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APPRENTICES ON THE CROSSRAIL PROJECT TO DATE

426

JOB STARTS3,772

97%CONTRACTS WON BY UK FIRMS

CROSSRAIL PROGRAMME

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60%60%60%60%It’s an exciting time for Crossrail, as we continue to build a new railway for London and the South East; safely, on time, and on budget.

Crossrail is not just about

delivering a world-class new railway; it also aims to leave a lasting skills legacy for the construction industry. Recently, we exceeded our target of employing 400 apprentices across the project. The apprentices employed by Crossrail and its suppliers get an opportunity to work and train, developing excellent skills to support their future careers. With up to 12,000 people working on Crossrail sites, 8,000 people trained at our Tunnelling and Construction Academy and an increasing number of young people on the team, we continue to look at ways to improve skills and opportunities.

Much has been achieved in recent months on the project. Custom House station

took a leap forward as two foot bridges were installed. The fi rst of Crossrail’s future tracks were laid on the rail line at the Stockley fl yover. Bombardier built a state-of-the-art testing facility to test and commission the new trains. And preparations have begun for TfL’s train operator to begin running services from Liverpool Street to Shenfi eld in May 2015.

Tunnelling under central London is nearing completion, with tunnel boring machines making their way from Whitechapel through to Liverpool Street before going on to their fi nal stop in Farringdon. When the machines fi nish in the spring of this year, 42km of new running tunnels will be complete under London.

Also in the coming months, the next phase of station building and fi t out continues across the central stations. It will include works to complete station structures, ventilation shafts, portals, escalator excavations, platforms, crosspassages, drainage tunnels, track laying, installing power supplies and signalling and other systems and services works.

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PHASED INTRODUCTION OF SERVICES

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TUNNELLING NEARS COMPLETION Tunnelling to build Crossrail’s running tunnels is now 92% complete.

The last two tunnel boring machines, Elizabeth and Victoria, are on their fi nal journeys from Whitechapel via Liverpool Street and on to Farringdon. Elizabeth has already broken through at Liverpool Street station, where preparation works have been completed on the Moorgate shaft in advance of the machine’s arrival.

From Liverpool Street, both machines will continue another 750 metres to Farringdon, where they will reach the fi nish line this spring. At the point of the Big East-West Breakthrough, the 42km of bored running tunnels will be complete and a major new piece of underground infrastructure will have been delivered.

Construction work to build platform tunnels, access tunnels and other spaces underground is now 72% complete across the project. Delivered through excavation and the spraying of reinforced concrete lining, these works at Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road

stations are progressing well, with waterproof and secondary linings nearing completion. Similar work at Fisher Street, Stepney Green, Liverpool Street and Whitechapel will be fi nished later this year once the last two tunnel boring machines are removed from Farringdon station.

THE CROSSRAIL 400 Crossrail has exceeded its target to deliver 400 apprentices over the lifetime of the project. Sir Patrick McLoughlin, MP Secretary of State for Transport and Terry Morgan, Crossrail Chairman, joined many of the apprentices at the Bond Street site to celebrate this achievement.

Crossrail, in partnership with its principal contractors, has now employed 426 apprentices and will continue to recruit even more for the remainder of the project.

The apprenticeship programme encourages young and unemployed people into learning new skills, gaining practical experience and a qualifi cation. The apprenticeships work across a wide range of professions from construction, tunnelling and sprayed concrete operations, accountancy, quantity surveying to business administration. The programme is a signifi cant investment in new skilled and talented people for the future of UK tunnelling and underground construction.

Crossrail’s recruitment approach has been highly e� ective, using its Jobs Brokerage scheme, Jobcentre Plus and the national apprenticeship website to address the large number of skilled workers needed in the fi eld of construction and tunnelling.

Beyond the apprenticeships, over 746 unemployed jobseekers have secured jobs on Crossrail, securing a skills legacy for the industry and a well-trained workforce for the project.

Fatima Alghali, quantity surveyor “The apprenticeship gives you everything you need

– you’re learning from experienced professionals, you’ve got the studying side so you’re qualifi ed by

the time you fi nish and you’re debt-free!”

Jade Edwards, site administrator “By doing the apprenticeship, I was investing in my own future.”

MAJOR STEP FORWARD AT CUSTOM HOUSE

NEW TICKET HALL FOR TOTTENHAM COURT ROADLondon Underground’s (LU) new Tottenham Court Road ticket hall and entrance opened in January. It will form a part of the integrated LU and Crossrail station in 2018.

The fi nished station will have eight new escalators and fi ve new lifts providing step-free access, new art installations, two iconic glass

plaza entrances, improved CCTV cameras and lighting. As well as LU’s Tottenham Court Road station entrance there will be a new street level ticket hall on Dean Street.

Once the Crossrail station opens the current fi gures of 150,000 passengers using the station is expected to rise to 200,000.

WOOLWICH STATIONAt Woolwich station, fi t out works began in January. At the eastern end of the station, works involve

installing 24 small piles to support the tunnel ventilation building. This structure will house the

emergency exit staircase and the 8.4 tonne ventilation fans that will provide fresh air and provide emergency ventilation, should it be required.

At the western end of the site, works to the ticket hall continue after which the walls and entrance will be built.

The new station structure will include 250 metre-long platforms, lift and ventilation shafts, step-free access from street to platform level and a ticket hall entrance onto Dial Arch Square.

Crossrail’s Custom House station has taken a major step forward as the main station structure has been completed and one of the permanent footbridges installed with the second permanent footbridge due for installation in March 2015.

The station building is a narrow 200-metre building, constructed along the 300 metre-long island platform. It will house a ticket hall and equipment and operations rooms which will supply power for the station and Victoria Dock portal nearby. Work to construct the station entrance on Victoria Dock Road has begun.

Part of the works involved installing bridges that connect the station to the ExCeL exhibition centre on one side and Victoria Dock Road on the other. One 34 metre (90 tonne) bridge connecting the station to the event venue, was installed by two cranes with a combined lifting capacity of 1,000 tonnes between them. The second largest crane of its type was used for the fi rst time on the project. A third pedestrian bridge will be installed, linking the new Crossrail station to the existing DLR station in Spring 2015. Two of the bridges at Custom House will open to the public in November 2015 and will

provide safe access to passengers travelling over the main road into the existing DLR station and ExCel exhibition centre.

ART PROGRAMMEThe Crossrail Art Programme, which aims to leave a legacy of outstanding public art, has commissioned world renowned artists for two further stations.

At Crossrail’s Tottenham Court Road station, two Turner Prize winning artists will be creating large-scale artworks. Douglas

Gordon’s work will display images of people to evoke the history, culture and character of Soho, in the western ticket hall at Dean Street.

Richard Wright’s work will see a gold-leaf design, echoing the tile patterns of historic underground stations, hand-gilded

on the ceiling above the eastern ticket hall, next to the existing Tottenham Court Road LU station.

At Canary Wharf station, an installation by artist Michal Rovner will depict streams of human fi gures moving up and down like waves on the escalator shafts.

The Art Programme is funded through external sponsorship. The City of London Corporation and Canary Wharf Group match-funded artwork at Canary Wharf; Almacantar, Derwent London and the City of London Corporation are funding installations at Tottenham Court Road.

NETWORK RAIL UPGRADES FOR CROSSRAILA third of works to upgrade the existing railway in outer London, Berkshire and Essex are now complete. Network Rail is delivering the £2.3bn upgrade which includes upgrading stations, track, signalling and installing new overhead power supplies across the route to enable the new trains to run.

The fi rst tracks to be laid anywhere on the Crossrail project were at the Stockley fl yover, Hillingdon. These tracks went into operation in January and will be used by other rail operators prior to Crossrail services using the route. This fl yover will improve links between Heathrow and central London. It is the largest single span bridge to have been installed anywhere on the Great Western Railway since Brunel’s day.

Extensive track works are continuing along the route, including preparations for the installation of two new tracks to link Abbey Wood station to the Crossrail tunnels at Plumstead.Works are already underway at

Abbey Wood, Maidenhead, Taplow, Burnham and Langley stations; works at Harold Wood, Brentwood and Shenfi eld begin in early 2015.

Improvements will range from new lifts to provide step-free access from street to platforms, platform extensions to accommodate the new longer Crossrail trains, new platform lighting and improvements to public spaces.A new station will be built at

Hayes and Harlington. It will include a distinctive new glass and steel structure to create a more prominent and visible landmark, a new footbridge with four new lifts to provide step-free access to every platform, a new waiting room, platform extensions and replacement canopies, new lighting, customer information screens, station signage, help points and CCTV.

LIVERPOOL STREET TO SHENFIELD SERVICES

ALL CROSSRAIL STATIONS TO BE STEP FREEWorks will be taking place to make all 40 Crossrail stations step free thanks to an investment of £33 million from TfL and government announced in November 2014.

The Government is investing in lift schemes at Langley, Taplow and Iver stations, ready for Crossrail trains when they start running from these stations in 2019.

TfL is funding step-free access at Seven Kings, Maryland, Manor Park and Hanwell stations.

TRAINSThe new Crossrail trains will begin entering service from 2017. The trains are being built by Bombardier for TfL, who will operate Crossrail when it opens. The work undertaken by designers Barber and Osgerby to enhance the interior design of the train is

nearing completion and is being incorporated into the production process. The new Crossrail fl eet will also be built to the latest accessibility standards. This includes audio-visual information systems, dedicated priority seats and spaces for wheelchairs.

At the Bombardier factory in Derby, where the new Crossrail trains will be built and tested, a £1.6m state-of-the-art testing facility opened in December. Known as the ‘iron bird’ integration test facility, the simulator will put the new fl eet of trains through their paces.

Bombardier has invested in cutting-edge technology to help make the next generation of rolling stock safer, more reliable and improve performance. Bombardier is also constructing a new maintenance depot at Old Oak Common, where demolition of the existing buildings is complete and piling work is now well underway.

As a result of the contract to build 65 Crossrail trains, Bombardier will employ 760 people and provide 80 new apprenticeships.

Preparations are underway for Transport for London (TfL) to start running services between Liverpool Street and Shenfi eld on the existing line in May 2015. The service will initially operate to the existing timetable and use the current rolling stock.

The existing trains will receive modifi cations to improve reliability and work is taking place with

Network Rail to improve normal operations and contingency plans. Early work on existing stations will include a deep clean and de-cluttering, followed by brand new TfL ticket machines.

Customers will benefi t from stations being sta� ed at all times that trains are in operation, improvements to customer information and a signifi cant

increase in policing levels. There will also be better accessibility and passengers with mobility needs will no longer need to pre-book assistance. Fully trained and equipped sta� will be available to assist customers at all stations, as on London Underground and London Overground services.

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A new exhibition “Breakthrough: Crossrail’s tunnelling story” at London Transport Museum in Covent Garden reveals London’s hidden subterranean landscape on one of the largest railway construction projects in Europe.

You can walk through a fi ve metre high Crossrail tunnel, experience what it’s like to stand in a tunnel under construction deep underground, play interactive tunnelling games and hear fi rst-hand accounts of those who work below ground. The exhibition runs to 31 August. Entry to the Museum is free for children and young people aged 17 and under. Adult tickets are £16.00 (£11.50 concessions).

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LIVERPOOL STREET DIGOne of the largest archaeological excavations on the Crossrail project began at Liverpool Street in February.

Up to 80 archaeologists are working on site to ensure excavations are undertaken to preserve archaeological fi nds and avoid any delays to the construction programme. Excavations will reveal more of the story of the post-medieval Bedlam burial ground, the ‘lost’ Walbrook River and extensive Roman suburban activity. Excavations are expected to

complete by the end of September 2015, when construction on the escalator shaft and the Broadgate ticket hall can begin.

Window hoardings and a viewing gallery will allow the public to watch the progress of the dig on the site. Public lectures and events are also planned. To fi nd out more, visit www.crossrail.co.uk

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