I’ve recently become a little bit obsessed with Geoff Marshall’s YouTube videos, following his stories about railways, stations, the trains that run on them as well as bus routes. It’s very London focussed, naturally, but there are excursions outside the capital too. As his about blurb states:

You’ll find me travelling around London and the rest of the country on public transport, creating stories about stations, trains and buses, as well as engineering and design… In 2017, I visited all 2,563 stations in Great Britain, followed in 2019 by going to all 198 stations in Ireland, and I continue to visit new stations as they open. In 2024, I rode a section of all 544 Bus Routes in London.

I really love a channel where the host dives deep into their subject and speaks with such authority. Sure, it’s a bit nerdy but it’s also fascinating and very watchable.

The latest video was a journey around the entire London Superloop, a circular connection of buses that loop the capital to make it faster to get to your destination. I didn’t even know this was a thing!

Eight or nine hours on almost as many buses is dedication to the cause and I am so here for it.