John Goldsmith

Area Community Relations

Manager

Crossrail

West London Transport Seminar 10 May 2013

Contents

1. Overview of Crossrail

2. Route

3. Benefits

4. Central Section / Tunnelling

5. Services

6. Planned works

7. Excavated material

What is Crossrail?

• Europe’s largest infrastructure project

• A new high capacity, high frequency railway across

London

• Providing a 10% increase to London’s rail capacity

• New, greener, air conditioned trains will be 200 metres

long and carry up to 1500 passengers

• Services from 2018

What is Crossrail?

21 km of new sub-surface twin-bore railway through London

8 sub-surface stations

Connections with other services

Crossrail

benefits

GDP benefits -

£42bn

14,000 people

required

24 trains per

hour

1.5 million

people

Tunnel Boring Machine

7.20m

THAMES TIDEWAY

ALL DIMENSIONS

REFER TO

INTERNAL

DIAMETER

7.15m

CHANNEL TUNNEL RAIL LINK

JUBILEE LINE

CROSSRAIL

VICTORIA LINE

3.81m

6.20m

Liverpool Street

Eastern Ticket Hall- Broadgate

Farringdon station

Paddington Station

PIP Taxi Ramp Feb 12

PIP Taxi Ramp February 12

Canary Wharf station – located in North Dock

Station Identity

Line identity

Common approach to materials

Common components

Common principles

Rolling Stock

• Lightweight energy efficient trains (10 to 18% lighter)

• Maximised passenger capacity – 200m long 10-car trains with wide aisles

• 1,500 seated & standing passengers per train at peak times

• Regenerates energy during braking (major savings in energy and CO2 emissions) - minimises heat energy into the tunnel

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Interior vision

Proposed Crossrail services

Peak times:

4 trains per hour between Maidenhead & central London

4 trains per hour between central London & Heathrow

2 trains per hour between West Drayton & central London

Operation will be franchised by TfL London Rail

Ticketing system will be fully integrated with Oyster

Airports

4 trains per hour providing direct service to London Heathrow

Step-free access at Farringdon to trains serving Gatwick Airport and Luton Airport

39 minutes from Farringdon to Luton Airport Parkway

42 minutes from Farringdon to Gatwick Airport (Farringdon is 2 minutes to west of Liverpool Street)

Direct service to Stansted Airport from Liverpool Street

Commencement of Services

Liverpool St (Mainline) to Shenfield May 2017

Paddington (Mainline) to Heathrow May 2018

Paddington (Low level) to Abbey Wood Dec 2018

Paddington (Low level) to Shenfield May 2019

Maidenhead / Heathrow to

Abbey Wood / Shenfield Dec 2019

Journey times

Ealing Broadway:

Paddington in 9 minutes

Tottenham Court Road in 14 minutes

Liverpool Street in 19 minutes

Canary Wharf in 26 minutes

Hayes & Harlington:

Paddington in 18 minutes

Tottenham Court Road in 23 minutes

Liverpool Street in 27 minutes

Canary Wharf in 35 minutes

Crossrail Surface – Planned works

Network Rail are best placed to deliver the works

Agreement for Network Rail to be Crossrail’s ‘Industry Partner’:

New assets will become part of their asset base

Facility charges will be paid by the operator over 30-50 years

Crossrail is the ‘customer’

Acton Dive-under

Stockley Flyover

Bridge works

replacements

raising parapets

Work underway

Improvements to 13

stations, including new

step free access at 7

ticket offices at 4

platforms & platform

extensions

Electrification from

Stockley to Maidenhead

New sidings

Track lowering

Track improvements

Signalling improvements

Work to come

on Western Spur

Archaeology • Crossrail’s new ticket hall at Liverpool Street to be built on site of

London’s infamous Bedlam psychiatric hospital

• Many well preserved burials – some at 1.5 m below street level

• More than 85 burials discovered so far, with as many as 6 bodies

per cubic metre

• Analysis of the remains provides insight into lives of Bedlam

inhabitants, as well as information about diet, disease and

mortality

Movement of Excavated Material

Over 200k m3 per month at peak

14% by rail – 1.0 M m3

39% by barge – 2.9 M m3

47% by road – 3.4 M m3

Material generated 2010 - 2015

Wallasea Island

Wallasea Island

Any Questions?