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Geoff Marshall
Born (1973-08-16) August 16, 1973 (age 51)
Lambeth, London, England
NationalityEnglish
Occupation(s)Presenter, editor, guide
Years active2003–present
Known forLondonist Ltd
Notable workAll The Stations
Websitegeofftech.co.uk

Geoff Marshall (born 16 August 1973) is a video producer and presenter for Londonist and a tour guide at the London Transport Museum. He also runs a YouTube channel which is predominantly transport themed.

World Records

Marshall has twice held the world record for travelling to all London Underground stations in the fastest time possible. The most recent one was in 16 hours, 20 minutes and 27 seconds, set on 16 August 2013.[1][2] A previous attempt which came close was covered by BBC News as part of London Underground's 150 year celebrations.[3]

His first record time to visit then 275 stations was achieved with Neil Blake in 18 hours 35 minutes and 43 seconds on the 4 May 2004, on his fourth attempt[4] This beat the previous world record of 19 hours, 18 minutes and 45 seconds that was achieved by Jack Welsby on 3 April 2002.[5] A previous attempt to beat this record was televised on ITV's The Tube.

He subsequently wrote and performed a stage show TubeSpotting about the attempt which he performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe[6] in 2014 and several times since at the London Transport Museum.

TV & Radio Appearances

The Tube (2003) Episode 2 of Season 1 "24 hours" - This episode shows his failed attempt to beat Jack Welsby's Tube Challenge world record, followed by Metroland: Race Around The Underground (ITV) a few months later[7] – an attempt from 2003 where he would have broken the record had the Richmond Branch of the District Line not suffered a signal failure.[8]

He also appeared on Sky 1's The Fanatics, where he was a point away from reaching the final by answering questions about the London Underground. He occasionally appears on ITV News, and BBC Radio London commenting on transport stories.

Londonist Ltd

Marshall is a frequent contributor, presenter, and video editor for Londonist Ltd,[9] an online London themed and based media outlet. Starting in 2004, it quickly joined the Gothamist network, but in 2010, was moved to the London-based LDN Creative.[10] One of the more popular video series on the site is Secrets of the Underground.

Secrets of the Underground

Secrets of the Underground is a DVD/YouTube series, with over six million combined views, presented by Marshall that talks about little-known facts of the London Underground. The 17 episode series originally featured just the 11 London Underground lines, but later episodes were produced for the DLR, Overground, and Tram networks – as well as two bonus episodes.[11][12]

Episode
number		 Name Date first shown
(on YouTube)		 Summary
1 "Secrets of the Victoria Line" 18 March 2013
2 "Secrets of the Northern Line" 16 April 2013
3 "Secrets of the District Line" 24 May 2013
4 "Secrets of the Central Line" 3 July 2013
5 "Secrets of the Bakerloo Line" 2 August 2013
6 "Secrets of the Jubilee Line" 30 October 2013
7 "Secrets of the Hammersmith & City Line" 23 December 2013
8 "Secrets of the Piccadilly Line" 17 February 2014
9 "Secrets of the Circle Line" 6 June 2014
10 "Secrets of the Metropolitan Line" 13 June 2014
11 "Secrets of the Waterloo & City Line" 16 June 2014
12 "Secrets of the DLR" 12 August 2014
13 "Secrets of the Overground" (Pt.1) 1 May 2015
14 "Secrets of the Overground" (Pt.2) 21 May 2015
15 "Bonus Secrets of the Underground" 1 October 2015
16 "Secrets of the Trams" 4 March 2016
17 "More Secrets of the Underground" 4 November 2016

Underground: USA

Underground: USA was a 12-week documentary road trip which Marshall undertook between June and September 2009 in the USA. He travelled to all 48 mainland states of America (not Hawaii or Alaska) and in each one visited a town or a place that shared a name with a station on the London Underground map. e.g. Epping in Maine (where the journey started). He had his equipment stolen during the trip[13] but subsequently turned the story into a one-hour YouTube documentary as well as publishing an accompanying book Underground : USA about this travel adventure.

Charity Events

Marshall first organised a tube-based charity event in In 2005 with Tube Relief, in response to the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Using the slogan 'Not Afraid' around 50 people took part, raising over £11,000 for London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund.[14]

Marshall since organised an event called Walk The Tube to raise money for various charities, by getting a group of people to visit all tube stations but not as a record attempt. This took place in 2014, 2015 and 2016.[15] There was no 2017 event, due to All The Stations.

All the Stations

Main article: All The Stations

All the Stations was a project organised by Marshall and Vicki Pipe, to visit all 2,563 UK railway stations in the summer of 2017.[16] The aim was to make an online video documentary – by posting daily updates on YouTube, which they would then turn into a full documentary later. They also posted updates to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, along the way.[17]

Funded through Kickstarter, the journey started on May 7 in Penzance, and they finished 105 days later on August 19 in Wick in Scotland. 59 main videos were produced along with 12 bonus videos. They visited every station in Great Britain including those that are served by only a small number of trains including Pilning[18] and Shippea Hill station on June 3 – where they also got 19 people to join them thereby getting more passengers in one day at the station that there had been in the whole of the previous year.[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ "London Tube Station Visiting Record Broken". BBC News. 23 September 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  2. ^ "New world record for Tube Challenges". Londonist. 23 September 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  3. ^ "270 tube stations in one day". BBC News. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
  4. ^ "Every Tube station in 18 hours". Evening Standard. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  5. ^ "New record set on the tube". Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 5 March 2010. Retrieved 24 July 2002. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ "Tubespotting". Broadway Baby. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  7. ^ Geoff Marshall (4 February 2017). "Race Around The Underground (Part 1)" – via YouTube.
  8. ^ Geoff Marshall (5 February 2017). "Race Around The Underground (Part 2)" – via YouTube.
  9. ^ "About Us". londonist. Londonist Ltd.
  10. ^ "Londonist And @LDN Join Forces". Londonist. Londonist Ltd. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  11. ^ "Secrets of the Underground – YouTube".
  12. ^ "Secrets of the Underground DVD". Londonist.
  13. ^ "Our videographer just had $6,000 in equipment stolen | TheDigitel". www.thedigitel.com. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
  14. ^ "Tube challenge for bomb charity". 2005-08-25. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
  15. ^ Geoff Marshall (24 June 2014). "Walk The Tube 2014" – via YouTube.
  16. ^ O'Brien, Jackie (2017-08-18). "Couple's three months on trains". BBC News. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
  17. ^ "Couple's British railway stations challenge". BBC News. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
  18. ^ "'All The Stations' challenge calls at the West Country's least-used station". ITV News. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
  19. ^ "Least visited station in rail challenge". BBC News. 2017-06-03. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
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