It's day seven, we've worn Geoff out.
He's so tired, he hasn't even got the energy
to do the intro, he's making me do it for him.
This is Canary Wharf.
This is my friend Keith. (laughing)
Yeah, so this is my friend, Keith,
who was leading the the charge
with the singing on Tuesday's video.
Yeah. You were like,
"The show must go on!" Yeah.
Jemma has lost her voice slightly,
(people laughing)
But the show must go on. The show must go on.
I got a bit carried away,
I was just so pleased it was finally open.
Yeah, you were real, and then you were like,
you were belting it out.
♪ On the purple train ♪
Yeah, yeah.
I could see, Keith was front row.
I let my excitement get the better of me, what can I say?
And Keith was like, "Can I come
"and do Canary Wharf with you?"
Yes, you can, 'cause you know a little bit
the history of this area. That's right.
And we're just gonna see, as with the others,
where the escalators are, where the lifts are,
and talk about some of the OSIs, as well.
The Out of Station Interchanges
that Canary Wharf lets you have.
We're at the western end of Crossrail Place.
Keith, what is Crossrail Place?
So Crossrail Place is the name
for the entire station building.
It has a five story development,
as well as the station on this level.
You've got shops, restaurants,
and even a roof garden at the top.
But there's a gate line here at the western end,
and I can already see there's escalators down,
and there's obviously a gate line
at the eastern end. Yeah.
So this is a bit like Paddington, isn't it?
Where there's like a mezzanine?
That's right.
The gate line is on like a mezzanine level.
That's right, so the signage inside will direct you
to this end, which is signed as Crossrail Place,
which is over there, which is where you would get off
if you wanted to go to West India Quay DLR,
and also to get to the main Canary Wharf,
Canada Square, Canary Wharf tower, the main development.
The other end is where you would get off,
according to the signage, anyway,
if you wanted the Jubilee Line.
(machine beeping)
Here's a thing, they got purple roundels
up here, not at platform level.
Why would you have a roundel not on the platform level?
Has Paddington got a roundel on its mezzanine level?
I don't think it has.
I don't think it has, either.
TFL, why have you put roundels not on the platform level?
Escalators at this end, we've got bank of two escalators.
There's a lift as well, that goes up
to the retail levels as well.
There's a bank of escalators going down, here.
So this is heading down to the platforms,
the Elizabeth line platforms. (metal screeching)
It's so beautiful, it's so pretty, this feels--
It's also quite yellow.
This feels less, Paddington's got
a slight air of gloom about it.
This feels much more brighter and lighter.
It's interesting, maybe on the platforms.
I think the concourse of Paddington's quite light and airy,
isn't it, because it's open to the sky,
but I agree with you, the platforms here.
Perhaps it's that lovely canary yellow
tinge on the escalators.
Is it canary yellow, or is that a joke?
I don't think it's a joke.
I think it's deliberately a design feature.
But some people are against the yellow.
I like the yellow, are you with?
I think it's bright. Or against the yellow,
Keith, I'm with it.
I'm with any colour, to be honest,
when there's so much silver and grey around,
so yeah, I'm up for the yellow.
We've met Firouz, good morning.
Morning. Are you enjoying it?
Yes, I'm loving it.
Is this now part of your regular commute,
and how has it changed your commute?
This is not part of my regular commute,
but at least it gives me a few more options
to get into central London, but I must say,
it's incredibly well built, and this is really a step up
from all of the other tube lines that are out there.
So I just hope that the other lines can level up
their experience to what the Elizabeth Line is like.
But I recognise that this is a new line.
They had a lot more space to work with,
and at least it's good that all of the stations
in central London are much more spacious,
but it's just, I hope they can do similar expansion works,
like say what they did at Bank is just,
it would be great if they would be able
to do this at other stations as well.
Lovely, good mate, have a good day, all right?
(door chiming) (door snapping shut)
Keith, was it me, or did he just call it a new tube line?
I think he did. I think he did.
All right, we're gonna cut that out from the video.
Yeah, we can't have any confusion.
Keith, next to the roundel here, there's this
(metal rattling)
pattern, is that me, or is that pattern there replicated
(metal screeching) here, but I'm also thinking
that's actually represented in the Canary Wharf
Oyster wallet, although, I think that is meant to be--
Yeah, I think that's the ceiling.
That's the roof up there, isn't it?
So if I lined that up, that, is that that?
For some reason you could walk in between
the escalators and around that metal.
I don't know why.
This would be more impressive if I did
the Geoff Marshall slide on the ground.
Stay there, hang on, take my jacket.
Action.
You can totally walk in between
the escalators and I don't know why.
I dunno why either. (Geoff laughing)
(train humming)
So are we on minus four?
That's what it says.
Okay, but even though I've got a map,
I'm still very confused, because my map is,
first of all, it overlays five levels on one,
but the roof, the very top, is level one.
Talk us through the buttons.
Well, I'll try.
These are different style buttons.
Okay. To all the other
large buttons we've seen during the week.
They certainly are, and for a start,
we seem to be on minus five, according to the lift,
even though the lift outside reckoned it was minus four.
No, I think the lift said it was on minus four.
Oh, okay, sorry. So platform,
platform is definitely minus five.
Well, that's what it says here,
and Ticket Hall minus four, neither of which appear
on my map, which shows five other levels.
So I've got levels minus one, minus two,
minus three, zero, and minus one.
(machine beeping)
The escalators do that thing where they move very slowly
until you tread onto them, and then they speed up.
All right, we're coming out now
at the eastern end exit of Canary Wharf.
This does feel like the lesser entrance
of the two, doesn't it? Yes.
It's definitely a secondary exit.
For a start, there's Bostwick gate across one of the exits.
So, I dunno if that's gonna be opened up
at some point soon, but yeah,
it's definitely not quite as busy here.
Keith, that bit of water means we've got
a little bit of info you've got,
on how the Docklands came to be.
Yeah, so obviously we are in the Docklands area
of London, specifically, we're in the West India Docks,
of which there were originally three,
an import dock, which is the one we're in now,
and that's the one where they built this new station,
an export dock, and then the South Dock.
The import dock is better known today as the North Dock,
but they built this station by actually
sinking a cofferdam and putting it
right in the middle of the North Dock,
and still allowing this space around here
for boats to navigate through.
So you can still come up here, if you've got your own boat,
and interchange with Elizabeth Line that way.
So you could take the boat to get the train?
Providing you had somewhere to moor it, afterwards, yes.
Oh, okay.
'Cause there are mooring restrictions
immediately alongside the station.
But Keith, is it me?
I pretty much know this, but since they've built
this bit here, you can now walk through from Canada Place
through the station and out the other side,
out to West India Quay here, which you couldn't do before,
and Poplar as well, on the DLR.
That's right.
A new walking connection.
Yep, and you don't need to be catching a train to do it.
So you've got a complete through route to Canary Wharf,
from the main office complex there,
and even as far probably, as South Quay Station
Which is why the tube map, which is now appearing here,
all the dotted walking lines have appeared
showing you how West India Quay is linked to Canary Wharf,
is linked to Canary Wharf is linked to Heron Quay.
Right, there's so many stations
in a close proximity it's ridiculous.
What you all need to do is, follow the link
for the website that's on screen now.
Oysterfares.com, my friend, Mike has done
this excellent article on OSIs.
For example, did you know there's now an OSI,
an Out of Station Interchange between here,
Canary Wharf Liz Line, to Poplar DLR?
I didn't know that until
you told me this morning, Geoff.
So you can make that connection.
But what I'm also thinking, Keith,
just for a bit of fun, how long do you think
it would take you to walk, if you were to follow
one of those dotted walking lines, as on the tube map,
how long do you think it would take you
to walk from, if you're making the connection
between the Elizabeth Line and the Underground,
to walk from here over to the Jubilee Line?
I think it would be quicker,
I think it'd be maybe three minutes, if you knew the way.
Do you know the way? Yes.
Just for a bit of fun, what I'm gonna do is,
because of West India Quay DLR is over there right now,
and everybody knows that Heron Quay DLR is nearer
to the Jubilee Line than Canary Wharf DLR--
That's common knowledge.
If I run to West India Quay DLR,
and take the DLR two stops down to Heron Quay DLR,
can I beat you to the Jubilee Line?
I guess there's only one real way
of finding out isn't it, Geoff?
If you walk, and I make a connection
by taking the train, (laughing) shall we do it?
It's lucky you've got a paper travel card today, isn't it?
It is, go. (footsteps tapping)
So I'm walking quite fast.
I reckon this will only work if I get an instant connection.
(footsteps tapping)
And that is straight on to a DLR train.
But I've forgotten of course, that that train there
terminates on the middle platform,
so I'm now having to wait on this platform.
(crowds talking) (train humming)
(door beeping)
(footsteps tapping)
So, it took me seven minutes, five seconds.
Call it exactly seven minutes, Keith?
Well, I said three minutes: two minutes 44.
Okay, so it's not quick to go by the DLR.
It's not quicker to go by the DLR.
But it was fun to try. (laughing)
Of course.
The OSIs and the changing around here is complicated.
But, we've just proved that it makes sense,
because that is now, that is a logical interchange offer.
So what is the fastest way from the Elizabeth Line
to Jubilee Line, just walk straight
through the shopping centre? Fastest way
is Shanks's pony, to hoof it.
Okay, so that was Canary Wharf.
I hope you enjoyed the video, I'm really tired.
I've been doing loads of videos ever since Tuesday.
Did you enjoy that Keith?
I did, thanks Geoff.
Would you like to plug the purple train merch store?
Yeah, thanks for coming out with me today.
Purple train dot store.
So it's purpletrain.store
for all your purple train merch and T-shirt needs.
Subscribe to Geoff's channel,
and thanks to me, Keith. Yeah. (laughing)
For doing? We should have, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, we fell off there.
No, I'm gonna use this tape. (Keith laughing)
I can't use this tape.
You're not gonna use this tape.
I'm so tired.
How can you use this tape, it's up to me,
I edit it. (laughing)
End the video, and then I can leave.
Geoff, end the video. All right,
we'll see you soon, like, subscribe, see you soon.
(Geoff laughing)