What happened to London's trams?

- - - 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

Cameras etc provided by

Visual effects by
CHRIS WALKER @BigDamnArtist

[christopher]

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

[kleerude]

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

[Bready_Player_Bun]

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

[cat_in_a_sock]

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.

[LukasDiSparrowOfficial]

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

[calldfwp]

"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.

[CityBeautiful]

Your explanation of omnibuses, trams, and horses is so much better/funnier than mine! *enthusiastic applause*

[london]

My mother, who's 91, went to see the last tram in London at the end of its journey.

[kemp]

"Is London tramsphobic?" - tonight at 9

[Balagergo]

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.

[boewin]

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

[newcarpathia]

I honestly don't know how Toronto avoided closing down its streetcar lines, but I'm glad they're still open.

[TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

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

[wasaent]

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

[ArthurSieg]

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.

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

While the double-decker trams may be gone from London, it DID influence a whole new system in Hong Kong where it is still used today and very popular carrying an average of 200, 000 passengers per day. You can even book for a special antique-style sightseeing tram or charter your own party tram

[ThatOneIrishFurry]

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"

[conormurphy]

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...”

[phospenguillite]

1:20
Guy: *HELLO THERE*
*RUNS LIKE A PREDATOR*

[scalylayde]

Love the absolute hero on the tram at 7:44 who is clearly annoyed but not enough to ruin the shot