The Tube Journey that's Northbound in Both Directions

I'm officially starting a petition to get Jago a dukedom. We need a Duke of Hazzard. Also because he educates us, but mostly because... well, you know.

Kings Cross St Pancras to Euston! I was already typing this before the reveal! I claim the points

One of the fun realisations about why Euston can be confusing: not only are there are four separate Northern Line platforms, but Kings Cross St. Pancras is also both north and south of it. As soon as I saw the title of this video I knew which stations it had to be :-)

Jago is a Timelord confirmed, as he moves in all directions simultaneously!

I did this just before Christmas when the Northern Line lift was broken at Kings Cross. I had to go northbound at Kings Cross to Euston, then northbound on the Victoria Line to get a working lift.

I feel there was missed opportunity to crowbar Charles Tyson Yerkes into the "American Money" and terminology bit. :-)) He probably gets enough mentions though. I do like the sort of existential crisis this induces though. Good work Dave...and Jago (or should that now be Missy) for figuring it out.

Just south of Gloucester, near the village of Standish, there is a railway junction where the GWR Swindon to Stroud line joins the Midland Railway Bristol and Gloucester route. The issue is that the regional Midland had "Up" trains as going towards it's headquarters in Derby and the GWR followed the convention of going "Up" to London. Hence a "Up" GWR Gloucester to Paddington train could be see racing side by side with a "Down" Gloucester to Bristol train, until the lines diverged at Black Bridge, which is painted green.

Apparently there's also a Tube Journey that is Southbound in both directions - as the video, just in the opposite directions

Basically, the London underground version of what interstate 81 and 77 do in Western Virginia Where the systems are labeled as north south crossover each other in a “wrong way, concurrency fashion “and physically traveling on an east west axis

When I used to live near Canada Water, I always thought of the Jubilee in terms of Eastward and Westward. I then found myself looking at Northbound and Southbound Jubilee platforms and was completely baffled.

This is one of those esoteric bits of knowledge that I did know but hadn't thought about for several decades - as soon as you said the question I instantly knew the answer. How, I have no idea. The brain is a weird thing - I can forget a person's name within 3 minutes of being introduced, but bits of nonsense like this and the lyrics to the Um Bongo song are securely stored just in case they're ever going to come in useful.

Re "Up trains", "Down trains", eastbound and westbound etc. Until Hounslow East was rebuilt in the early 2000s the District Railway sign "Up Trains" still survived on the stairs to the eastbound platform. When this station was opened the London terminus was Mansion House and so "up" and "down" would have been practical. It's when the line crosses London that confusion can arise.

The main highway through my city (Kamloops, in Canada) also plays games with geometry. You're simultaneously travelling north and south (the only wrong-way concurrency in B.C., Highways 5 and 97), on a road that physically runs east-west.

You've done it, Jago; I've got to get to London to see where these tales of the tube are in person.

Melbourne actually carries on the up/down approach with Flinders Street being the direction of up for metro services and Southern Cross being up for regional services. Although this is primarily used by internal operations rather than communication with the public

there is a six-stop section of the subway here in New York where you can do that on the same set of tracks. It's what's called a "Wrong Way Concurrency" Between the Essex- Delancey Streets station in Manhattan and the Myrtle Avenue-Broadway Station in Brooklyn (going over the Williamsburg Bridge) You have northbound J trains sharing the tracks with southbound M trains and vice versa going the other way.

This is exactly the kind of weirdness that makes the tube fun

When I was a wee lad, I was always told off for saying, "We're going up to London." because we travel in from Aylesbury which is North West of London, and I was told "No, we're going DOWN to London!" So, technically, I was right all along. :D

That’s my daily commute, changing at Euston just for the convenient cross platform transfer and therefore repeating King’s Cross St. Pancras

Boston has the concept of inbound and outbound trains, same as your up and down trains. This works fine for commuter rail, which all terminate at the city, but the light rail and metro lines run though downtown and out the other side, meaning your inbound Red Line train changes identity to an outbound Red Line train as it passes the the Park Street and Downtown Crossing stations.