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Old March 16th 12, 10:50 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
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Default Crossrail tunnelling to start shortly

On 16/03/2012 10:34, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:36:36 on Fri,
16 Mar 2012, Graeme Wall remarked:
You forget that Polson was Morton's right hand man on the project and
therefore knows everything about it.


iirc he was involved in one of the rival bids (and unsuccessful) bids to
build a bridge instead.


Difficult to disentangle all his myriad claims but IIRC he was allegedly
working on the tunnel project but thought the bridge proposal was a
better option.

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