The Tube: Going Underground
The Tube: Going Underground
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The Tube: Going Underground

8.3 / 10
2016
1 season
8 episodes
Documentary

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.

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The Tube: Going Underground | Trailer | Channel 5

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Episode 1

    21-03-201645m

    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 rep...

  • Ep 2

    2.Episode 2

    28-03-201645m

    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 pa...

  • Ep 3

    3.Episode 3

    04-04-201645m

    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...

  • Ep 4

    4.Episode 4

    11-04-201645m

    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 epidemi...

  • Ep 5

    5.Episode 5

    18-04-201645m

    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. H...

  • Ep 6

    6.Episode 6

    25-04-201645m

    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 ins...

  • Ep 7

    7.Episode 7

    02-05-201645m

    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.

  • Ep 8

    8.Episode 8

    09-05-201645m

    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...

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