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Home > Crossrail completes first running tunnel

Crossrail completes first running tunnel

Tris Thomas

Written by Tris Thomas on 09/10/2013 in News

Tagged: underground

Crossrail’s western tunnels JV Bam Ferrovial/Kier Joint Venture (BFK) has completed the London project’s first running tunnel as EPBM Phyllis finishes the Royal Oak to Farringdon tunnel. The milestone comes as Phyllis and six other tunnelling machines on Crossrail reach the 13 mile point in their 26 mile marathon tunnel build.

Phyllis finished 17 months after commencing her 4.2 mile (6.8 km) journey from Royal Oak in west London and Farringdon in central London.

Phyllis’ sister machine, Ada, is in the Holborn area and is due to complete tunnelling during the winter while another six machines will finish tunnelling next year.

During the coming weeks, Phyllis will be dismantled and her 130m long trailer system will be removed from the tunnel via the recently completed Fisher Street shaft.

Andy Mitchell, Crossrail Programme Director said: “Crossrail’s construction continues to move ahead at a significant pace. Crossrail has not only completed the first Crossrail tunnel under London but has reached the half-way point for our tunnelling machines with a phenomenal 13 miles of tunnels constructed to-date. A further six tunnelling machines are currently hard at work constructing over 100 metres of new tunnel each day with major tunnelling due to complete next year.”

This week, the final pre-cast concrete rings will be cast at Crossrail’s temporary concrete segment factory for the western tunnels at Old Oak Common. The rings are erected by the tunnelling machine as it excavates the earth and moves forward underground.

More than 1,000 people are working on the western tunnel section of the project, building new train tunnels between Royal Oak at Farringdon, and new passenger, platform and service tunnels for new stations at Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road and Farringdon. Another 9,000 people are working across the project.

When it opens in 2018, Crossrail will transform train travel across London and the south east, delivering faster journey times, boosting London’s rail capacity by 10% and bringing an additional 1.5 million people closer to the capital’s business centres. Over 200 million passengers will travel on Crossrail each year.

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