Piccadilly Line. Acton Town-Uxbridge. Drivers View with Commentary. London Underground 1973 stock
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- Hello and welcome to the third instalment of the Piccadilly Line.
This week's video is from Acton Town to Uxbridge on board the London Underground 1973 stock.
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24:19 That's the very reason I don't want driverless trains. Driving trains isn't only about doing a job. It's a passion as well.
What kids would smile at a train that never whistles back when waving at it?
I agree 😀
The golden hour is a lovely time of day to film. Makes west of London look a pleasant place to live… almost.
I’m not saying any thing. That way I can’t get in to trouble 🤣🤣
😂😂😂 you kinda did there@@dalecharmantravels8057
in my experience, it is pleasant! just too expensive. :/
I went to London all the way back in 2012 for the first time (I'm from latin america) and it was honestly much better before all the immigration.
Went there again in 2022 and it was like a hell hole x.x
Watching from across a very big pond in south Brooklyn, New York USA. Your video is like Don Coffey, a train driver for TransPennine Express. By the way your voice is very relaxing and calming to listen to. Very odd to say but true.
Thank you I appreciate it
Acton town to Uxbridge route + sunset/dusk video= I LOVE IT!!
Commuted Uxbridge - Earls Court for seven years. Interesting to see driver’s view with explanations. Thanks Dale!
You are most welcome
Great video , full of information and a cracking sunset . Roll on the next one 👍
I watch your videos all the way from Malta. I just love the way you channel your passion for this work. I've always wanted to be a train driver since I was a nipper. Alas, none of those here on our island. Cheers.
Hey I am glad you enjoy my videos
The District ran up to Uxbridge till 1933 being taken over by the Piccadilly.
I did not know that. Thank you
I am loving it! Thank you!
I used to live in South Harrow and the station has never changed. I moved away from London 37 years ago and now live on the South Coast in Brighton. I will be making a trip next month to meet up with an old school friend from my early days in London and he lives at Sudbury Hill. I'll come up by train to London Victoria then tube it from there on the District Line to Acton Town, change there onto the Piccadilly Line up towards Uxbridge. Looking forward to it
Hey thank you for sharing. I hope you have a nice visit
I notice the platforms at South Harrow are much longer than the trains.
Thanks for the tour! Absolutely love the commentary.
Thank you
Hello from Houston, Texas, I love your videos, Mr. Dale and love the chitchat along the way, thank you for the wonderful videos. Keep up the good work.
Thank you I appreciate it
Thanks so much for your fabulous video. I grew up in Ruislip and Eastcote so it was really cathartic. When you blew your whistle between Eastcote and Ruislip Manor, that was where I used to wave from.
Every one loves to wave at trains 👋👋👋
I noticed a number of surface platforms have the ends fenced off. Presumably when you get the longer trains they can just move the fences. (And the video, mirror and train stop position) I was pleasantly surprised as to how good the simple mirror is for seeing along the train. It's a really effective low-tech solution.
mirrors are great assuming you have a reasonably straight platform. As for the barriers, they could move them or they could just have some sets of doors not open. some of the tunnel stations we will stop slightly in the tunnel so the first set or 2 sets of doors would not open. I am just guessing as a driver we are usually the last to know any thing 😄
I love the underground. I am always amazed by the sheer amount of electric cables along side the railway.
My understanding of the winding tunnelled routes was that when the lines were bored, the companies were liable for compensation to property owners for any settlement / vibration experienced by the buildings above, so it was safer to closely follow the roads. The Central London Railway still fell foul of this as they used heavy locomotives with frame-mounted motors and you could feel the buildings shake each time a train passed by due to the unsprung mass - they were quickly replaced with electric units
Thank you for the information
I love the tube but just out of interest, do you need TFL approval before filming a video as I would've thought it could potentially cause a distraction
I did get permission to film. To stop me becoming distracted I don’t touch the camera once it’s mounted. As I am just talking to the camera like I would to some in else in the cab it’s not a distraction
He’s said many times before that he has had full permission 🙄
Just Subscribed, your content is Brilliant, it's wonderful & informative!
@@emmgee555it’s still a valid question if you’re new to the channel.
@@therealxunil2 yes indeed, something I didn't consider 🫢
From Alperton to Wembley Stadium is just over 2 miles I used to date a girl who lived in Alperton & I worked in a warehouse on the stadium grounds & thanks for another great video Dale
Thank you. I have never left the station
@@dalecharmantravels8057 As a person who grew up living in Alperton I can confirm that it is a fraction over 2 miles to Wembley Stadium. As a point of interest, incase you didn't know, Alperton station has a disused escalator up to the Eastbound platform. It was unfortunately taken out of action after the Kings Cross fire, as it had wooden treads. New safety measures, and the cost of replacing it was thought to be too expensive to justify.
travelled on this line many many times over 60 years, retired and in Devon now but still pop back occasionally.
I hope you like the new trains they enter service
Thank you for the fascinating series.
I am i train operator out of Washington dc its cool how each system is different
excellent video mate, love the explanations as they are so informative
Thank you I appreciate it
Good morning! New subscriber here, but I have thoroughly enjoyed this series of videos on your day to day on the Pic, very informative with some interesting views.
In regards to the bends east of South Ken., it would be a combination of reasons. Yes, the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway, which is what became the modern day Piccadilly line, was formed as an amalgamation of two other railways, the Great Northern & Strand, and the Brompton and Piccadilly Circus railways. However, it must be noted that the new route authorised to connect the two railways was from what was originally going to be called Cranbourn Street (now Leicester Square) to a redesigned Holborn with the branch to Strand, which was later renamed Aldwych. This new route is of course not in South Kensington, so can be discarded.
One of the more likely reasons the reverse curves were put in was to keep the railway alignment on public land through the more expensive parts of town since, much in the same manner as the US's Air Rights, property owners in the UK have rights to the ground beneath their property and would be entitled to compensation for the railway to cut a tunnel beneath their foundations, and more so if the railway damaged them. Therefore to reduce costs, surveyors would have planned a route directly beneath public spaces and thoroughfares as they had no such compensation entitlement. This can be observed with a georeferenced route map of the Pic as it swings northeast out of South Kensington, roughly following Alexandra Place before running directly beneath Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, Piccadilly, Cranbourn Street, Leicester Square, Long Acre, Great Queen Street, Kingsway and Southampton Row before breaking off to run into Kings Cross.
It is also worth noting that utility services like gas, water, sewage and electricity would have also have been avoided or diverted during the construction of stations and shallower tunnels, which would also have played a part in its alignment, though not nearly as much as on the subsurface railways like the District and Met.
I hope that puts that matter to rest.
Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing your next adventure. Cheers from Bristol.
Thank you for the info
An interesting event happened on this section of the Piccadilly Line in 2001/2002 when a train of Metropolitan Line A60 stock ran along this section by pure accident late one evening on an empty stock movement from the former East London Line to Neasden Depot. Normally the former empty stock movements from the East London Line up to Neasden travelled via Aldgate East and then onto the Metropolitan Line through Liverpool Street, King's Cross St Pancras, Euston Square and then from Baker Street up to Finchley Road and into Neasden Depot that way. However one driver of A60 stock accepted the wrong signal at Aldgate East Junction so he instead had to drive his train of A60 stock westwards along the District Line through the likes of Tower Hill, Embankment, Victoria, Earl's Court, Hammersmith and Acton Town. Then the train of A60 stock had to go onto the Piccadilly Line through Ealing Common, Alperton, Sudbury Hill and South Harrow before reaching 'home turf' at Rayners Lane. From Rayners Lane the A60 stock reversed onto the Metropolitan Line eastwards towards Harrow-on-the-Hill and Wembley Park before eventually reaching Neasden Depot.
I have never heard of the A60 stock. I shall have to Google that one. Thank you for sharing the story. I just hope one day I am not a story like that 😜
@@dalecharmantravels8057 The A60 stock were lovely trains. Built for the Metropolitan Line by Cravens in the early 1960s, they were the last link between steam and the present-day S stock. The A60 stock were designed more like main-line trains than Underground trains and they had very comfortable seating as well as a fast turn of speed.
I wonder if they have one at the museum at Acton Town. I shall have to do some research. Thank you for the information
@@dalecharmantravels8057 There is an A60 stock DM car (5034) preserved at the LT Museum Depot in Acton as that was from the last A60 stock train which ran in service on the Met in 2012.
I have visited the museum a few years ago. I will have to make another visit to look over the tube train
Much appreciated Thank you for your efforts. Looking forward to some more, as possible.
Thank you. I have a couple of videos all ready recorded how ever I have not yet looked at the footage. Hope to get them uploaded soon
Very interesting. Looking forward to my next London trip 🇧🇻.
Thank you. I hope you intend on using the great Pic line on your next visit 😜
How do I come a tube driver like you Dale
Thanks, I'd never seen Uxbridge station before like that. One day soon I'll see it as a passenger I hope.
This way at least you can see the station while in your PJs and a cuppa
@@dalecharmantravels8057like I am right now!
@@CaseyJonesNumber1 yes and hopefully with a nice cuppa and your feet up
Well that was so cool. The stations looked great with all the lights on. Very enjoyable. All the best.
Thank you
Once again loved the journey and I always wondered how a stop at the end of line crosses back to come the other way.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it
Again a great Video.
Do you only oppetate the piccadilly line?
I would love to See some other lines to.
But great Video and best comments!! Please Keeper up with this🙂🙂
Thank you. Yes I only drive in the Piccadilly line. At the moment there are no plans to film other lines. That’s some thing for the future hopefully
Great videos!
I love the commentary! It's always so interesting to see "behind the scenes"
I would love to see you operate the controls, can hear a lot of clunks and sort :)
Or maybe explain them.
Cheers from Sweden 😊
A few people have asked me to film me driving. I’m not sure the bosses would like that. Maybe it’s some thing I can do in the future
Thanks Dale, I enjoy your videos with your commentary. A quick question for you if you don't mind - How do you judge your slowing down / stopping distance etc considering speed, track conditions and the like. I'm sure it's easy to overshoot slightly or stop short a bit. Thanks Dale.
It really comes down to experience. Some days you do it better than others 😜. Luckily I have not over shot a platform. Well not yet any way
Hello from uxbridge. Yes it can take ages to dribble into uxbridge Station. On the walk through Met line trains everyone has walked to the front carriage by the time it makes it in. Guess that will be the same on the new piccadilly line trains. I hope if the new trains are longer the walk to the gates will be less of a hike!
I’m not sure what they will do with regards to the stopping mark for the new trains. Next time I am up there I shall look to see if they have added the stopping mark at the end of the platform or not
I'm not a train nerd and don't live in London, but I really like these videos! A couple of things I've noticed, the positive power rail is always furthest rail from the station platform and swaps sides just before the platform. Secondly the signals don't seem as confusing as I first thought, lol
As a suggestion, I know it means more work in the edit, but a little graphic in the corner showing the section of tube map your travelling, would be very useful to people who don't know the line.
Thank you.
The editing software I currently use does not allow me to do that
Brilliant Dale, been up this branch many times with my old mate Darrel Clark
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi mate I am from Southgate but now levering in N lreland it was great to see am old home again I remember the ,1959/60 shock on the Piccadilly line and the 1973 shock coming in to service I am looking forward to seeing the new trains in service mate
I will do my best to film them when they finally arrive
Another great video
Thank you
Amazing Video Mr Charman
Thank you. You are most kind
Another great video Dale. Interesting how and where the Met shares the Pic with the same line. Please keep the commentary going with all these snippets of information!
Thank you
West of Alperton station behind the westbound side was the site of the former London Transport Alperton (ON) bus garage which dated from 1939 and was finally closed in the autumn of 2021, with the site being redeveloped into housing. The final company to operate from Alperton bus garage was Metroline.
I do remember the garage and was shocked to see it get pulled down. I suppose the land is worth some money with out busses on it
@@dalecharmantravels8057Yet another block of flats. The Wembley area is flooded with them now.
Top content, brilliant narration. Look forward to seeing more! Subscribed of course!
Thank you and welcome to the family
Another great video👍
Thank you
With well maintained track the 73s ride is very good for a tube train I noticed this between Park Royal and Alperton after they laid CWR in the trailer car very smooth ,do sub service operators get more per hour 😂,great video your a good 😊😊ambassador for the tube mate
All the best
Mark
Hello Mark. All Train ops get the same pay. Saying that eng drivers and test train operators are on different pay grades. Some of the new track in that area really is smooth
Brilliant content once again Dale, thanks for sharing.
I know it's a long shot as trains don't often terminate at Wood Green, and when they do it's often at late notice and you likely wouldn't have the GoPro on you... but if there was a chance you could show us Wood Green sidings at any point in the future I'd be incredibly grateful.
I know it'll look the same as any other dark tunnel but I'm just curious about them! Always look back to see if there's a train in them when travelling west from Bounds Green (of course 99% of the time there isn't)
Hey thanks for the comment. I will try my best to get all the sidings filmed. It could just take me a while. The good news is Wood Green and down street siding both have the tunnel lights on so you can see more than normal
One time I went to Ealing Broadway. It was not fun. I was trying to get home too drunk. I fell asleep and woke up in Epping got on the train back to Woodford woke up in Ealing Broadway on the last train. Lost phone bankcard and had one heck of a walk.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 sorry I shouldn’t laugh. But I will. I think TFL should use these type of stories to warn people about the issues of drinking too much then trying to use public transport. Thank you for sharing
Aww, I rode the Piccadilly line that day - in the morning though. I'll be watching out for you next time!
I hope things go well with being allowed to do this. I assumed you already had permission. From watching other cab-ride videos it seems generally you can leave a camera running, but can't interact in any way while driving. I guess it depends on the individual company thought. Your videos are great but don't risk getting in trouble for us!
I appreciate that. I did get permission from my manager. I make sure once the camera is mounted I don’t touch it. Talking to it is just like talking to some one who is in the cab
This is my second time on your channel loving it
It’s great to have you here
wrt S-stock -- met line runs S8 stock which are 8-cars and have some transverse seating as they go a lot further afield. S7 stock runs everywhere else
Great content, informative engagement with your commenters……..new subscription from a fellow Fenland inhabitant 😊
Thank you. It’s great to have you with us
Loving these videos, very interesting. Thank you.
You are most welcome
I’ve just found your channel today and it’s so informative. If you need a better night camera, the Insta360 Ace Pro is really good. We watch a lot of TH-cam and quite a few have now switched to it from GoPro. I’m looking forward to catching all your videos and seeing the new ones, and thank you for the content.
I have looked at that camera before. Just a little out of my price range at the moment I am glad you live the videos
Great video- would you ever film driving the tube in the terminal 4 loop?
I have filmed the T4 loop. However I have not checked the footage yet
Really enjoyed the video hope you can film the Piccadilly on the new trains that would be really cool
That’s some thing for next year. Hope to be able to film the new 24 stock
Hi, love your videos, l was a bus driver for 12 years, l had to have a minimum of 8 hours rest in between shifts, do you have similar on the trains?
Loved it. I lived in North Harrow until I was 24 and can only ever remember going once from Rayners Lane to Park Royal and back. Never went to Uxbridge
You are not missing much 🤣
Regarding the South Kensington bends, the line doesn’t run near the Albert Hall anyway, so that won’t be the reason. If you look at the TFL asset map online you can see that going westbound the line follows underneath Brompton Road for as far as is feasibly possible (to avoid having to appease landowners above) before having to veer off to hit the right point underneath South Ken. station, hence the sharpness of the turns required.
Thank you. I appreciate the info
I think it would make a lot of sense for the Royal Albert Hall foundations to be avoided and I think you are probably spot on right to make that assertion in your videos. I have published a Travelogue on London and the South East and have done a lot of writing on the Underground and other services. What you say about South Kensington etc does make quite a lot of sense. Well done by the way, keep up the good work with your videos.
Sub-surface LUL trains are allowed to run on the section of the Piccadilly Line between North Ealing, Alperton, Sudbury Town and Rayners Lane as the line was originally built by the District Railway in the early 1900s with a crossover at South Harrow, so all the road bridges and footbridges which cross over the Piccadilly Line at this section have clearance for sub-surface stock trains to pass under safely.
thank you for that. As mentioned in a couple of my videos most information is passed down from older staff members and you never know if it is correct or not.
I am in agreement with you about not showing the viewes "How it's done"; there are various other videos on You tube which do show the actual driving but I think that was because it was this particular driver's very last day. But my thoughts are that none of the viewers should really try this at home. Driving a train of any kind is a serious business and you are right to want to preserve your job (and of course your home). Well done!!
I'm a lifelong. SH/RL retired resident and occasionally use this line.
Grandfather remembered RL when it was a wooden halt and the service was steam driven i. e when it was all open fields, before the 1930s housing development took the place.
Mother recounted tales of the line in the 1940s when so many workers from the then busy industrial estate used to get on the train at Park Royal that it was standing room only. Today, a lot of that light industry has gone and those that remain use a car to get to work.
Also told that ma had to walk home after workn one evenng, during an air raid, from PR to TG, after the lne in Hammersmith was bornbed.
Note the re-vamped Hillingdon Station following the A40 road re-routing 25 years ago.
Recently, had to use the Piccadily line to travel RL to KC early in the morning i. e. Before 7:00. Train was all seating occupied by Acton Town and no room standing once it departed Hammersmith.
As a l living-out uni student in the 1970s I used to travel daily RL to UX .
Thank you for sharing your memories
Love this video as I catch the Met line from Hillingdon and sometimes the slower Piccadilly line.
I agree, please do not risk your job. The rule of London is "Don't mess with TFL!"
I needed to know why they don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so that they can extend the unused abandoned underground train stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into Five cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on those Five cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers. A Stock Train and 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it larger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Railway tunnel into a High-Speed Railway lines? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Railway line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. Then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 47 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project if that will be OK for London Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from the Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden more Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly Line and also build brand-new underground train stations so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street can they also make another brand new underground train station in Chingford and could they extend the Piccadilly Line and the DLR right up to Chingford? All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Five carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and can they order Every 67 Octagon and Every 37 Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13 and unique small no.11 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 147MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 147MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units, can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!!!!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 18 Tonnes for all of those 147MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are told!!!!! And Please do something about these very very important Professional ideas Please? Prime Minister of England, Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Germany, Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.
There is a huge difference in train size between Sweden and the UK so trains can't go between the two countries.
Swedish trains won't fit onto UK railways and if a UK train came to Sweden there would be an almost 1 meter gap between the train and the platform.
You are a very good driver
Very interesting and enjoyable video. I also like the commentary as there is a lot of interesting information. Thanks again and have subscribed!
Thank you and welcome to the family. That does mean I expect a birthday present now 🤣
Hello friend from the USA! I love the running commentary as I’m pretty much ignorant how things run in Britain. Hope you are doing well and best luck for you!
How do you get to Cockfosters?
Paul Hogan: "Drink it warm, mate"
Thanks for a very informative video. It is so frustrating to open one of the cab ride videos only to find that there is no commentary or even station identification. Your videos are full of interesting information and chat. No matter how superfluous some information may seem there will always be someone who will be interested - like myself. Also it is a treat to find someone who is proud of the job they do. Keep up the good work.
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QUESTION, Hello Dale, If for some reason a driver overshoots the platform stopping mark say by only a few meters, are you allowed to reverse the train back to the correct spot to ensure all doors indeed open to the platform ?
OR
is reversing a no no under any circumstances ? then what must you do then, carry on to the next station without opening the doors ?
This is Ealing Common........and a bunch of bananas on the floor😂
I know it was random 😂😂
@@dalecharmantravels8057 made me chuckle! I think youve struck the perfect balance of being informative, humerous whilst most importantly always putting safety first!
Thank you that’s good to hear
Thank you for such an interesting video, I’ve certainly learned a lot. I’m a seasoned Piccadilly line traveler so thanks also for being part of the team that get me to work everyday 👍
You are most welcome. Make sure you give me a wave if you see me 👋👋👋
Great video - very informative.
Thank you.
One question that I can't find an answer to is this, how far out will/can the underground go? for instance will Uxbridge always be the end of this line or could it possibly be extended.
A great video that I have only just found. I have asked this before but once the train has stopped on a slope, what stops the train from starting moving again? Is there another brake that locks on when the doors are open? Just a question and it might be one that you can't answer?
Hello Dave. Do you have to set the DVA yourself at the beginning of each trip, or is it all automatic?
Living the dream Dale. Hi from California.
Love these videos 👍🏻
Thank you
Brilliant videos - can't wait for more.
I've watched many, some with captions, some with just the driver talking in the background to someone else, but your commentary is very entertaining and enlightening 👍
Thank you I appreciate you saying that
Again, good commentary, nice scenery, informative info, safe journeys, and enjoy Australia.
thank you
Another great informative video, many thanks Dale.
You are most welcome
Taylor Sandra Williams Brenda Harris Carol
Why is it it gets so dam hot the deeper down the levels you go. I had to walk out as the heat was to intense
Wheelspins and wheelocks aka skid cause rail damage in the form of wheelburns or sqauts these have to be repaired within a certain time frame depending on their severity , these are detected either visually or by Ultrasonic testing .Too deep and the rail would have to be replaced with a closure that's welded in no shorter that 4.5m in length . Although bad driving could cause squats it is not the primary cause track support and wet weather play a major factor as these type of defects normally always occur on the surface . Automatically driven trains also appear to add to the problem especially around signals and all lines have there own different characteristics and level of quantities of detected defects . This all comes under the umbrella of RCF rolling contact fatigue of which i have only scratched the surface and will not expand upon here . LUL TRACK WELDING DEPARTMENT Lillie Bridge Depot . My bread and butter 😃
Thank you for that
Really good Video. Really inspiring. It is also interesting and educational. One day, I hope to become a driver on the Northern Line. Though, I still got work to do.
Keep up the brilliant work with the videos, don't stop. (Nice how you also got a passion for the job as well!)🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you I appreciate it
Very interesting and quite relaxing! It's amazing just how many signals you can see in some places. Lovely evening light. Compulsive viewing with a pot of tea.
I hope you had a chocolate biscuit too
Watching from Alabama USA
Hello Alabama. Nic who have you here
I’m watching from Mississippi
This is just great. I lived between eastcote and pinner so could walk to either branch. I used eastcote mainly, you can hear but not see the trains approaching you could know which train and direction it was after a while. So much nostalgia thanks dude
You are most welcome
It was a nice journey with the tube train. How long are you a train driver now? Thanks for this new video. Greatings your Dutch fan👍😁
Hello I have worked for London Underground just coming up to 8 years
Great upload, I used to live in Rayners Lane and would watch the piccadilly line travelling from South Harrow to RL from my bedroom window. Grew up a bit further down the line near Acton Town as well so very familiar with the piccadilly line and all of these stations.
Thank you for sharing your memories of the Pic Line
What a great job to be able to operate this type of equipment.
I do have a question. On this, and a previous underground video, it seemed that the headlights don’t illuminate the area fully. Am I correct?
It’s not as dark as the camera makes it out to be. The go pro is not great in low light. Some headlights are brighter than others. Compared to a car they are not bright
i dont see any issues as long as your not showing anything security related I dont see a issue speak with your train management team and also I would like to see same depot movements great video
I have at least one depot move filmed. I plan on doing more but they are more difficult to film as for example I don’t visit Northfields depot very often. Hopefully at some point I will get them all done for you all
Only just discovered your channel and i'm loving it . These cab views are absolutely fascinating , thank you for sharing them
I’m glad you enjoyed it
So, another question - you have spoken about the new 2024 stock coming in. Will they run any faster than your current 45mph limit?
I’m not sure yet. We have not had much information on what the plan is
i always wanted to be a driver (And film lol) but this may help me achieve that
i mean i going to know more after you explain the braking and movements
I would expect you to know enough soon that you wouldn’t need any training and just take a train out 🤣🤣
Quick question from a 'New Boy'. Is it possible to move a train with the doors open or is there some sort of interlock which prevents this? Enjoying your videos very much. Thank you
The answer is yes and no. So under normal operation if you tried to move the train with the doors open it wouldn’t move and an alarm would go off. However under some circumstances we can use a switch to allow us to move the train with the doors open. We would have to get permission to do that. The switch is sealed after a jubilee line train moved a few years back with doors open
Its just mad to me being from Glasgow and ridden the tube train there that your trains over there go above ground.
More of the underground is above ground than below. Apparently
@@dalecharmantravels8057 hmmm maybe its changed as i have not been on them since early 2000s as i drive.
District Line trains occasionally - VERY occasionally - run to South Harrow, but not in passenger service.
On a policy level I would personally switch the lines but also rebuild Earl’s Court junction, allowing for a total line split and a whole new line to run Uxbridge-Edgware Road.
I have never seen one up there I think I would look twice if I did 🤣
@@dalecharmantravels8057I believe in 2016 there was a points failure and a District Line train had no option but to go all the way up to South Harrow. It’s pictured at North Ealing.
@@RBenjo21 thank you. The thing is with the railway a lot of things are just what you hear. As I have personally never seen a S stock up there and some of the older drivers said they don’t fit under the bridges I never thought any different. I appreciate you sharing
I Really enjoy watching your uploads, Very imformative 😊
Thank you
Hi Dale love your channel, would like to ask a question are the new 24 stock likely to have a higher top speed. Thanks Dale I'll guarantee to keep watching.
Not sure yet. We have not had much information