The INSPIRATION behind the Elizabeth Line

I'm in Paris, having a look at the railway system that partly inspired London's Elizabeth Line. The RER is Paris's regional express railway linking the city with its surrounding suburbs and nearby towns!

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[tevbuff]

Great French pronunciation bro and great video 👌🏾

[triton_]

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

[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!

[felixpgames]

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)

[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.

[remig.]

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

[peterdawson]

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.

[shaiyanomamo]

Great video and your French pronunciation is top-notch.

[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!

[afterburner]

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.

[rpw]

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

[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.

[Piaxo-vzxv]

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

[MikeEwer]

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

[Trainviking]

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

[FromtheWindowSeat]

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

[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 !

[ompadamayloppy]

Châtelet les Halles est la plus grande statuon souterraine du monde

[Devkumar]

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?

[leolienne_]

man you just linked Sevran with Kaaris you must be french