Elizabeth line: Farringdon Station | Hidden London Hangouts (S04E13)
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- Опубликовано: 19 ноя 2021
- In this episode the team go behind the doors of Farringdon station for the first of a series of exclusive trips to the beautiful new Elizabeth line stations whilst they are being completed and tested.
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I love that you are so into the lighting, most people don't notice it. As a lighting engineer, we design with an invisible substance that you can only see the effect of. If the job is done right the user should not be aware of it.
The trains come in so fast, you think they aren't going to stop, but of course the stopping point is so much further along the platform !
Also you better not let Geoff Marshall calling it a tube line, this is a mainline railway, not part of the tube
Agreed
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Alex - They are not light bulbs, they are lamps. Well done Chris, the technical name is Luminaires. Uplighting has been used to light escalators as if gives a nice soft lighting effect
Laura - a bright ceiling will make the ceiling appear higher, a dark ceiling gives a "Cave" effect
As a Slough local. Been using the class 345s, really looking forward to the running tunnels opening next year
Camberwick Green,was the TV show with Windy Miller,thank you for a great look around.
What special fun to have the run of a gorgeous newly built transportation facility - before it opens. I had that experience years ago when I worked at an airport - newly built and not yet opened. Thanks for sharing the fun of this fabulous new station with us!
I notice on the staff departure screen that the train reporting numbers are actually all different, as you would expect, but where you were getting confused is that trains in each have a different 2nd character, Y for Paddington, U for Abbey Wood, but by a fluke on the cutrent trial running timetable, trains passing at Farringdon (at exactly tje sane time!), just happen to have the same number in the 3rd and 4th characters.
The Fab 4 have done it again! Well done for securing exclusive access to the Elizabeth Line stations. I have an ardent interest in architecture and industrial design and art and have followed the work on constructing the Crossrail/Elizabeth Line right from the beginning, through the Chief Engineer’s video updates and the newsletters. Now I will be able to see the ‘finished product’ through your 10 reports and enjoy your enthusiasm and humour at the same time! Many many thanks.
35:40 The 'train numbers' are known as headcodes - used for operational reasons to identify train services and every journey on the national network has it! As the Elizabeth Line is a mainline railway (hence Crossrail) by definition they also apply!
yeah, and the letters are said with the phonetic alphabet. Elizabeth Line services are allocated 9xxx headcodes, not traditionally used for passenger services but just using up surplus of what would've been freight headcodes (IIRC).
It's amazing how you put your attention to every little (and big) detail that otherwise I would probably never notice as a commuter who needs to catch a train that's about to depart.
I went on the tour of this station site when they were digging out the hole :-)
BTW when I reference the cliff railway at Torquay I mean the one at Babbacombe. If you haven't tried it - it's worth a visit!
It is in Babbacombe but it goes down to Oddicombe beach.
We hope you enjoy the first of a series of visits to the Elizabeth line!
Been waiting some years for the line to open, so overdue when I moved house in June 2020, that the lines now out of my area, all these constant delays might ad to the fascination.
Thanks for the episode! I've seen the whole thing now, and the station is very well-finished and the project team is to be congratulated for making such an enormous space look fabulous!
Been waiting for this THANKS CHRIS and the guys really appreciate this can’t wait for rest ❤️❤️
I was on the live premiere… this was fantastic, not least Farrington Station was the destination where I started my career at Cardinal House … all those years ago. It’s been some years since I visited and this was an absolute delight to see the station, the new station and the surrounding area - it’s changed so much. Thanks team … love you to bits!
This looks amazing! Can’t wait for you to visit Woolwich station as just like Alex, it’s my local station. It will be nice to get a preview of the new way of travelling in London. Finally something new to the South East
Brilliant episode well presented by you four lovely people, Farringdon Crossrail station looks fabulous. looking forward to watching the upcoming episodes.Thank You.Best wishes to all of you.
Loved this programme.
DORSETGUY1), Hi you lovely people superb episode, can not wait to see these stations for real they look amazing, i will spend ages looking around the stations more than riding on the train, so love the purple roundel, this will be my first photo, love you all and can not wait to see the next episode 💖💖
I am excited. Thank you for showing this. This will get us by until earlier next year when the line opens.
when you closed the door it reminded my of the closed scene of z cars back in 1978
Just Seeing that train in the Station was just amazing and then you made me laugh. Excellent work. I love watching while I am building my underground inspired network in Minecraft. Looking deeper at all the stations you show and examine give me inspiration for building stations of my own.
At a few places in the video comments are made about how exciting it is to have a new tube line or a new underground line, including reference to the last new tube line, the Jubilee line. However, isn’t it correct that the Elizabeth Line is not a tube line, but part of a separate “mode” in the same way that Overground or DLR are different modes than Tube. This is evidenced by the different colour scheme for the roundels. Perhaps something to clarify in Notes, Queries, and Questions next week. 🙄🤔
Haha - thanks for sparking this debate and we’ll definitely pick this up in NQQ. The capital T (Tube or tube?) is important. The Elizabeth line is definitely a tube railway but not exactly the Tube. Farringdon is one of five of the central stations that will be managed by LU…. We love a debate!
@@chrisnix6352 Don’t you just love it when someone tries to OUTWIT you guys lol BRAVO 👏
Thanks for the Scarborough mention 😊
Two weeks time I’m moving to Farringdon from Bank/Monument! I’m excited for the change.
What a great episode, really enjoyed watching it. Surely the inclined lift would be for wheelchair users.
By the way back in the steam days freight trains did run north to south between Blackfriars through to Kings Cross. basically the tracks that Thameslink now uses.
I've been seeing the trains running through Stratford & Custom House for some time, so really looking forward to these episodes about the stations on the line.
I'm taking a break away from these podcasts for a while as tbh I'm not feeling it these past few weeks, I wish you all well and hope my fellow tube grubber enjoy your efforts
Peace
loved the blue peter references
Wow, These are not tube lines, These are marvellous intercity sized trains in a metro environment - Emily 2018
A great look round the new station, good to see it. Thanks very much.😀👍
great vids! invaluable service you are providing!!!! love from here in London!
13;27 the lighting makes it look like you aren't that deeply underground
The station looks fantastic. However being someone with a visual impairment there didn’t seem much contrast. Eg the platform doors are the same colour as the edge wall sections. It will be interesting to experience it to see just how accessible it actually is
10 out of 10
A great episode that I thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks as usual to everyone involved in making it. One rather basic question for you. Do the trains or the stations contain toilets? By the time that I have walked from one end of the platform to the other, I may need one!
No they don't.
Thanks for letting me know. I think this could be a problem & not only for me.
@@daveharris7224 the trains don't, stations do
@@woodyjmw you mean "the trains don't but the stations do".
@@RWL2012 I'm mot aware of the new Elizabeth Line Stations having toilets (the trains certainly don't), some of the existing stations have toilets, such as Paddington and Liverpool Street main-line stations.
Nice
I doubt I am the first to think this, but I am sure it will become known as the Lizzie Line.
Farringdon is interchange for airport to North to South for Thames link & elizabeth line east meet west wood you say ?
Escalators could make you feel bit 😫 if you're scared of heights.
I wonder why you forgot to show the entry/exit to the Barbican, even if all we saw was the back of a door or wooden panel.
Also could not help noticing that when you were stood on the platform because it is so big and with the glass wall / doors blocking off the view of the track it did not look like a platform. Also does that glass wall stop you feeling the rush of air you get when the train is coming?
Guys, are there any opportunities to be a volunteer tester for the new line as part of the trial operations?
With the length of the trains on the Elizabeth Line, are there any points on any other underground line where a train of that length would actually be in two stations simultaneously?
Yes. This is actually one example. If you exit at one end of the train you're actually at Barbican.
Question: Could you simply also run Thameslink stock trains (Class 700's) through there?
There's no physical link between the lines and the Class 700s lack the CBTC signalling capability needed for the central section of the Elizabeth Line.
But if you're asking would they fit, then yes. It's been built to mainline railway loading gauge.
Well I thought after watching this video, just how impressed I was with the rebuilding of Westminster station was, with its rustic colours, such a warm welcome was Westminster wondering from the cut and cover platforms to the JLE, I was amazed at the length of those escalators, were longer than those two at Angel station?.
Researching online , 17 escalators had been fully commissioned at Canary Wharf station with the framework for 37 more had been completed at Paddington, Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road, Farringdon and Liverpool Street.
I understand that these combine to a length of 1,603 metres, the equivalent of one mile of escalators, Farringdon is good, but preferred Westminster instead, as from what I had seen of the central section of the Elizabeth line platforms, thought they were all rather bland and of no architectural importance.
Ah the JLE - my first love on the Underground. Tricky to compare the architecture of a station box like Westminster to a mined station such as Farringdon. Waterloo would be a better JLE example for comparison and I think Farringdon is great. If you are a fan of Westminster you might like one of the Elizabeth line station box stations that you will see very shortly - I know I did!
@@chrisnix6352 None the less Chris, another good video from the team, odd that the platforms at Farringdon had to signage to direct passengers to the way out, or I missed this?, no benches to sit on, was that the finished product?.
Had seen a number of videos from The Londonist and Geoff Marshal on some of the new stations, not certain as they will compare to the team thou.
Apparently the engineers had to lower the track at Westminster when building the new station, not certain if they did, or not, Westminster always had some sort of magic to visit, would love to see a film on the changes at Baker Street over the years, a new platform for the southbound Jubilee line… look at Camden Town as those disused doors. Will look forward to the next instalment of 10. Best regards Chris.
@@jacksugden8190 yes fear not - there is way out signage! Re Westminster and the District line track bed: 100% correct - the trackbed height was altered and was suspended on the new rigid deck above the construction of the station box. Heroic engineering!
@@chrisnix6352 I’m currently watching the Holborn episode again, I made a comment sometime back of which no one saw. Back to Holborn now. Best regards - Jack.
@@jacksugden8190 Hi Jack. I can see a comment from you on the Holborn episode but can’t see a question. What was your unanswered question?
I am curious to know if the Elizabeth line is going to be more underground, or overground?
If it is underground will that then be added to the 272 underground stations, so therefore be included on the tube challenge?
Or are the roundels intentionally different, so that it is a 'hybrid' of the Overground and Underground and mainline?
Roundels are intentionally different, and the stations have now been added to the Office Of Rail and Road register.
With the new opening doors on the platform how do they make sure the train stops in just the right place to line up?
The trains are automatically driven in the central section
Did you find the hidden entrance at Farringdon....that is not even actually at Farringdon?
But is it a 'tube line'? I don't like being pedantic lol
The Elizabeth Line is a mainline service which runs through tunnels, much like Thameslink, and it's great that TfL have folded into the Tube map, but is it *actually* a tube line?
(Throws grenade, takes cover)
When the next one ?
Elizabeth line is not tube line it crossrail?
It's the common thing! That many including myself knew would happen when a Heavy Rail Railway gets called a "Line" it isn't a Tube as the trains have all the safety systems for Network Rail! As soon as I saw they'd named CrossRail "Elizabeth Line" I knew people would almost immediately say it was a Tube "Line" when sadly it isn't! If our Mainline Railways ever get renationalised (not going there) CrossRail would be part of it as would Overground as 95% of the Overground was once before! The "Purple Trains" also are Powered by 25kV AC including the Tunnel Sections the Tube is Fourth Rail! The truth of the Matter is "is the Permanent Way Owned by TfL or Network Rail?"
To add CrossRail/Elizabeth Line is listed online under "Other Modes" along with Overground!
TfL own the permanent way for all the new build sections of the Elizabeth Line. So the truth of the matter is much less clear-cut a difference than you think.
And while there's loads of technical/organisational reasons why the Liz isn't tube, there's far fewer reasons why the general public should treat it as different. In fact TfL didn't want passengers to treat it as something different - hence the 'Line' name.
Why not do London Overground including stations on the London Overground network.
Don't know what I think of all this new building I guess I am old school I prefer all the victorian and edwardian time. I am born in the time.
The station dwell times seem excessive, although no doubt this will not be so aparant with people around
It's a main line train so it seems long compared to London Underground because it is!
Interesting video but I have to say that these station visits are in NO WAY exclusive. There have been numerous pres/media days at a lot of the new Elizabeth Line stations, some going back to 2018 when the line was supposed to be ready. I myself went to an Open Day at Canary Wharf station. Geoff Marshall has done a load of videos on the stations during construction and fit out. Saying it's exclusive is not true.
There have been indeed been visits before but to the Crossrail project during build showing the construction process. We have been given exclusive access the Elizabeth line as the sites have been handed over and it’s these new stations we are sharing with you.
Too much talk show us the features right away 😉
Way too much talking, and too little showing. Not very impressed.
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LINKA! Fandabedozy. I knew that there was even more to the font of all things UndergrounD that is Mr. Nix.
It may have taken a couple of dozen episodes of this unendingly informative series to find out, but of course (25:15) he grew up with Linka, whyall the best people did dontyaknow!
Mop and bucket at the ready because if he mentions his dad's Bayko building set then I'll defo need to clear up the resulting mess after my head exploded with joy.
Finally, a classic example of the illogical way that civils planning (doesn't) work[s] (45:00) Wahey! Lovely new paving slabs and no sooner have they been carefully levelled and laid than some utility company comes along with spray paint cans and marks it all up for digging up.
When will they ever bloody learn‽