The London Underground Has Secrets You Wouldn't Expect

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  @Thoughty2 · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @mason7067 · 2 years ago

  Life hack, go to the lost items office, say you lost your umbrella. Describe the umbrella you want. Get free umbrella.

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  @liambrunton3344 · 2 years ago

  I’m a signalling engineer on London Underground and I’m really impressed with some of the knowledge of the system this guy does his research! For anyone interested the same signalling at its basic routes is still in use to this day we often go into the signal rooms and find fuses dating back to the 60s in some places! It’s amazing really how the same train detection systems only just being phased out with a WiFi based system now as there even leaving the old system in place as a fail safe as it’s proven so reliable they trust it more then the new systems! It basically works by using one of the running rails as a continuous solid rail and the other broken into blocks of a few hundred yards each using insulating block joints, as the train passes over the rails its axel completes a circuit between the rails and picks up a relay in the signal room which then lights a lamp on a display board showing the signaller where the train is! There obviously has been advancements over the years with failsafes like train stops and axel counters being introduced but at its basic principle it’s not really changed in years

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  @Dirk_Westfall · 2 years ago

  This was such a well done, informative video! I’m a born and bred Southern Californian, where public transport is all but an abysmal failure. I visited London only once in my life back in 2015, and rode the tube everywhere, back and forth, day in, and day out. It was such a smooth operation! I never knew the history behind it all, so thank you for the history lesson! Cheers!

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  @sidbrun_ · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KORTP0F07Uw&amp;t=860">14:20</a> the Victoria Line has ventilation?? Have they checked that it&apos;s actually working?

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  @lesleythompson810 · 2 years ago

  As a Londoner born and bred i thoroughly enjoyed this, thank you for including the Bethnal Green tube disaster, was covered up for such a long time. My grandad was a fireman during the 2nd war and was called to it. Lovely to hear the poor folks remembered

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  @D.Cooper420 · 2 years ago

  My great grandmother was one of the 173 that died at Bethnal Green that day. It would always give me the chills hearing my mother tell me the story as a child. Thanks for the great information.

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  @Stephan1988 · 2 years ago

  Been some time. Welcome back Thoughty..

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  @mikoto7693 · 1 year ago

  As an airliner cleaner and ground crew, I found the lost property section of this video amused me. I find the most remarkable items in the passenger cabin and sometimes even in the cockpits.<br><br>You would be surprised how many times I have found a wallet or passport, raised in above my head to announce it to the entire team and our supervisor before carefully stowing it away ready to hand it in to the security office on the way back to HQ or the next aircraft (whichever has us pass it first) and before we have even finished cleaning that aircraft Airside Ops shows up.<br><br>Yes, the owner of the wallet, passport, phone or some combination thereof has discovered that they left their stuff on the plane, informed airport staff who then dispatched Airside Ops to try to find it. <br><br>Oh so many times. At least once or twice a week during the summer high season. If you’re wondering why we raise it above our head and announce the find to literally everyone presently onboard, it’s done as a sort of safeguard against accusation of wrongdoing. The whole team can see it and verify each item. Technically the rules say we just need to inform the supervisor but… yeah it’s better to cover your arse.

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  @FreekDijkstra · 2 years ago

  The lost and found items are truly mind-boggling. I remember an old documentary of lost items on the Dutch Railways, where they had a section of lost dentures. The employee interviewed for the documentary explained that at some point an elderly men who lost his denture came in, fitted the assorted items one by one and happily left with the one that was his.

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  @tulkmunny · 2 years ago

  There literally is a pub named “Londoners” here in Zim… it’s 2am now, I would have gone over to get some pics and show how the underground influences the building structure… interior decor and all the signage… 😅it’s crazy

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  @FrankLSpencer · 2 years ago (edited)

  This just makes me feel pride of being a Londoner and English.

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