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It’s not known as “the train in the drain”. I’m a Londoner born and bred and I’ve never once heard that. It’s the TUBE. That’s what we all call it. Every day.

99% of comments : *TrAiN iN tHe DrAiN*

I've never seen any documentaries covering the Jubilee Line Extension Project before, so thanks very much for sharing it. The video took me straight back to my early 20's when I was thoroughly enjoying working on the JLEP as the Technical Assistant to the design team, primarily working on the construction of Westminster & Waterloo Stations (Contracts 102 & 104). Haven't thought about it in years until this video popped up. It was such an amazing project with some incredibly talented and generally awesome people. Thanks for reminding me how incredible it was & probably still is if they've been good and have managed to adhere to my station & tunnel maintenance guides.

Train in a drain is something a British person has never said in reference to the tube 🤣🤣

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.

Tube! I am American; When over there, or back in the states the London Underground is referred to as the TUBE, not anything ELSE!

I want to mention a few things, I have never heard the train in the drain, its referenced as the tube. Its not called the london subway, its called the london underground. You will hear subway in the UK as a fast food place or a underground walkway. And the Chelsea Giant is called Battersea Power station.

Condensing tanks did not fill up with fumes. They collected and condensed steam, turning it back to water. The openings above the tube were to allow ventilation of smoke from the engines fire, which was not passed through the condensers and was expelled continuously straight into the tunnels.

I’ve never been to London and even I know everyone calls the London Underground “The Tube”, much like they call New York City’s underground system “THE Subway”.

I’m from the UK, The train in the drain, wtf. Then looked at the comments. XD

never ever in my 34 years living and traveling around london and the Uk have i heard the tube referred to as "the train in the drain" couldn't even watch the rest of this video.

The Waterloo/City line also known as the drain. I used that many times in the past. The narrator is probably reading from a script drawn up by Yahoo staff.

Respect for everyone who contributed to this achievement

Amazing to be the first country to start the underground system that is used across the world’s today, it must have been real hard work back then

I'm an American and even I know it's the "tube" .... daaamn smh

Fascinating!!...and extremely well done!! London is certainly one of the greatest cities in the world!!!

This truly an amazing project that has cost more money than Budget and has taken longer than estimated, BUT it is worth the wait, and People of the City and U.K. can be very proud of the latest developments of Londons famous Tube and Underground Railway system

Actually most Londoners call it "the carrot in the pipeline"

'The Drain' is what I call the Waterloo and City line. It has also, to me anyway, only been part of the London Underground recently. Before that it was run by BR. No one says 'train in the drain, we call the rest 'The Tube'.

The Train in the Drain! LOL

These construction projects are truly amazing work and marvel of engineering ... Hats off to London transit 🚇 & London underground subway system 🚇 🌍🇬🇧🇨🇦🇫🇷🍁🕉💐💐👍🙏🙏

the train in the drain - no aircon and crowded all the time. the perfect way to start your day :))

Tube, not Train in Drain.

I'm watching this video a year after it was uploaded, so during the introduction I was sitting here thinking it was talking about Crossrail when referring to the building work going on. Imagine my surprise when it turned out it was taking about the Jubilee Line Extention!! Looking forward to seeing some up to date content on construction of the Northern Line extention to Battersea...

Been on the Jubilee, Northern, Circle and Bakerloo lines. Been packed into a train like sardines after Chelsea vs Arsenal, met Sigur Ros on the escalators at Waterloo, assisted a child-birth at Piccadilly. Watched halted train get totally wrecked by football hooligans under threat from QPR, but I never heard them called "Trains in Drains", although I have heard them called "Bum Twisters" by someone in Southampton once.

It is truly epic what has been achieved, congrats to all involved.

You can’t but love London.

Indeed, men have created something amazing with the London Underground!

It was Charles Pearson the visionary behind the project in 1843 that coined the term "train in a drain". It either never took off or at some point was surpassed by 'the tube'.

Wow what a video! As a train I approve this video!

"The train in the drain"? literally nobody says that, ever.

I lived in England 50 years ago. Don't remember Train in the Drain, good one! I used the tubes regularly.

Guys this was made in like 1998 calm down

wonderful videos all of them I watch them again and again

Thanks for letting us know!!!

5:56 it amazes me they can tunnel under such big buildings without disturbing the foundations and causing any subsidence

"Train in the drain"? no way - it's the Tube. "Subway"? misleading at best - it's the Underground. A 'subway' in Britain is a pedestrian underpass.

Apart from that jarring as hell reference to the TUBE as the 'Train in the Drain" this video was excellent and definitely something that would have gripped me as a young child. I would have been 7 when this was filmed and i remember being fascinated and awed by The Tube as a kid but no one could give me the info i wanted this video would have helped a lot. Great video

I love these I can’t stop watching them

"Careening" is the action of turning a ship/ boat on its side to remove marine fouling, "careering" is the action of a runaway moving device/object.

Watching this while on the tube somewhere under London 🤗

In all my years working for London Transport I never heard of the tube being called the train in the drain... Load of bollox...

Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing. London must have the world's largest underground rail system.

fantastic presentation. thank you

Wow this is old! The jubilee line extension opened in 1999. Also, I have never heard the tube been referred to as the'train in the drain'

What a great insight into a very good use of modern technology's

Nope . Not the 'train in the drain' . You made that up. It's the tube.

Worked on this amazing

I never thought I would find a boring video so interesting!

The narrator mentions 'Big Ben' several times when referring to the tower. Big Ben is actually the hour bell in the tower. The tower used to be called simply 'The Clock Tower' but was renamed in 2012 "The Queen Elizabeth Tower' to mark HM The Queen's Jubilee.

God I am truly missing London now.

Excellent video Enjoyed every minute

Excellent documentary very interesting

This was made sometime between 1996-1999. All these videos are super old. I think they are old TLC or discovery Channel docs back when they had good programming and not trashy reality shows.

"The only thing that stood the test of time were the iron tunnel linings. So when the Jubilee line extension was planned, they were determined to get it right." - 10 minutes later - "The iron linings were replaced by concrete, because it was cheaper" - Womp womp.

I’m a simple man, i love history as well as public transport :)

Amazing.

Good show 👍

Wish people would remember that Big Ben is the bell not the actual tower

Great Great Knowledge base share Thank you so very much Nicely narrated as well

Great video

At 20:00, that is a beautiful locomotive! We called it a Forney I think. Imagine how cool it would be to have those engines all over the city...maybe not the most green solution but this one looks exactly like a Disneyland loco! It's truly amazing that Marc Brunel was able to build the Tube and still quarterback the Redskins. He should have chose one or the other.

The Waterloo & City line, colloquially known as The Drain, is a London Underground shuttle line that runs between Waterloo and Bank with no intermediate stops. Maybe he got confused with the TUBE!

The engineers that work this stuff are amazing. It's high time they did more work like this in Australia? They're sitting on their backsides there wondering why they can't get out of traffic jams.

It’s not the millennium dome it’s the 02!

Bizarre...I'm an American and I've been to London a few times and always have called it the "Tube", never heard of anyone calling it the "train in the drain".

I'm stunned, great work by the engineers

I live in Texas and the Shinkansen N700 bullet train rail line is being built between Houston and Dallas. It will be a dedicated line with no other train traffic on those tracks. I can't wait to ride that train. It's scheduled to start construction in 2023 and running trains in 2026.

Not enough show breaks between the advertisements.

Train in the drain? You made that up

Anyone else watching this during lockdown?!

Great video mate me and my friends found this really interesting to wach i was wondering how it was all built😌👍👍💜💜

Shakespeare wrote his plays in LONDON...? Um... didn't he live in Stratford-upon-Avon? Mind you, that's only about 130 kilometres from London. Close enough for Americans, I guess...

24:02 THAT HAIRCUT THOUGH

Wow, look how different London used to look..

Super!

This documentary is over 20 years old by now. A lot has changed since 90s

Nice movie, Choo choo 🚂🚃🚋🚃🚋🚃🚋🚃🚋🚃🚋🚃🚋🚃

Not once did he refer to the Metropolitan line as the Metropolitan Railway its original name in 1863.

Amazing the original tunnels were built by hand.

I’ve never heard of the train in the drain and I’ve worked on various stock types as a fitter!, this is program definitely “Americanised”

It's the tube yank. Fkn train in a drain.

London and Moscow subways went DEEP! NYC stayed "shallow" except for 181st Street/Washington Heights. Deepest station on the IRT #1 Broadway Line, the first one..

The Waterloo and City Line was nicknamed “The Drain” in the early years.

I think this is an excellent video, good on the history of the tube and enough technical information to satisfy people who want to know how things work, although they did not cover signalling and day to day train management on complex lines such as the Northern. I wasn't aware of the large American input into the tube system, which I found interesting. I suppose as an American film it has every right to mention it. As for "the train in the drain", well, we all have our idiosyncrasies. Lets not loose the bigger picture here.

So what rhymes with train? Pain, Brain, Insane, Lorraine, Drain. Drain sounds good lets use that!

The Big Ben tower is called Elizabeth Tower.

Can we get uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh functioning NYC subway? We really need to go with 20h per day, because the 24h per day schedule is really causing problems in terms of basic repair.

The term "OK" was first coined by a Swede named Oscar Kjelberg.

I always wondered

So interesting

Elizabeth line:"Eat my shiiit." 🤣

When making a documentary, never let the truth get in the way of a good story: it's just a shame about the story

Good voice for documentary

Never heard nor called the Tube "Train in the drain" and I am american .

I've always found "Northbound and Southbound" makes more sense than "Up" or "Down"

Never heard it called the train in the drain before ... ever! It’s the Tube ...

Who wrote this? 'train in the drain'...never heard of it. Toob? 'London Subway'?

update video liked very much. Take care.

This video is obviously 20 years old if they’re talking about getting people to the millennium dome and the “new” business complex at Canary Wharf.