My first experience with the tube was at Queensway in 2017. My wife and I spent the night in a sub-basement hotel room and we could hear the underground trains coming and going from Queensway through the ground! Then in the morning we went to Queensway and caught the train into the city, and I was blown away by the noise and wind that came out of the tunnel in front of the train! It was amazing! The train went over a junction just before appearing and there was a great crash and a huge flash of light and then this tiny little train popped out of the hole in the wall. It really was all very fun! I loved every minute of it. The Central line is my favourite by far.
@@MIKEJ788 Victoria, Jubilee, Bakerloo, Northern, Waterloo & City, DLR all pass under the Thames at some point, as do Overground and Thameslink. The only other line to interact with the Thames is the District line which passes over the Thames at two points (different branches).
My kid self always likened the approaching 1962 stock (in its last decade) to a fire-breathing dragon whenever it thundered into a station from the tunnel. I still got that same vibe from this footage, so well done on capturing the sounds and visuals!
That's normal for the Central Line. It's the noisiest line on the Underground, wheels and the electric connection grinding on the rails. Other lines sound different.
@@Great_WesternTVFan I live opposite a park that an above ground section of the Piccadilly line runs past and it sounds totally different, from an above ground section of the Jubilee line, that goes past where my younger brother lives, and that's also taking into account that the trains are three times closer to his place. The Jubilee is far louder, and I know that because further down the main road, near where my younger brother lives, it goes past a supermarket car park, at the same distance, as the Piccadilly does when you walk into the park.
❤️ To those of us who were children in the early 1960s… The sites, the sounds, and the smells and damp-dirty breezes of the subways returning to the station, are exhilarating and magical!!
I remember Being fascinated by the underground as a toddler. I used to wonder if there was a race of creatures living in the tunnels and I would look out of the train windows hoping to catch a glimpse of them when I travelled on the underground.
Probably an odd request but can I use the sound from this in a nonprofit film im making? Wanted something that sounded scary but is iconically english backstory. Would provide credit of course.
@@anidiot724 well I guess that's why you have the warning signs, but when the train is running outside you can easily get most the time unless there is bridge, viaduct or other narrow space. Why its so narrow in the tunnel?
Probably because of the technology at the time, the original tunnels were dug by miners using pickaxes. It would have been easier and quicker to make a smaller tunnel and make the train fit in it than to build a tunnel big enough for a full size train
