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Old May 16th 09, 02:04 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
John Rowland John Rowland is offline
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Default Crossrail under way

Roland Perry wrote:
In message
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at 06:24:04 on Sat, 16 May 2009, Mr Thant
remarked:
And the railway lines - deep underground I suppose (below the
docks).


Yes:
http://tinyurl.com/q8spkt


Very revealing. Four floors of retail, then ticket hall below that and
the platforms below that.

I was wondering why they needed such a long building if the trains
were below the surface. RETAIL!


Maybe they wouldn't be allowed to have platforms below water.