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What happened to London's trams?

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- - UNFINISHED LONDON EPISODE 7 - - -

Written by
JAY FOREMAN and PAUL KENDLER

Filmed and directed by
PAUL KENDLER

Edited by
JAY FOREMAN

Camera in Blackpool
TOM CLARKE @trynottobreathe

Props
JADE NAGI @jade_nagi

Woman in flowery dress
JADE NAGI @jade_nagi

Posh man in top hat
JOHN HENRY FALLE @thestorybeast

George Francis Train/Bad podcaster
RICHARD SOAMES @richardsoames

Woman on horse tram / Poor Edwardian child
SOOZ KEMPNER @soozUK

Electrocution victim
PAUL KENDLER

Grandma
MYRTLE HYMAN

Tram/railway map graphics
GEOFF MARSHALL @geofftech
By the way, Geoff has lots of videos about transport in London. If you like my stuff, you’ll really like his. Especially his video about the trams in Croydon: All Croydon Tram Stops in the Fastest Time...

Cameras etc provided by
SHIFT 4 https://www.shift-4.com/

Visual effects by
CHRIS WALKER @BigDamnArtist

20 Comments

@kemp10 6 years ago

"Is London tramsphobic?" - tonight at 9

@kleerude 5 years ago

It’s amazing how many times the answer to “why didn’t this thing happen?” is “Kensington and Westminster.”

@christopher19894 7 years ago

"Not enough plenty of money."
"A mere most of the time."
Top notch lines.

@WillowSmithHaircut 1 year ago (edited)

8:46 she was so exited to be on camera for 0.5 seconds

@Bready_Player_Bun 7 years ago

"Okay Mr.TRAIN, what do you want to call this mode of transportation that runs on rails?"
"Tram."

@calldfwp2230 6 years ago

"The network was reduced slightly but no-one cared, actually lots of people cared and were very upset about it but nobody who mattered cared" basically explains the beeching cuts.

@LukasDiSparrowOfficial 6 years ago

7:43 that confidence, talking on a tram next to strangers looking at you like SHUT UP

@jackywackydoodah2821 1 year ago (edited)

5:24 him making that bus sound is immaculate btw

@boewin756 7 years ago

Maybe this series won’t remain unfinished itself after all...

@ThatOneIrishFurry 6 years ago

Most of London just built by people with special interests

"How do we help as little poor people as possible"
"How do we sell as much tarmac as possible"

@Balagergo 7 years ago

Ah, the benefits of living in Eastern Europe! We never got the resources to phase out trams and trolleys, so they've never actually went away.

@tescomealdeals 2 years ago

As someone who lives in Melbourne I've never understood the whole "but the cables are so ugly" argument. Melbourne has the single largest tram network in the world, all of which to my knowledge use overhead cables, and I can assure you that I 1. barely ever notice them and 2. even when I do I actually think they look quite nice

@normiewhodrawsonpaper4580 5 years ago

Fun fact: Jay sawing the penny in half slightly made pennies more valuable in the economy.

@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs 7 years ago

Jay made this video just so he could put on a dress :P

@ArthurSieg 5 years ago

I am not from London or England and I care little for public transport and infrastructure, but this is so entertaining that I've just binged your entire channel.

@cat_in_a_sock1948 4 years ago

i love how they filmed the riverside footage right at the beginning, green screened in jay wearing a jacket, then the girl too BUT made sure that he was actually there on location when it came to him wearing the flowery dress.

@wasaent 7 years ago

Oh it seems my bike made a slight cameo in this video as he talks about the Kingsway Tunnel...

@conormurphy4328 7 years ago

6:41 wonderful bit of context for this scene and the funny word. Noel Edmonds is talking about a school boy who got killed by a tram because he took drugs.
“What is cake? Well, it has an active ingredient which is a dangerous psychoactive compound known as "dimesmeric andersonphospate". It stimulates the part of the brain called "Shatner's bassoon", and that's the bit of the brain that deals with time perception. So a second feels like a month. Well, it almost sounds like fun, unless you're the Prague schoolboy who walked out into the street, straight in front of a tram. He thought he'd got a month to cross the street...”