The Anonymous Widower

Where Should You Travel On An Elizabeth Line Train?

The Lizzie Line has one very annoying problem.

When you catch a train, how do you know which is the best place to board the train, so that you get off at the right place to continue your journey?

I regularly go between the Moorgate entrance at Liverpool Street station to the Barbican entrance at Farringdon station.

• Liverpool Street station is a double-ended station with an Eastern entrance at Liverpool Street station and a Western entrance at Moorgate station.
• At Moorgate the Western end of the train is closest to the Moorgate Lizzie Line entrance and it is about a hundred metres walk on the level and two escalators between platform and street level.
• Farringdon station is a double-ended station with an Eastern entrance near to the Barbican and a Western entrance at Farringdon station.
• At Farringdon the Eastern end of the train is closest to the Barbican Lizzie Line entrance and it is about a hundred metres walk on the level and two escalators between platform and street level.

Ideally between the Moorgate entrance at Liverpool Street station to the Barbican entrance at Farringdon station, you would want to travel in the Eastern end of the train, as this would mean you had a quick getaway.

So you have to do one of these three things.

• Walk two hundred metres to the Eastern end of the platforms at Liverpool Street station and board the train at its Eastern end.
• Board the train at its Western end and walk back two hundred metres or so to the Eastern end of the platforms on arrival at Farringdon station to exit the station at the Barbican entrance.
• Board the train at its Western end and walk back two hundred metres or so inside the train to the Eastern end before alighting at the Barbican end of Farringdon station to exit the station. Be warned, that Heathrow trains can be blocked by cases, as I said in So Many Cases On A Train!.

I take a different route.

• I use the lift at the Moorgate Lizzie Line entrance to drop to the Westbound Circle/Hammersmith & City/Metropolitan Line platform.
• I get the first Underground train that arrives.
• Whilst it is running to Barbican station, I walk as far forward as I can get.
• I alight at Barbican station and walk to the Western end of the platform.
• From there, I take the lift and an escalator to street level.

It is a route which is step-free with less walking and two lifts and an escalator.

I suspect many regular Lizzie Line passengers will have their own regular short cuts.

Station Alighting Positions

These are in my view, the best place to be in a train, when travelling to these stations.

• Abbey Wood – Eastern end
• Acton Main Line – Eastern half
• Bond Street – Hanover Square – Eastern end
• Bond Street – Davies Street – Western end
• Bond Street – Central Line – Western end
• Bond Street – Jubilee Line – Western end
• Brentwood – Western end
• Burnham – Middle
• Canary Wharf – Escalators both ends and lifts in the middle
• Chadwell Heath – Eastern end
• Custom House – Middle and lift at Western end
• Ealing Broadway – Western end
• Ealing Broadway – Central Line – Western end
• Ealing Broadway – District Line – Western end
• Farringdon – Barbican – Eastern end
• Farringdon – Circle Line – Western end
• Farringdon – Farringdon – Western end
• Farringdon – Hammersmith & City Line – Western end
• Farringdon – Thameslink – Western end
• Forest Gate – Eastern end
• Gidea Park – Western half
• Goodmayes – Western end
• Hanwell – Eastern half
• Harold Wood – Western end
• Hayes and Harlington – Western end
• Heathrow Central – Eastern end
• Heathrow Terminal 4 – Western end
• Heathrow Terminal 5 – Eastern end
• Ilford – Eastern end
• Iver – Eastern half
• Langley – Middle
• Liverpool Street – Central Line – Eastern end
• Liverpool Street – Circle Line – Either end
• Liverpool Street – Hammersmith & City Line – Either end
• Liverpool Street – Liverpool Street – Eastern end
• Liverpool Street – Liverpool Street – National Rail – Eastern end
• Liverpool Street – Metropolitan Line – Either end
• Liverpool Street – Moorgate – Western end
• Liverpool Street – Moorgate – National Rail – Western end
• Liverpool Street – Northern Line – Western end
• Maidenhead – Middle
• Manor Park – Eastern end
• Maryland – Middle
• Paddington – Escalators both ends and lifts in the middle
• Reading – Middle
• Romford – Eastern end
• Seven Kings – Eastern end
• Shenfield – Eastern end
• Slough – Eastern half
• Southall – Middle
• Stratford – Middle
• Taplow – Western half
• Tottenham Court Road – Central Line – Eastern end
• Tottenham Court Road – Dean Street – Western end
• Tottenham Court Road – Northern Line – Eastern end
• Tottenham Court Road – Tottenham Court Road – Eastern end
• Twyford – Western half
• West Drayton – Western end
• West Ealing – Eastern end
• Whitechapel – District Line – Western end
• Whitechapel – Hammersmith & City Line – Western end
• Whitechapel – Overground – Western end
• Whitechapel – Western end
• Woolwich – Western end
• Woolwich – Docklands Light Railway – Western end
• Woolwich – National Rail – Western end

Note.

1. Where another line is indicated, the position is for the interchange.
2. By end, I mean the two end cars.
3. By half, I mean the end four cars.

All of the routes have lifts.

November 30, 2022 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Barbican Station, Circle Line, Elizabeth Line, Farringdon Station, Hammersmith & City Line, Liverpool Street Station, Metropolitan Line, Moorgate Station