Love this. It brings back happy memories doing development wort on electronically controlled brake systems. First with A stock on the East London line and later in the 80’s on the Pic 72 tube stock and then on the 86 Tube Stock Blue and Green prototypes. Made many friends. Does anybody remember a guard called “noisy boisy” ? He had a voice like an RSM. His driver was a very mild mannered gentleman who had route knowledge over the whole system. Great privilege to work with those guys and learn the “secrets of the underworld”. Ron
Brilliant this one showing the reversal moves at KX. Brilliant seeing where the northern & Victoria line connections are. Thank you as always for brightening up Saturday night tv
Brilliant thanks for taking us all along with you. You mentioned everything in your coat pockets, I would be interested in seeing what kit you need if you could kindly show us or explain in a video. Cheers Mike
Thanks for showing us this. I don't think that most passengers understand where trains can turn back and when they can not turn back, so some passengers get frustrated over big sections being out of service for engineering works that might be quite far away from where the trains are running. Obviously the people who built the Piccadilly Line and other deep level tube lines could have put in a lot more places for trains to reverse (like one between every station) but that would just mean there would be more switches and crossings on the network and more potential points failures that could happen. So someone planning the railway has had to decide how many different sections the Piccadilly Line should consist of. And drivers like you have to be able to do all the mini-sections of the Piccadilly Line, as well as the entire route. I know that one of the original acts of Parliament was to route the original railway line that was the east part of the Piccadilly Line down to Strand Station and on to the never built route to Waterloo. Are there many times when trains get routed into the disused platform from Holburn station towards the Strand, for you to reverse there? I remember one time the District Line had engineering works and we actually had a railway replacement service from Wimbledon to East Putney that was not a bus. Instead it was a British Rail train running a shuttle service between Wimbledon Station and East Putney! I've never seen anything like it before or since. I don't remember why I went on the District Line that day, but I do remember that special British Rail take back of that part of the District Line. If you don't actually need to do the full route of a railway line that is getting closed for engineering works, it's actually kind of cool to be able to be able to say you have been a passenger on the special train that did the thing that the trains did not normally do. It is as cool as being on Parliamentary Services. However, I do wish that TfL would advertise engineering works a bit better. I don't mean "give more notice". I mean that they should talk to people about what is actually happening. I once went to West Brompton, when the District Line was shut and looked through the fence at a bunch of engineers ripping up the track and replacing it all. I think they were doing slab track stuff for the Four Lines Modernisation. They really should have set up a time-lapse camera on the overbridge and got people like Geoff Marshall or the Hidden London Hangouts team to visit that construction work.
Great video as ever! I'm currently exploring the Piccadilly Line (visiting all stations and other sites of interest over a number of day-trips) and your videos compliment my travels beautifully, showing lots of views that you can't get as a casual passenger on the tube!
@@marksinthehouse1968 I visited last week but will be passing through again soon - love the D/S stock plant display and the Hammersmith Bridge frieze in the concourse, and of course the Piccadilly/District inspired clocks on the platforms
That platform layout was due to the Victoria line coming in it was the former great northern platform if you look the diameter of the tunnels is bigger 😊it was so you can get cross platform interchange with the picc and vic
fond (not fond) of commuting from Leyton to South Kensington. the westbound Central Line platforms are on the left at Leyton, both sides at Stratford, then on the right all stations to Holborn when it's on the left again. So I'd squeeze into the already-crowded door vestibule at Leyton, and just stay put all the way to Holborn, where I'd step backwards out of the crush and join the queue to exit the platform and make my way to the Piccadilly for the second leg. it was pure hell
Another grand video . Informative , interesting , I find them relaxing , I used to ride the underground a lot in days of yore and the cab view and your descriptive chat brings it all to life . Peterborough to London is a fair old trip down the A1 , I moved to Boston some years ago and I still have family south of the water . 👍☕
It surely looks like a job where you have to be constantly alert and keep a lot of information in your head. Thanks for the video, Dave! Enjoyable as always.
Having been to Down Street station on one of the Hidden London visits, it would be interesting to see what it's like when you drive into the reversing tunnel if you're ever rostered for that turn.
That is particularly interesting. Using two drivers by stepping back is so sensible and practical. I also liked the way Northfields' sidings had boarding platforms for drivers. I'd love to see inside the reversing sidings at Liverpoool Street on the Central Line.
Hello Dale. Great video and commentary again. My son aspires to be a train op - currently a TFL intern doing a CSA attachment, so loves to hear the explanations you give as to what you are doing. Please keep the videos coming.
A disc signal is not a calling-on signal. It is a disc signal, also called simply a semaphore shunting signal in the Rule Book (although that term includes miniature semaphore arms), or, as you say, colloquially a dummy. Many drivers erroneously refer to them as ground position lights because they're used to saying that all the time in MAS areas. Calling-on signals are the 2-foot white arms with horizontal red stripes that occur below main arms.
Wonderful vids thats what i wanted to do a few years ago but now i live in the Channel Islands i don't get to the UK very often but still like to see the underground
I've been to the Isle of Wight to ride on the old London underground D78 Stock train which was on the District line from Upminster/Tower Hill/ High Street Kensington to Wimbledon Richmond Olympia & Ealing Broadway
I grew up not far from Wimbledon and travelled on the D78 stock regularly. Was very weird to encounter them again after I escaped to Scotland, when Vivarail demonstrated battery-powered 230002 on the Bo'ness & Kinneal Railway. Was nice to meet the legendary Adrian Shooter, RIP!
Stepping back is used alot at Brixton on the VIC ,is it’s used at elephant if you know on the Bakerloo please mate ,still say your a lucky geeza wish I done it mmm,all the best bud Mark 😊😊
I would love to see a video where you show us around the cab and all of the different parts of the electrics that you need to use to make the train work
Very Good Video, As a thought for the dark sections do you have any Infrared LEDs, My Dashcam has them fitted and allow it to be easier to se e in the dark sections
Another Great and learning experience! I'm just amazed how well you the know the tracks, signals, limits, hills UP/DN . If you were in the Matrix, you would only need to see the signals and still be able to do your job! Thanks again for a great vid!!!!!
Great video ,enjoying my education on how the London underground works . Take care, keep on driving, out here I watch truck driving videos, so y sign off would be take care keep on trucking😊
Hi Dale thanks for the content this is really good it's things we would never usually see. I've been interested in the underground ever since my first trip to London when I was a kid. The trains have changed a bit since then still deisel units at the moment on the Gillingham Dorset to Waterloo line but back then in the 80's they were old thumpers. Anyway thankyou muchly
Love your videos, very interesting and informative. I hate to be stuck in a tunnel while being on the Tube ! but your videos give me a better understanding of the tube system.
Amazing how you still know where you are even when in a long dark tunnel. Apart from the signals, I'd have thought more illuminated, or at worst retroflective distance markers would be put on the tunnels.
Another great video on other aspects of your work. Never tire watching your tube journeys. Was in London(today) & will be on Tuesday & Wednesday, but on the Hammersmith & City/Northern lines. Nice one Dale! 😊 👍
I know this ain't going to happen unfortunately since the company might have choice words but I'd love to see the new 24 stock get delivered to the depot when it does arrive. Anyway love your videos, Jolly good to have the feet up and beer in hand. Keep it up.
That’s not a bad idea. I shall have to see if I can find out when and where it’s getting delivered. Maybe the local news will film it any way even if I can’t
The change in the platform architecture from Arsenal is interesting, makes me wonder was the Picc line extended from Finsbury Park as that platform also looks different to the previous station platforms.
The pic line used to finish at Finsbury Park. They started to extend it in September 1932 up to Cockfosters. If you ever get off at Arnos Grove they have some pictures of them building the viaduct between Arnos and Southgate
On mainline trains, the rulebook mandates a running brake test as soon as a driver can after getting under way with a new train. Does the LUL rulebook not do that?
Hi Dale great videos. I'm a Train Sim World 4 fan, never could "Drive" the Bakerloo - London Underground. Well with your comentaries, I can now move the thing. Your stopping point triangles are missing :( Perhaps you could give us an idea of your breaking points and which notch your using. We have the 1972 Mark 2 Stock. I notice from this video your sigs are similar to surface rail, next aspect red previous aspect yellow. Any tips helpful!!
Have a look at a company called Video 125, they also do a Piccidilly line video, it’s recorded with a better quality camera and lighting so you can really see the tunnel sections
Probably not. It’s not some thing I would do as a duty. In fact in 8 years I have only come out of Uxbridge sidings once. However should I ever go in or out of there and I have my camera I will film it
Will you ever do the crossing siding to the Northern Line platform from Kings Cross Eastbound platform down to the Northern Line tracks? If I'm correct it'll take you from there right to where Euston is on the Southbound, except the train wouldn't be going into the Southbound platform but right where the tunnel is if I am correct?
It's very interesting, I watched a jubilee line train video recently and they don't really drive the train at all. Mostly just push the buttons and the train does the work including acceleration and braking etc... Wonder if the new Piccadilly trains stock is going to be like that too?
The new trains will be able to drive in automatic mode. However we will be driving them manually as the whole signal system would need upgrading to run in automatic mode
great video i see the 1938 stock is on the line later in the year will it be a piccadilly line driver driving it or a someone else with route knowledge keep up the great work thank you
I don’t know who drives them. I’m guessing it’s a volunteer. They will have to have route knowledge and stock knowledge. Some thing we wouldn’t have (stock knowledge)
Thx!! 🙏 So no service KC-Acton. What about Uxbridge/Heathrow? Where did they start/terminate? BTW, incredibly weak headlights. Is it the camera or are they really sufficient? 🤔
Excellent video again, thank you. I was wondering how effective the cab Aircon is? Is it enough to keep you cool or does it just take the edge off the heat?
When we do that move due to disruption or a train fault I often think it must confuse passengers. We tell them to get off at King’s Cross and then the train disappears the way they want to go. I would stand there thinking why couldn’t the train take us if it’s going that way. If that makes sense. That’s why I like to show things that people may not think about
@@dalecharmantravels8057 it does make sense, also I like the first part where you explain what's going to happen, allows us to understand what to expect. Also the siding movements were great as not something we normally see
Another great video Dale, it's really good to experience parts of the Tube we don't get to see. I was wondering if you had any friends who drive on other lines you could 'buddy' up with and make some other videos with? All subject to the rules of course such as being allowed in the cab of other stocks. A goer or just a 'pipe' dream?
Hi Dale Great videos thanks for taking the time & effort to make them. In this one you mentioned about the power of the headlights. Is it not possible for the lights to be upgraded to LED's & improved?
Dale, new subscriber and really loving your videos and insightful and interesting commentary. Apologies if you’ve answered this before but will you miss the 1973 stock when it’s eventually retired? I’m a train nerd so I love them but I guess regular passengers on the Piccadilly will be looking forward to the new rolling stock.
I am looking forward to trying the new trains. From a drivers point of view they may or may not be better. For the passengers they should be better. Bigger brighter more room and air conditioned
No sorry. It’s only what other drivers are saying. I don’t know if it’s true or where the rumour has come from. Should it be true I will put a post on my account letting you all know
Pity you can't have an led light bar on the front, that would light up the tunnel although I don't think the managers would approve. A change of subject is there still a connection with the aldwhych branch at Holborn, I heard it was being removed.
@dalecharmantravels8057 thanks Dale, I think there was only ever one track into the branch as it was a shuttle service. I am on a Facebook group regarding the London underground standard stock which ran on the Piccadilly line, I thought they could run heritage units from Holborn to Aldwhych but was told that the track to the branch was being removed, how true that is I don't know.
Feet up, beer in hand, lets go. 👍
Enjoy
no you're not allowed to drink beer while driving a train anymore, not since the Incident
Love this. It brings back happy memories doing development wort on electronically controlled brake systems. First with A stock on the East London line and later in the 80’s on the Pic 72 tube stock and then on the 86 Tube Stock Blue and Green prototypes. Made many friends. Does anybody remember a guard called “noisy boisy” ? He had a voice like an RSM. His driver was a very mild mannered gentleman who had route knowledge over the whole system. Great privilege to work with those guys and learn the “secrets of the underworld”. Ron
Hi Dale really enjoy your videos mostly explaining things you are very informative keep up the good work 😊
Fascinating insight
. Thanks for taking us along
I find the edging to the tunnel portals are different on just about every stop. Interesting feature.
Love these deep dives into the LUL. Brings back old memories of engineering hours on the network, trundling along on the engineering unit.
Really enjoying these videos, there's something rather hypnotic about them, cheers Dale!
Brilliant this one showing the reversal moves at KX. Brilliant seeing where the northern & Victoria line connections are.
Thank you as always for brightening up Saturday night tv
Nice view through the pipe. Quite a few stations 🚉
Brilliant thanks for taking us all along with you. You mentioned everything in your coat pockets, I would be interested in seeing what kit you need if you could kindly show us or explain in a video. Cheers Mike
Amazing video again. Love watching them from Canada.
Ditto. From New Zealand.
And from Trieste, Italy.
keep up the great videos loving the underground re downloading the train sim and the met line underground
Watching some of your old videos! X
Very interesting thank you. Never realised there were interchanges between lines eg to Northern and Victoria underground!
Thanks for showing us this.
I don't think that most passengers understand where trains can turn back and when they can not turn back, so some passengers get frustrated over big sections being out of service for engineering works that might be quite far away from where the trains are running. Obviously the people who built the Piccadilly Line and other deep level tube lines could have put in a lot more places for trains to reverse (like one between every station) but that would just mean there would be more switches and crossings on the network and more potential points failures that could happen. So someone planning the railway has had to decide how many different sections the Piccadilly Line should consist of. And drivers like you have to be able to do all the mini-sections of the Piccadilly Line, as well as the entire route.
I know that one of the original acts of Parliament was to route the original railway line that was the east part of the Piccadilly Line down to Strand Station and on to the never built route to Waterloo. Are there many times when trains get routed into the disused platform from Holburn station towards the Strand, for you to reverse there?
I remember one time the District Line had engineering works and we actually had a railway replacement service from Wimbledon to East Putney that was not a bus. Instead it was a British Rail train running a shuttle service between Wimbledon Station and East Putney! I've never seen anything like it before or since. I don't remember why I went on the District Line that day, but I do remember that special British Rail take back of that part of the District Line.
If you don't actually need to do the full route of a railway line that is getting closed for engineering works, it's actually kind of cool to be able to be able to say you have been a passenger on the special train that did the thing that the trains did not normally do. It is as cool as being on Parliamentary Services. However, I do wish that TfL would advertise engineering works a bit better. I don't mean "give more notice". I mean that they should talk to people about what is actually happening. I once went to West Brompton, when the District Line was shut and looked through the fence at a bunch of engineers ripping up the track and replacing it all. I think they were doing slab track stuff for the Four Lines Modernisation. They really should have set up a time-lapse camera on the overbridge and got people like Geoff Marshall or the Hidden London Hangouts team to visit that construction work.
Great stuff Dale, thanks for sharing mate, even caught a rat or mouse on camera right at end 30:39 bottom right hand side
Some drivers leave food for the mice on a little shelf at King’s Cross. So you see more there than at other stations
@@dalecharmantravels8057dale we require photos or footage of the mouse food shelf
Great video as ever! I'm currently exploring the Piccadilly Line (visiting all stations and other sites of interest over a number of day-trips) and your videos compliment my travels beautifully, showing lots of views that you can't get as a casual passenger on the tube!
Visit Hammersmith home of the happy dispatcher (me) 😊
@@marksinthehouse1968 I visited last week but will be passing through again soon - love the D/S stock plant display and the Hammersmith Bridge frieze in the concourse, and of course the Piccadilly/District inspired clocks on the platforms
I'll go for Finsbury Park as the odd one out...the platform was on the left. lol. Very enjoyable as always Dale, thank you. All the best.
That platform layout was due to the Victoria line coming in it was the former great northern platform if you look the diameter of the tunnels is bigger 😊it was so you can get cross platform interchange with the picc and vic
@@marksinthehouse1968 Thanks Mark.
fond (not fond) of commuting from Leyton to South Kensington. the westbound Central Line platforms are on the left at Leyton, both sides at Stratford, then on the right all stations to Holborn when it's on the left again. So I'd squeeze into the already-crowded door vestibule at Leyton, and just stay put all the way to Holborn, where I'd step backwards out of the crush and join the queue to exit the platform and make my way to the Piccadilly for the second leg. it was pure hell
Another brilliant video Dale
Thanks for taking the time to share this with us all
Top bloke
Up The VILLA
Another grand video . Informative , interesting , I find them relaxing , I used to ride the underground a lot in days of yore and the cab view and your descriptive chat brings it all to life . Peterborough to London is a fair old trip down the A1 , I moved to Boston some years ago and I still have family south of the water . 👍☕
I was born in Boston and lived just outside Skegness back in the 80s
It surely looks like a job where you have to be constantly alert and keep a lot of information in your head. Thanks for the video, Dave! Enjoyable as always.
Another great video of switching action on the Picc. Fascinating stuff. Keep up the amazing work, mate! Safe travels.
Having been to Down Street station on one of the Hidden London visits, it would be interesting to see what it's like when you drive into the reversing tunnel if you're ever rostered for that turn.
Another great video from the Pipe! Thank you, Dale!
This is the best channel that I have come across in a long time. Thank you.
You are most welcome. It makes me so happy people like listening to me rabbit on
That is particularly interesting. Using two drivers by stepping back is so sensible and practical. I also liked the way Northfields' sidings had boarding platforms for drivers. I'd love to see inside the reversing sidings at Liverpoool Street on the Central Line.
I think the reason they have put the platforms in Northfields sidings is so we can stable trains there. They need more space for the new trains
Hi Dale, just subscribed to your channel looking forward to your videos.
Thank you. Great to have you here
Great video
Hello Dale. Great video and commentary again. My son aspires to be a train op - currently a TFL intern doing a CSA attachment, so loves to hear the explanations you give as to what you are doing. Please keep the videos coming.
Thank you. I hope he manages to become a train op in the near future
The white disc with the red line we call those calling on or dummy signals on national rail
A disc signal is not a calling-on signal. It is a disc signal, also called simply a semaphore shunting signal in the Rule Book (although that term includes miniature semaphore arms), or, as you say, colloquially a dummy. Many drivers erroneously refer to them as ground position lights because they're used to saying that all the time in MAS areas. Calling-on signals are the 2-foot white arms with horizontal red stripes that occur below main arms.
Wonderful vids thats what i wanted to do a few years ago but now i live in the Channel Islands i don't get to the UK very often but still like to see the underground
I've been to the Isle of Wight to ride on the old London underground D78 Stock train which was on the District line from Upminster/Tower Hill/ High Street Kensington to Wimbledon Richmond Olympia & Ealing Broadway
I grew up not far from Wimbledon and travelled on the D78 stock regularly. Was very weird to encounter them again after I escaped to Scotland, when Vivarail demonstrated battery-powered 230002 on the Bo'ness & Kinneal Railway. Was nice to meet the legendary Adrian Shooter, RIP!
Stepping back is used alot at Brixton on the VIC ,is it’s used at elephant if you know on the Bakerloo please mate ,still say your a lucky geeza wish I done it mmm,all the best bud
Mark 😊😊
Love This. I wish I could do the same sort of videos on the mainline.
A great insight into something else we the pubic wouldn't see. Thanks, this is very interesting :)
Hiya Dale love your content always watching them next time I'm in London I'll look out for you take care 😊
I would love to see a video where you show us around the cab and all of the different parts of the electrics that you need to use to make the train work
Same!
Very Good Video, As a thought for the dark sections do you have any Infrared LEDs, My Dashcam has them fitted and allow it to be easier to se e in the dark sections
I don’t, no. I have to be careful what I put in the cab as it can’t interfere with the driving and or view
Another Great and learning experience! I'm just amazed how well you the know the tracks, signals, limits, hills UP/DN . If you were in the Matrix, you would only need to see the signals and still be able to do your job! Thanks again for a great vid!!!!!
I often wonder if I was just shown a picture of a tunnel ( with signals ) if I could tell where it was. I probably wouldn’t though
Great video ,enjoying my education on how the London underground works . Take care, keep on driving, out here I watch truck driving videos, so y sign off would be take care keep on trucking😊
Hi Dale thanks for the content this is really good it's things we would never usually see. I've been interested in the underground ever since my first trip to London when I was a kid. The trains have changed a bit since then still deisel units at the moment on the Gillingham Dorset to Waterloo line but back then in the 80's they were old thumpers. Anyway thankyou muchly
Love your videos, very interesting and informative. I hate to be stuck in a tunnel while being on the Tube ! but your videos give me a better understanding of the tube system.
Very interesting, love your site, very informative 👍 👌 👏
Excellent video Dave, thanks for the rare insight. Keep them coming. No need to apologise for anything
Thanks you Dale, it is interesting to learn about your different duties and shift patterns. Take care
I just love these, thank you so much.
Cool vids Dale 👍
Fun ride
Another Great insight of being a Tube Driver. Look forward to your next upload
Thank's Dale another great ride. 🚂
Greetings from down under (Australia). Another great vlog, love London and the tube! Enjoy your commentary, very informative!
Another great video, Dale. As always very informative 👍
Very interesting video as always. Cheers Dale.
Thanks for another Great video Dale 👍👌👌
Amazing how you still know where you are even when in a long dark tunnel. Apart from the signals, I'd have thought more illuminated, or at worst retroflective distance markers would be put on the tunnels.
It’s no difference to driving a car. Eventually even in the dark you know where the pot holes are 🤣
Love your videos!!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Another great video on other aspects of your work. Never tire watching your tube journeys. Was in London(today) & will be on Tuesday & Wednesday, but on the Hammersmith & City/Northern lines. Nice one Dale! 😊 👍
That was very good, thanks. I find your videos so interesting and it's fascinating to see the tube from another perspective.
I know this ain't going to happen unfortunately since the company might have choice words but I'd love to see the new 24 stock get delivered to the depot when it does arrive. Anyway love your videos, Jolly good to have the feet up and beer in hand. Keep it up.
That’s not a bad idea. I shall have to see if I can find out when and where it’s getting delivered. Maybe the local news will film it any way even if I can’t
@@dalecharmantravels8057 ah jolly good, much love mate.
Great video there Dale I was down on Saturday. I love the Piccadilly line trains
The change in the platform architecture from Arsenal is interesting, makes me wonder was the Picc line extended from Finsbury Park as that platform also looks different to the previous station platforms.
The pic line used to finish at Finsbury Park. They started to extend it in September 1932 up to Cockfosters. If you ever get off at Arnos Grove they have some pictures of them building the viaduct between Arnos and Southgate
It's was fun to ride with you along. Thanks for your new video. Gr from Holland, your Dutch fan 👍
On mainline trains, the rulebook mandates a running brake test as soon as a driver can after getting under way with a new train. Does the LUL rulebook not do that?
No. We would only do a brake test when the train is brought in to service from a depot or siding. Or if there is an issue with brakes
Another great video well done
Fascinating. Thanks Dale.
My son worked the West End of that shutdown last weekend 25th 26th May think we see you last Friday going past us on my Cab ride going East
More than likely I was working that day. I hope you enjoyed your cab ride
Great video I wish I can see you in real life on the Piccadilly line
You never know your luck. I have met a few followers while driving the train
Another cracking video pal which I'll watch in stages.
Hi Dale great videos. I'm a Train Sim World 4 fan, never could "Drive" the Bakerloo - London Underground. Well with your comentaries, I can now move the thing. Your stopping point triangles are missing :( Perhaps you could give us an idea of your breaking points and which notch your using. We have the 1972 Mark 2 Stock. I notice from this video your sigs are similar to surface rail, next aspect red previous aspect yellow. Any tips helpful!!
always wanted to go on the front of a Piccadilly line train
Have a look at a company called Video 125, they also do a Piccidilly line video, it’s recorded with a better quality camera and lighting so you can really see the tunnel sections
@@flyboy747uk in rea life i wna to be at front
@@flyboy747uk Video 125 managed to get permission for some extra lighting.
I like "on the cushions". Good expression 😂
Amazing video again 👏
Great stuff Dale : )
Brilliant content, Dale. Very insightful. Thanks!
the insta 360 ace pro shoots in low light
I did buy an insta 360 but not managed to figure out the settings on the thing yet. I am useless with technology
Your videos are so interesting, Thank You very much.
Good video Dale can you please show us the Uxbridge depot where trains go empty from Uxbridge Station to The depot
Probably not. It’s not some thing I would do as a duty. In fact in 8 years I have only come out of Uxbridge sidings once. However should I ever go in or out of there and I have my camera I will film it
@@dalecharmantravels8057 OK thanks on Sunday I heard the driver of the Victoria line saying about the closure
Excellent. Always like the videos
Will you ever do the crossing siding to the Northern Line platform from Kings Cross Eastbound platform down to the Northern Line tracks?
If I'm correct it'll take you from there right to where Euston is on the Southbound, except the train wouldn't be going into the Southbound platform but right where the tunnel is if I am correct?
Be down at Kings cross in a few weeks to get on Eurostar to Amsterdam, hopeuflly if get the tube might run into you!
You never know your luck. Have a great trip to Amsterdam
@@dalecharmantravels8057 thanks chap. Great video as always
Wonderful video, thank you.
great to see abnormal operations.
Brilliant Dave 😊
It's very interesting, I watched a jubilee line train video recently and they don't really drive the train at all. Mostly just push the buttons and the train does the work including acceleration and braking etc... Wonder if the new Piccadilly trains stock is going to be like that too?
The new trains will be able to drive in automatic mode. However we will be driving them manually as the whole signal system would need upgrading to run in automatic mode
great video i see the 1938 stock is on the line later in the year will it be a piccadilly line driver driving it or a someone else with route knowledge keep up the great work thank you
I don’t know who drives them. I’m guessing it’s a volunteer. They will have to have route knowledge and stock knowledge. Some thing we wouldn’t have (stock knowledge)
Thx!! 🙏
So no service KC-Acton.
What about Uxbridge/Heathrow? Where did they start/terminate?
BTW, incredibly weak headlights. Is it the camera or are they really sufficient? 🤔
Excellent video again, thank you. I was wondering how effective the cab Aircon is? Is it enough to keep you cool or does it just take the edge off the heat?
It really depends on the train. Some are really cold others next to useless if they work at all
Another great video :)
The move at Kings Cross is an interesting part of the journey we don't see
When we do that move due to disruption or a train fault I often think it must confuse passengers. We tell them to get off at King’s Cross and then the train disappears the way they want to go. I would stand there thinking why couldn’t the train take us if it’s going that way. If that makes sense. That’s why I like to show things that people may not think about
@@dalecharmantravels8057 it does make sense, also I like the first part where you explain what's going to happen, allows us to understand what to expect. Also the siding movements were great as not something we normally see
Great explanations for everything. Thanks.
Waiting to see myself on the platform one day.
Hi dale will you be doing King’s Cross reversals this weekend and maybe filming the other end when the front driver goes to the EB platform? 👍
I did try to do that but because the cab light comes on when you shut the train down you couldn’t see any thing other than my ugly mug 🤣
@@dalecharmantravels8057 🤣🤣🤣 fair enough. Saw todays video hope you had a nice rest after that pig of a trip from Hatton Cross to Cockfosters 👍
Hello from the USA what does it mean when a London tube says this train terminates here all change please?
Another great video Dale, it's really good to experience parts of the Tube we don't get to see. I was wondering if you had any friends who drive on other lines you could 'buddy' up with and make some other videos with? All subject to the rules of course such as being allowed in the cab of other stocks. A goer or just a 'pipe' dream?
It’s some thing possibly for the future
Hi Dale
Great videos thanks for taking the time & effort to make them.
In this one you mentioned about the power of the headlights. Is it not possible for the lights to be upgraded to LED's & improved?
I’m sure it is, but as they are going in the next year or two it doesn’t seem worth the money
Dale, new subscriber and really loving your videos and insightful and interesting commentary. Apologies if you’ve answered this before but will you miss the 1973 stock when it’s eventually retired? I’m a train nerd so I love them but I guess regular passengers on the Piccadilly will be looking forward to the new rolling stock.
I am looking forward to trying the new trains. From a drivers point of view they may or may not be better. For the passengers they should be better. Bigger brighter more room and air conditioned
Interesting video, thanks. May I ask how do they keep the signal lights clean in the tunnels. I would imagine it's very dirty there.
Frederick
Another cracking watch mate, any news of when the driving jobs may be advertised externally ?
No sorry. It’s only what other drivers are saying. I don’t know if it’s true or where the rumour has come from. Should it be true I will put a post on my account letting you all know
Pity you can't have an led light bar on the front, that would light up the tunnel although I don't think the managers would approve.
A change of subject is there still a connection with the aldwhych branch at Holborn, I heard it was being removed.
The east bound track from Aldwych is still there. No clue where the west bound track went from
@dalecharmantravels8057 thanks Dale,
I think there was only ever one track into the branch as it was a shuttle service.
I am on a Facebook group regarding the London underground standard stock which ran on the Piccadilly line, I thought they could run heritage units from Holborn to Aldwhych but was told that the track to the branch was being removed, how true that is I don't know.
From what I can see the track is still there. I think the power rails have been removed
Excellent thanks
You are most welcome. Thank you for your support