Under London's Streets: Exploring Abandoned Train Lines

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In this video, we showcase a night of trespass in London from 2019, where we focused on exploring two different abandoned transport lines, located beneath the city. The ghostly chambers were once used for trains and trams, but now sit in darkness, the only passing sign of life is the echo of the tube and cars in the distance!
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@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791 9 ай бұрын

The closing of so many phenomenal public transport systems remains one of the worst things we ever did to ourselves in the post-ww2 era.

@TB-us7el 9 ай бұрын

Mr Beeching, take a bow 🙄

@reneastle8447 9 ай бұрын

The good news is it won't be that way forever. We can turn the tables around and transform the closing into restoration and reopening.

@dr-mn7ld 9 ай бұрын

Uh, there's far more public transport usage now than ever before.

@minixtvbox 9 ай бұрын

@@dr-mn7ld impossible. The railways alone went to town

@dr-mn7ld 9 ай бұрын

@@minixtvbox what does this even mean?

@paulollerhead 9 ай бұрын

I half expected you to bump into the prodigy down there

@davidfarrow44 9 ай бұрын

The Prodigy was filmed at Aldwych on the disused line from Holburn on the Piccadilly line.

@paulguise698 9 ай бұрын

I'm the firestarter twisted firestarter, it was voted the worsed number 1 ever

@mbbff01 9 ай бұрын

The Kingsway Tram Tunnel can be visited several times throughout the year through the Hidden London tours organised by London Transport Museum. I went on one last year, very interesting. Excellent video as always guys 👍👍

@JP_TaVeryMuch 9 ай бұрын

And virtually too, if you can't get here. I did that version in Lockdown.

@Muswell 8 ай бұрын

"The roads above were abundant with the cars that had pushed the tunnel into disuse." Brilliant.

@urban_fox_cub_urbex 4 ай бұрын

this isn’t the kingsway tram tunnel 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Andrej_P261 Ай бұрын

Awesome footage and places lads! Love the dupstep intro as well. Urbex + dubstep = ❤

@mikkoistanbul1322 9 ай бұрын

Interesting to see the “third Rail” in the Kingsway tram tunnel. Running down the middle of the track into which a probe hung out from the underneath of the tram, through a slit, and picked up electricity from the power rail down there. I remember sitting on the top deck of the tram going through the tunnel. All the time I thought we would scrape the roof. I was 11.

@5kull571 9 ай бұрын

Is it just me or could this be made into an interesting museum ? Well done lads for uncovering this interesting find 👍

@clangerbasher 9 ай бұрын

It always seems a wasted spaced to me.

@JP_TaVeryMuch 9 ай бұрын

@@clangerbasherCamden council use it to store cones, barriers and the other stuff you see.

@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars 9 ай бұрын

Oh this was a fantastic video! My father grew up in London, was a huge trams, trolley bus and underground fanatic. I have no memory of his ever mentioning where a double decker tram would be able to go underground 😮 This was really fascinating, I'm so glad that you released the videos of these places at last ❤

@johorrocks8927 9 ай бұрын

Pretty special...loved it, hope it just sits there as a time and place gone by in history.

@SiDude69 9 ай бұрын

You continue to give us amazing videos. Appreciate you guys 💜

@shooterboy69 8 ай бұрын

Amazing, excellent exploration!!! Thank you for this!!!

@frasermathers2287 9 ай бұрын

That was on a different level (if you pardon the pun 🙂). A really interesting video lads, that makes you stop and think that we don't really fully realise what's under out feet. The tram tunnel was a total surprise to me as never thought anything like that existed and it's a shame that it could not be brought back into service again. Thanks as always for taking us a long on your journey.

@JP_TaVeryMuch 9 ай бұрын

The southrn half of it _has_ been repurposed and is now the Underpass from Waterloo Bridge for all cars.

@CJW-Media 9 ай бұрын

Brilliant video and really interesting to see the abandoned tunnels. Also love how you explain things and give us the details and information relating to your exploration. Awesome stuff :)

@OLIFAB 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic explore! 👍🏻

@markramsay6399 9 ай бұрын

Quality as always. Fascinating video. mark,

@BenLuis732 9 ай бұрын

Iv actually done some work in this tunnel many years ago. You did this explore justice. Thanks guys x

@trudystocks3885 9 ай бұрын

You guys are so talented and so dedicated to exploring bringing your channel followers to the bridge of their pants .... amazing footage and detail ❤

@paulzimmerman6058 9 ай бұрын

Supper excited about seeing more content. You are my favorite UK bando explorers

@Fran_SG 9 ай бұрын

Very cool!!! Thanks!!

@groovydonkey 9 ай бұрын

I really admire the lengths you go to, to visit these abandoned sites. I have always wondered what it was like on the underground tram line, as I have been passed it many times. It must really get your adrenaline going exploring these places. The other underground line was also fascinating to watch. Great video guys👍👍👍

@michaelbarlow3686 9 ай бұрын

I always enjoy your videos they are well presented and a pleasure to watch. The content is very well organised as well as educational. Many thanks for all the hard work you do.

@sharynkhan1104 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely amazing I have lived in London all my life and I never knew this was here. Thank you

@movieedge7370 9 ай бұрын

Fascinating video well done👍🏻

@andy2e0lpa66 9 ай бұрын

Great exploration thanks for sharing this 👍

@philiptownsend4026 9 ай бұрын

I am subscribed. Your explorations are so different and interesting with the bonus of no added paranormal 😮

@stephaniemcquillan1930 9 ай бұрын

Hi guys! Interesting explore! I love to see very old locations from gone by eras. Those old notices or adverts were very interesting. I love to see things like that with very old dates. See you next week!

@jesswright8279 9 ай бұрын

That was an interesting choice to come to London for. It was interesting what you said about the font used on the paperwork and your work is inspiring as ever. I am excited to see the others in the forthcoming weeks

@huibertlandzaat1889 5 ай бұрын

You made a nice video. Thank you for uploading.

@Tube-Shots 8 ай бұрын

really cool video and your channel looks good glad to have stumbled upon this :)

@michailokeefeMooMoo 9 ай бұрын

Great video guys very interesting too

@jpeg42069 9 ай бұрын

Ahhhh December 2019, the “before” times

@Robslondon 9 ай бұрын

Fascinating video.

@stevenharris4989 6 ай бұрын

Please go to more of the London underground,fascinating

@JP_TaVeryMuch 9 ай бұрын

10:20 The perfect image for an Urbex YT channel. Occasionally the YT algorillas' programs come up with a gift like this today prompting me to go to your channel. Nice one for once, thanks. Result! Try as I can not to blow sunshine up where the sun don't shine, I've got to give you credit for keeping the footage flowing and just adding a correction in afterwards (e.g. Kingsway tunnel film location pre~aged Union Sq. posters). As a first time viewer, was just thinking that you must be happy in your skin: it comes across in the refreshingly everyday presentation. Apols for the ramble but as a medically retired fellow Mole, it needed to be said I reckoned. Banging boys, Bravo!

@FrostyGaming8394 9 ай бұрын

Hi Alistair how you doing mate? Great video as always well edited and perfect background music added loved the start of the video very professional indeed definitely a different style of location abandoned underground train lines very dark and trashed with bricks and other things looks like it was used for storing things its very interesting that it was used for a film set in 2009 ashamed the underground sign and other advertising papers were all rotting away and falling apart that what happens when its in darkness and rain dripping down the metal railing on the road anyways hope I your having a good afternoon so far Alistair and keep up the great content on the channel as always as its so entertaining to watch👍

@szymekstormtymczasowe1730 7 ай бұрын

Great video 👍 11:56 polish beer lol

@Bobrogers99 9 ай бұрын

It's remarkable to see lights still powered and functioning in some of these tunnels.

@grantc8353 9 ай бұрын

This is super cool. I used to work above the Burger King in Holborn so know the area well. Cool to know that is under it all.

@bluesifer8238 8 ай бұрын

1800's; "Build it to last a life time" 2023; Build it to break next year."

@timmeekings6899 9 ай бұрын

This was a great video. Just wondered why it took so long for you to put it out?

@paulguise698 9 ай бұрын

Hiya Alistair, nice vlog, the London council should do something with it, I liked the advertisements, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England

@davidwebber2951 4 ай бұрын

The Kingway tram tunnel bypasses the Aldwich under ground. The opening at the other end is still visable under the north side of waterloo bridge. The hole now has a night club in it. The south end of the tunnel was filled in for a road tunnel that starts in the middle of waterloo bridge (one way),goes under the aldwich following the tram route and comes up into kingway before the station that they filmed. There were two staions on the tram tunnel, Holburn and Aldwich. Aldwich was destroyed by the building of the road tunnel. I belive that some of the signage and station furniture is at Acton museum depot.

@AFCManUk 9 ай бұрын

That second area,,,I know you can't say where it was for security reasons, but you mentioned they closed around 20 years ago so if I had to guess, I'd have said it was the disused tunnels near Farringdon/Barbican.

@wbm3085 9 ай бұрын

Some balls, fair play - creepy and dangerous

@philiptownsend4026 9 ай бұрын

That was super. Interesting that the lights were left on. I wonder why?

@jesswright8279 9 ай бұрын

It’s curious that so many of the places they visit which may have been abandoned for years still have power and lighting. It almost lends a creepiness to it- as if someone is saying come and look at this!

@secondbackwaterdivide 9 ай бұрын

The rathole lights are actually on PIRs, they come on when they detect movement. A little surprising when it all lights up around you. It's still maintained by NR so it needs lighting for worker safety. The pumps to pump out the storage tunnels need regular maintenance. I think the surface-level cross-tunnel also has an access/emergency exit role for some other NR infra nearby.

@tamarahenderson5241 9 ай бұрын

Love

@kevgray. 6 ай бұрын

"Remember remember the 5th of November I can think of no reason why the treason and gunpowder have pot should ever be forgotten"

@Andy-From-England 9 ай бұрын

Absolute cracking video..... I love these types of videos it reminds me of a horror film where a creature killed people in the disused tunnels I bey its very spooky

@willchalloner706 9 ай бұрын

Half expected to see Artyom down there

@reneastle8447 9 ай бұрын

To coin a phrase, "Behind every mess up is a clean up."

@David_K_Booth 9 ай бұрын

The Hidden London Hangouts channel covered the history of the Kingsway tunnel a few years ago.

@adamzieba8364 9 ай бұрын

11:56 "Dębowe Mocne" - Polish brand of beer, probably from one of many small shops serving Polish community in the UK. Did my compatriots enter that tunnel too?

@JP_TaVeryMuch 8 ай бұрын

Camden council use it to store little used but occasionally essential traffic and crowd controlling barriers, as well as other road things so it's not exactly unused. Maybe a council worker is one of your _rodacy_ or has a taste for it.

@ANTHONYBOOTH 7 ай бұрын

to let something like that get so corroded and rusty is insane ...those responsible are endangering themselves and all of us...

@manlikekeylo-g242 9 ай бұрын

Yesnow

@Jaqintheboxoxx 3 ай бұрын

Whats the enterance and exit situation like? Is it easy to sneak out and in?

@RawFootLettace 7 ай бұрын

The next mayor or when ever needs to seriously clean up London and they need to uncover these hidden gems that made London what it is

@Seal0626 9 ай бұрын

Always feels so weird that the lights are just left on.

@roomullan3050 9 ай бұрын

Are the lights left on all the time ?

@JP_TaVeryMuch 9 ай бұрын

No. P.I.R. activated or good old switches if you know where.

@louminati4318 9 ай бұрын

I know where there is a lost Victorian city under one of London's most famous streets.

@m_chael2700 7 ай бұрын

Where's that ? What is it? So many questions

@louminati4318 7 ай бұрын

Under Oxford Street.@@m_chael2700

@clangerbasher 9 ай бұрын

Does anybody know how long is the Kingsway Tram Tunnel? I am looking on the net but I can't find anything.

@Buurtspoor 9 ай бұрын

The northern entrance is in southampton row and is quote visible.

@Buurtspoor 9 ай бұрын

The southern exit is under waterloo bridge. The strand underpass was built using the southern part of the tram tunnel.

@Buurtspoor 9 ай бұрын

There are more sites extensively detailing information on the tram tunnel.

@clangerbasher 9 ай бұрын

@@Buurtspoor Thank you for your replies. I am looking at Google Earth now.

@PatrickBijvoet 9 ай бұрын

Hoe did you get the lights on? Or are they always on? And to what end?

@jappedut9009 9 ай бұрын

Why is the light still on down there ❓️

@michaelward2082 9 ай бұрын

I went here twice 1980 and 2010, but did not go inside

@ps5user155 8 ай бұрын

Why are there still lights working down there? Are there still people who work in there for whatever reason?

@BritishEngineer 9 ай бұрын

I wonder how the power is still engaged to those fluorescent lamps?

@BritishEngineer 9 ай бұрын

If those lamps use ballasts, assuming the caps have worn out over the years, they pose a huge risk of phase shifting the the mains sinewave 90° behind and drawing reactive power.

@adamzieba8364 9 ай бұрын

@@BritishEngineer AFAIK capacitors used to compensate reactive power have polyester or similar dielectric and are quite durable in contrast to electrolytic capacitors used in consumer electronics which often cause problems after some 10 or more years.

@nicholasr39 3 ай бұрын

Its used by Camden Council to store equipment and things for roadworks

@jhtdc9814 9 ай бұрын

Unless I missed it, you didn’t say where the second one was?

@secondbackwaterdivide 9 ай бұрын

Find it for yourself :) More people that go there and smash up the gates, more hidden cameras and alarms they install...

@ronaldgoddard9644 9 ай бұрын

Where was the location of 2nd Tunnel location for shortage of carriage's , was it at Finsbury Park/Drayton Park GN & City Line?

@secondbackwaterdivide 9 ай бұрын

Not the NCL, it is (or was) mainline.

@paulking8235 8 ай бұрын

Where was the second location?

@EddersGTI 8 ай бұрын

Camden Rat Hole its called

@captaincherie34 5 ай бұрын

@@EddersGTI thanks

@rebeccacash8322 6 ай бұрын

I thought that you can’t go in without permission

@willscottytv 9 ай бұрын

Lolling because Union Street and all the posters that amazed you, we're just a set for the film The Escapist about 10 years ago. Maybe you go on to say this, but I've paused just to point this out whilst I remember.

@Reece.s 9 ай бұрын

where is this ? And how do I get in?

@davinci234 9 ай бұрын

NICE SITES FOR DEVELOPERS AND PENSION FUNDS INVESTORS TO BUILD HOUSING PROPERTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@stevenharris4989 9 ай бұрын

Brilliant exploring, can you imagine if terrorist found these places

@secondbackwaterdivide 9 ай бұрын

They know and don't care.

@MyBigMouth 9 ай бұрын

Looking at the tunnel, all I had in my mind was the Firestarter video by The Prodigy.

@karan_gour 8 ай бұрын

Here's a shot of actual footage of a tram in the 50s in a station just like this - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdd4g9ui0LmRcqs.html

@ps5user155 8 ай бұрын

How wax is built in the rainy 1900s but there’s remnants of adverts there from the 1800s?

@Eric-469 9 ай бұрын

Why would the lights be on? Seems a waste of power.

@minixtvbox 9 ай бұрын

Your taxes not Boris's millions

@Eric-469 9 ай бұрын

@@minixtvbox huh?

@JP_TaVeryMuch 8 ай бұрын

It's Camden council's central London road works stuff overflow and as such is maintained in reasonable working order Until you venture right or left at the southern end through little doors which is when it all gets that bit more exciting and abandoned...

@urban_fox_cub_urbex 4 ай бұрын

And you still haven’t done kingsway bunker 🤣🤣 1-0 hahaah

@paulhawthorne2960 9 ай бұрын

Perfect place for dinghy diver's

@minixtvbox 9 ай бұрын

Perfect for Brexiteers to take back control

@josephcroft4268 9 ай бұрын

what a waste of electricity all those lights on 24/7

@davidstone408 9 ай бұрын

Lights are in the Kingsway Tram Tunnel - which London Transport Museum has actual tours, do not know if the lights are on for security reasons or if these guys turned them on. A video cannot replace the atmosphere of this place, and properly trained tour guides.

@robbiebrooksbank7993 9 ай бұрын

At least you guys will need to go if there should be a nuclear holocaust lol

@chrisandrews9300 9 ай бұрын

They should throw an underground rave down there or shoot a music videoilikw the prodigy did! Some people must live down there homeless people maybe.

@uingaeoc3905 9 ай бұрын

I have down voted you and won't be Subscribing - you did not provide the most minimum information about Kingsway, which has in part been repurposed as the 'Strand Underpass' for cars and single decker buses. You did not even indicate the location of the Lime Tunnel and you did not provide even a rudimentary map of either route. VERY AMATEURISH.