Inside The Victoria Line Depot

[@1finchgreen]

About 2 months ago my driver went the wrong way and all us pasengers got to go to the depot and through the train car wash. It was pretty cool

[@noob.168]

pics or didnt happen

[@wharris302]

but the trains don’t have a driver I thought 🤔

[@StyxieTV]

they do

[@1finchgreen]

noob168 i actually do have pics and videos that were on my snapchat, i asked the driver if it was his 1st day

[@steved8193]

The Victoria Line is automated so the train would've been going there anyway, would assume the driver forgot to tell people to get off!

[@denisshaw1]

I know the perfect house for you Geoff - My old one in Wilkinson Street SW8...The Victoria line runs right under the garden..you can only *just* hear it and our lease was strange saying we only owned the top 20ft of our garden, everything under that belonged to LT! In the summer , if you sunbathed on the lawn on your stomach you could feel the rumble coming up through your body...like a massage chair...very relaxing!

[@fastrains2607]

when I caught the Victoria line I was surprised because everyone wasn't like sardines in a tin!we actually weren't in a crowded train! YAY to Victoria line!

[@Andrewjg_89]

I still think that the Victoria Line should be given the go ahead to be extended including from Walthamstow Central to Woodford or South Woodford and from Brixton to Croydon or Beckenham or Bromley. With the Bakerloo Line to be extended from Elephant & Castle to Hayes and Bromley via Lewisham. And with 2 new Underground stations being added on Old Kent Road.

[@chromebomb]

Here in Los Angeles our single subway line runs Peak: 6tph, Other times: 5tph, after 8pm and weekends: 3tph :(:(:( be glad yall got good infrastructure!!!

[@TH3YGXNE]

chromebomb How? U guys got bigger space than us and a smaller population in the LA area.

[@johnhendra3184]

Hi I was an Apprentice to London Transport in the 1960's. Up until the Victoria line was built all lines were interconnected for maintainance purposes. The tracks are service from Lilly Bridge depot. The trains were service on a daily bases in their local running depot of which each line has at least one and all major service was carried out at the West London depot at Acton Town which is now the museum storage depot.

[@dukenukem5768]

@John Hendra : Victoria Line has a link with the Piccadilly at Finsbury Park.

[@Mrviccietor]

36 trains per hour is massive! Great job!

[@MrGreatplum]

Wish I had Geoff’s job!

[@countryballpoland9519]

Me too

[@jamieemeagi7377]

Me three

[@bipbipletucha]

Me four

[@tinyoofman3361]

Me five

[@trainrover]

Me negative ∞ 🍸

[@kozmaz87]

Now all we are missing is more ventilation shafts. The trains are so close together that the line is in an average of 35 degrees Celsius in rush hour. They desperately need more ventilation shafts.

[@taygadesign]

Zoltán Kozma That's the average temperature of a tropical country that I visited before!

[@kozmaz87]

Well I could agree that this is some cool thing... but people move to London for the reason among many others that it does not get 35 degrees there... at the seaside you go and dive in the tropical ocean. In the London underground you can take a bath in someone else's sweat... yikes... as people have their coats on of course :D

[@airplaneplustrainguy8143]

Zoltán Kozma That is average temp here in the Philippines

[@hu6860]

Zoltán Kozma h

[@emeraldzebra9360]

Is that all? Not that bad. Besides vent shafts won't help. It's the heat off the brakes and motors then people. So you'd feel it before it hit the shaft anyway

[@ecoomber]

I'm happy to see that Victoria station will open the new sections soon. With all the building works going on it has been looking pretty shabby.

[@19nightsky91]

I fucking love the victoria line, never halted by strikes, clean, comfy, quiet, stops are quick and goes to places I need to go!

[@timsekac2624]

The line is entirety underground, exept for the depot. That's great!

[@lzh4950]

Sounds like Singapore's North East Line too (similar length & ridership with the Victoria Line, but with a larger loading gauge, so although it's CBTC signalling system allows for up to 40 trains/h, there's usually only ~28 at peak hours)

[@jamiec2138]

Trusty Victoria Line. While railplan 2020 crumbles you're always there for me...

[@Jown-ec2sm]

Hi, I drove a 2009 stock train here because my mates dad works for the tube. Good vid👍👌

[@kailidovas9562]

That's 🅒🅞🅞🅛! But on which line is he working? Victoria Line?

[@HiTechKeema]

I just used the Victoria line today. Victoria station, too. What a coinky-dink.

[@intercity4319]

All the Depots?

[@myoldreteacher]

Now put your hands up...

[@thelasttimelord7550]

I'm in

[@tanithrosenbaum]

Ohh yes please!

[@dtvfan24]

that would something i watch. love to see the behind the scence of how the network works. love the new S stock and 09 stock

[@timsekac2624]

Especially for the Waterloo & City line which rides entirly underground! :)

[@OlanKenny]

You get to go to so many interesting places I'm a bit jealous if I'm honest.

[@tdcattech]

Love these short and succinct insights. Nice work and thanks.

[@jonny7dreamin]

Brilliant!! Love all your videos..Ex-Londoner...Keep your videos coming..Keeps me in touch...

[@lifeless66]

Geoff is so lucky he can go to all these places normal people can't go, ugh, I wish I could go with him some time...

[@MrJw360]

They should upgrade the bloody Pic line asap give how literally it fails every single day

[@uwlodar]

the new tube for london is coming to the piccadilly soon. I'm pretty sure most of the time, faults on the piccadilly would be from the ageing rolling stock.

[@Oxley016]

I love the pic stock so much though, the line I grew up using from north London.

[@williamfall2214]

H010 most of the Piccadilly line faults come from outdated signalling and particularly control room apparatus, meaning service recovery is slow or control room mistakes cause service disruption. The 1973 stock is actually very reliable for its age

[@galactic_nerd-sk4747]

@@uwlodar 2024. So yeah, soon! 😜

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

@@uwlodar yep, in 2022

[@anitaklopp8867]

I love London and its Underground System ❤️

[@airplaneplustrainguy8143]

New series: Train Line Depot or All the Depot of UK

[@airplaneplustrainguy8143]

Ok

[@masterninjahda]

Can't wait to come over and see it for myself! Well done!

[@Richardsrailway]

With that many trains so close together in an automated system , your going to get much more service problems when trains fail or signaling technology goes up the spout . Plus you only have a few turn back crossovers to divert a failed service onto to it can tip out and run empty to the depot ,

[@a.b.2958]

Thank you for another very interesting video about the London Underground system.

[@sebi01200]

Wow the tube gets stuff done quickly and efficiently -unlike the NYC subway-

[@emjayay]

NYC subways that aren't cut and cover are drilled through solid rock. London Tube is through clay. And NYC subways are all 4 track while the Tube is 2 track. And once London got past the postwar period it really started to invest in the Tube. NYC didn't update anything for half a century and only started about two decades ago. But still there are obvious problems with NYC subways and lack of new lines and extensions that should have been done fifty years ago, and cost way too much when they do happen.

[@Samuel-lq3gh]

This DTgr works with the northern line. I was train spotting at elephant and castle and then there was a long queue of trains.

[@the_southern_aviator]

2:42 2 years down the line, every minute of every day is PPE time, but not because we all live on building sites

[@trainrover]

Large, spacious passageways - for example - signify *_massively improved_* .. besides, more bang for your construction quid were you to create backup lines with fresh stations for the sake of connectivity than unnecessarily reworking your built inadequacies 🍸

[@saurabhmoitra]

Geoff: Please can you make a video on how TFL distributes the fare received from passengers in between different train lines in London especially when a passenger might travel using multiple lines at one go?

[@williamthebutcherssonprodu227]

Two uploads in a day! It must be Christmas come early

[@Londonistvids]

Will Warde-Norbury We've only uploaded one video today ...?

[@UnloosingLion]

Londonist Ltd I think. He meant the video from yesterday

[@williamthebutcherssonprodu227]

I meant to say that Geoff has uploaded twice today

[@Londonistvids]

We just looked - Geoff uploaded a video to his channel yesterday .. we uploaded this one (with Geoff in it) to our channel today - the day after. Maybe you're in a different timezone to us! :-D

[@AffiliateCloudeWRLD]

Will Warde-Norbury that's so true

[@jacksugden8190]

Geoff, it’s wonderful engineering at Victoria, and think that’s is going to be a victim of its own success, in that there are only two tube tunnels, at currently entrances are blocked off/shut to passengers from the British Rail concourse at rush hour, or if the service is not running well, all this will do is build up more people underground creating a H&S issue for evacuations, creating even more overcrowding, and at present, the current trains can’t cope at peak periods. So in essence, the project is deeply floored, as the Victoria line should have been a four tunnel system throughout, allowing the stabilisation of trains at key points, allowing other trains to pass or terminate mid-way taking away the peaks congestion at rush hour, even out of peak times, the service is congested, adding a new ticket hall and entrances does help, but for the reasons mentioned above, it’s storing up trouble for the future.

[@dobroslavgeorgiev8376]

Just to let you know they promise to finish Victoria station for 2018 there is even to HUUGE adverts on the construction site as well stating that they are going to finish for 2018 so well done LUD "We re-invest all of our income to improve your service" :D

[@jaketwigden8054]

can you show more videos like this more depots of all lines in london (tubes, TFL, DLR)

[@Tubekeny1]

Great video. A diagram of the new Victoria station would have been nice.

[@InverhavonRailways]

The Victoria line has the advantage that is A to B with no lines splitting or joining, unlike most other tube lines, allowing the tight schedules. At the Brixton end, the driver "steps back" and another driver takes the control in the opposite direction to keep up the schedules.

[@alfietheg4m3r-robloxmore14]

Geoff one question why are the walls and the roof of the underground stations just gone???

[@88fredmcfred]

Hi Geoff. I'm not so sure whether you are aware of the problems in Singapore. But I think it would be great to do a Q&A in Singapore of the Victoria Line 36 TPH. Any chance you & V will come to Asia? Another thing is - how HK MTR used the Tube Model & saw flaws...modified and worked with the model and is now a world's best enterprise. Your thoughts...?

[@iaspex1289]

Brilliant video as always! :D I thought that the underground had just one big depot. :P

[@peskybee22]

Minelogical RBLX really?

[@iaspex1289]

Yep.

[@uwlodar]

Most deep level lines are completely isolated from other tube lines in terms of tracks. The only inter-connected lines are the sub-surface lines. The tube is very different from say the NYCS, where trains can go wherever they want if they just change track.

[@iaspex1289]

Thanks for the info. :)

[@S1lverArr0w]

Each tube line has it's own array of terminus depots. There's one at each end and usually a couple in the middle. And theoretically you could use one deep level rolling stock and travel on every line possible. It's just a matter of finding the interchangeable tracks and reversing one or two times

[@owenchuarbx]

Singapore's Downtown Line also has Bombardier Trains with Siemens Signalling System

[@jeremywentworth1833]

I worked for bombardier producing and refurbishing these tubes

[@klausvonzeit8686]

"London's most busiest Tube lines"

[@jadenaaronbrown1232]

When it gets to the end of the line either Brixton or Walthamstow Central do they have to quickly change drivers within about a 1 min before the next train comes in?

[@harshalhosany2]

Good question, but I think they do

[@emeraldzebra9360]

Why do these & S Stock have a partial taillight in the headlights? Is it a parking only light, if so why not just use one / partial red taillight?

[@davidbaber5445]

Absolutely superb 😬

[@trainrover]

_most busiest?_

[@ARazaq1501]

Wow! Great video you got there. Btw, how can you go there freely? What's your job?

[@szymek627]

Amazing content!

[@hashimbumji]

i think the victoria line should run from manor house to cokfosters on the picadilly line

[@QuarioQuario54321]

Well if you were in the rear cab or under the train, you might find your way in

[@ElTipoEspañol]

Are the 1967 stock trains in there?

[@MrJimheeren]

once every 100 seconds, our metros only come once every 7 minutes at peak times normally it's around 10 minutes

[@abdullahseba4375]

Most busiest?

[@emiliaaberca932]

I like that the trains go faster

[@medwaymodelrailway7129]

Nice video thanks very much.

[@maxinejones4925]

cool vid! i really enjoyed it

[@mustapha_transport]

That is called a 2009 stock from Victoria line

[@alexleo172]

It's such dissapointment that the depot doesn't have the old 1967 stock

[@yosmosonic]

All trains that go through to the staff platform go through the wash - which doesn’t really work properly!

[@LJC94512]

Is it the same type of signalling system as in Jubilee and Northern line?

[@totalnike03]

No the jubilee and northern line use a system called CBTC (communication based train control) which was installed by Thales, also being installed on the district hammersmith and city circle and metropolitan lines. This CBCT allows for in cab signalling by making use of axel counters, inductive loops and wayside radio equipment which the train is constantly communicating its position to.

[@lzh4950]

@@totalnike03 Wonder why the Victoria Line didn't go for CBTC/TBTC whereas the other lines did

[@totalnike03]

@@lzh4950 im not sure but the victoria lines signalling system is very good

[@Lixtey]

What are the thing on the doors

[@harshalhosany2]

How do you get inside the depot

[@emilychow9571]

Did u get invited by TfL to visit the depot?

[@Aurika.Kaukeniene]

0:45 in the depot (for victoria lines to go here)

[@oforid2227]

Is crossrail getting built in Victoria Geoff

[@QuarioQuario54321]

I wonder if there is an announcement for seven sisters when coming from the depot

[@Ethan-ik1nm]

QuarioQuario54321 on the northern line, at kennington, there seems to be announcements on northbound Charing X trains which start there so it doesn't make much sense to me.

[@stanpatterson5033]

You mean an announcement such as "Now coming into Seven Sisters" ??

[@QuarioQuario54321]

Stan Patterson Just the normal southbound announcement

[@johnnyalpha6221]

When setting up in the depot the train will announce the destination ie. "This is a Victoria line train to Brixton".But the train doesn't make another announcement until the doors are opened "This train calls all stations to Brixton".No announcement on approach though.

[@ShaunieDale]

Did I just hear Geoff say “One of London’s most busiest tube lines”?

[@LondonRider12]

You did! I had a real cringe at the "most busiest". 😫🤣

[@basictransportenthusiast4386]

1:44 unless its the Night tube when trains run every 10 minutes

[@harshalhosany2]

True facts

[@wang_one_95]

0:27 That should be Platform 4 Platform 2 at Seven Sisters is for Overground trains

[@Lisbonized]

Wang Yulun you're right!

[@Jack-hq8dl]

Siemens what did the do it on

[@davidsmith6661]

All very well washing the outside of the trains - they should try cleaning the insides occasionally. They are usually filthy.

[@emjayay]

Me in NYC: you have no idea.

[@numberIII-xv8xg]

36tph is ridiculously amazing on with 130m trains, but what i find disappointing is that the max tph on the Elizabeth line is 24, with 205m trains. Japan has the Chuo line rapid and its timetable between 7:45 and 8:45am has 30tph with 200m trains. Purple train can do better, TFL

[@Lisbonized]

Disappointed that Geoff turned up at my work when I wasn't there!

[@LillyDoesGamingandVlogs]

@Jonah Kemp stop correcting his name Geoff is the spelling

[@harrytodhunter5078]

i think you should do a video explaining "Idiom Park"

[@camod1989]

It’s a actually platform 4 at Seven Sisters that goes to the depot

[@lzh4950]

2:17 '465' is the train's serial/run number I'm guessing?

[@kingfinley-cs1wc]

......Nice Video..........

[@leilasharafi9778]

this is incredible

[@Ishak_2013]

The victoria line in the depot doesn't sound like something except the doors

[@oskarsrode2167]

3:25 a candy machine???

[@DJ_Dopamine]

An ear plug dispenser for the workers to help themselves. But you maybe knew that already!

[@SaintWhittiker]

How to do found at

[@Abdur-Rehman]

Can you go to the Victoria line train staff on the platform easily I’m going to Depot

[@detournetworkuk]

Hmm, Are You The Guy Who Hates Travelodge?

[@kingfinley-cs1wc]

Wheres the Deport😢

[@daredevil3744]

Victoria station will get more upgrades because of Crossrail 2 but not yet.

[@oludotunjohnshowemimo434]

The only part of the Victoria line not in the tunnel. Northumbland Park depot.

[@fastertrackcreative]

How did you manage to get permission to go to all these places?

[@OlanKenny]

Fastertrack They have 78K subscribers, they probably just get in touch and ask nicely. It's free(?) advertising for the Victoria line and TFL

[@jojotorres4998]

Does anybody else think that Londonist Ltd should be a tv channel

[@randomyoutubechannel2470]

they should just extend the victoria line to northumberland park

[@rommee]

For Ikea and Tesco 😂👍

[@tanishandshanvigaming4396]

They should build a branch like the northern mill hill east and Metropolitan amersham/chesham or district earls court.

[@kingfinley-cs1wc]

Every Victoria Line Train Comes Every 2 Mins

[@gonetea4081]

NEEEEWWWW TRAAAAINS!!

[@Samuelgamer4]

victoria line is my home

[@pauljohnson4831]

i like the DLR

[@randolphclarke4674]

I hate when people say PPE. In high school it is basically the abbreviation for your mock A level exams

[@airplaneplustrainguy8143]

Siemens is sometimes pronounced Semens (Such a nasty name)

[@Sarahbryson321]

Z

[@alexleo172]

Semen

[@dailleursstraits]

petition to extend the victoria line further south

[@PlanesTrainsFan]

Also the train could be rain splattered if it had been splattered with rain

[@DaveSpathaky]

...most busiest?

[@margin606]

a bit of additional emphasis.

[@320ifq]

What about the Glasgow underground ...... You never mention it

[@Londonistvids]

Well, for starters it's not in London. This is a London channel. Hence the name .. "Londonist".

[@AAAyyyGGG]

Why don't you start your own channel: Call it "Glasgowist", and in time you'll be as popular as Geoff!

[@awesometrainsandbuses]

Jonah Kemp there are 2 types of Jeff/Geoff

[@TheN21yid]

Pity they can't add Northumberland park to the Victoria line

[@harribo2005x]

The only part of the Victoria line that does not run Underground...

[@SamSitar]

later tfl should have 4 track lines.

[@Aurika.Kaukeniene]

0:04 Londonist starts talking (in Victoria station)