First Trains under Trafalgar Square

[HLD77777]

I believe the district line was the first underground line to be launched

[SMALTV]

@HLD77777 Them lines never existed back then-it was something like the Baker Street & Euston line

[JackBarnett21]

@SMALTV As you say - the line under Trafalgar Square had a different name back then - but then they do change the names of lines and stations from time to time. What happened the "The Strand" station?

[HLD77777]

@SMALTV as we know them the district was first to be put in place....

[JackBarnett21]

@HLD77777 the first underground line ran from Paddington to King's Cross via Baker Street surely. The dug up the street outside Baker Street and put the first underground line down in that position and then basically covered it over.

[LordHeath1972]

Always pleased to see a member of the public blatantly filming on London Underground property. I am so sick of them giving their orders out about how people are not permitted to film/take photographs on tube stations, so I applaud anyone who does it - just to stick it in their faces.

Some nice staff at Charing Cross though, particularly a man called John Poole.

If you are polite enough someone may show you down to the old platforms 3-4 which are no longer used.

[JackBarnett21]

@LordHeath1972 That would be great wouldn't it.

[LordHeath1972]

@JackBarnett21 I went to Charing Cross shortly after I saw the 2004 horror film "Creep" and asked around to see if I could take a look down on the old platforms 3 and 4 where the Jubilee line used to run (where the film was shot). A senior member of staff John Poole agreed to take me down and let me take some photos - on two separate occasions - so if you are keen go down there I recommend you go to the station and ask him. A really lovely fellow.

[JackBarnett21]

@LordHeath1972 Yes I will try that - thanks.

[dtfageet]

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[JackBarnett21]

an interesting view point thanks

[hstadam1994]

@dtfageet The London Undrgeound is the largest underground system in the world. And what good does Canada have? you tell me.

[lego4555]

@hstadam1994

in new york  is the largest

in moscow -the most people going

[hstadam1994]

@lego4555 The London underground is the largest in the world, wiki it.

[cley123]

Yes this is the now so called Charing Cross Interchange that includes what was the Bakerloo Trafalgar Square Station ( which is not on the map anymore) to piss off the tourists and us old londoners. Why they could not leave well alone is beyond understanding.

[charlieiscool1000]

isnt this Carrging cross coz there is no tube station on the underground map saying trafalgar square

[JackBarnett21]

but did that go under trafalgar square?

[edup12]

I thought the oldest one was metropolitan line.

[edup12]

Oh no, my mistake, sorry!

[JackBarnett21]

This may seem to be Waterloo Station but it is in actual fact Charing Cross Station. When they are talking of building an underground railway system in Dubai perhaps it is right to point out that here, in London, was the first underground railway system in the world

[musicismetal]

y does it seem prudent to point out london had the first? after some of your other vids g threads this seems a little frivalous

[JackBarnett21]

ya i think you are right. but the lines are rather a london miracle arent they.

[falkerhard]

They've been well preserved. Are the trains in operation the ones from 1868?

[JackBarnett21]

that would be interesting but is not actually how it is.

[bronzeonion]

dear oh dear! if it was 1868 it would be made of wood, slam doors, would be 10times slower etc lol

[nightraider121]

This seems to be Waterloo station... Well the Bakerloo Line is the third tube line to be opened, which is in March 1906 so it's one of the oldest lines but not one of the first.

[Edwiness]

The Bakerloo line isn't the first underground line in the world. Visit Baker Street H&C and Circle platforms for the first.

[JackBarnett21]

the london underground system is the first underground in the world. what were you expecting, steam trains.