Those Disused Tube Carriages in Shoreditch: Village Underground

Besides the inclusion of historical maps and photos, stunning array of audio and video footage, excellent writing, editing, and voice recording, there is also the generally positive and wholesome community in the comments. Hurrah for Jago and their Hazzards!

"Let's listen to some 1996 stock" he says randomly in the middle of the video - LOVE it :)

My wife and I married in 1971. She worked in the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA), and part of her job involved running the annual recruitment drive for newly qualified teachers to work in London schools. In those days these were largely young aspiring middle class gels who dreamt of living in the fashionable parts of west and south west london. Of course the vacancies were often in the less desirable parts of north and east London; hipsters etc. were at that time not even twinkles in their fathers’ eyes. She became expert in explaining how the North London and other lines running into Broad Street allowed commutes between Kew and similar to the grim redoubts in which the vacancies for teachers needed filling.

You get a thumbs up for the traction motor noise. Music to my ears!

It says something about the 83 stock that it never even made it to the IOW. The OAP retirement home for old tube stock, if it's reliable. Narrow doors are a bonus for open air operation, one gets less of a blast of icy air everytime they open in winter.

I’m from another European country and a few months ago, I had a 10 day trip to London to see some of the – to me – random and obscure stuff I’ve enjoyed you covering on this channel over the past year. Well were I surprised to stumble upon this spot!! Somehow my aimless YouTube research had not warned me of the Village Underground (but I almost knew the name of the Kingsland viaduct, go figure…). I went to a club night there later in the week and holy moly some talent playing there, right up my alley! Anyway, just oversharing a bit – Thank you Jago!!

Hi Jago / Tom, thanks for another great train video. In Melbourne (Aus) we have 3 x Hitachi trains on top of a pub. It’s a burger restaurant. It’s called Easey’s.

The 1972 trains are burned into my memory, since those are the first I saw as a 6 year old in 1977. They honestly look better to me than the others.

Great video jago, love the sound of 96 stock, nothing compares apart from a jet engine start up 👌😀👍

As a young trainee architect with the Historic Buildings Division of the GLC, I was sent to spend weeks surveying and drawing up Broad Street Station for their records. The joy of the Station was its unique (for this country) Beaux Art style. It was a great shame when it was replaced by the Broadgate development, which in turn has been redeveloped. By coincidence I was working for TfL as an architect and was involved in protecting the bus station on the same site during the redevelopment.

"Are we sure about this stock?" "Well its a bit up in the air at the moment" While at Uni (in Colchester) and waiting for a train out of Liverpool street, I took the opportunity to have a look round Broad Street station. I wish I had had a camera at the time. It was clear the station was being run down and it seemed only two platforms were in use. (late 70s). It was pretty depressing. Clearly British Rail didnt have the money to do it up and in the 60s & 70s the 'knock it down and start again' brigade of developers were in the ascendancy. (Euston!) Fortunately for St Pancras and Liverpool street, the reuse and recycle philosophy had taken over but I was sad to see Broad street go.

Yes, Broad St station was unpopular at the end. Even the Paul McCartney film "Give my Regards to Broad Street", part shot there, flopped and seems to have disappeared completely nowadays. I quite liked it when doing some lunchtime walks (often to pubs) when working at Aldgate and took some photos of its run-down state including the doors to the lifts that hadn't operated for years.

As a regular commuter on the Jubilee line I love the sound the motors make, I just wish the tunnels weren't filled with wailing hell hounds that break my ears

I recall the early days with Jago, the beer and model railways, and am really pleased with how well the channel has done. I agree with another comment here that the channel always produces excellent videos and the people making the comments are supportive and courteous. Definitely one of the very best YouTube channels and long may it remain so.

Again you have taken the obscure and made it thoroughly interesting. It is a pity that the station was demolished. New York City lost its beautiful Pennsylvania Station years ago. The outcry was huge, and ultimately saved and restored Grand Central Terminal.

Interestingly, when Broad Street was finally shut in June 1986, the Graham Curve from the North London line (about a kilometre east of Dalston) was rebuilt to the West Anglia Main Line allowing a few peak train services from Watford access to Liverpool Street instead of Broad Street, but journey time was a bit longer. That service ended in September 1992, with Primrose Hill station on the Watford route closing as well. The Graham Curve still exists, being used occasionally for stock movements, weedkilling trains and diversions.

Excellent video, I have heard and wondered about these old tube trains, I think I’ll pay a visit, and get some shots of them, thanks for posting. Your channel is fantastic, so varied, and constantly high quality. I think you mentioned some time back, about Chalk Farm Station, and it being on an album cover (Madness Absolutely), I’m sure there are some others vaguely rail/tube related, be fantastic if you did a video on these. Keep up the wonderful work Jago 😊🤍

I have two 'online comfort zones' that I use almost on a daily basis; long cab rides on Swiss trains (...for really chilling-out) and Jago Hazzard; whose informative, witty and humble style of reportage is akin to a well loved TV program of old... Dad's Army? For instance... Always a pleasure to watch and for someone born in Wimbledon, used the tubes often when growing-up until the age of 13 when the family upsticks and reclocated to the Preseli Hills of Dyfed in Wales; where a considerable amount of old railbed exploratory missions were undertaken by myself until I joined the RN at natal +16.5... Where I then used the tubes between 1975-81 when crossing 'Smoke' on various drafts, or excursions. The Tube system of London is an incredible, but mostly convoluted, piece-meal, hotpotch of a transit system. With quite remarkable history and its own - almost socilistiks - uniformity and dependability. Instantly recognisable over any other kind of MTS. It is about the only thing I could honestly say I feel proud of, as a Homecounties born, Englishman... Well... Maybe the great liners... And the once proud and ubiquitous national railway network.... And of course - '...Those So Few.'

The 1983 TS Trains were one of my all-time favourite Underground trains, I liked them even more when their bodies were still aluminium coloured, this was later changed to white through a natural process over time. A unusual aspect of the 1983 TS trains is that when travelling through tunnels and if the glazed ventilators of the emergency exit doors were lowered, one often got a whiff of what smelled like smoked barbecued and chargrilled meat, perhaps rodents being cooked on the electrified track as the trains went over them.

Thank you so much for this video! I have driven past those two trains a few times and never got round to look up what they were all about.