End of the Line Ep.14 - Harrow & Wealdstone

hi im on a beautiful bouncy brown train on the Bakerloo

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heading north to the end of the

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, to the top of Bakerloo to do Episode 14, at Harrow and Wealdstone Harrow and Wealdstone is the end of the line for Bakerloo services. It goes the extra mile of course if you take the London Overground to Watford and the station is also situated on the West Coast Main Line with fast trains passing and stopping trains also calling the station here, it's also Grade listed II with an entry in England's Historical Database officially listing its ticket office range, platforms, waiting room blocks, canopies and the footbridge link spanning all platforms ah, I was hoping for a good day, ow , it's a bit drizzly biz a bit cold, the Bakerloo line train just finished here at platform 1? yes, platform one and then it goes into the siding and then it reverses and comes back into service there, at platform two what's interesting is that Harrow & Wealdstone used to get six trains an hour, one every ten minutes on this part of the line, but since May 2021, that has been reduced to just FOUR Bakerloo trains an hour, one every fifteen minutes, most underground trains terminate at Queens Park or Stonebridge Park and there is also the southern train, often forgotten, which passes every hour and who calls here, can go east.

Croydon via Kensington Olympia from Harrow which always feels like an unusual but fun route so I'll go out the side entrance here which is off platform one there's a main entrance we'll get to that in a second but the reason i've come here quite exciting oh daylight is because of course there's a... car park here and that's a pertinent sentence! because from now on and I'm going to show it on the screen, we'll be playing until the end of the series, which will probably be around episode twenty, we'll be playing 'End of the Line Bingo' like we did with the lost railways. , and the phrase "assignment" I think Car Park is the key phrase at the end of the line, so there's a grid on the screen, I'll put a link in the description that you can download, download the bingo sheet, and basically in Any time you mention a word in the video that is on the bingo sheet, you can mark it, and there will be a video;

I hope so where it says all the words, and then you can call 'bingo' for the whole sheet Parking is one of the words, I think Zone 6 is one of the words, but you can't have that because Harrow is in the Zone 5, not in Zone 6, but just know that I've said the phrase "Zone 6" twice three times now! so you can include that mark it I don't think I'll say all the words in this video but pay attention it will probably happen we're going to take a look around Harrow and by 'Harrow' I mean Wealdstone. and the first thing you see outside the station is the Wealdstone Bridge mural, which was created in 2004 by local schools and shows scenes, buildings and businesses that have been here since the 1800s and how the railway has been an integral part of that. , this respectful memorial to the Wealdstone rail crash that happened here in 1952, so I went for a ten minute walk north of the station away from Harrow, to Wealdstone heading north on this road, because and I'll explain when you see there, did you know that in Wealdstone there is a real stone, a weald-space-stone and you can see it, and you can sit on it and it's right there, this... is the

wealdstone

, that's all!

Right there outside the central Bombay restaurant which I think used to be a pub is an old sarcen stone which if I quote from an excellent London article I'll link to below written by Matt Brown hi Matt he writes the main part The name is an old English word meaning "wooded hill" or high ground, thus Wealdstone is the wooded hill stone. the speculation on and the speculation on where it's from and how it got here go read Matt's london article I'll link it in the description it's excellent but yeah Harrow and Wealdstone weald stone it actually has a stone which is

wealdstone

, That's right, right there that's it! that's all! and then another brilliant fact that you may not know is that Harrow and Wealdstone, may be the oldest station on the network... so if you know you are history of the London Underground and you are a regular viewer of my channel, I hope you sure that you will know that the subway was first opened in January 1863, so... you could say the first stations on the subway were from then, 160 years ago now 1863... except!

What about the stations, which are now used by the tube, the underground system, which were built before 1863, and Harrow and Wealdstone is one of them? In fact there's a whole list and I'll give you the top three because there's been a British railway station in Stratford since 1839 Ealing Broadway was built in 1838 this Harrow and Wealdstone there's a plaque on the side stating the date July when The London and Birmingham Railway first opened, the first stop north of Euston opened in 1837 and predates the opening of the London Underground by twenty-six years, so... ...yeah, they added new lines around it from 1917, but this technically means that this is officially the oldest building. which is now used by the tube a tube station and dates from 1837 now Harrow and Wealdstone I also think it is the longest "dead end" you can do on the tube what I mean by that is if you exclude the Overground station connections from Paddington, there are thirteen stations from Paddington... to Harrow and Wealdstone, so it doesn't connect to any other tube line.

I think it's the longest chain of pure metro stations you can take, without connecting to any other metro station, if I was wrong I'm sure you're telling me in the comments right now too when you got to the top, ZOne 5 here in Harrow and Wealdstone have lifts, it's a rare thing for a Bakerloo line station to have step-free access, that's because it's also a National Rail station, and there are six platforms, there are lifts to all platforms and to get to the lifts from the ticket office walk down this hallway here and past this part I mentioned earlier in Lost Railways of London because this is the old abandoned platform that used to go to Belmont and Stanmore so look around the corner for a link to that video if You haven't seen that Lost Video of London Railways and then come back here and watch all the End of the Line videos, so... yeah! abandoned platform one last moment to admire the juxtaposition of fast Pendolinos verses the fifty year old Bakerloo line and was on my way home *PA* This train is ready to go *PA* and we are leaving Harrow and Wealdstone that is the end from End of the Line here up in Zone five above Bakerloo in Harrow there's a coming soon playlist on the final title card screen in a minute that has all previous episodes and future ones coming back if I'm looking at this at a later date so be sure to watch the full series end of line thanks for watching see you soon bye!