The History of The London Underground
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Hit that bell button because feck all of you have. Plz
Real Engineering What is the ‘Th’ames? It’s ‘T’hames - ‘T’ not ‘Th’....
It would be cool if you would be able to collaborate with Jay Foreman sometime for a video, although his formatting of his content differs from yours.
How you pronounce Thames hurts me.
Hey no harm no foul, the comment shows you realized your error post recording. Frankly without re-recording entire sections of the video it would have sounded choppy to edit and came out worse for it. Probably would have taken a lot of time regardless.
To anyone it's still bothering; stiff upper lip and all that. It's not a big deal.
Comments section:
50%: temz
50%: *temz but bold*
Temmie?
As a Londoner I didn't want this video to end! A part 2 maybe?
Planning to do a video on the actual history of each line and how it was built. I’ll hopefully learn how to pronounce the Thames by then
Real Engineering
How about Victorian Engineering challenges and their effects on modern day construction techniques? Infrastructure maybe?
I'm not a Londoner, and I didn't want this video to end!
"The Londonist" youtube channel has great videos on the The Tube if you haven't checked them out
Londoner??? 😂😂
Your channel is unique and irreplaceable never stop uploading.
I was expecting a video about the influence of public transport on a community, but then I realized that this is not a video from Wendover Productions.
But the History of tunnel boring was interesting, too! The transition you did from cut and cover to the shield method with the story about Amsterdam was just brilliant!
good to know that i am not the only one who gets them mixed up every damn time.
Apace The BBC have an amazing documentary series called "The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track", which I thought was going to be about the infrastructure and logistics of the rail network. It kind of is, but it's far more about the people running it, and it's really interesting and well done.
I thought that it would be about other modes of transport
If it was Wendover he would make particular emphasis on the Piccadilly line because it goes to Heathrow
@@yoironfistbro8128 brilliant
Real Engineering, are you aware of the recently completed tunnel boring project in Seattle? The world's largest tunnel boring machine was used to create a tunnel wide enough for a highway along the entire length of the Seattle waterfront. It also had to be made earthquake proof, along with other unique criteria. Fascinating stuff.
CaptainJdotJdot yeah, that's really cool.
but not as much as how the malaysians did it, they had to drill through the world's shittiest soil terrain filled with limestone caverns and heavy traffic and also the project specs of the "SMART" tunnel, which is a storm water management tunnel that's used as a by-pass in "peacetime".
Also the malaysians worked with the TBM company to create the mixed density TBM. (now there are at least three variants of the TBMs, standard two and the mixed density)
And yet, unluckily, still no good public transit.
I bet a lot of *BORING* work was done there.
The largest TBM is Tuen Mun-Chek Lap Kok.
James Henry Greathead was my ancestor. You always see him overshadowed by the likes of Brunell who, although he made massive developments, resulted in the deaths of hundreds. It's nice to see him recognised for the amazing shield that he created. (I'm not biased at all)
he must have had a GREAThead haHAAA
HAHAHAHAHahahahaha...ha..ha... original -__-
You must be proud to have some of his genes.
@@Eurley66 Fantastic Gene
Thames- said like temms
Eric Hogg yes the a is said like an e
Ever listen to the English try to pronounce most place names around the world. Laughable!
D_is_epik games: And the s like a z....
Every time you say "thaymes" instead of "tems" it hurts. I thought the pronunciation of Thames was common knowledge
J P I know im Irish and I've never heard anyone try to pronounce it like that because we don't pronounce our th's anyway so even if it was pronounced with a th we'd say temms regardless. He's overcompensating to be understood by pronouncing his th's properly but is mistaken in this case as you've said.
Mick the Bull also Huguenot should be pronounced hew-gah-noes not hew-gah-notts.
Mick the Bull It's an easy mistake to make, every English child asks this question growing up I'm sure. It was just a surprise after clearly a decent amount of research has gone into everything else, I guess this slipped through :P
Mick the Bull -Ah, so it's a case of hypercorrection then.
J P it’s not. It’s a common mistake, especially those who learn American English when learning English (even as a second language). I spent 10 years pronouncing the word as “Thaymes” before learning to pronounce it properly.
Believe it or not, American English is the most widely taught globally than British English. That’s why the pronunciation is not well known.
Awesome!!!! History and Engineering combined!!!!
Just subscribed, hopefully I can support you on Patreon one day, though I am still a college student though, but maybe sharing your vids will help. Time to binge watch your videos
yay juiws Honestly, I always find the historical reasons for compromises the most fascinating part of engineering.
yay juiws I've been watching his videos since his fifth video, it's definitely worth the binge!
As a Londoner, I find the pronunciation to Thames wrong (it's more like t-eh-mm-s) but otherwise this is possibly one of the best short videos on the Underground!
Yeah, it’s a silent ‘h’
If it was just a silent h it would be tames, which it's not. The pronunciation makes no sense to me (as an English person from just outside London), but there are plenty of English spellings that make no sense.
T-eh-mm-z
yep, th-ay-mz is just wrong. #Ireland. Otherwise this video is amazing
+J P Thames in middle English is Temese, there are MANY words in English that have changed since the transition from old to middle English, which saw dramatic changes in grammar, pronunciation and orthography. You have to remember the language is thousands of years old, and probably one of the most diverse when it comes to mixing with other languages and cultures. So it's no surprise there isn't a hard and fast rule on how to pronounce things when some words are Germanic, French, Latin, Greek etc
TEMZ. And I'm American and even I know how it is said over the pond.
fprintf: Well said - even those who claim to know put s on the end rather than z.
@@anghinetti I'm English and the z seems wrong. I pronounce Thames "tems"
@@JohnyG29: Well, the z isn't wrong. Used to dip my toes in the river, in front of the Tower of London when the tide was out, during the early-1950s and was Temz back then - and long before.
How The London Underground Saved Society. The stations served as air raid shelters and saved countless thousands of lives in WW2.
Norway also has some really interesting projects going on. They're boring tunnels to connect towns across the fjords rather than relying on bridges or ferries to reduce long-term maintenance costs and the like. Some of the tunnels are set to go deeper than the Channel Tunnel!
On that note, I imagine the process of building the Underground taught the British a lot about tunnel construction that would then later serve them when working on the Channel Tunnel.
Tunneling new subway tunnels is still a very slow and dangerous process today. The soil conditions matter too.
Really impressive underground systhem, so much history all over. Great video.
can you do a video on CERN and the hadron collider?
I'm visiting London right now and I wanted to knew more about its underground and you post this video...
You're great.
no lie this is the most informative channel when it comes to engineering, very inspiring
Loved this video, would be great to see more examples of historical engineering projects like this one :D
Happy new year!
Great episode. Nice direction you went in and great examples too. Well curated
well made indeed. I really appreciated the dedication and historical accuracy of this last video.
Just got to say that I love your channel and am so pleased to see that you are doing so well. Keep it up. I watch all of your videos. Cheers.
I wanted to learn about the history of rail transport, and there you are making videos about it! Thank you!
It'd be nice to see a video on the 'Clockwork Orange', Glasgow's Underground railway.
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Loved todays video
Man.. I want to thank you so much.. I lost interest in engineering due to some reasons but thanks to your channel I am starting to see engineering from a different point of view... it's because of channels like you I am studying maths and physics very much to solve real world problems... once again thank you so much brother..
You are welcome.
Love your vids so interesting and informative
Anthony Cook are you traveling time or what?
Yeah, sorry to be that guy, but, the Thames is pronounced "Tems".
Edward Shepherd it's annoying cause it's a good video, the pronunciation just made it seem a little off :(
I still liked the video though, great video.
I have never heard it referred as anything else
Huh, I have always heard it pronounced as Taymes, TIL.
Hey, don't hate, his accent is awesome
This is such an incredible video, such a great combination of engineering and history
Excellent video!!
But did they use bricks?
What's a brick? Does it have universal sizes?
God damn it Sam. Stop leaking your memes
Yeah but they'd be 8½ × 4 × 2½ inches since it's the UK
You should make a video on Bricks and disguise it as the United States' secret airline.
Also since it's the UK it's 21.59 x 10.16 x 6.35 cm.
Yes, bricks transported with a Toyota Corolla
Great video, really informative but the Thames is pronounced 'Tems'. Anyway, I'd love to see a part 2
What a brilliant video!
Awesome episode
I love this chanel, it's pure content
I would’ve watched this earlier but I had practice when this was uploaded😭. Love your channel though!!
My dad used to work building tunnels and did the Eurotunnel always thought it was interesting so this video was amazing to watch. I always remember he used to bring roman coins and Jurassic fossils which was great to see and I’ve still got them now
Watched this on the Lunderground!
Love this Channel
Wow. You're videos just keep getting better. 'Great channel...
Real Engineering is definitely on the way to a million subscribers. I am surprised that he hasn't already achieved 1 million already, he deserves it from the great amount of time and research that goes into these videos. I think that RUclips should be more dedicated to supporting channels like this rarther than putting talentless vloggers into the spot light!
Those old London underground pictures are so beautiful.
Fascinating history, thank you.
Great video as always. I was wondering tough what would have been the cost for such a gaint building project, and how much would that differ in todays world.
Keep up the great work!
In general, your videos are excellent. This one isn't well-titled, though. You start out on-topic, but half-way through, you switch to just talking about tunneling technology, which is certainly interesting enough to warrant a number of videos, but isn't really what the video title is about.
BTW, have you followed the trials/travails of "Bertha" the large tunnel boring machine in Seattle? Wow, that's been quite a thing, with it breaking down shortly after launch, yet in one of the last places it could possibly be "easily" accessed for repair (through a large pit and giant crane).
well it didn't had a reverse gear did it? plus it was the cutter head that need replacing not the teeths...
Elons Idea sounds great unless you live in an 2000+ years old European city with archeological excavations and WW2 bombs every 5 meters.
Geology survey using electromagnetic waves?
C IA that's why America is the center of progress
Chris Hall no just that they have less history in their cities
America has a lot of history in city’s EVEN IN CITYS BUILT UP IN THE CAR ERA
Amazing channel
My head almost exploded with frustration at the way you pronounced Thames.
I would love to see a video on Brunel's tunneling project under the Thames.
Are you planning on doing the Thames Tunnel Problem video hinted at in this one? I'd love to see how they worked their way around those.
Love your videos. Can you do more train and railway related vids.
that was so informative #LovedIt
in Milan (italy) we still build metros with cut and hide technique, but our trains travel in very large and relatively tall tunnels (for multiple rails or installing a/c)
The first New York subway lines were also cut and covered, and it’s easy to tell: On most of the 1 train’s route, you can only access one platform per side of the road. Same goes for the 6. In fact, the geography of uptown New York means that the 1, 4, 5, and 6 are all above ground at 125 Street. They immediately descend back down into the ground, though, because of how low 125 Street is on the east and west ends.
Nice reference to the noord-zuid lijn! It is almost finished!
Waow the animation in this video is amazing, class video
I like it :) I see you wanted to specify the London Underground rather than subways in general.
3:30 just realised why north side of wapping has a tunnel called brunel brunel's famous tunnel
Funny, Just before seeing this video I thought about how tunneling will change our life in the future. I really think that there is a lot of progress still to be made.
Thank you for the upload, love your channel. :)
Surprised the euro tunnel isn't mentioned or at least how they we're able to meet together at one point from UK to France both going from opposite sides as it is a very impressive feat
Please do a video ( or a series) on isambard kingdom Brunel and Marc Isambard Brunel
Excellent video! Also I was wondering when will your shirts be in stock again?
I’ll ask DFTBA now. Think we sold out of 3 sizes now
Other than it being pronounced TEMS not TAMES, brilliant video and introduced me to some things I didn't know! :-)
in my country, all the trains except one or a few stations are above ground. i think it has something to do with the sort of soil ground around the area not being suitable to digging some sort of subway
Royal Oak to Farringdon is not a tube line, it is Crossrail, which is part of the mainline rail network
Do more tunnel related videos!
Can you pls keep the (old) intro like in the Video Why Build higher ? Its just so good and dose not take too long.
May I ask whats the software you use to do that sketch animation? Its so beautiful~
Good to see a fellow Irish man being successful keep up the good work
Hank Green: not only a representative of Patreon, but a subscriber as well.
Can you make more historic tech type videos like this one please.
Great video, just FYI the pronunciation of "Thames" is "temz". In case you're making a part 2 (which you definitely should) :)
I will never forget the first time I tried to use the underground at night, after a DJ gig, and all I saw were fellow homeless individuals sleeping as far as the eye could see.
We used pretty much the same "open" way of tunneling for the first tunnel lines in Berlin^^
The one time an Irishman says -th and it's wrong! Thames is pronounced Tems. Great channel though I'm subbed.
Ever listen to the English try to pronounce most place names around the world. Laughable!
Paul Furey Yeah but to be fair any country with English as it's first language is pretty lazy at learning others, especially as they're all in the middle of nowhere. Britain and Ireland are islands, Canda and the US are surrounded by three oceans and a strict border, and Australia and New Zealand are their own continent!
dorgesh: Try it with a z on the end and you'll be closer to the pronunciation...
A good video about the tunnel technology, but you have the wrong title - you do not discuss the change in society.
A better title would be "The changing technology of building the London Underground"
Yes, only about 10% of this related to the Underground. Not what I was expecting.
3:34 Wu tang tunneling
swagzilla3000 I came here looking for this comment
Exactly what I was thinking. Wu Tang's seminal album is secretly about tunnel building.
Please make a video on the NY Subway!
Those hollow buildings are actually there to disguise the holes that allowed the original steam engines that ran on the lines to vent their smoke without choking the passengers and probably general ventilation.
2:06 Well I’ve been digging my tunnel in my Minecraft world with those too, and I see no problem.
thank you
Could you do a video focussed on Brunel?
Amazing video but Thames is pronounced pronounced Tems
Ever listen to the English try to pronounce most place names around the world
Royal oak to farringdon is NOT A TUBE LINE it is a railway which runs underground similar to thameslink
It wasn't just Kings Cross, there was also Euston, Paddington, Liverpool Street, Broad Street (now closed), Marylebone, Victoria, Charing Cross, Blackfriars, Waterloo, Cannon Street, Fenchurch Street and Moorgate as well. Also, Whitechapel is no where near Kings Cross, it was more close to Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street
"Drawing humans from our farm land existence to an ever more metropolitan life." Boy, that's one way to make enclosure sound benign, and not like it ruined the lives of millions lol.
Royal Oak to Farringdon tube line? You mean Crossrail - which isn't a tube line, it's an underground railway, not part of the tube. The Hammersmith and City line/Circle line goes between Royal Oak and Farringdon (and Crossrail does not call at the former), both of which were not dug by a TBM, but by cut and cover.
Can you do one on elevated metro systems like the Vancouver SkyTrain?
Since you've covered TBMs, any chance there's enough interesting information to find around about how the boring company is working to speed them up 10x+? More than their FAQ at least.
You really deserve the "Smooth Transition Award 2017" or STA-2017 in short.
You could talk about the Gotthard base tunel !
I saw this video but detailed information given in this one
Skillshare is advertising the right kind of channels.
What I want to know is how they deal with the air pressure and resistance etc. I'm only a layman, but isn't having completely flat fronts for the trains pretty bad in terms of energy loss? BTW, as a (Greater) Londoner myself, this video was fantastic!
Cheers mate
thanks
Good morning!
Great vid Mate. so informative. p.s Thames is pronounces Tems. From a POM. Hehe