I first saw the Underground in 1984 as a 23 year old from Australia and I was mesmerised from day one. London locals advised me to take buses everywhere so that I could do sightseeing at the same time as getting to and from places, but I was so fascinated with the tube network that I did all my communting underground. Best system in the world I reckon.
I don't care what anyone says the training done in the 60s to 80s was outstanding in any field,now it's all micro and fast speed training , if you don't get it first time you've had it.
It reminds me of where I used to work at East Croydon station dispatching trains and checking tickets for twenty two and a half years until I had mental health issues and had to retire early for health reasons.
It is excellent Dan, loved watching this & the stories being told. Another excellent Underground docu to watch is this th-cam.com/video/IkvwvlpUqjY/w-d-xo.html
I live in Scandinavia and in the end of February 2020 I flew to England just over the day. I flew British Airways and mid flight the captain came walking down the isle so I raised my hand like a school kid and asked, who is flying? He laughed and told me to I could visit the cockpit after landing. There I got to sit on the captains place (left seat) and they took pictures of me. ☺️ I got to city by bus, train not in operations due to the new line being trimmed in. I waved down a electric London cab and to a trip to my destination, asked if I could take a picture of the driver and he said, you should be in the drivers seat and I can take the picture of you. ☺️ I did my shopping took some tub trips and watch some tourist sights “again” and got on the plane and flew home. 😊 Daniel you should go to London, it’s such a nice place. I have been to 78 countries and by that quite a few cities and London (first time was 1971) is way up on my top list.
What nice folk in this documentary. It could be fair to say, the peoples that have worked (and continue to work), in transport are lovely, kind and all round good spuds (speaking as an Irishman). Lovely, gentle, nice, characters. God Bless you all x
I started using the tube on my own at the age of 8yrs old i was really into them. I went from archway to Highgate then back to archway by the time i was in year 7 had covered at least 90% of the London underground. one thing i used to do is peak thru the holes on the drivers door and you could see the station at the bottom of the hill just as the lady driver was talking about.
When I was on BR at VSC Clapham junction, new signalling system opened in stages 1980. It was a Disaster! Signalling equipment failures constantly. ASE was 'Wrong man for the job'had to be paid off, replacement narcissistic told by Chairman BR Board that he was to be sacked with Chief signal engineers in 6 months time unless failure rate dropped. He sent out questionnaire, I made lots of recommendations to reduce failure rate, 2 were carried out, had to have 4 men out on track, previously top grade didn't want to do outside work which had to be done. 2nd recommendation can't say, it improved railway operations considerably. ASE bought in man from Swanley led a task force team found lots of equipment faults reduced failure rate.
I don't know about detonators derailing a train, but I've put 3d in old pennies on a tram rail one in front of the other. The tram didn't half bounce. One got spat out and folded in half, one got picked up and squashed partially on the remaining one so that there was a perfect mirror image imprint of each on each. As a kid I put a beer can on a rail line at a level crossing and a class 37 flattened it so well that the ink came off the can and onto the rail- another imprint in reverse, this time proclaiming McEwans beer.
I love the idea of the Underground running on tea! Also, nobody knows which is Ant and which is Dec; probably doesn't matter. Wow, only watched 4 mins so far but this is fascinating! I've never been interested in trains, but I love the social history that goes with it.
Rob N rob I had to pause, the video ''when he said the underground runs on tea.''' Tetleys anyone ''or should we have ''typhoon ''it will make us run faster
I started to use the Metropolitan Line and Piccadilly Line as a kid in the 1970s. The trains were filthy. especially because people could smoke on the trains in those days. It was disgusting. The floors were covered in ash and fag butts (calm down Americans, it just means cigarette ends). Smokers used to flick ash onto your feet. I also remember the ticket collectors at the stations who used to take cash from passengers if they didn't have a ticket or if they hadn't paid enough for their journey. As kids we used to see one collector at a station on the Piccadilly Line going home with a big bag of cash every day. In the end, because we knew what he was doing we just used to walk past him without paying and swear at him.
great video spent from 1981 untill 2002 traveling on the tube working throughout london as a floor fitter..good memories. hardly used to pay either during the early days..feel guilty nowadays about that...when you're young u have no morals lol
On "my" line, as a punter, even when standing room only, you knew where there would be a spare flop-down guard's seat you could use. If you commuted to work near Goodge Street ... free ticketless exit from the station normally, if you didn't mind a walk up a lot of steps! Worth the walk & kept you fit
So very sad to hear about the racism, especially from the Unions who should have known better. We are lucky they came to Britain to work when our own would not do it. Enoch Powell was one of he people who went around the world gathering in foreign labour. He was a hypocrite later! The Underground staff are wonderful people who do a sometimes arduous job, so many more passengers these days!
Absolutely brilliant, only disappointment this our great Britain ,the railways an absolutely brilliant triumph for our country,,but like our other lost industry's , interference,greed power from our governments etc,it's so sad things we were extremely good at, thrown away,through greed,cheapness instead of the workers know all and personal pride on how they knew how to run an industry there particular industry ,that as been taught by and built by our forefathers,on hard work graft intelegence, and where decency and the sheer magnificence of our industry's our great Britain was absolutely booming ,as the cheap slave privatisation,of offering less,for a pittance,below the breadline ,,etc it is so sad we British have allowed our country to be decimated from the top dogs establishment,government ,maybe unions ,honestly it's so sad we had an absolutely wonderful great Britain, now it's going like a cesspit ,Tony chilcot Blair,David Cameron,etc lies corruption illegal wars Libya irac Syria etc,millions murdered and maimed,through lies and Propaganda to justify there lies to kill, following there masters voice of greed and order, our country was looked up to,now an impossible refugees problem,and don't want intergrate,and live there Sharia law,.etc etc prostitutions made legal by our government ,so you have prostitutes,pimps,,drug dealers ,,our ,children youth corrupted from birth,, ,also they said 1960+70s robots will give us more leisure time ,, the absolute establishment and government lies ,and pushed and promoted Propaganda,,,there is no work, youth, adults old young the I'll and disabled , benefits sanctions , unable to pay rents,gas electricity food,, the food banks,and where alcohol,and drugs can be bought anytime, day or night and,more acceptance and desirable than there own poor children,,and through laws,real punishments,execution so that evil disease took hold on our young,other country's,china, India Philippines etc are doing what's right and proper ,really punish law breakers and if so the execution,no one wants to take a life ,but when breaking law drugs prostitutions greed corruption,etc it infiltrates babies children youth,etc they need to be shown to live within law and order ,if not,, you know the consequences, we had a beautiful brilliant fantastic country our great Britain, we are in magnificent debt ,and we have lived beyond our means ,etc instead of what our FOREFATHERS whom built our industry's ,our great Britain on blood sweat and tears and if you can't afford it ,,you can't have it simple mathematics and living within your means ,
It ALWAYS makes me wonder how private operators can do public services it is so wrong most private operators are profit first spend as little as they can and keep workers pay low they do little good for the public so goverments should keep Trains' planes ' ferries ' health ' schools 'colleges ' public ' were all in this world together '
... SO THIS IS WHY OUR RAILWAYS ARE USELESS 10:00... TUT! TUT! I'VE HEARD IT ALL NOW.... EVERYONE POINT A FINGER.... HAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAA 🏴🥂🥳
I believe it's only the 'third rail' that carries electricity. The two the train runs on are not electrified and therefore not all attempts are successful.
A letch tried picking up the once-upon-a-time adolescent of me some decades ago from Piccadilly Circus along the brown line..I remember glaringly daring him to step aboard the clockwise green line train that I'd had to transfer to at Embankment p o i s e d as he was there upon the platform lip....how about a stupid soccer brawl on the deepest metro piercing of the home counties along the purple line approaching Amersham....knowing how all them trains poorly fared under mere snow dustings, I wish somebody'd come along here and gush over its metro sportiness! glazed by *wickedly* freezing rain..oh well.. .. . . 🍸
@@andreandpaula I think so, in fact I'd go as far as to say it's the first criteria I use to categorize a person if I haven't met them before. It has a bearing on so many things, my behaviour, my vocabulary, body language, and a myriad of other subconscious but communicable signals. She was also a moron, but that was probably a little rude to use...
@@zekezero12345 Before you call someone a moron, you should learn to write correct English. It's 'criterion' when referring to a singular noun, 'criteria' for plural.
I love the old photos and footage of the underground in the early 1900s. Makes me want to jump into the screen and experience it myself.
I first saw the Underground in 1984 as a 23 year old from Australia and I was mesmerised from day one. London locals advised me to take buses everywhere so that I could do sightseeing at the same time as getting to and from places, but I was so fascinated with the tube network that I did all my communting underground. Best system in the world I reckon.
I don't care what anyone says the training done in the 60s to 80s was outstanding in any field,now it's all micro and fast speed training , if you don't get it first time you've had it.
Nice doco. Thanks for uploading.
It reminds me of where I used to work at East Croydon station dispatching trains and checking tickets for twenty two and a half years until I had mental health issues and had to retire early for health reasons.
I'm Canadian, never been to England but I really enjoyed this. Thanks
It is excellent Dan, loved watching this & the stories being told. Another excellent Underground docu to watch is this
th-cam.com/video/IkvwvlpUqjY/w-d-xo.html
Is the woman Canadian or from the States? I think she's Canadian.
I live in Scandinavia and in the end of February 2020 I flew to England just over the day. I flew British Airways and mid flight the captain came walking down the isle so I raised my hand like a school kid and asked, who is flying? He laughed and told me to I could visit the cockpit after landing. There I got to sit on the captains place (left seat) and they took pictures of me. ☺️ I got to city by bus, train not in operations due to the new line being trimmed in. I waved down a electric London cab and to a trip to my destination, asked if I could take a picture of the driver and he said, you should be in the drivers seat and I can take the picture of you. ☺️ I did my shopping took some tub trips and watch some tourist sights “again” and got on the plane and flew home. 😊 Daniel you should go to London, it’s such a nice place. I have been to 78 countries and by that quite a few cities and London (first time was 1971) is way up on my top list.
@@alastairgreen6783 she moved to Canada ,
Lovely.
What an insightful documentary.
What nice folk in this documentary. It could be fair to say, the peoples that have worked (and continue to work), in transport are lovely, kind and all round good spuds (speaking as an Irishman). Lovely, gentle, nice, characters. God Bless you all x
Such a good program, nice hearing personnel story's from London Underground workers.
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@@TheMusicalElitistOutrageous
I started using the tube on my own at the age of 8yrs old i was really into them. I went from archway to Highgate then back to archway by the time i was in year 7 had covered at least 90% of the London underground. one thing i used to do is peak thru the holes on the drivers door and you could see the station at the bottom of the hill just as the lady driver was talking about.
Wonderful!
i met the love of my life in earls court station as i waited for a train to wimbledon. she was a beauty from finland
she might reply to your letters one day !
Nobody asked.
No1 cares
@@sebzpg about you ? yes i agree !!
@@Sam_Green____4114 beg
When I was on BR at VSC Clapham junction, new signalling system opened in stages 1980. It was a Disaster! Signalling equipment failures constantly. ASE was 'Wrong man for the job'had to be paid off, replacement narcissistic told by Chairman BR Board that he was to be sacked with Chief signal engineers in 6 months time unless failure rate dropped. He sent out questionnaire, I made lots of recommendations to reduce failure rate, 2 were carried out, had to have 4 men out on track, previously top grade didn't want to do outside work which had to be done. 2nd recommendation can't say, it improved railway operations considerably. ASE bought in man from Swanley led a task force team found lots of equipment faults reduced failure rate.
I don't know about detonators derailing a train, but I've put 3d in old pennies on a tram rail one in front of the other. The tram didn't half bounce. One got spat out and folded in half, one got picked up and squashed partially on the remaining one so that there was a perfect mirror image imprint of each on each. As a kid I put a beer can on a rail line at a level crossing and a class 37 flattened it so well that the ink came off the can and onto the rail- another imprint in reverse, this time proclaiming McEwans beer.
I love the idea of the Underground running on tea! Also, nobody knows which is Ant and which is Dec; probably doesn't matter.
Wow, only watched 4 mins so far but this is fascinating! I've never been interested in trains, but I love the social history that goes with it.
Rob N rob I had to pause, the video ''when he said the underground runs on tea.''' Tetleys anyone ''or should we have ''typhoon ''it will make us run faster
Hopefully it was dec ant would have got abuse nowadays
@@terencebarrett2897 yes please I will have a tetleys
@@baby_joe right coming up kettle boiled ,two sugars,milk ,and a few chocolate 🍫 biscuits ,eh you want a full packet,go on then😀
Jago Hazzard's got some explaining to do!!! 😆😅😅
I love this video because I wish did one for TTC Subway system.
Very insightful.
love the part "we only used TWO detonators, so it was relatively safe...Got to .... and heard a train had been derailed" lol
I expect someone was winding up the people who did the windup !
River Huntingdon INDEED!
I started to use the Metropolitan Line and Piccadilly Line as a kid in the 1970s. The trains were filthy. especially because people could smoke on the trains in those days. It was disgusting. The floors were covered in ash and fag butts (calm down Americans, it just means cigarette ends). Smokers used to flick ash onto your feet. I also remember the ticket collectors at the stations who used to take cash from passengers if they didn't have a ticket or if they hadn't paid enough for their journey. As kids we used to see one collector at a station on the Piccadilly Line going home with a big bag of cash every day. In the end, because we knew what he was doing we just used to walk past him without paying and swear at him.
Great stories.
great video
spent from 1981 untill 2002 traveling on the tube working throughout london as a floor fitter..good memories.
hardly used to pay either during the early days..feel guilty nowadays about that...when you're young u have no morals lol
Detonators won't derail a train and you wouldn't have passed your Road Test unless you could control the Westinghouse Brake; all drivers could.
I let of loads of stink bombs on the tube in the rush hour 1977 , I apologise , ive grown UP ALOT since🌺🌻🍁🌵🏵
"I once fell on the tracks on the train"...You must have gone through the bottom of the train! Lol!
aha
None of the London Underground workers spoke about paranormal activities/ ghost 👻. 🤔
The smashing lightbulbs bit. Crazy moondig
On "my" line, as a punter, even when standing room only, you knew where there would be a spare flop-down guard's seat you could use. If you commuted to work near Goodge Street ... free ticketless exit from the station normally, if you didn't mind a walk up a lot of steps! Worth the walk & kept you fit
Great video
I remember when the trains had square wheels it was so 😣 uncomfortable.
I remember when horses pulled the trains.
Jeeez! Did you see those house prices in Metro-Land!
So very sad to hear about the racism, especially from the Unions who should have known better. We are lucky they came to Britain to work when our own would not do it. Enoch Powell was one of he people who went around the world gathering in foreign labour. He was a hypocrite later!
The Underground staff are wonderful people who do a sometimes arduous job, so many more passengers these days!
very nice films
Very interesting suitable like this classic railway from history it is.
Loved this thank you
Lovely to look back to happier times when the world was more simple and honest. 20/20 now in a pandemic and the world is crazy right now.♥️
Rose tinted spectacles are great aren't they?
ANT OR DEC MADE ME CHUCKLE THAT.
Absolutely brilliant, only disappointment this our great Britain ,the railways an absolutely brilliant triumph for our country,,but like our other lost industry's , interference,greed power from our governments etc,it's so sad things we were extremely good at, thrown away,through greed,cheapness instead of the workers know all and personal pride on how they knew how to run an industry there particular industry ,that as been taught by and built by our forefathers,on hard work graft intelegence, and where decency and the sheer magnificence of our industry's our great Britain was absolutely booming ,as the cheap slave privatisation,of offering less,for a pittance,below the breadline ,,etc it is so sad we British have allowed our country to be decimated from the top dogs establishment,government ,maybe unions ,honestly it's so sad we had an absolutely wonderful great Britain, now it's going like a cesspit ,Tony chilcot Blair,David Cameron,etc lies corruption illegal wars Libya irac Syria etc,millions murdered and maimed,through lies and Propaganda to justify there lies to kill, following there masters voice of greed and order, our country was looked up to,now an impossible refugees problem,and don't want intergrate,and live there Sharia law,.etc etc prostitutions made legal by our government ,so you have prostitutes,pimps,,drug dealers ,,our ,children youth corrupted from birth,, ,also they said 1960+70s robots will give us more leisure time ,, the absolute establishment and government lies ,and pushed and promoted Propaganda,,,there is no work, youth, adults old young the I'll and disabled , benefits sanctions , unable to pay rents,gas electricity food,, the food banks,and where alcohol,and drugs can be bought anytime, day or night and,more acceptance and desirable than there own poor children,,and through laws,real punishments,execution so that evil disease took hold on our young,other country's,china, India Philippines etc are doing what's right and proper ,really punish law breakers and if so the execution,no one wants to take a life ,but when breaking law drugs prostitutions greed corruption,etc it infiltrates babies children youth,etc they need to be shown to live within law and order ,if not,, you know the consequences, we had a beautiful brilliant fantastic country our great Britain, we are in magnificent debt ,and we have lived beyond our means ,etc instead of what our FOREFATHERS whom built our industry's ,our great Britain on blood sweat and tears and if you can't afford it ,,you can't have it simple mathematics and living within your means ,
At 1.25 the commentary mentions the Circle Line but the picture shows a City and South London Line.
"I 'm going underground la la la !!! Spray your shit on my TV screen, makes this boy shout makes this boy scream!
La la la la Braying sheep on my tv screen, even ! 🐑🐑🐑 🐑 😂
Brilliant!
LOVELY FILM THIS LIKE.
Great! LT trained to the letter!
26:31 Stamford Brook is my nearest station :D
Is Pam Singer an American? 💕
Ken Loach style doco. Audio was a bit distorted in places. Recycled archive.
It ALWAYS makes me wonder how private operators can do public services it is so wrong most private operators are profit first spend as little as they can and keep workers pay low they do little good for the public so goverments should keep
Trains' planes ' ferries ' health ' schools 'colleges ' public ' were all in this world together '
Love seating was phased out off the Island of Montreal's city buses y e a r s ago..the MTC with its croney corporateers.. .. . .
... SO THIS IS WHY OUR RAILWAYS ARE USELESS 10:00... TUT! TUT! I'VE HEARD IT ALL NOW.... EVERYONE POINT A FINGER.... HAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAA 🏴🥂🥳
How come the two suicide attempts failed? The trains may have stopped, but the electricity in the rails was still on.
I believe it's only the 'third rail' that carries electricity. The two the train runs on are not electrified and therefore not all attempts are successful.
Underground runs on tea and not electricity.
They were nicknamed tube after all the modern carriages from the late 1920's and early 1930's arrived.
I think these are still in use, at least most of them look 100 years old. And tiny if you have ever been on other European underground systems.
That driver who put two detonators on the line and derailed a train - what? Why was she not sacked and prosecuted, that is not remotely 'hilarious'!!
That's not what she said!!
A letch tried picking up the once-upon-a-time adolescent of me some decades ago from Piccadilly Circus along the brown line..I remember glaringly daring him to step aboard the clockwise green line train that I'd had to transfer to at Embankment p o i s e d as he was there upon the platform lip....how about a stupid soccer brawl on the deepest metro piercing of the home counties along the purple line approaching Amersham....knowing how all them trains poorly fared under mere snow dustings, I wish somebody'd come along here and gush over its metro sportiness! glazed by *wickedly* freezing rain..oh well.. .. . . 🍸
i thought this was from channel 5 :/
It was on the Community Channel.
Did that female driver really believe that derailing a train was a safe method of stopping it... with detonators??😄.
Ok then, love 👍
Was it important to say female?
Go back and pay attention to what she actually said.
@@andreandpaula I think so, in fact I'd go as far as to say it's the first criteria I use to categorize a person if I haven't met them before. It has a bearing on so many things, my behaviour, my vocabulary, body language, and a myriad of other subconscious but communicable signals. She was also a moron, but that was probably a little rude to use...
@@zekezero12345 Before you call someone a moron, you should learn to write correct English. It's 'criterion' when referring to a singular noun, 'criteria' for plural.
@@jeffkwells2003 if you're Victorian maybe, Jeff. Kinda interchangeable these days...
are
what complete arse,a detonator will never de rail a train....
33:44 WTF is that shit