What It Takes To Become A London Underground Driver | The Tube | Spark
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- Опубліковано 22 січ 2019
- Trainee driver, Terrance, handles a train for the first time, and 60-year-old Keith does it for the last.
Summer 2002 was no easy feat for the people working on the tube, making sure day to day workings of the underground ran as smoothly as possible. From strikes to repairs, to world records, join us as we get to know the unsung heroes of the Tube.
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The older gent teaching Terrance is the kind of trainer we all hope to get at new positions.
John Scutt, trained me when I joined
Den Fitzpatrick He seems like an nice trainer, does he still work there?
@@forza223bowe5 no hes 78 now hell probs be deed
aidan peat It’s possible, he could still be alive, my grandad is 82 and still alive
@@denfitzpatrick5988 hello sir, I want to be a train driver but I don't know how to join the training, can you please help me with any website link. Thanks
I loved that " No I was never caught speeding because we never had this equipment" LOL!
Our grandads used to drive to the pub, get arseholed and drive everyone home without seatbelts. Good old days lmao 😅
@@Camberwell86 i remember my dad in the 80s going to the pub and driving home drunk. I remember been in the car and my dad driving me around drunk. It was different time back then. It a good thing i reckon.
Well congratulations on the young man who started his new job and congratulations for the distinguished gentleman who retired after 44 years and 7 months. The best to both of you.
20 years later, I wonder how Terrance is doing and whether Keith is still with us. Life is short.
Keith would be around 81 years old today so i hope hes doing fine.
Ain't 20 years yet as this was made in 2019, so I'm sure that Keith still has a good amount of life to live and that Terence looks about the same!
@@paulec2634 you know what else i hoped for? I hoped both of them met each other after this documentary, i think it would have been soo heartwarming that these 2 nice lads met.
@@paulec2634 It was uploaded in 2019. The show is from 2002!
@@paulec2634it was made in 2002. It was only uploaded to this channel in 2019 though
I wish Terrance well in his new adventure. It certainly looks like he's off to a good start.
Hes either retired or in management my friend. We are talking about 17 years ago.
I hope Terrance enjoyed his fat wages
mark davison actually 2004
A10PANG 15 years ago. Plus the retiring met line driver served for 60 years
cmd2709 as a driver but he said he started when he was a young lad
My Uncle was a driver for over 40 years and my Dad was a signalman both on the Northern line. They both started at 14 as porters. Dad used to take me to his signalbox at Golders Green its all long gone now all controlled from Camden Town I believe. This film brought back some memories.
:) My friend Andrew drives the Northern line, and I have a friend called Elias and drives the Jubilee line. :) These are my fav lines aswell
I live 3 mins from Golders green
I hope Terrance still has the same spark of joy today that he did in 2002.
Funny people are listening to the misleading description, when only the first couple episodes were in 2002
@@Enviri The episode's aired in 2004, not 2002.
@@londonvoyager_yt i meant the first couple episode were filmed in 2002, the date in the first episode says 2002
He protecc
He attacc
But most importantly mind the gap
Blane Kilo oh my god every time I see a comment like this I soo wanna copy awwww
Aaah, lovely innit :D
5:28 A simulator that cost £4m and they could have purchased Train Simulator for $24.99 instead
I do hope that's sarcastic. I have been on the GWR HST, IET and 150/2 simulators- each one is so much more realistic. The IET sim was the most realistic, everything from the air con to the DSD pedal worked
I work for nyc transit. Our simulators are a mix of TS and BVE. It depends on what you're training for that day. I wish I was joking but its true.
This was filmed in 2002. Back then that was high tech lol
The simulator was made in late 1990s with 1:1 replicated controls.
to be fair, all the addons and dlc for train sim probably adds up to more than £4m haha
Well done Terrance. Great to see another friendly & ambitious person join the railway
The guy that trained Terrence is really supportive. He wants those drivers to pass. If I had a different coach, there is a high chance he would not say anything and just mark. Congrats Terrence.
The trainers...truly amazing people who take the pressure away from the trainees, and plant the reality of these jobs into the minds of those that replace them. After mastering Trolley buses in Vancouver, Canada, and ultimately onto regular bus operations, I still hear the trainers guidance and experience teaching the ways and means of your daily duty..safety first, always.
“Ye gonna be missed Keith yknow that”
Keith: demonic laughter
next day, its Keith,s head under the train. lol
"You're always going to leave someone behind, its the way of life I'm afraid."
RIGHT IN THE FEELS MAN.
Why you doing this to me?
I'm just coming across this episode and love it. So happy for Terrance and all the new drivers and Keith can retire and relax.
I always look forward to these episodes, thanks!
Best of luck to the fella. Hope he has many happy years as a tube driver.
Your luck is abit late. This was 2decades ago
@@Analoguebubblebath89 Luck is still luck, 20yrs too late or not ☘
well done Terrance, respect bro
13:19 This train is still there, I go past it every day. It's nice to know a little history about it.
MajorSkyblue Where abouts can I find it?
I go past it too! Not sure what model it is...
As you're leaving from Epping station towards West Ruislip or North Acton, Look out to the left and you'll see it. It's been repainted since this video and has had some things put in it, most recently a fake Santa around the Christmas period.
@@haj619 Sorry, I didn't get any notification of your reply. Did you manage to find it?
It just made me remind when I started as a train driver and how grateful I am for doing this! As a passionate for subway systems, it's a pleasure to learn and discover how it works over the world. Excellent video!!!
Love this gem of a series such a favourite!
I too hope Terrance is doing amazing and the distinguished Keith has a beautiful retirement
That retirement party was so damn wholesome, especially that matchstick train
Keith is so heartwarming :)
What a warm and engaging instructor.
Watching the old fellows face light up talking about his guard bar made me smile
Lovely series about real people doing real work.
I live in the US in Massachusetts just south of Boston. I always loved the subway. That's what we call it here. I don't think there is a real appreciation here as there is with London Underground. I love Keith's personality. Must be hard to say goodbye to it all. All the memories of his dad and now he's retired. I love seeing his eyes light up looking at the guard rail which I know nothing about. Its nice to see someone who has worked hard get recognition from his coworkers like this. The guy making the train, that was beautiful and amazing. I hope Terrance has a safe journey. It looks like a fun job to have
Thank you. That was so interesting to watch.👍🏼
Thats my brother Terrance. Good work you made us all proud
Does Terrance still drive tube trains?
so cool how is ur brother?
@@spectre8_fulcrum he is good thanks.
@@carolinemadondo good to hear, people like your brother keep the country stable. Best wishes to you and your family.
@@spectre8_fulcrum thank you
Love these episodes. Wish the MTA (hell even NJ transit) would do one like it. Feeds one train buff desires and transit curiosity for sure.
Raoul Simon yeah my train company need what London has
When you said NJ Transit, I shook my head and was like, "Especially NJ Transit!"
@@sherondalewis8053 Now you get to see the druggies on the Tele!
How many tongue twisters with Terry, Terrence, Traindriver and Trainee.
This was filmed in 2004, I hope Terrance is still working strong on London Underground and perhaps he is training new drivers (who now drive automatic trains for the most part)!
Haha "District Line trains are too old" - yet now they're the newest.
Well but he'd have to "wait" for almost 20 years in order to drive 'em - 20 years of time that your job isnt that much fun - and I believe he can change it from time to time, so he could have till now
The bakerloo line is always gonna have the oldest trains
Interesting he said “maybe Piccadilly” but ruled out the District for being too old, even though the Pic’s trains were (at the time) three years older than the District’s.
6:50 Keith changing shifts with Keith
Haha didn’t even notice they looked the exact same 😂
Clones
Really enjoyed this
What I couldn’t imagine, is how the drivers feel when they get someone who is suicidal throw themselves under their train. Poor blokes/women. That would be absolutely horrific 😢😢
No probs I had 2 in a week the first one servived the next one didn`t and my guard fainted when i picked his head up ......
Patrick Thomas as in you picked his head up that was unattached from his body?! 😱
Very common apparently...it's the one thing that would put me off wanting to be a train driver.
Patrick Thomas doesn’t sound like First Aid ⛑ could help.
@@sarahtaylor7737 Yes ....and a head is quite heavy ,,,,
I'm from New York City and I've always wanted to be a train operator. The job looks easy but it's not. You are in charge of the well being and safety of others.
I know I'm replying to an old comment, but I agree. A lot of people who have never driven a train think the job is "easy", presumably because you only control "forward and reverse". Controlling a huge heavy vehicle full of people requires your full attention and a lot of forward planning. Sure, the job can be done (and I daresay better) by a computer, but automating ancient railways aint cheap.
@@igotes ain't cheap but has been done
Great vid!
Was a central line driver for 19 years, was great.👍
Central line driver nice
Made me deaf in my 50s bloody loud
fantastic job of driving around the bends of the tube
I wanted to be a train driver then I found out I was color blind so instead, I drove buses. Excellent show, we don't get this in Australia.
It's not bad but it's from around 2004
You have to know someone to even get a interview in australia.
Driving buses must be a lot more difficult! I couldn't do it. Just imagine, you have lots of cars and cyclists, and passengers running for the bus, and other pedestrian crossing the road and not always watching what they are doing, and rain and snow and a schedule to keep. ... Good that there are some people who can do it! :-)
How's Keith love this episode what a legend my uncle died on the trains rip xxxx how Keith is well and still alive vital service xxxx to us all Xx
“If I got a pound for every time I went up and down the met, I wouldn’t need the lottery” isn’t that what happens ??
well i was thinking that also mate you get somewhere between 7 and 14 pounds a hour for going up the met lol
He would be retiring with a much smaller pension if it was only a pound per run.
I think he means an EXTRA pound
It's obvious he just means if someone handed him a pound for every time in a one off.
His salary has been given monthly for 40+ years...
Either way, it's just a turn of phrase.
Because as people have said above, he WAS paid every time 😉
I applied to them for a job as a driver but I was 15 minutes late to the interview,as soon as I walked in the door they shouted "you're hired!"
Love it 💯
Great upload, sending best wishes to Terence (?) All the best in your new life as a train driver....👊
This is from the early 2000's. Im sure Terrance enjoyed his time earning fat money.
This is early 2004, he's probably resigned from the job, or on a fat ass salary as someone else said by now.
Great vedio. Brgds to keith for 4r yrs .. brgds from mumbai india
I’m 11yrs old and when I’m older I hope to become a train driver at pitsea Basildon Essex
Great vid
You have to be the brain of Britain nowadays to pass the assessment and interview stages , give me the old LT recruitment days ,
Terrance will have been driving 15 years now.
Wonder how he's holding up
18!
Yeh long time anyone know if he is still driving
Greetings from a transit worker in NYC
Well done that man. Hope you still enjoying it.
Love this
I love the London underground.
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🇬🇧
Duty managers are what we call Train Service Supervisors in NYC transit. What they're doing.....if we were over the buffer zone, we get written up and possibly taken off the train depending how over we were
What’s that like the train police?
Theese series need to be updated
@@zackktech2 yes indeed but i dont really like the newer version from a few years ago could do a update
Th it's only old train
@@zackktech2 ?
@@zackktech2 true
Why?
thats a great teacher with the new driver
Love the intro music
Wikipedia -
Partially-automated trains are currently used on four lines (Jubilee, Central, Victoria and Northern).[2] These trains still require operators to open and close doors, and to assist in case of emergency. This method of working will be extended to the other lines by 2022 and will also be used on Thameslink and Crossrail.
so basically the drivers are there for when the automated train fucks up and they gave them a button to play with the doors so they could feel usefull and keep themselves amused?
Jack Sugden now the subsurface lines aka circle, district, ham & city and the met are automated in some areas.
In Helsinki, Finland the metro was extended and attempted to automate. Extension doesn't have any driver facilities like toilets or rooms for relaxing. Drivers sit on wooden stools in the so-called automated cars, pressing buttons to make the train go forward, stop, open and close door etc., without any air conditioning.
Good job there...
The Bakerloo line will be manual till 2035
Well, it's 2023, did they hit the target for more automated lines?
I remember being addicted to these trains for no reason I just like their design
Acton has a depot with old rusty trains never seen that I like to check it out one day. The old locomotive what use to run a journey before being put out of use goad they rescued it for a bit of history heritage that’s incredible.
Congrats Terrance!
Good luck Keith, and good luck Terrance.
Love spark
zimbabweans hey you are everywhere. great job Terrence
I wish all the new ones well!
I wonder how that Terrence lad is doing now, has a great vibe to him
You're a customer in a shop when you travel on a ship ,airplane or train then you're a PASSENGER .Even a taxi .
Very interesting 👌
I remember I saw this a while ago. ☺️
60 year old keith does it the last time, well with people may having to work longer in their life, we might be able to drive until 65 in a train, would be a fun job
Joseph Stalin 75 now
75 years old is too old to drive a train
@@forza223bowe5 government says you are fit to work until 85
Don't forget Keith started working at the age of 15.
Its always my dream to become a train or metro driver. I hope one day i sit on the drivers seat and drive
@ameen ahmed no thanks we don't want your sort
18:27 facts I was told this the other day on my apprenticeship bus driver course
4:30 Uh Keith's start to his career was a wild one.
well done m8
when i was younger i wanted to be a train driver, but i failed the Medical as my eyes wern't far enough apart to see through the windscreen.
Lol
@Omega Findora lol
@@kylereese4542 pmsl
Ha ha ha
@Zander • 30 Years Ago yeah?
Lol on the central line at Leyton the driver was short and when the doors opened it was half exit and half do not cross this line with a barrier. He closed the doors and rolled forward
Almost 20 years old footage, so curries what he does now, is he an expert in his work now? Would like to learn 😀
Yeh same wish they tell is what happen to the old guy who retired we don't know if he is still alive
@@Sam-pn2kc He would be 78 years this year so I think he is still alive
Sam Hines He is still alive
Dave Wsh He is still around
@@forza223bowe5 wow retire in their 50s should have some different job
Not like the simulator we used on the Central line where the colour lights used to leave the signals and float in the air or you would brake and the train carried on.. fun times
I wish Birmingham had a tube of it's own. Might have applied.
Birmingham needs a tube sooo badly
Keith thanks for serving good luck with the Retirement
very similar operation to those in Hong Kong, which was started in 1970s. The difference is that the MTR trains here is computer-autopilot. Drivers focus on ensure that the train operate as expected in their input, and drive the train when needed.
Love this clip and would have loved to have driven trains...two things got in my way...I am color blind (Not bad but enough to stop me) and I was told I would not amount to much by my teachers. However done a fair few things that I was told I never be doing so happy just the same.
Imagine the metropolitan line had steam trains running the line back in the 19.00s.
Was the signal number on that matchstick model being "WD 40" a reference? Because I could see them using WD 40 from time to time on the tube.
*me realizes how old this must be
Where is Keith?
Is he alright?
Is he ok?
I went through driver selection for British Rail towards its last days and it was brutal(and that's from someone who had been in the military), by the end of the second day of the maybe 60 people that had started I think there was only 14 of us left(of of those only 6 went onto the trainman driver boards)
This is an introverts dream job
Definitely
Interesting remark, there was a tube driver won 'Brain of Britain' or 'Mastermind' or some such programme decades ago.
Haha true
The following year Terence was moved to the Circle line...
Back when life was simpler
Sadly keith died in november 2023, may he rest i peace
I earn a similar salary to a tube driver, but one major difference is that when a tube driver finishes their shift they can truly switch off as they have no deadlines, projects or emails to worry about. Sure tube drivers have to work unsocial hours but they get far more holiday and pension benefits than the average person.
yet still they go on strike every year to demand even more. they're lucky they dont all get fired.. we could automate the trains like on the DLR
@@tonyclifton265 You talk rubbish.
Check your facts.
@@nearlyretired7005 is he really? Hopefully you don't need to use tube on Christmas because them 🦆ers will be striking again
@@tonyclifton265 There have been strikes on the DLR.
5:35
Just a pumped up train simulator, nothing different
Except this was filmed in the early 2000s, high tech back then.
I love how their exam room's literally a parked train in the depot. Quite on the nose :P
I operate the trains in Chicago, but would love to move to London and operate their trains.
You ought to send London Underground an email and see if they have an exchange program...sure there would be a few London drivers wanting to see the great Windy City, similar climate and population too...good luck with it Kyle.
@@terrythekittieful Wow! Thanks. I didn't think of that.
10:05 - You did get a pound (a sum of money anyway) for every time you ran down a specific piece of track - it's called a salary!
Maybe less than a pound when he started, but certainly more now!
He’s referring to the amount of times he went up and down that track in his 40 years of driving a train
The way he laughed and she didn’t
Cringe moment oops 🙊
The sky train in Vancouver, British Columbia has always been automated (driverless) from its first operation in 1986. This is likely to be the future of railroading.
In Nürnberg, the subway is automated, too. Interesting! If you get to stand in the first wagon, you can see the track as a driver would, only there are no lights in the tunnels any more which is a pity.
Not like the olden days, when I had a compressor contacter coil arc weld itself together on a 1938 stock leading trailer car at Hampsted on Northern line north bound, causing the pump to start smouldering and smoking, juice off and lift and strap the negative collector shoe through a maintenance trap door. Or a wedgelock auto, coupler throwing in the rear leading unit to an uncoupled position, so your losing both main line air through a compressed star valve and brake pipe air through the trip valve, your compressors are running full pelt on both units but overcharging on the rear unit. Not bad training hey! I learnt that back in the seventies. Nowadays the newbie's deal with defects remotely from the front cab.