Thread: Crossrail tunnelling to start shortly
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Old March 15th 12, 11:17 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Crossrail tunnelling to start shortly
In article , (Mizter T) wrote:

Tunnel boring to begin from the Royal Oak portal heading eastwards
under central London.

Pictorial:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17365934

"The scheme is currently the largest civil engineering project in Europe."
Really? Bigger than the Gotthard Base Tunnel?

Video:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17356912

So, it's finally really happening.

I thought they were starting on the 21st? I noted the date some time back as
it's my younger daughter's birthday.

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Colin Rosenstiel
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