Good morning.
The hilarious T-shirt is on,
it is Wednesday the 25th of May.
It's Elizabeth Line day two,
Lewis from the Kintore video is here,
he's here to hang out and help me do a deep dive
at Paddington station,
and you can already see here,
there is a constant stream of people
coming off the main GWR concourse
and heading into the Elizabeth Line station.
We're gonna go in,
see where the lifts are,
see where the escalators are,
see if there's toilets,
see where the exits are,
and just do an explore of Paddington, here,
on the Elizabeth Line.
You can't high five but we can high finger.
There we go.
Ding. So how long did it take to change
between where purple trains coming over there
and the Elizabeth Line station over there?
Basically you just walk across the GWR concourse,
that's about a two minute walk.
So a lot of the shots in previous videos that I've done
just feature on that entrance/exit there
where there's three escalators.
It's currently in a two down one up configuration
because it's the morning peak.
Give us a wave, morning.
There he goes,
and there's two escalators there,
for the step free,
that takes you down to sort of the concourse
in between mezzanine ticket hall level.
There is also another way in here,
off of, by the side of platform one
of the main GWR station,
you can come through here,
and that takes you to this way in here,
where there's only two escalators,
there's one going up and there's one going down,
and behind us here, the steps there,
and that leads up to where we were singing purple train...
♪ Purple train ♪
...Yesterday.
Like you do.
This is today's hilarious T-shirt by the way,
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Link in the description for all your
purple train merch needs.
That's the plug part done.
You haven't got one of the Elizabeth's Line
oyster cards yet? No, not yet.
This is your moment.
Lewis is gonna get one of the purple train...
♪ Purple train! ♪
...Oyster cards.
Do it, do it, do it.
Is it? Is it? Is it? Is it?
Yeah!
Look at that.
There we go.
That's a potential thumbnail.
Is that me is there a croak in my voice?
No.
There's a little bit of a croak.
Do I not sound a little bit croak?
Maybe a tiny bit.
Too much singing yesterday.
♪ Purple train! ♪
Too much singing.
Please use the gates to the side.
All right.
Accessibility, it's really important to note,
there's two gate lines here.
The one that we just come through
and there's one over there on the Northern side.
If you want the lifts down to the platform,
you must come through this gate line.
There's no lifts to the platform on the other gate line.
(gate beeping)
There's actually four sets of escalators
to take you down to platform level.
So on this gate line, there's two sets of two.
And on the other side, there's two sets of two,
but the lifts are coming up.
"Elizabeth Line towards Abbey Wood.
Shenfield via Central London".
There are two lifts.
Oh, hello me.
Let's do...
Oh, it's the same.
It's -5 is Elizabeth Line,
and there's a further access point down
to the Bakerloo Line.
(elevator beeping)
Okay. Platform wise, over there,
'cause Paddington at the moment,
everything is terminating.
So Platform A, is the eastbound,
what's happening here, right now,
is a train is coming in on platform B
and there's all these lovely platform staff
in their high vis' waving and basically,
you're train clearance, aren't you?
Yes.
And basically they make sure,
'cause this train is about to go and reverse
into the Westbourne Park sidings,
passengers are not allowed to do that.
So there's five members of staff
that specifically make sure that the train is empty
and all the passengers aren't on board the train.
260 metre platforms.
We're 130 metres, halfway down.
There is a lift here,
and what looks like stairs to the Bakerloo Line,
we'll do that in a second,
'cause I just want to go to the other extremity first.
Morning. Morning.
Dwayne, right? Yeah.
How you doing, man? I'm good.
Are you still excited?
Yeah, I'm still excited. Purple train.
♪ Purple train! ♪
I've met Sam by the way,
Sam, I love your purple finger.
Have you had anybody...
Because this is a bit like the Kennington loop
on the Northern line. Yeah.
Where they have to make sure that
no passengers stay on board.
Yeah.
But there's gonna be an incident or two isn't there
where there's maybe somebody that's asleep
or maybe on a Friday night, a little bit drunk.
Is that gonna happen?
That will happen,
we've already had people already been asleep coming in.
Did you have to give 'em a polite nudge?
Yeah. (Geoff laughing)
They got off after a while,
I think the excitement got to them yesterday.
(doors beeping)
So we came down the escalators, actually sorry, lifts,
at that end.
This is now the first of the two sets of escalators
at the Western slash Northern Western end.
So if you come in the other gate line
you come down the escalators here.
Four sets of escalators from the ticket hall
mezzanine level, down to platform level.
Lewis, look, look!
I bet if you peer through the door, is that me?
Or can you totally...
You can peer into the abyss.
The Crossrail abyss.
Hey look, there's like a little,
little sneaky cross passage,
that just takes you through
to the eastbound platform,
which, have we mentioned, a very long...
How long Lewis? Did you watch my video from yesterday?
Three hundred and something?
Two hundred and something.
Take two.
Hey Lewis. How long?
200 and something.
Yeah, that'll do. (both laughing)
We've just met Lindsay.
Hi, first time on the purple train.
It is.
Are you excited?
I'm very excited. I'm very jazzed. (doors beeping)
Oh, okay. That's it. There we go.
Thanks Lindsay. Bye.
So Lewis, what do you think of the new Kintore station?
(both laughing)
It's a bit cookie cutter, isn't it?
It's a little bit common.
Is it me or are all these Elizabeth Line stations
just the same? (Lewis laughing)
If you've not watched the 'Six Stations' video
at Kintore with Lewis...
Point to the corner here, Lewis,
Point to the corner.
That one? That one.
Yes. That one.
That corner yeah.
You should go watch that video.
I've got my stopwatch out to time the most important thing,
which you wanted to hear at Paddington,
and that is, there are escalators here, one up, one down,
to the corridor that takes you to the Bakerloo Line,
there's stairs and a lift over there as well.
But we want to know how long it takes to walk from here
to the Bakerloo Line.
So the editor will do some kind of speeded up montage thing.
Are you ready Lewis?
Let's go.
So the lift and stairs are there,
but you go left here, down this... Wow.
...Long corridor.
Long corridor. (Geoff laughing)
Morning. You all right?
Are you counting people?
Wow, you're counting to see how...
oh, hang on, I'll press pause.
You're counting to see how many people
are changing between the Bakerloo and...
Yes.
Is it busier than expected or?
No.
Oh, okay. It'll pick up though, right?
Hopefully yes. Okay. Thank you very much.
All right, I shall restart. I'm on 1:30.
Okay. Hang on.
Whoa, hang on. Whoa.
I think that's the lift,
and then I can hear, already, escalators.
Two escalators and stairs in the middle.
Morning!
And that brings you out in two minutes ten seconds.
You've got the southbound there and the northbound here
on the Bakerloo.
Okay. Bakerloo Line.
In just over two minutes.
But I walk quite fast.
If you're a slower walker maybe allow yourself
three minutes to do that.
Sign for the lift.
So the lift is then,
oh, so there's the regular stairs that you might know.
And then the lift is then down here.
And what this, of course, means,
is that it's not just a lift and step free access
to the Elizabeth Line,
but this means there's step free access
now to the Bakerloo via the Elizabeth line.
So if you've arrived at Paddington
and you want the Bakerloo Line, step free,
you can go via the Elizabeth Line,
and do what we've just done with the lift corridor
on this lift,
and that takes you to the Bakerloo, step free,
which is awesome,
and that's why it's now got a...
The Bakerloo Line, on the new tube map,
has got a step free blob.
[Station Announcer] Please do your bit
by washing your hands frequently
and using our hand sanitizers before and after travelling.
And then we've made the walk back down the corridor.
Do you wanna take the stairs or do you wanna get the lift?
Zig-zaggy stairs.
You've gotta go zig-zaggy stair.
Oh, the lift's not even here Lewis.
I'm totally gonna lose.
He's got a head start.
I think Lewis has already won.
Oh, he's already here, look.
(lift beeping)
Yeah. Okay. You won.
Well done.
Whilst we're at Paddington this morning, by complete fluke,
somebody was saying to me yesterday, in yesterday's video,
"oh, you should speak to Emma,
who was the driver of the first purple train".
♪ Purple train! ♪
And I tweeted Emma, whom I thought was the first driver,
but I got that wrong.
Emma was the driver of the first eastbound train
from Paddington.
In my video yesterday there's this remarkably charming bit
where the driver of the train,
a female voice goes "3, 2, 1, we're leaving",
and that person is actually Monica,
who I've met.
Hello. Hello.
So you drove the first train out of Abbey Wood yesterday?
You were my driver.
Indeed. It was me.
How was it?
It was amazing. It was amazing.
I felt honoured. I felt very proud.
Okay. I felt great.
Were you looking on your CCTV in cab
and seeing it for the first time in months,
you could see a train full of actual passengers?
'Cause you've been driving empty trains
for like weeks, right?
No, but I was always very, very consistent.
I was always checking my PTI,
my CCTV to get ready for the day.
So yeah, I did that yesterday.
Well done. All right.
So that's it, you'll always be the first driver
of the new section, to have left Abbey Wood.
Well done. I think so, thank you.
And a pleasure to meet you. Are you off shift now?
No, I'm on my break. You're going into a break?
Go get a cup of tea, whatever.
Yeah. Lovely to meet you.
So that is your deep dive look at Paddington,
with all the step free,
the lift, the escalators,
the toilets, by the way,
because there are no toilets on the class 345's,
here at Paddington,
there are toilets, quite close by actually,
about a minute away on the main concourse
of the existing GWR stations.
If you want the toilet at Paddington,
that's where to go.
Lewis come wave goodbye.
Thanks for randomly turning up.
Press subscribe.
Gonna work my way back down the entire line
towards Abbey Wood,
over the series of the next few videos.
Press subscribe Lewis.
Ding, ding, ding, ding. Ding, ding, ding.
Bye.
There we go.