FWIW Marc Isambard Brunel was French I think. His more famous son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was British and it was he who finished that first tunnel - nearly drowning after a flood.
The entire economy of SE Dorset & SW Hampshire would be improved by folks having an alternative rail system connecting the satellite towns & communities of Bournemouth & Poole yet i still find myself in the same traffic jams i experienced 44 years ago when travelling to Poole Tech. Unless it’s the very big cities in Britain, transportation isn’t any quicker or easier than 2 generations ago.
1:22 As an Englishman, I've never heard it called 'The Train in the Drain', its always called 'The Tube'.
And he insists on calling it “the subway”,
Only the Waterloo and City was referred to as the drain.
Came to the comments for exactly that 😂
FWIW Marc Isambard Brunel was French I think. His more famous son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was British and it was he who finished that first tunnel - nearly drowning after a flood.
The entire economy of SE Dorset & SW Hampshire would be improved by folks having an alternative rail system connecting the satellite towns & communities of Bournemouth & Poole yet i still find myself in the same traffic jams i experienced 44 years ago when travelling to Poole Tech.
Unless it’s the very big cities in Britain, transportation isn’t any quicker or easier than 2 generations ago.
I have never heard a single living soul utter the words “the train in the drain”
Underground cities
12:09 Its pronounced Len-ster
Credibility is lost when he calls concrete “cement”
By minding the gap- puhlease
Wow how old is this documentary? Lol the JLE is 2 decades old now and London has a new Elizabeth line lol