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+

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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

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Railway Systems

Stations

Rolling Stock & Depot

NR Surface Works

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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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