Geoff Marshall

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Geoff Marshall
Marshall in 2017
Born
Geoffrey Roy Marshall

(1973-08-16) 16 August 1973 (age 50)[1]
London, England
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Presenter, editor, YouTuber
Years active2002–present
Known forLondonist Ltd
Notable workAll The Stations
Websitehttp://geofftech.co.uk/

Geoff Marshall is a video producer and author from London. He runs a YouTube channel about transport. He lived in the United States from 2006 to 2009. [2]

London Underground station visit records[change | change source]

Marshall got the world record for the Tube Challenge: travelling to all London Underground stations in the fastest time possible twice. His first world record time to visit the then 275 stations was set with Neil Blake in May 2004, on his seventh attempt.[3] This beat the previous world record that was listed by Jack Welsby in April 2002.[4]

2nd record time[change | change source]

His second record time of 16 hours, 20 minutes and 27 seconds, was set in August 2013.[5][6] A prior attempt which came close was covered by BBC News as part of London Underground's 150 year celebrations.[7]

Writings[change | change source]

Marshall wrote a show revealing his multiple attempts which he performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe[8] in 2014 and several times since at the London Transport Museum.

TV and radio appearances[change | change source]

Marshall gives interviews on London TV and radio. He gives his analysis of transport stories.

The Tube[change | change source]

He first appeared on TV in series 1 of ITV documentary The Tube. The second episode shows his failed attempt to beat Jack Welsby's Tube Challenge world record.[9] This was later followed in 2003 by Race Around The Underground, part of Carlton Television's "Metroland" documentary series,[10] where Marshall would have broken the record had the Richmond Branch of the District Line not suffered a signal failure.[11]

The Fanatics[change | change source]

He also appeared on Sky 1's quiz show The Fanatics. He answered questions about the London Underground and then found himself in an episode of More4's The World's Most Beautiful Railway in September 2019 investigating the Caledonian Sleeper in the Scottish highlands.

YouTube[change | change source]

Marshall was a publisher between 2013-2019 for Londonist Ltd,[12] an online London themed company. One of the more popular video series is Secrets of the Underground - a YouTube series presented by Marshall that talks about obscure facts of the London Underground. The 17-episode series first featured the 11 London Underground lines, but later episodes were produced for other London networks and for bonus episodes.

Solo channel[change | change source]

Marshall's solo YouTube channel publishes mostly transport-related content in the UK. One notable series is Least Used Stations, where he uses Office of Rail and Road statistics to discover which station in a given county had the lowest use in the previous year, then visits that station to review its limited features. He is also planning to go to all of the UK's request stops.

Others[change | change source]

Other notable series include Six Stations, Tube Challenge, London's Lost Railways, Secrets Of... other transport systems across the UK and Geoff's Top Twenty discussing favourite videos on the channel but is slightly inaccurate as 15 of them are from late 2021 onwards .

Projects[change | change source]

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.[13][14] The pair filmed most of the journey with daily updates posted on YouTube. They also posted updates to other platforms during the journey.[15] An online hour documentary about the journey was produced in 2018.

Funded by Kickstarter, the journey started on 7 May in Penzance and lasted 105 days where it stopped in Wick. 59 main videos were uploaded with 12 bonus videos too. They visited every station in Great Britain whilst gaining publicity along the way,[16] like at lesser used Shippea Hill station.[17]

All The Stations Ireland[change | change source]

In 2019, Marshall and Pipe did All The Stations Ireland. They spent three weeks visiting all 198 railway stations in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland during March and April 2019, they then spent three days in July 2019 visiting the Isle of Man to travel to every station on the island too.

Underground: USA[change | change source]

Underground: USA was a 12-week documentary road trip. Marshall took it between June and September 2009 where he went to all 48 mainland states of the US and in each one visited an area that shared a name with a station on the tube map, for example, Epping, Maine, where the journey started. He had his filming equipment stolen during the trip[18] but eventually turned the story into a one-hour YouTube documentary as well as publishing a related book Underground: USA.

Charity events[change | change source]

Marshall led a tube-based charity event in 2005 with Tube Relief. It was in response to the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Around 50 people took part, raising over £11,000 for charity.[19] Marshall later did a series of Walk The Tube events to raise money for charities, by getting a group of people to visit every tube station but not as a record attempt. These events took place for three years following 2013.[20]

References[change | change source]

  1. ↑ Marshall Geoff, "Underground USA", page 308 and back cover
  2. ↑ "Meet Geoff and Vicki: The 'gorpcore' couple visiting every train station in Britain". The Daily Telegraph. 12 August 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2020. (subscription required)
  3. ↑ "Every Tube station in 18 hours". Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "New record set on the tube". Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 5 March 2010. Retrieved 24 July 2002.
  5. ↑ "London Tube Station Visiting Record Broken". BBC News. 23 September 2013. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  6. ↑ "New world record for Tube Challenges". Londonist. 23 September 2013. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  7. ↑ "270 tube stations in one day". BBC News. Archived from the original on 27 November 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  8. ↑ "Tubespotting". Broadway Baby. Archived from the original on 18 September 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
  9. ↑ "Can You Visit Every London Tube Station In 24 Hours? | The Tube". YouTube. Spark. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  10. ↑ Geoff Marshall (4 February 2017). "Race Around The Underground (Part 1)" – via YouTube.
  11. ↑ Geoff Marshall (5 February 2017). "Race Around The Underground (Part 2)" – via YouTube.
  12. ↑ "About Us". londonist. Londonist Ltd. Archived from the original on 11 July 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  13. ↑ O'Brien, Jackie (18 August 2017). "Couple's three months on trains". BBC News. Archived from the original on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  14. ↑ Sanderson, Daniel. "End of the line for whistle-stop tour couple Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  15. ↑ "Couple's British railway stations challenge". BBC News. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  16. ↑ "'All The Stations' challenge calls at the West Country's least-used station". ITV News. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  17. ↑ "Least visited station in rail challenge". BBC News. 3 June 2017. Archived from the original on 4 September 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  18. ↑ "Our videographer just had $6,000 in equipment stolen | TheDigitel". www.thedigitel.com. Archived from the original on 14 September 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  19. ↑ "Tube challenge for bomb charity". 25 August 2005. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  20. ↑ Geoff Marshall (24 June 2014). "Walk The Tube 2014". Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2017 – via YouTube.
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