The Tube has been the fascination of my entire life of 51 years. I collect everything from station signs to train driver backpacks to wall tiles. My cousin is a station master which allowed me to have unprecedented access to hidden and disused stations and walk ways. Every time i fly to the UK from Florida, it is the Tube that I most look forward to visiting and traveling on. long live the London underground

This feels more like a fully fledged BBC documentary, than a youtube video.

This film should be dedicated to those people who sacrificed their lives to build The Underground, and inspire new engineers to keep construction safe, for everyone. G.K,

We continue to supply electrical products to the Underground network, and even in our time in business, it's astonishing to see how far the engineering on the tube has come. It's something we can all be proud of.

I live and study in London for 3yrs, it is very nice to know the history of all these Underground stations which I am using whenever I traveled.

London is a miracle! A brilliant city. Love from America.

After 45 years I'm still fascinated with the tube. Been on plenty of metros, all of them newer and most cleaner. However not even NYC compares with London for the anorak! Great vid...thanks

Who needs sci-fi when the real world is like this?

Looks fantastic. Must have taken ages to compile and animation all the archive pictures. Great job!

The segment starting at 8:30 squeezed the tears in my eyes. An epic description of a seemingly mundane thing that we use every day. Damn...

I have high admiration for the British and London for its remarkable engineering that paved the way for the modern world. The British are the pioneers to essentially all of the foundation of modern engineering, and their ingenuity is unquestionable. I imagine the world without London would arguably still might not reach the modern era.

Great video. It brought back many 1970's memories. I installed the mechanical services when employed by Matthew Hall, starting at Waterloo Bridge, under the Strand to Charing Cross and Trafalgar Square and up to Green Park. At that time it was called the "Fleet Line", later changed to the Jubilee Line. I had offices at ground level outside Charing Cross Station and also next door to the National Gallery where the main contractors offices were and also the lifts to go underground, the Sainsbury Wing was later built here.

this is more a short history of the underground then anything about the engineering of the system.

Just visited London and I can proudly say that London Tube is the best piece of engineering I've ever seen. What a masterpiece. I was there for 3 days and moving around was like teleporting.

Awesome. Went past the new crossrail station at canary wharf and I have to say I was in awe!

Fascinating how they pave the way for the world in modern engineering.

Truly fascinating. I wish I had made decisions earlier in my life that would have paved a career in civil engineering!

I am impressed !!! Such a remarkable achievement. Yeah, 'cope it did & cope it will'.

it's an a honour to become a civil engineer

This video gave me chills. Great job.

Proud to work for the company!

Thank you for this fascinating view of London’s travel network. I commuted regularly, and find the historic aspect interesting. Now retired, no longer in UK, it pushes a nostalgia button for me. Sixties, Bond Street station, winter weather and an old man selling roast chestnuts at station entrance. Oh happy recollections of simple pleasures in a different era.

I love London. Damn

It's great to been part of the Undergrounds expansion, I drove a tunnel boring machine on The Victoria Line. A Senior Inspector of Works on the Dockland Light Railway extension to Bank Station. Also SIoW on CrossRail and have inspected the unused stations that were used as air raid shelters in WWII Between the above have worked on major tunnel projects around the world, retired now I just dig the garden and watch KZfaq.

Note narration is by Eddie Butler. Clearly more than a rugby commentator, his dulcet tones are most suitable for many documentaries like this.

Really enjoyed using the tube during our visits and learning some of it's history by guided tour. Regret not going to the transport museum while at Convent Garden.

There are some truely beautiful effects in this video

there should be a movie about how the underground was built..it would be brilliant

How I just love the tube! I am a tourist in London now and then and when wearing my waist bag, the Londoners think I am pregnant and I get a seat! XD

What a great archive!

very good we should reflect on underground.

Is this Eddie Butler providing the narration? Wonderful rich, rousing, tones. Magnificent piece of documentary making

Stunning video, thank you for creating this wow!

A beautifully told story!

Superb mini-documentary!

Amazingly filmed. Would like to see more these kind of videos on engineering. #Engineering #LondonUnderground #London #Transport #Tube

Brilliant piece of film and encapsulates the LU story very well. It makes one proud to be a Civil Engineer

Beautiful video of london underground history, Thank u admin keep it up

I love London

Excellent video! Truly inspirational.

This video is an ok overview of the history of the undergound, though missing many details, especially any details about the actual engineering.

Great short vid! London underground network continues to amaze me every time I use it! The underground really makes London what it is!

Terrific, well-made and fascinating video. The pseudo-3d effect on the old photos is particularly impressive. Was the last steam really only withdrawn in 1971?

This was a good video, but I think the title was a bit misleading. not much talk about the engineering - more a sort of pat on the back for the fine job done. i was looking for the "how" part of engineering.

great footage! any idea of background music???

Great Job 👍🏾

One of the best videos I have seen in a long time. Gave me shivers and almost bought a tear to my eye.

Video is well done, good job. Just one little thing, in the credits the grey is way too dark to be readable when watching from a distance full screen.

What a fantastic video

can you please borrows your engineering to Rome?

Brilliant!!

Narrated by Eddie butler,the BBC rugby commentator.

they make it seem soooo epic haha...when it really is just a subway system common all around the world

British people best in world

I liked the old Docklands RW of the 1990s.

Engineering at its finest

good work

Great video 👍

And nowadays it only takes a projected 15 years to "hopefully" install air conditioning on the northern line - dealing with the inherited thermal inertia of the tube. Is it health and safety, government bureaucracy, trade unions or just plain laziness that has affected our engineering prowess.

Great video

Love from Bangladesh.

Thanks for response. but can you specifically tell me the soundtrack which was used from 0:16 ~ 3:24?

Most Londoners wondered how the tube network would cope during the olympics, but cope it did. The above statement made in this film is largely true, but I think it's important to point out that the reason it ran like clockwork was large numbers of underground staff, including the drivers were paid handsome bonuses during this period, so basically paid more money to do their job which was quite frankly a disgrace. Dig below the surface (excuse the pun) and you'll find the real reason for things. Once the olympics finished us Londoners were back to the usual old delays and problems. Should have added that to your documentary. I'm not however taking anything away from the amazing engineering feats described in this film, which were indeed revolutionary. It should be said though that we needed both American expertise and finance to get a lot of the initial underground projects up and running.

respect

I thought the deep tunnel electric tube system opened in 1890.

WHEN OPENS START OPEATING THIS TRAIN?

8:58 - Why are the escalators 'right-hand travel'? I thought British drive on the left-hand side?

how much more investment does it really need? when i think about all the people tagging on right this second and every other second of the day. then think about how it costs 2.40 for a journey.. less for people with a monthly pass or whatever but still. the revenue generated must be enormous

thanks~ but who is the artist of that music' Orion'?

Feel like I'm watching a rugby match

When it doesn't fit use the hammer..result. it fits now ..

He talks of 30 years of underfunding.................................no change there then

I remember London, back in the day, there was no trouble really. It was possible to roam the streets in reasonable safety. That was only in the 80's. Today, it's 'every man for himself' with 75% foreigners.

I applaud those workers of old without the technology we have today they were years ahead of their time men of courage and vision good old fashioned "NAVIES" who were not afraid to work, men of substance, only the great wall of china could come close ,today all we seem to have is a generation who want to sit and sleep on every street corner waiting for handouts to nurture their INDOLENT mentality, we are in a time when a few centimetres of snow brings almost everything to a standstill, our attitude is breeding a pathetic mentality of do just enough to get by oh yes "A LITTLE SLUMBER , A LITTLE SLEEP , A LITTLE FOLDING OF THE HANDS BRINGS POVERTY

investors searched for a solution - really - investors?

London underground shoes

It seems that all the money from those wars and colonies payed off.

Looks

Im jealous of Europeans wtf africa

me

Interest !!.... Auckland (NZL) is bad transport have few train. Everyone want like this London make drill more station and less vehicles. I think 1960s Auckland Council is HOPELESS !!!!!

Ooo big boring machines. I love boring machines

Londoners, arrogant as always. The tube isn't the best metro nor the most modern. Just look at Seoul or Switzerland.

Amazingly filmed. Would like to see more these kind of videos on engineering. #Engineering #LondonUnderground #London #Transport #Tube