London Underground: How Was It Built? | London 2000 Years of History | Channel 5  

Have you ever travelled on the London Underground?

I’m allways fascinated how they built so many underground tunnels in London and to high quality. But not only underground, overground rail system, bus public transport, architecture, electricity, gas water.

Is it just me, or is the music just too loud compared to the dialogue in places?

As an ex- Londoner who used the tube for most of my school and working life I was always fascinated by how they built the underground….

My city, my home, greatest city on earth. London rocks!

I never realised that the tunnel boring machine was left there. Brunel was a pioneer and changed the way the world lived.

title should read 4 and half minutes about building the tube and then 5 minutes extra with two well dressed, well educated ladies talking about poverty in london

Soundtrack is over the top

Great to know about the world 's first metro, the London tube

I love London. Glad I found Channel 5.

Charles Booth was the subject of a 6 part series about poverty of the time called the secret history of our streets . My road was one of these episodes and they filmed in my house with my family appearing in it

London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom and one of the largest and most important cities in the world. The area was originally settled by early hunter gatherers around 6,000 B.C., and researchers have found evidence of Bronze Age bridges and Iron Age forts near the River Thamesis. Ancient Romans founded a port and trading settlement called Londinium in 43 A.D., and a few years later a bridge was constructed across the Thames to facilitate commerce and troop movements. But in 60 A.D., Celtic queen Boudicca led an army to sack the city, which was burned to the ground in the first of many fires to destroy London. The city was soon rebuilt, but burned again about 125 A.D. More rebuilding occurred, and within a few generations the population exceeded 40,000 people. After the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D., however, the city was attacked numerous times by Vikingsand other raiders, and soon London was largely abandoned.

i ove watching this video about the history of london's transport

I was in London two days ago used the underground and I've always thought who came up with this genius idea and hard work to build. And thjs video comes on my suggestions .

Me and my Friend travelled from Golders Green Once....And stopped at Hampstead twice.....On the same journey!

Fascinating!

The picture of '1860 London' 0:56 has motor cars and buses

Great video!

In large part the Irish built the underground with picks, shovels and the sweat of their brow!

1:17 that dirty look the lady gives him 😂😂😂

It is built in many different ways, depending on which era each part of the network is built in. In the 1800s, they used more basic tools, relying on plenty of labourers and today, they use laser guided TBMs.

This is fantastic

Brilliant video 👏

It's a marvel how they built it tbh! Engineering at its finest 👌

The picture of the tunnels at 1:56 is actually Woodhead in northern England, around 200 miles away from London.

I love this video

Ah, east London hasn’t changed much

Everyday I'll go underground nice place

Wow the underground is old

One of my favourites about the Victorians is the History Timeline of Policemen.

Yes, lot's of time's unfortunately to go to Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, as a baby, since my birth in 1966.

The empire is now gone but the poverty still remains.

I needed to know why don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so they extend the unused abandoned underground stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into six cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on those six cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers? A Stock Trains and 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it bigger and extend it to bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those 4 European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Train tunnel into a High-Speed train? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Train line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those 4 European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbish 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 37 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project that is OK for London Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly line and also build brand-new underground train stations so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street and also make another brand new tunnel train station in Chingford and could they extend the DLR? All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Six carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and they can order Every 17 Octagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.11 and unique small no.10 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 117MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 117MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 16 Tonnes for all of the 117MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are Told!! And please do something about these essential Professional ideas Please the Prime Minister of England, the Prime Minister of Sweden, the Prime Minister of Germany, the Prime Minister of Italy, the Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.

How was the life before underground,and how was after that then up to now,it's had been slow progress?

Both That & Glasgow Subway Are Parts Of The English & Celtic Tube Gauge Railways (E & C R) Known As: The Anglo-Celtic Tubular Railways

The Brits were awesome back then. Railways???....we ruled! Brunel family were genius.

5p from Leicester Square to Piccardilly Circus in 1975 !

I am in London now

There is a phenomenal book about poverty in London in 1902 by Jack London - "The People of the Abyss".

Should have turned the music up a bit, then we wouldn't have been able to hear the talking at all.

Victorian Britain was way ahead of anyone else

GREAT. BRICKLAYER,S. THE. BEST , THERE .

I have to watch this for the english Homeshooling

That is in TowerHamlets.

The music is far loo loud for the commentary.

My theory is this if there's one picture there's another picture hidden or lost they call it the skeleton in the closet😮

Look into Tartaria

the music editor should never edit anything again, fking loud

Who mixed the music and voice?

1:19 girl looking thinking why is this guy walking down the street talking like a 🔔🔚

The first new Metropolitan Policemen Force founded by Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850) in 1829.

I could not hear the dialogue for the loud music.Shame because I was interested.

I could only watch this for a few minures. The music is ridiculously loud.

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What happened to rob bell’s show?

I am disappointed by this documentary because it doesn't show how and where they actually recruited people from. So I will tell you, they recruited people from all parts of the world because it was cheaper and the people could work for longer hours. So the London underground as well as the whole Transport For London was built by foreigners. You mentioned the British Empire without giving any background information and how it relates to the underground as well as the whole Transport For London. Thousands if not millions of foreigners risked their lives building this city. If you don't believe me well go research about Aldgate station because underneath it they're thousands of dead bodies. And just to spice things up a bit, I know someone who actually denounced their British citizenship because of how they treated foreigners. Unfortunately the countries which the British went to or ruled, they took all the jewels and wealth from there and ran off, cowards. So next time when someone says "get out of my country you don't belong here", tell them "I will only leave if you give me back the stolen jewels back"...

The music overlay is dreadful. Makes it very hard to hear the commentary.

1:17 that girl was so confused

do i need tv license to watch this?

Queen Victoria's Regin 1837-1901.

everyone in london has

Miner requirements of the Victorian era: Must be male, have a moustache and a hat.

It was built using specially bred moles. Such a shame we've lost this technology.

Where can someone outside of the UK watch this whole series?

Nice 👌 😅white stilettos 👠

You know how you watch a boring (get it?) documentary and fall asleep.... So did Jack the Ripper work on the underground? One minute I’m watching a documentary about building the underground and then I’m watching a documentary about Jack the Ripper?

Omar Mohammed, a true British citizen. I think he is very proud of what his ancestors did in London haha.

at only 1 square mile london can not be the largest city anywhere

Why show buses 1860

Even after Booth warned of the degradation and crime caused by poverty nothing has Changed, WHY? Because they have built a whole industry around Poverty. They need the poor, Prisons, probation, social Services, Charities, etc etc etc.

The original Booth`s Poverty Map Of London didn`t say that "Black signifies Poor or Semi-Criminal"....It said Black was "Lowest class.Vicious,semi-criminal".

What I want to know is how did they get the trains into the tunnels 😅

Was Katherine Holman there too

Send tall one to the bar when you don't have I'd.

We've gone back in time and are re-creating slums.

Look at all those Africans building London 🤔

USA transportation needs help from UK

Pretty sure double decker busses weren't around in 1863

U mean it was at street level once then got levelled up again ?

Can't hear clearly because of the loud music.

Seems like 2 separate documentaries...both interesting but kinda disjointed video

They built a machine to dig in the 1800s.

It’s funny that not that much has changed the poverty is still here

Built by the Tartarians, inherited by us

WHAT ABOUT THAT ANCIENT GREEK WHO PINPOINTED TUNNELLING THROUGH MOUNTAINS TO PERFECTION AT BOTH SIDES!

Your doing a big documentary showing us how the Victorians built the underground and he turns up with the most tiniest torch light so we can barely see. Smh

You Gotta love life for it's fakery!

Today’s civilisation thinks nothing happened before they came.. 😂😂😂

Such great rail system has equally worse homes on earth with tiny rooms no ensuits no balconies, no rooftops no drain system, you open tap in kitchen, bathroom gets low water pressure

Picks

Victorian Era 1837-1901.

I would have listened if ONLY I could discern the narrative overwhelmed by the INFERNAL RACKET in the foreground. That sound engineer needs to get a new set of ears!!

Logic would dictate that old jack was living in poverty as well.

Watch out tfl you might have to apologise to donkeys for using there great great great great great granparents to pull carts

1860s.

This is quite disingenuous, congestion in London at victorian time that triggered thr building of the underground wasn't cars. They didn't arrive in UK until 1890s. Metropolitan line was opened in 1863. The Metropolitan line predates the arrival of cars in the UK

Hang on? .... shouldn't Tim Dunn be presenting this!! 🤔🤨😄

Fantastic evolution and still the service is rubbish. Sadly the poverty levels have not changed much either.

First half of programme doesn’t match the second!

"Victorian" London, the largest city on Earth, paid by colonies from India and Afrika