* Music plays *
*PA* The next station is Mill Hill East *PA*
*PA* Where this train terminates *PA*
Having just come here from Finchley Central
one stop ... across the viaduct
i am indeed at the least used station on the Northern Line
for it has something brand new ... it's got a lift
So Mill Hill East
actually got its lift about six months ago
right in the middle of 'Do Not Travel' so i'm recording this before
the November 'Do Not Travel' comes in, there's already a ramp
that you can see that allowed for wheelchair access and stuff
up to the entrance ... over there!
there is a brand new building taking place
Millbrook Park, which might make Mill Hill East
more busy in the future in terms of a station and then when you get to this point, normally ...
you'd just walk up the stairs there
but round here ...
* Music Plays *
one of these days, the TfL press office who are hiding in the background
will let me bring a smoke machine to their station
and we'll emulate ... Stars in their Eyes
as the doors open ...
and the dry ice, comes up
and it'll be awesome!
here comes the train
so! there's a lift, at Mill Hill East, now
there isn't! a platform hump on the platform
which means on the tube map, it only get the white accessibility blob
rather than the blue ... accessibility blob
blue means that there's level boarding from street, to the train
here ... Mill Hill East, it's timber the platform
is an old style timber, which i gather made it difficult to install
a platform hump here and that's why they haven't done it and that's why instead
they've got their own ramp
i'm chatting to the friendly ticket office man his name's Mike he might come on camera in a minute it's very exciting
depends how shy he is!
here, at Mill Hill East they've installed a special one takes the J-door key here
- And this will then come down like this
- These clips
- They will sit into the ridges there of the train
- So you will then have, so somebody can
- Manually come down there, straight to the lift
Hopped on the train! Gonna go one stop to Finchley Central
you're getting two lifts for one in this video
for not only has Mill Hill East this year got a lift
but so has a station ... on the Piccadilly line
Made it to Cockfosters
it's twenty past four, light ...
... is fading, but we've got enough time hopefully to see the lift
before darkness sets in!
If you've never been to Cockfosters
you should, it's a classic i'm gonna do a 360
it's a classic Charles Holden
it's just beautiful, everything about this station is beautiful
and it has many ways in, and many ways out it's got little secret staircases
and an underpass that bring you out on the other side of the road, and now ....
it's got a lift! as well ...
into the lift! standard stuff
and hang on ... is it?
i was expecting it to be this side but it's this side
someone else is getting in
oh! it's come out the side entrance i wasn't expecting that
so the main road is there
roundels ... there's a sneaky entrance here
which is actually gated off at the moment
and theeeeeen, the lift is there
and then - Cockfosters car park is there
if that gives you any help or bearing on what's going ons
so it's on the side, rather than round the front make sense
i'm trying to remember what was here before probably just a blank wall, this wall of
continued on, and i suspect
this area looks like it's been tarmaced flatted over
and this chain yellow link fence
with a path down to the carpark, that might be new
but yeah, i can't remember, and oh! there's a couple of
couple of seats there too
*DOORS OPENING, LIFT GOING DOWN*
it takes, like about 4 seconds it's really
it's a very shallow lift
Ok! the excitement that is another lift
comes ... to the tube map
the TfL network, and on screen now
'cause it's complicated and i'll count when i get home
is a list, of how many stations
not just tube stations, but overground stations
and Tram stops and all that, are now step free
and a percentage of how much of the tube map, is now
step free with lifts and level access etc ...
also! competition time ...
put it in the comments, you know how on the map
when a line reached a terminus
you get a little flat line, like a T shape
well, because Cockfosters is at the end of the line
and it's gained its wheelchair accessibility blob this now means
that there is only ONE terminus, left
on the whole of the tube map, which has that little bar
to signify the end of the line, it's not Cockfosters
i'll give you a clie, it's not Upminster and it's not Morden
can you guess, without looking and I will pin
the answer as the first comment
on this video, where is the one station left on the Tube Map
where there's a terminus that doesn't have an accessible blob
that's it, i'll leave you with the very pleasant
gorgeous station, that is Cockfosters