Is West Drayton now fully step free to the platform ? / train.

Hi Jordan nice to meet you just saw you on the video.

Great contribution to the video Jordan! And happy to hear the new line supports more people to access the network more easily :)

Jordan: You were great!

@@highpath4776west Drayton is step free from street to platform so I still need a ramp to get onto the actual train :)

It just makes me so happy to see other people being so happy.

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 it’s amazing how the simple things like transport can hype people up! It’s what we live for!

It's what they turned up for: to see Geoff. The opening of some train line was just an added bonus

Geoff has been one of the big faces of transport on KZfaq.

Yep, he should be the face of TFL!!!! :D

To think, he’s one of the two record-holders holding the record of the fastest time to visit every Tube station. What a man.

@@someguy1728 He was in 2013, but two other people beat his record in 2015. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_Challenge for more details.

The way he said "yellow escalators"... 😄

Why are you here if you dont care about trains? I am not a die hard train fan but I like trains. I like seeing anyone make videos about their passion and to seen the excitement for being at Crossrail's Elizabeth line is wonderful!!!

@@geofftech2 You are most welcome Geoff 😂

"Your a lad" "Your have true" WTF

have a pint my lad

@@RAFchurchlawford4469 Maybe he is coming straight out of an old english language seminar or something...

@@geofftech2 The song is sooooooooo good :)

Hey JTT!! Good to see you here too!

I hope there will be even more enthusiasm when Toronto RER opens!

@@mikeythesoulace that will be one of the best transit projects completions in a long time in the city!

@@michaelrmurphy2734 likewise Mike! Happy to connect with great people via great content

It's awesome because it's like every single train fan in London came to see it.

Trains in the UK are just cool

All it needed was for the dog to have been given a non-harmful purple rinse with its coiffeur. As per the platform size adjectives,my vote goes tp voluminous.

One of these days they'll get Geoff to do the ribbon-cutting opening ceremony,or at least do the honours with the invited dignitaries with a pair of scissors each.

I agree

Couldn't have crafted a better scene.

Nice and clean still before they let the dreaded lift urinators in.

No love for the engineers?

@@SMSBJM1981 Absolutely! My brother was an engineer working on the tracks between Custom House and Whitechapel, too!

excited for Brightline to come to Orlando?

We need federal officials who are willing to invest in making Amtrak a truly useful passenger network as well as a cargo network. The results would probably take longer than a single term, or even two terms, to realize, but it would do so much good for the public.

@@dominateeye Agreed.

@@dominateeye u guys have the money for it as well, if ur politicians had better priorities you could have the best public transport systems in the world

I have hope for the US, most young people are realising cars are not the answer and better public transport is!

than

Haha yeah.

Tear to my eye?

@@bobparsons77 yes really, I don’t why but there you go

It’s the same for me here in the gulf. No public transport and we’re dependent on cars. Some day!

Well the Journeys (particulary from the North Side of the River, always were possible , just took a long time. Even Abbey Wood -> London Bridge 27min by SouthEastern, London Bridge->Bond Street( Jubilee ). Bond Street-> Ealing Broadway (Central) or London Bridge-Baker Street. Bakert Street Paddington , Paddington Ealing Broadway. So nowhere in London I suggest is more than 3 changes of rail plus a bus each end away from anywhere else in London.

@@highpath4776 "..nowhere in London I suggest is more than 3 changes of rail plus a bus each end away from anywhere else.." In my case it's about a 15 minute drive to the grocery, no sidewalks or bike lane. Nearest bus 35-40 min. Train? Hour 30?

@@nunyabidnis3815 10 min walk to the 24hr store, 8 min to the big store open 7-11. or bus to the bigger town centre 10 min ride every 7mins tops. And was much the same when I lived in East London (OK Big Store a bit further away If I wanted more than one choice)

Yeah, I think the cupcake person was the real breakout star of this all.

Good luck with your exams

@@nonononoa802 thank you 😁😁

More atmosphere here than at a Man City title parade 😂😂 up the lizzy line 🟣⚪️

Good luck 👍

@@basketburger thank you ☺️

For me,there times when the noise of the train rides on the old lines can be a little intrusive but most of the time it's a reassuringly familiar part of the whole experience.

That tunnel portal still wont be used until later in the year when the Western, Reading Paddington branch services will be integrated into the new tunnel section.

A proper Brit 😂💜🚆

I'm sure "CrossElizPurpLineTrain" is what all the cool kids will be calling it.

Yeah, are top speeds really 150KM an hour?!

Not to mention the even more incredible feat of budget and timescale failure. Now that's madness.

@@j.wellens5660 Not really. Every major public infrastructure project in recent years has had budget and timetable overruns, both in the UK and abroad. (Interestingly, there is very little media focus on the ongoing repairs and maintenance works to the UK's vast road network, in both cases budget and timetable overruns are also commonplace). True, in the case of Crossrail a delay of 3.5 years is perhaps a bit extreme (though covid was also a factor), but on the other hand, the Germans weren't able to open their new Berlin airport for almost 10 years, even though it was basically finished! Now, are some of the cost and timetable overruns due to corruption or shoddy management? Sure. But part of the issue is also engineers being under intense political pressure to deliver incredibly complex projects in a time and budget that may just about work if everything goes exactly to plan, but things never really do in practice. Then, if there's unforeseen delays and the railway is opened "on time" but still unfinished and there happens to be a massive accident later on because safety standards weren't being met, the public outcry will be even greater. So, I think this is less about massive public infrastructure projects costing what they do and more about politicians being dishonest about the cost and complexity.

@@andrewoakeshott7759 I think we are dancing around the same point. The problem is with public sector procurement - and not just recent years! - whether it's a high profile project like the Elizabeth line or HS1/HS2, etc etc, or local schemes like the local cycle lane project close to where I live which cut ground in Oct 2021 with a stated completion date of 13 weeks, which is still far from finished. What I was trying to argue was the madness in the logic that because each consecutive major project goes more overbudget it's ok that the next one does too .

So you live in Woolwich and work in Abbey Wood - the purple line has made your leisure journeys better - That is such a relief to everyone outside of London who uses public transport. £20+bn overspent, 5yrs late, 5yrs missed revenue. They should have quietly launched this line...

@@j.wellens5660 bitter and sad

@@sarasaeed6349 mellow and lively

@@sarasaeed6349 as a true northerner I will happily take those adjectives with a hell of a lot of proud.Have you got any more you want to throw my way?

Let's hope soon it will become when I visit London not if

David, as someone who lives in the UK but nowhere near London, please don't think the Elizabeth Line is representative of the railway service in the UK outside of the London area. The services between the biggest cities in Northern England, such as Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds, are light years behind what is available in the London commuter belt.

Lizzy Line - that's the best name I've heard for it yet 🙂

5 is the understatement of the century.

Me too, it kind of guaranteed Geoff would of posted a video today about it, and a bonus he will do a mini series on all the stations.

Absolutely - as witnessed by the regular commuter interviewed in the video who is grateful for the 5 minute saving in his journey time. That's £20bn well spent.

​@@j.wellens5660 And again... Now, just to be clear, it's not that I agree with London's hustle culture, but 5 minutes saved in London are indeed economically significant. However, the average commuter will save a lot more time than that (Geoff also made a helpful video illustrating how much travel times between stations will be cut.). That said, what ALWAYS gets ignored in these discussions (and HS2 is another good example) is that the main benefits are not just reduced travel times, but additional and much needed capacity to the network. And if anyone has ever been on the cramped Central line (and other deep level tube lines) they'll be happy to know that this will indeed take a lot of pressure off parts of the underground network. Now, if you're from the North and your comment was related to how public infrastructure projects (and much else) in the North of England and Scotland are chronically underfunded, while London gets billions in investment, then as a Scot and someone with a dad born in Newcastle, I'm with you all the way. However, that doesn't make Crossrail any less impressive on its own merits.

@@andrewoakeshott7759 I think we are pretty much on common ground. I'm impressed with the scale and scope and potential of the Crossrail project. I'm infuriated by the budget overspend, timescale creep, and apparent lack of response to these budgetary divergences from any of our political parties or the civil servants whose job it is to oversee these projects. ( and yes - I do live/abide in/from somewhere that is north of the M25.

​@@j.wellens5660 True. The fact that no one is really prepared to get to the bottom of cost and budget overruns (even if they may just be down to politicians lying about the true cost and complexity of projects) is a problem. However, I reckon that whether it's corruption, bad management or simply political dishonesty, in any case, there's a vested interest on behalf of those involved (construction firms, contractors and politicians) to leave the voting public in the dark as to the reasons why, which is certainly regrettable..

​@@j.wellens5660 plenty of journeys take half what they used to. I get it, I agree there ought to be more transport infrastructure outside London much much more (it's mad that Manchester and Birmingham don't have a tube) but to say it will save only 5 minutes is a little disingenuous