Elizabeth line: First Look at Canary Wharf Station | Hidden London Hangouts (S05E02)
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2022
- The team go behind the gates of the new Elizabeth line station at Canary Wharf, only hours after the official handover, and explore the brand new station as TfL staff take over its running.
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I just love Alex’s double entendres that nobody else seems to pick up on. “ I can’t get enough mail “ and the classic “I do love a dock pick “ Long may they continue. Or as you might say Alex. “Keep it up “
1. I love you.
2. I’m glad you spot it.
3. I learned radio with Terry Wogan as my tutor. I think he taught me well. 😉
(Btw I have no idea how “dock pic” got past the censor.
Oh hang on. I’m one of the censors 🤣
Oh Tony - you clearly need to watch some of the back issues!
'nauticular but nice'
He will keep slipping them in..
I think the yellow in the staion is to do with the bird canary
Love this. I thought the yellow was a reference to canary birds and the historic import.
Canary Wharf is named after the Canary Islands and the Canary Islands are named after canines - dogs.
Just a stones throw from where I live. I've been watching the station being built over the last few years & am looking forward touring the station & the line.
Nice Video... The immediate change in acoustics when going from the station itself into the evacuation area is extremely apparent!
Another brilliant episode. I just assumed that this shade of yellow was chosen as it’s canary yellow.
So looking forward to this episode! We visit the gardens on top every time we’re in London and love them! Greetings from Munich, Germany and thanks so much for all the hangouts!
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Such a beautiful station inside and out on the outside it looks like ship of some sort a very modern kind of ship and with its curves and it's sleek modern angles combined with the fact that it is surrounded by water is absolutely incredible and as you enter station and you take in the magnitude of the size of the of the station box you could almost imagined Dr who coming up to you wondering why you're in his TARDIS although there's a lot more yellow then I had expected But it's not overpowering it's nice and subtle and didn't realise until now it's actual use in guiding passengers out of the station but all in all the station is like a modern cathedral to transportation and engineering.
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Alex Chris Laura and Siddy as the very lovely lou said in the video the hidden London series has kept so many people sane throughout the last 2 years all four of you should be incredibly proud of that thank you all so very much.
Thanks so much Paul.
To tell you the truth, it’s probably kept us sane too! So glad you’re enjoying the ride x
@@alexgrundon2346 you're welcome good sir and that's good to hear in these difficult times we all need a bit of sanity in our lives and how can I say It we all need a bit of normally to and I'm definitely enjoying the ride thank you we all feel like first class passenger's x
A fabulous looking station. Thank you so much for showing all its amenities. It could do with a cocktail bar at platform level! I look forward to using the station as soon as it opens.
I thought the yellow theme was to represent the bird, canary but it also makes sense to be used as an “exit colour”
Canary Wharf is named after the Canary Islands and the Canary Islands are named after canines - dogs.
Another great episode guys. As much as I love the old stations, the Elizabeth Line episodes are brilliant. Fantastic to see behind the scenes before we can use the stations for real. Keep up the good work guys 👍
Helloooooo team, best Eliz station yet can not wait to see this for real my camera is going to be so busy love those roundels. Love you all 💖
Great episode, Canary wharf is massive it is an engineering marvel.ok it,s over budget and late. who cares it is wonderful. thank you for taking us there.thanks again fantastic four.
Canary Wharf Jubilee station actually has six different entrances/exits (three from shopping centres, three up to the surface), so this new station is actually pretty similar in that respect.
The station is soooo much bigger than i expected on the inside
Indeed, it goes much further in the east direction than you would expect from entering at the west end (as the guys did in this video). Further east than the end of the surface ship/ocean liner building (with the shops, park, restaurants, bars, cinema, gym etc.), it seems.
Delve into Siddys small sack 😂 I love the humour on these videos
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The finished station looks great. Very spacious. I visited the above ground sections between 2015 & 2017 when I lived in London. The building itself was completed well before the opening of the Elizabeth line.
Surely the station's name also influenced the yellow theme as well? 🐤
Great presentation!
I've always thought the Canary Wharf Elizabeth Line station looks a bit like a much larger version of Jabba the Huts floating sail barges from Return of the Jedi.
On the other hand the Jubilee Line Canary Wharf station platform featured in Star Wars as a set in Rogue One I believe.
i hope it will be open end of may when i come to london, it would be suh a feast to use
Wow what an amazing station it is vast I can't wait to use it in person. Thank you so much Alex, Siddy, Laura & Chris while it is impossible for me to currently travel to London at the moment from New Zealand (as we can't currently come back in country) you allow me to vicariously enjoy the wonderful London Transport system. Another lovely escape.
Vast and amazing but how much cheaper and quicker could it have been if it wasnt somebody's ego trip and just built as a practical station? I wonder if it had been more like say the Met line how long it would already have been open a couple of years and on budget.
@@chrisstephens6673 the station and the system is built for a long life with high volumes of users. The Met line was built a long time ago for a much smaller audience. I think there are plenty of good videos about why the budget was exceeded and failures of the project. Let's celebrate that it has been built and London will be able to benefit from it for a very long time.
@@paulmiller591 of course but it could probably have been built for half the price and on time if Holden had been employed.
@@chrisstephens6673 yes you are right there.
What an amazing, gigantic station! I watched a documentary about building the stations, including the wooden beam frame of the roof. Fantastic architecture. And the inside is so spacious. The only other spaces I know which somewhat compare to this is the long distance railway station at Frankfurt airport and for size, Berlin Hauptbahnhof. This channel has become one of my favorite channels since I discovered it a few weeks ago, thanks for your positive, charming hangouts and keep exploring!
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If you ever attended the 'Winter Lights' festivals from a few years ago, you went down to the empty shop units on level -3.
But if we didn’t, can we just buy some baubles, shut our eyes and hum Jingle Bells…?
Mmmm it’s big like an airplane hanger, think it needed more purple and yellow, as far too much grey, although not finished, wanted to see the roof, nice tour team, had seen that Big Easy boat quite a few times, but only from a distance, often wondered what was inside.
Canary Wharf needs a nearby bridge to near North Greenwich to be more connected.
I love thi😢show I don’t it could get any better
Thought Alex was auditioning for this is your life with the red book.
As always a very well preserved program
Alex how would you communicate if you didn’t have hands
Keep up the good work guys
I dunno. How would you communicate if you didn’t have hands? 😉 thanks for watching. They’re fun to make
Thanks for yet another great episode. Next time I’m in London with definitely take a ride on the Elizabeth line and visit the London transport museum of course
Crossrail moquette cushion. that is playing the part
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Hidden London Hangouts postal address - Albany House, 94 Petty France, London - well that's next door to 55 Broadway. Shame that it wasn't there........!!! lol
A very impressive station. Seems twice as big as the others for some reason. That said, I find the design less inspiring than the others ( Not including Custom House ).
First, good episode. Second, was Chris saying constantly "Shopping Centre" trying to avoid saying that they were at the location known as Crossrail Place? You know the thing named after a supposed "building project" and not a mode of transport. Plus good on Siddy for using the C word to give it its proper name. P.S. I class the "E L" name as a swear word on principle.
Thanks for watching! Crossrail project is nearing completion so the name gets replaced with the line people will use. Perhaps it’s like calling the bit between Green Park and Stratford the Jubilee line, rather than the project name - the Jubilee Line Extension, as we called it at the time at the Department of Transport. But if you’d like to call the Elizabeth line by the C word, I promise I won’t tell anyone 😉
I thought that the yellow had something to do with canaries being yellow... maybe not!
Re colours (again): My understanding to the Yellow in Canary Wharf station was 1) that it is unique to this station and 2) that it was to reflect the station's name. At least this is what you could learn from Geoff's >Canary Wharf Station Open Day< video (03.03.2018), where the colour was even described as "Canary Yellow" by the local Delivery Manager, Camilla Barrow: ruclips.net/video/5QzIBFrgMpQ/видео.html
As for the station name: that apparently has its roots (!) in the fruit trade from the Canary Islands, in particular Bananas as it were. At least to what Jago Hazzard researched: ruclips.net/video/yd3vCfNBv7o/видео.html
The yellow is everywhere on the network and is a corporate exit colour. But I love Geoff and the other guy’s theory. Kinda quaint.
@@alexgrundon2346 Tbf: using that exit colour is more sophisticated than just giving a "nod" to the station's name. (Also: regarding accessibility especially for the viusally impaired, this is top notch, and state-of-the-art, if not leading-edge.) But maybe we can apply both reasons in this case, they're both true (and why shouldn't they). :D
@@alexgrundon2346 Me again, on this matter, also in addition to my previous remark/answer: The other day in Geoff's most recent "What is quicker?" Elizabeth line video I noticed in Farringdon Tube/Thameslink station the signage to the main exit with a big exit sign, and the signage right below to lifts etc. (i.e. accessible exits) in the other direction with a smaller exit sign, and I wondered whether it wouldn't be better to colour the accessible signage also in Yellow on black...
Is it Canary Yellow?
Well…. It’s yellow…. 😉
Is there a direct connection between the Elizabeth line station and the Jubilee line station, or will we need to exit one station before entering the other?
There’s a very colourful walkway but I think the stations are separate. They are quite a distance apart
When is crossrail 2 will be built?
In the summer I would only wear underwear under my overalls especially when in the 30s, it's so much more comfortable, ☺. The overalls were black and red 😈.
I love this detail. Kinda fruity…. 😉
Just a further thought having watched this for a second time. The fact that there are now three separate stations with the same name. Could this cause a problem in cases of emergencies? On another point, is there an intention to create a link between this station & the Jubilee line station, as this would stop the need for people to work their way up to street level, before going back down again?
Hi Dave. You may find there is more of a direct line to the emergency services from stations than ever the public would have. So the message is conveyed in a more formal way than picking up the phone and dialling 999.
Hi Alex, many thanks for your reply. I hope that no such problems ever occur. It's great to have you back.
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Hi Alex, are you lost for words? Most unlike you!!
Looks like you could jump the gateline off the side of the escalator
Yes - I think anyone doing that is already dodging gatelines and waiting to be done for fare evasion!
…and get arrested
Not anymore 😇
I think the guys are letting the side down on the eyebrows front
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Shame that this station will be too far to travel to, I wanted to ride the new Kensington - Battersea section, now too far south, and thinking that I won’t be riding the tunnel section of the to be Elizabeth Line, did intend to use the line from Paddington to Reading, as now a pensioner with a Freedom Pass, will be looking to watching this video setting the reminder.
Go on. Try it
@@alexgrundon2346 I’m a one day person Alex, and one day I might, I’ll be at a tube station tomorrow that’s near a park, will keep you posted on Ken.
Being on the Elizabeth Line, it will be easily reachable to anyone who can get into central London!
@@natts This was true if I could make the effort one weekend or after 0900 weekdays, being retired now helps. Best regards.
How do they get wheelchairs out of emergency exit
Yes @2010-2030 mins you see the Evacuation Lift before the Emergency Stairs.
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Great but where are the toilets and the signage to the toilets?
I think they’re in the shopping centre above
@@alexgrundon2346 I thought that there were suposed to be toilets within each Elizabeth Line station. If they are in the shopping centre above shouldn't there be a sign to say so?
I don’t know. Sorry
Escalators,courtesy of Germany, trains courtesy of Germany, electronic signalling equipment courtesy of, you guess.
Danke schön
I'm pretty sure I heard in one episode that the escalators are from Otis which is an American multinational company. The trains were made in the UK (Derby) in a factory which was at the time owned by Canadian company Bombardier Transportation (whose headquarters were in Germany). Only the electronic signalling equipment was made by a German company (Siemens).
Could you post the full Hidden London address please, & pin it at the top?
Mike
I think someone posted it below
@@alexgrundon2346 It's only a partial one, Alex.
Ok. If you’re keen to send us something - which would be lovely - Siddy gives the full address in the episode.
@@alexgrundon2346 I've tried re-winding that bit 3 or 4 times & I'm still not sure I've got it all right!
I'll test it....
Mike
OK, I think I've got it - test on the way.
Where are the toilets on the station?
Shopping centre has some
Why do they spend so much on appearance? People just want to get to where they are going. All the fancy stuff is just a complete waste of money.
I think it’s truly life- enhancing when something looks good as well as doing the job. Life is so turbulent, a nice view makes such a difference. If we followed utilitarian thinking, we probably would have grey London buses and breeze-block buildings. I’m glad something thinks about the little detail.