Tourists at this announcement: Freaking out Londoners: Calmly envisioning the entire tube map in their minds and finding the new optimal path

@Thatspuremental

Жыл бұрын

In Glasgow when this happens on our line we jst simply go the other way round 😂

@marcelshousewife

Жыл бұрын

relatable tho

@RaceEngineerJeff

Жыл бұрын

“No! Please don’t tell me to change at Bank! Anywhere but Bank!”

@aislingpatterson271

Жыл бұрын

Please, I've memorised at least two lines and know on those lines where to change for different lines from travelling to school in central for 5 years.

@2010treasure

Жыл бұрын

Lol FACTS 😅😂

It makes perfect sense to regular users but if you're not a regular or a tourist then prepare to get lost

@cruuuump

Жыл бұрын

as a regular it makes perfect sense to me, but i can see how “monument bank” would be confusing

@Norfolk212

Жыл бұрын

So true 😂😂

@user-ed7et3pb4o

Жыл бұрын

I’m neither a regular nor a tourist but whenever I go to London it’s extremely easy to navigate

@milkshaykhh9169

Жыл бұрын

So what station is monument / bank on the central line?

@dianamalik2804

Жыл бұрын

💯 agree

By the time you finish reading the message you realise you are in Liverpool Street.

@MrFlytoskyyy2

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂 district user feels excluded

@takemeaway285

Жыл бұрын

Unlikely, District doesn't go to Liverpool Street.

@The.Messenger.2832

Жыл бұрын

​@takemeaway285 Since there is no interchange at Mile End, you can change at Stepney Green, Whitechapel, Aldgate East for the Central Line to Liverpool Street...🥸

@naerin..

Жыл бұрын

it could be the hammersmith and city line

@takemeaway285

Жыл бұрын

@@naerin.. It couldn't. The announcement says change at Monument/Bank.

translation: if you wanted to switch to the central line at Mile End, you can change at Monument Bank instead

@ThirdRailOfficial

Жыл бұрын

Monument and bank are connected?

@jackh7481

Жыл бұрын

Short tunnel between them

@AMPProf

Жыл бұрын

WTF WTF.. SO Kings English ughh

@mothiurNCL

Жыл бұрын

​@@jackh7481short tunnel? That's subjective. Seems forever, especially in the summer.

@lydiahunter512

Жыл бұрын

​@@mothiurNCLthe looooooongest tunnel. And no air. Always feel like I'm I'm in some sort of post-apocalyptic film.

Ah yes the good ol "This is the train taking you where you need to go however i have decided i cant be bothered to take you there anymore" experience.

@freightanddieseltrains

Жыл бұрын

Very true 😂

@Dimensionalalteration

Жыл бұрын

Then it speeds up past the next stop as confused onlookers on the platform swish with the abrupt gust of wind that the train forces at them.The train continues through the tunnel , torn posters ,tiles and exposed wirering can be seen rushing past the window as it finally stops dead silent at a ghost station and it gently rolls into a sun filled time gone by...sorry to much imagination.

@deang5622

Жыл бұрын

Actually no, not in this case. This train is stopping at all the stations that is part of the stopping schedule. The issue here is if you want to change trains at the next station to the other line, you can't.

@marcwilliams9824

Жыл бұрын

That's not what this info is saying at all.

@zrise8023

Жыл бұрын

@@marcwilliams9824 You dont understand because clearly dsont use Trains in the UK if you did you'd understand.

“Mind the gap between the train and the platform” and “see it, say it, sorted” are now regular occurrences in my dreams 😂

@S-CB-SL-Animations

10 ай бұрын

When was the last time you dreamed about it?

I live in London and it makes complete sense to me 😂😂

@KrishnaRoblox02

Жыл бұрын

Same

@isha.-

Жыл бұрын

Same 😌

@AMPProf

Жыл бұрын

EXWACTLY YOU LIVE IN LONDON... Wee bit big no

@DeKat-84

Жыл бұрын

I don't live in London and it still makes perfect sense.

@medfitconsultant

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely 💯

"Bromley-by-Bow" rolls off the tongue very nicely

@anomalousoddity

Жыл бұрын

Not when you're pissed it doesn't

@davidrboland

Жыл бұрын

I was born there.

@johnnywood3092

Жыл бұрын

True. Every time I hear i hum that Rod Stuart song music moll of kintyre

@Thatspuremental

Жыл бұрын

@@anomalousoddity😂

@LumaFizz

Жыл бұрын

Fr I love how alliteration does that

😂i miss the tube everytime I'm away from London. It's that rumble and those announcements 😊it sounds like home.

@paddypaddy2834

Жыл бұрын

100% agree. I spent a few weeks in London 5 years ago and miss hearing “Mind the Gap” so much!

@Kittzin

11 ай бұрын

fr even if its only a month, after i go spain every year for summer thats one of the first things i hear b4 going to my home

@tripreporterofficial

11 ай бұрын

"Please mind the gap between the train and the platform" hits hard

If you refer to a map after this announcement it’s not that confusing. If you want to go west, instead of getting off at Mile End and going that way on the Central line, get off at Bank/Monument (they are connected stations) and go west from there instead. I don’t know how else they could have announced it. They have maps on all the trains and stations so they assume some familiarity with the routes (otherwise every announcement would have to be like 80 minutes long)

@lopachilla

Жыл бұрын

I would probably forget what she said, and I would end up going the wrong way anyway. Next thing you know I’m in a back alley of a completely different country, questioning my life choices.

@keyboardsmash1231

Жыл бұрын

​@@lopachillayou could just ask a memebr of staff then

Me as a Londonder coming to the comments to realise that apparently some people find this simple announcement confusing 🤷‍♀️

@lilblkrose

Жыл бұрын

Screams in AmericanTourist

@pinkthing999

Жыл бұрын

Not a Londoner but lived there 30 years. Makes perfect sense to me.

@Kittzin

11 ай бұрын

wow such disappointments😞

@grigorioschatziandreou2558

8 ай бұрын

@@pinkthing999I think you can claim to be a Londoner by now😅

That's got to be the most confusing helpful information ever 😂

@johnsimmons5951

Жыл бұрын

What’s confusing about the announcement. It perfectly clear and logical to me. It’s a west bound District Line Train, they are arriving at Bromley, the next stop is Mile End and that usually has an interchange with the Central Line (which apparently is not available that day), and so if you need to change to the Central line, the next opportunity is Monument station.

@riz_e9

Жыл бұрын

It's clear and concise!

@Upndouin

Жыл бұрын

It is very clear to me, but I get you 100% - if you are not from London (or haven’t lived here long enough) then that will send you to a mini panic 😂. Especially back in the days when we had no smart phones.

@Johnketes54

Жыл бұрын

You can't be British then? I don't need to guess i already know

@Johnketes54

Жыл бұрын

@@Mark-yk1ny Yorkshire hasn't got the underground smart arse! Your letting the side down? Northerners are just as bright as southeners so what's going on?

As a tourist and first timer in London I freaked the first time I heard an announcement like this in Victoria 😭

@_aizaofficial_

7 ай бұрын

Me too, I heard this at Pimlico like: "Due to planned engineering work, There is no interchange for the Northern Line at Euston"

The announcement's great - it tells you useful stuff before you get off the train and what to do. You can read it too if you're deaf.

@Leenapanther

11 ай бұрын

Why are there no regular screens though? Far better than sideway rolling text. Plus it would be possible to see all the next stops...

@Gamingwithlincoln187

11 ай бұрын

But what if you blind, oh yeah, you can hear, wait, what if your blind and deaf?

Always informative and polite, and health and safety conscious. Just as we expect. 👏👏

It all makes sence to me, honestly it is nicely explained and announced plus there os always someone to help you out in the station. It is much worse when several lines are closed

It just appears more confusing here but it repeats this message at every stop on the line (including before mile end) so it’s really quite helpful tbh

I'm 5000+ miles away from London right now but I can feel and taste this video through my screen. I logically know its the Lizzie line so it has aircon but oh my god imagining central line's humidity is sending me 😭😭😭

@UncreativUsername

Жыл бұрын

It isn’t Elizabeth line it’s district. Elizabeth line doesn’t look like that. Actually by the design it could be Hammersmith and city or metropolitan (I think) or circle too, but you can tell by the stations the train is stopping at

I’m visiting London and my family and both my brother and my dad got stuck in the automatic doors and other people from London were just looking at us funny 😂

We need that in New York

The “mind the gap” announcement sounds like the same dude on the Australian trains .

@freightanddieseltrains

Жыл бұрын

I’ve not heard that

@YourLocalYN

Жыл бұрын

Must've used the same recording of the voice.

@the_aussie.transportfan8869

Жыл бұрын

Yea sort of

@Tom_YouTube_stole_my_handle

Жыл бұрын

It's the actor Tim Bentinck who plays David Archer in the Archers.

As a person who lives in london, I see tourists freaking out at this

As a Londoner, I was just confused as to why this was a short I didn't realise it was confusing for other people to understand this

Mile End, the worst place I ever lived ( before was Leyton , Leytonstone and Finsbury’s park)

Can we get a bit of summer aircon on them next please .... 😅😂

@miked1869

Жыл бұрын

I had to ride just one stop on the southern stretch of the Victoria Line last week, and I thought I was going to suffocate from the heat!

@stevemichael8458

Жыл бұрын

District line has air-con

IM FROM THE U.K AND THIS BRINGS NOSTALGIA, WE HEAR THIS ALL THE TIME (mostly) BUT THE “mind the gap” BRINGS TOO MUCH NOSTALGIA

When are they going to fix that damn gap?!

@johnnywood3092

Жыл бұрын

You know what... I don't mind it really

@stevemichael8458

Жыл бұрын

They can't. Straight train carriages, curved platforms.

@vindicator2011

Жыл бұрын

@@stevemichael8458 straight platform?

Did anyone shout "Mornington Crescent" afterwards?

@andrewkitchenuk

Жыл бұрын

No

@Otacatapetl

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewkitchenuk Were you there then?

I live in England but not London, I've been to London a few times now and I memorized it for a reason

As a Londoner this brings me happiness

Why is this oddly satisfying and calming.

@freightanddieseltrains

Жыл бұрын

I wish I knew

The Bromley stop calms me so much I grew up hearing it and it’s so relaxing

The District line Richmond branch be like every day:

Whenever I take the tube, I always love saying Bromley By Bow under my breath, because it's just so comfortable to say.

My classmates and I had so many jokes about "Mind the gap between the train and the platform" when we were in London. I had such a good time there, thanks for reminding me how great it was

@freightanddieseltrains

Жыл бұрын

Nice one!

The central line is probably the worst start and end to anyone’s day!

@UncreativUsername

Жыл бұрын

I mean Piccadilly line is way too slow though

When my family was visiting London, we had A map of London and the underground and that (and the route maps at stations on the tube!) Was our lifeline to not get lost.

@freightanddieseltrains

Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoyed your visit

Today i get to know how foreigners feel in delhi metro 😂😂

As someone who lives in London, I thought this was completely normal and didn't get the point of the short, until I read the comments. x)

As a German who has regularly to deal with such announcements at trains: I don't get why you're freaking out lol. I guess I'm just to used to announcements like that

This feels like a fever dream to anyone who doesn't live in london

Its like they took a word from every possible sentence and threw it into one.

the train announcements sound like a foreign language when you first hear it and when you think about it its so helpful

I went on the London underground once. It was the hottest day of the year. I won't do that again...ever.

As someone who doesn’t visit London that often and got lost in the tube a few times, I am terrified of announcements like this. 😂

@GLondon93

Жыл бұрын

😂😂 That's hilarious! I often see people panic when a train comes to a complete stop halfway between two stations due to another train waiting to leave a platform. Also when you've got headphones in and miss half the announcement 🤣🙈

@eamonndoyle4753

Жыл бұрын

Just follow the crowd, it usually works.

i have the entire tube map memorised this ain’t no issue

“Mind the gap, between the train and the platform” x3

My son looooves TFL and he loves all the stations ❤

On my way to Edinburgh one autumn day in late 1990's, our train was pilled over to a siding and the world's most bored and indifferent young man's voice announced that, indeed, we could not proceed as there were "leaves on the line".

Loving the Tube ❤❤❤ can’t wait to come back to London

I was just on a subway when I was in NYC actually! Yes we call them "Subway's" instead of "Underground's" here.

As someone who lives in London, I pretty much hear this all the time I’m at the train station

We so need a train system like this where I live. Travel would be so much better.

As someone who went to Uni in London for 4 years, it was freaky like Friday listening to these underground announcements go from gibberish to beginning to create an entire mental image of the tube map in my brain. When the real freak show starts is when you already know the station they are going to say when they are mid announcing diversions.

Everytime I see anything uk related it makes me so glad I emigrated!!!!!

I cherish my two tube maps (one in each pocket) because this would make me shake like when that one londoner sent me to north greenwich with the underground instead of pointing me to the DLR (rip my legs after running to catch a bus when I realised the absurd distance)

I can see how this would be terrifying for non-London accustomed passengers.

as a Londoner, all i'm doing right now is closing my eyes and wishing I was on a long tube ride!

New Yorkers: We’re better than you! British: No we are! Russia: WHAT ABOUT MEEEEEEEEE

@freightanddieseltrains

9 ай бұрын

So true

Thanks for this. I lived in Bow and I am now in Thailand. Good to see familiar things once in a while.

@freightanddieseltrains

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

The amount of times I've had to get off at a random station and hop on some random train that I hope is going in the right direction is unrivalled

I love how the voice changes at the end

The voice and london trains have me every time 🤣

I don’t use the train much now but back in the days when I did these regular changes made me memories the whole map 🤦🏽‍♀️ New friend 😊

message was clear as mud lol

@freightanddieseltrains

Жыл бұрын

I know what you mean

@darrenmurray861

Жыл бұрын

If you live in London it will make total sense.

@alis.b.4631

Жыл бұрын

​@@darrenmurray861 i don't live in london but i don't see how it's confusing.

@tomriley5790

Жыл бұрын

Okay - what's the next station? Where should you change... job done if you can't follow that much then it's not the problem of the announcement.

The District line, the slowest and Congested line of the London Underground network , lol 😂😈

I hate when that happens man and I have the phrase “mind the gap between the train and the platform” engraved in my head

that’s 30 seconds i’ll never get back

She just sounds so calm ngl

I hate these things when ever I’m trying to get anywhere, I always work

@Gerald22222

Жыл бұрын

They’reso headache inducing

Tourists: *Panic* Londoners: Calm Londoners after realising they have to navigate through Bank: *PANIC*

@freightanddieseltrains

Жыл бұрын

😂 so true

I use to live just outside this station. So seeing this vid popping up freaked me out a little

I’ve missed this while no longer living in London 😊

i live in London and i was on the bus and a similar message happened and this American lady next to me started to freak out even though it’s normal to me😭

Top Tip. If you live in Holloway, don't go any further east than Finsbury Park... it just ain't worth it.

I lived in London from 2014-15 and frequently visited till 2019 and this makes perfect sense still 😂

This reminds me of the Copenhagen metro, too bad I never use it anymore...

'Mind the ga[p between the train and the platform' - I hear this every single day. This looks / sounds like a Hammersmith and City line or District line tube.

@freightanddieseltrains

11 ай бұрын

It was the district line

The most confusing way of them telling you to leave the train

To me UK only exists as world building for Lovejoy albums and this sounds like an intro to their next hit single😂

Me: oh well this is my stop! Tourist: um.....

The next station is Bromley-by-bow. Due to planned engineering work there is no interchange for the Central line at Mile End. Passengers are advised to change at Monument Bank to continue your journey westbound. Mind the gap between the train and the platform.

As a melbournite, are these noises and announcements sound eerily familiar

The voice switching when it says to mind the gap between the train and the platform 💀☠️

I WAS ON THERE TODAY!!! honestly I don’t know why people get so lost if you actually look at the tube map for more than a minute it makes sense lol

I do appreciate TFL. Not always smooth but a good transport system overall.

people who normally take the trains and buses and memorised the whole map: this is normal people who don’t: *panic*

London Underground the worlds best average transport system.

Central line is the dirtiest and the most noisy line in the whole underground system.😢😢😢

Oh how I miss hearing "mind the gap..." especially as I remembered it instant that we need it in our city, as I wasn't minding the gap and got caught for a second in there 😂 where was this lovely reminder when I needed it

The voice is so clear, the STM needs to take notes. 😂

hearing this feels like I’m actually there, I can actually imagine it

@freightanddieseltrains

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I didn't know a message can be ADHD too😂

As a non Londoner, it sounds like you're playing monopoly, and the game has taken you to a new level you didn't know existed.

Bromley by bow... our station for a month back in 2019. Nice!

@DankDaniel

Жыл бұрын

And where I live too lol

It’s more optimal to get off, wait for the hammersmith and go to Liverpool Street

@freightanddieseltrains

Жыл бұрын

Very true

I live in Scotland, but for my vacation i go to London to visit my sister, and this is what happens 🙃🥲

Sometimes if I'm not paying attention I accidentally get on the Hammersmith & City line, most annoying thing ever.

Today I went on a trip to the London eye I SAW LOTS OF HELIKOPTERS AND LANDMARKS AND I HAD TO GO ON 2 TRAINS TO GET THERE AND TO GET BACK