it is the evening of sunday the 15th of
may tomorrow monday the 16th of may the
bank branch on the northern line reopens
where it's been closed for many many
weeks now as they do all the rebuilding
works that bank can add in the new
platform except as i suspected might
happen and actually it opened up late
this afternoon so i thought i'd go for a
look around
all right pulling into bank now i'm
coming in i'm excited i'm coming in on
the uh
northbound i'm going to cross over to
the southbound you can already see the
new concourse
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everybody turned up on sunday evening
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hey how are you
you seem really familiar do i know you
from somewhere no no no never met before
never met before never met before you
must be uh mishy's uh one of those pesky
youtubers
so the escalators that you know and love
are there behind me then is then the
northbound platform and then you come
this way remember it's right hand
running here at bank you get onto the uh
well this is where where's richard gonna
borrow richard richards here i'm going
to use richard so i'm now walking along
the platform of the old southbound
platform richard if you go that side
richard is now walking along
where the tracks
were so what is this this line is the
dividing line is that is that is that
right our best guess is that that's a
real platform and this is some new
material that's been filled in and then
when it sort of expands with heat this
is an expansion joint just to make sure
that construction problems sorry
probably actually engineer an actual
interview with him that's quite okay
it's a good guess okay at least going to
a nice line
it's a very nice straight line that is a
long so this is the old running tunnel
is now a huge passenger area yeah that
will make it so much easier to empty out
trains from either side
and then
through here you've got the connecting
cord all through to the new platform
uh this is the new southbound platform
at bank station it's very big very wide
um lots of new signs lots of temporary
signage as well at the moment because
when the next steps to the bank upgrades
are finished they're going to peel a lot
of this off and the actual permanent
enamel signs are hopefully behind them
so there's a new dot matrix which is it
me is it like four deep that's four deep
but it's having a few uh having a few
issues
yeah
i'm sure they'll fix that okay that's
your new express service uh calling at
london bridge modern and morden only
northern line the next train to morden
will arrive in two minutes
tim's off thanks tim bye tim
bye asa
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so there's a few uh there's a few
blue hoardings uh this is just my
entourage by the way they're just
following me around uh there's a few new
hoardings with things that haven't been
opened up yet we're walking to the other
end it's so wide loving it how wide it
is oh this is nice so this whole area
here
takes you through again
look how big that is that is through to
the uh the shared concourse area and the
northbound platform and then there's
this area here
and this area here amari am i correct in
thinking that this is going to be where
the travel laters are going to be is
that is that right that's correct so i
think what it is the traveling is going
to be here this artist's impression is
actually at the other end travelling has
come out into this little lobby here
with the escalators up to the central
line hang on hang on if i if i hold the
camera up and over what what a door oh a
door
a door okay as always and then what's
through there
that cross passage just links through to
the next one
and then beyond that is the escalators
down to the dlr
so our best guess is that this signage
is temporary covering up what actually
is the correct signage because while the
cannon street exit isn't done and the
new dlr escalator isn't done you need to
direct people slightly different ways
through the station
so you can see here on the edge it's a
little vinyl sticker yeah they'll
they'll peel that off at some point to
reveal
things like same on this side you can
see the final sign underneath you see
the light shining through and then this
is coming out
from the new platform into the shared
concourse area again
standing in the area here where the old
tracks used to be
platform here it goes all the way down
where do those steps go there's some
steps there
okay in these steps bring him up to uh
this familiar area here which is part of
the
the station that as was
this down there of course uh yeah so
that is the way in to the
northbound and it's the way down to the
new shed area and then the southbound
there's a sign here have you noticed
yeah bank london bridge blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah hang on no look
burra is missing its tick where's this
little should it have a little tiki
thing
it's missing one and on this one here in
the cross passage
uh elizabeth line lowercase l is a
little that's a little hard
that's a sticker it's a sticker it's
there nice it's there
so amar is trying to line up a photo you
took like to do like a before and after
so we're standing in the same spot
that's the before gone and that's the do
it again that's amazing do it again
before
do it again
we could just do this all day yeah i'm
liking this
thanks very much no worries
so that is it it is open uh the new
southbound northern line platform here
at bank station it's very wide with that
connecting concourse area as well the
lifts and the escalators and the travel
lights will follow along with the new
chemistry entrance later in the year but
it doesn't mean that the northern line
is up and running again down the bank
branch which also means new tube map any
day now which is also going to have a
touch of purple on it thanks for
watching press subscribe and thanks to
all these guys too bye
you