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Those Subway Cars Are Breda A650 Built In 1991! They remain in service to this day on the Purple Line or D Line And In Some Cases the B line Red Line!

This Train Operated Till 2021 Which Brings Us To A Whopping 83 Years Of Service Excluding The Preservation Unit On Acton Depot.

Narrator Sean teale 0:42

Amazed this was filmed apparently with so little question and hindrance, given it was at the time at the height of the IRA's bombing campaign

Great video. You can see how different Stratford is now

That was still the old North Shore Line physical plant, for the most part...and thirty years later it was definitely showing its age, worn rail joints and all.

This is such awesome atmospheric vibes.

15:48 ironic since later on they called it 7thst/Metro Center Julian Dixon station

I was 22 back then great times

Back when trains still had conductors.

So how else besides me miss how Cta connects cars for other rail series?

Back when trains still had conductors. My late aunt lived a block south of the Bryn Mawr station for 52 years. Back in 1971, station signs at Berwyn said, "Berwyn - Edgewater Beach."

Back when they still had conductors on CTA L trains. In those days, North-South (today's Red Line) trains were six cars long on Saturdays, but March 20 was a Wednesday in 1991. During middays on weekdays, they were four cars long.

These are awesome my man.. thx for digitizing your footage.. I'm subscribed and ready for more!

I started work around this time and I’d forgotten that there was an English accent. Today it’s a mid Atlantic monstrosity.

4:42 fire!

A remember holding the doors open for my mates when they were closing 😅

And it might get rebuilt again and we loose daylight again 😢

It's so dark in the daytime. What on earth was it like at night!!

Crikey this brings back some memories !! I remember it being dirty,ding , smelly ( the toilets flushed directly onto the tracks and the rubbish swept onto them by the sweeper ) and full of weird people, trying to steal mailbags or old tickets ,especially late at night ! I remember that alleyway between Liverpool Street and Broad Street (there used to be an entrance to it from Liverpool Street station through a small door ). ! If you turned right at 03:52 ,where that Copper is standing with the Traffic Warden and walked past the front of Broad Street Station ,turned right and a little bit further there was a Greasy Spoon Cafe / Restaurant called the Copper grill !! Full of Taxi / Bus Drivers and Bus Conductors and LT Underground workers !! A good breakfast or meal at good prices ! A hectic and lively place ! The serving staff sure as hell earned there money there ! As I remember there was a pub on the lower concourse , on the Bishop's Gate side , and it was always full of Guards and Train drivers and when a train didn't move at the time it was supposed to and the Driver or Guard was missing the first place they would look would be in this pub . Another member of staff would be sent to find them ! They got fed up with this run - around and a phone line was installed directly from the Train Crew Manager on the Broad street side , so he could just pick the phone without dialling and a speak directly to the barman in this pub and say " is Driver _____ there ? " Or " Is Guard ______ there ? " Can I speak to him please !?" .

interesting to see how much has stayed the same 3 decades later. infact if you look under the sheet metal corner covers on 2600s you can still see the 3 stripes. they just cut and peeled the off the exposed sections. the corners are mishapen and bent up from decades of hitting trees so if you look for it youll see it pretty easily at the platform.

This wasn’t called the Brown line until later, it was the Ravenswood L. The line was in dire lack of ridership at one point until it saw huge increases in 90s/early 2000s onward til Covid hit. It is best line to take tourists IMO since ekevated most of the route and snakes through lots of neighborhoods. Cabrini Greene gone now too.

This wasn’t called the Red Line at this time, rather the Howard L, and it continued through State Strret subway and then on what is now Green line south. Also what is currently the Green Line (Lake St L) used to go south on what is now the Red Line on Southside down Dan Ryan.

I remember when the trains were actually crowded.

I miss the individualized announcements of some of the conductors.

Great video. Feels like it ran like the modern forest park branch. Definitely the refurbishing branch got makes me appreciate the pink so much🎉

"this train terminates at charing cross"

After riding the Lake/Dan Ryan (Red Line) and Englewood (Green Line) regularly in the 70's and mid 80's, I totally got away from the CTA, as I drove to all destinations. I knew there were many changes in the mid 90's...name and route changes....but I had no idea of how the entire CTA rail system "inter-connected". Back in the early 70's, I would visit my cousin, who lived by the Jackson Park tracks. That really peaked my interest in the CTA Rail system....how did Jackson Park and Englewood connect? I became a bit adventourous...but not too much!!! My ridership ended at Clark and Lake. Then I met a girl who stayed way west, so then my ride extended from the Lake/Dan Ryan to Harlem. Afterwards, I started working outside of the city, so I bid farewell to the CTA. Over time, I became a watch collector. The local jeweler in my area closed up shop, so I decided to go to a guy that was highly recommended...on 29 E. Madison. This was around 2019. No way was I going to pay $40+ to park downtown. So..I got a Ventra card and took the Green Line at Cottage Grove downtown. I was looking forward to the excursion, just to see how things looked. The ride was pretty much the same until I came to the "Harrison Curve". The "S" curve was dramatically straightend out. Then I found these videos on TH-cam.."Ride the Rails". Started looking up stuff, like how and when the Harrison Curve was reconfigured. Now I'm really curious!!! So...while on vacation from work, I decided I was going to "Ride the Rails" and check out the routes. First one I took was the Ravenswood or Brown Line. Loved all the twists and turns!!! Tried the Red Line..a lot different when it was the Lake/Dan Ryan. Did the Pink, Orange, but not so much the Blue, as I frequented 290. not too much to see there, in my opinion. Watching this video, and going back in time 33 years shows me just how much the CTA Rail System had evolved. Watching this brings up some random thoughts...stations looked really old, a lot of track work, and I miss those 2000 series trains!!!!! Lastly...I finally found out about the Loomis Ramp!!

This was really interesting. I only ever visited Liverpool Street station once when it was like this and remember it being dark, dank and cavernous. Many years later I used to walk through the station every day going to work, and it was light and airy, but just as busy. Although I have a certain nostalgia for how it was, from a traveller's perspective I think it became much better post-improvement.

Way different compared to know

So interesting to see how the stations have changed . My stop(Morse) still looks about the same, but the rebuilds make the old platforms look quaint, especially Wilson and Howard. Am I seeing it right that Addison didn't have a full canopy back then?

Now it's a rolling mentality I'll unit

The doors even opened differently I was five years old living in the city around this time on the southside in the area of 95th and Dan Ryan in that area also the train is passing cook county hospital the hospital I was born in never would’ve thought I would’ve gotten hired with this agency in 2024 for flagger

El Pollo Loco has been the longest restaurant to keep business open. It's 2024, and it's still there on Washington Blvd between San Pedro & Grand Station.✊💯

El Pollo Loco has been the longest restaurant to keep business open. It's 2024, and it's still there on Washington Blvd between San Pedro & Grand Station.✊💯

Nick did you shoot this or is it something you've found? There's no doubt that the old station didn't meet capacity needs and could be improved in so many ways. But I see over and over, particularly with the railways, that in our rush to modernise we destroy architectural heritage little thought. Over and over, from Euston Arch, to the rebuilding of Golders Green, the public loss of the St Pancras ticket office, and of course Crossrail and HS2. And of course in this video both Broad Street and Liverpool Street, which I'd say lost something magic in the renovation and which is undergoing further destruction in 2024. Very interested to hear your thoughts.

Good to see they still have T6's, I like these models

Trams

A fascinating video of the Liverpool St i once knew. Used to love the walkway going all around the station. Fond memories. Remember the Apples and Pears pub but hardly used it. I lived just one stop away in Bethnal Green but I'd normally walk or occasionally bus it.

Liverpool st when it felt like an adventure and you felt you’d arrived. Now the Southend Victoria trains pull into a dingy hole that feels oppressive and depressing. Sure the concourse looks a bit cleaner but it really lacks soul. All for putting up office blocks. They won’t be happy until the whole place is transformed into a look a like Euston.

wow what a great video. I remember getting the train with my dad there to Ipswich many times on a Sunday, at about the same year this was filmed. It looked just as portrayed here. Very nostalgic

“You should carry a gun or something” bro what

Nice seeing the driver go at full speed!!! From what I have seen & experienced myself drivers seemed to handle the d stock much more cautiously during their twilight years - they usually just crawled along the line. Dunno whether its to do with the condition of the track or the trains themselves...

A long time before Azusa

3 years before I was born

I don't think any of the A Stocks were refurbished fully into London Underground Complex until 1993/94.

the film 'Speed, 1994" used this line

Blue line has horizontal traffic lights in Long Beach

Red line has horizontal traffic lights .

Nice to see a video of the DLR train going into the first Island Gardens station, a few years ago, I looked on TH-cam to see if someone had a video of a train going across the veriduct into the old Islnad Gardens station.