JUBILEE LINE - COLOUR

(6 May 1979) His Royal Highness Prince Charles opened Stage One of the new Underground link, the Jubilee Line, which will run between Baker Street and Charing Cross. Prince Charles made the journey between Green Park and Charing Cross in the driver's cab and later toured the new Terminus at Charing Cross which displayed eye-catching murals on the station's walls.
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[@QuarioQuario54321]

I love how"Stage 2"(The closure of the Jubilee platforms@Charing Cross&extension to Stratford) was planned 20 years ahead of time.

[@SkyverYT]

It wasn't planned in that way. They planned to extend the tunnels towards Lewisham while still passing through Charing Cross. However, the plans were changed. This is evident by the continuation of the Jubilee Line tunnel beyond Charing Cross to what would have been Aldwych station.

[@darrengomes2203]

The planned stage 2, which would have taken the Jubilee eastward, to take over Aldwych station (the runout tunnel from Charing Cross almost reaches Aldwych), into the City and to Holborn Viaduct and Fleet Street (the original name for the line was the Fleet Line) and from there it was either going on into Docklands, or would have taken over the East London Line, which would have taken it to Lewisham. London Transport had already bought the land for the sites of the proposed stations. They did bore a test tunnel around Surrey Docks/Quays for that as well. Unfortunately, 1979, after this stage had opened, Margaret Thatcher became PM and she pulled the plug on the project. When the redevelopment of Docklands began in 1984, London Transport wanted to revive the plans for stage 2, but Thatcher wouldn't agree. But a compromise of sorts was agreed, which was the DLR. A lot of the DLR's original route was meant for the Jubilee Line.

[@transportenthusiast11]

@@darrengomes2203 At least the Jubilee line is now an express service between Stratford and Canning Town for the DLR, I suppose.

[@mst4309]

Wow. I had no idea programmes still sounded like this in 1979. For me, old footage like this feels surreal. Yet there he is, Prince Charles looking not much different. The trains look so nice shiny and new too

[@oludotunjohnshowemimo434]

That is when the 1972mk2 was new and served the Jubilee line when it officially opened by King Charles, then the Princr of Wales in 1979.
It now serves the Bakerloo line

[@oludotunjohnshowemimo434]

the 1972 Mk2 stock when the Jubilee line was the new on the block. Now they are serving the Bakerloo line.
The 1996 stock has since taken over passenger services.
The 1972mk2 had the doors painted red to indicate that they were operationally different to its mk1 and 1967 relatives.

[@LiftFan]

Those 1967/72mk1&2/73 trains seem to have ridden over almost every deep level tube line!

[@najhydro]

@@LiftFan except for piccadilly and central.

[@OptareOlympus93]

@@najhydro piccadilly uses 73 so only central

[@najhydro]

@@OptareOlympus93 but piccadilly had the 59,62 and 73 stocks only

[@oludotunjohnshowemimo434]

@@najhydro central had 1962 stock till the 1992 stock took over. Then some of the 1962 stock were transferred to the Northern line to give the 1972mk1 stock the chop.

[@SiVlog1989]

"... When stage two gets underway," as it turned out Charing Cross was the terminus of the Jubilee Line for twenty years and the eventual extended Jubilee Line was very different from the one talked about here. Instead of extending via Aldwych and Fenchurch Street and on to Woolwich and Thamesmead, it bypassed Charing Cross Waterloo and Westminster onwards to North Greenwich and finally Stratford

[@JayJay-nc7pr]

Phase 2....that was supposed to have happened by the mid 1980s, a short extension to Fenchurch Street via Aldwych & Holborn Viaduct (now City Thameslink) was to have been built by 1983 with the extension to Surrey Quays, New Cross, Lewisham, Catford, Sydenham, Beckenham, Addiscombe & Hayes by 1985/86, they even included another branch after Surrey Quays to North Greenwich, Westcombe Park (Blackheath), Woolwich Arsenal and Thamesmead, the Jubilee line was intended to become a much larger tube line than what eventually came about and was to have brought the tube to several parts of South East London.
By the time Thatcher was elected she scrapped the later phases, by the mid 1980s, London Transport wanted the extension to go ahead, but with the Thamesmead phase only, the Addiscombe/Hayes phase was dropped entirely as it was seen at the time more vital to extend the tube to the redeveloping Docklands and give Thamesmead a much needed rail link when City Thameslink was built to replace Holborn Viaduct the planners had constructed tunnels and the beginnings of an escalator shaft down to the proposed tube platforms in the event of a Jubilee line extension being routed that way, what we got instead was the DLR which was localised initially to the Docklands but throughout the 1990s and 2000s it ironically did what the Jubilee line was intended to do, bring a metro system to South East London with extensions to Greenwich, Lewisham & Woolwich, the Jubilee line of course was extended but via Southwark instead, it serves near Surrey Quays, a planned Jubilee line Station, and it goes to North Greenwich but then extended northward to Stratford, completely different to what they had planned.
In a parallel universe, had the original phases gone ahead as planned the DLR, CrossRail to Abbey Wood wouldn’t exist

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

1:09 sadly 20 years after opening jubilee line trains no longer go to Charing Cross

[@leonciohernandez]

41 years have pass since this video and the Prince Charles still a Prince...

[@shazanali692]

He is now king

[@fastbike9845]

Not any more

[@Basset86Trains09]

This is really cool!

[@chillired5389]

The 1972 stock were replaced by the 1983 stock on the Jubilee line, so they could replace the then ageing 1938 stock on the Bakerloo line... All 1938 stock withdrawn by 1988

[@ruairievans]

But the 1983 stock only lasted for 15 years on the Tube.

[@foxcook2487]

There's a reason
London puts barriers on the tube line

[@iluv_txmmy8660]

There’s a reason that London puts barriers on the rails

[@sanchoodell6789]

Nice to see Prince Charles riding (if not driving) the 'Turby Tube'! Very rare now seeing Turbies on the London Underground Network.

[@thecyberleaderwhufc]

50 years later today

[@jonah6404]

Originally, the 1972 Mk 2 stock was built with ATO in mind for the jubilee line but that never happened and they were OPO operated instead

[@oludotunjohnshowemimo434]

Mk2s were also crew operated when new like its mk1 relatives but it was later converted to driver only operation for transfer to the Bakerloo from Jubilee.
That was the 1959 stock as it operated on the Northern line.

[@harleyhartley3168]

I swear this voice must have been seen as kind of dated by ‘79

[@JayJay-nc7pr]

Yeah the whole video seemed like this was filmed and recorded in the late 60s-early 70s, very out of date considering the 1980s were just mere months away, but it certainly adds to the charm

[@harleyhartley3168]

@@JayJay-nc7pr I agree, they should bring the voiceover back lol

[@sanchoodell6789]

I thought the same. It felt 10 or more years earlier. More 69 or earlier than 79! .

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

Charles is now King Charles lll after the queen died

[@i_am_in_your_closet]

The fact a train got in the charing cross station by accident is just funny 😂

[@FluzzeTan]

Hey look it’s my grandpa

[@JohnPlayz22]

cool

[@ratedprogram6947]

I always wondered why London Underground didn't make Charing Cross a branch line so the Jubilee line could serve the JLE and Charing Cross, probably due to low ridership or smth idk

[@MannyAntipov]

That would take a lot of operational resources away from the extension.

[@chrisrowe7503]

Ahhh yes I remember the old Datsun lookalike no smoking signs they only ever used on the 1972 mark one stock and the 1973 stock. Once they were refurbished those no smoking signs disappeared from the network.

[@marksinthehouse1968]

How did Charlie get in the cab with them ears 😂

[@rajankerai8245]

is this a current bakerloo line platform at 1:18

[@oludotunjohnshowemimo434]

Rajan Kerai it is the now abandoned Jubilee Charing Cross platform

[@mcxcvi_3089]

John Showemimo pretty sure it's the current Northern Line platform.

[@oludotunjohnshowemimo434]

Xx-MCXCVI-xX jubilee line dont go to Charing Cross anymore. 1972 MKII was on jubilee line, now on bakerloo line. you are right, one of the platforms is northern line platform

[@agent_605]

No bakerloo platforms were shown and the Northern was only shown through the CCTV

[@abdisalammohamud343]

ADE
TVoqdddd

[@harryelliott4310]

Jubilee Line

[@i_am_in_your_closet]

Some of the platforms are now disused

[@hueyj1975]

i NEED that bgm

[@Mezgrman]

xes

[@hartstukken]

and i need your pfp

[@user-do2rj4sf8j]

Why does the train have red door but no blue line

[@michaelford1124]

the blue line at the bottom wasnt introduced till much later if i remember correct

[@tobysummers471]

Michael Ford the blue was added due to the disability discrimination act of 1995 and because lu were sick of trying to remove graffiti. As before this time they were unpainted aluminium trains. The red doors on the 1972 stock in this video are because they were the second batch of stock and because they were used on the jubilee line then aswell as the northern line which had the first batch of stock. These trains are still in service today on the bakerloo line.

[@user-do2rj4sf8j]

Michael Ford what colour was the seats

[@agent_605]

Blue I think

[@darrengomes2203]

It was easier to remove graffiti from painted surfaces than it was from aluminium. So they were painted silver and in London Transport red and blue. The blue being the bar and the red doors representing the circle of the LT bullseye/roundel. Jubilee Line originally used 1972 Mk II stock trains, difference between them and the Mk I were that they could be upgraded for ATO, like the Victoria Line's 1967 stock, as the intention was to upgrade the line, once complete, to ATO. The stock wasn't exclusive to the Jubilee though, as they were used on the Northern line first, so that 1959/62 stock from there could be transferred over to the Bakerloo and the 1938 stock on the Bakerloo could then start to be scrapped. Then the 1973 stock arrived for the Piccadilly line, so the 1959/62 stock from there was transferred over to the Northern and Bakerloo, so the 1967 Mk II stock could then go to the Jubilee, via a stint on the Bakerloo, so it could then transfer over easily via the crossover at Baker Street, when the line from Baker Street to Neasden was still part of the Bakerloo. It then transferred back to the Bakerloo when the 1983 stock arrived for the Jubilee.

[@vivianav.3664]

There's a reason that London puts barriers on the tube line. There's a reason they failed.

[@kayshap8862]

Jubilee line is awful now, good old days are unfortunately gone forever.

[@jeffery4871]

Yes unfortunately your comment is a sad reality

[@Tanquecrack1TheBoss]

@@jeffery4871 I still LOVE the sound and I really want to come back from Madrid to London

[@forza223bowe5]

How?

[@GenericLifts]

Bro how does not being a heritage railway make the line "awful"?