Central Line Cab Ride Epping to West Ruislip

[@BenTaylor.]

this was an official Cab Ride and special thanks to the driver Please go and check him out on TikTok and drop him a follow let's get the driver to 1000 followers none of this would have been possible without him Please do check him out Link Here www.tiktok.com/@trevorhowe125

[@Thnsrd42]

@ Underground202. Good vid. I think it's the fastest accelerating tube train on the underground system! Feels almost effortless. It goes so fast between Hanger Lane and South Ruslip I sometimes think the train's gonna come off the track! It look like it's moving fast even though it's just coasting between White City and switch over before East Action. Smooth ride too for a tube stock train. I sometimes wonder if BREL over engineered this train stock.

[@AdamMelloul-mz1pu]

Great video! Just interested to know how you're able to get a cab ride

[@manugamer9984]

0:00 Epping 2:35 Theydon Bois 6:01 Debden 9:00 Loughton 9:45 *Loughton’s old ECR platforms, no traces left 11:38 Buckhurst Hill 12:33 *disused siding on the right, no traces left 13:03 *Woodford Junction, Roding Valley on the left though not visible 14:19 Woodford 14:49 *Woodford’s old ECR platform on the left, no traces left 17:16 South Woodford 18:21 *disused siding on the right, no traces left 19:17 Snaresbrook 20:38 *Whipps Cross Tunnel 21:07 *tracks to the Hainault Loop on both sides 21:37 Leytonstone 22:30 *Leytonstone’s old ECR platform on the right, no traces left 24:21 Leyton 24:51 *Leyton Station Junction, disused siding to coal and goods yard on the right, still nothing to see 27:14 Stratford (DLR and Jubilee Line termini on the left) 27:47 *disused DLR terminus on the right (1987-2007) 30:41 Mile End (District and Hammersmith&City lines on the two inner tracks) 33:08 Bethnal Green 36:32 Liverpool Street 38:03 *start of the original section of the line 38:39 Bank 40:00 *the westbound track goes below the eastbound one 40:38 St Paul’s 42:26 Chancery Lane 43:20 *the westbound track climbs back to the eastbound one’s level 43:38 Holborn 44:25 *British Museum station, replaced by Holborn in 1933 44:35 *disused siding on the right 45:19 Tottenham Court Road 46:45 Oxford Circus 48:06 Bond Street 49:30 Marble Arch, siding visible a few metres ahead (if you want to imagine British Museum station and siding, think of Marble Arch: they’re more or less identical) 51:31 Lancaster Gate 52:56 *disused siding, now a switch 53:24 Queensway 54:00 *the westbound track goes below the eastbound one 54:54 Notting Hill Gate 56:00 *the westbound track climbs back to the eastbound one’s level 56:34 Holland Park 58:24 Shepherd’s Bush 59:10 *Caxton Curve, once the single-track siding to the White City depot. 1:00:06 *disused Wood Lane Loop on the left, abandoned Wood Lane (Exhibition) and Wood Lane stations further out of sight; end of the original section 1:01:14 White City 1:04:23 *westbound-eastbound crossover 1:05:35 East Acton 1:07:28 North Acton, disused GWR tracks on the right 1:08:43 *North Acton Junction, inner tracks go to Ealing Broadway 1:10:46 Hanger Lane 1:13:10 Perivale 1:14:43 *Greenford East-West junctions below the viaduct 1:15:21 Greenford 1:15:50 *disused siding between the two tracks, no traces left 1:17:05 *westbound-eastbound switch 1:17:40 Northolt 1:18:15 *siding between the two tracks 1:20:19 South Ruislip 1:21:53 Ruislip Gardens 1:22:31 *tracks to Ruislip Depot on the left 1:24:52 West Ruislip

[@mgigachad3170]

Its theydon booois

[@extremegamerking6448]

@@mgigachad3170 SHUT up he did a great job

[@mgigachad3170]

@@extremegamerking6448 what I wasn't correcting him

[@samelliott7731]

@@mgigachad3170 what a song

[@paulspeight8398]

@extremegamerking6448 🤔think he's just reminiscing on the old days when the Central Line had motormen and not train operators just pressing 👇o 👇o buttons 🥱..🤐

[@Funbaggio]

I was on the Chancery Lane train derailment when I was a kid on my way to my first ever Arsenal match. Still managed to get out and to the game just in time 😂

[@axolotlgamer615]

FRICK MY BROKEN LEG I NEED TO SEE THE GAME 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@frankdisney3998]

Debden used to be my home station ,thank you for your efforts from Frank in Australia

[@Jeff034]

Thank you for doing these videos. I love London but illness has prevented going back watching these.vids just takes me back.

[@anamargaridaalves3280]

An epic journey! ❤ Kind regards from Figueira da Foz, Portugal

[@miguelxpereira]

Coimbra ❤️

[@gezzaf6912]

Superb Video Thanks A Lot Great Stuff

[@BenTaylor.]

Most welcome!

[@FranklinBoateng]

I watched all of the video and it was amazing😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

[@davidfarrow44]

Superb video on a line i've used quite a few times, nice to watch it from the front and enjoyed the audio with you and the driver.

[@marmion150]

Really enjoyed that, very informative. Well presented.

[@kevintrains]

Fantastic

[@mrunixman1579]

Interesting video. good to see how driver view it from their cabs,

[@shayanlatif1484]

Wow! That's amazing!!!! You should do cab ride on the full journeys of all London Underground lines!!!!

[@Kschychooo]

Amen to that. All lines and their specific services. Both ways :D

[@BenTaylor.]

I would love to but cab rides are a one time thing

[@Kschychooo]

Well we can always dream. And maybe one day you'll coax TfL to let you make full series on the cab rides. CTA in Chicago did it. Soo there is a tiny sliver of hope for our dreams ;)

[@BenTaylor.]

@@Kschychooo I would love to make it happen

[@Kschychooo]

@@BenTaylor. Maybe one day. In the meantime we have the dreams and all the videos you already made.

[@ianangusmann]

I enjoyed that video. 😊

[@jameshennighan8193]

OUTSTANDING FOOTAGE Outstanding footage and conversation........just a pity some of it was unclear at times, due to the volume or the train being in a tunnel. Such a wealth of experience here.... Plus, the footage 'out in the countryside' is remarkable.........almost a part of the Underground that we never think about.... James Hennighan Yorkshire, England

[@BenTaylor.]

thanks for the feedback changes will be made going forward

[@AlfaRomeo128]

Oh my God !, what took you so long for this I have been waiting for forever, thank you very much ❣❣❤❤💯💯

[@BenTaylor.]

Cab Rides are rare to come by these days

[@trainrover]

forgot how big London is...reminds me how unbelievably small it'd felt moving here from there

[@Denusa]

Hello from across "the pond" from a fellow urban transport video creator. great footage. I am working my way through the London rail transport lines and consider myself very lucky to catch your video only seven days after its release. Keep doing what you love and your subscriber numbers are very good..👍👍👍👍👍

[@tenzoki5430]

Greatest video of the month🐐

[@sosignon]

Loved the natter! Definitely up for more natter in these cab rides

[@TheMisterB2u]

Enjoyed watching it! Glad you kept audio in ,very interesting and informative for viewers.

[@ChristinaGEORGIOU-iz6rc]

This is amazing!!!

[@richardcochrane1966]

Loved the Geoff Marshall reference around the half-hour mark! I actually really enjoy his videos - find them very interesting...

[@BenTaylor.]

Thanks, I need to stop being a chatterbox. I have something big in the works

[@NoddyMaccy]

Haven’t done the Epping side of the line yet but done Hainault many times. Hopefully soon I’ll pass out as a driver and get Central line.

[@BenTaylor.]

Your Training to be a tube driver unfortunately they will put you where on any Line which depot need drivers more then you will be in the project Paul system for 2 years

[@NoddyMaccy]

@@BenTaylor. The way it works is you nominate your preferences (which I have) but there’s no guarantee I’ll get my preferred depots. I’ll be a “pool” driver at first, getting the dog end shifts nobody wants before moving on from that, that’s providing I pass.

[@mlglucas9729]

@@NoddyMaccy did you pass?

[@NoddyMaccy]

@@mlglucas9729 Sadly not, but came close. Next time.

[@mlglucas9729]

@@NoddyMaccy that’s a shame what did you fail at??

[@Clive1953]

Thanks Ben realy Enjoyed the cab ride on the central line, Can you tell me is there a complete cab ride of the Hainault Loop? Many Thanks

[@Dvdylol]

One thing I also find interesting is that at St Paul's the Westbound is on top of the eastbound but at chancery Lane it switches so the eastbound is on top due to the surroundings

[@aminakibria83]

Wow

[@woollett182]

Caxton curve 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@douglasmullins2977]

I like this one, today or so. I live at Oaklandon, Indiana USA. time right now is 4:30pm est.

[@lewisgreen2957]

Mile End to Stratford seems to go on forever..

[@kierxncc]

Fr takes ages

[@mccoy79productions66]

new subber

[@TrainPlayz566]

37:20 49:50 sidings

[@BenTaylor.]

yep

[@davids82924]

No lights on when going through the tunnel?

[@ashwatthganesh485]

I knew someone would do this,btw is it ok to request you to do a cab ride from Hainault to Ealing broadway plz.

[@BenTaylor.]

I would love to but Cab Rides are a one time thing

[@ashwatthganesh485]

Fair enough

[@tyrozone5]

Nice, have you done The Elizabeth Line drivers eye view? (Even though it ain’t a tube line)

[@ysaviationtrains2313]

They should build a new station linking the piccadilly line at the crossover (1:09:55) instead of seperate stations.

[@Itsmeh939]

I think west ruislip should be called ruslip and people for the central at ruslip aka west ruilsip can walk a mile to central line

[@liimarelly7914]

Would it be possible to do a Ealing Broadway to Hainault via Newbury park??

[@peterlane354]

Pity no low light footage have seen Piccadilly line and Northern line videos where the tunnel features were reasonably clear not just a black screen between stations. Chat very informative

[@Emily_20095]

The guy who said 'personally I don't like the guy (Geoff Marshall) probably just enraged half of the tube and national rail community.

[@BenTaylor.]

no, who said that I have met Geoff a handful of times he a nice person

[@Smithy67]

Why no headlights?

[@fionakierton1231]

From a different railway trip, the headlights on the old stock (1973) are only really there so the passengers see the train coming. Possible brighter lights on newer trains.

[@alwayslight2658]

Nice ride and weather. Why do not you consider to go 4K? Quality would be much better.

[@BenTaylor.]

Hi thank you for your feedback for future cab rides a lot lessons have been learned since I filmed this I will look into I’m using a GoPro hero 10 but upgrading to GoPro hero 11 and I will also look into 4K

[@alwayslight2658]

@@BenTaylor. When going 4k you need to use capable memory cards as data flow from camera increase a lot. Make sure that MC is capable to record all of them - otherwise video will stick. So - check speed and memory capacity. GoPro version 10 is OK. 11 is better - of course.

[@BenTaylor.]

Ah you wanted to talk to you I have 2 drivers eye views in the works unfortunately the frame rate on the new driver eye views will be locked at 60 FPS this is due to high demand on the battery overheats after 45 mins in 4K however before I mount the cameras I have window wipes and I will clean the glass. Hopefully this makes a difference and the first one is due to release three months roughly I want to take my time to make them the best they can be. Please let me know your thoughts.

[@denfitzpatrick5988]

Rusty Rail….railway jargon for Runs if Required

[@axolotlgamer615]

Possibly a Metropolitan line cab ride Chesham/Amersham - Aldgate

[@BenTaylor.]

I wish i don't know anybody on the met anymore

[@axolotlgamer615]

@@BenTaylor. Ahh ok.

[@notrealest]

Could you do anything on the central line thats westbound to eastbound please

[@BenTaylor.]

Never say never

[@bigjaffa02]

Just watch this video backwards

[@jeffmac909]

Why is it so dark in the tunnels?

[@denfitzpatrick5988]

🤣🤣🤣

[@iiemxn2344]

1:06:02 i thought it was because of people leaning on the doors

[@denfitzpatrick5988]

No, it’s a change in traction pick up leaving East Acton WB

[@mjt8199]

Is it me or were the tail lights on throughout? There was a lot of red light when going around the curves.

[@BenTaylor.]

they were on a few sections

[@iiemxn2344]

did you just turn up and ask the driver or?

[@BenTaylor.]

No it was arranged in advance

[@pieterwatson611]

Why is it so empty ? This line is famous for being crowded...

[@justme-hh4vp]

i was wondering that. It looks like it was the first of the morning, pre-rush hour around 6am.. on a Sunday...

[@pieterwatson611]

@@justme-hh4vp I think you're right. Thanks for the answer.

[@EM-yk1dw]

Better when 1962 stock was running.