Showing posts with label Jago Hazzard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jago Hazzard. Show all posts
Monday, September 14, 2026

Mother Damnable and the curse of Camden Town tube station

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Jago Hazzard takes us to Camden Town station and its curse: the most complicated junction on the London Underground. Blame the witch Mother ...
Tuesday, July 14, 2026

What would have happened if St Pancras station had been closed?

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In 1980 the were serious proposals, and not for the first time, to close both Marylebone and St Pancras stations in London. Jago Hazzard tak...
Monday, June 15, 2026

1963: London's summer of the Hoverbus

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Jago Hazzard looks back to a short-lived transport experiment that took place in London in the summer of 1963. From 1 July to 31 October, a ...
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Monday, May 18, 2026

East Brixton: A once and future station?

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Opened in 1866, East Brixton was a station on the South London line – now part of the London Overground's Windrush Line – served by trai...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Why and how is the DLR being extended to Thamesmead?

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Here's Jago Hazzard to explain. Real horrorshow, my droogs. You can support Jago's videos via his Patreon page. And why not subscri...
Monday, January 19, 2026

The 19th-century granite trackway along Commercial Road

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Commercial Road was constructed at the beginning of the 19th century to connect London's docks with the City. As Jago Hazzard explains i...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

How Derby became a major railway centre

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Jago Hazzard on George Hudson and formation of the Midland Railway. You can support Jago's videos via his Patreon page. And why not sub...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Jago Hazzard celebrates the gothic history of St Pancras

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Jago Hazzard posted this, his thousandth video, a couple of weeks ago. And he found a fitting subject for it. Iain Sinclair once referred to...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

Explore the history of the Central Line with Jago Hazzard

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Jago Hazzard explores sites and stations on the Central Line that are significant in its history. I, for one, shan't rest until I've...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Fulham Broadway station and some Stamford Bridge trivia

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I liked John Rogers' video on Fulham so much that I've gone back there with Jago Hazzard. He sets out the history of Fulham Broadwa...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Jago Hazzard looks at 50 years of Hatton Cross

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I shall have my laptop back tomorrow, but for tonight here's a video from Poldark extra turned railway vlogger Jago Hazzard. It's ab...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

GWR's trial of a battery-powered train on the Greenford branch

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This time Jago Hazzard is not looking at the railways' past but their future. He reports on GWR's trial of a battery-powered train o...
Friday, May 16, 2025

London's lost underground lines - with a note on the wine cellar of the National Liberal Club

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Jago Hazzard is our guide to a collection of lost lines, repurposed lines and abandoned oddments, some of them 50 miles out of London and de...
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Thursday, April 10, 2025

The rich history of Kensington Olympia station

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Wikipedia gives the basics: The station was originally opened in 1844 by the West London Railway but closed shortly afterwards. It reopened...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

The freight-only line under London that was never built

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Jago Hazzard looks at the 1949 plan to build a freight-only railway under the Thames. Two routes were considered: one ran from Farringdon to...
Monday, February 10, 2025

The surprisingly complicated history of Highbury and Islington

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Jago Hazzard gives a thorough and entertaining history of this long-neglected, but now thriving, London station. I too have stood beside the...
Monday, December 09, 2024

Jago Hazzard rides on London's cable car but no one else does

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There's only one mode of public transport in London that's completely empty during the rush hour. Jago Hazzard has been to ride on i...
Friday, November 08, 2024

Jago Hazzard on what remains of Crystal Palace High Level station

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I've been interested in this station ever since I read an account of its decay - netting and all - in its last years of operation in one...
Monday, October 07, 2024

Jago Hazzard on the failure of Ludgate Hill station

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Ludgate Hill station ? Wikipedia gives the basics and Jago's video gives you so much more: Ludgate Hill was a railway station in the Cit...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Jago Hazzard on the complicated history of Turnham Green

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When I lived in Kew (well, North Sheen) in the early 1980s, Piccadilly Line trains would stop at Turnham Green on Sundays, or at least for a...