Elephant & Castle - End of the Line Ep.23

We're at another End of the Line in Central London! The southern end of the Bakerloo Line is Elephant & Castle and actually borders Zones 1 and 2. The Bakerloo and Northern station are linked below ground via corridors so you can connect, and there's lots to see here, as well as two nearby disused stations which you may not have realised were there ...

[geofftech]

Spot where I filmed this over two days …
DAY 1 : When it rained, and then DAY 2 : When I walked to the abandoned stations and it was a sunny day! 😅

[namenamename]

4:21 "Bakerloop" a portmanteau within a portmanteau, delightful

[billkocher]

Well that took me back a few years!
Between 1965 & 1970 I was a student at the London College of Printing. I lived in Wembley and travelled from Stonebridge Park station to the Elephant, Monday to Friday over that time. The trains were 1938 stock in those days if I remember correctly, and there was even one ‘smoking’ carriage!
Also have a memory of freezing on Queens Park Station waiting for a Euston train to continue north if the Bakerloo terminated there.

[mattmerchant]

Geoff, thanks for taking the time to talk to me and partner at East Croydon the other Sunday, sorry I caught you in a moment of deep thought but it was great to meet you, thanks for being so polite!

[Anonymoususer_]

I’m pleased that you didn’t quit YouTube. I have been to Elephant and Castle and I still think that the Bakerloo Line will extend to Lewisham and Hayes/Bromley. Do keep them coming.

[tobystreeter]

I work in the team that installed that robotic total station to monitor the Northern line! 😊 Made my day seeing that in this video!

[CarterSimon]

I work in the local area and must have passed by there hundreds of times and never noticed those former stations . This is why I appreciate your work and why I'm a transport/urban planning enthusiast. You're doing the lord's work Geoff 👍👍👍

[henreereeman]

Great video! Have to say though that reopening Camberwell and Walworth Road stations would be hugely beneficial for the local areas which are quite badly served by trains at the moment (because the distance between Elephant and Castle and Loughborough Junction is really quite big). I hope they reopen at least one of these stations in the future to serve some quite dense neighbourhoods

[stevegee]

Thanks for making me fill very old. I work on the signs at the shopping centre when I was 15/16. Just before the now demolished centre opened.

[RA]

As a two-time tourist to London and self-admitted train nerd, the Bakerloo Line carriages are my favorite of all the Underground. Sure, they may not be as fancy as the S stock, but they’ve got a lot of character to them.

[driver]

What a random event! I was just there at Elephant & Castle today! When this video released! Just arrived home from a week long trip to the UK and stayed in London over The Weeknd not far from Elephant & Castle but today was the first time we didn’t take the bus back, the 435, but took the Bakerloo line from Piccadilly to here. Mainly because my son and I wanted to go by train 😊. First time in the UK for him and the 8th for me but first in over 15 years.

I passed that hand written sign at the bottom of the stairs! 😊

[BermondseySteve]

Great video, as always! Lots of info, presented well. Thank you! I'm a Yank, but lived in the area in '84, so 'the Elephant' was our local Tube. We have special memories of the lovely old London Transport Leslie Green-designed buildings, and we did notice the tiles and the general old-fashioned feeling of the station, along with the lovely old iron-work & fixtures. It was also a great memory for us to think of all the generations of S. Londoners who came through that station to get the 'Norvern Line' or the Bakerloo, and to remember the bravery of Londoners in WWII who took refuge in the deep stations. When returning to the E & C going south from Camden Tube, we always had to remember to read the front of the Northern Line trains for the direction "Morden via Bank, " to be sure that the train wld stop at E & C. I do miss the area, even the '60s-era shopping centre there and our local Tesco. I'm back in the States, unfortunately, and surely miss walking home with a Bermondsey "portion of chips, open" w/Sarson's malt vinegar & salt, and the Bermondsey Manze's pie & mash, the New Caledonian Mkt, the scent of coal fires in winter, and the best-ever Routemaster buses - a packed, warm & cozy refuge in winter nights, which allowed us the vast convenience of hopping on & off when we pleased! Some great years in the final years of an older-style, less hectic London. Lifetime memories!

[cgimovieman]

I always liked the name of that station. You’re lucky to live in London. I’m sure there are times that you may not think it on days when it’s crowded, rainy, etc. But it truly is an amazing place, and I’ve been wanting to get back for years. We have a small chain of British pub/restaurants with 5 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada called Elephant & Castle. Having been to the U.K. many times, they always feel pretty true to their country of origin. They also used to be one of the only places that I could get Fuller’s London Pride and Porter on draft, and dispensed with traditional pump handles and at room temperature. Sadly the last time I was in a location my Fuller’s was ice cold, and when I asked about it the bartender didn’t seem to care or know what I was talking about. But they’re still decent places.

[alexgrundon]

Lovin’ the blond cowlick. Lovely vid. Bless you for the mention of the Hidden London tours x

[SimnTrains]

Those tiles on the Northern Line really look lovely, nice End of the Line video.

[foxyytfnaf]

This is my local station! I’ve been waiting for this video for a while and it’s lovely to see Elephant and Castle get some love

[FouiAnimations]

Currently eating pastas at 11pm and watching Geoff's content at the same time. Perfect 👌

[cece]

Elephant and castle is the station I enter and exit every single day. I can’t believe I didn’t see you but this is such a great video nonetheless! Glad you’ve finally done elephant ❤

[Santiago-lbmd]

Elephant and Castle is now definitely on my checklist for when I visit London, great video as always!

[rstuart]

Don't stop Geoff! Your YouTube full length videos are fascinating and give me inspiration ... (PS, thank you!)