London Underground. Delays and reversing at Heathrow Terminal 2/3. Piccadilly Line. Drivers POV 

To any London transport bosses. Thanks for allowing Dale to show us these videos. I am not a train person, but this I love. London Underground is a world of it's own. Love it.

Don’t worry to film the usual stuff that has been shown before. We are here for the ride and every ride is different.

16:11 "I will still be going to the toilet at terminal 4 mind you, just in case you are worried about me" great sense of humour😅

So, being the weird kid that I still am, I "got" to ride the bus home starting in 1st grade, and I found it very exciting. The bus that served my route happened to be a flat-nose, which meant the front wheel well was in the first and second row of seats. I stood on that wheel well right behind the driver, and absolutely pestered him with questions the whole trip home almost every day. To his credit, he answered every last one with the patience of a saint, and I cherish the memories of how his tolerance of my relentless curiosity made a seemingly mundane thing supremely interesting. Your videos bring me right back to that wide-eyed knowledge sponge that I once was, and I can't express how happy I am to watch each one. Cheers, mate. We need more like you ❤

This channel should be prescribed on the NHS. Wonderfully relaxing.

CSDE - Correct Side Door Enable. There is a Transmitter on the platform and a Receiver on the train and there is a 1.8m tolerance in total from the perfect stopping mark, 900mm in both directions. The Receiver on the 73TS is on the steps getting to the cab door. There is a aerial loop 1.8 m in length under the platform which gives you the tolerance. Difference at Turnham Green its set up differently due to when the D stock was operating, the S stock use a different CSDE system

Dale, joke coming up…..why do elephants wear sandals….to stop them sinking into the sand….why do ostriches stick their heads in the sand….they’re looking for elephants that were not wearing sandals. Love your channel thanks😊

Always very relaxing and wholesome watching your videos. It's as if we're making the drive together, nothing crazy just chatting away about anything as we chug along. Don't worry about the footage being repetitive, your commentary - even when not about the intricacies of the underground - is nice to listen to. You're very knowledgable and are good at explaining. Keep up the great content!

Your explanation of CSDE and the over-ride procedure was eminently understandable. Thanks for another great video, Dale!

Thanks! Keep up the good work. People need to understand the vast degrees of knowledge and focus required by any train engineer. Your videos and commentary exemplify this.

Blimey Dale, getting home around 3am, that’s when I’m usually getting up. Another good upload, ty.

Appreciated, Dale. Wasn't a "mess" at all! Good commentary. Take care. 😊 👍

What’s sad for me is how the old workhorse 73 looks so tired now I’ve lived by the picc in Hammersmith for 47 years and remember the last one delivered in the half red front and shiny aluminium finish then later the refurb ,be nice if one unit could be wrapped to look like an as built train for its last years like they done with the class 507 and a 455 ,take care 😊hope the new trains don’t get tagged and are looked after they are one of the first trains passengers see at Heathrow so it’s good to make a good impression of the U.K.

LMAO "Also i'm ginger, so I melt" 😂

Great seeing the above ground stations all lit up at night. Very enjoyable Dale...thank you.

Keep producing the videos Dale.Dont worry about being the repetitive you always make them interesting.

Dale, we love your waffling about all-and-nothing, and I love it when you repeat things. We have never seen this side of life before.

This video is definitely better than tonight’s game!

I love these insights into how the system works. Many thanks.

Thanks once more for an excellent video Dale. I like the night time views very much. I also suffer with OCD and symmetry is my thing too, so I know exactly where you are coming from. Keep up the good work.

I'm part of the early club and couldn't be happier

Thanks for the chat mate. Always a pleasure to ride along.

Another great video Dale. I was one of the ones that asked about opening the doors on the wrong side of the train so thanks for the explanation of CSDE.

This is great Dale. Have watched your videos and your breath of knowledge is fantastic. Please encourage your colleagues on other lines to do similar. I love these kind of videos!

That was a treat to see such an informative night time run, which through experience you called right as control did reverse you as you predicted. 👍.

Excellent once more Dale, your commentary is really informative and enjoyable. Thank you

Another great video, best drivers eye video's on RU-vid, cheers Dale

I taught my pet dog to play the trumpet on the London Underground today He went from Barking to Tooting in about 15 minutes

Really enjoying these rides with you. It's fun to see the Piccadilly line after retiring in 2016. Good to see the run down from HTX to T23 for a change. CSDE: Basically the electronics are a loop of wire attached to the platform wall close to the headwall providing an enabling signal. Trains are equipped with an aerial on each side below the cabs and just below platform level. The train has to be in the area of the loop so the aerial picks up the signal to allow the doors to be opened on the correct side. Simple but effective. As station staff we can disable the loop usually if the station is closed for any reason to remind train operators not to open the doors there.

Always good watching from Dale's travels

Thank you, Dale. Always interesting, and you explain issues very clearly.

I enjoyed that one Dale, always nice to see when things don't always run smoothly, thanks for uploading.

As someone who is very much based up north with the Tyne and Wear Metro, the underground has always amazed me in terms of investment and infrastructure. Metro opened in 1980 and were only just starting to get new trains after years of retrofitting. Service generally stops at 11pm with trains between 7-20 mins apart. London doesn't know how lucky they have it.

When you said the people throwing themselves through the doors as they’re closing it reminded me of what happened when I was a kid We have lived in Wales since I was five but are originally from Kent and my mum’s parents and brother still live there and part of our journey to visiting them involved the tube (Euston to Victoria and visa versa) and we got to Euston and it was busy and the train that got to the platform was full so we decided to wait and this person threw their suitcase onto this packed train (they were literally like sardines on that train) and then tried to hold the doors open to get themselves on the train and got themselves on but like I was about ten and even I knew that was stupid… 🤦🏻‍♀️ I am still in shock they made it onto the train because they literally had to force the doors open and the train was already so packed that they were leaning against the doors once they had closed 🤦🏻‍♀️

Awesome video, great to learn these little bits of how the trains work and how you drive them.

A great video as usual, with your usual clear explanations. I don't envy you the drive home at that time of night, especially with road closures and all the roadworks, not to mention the numerous speed limits now on the A1.

Thanks for another absorbing video, and the lesson about CSDE. The Piccadilly line is my favourite, it was the first one I ever travelled on at the age of 10. If I tell you it was also when the Victoria line was almost brand new you can guess my age.

Thanks for this! Enjoyed the explanation of the CDSE. Not the first time I've heard a driver say that a big concern is opening the wrong doors. What an interesting service!

Thanks Dale. Loving these, makes me want to make a trip to the big smoke from Cornwall.

Thanks for another great tour of the Tube in action. Always something new and always learn something... Please keep the videos coming...

Great video always interesting plus running at night. Thanks for explanations and could follow the wrong side door prevention measures.

Love the slow TV dale - especially the not so smooth sailing runs, shows the skill of the driver! Great explanation of the selective door opening, good to know the safety motive behind it. Favourite part of the video was the parallel shot with the Pic train, great work & looking forward to the next video. We don't mind the rabbiting on, great slow TV

I love these videos its great to see a different perspective on the underground rather than a passenger perspective and also how polite, and knowledgeable,you are keep it going

Hi mate I have never seen that before when you go from a green to a straight red most unusual I must say good job you had your wits about you!!

Great videos, full of interesting facts and information. Chiswick Park was my "home" station in my teenage years, I'm now 68 ! Can remember the odd Dillypicca line trains stopping there late sometimes. Still running the same trains 😂 Left town 25 years ago for the wilds of North Bucks'. Still a big LT(TfL) fan.

Thanks for your films , chat and information . I worked on the p.way for 20 odd years and your films are a fascinating insight. Look forward to the next installment.

Interesting trip. Thank you.

I always thought Turnham Green was just a place in an Ian Dury song 🙂

Would be cool to see your actual head-POV. So we can see you operate the levers and switches and whatnot. IF that's allowed, then that would be cool, because no one has ever done that!

Loving the vids, watching from aussie. thanks Dale

As others have said @ TfL -- thank you for letting Dale do these videos... and, additionally, @ the other drivers, quiet you, Dale is a famous RU-vidr and you are not, so you show him some proper respect. Also, @ Dale yourself, sir... as I'm sure I've mentioned in the past, between 2000-2007 when my mother was making good money (and before she got sick during the second half of 2007, and we got poor, and I got stuck here in the US on Disability), I've been to the UK and several places On The Continent; London has always been my favorite. My heart and soul shall forever pine for a flat there, although some part of me knows I'll never make it back. If perchance I do, however, I'd hope to meet you in person, working the Piccadilly line -- and maybe, just maybe, we could convince TfL to let me sit in the cab if I promise not to touch anything? That'd be a right trip... :3

The traffic lights can be confusing to the non-driver and underline the necessity of being "certified" for a route.

Night videos are cool, wanna see more of these!

It's not just the heat it's the relative humidity in the UK 😅

Perfect, Just sat down with a brew.

Can't wait to watch this later, enjoying these.

Love the videos mate. Gives a great insight of the London Underground from Australia, Thanks Dale

I really like all the inside information, it really helps aspiring railway workers to get an insight in to certain things! (e.g. are toilet breaks allowed)

I want to drive those:)

Another excellent video keep up the good work

Dad joke for you: A train track and a motorway walk into a McDonald’s… The train track says “A burger for me, and one for the road” 😂

Really enjoyed this one. Also love that you have a cat. Cat people are geeat people! 😻

Nice one Dale I rode the piccadilly line from Ruislip Manor to Covent Garden

21:45 Dayum we got a 3-wide WITH a bonus bus! Awesome.

I do enjoy these videos, thanks for recording.

Do any of those Bullies you mentioned , seriously think that you need to swear in a video?😂😂 They are obviously jelous of how much better of a driver you are. Keep it going, Dale. Watching on holiday in Tbilisi, Georgia

Have you done a video explain all the parts of the train, brakes, motors, electronics, trips switches, controls. I assume you do your own inspections of the training, or possibly have to fault find?

Thank you. Just interested as you travel all over London from east to west.

Always interesting... Many thanks.

Was on a C stock at KCS and the driver opened on the wrong side westbound (before CSDE was a thing) and the driver had to detrain before re-opening the wrong side again and checking the whole train for safety reasons! Used to be standard procedure. Guards never had this issue as they’d realise when they opened their door and saw a wall!

Dale. Thank you. Anyone bullies you, shout me!. I grew up in Toronto in the early days of our Subway. The TTC. (Toronto Transit Commission aka The Red Rocket.) My granny took great glee getting me into the front seat to ride the rails and watch the tracks unfurl and listen to the noise. (Unlike your trains, our cars were divided at the front...a trainmans cubicle on the rght and and a 2 seat chair to the left. With window forward.) As a young boy, I was in heaven. Thank you for recreating that feeling.

great videos im 13 and i plan being a underground driver idk what line though

thank you for the videos

Appreciate your videos, from a ginger brother 👍

Great video dale

I like this video in the evening. Your Gopro camera works really good in the dark

Excellent work as usual mate

Love your video's, you are the first tube driver that really explains everything! That is the best way! Do you ever have shifts during Rush Hour? I would really like seeing London's tube at it busiest.

Another great video.keep them coming

Brilliant Dale, 😎

Hi Dale, Enjoying your videos I am a femail viewer i wonder if there are other ladies interested, i love trains...i am in Shoeburyness so get the C2C to Fenchurch Street and walk round to Tower Hill. I came up Friday to Oxford Circus so had a good day I like First Great Western to Exeter too. Anyway thanks for posting these videos its good to see things from your perspective

Great video Dale

The dad joke about hulk I thought it was funny Turnham green haha 😂

Amazing video Mr Dale plz do more night videos my name is Kagiso from johannesburg south Africa

Thanks Dale. An interesting one that I remember doing once or twice. Lates was always my preference as well. Railway was quieter after the peak. If you ever get a chance a reverse at Hyde park corner &/or Hammersmith would be worth a film. P.s when us the new stock coming online as I see all the new signalling going in ?

24:00 This situation occurs in many places on the network and I think there should be a network-wide policy on this. Where I live (in Harrow), we get this at Harrow on the Hill a lot so I end up standing in the middle of the island platform and watching the signals.

Love the videos Dale, just a quick question, at Northfields (23:57) what are those flashing signals in distance for? Not seen them before!

Interesting the westbound local was all green Acton Town to Northfields, they could have ran you down there or they don’t do that at night because of stabling of trains the depot and you could get stuck behind one if it has an issue getting drunks off? How comes the Eastbound local Northfields to Acton Town is rarely used? Do you use it much? This train looked like a rocket out of Hammersmith towards Turnham Green, the D stock always used to win that race out of Hammersmith.

Speaking of Both Sides District at Barking do it Open Both Sides Upminster or Dagenham Train Eastbound And Stratford central Westbound And Morden

Dale if you upload video as 4K (even if it's only 1080p) RU-vid doesn't compress the dark parts of the video as much. At least that's what I learned years ago when watching dashcam review videos, I don't know if it's still that way (I think it was the Techmoan channel that did this).

Are there many stations where you are with a platform both sides, so you can open both side doors, and how does the auto system work there

Did you know the bridge after Boston Manor is over the M4 motorway

0:27 So that's why the London Underground is so hot. Someone keeps leaving the thermostat on max. 17:00 Plot twist: You leave the PA on and the whole train hears you calling the person that tried to get on while the doors are closing a bloody idiot.

I have binged watched your videos. I love them so much! I have always been interested in the london underground and how it works. My question to you is: Have you ever seen ghosts or apparitions in the tunnels or on the stations? I am so curious as I know the tunnels were used as raid shelters during ww2.

Piccadilly Line 1973 Tube Stock

What a great find this channel! Quick question I don’t think has been covered. Can you start your shift in Uxbridge if you live there? Or does it change daily where you start / always based around Cockfosters?

Can u do a video on the different shifts and day off u get also a vid on a morning start shift and night finish shift of what u do on them shifts please.

Another very interesting video and I appreciate the explanation of how CSDE works, I knew there was something that prevents opening doors the wrong side but I didn’t know exactly how it worked. Good luck getting home at 3am, do you live a long way from the depot?

Ok Dale sorry about the size of cab joke on the new trains my mate works on the hammy ex bus driver like me ,mind you national rail who I work for as an RO2 is so different to the way LU do things 😊

Dale, Dale does not need a pail, toilet stop at Heathrow, allows him to go.