Docklands Light Railway, tidy your room now or you'll get a kick up the Mudchute!

Lmao

@@davidbull7210 great lmao

Docklands Light Railway, do your homework or no Pudding tonight! Docklands Light Railway, go to sleep or I take away your Abbey Road vinyl! Docklands Light Railway, apologize for what you did or you won't get any allowance to put in your piggy Bank that you call West Ham!

@@davidbull7210 oh my jubileee line!! What is it mow TFL??

Do you make train noises too? :D

They're missing a trick, though. If you do the same on the metro in Copenhagen, you'll find a big sticker there with train controls on it. Kids of all ages (including my 46-year-old self) love it.

@@cargy930 I do very good "CHOO CHOO!". Proper head turner. My mates who live in London hate me for it

@@deeser A man after my own heart! :D:D:D Years ago, when I used to drive school buses out in the sticks, I used to make full-lip brrrm brrrm noises for the craic! The youngsters loved it - and these were UK high school students!!

When I worked in Canary Wharf for a few months a couple of years ago, I’d always take the DLR as part of my journey home; forget the Jubilee Line at the height of summer! So every evening, without fail, I’d do my best to get the very front seat. I got very good at making sure I was stood perfectly aligned with the front set of doors...

BR throws a strop

Any other rail provider: *exists* BR: "Are you challenging me!?"

Great to hear from you!

Hmm, not sure that's correct. Possibly rekindled and facilitated your interest. London is not short of history at all, some of it minor, some of it major and some of it completely mind-blowing. Just remember that the next time you look at your watch.

Good call! It’s a really fun ride...if you ever get the chance, start from tower hill & make sure you nab one of the seats right at the front with the best view!:)

Good story telling does that :-)

Welcome aboard; you'll absolutely love the Jago ride. And tell yr friends too 😊

London isn't 7,000km from anywhere. We only use miles in the UK. :)

Grr! Bloody Thatcher!!;

And spent at least £800 million on Limehouse Link, a

And eventually another tunnel to Woolwich.

Nothing new there. Politicians of all shades are allergic to good sense XD.

@paul smith No doubt, but my point was they were happy to splash the cash for motorists, but less so for the choo-choos. But Limehouse Link was literally tunnelling into the unknown : < 20 recorded buried services, yet >80 found. No wonder it was so costly and 'they' might've baulked at the final cost if it was presented as an initial estimate. Few cost estimates stay accurate once the first spade has cut the ground.

When Southern House in Croydon housed all the BR(S) infrastructure engineers years ago, half of the top floor (17?) was devoted to a subsisdised cafeteria and.... bar! Happy days indeed :-)

I dont think I understand that comment ?

@@highpath4776 it's 15 people now .... 😁

@@highpath4776 If you *still* don't understand, it's the number of thumbs-down votes, as Jago suggested at the end of his commentary

That'll larn me to scroll all the way to the bottom of the comments before I post something completely identical and make myself look silly! :-)

@@catinarage5538 It will learn me to listen to the whole vid to the end too !

It is coming! I bet London has loads of hidden stuff not accessable to the public too

@@SuperTflat It does! Geoff Marshall gets to visit a fair bit of it for his channel; here’s hoping Jago joins that club in the near future.

@@hyperdistortion2 I'll check Geoff out, cheers

I've been having the same thoughts! Edit: He said, commenting to hurry things along!

They are looking already, Netflix included. He needs alot more subscribers, so we all need to like, share, subscribe etc Then on top of that does he have time, have a life, would want to do it etc etc

Spread the word so that Jago gets 100,000 subscribers and then the prized KZfaq Creator Awards plaque.

ok

Engaged you say, I'll pick the ring 💍

Fairy muff!

Dum, dum, de dum....

Sure. Brilliant vid as always!

What's the deal with broadcast people and being into railways? So many people from the broadcast industry end up moving over to the rail industry, it can't be a coincidence

Hello, you! You seem to pop up everywhere

You mean the SkyTrain goes all the way from Vancouver to Mitcham? Make sure you take a decent packed lunch!

Why would they relegate a citizen of beautiful Vancouver to... *whispers* Mitcham?

Or get rid of the cars...

@@chrisjohnson7929 I mean, that's an even better solution, I'd agree. If cars must be kept, though, then trams should be given absolute priority over them. It's that way over here in Germany, and it usually works decently.

I like the DLR

it's weirder if you DON'T have an obsession with the DLR really... 😁

@@missgfaulkner agreed

Damn! I didn’t see your comment and said exactly the same - absolutely. How could anyone not get excited about the DLR? I still feel slightly guilty about the time that I may have sidled my way in front of a group of schoolchildren to get the coveted front seat in the front carriage. But I honestly don’t think that they could’ve been as excited about it as I was ;-)

@@jamiejones8508 yes of courses

Interesting! I couldn’t find much information on the conversion.

Was that one of the Premier Inns along the way to the Excel Centre?

Reminds me of waiting for the rest of the party to arrive in the car park of a pretty rural Chinese restaurant just outside Nottingham, and watching a London Underground train trundle past on the far side of the field opposite. I had no idea the abandoned railway line, that actually then runs into my little suburb a few streets away from me, but has been half built over, and half turned into a nature reserve, is actually a fairly well known test track.

@@johnd6487 was it the Old Dalby test track?

@@chrismcgarry2840 according to Google, yes :-)

When lockdown is over....

Don’t worry, this was filmed before lockdown!

So what’s the correct word?

@@kaydensrailway5594 dead

Actually in practice she was neutral. She did not like it, but it was in box marked 'as long as it did not cost too much leave it alone'. Reports were made to make it more efficient etc. But the cutback implied frightened everyone involved and was quietly binned. It was in this time BR finally reorganised from the old big 4 management structure into business sectors and a lot of lines and stations reopened and electrification.

@@martincurrie6243 There was definitely more progress during her tenure, mostly because British Rail's reorganisation as you said. My local line gained electrification and increased service. It is a pity that John Major went and screwed it all up afterwards.

The remark "anyone over 30 who finds themselves on a bus must consider themselves a failure" suggests not so much anti-rail as anti public transport, and not so much that, perhaps, as anti the kind of people who use it. The remark did her no favours.

Mask compliance has gone down the toilet, so many people do not seem to bother and nothing is done about it either.

Yes, we’re starting to hate them 😠, I myself have always disliked masks - any covering of the face. And revolted at the Covid-19 regulations of being forced to wear one on public transport and in shops, so I decided to stay couped-up in the house and not/stop going out to the public/when mask wearing was made mandatory in supermarkets = stopped going shopping with my parents ☹️. At the beginning of the first lock-down, my voluntary work experience had stopped operating as it served the vulnerable, and we had our last church meeting at the chapel with out masks and being able to sing - praising God, after that we started making KZfaq videos of the service’s (quite convenient in my case) and I could go in the car with my parents to our beach house/my friends house and to my great-grandparents bungalow to clear it out (in Harrow-on-the-hill) at the time. Now we have the second lock-down and people are being lax at the restrictions and like this idiot don’t wear their masks properly and if they see a police officer (in this case, a TFL ticket inspector) they would quickly pull their mask up to not get fined 🙄. It is said that the authorities are aware of this (but as always, their solution is to fine us - I don’t know if being thrown in prison is a last resort for repeat offenders?) and that 2 supermarket brands have stopped customers from entering if their not wearing a mask/giving them one to enter. So I’m playing it safe by staying in the house and not going out to the public 😉☹️

I noticed straightway too, makes me worry for Jago filming these videos

@@hetty5531 - I assume Jago is being compliant and wearing one ✅

@@samuelfellows6923 A mask protects others from you, it offers you no protection. even if Jago is masked that fuy could have infected him

The P86 we're built in Germany and had inward opening door's, the P89 we're built in the UK and had the same doors but we're converted to sliding doors, the motor's etc we're the same.

Stratford has a more prominent role in an upcoming video.

Is my niece's favourite line because she got to pretend to drive the train when she first went on it

@@archstanton6102 - I still enjoy doing that as an adult (!) although my kids always want to take my space!

The Copenhagen metro is also driverless and the put up stickers there with fake controls which is great.

@@hedgehog3180 I noticed that when I visited. DLR should do that! Probably some Health and Safety weenie risk-assessed it and didn't want to encourage the kids that stand there anyway to stand there.

@@6yjjk since there are real controls under there, perhaps they don’t want to give any help to someone who might want to sabotage them by poking a big sharp hot stick thru the metal?

I believe it. I do like the look of the DLR, I must say. I'm glad it isn't a conventional tram, just not glad about the reason why.

This is very true in Berlin, there is a major lack of trams in what used to be West Berlin, although I'd call this something the DDR got right!

@@chrismcgarry2840 Not any more. They are extending the Tramways into West Berlin now ,with new low floor trams

Kind of ironic; as Trams certainly don't exist because of socialism; as the very un-socialist Victorians invented them XD.

That sounds like something that people would expect Thatcher or a member of her government to say. I suspect it’s apocryphal.

Was not the station supposed to cross the road into the car park area ?

DLR is actually one of, if not the most reliable railways in the country. Over 99% of ALL journey's completed on time - considerably higher than buses ;-)

Glad I could help!

There was also a tram subway in London, on Kingsway. I’d love to do a video on it sometime.

Snap!

Thanks for like - I agree there is something particularly 'morish' about the DLR - I have seen it expand over (many) years, and hope to see it reach Thamesmead/Abbey Wood and maybe Charing Cross...I live in Hastings, and find myself almost drawn to it on my jaunts, like a moth to a flame. Keep knocking out the fab videos, as this is the only way of getting my 'fix' while in that pesky lockdown!

Well, tbh, the vast majority of German "U-Bahn" Systems are actually light rail. Most of them still use a numbering system with U-lines as most passengers wouldnt care anyway. I guess 80% of passengers wouldnt even know the actual term "Stadtbahn". The only 4 proper U-Bahn networks in Germany are Berlin, Nuremberg, Munich and Hamburg. I do actually prefer the Stadtbahn/light rail approach. First its obviously cheaper because of less tunnels/seperated tracks, but also outside of the city center the stations are basically directly on or at the road so theres shorter walking times. The only disadvantages are tho that on older light rail lines disabled access can be a problem and of course congestion or waiting times at traffic lights. But many German cities are already working on improving these factors, the latter being solved more easily of course by accelerating traffic light phases or adding priority systems. My city (Düsseldorf) is also pretty invested in making the stations/lines more accessible, but there are still problems because we basically got 3 networks (high-floor light rail, which uses cars with a floor height of 1000mm and foldable steps, low-floor light rail, which exists since 2016 and regular trams which also have been 100% low floor since 2012) and those networks are also interconnected and we even got high floor light rail going through tight streets where building high floor platforms is basically impossible. Idk if anyone is actually interested in this but i guess i felt the need to point this out because i just love our light rail xD

I have a couple of videos featuring Millwall Park coming up!

@@JagoHazzard has it gone ?