Welcome to edificity, where you can find videos all about cities, transport, design, architecture, travel and much more. We put a particular focus on our native North East England, especially the Tyne and Wear Metro.
Bad idea to have upholstery seats. As well as being incredibly unhygienic, they will soon become threadbare and need constant replacement. They should have gone with metal seats like most modern metros do. Metal seats are easier to wipe off the Buckfast and deep fried Mars Bar vomit too.
I'm Australian and used to live in Newcastle. My parents were from there, so I spent a few years there when I was about 19 getting to know my heritage (in roughly 2004 onwards for a few years). I really loved my time there, and what I wouldn't give for Gregg's to open here in Australia. If you weren't aware, you should have a look at Newcastle in Australia. A lot of areas of the Australian Newcastle are named after areas of the UK Newcastle; it has a Jesmond, a Wallsend, a Gosforth etc. The entire city was clearly developed by some homesick Geordies. The Australian Newcastle is also the world's largest coal exporting port too, taking over from the original Newcastle.
go to the eu or asia than glasgow is a pile of waste of time and ends up like the rest of the rest of the uk transportation system dead and underfundet
As an American, who is used to giant subway/train cars, and as a 6’5 guy…I could feel my breath literally catching in my chest at the size of these things. 😅 Geez they’re tiny. I’d get a bit claustrophobic at first. But beyond that that, it’s amazing how clean, well-kept, and nice every thing is. The stations are beautiful, the train themselves look very nice - even the older models were miles better than what we have over here in most of our cities with train/subway systems. Very, very nice. Our train lines could take some cues and lessons from this!
I am a geordie, born on Stanhope St. In 1945, I remember Newcastle Station very well it was and still is the best station in the world, left from it to take my first job in the smoke with a lot of other lads Monday morning plat 10,at 6.30am , slept till York at least then went straight to work for half a day's holiday!
Oh wow those are short! Looks like a person my height (6'0) could really only stand up in the very middle, if at all. But it also looks like widening or raising the height of the cars at all would basically require you to redo the entire system. What a unique artifact of that early age of subways.
It was an awful building and in my view the awards were a con trick. I walked through it every day in the 70s and it was a dead, litter strewn place. The new city hall makes a far better statement and the new housing on the old site looks great.
I much prefer the old ones.. very different to the london tube, like an alternative reality. At least thats how I felt on them. The modern ones have no character
These thing are bloody awful, they bounce around constantly. Two days ago, one bounced around a corner and I hit my head on the roof, then the door I was standing at opened 2 inches and broke and I had to run up the carriage to the next one. I know two people personally who have had these cars break down mid tunnel and they've had to walk through wet tunnels to get out. These things are a joke.
What a nicely made production! Cute and compact, much like the two-thirds scale subway itself. I'm sure that digging out and shoring up those tunnels was a lot more labour intensive when they did it than it would be in this era, so that's understandable and makes your subway nicely distinctive.
They are cute, I never seen that before, but if they stop in a tunnel , I'm not sure that anyone will be able to get out. They seem so close from the wall. Unless you can get out from the front or back. And they are so small, it look very intimate, like a transportation you could think about for a big base somewhere on the moon. They remember me those in Cosmos 1999.
I kinda like the looks, but why are they so suffocatingly small? I'm 185cm and doubt I'd fit comfortably there. You are not supposed to stand there and just crawl inside and fall on the bench? Really weird decision to have such a low ceiling, what about an evacuation, how do you move fast inside this tight space?
