If you enjoyed this, sir, then I strongly suggest you watch this video below. It follows the same story, just a bit more lively and with some interesting 60s banter from the presenter. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fd2ChbZ7xN3YeZs.html

I love your generations eyebrows and stiff than stiff attitude. A British way indeed. Real engineers I hope the Victorians would be happy with.

Sorry you wasted your life being a paid slave.

@Ian Concannon I get a seed, then plant it and bare fruit at little to no cost. But you must understand that some people are poor, all they have is money

When the world of humansends soon, it will be the result of very ambitious people, especially those who made a living in the applied sciences. I applaud this: it means human life will soon be quite impossible and no more generations will have to suffer the drudgery and horrors of everyday living. Spending a few dozen years on a cursed rock floating somewhere in space. Sleep is good, death is better, but best would be to never have been born at all. So keep on 'engineering' please. Burn it all, use it all. Full entropy is what we deserve.

We still have Rolls Royce aircraft engines produced in Derby and airbus wing sections made in Wales. We certainly aren't an industrial country anymore, but what we have is still pretty good

Thatcher did for the mines, and successive governments either side of her did for the heavy industry and engineering.

Even down to the humble lamp post. Look at the designs that the likes of Stanton & Stavely and Concrete Utilities made over the years and look at the boring shite we have now 😡

We will be watching a comedy series called "Crossrail - 10 years late".

@@z00h How about 'Creative accounting on large projects'

@@1963TOMB that will be a cinematic spin off.

Crossrail ready for 2050!

Imagine your child saying "wow dad! Did they used to only have computers OUTSIDE their heads?"

Typical British humor :)

Humour? They were deadly serious!

You could not use tongue in cheek humour like that today, someone would deem it as the promotion of drinking and some would be offended. I think society is loosing their sense of humour.

Delivering it to the Phoenix which looks a lot more upmarket than it does nowadays.

Hey it's England! ;-)

yes id did

ha ha No leave him in

Best line in the film!

Made me wonder how many times that went wrong before it was added to the documentation ;)

Annother good line: Today we are using diffrent suits than back then. The talker showed half naked males working in the Vic.line tunnels digging it and then naked males drawn digging mines in the old times and then back to the half naked males again xD

Back then the non-indigenous population was small. It should have stayed that way.

@@pinetree1616 And they all worked very hard because the indigenous people didn't want to!

​@@pinetree1616 Racist bullshit. They worked hard for their money and to build a better life for their families

@@pinetree1616 And leave the likes of you to keep the country going? Fuck that.

They are better.

Yep, with all those health and safety regulations, it's very different

Whilst not the same there is a documentary about Crossrail: the fifteen billion pound railway Not sure if you've heard of it 😉👍

Tunnel boring machines make the job MUCH faster.

TNZL they had Construction Act 1961

youre seeing exactly what they want u to see mate, and nothing more.

@@billyunterbuchner9197 No you are seeing hard work, excellent engineering, unique innovation, great craftsmanship, superior planning all used to create a system that is still running today as one of the main arteries of London.

Didn't show any of the cock-ups though. Would've liked to see how they dug the escalator tunnels. I remember in the 1960s there was a temporary umbrella type structure at the main entrance to Charing Cross overground Station. It was there for several years. I think it was for the excavation of a ticket hall. Not sure what the main project was.

could u repeat all that in English?

Not sure about simpler but definitely tending toward infuriating 'high stimulus' bs drama, required due to TV and game over exposure.

The music reminded me of the seedy soho cinemas I used to frequent. Wonderful.

It does seem to get dark early nowadays.

Imagine how hard it was digging them tunnels back in the late 1880's and early 1900's

you could do it. you will get used to it.

@@James-iw4fz I think you're right , if you've been doing this since you were a lad it'd be second nature . But you're body would be worn out by 50 .

Untipped as well, i bet.

Not much health and safety. Very impressive.

In particular, County Donegal in Ireland had a tradition of producing tunnel miners, fathers, brothers , cousins etc.

My grandad worked on this project. Never mentioned any Irish. Just hard working English. Knew over 50 lads most from Acton.

@@andrewcbro - Nice to see Acton being name-checked. Still live there! 👍

Higher quality and dealing in facts, not ‘beliefs’ and agendas

the intro was a bit like the incidental music in the Ipcress File

The vibraphone on this soundtrack was played by the late Bill LeSage

It is all rather jolly! I've heard that an average of one worker died a week during construction, although I cannot find any evidence of this anywhere. In those days navvies (mainly the Irish) were still expendable as no real health and safety laws had yet been brought it so keeping such records was probably not a priority. No mention of the 1.5 hours sat in the decompression chamber after a shift and the possibility of being rushed to hospital if you did get the benz. All glossed over in preference to what a marvel of engineering - which it certainly is! Let's just not forget the sacrifice in terms of human life.

@@1963TOMB When I was 18/19 I worked shovelling London Clay with these tunnel miners and the video brought it all back to me. I was a student engineer then doing tough 12 hour shifts in Bond St. on the Jubilee Line. I never thought about the safety aspect then, never considered it for 1 second, never saw anybody getting hurt, no yellow jackets, but we had hard hats. I also had to deliver the tunnel rings and take the spoil away. The video really brought home to me how really dangerous the work was, and bloody hard going 6 days a week, for £48 in the hand [Balfour Beatty]. You daren't get in a miner's way. Tough hard labour. The miner's were on £200 a week and came from Donegal and Galway in Ireland, each shift trying to outdo the other. I was just the smart-ass student from Dublin and a great source of merriment for the miners who were really decent blokes. Later on I became the planner, the designer, the project engineer, clean suit and computer, but there is a lot to be said for plain honest to god hard work.

those flat caps were made out of kevlar

And so many people got injured.

Elf & Safety hadn't been invented yet!

Good old days.. I appreciate there has to be safety but today it's so unnecessarily strict its ridiculous..nobody ever died be cause they weren't wearing hi viz..and smoking?? Well I cant see what the problem is smoking on a site

@@Jimbo-gi7xn There was the kings cross fire.

My thoughts exactly

Modern H&S is why we get sod all done and what is done ends up being a half arsed job that needs re-doing after about a week.

Modern H&S is why the old budgeting rule of "a man a million" i.e. every large construction project would cost a life for every million dollars/pounds spent, is no longer used.

NYC subway builders today (new 2nd Av line) all wear hard hats and orange safety vests. And they don't smoke while working! It is amazing what they accomplished back then with slide rules and no lasers etc. But the basic construction work is I'm sure pretty similar. And back when the first Tube was built they had far less mechanization than in the '60's and managed to build it.

+MattyT98 since when does some hard hats, Hi viz and overalls stop getting things done? It doesn't. Shoddy practises and laziness stop things being done and means they don't last. Not H&S, which in terms of construction genuinely saves lives.

No. What this actually shows is now namby-pamby we have all become. Engineering like this proves the value intelligence aligned with some common sense gets challenging work done in double quick time. These days, the focus isn’t about doing it efficiently but about ‘doing it safe’, which takes longer and costs a fortune. A whole cottage industry has developed around H&S, which in practice are barriers to progress. Back in the era of building the Victoria Line, you didn’t have the litigious society we do today where it’s about finding anything which a claim for compensation can be slung around. It’s a pathetic practice by those who are just lazy and workshy. I have the utmost respect for these men as they are REAL workers. They knew the job, rolled up their sleeves and got it done.

always got to be one fucking whinger eh? use the pause button u twat

eerie at kings cross watching escalators, if only they knew what was to happen in a few years.

The flat roof section at the portal into the tunnel from the depot is known as 'The Ski Slope'

Nicholas Turnbull I think it wasn't till the 80s that hard hats became common. And the 90s when it became mandatory. Same with high viz

I think serious h&s ppe etc started on the channel tunnel I was on hs1( Ctrl) in 2005/6 and ppe was crazy by then. Hard hats, dark glasses, long sleeve hi vis long trousers boots gloves summer 2006 one of the hottest on record, men passing out with heat stroke at the Ebbsfleet site.