OK, so there *IS* a windmill at on Wimbledon Common, but i wouldn't say that it's close to the station ...
@moistpeanuts
Жыл бұрын
Brixton!
@nopy99
Жыл бұрын
There is indeed a windmill on wimbledon common. The windmill is probably a 30 minute walk from the station. Alternatively the 93 bus goes there. Get off at Parkside Hospital and walk down "windmill road" to get there.
@funcik1
Жыл бұрын
Brixton has also windmill
@vjaska
Жыл бұрын
Brixton Hill has one where Blenheim Gardens is located and only 15 minute walk from Brixton Station
@richardcoleman1616
Жыл бұрын
I saw the windmill and thought Jonathan Creek
@johnperkins7401
Жыл бұрын
I was lucky enough to meet Geoff Marshall on Sunday ( yesterday 13th Nov ) on the way back from him shooting this video. I saw him on the Elizabeth line. I got on and there was Geoff. He was incredibly charming and generously spirited. Thank you Geoff
@LisaSargent03
Жыл бұрын
He is a very charming man, no blur pun intended.
@roderickmain9697
Жыл бұрын
@@LisaSargent03 ...or Morrisey
@lisakaz35
Жыл бұрын
Nice! #LizPurpRoyalty
@johnperkins7401
Жыл бұрын
@@geofftech2 Thank you Geoff. Keep making those videos, you are the best at what you do😎
@williamerazo3921
Жыл бұрын
@@geofftech2 👏👏👏👏👏 nice callback not a lot of celebrities will do so
@baseballfan99
Жыл бұрын
Windy Miller was in Camberwick Green which was the sister program to Trumpton along with Chigley
@jakemarquis2687
Жыл бұрын
2:04 Correction: There's actually 7 platforms at Upminster. You forgotten Platform 1A, but that's rarely used, but when used, it's for trains mainly on the Grays to Upminster Shuttle Service
@GreenJimll
Жыл бұрын
I usually like Geoff's videos, but if I could give it a double like it would be for that seat animation with the Windy Miller sounds. Genius!
@jacksomb1
Жыл бұрын
I'm now stuck with the earworm ''Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb'' 😀
@Andi090386
Жыл бұрын
@@jacksomb1 Windy Miller was from Camberwick Green, not Trumpton. But I know the bit you mean. The role call before the Fire fighters set off.
@EngineerLewis
Жыл бұрын
I missed windy miller in my early years as my parents didn't have a TV but I had to watch one episode to understand the reference to the seat animation. The episode I found was when Windy Miller got drunk on apple cider - hmmm .. not a suitable subject for kiddies today!!
@paulknight5018
Жыл бұрын
@@EngineerLewis That's the one most of us of a certain age remember!!
@Glamrockqueen
Жыл бұрын
@@EngineerLewis He was always getting drunk and falling sleep. Don't know if anyone remembers The Pogles? They always drank Elderberry Wine.
@PokhrajRoy.
Жыл бұрын
It’s so nice to see a new episode of ‘End of the Line’ with “Marshall. Geoff Marshall.”
@iiExplosionz12
Жыл бұрын
The EOTL series is such a joy to watch! That's all
@bobparsons77
Жыл бұрын
Lots of useless info.
@kapuchinoification
Жыл бұрын
Geoff, at 3.15, you can be seen walking away from the station, with a green electrical box behind you. What you probably didn't realise is that the green box is marked 'London Electric Tramways'! I have no idea why it's there, on account that Upminster never had trams, however, it must be one of very few pieces of London tram infrastructure still in use!
@DurhamGooner
Жыл бұрын
The Windy Miller waiting room edit was inspired Geoff!! 🤣
@Lingwaixiaowai
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant!
@stephendavies923
Жыл бұрын
Great one Geoff, I remember Windy Miller as being the hardest character on TV, because he never looked or checked as he walked between the moving sails. I doubt the HSE would be happy with him these days.
@geofftech2
Жыл бұрын
They’d make him wear a Hi-Vis at the very least. And put yellow and black tape on the edge of the sails. 😆
@olivergeraghty2646
Жыл бұрын
Don't forget about the Brixton windmill! The last working windmill in London and end of the Victoria Line :)
@SenorSupreme176
Жыл бұрын
Pretty sure Wimbledon has a windmill
@randomtrainfan6501
Жыл бұрын
We need a 10 minute or maybe 1 hour version of geoff switching chairs in the waiting room
@PrograError
Жыл бұрын
oddly therapeutic...
@MadCatPerson1977
Жыл бұрын
Other sights to see in Upminster include the Tithe Barn, a museum of nostalgia if you will. It is only open on select days of the year.
@template16
Жыл бұрын
Windy Miller, a children's TV icon!
@asac159
Жыл бұрын
Grrr. A windmill but a full binbag so we can't see a windmill blowing an empty bag. Thanks Geoff, another good un and a windy miller seat shuffle. Happy days.
@michaelhepworth4756
Жыл бұрын
I’m planning a visit to Upminster for a different reason. I’m a Brit living in the city of Savannah, Georgia USA and I learned that General James Oglethorpe, founder in 1733 of the colony and now state of Georgia is buried at All Saints Church, Cranham. And now I know the depot is there too! Thanks Geoff!
@Balthelion
Жыл бұрын
There's also a local school named after him. I had no idea of his connection to Georgia, TIL! :)
@Pierlover
11 ай бұрын
I went to Oglethorpe School from 1955 to 1960. I can remember some Americans visiting once and we thought they were all film stars! @@Balthelion
@oddcinema
Жыл бұрын
Nice to see a bit of (former) Essex! I used to get the Upminster-Romford link, long before the Overground took over. The service was terrible. I also had no idea Upminster still had a Wimpy -- my home town (Grays) still has one, I think.
@andrewhotston983
Жыл бұрын
I used to love a Wimpy Beanburger. Last saw one in Swanage.
@johnchurch4705
Жыл бұрын
There’s a Wimpy in Lakeside shopping mall.
@gennieseaview3656
Жыл бұрын
Grays does still have its Wimpey, along with one in Lakeside.
@FouiAnimations
Жыл бұрын
I'm tired and sick but getting a notification of your new video makes me really happy. Thank you from my bottom of my heart Geoff, now I feel better than before ☺️❤️
@MrHovis44
Жыл бұрын
Another brilliant video. Also of a certain age, Windy Miller lived in the village of Camberwick Green which was in Trumptonshire of which Trumpton was the main town ..... obviously.....I will get my coat 🤣
@joebenn996
Жыл бұрын
Geoff! I love your channel, I love the stories you tell and I love this video especially as I spent 7 years using Upminster to travel to secondary school on the shuttle (or push n pull as it was often known) but from ROMFORD - not Barking! You said Emerson Park twice and you said Barking (incorrectly) twice but not the wonderful Liz-Line station of Romford! I think you can go to Barking from Upminster but on the C2C from platform 1 or 2. Keep the videos coming, I have learnt so much!
@stevenwebb996
Жыл бұрын
I noticed this but as nobody else had commented on it I thought maybe I had got it wrong 😂
@lewis_chronicles
11 ай бұрын
Thanks. Saved me writing it. I used to use it occasionally when I lived in Romford but it was operated by national rail. The trains were old things from the 70s when I used it ten years ago. It’s a single track so just one train push and pull.
@frglee
Жыл бұрын
Between 1910 and 1939 the District Line went even further east than Upminster, to Leigh-on-Sea, then Southend Central and Shoeburyness with seasonal Summer excursion trains. There were up to three a day, starting from Ealing Broadway. Upminster was where the electric locomotive was changed for a steam one as the Southend Line was not electrified until 1961. The District Line coach set for this service were fitted with retention toilets.
@Crowley2979
Жыл бұрын
Excellent stuff! I haven't seen a Wimpy for a while - used to love their original quarter-pounder 🙂
@grendel_nz
Жыл бұрын
'A Bang and a Wimpy, And home in time for tea. ' Thanks Attila the Stockbroker :)
@callumwhite2993
Жыл бұрын
I went to Upminster a few months ago to get to Emerson Park Station. I remember it vividly. It’s a pretty nice station that feels a little bit too quiet for London/Essex.
@gileslawrence1168
Жыл бұрын
Excellent video... I too am of a "certain age" and well remember the said Windy Miller!!! Visited Upminster a few Sundays ago - on a evening where it absolutely "tipped" it down with rain and sheltered in that very shelter on Platform 6 whilst waiting for an Overground train, after narrowly missing one that pulled out as I was crossing over from the Underground.. Thanks - I've got that bloody Windy Miller theme going around my head now!!! :)
@1-less-car
Жыл бұрын
See if you can weave into your dialogue my childhood hero - Zebedee...'Time for bed '. Your enthusiasm is infectious. Thanks for your hard work.
@JBFlytography
Жыл бұрын
Loving the Geoffy Miller edit in the waiting room! 😂 The last time I was in London and found myself with some free time. I headed out to Upminster for a go on the Overground just to say I had 😬
@MrTinkx
Жыл бұрын
Love it that in the Upminster signal box they listen to the banging dance tunes of London’s premier dance music station KISS 100FM ❤
@JenOnTheMove
Жыл бұрын
Only here for the Wimpy!
@highpath4776
Жыл бұрын
Have they changed their menu recently ?
@Steggs
Жыл бұрын
Often gets busy on the weekends for Upminster! Being a Westcliff resident who now works at Southend East station, nice to see the spotlight shone back on c2c a little bit
@a99swc
Жыл бұрын
Between the station and the windmill is St Laurence church where in 1709 the rector, William Derham, was the first person to calculate the speed of sound. And three of the other stations beginning with U are at that end of the District line - Upminster Bridge, Upney and Upton Park.
@riddypr
Жыл бұрын
I've been to Upminster a couple times and I have indeed visited the windmill. I did *not* know about the other entrance though, and I do agree it looks nicer than the main one.
@SamSayaz
Жыл бұрын
Growing up in cranham I was looking forward to this end of the line ep to see what information I could learn from this and I can say I was pleasantly surprised!
@kingofaxolotls6653
Жыл бұрын
There is also a platform 1a that operates during engineering works!
@hughs591
Жыл бұрын
Very nifty bit of editing for the waiting room / Windy Miller sequence, well done!
@MichaelSebastianTodd
Жыл бұрын
brilliant video ive passed through Upminster a few times now and ive done the Emerson Park branch on the London Overground and handy knowing that theres a Wimpy there too keep up the awesome work
@highpath4776
Жыл бұрын
Funny there is a Wimpy at Morden (and used to be one at Wimbledon till the Fridge on The Bridge came along)
@horsehollerer
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant video, cheers. The Windy Miller musical chairs sequence was particularly inspired, with a psychedelic undercurrent that might have been more at home on The Magic Roundabout. 😉
@stuartr7785
Жыл бұрын
I was going to add: ‘Time flies by when I’m the driver of a train…’, but then realised that was Chigley, which is in Zone 7.
@jacquelineharrod6386
Жыл бұрын
Wow! To Upminster today to shop at M&S nearby! What a small world. Thank you for a fascinating episode, as always.
@rjjcms1
Жыл бұрын
I travelled the District Line from,to back from there when staying for several nights at a secluded hotel in a place called Bulphan,a taxi journey into the greenery from Upminster station. Someone said the outward appearance of the hotel reminded them strangely of the Bates's house in Psycho.
@gennieseaview3656
Жыл бұрын
Guess you are refering to rhe 'Ye Olde Plough House,' (also just known locally as 'The Plough.) It's still there, don't know if it's still as popular as it was for a wedding venue.
@ChanaxMC
Жыл бұрын
Discovering London thanks to you, love your videos as a french, understand everything, I'm learning a lot of things about London transit, quite useful when I'm travelling in this massive city
@malthuswasright
Жыл бұрын
Two other nice things about Upminster - there's a lot of very nice 1930s architecture (reflecting when the place took off), and the church is very attractive too.
@rade-blunner7824
Жыл бұрын
Not only is the church attractive, It's also where the speed of sound was first (correctly) recorded, way back in 1709.
@emotivelyy
Жыл бұрын
That's where my Grandparents and my Aunt live. But my Grandad died.
@clivejohnson8868
Жыл бұрын
Fascinating facts, as always. Quite something to see the windmill in such good condition.
@mizukane7247
Жыл бұрын
As a child I lived in Aveley so this was my local station. Feels really nostalgic seeing this area again.
@Nathan-op4eg
Жыл бұрын
I live in Aveley as well, wouldn't you say Ockendon station is more local?
@thetwistedsock3253
Жыл бұрын
The Windy Miller waiting room editing was totally worthwhile 😊
@smokerjim
Жыл бұрын
Got to love the Windy Miller earworm you left us with - happy nostalgia!
@boofalah36
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Love this series so much! Seeing this in my feed this morning brought warmth to my heart 😀
@FouiAnimations
Жыл бұрын
I agree 😁
@fightersweep
Жыл бұрын
Woohoo! Upminster! My Dad was a signalman on the BR box there back in the late 70s/early 80s. Spent many a Saturday there with him as a kid (even got a cab ride and the chance to drive a Class 302 on the Upminster/Grays branch one weekend. Wouldn't get away with that these days) Don't think the box is there anymore, but happy memories.
@samp3180
Жыл бұрын
The old box is gone but there’s a much bigger signalling centre there now just beyond the station car park. Geoff should’ve mentioned it - it controls all the signalling for the whole LTSR and even parts of the GOBLIN!
@fightersweep
Жыл бұрын
@@samp3180 Thanks for the info! I only realised the old box had gone when looking at Google maps a few years ago. I've often tried finding photographs of the old Upminster box my dad work at. I've only found one photo of Upminster East signal box, but I don't think that's then one (mind you, I was only 11 years old at the time so it could be memory fade). Found photos of the other two boxes he worked at that I remember going with him to, Purfleet and Tilbury East.
@joermnyc
Жыл бұрын
In NYC the western most part of the “subway” is actually the last stop on the Staten Island Railway (it’s also the southernmost point). The easternmost point is just past the last stop on the F train at 179th Street, there’s just enough “tail” track to store several trains on two levels, but the top level goes farther and ends at a “temporary” wall as the old plans to extend the line possibly almost all the way to Little Neck Parkway (just short of the Queens/Nassau County border) never happened. (The lower level was always just going to be storage). The northern most is in the little bubble of the Bronx/Westchester County Border on the 2 line at East 241st Street, Westchester County starts at East 243rd street. It’s an elevated station that just slices off at the north end. The depot is next to it, but the rails accessing it are farther south (many lines have their depots along the line near the last stop, but not past it. (Even the major depot in Coney Island is before the last stop at Coney Island (and the trains sometimes have to crawl through it to get by.)
@LondonEmergency999
Жыл бұрын
You should do a series where you propose made-up extensions (anything you think would be a good addition to the network) to tube lines, overground lines, new lines etc and use your amazing diagram skills to showcase. All regardless of engineering/ construction constraints, as it would be purely hypothetical.
@paulknight5018
Жыл бұрын
Liking this idea @ Geoff Marshall.
@Pez1979
Жыл бұрын
In the spirit of End of the Line, he could call it Extending The Line 🤔
@CCA2020
Жыл бұрын
That would be awesome
@alanspooner3612
Жыл бұрын
Another blinder Geoff. You always make the mundane fun and interesting. Love it.
@markstramtrainbuscapades1729
Жыл бұрын
Windy Miller was in "Camberwick Green" not "Trumpton", though he may have guested!
@johnhalton3312
Жыл бұрын
Another great edition. The Windy Miller waiting room edit shows why your videos are a cut above. But ‘Windy’ is a character from Camberwick Green not Trumpton.
@simonguy9441
Жыл бұрын
I have to say the Windy Miller gag was laugh out loud funny 😂
@stewy62
Жыл бұрын
The Windy Miller seat shuffle was strangely hypnotic, I’m glad it stopped when it did.
@MrGreatplum
Жыл бұрын
Very enjoyable as ever, Geoff - love the Windy Miller references! 😀
@grendel_nz
Жыл бұрын
Excellent Geoff. My fav End of the Line. Especially ❤ the musical seat hopping w classic windmill sound sample👍🏻 I hope lots of ppl go off and check out Windy Miller and Camberwick Green after this. Oh yes, exorcise that earworm!
@grahambaker7563
Жыл бұрын
I never got as far as Upminster "back in the day"! My late Nanny Banks lived at Elm Park. Great video, Geoff! Have just started to watch this new series of yours! And, yes, I used to love Windy Miller and the other characters in Camberwick Green!!
@andrewdolinskiatcarpathian
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant edition, even if Windy Miller is now grinding in my ear 🥴
@alexanderhawksworth7309
Жыл бұрын
Met the legend himself filming outside wimpy! Spent the rest of the day chuffed I'd met you, thank you for taking a selfie with me
@geofftech2
Жыл бұрын
Ha ha! Hey Alex! nice to have met you!
@UKwithoutacar
Жыл бұрын
We just went to Upminster. Took a look at the Windmill. Went to a park. Very nice day. We haven’t forgotten about Epping
@jonathancombe9991
Жыл бұрын
So which of the 5 seats in the waiting room was your favourite? 🙂
@paulwheeler4283
Жыл бұрын
The windy miller Gag in platform shelter at towards End made me chuckle Geoff always knows how to make me smile
@williamerazo3921
Жыл бұрын
I like the old subsurfaces tubs lines terminals and neighborhoods around them
@brayand8022
Жыл бұрын
Love to see Frank still around after the Last of the D-Stock vid!!
@simonrees9441
Жыл бұрын
Worthy of a Brian Cant BAFTA Tribute award, splendid editing there
@andrewkeegan1876
Жыл бұрын
Worth a trip to Emerson Park on the Romford-Upminster Overground line, if only to visit The Hop Inn. Nice little micropub close to the station. Some lovely beers, and thoroughly decent folks running the place too.
@IIVQ
Жыл бұрын
Upminster has 7 platform tracks! Next to the 1 and 2 National Rail, 3,4,5 London Underground and 6 Overground, there's also a platform 1a, that is used only used during engineering works and only accessible by trains from or towards Gray.
@LancashireLass
Жыл бұрын
I have watched the windy miller seat shuffle about five times now and it still makes me laugh like a drain .
@vincenttaber8497
Жыл бұрын
As someone who is also old enough to remember Windy Miller, I loved this video Geoff, especially the clever seat animation. Having worked in Upminster back in the day, this brought back some fond memories... Keep up the good work!
@vanessaruiz4705
Жыл бұрын
Ok, this is funny. I found one of these videos by chance and I thought it didnt look very interesting... and here I am watching all of them now :D And I noticed I've been in london for many years but I've only been to one end of line, Uxbridge :O
@PaulB-xs6hq
Жыл бұрын
Brixton also has a Windmill, albiet a 10-12 min walk from the station rather than 5 at Upminster.
@BenStevenson2
Жыл бұрын
I am pleased to have found this video. I previously lived in Cranham. Haven't been to Upminster station for over 30 years.
@JamesTheBell1
Жыл бұрын
Interesting to note that 4 of the 5 Underground stations beginning with the letter U are on the eastern end of the District line - Upminster, Upminster Bridge, Upney and Upton Park.
@christopherbraiden6713
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for another end of the line video Jeff. Lots of going on's here with different companies. Good to see the depot must visit here!!😎🚇🚇🚇🚇🇬🇧
@TicTacTrolleyServiceTico
Жыл бұрын
Always liked Upminster due to it being the District Line Termius! Also a WIndmill in greater London Goose Lord!! Looking forward to the next end of the line episode which also begins with the letter U!
@msc2fine271
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for doing Upminster I’ve been waiting since ep.1 Thanks Geoff! 🙂
@emmaslater7927
Жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this video. Your videos always cheers me up.I love your videos Geoff.😁
@davidbassett4577
Жыл бұрын
Another great “End of The Line” video Geoff… especially like the Windy Miller treatment for that waiting room!
@adampenwarden3225
Жыл бұрын
A friend of mine (who worked in a Govt Department) used to change trains at Upminster and was always amused by one of the station announcers who invariably pronounced Upminster as Up Minister.
@patryk4757
Жыл бұрын
This is really an amazing series!
@jackiespeel6343
Жыл бұрын
For planning purposes - keep an eye on the Bakerloo Line/Overground closures to Harrow and Wealdstone in December.
@yatil
Жыл бұрын
“There are no roundels here, except of this, and also these Overground roundels. Oh, and the roundels in front of the station that I won’t even mention.” 😂 Thanks for these videos, I enjoy them immensely.
@brianwoodhouse9911
Жыл бұрын
Funny as F. Best one yet due to the Windy Miller skit 👍
@wainwright3
Жыл бұрын
Geoff I LOVE LOVE LOVE your videos, your drive, enthusiam, your knowledge and the wonderfully inventive camera tricks and angles to make every video you make such compulsive viewing. The waiting room sequence with Windy Miller sounds was laugh out loud. The best railway channel by far on KZitem ... even if you've never been to the Isle of Wight. 🙂🙂🙂
@geofftech2
Жыл бұрын
thank you! that's very kind if you and appreciated ... i do make an effort! thank you for every time you've watched :-)
@iancharlton678
Жыл бұрын
Now I’VE got the mill rotating in my brain 😳 I always thought he would mistime his step and get blended…….. 🥳 I use Upminster, usually Upminster bridge and many many stops to Whitechapel for the Royal London facade….. with the glittering new rented building behind….. 🙂
@gavinwarren1413
Жыл бұрын
Next one. Uxbridge I guess. Great videos Geoff
@LisaSargent03
Жыл бұрын
Not Trumpton for WIndy Miller Geoff, my brother said it was Camberick Green in the county of Trumptonshire.
@SabotsLibres
Жыл бұрын
You must have watched the Camberwick Green repeats, Geoff. Because Brian Cant and Trumptonshire were my era, quite a bit before your time! Glad you remember them, though.
@lescalverley8335
Жыл бұрын
Great video Geoff. Brought back some happy memories.
@DesiroDriver
Жыл бұрын
I’m of that age too Geoff 😉 great 📺
@adamcrafts3645
Жыл бұрын
Gorgeous station, visited yesterday
@rickyzuc
Жыл бұрын
Loved the Windmill but am I the only person that was happy to see a Wimpy?!
@stunimbus1543
Жыл бұрын
6:30 Windy Miller would have been sleeping off his cider hangover.
@DougieMontana
Жыл бұрын
We used to have party’s in the trains at that depot, we’d wait for the cleaners to clear off and go in about 2am to carry on a night out with some birds (we were teenagers), the only thing that disturbed us were the graffiti writers that would paint the trains and often join us for a spliff.
@tonyzilla9672
Жыл бұрын
Yes c2c my favourite Service
@starbarrothschild6597
Жыл бұрын
Many years ago there was another shuttle service at Upminster. From platform 1a ran a service to Grays via Ockendon, the line was then absorbed into what became C-2-C.
@fuzzylon
Жыл бұрын
Loved the waiting room sequence - I remember that music intro too.
@ReubenAshwell
Жыл бұрын
I just love the Camberwick Green references in this. :)
@mk3_coach
Жыл бұрын
when Im at my cousins house i always watch the District Line trains do into the depot because he lives next to the tracks
@CoastToCoast_Trains
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant! I love this series
@michaelpatrick895
Жыл бұрын
That footbridge has been out for like a year despite the sign saying 5 weeks 🤣
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