@@Snowy-oq4urTunnels are confined spaces and as a result, trains travelling in them push a very significant amount of air in their direction of travel. Higher speeds also obviously make the velocity of the air increase
Fun fact, stations are on Victoria line are humped. Trains arrive at full speed and the incline acts as a braking mechanism. The exit of the station is a decline allowing the train to depart faster as it's going down hill. This saves energy, and allows the trains to run 10% faster than relying on electric traction alone!
The inclined/declined track at stations is great idea you're right...I read somewhere that it's been used since the 1800s when electric traction was not as efficient or reliable as today
What I find surprisingly nice, convenient and great about the Victoria line is each train comes once every minute, the second train leaves. The departure board says **STAND BACK TRAIN APPROACHING**
True and yet so many selfish people are so desperate to get on a train the moment they get on the platform they force the doors open, so everyone gets delayed, because they can't wait 1 minute for the next one
@@cplayzstuff6907i believe the Central Line has 62 MPH trains however when they go between Bethnal Green and Bank they go a bit slower due to the amount of curves on that section ( COUGH : bank station )
@@willscottytv the Victoria Line train you see on the video isn’t going 20mph when running into the tunnel but at higher speed, 60 mph max. My point still stands, Paris metro trains are much slower than the London ones. In some lines, because of short distance or curves between stations, trains are going as slow as 15-20 mph, for instance Line 7 between Château-Landon and Gare de l’Est
That’s the normal London Underground trains speed. However , it is true that they tend to approach the station at a higher speed compared to other European cities.
And plus it just looks more fast because you’re standing at the back of the platform rather than the front. Obviously he’s going to be going faster at the beginning of the platform.
@@thatcommentaccount69 our trains (on lines 1,2,R,3,4 & 5) arrives at 30 km/h. Our fastest trains (in lines 10 and 7, for example) arrives at least at 45 km/h. But wow, the train on the video felt like it was going 80 km/h
Victoria Line was semi automated as far back as the 60s! It was brilliant tech for its day. Also pioneered automatic safety braking. If it gets too close fo the train in front the brakes come on automatically. Standard across the whole UK rail network now.
i’ve been on the tube and yes they do arrive fast and also have good brakes one time i was on the tube and saw a train and i didn’t even think it was stopping cause of how fast it was
It’s not extreme speed. In the tunnels, the tube reaches a speed at around 20-40mph. When it enters the station, it moves at around 15-20mph on average in which it will slow down until the end of the platform
Victoria line indeed. Can't lie, when I went to the north destination i.e. Walthomstow central, the speed they come in to terminate there, made me stand in one of the corridors between both platforms to walk towards the one with a train coming in, and get pushed back by air, at an intensity I don't feel I have been amongst before, on the tube, underground!
Worked there for 5 years. Every train is going this speed. Have you noticed the sensor right above you at the cantre of the station overlooking the train. That monitors everything from speed to how long it takes to leave the platform
This is normal, most trains approach stations at very high speeds like 60-80 MPH because the train platforms are long so the train has time to react and slowly break and it depends on how long the train is and that is how fast a 6-8 car train goes
I went on the underground when I went to London was very cool cause I’m from Australia But its was so NOISEY And the seats were dirty everytime it left the station it was really windy
perspective is everything, this is only around 35mph which is no faster than a car on your average road, but the confines of the station make it look so much faster
If the london train is going down hill at 64 speed it gets ten times faster to 74 speed this is caused by going down hill fast it will make you skip the stop so don't go to fast going down the hills like 64 45 and 60 these speed will make you derail to and going down a hill to a station 64 45 60 speed it will make you skip the staition like bank .
Yeah that’s pretty quick considering I’m from America, something like this would never fly here in the US and before people come at me I’m talking about a train that’s stopping at a station not passing one. But subways and metros approach our stations slow as shit when stopping at a station, which is good anyways because here in the US people can’t keep their asses off the tracks Americans will literally FIND was to get hit by trains it’s ridiculous.