I Rode the Brand New Elizabeth Line 

Agreed, it's like we're living our exciting through Geoff, can't wait to ride it!

Can we say that his excitement is purp-able?

@@MQsCues LOL 😂 love it

Purple train go choo choo 🚈

Its very interesting

Congratss! That's actually amazing you had the opportunity to do that still

Awesome!

We look forward to your memoir then!😀😀

Excellent. I have a neighbour,Welsh chap in his 80s,who told me he used to work on the steam trains in his younger years. Little anecotes like cooking bacon and eggs on a hot shovel. Must have been delicious with a sprinkling of coal dust.

That's actually really cool

Exactly 🤣

Because you lost your job?

@@phillaysheo8 Because lots of people work from home now

@@samsara801 Yes

Hahaha

He has a history of affecting least used station statistics!

That looks exactly like my hand after riding an escalator where the handrail hasn't been cleaned in a while. They're sneaky those escalators.

@@x--. I remember when Jubilee extn first opened the escalator handrails were just like that, rubber rub off?

New escalator hand rail. Needs a few tens of thousands hands to clean off the injection mould release agent/protective coating.

Shop soiled?

You can tell by the way that it is

Grace, I remember this! Hello 👋 you are very kind too, thank you! the new trains and railways are indeed very exciting …

With Geoff's elevated enthusiasm, it's almost like Mark was inclined to answer that lift question.

@@thorsteinj but surely a cheekier question would have been 'Is it true that the angle of the inclined lift (funicular?) has been designed to match the angle on the graph of the rate of overspend on this project?'

@@j.wellens5660 it’s not funicular cause there isn’t another going down at the same time, I guess the counterweight kinda counts.

Also a time when you can do an elevator pitch I guess

Especially them being long trains overground style, can roll until you find a quiet space.

@@kiradotee I'm sure less mobile people or parents with prams or buggies will want to know if they can use the service anytime and be allocated a wheelchair space or whatever without having trouble getting on/off and inside the spot due to overcrowdedness in rush hour which you bet will happen once the line opens because of the general mass of folks on the Underground in those times of course. I know it must frustrate some less able-bodied people when they can't travel on trains in central London during busy times because they're unable to get a space no fault of other people but through nobody being able to move to let them in out of sheer overcrowdedness so they either have to wait or go in quieter times which to some might not mean accessible for all. Hopefully, things will be good because London deserves a decent accessible service overall.

@@katherinenarborough2662 as somebody who used to live in hong kong(the country tfls operator is based in) yes, its accessible.

Have you seen that guys channel he's a wheelchair user, he wears glasses and travels around basically bursting in to tears everywhere and complaining to various rail networks and coach companies?

Plus you can do the slalom Geoff mentioned without breaking any TfL vehicle rules 😁 but yes, all that lovely level concrete looks like very easy pushing!

@UC1k_QcAJgatjznpj9c4X7ng The cheeky rascal

his excitement is contagious!

what’s care taker mode?

@@eyeaches I don't know.

I know but i do love some of the noises its just iconic

@@theplayerforty-nine7377 The flange noise on tube lines is hell to the ears

Agree totally, also have to say that there are parts of it that are really stunning. I saw or read an item, sorry can't remember which, about the wall at Paddington...that featured near the beginning...about it being architecturally significant, it might have been due to its size or the quantity of bricks it contains, but have been and looked at it through the railings and can't wait to examine it more closely. Think I might be one of the tourist visitors when the line opens!

10 minutes , 19 seconds! and that includes regular stand time at inbetween stations.

Which will not occur as the trains will stop at interim stations....

@@johntomlinson6849 read prev comment pal

@@johntomlinson6849 that includes approx 57sec dwell time per station.

How long does circle line take?

Thanks! 😃 very kind philip! (i have to pay for my fares like everyone else!)

👍Right on!

As a British person who loves Metro systems, I'm hoping to visit Amsterdam again in the near future (as part of a longer trip to Köln, München and Berlin) specifically to sample the Noord/Zuid Lijn... that all looks pretty good too!

Edited for a typo!

@@marcelwiszowaty1751 Yeah I've been there before. (even shot a video about it) but it does look good! although it was a nightmare to construct. it's very interesting because it's one of the 2 "deep level" metro's in the netherlands

It's not part of the London Underground. It's a regional train line with maximum speed of 90 mph or 150 kph.

@@ds1868 I know it's not the underground

He even made me excited for the new line and i didnt care about it up until now lol

Agreed! I love trains and he makes me love them even more!

Yes, and presumably Bond Street is the least used station? :)

Here!! exactly this, people have no idea how far behind the rest of the country is. Levelling up my ass.

Yes. Needs to be done.

I reckon the most interesting comparisons would actually be where either origin or destination weren't on Crossrail. Waterloo to Stratford by 3/4 different routes would be a good test. There are lots of options but I suspect the most competitive would be: - Northern/Crossrail (comparing before and after through running at Liverpool St) - Northern/Central - Jubilee (no changes) - W&C / Central (others could include DLR Bank-Stratford or taking the Bakerloo instead of the Northern to test the ease of making those connections) Waterloo to Canary Wharf might also be interesting but I suspect the Jubilee would normally win that one unless there was disruption.

@@peeky44 I wonder once Crossrail starts, will the Jubilee get more reliable ?

I think the concept is strongly inspired by the Paris RER Network .. Old suburban lines connected by a direct, high-speed tunnel, crossing the heart of the city, and allowing metro connections.

Considering how long the walk is to the h+c/circle platforms, you will likely be halfway there while they're still on the platform.

Crossrail wasn't progressed in the 90s, the Jubilee line was taken forward instead. The original Crossrail plan was put forward in the 1970s, but yeah we should really just about to be opening Crossrail 4 if everyone had got their acts together in the 70s!

When are we going to get the North-South Crossrail? And will it be called the Philip line?

Geoff and England are right, funicular's have two carriages that counterbalance each other, one goes up, one comes down.

@@steviefilm You are correct! I did not know it needed 2 to be classified. Thank you. "Some systems around the world are branded as funiculars, even though in reality they are inclined elevators. Unlike a funicular, inclined elevators operate independently on the slope rather than in interconnected pairs, and lift is required to haul the cars uphill" - Wiki

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Because I ate something funny. I’m about to throw up 🤢🤮

I’ve never understood how the railroad/ underground isn’t forced to do disabled access for each station. My local train station doesn’t have a lift so if you need a lift access you have to go to the two neighbouring station which are more than 5 miles away each. Ok it’s expensive and they might not have planning permission to put lifts in.

Hopefully the incline lifts will be placed into more stations too! It will make trips to London for me a lot more accessible ☺️

@@katem6562 lobbying and money mostly :/ every time there’s a proposal to force wheelchair access, or even just level boarding, it gets “reviewed for feasibility” and quickly becomes merely an aspiration 😔

Me too!

Only changes between the Bakerloo, Circle & District, and Elizabeth lines will be an in-station interchange. The NR station, and the H&C (and Circle) platforms the far side of them will be an OSI from the other lines (and each other).