@@HenrysAdventures I mean, this video is about as busy as my local station (Osterley) gets when I am there. usually see about 10 people on the platforms waiting for a train.
The island platform is Clapham North. The reason why Clapham Common and Clapham North stations have the island platforms was that it was cheaper to build. Angel and Euston were island platforms before being rebuilt to single platforms due to safety concerns and overcrowding and the narrower island platforms were not adequate anymore. It would be expensive to rebuild Common and North to single platforms and not on TfL's important things to do list at the moment. The 1959 and 1962 stock's time on the Northern line was coming to an end as one 1995 stock that came on, retired one 59/62 from passenger service.
At least Three notable features about The Northern Line Hampstead one of the deepest stations on The LU Network then there's Angel Islington after it was completely refurbished the lifts were replaced with the longest escalators in Western Europe at 197 feet long with a vertical rise of 90 degrees and then The Northern Line is home to the oldest section of tube railway in the world the section between Stockwell and what was King William Street that opened on The 18th of December 1890. So a lot of Nostalgia There.
1044 and 1045 are on Alderney, 1044 is certainly shown here! Really wonderful to see it on juice power on this clip! Just come back from Alderney and was brilliant to travel on them there. They only use one set of doors on each carriage now, but these are still controlled using the compressed air system, powered by battery. The brakes are also still original and I was told these will easily overpower the 70 year old vulcan shunter diesel in the event of an emergency stop.
Boy did we try and try again and again but were never given permission to film. We tried the museum, the Mayor, NYC Subway authority, we even had a driver who wanted to film with us but all to no avail. We had no choice but to give up.
@Joe Schmo Thousands of sales later, we can count the number of people who feel like this on one hand. Why would we have been able to afford to produce every single LUL line over the years if people didn't like what they see and hear and come back time and time again. HOWEVER, we DO offer FX only button on our latest productions so people DO have the choice now.
Guessing they got rid of the 1972mk1 stock on the Northern line by this time. Some ex Central line 1962 stock was transferred to the Northern line to give the mk1 72s the chop. Most were scrapped and some were transferred to both the Bakerloo and Victoria. A few mk1s still remain in service on the Bakerloo line as half units with the mk2s as one train.
I remember that I was not a happy bunny in those days. I had a moment of truth at Morden in 1998, took the Bank branch (1959 stock) back to Kings Cross and I decided that the Wen was not for me. Drove back up the A1 the next day, after a last valedictory lunch at Highgate 'Spoons. London is great to visit, but not to live in. However, I still have so many happy childhood London memories, mostly soundtracked by the old electric motors of tube trains and slam-door Southern Region EMUS.
I remember hearing the familiar farting noise from the isolation cock when the train shuts down. I heard a lot of that on the A60 Stock on the Metropolitan Line at Baker Street the the East London Line at New Cross Gate before it became part of London Overground 2 or 3 years later.
Likewise! I loved this noise, and was beyond chuffed (pun intended) to rather unexpectedly get the chance to trigger this same noise for myself for a few years on the A60/62 stocks. Arrival at a terminus was lent a sense of occasion!
I'm wondering if you looked through your archives would you have some shots of some 1983 Jubliee Tube Stock or even C and D Underground Surface stock and 1967 Victoria Tube Stock outtakes from your previous Drivers Eye Views.
I know that they were the exception rather than the rule but I prefer the look of the 1959 stock trains when they were painted, either in heritage Standard Stock livery or LU corporate livery
@@leonardssenkindu5802 well, playing devil's advocate, life doesn't stand still and eventually it gets more and more expensive to keep old parts going, especially with the demands of an ever growing Capital City
I assume all the 1972mk1 stock had been chopped off from the Northern line by this time. The 1959 stock stayed on a bit longer as thy were better in performance than the 72mk1s For every 95 train that came into service, one 59 was taken out.
Those trains should have guards, as the trains were built for driving with a guard and guards stopped on the tube in 2000 Edit: Just noticed the guard…
Some of the 1962 stock went to the Northern line after the 1992 stock took over on the Central Line and they were mixed with the 1959s in the 3 car part of the train, likewise the 1956 stock.
Excellent footage of the 59’s , it’s a shame video125 didn’t do the Northern line drivers eye view using a 59 , the same way they did the central line one in 1992 , using the 62’s
That farting noise, the smell of brake dust, and in the early 90s at least, the 24-hour sound of car alarms and cold engines being revved beyond their limits as neds stole car after car after car from every street in Britain. Happy days!
It's because they were a smaller fleet than the '59 stock, by withdrawing them first it meant there were less types of stock to train new crews on at once.
@@basictransportenthusiast4386 there is a complete ex Northern line 1972mk1 train on the Bakerloo line. I saw it when passing through Queens Park sidings, it was parked there. The remaining few are half units combined with some mk2s maybe as replacements for damaged and written off mk2 carriages.
It didn't. The 59ts that was painted in what we now know as the LU corporate livery was similar to all the others - it was just a coat of paint on the outside.
