Mapping the Tube Chase from Skyfall (James Bond)

Mapping and analyzing Raoul Silva and James Bond's route through London. #holidayswithyoutube

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Chapters with time-stamps:
0:00 Tube Train attacks James Bond
0:36 How did we get here?
1:27 The Wrong Tube Station
2:11 A Ghost Station for Film Productions
3:05 Supreme British Humor
3:21 What Tube Line are they on?
3:56 Transit Nerds spotted a mistake
4:41 Another Fake Station
5:05 The Great Escalator Slide
5:37 See it, Say it, Sorted
6:10 They actually crashed a Tube train
7:38 Christmas Giveaway

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[hilaryc]

They wanted to fuse two London icons; the deep level tube trains and Wimbledon (famous for the tennis and a 2012 Olympics tie in). Focus groups also indicated that the green District line map was more recognisable to US audiences. District Line trains are of course the big sub surface trains and not the squat iconic tube trains so you end up with this tube nerd sacrilege.

[QuizWriterMark]

As someone who lived in London for ten years and is a bit of a tube geek, then this was a tough watch due to all the glaring mismatched tube rolling stock 😂

[bryceontheloops]

never in my life have i ever seen temple station that busy

[TheInselaffen]

Are you sure you aren't a Bond Villain with an accent like that?

[geoffmaloney]

Did a tour of the Charing Cross abandoned Tube Station and the service tunnels in 2018 when I was in London. Pretty eerie and fascinating. Gave a couple a bit of a start when our group popped out of a service door in one of the pedestrian tunnels, felt like I was in a Bond movie.

[b_altmann]

Of course that’s a Jubilee Line train. One thing you didn’t mention but which is quite obvious: there are no people on the crashing train. Why? Apparently you are not allowed to show anyone dying on a TfL train. – The worst mismatch happens in Sherlock: they climb into a deep level tube train from the front and when exiting the driver’s cab they are in a District Line train.

[kerimbozkurt]

You can still visit closed parts of Charing Cross Station filmed here,

Hidden London by London Transport Museum offers special tours at certain times in the year, I had a chance to take the tour last year, it was worth it.

[alantheskinhead]

Love the accent. "I could shoot you from Stuttgart and still make it look like an accident"!! Dr Kaufman!

[MM-NolascoPH]

0:16 "That train was NOT CGI"
Me: WHAT?!

[OffTheRailsUK]

As a train enthusiast, I can name so many issues in this 7 minute segment of the movie alone.

1 - "Do I get on the train". The doors are already closed, Bond, the buttons don't work 😭
2 - They used Charing Cross, understandable. But for goodness sake, why name it as Temple and use a 1996 stock as a DISTRICT LINE train to WIMBLEDON of all places.
3 - You've already got the train right there, why would you mix 2 completely different train motors for a train with such unique motors? (95 stock when leaving the station and crashing, 09 stock when he jumps onto the back cab)
4 - You would almost never have another tube operator or employee in the rear cab.
5 - Opening the exterior rear door would cause an automatic emergency brake application, as well as an alarm.
6 - As the train comes crashing down, why are all the electrical systems like lights still on?
7 - Simple physics, the train would stop after about 2 or 3 pillars. Granted if they used a real train they used fake pillars, but real brick supports like that would stop the train much quicker.

[Titot]

Charing Cross - you forgot British Indie Horror Creep. My dad used to work at the BBC World Service in Bush House and during my childhood, I regularly got off at Temple to spend the day with my dad in his office. When we moved to NW London, we took the Jubilee Line from Queensbury to Charing Cross. I still remember gambling on which plaform to go on when departing northbound. Do I take the first train that terminates at Willesden Green, or do I go chill and get the next through train to Stanmore? What about the Met Line shuffle at Finchley Road to overtake 2 trains by the time you get to Wembley Park? Do i get onto the 1996 stock new trains or get on the 1983? All of these were first world problems back in 1998-1999

[variousnumber]

The real question here is... If they had access to a Jubilee line Platform, why didn't they just use the Jubilee line? It goes to Westminster, after all.

[fosterfuchs]

I took a walking tour of London, to Bond filming locations. It included the staircase where Silva got the brown package from the police officers. It's located in the still open area of Charing Cross Station. As well as the staircase where Bond resurfaces from "Embankment Station" after the Underground train crash. It's actually the service entrance to the National Liberal Club.

[PhoenixHen]

That's really cool! Awesome video!

[nitrox]

As you say, the 'anti slide' barriers along the slope of the escalator were removed so the actors and cameras could create the sliding-down sequence. However, if you freeze the clip at 5:18, you can see that the fake 'prop' version they placed at the bottom of the escalator has been kicked off by Silva as he ends his slide and jumps off. You see it landing on the green crash mat. It appears again at 5:30 as Silva slides along the floor. In the released film it is much harder to spot, as the shot obviously avoids the crash mats, so you only see it in the shot where Silva slides along the floor and even then for only a fraction of a second. It was clearly thought about for 'accuracy' even though there's so much going on in the sequence that it is hard to spot. If they wanted to be 'really' accurate, Silva would have had to kick quite a few off on his way down. That would have a) in reality, stopped him before he got going and b) in the film, made the scene much more difficult to shoot, so the audience just have to suspend their disbelief to enjoy the action.

[succerberg]

2:31 Morbius is such a film, that even movies that released before Morbius wanted to use the same locations for filming ;D

[christoph]

the cut from 3:12 as Bond runs towards the back of the moving train then jumps on it as it enters the tunnel, those several seconds were filmed on a full size set at Pinewood studios. The set consisted of the entrance to the tube tunnel and also part of the platform and a full size prop of the tube train itself which was actually on rubber tyres and being dragged along by a truck at the other end. Daniel Craig's stunt double makes the jump, but by clever editing we see Craig himself land on the train in the front view. Not nearly as dangerous as jumping onto a real electrified train which London Transport had strictly forbidden the film production to do, I mean imagine if the stunt guy or even Daniel Craig falls onto the electrified tracks!! So that little piece of action was re-created quite convincingly back at the studio. It all edits in seamlessly with the real tube station location.

[b_altmann]

I think they should be able to afford the cladding for the old Charing Cross station ceiling by now

[lolno]

This scene is actually just the average ride on the Northern line