Tunnel Boring Cross Rail Machine
Tunnel boring machines (TBM) were used in pairs to build cross rail tunnels. Mining tradition going back to the 1500s workforce prayed to the patron Saint Barbara of armourers, military engineers, tunnellers, gunsmiths and miners to protect them from dangers. The saint works against thunder and lighting and all accidents arising from explosions
The TBMS used for the Crossrail are also named after women
Phyllis
Ada
Elizabeth
Victoria
Jessica
Ellie
Sophia
Mary
Cross Rail = 42km of underground tunnels.
10 new stations
Art Installations
New Spaces
Canary Wharf Cross Rail Place
Paddington to Hayes Elizabethan Line trains currently running
Cross Rail sections of the network
Central and South East Stations
Abbeywood – Whitechapel – Paddington
Western Section
Paddington –Heathrow – Reading
Acton Mainline – Reading
Eastern Section
(Stratford – Shenfield)
Elizabethan Line stations in London
Whitechapel
Canary Wharf
Custom House
Woolwich
Abbey Wood
Hayes and Harlington
Southall
Hanwell
West Ealing
Ealing Broadway
Acton Main Line
Paddington
Bond street
Tottenham Court Road
Farringdon
Liverpool street
Whitechapel
Stratford
Mary Land
Forest Gate
Manor Park station
Ilford station
Seven Kings
Goodmayes
Chadwell Heath
Romford
Gidea Park
Harold Wood
Brentwood
Shenfield station
