On May 17, 7:50*am, Roland Perry wrote:
In message
, at
16:23:08 on Sat, 16 May 2009, Mr Thant
remarked:

There's no other reason for it being built so much earlier than the
rest of the line. The Canary Wharf Group (or whatever they're called)
must be very keen to get those shops open.

Do they have to dig the tunnels that connect to the station first, or
does the station box come first?

The station box, by the looks of it - the construction of which was
kicked off on Friday at Canary Wharf (or at least that's what the PR
people would have you believe!) . From a construction POV I'd imagine
that sequencing the station box first can only make sense - not sure
it'd really be possible or at least easy to do it the other way round.