Evolution of the London Underground
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- An animated timeline showing how the London Underground started in 1863, and then grew over the years to present day. It shows how the lines were first created and how the Circle Line and Hammersmith & City Line were originally part of the Metropolitan, and District Railways.
This animation is just the London Underground and does not include the DLR, Overground.
The stations in the Hounslow area are really tricky to show (Hounslow Town opened in 1883, closed in 1886, then had a period when it was open again between 1903 and 1909).
The Northern City Line was not originally part of the Northern Line but is shown here in black, as it did later become part of the Northern Line, and appeared on carriage maps of Northern Line trains.
Why am i watching this it’s 3 am and i’ve never been in london
Welcome to London my old friend! I'm sure you'll appreciate our sense of community and warmth! Explore the underground, make new friends, lovers and perhaps even children! Welcome to London... the greatest piece of land on planet earth.
we have technology btw
Tristan Hoenselaar lmao same
Welcome to Geoff Marshall videos. I don’t live in the UK nor do I ride trains... yet here I am.
Tristan Hoenselaar come visit its cool
Well, I certainly feel much better about my layouts in Mini Metro after seeing this.
TPRJones
hahaha
I know your problem 😂
I share the same rage
dang it someone already made that joke
holy crap someone else plays this game!
Geoff should do evolution of the nyc metro
This helps since I live in Toronto
Oh, the TTC... Gotta love those guys sitting in booths collecting fares, then going on strike because they're so unhappy with their 50 grand a year.
Vancouver is the superior one
@@chocomanger6873 I miss Andy Byford
@@wilfstor3078 What did he do?
@@chocomanger6873 Put enough care into the system and avoided enough strikes to get the TTC to be North Americas best transit system in 2017.
1863: Paddington to Farringdon
1864: Paddington to Hammersmith/Kensington Olympia
1865: Farringdon to Moorgate
1868: Baker Street to Swiss Cottage and Paddington to Westminster
1869: Gloucester Road to West Brompton
1871: Earl’s Court to Hammersmith/High Street Kensington
1875: Moorgate to Aldgate and Westminster to Mansion House
1877: Hammersmith to Richmond
1878: Turnham Green to Ealing Broadway
1879: Swiss Cottage to Harrow on the Hill
1880: West Brompton to Putney Bridge
1883: Aldgate to Tower Hill and Acton Town to Hounslow West
1884: Tower Hill to Mansion House/Whitechapel
1885: Harrow on the Hill to Pinner
1887: Pinner to Rickmansworth
1889: Rickmansworth to Chesham and Putney Bridge to Wimbledon
1890: Stockwell to Borough
1892: Chalfont and Latimer to Amersham
1900: Shepherd’s Bush to Bank and Borough to Moorgate
1903: Moorgate to Angel and Stockwell to Clapham Common and Whitechapel to Upminster and Ealing Common to South Harrow
1904: Harrow on the Hill to Uxbridge
1906: Lambeth North to Baker Street and Finsbury Park to Hammersmith
1907: Lambeth North to Elephant and Castle
1909: Angel to Archway/Golders Green
1910: Baker Street to Edgware Road and South Harrow to Rayners Lane
1915: Edgware Road to Willesden Junction
1917: Willesden Junction to Harrow and Wealdstone
1920: Shepherds Bush to Ealing Broadway
1922: Bank to Liverpool Street
1924: Golders Green to Edgware
1925: Moor Park to Watford
1926: Clapham Common to Morden and Euston to Kennington
1932: Wembley Park to Stanmore and Finsbury Park to Arnos Grove
1933: Arnos Grove to Cockfosters
1941: Archway to Mill Hill East/High Barnet
1949: Liverpool Street to Epping and North Acton to West Ruislip
1971: Walthamstow Central to Brixton
1975: Hounslow West to Hatton Cross
1977: Hatton Cross to Heathrow Terminals 2 and 3
1979: Baker Street to Green Park
1986: Hatton Cross/Heathrow Terminals 2 and 3 to Heathrow Terminal 4
1994: Waterloo to Bank
1999: Green Park to Stratford
2008: Heathrow Terminals 2 and 3 to Heathrow Terminal 5
Goldon Boat910 What about Epping
@@poteyatocheapp6978 it was
This video would serve just as well as journal of silly English names.
79: Baker Street to Charing Cross
Golden Boat910 you didn’t do the East London Line closure
I love how what would become the northern line started at the southernmost part of the tube at that point
Geoff, this is a lovely evolution and all of your videos.
I love all your videos
Shouldn't it be the southern line?
I think one branch of the northern line should be turned into a Bakerloo Line extension and the Bakerloo should form a loop around London. But that's just my opinion.
Morden is still the southernmost Tube station today.
@@internetperson9813 wouldn’t that just put load on bakerloo ?
Bakerloo used to have the jubilee branch but got changed bc there was too much passenger for it to handle afterall
I would love to see a newer version of this that also includes other lines such as the overground, DLR, crossrail, maybe even other services such as Thameslink!
yea the thameslink is in collaboration with TFL (not funded by it tho), and its officially on the map
And now Battersea Power Station Station Station Station Station...
lol
@@chandlerbstransport422 Battersea Power Station Station Underground Station is truly a very nice Station to serve the Power Station in Battersea, as well as providing an interchange with the other stations in the area. Battersea Power Station Station deserves to be on the Tube Map of Stations for sure...
I think the Elizabeth line's one the map now too
@@egg_mittens yeah it is
London metro designers: throw cooked spaghetti on a map of London and make the tunnels based on that x
someone’s hacking their money in cities skylines to make this metro
The payback comes to the city and the operating companies through the longer term economic benefits (better faster rail services = fewer cars = less gridlock = better air = more people want to live there = greater spending and taxes raised), and through the revenues raised both directly from fares and from the rates on shops that want to base themselves at the stations, and rents from businesses that want to be based near or over them to be attractive to commuting workers. London's got an amazing public transport infrastructure, there's so many ways to get around and options at each station. Makes for a very flexible and mobile city.
@@2112jonr unless however the random death wave kicks in killing 20k people because of traffic jams
Metro is actually surprisingly cheap in Cities
@@2112jonr yeah i don't think you get the joke...
to build such a vast network, you'd need a vast city. and the building/node limit forbids that. if you want a good looking city, the most you can do is 500k.
Love the Underground map. Brought up in London and lived & worked there until aged 28 Design is so clear and colour coded. Always found5 it so easy to follow in comparison with other international cities' transport system maps. . Thanks
This video is my childhood, I watched this over and over again!
I don't know Geoff personally but I know he's a fan of the London tube. When I see this video I only have gratitude and appreciation in my mind.
Thank you for your time, Geoff.
Your contributions are always fascinating Geoff!
Geoff sir. I’ve seen a few of your videos and enjoyed everyone of them.
All very interesting.
Thanks for the hours of entertainment.
Absolutely enjoyed this, very helpful for an overview.
New update video! Thanks, Geoff!
Great history and explanation. This video really makes me want to go to the London Underground in the next several months.
This video is amazing. It shows so much history and it’s so fun to watch.
For anyone curious, all errors from the original have been erased. It is also now more up to date. Great video Jeff!!!
Brewers TV geoff*.
why not Yeph?
The Transport Guide Yeah, aha. Whoops 😂😂
No Old Kent Road Station though
Great job! Thanks for sharing! It would be great to see how the Tube is planning to expand in the future
WOW ! Great narration, too: very fast and enthusiastic as well as very clear ! Well done !
"All the tube map. All of it. All the tube map. All of it..."
Sorry, wrong series!
easy mistake to make
Underground... tick!
If to include tubes from other countries!
To the trains…
great to learn more about what I use everyday to commute. Thank you
I love this video, man - well done!
All summarized, thanks for this great work.
Great video. Congratulations. Some extra info about the underground if you don't mind.
The Underground network was a mix of private companies until its nationalization in 1933.
The first cut and cover lines were created in a period of seven years.
The subsurface, cut and cover lines are: Metropolitan line 1863 electrified in 1905. Hammersmith & City line 1864 electrified in 1906. The pneumatic line Waterloo and Whitehall Railway 1865-1867 failed financially. District line 1868 electrified in 1905, originally Metropolitan district railway. Circle line 1871 electrified in 1905, originally two separate lines that joined in 1949.
For a period of at least three decades these lines were using steam trains. After 1906 all the Underground network with the subsurface and deep-level lines was electrified and steam was a thing of the past. Until then steam trains were used for 42 years in the Underground. Due to the smoke the lines had and still have many open to the air spaces. So they are not true deep-level Underground lines. Also even today on pavements can been seen the little holes the smoke was escaping. These holes are covered with thick glass today and are letting light to pass.
The newest lines Jubille 1979 and Victoria 1968 are much younger than the next older Piccadilly 1906 and Bakerloo 1906 lines which were started both in 1906. For 62 years no new Underground lines were created. Instead older ones were extended constantly.
The Metropolitan line 1863 had gas lighting units inside its carriages in order to be friendly and safe to the ladies.
The Central Line was the first underground railway to have the station platforms illuminated electrically. All the platforms were lit by Crompton automatic electric arc lamps.
During 1950's the wages of London Underground were very low and it was unfavorable by workers. So London Underground decided to massively employ immigrants from the Caribbean islands, India and Pakistan.
Until late 1970's smoking was permitted inside the carriages of the underground. Until 1980's the Underground was full of advertisements for cigarettes.
This is just wonderful. Thank you. Any plans on extending it with the DLR and TfL Rail and any other changes/additions?
London Overground too
Fantastic video, nice work Geoff! 🚇
Welcome back and congratulations!
Ayyy! Geoff's back on the tube game! Man I've missed you. Don't get me wrong, All the Stations was beyond amazing, but part of me always missed your tube-geekery content. Will your 'daily' vlogs be continuing by the way? Best content in my subscription box at the time :)
Keep up the work, get yourself to 100k subscribers, too. You definitely deserve that.
Cheers,
Matt
Geoff Marshall's Back on the tube map and next year in 2020 and then you know how to do I lt
Keep up the good work
I rode the tube for the first time a few moths ago, It is absolutely crazy. A few classmates of mine even got lost. The gap is also not that bad.
what lines
@@mk-hf2qs This was in may, so I dont remember everything in detail but I think it was the circle,northern and jubilee line. Stations I visited were Westminster, North Greenwhich, Leicester Square and a few others.
@@janrie7330 no wonder you where they are like the longes
@janrie7330 You just went through the operational hell holes of the Circle line(alot of merges) and the Northern line(literally becomes two branches in the middle, than become two branches to the north)
excellent work. Thank you.
Amazing! I loved this video ☺️
Can you do the evolution of the Overground?
Colin Chin yes
Yes that would be a very good idea.
No, that would be stupid because the Overground is really just an amalgamation of old Silverlink Metro routes from when the Silverlink franchise expired. The only other things he'd have to show are the North London Line to North Woolwich (past Stratford) closing and all the new works on the East London Line.
@@organicwaffles3792 London's
@@ishandey6061 Did you like it
Nice overview.
In 1968 the first underground line in Rotterdam (and The Netherlands) opened. Since 2009 it carries the (somewhat boring) name Line D and has the same blue colour as the Victoria line, which was opened in the same year.
great video geoff, i love your vids
Excellent presentation. Fascinating!
you will have to make an update video when the Elizabeth Line opens in 2095
Why in 2095???
Technically no. Elizabeth Line is like the overground. A different mod of transport
@@raheem201231 but why it will take till 2095 to be build?
Fr Gh it’s been delayed like 4 times in 2 years
@@raheem201231 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
EXACTLY THE SAME THING was happened in BUCHAREST(ROMANIA) at M5 metro line🤣🤣
And thats how it looks today....
Recommended two years after release
Would love to see some kind of behind the scenes, video was amazing!
Thanks Geoff!
this so helpful as someone who dont even live close to london let alone europe
Thanks for this Geoff! I'm a great Underground history fan and this was very detailed. Cheers :)
Anyone else notice the circle and Hammersmith and city lines fade in at the end?
I really love looking at those Undergroung maps that Geoff describes in the description.
Well done buddy great explanation indeed!!
I got lost in this video just like how i got lost in the tube
Wahoo! Geoff brought it back, improved!
Awesome video, as always
Very interesting and nicely done 👍
All The Stations was fun, but its gonna be good to see you back on London stuff now, especially with the new crossrail (sorry, Elizabeth Line, should've been called Crossrail 1) trains already in service and the tunnels to be opening soon.
H0ll0aloio As Crossrail 1's been officially dubbed the Elizabeth Line, now that Crossrail 2 is being planned, I wonder who they'll name it after - Philip Line or Charles Line anyone?
One option they almost certainly won't go for is crowdsourcing the name (Thomas Line? Awdry Line? Thin Blue Line? 😁)
+mittfh The Andrew Line
Proposals for a line along that route have existed for several decades, and at one point it was referred to as the Chelney Line (Chelsea-Hackney)
They should call crossrail 2 the Geoff Line
I love London underground 👏💕💕💕
nice video! You should do another one of these soon
Lovely informative graphic, Geoff.
Really interesting. Thanks for this, I love maps! Will you do an update with the Crossrail added when it's _finally_ finished?
Mandy B The title very clearly says "Evolution of the London *Underground*" so no, he won't, because Crossrail is a national rail line, not an Underground line.
@@jonistan9268 no? Crossrail is tfl not nat rail
@@daroldcarold3443 Crossrail is National Rail, operated by TfL. Just like the Overground.
@@daroldcarold3443yes, crossrail is TfL, but it's still not part of the London Underground, just as the Overground and DLR aren't
@@grassytramtracks I never said it was part of the underground bro. I just said it was operated by tfl
I love this, with *clean simple graphics* & lovely *British voiceover narration* ‼️👍🏼🤩✨💖✨🏆✨👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Greetings from Monterrey, México Geoff!!!, I love your videos and watching them inspire me to create a project for my city
fantastic video! thanks
This makes my brain hurt.
Just one underground in the world
Didn't explain the introduction of the Hammersmith and City and Circle line conversion from the Metropolitan line that would've been interesting
I found this strangely fascinating!
Hi Geoff! Bonjour from Montreal. 🇨🇦
New here. I found your channel through « Ferrovipathe » from Paris. This is my 1st video watched.
It will be my first time in London in August. Your channel will greatly help me plan my journeys. And I’ll definitely get in some “metro-ing.”
Keep up the excellent work! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
These victorian's showing crossrail how it's done lol
XD
Very nice video! I've been to London until Friday and it was so cool! I miss it so much!
It's all so much more orderly than in Germany, for example the Tube/underground etc....
Greetings from Germany and it's cool to see the evolution of the London Underground!! :))
So cool! Nice job!!
Bro the editing is godly
Glad you made some corrections Geoff, but you didn't show the Jubilee terminating at Charing Cross and being abandoned, plus, did you miss the Bakerloo bifurcation at Baker Street to go to Stanmore?
Geoff Marshall sorry Geoff, so it does. I must have blinked and missed it. All I thought I saw was it terminating at Bond Street!
Great video showing the evolution of the underground - How did you do the animation? It's very polished.
Very interesting. Thank you.
Great vídeo mate!
Why am i here i am thousands of miles from London
same here actually
Because the artificial intelligence algorithms predict that you will be in London in the future and you will need to know this.
💘 love the london underground
I also love the London Underground because it's so big.
Pyongyang metro is better
@@jonah6404
It sure is!
Nice visual capsule history of the Underground evolution.
Nice video...... I give it 5 stars. Very detailed
It seems there's a lot of duplication of lines due to many companies.
Imagine there is no underground, and you are the designer, knowing all the current and planned stations, how would your tube map look if there were no competing rail companies.
Would you adopt a circular pattern, a starburst radiating out from a centre, or a spiderweb with radials and circles (extra points if you draw it :D )
You may add stations not even served, and may enlist the help of the tube map guy if you decide to draw it.
It's worth a look at the Shanghai metro map in this regard, as it was built without competing factions, is modern and very different to London: www.travelchinaguide.com/images/map/shanghai/subway-map.jpg
Would probably been built to serve ,existing needs unlike the speculative development by the Met. See info on Metroland for details
@@2112jonr it's also worth to take a look at Moscow metro map
I think that whilst circular patterns are nice, you need to focus on the commuting aspect, so mine would focus on direct routes from suburbs and perhaps a couple of circular routes in the city centre
1:08
Geoff: In 1878,
1879 sign: *am I a joke to u?*
YEP
Really cool video. Now I know the history of the tube I use so much! Thank you for making this.😄😃
Easily the quickest way to check on the Undergrounds various opening dates! Nice one Geoff!
There's a few facts on the TfL site: tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tfl/culture-and-heritage/londons-transport-a-history/london-underground/a-brief-history-of-the-underground
Just be very wary of anything you read on Wikipedia and double check it with a primary source, as its accuracy is sometimes dubious and not always backed up by primary references.
@@2112jonr why do you need to send the link?
I am not British
I do not live in london
But I love watching london underground video
Same but I am British
same
I don't even know how Londoners use the tube - I find the seemingly simple Sheffield Supertram (alliteration!) complicated enough!.
casual onion, trust me, it's easy. I'm only 13 and I can independently navigate through the stations!
Masoarian, what? The percentage of how many good ideas someone has has no correlation whatsoever with the ability to navigate through a Tube station.
When you are there, it is actually pretty easy. Just remember the color your home/hotel is on and the color of where you want to go (and of course the station names of both). From there on it is pretty easy navigating as all lines eventually cross each other somewhere (correct me if I'm wrong) and they have written on the wall before the platforms which stations come next. If it is not on it, then turn the other way because it will surely be on there. Pretty easy system, even non-natives will get when they use it.
Awesome stuff. Both technically as a video production and how appropriately nerdy the subject matter is.
Thanks for existing Geoff!!!!! :-)
Where’s the hammer smith and city line?
Jail Break Was simply part of the metropolitan originally
Geoff Marshall, what program do you use to do this map animation? I was hoping to do an animated timeline map of railways in Ireland.
He's replied to a comment here saying he used paint.
ejcmoorhouse im pretty sure it's actually a mix of Adobe creative cloud programs (premiere/after effects/illustrator)...
I don't know, I was just quoting Geoff who replied to another comment asking about this saying it was Paint.
ejcmoorhouse right, although Ms paint is the butt of a lot of computer jokes now
MSPAINT.EXE he said
I ended up focusing on the Heathrow stations, for a tourist, very helpful - Tube already goes to terminal-5 = very important - Thank you :)
Amazing, thanks. Love London.
Do you know how it would have looked if those pre-WW2 plans had come to fruition?
Toran Shaw Jay Foreman has done a video on plans shelved for the Northern line
Westminster used to be above ground thats pretty surprising seeing as how deep it is now
No, it was never above ground, cut and cover is technically still underground
Great presentation, Geoff, this makes a complicated history very clear. Thank you! I am being somewhat pernickety, but, you don't mention the closure of the Jubilee's Charing Cross station when it extended south!
Good presentation.
It would be interesting to see how this progression shows on a map...
where is the circle and Hammersmith and city line
I thought the same as well, I think it's because both these lines mirror other lines, I would have added them and every station, but that's just because I'm picky.
@@nochill9475 oh I see
Hammersmith an City was part of the Metropolitan and the Circle evolved as something of a joint venture using the District and Metropolitan track
@@ianmoseley9910 thanks for letting me know what about the dlr overground tramlink and tfl rail
@@tarnveerbassi2198 overground and tfl rail was mainly made from national rail lines but i dont know about the dlr
What animation software is used to create this?
Geoff Marshall microsoft has discontinued paint now...😥
The twitter memes
Robin Trigoso You can still download it from the Windows Store, they just removed it as default
Pen and paper
Robin Trigoso No they haven't
Good old London Town, miss you so much.
Am now in Australia and loving the beaches and of course great weather.
Thanks for the memories in London.
Thank yuo for this wonderful video - clear and concise. May I ask if you are going to update it to now - and maybe beyond?
You forgot Circle line and Hammersmith & city line
Is there a version without the camera pans?
This is great work, but the angle changes are unnessessary, distracting, and even disorienting. I get the urge to make it dynamic, but it's contrary to the entire purpose of the video. Reminds me a bit of how The Day Today took the piss out of news graphics, but minus the irony.
(Sorry!)
this is so fun to watch
A very good description.
Are you still a presenter for londonist?
I believe he is but has been working on a major project for the last 3-4 mths
Byron Q he has. It is called 'All The Stations'.
Hammersmith & city line and the circle line?
Hammersmith & City was a part of the Metropolitan line and Circle is basically just a "joint" line using Metropolitan and District rail tracks.
Omg thx soo much i love trains 💜💜💜
That really was fascinating