Something that I was struck by when I visited London for the first time a few years back was how clattery and noisy the tube was. It's hailed as a miracle of modern achievement but it's clearly been around for a very long time.
i wouldnt call it modern anymore, but its certainly a great achievement to be able to survive for so long. the line is using stock that around 50 years old! Its long due an update, but its so expensive to build underground now, plus if an existing route gets shut down there would be choas: so many people rely on the underground
Depends what line you use really. Victoria, Hammersmith & City, District, Metropolitan and even the Jubilee line are quiet modern. The Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines are really showing their age though.
Its near impossible to have a quite tube you have metal constantly banging runbing and grinding together in a small tunnel you can have smoother rides with updates but not quieter rides. I am a track worker maintaining track in TFL every night
The London Underground (colloquially known as The Tube) is such an important icon in the day to day running of this city... When I moved to London, I lived in Kilburn - so I could use the, then still relatively new, Jubilee Line. But to get there from the city I did actually prefer the older lines (Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith and City) towards Baker Street. During rush hour the traffic is hellish, especially if lines are disrupted (the Central Line is always a right menace...), but regardless of all the complaining and moaning about the (lack of) service, I've always been absolutely in awe of what this huge system does every day - which is moving literally millions of people per day throughout the city. That's not to be sneezed at, however you look at it. I love the Tube.
The SkyTrain in Vancouver has some quirks too, such as platform 3 at Stadium Chinatown Station. It originally served a shuttle train to Canada Place but after Expo ‘86 it kinda just became a siding for out of service trains and a shortcut the Canucks use to get to Rogers Arena fast…
When Vancouver was founded in a tent next to stumps and rubble, London already had three underground lines. Only took 100 years to get rapid transit, maybe 100 more for the valley….
I remember when that cross over used to be much noise when a train passed through on the further line, glad they have fixed that after all these years.
I didn't even know this existed. I mean, I've travelled on every single line on the Underground and never thought that this place was actually a thing. I really should consider visiting one day.
Does this place have a, some sort of Fragent smell when your standing in there like, old electrical compartments and metal staily smell to sort of speak in it?
Every time I see the tubes crowds I wonder what if London had the bones of the dc metro ie large stations and trains. We have the capacity of 26 trains per hour so not as much as some london lines but with our larger trains if Londons system was built like ours it could move many more people.
Depends on the shape of the rubbish (=graffiti) that had to be erased. This one is different: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gNw_isyllDs.html
Richmond Junction in Melbourne will make you have a heart attack then. it's like metal spaghetti railgallery.wongm.com/mtm-trackwork/F137_2432.jpg.html there is also this massive junction at Southern Cross www.google.com/maps/@-37.8160463,144.9497563,336a,35y,44.76h,8.2t/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu South Dynon Maintenance Centre has a big rail yard too www.google.com/maps/@-37.8050087,144.9258587,504a,35y,6.09h/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
@@bennyceca that's the point. wouldn't it be awesome if you didn't have to walk through an entire maze of passageways in order to change to another line?
@@Gagon32 In most cases you don't really have to. Some stations: yes you're right. Bank / St. Pauls for instance... Bloody rubbish if you can't walk very well. But there's alternatives, and then you can change much easier - even if you have to use stairs to go over the tracks to the other platform. After a while of living in London you'll learn your way around the city :)
@@Gagon32 most of the lines were built by rival companies competing against each other, so little thought was given to interchangeability. The only 2 significant stretches of tube lines built after ww2 (with the underground publicly owned) that run under central London are the Victoria line and the Jubilee line (south of Baker Street). Victoria line in particular was planned to provide easy cross platform interchange with most of the existing deep level tube lines.
@@Gagon32 ah ok thanks for letting me know 😁 I come from Toronto originally and sad part is our subway system could probably be on par with London but politics have majorly got in way so 69 years after it first opened we only have 2 full lines and 1 line with only 5 stations. Another line is being closed very soon rapid transit line it was built as it was deemed a subway line wasn't viable in that area and lone behold 38 years after it opened a subway line is all of a sudden viable 🤔 The new line will only be an extension of line 2 and there is a line 5 due to open behind schedule so unsure how it'll all be branded in the end.
@@PaulFMillen It’s so sad to see how under-financed public transit is in North America, unfortunately both the US and Canada are very car-dependent countries. So therefore it seems more attractive to add more and more lanes to the highways instead of improving public transit..
When i first came to london, something that caught my eye the most was the piccadily line trains and the district line trains. One time i saw a District line train that was vandalized. The piccadily line trains were so loud, and the puccadily line trains were destroyed, no actually, destroyed. There was a window behind me that was shattered with a tiny hole. One time the train derailed while i was in it, it just hit something and fell off the tracks.
@@MACROPARTICLE how? it provides a cross London interchange into south London, which only a few tube lines accomplish. strategically it's very relevant
That would most likely cause some overcrowding on the northern line, which would be an issue as it is already overcrowded, new trains will be rolled out to the bakerloo line in a few years though
