Thread: Crossrail tunnelling to start shortly
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Old March 16th 12, 12:27 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Crossrail tunnelling to start shortly
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:37:37 -0500, wrote:
In article , (Mizter T) wrote:

On 16/03/2012 00:17, wrote:

In ,
 (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?

I see no-one answered this.

The Gotthard Base Tunnel claims to employ 2,600 people[1] while Crossrail
claims 14,000[2] so it is bigger by that measure. On the other hand the
Gotthard Base Tunnel is only part of a bigger project for which I can't
find total numbers.

[1] http://www.alptransit.ch/fileadmin/d...hbau_GBT_e.pdf
[2] http://www.crossrail.co.uk/railway/benefits
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