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As a Londoner I didn't want this video to end! A part 2 maybe?

I was expecting a video about the influence of public transport on a community, but then I realized that this is not a video from Wendover Productions. But the History of tunnel boring was interesting, too! The transition you did from cut and cover to the shield method with the story about Amsterdam was just brilliant!

Real Engineering, are you aware of the recently completed tunnel boring project in Seattle? The world's largest tunnel boring machine was used to create a tunnel wide enough for a highway along the entire length of the Seattle waterfront. It also had to be made earthquake proof, along with other unique criteria. Fascinating stuff.

Your channel is unique and irreplaceable never stop uploading.

James Henry Greathead was my ancestor. You always see him overshadowed by the likes of Brunell who, although he made massive developments, resulted in the deaths of hundreds. It's nice to see him recognised for the amazing shield that he created. (I'm not biased at all)

Thames- said like temms

Awesome!!!! History and Engineering combined!!!! Just subscribed, hopefully I can support you on Patreon one day, though I am still a college student though, but maybe sharing your vids will help. Time to binge watch your videos

Norway also has some really interesting projects going on. They're boring tunnels to connect towns across the fjords rather than relying on bridges or ferries to reduce long-term maintenance costs and the like. Some of the tunnels are set to go deeper than the Channel Tunnel! On that note, I imagine the process of building the Underground taught the British a lot about tunnel construction that would then later serve them when working on the Channel Tunnel.

How The London Underground Saved Society. The stations served as air raid shelters and saved countless thousands of lives in WW2.

I'm visiting London right now and I wanted to knew more about its underground and you post this video... You're great.

can you do a video on CERN and the hadron collider?

Really impressive underground systhem, so much history all over. Great video.

Loved this video, would be great to see more examples of historical engineering projects like this one :D

no lie this is the most informative channel when it comes to engineering, very inspiring

Every time you say "thaymes" instead of "tems" it hurts. I thought the pronunciation of Thames was common knowledge

It'd be nice to see a video on the 'Clockwork Orange', Glasgow's Underground railway.

Great episode. Nice direction you went in and great examples too. Well curated

I wanted to learn about the history of rail transport, and there you are making videos about it! Thank you!

well made indeed. I really appreciated the dedication and historical accuracy of this last video.

Thanks for great video, and love Skillshare. Hope you do a lot more with them, a great advertiser that compliments your channel.

As a Londoner, I find the pronunciation to Thames wrong (it's more like t-eh-mm-s) but otherwise this is possibly one of the best short videos on the Underground!

Just got to say that I love your channel and am so pleased to see that you are doing so well. Keep it up. I watch all of your videos. Cheers.

in Milan (italy) we still build metros with cut and hide technique, but our trains travel in very large and relatively tall tunnels (for multiple rails or installing a/c)

Tunneling new subway tunnels is still a very slow and dangerous process today. The soil conditions matter too.

Wow. You're videos just keep getting better. 'Great channel...

TEMZ. And I'm American and even I know how it is said over the pond.

Man.. I want to thank you so much.. I lost interest in engineering due to some reasons but thanks to your channel I am starting to see engineering from a different point of view... it's because of channels like you I am studying maths and physics very much to solve real world problems... once again thank you so much brother..

Love your vids so interesting and informative

My dad used to work building tunnels and did the Eurotunnel always thought it was interesting so this video was amazing to watch. I always remember he used to bring roman coins and Jurassic fossils which was great to see and I’ve still got them now

Happy new year!

Great video as always. I was wondering tough what would have been the cost for such a gaint building project, and how much would that differ in todays world. Keep up the great work!

I would love to see a video on Brunel's tunneling project under the Thames.

Those old London underground pictures are so beautiful.

The first New York subway lines were also cut and covered, and it’s easy to tell: On most of the 1 train’s route, you can only access one platform per side of the road. Same goes for the 6. In fact, the geography of uptown New York means that the 1, 4, 5, and 6 are all above ground at 125 Street. They immediately descend back down into the ground, though, because of how low 125 Street is on the east and west ends.

Real Engineering is definitely on the way to a million subscribers. I am surprised that he hasn't already achieved 1 million already, he deserves it from the great amount of time and research that goes into these videos. I think that KZfaq should be more dedicated to supporting channels like this rarther than putting talentless vloggers into the spot light!

Loved todays video

This is such an incredible video, such a great combination of engineering and history

Watched this on the Lunderground!

Please do a video ( or a series) on isambard kingdom Brunel and Marc Isambard Brunel

I would’ve watched this earlier but I had practice when this was uploaded😭. Love your channel though!!

Love your videos. Can you do more train and railway related vids.

Are you planning on doing the Thames Tunnel Problem video hinted at in this one? I'd love to see how they worked their way around those.

Great video, really informative but the Thames is pronounced 'Tems'. Anyway, I'd love to see a part 2

I love this chanel, it's pure content

Excellent video!!

Royal Oak to Farringdon is not a tube line, it is Crossrail, which is part of the mainline rail network

Funny, Just before seeing this video I thought about how tunneling will change our life in the future. I really think that there is a lot of progress still to be made. Thank you for the upload, love your channel. :)

But did they use bricks?

Awesome episode

Fascinating history, thank you.

What a brilliant video!

in my country, all the trains except one or a few stations are above ground. i think it has something to do with the sort of soil ground around the area not being suitable to digging some sort of subway

Elons Idea sounds great unless you live in an 2000+ years old European city with archeological excavations and WW2 bombs every 5 meters.

Nice reference to the noord-zuid lijn! It is almost finished!

Love this Channel

Surprised the euro tunnel isn't mentioned or at least how they we're able to meet together at one point from UK to France both going from opposite sides as it is a very impressive feat

3:30 just realised why north side of wapping has a tunnel called brunel brunel's famous tunnel

Good to see a fellow Irish man being successful keep up the good work

Could you do a video focussed on Brunel?

I will never forget the first time I tried to use the underground at night, after a DJ gig, and all I saw were fellow homeless individuals sleeping as far as the eye could see.

Do more tunnel related videos!

I like it :) I see you wanted to specify the London Underground rather than subways in general.

Waow the animation in this video is amazing, class video

Can you pls keep the (old) intro like in the Video Why Build higher ? Its just so good and dose not take too long.

In general, your videos are excellent. This one isn't well-titled, though. You start out on-topic, but half-way through, you switch to just talking about tunneling technology, which is certainly interesting enough to warrant a number of videos, but isn't really what the video title is about. BTW, have you followed the trials/travails of "Bertha" the large tunnel boring machine in Seattle? Wow, that's been quite a thing, with it breaking down shortly after launch, yet in one of the last places it could possibly be "easily" accessed for repair (through a large pit and giant crane).

Yeah, sorry to be that guy, but, the Thames is pronounced "Tems".

Excellent video! Also I was wondering when will your shirts be in stock again?

Amazing channel

It wasn't just Kings Cross, there was also Euston, Paddington, Liverpool Street, Broad Street (now closed), Marylebone, Victoria, Charing Cross, Blackfriars, Waterloo, Cannon Street, Fenchurch Street and Moorgate as well. Also, Whitechapel is no where near Kings Cross, it was more close to Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street

My head almost exploded with frustration at the way you pronounced Thames.

Those hollow buildings are actually there to disguise the holes that allowed the original steam engines that ran on the lines to vent their smoke without choking the passengers and probably general ventilation.

Royal oak to farringdon is NOT A TUBE LINE it is a railway which runs underground similar to thameslink

Please make a video on the NY Subway!

We used pretty much the same "open" way of tunneling for the first tunnel lines in Berlin^^

Other than it being pronounced TEMS not TAMES, brilliant video and introduced me to some things I didn't know! :-)

Can you do one on elevated metro systems like the Vancouver SkyTrain?

*Sees Sir Isambard Kingdom Brunel* goddamn another masterpiece he did

that was so informative #LovedIt

May I ask whats the software you use to do that sketch animation? Its so beautiful~

Can you make more historic tech type videos like this one please.

Could you do a video about origin of jet planes? About Me 262, Gloster Meteor etc.? Please :)

Royal Oak to Farringdon tube line? You mean Crossrail - which isn't a tube line, it's an underground railway, not part of the tube. The Hammersmith and City line/Circle line goes between Royal Oak and Farringdon (and Crossrail does not call at the former), both of which were not dug by a TBM, but by cut and cover.

2:06 Well I’ve been digging my tunnel in my Minecraft world with those too, and I see no problem.

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Great video, just FYI the pronunciation of "Thames" is "temz". In case you're making a part 2 (which you definitely should) :)

I saw this video but detailed information given in this one

What I want to know is how they deal with the air pressure and resistance etc. I'm only a layman, but isn't having completely flat fronts for the trains pretty bad in terms of energy loss? BTW, as a (Greater) Londoner myself, this video was fantastic!

thank you

Since you've covered TBMs, any chance there's enough interesting information to find around about how the boring company is working to speed them up 10x+? More than their FAQ at least.

You really deserve the "Smooth Transition Award 2017" or STA-2017 in short.

You could talk about the Gotthard base tunel !

Can you please do a video on how the SR-71 was able to fly so fast

3:34 Wu tang tunneling

thanks

love the video only thing that i'd change is the prununciation of the thames - its Teh-meh-z

I needed to know why don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so that they can extend the unused abandoned underground stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock and that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into Five cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on those Five cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers. A Stock Trains and also having 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it bigger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those 4 European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Train tunnel into a High-Speed train? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Train line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those 4 European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 37 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project that is OK for London Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly line and also build brand-new underground train stations so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street and also make another brand new tunnel train station in Chingford could they extend the DLR? All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Five carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and they can order Every 17 Octagon and Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13 and unique small no.11 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 117MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 117MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!!!!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 16 Tonnes for all of the 117MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are Told!! And please do something about these very important Professional ideas Please Prime Minister of England, the Prime Minister of Sweden, the Prime Minister of Germany, the Prime Minister of Italy, the Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.

"royal oak to farringdon tube line"... It's heavy rail, not part of the underground. And the tunnel is going further, to Stratford and custom house

Great vid Mate. so informative. p.s Thames is pronounces Tems. From a POM. Hehe