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Old June 4th 15, 10:52 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Crossrail tunneling complete

On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:00:36 +0100, Jim Chisholm
wrote:

On 04/06/2015 10:06, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:43:10 on Thu, 4 Jun 2015,
Jim Chisholm remarked:

Eight boring machines have been cutting their way through earth to
create 26 miles (42km) of tunnels."


That's the new tunnels, plus the exciting machines which re-did the
kilometre of Connaught tunnel.

And isn't it a shame that these boring machines and their expert
workforce cannot now move directly to start CROSSRAIL2?


Yes, but HS2 may need the workforce in between. The HS2 tunnels will
be bigger, so not the same TBMs.