CANARY WHARF

A bold new arrival for Docklands

CANARY WHARF’S UNDERWATER RAILWAY STATION

Canary Wharf is one of nine major new A fully accessible ticket hall will provide stations on the Elizabeth line. Situated in the step-free access to the Elizabeth line. North Dock of , Canary Wharf At platform level the Elizabeth line feels is one of the largest Elizabeth line stations. epic with platforms that are over FUN FACT The station, consists of six storeys for the 200 metres long. • Escalators in the new Elizabeth line station, retail and rooftop park. The station central stations will travel at a speed development provides a new link between The station features 6 lifts and of 0.75 metres per second, with the Canary Wharf and Poplar, previously 17 escalators to facilitate passenger exception of Canary Wharf where 9 of separated by the North Dock, and includes movement. The exit from platform level to the 17 escalators travel at 0.65 metres links to the Canary Wharf Estate, via Adams the ticket hall can be made using using lifts per second due to a lower escalator Place and the Jubilee line and DLR stations. or escalators. There is direct access from the rise and available space for ticket hall to the promenade. Lift and installation. These 9 escalators also The station is expected to serve escalator access will also be provided have a reduced escalator run off with 25 million passengers a year. The Elizabeth between the ticket hall and the retail one less flat step at the top. line will reduce the journey times from floors above. Canary Wharf station to Heathrow, Bond Street, Woolwich and Abbey Wood The Elizabeth line will dramatically increase FACTS & FIGURES stations to just 40 minutes, 13 minutes, the capacity and resilience of transport • Step-free from street to train 7 minutes and 12 minutes respectively. When services to and from Canary Wharf and the • 300,000 tonnes of excavated material the full route opens, an Elizabeth line service surrounding area, helping underpin further • 28 metres below ground every five minutes at peak times will allow development and investment in this key • 241 metre passenger platform length passengers to travel to Paddington, Heath- business and retail district. • 68,000 passengers predicted on the row or Reading in the west and Abbey Wood Elizabeth line per day at Canary Wharf in the east. Construction of Canary Wharf station box was undertaken by Canary Wharf Contractors Like the nearby Canary Wharf Tube station, Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canary DESIGN & BUILD the Elizabeth line station is constructed in Wharf Group plc. has a dock, in this case the North Dock of West • Client – Canary Wharf also delivered Place, a four-storey Contractors Ltd India Quay. Construction for Crossrail started retail development above the ticket hall and on 15 May 2009 at Canary Wharf when the • Station concept architect – Tony platform levels, which was opened in May Meadows Associates Mayor of , Boris Johnson and Rail 2015 and includes more than 100,000 square Minister Lord Adonis officially launched the • Engineer and lead consultant – Arup feet of retail space. The whole development • Executive architect – Adamson first of nearly three hundred 18.5 metre tall is topped by a roof garden which incorporates steel piles that form the basis of the station. Associates a community performance space and • Oversite development architect – Water was then pumped out of the piled restaurant which is semi-covered by a structure to enable a concrete box to be built Foster & Partners striking Foster + Partners designed timber • Urban realm design – Gillespies as part of its next stage of construction. lattice roof. The station box is 256 metres-long, which is • BREEAM rating - Very good greater than the height of one of the UK’s • Art by Michal Rovner: Sponsor tallest buildings, One , which Canary Wharf Group plc & City of is adjacent to the station. London Corporation. • Gallery partner: Pace CANARY WHARF

A bold new arrival for Docklands

The giant station 'box' begins to take shape BUILDING A RAILWAY STATION IN A DOCK

Designing a station to be built 18 metres The first barge arrived at Pitsea on 23 July Designed to evoke a ship laden with unusual below water level presented significant 2009. This material helped restore Pitsea site and exotic specimens from around the globe, design challenges but has resulted in from a landfill to high quality land for conser- the roof garden is encased within a complex optimum access to and through the Canary vation and controlled public access, without ETFE clad lattice timber roof structure which Wharf Estate while retaining a navigable disturbing the nearby tidal mudflats, wraps around the building like a shell with channel for boats within the dock. which are a ‘Site of Special Scientific openings that encourage light penetration Interest’ (SSSI). and natural irrigation. The semi‑permeable Work began on the new station in May 2009 canopy structure helps to create a localised by creating a 250 x 30 metre watertight box At approximately 8.3 kilometres in length, microclimate allowing the planting of more in the waters of North Dock using an Limmo Peninsula to Farringdon was the sensitive and rare species of plants. innovative ‘silent’ piling method. This uses longest of the five Crossrail tunnel drives. hydraulic pressure (rather than impact) to Two giant tunnelling machines, Elizabeth and drive the piles so produces no vibrations Victoria, were launched in 2012 from Limmo and very little noise. Its interlocking joints near Canning Town Tube station to drive allowed for a single line of piles, rather than westbound to Farringdon via Canary Wharf. double, to be constructed to create a Work was completed to prepare the four 7.6m watertight perimeter wall. Over five weeks diameter two “tunnel eyes” at either end of 98 million litres of water were drained so the station box for the arrival and onwards the station could be built inside the walls of progression of the two tunnel boring the box. The station box was then built ‘top machines. The first TBM, 1,000 tonne down,’ 28 metres below the water surface to Elizabeth, broke through into the Canary create the ticket hall and platform levels. Wharf station box in spring 2013 followed by sister machine Victoria shortly afterwards. The construction team have driven almost Once both TBMs passed through the station 1,000 piles. Approximately 300,000 tonnes box work started to construct the platforms. of material was excavated from beneath the dock bed and almost 375,000 tonnes of The station ticket hall is accessed via eight concrete poured. long-rise escalators from the promenade level entrances at either end of the building. IMAGINED ICONOGRAPHIC Canary Wharf Contractors Limited (CWC) A visual connection between the station LANDSCAPE OF LONDON maximised the use of river barges to platforms and the concourse level above is transport excavated materials from the achieved through the use of large openings At Canary Wharf you will find ‘Transitions’ City of London Corporation and was silhouette featured in the film has been Canary Wharf station worksite. between the two floors and a central spine by internationally renowned artist Michal commissioned with the support of the personally filmed by Rovner to depict The excavated material was transported of vertical circulation reinforced by the use of Rovner. The 16-metre long large-scale video Pace Gallery. individualism and humanity. 'Transitions' can downstream to the Veolia Environmental colour and light. artwork references the striking architecture be found on the Quay Level of Crossrail Place. Services Pitsea landfill site at Holehaven of Canary Wharf and captures the character Showing on a vast LED screen positioned Creek and Hoo Island via Bellmouth passage of the new Elizabeth line station. The within Canary Wharf’s Crossrail Place, the to create habitats for flora and fauna. supersized digital installation is part of The piece also draws influence from the Crossrail Art Foundation’s public art dramatically sculpted escalators, platforms The majority of the excavated material was programme. It is one of the ten major works and passageways of the new Elizabeth line removed by barges rather than lorries, saving of public art being installed at seven of the station reflecting on the human presence more than 29,000 lorry trips and reducing new Elizabeth line stations, 'Transitions' is within the space and the dynamic flow of carbon dioxide emissions by 780 tonnes. co-funded by Canary Wharf Group and the people arriving and departing. Each individual