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Sorry Ted but the first Subway was built in New York but closed, then the subway in London was built. London is therefore the oldest now operational but not the first, not what started it.
@@postvideo97 doesnt it make sense that if they were the first railway, their map design and everything else they did would be copied by everyone else?
@@donnie8032 not if it didn’t work as an info graphic Would have been superseded by designs that worked better The fact that it’s still used to this day as the blueprint shows how well the original designer did his job
1863 London had commuters, street vendors and cows. Wonder how London dealt with that problem. Multiple lines of tube transport a 140 years ago. London was the truly the Rome of 19th century.
For anyone wondering, the Metropolitan Railway is now the Metropolitan Line on today’s London tube map, and the station they animated is now part of the Circle Line, at Baker Street
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0:58 and that is why many countries call their underground trains "metro" - named after the 1st underground train the metropolitan line.. useless fact: i used to take that train from moor park to baker street every day for work :P
To any tourists getting off at Baker Street (when travel is actually allowed again 🙄) do not go to the sherlock Holmes museum. It's a complete waste of money lol.
London does love its own transport. Including the London Underground, London Overground, Emirates Air-Line cable car, Docklands Light Railway, Tramlink, Buses, Taxis, Santander bike hire, TfL Rail, National Rail (including Thameslink) and of course the Elizabeth Line which is to open next year.
Have lived in London for our entire lives and did not know that about the metropolitan line! It's weird to consider that gridlock could still occur back then simply with carts and the like! Great video as always Ted-Ed!
I would have thought Glasgow, the third subway system in the world, would have been mentioned in that list. Great video. Would love to see one on the various ways used to move the carriages.
The Fireless Steam Locomotives and Condensed Steam Locomotives they used to ran the early London Tube was also fascinating. It shows that people will always found a way to get something to work.
The first deep level underground railway stations in the world opened to the public in 1886 were Liverpool James Street, and Birkenhead Hamilton Square, in the UK. These stations are still in use today and together with other underground stations in central Liverpool form part of the Mersey Rail network.
But look at the glory of your country now! One of the most technologically superior and prosperous countries in the world. Korea, Japan and Taiwan are beacons of freedom in Asia.
Visited London for the first time earlier this year, great city!!! I’m not sure why but during my time there I grew very fascinated with the Underground and now I want to learn everything about it.
I recently took a trip to Europe form the USA. I went to London and was amazed at everything. One of my favorite things was the London Underground station that was directly under our hotel, St. Pancras. The trains go extremely fast and you will get to your destination quicker than a car shoots out exhaust. Seriously, if you’ve never been out of your country, you will love London. Please like this comment! And by the way, I am the youngest person for 5 generations back to go to Europe. Yes, I’m 10 years old. Boo-Yah! Man, was that fun!
Yeah, looks like it's around Zwickau or Karlovy Vary and certainly isn't in Hungary. "Berlin" isn't much better as it looks to be somewhere near Bonn (although at least it's in the right country). What's the point in using a map if you're not even going to get it roughly right?
세계 최초의 지하철도에 대해서 굉장히 유익한 내용이었습니다. 처음 지하철도를 만들 때 땅을 파서 터널을 만들고 다시 땅을 덮는 방법을 사용한 줄 몰랐는데, 그 뒤로 지하에 바로 구멍을 뚫을 수 있는 기계가 발명돼서 지하철이 지금처럼 널리 퍼지게 된 것 같습니다. 항상 유익한 동영상 감사합니다.
Great upload, thank you for this. Been on the London undergrouind many times (I live a long way up north in Yorkshire) and it is always exciting and a great way to move around the city without using congested roads.
When your country has no subway trains. Sad. Edit: We will have now haha. The construction will end in 2025. Edit: We also have trains (I think we have 5 or 6 lines if I'm not mistaken) but when we say subway, we tend to refer it as an underground train system. Right now the construction is ongoing and expected to end in 2025.
I love how apparently (at least according to this world map), there are subway networks near the Hudson Bay, which has a population density of less than 1 person per square kilometer, but not in Toronto, Canada's largest city.
There are actually surprisingly few videos about the history of metros, this is the best and one of the only ones I could find. If anybody could find like a documentary about it I'd be happy if you could link it since I can't for the life of me find one myself.
How absolutely mind blowing this technology is. And in today's world it's looked at as normal, "easy" work. A lot of people don't realize the work that actually goes into this. Truly amazing stuff.
I believe they were steam powered at first, but that caused so many problems due to exhaust underground and in the stations that they looked for solutions, and electrification was the one selected.
4:56 = "London was at a permanent state of Deadlock" *Me* ="Metro Manila, every day in Deadlock especially during evening Rush Hour... Ladies & Gentlemen welcome to EDSA!"
London was like edsa. If you have looked at old photos and drawings of london, the roads looked similar to edsa. It was caotic and nobody moved for ages. That is why duterte wants to build a subway. So that, like london, the subways will minimise congestion on the roads :)
I didn't know London was very modern even in the 1860s ,its so ahead of it's time, that it rivals of the earliest achievements that humanity has accomplished through technology
Your world map of underground railway systems did not include any Australian systems. Melbourne’s City Loop May not be as extensive as the London Underground or the New York Subway, but it’s there and extremely busy!
Now a part of the Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan and Circle lines. The Hammersmith and City and Circle line platforms at Baker Street. Before 1990, the Hammersmith and City line was running, but not as a separate line as it does today. It was still part of the Metropolitan line between Hammersmith and Barking.
if i'm not mistaken, the metro had open-air spots along the way to allow the smoke to be released outside. there is a famous house in London that looks normal from the front but there's actually nothing on the back, it's just the facade, and it was built to hide the stretch of railroad behind it that was open above the surface.
There were regular air vents all along the route. If you go to many central stations, however, the ceilings and brickwork above the tracks are still covered in soot from that time... Also, as early as 1890 electric trains were introduced, and by the turn of the century all new trains were electrically powered, so all of the deep-bored tunnels, even the early ones, didn't need any ventilation except at the stations themselves for passengers and pressure equalisation due to the tunnel effect.
3:59 Your map omits several Canadian cities, but "builds" subways in relatively unpopulated areas near Hudson's Bay and Northern Quebec. Great research :^/
If you use the Metropolitan Line, at Bakers Street you can still see the ventilation tube, noting that the first underground train was a steam powered. Isambard Kingdom Brunel actually developed the technique to tunnel under a river that was later used by the Underground. PS We do not have a Subway or Metro here it is the Underground or Tube, thanks.
4:03 those dots near the Hudson’s bay and James bay in Canada (Ontario and Quebec) are definitely NOT correct. Those are tiny First Nations villages not even connected to the road networks or power grid!
The London Underground was the first and most influential underground train network, others such as the American, French and German systems followed its example.
@Craig F. Thompson ever heard of London Themes Tunnel under water tunnel built in 1825? it was not just underground but underwater, and Railway was also invented in Britain so by British Richard Trevithick and world's first Train the locomotive invented by British George Stephenson, even first train in USA had to import from Britain called the Stourbridge Lion and John Bull Locomotive
@Craig F. Thompson what is your point? World's first railroad tunnel was still invented in Derbyshire, Britain called Stoddart Tunnel in 1796 and Railway, Locomotive and Train were all invented in Britain in 1804 by Richard Trevithick and George Stephenson, Everything was invented in Britain as World's first Industrial Revolution happened in Britain, Britain created the first industrialized modern world. Britain invented Steam Engine by Thomas Newcomen and James Watt which led to basically everything in this modern world
Why are you calling it subway and not metro? I mean the word metro developed from the Metropolitan Railway (although it's not used in London) and also metro is the standard term for these kinds of rapid transit systems
MarioFanGamer well Underground is only the one in London, Glasgow has the subway and Newcastle has the Tyne-and-Wear Metro but (as a non-native) I think metro is accepted as a general term
We either call it the tube or the underground, but mostly the tube, as that's it's official name. We call it that from the shape of the tunnels, like said in the video
The video doesn't really portray the exhaust correctly. The pre-electric locomotives had condensers, which meant that emissions were kept to a minimum- but the cooling water for the condensers reached boiling point quite quickly, so frequent water changes were required (luckily the trains had to stop every few hundred metres for the stations anyway).
I call it the underground because it is a British invention. I don't care how invented the internet or the Computer, that is an entirely different issue especially since Computers can refer to two entirely different things in terms of history, because it doesn't matter. So long as you are speaking English and refering to the underground, the correct comes from the country that invented it not the country that later used it
100 years from now people will talk the same way about elon musks hyperloop thats what first struck my mind before this videos i never thought of its feasability only thought of it as a pipe dream.
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