London Overground trains on the East London line - Part 1

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Today we are back in London to take a look at the East London line. It is a railway line running north to south just east of the City of London from Highbury & Islington via Shoreditch, Whitechapel, and the Docklands to New Cross. Until 2007 this line was part of the London Underground, where it was operated by subsurface Metropolitan line stock.
When the line closed, it was extensively refurbished and reopened in 2010 as part of the London Overground network. Today there are frequent services operated by London Overground’s standard Class 378 “Capitalstar” stock.
In the first part of this film, we take a look at the southern end of the line at New Cross Gate and Surray Quays stations, which are located in the boroughs of Southwark and Lewisham, respectively. While Surray Quays station is solely served by the Overground, New Cross Gate is on the Brighton Main Line, which is a major railway line. As such, there are frequent mainline services stopping and passing through the station. Besides Overground trains, the film also shows a Southern service for London Bridge stopping and a brand new Class 700 Thameslink train passing through the station.
Enjoy!
Recorded: February 26, 2017.

[@DannyPRobinson]

I like your style Luftschlange, it really makes me feel as though I am there on the streets outside the station, and there on the platforms. The way you include some street scenes around the stations adds context to your videos.

[@clairgreen4691]

Danny’s

[@Carlostransportes2023]

Class 707 and 700 are my favorites Trains !

[@clairgreen4691]

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[@orig1nalfn91]

Cool mine are electro stars and one of them is the main London overground east London and south London line

[@Carlostransportes2023]

@@orig1nalfn91 Ok ??

[@alaaadam7810]

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[@OptareOlympus93]

@@alaaadam7810 and whats wrong with that

[@coyotelong4349]

I love your videos so much, and particularly these ones at London stations. They truly make me feel as if I'm there, and London is my favorite city in the world. Keep it up!

[@Luftschlange]

+Kyle Sekenski Thanks that’s lovely to hear. You can look forward to more videos from London in the future. :-)

[@mudchute4dlr]

agreed

[@orig1nalfn91]

Bro the announcer for the main London overground train on stations fits the train so much!!! Who agrees?

[@_oryginal]

Yay you are back! :)

[@omari9593]

Loving ittt🔥💙

[@sahbreezyy]

So cool

[@samrogers7896]

Nice video!

[@sahbreezyy]

Very interesting

[@maimadha]

Great video '

[@chukuschukwuma8111]

Yes ooo and thank the one that you have been working

[@GamingRacerHD]

Nice :D

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nice vid😃😄

[@Trainboy350TransportVideos]

Great video. Could you film the London Overground services going out of Liverpool Street?

[@TheWkc19]

Nice

[@matthewb6916]

Really amazing footage. Absolutely love your content, especially those filmed in London, as this is where I am from, and I am a huge tube fanatic, too. Great footage, really admire your work ;)
Cheers,
Matt

[@Luftschlange]

+Matthew B Thanks, Matthew that is nice to hear. I'm happy you enjoy the videos. I have plenty more unedited London footage and I'm travelling there quite frequently, so expect more to come. :-)

[@Vayatir]

Ever been to East Croydon? It's a great station in South London with a lot of action!

[@Luftschlange]

+DemonicDratini Indeed I have :-)

[@Sensist2002France]

@@Luftschlange 6:00 reminds me of subway surf 🙄🙄🙄

[@MrNikeAnimationz]

London Overground Where are you at

[@mudchute4dlr]

If you come out the jubilee line lift at West Ham (on the jubilee platform level) then look back at the lift you will see the line diagram of West Ham westbound on the left. For absolutely no reason, they updated it so it says ‘East London’ instead of ‘Overground’ for Canada Water. They also did that inside a lift at Canada Water but i dont know which one.

[@AndrewG1989]

The East London Line still gets more overcrowded when it was extended from Highbury & Islington to West Croydon, Crystal Palace, Clapham Junction and New Cross. And could of extended to East Croydon.

[@ianmoseley9910]

Used to use this line when it was London Underground and ran between the old Shoreditch station and New Cross/New Cross Gate. At Shoreditch you could see where the tracks could continue into Liverpool Street.
When they were replacing the lines for the Overground we were able to go on a public walk-through of the Brunel tunnel.

[@MrNikeAnimationz]

We love go in the Southeastern trains

[@MrNikeAnimationz]

Oh wow The southeastern train

[@sharkylou]

Could be me driving one of those trains. I'm a driver on the east London line :)

[@nancydennismwangi648]

I

[@tobeytransport2802]

Hamzz why?

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[@mcangeloslays]

COOL

[@YishaiBarr]

Overground is a mainline train by definition. It's purpose is different from the other trains.

[@MPsNewswatch]

Worth noting that the all stations announcements are only where they share with NR TOC's which in this case NXG shares with Southern. If you go to ELL 'core' stations the announcements are usually "all stations to....."

[@vydiniekarunaratne3420]

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[@yavuzuzunkaya1804]

MP's Newswatch .

[@kyronliu5190]

Wait, so is it filmed on January 26th (according to the description), or February 26th (in the video)?

[@Luftschlange]

Thanks for pointing this out. The video is correct, it was filmed in February. I corrected the description.

[@orig1nalfn91]

I like this london overground train CUZ ITS AN ELECTRO STAR!!!! Yeah I’m crazy for em

[@RedArrow73]

7:45 - Where does the Route Indicator send trains to?

[@transportflick923]

RedArrow73 either towards New Cross, Crystal Palace or West Croydon on the left, or towards Clapham Junction via Denmark Hill on the right.

[@sahbreezyy]

That's interesting once the departing train goes in the tunnel, an arriving train comes out

[@blessedrainbow]

why so long then upload???

[@davidsims200trainstranspor5]

You know i like undergroung then overground

[@anisocoro]

There ae trains with five cars, I imagine that there ae many passengers if it was considered compulsory to lenghten existing four crs trains, which were not "short" at all

[@LNER_TRAINS22543]

It was a sad when the east London line went

[@lewiskemp1378]

Pretend London Overground Route; Underground Stop; Isembard Central, Overground Stops; Dongansville, Herrington, Bentley, Denthorpe, Georgetown, Borough Hills, Westchester Av, Forest Heath, Allerton Heights,

[@mce5420]

Are Greater Anglia, Southern, Southwest, London Overground, Thameslink all commuter trains?

[@YishaiBarr]

Ali Hafeez Yes. As opposed to a metro.

[@thegrowl2210]

They all provide a mix of metro, commuter short/long distance trains. Great anglia have speedier class 90 + DVT trains.

[@nutfield0013]

(yes this is old) I wouldn't really consider Greater Anglia a metro service anymore, considering all of its metro services apart from the Liverpool St - Hertford East service is now a part of the Overground and Crossrail.

[@tou7331]

Yishai Barr whats the difference

[@goshangogov7705]

1:46 Is it Ilya Varlamov? -)

[@barbariska7672]

Yes)))

[@sahbreezyy]

That Trameslink train is fast like Amtrak is the U.S.

[@themaxfamous572]

Huh Surrey Quays have too in Roblox Bathwick Connect 😅...

[@eshayoung2818]

😊

[@momathabegum8385]

😎

[@imrubbishdabusenthusiast2651]

You know I had some suggestions for trains
1. New line called SLL (Canada water, Southbound)
2: National Rail Stopping at Brockley
3: Trams extend to Crystal Palace and New Cross
4:LU Piccadilly terminates at Canada Water
5: LU Jubilee Loop to Stratford, Stanmore
6: LO extends from Clapham J to Brixton

[@sahbreezyy]

To Be Continued

[@m3lgar582]

It sounds like the M7

[@ayamaehufano9840]

Maybe LRT PH 2nd gen train

[@xinchunchen6464]

Ok

[@melvinlow888]

Can anyone tell me if the Overground is like the Underground? Is it a metro?

[@mysterium368]

melvinlow888 No, it is more similar to the German "S-Bahn" if you know that.

[@quas392]

its a suburban one basically. Instead of going underground in central london, it goes to the villages and towns around outer london

[@mysterium368]

The outer London Boroughs and the City of Watford. It is based on regular railways and a former underground line.

[@tou7331]

Kinda

[@rabd9881]

The Overground is a few commuter rail lines serving the outskirts of London, that TfL took control of in the past 10 years

[@BlueChickenDesigns]

sounds like C151A

[@middletransport]

What's that?

[@Mark-zj8mp]

East London Line 1 Plaffom 5

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[@sethboakye5103]

London overground goes to my house sydenham

[@kingsleyyap3065]

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[@tomchalupski2177]

Are these Overground trains on electric?

[@jvc7777]

nope

[@mysterium368]

TheAverageCZcamsr They are. Electrical Third Rail.

[@jvc7777]

Mysterium oh I didn't think about that because I realised that they didn't have overhead cables

[@williamfall2214]

Mysterium 750V DC third rail

[@tou7331]

Yes

[@nuffaildaniaelle977]

Are these using fossil fuel or 3rd rail??

[@YishaiBarr]

3rd rail. Some railways have catenary though.

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[@jamieshorter2274]

Did anyone notice the at 7:58 the 3rd carriage had the door indicator flashing?!!!! Why is that????

[@hartstukken]

I really really want to know now too

[@jamieshorter2274]

@@hartstukken It don't see it happen often, but i find it very strange when it does.

[@transportflick923]

Jamie Shorter someone trapped in the door?

[@transportflick923]

Jamie Shorter only logical explanation is it’s the coach that the guard is in.

[@jamieshorter2274]

TransportFlick Yes it could be a guard, but have you thought it might just be an error or a system glitch?

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