A Day In The Life At London's Most Problematic Underground Stations | The Tube

[@Enviri]

0:41 "In London, you're never far from a tube station" Cries in South London

[@ZacharyTen4]

True lol I feel the same

[@choppership465]

theres some boroughs not served by a single tube line

[@lovetheliv]

SAME!

[@JKKing-xr2kc]

South London has national rail and trams (although trams mostly serve in Croydon) to get into central London

[@tomstickland]

I watched one of these per night for a few weeks. I love the low key style without someone telling me how dramatic everything is.

[@Eliteerin]

That's how us Brits tend to do documentaries.

[@ainsleyharriott2209]

You should check out Jago Hazzard’s channel

[@jneilson7568]

@@ainsleyharriott2209 His channel is great, very chilled but really interesting look at London.

[@jambutty2218]

I agree, nice calm unpatronising narration.

[@Redchannelconditions]

Absolutely how it should be.

[@deejayimm]

I love how the police show up and he points the man out who's running away, and the cops don't even care.

[@thomascochrane3100]

Why would they? He was asked to leave, he was leaving. Police not required

[@deejayimm]

@@thomascochrane3100 They said he was a ticket tout.

[@thomascochrane3100]

Which is a civil crime. They can be asked to leave only. If they refuse then they can be arrested

[@gnnascarfan2410]

@@deejayimm And he was asked to leave and he was leaving.

[@mohitmasand]

This series would have been a whole lot fun if Geoff Marshal was the narrator.

[@williamg209two]

@@TheBorinator420 wot

[@peskybee22]

No it would not.

[@mohitmasand]

@@TheBorinator420 My bad, my phone defies my intellect ever so often.

[@intercity4553]

TheBorinator Geoff was in one of the episodes

[@dobridimitrov5417]

I like Geoff

[@vladimirleonov9852]

0:42 in london you're never far from a tube station unless you live in the south

[@brianirwin7355]

Or east

[@Sam_Green____4114]

Or Hackney !

[@harryfoley2294]

@@brianirwin7355 nah there’s lots of tube stations in east london

[@brianirwin7355]

@@harryfoley2294 in Hackney, Shoreditch etc.. Only overground sadly

[@harryfoley2294]

@@brianirwin7355 shoreditch used to have a little tube station, it was on the old east London line, which is now part of the overground, it was replaced by shoreditch high street station

[@watchingyou245]

London Underground employ some of the kindest, nicest and most pleasant people in London. Nothing is too much trouble for them.

[@charlieinsingapore]

Thanks for posting, really underrated series and great for those of us who would never have access to it otherwise!

[@naturallyherb]

9:04 - Aldwych's spiral stairs is definitely 15 stories high!

[@caitthenerd7470]

It's true! They all are.

[@sosteam2797]

CrazyCashGaming Geoff Marshall gang

[@vikingh3008]

The spiral stairs at Aldwych are definitely not 15 stories, I have been there many times doing training with London Fire Brigade, but they are tough getting up dragging a loaded stretcher whilst wearing EDBA and full PPE I can tell you that,

[@suzyqualcast6269]

@@vikingh3008 : Blimey - bechya!

[@louietheswan9689]

@@hugge4141 dont be rude

[@Elijah-zy6ce]

4:26: spoiler alert it actually didn’t completely finish until 2010 🤣🤣

[@ghwysoc5287]

That’s bad

[@emozley7667]

I hope Monte got his six cans of coke.

[@Transportman211]

That is shockingly embarrassing

[@Leewise1]

It finished in 2005, you've all been played like fiddles

[@onlinecomps]

Dude, when I used to live in brixton in 2015, it was still broken

[@jonrutherford6852]

The scene with the two drunken young men being firmly yet gently escorted off the train -- I cannot imagine a job being done more perfectly. Beautiful to see such truly humane action. Imagine if more public interactions could be so gracefully carried out.

[@layzrepair]

My mum god bless her. She absolutely adored working at kings cross underground. No end of stories told. Then she had to move to Doncaster to care for my Nan. Broke my heart.

[@michaelkelly4131]

Cut to the shot of the coke truck driving past the old station facade right after the station super wins his bet... haha. Nice touch. Great series.

[@ramongalbert547]

Classic.

[@tracynewton3083]

@@ramongalbert547 a

[@florante4991]

Sponsored show I guess.

[@Consistentlycrazy]

I've got no interest in the London underground but I remember watching this on a Sunday morning with my son who was about 2 at the time. He was obsessed with trains. He's 18 now, really miss those days, thanks for the memory 💙

[@vincentperratore4395]

I grew up in New York City and I can tell you! I was obsessed too when I was a kid, with the NYC subways; that vast, mysterious and wonderful subterranean world!

[@WolfsH0ok]

My friend work for 20 years on the underground in maintenance. He was nearly killed at Liverpool St one night. and he saw a Ghost at Ickenham Station another night. They all thought he was crazy, until someone else saw the same woman walking on the tracks at 2 am Then they also found out people have been seeing her since 1903. I would love to walk between the stations at 2am like these guys used to.

[@jerryzhu6980]

21:21 I actually died of laughter

[@jayearnshaw2933]

"atleast we had 3 running for a week" Brooo im done lmao

[@michaelhealey9538]

Escalators at Brixton seem like engines on a DC10, there's 3 & they don't always work lol ☺

[@maxfraser1996]

Michael Healey please don’t tell me ur a nerd that specialises in escalators 🤣🤣

[@williamhuang8309]

And then Escalator 1 stops working at the same time that Escalator 3 is being repaired.

[@CaptainCalculus]

For the record...the Brixton station improvements weren't finished until 2010--9 years after they started!!!

[@SteveGouldinSpain]

It's 2019 now - has the works on Brixton finished yet?

[@jackcourt5777]

nah escelator 2s back out

[@Luke_05]

Jack Court Really?

[@Nadia1989]

Went near Brixton in 2012 and the place was still under repairs... Just can't believe it.

[@lukebrad5555]

Ledgend has it that there’s still only 2 working

[@1BarnetTE.]

I think it is.

[@peterbarlow7781]

Ah 2002! Such a simpler time.

[@CelticSaint]

Take me back Peter. Take me back...

[@peterbarlow7781]

@@CelticSaint if only I could!

[@CelticSaint]

@@peterbarlow7781 If only we could, Peter. Plus I´d have hair!

[@scopex2749]

So apart from Aldwych where are all these ‘empty stations’? CLICK BAIT! 🙁

[@vink6163]

Well the Canary Wharf extension was empty too in this episode, so technically it's correct...

[@taraelizabethdensley9475]

I wish that abandoned stations could actually be visited. It would be interesting to see them

[@princessperl3643]

@@taraelizabethdensley9475 you can there are tours that they run. You need to look up online. As I can't remember which website.

[@fredsmith6401]

It's now 2019 and Brixton station is still not done. LMAO, go to Canary Wharf station during rush hour these days. Place is rammed with queues going on forever. Out the station and down the road.

[@CS_22]

This an outstanding series, I loved watching it years ago and still do. Is there any chance you can make your series of Heathrow:Britains Busiest Airport available for Uk viewers too?

[@sinclair.h9563]

Love how the coke truck drives by 13:44

[@Manoj17Patankar]

haha! almost missed it

[@jacksugden8190]

17:12 in this video notes Wikipedia Romano Roland Paoletti, CBE was a British-Italian architect. He was best known for his work on the early stations for Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway, and for commissioning the award-winning designs of the stations of London Underground's Jubilee Line Extension. Wikipedia Born: 23 April 1931, London Died: 13 November 2013

[@karmanline2005]

'Abandoned' stations at 8.35, 13.46

[@michaelhobbs3426]

Aldwych is a station that was closed in 1994 it was used during both wars. I have climbed those steps and it’s a very steep climb and now used for filming only.

[@mayanganggarani]

this shows is marvellous. i have been binge watching since the 1st series

[@mittfh]

9:56 Funny how times change...

[@MichaelFlatman]

20:28 that was so beautifully unnecessary :P

[@lohphat]

"Hal, start the Tube station escalators." "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that."

[@user1337BE]

Misleading title? Where is the abandoned part?

[@sadface]

Why was early 2000's tv so much better?

[@pottedcactus8924]

It feels more genuine, which makes it more interesting. A few days ago I had no real interest in the London Underground, but now I'm addicted to learning about it, because of this show.

[@Tuppoo94]

Because, at least this in this program, it shows real people from all walks of life working real jobs, and dealing with real problems. All this without having a dedicated host on the screen at all times, only a narrator who is never seen. Also, no preaching fixation on superficial issues like where people are from or what color their skin is. It shows that you can be from God knows where, and you can still play your part in making the Tube work. It's very friendly and non-judgmental, but still brings home the point that the job is not easy.

[@gweilospur5877]

Everything in the history of the world was always better in the old days.

[@simon_patterson]

People actually watched it back then. No KZbin.

[@MrRetepyesmar]

The Tube is an endless chain of projects large or small and managed by various main contractors and local builders. The problems stem from the boundaries of each project interface influencing the others. Also the coordination between the interfacing projects is an issue as who sets the priorities and decides which interfacing projects require necessary scope changes to be approved?

[@andrewswinton1319]

These project managers should be sacked, 2.5 years to get an escalator refurbished, did they make it from unobtanium?

[@paulanderson79]

That's exactly what I thought. It's inconceivable that no one on the project team considered the not inconsiderable amount of current required to run a 3rd escalator. Perhaps they all thought the underground stations' electricity supply for domestic stuff was sourced from the traction current supply? I've no idea what they thought. Perhaps that's the problem - there was no thought.

[@taraelizabethdensley9475]

Lol

[@amethyst7084]

The title of this video needs to be re-named. It does not focus on abandoned stations. It's still a good documentary in the style of a TV-type one, but it should be appropriately entitled.

[@abseiduk]

I thought it's about London's 'abandoned' underground stations.

[@wegladstone1967]

Quite so. This video is falsely described. There are abandoned underground stations galore not mentioned: St Mary's, Brompton Road, Lord's, South Acton, Post Office, Mark Lane, Uxbridge Road, Marlborough Road, Down Street, Dover Street, Muswell Hill, York Road..... the list goes on and on so why has this charlatan who put up this video got off his backside and researched them instead of posting crap on Brixton and the like which have never been abandoned at all.

[@wegladstone1967]

Why has he NOT got off his backside and actually produced footage to support his headline. There's plenty of it. He is (a) bone idle and (b) has a hidden agenda to mislead deliberately. He is not fir to run a whelk stall.

[@MazeFrame]

If you want to feel better about that station, look up "Berlin Brandenburg Airport" Planned to open in 2011, what year is it again?

[@Tuppoo94]

Soon to be 2021. Great!

[@lzh4950]

Also in (late) 2011 the original Jurong East bus interchange in Singapore was closed & replaced with a temporary one, and only in Q2 of this year of writing (2021, 9.5 years later) will work start on a permanent replacement of the interchange. In the meantime the temporary interchange has since been replaced by yet another temporary interchange

[@Psevdonim123]

Stop whining, we had a three stations that were approved in 1967 and opened in 2019...

[@someoneelse4492]

The title doesn't reflect the content

[@LillyDoesGamingandVlogs]

the tube? its the underground

[@kutter_ttl6786]

@@LillyDoesGamingandVlogs It's the abandoned in the title. Except for 5min about Aldwych, not really much else about abandoned stations.

[@jamesbeckwith3639]

@@kutter_ttl6786 l think it was less than 5 more like 1 minute if that

[@youtube_Y0utube]

0:40 "In London, you're never far away from a tube station" Bexley residents: So those bastards lied to me

[@paulmccarthy5713]

Not really London more Kent

[@cynterslave]

Brixton station seems like a complete mess, caused by total incompetence. Years to get an escalator working properly? They didn’t spec the power requirements ahead of time? The project managers should have been fired.

[@streaky81]

They rebuilt the entire station whilst it was still in use. Major engineering success tbh.

[@awersomeplaneguy9999]

www.standard.co.uk/news/tfl-takes-over-tube-lines-to-end-underground-privatisation-6485451.html Due to the engineering failure of many projects, the underground was tooken away from the private sector and back into TfL.

[@robtyman4281]

Funny to think that this film is from nearly 20 years ago. In some respects it could be 2019 or 2020, but in other areas you can tell that this footage is from quite a long time ago. The fact that there's no one just standing still swiping their phone makes you realise just much things have changed since 2002...........no smart phones, many would still have had those old 'green screen' mobiles!! ....plus this is before the Oystercard, and the London Overground rail network didn't even exist.

[@ampersand.]

I`m still using a 2002 mobile in 2020 :)

[@TanningMiami]

as a new yorker this is a marvel of dedication glade to see at least some subway system cares

[@neilforbes416]

9:00 Aldwych Underground Station was built on the location of a former theatre called "The Strand". The theatre was demolished to make way for the station which was originally called "Strand" station in the very early years of last century(20th Century, that is) before becoming known as Aldwych. Like other stations in London, Aldwych has its share of ghosts and was featured in episode in the earlier series(around Series 2) of the now-discredited "Most Haunted" series.

[@NextSound170]

2005 was 5 years into London Transport renamed as TfL with a promise to finally update the outdated system in London. Bus and Tube. Was good to ride both old tube stock and see the end of the old A & C stock 2012

[@robertewalt7789]

NYC is much slower: the Second Avenue subway was planned in the 1930’s, a few stations opened in 2018.

[@locoasian122]

It’s crazy how on 20 years not much has changed. I mean I can go to any station now and it still looks the same

[@Falloutman216]

Funny thing seeing the BTP without stab vests, they're standard issue for us these days, you get measured up for one after your interview.

[@RealTheCrasher8]

20:14 Deviant Ollam says: „Otis escalator. Oh I have that key.“

[@sadface]

I did not expect to find someone referencing Deviant in this comment section. Amazing.

[@nahidulislam9321]

The guy in charge of the Brixton project seems like a numpty

[@tensevo]

It takes one to know one.

[@mentalizatelo]

It breaks my heart to see people to dedicated to their job but have an administration more busy in picking a fight with the rest of Europe than paying attention to what's happening, literally, under their own feet.

[@marcomolinero5877]

8:35 start of abandoned stations

[@sparkz343]

Thanks

[@fahimrahman9577]

What makes me feel kinda weird is seeing my area but 15 years ago like bruh it still looks the same but hearing that Barclays tower has only been built is crazyyyyyyyyyyy

[@noobian3314]

Spark: In London your never far from a tube station Hackney: 😢

[@kkrispy2009P]

Great footage and nice abandoned tubes

[@CityWhisperer]

9:55 Irony at its best. Only just around 25 years later.

[@Queen-of-Swords]

This is nothing to do with abandoned underground stations as the title suggests.

[@catherinecole3978]

o.m.g. Great Britain & Europe have got it so much better than we do in the 'Colonies'! What we wouldn' t give to have 200+ subway stations in poor over-crowded Toronto + 43 abandoned stations to explore. Not to mention being able to take a train drectly to France & the rest of Europe a lot more cheaply than it is to travel within Canada!. Imagine being able to go from one country to the other in hours instead of days! You're charged with taking care of hundreds of years worth of history, + your current issues + the future. Your transportation is second to none and thanks to the Allies, your cities were re-built after WW2. The U.S. would kill to have your rate of crime & murders! Unarmed police officers-- no chance of it here in the Wild West! Sure you've got problems like everywhere else, but you've also got history, culture, great art, and a 1001 things that we're still working on. You've had hundreds of more years to be working on things than we have. So-- give yourself some credit. And the world won't end with Brexit-- how about trading more with us? We're still waiting for those Linda McCartney products! :)

[@TheSound0fLegends]

8:35 before you actually get to the abandoned stations damn it!

[@stevieinselby]

I could listen to the theme music from this all day!

[@kellywallace9677]

How are these abandoned stations?

[@Sam_Green____4114]

"In London you are never far from a tube station!" Bullshit where I used to live in Hackney the nearest station was miles away!

[@millhilljimjimmy6731]

Their is a abandon station on Hampstead Heath on the northern line

[@callumdean]

He was a Millwall fan so it was expected

[@cazek445]

that man was almost having an escalatorgasm

[@cashman61068]

thumbs down for misleading title,only 2 mins of abandoned stations!!!!

[@Hushey]

title is quite misleading

[@EllisDJT]

This is the serious version of come fly with me

[@Jonny5a]

there was like 5 minutes of one abandoned station in this!

[@johannesslobbe6854]

I must say the uniforms now worn by the staff don't emit authority, at all, why is it that modern uniforms give a clownesc idea?

[@Francesc2000]

So soothing and calm.

[@jobbiejew]

I remember watching this programme years ago. Can’t remember if it was on Men & Motors, Sky 3, Bravo or another channel.

[@dez3540]

2:44 of course he's a Millwall fan 😂

[@hongry-life]

I wonder if there are secret doors for another underground railway like in Harry Potter :)

[@stephthestar90]

Maybe Aldwych station is used by witches and wizards. To us Muggles it would appear as a disused station but to the wizarding world it would be a thriving transport hub. It has that old fashioned look that fits into the HP universe

[@295g295]

4:02 - Was this finished, May 2005? 4:25

[@Chris-construction]

Didn’t see any abandoned tunnels

[@petercommey3802]

I love it trains are my favourite

[@medwaymodelrailway7129]

Nice video thanks very much.

[@michaelh2522]

8:18 section in the clip. That guy heard something else. Ha ha ha!!

[@bexinthebox]

It’s 2022 is that escalator at Brixton running yet?

[@56independent]

19:50 Yes.

[@davidnugent9417]

Escalator temporarily stairs

[@MeganMcIntosh]

David Nugent sorry for the convenience :)

[@JackMacLupus]

What for a luck that they just opened Number Two a week before Number Three said: "I'm done!" XD

[@Bertie_Ahern]

Clearly displays 2004 in notices shown in the video itself - thus the video description (2002) is incorrect...

[@vink6163]

They just copied and pasted it from the first series which is from 2002, so only a little inaccurate.

[@leighanne473]

So I looked up if Brixton station had been completed I'm not sure if this is factual but apparently it was in 2020 so roughly 18 years It took to complete if that is correct

[@Henry-oj1oo]

A woman said 2005, how old is this series?

[@TerryClarkAccordioncrazy]

The mayor Ken Livingstone, ah those glorious pre Boris pre Bullshit days.

[@tinyp3021]

problem is , the more you give the public the more they want. front line staff are just used as bullets for the general public as they are not aware of what goes on. same as on buses....

[@MultiPetercool]

A Tale of Two Stations. Dickens’ London still exists.

[@johnnysandoval5905]

Guy at 8:20 “someone say coke?”

[@iainteh412]

Awh i was so happy when he got his coke:)

[@cameronlaw4552]

At brixton at the start I thought that's not brixton that's not 09 stock then I remembered that this was filmed before the 09 stock

[@Richardsrailway]

Good old Barry Wilkinson a true gent

[@taraelizabethdensley9475]

Haha, had to laugh at the sleeping beauties. Guess they partied a bit too hard

[@cyberjack]

spoiler .. NO Abandoned Underground Stations even in it

[@Lifes.lemonade]

theres 1 for about 2 mins, what a joke.

[@misterced4629]

0:46 ahhhaaa Shoreditch r.i.p east london line do wish it still existed or extended to croydon and islington

[@michaeljones19731]

Needs a cigarette after meeting ken livingston. I would need a bucket!😁

[@Bertie_Ahern]

Say what you will about Ken, but he got sh1t done

[@nuvoix]

policing at its best/normal at 3.07... just watch somebody run off

[@MonkeyBidness359]

No proof that any offences had been committed and the gobby Millwall racist did as he was asked by leaving the station so no need to escalate the situation.

[@leban8155]

*In London you are never far from a tube station.* Not when you live in New Malden. lol

[@joel9240]

Yeah or really any part south of the Thames haha.

[@stephthestar90]

Wimbledon and Morden are close by

[@mtghd1432]

You must be very far from a tube station because i have never heard of it! Its nice down there though.

[@daltonhaddix9839]

Did they only make 3 seasons of the tube?

[@295g295]

9:55 - no to Brexit!

[@MrDalioX]

One escalator UP, an other - down. It's all normal for the load. But as whey opened the third one. When there were two escalators up and only one down. So the load must be increased! So it broke down :)

[@emeraldqueen1994]

5:25 I’m Irish ☘️ too!!!