Rain drops on the lens already.
This is not going to go well, is it?
Hello, it's January.
And obviously today I got up and I thought,
I wonder how many places on the district line
sell coffee and snacks and food
because that's a normal thing to do, right?
Come with me, come dine with me.
Or should I say, come district line with me?
Hello?
Can I grab a white Americano, please?
Thank you.
Now I'll pin a list in the comments below,
but I'm pretty sure that the district line
has got the most outlets inside of the gate line.
If you think I've missed any,
please, of course do let me know.
Oh, another train just pulling in.
So really what this video should be called is why are there
four news agents kiosk at embankment tube station?
That's how it started.
I've passed through embankment
on a district line the other day.
And I noticed that there's like a news agent
confectionary kiosk, but there's four of them.
And I'm thinking, why are there four kiosks at embankment?
What is it that means that, you know,
people are so hungry for snacks and chocolate
that embankment needs four kiosks?
It just made me wonder how many places on the tube,
and in particular, on the district line,
because I think the district line is where
there are the most, the most places that you can buy
food and snacks inside the gate line.
Low to tube stations have obviously shops
at stations outside the gate line.
But what about once you've passed through the gate line
and into the system, are there places
and how many places are there on the district line
where you can do that?
And yesterday on Twitter,
I put a thing out last night that said,
can you come up with a name, a tube-based pun name
based upon a TV show that references food
like the great British tube off was my stupid suggestion.
So congratulations to everyone amazing
that came up with master Geoff, that was genius, very good!
But the winner was a lovely lady, Judith.
I don't know who you are,
but she did say come district line with me.
It couldn't be more perfect.
Thank you, Judith.
Oh my god.
That is like a WHSmith logo from like the 1980s.
Oh my bucket.
So this is a kiosk and there's one over
on that platform as well at Barking,
the next place down the line to have food places.
They're currently closed.
I'm fairly sure they're called Grab-A-Bite.
If anybody is from Barking, can you let me know?
Are these permanently closed or they,
have I just too late in the day,
cause it's now, its the afternoon now.
Like, was it open morning for coffee and now nothing?
But as far as I'm aware, Barking, loads of shops as well,
outside the gate line on the concourse.
But is the next stop down the line
where there's something inside the gate line?
This is embankment, a rather strange anomaly,
where there's a kiosk number one there.
There's another one, number two,
on the westbound platform there.
But I've just seen over there,
on the eastbound platform, there's two more
kiosks snack shops, but they're currently closed.
And I don't know if that's a permanent thing
or a temporary thing.
Okay, we're one stop on from embankment at Westminster.
We're on the westbound platform.
There's a little Costa right here,
so you can differently buy tea and coffee
on the platform Westminster.
There's one over there on the eastbound platform as well.
Westminster, also I believe,
the only tube station to have a Greg's.
That's upstairs, but that's outside the gate line.
The Costas here are definitely inside the gate line.
Just making it a little off and on the same train,
it's in St. James's Park, to point out that many years ago,
this wooden thing here, that was a newspaper kiosk,
but that also sold sweets, drinks, and confectioneries.
It's closed now, but that used to be a shop.
The next Station is Victoria.
And I'm at Sloan Square.
Behind me just there, there is a shop
on the westbound platform.
Up until 1985, that was actually a pub.
You could come drinking alcohol on the tube.
It was called the Hole in the Wall.
I think it was the last pub left on the London underground.
If you didn't want to get a train,
you could even buy a platform ticket,
just come down and have a drink
on the platform of Sloane square station.
But today on the westbound platform, there is a kiosk shop.
You can buy sweets, drinks, and all the usual stuff.
Another one, what's next?
This is Southfields.
This is Southfields, where the Grab-A-Bite chain,
which I thought was there at Barking, which sort of
was there but wasn't open is actually alive and well here.
You can totally buy snacks at Southfields.
Next up on the district line,
I made a swift stop at Wimbledon,
which is also a national rail station
where there's loads of places open
on the over bridge across the main lines,
as well as this coffee shop down by the tube platforms.
And then onto Richmond.
Again, it's a national rail station as well,
where inside the gate line, there's this bagel shop.
And then across on the opposite platform,
there's a coffee shop as well.
Both of those are accessible from the tube
without going outside the gate line.
We must, of course, give an honourable mention
to the Tap on the Line, that's the pub
at Kew garden station, which sadly
you can no longer access from the platform,
but years ago you used to be able to.
And in the shadow of the tube map inspired clock
at Hammersmith, there is this kiosk.
But again, it was closed,
and I'm not sure if that's permanent or not.
So it was onto one of my favourite stations
and a coffee kiosk that I bet you never knew was there.
And that's about Chizwick park.
It's got this coffee kiosk here.
I think it's only open in the mornings.
Either way, I bet you didn't know that was here,
right to the finish, Ealing Broadway.
Yeah, and Ealing Broadway is our final destination
on the district line.
Today, darkness has now come in.
So these are all the places on the district line,
where there are kiosks or news agents
or somewhere to get a snack or a drink inside the gate line.
Here at Ealing Broadway, there's a coffee shop
and there's another kind of news agent shop around there.
I feel like there used to be more.
You may know of more, if you know of other places
that I missed, leave me a note in the comments.
Otherwise that is how to dine,
(because of very noisy purple train)
on the district line.
Come district line with me.
This is Geoff. Thanks a lot.