Hello I've lost track of what day it is,
but we are back again on the Elizabeth line, CrossLizPurp
outside Farringdon for a video,
which I've been looking forward to doing
for at least four years,
when I realised that this was possible.
Well done for clicking on the really clickbaity title of
The Infinite Loop at Farringdon Station.
So as revealed in the Farringdon video last week
the trick between changing from the tube
down to the Elizabeth Line
is actually to use the Thameslink platform,
but for the purposes of this video,
I'm using the regular street entrance
and coming down the escalators here,
which takes me to the U bend around,
and the large escalators that take me down
to the Purple Line platforms.
(train screeching)
So the reason why this works,
is because of the length of the platforms,
as you'll have remembered the other day,
we measured them to be 260 metres long,
and there're so long, that in two instances,
they span the length of two tube stations.
The first one is at Liverpool Street
where the platforms there go to Liverpool Street
at Eastern end, all the way through
to Moorgate at the Western end,
that is the length between two tube stations,
and that happens again here
at Farringdon where the Western end
of the Liz line is at Farringdon,
but the platforms are so long
that they go all the way through
the Eastern end is at Barbican
and you can walk between Farringdon and Barbican
along the platforms.
(passengers chattering)
So onto the platform,
next train in four minutes going that way,
don't know about that way,
but we're not getting the train,
we're walking the length of this incredibly long platform.
Alright, now when I made the Farringdon video
the other day I did it in reverse,
so this time I'm actually going east to the station,
so I'm coming up this first set of escalators,
the incline lift is just there,
there's two of those here at the Barbican end
of Farringdon station,
and when we get to the mezzanine level,
I'm then gonna not go up the second set of escalators
and the next inclinator, I'm gonna get into the secret lift
which I told you about instead.
So don't go up here, escalators, inclinator, come here,
ooh, secret lift, secret lift secret lift,
with a very minimalistic sign,
and that takes you through to here,
the secret Barbican lift.
Keep clear of the doors, please.
I dunno why I always tap it three times.
like 1, 2, 3, that's becoming like my signature way
of summoning for a lift, completely unnecessary,
you only need to tap it once and lift is here.
And as we started the Farringdon video the other day
that brings you out here,
to the Circle, Hammersmith and City, and Met Line platforms
of Barbican Tube Station where there's a westbound
sub-surface line train rolling in right now.
(train screeching)
[Station Announcer] The next station is Farringdon.
And you know, you're trains,
you've already worked out what I've done
and you've heard from the announcement there,
we're going one stop west on this
Metropolitan Line train from Barbican,
that'll take us back to Farringdon.
It's this way, I'm gonna go at Thameslink platforms
to get back to the Elizabeth Line platforms.
And you come up these steps,
although you could have got the lift,
but I just wanted to come up to the
National Rail Concourse,
you go across the concourse, and 13 minutes later,
which is how long it's taken me,
I'm back where I started by the gate line,
about to go down the escalators
to the Elizabeth Line platforms.
You can go in a complete loop.
(passengers chattering)
And I'm back at Farringdon Station,
having got a one stop tube journey
between Barbican, back to here to Farringdon,
and you can just do that, ad infinitum
in an infinite loop.
Bear in mind, I think it's around two hours, 120 minutes,
I'll put a link in the description.
There is a maximum journey time that you can do
on an Oyster Card, so the fun trick of course,
would be to see how many times
you could go round, and round, and round,
walk and train, and walk and train,
with the secret lift in between,
how many times you can go in a loop
from Farringdon to Barbican and back again.
Yes, you can also do it between Moorgate
and Farringdon, sub-surface there,
I mean, even here, you could do it in the reverse direction,
get a Met Line, train, whatever, east into Barbican,
but it's less fun 'cause you then have to cross over
the platforms and walk along the westbound platform
to get to the secret lift, to take you down,
so it's just more fun and quicker to do it this way.
That is it.
That is the infinite loop.
So many more things like this to discover
with the new railway, the new purple train.
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Thanks for watching.