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[@STRGZR5000]

It’s not known as “the train in the drain”. I’m a Londoner born and bred and I’ve never once heard that. It’s the TUBE. That’s what we all call it. Every day.

[@cherhorroritz3298]

videnoe Same and I’ve never heard the carriages called cars either. This doc is BS 🙄

[@herbie.e]

That shoock me

[@vapeymcvape5000]

Or as the narrator calls it, "The Toob".

[@thehusketeers4319]

Me neither

[@LordInter]

not even, it's the underground.....

[@brIceni-x4w]

I've never seen any documentaries covering the Jubilee Line Extension Project before, so thanks very much for sharing it. The video took me straight back to my early 20's when I was thoroughly enjoying working on the JLEP as the Technical Assistant to the design team, primarily working on the construction of Westminster & Waterloo Stations (Contracts 102 & 104). Haven't thought about it in years until this video popped up. It was such an amazing project with some incredibly talented and generally awesome people. Thanks for reminding me how incredible it was & probably still is if they've been good and have managed to adhere to my station & tunnel maintenance guides.

[@charlesnolan7602]

Tube! I am American; When over there, or back in the states the London Underground is referred to as the TUBE, not anything ELSE!

[@spencerwilton5831]

Condensing tanks did not fill up with fumes. They collected and condensed steam, turning it back to water. The openings above the tube were to allow ventilation of smoke from the engines fire, which was not passed through the condensers and was expelled continuously straight into the tunnels.

[@AndrewFosterSheff69]

Don't you mean "train in the drain"?

[@williamhilbert8324]

Interesting I was wondering how that works your explanation sounds like you have spent some time on a steam plant I'm your evil nemisis the gas turbine and diesel dude lol thanks for the lesson

[@brandonbarratt5040]

Train in a drain is something a British person has never said in reference to the tube 🤣🤣

[@rayrcmedia276]

Brandon Barratt has u

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

The waterloo and City tube was nicknamed “The Drain”

[@mattr7425]

My thought exactly....never heard that term in my life!

[@DJ_K666]

@@user-ky6vw5up9m And that's only been part of the Underground since 1994. It was a slightly odd BR line before that.

[@chrismatthews2040]

I don't know about "the train in the drain", but when the Metropolitan Line was built in the 1860s some people nicknamed it "the sewer tram" - which I actually think sounds pretty cool.

[@jntrains4526]

I want to mention a few things, I have never heard the train in the drain, its referenced as the tube. Its not called the london subway, its called the london underground. You will hear subway in the UK as a fast food place or a underground walkway. And the Chelsea Giant is called Battersea Power station.

[@rhysclarke2606]

It's an American documentary produced 20-odd years ago for an American audience, cut it a bit of slack. (It's also a different power station entirely, Lots Road)

[@damianmurphy6133]

Indeed. "The Drain" is the Waterloo and City Line between Bank and Waterloo. But the odd gaffe aside, an enjoyable production even today.

[@chriscollins1704]

The power station featured was lotts Road power station in Chelsea

[@davimurph]

In the UK you might hear an underground railway being called the subway, but you'll be in Glasgow.

[@TheZacDJ]

I always thought Lotts Road was nicknamed The Chelsea Dragon? Never heard The Tube called "The train in the drain" either - although we used to call the Waterloo & City line simply "The Drain"

[@dnbshaggy]

never ever in my 34 years living and traveling around london and the Uk have i heard the tube referred to as "the train in the drain" couldn't even watch the rest of this video.

[@dannydetonator]

Calm down, there's worse things someone might make up in a doc. Amateur hip-hop artist apparently..

[@dnbshaggy]

@@dannydetonator grrr woof woof woof

[@dnbshaggy]

@@acidheadzzz how can you trust any of the other facts in the video if they camt even get the name right?

[@robthemodYT]

I checked the end credits - a Discovery Channel and ITV London co-production (1999). You'd think someone at ITV London would have told them it's not called the train in the drain!

[@gigachaf6986]

Probably cap, you most likely just saw the comments and just copied what they said but maybe I’m wrong

[@daron8982]

I’m allways fascinated how they built so many underground tunnels in London and to high quality. But not only underground, overground rail system, bus public transport, architecture, electricity, gas water.

[@milkandduckrailway323]

99% of comments : *TrAiN iN tHe DrAiN*

[@DDELE7]

I’ve never been to London and even I know everyone calls the London Underground “The Tube”, much like they call New York City’s underground system “THE Subway”.

[@PCthesecond]

I’m from the UK, The train in the drain, wtf. Then looked at the comments. XD

[@danielwilson6529]

PCthesecond I just did exactly the same

[@vanillasplash6198]

Its only a joke calm down

[@PCthesecond]

Troll King your grammar makes me feel physically ill. But apart from that, good trolling, troll king.

[@PCthesecond]

Troll King clueless moron, i’m lit calling everyone in my work that now Made my day

[@goldcicvibefel9966]

That would be a good name for the NYC subway. Never thought of it. Nobody could or eould disagree.

[@Bertie_Ahern]

Actually most Londoners call it "the carrot in the pipeline"

[@peaches5540]

This made me laugh so much!! Thanks. 💙

[@Unknown_Ooh]

Actually most Londoners call it "the turd in the bowels"

[@LJW1912]

I thought most Londoners called it 'the bastards are out on fucking strike again'

[@Oxley016]

@@LJW1912 Yeah, sounds about right lol

[@thebrothers3971]

The Waterloo/City line also known as the drain. I used that many times in the past. The narrator is probably reading from a script drawn up by Yahoo staff.

[@airbus350ulr]

Yeah lol

[@EvanAviator]

Guys this was made in like 1998 calm down

[@victorialine222]

LOOOOOOOOOOL

[@NubianPrince85]

Hsssaaaaassaass

[@top5betterfact477]

😂🤣😅

[@philk4648]

😭😭😭😂😂😂

[@paranoidgenius9164]

If this was made in 1998, the Millennium Dome wouldn't of been built, I'd date this doc, soon after it was built, after 2000.

[@DanJamesJames]

"Train in the drain"? no way - it's the Tube. "Subway"? misleading at best - it's the Underground. A 'subway' in Britain is a pedestrian underpass.

[@tobeytransport2802]

Dan James exactly!

[@simonwinter8839]

Quite so old chap. One has to keep the standards up. Damn Americans.Just look at their latest President - you know the guy Ronald McDonald Trump.

[@tobeytransport2802]

Simon Winter are you American?

[@callefalk4457]

WTF???

[@dglcomputers1498]

Although the Glasgow underground railway system is called the "Subway", and it's the only one in the UK that is AFAIK.

[@howlingwolven]

Tube, not Train in Drain.

[@hew34]

"The train in the drain"? literally nobody says that, ever.

[@AndrewFosterSheff69]

Well last time I was in "the big smoke"... ROFL!

[@vanillasplash6198]

Its only a joke calm down

[@callefalk4457]

WTF???

[@lelandwykoff1851]

It is said now!

[@CrustyUgg]

Literally nobody cares. It’s not that serious

[@sharonbryan5875]

I'm an American and even I know it's the "tube" .... daaamn smh

[@mohamedlaaouissi2923]

Respect for everyone who contributed to this achievement

[@lycian123]

'The Drain' is what I call the Waterloo and City line. It has also, to me anyway, only been part of the London Underground recently. Before that it was run by BR. No one says 'train in the drain, we call the rest 'The Tube'.

[@ryanp5052]

Amazing to be the first country to start the underground system that is used across the world’s today, it must have been real hard work back then

[@MyJerseybean]

This truly an amazing project that has cost more money than Budget and has taken longer than estimated, BUT it is worth the wait, and People of the City and U.K. can be very proud of the latest developments of Londons famous Tube and Underground Railway system

[@jamesmarshall1967]

Wish people would remember that Big Ben is the bell not the actual tower

[@maxmullen6337]

jamesmarshall1967. And I wish people would stop telling us that Big Ben is the bell. We know!!!

[@jamesmarshall1967]

Well clearly people making the video don’t fucking know

[@jamesmarshall1967]

MrAeronuk1 yes i can understand that. Doesn’t make it right.

[@rosstrains705]

RIP, wrong again. "Big Ben" is the nickname for the bell, which is officially called "The Great Bell". Try again next time...

[@jamesmarshall1967]

Ross’ Trains either way it’s not name of clock tower which is my main point

[@paolovinci5877]

Fascinating!!...and extremely well done!! London is certainly one of the greatest cities in the world!!!

[@MauriatOttolink]

Paolo Vinci It would be one of the greatest cities if there ny Londoners there!

[@hannecatton2179]

No ! THE greatest city in theworld !

[@MegaBoilermaker]

"Careening" is the action of turning a ship/ boat on its side to remove marine fouling, "careering" is the action of a runaway moving device/object.

[@seadog915]

150 years ago that's what it meant in the U.S. Now we have special areas called "Drydocks" and boat bottoms rarely need cleaning anymore.

[@korenn9381]

"The only thing that stood the test of time were the iron tunnel linings. So when the Jubilee line extension was planned, they were determined to get it right." - 10 minutes later - "The iron linings were replaced by concrete, because it was cheaper" - Womp womp.

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

Concrete can last for hundreds of years. Cast iron can and does corrode fron stray electrical currents.

[@danielwilson6529]

Korenn womp womp ?

[@korenn9381]

@@danielwilson6529 It's a meme way to express the cliche trombone indicating a fail.

[@ThePanadolsandwich]

It was Charles Pearson the visionary behind the project in 1843 that coined the term "train in a drain". It either never took off or at some point was surpassed by 'the tube'.

[@davidsmith6661]

The narrator mentions 'Big Ben' several times when referring to the tower. Big Ben is actually the hour bell in the tower. The tower used to be called simply 'The Clock Tower' but was renamed in 2012 "The Queen Elizabeth Tower' to mark HM The Queen's Jubilee.

[@andyfell8629]

good use of wikipedia :)

[@SilverGear_]

23:46 "Only on the London Underground is a carriage called a car [in the UK]". Well, no it isn't really. Fixed formation trains that can power themselves and be driven from either end are called "Multiple Units", each vehicle on the train being called a car (short for carriage). The usage of the term "car" on MUs does stem from American terms however, no arguing about that. But on the tube, the mainlines, branch lines, tramways and light rail systems of the United Kingdom, a vehicle on a multiple unit train always has been and probably always will be called a car, not just on the LU. Also, "Train in the Drain"? Really?

[@hx0d]

We also call what are ‘cars’, coaches or units

[@SilverGear_]

@@Lamster66 ...umm, as a matter of fact, no. Most people call them carriages or coaches because they don't know the correct terminology. The usage of "car" when referring to a multiple unit vehicle spans much further back than just American television. Railcar, tramcar, buffet car, griddle car, etc. The usage of "car" could be attributed to American involvement in early railway and tramway electrification and thus multiple units becoming the norm, however in reality "car" is simply a shortened version of "carriage" and is used worldwide, not just the Americas. In the railway world on this little island, "car" is only ever used when referring to MU vehicles or trams, professionals that have been in the business for years. Might I suggest you stop attributing phrases used in an industry you clearly have little interest in or knowledge of to certain factors that have nothing to do with the situation. Fact check yourself before making stupid statements.

[@SilverGear_]

@@hx0d Not quite. When speaking of "cars" on this side of the pond it is usually referring to vehicles that are part of a multiple unit. Coaches are the opposite of that, being loco hauled rolling stock that can be coupled and separated in marshalling yards or sidings to make up a train rather than a fixed power set like multiple units. For the uninitiated, coaches incorrectly refer to any railway vehicle that doesn't look like a locomotive or "engine". When talking of units one is referring to the line of vehicles that make up the train as a whole in the form of a fixed set, not each individual vehicle. Those are called cars. Cars are literally short for carriage, before you ask.

[@hx0d]

Tommy Lucas yes but I mean people call them coaches. They’re correct as carriages though as well. I’ve also heard multiple units and them also being called units, but it only seems to be on national rail that they’re called coaches and not on the London Underground

[@SilverGear_]

@@Lamster66 check again. As a Briton and an avid British railway enthusiast and modeller (or as some of you ordinary and unkind folk call us: "anorak") I can tell you with absolute certainty we do, particularly in the industry.

[@kevinlynch8614]

I'm watching this video a year after it was uploaded, so during the introduction I was sitting here thinking it was talking about Crossrail when referring to the building work going on. Imagine my surprise when it turned out it was taking about the Jubilee Line Extention!! Looking forward to seeing some up to date content on construction of the Northern Line extention to Battersea...

[@U.R.2.H]

I'm reading your comment one year after you posted it after one year of the video being uploaded.

[@SimonRML2456]

In all my years working for London Transport I never heard of the tube being called the train in the drain... Load of bollox...

[@notmenotme614]

5:56 it amazes me they can tunnel under such big buildings without disturbing the foundations and causing any subsidence

[@l1nus0nl1neproductions9]

I’m a simple man, i love history as well as public transport :)

[@TonyPrower]

Been on the Jubilee, Northern, Circle and Bakerloo lines. Been packed into a train like sardines after Chelsea vs Arsenal, met Sigur Ros on the escalators at Waterloo, assisted a child-birth at Piccadilly. Watched halted train get totally wrecked by football hooligans under threat from QPR, but I never heard them called "Trains in Drains", although I have heard them called "Bum Twisters" by someone in Southampton once.

[@michaelmonn9308]

Bizarre...I'm an American and I've been to London a few times and always have called it the "Tube", never heard of anyone calling it the "train in the drain".

[@rowlandadelagun-manwomanmy892]

Indeed, men have created something amazing with the London Underground!

[@chasleask8533]

Nope . Not the 'train in the drain' . You made that up. It's the tube.

[@NiaTech]

the train in the drain - no aircon and crowded all the time. the perfect way to start your day :))

[@dustin628]

This was made sometime between 1996-1999. All these videos are super old. I think they are old TLC or discovery Channel docs back when they had good programming and not trashy reality shows.

[@joeynebulous816]

1999 judging by the date stamps on cctv footage they show, also the date code of the programme at the end of the credits is MCMXCIX - Roman numerals for 1999, these date codes are still used today especially on BBC programmes

[@sghai948]

These construction projects are truly amazing work and marvel of engineering ... Hats off to London transit 🚇 & London underground subway system 🚇 🌍🇬🇧🇨🇦🇫🇷🍁🕉💐💐👍🙏🙏

[@toni4729]

Thanks to these New Engineers that get their job done. I live in Australia where they're only just thinking about going underground. Too many cars and not enough roads.

[@sheilaburrowes9081]

Hello Canadian leaf friendo. IIRC, you also have one of the oldest subway systems in the world, but I forget in which city it is.

[@otherunicorn]

Not enough show breaks between the advertisements.

[@Kolan_Koala]

get add block plus no adds

[@ackroydaiackroyd9394]

what adverts??

[@otherunicorn]

@@ackroydaiackroyd9394 You know - them things that make Google their money. Grammarly, Grammarly, Car insurance, Grammarly, Some crap you have no interest in, Grammarly, etc.

[@animaltvi9515]

@@Kolan_Koala doesn't work on a phone app.

[@wmffmw]

I lived in England 50 years ago. Don't remember Train in the Drain, good one! I used the tubes regularly.

[@paulwatkins2601]

5:55 that tower is called the Queen Elizabeth Tower NOT Big Ben, Big Ben is the name of the bell that hangs in the tower.

[@Xormac2]

Not in 1999

[@timosha21]

Wow what a video! As a train I approve this video!

[@owenroberts1751]

Wow this is old! The jubilee line extension opened in 1999. Also, I have never heard the tube been referred to as the'train in the drain'

[@mariolisa2832]

Apart from that jarring as hell reference to the TUBE as the 'Train in the Drain" this video was excellent and definitely something that would have gripped me as a young child. I would have been 7 when this was filmed and i remember being fascinated and awed by The Tube as a kid but no one could give me the info i wanted this video would have helped a lot. Great video

[@toni4729]

The engineers that work this stuff are amazing. It's high time they did more work like this in Australia? They're sitting on their backsides there wondering why they can't get out of traffic jams.

[@samuelbliss1521]

in brisbane they are constructing the cross river rail, which is built in a similar manner

[@johnchristmas7522]

Toni its very expensive, the very new railway for London cost £42 billion! Most of that went on the tunnelling.

[@toni4729]

@@johnchristmas7522 And if you waiting another ten years it would cost ten times more. So how long do you wait? How long did the first tunnel in London take, and how much would it have cost?

[@johnchristmas7522]

@@toni4729 Totally agree, This government took 10years to make a decision! They lost over £200billion on fraud during civid-sort of puts the cost of this marvellous achievement onto somewhat a different scale. Most people who complain about the cost are just ignorant about the very real and complex engineering problems there were. When its up and running, all that will be forgotten and taken for granted.

[@AmyDaisy69]

I never thought I would find a boring video so interesting!

[@orionstar6747]

The Waterloo & City line, colloquially known as The Drain, is a London Underground shuttle line that runs between Waterloo and Bank with no intermediate stops. Maybe he got confused with the TUBE!

[@michaelleiper]

The Waterloo and City was British Rail, not the Underground, until 1994.

[@felixpgames9639]

I love these I can’t stop watching them

[@elioboezio7107]

Shakespeare wrote his plays in LONDON...? Um... didn't he live in Stratford-upon-Avon? Mind you, that's only about 130 kilometres from London. Close enough for Americans, I guess...

[@pasoundman]

I think this mockumentary is actually made by Germans.

[@michaelleiper]

Shakespeare grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon and got married and had his kids there, but I think you'll find that he moved to London some time before 1592, when his first plays were being shown.

[@1963TOMB]

When making a documentary, never let the truth get in the way of a good story: it's just a shame about the story

[@jacksugden8190]

Not once did he refer to the Metropolitan line as the Metropolitan Railway its original name in 1863.

[@amyutuk7877]

You can’t but love London.

[@tobeytransport2802]

Train in the drain? You made that up

[@vanillasplash6198]

Its a joke.

[@tobeytransport2802]

vanillasplash oh ok 👌

[@tobeytransport2802]

vanillasplash it isn’t a very good joke

[@invalidcrazy7034]

@@tobeytransport2802 No, it's just an old term that stopped being used after ww2.

[@guymorris6596]

I live in Texas and the Shinkansen N700 bullet train rail line is being built between Houston and Dallas. It will be a dedicated line with no other train traffic on those tracks. I can't wait to ride that train. It's scheduled to start construction in 2023 and running trains in 2026.

[@guymorris6596]

There will be no motor vehicle crossings and other such items found on other railroads.

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

​​@@guymorris6596 Lucky you. There's no level-crossings on the tube either. Do you know much per mile for your bullet train? In this film the narrator said that in C.T.Yerkes' era a tube line cost £23m/m (in present day equivalent value). I heard that the ages-in-gestation new subway line being constructed in New York is a staggering $1bn/m. In comparison, the ⅔ surface-running High Speed line up north from London costs £300m/m which is twice as much as ten years ago. The estimated overall cost has now tripled to just over £100bn, but who knows which figure they'll dig up if you ask them in a month's time‽ Such is the way of things nowadays, it seems.

[@nosferatu8530]

Watching this while on the tube somewhere under London 🤗

[@tensevo]

It is truly epic what has been achieved, congrats to all involved.

[@widescreennavel]

At 20:00, that is a beautiful locomotive! We called it a Forney I think. Imagine how cool it would be to have those engines all over the city...maybe not the most green solution but this one looks exactly like a Disneyland loco! It's truly amazing that Marc Brunel was able to build the Tube and still quarterback the Redskins. He should have chose one or the other.

[@wintersbattleofbands1144]

Actually, the Disneyland loco would look like the Forney, since the Forney came first.

[@widescreennavel]

@@wintersbattleofbands1144 Ok, but you didn't address the miracle of Brunel's pro football career.

[@miraflynn8935]

Can we get uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh functioning NYC subway? We really need to go with 20h per day, because the 24h per day schedule is really causing problems in terms of basic repair.

[@andrewmiller3228]

It's the tube yank. Fkn train in a drain.

[@patmccormick9972]

Even I knew that & didn't make a video.

[@maggieselbstschopfer1956]

It is not just transportation system. It is a living history with so many stories. Made me emotional 😭. Long live My London my city my love. ❤️

[@stevejessemey8428]

God I am truly missing London now.

[@Tube-Shots]

What a great insight into a very good use of modern technology's

[@VictorVonDoom.]

Anyone else watching this during lockdown?!

[@deplorabled1695]

Love the Yanks, but sometimes their docos can be amateurish. Written by an intern in a TV studio somewhere in California from a Lonely Planet guidebook.

[@mrbrainbob5320]

Still better than British documentaries

[@deplorabled1695]

@@mrbrainbob5320 Fuck off

[@_kachapin]

22:51 364 days a year, which day is it that they are clossed?

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

The Waterloo and City Line was nicknamed “The Drain” in the early years.

[@simonwinter8839]

This is true but the Underground as a whole has never been known as the train in the drain.

[@michaelleiper]

Yes - but in those days, it wasn't part of the Underground. It was British Rail until it got handed over to the underground in 1994.

[@johnc.bojemski1757]

London and Moscow subways went DEEP! NYC stayed "shallow" except for 181st Street/Washington Heights. Deepest station on the IRT #1 Broadway Line, the first one..

I’ve never heard of the train in the drain and I’ve worked on various stock types as a fitter!, this is program definitely “Americanised”

[@tech83studio38]

Never heard nor called the Tube "Train in the drain" and I am american .

[@johnkalfas5656]

wonderful videos all of them I watch them again and again

[@justinnoice399]

Only section I have ever heard referred to as “The Drain” is the Waterloo & City Line. Not by Londoners obviously but by commuters to the City.

[@michaelmaciejewicz7534]

Great Great Knowledge base share Thank you so very much Nicely narrated as well

[@lightlinereal]

In the UK we do not call the underground a subway because in the UK a subway is an underground pedestrian crossing.

[@airbus350ulr]

i didnt know that lol i thought subway was only that sandwich place (im british)

[@mrh678]

4:20 Wow doesn't look like that anymore. Damn this is an old Doc. That was where the Millennium dome was built, now the 02 arena. And across the water in the Isle of Dogs Canary wharf now has a dozen high rise buildings surrounding it.

[@gaius100bc]

This documentary is over 20 years old by now. A lot has changed since 90s

[@gaius100bc]

Super Structures - London Underground. Aired January 1998

[@hassanashfaq7595]

I'm stunned, great work by the engineers

[@kingofracism]

This video is very old too. Check more recent ones!

[@timberry7238]

NEVER "the train in the drain" .. utterly unknown to this born-and-bred Londoner .. ALWAYS "the tyube" ..

[@muckshifter]

The Big Ben tower is called Elizabeth Tower.

[@quickhatch8160]

@MrAeronuk1 more like 15

[@toni4729]

Quite right.

[@Nicholas-f5]

The Train in the Drain! LOL

[@fredfredricksen2616]

I am very surprised they show the use of manual track laying and manual track repair. We in the RR I worked at used primarily machines that checked the track for wear and true runs measurements. That could pull from a car of tracks and cement cross rails for assembly and included was a welder that could do both track connections at a time attaching the grounds too.

[@toni4729]

How big were these machines and how did you get them into the tunnels and get them out again a few hours? What and where is RR?

[@guymorris6596]

How did Oxford Circus get it's name Circus ?

[@rossboyer8879]

Who wrote this? 'train in the drain'...never heard of it. Toob? 'London Subway'?

[@MisteriosGloriosos922]

Thanks for letting us know!!!

[@illumencouk]

The Cistercian monastery operated between 1134 -1538 and I'd like to point out something I thought was kind of 'surprising' for that time. Two skulls are shown: x1 @ 44:46 and the other at 45:05 / 50:31 and the teeth appear to be in a 'perfectly maintained' condition, showing no signs of gum disease, or missing / damaged teeth. Dating back at least 500 years but the dental hygiene appears superior to, or equal to modern standards and also indicative of a lifestyle whose diet promoted healthy teeth - this so does NOT fit with our historical teachings of such times or peoples.

[@TesterAnimal1]

@@mariaritajane6825 don’t be stupid. That was before we acquired our sugar addiction.

[@garyfromlondon]

I've lived in London all my life, that's 68 years ..... myself and everybody I know have always called it the Tube ...... I've never heard it being refered to as the train in the drain

[@MegaBoilermaker]

The term "OK" was first coined by a Swede named Oscar Kjelberg.

[@MegaBoilermaker]

And his old company carries this prefix to this day.

[@annchadwick4613]

Excellent video Enjoyed every minute

[@elite_1ne115]

It cost 4x more the amount of the WHOLE Crossrail project - From Reading and Heathrow to Shenfield and Abbey Wood - for an extension that would only span from Charing Cross to Stratford... I am absolutely flabbergasted.

[@airbus350ulr]

*green park to stratford

[@ianheams2599]

I think this is an excellent video, good on the history of the tube and enough technical information to satisfy people who want to know how things work, although they did not cover signalling and day to day train management on complex lines such as the Northern. I wasn't aware of the large American input into the tube system, which I found interesting. I suppose as an American film it has every right to mention it. As for "the train in the drain", well, we all have our idiosyncrasies. Lets not loose the bigger picture here.

[@pasoundman]

There's no American input that I know of. Trains originated in England.

[@discogareth]

pasoundman you should watch it, you’ll learn what input they had!

[@mrbrainbob5320]

@@pasoundman Just because you are uneducated doesn't mean it isn't true.

[@SamJones-bb9xe]

Leencter gardens?? Deepot? It's depot. Also, only 3 rails are needed to move a LU train. The 4th rail is a return rail (I think)

[@stevedixon8567]

I have never heard it called "The Train In The Drain"

[@JackBeauregaurde]

That is because you're a filthy sinner.

[@siroofing5610]

Jack Beauregarde what the fuck. how is he a filthy sinner? do you know what sinner means?

[@timarmstrong247]

The London Underground network is collectively (and unofficially) known as THE TUBE. However, one short line, the Waterloo and City line, is known, unsurpisingly, as THE DRAIN, by way of an affectionate nickname. A clue is in the name of one of its two stations, Waterloo. The line's primary function is as a shuttle service delivering commuters from/to Waterloo to the financial district, the City. It is quieter at other times of day.

[@airbus350ulr]

Bank used to be called city, thus it went from waterloo to “city”. This made waterloo & city line. Now bank has been renamed to… bank

[@CohaLevelcrossingsChannel]

Nice movie, Choo choo 🚂🚃🚋🚃🚋🚃🚋🚃🚋🚃🚋🚃🚋🚃

[@RGC198]

Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing. London must have the world's largest underground rail system.

[@Kolan_Koala]

Seoul, Korea over twice the length

[@olly5764]

Marc Brunnel , a great British engineer? Erm, He was from Normandy, could we be confusing him with Isambard Kingdom Brunel? Right family, wrong generation!

[@olly5764]

@@Lamster66 lol, certainly not the Marc Brunnel I was referring to. Lol

[@peteradaniel]

This video is obviously 20 years old if they’re talking about getting people to the millennium dome and the “new” business complex at Canary Wharf.

[@My_Names_Not_Nigel]

What color was that guy's head again?

[@thatonetransportguy]

Can we just appreciate the fact that they atleast did a documentary about the extension instead of complaining about the most useless S**T (This documentary was even published before the London Eye appeared (1:30) and language was different at that time, wasn't it?) It literally feels like a 3 year old/one of your sibling(s) being angry at you because you took the last piece of Candy AND THE "TRAIN IN THE DRAIN" IS THE "OTHER" NAME OF THE FRICKING WATERLOO AND CITY LINE (I'm a german and i'm suprised that someone who lives in London and uses the Tube didn't know that) this is still a great Documentary btw