Fun fact: There used to be a specially designed tube carriage specifically intended for the transport of Elephants however it was never used due the lack of reason for it to exist.
@thomasburke2683 Жыл бұрын
Lack of reason? Or lack of jumbo escalators?
@ivorwhitecar Жыл бұрын
I suppose there were no trunk routes on the underground 😁
@stephenlee5929 Жыл бұрын
Was there another for the transport of Castles?
@googleuser3163 Жыл бұрын
@@stephenlee5929 Interestingly, no. The original intention was for the castles to be placed *below* the elephants during transit.
@TheSmart-CasualGamer Жыл бұрын
Well, you can't spell Loxodon without London...
@Voltaic_Fire Жыл бұрын
I've got to say that I love how the mahogany panelled carriages looked with the rich colour and wrought iron fixtures, they're just beautiful.
@sirrliv Жыл бұрын
I've always liked the look of the 1906 Gate Stock, with their rounded body shape, their large windows, and especially their clerestory roofs with the rounded ends. I wonder if anyone would be interested in building a replica, even a single coach, so we have a full-size representation of what they were like.
@PerCPH2200 Жыл бұрын
I seriously doubt it. Tube stock is challenging because they would need some disused section of LU to drive on, and the only section spring to mind, the Aldwych-branch, is likely to be severed permanently, as the space at the Holborn-end is required for improving Holborn station. To drive on the mainline - well, the original gate-stock was deemed unsuitable for that already back in the days - not to mention it still needs the electric collection units to work. As a static exhibit? Maybe, but then realistically more like a mock-up, without motors and boggies? The LT museum already have a lot of vehicles in storage, so I doubt they'd be interested. You don't spend ££££+ only to put it in a storage. Sorry for sounding pessimistic, but I don't see it happen. Ever.
@ravenmusic6392 Жыл бұрын
I'd love a series running through all the tube stocks and how good they were!
@marcelwiszowaty1751 Жыл бұрын
Indeed. How about the Watford Joint Stock, specifically for the Bakerloo service on the dc lines from Queen's Park to Watford Junction? Quite niche really.
@Wockes Жыл бұрын
or terrible
@marvintpandroid2213 Жыл бұрын
This electricity thing wont catch on, you mark my words.
@PigeonsandCapybaras5 ай бұрын
Reading this a hundred years later feels different 💀💀💀
@PlanetoftheDeaf Жыл бұрын
Great summary. We have a lot to thank UERL and Yerkes for. It's amazing that air powered doors were first installed over 100 years ago, considering that on the mainline network manual slam doors have been common until very recently.
@petermatyas4834 Жыл бұрын
the Munich subway trains still have that to this day, even though they are rapidly being phased out.
@wta15186 ай бұрын
Amtrak still has manually operated doors for the Superliners (but not the similar California Cars or Surfliners), and Amfleet IIs (but, strangely, not Amfleet Is).
@jerribee1 Жыл бұрын
A day without a Jago Hazzard video is like boiled egg without soldiers.
@Tevildo Жыл бұрын
2:50 I'm sure everyone's interested - this is Wilton Lackaye as Svengali, from the original 1895 production of "Trilby" at the Park Theatre, Boston.
@frglee Жыл бұрын
That was an interesting image of the Edwardian-era three car units. I'm so used to the idea of tube trains being the same length as the platforms, it seems funny to imagine a tube train with just three coaches turning up.
@bjoernaltmann Жыл бұрын
They only play this game at Southeastern stations, in the morning. Four coaches instead of eight. The despair! The panic!
@steveosborne2297 Жыл бұрын
Four car trains were standard running between Epping and Ongar on the central line , occasionally they would go as far as Loughton . They were slightly different to the usual stock on the central line in the fact that there was glass at the front so you could actually see through the drivers cab and along the track
@iankemp1131 Жыл бұрын
@@steveosborne2297 Really? Surely they were just shortened rakes of the normal tube stock of 1956 or thereabouts. My dad and I travelled on the line around 1967 and he got some cine film footage out the front, but only because the driver had helpfully left the central cab door open. I did get a full frontal view of Epping-Ongar after it was preserved and they ran an ex-BR dmu where indeed you could see out the front, but those never operated the line in LT days. I think the experimental 1960 stock that originally worked the Woodford-Hainault shuttle later gravitated to Epping-Ongar (and I think got reduced from 4 cars to 3) but again, no direct front view. I always thought they looked particularly attractive externally; more rounded.
@steveosborne2297 Жыл бұрын
@@iankemp1131 No I used to use the tube every day (1965-70) to go to school in Buckhurst Hill and once we got back to Epping hop over onto the Ongar line and they always had the see-through cabs .
@iankemp1131 Жыл бұрын
@@steveosborne2297 Fascinating. Do you know what sort of stock it was? Was it a full glass panel right the way across behind the driving compartment, as in dmus, or just the central connecting door? The latter is what I remember, but you travelled on it much more often than me!
@pacificostudios Жыл бұрын
In Excelsior, MN, one surviving streetcar (Tram in the U.K.) is a gate car. Duluth Street Railway 78 is a small four-wheel car built in 1893, but it still has its gates because it was never modernized. Rides are given regularly by the shores of Lake Minnetonka.
@lawrencelewis2592 Жыл бұрын
In 1944, AC& F merged with the J.G. Brill company, a maker of buses and trams. I have a radiator? badge lettered for a,c,f (that's the exact way it is done, in lower case) on its upper half and BRILL on the lower half. About 4 inches in diameter, I found it at a classic car show and it sits on a shelf about five feet away from me as I write this.
@MisterTea74 Жыл бұрын
Well done for making your adverts funny and worth watching. I skip nearly all adverts where possible but yours are as good as the rest of your content. You are the play button to my fast forward.
@ktipuss Жыл бұрын
The 1923 "standard" tube stock would have looked very modern when introduced, and even 100 years later have aged very well. They were still in use on the Isle of Wright lines into the 1990's. Maybe a video about these sets in their centenary year would be good.
@PokhrajRoy. Жыл бұрын
Whenever Jago talks about historical trains, I remember the bit about Eurostar which lives rent-free in my mind.
@josephturner7569 Жыл бұрын
Just noticed the poster for RIAT. As a reservist I got to work there for several years. Saw some amazing stuff.
@OffTheRailsUK Жыл бұрын
Jago is one of the only channels I know to make sponsorships interesting and funny 😂
@dronespace Жыл бұрын
Max Fosh is hilarious as well
@jackmartinleith Жыл бұрын
How about @JayForeman?
@kanedaku Жыл бұрын
@@simonwinter8839 Well said my namesake.
@Odin029 Жыл бұрын
This has nothing at all to do with tube lines or railroad rolling stock, but whoever put that cuff and crease in Mr. Yerkes' pants was a master of the craft.
@esmeephillips5888 Жыл бұрын
Skilful pressing, the mark of a gentleman. Or would-be one in Yerkes's case. The late Victorian and Edwardian eras were the golden age for social-climbing con artists. Edward VII cared little where your money came from... as long as you splashed it around. But like his British forerunner, George Hudson, Mr Yerkes was a visionary as well as a crook. They gave Britain the world's first intercity network and its first urban rapid transit system.
@PokhrajRoy. Жыл бұрын
Your Ad Reads combined with editing are getting more and more iconic.
@peterjohncooper Жыл бұрын
You have answered our prayers for a new image of Charles Yerkes. Oh Great Hazzard. Oh, How wonderful. Is the guy with the beard another Tube Line entrepreneur?
@dukeofaaghisle7324 Жыл бұрын
The use of steel for railway carriages is inextricably intertwined with shredded wheat. Henry Druschel Perky was a pioneer of steel railcars; he invented and then commercialised the shredded wheat biscuit whilst promoting his steel railcars. Eventually the shredded wheat took precedence in his life. He died, coincidentally, in 1906.
@simonwinter8839 Жыл бұрын
I bet he couldn't eat three cars !!
@DavidWilson-hh2gn Жыл бұрын
The American term of car also extended to and is still used for all multiple unit trains also the underground lines adopted directional names -East,West ,South and Northbound rather the conventional Up and Down reference.Trains on the Glasgow system used folding metal lift style doors for many years.
@jameswallace6378 Жыл бұрын
Great episode. As a railroader, I always love hearing more about the people who work on rail networks, the ‘Gatemen’s allowance’ made me laugh as the company I work for arrived at a similar agreement whereby conductors hired pre-1985 receive a bonus check for the imaginary brakemen no longer working under them.
@captainjoshuagleiberman2778 Жыл бұрын
Yerkies! There should be a drinking game, everytime Jago does a video and each time he mentions Yerkies you guzzle a pint. 😊
@tonylancaster8704 Жыл бұрын
I seem to remember in the 1970,s riding on the the Glasgow subway and they had metal gates at the end of the cars but they face on to the platform Top video as usual Jago keep up the great work .
@iankemp1131 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely right, those were the original 1896-7 cars and apparently although most had air doors fitted later, some of the original lattice gate stock survived in service until refurbishment in 1977.
@tankmicr00man Жыл бұрын
Yes definitely in 1971 when I lived there 👍
@Sim0nTrains Жыл бұрын
Brilliant video, love the pun the gateway to the future 😂
@R4baDader Жыл бұрын
I wonder how similar these cars are to the Gibbs Hi-V cars of the Interborough Rapid Transit in New York. Both were constructed by the ACF, and at about the same time. Might be cool to see what the ACF learned from New York that they then applied to the tube and vice versa
@bobcosmic Жыл бұрын
Another great broadcast. Every time Jago Hazzard drops a video about the tube, the song "The Right Track" from Phyllis Dillon comes into my mind😉
@PokhrajRoy. Жыл бұрын
8:10 Same thing happens here but with bus stops. The announcer at 2x speed is timeless.
@rowanmorgan457 Жыл бұрын
Oh Jago, how we love your adverts... Another fabulous video. You are the Protagonist to my Tale from the Tube
@pacificostudios Жыл бұрын
Similar gate car designs were also popular in New York, Chicago, many cities. Power-operated doors arrived in the 1920.
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Жыл бұрын
You didn't show us the museum's Sleet Loco, ESL 107. They were made at Acton Works by joining two 1903 Central Line cabs+equipment compartment together, back to back. Slightly earlier than 1906 stock but similar in design and concept.....
@chemiker494 Жыл бұрын
6:00 unforrtunately I have never heard of a company named "Hungarian Railway and carriage works". One contender may be Ganz-Mavag, which in original Hungarian would be spelled like this: Magyar Királyi Állami Vas-, Acél- és Gépgyárak, or it may be a subsidiary to Siemens, who built the first underground railway on the European continent in Budapest, in 1896
@chrisinnes2128 Жыл бұрын
Not quite it's the old name of RABA
@fightersweep Жыл бұрын
Always happy to see a stock related video from Jago! Hope to see a video one day on my favourite LT Stock, the flare sided CO/CPs.
@AtheistOrphan Жыл бұрын
9:23 - Fond memories of this stock on the IOW as a kiddie. (Last rode in in 1986 when it was painted in NSE colours).
@GojiMet86 Жыл бұрын
I like the look of the 1906 stock. The cab area looks like a diesel engine front was hastily inserted unto a subway train. They also look like the New York City IRT Hi-V and Lo-V trains (like the Bakerloo 1906 stock, they were built by American Car & Foundry). It's a shame that most of the early sub-surface and deep tube stocks have no single preserved specimen. I was looking at the wikipedia page mfor the 1906 stock, and there is part of only one 1906-stock train preserved.
@googleuser3163 Жыл бұрын
I like the look of you
@eattherich9215 Жыл бұрын
I was reminded of a caboose which was the look out carriage on the American railroads.
@russellgxy2905 Жыл бұрын
Funnily enough, I was reminded of the BMT’s old Gate Cars, both in their original form and the rebuild Q and QX
@roberthuron9160 Жыл бұрын
Have you forgotten the IRT,converted Gate cars,run on the El's? They were run on the 2,3,6&9th lines,and the BRT/BMT cars ran on the Mytle Avenue line,which shut down in the 1960's! The Transit Museum has a few specimens[operational,at that],so all is not lost! Chicago,and Boston also had gate cars,too! And Boston actually operated their cars in Subway service(steel cars hadn't been invented then),so Yerkes influenced much more territory than one might imagine 😳! Thank you for your attention ☺️! Thank you 😇!
@junfa8686 Жыл бұрын
A big shame/
@gritintheoyster Жыл бұрын
As usual, incredibly well researched, not least about the gatemen's allowance lasting through to 1985. Well done (as usual).
@alejandrayalanbowman367 Жыл бұрын
Hi Jago from Spain. Yet another trip down Memory Lane. Thank you.
@NickyMitchell85 Жыл бұрын
What a lovely 😊 vintage tube train 🚊.
@FanxiansLeafy5 ай бұрын
Fun fact: the early balcony design of tube trains were based more or less off the elevated trains in New York.
@ZGryphon Жыл бұрын
To be fair to the _Times_ correspondents, mispronouncing the names of mass transit stations _is_ an ancient American tradition. For example, on the MBTA Green Line in Boston, one of the oldest transit lines in the nation, there is a whole stretch of stations whose names seem to have been scientifically selected to sound as funny as possible when shouted into a balky PA system by someone with a heavy local accent and an imperfect commitment to detail: Lechmere, Science Park, North Station, Haymarket, Government Center, Park Street, Boylston, Arlington.
@TheAltonEllis Жыл бұрын
Boston native here and I absolutely concur! IF you can hear the announcements at all over the screech of Red Line trains going into Harvard! 🤣
@aprilsmith1166 Жыл бұрын
When the London to Scotland trains were upgraded recently the announcing system was also changed, with English people reading Scottish place names. It wasn't a success and had to be changed back again in the interests of harmonious relations between the two countries...
@ZGryphon Жыл бұрын
@@TheAltonEllis When I last lived in greater Boston, 20+ years ago, it was still a crapshoot whether you got one of the silver Red Line trains with the recorded announcements ("Now entering: Porter Square. Change here for the Commuter Rail"), or the old white ones where you might get a yell into the PA if you were lucky ("POHTAH. 'MUTAH RAIL"). :)
@highpath4776 Жыл бұрын
Still like the Southern Region ( LSWR / SWR ) from Wimbledon - Raynes Park, Motspur Park, Stoneliegh, Ewell West, Epsom, Ashted , Leatherhead, Effingham Junction , London Road , Guildford and Guildford.
@hb1338 Жыл бұрын
@@highpath4776 Apologies for the pedantry - Wimbledon, Raynes Park, Motspur Park, Worcester Park, Stoneleigh, Ewell West, Epsom, Ashtead, Leatherhead, Effingham Junction, Bookham, Horsley, Clandon, London Road (Guildford) and Guildford.
@johnjephcote7636 Жыл бұрын
Well, there was the Great Eastern's 'Jazz Service' operating an intensive steam service into Liverpool Street.
@jbyoung100 Жыл бұрын
I normally avoid sponsorships and ads like the plague, but that guy's face is too great! It looks like he's been spooked by something and he's saying "Woo!"
@Lucius_Chiaraviglio Жыл бұрын
Best ad I've seen yet for a computer security service . . . .
@toymao Жыл бұрын
The book is so considerate, that I'm guessing the "Hungarian Railway and Carriage Works" is supposed to be the "Magyar Waggon- és Gépgyár Rt." (Hungarian Wagon- and Machine Works Company), which was manufacturing carriages for the London underground in 1904 and 1905 in Győr, Hungary. (The company's name was changed a couple of times, added the name Rába - one of the rivers of Győr and also a product line of the company -, then left the "wagon and machine works" part, turned more and more the road vehicles, It still exists today, and has an English name too (besides its Hungarian name) today: RÁBA Automotive Group.
@ThatScottishAtlantic57 Жыл бұрын
Great vid as always Jago 👍
@timhubbard8895 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant video as usual, Jago! Your sponsor's video was very good! 😂
@eccentric_traveler Жыл бұрын
Great video as always Jago! I am curious though, what's the story about the surviving largest bit of the 1906 stock? Why is it only a remnant and not a whole car? How did it get into its current status?
@barry5111 Жыл бұрын
My Dad was born in 1914 and told me about the gate stock when I was a kid riding standard stock on the Piccadilly line.
@towgod7985 Жыл бұрын
Great video, as always. Cheers.
@template16 Жыл бұрын
Interesting video Jago, plus Charles Yerkes.. excellent! Just make sure there's nobody hiding in your house. 😂
@ianthomson9363 Жыл бұрын
Marvellous! A well-presented and informative video, our favourite pantomime villain, a tolerable advert and superb voice acting too.
@RedArrow7310 ай бұрын
AC&F had quite the portfolio, having built thousands of units for the NYC Subway, and hundreds more for the Pennsylvania and Long Island RR.
@Mattanyahu Жыл бұрын
Well, I never thought that you'll mention my homeland. So here is a fun fact for you: the official name of the Hungarian supplier was Magyar Waggon- és Gépgyár Részvénytársaság, shortened to (Győri) Vagongyár. Its remnants operate now as Rába.
@NickyMitchell85 Жыл бұрын
…..and you’re the “air-operated doors” 🚪 to all of KZbin, Mr. J. Hazzard !
@PokhrajRoy. Жыл бұрын
10:58 No gatekeeping from you, I guess. That’s nice.
@russellgxy2905 Жыл бұрын
I’m still mildly surprised they Underground, any part of it really, was using the gate method of boarding! I’m so used to the British concept of having multiple sets of sliding doors (or swinging for mainline stock) that this was quite a surprise. Truly a shame none of these Gates are left. New York City had a trio of “Gate” cars preserved by the City’s Transit Museum, though they were wooden and would’ve never worked “Underground” in revenue service
@hb1338 Жыл бұрын
The swinging doors (known as slam doors) are no more. According to Wikipedia the last stock was withdrawn in December 2005, though they did re-appear briefly on a couple of spur lines. They were awkward to use and could be very dangerous (I saw somebody seriously hurt by a carelessly opened door) so I don't mourn their passing. The 'modern' sliding doors are much better, but they let cold air in in the winter.
@kanedaku Жыл бұрын
It shouldn't be surprising. There was once a time when you couldn't use a telephone without it being plugged into a wall.
@atraindriver Жыл бұрын
@@hb1338 Slam doors were (comparatively) safe when all trains had slam doors so people understood and respected them. It was amazing how quickly people forgot slam door safety once sliding door trans entered service; in the West Midlands we withdrew slam door class 310 EMUs in the mid-90s but had to reintroduce them after a few months owing to problems with the replacement class 323 units, and it was unbelievable how stupidly people were behaving on the slammers compared to only 6 months previously. If we'd had mobile-phone-zombies (you know, the ones who walk around in circles and almost fall of the platform edge because they're paying no attention whatsoever to anything except their call) at the same time as slam-door trains there would have been serious injuries daily and at least a fatality a week.
@caileanshields4545 Жыл бұрын
The 1906 stock very much puts me in mind of the original Glasgow Subway rolling stock, especially with the lattice gates and the wood-paneled interiors. Hardly surprising considering roughly 10 years seperated their respective introductions, but still lol
@18robsmith Жыл бұрын
Ah, one has really arrived when there is a letter to The Times to complain about one. It takes great skill to achieve such an accolade, which should be worn with pride. Which is unlike arriving post-haste on the first page of the London Evening Standard which is to be considered to be the ultimate in having displayed bad taste and/or behaviour.
@christianshields4164 Жыл бұрын
If I had a shot of whisky every time Charles Yerkes is mentioned across all of Jago Hazzards Videos, I think I would be dead
@StevensPaul Жыл бұрын
Ah,1906 I remember it well! Lots of old ACF stuff still around here......in Pennsylvania. There was actually many Carbuilders here, some do still exist.
@TheAltonEllis Жыл бұрын
Great video, Jago - always fascinating! Keep up the amazing work! Some new Yerkes photos in this one…? Also, there was a small orange-ish sign on a pillar that reads “RVP” - anyone know what this may stand for?
@SportyMabamba Жыл бұрын
RVP = Rendezvous Point, it’s where the emergency services will meet LU staff during an incident.
@hb1338 Жыл бұрын
@@SportyMabamba There are many of them dotted around Heathrow Airport as well.
@TheAltonEllis Жыл бұрын
@@SportyMabamba TY!!
@mikerichards6065 Жыл бұрын
Different photos of Charles - you're treating us Yerkes connoisseurs!
@E-man53757 ай бұрын
In NYC there was The BU gate cars that exclusively ran on elevated lines three of them still exist in the Transit museum
@QuarioQuario54321 Жыл бұрын
Read the title as 1986 stock (A prototype for the 1992 stock) that only ran from 1988-1989 on the Jubilee line
@divarachelenvy Жыл бұрын
I hope this is a gateway to more rolling stock videos... pun intended.
@kevanhubbard9673 Жыл бұрын
Yerkes also built the largest refractor telescope on Earth which is to be found at the Yerkes Observatory near Chicago.
@norbitonflyer5625 Жыл бұрын
Yerkes didn't acquire the GN Picadilly & Brompton Railway. He formed it from three of his acquisitions - the GN & Strand, the Piccadilly & Brompton, and the "Deep Level" project of the Metropolitan District Railway. He joined them together by getting authorisation to extebnd the P&B at one end to join the GN & Strand near Holborn, and at the other to join the Deep Level District at South Kensington. The section of the GN&S from Holborn to Strand (later renamed Aldwych) was built, and run as a shuttle until 1994. The DLD was never built east of South Kensington, but the step plate junctions where the two lines would have joined can still be seen, together with the never-used DLD westbound platform tunne. l
@SteamCrane Жыл бұрын
Last week, I was next to a WW-II era Caterpillar D7, with the American Car & Foundry monogram on the sides of the seat, nested circular initials. Turns out ACF built over 11,000 D7's, some of them for the British Army. Caterpillar supplied the engines and some of the mechanical components. Cat kept it quiet, embarrassed that they needed to farm out some of the production. D7's were favored over D8's, as they were smaller and lighter, so could be carried on a landing craft.
@NickyMitchell85 Жыл бұрын
What a tolerable and appreciable ‘Tale From Da Tube’, Mr. J. Hazzard. Keep up 🆙 da good work-Keep ‘em ‘Tales From The Tube 🚇’ arriving onto the KZbin Station 🚉.
@highpath4776 Жыл бұрын
A 12 min vid, nearly feature length, certainly a good short at the flicks from the 1950s, though it does have the ad break in it.
@luislaplume82618 ай бұрын
The El trains of my old hometown of NYC had larger platforms and gates the last was delivered in 1912. And most of the gate El trains in Manhattan were rebuilt into sliding doors operated by compressed air from an air compressor. 😊
@Rogar0 Жыл бұрын
Hogyon nagyon érdemes, Jago! Lol! 🧐😁
@dambrooks7578 Жыл бұрын
I miss travelling by tube, maybe tomorrow is the day 🚉
@psammiad Жыл бұрын
Funny I'd never noticed but yes, underground carriages are referred to as cars in announcements. It's quicker I suppose.
@ukmusichero Жыл бұрын
Big up for Brush, of Loughborough there,...
@johncamp2567 Жыл бұрын
JAGO: Your research, documentation, and presentation is always top-shelf!! You really have created an impressive body of work!! Thank you!!!
@hb1338 Жыл бұрын
In the old days. the top shelf was where newsagents put the "gentlemen's" magazines, I am told. I think 'top drawer' would be a better choice of words.
@plaws0 Жыл бұрын
I appreciated that and did not find I needed to "tolerate" it at all! 😀 On some of those "motor" cars, like the one in the still at 11:32, what is behind those slats? If I didn't know better, I'd say it was where the engine was to generate the electricity for the traction motors ... but I do know better, and know these aren't Diesel-electric (what do you call them? Electro-Diesel or something? When there is an internal combustion engine turning a generator to make electricity ...). So what equipment was in there? Or was it the lounge and they patrons wanted privacy?
@surreygoldprospector576 Жыл бұрын
@@henrybest4057 Yes, the Standard Stock that Jago mentioned had the same kind of electrical equipment. I remember riding on them on the Isle of Wight in the late 1980s. To control acceleration there were banks of resistors, and relays that switched these in and out. The relays also switched the motors from 'series' (low speed/power) to 'parallel' (high speed/power) as the train speeded up. You could hear all the relays chattering away as the train moved off!
@SportyMabamba Жыл бұрын
That’s the electrical switchgear compartment. Nowadays it’s under the floors
@iankemp1131 Жыл бұрын
@@SportyMabamba And the 1938 stock was the first tube stock where underfloor switchgear was achieved, with the obvious advantage of leaving more space for passengers in the bodyshell.
@ashleyjiscool Жыл бұрын
1906 stock at Acton is cool
@Keithbarber Жыл бұрын
3rd🥉
@julianaylor4351 Жыл бұрын
In a way the early twentieth century Tube companies, were starting a tradition, that has persisted to this day. Different rolling stock on different lines, although standardisation is still going on. Plus complaints about the Tube service, appear to have become a norm and talking point for the newspapers. 😁
@daneshardlow293 Жыл бұрын
I may look into that museum when I return to London for another visit.
@Pauldjreadman Жыл бұрын
Electricity was treated with suspicion lol Fasinating stuff :)
@john1703 Жыл бұрын
Regarding one's favourite tube stock, I suspect it depends on when one first encountered a tube train. You panned past mine briefly at Acton at 12:09. The triangular roof end grille of the 1938 stock is always notable. They also had comfortable interiors. (Northern Line in the 1960s)
@AllensTrains Жыл бұрын
People pay good money nowadays to ride up and down on those old units. It is noticeable that the basic design concept to the tube train hasn't changed much since the gate stock was withdrawn. The modern S stock retains many of the features that were introduced with the 1908 stock. I once visited the Isle of Wight as boy and rode on these very old trains. The commuters using them to travel to Portsmouth on the ferry complained very bitterly about them and eventually they were replaced with slightly more recent vintage trains which were not much of an improvement. The Island Line has now been upgraded with revised D stock, but the company that did the upgrade has gone bust, so the future is uncertain. Thanks for uploading.
@eastlancsesteem Жыл бұрын
Another better history lesson than school's. 😂
@scottc1589 Жыл бұрын
"Such methods are only importations from America..." I'd be suspicious of the Americans too, and I'm American.
@hb1338 Жыл бұрын
Sort of English gone rogue - at least we saved you from being French. 😃
@PopeLando Жыл бұрын
9:00 They're not 1919 trains, but they *are* 1973 trains... 50 years old!
@junfa8686 Жыл бұрын
Great video! Awful ending pun! Brilliant show as always!
@Melbournelost66 Жыл бұрын
Our Melbourne Red Rattlers must have been based on these trains in part. They were very luxurious Edwardian electric suburban trains. It always amazes me how Melbourne 's inner surburn stations in the east and south east were copies of English stations. No wonder I felt at home while in the UK.
@stephenjcuk7562 Жыл бұрын
Going off subject but included in the narrative, the abbreviated company names need a video all of there own. I mean how do you make your five worded title fit on small sign or above a door yet keep it legible to the public? It is an art in itself, just like the art of making sponsors entertaining in KZbin videos. Over to you Mr Hazzard.
@antonydicesare4632 Жыл бұрын
I was wondering where our intrepid railway connoisseur, had disappeared too.
@AFCManUk Жыл бұрын
For anyone playing the 'Charles Tyson Yerkes' Drinking Game. . . . 0:41 - Drink! 0:47 - Drink! 2:00 - Drink! 2:21 - Drink! 4:48 - Drink! You got off lightly this week!! 😆😆
@barneypaws4883 Жыл бұрын
Who needs the videos sponsor to deal with wicked men when a strongly written letter to the Times will suffice
@itsthatsebguy93 Жыл бұрын
Does anyone have information on how the gates were operated, did the guard have to pull a leaver or something like that?
@SteveMikre44 Жыл бұрын
Great Wednesday / Hump Day Jago upload...😊
@stewartellinson8846 Жыл бұрын
Allgit'..... Allgit''..... "I say, my man, is this Aldgate or Aldgate East?" "Nah, mate, it's allgit out"
@Jimyjames73 Жыл бұрын
Hello Yurkie (again!!!) - Nice editing @ 3:59 - whoops - slight cut off too early he he 😉🚂🚂🚂
@momentogabe Жыл бұрын
Seeing those KZbin chapters (or whatever their called) on the bottom of the video saying Charles Yorkies almost made me think that there was a life-sized evil chocolate version of Charles Yerkes, which I now realize is definitely something Tfl should do.
@carolinegreenwell9086 Жыл бұрын
I love an episode with lots of Yerkes hahahaha
@PokhrajRoy. Жыл бұрын
2:54 Thank You for the nightmare fuel but great accent btw
@amitbasu8159 Жыл бұрын
I imagine that passengers were forced into writing to the Times to complain about the rude gatewaymen because it was 1906 and hence the BBC did not exist, rendering it difficult to write into Points of View. I am also astonished that the gatewaymen's allowance was discontinued in 1985, but merely in the sense that the unions allowed it to be abolished. Doubtless the GLC provided an increased alternative allowance shortly before they themselves were abolished the following year.