The first Elizabeth Line Crossrail trains will appear next month (Picture: TFL)

The first Elizabeth line trains have begun to appear a month before the new track is officially opened.

The new high speed £14.8 billion Crossrail service across London is set to open at the end of May before the whole line is operational in 2019.

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The new train was spotted at Liverpool Street this week and will carry out practice runs before they are officially launched.

The only part of the line that will run is from Liverpool Street to Shenfield until the next stage opens in May 2018


Around 11 new trains will appear on the line between now and September.

#London: Spotted a new crossrail train this morning at Liverpool Street. via Reddit https://t.co/hrAOEIymTt pic.twitter.com/0D2J4pRB3n — Audrey Wright (@AudreyIsWright) April 20, 2017

The exact date for the opening has not yet been announced but otherwise TfL has been keeping information on what the trains look like a secret.



When it is fully open the line will run from Reading and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east.

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The line will speed up the connection between some of London’s busiest stations. For instance the journey between Paddington and Tottenham Court Road will take four instead of the current 20.

Around 200 million passengers are anticipated to use the service every year.

The trains were first spotted earlier this year but more have begun to appear more regularly in the past week.

The first @Elizabethline train arrived in London this morning from the Midlands for testing and driver training. It enters service from May pic.twitter.com/BU1mHpCsWG — Transport for London (@TfL) March 7, 2017

Our first test train ran into Liverpool Street today, the first passenger train enters service from May pic.twitter.com/dMy5hUm0te — Elizabeth line (@elizabethline) February 15, 2017

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