East London Line Extension Tour

Preview of East London Line Extension including from the cab between Whitechapel and Hoxton via Shoreditch High Street. Also view of trains using the new Shoreditch High Street station whilst shadow running.

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• East London Line
• London Overground
• Whitechapel
• Hoxton
• Shoreditch High Street

[cherryadeish]

@propheiy they are shadow running meaning the driver are training on the route

[propheiy]

looks empty. when is this recorded? (day and time)

[daveb0789]

Nice video. The trains will only operate fast if they are running late. If on time there is no need to drive fast. They are more powerful than other Electrostar units because of the gradients.

[raakone]

@jack253 originally the EL was going to remain with the LU, and have a similar arrangement to parts of the Metropolitan, Bakerloo, and District lines with tube and suburban sharing tracks. But someone decided that would be too complicated. But you'd be able to tell a train's destination (sort of) by its color. When the line was renovated 1995-1998, supposedly it became capable of running Networkers, wonder if they'd have painted some mainline stock in LU livery?

[LikeMindedIncident]

All nice and new but the trains are annoyingly slow, not being put to full use. Am too used to Tube like acceleration and braking. Or perhaps I just got on one with a lazy driver who was really crawling! They take forever to pull into a station, etc.

[crompton33001]

@BROADTRAIN1979 Too right they were, the other day I went from Stratford to Gunnersbury, first time I've used the line since the Woolwich section closed and I was not impressed with the LOL 378's :(

[BROADTRAIN1979]

THE 501S WERE THE KINGS ON THIS LINE, THE DADDIES OF THEM ALL RIP 501S NEVER FORGOTTEN.

[razork1976]

Great to see my old neighbourhood. I lived in Haggerston between 2000-2005 and found it hard to imagine how the new extension would look when it was done. Now I can see here before I go back to London. Now everyone can easily get to Viet Hoa on Kingsland road rather than fight your way on a bus from Livvy St.

[CJ19Productions]

@neuralwarp That's not a central cable. That's just to do with the trackbed. These use bog standard NR signalling - hear the AWS chime.

[Markjuk]

@ingravegreen - Short sighted 1980s railway closures! You would of thought they would have learnt lessons from the 60's and 70's regarding closing railways but is was still happening in the 80's although these closures are not as well documented as ones from the previous decades. Good examples of 80's railway closures was Elmers End branch, Elridge to Tonbridge Wells, The Woodhead Route. Other branches that lost rail services in the 60s and 70s but the rails remained were ripped up in the 80s.