48.38 picture shown is Chelsham Garage, not Godstone....

Secrets Of The London Underground starts with a new series this next week with Siddy and Tim Dunn. There was a time when it would have been at nine o'clock on BBC1 but they can't afford such production values.

A very interesting and informative talk, thank you very much indeed.

Who doesn’t love a Gardner or 680

Brilliant watch. Remember the 174 and 176. Thank you 😊

Thank you for a superb presentation from which i learnt a lot!

Most beautiful girl in UK :-))))

This was an extremely interesting presentation. I was particularly struck by the fact that the steam engine preserved at Kempton Park is a 'Triple Expansion' engine. I thought that this type of engine was used exclusively for late 19th and early 20th steam ships like the Titanic!

Very interesting indeed! I used to regularly go past on the A316 in the 1970s, but had no idea there were those engines still working for their living in there. The route of the huge water mains from Kempton to Cricklewood is an interesting route to follow between houses and across trading estates and roads, most of it a green corridor, but all of it unbuilt-on, apart from the odd road or bit of concrete, for obvious reasons.

I used to live in Brentwood up to the mid seventies. We had the 721 Green Line service to Aldgate which was a 10 min service run with RMC's & RCL's running Romford North Street garage. It was a very good service and busy, also very comfortable especially if travelling the whole route into London.

Siddy, you are a star! It's fab listening you talk so enthusiastically. I wish that I had seen the Hidden London exhibition!

Hi there. acknowledge the work Mark did at Lothian as i drove a former B9 before i retired for Applegates coaches in Gloucestershire.

Do you have a London Underground system in Iceland?

Hi Siddy you are the best. Thanks fo the fantastic video.

Thank you for sharing you working life Barry

Thank you!

Fascinating! Thankyou for that, I photo'd the interior of Sarah about ten years ago at acton, so I suppose that probably shows all the bare electrical gubbins !

BMMO/Midland Red is one of the operators I knew little about other than its operating territory and that they built many of their own buses. This excellent upload has gone a long way to filling in many gaps in my knowledge.

I lived near Salvation Halt for many years and have walked up and down the Alban Way loads of times, it's such a nice play to look around, and over the years the stations have been improved. I was surprised that you didn't go on the the Luton Dunstable busway which is a lovely walk alongside that section of the railway.

Hi Siddy, I remember the London Trollybuses at Aldgate in the late 50’s early 60’s. Had yet to go on a tour, Holloway Road tube station brought back memories of when I lived at Highbury (1985-2020), enjoyed this talk, thought I saw you once with others at Moorgate on a tour some years ago, hope to go to Moorgate in the near future.

That was amazing to listen to siddy, absolutely love you and the team, and your so beautiful 😂❤, well done siddy xxx

This lady's enthusiastic, effortless, unaffected charm makes her a delight to listen to.

The amount of info this lady stores in her brain is impressive. Superb talk 👍

1:02:42 Mind... the head

And now that I have struggled through to near the end of it ooh blimey, couldn't take anymore ... may I congratulate you for professionally carry on when you left the natural gaps for polite chuckles. Laughter came there none or very little ~ at least it didn't come through the audio. I was of course joking above, as I strive to only criticise constructively. Interesting hour or so, thank you Siddy and Friends.

That ol' chestnut along the lines of Choose a career doing a job that you love and you won't work a day in your life can be shown to apply equally to know and love your subject and you can give a presentation with ease. The bonus being that if you fluff a line, you'll know tons more to cover it seamlessly. Even then, if some dullard notices, there's always the wave of one's innate enthusiasm to surf. Margar þakkir & Mange Takk

Yet somehow we ended up today with almost no indigenous bus/coach building industry. We now import them.

Thanks from Roger Sexton for a fabulous presentation. I too am 75, and like you, Andrew, absolutely despair at British Public Transport. I strongly agree with your concluding remarks.

What an excellent presentation, very natural, and full of enthusiasm for your subject. Loved the latest series of SotLU and can't wait for HLH to return!

Hi Siddy loved the KZfaq podcast thing last night really enjoyed it and I love the tv show as well

Excellent, fun, presentation, very professionally done. Your enthusiasm always shines through.

thanks siddy what a great piece of presentation .I’ve done a few in my career but I never quite possessed your skills

May I say Siddy I was most impressed by your talk - even more so with the fact that you did not use a script or any notes. Your presentation was first class and very enjoyable to be present, yes I was in the Cubic Theatre tonight, to see a real pro present a talk.

Wonderful presentation thank you!

Thank you so much for this Siddy - Loved it and hope to be able to join a tour some time soon =)

Excellent upload, I can just remember some on the DONS and SONS parked up at Bearwood bus station and those splendid large scale models displayed in the windows of Bearwood garage.

Pity mr Bullied is not still around. He would sort this one out.

I remember when the 405 ran from West Croydon to Horsham via Purley, Coulsdon, Redhill, Horley, Gatwick Airport, and Crawley. Between West Croydon and Redhill it dovetailed with route 414 which ran between West Croydon and Horsham via Purley, Coulsdon, Redhill, Reigate, Betchworth, Dorking, Holmwood and Capel. Route 405 still operates today, but only between Croydon Town Centre and Redhill and is now a red Transport for London bus.

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Hello There my name is Mr Cannadine T. Boxill-Harris I was wondering, why couldn't you Rebuild a nice fresh shiny Scania N113, Gardner 6LXCT, Gardner 6LXC and Volvo TD102KF 3 speed Voith DIWA Northern Counties Palatine 1’s and Repaint them to a Grey Green Colour's just like the original Scania Grey Green's which were in the East London bus route's such as 168, 125, 141, 210, 173, 179, 167, 313 and also the bus route 103, if you guys would like to Rebuild about 138 of Those Scania N113, Gardner 6LXCT, Gardner 6LXC and Volvo TD102KF 3 speed Voith DIWA Northern Counties Palatine 1 Buses please could you Repaint them in the Exact Grey Green Bus Colour’s and put them on those London Bus Routes witch are the 341, N41, 34, 123, N29, 149, 221, N73, 121, 86, 30, 262, 147, 396, 41, 56 and N26 for all of us because it would be a Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Interesting Buses to see them Repainted to a Grey Green Colour's and I'am a Big Fan of all of those Scania N113, Gardner 6LXCT, Gardner 6LXC and Volvo TD102KF 3 speed Voith DIWA Northern Counties Palatine 1 Buses Please?

Interesting talk! Flattered to see my photos of Leon & Sir Peter's RTW467 appearing on screen.....! Thanks for sharing online, interesting facts set out and some good humour about it all too.

Absolutely great talk!

This man wrote Privatising London’s Buses.

Notice, Howard’s accent has an Aussie twang!

Really enjoyed the talk and insights into Hidden London. Would love a tour focusing on the Kennington Loop and ideally a chance for a real world trip around the loop.

How nice to see this chat with Nixy and Sam Mullins pop up in my feed last night. Thoroughly enjoyed it! Looking forward to the return of the Hangouts, and a new series of Secrets on Yesterday Channel this year.

I feel curious to see an A4 locomotive with the same length and the same mashinery of the Union Pacific Big Boy.

My intermediate comment: a) the creation of the GLC and London Boroughs was a catastrophe which endures b) Public Transport should have moved along the Public Lidraries, Public Education, NHS route: Community-provided and free-at-the-point of use business model. Funded, perhaps by 1p on 'the Rates' and a land-use tax on every car-parking space, where-ever. In terms of Territorial Management, that based on the former Metropolitan County 'Pizza Slice' idea. Tat, still is the way Londoners and Hinterland people see the place. Overall, this video is a magnificent piece of Social History, copies of which, I hope, will be placed in The Peoples' History Museum in Manchester and the Bishopsgate Institute Library and the Guilhall Libraries in London.