it's that time again I know it's been a
while but there should be abundantly
clear for the bright yellow t-shirt in a
second it's time to do secrets of the
circle line so we're taking a clockwise
journey around the circle starting and
ending here at Edgware Road where trains
have a life of their own
but the Bermuda Triangle of the tube
system trains come and trains go I once
saw a Circle Line train change into a
district Line train and then change into
a hamath Ithaca Line train always check
where you're going at edge railroad
that's because edge railroad is now the
start and end point for Circle Line
trains it didn't always used to be like
this until December 2009 it was an
actual circle now trains are extended
down to Hammersmith and on to our first
stop for an anomaly in a zone one
station where it Euston square which is
kind of like my least favorite station
at least it was until I found out this
it's the only station in zone 1 where
you can get in without going for a
ticket barrier as long as you use this
list
because last year they installed this
lift for step three access strange
enough to the westbound platform only
but there are stairs for those that can
you stepped the eastbound platform and
by doing so you negate using the two
barriers wearing yellow
I am proud
so how's your level income going around
the tube BBQ is is hidden away here in
the corner but that's not the thing to
see think is he here like so many things
at tube stations are the colored tiles
purple is for the Metropolitan Railway
as it was and the district line you're
thinking yeah no district transit
Barbican but it used to be the
metropolitan district railway which did
run through here back in the early 19th
century hence green and purple Barbican
also has a memorial plaque for its
deceased station cat pebbles and on to
Aldgate and if you think back to the
district line video at the southern end
of the station you could see the trains
passing by there so at the northern end
of the station you can see the trains
passing by there too it's so close to
the Hammersmith & City Line you can see
where the trains cut right in so close
but yet two separate stations
next we hit a small hitch as we did this
at the weekend when some circle line
stations were closed so please bear with
us until we restore normal service don't
worry though
you really didn't miss much not unless
you like enormous buffers such as here
at Mansion House so we're outside
James's Park station on the district and
of course the Circle Line it's worth
fifty five wheels which is the home to
London Underground where they decide
what services to run how often and when
and if at this point you look up up up
to the top of the drain at the drain
cover there's a nice little nod to the
underground symbol and the year that
Broadway was built hello welcome to
South Kensington we come to the outside
of the station where you can see that
there's two distinct ignore the
scaffolding station designs because
there used to be two different roller
companies operating here we'll see that
in a minute when we get to platform
level but first I just want to go down
this way
so just down from South Kent station
when the rather Pleasant Furlow Square
in particular to look at one house
that's number five fellow Square which
is behind me but can you see is rather
narrow so a bit of a lens to gardens
moment which you remember is the fake
house just up on the circle District
Line this house is built very narrow
like this because of the railway just
behind it because right below here I
pick over the top is the Circle Line
before the inauguration and the creation
of the circle line the Metropolitan
Railway ran services clockwise and the
metropolitan district ran services
anti-clockwise here at south ken if you
bought a ticket in the wrong direction
they wouldn't tell you and they'd make
you go the long way round back on the
train and we headed around to High
Street Kensington which some people know
has an extra platform because it's where
the Olympia shuttle runs Bob as our
Circle Line train leaves here High
Street Ken I just will take you over to
here if you come with me how many
platforms are there like a pop quiz our
high street can you might think to know
some of you will go oh I know three well
there is a sneaker platform but did you
know is actually a fourth snicky
platform if you look I know it's
district I'm not a circle but there's
platform three and over here is platform
for and what is even better is if you
turn this way you can see where the
tracks were going to go and they were
going to double up the line north of
High Street Ken with our circular
journey almost complete we popped out at
Paddington Praed Street as it was known
when it was part of the Metropolitan
Railway Company and then it was back to
Edgware Road where everything had
started earlier and even though it's not
a circle it does bring us back round to
where we started a bit like Groundhog
Day all right Jeff in a second which
means it's time to do secrets of the
circle line