London Underground.Piccadilly Line. Drivers View and Commentary.Cockfosters-Northfields
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- čas přidán 22. 03. 2024
- Please note there is an error in this video. The circle line does not stop at Earls Court. Thank you to all those who let me know my mistake
Hello and welcome to a new video.
This is a different type of video and is recorded on the front of a 1973 stock Piccadilly Line train with commentary
From Cockfosters to Northfields west bound.
I will film the rest of the Piccadilly line at som point.
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Thank you for watching and I hope you enjoy this video
I certainly like the commentary, it makes all the difference. Thank you for giving us so much information about the technique involved in driving the trains.
You are most welcome glad you enjoyed it
Commentary useful. I often wonder why front lights cant be brighter, to light the way in the tunnels.
@@bobmacdonald6183 apparently most new trains lights are brighter as they are LEDs
@@dalecharmantravels8057The commentary is a big game changer, makes your videos stand out.
Followed on Google Earth having never been to London. Commentary was excellent. Being an ex train driver, the side comments on track layout and technique was invaluable. 👍
Fascinating. My dad worked on the underground from 1963 - 1993. He was a guard, then a motorman, based at Acton Town on the District Line, and then was a Revenue Inspector when he retired. He sadly passed away 9 months after retiring. When he knew mum and I were going to the Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia, we'd either get a lift in the cab of the train or meet him for a cuppa in one of the canteens on the line. Such lovely memories.
I am sorry to hear that. It is nice to hear you still have find memories
@@dalecharmantravels8057 Yes, alot. He used to play football for Acton Town until he was 42, we used to go and see them play on a Sunday. Your commentaries are great to follow. I've shared this video with my son who lives in Italy too.
Thank you I appreciate the kind words
I loved every minute of this…..My Grandfather was a driver on London Transport and sadly passed away after his shift on Edgware Station back in the late sixties. His badge number was 1117 and I still have it alongside his whistle…thanks for this….He may have done this route all those years ago.
MANY THANKS for a VERY INFORMATIVE and INTERESTING Presentation! I DO GREATLY APPRECIATE your Commentary!
THANKS again for sharing and keeping everyone safe and mobile ! ! !
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Thank you for sharing and I am sorry to hear he is no longer with you
This is absolutely fascinating. I love videos like this that answer questions you’ve always had but never anyone to ask. Thank you for being so informative. I can’t wait to see more!
I am glad you enjoyed this video. Thank you for the nice comment
Great commentary. I’ve always found the sidings in tunnels fascinating, hidden stations and other facts which we wouldn’t know. 👍
It’s just a shame the old stations don’t come out better on camera
My cousin retired a year or two ago after driving on the Piccadilly line for most of his adult life. It's great to see what his "office" looked like and the views he saw every day. Thanks for a great upload
You are welcome
Dale this video was very informative. I enjoyed your commentary along the way. I definatley want to see more of these types of videos. Thank you.
You are more than welcome. I do have at least 2 more videos to come some time next month
Many years ago I had the pleasure of spending a wonderful Sunday afternoon with my brother in law in the cab for the entire trip to Cockfosters and back to South Harrow. Experiences you never forget !!
It’s some thing most people will never experience. It is fascinating the first few times of doing it
@@dalecharmantravels8057 I had the privilege of three trips on the Picadilly,enjoyed it so much.
Also sat in on a landing into Sydney Airport years ago,never to be forgotten!!.
Thanks for your videos.
@@richardhunt304 now that would be cool. Maybe one day I will be invited to film in a cockpit
@@dalecharmantravels8057 I'm actually surprised that's allowed. I'm retired from a large transit system in the us. passenger or camera is no go! Been on this line a few times while in London. enjoyed your video
I absolutely love this. Thankyou so much for filming it. And as others have said, the commentary is wonderful. In answer to your thought: yes we do want to know (the signals, the points, “how things work”, everything 😀).
Thank you for the comment. I am glad you enjoyed it
reallly enjoyed watching this. Thanks for doing a great job getting everyone safely home. We all appreciate it
You are most welcome
Back in the late 60s, I used to hitch hike everywhere and used to get lifts from near Farnham, Surrey up to London. I used to get a lift to nearby Hounslow West, which I think was then the end of the line, then run to central London. Great memories.
thank you for sharing
Had this pop up in my recommendations and would like to thank you for providing this content with excellent commentary, it really made this video stand out. Hope you have a great time abroad in the near future 👍
Thank you I am glad you enjoyed the video
I still have 10,000 questions, but that was super interesting. Thank you for your commentary!
You are most welcome
Transported me back through time, almost fifty years ago, when I would travel Northern & Piccadilly lines mostly. Used L.T. extensively, and my car for out of town travel. Thank you for the memories.
You are most welcome
Wow! Great video, thanks . Back in the 60s, we used Cockfosters to Turnpike lane and return for years after many Saturday nights out. Saw a video and news that in 2025 there is 94 new trains coming to this line built by Siemans. They are beautiful machines.
They do look very sleek from the outside. Can’t wait to see how comfortable they will be for both the drivers and passengers
Greetings from Boston! This is exactly what I was looking for to watch today! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
You are most welcome
Thanks for a brilliant video Dale. The commentary was amazing and interesting. Very informative. Thanks Mick.
You are most welcome Mick
It is about 50 years since I last made use of this line, from Bounds Green or Arnos Grove along the Northern section and once only about 35 years ago to Heathrow, but I still remember many of the stations along the line.
A very enjoyable video and the commentary was great.
Thank you I appreciate the comment
One of the very best cab views I've seen, on my favourite line - thank you!
What can I say I am the number one CZcamsr and Pic driver 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is Brilliant 👍 thank you so much for sharing. Fascinating behind the scenes view, with Excellent commentary.
You are most welcome
Dale I am so truly grateful for this video.
I live right next to Oakwood station but suffer from fear of being stuck in a tunnel.
Life would be so much easier if I could use the tube - and your explanations from the cab view have finally made me decide to go to the west end on tuesday - its a big deal for someone with claustrophobic issues.
Knowing the reasons trains stop in tunnels has really helped.
You don’t know what you’ve done for me mate 🥹
I wish you a good and calm journey to the west end ❤
That is really great to hear. I hope you do manage to get out and enjoy your day. Please let me know how you get on. Best of luck
I wish you well, I suffer to, 😢
@@fran-kittyayers5329have you been able to get on the tube?
Thanks for asking - well was planning to today but there’s been severe delay warnings and signal failures reported so I part bottled. By part I mean I did do a few stops from Cockfosters and will do the west end next week. Seemed like if I’d tried it today when trains were indeed being held it would have done more harm than good 😢
Awesome and super informative video! Looking forward to more of these :)
Thank you. I hope to have a new one ready this weekend.
It has been over 50 years since I road the London tube. Thank you for an enjoyable ride.
You are most welcome
I used to fly for a living, but I found your piece far more interesting - thank you.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it
Fascinating and very informative. Thanks for posting 👍🏻
You are most welcome.
I was mesmerized by this video. Really like the commentary. Thank you so much.
You are most welcome
……travelled constantly on this line, when staying in London. Loved travelling by the Tube! Many fond memories’………
It is the best line in my opinion 😝
Thank you for the very interesting video and yes keep the narrative on please as nice to hear about the line and what quirks you use for how remember parts of line. Look forward to next video. Stay safe as it’s crazy world downstairs (that’s what I call it) 😊
It is crazy down there. Especially on a weekend. Bank holiday weekends are worse 🤣
Very interesting and informative. An extremely responsible job. I'd find it very rewarding getting many people from A to B safely and as quickly as is possible.
Thank you
@@dalecharmantravels8057 - I read that on 30 Nov. last year, 4 million passenger journeys were made on the Underground. That's in one day! That's a lot of A to B's ! Well done to you and your colleagues 👏⭐
Thank you. It’s most appreciated
@@dalecharmantravels8057 1995 beat Arsscum in the FA cup on Penalties and smashed the Gooners on station and on the tube train MMMIIILLLLLLLLLLLLWALLLL COYL
Thank you for this very interesting video! I really like the tube in London, it's so different from the U-Bahn (Underground) here in Berlin, Germany. When I'm in London the next time riding the Piccadilly Line, I will have this video in mind. Greetings from Berlin, Hendrik 😃
Hello Hendrik from Berlin. I am glad you enjoyed this video. There are 2 more videos of the Piccadilly line if you haven’t seen them
Great commentry......loved this.....like being in the cab with you. My late Dad was a BR Inter-City driver for more than 40 years. Noticed with great interest the hundreds of Cables running through the stations. They were hidden behind the station fascia......you could see them when the train entered each tunnel. Lots of them were probably BT Cables.....and many more for the signals. Amazing they could produce all this well over a hundred years ago.......back breaking work it must have been!!!....... thank you Dale.
You are most welcome. It’s surprising that most of the infrastructure on the railway is still standing after such a long time
Thank you Dale for this excellent video and your commentary. It has been a few years since I last had a ride on an underground train.
You are most welcome. Hope to see you on the tube again soon
I came to London central last month for the first time as a northener and thought the Underground was a brilliant system....so easy, cheap and efficient...
Thanks driver for the guided tour....
You are more than welcome
AdamBaker cheap it is NOT prob the most expensive tickets in the world.
@@johndean4765 Cheap compared to all our other train prices!
Dream job, thanks for filming 😊
You are welcome. There is a new video of the pic line out this Saturday
Thank you so much Dale. Travelling Heathrow to central London since 1983, initially for work and in recent years, family visits, you've brought me to stations I have long wondered about. As as child in the 1960's, the Hornby train sets planted a seed which to this day provides hours of enjoyment on the rail system. I don't know which I enjoy more , travelling on the trains or just sitting in the stations taking in the atmosphere.
Why choose. You can do both get a train to a nice station then sit there with a coffee. Two birds with one stone as they say
Just found your channel. Insights in a line I know well from a passanger's view, informative and relaxing at the same time. And yes, I like the comments 😊
Thank you for the comment. Glad you enjoyed it
I always like the fact that the Piccadilly is termed as an east-west oriented line, but at Cockfosters the train starts off in a south-easterly direction, and continues for many miles in a more or less southerly direction!
The railway does have some strange things. My ex is a train driver on the main line, she says it is classed as up to London even though she is travelling south to London 🤣🤣
@@dalecharmantravels8057 well I suppose there had to be an overall convention to follow. Even the generally east-west Great Western main line had 'up' to London (and as a Londoner, you always went "up to town").
In the case of the Piccadilly though, with the two western branches and the fact that it wanders about so much geographically (though I know other lines do too - typically the Jubilee! Now, is that northbound-southbound or eastbound-westbound?), it makes sense to have a consistent convention for each line to avoid confusion.
@@CaseyJonesNumber1 i some times get confused if I am going west or east up or down 🤣
On the District Wimbledon to Edgware Road is classed as west to east though technically it's south to north.
@@del4189 that's probably to match it to the Ealing/Richmond to Upminster section, which very definitely is west to east.
Very interesting. We were on this line briefly recently. I was visiting London to pick up a car. I live in Northumberland. All in all a great day out. Thank you for this.
You are welcome
Nice video and commentary - thank you. As you entered Northfields you will have seen a series of concrete pillars on the right hand side of the eastbound local line. This used to carry a high level walkway from an alternative entrance leading to the other end of the platforms. As this entrance was probably nearer to South Ealing, it was dismantled in 1942.
I did not know that. Thank you for sharing
Very interesting especially when you explained about people who couldn’t read recognising stations by the colour of the wall tiles! Thank you 😊
You are most welcome
Absolutely brilliant video. Thank you so much for making it and for your service!!
you are most welcome
You have gone a long way from the gates at St Pan, Dale!! Love the vids! Keep em coming!!
That’s going back a few years
Excellent video. Very informative and great commentary. Looking forward to watching the rest of your videos. (I have just come across your channel).
I am glad you found me.
Great video, commentary does make it. Ive used this line from Oakwood and Cockfosters since the late 60s and ive learnt so much by watching. Thanks 👍🏼
I am glad you enjoyed it
This is fantastic! Very informative. Never seen anything like this on here before so thank you. Looking forward to seeing more in the future. What a great video.
Thank you glad you enjoyed it
This is a great video. Thank you for sharing a view we never see.
You are most welcome
I've lived in Perth Western Australia for the last 40 odd years. The video really takes me back. I can still smell the underground when I watch this.
Not sure if that’s a good thing if you can smell it 🤣🤣
Joined your channel today live in the north east of England and I don't leave the house
@@dalecharmantravels8057 haha, you know what I mean. Miss London some times.
Yep, I got it too. Lived in London until 1974, mum used to take me on all-day trips on the tube. Cheap, warm fun. I knew it like the back of my hand.
I have to admit I wouldn’t go to London if it wasn’t for work or to get to an airport
Enjoyed the commentary as well as the video. It brought back wonderful memories of my trips to London in the early 2000's when i was a chaperone for a small group of high school students. I made yearly trips for about 6 years. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for sharing your memories
I’ve been a tube traveller for over 50 years and this is a wonderful video thank you so much, and I’ve been on your line! Many times!
Thank you. So glad you enjoyed it
@@dalecharmantravels8057 Thank you for replying, I have to say, which I didn’t in my original comment, I think you folks are often the most unappreciated. It takes a lot skill to do what you do and thank you! A good friend of mine’s dad was a driver and he had a couple of jumpers and he had to retire. I just wrote software and if it went wrong well nobody died. Really interesting channel, always loved trains and the tube.
@@stephenbarrette610 that’s very kind of you to say. Drivers always get so much grief mainly from the press. It’s nice to be appreciated
As a current CSA and aspiring train operator, this video was very interesting and helpful. Thank you.
I am glad. I hope you manage to become a train op
I'm amazed you are allowed to put up this video, hope it doesn't get taken down! I've been travelling the Picadilly line since it was running 1923 Standard Stock. I was young but still remember like yesterday. They were absolutely as noisy as a rock concert, and in the evening rush you'd have smoking cars full of bowlwr hatted city gents smoking cigars and pipes, hidden behjbd broadsheets. Then we would be packed in as sardines. Best fun was rmtravelljng in the guard's car, the guard would simply raise a metal bar and I aleays wanged to press one of his worn buttons!
The most interesting part of line when I was a kid was the windy section around Covent Garden because not only were the trsins deafening noisy, the screech of the wheels on the curves and watching the cars snake was amazing. Never scared me - but Northfields always scared me as I wondered how I would get home if the trsin went into the sudings by mistake. I knew as a toddler that those tracks were full of lethal electricity!
thank you for sharing your memories
Have seen all your videos and loved them but this one is the best great insight superb quality and very informative looking forward to more like this
Thank you for the nice comment. I have more to come over the coming weeks
Absolutely love this - thank you so much, and commentary is excellent. Started my working life on the railway in 1979 as a level crossing keeper which I loved - I so wish I had stayed and become a driver.
I am so glad you enjoyed it
I lived 2 years in London and I took the District line most of the time. Thanks for giving us this view and your valuable commentary.
you are most welcome
From Houston, TX: Thank you for the ride AND the guided tour.
Well hello Houston. It’s great to have you ride along with me
Great video, Dale, the commentary is great. We regularly used to travel from Northfields to Manor House in the 60s to visit my Nan and Grandad. To see it from the drivers cab is a real treat.
I am glad you enjoyed it
Really enjoyed your commentary, it answered a ton of questions! Excellent viewing.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it
Fantastic ! I often use the Piccadilly Line when I change onto it from Leicester Square/ Northern Line heading to St Pancras / Kings Cross
It’s finally great to get a drivers view of the journey !
Glad you enjoyed it
Interesting to see this from a front view. Did the trip from Finsbury Park to LHR T5 in April 2019. What a great way to travel to the airport. Thanks for a very informative video.
you are most welcome
Nice video, great commentary. Brings back memories…-retired from LUL a few years ago.
I hope they are good memories
I’ve seen a few drivers eye view videos, but with your expert commentary it makes it all the more special! Thank you 🙏
that’s great hear. thank you
I’m subscribed as well now! 😂
It’s about time too 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great insight on the London Underground, I remember as a kid I was always a bit paranoid going under the thames between I think Embankment and Waterloo on the bakerloo line, you could actually hear the difference in the sound once it was under the river.
Thank you for sharing
Excellent. Very informative commentary. Thanks Dale. More,please!
You are welcome. I do have at least 2 more to come later this month
Loved the commentary and learning about the line. 👏👏
Glad you liked it
I came across this one by accident, but very enjoyable. I used to live in Southgate back in time so a bit of memory lane for me.
I am glad you found me 😃
Excellent video and informative commentary. Look forward to some more.
Thank you glad you enjoyed it
Great video, turnpike lane was my local station back in the 80s. The trains went right under the house
Could you feel it rumble under your feet?
@dalecharmantravels8057 yes I could, and it was what got me interested in the tube
Very nice, especially the commentary. Feels like a sightseeing tour in London's underground. An enrichment for someone who has never been to London before. Many thanks for that! Greetings from good old germany :)
Well greetings to you Germany. It is nice to have you with us. I am glad you enjoyed the video
Really enjoyed your commentary Dale. I used to be a secondman based at Stratford, in the old BR days of 1979. I wish, I'd had the technology then to be able to make cab rides. In 1985, I spent lots of time photographing the underground network. I loved those 1959 stock trains that ran on the Central line.
Thank you for sharing
Excellent video very informative, travelled the Piccadilly a lot for Saturday day trips to London, I’ve lost count how many times we did this. Would drive down to Cockfosters from Bedford, while watching this I was trying to workout the first time we did this trip, but all I can remember is the price of an all zones ticket was about £7 and the car park at Cockfosters was a £1 all day.
I don’t know how much they charge for the car park but I can guarantee it’s not £1 any more. In fact the car park is going to have flats built on it
Just subscribed and I'm so glad I did, amazing, please keep commentry coming it's so interesting, looking forward to joining you on your nxt journey, 😊 ps sadly im claustrophobic so going on a train is just a dream, x
I am sorry to hear that but I am glad you did enjoy the video
Thank you very much for posting this, Dale. As a former train guard in Australia, I really enjoyed both the video and commentary. Interesting to compare your systems to ours, and I'm somewhat amazed you are allowed to film and post this!
Glad you enjoyed the video
This is great thanks mate! Watching from Melbourne - always enjoyed my time on the tube! Keep it up
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it
Fantastic video Dale, very interesting commentary. Looking forward to future videos👍
Thank you that’s very kind of you
I used to live Edgware and early one morning I was getting tube to go to work as a bus driver, my car had broken down tube driver saw me and realised I was in bus drivers uniform and asked if I wanted cab ride, of course! What a great experience I will never forget he had been a driver for over 35yrs we had a very interesting journey chatting about his experiences, I enjoyed this video have subscribed ❤
Thank you for sharing your memories. Plus welcome to the channel it’s great to have you here
This is such a fascinating video, I love the tube and the commentary is an amazing addition to this video. It’s a little dream of mine to become a tube driver so hearing the commentary about the line and its technicalities is really inspiring 😄
Thank you I appreciate it
Great commentary, takes me back to the 70's the last time I travelled by underground.
Thank you
Thank you for the video. I’m from Liverpool and in June I’ll be visiting my significant other for the first time. She’ll be meeting me at Euston and we’ll be going to Kings Cross to get the tube for the Piccadilly Line to South Ealing! Great to get a preview!
You are welcome and I hope you have a fab time
Thanks Dale. Much appreciated.🤝
Thanks for doing this video. Love the Tube. The commentary gives it another interessting touch. Would love to see more.
Thank you. There are 2 more videos out at the moment
Fascinating stuff thanks a lot! Would love to see more of this and maybe a day in the life style vid of you at work
That’s an idea. I just have to be carful with what I film as my boss might not be too happy if I spend more time filming than i do driving trains 🤣
Great video. Fascinating seeing the signalling . I worked as a signalman for BR in the 70s 80s hackney and Bethnal Green and out to cheshunt . All boxes are gone now
It is a shame that most boxes have disappeared. I remember in the 80s waiting for a train in the signal box next to the open fire
Great video Dale. being a bit of a London Underground nerd, your commentary was really interesting. Please keep it in future vids.🙂
Thank you. The next video will be out on Saturday again with some commentary
Happened to somehow stumble on this and it's a gem, love stuff like this. That's a new sub from me!
Hello and welcome to the family
Really enjoyed this video its something that I have been on a few times whilst visiting friends in London but not been on for years great vid keep them coming.
Thank you. I shall see what I can do with regards to more videos
What a joy to ride with you 👍 It’s so nice to have you explaining things along the way. Immediately subscribed… All the best, Per (Denmark)
Hello and welcome it’s great to have you join the family
Unmistakably Underground! Great ride, thanks, and your commentary is excellent!
Thank you glad you enjoyed it
Me, a Northern Canadian Elder.= Great learning video.= Forty years since I was on our Toronto subway
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent video. It’s so interesting. I don’t go to London very often, I like going on the tube when I’m there. Love reading about the disused stations.
Thank you. I would love to get to film the disused stations one day
Fantastic video. Love the commentary as I’ve learnt more of the underground.
Even though I live in uk, London is miles away from me, but the underground is a special part of London and it’s great to know more about it and how it works. Keep the videos coming. Shame the camera died at the end.
Also I’m really pleased I’ve found the channel.
Thank you for that and it’s great to have you with us
Great video. Loved learning about what everything is. Would happily watch more videos like this.
Thank you. A new one will be out this weekend
nice to see my old house again. (the viaduct before entering the tunnel at Southgate). Miss the noise of the pic line when in the garden or working from home.
I would guess living near a railway line is annoying but once you are used to it, you miss it when it’s quiet. Although great for train spotters
It's funny really, I knew when there was a good service as I would hear the first train go up to Cockfosters. If it was late then I knew it was bad, and time to get up quick! The annoying thing was engineering works on the Viaduct. The lights which they turned on would shine the bedroom and the noise of the works was quite annoying. But that's what you get when you live there. I do miss it though.
@@dalecharmantravels8057
Thanks Mate...cheers from Oz. Having travelled from Manor House and Arsenal to town and onto T4 and visa versa many times, now having watched from CF to Manor House...can now say 've travelled the lot! ;-)
You can only say if you have watched the Uxbridge branch of the pic line 😜
Been on the Piccy Line many times. Interesting stuff! 🙂
Thank you
Enjoyed watching the journey and looking forward to seeing your other videos. Commentary is great and like your presenting style
Thank you that means a lot to me
Holy cow! This is such a cool video! Great information very interesting and a rare insight to a drivers eye view. Thank you for this and let’s have more please!
Stay tuned more to come in the coming weeks
Great video, thanks for sharing.
Thank you
I miss London so much. Great Video. Please more of that🙏🙏
There are a few other Piccadilly line videos out on the channel and I will do some more soon
Real interesting. Been on this line many times and always interested to know details you miss whilst travelling on this line, especially disused or redundant lines. Thanks for posting. 👍😊
You are most welcome
For someone who who is unlikely to get to London, it was a pleasure riding the Tube with you. Your commentary is delightful. We have drivers doing similar videos in OZ and all they say is . . . well nothing! Great experience even though it was mostly in darkness. I'll be looking out for more. Subscribed!
It’s great to have you with us
I have just discovered you. I have really enjoyed the videos I have seen so far (and shall watch more!). Fascinating stuff 😊😊😊
I am glad you found me. It’s great to have you here