"Peter Masson" wrote in message
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"Mizter T" wrote

The plans or route has not changed - some of the recent reporting has
been deficient.

New tunnel under the Thames from North Woolwich to Woolwich, but the
Abbey Wood branch of Crossrail will use the old alignment of the North
London Line from a point west of Custom House to a point between the
old Silvertown and North Woolwich stations - this includes the old
Connaught Tunnel under the Royal Albert Dock (which will be done up).

It will be at a lower alignment east of the Connaught Tunnel, through
Silvertown station, and this is one reason why there does not seem to be a
prospect of a station to serve City Airport.

I believe the idea is to provide passive provision for a Crossrail station
somewhere near the safeguarded DLR station position between 'Pontoon Dock'
and 'West Silvertown', perhaps above Connaught Rd? They do explicity state
that the existing Silvertown ex NLL station will be completley demolished.

There is only this small paragraph that I can find in the Crossrail 'east'
route summary:

"Provision is being made in the plans for a future station at
Silvertown, should this ever be required. This would not be on the
current station site, but instead would be further to the west. A DLR
City Airport branch station has been safeguarded very close to here to
provide possible interchange."

Bit of a low profile statement all the same...

Paul S