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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 💙

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

21:21 I actually died of laughter

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

Ah 2002! Such a simpler time.

Love how the coke truck drives by 13:44

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.

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

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

9:56 Funny how times change...

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

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

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

'Abandoned' stations at 8.35, 13.46

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?

20:28 that was so beautifully unnecessary :P

So soothing and calm.

Great footage and nice abandoned tubes

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.

Why was early 2000's tv so much better?

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.

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

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

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

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

Misleading title? Where is the abandoned part?

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

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

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

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

Nice video thanks very much.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I went to an art exhibition at Aldwych Station during the September Open London annual event. 🖌️ The new unfinished stations are on the new Elizabeth Line. I hope to use that service in a few years time. 😁 An underground escalator is not anything like the space station in 2001: A Space Odyssey. 😆

that man was almost having an escalatorgasm

I love it trains are my favourite

He was a Millwall fan so it was expected

Awesome, when’s the next one going to be published?

5:25 I’m Irish ☘️ too!!!

This is the serious version of come fly with me

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! :)

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

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

8:35 start of abandoned stations

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good old Barry Wilkinson a true gent

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

Guy at 8:20 “someone say coke?”

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

yeah the tube is it's own thing, definitely, for sure.

Wow that’s like now

The title doesn't reflect the content

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

Omg I miss the old ticket hall now it's just the shop

i love how proud he is of his escalator...

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

MORE GHOST STORIES PLZ

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 :)

How are these abandoned stations?

Says 275 tube stations Me in past:no 270 Me now:no 272

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

Spooky being reminded of simpler, maybe more optimistic / innocent (normal ?) times in spite of world and local events...

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

Barry Wilckinson is the Star...

Mrs Richards " I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?

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?

I love the tube always have, want to do my History M.A on the Irish tunnel tigers who built most of it, anyone want to share their storys of tube with me?

Should be a video description act.

Didn’t see any abandoned tunnels

Did they only make 3 seasons of the tube?