It is day five of purple train.
I've had no sleep all week, but I'm still excited,
still wearing a purple shirt.
And this morning I'm at
Moorgate slash Liverpool street station
as we continue our deep dive into all the stations.
Now there's a lot of lifts,
a lot of step free access to check out here.
Which is why Sarah.
Morning. Morning.
Has turned up to help me.
(oyster card reader beeping)
All right.
Hello. Signage.
What are you thinking? Hello.
Yes.
Can you see signs for the lift?
I can see two lifts.
There's the lift going back there,
and there's one over there.
Which is for the Elizabeth line?
I don't know, I haven't worked that out yet.
It's that one 'cause there's the purple,
so it must be that one, right?
Oh.
Do you know, it'd be so much better
if it had a line on the floor, a special purple line.
I think TFL will watch this and see you say that,
so already feedback (chuckles).
Now some of you might be asking, hang on Geoff,
if this is a Liverpool street video, why you at Moorgate?
It's the classic thing because
the Crossrail stations are so huge, capacious,
the Eastern end of Liverpool street cross rail
is a Liverpool street,
but the Western end stretches all the way here to Moorgate.
What's really interesting about that
is that it means that it is then
connected to both on the tube map.
But what's really interesting is that on the tube map
it shows it being connected to both
Liverpool street and Moorgate.
But on the London's rail and tube services map
it only shows the connection to Liverpool street
and not Moorgate.
But you can access the purple train
platforms of Liverpool street via here,
this entrance exit at Moorgate.
When you come in, again,
it's got the diagram of where all different lifts are.
What levels you're at,
again what lines are with the colours.
And most importantly for today,
the Elizabeth line with services towards Abbey Wood.
To operate the lift please press the button.
I'm ready.
Okay, now Sarah, something I've already spotted,
something interesting's gonna happen here
that happened with me and Reese at Tottenham Court Road.
Can you see it already?
Yes.
Is it what I think it is?
It's a mezzanine level.
Oh my God, yes.
So it's a split lift, you do that lift first
and then you come along this little.
I like this.
Okay.
We clearly you want minus nine.
We do.
But minus eight for the Northern line,
oh, so there's another level.
Keep clear of the doors please,
do not obstruct the doors.
Do you wanna do the Northern line corridor now?
Because I've just seen it,
I've just worked out on the press trip
I climbed up these steps, went to the top there,
but never went down the corridor.
If we go back in the lift,
and we go up from minus nine to minus eight.
Yeah, so they want minus one.
Yeah. Okay.
Thank you.
Okay, thanks.
But we're just gonna go,
presumably we're gonna pop out this side here
to minus eight, there we go, minus eight level.
What I'm gonna do.
Yes, yes.
I'm gonna time it,
because I think this is a really long corridor.
Actually add on a few seconds for that bit there,
but I just wanna see how long this corridor
takes to walk down.
We're gonna start now.
It's one minute and I can't see the end of the corridor.
And as I say that, I can suddenly I can see a little bend.
Morning. Good morning Geoff.
How you doing?
Thank you, how are you enjoying it?
Very well, it brilliant.
All right, see a bit.
Bye.
The corridor then bends, you found another lift?
The lift to Northern line.
And it has lift to the left, Northern line to the right.
It's basically it's two minutes.
Allow yourself three minutes to walk
that connecting corridor.
Here we come.
So where can we go from here?
Just to the Northern.
This is one of those it doesn't even have the logo.
No.
It's just a press to operate.
Ah, we're right by the Northern line,
the southbound platform is there.
It's amazing.
The Northbound platform is there.
Escalator up to the National Rail platforms are there.
And you're on the Northern line.
Wow.
You like that?
I really, really do.
Woo, familiar tiles.
And that takes us back.
I wanted to take the shortcut.
To the really long corridor.
It's like parkrun.
Like parkrun (laughs).
It's so long, It feels like a 5K long corridor.
Oh man, what is the longest interchange corridor
on the tube of the the TFL map?
It could be this one.
Keep clear of the doors please.
It's not all about Sarah.
There's a couple of people here,
the gentleman you've been on the train.
But Casey this is a genuine your first moment,
I wanna capture your natural reaction
because you've not been on the platform and seen it yet.
Hi everyone.
Just say hi to YouTube.
Hi to YouTube.
I wanna get your natural reaction, ready, ready?
This is it.
If you could gasp that would really help.
(gasps) This is amazing.
It's very clean.
It's clean? Yeah.
Well, it's brand new, I'd hope so.
Exactly, it's amazing.
Okay.
I like the boards, they're very like fancy and up-tech.
Yeah, it's great.
It's at this point people normally
comment on the length of the platforms.
They are quite long.
You're aware that if you go down that end
you can walk all the way to Liverpool street, right?
Wow.
So this is the Moorgate end.
Yeah. [Geoff But down there
is the Liverpool Street end.
Sarah, you were saying something about way finding.
I was, it's so much better than I thought.
Because this is a vast station,
but I found notices in every place I'd expect,
they're so regularly spaced.
I love these displays over the platform edge doors
and the animation.
I'm finding it really easy to follow.
But how are you finding the gap?
Is that an acceptable gap for you,
what's that like, is that two inches?
Yes.
I think, yeah, that's no problem for me.
And I don't think it'd be a problem
for a scooter or a power chair user.
(train beeping)
So there's signage here to indicate
that if you want the bit of Elizabeth line
that is Liverpool street to Shenfield
you have to exit this way.
You go up the escalators at the gate line
under the main high level, regular Liverpool street station.
And then pick up services from platforms 15 to 17,
I am gonna time that connection in a second.
So this is the only one of these stations that have that,
so yesterday at Farringdon you don't have this.
At Tottenham Court Road two days ago we didn't have this,
but for some reason, I'm sure somebody, hi,
will tell us why.
But the there's a middle passageway,
and it goes uninterrupted all the way down.
I'm guessing they expect more people
to be walking between Liverpool Street and Moorgate.
And so rather than have people walk the platforms
they've decided to do this corridor passageway.
When you say passageway,
you think of a tiny three metre wide underground passage.
I think this deserves a better word than passage way.
Chasm, catacomb.
Chasm, catacomb, cathedral-esque tunnel.
Come up with a word Sarah,
what would you be calling it?
All I could think on opening day was cathedral,
but yeah, it's cathedral of train, the whole place.
Cathedral of train (laughs).
It's amazing who you meet
whilst walking the corridors of Liverpool street,
in my case, I've met the CEO of MTR UK division.
MTR Steve are actually the people who do what?
'Cause people just see it as TFL.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's actually run by MTR, isn't it?
We're the operators, TFL are the clients.
So they've created this project,
they've been our partners all the way through.
We're here to operate the service on behalf of TFL,
which is a great honour of course.
And you're just checking out your own railway today,
what are you doing here?
Well, this is just the best place to be, isn't it?
And actually all the way through
I've been watching your stuff on social media for years.
You're very kind, thank you.
And your support actually of the whole project
has been amazing.
Even when I call it cross rail.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll allow that.
(Geoff laughing) No, it's been brilliant,
so really appreciate that.
You'll letting that one slide.
Yeah, completely.
Because as railway crew we've loved the fact
you've been supporting us all the way through.
We finally got here.
What's not to love about railways?
Absolutely.
If you agree put that in the comments.
I wanna see 1000 people type the phrase,
"What's not to love about railways."
Absolutely, I'm with you.
Okay, I have only one tricky question to test you out.
I'm not so good on tricky questions.
Okay, my beloved friend Sarah
is about to go up to street level.
Yeah.
Is it an inclinator, is it a funicular?
Or, you had a brilliant phrase, what did you call it?
I can't say that on video,
I'm just gonna say it's a lot of fun,
it's a really fun lift.
Enjoy it. We need to know
the correct technical name.
And of course I'm an operator, not an engineer.
It's just a lot of fun, you'll love it.
I'm gonna call it a diagonal lift.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
A diagonal lift, there we go.
Thanks Steve.
All right. Cheers mate.
Thanks a lot, great to see you.
Bye.
If you're taking the escalators there are three there.
We found out by the way
the official phrase is inclined lift.
So it's not inclinator..
There's actually a clip actually
from the press trip that I never used.
So here's an outtake where Mark Wild
actually discusses why it's not called a funicular.
No, it's not a funicular for one reason.
Huh?
A funicular goes up and down like that.
That's a funicular.
So we're calling it an inclined lift.
And the clever thing is this is literally
a lift shaft on its side.
Sarah, so I think there's a regular lift,
and then that will then take us to the inclined lift.
Thank you very much.
(lift beeping) That one?
Yeah.
You've done an inclinator before, right?
Yeah, just not this one.
You've done the one at Greenford.
Yeah. Where else
have you done an inclinator?
That's it. That's it.
But it's exciting every time
Controversy, at Liverpool Street the actual gate line
with the lovely MTR staff, in the press video I was saying,
"Remember it's platform A for Abbey Wood,
and B for Berkshire."
But Tim has come up with.
A for the Abbey, B for the bear.
B for the bear, that is amazing.
Let's do that.
B for the bear.
At the Bishop's Gate ticket gate line hall entrance,
that one, there are more escalators,
and another smaller, shorter, where is it?
There it is, there's another incline lift
that takes you out to that entrance up there.
But Sarah and I are gonna go through that one down there.
Okay, so this is the Western end exit.
You come out here that brings you by the escalators
that take you down and up from the Central line there,
and the subsurface platform there.
Sarah's here.
Sarah, do you know where the lift is to exit?
I can't remember where it is.
I'm working on it.
Woo hoo.
We've made it to Liverpool Street main concourse.
How was your step-free experience?
Amazing. Amazing?
Wow. It really, really was.
So you thought the way finding was good?
Yes.
But you wanted what?
Maybe, maybe some floor stickers you think might help.
Yes, yeah.
What else? Tell YouTube.
Oh, I especially enjoyed the incline lift,
it's so much fun.
Okay, there's one long one here then a short one,
and there's two at Farringdon.
And we didn't actually go on a train, did we?
So I feel like in a minute, we should actually just--
We really should do that. Go back.
Cause we wanna check that the gap
for actually boarding the train is okay as well.
Yeah.
But you've actually, you did it the other day, didn't you?
I did. You were here on Tuesday?
I did it with my friend that uses a power wheelchair.
So your friend in a power wheelchair had no problems?
That's right.
And you in a manual wheelchair you had no problems?
Yeah.
You think the gap's okay.
We found it so, yes.
Okay, all right, I'll do a little cutaway
of Sarah getting on showing that
the wheelchair is good with the gap.
So thanks very much, nice to see you again.
Not a problem.
You're gonna buy me a coffee now.
Yes.
I've only had three coffees today,
I need four.
You need more. I need more.
Coffee level low.
Yeah (laughs).
My caffeine level is falling.
That is it that is the end of day five.
It feels like a series now.
The next video will be Whitechapel.
Coming soon ... Day six.
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Thanks bye. Bye.