London’s Screen Archives is a network of over 50 organisations with a collective vision – to preserve and share London’s history on film. The network is managed by Film London and we work with our partners to digitise, preserve, and offer access to their moving image collections.
Jubilee Line: Destination East
Promoting the Jubilee Line extension to run all the way to Stratford, with all the benefits it would bring.
This promotional video from London Underground lays out the plans to extend the Jubilee Line more than 10 miles, from Green Park to Stratford. When it eventually opened in 1999, nine years after this promo was made, the extension would add 11 stations to the line, connecting Central London with the Docklands and East London. The promo takes the viewer through the benefit to each area, with great footage of Central London, Bermondsey, Docklands, Greenwich and West Ham in the late 1980s. Sites of note include the now defunct Daily Mail printworks in Surrey Keys, the construction of Canary Wharf and the financial district, and North Greenwich before it became home to the Millennium Dome. The promo also dissects the environmental impact, both of the construction of the line and the benefit in reducing traffic congestion, and features footage of a youthful Prince Charles opening the first section of the Jubilee Line in 1979.
Go behind the scenes of 50 years of London transport with this selection from the London Transport Museum's video collection.
London's transport, from the bright red Routemaster to the futuristic Docklands Light Railway, is some of the most iconic in the world. But what was actually happening behind the scenes to make sure the buses, tubes, and trains got us to where we wanted to go?
This collection of highlights from the London Transport Museum's video collection, which spans the 1970s to the mid-2000s, offers a peek into the operation rooms, underground tunnels, and bus garages that were 'Keeping London Moving', as the slogan of Transport for London proudly proclaims. In this selection, you can witness the birth of the Jubilee Line, or experience the frenzy of Millennium Eve on the Underground.
Many of the videos in this collection were made by the London Buses' in-house video department, and show that staff training videos definitely don’t have to be dull. How better to train London Underground staff on good customer service than a version of the Wizard of Oz set on the Tube?
33 videos in this collection
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Step Free Access On London Underground
2001
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Modernising the Underground
1998
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The Driverless Ghost Bus
Westminster
1986
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London Underground Train Door Safety
1995
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Implementing London's Congestion Charge
2003
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London Transport: Routes Project
1994
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London Buses: Low Floor Bus
1995
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Chancery Lane Train Crash
Camden
2003
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It’ll Never Happen
1996
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New Years Eve 2000 on London Underground
Westminster
2000
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London Buses: Clocking On with OPAL
1984
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Royal Visit to Willesden Garage
Brent
2002
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Starting on the Right Track
1986
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Station Assistance Support on the London Underground
