S01E01 Episode 1
Discover the secret army battling to keep the Tube running during the twice-daily onslaught of rush hour. Travelling the equivalent of six times around the world every day, the repair workshops must work round the...
The Tube: Going Underground
S01E05: Episode 5
Tube staff face their busiest, most unusual shift of the year. With a million passengers expected, New Year's Eve is the only night of the year when Tube trains run for 24 hours. Hundreds of staff have signed up for the extra shifts but they never know what the night will bring. This year, the whole network is on high alert following terrorist attacks in Paris.
Overview
Carrying nearly five million passengers per day, the London Tube is one of the world's oldest and busiest metro systems in the world. Today the Tube is undergoing a complete overhaul that is long overdue. Take a behind the scenes look into the daily lives of drivers, emergency personnel, operations managers, and many others among the near twenty thousand employees of this massive rail system, as they navigate the evolution of the London Tube.
Episodes
S01E02 Episode 2
This week, it's all change on the Underground. At Victoria, a hub station that sees 600 passengers a minute pass through at peak times, most passengers are now using contactless payment and the ticket office...
S01E03 Episode 3
This time on the Tube, the network braces itself for the night of the living dead, as Halloween fever grips the Underground. Meanwhile customers are furious as massive engineering works disrupt one of the Tube's...
S01E04 Episode 4
At busy Bank station, customer service assistants Eamon and Ian have perfected their own method for dealing with unexpected problems caused by passengers. They must face an epidemic of customers dropping phones, wallets and Oyster...
S01E05 Episode 5
Tube staff face their busiest, most unusual shift of the year. With a million passengers expected, New Year's Eve is the only night of the year when Tube trains run for 24 hours. Hundreds of...
S01E06 Episode 6
The Tube is embarking on a crackdown on fare dodgers to help pay for a massive upgrade of stations and trains. Fare dodging costs the Underground £34 million a year, so revenue inspectors Simon and...
S01E07 Episode 7
Tonight, the Tube takes on more than a thousand new staff but the newbies are joining a very different Underground, one that now faces a level of terror threat unknown in the past.
S01E08 Episode 8
With the population of London already at a record high of eight million people and expected to grow by another million people in the next six years alone, the Tube is preparing for a busier...
Cast
Jason Done
Self - Narrator (voice)
