Thanx for a great upload,,My first memories of going on the tubes would be 1968 and growing up around that era struck a chord,the cars,clothes,it seems like only yesterday,imagining what the folk would eat back then,watch on TV I remember the Double Diamond ads and Smash potato,,good ol' days,
The sequences featuring the Asian guard are from the television series Department S episode Last Train to Redbridge. The episode opening was about why on arrival at Redbridge was the guard and passengers in the last car dead.
Looks like it was shot on one of the Holborn-Aldwych Platforms (poss before the number of platforms at Holborn end was reduced by one a few years before the entire public closure.
@@highpath4776 On second viewing all the colour excerpts except Pimlico, the escalators and booking hall and Bank exterior are from Department S with the salacious moments with the girl in the mini skirt and man opposite are cut out. The episode is/was here. This version is dubbed. th-cam.com/video/CILY8avf-gY/w-d-xo.html
Back then, the ex Victoria line 1967 and its cousin the ex Northern line 1972mk1 stock were so identical looking to each other externally; it was hard to tell them apart.
Same with the 1959 & 1962 stock, I grew up on the Central Line in the 60's, great memories of the weekends spent exploring the system with a Twin Rover ticket, 2/6 for kids..!
Wow! I'm so glad our precious London underground are now that white, red and blue colour scheme. Those dull silver/grey colours remind me of the boring New York subway, just dull and I'm glad TfL painted their trains. Makes it look SO much better.
Thank goodness you were not in 1960s NYC subway. The trains were dark gray from 1955 til 1963 when the R33 class of World's Fair light blue and white and black lining around d the windows went into service for the following year's World's Fair in NYC. We lived in Flushing Queens NYC and in 1964 we moved to Richmond Hill another neighborhood in Queens. There was a modern subway map,that had the logo Follow the blue arrow to the World's Fair.
Everything looked to clean back then, no graffiti on the station walls or on any of the trains and of course you didn't have this takeaway culture back then like you do today, no coffee cups or sandwich packaging.
In the early sixties you could get a day rover ticket for 5 shillings that let you have use of all red buses and underground. Just the buses was half that price. Bargain!
You must have been on a different system from me, then. I grew up in London in the 60's and loved the Underground. It's awful now everyone insists on calling it the "Tube" 😡
I think its even more interesting than that - Holborn had two platforms for Aldwych , I think one was still the runnning platform, leaving the other one for filming purposes, I just dont recall central line stock being on the Piccadilly though, but I rarely used the Picc in 1968
It closed down in 1994 although only one platform was in public use. Its a shame they never extended the Aldwych branch to Waterloo or incorporated it as a separate line to Batersea power station
@@highpath4776 The Piccadilly Line used 1959 stock at that time, which was almost identical to the 1962 Central Line stock. Main differences were electrical and other "behind the scenes" bits.
not really, most are pretty encompasing, though most commonwealth country peoples that came over for work tended to live and stay in areas where they found like persons, even to the extent that Sikhs tend to live in certain areas while the islamic/ hindu ones will be in a different part of the city, to some extent is the kind of work and pay levels they tended to get. I saw a film of the building of part of one of the later underground (must have been Victoria) , and did not realise how many indians were working near Romford casting concrete tunnel segments, I think they must have lived around north llford just south of the A12 ! What you did find was (unwritten) that while bristish happy those from overseas did the manual jobs - bus driver / conductor/ enginee they would not get promotion to inspector or foreman.
Fantastic quality clip.
01:15 When I see these people running I can't help but remember American werewolf in London.
Thanx for a great upload,,My first memories of going on the tubes would be 1968 and growing up around that era struck a chord,the cars,clothes,it seems like only yesterday,imagining what the folk would eat back then,watch on TV I remember the Double Diamond ads and Smash potato,,good ol' days,
The sequences featuring the Asian guard are from the television series Department S episode Last Train to Redbridge. The episode opening was about why on arrival at Redbridge was the guard and passengers in the last car dead.
Looks like it was shot on one of the Holborn-Aldwych Platforms (poss before the number of platforms at Holborn end was reduced by one a few years before the entire public closure.
@@highpath4776 On second viewing all the colour excerpts except Pimlico, the escalators and booking hall and Bank exterior are from Department S with the salacious moments with the girl in the mini skirt and man opposite are cut out. The episode is/was here. This version is dubbed. th-cam.com/video/CILY8avf-gY/w-d-xo.html
@@bobjea Bank exteriors are fairly normal common stock footage, but i think that is for/from Dept S given the central line story
Lovely footage from the early 70’s with my two old tube lines and the stocks, I miss them
Back then, the ex Victoria line 1967 and its cousin the ex Northern line 1972mk1 stock were so identical looking to each other externally; it was hard to tell them apart.
Would that Pimlico one be shot at or close to the opening of the station as I think it came after the advent of Decimilisation on the underground ?
Same with the 1959 & 1962 stock, I grew up on the Central Line in the 60's, great memories of the weekends spent exploring the system with a Twin Rover ticket, 2/6 for kids..!
I remember those ticket machines at the end of the film very well. I can even visualise the ticket, it was yellow with a brown magnetic back
Great to have a longer clip as opposed to a 50 second or one minute one.
Great quality for the period.
2:05 The Krays trial, '68-'69.
Thank you 👍
Wow! I'm so glad our precious London underground are now that white, red and blue colour scheme. Those dull silver/grey colours remind me of the boring New York subway, just dull and I'm glad TfL painted their trains. Makes it look SO much better.
@Joe Schmo No I was born in the 1980s. Shut up, its hella better than the dull grey, and I actually like it. Troll.
Thank goodness you were not in 1960s NYC subway. The trains were dark gray from 1955 til 1963 when the R33 class of World's Fair light blue and white and black lining around d the windows went into service for the following year's World's Fair in NYC. We lived in Flushing Queens NYC and in 1964 we moved to Richmond Hill another neighborhood in Queens. There was a modern subway map,that had the logo Follow the blue arrow to the World's Fair.
In the USA it is called a subway
The reason people are running to get in the last carriage, with the guard, is because the one in front is a 'smoker'.
It looks like NY subway
And no-one getting in the way, staring at a mobile phone !!
Everything looked to clean back then, no graffiti on the station walls or on any of the trains and of course you didn't have this takeaway culture back then like you do today, no coffee cups or sandwich packaging.
God you’re right everything was so perfect.
PARECEN
FRACMENTOS DE PELICULAS
Great to have a train guard, no so greeat was people smoking.
In the early sixties you could get a day rover ticket for 5 shillings that let you have use of all red buses and underground. Just the buses was half that price. Bargain!
2/6 for kids under 14..! Twin Rovers, spent all my weekends roaming around with one of those.
The Underground was so dreary back then. Cess pool of crime too.
No wonder some of them are haunted for example kennington loop
No it was civilised back then
London is even more of a dreary cesspool of crime now
@@kevindare3113 no cameras them. 60 and 70`s a lot of rapes , murders and muggings
You must have been on a different system from me, then. I grew up in London in the 60's and loved the Underground. It's awful now everyone insists on calling it the "Tube" 😡
1:38 LMAO
Thank god grey is no longer the colour for tube trains.
What is this video about??, it looks like a movie
Opening ones are from a TV show, possible alternative camera angles. not sure of the 4 year later shot of the Victoria line around Pimlico
1:38 confessions of a window cleaner being chased by a husband
When I saw 10p on a ticket machine, I nearly dropped.
I think it was the old currency of shillings and pence.
6:50 . . . about £2.50 today!
could be the child fare !
@@j2m3_raiden5 no it wasn't it was decimal money
@@j2m3_raiden5 decimal didn't have p it was 2d and 5d not 10p
Ian Nairn lived in Pimlico until he drank himself to death in 1983.
Ye this film is mostly staged and looks like the Aldwych station , before it closed down
I think its even more interesting than that - Holborn had two platforms for Aldwych , I think one was still the runnning platform, leaving the other one for filming purposes, I just dont recall central line stock being on the Piccadilly though, but I rarely used the Picc in 1968
It closed down in 1994 although only one platform was in public use. Its a shame they never extended the Aldwych branch to Waterloo or incorporated it as a separate line to Batersea power station
@@highpath4776 The Piccadilly Line used 1959 stock at that time, which was almost identical to the 1962 Central Line stock. Main differences were electrical and other "behind the scenes" bits.
London has foreigner working in it city its the other UK cities that are racist and segregated even today .
not really, most are pretty encompasing, though most commonwealth country peoples that came over for work tended to live and stay in areas where they found like persons, even to the extent that Sikhs tend to live in certain areas while the islamic/ hindu ones will be in a different part of the city, to some extent is the kind of work and pay levels they tended to get. I saw a film of the building of part of one of the later underground (must have been Victoria) , and did not realise how many indians were working near Romford casting concrete tunnel segments, I think they must have lived around north llford just south of the A12 ! What you did find was (unwritten) that while bristish happy those from overseas did the manual jobs - bus driver / conductor/ enginee they would not get promotion to inspector or foreman.