The New Tottenham Court Road Elizabeth Line Station 

Wow! My shirt came out unscathed! A purple train miracle!

Quote of the Day: “The English Language is a shared thing, Geoff.”

I've just watched Reece explaining how he survives living in Toronto without a car and here he is again!

You guys have great chemistry. Maybe it's the Canadian-British thing, but your alternating sarcasm and seriousness offset each other in a really candid, funny way.

Recce's funny quotes. "Its so big" "What dark corners of the Internet are you trying to please there" "Its beautiful" X100 "Im not that Canadian Geoff" "Smash the bell. Smash both of our bells"

I thoroughly enjoyed the @RMTransit collab! The internet needs more of this!

It is great to see two of my favourite transport nerds in the same video together! Geoff & Reece rock!

Glad people are finally enjoying the use of this station, as a TW/Construction Engineer I worked on this station for 2 years, couple of months on site as well, between 2017-2020.

This is so precious. Geoff, I want you to know that it means so much to the viewers and fans watching this collaboration video. Reece is pretty much a younger (Canadian) version of yourself, with a love and passion for public transportation and other related topics. As a young person having been a long time supporter of your channel and most recently, of Reece's channel - we find your content engaging and informative. This has helped shaped my perspectives and viewpoints on how amazing and beneficial public transportation can be. What a great way of showcasing the current generation of Public Transit fans/advocates and introducing the world to the new generation of them.

Great collab, very entertaining! You say: Intercity-sized-trains-in-a-metro-environment. We say: S-Bahn But I must admit: A capacious S-Bahn! 😉

I'm used to Reece doing serious deep dives into transit systems on his channel RM Transit. Turns out he's actually a fun person in real life too. Beautiful collab, Geoff.

The collab we all wanted. Geoff and RM Transit🔥🔥🔥

I love the guy at 6:38 in the background. lol

As someone who lives just outside of Toronto and is VERY familiar with our subway, I can totally understand why Reece loved the new line and that station. The trains and stations in London are so impressive, Geoff - they make our subway look poor by comparison! Loved the video - keep up the great work!

I love the RU-vid railway geek multiverse ❤️

Travelling on the quiet, smooth, fast, and cool Elizabeth line really brings home how rough, noisy and uncomfortable the existing Tube lines are!

Greatest transit collab of all time. More! No seriously, I would love to see those two having a pub debate. lol

This is why I love when public infrastructure opens. For the public it's a new thing to have pride in, especially when this impressive. The engineering is amazing on this line.

I remember watching the documentary of the Elizabeth line then was known as Crossrail (The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway) that the builders had to dig the tunnel at Tottenham Court Road station in a very tight area above the tunnel for the Northern line & below the escalators.

Wow I just saw Reece in his house talking about how to live in North America without a car, and now he's in London again! Is Reece secretly The Flash?

Finally, RM transit and Geoff!!!!

That was wonderful; you're quite a pair! (I love Reece's channel also.)

I love the guy in the background at 6:05 wondering why you're both laying on the floor 😂😂

Can't believe i just watched a video that featured Reece without him saying "RER" even once

A Canadian and a Brit walk into a station….. As for the Vancouver winter, we laugh at the rest of Canada most of the time. Then we get 1 cm of snow and the rest of Canada laughs at us.

Absolutely loving this groups of reviews, wish I could just visit the UK and ride this line because of your coverage. Geoff they should pay you big time for this coverage. Great guest and works so well with you so the banter was entertaining and informative. I loved the 'monotonous' comment :D INTERCITY TRAINS IN A METRO ENVIRONMENT !! Your enthusiasm for this new line is infectious.

"I'm not that Canadian, Geoff." I spit out my beer. 🤣🤣

This is brilliant collaboration You have so much in common but Reece is his own man despite this being your video Also nice to see the New World vs Old World contrast in the way you both speak, move, act and dress. You both look great and neither trying to imitate the other....

How have I never heard of Reece before? I may trade you in Geoff as my train channel. He's a delight.

I love that the train indicator signs are in Johnston Sans. I don't quite know why I love that so much.

At 09:02 those tunnels look like a Stanley Kubrick Sci-Fi set! That cold lighting, the curved walls & the cladding. It could be a lunar colony except the gravity is six times to strong.

Nice to see two youtubers I enjoy working together. I live in a city about 2 hours west of Toronto where we have a Light Rail system called ION. Reece has covered that on his channel. Cheers to you Geoff and Reece!

What a great surprise seeing the two of you together. You complement each other very well. Should have known that Reece couldn’t resist seeing the line in person. Having him do it with Geof is like icing on the icing.

As a Canadian who watches RM, this was quite a interesting collab to watch.

We were there yesterday! 😄 It was sooo fabulous to finally get on a purple train! We deliberately walked out of Liverpool Street to go to the all new entrance by Broad Street which in itself was impressive (and also led to my Clair being somewhat dumbstruck how much the Broad Street area has changed since she was last there about 20 years ago!) and were immediately struck with the scale of it all. I really don’t think the average passenger realises how complicated or convoluted the plans for this railway had to be to make it workable. Maybe then they’d realise it isn’t just a big waste of money, etc? 🤷🏻‍♂️ Anyhow, we ended up getting off at TCR to have a wander around before going to the National Gallery…but ended up having a wander around the station for about 20 minutes anyway! And my goodness, you are right to say how impressive it is, notwithstanding the fact that it was such a precision build as Reece pointed out (again try to explain the significance of all the effort, work and skill involved in that to a punter and they glaze over 🙄) and so brilliantly set out! What actually shocked us a bit was how much more development had taken place once we last used TCR which was after a gig at the 100 Club. The station building on the corner of Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road was still a stand alone structure and everything purple was still cordoned off. So to see the concourse opened up (even Clair was super impressed!) and to see that huge multi-storey building above the entrance was amazing! 🤓 Among the myriad things we noticed, I have to say I was impressed with the lighting and airy nature of all the passageways despite being so far below ground, which is no mean feat 😳 It certainly made the Central Line seem positively claustrophobic later in the day 🤔 By the way, Reece did steal the show with “I’m not THAT Canadian, Geoff!” Brilliant line 🤣😂😅 Cheers Geoff, great fun as ever. I look forward to doing my own ‘visit all the purple stations’ thing myself in time, though it will take a lot longer than yours of course! 😜 👍🍻🍀

Also absolutely enjoyed this. Reece and Geoff are a natural double act. And Reece you looked so relaxed as well. Come to Canada Geoff and do a collaboration there with Reece. Love to see.more you you two together.

Fun that the 2 of you are in one video!

As Reece will confirm, no transit this big has been done in the US, since forever.

Funny that. The last video I watched of RMTransit was on the Elizabeth Line. Never thought I'd see both these two in this series!

"This is a big curve, a serious curve." Oh Reece, wait till you get to Bank on the Central line 🙈

Well that was fun, big love for Reece, cracking guest.

Reece is nice and impressive. I'll check his channel out.

Wait yes! RMTransit!!! Helloooooooo

Even though the new Elizabeth line and platforms are state of the art, faster and the trains will be more efficient and have a higher capacity than the tube will, there is still something more magical about the traditional london underground red trains and the small cavernous platforms, it feels more part of the experience of London than the new Elizabeth line stations and trains, although I can definately see the benefit of crossrail, at least the central line wont be as packed anymore and I wont feel like a sardine in a can of John West like I did before when I lived in London.

transitioning lights from cool to warm! this thing has hidden delights.

Reece and Geoff in the same video. That's special

this is a Canadian Heritage Minute right here

Did my second trip tonight on the Elizabeth specifically to check out that connection the Northern Line. OMG! It felt like having one's own private lift, and voila, there you are immediately on the platform; and yes, the heat really does hit you.

Wow excellent vlog Reece and thanks for taking Geoff along too, seriously good and entertaining time spent watching this

puuurplee traaaain 🎶

Hullo Reese! Great to have a Canadian on a UK RU-vid channel!

The chemistry is really good between Geoff and Reece. I definitely dig the collab

Great series thanks geoff.

Tottenham Court Road has always been my favourite tube station, narrowly beating Green Park and London Bridge. Now, it is leaps and bounds ahead of them! Tottenham Court Road is now the most beautiful station on the network!

Wow, what a stunning looking station

This is a totally amazing Station with fantastic rolling stock. Sometime in the future I will take a trip on Crossrail. But for now I must settle for my scenic Seaford to Brighton line journey on a 45 year old Class 313 Train.

When Reece said there wasn't anything massive like the TFL stations in Canada, don't forget, we do have things like TYSSE and ...... the Eglinton LRT in Toronto!

Can we expect a future guest appearance by the Tim Traveller? Geoff traveled to France a few months ago to visit with him, so I hope Tim makes the return visit!

Anyone who hasn't seen Rees' RM Transit channel - It's brilliant.

What a joy to see you two together in one video! Memories to cherish!

I just love the dynamics between you guys, you should do this again!

Went on the Purple Today, the Platform at TCR is ridiculously long, did a run out to Greenwich via Canary Wharf then went back and did Canary Wharf to Paddington in 17 minutes. The Elizabeth Line is going to seriously change the ease of crossing the Centre of London.

LOVED this collab. Much love from Toronto ❤Can't wait to experience Crossrail for myself.

Really enjoying this mini series. Reece is a bit of legend isn’t he? I might have to subscribe just to gain knowledge of metro systems I’ll never use!

Canary Wharf is my favourite Crossrail station right now, purely because of the area itself and also the yellow lighting on the escalators

Discovered RM only last week and am hooked. Was delighted to see both of you in the video today. You guys need to do more collabs.

Such a treat watching RM Transit in the wild but I'm utterly fascinated by the tense undercurrent between these two. Makes for funny viewing.

Now they just need to build a new tube line to take you between different parts of Tottenham Court Station. Ditto Bank. Maybe Heathrow Travel Pods could be extended?

Very enjoyable upload Geoff & TCR looks incredible! As someone who was raised in Ontario ( Newmarket, not far from Toronto) it was pleasing to have Reese`s contribution.....I will be subscribing to his channel for sure.....thanks.

Hi rmtransit,your amazing!

My bro Reese! We were just on about transit in my hometown of Halifax, NS this afternoon. Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal...Maybe Calgary and Edmonton. Places you can live in Canada without a car. You know Toronto is the #4 city in size in North America? New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Toronto. Houston is #4 in America. Two transit geeks in da house!

Smashing BOTH your bells? (Bad Kenneth Williams impression) Oooh Missus! Loving this mini series

I really Like Tottenham Court road station it's easy to access and it's only 2 stops away on the Northan Line to Charing Cross for outta City trains. I'm certainly surprised that you didn't do a bin shot I know you love these and it's a missed opportunity. The curved part of the platform is also quite unique. Amazing vid as always Geoff.

Yasssss reece is here !!!!!

Had my first trip on it yesterday, and it's deeply, deeply impressive. Took me longer to get from Euston mainline to Farringdon EL platform than subsequent journey Farringdon to Canary Wharf, which doesn't really compute. Feels like the geography of London is folding in on itself. Also, it somehow manages to be vast and futuristic but simultaneously feel like it's always been part of the network. Kind of like buying new shoes and them being fully comfortable straight out of the box.

So the Northern line connection at Tottenham Court Road seems convenient. Interesting comparison with that at Liverpool Street (Elizabeth Line) and the Northern Line platforms at Moorgate. Now the main tube map does not show the connection as that but it is there - escalators at eastern end of the Lizzie Line station. However there might be a reason because it is quite a walk (5 min?) and does not feel convenient. Similarly the connection between the H&C platforms and the Lizzie Line at Paddington. So far (one trip:)) am impressed with the purple train experience but it feels like they have skimped adding interchange tunnels.

Wow! I love watching Reece’s videos! So glad you did a collab together!

Good to see Reece in the video, his channel is also very interesting.

How cool that Reece knows what a lift is as opposed to an elevator.

it's like Star Trek, they're in the GeoffReece tube.

Very entertaining and loving the banter between yourself and RM_Transit, I remember on Tuesday being at Tottenham Court Road at around half 7 in the evening and took a Central Line train to Liverpool Street from Tottenham Court Road, the Central Line platform was quiet but the tube was still busy and comparing the Elizabeth Line and the Central Line, it felt forever to travel on the Central Line, but sure it was also a long walk between the Elizabeth Line and the Central Line as well.

Geoff Marshall plus Reece Martin - the world's top two transport nerds in the same video! It's all too much. RM Transit is a great channel btw

I enjoy RM Transit too. Good impromptu collab

I've been waiting for this collaboration for so long...

Avengers Endgame: We have the BEST crossovers Geoff and Reese: HoLd My TrAiN

Cool you met Reecce! I have seen several videos on his channel. I must see I did not explore the Elizabeth line stations that thoroughly, but it is amazing what they have built!

I can’t believe it. Geoff and Reece together on the Purple Train. 💜

I'm here for the guy sneakily taking a photo of you when you're both lying on the ground talking to the camera :D

Yes 🇨🇦 Reece& 🇬🇧 Geoff

What a great crossover! You two have such great chemistry and I love both your channels. Thanks for the content :)

It looks like the Death Star (Star Wars) only with trains!!!! At least the Canadian said bell at the end of the video, not bell end!!

Whoa... its RM Transit! 😁

Great to see you with Reece, who I ALSO follow 😀

Omg RM TRANSIT IN LONDON ❤❤❤

I’m so glad Geoff agrees with me that the British really overstate how much it rains here. It’s really not that bad

I've noticed that elevators outside fare zones lead to ticket levels, then other elevators within fare zones lead to platforms. Eg. Athens Metro Syntagma Square Station

I travelled on it earlier... It's so clean. It's so odd experiencing what 'new tube smell' is.

Loving this video. You guys should do more collaborations. I agree with Reece that the TCR station is a bit monotonous. The whole core section in general seems a bit clinical to me. The individual stations could definitely use a touch of colour on platform level, also to make it easier to distinguish them.

Reece is a lot more vocal and knowledgeable than the 1st guess of the week. Keep up the great videos.

Best RU-vid collaboration in history! Reece is a true legend! Good to see you guys hanging out.