Got back from London 4 weeks ago. I stayed in Hounslow and rode this line everyday. I have to watch a little bit of this video everyday so I don't get lonely. I miss it so much!
samantha fair Same here, returned 2 days ago, we were in the city and rode this line in the city and from Heathrow on our first day and to Heathrow on our last day. I miss London so much...
Brings back some memories ... I used to travel on this line between Acton Town and Hounslow West back in 1967/68 ... The line terminated there and I had to take a bus to travel on to Heathrow. I worked in Terminal 2 with SABENA Belgian Airlines ... Happy memories .
These "Full Journey" on the Underground are incredibly useful to people coming to London. You may calculate your journey time very accurately by a mathematical subtraction of start/finish times at the two relevant stations you are starting/finishing your journey. Once the whole network has been covered absolutely all journeys will be covered. I suggest a sequel series of changing lines at all stations so people can factor in the time it takes to switch to the next line.
There are many apps you can use that will let you know how long a journey will take, even with changing lines. Just add a few minutes to account for last minute delays and some stations having signs that take you the long way from one platform to another.
riveting video! I was on the edge of my seat as the train pulled into Piccadilly Circus around 44:00. I loved the gripping climax at 1:18:00 as the train hovers over the rooftops only to halt at Oakwood station, and of course the soft, falling denouement when the train gently stops at Cockfosters and lets people out. I honestly didn't know what was going to happen at the end! Would the train make it? Would it be overrun by bandits? So many possibilities in this brilliant film.
I grew up nr Oakwood stn. I took the Picc line into the City and West End every working day. Cool to be able to ride it again from my home in San Francisco, California. Still much the same. Things that I noticed had changed since the 1980s. The lift at Oakwood. The rusting rails between the tracks at Oakwood looks the same ones I saw. The train shed at Cockfosters I always was a grand station. Plsd to see it’s still there. Keith.
You caught the closed station OSETERLEY & SPRING GROVE on camera at 15:36 (notice the pointless raised platform just after Osterley?), you could have captured Brompton Road between South Kensington and Knightsbridge, but I don't see because of woman reading newspaper (maybe also because the platforms are bricked up, as with Down Street) and I think you captured York Road at 52:00 but I am not sure... Good job!
I lived within walking distance of Cockfosters station until I was twenty seven years old, then moved out of London. I used the line regularly while living there and indeed every weekday for the first two years after leaving school and working in the west end. However, I just realised this is the first time I've ever seen what is at the other end of the line.
This is because the section is built with the cut and cover formula which is now still seen in some areas of Metropolitan, District and Hammersmith & City line maybe to provide ventilation.
Manor house to Turnpike lane i got 60 MPH down there before having to slow down its very fun that section another fast bit is oakwood to southgate can get 65 MPH on that bit. These days it will all be different and strict. im on Hst trains now outside all the time
Thank you so much for this video! We are going to arrive Terminal 2, and thinking about taking this line because it goes straight to King Cross. No transfer at Paddington or anything. Yeah....it takes longer then taking Heathrow Connect/Express. But the price is right!
love the pic line my faourite by far I have done this exact trip myself but only from terminals 1,2,3 as I was on a terminal 4 train back to central london :) my second favourite has to be the central line
Fez 1: I see the old Down Street station at 42:36 when the tracks join back after the station where there are lights placed because the station is bricked except the tiny door for emergency use if any accidents occur.
nice job X2K9!! express between Acton Town & Kensington South! can U make a video from Morden to Edgware [via Chalk Farm], Mill Hill East or High Barnet [via Bank]?
@X2K9 What is the proper tube etiquette if you board with suitcase and carry on bag? Should you put them under your seat - don't want to take up too much room yaknow.
It depends how big your suitcase/bag is? If it is a small one you can just put it in front of you when you are sitting down. If there are no seats then try to get one of the dedicated luggage areas which are located by all Doors (these are only on the Piccadilly and Jubilee lines. If your suitcase/bag. is bigger I would try to get a seat by the luggage areas by the double doors and put your luggage in the luggage area. If you have to stand just put your bag near you and keep hold of it so it does not go into other people. Under the seats it is all sealed up so you can't put your suitcase/bag under the seat. But if you are sitting down with your suitcase/bag in front of you then try not to take up there space. Always keep hold of your suitcase/bag or make sure you can see it at all times. Hope this helps!
I think it was Mr Rat from Wind In The Willows who said "There is nothing quite as wonderful as messing about in boats". This can be applied to London's Underground, "There is nothing quite as wonderful as riding around in Tubes"; an utterly useless pastime but absolutely fascinating and an appropriate homage to a modern marvel.
@@qdog568 I don't mind people being happy and talking loudly on trains. The problem is quite often they're talking in a deliberately obnoxious way to annoy other passengers.
Thx for all your Uploads! Great! I have a question, did u really stand there all time with the camera, would be very brave and persistent, or where you able to somehow install the camera? Going to london next march/april, look forward to ride in the trains again ;-)
Nice video! It helps me get some impressions about the system before landing on Heathrow. However at the beginning, the train captain already open the driver's cab door when the train is still moving??
X2k9 - There is something I don't quite understand.. This tube carriage is going from Heathrow in the direction of Cockfosters, that much I get.. .BUT what if i wanted to go on the Piccadilly in the direction of Heathrow? Is it possible to go either direction at ANY stop marked on the Piccadilly tube? In other words, is the option there on ALL tube stations on the Piccadilly line to from left to right or right to left? I'm going to London soon and I won't lie to you, I'm scared AF so I just want to be clear that's all.
Though the Heathrow Terminals 1,2, & 3 recording will change in June of next year (2014) to just Terminals 2 & 3 given as soon as the newly rebuilt Terminal 2 opens in mid-June, Terminal 1 will close and be raised for the expansion of T2, with no plans for a new T1.
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Great video. Why is it that no matter where on the world you go, people who ride public trans always have the look in their like their favorite pet just died. Hard to find smiling faces on trains.
Got back from London 4 weeks ago. I stayed in Hounslow and rode this line everyday. I have to watch a little bit of this video everyday so I don't get lonely. I miss it so much!
samantha fair Same here, returned 2 days ago, we were in the city and rode this line in the city and from Heathrow on our first day and to Heathrow on our last day. I miss London so much...
Brings back some memories ... I used to travel on this line between Acton Town and Hounslow West back in 1967/68 ... The line terminated there and I had to take a bus to travel on to Heathrow. I worked in Terminal 2 with SABENA Belgian Airlines ... Happy memories .
Did they have Terminal 3 yet in the 1960's ?
Terminal 3 was operational in 1967 as far as I can remember ...
Abandoned Stations:
15:40 Osterley Park and Spring Grove
34:00 Brompton Road
42:35 Down Street
52:03 York Road
34:00 there’s no abandoned station there but I missed the first one.
Brompton Road is actually at 39:00.
These "Full Journey" on the Underground are incredibly useful to people coming to London. You may calculate your journey time very accurately by a mathematical subtraction of start/finish times at the two relevant stations you are starting/finishing your journey. Once the whole network has been covered absolutely all journeys will be covered. I suggest a sequel series of changing lines at all stations so people can factor in the time it takes to switch to the next line.
keith6400 that or read the timetable
There are many apps you can use that will let you know how long a journey will take, even with changing lines. Just add a few minutes to account for last minute delays and some stations having signs that take you the long way from one platform to another.
@@darkchia00 yea,theres a app called tube map and it is really usefull
@@xijiang37 The timetable isn't always accurate.
@@jacobsault9317 It's still useful to actually see what happens in reality, because apps and timetables aren't always accurate.
Thank you for this video! For those of us from rural areas in the States, the underground system is a complete mystery. :)
Full journeys are marvellous
riveting video! I was on the edge of my seat as the train pulled into Piccadilly Circus around 44:00. I loved the gripping climax at 1:18:00 as the train hovers over the rooftops only to halt at Oakwood station, and of course the soft, falling denouement when the train gently stops at Cockfosters and lets people out. I honestly didn't know what was going to happen at the end! Would the train make it? Would it be overrun by bandits? So many possibilities in this brilliant film.
this but unironically
Thank you for making this! Really missing London right now and wondering when I’ll be able to see it again ❤️
Awesome I was in London for 12 days in 2012 and this brings back such great memories
I remember my 2 visits to london taking the tube from gloucester road to arsenal. Good times those were
I used to live In Barnet, about 10 minutes away from Cockfosters, Haven't been on that Line for over 10 years now Miss it so much!
Great video! I'll be in London last two weeks of June 2013. Ride Picadilly to Holborn to Marble Arch. This told me evrything I needed to know.
Miss all that! I love watch these videos, make me remember my short life in London!
Great video the piccadilly line journey and the district line journey are the 2 longest underground line routes
Brilliant they are :)
Love watching all the journeys, tjanks a lot mate!
the Piccadilly Line is my favourite :)
My favourite it the same
38mins in. Amazing scene. Truly Epic
Thank you for doing this video!! It helped me a lot!
can you please subscribe to me?
+easygo147 off topic...
+Pip M alright mate
Pip M I was just asking that's all
+easygo147 XD I didn't mean to be rude
I grew up nr Oakwood stn. I took the Picc line into the City and West End every working day. Cool to be able to ride it again from my home in San Francisco, California. Still much the same. Things that I noticed had changed since the 1980s. The lift at Oakwood. The rusting rails between the tracks at Oakwood looks the same ones I saw. The train shed at Cockfosters I always was a grand station. Plsd to see it’s still there.
Keith.
You caught the closed station OSETERLEY & SPRING GROVE on camera at 15:36 (notice the pointless raised platform just after Osterley?), you could have captured Brompton Road between South Kensington and Knightsbridge, but I don't see because of woman reading newspaper (maybe also because the platforms are bricked up, as with Down Street) and I think you captured York Road at 52:00 but I am not sure... Good job!
You know your Tube.
You're Clever
your welcome
He is a great youtuber.
Nice idea to film the whole journey/ Thank you!
Good to watch again in the years of the plague!
I lived within walking distance of Cockfosters station until I was twenty seven years old, then moved out of London. I used the line regularly while living there and indeed every weekday for the first two years after leaving school and working in the west end. However, I just realised this is the first time I've ever seen what is at the other end of the line.
Piccadilly was my favorite when i rode here about 2 weeks ago!
Piccadilly Line has to be my favourtie line out of the tube network. Great vid :D
rode the piccadilly ever where!! love it!! "This is a Piccadilly line service to.. COCKFOSTERS" LOL
I traveled numerous times on Piccadilly line in the old days and I can remember those long esculators.
Interesting to see most people still looking at newspapers and magazines instead of smartphones back in 2012.
This is because the section is built with the cut and cover formula which is now still seen in some areas of Metropolitan, District and Hammersmith & City line maybe to provide ventilation.
Manor house to Turnpike lane i got 60 MPH down there before having to slow down its very fun that section another fast bit is oakwood to southgate can get 65 MPH on that bit. These days it will all be different and strict. im on Hst trains now outside all the time
Hard work. Well done.
Thank you so much for this video! We are going to arrive Terminal 2, and thinking about taking this line because it goes straight to King Cross. No transfer at Paddington or anything. Yeah....it takes longer then taking Heathrow Connect/Express. But the price is right!
Barton Seven Qwertyuio to the gym in a I of my eyes and the
Cool vid.
thank you for this video :) im travelling to london and will be taking the tube from heathrow, and was worried the whole trip would be underground!
+Seah Li-wei It's called the 'underground' for a reason. Alot of it is 'underground'.
Actually more than half of it is on surface...
Sean Organ actually 45% of the underground is... underground.
Was just in London love the Tube!
love the pic line my faourite by far I have done this exact trip myself but only from terminals 1,2,3 as I was on a terminal 4 train back to central london :) my second favourite has to be the central line
36:10 is my stop! Great video btw, I don't know if I'd have the attention span to film the whole line!
Boston manor is my nearest station!!
1973 Stocks are Hellfire :P
What I should have said was i would recommend that you do a full journey on the night tube Piccadilly Line
very nice weather when this was filmed
Fez 1: I see the old Down Street station at 42:36 when the tracks join back after the station where there are lights placed because the station is bricked except the tiny door for emergency use if any accidents occur.
nice job X2K9!! express between Acton Town & Kensington South! can U make a video from Morden to Edgware [via Chalk Farm], Mill Hill East or High Barnet [via Bank]?
your the best, My favourite line.
I always feel the odd one out just sitting there, no book, no phone.....
Holloway Road is my nearest station or arsenal
Awesome video
Aww the long journey home to my estate in Cockfosters
The voice of the Picc is the same voice of the English-teaching CDs we get here in Spain!
The London Overground, Gatwick Express, & even some lift voices use the same voice.
At National Rail has the same voice
I know. That's why I love British railways system. It remembers me of my youth hahaha
It's this lady www.emmaclarke.com/voiceover-demos/london-underground/
That's not on the Picc...
Yes! Another Pic line fan!!! :D
Honslow West, I have a cousin who loves near by, She uses the picadily line every day, she works in Holborn
27:46 i like that persons ring tone
Yes, i noticed that straightaway as well.
@X2K9 What is the proper tube etiquette if you board with suitcase and carry on bag? Should you put them under your seat - don't want to take up too much room yaknow.
It depends how big your suitcase/bag is? If it is a small one you can just put it in front of you when you are sitting down. If there are no seats then try to get one of the dedicated luggage areas which are located by all Doors (these are only on the Piccadilly and Jubilee lines. If your suitcase/bag. is bigger I would try to get a seat by the luggage areas by the double doors and put your luggage in the luggage area. If you have to stand just put your bag near you and keep hold of it so it does not go into other people. Under the seats it is all sealed up so you can't put your suitcase/bag under the seat. But if you are sitting down with your suitcase/bag in front of you then try not to take up there space. Always keep hold of your suitcase/bag or make sure you can see it at all times. Hope this helps!
how fast is the train moving? what do you think? How far is it actually from Heathrow to Cockfosters?
Hi, I want to know what time did the train pass through the unused York Road station?
I think it was Mr Rat from Wind In The Willows who said "There is nothing quite as wonderful as messing about in boats". This can be applied to London's Underground, "There is nothing quite as wonderful as riding around in Tubes"; an utterly useless pastime but absolutely fascinating and an appropriate homage to a modern marvel.
Another great video,you done any video's of district line journey's?
Funny how there's always at least one group of LOUD TALKING people on every Tube train.
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True, nothing and then.....HELLO MATE HOW ARE YOU TODAY
People being happy. My God, what a terrible thing.
@@qdog568 I don't mind people being happy and talking loudly on trains. The problem is quite often they're talking in a deliberately obnoxious way to annoy other passengers.
@@robertcastro482 In England we prefer people not to talk at the top of their voices on trains.
Piccadilly line is one the best trains to go on. If your going to Heathrow airport
Elite Gaming I know
if YOU'RE going to...
Elite Gaming No it isn’t. The Heathrow Express does as well. But it is the only Underground line that goes there though.
Elite Gaming I did say that it was the only underground line just in case if that’s what you meant.
e a good day
Gloucester Road, South Kensington, Knightsbridge and Green Park
I love go to Covent Garden Tube
Thx for all your Uploads! Great! I have a question, did u really stand there all time with the camera, would be very brave and persistent, or where you able to somehow install the camera? Going to london next march/april, look forward to ride in the trains again ;-)
What would you say to upgrading the motors but keeping the aesthetics?
I’m in an empty Piccadilly line car now watching this above ground lol
If I could choose which line to drive on in the future, I'd choose either this line or the Central Line
Nice video! It helps me get some impressions about the system before landing on Heathrow. However at the beginning, the train captain already open the driver's cab door when the train is still moving??
michaelchs Its was filmed during summer. The cabs doesn't have A/C so usually drivers open their cab doors for ventilation.
tHEY FREQUENTLY DO THAT, TO GIVE THE CAB SOME FRESH AIR
They are excellent trains and pretty nippy for a stock built in the seventies. If it's not broke, don't fix it.
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43:52 Piccadilly Circus 역 안내방송
44:56 Leicester Square 역 안내방송
46:04 Covent Garden 역 안내방송
49:46 King's Cross St Pancras 역 안내방송
I'll try but Im not doing all stations im going to try do a fast service
District Line is my favourite train.
what is your favourite line
all hail Piccadilly line!
Also, will London be busy on 15th August 2012? I'm coming home from america
hi there,
do u have the longer version of the Heathrow T.5 - Cockfosters video?
-cheers,
Londonfreak93
ok can you paste me a link as cannot find it through normal search cheers :)
The tube has changed over the years. They have got rid of a lot of the old white stock and brought in a lot of new brown stock and black stock ;)
Victoria line 2009 stock is my favourite
I like all new trains.
your welcome Mate anytime ;)
you skipped the train station section.
the question was whether you could send me the "uncut" version
London u ?
Bakerloo line to Elephant and Castle....gush!!!! that line is sooooooooooo filty, damn it ...lol
X2k9 - There is something I don't quite understand.. This tube carriage is going from Heathrow in the direction of Cockfosters, that much I get.. .BUT what if i wanted to go on the Piccadilly in the direction of Heathrow? Is it possible to go either direction at ANY stop marked on the Piccadilly tube? In other words, is the option there on ALL tube stations on the Piccadilly line to from left to right or right to left? I'm going to London soon and I won't lie to you, I'm scared AF so I just want to be clear that's all.
Of Course , you can see trains going the other direction on the video... there are 11 other tube lines apart from the Piccadilly
26:28-28:48 FULL SPEED!!!!!
27:30 -> Probably 50 mph!!!
When I was in London I went from Heathrow Terminal 4 to Kings Cross St Pancras
luck you :D
Pip M
I've been on the whole of the Piccadilly Line apart from the Uxbridge branch.
20:39 Brentford Town born and raised NORTH of the fields BOYEEEEE!
is this the defintive version. no unseen footage.
Though the Heathrow Terminals 1,2, & 3 recording will change in June of next year (2014) to just Terminals 2 & 3 given as soon as the newly rebuilt Terminal 2 opens in mid-June, Terminal 1 will close and be raised for the expansion of T2, with no plans for a new T1.
That... guy's... laughter...
Regards to Holloway Road Station.
Hatton Cross
Hounslow West
Hounslow Central
Hounslow East
Osterley
Boston Manor
Northfield
South Ealing
Acton Town
Turham Green
Hammersmith
Barons Court
Earl Court
Gloucester Road
South Kensington
Knightsbridge
Hyde Park Corner
Green Park
Picaddily Circus
Holborn
Why didnt you go the the front of the train and record the view through the window in the drivers door ?
Do a full journey on a night tube Piccadilly Line service.
I notice Ken Livingston apologising for a signalling problem right at the end there.
in the beginning, was the driver's door open?
The reason why they closed Osterley park and spring grove is because it was to close to osterley station I heard :p
Great video. Why is it that no matter where on the world you go, people who ride public trans always have the look in their like their favorite pet just died. Hard to find smiling faces on trains.
thats because they just want to get to where they are going to.
thanks
What time of day is this taken? Is it okay to travel with a big suitcase from Heathrow terminal 1 to Covent Garden?
You are not allowed on WITHOUT a big suitcase.
OK Uh... That's weird
Covent Garden-Leicester Sqaure is 20 seconds.
keremburada shortest distence between 2 stations
DLR from Canary Wharf to Heron Quays: Hold my train
And it’s only 5 min walk. Geoff Marshall and vicki did a video about it
Its the shortest distance between tube station it confirmed to be quicker walk to.covent garden