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@@JustA.Person he is the kind of people whi speak fast. Englisg is my second language but i am very fast-talking in my first language and i still understand fast english speakers better than some native who always tell that they can't understand them.
This is a great video but I can’t stop thinking about how you manage to have so little social anxiety giving train facts in front of random people on the train
@@mel-ee9er for me it's harder to do things in front of people I know. I might see them tomorrow, they talk to each other about me. Whereas strangers, it's just so much easier to do anything, because they're less likely to care and if they do, they won't talk to your other friends and family discussing what you did and you will not see them tomorrow and they will not see you tomorrow, so essentially you can be invisible in front of strangers / feel the same way you feel when there are no people there.
The amount of talking with your hands you did in this video made my five month old wave frantically at you for most of it. Very informative btw. More videos about the history of London please.
I loved the bloopers. As an ex-Londoner I found this very nostalgic. The only thing missing was the rush hour. Sometimes you would have to wait for the second or third train. Fun fact, the Bakerloo Line was named as it originally joined Baker Street to Waterloo.
Really admiring Toycat's dedication to growing his hair out and shaving his beard and filming this all on the same day. Not many youtubers would do that.
I love the content. If you’re going to do more of these, please get a microphone for all of those times when you turn away from the camera. I feel like I missed a few important “fun facts.” 😀
@@joemiller947 As unfriendly as any big city can get, rents are much higher than what you can expect as average salary. Say you get around £800 pm: that is what you can pay for a single room with shared toilet and kitchen. You can go to the outskirts and pay around £ 200 less, but you better find work there, as you will fall £ 100 short if you need a monthly tube pass from area 5 to 1-2, or you can just have enough for bus but then spend all the money in rent+transport and improvise if you fancy eating every day. Of course you can be friggin rich and just dont't care, but in that case you better start thinking about doing real work as not many workin class can afford rent and I don't see shops and restaurants getting staffed (they are, but there is a shortage)..... or just go to live anywhere else in England and have rents, food costs and transportation below what you'll get in your salary so life is feasible.
If someone suddenly realised they need to know more about the Tube, there are entire RU-vid channels dedicated to it. Geoff Marshall makes some good stuff, mostly about the British rail network, but with the occasional Tube video (as well as DLR, trams, etc.).
I genuinely learn more from this channel than I did in school lol, at least stuff I actually want to know (despite the ibx2cat intro slogan) Also, 11:16 lol that smirk 😏
Before 1961, the Metropolitan Line went as far as Aylesbury, but was only electrified up to Rickmansworth. The electric locomotive was changed to a steam one there in a few minutes. The carriages were slam door with compartments. The line from Amersham to Aylesbury is now part of the national rail network, and Chiltern Railways run trains from London Marylebone. Uniquely, these trains use Underground track and signalling from Harrow on the Hill to Amersham.
toycat stay away from america pls i need to have at least a chance to get a girlfriend one day if they havent already moved to london to try to get you
I genuinely don't think there's anyone else I could listen to talk about the weirdest stuff and still be this interested. thank you for the endless entertainment! toycat is yes!!
Shortest metro line in the world by number of stations? I’m guessing you don’t count the Tünel in Istanbul or the 42nd Street Shuttle in NYC. Both of those have two stations
I think he meant the shortest complete system. The 42nd Street shuttle is a segment of the first subway in New York City, as such it is connected to 4/5/6 lines on the Grand Central Terminal end and the 1/2/3 lines on the Times Square end. Whereas the line he was showing is totally isolated and needs to rely on a train hoist to move equipment on and off the route.
Good point there are two vehicular services in Istanbul both with only two stations but they are both operated by pulleys so that may be why he's discounted them
London has the oldest underground railway in the world (1863), but the third oldest is also in the UK, Glasgow in Scotland (1896) There are also underground stations on MerseyRail in Liverpool and Birkenhead, and on the Newcastle upon Tyne Metro.
This is so cool. The Tube has a rather uncommon electrification system, fourth rail (as opposed to third rail) with 660 volts total, 440 volts on the side "third rail", 220 at NEGATIVE POLARITY in the middle "fourth rail." This was originally done to prevent stray current from causing damage, especially to the original tube tunnels. Only one company originally did this (there were several different railways), the "Yerkes Group", but they acquired most of the other tube lines, as well as what's now the District line, hence the standardized electric system. Well, the Metropolitan wanted to use overhead lines (you mentioned them), but since they shared the Circle with the District, one system had to be chosen, went to arbitration, 4-rail won. The "subsurface" lines, though, may soon have the voltage raised to 750 volts, to allow for faster speeds. Another thing that sets the London Underground apart from most "metro" systems, with the exception of some in Japan.....you have lines where "underground" and "mainline" trains share trackage! Parts of the District, Bakerloo, and Metropolitan lines. But I told you about the 4-rail? In the shared sections, the third rail has the total voltage, and the fourth rail isn't insulated like normal but bonded to the running rails, so both 3rd and 4th rail trains can use it. But there are special detectors on the Bakerloo Line just north of Queen's Park to ensure that an Overground 3rd rail train won't accidentally go into the LU platforms, OR WORSE, the tube tunnels. You mentioned a "winch" when describing the Waterloo and City line. Well, until the early 90's, there was an Armstrong lift, a special hoist for taking the cars (they use the American term for underground trains, rather than "carriage"), one at a time, between the surface and that line, but it had to be removed for the (now gone) Eurostar terminal. Hence they switched to a crane. Until 1993 the Waterloo and City line used 3rd rail, but, one full year before it stopped being owned by British Rail, they switched to the LU system of electrification, and bought the same type of train that was bought for the Central Line. But until the massive overhaul in 2006, the trains had their "Network Southeast" paintscheme, and the signals were holdouts from British Rail.
I'm from America. And at the beginning of the video, I found it very interesting that the escalator going up is on the left, and the one going down is on the right. Just like the roads over there.
Amazing video, it felt like 3 minutes, definitely one of your best videos. I would love a follow up video with other random facts about all kinds of things around London.
Toycat, flooded stations are very bad, especially when it's salt water. If you've not seen it, look up photos of the South Ferry subway station after Superstorm Sandy hit NYC in October 2012. The flooding from that storm is still playing havoc with Amtrak's Hudson River tunnels, and every other flooded space that hasn't been renovated yet. The saltwater, from sitting there so long, is causing structural issues to the concrete tunnel lining.
Ah, so that's why everyone was so cool about being close together. They were six months earlier. This video literally only just predated the apocalypse.
Waterloo & City is only shut 1 day a week, most filming on the tube is done at Aldwych or Charing Cross Jubilee Line platforms as they both can still have trains operated into them but don’t see any passenger service.
You’ve got some cajones for just spewing out facts in public. I’d be so scared that you wouldn’t be able to hear me if I was in a crowded tube station talking about trains and history like that. Major props to you!
I love how confident he is in this video, I could never also pretty sure that they created the tube bc a volcano killed all the bikes (yes that was me Livestream gang)
The W&C is closed on Sundays only and the "road" where trains can be lifted to the surface is to the left and not visible from the "arrivals" platform.
Not majorly important but the Waterloo and City actually operates on Saturday, just closed on Sundays. Didn't know about the green line at old street, quite cool!
Berlin has the second shortest metro line by number of stations. 3. It's the line U55. Hauptbahnhof, Bundestag and final station Brandenburger Tor. But we are currently working on extending it further :)
I don't think that the escalator at Angel is the tallest in the EU. I think that the escalator at the Náměstí Míru station in Prague, Czech Republic is the tallest in the EU
Used that station in Prague many times when I stayed there as my hotel was nearby. It is indeed both the deepest underground station at platform level (53 metres/approx 174 feet), and the station with the longest escalator in the whole of the E.U.
awesome video, some facts like that river tunnel at slone sq, did not know, i always try to walk between convent garden and lecister sq, easier and less squeezed in then getting stuck on tube. london is most easy place to naviage in areas like haymarket. you are giving geoff from londonist a run for his monies
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Great video. However, I would love to see a lapel mic or some other source of better audio. I thought the same thing a while back on one of the foreign country videos.
The Paris Metro is like a bowl and spaghetti 🍝 with walkways between stations where one strand passes under or over another.. ☆ 🗼 🎶 🗼 ☆ Budapest is the oldest in Europe 🇭🇺 Bishopsgate Station is on a bridge on the Thames. 🇬🇧
The metro system in Vancouver (Canada) is mostly above ground, and it's called the Sky Train. The oldest portion was built for the 1986 Expo, and is thus called the Expo Line. It goes from Waterfront in Vancouver out to Surrey. It used to stop at Scott Road just barely into Surrey, but when they started preparing to expand the system they brought it much further into Surrey to King George station. They added the Millennium line (guess when) when I was a teenager, and about a decade later they added a the Canada line for the 2010 Olympics, which has a section directly into Vancouver International Airport. I haven't lived there in over 7 years now, so I'm not sure which line they're working on now, but it's expanding again. I always wished they would extend it to Langley, where I grew up, so I wouldn't have to bus to a train station.
Hi, I found out the other day on the Ons website, that the UK population is die to reach 72.9 million by the late 2030s. From about 63million, at the last census. I don't think the general population have an idea what a huge change is going on. So I find infrastructure videos like this fascinating.. I don't think Imkst realise the mamooty change we're undergoing Love the vids Toycat
The specific distance between Leicester Square and Covent Garden is 0.16 miles. Only the DLR has shorter distances between stations. The furthest flung parts of the Underground is actually in Buckinghamshire, not even in Greater London. Chesham station is the furthest flung station away from London city centre
