London Dungeons. Crossrail

Crossrail - the largest European project to build a new commuter rail network in the UK, which will begin work in 2018. The project cost is enormous - $ 25 billion. During the laying of underground tunnel builders faced not only with a maze of existing modern infrastructure, but with unexpected antiquities: mammoth bones, fragments of Roman roads, jewelry past.





The scale of the construction of Crossrail transport system is really impressive. The project has entered the top ten most expensive transport facilities of the world.
London, May 29, 2013



The length of the line will be 118 km Crossrail. The capacity is designed for 24 trains of 10 cars per hour in each direction, the maximum speed on land areas - up to 160 km / h in the tunnels - 100 km / h. Under the city center, the railway will pass under the ground.
This tunneling shield used in the construction of tunnels. London, June 11 2013.



Londoners believe that it is the largest and most expensive project for the construction of a European transport system - 118 km of surface and underground roads, stations, infrastructure total cost of 25 billion dollars. Maybe they just have not heard about the cost of the project of the Fourth Ring Road in Moscow, the length of 74 kilometers - more than 1 trillion rubles for 2011. However, the governors have decided that this budget will not pull Moscow and the project was terminated.
Construction of the station Tottenham Court Road.



Draft station Canary Wharf. Six-story large object includes about 100 000 square meters retail space, parking, located on the roof has cozy classic version - Garden:



Escalators at the future station Canary Wharf.



Construction of a tunnel under the eastern part of London, on December 14, 2012.



It should be noted that in the early 1990s, the British Parliament had already rejected a similar project for the construction of the railway because of high costs.
Construction of the station Farringdon, London on 30 January 2013.



A mechanical monster - 150-meter drilling machine. April 24, 2013, London.



150-meter long tunneling machine is so huge that you can walk inside the corridors.



Tunneling workers faced with archaeological excavations. At this point, we found the burial of the dead from the Black Death - the plague. It took 30 to 60 percent of Europe's population in the 14th century!



The historic cemetery in central London.



Cemetery 16 - 17th centuries. The excavation on the future site of the lobby of one of the stations Crossrail



The cost of this project is two-fold higher than the cost of the entire Olympic Games in London.



Workers laid rails for the drilling machine in the eastern part of London, September 25, 2013



Part of the huge tunneling machines.



Expansion of the Connaught Tunnel, built in 1878. Since December 2006 it was not used for passenger transport, but soon there will be new trains.



Tunneling shield drilled the next section of the underground tunnel. Chunks of concrete fly, London June 11, 2013.



Prime Minister David Cameron and London Mayor Boris Johnson arrived on the scene underground.



Small figures of people pass good proportions.



In its underground reigns, indescribable atmosphere.



Another find - Venetian gold coin of the 16th century.



During the construction of Crossrail tunnels generated 4, 5 million tons of soil. Where to put it? All dredged material being taken to the island Wallasea.



It will create farmland, to twice the size of the City of London.



It was a small report with the construction of Crossrail - Europe's largest transportation project.



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