Crossrail Explained In 2 Minutes 

Explained in two minutes. Delayed for two years.

Well, those timings aged really well 😭😭

Ah yes, been a brilliant 3 years of Crossrail. Really made an impact on my commute!

Watches video in January 2020: "Well, this is awkward..."

I like crossrail for two reasons. Taxi is expensive from Heathrow to the center of London. Heathrow express doesn't ends on Paddington and not the center of London. Piccadilly line is a solution but it's slow and the station doesn't permit elder people with luggages to climb so many stairs from the old piccadilly station. Crossraill is luggage friendly, it goes to the center of London, it's cheaper and fast.

The timings are so on track! Never been more punctual

May 2017 right - we are in September 2019 and nothing is done

I have no idea why but I literally get so excited when I see a new Londonist train video pop up. Am I a closet train nerd?? Oh god haha! Please keep them coming Geoff! Loving it

So much purple! I feel like running a book on whether the line will open while the monarch after whom it is named is still on the throne...

Funny to watch this now in July 2020 and still no services running in the new tunnels.

if there's any GCSE people here - we have to know: 1. it will bring an extra 1.5 million people within 45 minutes of London 2. It is planned to complete in the near furutre (whatever that means) 3. it links London to Reading and Heathrow in the west and London to Shenfeild and Abbey Wood in the east. and then we have to discuss the pros and cons of that

The year is 2022, and still have NO crossrail yet.

They should focus on building / connecting more stations South side instead of being so far out of London. You can get everywhere North of the river by Tube but have to use buses in South. If they opened more in South it would bring wealth to area and mean less traffic.

On a train to Liverpool, we passed an Crossrail/Elizabethan Line train in a siding outside Crewe. I know they are being built in Derby, so there must be some testing being done prior to delivery to Crossrail/Elizabethan Line.

The first time I heard the "Elizabeth line", I cried.

SO MUCH PURPLE!

Called the Elizabeth Line, seems a pity this new rail link does not develop to also serve both Windsor and Henley directly from the City and West End. Windsor and Henley are major tourist destinations and does not seem insurmountable to terminate some trains each hour using other branch lines than just the one to Heathrow.

So London gets yet ANOTHER new line and the North can't even get the Leeds to Manchester line electrified.

It's certainly a nice idea to make passengers walk between stations underground. That will reduce congestion on pavements at ground level...

Crossrail is to be renamed the Elizabeth line when the new high-capacity metro service opens through central London in 2018.

Finally opened but called as the Elizabeth line

Crossrail EXISTED 6 YEARS AGO???? Finally crossrail will open this/next year

Awesome animation.

The renaming only really works if TfL intend to use the Crossrail name as part of a larger service brand name. Just as an example, if they take over Thameslink and build the Chelsea-Hackney Line and brand them together in the same vein as "Underground" and "Overground", then having a distinct name for the line makes sense. But to just name it "the Elizabeth line" with no method of indicating what it is, then you're going to confuse people. I'd bet you someone is going to get on this thinking it's a tube line and get upset when they end up in th wrong place and het charged differently or some other stupid issue. If they insist one using the name, then Crossrail needs to be part of it.EG"Crossrail Elizabeth line" "Crossrail Thameslink link" "Crossrail 'insert name here" (crossrail 2)I absolutely hate it when they change the name of something, renaming it after a famous person, when it has existed under another, older name and been in the public's mind with that name for a long time.

Good idea and it’s good that new area are being connected. Another good short documentary.

Good stuff, nice and clear. And thank you for saying scheduled and not skeduled!

How do you remember all of what you said. I'm not from London but have added this to my bucket list, can't wait to see everything when the project is totally complete. I have been following the progress on TV and through your video's. Massive massive British engineering feat, just shows the UK at it's best. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧😁👍

Welcome to the Elizabeth Line

Can’t wait for this. Will cut my travel time to Arsenal down to 40 minutes from 90!

I have to say though crossrail is a very good idea considering the fact that mainline services are not allowed inside greater London. Which is why you find a circle of termini around London. Now you can cross London from as far as reading without having to change lines or paying for another ticket!

Will you be able to use Oyster out to Reading?

You need to redo this this updated opening date - "eventually" should cover it.

frequencies have changed ever so slightly. there are still 24tph in the core, and 12 each on the eastern branches, but there are 6tph to heathrow (2 T5, 4 T4) and 6tph to maidenhead (4 continuing to reading)

It is finally open!!

Designer must of been a Prince fan! Purple everywhere.

Glad to see another line connecting to East London.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="72">1:12</a> That’s literally almost the length of an NYC Subway train. (600 feet / 200 metres)

😢 when Crossrail fully opens in December of 2019

My GCSE geography teacher showed us this video in class for the UK infrastructure development topic.

Thanks for the vid Geoff, cant wait for it to be on full service and Im still sticking to the Crossrail name

Purple train, purple train! See what I did there?!

Happy 48th Birthday Geoff🎁 (As of about 1 hour after this comment is posted) Hope you enjoy despite the Crossrail tunnels still not being open

SO MUCH PURPLE! Purple is my favourite colour...

What's with all the "so much purple" comments?

Thanks. Well done. Concise and clear.

Helped me pass my geography mock exam 🤗🤗

I love your videos. keeps me up to date!

Wow, so much purple!

Was meant to open 2018. In that time Spurs have been to two finals and lost. I wonder if Spurs will win a trophy in the time construction started in May 2009 until when it opens.

SO MUCH PURPLE!!

I live in Reading and when they announced the construction of the crossrail, property prices in my town increased overnight.

Hi people Im from the year 2069 and I have the worst news of all unfortunately

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="115">1:55</a> The cross rail to Shenfield opened in May 2015, not 2017.

Is it same price as GWR service from to reading & Slough as stopping service Elizabeth line?

I liked this video but there was so much purple...

Really interesting graphic at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="55">0:55</a>, that's interesting that there won't be as much service to the west, while to the east all trains will operate to the very end of their respective branches. I wonder if it makes sense that Reading won't have any direct trains to Canary Wharf (not to mention that Reading will get all of 2 tph!) I would imagine that as Crossrail services begin, the demand will be such that there would be more service added to the western sections.

This seems like a NYC style platform. I would LOVE if US cities had 1/8 of the development of this ONE line! 9 brand new stations?!? I think I fainted for a bit. I would love to know how they are funding this, so Chicago and other cities could copy it.

New plan 1. Shenfield-Liverpool st 2.Paddington-Heathrow 3. Reading service 4. Hayes and Harlington services terminate at West Drayton or Maidenhead 5. Paddington-Abbey Wood 6. Shenfield service terminate at Paddington 7. Paddington LL services terminate at Reading/Heathrow

Can't wait for 'Secrets of the Elizabeth Line' in 2019!

I like the name if Elizabeth Line, but Crossrail makes sense though, since it goes across London.

It's like the district line running from west to east

I think the Pocket Tube Maps should be made taller with only Underground services on the front and then have the Overground, DLR, Tram and Crossrail services on the back. Would be so much less clustered.

So much purple :)

January 2022..........

If it gets busy, they may extend it's length as it is capable of more than 24 coaches, in tunnels underground.

I ws trying to watch 1 of yr video's about cross rail when suddenly during an advert break this video changed to another, and i pressed back with no Listing of that video that i only got as far as watching where train approaches tunnel fr Heathrow.!!!!

Hello to my Geography ppl - hope youre enjoying this

4 years later... and Crossrail is STILL not complete and delayed! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

Reading-Heathrow- Shenfield-Abbey Wood

less than half a month until 2021... man this is extremely delayed

By the time it opens, it should be the Charles line.

What’s so different between cross-rail and overground except for cross-rail going underground in some areas

I think TfL should have produced such a video. Or they should pay you for it.

London's Paddington! Thomas the Tank Engine taught me this...

I was thinking this could be about a choo choo line getting all cranky.

I would love to see a video on proposed extensions for tfl rail services and a quick bus video

5 years later…still waiting for it to open

Crossrail law: Any major project in a big city will get delayed by over 1-10 years

I feel like they should open the stations one at a time, in order of how complete they are.

Crossrail trains are about as long as the Commuter trains that run on the regular rail network here in Stockholm Sweden. Regular Stockholm tube trains are just over 133m

this guy predicted elizebeth line

So much purple Cross rail NYCT- (7) lines

SO MUCH PURPLE!! greetings from Portugal.

It would have been much better if the video 1. Made it clear if Crossrail is a railway line or an underground line or both 2 . The maps made a distinction between existing surface line, existing underground line, new surface line and new underground line

in case you wondering there are 41 stations on Crossrail one

So the trains will no longer terminate at Liverpool Street, but what about Paddington, will they terminate at Paddington Terminus?

Brilliantly explained.

Geof. Did you know that TFL - RAIL, Liverpool Street to Shenfield was opened in 2012.

Can we have an updated version of this video please! 😁 I cannot wait to ride in the new tunnels.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="153">2:33</a> A brand new design of more complicated coloured lines.

So... much... PURPLE...

Nice! Do Crossrail 2 explained next :D

Why not double decker trains? Like in other places like here in Sydney the double decker even goes underground.

Epic Elizabeth line moment

so much PURPLE!

Very cross-rail. I give it another two years before the thing is up and running.

So much purple, just call it the purple line?

Purple and the workers are taking forever to build it so the sponsor should be Cadbury timeout

Watching in 2021 and still not opened

It could've actually came out in 2019 late December but maybe it's because of covid I guess they delayed and now it opens in 2022