How An Emergency Alarm Closed London's Largest Railway Station | The Tube | Spark
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- Опубликовано: 30 окт 2018
- 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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Love how I’m watching this at 1:00 am in 2020 when I wasn’t even born when it was filmed
Nice. I was a baby back then, just got baptized couple months before this was filmed. It always gives me a weird feeling when I watch something from these years.
Same here
Lol my son was 14 when this was filmed lol.
Same haha
Same
People love to moan about evacuations but the last thing anyone want is a repeat of the Kings Cross disaster.
Neither Moorgate, 1975. Sad. I was a London commuter then, but not on that train. They conjectured that it was a suicide. Domestic terror -- I dread the thought, but situations can come from anywhere, anyhow, from legitimate people with legitimate jobs.
@@squarerootof2 yeah but we ain't got stuff similar to kings cross no more with muslims and no smoking policy...
eddyvideostar it wasn’t a suicide.
And 7/7
but it would been a higher death toll now
Geoff Marshall... in 2002. God I can't wait to see this.
Colin you slaaaaaaahg how ya doin
Colin Stepney lol
Wait he worked in the tube in 2002
@@Lucario0007 no there was a episode of him going to all 275 tube stations (at the time there were 275) in one day
@@CrazyPlayss oh
So glad they have had new uniforms since this was made.
God, yes! WTF was that uniform??
@@nulanula5302 very old fashioned looking and it was only 17 years ago haha.
bruh no you don’t.
“is it too much trouble...”
Yes. I’d rather get you through the line as fast as possible instead of holding up the line to tell people why it’s so long. Get over your impatient self.
18:32 Geez, have some respect for them. You wanting to get home doesn't excuse from the fact that you made your comment sound direct and personal to them when they don't want to be there anymore than you do
It's the same in any customer-facing job. The rudeness that comes out of these people because they are inconvenienced for a short period of time is unbelievable. I witnessed a customer chew out a colleague to the point my colleague broke down, over her stating they couldn't accept card payments at her til and the customer was running late for something and didn't have enough cash. There was a cash machine less than 10 meters away from where she stood, she'd have passed it on the way in and the "No cards" sign was clearly visible as you joined the queue. The customer began to rant and rave, calling the cashier stupid and incompetent. Apparently, the customer's lack of awareness and tardiness is the cashier's fault?
These people absolutely deserve a commendation for keeping their cool.
This documentary is/will be great for the future for people to compare the old and new services, I wasn’t born at the time this was filmed, and with only the first episode I’m already impressed by the massive changes on staff working mechanic, rolling stock and amount of people
10:44 or instead of slagging off the staff (who do in fact know what they're doing considering they go through months and months of training), you could jump on one out of the six buses to Victoria, Oxford Circus, Hyde Park Corner or Piccadilly Circus, or jump in a cab to Westminster or Bond Street, and go from either one of those stations. Will be quicker than you stood there moaning about it.
male karen
I'm so happy you've got the rights to this show. I loved it on original broadcast, and used to watch repeats all the time. I hope you are able to get the rights to all of them!
Lol. Someone has rights to a programme on RUclips? I don't think that's ever happened. 😅
@@AndrooUK Is is quite normal actually. There's alot of channels (including this one) which just license old content to put on RUclips.
wtf is the guy at 16:21 saying? is that English?
That's the delightful sound of England's mother tongue...or gibberish...it's hard to say
@SwizzleGuy
Believe it or not it's English
Shaun Lock seemed to understand well enough though.
I imagine the man has one or more mental health issues that cause him to have fast and mumbly/slurred speech, which is then compounded by the tendency for those who are nervous to speak faster. Here's a rough transcription - there are bits at the start and end that are simply unintelligible.
Customer: Something like "so is there a 100% walkout is there?" or "have they got a 100% walkout have they?" repeated 3 times, ending with simply "100% walkout?"
Staff: "yeah, but- yeah, yeah."
C: "because last time they have 3 or 4 lines working last time, didn't they?"
S: "yeah, yeah, there's none working this time."
C: "none at all?"
S: "no, no."
C: "why's that?"
S: "because we've got no drivers."
C: "they're all fat idiots aren't they?"
S: "well, no... it's their right, isn't it?"
C: "yeah, but... I know, but the thing is though, what's it going to get them though? [unintelligible]"
S: "no, that's right."
Welcome to England
The old boy is good at dealing with the public. I'd find it hard to keep my cool being instigated by rude people.
I am a big fan of this documentary series and i really love the opening song its very relaxing, i wish i could listen to a 1 hour version of it lol, these series are very interesting to watch
16:57 - lady born in 1919! She’d be 102 now (06/01/21). Incredible if she’s still going. Guess there’s no way of ever finding out.
I'm excited for the next part: featuring RUclips's very own Geoff Marshall
oh yes hahah, geoff totally needs to be on here
he looks so young in this! xD
burdizdawurd1516 what
Hope so love geoff
@@andymerrett plenty but they aren't part of the challenge so it's the same.
The guy who was a station dude at Victoria is a good man
He is
He's a scab
2:29 That really shows that the workers actually care about the travelers, and that they just don't like their working conditions/pay.
For sure! Tube workers have shown the best customer service to me that I have seen in any metro system. Even outside the city center I was given really helpful tourist information which was great for a lost and confused foreigner like me.
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Brian the supervisor is spot on, hope he’s doing ok
absolute chad, i hope hes well too. at around 3 minutes in he had the balls to admit his mistake and apologise.
5:24 Brent off The Office."And that's where we come in. We're the Queen ants and we'll tell them how to get there" 🤣
omg the tube was such a mess back then
And it hasn't got any better. So many signal failures, strikes and delays
I still is
@@MGMG0 You guys are lucky your able to get a trian every minute on many lines. NYC still uses very old 1930 signals and we have over 50000 delays per month. NYC only have 1 line that runs great which is the L. All the other 25 lines are more than 40-60% late. To New Yorkers the London Tube is heaven.
when you see train signal issue it's often someone stealing the cables 🙄
@@LordInter lol
The guy at 5:34 is actually MC Grindah
BANG LYRICAL BLOW TO THE JAW
Mattie Konig leaving all the other mcs down on the floor
God those uniforms looks like some weird Soviet style
16:18 whaaaaat?
He's speaking Minecraft Enchantment Table
Rapper
wow. uploading these in HD? been a while since i watched them and they were NOT in HD. thank you so much for these
it was recorded in 2002.... what'd you expect?
felicia natasha nicole Not HD. The original one’s were recorded in a much lower quality and in a different format. It’s basically a rebuild of the original one. And yes, even if 2002 seems like it was a few years ago, technology has improved a lot over the last decade.
@@CityWhisperer Even in 2002 you could film in what we call HD (look at movies from the 70s like the Carpenter ones, they were filmed for the big screen; a TV screen in your living room is a joke compared to their target screen size), the width of the film (8mm, 16mm etc) is the point. But I guess they used DV technology which was poor at that time instead of using older, but more fleshed out analogue film for their TV brocast programmes.. Sometimes the combing/interlacing is just awkward and it has this ugly Sony Handycam DV tape vibes to it put in the casing of a semi-professional TV camera *shudder*
16:17
*he is speaking the language of gods*
Oh the escalator stopped running, I think I will stand here like an idiot instead of WALK DOWN the escalator .
Londoners = thick
right in MTL so many of them are "in repairs" or completely off for long periods of time.
None of you spot the barriers along?
Christine Green they will have been walking down but they’ll have been stopped when tfl arrived. You can clearly see the barrier!
they blocked them with barriers
16:21 * *Eminem has entered the chat* *
The good old days with the old buses ❤️
Come oooon! Fare jumper at 19:15!!
I like that guy's analogy about ants and breaking their line. Very true!
We all went through the motions of change living in London. Love it, city isn’t the same now but loved it then from 1999 to 2017
IT’S A GRADE A EMERGENCY! lol that dude had me laughing my ass off
Those uniforms, those caps.... They look terrible on ANYBODY.
It must be a real challenge to design a uniform that fits nicely on any gender, age, race, haircut and the combination of all. The decision was made to make them look like some fast food chain or theme park railway uniform. London Underground is not an airline.
they look like toy action figures haha
Rev Awdry could make a copyright claim
Fairly sure they don't wear them anymore.
@@Tobberz I hope they got replace with something better.
If I worked for TFL and I was going to go on strike, I’d do it in a fashion far more inconvenient for the company in question. I’d run all services as normal, but not charge a single passenger (leave all the gates open) that way you aren’t affecting passengers and their daily travel method. But the company is facing a massive blow, so much so they’d have to listen because they’d soon go broke otherwise.
yeah and we all get a max charge on our oyster cards at the other end.
Matt Twinkletoes no because all the gates would be left open... so just walk in for free, walk out for free.
yeah if they just wanted to cause loss and trouble for the company they could just open the gates. But no, they decide to cause trouble, distress, financial loss and other problems to thousands of people and they still demand that people need to "show respect" and be understanding of their situation. Are they understanding of those thousands of people´s situations when they are stranded? and most of them with way worse jobs by the way.
@@vanessaruiz4705 They'd be fired, how does that help their situation
@@patrickbeart7091 i dont think they would, that´s just guessing.
I really appreciate the transit drivers here going on strike but doing it in waves so passengers weren’t completely screwed. First few days was just them refusing to wear uniforms. I must say that seeing them in plain clothes was kind of nice. So more laidback and they seemed happier. The next wave was refusal to fix breakdowns. They really wanted to give the union time to negotiate before being forced to walk off the job. They were forced to but by that time, the passengers were on the driver’s side and things were pretty calm. I didn’t even notice the strike happening or when it ended. That really was a great way to strike. It didn’t affect the public much and the workers got what they wanted.
Anyone who was living to witness the accident in 1987 must have had a heart attack at 6:20, poor people. RIP to any victims 😔
5:25 MC Grindah before he became the best MC in the galaxy
22:00 Geoff!!!! very young geoff
Holy crow!!! :D
Oh my god! That's brilliant!
Wow 😂😂
I forgot about this series! I'm glad i discovered it on RUclips
17:54 watching news on the tube about the Tube.
I remember back in 2008 I was visiting my native city of Stockholm, Sweden. There was a bus strike the last couple of days before I was due to fly back home to the US again. It didn’t really affect me anything but I have never seen the subway platforms so crowded. You couldn’t see the train! Also, they had to put on extra trains on the commuter lines. What a mess! However, it worked out.
The young ticket 🎫 inspector guy looks like he’s from the 1950s with that hat on 👀
20:23 playin solitare in the office haha says it all really
This all took place in the year I was born. It's really weird seeing the large computer screens and televisions, along with all the older bus and train models.
Yes, the time when people used boxes for screens. I remember using VHS tapes, I'm glad video is digitized now.
@@thebluewhale8891 In 2002 the DVDs were already in use, the VHS were from the 80s to the 90s.
Brian is such a great voice for the workers who were on strike, i wonder if he was a Union Representative for the Underground?He would be great at solving disputes and getting workers everything they deserve, pay rises, benefits etc..
16:18 I think Harry Hill missed a classic "i beg your pardon of the week"
Wow, I didn't know Green park was the UK's biggest station, amazing!
6:20 Inspector Sands :)
Good catch!
I got a burger king advert for pressing that button
love this series! :D
Spark: Summer 2002 was no easy feat for the people working on the tube.
2020: Hold my beer
Its quite funny watching the management come to the realisation that the people who work in the station everyday actually do a difficult job quite well. Management should always come to site and listen to the staff on the ground. The moment you start ignoring the workers things start to unravel.
Hear, hear!
this episode is the answer to why automatic ticket dispensers were installed. The whole process will be automated as much as possible, that way even in the case of a strike, the system will function , if only on a skeleton crew of scabs.
What about the drivers
@@rookaloot4736 Autonomous trains will take over all those jobs. It's already happening all over with fully self-driving trains on a number of 'closed' networks that don't interact with roads, and have station screens/barriers so people can't go on to tracks.
Improvements will sort that out so trains and trams can be retrofitted or replaced so they don't need drivers even when interacting with roads and ungated tracks where animals or people could wander onto them. Throw in monitoring cameras or technology to keep an eye on the tracks so the train could stop even before it is in view of a problem.
You can have conductors wandering around the train, or Police/security, but computers will do all the grunt work. Contactless ticketing, billing direct to your debit card or account, modern services don't need humans at all to operate anything passengers interact with, so you can do an entire trip without having to talk to anyone. 😅
Humans will just be customer service, and cleaning up, then some maintenance for stations and trains. Robots will take over those jobs too, to save money.
Of course, this will take time, but it will happen... and we'll invite it because we always want to save money and improve services. We'll also resent it because unskilled and low skilled workers will be out of work or competing heavily for higher skilled jobs.
@@AndrooUK Oh thanks
19:14 oH sHeEt THerEs A RaT!!
Ahhh the good old routemaster bus
I surpose a bonus of having a strike is they can clean the stations
Can I go back to 2002, simpler times and I was an infant
5:47 Depends on who you're asking, an old lady (70ish) once started shoutinging about how incompetent my local train personel were, because they had to cancel multiple departures, because of heavy ice and snow AND a fallen tree on the tracks, police had to come and escort her away.
Haha didn’t expect to see Geoff Marshall at the end
Didn't realize the old Roadmaster buses were still running in 2002
I think the route masters were used on non heritage routes until 2005
I like trains.
So do I
This was filmed the day I was born and 18 years later comes up on my recommended
17:19 brilliant appearance from Stevie Wonder! 😂 😂 It’s a bit wearing listening to these people (passengers) in their own little bubble in a big big world. Late home? Not to worry, but there’s more important things to worry about.
This was somewhat funny as the commentator said at 19:15 "The platforms are almost empty." as a mouse runs across the screen.
Kinda confused about the lack of an actual alarm in the station, that buzzing sound didn't alarm a single bystander, that's how fires become deadly.
That's not uncommon - in most public places you won't find a loud alarm as long as there is no imminent danger for the passengers/visitors life. It's usually much safer to get them out step by step wit a lot of staff in place to guide and calm them. Loud alarms always causes a lot of people who aren't used to alarms like this to panic and get themselves or others hurt.
I love the series
Miss this show.
we love Geoff
It's nice to see the difference in this first program in 2002 to now. The underground really seems to have got it's shit together.
Exactly
This reminds me of the current day MTA (nyc subways)
I'm happy to tell you that in London most parts of the system have been modernised
10:55 the staff do know what they are doing! It was alot of stress so it would seen like that.
"I need the discipline" 10/10 mate wel done
How can your boss call off a strike? Doesn't letting them do that defeat the purpose? 😂
Brian's bushy broom moustache is the star of this show.
I heard of a strike in Japan where the staff went on strike by refusing to collect fares - seems a better way to handle it without inconveniencing folks who aren't part of the decision-making process.
that's very smart
Nice try, but that cannot happen in the UK because offering free travel is not an alternative to industrial action. It is a breach of the employee's contracts and they can get fired for doing so.
So, they went to work, got paid, but didn't do their jobs? They just did what they felt like doing and not what they agreed with a contract to do?
That's not admirable behaviour. What else were they not bothering to do? Something that affected safety?
I was had just been born when this was being filmed 😂😂 17 years ago 😂
19:14 Jerry what u doing here?!?!?
I was 1 year old when this was on TV!! Wow
Amazing!!!
My Lord,im so glad I live on a Mt in backwoods KY, I'd go nuts there,,,
19:14 *mouse!*
" He Wanna shove this right up his you know" 😭😅😅😅
I was still in school when this was filmed I was 11 years old at the time of the holidays on the strike day. I was in school having already starting my 2nd year of being year 7 having jumped a year ahead.
WHY DOES THIS KEEP ENDING UP ON MY FEEEEED!!!
Its so weird seeing what the underground and London was like before I was born
6:35 At least they could have started the announcement saying “all passengers must leave the station immediately”
10:31 so so true
Oh Wow! I didn't realise Geoff Marshal was in this series
Where?
8:09 anyone want a Diet Coke?
Ahh 2002, 'twas a simpler time.
I was 12 in 2002 and I miss that era. I miss the internet before it was taken over by big corporations and social media. Back then webpages were simpler and not stuffed with crap like they are now and don't get me started on Facebook, the curse of the modern world. Reality TV was also in its infancy and I think the music of the time was better than now. I listen to a lot of 2000s music.
I was born in 1981 and was 21 when this was filmed!
"Yeah but we can't get around." Call off the strike, this girl "can't get around".
07:40 the idiot of they day
Love the theme song
I couldn't help but laugh as the mouse ran across the empty station.
Hey Inspector Sands was called even back then! Interesting :)
Very interesting. I wonder when they actually started using Inspector Sands.
Love MC Grindah working tfl
This was somewhat funny as the commentator said "The platforms are almost empty." as a mouse runs across the screen.
The underground has always been dangerous
Right now watching I'm right now shiffring like having nightmare
This was filmed when I was born summer 2002
Management upset about picket lines 😂, makes me so happy 🤣