So, in a nutshell, we owe our Capital's public transport system to a shifty American with an impressive moustache.
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
Including (but a different one) the start of the old tram network.
@atuljhaveri33773 жыл бұрын
Selfridges as well!
@baxtermarrison53613 жыл бұрын
@@atuljhaveri3377 With the added bonus of a fine pair of mutton chops in his younger days!
@bigblue69173 жыл бұрын
To be fair to the moustache such facial appendages were the norm by that time. In fact in the British Army soldier were actively encourage to grow a moustache.
@baxtermarrison53613 жыл бұрын
@@bigblue6917 Perhaps, as a topic, 'Victorian facial hair, style and variaton and how it shaped the modern transport revolution' would be a catchy title for a video!
@NomadicMScott3 жыл бұрын
i love a good underground tale while eating my breakfast, it's a good start to the day...
@RebMordechaiReviews3 жыл бұрын
Yup, same here.
@ayindestevens61523 жыл бұрын
Same.
@adrianrutterford7623 жыл бұрын
Interesting at bedtime too.
@alonso0712 жыл бұрын
Me too. I love trains.
@ivo1407203 жыл бұрын
I feel so stupid for not realising until now that Bakerloo stands for Baker Street and Waterloo line.
@honestguy77643 жыл бұрын
You are not alone there....
@PeterNancarrow3 жыл бұрын
Bakerloo Couldn't escape if I wanted to Bakerloo Knowing my fate is to be with you Oh, oh, oh, oh, Bakerloo Finally facing my Bakerloo Sorry couldn't resist my self
@bigblue69173 жыл бұрын
I'm the same. And it's not helped by the fact that there's a Peterloo in Manchester. And there's no Peter and Waterloo line.
@cargy9303 жыл бұрын
It was a toss up between calling it that or "The Strewater Line". :P :D
@xmlthegreat3 жыл бұрын
@@bigblue6917 that's where Peter goes to the Loo with his Dinklage then. Hehehe
@RailwayDan3 жыл бұрын
The myriad of tunnels beneath London amazes me. It must be like a swiss cheese down there. How on earth do they map it all out and not end up tunnelling straight through things like water mains, electrical supplies, sewer tunnels, other railways and suchlike. There must have been incidents in the past where this has (or nearly) happened !! Brilliant vid as always Jago. Looking forward to episode 2.
These 2 are fascinating on how they did some of the line - Especially around OXFORD CIRCUS
@kruador3 жыл бұрын
Short answer is basically that they don't really know. Every time anything needs to be modified, someone needs to research who owns what land and what might be under it. Things are getting better but historically it just wasn't recorded, or at least not in an accessible fashion. London Reconnections has an article on this this week: www.londonreconnections.com/2021/covenants-easements-wayleaves-transport-asset-interface-register-part-2/ From part 1 of that article: In 2013, a developer building a new skyscraper drilled a hole through the Great Northern & City tunnel near Old Street. They had failed to check with Network Rail (who now own that bit) whether there was anything down there. They had planned to drive piles as far down as 9 metres below the GN&C tunnel. They narrowly missed a train.
@2H80vids3 жыл бұрын
@@allwaizeright9705 Good links to two excellent documentaries on the construction of the Victoria Line. Thanks for sharing these.👍
@tomeklecocq3 жыл бұрын
Actually Paris is even worse than London in this regard as big parts of the city are covered in abandoned underground quarries. A lot of people don't know that when travelling on the metro or RER sometimes the tunnel they're traveling in is actually floating inside a huge underground cave. As you would expect, building underground tunnels in these had its challenges. If not too big, the caves would be filled in with concrete when tunneling through these.
@simonbauer833 жыл бұрын
You never disappoint, chap!
@panzerkami23813 жыл бұрын
Heading for 100K subs! I've been watching since it was in the low thousands and it's great to see how the channel's grown. Well deserved.
@JagoHazzard3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@whiskeytuesday3 жыл бұрын
Last time I was this early the... trains were... on time or something.
@whiskeytuesday3 жыл бұрын
This is a very poor joke. I apologise, the pressure to get in first for uber nerd points got to me.
@peterbustin26833 жыл бұрын
Wow ! You must be incredibly old !
@Gordons18883 жыл бұрын
"I am not going to drown you in information" :( The video was great anyway :)
@4KExplorer3 жыл бұрын
4:50 - with a moustache like that, he ain't messing about.
@mickeydodds13 жыл бұрын
Fun Fact: The District Line, which for part of its route more or less hugs the north bank of the Thames, was initially constructed around the same time as Joseph Bazalgette's great London sewer building program. Part of its route is contained within the Victoria Embankment which it shares with the Northern Outfall Sewer, a nifty (or nifty) piece of dual use design.
@JakubChalupnik3 жыл бұрын
I've been to London just once, almost 20 years ago, and the thing I remember most was the tube. I recall it didn't make any sense to me - all trains were different, all tunnels looked different, all looked so old and disconnected... now it all makes much more sense, thanks! btw: Paris tube gave me the same impression - different styles, different trains, looooong narrow tunnels connecting platforms...
@Bobrogers993 жыл бұрын
This presentation cries out for more maps that show the lines and expansions as the narration is taking place. We do get four quick maps, but the relevance to the narration isn't always clear.
@bowzert3 жыл бұрын
That, please, Jago
@joncrawford34853 жыл бұрын
Ok, I really was expecting "To be continued..." trailing text at the end... with "sorry... but you knew it was coming as this is part 1 after all" underneath.
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
Note Marc Brunel's Tunnel was originally a toll tunnel for horse drawn traffic, then a foot tunnel. Rather a lot of foresight on Marc's part to build it large enough for railway locomotives and carriages.
@cargy9303 жыл бұрын
Given the height of a fully enclosed carriage and driver, its proportions make sense. Shame they never provided the means of access for this to happen. But the best laid plans... I find it amazing that, not only were they attempting the unprecedented feat of a tunnel under a large river, but that they chose to build two adjacent (but linked) tunnels, rather than a man-sized single bore with passing places. All of that despite the infancy of the technology. Truly a grandiose scheme.
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
@@cargy930 Reading something today (A History of Stepney (the place) I didnt know there were stoneways - additional, presumably hardened stonework in roads with a greater longitudinal length than the stone setts normally used. These were for carriages being space normal cart width apart. in the roadway. I assume it was to cope with the extra weight of laden (with frieght or people) hackneys, wagons and so on.
@cargy9303 жыл бұрын
@@highpath4776 You just know that, just like today's bloody-minded drivers, there will have been a proportion of wagon drivers who thought they were better than everyone else and decided they should ignore the the stoneways, causing damage to the setts each side as a result. Probably! Or I've been watching too many dashcam videos!
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
@@cargy930 The horses had more sense
@rayfisher3921 Жыл бұрын
The first Thames tunnel would make a great topic for a video, if Jago hasn't already done it without me noticing.
@dvdvnr3 жыл бұрын
I've known pretty much all this stuff for ages (I'm old enough to have travelled on Standard Tube stock and vaguely remember doing so back in the 1960s), but having Jago tell us all over again along with his dry humorous quips makes it so much more interesting! Cheers, Jago!
@___spiritofadventure___8 ай бұрын
I love seeing Brompton Road, Down Street, South Kentish Town, York Road and City Road on those old maps. Bring em back!
@BarryAllenMagic3 жыл бұрын
What a superb video - even my beloved East London line got a mention. 😀👍
@Joe90V3 жыл бұрын
The chaotic free-for-all that preceeded the LU is the perfect metaphor for England - first to try something, make a pigs ear of it, but stick with it out of obstinacy/spite !!
@kavorkaa3 жыл бұрын
In a way the Tokyo metro system is still a bunch of municipal lines,private lines,metro lines, first time i visited in 2008 you needed to buy separate tickets for each,now they have some form of travelcard That was how what we see now as unified networks like London Underground were before,a disparate colection of lines
@bokhans3 жыл бұрын
The problem is that the different companies have their own tub maps in Tokyo and don’t like to show competitors on their map. Two stations on a map could actually be 10 and something that look far could be a huge shortcut if you take an other line.Tokyo metro is pretty difficult but on the upside, some of the best English speaking persons I meet in Tokyo was people in way out metro stations. There is a brand new JP Japan railway museum quite far out in a Tokyo suburb very interesting but no information what so ever in English or any of the languages of their neighbouring countries like Russia, China or Korea.
@kavorkaa3 жыл бұрын
@@bokhans Thats right,lately it has become easier,but still there are lots private rail lines off the Tokyo Metro and Toei municipal lines that branch out to the suburbs,some of them built by real state developers to give their customers a conection to Tokyo,some with outlandish names and train designs,really interesting,Japan is endlessly bizarre and not just railwise
@bokhans3 жыл бұрын
@@kavorkaa thats why I as a Scandinavian like it so much. My plan was to go back for my third time in 2020 but that didn’t work by know reasons. I was also thinking of being a volunteer at the olympics, I don’t think that will happen either! 😞 2022 is my best right now.
@andyjay7293 жыл бұрын
@@bokhans Isn't that true of all of Japan? Most of the rail lines are run by JR, but there's still a lot of private lines throughout the country, some of them pretty long.
@the_9ent3 жыл бұрын
So right. The whole set up is a mess and very confusing. Let’s hope one day it comes under an umbrella simuliert to the LU.
@HSMiyamoto3 жыл бұрын
What I find fascinating is the extent to which the London Underground began as a link to help people traveling between other cities avoid London's streets, and to allow people arriving from London terminals access other, more dense parts of London. Intracity transportation seems to have been an afterthought for the first several decades.
@alanhaf24893 жыл бұрын
I enjoy all your videos, especially Tales from the Tube. Being from USA I have only been on Picadilly, Metropolitan, and maybe Circle. Hope to come back - when we can - when things are better for everybody
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
Geoff Marshall's animations show some of this visually, sometimes line by line.
@simonwinter88393 жыл бұрын
This video got me thinking. Since the origins of the underground were not planned to be cohesive ,but competitive, what might the system have looked like if it had been planned from the beginning as one entity. I think that would be impossible to say as the London we know today is BECAUSE of the underground. Development especially in the suburbs tended to come after the lines were built, Metroland being a very good example. So it seems to me that the unplanned chaos that is London underground had a big hand in shaping the London we know today.Had the underground been planned from the start (which I of course realise that given it's origins of many different companies and the many years apart the lines were built from each other that this would be a ridiculous hypothesis)London would have looked very different.
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
London above ground (in Z1-5 at least) had been part determined by the Omnibus Network (and indeed the short stage carriages and mail coaches ) in the victorian era and the turnpike roads. then expanded on the horse and later tram systems. Also other above ground railways pre-dated the underground ones . A proper plan might have seen the Piccadilly go south , and the bakerloo beyond elephant , and better ways to serve Sutton in Surrey. And that actual Great Central route through to a proper channel tunnel .
@Peasmouldia3 жыл бұрын
@@highpath4776 Central line from Stratford to Epping was originally GER. You can still see many of the stations still have a lot of the original architecture. Became part of the tube 1935-40. Leytonstone became the junction of the Loughton Epping Ongar line with the construction of the Newbury Park loop. Central isn't the only line to have incorporated suburban railways either.
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
@@Peasmouldia Spoiler for Part Two !!!
@stuartmcconnachie3 жыл бұрын
2:51 What? No men posing? Oh no wait.... just the driver and fireman.
@linkieloos3 жыл бұрын
"I'm going to simplify a bit so I don't drown you in information." Why? We love information! It's why we come to your channel. ;) Great video once again.
@boohaka3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! This is starting to make sense! In all the time I virtually grew up on the underground, I never wondered about the creation of it. I assumed it was all done with our best interests and just magically appeared as one harmonious entity!
@1minigrem3 жыл бұрын
Fascinating, love this series already.
@integralhighspeedusb3 жыл бұрын
Preemptive like. I’m sure I won’t regret it.
@whyyoulidl3 жыл бұрын
+1
@RebMordechaiReviews3 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed this very much. Most of the names however, went flying by like a train passing through a station without stopping, but I got the overall story. Metropolitan and District, District and Metropolitan, District, Metropolitan, Waterloo, Baker Street becomes Bakerloo, The Great Eastern, Western, Southern, Northern something or other, merges with the Whatitsname to become the Great East-West Metropolitan Southern District Underground something...(my brain hurts). I'm sure someone like Geoff Marshall has drawn a Tube style flowchart map of all this. It all sounds like a Monty Python sketch or that old joke about trying to explain the rules of Cricket to an American (when they are in and then out so they go in and the next one goes out and is then in...)
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
Highgate, Moorgate, Aldgate, Shoreditch. Brompton, City, York Road, Elephant, Kings Cross, Queensway, Royal Oak, Ealing, (Common) , MORNINGINTON CRESCENT.
@Titot1823 жыл бұрын
You remind me of an Adam Hart-Davis documentary I'd watch as a kid mixed with a bit of Discovery Megastructures. Nostalgically informative
@robertmcgovern88503 жыл бұрын
"Buy up old junk, fix it up a little, and then load it on other fellows." Private equity, then. ;)
@ajs413 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video. Im hoping to attempt the famous Tube Challenge as soon as the lockdown is over. I found out about it thanks to Geoff Marshall.
@mastertrams3 жыл бұрын
And as soon as the Northern Line extension opens?
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
@@mastertrams Would it be a new record whatever the time to complete it (It has to be done within day - not past 235959 of the day of starting I think to qualify
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
Dont forget part of it is the need to run or other public transport between some stations, two records with, and without, olympia. take a couple of mobiles connected to real time information with the need to work out when the LT&SR route is quicker outbound or inbound for the fast retrace steps section/s
@michaeldwyer33523 жыл бұрын
Good luck, but wait until the Northern Line extension to Battersea opens in the autumn - otherwise any timing you achieve will be irrelevant to the enlarged network.
@hairyairey3 жыл бұрын
Interesting fact, because the line to Moorgate is a railway line (when strictly speaking like crossrail and parts of the overground it's an underground line) a ticket from Peterborough to "London terminals" is valid, by changing at Finsbury Park. Easier and cheaper than getting the underground, although not always quicker (it's about a 15 minute service most of the time).
@ThomasTrue3 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, Jago. Without being uncharitable, I think we can say that the London Underground was not so much built as "congealed".
@adiebarrett3 жыл бұрын
Amazing entertainment - and now, serials with cliff-hangers. Of a sort. Jago, this is good stuff!
@plinkplanky3 жыл бұрын
Any one else get really excited when notification comes thru that a nee video been uploaded?
@paddyneill19642 жыл бұрын
I like the Underground mosaic, that’s pretty cool.
@sewing94343 жыл бұрын
Nobody but Jago could sum up so much history so succinctly. Very well done! Many comments could be made, but at 7:20...what on earth...thousands of years of human philosophy summed up so pithily aside Frank Pick's name in a roundel, the most iconic corporate logo of all time? Quite amazing. (Research reveals that it's an art installation at Piccadilly Circus.)
@eattherich92153 жыл бұрын
Jago mentioned the Frank Pick dedication in another video and it is, indeed, in Picadilly Circus station.
@CorvoFG3 жыл бұрын
A shot every time Jago says “Railway”
@mr.superguy5653 жыл бұрын
You're gonna endt op in the hospital
@SK_3PT13 жыл бұрын
@@mr.superguy565 no death
@channelsixtysix0663 жыл бұрын
Since Jago is not only talking about the infrastructure, but also the companies involved, by necessity, "railway" comes up often. The question is, can you last the duration of the video?
@AndreTraveler3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting, looking forward to the next vid.
@Peasmouldia3 жыл бұрын
I always preferred the cut and cover lines. I'd change at Mile End from the Central line just to be on a more "proper" and far less packed train. Deep lines were quicker, but way more claustrophobic. Thanks JH. P.S. Don't worry about bombarding us with info, that's why we're watching..
@ulazygit3 жыл бұрын
You never fail to provide quality content ... eagerly anticipating part 2!
@Hammondfreak3 жыл бұрын
Really well compiled narrative and pics -- I anticipate the next with relish (Piccalilli and Piccadilly).
@gerrymccartney35613 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. Looking forward to part two.
@adscri3 жыл бұрын
Don’t expect there will be a ‘The story so far’.
@nightlurker3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!!!! Thank you Jago, well worth the wait.😸😸😸🚂🚂🚃🚃🚃
@skylarius37573 жыл бұрын
It doesn't matter how long a youtube video is, people will still watch it if interested in the particular topic. More people need to like this channel :)
@cjr65643 жыл бұрын
" Bal ham, gateway to the South"! A great starting point Jago and an an informative and interesting Video Thanks.
@RichardFelstead19493 жыл бұрын
Same Tube Channel, Same Tube Time for next enthralling instalment.
@shauntodd71233 жыл бұрын
Fantastic start Jago cannot wait for Part 2
@robjw661113 жыл бұрын
Another tour de force, of course starting the video in Balham (gateway to the 'saff'), where I spent my early years (before moving further south to Merton and then before moving even further south to Perth in Australia), may have influenced me. My Balham underground station really hasn't changed much!
@joannaatkinson2353 жыл бұрын
As always, informative and interesting. One of the reasons I subscribed when I found you and I'm so pleased that this is a multi-parter!
@curtiscoon62993 жыл бұрын
great video. Thank you very much and I look forward to part two.
@hyperdistortion23 жыл бұрын
Excellent as ever! And a top cliffhanger to keep us keen for Pt.2 (as if I wasn’t going to watch at my earliest convenience...)
@shaunwest36123 жыл бұрын
Great video jago, amazing London underground history, love it👌👍😀
@SecretSquirrelFun3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this, looking forward to part 2.
@the_9ent3 жыл бұрын
Appreciate all the time and effort taken to make this series
@annab.43423 жыл бұрын
Lot of information , very interesting going to see part 2!
@theminipetabyte46103 жыл бұрын
Midnight on the West Coast. Must be morning in the UK.
@lloydcollins63373 жыл бұрын
07:56
@sewing94343 жыл бұрын
Hello, fellow West Coaster...midnight is the best time to watch a new Jago Hazzard video!
@lloydcollins63373 жыл бұрын
@@sewing9434 UK in my case, sorry to dissapoint
@sewing94343 жыл бұрын
@@lloydcollins6337 Alas, I meant the OP. We have the advantage of being able to enjoy Jago's latest offerings late at night, since that's when they come out in our time zone.
@vincentkohlumcfan223 жыл бұрын
Interesting newly painted gap hazard thingys at Balham!
@russellb12123 жыл бұрын
Excellent, very interesting, starting by for part 2
@janscattergood72943 жыл бұрын
Very interesting! Looking forward to part 2 & 3. These keep me going as I can't wait to visit London (when appropriate) and travel on the underground. Thank you. x
@andyjay7293 жыл бұрын
The New York City Subway also started out as several separate private rail lines, often competing with each other, that were eventually bought by the city and knit into one system. But some of the systems used different tunnel boring techniques and thus had different tunnel sizes; to this day some trains can't be used on certain lines.
@andyjay7293 жыл бұрын
PS: Which other cities' subway/metro/whatever systems had similar origins? I know to this day Tokyo actually has two separate subway systems.
@mittfh3 жыл бұрын
So not just the beginning of the Underground as we know it, but with buying up bus and tram operators, possibly an ancestral prototype for TfL (which has also added light rail, surface heavy rail [Overground - although I'm disappointed Overground services haven't joined Underground services in the vicinity of a very tidy South West London common!] and even a cable car [!] to its remit).
@bigaspidistra3 жыл бұрын
It was almost an accident really that so many lines combined under Yerkes in such a short time. Some of these lines had been kicking around for 10 years or more without being built and if left longer may never have been at least under private ownership. Still in some ways JP Morgan's Piccadilly, City and North East London Railway might have been rather more useful than the Piccadilly Line as built by Yerkes - some parts of London had to wait another 70 years to get a line they would have had with that one.
@peteryoung49573 жыл бұрын
Great video and looking forward to part 2
@neilthehermit46553 жыл бұрын
And of course you leave us on a cliffhanger! - Can't wait for the rest of the story.
@davidsheriff89893 жыл бұрын
Great research as usual..I used the Central Line ( well named ) and Hammersmith City far more than any others...
@Juliozz33 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for part 2!
@tonyboloni643 жыл бұрын
Always a pleasure.
@AcornElectron3 жыл бұрын
I’d love a half hour long complete history. I’m sure a few others would too but I understand the algorithm wouldn’t be very happy with that length of video. Anyway, always interesting and informative. Keep up the good work fella and stay safe.
@DentalHygieneTipsUk3 жыл бұрын
Great video! Can't wait for p2
@RadioJonophone3 жыл бұрын
Well, that was dense. By which I mean as packed as the Victoria Line at 1600hrs. I recall reading a book by Jean-Paul Satre where the concepts came ten to a sentence. It seemed that ideas were piled on each other in a tangled haystack from which one was invited to pick out the valuable needles. Anyway, the TubeTube allows one to rewind or play again to Pick up connections that hurtled by in a haze first time around. Good argument for circular travel. Well done, Jago. I'm looking forward to further whistle-stop instalments.
@tomaspetkevicius64443 жыл бұрын
Very very interesting, looking forward to more ;) and part 2 i havent even watched first yet :D
@michaeldwyer33523 жыл бұрын
Charles Tyson Yerkes was certainly a rogue - he actually served a prison term in Pennsylvania for fraud. But rogues often see opportunities and get things done. Incidentally all his London underground rail enterprises were failing financially by the time he died just before the completion of the Bakerloo line in 1907. It's remarkable that Stanley (later raised to the peerage as Baron Ashfiels) and Pick managed to pick up the pieces so deftly.
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
I wonder if the money came in more from commercial lettings and investments in property as much as passenger traffic. But trams were seen as working class, tubes middle. Buses actually made the money subsidisiing the holes in the ground.
@brianparker6633 жыл бұрын
True story - when I was at Uni there was a guy in my flat who had come over to London for the first time. He had arrived at Paddington and later took the Central line to Oxford Circus. That first train had been red (38 stock?) so he spent half an hour waiting for the light blue train to take him to Victoria - assuming the trains were also colour-coded. It was actually a perfectly understandable assumption. That chap is now a well-known news presenter.
@theblah123 жыл бұрын
I remember being massively confused how the subsurface metropolitan/district/circle lines worked. What do you mean, those lines share the same bits of track and station platforms?
@dennistay99803 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video as always Jago :)
@cameo4033 жыл бұрын
Very interesting, looking forward to the other two in the series.
@seanbonella11 ай бұрын
Yerkes stiry starts here....great stuff Jago
@PaulSmith-pl7fo3 жыл бұрын
Hi Jago. Really looking forward to parts 2 & 3 (or more?). If you don't do so, I would very much like to see the progression from steam to electric motive traction on the Underground. You have shown a picture of the first(?) electric tractor, but I would like to see how they progressed.
@francesconicoletti25473 жыл бұрын
If I understand correctly the trigger for all of this was a piece of legislation that limited how close main line stations could get to the centre of London. After all what would a railway company do knock down St Paul’s to build a terminus ? Given it was the 19th century, quite likely. The travellers on the main lines had a last mile problem getting from the termini to central London. The underground was the solution.
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
Generally this is correct, if not legislation it was corporation of london edict. The number of stations generally proposed for central london and the city were goods ones as much as passenger. Rather a problem as having euston when a cross london route above or below ground would have been more useful
@francesconicoletti25473 жыл бұрын
@@highpath4776 well it was the 19th century. I doubt they could have built a long heavy gauge rail line under London. Cross rail the 21st century partial unpicking of the 19th century decision doesn’t seem to be going well. About ground is terrifying. Just how much of the City of London would have been left by the time the railways got through with it. I lived at the tail end of the city motorway mania of the 70’s . And it might be colouring my judgment.
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
@@francesconicoletti2547 Given the already earlier canal and rail tunnels elsewhere the means was known - if the ground was suitable, before london really got its railways - the problem was viaducts gave you commercial space you could let out, or undercrofts at stations could be used for goods transfer depots etc.
@channelsixtysix0663 жыл бұрын
If anyone was going to construct a rail link under the Thames, it was going to be a Brunel family member. One of the 19th C. greatest, engineering dynasties.
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
not built as a rail link, Jago uses correct english but the brevity of it enables an ambigious reading to be inferred.
@channelsixtysix0663 жыл бұрын
@@highpath4776 My fault. I did mean the actual tunnel, thinking of past Brunel structures to do with railways. I didn't realise the railway came much later. Amazing to think this was started in 1825.
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
@@channelsixtysix066 I dont even think it was the first tunnel under the thames - I might be wrong on that and getting confused with Rotherhithe )
@zork9993 жыл бұрын
@@highpath4776 Yes, it was built as a road tunnel but ended up in such financial problems (horribly over budget) that the approach roads were never built and it was used purely as a pedestrian tunnel until the railway plan came along 20 years later.
@iankemp11313 жыл бұрын
@@highpath4776 It was the first tunnel under the Thames - it runs from Wapping to Rotherhithe. And the experience of building it put everyone off for another 50 years or so. The line was underused for years - too far east. Only in last last few years as part of the new Overground "circle" has it really come into its own.
@johnbowles47543 жыл бұрын
Love it Mr Hazard, can't wait for part 2 😎
@danielpirone80283 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@thegreybeard34413 жыл бұрын
Random note, when at Mansion House when it’s quiet you can hear the Waterloo and City trains where the tunnels are that close
@1963TOMB3 жыл бұрын
There are several tube sections on the underground where, when working at night with the traction current off (of course) you hear the rumble of a train and think OMG there's a train coming when in fact its passing close by on another line.
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
@@1963TOMB Sometimes its a battery loco engineering train coming through.
@1963TOMB3 жыл бұрын
@@highpath4776 Then I'd sack the Protection Master - if I survived!
@hairyairey3 жыл бұрын
@@1963TOMB especially under Kings Cross there are an extraordinary number of tunnels at different heights there.
@1963TOMB3 жыл бұрын
@@hairyairey I even get spooked in the disused areas of Euston when I hear a train whilst I'm walking in cast iron segmented tunnels that don't even have a track in them!
@carlbyronrodgers3 жыл бұрын
Very informative and enjoyable
@teecefamilykent3 жыл бұрын
Another cracking video sir!
@stevenflebbe3 жыл бұрын
Ahhhh...good old Charles Tyson Yerkes. He may have been a villian, but he may just have got in ahead of all the other villians. There was nothing wrong with his vision, though. His ideas of unification ultimately proved correct for Chicago as well as for London. Great video...looking forward to Part 2.
@Jules_Diplopia3 жыл бұрын
Fascinating.
@jimobasa5253 жыл бұрын
Excellent narration as always. So articulate but occasionally sounding like a Church of England vicar.
@AIMIJACU3 жыл бұрын
looking forward to that second episode!!!
@JagoHazzard3 жыл бұрын
It’s coming this Sunday, and features pirates!
@AIMIJACU3 жыл бұрын
@@JagoHazzard can’t wait! always good when pirates are involved
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
Note the LSWR built segment of the district between Wimbledon (specifically Southfields and East Putney) and Putney Bridge is notable as having proper tunnels, not cut and cover for all its sub surface routing, probably the only tunnels on the District entire line.
@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp3 жыл бұрын
Great Video! Thank You!
@chrissimmonds37343 жыл бұрын
Wonderful, I'm hooked on every episode
@Andrewjg_893 жыл бұрын
With the Metropolitan Line that extended into Buckinghamshire. It could of reached Aylesbury, Oxford and Thame. But it only goes as far as Amersham and the proposed extension to Watford Junction known as “Croxley Rail Link”. Which has been mothballed but it still could happen. And the Waterloo & City Line was part of Network Southeast but now is part of London Underground. And yes you got Great Northern using the Moorgate Line and Thameslink going through Central London. And hopefully Elizabeth Line will soon have trains going underneath Central London once it’s completed.
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
It did reach Aylesbury, but why indeed not to Oxford (agreements with the GWR ?)
@Andrewjg_893 жыл бұрын
@@highpath4776 I think it went as far Brill which is in Buckinghamshire but close to the county border with Oxfordshire. As it was known as “Metroland”. And it even went to Verney Junction near Buckingham. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brill,_Buckinghamshire en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verney_Junction_railway_station en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-land
@andrewatherton3163 жыл бұрын
Ends with a cliff hanger! Just how does it end up? Subscribe to the channel to catch Part 2!
@bongobaws74173 жыл бұрын
Loving the videos
@timsully89583 жыл бұрын
Excellent stuff 🤓 Funny isn’t it how people assume it was all some grand plan rather than a haphazard bunch of lines thrown together. Perhaps it is because the iconic map weeds out the awkwardness and makes it appear mathematical and precise? 🤔 Great video mate. Looking forward to number 2, which I suspect will be up to your normal riveting high standard 👍🎩
@theblah123 жыл бұрын
I think it's interesting how despite being a collection of mostly unrelated lines, the system is still pretty efficient at serving central London - all the lines are decently spaced out from each other and connect to each other where you'd expect them to connect (with a few exceptions), and almost forms a grid-like pattern within inside the circle line.
@stephinepaul74833 жыл бұрын
Booted out American's and "The Combine." Well this got dark very quickly....
@n17hero3 жыл бұрын
There are always so many facts in these videos I have to stop and go back. They're like the "last time on" segments from the early 80s US sitcom Soap. Last time on Tales from the tube...The District Line which was really the Metropolitan and District Line, but wasn't owned by the Metropolitan Railway company was now in bed with...