Elizabeth line: explained

The Elizabeth line opens officially at 06:30am on Tuesday 24 May, but what can commuters expect when using the service? BBC London's Paul Murphy-Kasp has put together this guide.

[rey]

Why £26 from Reading to Paddington? What's the explanation for that? Doesn't make any sense to me. I went from Victoria to Kent and paid less than that for a return ticket, and sometimes flying to another country would cost me around £26, and Reading is just there around the corner. I'm baffled !!!

[PeterGaunt]

One under-mentioned thing is that for people my age we can use our Freedom Passes on the entire line. When it's opened all the way through I'm gonna do Reading to Shenfield for no other reason than because I can 🙂

[BlockMasterUK]

The current price from Reading to Paddington is just under £23. Why are we now paying more for the same journey? Disgrace!

[HenrysAdventures]

o pleased the Elizabeth Line is finally open! I had a great time riding it on its opening day!

[Andrewjg_]

Hopefully the central part between Stratford-Whitechapel will open later this year. And I can’t wait to ride on the new Elizabeth Line and I have been on the Class 345 lots of times.

[conradcodfish]

Can't wait to pay £200 to stand up

[MasterNick]

can we get a video like this for each of the existing lines please??? Lol

[theancientsancients]

It's an open of a opening of an opening ! It was partially open for years and this latest opening is partial opening again 🙈

[genoquilaleo]

It will be nice to have some bridge in east London too, as traffic by the tunnel its just a nightmare

[LonDonTaylor.]

Reading to Paddington £26 Jesus Christ! I haven't used public transport for a while. Rip off

[katejackson]

26 quid? wtaf u can get a plane t europe 4 that

[antonydandrea]

Its not finished until is fully merged imo

[j.j.anthony]

£26 for a tube ticket seems high but maybe I am out of touch with London prices, since paying £21 for three small glasses of wine in 1990.

[MrMattMWH]

On behalf of the rest of the country, I'm so glad London had 18 billion spent on it. You guys always seem to be bottom of the queue. Well done.

[MrMrtommie]

I remember being in school and it being a pain to meet my friends on weekends. I'm now nearly 24 ahahah. Hope all the years of constant agro are worth it lol

[hardave]

You can get an uber for that much...defeats the purpose really

[The_Chairperson]

Most of these stations have already been there for years- connected via TflR.

Adding few new stations and naming it EL? 20 Billion for this?

C r o o k s.

[trvplxrd]

Do TFL own the trains between Paddington to Reading, I'm guessing not as it is a train out of London

[fash]

there should be a underground link in new malden and kingston.

[AranTV]

I dont care i just want a 24 hour service