Good morning
It's Monday, the 24th of October
Bond Street Station on the Elizabeth Line is open
Now, last time I was out on the line
I wore a suit that was pretty snazzy to dress up in
This time I thought we'd go
Yeah. Proper James Bond
(group cheering)
Look at the bow tie
not just the waist coast
The bow tie this time
Yes, and they are maps on the back
I'm not the only one to wear a black tie
from the Canary Wharf video
We've been expecting you
Hey! How long you been waiting and saving that one up?
At least five minutes.
It's good. We can do all the James Bond puns
Yes
Escalators are very long We'll come back and we'll sort
of measure time them properly in a second
They're quite long
We've come in the Hanover Square entrance
which is this end at the eastern end of the station.
There is the Davies Street entrance
which is down the other end which we need to explore.
That's the western end
And Luke's here to take some photos
Hello
Can you take my photo and Keith?
Yeah, of course
We're gonna have some James Bond fun, right?
A lot of James Bond fun
First train at Bond Street
Also Frankies got a purple bow tie. Look at that.
Burgundy!
Burgundy. Wow
Amazon didn't get to me in time
but you need to find the Moquettes suit guy.
You ordered multiple coloured bow ties?
I'll have two and that's two more
than I had before I started
Mr. Marshall. We've been expecting you
Hugo, is there a cat in your bag?
That would be hilarious
Somebody should have brought a white cat
I've already let the cat out of the bag
There we go. There's the joke
That is one stop we've completed
We've gotta now get the first westbound
train back to Bond Street and get off that again.
So then, we've been on that one that first left
and the one that first arrived.
I mean, if you're gonna come here, do it proper.
And we'll be finished by 6:00 and we go home.
Train approaching the platform is a
westbound service to Paddington and
the next stop will be Bond Street!
There was some, there was some regular commuters
that just got off there
that looked at us like, "What's going on?"
Did they not know?
Normal passengers
Let's go! Let's go!
(announcer singing James Bond music)
(James Bond theme music)
We're, uh, Keith's with me, we're on the platform
Look, this is correct. This is correct
There's a sign that is telling us that one end.
So that way is Davies Street
which is like the main entrance
and we just came in at Hanover Square.
So as far as I'm aware, there's an outstation interchange
for Oxford Circus, I believe
I haven't tested it yet. Have you tested it?
No. Well, I can't because it's only open today.
Yeah, well
But it does, it does work Yeah, okay
I believe you have 20 minutes?
Right
Hope that's right. But both entrances work
If you change between here and Oxford Circus tube.
So even if you get out at Davies Street
which is further away from Oxford Circus, it still works
It's the OSI is in place
It works as one journey and you don't pay two fares
you just pay the one. I believe the escalators are
the second longest on the purple train
isn't it? Yes
I'm reliably informed
by one of the TFL press officers today
So the, the longest, as we all know is Angel
but the second longest on the combine
on the TFL system tube and Elizabeth line
because of course it's not a Tube line as we all know.
I didn't even tell him to say that
Yeah, he just said that
The lift, the lift is off the end of the platform.
You have to go right down the end,
down this little corridor here.
You know, I wouldn't have known this was here.
I have to go look for it.
Well we followed the signs.
There's a zero minus one and minus three and minus five.
Keith, I can't help but thinking we look not so much
like James Bond, but more like Men in Black.
Yeah, maybe.
I dunno. (laughing)
You'll be Agent J I'll be Agent K.
Yeah, we'll do that again.
Yeah.
Is there a Mezzanine?
No, there's no Mezzanine.
We're straight out into the ticket hall area, this end.
Okay.
Yeah.
Darrell, lifts are good, right?
Lift are brilliant. Access is excellent. All brilliant.
Can't fault it. Take care of yourself, mate.
Cheers.
Nice seeing ya.
Bye.
Take Care.
Give us a wave.
See ya later Geoff. Take care.
Okay, check out the numbers.
So we're on the escalators from the Davies
Street entrance going down.
Do you know what the numbers are for, Keith?
I do. It's okay.
I've been sent the email with the details
of the art installation
from the press office
Oh this is nice, look
The artwork of Bond Street station was created
by Darren Almond with the support of gallery partner
White Cube. Horizon line is what the numbers are called.
A large grid of fragmented numbers cast in aluminium
which echoes the path of travellers as they descend underground
There are 144 individual, hand polished tiles
They, it references daily routines timetables, and schedules
It does look like, like an old, what would you call it?
The old clapperboard that you get
at mainline station, doesn't it?
Where like destinations would pop up
The Solaris indicators
Is that what they're called?
That's what they're called, Solaris indicators
And then shadow and time line here are train boiler plates
that bear poetic phrases recalling
both the train spotting days as well as
the Golden Age of British railways
Down there, there's something that Tottenham Court Road
hasn't got that Bond Street has
and that's an actual proper
Interchange for the Central Line
Interchange for the Central Line and the Jubilee Line
Yes.
Let's do it
So it's a long - this is nice
It's wider and better lit than the one at Moorgate
It's certainly nice and clean so far
but it's only been one morning so far
There's a seat and some silver panels here
You get a bit restless halfway
you can pause for a breath there
So it bends at that end then it goes straight
and then there's a little S bend at this end, as well
All right. And we're out. We're out
So actually we're crossing I think this is the
Bond Street Elizabeth line
I think we're crossing
the threshold from old to new This is it.
Show your passport
We're going over the border
Let's do it
Show your Oyster Card
I've already got the Oyster Card
Okay. And we're now onto the tube station
Okay. So it's saying Jubilee Line that way
but also Jubilee and Central line that way
I don't really know where we are within the tube station
But the important thing is that there is a connection
Yeah
A direct connection
So you don't have to go up to the surface
You can just ... Looks like anyway.
You can just interchange underground
There's also a lift here There is a third lift
So at the level where the Central Line and Jubilee Line
corridor comes into the underground, there's a lift there
So, you that you can now come down that lift
from the Davies Street entrance and get to the underground.
Does that make the underground platforms now step free
or partially step free?
Anyway, there's another lift there
Mayor's turned up
Phil
Hello
You should challenge your maybe
if we make out that you're M
rather than Phil, you should be like
"Your mission Geoff should be to get a picture ...
... with Sadiq Khan in your tuxedo."
Your mission, should you choose to accept it
No, that's a different franchise
You're all looking this way
Please, if you can Straight to this one here
I'm trying to be excited and get you
for an exciting quote other than aren't we excited?
I mean, we are excited
We are thrilled
Thrilled. That's a good adjective
We are overjoyed
Overjoyed
We are relieved actually as well. So, yeah
And surely also we're complete
Now we're completed Yeah!
We're complete. Yes. We're complete
Every single stage along the line is now open
Obviously we've got the very exciting next stage
which is on the weekend after the next one
which is the through running
Yep
And then, you know, basically the
the Elizabeth line will deliver
what it's supposed to which is this completely
new high speed railway through the centre of London
It's gonna be fantastic
Right. My only question is, where's your bow tie, sir?
Come on. Didn't make the effort.
I'm never as flashy as you, Geoff
Didn't make the effort. Come on. Come on
I'm, I'm the scruffy one.
Don't say that. That's going on YouTube
It's well known
What next? Phase B in two weeks time, right?
Indeed. November the 6th
Tell us about Phase B
So November the 6th, we'll be running direct Shenfield
through to Paddington, Reading and Heathrow
through to Abbey Wood
So, that finally joins up the railway and then
obviously, May next year complete end to end running
And of course the big step up
in frequency and the peak will go
from 12 to 22 trains per hour in two weeks time
So exciting time
Right, take care Andrew
Thanks, Geoff
Very good. See you next time
The national theatre are here
Testing one, two, testing one, two
I think there's gonna be some music
♪ Well, I'm just gonna build myself up ♪
♪ Trampoline ♪
♪ Oh so I can fly away to ♪
♪ that brilliant day when I'm 16. ♪
(show music piano)
The mayor's there. I think I can complete my mission.
I mean, I'm just slightly disappointed you're not
wearing a bow tie for the James Bond
look, what happened?
I think listen, when you look as good
as you do Yeah.
In the bow tie, I can't compete
So, I wanted to avoid embarrassment, and so
I thought this was the audition
for the next James Bond, you know
I've heard Barbara Broccoli's around
You've got, you found, listen
you found Bond, forget a usurper
The Bond is here
But on the serious note
Elizabeth Line. Hurray! Last station, fully open
fully complete
and an important West End station for business.
It's really important
Listen, the shop here will benefit
Yep
The restaurants will benefit
the theatres will benefit
Yep
This station when it's just a central line
of Jubilee line, brings about 70,000 people a day.
With the Elizabeth Line. What will it bring?
140,000 on top of the 70,000
So it's 210,000 people come to this spot
of London. This is a spacious, stylish
step free station
But also what's important is that we encourage
tourist factor. We've missed tourists in
the last two and a half years
We are approaching this festive period
the Christmas period
This is known as the Golden Quarter and it's really
probably encouraged people back
and the experience is a good one
Mr. Mayor, Thank you
Nice to see you Bond
You might remember from Paddington on opening day
opening week, I bumped into the lovely Monica
and I bumped into her again
You were the first driver out of Abbey Wood that morning
Yes, that's correct
So you're doing the countdown, the 3-2-1-go
But, you also have experience of formal wear
do you not?
It was so much fun. It was, it was very different
very unexpected experience for me as a driver
being James Bond and driving trains
It's you can imagine it's 10 times better
How many takes did it take? The bit where you walk off
and then it pans up
which is a great shot.
I think -
You didn't do that first time did you?
Six or seven
Six times?
Well do you, okay, maybe five
Where did you film it?
Can I say? It was Farringdon
We did it at Farringdon
Okay, but then obviously the last shot is
of you here at Bond Street.
Absolutely. Yes. Yeah.
Right. Monica, nice to see you again
Thank you for driving trains
Dan, my merch man that sells the t-shirts is here
A while ago on Twitter
I did put a thing out saying
"Could we get some James Bond, Bond Street purple puns?"
Dan, you sort of picked a winning three
What were the, what were the ones that you liked?
The man with the purple gun
Man with purple gun. It's an obvious thing.
Substitute the word gold with purple
Yep. Purple finger
You have a purple finger, don't you?
There's a thumbnail - the winning one
and I can't remember, I'm so sorry sir
if you're watching, a gentleman tweeted the best thing ever.
Inspector Sands
Which is a little bit genius
Yes, if a little bit nerdy as well
No (laughing)
Bond Street. Done!
So that's your brand new Bond Street
Elizabeth Line, Crossrail, Purple train
Nice tuxedo
Thank you. Nice tuxedo
Mr. Bond
Nice tuxedo Mr. Bond
But you weren't wearing the socks though, were you?
Come on... No, no, I didn't.
I didn't get the sock going on
Did you not get the memo about the socks?
The one thing we didn't do, we failed to ride unit
345-007 today
I'd have thought they might have referenced it
on the first train, but they, they didn't
they didn't seem to pull that one out the bag for us.
I spoke to a gentleman who worked at the Depot
but it's out on the eastern stretch today.
So unit 007 is out somewhere between
Shenfield and Liverpool Street
Mr. Luke Mapper! thanks for taking photos.
Dan's here as well
Dan, you wanna plug the merch store
This is my calendar that you can get now.
You go to tubemapper.com, you can find it there
It's got some nice photos from different stations
I'll show one photo
Let's see which random one we're gonna be blessed
with. Ah -
Ah, Kings Cross.
Kings Cross
Love, love it very much, very much.
Anyway, those -
Buy Luke's calendar
Yeah. And I have a book coming out next January
What? A book?
Dan's in, if you wanna buy purple storm merch
then the link is still then
Purpletrain dot store
There we go!
For all your purple train T-shirts and hoodie needs.
(James Bond Style Music Plays)
♪ And when you sink deep ♪
♪ Breathing in ice you feel the big sleep ♪
♪ The call of the night ♪
♪ But it's not time ♪
♪ So wake up and climb ♪
♪ The cost of survival is losing your edge ♪
♪ Lost in revival but back from the dead. ♪
♪ The past and the future they clash and collide ♪
♪ And chance will renew for the spy who survived ♪
♪ You survived. ♪