Good afternoon, i have just departed Kew Garden station
was just there, a couple of weeks ago
today i'm back, back out on the Tube
this time, heading for the depths of Zone 4
south west london, it's time to do the penultimate
yes i know it's so sad, it's almost over
epsiode ... of End of the Line
as we head, and tick off ... Richmond
*PA* The next station is Richmond where this train terminates *PA*
welcome to Richmond station, end of the line
i'm right by the end of the platforms here for the District Line
you may have heard on the audio annoucement, it is a National Rail station
in Tube Challenge days, there was a weird thing where we'd get off
a tube train here
run over to the National Rail platforms
pick up a South West Train to Feltham
and then get a bus to Heathrow
but we do need to focus more on that, because it is
yes, a Tube Stations, and an Overground station
and a National Rail, South Western Railway station
and there are loads of platform here, like this
Richmond has seven platforms
numbers one and two for South Western Railway services
platforms three and four, are usually used for London Overground services
and five six and seven are for the tube
but a delightfully nerdy fact is that whereas the Overground trains
can and sometimes do
use the tube platforms of five six and seven
the tube trains can only use platform four
that the overground usually uses
and not platform three, as platform three
does NOT have a fourth rail, which tube trains require
if that's too nerdy for you, then let me give you historic instead
come over, to the national rail platforms by the staricase
they've been there many years and i've always loved to stop
and take a look at them, there's some replica
old style posters, including my favourite one advertisting
intercity sleepers
old British Rail - National Rail - British Rail signage
on this staircase, stop ... and take a look
'cause they're wonderful
on the Overground platforms by the way
i'm loving the ornate canopies check them out there just beautiful, if you walk along here
to get your overground train, look up
check out the canopies above your head, also
i just played back on my own phone the episode of End of the Line, Epping
where i talk about two other stations in Australia
that are called Epping - did you know this isn't the the only Epping Station in the world
if you type 'Epping Station' into google
it threw up TWO, that are in Australia
there's one in Melbourbe, and there's one in Sydney there on the Metro there as well
so err - and weirdly the same is true
exactly the same
for Richmond, there is one in Melbourne and there is one in Sydney
and thanks Wikipedia, i believe there's also a Richmond station in California
on the San Francisco BART and there's also one in Quebec, Canada as well
and there's an old abandoned Richmond station as well
up in north Yorkshire as well
if there are any other Richmond stations around the world
i'm sure you're letting me know in the comments, right now
out next to the toilets you'll find the labyrinth
quite a high number here, number two five seven here at Richmond
and that is by a side entrance, oh where ... look
there's a sign
to a Car Park!
do you have your Bingo sheets, at the ready
did somebody say "Car Park"? if you're playing
along with the Bingo sheet aren't you, which you can still
download in the description, and if you've still not ticked off all the words yet
i have this very strong suspicion
as in i think it's going to happen in the final
and next episode
of End of the Line which at Wimbledon
[ whispers ] we might just tick all of them off [ whipser ]
and on the rear side of my Bingo sheet
as i'm sure is yours
is my own Richmond roundel
another nerdy fact is because this is a national rail station
not actually operated or run
by TfL
and the London Underground
it doesn't have any traditional red and blue roundels so i just ...
... felt like printing my own one out, just because i could
oh and the reason why i've walked down this side passage
and come up these steps
is to come out onto here
which is Church Road
because just like Uxbridge, because Richmond
is like many other End of the Line stations
has a bridge
with an excellent view down
onto the station, which is what i've come for
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and the channel, on the side
you've got a great view of the station
go to the OTHER side of the road, cross carefully
if you want a view of the trains approaching or leaving
'cause the bridge actually intersects the station by going
right over that, well almost sort of
at the end, slash back of the trains
sort of depends on which way you look at it, but from here
great view of the whole, of richmond station
oh, by the way
the side passageway to get up to Church Street and the bridge
you have to come out this side entrance here
complete with sign, i'm willing to bet
at least one of you, who is a regular
daily commuter, to and from Richmond station
never knew this side entrance was here
and you never use it, if that's you
levae a comment in the comments, and then
come and use the side entrance
just to say, that you've done it
time to go for a wander then
and when you do, take a moment to admire the front of Richmond station
and this fabulous clock as well
and then, it was time for me to go and do my thing in Richmond
into Richmond high street, and is does of course have a railway pub
that's the railway tavern there
the railway came to Richmond in 1846
and that pub, known as the locomotive
first opened up in 1849
there's lots of black and white photos inside of
maps and how the railway at Richmond used to look
but i'm heading for something else
the river, and the museum. and as we get there
there's a third super nerdy thing
that i just want to briefly mention
which is brlliant, about Richmond and this branch
and that's because the section of the track up to Gunnersbury
is under network rail control
and you can use online websites such as Open Train Times and Real Time Trains
to track District line tube trains
see what time they're departing
and whereabouts on the line they are
i don't think there's anywhere else on the underground network where you can do this
turn off the high street - you can't beat a cobblestone street either
and i'm at the place, i've come to visit
hang on, small problem
i came here on a tip of from a friend who wene "You must visit the museum"
'cause its rather splendid just looking at this staircase, you can see that, but ...
there's a sign there and the board outside
i've come on a Monday
which is what i think i did at Ealing Broadway End of the Line
i went to the gallery there - closed on a Monday
are all museums just closed on Mondays?
don't come on a Monday
have to come back tomorrow
that's OK though, i just hung out by the river instead for a while
Richmond is of course, upon Thames
and is just lovely
probably lovlier though, on a bright sunny day
which it wasn't ... on the day that i visited
so thanks to Surfshark for being the sponsor of todays video
that's Richmond, Richmond with your roundel
bingo sheet still on the other side
so have those ready for next time, when we go to Wimbledon
that'll be episode twenty
the very last episode in this series
as we finish up, the end of the line
out there on the district line as well, that's it
thanks for watching
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