Everyone congratulating you on your first sponsorship. Little do they know you've actually always been funded by the Emirates Air Line

Ohh, a sponsor! How long will it be before he’s regaling us with the joys of Raid-Shadow Legends?.. Kidding, pleased for you. Sponsors mean you’re getting noticed and you deserve it.

I can see Jago is a proper KZfaqr now, I’m grateful we get a conclusion to this TRULY GRIPPING SERIES.

This is where Jago goes full on Star Wars, with 3 prequels and 3 sequels to come... ;)

Closing in on 100K, and to think im old enough to remember you in the equivalent of short trousers.😂😂😂

That three-parter worked nicely. How about a similar approach to the Overground? And it would also be interesting to look at all of the various projects for getting to Heathrow from central London.

Jago, your videos are keeping me sane during these awful times Thank you.

I just realised just how much research you do for these videos. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I have no idea why I like your videos so much. I don't live in London, or even the UK. I don't particularly like London if I'm being honest. The whole train thing some people is fascinated about isn't something I care about. My view on the tube is that it should work and be on time when I use it. That's about it. But I absolutely adore your videos. They are almost like a balm for my soul (is that an expression in English?) and kind of feels like meditating. Whatever the reason, thank you. Whenever I see you've posted it makes that day a better day. Oh, and congratulations to your first sponsorship!

he got a sponsor - he is a real youtube now! well done

Wow you got a sponsor your a proper KZfaqr now ! Congrats

Jago has a sponsor now! And nearly 100k subscribers! I remember when there were less than a 10th of that. Love to watch a KZfaqr you really like grow in popularity

The Johnston typeface is just a thing of beauty.

I love the old prints and posters you use in these videos.

I've never been to Britain, I'm from Canada. But here i am watching every video i can about their trains. Lovely stuff.

I do remember the East London Line's becoming its own thing, but couldn't tell you the exact date. However, it was closed for several years in the 1990s to refurbish the tunnel (nearly didn't happen, I believe). It wasn't a stub line for long - originally there was a link to the District line and another to Liverpool Street - and now, of course, it links round London!

I'm usually not a fan of adverts in a video, but in this case I'm glad because it gives the indication your channel is doing well!

How about the loco hauled services especially on the Metropolitan out towards Metroland. I remember them in 1957. I was at the Met Office Training School in Stanmore and used the Metropolitan from where I was in digs in Preston Road to Wembley Park before changing onto the Bakerloo. Because they were slam-door coaches and coupled in a rake with a separate loco rather than an EMU, they didn't have a dedicated guard to driver communication and the guard used the brass ferrule on his green flag to short out the wires along the platform which would ring a bell by the driver.

Every video you produce is thrilling Jago! You never know when an unexpected pun or dry joke will turn up.

Really great video series. One thing id note is that the East London line was actually connected to the District/Metropolitan via "St Marys curve". A curve of railway near an abandoned station which you can still see when travelling Eastbound from Aldgate east. Trains used to run via this curve, though i have no source myself on how frequently this was. Most sources seem to indicate the use of the curve was short lived in passenger usage, but remained in place for stock movements before being cut off in the east london line extension works. Wikipedia seems to suggest this service ran 1884-1938, which makes sense as the lines ran multiple odd routes till 1939 such as trains to Southend on the District line. The H+C was born out of trying to remove the complexity of the various branches of the Metropolitan. Its likely the trains in 1933 running the what we now know as the H+C service would use the east london line. Given they eventually terminated at Whitechapel instead - though now extended to Barking mostly to relieve congestion and the reversing platforms being demolished for crossrail.

I must confess, I've been for half an hour observing the first quad royal poster with H.C.BECK's design, issued in 1933 when the LPTB was about to be launched. (0:45) I don't know, but it's so enjoyable and pleasing to watch and utilize as a journey planner. Featured in Ken Garland's 1994 book, it has a very pleasing paper colour, thus making the Diagram twice as graceful.

"Alarums and excursions..." Congratulations on your sponsorship. And well done on the Underground series!

Mention of the opening of the Victoria Line reminds of looking at a tube map in the Angel station twenty years later, still not including the new line. No rush.

Does the sponsorship mean you can afford to travel further than Watford Station for B-roll? :)

Privatisation was in 97. I transferred from Glasgow to Reading under rule 10b in 95. Which no longer existed with privatisation. And BR lasted 49 years.

Simply an amazing, ripping, beyond mammoth presentation of everything that I was too lazy to find elsewhere...thank you for the great work, truly! The series was so big my iPhone couldn’t display everything. Can’t wait for the sequel to the sequel.

I recognise the station at 1:25 and again at 4:54 as Drayton Park. Having worked in the City in the 90's I regularly travelled on that line from New Barnet into Moorgate. Happy memories ! 😎👍👍

If this series ever comes out as a DVD box set, I'll buy it.

One might argue (here I am feeling argumentative) that with the creation of the Victoria line, the tube had "come together". From then on up to present, its been evolving. (or in the case of the circle line - revolving). The interesting things is London Transport trying to say that the Crossrail "Purple Line" (Reading to Shenfield) is a sort of underground line whereas the Thameslink line (Brighton to Bedford) is just Thameslink and part of BR. London Transport is evolving its remit to the point where the Underground as an entity is starting to get blurred around the edges. Maybe Aylesbury to Southend needs reconsidering? Re-Marooning the suburbs

More detail and longer series definitely a positive step in my book!

Ooo, I am looking forward to part four of this three part series!

EPIC! I’m sure you could have made a “mind the gap” reference somewhere in the outro.

It would be helpful if you add links to parts 2 and 3 to the video descriptions of parts 1 and 2. Thanks for all your videos, I've become rather addicted to them even though I live in Canada and have never been on the Underground!

How the Met line was operated is a quite fascinating tale...... It had one Line Controller who controlled all of it including Hammersmith (Met) and the East London Line. The Distict Line Controller controlled the south side of the Circle and of course covered the Met trains from Aldgate East to Barking. Barking train crew depot also had a Met Line roster there and the Barking SM looked after the Met crews. Underground line depots are divided into sections (District East for example is Barking and Upminster) and the Met was similar. Met Line West was Hammersmith and Baker Street, Met Line North was Neasden, Rickmansworh & Uxbridge while Met Line East was Barking, New Cross and Drayton Park). Until OPO conversion started in the early 1980s, Neasden, Rickmansworh & Baker Street crews worked the Met Main and Circle Line, Hammersmith crews just the Hammersmith & City Line, Barking crews the H&C plus a few jobs on the East London Line while New Cross did mostly East London Line plus a few jobs on the H&C. Drayton Park just covered the Northern City, it was still part of the Met empire until closed and handed over to BR! The 38s on there were 6 car trains (2 x 3 car units) and were maintained at Neasden rather than being any part of the 7 car Northern Line fleet of trains, one of these historical oddities...... A friend of mine is an ex train crew manager and worked at Barking in the 1970s, he even had dealings with Driver Newson who was the driver in the Moorgate disaster, he had been a guard at Barking for a while before he got his drivers job at Drayton Park......

A detailed follow-up on each line would be terrific. I will be patiently waiting.

congratulations on your first sponsor jago

The East London Line is so named (as a distinct "LINE" in all caps) by 1985 at the latest, according to the London Tube Map Archive (www.clarksbury.com/cdl/maps.html). The previous map there (from 1977) only shows it as the East London "Section" (in mixed case) of the Metropolitan Line. (Edit: it looks like the name change happened in 1984-85. There are 2 maps currently listed on a popular auction site that are claimed to be from 1984, one only showing Heathrow Terminal 1 and the "East London Section," the other showing the line to Heathrow Terminal 4 under construction, and the "East London Line" as a separately named "Line.") Funnily enough, I've seen online copies of 2 of Beck's original maps from 1933, one showing it as the "East London Line" and another as the "East London Railway"; but by 1934, it had been absorbed into the Metropolitan Line.

An excellent series, I learned loads. Can't wait for histories of the individual lines.

Congratulations Jago, not sure when I discovered your channel, sometime during lockdown certainly but your content is constantly interesting and as I live locally, relevant. Great to see you getting some pennies to support what I hope will get ever bigger

The SurfShark advert was Map Men level advertising 👍

You just have to love those open cab Metropolitain 4-4-0 tank engines.

Almost to 100k, glad that this channel is doing well

Awesome series! Congrats on the sponsorship...Jago is coming up from the underground in the world

definitely do a series on each line's history :)

Congrats on the sponsorship! Always love your content!

Well done Jago! A great series and easy to follow. 👍👍👍

Maybe with the extra travel budget you can afford to have a gander at the GCR London Extension whenever possible (completing the Watkin set of Metroland, The Inner Circle, Catford, the Tower and the Channel Tunnel). It would also be a good excuse to start branching out beyond London (and get my local city, Leicester, featured!)

My life has been waiting for this vid. Thank you for finally making me a complete person.

Just a fantastic trio Jago - thank you so much. Really enjoyed all three of them. Great Job!

There is a really bad "All Platforms" pun somewhere in the SurfShark spiel, but it needs careful crafting to be as bad as possible without losing the sponsorship...

Well, a pretty thorough potted history of the Underground in Jago's inimitable style, superb as ever. A couple of tiny additions; the Northern Heights plan was only partially completed but some of this (Mill Hill East-Edgware-Aldenham-Bushey Heath) was due to the introduction of the Green Belt, while the Central Line takeovers were all completed except West Ruislip-Denham. Jago carefully states the East London was the first entire tube line to be transferred out of LT; Aylesbury-Amersham (Metropolitan), which went much earlier, was just a section, and likewise Bakerloo trains which were cut back from Watford Junction to Harrow and Wealdstone (but had never owned the route).

This third half, of your presentation, was quite thrilling; hope you produce a fourth.

Everyone should get a VPN so good on you for the ad. My favourite shot is the train race at 7:08 once again won by the Piccadilly - unfair advantage not having to stop here...........................

What a fantastic final 3rd. I cannot wait for your next mini series perhaps a history of London Buses , tramlines or DLR.

That was excellent. I'd be interested in an episode series on future plans for the rail system and, also, how does the transport system get along with other municipalities in the Greater London Area.

a video on london transport would be very cool

Worth the wait! Really excellent. Thank you Jago👏👏👏👏

East London line and the Hammersmith and City line became separate on tube maps in 1990. Still a great video, post lockdown I would get you a pint!

It was still possible in the early 1970s to see the planned Northern Line extensions shown on an enamel route map at EastFinchley station. Like now when the signs have been updated but the 'new' bit of line hasn't yet opened this was covered up with some paper stuck over the relevant bit. However from time to time someone would have a go at removing the paper so there was usually some part of the route to Bushey Heath visible! I don't think that sign ended up in the LT Museum or Depot but would love to know whether it survived somewhere! How about a video on the Underground routes that were traversed for some while after becoming part of the Underground by BR freight trains, that was the case at the Northern ends of both the Northern and Central lines. The East London Line even had steam and later diesel hauled excursion trains using it to reach places like Brighton! Those all finished sometime in the late 1960s.

Many congratulations on reaching 100k subscribers. Very well deserved and a great channel. When I joined you had less than 3K ...

Great 3 videos, thanks - and yes separate videos on each line would be most welcome. Nice way of dealing with sponsorship too, congratulations.

Great series

Oooh nice, sponsers and everything now. Good for you Jago. Well earned. Loving this mini series. Keep up the good work.

Very very interesting. Need more jags excellent work

I am glad Jago has soon 100k Subscribers.

Love this series, been waiting for someone to do something like this as everything you see is placed like the Underground is owned by London but not a few old money families

Great 3 parter. Thank you.

That was a great and fascinating 3 part video 😊👍🏽👌🏽 brilliant work as usual 😃

Well, it appears that the channel has come of age with a surf shark ad! That was a fantastic 3 part series, full of your typical humour and facts!

A video on the former headquarters at St James Park would be interesting, along with the places where TFL now has offices and land around London that isn't part of the railways. Some of it you'd never think was TFL land.

Fantastic as always thank you!

Great stuff. I'm sure I missed them, but the odd vid on the London river services including ferries would be much appreciated. Now, do I need this surfshark thing ...

Bloody good series Jago, I have to say you have a voice absolutely made for radio!

I left school the year the Victoria line opened. Don't think the two events were related. It was odd travelling on a completely spotless new line. Did not take long for it look like any other well used tube line though. Thanks JH.

Get you Mister Sponsored content. Nice video, keeping my sane while at home.

I would love a video on the London Transport changes mentioned if you could fit it in some time.

Nice work, Mr Hazzard!

Big it up Mr. Jago! I kinda felt this 3-parter was a milestone project. Really enjoyed as usual - Thanks. Pleased on your sponsorship status; well deserved for the committed work you've put in over the last year and more entertaining us rail-heads. Maybe some 'oh, he'sold out' comments below just goes show the depth some people's "first world problems"!. I say, go ahead and enact the John Wayne rule - “A man's got to do what a man's got to do.”

A sponsor great. It won't be long until you have 100,000 subscribers. Thank-you for another great video. I love the London Tube Map and how its grown over the years.

i enjoy the series so much that i am really not annoyed by the ads :)

A follow up series dedicated to each line....why yes, that would be a capital idea.

Great to see you reach a great KZfaq milestone- the sponsorships!

Great video jago, very interesting, really enjoyed part 3👌😀👍

Holy commercial partnership Batman!

Brilliant Jago as always

Now to ramp up the excitement by watching all 3 of them back-to-back, so I can remember what he said in Part One! Always good to watch with a G.Maps overview handy at the same time 🙂 #ExLondoner

I've never seen such an outpouring of praise for an advert! Well done JH. A big step in the right direction :) Also the thrilling conclusion hit the mark!

You mentioned this was a Mammoth Three Part Tale From The Tube, but didn't include a pun. Tusk! Tusk!

Thanks again Mr Hazard for answering my.... our questions and making a detailed overview of a very large subject. I hope one day to visit your fine country and ride a tram just so I can say "Ah yes I know this station and why it's called (insert name here). I saw it in a KZfaq video"

Well done on reaching this milestone as a creator.

Congrats on the sponsor! Shows you've been doing everything right!

Congrats on the sponsorship! I still think of your channel as being pretty small and fulfilling a very particular niche that I enjoy, and it's bizzare to realize that you are nearly at 100k subs.

by eck this channel has grown - and all the better for it - well done jago

I definitely enjoyed this, and would love to hear more about the background and history of the London Underground. I’m curious about if TFL is a private company or a government run entity?

Excellent again. Thank you.

Might I suggest a topic? I will anyway. Bars on the underground, there was one at Sloan St, as well as Baker Street. Are there more?

Finally the conclusion! To be honest, you could make longer, more in depth versions of these and put them on a second channel and I'd still watch them! Also yes to a video about the politics. I am sure with your dry sarcasm it would be a pleasure to watch even that. And congrats on the sponsorship.

I would love to hear your version of the Epping - Ongar line ❤

"If I can make that interesting..." "Consider it done," says LeviNZ. I'm sure you could make a truly gripping video on different driving wheel designs for the Big Four locomotives. or the comparative burning qualities of coal from various regions.

"If I can make it interesting" Jago, you could read me the Dulux colour chart and it would be interesting. Loved the 3 parter.

More details please!