Elizabeth Line, 6.8.22 to 1.1.23


David Bosher

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<h4><a href='/locations/A/Abbey_Wood_EL'>Abbey Wood [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>345016 (left) and 345033 (right) at Abbey Wood, the south-east London terminus of the Elizabeth Line, on the boiling hot afternoon of Saturday, 6th August 2022, two and half months after the line's much-belated opening on 24th May. It should have opened in December 2018. 1/14</p><p>06/08/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Abbey_Wood_EL'>Abbey Wood [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>Reports say Elizabeth Line services should continue beyond Paddington from 6th November 2022 and Bond Street station is expected to open around that time too. 345019 has just arrived at Abbey Wood from Paddington and is waiting to return thereto, on the morning of Friday, 23rd September 2022. NB: It was announced on 28th September that Bond Street station will actually open on 24th October so that's another date for my photography diary! 2/14</p><p>23/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bond_Street_EL'>Bond Street [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>The new lengthy pedestrian subway linking the Oxford Street entrance to the new Elizabeth Line platforms at Bond Street that opened on this day, Monday, 24th October 2022. You can seemingly walk miles in this gargantuan subterranean catacomb before you even set foot on a train. 3/14</p><p>24/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bond_Street_EL'>Bond Street [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>View from foot of escalator from the Hanover Square entrance to the new Elizabeth Line platforms at Bond Street station, on opening day, Monday, 24th October 2022. 4/14</p><p>24/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bond_Street_EL'>Bond Street [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>Bond Street, Elizabeth Line, on the day the station opened, Monday 24th October 2022. This view looking east towards Abbey Wood. Bond Street was already served by the LU Central and Jubilee Lines, since 1900 and 1979 respectively. 5/14</p><p>24/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bond_Street_EL'>Bond Street [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>Interior of Bond Street station ticket hall, Elizabeth Line, of the new Hanover Square entrance, looking towards the barriers on the morning of the day of opening, Monday, 24th October 2022. 6/14</p><p>24/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Heathrow_Terminal_5_BAA'>Heathrow Terminal 5 [BAA]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Heathrow_Terminal_5_Heathrow_Railway_British_Airports_Authority'>Heathrow Terminal 5 (Heathrow Railway (British Airports Authority))</a></small></p><p>345048, just arrived at Heathrow Terminal 5 with an Elizabeth Line service from Abbey Wood, and waiting to return thereto at 11.52 on Sunday, 6th November 2022, the first day of through services between the two termini. Elizabeth Line trains also began running through from Abbey Wood to Reading on this day too while in the east, trains from Shenfield began running through as far as Paddington only via the new connection at Whitechapel although a few Shenield trains continue to serve Liverpool Street main. 7/14</p><p>06/11/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Heathrow_Terminal_4_BAA'>Heathrow Terminal 4 [BAA]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Heathrow_Railway_British_Airports_Authority'>Heathrow Railway (British Airports Authority)</a></small></p><p>345008 at Heathrow Terminal 4 waiting to depart with the 12.35 Elizabeth Line service to Abbey Wood on Sunday, 6th November 2022, the first day of through trains. I travelled to Abbey Wood on this train in one hour and five minutes, a timing that was never possible between the two before this day. But oh! those wretchedly hard seats. 8/14</p><p>06/11/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Abbey_Wood_EL'>Abbey Wood [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>345008, just arrived at Abbey Wood at 13.40 with the ex-12.35 service from Heathrow Terminal 4, waiting to depart as the 13.54 service to Maidenhead on Sunday, 6th November 2022, the first day of Elizabeth Line through services. On the left is 345 029 with the 13.47 service to Heathrow Terminal 5. This was the first time these destinations had been served from here. 9/14</p><p>06/11/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Abbey_Wood_EL'>Abbey Wood [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>345029 at Abbey Wood, waiting to depart with the 13.47 Elizabeth Line service to Heathrow Terminal 5, on the first day of through services, Sunday, 6th November 2022. The train sports a poppy for the following weekend's Remembrance Sunday, the first without HM Queen Elizabeth II following her passing in September 2022. 10/14</p><p>06/11/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Canary_Wharf_EL'>Canary Wharf [EL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Elizabeth_Line'>Elizabeth Line</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Canary Wharf station, Elizabeth Line, opened on 24th May 2022 (three and a half years late), seen here nearly 6 months later on the evening of Saturday, 12th November 2022. Changing here for the Jubilee Line involves an up escalator, out into the street, a trek through the entire length of the Canada Place shopping mall and then back down another escalator. Nor on the Elizabeth Line platforms were there any directions to the DLR that I could see. 11/14</p><p>12/11/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Forest_Gate'>Forest Gate</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Colchester_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>London to Colchester (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>345 unit with Elizabeth Line service from Shenfield to Paddington arriving at Forest Gate, east London, on the afternoon of Tuesday, 15th November 2022. EL trains began through running from Shenfield to Paddington on Sunday, 6th November 2022, using the new underground section between Stratford and Whitechapel, giving the former Shenfield local service an extra station between Stratford and Liverpool Street. It is expected that trains from Shenfield will run beyond Paddington to Heathrow and Reading sometime in 2023. 12/14</p><p>15/11/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Hayes_and_Harlington'>Hayes and Harlington</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway'>Great Western Railway</a></small></p><p>345016, on short working to Maidenhead, arriving at Hayes & Harlington at dusk on 1st January 2023. Many Elizabeth Line trains seem to terminate at Maidenhead rather than Reading. Brunel's line here was opened by the GWR from Paddington (replaced by the present station in 1854) to Slough on 4th June 1838 but references to when this station opened are rather vague, some say 1864, others 1868 but all agree it was originally simply Hayes. I have not been able to ascertain when it became Hayes & Harlington. This station is the junction for the branch to Heathrow. 13/14</p><p>01/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/I/Ilford'>Ilford</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Colchester_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>London to Colchester (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>345059, Elizabeth Line from Paddington to Shenfield, departing from Ilford on 4th April 2023. The station dates from the opening of the first section of the Eastern Counties Railway on 20th June 1839. A brand new entrance on Cranbrook Road bridge at the east end of the station was opened in 2022. 14/14</p><p>04/04/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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