New Yorker Rides the London Underground (Tube) from King's Cross to Leicester Square
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- Опубликовано: 12 ноя 2023
- I ride the London Underground (Tube) from King's Cross to Leicester Square as a native New Yorker. It was interesting taking the Piccadilly Line for the first time. I thought it came quite quickly but it was a rather old line.
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Recorded November 10, 2023
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Picadilly Line trains have storage room for bags in the middle of the coaches; they were customized like this because they serve Heathrow. They are smaller with less legroom because they travel in compact, deep-level tunnels. The trains can only be made as big. On the other hand, the Circle Line tunnels are just below the surface and larger, so they can accommodate bigger trains.
That's pretty cool to know!
Piccadilly tube trains are going to be the first deep line trains to be replaced with walk through air con carriages at the start of 2025. The lines with new tube trains are the sub surface tube lines which have bigger tunnels and therefore trains.
That's really cool! They need air conditioning
London sure does have very nice trains!!
That was a very cool video! I had no idea that Uber did train rides there! 2:45 So cool man.
The quality of this camera is amazing, loved it.
9:23 Very pretty lady there. I agree though the wheels were pretty noisy, haha.
Overall, great video! Thanks AK for sharing London with us! 👍
You took the waaay long way around to get on the piccy at kx st p. From platform 9&3/4 you actually need to walk straight back out to the Euston Rd entrance, down the steps, turn right thru the barriers and take the left hand escalator right in front of you. This leads directly to the piccadilly line platforms. That access tunnel you took is relatively new and is by far the longest way to navigate the station
9:14 Hello. Thanks for posting.
The Jubilee line is best.
Thanks for sharing of the Piccadilly line train my NYC friend ActionKid! I know you had fun in London in UK as England and I'm glad of you.☺
Looks very clean👏🏾
Yes, it's very clean
I miss hearing those tube sounds and announcements. I haven’t been to London since 2015 and I do miss the place.
I'm glad I could bring back some of the Tube experience for you then
@@ActionKid Thanks, Ken. I’m really enjoying your videos from London.
Thanks for another great tube video AK really enjoyed it . Looks like they may have to do some updating on the Piccadilly line it's one of the oldest lines on the system. 😊
You're welcome, it definitely needs to be updated
Nice tube ride , this kind of videos are the best😎Thank you for sharing this enjoyable and relaxing experience A K🙂👍!!!
'aharing'? - sharing
@@stuartwray6175Typo , just corrected lol
You're welcome, glad you've been enjoying these videos
I was looking forward to see you head into Platform 9 3/4. 😂 Interesting to know the train cars are not equipped with AC. 😲 It was an efficient despite the line being old. 👍 Thank you for sharing this informative Tube ride, AK! 🤗
Thanks for the share ActionKid!
FYI it's a long walk at KX because they send you the wrong way to prevent overcrowding.
7:25. That looks like David Bowie in his glam days. lol. 😁. Or Annie Lennox
When I see London's Tube I think of American Werewolf in Lincoln 😮
London. lol. Yeah me too
I like the videos of the Tube & Underground.😂
As a native NYer myself, I've noticed the London tube trains are very deep. It took you over 5 mins just to get the platform.
Yes, many of the platforms are very deep!
Deepest in the world
If you want to go to Heathrow you have various options: the Piccadilly Line, the Elizabeth Line or the Heathrow Express from Paddington Station to Heathrow non-stop in15 minutes.
Hello my favorite little hiker! I see with enthusiasm that you have just arrived in Europe! Great ! Also to help you I'm becoming a Giant Panda for 3 months! After which I would become a Red Panda again! You show us a London with a very New York look. I had no idea that London was so vast and airy, it's a city where you can breathe unlike NYC. You have made progress in your video captures, your traveling is much more flexible than before, your viewing angles are more sophisticated. However, you must not forget to show the shops. You should go look for unusual places, use your camera like a bird's eye and go find magical places, which fascinate the eye! Your video captures reflect the atmosphere of this megalopolis well. Maybe you could rent an electric scooter and show us around greater London! And finally, be proud to be an American citizen, the land of freedom! We really appreciate you! See you !
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Thank you so much for the support
You're welcome to him.
I've never heard someone complain so much, with such a monotonous voice.
First and last time watching.
Is your pocket 3 on continuous auto focus? It seems to be struggling with focusing on things sometimes, which makes me think it might be on the wrong focus settings.
It's on Single point focus. I find continuous auto focus to be aggressive when there's multiple objects or people in front of the camera all the time. I also forget it's on single point focus and need to tap the screen to update what's in focus.
Piccadilly Line 1973 Tube Stock
I count 15 cctv cameras in the frame at 1:16😱
14 at 1:35 and 2:19 I love this game
Another great video with added almost Sharon Stone moment. London is giving you of her best!
There’s no AC on the London underground because of the small/old deep tube tunnels. The trains are already at maximum capacity and can’t be bigger or can’t fit AC modules above the trains
9.14 oooh nice!
Yeah, London seems to have attractive girls in America, a big Shirley come sit next to bumping all into you 🤣🤣
@@tiffanycurtis4794 we have those in London too believe me! whatever you can think of it's happened in London at some point
Quickest trip to Heathrow is via Elizabeth Line.
Only the subsurface lines have air conditioning
@12:11 When you boarded the wrong train while in a rush you didn’t notice the dot matrix platform departure board, you boarded train #1 destination Uxbridge but should have waited for Train # 2 showing Paddington, the train cars also have externally fitted side matrix destination screens, notice the Uxbridge train stock you were accidentally on has some mixed traditional transverse seating, the Circle/District line only has longitudinal seating.
Thanks for the underground trip, for some reason they are what I enjoy watching. Question: While in London have you gotten any grumbles or unhappy persons asking you to point the camera elsewhere?
You're welcome, thanks for watching! I've experienced some animosity to my camera, but not much.
The Piccadilly line accounts for more than 10% of all journeys on the Tube, with around 200 million trips annually (before the pandemic) between destinations across north and west London, Heathrow Airport, the West End and King's Cross/St Pancras International.
In London, 91 million Tube journeys were made in April 2023 90% of pre-pandemic. NYC subway Feb 2023 had 84.3million rides 64% pre-pandemic.
_They can charge you the maximum fare_
Can they? If you tap in and tap out, Kings Cross to Leicester Square is a Zone 1 to Zone 1 journey. It should be minimal except at rush hours.
73 stock trains ,second oldest in Britain, this line is currently being upgraded to ato with new trains in service in maybe 2025 . See new trains for London. JH
I’m just curious, the train routes in London are named after people.
And Victoria Line, after Queen Victoria @@ChristopherDotson
The Victoria line is named after Victoria national railway station, which is named after Queen Victoria 🙂
@@johnfinister5011 I see I never been to London so I was just asking
what time do you take it?
Doesn't the New York subway just have really hard plastic or metal seats with no upholstery at all?
The London Tube is amazing
The rest of the UK Train Infrastructure not so much tho
Much appreciated!
How is NYC twice as densely populated as London, but in the videos it feels like the other way round. So crowded everywhere
Most of the people you see in London are tourists and commuters.
The actual City of London is only 1.12 sq. Miles with a population of 9,123. Making it the smallest City in England. But has over 500,000 people commute in to work there. It is the main financial district.
The rest of London is the City of Westminster where the houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace are. Plus 31 London Boroughs that are not City. Collectively referred to as Greater London. It is Greater London that People mistakenly believe is a City.
To be a City in the UK a town has to be granted City Status by the monarch. Size and population are irrelevant. A City can also lose City Status. As happened to the former City Of Rochester near me In Kent. It was granted City status in 1227. By King Henry III, untill it lost it in 1998 & returned to being a town. Population is 67,274 making it 7.4 times larger than the City of London.
I've experienced crowds in both cities!
Think of London as a city with as big / bigger a population than NYC but without the highrises to inhabit, and a whopping 60% of the space devoted to green or open space (it's technically a woodland). If you read between the lines this means only a fraction of the city crams in the majority of the people, and most of them in public spaces. And why the population density appears so low on paper but soars in reality; when in fact Brits / Londoners enjoy the smallest average housing in the West, smaller than even the Japanese, and the crowds are immense -Oxford St alone gets 550,000 visitors a day, or 4x Times Square. Waterloo Station is similar at 500,000, and before the pandemic the Soho-Leicester Sq entertainment district received that each night; the Square Mile Financial District had a density of 600,000 by day and only 3,000 by night. Multiple chokepoints see over 100,000 punters a day, from Camden Market to Trafalgar Sq, the 6 main rail termini to tiny South Ken tube Station, and its two person stairwell for each direction. Bank-Monument tube station has a capacity of over 100,000 at any one time, similar to the world's largest stadia, but closes every 5 days on average due to overcrowding (though now resolved thanks to the upgrade). 7 international airports create the world's largest airhub, hosting 140 million passengers p/a (180m pre-pandemic), or twice the next runner-up. 30 million foreign tourists and over 100 million domestic. It's the only city with over 1 million stadium seats (and 7 major stadia), 1 million theatre seats etc.
This may all seem exciting, but the pressure on the network can be catastrophic -the city is largely a construct designed for 6 million Victorians, not the 9.6 million today growing by over 100,000 each year and affecting everything from sewage to power, rent to building code. For example the tube has only two tracks for much of its route (unlike NYC which has 4), which means nothing can bypass. The tunnels and therefore carriages are small, so it has to absolutely rely on train frequency to handle the crowds -every minute or 90 seconds at rush hr. This also means one delay can affect the entire network, and paralyse multiple lines. Oh and aircon, only the newer lines have it - transporting animals at such high temperatures may be illegal but appear fine for millions of humans every summer, who just LOVE the armpit ambiance. The one thing going about the tube is at least its clean and civil, but not necessarily civilised at rush hr, through no fault of the commuters.
9 Million in each city.
@@jonlen100 City of London population is less than 10,000 people. It's Greater London, that has the 9 million population not the City.
at 5:00 looks like you found Kim Jong Un tring to invade britain, probably with his sister :D
Try and see the positive rather than then negative.
The s stock trains have aircon
We call it the “tube” because it is shaped like a tube.
I know the seats on the Piccadilly Line trains aren't comfortable but I'm used to them in the end.
There are brand new trains coming in 2025.
The subway of Britain is much better than America😂😂
Man AK, you do more complaining than enjoying this gorgeous city ! I have to mute your tube and bus rides because I so don't like listening to complaining people! I've always liked your work until now!!
you are on the tube for 15 minutes, why do you need air conditioning and Barcaloungers?
You seem to complain a lot. First it was the seats aren’t comfortable, then, there’s no AC in the carriage and then, the announcement aren’t loud enough, as if the ones in New York are any better. Why would there be AC in the carriages in London in Winter? Make it make sense! If you want comfort, get on an Uber. The tube seats aren’t for comfort, but designed to get you from A to B in good time! Stop complaining and enjoy the ride and next time stand, if you feel the seats aren’t comfortable enough for you!
I hate to say it but I really agree. All the Brits nearby are probably listening and getting a worse opinion about Americans! lol just be there and enjoy the moment, ak! Of course it ain’t perfect nothing is
@yemol9454 - I don’t see it as complaining. Action Kid’s viewers expect that he will describe things as he sees them. I, for one,appreciate his honest appraisals during his travels. And by the way,I live in NYC but I’ve been to London many times and I much prefer the tube to the NYC subway.
He seems very measured in his videos to me. Some trains dont have comfortable seats as they are old and well used. Its no big deal, but reasonable to point out.
@@thefowlyetti2 Agreed.
@@thefowlyetti2 There’s no where in the world where train seats are comfortable unless you’re travelling 1st class and it doesn’t need pointing out. The Brits who use the tube daily don’t moan about the seats and you’re only on the train for a matter of minutes before you get off. AK doesn’t need to keep going on about the seats. He also did the same when he rode the bus in his other video.
Be very careful about bed bugs getting in your luggage. London has them real bad. ❤
Fake news.
Yes, I'm very careful! Thanks for the concern
It's Paris where bed bugs are a major problem.
You are in London and there's hardly any day time walks where you can see places. I don't care if you are on the subway.
Near constant rain and high winds since he arrived. Unforgiving for expensive equipment. Please bring in a high-pressure system to the UK, even if just for a few days. Londoners need a break as well.
London really isn't my cup of tea. Sorry Londoners. Gimme other EU capitals.