[@willingshelf]

Truly a magnificent shot

[@hendrikharryg]

I was genuinely surprised at having a moment of train ASMR, and when the Pendo shot in, I understood why.

[@TheCaptScarlett]

The southbound platform used to be open/unfenced against the fast down line with only warning signs about the dangers of being sucked into/under fast moving trains lasting well into the 80s, which was fascinating and scary to a young boy who loved trains, but slightly terrifying for his parents. Unfortunately someone decided to end it all off the platform 😞 And then the fence was added.

[@filpaul]

Hah! The poem line about the chandelier lights “hang clear” - with a shot of the bin bags.

[@The.train.guy.]

Geoff when I just had a notification of a new video on your channel it made me happy and excited 😊

[@FouiAnimations]

3 videos of Geoff the same week. This week is definitely amazing. Thanks for your content that always brings me good mood Geoff :) ❤

[@geofftech2]

i'm on a roll! shall i do a fourth? :-)

[@FouiAnimations]

​@@geofftech2 YES

[@alanclarke4646]

​@@geofftech2 Yes please, Geoff😊

[@Diddistuffs]

@@geofftech2PLEASE YES!!!!

[@layton642]

@@geofftech2 yesyes

[@moneycash-wg7wp]

710375, the train in shot at both the start and end of the video, was the unit I took when I was on the Watford Junction to Stratford service a few months back.

[@Excalibur_LP]

Unbelievable. Looking forward to the sequel ;)

[@Gabrielm624]

Watford Junctiom to Stratford???!! Is that a thing?

[@stevehotspur]

@@Gabrielm624it was a one day thing

[@jamesellis3583]

My local station, I am lucky. Your quite right it never feels like London.

[@stevehotspur]

Mine too I wish I’d known you were coming I’d have been down to meet you

[@keithparker1346]

Really what part of zone 6 does feel like London?

[@StanleyV64]

I love some John Betjeman. A beautiful combination of art and trains - so glad you referenced it!

[@Jsone260]

I always forget about this station but it is very nice one great video Geoff

[@bishwatntl]

It's one of the three H's (Harrow & Wealdstone, Headstone Lane and Hatch End) - consecutive stops on the Watford Overground line.

[@spenny690]

It's great to be enlightened about really nice looking stations, and to learn a bit about their history

[@quintuscrinis8032]

Yay, my sort of local. Always wondering if anything ever used to stop at the mothballed platforms.😂

[@quintuscrinis8032]

The allotments are hidden down a small side street complex, I think. Turn right out of the approach/car park and then immediately right again.

[@alanclarke4646]

Geoff, there is absolutely nothing wrong with your diction.

[@realmikegarner]

I have a vague memory of the Bletchley trains making stops when I was a kid in the 60s. May be wrong though

[@coombscharlie]

We moved to Hatch End in 1961. I don't recall any scheduled stops at the mothballed platforms. The inter-city trains didn't stop at all between Watford and Euston, and the outer-suburban trains stopped only at Harrow & Wealdstone.

[@ChatNxir_2009]

Thanks for the content! always different and entertaining!

[@FlyByWireUk]

Preston Road tube station has also won awards for its flowers and garden displays in the past on its island platform.

[@HenrysAdventures]

Hatch End is one of my favourite railway stations in London. I was one of those who visited when walking the London Loop.

[@ah260263]

Great video Geoff. Used to travel on that line when I worked in Hatch End (one of the bank's that has now closed !!) for a couple of years from 1983-85. Good memories !!

[@nachbarslumpi7093]

It has been a pleasure hearing you going lyric. Thanks.

[@johnstephens649]

Geoff’s in ‘Ach End where I grew up! We were always told that the LNWR built a lot of VERY large houses along the Uxbridge Road (all knocked down for flats in the 1970s) to attract high net worth people to the area and away from nearby Pinner and the Metropolitan Line developments. Allegedly first class season tickets were part of the deal which is why a somewhat grander station than the area needed was built so these people could catch the fast trains rather than have to endure changing at Harrow & Wealdstone two stop down the line…

[@paulmark63]

Well done Geoff another great video Paul in Kent

[@ulazygit]

Grew up in Hatch End - from ‘74 until I left the family home in 1990 … used to play along the hedgerows and bridges as a young kid … but never ventured onto the tracks. Good times … Before moving to Hatch End, the family home was in Pinner, backing into the Met line (positioned just south on Pinner Station … ) our 100’ garden ran down to the rail corridor , with remnants of the old tree lined bridleway that used to follow the railway (before it was widened in the early 60’s) … again, fond memories

[@TheCaptScarlett]

Down by the footbridge between Sylvia Avenue and The Avenue?

[@peterjones6640]

I used to live on Sylvia Avenue and take the train from Hatch End into work. But the majority of my childhood was spent growing up in North Harrow in the 1960s, so I used to know the area well.

[@rogerkearns8094]

I might have been your milkman! ( I worked for Brazier's in the nineteen seventies.)

[@EElgar1857]

A beautiful station, and a fine poem; bravo!

[@RJBTransport]

Good Video Geoff I haven't ever got out at Hatch End Next time I am in London I will Visit I have only pass thought on overground Look like nice Station to visit.

[@brianparker663]

Stranger still is the the real Hatch End was actually closer to Headstone Lane station (The Chantry area) before the railways came. Development occurred around the new "Pinner" station to shift its centre westward. Hatch End is technically part of Pinner - being within the historic boundaries of the Pinner parish and as close as the railway could get.

[@howardlethbridge9255]

Used to live opposite on the 6th floor of a block of flats. Loved the whump of the West Coast shooting through, any time of day or night.

[@PandaPlayer007]

finally!! Can‘t remember how many times my grandpa and I when threw those gates. Haven’t been there in a while since my grandparents died in Hatch End. So glad to have the old original Hatch End station sign hanging in over our sideboard. Greetings from Germany and thanks to my parents for raising me half British and half German, it’s a privileged. And btw in Germany no station comes close to the beauty of Hatch End:)))

[@PamelaBane]

Thanks Geoff for another very interesting and enjoyable video, loving the unconnected series

[@MKAdamski]

Back in the 90's I worked for Silverlink Trains in a Ticket Office. If some one had a London Freedom Pass and wanted to go to London we sold them a ticket to Hatch End, but wasn't allowed to sell a ticket from Hatch End (it had be from Boundary Zone 6). Lost count how many times I had to explain that the pass wasn't valid to Watford Junction only to Watford Met.

[@whyyoulidl]

Geoff, many thx for bringing us these little gems. Really appreciate your ongoing USP 🤗

[@maizoon4327]

Hatch End is our favourite station as my husband proposed to me on the northbound platform ❤

[@imrandarr1094]

I’d love to see you include the DLR, Elizabeth Line and Tramlink in this series. Keep up the good work!

[@SJ-cc2il]

Brought back lovely memories of taking the train to school from Hatch End, thanks for this Geoff!

[@raphaelnikolaus0486]

I first learned of and about this magnificent station in Runderground Matt's video :D Happy to see one of yours on this too

[@guillaumemaurice3503]

Thank you for sharing the video Geoff that was very interesting & great information. ❤

[@watchmakersp9935]

Thanks - you certainly have hatched a good video.

[@PlanetoftheDeaf]

A lovely station and I'm pleased you mentioned the London LOOP as that's why I had to use it!

[@Transport_247]

Hey Geoff, hatch end is a complete masterpiece of a station and it’s good you are sharing it. This video is one of a kind! 😊

[@AllTheUnderground]

Do a unconnect for the DLR and Elizabeth Line too please!!! Maybe do one on Thameslink too since its on the Tube Map

[@Gary0557]

Hatch End, sounds like a fictional station name from a TV horror movie.

[@sirsergio89]

Part of my daily commute, lovely little cosy station ❤

[@michellebell5092]

Hatch End must be, along with Bromley North , quite the most magnificent “old fashioned “ and grand station buildings in Greater London. When I visited I sold as much to the ticket office staff member and commented on social media, for which I received the thanks of the area manager. A lovely station

[@robjorge725]

Come out of the station turn left inside the carpark is a staircase upto the main road. On the left of the staircase is the allotment and scarecrow. Hatch End is a premuim area in Harrow and one of the safest in the borough.

[@77smp]

I'm still disappointed Geoff didn't do a spoof "unconnect" at bank. Or even KX!

[@martinrwolfe]

I rember once when there was a fault on the Watford DC they detrained us at Hatch end and stoped a main line train to pick us up. It actualy saved time as otherwise I would have stayed on the train to Queens Park and pickup the underground there. With regards to the bridge. At first when the main line platforms were closes a barrier was placed in the bridge where it currently ends. Then a few years later rather than maintain the bridge to platforms 4/5 and 6 they just demolished the unused portion of the bridge and closed the end as it is today.

[@andrewhead6267]

Until 1982 this was a Bakerloo line station. Once upon a time it had platforms on the mainline with stoppers to Euston from Tring until 1964. The up slow platform was only accessible from the road bridge, the up DC platform building was rebuilt in the early 1990s. The main station building shares elements with Bushey. Particularly the windows and virtually identical clock tower.

[@RetiredPaul]

I wasn't quite sure from the video, but are the 4th rails still in place?

[@stevehotspur]

@@RetiredPaulNo that’s why they can’t reinstate the Bakerloo

[@MrGreatplum]

That’s a glorious station building. So pleased it’s well looked after.

[@DesiroDriver]

What a gorgeous station!

[@coombscharlie]

The bridge did indeed extend to the former platforms. In fact there was a second entrance to the station, and second ticket office (albeit more modern and mundane) on the former platform 6.

[@MichaelEngel55]

Hatch End is famous for its many restaurants. People travel for miles around for good meals there!

[@Ethanghosh5098]

Its amazing to see my home station on only unconnect,what an honour!

[@jasonwagner5571]

Quite a beautiful piece of architecture

[@nw5835]

When I commuted in the early 60’s we used to stop at Hatch End.

[@backwashjoe7864]

I love these videos. A great, relaxing way to start the day! :)

[@GeorgeChoy]

What a magnificient piece of architecture.

[@user-gc2er5hj8c]

Hatch End is officially part of Pinner, although as you say it's quite a long way from its little high street to central Pinner.

[@meijiturtle3814]

What a beautiful building.

[@lionelsimpkins8679]

The bridge inside the sration is same bridge as when all platforms were in use. Possibly, cut short when the main line was electrified. The LNWR managers lived in villas in the Avenue which is parallel to the railway line away from the staion buildings. There used to be an entrance direct from station into the Avenue. In the esrly 1960s as well as trains from Euston, there was at least one steam train from Broad Street to. Tring that stopped at Hatch End in evening rush hour . The Euston station master ., a ,Mr Tyrell, lived at Hatch End and sang in Choir at nearby St Anselms Church.

[@stevehotspur]

Yes I thought also that there was a side entrance in The Avenue

[@SouthEastLondonBusEnthusiast]

Hey Geoff its quite cool to do only unconnect for an overground station! Why? 1: The sounds of the trains, 2: The Scenery, 3: Cool trainspotting! I hope you get to 330K Subscribers this year! I wish you luck!

[@rupertbare2023]

Oh what a lovely station! 👍

[@Jimyjames73]

A nice little Station Geoff - Yeah, does look a bit like a Bank in a way!!! 😉🚂🚂🚂

[@telhudson863]

I still think of Hatch End as Bakerloo Line station.

[@Extreme_Rice]

My wife keeps her bees at Hatch End (not a euphemism) so I find myself down there more often than I used to, but rarely have cause to use the station. I once saw Barry Cryer do an impromptu set at the Arts Centre because he lived very nearby.

[@arthurreeder8451]

Somewhere north of this station was a historic artefact in the form of a coal tax pillar. These were points on the routes into London where duty was to be paid. You can find another up Oxhey Lane. All grade listed now.

[@ruthorgan5902]

really enjoyed this video Geoff and the little bit of poetry

[@stevem-h3562]

I learned to drive around Hatch End and lived just up the road in Pinner for a couple of years. Used to be a nice place.

[@TheCaptScarlett]

Opening in 1840 it's one of the stations on the TfL map that pre-dates the Underground.

[@elainemulberryrat5300]

Interesting video. Thank You.

[@peonycottageboutique4154]

Beautiful station.

[@michaelmiller641]

Wonderful! Thanks!

[@alexsmith1826]

You might like the next station, Headstone Lane. FYI, check out the Southern Service from Watford Junction to East Croydon, some great views of Wilsden Depot

[@pareetjshah]

Love Hatch End -it really is a beautiful station. We live nearby and use the station or buses to visit restaurants and the nearby Harrow Arts Centre.

[@Djduddu61]

Lovely video Geoff I will definitely come here soon

[@BensTransport]

My Local Overground Station!

[@jimmyedwards1639]

When the lease on our house in Ruislip ended in 1973, I wanted to move either here or South Harrow. We ended up moving to Ickenham for two years.

[@SaturnCanuck]

Yes that is a lovely station.

[@neilmcfarlane5644]

Nicely read Geoff. And interesting, as ever.

[@AndyKing1963]

Worked on the track for years at Hatch End

[@eastlancsesteem]

This is the Watford Junction - Hayes service on the London- Underground Bakerloo line: Watford Junction Watford High Street Bushey Carpenders Park Hatch End Headstone Lane Harrow & Wealdstone Kenton South Kenton North Wembley Wembley Central Stonebridge Park Harlesden Willesden Junction Kensal Green Queen's Park Kilburn Park Maida Vale Warwick Avenue Paddington Edgware Road Marylebone Baker Street Regent's Park Oxford Circus Piccadilly Circus Charing Cross Embankment Waterloo Lambeth North Elephant & Castle Bricklayers Arms Old Kent Road New Cross Gate Lewisham Ladywell Catford Lower Sydenham New Beckenham Clock House Elmers End Eden Park Shirley Hayes

[@jamesabbott5242]

Awesome Video Geoff 😄😄

[@garybroadhurst3548]

Ah, I was there a week ago! I noticed almost nothing of the details - especially the stone carvings, but I did think it was a rather nice station building. I just tapped out and in again as it's the last station in zone 6, so that I could go to Watford Junction and back (without paying extra) while completing the whole Overground in a day.

[@stevehotspur]

I’ve got an over 60’s card and it’s ok to Watford

[@MadheshPradesh2.0NepalBajrangi]

I love your vlog ❤ friends ❤

[@tanvivyas4884]

Thanks for sharing! Because it’s not step free I have never explored-and it’s only 10 mins away from me !

[@tanvivyas4884]

Apparently it’s step free northbound- one way ticket for one!

[@user-qz5pw9yl4o]

Google says this about the Bakerloo going to Watford Junction: "Re-extension to Watford Junction This was in conjunction with the reorganisation of a number of north London railways under London Overground. In a former London Plan, it was projected that by 2026 the Bakerloo line would be re-extended from Harrow & Wealdstone to Watford Junction, restoring the pre-1982 service."

[@geoffgeorge3685]

Excellent Betj action!

[@wendalboy]

Lovely station building

[@andrewkilkerr38]

When growing up near by we were told that the reason Hatch End had so many platforms was because several company directors of the London North Western lives near by and they would stop the next train to get into work. Might be an urban myth, but I hope it’s true.

[@user-eq5hj6hc8n]

Wonderful Geoff

[@johnrafferty8087]

Great Statiin Staff are Hatch eng. A great community station. The flowers were started by the Late Philip Palmer who worked there for many years I used to work at Watford High Street. And Ohill was a great help to me a true Gent. And they Guys have carried on.

[@villagerearlofcedarham7893]

I never was this early for a Geoff video. Lovely Video 👍

[@DanTheGamerAndTrains]

When I get notifications of a new video on this channel, I go straight to it and give it a like

[@leonontransport]

Quite nice! I actually did trainspotting there once

[@shitvideoquality4856]

Really been enjoying these videos Geoff! It’s an absolute blessing with these uploads!

[@motogpwin]

Booking hall lettering is raised, while Bicycle and Parcels lettering is incused in the stone.

[@DavidShepheard]

The other tracks there are not just the Intercity tracks. There is also a one-per-hour train that goes from Watford Junction down to join the West London Line. It shares the West London Line with London Overground and goes down to Clapham Junction and East Croydon. They really should take that train away from the operator, give it to TfL and make it into the "West London Purple Train".

[@Sim0nTrains]

Can Bank on that if John Betjeman says it a nice building! Honestly it is a very nice station and one I need to visit myself.

[@chlxexe]

ANOTHER BANGER FROM GEOFFFF YES

[@abigailbarfoot9596]

It's abeautiful station.

[@hanwellianben]

And that, dear Geoff, was top draw! I

[@Elitist20]

The first I ever heard of Pinner was because of Jane March: 'The Sinner from Pinner.'

[@Madonsteamrailways]

What a gorgeous station Hatch End is!! It looks very much like the sort of station that I might model. And by the way, is there anyone bringing out models of the appropriate trains?

[@kevan1831]

Nice video.