Elizabeth line enters final stages

Official Project Partner: TfL

Construction of London’s Elizabeth Line is entering its final stages, and Crossrail has released new images to show progress on the route.

With fit-out of the new Elizabeth line stations and tunnels at an advanced stage, intensive work is underway across the line.

Handover to TfL is due this summer, with the railway’s testing and commissioning phase to take place ahead of the opening of the Elizabeth line in December this year.

Whitechapel station: The striking steel framework for the new station building will house the new, brightly-lit integrated ticket hall and provide a new link between the two station entrances including the refurbished original entrance on Whitechapel Road.

Andrew Wolstenholme, Chief Executive, Crossrail, said: “After almost a decade of hard work from tens of thousands of men and women across the country, the construction of the Elizabeth line has entered its final stages. This fantastic set of new images shows the huge amount that has been achieved, and gives passengers a glimpse of their new railway ahead of its opening at the end of the year.”

Canary Wharf station: The station ticket hall is accessed via eight long-rise escalators from the promenade level entrances at either end of the building.

Howard Smith, Operations Director for the Elizabeth line, said: “Seeing our striking new stations take shape is an extremely exciting time for all involved in the historic Elizabeth line project. We look forward to opening these dynamic new spaces to Londoners and visitors when we launch the railway in nine months’ time.”

OHLE installed above Elizabeth line tracks heading down towards Pudding Mill Lane

When complete, the new route will pass through 41 stations from Reading and Heathrow in the west, through new twin-bore 21km tunnels to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east.

 

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