Over the next few years works to build Crossrail, a new cross-London railway, will be taking place across London.
For Crossrail current works programme, please click here
For further information, please contact the Crossrail helpdesk (24-hours a day, 7-days a week) on 0345 602 3813 or email helpdesk@crossrail.co.uk
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There is a Crossrail Visitor Centre at 16-18 St Giles High Street, WC2H 8LN (opposite the junction with Denmark Street). It is a shop for information about the Crossrail project and London Underground's redevelopment of Tottenham Court Road Tube station, open every Tuesday and Thursday from 12noon to 8pm. To see what the centre looks like, please click here.
TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD STATION
Station works started in May 2009, and are continuing
Click here for more information about local arrangements
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Transforming Tottenham Court Road - exhibition materials
Transforming Tottenham Court Road - changes to bus, cycle, and walk routes.
DEAN STREET
The top part of the street from Oxford St to Fareham Street will be closed to vehicles from 19 October 2009 until 2016 for works to start on the Western ticket hall for Crossrail's Tottenham Court Road station. Pedestrian access continues for the time being.
SOHO ROAD CLOSURES
Enabling works have commenced for the construction of the western ticket hall for Crossrail's Tottenham Court Road station. The western ticket hall will be located in the area bounded by Dean Street, Diadem Court, Great Chapel Street and Oxford Street. Much of the works will be under ground creating the station box and escalator shafts as well as passages to connect to the Crossrail platforms.
Before these works can start extensive enabling works are required. This includes the relocation of many services that are in the highway, such as
gas, electricity, water and communications and the demolition of buildings on the site of the new ticket hall. To carry out this work it is necessary to close a number of streets to traffic.
Dean Street (north of Carlisle Street), Hollen Street, Fareham Street, Sheraton Street and Great Chapel Street will be closed to through traffic from 5 January, 2010, until completion of the station works in 2017.
Vehicle access for servicing will be maintained with two-way operation in:
Hollen Street, Sheraton Street and Dean Street (between Diadem Court and
Carlisle Street)
During the road closures, pedestrian routes and pedestrian access to buildings will be maintained on all streets except Fareham Street
FARRINGDON
Work has begun at Cardinal Tower, on the corner of Farringdon Road and Cowcross Street, which is to be deconstructed in order to build a joint Crossrail and Thameslink ticket hall. Vehicle access to Cowcross Street, between Farringdon Road and Turnmill Street is restricted between the hours of 10.00 and 16.00. Pedestrian access continues. Works for Crossrail in this area will continue until 2017.
Click here for more details on the Network rail website
Project Bulletin
Crossrail is a world-class, affordable railway that will be delivered safely through effective partnerships, linking Maidenhead to Shenfield through a tunnel under central London. It is a scheme of national significance and benefit which will be the largest civil engineering project in Europe.
It will help to bring new jobs, quicker journeys, easing congestion on London's transport system with more frequent trains to and through the centre of London.
This page last edited 21 January 2010
