- Good morning, from London Heathrow Airport.
Today, I'm going to be one of the first people to go on
the brand new Elizabeth line.
I've just landed into Heathrow from New York.
So I thought I would show you how you can use this line
to get from Heathrow into central London,
And also just to see how cool this brand
new line's gonna be. Yeah.
This is it, the first one.
(train announcer on PA)
The Elizabeth line.
(upbeat instrumental hip-hop music)
Okay, so what is the Elizabeth line?
It's also known as the crossrail
and it's a brand new 73 mile train line here in London.
The point of this line is to help reduce journey times,
to make it easier to get between east London
and west London and Heathrow airport and to reduce some
of the pressure off of our most popular tube lines.
What we know about this today is that
the project is three and a half years late,
about 4 billion pounds over budget,
But here we are 13 years, and 18 billion pounds later
about to ride on one of the first officially branded
Elizabeth line trains.
- [Train Announcer] Elizabeth line service
to London Paddington, next stop,
Heathrow terminals 2 and 3, we are now ready to depart,
mind the doors.
- Okay, first impressions.
This train is way more comfortable
than taking the Piccadilly line, which is always crowded,
and there's no place to put your suitcase.
Plus it's a lot slower than this one
but it's also not quite as luxurious.
And of course not as fast as the Heathrow express.
Like there are no plugs on this train,
like the Heathrow express has, and
it's gonna take us about twice as long to get to Paddington.
After 34 minutes, we're at Paddington station.
(upbeat instrumental rock)
We're gonna take the lift
down to the platform at Paddington.
And we were told to take the right lift
because that's the one that the queen went on the other day.
So we're going to Tottenham Court Road station
but we've had to change at Paddington
because the three branches have not yet been connected.
That will happen in autumn.
- Welcome, welcome.
- Thank you, thanks so much, thanks guys
This is all new
and it's only just open today for the Elizabeth line.
- [Train Announcer #2] Thank you for coming this early
to witness the first of its kind, the Elizabeth line,
to Abbey Road. Thank you once again and
feel free to tag this on all social media
hashtag Elizabeth line.
Please use all available doors.
- I just got back from New York
and the vibes are so good today.
With opening day
everyone is so excited, everyone's taking pictures, videos.
The announcers are going crazy.
It's just so exciting.
We've just arrived at Tottenham Court Road station.
This is right in the centre of London.
So this is gonna be a super busy place.
In terms of the pricing,
the Elizabeth line is going to be the same prices,
If you had taken the tube
except if you're going in or out of Heathrow
then there's going to be a £7.20 supplement.
So it will be a bit more expensive
but still a pretty good deal.
All right, watch your back.
- [Cameraman] Yeah.
- As you can tell by the sound we are right
in the centre of London, and this is one of
the 10 new stations they built to house the Elizabeth line.
Overall, I think it's been a great experience.
I don't love that you have to change at Paddington
at the moment to get into central London from Heathrow.
And I don't love
that the accessibility isn't a 100% yet
in terms of having lifts available.
However, I as a Londoner,
will be taking this train all the time.
Can't wait. Thank you for watching.
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