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Geoff is very tolerant of whoever decided the stop is announced as Heathrow Two Three! 😂

This is so true 😭😭😭

What’s the joke? That the signs on the NYC subways are wrong? 😂

@@mahammad yep. Older ones had roll signs which people could move themselves with some effort. Newer trains would have computer based displays but those can be wrong too.

Mavluda Fokine what the actual *fawk*

He dosent have to sit you know

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For me, to get from North Kent (Queenborough or Sittingbourne) to say Swindon, which I have done a few times in the past, I have to get the High Speed to St Pancras before joining the Circle or Hammersmith Line to Paddington. If there was any disruption on the High Speed or Underground Engineering Works, I could get the Elisabeth Line if it was open, I could get a Thameslink service from Rainham or Gravesend to Abbey Wood and then get a train directly to Paddington or Reading before joining a GWR service to Swindon. It may be just as quick doing it that way as well. Obviously, with Covid-19, I am not travelling anywhere near as much on the train at all (twice since lockdown on local services through necessity).

@@richmayes8451 I've always been curious as to why Southeastern call them 'High Speed' services when the only high-speed line in the UK is HS1.

@@CityWhisperer between St Pancras International and Ashford International, the Southeastern High Speed trains can use the line at a maximum of 225kph or 140mph. Once it comes off HS1, it can run on various Main Line and Metro lines, having to go slow from there on. From Sittingbourne, it takes roughly 1 hour to get to St Pancras International, but is only on HS1 for 17 minutes, picking it up from Ebbsfleet International. If travelling between St Pancras International and Ashford International, it runs for 37 minutes on HS1 before going on the slow lines. There is one section where the speed limit drops to 15mph (24kph) just outside Strood, and once it joins the Southeastern Main Line, it has a few miles at 30mph (48kph) until somewhere between Chatham and Gillingham where it can reach up to 90mph (145kph).

running the danger that airport BER will be open first 😂😂😂😂😂

The health and safety aspects of getting all those signalling systems to talk to the train are critical. We had the Ladbrook Road crash on the very line between Paddington and Hayes and Harlington. They have made improvements and safety isn't just about a train driver looking at upside-down traffic lights any more. They have computers that talk to trains. Crossrail is so big, that it has to talk to several different signalling computers. Now, if the British government funded a mainland-wide program of signalling renewal, we could have had a national system with just one computer to talk to. But Crossrail trains have to be able to hand over from one signalling computer to a totally different signalling computer. The train *has* to be safe at all times and you don't want the safety system to have no signalling computer to talk to and have it slam on the breaks and flat out refuse to move. So the plan for Crossrail was *always* for it to open in stages. The bit west of London and the bit east of London have been working for a while. So the software programmers have nailed those bits. And, the Heathrow branch means the programmers have nailed the handover between two different systems. Trail running in the middle bit is next. (But they need to make a gap for the engineering works in the middle section to get caught up, so they are blocking the test trains so the station programmers can mess around and get the stations connected to London Underground sorted out. And then they need to work on the other handovers, so that people don't get stuck on stubbon trains that can't see a different signalling computer and get forced to walk down the tunnels. In 100 years, nobody is going to care about the delays. Nobody cares that the Jubilee Line wasn't open in the year of the Silver Jubilee. ;-)

Clothing colleague to checkout 9 please. Clothing colleague to checkout 9 please.

@@caw25sha Unexpected item in the bagging area!

@@caw25sha It was more the fact that some of them seemed to ramble on for ages, such as the advertising ones - if you want to highlight a particular offer or product then you can just put signs up about it! Some might ask how much notice people take of signs, but then how much notice do they take of tannoy announcements? After all, they seemed to give up making announcements asking people not to let kids ride in the trolleys, presumably because no one took any notice!

This is called pollution? Bugger off, Singapore's trains announce in FOUR languages every THIRTY seconds. You guys have it good!

@@Pasonia Relative privation fallacy - just because something else is worse, doesn't mean the first thing isn't bad!

Yep, I've been on trains where the only passengers where me and a mate with two others down the opposite end and it's just so jarring. Even with headphones on its still pretty evident the voice is there lol

None of the international stations on HS1 are in French. I am not sure about any others

My topic in class is about the Roman's:)

@@glasgowandwestdunbartonshi8934 The Romans set up a great railway network for us..... I think some of their trains are still in use today

@@thetelephoneprankster4254 Ashford is littered with bilingual signs, especially on the Eurostar platforms (that’s perhaps expected, though 😜)

@@toranine09 Yes, that is true. Especially the exit sign is in French. Shame the same could never be said for Stratford International 😛

Stayed there as well, it's a very useful location isn't it.

Which episode number is that stretch at Stonehaven?

@@2themoon863 The "I am not a puffer nutter" episode Inverness to Carnoustie stretch

#PurpleTrain

You’d be cross too

CrossPurpEliz sounds much smoother!

Purp Fiction

by MTR corporation which is the main train service running in HK

Don't all the lines do this, I've never been in the northern line

@@dressrosacr7 No !! This is so smooth, its like gliding along... The Northern line is like sitting on a wild horse, in comparison !! lol

@@dressrosacr7 same

@@dressrosacr7 the northern line is so bad, on the Edgware branch cause that's where I lived... don't leave home without headphones because the screeching noise is SO loud.

Hamish, I think it’s good. MY OPINION.

There have been 3 services for years, Heathrow Express, Heathrow Connect & the Piccadilly tube line. The Heathrow Connect service was renamed TfL rail until the full Crossrail aka The Elizabeth line service comes into full service (2022 now!)

he was actually excited by the purple custom house roundels and the travelators at bank

He's missing the bin bags blowing in the wind.

I am old enough to remember the destination boards when they the station names that 'cascaded' down the list to build the whole route. Hypnotic to watch.

@@philipsarell2467 Or the destination boards that a porter would slip into the slot on the platform with the destination of the next train painted on it.

Laser display boards. On second thoughts, that won't be next because ... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rtOanbSduMDSoGg.html

It would've been better if they had more transverse seats. But I guess they're gonna get crowded

Geoff has not forgotten as he made a video from Reading recently

@@androandrejevic3002 I think C-S was referring to Geoff’s statement early in the video saying Class 345 trains, until recently, ran only as far as Hayes and Harlington. We all know what he meant but could be confusing for someone unfamiliar with the service. Great video as usual, Geoff. Thank you. I'm hopeful my next visit to London will include a Class 345 direct from Heathrow T2&3 to Canary Wharf.

@@LeafyGooner Not if you're planning to come to London in the next couple of years!

Norbiton Flyer. Yes looks like, at minimum, another 2 year delay. I was fortunate enough to ride the 345’s on my last visit in 2018 from Liverpool street. It will be a great addition to the Rail network whenever it is completed.

@@LeafyGooner Ooops me bad sorry lol

I thought it was Toronto 😳

@@tescotrain lmao where do u get that from

Mømentous Ottawa is the capital

Mømentous It originally was supposed to be Toronto (which used to be called York), but they lost out to Ottawa... probably (like Canberra) since it was between the 2 major cities of Canada at that time (Canada was a lot smaller then).

@@joermnyc Not just two largest cities, but the figurative capitals of French and English Canada. Also next to no one lived in Ottawa at the time so the threat of an angry rioting mob burning down parliament was greatly reduced.

I find my tinitus is less annoying than the constant moronic announcements.

Haha, we have _almost_ the same profile picture!

If I’m recalling right, the Heathrow platforms are entirely step free between the trains (can’t remember the exact height) and the Core platforms match that height to be step free too. The other West/East platforms aren’t(/weren’t) step free but can’t remember what their heights were either...

Heathrow doesn't operate 24 hours a day anyway only 06:00 - 23:00 for regularly scheduled flights so it would be a bit redundant but now the full line is open it does make a lot of sense more generally for 24 hour service

Wondering how people ever managed for so long to work out where they were without all these announcements.

TfL Rail is the name given to services which will become part of Crossrail/The Elizabeth Line when it opens, now set for 2022

They're not brand new - about four years old. They previously worked the Paddington - Reading services until the 345s took over.

@@norbitonflyer5625 Oh right...I didn't know they'd been displaced from there...prestige routes like H-Ex normally would get the brand new stuff. Still with non-electrificfication (for now) of routes like Oxford, I suppose it makes some sense.

Aah that wonderful system where 1 + 1 = 10

I didnt know that. I know the Chinese way of counting up to ten on one hand. Six is thumb and little finger and eight is fingers out like an octopus!

C-S featured nah I like the voice especially when it calmly says the next station is Acton main line so smoothly compared to the chokey rest of the underground eg the jubilee the next station is Wil-siden greeen if you know what I mean

The best voice announcements in my opinion are the ones done by Julie Berry, they use her voice on thameslink, stansted express and on the piccadilly line - well I know for certain her voice is on the piccadilly, not sure about the main line trains, they sound a bit like the narrator in little britain come fly with me.

Good one.

Manus Macgearailt v

@@manusmacgearailt667 Celia Drummond is my fav!

Too much volume on the announcements. At least the female voice is pleasing to my American ear. On the New York subway on some older trains, the manual announcements are whole sentences compressed into one garbled word. "wchthclsdrpls" Translation: "Watch the closing doors please".