Crossrail reached its first major construction milestone after the installation of the first tubular steel piles for the newly renamed Canary Wharf station. This is the beginning of the £15.9bn mega rail project.
In the photos, you will see the first pile installed, and renderings of the Canary Wharf. Used construction equipment are now widely used to save on equipment procurement and maintenance costs.
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Crossrail's route will stretch 118km from Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west, through 21.5km of twin bored tunnels through central London, and on to Canary Wharf, Woolwich, Abbey Wood and Shenfield in the east.
Surveying and enabling works are already well underway at many locations along this route and the property acquisition process has also begun. And last weekend saw the closure of Charing Cross Road in London’s West End as plant was mobilised ready to tackle the demolition of buildings around Tottenham Court Road Underground station. This is being upgraded as part of London Underground improvement works and will also interface with a Crossrail station.
But all eyes are now on Canary Wharf station − known as Isle of Dogs until last week when it was renamed by developer Canary Wharf Group which is putting £150M into its construction. It will be the first station to be complete along the route and is scheduled to be ready for handover to Crossrail by summer 2012.
At that point the station will comprise a watertight cofferdam in the North Dock of West India Quay, running along the northern edge of Canary Wharf.
Once complete it will be ready to welcome the tunnel boring machine that will be working its way westward from the Limmo Peninsula across the Thames to the east.
