AUTUMN/WINTER 2016

Crossrail works in your neighbourhood LIVERPOOL STREET

OPENING IN 2018

Reading Heathrow Paddington Bond Street Tottenham CourtFarringdon Road Liverpool StreetWhitechapel Canary WharfAbbey WoodShenfield

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WELCOME STATION FIT OUT BEGINS On behalf of the Crossrail The next six months will see the new team working at Liverpool platform ready for fit out railway take shape as the stations, Street I’d like to thank platforms and tunnels are fitted with key Rohan Perin our neighbours for their infrastructure and architectural finishes. Project Manager continued support. Here are Liverpool Street. my highlights of the work Specialist teams and machinery will start we have completed so far and details of our the complex task to lay 42 kilometres of plans for the next six months. tracks, and install other critical railway components such as platform screen doors, ventilation fans, cables, walkways, power, signalling and communication STATION PLATFORMS systems. 1 CONSTRUCTED The completion of the station platforms marks a major milestone in the construction of Liverpool Street station. Both platforms were built in record time through innovative techniques that accelerated the construction process. Now the structure is complete, work will begin on station fit out.

COMPLETION OF TICKET Work coming up at Liverpool Street in the next 6 months 2 HALL STRUCTURES • Installation of glass fibre reinforced • Completion of internal structure of Work to construct the ticket halls is complete concrete cladding to platforms shaft and installation of the station’s architectural features is underway with the distinctive • Preparation work to commence track • Completion of Blomfield Box structure geometric roof now visible within both ticket halls. laying which will house ventilation, mechanical A multi-purpose gantry This unique roof is made of concrete panels that and electrical equipment, and provide that will carry rail sleepers • Installation of floating track slab in emergency access for the new Liverpool have been designed to create a feeling of space Barbican tunnels and track inside the tunnels and help absorb sound. Street station.

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 CONSTRUCTION PERIOD CONSTRUCTION WORKS END LIVERPOOL STREET ELIZABETH Moorgate and Liverpool Street Tunnel fit out commences INSTALLATION OF RAILWAY SYSTEMS ticket hall construction commences including use of bespoke uphill LINE excavator to mine the escalator Fit out: - Power Dynamic testing (test of trains, tracks tunnels - Platform screen doors - Signalling and communications and systems) Phased introduction of TIME TfL-operated Elizabeth line Completion of ticket hall Testing and commissioning services and tunnel structures of station LINE PROGRAMME TfL operated services from Liverpool Street to Shenfield 77% line in full operation Elizabeth GREAT PLAGUE OPEN HOUSE LONDON VICTIMS IDENTIFIED In September, the Crossrail project took part Scientific analysis of skeletons excavated at in Open House London with a total of 1,867 Liverpool Street has identified the DNA of the guests visiting across seven sites. bacteria responsible for the 1665 Great Plague. A group of 112 lucky guests had the chance to This is the first identification of plague DNA visit Liverpool Street station for a first-hand from 17th Century Britain. look behind the hoardings at our construction The discovery comes progress. A highlight of the tour was viewing following a year-long the recently installed ticket hall ceilings. study of skeletons found in a mass grave within the New Churchyard, the burial ground at the western end of Liverpool Street excavated during construction in 2015. Over 20,000 Londoners are believed to have been buried at Bedlam between 1569 and Open House visitors see 1738. Full findings from the archaeological the ticket hall taking shape excavation at Liverpool Street will be at Liverpool Street published in early 2017.

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