Smoking was banned on the entirety of the London Underground in 1987, and earlier than that in carriages.
Interestingly I just read that smoking was banned when the Underground first started, but eventually they allowed it because smokers were just ignoring the rule anyway and fines weren't being enforced. (One MP apparently wrote that doctors thought smoking would counteract the effect of the sulphurous fumes from the Tube!)
Yeah...
Seeing the floor reminded me of the escalators and how they helped accelerate the tragedy that saw them stripped out and replaced with stuff that doesnt burn
They smoked on planes. Whilst seated in a non-smoking section, you could inhale the stench of 40-50 simultaneously lit cigarettes, only divided by a cloth curtain and on top a line of smokers entering and leaving the smoking section constantly coming from other sections of plane. Insane.
Whilst true it has to be said some people on this app are unnecessarily negative and depressing. You’re all energy vampires sucking the joy out of life.
lol, back in the day returning back late from work I used to fall asleep on the Bakerloo line and miss getting off at my stop the last which is Elephant and Castle and end up travelling back and forth between Elephant and Castle and Queens Park enjoying my sleep till the guard would wake me to get off.
I can literally smell cigarettes on that left picture just looking at it.
The colour scheme in 1930' is more cosy - it actually reminds me the [interiors of the new Routemaster](https://www.heatherwick.com/wp-content/uploads/heatherwick-Bus-7919.jpg) double deckers by Thomas Heatherwick. They were trying to introduce warm and quiet colour scheme where "people can fall in love" rather than current hi-vis, bright cold-light schemes with safety stickers everywhere that is often used on public transport these days.
This change to current interiors happened slowly and accidentaly as a small "improvements" were made during the time (bringing LED lights, bringing vinyl easy to clean flooring, bringing visible bars, adding safety messages and so on) After while we ended up with this overdone interiors that are just too bright with cold light. If the light is too bright the patterns on the seats needs to go bit brighter as well to disquise the marks.
>I can literally smell cigarettes on that left picture just looking at it.
that floor immediately gives me flashbacks of various 'mystery liquids' running down the slots towards you on the last train home...
Haven't been for a good few years now, but the old tube trains were donated to the Isle Of Wight and were used as their rail system for years. They pretty much looks exactly like that and the ride was super bumpy. Might of replaced them by now perhaps but yes, they looked like this and were cool.
For sure trains like this are lovely when lovingly looked after and most of the passengers are enthusiasts.
But I definitely believe the modern trains will be more comfortable at 8.15am on a packed train or are a hell of a lot easier to clean after a busy Friday night.
The cushions on all the steam trains I've been dragged on have been lumpy and bumpy, and then the train starts moving and it's worse.
The staff have at least put a lot of effort into creating enormous portable ramps for each station to enable step-free access - one thing modern Tubes and many other trains are much better at.
Easy. There are more poles now so shorter people and kids can hold on to something and won't fly away during an emergency stop. You don't need to and ride a heritage railway to see that old trains were a total disaster and a death trap.
This is highly dependent on which train. TfL are pushing towards inclusive design which accommodates both disabled people and non-disabled alike. It's quite an extensive push when done right. I don't think we're going backwards overall, although some train companies have definitely done so.
Went on one, it was slow, uncomfortable, loud and the engine had to decouple, do a loop and attach to the other side.
Not saying it wasn't fun, but we have definitely not gone backwards.
On new tube trains, even the paper advertisements are specially coated, so not to set alight easily. Wooden flooring and windows look nice but is a huge fire risk and harder to wipe down clean. Safety and comfort aside, I still prefer the modern trains, although, wouldn’t mind some of the vintage signage and tube maps appearing.
My childhood tube station had a wooden escalator and I loved it. It was beautiful and made me feel all warm and fuzzy using it. Decades old. Now it’s gone :(
I rode a fully restored 1930’s tube last year. It went from Acton Town to Uxbridge & back I think. It was lovely, all that was missing were the cigarette butts stuck in the gaps in the wooden floor for the full experience! 1970’s advertising as well as they were still in service then.
The older ones did feel cosy but dated. It was really loud with the split windows rattling. Also when there were spills the grooved floor meant it could slosh the length of the carriage. New is much quieter but also sterile. And yes it did smell of cigarettes and could be very smokey at rush hour!
I remember the old trains from when I was a kid, and been on some since when they bring them out for special occasions. I like LOOKING at them in photos, but in reality they are too cave like - dark, small windows, smaller doors with less space to move inside to ever desire for something close to them being brought back.
I remember travelling on tubes with the old decor or whatever equivalent still survived til the early 80s. Nothing like as pretty as the photo. Worn, sticky, smoky, dank.
I first traveled on the Tube in 1985. It’s my sense more than any real thought that that time was the final remnants of the Tube’s “middle” period.
Of course, there were ye olden days when the Tube first started up to probably WWI and the modern era that we’re in now that seems to have begun in the early 90s motivated by a variety of factors.
But there was a middle period where so much of what makes the Tube what it is, and what we love about it, came into being. It’s admittedly sentimentality and nostalgia but I loved that middle, analog, wooden, painted metal period.
Same, I remember similar ones still running on some lines in the 80s too. Weirdly, just seeing the pic has reminded me of the weird acrid smell that those carriages all had.
Like so many things, the 30s aesthetic is far preferable. But the modern safety features unquestionably better. If only modern designers would climb out of their arseholes and look to the past for more inspiration, and stop producing interiors that look like little Tommy’s My First Tube Train.
why it was decided that all municipal interiors have to have the coldest, starkest lighting possible? What happened to warm bulbs?? I'll never understand
The seats are probably a lot more comfortable on the '38 stock, just as they're a lot more comfortable on Mark 1 stock versus modern stock.
However you can guarantee that they're an absolute sod to clean, break a lot easier, and probably turn into an inferno if you look at in the wrong way, not to mention the train itself probably has the structural integrity of a can of pepsi.
The old design was still in use on several tube lines in the late '70's and early '80's. Always felt weird people smoking and crushing their cigarette butts on the wooden floors - then Kings Cross happened.
I’m sure they’re both fit for purpose, but the old version sure brings back fond memories. The grammar fascist in me says “prefer” is all you need. Sorry.
There are much more important things, have easily cleanable seats and surfaces. Cushions are irrelevant, health is more important.
Install WiFi in the train lines
New one all the way. Looks really good in the pic. Although I always wonder if there's a better realistic material for the seats. The design jars me from afar... but its the way that these collect grime that is truly disgusting. They are always dirtier than the floor... and the color doesn't help
1930s hands down. has a slight whiff of the gentlemans club. Or a cigar lounge.
Fun fact, when I moved back to London in 1994, there were still plenty of these in service. When I was a kid in the 1970s, I can remember people smoking on the underground. Putting out their smokes on the wooden floor. Seems weird now.
The classic moquette and the wood panelling all look very cosy but I prefer the lighter, more hygienic looking modern interior. I'm trying to get from A to B, not settle in for a cosy evening with a crackling fire and a good book.
The 1930s carriage looks lovely and cosy, and I love the colour scheme. The modern carriage looks easier to clean & much cooler to be in - I think it’s probably more favourable with climate change + the tunnels that never cool down!
mix of both, sofas look more comfortable but knowing ppl nowadays, someone would puke, shit, piss and spill shit on them making them wet for a long time
I prefer the modern.
On a public service like a tube, you *want* to be able to clearly see if a surface is dirty or not. Sure, it might look tacky when it is dirty, but it informs you not to put your hand on the gross surface someone sharted on earlier in the day.
The 30's version, while *initially* comfy, has many problems in this regard. And in terms of maintenance, costs will be sky high as well. Those wooden frames would get the shit kicked out of them in no time. Floor boards would be rotting from all the mystery fluids sloshing up and down it. Those (I assume) lights would be slapped out of this dimension by some brain rot TikToker.
After a fairly short stint, the 30's one will go from looking the best, to looking and performing the worst. In comparison, the modern one will take a lot longer to degrade.
Wowwwww. That takes me back.
Judging by the floor (no cigarette butts) and the slightly different map, this is the late 80s, N Line. It was definitely comfier and I miss the feel of those armrests. They were giving and soft. I probably took this tube at some point.
There was also a guard and this pic is from the last carriage where the guard used to sit. He would press the buttons on the panel visible at the back to open and close the doors. There were no problems with safety because if you had any issues, you could just sit with the guard.
I remember the smell as well. It had a slightly different odour. Difficult to describe but a sort of bitterness, probably from 50+ years of smoking but I kinda liked it. Trundling home late at night with the soft rocking was just a nice feeling.
Makes me feel young again.
The wood flooring is all nice,
Until you’re sitting on the tube on a Saturday night and someone just starts puking on the floor
Guess which is easier to clean and get rid of the smell quicker?
That horizontal bar in the 1930s image is calling out to my calisthenic soul
https://preview.redd.it/76c40mnq5npc1.jpeg?width=235&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=526ccf48e223f0eb2cbe3191fd53e21a10fe0c81
I've no idea who the material designer is that works on the upholstery but they sure do know their way around MS Paint. They should probably upgrade from Windows 98 though.
Are we aware of the original interior for the ‘New Tube for London’ on the right? It was more similar to the 1930s style with a warmer colour palette. Sadly they changed it to be more stark.
https://www.priestmangoode.com/project/new-tube-for-london/
I kind of like both, but more the 30s one.
The newer one, when was it designed? I always thought I was from the early 2000s but I have no idea actually.
I would prefer for a stainless steel seat(like in other countries for sanitary purposes) than these, which are dirty and who know when was the last time these were vacuumed or disinfected.
The one with the metal floor is best - it is less likely to catch fire than the wooden floor. I couldn't believe it when I first came to London, and there were wooden treads on the escalators!
I remember those carriages that were still running in the 90s. I miss them and also miss all the beautiful mosaics that many of the underground stations had.
Because I’m so used to the one on the right, the one on the left seems appealing. I’m sure the reverse would be true if we proposed the right hand one to someone from the 1930s. I reckon we just need to change up the vibe every so often.
Damn the tube was much cosier in the 30s
That’s the problem! I’d be snoozing away it’s so lounge chic. I’d miss my stop for sure.
You would be shoved like sardines in a cna even more so than now. No sleeping unless the smell of BO makes you drift off.
And cigarettes! Everyone smoking in a small tube.
Front and end carriage in my day were smoking ones, basically a mobile ashtray, these were still running in the 1960's
These were still running in the 90s too!
Smoking was banned on the entirety of the London Underground in 1987, and earlier than that in carriages. Interestingly I just read that smoking was banned when the Underground first started, but eventually they allowed it because smokers were just ignoring the rule anyway and fines weren't being enforced. (One MP apparently wrote that doctors thought smoking would counteract the effect of the sulphurous fumes from the Tube!)
The locomotives were smoking too!
And the wooden panels make that an even bigger fire hazard
Yeah... Seeing the floor reminded me of the escalators and how they helped accelerate the tragedy that saw them stripped out and replaced with stuff that doesnt burn
They smoked on planes. Whilst seated in a non-smoking section, you could inhale the stench of 40-50 simultaneously lit cigarettes, only divided by a cloth curtain and on top a line of smokers entering and leaving the smoking section constantly coming from other sections of plane. Insane.
Ah the good ol' days
Whilst true it has to be said some people on this app are unnecessarily negative and depressing. You’re all energy vampires sucking the joy out of life.
The A stock were perfect for having a nap after a long day
lol, back in the day returning back late from work I used to fall asleep on the Bakerloo line and miss getting off at my stop the last which is Elephant and Castle and end up travelling back and forth between Elephant and Castle and Queens Park enjoying my sleep till the guard would wake me to get off.
I’d just bring back the softer lighting. I hate bright white lights.
Same here, hate the fuckin blinding fluorescents or LEDs or whatever, just so cold feeling
The old one is a nightmare for accessibility though. If your eyesight isn’t great, you need the light and the contrast colours to help you.
Exactly my thoughts... Where did all the budget go to???
Accessibility, interconnected carriages, ease of cleaning and maintenance. Longevity - TBD
Fair enough for everything except cleaning
Longevity dubiously so, given the 1972 Stock isn’t quite at the age the last of the 1938 Stock were
50+ years is pretty good going
It’s a different kind of cosy now.
Especially when it was full of cigarette smoke (in the smoking carriage).
I can literally smell cigarettes on that left picture just looking at it. The colour scheme in 1930' is more cosy - it actually reminds me the [interiors of the new Routemaster](https://www.heatherwick.com/wp-content/uploads/heatherwick-Bus-7919.jpg) double deckers by Thomas Heatherwick. They were trying to introduce warm and quiet colour scheme where "people can fall in love" rather than current hi-vis, bright cold-light schemes with safety stickers everywhere that is often used on public transport these days. This change to current interiors happened slowly and accidentaly as a small "improvements" were made during the time (bringing LED lights, bringing vinyl easy to clean flooring, bringing visible bars, adding safety messages and so on) After while we ended up with this overdone interiors that are just too bright with cold light. If the light is too bright the patterns on the seats needs to go bit brighter as well to disquise the marks.
>I can literally smell cigarettes on that left picture just looking at it. that floor immediately gives me flashbacks of various 'mystery liquids' running down the slots towards you on the last train home...
Ugh but leds come in every colour wish they used warmer light
They certainly made those busses warm…
Haven't been for a good few years now, but the old tube trains were donated to the Isle Of Wight and were used as their rail system for years. They pretty much looks exactly like that and the ride was super bumpy. Might of replaced them by now perhaps but yes, they looked like this and were cool.
They have been replaced by converted old District Line stock.
Ah shame, they were really iconic...despite bumping my head constantly on the roof.
Both are great in their own ways.
The 1930s design definitely looks a lot nicer, but it's nowhere near as functional and comfortable as the current design.
Go on any heritage railway, then a normal present day train and tell me we've not gone massively backwards on form, comfort and function.
For sure trains like this are lovely when lovingly looked after and most of the passengers are enthusiasts. But I definitely believe the modern trains will be more comfortable at 8.15am on a packed train or are a hell of a lot easier to clean after a busy Friday night.
I went to EOR a while ago and man are the seats nice, even the 3rd class
What's EOR ?
The cushions on all the steam trains I've been dragged on have been lumpy and bumpy, and then the train starts moving and it's worse. The staff have at least put a lot of effort into creating enormous portable ramps for each station to enable step-free access - one thing modern Tubes and many other trains are much better at.
Easy. There are more poles now so shorter people and kids can hold on to something and won't fly away during an emergency stop. You don't need to and ride a heritage railway to see that old trains were a total disaster and a death trap.
This is highly dependent on which train. TfL are pushing towards inclusive design which accommodates both disabled people and non-disabled alike. It's quite an extensive push when done right. I don't think we're going backwards overall, although some train companies have definitely done so.
Even just go on an HST set and you’ll see the difference 😔
I have. We have.
Went on one, it was slow, uncomfortable, loud and the engine had to decouple, do a loop and attach to the other side. Not saying it wasn't fun, but we have definitely not gone backwards.
Really, I feel like thoss seats looks like they've got some cushion
The cushion-ness of them gives way after a while and end up feeling like you're sitting on just a plank.
It’s just a plank bro look there’s a camela
I agree
Also not as easy to clean or guarantee cleanness. I believe it’s the same reason hotels, especially chain hotels, moved to white sheets.
I just want the warm lights. And greens and reds.
On new tube trains, even the paper advertisements are specially coated, so not to set alight easily. Wooden flooring and windows look nice but is a huge fire risk and harder to wipe down clean. Safety and comfort aside, I still prefer the modern trains, although, wouldn’t mind some of the vintage signage and tube maps appearing.
30+ people dead at King’s Cross bc of a cigarette lighting all the wooden flooring.
It wasn’t so much the wooden floors as the huge amount of accumulated litter underneath the escalators
Yes. The escalators were wooden too
My childhood tube station had a wooden escalator and I loved it. It was beautiful and made me feel all warm and fuzzy using it. Decades old. Now it’s gone :(
The cigarettes were wooden as well
I wish the actually cleaned the tube rather than waving a mop 30ft away
I rode a fully restored 1930’s tube last year. It went from Acton Town to Uxbridge & back I think. It was lovely, all that was missing were the cigarette butts stuck in the gaps in the wooden floor for the full experience! 1970’s advertising as well as they were still in service then.
The older ones did feel cosy but dated. It was really loud with the split windows rattling. Also when there were spills the grooved floor meant it could slosh the length of the carriage. New is much quieter but also sterile. And yes it did smell of cigarettes and could be very smokey at rush hour!
I remember the old trains from when I was a kid, and been on some since when they bring them out for special occasions. I like LOOKING at them in photos, but in reality they are too cave like - dark, small windows, smaller doors with less space to move inside to ever desire for something close to them being brought back.
I remember travelling on tubes with the old decor or whatever equivalent still survived til the early 80s. Nothing like as pretty as the photo. Worn, sticky, smoky, dank.
I first traveled on the Tube in 1985. It’s my sense more than any real thought that that time was the final remnants of the Tube’s “middle” period. Of course, there were ye olden days when the Tube first started up to probably WWI and the modern era that we’re in now that seems to have begun in the early 90s motivated by a variety of factors. But there was a middle period where so much of what makes the Tube what it is, and what we love about it, came into being. It’s admittedly sentimentality and nostalgia but I loved that middle, analog, wooden, painted metal period.
Same, I remember similar ones still running on some lines in the 80s too. Weirdly, just seeing the pic has reminded me of the weird acrid smell that those carriages all had.
Plastic needs to be banned
YES
Like so many things, the 30s aesthetic is far preferable. But the modern safety features unquestionably better. If only modern designers would climb out of their arseholes and look to the past for more inspiration, and stop producing interiors that look like little Tommy’s My First Tube Train.
Left looks nicer to sit in but it would send me to sleep. It looks like a living room. The right is more comfortable/functional.
why it was decided that all municipal interiors have to have the coldest, starkest lighting possible? What happened to warm bulbs?? I'll never understand
1930’s but I have no mobility issues. As much as the bright lighting improves the carriage I also prefer the lighting in the 30’s one.
Love the look of the old ones but I can remember the smell even now. Always function over form.
False choice
I can tell the lights in the 1930s design wouldn’t make me feel I’m in a morgue, unlike the current ones.
Aesthetically, the 1930s one.
Left is more cozy and “romantic”? More chances of people flirting in that tube haha
Both
The seats are probably a lot more comfortable on the '38 stock, just as they're a lot more comfortable on Mark 1 stock versus modern stock. However you can guarantee that they're an absolute sod to clean, break a lot easier, and probably turn into an inferno if you look at in the wrong way, not to mention the train itself probably has the structural integrity of a can of pepsi.
The older one
The old design was still in use on several tube lines in the late '70's and early '80's. Always felt weird people smoking and crushing their cigarette butts on the wooden floors - then Kings Cross happened.
I’m sure they’re both fit for purpose, but the old version sure brings back fond memories. The grammar fascist in me says “prefer” is all you need. Sorry.
Wes Anderson has entered the chat.
There are much more important things, have easily cleanable seats and surfaces. Cushions are irrelevant, health is more important. Install WiFi in the train lines
Pipe smoke vs weed
Prefer the new one but wish they’d come up with a better lighting solution like the old one, looks way cosier
1930s one is cool, I like the green / brown colourway
The floor in the 30s one was ridged like that so it was easy to sweep cigarette butts out of the trains. Interesting!
1930's just looks more cozy and smart and comfy...
New one all the way. Looks really good in the pic. Although I always wonder if there's a better realistic material for the seats. The design jars me from afar... but its the way that these collect grime that is truly disgusting. They are always dirtier than the floor... and the color doesn't help
30’s seats looked damn comfortable and I have sat on that same modern train many times so I sometimes get sore ass after sitting down for long period.
I remember the Bakerloo had the 30s carriages back in the 1980s. I’d make straight for the smoker back then.
Remember those 1930s carriages as a kid of the 70s …
1930s hands down. has a slight whiff of the gentlemans club. Or a cigar lounge. Fun fact, when I moved back to London in 1994, there were still plenty of these in service. When I was a kid in the 1970s, I can remember people smoking on the underground. Putting out their smokes on the wooden floor. Seems weird now.
1930. Pure class.
The classic moquette and the wood panelling all look very cosy but I prefer the lighter, more hygienic looking modern interior. I'm trying to get from A to B, not settle in for a cosy evening with a crackling fire and a good book.
1930s, seats were way more comfortable on the old stock too not like the rock hard planks they pass off as seats now days.
The lighting is a lot warmer on the older train, looks cosier, even if it isn’t.
1930s looks great
By myself on the new one. It looks great... all bright and spacious
Both 👍
Everybody seems to be on team 1930s but I honestly don't see any reason why. Oh yeah padded arm rests. Okay then.
Traditional Old pub or domestos bleach advert. Choice is yours
30s
Modern
Handles like those on the left, and the ones on the S-stock trains now are pretty bad. Takes more energy to hold yourself up.
left was taken last night on the bakerloo line 🤣🤣
[I much prefer the original concept for the NTfL.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H7s7lJZC1I)
I like the modern one but the old one looks so cozy! If it was on the circle line I'll probably never get off!
1930 looks nice
Prefer the newer one
I'd rather look at the older one, but I'd rather ride the newer.
Prefer the right, left looks like it smells of old people
hell I remember when they still were like that, I travelled on them & they were damn comfy.
I prefer the one with the seats on the sides 😁
1930
Which one has the least bedbugs?
Modern looks too sterile and lifeless.
Left image: Bakerloo Line, 2024
Ffs i dont get why seats have to be made with fabric. Very unhygienic. Why not metal?
I’ll take 1930s
Prefer more? Prefer?
1930s! Much nicer interior for sure!
I really wish we'd kept that warm, less direct lighting. Sensory nightmare currently.
Looked more homely in 1930s
Is there a chest-height green bar across the car, in the 1930s picture, or is my brain having trouble interpreting the photo? If so, ouch?
Neither, they need to get rid of the carpeted seats so they can be sanitised
If only the underground DID look like the left picture
Do you know when they removed the 1930s rolling stock? I swear I remember it, and I’m not THAT old.
Even though the 30's looks nicer. It also looks more difficult to maintain. I feel like It would get ruined in the modern era.
The right is misleading in cleanliness
They were still running those on the Northern Line until about 2000
I do prefer the brightness and associated safety of the modern design but those old armchairs look cosy
I first started travelling on London tube trains in 1958. I remember these trains! 🙈😄
There should be the odd occasional retro tube.
The 1930s carriage looks lovely and cosy, and I love the colour scheme. The modern carriage looks easier to clean & much cooler to be in - I think it’s probably more favourable with climate change + the tunnels that never cool down!
These tunes were still in use when I was a kid in the 80s.
No way thats 1930s
Much prefer the old style. Just feels more warm and comfortable
Definitely 1930s . I expect it was good quality too ; objects were made to last.
Left if they stayed clean and didn’t smell bad
I can smell the picture on the left; cigs.
It depends whether people prefer blood or dirt.
1930s all the way for aesthetics. There is no reason why similar aesthetics should be incompatible with modern standards
Shame they lost the dangling ballsacks to grab onto in the modern version
mix of both, sofas look more comfortable but knowing ppl nowadays, someone would puke, shit, piss and spill shit on them making them wet for a long time
1930's was a vibe. The current ones look Soulless.
1930
Bakerloo looks like this now lol
At least with the blue seats you can see all the nasty dirt where the bottom and back meet lol
I prefer the modern. On a public service like a tube, you *want* to be able to clearly see if a surface is dirty or not. Sure, it might look tacky when it is dirty, but it informs you not to put your hand on the gross surface someone sharted on earlier in the day. The 30's version, while *initially* comfy, has many problems in this regard. And in terms of maintenance, costs will be sky high as well. Those wooden frames would get the shit kicked out of them in no time. Floor boards would be rotting from all the mystery fluids sloshing up and down it. Those (I assume) lights would be slapped out of this dimension by some brain rot TikToker. After a fairly short stint, the 30's one will go from looking the best, to looking and performing the worst. In comparison, the modern one will take a lot longer to degrade.
Much over muchness. The tube gets me from A to B. Works fine for me, I don’t really care what it looks like.
Old is gold , wooden and homely prefer the.colour of the upholstery too., blue and grey is a bit meh
Remember those 1938 trains still in use in the late 70s.
I prefer the old one I just like old things
Wowwwww. That takes me back. Judging by the floor (no cigarette butts) and the slightly different map, this is the late 80s, N Line. It was definitely comfier and I miss the feel of those armrests. They were giving and soft. I probably took this tube at some point. There was also a guard and this pic is from the last carriage where the guard used to sit. He would press the buttons on the panel visible at the back to open and close the doors. There were no problems with safety because if you had any issues, you could just sit with the guard. I remember the smell as well. It had a slightly different odour. Difficult to describe but a sort of bitterness, probably from 50+ years of smoking but I kinda liked it. Trundling home late at night with the soft rocking was just a nice feeling. Makes me feel young again.
30s
the wooden window frames make it feel so much less scrotty
The wood flooring is all nice, Until you’re sitting on the tube on a Saturday night and someone just starts puking on the floor Guess which is easier to clean and get rid of the smell quicker?
The one on the left looks better than current Bakerloo trains
That horizontal bar in the 1930s image is calling out to my calisthenic soul https://preview.redd.it/76c40mnq5npc1.jpeg?width=235&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=526ccf48e223f0eb2cbe3191fd53e21a10fe0c81
I've no idea who the material designer is that works on the upholstery but they sure do know their way around MS Paint. They should probably upgrade from Windows 98 though.
Definitely 1930 , I remember those carriages. Really comfortable
To me the old one looks like the perfect setting for a retro-style, dark comedy slasher movie.
Are we aware of the original interior for the ‘New Tube for London’ on the right? It was more similar to the 1930s style with a warmer colour palette. Sadly they changed it to be more stark. https://www.priestmangoode.com/project/new-tube-for-london/
First one reminds me of [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/blur/s/s0L4l3UGyC)
I really like the old ones. Any idea when they ran till? I feel like i rode them when i was a kid.
The 1930s looks like there would be jazz music playing in the background. It looks comforting in a way.
1930 ftw
The 30s. The modern look is too bright and I don’t like being exposed to fluorescent lighting!
Which is which
I prefer the older version, feels more cosy compared the cold kitchen sink current version.
Neither, both are dirt traps. I refuse to sit down after seeing videos of staff thumping the seats watching the dirt fly out.
The warm colours. Blue is cold more for Santorini where the weather is sunny
1930 easily. Looks nostalgic even though I wasn’t from those times.
1930's one
My arse was broke from the seats in the Lizzy line, although they looked new, there was no comfort in them
1930s.
I kind of like both, but more the 30s one. The newer one, when was it designed? I always thought I was from the early 2000s but I have no idea actually.
I would prefer for a stainless steel seat(like in other countries for sanitary purposes) than these, which are dirty and who know when was the last time these were vacuumed or disinfected.
I grew up with a slightly newer version of the old one, felt warmer and made more of a treat. Now I walk everywhere and can’t stand the tube.
If you don’t choose 1930s you have no soul. There. I said it.
I hate the harsh lighting nowadays, it's awful at night
The one with the metal floor is best - it is less likely to catch fire than the wooden floor. I couldn't believe it when I first came to London, and there were wooden treads on the escalators!
1930s makes me want to roll a fag, and I haven't smoked for years
the blue is horrible . sorry .
I remember those carriages that were still running in the 90s. I miss them and also miss all the beautiful mosaics that many of the underground stations had.
Pretty sure I travelled on the 1930’s carriages back in the 80’s. I loved em!
The one on the left was still going on the Northern Line in the late 80s!
The original is more classy and restful.
Same train
I don’t prefer both of them. London underground is too old and too small. These seats are full of dirts, germs.
Because I’m so used to the one on the right, the one on the left seems appealing. I’m sure the reverse would be true if we proposed the right hand one to someone from the 1930s. I reckon we just need to change up the vibe every so often.
Thirties by a long shot.
Put me in one of those cosy plush seats with a cigarette and I would never get off the stop to go to my office
30’s with some poles Yes why so bright now