Video: Crossrail release quarterly update

Crossrail has released its quarterly update for 2016 and revealed the project is now more than 75% complete.

Work is currently underway to finish the stations and fit-out the physical infrastructure with the systems needed to turn it into an operational railway.

Back in August, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan made the first station-to-station journey from the new Elizabeth line station at Custom House to Canary Wharf to mark Crossrail’s construction programme reaching the 75 per cent complete milestone.

Over half of the new track has now been successfully laid, and almost all of the platform structures, which will give step-free access to the 200 metre long trains in the ten new stations, have been built.

In the video update, Moving Ahead, Crossrail Chief Executive, Andrew Wolstenholme provides a run down of the work undertaken from his location at Farringdon Station, 30 metres underground on the eastbound platform of the new Elizabeth Line.

The video highlights the architectural finishes and distinctive features that are emerging as work is carried out.

Glass-fibred reinforced concrete cladding unique to railway are visible as timelapse footage shows the progress of construction on London’s newest railway line.

Speaking back in August about the project, Mr Khan commented: “It will help us deliver a modern, truly world-class transport system that allows us to deal with the growth in London’s population over the coming decades.

“I visited the Canary Wharf station site as Transport Minister in 2010 when construction had just got underway. The fact that the project is now 75 per cent complete, and being delivered on time and within budget is testament to the hard work of the thousands of men and women who have worked on the project.”

Crossrail said that the remaining work on the delivery programme is expected present “new challenges” as work continues on installation of tracks, platform screens, tunnel ventilation, power, signalling, communications and overhead line equipment.

Crossrail expect the project to be delivered on time and on budget in December 2018.

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