 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm at London Liverpool Street and we're going to ride the Elizabeth line out to Abbey Wood It's the 24th of May 2020. It's the day the Elizabeth line opened and I'm very excited I've already done the section from Paddington and visited each station. Have a look at link on screen now You can see that video. We're now going to continue from zone one out eastwards and London 10 So if you were to get the existing TFL services from Shenfield, just come For those to get barriers here and I've just been given this leaflet It shows you how to change out Liverpool Street I mean for me, it's not so much of a problem because I already knew but say if you didn't know then this leaflet would be very useful But it's also, you know, it's quite nice. It's like a souvenir of today. So I'll probably keep this forever So as we come down onto the main concourse You can see there's all the great eastern platforms and the West Anglia main line platforms You know which travel onto places like Norwich and Cambridge and various other places We're making our way now towards what well the gate line. I've been through many times the Metropolitan line gate line But I'm not going to go through that one. Although that shows away to Elizabeth line I want to go to the new one which is outside the station So just say look towards Abbey Wood Heathrow and Reading of course for Heathrow and Reading You'd have to change trains at Paddington as we saw in part one So as I said, I have been through that gate line quite a few times before So my plan is, what I'm going to do, we'll go out the station We'll go through this little shopping centre bit which takes us under the road And there's a new entrance just around the corner So coming out here We're right now We're leaving Liverpool Street station. We're into this shopping centre bit We're underneath the road. There's a road above us And we come up into this shopping centre Now the interesting thing here, there's a lot of building work going on What they've done, they've demolished the building They built on the site of Broad Street station Broad Street was a London terminus Trains tend to discuss places like Where do they go? They went around the North London line Various other places, fairly suburban and inner suburban Nowhere, you know, sort of long distance But that closed in 1986 Most of the lines that used it are still open or have reopened Such as the section up through Hoxton and Haggitston And the sure ditch is the extension of the East London line But there, where that funny sculpture is That's where Broad Street station used to be Of course I never got to go out Broad Street Although it was a fairly late closure, closed way after beaching It was a bit before my time But what I did get to do, of course, is ride It is a bit flying and that's what we're going to do So there's a construction site It makes it seem like a long time ago What they've built on the site of it, being closed Has been demolished A lot of building work going on here But some of it's finished As in the Elizabeth line Of course, as I said in part one I'll have to come back when they connect them up So one day you'll be able to get on the train at Jenfield And go all the way through But at the moment I'm excited to be going towards Abbey Wood There we are That is the Liverpool Street station The new entrance outside the station So we'll go down here Down the escalator There's another inclinator Right, let's go in this We're not going in the escalator We'll go in the inclinator As we saw in part one A Farringdon station They had these inclinators We're going to go in this one here So, for those of you who don't know An inclinator is basically a lift That's not vertical Which, in my books, makes it a follicular railway So, effectively now I'm riding a form of railway So I'm sure This is probably the shortest railway in London I once did a video Which I think is the shortest railway in the UK At the Astro-Military Railway This is even shorter than that So we are talking really short I have forgotten to press the button Of course it doesn't go if you don't press the button Anyway, we're going down now This is the shortest train ride I will probably have a feature on Henry's adventures But when we go to the bottom The adventure continues Very exciting So here we are This must be the shortest inclinator I might find shorter I don't know Because I'm exploring this video as I go I'll just let you see I can see from one end of the line to the other Now, let's go and find the Elizabeth Line So, that's the gate line there Well, I see, yeah, that would go So you could, if you go that way You go to the Metropolitan Line I'm going to have to get them to get out We're going to go through and down Down to the Elizabeth Line I've just come through to get barriers And I have found another inclinator Going down Well, look, you can just see it's already going down It's quite long If you look at the adjacent escalator It's probably the longest one we've encountered so far So I'm going to stay here I'll press the button to call it back So, come back up And we're going to descend down And continue eastwards on the Elizabeth Line That was exciting coming down on the finica Or the inclinator So there's two We've come on, I think, the shortest And the longest that I've seen so far Look at that escalator There are funny things If you look, there's always people just standing here Marvelling at it and taking pictures I wonder how long this will last But you don't normally see this at tube stations You see the few tourists But look, every other sort of Londoner Who comes down here Is stopping to take pictures Which I think is really nice It's like, I keep saying Everyone's really excited by this opening And it is exciting that we've got these inclinators I mentioned a couple of others in my last video Another place where there is one It's not in London But somewhere you might not expect to see one Is at the Football Museum in Manchester They've got an inclinator there And that one actually has intermediate stops Because it's basically the lift to each floor So it's notably busier down here When I was over at Paddington and Farrington And the stations I expected to be busy Were fairly quiet But Liverpool Street is really busy Now, as we found in the last video You can actually get out into Moregate Station Because I got here And I saw the sign to Northern Line So I followed it And I was sort of half-thinking Sure Northern Line doesn't go to Liverpool Street And I was right It doesn't But they've put like a way through So you effectively could walk into the gate line Walk through the gate line here at Liverpool Street And you could walk out the gate line At Moregate without travelling You could do the same Or you can't quite do the same You could almost do it at Farrington and Barbican If they put an exit entrance in there At Barbican So we're going down an escalator now There's no inclinator on this one There was a lift So I think the platforms will be down there So I'm going to continue eastwards Towards Abbey Wood Under the Thames And just continue to explore this fantastic new railway That's... Well, I've waited years for it to open I remember when I was a child They were talking of building Crossrail And it kept getting cancelled in the 90s And then eventually they announced it was happening And then they started building it And here we are today We're coming down Into the new station Look at that Massive We kept saying in the other video It's on so much bigger scale Than a tube station It's really, you know Rather huge It's very exciting though I just, you know, think it's great So westbound platform B Towards Heathrow, Reading And... Doesn't actually go that far yet Where you have to change the platforms And we're going to the eastbound platform A For Abbey Wood Where we shall Well, we'll go That's the end of the line And it'll be very exciting to see that It'll be a bit above ground when we go there So there's a train due in one minute Says Abbey Wood So I'm going to stand here We'll wait for our train to arrive We'll continue our journey eastwards So we have arrived at Whitechapel Another massive station It just looks like it goes on Sort of to infinity Down there just because on and on and on So this is the eastbound platform So we travel east What I'm going to do Before we go out Walk through this one here It's very quiet down into it It's a complete contrast Like a moment ago at Liverpool Street It seemed half of London was there But nobody thought to be at Whitechapel But I'm here And I'm excited to explore this station Again, it is a station I've changed that many times over the years From, you know, the Hammersmith and City In the district line Down to what used to be The east London line Now up above ground Everyone's down that end It's deserted down this end The other funny thing I keep thinking Is quite often When I go and visit railway stations I usually say, oh, this station opened on the Whatever of June, say, 1867 Or something like that And then it closed in 1964 By beach and I'm always thinking of the day It's closed today It's so easy I can just say This station opened today On the 24th of May, 2022 But I just like saying This station opened today You know, it didn't open last week Or anything open today I'm here on the day it opened It's like I'm part of history Which is just so exciting I've got to hold a line Sort of curve around It's very easy on the Isle Station Look at that Great big tunnel No way out Down there Let's go back to the other That train Oh, the train coming Let's just watch the train come in Is all stations to Paddington Calling at Liverpool Street Farringdon Tottenham Court Road And Paddington Please change Our Liverpool Street For services in Sheffield And Paddington For all services To Heathrow Airport And Turin Please allow passengers Off the train Before boarding The one thing I will say The trains aren't quite so photogenic To film the arrival And departing with the Peds In a way For those who don't know Peds is platform edge doors But you know I thought we'll film that Because it's just nice To get a bit of first day Arrival on You know An announcement from the first day So that unit is 345 number 029 Another thing I've noticed is See those seats The seats that You know The longitudinal seats When a train pulls in They face the other side of an advert So when you're sat there You can't actually look out On to the station You look out at an advert So That's another little notice So we're going to leave That train to go to Paddington We're going to find our way Out of this station It's just massive in here I wouldn't go as far as saying It's over the top But perhaps Because the line's not up To its full usage yet You know Although it is its first day It's been very well publicised You know It will take a while For people to really get Use to it There's another train coming in On this side Another bit of first day Announcement It's approaching now You might as well Watch that one go Or arrive rather And try and find our way out So There comes another train These platforms are long You know I'm sort of getting used to them That's unit number 8 3, 4, 5, 0, 0, 8 Arriving there It's a clock That's not the correct time It's not 8.40 in the morning It's about 1 o'clock In the afternoon Here we are Look at this clock, right? It's 11 o'clock It's past 1 As that clock shows I suppose so You know It's the first day Things aren't going to be 100% perfect But I just thought Just looked so Anyway Let's try and find our way Out of this modern Warrant of tube Well it's not tube lines Is it? Even now I'm setting it Well look at that It tells you about the artwork On the platform So that's These artworks You see there Right Let's find our way out It seems So this one Is only one way in and out Of the Elizabeth lines I think there might be I know there's certainly More than one way In and out the station Because I've been in and out this station Before It has Developed quite a lot Over the years But I think there's Yeah there appears to be Only this way Out of the Elizabeth line There's another escalator Head of us There's London overgrounds Hammersmith and City lines It's probably here Because the overground Is below the underground But the Elizabeth line Is below both Right We've got a long escalator Up I'll see you at the top We're near the top We've gone from the tunnel light Bit to the more Boxy light But if you look behind That's quite exciting I like that Looks like I'm standing At the jaw of a shark Almost a bit scary But yeah I don't think that's How it was meant to look But that's how it Kind of looked a bit Now That's quite a long escalator Right where are we We're somewhere A white chapel Gold plated White chapel Oh I know where we are So We come out here And we're above That's the London overground Platforms down there Let's see if we can walk along them So that must be a way But it's a future way out Right Let's just go down Since we're here So this is Oh it's cooler down here So we're going down Into some very Old London underground line Just have a look And to show you the change So come down here What I all feel Is quite modern But you can see the Older bricks So this is the London overground line I remember when it used to Terminate here And there was Peacow's only service food To Shoreditch I don't think it'd be good If they could reconnect that And You know could run a Liverpool Street To Crystal Palace So So I don't suppose it will There's an overground train Pulling in now So that is going To hybrid in Islington I'm going to find My way out this end I just can hear the Hammersmith and City line This street line above us There comes the London overground train I remember when they Don't seem so new now I remember doing this line It was before I started Making videos But I do remember When the East London line was Extended Doing a bit like What I'm doing today Just not talking to A camera the whole time On that So that was Quite exciting So I'm finding my way Up here I think Coming up to the Hammersmith and City District Line Platforms And like yes I am There's a train Pulling in There's something I did want to point out Here The train's Pulling in now That train Is heading East But that will stay North of the Tend I remember When there were two Fruit Trucks Here So you used to get Well basically Yeah there were two island Platforms It's a bit like I was saying at Bank in the other video I'll be on the platform Here Now I'm standing where The track used to be And we're outside I was trying pulling in So I filled this in And made it into two Trucks For the sake of Putting in There's a couple of things Up here To show you One is Where we Came up from the Elizabeth Line We went down again To the Overground Platforms There was a long corridor Which we could have walked along We should be At the end of that corridor When we come out here So we go through here And Yeah That's My thought So If you have a look here Down those steps That's the end of that Walkway Takes you to the Elizabeth Line The unoverground lines are below us It's interesting to prove I like how it sweeps along above us It's like I don't know Being underneath a giant Lizard or Something It's a strange building Honestly where Obviously it'll take us out to Out onto the streets So let's go through The gate behind here Typical Didn't open the ticket barrier So I need to go and ask a member of staff To let me through Excuse me My ticket didn't open the ticket barrier Thanks very much It's annoying That's the problem with paper tickets They do that sometimes But the gentleman let me through One thing I just wanted to point out here If you're going this way You don't want to walk through the station You can get to the other side of the track By following this path Down there To Dunwood Street So that takes you out to the back of the station Without you needing to go through The gate line Let's go out here So we've been outside I'm going to come back in again There is no other entrance Well, apart from the Dunwood one But I'm not going to worry about that Because there's only one gate line We'll go out there and find that Another interesting thing Worth pointing out Not many stations in the UK have this It's one of few bilingual stations It says welcome to Whitechapel And it says it in another language Not entirely sure which language You know Comment and tell me The only other stations I can think about Which have Bilingual Apart from the Welsh and Scottish ones South four has it in Punjab And if you go to Newcastle Or have a ride in the Tyne and Wear metro You'll find Wool's End station Has the signs in Latin And that's because it was at the end of Hadrian's Wolf I'm going to go back in And I'm going to ride to the next station Just lighted off this train 34501 The pioneer of the glass So that continues towards Abbey Wood We've now got out here Canary Wolf So let's go and have a look around this station Another large station Doesn't have quite the same feel Because it's more of a box-like construction I have a feeling when they built this one They excavated downwards And kind of built a building in a big hole Rather than built it like a tube There's a lot of space on the other side of the platform Which is interesting So let's go up to the escalator See what we can find I'm not sure how many entrances and exits there are There's just the one here That's what we're here to explore To find out everything Doesn't seem like it's such a long escalator course Canary Wolf is well known It's got Jubilee Line It's got Dockham Sight Railway So there's interchange with those So again, it's changed to Canary Wolf many times Just not for the Elizabeth Line And Canary Wolf is... They're all fairly new When you use the Dockham Sight Railway It's fairly new Jubilee Line's fairly new So it's quite interesting how it keeps Getting the new ones every few years So we get to here So we've got this huge concourse here There's a gate line down there And there's a gate line here So we'll go out this gate line And then what we'll do We'll probably walk around the street there We'll come back in to the other side But unlike the other stations There's this sort of mezzanine area Where, you know, you come in Through both gate lines And then you can go down to the platforms So in theory you could come in this way But walk right down to there At the mezzanine level Right, let's get out the station It's getting annoying now My ticket's not opening the barrier I have to go and ask them to open it for me I think the magnetic strip on my ticket Has worn out So I'm going to have to Seems I'm having to ask every station Which is a bit annoying That's obviously the benefit of Oyster But anyway, I've got a travel card today I'm going to now follow this long escalator Up to ground level We'll see you at the top Just coming to the top of this escalator And we'll see what we find And I'll give you an idea of how long it is Lots of water And building work going on There's a DLR station over there I think that's Poplar station And there's another DLR station there So here we have Yeah, this is... I didn't kind of expect to come out to water A new building they've built above Canary Wharf station, it's huge They say if it was to stand up It would be taller than Number one Canada place Which one point was the tallest building in Britain That's now hiding somewhere In amongst all the other stations So anyway, that says Elisabeth Line And there's Dr. Zeit Railway And lots of water I'm going to make my way round to the other end And we'll go back down in from there I'll just come up the escalators to Into the building It's known as Crossrail Place See it there There's some roof gardens up there That's what we've come to see So we're here So then you've got various shops down there Then you've got the concourse And right down at the bottom You've got Elisabeth Line Which of course we're in the process of riding Quite interesting to see the building See this wooden structure Of all these triangles There must be quite a few under-triangle It's an interesting structure And as you come to here The roof garden opens out in front of you So that is really quite cool So it's like you can sort of walk through a jungle In London It's a bit strange It feels a bit strange But in a good way So when I walk through here To the other end When I get to the other end I should go back down On to the Elisabeth Line It's very sculptures, you can see On display in amongst these gardens There's like one main path That runs through the middle Wines its way through the middle And then what I find exciting Are these little winding paths That go off And you're never quite sure Where they're going to go You know, it's sort of like Well, we are tentatively outside It's been raining, you can see It's been raining And see up above us So natural rainwater Does come in here So we're not like in a big greenhouse It doesn't feel too hot and humid Like, you know, you get in a greenhouse It just feels, I don't know Just different But in quite a nice way I think that's a lift shaft there In the middle So you can get a lift Or we'll be able to get a lift Right down to the bottom eventually Go through here I'll look at that I'm going to continue walking through here I'm going to walk right back down To the Elisabeth Line Back down at ground level Following that really Rather surreal experience Across the water there Is Billingsgate Fish Market That's the building we're in Funny-looking thing Again, it feels a bit like I don't know, like a giant shark That's come out of the water We're going to now go back Into the Elisabeth Line I thought I just heard the train go Now, every now and then Also hear the sound of aircraft We're not too far away From London City Airport So this is now the other end Of this huge building So they say if you stood this up It would be taller Than Canada Place What was once Britain's Tallest Building Which as I said Is around here somewhere That's hiding in amongst the other buildings So this is Canary Wharf Let's go in Let's go down And continue our Eastwards journey On the Elisabeth Line Got three more stations to visit So it's still all great exciting I'm going down this escalator I'll go down through the gate lines Let's get on the train Here we are Back down at ticket hall level again Going to go through the barriers And down to the platforms Just come through the barriers I'm now in this Vast concourse here again So a moment ago We went out that end Went out down this end So we're at the eastern end We're going to continue Still got Custom House and Norfolk And finally Abbey Wood To explore So this escalator here Will take us now Back down to the platform level Where we will continue to go Eastwards It's still very exciting I just like the fact that I'm here on the first day You know in When they talk about the 20th anniversary The 50th anniversary Of yourselves I was there on the day That Elizabeth Line opened There's the platforms Let's train in one minute I'm going to go and board it And continue eastwards Here we are We're at Custom House now And we're above ground We've now come out Into the open For this section of line Now this section of line Technically isn't new track For me it's new And it's new guys But I've been a lot Afternoons It's been sunny Welcome to the new Custom House That Elizabeth Line station The next train arriving on platform B Will be your westbound service Towards Paddington This service it's calling at So it's good to hear These first day announcements As again I can say This station opened today Although it is actually on the site Of an older station So I have been along here before When this used to be The North Woolwich branch But then It was 3rd rail It wasn't overhead Also interesting to notice There's no Heads here Platform edge doors Because we're outside That's what we're going to do We're going to find our way out And there's a There's an airplane there Taken off to the airport Somewhere behind that pilot We'll certainly hear it The interesting thing Involving city airport is When we get on the train And we continue eastwards We will be going underneath City airport Because the railway goes Through a tunnel Under city airport And I've been through that Tunnel before Me Little It's not really a waiting room A waiting area With like a screen Reminds me of Germany They have these areas On railway stations They're for smokers There'll be no smoking on here though So let's find our way out Of the station So it's a bit more There's a train arriving 345-035 So We're going to go up here And have a look It's not quite as iconic this station It's a bit more Sort of utilitarian looking A bit more utilitarian looking One thing I'll show you While we're here And we've not got the Heads in the way To show you that On the dot matrix indicator See how they show The headcode as well That's the train's headcode Which is quite interesting to see It's nice to be So warmly welcome though By all these announcements So we're going up here The big building over there Is the XXL Exhibition Centre There's also the Dockton's Light Railway beside us So you could interchange with that I thought we'd see a train come along Let's have a look up here We might We'll see the much much smaller That's the much much smaller Dockton's Light Railway Station Over there There you are The view over the station Dockton's Light Railway You can see the next Dockton's Light Railway station Just up there There's only one entrance So I'm not going to go that way And come back That's the escalator up out here This is Quite a pleasant concourse Upper area Looking over the streets Down there And then up there I can see roundals It says Elizabeth Line And DLR So probably in future If I come to an exhibition At the XXL Centre I'll probably now come On the Elizabeth Line Sorry DLR But you know I probably will come On the Elizabeth Line So what happens here So we've got two Two sets of gate lines You've got this one here So that must go Through to Dockton's Light Railway Station Because on the whole Dockton's Light Railway stations Don't have ticket barriers And that gate line Looking at it They all seem to be in only Unless they've got a one way System in operation And then there's Another gate line Up here Which will take us out So I'm going to walk that way We'll go and have a look Out the station So I've just come out That gate line There's a lift shaft Look at that Elizabeth Line DLR And then that way It takes you into the Edexcel Exhibition Centre Let's have a look here So we're still above The Elizabeth Line platforms And you can just see Down there You might just be Hard to see the tunnels Up there Trains have been running On this section For a few years now So remember I came To an exhibition here At Edexcel Came out Custom house station To visit Edexcel And I did see Some trains As I said We're not doing Exhibition Centre today I'm going to Make my way back Into the station The Crossrail station That is not the DLR And we're going to Continue to visit Our next station I've just got back On the train at Custom house And down The west end of platform This time The reason I want to show you This bit Is I want to show you A bit where we go Under the city airport Which is quite an Exciting tunnel I remember going Through it on the Class 313 I've also seen it On the north London line Before the north Will it section close As you travel out here We are running Parallel with the DLR And national rail services So this will be a quicker way You can get this to north Will itch I'm sorry to Will itch ask them And you get the DLR So that's The French region DLR station up there We're descending into Tunnel now So as I said This is a Re-conditioned Old Tunnel It's not A newly bought tunnel It's all The track's been Relating everything You can see them There's All these sort of arches It's hard to see Right now we should be Going underneath The runway Of city airport And then we'll Re-emerge Into Will itch Arsenal Although We also go under the Thames So that was the final station Above the Thames So at some point And what is out This shore where We leave The original Correct to Will itch Arsenal Because that line Effectively got replaced By the Doctor and Zark railway When they built The original Line up until By looking out the window When that was Replaced by The line which eventually Went through To Will itch Arsenal I know where we are It used to be a station Along here At Silvertown Which Somewhere around here I have a feeling was Silvertown station On the north Will itch We haven't gone Under the Thames Just yet So as you can see We're sort of running along By the street So this was Quite an interesting Railway There would have been Perhaps one day I'll come and do a video Will Effectively do a disused Railway video On the old North Will itch branch Because the station's still there A bit of a sad state Now here Now we're going down Under the Thames The old North Will itch station Used to be a very good little Museum But unfortunately It closed And it's Not a museum But that's A video for another day We're now going Under the Thames And the next stop Is Here we are Will itch We're underground again You can see the platform Isn't again So far Custom house Was the only station On this new section Not to have them I think Abbey Probably Doesn't have them either I think there's only one Entrance and exit There's a long way Down there That I'm going to make My way out Up to Up to ground level There's Will itch Arsenal Station Which is DLR And National Rail So by Southeastern So there we go Up for another Longish escalator Looks A couple of concrete beams Quite interesting I do like how You know Each station is Different They've kind of got a similar Family like this in some ways But in other ways They are all quite different So Here's the gate line It does feel like now We have come to You know A smaller station Rather than Some of the larger ones You see So I'm going to Make my way out It looks like it's just Started to rain We'll have a look At what's outside And I'll be back in To go to the final station Which is Abbey Wood The final station At Will itch I'm standing in this Rather pleasant courtyard And it's pouring with rain Although I expect It will stop soon It wouldn't be An opening Of a new railway line In England But it didn't rain There's Some cannons everywhere Hence Why the other station Is known There's Will itch Arsenal It's really Quite nice here There's lots of new Houses And they've done up All the older buildings So Created a very Pleasant Ride to the final station Abbey Wood So Here we are And we have arrived At Abbey Wood Last station Of the day But first station Alphabetically On the UK rail map That's the End line down there So this is Looking back towards London So what we're going to do We're going to walk up We're going to Hello We're going to Go round And have a look Around the station And see what there is To see So there's one Of the New trains Just there Gives you interchange With the south-eastern And the template trains Or the train coming And let's just Watch that train coming So There's another train Arrives At this bridge here Now the idea of having This bridge And there's two others So you've got three bridges Not three bridges In the station On the right line But there are Three bridges here So With the trains Being so long And the trains On the south-eastern The same thing They're also quite long It means that You can You know Walk over the bridge And as you can see The Thameslink train Is nice and demonstrating You can get Straight off one To the other Without having to walk Massively along the platform So what we'll do We'll walk along The south-eastern platform For a bit And we'll get back Over to the south-eastern platform We're exit the station So there's another bridge Probably not quite halfway down If you look that way You can see Towards London That Thameslink train Should go out in a moment So we'll watch that go While we're standing up here I'll explain What Abbey Wood means Or where the name Abbey Wood comes from Have a look Over there You can see a woodland running Along the top of the picture Continuing over there Well that is the wood And there is also A ruined abbey It's called Lesnes Abbey Have a look at Thameslink on screen now You'll see a video I made there A couple of years ago When I went And explored the ruins Of Lesnes Abbey So that's the short walk From here So if you're ever Riding this new line Do go and have a look Around there I think they've got a cafe I think it's a very Pleasant park So that's on the flatland Sort of over there Behind that Brutalist building I'm not going to go there today Today is more Or all about Riding the Elizabeth line That Thameslink unit Doesn't seem to be going So perhaps we'll Stop waiting for that And it'll be nice To see it go out But it doesn't seem to be Wanted to go anywhere We're going to go down here Have a look at The rest of the station And we'll make our way out This station Was an existing station Which has been rebuilt I'm fairly sure When I And there goes the Thameslink tree You know I'm fairly sure It used to be It didn't used to have An island platform It used to have You know Two tracks on the platform Each side But I suppose With the layout With the Elizabeth line It's easier for the station To have this Layout of two Island platforms So we're going to Follow along I'm going to walk down The platform Next thing I'll show you Is the bridge just up there I'll walk down the platform It's interesting to know It does say Elizabeth line That way They don't seem to Want to encourage you To use that bridge At the end of the platform Maybe that's to do With the fact that I don't think it Had lifts Or didn't know It didn't have any lifts So that one is Foot only But the other bridges Have lifts So we'll continue Along here And it says Abbey Wood Buses Elizabeth line And just fence Down the middle Of the platform Whether that's because People might be Enough to try And if there wasn't a train There Go straight across I'd like to think they wouldn't But you never know Sometimes people Do these silly things It just seems You don't normally get a fence Down the middle of A platform like that Trains departing now Watch that one go So The way out of the station Will be over there But let's just go Up over this bridge Explore the whole station So there are escalators We've got steps On this side And on this side But the west Side of the bridge They have escalators Although it appears By looking at what people are doing That one's up And that one's down There is only a single escalator And again There is no lift So One thing to note If you are coming here And you're in a wheelchair If you get off So further down there You will have to go The full length of the platform I'm surprised actually They haven't put Some lifts in halfway down But Yeah Let's go down Down here The Elizabeth line Has got the doctor Attractive side of the fence If I had a look at it There's a train waiting Still a lot of people Taking pictures of the comment When we were down In the call section It was quite funny Seeing how Everyone was taking pictures You're sort of not used To seeing that Except if a steam train Is coming through Or something But because it's new And it is day one So it's like I'm walking on this platform This platform Open today You know To say that I I just like it I was here On the day That the Elizabeth line Open to the public Has been running Trains for a while Now you know To sort of bed it in But today Is the first day We're going to go up there Now That used to be level crossing Here That building there Looks like a pub Once upon a time There was a level crossing Here There was another train Putting in 345018 So actually Yeah Used to be a level crossing Here These trains Don't cross the road But they're Be getting away Things change So nice Like the Wooden ceiling of the station Over there Is the Thames reader state The other side Of the Thames reader state Another very interesting place The Crossness engines They're beautiful steam engines They were built Believe it or not To pump London's sewer out So we'll have to go there One day They won't be working today That is certainly Somewhere we should go This is a really nice station They're like this You've got Seats up here to wait There's a gate line there I'm going to go through We'll go out the station And then That will I'll end the video there So I've come out the gate line At Abbey Wood And I have now Ridden Crossrail Had great fun It was very exciting to You know To see this new line New addition to the map That we've all waited Such a long time for You know what I'm just saying About the level crossing Might be able to show you Give you a bit Better idea Of how it would have been If you look Down the bottom Of those steps There's a path Called the Abbey Arms On the after the Abbey The road that we've gone Across there Where the station building is So that would have been The level crossing So Hope you enjoyed this video Thank you very much For watching You know Do come and Ride the Elizabeth Line Yourself It's good fun No doubt most of you Will probably use it anyway That's just part Of your new Day to day commute Turn from work To see friends To enjoy London So From outside Abbey Wood station Thank you very much Subscribe and comment Goodbye