Thursday 10 October 2013

Crossrail tunnels reach the halfway mark - Transport - News - London Evening Standard

Crossrail tunnels reach the halfway mark - Transport - News - London Evening Standard: "Crossrail workers were celebrating today as excavation work on its tunnels reached the halfway mark.


Long way to go: the project was given Royal Assent in 2008, with services expected to begin between Liverpool Street and Shenfield in 2015
The machine completed the 4.2-mile stretch from Royal Oak to Farringdon. So far, 13 of the 26 miles of tunnels on the the £14.8billion  project have been drilled."