Yep, that's what I remember form a couple of visits to London in the 80s and 90s.Is this just what the Tube was like in the 80s? Surely not every station was that bad?
Also remember one of the subsurface stations with an arched overall roof (maybe Earls Court) with water literally pouring through the roof like a waterfall.
Sat on a northern line train, wooden floors, wooden seat frames, wooden walls. Rattling and shaking it's way along the tunnels and feeling the floor, seat and walls all moving independently of one another.
Wooden escalators, some very vintage where half the step folded back on itself at the end of the escalator, you could hear a ker-CHUNCK ker-CHUNCK ker-CHUNCK steadily getting louder as you got close to the top. Canvas handrail too.
Everything filthy, old fashioned tube train noises. Man, it had some character!
I love the station manager in that clip "what you telling me for, I don't give a ****" before he reluctantly goes out to see what's up with the lifts.
Brilliantly edited too, to lift bell in the background throughout and perfectly concepts the barely organised chaos typical of the time
They don't make TV like that any more!
Not just the tube mind, the 80s was generally a very grungy, run down time. I'm privileged to have experienced it and be able to remember some of it. I loved it!