Despite being English, I've only been to London once in my life. Despite this I have watched the s**t out of videos from Jago and similar KZreadrs over the past few years. It's got to the point where I'm going to see a music gig one night at Wembley arena in March, but have unnecessarily booked it as a 4 night weekend trip and mostly plan to just ride around on trains and go to transport nerd hotspots 😂

No Smoking carriages would have been a waste of space. Presume that the Ladies only ones served that purpose. Can remember those on the Southern Region in the 50's. Made all the other compartments somewhat crowded at times. My Mother took me into those as a young boy to prevent me from hearing the uncouth language of men. My older Sister was always educating me on the words so that was a failure.

Happy 😃 160th Birthday 🥳, Metropolitan Line. And happy 😃 160th Birthday 🎂, London Underground 🚇. Here’s to many more 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉. I still remember when the ‘London Underground’ 🚇 turned 150 back in 2013. I surely did celebrate 🎉 indeed!!!

I was waiting for the sign off "you are the condensing apparatus to my bolier explosion" but maybe that feels wrong

You have to love something in service for 82 years. Everything now is such junk. We have a streetcar/tram system here. Previous trains were retired at around 35-40 years old. Current trains are around 20, and being replaced.

Beyer-Peacock was set up in 1854. Charles Beyer was a German-born engineer who had been involved in the production of locomotives for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Richard Peacock had been the Chief Engineer of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway. They set up a works in Gorton, on the MS&L line, to produce locomotives independently of any operating company. The company lasted for 112 years, essentially being sunk by BR's discontinuance of Western Region's affinity with Diesel-Hydraulic locomotives, to which Beyer-Peacock had committed themselves. The Hymek was their last successful design.

They bear some similarities with the early Japanese British-built 4-4-0 tender locos, also designed by Beyer Peacock, one example is housed at the Tobu Museum.

I really liked the Steamy Tale of the British Underground. It hissed at the appropriate times 😂

Right, I'm now inspired to scratch-build a G-scale model of one of these for my model underground railway under my garden... I don't recommend them: it's murder peering down the scale ventilation shaft to see if it's working...

As a young boy I saw one the last steam engines on these duties in Liverpool Street station (Met Line) - must have been late 50s or early 60s more like.

I love the way that around

Yerkes- The Legendary- and a Brill branch reference! 👍

Somewhere there is a video of one of the preserved Met engines (from Quainton road) running around the underground (relatively recently) in full steam with a middle of the night special - much to the surprise of cleaning staff. Just this one engine barrelling through a station gives an idea of the smoke and steam. Anyone for a coal-tar sauna?

I was always very fond of the brown T stock carriages which pulled me as far as Rickmansworth (from where steam took over to Amersham) behind a Bo-Bo electric loco or, as multiple units, on their own, to Watford Met. The distictive curved-top doors were there in case they had to be opened in tunnel.

A CLASS act as ever Jago.

Ah, I've been hoping for a video on the A class and this didn't disappoint. We're very lucky that No 23 is still with us to serve as a reminder of the early days of underground railways. Indeed, she's one of only two Metropolitan steam locos to survive. Incidentally, the New South Wales Government Railways C12 class 4-4-0 tender engines were based on the A class and looking at them, the family resemblance is clear, especially at the front end. That bit about the A's that were sold to the Cambrian Railways was interesting. Potting about rural Wales must've been a contrast from sprinting through Central London! Incidentally, due to the Met's main line aspirations, some of their steam loco classes were so big that they couldn't work underground, most notably the H and K classes.

I got chills at the end about the story of number 23

Thanks, Jago - I really had no idea just how influential the A class engines were on contemporary locomotive design, and a special thanks for

Erskine Childers - as Carruthers, in the Riddle of the Sands - describes a 'sulphurous' ride in the underground to Aldgate, presumably from Westminster, as it was after his government office work.

Another excellent video Mr Hazzard.