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.

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

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

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Respect for everyone who contributed to this achievement

You can’t but love London.

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

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

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

'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'.

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

Guys this was made in like 1998 calm down

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

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

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

Watching this while on the tube somewhere under London 🤗

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

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.

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...

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

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

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'.

wonderful videos all of them I watch them again and again

I love these I can’t stop watching them

Tube, not Train in Drain.

The Train in the Drain! LOL

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

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

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

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

"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.

fantastic presentation. thank you

Thanks for letting us know!!!

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'

Great video mate me and my friends found this really interesting to wach i was wondering how it was all built😌👍👍💜💜

Excellent documentary very interesting

Excellent video Enjoyed every minute

God I am truly missing London now.

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

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.

Good show 👍

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

Worked on this amazing

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

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

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

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.

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.

I'm stunned, great work by the engineers

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.

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.

Anyone else watching this during lockdown?!

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".

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!

Amazing the original tunnels were built by hand.

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

"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.

It’s not the millennium dome it’s the 02!

Wow, look how different London used to look..

Great video

I've always found "Northbound and Southbound" makes more sense than "Up" or "Down"

Amazing.

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..

It's quite an incredible system of engineering.

"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.

Amazing documentary! Does anyone know what that song is called?

So what rhymes with train? Pain, Brain, Insane, Lorraine, Drain. Drain sounds good lets use that!

24:02 THAT HAIRCUT THOUGH

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

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Looked up the whole "Train in the Drain" thing. Apparently the Waterloo & City-Line where called colloquially as the Drain. I guess thats where it came from. Other wise great Video.

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

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. ❤️

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.

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.

Good voice for documentary

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...

update video liked very much. Take care.

Next time I go to London. I shall see if I can obtain tickets for travelling on this new ‘Toob’ railway - sounds quite interesting, I wonder if you board train on the Toob line at rail7stations, train stations,bus stations.

The Big Ben tower is called Elizabeth Tower.

Super!

THANKS for the VIDEO, VERY good. !!

Please tell me which part in the city, is a high speed section.?🤔🤔😘

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

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

Train in the drain? You made that up

Mentions the recent Jubilee Line extension -- which went from Green Park to Stratford -- and shows the entire Jubilee line, including the part (Stanmore to Baker Street) that already existed as the Bakerloo line!

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”

Train in the drain seems like a perfect nickname for the New York City subway system!

the language and facts in this documentary are hilarious! but in essence it is very interesting.