The Four Kinds of Underground Station

Well, maybe five.

[andrewgwilliam]

I'm glad that Jago has finally had the decency to apologise for the overcrowding at Covent Garden! I shall stop writing all those letters to my MP about him.

[theblah]

3:16 Somehow, I feel that Northern Line sign probably doesn’t meet corporate branding guidelines.

[ZGryphon]

And here I was hoping gateway stations would be the ones where you use them once just to see what it's like, and before you know it you're using the Underground every day, you can't stop, it's only a matter of time before you get into ever more _hardcore_ forms of public transport...

[OofusTwillip]

On the Necropolis Railway, ALL stations were terminal.

[Pauldjreadman]

For some reason this channel is as relaxing as hearing rain.

[lydan]

Gateway stations are notorious for getting people hooked on harder stations.

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

The four kinds of Jago Hazzard:
- Genius comedian
- Trams
- Why?
- Charles Yerkes

And these kinds are exactly why we continue to watch. Love you

[highpath]

Spades, Hearts, Diamonds and Clubs, with a couple of Jokers.

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

The actual four kinds of Underground station:
- True Underground
- Underground but it's overground
- Why is a station called that?
- Bank

Ah yes, Olympia with a slab of Overground with a touch of an Underground shuttle...truly a creative Gordon Ramsay recipe

[markushellwig]

Dear Jago! As a non-native English speaker (born, raised and living in Berlin) with a decade long affiliation to my local railroads, I very much enjoy your playful and meticulous use of your language! Each video of yours not only provides interesting tidbits of your amazing Subway system, but also makes me appreciate your native tongue even more, hoping to improve my own skills in using it. Since I experienced the clogged Covent Garden station as a tourist myself exactly six years ago, I cordially accept your apologies. It's about time for a visit once again - I heard something about a certain new purple line across your city...
Cheers from Berlin,
Markus

[robertward]

No, the idea of categorising stations had never occurred to me despite commuting on the tube for a dunnamany years. But once you point it out it makes a lot of sense, a very pragmatic approach. And, as you say, delightfully nerdy!

[weetyskemian]

Haven't been to london in decades but watching this brings back the smell memory of the underground. Its a sort of rubbery smell.

[Schmalfonzo]

"You are the ungrateful corporation to my lifetime of loyal service"

[mjt]

Waterloo probably got reclassified from 'Gateway' when Eurostar withdrew from there.

[jamesbutler]

Jago's 4 groups:
1. The Tube
2. Transport & infrastructure
3. Because I find it interesting, OKAY?
4. It's my bloody channel, if you don't like it, tough!

[DavidFraser]

I had no idea that Underground stations were categorised in this way. My categories are
1. Home, with 3 nice pubs nearby
2. Work, with 2 nice pubs nearby
3. Interesting, complicated and historical, with a pub across the road
4. Complicated but interesting. Don't know about pubs.
p.s. I'm not going to tell you what to do if the platform is busy, you'll all do it.

[CSW]

I never knew Harry Beck made YouTube videos!!

[thgutor]

As someone who recently climbed the 15 floor equivalent emergency staircase at convent garden because of the overcrowding at the lifts, this was very validating, and your apology is so well-received.

[-TheRealChris]

LOVED the cameo in the latest Jay Foreman video man! (and undercover in the previous one) You playing Harry Beck could not have been a cooler and more perfect way to do a face reveal! There's been some cool and special channel crossovers over the years but that just about takes the cake I reckon!

[rickc]

As a frost bitten Canuck tourist we once went to the German Christmas Festival in Hyde Park, ...it was a nice event. It soon however, started to rain. Not a pounding blistering horizontal rain, just a sprinkle, not bad at all. But who knew that Brits don't think much of rain? My friends from Ashford, Kent just weren't having it (they all had big hair while I have none) so we, along with at least a million other Brits, all bolted for the Piccadilly Line, I have never in my life been sardined into a small can like that! It was like a rolling mosh pit! Being one of the last ones onto the train I was barely in the doors when they started to close, ...not being a short bloke I about lost my head in those murderous doors! Who thinks making doors perfect for severing the noggin off all but the vertically challenged is a good idea?! I spent the entire ride hunched over like Quasimodo while praying the doors of death wouldn't burst open and eject me onto the electrified rail!!!
I was well chuffed to have survived the short trip to Covent Garden, thinking the trauma was behind us, we disembarked the grope-a-thon that the train feels like, happy to be near our to realise the full million that boarded the train at Hyde park along with the million that was on the train already had also disembarked. Well, ... The Covent Garden station was down to just one elevator so the platform was just slightly less jam packed than the train, with slightly damp Londoners all waiting patiently for the elevator. Someone near us spotted the stairway!! BOO YA I thought!! A short way out!!, ...Who doesn't mind a few stairs! Off we went happy to be near to the fresh air, at first I was enjoying the spiral stairway and the history of it after about forty or so spirals of pain and suffering we spotted a sign that said, ...congratulations, ...you are half way up to the street! HALF WAY!! Good lord, No wonder it was such a good bomb shelter during the bombing of London! That's certainly where I would go!
I understand The Covent Garden station has undergone a major renovation and the elevators are in good nick now and much faster that before. The last time I was at Covent Garden the station was closed. I look forward to giving the station another chance, while hoping to avoid the old stair master of agony, on my next visit!
All kidding aside, ....I have been to that station many times and even the old elevators did a good job, ...for the most part! That evening in December, in my experience, was a bit of an extenuating circumstance! The destination of Covent Garden is well worth journey!! Where else can you see a guy juggling screaming chain saws while riding a five meter high unicycle?