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Tottenham Court Road station is being massively rebuilt and expanded over the next 8 years - both to accomodate Crossrail and increase capac...

Today both the House of Lord and House of Commons approved the Crossrail Bill , which grants the powers needed to build Crossrail, London...

The Crossrail Bill was approved by the House of Lords this morning. The final step to Royal Assent is a vote in the House of Commons schedu...

The House of Lords Committee on Recomittment that was reviewing final amendments to the Crossrail Bill appears to have finished, and readi...

The parliamentary process to approve the Crossrail Bill looks to be coming to an end shortly, after the House of Lords committee hearing pet...

A couple of interesting stories regarding the funding of Crossrail . First the Guardian reckon if it goes ahead TfL won't be able to aff...

A few weeks ago I attended a talk by the Engineering Director of Crossrail. Nothing particularly juicy was revealed, but there were some gr...

Cross London Rail Links plan to award contracts for enabling works worth £160m over the next 12 months, just as soon as the Crossrail Bill...

New London Architecture have an exhibition on at the moment about Underground London, and included in the brochure is this diagram of Farri...

The Crossrail project has been busy applying for thirty year access rights (what they call TAO) to make sure its services can run on existi...

I've already posted separately about ELL Phase 2 , the Southern franchise takeover and Shepherd's Bush Overground but there are a ...

The government have made an announcement regarding whether Crossrail should terminate at Reading rather than Maidenhead. I have now decide...

The Crossrail Bill has now cleared the House of Commons and now has to be approved by the House of Lords. As previously discussed , there...

Today I received the least glamorous email the world has known, Crossrail Project Bulletin 11 ("This is the eleventh bulletin keeping ...

Last night the BBC London News led with a story bluntly stating that fares in London would have to go up to pay for Crossrail. The thing is...

Ken has released a statement confirming various details of Crossrail. In summary: As already announced, TfL will take sole control of the C...

The DfT have put out a press release making news of the Crossrail funding deal rumoured earlier in the week official, meaning Gordon Brown...

The BBC are reporting that the City of London has approved extra funding for Crossrail. So it looks like it might actually get built, assum...

Gordon Brown has announced progress on Crossrail funding, in his inimitable way: I want the project to go ahead subject to the satisfactory...

Ken has admitted defeat on the West London Tram scheme: Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, today joined Councillor Jason Stacey, Leader of E...