The Victoria Line is used by over by over 200 million passengers a year, carried along by forty-seven new trains and is the only tube line to run entirely underground. But I bet that even if you’re a frequent traveller on the line, the chances are you’ll not have spotted some of the more unusual things about it. So we’re going to ride the entire length of the Victoria Line starting at here Walthamstow and try and find one interesting thing about all sixteen stations. Let’s go. So this is my favourite thing about Walthamstow station, the old, “Which train is next?” indicator. It was big, it lit up, you could see it from a distance as you came down the escalator. The modern equivalent, as you can see is having a few troubles today as there’s two trains in but… I don’t know which one to get. Now you might think all Victoria Line stations look the same but in fact they all have individual tiling motifs. Blackhorse Road station, for example, has the most obvious with a black horse. And if you don’t like the one at platform level then there’s this big, bad boy outside the station itself. Look at it, it’s life-size, isn’t it? At Seven Sisters, look out for staff getting on at the terminating platform, to be taken to the nearby Northumberland Park depot. Oh, and the motif. I don’t know what they are… …but there’s seven sisters, there are seven of them. A quick bit of online research reveals that this motif represents the seven elm trees that were planted at the nearby Page Green from where Seven Sisters gets its name. If you follow me… I’ve always quite liked this A hot air balloon mosaic. Another oddity is that Finsbury Park is the busiest station in terms of passengers on the Underground, But doesn’t have any Oyster barriers. You can get all the way to the platform without touching in. Just missed one! At Highbury and Islington, look out on the other side of the road for the Great Northern and City Railway original station building. It opened in 1904 and lasted until 1975. But the building still stands today. And on to Kings Cross, where it’s not so much a thing to see but something which you might like to know about to do. If you follow the official station signs of how to change to other lines then they make you walk down this long corridor and it takes ages to get there. Whereas if we instead go this way it brings you down this short stairway instead and it’s much quicker. Art on the Underground are currently installing 270 labyrinths all around the London Underground network this year. But at one station, there’s already one. I’m at Warren Street and obviously there’s a maze – or warren on the wall. Or is it a labyrinth? But while you’re here, there’s something else to look out for as well. My favourite thing about Warren Street is that if you pop over to the Northern Line platforms you’ll find that it wasn’t once called Warren Street but in 1907 it was called Euston Road instead. And on to Green Park where at the end of the Victoria Line corridor is the Piccadilly Line corridor. At the Piccadilly end there are more dark blue tiles and only the odd silver tile to represent the Jubilee Line. By the time we reach the other end of the corridor… Now the corridor is quite long, so we’ll do the whole speed-it-up routine again. Aaaand… We’re there. …the number of blue tiles have diminished and the number of silver tiles to represent the Jubilee Line have increased. Piccadilly. The Jubilee. Just by one the exits of the tube at Victoria station itself is a gorgeous old railway map from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. Worth checking out. Pimlico is the least-used station on the Victoria Line and I’m guessing you’ve probably not been here. But what I like about this is that if you come to the Rampayne Street entrance there’s a London Underground roundel sort of burnt into the concrete on the floor here. And if you look up you’ll see where it’s coming from. Now, some of the tile mosaic patterns on Victoria Line stations are hard to work out what they are. And at a first glance, you might not guess this one either at Stockwell. But take a closer look and you can see it’s a swan. A very obvious reference to the popular Swan pub across the road from the station. So we’ve got to the southern end of the Victoria Line we’ve come to Brixton, where if you come outside and look at the station building you can’t fail to miss the largest London Underground roundel on the whole Tube network. Quite a fitting end to our journey.
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its like a video game easter egg video but about real life.
The 2009 stock has the sound of the RB418 chopper.
I went to the Victoria line
2:18 to 2:22 Nice rhyme, Geoff: "If you follow the official signs on how to change to other lines"
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This train is the southern service to caterham
Where is…. secrets of the central line ????
waterloo and city is all underground
0:16 it is not because the depot is considered above ground
I been on this to Oxford Circus
its the UNDERGROUND
it is fast of 80 MPH
dark blue Piccadilly line. silver Jubilee line
in 2015 i didn't see that tile pattern at stockwell station at 4:07 even though i went to this station mutiple times to change for the northern line
Finsbury Park Cross-Rail station.
My favourite line in the tube.
I used to live at Walthamstow and people in Pimlico hear the trains under their houses
Hoe Street.
H*e Street.
WTFH?
It doesn’t feel faster on the Finsbury Park thing when you put the video on 2x here
On the Victoria line you can connect to these Underground lines at these stations:
Finsbury Park: Piccadilly
King's Cross St Pancras: Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan, Northern and Piccadilly
Euston: Northern
Warren Street: Northern (Google Maps also show the Hammersmith & City Metropolitan and Circle lines passing here but it seems they dont serve this station)
Oxford Circus: Bakerloo, Central
Green Park: Jubilee, Piccadilly
Victoria: Circle, District
Stockwell: Northern
At all other Victoria line stations, you cannot connect to other lines
What about Tottenham Hale? It's a pretty big station for anyone who travels in from the outskirts of North London or Herts/Essex.
Omg! The Victoria Line has got 16 stations and carries more than 200m passengers a year, the entire Subway in Stockholm has got 100 stations and carries 360m passengers a year!
Another Good Vid!
Where’s Tottenham Hale. Crap video
3:40 "Currently undergoing huge improvements, to be complete by 2018" It's 2018.
Tottenham Hale’s picture is about the canal near it!!!!
I watch this series everytime I go to London and travel on the Tube. I always look out for these and other things Geoff Might have missed or didn’t mention.
At Brixton me and my Dad once worked at finding out why the Blue lights of the Fin at Brixton was not working. The LED light was full of water. At Pimlico and Warren Street I help pull in cables in the under-croft under the platforms
I love your video about underground secret, it's very cool to learn more about my city thank you!!!
1:02 NORFOLK SOUTHERN WHATS YO FUNCTION
Doesn't have oyster barriers? It does now.
I think that Seven Sisters should be called Southern Tottenham
Nice video
Ab trains copied you on mind the gap
pimlico:- only station of the 270 on the tube to have no letters of the word badger!!
Finsbury Park now has oyster barriers
I WENT THERE BLACKHORSEROAD😁😀OMGand fensbury park kings cross I WENT to all of them
They have recognised the line and they are so frequent!😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
1:39 is not a Victoria line secret its actually piccadilly line
No vauxhall
Visited all 16 stations………… and couldn`t find bugger all of interest.
I worked on the construction of the Viccy line 53 years ago.
The Victoria Line is my #7 favourite London Underground tube line!!!
If you slow the video down at 1:50 there is a yellow card reader on his left hand side
No , it’s not the only tube that stays underground because the depot it over the ground it’s the Waterloo and city line because the depot is under the ground.
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You know what’s my favorite station on the London Underground. The answer is Stockwell tube station
Geoff's visibly impressed by the jubilee tiles at 3:37
A few days ago I found a couple of videos featuring the construction of the Victoria Line back in the 1960s including the extensive work carried out at Oxford Circus https://youtu.be/lN0mh2dnyrg. Hope you find this useful.
To add to the exit advice for Kings Cross, you want to be at the southern end of the train. Exit the platform at that end and the escalators to the ticket office and the main line stations are right there.
the victoria line dosent seem that long at all…only sixteen stations
love that victoria line accelerating smell
You didn’t say how many steps there were
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Waterloo and city line is the only line to run entirely underground
I find these a good watch cause even though I don't live in London when I am there though I always go on the tube and now these make me just want to go on the tube and see all these amazing things
My favourite line by far!!!!!!!!!
I live in Walthamstow in the middle of blockhorse road and Walthamstow station
Groupe PSA 🇦🇿🇬🇪🇦🇲🇵🇹
Victoria Line AkA(mosaic line)
They should extend the Victoria line
Wait so you can get into Finsbury Park without paying? I’m confused 1:54
p.s I don’t live in London and not familiar with the tube
So many Easter eggs!
1.Why No Euston
2.1:18–1:26 Seven Sisters=Seven Super Girls
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I’ve been to the Victoria line for real life
They added barriers at finsbury
Walthamstow Central
Opened as Hoe Street in 1870.
I’ve seen the corridor for the Piccadilly and Jubilee lines when I was in London
Forgot Tottenham Hale and Vauxhall
The fastest line across London
Pimlico is the only tube station that doesn’t have any letters of the word ‘badger’
You missed out Euston
Anyone 2019?
2:20 finally a short cut on the dreaded kings x
Old town road horse
Seven sisters there are seven trees and they are sisters
Nice London Underground song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dftDPLAylU&t=25s
my favorite line geoff 's favorite line.the best line on the system it may have only 16 stations but i love it.one of the bussiest lines
Victoria isn't the only line completely underground, the WATERLOO AND CITY line!?
He missed Tottenham hale
I used Pimlico station quite a few times when I was living in London, as the office I was working in was on Millbank. I used it for a few weeks, until I realised that the office was just as close to Vauxhall, but saved me a fortune in travel costs (but was bloody freezing walking across Vauxhall Bridge in winter!)
Incidentally, where is Vauxhall station in your video?
And The Victoria is not completely underground if you consider the over ground depot as part of the line.
Characters from the kids show Underground Ernie are named after London Underground lines. Victoria, Bakerloo, Hammersmith And City, Jubilee and Circle are all talking trains from the show named after tube lines!
I've actually done a cab ride on the Victoria line
All very bland looking stations, Oxford Circus has new tiles, what matters is the engineering that went into the projects but a victim of its own success with chronic overcrowded trains at rush hour something they can’t solve with a new ticket hall at Victoria.
Is anyone talking about the screams in the background in the end
Hello Undergground
WHERE Ever You are going ask me
0:37 hey look its h o e s t r e e t
and the stashon is next to a road
Victroria is the only line entirely underground… um… Waterloo & City?!
Here, Geoff Marshall said that Pimlico is the least used, but several years later, he says that Blackhorse Road is the least used.
Geoff you've come so far
Victoria
brIxton
kings Cross St Pancras
Tottenham Hale
Oxford Circus
plImlico
waRRen Street
vAuxhall
You forgot Tottenham Hale, Vauxhall and Euston
3:50 he said it’s the least used station but it’s actually Blackhorse road
No it's not all underground 2013 Geoff, that's the Waterloo and City Line.
I first went on the Victoria Line in the early seventies in a shocking pink coat and black boots as an eleven year old.
I used to used Pimlico when I went to Tate Britain.