1986 prototype Tube Stock ride to Aldwych, London

[PostTower]

Very nice, historically valuable video and a very good sound quality for 1989! Good work!

[Yolticat]

@PostTower thanks!

[210482fmj]

only british people in sight

[sheru7mera7naam007]

@oxa4pinoo don't be such an idiot

[sheru7mera7naam007]

Wow this is so cool! I was only 2 years old then , it's amazing how times have changed. All the passengers seem so formal lol, good stuff though very interesting

[sarahnickmocha]

I saw this at the Neasden Depot and my friend John used to do market research on board to ask people what they thought. The train is in fact full of train spotters and tube nerds (like me) taking the short journey back and forth just to see what it's like, and people who seem to have wandered on inadvertently. (Hence all the little boys out with their dads, men with comb-overs and people taking pictures.)

[hakc97isback]

Why does it say West Hampstead station?

[Yolticat]

@hakc97isback Because this train normally ran on the Jubilee line where West Hampstead is a reversing point for short working trips

[JalandharShere]

mustve been great time. not a mobile phone, ipod, ipad laptop in sight

[hakc97isback]

@JalandharShere lol

[TopGearrules]

Love the interior!

[fordeboi]

From the outside they look like the current Central line trains!

[oxa4pinoo]

look the people in train its all english but now its full of rubbish

[filthiestfish]

Was this really filmed in 1986 or is it just the stock belonging to that year?

[Yolticat]

@filthiestfish It was filmed on 11 March 1989 when this stock was running in service on Jubilee line.

[infrared567]

why arent their dot matrix displays on 92 ts when they are on the prototypes :/ ?

[alijanlondon]

@infrared567 was dropped as a cost saving measure

[PuertoRican88]

interesting prototype trainsets, and the historical footage from the late 1980s, 5/5.

[kzbxvz]

Aldwych isn't a "ghost station" it's still used by film teams and other events like this.

[metadyneman]

.. and so began the era of bland, overlit, overdone and very badly designed tube trains! Bring back the era of style as in the 38 and 59/62 stock!

[alijanlondon]

It's interesting that 3 prototypes were built. Out of that came the 92 t/s - probably the worst trains to be built for a deep level tube system. It just shows how good they are at throwing good money after bad.

[kurdman12345678]

@alijanlondon how r they the worst, they r the most reliable and fastes train on da LU, fucking idiot

[alijanlondon]

@kurdman12345678 Right, first of all learn some manners.  Next of all, learn that they are not the most reliable on the system.

[kurdman12345678]

@alijanlondon ok then,tell me howw they are not reliable

[TheJamesRankin]

Beautiful trains, why was I born in 1995 and in Ireland??? I'm building these for Train Simulator.

[D78stock]

Lucky... these trains are much better than the 1992TS.

[sheru7mera7naam007]

awesome video, kinda weird to think that it was a time without internet, computers, mobile phones, facebook, youtube, dvds, mp3 players etc.... we take all of these things for granted now without realising it

[sheru7mera7naam007]

i prefer this announcer's voice....

[EMMAWONDERLAND1]

WOW! Beautiful trains aren't! Look like a future of experimental trains is type of different colours. Is like red, green and blue of those trains! Awesome to find!!! What kind of different type of colour trains is?

[Yolticat]

@EMMAWONDERLAND1 There was one train in each of red; blue and green, which were the prototypes for London Underground's red 1992 tube stock that has run on the Central line ever since new.

[EMMAWONDERLAND1]

@Yolticat But where the red prototypes service train to ride is?

[Yolticat]

@EMMAWONDERLAND1 It was only possible to run a 4-car train on this little branch of the Piccadilly line, due to short platforms, so only 2 out of the 3 prototype 2-car units could run in this train.

[spartan117ism]

@Yolticat Are they Demonstrators of 1992 stock

[Yolticat]

@spartan117ism  Yes, they were sort of prototypes for it so a choice could be made of which unit to use as the blueprint. In fact the red unit was chosen.

[spartan117ism]

@Yolticat The 1992 stocks look like the green 1986 Demonstrator tube stock

[Yolticat]

@spartan117ism Maybe they used some features from more than one prototype (colour / design, etc) for the 1992 stock

[mrtulala1]

If the prototypes all had dot-matrix displays, why aren't there on the 1992 stock?

[bengo940]

@mrtulala1 Might have not been a requirement then, but the DMI's are placed in impractical places for the 1986 stock as the train would become crowded and you wouldn't be able to see the DMI's from the middle of the carriage.

[function8key]

@mrtulala1 For cost reasons

[simpletimes222]

The 1992 stock is far better than that! I din't know why some people dislike them so much. The 1992's just need news seat covers and a little spruce up!

[456013matt]

The only word I can think of, is Wow....

[DeanieBoi07]

This train looks and sounds horrible. People knock the 1992 stock for its current state, but that's only due to neglect of the trains and line. I'm glad we have the current 1992 stock.

[bengo940]

@DeanieBoi07 lol, i do think the exterior and interior of some 1986 stock look horrible. However, the interior of the red 1986 stock looks alright.

[DeanieBoi07]

@bengo940 I'm not a fan of much of it to be honest, but the green carriage is the design they used to make the current 1992 stock.

[jack253]

To me it sounds more of a DLR train..

[Alstom1995]

Lol now I know where Otis acquired their lift chimes from!

[Klingl3r]

That´s some historic footage in two ways: The prototypes were mostly scrapped and the Aldwych station isn´t in use anymore.

I wonder if Simon(citytransportinfo) was also on this ride?

[foxcell]

wow! 

[citytransportinfo]

strangest looking 'West Hampstead' station I've ever seen LOL!

[bengo940]

@citytransportinfo Fake announcements lol

[bengo940]

@bengo940 a mistake as i hear the DVA might have been able to do announcements for the Jubilee Line

[function8key]

@bengo940 The 1986 stock operated on the Jubilee line between May '88 and August '89. They must have been playing the announcements here at Aldwych to demonstrate the facility