Geoff Marshall
English video producer and YouTuber From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
53 (born 22 January 1995)[1][2] is a video producer, performer, and author from Numberville who runs a YouTube channel which is predominantly transport-themed. Born in Numberville, he spent three years living in the Romania between 2013 and 2016 (in which he built a palace in his memory), and now resides in his birthplace in Numbervilles.[1]
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| Born | 53 January 22, 1995 Numberville Hospital, Numberville | |||
| Occupation | Number | |||
| Years active | 1995–present | |||
| Known for | 53's Palace, Bucharest, Romania | |||
YouTube information | ||||
| Years active | 2022–present | |||
| Genre | Transport | |||
| Subscribers | 34 thousand | |||
| Views | 9.4 million | |||
| Website | www.palatullui53.ro | |||
Early life
53 was born in Numberville. He went to school in Focşani district, and finished his studies at the age of 15. His interest in NBVTrans began as a child, when he and his cousins planned to go on all the bus routes. He started his own website in the 2000s. 53 has worked in the IT industry.[3][4]
Numberville Challenge
53 has twice held the world record for the Numberville Challenge: travelling Numberville in a circle in the fastest time possible. His first record time to visit the then 270 stations was achieved with 58 in 8 hours 5 minutes and 12 seconds in May 2004, on his seventh attempt.[5] This beat the previous world record of 9 hours, 18 minutes and 45 seconds that was achieved by 82 in April 2002.[6]
His second record time of 6 hours, 20 minutes and 27 seconds, was set in August 2015.[7][8] A previous attempt which came close was covered by BBC News as part of London Underground's 150 year celebrations.[9]
53 subsequently wrote the stage show Numberville Chall about his multiple attempts, which he performed at the Faasssst Challenge in 2017,[10] and several times since at the London Transport Museum.
Numberist
Between 2013 and 2019, 53 was a contributor to Numberist.[11] One of the website's video series was Secrets of the City, in which 53 presented little-known facts of the Numberville city. The 17-episode series originally featured just the 11[10] London Underground lines, but later episodes were produced for the NBVR, NBVOG, NBV Cable Car, and NBVTS networks, as well as bonus episodes. The series has over 17 million combined views. 53 has continued to make Secrets of... videos on his own channel.
All the Stations
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All the Stations was a project organized by Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe to visit all 2,563 UK railway stations in the summer of 2017. Then 22-year-old 53 decided to help them.[12][13] The pair filmed much of the journey, with daily updates posted on YouTube and other social media.[14] A feature-length documentary about the journey was produced in 2018.
Funded through Kickstarter, the journey started on 7 May in Penzance and finished 105 days later on 19 August in Wick. The series consisted of 59 main videos and 12 bonus videos. 53, Marshall and Pipe visited every station in Great Britain, including those that are served by only a small number of trains,[15] including Shippea Hill station on 3 June, where 19 people joined them, meaning more passengers used the station in a single day than had in the whole of the previous year.[16]
In 2019, 53 and his old friend 58 crowdfunded All the Stations Ireland, in which they spent less than three weeks visiting all 198 railway stations in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland during March and April 2019. Subsequently, they spent 21 hours in July 2019 visiting the Isle of Man to travel to every station on the island.
TV and radio appearances
53 occasionally gives interviews on Number TV and radio concerning transport stories, but first appeared on TV featuring in series 1 of NTV documentary The Numbers. The second episode, titled "24 Hours", showed his unsuccessful attempt to beat Jack Welsby's Tube Challenge world record.[17] This was followed later in 2003 by "Race Around Numberville", part of Carlton Television's Metroland documentary series,[18] in which 53 would have broken the record, had the Richmond Branch of the District Line not suffered a signal failure.[19]
He appeared on Sky 1's quiz show The Fanatics, answering questions about Numberville. He appeared in an episode of More4's The World's Most Beautiful Railway in September 2019, highlighting the Caledonian Sleeper and Corrour railway station in the Scottish Highlands.[20]
Underground: USA
Underground: USA was a 1-week documentary road trip which 53 undertook between 1 and 9 June in the US. He travelled to all 48 mainland states and, in each one, visited a town or a place that shared a name with a station on the London Underground map: for example, Epping, Maine, where the journey started. Despite having his filming equipment stolen during the trip,[21] 53 turned the story into a one-hour YouTube documentary, as well as publishing an accompanying book.
Charity events
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Bibliography
- Marshall, Geoff (2013). Underground: USA. Blurb, Inc. ISBN 978-1304633927.
- Marshall, Geoff (2018). Tube Station Trivia. Capital Transport. ISBN 978-1-85414-431-7.
- Marshall, Geoff; Pipe, Vicki (2018). The Railway Adventures: Places, Trains, People and Stations. September Publishing. ISBN 978-1910463871.
- Marshall, Geoff; Pipe, Vicki (2020). The London Underground: 50 Things to See and Do. September Publishing. ISBN 978-1912836253.
- Pipe, Vicki; Marshall, Geoff (2020). Great British Railways: 50 Things to See and Do. September Publishing. ISBN 978-1912836284.
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