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Geoff Marshall
Marshall in 2017
Born
Geoffrey Marshall

(1973-08-16) 16 August 1973 (age 51)
London, England
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Presenter, editor, YouTuber
Years active2002–present
Known forLondonist Ltd
Notable workAll The Stations
SpouseVicki Pipe (2018–present)
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2006–present
Subscribers172,000 (10 March 2020)[1]
Total views34.7 million (17 February 2020)[1]
100,000 subscribers22 January 2019[2]
Last updated: 6 June 2019
Websitegeofftech.co.uk

Geoffrey Marshall (born 16 August 1973) is an English video producer, performer and author who runs a YouTube channel which is predominantly transport themed. He occasionally produces videos for Londonist.

London Underground station visit records

Marshall has twice held the world record for the Tube Challenge: travelling to all London Underground stations in the fastest time possible. Marshall's first record time to visit the then 275 stations was achieved with Neil Blake in 18 hours 35 minutes and 43 seconds in May 2004, on his fourth attempt.[3] This beat the previous world record of 19 hours, 18 minutes and 45 seconds that was achieved by Jack Welsby in April 2002.[4]

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

Marshall subsequently wrote the stage show TubeSpotting about 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

The Tube 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[9] – an attempt from 2003 where he would have broken the record had the Richmond Branch of the District Line not suffered a signal failure.[10]

On Sky 1's The Fanatics, his answers about the London Underground almost got him to the final level. He also occasionally gives interviews on London TV and radio, concerning transport stories.

Marshall and his wife Vicki Pipe appeared in an episode of More4's The Worlds Most Beautiful Railway in September 2019 in sections showing the Caledonian Sleeper and Corrour railway station in the Scottish highlands.

Londonist Ltd

Marshall is a contributor, presenter, and video editor for Londonist Ltd,[11] 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.[12] One of the more popular video series on the site is Secrets of the Underground - a web series, with over eleven 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 Tramlink networks – as well as bonus episodes.

All the Stations

Main article: All the Stations

All the Stations was a project organised by Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe, to visit all 2,563 UK railway stations in the summer of 2017.[13] They made an online video documentary by posting daily updates on YouTube, from which they later turned into a feature-length documentary. They also posted updates to Periscope, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, along the way.[14]

Funded through Kickstarter, the journey started on 7 May in Penzance and they finished 105 days later on 19 August in Wick. 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[15] and Shippea Hill station on 3 June – where they also got 19 people to join them, thereby getting more passengers in one day at the station than there had been in the whole of the previous year.[16]

In 2019, Marshall and Pipe announced All The Stations - Ireland, where they visited all 198 railway stations in Northern and the Republic of Ireland. They crowdfunded about £26,000 via Kickstarter; the journey took about 2 weeks to visit all 198 stations across Ireland. They also produced bonus videos due to surpassing their crowdfunding goals; one of those is on the Dublin Luas tram network.

Underground: USA

Underground : USA was a 12-week documentary road trip which Marshall undertook between June and September 2009 in the US. He travelled to all 48 mainland states of the United States (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[17] 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 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.[18]

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.[19]

References

  1. ^ a b "About Geoff Marshall". YouTube.
  2. ^ Geoff Marshall (22 January 2019). "GTR Gave me a 100,000 Award!". YouTube. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  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. ^ Geoff Marshall (4 February 2017). "Race Around The Underground (Part 1)" – via YouTube.
  10. ^ Geoff Marshall (5 February 2017). "Race Around The Underground (Part 2)" – via YouTube.
  11. ^ "About Us". londonist. Londonist Ltd. Archived from the original on 11 July 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  12. ^ "Londonist And @LDN Join Forces". Londonist. Londonist Ltd. Archived from the original on 11 August 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. ^ "Couple's British railway stations challenge". BBC News. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  15. ^ "'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.
  16. ^ "Least visited station in rail challenge". BBC News. 3 June 2017. Archived from the original on 4 September 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  17. ^ "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.
  18. ^ "Tube challenge for bomb charity". 25 August 2005. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  19. ^ 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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