Crossrail

Pre-Crossrail upgrades at Acton Main Line station approved

20 May 2016Upgrades to Acton Main Line station ahead of the introduction of Crossrail, recently renamed the Elizabeth line, have been approved by Ealing Council. The upgrade will include platform extensions to accommodate Crossrail’s 200m trains and a...

Bombardier opens Crossrail testing facility in Derby

16 May 2016Bombardier will test and commission its Crossrail trains at a new facility in Derby, which formally opened on Friday. The 10,000 square metre site has been built to support the production of 66 new Aventra nine-car class 345 EMUs. The facility...

Unique designs for new Crossrail stations released

11 May 2016New images of the remodelled stations along the Elizabeth Line, as Crossrail will be named, have been released to the public. The images, which are also featured in a free exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects, provide a new gli...

Network Rail completes £14.5m Crossrail preparations over bank holiday

04 May 2016Network Rail completed a £14.5m programme of works at 21 locations over the May bank holiday weekend to prepare tracks, infrastructure and stations for Crossrail. With 1,800 people working round the clock, the work included track remodellin...

New bridge opens at Iver over GWML as part of Crossrail preparations

05 April 2016A new bridge across the Great Western Main Line in Iver designed to be high enough to accommodate electrified Crossrail trains is now open. The 110m long Thorney Lane Bridge opened to vehicles and pedestrians in the early hours of 2 April. It al...

£30m Crossrail improvements completed over Easter weekend

01 April 2016Crossrail successfully received £30m of improvements as part of the Easter weekend upgrades. Half of the £60m Network Rail spent on upgrades went to Crossrail-related projects, with more than 3,000 workers completing more than 100,000...

Council leaders call for ‘eastern phase’ to Crossrail 2 to promote growth

22 March 2016Crossrail 2 must be extended to east London in order to foster growth in the region, council leaders have said. According to a new study from transport consultancy GHD, which was commissioned jointly by Essex, Newham, Hackney and Barking and Dage...

Lord Adonis welcomes green light for HS3 and Crossrail 2 in Budget

17 March 2016Lord Adonis today welcomed confirmation that HS3 and Crossrail 2 are to go ahead in yesterday’s Budget. Lord Adonis, chair of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC), recently produced reports recommending that plans for the first phas...

Crossrail 2 must be developed ‘as a priority’ and delivered by 2033 – NIC

10 March 2016Crossrail 2 must be taken forward as a priority to meet the demands of London’s growth, the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) said in a new report published today. The report says that London will be a ‘megacity’ of more...

Business funding needed for Crossrail 2 to succeed, says Hendy

03 March 2016Funding will be needed from business as well as the government if railway projects such as Crossrail 2 are to succeed, the chair of Network Rail has said. Sir Peter Hendy told the London Assembly Transport Committee recently that there was an urg...

Crossrail to share lessons learned with infrastructure industry

29 February 2016Crossrail have launched a new website to share lessons learned from the project with the wider UK infrastructure industry. The Crossrail Learning Legacy project will share material such as technical papers, peer-reviewed case studies and procedur...

Crossrail to be named Elizabeth Line in honour of Queen

23 February 2016Crossrail will be named the Elizabeth Line in honour of the Queen, Boris Johnson announced today. The London mayor made the announcement as the Queen visited the under-construction Crossrail station at Bond Street. The central section of the eas...

New platform opens at Abbey Wood in preparation for Crossrail

23 February 2016A new platform opened at Abbey Wood station yesterday as part of preparations for Crossrail’s 2018 opening. The platform, for Southeastern services to London, is wider than the old platform with better lighting, increased canopy cover and n...

Further Crossrail works planned at Whitechapel

12 January 2016Transformation works to ensure Whitechapel station is accessible ahead of 2018 Crossrail services have kicked off this week. Though Crossrail works have been ongoing in the station since 2010, Transport for London (TfL) said it will now make the...

Crossrail tunnel fit-out on track

21 December 2015Gregg Purcell, Crossrail’s railway systems construction manager, discusses the early learning from the complex task of fitting out the new £14.8bn railway’s tunnels.