Post on 03-Apr-2018
CROSSRAIL MOVING LONDON FORWARD
Simon Bennett
Introduction
Europe’s largest infrastructure project
£14.8bn funding
38 stations
9 new stations
42 km new tunnels
8 million cubic metres
of spoil
140 main works
contracts
History
January 1989
- East West Crossrail
- Chelsea-Hackney line
- Jubilee line extension
Crossrail History
Central London Rail Study Jan 1989
First Crossrail Bill submitted/rejected 1991/1994
London East-West Study Dec 2000
Cross London Rail Links established Jun 2001
Case for Crossrail Nov 2002
Crossrail Business Case Sep 2003
Montague Review Jul 2004
Hybrid Bill Deposit Feb 2005
Royal Assent Jul 2008
Construction started Jan 2009
Development
Total + 800k Population
Growth
Employment
Growth
Total + 636k
800k population –
diffuse application
Why Crossrail
636k jobs – east west axis
concentration
• Solves how to transport large numbers of passengers to key business areas
• Supports London as a world city and key finance centre
• Enables economic growth and intensification of economy
• Encourages regeneration
Linking key business areas
Decreasing journey times
Current journey time
Crossrail journey time
Abbey Wood to Liverpool Street 42 minutes 18 minutes
West Ealing to Bond Street 30 minutes 13 minutes
Hayes and Harlington to Canary Wharf 55 minutes 34 minutes
Manor Park to Farringdon 29 minutes 17 minutes
West Drayton to Canary Wharf 56 minutes 37 minutes
Crossrail Route
£42bn+
24
Crossrail: realising the benefits
14,000 people
24 trains ph
200 million journeys per year
Sustainability
Economic
• 75,000 business opportunities
• 97% of suppliers based in the UK
• 3 in 5 contracts based outside London
• Over 60% SMEs
Social
• 14,000 employed on sites
• Over 55,000 jobs supported in UK
• Over 400 apprentices
• Compulsory HGV driver training
Environment
• 57,000 tonne carbon savings
• 97% recycled excavated material
• 32% of construction material recycled
• Wallasea Island RSPB nature reserve
Economic
• £42bn GDP benefit
• Over 1000 operational jobs
• Enable 57,000 new homes
• Secures London’s place as a world city
Social
• 1.5m people within 45 mins of London
• Urban realm designed to complement Crossrail stations & local communities
• A legacy of skills, expertise and experience
Environment
• 500 million km reduction in car journeys
• 23% improvement in station energy consumption
• Light weight trains and regenerative breaking
Delivery
(£14.8bn)
Other Funding
(£2.45bn)
Network Rail
Others
DfT (£5.20bn)
TfL (£7.15bn)
GLA
BRS & Direct
Contribution
Community
Infrastructure Levy
TfL
Direct Contribution
Developers
Contribution
Land and Property
BAA plc
City of London
Direct Contribution
(4.7bn)
Joint sponsors
Crossrail: delivering a railway
13 14 15 16 17 18 2012
Railway Systems
Stations
Rolling Stock & Depot
NR Surface Works
Test a
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Tria
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Crossrail TOC
Civils and
Tunnelling
Property
Acquisition OSD & Urban Realm
Nothing is so important on Crossrail that we cannot do it safely.
The three Target Zero principles:
• We all have the right to go home unharmed everyday
• We believe that all harm is preventable
• We must all work together to achieve this
Health & Safety
Tunnelling
93% of tunnels complete
Completed tunnels
Spray Concrete Lined tunnels
On a tonne/km
basis 85% of
excavated material
is transported by rail
or water
Excavated material
Wallasea Island now
Wallasea Island 2016
Liverpool Street
Platform Mock-up
Central station progress
Stations progress
Paddington
Paddington Integrated Project
Bond Street station east
Tottenham Court Road station
Farringdon station
Whitechapel station
Network Rail upgrade work
30 station upgrades
2 major structures 61km of track
179 switch & crossing units
1000 OLE structures, 150 km OLE
Signalling upgrade
Archaeology
2014 337 Apprentices
6,074 enrolled at TUCA
11,000 employed on the project
755 workers previously unemployed
All figures are running totals bar “employed on project”
Skills development
Future engineers
• UK needs to double the number of annual university engineering graduates to 87,000 to meet demand
• Just 8.5 per cent of engineers in the UK are women, the lowest representation of any European country
• 49% of state schools are not sending a single female student to study A-level maths or sciences.
Opportunities on Crossrail
Property impacts
c.£5.5bn additional residential and commercial property value
Support 57,000 new homes
3.25 million square metres of commercial office floor space
48% of planning applications cite Crossrail as a justification for planning proceeding within 1000m of a station
Over Site Developments
Urban realm - Woolwich
Forest Gate - before
Forest Gate - after
Operations
Operations
1,100 staff to be employed 850 new posts
400 drivers
50 apprenticeships
MTR services will start running on
the Greater Anglia line in 2015
New rolling stock will be introduced
in 2017
74% of the value of the contract will be
spent in the UK
Target of at least 25% of the value of
the contract to go to SMEs.
Support 840 UK manufacturing jobs
building the trains in Derby 500 safeguarded
230 new job starts
30 graduates
80 apprentices
Stage 1: Liverpool St (mainline) to
Shenfield (May 2017)
Stage 2: Heathrow to Paddington
(mainline) (May 2018)
Stage 3: Paddington (Crossrail
platforms) to Abbey Wood
(Dec 2018)
Stage 4: Paddington (Crossrail
platforms) to Shenfield
(May 2019)
Stage 5: Full through service
(Dec 2019)
Introduction of services
2018 2017 2016 2012 2013 2014 2015
Q1
Stage 5
2019
Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Stage 4 Stage 3 Stage 2 Stage 1
1,100 staff to be employed 850 new posts
400 drivers
50 apprenticeships
MTR services will start running on the Greater Anglia line in 2015
New rolling stock will be introduced in 2017
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