Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Central London Rail Study
Author: London rail study
Author: London Rail Study
Author: London Rail Study
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780716806486
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
LONDON RAIL STUDY - PART 1,2
Author: GREATER LONDON, ENG. DEPT. OF THE ENVIRONMENT.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Central London Rail Study
Author: Central London Rail Study
Author: Central London Rail Study
Author: SERPLAN.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
East London Rail Study
Author: Halcrow Fox and AssociatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
The Story of Crossrail
Author: Christian WolmarPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1788540247
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The story of an engineering marvel of the twenty-first century, from Britain's bestselling railway writer. Crossrail, first conceived just after the Second World War in the era of Attlee and Churchill, has cost more than £15bn and is expected to serve 200 million passengers annually. From Reading and Heathrow in the west, the Elizabeth line will extend to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east, including 42 kilometres of new tunnels dug under central London. The author sets out the complex and highly political reasons for Crossrail's lengthy gestation, tracing the troubled progress of the concept from the rejection of the first Crossrail bill in the 1990s through the tortuous parliamentary processes that led to the passing of the Crossrail Act of 2008. He also recounts in detail the construction of this astonishing new railway, describing how immense tunnel-boring machines cut through a subterranean world of rock and mud with unparalleled accuracy that ensured none of the buildings overhead were affected. A shrewdly incisive observer of postwar transport policy, Wolmar pays due credit to the remarkable achievement of Crossrail, while analysing in clear-eyed fashion the many setbacks it encountered en route to completion. With a new afterword to mark the opening of Crossrail in 2022.