American Reacts to London's New Elizabeth Line
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As an American I am not too familiar with the London transportation system, but I have recently become aware of the new Elizabeth line which is 13 years in the making. I am very interesting in reacting and learning about what this railway system accomplishes and how it was constructed. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
What's not said is the delays caused by ongoing archaeological surveys. That in itself is an interesting topic. The excavations of plague pits, finally confirming that Yersina pestis was the infecting agent , fascinating.
If you look at the tube (London underground, aka metro) map, it shows just straight lines, because the genius of that map was the realisation that when you are underground, scale doesn't matter. So the map is laid out like an electronic circuit schematic - all it has to show is the stations in the correct order and the intersections in the right places. But in reality there are many twists and curves to the lines. Some of them have curves where they shouldn't be necessary, and these curves exist so that the tunnels avoid plague pits and in some cases avoid points of archaeological interest.
@@lloydevans2900That's just rumors. The only plaque pit that was actually found was during the Elizabeth line's construction and they already expecting it. The curves exist because they mostly run under the streets to avoid paying the owners of the houses up above!
@@pvuccinoThat rather depends on which lines you are talking about - not all of them are the same depth. Some are remarkably shallow, like the District line, which is only a few metres down. At some stations there is not even a ceiling over parts of the platform - you can look up and see the sky. The shallow lines were constructed by the "cut and cover" method, which does mostly go under the middle of existing roads. Not every single part though, there were places where they had to knock down a house or two in order to get the line through. You can tell where these are from street level because to fill in the gaps in terraces they built walls to match the style of house either side, even with window frames in the appropriate places to make the walls look as much like houses as possible. You can only tell the difference by looking at the fake windows, which are blanked off.
The deep tube lines (Victoria, Jubilee, Piccadilly, Central) were constructed differently - they are way too deep for the cut and cover method. These are deep enough to not need to follow the streets above, so can go pretty much wherever they need to provided the ground is stable enough to be tunnelled through.
It's hard to express how game-changing the Elizabeth Line is for many of us in London and beyond. The stations are like cathedrals, the platforms are huge & safe with floor-to-ceiling doors, the trains are massive (1500 people), the carriages are walk through & air conditioned, the track is smooth and quiet and the time to cross London has been cut by two-thirds. Expensive, late but remarkable. I use it often and love it.
The air conditioning in the carriages cannot be over-stated, especially for the oldest underground train network in the world.
Travelling on the tube during the hot and humid summer months isn't fun at all, especially during busy periods, but sadly there's not much that can be done for a lot of existing tube lines and stations that are many decades old.
As amazing as the Victorian-era engineers were at pulling off a feat like the London Underground, air-conditioning wasn't exactly a "thing" then, so it's all the more important to have a new train line that not only meets the needs of a 21st century city, by improving the travelling experience in terms of: train capacity, taking the strain off of other tube lines that were constantly struggling to cope with demand for decades, opening up new transport links to other areas of London etc, and once again, providing a bloody train service where passengers weren't cooking during summer.
Here's hoping the rest of the existing underground lines can eventually benefit from some sort innovation.
The tube ain't perfect, but it's the first of it's kind and I still love it (when it isn't packed!) lol
After moving to australia. The idea of a train without Aircon had not even crossed my mind.
I think youd just die of heatstroke here
and our underground is spotless clean !
@@marycarver1542some of it is. I've been to a few stations that weren't so spick and span.
It's still fairly noisy through the underground part, but MUUUUCCCCHH more quite than the jubilee, central, northern, bakerloo, victoria etc.
The Elizabeth Line stretches over 60 miles, 96.5 Kilometres. It covers 41 stations including 10 new stations.
42 stations I think you will find Tim
The building of the Channel Tunnel between England and France is another fascinating subject. It was dug from both sides simultaneously - I still don't know how they managed to meet up in the middle!
For sure!! Plus they have to pump air into these underwater tunnels so people can breathe. We still have the old air pumping building from the late 1800s under the Bristol channel rail :)
If you're interested, the surveying and navigational tool used by the Channel tunnel engineers is a "gyro-theodolite", which is also used for most other engineering projects involving digging tunnels. It involves the use of a gyroscope and a compass, and is the only way of determining orientation relative to true north when underground, where GPS or astronomical orientation (star sighting) cannot be used for obvious reasons.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrotheodolite
I heard the French finished their side first and were still waiting of our side to come through ..
@@lloydevans2900 i just thought they opened console commands and turned show coordinates on lmao
@@flowersthewizard9336 they pressed F3 to compare their coordinates
I love the way it was named after our dearly departed Queen Elizabeth! Who managed to visited, shortly before she passed!
I use this as my commute to work now. It only takes 12 minutes! Waited 4 years for it to open.
It was renamed the Elizabeth Line, in which the Queen herself opened in May this year.
As a Londoner I absolutely love using the Elizabeth Line. The ride through the tunnelled section is ultra-smooth. The trains have open gangways between the carriages (cars) and so passengers have a great view down the whole 650 foot length of the train - it's almost hypnotic to watch the train snaking along the tunnel from within!
At up to 60mph within the tunnels the trains are much faster than the tube, and of course they travel much faster outside the tunnels.
The line was opened by the late Queen Elizabeth - hence the name. It will be an enduring legacy.
Yeah, that's a great view in all open gangway trains going underground, especially when you're sitting in the middle! But I doubt that they specifically chose them for that reason! Plus, I knew it was going to be named Elizabeth line a long time before it opened, so I think they wanted to honor the Queen regardless. I mean honestly I don't think they expected her to still be alive when it opened!
The building of this took a lot of time, money and consternation but it’s pretty bloody impressive!
The Queen unveiled a plaque stating that she "officially opened" the Elizabeth line and spent 10 minutes in the station before leaving in a lift. Johnson told guests: "We're all incredibly touched and moved and grateful to Her Majesty for coming to open the Elizabeth line today. It was fantastic to see her." 17 May 2022
Crossrail is the name of the company that built the new underground in London. The underground sections are only in London and outside the lines are "trains", as you said.. If you search for "London Underground" map, you'll see all the lines that are available. All the lines have names, hence the "Elizabeth" line.
yeah, he does this all the time, listens, numerous times to the same sentence, yet still doesn't comprehend wtf was just said. 🤣
@@yips_way Yes, I've noticed that in the past. I thought maybe he was interpreting the sounds of the words as if an American had spoken them which, tbh, isn't very clever really.
@@AlSnoopsReid I guess it's because he lacks background knowledge. I once watched a video (not sure if his) of an American reacting to the Oyster card system, but asked, what for us are, quite silly questions. If they have no understanding/experience of that topic, they'll be caught out by videos which assume some knowledge.
@@Abi-bi6cb Yes, you're probably right. It's similar to non-US people not understanding their cultural norms, which often seem weird to us.
@@yips_wayit's possible he might be neuro divergent
The story of the civil engineering challenge of these projects is really interesting. They literally had the 1000 ton boring machine passing over a working station platform within 6ft! (Tottenham Court Road) One of the boring machines was actually called Elizabeth. It had crew facilities on the back & concrete liners were installed as they went. Many of the platforms are now fully enclosed with glass & sliding doors. Really safe & quieter. Elizabeth is a very modern smooth train.
As a 14 year old, my Uncle agreed to take me and my cousin, in the cab of his Tube Train, running from Waterloo to The Bank, the Waterloo and City Line, a long name for a line with only 2 Stations!
I don't think I realised back then that the line had so many turns just to go between two stations!
Crossrail was the project, The Elizabeth Line is the rail track name.
You should react to 'The Tube Map nearly looked very different' by Jay Foreman (or anything by Jay Foreman for that matter). Very funny video about how the map of the London Underground evolved.
It is new, opened this summer. Goes right the way across London from west to east.
Was lucky enough to ride on it a few weeks after it opened during a visit to London. Some of the stations are absolutely stunning the look like sets from Stanley Kubrick films.
The channel tunnel that links Britain with France… was done under the sea it’s a great feat of engineering.
i live outside london and i only used elizabeth line twice. once in 2019 to go to an event called EGX which a gaming convention was my 1st time going to london and i got lost LOL. then 2022 for the same event gaming convention and then explored around the city a bit before going home. it was a fun experience to visit london.
The London Underground opened in 1863, the first of its kind.
The Crossrail system, later called the Elizabeth line, is not really part of the “Underground”, or Tube. It’s a normal rail service that runs from about 40 miles west of London to about the same distance east of London. But because London is fully built-on the new line had to go “under the ground”. The trains look and are the same as “normal” trains. Their power comes from overhead wires etc.
My town is on the East Anglian line, Colchester the oldest City used to be the first Roman Capital of England x
If you're interested in the amazing engineering itself, there are some very interesting documentary videos around. This one only highlighted it briefly.
Yes, very interesting and amazing how they threaded the tunnelling between building foundations, sewers, culverts, other tube tunnels etc. etc.
If you went from Norwich to Bristol. You would go through London from one railway station to another. By foot, bus, taxi or underground. This is a game changer. Especially if you fly into Heathrow and go to London! The boring machine is based on the original one designed in Victorian times. They bore, clear the debris and secures the tunnel with concrete slabs.
The Underground in London, fondly called the "Tube" mainly because it is small in comparison to a normal train. Its been around for decades and as the video states was insufficient for the amount of people using it. The new Elizabeth Line, is a normal train that crosses London from East to West and over 10miles travels under the ground. NOT to be confused with the "Tube"
The whole idea of this train was to ease the mounting congestion on the "Tube". Building it under a old city was problematic with all the buildings very susceptible to all the underground digging. Sensors were mounted on many buildings measuring for any movement during the work.London is riddled with "Tube" tunnels, water/gas mains and sewers together with many underground rivers also. So despite all the moaning whilst it was built, was in fact quite a achievement.
One place I used to occasionally work, the basemen was only a few feet above the tube line, you could feel the room vibrate every time a tube train went through
I used to work in the basement of a hotel (two floors underground) on Piccadilly. You could hear the tube trains nearby.
This cut my commute time from my home in SE London to the City from 1 hour to just 20 minutes! Amazing engineering.
Archaeolgy underneath stops digging sometimes, they are overground trains out of London. I used to be scared of the Tube under the Thames !!! My great grandad came down from Scotland and got a job digging the tube way back in the day
Went on the Elizabeth line on the very day Bond Street station opened. Went into London. Didn't need an underground ticket. From now get off at Faringdon instead of in the past Kings Cross and across London to Paddington. Even as we did take the lift 6 floors down to then from Paddington take the train to Cardiff Central in Wales. Then reverse on journey back. Have to say that the journey time saved was just incredible.
The London Underground is the oldest “subway” system in the world, and also the largest. The first “lines” (routes) opened in 1863, after ten years of construction.
So... to explain the bit about "the railways not going through London"
Many of the railway main lines of the UK converge on London. There are a multitude of different railway terminus (end) stations which serve trains going to different parts of the country. For instance Liverpool St station for the Anglia region, Paddington for the Western region, Waterloo for the South West. etc. However, all of these different main lines end at their own terminus station- there is no connection between main lines that goes through London (except for Thameslink which functions similarly to Crossrail). Therefore, if you were coming in from the Western region and wanted to go out East to say, you'd get off your train at Paddington, take the tube to Liverpool Street and then get on another train out East. Crossrail connects these two main lines with a tunnel. The Elizabeth Line is a train route which runs from areas close to London out West (Reading) via the Great Western Main Line, through the Crossrail tunnel, and then out East on the Great Eastern Main Line to Shenfield. There are several stations on the Crossrail tunnel underneath London. Because of this, passengers travelling locally within London can use the Elizabeth Line as a faster alternative to the Tube/London Underground, in particular, the overcrowded Central Line. Therefore, the line functions as both a suburban/regional connector within the Eastern and Western areas around London, and an express service within Central London.
For the bit about the signalling systems, the Crossrail tunnels use a different signalling system than the rest of the UK. This means that where the tunnels connect to the main lines, the trains have to switch from one signalling system to another. This has been the cause of some delays in the project.
The operating project name was Crossrail. . When it was opening, they named it The Elizabeth Line.
Crossrail was inspired by Paris's RER system which joins up the lines entering various main line stations across the city so that trains can run straight through the city rather than stopping at the mainline termini. Paris now has 5 RER lines. London's "Thameslink" already does something similar, running north south, but that operates mainly through an old tunnel, rebuilt to cope with modern services. New York has a project called East Side Access which is attempting to do something along the same lines
The trains are a great way to commute to London. They free up the roads for others that have to use them, are faster and obviously saves the planet as less cars (in theory) on the roads. Crossrail has a multi million pound deal at the moment creating a new train line that goes from Newcastle down to London which will open up the North to London and creat a better wealth spread. The line will when finished cut the commute down by hours, meaning people who live in the North can be In London in a few hours!
Crossrail is the name of the company that built the line, and it was known as the crossrail project while it was being built. Almost all of London's tube lines up until now have been mainly oriented north to south - the Elizabeth Line cuts right through the heart of the city from east to west, as well as connecting with the national rail networks. It was an immense project, and slowed at least in part because they kept on running into archaeological finds!
Two names for you: Isambard Kingdom Brunel & Fred Dibnah. Different characters with love for engineering. I think you'd get a kick out of learning about them. Plus Fred Dibnah had the biggest balls on the planet. 🤣
I do not think you can compare Fred Dibnah with Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The latter is probably the greatest engineer of all time.
I live in Maidenhead, which is now on the Elizabeth Line, which means I can now get on a train and get off at the end of Oxford Street in around 50 minutes, instead of going into Paddington and then changing lines. It’s pretty good TBF despite all the delays.
London's population is over 9.5million but that grows with workers commuting in from nearby counties and the millions of tourists who visit the city each year
Engineers the most thrilling part of this wonder is the historic artefacts it threw up. My company was hired in 1900to work on this new line Crossrail. I and several of my designers spent a yeAr on it.
The most impressive part is getting trains working on 5 or more different signalling systems to cooperate effectively along the line. Trains in London need the ability to work across multiple systems. Some even go to France through the Channel Tunnel.
Crossrail was the name of the project while they were building it, they changed the name to the "Elizabeth Line" prior to opening in honour of Queen Elizabeth II
There are 10 little books that tell of all the archaeological finds found whilst creating the new line published by Oxbow books through the Museum of london covers Ice age animal remains to a Tudor gatehouse black death (Plague) Burial grounds to the London Ironworks that built Brunels "Great Eastern" forunner of Titanic & Layer of the first Atlantic & subsequent cables to India & Australasia. They are priced around £10 each UK & are easily readable not Academic.
Regarding your enquiry regarding structural integrity.
Our engineers of old OVER engineered nearly all major infrastructure is tunnels sewers bridges electrical armoured cables viaducts castles walls buildings tidal defences. You make it it was over engineered.that's why we have no fear in using anything built around 1850 or so.
To the centre at there can be 24 trains an hour every 2 .5 minutes when it is opened you have to change trains. Your problem was signalling now fixed you can go from all through the system without changing trains
They used similar machines, just different sizes to dig the channel tunnel. Think was 4 used for that and 2 were sunk below the tunnel so others could get out
Could you imagine if such a thing were in America? Man, day trips to cities where parking is hell would be a breeze.
I really enjoy your reactions keep up the good work 👏🏾. There was a similar project undertaken a few decades ago called the channel tunnel. An amazing feat of human engineering made even greater as this was an collaboration between the UK 🇬🇧 and France 🇫🇷.
He wasn't saying that the Great Western railway and the East Coast railway were built as part of the Elizabeth line. They were already there, for a long time. "Crossrail" is what built the Elizabeth Line
It’s a huge huge undertaking. They had to shore up the underneath of the Houses of Parliament!
The boring system is similar to the one that dug the Chunnel (London-Paris). My cousin lost a foot whilst working digging the Chunnel. It’s dangerous as hell work now, so imagine how it was decades back (pre WW2).
Crossrail & the Elizabeth line is a fantastic help
I’m a Brit, and must say never knew all this detail about the Line- particularly that it connected so far and wide over the U.K. Nor those huge drilling machines, Just wow!! I haven’t had the opportunity to ride the Elizabeth Line yet, but it’s on my To Do list!
Tyler, I’ve been binge watching your videos and I admire you and your vulnerability in these videos ❤ it’s a joy to laugh and learn with you!
I live in the town that has the western Terminus of The Elizabeth Line i did visit on the first day to experience it but not until later Morning. Thousands of people cued to be on the first trains to carry passengers through the Tunnels. Plenty of You Tube Train Enthusiast Filmed and posted videos. It was called Cross Rail while planning and construction took place and was renamed The Elizabeth Line after the Uks then Monarch The Queen Elizabeth. The video you watched was not telling most information, The Elizabeth Line also Serves Heathrow Airport And Abbey Wood outside the East if London and they are already considering Extending the Route. Also the Trains on The Elizabeth Line do not have Toilets on board they say you can get off at any station use the toilets then get in ghe next train which is stupid becuase depending which through route yiu are travelling on there may not be another train for around 30 minutes but the core section carries trains every 3 minutes peak times on weekdays but an be expanded to 2 minutes and the core section trains are guided by computers with the driver just in the cab making sure everything is good if not can apply emergency protacal. The core stations currently carry 9 car trains but are long enough to carry 11 car trains. The stations themselves are vast corridors underground conecting platforms in both directions other Underground Lines and the way in and out. The Architecture is outstanding if you or anyone else from USA and around the World ever visit London you have to Ride The Elizabeth Line to experience all of this. It is already a very popular Tourist Attraction around 260 Million Individual Journeys on the Core Sections since opening. Also being planned is another Line connecting outside South of London to North/North West of London. I must also add The Elizabeth Line Trains also stops at Every Station on its route and outside London uses existing Rail Networks meaning it is slower. Example from the Western Terminus to London Paddington Station its about a 55 to 60 Minute Journey so as i did when on the Opening day i took the GWR IET Train to London Paddington and Changed to The Elizabeth Line Core Section then the same on Return i Changed to the Faster Train Network.
Go to Paris they have a north - south and east - west lines of standard rail gauge that run ‘double decker’ trains well underground!!!!
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"You should react to 'The Tube Map nearly looked very different' by Jay Foreman (or anything by Jay Foreman for that matter). Very funny video about how the map of the London Underground evolved."......he is excellent both knowledgeable and hilarious.
They will spend any amount of money on London . Some fascinating discoveries by archaeologists and amazing technology .
it was the Crossrail Project, which on opening was called the Elizabeth line. I think the line that opened before that was the Jubilee Line. Although this is an incredible system, it does cause some resentment that so much money has been spent on London's transport system but other areas of the UK have had far less spent on it. The HS2 project was supposed to remedy some of that but has been cut back again and again, it's not gone very well and the costs have escalated hugely.
I worked on the Jubilee line, predominently at/under Canary & under/on the Millenium Stadium site before/as it was being built, now the 02 arena I believe. Not been down to London since which is a long time back, in the last Century no less 🤣😮
In fairness, it wasn't really worded very well in the video re: Crossrail. Crossrail was the name of the Elizabeth line until Boris Johnson decided it should be called the Elizabeth line - after that, Crossrail was mostly used to refer to the company building the Elizabeth line. It was all a bit of a marketing screw up on Johnson's part really as he didn't understand it was a railway line, not a Tube line. Crossrail said what it did on the tin - a railway that crossed the capital. The new Elizabeth line suggests it might be a tube line, but as the video mentions, it continues far outside of London at both ends on existing above-ground railways.
That link is a link that gives you a full understanding of our public transport system
Crossrail was the name of the project to build the new east-west railway, but Elizabeth Line is the operational name now it is in service. There is also an equally ambitious northeast-southwest project called Crossrail 2 which is still at the planning stage.
In countries with long histories it takes many many years to dig cities to create railway lines because one of the biggest problems is coming across archaeological sites which need to be carefully excavated and preserved. The Elizabeth Line was delayed with such archaeological sites very often. When I lived in Greece and they were digging under the city to build the Athens Metro they were forever finding further underground mini cities, about 2,500 years old, temples, statues of gods etc etc which had to be carefully excavated, preserved and displayed which caused big delays in completing the Metro. And when it was all completed in some of the Stations there are glass display sections inside the stations displaying statues and other artefacts which were found under the station.
I've been on the great western, going into the london underground, its amazing
In the first week of service over 1 million trips were made
This line makes such a difference for Londoners and people who commute into London for work. In 2022 Londoners face the longest, in time, commute 80mins a day compared to the next highest 55 mins for people living in Guildford. No wonder priority was given to this project it improved lives.
hasn't made a huge difference for all Londoners though. There are still huge areas of London that have poor transport links and 'remote tube stations' ... I think the money could have been better spent in areas of London that have poorer transport links.
@@booth2710 Try telling that to the people who take the 2 million journeys on the line each week.
Its underground and overground rail that links the regular rail networks with the underground.
I used the Elizabeth line this summer..it was amazing...i thought I was in a sci-fi movie !
Ridden the Elizabeth line a few times, it's nice especially because it's air conditioned.
It has no wc facilities, and if you have children or are disabled its pretty bad
@@davetherave3511 It's a metro train they normally don't but basically all the stations do.
The underground bit in the middle is new, but the ends are pre-existing railway lines that were taken over. My local station to the east was originally built in 1839, but is now part of the "new" Elizabeth Line. It had a revamp, but is essentially the same station as the last rebuild in 1844.
I designed and supplied 9 emergency track crossing walkways for customers to evacuate in the event of an emergency.
Look up the London post office Railway, it's interesting and can be visited.
Crossrail implements many innovations but the concept of Crossrail itself isn't entirely new, it would be fair to say it is based on the French RER.
Eats the rock Infront then lines the tunnel with concrete panels behind it
Truly amazing
One of the advantages that London enjoys is that much of the geology is clay which is (relatively) easy to poke holes in.
In the UK the word subway is used for pedestrians underpasses not for trains.. The underground railway is referred to as “the tube”. The tube has 9 different lines criss crossing London which they have 270 stations. It is the fastest way to travel in London
Except for Glasgow.
A SUBWAY in the UK is an underground pedestrian walkway.
I use it to get to work from Twyford to Maidenhead
Crossrail was the project name Elisabeth Line is the name of the line.
In the UK we have several different names for underground railways depending on where you are. London's is called, in popular usage, the Tube even though strictly speaking the term only applies to the deep level lines, but this isn't applied elsewhere. Glasgow's underground, consisting of one circular route, is called the Subway, just like the ones in the US. The underground network in Newcastle and Sunderland is called the Metro and this is the term used internationally, in Paris, Amsterdam, Moscow, Budapest and many other cities worldwide.
I have travelled a few times from Kent (England) to Calais (France) by train. You drive on, sit in the car and 35 minutes you are in France, just drive off. The train travels at over 100mph, the heat and sound changes slightly as you descend, and ascend, into the bottom of the tunnel. It is a fantastic journey under the English Channel. There is the cutting end (with blades) of the TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) in the middle of the road on the approach to the tunnel. It is huge. It is amazing how the TBM's bore. The TBM's are assembled and disassembled undergound. There is one complete TBM still underground as it was not planned to be removed, it is buried for good.
It’s brilliant. The journey times are slashed and to go East to West in a city the size of London, and beyond!
They are trains, the underground does not got much out of London and! main lines to east and west London STOP each side so it took forever to get across on the tube, Elizabeth line is an a proper train that goes across London for first time without having to go all over the place on other means of transport to go far
The euro star was built underwater from England to France.
Hilarious. Presumably built by teams of divers !
He means the two lines that feed into London couldn't cross London. So the Elizabeth line is the connecting artery.
The overground lines running across the UK are connected together now through central London. Underground in London, overground outside of London.
He said it cleared some existing tube lines by 6ft, in one place it was threaded through 3 tube lines with 6mm clearance whilst the tube trains were still running on those lines. Full end to end train running has only just commenced as it had to be made 100% reliable that the onboard automatic computer train running system could cope with the 3 different signalling and control systems. There was no Sunday services whilst this testing was being undertaken. One interesting fact is that the new trains don't have onboard toilets so if the need arises one has to detrain and use the station facilities, boarding the following train.
When I've travelled down from Leicester to London. I deliberately went to see new. The Elizabeth line to out is going to have 24 trains. On hour. Full size train a
Very 2.5 minutes 9 carriages long. When I've used them they train very busy the stations are 240 Meters long. (Nearly two-thirds of a Olympic Running track) it is very impressive
I currently live out on the east coast at Southend. A few weeks ago i was in Reading at the other end of the Elizabeth Line. I got all the way through only having to change trains twice at Paddington and Liverpool Street (the middle section was superfast) and it took exactly 2hrs 5mins from end to end. Before that useing the standard underground etc you'd have added nearly an hour to that journey. It is deep though some of those escalators are really long LOL.
Now there is through running without having to change at Paddington, I can reach Central London inside 18 minutes vs the 40/50 mins it would take on Central Line (And none of the screeching noise through the bends of the track either and air conditioning in the summer which the the deep level Tube does not have) There is however not enough trains currently running West to East which can make things a bit congested but there will be a increase in trains soon.
the main railway lines (not underground) only went into London... they could not connect across London
As someone living in London, and a regular user of the tube line, having experienced the shit ones at rush hour (f the central line) and the very old lines. The new Elizabeth line is dreamy. Its super quiet, spacious, fast, smooth, air conditioned. Its well worth taking a long route to include if you can. Always a treat :)
But no toilets
If you like the tunnel machines then check " the channel tunnel" project.
Crossrail is part of the consortium that built it. That’s the company name. All the best. Rab
To give some perspective about underground London,the surface is nearly 3 times the size of New York.
Subterranean London is 3 times the size of above ground London.
The Queen nipped down to open the Elizabeth Line before she died 🥰
🎵I wonder if Tyler would get the reference to the 'Elizabeth Line' being also referred to as the
🎵"Purple Train"🎵 ?! ( _as well as_ the 'Elizabeth Line') 🤞... 😏I'm not sure as to Tyler's musical tastes, or if he's even _aware_ of _Prince_ 🇺🇲 (R.I.P.) or his songs🎵 ...etc? 🤔🏴♥️🇬🇧🙂🖖
Tyler, you may also be interested in the huge tunnel that was dug using similar machines under the sea joining England and France - so many years ago now, that folk rarely pause any more to think about what a marvel of engineering it was at the time. There are loads of videos from different perspectives but here's one to give you some general context. th-cam.com/video/vgq8KNl0mfs/w-d-xo.html
Should watch the documentary about the channel tunnel connecting England and France.
You really need to find a video about Isambard Kingdom Brunel
By the way I love your chanell very funny and informative for myself at times and I live here
Check out Brunels tunnel under the river Thames a must see.
London has big main train station that bring trains - so you could live on the outskirts of London - take the train to a big station and then get onto the underground to get around London. The Elizabeth line changes it all
They're now starting on Crossrail 2
I use the Elizabeth Line all the time for work now, so much faster and frequent to use and cuts my hour and a half journey down to about an hour which is good.
Given you really enjoyed this, I can recommend some of RMTransits videos on London's transpost system. They're great and very informative