Special Report: Public Transport
Paddington Tunnelling into the next century
The largest addition to the South East rail network in 50 years, Crossrail is the biggest engineering project in Europe and forms a major part of the Mayor’s Transport Strategy. When it opens in 2018, Crossrail will connect 37 stations, eight new sub-surface stations, including Heathrow airport and Maidenhead in the west, through new twin-bore 21km tunnels to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the East. Total funding envelope available to deliver Crossrail is £14.8 billion.
Farringdon, Liverpool Street, Whitechapel and Canary Wharf. It is critical that Crossrail gets the internal design of stations right as the new stations have been designed to last for the next century. Around 200 million passengers will travel on
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Crossrail each year and the route will provide a 10 per cent increase to rail capacity in the capital. The new stations need to cope with large numbers of passengers throughout their life, be easy to navi- gate and able to endure wear and tear. To create this transport legacy for London it is essential to ensure every fixture and component is fit for purpose, cost effective and built to last. Crossrail station platforms will be 250m in length to accommodate 200m trains that will pass
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ew Crossrail stations will be built along the central route of the line at Paddington, Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road,
through each station, as well as enabling longer 240m trains to operate in the future as passenger demand increases. During the detailed design phase, some of the
UK’s best known architects worked with world- class engineering firms to finalise the designs for eight of the new Crossrail stations. The results are stunning, sustainable and world-class designs of which London can be proud. The new stations will take inspiration from the past and from the local area but have a fresh modern twist. The work, at Bond Street, Canary Wharf, Custom House, Farringdon, Liverpool Street, Paddington, Tottenham Court Road and Whitechapel, will be on a scale not seen since the Jubilee Line Extension opened in 1999. For passengers, these new stations will deliver a vastly improved travel- ling experience, larger station entrances and ticket halls, more space and easy access to Crossrail and other transport services. Crossrail will boost London’s rail capacity by ten per cent, faster journey times and up to 24 trains per hour between Paddington and Whitechapel during the peak. London has a glorious railway design history
that ranges from the Brunel-designed Paddington station, through Charles Holden’s tube stations of the 1920s and 1930s to the revival of St. Pancras International. Crossrail intends to build on this design legacy and create cost-effective stations
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fit for the 21st Century while regenerating local communities.
Crossrail station designs Each of the new Crossrail stations will have a dis- tinctive but consistent design. Building on the architectural legacy of each location, these new stations have been designed to combine the latest station technology with tried and tested engineering solutions. A key element of each station design has been to ensure that the sta- tions are able to cater for future growth in passen- ger demand.
‘Around 200 million
passengers will travel on Crossrail each year’
Architects have used the character and heritage
of the local area to inspire the design of each station and to meet the needs of local communi- ties across the capital. They are working with local authorities along the route to make sure the ben- efits of Crossrail do not stop at the station entrance but are fully integrated with wider devel- opment plans. Designers have also been appointed to incor-
porate architectural components that will be used throughout the platform and tunnel environments
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Axonimetric map Paddington
Canary Wharf
Bond Street
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