Our thanks to the Supperclub and head chef Beatriz Maldonado (Bea) for having myself and Luke along for the evening! The Tube carriage is owned and permamently stationed at The Pumphouse Museum, which is open to the public on Sundays. The Supperclub operates on Thursday / Friday / Saturday evenings, and really does serve up some incredibly declious food. We weren't paid to make this video, they just covered the cost of our meal. Thanks again!
For added realism, someone could jostle the train from side to side and add announcements such as "The (add menu item here) is now arriving at table 3"
"We're unfortunately experiencing severe delays to this service, due to a signal failure in the kitchen. Customers are advised to use alternative services, to reach their food."
Free dinner on a disused tube train: Excellent Hanging out with Tubemapper aka Luke: Awesome Train restaurant cat: Cute! Geoff getting to play with the controls on the train: Priceless.
One time someone ordered a pizza from a 350 basically how he got it is that he was hungry so he ordered a the pizza from he told the guy to come to the station he was going to stop. The look on the peoples faces though
Dining on a 1967 Tube carriage, now that is a brilliant idea! Reminds me of Le Train Bleu that was once on the rooftop of the Bloomingdale's flagship store in Manhattan. It was a French bistro modeled after the dining car of the luxurious Calais-Mediterranée Express. A stage-set railroad car that never went anywhere. It was one of NYC's most iconic restaurants until it was closed in 2016
Technically it's not a restaurant, but a supper club (there are significant regulatory differences between the two) and it's normal for the chef to introduce herself and describe the menu. Supper clubs are a really great experience.
Geoff, I really apreciate the time you took to edit this video in a fun and creative way. It could have been quite dull, but you jazzed it up with some nice footage, cuts and music
The un-modernised carriage brought back memories! As a small boy we used to travel from Walthamstow Central to Seven Sisters to visit my Nan every Thursday, when the trains were new!! She lived just opposite where the Seven Sisters tube station was built!
Geoff! What a great idea this is. And it's great that you and your friend went for it - life goes on, even with Covid! I love the comments about the carriage. I was in London when the Victoria Line opened and travelled on it several times within the first couple of weeks of its opening. It was the height of modernity! I love your friend's hair and socks! You gave me a lift! Even from London to Camborne in Cornwall. Thanks!
@@joermnyc In the early 20thC the Metropolitan Railway had two Pullman services in the mornings that ran from Aylesbury to the City that offered a buffet! I know at least one of these Pullmans is preserved (Galatea) and it is extraordinarily elegant and spacious.
Geoff says Luke would be weird to take pictures of toilets! Geoff, have you forgotten your trip to the gents toilets Wemyss Bay Station during All the Stations?
As a result of watching this I immediately booked dinner for me and my wife on Friday night. It was fabulous! Food was really excellent and interesting - plus I won some husband points! Thanks for the recommendation Geoff!
This is so cool! Makes me want to go to London. Haven’t been for years but have been there 10 times or so. Have been following you for a while now. Love your work. Have been driving underground trains in Stockholm in the 90s
It's fascinating the way they've adapted the cars as a restaurant, I must try it sometime. I was equally as amazed that they have an unrefurbished carriage in there, certainly no Victoria Line trains were running in that condition (or with the original grey/black /red seats) for quite a few years before the 2009 stock came in to replace it. The maps look old style too, going back to the line's opening in 1968. As you say Geoff, that one must have been withdrawn much earlier!
Nice to see the original layout before they changed the vestibules seating and bulkheads... they made even more changes to the cabs but I had left London Transport before that was done so never saw inside a refurb unit, the map was probably current until the mid 80s when the dlr was built
The unrefurbished car is 3016, which was withdrawn in the 1980s following an accident, the front of it is from another unit welded together. It’s the only unrefurbished 1967TS carriage left.
Ah thanks for that. My comment preceded seeing yours. That explains why that carriage is still in unpainted aluminium. I did wonder if it might have been a 1972 Mk1 stock car, but the Victoria Line maps disproved that.
My mums father who died in December 1970 loved the Victoria line he lived at Highbury and it got him to his office in Victoria in less then 20 minutes. I used those trains from mid 1980s born in 1982.
Went there tonight for my birthday, was even in the same seat as you by chance, amazing experience, thank you for the tip!!! Incredible food (different menu every few months).
I can actually think of a few others like this, eating on retired rapid transit rolling stock (aside from the countless mainline train cars that are used as restaurants) Up until I want to say about 2012, there was a restaurant, Golden's Deli, on Staten Island, with a New York City Subway car, Class R6 #978, inside you could sit in and eat. This might be where the set designers of "Wizards of Waverly Place" got the idea. The place closed and the owners sold the car off, but there is one more I can think of that I know is still open. In Wallingford Connecticut, is Trackside Pizzeria, which inside a retired Philadelphia Broad Street Subway car.
Quite a few old Toronto PCC streetcars went on to become bars and cafes in Toronto and roadside restaurants across the countryside. Most, if not all, are gone now sadly, save for the ice cream shop at the Halton County Radial Railway museum.
Geoff, check out nico omilana's channel. He also did a restaurant on a refurbished jubilee line train which was in service!. He would be very proud that there is one more restaurant one the tube - especially on a 1966/1967 stock!. When this will be uploaded, nico is definitely going to give a round of applause 👋
You were in my mum's old childhood neighbourhood (and mine when I head to London) She grew up around St James Station. I rode the old 1967 for many many years
Mind the Cat! Mind the Cat! This was a nice fun video. Back in 2010 when I first visited to London back in February 2010, the first ever Underground Train was a 1967 Tube Stock I travelled on but also think I did see my first 2009 Tube Stock back in November 2010
What a creative way to reuse decommissioned tube trains. If any other old tube trains aren’t slated for preservation, just send them here. It’ll be phenomenal to dine in them.
There should be a real restaurant tube train where you can have a nice dinner while riding through the city. A converted Metropolitain-Line train that picks you up in the city, takes you all the way out to Amersham, returns to the center going the full circle and ending perhaps in Richmond while a menu with 4 courses is served. This would be a great dining experience
It actually happened on the Metropolitan line from 1910 to 1939 when the two first class Pullman parlour cars Mayflower and Galatea circulated on a regular schedule between Liverpool Street and Amersham and beyond. The toilets were kept locked between Baker Street and Liverpool Street for obvious reasons.
My father used to guard & drive on the Victoria Line in the 1970's & mid 1980's. He retired in the early 1990's. Do you know of an interview that would have been on either London Tonight or the BBC equivalent when the next gen automatic ticket barriers were introduced on the New Cross/New Cross Gate section of the underground around 1993/4. I would like to think that perhaps my father Albert Duncan Cupid might have inspired a sketch on the BBC TV show The Real McCoy around the same time about a ticket collector on the underground. Perhaps I digress. However your channel brings back great memories of the fun times on all forms of travel in and around London I used to enjoy.... Thanks!
Down in Melbourne, Australia there's three older electric train carriages (Hitachi) that's on the roof of a 3 story building, there's a resteraunt in one of them called Easeys
Also I been in Melbourne and there is also restaurant trams that travel around the CBD and you literally dine in there while the tram moves. I’m really fascinated by these as that there is someone driving these trams but how they actually serve the food on board and wether they cook the food on the trams themselves or outside in a kitchen and bring the meal to you. Let alone if they cook and prepare food onboard, I could imagine the very small space the chef has on one of those things to work in.
Luke has taken some really unique and wonderful pictures like the puddle reflection ones and I've even used a couple of them as my London Underground & Overground Enthusiasts facebook group cover picture. I really look forward to seeing more of his work in the future.
Brilliant editing as ever Geoff... I have a significant birthday coming up in May; I can see some hinting needed to persuade my wife this would be a good place to go! :)
I was Born in 1967 so I guess I am entitled to a free meal. 😎. Anyway, can’t want till post-COVID-19 and I’ll be free to travel abroad and to London and visit great places like this. 👍🏻
Our thanks to the Supperclub and head chef Beatriz Maldonado (Bea) for having myself and Luke along for the evening! The Tube carriage is owned and permamently stationed at The Pumphouse Museum, which is open to the public on Sundays. The Supperclub operates on Thursday / Friday / Saturday evenings, and really does serve up some incredibly declious food. We weren't paid to make this video, they just covered the cost of our meal. Thanks again!
For added realism, someone could jostle the train from side to side and add announcements such as "The (add menu item here) is now arriving at table 3"
Fantastic venue, i wanna check it out.
Anthony Lloyd I know one person who could do that. I am thinking of course of Chris Pick, from Hidden London Hangout.
Geoff this was a wonderful find. A restaurant in a tube train!. By the way do they accept Oyster cards? 🤣
There is another LU train restaurant on the old Broad St viaduct not far from Liverpool St station.
A PA system should be put into the carriage so the chef can apologise for the delay in the diners getting their food.
“We apologise to announce that your dinner has been cancelled, due to leaves in the food”
Or PID
"The next station is the Main Course. Please mind the gap between your plate and your mouth."
"We're unfortunately experiencing severe delays to this service, due to a signal failure in the kitchen. Customers are advised to use alternative services, to reach their food."
*Sorry **_Leaves on the line_** at Walthamstow have caused delays, however we will ensure your Pork Sausage will arrive on time in carriage 32*
Free dinner on a disused tube train: Excellent
Hanging out with Tubemapper aka Luke: Awesome
Train restaurant cat: Cute!
Geoff getting to play with the controls on the train: Priceless.
Normal people When hungry when commuting: right lets just get a take-away, eat it on the tube
Geoff: CANDLE LIT DINING ON THE TUBE
lol
I'll have a big mac in your 1967 tube stock plz?
I'm surprised eating on the tube is allowed. Though I do remember it was once legal to drink alcohol on the tube.
One time someone ordered a pizza from a 350 basically how he got it is that he was hungry so he ordered a the pizza from he told the guy to come to the station he was going to stop. The look on the peoples faces though
It'll have to be a 1967 Big Mac, Jack.
Had this vision of a private dining car train service on the tube for a minute, whooshing past the commuters on the platforms at Oxford Street.
Yeah, that's what I thought it was maybe a weekend special.
Dining on a 1967 Tube carriage, now that is a brilliant idea! Reminds me of Le Train Bleu that was once on the rooftop of the Bloomingdale's flagship store in Manhattan. It was a French bistro modeled after the dining car of the luxurious Calais-Mediterranée Express. A stage-set railroad car that never went anywhere. It was one of NYC's most iconic restaurants until it was closed in 2016
I Remember Le Train Bleu!
I love how the chef introduced herself and told you about the food. That's a nice little touch that you don't usually find in a restaurant.
Technically it's not a restaurant, but a supper club (there are significant regulatory differences between the two) and it's normal for the chef to introduce herself and describe the menu. Supper clubs are a really great experience.
You two have amazing chemistry. You should do more stuff together.
Geoff, I really apreciate the time you took to edit this video in a fun and creative way. It could have been quite dull, but you jazzed it up with some nice footage, cuts and music
thanks Jon! very kind all always appreciated when people acknowledge the effort that video makers put into their work. it's not as simple as it looks!
@@geofftech2 I make videos too. Trust me, I know how hard it can be!!!
And A cat. A CAT!!!
The un-modernised carriage brought back memories! As a small boy we used to travel from Walthamstow Central to Seven Sisters to visit my Nan every Thursday, when the trains were new!! She lived just opposite where the Seven Sisters tube station was built!
Glad you like it so much, I restored it along with someone else but its a shame its not 100% because of difficulty getting parts.
Dinner in the diner, nothing could
Be finer, than to have your ham and eggs in The London tube !
That was a really great clip. What lovely people and what a smashing guy Luke is. Thanks for that.
Your cheque is in the post. Thanks for the kind words
That is a good puddle shot
That all looked delicious, and such a unique dining experience
Geoff! What a great idea this is. And it's great that you and your friend went for it - life goes on, even with Covid!
I love the comments about the carriage. I was in London when the Victoria Line opened and travelled on it several times within the first couple of weeks of its opening. It was the height of modernity!
I love your friend's hair and socks!
You gave me a lift! Even from London to Camborne in Cornwall. Thanks!
If only you could do this in real life! Imagine the surprise of commuters as you pulled into Euston in the peak!
Mark Herriott somehow time it so the courses are delivered from the platform at various stops along the way
@@joermnyc In the early 20thC the Metropolitan Railway had two Pullman services in the mornings that ran from Aylesbury to the City that offered a buffet! I know at least one of these Pullmans is preserved (Galatea) and it is extraordinarily elegant and spacious.
Niko Omilana did something like this, it was pretty cool!
"This service is now being diverted to Catford"
Hahaha
I don’t get the joke
I absolutely love food, and absolutely love old trains! This is a 10/10 out of me!
Geoff says Luke would be weird to take pictures of toilets! Geoff, have you forgotten your trip to the gents toilets Wemyss Bay Station during All the Stations?
Ha ha
...and the train toilet reviews? 😉
As a result of watching this I immediately booked dinner for me and my wife on Friday night. It was fabulous! Food was really excellent and interesting - plus I won some husband points! Thanks for the recommendation Geoff!
This is so cool! Makes me want to go to London. Haven’t been for years but have been there 10 times or so. Have been following you for a while now. Love your work. Have been driving underground trains in Stockholm in the 90s
Please don't eat on the train.
Geoff: hold my beer
Geoff: Hold my cup of tea*
@@MSharif3D Hold your plums.
Geoff loves tea
Rather give my beer back
Sorry, alcohol isn’t allowed on any TfL services either 😉
It's fascinating the way they've adapted the cars as a restaurant, I must try it sometime. I was equally as amazed that they have an unrefurbished carriage in there, certainly no Victoria Line trains were running in that condition (or with the original grey/black /red seats) for quite a few years before the 2009 stock came in to replace it. The maps look old style too, going back to the line's opening in 1968. As you say Geoff, that one must have been withdrawn much earlier!
Nice to see the original layout before they changed the vestibules seating and bulkheads... they made even more changes to the cabs but I had left London Transport before that was done so never saw inside a refurb unit, the map was probably current until the mid 80s when the dlr was built
The unrefurbished car is 3016, which was withdrawn in the 1980s following an accident, the front of it is from another unit welded together. It’s the only unrefurbished 1967TS carriage left.
The unrefurbished car was a challenge to do but I'm so glad so many people enjoy it.
"Are you taking pictures of toilets ?" Look who's asking ...
The other carriage was withdrawn in 1993 due to a damaged cab. Second carriage is made up of parts from 2 different carriages
Ah thanks for that. My comment preceded seeing yours. That explains why that carriage is still in unpainted aluminium. I did wonder if it might have been a 1972 Mk1 stock car, but the Victoria Line maps disproved that.
That was great fun. Thanks guys for a great video. My mouth didn't stop watering!
Booked a table for next Saturday! Thanks for giving it a plug Geoff, it looks awesome!
My mums father who died in December 1970 loved the Victoria line he lived at Highbury and it got him to his office in Victoria in less then 20 minutes. I used those trains from mid 1980s born in 1982.
Wow, I remember riding them back in 1974. THAT maquette! But to dine on them, brilliant!
Old carriages would make novel and wonderful tiny houses.
Love the concept of restaurants using retired rolling stocks for it's dining rooms as it gives a unique experience and ambiance for the customers.
Very nice! And the doors and lights are still working
Went there tonight for my birthday, was even in the same seat as you by chance, amazing experience, thank you for the tip!!! Incredible food (different menu every few months).
Oh nice I remember when these were retired in 2011! Great video
!
Lol. Still in use in Bury.
I can actually think of a few others like this, eating on retired rapid transit rolling stock (aside from the countless mainline train cars that are used as restaurants)
Up until I want to say about 2012, there was a restaurant, Golden's Deli, on Staten Island, with a New York City Subway car, Class R6 #978, inside you could sit in and eat. This might be where the set designers of "Wizards of Waverly Place" got the idea. The place closed and the owners sold the car off, but there is one more I can think of that I know is still open.
In Wallingford Connecticut, is Trackside Pizzeria, which inside a retired Philadelphia Broad Street Subway car.
Quite a few old Toronto PCC streetcars went on to become bars and cafes in Toronto and roadside restaurants across the countryside. Most, if not all, are gone now sadly, save for the ice cream shop at the Halton County Radial Railway museum.
Had many memories of riding the 67 stock as a kid in the 90's from Brixton into Central London, really nice trains
I grew up on this train and even had the chance to go into the drivers cabin one day aged 5. I miss them so much
Geoff, check out nico omilana's channel. He also did a restaurant on a refurbished jubilee line train which was in service!. He would be very proud that there is one more restaurant one the tube - especially on a 1966/1967 stock!. When this will be uploaded, nico is definitely going to give a round of applause 👋
Loved this stock. Took it from Walthamstow to Pimlico every weekday from 2003-2011.
I can’t believe you hadn’t featured this before! What an awesome restaurant! Thanks for sharing this.
Great to see Luke again!
Interesting to see that on a old victora tube carriage strange but amazing.
1:06 Those sneakers and socks are ridiculously cool.
You were in my mum's old childhood neighbourhood (and mine when I head to London) She grew up around St James Station. I rode the old 1967 for many many years
Well now I know where I'm dining for my birthday. Cannot wait!
It's also awesome that they kept the seats
Another brilliant video! I really enjoyed this :)
There's a 67 stock at the LT museum DEPOT... if you want to see it
thank you for a lovely evening
I really enjoyed this, good work chaps.
Love it - London's answer to the Melbourne Restaurant Trams. Dinner there has to go on our 'Must Do' list next time we're in the UK.
What fab thing to do , we will have to book a hotel to really enjoy it !
Mind the Cat! Mind the Cat! This was a nice fun video. Back in 2010 when I first visited to London back in February 2010, the first ever Underground Train was a 1967 Tube Stock I travelled on but also think I did see my first 2009 Tube Stock back in November 2010
Cat 🐈 plus Tube Train = Best Photo ever
Love the sub-title at 6:02 where sous chef appeared as sushi!
The unpainted carriage, was that the identical cousin 1972mk1 ex Northern line stock
No, its a 1967 Victoria line stock that just has its original insides.
That is a heaps interesting concept for a restaurant. Where you can dine in one of the old tube sets. And that cat is cute.
I can’t believe this is #45 on trending as well!
What a creative way to reuse decommissioned tube trains. If any other old tube trains aren’t slated for preservation, just send them here. It’ll be phenomenal to dine in them.
Looks scrumptious, wish they could do it on metropolitan line uxbridge end maybe the siding at ruislip
OMG that kitty is adorable. 😻
What a unique experience!
This is amazing. I'd love to go there. Definitely try to visit on my next trip to London, whenever that's possible.
There should be a real restaurant tube train where you can have a nice dinner while riding through the city. A converted Metropolitain-Line train that picks you up in the city, takes you all the way out to Amersham, returns to the center going the full circle and ending perhaps in Richmond while a menu with 4 courses is served. This would be a great dining experience
It actually happened on the Metropolitan line from 1910 to 1939 when the two first class Pullman parlour cars Mayflower and Galatea circulated on a regular schedule between Liverpool Street and Amersham and beyond. The toilets were kept locked between Baker Street and Liverpool Street for obvious reasons.
I had dinner here a couple of years ago - great experience!
“Oh there’s a train” jizzes pants.
Just added this to the bucket list!!
Fantastic video Geoff I love that Cat at the end I like Cats 🐈 very much
Will be going on the 12th of December with my friend booked a while back and can’t wait!
My father used to guard & drive on the Victoria Line in the 1970's & mid 1980's. He retired in the early 1990's. Do you know of an interview that would have been on either London Tonight or the BBC equivalent when the next gen automatic ticket barriers were introduced on the New Cross/New Cross Gate section of the underground around 1993/4. I would like to think that perhaps my father Albert Duncan Cupid might have inspired a sketch on the BBC TV show The Real McCoy around the same time about a ticket collector on the underground. Perhaps I digress.
However your channel brings back great memories of the fun times on all forms of travel in and around London I used to enjoy.... Thanks!
Absolutely wonderful. Thank you.😊
Mind the puddle, fish and chips and a bottle of brown ale perfect night out on the tube
I shouldn’t enjoy your channel as much as I do Geoff! Keep up the great niche work
ha ha! ... don't be ashamed to be liking train/tube videos! :D
I heard "candle lit dinner" and immediately thought of Hyacinth Bucket 🤣
Down in Melbourne, Australia there's three older electric train carriages (Hitachi) that's on the roof of a 3 story building, there's a resteraunt in one of them called Easeys
Also I been in Melbourne and there is also restaurant trams that travel around the CBD and you literally dine in there while the tram moves. I’m really fascinated by these as that there is someone driving these trams but how they actually serve the food on board and wether they cook the food on the trams themselves or outside in a kitchen and bring the meal to you. Let alone if they cook and prepare food onboard, I could imagine the very small space the chef has on one of those things to work in.
I love the shoes!
thanks! I love them too :-)
@@tubemapper Luke, you inspired my GCSE photography:)
On reflection, I loved the puddle shot.
Luke has taken some really unique and wonderful pictures like the puddle reflection ones and I've even used a couple of them as my London Underground & Overground Enthusiasts facebook group cover picture. I really look forward to seeing more of his work in the future.
If it catches on perhaps a couple of Pullman cars on the Metropolitan and preprandial drinks at a bar in Baker Street?
Looks like a pretty unique experience, I might give it a go in the future
A great little museum, really interesting. Off the beaten track though, but doable.
A brilliant video and a brilliant supper idea next trip to London. Maybe we'll meet the cat, too! :-)
Geoff just bought your book! Can't wait for it to arrive!
Have you thought about the Curry Train from Newcastle to Hexham.
I last saw a 1967 stock at Acton depot museum in 2019! Haven’t been in one since 2011 though
That's just brilliant..!
The technical term for the low angle puddle shot is a 'Puddoir de la Reflectoir'.
A PA system should be put into the carriage so the chef can apologise for the delay in the diners getting their food. right
5:32 The classic platform-train camera angle shot, except it's not at a station!
As soon as we can travel again I’ll look into heading over!
With the bathroom pictures, Luke will be the Loo Mapper
Have you ever been on the I think its Northern line tube train on Darren Brown's ghost train at Thorpe Park.
That looked awesome! I’ll be doing that once we get back to some sort of normality... whatever that is nowadays...
Loved this ❤😆
1:07 love the socks!
Brilliant editing as ever Geoff... I have a significant birthday coming up in May; I can see some hinting needed to persuade my wife this would be a good place to go! :)
That is awesome I never seen that before!
I was Born in 1967 so I guess I am entitled to a free meal. 😎.
Anyway, can’t want till post-COVID-19 and I’ll be free to travel abroad and to London and visit great places like this. 👍🏻
they should do a rail tour kind of thing where they get 67 stock and run it up and down the line and serve food on board
That's something I must consider in the future even though I live in Worcester having been born in Islington!!