The Elizabeth Line (aka Crossrail) is go!

[BigTom]

The Mail obsession with civil servants working from home is a bit weird isn’t it? They need demons for the public to rail against to draw fire from the actual cunts in charge.

Probably find lord rothermere (?) who owns it also has a lot of property investments in office buildings and such like.

 

[hash tag]

The Mail obsession with civil servants working from home is a bit weird isn’t it? They need demons for the public to rail against to draw fire from the actual cunts in charge.

I thought they were looking to shed something like 90,000 civil service jobs.

 

[Dogsauce]

I thought they were looking to shed something like 90,000 civil service jobs.

Yeah, I realise they’re just giving cover for the government to start layoffs, reduce sympathy etc.

 

[existentialist]

The Daily Mail had this to say about Crossrail

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Snidey fuckers.

 

[pbsmooth]

It seems to be slower from Shenfield to Liverpool St on Crossrail than the normal trains that have run for years.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Saw the Cross rail signs @ Tottenham Crt Rd today, it's getting real. If you want to see what £1 Billion looks like go to Tottenham Court Road station. That was it's price tag, £130 million more than Hamburg's over budget and similarly late Elbphilharmonie concert hall.

 

[platinumsage]

The Queen opened it today, dressed in "Circle line yellow" so it's obvious where her affections lie. I bet she made a sarcy comment about it not actually being open as it's three separate railway lines.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The Queen opened it today, dressed in "Circle line yellow" so it's obvious where her affections lie. I bet she made a sarcy comment about it not actually being open as it's three separate railway lines.

Can't manage to do the parliament thing, but the horse racing, then naming a train line after herself, fucking manages that with no issue, is ATOS on the case with this scrounger?

 

[tim]

I'm so excited! I just hide it very well.

 

[TopCat]

Off to have a ride on crossrail shortly.

 

[hash tag]

I'm only jealous, stuck here in the Midlands

 

[TopCat]

Liverpool St is now on the Northern line. The station must be half the size of the city of London.

 

[TopCat]

Liverpool street is now linked underground to Moorgate. It's amazing the scope of it.

 

[TopCat]

I had to keep schtum but now you will all see the incredible engineering. Behold!

 

[Petcha]

Oh dear..

Chaos at the launch of Elizabeth Line as trains are SUSPENDED after just two hours after train fans queued from MIDNIGHT and flew in from Canada to be the first to board London's newest line​

(from the mail, wont link)

 

[Petcha]

Did you work on this Topcat? If so, my colleague has a fairly good question. Why on the signage, roundels and the tube map...

https://content.tfl.gov.uk/standard-tube-map.pdf

...does it have the word 'line' after it whereas all the other lines just have 'northern', 'district' etc?

 

[Oula]

My son went this morning and managed to get on the 2nd or 3rd train.

 

[Numbers]

I’m going to give it a go from Paddington to Custom House when I finish work.

 

[T & P]

Ahh... Great Britain, never change please! Our pricing and ticketing continues to be the envy of the world

Commuters using the new Elizabeth Line in London could make a saving by getting off and on again at certain stations.

The “confusing” ticketing system – which switches between Transport for London and National Rail Fares – means completing a journey in one go will cost substantially more.
A peak time journey from Reading to Canary Wharf would cost £29.20 if you tapped in and out using a contactless payment or oyster card, according to Transport for London.

However, a journey from Reading to Slough only costs £5.90 while Slough to Canary Wharf cost £12.50 also at peak times. This means a passenger who boarded at Reading would save £10.80 by getting off the train Slough, tapping out and in the gates and then boarding the next train to Canary Wharf.

Similarly, breaking a trip between Reading to Liverpool Street at West Ealing would save a commuter £7.20.

'Confusing' Crossrail tickets mean passengers can save £10 by getting off and on again

Using Transport for London's ticketing system will cost more

www.telegraph.co.uk

Fucking laughable and tragic in equal parts.

 

[A380]

Out of the UK. I thought the first day was Thursday. Oh well.

 

[Chilli.s]

Fucking laughable and tragic in equal parts.

A design feature?

 

[mack]

It's not a tube line as such, but an in independent rail service that connects with a few tube lines, So it has mainly it's own identity

Did you work on this Topcat? If so, my colleague has a fairly good question. Why on the signage, roundels and the tube map...

https://content.tfl.gov.uk/standard-tube-map.pdf

...does it have the word 'line' after it whereas all the other lines just have 'northern', 'district' etc?

 

[tim]

My son went this morning and managed to get on the 2nd or 3rd train.

Train 9 or 10 Westbound from Custom House for me.

 

[Lazy Llama]

The Daily Mail had this to say about Crossrail

“ Just one example: a
journey from Paddington, in West London, to
Canary Wharf, in the old East End currently takes well over half an hour. Once the Elizabeth Line has opened, that will take just 17 minutes.”

Only it doesn’t take well over half an hour.


Right now 23 minutes. So a massive saving of 6 minutes.

As someone who may occasionally make that journey, I can’t see it making a massive difference to whether I commute or not.
It’s not like many people are living in Paddington and commuting to Canary Wharf, more likely they’re coming from Reading or similar. And for now they a) still have to change at Paddington and b) EL trains to Reading stop at every blade of grass on the way.

 

[Petcha]

I live 5 mins walk from canary wharf, its my local station and had no idea this was coming through. Result.

 

[TopCat]

20 mins this morn from Paddington to Liverpool street. Huge, long trains. Take over a thousand people a time.

 

[TopCat]

Did you work on this Topcat? If so, my colleague has a fairly good question. Why on the signage, roundels and the tube map...

https://content.tfl.gov.uk/standard-tube-map.pdf

...does it have the word 'line' after it whereas all the other lines just have 'northern', 'district' etc?

It was aimed at emphasizing the royal connection so no govt would feel able to cancel the project given the hideous over spending.

 

[mack]

20 mins this morn from Paddington to Liverpool street. Huge, long trains. Take over a thousand people a time.

Max capacity 1500, nine walkthrough cars, no bogs, 4 dedicated wheelchair spaces, Aircon, WiFi.

 

[se5]

So on this fancy new line will it cost me the same to travel from Reading to Paddington on TfL as on GWR?

 

[mack]

Using contactless it's £26.00 peak times £11.30 off peak.