Excited crowds cheer the opening of the Elizabeth line

To cheers as the doors closed, the very first Elizabeth line train to run through central London departed a packed Abbey Wood station at 6:30 this morning.
Abbey Wood has probably never seen anything like it. A brand new station, and a queue that snaked around the side streets as huge crowds turned up to be able to say “yes, I was there” on the day that the first train carried paying passengers.As the queue waited to be let in, TfL’s Chief Operating Officer, Andy Lord arrived a