Riding the Central Line, 1995, London Tube, 1990s

Riding the Central Line, 1995, London Tube, 1990s from the Kinolibrary Archive Film Collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit www.kinolibrary.com. Clip ref DW008148.
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INT GV TUBE TRAIN CARRIAGE W/ PEOPLE SEATED AS IT LEAVES BETHNAL
GREEN STATION
GVS EMPTY PLATFORM OF LIVERPOOL STREET TUBE STATION ( VIEW FROM
THE DOORWAY OF THE TRAIN )
INT GV TUBE CARRIAGE W/ PEOPLE READING NEWSPAPERS
LOW VIEW OF PEOPLE GETTING OFF TUBE TRAIN
INT GV TUBE CARRIAGE AS TRAIN LEAVES BANK STATION W/ RAPID TRACK
OF PLATFORM
INT GV PEOPLE IN CARRIAGE ( NEW STYLE CARRIAGE )
PAN OF CHANCERY LANE STATION FROM TUBE AS IT LEAVES
WALKING SHOT BV PASSENGERS AS THEY LEAVE THE TUBE AT TOTTENHAM
COURT ROAD & GO UP STAIRS & ESCALATOR
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[@n.d3443]

Cleaner than what it is right now

[@Lewwytravels]

Holy crap they're clean.

[@NoddyMaccy]

Yeah, once upon a time they weren’t the gaffa tape express!

[@beardedbaldie2698]

The Central line was still bright, sparkly and new back then. Watching this video makes me realise how run down and dingy it’s become.

[@bb-3653]

@@beardedbaldie2698 all a result of poor maintenance

[@PeteS_1994]

@@bb-3653 Also the first tube stock to have a modern design. The external hanging doors, bonded windows I think that’s what it’s called. It was an experimental train design for the time it was built.

[@bb-3653]

@@PeteS_1994 yeah i think they did a variety of different prototypes . It's pretty cool. It's also a train that feels like an AC tractioned train with DC traction system. The motors sound so smooth whereas other DC motors like the 73 stock sound more deep (which I like) , but I always thought the 92 stocks were a bit advanced for a DC tractioned unit. Pretty good engineering if you ask me (or whatever the right word would be) 92s I don't think had bonded windows but rather the 95/96 stocks

[@bg4928]

Not one phone in sight. Amazing!

[@haralamc]

Shit load of news papers tho

[@ajs41]

If you had a phone you kept it in your briefcase in those days.

[@nox6948]

was gonna type those same words.

[@peridotfacet2r7p-5xr2]

@@Sandro_-jo3wh shut up boomer

[@callumLB05]

@Qianlima Just shut up mate

[@JordiumZ]

Ahhh yeeees back when we ignore each other with paper instead of a glass screen

[@alondon3879]

I miss those Cadbury vending machines on the platform. The Chocolates were always cold .

[@trainrover]

ugh...with its moldy fog...oof

[@kingelvis]

It's like when I was in the 90s and thinking how old everything looked when watching vids of the 70s. The 90s seem like yesterday!

[@tescotrain]

Liverpool Street looks just like how it does now.

[@ajs41]

Probably looked the same since 1863 when it opened.

[@JackAndEmilyVids]

@@ajs41 it opend in the 1800's

[@alicialamontlandonproducti8280]

I love seeing London in the 90s!!! :)

[@ajs41]

We've got lots of video footage from the 90s but unfortunately none of it features London although we did visit London during that time.

[@Me-Miranda]

@9 Lives And Counting I agree. Was a special time to be in London.

[@hikmet1289]

Me too

[@MGVK2277]

Now there are only zombies in these phones. Why am I writing this on my phone then? 🤣🤣

[@JordiumZ]

@@MGVK2277 back then there were only zombies with papers

[@paladin696969]

The art of turning newspaper pages in a confined space :-)

[@bb-3653]

hard to believe 1992 stock was made in 1992..it still looks fresh as heck

[@griffinpeter55]

Same

[@forza223bowe5]

They have aged well

[@NoddyMaccy]

They're more than showing their age, sadly.

[@NoddyMaccy]

@@forza223bowe5 Considering it's the only rolling stock covered in duct tape, I wouldn't say they've aged well at all, sadly. Fault prone too.

[@forza223bowe5]

Noddy Mac What I mean is they still look relatively modern

[@brucevilla]

Thanks for Uploading.

[@zitzong]

So many Cadbury vending machines... I remember them, even used them a few times. The good old days.

[@beardedbaldie2698]

Yeah what happened to those?! They were everywhere on the Tube

[@zitzong]

@stinkabelly Chocolate bars

[@leefran71]

No chocolate machines now

[@MuddoDrawsWithMaggo]

1: ITS SO CLEAN 2: the doors are fully functioning very good

[@aziza000]

The year I was born! ❤

[@UndergroundRolo]

That's actually so cool to see, especially how different the stations look, Bank for example

[@TransporterTony]

Lovely, Janet Mayo!

[@user-gm2ix2ii3k]

I remember seeing everyone read books or the papers as a little child. Refreshing to see some nostalgia 💯💯

[@atrilzz6023]

everyones using there phones now

[@ajs41]

A fair number of people still read papers and books on the Tube even today, whereas in other countries they probably don't.

[@JUANOLIVARES]

Good old days I want em back!!

[@ajs41]

The seats on the underground platforms haven't changed at all.

[@midnightvision8848]

Don’t think they been cleaned since then either lmao

[@nox6948]

1995 the year i was born. crazy to see bank station a place I go every day in a footage when I was probably not born or a few months old. and the station layout looks the same.

[@ajs41]

Most of the underground stations haven't changed since Victorian times, if they were already in existence at that time.

[@esconis5304]

Everyone reading newspapers instead of phones😲

[@ajs41]

A lot of people still read the Evening Standard on the tube.

[@iPod16GBorange]

omg it's absolutely same as my visiting london in 2019

[@MickAngelhere]

Ahh the Central Line , sweat boxes in the summer

[@janegibbon1532]

Apart from the newspapers, it looks pretty much like now.

[@ajs41]

The Metro and the Evening Standard are still read by a lot of people on the Tube. I was there about a week ago so my information is up-to-date.

[@lukasiatg3962]

haha and also the glasses they're wearing, very old fashioned

[@xamtastic]

0:26 WHAT THE HELL HOW IS IT SO CLEAN AND SHINY

[@TrainBusFan06]

It had recently underwent a much needed refurbishment. A few years earlier it was completely filthy and on the edge of falling apart: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gojTpniceLJ4eJo

[@joeroot9142]

Newspaper 📰, book 📖 and if you can afford it Walkman ERA. Don’t for get proper conversations too

[@jackbauer4762]

Literally nobody's talking to each other

[@grassytramtracks]

Literally no-one was having a conversation

[@shawnli4746]

Liverpool street hasn't changed for 25 years

[@ajs41]

Most newspapers were broadsheets in those days which made it more difficult to turn the pages in a crowded place like the Tube.

[@trainrover]

they were even larger during the 70s...imagine R or CO/CP stock with their ample & gorgeous windows *a l l* blotted out by newsprint AM peaks; those *stupid* spreads n e v e r failed at making me giggle

[@trainrover]

newsprint headed into town past our back yard

[@sopyleecrypt6899]

I wonder why fashion, particularly work attire, hasn’t changed that much in the last 30-40 years. Prior to the 80s, each decade had a really distinct look. If you wore 60s or 70s fashions in the 80s, you would really stand out. Fabrics, cut, style, pattern, colour were all very distinct and intense. But if I wore the same clothes now as I wore in 1995, I think no one would notice the difference. Maybe a slight retro vibe, but not much.

[@edzz7204]

I know what you mean tbf with the youth tho there’s a lot of change. Especially with the whole tracksuits everywhere and more skinnier clothes now

[@sopyleecrypt6899]

@@edzz7204 I agree that fashion in youth culture is still dynamic. But work clothes in particular, and that “jeans and tee shirt” look that many people wear is much the same.

[@edzz7204]

@@sopyleecrypt6899 very true very very true and to some extent the hair too

[@trainrover]

no way, Jose...the past several years has had London shed its ways with thread; astonishingly chilling how starkly empty the contrast now seems there all the way from Isle o' Dr-Seuss here

[@speakertreatz]

I used to have a theory that 1995 was actually the real Year 2000/end of the century in terms of culture, music, art, film, fashion, hair. Nothing really new happened after it, just recycled trends. I know what you mean about wearing 70s clothes in the 80s, it was punished severely. In Ireland we'd say 'flare play to ya' if your trousers were anything more than drainpipes with the ankles taken in.

[@andypnorwich4713]

Cool

[@user-lj6jp8qp7z]

When the central line had arm rests. They never should have gotten rid of them.

[@ajs41]

Good point. I think only the Bakerloo has them now.

[@beardedbaldie2698]

@@ajs41 I think all the lines still have them except the Central line. Even the Waterloo & City line does, which shares the same rolling stock

[@ajs41]

@@beardedbaldie2698 I'm pretty sure most of the tube carriages today don't have arm rests.

[@beardedbaldie2698]

@@ajs41 I use the Tube every week and the Central is the only line without armrests. Was starting to doubt it myself so I just googled them lol!

[@metromodernism]

@stinkabelly So fat people use the Central line

[@js2749]

The black guy wearing glasses at the beginning looks exactly like the black guy wearing glasses at the beginning.

[@sopyleecrypt6899]

I remember picking up used copies of the Metro or the Standard on the tube back then, if I didn’t have anything else to read. I wouldn’t do it now 😷

[@ajs41]

I still do it! I was in London a few weeks ago.

[@ajs41]

Interesting that the verbal announcements were already being made at this time. I thought they came in later.

[@ajs41]

@grahamf19 I don't think announcements existed on the Tube in the 1980s. Is that true? I assume they came in in the early 1990s.

[@RahatVlogs779]

That time people don’t even know what is Facebook, what is Instagram,Tiktok !! Life without Mobile phones looks amazing

[@03markimark]

It was so much less overcrowded at peak times in those days. If only we could stop it getting worse and worse :-(

[@peterdeutscher1442]

Definitely could be smell like dog sweat heat n the train, argh., 😖

[@wildSpiritboy857]

Before the phone

[@Cheyymariex]

Bethnal Green ,Liverpool Street still look the same ,bank and Tottenham Court Road has certainly changed drastically 😂

[@janegibbon282]

When slide doors began to encroach the slammers.

[@auroralucrezia8187]

Still looks similar!

[@aqilaanindya2277]

I was born in this year

[@MalaysianAviator737-8]

I remembered seeing rubber barriers between the coaches. In this vid, it’s not attached or visible. Why is this?

[@PeteS_1994]

I think they were attached after 1997 for safety.

[@MickAngelhere]

Ahhhh the Central Line who can forget, sweat boxes in summer, freezers in winter and the noise in the tunnels especially near Stratford

[@devsda1]

Did the open and close buttons work back then?

[@MannyAntipov]

Even back then they weren't used much, surprisingly!

[@RobsOldTransportChannel]

1:36 Theres arm rests like the ones on the waterloo and city line

[@Sean-D78]

Apparently some people thought it would be funny to vandalise the trains and rip them off, that's why they're no longer on the Central Line's 1992TS

[@ajs41]

Bakerloo as well?

[@user-ie5ez7rd9k]

1995 year 1990s decade 20th Century 2nd Millennium

[@Pit-jt3lw]

Only if gen z girls wasn’t always on their phone, they are beautiful

[@drewreynolds1649]

2003

[@ajs41]

Why do you think it's 2003?

[@ozhoneybadger]

Bethnal Green ain't changed one bit

[@neilhurn2685]

Still everyone miserable. So nothing has changed

[@zackolmert9622]

1:07 They had hot drinks machines on the platforms?

[@user-kl4bh4lq6r]

News papers no smartphones📱

[@sandeater6819]

I swear to God the lady who wears glasses (the one not reading anything) at the beginning of video, appears to have that kind of hairstyle which haunts me terribly bad. Maybe I’m just still not getting used to it 😅

[@matthewk9131]

The outfits back then was........ colourful 😂😂😂

[@ajs41]

Wearing colourful clothes was the fashionable thing to do in the late 80s and 90s. I preferred it. I remember visiting London for the first time in ages in about 2004 and being shocked by the way everyone was wearing black or grey clothes, and that's still mostly true today.

[@bohibohi1069]

There was no such thing as a phone

[@ajs41]

Mobile phones were invented in 1985 and a lot of people in the City of London had them. But they wouldn't get them out on the Underground.

[@GokTurkBey]

where is your smart phones people

[@harrymoy2121]

Shut the fuck up boomer

[@silstyy]

@@harrymoy2121 Rood. You seriously had to attack him for no reason.

[@Keivon123]

this train doesn’t age at all lol

[@ewanohun8124]

Not sure if it’s 1995

[@ajs41]

It's definitely around 1995 if not precisely 1995. I was 16 at the time and remember it like it was yesterday. Got lots of video footage of our own from that time, although not London sadly.

[@TrainBusFan06]

It is its just that the exceptional video quality makes it feel more recent...

[@onenation8707]

Back when there was a nice balance of all ethnicities. Good luck! To all Londoners who have now left 🙏 due to our crappy government.

[@TheParlay33]

Imagine getting on an whipping out your IPhone

[@user-ie5ez7rd9k]

iPhones and social media wouldn’t have suited the 90s

[@TheParlay33]

@@user-ie5ez7rd9k I’m not saying it would. Just imagine people’s faces if you had an iPhone in hand.

[@user-ie5ez7rd9k]

@@TheParlay33 it’s hard to imagine lol

[@ok7513]

​@@TheParlay33it would get stolen after a second

[@matthewdoyle3877]

When there were more English in the country

[@onenation8707]

Notice, hardly no Islam. I only saw 1 lady at the end. When it was peaceful and people were pleasant.