The INSPIRATION behind the Elizabeth Line

[@tevbuff]

Great French pronunciation bro and great video 👌🏾

[@SomeoneExplores]

Thank you very much! :)

[@felixpgames9639]

The RER systems also have a very similar idea to many German S-Bahn systems with a tunnel through the city center (Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart as examples)

[@KyrilPG]

Just a little fact nugget : the smell of the RER in Auber and some other stations actually doesn't come from people's "leftovers". It comes from a chemical reaction between ground or seeping rain water via infiltrations with the gypsum and sulfur mineral layers through which the stations are bored. This gives the typical stench of rotten eggs (or worse). The gypsum and sulfur layers were historically mined, mostly to create plaster, giving the famous "plaster of Paris". RER D should soon start running RER NG trains like on line E, with the only difference that line D NG's will have 7 or 14, whereas they have 6 or 12 cars on line E. Your French pronunciation is top notch! Kudos!

[@UncommonManFromEarth]

Sure it's not always working perfectly but I think we can be proud of our RERs. As a regular user of the A and E lines (certainly not the worse of them) I'm pretty happy with the experience.

[@peterdawson2645]

Just after the first part of Line A opened way back in 1969, I insisted on dragging the rest of the family on a short ride to check it out. We got off at Chatelet Les Halles and discovered they hadn't quite sorted out the interchange tickets - in those days you got a free extra ticket to take the central section from the Metro. We were trapped in a huge concourse and none of the barriers would take our tickets. My Dad had to appeal to a member of staff - "Monsieur, comment echapper?" - and he found the right barriers. In those days it was eerily quiet, not the madhouse in your fascinating video.

[@remig.7969]

7:38 Exactly, the opening of the extension is May, 6th !

[@triton_152]

4:52 the door was like "YEA I'LL CLOSE, wait maybe not, okay fine ill close then"

[@scottkirby4304]

THE FRENCH PRONUNCIATION THOUGH

[@SomeoneExplores]

Oui oui monsieur 🥐

[@CaseysTrains]

4:06 That park was cited as the inspiration of the "High Line" In NY City and The Reading Viaduct here in Philadelphia! That's so cool!

[@Emi_LDA]

Ohhh, what’s it’s name? 👀

[@KyrilPG]

It's called la Coulée Verte (for its entirety), but also has some person's name if I recall correctly (might be only for a section).

[@MikeEwer]

To be fair, you can't use the Oyster all the way to Reading or Shenfield either (or to the extremities of Thameslink).

[@SomeoneExplores]

That is very true!

[@shaiyanomamo3705]

Great video and your French pronunciation is top-notch.

[@rpw1013]

Nice one buddy, very informative. I wasn't aware that there was so many options in Paris.

[@DonQuixote-g7j]

Totally agree re RER D. Been using it off and on since 1988 and I think the rolling stock still hasn't changed. Grotty old carriages - not a pleasant experience, even when travelling from GdN to GdL. Good work fellah and as yer man says above, your French pronunciation rocks...

[@KyrilPG]

​@@DonQuixote-g7j RER D is getting the new RER NG trains too with 7 or 14 cars (it's 6 or 12 on E). It will be quite a change!

[@MitchelMor]

Bread of the highest order

[@Devkumar43072]

I was disappointed that segment about RER D about the ticketing differences one can't tap in at Farringdon then take the class 345 to Reading using an oyster card. You should have gone into detail on this as the oyster card isn't valid West from West Drayton but contactless as well as freedom passes are. Can TfL implement oyster on the special fares category (increase of fares on every 2 or 3 stations) until Reading?

[@afterburner94]

The algorithm works in mysterious ways brother. Super solid video that introduces uour channel to me and im sure, many other viewers. Definitely subscribed. Love the tongue in cheek format while super informative and really well laid out and out together. And i agree, as a Parisian, the RER isnt the RER without the smell of human piss or shit stalactites forming on the roof of Auber station. This is a little je-ne-sais-quoi for our beloved nternational tourists friends. And its a free gift guys, enjoy ahahhaha.

[@FromtheWindowSeat]

Good video. Out of interest, how do you have such a good French accent? 🇫🇷 Very impressive!

[@SpotterCrazyperson]

Nice video

[@Piaxo-vz8xv]

You've got an incredibly great french accent. GG for your video too its very good even for a parisian like me 😂

[@trraynsportss375]

Bro put Kaaris😭😭 incredible vid tho

[@SomeoneExplores]

I was actually out there to see him live, so had to stop by his ends 😂

[@ddanenel]

great video man

[@ChickenUsers]

great vid!

[@Trainviking]

I really like this video, great work and very informative.

[@MegaBiscuit888]

Good video, nice job

[@katrinabryce]

I think the first was the Argyle and North Clyde lines in Glasgow. The Elizabeth Line was first proposed in the County of London Plan in 1943, so it actually predates the RER, it just took forever to get it built.

[@SomeoneExplores]

That's the thing with infrastructure in this country. Takes a day and an age to complete!

[@kevinmarshall5431]

Merseyside PTE did a project in the 1970's called the 'link and loop', whereby the routes from Southport, Kirkby and Ormskirk were put with the line from Hunts Cross, by means of a tunnel. The route from Birkenhead, was made a loop in Central Liverpool, connecting with intercity and regional services at Lime Street.

[@KyrilPG]

No, the first idea for the RER dates back to the early 1900's, then a first plan in 1936 (plan Ruhlmann-Langewin), then revised and launched after the 50's. They too danced around the bush for decades.

[@katrinabryce]

@@KyrilPG Sure, but the Glasgow City and District Railway (North Clyde Line) opened in 1886 and the Glasgow Central Railway (Argyle Line) opened in 1894.

[@KyrilPG]

@katrinabryce Though, the RER concept, even in its very early plans, went beyond just linking suburban lines from opposite sides of the city with a tunnel. The primary idea also included building a massive tunnel deep underground, below the metro, with large electric heavy metro trains, several gigantic vaulted "underground cathedral" stations, and running somewhat parallel to busy existing metro lines or corridors in order to relieve them with an express heavy metro service of regional scope. It was conceived as a new layer, a new integrated mass rapid transit system supplementing the metro by taking its fundamentals and massively scaling them up to connect suburban lines together. It was even called Metro Express Regional during its planning and development. It was changed to RER to avoid easy puns with the acronym MER after boards were printed displaying the name Métro Express Régional Défense Étoile for a section opening. I'll let you see what the problem was with the acronym. 🤣 RER A parallels M1 almost entirely, while RER B parallels a heavily traveled line (M4), or a North-South axis / corridor (M5, M12 or M13). M1 & M4 being the busiest metro lines in Paris, which both have been converted to full driverless automation to increase frequency and reliability as much as technically possible. Then, M14 (also driverless) was built as another relief to the previous relieved and relieving lines M1 and RER A on a portion of their path. RER E's Western extension is just another attempt at reducing the massive load on the East-West central corridor.

[@leolienne_]

man you just linked Sevran with Kaaris you must be french

[@ompadamayloppy149]

Châtelet les Halles est la plus grande statuon souterraine du monde

[@TheLondonMood]

Great video, I really enjoyed it 👍

[@xouxoful]

RER B has absolute priority over RER D in the tunnel. That’s why when things get heated, the D gets impacted, not the B. I can’t blame the Ratp for refusing to yield its priority !

[@metalblind95]

Good. Suscribed

[@theunknown2470]

Very scary when you literally just get to Gare du Nord. Felt like I was gonna get robbed