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Elizabeth line: Delayed £18bn Crossrail opens to passengers

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Sam Hewitt

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24th May 2022

Around 130,000 people travelled on London’s £18.9 billion Elizabeth line railway in the first few hours of operation on Tuesday morning.
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Crossrail to run empty trains for weeks to ensure ‘flawless’ service

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Shannon Butcher

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15th March 2022

Crossrail will operate empty trains for several weeks to ensure the service is “absolutely flawless” when it opens, the boss of Transport for London (TfL) said.
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UK railway news roundup

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Sam Hewitt

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5th February 2021

This week’s roundup of news from the UK railway industry.
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Report warns ‘forensic focus’ needed to deliver Crossrail

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd February 2021

A “forensic focus” is required to complete Crossrail within its revised budget and timescale, an inquiry has found.
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Crossrail governance handed over to Transport for London

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Sam Hewitt

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6th October 2020

The Elizabeth line has reached its complex final stages with Crossrail Ltd working to complete the remaining infrastructure so it can fully test the railway and successfully transition the project as an operational railway to Transport for London (TfL).
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No Greater Anglia ‘Aventras’ before 2020

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Sam Hewitt

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4th October 2019

By Ben Jones GREATER Anglia (GA) has confirmed it will not be able to introduce its Class 720 ‘Aventra’ EMUs before the end of 2019. Production and testing of the new trains is running significantly behind schedule after Bombardier experienced delays with the introduction of Crossrail Class 345s and London Overground Class 710s. However, the…
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Crossrail to miss December opening date

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Chris Milner

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31st August 2018

LONDON’S £16bn Crossrail project to build a railway under central London will now not open until the Autumn of 2019. It could be even delayed further. The ambitious project that will connect Reading, Maidenhead and Heathrow Airport with Abbey Wood Shenfield was to see its central section between Liverpool Street and Paddington open this December…
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First Crossrail train on test

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Chris Milner

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29th July 2016

THE first of a fleet of 66 trains that are being built in the East Midlands for the new £16billion Crossrail line is undergoing testing. Based on the Aventra platform, Class 345 EMU No. 345001 was shown off to the press today at Bombardier’s Litchurch Lane works in Derby, making several runs on the short…
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