How the Underground Came Together - The Thrilling Conclusion 

Everyone congratulating you on your first sponsorship. Little do they know you've actually always been funded by the Emirates Air Line

I can see Jago is a proper RU-vidr now, I’m grateful we get a conclusion to this TRULY GRIPPING SERIES.

Ohh, a sponsor! How long will it be before he’s regaling us with the joys of Raid-Shadow Legends?.. Kidding, pleased for you. Sponsors mean you’re getting noticed and you deserve it.

This is where Jago goes full on Star Wars, with 3 prequels and 3 sequels to come... ;)

Closing in on 100K, and to think im old enough to remember you in the equivalent of short trousers.😂😂😂

Wow you got a sponsor your a proper RU-vidr now ! Congrats

That three-parter worked nicely. How about a similar approach to the Overground? And it would also be interesting to look at all of the various projects for getting to Heathrow from central London.

Jago has a sponsor now! And nearly 100k subscribers! I remember when there were less than a 10th of that. Love to watch a RU-vidr you really like grow in popularity

I just realised just how much research you do for these videos. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I have no idea why I like your videos so much. I don't live in London, or even the UK. I don't particularly like London if I'm being honest. The whole train thing some people is fascinated about isn't something I care about. My view on the tube is that it should work and be on time when I use it. That's about it. But I absolutely adore your videos. They are almost like a balm for my soul (is that an expression in English?) and kind of feels like meditating. Whatever the reason, thank you. Whenever I see you've posted it makes that day a better day. Oh, and congratulations to your first sponsorship!

Jago, your videos are keeping me sane during these awful times Thank you.

he got a sponsor - he is a real youtube now! well done

The Johnston typeface is just a thing of beauty.

Does the sponsorship mean you can afford to travel further than Watford Station for B-roll? :)

I'm usually not a fan of adverts in a video, but in this case I'm glad because it gives the indication your channel is doing well!

"Alarums and excursions..." Congratulations on your sponsorship. And well done on the Underground series!

Simply an amazing, ripping, beyond mammoth presentation of everything that I was too lazy to find elsewhere...thank you for the great work, truly! The series was so big my iPhone couldn’t display everything. Can’t wait for the sequel to the sequel.

I do remember the East London Line's becoming its own thing, but couldn't tell you the exact date. However, it was closed for several years in the 1990s to refurbish the tunnel (nearly didn't happen, I believe). It wasn't a stub line for long - originally there was a link to the District line and another to Liverpool Street - and now, of course, it links round London!

Really great video series. One thing id note is that the East London line was actually connected to the District/Metropolitan via "St Marys curve". A curve of railway near an abandoned station which you can still see when travelling Eastbound from Aldgate east. Trains used to run via this curve, though i have no source myself on how frequently this was. Most sources seem to indicate the use of the curve was short lived in passenger usage, but remained in place for stock movements before being cut off in the east london line extension works. Wikipedia seems to suggest this service ran 1884-1938, which makes sense as the lines ran multiple odd routes till 1939 such as trains to Southend on the District line. The H+C was born out of trying to remove the complexity of the various branches of the Metropolitan. Its likely the trains in 1933 running the what we now know as the H+C service would use the east london line. Given they eventually terminated at Whitechapel instead - though now extended to Barking mostly to relieve congestion and the reversing platforms being demolished for crossrail.

Every video you produce is thrilling Jago! You never know when an unexpected pun or dry joke will turn up.

One might argue (here I am feeling argumentative) that with the creation of the Victoria line, the tube had "come together". From then on up to present, its been evolving. (or in the case of the circle line - revolving). The interesting things is London Transport trying to say that the Crossrail "Purple Line" (Reading to Shenfield) is a sort of underground line whereas the Thameslink line (Brighton to Bedford) is just Thameslink and part of BR. London Transport is evolving its remit to the point where the Underground as an entity is starting to get blurred around the edges. Maybe Aylesbury to Southend needs reconsidering? Re-Marooning the suburbs

congratulations on your first sponsor jago

How about the loco hauled services especially on the Metropolitan out towards Metroland. I remember them in 1957. I was at the Met Office Training School in Stanmore and used the Metropolitan from where I was in digs in Preston Road to Wembley Park before changing onto the Bakerloo. Because they were slam-door coaches and coupled in a rake with a separate loco rather than an EMU, they didn't have a dedicated guard to driver communication and the guard used the brass ferrule on his green flag to short out the wires along the platform which would ring a bell by the driver.

Mention of the opening of the Victoria Line reminds of looking at a tube map in the Angel station twenty years later, still not including the new line. No rush.

I've never been to Britain, I'm from Canada. But here i am watching every video i can about their trains. Lovely stuff.

Ooo, I am looking forward to part four of this three part series!

There is a really bad "All Platforms" pun somewhere in the SurfShark spiel, but it needs careful crafting to be as bad as possible without losing the sponsorship...

EPIC! I’m sure you could have made a “mind the gap” reference somewhere in the outro.

Congratulations Jago, not sure when I discovered your channel, sometime during lockdown certainly but your content is constantly interesting and as I live locally, relevant. Great to see you getting some pennies to support what I hope will get ever bigger

The East London Line is so named (as a distinct "LINE" in all caps) by 1985 at the latest, according to the London Tube Map Archive (www.clarksbury.com/cdl/maps.html). The previous map there (from 1977) only shows it as the East London "Section" (in mixed case) of the Metropolitan Line. (Edit: it looks like the name change happened in 1984-85. There are 2 maps currently listed on a popular auction site that are claimed to be from 1984, one only showing Heathrow Terminal 1 and the "East London Section," the other showing the line to Heathrow Terminal 4 under construction, and the "East London Line" as a separately named "Line.") Funnily enough, I've seen online copies of 2 of Beck's original maps from 1933, one showing it as the "East London Line" and another as the "East London Railway"; but by 1934, it had been absorbed into the Metropolitan Line.

Privatisation was in 97. I transferred from Glasgow to Reading under rule 10b in 95. Which no longer existed with privatisation. And BR lasted 49 years.

I love the old prints and posters you use in these videos.

That just typical! I wait ages for you to make a video about how the London Underground came together, then three come along almost at the same time! 🙄

More detail and longer series definitely a positive step in my book!

My life has been waiting for this vid. Thank you for finally making me a complete person.

An excellent series, I learned loads. Can't wait for histories of the individual lines.

I recognise the station at 1:25 and again at 4:54 as Drayton Park. Having worked in the City in the 90's I regularly travelled on that line from New Barnet into Moorgate. Happy memories ! 😎👍👍

I must confess, I've been for half an hour observing the first quad royal poster with H.C.BECK's design, issued in 1933 when the LPTB was about to be launched. (0:45) I don't know, but it's so enjoyable and pleasing to watch and utilize as a journey planner. Featured in Ken Garland's 1994 book, it has a very pleasing paper colour, thus making the Diagram twice as graceful.

Oooh nice, sponsers and everything now. Good for you Jago. Well earned. Loving this mini series. Keep up the good work.

If this series ever comes out as a DVD box set, I'll buy it.

A detailed follow-up on each line would be terrific. I will be patiently waiting.

i enjoy the series so much that i am really not annoyed by the ads :)

Get you Mister Sponsored content. Nice video, keeping my sane while at home.

Well, it appears that the channel has come of age with a surf shark ad! That was a fantastic 3 part series, full of your typical humour and facts!

Awesome series! Congrats on the sponsorship...Jago is coming up from the underground in the world

East London line and the Hammersmith and City line became separate on tube maps in 1990. Still a great video, post lockdown I would get you a pint!

Love this series, been waiting for someone to do something like this as everything you see is placed like the Underground is owned by London but not a few old money families

Almost to 100k, glad that this channel is doing well

How the Met line was operated is a quite fascinating tale...... It had one Line Controller who controlled all of it including Hammersmith (Met) and the East London Line. The Distict Line Controller controlled the south side of the Circle and of course covered the Met trains from Aldgate East to Barking. Barking train crew depot also had a Met Line roster there and the Barking SM looked after the Met crews. Underground line depots are divided into sections (District East for example is Barking and Upminster) and the Met was similar. Met Line West was Hammersmith and Baker Street, Met Line North was Neasden, Rickmansworh & Uxbridge while Met Line East was Barking, New Cross and Drayton Park). Until OPO conversion started in the early 1980s, Neasden, Rickmansworh & Baker Street crews worked the Met Main and Circle Line, Hammersmith crews just the Hammersmith & City Line, Barking crews the H&C plus a few jobs on the East London Line while New Cross did mostly East London Line plus a few jobs on the H&C. Drayton Park just covered the Northern City, it was still part of the Met empire until closed and handed over to BR! The 38s on there were 6 car trains (2 x 3 car units) and were maintained at Neasden rather than being any part of the 7 car Northern Line fleet of trains, one of these historical oddities...... A friend of mine is an ex train crew manager and worked at Barking in the 1970s, he even had dealings with Driver Newson who was the driver in the Moorgate disaster, he had been a guard at Barking for a while before he got his drivers job at Drayton Park......

I left school the year the Victoria line opened. Don't think the two events were related. It was odd travelling on a completely spotless new line. Did not take long for it look like any other well used tube line though. Thanks JH.

Just a fantastic trio Jago - thank you so much. Really enjoyed all three of them. Great Job!

It would be helpful if you add links to parts 2 and 3 to the video descriptions of parts 1 and 2. Thanks for all your videos, I've become rather addicted to them even though I live in Canada and have never been on the Underground!

Finally the conclusion! To be honest, you could make longer, more in depth versions of these and put them on a second channel and I'd still watch them! Also yes to a video about the politics. I am sure with your dry sarcasm it would be a pleasure to watch even that. And congrats on the sponsorship.

Well, a pretty thorough potted history of the Underground in Jago's inimitable style, superb as ever. A couple of tiny additions; the Northern Heights plan was only partially completed but some of this (Mill Hill East-Edgware-Aldenham-Bushey Heath) was due to the introduction of the Green Belt, while the Central Line takeovers were all completed except West Ruislip-Denham. Jago carefully states the East London was the first entire tube line to be transferred out of LT; Aylesbury-Amersham (Metropolitan), which went much earlier, was just a section, and likewise Bakerloo trains which were cut back from Watford Junction to Harrow and Wealdstone (but had never owned the route).

Bloody good series Jago, I have to say you have a voice absolutely made for radio!

This third half, of your presentation, was quite thrilling; hope you produce a fourth.

Congrats on the sponsorship! Always love your content!

Brilliant Jago as always

What a fantastic final 3rd. I cannot wait for your next mini series perhaps a history of London Buses , tramlines or DLR.

I am glad Jago has soon 100k Subscribers.

A sponsor great. It won't be long until you have 100,000 subscribers. Thank-you for another great video. I love the London Tube Map and how its grown over the years.

Nice work, Mr Hazzard!

Afternoon upload? I’m shocked! As always, keep up the good work fella and stay safe. And finally, part 3 ☺️🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

That was excellent. I'd be interested in an episode series on future plans for the rail system and, also, how does the transport system get along with other municipalities in the Greater London Area.

by eck this channel has grown - and all the better for it - well done jago

Congrats on the sponsor! Shows you've been doing everything right!

Maybe with the extra travel budget you can afford to have a gander at the GCR London Extension whenever possible (completing the Watkin set of Metroland, The Inner Circle, Catford, the Tower and the Channel Tunnel). It would also be a good excuse to start branching out beyond London (and get my local city, Leicester, featured!)

I definitely enjoyed this, and would love to hear more about the background and history of the London Underground. I’m curious about if TFL is a private company or a government run entity?

definitely do a series on each line's history :)

Congrats on the sponsorship! I still think of your channel as being pretty small and fulfilling a very particular niche that I enjoy, and it's bizzare to realize that you are nearly at 100k subs.

You just have to love those open cab Metropolitain 4-4-0 tank engines.

A follow up series dedicated to each line....why yes, that would be a capital idea.

Congratulations! I wonder how many subs we’ll need before a face reveal. Hint: more than 100K.

Well done Jago! A great series and easy to follow. 👍👍👍

Very interesting indeed. I know you've touched upon it in a number of videos, but one subject I'd like to see more about is the Underground and it's part in WW2.

The SurfShark advert was Map Men level advertising 👍

Great 3 videos, thanks - and yes separate videos on each line would be most welcome. Nice way of dealing with sponsorship too, congratulations.

I've never seen such an outpouring of praise for an advert! Well done JH. A big step in the right direction :) Also the thrilling conclusion hit the mark!

Worth the wait! Really excellent. Thank you Jago👏👏👏👏

a video on london transport would be very cool

Many congratulations on reaching 100k subscribers. Very well deserved and a great channel. When I joined you had less than 3K ...

Great to see you reach a great RU-vid milestone- the sponsorships!

Big it up Mr. Jago! I kinda felt this 3-parter was a milestone project. Really enjoyed as usual - Thanks. Pleased on your sponsorship status; well deserved for the committed work you've put in over the last year and more entertaining us rail-heads. Maybe some 'oh, he'sold out' comments below just goes show the depth some people's "first world problems"!. I say, go ahead and enact the John Wayne rule - “A man's got to do what a man's got to do.”

Now to ramp up the excitement by watching all 3 of them back-to-back, so I can remember what he said in Part One! Always good to watch with a G.Maps overview handy at the same time 🙂 #ExLondoner

Been waiting for this

Fantastic as always thank you!

Everyone should get a VPN so good on you for the ad. My favourite shot is the train race at 7:08 once again won by the Piccadilly - unfair advantage not having to stop here...........................

Transport tale time!

Great stuff. I'm sure I missed them, but the odd vid on the London river services including ferries would be much appreciated. Now, do I need this surfshark thing ...

I have a 1984 journey planner map on my wall. It shows the east London line as a separate line but in metropolitan colours not filled in. Geoff Marshall has copies of most underground mao so he will likely know when the east London got it's own orange colour. If he doesn't he'll know someone who will. Love your videos. Thank you for producing them.

so close to 100K we can see as a proud I have been here since 40ker very happy for you Jago

Might I suggest a topic? I will anyway. Bars on the underground, there was one at Sloan St, as well as Baker Street. Are there more?

Jago I have watched ur channel grow from a few hundred subscribers to all most 100k. WELL DONE 👏 👍!

That was a great and fascinating 3 part video 😊👍🏽👌🏽 brilliant work as usual 😃

Great series

It was still possible in the early 1970s to see the planned Northern Line extensions shown on an enamel route map at EastFinchley station. Like now when the signs have been updated but the 'new' bit of line hasn't yet opened this was covered up with some paper stuck over the relevant bit. However from time to time someone would have a go at removing the paper so there was usually some part of the route to Bushey Heath visible! I don't think that sign ended up in the LT Museum or Depot but would love to know whether it survived somewhere! How about a video on the Underground routes that were traversed for some while after becoming part of the Underground by BR freight trains, that was the case at the Northern ends of both the Northern and Central lines. The East London Line even had steam and later diesel hauled excursion trains using it to reach places like Brighton! Those all finished sometime in the late 1960s.

Thanks again Mr Hazard for answering my.... our questions and making a detailed overview of a very large subject. I hope one day to visit your fine country and ride a tram just so I can say "Ah yes I know this station and why it's called (insert name here). I saw it in a RU-vid video"

Loved it - even the ad 😉😁👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Well done on reaching this milestone as a creator.

It is interesting how, back in the “overground Underground expansion” era, everything connected to the network was part of an Underground line. But, following the DLR and especially the Overground, almost everything in the kind of distance & placement nowadays ends up as part of the Overground. (Or occasionally as a DLR extension). The network itself has become the brand, instead of just the Underground. If these overground Underground lines into suburbia, such as much of the Central line, had been built today, I fully expect they would in fact be Overground stations. Hell, a lot of the suburbs along the Central line do also have Overground stations now. But this leads to an interesting problem: the DLR and especially the Overground are far more confusing on the map than the Underground lines, because they’re all the same colour. You need to learn branch names instead of just following colours along a map. And now with the Elizabeth “line” confusing things further, I do wonder if there’s going to be some fundamental redesign within the next fifty years to split these up into various Lines as well. Perhaps along with measures such as eliminating the difference of rolling stock between the Overground and the Subsurface Underground lines, more Underground lines converted to Crossrail spec, or other such developments. I do think, with the increasing crowdedness of the TfL Map and everything, being able to somehow return to unique colours could potentially be useful, especially if the Overground continues to expand/action routes, if more Crossrail happens, and so forth. We should probably expect the network to be almost as unrecognisable in 2121 as today’s network would look to the lads running the show in 1921.

A sponsor? That's okay, so long as it isn't Auntie Maggies Detox Teas, ear buds that don't fit in your ears, or Asbestos Land.