Digging Underground Victoria Line Video

[alanmoodysdog]

BBC doc in mid 60s about how they did it ... 40 min doc which I found interesting ..... Take note of the manual labour needed .. would we be able to get these numbers today?

 

[bombero]

A good watch. Cheers.

 

[alanmoodysdog]

liked the guy drinking from the old tin fire bucket ..... never see them anymore , used to have sand in them in shops

 

[HolgateCorner]

That’s how the Chinese would build HS2 if Johnson let them get involved....

Some superb civil engineering expertise on display in that film, although safety standards have thankfully moved on.

That tunnelling machine was clever though.

Thanks for posting

 

[alanmoodysdog]

at the start they made a raised road above oxford circus so they could work underneath.....

 

[Foggysfplandiet3]

I love stuff like this, fascinating. Thanks for posting.

 

[alanmoodysdog]

Thanks Foggy, cutting edge at the time -

 

[Spike]

Thanks for posting

 

[Anton_Berg]

Thanks for posting

BBC doc in mid 60s about how they did it ... 40 min doc which I found interesting ..... Take note of the manual labour needed .. would we be able to get these numbers today?

Thanks for posting

Some great retro.
Max Hastings' dad narrating;
imperial measurement;
'what's a hard hat?'

Interesting that driverless trains was an option in 1965.

 

[alanmoodysdog]

using a wooden inch ruler in the track spacing calculations....