The Northern Line of the London Underground - Complete version

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

Excellent film. Love the music. Mike Ashworth really loves that network and his job, doesn't he? He engages the viewer with very friendly but still knowledgable tones - he knows his stuff, and I like that. Props!

[@billyunterbuchner9197]

It's called being a presenter mate.

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

Three years on, and I'm STILL loving this film and the music. Damn-it, Roy .... you make a good film, you do!

[@housewithmark]

Ditto

[@billyunterbuchner9197]

Erm, David, maybe get a room with Roy?

[@fraggit]

The 1938 train stock was my favourite. I used to love riding those trains. I remember the bouncy seats were very comfortable. When we were about 12 yrs old In the summer holidays (about 1977-79), me and my mates would buy a Red Bus Rover ticket for about 50p and that meant we had free travel for the day on any Tube train and London Bus. The Tube and London was a great playground :)

[@MartinTheSmoggyUTB]

Great documentary. Thank you for posting. Really enjoyable.

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

The fabulous Charing Cross murals always cheer me up.

[@mediamaker]

Very good - thanks Roy. Enjoyable and nicely put together. I guess the audio mixdown for the upload is responsible for a couple of points where the VO is a little low, but that's one of the usual problems with making stuff available on the internet, and not a comment on the actual product at all. Well done!

[@WhoWantsMuffinsInc]

Very good... except for the horrendous overuse of 'clever' camera effects - split screen, fast action, monochromatic effects etc, which are not only pointless and detract from the film, but additionally render it almost unwatchable on a mobile. What a shame.

[@billyunterbuchner9197]

Yes, the editing and post-production were definitely done by a rank amateur.

[@mushroomcraft]

Wow the comments are really old, this is really nostalgic and its interesting how I get recommended stuff that I like

[@jwatters9868]

4.26 i spent 5 years in that building behind him maintaining tube trains

[@Marlande66]

Fascinating stuff, but no shots of Kentish Town South... a famous 'ghost station' whose abandoned platforms can still be glimpsed through the darkness from trains traveling between Kentish & Camden Town.

[@1pdonlon]

Interesting subject, well presented. However - to the video editor - less is more. Doesn't need so many cuts and using all of the dissolves and effects takes away from it.

[@sanders2378]

Very good video - just wish it had been longer!

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

It's all a pretty awesome piece of engineering and design.. Great vid - thanks

[@TheFanSR]

Thanks for sharing!

[@darrengomes2203]

Those 'air raid' shelters started life out as the plan for an express Northern Line in the 1930s. They were already running express trains, but those were always held up by the normal service trains. So new tunnels were started for a dedicated express line, as part of the Northern Heights plan. But WWII halted that. They'd never have got them built in time if they were built specially as air raid shelters when the war began.

[@swannavon]

I miss London.

[@genemayne1577]

I have not seen any planning for safety on open platforms for the people waiting for trains .

[@jay-ti5js]

gene mayne Westminsterto North Greenwich have all have platform screen doors

[@genemayne1577]

@@jay-ti5js its about time i not been on a train since soomeone almost push me about 2 years ago

[@billyunterbuchner9197]

@@genemayne1577 get over it m8

[@gingerelvis]

Great stuff, just wish it was a little slower paced. So much information i reckon it could have been an hour long.

[@billyunterbuchner9197]

Actually youre right; it was poorly edited, which made it hard to digest at times.

[@whangie1]

I was hoping for a glimpse of South Island Place!

[@clivemonk]

Very interesting. Bit disappointed he didn't explain how the cross over section at Camden Town actually works. Also all those film cans in storage. Are there any missing episodes of Doctor Who down there?

[@simonwinter8839]

Is this chap in charge of the rest of the Northern line ? Well wether he is or not I would like to comment on the state of Oval Station. I realise that the original Portland stone was crumbling and something needed to be done but the drab grey covering is appalling along with the awning to keep the queue dry should rain have stopped play at the cricket ground that the Station takes it's name from. Something much more imaginative should have been put there instead, maybe in the Victorian style. Also ,underground, the platforms could do with tidying up and I don't mean sweeping!! On the plus side the cricket mural in the ticket office is really good but I feel the Station exterior and the platforms let this station down. I have vowed,if I ever win the lottery, to approach London Underground with a proposal to pay to have this station renovated and you can blame Spike Milligan for setting this precedent as he thought his local station Woodside Park, also on the Northern line,was too depressing so he paid to have it painted red white and blue. Good old Spike RIP.

[@unhban]

Sorry, I couldn't watch this after a minute or two. What's the point of all the flashing etc?

[@Keesecito]

Hear hear!

[@fraggit]

I didn't see anybody wearing a mackintosh. Flashing, what are you on about? ........Amazing to think that the Northern line is now 128 yrs old.

[@billyunterbuchner9197]

@@fraggit 129 actually

[@mushroomcraft]

@@billyunterbuchner9197 131 now!

[@roybarnacle]

Love the backward pix.

[@philip-at-tube]

Interesting !

[@eric4709]

Something very odd about the sound mix. Vocals all over the place . And the music ? not inspiring - unless you are learning to play drums.

[@billyunterbuchner9197]

It is a horrendously made film about an interesting subject; yes.

[@1pdonlon]

@@billyunterbuchner9197 Agreed. Someone's first editing assignment, is what it feels like. No need for all the quick cuts, dissolves and effects. Less is more. Its nauseating in places. However - a very interesting subject and a good job by the presenter.

[@danielclift1]

what film is he on about at 12.09 ? i cant find it

[@billyunterbuchner9197]

Moonraker

[@ianoliver3879]

Probably an interesting video, but I couldn't bear to watch it; the aspect ratio is wrong.

[@housewithmark]

I understand your point, but if ratio was a deal breaker for me I would never enjoy half of movies put out early 2000

[@armedessential]

Dont know why they always miss out the edgware branch

[@burgerman2337]

Golders green is on the Edgware branch, Edgware wasn't built 100+ years ago because the terminus was Golders green

[@nightw4tchman]

I wish I had his job. :'(

[@keerrstin]

awesome (:

[@ib9rt]

Ace!

[@pullingoffshorts]

wow

[@jowonderanimation]

Dead interesting real food for thought, I recon 'GOD' or whatever you want to call it wants us to have fun :) fun is powerful and will overcome x

[@billyunterbuchner9197]

........uh huh.

[@johnholmes912]

oxblood nothing like terracotta

[@Wagons-Rule]

Way too faat!

[@jacksugden8190]

A dirty disgusting environment to travel in at the best of times.

[@billyunterbuchner9197]

correct. Its a tunnel of shit.