London Transport at Highbury & Islington

Today we are at Highbury & Islington station in north London. It is a major interchange station in the London Borough of Islington, serving the London Underground Victoria line, the London Overground North London and East London lines, as well as the Northern City line, which belongs to National Rail and sees services operated by Great Northern.
The station has eight platforms, of which four are underground and served by the Victoria and Northern City lines. The remaining four platforms are above ground and are served by the Overground.
The London Underground Victoria line runs between Walthamstow Central and Brixton, runs fully automated, and uses modern 2009 Tube stock.
The platforms of the Northern City line are right adjacent to the Underground platforms. Trains on this line use older Class 313 stock. Particularly interesting is the Network South East branding from former British Rail times, which is still visible all over the station.
Finnally, the Overground has two lines at this station. The East London line, which runs to New Cross and Croydon has its western Terminus here. Trains on the East London line run on DC traction current supplied via third rail. The North London line runs between Richmond in the west and Stratford in the east and trains use overhead line equipment supplying AC traction current. All London Overground trains here are formed of Class 378 “Capitalstar” stock.
Enjoy!
Recorded: 10 March 2017.
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[@jacksugden8190]

Southbound Victoria tube platform was the northbound Northern City line tube platform between Moorgate and Finsbury Park, the two northbound tunnels were new prior to the Victoria lines opening, with the current Great Northern being shunted into a new platform to meet the Victoria line for cross platform interchange, using step-plate Junctions. If traveling north on the Great Northern into/from Highbury, you can see the old tunnels on the right to Drayton Park. The southbound Victoria line tunnel has a reversing crossover a long way north from Highbury platform and dives up to meet the platform, as has to dive under the northbound Great Northern platform.

[@bermal209]

3:10 --- when your girl says she's home alone

[@Jamestrains-kl1ft]

Lol

[@perrymarkbrackenbury7820]

2:32 is creepy, quiet, weird sounds, no one at the platform, looks really old and weirdly there’s the yellow line!!

[@AndreiTupolev]

They sound great, the Victoria line stock. Nice rather spooky LED headlights too.

[@KinsonStudio]

+AndreiTupolev Yeah, the headlights are brighter than the other old tube stock trains(example 1973 stock).

[@enzyl6181]

You will notice a similarity in sound between the Victoria line stock and the S7/8 stock on the district, circle, H&s and Metropolitan lines

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

And same with the Jubilee lines too

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

The current central line trains are getting modern LED lights soon

[@MrGregHiller]

Very good. Thanks for making and posting !

[@oforid2227]

You are good at this

[@Hard-Boiled-Bollock]

The Northern City line stations REALLY need a lot of work doing to them, they're looking incredibly shabby nowadays

[@perrymarkbrackenbury7820]

Tony Merrett lol if London Overground take over then the whole line would get a proper clean and a lovely splash of orange.

[@charlesbutler7517]

London's subways are among the best.

[@user-cl3we3vs7f]

Awesome video

[@SimonS44]

Spend some time at the Northern City Line platforms once, that really is an interesting line. The Victoria Line and the Overground were closed that day so the station was really empty

[@dorisanokwa4841]

SimonHellinger
I love it

[@ianmcclavin]

I was fortunate enough to ride the Northern City Line prior to 1975 when it was still part of the Underground, by then just a Drayton Park - Moorgate shuttle, worked with 1938 Stock. The 313's which took over the following year, had worked the line ever since, right through to 2019, when they were ultimately replaced.. Examples of 313's can still currently be seen and ridden on the South Coast, on journeys between Brighton, Seaford, Littlehampton and Portsmouth.

[@theresanettey8432]

​@@ianmcclavin 9
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[@denelson83]

Whoa… Network South East!
3:10 - Hey! Where's the fire?
Boy, that Overground station is sure the "mind the gap" experience.

[@iheartlreoy8134]

that guy had to go at 3:20

[@sergiomartins9417]

I Like the 717 and the london underground 2009

[@Newswithfatima]

EXCELLENT

[@universaltrainsstudio8534]

@Max Bee I have seen these around but never went on one, I have seen them at Hadley Wood 😆

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

The 2009 stock shape looks similar to the 1992 stocks. Because Bombardier had replaced the British Rail Ltd factory

[@esftracksydeomg]

Yeah I like it though because they still retain a uniqueness to the different lines

[@esftracksydeomg]

@MrKatinka111 he was referring to the shape lmao not everything about the two stocks.

[@esftracksydeomg]

@MrKatinka111 you ever notice that the British Rail Class 465/2 and 465/9 have similar traction motor sounds to the 1996 Rolling Stock?

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

@@esftracksydeomg same as the 365 trains too

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

@@esftracksydeomg I don't get why they have the same sounds, because The 1996 train is made by Alstom and the 365, 465 are made by British rail

[@carolstott5337]

Mistake in the description - London *Overground* has Class 378s. You wrote London Underground.

[@Luftschlange]

Thanks! I have corrected it.

[@JayJay-nc7pr]

Fun fact about this station, it’s the only station where newer 00s era London Overground meets the old 80s/90s era Network South East signage

[@nuggetplays5354]

3:12 a guy is going to race the train and get a head start XD

[@unknown_legendxunknown_leg2222]

The 2009 stock sounds a bit like the class 377

[@thisisstuart7951]

Yay you were 10 mins from my house

[@roryonabike5863]

Very interesting to see your style develop over time. If I can ask, why did you decide to go with the Fujifilm XT-2?

[@Luftschlange]

I shot on a Canon DSLR before and often I found myself leaving the camera at home, simply because it was too heavy to carry around the whole day. I was looking for something lighter and I chose the Fuji X-T2 because it has excellent image quality (both video and stills), a very engaging manual shooting experience (I mostly shoot in manual mode), and a fantastic selection of high quality lenses. Also, the built-in film simulations render beautiful colours, so there is practically no need to colour grade the videos in post.

[@roryonabike5863]

Thanks, the Fuji is one of the cameras that I'm currently considering.

[@roryonabike5863]

I'm getting closer to a decision about a new camera and I keep coming back to your videos. The Fuji simulations are very impressive. Quite a different look from most of what is on TH-cam. If I can ask, does the image stabilisation in the 18-55mm lens help with your videos, or are you relying on some other method of stabilisation?

[@Luftschlange]

+Rory on a Bike The stabilisation is great, in fact, I am shooting all of this handheld. Obviously, you should still hold still, but it’s good to smoothen small shaking motions

[@roryonabike5863]

Thanks again, very helpful.

[@clarky2356]

Look how the national rail station looks to the underground the underground stations are so much cleaner

[@seaside-dn8dp]

1:51 Strange creepy noise

[@Puckoon2002]

That would most likely be the escalators.

[@Puckoon2002]

Highbury & Islington doesn't have air con, nor does any of the underground stock, which includes the 313's on the Great Northern service.

[@fidkrdk7283]

@@seaside-dn8dp plus it is not the 1967 stock it is the 2011 stock

[@ianmcclavin]

@@Puckoon2002 The 717's, which have now replaced the 313's on Great Northern services through Highbury & Islington since this was filmed, do have air-con though.

[@Puckoon2002]

@@ianmcclavin In 2017 the 717's where not in service, and Highbury & Islington didn't have AC. But since then I have traveled through Highbury & Islington I now know it is the ventilation system. The vents are high up on the wall at the "front" of the Southbound Victoria Line platform, they "sing" when the airflow is right.

[@tuckthepuppy2517]

The Victoria Line sounds like the R179 cars in New York City if anybody realized that

[@Jamestrains-kl1ft]

Me

[@AndreiTupolev]

Network SouthEast still lives at the Moorgate line platforms then?

[@Puckoon2002]

Not anymore, it was removed early 2019.

[@servertoaster]

5:14 Platform 2 on your left then platform 7 on your right? Whaaaatttt??

[@Puckoon2002]

1 and 2 are the original North London line, "7" and "8" had been closed for many years, platforms 3 to 6 had been taken by the underground platforms. So when the East London line was extended to Highbury & Islington they had to take 7 and 8.

[@sonicboy678]

Oh.
Well, at least that makes some sense, unlike the track names at some other stations.

[@tomaszbabula369]

Does anyone know why there are two brown sleepers at 8:00?

[@harrygrieves6812]

You should have called this video "Trains at Highbury & Islington".

[@sonicboy678]

But that leaves a bit of this video unaccounted for.

[@tobeytransport2802]

sonicboy678 what bit?

[@jameywamey7827]

@@tobeytransport2802 the busses at the end

[@tobeytransport2802]

@@jameywamey7827 ah ok

[@jay-ti5js]

Is there a oyster barrier between Victoria and Overground?
Edit: i went there and there is free interchange between Victoria and Overground

[@Puckoon2002]

Both are under the control of Transport for London (TfL)

[@CoolTransport]

No

[@RedArrow73]

6:16 - "Overhead Catenary".

[@Larwood.]

Overhead line equipment is the term used in the industry in the UK

[@class387productions3]

Victoria line anousment is good

[@ianshort2935]

good video, but it is only Great Northern who operate the Northern city Line, not Thameslink

[@railotaku]

They are the same company, just different on train branding

[@turkansahan9979]

"recorded 10th march 2017" looks at desc "published 1st October 2018" me:it took that long to publish?!

[@mauriceyoung3789]

Yah

[@robloxgameranzures3594]

The train sounds like an R179 thats from NYC

[@sonicboy678]

What.

[@sergiomartins9417]

and the 313

[@maxbee8715]

It will be sad when the 313s get replaced by the new Desiro City class 717 units

[@itsthatsebguy93]

Rip 313s

[@lukehealy2065]

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