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- For any visitor coming to London, this is an all you need to know guide to the London
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Underground.
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- Otherwise known as the Tube.
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♪ I belong I belong to you ♪ ♪
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I belong I belong to you ♪ ♪ You do just what you want ♪ ♪ Let's go ♪ ♪ You're
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the one I trust ♪
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- Okay, the most important thing you need on the London Underground Tube is an Oyster
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Card. Now these are smart cards that are pay as you go, and they allow you to travel all
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across the Tube network. Also, you can get on buses, the DLR, and the Overground. All
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you need is a five pound deposit and you can get it from news agents and from stations.
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To enter the Tube network, you need to touch in, and to leave, you need to touch out. But
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on buses, you just need to touch in. Otherwise, they'll charge you twice. Now, I said that
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they are pay as you go. That means that you need to add money to your Oyster card. A phrase
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we use is to top up. To top up, this is to add money to your Oyster card, and we do this
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at the ticket machines at every station. Now, it is important to get an Oyster card because
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it makes traveling much cheaper. For example, if you are going from Oxford Circus to King's
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Cross, with an Oyster card, it's two pounds 40, but with a paper ticket, it's four pounds
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90, so it's a no-brainer, you gotta get yourself an Oyster card. An alternative to an Oyster
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card is a contactless card. That's your bank card, okay, your Visa or MasterCard. Now,
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it has to have the contactless symbol on it, and you can use that interchangeably instead
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of an Oyster card, and it costs the same amount. Now, for those of you coming from abroad,
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you might need to check that you're not gonna get charged fees by your bank. The price of
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your fare will depend on what time you travel. We have peak and off peak. Peak is more expensive
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than off peak. Now, peak is from Monday to Friday, 6:30 in the morning 'til 9:30 in the
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morning and 4 in the afternoon 'til 7 in the evening. Now right now it is peak time, also
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known as rush hour. You can see thousands of commuters going from work to home or home
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to work. ♪ I belong I belong to you ♪ ♪ I belong I belong to you ♪ ♪ You do just
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what you want ♪ So the Tube was opened in 1863 and at the time, it was the world's first
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underground railway system. The first line was the Metropolitan line which went from
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Paddington to here in Farringdon. There are now 11 lines, they're all color coded. So,
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you got the Circle line, which is yellow. You've got the Victoria line, which is light
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blue. You've got the Northern line, which is black. Et cetera, et cetera. And there
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are also 270 stations, but the interesting thing about the London Underground is even
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though it's called the Underground, most of it is actually above ground.
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- We Londoners call the London Underground the Tube, but if you're more posh, if you
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speak with a more posh accent, you might call it the Tube. Another really interesting thing
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about the pronunciation of Tube lines and Tube places is the word Ham. Ham, in old English,
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means village. Now if the word Ham is separate, or if it begins a word like Hammersmith or
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West Ham, you pronounce it like Ham. West Ham, East Ham, Hammersmith. But if Ham is
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part of the end of the place, you pronounce it like um, schwa-m, like Chesham, Amersham,
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Tottingham, Clapham, Balham and so on. ♪ You do just what you want ♪ ♪ Let's go ♪ ♪ You're
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the one I trust ♪
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- Fact number one, the Tube was opened in 1863, which is the same year that Abraham
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Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to abolish slavery. Fact number two, American
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TV show host Jerry Springer was born on the London Underground. During the London Blitz,
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his family sheltered on Highgate Station and he was born on the platform. Fact number three,
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Angel Tube station has the longest escalator on the Tube network and the second longest
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in the United Kingdom. It spans 200 feet, and there is an amazing YouTube video of a
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man skiing down it, so go check it out. Okay, fact number four, the iconic Tube map was
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designed by Harry Beck in 1933, and its genius is its simplicity. He was an engineer and
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draftsman and he used circuit boards. And he used his knowledge of circuit boards to
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create the design. There's no emphasis on geography. It's all about its simplicity and
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its color, amazing. Fact number five, there are over half a million miles on the London
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Underground network. Over half a million. Who has to count that? It blows my mind. ♪ You
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do just what you want ♪ ♪ Let's go ♪ ♪ You're the one I trust ♪ All right, we're diving
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back down onto the Tube now. Now, Aly, there is a lot of etiquette involved in traveling
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on the Underground. What are the kind of things that people should be aware of?
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- Everything, just be self aware. Just be aware of your space and aware of other people's
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space. That's my biggest annoyance.
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- Yes. Can I just say that I'm breaking one of the etiquette right now.
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- You're very close.
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- One of the rules. Because I am standing on the left-hand side of an escalator.
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- That's very true.
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- When one should be on the right.
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- Like if someone wants to come down, they can't because you're in the way.
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- Because I'm in the way, right?
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- Boo.
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- So, I should be on the right-hand side, and we use the left-hand side to walk up or
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down.
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- Yes.
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- Okay, what else should people be aware of when they're on the Tube?
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- You know what annoys me is when people go to the gate, you're trying to go through the
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gate, and they stop in front of you because their ticket is still in their pocket. So
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they're like, oh, whoops, have to get my ticket out. And it's another five seconds. No, it
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needs to be a steady flow. Steady flow people.
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- Yeah, you need to prepare. Before you get to the ticket machine, just have your ticket
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ready or your Oyster cards or your contactless card. Have that ready. What annoys me is when
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you're trying to get onto the Tube, and you see that there's loads of space in the middle,
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but everyone is crammed together, like, by the doors. And it's like, just move down,
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just be a little bit more aware. Please just move down inside the carriage so that we can
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all get on. That's my little bugbear.
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- Totally, totally, but you know what we haven't said?
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- Tell me.
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- Which applies to every city, if there's someone pregnant next to you, give your seat
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to them. Or if they're elderly, or if they can't really stand up easily.
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- Yes, yes, the big thing, the thing that kills me is that you look at the carriage
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and the people sitting down, and most people are on their phones in this day and age, right?
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And so they're on their phones, they're not looking up and so they're not aware. It's
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not that they're bad people. It's just that they're not aware of who's around them, right?
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So, yeah, I make it a point of, if I'm sitting down, I look up. Every time we stop at a station,
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I look up to see who's come on. Do any of those people need a seat?
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- Totally.
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- Okay, one other thing that really bugs me is when especially at busy times people who
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have rucksacks or backpacks on. And they don't take them off, so they're taking up extra
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space, right?
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- Yeah, totally.
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- So you know that there's so much more space. If you just take that rucksack off, put it
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by your feet, there's more space.
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- And also, if someone's standing behind you and you're moving around, you might hit them
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in the face with your rucksack.
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- Yeah, it's possible.
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- It's really annoying.
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- Okay, but should we get to the most annoying?
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- Number one?
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- Number one, what is it?
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- Dude, this happened to me today. Today, when you are coming off the Tube, you need
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to exit quickly, right? And so if someone's outside the door waiting to, like, push on.
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- It doesn't make any sense.
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- No.
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- Like, it's much better for everyone if they allow you to come off the train so that there's
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more space on the Tube, the carriage, so they can get on.
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- Totally.
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- Right, it's better for everybody.
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- It's much better.
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- So much better.
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- Yeah. So, if you're waiting to get on the Tube, just wait. Wait until everyone comes
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off the Tube, then go on. No, this guy, so I came off the Tube just, literally, just
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now, and there was this guy in the middle of the doors waiting to come on. I tried to
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go out and he walked right into me. I'm like, dude, wait for people to get off before you
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get on.
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- Did you literally say...
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- I said right in his face, I was so annoyed, and he was just like . Awkward, good, good,
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I'm glad he felt awkward.
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- Yeah. So when you come to London, you now know, right?
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- Yeah.
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- These are the five things, guys. Just please...
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- That was like six or seven.
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- Okay, those are the six things. There's a lot more actually, in fairness, but those
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are the most important ones.
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- Everything annoys Londoners.
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- Thank you so much for watching, guys. I hope you enjoyed that video.
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- And don't miss our next video about everything you'll need to be a pro tourist in London.
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- It's here.
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- Or is it here?
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- It's there.
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- I can never remember.
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- It's there.
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- It's one of these sides.