26.03.12
Early completion for Canary Wharf station
Crossrail station works atCanaryWharfhave been completed ahead of schedule, with the first station platform level complete five months early. The station is now ready to receive the tunnel boring machines for eastern running tunnels in 2013.
A station box has been created that is more than 250m long and 30m wide. Twenty-eight metres below the surface of the dock, twin 7.6m diameter rings are now in place at both ends of the station ready to receive the eastern tunnel boring machines.
Cliff Bryant, executive director of Canary Wharf Contractors Limited, said: “Credit must be given to our workforce and supply chain, many of them local East Londoners, who have responded to a very challenging brief and delivered it to Crossrail ahead of time and within budget.”
Crossrail’s eastern tunnelling contractor Dragados Sisk JV will shortly commence enabling works to receive the two tunnel boring machines that will be launched from Limmo Peninsula later this year.
Bill Tucker, Crossrail area director for the central region, said: “When the tunnelling machines break through into the station box from the east they will undergo maintenance before being moved to the other end of the station box where they will then set off on their journey en route to Farringdon via Whitechapel and Liverpool Street stations.”
After the TBMs pass through, Canary Wharf Group will fit out the station and work will continue to construct the levels sitting directly above the station box. Construction is set to finish in 2015.
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