Piccadilly Line. Reversing West to East at Kings Cross. London Underground. 

Hi Dale really enjoy your videos mostly explaining things you are very informative keep up the good work 😊

Feet up, beer in hand, lets go. 👍

Love this. It brings back happy memories doing development wort on electronically controlled brake systems. First with A stock on the East London line and later in the 80’s on the Pic 72 tube stock and then on the 86 Tube Stock Blue and Green prototypes. Made many friends. Does anybody remember a guard called “noisy boisy” ? He had a voice like an RSM. His driver was a very mild mannered gentleman who had route knowledge over the whole system. Great privilege to work with those guys and learn the “secrets of the underworld”. Ron

Really enjoying these videos, there's something rather hypnotic about them, cheers Dale!

Nice view through the pipe. Quite a few stations 🚉

Fascinating insight . Thanks for taking us along

Brilliant thanks for taking us all along with you. You mentioned everything in your coat pockets, I would be interested in seeing what kit you need if you could kindly show us or explain in a video. Cheers Mike

Amazing video again. Love watching them from Canada.

I find the edging to the tunnel portals are different on just about every stop. Interesting feature.

Another brilliant video Dale Thanks for taking the time to share this with us all Top bloke Up The VILLA

Great video as ever! I'm currently exploring the Piccadilly Line (visiting all stations and other sites of interest over a number of day-trips) and your videos compliment my travels beautifully, showing lots of views that you can't get as a casual passenger on the tube!

Fascinating. Thanks Dale.

I just love these, thank you so much.

Great explanations for everything. Thanks.

Wonderful video, thank you.

Love these deep dives into the LUL. Brings back old memories of engineering hours on the network, trundling along on the engineering unit.

Another great video well done

Excellent. Always like the videos

Thank's Dale another great ride. 🚂

Brilliant content, Dale. Very insightful. Thanks!

Amazing video again 👏

Thanks for another Great video Dale 👍👌👌

Love your videos!!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Very interesting video as always. Cheers Dale.

Your videos are so interesting, Thank You very much.

Another great video from the Pipe! Thank you, Dale!

I'll go for Finsbury Park as the odd one out...the platform was on the left. lol. Very enjoyable as always Dale, thank you. All the best.

Very interesting, love your site, very informative 👍 👌 👏

Another cracking video pal which I'll watch in stages.

Great video there Dale I was down on Saturday. I love the Piccadilly line trains

Another great video, Dale. As always very informative 👍

Another Great insight of being a Tube Driver. Look forward to your next upload

Brilliant Dave 😊

Thanks you Dale, it is interesting to learn about your different duties and shift patterns. Take care

Thanks for showing us this. I don't think that most passengers understand where trains can turn back and when they can not turn back, so some passengers get frustrated over big sections being out of service for engineering works that might be quite far away from where the trains are running. Obviously the people who built the Piccadilly Line and other deep level tube lines could have put in a lot more places for trains to reverse (like one between every station) but that would just mean there would be more switches and crossings on the network and more potential points failures that could happen. So someone planning the railway has had to decide how many different sections the Piccadilly Line should consist of. And drivers like you have to be able to do all the mini-sections of the Piccadilly Line, as well as the entire route. I know that one of the original acts of Parliament was to route the original railway line that was the east part of the Piccadilly Line down to Strand Station and on to the never built route to Waterloo. Are there many times when trains get routed into the disused platform from Holburn station towards the Strand, for you to reverse there? I remember one time the District Line had engineering works and we actually had a railway replacement service from Wimbledon to East Putney that was not a bus. Instead it was a British Rail train running a shuttle service between Wimbledon Station and East Putney! I've never seen anything like it before or since. I don't remember why I went on the District Line that day, but I do remember that special British Rail take back of that part of the District Line. If you don't actually need to do the full route of a railway line that is getting closed for engineering works, it's actually kind of cool to be able to be able to say you have been a passenger on the special train that did the thing that the trains did not normally do. It is as cool as being on Parliamentary Services. However, I do wish that TfL would advertise engineering works a bit better. I don't mean "give more notice". I mean that they should talk to people about what is actually happening. I once went to West Brompton, when the District Line was shut and looked through the fence at a bunch of engineers ripping up the track and replacing it all. I think they were doing slab track stuff for the Four Lines Modernisation. They really should have set up a time-lapse camera on the overbridge and got people like Geoff Marshall or the Hidden London Hangouts team to visit that construction work.

That was very good, thanks. I find your videos so interesting and it's fascinating to see the tube from another perspective.

Great video

Hiya Dale love your content always watching them next time I'm in London I'll look out for you take care 😊

It surely looks like a job where you have to be constantly alert and keep a lot of information in your head. Thanks for the video, Dave! Enjoyable as always.

It's was fun to ride with you along. Thanks for your new video. Gr from Holland, your Dutch fan 👍

Greetings from down under (Australia). Another great vlog, love London and the tube! Enjoy your commentary, very informative!

Another great video on other aspects of your work. Never tire watching your tube journeys. Was in London(today) & will be on Tuesday & Wednesday, but on the Hammersmith & City/Northern lines. Nice one Dale! 😊 👍

Another great video of switching action on the Picc. Fascinating stuff. Keep up the amazing work, mate! Safe travels.

Love your videos, very interesting and informative. I hate to be stuck in a tunnel while being on the Tube ! but your videos give me a better understanding of the tube system.

Excellent video Dave, thanks for the rare insight. Keep them coming. No need to apologise for anything

Cool vids Dale 👍

Great stuff Dale : )

Excellent thanks

Another great video :)

This is the best channel that I have come across in a long time. Thank you.

Hi Dale thanks for the content this is really good it's things we would never usually see. I've been interested in the underground ever since my first trip to London when I was a kid. The trains have changed a bit since then still deisel units at the moment on the Gillingham Dorset to Waterloo line but back then in the 80's they were old thumpers. Anyway thankyou muchly

Great video ,enjoying my education on how the London underground works . Take care, keep on driving, out here I watch truck driving videos, so y sign off would be take care keep on trucking😊

Fun ride

A great insight into something else we the pubic wouldn't see. Thanks, this is very interesting :)

Another Great and learning experience! I'm just amazed how well you the know the tracks, signals, limits, hills UP/DN . If you were in the Matrix, you would only need to see the signals and still be able to do your job! Thanks again for a great vid!!!!!

That is particularly interesting. Using two drivers by stepping back is so sensible and practical. I also liked the way Northfields' sidings had boarding platforms for drivers. I'd love to see inside the reversing sidings at Liverpoool Street on the Central Line.

Hello Dale. Great video and commentary again. My son aspires to be a train op - currently a TFL intern doing a CSA attachment, so loves to hear the explanations you give as to what you are doing. Please keep the videos coming.

Love This. I wish I could do the same sort of videos on the mainline.

Great stuff Dale, thanks for sharing mate, even caught a rat or mouse on camera right at end 30:39 bottom right hand side

Wonderful vids thats what i wanted to do a few years ago but now i live in the Channel Islands i don't get to the UK very often but still like to see the underground

Having been to Down Street station on one of the Hidden London visits, it would be interesting to see what it's like when you drive into the reversing tunnel if you're ever rostered for that turn.

Stepping back is used alot at Brixton on the VIC ,is it’s used at elephant if you know on the Bakerloo please mate ,still say your a lucky geeza wish I done it mmm,all the best bud Mark 😊😊

I've been to the Isle of Wight to ride on the old London underground D78 Stock train which was on the District line from Upminster/Tower Hill/ High Street Kensington to Wimbledon Richmond Olympia & Ealing Broadway

Waiting to see myself on the platform one day.

Great video I wish I can see you in real life on the Piccadilly line

Great day when Dale posts a new video

I like "on the cushions". Good expression 😂

Very Good Video, As a thought for the dark sections do you have any Infrared LEDs, My Dashcam has them fitted and allow it to be easier to se e in the dark sections

Amazing how you still know where you are even when in a long dark tunnel. Apart from the signals, I'd have thought more illuminated, or at worst retroflective distance markers would be put on the tunnels.

I know this ain't going to happen unfortunately since the company might have choice words but I'd love to see the new 24 stock get delivered to the depot when it does arrive. Anyway love your videos, Jolly good to have the feet up and beer in hand. Keep it up.

I would love to see a video where you show us around the cab and all of the different parts of the electrics that you need to use to make the train work

The change in the platform architecture from Arsenal is interesting, makes me wonder was the Picc line extended from Finsbury Park as that platform also looks different to the previous station platforms.

great to see abnormal operations.

My son worked the West End of that shutdown last weekend 25th 26th May think we see you last Friday going past us on my Cab ride going East

Another great video Dale, it's really good to experience parts of the Tube we don't get to see. I was wondering if you had any friends who drive on other lines you could 'buddy' up with and make some other videos with? All subject to the rules of course such as being allowed in the cab of other stocks. A goer or just a 'pipe' dream?

Hi Dale great videos. I'm a Train Sim World 4 fan, never could "Drive" the Bakerloo - London Underground. Well with your comentaries, I can now move the thing. Your stopping point triangles are missing :( Perhaps you could give us an idea of your breaking points and which notch your using. We have the 1972 Mark 2 Stock. I notice from this video your sigs are similar to surface rail, next aspect red previous aspect yellow. Any tips helpful!!

Aldgate East is bad for rail arc was looking at a train pulling out ⚡️couldn’t see anything for a few secs 😂

Good video Dale can you please show us the Uxbridge depot where trains go empty from Uxbridge Station to The depot

Interesting video, thanks. May I ask how do they keep the signal lights clean in the tunnels. I would imagine it's very dirty there. Frederick

Will you ever do the crossing siding to the Northern Line platform from Kings Cross Eastbound platform down to the Northern Line tracks? If I'm correct it'll take you from there right to where Euston is on the Southbound, except the train wouldn't be going into the Southbound platform but right where the tunnel is if I am correct?

Another cracking watch mate, any news of when the driving jobs may be advertised externally ?

Really enjoying your videos, thank you for sharing them. I have a question, I know you work on the Piccadilly line but could you be tasked with driving another line if TfL were short staffed?

On mainline trains, the rulebook mandates a running brake test as soon as a driver can after getting under way with a new train. Does the LUL rulebook not do that?

Hi Dale Great videos thanks for taking the time & effort to make them. In this one you mentioned about the power of the headlights. Is it not possible for the lights to be upgraded to LED's & improved?

Be down at Kings cross in a few weeks to get on Eurostar to Amsterdam, hopeuflly if get the tube might run into you!

Great Video. Question: Can you be asked to work at both ends of the line if the central part is closed? For e.g. Cockfosters to Kings Cross: Have a break ,then go to Acton Town.

I felt like a Vic driver last weekend.. it was surprising how long it took to get from cock to kings and back.. you’d think just over an hour but it took hour 45 I think. I missed the fun with the station evacuation from the Leeds fans throwing a flare

Great video. I watched your first Piccadilly line video; I have no idea why it popped up in my RU-vid feed but it was very interesting to watch. I used to live in London not far from Northfields station so travelled on the Piccadilly line a lot. You should definitely make more of these London Underground / drivers view videos, they’re very interesting. Do you only work on the Piccadilly line or do you drive trains on other lines eg Victoria line, Central line etc? 😊

always wanted to go on the front of a Piccadilly line train

Excellent video again, thank you. I was wondering how effective the cab Aircon is? Is it enough to keep you cool or does it just take the edge off the heat?

It's very interesting, I watched a jubilee line train video recently and they don't really drive the train at all. Mostly just push the buttons and the train does the work including acceleration and braking etc... Wonder if the new Piccadilly trains stock is going to be like that too?

great video i see the 1938 stock is on the line later in the year will it be a piccadilly line driver driving it or a someone else with route knowledge keep up the great work thank you

Brilliant video, thank you. One question, are the gaps in the conductor rails to enable the power to be shut off to a specific section of track?

Dale, new subscriber and really loving your videos and insightful and interesting commentary. Apologies if you’ve answered this before but will you miss the 1973 stock when it’s eventually retired? I’m a train nerd so I love them but I guess regular passengers on the Piccadilly will be looking forward to the new rolling stock.

Love your videos. Question: You mentioned that there is a road from the Northern Line to the Piccadilly Line, does that mean you could drive the 73' stock in the Northern Line? Love your videos and hope you do T4 loop soon. 👏👍

Hi Dale, newish subscriber. At one point there was a double green on the right and single green opposite on the left. Don't get that. Also why are most of the signals on the right hand side? PS. really like your vids :)

Thx!! 🙏 So no service KC-Acton. What about Uxbridge/Heathrow? Where did they start/terminate? BTW, incredibly weak headlights. Is it the camera or are they really sufficient? 🤔

Thanks for another great video! As a matter of interest, when relieving the train, don't you perform a running brake/brake sufficiency test when departing?

Dale, what do the signs D and T (sometimes with a cross) signify?

Hello Dale, really enjoying your videos. I have one question: beneath the monitors at the end of the platforms there are blue signs with letters 'A' or 'B', what is their purpose?