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Crossrail Tunnels 82 % complete

At a glance: The progress of Crossrail’s tunnelling projects on the level of mid-June 2014 Quelle/credit (5): Crossrail
At a glance: The progress of Crossrail’s tunnelling projects on the level of mid-June 2014
Quelle/credit (5): Crossrail
After breaking through at Stepney Green TBM Ellie will start her next journey towards Victoria Dock Portal from the Limmo Peninsula (above)
After breaking through at Stepney Green TBM Ellie will start her next journey towards Victoria Dock Portal from the Limmo Peninsula (above)
Ready for transport across the river: Concrete tunnel segments at Chatham Dockyard
Ready for transport across the river: Concrete tunnel segments at Chatham Dockyard
Placing of the concrete segments in the tunnel
Placing of the concrete segments in the tunnel
TBM Ellie’s breakthrough into Stepney Green cavern
TBM Ellie’s breakthrough into Stepney Green cavern

Tunnels for north east spur are excavted

In mid-June Tunnel Boring Machine Ellie has broken through into a cavern 40 m beneath Stepney Green, in the East End of London. The breakthrough marks the structural completion of tunnels for Crossrail’s north east spur, between Whitechapel and Pudding Mill Lane. It has taken Ellie just over three months to complete the 2.7 km journey, travelling as much as 72 m in a 24 hour period.  Now 1000 tonne Ellie (named after Paralympic Champion Ellie Simmonds) will be lifted out of the cavern and taken by road to Limmo Peninsula at Canning Town. From there she...

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