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Post office railway reuse
In message , Basil Jet
writes On 26/05/2010 15:04, Paul Terry wrote: Which reminds me that there were several proposals to use the Post Office Railway to remove spoil from the central area. I haven't heard anything more of the suggestion, though. Wouldn't it be easier to remove the spoil by the Crossrail tunnels they had just dug? The idea was to use the PO Railway to remove the huge amounts of spoil from the shafts and station boxes that are currently being dug. The actual tunnel boring is not due to start until late 2011 but when it does, the spoil from that will indeed be removed by rail through the tunnel itself. Apparently the idea of adapting the PO Railway for spoil transportation was considered by the Crossrail board, but rejected for a number of fairly obvious reasons, so lorries are being used instead at the moment. -- Paul Terry |
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