today's the day that we're finally going
orange s it's time to do secrets of the
overground the London Overground Network
currently has 84 stations on it even
though the in carriage Maps only show 83
but we'll get to that later
it was created in 2007 when CFL took
over the running of other railways and
is an amalgamation of the East London
line the North London line the Watford
branch the gospel okhta Barking branch
known affectionately as the Goblin the
West London line to Clapham Junction one
way and the south on the line which
reaches it from another actually later
in 2015 the overgrow will have more
stations added to it but that's another
story entirely watch this video here if
you want to see more about that so we'll
start with something that we know
everyone loves and that's a secret once
a day train service and this is it
it starts at Wood Grange Park not
barking runs along a diesel owning line
Skip's gospel oak and gets to Wilton
Junction for 9:00 a.m. but here's the
oddity in the timetable it's scheduled
to take 17 minutes to go the one stop
between Kenzel rise and Willesden
Junction and yet the train behind it
which leaves five minutes later arrives
at Willesden Junction on the high level
platforms seven minutes earlier and so
obviously we had to try this out so
we've got up early and I'm on this train
now and I've set myself up for a fall
I've got my friend Matt here this
morning hello Matt and what's going to
happen is that Matt's going to get out a
Kenzel rise and get the electric train
it's come from strapped er behind it
because that overtakes us and actually
gets the Willesden Junction first so if
your commute from hinder rise to
Willesden actually pays to wait and get
the later train Matt's got out that
candle rise to catch the train behind
and sure enough soon after we left we
branched off then slowed and stopped and
Matt's train overtook us and got to
Wilton Junction first looking at the map
of my phone and we've definitely come
off into a siding
I don't know why we're just not going
straight into the platform it's a little
bit annoying if you get the train
everyday you sit and wait for 10 minutes
before they let you into Willesden our
train did eventually arrive though in
the rarely-used middle bay platform for
our next stop though we didn't get the
overground
we got the underground the Victoria Line
- Seven Sisters I mean South Tottenham
so we are at South Tottenham I just want
to point out a couple of things and to
do with the fact that I think that this
station should have a connector blob on
the Tube map the Tube map later this
year we'll have more overground added to
it and when it does it will show a
connection between the two separate
stations at Wharf and Stowe and the two
stations at Hackney and yet poor old
South Tottenham doesn't even get a
connection with Seven Sisters even
though it's just as close as the other
two it's something else rather geeky to
point out a South Tottenham apart from
the delightful old signal box is that
this is a diesel mine gospel oak -
barking - car diesel trains so if it's
diesel then why are their overhead
electric lines it's to allow freight
trains on the rest of the national rail
network to pass through this overground
section just briefly on their way to and
from Stratford station
next up Dalston Junction not actually a
station junction with any other line but
it does have the largest Randall on the
overground and if you exit walk down
Dalton Lane and turn it to Tyson Street
then that brings you out to carpark
behind a Sainsbury's and a Matalin but
there's a reason why I'm standing on an
old railway the overground you'll
remember is an amalgamation of old lines
and the original railway tracks in this
area had a curve of track which if still
in place today would allow trains on
Dalton Junction to turn east and head
towards Hackney but the point is is that
if they ever reinstated this they could
put the railway here and back up up the
train station you can see they've even
left a space for where the tracks can go
so this space here and that wall there
they'd knock a hole in it and the track
would come in and out of that portal
it's all there ready in place should
they ever extend it the old curve of
track was called the East curve and you
can see on a map today where it used to
run theirs now though this lovely garden
in its place which is named after it
next stop Hoxton and as we always like
to do with these videos is point out
things that you've may have missed
especially if you're a regular commuter
so how about this at Hoxton if you come
through here every day did you know that
there's a memorial here in memory of the
North London railway man who failed
during the Great War 1914 to 1919 this
bit of the overground is built upon the
East London line which used to run into
the terminus at Broad Street and this
memorial was here however it got moved
when it went or derelict and then they
reconstructed it they brought it back
from a carpark in Richmond where it had
been left to its rightful place here
back next to the railway this part of
the overground East London line is built
along the old alignment of the North
London railway that run into Broad
Street Station that's an old demolished
London terminus that used to be next to
Liverpool Street there was also a really
old original Shoreditch station that
used to be here too until 1940 and to
get from there to Broad Street there was
a large brick viaduct that went across
the road and you know where it is
because they put some old Jubilee line
tube carriages on top of a bit of the
existing viaduct if you look at this
window here you can see it
after Shoreditch High Street Station the
train goes past the old shoulder station
that was on the Underground's the East
London line we cover that in our
separate abandoned stations video but
whilst we're at shortage we have to
point out this brilliant oddity of the
fare system that we think is unique as
you can go either clockwise or
anti-clockwise to hybrid Islington if
you use or Easter or contactless when
you tap out at the other end the system
has no way of knowing which way you've
gone via Willesden which is all in zone
2 or via shortage which takes you
through zone 1 now you're meant to pay
for the zones that you travel through
but we checked this and this is a
special case and the system will charge
you the lower zone to only fare making
it possible to travel through zone 1 and
not be charged for it and that brings us
to the end of part 1 of secrets of the
overground yes because there's so much
good stuff to squeeze in we've split
this into two videos you've had part 1
part 2 is coming up in a few weeks time
click down here on the subscribe button
to see that first before anybody else
and you'll even get to find out what
this wall is all about it here's a quick
preview that Overground train has just
failed to stop at a station there's a
museum here which you can come and see
learn about the history about how the
tunnel was built the best of all is
where I'm sitting and so this is it we
started six of the overground
with a secret train and we're ending it
with a secret train here at the London
Overground
unofficial 84th station the one that
doesn't appear on the carriage maps