How the Underground was Built for Speed 

also Victoria Line

The best bit is, that’s known as a Hump Profile 🤣

What a great idea. I hadn't realised

That is a clever trick indeed.

yeahi only ound out the other day when i was on the central line for a good 10minutes, i saw and felt it and it was cool xD

Lol

When I rode on the Bakerloo line, the rolling stock was older than my father!

This problem will be solved as time goes by...

It feels almost as if the rails are made of wood.

@@PopeLando For really old rolling stock, nothing in the UK comes anywhere near the Glasgow Subway in 1977. It was still using the original 1896 rolling stock and communications & signalling technology.

@@OofusTwillip Remarkable. Has it ever had a serious accident?

Ah, the old multiple units never deciding where they want to go.

Not backwards, "other forward" 😉

@@Nick-kz6dg No reverse, just two forwards

Yup, I was sort of expecting the Jago to say just that. I was curiously disappointed when he didn't?

Jago, how about a video on TfL and London Transport?

It was to signify a major structural change and the separation of strategic management from operations.

...and the awful LRT - London Regional Transport

On the flip side, if you said "LT" I think many people wouldn't have known what you meant, whereas everyone in London today knows what "TfL" is.

@@jimtuite3451 Which covered London, and argueably not the London Region, and definately less than London Transport did in 1935

His secret is no Weekend Engineering Works. 😉

His enthusiasm for the subject, perhaps? He's the Anton Petrov of the London Underground.

You’re referring to the Hump Profile that was designed in to the tunnel on most of the deep tube lines 👍🏻

He knows 👍🏼

Was that drug common at the time?

"And Greed." Awwwwww Yeah..!!

@@paulohagan3309 Amphetamine was developed in 1887 in Germany, Methamphetamine was first synthesized in 1893 in Japan. MDMA is also a German invention, made in 1912, patented in 1914. We certainly love keeping ourselves up and running 👃

Must be noisy living on the Northern line!

Stuff like this is one of the reasons I wish I had grown up in a large city. I’ll never have “my Tube,” and silly as it is it makes me a little sad.

Northern line should be separated

And as a bonus the station can be built slightly less deep? Sounds good,

Would make sense. The traditional red and white striped barber's pole came about for the exact same reason.

Funny but it’s Sunday, 8am here!

3 am where I am.

The cheapest and easiest would be getting the passengers behind to shove you out.

Well, isn’t the inverse of your fanciful suggestion a thing in Tokyo where gloved and uniformed platform officials shove boarding passengers into subway cars to facilitate door closings?

It worked ok with BR & LU when I worked on the District line in the 80s. Admittedly we had extra regs for train protection and traction current when operating over the BR sections, we shared road on the Gunnersbury to Richmond section, while crossing Putney Bridge to you from LU to BR sections, the shared road was actually East Putney to Wimbledon, the other traffic on this road was generally empty BR units working to/from the depot at Wimbledon Park the signalling over these sections was BR, but train radio kept us in touch with our own line control at Earls Court control room.

I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue

@@GeorgiaOverdrive I picked a bad day to quit making Airplane references! :D

@@GeorgiaOverdrive For some unfortunates the day they stop sniffing glue is a terminally bad day...

I think there might be another reference at 2:17 "and exciting new forms of corruption, but that's not important right now". He is a man of impeccable taste, either way 😁👍

@@josephkarl2061 That's why I made the reference in the first place. Did you think it was just random? :)

If you've ever read people's comments on Facebook, you may believe that's still the case.

i no wot u mean , tils not nneded anymor

what about the Tube Stops where the platform is only on one side.and your looking at a wall with an advisement just millimeters away from the train?.....guess it beats looking at a blank wall!

Is that correct? According to Lloyd, Amy J.: “Education, Literacy and the Reading Public.” British Library Newspapers. Detroit: Gale, 2007, illiteracy rates for men and women in Britain was down to 3% by 1900, having decreased rapidly in the latter half of the 19C.

@@atishghosh4682 only the illiterate could afford to give birth, my mother wrote me a letter in french to tell me I was illiterate ( I think thats whats she wrote I could not ask my dad he was not around )

It’s a right of passage. An essential.

the last of the pre 1938 stock where the motors were still above bogie level, some were sent to the Isle of Wight

@@highpath4776 ...Where they eventually got replaced by the retired 1938 stock itself. And now _those_ have just been retired in faver of _newer_ old tube trains -- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DWuebB1zO18.html

@Ross Bourne someone fetch me a needle and cotton I've split my sides.

We've got the New York Subway instead, don't worry lol

@@russellgxy2905 your right, but Yerkes was the American, the brainchild of the deep level tube lines that is the point I'm trying to make. Also unlike most subway systems including the earliest underground lines in London, they were really conventional lines that were cut and cover. The tube was bored deep level and the trains are much smaller. Some stations are 120ft below ground level. The Americans were at the cutting edge of trains and particularly electric traction. Also the very device that bored the tube lines I believe was called the Gratehead shield as the inventors name was Gratehead.

There aren't exactly many 4-rail systems around to make that much of a competition.

@@ashleyhamman that's not the Metropolitan's fault - if others don't want to join in that's their choice

First 4-rail system is fastest 4-rail system 🧐

So...they went so fast they burnt out their electronics?? I mean fair, the fastest steam record holder basically did the same thing :v

@@russellgxy2905 not quite. The fast track from Finchley Rd to Harrow and Harrow to Moor Park weren't the best maintained, and things got a bit bouncy. So it was more they shook themselves apart over 50mph.

Nice! Been looking through the comments before I posted this info aswell

Good question. What about George Hudson?

@@roderickjoyce6716 That’s a good question also. I believe these men were simply products of their time. This was the age of the "robber baron" (was that term used in the UK?) and at the same period in the US, we had the likes of John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J. P. Morgan. They're generally considered as philanthropists, though may have been criticized for monopolistic practices. George Hudsons' downfall resulted from borrowing at high interest rates, and the practice of depleting capital to pay investors, which led to the entire pyramid collapsing...so maybe he just wasn't that good a businessman? But the vision was still there, and the railroads too.

He did some under the table corruption, I'm sure. Even if in the end, it benefitted the public, I would doubt that was in is mind. He'd have done the same had it been a mess for the public, as long as he was the benficiary, I reckon. It's just lucky it was of benefit to travellers.

@@paulohagan3309 There's no doubt that there were some shady dealings going on. I don't know about his time in London, but in Chicago, he was not above bribery and/or blackmail...again, not uncommon in the 19th century. The thing about Yerkes is that...while many others were not able to make a go of rapid transit...or were barely able to stay afloat...his ideas were correct. His companies did not disappear as some did, but grew from his plans. He was all about making money, and you don't make money if your plans don't work.

@@stevenflebbe Ok but he was still a scoundrel.

😀 Captain Scarlet was my favourite of those tv series from the 1970s.

Wouldn't think so. They were all ripped out after they were found to be one of the causes of the King's Cross. Fire.

Yes, if it hadn't been for the Yuckies and the Great Stink of 1858 the embankment wouldn't have been built for Yerkies to build his station.

Without Charles Tyson Yerkes there would be no Hampstead Heath.

The poorer walked, the less poor by Tram, those with a dab of cash by Bus, the more well off by Tube or Rail, the better off by Cab / Taxi, the really well of by a Chaffeur.

Something they do in Mexico City which is really cool is they give each metro station its own logo, which is then used on the signage and maps. Handy for tourists, but presumably designed for the illiterate and those for whom Spanish isn't their first language.

@@andrewgwilliam4831 not each station, but they did the same for the metro lines in Lisbon, I believe.

Jago Expects every fan to do there duty

They ran on the Southern Railway, later Southern Region BR. “SR 4 DD” is the class to look up

@@SportyMabamba many thanks for the information

The Dockers' Umbrella!

You could run a perfect railway if not for passengers