Secrets of the DLR
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- Опубликовано: 11 авг 2014
- Continuing our 'Secrets' series, we've done all the tube lines now but there's still the Docklands Light Railway! So Geoff Marshall gives us a whistle-stop tour of the curiosities to be found on London's DLR.
Geoff has also made "More Secrets of the DLR" follow up Video! That's here: • More Secrets of the DLR
When i was like 7, I sat on the front of the DLR and a worker opened the control box and let me open and close the doors at the station. 10 years and I still remember it.
You had a good childhood
Perfect childhood, I’m commenting this as of August 2023 ,16 years old, technically in some situations I’m no longer considered a child
@@awuraama7185how did you do in your GCSE
So now you are 23???
I once got a DLR front seat, I guess now my life is complete.
I was once in the front seat but 3 stops later a woman came along to my side of the front and said to me
"Sorry I have to operate the train from here" I have never been able to get the front seat since
ZLD Smogless :(
ZLD Smogless same as me, and I wanted to visual it
ZLD Smogless was she lying or was she an actual worker who needed to do something
(i know the dlr is automatic)
I got the front seat until Limehouse
My friend uses the DLR to get home from work and he wears a uniform he once sat in the front seat of the DLR and two tourists freaked out after he got off the train because they thought he was the driver and left them inside they freaked out more when it started to move and he tried his best not to laugh at them
Hahahahahah
I want that to happen to me.
The world is cruel
Your friend is also cruel to tourists
You just decided my next Halloween activity. lol
How funny!
I was a member of the engineering team that built the original DLR. There's an interesting story about the DLR front seat. When the DLR was officially opened in mid-1987, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip boarded a train at the original Island Gardens station and rode in the front seat to the Operations and Maintenance Centre at Poplar, where the opening ceremonies were being held. As the train pulled into Poplar station, one of the Queen's security guards opened one of the train's doors before it came to a full stop. This caused the train's emergency track brakes to activate, and the Queen and Prince were jostled a bit forward in their seats. Fortunately, they did not strike the windscreen.
do you know what the DLR trains are made of - metal wise?
Did you also know that Mudchute station is the only stop on the Bank to Lewisham DLR where you are NOT reminded to 'take all your belongings with you'. Have a listen next time...
So I can leave my belongings behind there?
Radioactivechickenishere because of think it has a reversing siding or a quick loop that's why
Radioactivechickenishere yeah XD
It’s not because it does not say that announcement ever
I find it only does it at Greenwich Cutty Sark and a couple of other ones from Lewisham to Stratford, and maybe Canary Wharf
Re sitting at the front pretending to drive: on my first ever trip on the DLR just after it opened I did that, and it felt like we were living in the future. My second ever trip, that bubble burst: there was a problem with the computer control, and they actually had a driver sitting at the front driving the train. There's a panel at the front which opens up and has a complete set of driving controls in there. It felt like all my dreams had died that day.
Most trains usually operated by computer have those contingency manual control panels, just in case.
manual override is limited to 20km/h.
Ben Wheeler doer
Dlr
I'm so sorry to hear about your dreams crushed
Ben 23 i
The DLR has an “upside-down” traction-current-rail / train-shoe interface which gives it greater resilience to winter icing-up than the traditional U.K. third rail system.
City Airport shuts on a Saturday afternoon to give the locals a break from the noise
Geoff Marshall
Would quite happily watch an hour length episode of each of these (including the Tube ones), shame they're so short! :-D
Watch these 2 channels, plenty to see:
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ruclips.net/user/JagoHazzard jego hazard
I remember watching Geoffrey Marshall on the tube programme back in 2003 episode 24 hours which was the world record for travelling on all the underground line and to all 250 stations I will never forget that episode.
As an Anglo-Maltese mongrel I divide my time between London and Malta. Woolwich Arsenal is my local station... where the terrazzo floor tiles on the DLR platforms and walkways were made, wait for it, in Malta. By a company called Hal Mann. Kind of nice to have a bit of home from home.
I managed to get the front seat as a child once
Shadow Fan every time i was on the DLR, i got the front seat. Once a whining kid came and told me to give him teh seat. I did not give it up for him.
Weird flex but ok
Guess I am a child
@@buksi6342 that kid deserved it . they will have to wait
thanks Geoff, appreciate your work as always :)
The DLR is very handy to Get from Bank or Tower Gateway to Beckton or Royal Albert where I travelled to on a really regular basis catching the Main line train down from the East Midlands to St Pancras getting the Tube from King’s X on the Northern Line down to Bank and changing there to catch the DLR changing at Shadwell, or Lime House for DLR services to Beckton
Great video Geoff!
1:16 "To this day, it's only used by wankers."
-Jay Foreman
@@adrianatgaming8640 Exactly.
This is stuck in my head whenever I see City Airport 🤣
I dont get it
@@qon_noq6925 Look up Jay Foreman's video on London's airports.
No mention of the really fun roller coaster bit on your way into bank
Bank D.L.R platforms are the second deepest in London at about 136ft below ground level.
@Joseph Stalin angwy
You never fail to fascinate me Mr Marshall, just when I think the DLR HAS no secrets you explain them all, by the way 4:50 you big kid! hahahe! Love it, keep them coming I can't get enough of these Railway videos!
The DLR has turned 30 Years Old
It has linked East London for that long and I think its a very reliable light metro railway
My regular DLR journey is form Langdon Park to Stratford
I once rode a DLR train, but not in London. They had to sell a bunch of their old rolling stock to Essen Stadtbahn in Germany when they added the tunnel section back in the eighties.
I was on a DLR train once, sat behind couple of elderly ladies from the North American continent. One said to the other, "I can't believe they could have named a station called "Shagwell"!
Really enjoying these London videos! 😁👍
Ending = My Childhood xD
+jeffrey2014 - The DLR has always been driverless. Look it up
I'm 19 years old and even at this age I still like to sit right at the front when I take the DLR. Is this worrying?
I'll never grow too old to sit in the 'drivers seat' on an automated train! It's the greatest feature of the DLR!!!!!
CHANNEL SHUT DOWN More like EveryAgeHood
@@petercdowney Nah even Geoff likes it and he's an adult
When I was a kid I was on the DLR (1998?) and I swear there were little toy steering wheels at the front to play with
Loving the detail of you matching the DLR colourways ☺️
Amazing
I have caught a train to Bank from Platform 3 at Mudchute. Only once, in 15 years, but it has happened. Granted, there was a failed train on Platform 2, but still.
Another brilliant video.
You just know at some point there's going to be a major fight over who gets the front seat of the train.
Another great video Geoff!
Brilliant video! :D thank you
Great video once again. I enjoyed this one.
Great T shirt, now it's time to buy an orange one Geoff!!!!!
***** yeah wear it for the secrets of the overground
This is awesome!
Great video! Can't wait for the London Overground Secrets!
I hope Geoff will tell me some interesting things about Honor Oak Park station (It's my local station).
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He did
Most of the original 1987 section of the D.L.R was built on the old London & Blackwall railway (1840 - 1926).
1974cfjl Which was apparently cable drawn for part of the distance at one time
Favorite secret: the line on the building marking the Greenwich Meridian!
I go to East India DLR many times because of the data centre. I always wondered what that sundial was for, thanks for finally answering that question!
4:46 Oh yes!! The first time I went on the DLR, I was thinking "where's the driver?" Until it pulled off by itself lol. Love the front seat
All of these Londonist videos coming up on my recommendations really make me want to move back to London!
Love these vids keep up the good work
So cool!😄
I've actually used Platform 1 at Mudchute before, there have sometimes been trains that terminate right then and there since passenger demand for the DLR drops off after Mudchute so they operate fewer trains there
I like the design of the dlr and the jubilee line extension
I noticed the first letter in each caption would make Docklands
Geoff is clever like that sometimes
That cool front seat also exists on Ligne 1 of the Paris Metro. Not so much a front seat as such, there are seats on each side right up to the front window. You get a great view down the line ahead. Specially interesting coming in to Bastille station, the train turns a sharp curve and suddenly you're in a station on a bridge over a canal basin.
The DLR is a very helpful transportation system
Geoff you da best. Plus the dlr is my favourite train ever
3:23 I saw the Canary Wharf station when I was going to the farm!
If you stand at the end of Tower Gateway you can see the Fenchurch Street mainline platforms only yards away across the road
Watching the elevated sections being built was interesting - built pillars first and then had a machine going across the top of the pillars hauling prefab sections into place
Canning town great view of the DLR and jubilee line
Largest all-automatic urban railway! Here in the US ours are small railways called "people movers" and they are usually at airports. Our largest is the Downtown People Mover in Miami.
the front seat of the dlr is very common in singapore and we always have to compete with the train staff for it but except that there is no seat
just great
😯 awesome
Hahaha, sit in the front seat, thats what I always tried when getting on at London City Airport. Ride it quite a few times towards the City :)
And to think that the original DLR trains dating from when the DLR opened in 1987 are still in use over in the city of Essen in Germany.
I've only been on the DLR twice now after seeing this video I'm gonna use it more
Just around the back of Tower Gateway :
station there’s the remnants of Minories station depot which was the Western Terminus of the London and Blackwell railway, it’s been shut since the 1950s.
I have been to London and went on the DLR
Last time I did the DLR was in 2009 from Woolwich to City airport, on the Sunday went to Bank and there was a driver sat in that chair with the box open driving it in manual mode.
it is so cool when you are at the back
Londist,can you do a story of the London Underground "East London Line"
The first Island Garden station was on the site across the road from the viaduct, on the site that now has apartments. Not on the viaduct itself.
THE DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAILWAY IS SO COOL!
no it isn't I use it everyday to take trains to Dartford from Greenwich and honestly its horrid
Platform 3 at Mudchute now has a service to Stratford. Also used as a siding for faulty trains.
The DLR is much less likely to fail to during winter weather with ice and snow.
Reason is that unlike other London railways (third and fourth rail systems) the sliding puck-up shoe on the DLR train is upside down facing upwards and makes contact with the UNDERSIDE of the traction current rail which is less likely to be iced up.
A 'railfan window'! Toronto subways (except the new Rocket models) all have these too. (You're actually just next to the driver, whose booth takes up less than half the car's frontage).
Unbelievable secret!
Went on the DLR today and my dreams came true...
another thing that is a secret about the DLR that the onboard train assistant are called the train captain not guards or conductors. these trains are driven on the left hand side so snagging the front left seat is the best seat on the train. I sat on that seat on Sunday after taking a sunset flight on the emirates air line.
On the scene where it has the beatles song titles on the poster. I dont know if they realise that one song is not highlighted. Where it says "Unfortunatley you are at the wrong Abbey Road, however WE CAN WORK IT OUT and HELP you get back to the correct location". Now the words get back in the sentence is another song title and thats the only one on that poster which has not been highlighted. Maybe you should mention that to them Geoff.
I’ve been lucky enough to sound the horn going the wrong way into Canning Town. This was while it was being controlled
I always head for the back seat, a much better chance of getting it than the front one!
DLR is so convenient when I lived near Stratford International!
thanks geoff for this dlr video also when you said that its quicker to change at heron quays for the jubilee line i definetly agree coz last time when i was in london i got off at canary wharf and i realised i could of got off at heron quays instead to change for the jubilee line
It's quicker for sure. Perhaps a minute or so. I am a security officer for canary wharf and I agree
DLR has a great line
Plane movements are banned at London City Airport on Saturday afternoons; the Lewisham Extension PFI contract ends next year.
Is this an automatic train?
When do we get a ‘Secrets of the meridian line’ video?
v interesting, thnx
Will you do a video Secrets of Crossrail (E Word Line) Once it Opens?
Do Secrets of Crossrail when it will be released to the public!
you predicted the future
Release time:NEVER
Just Like BER
The situation at limehouse is counterintuitive because you have to get a train there and then a c2c and then you will probably have to get on the tube or a bus from fencurch street
Funny thing is platform 3 at Mudchute has been used for passenger services in the past. Just not very often. Also London City Airport is the only station with a ticket office which is correct in the sense its run by DLR. Stratford, Bank and Canning Town all have ticket offices but are run by LUL
I love DLR
Hey it's automated just like the Skytrain system here in Vancouver. Can sit in the front as well!
I love any where in London
Geoff, could you do a video about all the train depots?
Last week I saw a train parked at platform 3 at Mudchute. It was not in service, but confusingly the displays said 'Lewisham' and Lewisham isn't even reachable from platform 3.
When my mum first moved to London with me, I had to take the DLR to school. I wish I knew all of this.
When I was a kid, one of the DLR operator was manually controlling the train and he let me have a go.
Last time I was in London, I took the DLR from Greenwich. After not finding a ticket machine and having no means of contactless payment (or any idea it was accepted), I just got on, with the intention of getting a ticket on the way back I got a telling-off from my more London- and tube-savvy friend about getting a fine that day XD the more you know
We also didn’t know and tapped in at Poplar
Front seat! We're on the ride!
Yeah, the ticket office was shut when I flew back into London City Airport last April, and I had to use the fiddly machines to get my ticket. Not easy when it involves going into London, across it, and back out again
I get what you did at 2:30. You said a u-turn and you did a u-turn
Would you ever be able to do a video inside of the old stations, like not just behind the doors? (Sorry english isn't my native launguage)
Hey Geoff
Perhaps you can make the secrets of the stanted express that goes to the airport
I am a huge fan of your videos 👍🏻🇬🇧
I’ve heard cryprus is nice and does it get busy there and is there anything to see
Please cover the Gospel Oak to Barking line electrification..... assuming that they ever finish the job!
Secrets of the London Overground
Plus you can do river and tramlink