It's because we view apocalyptic events as something that just wipes out everything, here it's the lack of people but the infrastructure is running as if everything is unchanged, with trains and buses, electric, water, gas all still going like nothing has happened
It must of cost a lot of money and energy to keep the underground partially in service with almost nobody using it at the moment. It’s completely surreal seeing it in this deserted state. It almost looks like an abandoned space ship like in the Alien movies.
It's not true. That's why you people will always be sheep's that don't know better. Before all this happened all trains were packed pretty much every day morning and evening. So when you were nose to nose like sardines, that's tfl making their money so do you think now they are losing??? Get real.
@@criticalminds7976 they certainly didn't have much! It might look like they must be rich, but it costs a lot to keep a railway like that running. Weren't well off by any means...struggling just a bit...
@@forza223bowe5 the Conservatives don't seem to be funding it. The TFL Finance Director said that they currently operate on Income from fares and congestion charge/ULEZ
This is probably one of the BEST videos you've ever done, it's a fantastic piece of journalism of what's going on down there, I've seriously wanted to find out myself but you've saved me and and many more the trip! Stay safe with your CF and all that though...
@@thetrainspotter7 It's Cystic Fibrosis, Beno's mentioned it on previous videos, it's a serious respiratory condition, a friend of mine's daughter has it and she's currently on 12wk full isolation due to what's going on. He's a fearless fellow but if we want to see more videos in the future it's best he stays safe....although we wouldn't have got such an awesome video as this if he had...hmmmm....
@@jamesdavison1786 You have CF? How much improvement have you had from Orkambi? For me, I don't get chest infections any more. Every week a chest infection seems to start, then it disappears again on its own after 2 days. I am less tired, but not as much as I had hopped. I had not improvements on pancreas deficiency. Surprisingly I haven't had an improvement in lung function despite feeling a lot better.
I traveled from California to visit the UK a couple years ago and riding the Underground was one of the highlights while in London. I'm creeped out to see the stark contrast here with nobody around. Thanks for filming this rare sight in these strange times.
Yea. If you don’t know Jesus Christ as your Lord & Savior, you better do so quickly! This is just a reminder that we are in the last of the last days. Read the book of Revelations in the Holy Bible.
For people who have never been at any of these tube stations you will be amazed how busy it is it's unreal, the trains are jam packed, platforms full, take a look on Google, then come back here and watch the vid again. Cockney born and bred and it pains to see stations roads stores closed and empty. Shocking speechless and scary and sad. Stay safe all of you
As a Londoner I can’t tell you how eerie this is, but I love it. It’s so strange to see the Underground so deserted. I passed through Piccadilly Circus a few weeks ago around 7pm and it was like a ghost town. Who knows, we may never experience anything like this ever again. Thanks for making this video.
Thank you Ben for showing my birthtown at its most deserted. Never in my life have I seen where I grew up be quiet, unnerving and bugging me out. It’s as if everyone has been put in a deep sleep. This virus is most definitely a nightmare. Stay safe in the jungle mate.
I am pretty sure I know how Ben got away with this. He was prepared for being asked what he was doing, he had documentation on him. And very probably, one or two pieces of equipment he could pull out of his bag for anyone who questioned the documentation.
As eerie as it is to see a global city like London so deserted, it is also encouraging to see Londoners taking the government's social distancing and isolation guidelines so seriously. Just keep this up for some time and the virus will undoubtedly run its course as in all other pandemics and everyone can resume their normal routines.
A sterling effort to record so much nothingness in so many different stations. A right little historical gem. I can vouchsafe for an unnerving emptiness in the Waterloo warren. This after a three hour journey up to London on South West Trains where I was the only passenger the whole time on a nine carriage train. Just the driver, the guard and me. I thought to myself at the time that not even the Queen gets to travel in such style as she'd have had loads of flunkies. Amazing.
Two years on, it seems very strange to see such empty stations. These last two weeks, I was in Germany, and things were about as close to pre-Covid as possible. Although the Garching-Forschungszentrum U Bahn station about 11 AM on a Sunday makes a person think it's like Covid times in Central London. Then again, on Sunday the 12th February 2023, everyone was in central Munich for the Fasching parade. Odeonsplatz and Marienplatz stations were almost to the brim that day.
Seeing the whole of London pretty much deserted was scary but also really fascinating. Thanks for filming this, we’ll most likely never see something like this again unless of course we go back into full lockdown. This video will go down in history forever.
This was incredibly fascinating. It's great to see that lockdown measures are generally being adhered to (although ironically in order to document it you had to violate it lmao). Thanks so much though!
This is insane! On my adventure in the tube piccadilly line, I've encountered trains where I literally could not fit on then to have the doors close in my face and have to wait another 4 or so minutes.
I'm over in London for a gap year, and for this to have happened while I'm here is just the worst luck. I love catching the tube and exploring the city and now I can't 🤬
It reminds me of Seattle,Washington(The heart of the Coronavirus scare in the USA). I live in the Seattle suburb of Edmonds, a few miles north of the location of the first case in the US at the LifeCare Center. I live not more than 10 blocks from a major highway, and I usually can here traffic on it from where I live, right now, nothing. It's really scary and eerie. KEEP SAFE EVERYONE!!!
Only 2 or 3 weeks ago this was full of people with poor hygiene standards coughing and spluttering all over the place. Every man and his uncle in London seemed to be out and about with symptoms of the virus.
I've got some footage of the DLR from February and yes - the coughs are there. Dry ones to. I feel very fortunate to have my health now, though I'm glad I went to London that time in Feb as it's unlikely I'll be going again for some time.
Beno has made a social document, a London under quarantine but with transport still running, deserted stations, passages, platforms, concourses and streets, a rare chance to see the architecture and design of the stations as well. One day we will look back at this video, it will be one of the few visual reminders of this time. TfL has now run out of money and 7000 staff have disappeared.
@@absolutereigns8531 do I sound like I'm joking? The guy is a complete fool and we know who he is,hopefully soon he'll be held accountable for his actions.
One thing Ive always wanted to know about those stations that have platform screens...what if the driver overshoots the platform even just by a fraction...the doors won’t align up....the drivers must be very skilled to get the train to stop in the exact right place!
As an ex-Jubilee Line driver (before ATO), it was always enjoyable to stop exactly on the mark to line all the doors up. After doing it many times per day, it didn't take long to get good at it. If a driver overshot the mark you would inform the controller of your mishap and be told to continue to the next station and apologise to your passengers (unless you were the first or last train of the day in which case there were procedures for driving backwards). Now it's all automatic with ATO - much more boring I would imagine.
A great opportunity to appreciate the station architecture. Reminds me of an experience I had in college. I attended a large university that was divided into 3 campuses. The day before Thanksgiving my freshman year, the school was considered open, but all the classes were cancelled. So I took the opportunity to visit each of the campuses and explore the vintage facilities. Nobody around, just the sounds of steam pipes and mechanical equipment as I'm walking through these old corridors - absolute bliss.
When I was a child I used to design imaginary metro systems (actually I still do this now when I am bored), and they always had no people on them. Lots of people about spoils the enjoyment of epic trains.
I know this is very cynical to say but I really envy you in this moment. Being able to roam around freely in an empty underground has always been one of my dreams. Especially because my city has so few lines. I always fancied an experience like this. Enjoy the moment while you can Beno; And most of all: STAY SAFE and let everyone around you stay safe as well.
Me too except doiong it naked. Wouldn't that be the coolest thing? Leaving home with out a stitch of clothing and riding around on deserted public transport all day to the farthest reaches of town.
@Dan Castel Anch'io sono italiano (a metà). Eh purtroppo l'unica città italiana ad evere una metropolitana molto sviluppata è Milano. Le altre hanno massimo 2-3 linee
I have always wondered if it would ever in my lifetime happen that one of the most busy places in the world would be totally empty. And when i saw this i couldn’t believe my eyes. It actually happened. I never thought that i ever was gonna see something like this in my entire life. It’s very scary!
This is amazing and I'm only 1 minute in. Thanks for taking the risk to document the Underground at a very weird time! Hope I don't get to the end and see you arrested by the transport police lol.
As a Londoner, this is really weird and eerie to see. I cannot believe how quiet and deserted the tube really is at the moment. And in a weird way, it's kind of making me miss the tube lol and I kind of can't wait to use it again lol
0:48 Victoria line 2:08 Jubilee line 6:57 Northern line 10:28 Piccadilly line 11:59 Bakerloo line 16:16 Sub-surface line 16:48 Jubilee again 19:34 Central line 22:42 DLR
The stations here look empty but I saw news articles about overcrowding still happening at rush hour during the lockdown. Probaly only that busy during rush hour but still I find it quite bizzare that overcrowding has still happened during lockdown.
Shocking just a few weeks ago things were completely normal, especially to see it like that at major interchange stations like Kings Cross / St Pancras. We've got a major recession coming
scary to see, having lived in london my whole life. the tube was crowded everyday of every hour and just full of buzz but now it is a void of people and just sign of uncertain times we live in
This is so creepy to watch. I study aboard in the Fall of 2019 in London and used the tube all the time where it was packed sometimes. This just doesnt seem right.
ITS ACTUALLY AMAZING breh to see london.....BUSY LONDON ...THAT EMPTY !! I might have to go for a stroll real soon, this video is worthy of being viral world wide , I wont be surprised if this ends up on tv
My favorite is 2009, S, 1995, and 1996 stocks. My favorite bite is class 350, 321, 387, 171, 466, (And that class train from grand Continental railways that makes that “tick tock” sound)
The last time I went up to London was on 20 March 2020. I avoided the London Boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark, and will avoid them again when I next go back up to London because those are among the worst affected areas.
@@Dan_07 Yeah I completely understand and support that. It's just the stark contrast from the usual hustle and bustle of the typical morning commute - so weird!
The London Underground station has almost no people in there and the subways/stations are more cleaner and hygienic during this epidemic than the disgusting subway trains and stations that are not even clean enough, has more homeless living in there dirtying everywhere and is still has people riding on the trains going to work in New York City.
12:00 The backerloo line is the best line in London! (Click on the minute mark before commenting!!! Also I don't live in London so I don't have say in which line is the best! I can say that I visited London and my favorite line was the Piccadilly and the Circle Lines because it took us to amazing sites! Also this is just a joke ;) )
Well it seems that London is absolutely comply to social distancing,but New York City is the worst,no wonder why it’s still surging,but here in London there’s no longer a surge because people are complying no matter what,but nyc subway is completely empty trains very late at night,rush hours the train is 15% full on the 3 busiest lines,here in London 10%.
great video, don't understand how the news is showing clips of crowded trains and platforms when even at 17:00 the trains are empty, are they just showing old clips or something
Nah seriously it's scary and so weird not to see a SINGLE Soul at the tube stations. It is normally PACKED! Like MADD! But noo, why Coronavirus got the UK OUT!
I was thinking about that because there are always computers everywhere and hear I mean like wow even the central stations are empty and I would not want to be there its so creepy
It’s actually almost scary to see. 1 o’clock in the afternoonand not a soul around! Unbelievably eerie.
Literally in every single country.....
Cio Dokop I know!!😖
It's beneficial for the country, but still, very eerie
It's because we view apocalyptic events as something that just wipes out everything, here it's the lack of people but the infrastructure is running as if everything is unchanged, with trains and buses, electric, water, gas all still going like nothing has happened
True
It must of cost a lot of money and energy to keep the underground partially in service with almost nobody using it at the moment. It’s completely surreal seeing it in this deserted state. It almost looks like an abandoned space ship like in the Alien movies.
TFL are already financially struggling as it is and coronavirus just made it worse for them. I feel very sorry for them!
It's not true. That's why you people will always be sheep's that don't know better. Before all this happened all trains were packed pretty much every day morning and evening. So when you were nose to nose like sardines, that's tfl making their money so do you think now they are losing??? Get real.
@@criticalminds7976 they certainly didn't have much! It might look like they must be rich, but it costs a lot to keep a railway like that running. Weren't well off by any means...struggling just a bit...
TFL are government owned
@@forza223bowe5 the Conservatives don't seem to be funding it. The TFL Finance Director said that they currently operate on Income from fares and congestion charge/ULEZ
This is historic. True history.
Indeed
Absolutely.
At
yeah it was a year ago
"CUSTOMERS ARE REMINDED TO STAY AWAY FROM A PERSON!!!"
Do they really think that we can give cornona to each other
@@michaelsandford1015 No
Michael Sandford yes we can give corona to someone if we don’t socially distance
Michael Sandford are you serious
@@CityWhisperer No He Is Not
This is probably one of the BEST videos you've ever done, it's a fantastic piece of journalism of what's going on down there, I've seriously wanted to find out myself but you've saved me and and many more the trip! Stay safe with your CF and all that though...
Gig Tee Vee What’s CF?
@@thetrainspotter7 It's Cystic Fibrosis, Beno's mentioned it on previous videos, it's a serious respiratory condition, a friend of mine's daughter has it and she's currently on 12wk full isolation due to what's going on. He's a fearless fellow but if we want to see more videos in the future it's best he stays safe....although we wouldn't have got such an awesome video as this if he had...hmmmm....
@@gigteevee6118 I didn't know he had CF, he shouldn't have done this video. from one CFer to another.
@@jamesdavison1786 You have CF? How much improvement have you had from Orkambi? For me, I don't get chest infections any more. Every week a chest infection seems to start, then it disappears again on its own after 2 days. I am less tired, but not as much as I had hopped. I had not improvements on pancreas deficiency. Surprisingly I haven't had an improvement in lung function despite feeling a lot better.
@@benolifts i don't get orkambi as I don't have the right genes needed altho I have one DelF518 so I will be able to get trikafta
I traveled from California to visit the UK a couple years ago and riding the Underground was one of the highlights while in London. I'm creeped out to see the stark contrast here with nobody around. Thanks for filming this rare sight in these strange times.
Not really sure what time it's being filmed either but it's very strange seeing it so empty especially busy stations like green park and Canary wharf
@Minhaj Nizam He said he was filming it at 1:00 in the afternoon
The jubilee line has the cleanest of trains
I love the noise they make when accelerating 3:50
We all do!!
TFL...
@@1robis1 especially the jubilee line
@@ZLDSmogless mind the gap between the train and the platform....this a district line train to Upminster...next station Barking
Yes same!
imagine saving up for an ad space in a station and then this happens
A true bruh moment
If it happened to me i would just break every ad i saw.
Omg i thought of this also😬😂
That sounds like a Gray Still Plays title
Never realised that tube trains make the most beautiful noise coming into the stations and pulling out of the stations!
It’s a lovely sound
Retarded Thomas the tank I Agree!
Love the London Underground
I listen to it like music
The most beautiful one is on the Jubilee line
Those announcements at the start are apocalyptic.
Parliamentarian they scared me
The purpose of the PA is fulfilled if you’re scared.
Yes very scary!
I don't like angry announcements in fine if I'm standing on the white thiny
Yea. If you don’t know Jesus Christ as your Lord & Savior, you better do so quickly! This is just a reminder that we are in the last of the last days. Read the book of Revelations in the Holy Bible.
At least you got some lovely uninterrupted Jubilee line sound. Love it.
The next station is: Closed.
This Train will not stopping at the next station
@@jkchow4116 he ment like the next station the train will he arriving at is called closed
@@fidkrdk7283 At Bermondsey
We are now at the station closed.
We are now approaching: Closed.
For people who have never been at any of these tube stations you will be amazed how busy it is it's unreal, the trains are jam packed, platforms full, take a look on Google, then come back here and watch the vid again.
Cockney born and bred and it pains to see stations roads stores closed and empty.
Shocking speechless and scary and sad.
Stay safe all of you
@@class317 yep what's happened
As a Londoner I can’t tell you how eerie this is, but I love it. It’s so strange to see the Underground so deserted. I passed through Piccadilly Circus a few weeks ago around 7pm and it was like a ghost town. Who knows, we may never experience anything like this ever again. Thanks for making this video.
Thank you Ben for showing my birthtown at its most deserted. Never in my life have I seen where I grew up be quiet, unnerving and bugging me out. It’s as if everyone has been put in a deep sleep. This virus is most definitely a nightmare. Stay safe in the jungle mate.
It’s amazing that all the places we are used to seeing really busy are eerie and quiet. Were you not asked by anyone what you were doing?
I bet they say they check but our government probaly doesn't they rely on the people
I am pretty sure I know how Ben got away with this. He was prepared for being asked what he was doing, he had documentation on him. And very probably, one or two pieces of equipment he could pull out of his bag for anyone who questioned the documentation.
When is busy we complain when is empty again we feel sad
Yes. At the moment I keep wanting these to return to normal, but I will miss the underground being empty.
No, when it's empty is fantastic ahah
Dave_something No, it looks haunted
The london underground ghosts can move around now :))
Dave that's not funny
5:50 "Hold the handrail"
You're not gonna, are you?
Even the night tube was more popular at 2am... This is scary
Hmm, wonder if Night Tube will come back. Not sure it will if I'm honest.
As eerie as it is to see a global city like London so deserted, it is also encouraging to see Londoners taking the government's social distancing and isolation guidelines so seriously. Just keep this up for some time and the virus will undoubtedly run its course as in all other pandemics and everyone can resume their normal routines.
this didnt age well
@@terminx7841 this still didn’t age well
June 2022. There were two more lockdowns, both totally unnecessary, the country is £trillions in debt and there was no way of stopping Omicron.
A sterling effort to record so much nothingness in so many different stations. A right little historical gem.
I can vouchsafe for an unnerving emptiness in the Waterloo warren.
This after a three hour journey up to London on South West Trains where I was the only passenger the whole time on a nine carriage train.
Just the driver, the guard and me.
I thought to myself at the time that not even the Queen gets to travel in such style as she'd have had loads of flunkies. Amazing.
Two years on, it seems very strange to see such empty stations. These last two weeks, I was in Germany, and things were about as close to pre-Covid as possible. Although the Garching-Forschungszentrum U Bahn station about 11 AM on a Sunday makes a person think it's like Covid times in Central London. Then again, on Sunday the 12th February 2023, everyone was in central Munich for the Fasching parade. Odeonsplatz and Marienplatz stations were almost to the brim that day.
It’s just so weird that Zone 1is normally extremely busy and now it’s pretty much abandoned. Crazy!
The announcements are so scary, it is like we are in an apocalypse also great video!
This virus thing is technically an apocalypse
We pretty much are tbh
Seeing the whole of London pretty much deserted was scary but also really fascinating. Thanks for filming this, we’ll most likely never see something like this again unless of course we go back into full lockdown. This video will go down in history forever.
This is how the underground always looks to me as I work on the track during the night.
This was incredibly fascinating. It's great to see that lockdown measures are generally being adhered to (although ironically in order to document it you had to violate it lmao). Thanks so much though!
London Underground is the best subway system in the world. I’m absolutely amazed how clean both the stations and trains are.
Says who. Do you know the pollution levels down there?
London may be cleaner but, I think we have a bigger system here in NYC.
@@matthewhernandez8342 he didn't say it was the biggest
@Bardock New York has more stations, London has more miles of track
I’m baffled! I live in Sweden, and I thought our system was empty, holy shit!
This is insane! On my adventure in the tube piccadilly line, I've encountered trains where I literally could not fit on then to have the doors close in my face and have to wait another 4 or so minutes.
I'm over in London for a gap year, and for this to have happened while I'm here is just the worst luck. I love catching the tube and exploring the city and now I can't 🤬
Thousands of people have *died* prematurely but you can't go to Tower Bridge; my heart bleeds purple piss for you. smfh
Hopefully we’ll never see this again. So eerie and fascinating to see as a historical piece of film.
It reminds me of Seattle,Washington(The heart of the Coronavirus scare in the USA). I live in the Seattle suburb of Edmonds, a few miles north of the location of the first case in the US at the LifeCare Center. I live not more than 10 blocks from a major highway, and I usually can here traffic on it from where I live, right now, nothing. It's really scary and eerie.
KEEP SAFE EVERYONE!!!
It's not centered on Seattle anymore. It's centered on New York.
@@JBS319 True
I dont even know how it got so bad here in NYC, I thought it would've been more spread out :(
Hell. My state is five times worse than yours. Mass.
You should have seen these in mornings and evenings couldn't move man
Does any Londoner remember the last time the city was as deserted as it is here (Outside of extreme weather events or bank holidays)?
Ryan Poggioli No. I was born here and I’ve lived here all my life. I have never seen this city so empty.
Ryan Poggioli the last closet event was probably just after 7/7 happened.
I'm sure most people in London have never seen the city empty like this on a normal day
Only 2 or 3 weeks ago this was full of people with poor hygiene standards coughing and spluttering all over the place. Every man and his uncle in London seemed to be out and about with symptoms of the virus.
Before I started working from home, it was amazing how many people were on the train with a continuous cough. Wasn't long before I had one.
That's symptoms of any virus though
I've got some footage of the DLR from February and yes - the coughs are there. Dry ones to. I feel very fortunate to have my health now, though I'm glad I went to London that time in Feb as it's unlikely I'll be going again for some time.
Beno has made a social document, a London under quarantine but with transport still running, deserted stations, passages, platforms, concourses and streets, a rare chance to see the architecture and design of the stations as well. One day we will look back at this video, it will be one of the few visual reminders of this time. TfL has now run out of money and 7000 staff have disappeared.
Great video. If only it was like this going to work every day :) 👍🏻
Lol every person’s dream XD
I was driving the train 803 at 22:28. Driver on central line 😭😭
This complete idiot surfs our trains on the Woodford loop.
@@kieranstravels doesn't matter how long ago it was hes still an idiot.
@@fullsteamahead5109 Like you joking
@@fullsteamahead5109 look on his about section, he says. 'Everything I am doing is completely legal'.
@@absolutereigns8531 do I sound like I'm joking? The guy is a complete fool and we know who he is,hopefully soon he'll be held accountable for his actions.
0:14 This sounds like something from 1984 by George Orwell. That single-handedly made me grateful that I didn't travel during lockdown.
One thing Ive always wanted to know about those stations that have platform screens...what if the driver overshoots the platform even just by a fraction...the doors won’t align up....the drivers must be very skilled to get the train to stop in the exact right place!
Before the days of Seltrack the drivers used to approach the stopping point very slowly. Nowadays seltrack is pretty efficient.
The seltrack system is more efficient stopping at the peds.
As an ex-Jubilee Line driver (before ATO), it was always enjoyable to stop exactly on the mark to line all the doors up. After doing it many times per day, it didn't take long to get good at it. If a driver overshot the mark you would inform the controller of your mishap and be told to continue to the next station and apologise to your passengers (unless you were the first or last train of the day in which case there were procedures for driving backwards). Now it's all automatic with ATO - much more boring I would imagine.
A great opportunity to appreciate the station architecture. Reminds me of an experience I had in college. I attended a large university that was divided into 3 campuses. The day before Thanksgiving my freshman year, the school was considered open, but all the classes were cancelled. So I took the opportunity to visit each of the campuses and explore the vintage facilities. Nobody around, just the sounds of steam pipes and mechanical equipment as I'm walking through these old corridors - absolute bliss.
When I was a child I used to design imaginary metro systems (actually I still do this now when I am bored), and they always had no people on them. Lots of people about spoils the enjoyment of epic trains.
I know this is very cynical to say but I really envy you in this moment.
Being able to roam around freely in an empty underground has always been one of my dreams. Especially because my city has so few lines. I always fancied an experience like this.
Enjoy the moment while you can Beno;
And most of all: STAY SAFE and let everyone around you stay safe as well.
Me too except doiong it naked. Wouldn't that be the coolest thing? Leaving home with out a stitch of clothing and riding around on deserted public transport all day to the farthest reaches of town.
John Rauner there is No Trousers Day every year on the Underground. With pants on of course.
@Dan Castel Anch'io sono italiano (a metà). Eh purtroppo l'unica città italiana ad evere una metropolitana molto sviluppata è Milano. Le altre hanno massimo 2-3 linee
At least you're almost guaranteed the front seat on the dlr...I guess :/
Creepy, as a regular on the tube I find this very eery. Shows how much life has changed..
I have always wondered if it would ever in my lifetime happen that one of the most busy places in the world would be totally empty. And when i saw this i couldn’t believe my eyes. It actually happened. I never thought that i ever was gonna see something like this in my entire life. It’s very scary!
This is amazing and I'm only 1 minute in. Thanks for taking the risk to document the Underground at a very weird time! Hope I don't get to the end and see you arrested by the transport police lol.
3 years later I am really glad you documented it so well. Guess that made you a key worker :)
As a Londoner, this is really weird and eerie to see. I cannot believe how quiet and deserted the tube really is at the moment. And in a weird way, it's kind of making me miss the tube lol and I kind of can't wait to use it again lol
0:48 Victoria line
2:08 Jubilee line
6:57 Northern line
10:28 Piccadilly line
11:59 Bakerloo line
16:16 Sub-surface line
16:48 Jubilee again
19:34 Central line
22:42 DLR
Subsurface (Circle, Hammersmith and City,Metropolitan, District)
This is good journalism, Stockholm doesn’t have this but it is still amazing how you break Coronavirus travel rules all in the name of journalism.
seeing Kings Cross St Pancras so quiet want me to really go out for a ride but I am not stupid
it’s just
beautiful
The stations here look empty but I saw news articles about overcrowding still happening at rush hour during the lockdown. Probaly only that busy during rush hour but still I find it quite bizzare that overcrowding has still happened during lockdown.
Shocking just a few weeks ago things were completely normal, especially to see it like that at major interchange stations like Kings Cross / St Pancras. We've got a major recession coming
23:34 hey atleast you can sit in the front seat
So true tho
23:42 what about now?
I lost my job, due to Covid-19, back in March last year and I worked in London then. Dear Lord, I miss normality
scary to see, having lived in london my whole life. the tube was crowded everyday of every hour and just full of buzz but now it is a void of people and just sign of uncertain times we live in
This is so creepy to watch. I study aboard in the Fall of 2019 in London and used the tube all the time where it was packed sometimes. This just doesnt seem right.
The mice don’t know what social Distancing means 😂
Not much chance of catching anything apart from a train!
The virus can be airborne for several hours inside a carriage...
@@ahpadt no....it cant be idiot. Dont believe Facebook u sheep BAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
@@ahpadt facebook lies it can only spread through animals/ humans
And food i think
I just realised it can spread through surfaces
In the future we can all look back at such a remarkable record of what went on, thanks.
Used to be 5mph I thought
Ну что мне сказать? Красавчик! Показал нам лондонский метрополитен. What can I say? Nice! He showed the London Underground for us.
3:52 prob cleanest underground train I have ever seen! good time to get some maintenance work done on stations/lines.
Because they are empty
now this is actually the weirdest feeling to have on the tube, it ain't the same without so many people rushing to get on a train xD
This is 3 years Ago today how crazy is that
Really has a 28 Days Later vibe going on here (but the trains are still running). So eerie...
the first lockdown was just surreal
5:35 this was the creepiest shot ever
Have never seen the inside of the trains so clean and shiny.
ITS ACTUALLY AMAZING breh to see london.....BUSY LONDON ...THAT EMPTY !! I might have to go for a stroll real soon, this video is worthy of being viral world wide , I wont be surprised if this ends up on tv
This maked me cry. Thank you for sharing. I really miss London. Take care UK :(
Ghost Town by The Specials would be a fitting soundtrack to this.
My favorite is 2009, S, 1995, and 1996 stocks. My favorite bite is class 350, 321, 387, 171, 466, (And that class train from grand Continental railways that makes that “tick tock” sound)
Gosh. It's hard to believe that only about a month earlier the tube was so crowded we were complaining. Now, there is practically nobody!
Great video! It is very eerie that crowded subway stations are empty.
The last time I went up to London was on 20 March 2020. I avoided the London Boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark, and will avoid them again when I next go back up to London because those are among the worst affected areas.
Seeing Waterloo national rail station deserted was weird......with the distant clicking of a Class 455 Westinghouse compressor.
Here in Melbourne, Australia our trains,buses,trams are still doing a full service!
Everything over here has been dropped to at least half-frequency. I've never seen timetables so sparse!
NorthRailUK it does make some sense as less people will be using the service.
@@Dan_07 Yeah I completely understand and support that. It's just the stark contrast from the usual hustle and bustle of the typical morning commute - so weird!
NorthRailUK crazy world we are living in!
Good very good but you forgot about the Dirstrict Line and Hammsmith and City Line and Metropolton Line.
S trains are too boring to film
@@benolifts Why are they too boring
I know all the 40 stations that are closed
Next time what about you do the London Underground Coronavirus services on the S trains
Surely London Underground must be loosing a lot of money, running near empty trains ?
I bet they're getting government funding.
Elevatorz Isnt the underground owned by the council ?
@@forza223bowe5 I'm an American so I wouldn't have any idea.
It's owned by the government.
London Underground are run by the government completely who are also running all National Rail TOCs for at least 6 months. They have a lot of money.
I would’ve asked if this was essential but if they think it’s essential or not it is essential to me cause it’s Ben’s legendary vids
It will be essential in 10 years or so as it’s a document of London during the covid19 pandemic.
straight out of an apocalypse movie
Thank you . Trains here have a few more people, especially bnow that they cut back to late night headway all day.
Love it when the tube trains come in fast
Me too 🤩
so weird seeing what used to be my everyday stations and platforms, completely empty through a video, like some weird dream
The London Underground station has almost no people in there and the subways/stations are more cleaner and hygienic during this epidemic than the disgusting subway trains and stations that are not even clean enough, has more homeless living in there dirtying everywhere and is still has people riding on the trains going to work in New York City.
Just wait until you see the L line it’s always almost full even n the pandemic
at the time, London was fully empty and nobody on public transport. Heck! London was not even in proper lockdown like Italy!
Is the circle line still enjoying delays while no one is using the system?
The circle line is suspended
Same with W&C
Honestly the Circle Line is completely pointless.
this empyness is beautiful
And in Stockholm we are running a fully normal service...
Yep. Not here . These trains are usually full
Wooow, first time seekng this, those announcements sound like a evil movie scene
Those trains are actually accelerating way faster than NYC and Paris subways or even the new trains in Montréal’s Subway.
That’s interesting
12:00 The backerloo line is the best line in London! (Click on the minute mark before commenting!!! Also I don't live in London so I don't have say in which line is the best! I can say that I visited London and my favorite line was the Piccadilly and the Circle Lines because it took us to amazing sites! Also this is just a joke ;) )
No the Piccadilly Line is better!
@@jonaskarlsen4504 Nah, the Backerloo line is better!
The Chicagan You dont even know how to spell it 😂😂😂
@@jonaskarlsen4504 The guy mispelled it so I made a joke out of it, click on minute 12, he says backerloo line
The Chicagan *Bakerloo Piccadilly has far more secrets, and disused stations.
i quiet like the VF drive sounds from the tube trains adds to the video showing deserted station
11:59 my local line. I take this everyday to school. I miss SOOO much :(
Well it seems that London is absolutely comply to social distancing,but New York City is the worst,no wonder why it’s still surging,but here in London there’s no longer a surge because people are complying no matter what,but nyc subway is completely empty trains very late at night,rush hours the train is 15% full on the 3 busiest lines,here in London 10%.
great video, don't understand how the news is showing clips of crowded trains and platforms when even at 17:00 the trains are empty, are they just showing old clips or something
Do people look back at the scam the whole thing was 😮
wow, I'm used to waterloo mainline being incredibly busy, especially back in December... now it's a ghost town
Our metro (BART) closes at 9 pm now. It used to close at 1 am
nick the muni bus San fransico right? Here in London some lines are still being used. I live near the metropolitan line
tino.banana yeah cause our ridership is 7%
Thank you for recording this real history
Nah seriously it's scary and so weird not to see a SINGLE Soul at the tube stations. It is normally PACKED! Like MADD! But noo, why Coronavirus got the UK OUT!
UK and the rest of the world i'm afraid
I was thinking about that because there are always computers everywhere and hear I mean like wow even the central stations are empty and I would not want to be there its so creepy