On Apr 21, 9:18*pm, Rupert Candy
wrote:
Over the past couple of years I've seen blue hoardings adorned with
the Crossrail logo in Canning Town (on Victoria Dock Road somewhere
between Royal Victoria and Custom House DLR stations), in the back
streets of Limehouse (near Westferry DLR), in the car park of
Whitechapel Sainsbury's (just off Whitechapel Road and Cambridge
Heath
Road), and on Sutton Row (between Tottenham Court Road and Soho
Square).

They all seemed to be test digs of some sort - I did see some holes,
albeit small ones.

There's one in Charterhouse Square, too, I noticed the other evening.

I remember a Crossrail branded hoarding in Charterhouse Sq (and one in
the Barbican gardens) in 1990. Call me a pessimist...

Any idea what the 1990 hoardings were for?

I've seen test digs outside my work (Farringdon/Cowcross Street) and
outside my old flat (Whitechapel/Durward Street) over the last couple
of months. According to the leaflet that came through the door in
Whitechapel these are geological surveys, hence the large derricks
behind the hoardings.

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