McLoughlin visits Crossrail site

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Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has gone underground to see the progress Crossrail’s tunnel boring machines are making on London’s new underground railway tunnels.

McLoughlin, a former miner, visited the Plumstead site to see the work underway on the Thames Tunnel.

The Crossrail project, which is expected to cost up to £14.5 billion, will carry around 200 million passengers a year when the first trains start service in 2018.

The 2.6 km Thames Tunnel will bore under the river, from Plumstead in the south to North Woolwich on the northern bank – the only point where the Crossrail route will cross the Thames.

McLoughlin said: “Crossrail is one of the Europe’s biggest and most important infrastructure projects and exactly the kind of investment this country needs to compete in the global race.

“It will transform the transport system in London and beyond, improving journey times, easing congestion and providing better connections.

“The scale of the work is impressive. The construction site at Plumstead is a hive of activity and this is just one of many sites transforming the capital both above and below ground.”

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