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Some of the station sites look very unfinished...Whitechapel for instance. I realise some, like Tottenham Court Road are finished but the over-buildings and associated works sites still look a right mess.
No way will all the stations look photogenic on the big day.
Doug Robinson | 09.06.18 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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6 months! I'm strangely excited by this.
Frank F | 09.06.18 - 9:06 a.m. | #
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"Crossrail"... Shurely shome mishtake!
(Sorry, couldn't resist 🙈🙉🙊)
Rob Healy | Homepage | 09.06.18 - 11:32 a.m. | #
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Six months = six months, I have my doubts about that.....there has been a press story this week about crossrail losing key construction workers to the Spurs stadium project who are paying much higher wages.
Sir Biton | 09.06.18 - 12:04 p.m. | #
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One thing I won't miss when its all open is those those suburban platforms 13 & 14 at Paddington, handy interchange if you need the north side of the Circle or H+C, walk down platform 12 for everyone else.
What will 13 & 14 be used for once Crossrail opens?
Still Anon | 09.06.18 - 12:40 p.m. | #
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@Still Anon: Platform 13 has disappeared at Paddington, it's been absorbed into Platform 12 with all the signage having been replaced or covered. Platform 14 remains however, which is a little odd.
bthrussell | 09.06.18 - 1:15 p.m. | #
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@bthrussell: was it was done when the Greenford shuttle was withdrawn?, Network Rail haven't updated their map yet, and neither have national rail.
Still Anon | 09.06.18 - 2:43 p.m. | #
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So much money spent for such such little gain. Let's hope that the Crossrail trains aren't delayed, the staff go on strike or a train gets stuck or crashes.
Tones | 09.06.18 - 5:36 p.m. | #
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Custom House platforms are marked A and B which is unusual.
scrumpy | 09.06.18 - 5:52 p.m. | #
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Predictions please for the appearance date of the first headline to use 'Cross Rail Passengers...' in describing a XR cockup.
drD | Homepage | 09.06.18 - 8:10 p.m. | #
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@drD - so that's why they rebranded the rail service as 'Elizabeth Line'!
Si | 09.06.18 - 8:51 p.m. | #
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@bthrussell
Maybe odd to have a gap in platform numbers, but by no means unusual - note the mishmash of numbers at Stratford, with platform 1 next to platform 10 )I think?). Renumbering platforms logically means tinkering with the signalling system, which always opens a huge can of worms. Having no platform 13 is a minor inconvenience in comparison.
timbo again | Homepage | 09.06.18 - 8:51 p.m. | #
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DG, did you also publish the first sentence to correspond to when you believe the first public train might run, so it was indeed "precisely" six months? :P
dg writes: No.
Paul | 09.06.18 - 9:05 p.m. | #
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The local pressure group in Silvertown and North Woolwich when they started tunnelling and annoying the local population was called "Very Cross Rail"
They had good reason.
scrumpy | 09.06.18 - 9:09 p.m. | #
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It might be fun to have a sweepstake on the actual date it does open.
scrumpy | 09.06.18 - 9:44 p.m. | #
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The blanked out, but legible, enamel "Crossrail" signs were still in place on the Northern line platforms at Tottenham Court Road, last time I looked a few weeks ago.
NickW | 10.06.18 - 10:04 a.m. | #
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The thing I'm looking forward to the most with crossrail is the reopening of the main Whitechapel station entrance and not having to double back on myself if I want to use the Overground. Looking at the artists impression of the new entrance it looks as though there's going to be an entrance on Durward Street which might mean not having to endure walking down Whitechapel road at all
Lumma | 10.06.18 - 11:15 a.m. | #
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Dec 2018 to May 2019 the Shenfield passengers will have to change trains at LST and trek downstairs to continue to LHR. I wonder when they are going to start the platform works at LST to lengthen them to take the nine carriage trains too!
Drew | Homepage | 10.06.18 - 9:37 p.m. | #
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