'The Tube' (TV program)

[GhostStation]

Just to add my thoughts to this, I'm really enjoying this series. I've always loved the underground and do so even more now!

I like the driver on the Piccadilly who talks about leaving behind the post-apocalyptic urban greyness behind as he leaves the tunnel! Brilliant!

Hopefully they will record another series this year, especially with the running of a steam engine down there.

 

[SS4]

Yeah the guy on the Picc is hilarious.

 

[yorksrob]

It would be nice if they did one about the national railway network.

I seem to remember the BBC did a good one called railwatch a few years ago, however it wasn't in the same style as this (and is about 20 years out of date).

Still no fluffers btw.

 

[CC 72100]

Still no fluffers btw.

Think Fluffers come next week, as I read in the TV magazine today that next week's episode is about the maintenance that takes place overnight. Still haven't seen this weeks episode, so looking forward to that!

 

[Ivo]

What is a fluffer?

 

[Yew]

A national rail one could be good, maybe 5 episodes covering general stuff, then an episode each for every toc?

 

[455driver]

Think Fluffers come next week, as I read in the TV magazine today that next week's episode is about the maintenance that takes place overnight. Still haven't seen this weeks episode, so looking forward to that!

Freudian slip at the beginning of your post?

Ivo, Fluffers (in this context) are the cleaners that clean the tracks of all the hair etc that if allowed to build up could be a fire hazard, there used to be a train they used that was basically a big vaccuum cleaner but they found that it left quite a bit behind so went back to the old method of doing it by hand.

 

[jopsuk]

I guess the 4th rail system really doesn't help!

 

[Dstock7080]

there used to be a train they used that was basically a big vaccuum cleaner but they found that it left quite a bit behind so went back to the old method of doing it by hand.

There is a replacement Tunnel Cleaning Train in the course of being constructed/converted.

http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/urban-rail/single-view/view/london-underground-vacuum-train-to-cut-tunnel-cleaning-time.html

 

[Southernrover]

The old Tunnel Cleaning train used to catch fire quite a lot too. It wasn't much use when it picked up very little and then spontaneously combusted what it had managed to pick up.

 

[seiryuu]

I'd love to see a few more of the people that appeared in the ITV series to see how fare they've come.

 

[150222]

A national rail one could be good, maybe 5 episodes covering general stuff, then an episode each for every toc?

That would be rather boring, surely?

 

[yorksrob]

That would be rather boring, surely?

There are rather a lot of them.

However, an episode for each of the former business sectors would have been just right.

 

[Ivo]

That would be rather boring, surely?

Episode 14: c2c

Tonight we have a look at the inside works of East Ham TMD and what it is really like to send a 66 across Shoeburyness High Street on the one-train-per-week freight serice to the nearby Ministry of Defence site. During the remaining 50 minutes we'll be running a cab ride on an express from Southend Central to London Fenchurch Street, which actually doesn't exist and is all done by CGI.

What the BBC won't tell you: If this bores you you can always watch Hollyoaks.

 

[table38]

What is a fluffer?

Heh, you could always google it...

 

[150222]

Episode 14: c2c



What the BBC won't tell you: If this bores you you can always watch Hollyoaks.

I don't think it would appeal to a very wide audience (me included) and would be costly to make. Plus the general public has no intrest in the working of each individual TOC. I'll stick with Hollyoaks thanks.

 

[Nym]

Heh, you could always google it...

Oh trust you!

PS: Hollyoaks is hellish!

 

[Ivo]

PS: Hollyoaks is hellish!

And that's on a good day :roll:

 

[table38]

I declined a... er... "proposition" one New Years Eve in a pub in North Wales by someone who I later discovered to be an actor in Hollyoaks.

I could have sold my story to the News of the World and be on easy street by now

 

[Harbon 1]

Ive loved the series from the start, and watched it religiously :P I hope that Londoners will soon understand how lucky they are... One bloke said outside the station I think whilst it was closed 'they can't run a decent service' or something along those lines. That reflects perfectly with what a driver said in the first episode, 'they don't know how lucky they are.' I completely agree with that, I sometimes have to wait 50minutes for a bus timetabled every 15, and three minutes is 'hard done by' :roll: makes me sick!

I also have maximum respect for the Picc driver! And those 20s would have sounded great in the shed :-P

 

[SS4]

Ive loved the series from the start, and watched it religiously :P I hope that Londoners will soon understand how lucky they are... One bloke said outside the station I think whilst it was closed 'they can't run a decent service' or something along those lines. That reflects perfectly with what a driver said in the first episode, 'they don't know how lucky they are.' I completely agree with that, I sometimes have to wait 50minutes for a bus timetabled every 15, and three minutes is 'hard done by' :roll: makes me sick!

Aye, that's what I was thinking. it was outstanding how much they took the tube for granted. Even if the Tube is suspended there are plenty of other routes and a frankly superb bus service. Don't watch it religiously since I invariably forget but I do record it and will likely to keeping a personal copy xD

 

[CC 72100]

Just watched Monday nights episode, good as always. The situation at Bank made me laugh - you just couldn't make it up! Paramedics may as well be stationed there!

 

[Statto]

One thing, why do LU on there currant train running screens, show "Good Service", when normal service is operating, i find the term "Good Service" quite ambiguous, & could mean anything, if the screens showed "Normal Service" instead[& what i want to see], i know then normal service is operating.

 

[A60K]

Because many people would think 'normal service' means delays...

 

[Wyvern]

"No delays to report" ????

 

[SS4]

One thing, why do LU on there currant train running screens, show "Good Service", when normal service is operating, i find the term "Good Service" quite ambiguous, & could mean anything, if the screens showed "Normal Service" instead[& what i want to see], i know then normal service is operating.

You've answered the question yourself. By being vague with definitions they stretch further

 

[jon0844]

If you are of the opinion that the service is normally rubbish, you wouldn't want to be told there's a 'normal' service!

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[VTPreston_Tez]

Does anyone else think that because of the success of this show, will there be another season or something related hitting our screens soon?

 

[SS4]

Does anyone else think that because of the success of this show, will there be another season or something related hitting our screens soon?

Has it been a success though? Certainly on here it's a success but there is no way this is representative of the wider ratings.

 

[150222]

Has it been a success though? Certainly on here it's a success but there is no way this is representative of the wider ratings.

It is in 'most popular' on Iplayer!