Exploring The Elizabeth Line (part 1) - the story of London's newest underground railway

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2 жыл бұрын

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It’s time to explore the story behind The Elizabeth Line, as we check out every one of the new central core stations that have just opened. The archeological finds, the political wrangling, the triumphs and the failures, what’s still unfinished and what was never meant to be. In part 1 we cover Paddington, Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road, Farringdon and Liverpool Street. But also Moorgate and Barbican.
I initially made the whole video and it was 27 minutes long and my friend Justin implied that was outrageous so now it's split, hence the lack of conclusion. Part 2 to follow shortly.

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@Robbins996
@Robbins996 2 жыл бұрын
This is genuinely one of the best Liz line vids I’ve seen. Incredibly funny yet informative at the same time. Im so glad I discovered this channel!
@joshuamck123
@joshuamck123 2 жыл бұрын
As always, a very enjoyable mix of history and humour. Looking forward to part 2!
@dronespace
@dronespace 2 жыл бұрын
Really glad that you're uploading more videos, great content
@RossParker1877
@RossParker1877 2 жыл бұрын
Yay the smarties made it in! Outstanding stuff Andrew. You have a fantastic presenting style. Can't wait for part two.
@ExploringLondon
@ExploringLondon 2 жыл бұрын
the smarties section is so much better thanks to the input from the chat as well, if only the whole video could be live-streamed in it's construction
@Nick-io8td
@Nick-io8td 2 жыл бұрын
Bethan hospital sounds like another exploring londkn video! Bring back the series lol!
@danielboulton98
@danielboulton98 2 жыл бұрын
The King has returned
@purplesnowist
@purplesnowist 2 жыл бұрын
I don't usually comment, but this is great. Looking forward to part 2.
@ExploringLondon
@ExploringLondon 2 жыл бұрын
very soon!
@andreawoelke
@andreawoelke 2 жыл бұрын
I love that you cut through the hype and brought us a slightly sarcastic view of Crossrail. Very watchable! Thank you!
@Zveebo
@Zveebo 2 жыл бұрын
Yay - this is the EL video I’ve really been waiting for.
@serafiiiine
@serafiiiine 2 жыл бұрын
I was mildly tempted to get up at 4am to watch the premiere, but then remembered beds are awesome. However, this video is a great start to my morning. Love the dry humour and nerdiness combined
@alanlittle4589
@alanlittle4589 2 жыл бұрын
I was up, just at work 😞
@stevemayhew
@stevemayhew 2 жыл бұрын
i'm glad you're back giving the usual mix of of wit and insight.
@Supermunch2000
@Supermunch2000 2 жыл бұрын
☺️ Wonderful video! BTW, I really missed your sense of humor and I'm glad your posting again.
@thoughtfortheday7811
@thoughtfortheday7811 2 жыл бұрын
I'm planning my first journey on the EL for tomorrow. Looking forward to it massively.
@dronespace
@dronespace 2 жыл бұрын
It's really good. Hope you enjoy
@thoughtfortheday7811
@thoughtfortheday7811 2 жыл бұрын
@@dronespace thanks.
@jwillisbarrie
@jwillisbarrie 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for adding actual captions for the deaf
@y0shidino
@y0shidino 2 жыл бұрын
Dude I look forward to your content like a child looks for sugar, and on the sweet note: that Smarties analogy was the best/worst visualisation in all the right/wrong ways. Keep on keeping on my friend and make videos on places that you truly find interesting otherwise why even do it... I feel honoured to have found you early, there's big things to happen to your channel imo. The passion in this is so clear and I have not even watched the second part yet, which I am looking forward to:) Thank you for doing what you do!
@nshively
@nshively 2 жыл бұрын
Just found your channel and so impressed! Clever, witty and your editing skills are fantastic. More videos please! 👏👏👏 from Oklahoma, USA (in the middle).
@cm.82
@cm.82 2 жыл бұрын
Happy you're back! You're so good at this.
@will4977
@will4977 2 жыл бұрын
Your videos are expertly researched and presented hilariously. I love your style, looking forward to part two.
@paulgrieve7031
@paulgrieve7031 2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating and wonderfully informative
@4cristobal
@4cristobal 2 жыл бұрын
So glad you're back!
@alanlittle4589
@alanlittle4589 2 жыл бұрын
Such a fantastic video 👍 love your sense of humour. I just don't understand how you don't have thousands more subscribers
@qwafgjolmfpjbfszxgg1142
@qwafgjolmfpjbfszxgg1142 2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video. Interesting, informative and very funny. Love it. Love you.
@gcason2
@gcason2 2 жыл бұрын
Good to have you back!
@josephmanofwar
@josephmanofwar 2 жыл бұрын
This is such a good video you present so well this must have taken so much work and planning well done :) Perhaps unplanned but the man sneezing at 11:44 had me cackling lol
@crwcymru
@crwcymru 2 жыл бұрын
Another fantastic vid! 🙌🙌🙌
@stevenreay7833
@stevenreay7833 2 жыл бұрын
Superb video. As one of the 75,000 people paid smarties to build the thing very slowly I hope your kind about Canary Wharf in part 2.
@pwhnckexstflajizdryvombqug9042
@pwhnckexstflajizdryvombqug9042 2 жыл бұрын
One thing this line actually got right was providing interchanges to the surrounding stations, something my home line of "Cross River Rail" in Brisbane won't be doing.
@mischaprice
@mischaprice 2 жыл бұрын
I did not previously know about the sexual health clinic on Dean Street but now I know I can take the Elizabeth Like to get free PreP, truly top tier educational content
@ExploringLondon
@ExploringLondon 2 жыл бұрын
you never know what you're gonna get on this channel
@ExploringLondon
@ExploringLondon 2 жыл бұрын
Truvada, in this case
@pointthree3
@pointthree3 2 жыл бұрын
She's back!
@AtoZbyLocalBus
@AtoZbyLocalBus 2 жыл бұрын
The Barbican Centre's theatre would beside the Metropolitan line, and not above the Metropolitan line as was said in the video. As the stage is below ground level, and the Metropolitan line is a cut and cover railway, which means it is not too deep below ground. I want to a concert in the Barbican Centre once, and I remember having to go down stairs, to get to my seat on the lower level of the theatre. After entering the building from street level. Also I am surprise that Geoff Marshall has not made the joke of calling the Elizabeth Line, Elizabeth LIne line, like he did for Battersea Power Station.
@colin.d
@colin.d 2 жыл бұрын
What? Smarties, not M&M's - yes, I remember that one!
@gazzer210
@gazzer210 2 жыл бұрын
He's back!!!!
@nid5504
@nid5504 2 жыл бұрын
so good!
@Nick-io8td
@Nick-io8td 2 жыл бұрын
8:36 R.I.P The London Astoria! Miss that place. Spent many a night clubbing there. Also Ghetto and the Mean Fiddler!
@MrMakeDo
@MrMakeDo 2 жыл бұрын
Always entertaining
@Dave_Sisson
@Dave_Sisson 2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Intersting and amusing with much more historical insight than Geoff and even Jago. I guess you had to use smarties because you couldn't really use their competitor after your review of M&M World.
@4623620
@4623620 2 жыл бұрын
Very pleased to see your still making videos 🖖😁👍 ❗ By the way, is Pimlico the name of the cat seen at 1:33 ❓
@ExploringLondon
@ExploringLondon 2 жыл бұрын
Indeed!
@4623620
@4623620 2 жыл бұрын
@@ExploringLondon 🚂👌🚃🐱🚃👍🚃💨💨
@DavidWood2
@DavidWood2 2 жыл бұрын
3:54 Great cat name - and how typical of a cat that he/she will not co-operate with continuity requirements.
@ExploringLondon
@ExploringLondon 2 жыл бұрын
Pim isn't as camera-savvy as I need him to be
@DavidWood2
@DavidWood2 2 жыл бұрын
@@ExploringLondon Please pass on my regards to him and thank him for his guest appearance.
@oiseaudubonheur
@oiseaudubonheur 2 жыл бұрын
The best!
@loriwallace3222
@loriwallace3222 2 жыл бұрын
Missed you x
@MatthewJBD
@MatthewJBD 2 жыл бұрын
You are funny. I like.
@KyrilPG
@KyrilPG 2 жыл бұрын
6:30 And the answer is.... London RER ! Frankly, it's what it resembles the most : not exactly Tube, not Overground, not usual commuter but a lot like Paris RER (except for the single level trains) with giant stations that connect several Tube stations ( 13:00 has a strong whiff of Auber / Saint-Lazare / Opera / etc. underground complex' insanity). By the way, what map is displayed at 12:28 ? I'm fond of "real path" and volumetric maps so I spent some time caressing this moment in the video. Do you have any source link or info so that I can save this beauty and possibly others of the kind ? Thanks a lot and kudos for the wonderful video ! So excited to try the new Elizabeth line ! We're at the beginning of a transport extravaganza decade in Western Europe with London, Paris, Barcelona, etc. transit expansions : an urban rail nerd's heaven !
@ExploringLondon
@ExploringLondon 2 жыл бұрын
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/see-inside-crossrails-farringdon-station-25896/ is the easiest to find source of that plan, I saw it somewhere else in a PDF but I can't find it now
@bob56gibson
@bob56gibson 2 жыл бұрын
I'm still voting for the Purple Line!
@TrainspotterInKentTrains7348
@TrainspotterInKentTrains7348 2 жыл бұрын
Hi mate excellent video and how are you
@ExploringLondon
@ExploringLondon 2 жыл бұрын
I’m getting by!
@TrainspotterInKentTrains7348
@TrainspotterInKentTrains7348 2 жыл бұрын
@@ExploringLondon I’m trainsportter too
@kestag2110
@kestag2110 11 ай бұрын
I now have a craving for smarties 👍
@meetmeinva
@meetmeinva 2 жыл бұрын
Does Crossrail/Elizabeth Line not go to Heathrow?
@douglasboyle6544
@douglasboyle6544 2 жыл бұрын
I was hoping that short little video wasn't going to be all you put out on this subject!
@___-yy8ud
@___-yy8ud 2 жыл бұрын
Please don’t leave us again
@danielspencer6174
@danielspencer6174 Жыл бұрын
You right it not a underground line it crossrail part national rail runs overhead power line that elizabeth line for you over ground east & overground on west few underground stations in Central London?
@MrBook123456
@MrBook123456 2 жыл бұрын
👍👍👍
@SamBaughTV
@SamBaughTV 2 жыл бұрын
I lost it at Karl Marx living on Dean Street PLS
@ExploringLondon
@ExploringLondon 2 жыл бұрын
I know right
@user-jt1jv8vl9r
@user-jt1jv8vl9r 2 жыл бұрын
It's not 100 %finished though is it?
@ExploringLondon
@ExploringLondon 2 жыл бұрын
Wait for part 2
@LightbulbTedbear2
@LightbulbTedbear2 2 жыл бұрын
I think TfL needs to put less emphasis on the different branding between modes. The Elizabeth line is, for all intents and purposes, a tube line. Once there's a whole network of Crossrail-style lines, it would make sense to differentiate them, but while there's only one, it should just be on the map as another tube line.
@shaiyanomamo3705
@shaiyanomamo3705 Жыл бұрын
Great video! Btw. it's pronounced "Moregate".
@ExploringLondon
@ExploringLondon Жыл бұрын
It just sounds dumb if I say it like that, so I choose not to
@shaiyanomamo3705
@shaiyanomamo3705 Жыл бұрын
@@ExploringLondon I respect that.
@Jedi-ai
@Jedi-ai 7 ай бұрын
Please make videos again
@Geckokidthepaladin
@Geckokidthepaladin 2 жыл бұрын
Hehe re dean street clinic. If you knew you knew 😉
@woodwart
@woodwart 2 жыл бұрын
Victoria Line isn’t technically named after Queen Victoria
@ExploringLondon
@ExploringLondon 2 жыл бұрын
try convincing my caramel macchiato loving self that fact!
@woodwart
@woodwart 2 жыл бұрын
The line was named after the station, which itself was named for Victoria street running nearby. Love your channel btw. And cute too 😉
@alanlittle4589
@alanlittle4589 2 жыл бұрын
@@woodwart Yep, agreed. Definitely cute
@vividcitypro
@vividcitypro 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome work! And as a UK taxpayer, do I now own at least one of your Smarties? 🟣🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟤
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